001All right. Good evening everyone. Um going to call to order another meeting of the Manhassid Board of Education. Uh we we did have our executive session before and then we were just uh in the middle school library recognizing our students which is always a great experience. It was the Monsie Park and Shelter Rock uh student government and uh the executive committee of of of that student council which was fun to see everyone and congrats to them. And then we also had our Manhass Coalition Against Substance Abuse ARSA PSA winners um first, second, and two third place winners. I'll just mention them. Uh James Hogan and Aiden Royce in first place. Uh Christopher Perui and Andrew Sikalis in second place. Aris Lynn and Ali Ma in third place tied with um Aroxy Caligan. So, congrats to
002our our CASA winners and congrats to our uh all of our executives from our our uh exe our middle or elementary school student council. Yeah. All right. So, now we will uh do the pledge of allegiance as we call this meeting to order. Thank you. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Next, we'll uh could I have a motion to to approve the minutes from our last meeting? Maria second. Any discussion? All in favor? All right, that's 50 with approval of the minutes and that will get us right into Dr. Pelletary's superintendence report. >> Thank you, sir. Uh just briefly wanted to mention some of the things that are going
003on around the district. We just had our SCA fair last weekend. We put in for good weather and we received it. That was great to see and had a lot of fun there. fund was had by all very many people visited the fair and the SCA did an outstanding job as always in putting that fair together for our youngsters. We recently had Bye-Bye Birdie performed by our middle school students and again an outstanding performance, incredible cast and crew and set design in our amazing new auditorium. Very happy to see that. The uh APs are underway this week and next week and just reminding folks of that. I'm sure we uh are well aware of that, right, Katherine? That there are APs going on. Yes. And also JV sports are going to be going to be
004coming to an end this week and playoffs for varsity sports will be continuing into the next few weeks and hopefully month. The uh science Olympiad, we had junior division winners. We had so many again uh if I read every name, we'd be here all night. And also, for example, Long Island Math Fair, 18 student winners. So just incredible work that our students are doing across the district and we look forward to recognizing them at some point in the future. And lastly, our budget vote is May 19th. We have a vote and election on our budget and we're going to share more information tonight in our budget hearing with Gerard, our business official, in in a short minute in a bit here. Thank you. >> All right. Any questions for Dr. Pilitary? All right. So yeah,
005I will I'll I'll just underscore that was a fun day for the community. The SCA fair, the woodstick, um and then all of the uh drama performances and the musicals and the a it's a busy time and uh well done to everyone for executing so well on all of that. So uh thank you. Um all right, so let's get right into we're coming to the end of our budget process. So we'll Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, student delegate report. How could I forget? Sorry, Katherine. Please, >> Katherine, I think we saw you in the newspaper. Is that right? >> You're getting famous now. Are you getting requests for autographs? >> Yeah, everywhere I go. >> Enjoy it while it lasts. >> Well, from the student senate, elections and appointments for next year will be held at
006our next meeting at the end of May. And everything we're focusing on right now is just our preparations for next year. And that's it. Just wrapping up the year and hoping to set a good tone for the for the summer and next year. >> How many APs you have tomorrow? >> Two tomorrow. >> Go home right now. >> Yeah, it's fine. >> Yeah, please. Please. >> Seriously, >> let me take a couple notes. I need to report back with something. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. >> I can send you notes. I mean, you know. >> All right. >> Yeah. Please don't stay on don't stand on ceremony if uh you need to go study. So, um, all right, let's move on to our our budget hearing, our formal budget hearing. Um, we've been through a lot
007on the budget. I think we're in a pretty good spot, but Gerard, please give us the latest and greatest. Please draw on. Yes. >> Good evening. Just want to welcome everybody here to our formal budget hearing and Dr. Pelletary and I will present the budget hearing tonight. We're going to do like we did it the other day. >> Yeah. Gerard, we'll we'll we'll bounce through each each one, right? Can we get James? Is there I guess you're working on that, right? try to get that off there. Thank you so much. So, uh we have been talking about the budget since Gerard arrived really in in August, but uh we did a lot of specific work around the budget starting in October, November, and tonight's presentation is going to take us through all of that. We're
008going to talk about budget development timeline. We have our uh budget overview, our benefits, uh what what benefits cost us each year. uh our priority areas, staffing for next year, class size in terms of preliminary class size, obviously what enrollment looks like over the next few years, clubs and activities, what's new next year, our capital reserve proposition, which is a second vote. Very important that people recognize we're going to ask for two votes on the uh budget day, nove uh May 19th. some historical data, some of the things that we see over the years, our 2728 budget outlook for next year's budget. We're already thinking about next year, obviously, uh voter information and then any other upcoming meetings that we have. James, that doesn't seem to be working. Can you just forward it from your
009spot there? draw it on the side. There's a slide there. It should show green, right? Yeah. Go ahead. Try it. Okay. So, again, back in October 23rd, we started and this goes all the way up until April 16th where we had our uh adoption of our budget. And uh obviously, tonight is the formal budget hearing, our overview. Gerard, why don't you take this one? >> Yes. So, for the 2627 school year, our budget is 118,948,591. It's almost a $4 million budget-to-budget increase. And that increase comes within our tax levy limit of 3.44%. >> So, therefore, there is no piercing of the cap or anything like that. It's it's within our tax cap limit. We need 50% of uh plus one, right, to give us the uh pass the budget. >> Yes. Yes. And then uh
010this is our three-part budget. The budget is um often broken up into three parts. You have your administrative component, the program component, and the capital component. Administrative component is uh board of education, central administration, superintendent, CNI, finance and legal program. That is the lion share of of the budget. That's all expenses related to teaching and learning. I like to say that's where the money should be. You want to make sure that you're hiring the best teachers, the best staff um to make sure that we have the best uh educational environment. And then the capital component, which is all of our facilities, maintenance, um debt service, and our transfer to capital. So, we have a $118 million expenditure budget and you need $118 million in terms of revenue. And you'll see the first three areas. Those
011are the biggest um areas of our revenue. Property taxes, our pilots, and our state aid that makes up the bulk of um the revenue. And you, as you you see here, we we have some changes that we made just because of uh what's going on. We know that um our day school tuition will probably be a little bit less um next year. Interest in earnings, we took that down a little bit for next year, 25,000 next year. a rental of our school facilities 345,000 into fund transfers um prior year expenses from Boseies we're trying to do more of that so when we you when we um contract with Boseies the the following year we get money back um revenue or miscellaneous revenue and then assigned fund balance is up a little bit from last year
0121.1 million in assigned fund balance so $118 million in expenses $118 million in revenue >> Gerard why is that gift so large this year. The 137% increase. >> What happened to the the hallway? Here it is. So, >> we'll actually we're going to Are we talking about that now or or >> No. Well, that why it's it increased um year-over-year is because of the athletic hallway. We're expecting we're expecting uh additional money in terms of gifts and donations to fund the athletic hall. So, do we have Yeah, we have a discussion about that and we'll bring that picture forward and talk about it. Okay. >> And this just shows a balancing act. As business officials, we're always trying to make sure that revenues equal expenses. So, you'll see it $118 million of expenses and in
013revenue. That's pretty much what this shows. Our benefits, um, you'll see that we spend about well, for next year it'll be about $18 million in our benefits. is going to go up by $1.2 million in terms of our our benefits for our active um active employees, our retirees, health declinations, and Medicare expenses. Teacher expenses related to the um the retirement system for the teachers retirement system and the employee retirement system, $6.6 million up by almost a half a million dollars for next year. And then uh this other area, so the benefits, trust contributions, social security, uh dental, life insurance, etc., $5.5 million up $164,000, $30 million in in our revenue for proposed for next year. That's almost $2 million of the increase, $2 million of the $4 million increase in um benefits. >> Okay. Thank
014you, Jer. Our priority areas are often from year after year we try to build a foundational uh sense around the district and make sure that we we have a strong foundation. So our priority years often stay the same. We look at those each year and we'll look at those actually again this summer. But uh for the district this year inspire growth in each student, support growth for our educators through professional development. We obviously want to have strong relationships with our community. uh for example the sea fair is an example of that relationship and one of the strong relationships that we have and we're always looking to upgrade security and facilities. So in terms of our surprisity areas are are supporting our priority area for inspiring growth in each student. We are continuing our engineering broadcast
015journalism and computer science pathways. We have a new pathway project lead the way in biomedical sciences pathway. Uh we've offered that in 2526. Human body systems will be new next year. We have a business pathway and virtual enterprise program that will expand. We have two incredible virtual enterprise teams that have been out competing throughout the year and done outstanding work in New York and uh hopefully nationally. We have a new course in personal finance that is a directive from the state that will happen throughout the district throughout the grades. AP comparative government is a new course and Chinese in grade two which will be I'm sorry Chinese 2 which will be given in grade nine. We also this year have a sealed by literacy where over 100 students are getting a seal by literacy on
016their uh graduation on their graduation document. What do we call that? >> Diploma. Thank you. It's been a long day. Yeah, graduation document. Yeah, the diploma. And next year we're looking for we will be adding the seal of civic readiness. So our students will become more uh what we want in terms of citizenship and recognizing their place in the world and their place in terms of their role in our society. Also for teachers a lot of this work is done through mentors, summer work, professional development throughout the year making sure that people are uh continuously growing and getting better at their craft. We can't continue to do the same things year after year. I always use that example when you watch those old Civil War films and you see them sawing off somebody's leg, right,
017Katherine? You ever see that? You have, right? It's pretty graphic. That's not great. Imagine if we didn't teach doctors new techniques on how to do things, right? And it's the same with with teachers. I always use that example when people say, "I don't need professional growth." I'm like, "Are you kidding? Think about that." or or dentists, you know, pulling out your you have your wisdom teeth taken out yet, Katherine? You don't have to say that. It's a private information or an my That's right. Anast. That's right. That's right. That's right. So, just kind of I am It is been a long day, but just recognizing we have to get better. We have to new do new techniques and and learn new techniques. And that's all part of what we do. And we have great elementary
018literacy and math coaches that are there to support us as well. Um, instructional technology is huge. We're going to do a lot on AI next year. That's just one piece of it. But we also have new document cameras. We're replacing desktops. We have to have a rotation. You can't have everything fall apart on you at once. So, you have to rotate through desktops and Chromebooks and things like that. And it's not so much fun to talk about servers and switches and data storage backup, but they are vital components to what it is that we do. And all all are part of our responsibility and part of our budget. And uh last but certainly not least, we need to do work around the district just like we work on our homes on our qual our air
019quality districtwide irrigation. We have some beautiful planting up in front of the school here. We have to make sure we get irrigation there. There's been some irrigation I think added Gerard was it over at Muny recently or I know that we're doing that throughout the district. We're doing camera upgrades and uh we are going to have an additional guard up here at the secondary building. We certainly could use it and we're looking to have more coverage for evening and weekend events as well. >> Staffing levels. You want to grab that one, Jerome? >> Sure. So, uh, this just shows the change for next year. So, you'll see that we're down teaching positions, but we're not letting anyone go. That's because of uh, you know, retirements, um, staffing positions at MEPA. We're up by three uh,
020administrators flat. Just an a realignment in central office. So that's um down by 7 or yeah central office nonaffiliated then and central office is down by one. That's another realignment. So overall we're down by.7 for next year. Now our elementary class size is important. The community has spoken and this board has spoken very clearly that we want to keep class sizes at the elementary level. Well anywhere really but specifically at the elementary level as low as possible. Go ahead Gerard. So our guidelines are you could see here K20 oh that yep K21 1 through two you see the the guidelines there all the way up to 26 in grades five and six and go ahead Gerard so over at Munie school look at the you could go across kindergarten the projected enrollment we're going to
021have one two three four five sections of 17 and 18 meanwhile the guide is 21 so we are well below those areas where we uh could have more students in our classes but we have spoken about putting our money where our mouth is here. And the vision for this district is to keep these sizes low, these class sizes low. And we continue to do that all the way up through uh sixth grade there, three below uh or four below in some sections. And then over at Shelter Rock, similar story where we have 16, 17, 17, 17 projected next year in kindergarten. Um 20 19 at at the grade one all the way look 18 in grade two, right? And and our numbers 22. So, I think we've done a a strong job and uh in
022terms of making sure that we continue to deliver on this vision. >> Yeah, I agree. Thank you for focusing on this. I know we've we spent time on this and uh I think it makes a difference. So, um not only to the students but to the staff. I >> I did at one point mention to Gerard and the board that look, we could raise class size and and take that money and put it elsewhere. And I was told never say that again. So, I'm not going to >> Don't you say it either. >> Very strong argument. I won't say it. No. >> Go ahead, Jordan. Oh, no. I'm so sorry. Yeah. Clubs, activities, honor societies. Recently, we've added uh Red Cross this past year and speech and debate. Big believers in certainly I talk all
023the time. You hear me talk about every child every day and making sure that each kid can find that place in this world that is Manhasset, that they feel comfortable, that they feel welcome, that they enjoy being in and all of these honor societies and language clubs and government and mathletes and and the like the arts. Uh we we try to to find that place, help them find that place. What's new in this next year? Introduction to computer programming is a section we will have at the high school. Personal finance and literacy 9 through 12. There'll be three sections of that. There's uh project lead the way which is an outstanding program as an outsider looking into Manhattan. I always saw that program was was was uh was jealous of it's long-standing and and and
024really valuable to our kids and it's amazing that we continue to grow that this year adding principles of biomedical science, human body systems, constitutional law we wanted to run but it wasn't enough enrollment along the lines. That's the same with uh web design. And then uh Italian one is going to be reintroduced. Spanish X which is a section support Spanish class for kids on checkpoint A and B so they can pass those assessments. And then Chinese 2 will have two sections. Uh our continued math enhance enhancement. We are making sure that we have a what we did was reconfigure some of the schedules so that we can have a math person at both Shelter Rock and at Muny schools to coach our staff and support uh the learning that's going on in our math classes.
025It did not require any full-time additions to the budget. I thank Lauren Terillarini and and certainly Rebecca for doing some of that work to make sure that we were able to do that. And they're going to really focus on classroom practice and enrichment. And then uh what we also have that's new is um we have a capital we've had a capital reserve. So we're actually going to use the capital reserve. Um it'll be a separate proposition on the ballot. Proposition number two. It will be to expend $1.7 million from that reserve. There's currently $7 million in the reserve and we just like to highlight that it's at no additional cost to the taxpayers. So, some of the things that we're going to do, we propose to do is uh do our renovate our gymnasium, replace
026padding and sound system, um bathroom renovations, the boys and girls in a staff bathroom. We've been doing renovations um throughout the year with the bond, but we want to continue that through the capital reserve. Classroom renovations, painting, replace some ceilings and some floors, unit ventilator replacements. We've been doing that through the bond. So, we want to continue that work. common area conversion. We want to um convert the space outside of the in the secondary school and make two meeting rooms and continue our upgrades in security license plate readers. We have um license plate readers here at the secondary school. We're going to add them at Muny Park and um Shelter Rock. So, this is what we plan on do separate proposition proposition number two um on the ballot May 19th. And you will see that
027our expense. So we like to highlight how um you know the the expenditures, how much it costs to educate a child. And you'll see where we're um down low on the list. So $36,000 is the cost per pupil. You'll see some of our neighboring districts how high they are. Locus Valley 57,000, Lawrence 53,000. We're 36,000. We're not the the lowest compared to everyone in the neighborhood, but we are number 31 out of 41. >> Yeah. I think it's important to point out that uh we really expect excellence through effort, right? That's kind of one of our mantras again. And the idea that we're able to deliver that, I feel we're able to deliver that at 31st out of 41 school districts in terms of cost is really something I wanted to bring to everyone's attention.
028Then this uh we we'd like to highlight that. So this is our fund balance as a percentage of revenue and expenses. So you'll see that we are 10% of and this is 2425 data. So 10 10% of our fund balance um well our fund balance is 10% as compared to our revenue and 11% as compared to our expenses about $12 million in fund balance. So now we are kind of low down on the list. There are many other districts that have way more money than we do in fund balance. That means that we were able to um accurately predict our budgets and not overt tax the taxpayers. However, Dr. P, you want to >> Yeah. I mean, we're running a tight ship here and we've talked about how lean we run and how close we
029run our budgets. And yes, the result of that is we're 41 out of 42 districts here. But the the other side of that equation is that when you have things that come up and things always come up, uh it's tight. It it it's really difficult to be flexible to react to those things. So that is something we really need to consider in terms of trying to build that that fund balance and build our reserves. >> Yeah. I'll also say you know as you know if you look at some of these other districts the other thing is interest income right so when interest rates were zero this was also sort of less impactful but um you know it just means the taxpayer is earning interest on their money in their bank accounts and we're not earning
030it as a district but you know if you look at a school like Jericho who has you know $50 million that's like an extra $2 million a in revenue. >> It's a lot, right? And that acrru every year assuming interest rates are up. So we we sort of lose out on that. And we've talked about this. This is like a philosophical thing that has been the reality of Manhasset for a long time. And yeah, we have done a good job budgeting, but you know, there's a balance between being like lean and mean and then, you know, not having the flexibility to do things when contractual obligations change or health care costs change or energy energy prices change. So, you know, that that is something we we have to just and I'm I'm repeating myself. I
031sort of say this every other meeting, but um we we just have to keep keep an eye on it and I would never want our kids to be at a disadvantage um because we did not plan uh well enough for for for um you know things that come up. So >> can I can I just add to that just a clarification that number I know it's a little bit outdated now but that includes the reserves and that unassigned fund balance line item. Correct. Yes. Right. And I know at the end of the day that unassigned fund balance is actually really really tight. I think it's hovering around million or so which is really the >> Yes, we we we do run a real lean mean operation. So yes. Yes. So it would be nice to
032somehow find the balance not overt tax the taxpayers but find a way to build up the fund balance. >> Go ahead. >> Okay. So this is um so this is what we're are look this is what we're expecting for you know for the years to come 2728 we finalized our transportation contract so that you you should see that pretty soon that will that will actually go on the um on the agenda for approval. So we know what that um increase is and we're going to build that in for um for the years to come. Believe it's 8.2 8.5% increase for this year and we'll build out the other years into the budget. teachers retirement system. These are the increases that we've seen in the last three years. 9.6, 10.1, 9.8. Uh employees retirement system 17.6,
03316.5, 15.2. So it just goes to show you how these are the expenses. This is what's driving that increase in the budget. So we're, you know, before we even get to do some of the wonderful things that we're doing, we have to account for the transportation, pension cost, health insurance, etc. So just wanted to highlight what's going on. and then changes to state and federal funding. We we're not sure what's going to happen. I mean, even today, I think supposed to be a budget, approved budget, not an approved budget by the state. So, there's so much uncertainty. We we just have to these are these are the challenges when it comes to um putting together the budget. And then we have to start working on our MEPA contract negotiation. So, all of these factors are
034going to affect our budget as we move forward in years to come. So the voter information page is live. You can click on that and you would get my voter information. April 20th we mailed out our abs applications our ear absentee ballots. May 13th is the last day to mail them out. Last day to personally request an application is May 18th and May 19th by 5:00 p.m. That's the last time that it can be received is Yes. Okay. Good. and uh vote. May 19th, we vote at the secondary school in the gymnasium from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. So, I hope everyone comes out to vote. So, May 19th, that's the that's what's next, the annual budget vote in the um secondary school. Thank you very much. Does anybody have any questions? >> Rod, I
035do. Um thank you. I really appreciate the time and effort that everybody in the entire district has done to get this thing you know where it is. I just wanted to make a small clarification because there's many people that don't know this, but you have us labeled as the board of ed underneath administrative and they might assume that we are being paid. We are not paid. We are complete volunteers. So, we are not part of this budget. I am doing this presentation tomorrow in this room to the SCA and I'm going to make sure I make that note right now that it is expenses related to the board of education, not salaries for the board of education is what I will change that to. Thank you very much. >> And I don't I just would
036like to make a a comment. I I mentioned this at one of the SCA budget uh discussions that we had last week. Um, everybody got these in the mail, I believe. And I think it's really important to see that, you know, Gerard, you highlighted we have $3.9 million increase, but when everyone looks really closely, you pointed out about half of it was just in like employee health benefits alone. And that the district, the community, the board, the administrators had to work really hard to make sure they could continue to deliver at the highest level for our kids and to find ways to do that when the budget was really, really tight. because costs are rising everywhere. I think it was the bus contract and the health insurance alone ate up so much of our increase.
037Yet we were able to do so much, you know, for the kids and for the buildings and for the curriculum and for the programs. And I think um that really reflects the spirit of fiscal responsibility while also delivering the best for our kids. So, I think that's really important when folks look at this when it comes in the mail and they can see, you know, where that increase was spent and where there were some places that we actually had to trim and cut to make sure our priorities were were funded. >> Thank you. Really? Yeah, it's my first year in the district. It was it was a challenge trying to put it together. I remember when we first did it, it was uh you know, huge increase, but we were able to get it down
038to stay within our tax cap. So >> yeah, Gerard, I want to publicly thank you and your team and and all the folks in the district, some who are here right now and some who are are hopefully out doing other things, but I appreciate all the effort that went into this and yes, your first crack at this did a incredible job. So congratulations. >> Okay, thank you very much. Yes, >> just to reiterate, thank you for putting all of this together and what you've exemplified is stability within constraints and also while maintaining growth. Um, and something that's been really fun is Dr. Chowski watching you put together uh virtual enterprise broadcast journalism, biomedical sciences, and many more pathways. And within the first year, our schools and student our school and students are recognized statewide. Um,
039and we really appreciate everything that you're able to do within these constraints. >> Thank you. That's really the team. I I can't take credit for their work. >> Okay. Write down my note. Okay. >> Got it. >> Board not paid. >> There you go. expenses related too. Thank you very much. >> All right. Um I'll also open it up to public comment on this topic of the budget if anyone wants to say anything. Sure. If you wouldn't mind coming up introducing yourself and um just limiting your comments to three minutes. >> One more minute since I'm the only one here. Okay. >> Hopefully I can get one extra minute. Um good evening. My name is Dan Sh. Um, thank you for the opportunity to speak. I have three brief points. The first one is on
040state aid. Mahet has received roughly 5.5 million in state aid in each of the past three years. U Jericho with the nearly identical enrollments has received between 10 million and 12 million annually over the same period. So that's roughly twice the funding for a comparable student population. I'd like to ask has the district analyzed why this gap exists and whether there were eight components where my hasset may be receiving less than what's available. If not would be the board be willing to conduct uh that analysis. My second point is on per student spending and the real budget tra um tra trajectory in gross expenditure per students. Manasset ranks in the bottom quarter of NASA county school district behind peers districts like Sioset, Great Redneck, Roslin, and Jericho. And the trend is concerning. From the 202021
041school year through the proposed 27 budget, per student spending in Manahasset has increased by approximately 16%. Over the same period up to March this year, the consumer price index which is measured inflation has increased by approximately 27%. So in real inflation adjusted terms, per student spending has declined by roughly 11%. Without even adjust inflation from March this year to 2027. Looking at this year's proposed 4 million budget increase, the great majority is consumed by employee benefits, debt service, transportation, and special education. None of these categories represents direct investments in classroom instruction. After inflation adjustments, real spending on instruction has declined by 11% since 2020. Is the board comfortable with this trajectory and if not what is the plan to address it? Uh my third question or my third point is on budget a breakdown by
042program area. Uh before raising my final question I want to give credit uh where it's due. Mahasset continues to deliver both academic and ethnic excellence. The budget vote pamphlet rightly highlights the awards our students have earned in academics on the playing fields, the arts, music, media, and the innovative programs the district has launched. The board and and the administration deserve recognition for that. To help the community understand and support the budget, I'd ask one thing. Could the district provide a budget breakdown by program area including instructional department including ELA, math, science, social studies, world languages, art, music, PE and athletics and with further detail by functions such as instruction, equipment and supplies for the past five years and the proposed 2026 27 budget. I believe seeing the trend over time and allocation of financial resources
043will help the community understand the budget better. Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. Thank you for that very well uh reasoned and uh thoughtful statement and question. So um so the first the first part in the state aid happy to do that work that we should understand that and Gerard let's make sure that calculation I mean it's it's pretty I think it's pretty prescriptive I don't >> right so yeah >> yes >> they so um I mean the state a their formula it it has a lot to do well in right Jericho is similar but it it has a lot to do with like combined wealth ratios and there's a lot things that go into the the state aid. I mean, I at this point I can't explain why we would get significantly less well
044or we would receive significantly less compared to um Jericho, but I'm happy to do that work to see why. And and then you you absolutely raised the the key point. This this is the crux of the issue. So inflation and I I sort of said this last last meeting, it is an insidious thing and you know a 3.4% 4% budget increase this year really does keep us even. I mean maybe inflation's like a little more. So we aren't spending in real dollars. We are spending less. So it it really just comes down to what is the appetite for this community to spend more or be taxed more to deliver uh the requisite educational platform. And historically, my understanding is this is a fiscally conservative community. And um we need to decide as a community if
045we want to have that discussion and make the argument. I I personally think we do. I think we we are going to have to ask the taxpayer for more to ensure that our kids are getting the best and and getting what what they deserve. And we're also able to attract the talent and the personnel to deliver it. Right? So it it goes hand in hand. And this is a math problem because if inflation continues, our costs are simply rising faster than the revenues um we're we're allowed to collect based on the tax cap. That that's it. Right. So you're absolutely correct to to raise this. and um you know, is there the political will to go to and go to the community and and make that argument? And and I've I've done that. I've done
046that math, right? So there's 5400 households in this district. And so if you wanted to raise another $2.5 million, for example, we would ask each family on average, and it's a function of um home values and other things, um 500 bucks a family. And I think people would probably pay that if we made a smart argument about, you know, what we thought was important to deliver. And maybe maybe it's more, but um you know, we we should definitely have that debate as a community. So I'll I'll pause there if anyone wants to talk about it. >> Thank you, Ted. Uh thank you so much for your questions. Uh and just to provide just a lens of um being a trustee, this is my fourth year. Um the state aid and we could obviously um Mr.
047Anton will look into that more, but it's prescriptive. So it's something we have looked into and it has to do with wealth ratios as well as real estate taxes. So we don't have as much commercial property that adds into and that's a kind of a little bit of a difference but um the single family homes have to support our district with the balance of 95% essentially. Uh we do qualify for some special education and all of that it has been pursued. Um that being said a few years ago we updated our policy as well to allow the superintendent the ability to pursue any grants and um that are available and and that's something Dr. Pilitary is on top of. the way that our budget where it's so tight and where we Exactly. Just to caveat
048to Ted's point, we have fixed costs. So, those fixed costs are what you mentioned, uh, transportation, which we did put up an RFP, and we do that often for all of our, um, non-administrative, uh, non-curricular expenses. Um, and then the retirement benefits. And there are certain things that are just fixed costs. So, essentially, we craft our budget reversed into subtracting out the fixed costs. And then from there we have to look into instruction and more direct cost for our students and our staff. And that's where the administration has gotten very um crafty in terms of adding coaches into the classroom so that at least they're um differentiating instruction to meet the needs of our gifted and talented, our children that need to get um meet standards and then our children that are at the cusp
049of of exceeding standards. So there there has been a lot of strategy that has been applied with the balance of of what we're able to do without piercing the cap. Um to Ted's point uh and per program breakdown um Dr. Pelletary um has all of that and he does um an analysis with the cabinet um and I guess you could speak to more of that Dr. Pelletary uh if you wanted to. Gerard's actually working on something that we uh have called the blue book, which gives a lot of that detail and that uh Gerard, I know we're close to having that that done. I I'm I'm going to just say this is this is my fault. This is my first year here in the district. And so I wasn't aware fully of what the blue
050book was and what it all entailed. And so I've asked Gerrod to make sure that I know he's working on it now, but in the future we will have that coincide with the budget itself at the same time. And and also if you go on the website the the line by line budget is there so you can get a sense of um you know the the um the math the social studies the PE it is broken out in the line by line budget. Yes, that that's why the blue book will would help because uh the the line by line budget is not just all math together, all social studies together, you know, all PE together. So, yes. So, the blue book will have that. >> Okay. And also, we know you very well. Thank you
051for your your role in the district and your support and your partnership and we can give you a call also and kind of walk through exactly what it is that we're trying to do. Okay. >> Have his number. Thank you. >> That and that was actually what I was going to say, Dr. and to the cabinet is that we actually to the community that's listening, we welcome those questions and you have administrators such as Mr. Anton who is willing to listen to that. So I would encourage you have those conversations because to Ted's point, you know, as we move on year after year, I will tell you just health care benefits, if you look at your own healthcare benefits and what you have to pay in, it is increasing and that that dollar is not
052going to go down. they're putting the burden more on the individual contributor if you will and that is a huge expenditure and so we have to offset that by other areas but I want to echo what Nadia said and I think an area where we do want to work with Mr. Grant on more is is grants. Are there places where we can get grants? And if there are those out there who are willing to write and are good grant writers when we have those opportunities, I think that might even be a summer intern. I think there's opportunities because it takes a lot to write those grants, but there could be some good dollar amounts that could come back to the district. Um, and those are are available. >> All right, great. um important discussion topic
053and I'd certainly encourage you to join our finance committee and and this should be um you know it's a big topic if there if the community can make recommendations to the board about where we should be spending money. Let's let's hear it. Let's do it. I mean that's it's critical. Um but we have to build a consensus and we have to do it together if we're going to if we're going to do it. um pierce the cap and and ask community for more. We just have to make the best, strongest, most rational arguments we can. So um and I'm I'm I'm happy to to help participate in that as well. All right. Thank you very much. So let's move on to uh our next discussion point and that is the athletic hallway. Very exciting. We've
054been >> Oh, we have a before and Oh yeah, we should. We should. We we've I've been hearing about this for many many years and it seems like we are on the 5 yard line, 5 yard line, 10 yard line. >> Yeah, we're actually reference >> doing some work now. Uh you're marking the plaques that are So yeah, that would be that would have been really nice. You see, n I wish I would have thought of that myself because yeah, it it's wonderful how many plaques we've won and how many recognitions our students and our teams have over the years, but it is it's clustered uh when you go in there. And so, Katherine, you ever walk through that hallway there? You're a student athlete also. Right. Right. So, you see those plaques there and
055everything. It's one, but what we want to do is really turn it into something that that's uh pretty amazing in terms of new tile, floor to ceiling. We're going to have three showcases. I should get you a pointer or >> make sure you're on the mic so folks at home can hear. >> Okay. So, the you know, so you guys could see what we're doing here. We're doing from floor to ceiling tiles, getting rid of all the green that's been there. Um, the lighting is going to be the lighting was done, but just the ballast were replaced. So, the full fixtures are going to be replaced. Now, the flooring is staying the same because that's an expensive floor. >> But, um, >> what are we doing to the floor? >> We're going to fix all
056the cracks and make it look brand new. >> I'm going to shine it up. And then all the showcases where the um current um what awards, state awards are, they're going to be recessed into the wall. So giving and allowing and freeing up floor space so that the amount of students that you know come into that hallway can flow nicely, won't bang into anything. It's going to be a very clean look and it will match the bathrooms that we just did in that hallway as well. And we're going to start to take down those plaques. We are going to >> They started already. >> Yes. Categorize them. We're going to picture each one of them. >> Well, so the plan is we have um I believe our maintenance crew and someone else taking down they're
057they're all stuck to the tiles and um so it's like a task. It's a lot. And they're going to catalog and put them in boxes. And in the summer, we're going to look to some students within the district that would um gain service hours and come and catalog and put it so that when we have our computer system um for the TV screens to show Exactly. And Miss Rafael will be assisting with that as well. >> I think it's it how many screens are there, Gerard? I think it's four. >> Four screens. And three of them will be monitors. One can have a schedule, one will have pictures and other things like that. uh pertinent information for athletics and then one would be a touchscreen eventually would be a touchcreen and I can go in
058and say my dad won the uh wrestling award in 1972. I'm going to want to see if I can look them up and you could actually look them up and find that which will be a really nice piece. We also talked about if there are members of the community who have a plaque up there with their name on it and they want them, I think we'd be willing to work with them about, you know, getting them those plaques. Maria used. >> Absolutely. Um especially the ones that are the single ones um with their names on it. We would love that to give it back once we catalog and do everything that we wanted to do for the >> computer system. Um it'll update the the district. It'll make us look compared to the other districts
059that are out there to, you know, make Manhasset the excellence that we're all striving for. Um we are still looking for some donations. If anybody's interested in sending on over, you can reach out. >> How can they donate? >> Call me, email me, find me in the grocery store. Um, and we will get to the booster club and um, and finalize this because by the month of June, soon as the frolic is complete, this is going to be started. >> We're actually going to start before the frolic is over. I'm just I'm saying that now. I'm joking. Oh, I I know we would I believe me, we would never ever do that. I know that we would never ever do that. All right. Very exciting. Any any questions or public comment on the athletic hallway?
060All right. So, I'm excited for this. All right. Uh discussion number two, the hottest topic around the globe is artificial intelligence. Uh what happened in 2526 and what are we thinking for next year? Turn that over to Rebecca. >> Yep. Rebecca, please jump right in. >> James is going to pull up James is going to pull up our our presentation here, our discussion slides. So James, I'm going to count on you. This is an opportunity. At the beginning of the year when we started, we promised the public and the board that we would come at the end of the year and share our progress. So, this is an opportunity not only to share this progress, but also to thank the community, the board, and everyone in our staff, including students who have who have contributed
061to all of this work. We've made a lot of progress. James, thanks. Is the outstanding. Thank you so much. All right. First of all, we just want to focus that we are taking um taking the stance that all decisions have to include all stakeholders and that we've worked very hard to make sure that everyone is involved in these discussions. And ultimately the mantra is AI is a tool. It's never a replacement for thinking. Step one was on October 8th we had our AI town hall. Um when we put this out on the web page, this is linked. So if you want to watch Jackson daily give the coverage on here, it was fascinating. We had over a hundred participants with all stakeholders um people who were present here as a matter of fact at the
062tables and it it kicked us off in a very strong way. Step two and I want to thank the board for their support with this is that we had two major moves in terms of our board policies. our acceptable use changed to include AI and then on March 19th we changed our academic integrity policy to include AI parameters as well but the in both cases we were very clear that we're focusing on critical thinking and learning and cyber security but we also didn't write something that was so tight that when it continues to change and as it's changing every day that we would not be stuck and have to come back again immediately. So we just want to underscore that we have formal acceptable use in academic integrity and that there is a clear process.
063All um software and technology has to undergo review by our cy cyber security and data protection officer Mike Granner and all of the department heads. All AI use and we are not using this primarily at elementary. We're doing an analog approach to our um instruction. um has to be under the supervision of a classroom instructor and then we're we are rolling this out slowly with approved programs and we focus this year on notebook LM, Canva and Padlet for training teachers. So our our partnership with MIT raised day of AI curriculum with again what I'm saying an emphasis on the analog presentation of those concepts for K through five. Um coding is an exception. We will be using AI with coding for our our teams um that did so well you know previously uh for the
064hackathon. And then the other piece is again we are using what we have now again fiscal responsibility for this roll out and then expanding from there. In February and March we had the learning lounge. This was Dr. Pelletaria's idea. Um, we had Virt Right. You named it. No, you didn't name it, but you came up with the concepts. I named it, but you came up with the concepts on there. >> Are those your shoes on there? >> They're both left foot, right? >> Yeah. >> It's They're my slippers. Um, >> I always have tea. Yeah, I drink a lot of tea. Um, so we had virtual evening trainings from home. They were presented by the trainers from Day of AI. There were concurrent elementary and secondary sessions on there and we had these baseline concepts.
065They were also recorded. They're going to be pushed out again this summer. So, um teachers if they did not have a chance to see them, they'll have an opportunity again to do so. Dr. Seilla, which we really appreciate, and the instructional technology team, we hosted um some model school days where we had trainers coming in from Boseies and working with teachers. They were very well attended and that was had good feedback. Additionally, we created um online we have and the link will be public again. We've been pushing it out in multiple places. We have a family hub where I've been updating with articles and resources as well as we have an instructional hub for our our um staff. So other work that we've done, we did an AI confidence survey for for the faculty which
066has helped to structure our our um professional development. We have had a partnership with the teacher resource center with additional AIPD um offerings which has been very successful. We're also doing a flow through I I'm jumping ahead but we're working with them very tightly. We have done AI and digital alignment curriculum discussions. It's primarily in in elementary going to go through the computer teachers and the librarians and then we've also joined the New York State Artificial Intelligence Consortium which is fascinating. I very I've enjoyed it. Um we want to thank the SCA for co-sponsoring. We had Jeff Riley come, people who were able to come with it was it was a great night and he was really underscoring all of the points that we have made regarding safety. Yes, thank you so much Miss Bruno
067for being there, Dr. Bruno. That was was very good and he's very impressive. Um, so coming soon uh this month, math classes are going to be doing a short student AIU survey which that data the faculty requested that. So that's coming. We're doing additional teacher resource center AI instruction through the TRC where we actually approved all the courses today um with with the board. So that was fabulous. Additional family resources and at the end of this year before we leave is that each department is to come up with AI use statements for every secondary discipline which will be in course descriptions in September. um our AI focus will be half that in the elementary report card guard for elementary people on superintendent conference day. We've met with the PD committee. We've already started doing that
068work and then we'll have also continued it will be throughout the year continued faculty um support and systematic literacy curriculum roll out. So to end I wanted to give a very special thanks to the Manhatta Board of Education for all their support. We could not do this without you moving forward in those policies. The AI subcommittee, we had 43 students, parents, guardians, teachers, administrators, and AI experts who we keep having involved in the conversation. Um the professional development committee and then the teacher resource center. This truly has been a committee uh a community effort. So, thank you so much. And that is my update. Any questions for Rebecca? >> No questions. But I I think what I'd like to say is a huge kudos to Dr. Chowsky and the team. I think for those of
069you and for those that are in, you know, the private sector, AI is taking such a boom, if you will. And I think empowering our students and staff to use it responsibly is really incumbent on on us. And so I've seen what other schools have done. Um I've actually heard Mr. Riley even comment, you know, Manhasset is leading the way. And I would actually encourage you to even think even further because this is a tool, right? And as a resource and a tool as educators, we do have to empower our students how to use it appropriately. So it starts here. And a huge thank you to you and the staff for kind of trailblazing through some of this space. I just want to echo what you you said like Dr. Chesky this is to me
070like the epitome of like leadership and really you know taking it and delivering um on on a deep very thoughtful level and the way you have structured it and organized it and included all of the stakeholders and gotten everyone involved and and just the how far you guys have gotten over just the this first year alone is is incredible. And I think um you've also proven that we there's trust there that we're taking this um delicately and lightly. This is not um this is a serious issue, something, you know, substantial. We don't know where it's going. And to know that you guys have put this work in. I I hope the community can see that um there's trust there that when we bring this for the students and to tie it into our curriculum and
071our education that like we're doing it um in the right way. Um, so I I I've been very impressed and thank you so much, you know, for this year that you've led us through this process so far. >> To echo the same sentiment, uh, we made a decision collectively to embrace it, right? Because it's it's happening, so we might as well be leaders in it. And if you could just share a little bit about the summer program that's being hosted at Manhasset, which is really >> want to take advantage. >> Yes. Because it's open to if you could. >> Yes. Thank you so much. and and while it's not a formal part of our initiative, we we are really excited about this. Um we have the Inspirit um AI group which is they are instructors
072from Stanford and MIT and and Harvard too. Um I know it's kind of and Harvard too like an afterthought. It's only on this. In any case, we um will be we'll be offering it's two weeks this summer where they're going to have AI work and they um learning through coding and also independent projectbased work. It's for students who are rising grade nine um into 12. And right now we had at last check we had over 40 students um that are going to be doing this. We are super excited. This is going to be um amazing. So thank you. And it's still open for registration. >> Yeah. Thank you, Dr. Chowsky. And it's it's open to all schools. So, our students will be collaborating with their neighbors and and we're a host sites, which is really
073exciting. >> And and I was just going to say to anyone in the community, if there's any hesitation with cost or financial need to reach out to Dr. Chowsky and we'll just we'll make sure whoever is interested and wants to be part of the program, that shouldn't be a barrier. Anything else? All right. Thank you, Dr. Chowsky. All right. Um, any public discussion on AI? All right. All right. That is uh fantastic. All right. So, let's move on with our uh regular agenda. Did I miss anything here? No, I think that's okay. All right. So, we're going to accept a gift to the district. The board of education of the Manhassid Union Free School District gratefully acknowledges and authorizes the administration to accept a $1,000 prize from the New York State Education Department won by
074three sixth grade Shelter Rock students that competed in the first in math statewide tournament. The funds will be used to help fund future tournaments. Amazing. So, um, can I have a motion to accept that? Ria second. Nadia. All in favor? 50. All right, that is great. And congrats to uh our Shelter Rock sixth graders. Next is uh policy review. All right, Mariana, we're going to grading systems. >> Yes, we have one policy for the board. Um and we're actually recommending a first and final reading. This is part of um an overall I know Dr. Chowski is working on updating the report cards. And one update um that is very helpful for is for parents um in the lower grades. Um they were previously receiving it twice a year, but now the change is that parents
075shall be provided report cards three times per year in grades kindergarten through sixth and four um as as we already know exists four times a year in grades 7 through 12. So that's not changing. So the change is is essentially an additional um report guard report card going from 2 to three but complete um in grades kindergarten through sixth. So I'm recommending to do a first and final um because that's not a substantial, you know, change to the policy. All in favor? >> All right. >> And that's it. That's it. That's it for uh tonight. That's it for policy. Okay. All right. So, let's move on to our committee reports. The audit committee is going to meet next month, right? Or for our final meeting of the year, June 10th. I look forward to that.
076Um the the uh finance committee, we did meet our last meeting. It was um yeah we celebrated the budget being done and and and you know grinding as as hard as we could on the transportation budget basically right so we I think >> Dr. Thank you, Gerard, the team, like Quinn. I mean, everybody, you know, we I think we gave them, you know, we we got the best contract we could under the circumstances that were presented to us, which is effectively like a one bidder, you know, one bidder, right? Okay. So, we talked about that, but you know, the discussion tonight that is the crux. So next year the finance committee can can certainly take up um you know the direction of travel for you know how we want to spend and and potentially tax
077if if we think we are underfunded and we may not be underfunded but but we are certainly um at a point where it's worth having that discussion. So anything else Maria on this? No. Okay. All right. Mac, we have our last meeting on June 1st. We just had one the other day and we discussed the athletic hallway and the process of getting um you know cataloging and everything. So basically organizing for for the summer >> and it's not really part of MAC, but I would like to get those trailers out of the parking lot. >> Yeah, me too. >> Are you captain of that? Okay, >> the captain. >> All right. um SCA >> um we haven't had a meeting I think I believe it's next week or so but you know just kudos to
078the team for having the SCA fair it went off well thank you to all the volunteers and all the donations for the food uh next year I think we should look for more food because towards the end of the day people were starving and they were looking for more food so just putting it out there from now >> I got two for one hot dog at the end of the day I bought one hot dog and they gave me two I don't know if I was supposed to get two but no no I was supposed to get two. Yes. Right. >> And they were good. >> Can't accept bribes though. So, um, >> so that was great. Yeah. SCA pair is always a hit. So, all right. And then is there a presentation tomorrow the
079SCA again on the budget or no? Is it okay? I just know that um >> high school middle school parents. Okay. Okay. All right, Tower Foundation. >> No update from Tower, but I'll actually share a quick update from, you know, chamber for the Chamber of Commerce. Just a a kudos to those that came out and volunteered for Earth Day um April 23rd where we cleaned up Manhasset. Um so, thank you to all the community members who came out and supported the Chamber of Commerce. And then Alfresco, just to put a shout out to start um reminding folks, June 7th and 12th. So, we have the dates for Alfresco and and you'll see flyers around town um supported by the Chamber of Commerce. >> All right. Um >> uh >> yeah, go ahead, Nadia. >> Sure.
080>> Uh for PACE, the last meeting is on Tuesday, May 12th, and um everyone is welcome in the district office. It's uh open to staff, parents, and the other uh component is adaptive tennis is going well as well as unified sports team basketball. >> Thank you. Uh Kasa, >> Kasa just recognized their winners of the PSA um contest um earlier this afternoon, this evening. And then uh in June, Kasa is running a program to help the seniors transition um to post high school life. That's going to happen the beginning of June before classes end. >> Okay. >> And NEOC uh they had a wonderful gala last week. A lot of us were there and um it was wonderful to celebrate the hardworking volunteers that help at the EOCC and support all the programs up there.
081And there's one more EOCC committee meeting for the year on Wednesday, May 20th. >> All right, great. And uh anything for EOC? We just did CRC. Okay, sorry. Um All right, thank you for all those reports. Uh all right, so let's move on to the amended personnel agenda. I know we have some um some appointments, some retirement resignations, and uh you know, I know we're adding to our our talent pool, which is exciting. So, does anyone have any questions on the personnel agenda? All right, motion to approve. Maria, Nadia, second. All in favor? 5. Thank you. All right. And now we're uh going to go through our consent agenda, section 504 minutes, conference requests. I think the conferences were a hit this year. Would you say >> without a doubt we incur? This is all
082part of that learning model, that professional growth. We want people going out and we send people out for AP. We actually hosted AP folks here. Uh so certainly that is something that I I push us to do and we do in all in all in all venues in all areas. >> All right. Great. The next one is uh is approval of LIU post high school scholars and and so you know I think also the district has done a really good job collaborating with you know a lot of the local universities. So so congrats on that. I mean, I'll just read, you know, commencing in the 26 27 academic year, Liu Post and Manhasset High School, collectively the school have agreed to work together to enable both institutions to meet the needs of talented high school
083students through the LU high school scholars program. The terms of this arrangement are outlined below and there's just a series of um initiatives here which which is really exciting. So, you know, Dena and Rebecca and the team, thank you. you know, and and Lauren, Lauren, congrats, uh, Miss Telerini, who, you know, is not here, but I know hopefully is listening. So, thank you for that. Very exciting stuff with LU Post. Uh, LU, the Sharks, right? They've really like stepped up their marketing, too. Um, all right. Approval of the formation of the Red Cross and speech and debate clubs. >> Just a quick reminder on that. I I honestly thought we the speech and debate was approved Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. And then are we tableabling number six? >> Yes. Yes. >>
084Okay. All right. So, Nicole, we're going to table our our NISSBA agreement for the moment. Uh Nassau County Civil Service, uh Hofra memo of understanding extension, um accessing technology equipment, charter school resolution. We went through this. We're okay with this. Uh out of district health and welfare services transportation agreement. This is for um traveling to looks like one of the games. Is that right? >> Yeah. >> Yes. Traveling to Richfield Memorial High School in New Jersey, >> right? I think that might have happened already. Um yes. >> And then uh we have the calendar. We have an amended calendar for 2016. >> That was a quick Yeah, that was a quick question I had. Just can you call out the amendment to the calendar again? >> Yes. So, we we changed the dates of the
085new teacher orientation and we added the administrator's retreat which will be August 21. That's that's all we did. >> All right. And then we have our our claims report. Um so, any other questions? No, just I have a quick question on the claims report from um December 25. There were um I know Gerard, you've been working with the team really well and they're doing a really great job to minimize the the transactions that get flagged and they're mostly flagged for some procedural reasons that you guys are really tightening the process on. I just had a question. I think there were three or four that were flagged because the invoices, it's labeled untimely payment of services. That means the invoice was past years like it it was a while ago and that it came in now.
086And I just wanted to just publicly just have a discussion around who how do you guys handle that? I know you mentioned you communicate with these vendors. You ask for them as soon as possible. It's still um concerning like do we have that money to pay for it, etc. So, I figured I'd just flag it um and have a discussion about that. So this particular vendor um whenever we know that we have invoices that have not been paid, we put them what we call a payable schedule. So this particular vendor's invoice, the money associated with it is in the payable um schedule. So we are able to pay this outstanding invoice and we have the the 2425 school year's outstanding invoice balance in this payable schedule. But what we don't understand is this is an
087invoice from November of 24 and January of 25. Why is it taking so long for them to submit their invoices? So we reach out to them. Well, when when I first started uh the team, Quinn and I, the accounts payable department, we we pushed out emails. We pushed out letters to say, "Please send us your invoices. We would like to pay them. We need to close out Yeah. We we need to close out the at the time it was to close out the year, but we we're trying to get these invoices so we could pay them. I don't understand why as a business or how do you operate as a business if you have money outstanding from November of 24, but we we we try and you know, some have responded to us, but I
088don't understand why they all don't. >> In this case, that we were not sitting on those invoices. we just received them very very delayed and you guys have a system in place to sort of keep that money >> waiting for those invoices to come. So that's >> and also there's a there's a new feature in envision that helps it in the in this uh payable schedule it helps to track. So when we put the invoice or when we put that um that balance in the payable schedule it it shows um the remaining balance and it actually deducts as we start to make payments. So, if we put 500,000 in, then as as we make a payment 50,000, 100,000, it keeps deducting from it. So, we're able to track how much money is still left um
089on that invoice. >> And I know you are you started as of August 1st of this year. So, these bills were from before your time. So, I I love that there's a great new team in place that's going to make stay on our vendors and make sure they get these bills in because we're happy to pay them. It's services they've provided. We just don't want to see from like two years ago. >> I'm going to question. Is there a statute of limitations where they don't get paid like you know if they haven't >> build you? >> That's a superintendent question. >> So there there is auditor's advice in certain circumstances where we could say this is well beyond what would be expected in terms of receiving an invoice and and we're not going to pay
090that. we we walk a fine line in so far as working with providers for our students who there aren't potentially other providers for our students. So, we don't want to get in a situation where we're not paying for services that have been provided for our students and create a uh what would not be a good relationship with the providers for our kids. Right? That's not something that we but there are instances where we might say yes, we're not going to pay that. And so I and I I believe we we've done that. But uh in this instance, for example, our kids were service. They they were there. They received what it is that we asked to be done. And and so in terms of bookkeeping, we obviously want to do it in a better fashion,
091but we also need to be cognizant of we're a school. We have relationships with community based organizations and we need to try and keep those uh as as good as possible. But there are times when we we we have the right to say we're not going to pay something. >> All right. Can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Maria Nadia second. All in favor? 50. And then upcoming items of interest. Obviously the the budget vote is on the 19th. Uh I think that's Tuesday, not Thursday, but um and then we have a our last board meeting is June 18th and then we'll have the new uh organizational meeting where we will welcome our our new uh our newest trustee. Um and then there's graduation and all the fun stuff that goes with
092that. >> We just checked that date for of July 9. I've heard different dates from different people. So, uh, the the reorg meeting is scheduled on our calendar for July 9. I want to make sure that we all recognize that, right? And if there's any question, please let me know as soon as possible. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Motion to adjurnn. Maria, you're the best. Arian, I'll give you the second this. All right. All in favor. All right. We're adjourned. Thank you very much, everyone. Good night.