001Good evening and welcome to the 202526 proposed budget. First, I'd like to start off with a very big thank you to our community for supporting this school district and for every all the programming that we do and the staff. It is greatly greatly appreciated. So, our agenda for tonight includes the following. We're going to look at the development process um and how that works and what it looks like. We'll look at the revenue budget. We'll look at the appropriation budget. We'll look at the ballot propositions. Um I'll have my email address up there for any questions and then we'll hear from the candidates. So the development process actually starts in early November with a budget development calendar that gets board approved and then in December we have the department budgets that are submitted to me
002for feedback. In January, we have the building level budgets from the principles. And then from January to April, we have four or five different budget committee meetings. And then, of course, in April, the board adopts the budget. And in early May, here we are. So, quick glance at the budget summary. So the overall budget from 2425 to 2526 has a increase of 3.91%. Um if you look at the operating expenses only which excludes the debt service it's a 6.41% increase and then when you factor in the debt service we had a little drop off in the debt service. So that brings it down to the overall 3.91%. In terms of the threepart component of the budget, the administrative piece is about 10%. The program is almost 75% which is what it should be and capital
003is 15.5%. The overall budget that we're looking for to be approved for 2526 is 23,540,850 for the revenues. So this is just kind of a breakdown of where the money comes from. So you can see that about onethird of it comes from property taxes. About 60% comes from state and federal aid. Um and the remaining about 7 and a half% comes from local sources which is the county uh tax revenue that we receive and also our fund balance and appropriations uh towards the budget. So, taking a closer look at New York state aid, uh, this year was different from the past five years in the sense that we don't actually have a true number for the legislative state aid. Um, it was the overall budget was approved, but the some of the details in there
004have not been ironed out yet. So, that's why it's highlighted in yellow. Uh but a couple of factors to consider. The foundation aid based on the governor's proposal is a 2% increase. The legislative has proposed um the two individual houses one proposed a 0.9% increase above the 2% so 2.9%. And the other one proposed a 1% increase which would make it 3%. So worst case scenario, we should get 2% increase, but it could be as high as 3%. We don't know that yet, which again is why it's highlighted in yellow and is subject to change based on final approval. You can see based on the numbers, which is prim the governor's budget, you can see that overall the aid is about a.7% increase, not quite $100,000. So this shows the real property tax uh calculation
005how it's done and typically from year to year we try to make sure that we are within the tax cap. So we're always typically somewhere between two and about 2 and a half% which is the tax cap. This year the tax cap is higher which is primarily because of the growth factor. So you'll see that the growth factor increased by 50% from last year and that growth factor is determined by the state based on growth within the community. So it went from 1.0042 to 1.0061 which is why the year-over-year increase is 2.87% instead of closer to 2.5%. [Music] Projected tax rate So again the true tax rate does not come out until July. So this is just a projection based on the data that we received uh from real property tax and the assessors. You
006can see that for 2425 per thousand the true value tax rate was $16.23. The projected for 2526 decreases by $3.50 which I'll explain in greater detail in the next slide. Um, but you can see that the assessment levels from town to town have all decreased. And you'll notice, so Arcadia, for example, was just reassessed last year townwide. So it was at 100%. A year later, it's now a 4% decrease because it's a year old. And that's based again based on the real property tax from New York State. Um, you can see Marian is at 54%. The overall town assessment hasn't been done in quite a few years. Um you can see that it's all significant with the exception of Arcadia it's significantly below 100%. Which again this is all a result of COVID and what's
007been happening to real estate property in terms of the increases. Uh but typically prior to CO it was almost always 100% or high 90s. So this this is going to illustrate why it's happening. So in 2425 the overall value property value in the Marian school district was 443 million 2526 it's 527 million which is almost a 19% increase and again that goes back to that growth factor as well. So the tax levy as you all know there's a 2% tax cap and that tax cap is 2.87%. Because those numbers are so different, you can see why the true value tax rate has decreased by over 21%. Okay, appropriations. Here's a summary of where the money is going. So, you can see that instruction is 48%. You can see that the employee benefits is about 25%.
008General support is almost 13% and then debt service and inter fund transfer is about 8%. So for general support the things to note of significance here is that there is an increase of a little over $20,000 for equipment and that is needed to replace some old equipment for facilities. um salaries are up as a result of contracts that have to be obligated and then of course we have inflation. So overall we're looking at about a 8.6% increase from budget to budget for general support and this is mostly facilities instruction. The significance you can see here are salaries 5.7% and again most of this is because of the contracts that the collective bargaining agreements that we have. Um the other piece of it is is that our special ed staffing is increasing as the IEPs change
009and then also um the cost of special ed is continually rising. Um and you'll notice a big difference between the contractual services. one is Boseies and one is not Boseies. So there's a shift there. So in other words, some of the placements that were at Boseies have shifted more towards the uh public and private sector, which means it's going to shift that money to that. Um and you can see the significant shift there. Even though we have fewer students compared to this year using the BOSIE services, it still has increased because of inflation and cost increase for those programs. transportation. The big piece here is again is the salaries and the reason why those are increasing aside from the collective bargain agreements is that the number of um special out of district runs for some
010for some of our bus runs. We need we have additional runs. So we have bigger need for more drivers which obviously drives up the salaries. Uh you can see that everything else is almost flat. And then one thing to note is with transportation for every dollar that we spend in transportation we get roughly 85 cents of that back in transportation aid employee benefits the big one here is health care so health care compositly when I say that we have three different plans there's a nation plan the PO plan and then a high deduction plan compositly those went up 14 or 12.4% which means to the district it went up 10% because ours is primarily based off of the PO plan. Um so you can see where it says health and dental 8.9%. um social security
011increased as a result of obviously um salaries increasing and then the New York State retirement also increased [Music] and then the last piece we got support of uh going Mr. something I said. Uh so debt service, this is where we had some debt service fall off. So you could see that there's a um almost a 21% decrease. So overall it's 18.5% decrease. and for debt service. So for every dollar that we spend in debt service, we get a dollar in building eight. So it's a one one offset by design. Every year in the budget, we approve a uh annual capital outlay project which is capped at $100,000. And what that does is allow us to do a small project each year and then to get building aid back on that. and we're always one year
012in advance. So, this is to actually approve for the summer of 2026, which includes work for uh door replacements, exterior envelope repair, and uh ventilation upgrades. This all those things are not going to be addressed with $100,000, but it gives us that flexibility to address the most immediate needs for next summer. propositions. Proposition one is voting on the overall budget which again is $23,540,850. And this will make uh it is within the tax cap requirements. So it ensures that everybody gets their either their refund checks or their uh deduction from their tax bill. Proposition two is for bus purchases and these I I want to emphasize that these are all fuel operated buses. Um and we have the language in there to purchase up to um six buses at $990,000. Um, and again, there's a
013little bit of uncertainty there with tariffs because we don't know what the actual prices are going to be. So, that's why it's written this way. And the whole idea with our uh bus replacement again is we purchase it, we get 85 cents on the dollar back for that purchase, and it's also under a 5year warranty, which reduces our maintenance costs and our labor costs. So, it makes sense. We try every five to six years we try to rotate the buses out. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. It's [email protected]. Okay. Candidates for the board of education. So this year we have um two seats that are expiring as of June 30th uh 2020 2025 uh to succeed Jason Monroe and John Reer. Um and the new term runs from July 1,
0142025 through June 30th of 2028. And the two candidates that received the greatest number of votes will fill those seats. So this was uh drawn out of a hat. So the first candidate is John Reer. Um so he has the floor. Okay. Well, thank you Rich. Going be hard to top all that. I'll do my best. Well, my name is John Reerf. Obviously, um been serving on the board for the past six years. Um, I've lived here since 2000, so just over 24 years. My wife and I, my wife's from here, graduated here. Um, my son graduated here. He's pictures up on the wall over there. My daughter goes to school here. We're invested. Um, we're happy to be here. We love it here. Um, I went to a school where it was a little
015bigger in Niagara Falls and kind of wish I had the family atmosphere that was here, you know. Um, I just love the atmosphere of kids knowing each other. Everybody kind of friends with each other or at least friendly. Um, and just has that atmosphere. Very happy about some of the things that we were been able to do here for Marion. Uh, some of the opportunities that our kids have. Um, you know, some of the new programs, some of the things that we get to share with other schools. Um, you know, I'm just happy to be here, happy to serve. Um, you know, if you voted for me before, thank you. If you're going to vote for me again, I appreciate that as well. um kind of a man of few words. I'm just proud of
016the school and what we've been able to accomplish and uh you know just just happy to help facilitate anything we can for the kids that are here and the kids that are going to be here and for the families that are here and just to enrich the community and make things a better place. So thank you [Applause] Next we have Tracy Tull who now has the floor. Thank you. Um so hello. Um I'm Tracy Tall and running for the school board. Um I probably could say I'm Brody's mom and probably a lot of you would know me. Um, apparently Brody is quite well known there in the um, junior class. Um, we are relatively new um, to the area and I probably didn't get out as much as I had hoped because I had surgery
017on one foot and then had an injury on the other foot. So, I've been inside quite a bit, but um, it's been very fun um, reaching out with um, you know, getting petitions and whatnot and signatures. Brody's involved in wrestling, um, track now. Um, and it's just been a very welcoming community. Um, so a little introduction. Um, my husband and I, um, have been married 33 years now, honey. Okay. Yeah. Um, you know, somewhere in there. Um, and, um, we had no idea that life was going to be such an adventure. No idea. um police officer, teacher, um went and got our master's degrees, um you know, forged ahead with education and then just all of a sudden the adventure took us from Michigan to West Virginia to Georgia and then now here. Um and
018I can just tell you that I know I'm kind of the outsider, but um feel very much an insider with the welcoming community. And that's probably um you know with 25 years of experience in education I think I come with a whole lot of you know like I don't not fresh new but just a different perspective you know every time we went and I taught somewhere new there was just new things to learn um listen and learn about research become a part of this team that team lead that team um so that's just kind of you know that's my thing I I still love it I am now a professor of English at um the nursing college in Rochester, which I absolutely love. Um, and gosh, you know, um, we got our little granddaughter here.
019Um, my son who, um, married, um, beautiful young lady, just I adore her. I I don't know many mother-in-laws that can say that about their daughter-in-laws, but I absolutely love her. And, um, they are in town. And so when we started kind of looking around for houses um Marian had a couple houses for sale and um two years ago I was like you know I'm gonna go see what I'm just going to go walk in see what happens and I we did we Brody I was in Brody was in tow with me. I'm like we're going to go check it out. And um I don't know if you know this, but like it's it's the welcoming part of this um that gets me so much is that um when we came in, number one, we
020were greeted very nicely. It's not like who are you? You know, we didn't get a funny look. We didn't get anything like that. Now, I do remember a time where um I had to or my husband had to bring lunch to Brody when he was in a school down in Georgia of,00 in his graduating class. 00. So there's over 4,000 students in this school and um you know we just he forgot his lunch. It was the first time ever. Um Tim brings him his lunch at the front desk and it just wasn't a very warm reception even to a parent and they don't know your kid. You know they don't know Brody Tull from 1100 other kids. Um so we knew what we wanted from a school when we came here and we found it
021instantly. I was just I mean I was on the phone on the way to the car telling my husband, "Put an offer on that house and make it big so we win this one." Um because just how we were treated and everything that Brody saw when he walked through and the nice smiles, everybody had time for us which is not normal um everywhere and that child has never had such great grades um and you know well you know having a good time. Um, so that small community I think is very very important. Um, I respect and adore what is here and I just want to be a part of it and help. It's time to everything that I've learned and know. Um, hopefully it's time to give back and be a part a bigger part
022of it. Um, where I can really assist. Um, so that's kind of it I think. But thank you for your time. [Applause] The third candidate couldn't be here tonight. However, she did uh prepare a speech uh Cindy Madison. So, the district will read that. Hello, my name is Cindy Madison and I'm pleased to say that I am running for the Marian Board of Education. I have been a resident of Marian for 35 years, have raised three grown children who are all involved in very meaningful work and lives in general. They benefited from many of the standard classes and extracurricular offerings through MCS. All three were in the musical, participated in band and chorus, and went to Germany with FRA Thompson. I was an employee of Marian for 20 years. I loved being able to see
023my students past my house or on the or at the town park, grocery store, or trick-or-treating. It was fun to live and work in the same place. In my 20 years of teaching in Marian, I was a specialed teacher and a general ed teacher in fifth grade for a lot of my career. I was also a teacher on special assignment for a few years and had the opportunity to work in both buildings and the cse. This gave me a broader view of what happens at the district level. What I think I loved the most about my time in Marian was the chance to create classroom community. Prior to Marian, I worked at Boseis Monroe 1 in a variety of settings. I feel like I would bring a unique set of skills to the board of
024education and that I've had the opportunity to be a parent, a teacher, and an employee in this district. I have lived the challenges and the joys of all three roles. Marian folks take great pride in their school. I would be honored to be a part of the board of education and would strive to put our children first and foremost. I would have loved to be able to make this introduction in person tonight, but we are on our yearly family vacation to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you everyone. That concludes the budget hearing for the 2526 budget proposal. It is 6:24. We're going to call the business meeting to order. Let the record show that all the board members are in in attendance. Please stand and join me for the flag
025of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Are there any changes to the agenda? Um, there is. We've changed some of the order from when it was originally published. So, we added a personnel section to be under presentation. And then I've also moved the administrative reports up um because Mr. He has a very very exciting commitment that he needs to do. Thanks for your flexibility. Any board members have any questions or comments on the agenda? Okay. Can I get a motion to approve it? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Anyone sign up? Anyone from the community sign up for comments? They had not. Okay. Okay, we will move on to presentation. Not function. All right. No, you're good.
026You can stay. Thank you everybody for being here tonight. I'm so excited about these presentations tonight. So, our third graders um have worked very hard this school year um learning about different cultures. So, tonight we're going to get a little snapshot of the work our third graders have done um to learn about culture, to learn about the research process, and to learn presentation skills. So, what I'm going to do is we're going to split into some groups. So, um, administrators and board members, I've taken the liberty of assigning you to a group. Um, family members who are here today, we would love for you to join your child's group or if you, you know, if you're interested in a different group, you're more than welcome. But, um, we're going to split up in different locations
027across the library. um your student, the students in your group um will be joined by a teacher and we'll have a little introduction for everyone about what the project was that students have worked on and then you'll get to hear the student presentations. Sound like a plan? All right. So, we're going to have the students from Al tell everybody's locations and then we'll move. So, um the students from Mrs. Van Camp's class are going to be right up front and they're going to be with Mr. Wise, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Qling, and Mr. Reese. Um, students from Mrs. Buckles, and Mrs. Jerzac's class actually have two locations. So, one location right here and then one in the far back corner. So, right here will be Miss Taber, myself, and Mrs. Levy. Um, the second group will
028be Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Miller, and Mr. Walker. And then our fourth third grade group, Mr. Cowell's class, you're right up here at the front um front window section. You'll see your little label up there. That will be Mr. Monroe, Mr. Dean, um, Mrs. Steiner, and Miss Pear. So board members and administrators, you can relocate. Students, you can come find your groups. Um, and family members as well, feel free to rearrange the furniture. So you have [Laughter] [Music] had tempora shrimp. I'm in I had tempora shrimp for dinner today. I'm in. What do you guys want? What do we do? I just want to make sure are we observing or are we part of something just Mr. Chance for a little mini gong. Hi, my name is Trevor and and I will teach you about earthquakes
029of Japan. First of all, the Pacific fire of Japan is located right on top of this. These are always moving and cover. How to stay safe during an earthquake is to drop, cover, and hold on. put your name and then the Tokyo earthquake in 2011, it caused lots of damage and um they wrote an I survived book about it. And Japan has a lot of earthquakes. Japan has like a thousand earthquakes almost every year. And you're probably wondering why is there a water right here when it's a earthquake? It's cuz the earthquake caused a tsunami. And now and now I'll teach you about tsunamis of Japan. First of all, a tsunami is a huge tsunamis deadly. Coastal areas are at risk. Tsunamis can rapidly flood the land and cause great destruction. Strong currents can drown
030swimmers and destroy boats and harbors. In case of tsunami, notice any strange behavior to higher ground or island. Act fast when warning is issued. Grab a tree if you can. Keep mobile on your phone. And tsunami water barriers. These will help keep you safe during a tsunami. So will these. They are called tsunami warning systems. All right. [Applause] [Music] Hi, my name is Kennedy and I study Japan's geography and climate. First, I'm going to tell you where Japan is located. Japan is located off the east coast of Asia. many islands. A few things about Hokkaido is that Hokkaido is the second biggest island and is known for its cold winters and um cold summers. A few things about Hu is that it has Mount Fuji and is the biggest island. A few things about Cuku
031is that it is the smallest island and known for warm winters and hot summers. A few things about Kyushu is that it is known for its volcanoes and is the third biggest island. Mount Fuji, you can hike Mount Fuji in any season like spring, summer, and winter. And that's a picture about from and then that's now I'm going to tell you about Japan's plan. A few things about Japan and spring in the middle of spring and you can go on picnics and watch the cherry blossom spring. And in the winter there are lots of almost anywhere. And and fall is the second most beautiful season of all four seasons because the leaves turn beautiful colors like yellow, orange, pink, and pinkish red. And in the summer is when all the storms happen like hurricane. [Applause]
032Hi, my name is Abby and I learned about Japan's most popular foods. They have so many different foods in the country. They have sushi. Sushi is a cooked fish and vegetables. They have soy sauce and wasabi. Second of all, we talk about ramen. They have a good ramen. They have different flavors. Sometimes likes chicken is a do sticky dough and it has strawberries, red bean paste or ice cream. Katu Katsu is a chicken or steak. Um, and sometimes it be served with rice on the side and they have tea. Sometimes you squeeze the lemon on top of the chicken. Takiaki. Takiyaki is a round old ball and it has pieces of octopus in it. Sometimes has decorated. Japan's curry. Japan's curry is a rich dish. Sometimes it has curry sauce on it with rice on
033the side. Udon. Udon is a thick noodle soup and it's served with warm broth. Have you ever tried any of the Japan's most popular foods? Takiaki. I tell you that that's a little feast in our classroom. [Applause] Any questions? Would you go to Japan? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Should we do a field trip? Senior class trip. What would you want to do in Japan if you went there? Same. That'd be your whole trip. I know. It'd be my whole trip. I'd have to recover. What kind of food they have or ingredients? She'll start. Yum. Really? Oh yeah. Both our kids. [Music] My daughter wants to try anything related. So how many of you are in the class that researched this? Just the three of you or did the whole class do? The whole class. The whole
034class. What other types of things did you learn about? I know somebody. Okay. I like Oh, I think I think Mrs. Harris trying to get your picture. Why don't you guys hold your posters? There you go. Which side? Either side. Whichever side you like. It's your favorite. Great job. [Laughter] Did I'm very impressed, too. exciting. Yeah, they did a really good job. I miss that one. Yeah, but just the wanting to learn part [Laughter] They didn't even seem nervous at all. Let's do what I want. Can I expect Of course. [Music] I'll just All right. Thank you everybody for coming. If you were a third grader who presented, thank you so much. We're going to continue our meeting. You're welcome to stay but don't have to stay. But thank you so much for sharing our
035your talent. And a special shout out to our third grade teachers, Mr. Cowles, Mrs. Buckles, Mrs. Mampamp, Mrs. McA, and Mr. Zack for all the hard work they put in to get students ready for these presentations. [Applause] Thanks for inviting third grade. Thank you guys. Thank you. Very impressive. So, we're going to continue on. Um, next up is personnel. All right. So, we have um two new hires tonight. I'm going to um turn it over to Mr. Dean, one of our new hires, um, I'm very excited to share, is able to be with us in person. So, Mr. Dean is going to give you an overview of our personnel. Where is she? I'm sorry. I don't know what side to go to. You're okay. Go over here because you're going to have to shake everyone's
036hand. Okay. There you go. Stand right there. So, I'm I'm thrilled to you, uh, Abby Bennett. Abby Bennett is going to be our new social worker. Um, we've been looking to fill this position for over a year now. And um, we were I I'll be honest, I was starting to wonder if it was ever going to happen. Um, but it just kind of felt like we we hit the jackpot when we interviewed Abby and we're thrilled that everything worked out. She's graduating this May from Nazareth with her mers in school social work. Um, she's energetic, she's passionate about the work, she has really successful internship placements under her belt, and uh, we think the sky's is the limit for here at Mary Junior Senior High School. So, I'm thrilled to introduce you to Abby Bennett.
037Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve? I'll move. Can I get a second? I'll second. All in favor? Opposed? See motion passes. So now we ask you to come supervis Congratulations. Thank you, Abby. Congratulations. Welcome to the team. Welcome aboard. Thank you. Congratulations. Thrilled to have you. Yes. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So glad to have you on the team. Thank you. Thank you all. I appreciate it. I'm so excited to start and I really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. Have a great night, Abby. Thank you. You too. I am also thrilled to recommend Are we good to roll right in? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um Brady Rogers for the position of probationary egg tech teacher. Um Brady has experience as a technology teacher in the Capitol region in the
038Albany region. He's also got a strong educational background from Cornell University. He brings a great deal of enthusiasm about this opportunity and we are thrilled to see the excited opportunities that he'll bring to our students here uh both at MEES and at the junior senior high school. So I present to you for your consideration Brady Rogers. I move that we approve Brady Rogers. I get a second. All in favor? Oppos? Motion passes. On to administrative reports. Do you want to let Mr. Dean go first? Yes. Uh first off, thank you for your flexibility. Um we were my wife and I were both thinking that all board meeting started at 6. So I was going to go there for the tenure recognition and then come here and thought the timing would work out well because it
039was budget here at night. But Mr. Dean's wife is receiving tenure tonight. Yes. At Pelat. And so it turns out it starts at 7. Start talking. Get it done. Thank you again for your flexibility. Um, and maybe thanks for switching things around. Our art students were recognized by the Wayne County Council of Arts. First place Isabelle Marshall. Second place Lily Marchbanks. Third place Madison Wagner. An honorable mention went to Anna Kerhouse, Lillian Edund, and Siri. Congratulations to them. Mrs. Guck was honored by being a Monroe County Allount Elementary band conductor, which is a huge honor. Congratulations to her. We're so grateful that she is ours. Speaking of marching band has been working hard to prepare for competitions. They've been dodging raindrops a lot. Um but they're doing their best to get ready. We had a
040really successful prom this past weekend. Um students had a blast. A lot of great dancing, a lot of great music. again dodging raindrops, but they did not let that dampen their spirits at all. Thank you to Mrs. Flity for working hard to uh Mrs. Mara, excuse me, working hard to prepare that as the junior class advisor. New York State testing has been going really well. Uh grateful to our tech department and to Mr. Keller House for executing a really great plan for New York State testing. Thankful to uh Mrs. Duffy and Carl Thompson for overseeing successful trips to Spain and Germany and getting our students home safely after once in a-lifetime trips. So, a great opportunity and experience for our students. We had our first ever decision day assembly on May 1st. Um, and it
041went really, really well. Great energy in the auditorium. Students were I think the seniors were very apprehensive and nervous. Uh but I think by the end they kind of understood why we did it and the vision and um grateful to the rest of the student body for providing the energy in the room. It was really positive. So grateful for that event. And upcoming very busy month we've got DC trip to 8th grade departing early tomorrow morning. I'll be excited to join them with Mr. Hurland. Um, we've got our spring showcase and academic awards right here May 21st. Save the date for that. Our chorus concert May 28th and Special Olympics on May 30th are just a few highlights from the month of May. And I wanted to give the board just kind of a a
042heads up that um it we very much value tradition here. Uh, and I value tradition a whole lot. One tradition that has become unsafe and and frankly kind of disruptive at the wrong time of the year is senior prank day. And so I'm going to work hard with our seniors this year to come up with some solutions that they feel are fair replacements for senior prank day. Um, I have some I have some ideas that I think they'll really enjoy um that will not disrupt learning in the most critical times of the year and um also make sure that we are as safe as we can be every day. So, I just wanted to give the board a heads up on that that that's something I plan to work with our senior class on. Um,
043and I'm hopeful that they're cooperative. Uh, you know, I do think at some point we'll have to say it's either this or we have to lose privileges as we get closer to graduation. Um, but I'm I'm hopeful that they'll be willing to work with me on that. Thanks again for your flexibility. Thank you. Get out of here. Congratulations to your wife. Thanks. Have a safe time. Safe and fun time in DC. Thank you. We'll do. Mrs. Miller. Okay. So, in terms of what's going on in the curriculum and instruction assessment office, testing, it's happening that the principles will love to share about that, I'm sure. Um, working for summer planning, figuring out the um curriculum projects and things and professional development for summer. Um, this week we're going to start working on Wednesday with the
044P3 teachers to uh begin our reading at testation process. I've mentioned that's coming. So by September 1st based on um state law now um we have to annually attest that we are aligning our reading instruction to the science of reading. And so um we're going to be going through best practices in each of those grade levels so that they can tell us there's any concerns so that we can work on on that alignment so that we're up and going. I anticipate will it will be rel easy because we're really are it's not going to be there's no major surprises in this process. It's just um going through and having conversations. Um I will be attending on May 13th. There's actually um it is a synchronized state training on numerousy um so all of the different
045Boseies will be hosting um a live virtual event meaning that we will go to Boseies and they will virtualize from Albany um so everyone gets the same information from the state at the same time that's how they have been rolling out um presentations um working through an understanding And eventually I will come to share the changes in accountability. They're they're making some shifts um in how they're doing accountability at the level and what our levels are going to be. Um we also are working through some changes for our 46 um reading and ELA. We're trying very hard. is working to make the master schedule work so that all fourth, fifth, and sixth graders will get a reading block and an ELA block in their day to really focus um and have more time um spending
046on building reading comprehension skills as well as their writing. Um and then also focusing on embedding literacy in the content areas with science and social studies um daily um in those grade levels. And then um I'm not sure if Dr. Lloyd will mention this or not, but we had the the pleasure, that's what we want to call it, um to participate in a um webinar on the changes to the APR process. We're on 312E now, but it's no longer going to be called APR. It's going to be called the steps program. Um, and so we will be working through those changes. They don't have to be implemented until 2030. Um, but it's going to take a while to work through all of the details. It seems much more complicated if you can believe it. Um,
047so we want to find the simplest way but actually the the most useful way to have feedback and conversation about growth for teachers because that's what at the heart of it. So um that's what's happening in the world of MySpace. Um, for special education, um, we're continuing with our annual reviews. Primarily right now, we're looking at since we're in the elementary school age, so we're doing annual reviews for CSE students. We're also working with the CPSC students, so preschool students. Um, for the preschool students, we're looking at them. They need special ed services for kindergarten. So, are they being initially referred to kindergarten? Are they declassified from being a preschool student? Um, do they just need building level supports? Um, so it looks like 20 to 25 CC meetings a week. Um, Red Jacket the
048district, so Manchester Shoresville, um, is coming here on Friday to see some of our high school self-contained classrooms. We currently have them, we have a student from Red Jacket who's in our 811 class. It's a consortium agreement that we have. Um, and so the special ed director is coming here on Friday to look at our high school self-contained classes. They're looking for placements for two students and want to come and see what we have here to see if it would possibly support two students that they have a need for. Um, at the end of the month, some of our special ed students will go to Special Olympics at Marcus Whitman again this year. Um, and this is students from elementary school and the high school, but it's also our out of district students. Um, specifically,
049we target our out of district students who go to Monro County programs. There's a difference between Monro County and Wayne County Special Olympics and um we invited our Monroe County District students a couple years ago and some of them super love to participate in this. So, it's like a very exciting day for some of those students and families. And then the high school is still working to get to our goal of 5,000 BKC's by the end of the year. We're getting close to about 4,000 right now. So, Mrs. Keller House works with BKC's with me and she says if everyone writes one BKC a day um till the end of the year we would get there and I would overkill it but that's her goal is everyone writes one every single day that's where we
050are right now if you want to help it um so at the elementary school yes we are finishing up our actual days that we've set aside for state testing so tomorrow and Thursday is math state testing and then we'll do some makeups with our kiddos who were absent on the days um that we did like ELA science and now math. Um so if anybody's listening, Treasure Chromebooks is really important. Um we had our future fair last week which was really great. Um we actually had a like a wide array of representation. Um the kids got to the older kids like I said went around to the different tables, got to talk with the people that came. So we had um people from the fields of finance, a so reliant federal credit union came, emergency services
051with uh Western Wayne Ambulance, EMTTs, uh aviation, so a former Air Force now FedEx pilot was there. Um literature, we had author Sally Valentine, we had our own Dave Wise with his snakes and I did find one of them cute. So the speckled one I like. I have you to thank is it the kids loved the snakes. So, lots of families are going to maybe be getting into snakes now. Public Utilities, T Ontario Water Department. We had art and design. So, we had um a family come that works with Wood Veneer Designs, law enforcement. The New York State Troopers are there, photography, robotics, opro, and genealogy with our other owner. So, it was really great. The kids had um like so many questions to ask. They really seemed engaged. I was really curious how it
052was going to go, especially with our younger grades. So after we did the traditional um future fair piece, the younger grades rotated classrooms and you know that was you I stopped in a couple and you never know what you're going to get. So um you're not maybe not aware of this but some kids went from the snake room to the plane room and the questions were has the pilot ever had snakes on a plane before? Yes, there's even a book about it. But that that just rolled into like what about horses? They learned a whole lot. Yes, FedEx does fly horses. So, if you were to learn how they fly them on the Kentucky Derby day, there was a story about howex containers they have to have. We all learned something. It was a great
053day for the kids. Um, I also want to say like it's staff appreciation week and I feel so lucky that I landed here at Marian. I think that MF has a wonderful staff. Like everybody's mentioned, we have testing going on. We have 50,000 cse meetings happening and then all of the other things that really happen this time of year. The teachers are really rolling with it. You know, it's a lot of stuff to handle all at once. And um they just do it. So, wanted to say like a special thank you to that staff. And then May 13th, we have our band and horse concert. I don't know how to follow that. I have nothing about snakes on plane. Um, so one thing that I had the opportunity to do is to attend the elevating
054youth voice summit at Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies. Amber actually came and spent the day with myself and two of our students. So we sent two student representatives that have been a part of this project about um accepting and respecting all students and kind of addressing some bullying and harassment type topics. And it was all of Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies. And so our students, every different district that was involved kind of found different ways to bring things back to their school district. And our our students were like really proud of the work that they did and that they kind of brought things back in a very real and authentic way um and even were continuing the work after the summit summit. So it was something that I think they learned a lot and um you know was meaningful
055for them as well. So, it was nice to see and it was like a very uplifting experience I think for everyone in the room. I also had the opportunity to attend a community schools conference in Albany last week. Um, I got to visit a school in Albany that is implementing the community school strategy and just hear from people throughout the state about how they are implementing community schools in their districts. There's a saying that's like if you've seen one community school, you've seen one community school because all of them are different and they're meant to be, you know, locally based and kind of have local decision making. And so it was just very cool to see some similarities um and some differences and get some ideas about ways that we can improve our use of
056that strategy as well. Uh May is mental health awareness. Can I interrupt? I feel like you should sure that your staff presented at that conference. Yes, our wonderful um community schools coordinators Emily Laorenzan and Lin Luca did present as part like there was I think like 12 different presentations and they did one sharing some things and they've done this in the past or Emily has and people have taken ideas from us and implemented them in places like Greece where um there I would say like Greece is kind of like where community schools is has a strong foundation And so we're really proud of the fact that other people are stealing our ideas. They did an amazing job and adopting. Yes. Not stealing. We share. Yes. Um so May is mental health awareness month. Uh we
057are kind of taking the opportunity to focus on physical and mental health this month. And so you might see some parent square posts coming from me perhaps tomorrow and each week. Um, and the students in each building will be hearing just different messages and learning about things like outdoor safety like ticks and sunscreen, uh, nutrition, sleep and screen time, which is an important one, and then also mental health awareness at the end of the month. So, those things are happening. Um, I'm writing some grants right now. So, there's a couple of things. there's not too many things that have come out because of the uncertainty around federal funding. Um, but right now there's a couple out that we are working on that are pretty competitive, but we're hopeful. Um, and then just a reminder, our
058community schools advisory board meeting is May 14th right here at 4:30. Um, and we'll be sharing out some of the different action steps that we've been working on. So from our first community school advisory board, there was some feedback from um those that attended around child care opportunities, swimming um and access to the fitness center or weight room here. So those are things that we'll be giving updates on. So hope to see you there. uh technology as principles have talked about we've been working on the computer-based testing for the the 338 which for us has gone extremely well um and part of that is the you know the systems we have in place and the investments we put into our infrastructure and we did our wireless here last year we've not had any any issues
059at all gone really really smooth um but supporting to make sure that everybody has what they need in the moment has has been has kind of taken some time from us um also supporting some benchmark marks uh at the high school um where they're still because the the reades are still paper paper tests. Um a lot of our our quarter benchmarks we still do um on paper and then I do some of the the remark scoring to help get data back into the teacher's hands. Uh so that's been going on uh starting to look at again software renewals and software kind of inventory of what we're looking as far as for for next year making sure you know that the systems that we're using are the appropriate ones that we are using and we want
060to keep working with. Um, and also planning for summer again for this. That's a our big time uh tickets. Started to do this for a couple meetings now. Uh, for the last since we were here last time, we've had 41 help desk tickets, including spring break, which is a week off. Um, average response time for us is about an hour now. Um, which has been really really a really strong support for our staff and our students. Okay. Thanks everyone for those updates. We'll move on to board of education reports and discussions. We have on here the open forum that we talked about in the last meeting. Date landed on May 27th. Um in this room, right? In this room in the library. Um, we talked about just want to confirm that our primary topic we
061wanted to talk about was the was merger and any type of collaboration with other other districts. Um, that was what we wanted to be primary for that one. We talked about having a way for other questions to be submitted that might be a part of this one if time permits or be part of a future one. Is everyone still good with that? I will attempt to be there. Yes, we know we know your schedule's iffy, but everyone else was available. I will not be able to make it now. Oh, you won't? I'm not time for work. Sorry. All right, then there was three. There's three. Sorry. May have four. So, I think it's important to have it. Um, yeah, I think so, too. I think it's something that our community seems to like when we
062do it. Um, and even though we're advised not to do it, we still do it and they like it. So, um, do we want a questionnaire like a Do you want me to send something out where people can submit questions that we may get to or may not, but just Yeah, I would say if you can send something like just would tell us if we had other topics in front of I just want a way to gather other topics to see. We know the merger and the cooperation with other districts is a big thing. Um, especially since we didn't even move forward with the merger study. I've filled with some questions as far as why we didn't. Um, and I just why we even did it, where did it come from, where where did it
063come from, that type of stuff. And just remind people how we got to that point and why we didn't move forward and that type of stuff, but also what are other people thinking? I think that's the key of asking for input is is there another topic that is big on that their community is very concerned about that we haven't hasn't been brought to us yet and it just gives us a chance to gather that data. So I would say yeah um anyone else have anything to report on this meeting? Um well I will say I heard about the future fair for at least three days afterward. So, it was a huge success. Big kudos. And Mr. Wise, I feel like we'll be doing some business together. Reptile related. Yeah. He's got a very cute speckling.
064Oh, adorable. Um and the elevating student voice summit was truly um such an opportunity to be in that space and hear from the students and see the kids engage on these topics that aren't necessarily important or not that they're not important to students, but I feel like, you know, who wants to sit around and talk about bullying at 14 or 17? But these kids really do and they care and I think that really showed that day. So I think that was a really special opportunity and a really good program. Anyone else? Okay, we'll move on to superintendent reports. All right, so the first thing um in my section is just uh some highlights around the four E. So, as the board knows, that's like one of our goals in both buildings this year that um
065students would be learning more about the four E which are you know your postgraduation options. So, employment, enrollment, enlistment or entrepreneurship. Um, one of the things I like love love love about Marion is that we set these goals in the summer and like they happen like we make them happen across the school year. Um, I love our summer planning process that Nikki facilitates through our CIC team. And to me, it's just amazing that you take this small group of committed people and you make these amazing things happen for kids. And really like um, Mr. Mr. Dean and Mrs. Hair already shared about May 1st with the senior st sign signing day and um the future fair at the elementary, but that was just one of those days that I like walked through this district and
066was like, "This is why I do this work. This is why I love this place." Um so kudos to our whole team for like making those things happen for kids. It's part of what makes Marian such an incredible place. Um, in addition, the other piece that I would highlight, um, from the four E is you may have seen there was an article in the Wayne County Times highlighting, um, Save Our Sodus and the return of the Rose Lumis vote. Um, we are partnering with Save Our Sodas and the University of Rochester um to have our kids, some of our science students be able to do some microplastics research on Lake Ontario. Um, so I'm thrilled about that opportunity for kids um because I feel like it does give them a chance to explore that enrollment
067e in a little bit of a different way. Um, so they'll be working with staff from the University of Rochester and some grad students there to be doing research on Sodas Bay. Um, they'll get to go out on the Rose Limus to like collect data um do data analysis. They'll work with these grad students um to be able to publish their own paper. like that's a kind of a big deal that our students will be published scientific authors um by the end of the summertime. So, um very excited about that opportunity and the chance for kids um to like learn science by doing science and we talk about like building a science identity like kids being able to see themselves as a scientist. So, I'm thrilled about that opportunity. Um you will probably see like
068through that article and I know there have been some things on Facebook um the grant funding through the National Science Foundation that supports that specific project has been cut. So they are they're still hosting our kids very willing to do that and we'll continue this opportunity but I know they are looking to fund raise because that specific funding has been cut for um the support of like the research scientist time and the grad student time. So but it's still a super exciting opportunity for our students and I'm glad to see how that will come together. Um the board will be invited June 21st. they're going to be doing um like a public presentation, a share for the community about their research. So, I'll make sure the board gets that invitation, but as of right now,
069it's June 21st at 10:00 a.m. and the kids have chosen to have it at the lake. So, I think it will be at Sodas Point if you want to come down for a nice morning on the water. Um, next on my list is circling back to the design for the Marian mural. We had talked previously um about a potential mural on the side of the elementary school. Teresa is here tonight to talk a little bit more about it. I am going to put up the proposed design for her and she's going to tell you a little bit more about it. as she's pulling it up. We have four different panels we're doing and each panel is going to represent a different like theme. So, the first one is our A window and there's a couple
070changes we're going to make to the design and I'll explain those too. Um, so our first one is our A window. We've got the Cwell place that's been here since 1795. Um, some people wanted the crop duster in the picture because there's a lot of Marian people that used to do the crop dusting. Um, we've got our muck. We've got our apple orchard. We picked the Wayne County canning um canning factory because everyone liked the architecture of it. It's unique. Um, and then celery was a huge crop in Mariam once upon a time. So on the farm truck there is celery. And then we have on the shelf we have a bag of flour from the Mary and Mills. We have some cans from the canning factory, some Dutch shoes, celery, potatoes, and corn representing
071kind of all of our agriculture. I love the Dutch. And then up at the top it says we grow the best for all the rest, which is Marian's town's logo. And then the next one is our historic window um which we put the Marian that was established in 1826. So we have our first national bank with Rosco Bush who's the one that founded the thing. Then we have the Atlantic Hotel. Um and then we have of course the band that everyone that's from Marion knows very much about the band stand. You can't really see it good, but in the band stand we have a guy playing a trumpet that's going to be um a red cap. So the color that's one of the changes. We want him wearing the red pants, the little bow tie.
072Um, there's talk of also some of these people that you see in here are going to be actual Marian people from the past. So, one of the founding members of the Red Caps will probably be the Red Cap person. Um, also we've got the first firetruck, which Red Haskins was the one that helped bring that. So, we want to put him on the fire truck. And then um we have the Marian concert band, a red cap, some money from the Marian bank, a fire hat, and a trumpet that we're going to be putting on that one. Um one other change to is this panel one. We're going to move to panel three. So the two banners are in the center. Um and then this one is our businesses. So we've got Goose and Store up
073at the top. And then we have the Clark block that used to be here. And in the Clark block used to be the candy kitchen. It used to be W McKenna's Barberhop barber shop. So, we've got that there. Um, it's hard to see on this, but on that little plate is a ice cream stick, which was something that was I hear from a lot of people that grew up here. Thought you used to go get your homemade ice cream on a stick and you hoped for the free stick. So, you could get another homemade ice cream from the candy kitchen. Um, and then we've got these are supposed to be look like the cement blocks from E. Warner and son. So they would be a little bit puffier when we actually do it. On the
074side of this building is going to be a topping ladder with somebody from the topping family. That was another big business in our town. And then we move to the school and the cemetery. We've got the old MCI building. And then we have the Christian church, which is our Mason Lodge, Diamond 7 now. And in the back we've got our statue that Marian is kind of well known to have. And then we're going to pick um servicemen from the past to represent each branch. And on the shelf on this one, we got a soccer ball, some books, a lunch box, baseball mitt, and the Flying Dutchman logo. Um let me see what else other changes I missed. Oh, we're going to add a Lincoln emblem also to this one. So we don't have that minor
075changes like the cows are going to be red because cowbell place head grenings that's comes from me just because I know my animals. Um I think that's pretty much it. And then the name on the bank we're going to put but minor changes we're going to do and we might have more people because like we mentioned we want Carolyn Adriensson possibly to be on here because she was the historian for several several years. So does anybody have any questions about the design? I love it service. I mean, we can. We just need names and pictures. Oh, cool. It looks great. And it's going to go up on the four panels at the elementary school and it's going to be screwed into the mortar is what it's supposed to be done. So, it's removable. And then
076the only thing that I guess the town would like to ask is if for some reason they have to be removed that we get them back. I don't see any problem with that one. I don't I don't want to be I I don't foresee a need to remove them. It's just Yeah. plan for you won't need it. Right. Right. Great job. Thank you. All right. And then um the last thing I'm just hoping people can either um look at their calendars now or come back next time with some potential dates for a um another board and admin retreat like we do every summer. Um a couple of hours together. one um summer evening just to do some professional development and some learning together and be able to kind of set our course for the next
077school year. So, we coordinated administrative calendars and really um for the admin team any evening in those last uh two weeks in August were all available. So, the week of the 18th and the week of the 25th. Um, so if people have any dates now that are potential dates, I'm happy um to kind of pencil those in or if people prefer to come back next time with their dates. Also open that entire time. I will not be available part of that time, but I don't know what that part of that time is yet. Depending on what is moves into college. Oh, right. Okay. You don't care. I do care. I was holding the attention. He's also afraid you're going to stay that way. Within the next couple weeks, they're supposed to find out stuff. So,
078we can circle back to that. But just keeping to keep in mind for your summer calendars and if there's anything the board is interested in focusing on um with the admin team if you want to let me know any suggestions that you have or things you're interested in happy to do that. Um I know everybody really felt like their time with Anita was very valuable so I'm happy to like reach out to her again to see if she's willing to facilitate again if we have a specific topic we're interested in. Cool. All right. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Move on to school business administrative reports. Okay. Well, the first thing I'd like to go off script a little bit. Um so today, uh Lisa and I attended a schoolfront workshop. And in that workshop, it made
079me realize a few things. Um, one of the things that we did was that we got in small groups and we shared about SchoolFront with other uh, districts and it became very evident to me that the all true small but mighty district and the great staff that we have. Um, we clearly utilize SchoolFront far more than anybody else that was there in terms of, you know, we have at least 20 different forms that we use. We use it for time sheets, you know, payroll. Um, and one of the testaments that really stood out to me was, so I was sharing with the group. These are the things that we do. And I listed off the first four items and there was a member there that said, "Oh my goodness, we use four different platforms for
080those first four things that you mentioned." So that just right there was a testament to me that you know in terms of what our district is small but mighty you know look for efficient matters and this started you know prior to I started um you know the previous school business administrator brought in school fun and introduced it and developed it but since then it has grown in quite a bit we've added all kinds of things but the reason why I'm bringing this up is it's staff appreciation week and there's no bigger testament that in the district office there are two people that were incremental in help developing school front that's Naen and Lisa um so as a team the three of us essentially did a lot of work to develop to where it is today
081and also not just the district office staff but anytime we have a a problem that needs to be addressed or to try to find a solution for. It'll be a suggestion from maybe another staff member and then we will find a solution. Um, one example that we just recently came up with a solution for was the summer uh time sheets with the different grants versus general funding. So, we have now two different time sheets for that purpose um because it was it'll streamline it much more. It's much more efficient than the old paper time sheets, especially in the summer when you're trying to people on vacations and approvals. So anyways, I just am very proud of our small but mighty district and the staff that we have and I just wanted to express that. Okay,
082so now to the agenda. Um the first item uh that I want to talk about is uh our food service program. So for next year uh we will not be sharing uh food service director William Lson. So that of course forces us to come up with a solution and right now we're working with Boseis um to have a shared food service director which uh you know a benefit to that is that um it is able back for that but with that change um we just need to understand and depending you don't again we're working on it uh there may be a need for some uh staff shifting or changes as well. So I just wanted to let you be aware of that and more information to come. And then the next item um back back
083to usual business, the financial report. So looking at the um revenues from last month to this month, there is an overall increase of about $150,000. Um and that is be due to uh we received about an $8,000 rate check. If you remember last year, we did the upgrade. So we've year delay. So we got that uh revenue and then also every month we update our uh interest in earnings. Um so there was another 40ome,000 for that of for the month of March. Um on the expenditure side virtually identical. So there's no changes. Any questions on financial report? Okay. If not, can I get a motion to approve the financial reports? Okay. All in favor? I opposed. That passes. Anything else? I went off script enough, I think. Okay. We will move on to the consent
084agenda items. Any board members have any questions or comments on the consent agenda items? No. If not, can I get a motion to approve them? A move. Can I get a second? A second. All in favor? Opposed? Abstain. That motion passes. Assuming still nobody signed up for community comments. Okay. We will then can I get a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing tenure appointments, potential litigation, and work history of a particular employee. I'll move it. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Abstain. passes. We will go into executive session.