001Okay, it is 6:00. We're going to call the meeting to order. That the record show that everyone but Mr. Monroe is here. They'll be in a few minutes. Please stand and join me for the pledgece 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. [Music] Are there any updates to the agenda? No, there are not. Okay. Any board members have any questions or comments on the agenda? I do not. Not. Can I get a motion to approve it? It'll second. All in favor? I oppose. Abstain. Motion passes. Anyone sign up for community comments? No, they did not. Okay, we will move on to presentations. All right, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Dean, who's
002gonna introduce our seal of civic readiness presentations, our students, and our amazing teachers who are here to support them. All right. Well, Mr. Herland's getting us logged in up there. Uh we're really excited tonight to share with you some of our eighth graders who have been working hard on their sealed civic readiness presentations. This is a a crosscurricular project that they do in 8th grade between social studies and English. Mr. and Mrs. Fitz Simons have worked really hard to set up this opportunity for students. Uh they earn a point towards their seal. So we're already starting them in 8th grade working towards their seal of civic readiness. Um and this is a social issue project. So they choose a social issue and they their uh task really is to be an advocate for some type
003of platform on a social issue. So we've chosen three of the students who were exemplars to share their presentations with you tonight. We think you'll be really impressed. Uh we've got Will Keller House with us, Alistister RDE and Josie Llan to share with you. And we'll have Will come on up first. No, will go first. Sorry, Will. You can stand right up there next to Dr. There you go. Hi everyone. I'm Josie Lant. I'm in eighth grade and I'm going to be showing you the negative effects of alcohol. The historical context of my social issue. The Women's Christian Temperance Union were a group of women who were against drinking. They shared their thoughts and opinions on drinking. They started temperances in Saratoga, New York in 1808, and it continued in Massachusetts in 1813. And by
0041833, there were 6,000 local societ societies in several US states. The drunkard progress was a political cartoon by Courier in 1846. Um it shows a man going through the different levels of drunkness and the stairs leading all the way to death. Um underneath the bridge you can see his wife and child um and how it affects them negatively and how they end up homeless, sad, and hungry. Historical context part two. The Women's Christian Conference Union created math problems to show school children the negative effects of alcohol. In the US, 60 60,000 drunkards die annually. How many die each day? How many die each hour? Allowing 12 square feet for each grave. How many acres would be required for the burial? Um, I found the answer to this question and it's 164 days, 7 hours, and
005720,000 square acres. Um, next is the 18th amendment. The 18th amendment banned the manufacturing sale of alcohol in the US after one year from the ratification of this article. The manufacturer sale or transportation of intoxicated liquors with the in within the importation thereof into or exportation thereof from the US and all territories subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. The current state of my issue. Alcohol can cause people to not be able to concentrate. Alcohol also tends to impair judgment and coordinate skills be because alcohol can easily disturb thought processes an individual's ability to concentrate and remember things can also become impaired. This basically just talks about how impaired judgment and coordination skills and can cause fights and or car crashes. Um, alcohol usage can cause cancer. The findings come at
006a time of growing evidence that even one drink per day of alcohol can contribute to an increase in the risk of breast cancer for women who also appear to be at greater risk for men than alcohol-related cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, and alcohol use disorder. This just states that al um that alcohol can cause cancer later on in life and cardiovascular and liver disease. Part two of the current state of my issue. Alcohol can harm unborn babies. The effects of moderate to heavy maternal drinking used during pregnancy were first described as fetal alcohol syndrome, FAS, in the US in 1973. Prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading completely preventable cause of birth effects in the US. This basically just states that FAS fetal alcohol syndrome can um cause harm to the children born later on in life.
007Um right there is a graph of the scores test scores from children. The purple shows children without FAS and the pink and orange show the children with FAS and how their um abilities in school decrease. This picture right here shows um how it affects them physically and how it creates smaller heads, smaller eye openings, far set eyes, a flat face, and a thin upper lip. How can we limit the use of alcohol? And what are some solutions? Counseling. Being able to talk to someone about everyday issues in life that are causing the feeling of needing to binge drink. Busing would be provided for better access and it would be free. So those with little money still have access medication. Having more access to medications to stop the feeling of needing to drink. It'd be more
008available at doctor's offices and free or cheaper for those who aren't as fortunate. Support groups talking to others just like themselves about experiences they had. Um they'd be local so there's little need to drive and they'd be often so you can talk weekly about your struggles. Surroundings. putting yourself around people and things that don't give you the need to drink. Have a close group of friends that you tell your issues to and have a positive relationship with others. Possible action possible action steps. Make a poster. You can make a poster and put up around your school to inform others on the effects of alcohol and what what it can do to their brains and bodies. You can write to your principal um and ask what they can do to help about alcohol usage in your
009school. You can inform others and talk to them on the dangers of drinking alcohol so they are aware of what are they doing to their brains and bodies. My action steps. Um I created a poster and uploaded to Upschool. Upschool is a website that promotes posters about social issues. This poster gives real facts from reputable sources proving alcohol consumption is bad for you. My hope for this poster is to inform others on the risks of alcohol. And that's my poster right there. This is my proof that I uploaded to school. Um my eighth grade capstone project was just that's my essay. What personal qualities have you developed through this learning initiative? I took initiative in learning and understanding alcohol and its effects. I informed others on alcohol so they know the risks that they are
010putting their bodies through and I madeformational posters to further explain the dangers of alcohol consumption. Communication. I found reputable sources, talked to others in and out of school about alcohol, and found ways to catch people's eyes so they read my poster. As a citizen of the community and the state, what responsibilities do you think you have to help with this social issue? As a citizen, I have the responsibility to inform others about issues going on in society, make sure I do my research and have proper information, and tell people of power about the situation so they can help, such as Mr. D. How did the action steps raise public awareness of a social issue? What positive effects might this action have on your community? Now that people are aware of the dangers and risks of
011alcohol and the short and long short and long-term effects it has on them, um the hopeful positive positive effects will be that they will rethink drinking and stop altogether or cut down. And once the information is in their heads, they will hopefully inform others to spread the word. How did how did this experience change you? This project changed me for the better. It made me aware on how to make a change, become a more involved in citizen in my community, find good information and reputable sources, and inform others with the information that I found. How civic ready are you? Civic knowledge. During this project project, I now understand the three branches of government. Judicial decides whether the law is constitutional, legislative makes the laws, and executive enforces them. Skills and actions. I learned how to
012identify a problem and talk about it and solve it. I identified alcohol as an issue and found info and talked with others about it. Mindset. I became an active citizen by talking about current issues in my society back then and today such as alcohol experiences. A civic experience I have had is this capstone project I'm showing you today which I researched a social issue, took action and reflected on what I learned. That's it. [Applause] Josie, do you feel like you could take questions or comments from people if they have them? Maybe. Does anyone have any questions or comments for Josie? Very well done. Thank you. There's no way that I would stand up there in front of the school board and do that. Jesse, you did a great job. Do you have what would you
013say is like if you had to pick one thing as your biggest takeaway from this project, whether it's like about the content or about being physically ready, what would it be? Um, just now that I know what I would be doing to myself later on in life and rethinking my decisions for later on. Thanks, Jose. Thank you. Great job, Josie. Thank you so much. Now it is Will's turn. Will call our house. Hi, my name is House and I'm an eighth grader. Uh, I'm here to talk to you about poverty. Uh, the historical context of poverty is mostly during the crisis era. Specifically during the Great Depression, there was mass poverty where about 60% of the population was in poverty and had to take turns eating because there wasn't enough food or money to buy
014food. Kids were eating so little at homes that they ended up eating their own hands and feet because the hunger wasn't bearable because they didn't have enough food at home. They built Shacktown on the doorstep of the capital because the president said that they would get be getting more money but not until later and they wanted it right then. Children's education was impacted because they were very unfocused during classes due to uh food deficiency. current state of poverty. Uh children are very heavily impacted by poverty and things like education because they aren't getting enough food at home and they are very unfocused during classes. They are having problems with shelter because their parental guardians aren't having enough money to pay rent or own a house so that they don't know where they're going to sleep.
015Children in poverty can be multiple grades behind in subjects such as ELA or math because they are not paying attention in classes very well. Children in poverty have been denied shelter, specifically refugee children, and have scored lower on a score of cognitive tests. How poverty can be improved in my solutions. You could build more homeless shelters and soup kitchens to give people who might not know where the next meal or place they're going to sleep tonight is coming from a spot to be able to know where those are coming from and have a better idea. Uh you can make housing more affordable and raise the minimum wage to give people a chance to buy a house or earn more money to buy a house so that they know where to sleep. And you can also
016expand free meals at school because people children specifically don't know where the next meal is coming from. They might stay more focused during schools school time because they uh are actually going to be full. Action steps that anyone can take. You could donate food and clothes to give to give people in poverty something to stay warm in or stay focused in school by. You can volunteer at soup kitchens or other places to give them more helper so they can feed more people in poverty who actually need the food. You could educate children about poverty to either get out of generational poverty or stay out of poverty that they may be heading towards. My action step was I sent a letter to get Governor Kathy Hokll about poverty in New York. I asked her to give
017schools a little more funding so they can continue the free meals at school to give the children a chance to stay full and uh focused during classes. I got a response to my home email right here from Governor Kathy Hokel thanking me for my letter. Here's the paragraph, the essay I wrote on poverty. personal qualities I've developed through this is one of them is empathy for the people in poverty who might not know where they're going to sleep tonight or where they're if they're going to eat tonight. I've also developed curiosity because if I found all this just on the surface level, I might find more if I dove in a little deeper into the topics. I've also developed a consciousness for the people around me who might be having a tough time going through
018life. Uh things I could my responsibilities to help decrease poverty could be volunteering at a food bank or a soup kitchen. I could give out free food to people who need it and uh help them out and be able to hand out more food. Uh by donating food and water, I would be giving it to people who need the nutrition for to get through the day. My action is to raise public public awareness by informing governor Governor Kathy Hokll um about the amount of poverty in New York and how she might actually do something about it. And only positive things come out of a decrease in poverty like a decreased mortality rate because a lot of people die when they don't have enough nutrition or when they're sleeping on the streets. This experiment changed me
019in ways like raising my awareness because it gave me more ability to tell who's going through a rough patch in life or just having a hard time. This experiment made me feel a lot more empathy for people who are actually going through a tough time instead of just looking at them and thinking, "Wow." And this experiment made me want to help people out more who are in having tough times in school or in life. How grey I am is I now know the three branches of government like how the judicial acts like a ref and sees if the laws that the legislative branch makes are constitutional or not and the executive enforces the laws for everybody. I've had discussions about poverty in the progressive era, respectful ones with my classmates, and I've completed this capstone
020in my [Applause] experience. more feedback for Will. Just it was a great presentation. I think you really nailed um the empathy part and like your internal because that's where it all starts, right? If it starts with us and when we do the right thing, other people do the right things. So, I think you're right on with that. Good job. Thank you. Absolutely. Thought you did a very good job. Childhood hunger is something that I spend some of my time with. So that was appreciated that you learned a little bit about it. Thank you. Thanks. Next. All right, we've got Alistister Rude up next. I remember. All right. Good luck. Hello everyone. This is uh my secret sheets presentation on the American food industry. Um back during the progressive era, there was an author named Upton
021Sinclair that wrote a novel called The Jungle. Uh it was about some of the unsanitary conditions involving things like unsanitary additives and um and uh oh and adulterance. Uh if you don't know what an adulterant is, it's uh it's something that they don't talk about in the list of ingredients, but it's still in there, which is now currently [Music] illegal. Um President Theodore Roosevelt uh read the novel and understood it really well and uh created the Meat Inspection Act to respond to it. Um, it helped improve conditions and remove some of these unhealthy dyes and preservatives added on in these different uh meat packaging factories. Uh, the current state of my issue um now it's some of the four of the top um 10 killers of people today in the US are chronic diseases like
022cancer and heart disease and diabetes. Um, plus the American food industry markets it markets unhealthy foods really he heavily and um and it kind of hurts the people a lot. Um, also processed foods have taken over the American grocery store by the point you could probably find at least one um ultra processed food in each um aisle. Uh, how can the American food industry improve? Well, first of all, lower prices of nutritional food. They need that nutritional food in order for people to um live health with the with the healthy food um with with it being so high priced with all these nutritional foods, it's not even it's difficult to grab them. Now, um, secondly, I believe recalling certain ultrarocessed foods entirely that are just known for being really unhealthy just because it's just it's
023known for being unhealthy. Why do you still have it out? Uh, and finally, I believe some we should make an expanded version or another version of like the Meat Inspection Act. Um, adding adding more things to the recalled preservatives and additives list. um how anyone here can make it how can how anyone can improve the American food industry. Well, first of all, uh give healthy options to people in need cuz they might have be having an issue going on right now and they might need that and not have enough money to actually take care of that. Um second of all, you can plant a community garden or at least support one. At least support one by maybe adding more plants to the garden. And then finally, find healthy alternatives overall, even for yourself and your
024family, because promoting them, it just um it kind of just makes them produce it more. If they don't, if they get enough of people like that uh sell it, enough of it sold, they will just keep making more of it. Uh the action step I took, oh man. Uh I emailed Dr. Lloyd about the issue. Um to simplify the issue, I requested a change to the menu for like lunches and stuff with school district. To get rid of certain ultrarocessed foods, like for example, deli day, take that. It has certain things like the deli meats, which are ultrarocessed most likely, and cheese is probably ultrarocessed. Um this is my essay. uh personal qualities I've gained. Uh well, I feel like I've gained the true severity and the overall uh how bad the situation's really gotten
025throughout the throughout the years and um how bad of an issue it's come to be. Um, I also it's been infor it's informed me to try eating healthier and try to take care of myself a little better. Um, also I think I may be I may uh be affected after learning more about this and I might have to dig deeper into it. A question I may get is as a citizen of the community and state, what responsibilities do you think you have um to help with this social issue? Uh first of all, I believe I have the responsibility to uh inform others with um accurate facts uh backed up by credible research. Uh second of all, I believe I have the responsibility of trying to contact people to know where to make a change. Um
026and finally, I believe it's my um it's my job to um check out uh different international uh and national information about uh nutrition. So then if anything changes drastically, if research says that something drastically, you know, something is very bad, I know I know about it. Uh did my action steps raise public awareness? Well, I'm not really sure until probably sometime after today. Uh, what positive effects might this action have on the Marian community? Well, the email um I sent to Dr. Lloyd uh may affect students by helping improve their health and getting more nutrition in some of their lunches and breakfasts. Um, also it can introduce new items to the school menu and it can branch out to the community as well. Uh, and finally, it can raise public awareness in other surrounding areas
027like uh, Newark and even Rochester um, to make them change their diet as well. How did this experience change me? Well, it gave me a better sense of what I'm eating, even more a having to switch to a more gluten-free diet after a celiac disease uh diagnosis about last year. Uh it also helped build confidence to research a topic I have barely understood. Uh it also helped me um advocate for a nationwide even worldwide crisis uh for healthy food options. Um, how civic ready am I? Well, I understand how to make a change and I understand the three branches of the government. Um, civic skills and actions. I know where to go help and go to help make a change. Uh, some civic mindsets I've gained is understanding other people's perspectives on topics and respectfully
028like talking about them and not um, you know, being rude about if I disagree with them. Uh and finally with civic experiences I I've completed a capstone project and helped participate make a ch to make a change. Uh thank you for your time and have a good evening. Have any questions? [Applause] Do we have any questions or feedback for love that you emailed Dr. Lloyd. Thank you. At some point, every kid has said, "I'm going to do something about these lunches." When they were in school, and you actually did it. So, congratulations. Thank you. I was going to say, it seems like you've become passionate about this issue, which is something that I like to see students finding something and finding something they're passionate about because this is an area that a lot of change
029could happen. Yeah. Um, and as you grow up, you'll learn that our new our US foods supply is different than Europe or other places. Yeah. So, yep. Keep in mind and push for it. [Applause] I I'd just say in closing again, you can feel the impact that it's had on these three young people and I think that bears true for all of our eighth graders and it's the work that we need to be doing with students, right? What Mr. Herurland and Mrs. Simons are doing is teaching them how to be active citizens and how to advocate for a social issue that they feel passionately about. How to get real information, not information that just flows to their phone, but how to go out there and get real information. How to have peaceful discourse about things
030they might disagree on. So many good lessons here. So kudos to them. Thanks again to these students for coming. Let's give them one more round of applause. Sorry. I know, right? And I know it's uh putting them on the spot, but I'm just wondering if Mrs. Fitz Simons and Mr. Hurlin have anything they would want to share like from the teachers perspective of like what do you think are the important pieces of this project? I know it's like a labor of love that you two have like made this come together. So I just feel like from both of your perspectives, what do you see as like the importance of this project? I can speak on behalf of the ELA. I think the kids found great value in building skills in finding credible sources through credible
031databases um and really vetting those sources to determine well what's the best research question I can create and then using that research question to essentially craft their whole essay. their essays were ginormous. Like some of them were three or four pages with a complete work cited page and that takes a lot. Um and they persevered. They spent a lot of time on it and it's like wonderful to see the investment especially because it's student choice, right? Which is so important and you can see the passion behind that. Um so it's like it's wonderful to see them with their completed projects but also the process they took to get there. It was cool. Yeah, it's been like you like like she said, it's been so good to see where they start and where they end and
032how knowledgeable they become and it's it's nice um to work handinhand with with Jamie and Miss Simons as far as you know actually we do so many of the same things you know we the skills the researching and it's nice to do something handinand so we're really leveraging our time and and I think the students get much more out of it and they learn much more and it's it's it's I'm really we're really proud of the fact that we're one of the few schools that are actually implementing the caps, you know, they have this point that they can earn towards the six at graduation, which will put them ahead of the game. So much so when they get up in the, you know, in the high school. So, um, it's good to see and I'm
033glad we're I'm proud that we're leading the way for that. So, I appreciate your help with doing that, too. Thank you both so much for doing that. I I would love to see what my kids have come up. Got to send them back to eighth grade. I appreciate your willingness to be part of that leadership forward too. You know, it takes real courage to to to want to blaze ahead on a concept as opposed to sit back, see what your peers do, see what everyone else is doing and kind of piggyback a concept. So, thank you very much for helping us be trailblazers as a as a district. So, thank you. [Applause] [Music] Okay, we'll move on to board of education reports. Any board members have any to report on? I did attend the band
034concert last night. That was very good. Yeah. It's okay. Go ahead. Coral was going to do it if you didn't on my list. It's always fun to see what she takes from you. I'm fine with it. Better from her than me. We enjoy both perspectives. If she speaks, he's gonna be sitting there. Oh, shoot. I forgot about that. Guess checking them off like can't do that one. Anyone else have anything? Okay, we'll move on to student representative report. Okay, so for the language clubs, the Spain kid last left last Friday and I've been seeing on Instagram lots of posts and everything. They seem to be having a really good time. German kids, including me, is leaving this Friday for Germany for 17 days. Very excited. Especially excited. She does not stop talking about it. Um,
035and then she's never been. Um, for band, we had an amazing concert last night and LG did an amazing recognition of all the seniors, which I really appreciated. So, that's all for me. Awesome. Okay, move on to superintendent reports. All right, so I thought I would start off by just doing a quick update since um we had our second joint board meeting. So just talking about our path moving forward now that it's been decided that we're not going to move forward with a formal merger study. Um, so in terms of a couple next steps, uh, Rob and I are going to meet next week with Bridget Ashton, the Williamson superintendent, and Jamie Sonville, their board president, um, to talk about future collaboration ideas and some next steps in terms of considering any if we want
036to move forward with any joint meetings. Um in addition we do have back from Boseies the one of the pieces of feedback we got from the community was having the list of questions answered. So Boseies did that turn that around and Rich and I filled in the Marian pieces of that you know the pieces that were specific to Marian. So the full set of questions from the first night and the second night will get posted to our web page. Um, so that'll go up hopefully tomorrow, but definitely by Friday, and I'll just email out the community so they know the link to the page and can take a look at the answers. Um, and then one of the things that came out from the second meeting was um, if the boards wanted to consider a
037smaller scale type of study, so something that more focuses on collaboration optimization instead of looking at a full merger study. Um, so actually Lynn Rutnick, the Boseies district superintendent, just emailed late this afternoon um that Boseies has put out a new RFP if both boards decide they're interested in something like that. Um, and it just the description of this um I'll just read you kind of a quick overview so the board knows what is in that RFP. Um, it talks about identification and analysis of alternative solutions and strategies intended to provide districts with an informed path of possible options in order to sustain opportunities and programming for students without having to undergo a full reorganization. Um it would look at an estimate of potential cost savings and identification um of incentives related to any kind
038of optimizing that happens. Um and it took talks about um regardless of what kind of options and strategies that they identify that the objective is to take a big lie look of at advantages and disadvantages of each of those possible options for collaborating or optimizing services and programming. So we have that too from Boseis. So, those are kind of the big ticket um I guess kind of next steps of things to think through starting off with Rob and myself meeting next week with and that's just the wording. It hasn't actually gone out yet. Correct. I like that process better. Do the RFP go I thought it was out. I think Let me look back at her email because she just sent it. Uh okay. Oh, they did actually put it out. So, they put it
039out with um asking for a receipt form from anybody who might be interested by April 10th and then we would have to decide if we want to move forward with anything once they get those responses to see if anyone's even interested in doing that work. I I don't have a problem with how it's worded. I would have loved for that to have been run past us before it was posted though. I don't know that we can do that because Boseies puts it out like the we don't put off out the RFP the Bose. The intent of the wording was to make it broad enough that we can select whatever we want to look at. So we would say we want to specifically look at combining transportation director of transportation. We could have them look at
040we can look at the overall transportation department. We can have them look at the overall food service department. My point being though, if you're going to be doing it for us, it would be nice if you ran. It's not it's not for us. It's for the entire Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies and eventually a co-serve opportunity for the entire state. Right. All right. Any other district that wants to jump on this or pair of districts can also and then they have a list of people that may want to complete that type of study or not. It's not our RFP. Yeah, that's bad wording on my choice. It's a Boseis RFP so that if we would like to decide yes, we want to move forward with this and Williamson does also, we can, but also if Romulus decided
041they wanted to do it and so did Canada, they could as well like you know, separate. So they keep it general and we always would have the right to do our own RFP word it however we want. we just would not be able to put it through Boseies and we have no chance of Bosey's aid on it. But their goal was to have something very broad that it could be used by any district in Wayne Fingerlakes. Um next in my section just a little um information on hiring. We have um multiple positions that are either posted now or um recently closed and we're starting to interview for and do demonstration lessons for. Um that includes two special ed positions at the junior senior high. Um a position of behavioral or social work position at the
042behavioral support or social work at the junior senior high. um looking for a second person as we expand our egg programming in egg. Um we open that one up pretty wide looking at people who might have the egg certification or a career and technical education certification as we look to build that program into a CTE pathway. Um Spanish uh we have we've completed one interview and have a another interview next week. And then uh we have two openings at the elementary that just closed um that we'll be interviewing for after break. Um we feel pretty good about most of our pools. I just wanted to say to the board that we have not had great pools in the area of special ed. Um that is a place that we have reposted to hopefully get a
043better pool of qualified candidates. Obviously, we like always our priority is putting the very best people in front of our students. So, that has been reposted. Um, I'm a little bit worried that we might not get qualified candidates for that. So, I just wanted to make the board aware of our hirings. That's the place where I have the most concern about maybe not being able to get a highly qualified candidate with a special ed certification and that we might have to look to other certification areas like a teacher with a different certification to temporarily fill that position if we cannot find a certified person. But otherwise, we're working our way through the hiring process with the other open positions. Anybody have any questions? All right, thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to school
044business mouse. took it. I took it. Is that it for the Do you want me You want me to be rich? Thank you. carrying a spare. I know the other ones would have theirs, but um baby is always on it. I was a Girl Scout. The salute. Okay, good evening. Welcome to the 202526 annual budget presentation for the board. Okay, so let's look at the agenda for tonight. We'll take a look at the projected new revenues and new expenditures. Uh we'll look at as you all know the state has not approved the budget yet, but we will look at what some of the budget priorities were. uh the one house budget priorities uh the true value tax rate. We'll look at the actual expenditure draft and then what a contingency budget looks like. So the
045governor's budget is proposing a 2% minimal increase um to the foundation aid for 2526. Uh the one house budgets are actually asking for an additional either 0.9% or 1% for a total of 2.9 or 3% increase. So somewhere between 2 and 3% will be what the foundation aid increase is. My bet is it's going to be 2%. We'll see. Uh the tax levy cap this year for Marian is capped at 2.87%. Um that's for our new revenue. On the expenditure side, we're looking at a composite healthc care increase of 12.4%. Um and about an average of a 4% increase in all the contracts across the district. Um and then of course we have inflation increases, especially with utilities and um some of our contracted services. So, here's some of the um common proposals by the
046Senate and by the um state assembly. So, again, they want to increase it. One wants it to go to 2.9%, the other wants to go to 3%. Can't remember what the order was. Um they also want to make some additional changes to the foundation aid formula in addition to what the governor has proposed. funding of universal school meals for all schools. Uh increase the this has been on the agenda for years now, but increasing the Bosey's adable salary cap from 30,000 to 60,000. So what that means is all the students that we send to u vocational school at at Boseies, those salaries for those instructors are only eight and up to $30,000. They want to increase that to $60,000. The $30,000 cap was set back in 1990, so it hasn't been updated since then. The
047House and the Senate also want to um increase the funding for UPK students, which would be awesome for Marian. Um they also want to increase the dollar amount per pupil for U library materials aid. They also want to adjust the governor's proposal on smart device span. Uh they want to give a little more control to the local districts versus the state dictating exactly what needs to happen. Um and then one of the other items is allocating $19 million to pay down some prior year claims that are in Q. These are prior year claims that haven't been uh paid to the districts. true value tax rate. So the true value tax rate will not come out until July. So this is just an estimation based upon uh feedback from the town assessors and the uh county.
048So you can look you can see uh that is actual information. So, the overall assessed value for the Marian Central School District was $443 million and change. Uh, the tax levy was just over $7.5 million, which created a true value tax rate of $1623 for every,000 of assessed value. for 2526. You can see that the overall again the assessed values are increasing at a much higher rate. Uh so we're going to just over $527 million. The tax levy um is just over $7.7 million tax levy cap and then the the true value tax rate that estimation is now $12.73 per thousand. Um you can see the percentage of changes. So the overall assessed value is going up close to 20%. The tax levy is only going up 2.87%. Which causes that huge decrease um in
049the true value tax rate of almost 22% decrease. Okay. Expenditures. So you see the 2425 actual budget and the proposed 2526 budget uh for equipment. That percent change looks big 15% but we're talking about $20,000 increase and that is primarily for some additional equipment to replace some aging equipment for the facilities use some cleaning machines. Um salaries again are increasing based on uh contractual obligations contractual services. So you can see between the Boseies and uh our non Boseies contractual services there's a little bit of a shift um in special education. So we've had a little bit more going towards the um private sector. So there's that's why the contractual services overall the increase is actually higher but the amount decreased because of that shift. Um and you can see the shift significantly in the contractual
050services that also includes utilities. Um any services that we have a contract with for outside services which include all of our our vendors for architecture, uh construction management, um uh financial services, uh audit. Audit. Yes, audit's a big one. um utilities all that is that increased uh supplies minimal increase of 2%. Employee benefits healthcare um now employee benefits include more than just healthare um it also includes all the payroll benefits so social security uh retirement system contributions that's all included in there insuranceances. Um so overall a 6% increase when in reality um the big driver of that is the healthcare uh debt service actually decreased. Um so the overall total budget has a net increase of 3.91%. Any questions on this? No. Okay, so our current projected total revenue um is just shy of $22.6
051million. Um you can see that even with the use of some reserves so the ERS reserve uh workers comp reserve and the teachers reserve retirement system reserve um there's still a rejected deficit of about $466,000 which will be made up from our unappropriated fund balance. And this will be a little bit clearerly more illustrated when we go through the property tax report card when we compare last year to the 25 or 2425 to 2526. Um Rich, if we get the extra percent, do you know what that drops that to? Well, unfortunately, we don't know what that will be probably in time. So all that will do is will help us for next year's budget with the excess fund balance which then we can reappropriate either towards reducing the tax levy the following year or towards
052reserves. So it wouldn't really make a difference. And again budgets are always estimated. They're they're not true values. So we just do the best we can. And the numbers at the end of the year is going to be based upon what we did actually spend versus what we actually received in revenue. And again, whenever you're budgeting, right, any good budgeting practice, you're going to be conservative what you think your revenues are going to be, and you're going to be Yes. your expenses because you anticipate unexpected expenses. Any other questions on this slide? A contingency budget. So, we're required to report the three-part budget. So, we got administrative, program, and capital. Um, you can see last year 2425 budget versus 2526. And again, that overall change is a 3.91% increase. If we were to go to
053a contingency budget, in other words, if the voters voted their our budget down, we went out for a second vote and that was defeated and we would definitely be forced to go to a contingency budget. Um, if that were the case, you're looking at an overall 3.03% increase. The difference is is that uh we cannot increase the tax levy from 2425. So that would remain flat. So instead of doing a 2.8 8% 2.87% increase in the tax levy. It would be a 0% increase. Also, um what would happen is only what's considered vital equipment would be allowed to be purchased. So, there'd be a reduction in the equipment purchases. Um we wouldn't be able to do any capital outlay project, which we do every year. We do $100,000 capital outlay project to maintain our facilities.
054So, that would be removed. So you'll notice there's about a $200,000 difference between the two and 100,000 is from the capital outlay and another 100,000 essentially from equipment. So if we went to contingency, I'm just going to say this out loud because oftentimes we hear you're too administratively heavy. We went to contingency. It reduces that line by $1,100. They are only hurting our programming and our capital if it was voted down. We had to go contingent. Yeah. And and the other Yeah. The other thing to note that out loud. Yeah. The other thing to note is that um we wouldn't be allowed to purchase buses either. No, they're hurting. That's what I mean. Right. If it is voted down, it will only hurt. Yes. Yes. We would be better off going out with a second
055budget vote that would be probably comparable to a contingency budget. At least we have more control on what happens. And the next steps, of course, we have the budget hearing on May 6th. Um, and then we have the community vote on May 20th. And of course, tonight would be the adoption by the board. Any questions? If not, I can move to the uh property tax report card. I magnified this so that you can see it. Bless you. Thank you. Okay. So, the property tax report card is a required report that goes to the state every year. Um generally they want you to formally submit it the day after the board approves the adopted budget and the property tax report card. Uh so you can see for 2425 versus 2526 again the the total budgeted amounts
056which is a 3.91% change which is what was shown on the presentation. Uh you can see that the tax levy the two numbers. Okay. Um you can see that that's the 2.8 87% difference is G wrong 20 24. Oh, yes. There's an extra two adding digits. There's an extra two in there. Uh, so if Naen could maybe make a notation that the board is approving the property tax report card there's with a correction on there's a typo. Yes. I just happened to like that number looks way it looks way different. Yes. It's about 10 times too large. Yes. Um and then you see down at the uh bottom uh the consumer price index which is 2.9 that's the accepted uh number from the state 2.95%. And enrollment is relatively flat. Fix I carry through bridge.
057Why don't you fix G? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Definitely. Okay. So the next section is just showing uh so so the first line is the adjusted restricted fund balance. That's those are the reserves. Uh the second line um is the assigned appropriate fund balance that we apply towards the tax levy. So for 2425 we appropriated almost $186,000. For 2526 we're appropriating 466,000. And then line three is showing the unrestricted fund balance which is the legal 4% limit that we're allowed to carry. So you can see that uh for 2425 that was 96,000 and change. And then for 2526 because the budget is larger that number is a little bit bigger it's 941,634. And then this form automatically calculates that yes, you're at 4%. The third part is the use of reserves. So you can
058see this column is the B actual balance at the end of March of this year. And then the second column is showing what you're projecting the balance to be for 2526 at the start of 2526. And they're also asking um what are you projecting to use your reserves for for next year which is the explanation in the last column. So you can see capital doesn't change other than some interest. I threw 10,000 in there for interest. Um the bus reserve there will be some uh actually there's we still have a couple of buses that we're receiving at the end of this year. So that'll change that balance but then also we'll contribute the money like we normally do to maintain that to get ready for the future. Um and next year we're looking at purchasing
059three large three small um which is the information on the far column. We do not have a repair reserve workers comp. We do have that. Um and we have used 75,000. We can only use the limit to what our actual cost is which is about 75,000 annually. Um so you can see that that the amount is going to increase but we're actually using it. So it's kind of one's going in, one coming out. uh unemployment reserve. This is a reserve that is the least restrictive. Um so if in an emergency you needed to access that money, you can do it within three months of the end of the school year, which puts you three months prior to June 30 or three months post June 30. So that's why we're keeping a balance in there so
060we have that ability if we need it. and liability reserve is a small balance in there. EVAR which is the acred employees benefits reserve. So when somebody retires their acred sick time uh gets paid out of that. So we do have a few retirements. So there's a you can see that we are going to allocate up to $100,000 uh towards that. And then for the retirement, this is the uh employees or labor. So we've got 270 that we're going to use reserves for 2526. Um but again, you can see that we're going to we're going to have an excess fund balance in this year. So we'll replenish it. So it's kind of a wash there. And then TRS, same thing. Um, we are limited to what we can put in here. You can only have
06110% in there as a maximum of your actual teacher payroll. Um, so we are basically 700,000 is about the cap. Um, so again, we're going to take some and put some back. So you can see that we actually have a higher balance. and what we're using. And that's the property tax report card. So, with those typo changes that I'll make sure I change before it gets submitted. Any questions? No. Okay. So, we need a motion to approve the budget and the property tax budget first and then this is a Thanks. Yeah. So, by you approving it, that sets them all in motion. Can we do both together? They're listed. Okay. I don't think it matters in this case if you do. Well, I move that we approve the budget proposal and property tax report card.
062I'll second. All in favor? Opposed? Abstain. motion glasses. All right. test. Still you. Still me. Oh, financial report. Yes. Well, this one's actually very simple. Um, it's virtually almost identical to last month's financial report, which means the projected nothing's really changed in terms of the projected expenses or projected revenues. So, that's it. That's that's the financial report. So, last month's ditto. Okay. So, we need to approve the financial report. Can I get a motion to approve the financial report? I get a second. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Stain. Motion passes. Onto administrative reports. Okay. Do you want to start? Yep, I'll start. So, for special education, we are uh working through our annual reviews. Um, and that's what we do for quite a while. There's been there'll be 29 annual reviews this week.
063Um, right now we're working primarily through our high school students. Um uh so just some things to note while we have all of our meetings. Um we've had several students between grades seven and 10 who have had removed from their IEP that they've needed extra support for their behavior. This is one of the items that the state watches. So this is a positive thing for us. They need that they needed less Um, we have Mrs. Lochner, our CTE teacher, Mrs. Taber, who runs our inschool room, and then Mr. Dean, who you all know. So, our wide variety of people who send lots of BKC's to recognize our students. That's it. Thank you. I was really worried I wasn't going to be on that list. You were on that list. Please put me on there. Please
064put me on there. Um, so I have been working on Mr. Walker and I actually went to a conference at Boseies in March. Um, the New York State Education Department's uplifting all students conference at Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies. And it was really nice. uh they had a lot of different presenters uh talking about different ways that we can like meet the needs of all students and some of the things um were like around family engagement and um student voice and things that I think we're making great progress with already. So that was kind of nice to be able to reinforce some of the things that we're already doing. Uh Mr. Dean, I don't think I'm stealing your thunder about the carnival. Go for it. Uh we were both at the Marian Community Carnival and enjoyed getting
065pied in the face. Um it was a lot of fun and we even had a student that volunteered to be pied this year. So that was a relief both of us for a little while. Mhm. Um this year we are partnering with Wayne County Community Schools and their get ready to grow team for our UPK like our incoming UPK and kindergarten screenings and those started yesterday. So these are a little bit more thorough. They do vision, they do hearing, um some motor pieces that we wouldn't necessarily do um because they have a few extra hands. And so those kicked off yesterday and went very smoothly. Um the there's been a lot of work been done like so we had our community schools advisory board in January. We reviewed a survey that was completed and we
066had a lot of responses from Marian. And so some of the action steps were to work on like getting more child care resources into Marian. um providing opportunities for swimming for students and like swim lessons, dental services, and like uh providing the community with access to our weight room. So, our team has been working on a lot of those things, meeting with different partners to explore child care options, um meeting with different aquatics directors around the area to try and find swimming. Um, dental services just started today at the elementary school and after break they'll start um up in this building and um there's a meeting tomorrow that I'll be going to um to explore the wait room, opening up the wait room through a partnership with the town wreck um advisory board. So, those
067are some things that we've been kind of working on that are not happening yet, but we're getting there. And we had a family fun literacy night last week that was a Toy Story theme. Uh this time we got food donated from Wegman's. It was like a very generous donation from Wegman's and we had our highest turnout ever. So we had 40 people there which was really great. Um one of the things that like in this role that I've been working on and practicing a little bit is grant writing. Uh, as you probably know, like our full service community schools grant is one of those federal grants that's a competitive grant that could be kind of in question in terms of its certainty going forward and that supports our community schools coordinators and some things like
068mini camps and our midday enrichments. Um, so I've been working on grant writing. The first one I was able to win was um $250 from Walmart, which I were very grateful for. And that's going to contribute to our food pantry. And I think it's like notable because it relates to what our students were saying a little bit around healthy with the food pantry. It's processed foods. And so this way we're able to get them actual like fresh or frozen like fruits, vegetables, proteins, things like that. So that's nice. We also won a grant from ESL for expanded and enriched learning opportunities in the summer for $25,000 that's going to support mini camps um transition programs like web and our kindergarten readiness nights uh agg and family field trips which is another thing that came from
069our advisory board. And then like the most exciting one is a two-year $150,000 sustainable community schools grant from ESL that funds uh a co-ervice agreement with Boseies for our community schools coordinators. So that's pretty exciting to give them some stability if that full service community schools grant does go away. So I'm excited. Very nice. Awesome. Thanks. Keep writing. I'm working on it. It was discouraging at first. Especially when Casey thought it was $2,500 and she's like, "Oh, no." I thought I had a typo. We're grateful for every penny. Yeah, right. It all counts. So, we just finished up March Madness at MEES. So, this was the competition. Each week there was a new theme. The kids were um you know, working on that theme and receiving night notes for it. last week was don't give
070up, persevere through difficult tasks. Um, so we ended with um the kids did a great job. We have our top three teams and the teams were made up of different grade levels. So like it wasn't just kindergarten, it was like a kindergarten, a sixth grade, like and they did that based off of other data points to make sure that they were kind of fair. Um, but the kids uh our top three teams were and you will love the names. Okay, so coming in at third with 959 night notes during the month of March were the inspiring and amazing green cows. Uh second place with exactly 1,000 night notes were the hardworking and cute blue king cobras. And in first place uh with 1,257 night notes were the energetic and creative rainbow owls. So we have
071some like celebrations coming for the kids after that. Um, field trips are starting. We've had the UPK had the Zummobile come. I stopped in there real quick because they had snakes and frogs out. So, um, good for them. The kids got to like touch not a not a live snake, but like a snake's skin, which was kind of fun. Um, for them. Um, I prefer fuzzy animals. So much about you. No snakes, please. Um, and then, uh, we had first grade actually went to the planetarium today, so we'll see how how they like that. I'm sure it was great. I got a picture actually while we were sitting here from Mrs. Hendricks of the cute kids all stuff. It was lovely. It was so nice. But we have so many more field trips coming up
072and um, really. So, we're moving into state testing time, which I don't, you know, that's not exciting, but is part of like that signaling that we're coming to the end of the school year and we're going to start having all of the fun field trips and celebrations and um you know, those field trips will starting up. I became privy to our end of school year like activities in the month of June. So, we're working hard on scheduling those. I mean, it's very exciting. It's very robust. So, I'm sure it'll be I'm sure it will be a great month of June. I'm sure I'll love it all moment. I'm sure there won't be. And then the future fair is on May 1st. So, that actually I really am I mean I'm looking forward to all of
073it. But I I think this is going to be cool, the future fair with all of the people and the kids. So, I'm excited to see what that'll be. Uh we have a busy June, too. not as robust as the series. It may be robust in other ways like testing instead of fun things. Have fun. Um, as discussed, we had a phenomenal band concert. I'm always so impressed. Um, Mrs. Guck and the students really really like you go in there, close your eyes and you think you're not in Marian's auditorium listening to Marian's band that graduates between 30 and 50 students every year. I mean, it's just it's remarkable the talent and the skill and the the complete product that come from such a small school. So, kudos to all the students and Mrs. Duck
074on that. Uh, spring sports are up and running. Kudos to Miss Delizer. As you can see outside, it's been challenging. It will continue to be challenging. I think we had better uh weather in the first week of March than we've had at all in April so far. So, it's been frustrating for our spring coaches and for Miss D, but we're up and running. Uh kudos to Bailey Graham. She was named outstanding delegate at a Model UN event. That was really neat. We've not had that, at least that I'm aware of in the past from our model UN. So, really, really cool. There's a great article on the website if you haven't seen that. Our fourth quarter is underway. Um, spring break is late this year, so it's going to be a little bit stress invoking
075for all of us, students and staff alike, when we get back from spring break and realize that we've only got seven or eight weeks left of classes. So, um, it's we're in the fourth quarter. We're wrapping up grades for third quarter actually tonight. They're due. So, we'll be getting those reports out and then, uh, our sights will be set on the end of the year and making sure our students are prepared to do their best on those summitive assessments and to also bring in their best grades on those uh, fourth quarter reports. Uh Jamie Fitz Simons, who was here tonight, our middle level English teacher, and I are attending a master scheduling training uh with the with the hopes of taking that over next year. So, um that's been really fun learning for her and
076I. Um we we had one session last week and another this week. Upcoming dates, April 26 is a community cleanup date that the town is working on. So, um, consider attending that. We will be doing our computer-based testing here, uh, late April and May. Our decision day is May 1st. We're going to do a new assembly for decision day that we're really excited about. Um, wanted to give the board a heads up on this that we will be doing a drunk driving reenactment here on the 2nd of May. Uh, which is not something we've done since I've been here. and there'll be a lot of flashing lights and um students will have the opportunity to opt out of that. But we'll do that for all of our students that are attending prom and it's meant
077to deter obviously drinking and driving or really driving under the influence of anything. Um so wanted you to be aware that that's coming up soon and of course our prom is on the third. We're looking forward to that and hoping for better weather. Mr. I wondered if you wanted to highlight the news from Mr. Lner that we just got Oh yes. Uh kudos to Mrs. Lochner. I'm going to open the email just to make sure that I thank you for reminding me about that. Make sure that I say it correctly. U Mrs. Lochner was just announced New York's outstanding early career agriculture teacher for 2025. So this Yeah. huge honor. Um this is an honor for an agricultural educator in their third to seventh year of teaching who displays strong leadership in the classroom and
078throughout the profession. So certainly uh welldeserved recognition and we are very very proud of Mrs. Lochner. Congratulations to her. Absolutely. Congratulations. Thanks Dr. White. Right tech department. This is the time of year we start um meeting with some of the software vendors to start reviewing usage for the last year and looking at you know as far as getting ready to start doing renewals. So that's um starting to take up quite a bit of our time. Um working with Boseies right now to do some scheduling. We're going to do a little bit of uh basically replacing the some of the network cabling in the bus garage. Um when the bus garage was built um network cabling wasn't really much of a thing. Um, and so we've made use, we've made do with what's there, but especially
079now that especially things like our phones and some of the computers are running. Um, we've kind of worked again with Boseies to come in and put some extra drops in just kind of beef up that that bus garage uh network a little bit. Um, starting to work on our plan for the summer. Um, for the tech department, summer is a is a busy time when we not only are, you know, kind of processing new users and users that are kind of graduating out, but also reprocessing all the devices and we get to host summer school at the elementary school. And so that just kind of shifts our process a little bit. Um, and our my my senior CSA that's with us this year is doing wonderful work. This he hasn't been through a summer with
080us yet. This is new for him. So, we're kind of talking what does that look like and how are we going to make some plans for working around um summer school and to get the jobs done that we need to. Um also with break coming um we've got we get into classrooms when we're not interrupting uh classes that are going on. So, we've got to kind of plan for that. And similar to last time, um ticket reports um since our last board meeting, we've done we've had 53 um help desk tickets. um first response is about 46 minutes um between the time we we get those taken care of. So, it's been a really, you know, active time period, but you know, trying to support our users. Thanks, And Mrs. Miller is not here tonight
081because she's attending a literacy training. She's done a lot of work on um revamping our literacy to make sure that we're aligned with all of the new science of reading attestations that we'll have to do for New York State. So tonight is one of her final professional development training sessions about it. Thanks everyone. It's always as I say probably every meeting is always great to get the updates of any we will move on to policy review. Any board members have any questions or comments for the first reading of the policies listed in the agenda? No. Okay. We'll then move on to consent agenda items. Any board members have any questions or comments on the consent agenda items? No. There not any questions or comments? Can I get a motion to approve them? Can I get
082a second? Second. All in favor? I opposed. Abstain. Motion passes. Then I had on to board evaluation and goals discussion. I had the dean include this in here just as a reminder of what our goals were for this year. So we can take a look at it and see if there's anything we need to adjust to what we're doing to meet our goals before the end of the year. We count the joint meetings as a public forum. I was going to say maybe we ought to talk about that and now we've reached reached a kind of a at your meeting we kind of get together and then have a forum on where this has gone. Yeah, I don't think we can count those meetings because we typically have a forum as a back and forth
083conversation and those meetings were definitely not a back and forth conversation. So I would not I would not be comfortable claiming those at forums. Maybe that's a topic we could do. But yeah, I know I've had several community members reach out going, "So what changed your minds? Like why did you why did you pull back?" And I think we do owe a conversation with the community at some point on why we kind of pulled back from it. Um, and be able to have that open and direct conversation. Really tell them since we were an executive talking about it. We can tell people our reasoning. Yeah. We can't talk about the specific discussion, but as a board, why did we make the decision we did once we came back out into public? um I wouldn't get
084into so and so from so and so said this or so and so said this I would leave that in executive session but I think a lot of conversation came out of that that we as board members we can share with our community our reasons why um without breaking executive session laws and it also gives the community an opportunity to come in and and ask questions ask questions you know voice opinion just give us your thoughts and then on the top but yeah after we meet with Williamson we can come back and maybe get something scheduled do we want to try to schedule something now and come up with the exact topic later but we are getting towards the end of the school year which becomes more complicated yeah you're meeting one next week Tuesday
085yeah but we don't have another meeting until May. We have one on 23rd. Oh, do we have one after break? Yeah. April 23rd. I was trying to get out of that one. Rob's not there. He's going to be sick that day. It's a Wednesday and we're doing the Boseies vote. Yes, I do have it on my calendar. I will be here. Yeah. So, why don't we just so we can have a conversation conversation and then we'll come prepared with dates that you can do it so we can have a discussion and maybe be able to set a date like we did do some community survey like we did specifically a community survey around emerging um that was joint with Williamson but that's still a community survey um But maybe throw it out anyone listening out
086there in the world since there's no one in the audience and audience members. Well, I understand he's here for same if you have thoughts or questions maybe that you know email and let us know what so we could have potential topics for that discussion. Okay, that was just the point of putting that on there was just getting towards the end of the year. We need to reook at those and reevaluate what we need to do. I'm assuming you don't want to give us a comment or anything as part of our next session part. So, okay, we're going to continue moving. I have no community comments. Um, so Sher had a chance to talk. I guess you could talk more if you'd like. All set. Thank you. So, can I get a motion? Nope. You have
087to say what we're doing. I move that we go into executive session for the purpose of discussing potential litigation and and MAA contract negotiations. Okay, I got a second. Second. Sorry. All in favor? I opposed. Passes. We are going into executive session.