001e e e let's go ahead I think I have okay it is 6 o'cl we'll call the meeting to order let the record show that all all board members are here except for Mr Monroe please stand and join me with for the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God invisible liy and justice for all any changes to the agenda no there are not hey any board members have any questions or comments on the agenda no can I get a motion to approve it I'll it all in favor opposed abstained motion passes to anyone sign up for Community cont no they did not okay we'll move on to presentations [Music] I am men withs that's that's nice so I'm kind of
002excited to be doing it this time because now I have like way more knowledge than I did when I did this back so so we're just going to go back through those goals that were put on the um the building plan um so the first one is in regards to the variety of postsecondary options so the four e we're addressing them also I apologize I'm slightly losing my voice um and how we're addressing them so we actually have a future Fair group that has been working all year plan this future Fair on May 1st um it's going to be upk through grade 6 grade four through 6 is going to actually be a traditional uh career fair in the morning and then upk through third will rotate through classroom presentations in the afternoon and they're
003still working on putting all of who the vendors are together and stuff like that but people that come will have an option to either do the morning the afternoon or both depending what their um their presentations are uh again mini camps are another big part of this it gets the kids exposed to a lot of different opportunities um in the fall and winter they had 15 different camps with 62% of eligible students participating this spring we have 15 different camps with 63 uh% of the um eligible students participating um some of the cool highlights from that really addressing the four e uh the third and fourth graders actually wrote and Illustrated their own books so they had the opportunity to see what it's like to be a published author um we have the history of
004Maran um mini camp that's going to run again so it ran in the fall and they're going to run again with something that the kids will interested in we also have a crazy horse mini camp where the kids are learning all about horses and they are going to take a um a field trip to an actual uh aine facility goal two is talking more about the academics piece so M students will do litter across content areas a big piece of that is around youly which is um being implemented this year as the tier one phics and phenomic awareness instruction K2 so full implementation this year it's been used in the past for or last year I think was the first year for small group um instruction K through five um but I've had the opportunity
005to actually get into like the kindergarten classroom the first grade classroom second classroom and see what that looks like in the Continuum from class to class to class we've also held some meeting so we got together with teachers talked about what does this look like what are the pain points what's really working and overall the teachers are really excited they said that they've seen some like phenomenal growth in the kids and things kids are identifying things they never were before they're really excited to see like our first grade teachers are excited to see what it's like when we get the Kinder when they get the kindergarteners who've already had a full year of of this programming so a lot of Hope there um we even talked about like they're each other's best assets right so
006like it's really the same thing from classroom to classroom but they all have like their own little flare on it so being able to get the teachers into each other's classrooms to see how that it's being implemented as well um observations uh work together teacher feedback they're excited on the oh morphine magic is another one so that's three through six and it builds connections between sounds the history and meaning of words so really focusing on those literacy pie uh Ms will provide our improved School food culture as evidence by improved three out of six data points um again we're committ are continuing with the student advisory committee um we just talked about the mini camps but really giving the kids a voice in that as well so they got a little uh form that went
007out they got to say things that they were interested in I think I mentioned a different one like kids were interested in a cleaning Camp I should have mentioned that the before e as well but you know really making sure that the kids voices are heard and what's being offered and expanding their interests um as far as like uh the decrease behavior and data support so between myself and Mrs Flint we're really trying to like nip things as they happen so rather than there being like a waiting point between like when an incident may happen and when it's being addressed we want to turn it into a learning opportunity for the kids because right we teach them all the things as well as like how to behave in the classroom and stuff like that so
008making sure that we have those learning conversations with the kids more like connected to what the behavior was versus like a disconnect especially for the younger ones it's really important because they need to learn like what was it that I did versus um you know addressing it with them later when it's already gone like it's already out of their head right they've moved on in life um we also have family workshops happening so uh they've already done one or at least put one together which is a combination of like our second curriculum and the tcis tcis strategies for parents they're going to share some of that information out at the family uh fun literacy nights uh the next Workshop that they're working on is sleep habits and self-managing behaviors so that family Workshop committee is
009going to put those together they do offer them but if they don't get attendance or something like that they're trying to find different formats that are more accessible for families to take part in um we've also been sharing um workshops like family workshops through bosies and the weekly newsletters things that families can set up for and then out to our staffs staff we've been putting um grab and go strategies so like things that have been popping up a lot in the building maybe it's a behavior or a need um we've come together as a committee and talked about like Hey we're seeing a lot of this what are some quick grab andg go strategies that we can push out to staff um to hopefully help them within the craft classroom to manage things those are
010the survey questions like before basically the um building plan is meant to be holistic right so address the whole child not just academics not just social emotional but holistic as far as our um our our families in our schol any have questions comments great did I talk too fast not for me thanks Mrs Mr Dean has Junior Senior High made your update car was really high I can't talk that fast sorry I try I tried all right I'm excited to update you on where things are as far as our building plan goes here at the Junior Senior High School nice to have some students with us in addition to Ka your learning targets today are to describe the 2425 building plan with 90% accuracy you'll remember at our first meeting was only 75 so because
011this is the second time you're hearing about it I expect higher levels of accuracy there may be an exit assessment all right lot of text here I'll distill it I'll distill it I promise um during this this school year School staff will Implement programs for students and parents relating to the four e enrollment enlistment entrepreneurship and employment so our first goal was to develop or our first action step was to develop preparation and reflection process for the fouryear activities such as college visits workplace visits and job fairs that's happening in Z much credit to Mrs O'Hare go of the month for announcement that's happening through our tier one lessons uh we are we have created portfolios for student participation logs and reflection activities for them to reflect on those field trips and those activities that
012they're doing that's happening in zela uh we had our First Assembly today organized by Mrs O'Hara uh Mr Scott Fitch came and talked to students about a lot of different things dig digital citizenship and pause before you post and some of the impacts I can have on your goals and college and things like that um so it was a great great assembly and was connected to College and Career in the four e as well as just being better people here at Maran um and that was actually whole school so even though Our intention was for our assemblies to be grades 11 and 12 only we felt like this message was worthwhile for the whole school so great start on that goal we continue to develop ref find our 4E activity curriculum map that's a work
013in progress our decision day Signing Day assembly is coming soon we're planning on May for that for our seniors to have an assembly in which they determine their next step doesn't need to be their forever step but what will their next step be um and our senior banners we look out in the audience here because I put a survey out and I got a few responses and sometimes it's legit right cor we don't know yet and I I don't want to put pressure on students to make that decision too soon um the game plan because what we want is banners probably in here of our seniors and with their senior picture and like class of 2025 and what their college career plan is but I don't want to have to make that decision too soon
014or feel pressure to make that decision too soon so we're slow playing that a little bit it will happen and the cool thing is to kind of um multi-purpose the banners we're going to we're just getting yard signs made and we'll hang them up on the walls and then we can also put them out like we have for the past few years at graduation so it will have dual purpose so more to come on that we're really excited about those banners but don't want to push our our graduates too soon to make those big huge decisions we will incorporate the four EES into our Spring Showcase we're excited about that we'll continue to teach postsecondary skills through college career Readiness lessons which is happening in English thank you Mrs Hess our for in skill of
015the mon connection and night times has been happening more through tier one lessons and uh we have been revising our senior seminar course to incorporate exploration of 40 pathway for each student more personalized approach so Mrs O'Hare has been providing a more personalized approach for our seniors this year questions about goal one no it's a lot there but there's a lot of great things happening so we're really excited about that and goal two you're going to see a lot of ongoing because this is our ongoing academic goal um we're going to we're going to aim to keep our proficiency rate where it was or very close to where it was last year at 89% proficiency on all regions exams so we continue to update our guaranteed and viable curriculum and Curriculum maps we're continuing our
016data meeting analysis process we're continuing our Benchmark plan um I I think the word continue is a good one here because it shows our consistency and I believe that that's a big part of the success here is that we've been consistent in this for several years now our staff know what to expect they work really hard at this and they do a great job driving that guaranteed and bable curriculum for all students that we know they need questions about this goal yes so I apparently was not paying attention and I assumed we were still doing Juniors doing the English Regents in January oh yeah no apparently we W because I kept waiting for my son's score so with that being a goal that we're trying to raise it is it worth going back and looking
017at that again well the reason that we haven't is because um we've been getting 100% Proficiency in June and we weren't getting 100% Proficiency in January which is fine we had more time to get students where they needed to be um but it's been wildly successful moving it in June and Mrs H who teaches that course felt pretty strongly that that was the best way to do it and so it's been a great success and the last I believe the last two years she's had 100% proficiency I was just say because if they had met it in January you could have looked at some of the other e work done resumes and things like that going into their summer their senior year they have right different skills prepar yeah well and we still have their
018senior year to do that that's beauty is there's not a regen exam for English in senior year so correct but it doesn't help in the summer before their senior year just a question other questions all right thank you so much thank you where's the exit I asked a question get out oh got it show up okay we will move on to board of educational reports any board members have anything to report on tonight I attended the superintendent's dinner um or represented our board it was a great evening we honored I think it was 32 seniors for Wayne fingerlakes but I will allow other people to discuss who we were their cheering Court Maria um I have the in my inbox right now I have the um NVA resolution survey um to put our vs out
019there there for what our stances are or what we want our our stances on the Misa resolutions for this year to be um we all got that did we all get it um I didn't know if it was every everyone thing but I was planning I mean I got it I think did you guys get one did you get as resolution I don't remember seeing it but I know I did so but you've both attended so maybe that's why you've gotten them I'd have to look what I was thinking I didn't know not jumping out of me Che your I will anyone else have anything I attended the musical all three shows slightly different each show which is what live theater is Mak exciting andever really well done and I enjoyed it move on to
020student representative reports yeah so this has weekend we obviously had the amazing musical Mary Poppins which was amazing to perform in um for NHS we have the haunted house that we do every year at the carnival which is going to be on March 22nd from 12 to3 and this year at is Circus Beed come out to get scared I like scaring more than getting scared but hey um for German club we only have a month until we go to Germany so that's very exciting I think it's actually a month today so that's very exciting and then for sports um winter sports are winter sports awards are coming up and Sport sports are star I thank you very much under superintendent report uh last week I went to the New York State Council School superintendence Conference
021in Albany um I appreciate the board's support and my attending that it's really good professional learning for me and a great chance to like connect with other people who are obviously School super inance um it's amazing to me like how though we have the same title like the job can be very different depending on the district that you're a part of um but I appreciate did we had some large group um sessions the opening keynote was around um building effective presentation skills so that um you're effectively communicating with your whole audience and then able to like a followup effectively afterwards um the uh commissioner Betty Rosa attended on the second day and she and members of her team did a question and answer around um different topics that are at the Forefront of Education right
022now so things like um the state budget looking ahead to a possible cell phone ban and how um schools will deal with that uh thinking specifically around some concerns about funding um and some disconnect between the federal government and New York State and how do you deal with that with um schools kind of being stuck in the middle of that because we obviously receive a lot of federal funding um in addition to our New York State funding um and then every day there's uh breakout sessions Workshop sessions and I did appreciate those as well um I went to several good ones um but I also the one I'll highlight is I attended one that was about the merger process and it was led by um the superintendent of the last success full merger in New
023York state so it was really interesting listening to him talk about like their experience through that process um and the things that have been successful for them and some things like looking back he would have like done differently on the pathway even though it was successful um and even thinking about little little things that I guess I hadn't like been far enough down line in my head to think of but just think things like um you know Rel lettering all your buses if you move move and you know little like detail things that's like oh I literally would have not like thought of that until much farther down the line but it was interesting to hear somebody who's done it start to finish and kind of the challenges along the way and how they tried
024to make it as collaborative a process as possible when was that merger you said it was the last successful one like yes I want to say they approved it I'd have to go back to my maybe 2022 go M so next um for my reports just a quick update on our joint board meetings I'm sure you've noticed like we've started to put out the more you know public information about that uh via email Facebook um there'll be another just reminder that goes out to the community on Thursday via parent square and Facebook encouraging people to attend the meeting if they can attend to tune in to a live stream that's kind of still being worked out how that live stream is going to actually work um but also to complete the survey um so that
025if people have questions they can submit those ahead of time and even if we don't have time to get to all of the questions in the presentation that we would be able to answer those questions um in the next meeting or to be able to send out a list like a you know information or frequently asked questions um sheet to stakeholders uh rich and I meet tomorrow to do the final planning for that meeting to review the slide deck that Lyn rutnik is going to be using uh to walk through the information sharing piece of it uh we'll also she'll share out the initial results from the thought exchange survey that's been put out in addition um at that meeting it even though it's a joint meeting it sounds like they'll function as separate meetings
026in terms of like Rob would open our meeting their president will open their meeting we'll have the full presentation we'll have time for a shared public comment period and then we would close out our meeting we would close out their meeting so it'll be a similar form that even though we have common topics and a shared presentation um other than that Lynn is encouraging us to wear our Maran gear and show our Maran Pride so if you want to wear your Maran gear on the 18th you're more than welcome to do that um and we're like I said doing the final check on everything and review tomorrow and then we'll also be coordinating with sodas just to make sure that everything's set for Tech and parking and those kind of logistical things does anybody have
027questions no no all right um do T you might know have a pulse on this but are the students as stakeholders like are they being kept aware or like getting the information to take the survey or submit questions I did not know there was a survey personally um I know it does I think it went out on the nighttime I don't know how many students look at that sure um maybe I know Lexi does afternoon announcements so maybe they can put on morning that' be great yeah that's a good idea we can send are we able to send the link out to the student emails yep like let it hit I can't make them check their email boxes but at least and then the announcements it can say you have a link in your email
028mhm yeah it's also as of today it's live on our web page so there's a link on our web page as well so I'll send that's a good idea I'll email that link out to students so they can anything else all right looking forward to it move on to school business administrator first item I have is a budget update and this is hot off the press as of an hour hour and a half ago it came through email um and this came through the nisba email chain so both the uh one house um budget proposals came out so for the Senate and assembly and the items that they have in common and typically if they have them in common there's a good chance that they'll go through um so both of them are proposing a
029minimum Foundation Aid increase of 1% one is 0.9% the other one's 1% essentially 1% starting to feel like Micki over here I'm losing my voice um the other one so moving moving from the currently the governor is is two so moving to either 2.9 or three yes yes the minimum the minimum Foundation Aid increase from the governor is 2% % and typically whatever the governor proposes at a minimum that's what you're going to get but the the assembly and the Senate are both proposing either a 0.9% increase or a 1% increase which would bring it up to 2.9 or 3% and which would match what we had last this for this year we had 3% the other items in common are Universal meals so the governor and both um the Senate and assembly both want
030the universal me so I'm sure that'll stay um this is is encouraging um so this has been advocated for years now the Bose CTE reimbursable rate for um CTE teachers has been set at $30,000 since 1990 and both are proposing that it increases to 60,000 so what that'll do is that'll increase our a back for our CTE students that um attend bosis um so that's very encouraging news other items uh increasing upk funding both advocated for that EV buses both are advocating for um modifications to that um which is encouraging uh smart devices uh both houses are advocating for uh more District or both control the smart devices versus you know the mandated they will be locked up in the beginning of the day till the end of the day type thing more towards U
031non-instructional timing that the local would uh control that um there's one or two other little items that were on there but those were the big ones that they had in common other things in the news that could potentially impact our budget tariffs um buses So currently our small buses are manufactured in Canada the large buses are manufactured in North Carolina so if the 25% Tariff was to go through then the letter of intents that we write up typically in this past fall um for a purchase next year those prices would basically be null and void um it would be a for the small buses because it's manufactured in Canada it would be a direct 25% increase cost of the bus uh for the buses that are produced in North Carolina it would be based upon
032the raw material tariff increase can we get a peel box in Canada and Order buses through a peel box address pick them up and drive them over you still have I think the Tariff is still acoss the only if you stop and tell them work with me you're not a uh the other thing I did was I reached out to our account manager at rg& uh to see what the impact of the electricity cost would be and he responded and said that currently RG gets about 5% of their electricity from Canada but he also stated that um you know they have the capability of getting electricity from other states and quite honestly at this point they don't know what the impact would do to the electricity bus so that was solar panels is that what
033we mean well I don't know if there's going to be more incs for those the challenge was is we put in the largest solar system we could there no on Maran circuit the limitation is the rg& circuit that came through Maran so we would so a windmill it it's any generation it's it's any power generation on our site was limited to the capacity that we had now I think that included coens at the time because coens were still on the book because they were not old enough to come off the books could so there could be some room there what's the Coen Cen is a way that we produce electricity and heat and or cooling uh from a single engine source so we basically produce our own electricity here and we could feed that back
034into the grid however those have those died years before their end of life oh but because it was not into life yet even though they didn't function it still counted against us because we could have repaired them and brought them back up online it's just the cost to repair them was exorbitant and not worth it sure so if those are end of life there might be some room in here again but I foret what year they become TR the end of life I bet you we find out our next meeting I can look up that documentation yes um oh any any questions on the budget upd there it all seemed good was there anything that you didn't think that was well the tariffs are scary um we still have this is no this is not
035new news but we still have the challenge of our new Revenue be limiting to the 2% tax cap in whatever validation minimum increase is um So currently we are on a 2 to1 deficit in other words our new expenditures are outpacing our new revenues by a ratio of two to one and that's not entirely accurate because I was only looking at payroll and benefit which is the vast majority of the budget but that doesn't include you know any of the other contracted services for utilities or the services that we use for for the building you know architecture turns Etc so it's a little scary um any other questions they make changes to save har they well they did not um so both how both the house and the Senate are proposing an additional change to
036the formula yeah um but realistically it's not really going to impact us um because of our R it's been for several years now um but there there's nothing suggested about St removing stfe Harless so that's good news any other questions no okay uh the next item I had was uh every March we approve uh our Capital outlay uh Seeker it's it's another type two Seeker um and this 2526 Capital project is for the elementary school it's for some tile work Carpeting and um one exterior set of doors mov we anyone have any questions or comments on it okay Michelle moved can I get a second a second all in favor oppos abstain motion passes the last item I have is the monthly financial report so on the expenditure side there's minimal change from last month
037on the revenue side encouraging news um the revenues increased um significantly the most significant contributor was our Bose's refund that we get every year um and this year it was about $225,000 so that went into the revenue side for the general fund so that um increases our end of the year fund balance a little bit okay look at you full of good news tonight any questions or comments not can I get a motion to approve it okay all in favor all right closed abstained passes follow your list you good I'm I'm good unless you have any more questions we will move on to administrative reports you want to start sure I've never sat here before I know we're a little short Mrs Miller is at a professional development for literacy and Mrs Steiner was at
038a professional development today in Binghamton around um mtss and Community Schools so we're running Skeleton Crew uh Mary Poppins was just such a huge hit like I know it's been said twice already tonight but it Bears repeating um so so so proud students were incredible there's so many staff members that are involved in that um and then there's so many volunteers tears you know and folks from the community that are involved as well it's really just a reflection of the Maran community and school working in collaboration and I every year I leave there with such Pride this year was no exception so kudos to everybody it was awesome I see that for sure that play bill or whatever we call it and I always think takes a village yeah it does vill should put on
039a musical yeah it does so true um we recently had FFA week right after February break that was a fantastic Week full of FFA fun and energy um Becca could probably say more but I won't put her on the spot it was a great week uh kudos to them for setting that up our very own Zack cing took fourth place at the state wrestling championship um fourth in the state at 285 pounds we're super super proud of him that's a huge accomplishment and uh can't wait to see what he might accomplish now next year but doesn't even matter because it won't take away from what happened this year that's a great accomplishment I'm moving right along with Athletics Michael Sero was a sectional chap in indoor track 3200 meters um also a close runner up
040in another event we had some gananda students because that's a merged marrying gananda indoor track team so we also had some gananda students that were sectional Champs one of them being Haley Connor who also qualified for the state tournament and took 15th overall in her 600 meter EV so 15th in the state congratulations to her um and she is a sophomore so she's got a bright future ahead in track and field uh our eighth graders did Civic Readiness presentations right here in this Library did a fantastic job with those I was able to sit in on just a few um but saw great things and hats off to Mr hurin and Mrs Fitz Simons for setting those up we have a few on deck for you in April oh yeah cool I didn't even know
041that even better uh Avery Brooks wrote in at the PBR professional bull riding he is uh he's a seventh grader he's a cool little dude and he is uh destined for a career in bull riding it seems so uh I wish I had a video to show you there are some pictures in night times and his mom has a video on her Facebook page if you're if you're connected with her at all it's really cool to see that and they D in Texas for that right uh Ohio Ohio this time yes yeah but he was invited to participate very cool very awesome yeah he's he's moving right along in that area and then Marie James won the superintendence award for Maran she was our recipient and not only did she win that which is a
042very prestigious honor to begin with but then she was selected for a monetary scholarship as well which there are only five or six six I believe of those monetary scholarships and um so out of the however many Bose's districts only six students are selected based on an essay that they write Maria was selected so double double kudos to Marie James we're really proud of her for representing Maran in such a positive um in special education we have started annual reviews for students so we start with our older students so seniors here at this building and then also out of District some of our students who go to school up until the age of 21 um so this week and last week um we've had some of our out of District programs have been Mary carola
043Hillside um Bose Newark education center and Wayne education center and then also a student who attends a Consortium program at telac um knew for us this week is that we have a first grad who started with us through a Consortium program with red jacket District so Manchester Schwarz Ville not the Bose's program but he has started in our 811 program um we're actually transporting him too because we go over to RJ at the bosis program so they're here with us that's a New Consortium program placement for us um also on special ed we're doing um um a compliance review for the state that we get asked to like every couple of years to look at um do we follow the suspension procedures for special education student students um when they looked at our suspensions in
044school out School rates there are more students that are white that if they do get suspension in school or out of school get less than 10 days and so we needed to pull a sample of students that get less than 10 days of in school or out of school suspension that are white and send lots of paperwork to the state just to make sure we do everything right so we had to do anything for it that's a good thing to look at less than 10 days um that's the lowest rate you could possibly get to report to them so just following through to make sure we follow all of those procedures um and then bkcs uh we're almost at 3,000 we're about 2900 um one of the things that we do every week at our
045admin meeting is just pause for a minute to say can we send a bkc to give oursel the time to do that since we've added that we've had Mr Rich Walker focus on his people more and so we see a lot more bkcs going to the bus garage um and they in turn send more bkcs and so we had um one of our newer bus drivers send a bkc to a student that he might be our future Transportation director in like I don't know 25 years so this bus driver wrote on February 5 2025 during the morning bus rout the seventh grader was extremely helpful in assisting the substitute bus driver in spotting houses and students for pickup the student volunteered to help the substitute driver without hesitation and contributed to the Safe Transportation of
046students to both the elementary and the high school furthermore he assisted the bus monitor in guiding the younger students on where to sit as the normal seating pattern was interrupted due to the extra bus monitor and this student occupying the front seats he he should be commended for his willingness to assist the substitute driver without hesitation and so the bus garage is like fully invested in bkcs and this seventh grader could someday be hired here I mean maybe in like five years like that's very good the other thing I'll say about bkcs that you maybe don't know is that Dr Lloyd send bkcs to other administrators and future administrators through the Wayne fingerlakes leadership program she's teaching every week and so bkcs get sent to other districts and the common response that gets sents back
047to me because it's my email is like wow this is incredible what is this I don't get emails that look like this um I love this you know today I got one back that was like the hard Emoji sometimes they include her but people are just always impressed when they get it like this is great thank you for this so that's my report um so I had mentioned the future fair when I was giving the presentation just GNA mention it again as they put a lot of um kind of invitations out we haven't gotten a ton of response back so we're still looking for some additional vendors for that whether it's somebody that wants to come in and talk to the older kids the younger ones uh still looking for some some people for that
048uh this isn't technically just the elementary school but important to put out there nonetheless the dental program through finger leges Community Health it went out in the newsletters there's a link in there to sign up for um school-based dental program um we did kick off our March Madness week March is a really long month for staff and for students so we really um we kicked it off we have different themes for each week around I say bkc no night notes same idea but different uh themes around it so week one is be responsible um we finished that week and all of our grade levels were at or around or sorry at 100 or a little bit over except our upk and our second grade teams both were over 200 um night notes for those grades
049which is great over double the other ones um week two is following directions and I put in quotation marks quickly right so like trying to follow those directions the first time they're given um or maybe the second that's still consider quickly right uh week three is showing kindness and compassion week four is put forth your best effort week five don't give perseverar through difficult tasks so just kind of a a focus for each week on um where I they can give them for other things as well but that's like the focus for each week to try to help us all make it through March um overall we have 5,034 Night notes given this year uh again I know like a lot of people have mentioned Mary Poppins but this was my first experience with any
050type of musical here at Mary Maran and it was great I really loved it we brought the um Elementary School over they were so excited to be over there it felt really good to be there with them um and then we had Mary Poppins pop over to the elementary school for our younger kids who didn't get to actually come to the high school for it which was absolutely adorable and you know magical for them right like it's it's just a little magical thing lastly I kind of just wanted to say um thank you to the um Elementary staff when we had our power outage on Friday they were phenomenal they literally kept the kids engaged they were doing fun things different classrooms had like flashlights out they were really creative for the staff that didn't
051actually have students in their room at that time they um came down to the office asked how they could help station themselves around the building so that we could continue you know almost seamlessly obviously we didn't have lights but almost seamlessly but it was really great I was really like thankful just to see how much everybody just jumped in you know at a moment like that for tech department we are kind of currently working with bosis this this time of the year we we do some security testing and look at basically making sure our patches and all of our servers are are up to date so working with them on that um continuing to update our documentation um one of the things that we have been really working on especially the last couple years is
052we have a lot of procedures that we use but they're always necessarily really well documented partially because they keep changing but we've been using kind of this springtime when when the overall work seems to be a little bit less to try to catch up on making sure all those documentation items are are up to date um speaking of activity um in the so looking at ticket reports um for the last month we uh the tech department closed 48 tickets in February but basically between the last month but that does count a week of break when nobody was here excuse me um and that 48 is is the tickets that were reported um we're pretty good about putting tickets into the system but we still do get you know as you're walking down the hallway oh
053wait come here and you know emails and phone calls and so um the average response time to the first response from a ticket is less than an hour um for All 48 of those so um really taking trying to take care of people the best we can so okay thanks everyone for the updates move on to policy review any board members have any questions or comments on the first reading of the policies listed in the agenda so when we had policy committee Michelle brought up a good point about some of the language around um drug and alcohol um testing and policies for transportation staff and it doesn't reflect um specifically the things that might have changed because of the legalization of marijuana so all of that would still be considered a baned substance at school
054but we wanted to make sure that the policy accurately reflects that so nen had reached out to see if there was an updated policy we waiting to get the updated policy back thanks for reaching out okay any other questions or comments on those move on to the consent agenda items any board members have any questions or comments on the agenda items okay if not can I get a motion to approve that second all in favor opposed stain motion passes assuming we S no Community com please no no so can I get a motion executive session I'll move that we go to Executive session for the specific purpose of discussing the collective right agreement negotiations with married administrative Association and csca memorandum of agreement and pending litigation thank you for reading the whole thing I was
055supposed to and I did not okay get a second allvor for