001I think the gang is all here. Uh we'll call our meeting to order and uh let's stand for the pledge, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, good evening one and all and uh welcome to our September board of education meeting. Um, we'll start as we always do with uh comments from the public and press. If there is uh anyone uh here who would like to have a moment with the board, we would entertain that now. Hello, good evening. My name is Allison Smith and I am the president of Msina Arts and Theater Association. First, I would like to thank you for giving me a few minutes tonight. I
002really appreciate the chance to share with you what we've been working hard on and where we're headed. MA is a small group but mighty group of volunteers with one big goal to bring arts and culture to Msina. You've probably already seen some of our work like the summer concert series in the park at Springs. But our dream goes bigger. We want to open more doors for kids, families, and really anyone in the community that wants to experience the arts. That dream has a home, the Shine Theater. For decades, it has sat dark, but now, piece by piece, we're bringing it back. We've cleared out the asbestous, and right now, we're repairing the outside walls, fixing the roof, and getting ready to bring back the marquee to life. October 15th at 7:30m, we'll flip the switch
003and relight that marquee for the first time in years. It's going to be more than just lights turning on. It is a sign that Msina is moving forward. It is a remainder a reminder of what we can accomplish when we come together. The shine isn't just about a theater. It's about giving young people a stage to shine on. It's about creating a place for community to gather and celebrate. It's about believing that downtown Msina can be vibrant once again. We cannot do this alone. We need the support of our schools, our families, and neighbors across the town. I invite all of you to stand with us, to celebrate with us, and to help keep us moving forward. Together, we can bring arts back to the heart of Msina. Together, we can unlock the shine. Thank
004you very much for those comments. Uh is there anyone else who would like to have a moment with the board? Okay, hearing uh uh hearing nothing on that uh we'll move on to uh information and reports uh that part of portion of our agenda and uh we'll start with our student exeicio report. Uh, Andrew David, please. >> So, if you see my slides, I have a a few things to cover on the content slide for a brief overview. So, uh, first I would like to talk about the food at parent teacher conferences I would like to bring for November in this 13th. Um, the goal would be to increase parent attendance for the event and make it more enticing for parents to come rather than just to see their students who are doing really well
005in school or to come just to bate teachers if they have problems in school and try to get those uh the parents who are of the students that are kind of in the middle or not maybe not the outstanding achievers but not failing in classes. Um I am currently working with Mr. Burke, Mr. Oliver, and our food services director Mrs. to possibly bring a sort of Thanksgiving dessert to the November conferences. Next slide. I have started a cooking club at Cena Central High School and I want to advertise it to all the board members who are interested as a possible way to if you would like become either a guest chef and make something with students or just take the class with them and interact with a group of students in the community. If you
006would like further information about that, please contact me. Our first actual cooking class will take uh take place sometime October likely two days from 2:30 to 3. And then last point, the imple implementation of the cell phone ban high school and across the school district. I'd like to say that has gone extremely well and um I'd like to congratulate our administr administrators including Mr. Oliver in the audience on the success and virtually hurdles in in this first day ofation. I um I didn't see any phones. I didn't experience any people um trying to get around the van. But I would like to say that I still do struggle with Chromebooks. Anybody have any questions for Andrew? >> I have two. Andrew, tell me about the the cooking club um that's meeting on the Wednesdays. Is
007are there themes each time you're going to meet or what is that going to look like? >> So, this was actually interest meeting and that happened Wednesday, >> right? >> But for each class, I think we're going to bring in a guest chef >> um either a teacher at the high school or a community member >> and that day will be themed around something that they want to make. >> So for example, Mr. Sanchez has come to me saying that he wants to make Spanish rice. >> So that day will be centered around that culture and that type of food. >> And what brought you to this this idea? How did this are you trying to help students learn how to cook? >> Well, >> basic skills. >> Yes. So for me myself, I like
008to consider myself a cook and a baker. >> Okay? >> And I like to make things and I would like to share that skill with my fellow students. On top of that, I always hear stories about things people eat when they're in college. And sometimes I I wish that they had experienced a little bit more of what I'm able to experience at home with my parents and being able to learn how to cook. >> Okay. definitely an important skill. So, thank you for doing that. My second question is about your need for something other than a Chromebook in your IB classes. Are there specific IB classes that you're speaking of? Is this something, Mr. Burke, that some whatever device you're talking about could be purchased just for students in that class and to be left
009in the building? >> So, one of the things that Mr. Oliver is working on is um because it goes beyond just IB class. It goes really to other classes as well. So what we're looking at is maybe a different option as opposed to uh just simply giving certain students certain classes that but maybe we'd have a rolling cart of laptops. Um again it's very much in the infancy stage. I think Mr. Oliver is still working on that, trying to gather the information of what's necessary. Again, not just for IB classes, but really equitably across the board um for any student in any program. >> Yeah, I I know that uh teachers like Mrs. Normile have worked really hard over the time to try to p uh show IB students as just one of the rest
010of us. So doing the cart might be >> help might help work towards that rather than >> put us further toward a like a a status of sorts or like or show the school as maybe favoring >> the IB students >> which uh I'd like to try to avoid. >> I think you presented it as a real need, an honest true need. So I I think you're being heard. Yep. >> Thank you. Do you do you think that that's do you think that that's only as Joyy's pointed out did you poll other students or is that only your opinion on that? Is there other what I'm getting at is there some other class that maybe would have the same need? >> I know of a lot of classes that would um that would make use
011of these laptops. um mostly IB classes, but I can imagine other classes um >> making use of it, especially um if you were to take a like a statistics class. I know that Google Sheets is one of the slowest things I can run on a Chromebook. >> Good. I just was curious of how how broad the statement was to quantify that. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Oliver, did you have something to add? >> Thank you. Um, Andrea, I have a question as well concerning um the the roll out, so to speak, of the cell phone ban. Can you tell us uh your perception anyway of the opening of school last year compared to the opening of school this year and and the differences going on in the hallways, the differences in the lunchroom, the differences in
012in other areas where perhaps phones were being used and now they're not. >> Yeah. So, uh, one of my favorite things that I actually saw was, uh, people not just sitting with their, uh, heads down at a table trying to hide their phones. People were talking. People were like maybe doing their homework. People and especially like in study halls or in lunch, they were communicating. They were doing they were socializing, which is >> talking with one another. >> Yeah. It it was um one one of the best things that I think has come out of this and um outside of that in in classes I um people can't access like uh social media on their personal computers. Uh they don't sneak to the back of class to be on their phone. So, you see a
013lot more kids either trying to pay attention and find it interesting or maybe they're um just a little bit more in the moment because what else are you going to do? >> Okay, great. Um any any other questions for Andrew? >> Yeah, I just had one more question. So, la last uh month you had mentioned a concern with the cell phones and maybe some overcompensation um outside of school. How how have you gauged that? Have you seen or talked to anybody about overcompensation outside of the school hours or other issues? >> Um I'm not sure if this is something I would be able to measure myself. Um I know a lot of students might not um want to talk about that or reach out about that and I don't want to push too hard on
014that idea around um other students. Um I mean with everything I I like the saying every um correction is an overcorrection. So there there will always be um downsides to everything. But I think the the implementation of just the cell phone ban as it is has been great. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Last call for Andrew. Thank you very much, Andrew. Uh, great report. Uh, excellent graphics. Um, and uh, the um, the cooking club certainly sounds like an interesting idea and thank you for uh, including the board in in your invitation. Uh, next we'll move on to the policy committee report and um, Trustee Monroe. >> Okay. The policy committee met last Tuesday in Mr. Burke's office. It was uh myself, Mrs. Drew, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Beexstead. Um and so we discussed uh there was one
015policy in the 3000 series and then there was another nine policies in the 5000 series. Um quite literally every policy was a review with no changes with the exception of policy 5330 on budget transfers. And there was a recommendation by Erie 1 uh to resend that policy because that language is now in in the policy uh 5140. So with that said, if uh anybody has any questions, I would like to turn it over to Mr. Burke to discuss uh to give us the update on the um board goal uh for policy review with Ferrara. So, in speaking with our school attorney, um, John's, her recommendation is that the policy committee should begin by having her firm review all of the required policies. And that's around 64 65 policies. And what they would do is go
016through each one of those to make sure that they do match what is required by statute. And once that is complete, then we would then um provide them the remaining policies. And it wouldn't necessarily all have to be done in one year. It could be a multi-year. and then they would look at the ones that are optional, determine whether or not it is something that they would recommend that we keep and if we do keep it any types of changes to that language. Um, so even as we go down the if we go down this road with Ferrara to do the review, they are not recommending that we get rid of all of the non-required ones. In fact, they they encourage us to keep keep some, keep many perhaps, but again, just let's make sure
017that it is uh it's meeting law, that we're not violating any type of statute. Um, and that it is also something that the district wants to keep and that it's something that we're able to adhere to. So, we have to just keep remembering that our policy does become the law of the school district. So, I think it's going to be a good process to go through. We'll see just exactly how fast and how far they can get in one year and and how much we can afford in one year as well. It's on an hourly basis. They did it's not a flat fee. So again, we'll be utilizing those fees that were approved back at the July reorg meeting. So we really don't have a sense yet of the the price tag for say this
018year. >> No. And some of the policies we know some of the policies are one or two paragraphs on a single page. Others of those required policies are multi-page. But again, this is what they do. They they know the policies inside and out. I don't envision even some of those longer policies taking that great amount of a time. Um and what we could certainly do is we can set a dollar limit. You know, once you get to X number of dollars, we'll have to revisit whether we want to continue this year or we budget that for next year. But I do think it's important what this what this does is it will give a future board, future administration really a very nice I think clean slate of these are policies that have been vetted by
019the people who would have to represent us in a lawsuit. >> What is the cost of the Eerie 1 service? >> Let me get that for you, Kevin. It's um one of those ones that falls on the um Bosey's coaster list each year. So I'd have to get that cost and keeping in mind that that's also an inatable cost, but I will get that for you. >> Yep. Okay. >> Any other questions for Zach or for uh Ron? Okay. Next uh is a just a a quick few words on the area 6 dinner. Uh Trusty Leblanc attended this and but he was not able to be here this evening. So he asked me to uh do a quick report in hisstead. Um the area 6 dinner uh which is a essentially a a gathering of
020the uh the three um Boseies and he called it the rooftop Boseies which I thought was a uh an apt term. Um he uh reported that the the networking and the meal were both excellent. He he sat uh at the St. Lawrence Lewis Bosey's table with uh Roger Bennett and uh Mr. Safe and uh one of the uh other um Boseies board members. Uh the program consisted of presentations by Jesse Collier uh the information specialist from the Platsburg area Boseis uh talking about misinformation and disinformation and the difference between the two. Um they also heard from uh Regent Roger Katania. Uh he spoke mostly about the uh portrait of a graduate initiative and talked about next steps. Um there is uh more information uh that uh Rober wrote up for um to to report on
021tonight if you're interested in it. It is um linked to the uh his report is linked to the agenda and you can have a look at that at your leisure. Um under my report uh we do have uh a uh contract proposal with uh Mr. Burke. um that would run uh between uh 2026 and 2029. And uh the contract uh in detail is um linked on your agenda and we will be um uh having a uh we have a resolution at the toward the end of our meeting uh on that this evening. Uh we have a special meeting scheduled for 5:30 uh p.m. that is on September 30th to review uh the NISBA annual meeting resolutions and discuss whether I as the delegate uh for our board should vote in support or against those resolutions.
022Um there are 34 resolutions to be considered at the annual meeting. Um, not all of them are going to require us to to um chat about them for a long time, but there are a few that could generate some differing opinions and um I'd like to be as democratic as we can uh in terms of how my votes as the delegate are cast. I'd like your opinions on how I should vote uh in in some cases. Um the resolutions that do pass, just so you know, um they become part of NISBA's uh advocacy and lobbying efforts on behalf of all New York State school boards um for the next five years. Um next under the heading of upcoming events uh is the annual dinner with Regent uh Katana that's held here uh in our uh
023area. Um that'll be on October 29th at Seaway Tech. And uh if you're available that evening and you'd like to attend, um just reach out to Ashley and she'll see that she um she'll she'll see that you're signed up for that. We also have four board members attending the NISBA convention and education expo in New York City. Uh that is October 23rd to the 25th. Um once the lineup of workshops is released um and you know when they're going to be held, we'll uh have we should get together to uh try to figure out our um our game plan so that we can uh cover as much ground as possible um and and be exposed to as much learning as we can. And lastly, uh, for anyone who might be interested in becoming a board
024officer in the future, there is a live virtual, um, NISBO board officers academy on October 3rd. Uh, and if you are interested in that, uh, you October 3rd is a Friday. Um, so if you're a working person and you can't uh be there when the event is actually going on, if you sign up for it, they do do um a recording of the workshop and um they'll send you the link and you can um view that at your leisure as well. And um I I I think the board officers academy is a a a good um training workshop for anyone uh that's on a board of education, not just for those that are, you know, thinking, "Oh, gee, someday I'd like to uh to be a president or vice president of the board." So consider
025doing that if you would. And um also on the agenda is a link to um a whole uh pel of uh different workshops and training events that NISSBA is running in this uh fall and winter season. And that is all I have tonight and we'll turn it over now then to Mr. Burke and reports from administration. So, the first thing is just a real quick report on opening day, which by all accounts went very smoothly. And I do want to thank the entire administrative team. It's really a just a considerable amount of work to get ready for the two professional development days and a real huge kudos to our assistant superintendent Flynn um who spearheads that along with our building principles and our other administrators. Very well done. I think our faculty very much enjoys
026um the the respect that they're giving those two days in terms of recognizing just how much work they have in order to get ready for the kiddos coming two days later. So I think uh again I really want to thank Assistant Superintendent Flynn and our entire team. I do also want to take just a moment to uh to thank our facilities committee. Last week was a plumbing nightmare across our district. We started the week off with a Monday evening sewer line issue at the junior high which both Mr. Tessier and I were afraid was going to cause us to have to uh postpone school or cancel school the next morning. However, he ended up with three of his building mechanics staying over along with one of his um the daytime custodian. They were here until
027about 9:00 that evening getting things fixed. Um just a real bangup job. took a lot of ownership in making sure that that got repaired and that we were able to reopen. And then on the other side of the plumbing line um on Friday morning, we arrived at school to find that there was about 20 ines of water in the basement at night andale and we were able to uh work very quickly. A huge thank you to Msina Fire for coming and bringing out their trash pumps which allowed us to run um water out of that basement for about uh almost two hours non-stop to get that water out so that we could reopen and get the power turned back on. Um again, just a huge effort by so many people. Um I should also point
028out that the village of Msina even came out the night at Jeff at JW Liry. They brought in their vacuum pump hoping that we could possibly uh vacuum out the issue at the sewer line um much to uh no avail and we did end up having to do some um cutting into the Terzo to get to the the problem area but it may be ugly but we're able to be in school. Um again we'll get that fixed over time and and get that repaired nicely but uh but again for right now we are in a great shape. Um, and again, I just want to thank the faculty and staff as well. Without their effort and their dedication, opening would not go as well as it did. And and again, just a huge kudos to all
029of to all our entire school community. And that's a perfect segue talking about school community. It's my pleasure to introduce our community schools coordinator, Emily Kimell, who's here to talk this evening about our community schools effort and all the great work that happens under her under her watch. Here we go. Hi, I'm Emily Kimell. Thank you so much for having me this evening. I This is my going into my third year of being the community schools coordinator here at Msina Central. And this is what we've been up to. So here is the official definition of what a community school is. However, I don't think in actual definition in word form. So I like to think in pictures. And one of the ways that I can describe what a community schools coordinators does is build the
030firehouse so that our social workers, our community partners have a place to get resources. And that is what I've had the privilege of being able to do for the past three years. We have started a North Country coalition of community schools coordinators. As Msina is one of two community schools in St. Lawrence County, it's hard to mimic other schools or come up with other ideas when there's just not there. So there is Edwards, Knox, Carthage, Brushton, and Msina. In this group, we have had the privilege to go to Minnesota and um Atlanta, Georgia with the sponsorship of the American Federation of Teachers to see what other schools are doing and then bring that back to Msina in the best way and what is actually applicable to our community. One of the things that we came
031up with as a group with the St. Lawrence County people project is there is a problem with headlace and how we can solve that is a unique task right so we are working with the people project to come up with a grant for kits and also education in the fact that oftentimes insurance companies will cover a prescription for the kits and that is not something that is widely known. Community Schools also has a rapid response team. This is another brick in that firehouse, so to speak. And I cannot even begin to tell you all of these amazing organizations that we get to work with because I will leave somebody out because there are so many of them. My favorite story of the success of the rapid response team is we have a family here in
032Msina. They have three kids, five and under. And dad works locally. The soleb bread winner of the home lost his job right at Christmas time trying to provide Christmas. Rent was a problem. We sent out an email to this rapid response team. We had rent covered for that family by the end of the day. So that really kind of shows volumes of how all of these organizations are intertwined and really have the best interests of our families. Oops, I just have to be smarter than the clicker. Sorry. Last summer, we had a community listening session here about the child poverty rate in our area. We are one in four. And this group has the goal to set that rate to one and two. The direct verbiage that was come came out from this listening session
033was in Governor Hokll's policy for the refund check that many of our families will be getting in October. Another brick in this firehouse is our handle with care. A handle with care is done by Msina PD or the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office after a student has an incident or their family has an incident with law enforcement. They might just be off that day the next day at school. So having a little heads up really allows our faculty and our staff to just kind of wrap their arms around our students without without having an issue. It's a really great program. Sorry, we've just started our mindful moment pushins at the elementary school. This week we have in the past 3 days the holistic life foundation has seen 750 students within 3 days for just a
034quick push in of mindfulness belly breaths and the basic skills. So if it especially then that kind of brings it back to the handle with care so that these students are having the skills for when life isn't going the way that we would all like it to in the in the rapid response community. We have a ton of resources. Unfortunately our community meal program at the church and main on Main Street has ended. With that, the Salvation Army has stepped up to have meals on Mondays, Wednesdays, and going to be starting on Fridays. St. Peters has food distribution, and the church on Dover Street has a clothing um free clothing quite frequently. One of those ideas that we brought back from Atlanta was how we can have student resource centers because we've gra we've started
035all grabbing all of these bricks to build this firehouse. now we need a spot for them and I approached Mr. Oliver about creating a student resource center and he went along and with so here in the high school I share an office suite with Athena Curley the high school social worker in this office suite we have a empty office where we have Rochester regional we have chemical dependency and new we have MIT that come in and work with our students that are already enrolled in their programming so our students don't have to leave school to go seek the care that they our community is helping providing them in this time. We have snacks, we have hygiene products and some bringing back just the kitchen table and solving problems and working around that kitchen table with
036the student resources. We also have a summer activities As a parent, I realized how much we do for our kids in our area, but it's all kind of scattered around. So, between PALS and Horizons and Summer Wreck and the programs at the library and the nature center, trying to keep all of that straight, I found that it was kind of all over the place. So, to be able to bring that in and to be able to distribute to our parents was a we received a lot of feedback that was a helpful ski helpful guide. There's also a holiday help guide that allows families to know what holiday programs they would be accessible that are accessible and where to locate them and basically a person to be able to walk them through that. There's also the
037food newsletter about all of the resources with food that we have out in our community. Also here at the high school, we have the corner boutique. This is all donated clothing items that are open for our students to be able to take at any time. The best part about this initiative, it is all student driven. This is all done by Mrs. Warren's business classes that the students come in, they wash any donated items, they get them hung up, and they cycle through about what a teenager would wear and what's not being used. Msina Auxiliary started their toasty warm drive and we had all of these hats and mittens and coats and how we can best distribute that to our community. So, we created the bundle up Msina event that allows families that are already coming
038to school for a musical programming to be able to pick up any of these items that they may need. We also do our snack drive in um this is typically for February break. This is there's less food opportunities for our community with our community partners and the Amvets association is a wonderful resource. They are great with a donation and we are able to send a package of food home with the students that need it the most when the fuel prices when the heat prices are hardest on our families. The corner store in Msina offered to give a free slushie and a $5 credit to their to anybody that brought in a report card with a average above a 70 kind of again bringing it back to that small town creating good grades and another brick
039to that firehouse. feedback that we received from parents. They want their children armed with first aid and CPR and the babysitting course. This course we started looking at in April and this the North Country Association here was the only organization that offered it. They offered it to our students for free and we signed up 18 students and there were 50 on the waiting list. So this is definitely something that we are looking to bring back. And how can you say community schools without ready for school? This is an event that was first in our county. We had almost 600 people walk through our door with to meet 35 community partners and they were able to get a fresh haircut for back to school. free um free school supplies. And this year we changed it up
040and they received free vouchers for our community partners to go and get two pairs of pants, three shirts, two a pair of sneakers, and Rotary was here to hand out socks. So students were completely ready to start school. In May, community schools helped support the social workers and we reached out to Steuarts to get the gift certificates for the single scooped ice cream cones for coloring contest and the chalk the walk. Community schools has a lot happening in the next few weeks. We have the chalk the walk for the suicide awaren coal oh excuse me the suicide awareness coalition. We also have a color walk on Saturday and then Horizon's we are helping with their trunk or retreat at the end of the month. And thank you so much for giving me some of your
041time today to talk about what amazing work we can do for our families. >> Any questions? >> Not questions, but I I have a couple of comments. Um, I'm going to admit that I was probably not as uh aware of the community schools program as I should have been. Um, I recognize trunk or treat. I recognize ready for school, but wow, you're you're you're busy and you're doing a lot and it's all really helpful stuff. And um the other comment that I just want to make is uh I really applaud you for getting together with other community schools coordinators uh in in the north country and you know going off and and doing professional learning um and bringing it back here uh it's only going to help us. >> Yes. Thank you. Great. >> So,
042um, can I ask you were you were talking and I didn't want to interrupt. >> So, you said that we are one of very few community schools in our area. >> Yes. >> And you I heard you say Edwards Knox and then what were the other ones? >> Brushton. >> Okay. Brushton >> And Carthage. Okay. >> Yes. That's our little North Country coalition group. >> Yeah. that has gained traction by the American Federation of Teachers in really being able to see what we're doing up here. >> So, does the AFT fund any of the things that that cost money? >> So, AFT is funds the people project. They pay the director her salary to be able to do that. >> Okay. Um, and then they also pay for my travel to get out to Minnesota
043or for their intensive workshop. >> That's that's a big help. >> And one of the things that is super great is like it's being able to know somebody in essence. So there is a attendance workshop in Wayne County and we're not there. So, we were put on the wait list, but I was on a Zoom call with some of the people from the American Federation of Teachers, and they're like, "Oh, you want to go, Emily? We'll get you there." >> That's great. >> Thanks. And again, thank you, Emily. You do just a fantastic job for all of our kids. The next item I have is a proposal um of declaring a surplus quantity of two adjustable height backboards and rims a 2019 Farm King um rear mount snowblower set of tractor tires and rims for
044a K Cabota 5740 and also one 2007 K Cabota 5740 with various um attachments to that. Um, these would all be advertised on auctions international as is our customary practice. So, I'll be seeking board approval for that later. Also seeking approval for the stipen for our mck mckin vento liaison. Part of the requirement with title funding is that we do have to have a mckin vento liaison and that is Mrs. Danielle Brown. We also have a donation of $300 to the Jefferson Elementary School from the Msina Basketball Association. again thanking them for that generosity. And then the final thing I'll be asking the board to consider is the construction management service contract with Gimo Construction Management out of Watertown. Any questions for me at this time? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you very much,
045Mr. Burke. and uh Miss Kimell, thank you as well again. Um we'll move on now to recommended actions and first is the consent agenda. Um are there any consent agenda items that any board members would like to have pulled for further discussion and separate vote? Okay. hearing. No comments to that effect. Uh I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. Uh any questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? That carries. And moving on to separate items for action. Uh first is the uh superintendent appointment resolution. >> So moved. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Uh sorry. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? That carries. Uh, next is approval of the disposal of surplus items. >>
046So moved. >> Second. >> Questions or comments? All in favor? >> Any opposed? That carries. Uh, next is the approval of the Mckinti Vento liaison stipend. >> So moved. Questions, comments? All in favor? Any opposed? >> That carries. Uh, resolution to approve the construction management services contract. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? Any abstensions? All right. Next, uh, we'll turn it over to Mr. Burke for approval of personnel action items. >> Mr. Haggot, I recommend the approval of personnel action items listed as numbers 1 through 105. >> Do I have a motion to that effect? >> Second. >> Uh, any questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, that takes care of our items for action. We'll move on now to new business and uh would
047entertain uh items for future agendas. I have one possible one that I would like to to propose. Um the regent's dinner is October 29th. We have our board of education meeting uh in October on the 16th regularly scheduled. I know uh when I've gone to the region's dinner um in the past, there have occasionally been other boards that actually have their meeting offsite at the Boseies. Um I wonder if this group would entertain that idea. Um so we essentially the entire board would go to the um the regions dinner which is always a good time. the the the the um Bosei students uh culinary students do the preparation of all the food serving serving all the food. It's always extremely well done and there's lots of Msina kids involved in that program. It seems like
048year in and year out. So what if we were to consider the idea of going there as a board having our meeting I don't know if we would do it beforehand or after the the the meeting. Um and uh that way everybody gets a good meal and um we we can get our our uh board of education meeting in uh at a a location other than here. Uh I guess that would more or less prelude the uh the YouTube um thing. But >> and what about our exeicio? >> Uh absolutely. He he could be if if you're available and can and can come, you'd certainly be uh welcome to do that. >> Yeah. So, what day was that? >> That would be October 29th. >> Wednesday. >> That's a Wednesday. Is is I'm not hearing
049a lot of opposition. Is that something we could consider doing? Could we maybe maybe do a a poll of the board? I mean, we can we can always go back to the regular October 16th meeting time if if that's more convenient for everyone, but I I thought it would be uh an idea to propose to to to do the meeting at Boseies. >> I'm wondering about the timing for folks who work uh if we were to do it before. What time is the dinner? Like at 6:30? >> 5:30. Oh, let's see. That's not going to work for before and it went pretty late last year, I as I remember. So then it's going to make for a very long night. I'm just throwing that out there. I I don't work. I don't set an alarm.
050So, but for people who are working, that might be difficult. >> Paul, is this one in Ogdensburg? >> I thought >> Oh. Oh, it is. >> I thought it was. I thought it was, but maybe I'm wrong. >> Ogdensburg. >> It said Seaway somewhere in our >> Yeah, I assume Seaway. Yeah, >> I I thought it was switched over to Seaway. They They tried to alternate, I think, between the two. >> Was it? That's right. Oh, you're right. >> For some reason, I thought it was Augensburg, but I couldn't find it. >> What did you say, Ashley? >> It's Agens. >> It is Agensburg. Okay. Well, maybe maybe I should just retract that and and uh we'll just we'll keep our meeting at the at the regularly scheduled time on the 16th. >> I think
051that would work better for folks. the idea of food, but >> Well, so do I. >> Food is good. >> Might be far. >> Yeah. >> I I do think though, Mr. Haggy, you bring up something that's really valuable. We send a large number of our students to the tech center and at any time if any of the board members would ever like to get a tour really ideally during the day um so you can actually see our kiddos in action and see what they do on a on a day-to-day basis um and see the brilliant hands-on learning that occurs. Just let me know and we can certainly make that arrangement with the with the folks at Boseies. >> We did that. >> How many of us went to that? >> I did. Yeah. >>
052Okay. >> I I did I don't know if >> I did at one. >> I think you were there. >> I remember they had the really dynamic >> young lady that was in welding and the one and one in culinary too. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Uh that I remember they they stuck out a lot. >> Yeah. >> Ah yes >> the audit is what? the the the audit is presented at our uh October meeting. >> Oh >> yeah. So that that was a that was a failed proposal from word one. >> Well, you know, it might be something to think about next year. >> The there's a there's somewhat of an obligation for a board to see the facilities that the students go to. So I think >> should try to figure out
053some way to incorporate that whether it's >> only the facilities committee or if it's some >> whether it's a whole board or that the same venue they had last time that they offered up for us. I I don't know I don't know what really works but we do I mean I see it all the time take care of it but >> not everyone else does. So >> uh yeah come to cooking club. >> Here you are. Yes. Yes. Is that something we could weave into our um new board member handbook like as addition to that like as part of an orientation or something? >> What's that? >> Uh just a visit to any of the Boseies programs. Well, uh, as as Kevin pointed out, uh, I I I do think it's a it would be
054a a good practice for us to hopefully every year, at least send a subset of the board to see what goes on at our our tech center. >> Kevin, what time of year was it? Was it it was closer to the exam part, right? Because I remember they were getting ready for their exam, so they had pretty much finished out their year. And and what they did was they selected for the tour, they selected a student to lead the tour instead of the teacher. >> And that was like they were really impressive. Their presentations were excellent. the um the one where they were um preparing them for teaching. I remember those two girls. They were fantastic, you know. And then they had um >> education, human services. >> Yes. It was it was really worthwhile
055especially like not all of us went to Boseies. Some of us may have so you might have some kind of experience but um it was it was really well done. I really appreciated it. >> We can find out what the time frame was. We did it last year, I would think, and maybe I don't know, talked to around mid round. >> Yeah. The last the last time that we went um it was in the spring of the year because, as I recall, color um criminal justice was working on their forensics with a splatter. >> That's right. Yeah. >> That that's kind of a culminating experience as they get ready to go out. That was blood splatter. Just clear. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> For those that hunt, it might have been better in the fall.
056>> Um, so does anyone have any um workable suggestions as far as items for future agendas? Okay. Uh, I guess uh that concludes our business. Uh, we do have another opportunity for communications from the public and press. Anybody out there want to say anything to the board at this time? Uh, hearing no one clamoring for the microphone, I would uh entertain a motion for adjournment. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? All right. have a great uh rest of the week. >> Thank you.