001So, how are you? All right, we'll uh call our meeting to order. And um if we would stand for the pledge, please. Good evening everyone and welcome. Uh we're going to take things out of order just a bit uh per the agenda and we're going to start right off with uh the the the most fun reason why we're even here tonight and that's the validictorian and saludiatoran uh recognition. So I guess uh I turn that over to you Mr. Burke or just right over to to Mr. Oliver. I guess Mr. Oliver. Everybody good? Is this thing on? Good. Uh, good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the school board. It is with great pride that I get to introduce to you tonight, first of all, Evan Boove, the saludiatoran of the Msina Central High School class
002of 2025. Evan, stand up so they know which one you are over there. You can sit down now. It'll be awkward. Uh as the son of Nenah and Chad Boove uh who he is here with tonight, Evan has consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence that has not only defined his own achievements but has also elevated the entire school community. Evans journey to becoming the saludiatoran is marked by his unwavering intellectual curiosity, a prop a profound love of learning, and an exceptional work ethic. These attributes have propelled him to secure the number two position in a class of 189 students, boasting an impressive GPA of 99.74. Beyond academics, Evan has made a significant impact within our high school music department. A dedicated musician, Evan has played the piano for 13 years, I believe, and is an
003integral part of our jazz band. He also showcases his talent on the alto saxophone in our concert band and is a member of the esteemed sax quartet uh performing at school concerts and community events alike. Evan's leadership skills are evident through his active involvement in the National Honor Society and his role as president of the French National Honor Society. And in all of his free time, Evan enjoys a diverse range of activities from playing games and reading to spending quality time with friends, playing the piano, and learning new languages just for the heck of it. Uh, however, Evans impact extends beyond his academics and music. He is a young man of humility, kindness, and patience, exuding a calm composure and demonstrating excellent judgment and thoughtfulness in all of his endeavors. As Evan prepares to embark
004on the next p chapter of his educational journey at Cornell University, where he will major in linguistics and foreign language, we celebrate not only his academic and e extracurricular achievements, but also the exemplary qualities he embodies as a scholar and as a gentleman. Congratulations, Evan. We're very proud of you. Mr. Evan Bo, go on to a picture. No, you can. I just got back from a softball game. Not dressed for it. [Applause] I forgot to mention this is one of my favorite things to do every year is introducing these fine young people to you. uh we get the honor of getting to know them and it's nice to share just this much about them with the members of the school board. And without further ado, I will get right into introducing Miss Megan Fernstein, the
005validictorian of the class of 2025. It's with a great sense of admiration that I stand before you today to introduce the validictorian of the class. Megan is the daughter of Molly and Eric, Molly Kluff and Eric Fernstein who are here with her tonight. She's also got her brother and his girlfriend and a friend of hers with her to support her this evening. Uh Megan I is uh through the remarkable achievements she's had at the school, she's earned this honor uh and of being the top of a class of 189 students. Uh Megan's academic journey has been defined by her exceptional dedication and unwavering commitment to excellence culminating in an impressive 100.1 GPA for her time at Msina High School. Her steadfast seriousness of purpose in her studies combined with a balanced and grounded approach has
006not only propelled her to the top of her class, but also enriched our entire school community. Megan's positivity and creativity make her an invaluable asset to Msina Central High School. Beyond academics, Megan's involvement in our school community activities is both extensive and meaningful. She is a key member of our basketball, soccer, and golf teams, serving with distinction as team captain in both basketball and soccer. And I seem to think there was a thousand points somewhere in there this year as well. Her leadership extends to being the president of the Interact Club where she has played an instrumental role in planning and or organizing numerous initiatives. Her commitment to community service is evident in the countless hours she is devoted to giving back. Additionally, Megan is a member of the National Honor Society and serves as
007vice president of the Spanish National Honor Society. in her leisure time, which I'm not sure how much of it there is, she relishes hiking, exercising, reading, and cherishing moments with her family. However, what truly distinguishes Megan is her character. She embodies authenticity, grace, and confidence without arrogance. Megan is mature, observant, and poised. And she is never afraid to express her thoughts and her ideas. She is a genuine downto- earthth young woman who knows her worth and occupies her spa space with humility and assurance. As Megan prepares to embark on the next phase of her journey, she plans to attend Western New England University in the fall to major in psychology. We have no doubt that she will continue to excel and make significant contributions to her field in the community. It has been an honor
008and a privilege to witness Megan Fernstein represent Msina Central High School. We celebrate her remarkable accomplishments and wish her every success in her future endeavors endeavors. Miss Megan Fernstein, the validictorian of the class of 2025. Time to go take a picture, guys. Thank you as always members of the board for letting me share these people with you this evening. And if you don't mind, I'd like to invite them to leave because they may or may not have IB exams tomorrow they need to go home and get ready for. So, uh, thank you so much for giving us a few minutes tonight. Thank you, Mr. Oliver. And as much as uh as you enjoy this particular meeting, Mr. Oliver, I think we enjoy it. Maybe not quite as much as you do, uh, but it's certainly
009a highlight of the year for us, too. Um, moving on with our agenda, uh, do we have anyone here that is, uh, here to make a statement before the board, comments from the public? Hearing none, we'll move on to uh information and reports. And we'll start with our second to last student exeicio report from Miss Beard. Sorry. Okay. So, things at the high school are starting to slow down as the end of the year approaches. There are two weeks left in IB exams and regences should begin in about a month or so. Um there is a pep rally tomorrow that is leading into prom which is this Saturday. That's it. Okay. I hope I hope we win prom. Thank you very much, Isabelle. Um moving on to my report. I have a couple of things.
010Um, this is exciting and I'm so pleased that that this has uh gotten the legs that it has. Uh, on June 16th, um, we are going to be having uh I I think probably the first uh board sponsored senior reception uh for all of the soontobe graduates. And uh that's going to be at 7:30 in the morning on uh June 16th in the auxiliary gym. Uh the seniors will be offered a continental breakfast. Um we'll likely have some brief uh brief remarks from Mr. Burke and hopefully another board member or two. Um this offers us an opportunity to um chat with the graduates or soon to be graduates, talk about their future plans, express our pride in their accomplishments, etc. Um basically Ashley has handled very much the uh sort of the decor and uh
011the catering um for which will be done in house. Um, we've got some some very nice decorations. The the ox gym will be uh decked out uh very appropriately. Um, last about 45 minutes to an hour. Uh, and the event will be taking place prior to the students traditional uh walk through the elementary schools that they that they do. Uh, and I think it's that's is that the last the last day of classes? Last academic day. Um, so I want to uh really express my appreciation to Trish who uh took this, you know, kind of as her project and ran with it, got a committee together and um we chatted things over. we uh um managed to I I think do a a good job uh as well with the senior survey um which we're
012looking forward to to hearing um you know more about uh here in the next little bit and uh I I think this uh senior reception has the the makings of being a really great event. So, thank you for for all of the um all of your role in in making that happen, Trish. Teamwork. And don't forget there's refreshments. That's the most important thing. Well, the most important thing is that as many of us as possible can be there. It's it's early in the morning. Uh you don't necessarily need to stay for the whole thing. Um, but come and and express your uh appreciation for the work of our graduates. That's that's what it's all about. It's really uh it was conceived as and I think it really has the potential to be an event that,
013you know, really helps the board make more of a connection with this with the graduates. Um so um please do come and and we'll we'll be filling your inbox and and talking more about that uh at the next board meeting as well. Uh so we'll we'll really try to pin you down. Um the next thing that I have is uh has to do with the uh the St. Lawrence Lewis County School Boards Association. Um if you don't know anything about the school boards association, which I quite honestly uh I knew a little bit but not not nearly as much as as uh perhaps I should have been on the board for 11 years. But the the school board's association was formed um pretty close to 30 years ago uh as a way to share information,
014resources, plan regional events, uh do regional professional development for school boards uh in our B our Boseis region. Um, it's had active years and it's had its not so active years and currently the school board's association is kind of in its less active state. Um, a couple of months ago when uh Roger Bennett was here to seek our support for his uh Boseis board candidacy, um, one of us offered the opinion that there should be more communication between Boseies and the local districts. I can't remember who it was that made that comment, but it was a valid one and he took it to heart and uh understanding that the school board's association was really not very active um had made some inroads in in trying to connect um myself with the the leadership of the
015school board's association. So, um it seems like uh that communications piece would be um made better and could be furthered by having a more active regional school boards association. I think that that would help. Um so yesterday, uh I attended a meeting with um the president of the regional association. Her name is Alexa Bakis Chase and she's a a board member from Huton and uh Jenny Coburn who's the administrative assistant for Tom Burns uh our Bosey's DS and and kind of also serves um in a similar role to like a board clerk for the u the school boards association. Uh we talked a lot about how uh we could make or hopefully make the uh association more active and more vital and to offer more services to our local boards of education. Um and as
016a result of that meeting, I have agreed to step in as uh an interim vice president. Um, basically the association prior to yesterday consisted of the president and the administrative assistant. Uh, they're they're really just there's nobody that that is um very active at all uh in the in the uh school board's association. Um so uh I've agreed to to step in and and be a part of that. And um we're going to be uh doing a couple of things to uh hopefully try to build interest in the school boards association and make it more active. I'm going to be reaching out to all of the local board presidents to see if at least some of the boards could appoint a liaison that could uh attend meetings of the uh school boards association which would
017not be um terribly numerous during the year. two or three um but enough to do some planning, enough to uh perhaps put a a professional development type uh program together uh that could be um you know utilized by more than just one board at a time. Um and uh Miss Beckis Chase uh is going to be putting a survey together um that will be sent to all of the members of the local boards in an effort to um solicit ideas or feedback on the types of activities that uh the um the school boards association could potentially uh be involved in. Um in in the meantime, um it's not like the school board's association does nothing. Um there is a slate of um annual events that the association does uh host and organize um mostly through
018the efforts of uh Mrs. Coburn. Um but the uh attachments that are underneath the heading on your agenda um the uh um events uh are are listed there. Uh and uh these have been happening every year. Um they uh there are two for this year that are still uh going to be happening. Uh that's the um uh graduates the uh the senior senior recognition dinner that they have every year and also a uh a newly elected school board member orientation session uh that they put together. Uh those are still happening and they have been happening. Um but the idea would be to um try to just increase the number of bodies that are coming together to um discuss common issues and common needs that local boards of education have and uh talking about them and
019and um working on uh communications and event type things that could uh be of benefit to everyone. um in the in the schoolboard realm in the area. Uh the other two um items that are linked there are just the the agenda that we uh talked about uh the items that we talked about uh in our meeting yesterday and then uh notes that were uh sent along uh by Alexa um afterwards. So um I I guess the Msina School Board for now anyway is kind of taken care of. I'm I've volunteered to to be involved in the regional association. Uh I hope that we're able to convince uh other boards that uh um it would be a good idea for them to uh increase their involvement as well. So that concludes my report and with that
020I'll turn the meeting. Oh yeah please. So does Boseies have a special relation with that association? Well, uh, as a board of education in the St. Lawrence Lewis County area, they would have potentially a seat at the table. But, um, and and the um, uh, Miss Coburn, the the sort of uh, the per the person that's been doing the bulk of the work of the association, putting on the events and that kinds of thing. Um, uh, she happens to be a Boseis employee. Okay. You're right. Any other questions? If that helps the communication from Boseis to the boards, there's some benefits. Mhm. Okay. And and that's the hope. Um, but that that is to be determined. We'll just uh we'll do our best to reach out to everybody and try to get uh try to
021draw some interest. Paul, real quick, I was just looking at the um the agenda meeting notes. Where do they I see they've got some funding. Where do they pull that funding from? U actually I think uh our board all of the boards do uh pay dues to the association. Y so from that perspective it really only makes sense to have some uh additional level of activity than there has been um you know just for the bang for the buck uh all boards all boards participate in the funding of this in in the yeah I I believe so yes including the uh the Boseis board Um, the I want to say the dues for this year were along along the lines of $300. I I we could we could look that up, but okay. Any other
022questions on that? Okay, we'll turn the meeting over to Mr. Burke for uh his reports. All right, I'll quickly do the uh the rest of my report and then if so, I'll jump into the budget hearing. Um so to finish up my report, we have uh requests for bus utilizations uh first from PAL for the summer uh program starting on July 9th and going through August 12th. And in your packet, there's a list of the um various trips that they plan to take. Likewise, Msina Joint Recreation Commission will also be utilizing our school bus um school buses for summer programming as well. And we also have an out of country field trip request. It's the annual trip to Drer's archaeological site um taken on by our Hanes culture class. Um so I'll be recommending those.
023Any questions on that? All right. If I could then sorry to do the budget hearing at this point. I I completely since we went out of order at the beginning I completely passed over that. Uh it's what we should have done right after the Val Sal presentation. It's perfectly fine. Okay. So our proposed budget is $74.4 million. It's a spending increase of $2,79,637. Along with that though, there is a $0 and a 0% tax increase with this. Um, the increases are going to be covered by our additional state aid funding. As we go to our next page, talking about our projected expenses, when we take a look at this um our revenues from our taxes, which also includes um more than just the property taxes, um but use of the facility, um 15.158 million use
024of money, that's our interest that we are acrewing on our reserves and unexpended fund balance of just over 3 million. Additional funding, um, 1.5 million. That comes from a variety of sources. State and federal aid amounts to the bulk of our budget at 51.4 million. Some transfers of funds, $300,000. And then appropriating some of our fund balance to balance out our budget, $2.8 million. On the expense side, because we are an educational agency, most of our expense is related to people. It's our employees um salaries, benefits, and when you look at that, our salaries across the district amount to 30.3 million and the benefits are 20.7. We do have principal um and interest payments of 3.9 million. We're looking at our buses to cost about 1.8 million. Our bill to Boseies 11.4 and then other
025miscellaneous which is more than just miscellaneous. It's a very large number at 6.2 million but it's textbooks, furniture, other types of requests and I have not updated this page on the on the sheet as of today. Um we now have actual numbers for a state budget. Um so we'll be getting this updated. It does not change our bottom line. Um, we had anticipated on the governor's side that we would have uh foundation aid of 37.78 or 76 million and based on the enacted budget or soon to be enacted budget. That number is going to increase by a little over $800,000 on our foundation aid to $38.6 million. So, we have some really positive news there. most of the other line items on the state aid side remain the same. Um so again, we're we know
026we're getting some more money on the state side um for next year. Total foundation aid and again keep in mind that this was the estimate as of this morning before the governor's announcement came out on the budget. You can see our growth has been fairly steady over the past four years. Um we had kind of a lull for a while and then when foundation aid started to be fully implemented we saw that change happening. Um last year we saw a $ 1.4 million increase and this year that increase doubled. Um so our foundation aid is really growing quite um quite fast especially compared to other schools and it's really based on some changes to the formulary which recognize the needs of districts like Msina where we have a much higher poverty rate than some other
027schools. So we're seeing some of that now really starting to kick in. Our property tax cap this year was calculated to be 4.49%. Again, we do not need additional money from our taxpayers. Therefore, the tax that we're asking for is an increase of 0%. When we start looking at budgets, especially the budget of this size, we always wonder why are the costs rising? Where does that $2 million come from? So, I went through our budget and pulled out some of the major cost increases um from the beginning to the end. Our health insurance, we are doing rather well as a consortium. Our increase is 3.5% on our premiums. However, that calculates to $463,000. That's almost 25% of our overall increase. As we developed this budget this year with the finance committee, one of the commitments
028that we really had was to first of all go out with zero dollar tax increase, but also to be cognizant of what the future might hold. Taking a very conservative approach and not adding positions because there are legacy costs. However, that's not always 100% possible. And what we ended up with is pairing it down to what we believe were the absolutely essential um positions that we need to add for next year. We know that with our students that are coming to us um more and more have needs and speech is one of the biggest needs that we face and it's also a need for our children that have uh that attend UPK. Um it's the county's responsibility to reimburse us for that and they will, but we also have to have a provider and we
029currently don't have enough um to manage our own students um K through 12. We need that additional speech person. Likewise, school psychologist and then we've talked about this at the board level prior. Um, again, we have growing needs, but we also are looking at allowing our special education director to really focus in on their job of being the director and not having to attend approximately two to 300 um cse and 504 meetings. So, this new psychologist will be doing evaluations and they'll also be leading some of those um meetings. So to free up again our director, our bill to Boseis for our career and technical education tuition is increasing by a little over $200,000 and that's based primarily on our census. So we look at our three-year rolling average of the number of students we
030send to Boseies and they calculate our bill and our numbers are going up as well as the cost of attending Boseies. Uh keep in mind that with some of these BOCCTTE there is some aid that does come back from the state on that one. It's a year delayed. Last uh last week we voted on the Bosey's administrative budget. Our share of that cost uh increase is $27,000. And again, just to reiterate, I'm always need to make sure public understands when we talk about the Bosey's administrative budget, that is not strictly salaries related to administrators. In fact, the majority, the vast majority of that administrative service budget goes to postretirement benefits for employees. And keep in mind that portion of the administrative budget is fully aided. So when we look at this $27,000 increase a year
031from now we will get approximately 80% of that back. Um so again it's a year delay. On the next page major cost drivers um included also a fifth bus. I did ask typically we've been going out for four buses. However, the the process or the thought of electrifying our buses within a short time frame between now and 2035 and the fact that that as of the law yesterday, we would not be able to purchase any more electric or diesel buses after the absolute deadline of 2029 trying to fortify our diesel fleet. So, that's why that's there. That fifth bus would be a 30 passenger full-size bus that would also have a wheelchair lift and I believe it will hold either two or three wheelchairs. Excuse me. We have a number of vehicles that are truly
032at or beyond their life expectancy. That includes pickup trucks with plows. It includes um some of our maintenance vans that are used by our maintenance folks and also by our by our IT to go out and replace all of those in one year. It's not cost effective. We've been looking at um a lease program through enterprise and this lease program um would in the first year have a price tag of $106,000. That's the maximum. That's without the trades. So once we do our trades, we we know that that number is going to come in lower. um we just don't know how much lower and eventually all of our vehicles that are not buses, not transportation related would be uh with Enterprise. The estimate that we would have in savings over a 10-year time period by
033entering into this agreement is approximately a $250,000 savings. Um and they monitor our vehicles for us. They watch for in two and a half to three years. They're watching to see when is that vehicle going to have the best market value for a trade in and they'll be advising us to trade and um and then take another vehicle in its place. Um this is a program that's utilized I believe it's by the village of Msina, St. Lawrence County and St. Lawrence Boseis locally as well as a number of other school districts um around the north country and throughout the state. So, it's tried, improved. Um, and again, we we're pretty confident that this is going to have long-term benefits. And finally, the contract with the village of Msina for our SRO shows an $80,000 um
034increase this year. And the village of Msina had was arbitrarily charging us um around 70 to 80,000. the uh that's not the true cost of our SRO and the village is asking and basically requiring that if we want to maintain that relationship that we do need to pay the full cost of the individual. There are still other costs that are associated with the SRO that the village is still picking up. So, as you see our SRO work um on different days when school is not in session, we need to keep in mind that there is a little bit of give and take on this that we're not paying for the police vehicle. We are not paying for the equipment that the police officer has. We're not paying for the training. Um, this is just what
035we're paying for is the true cost of the personnel and not all the other materials that go along with that. Um, we had a number of budget requests and that we were able to seriously consider and approve. Um, some of them we've talked about already, but some we have not. Um, at least in this hearing. Under the elementary schools, we are proposing under this budget that we would hire a new teacher who would be split halftime art, halftime AIS. What that will do is give both Madison and Night Andale a dedicated individual for art, right? Um, under the former system, we had one art teacher that was really responsible for almost 900 children. Um, between the two between the two buildings, having them at one building, they'll know the children better. and it also helps
036us with um some of our AIS needs as well. That cost is estimated to be about $115,000. We already talked about special education, school psych, and speech pathologist. Adding those two together approximately 205,000. Under the Office of Curriculum, we are looking for three new department chairpeople. Um one of those uh would be actually for folks that are in the AIS area. Um again we have a couple of areas that are without department chairpeople to organize meetings. It's just a need um as we try to strengthen our program that those folks can get together under solid leadership under the office of educational supports under COVID. We used money to develop the Raider Academy which was after school. We also developed the summer raider academy. CO monies are no longer available. This year under our current budget,
037we incorporated the cost of the afterchool Raider Academy and now we're looking to incorporate the cost of the summer Raider Academy. It's a four-week program and it's very well attended. So again, we believe that that's a a positive um opportunity for our younger children. And we are also looking for our mentors and our new teachers to have additional at least one additional meeting and that'd be an additional stipen for our mentors um to to accomplish this at 3,000 under our athletics budget. We know that we're going to see some increases on our officials. That's negotiated through section 10. Our estimates $1,000. The next one is something that I think is extraordinarily important and that is to have an ambulance for our high-risk games, primarily football and ice hockey. And what we're trying what uh Mr.
038Reagan is trying to do is to negotiate with Msina Rescue to have a staff with an ambulance here for those games. Um we had an incident, well more than one, but we did have an incident this past year in hockey where a player was on the ice for about 20 minutes before help arrived. And that is and I want to make clear like I have in other meetings that is not a complaint or a criticism of Msina Rescue. It's actually just the nature of the beast um with changes at the hospital. Msina Rescue is doing more and more transports of emergency situations to potam which takes a crew out of our area for upwards of two hours and to have a backup crew and if you listen to the scanner you know how busy Msina
039Rescue is. So again, this is just what we're facing with in our current medical situation. Um, so again, we'd be looking to actually have that ambulance on standby right at our right at either the rink or at our field. And we were very happy to report back uh over the course of the year that our number of students participating in track grew very rapidly. And uh we believe that if those numbers remain true for next year, we do need to have that additional coach um not just to provide instruction in in the sport of track, but also to provide safety and oversight to make sure that we have enough coverage. And again, that's estimated to be $6,000 on the transportation side. Again, the four typical buses and 13 passenger bus with the wheelchair lift. And
040we're also looking, as we know, parts are getting more expensive. The inflation is hitting that and we're looking for a $10,000 increase on the parts budget. Likewise, in technology, we're looking for a supply increase of $30,000. Many of those supplies that we do purchase, we do purchase through Boseies. Um and the reason we do that is if it's directly related to students which could be anything with the network it could be anything with um the computers that they use or the smartboards that can be aided by Boseies again a year out. We already talked already talked about the vehicle leasing program replacing eight aging vehicles and then one vehicle for conferences and meetings. We have a number of staff that do go out of district for conferences, whether it be to Canton or to Lake
041Placid or to other areas around the region. Um, and again, this would save us from paying the IRS mileage rate each year. On the next page, we are allowed to go to the voters and ask for a capital outlay not to exceed $100,000. The capital outlay plan for this year is to put a security window um in that vest in the high school vestibial going into the office. We estimate that to be somewhere between 40 to 55,000. Um we just did get new standards from the state of New York. So that might raise out a little bit. Any money that's left over, we'd be looking at the corridor behind us behind the auditorium and replacing some of that paneling most likely with ceramic tile um and updating that area. Um again because that's capital outlay
042that's also aidable at that 90% rate. The first proposition that voters will see is of course the budget proposition of authorized to expend up to 74.4 million. The second proposition we've had hearings on or forums and we'll have more um is on the capital project at 79 excuse me $79.8 $8 million. Again, that proposition for the capital project has a $0 local tax impact. We will be utilizing um about $6 million out of our reserve funds, capital reserve funds to pay the local share. The remaining 92% 92 and a half% um is stateable. The third proposition is we are again asking the voters to um convert some of our surplus unexpended monies from this year into a capital reserve. This time we're asking again to go up to $5 million on a capital reserve. And
043this capital reserve is earmarked primarily for equipment. And that when I talk about equipment, this one is really technology equipment, computers, smartboards, Chromebooks. And the reason I'm asking to allocate the money for that is we just ended up finally spending all of our smart bond money. We replaced all of our Chromebooks. We replaced all of the Smartboards. We know that has a shelf life. And at some point in the future, 3 to 5 years for the Chromebooks, hopefully around 8 to 12 years for the smartboards. We're going to need to begin replacing those. We'll have the money in a savings account ready to take care of that. Um again keep in mind some of that a lot of that will actually be purchased through Boseies. So we'll pay upfront with our reserve money and then
044get the money back the following year um on that because it is Bosey's adable as long as again it's related to students. So um again trying to plan for the future in that rainy day account. The question always comes, what happens if the budget gets voted down? And that's what we now call the contingency budget. Um, and the contingency budget is quite a bit different than the older austerity budget where under an austerity budget, it really meant everything was austere and there were no student activities, there were no athletics, you'd have to go back to the voters to get each one of those approved. That's no longer the case. with a contingency budget. Um the board has a lot more leeway in terms of deciding what's necessary. So what does come out typically is the
045equipment. Um so the buses would go, the um the lease of the vehicles would go and you can see that our contingency budget, if that were to happen, our contingency budget would result in a savings on the overall budget of about 1 point almost $1.8 million. Now, the board could still decide that buses are necessary and the board could then say instead of doing five, we believe we absolutely have to replace two or absolutely replace three. Um, and just so everybody understands, we we try to keep our buses right now on a seven-year rotation. And the reason for doing that is we extend the warranty out to seven years, which is the max that we can go. And that covers everything related to the power train and the electrical. We're responsible for normal wear and
046tear, brakes, tires, um that type of thing. But it covers everything else that's mechanical. Um and it does end up saving the district money in the long run to have those buses on that seven-year cycle. And I did not put this in here, but we also have three open seats on the board of education, and we have five candidates. The budget newsletter will be going out in the mail, I believe, tomorrow afternoon. So, the public should be getting that um sometime either Saturday or very early part of next week. And this year, we did something a little bit different with our board candidates rather than having them all write their biographies and putting it on the newsletter and trying to meet very quick deadlines, which is tough. Um, we actually put QR link there. It's
047also on our web page so that if you want to learn more about our five board candidates, either use the QR um and scan that or just go to our web page and you'll find that information there. Questions? I know we have a few people from the public. Any questions on the budget? Any questions from the board? Those two propositions those two propositions are kind of long. It would be nice if they were shorter, but I think the attorney edited those and they have to be that long. They they have to meet a certain legal requirement. Yes. It confuses people when it's Mhm. I guess I I have a quick question concerning um sort of the routine things that need to be maintained. Let's say, I don't know, something happens and a door gets damaged
048and we have to replace the door, something like that. Um what would something like that or any sort of routine uh expense that the um custodial staff or uh uh maintenance staff would have to fix? Would which expense what's which general expense uh under the expenses that you have listed would a a repair or you know routine maintenance item come out of? Would it be the other? Some of it could be. Um, okay. Some could be under the Boseies and equipment side. Um, when we talk about under the I'm sorry, under the Bose and equipment, it really depends on what we're talking about. So, if it's a door, that would fall under the other. If it were a refrigerator that went down, we'd have to classify that as equipment. So, it it really depends on
049what we're talking about, where what category that would come out of. Okay. But all of that kind of thing is accounted for under the expenses. Yes. Yep. and it all. So, we we do build in things of that nature, contingencies under the building and grounds um under their budget. Right. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Burke. Not um budget related, but new board member related. Will there be any time for the public to have a meet and greet with the board members? So, typically that's been done by the Msina Music Friends and they have declined to do that this year. Okay. One one final thing um unless there are other questions. The uh channel 7 was here today. Um they wanted to talk about our budget and really about the the project and Mr. Capella I think
050did a really fine job getting um asking a lot of questions and getting information. Um, however, I do want to just point something out, and it's not that it's an inaccuracy in terms of the headline. Um, if you go to WWNY, but it does talk about it's a record-breaking spending plan, which it is. Um, and frankly, as I told them, that's really the case every year, almost every year for every school. It's a record-breaker for that school. Um, so, you know, but when you see headlines like that, it's it's jaw, you know, it's a little bit jarring. Um the second part is when you get into it, it talks about um that we're asking the voters to spend $154 million. And that's not inaccurate. That's true when you add the overall operating budget and you
051add into that the uh the capital project proposition. Um what it doesn't really talk about though is the operating budget is what we have deemed necessary to run the school from July 1 through June 30th. and that is at $74.4 million. We're we can't escape that. The nearly $80 million that we're asking voters to consider about uh with the proposition for the capital project is for really the next 15 to 20 years. We're not when we replace the roof here at the high school or at the at JW Liry, we're not going to be doing it again next year. Okay? So when we talk about that $80 million, it's the investment in our facilities to maintain our facilities, to keep our facilities viable for student occupation and for teachers and staff to be in our
052buildings. We saw what almost happened last year when our heat system was uh leaking and we had no idea, you know, how bad it really was or how much worse it would get before we had to shut the school down. So again, just like your houses, we have to do maintenance. This is really not a glamorous project. As I told Mr. Caparella, when this project ends, I'm not sure who's going to want to come for a ribbon cutting ceremony. Um it it's it's not real pretty. Um you know, and there are things in our capital project that people are going to argue about and think are unnecessary. Um, one of them, and I'll just pull the bandage back here right now, and that is the the turf. The turf, however, is at the end of
053its life expectancy. When that turf was put in, um, actually, I think probably Mr. Hayes, you were still here. Um, it probably had an expectancy of 10 to 15 years. And we're there. We're there. Um, and when it gets to the point that it fails the compression test, we can't use it. It's not a matter of just then pulling the carpet out and throwing grass seed down. The subbase of the turf field is not the subbase for a grass field. So if that turf fails and we have to replace it and the community says we want grass, we can do grass, but it means a whole rebuild of that area. Um so again, at some point the community here decided they wanted the turf. They felt it was the investment for the future. And it
054was also hopefully expressed that there's an ongoing maintenance cost to this. Every every decade or so, you're going to be repulling that out and putting new carpet down. Um, another one is the bus electrification. That is, you know, about a $2.4 million proposition of that $80 million. And I think enough people have heard me already talk about my uh my concern about electric buses and the whole process. However, we have as of this last night, we had very firm deadlines. The original deadline um to purchase electric buses was 2027. You could ask for a waiver for two years. So by 2029, you could not purchase anything but an electric bus. Not that they're not going to make diesels, it's that they're not going to be allowed to be sold to schools in New York State.
055That is state law. The other part of this is that by 2035, whatever diesel or gasoline buses you're running, you no longer are allowed to use. Every bus has to be electric. So, we're planning for that worst, and I'm going to call it the way I see it. I I look at this, this is our worst case scenario, that nothing changes with the law. So, that $2.4 $4 million is really a plan. We'll plan for it. We will identify how we're going to electrify and put the charging stations in, where they're going to go. But when it comes time for this, we're not going to go out for bid on this project until late 2026 or early 2027. My hope is that the law truly changes. And just because it's there doesn't mean we have
056to use it. So if the law changes and the board agrees we're going to go along with the conventional fossil fueled buses, we will scrap that $2.4 million electrification plan and we'll go to plan B. And plan B is our um diesel and our gasoline tanks are now at are approaching the 20-year mark. And we know that at about year 25, we're probably going to be ordered by DEEC to replace those. So instead of spending 2.4 million on electrification, hopefully we're talking about a price tag of somewhere around maybe a half a million to 3/4 of a million to replace those two tanks and then we're done. So again, just because it says we're doing, you know, we're planning 2.4 million on electrification, that's not necessarily what we're going to do. And I'm hopeful based
057on what we're seeing, just beginning to see some language come out of the budget that there may be some flexibility down the road. Okay. So, I think there's some silver lining here that again, but we're here today. We're going to be voting in less than two weeks. We had to include that because we had no idea where the budget was going to go or how the law could possibly change. Again, we talked about $79.8 million. We're asking the voters to spend up to 79.8 8. So we I believe there are a number of items in there that are highly priced. Um but again, I don't know what tariffs are going to do. We don't know how the economy is going to look in another year and a half when we go to bid. So we
058bid we we estimate high and hope things come in low. Um and if there are things that we don't need, we won't do them, such as bus electrification hopefully. So again, anyone that has questions about the capital project, please ask. Um, and I do think there are some things in that are absolutely essential. Uh, the pool. Um, I just gave a tour before this meeting and I'm glad that the individual said that's exactly how it looked when she was here at school and same thing with our um women's locker room. Same as when she was here over 30 years ago. Um, and then I did take her because there were no boys in the boys locker room and she saw that and she wanted to know how did this happen? I didn't have the money.
059Okay. So again, I think there are some things that uh are are truly essential. Um and then we're always going to have some disagreement about is that line item really necessary or not necessary. And again, it's a committee decision to move those forward into our capital project. So again, I would ask people to really learn about what that capital project is, what it does, and again, we're talking about zero dollar local tax impact. And I understand we all are New York State taxpayers. We all pay that same bill. Um, but again, this is there's so much in this project that is truly necessary. Um, and I would just ask people to learn about what that project truly is. It's more than carpet out on the football field. Mr. Burke, can you talk a little bit
060about how that's going to be funded, the capital project itself? Yeah. So our our estimated state aid and there always estimates. Okay. So right now our state aid on building projects is 92 and a.5%. And that means there would still be a percentage of that that belongs to the local taxpayer and that's estimated at just around $6 million. Currently we have capital reserve funds um three of them and they total 15 million. So, we're looking at using six out of that 15, a maximum really of six out of that 15. And that would still leave us with $9 million for future projects again to offset or to eliminate local taxpayer share. Um, now the the and I've heard this before, you know, why don't we just use that money to pay the general fund to
061pay our operating bills because we can't. When we create reserves, when a school district creates a reserve, that's the money that has to be used for that purpose. All right? You either have to wait for a reserve to expire and then reallocate it um or you have to go back to the voters and pull that money out for other purposes. It's not an easy process. So again, it's not it's not like I can go grab that $6 million and offset our almost $14.8 million tax levy. That's not how it works. That's not the way the law is set up. So again, those reserve funds I can't we cannot just pull over. Um I just have more not a question but more so a comment on just the justification of the budget. Um just because it
062happened this morning. Uh Mr. Debut's classroom or my math teacher was relocated to the computer lab because there was literally stuff falling from the ceiling and causing students to cough. So I think coming from a student perspective, living in the school almost eight hours every day, five days a week, you while it looks nice on the outside, you start to notice really the issues in the school like how when I go to the bathroom in the locker room, I have to have someone hold the door for me because there's no locks on the stalls or how it's significantly worse than the boys locker room. So I think while there might be some debate on the justification for what we're looking to improve, I think the improvements are necessary. If if if we don't invest on
063the maintenance of the building this year, it's going to be more that's going to be required the next year because we didn't invest today. It's the same as your car, your house. We have to put a minimum and we're not putting we're not putting bells and whistles on the school. It's mostly m maintenance. And that concludes my report. Oh, you did do you did all of the other stuff before you did that. Okay, we're we're now on to recommended actions, folks. Um, first are our consent agenda items. Um, there aren't that many, but uh are there any that uh board members would like to have pulled out to uh vote on separately or um discuss questions or or anything of the sort? Uh I would like to pull out uh 7223 June graduation ceremony standards.
064Any others? Okay. Uh with that, uh I would call for a motion for the consent agenda items. So move. Second. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? That carries. Okay, moving on to uh our other items for action. Uh we'll vote first on um item uh rather policy number This is the second reading of policy number 7223 June graduation ceremony standards. Uh do I have a motion? Second. Uh any questions or comments? Uh my only comment is uh a reiteration of what I said last time. All in favor? Any opposed? That carries. Next is approval of the uh police activity league bus utilization request. Second. Questions or comments? All in favor? opposed. Approval of the Msina Recre recreation bus utilization request. I think we have an abstension. Oh. Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry.
065Um, an extension, please. Sorry about that. Uh, moving on to the uh recreation commission uh bus utilization request. Questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? Any abstensions there? Okay. Approval of the out of county field trip that was on our agenda. You get both of those, Ashley? Okay. Uh questions or comments? All in favor? opposed. Um, next we have approval of an MOA with the Msina Federation of Teachers on Giveback Days. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? All in favor? Opposed? Next is an appro uh approval of an MOA with the MCSEA on an insurance buyout. So moved. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? And lastly, uh we have personnel action items. Mr. Mr. Burke. Uh, Mr. Hagot, I recommend that the board approve personnel action items listed as numbers 1
066through 30. Second. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? That carries. Moving on to new business and future agenda items. I know it's been talked about in the past, but I just like to look into it again. Language um at the elementary schools and what we need to do get that started at some point. Even if it's been we've talked about it before, I just like to review it again and what we have to do. Even if it meant seventh grade reinstating that, that's what we had talked about. There's a plan, right? It's it's so we we had met with the elementary folks and we had a committee and it was determined at that point that the elementary level is not the place now to begin that simply because of the time constraints
067of of the regular school day and you know we also have our assistant super. So I'm going to ask Nicole if I miss anything please feel free um to discuss that. Um, next year we are adding Mohawk, but again, you know, we've already got that at the junior high. We'll be adding that at the high school. Um, we have not really had a serious conversation about doing it yet at the junior high um to get foreign language, I don't think, at the seventh grade level. And part of that conversation will have to be um both languages, French and Spanish. Um, which then would involve most likely two teachers. Um and then you know as we go down the road do we have the finances is the you know is that something that becomes the board's
068top priority um to do but we did have that conversation um as you know as we agreed upon last spring um we did meet uh as a full committee we had elementary teachers there and I believe we had um current foreign language teachers involved and I think we I think Joyce you may have been there. Yes. And at least maybe you were the only board member. Yes. Okay. Um and again, it was determined at that point listening to our elementary teachers about the challenges of that and not sure that they could overcome those at this point. Time constraints more than anything. Yeah. Although, and I always forget his name. I apologize. The head of the language department, Joe Boil Bole was very much in favor and was hoping that we could somehow institute seventh grade
069that that would greatly help his program. So, I mean, that would be a start. Yeah. And I don't think many of us would disagree with that. I think again as we're preparing this budget, it didn't come to the front. Um we had a lot of a number of other requests as well. And you know, I think that the the finance committee um wisely guided us in terms of um let's really limit our personnel items um as additions this year. Just not sure where the economy is going to go. um will there be cuts coming to us from the federal level or will federal cuts, you know, hit Medicaid, which then has that domino effect that the state's going to have to come up with that money somewhere? So, kind of that wait and see um
070approach for at least the next few months and see really where uh where we are as a state and a nation in terms of federal and state spending. I'm glad to see that there's an interest for language. You saw the salad dictorian, he's going to Cornell to study language and all that. We're our country is getting more and more multilingual. We're on the border with Canada. We're next to the res there's a need and we all know that learning the earlier you learn the better it is. I was told that there's a program Boseis offers classes where student could learn would be exposed to second language other languages and they could learn from class sitting in the same class. The teacher could take a break. She could correct work while the the students are listening
071to a TV, but it's not really a TV. It would be somebody at Boseis giving the same class to multiple class at the same time. There's an offer. We just need to look into that. It's going to free up the teacher and it's aidable and they're just there. Mr. Ershi is in charge of this. He says you just need to have a demand. He's going to do it. So, I hope can we ask you guys to look into that? We can. I don't think it was so so really the issue Rober wasn't so much from the teachers that they're not comfortable teaching it. It was more that if I give up 30 minutes, what do you want me to take out of my day? And so as as they're pointing and I I don't know,
072Mr. Charles, if I'm getting that sense accurate, so when when we look at our elementary, we're looking, you know, so we've got the goal this year, right? Benchmarks really primarily being ELA and math. So if you incorporate something new into the course of the day and depending on the frequency with which we do it then that's the feedback we were getting is all right what do I give up um you know do I give up you know quite honestly when we start talking about especially at the primary level our focus is on math and on ELA and primarily ELA so our students become readers and then we try to fit in elements of social studies and elements of science you know the or basic core. Um, so again, I think the challenge for our teachers
073is good ideas, but how do we do this? And do we have permission to give something up? And you know, and and I'll be honest as a teacher, my my response would be, okay, if I give something up, if I give up even 20 minutes of math a week and my scores go down, are is the administration, is the board going to come and ask me why? Um because there there's there's a you know it's like a seessaw effect. Um and again it might just be fear because we haven't tried it. Um but again we're giving the feedback that we had from our committee. Could we educate oursel and look at what other schools are were doing? Like Trinity was doing it, other schools are doing it. Where do they cut? Where do they find
074time? Maybe they're jug juggling two things at the same time. Maybe you could offer another language as you do recreative activity or math or you could history at the same time as you're talking another language or exposing to another language you strategies to be able to succeed when we there's a desire there's obviously a desire here for us to move towards this so there might be exposure that might be something that we can that we can go to I think if we're really talking about truly teaching them you know how to become fluent before they get to seventh grade. That's probably where the issue becomes a little bit more problematic. Um you you know so as we did some of our research on this and um locally the the school that was kind of the
075uh flagship as it might be for foreign language at the elementary level was Lake Placid and you know when Lake Placid saw that this board was entertaining or questioning I think it was maybe even two years ago when when Mr. Brady was here. They actually reached out and said, "Do you want our program?" Because for the very same reasons that our teachers are expressing concerns, they were living it and they were already feeling that. So that's when Lake Placid decided that they needed to give up the uh the foreign language at the elementary. Again, is there a happy medium somewhere? I would like to think there is. And maybe it's just that we have to rethink of how we approach it. Maybe it doesn't become a formal class and maybe it's something that we could
076do. You know, I I get nervous when I say this. You know, is it something we do after school, but then when we do it after school, it creates the halves and the have nots and not all children are able to stay after school. We can't always run buses. So, um there becomes an issue of making sure that all students have that. Um but we can certainly, you know, I can talk with Mrs. Charleston and we'll try to figure out what we can do again. and and you report back. Can we not kick the can again like undefinitely? Could we have an answer maybe in two months? I just I think we might end up kicking the can again on this though because the elementary day is so packed. I They've already met and spent
077all the time they've investigated. Are we going to ask them to do that again with all with all of the other I'm sorry interested with all the other responsibilities I I don't know that it makes sense the I I mean if they you carve time out of an elementary day then you lose science and you lose some social studies or you lose AIS time or you lose a a reading block you you lose math math or you're you're trading off art, you're trading music. It the the days the day is packed. I have a fifth grader. I know what her day is like. I I agree. I'm with Dan on this, too. I've got two, one in um second grade and one in fourth grade, right? So, I talk to my kids about their day
078and I can understand it. I I really I love this topic. I think that um foreign language is important, right? when I was in school, I was able to take French from fourth grade on, right? Um how they did it, I don't know. But that we know that that classroom landscape has changed for teachers, right? They have to be more than just teachers sometimes. And so I think as my own perspective, I think sometimes as a board, maybe we have to take into account that conversation that that committee had, right? And the our teachers are our boots on the ground, right? There's so much experience and they know their school better than anybody. And so if they're they're really saying, "Hey, listen, we want to do it." However, you know, they're making the recommendation that
079it's going to be difficult to do. Um I think we have to just be cautious that we're not overburdening our teachers who are already working really hard for our elementary students, too. Um if there's other opportunities that we can explore, I think that's great. But I just I I I caution just if we put too much pressure on that you know if you know we don't want to uh we don't want to overburden them. I think the key thing you said already exposure maybe not teaching the class but looking into how do we expose them at a younger age to language and think outside the box not not committing to full-time classes but I think you said that Mr. Burke, you know, somehow expose them to it. You know, how can we fit that in
080with exposure somehow? Without saying we can't do it, why not think about a way that maybe we can do it with exposure somehow and it won't be a full-fledged class, but somehow to expose kids at a younger age to the language. That's all. And if it's not possible, it's not possible, but um somehow to expose them to it early on. Greater Academy offer any time for that after school. I know it wouldn't be every student, but that's what I was getting at when Danielle gave her um presentation the last two meetings ago. Is there any time during the after school? I I would want to defer back to Danielle and have a conversation with her, which we have not done. So, okay. It would require a volunteer going in, Rober going in or myself or
081something to help with the languages a bit, but I'd be very very willing. Like we met a year ago, the committee met last summer. So it's we're just we're not imposing anything on anybody. We're not imposing homework on kids or more work on the teachers. We're just asking if we could look at strategies to meet this goal, this desire. Maybe we presented it too strongly as having, you know, a good solid half an hour because when um Nicole had the meeting that you organized, I I believed all of the principles. There is no time. They're taking away 15 minutes from here and 15 minutes from here and shortening specials. There is no time for it. They were they were truthful and they were honest and I believed every word. So it it does mean a
082strategy. It means an afterchool. It means something else, a creative block of time somewhere. Any other items for future agendas? Not really for future agenda, but um it was brought up. So, when we have the um reception for the seniors and then the seniors go over to the elementary schools and they get to um you know high-five the I call them the littles. Um, is there any plan for the students that went to Trinity Catholic because they're going to be for the first time not going to Trinity to see the little kids there and celebrate that. And actually, our saludiatoran was a Trinity Catholic student. So, I just wondered if maybe somebody should reach out to Father Mark and see if they wanted to do anything. Um, you know, I don't know what could be
083done, but possibly there are still some faculty members that would be available that might just want to, you know, have the bus drive through the parking lot and just kind of, you know, celebrate them. Yeah. But it would it would mean that we need to like get on top of that now so that they could make a plan and be be prepared. Yeah. Let me reach out to Mr. Oliver tomorrow and uh and then if and maybe we've engaged Yeah. Let me let me reach out to him and figure out. Sure. You know. Yeah. Because I think we did that in the past, right? Yeah. Our kids walked through Trinity. Oh, okay. It means a lot for the kids. My son went through his school last year and being in front I think they put
084the student that came from that school either Madison Jefferson Night Angel in front they walk in their school and they're big now and all the little kids admire them. Yes. Especially in front of the line it's special uh experience. Trinity would mean a lot for them if we could recognize that as well. And I'm glad again that I didn't know that the Sukaran came from Trinity that but that's probably where he picked up the second language because he didn't pick it up here. Exactly. Exposure. Thank you for thinking of that. That that's I think that that escaped me uh for sure. Any other uh future agenda items to be discussed? Um, Mr. Burke, do we think that by next month we would at least have some uh percentages? Oh, yes. For uh the lifetrack survey.
085I I I'm I know Mr. Oliver is still hunting down um seniors to uh to finish up those surveys. When is that deadline? Like when does the window close that they can submit? I I don't think we actually have a closed window. But I think it's when he lets them know we we hit a percentage. Oh, okay. Yeah. The the company themselves, they're very very easy to work with. Okay. Hearing no other uh items for future agendas, new business, uh we'll move to public's comments from the public and the press. Uh is there anyone here from the uh public that would like to have a word with us? Yes, sir. Can I come down there because I'm having a hard time hearing? Sure. I do. There certainly have been challenges. Mr. Zacharasquez, I won't answer
086that question because you're asking me you're asking me to answer. Trust me, this is the last question. Mhm. I'm here. Your team, Mr. Zacharasquez, please don't use names. We're not We're not here to discuss individual folks. Well, How many you had this time email was sent to know why he has an email back saying I just put the grades up I don't have anything nobody followed up I sent an email to you on Wednesday asking for a follow the break and all that I don't know it's true or not I'm not here I can't tells me has a zero and report card. No explanation, no notes, nothing. I think if teacher is going to put a failing grade on there darn well be an explanation. There should be a request to meet with the parents
087and discuss it. How do we fix this? I do know I'm very involved with my grandson. and very fortunate that you guys have help but I'm tired of begging people to honor the commitment. April 17th May 8th May 8th time but not we'll not do it anymore the last time you won't be available tomorrow in person 4:00 in the morning I'm not going to set the time let you set that time this needs to know that your team is failing in this regard. We are not meeting. Yeah. Yeah. At some point, you're a good man. Great job. sooner or later. So I believe that so so just to clarify the email that you sent me yesterday. Yeah. I received it at 6:29 p.m. Okay. So that's why you didn't get an answer back and it
088takes me some time because I do have other commitments during the day and you you've rightly acknowledged that um in previous conversations. So I did get back to you midafter afternoon today when I spoke with a staff member. In fact, I spoke with two um about that email and about the grades that you were looking for because I don't have that. I don't know why. Well, so so when I got a hold of the when I got a hold of those folks, I believe one of them called you. Yeah. And why is the psychologist going to get his grades? Where's your administration? Well, again, teachers. So, again, we're trying to follow the process of having a single point person like we talked about. And so, and I'm not blaming that on her. She wasn't aware
089that she was supposed to share that. It's not her job. And she's doing a great job. She's probably the the brightest star you have. very impressive. Very great. Yeah. And so on this job, that's her team's job. And onacher, they should put it on their list. I don't expect them to talk, but I do expect them to do it. Now, we got a psychologist doing the job of people. What's going on here? I'm not very So on that one, you should have an answer by tomorrow. I was I'm think she's going to give me a call tomorrow. Yes. And I believe she'll be available. And on that second situation that you were sending some emails about later this afternoon, again, that was the first that I heard of this and it was the situation from
090today. I don't expect you to handle well I I do need to make sure that the expectations are clear. Okay. And that's what I'm working on and that's why I emailed that back to you that I'll work on this and as soon as I get the answer, somebody will be in contact with you. Wouldn't be me. I don't have firsthand knowledge of exactly what occurred but people somebody that did have firsthand knowledge they'll be getting back in touch with. But the discipline has already been handed out. Correct. I understand the discipline's already been handed out. Whether it's justified or not, I don't know. If it's justified, 100% you know that will support whatever is correct. I don't even know what the nobody answered, right? And this happened yesterday and the agreement was something going to
091come up regarding my grandson. I'm going to get a phone call that we can make sure. I don't know if it's accurate, right? Your team dropped the ball. So now I'm calling into question. I mean, as as you read in my email what uh Mr. Sharan wrote from the problem there, not just with my grandson, problem there with your teacher. He's not keeping the he's not he's letting the situation get out of control. And I think once you once somebody does because I read something very different out of that. But I think once somebody's able to tell you exactly what happened, it'll alleviate your fears. Different. But you have information. No, I'm in the dark. No, I have the exact information you had more than I do. I'm in the dark. It comes in 11th
092hour. I don't know when the referral was given to I don't know that. I don't know that. I think we know that I want to stay on top of this. I want him to succeed. He's improving. this conversation about one thing have I come to you about was I wrong not wrong about the things they never come through never come through at some point I'm pretty close to really false been here 15 years or whatever I don't know I don't think grandson I want this board to know your team in this regard you need to light a fire honor the commitment Amen. I can't do that. And your administrator your administrators dropped the ball. I have to pick it up. When should I know that tomorrow? I like I said I I was working on
093it late this afternoon but again by the time I see all the email you set the time let's say by Monday because I don't know what tomorrow brings and who knows right I'm okay with that okay you're busy man I'll father, right? Yeah. I'm not I'll wait for the call tomorrow. Whatever. Absolutely. You may even get a call tomorrow though at least giving you the background. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Zacharas. Any other comments? Hearing none, I would uh entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. All in favor, have a great rest of the week. Good weekend.