001Okay. Good evening. Welcome to the reorganization meeting of the board of education. I need a motion to appoint Lisa Bieber as district clerk effective July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026 at a stipen of $21,882. So move. Any second? Second. All in favor? Y. Okay. Now, Lisa, I'd like to give you the oath. I I, Lisa Bieber. Lisa Bieber do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and I will that I will faithfully discharge that I will faithfully discharge the duties of district clerk the duties of district clerk according to the best of my ability. according to the best
002of my ability. Okay, you're in charge. At this time, can I ask the board members, including the students and Mr. Petra, to stand for the oath as well? I do solemnly swear I do that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties that I will faithfully discharge the duties of superintendent and trustees and trustees according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. Thank you. Over to me. Yeah. Um so I would call for nominations for president. I can get a first and a second. Any nominations? I'll make a motion that we approve
003Patty or board president. We got a first and a second. I make a motion that we No, so is there uh any other nominations for president? There are no other nominations. Uh for president, we'll close. All in favor of electing Patricia Ocelenian as president of the board of education. Yes. Yep. All opposed. Okay. Pat Ocelenian is president of the board of education for the 202526 school year. I now call for nominations for vice president and nominate Mr. Doug Cooper for vice president. I get a second. Second. Any other nominations for vice president? Okay. All in favor of electing Doug Cooper as vice president of the board of education? I. Any opposed? and Jud Cooper is vice president of the board of education for the 202526 school year. I'll now turn the meeting back over. Thank
004you. Thank you. It's our lane having students appointed. Sure. It's letter A. Letter A. Okay. Be it resolved that the board of education hereby appoints the following to serve as a student ex officio board members for the 2025 2026 school year. Laurel Richards, Brooke Walling, and a Stephanie Gomez. I need a motion. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Yep. Welcome aboard. We're really happy. Really? Okay. Okay. What? I need a motion for the appointment of district treasurer, deputy treasurer, and assistant district clerk A throughc. Make a motion. I need a second. Yes. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Now we're on to new business, compliance designations. Um, I need a motion to approve A2R for compliance designations. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. All in favor?
005Nope. That was a discussion. You just missed it. Um, all in favor. Okay. New business financial designations. Financial designations A through T. I need a motion. I need a second. Second. I need a discussion. All in favor? Y. New business. Special education designations. I need a motion for A through H. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Discussion. All in favor? Yep. New business miscellaneous A through F. I need a motion. Yep. I need a second. Second. Discussion. I'm recusing from that. Okay. We have one ochre recusing himself from F. Any discussion other than that? Okay. All in favor? Yes. And that's an adjournment of the organization reorganization meeting. I need a mo motion. I need a second. Second. Okay, we're going to call the regular meeting to order. Um, can you please stand
006for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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. Okay. I need a motion to approve the minutes of the June 12th meeting. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Nope. I need a motion to accept the financial reports. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Yep. Okay. Audience communications agenda item only. Okay. Now, we're up to the professional development and districtwide school safety plans. I need a motion to accept them. Make a motion. Oh, wait a second. So, there's hope. There will be a second reading. The professional development plan is going to be in the resolution
007later on. Okay. So, I don't need to do anything. Okay. Safety plan will be approved by Okay. So, the professional development plan will be approved later on in the agenda and the districtwide school safety plan will be approved in August. Now, we're up to the superintendent's report. Okay. Well, first I'd like to start off by welcoming uh Linda Stenos, Lauren Knocker to the board of education. Uh Miss Danos could not be with us this evening. And then for the first time, it's it's very exciting to have student exeicio board members uh joining us. This will this will make for an interesting year. Um and and hopefully you guys will learn a lot. But um welcome Stefani. Can I get it right? I'll get it. Brooke and Laurel um you know for for joining us. Uh
008it'll be interesting to have direct input from the board. Really previously uh any input student input was usually would come through administration to the board of education unless something extreme was going on and students wanted to come speak. Um but you guys went through a process of nominations by your teachers um through an interview process and we look forward uh to your input and reporting out and giving the board updates and then adding to any discussions that we have. Um so it's not often that uh when regulations come down from Albany that I'm in agreement with them, but this this was a good one. So welcome aboard. Excited to have you. Um I have to congratulate Mr. Burke um for producing a memorable first class commencement ceremony. It was really uh a beautiful graduation and
009his first one. He did a really nice job. Um and then Miss Amy Brennan for for her moving up um ceremony as well. Again, a first class event and I I want to thank the Booster Club and the PTAs and the PTSA for supporting all our end of year events and celebrations. There's really a lot that goes on for our students and um there's a lot of support in the community and amongst our school community as well. Um to the community matter Kachog and Laurel um I want to thank them for their generous support through scholarships for our graduates. Um their contributions to education are deeply appreciated and have significant impact on the lives of students pursuing their academic goals and success after high school. The generosity of this community towards our students is really
010amazing. uh well over $100,000 were given after graduation um to our students from this small community. So that was great. Um if you drive by you could see that uh we are getting a facelift here at the junior senior high school. Um the scaffolding went up uh as soon as uh we were done with graduation and um that'll all be replaced over the summer. We wanted to really get a jump on it before the construction company had to send their their crews over to other um projects. Uh so it'll be nice. It's long overdue and uh it'll be nice to get that work done. Um other things going on this summer. Uh again, there's no administrators in attendance. They're all on vacation right now. Um we encourage our administrators to recharge those batteries um after
011a grueling year. uh but we will be all be together for the week of July um 7th through the 11th as we really look at some closing items from this previous school year. There's some data points that we want to review um and then also review some of our policies and begin to prepare for the opening of school and then we'll be together for a week again in August in in preparation for the opening of school and administrators will be in and out throughout the course of the summer. Um, from July 13th to 15th, I will be going upstate for the rural schools uh, association summer conference. Um, looking forward to that. Always come back with a bunch of good information for the district. Um, as discussed earlier, the scope's annual dinner meetings on August
01213th. Please let Lisa know um, by the end of this week if you are attending. And then I want to remind the board that we have our board retreat on August 19th. This is going to be facilitated by the New York State School Boards Association. We have not used them in the past. Uh this is a different direction and uh we're looking for a fresh outlook on on that retreat. Um but this serves as a dedicated time for board members to step away from their regular meeting schedules and really focus on strategic planning, team building, addressing critical issues facing the district. Um and allows for some in-depth discussion, goal setting, and relationship building. So it's good, especially with two new board members uh joining us. Uh there's a lot to be learned at that point
013in time. Um there will be a survey because we we do kind of want to cater to our needs and wants. Um so Lisa will be sending a survey out to the board if you could get it back to her um by July 14th and then they'll begin to design uh that for us. Um we have some open positions that we are still looking to fill. Uh last month we had hired a librarian. um and then two days later she resigned uh from the position um to pursue something else. So, we're looking to fill that position. We are still looking for some permanent subs throughout the district. We are still in the process of looking for a special education teacher, teaching assistants, and then a music teacher cut you place Mr. Osman. He gave us
014his retirement um letter a little bit later. Um most of our uh um enrollments have stayed pretty steady. So there is going to be we don't anticipate any shift in staffing there. Um our kindergarten enrollment is at 41 as of today. Um so that has not grown as we'd anticipated. Um but again our prek so it's hard to explain all the fluctuations. Sean, what was the kindergarten if you know what in last year at this time? Last year at this time actually have that number right here. Um, we were I think we were like at 61 um high 50s me like 59. So we right in that that area and now we're 40. So 41. Is that still three sections? Yeah, we're going to keep the three sections as we go through with the formula
015that we had. Um, there will be an empty classroom in that kindergarten waiting. I said, don't clean it out. We know we're going to need it next year. Um, we anticipate that we go back up an additional section of kindergarten next year. Um some again I'm going to be going into discussion with uh the rest of the administrative team next week about our board of ed presentations um for next school year. Uh so I just kind of walk you through tenatively what I'm presenting to them. Any feedback that you want to give me uh is is welcome. Um but Mr. Kelly will give a summer projects update in August. Um the principles will give a reopening of schools uh update uh in September. And also at that meeting, I'm going to ask Mrs. Finnegan to
016give um a uh a star data report to the board, kind of a baseline for the school year. October is school board recognition. Um I am going to combine the 5-year facilities plan and the strategic plan updates at that meeting. I'll do them together. In November will be district goals um that the board will be working on and that we'll report out on. And then I'm going to um move typically in January we did our AP regions and state assessments reports. Um we should absolutely have all that data by then and that should be enough time to to really dig in. So I'm moving up the date of those reports to November and then in December I'm asking for our guidance department and our special education department to give reports to the board. And then
017in January, um, we'll get reports from art, music, and Spanish departments. And in February, we'll roll out the budget and do our and anticipate our state aid. Um, we'll also have reports from high school technology, steam, and the technology department. And then March will be budget presentations. Um, we'll have reports from English and social studies. In April will be again budget presentations with reports from our math and science departments. And May uh we go into the end of the year we have our student recognitions, our tenure recommendations, um an update to the uh five-year strategic plan, and then in June, uh retirements, athletic updates, professional development report, and then we'll be back here in July for our reorganization meeting. So I'll I'll ask Lisa to email that out to you folks. And if there's anything
018else that you may want, you know, included, um, you know, we'll we'll look at at when would be best to schedule that for you. That's all I got. Good. Good. Good. Okay. Board of Education Committee reports, policy, legislator, community relations. Lorraine, you have one read of the following revised policies. They are up for adoption at this meeting. Policy 4526, computer network and internet acceptable use. Policy 5605, voter registration for students. Policy 6240, investments. Policy 67000, purchasing and policy 9320, drug and alcohol-free workplace. Okay. Thank you. Um, negotiations personnel with me. Um, we've had we're going to have a couple of custodial shifts. A custodial worker and a maintenance mechanic are making internal moves to higher level positions and new hires will replace the open positions due to the moves. Mr. Petrey shared that we lost
019the library media specialist. So, we will work on that. Um, he also shared the postings. The special ed posting is a special ed English posting. So, it's a dual certified posting. Um, substitute bus monitors. We've increased the pay rate to $2029 an hour so that perhaps we would be able to recruit some. Um, and you'll notice on the agenda that there's quite a few six classes for the next school year. And that's it for me. Um, new business. I need a motion to accept um business a donation. The donation just let me read the donation from the mant secondary PTSA to support our partners for the 2025 26 26 school year. I need a motion. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? Thank you. Um, all in favor? Yep. Okay. Approval of
020resignations, terminations, leaves of absence, and reductions. I need a motion to accept. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? How does the board feel about that new format within the agenda? I like it. Yeah, I like it. I liked it because you have the space now. I like this space so I keep following it. Um, all in favor? Yep. Yeah. Okay. Then I don't know what this is. Oh, that's a continuation of all these. Okay. What does that say? Okay, I need a motion for not sure personnel items B6 B6 through 2011 as presented in the agenda. So move. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Yep. like 40 pages. Okay, we're on resolutions A through double A. I need a motion. Motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? All in
021favor? Yep. audience and communications. Anybody have anything to speak about that is not on the agenda or is on the agenda. Okay. Quiet. Did I sh I need a I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? Not at the journ. There never is. All in favor? Thank you. Have a good summer. Have a good Fourth of July. Have a good Fourth of July. Be safe. That's a wrap.