001and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Can you please put your cell phones on silent or turn them off? Seeing that there's no one for public comment, would you like to introduce the first? >> Yes. Uh so members of the board had an opportunity uh within the last hour to to tour some of our project updates as a group tonight. I thought it would be appropriate because we were doing that to bring in members of our construction management team and uh architect firm. So we have Carrie and Mark here from King and King and Ross and Brandon here from CNS Construction. Um, I don't know which person is gonna Brandon, are you coming up to click buttons and >>
002Yeah, >> you should be able to >> Okay, thanks everyone. Like I said, my name is Brandon. Um, let you guys Introduce yourselves. We have Carrie >> Carrie Charlie King and King Architects >> Ross Law CN. >> Okay. >> So, uh we just wanted to give you a brief update on where the project stands. As you recall, uh your community adopted a $30 million referendum for capital improvements. We broke that into two phases to help facilitate the work. The first phase was uh roof replacement, select areas of roof replacement across uh the entire building and then work out here at the playground. Second phase, uh really the bulk of the project. Uh those of us that were on the tour saw uh the auditorium renovation, middle school toilet rooms, uh including the addition of one
003unisex uh staff bathroom, an upgrade in the elementary library, some work in the community center. We've replaced the lighting in the gymnasium portion of the community center and the pool is shut down right now for some um finishes upgrades. We will have high school corridor flooring and locker replacement uh upcoming in the second half of the construction project. Also some ceiling and lighting replacement at the high school. A very major and intensive uh parking lot reconstruction project this summer. So get ready for that. It's going to be exciting. um elementary classroom upgrades and in the summer uh we will replace the elementary school serving line where the students uh get their meals through. >> Just uh digging into schedule a little bit. I know Carrie touched on the scope items. Um several of these have
004been completed already whether that was the spring or the summer of this year. Um playground obviously for the elementary school that was completed this spring and summer. Um roof, excuse me, roof replacement was completed this fall. Um that wrapped up the phase one of this project. Um phase two, we're substantially complete with the auditorium as we discussed. Same thing with the middle school toilet rooms and the elementary school library. We visited the community center today. That's obviously still under construction. Um and as far as next summer's work, the schedule stays pretty consistent to what we presented to you guys pre-construction. Um high school ceilings, one thing to note on those, those have been about 40% complete. Um we're touching virtually every classroom in the high school. Um, some of the in-house conversations are taking over
005some of these rooms during the break. Um, we're working through that right now with Matt and Danielle and the whole team um to make this happen. Just a brief financial overview. I know it's a little bit hard to see. Um, on the left hand column we have all of our prime contractors listed by trade. Um, biggest number for you guys to look at here is the percent complete for the contract. You see that's 36%. We still have a significant way to go next summer. gives you guys an idea financially of where we stand with completion of work at this time. Um, another thing to look at is the allowances remaining. We still have a significant amount of allowances still to be used in this project. So, not a whole lot to touch on on financials.
006>> Good good financial shape. >> So, are there any specific questions that you have about the project? I think the tour may have covered a lot of it. >> Questions. We're certainly happy to do it again as the work progresses and there are new spaces to visit. >> Just one thing I know we presented some before and after photos to those that were on the walkthrough. Listed a couple of them here. High school auditorium, middle school toilet rooms. In this particular case is the boys room. elementary school library faceelift with carpet paint and then the roof in this in this case um elementary schools. >> Thank you. Yes. Uh earlier this year when we were putting together presentation opportunities uh to present with the board, uh I wanted to to take an opportunity kind of
007midway through the year and present uh like a district-wide review kind of where we are trying to touch overview wise on on a number of areas. Uh I thought uh I do not have a PowerPoint presentation for you. I'm just going to kind of speak from my notes here. Uh wanted to remind the folks that earlier this year our board adopted four districtwide goals. Culture and communication which was to create a positive and safe environment focused on educational excellence establishing challenging and impactful educational experiences to prepare all of our learners for an everchanging world. uh school experience providing responsive and appropriate opportunities that foster the development of well-runed students and uh financial goal to maintain responsible budgeting practices. So just as a frame of reference, those were the four goals that we're working through uh
008the lens of. So the areas I'm going to hit uh kind of overview quickly, first one is safety, of course. Uh safety is is obviously one of our our biggest priorities. Um we've maintained a positive working relationship Wayne County Sheriff's Office through some transition. We have a new SRO that'll be starting January 5th with us. Again, th that is a Wayne County Sheriff, active Wayne County Sheriff that receives all our trainings and updates through Wayne County. Uh but sometimes those employees leave or get changed around and and we kind of have to work with that on um on the back side of that. So we'll we've had SRO coverage every day. It's just uh we'll have a fulltime consistent person starting January 5th. Again, um our safety committee, we have a safety committee that meets
009four times a year reviewing our protocols, updates on laws and regulations. Um you'll see some of that. uh the work from some of that committee later on in our agenda. Last year, of course, we received a cops grant, which uh for 75,000, we were one of four schools in New York State that received that grant. We're able to provide physical safety upgrades to our district. Um, of course we maintain all of our active safety drill requirements, which are uh fire drills, lockdown drills, and bus drills are the three types of uh safety drills of course that we have. And just through our walkth through and uh the the capital project upgrade that update that you just received, anytime we can within our capital project, we're looking at ways to make the phys physical space as
010safe as possible. Um whether it's maintaining things or upgrading things that fit within the scope of the work. So um either through our outlay work or with our main capital projects. So facilities, another big area is our facilities. Uh especially right now because of our capital project. You have seen the the vastness of the spaces that are getting touched both inside and outside of our buildings. I think it's important to remember that a lot of the work from our capital projects comes from what's called the BCS or building condition survey. Those are done every five years. we are up for a new building condition survey in 2027. So, it's actually right around the corner. And the so that's that's when they come in and and they take a look at the condition and the the
011life uh life expectancy of all of our spaces and start to use that information to inform us for the next round of capital project work. Like, oh, your roofs are going to come out of warranty. we should start looking at replacement opportunities for those things or whatever happens [snorts] to be. Uh so so even though we're in the middle of a project right now, it's kind of cyclical in the sense of if you remember our project was approved in December of 23. So we're already two years into a project and we have you know good 12 months left of that and then the cycle will start again with that BCS. So that's upcoming. If you remember a couple years ago, we brought uh snowplow removal uh back in house. We used to have uh an
012outside contract vendor with a vendor. We've brought it in house the last couple of years and in our review of it, it has provided us with a with a much more safe and consistent situation. In our previous contracts, it specifies the amount of snow that has to be on the space before the contractor would come in and remove it. because it's internal now. We can re hit those spaces with, you know, salt and sand and snow removal at at a moment's notice. Uh just last just last week at the chorus, high school, middle school chorus concert, it was snowing a little bit, so you know, before folks arrived for the concert, we were able to get back out there and do those. We would not have been able to do that. So, it's been it's
013been a benefit to be able to we get a better product for that. Uh the other one of the other things that we've incorporated in our facilities is an equipment replacement plan. Equipment trucks, big pieces of equipment, they cost a lot of money, right? And we we need a plan on how to replace those. We got to phase things out. We're trying to prevent situations where two or three big expensive pieces of equipment fail at the same time and then we would have to come up with emergency funds in order to to replace those. So trying to establish a meaningful end of life cycle for those and and planning so that there's no dips and and peaks with with our expenses around that uh has been a priority for us. Um two pieces on the
014facilities buildings and grounds I think uh we talked a little bit about this earlier today continues to be a source of pride here for us. We we take a lot of pride in the condition of our facilities and grounds. Um we pay a lot of attention to detail to those things and and when something's not working right, we make it a priority to address it. And I think it shows as as folks get into other school spaces, you might notice these things that you wouldn't notice here because you pass by them, you take them for granted. You would see the absence of them in some other facilities. Um, and I think that's a testament to our buildings and grounds teams. Uh, which is my last point is, you know, our wealth of knowledge and our
015buildings and ground team is is extraordinary. Uh, the ability for our staff to fix things, to forecast problems saves the district huge sums of money. Um, so again, just a shout out to our buildings and grounds teams to be able to keep things operating and to be able to problem solve and fix them uh in a meaningful way quickly. Um, next topic, uh, communication. Uh, I think it's important to note that no matter where we are on communication, it's always going to be a priority for us. I think there's always opportunities for us to do it a little better, do it a little more cleanly, do it a little more efficiently. uh a little more cleaner clean clear uh sorry. So uh things that we've kind of endeavored on over the last year or so,
016we've we've made it a priority to hand out four uh district newsletters and hard copy um quarterly throughout the school year just to provide the community with some hard copy updates. We added a PR service years ago. We went through a transition this year and we've changed from Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies to city Boseies of Sweetville County for for our PR service and I think you'll see a little bit of a different philosophy in in what gets communicated and how it's being communicated. Um, so there's been some growing pains with that, but I think the product overall we're extremely pleased with with what we're seeing from our PR service at this point. Um, I'll also point to Aiden as our student uh board of ed uh student rep. I think he has provided us an opportunity
017and a lens to communicate with students in a more consistent manner. He's going to talk a little bit later today about some survey and student voice opportunities that that he's endeavored to as well. So, um, and I think you're going to continue to see with our community schools and our in our, um, activities and events that are going on in our buildings, we're always looking to provide more outreach, more opportunity to bring folks into our space. We recognize that the school, of course, is the hub of our community, and we want people to feel welcome and uh, enjoy coming in. So, uh, you know, at the elementary school, we've had reading nights. Now, we're going to have math nights in addition to reading nights. Just little things like that that that provide opportunities to welcome
018folks into our spaces. So, um, from a financial lens, I think, uh, a couple things. It's important to remember that we rely heavily on state aid for our for our operating expenses. So, we're about 70 70 plus% relying on state aid um, as opposed to, you know, just our tax uh, tax levy here. So, um you'll hear this as we get to the budgeting phase uh in the in the coming months. Um but Red Creek has been designated as safe harmless, which means due to our declining enrollment, the the foundation aid that we would receive would have been too low. So, we have this minimum threshold. We get a 2% increase from the from from the state. uh as we talked about last year, the 2% increase actually represented a decrease in in compared to
019what we had received in previous years. I know business officials would tell us that we shouldn't count on those numbers. Um but I think it's important to know this year, one of the things that I'm hearing that that they're kind of saying that's coming out of Albany is there's a possibility of that 2% going away down to zero. Um you know, we we could lose that safe harmless. It's not a It's not a promise. It's not a guarantee. Uh which for us would represent about a $300,000 decrease in in aid coming into us. Um we've we've been purposeful in presenting very tight budgets over the last couple of years. Um responsibly tight budgets. Um and what I mean by that is we've relied a lot on our fund balance to balance our budgets, which we
020know is not a good sound budgeting practice. that's our savings account and we shouldn't use our savings account to balance our expenses. Uh so over the last two years we've decreased our reliance on on using that fund balance and we continue to need to stress um [cough and clears throat] diminishing our reliance on on on our fund balance. Um the more money that we can save in in that area would allow us to continue to fund our reserve plans which of course you folks uh have seen that's our bus reserves, our capital project reserves and some of the other reserves as well. Um I just mentioned declining enrollment. Think um the other kind of pink elephant in the room is adjustments to staffing and and faculty and staff to account for declining enrollments but to
021do it in a meaningful way, appropriate way so that we don't lose um the the importance of our programs. Um on the topic of staffing, it's always a priority of ours to attract and retain highquality staff. um while still maintaining opportunities and uh for programs for our kids uh so that they can be competitive with all the other schools in our areas. We do that by developing partnerships um with local colleges and local businesses and and um other regionalization efforts with with some of the other uh local school districts. So, uh, we're continuing to explore opportunities on that. Again, with finances, uh, one of the challenges that you hear from districts often is is unfunded or underfunded mandates. So, these are things that that New York State passes on to districts and doesn't provide funding.
022Um, two such things that we're facing right now kind of right off top my head would be um, electrification of our bus fleets, right? So, that's a law. We have to move towards doing that. There's no there's not real money behind that and and um there isn't a solid plan long range from New York State to to upgrade the infrastructures that are necessary to electrify our school districts while at the same time providing electricity in our communities. Uh Mr. Joyce and I have attended some some seminars about these things. Like that's a real unfunded mandate that's going to, you know, electric buses cost almost double what a what a fuel, you know, diesel fuel bus costs, but we'd also need to provide to upgrades to the grid, upgrades to our bus garage, let alone some
023issues that we have with uh range of busing and and um service of those items as well. There's another unfunded mandate around AEDs, DESH's law, that's uh coming into effect next month. Uh this one I think is not bad intention, right? It's it's to provide AED access to to students in a much more consistent basis, but there's no money for us to buy additional AEDs. So there are about $3,000 a piece plus annual upkeep on batteries and and pads and those kind of things and training. So, it's not a bad thing, but it's it's a it's a thing. Um, we've talked a lot about grants here. We rely heavily on our ability to to keep and maintain grants and earn grants. We have a bunch of expiring grants. We've talked about that. Um, you know,
024the uncertainty with the federal government, uh, the ability to disperse the funds from those grants. We've tried to insulate ourselves in the last couple of years by moving some of those grant expenses into our general fund. So if and when those um expenses leave, we don't lose the programs that we have gotten accustomed to offering to our community. Um as I've shared recently, uh you know, I'm proud to to also announce that that recently we've kind of in a great place and have earned all sorts of uh great grant opportunities here at Red Creek. Uh just this week we received notice that uh we were one of 10 schools in in the in the nation to receive a national grant opportunity from transcend on a rural career connected learning. Uh that was just announced this
025week. Our team did a great job trying to secure that grant uh over the next 18 months. So we're excited about the opportunities that something like that will provide. We have some other grant opportunities uh as well with uh our MTSS programs. We're going to serve as the lead for eight districts in our area um which provides us with some additional funding around our around that grant uh to pay for some mental health supports. Um one of the big grant national grant that we're a member of is the Walls Foundation grant similar to like Gates Foundation type work. Um, so that's a regionwide grant. And then we have another little fun grant that we just received notice on last week. We have a beehive grant uh through our garden club. Uh, Mr. Smiley and Mr.
026Wanik worked to get a beehive uh, system set up in our school. So, kind of a fun grant uh, as well, but but it's great to see that people are choosing Red Creek, right? like we're competitive across the the region and across the nation in terms of what we offer for programs and vision and uh our kids in our community are going to benefit greatly from some of these opportunities. Um lastly, the last focus area for me tonight would be uh around our academics. Of course, um you've heard from us a number of times the that that New York State is is um pushing forward with portrait for graduate work. So, we're going to continue to dive in and unpack exactly what that looks like, but we're really talking about some big shifts thinking wise
027in terms of student opportunities and and um pathways towards graduation. They're going to change. They're going to be phasing out regent the importance of regent exams. Um they're not going to phase out regions exams completely, but what does that look like for us? What's the thinking behind it for for our staff, you know, our programs? Um so there's going to be some in-depth work with that over the next couple of years as we kind of make those shifts. Um another important area for us is our accountability data. that's kind of, you know, where we rank what, you know, um and if if our accountability data is poor, it it forces us to spend a certain amount of our funds on remediating those deficient areas um as opposed to having kind of uh more of an
028open checkbook and and where those funds go to with our programs. So, um, you know, our accountability data is, uh, improving incrementally, and I think it's it's due to a process of review that we've really put in place over the last couple of years and and diving into why we're getting the scores that we're getting down to the point of like, hey, why are kids not scoring, you know, four points on an extended response question, you know, on our state testing? and what can we do instructionally in our classrooms to provide them with more skills and and training to to answer those questions in a in in a complete way. Uh which will tick up our accountability scores. Um of course I mentioned earlier regionalization efforts. I think as as funds become tighter or more
029competitive from school to school, we need to be smarter with how we're spending our money. And you know, does that include partnerships with local schools on on a variety of things, transportations, athletics, uh program availability, staffing? Um, you know, I think the sky's is the limit and we're really uh kind of only con constrained by our own creativity on that. like where can we where can we find some efficiencies and and ensure that every dollar we can spend goes into as many dollars as we can have go into our kids programs and activities. So um you know we've we've seen our distance learning dual enrollment programs at the high school grow. Last year we had 11 students um over the course of the entire year take distance learning uh dual enrollment college level classes. This
030fall alone, we've had 26. So, um you know, we would see similar numbers uh enrolled in the spring. Aiden um is is a student that's enrolled in some of those now. So, again, it's those opportunity um we might not have an opportunity for all these one-off with somebody here on site, but through some distance learning opportunities, we can we can provide students with a more customized uh opport uh education at the elementary level. Last year, of course, we implemented a new reading and math series at our elementary level. Uh it's overall it's been me very positive. It's a little more rigorous. Um it's a little more um it's a little challenging and you know, I think Jen and our building principles and and our teams have really been working hard with our teachers to unpack
031what that looks like and and and kind of problem solve some of the challenges as they come across them. But overall, it's a good we're in a good spot with that. It's hard. Um, but it's good work. Our kids are endeavoring good work with that. Um, back to the high school, you know, this year we've been able to to increase our course offerings. We we added more dual enrollment, more college, more AP courses. We added back into our uh programming driver's ed and family consumer science homec uh opportunities. So, we're looking to continue those classes, grow those opportunities. You know, this is about the time of the year we're at the high school. We start to look at programs for next year, start to get some student interest. Where are kids needing things? What pathways
032do we have? What does those look like towards graduation? And what things can we plug in place? What things can we add? Um, so, so those are kind of a really surface view uh of a couple different areas, right? safety, facilities, communication, financial and academic. Certainly not all-encompassing and I didn't leave anything out uh due to ignorance. It was, you know, just due to time and uh just trying to provide where we are with some with some of those initiatives and and some of the work that we're doing. So, I'm proud of the work that we're doing. Um it's never done. Uh we're never satisfied, but I think we're uh in a good spot with some of those places. So questions uh from the board on those? I know it was a lot at one
033time. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> PowerPoint slide. >> Yes. >> Um I have two questions. The when you talk about safe harmless and us losing $300 just to be clear, we're not actually like losing money. We're just not getting that 2% bump that we typically would have. >> Right. And and to be clear, there's not um there's not there's no finality yet from the governor. We won't see the governor's budget until late January and then there's still some up in the air around that. But right, so for us, Safe Harmless includes a 2% increase in our foundation aid >> and we're just we just might not get that is what you mean by losing $300. >> Yes. But that that quantity would represent a $300,000. Like if if it was zero, that 2% equates to a
034$300,000 real number for us. >> Okay. >> Um and then my other question with DEA's law, >> yeah, >> what does that look like for us? Like how many more AEDs are we having to purchase that we didn't have before? >> Yeah. So, uh, one of the areas that we're focused on is our busing field trips, uh, which is in the law is is to provide AEDs on field trips. I'm I'm happy to, you know, to to to announce that Dave, Mr. Welchure, has really done a good job over the last few years in ensuring all of our sports teams when they go on trips have AEDs with them already. Even though we're going to North Rose Wil School and we know North Rose has AEDs, something could occur between here and North Rose Wilkit
035that would necessitate needing an AED. Um, right now we're looking at phasing in additional AEDs on our field trip runs and our regular runs at the at the rate of about five AEDs a year for the next few years um in addition to what we have and to maintain uh the spaces that we have. But all of our field trips will have access and training to AEDs and we're going to phase in uh our bus runs as well. >> But I think from being a part of the safety meeting just because I I'm not sure if your question got answered but we actually are in compliance currently of what we have and we're just adding additional ones >> to be more proactive not necessarily because we have to fill the gap. >> Yep. We're good
036with the law as it is right now, but we're forecasting that the law is going to morph in a more restrictive manner, probably for the better. Um, so those five a year on our buses are not in the law, but it's hard to argue that we shouldn't have opportunities to use those should they arise. >> Thank you. >> Other questions? >> Okay, >> great. Uh more Mr. Van Orman talking MVPs. Uh again, 40 MVPs, which is great this time of the year. Uh you see some different names up there, which again is is great. Uh I'll read a couple. Eliza Reid, who's one of our community schools coordinators at the elementary school. Eliza is a behind thescenes kind of gal. She works tire tirelessly within the school setting and outside of our school setting to
037make sure the students and their families have the basic needs being met. I've witnessed several examples of this from collecting food and clothing items to delivering these items to homes in need. The children know they are safe and have a friendly face in our building and our district is truly blessed to have her here. Thank you. So that uh community schools connection is very good. Uh Jen Fillingham, one of our long-standing custodians. Um, Jen is one of the few remaining foundational people here at Red Creek and because of that, she always seems to know what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, how it needs to be done, and then she does whatever it needs doing. Um, she's a true cornerstone to the success in our district. Always willing to help out
038and always willing to look out for the kids who need an extra. How are you doing today? It's good to see you. Uh, Jen makes all of our jobs easier. um which I agree with. And lastly, uh Mr. Briggs, elementary PE. I'm proud to nominate Mr. Briggs for an MVP award because of his extraordinary impact not only on the students and staff at Kyler Elementary, but also the students on his athletic teams. As a PE teacher and health and wellness coach, he creates a culture where movement, mindset, and motivation matter. His athletes describe him as a coach who builds character and skill. and our entire Kyler school knows him as the voice of encouragement during PE as well as during our assemblies. His work goes far beyond the gym. He promotes resilience, teamwork, and lifelong
039wellness across our district. Thank you, Mr. Briggs. >> Great. >> So, >> Mr. Venorman, is this your first IBD? >> Uh, fortunately, it is not. I I I have a couple of those. I don't remember seeing your name before. So, >> I proud myself. I do not. [laughter] Uh, somebody else writes them for me, but I um I I proudly display them on my on my shelf in my office. >> I think the board would not [clears throat] have a problem with sharing yours every time you'd [laughter] like. >> I can get you that information. >> Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to the uh minutes from the regular meeting from November 19th. >> Mrs. that again. I would like to make a motion to approve both C the minutes and D
040the financial reports >> one through five. >> Thank you. Can I have a second for that? >> Mrs. Kaiser, >> any questions? >> Mrs. Allen? >> Yes. >> Mr. Joyce? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Decker? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Damon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. FS? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Kaiser? >> Yes. and Mrs. Madigan. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Could I have a motion? >> Make a motion 81 through two and four through six. >> So everything but three. >> Everything but three. >> When she says one through two [snorts] >> because she only had to say it once. [laughter] >> So this is E1. >> One through two. It's one through six without four through six. Could I have a second please? Mrs. Folz. Thank you. Any questions on this group? >> Mrs. Kaiser? >>
041Yes. >> Mrs. F? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Damon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Decker? >> Yes. >> Mr. Joyce? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Allen? >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Madigan? >> Yes. Thank you. >> All right. Mrs. Is that E33? >> E333 second by Mrs. Allen, please. >> Yeah. Uh I mentioned this last month, right? We started to receive some retirement uh notices from from some of our teaching staff. Unfortunately, here's another one uh from Mr. Elmer in high school uh from chemistry. I think if you had an opportunity to kind of read his resignation letter, it really speaks to who he is as a person and as a teacher. Um, you know, just being able to, you know, mention how many, you know, over 2,000 students that he's had the pleasure and opportunity to to
042educate here for us. Um, you know, 27 years Terry's Terry's been a great uh employee, great teacher. Um, he's helped with Science Olympiad. He's currently in the last couple of years took over for Mr. for pits on our bowling team. Um he's, you know, advised our junior class. He's been involved with chess club. He was a PBIS coach at the high school for several years. Um he also would he probably wouldn't tell you because he's um uh just doesn't really promote himself very well. He's an alumni as a master teacher of New York State, which is an extremely select program that identifies some of the the best teachers in New York State in the fields of STEM, science, technology, and and and math. Um, you know, and and he's been an asset for us as
043a district and and our students have greatly benefited from a subject that is extremely challenging. Um, so um, kudos to to Mr. Elmer. he's, you know, he'll be sorely missed. Um, thank thank you uh for everything that he's done for us and unfortunately we have a resignation from him. So, >> okay. Thank you. Any questions? I would be able to wish them well for us. >> Absolutely. >> Are you ready? >> Mrs. Stacker, I don't want to, but you [laughter] >> Mr. Joyce, >> yes. >> Mrs. Damon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Kaiser. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Allen. >> Yes. >> Mrs. F. >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Madigan. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. For new business. Could I have a motion, please? >> Motion F1 through seven. Take a second from that
044one. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Questions? You can go first. >> Um budget calendar. >> Yep. >> I just I looked at the proposed as against um the 2526 just to kind of see if there was anything glaring and the on the 26 27 proposed the February 25th meeting occurred earlier in the month this year. So I just wanted to point that out. I'm sure it's fine, but just I wasn't sure how close we had to be with those meetings. >> That's not one of there. You're you're not wrong. There are several deadlines. That's not one that that would be subject to a hard and fast deadline. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Um I have some policy questions. Are you on F1 or two? What's that? Are you on uh F1 or F2?
045Okay. So 5681. Okay. For me, it's page three, but W the part that's all in blue. >> Um, the last sentence, districtwide school safety team may provide for state CPR training for relevant staff, including members of the building level emergency response team. It's voluntary. So, is all of the training is voluntary for our staff? it. I think what that is referencing is that the members of our emergency response team >> wouldn't be required to have [clears throat] AED training, but that we offer it to the district. >> Who is required if not our emergency? >> So, members of our emergency response team could like like Mrs. Manigan's on our um >> So, that's ironic because I asked that same question in the meeting. I said, "What was mandatory versus what's voluntary?" And it's uh the
046majority is voluntary. It's just so it's offered and encouraged is the way it was explained to me. >> So our nurses our nurses have it. All of our coaches of course have it. Uh we offer it during many of our PD days uh for staff, but that's the voluntary piece, right? Um, but I I think we're going to try to ramp up our efforts to encourage more and um, you know, we're in compliance with hands-only CPR for all students as a graduation requirement, right, >> as well, which we offer on a year-to-year basis. So, >> from what I understood though, too, is that everyone that was in a whenever we were taking students or um, uh, had some sort of trip going on or something, there was someone that had had the training. doesn't necessarily
047mean that they were mandated to have it, but we weren't sending people without training. >> Yeah. >> So, we'll hit our bus drivers as well, right? Just to be comprehensive with who's avail, you know, who's been offered and takes those trainings. >> Okay. Um 5720. Uh is this is this specific is this encompassing sports is probably my question. And so I know a lot of parents bring kids home that are not their own kids from sports with permission from Welchure. So I don't I don't know if this um covers sports. >> It would. >> Do we maybe want like I I don't know that you're going to want to do approvals prior approvals for all the parents who want to bring um their kids home. So >> I don't know that. >> This is a
048two. >> I was going to [clears throat] say this is a two. just to not from. >> Corre so the from is already in place. There's no there's no change to the from. So parents would still use that same process athletically to clear with Mr. Welchure and bring their child home or or whatever. Uh this provision would allow under select kind of circumstances parents to bring to an event. >> So I think currently what we do is that if you do not ride the bus, you cannot participate at an event. Correct. Right. But >> so this would be just looking at that piece for special circumstances. >> So like if I was going to bring Maddie to all county and you said it was okay, you would just have to approve it if there was
049some >> Well, even if I was going to bring >> Even if she was going to bring >> Oh, anybody? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yep. It's kind of a coverage thing. um more so you know I don't know how often we'll utilize it but I think it provides an outlet and proper coverage should somebody have prior to that statement being in there there was no avenue for them to be able to do that as a parent. So this would afford them an avenue. >> It's a good question to ask though since there's a second reading on this so that if you read it again with that kind of mindset if it reads differently. Can I jump in with a question on the same policy? Sure. We move. Um, when it only shows an adopted
050date, so when when was this last approved >> or updated rather? >> I mean, it would have been through our normal uh board review process in the last two years around. >> Well, that's what I thought. Yes. >> And I but then I didn't see a date. So, that's why it was I was just >> Yeah, it's a good question. >> Yeah, we can double check the date. I would imagine it would have been in the last two years, but yeah. Um, >> which data is I I can get back to you on that. >> We could add that in also, Carol, for that's fine. >> Okay. And then the last one, 7313. >> There were some typos. Wishes, the first wishes on the top. >> Are you under suspension? Um, I'm in the blue
051part. >> My copy isn't >> exhaustion. Exhaustion. >> Mhm. >> And then I think at the bottom, so the last sentence in um I think that should be 30 days, not 40 days. >> Which section are you in? >> Correct. >> Still the same bottom paragraph. Did we copy this language from the code of conduct? So, do we need to go back to the code of conduct? And >> I'll double check it. >> The code of conduct is correct. I already looked at it. >> You did? Okay. >> Thank you. >> Um, and then the verbiage that I don't see in the code of conduct, so in this second paragraph, an appeal of the decision of the superintendent will be based solely upon the long-term suspension record. And I'm not really clear on what that
052means and it's not in our code of conduct. So I don't know if that was meant to be put in here or maybe I'm just not understanding what we're trying to say. >> Where are you? I'm sorry. the last line of that paragraph with the 30-day limit, >> the second to the last sentence. Is that meant to be off of because the appeal is of a long-term suspension or off of >> so >> past record of Is that what you're trying to code of conduct? This part wasn't in the verge for the code of conduct. So, I'm not sure if it like got put in here inadvertently or what we're trying to say with it. >> I'll get to that information. >> Okay. Thank you. Because this should just be cookie cutter from the code
053of conduct into this policy so that they match. Correct. >> If there's an update from Erie one. >> Gotcha. This wasn't any one update though, I don't think, was it? It >> was not >> legal update. >> Um, okay. Let's bring that back. Okay. >> Yeah, it's in the first read. So, that's why we have two reads. >> Was there anything that we needed to talk about with the last policy that got sent out or >> like I What do you mean? >> I think in the second email >> agenda A >> Oh, yeah. A3. Was that a policy we needed to discuss or was that just like >> Oh, you're back up. I'm sorry. I was under F. So, I got She's talking about this one that you updated us on. Um, so that
054uh we we've received a request to I think I put in my transmitt um to ensure that seniors if they start basically if they start their senior year I don't have the verbatim in front of me uh is there a mechanism in place to allow those students to remain here as seniors even if they happen not to be residents at some point during their senior year. Um, so when I went back and looked at our policy 7132, uh, under exception A, there there is a clause that that would allow for the continuation of that student to remain at Red Creek. It doesn't specify senior. It's it's open-ended on in the policy. the request was specifically for seniors uh grade 12. Um so that's that I believe that there currently is a mechanism that would allow
055a student if they became a non-resident to complete the year regardless of grade level fresh you know kindergarten up UPK through 12th grade. >> So we're not looking to make any changes. So, it's just like an FYI. >> So, I think it's an FYI. I I think it's confusing because we have not we haven't made the change to go back and forth with this current board, but the um tuition based situation has come up with among this board a dozen times just while I've been on it. we've accepted student students outside of the district um with a base tuition set and then we haven't and it's going back [clears throat] and forth. And then several years ago now uh there was the discussion that if a senior was a resident for just one day after
056the school had opened that they would be allowed to continue being part of the senior class if they had their own transportation. We would not be going outside of the district to transport. Um and I told Mr. Van Orman. My recollection which is nowhere found on paper I found was that that was um that was tuition free that they were they were allowed only as a senior and that was the only thing that we were accepting. This policy which I I did not catch says that there is a small fee per month um for se well for any student it seems like to continue if they were a resident um at one time during that year. Now I personally think it probably needs to be looked at at some point because we're not accepting students
057outside of the district that will pay tuition. Um, and I don't this is a little contradictory to that. >> I think when we discussed it as a because I think this is a policy we looked at and I think part of the reason that we left it in there was so that like for consistency for students. So if I'm in second grade and I have two months left of the year, I'm not getting pulled out of a classroom and plopped in with a whole new school. I I think it's probably good for our students to be able to have that consistency. >> Well, and I think I think that clarification helps and then if it's a it's a onetime thing or you have to be back in the district by the following year and you
058know for me I just think like well that's a that's a tuition thing and we have traditionally not been for a while accepting um students paying tuition. So >> I think it's fine if it's the way that it is. And was that when you guys discussed this as a policy is that when the dollar amount was set or was that already already in there. >> Okay. I haven't looked at that in a long time. So, [clears throat] so anyway, I think it was I think it was more brought up as a question. Um, and again, I know in the past that it's been it was not um was not always necessarily with a dollar amount associated with it. So, did we always want to continue doing that? Would there be an exception for a senior?
059You know, if it was your senior year, would it be different than if you were in second grade? you know, whatever the situation may be. But I think it was just more of a more of a bringing it up because it wasn't I don't think it was completely clear to the um to the person that filled out the um the public forum comment. Yeah. >> So, is there an action item with this? >> There is not question. >> Okay. Other questions? Just a comment that I will not be here at the budget workshop on April 8th stated a few times now. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Noted. >> I'll probably do one more time. >> Any other questions when you're ready? >> Mrs. B. Yes. >> Mrs. Allen. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Kaiser. >> Yes.
060>> Mrs. Damon. >> Yep. >> Mr. Joy. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Decker? >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Madigan? Yes. Thank you. Okay, moving on. Uh, any questions on the administrative reports? >> I just have a question on the athletic report. Um, are all of the winter teams um filled? Like is every sport filled for athletes? Okay. >> Yes. >> Are we are we still doing athlete of the month also for sports? >> Okay. >> Yeah. I was sending those pictures, but those pictures end up on the public part of it and they have the students names on. So, I could give you guys that information and maybe the picture without the certificate with their first and last name on it. That's why I hadn't shared the last couple. [laughter] >> You're sitting next to one
061right now. >> Yeah, maybe including those in our reports [clears throat] would be nice to see. Thank you. >> We'll do >> other questions. Um, I just a comment to Mr. Gaffne. Um, thank you for the feedback on the academic recovery portion. That was um, good to hear and I think a good good idea. Thank you for including that. >> I also had Mr. Gaffne. Now, maybe question, maybe comment. Um, the high school buyback is that new where we're letting students buyback days. >> Yes and no. Okay. >> Um, we had done that before. >> Okay. >> When I was a high school principal here. Um but since then I don't know we they haven't had academic recovery so it's brand new again. >> Okay. >> So I haven't started that yet because academic recovery
062this year because of the capital project was in October. >> So it's hard to kind of put that into play but I'm looking to put that additional piece into play for the spring and it'll be an encouragement not a mandate. It'll be more of a conversational piece not like you owe this or that. But it'll allow them to still get credit instead of correct losing it which I >> and hopefully you know build a program and be a deterrent to like hey maybe it's better come to class. >> Um I appreciate that on all the aspects. So thank you guys. I know it's probably a lot to get off the ground but thank you because that'll be great. And also thank you to Jen because the grant writing has been phenomenal and I appreciate all
063that you're doing to help in tons of different areas for our kids. So thank you is always a team effort. We're lucky to have some great resources in our region. just about >> I just before we keep going um for anybody that didn't open their card here yet before they walk out afterwards thank you very much to the administrators that assuming that some one of you like got them here so thank you really nice of you merry Christmas to you guys too um I think Mr. Nash is super excited to talk. So, let me hear it. Athlete of the week or month or >> um so in October I asked you guys a question that was going to go out to the student body. Um that question got asked through um school schooly um from
064November 17th through November 21st. And that question was how can our school enhance extracurricular activities to better align with student interests and needs? So we got about 40 responses. Um we had So [clears throat] you got to rate out of five how much you agreed with with those um responses and um we had about 350 like ratings but um the questions were repeated for those ratings. The top three ratings [clears throat] top three results. Yeah. like top three rated results where um more the first one was to allow students to give input on which extracurriculars should be offered for the next year. Um that got 25 ratings with 4.3 out of five stars. The second one was give more funding and help to clubs and things that already exist. That had 27 ratings and a
065rating of 4.1 out of five. And then the third one was allow students to advocate for new sports. That had 26 ratings and that was four out of five stars. The next steps would be to meet with the high school principal, Mr. Venorman, and the athletic director to go over procedure and how to allow students to speak up for these new extracurricular activities. That's >> Eden. Who did you survey? Um it was it it got sent out through uh uh parent square student square um and it was to grades 9 through 12. Okay. >> So do you think that there's any way you could have gotten more responses? Um >> four days isn't enough for your colleagues out here? >> We I think we could have probably made a little flyer or something. >> Could
066have rallied people at lunch. [laughter] >> Well, I was I was telling everybody who was listening. [laughter] So yeah. >> Will you compare these to the other student reps from other schools? >> Um yeah. So I can pull up. >> Oh, you already did compare. >> I >> because there was two questions, right? So you'll compare against the other school districts that asked the same question. >> So there were Yeah. So >> I was just wondering if you saw any similarities between >> Yeah. So a lot of the other So I didn't get a ton of them from like around here. Um a lot of them were the bigger schools in our area. So they got got a lot more participation, but the closest we had was by the Red Jacket, which is kind of
067similar to our size. They had 65 and we had 42 participants. So and we another one was Um like I don't know we there w there wasn't a ton who had a similar size. A lot of them were bigger and like we're able multiple uh students also. >> So we have uh Aiden and I in January will be heading down to Boseis. uh they're going to do a full day kind of a debrief on the data collection of those surveys and then kind of breaking out those next steps and and you know what do we do with it now that we have this information what do we what are the next steps when we got to get involved so A and I have had some chats about that as well but this will be a
068good opportunity in January I think it's January 20th um for us to kind of hear from some of the other schools what are they doing we can kind of troubleshoot with each as we as we try to get that off the ground. So, >> great job. >> Any other questions for Aiden? [snorts] >> Thank you very much, Mr. >> Yeah, as uh Mrs. Madigan mentioned uh in front of each one of you should have a a little holiday card and uh a little holiday gift um that you guys get the advanced screening because it's Wednesday. The faculty and staff will be picking theirs up tomorrow. So you are the first >> I shouldn't have said anything. >> Yeah. No, they [laughter] they're already aware that they're getting them. We just have to >> control the
069handout of them. Uh so you know I would just like to extend uh a happy holidays to to everybody on the board and and hopefully you have restful time with your families back under your care for the next two weeks. Um, you know, I it it's been great over the last >> [laughter] >> uh >> take your kids home >> over the last two weeks. Uh had the the pleasure and opportunity to to attend our holiday concerts which just have been outstanding. Um you know, in our new auditorium space was kind of just the cherry on the top for for all the work that our that our music teachers do. Mrs. Wickwoods, Miss White, Mrs. Little. Um, you know, and we were talking, I had an opportunity to talk to Mrs. Little yesterday. They almost
070start over every single year because it's like a new group, new music, new new everything. So, you know, our numbers are strong in our in our music programs and they do an outstanding job. Um, you know, we have people that watch online, which has been a nice uh addition over the last few years. So, you know, kudos to our teachers and our musicians for putting on great holiday concerts this year. So, >> okay. >> And then, um, as always, our attendance and, uh, enrollment data, you know, I I alluded to enrollment kind of remained flat. you know, technically it was down two two students o overall, but uh compared to the decrease that we saw last year at this time, we we made some gains um in in terms of that. So, um we're keeping
071an eye on it. >> And last meeting we talked about like looking at the reasons behind has there been any over the past month or not quite yet? Uh nothing substantial. Again, the the homeschool numbers don't stand out to us. Um as anything significantly different than what we've had previously. Um so it it [sighs and gasps] I think you know maybe there's some greater community type you know reasons you know we don't get an exit reason when folks leave. Uh actually Mr. Diosi and I talked today about trying to get some sort of a notice for our administrators when a kid exits our system. We don't get notice when they exit. We get notice when they enroll uh the the the counseling staff and the special education department, but we don't get notice if uh
072Northrose Woolit attempts to enroll a student. uh we send the records and they come off our come off our school tool system, but we don't get a notice. >> So maybe the notice will kind of give us more something that we talked about just today was like that notice that notification that somebody's leaving the district might prompt us to go I wonder what you know like >> what's going on with that. So >> I think when we when we look at the fact that we were down two from November or excuse me from October to November >> doesn't seem like you know a big deal but then >> like November 24 to November 25 is a much bigger um you know number yeah difference. Thank you. So, and I realize this is not unique to
073our school district, but I think it would I think it would be helpful to un for better understanding if we knew so like an an exit interview when you leave a job. So, an exit, you know, strategy of when a student is leaving our district, is it because they're they're homeschooling is because they're moving, what is the reason? So, that just helps the analytics for better understanding this report. >> Yeah, I think >> and knowing No, I'm sorry too. And just to say like and to know strategically is there anything that can be done [clears throat] to move in the opposite direction. >> Sure. Uh, you know, I think what's a little different than a job is often times they have a two week notice, >> you know, an employer, right? You have to give
074your two weeks notice or 30 days notice. Sometimes we don't get noticed that a kid has moved to another district until they're already enrolled in the other district. >> Um, so trying to track some of that information, not all the time. Some of it might be uh a bit of a challenge, not not impossible, but that's why trying to put some notifications in place of when when folks are leaving. Sometimes they don't advertise it. >> What are um there's still a person um from Boseies in the data management. Do we have someone? >> We do not. >> Okay. I was just thinking >> we have some in-house support under Mrs. Dein's uh toutelage. >> Okay. I was just thinking, you know, obviously if a student leaves the district, it's probably one of just a handful
075of reasons. If we're not getting a notification from another district, then they either left the state um or they're being homeschooled. Um, so I'm just wondering if it would be worth kind of even if for a short window of time putting someone on that to say, "Okay, let's we could easily find out that information." >> Yeah. Or, you know, um because I >> I know this isn't just a rectory problem, but it is um something that I think we also need to approach from the opposite like not just how can we keep them from leaving, but how can we get them here? >> And we have a lot of challenges with housing. I understand that we want to bring people here, but I do think it's worth having more conversations. opening up the can of
076worms right now, maybe dedicating some time about like are there ways that we can get um teachers and their families here. Are can we provide some incentive to teachers? Um and I realize that comes with their own challenges, but I think it's it's something that I think it's time to really kind of take some time and really delve into this because I'm just really nervous about and again I'm not saying it's a red crease problem at all. I'm just saying that I think we can maybe look at this a little bit deeper. Um >> I agree. >> Okay, >> good point. >> Yeah. >> Uh next up, just uh an update on the community center advisory board as as if and when those names change, we have been trying to bring those forward to you.
077Uh so the town of Wukit uh representative changed recently. So, but it shows uh full board again. So, we're we're good on that. And then uh district safety plan. Every every spring we open this up as a draft and then we do a public comment 30-day public comment session uh with a public hearing as required by law and then and then the board uh votes to approve our safety plan typically right around the reorganizational meeting time early July. Um this year we have to re we've already done that. You folks have already done that in July 3org meeting, but because of DESHA's law, that AED piece, it's requiring a change to our safety plan because the safety plan does not include the AED stuff that we just talked about. So, we need to in order
078to stay in compliance, we have to reopen another 30-day public hearing. We're going to hold a uh uh we have to hold open the 30-day public comment se uh session. We have to hold another public hearing uh which we'll hold on January 14th and we'll publicize that out. And then um at the January 21st board meeting, we would ask the board to to reapprove that safety plan um to stay in compliance both with the laws on law and the law the laws around safety plan adoption. >> The only difference between what we approved in July and this version is that we >> Yeah, correct. >> Thank you. Um, so I have a question with feedback about that. Do we have to open it back up for public comment and reapprove anytime? Yes. Any anytime a
079name changes? Because I saw like it wasn't highlighted to us as an as a revision, but the SRO was changed. So I don't know how significant that data is as opposed to an actual piece of the safety plan. >> I believe it's just the content. So, let's say for example that uh the board rep if um if I wasn't on the board anymore and you stepped in, that would just be the name change, >> not a reason. >> Yeah, just the content piece of it because that name is going to change again January 5th. Okay, got it. Thank you. >> Any other questions on that? >> I have nothing else. >> Okay. All right, we're going to move down. Um that late edition was because I forgot to put it on there. So, we're just
080going to uh talk about if everybody had an opportunity to look at the NISBA link um to look at those sessions. I just thought it might be uh worth having just a general conversation, anything that stood out to you, anything that you think would be helpful, maybe something that we, you know, we could dig into a little bit if we think it would help the group. Um, a personal comment if you didn't because it wasn't one of the choices, but I picked the kindness 101. If you haven't seen that before, it's on CBS Mornings. It's fantastic. Um, but uh, anybody want to offer up anything for any of the three? >> Okay. >> Um, I'll start let's start with a cell phone law. How about that? So, my personal opinion on that is it's I
081thought that it was a good piece that she offered, but it looks like we're really not going to be able to do till too much until we have a little bit more data, which is probably not going to be for several more months. Um Um I did I did like it, but it does sound like it's going to be more, at least from the way that she stepped it out, a little bit more on the process end within the school to deliver back kind of how things are working and what we can do. But I did appreciate uh the section on getting student input >> about how um having a cell phone or not having a cell phone during the day is affecting them. [snorts] >> So I also noticed that she talked a lot
082about the student input. I know we already have a policy in place, but maybe we could get some student input towards the end of the year to see if there are things that we could shift and still fall within the requirement. And I think it it's really great that she pointed it out because I don't know that we really ask for student input and policies, but I think there could be some I know we do stakeholder groups with staff and um community members, but um I think if we have an opportunity to get student input, it will probably get more buy in and make it, you know, a little bit more gentle maybe. Um, >> maybe we're not in a bad spot though either because it's the first time. So, we could give this as
083kind of like the trial period and then maybe towards the end of the year, the current students that want to give some feedback might help us for next year and maybe to revisit that policy. >> I think it's going to be interesting as the years progress, assuming this law stays in place, um, that we may not it may not be such a focus area because students are coming in with the expectation I can't use my phone. It's just kind of a norm. So, um I don't just just something I was thinking about throughout but like the regulation pieces that she talked about like teaching them how to regulate because right now it's really just black and white. You don't have it while you're at school, it's put away and then they get it back at
084home but still don't really have that self-regulation that we we might be able to help teach them. You know, we we can see the benefits. I know the kids it sounds like kids talk more in the cafeteria. a little bit more robust conversation. So maybe if we can like help with that side of things to teach them how to see the benefits and self-regulate a little bit better outside of school. Um the district goal setting one I thought was really interesting. I know we're not really at a point because we're already three of our strategic plan or four. >> Um so but I thought it was really um informative. So when we get to the point probably in the next year, uh I will probably revisit that because I think I think it had a
085lot of good input and structures around it. So >> I thought that figuring out your why. I thought that that was a good a good approach to that. Um, I uh I think it's something definitely to maybe incorporate into maybe the binders or in that goal setting process because um I thought Jamie did a good job of continuing to bring it back to that same question. I think that's that's a good strategy >> for that one. I I thought it was good. there was like um a visual. So maybe that visual could you could go back and reference that. >> Okay. What about the uh building bridges? >> I did not get to that one. Can we can we keep this? Um >> we can >> so that we can watch other ones if we
086want and and bring >> Yeah, because you're excited. The kindest one is really good. Um yeah, absolutely. Um anybody want to share anything on that one? If you I think there was a lot about uh trusting your team and walking in being trustful first, which I think is important. [cough and clears throat] Um maybe we could, you know, discuss that one next time or something when everybody has an opportunity to look at it. Sounds good. >> Um, but if you do watch another one and you think that, you know, maybe it's something that would benefit um, somebody or all of us, I don't think that this is a bad way to kind of open up some discussions and have an opportunity, things like that. You know, next time we review the cell phone policy, do
087we have, you know, more input from the students or um, just a different way to look at things? All right. Okay. Um, unless you have anything else? >> I have nothing else. Sorry. >> I would um take a motion to move to an executive session for a particular personnel matter and a student appeal, Mrs. Kaiser, and a second by Mrs. Folz. Thank you very much. Good.