001States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Please make sure that your phones are turned off or on silent. All right. Not on the agenda, but we're going to take a quick minute to introduce the new Mr. Joyce. Just kidding. Uh Mr. Venorman, do you want to introduce Aiden? >> Yeah, absolutely. uh pleased uh for the first time that I'm aware of uh Red Creek has the um privilege of having a student ex exeicio member on our school board. So our first student school board member here is Aiden Nash. Uh Aiden Aiden is here tonight uh and will start kind of serving his one-year term for us. Um Aiden, you would like to say hello to the to
002the board. >> Hi everybody. Way to put him on the spot. >> Yes. Well, we we talked about a couple things. So, um we're kind of getting Aiden off the ground. This is a new initiative across the state to have all schools have student board member and uh you know, some schools have had student board members for for quite a while. We have not. Uh so uh Aiden and I have spent quite a bit of time together in the last week or two trying to figure out what this might look like and and what kind of his role and responsibilities are. Um you know Aiden uh has gone to some training. Uh Aiden and myself went to some training last week at Boseies with all the student leaders from across our Boseies region. We have
003a bunch more student trainings uh signed up. Uh there's some additional trainings through NISSBA and opportunities uh for leadership. It's not just about uh teaching and educating students about how board meetings are run. It's it's really about leadership and uh networking opportunities. So, you know, Aiden and the 24 other student leaders from across our region, you know, they're fine outstanding leaders from from our from our school systems. And I think having a voice a student voice on our board will be beneficial to us. Um, so I'm looking forward to to bringing Aiden and the student voice forward to the board. Um, so tonight we start that process. >> Welcome, Aiden. >> Thank you. >> Um, and I'm not sure if Mr. Vorman told you, but we don't all wear red every single board meeting. So
004the fact that you blend in with the administration is fine, but don't not come because you don't have a red shirt. >> You look great. >> You do you look You look better than the rest of us. So, >> all right. Great. Okay. We're going to um move on to uh see the minutes of the regular meeting from July 24th. Could I have a motion, please? Mrs. Kaiser and a second by Mrs. Dingman. Any questions, corrections to these? Okay. All in favor? >> Any oppose? Any abstensions? Okay. Moving on. Um I would take a >> I'll take a motion to approve all of D the financial reports. >> Perfect. Thank you. statement and I'm second by Mrs. Folz. Any questions on this group when you're ready? >> Okay. >> Mrs. Kaiser, >> yes. >> Mrs.
005Fols, >> yes. >> Mrs. Damon, >> Mrs. Decker, >> yes. >> Mrs. Allen, >> yes. >> And Mrs. Madigan, >> yes. Thank you. Okay, moving on to the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the whole entire consent agenda. That's E1 through five. >> Thank you, Mrs. Digman. You're >> welcome. Second by Mrs. Decker. [Applause] >> Any questions on this group? >> Okay, when you're ready. >> Y Mrs. Stacker. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Damon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Kaiser? Yes, >> Mrs. Allen. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Bulbs. >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Madigan. >> Yes. >> Before we go on, I just like to say congratulations to Mrs. Smith. So, [Applause] >> totally appropriate that you're also wearing red. >> I had nothing to do with >> Yeah, I bet >> the email that
006came out last night said, "You better all have red on tomorrow." All right, moving on to uh new business. Could I have a motion for >> I'll make a motion one through five. >> Perfect. Thank you, Mrs. Dingman. Second by Mrs. Kaiser. >> Any questions on this group? >> I have one. I don't know if I didn't see Was there an update today? I see the um F5 the star makes me think it's new. >> It's uh was it our FI? So, it's new. Uh we don't have enough numbers for a JV team and and we had discussed this. Actually, I was going to make a comment to this board that um I think that we're going to probably have to have some discussions in the future about what we're doing about combined sports programs
007and how that's going to be handled as you know the numbers aren't always great and we want to make sure that we can offer students as many opportunities as we can. So, that might take um some creativity on the superintendent's part and you know potentially working with other school districts. Neat. comments to that or >> that would be great. >> Thank you. >> Sure. Mr. Welchure would love to reach out to other districts when the time >> I got that in. It looks like a matter of fact today. >> Yeah, it's always Yeah, it's always it's always tricky, right? Each year some of those things the es and flows of graduating classes and student population trying to drill down into why students are or are not signing up for sports. But when we have small
008populations of kids and then a couple kids decide or they're injured or they move away or they decide not to play, the impact that it has on a larger group of kids, I think is challenging. I think it also is is challenging to, you know, when when we unfortunately make the decision not to have JV teams because of numbers, it now brings ninth graders up and having to play on varsity level teams and maybe they're not physically ready or mature enough at that point. So, you know, the ability to maybe partner or to find some sustainable models that that would allow our kids at age appropriate opportunities would be, you know, on a more consistent basis would be great. >> Yeah, >> it was my question. So, okay. Thanks. >> Anything else in this group?
009When you're ready, Mrs. Foss? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yes. >> Mrs. Kaiser. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Damon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stucker. >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Madigan. >> Yes. Thank you. >> All right. Administrative reports. Any questions on these? >> I just wanted to um say that I just really encourage um looking at Mr. um some of these um numbers. I just want to say congratulations to you, the entire team on that. Um I was curious about the um the math six uh change just because that was such a dramatic change as opposed to last year there's any insight into that at all. So we're early in that analysis process. So the teams actually just looked at their gap analysis work in that just this week. Um so hopefully by my October data presentation
010we a little more information on that. Usually the data isn't released this early, so we're really encouraged that our staff have been able to see a little bit more of it this summer. Um, hoping that they can get to action related to that. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Great. Um couple before I get started on my my numbers one, two, and three, we are uh based on the approval that the board has just granted. Uh academically, staff-wise, um I believe currently we are fully staffed to open school. Uh with all of our, again, all of our teachers are certified in the areas in which they're teaching in, which is no small feat. um and all of our teaching positions um have been have been filled for the year. So, we're in a really
011good spot right now. Uh thankfully, uh you know, the end of the summer is always kind of a mad dash to kind of wrap those things up as as there's kind of moves and shakes around. Uh so, kudos to the team for their hard work and dedication to making sure that we can uh bring some high quality educators to fill those um gaps. Um, >> great job. >> Some of the names you've seen on there are familiar faces, some of them are new. So, kind of uh a smattering of both. Um, I wanted to bring to your attention uh we we did this last year uh as we had gone through the community center advisory board just with the reassignments of the committees from our last board meeting. Just kind of an update. the the
012community center advisory board went through their annual election process and and uh selecting their their presidents and and uh so they're fully fully staffed so to speak and uh those are the the names of the people that are serving our community center. So >> great >> um draft uh presentation schedule uh brought something similar to you folks last year at this time uh each board meeting. The goal is to have one presentation at each board meeting and I'm really looking for some kind of highlevel updates uh at those board meetings. In addition to these uh presentations, there is no schedule for recognitions because sometimes the recognitions are kind of uh they just come upon us, right? Things things occur that deserve, you know, students or staff that deserve attention and um recognition. So, I didn't
013include a recognition ceremony uh schedule, but our presentation schedule is is is what you're seeing there. uh similar to what we have done in previous years, three budget presentations that would fall right in line with our budget process. Uh I heard good feedback I thought last year from the board on those end of the year kind of follow-ups from each of the principles as kind of an end of the year wrap up on on maybe initiatives and some data that would flow in um throughout the things. Um as Mrs. Deini alluded to, uh October is normally the time of the year Mrs. Deini and our teams have had an opportunity to dive into that first wave of that academic data. So, I wanted to kind of keep that where that was. Um, I know over
014the course of time there's been some questions. We've, um, Miss Vento and her team have done a lot of work around changing some of our programs at the special education. Um and then my thinking was kind of middle of the year I would give a whole overview uh state of the union kind of a uh an update. So welcome welcome uh open to feedback on those um you know should there be any questions to draft nobody has to vote on it. You don't have to approve it. If there's if there's certain things that the board would like to see that are not represented here on a broad scale, please let me know and we can we can work. I tried not to put more than one presentation at a night just for for flow and
015and time considerations, but uh uh I'll welcome feedback offline or online if if you folks um have any. So, and then lastly for me, uh I just thought it was important to share with with you folks kind of a listing. Again, not something that you need to approve. A list of many of our service providers or vendors that we contract with for outside support. Many of these are for mental health student support programs. And I tried to list you'll see on-site on the back end and in and a number 1.0 would mean five days a week they're on site point4 would mean two days a week on site essentially. Um 6 would be three days a week on site. Uh but you can see kind of the the wide range of supports and I tried
016to identify if they were grant funded from us or if they were um a service that we purchased through our Boseies uh consortiums. So, um, you see quite a bit of of support on there, right? These these are a lot of supports, a lot of extra hands that go into either planning or day-to-day support and assistance either on our MTSS teams. Uh, you know, the community schools coordinators having three of those. You'll see that like at our back to school bash and some of those events that we have coming up next week. So, um, just wanted to share those those names and titles and and and work with you there. So, >> questions? >> Thank you >> on any of that. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. So, uh, moving on. Um, there's a copy,
017um, of the new committee assignments that are in your folder. Thank you, Amanda, for that. Along with that, um there was a comment made in the past that more information in your binder um is better to refer to. So, I did ask Amanda if she would make everyone a copy of another copy if you don't have it of the bravery sheet and also of the uh the kind of role of a board member and the um the viewpoint. So, just something to refer back to. It's probably um >> Yeah, it's it's at the beginning of your folders. It's in the laminated sheet. Probably new to Mr. Joyce. Um but he's not here tonight. So um uh just for something to refer back to if you um if you'd like to. Uh I sent out an
018email um about the uh district and board goals for this coming year. Um just wondering if we had any feedback on that. and I figured we could take the next half an hour and have a discussion about that and what those look like so that we could get that done. Um, I did hear back from a couple of people about the email, but I'm just wondering if there was any other feedback. I need to pull it up on my phone. I'm sorry, my computer's dead. >> Um, >> can we go back to committees super quick? I just have a question. I noticed that on the audit committee had said one meeting to discuss audit results in October. I don't remember there being like a specified um meeting schedule for audit. So, is that something new
019that was added to the audit committee? >> That's the the one where um the gentleman comes in and discusses the audit with us. >> So, maybe it's been there and I just missed it because then I noticed that like the quarterly meetings were um added to policy. So, I didn't know if those were the only two committees that were determined that there's going to be like scheduled meetings for those two in those areas. >> Yeah, I I don't have the old one off the off hand. So, um maybe the audit committee wasn't listed specifically before, but that would be our typical >> audit committee meeting >> on the October 5th 15th meeting. >> So, it's normally like about 30 minutes, 30 or 40 minutes before that meeting. you know, at that meeting, the board would
020accept the audit results. Um, the audit will be starting here, >> next week. Um, which is great because it's normally in September. So, uh, we have to upload those in into the state portal, but we would normally meet with with Ray Wagger's office, uh, prior, you know, at six o'clock prior to the 6:30 meeting. Okay. >> Um, >> Got it. So I think that was the intent behind that language. >> The quarterly meeting information was just updated. Yeah. As obviously the policy committee wasn't the entire board up until just recently. >> Did you have any other >> questions before I bounce back? >> Nope. >> Okay. So um if there's nothing to start with, let's just jump into um the board of education goals that I sent out. Um so the uh committee charters the
021number two is completed. Um both one and three were not. So um I would be happy to keep those in place. Do we have to have three? >> We do not. So what if we just took the two that we didn't complete last year and use those of completing them this year. >> Other thoughts? >> I would agree with Stephanie. Would it be possible? I know we did the charters, but it kind of felt like jumbled up I feel in my brain. Could you summon up again some point when you think about >> I wonder if we should do like um like a subcategory or like just add on to like the established onboarding process for new board members. Um, but we might also want to include if we're going to always have a student
022board member. Um, just the wording new board members and student board member >> because that process is going to look different than a regular board member. Well, and I think right now it's a little bumpy and messy because it's new, but like once Aiden gets through this, we'll all have a better idea of like and Aiden will probably be able to offer pretty good feedback like Aiden, what do you wish you knew coming into this, you know, after a couple of months. So, when somebody comes in next year, we can kind of prep them a little bit better and just kind of have an idea of what they actually need. Yeah. >> One of the things Aiden and I talked about this afternoon was even the possibility of like a um a backup >> student
023board member, right? I mean, oftent times the students that are that are elected to or selected to these positions lead very busy lives. Um they're seniors. There's a lot going on their senior year. They could be working. They could be in sports. Uh so you know is there a need or an opportunity to bring a second student board member on that maybe kind of serves as an understudy um in that way maybe they they share those duties and responsibilities you know I think Aiden is going to face a lot of questions he's going to be the go-to popular person at the school from all the students like boom boom boom hammering them with a lot of questions having that divided out maybe among two students might also have some validity as well. So, you know,
024blending that in somewhere might be important. >> Okay. Um, other thoughts about >> I would agree with just keeping the two. I mean, considering that we only did one, it might be ambitious for us to just keep the two this year. And I think there um, you know, there's a lot of work involved there. Um, That's my feedback. I think I'm good. >> I set up some timelines, some realistic timelines of what this looks like. >> Well, I have a plan for that. Um, the only thing I would say also is I think if we were willing to take on a third, and actually this was in a conversation with Mr. Venorman about potentially setting a calendar for professional development for board members. Um, the only reason I say that maybe that's a next year
025goal is because our next topic is going to include the cost of some of these items that are are being asked about for professional development. And if that um is kind of considered ahead of time, then we won't have to do it at the year of and trying to decide where um where our money should be spent. So, um, doesn't have to be this year, but I I think it might be a good idea, uh, moving forward. So, all right. Um, okay. Okay. So, as far as the timelines, it's really challenging. I believe, at least in my opinion, um that when I send an email out or um uh try to get some feedback and trying to not violate and any open meetings law um for everybody to have a chance to go through it
026and then also um get back to the group in a timely manner. So my suggestion would be that we uh chunk this off in pairs um or smaller groups and try to do it that way um and then uh give the deadline of whatever it is the next board meeting or something like that. Um not everybody has to be involved and we could do it for example if Mrs. Folds and I take a first dab at the board handbook for the next meeting and then the following before the following meeting um Mrs. Decker and Mrs. Dingman do the same thing. Um I just think that uh trying to meet with everything as a group. We've even tried um you know the uh Google Docs and that's been unsuccessful as well. So any thoughts to that?
027>> I think that makes sense. like conquer and divide, divide and conquer. >> You know what I mean? >> I think it works both ways. So that's fine. Conquer and divide. Divide and >> refresh my memory on why Google Docs didn't work for this because I think because you you started it, right? >> So the issue with it not being a school a recruit school account. I think there was an issue >> and not everyone could participate. >> Okay. >> So >> but they just would have to be added. I think that's just you know folks not understanding >> you know Google. So, um, you know, maybe that's something that the tech director can sit down with folks. >> Yeah. I mean, if it worked, it would have been great. >> Is a fantastic tool
028for this. And I know that Mrs. Folds and I um did add to this, but I think that's where it stopped. >> If we can figure that out, that might be helpful because then we can all see the additions and the edits as like as a working document. So that might be something to look into. >> Yeah, I I think that that's I think that would be a good possibility maybe after we try it this way if if we could agree and I only say that because I think what'll happen is we'll continue to lose time while we wait for people to get um technologically updated. Um, so it's something that we could work on, but I sometimes I think it's uh if we assign it to someone for the first task, it might be
029a little bit easier to make some progress. Maybe at that point after a couple people go through it, we can we can try to make sure everybody does what they need to do to be able to um get into that document. But I know myself um I was one of few that could get in there. So >> well so one other option could be if you're having that first round like say it's you and I for example working on it we could work on it and then put what we have in a Google doc for people to share their feedback if that would be something that maybe would >> and that would provide people with a little bit more time because it really I know that there's something Google doc people >> why I'm looking
030at >> but it really is >> she's looking at >> it does make things a lot more efficient and people can chime with their feedback without actually changing the document like adding notes. So I really do think it would be beneficial if we could get >> I'm not anti- Google. >> So Micros Microsoft also has a very similar platform. So if if if >> if one of them is a barrier it's it's basically the exact same thing on Microsoft. >> Um >> which may be a little more user friendly from the login standpoint. I don't know. So, is the plan to go through it as pairs or small groups and then get together with all of the feedback? >> No, I think >> hopefully brief meeting. >> No. So, I'm going to volunteer Mrs. Fold.
031So, if Mrs. Folds and I go through the first round of this at then we would push it out to the rest of the group before the next board meeting hoping hopeful that everyone would be able to access Google Docs and put your feedback in that way. Um, I know last year the municipal conference I went to a meeting on or one of the things was on this. I think I sent out the information. Did you guys want me to send it out again? Like they had sample books and like sample handbooks and on boarding processes and >> Sure. >> I remember you send it in but if you have public access to it. >> Thank you. >> Other thoughts? You want to do that? >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. So, Mrs. Folds and
032I will take the first round. Um, set it up through Google Docs again >> or we can do the what Mr. >> Microsoft whatever works. Um, and >> pick one and stick with it. >> Someone techsavvy. >> I >> Well, since we all have a Microsoft account in school, I think it makes sense just to use that. >> That's right. >> That would make Mr. Robbins very smiley if we did Microsoft. >> Um, >> Eric doesn't know yet, but I can't get into my computer. So, >> I would charge all of the board members um let's just try to make sure that uh Stephanie or Mrs. Fold and I will have it out prior to the next board meeting. If you could take a look at it, we'll try to give a week, let's say,
033>> um a week to give your feedback. Let's use that as the living document to work off of >> and um that'll be an opportunity for us to to make some more headway on this and then um we can approach the next step at the next meeting. So, if that's another set of two or three um that need to go through it individually or maybe once everybody's online to this, it it might work. So, um if you have problems, don't contact Mrs. Kaiser. She will not help you. Um okay. So, we'll we'll start with that one. The other one was the onboarding process. Again, I would I would say the same thing. Um, as far as approach, >> do we already have something started? Like I because I know we have like the the bones
034of this handbook already, but do we have something already started for on boarding? >> So we have um what I believe Dr. Maluso gave us as an example. Well, like if Elizabeth was saying that she has examples from the conference, like there's no point in reinventing the wheel. Like why don't we take >> Right. Well, I also done and work off of that and like edit it for us. >> Yeah. I also sent out the copy uh that the board president or the former board president from Clyde Savannah gave me to the group. So that would also be a starting point. Um, is anyone interested in taking a stab at starting that kind of in the same fashion? Put your hands down. All right, Aiden, I guess that's you. Um, >> he's like, "Got to
035get me out of here." >> All right, so Mrs. Folds, we could probably do them together. >> Um, >> good job, guys. >> Go getters. Okay, we'll have something for you a week before the next meeting. All right, district goals. I noticed that the district goals that were listed mirror the strategic plan which we're supposed to be following until 2027. >> Yes, ma'am. >> And >> that was purposeful. >> It sure is. >> So, I'm not sure why we would update that since the strategic plan I would agree with you. >> Say keep them the same. >> Check. >> I'd be fine with keeping them the same. >> You just say yes. >> I think overarchingly they're they're >> they hit some of the the the fine points that we're looking to hit, right? Um
036you know, we should always be looking at our academic performance. We should always be looking at culture and communication whether it's a goal or whether it's you know uh we those are those are things that we should be focusing on anyway. So I think it makes sense a that they're in our strategic plan that we're following our strategic plan and they're aligning our goals and our strategic plan and the work and the vision that we you know that we subscribe to. So we've been intentional with that work. The hope would be that we would continue uh down that path. >> The one thing I didn't see is talking about safety. >> Um one might say that's under culture and communication, but there's not anything that specifically talks about safety. >> What if we um >>
037just updated number one? You want it to be a separate one? >> No, it was like what if we update number one to say to create a safe or create a positive culture safe environment. >> Like literally just add safe in front of the word environment. What do you guys think? >> Get behind safety. >> Okay. So, okay. What other thoughts? Just realized I missed the number three on number three. you know, at some at some point and as as M. Stingman indicated, right, the strategic plan goes for another bit, but we're going to have to begin at some point talking about what the next iteration of that looks like, whether there's another strategic plan initiative or or some some evolution of that. Uh, you know, generally when when you go through a full strategic
038plan review, you hire an outside consulting group and they would come in and solicit the surveys and the feedback and review the data and help you kind of pair into, you know, these these focus areas um that you see in front of you there. And then you normally would kind of hold on to those tenants for five years, give or take. Um, so we're year three or four through that process with with this group of of vision. So, you know, having having a discussion before it expires and then having a plan so that there is not a gap that there's not a lapse in in what we're moving forward with. um because it'll take some time to get if if we want to go in that direction and hire a consulting firm. It's going to
039take some time to solicit them. We're going to have to to to bring in some um of those people and they'll do a presentation and we can select and so on and so forth. So just food for thought in the back of your minds as as we work through this strategic plan kind of the timeline what the next iteration is going to look like. >> Thank you. other thoughts for the district goals >> and then um one more regarding I didn't see anything regarding being fiscally responsible to the district the community certainly in a time that federal funds are unknown declining state aid and we want to make sure that we're offering the most we can but fiscally responsible to the community. >> Would you say that you think that that's a district goal or
040a board goal? >> No, that's all districts. >> So, that is Oh, sorry. >> No, go ahead. >> Uh, that is outlined in our strategic plan work. There is there is um there is additional information alluding to fiscal responsibility. >> I was just saying I see the connection for both. >> Um, >> so when we had our one of our PD sessions um with one of the multiple folks that we've had come in at various times we discussed they discussed how the board goals are truly our goals that we need to be doing such as the handbook the onboarding having the committee charters those are things that we're responsible for creating we're not creating the budget >> gotcha I understand what you're saying um >> and that in no um there's any d to you
041about the multiple folks that we've had inside here? >> No, no. I Well, and I just think that um sometimes I look at fiscal responsibility is layered. Um let me just read through this really quick. >> I can get something together. >> That's a great plan. Okay. And I don't know if you're going to be able to work it in as quickly as Mrs. Kaiser did with safe, but I had one word. >> Yeah. You're a little more concise than I am. >> Um, all right. Other thoughts? >> All right. So, um, if we could get these brought forward for the next meeting, um, if you wouldn't mind trying to see if you could get some language that would include, um, you can cross safety off because this already did that for you, but no,
042I'm just kidding. Um, as far as the the financial piece, that would be great. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you very much. Okay, moving on. Uh, number three, I included in this email was um the NISBA conference um is coming up in October and some of us did attend last year and um after uh being made aware of the financial impact um of uh a conference like that, I thought that it was a good idea for us to us to have a conversation about that. So, if you're um unaware. I think the number that was presented to me was roughly $10,000 to attend a conference like that. Um if you have not taken a look recently, our budget line is roughly 21. Um I know that there's also uh been board members that are um interested
043in having some sort of a retreat on site. Um and then I have been contacted by individual board members that would also like to take some additional training. Um that all comes at a cost. Uh I would I don't know. But is there also um a cost associated with our training of our new student representative? >> I from Boseies >> from Bose from Boseis. >> It's added to our Bose. It's included in our Boseies bill. >> Who pays your Bose bill? >> Um the district. So, uh, I kind of asked that question because I felt like I already knew the answer, but um, so anyway, uh, >> it's a different different, uh, figure that just tossed around. Certainly, but yes, >> for $10,000, Mr. Nash, you better be getting quite some training. >> Um, so
044anyway, so if we could just have a quick discussion. I know that some people have um have expressed interest in attending. Um, like I said, some of us attended last year and and brought information back. I think we just need to have an open discussion about basically where we're putting our money and is this is this a good choice for us? Is a retreat a better choice for us? Is neither? Um, you know, it's I think I think it's important for us to be fiscally responsible, too. So, I'll entertain any conversation on either side of this or any ideas on what we could do. >> I think professional development is very important, you know, to make you a well-rounded board member. There are a lot of opportunities on the website that are free lunch and
045learns every month. They're there. They're there from three years ago. There's not much that they're bringing forward that isn't brand new that's not being discussed. But with that said, you know, a lot of people look at the New York City trip as a mini vacation. Um, you know, certainly after the fact, but um, did anybody look at the digital experience they're offering this year? They're offering 35 programs, 35 sessions that are being conducted down there. They're going to be available all year long for folks to watch from the comfort of their home or we could do that here together. Um, and the savings is instead of 250 or instead of having the 590 registration fee, it's only $250 without the added travel expenses. >> So, all the PDs that are offered in October are offering
04635 35 sessions will be available online >> and for $250 >> per person >> or one person I mean nobody's going to want to get that credit >> the district could pay $250 out of our budget >> and we could choose the ones that we wanted to watch together >> throughout the whole year or >> or you can watch them separately too I would agree. I think that's I just don't know with the position that we're in and the uncertainty, I don't know how we can justify spending that amount of money. And I also look at our, you know, we put together that great dock last year and I know we did spend some time reviewing it, but I still think there's a lot of blood to get out of that stone that we haven't
047really kind of fully circled back to it, seeing if there's things that still are. >> Do you mean the sessions that you attended last year? >> Yeah, that like I meant to bring it where everyone wrote a synopsis and some things like some possible like action items moving forward from those. So I think between that and the online resources I just personally don't think we should be >> they do have the sessions out of the 35 sessions they do have those posted online um for anybody to look at right now to see. >> I see. Yes, I'll pass it right down to you. >> I mean, how consistent are they or similar to the ones from last year, too? >> So, I um I actually had a conversation with Kim about this. I had deleted
048the app, but for a while, if you did it on the conference, if you kept the app, all of the slides for the presentations were still on there because we were actually looking for something and um I I don't know. Did you end up keeping it or no? >> Um I still have the app, but I never went back and it's still there. >> So, it was it was there for a while if it's not still there. So, that was um that's a helpful tool. I don't know if that was just a glitch that year and they always do that, but um I I would be interested to see what um what kind of uh overlap there was from year to year. I do know that um we did have some overlap just within the
049sessions that were given each day. You know, if you were if you were interested in seeing, you know, about potentially um reviewing superintendent evaluation. There was you know maybe one every other session there was a you know a different take but um you know something on that. So um I I haven't had a chance to look at this so I can't say how much um how much similarity there is. >> How many people showed um interest in voting this year? I personally have only heard from two but that I also we didn't give a deadline either. So I don't want to say that no one else is interested um at this point just no one else has said anything to me. >> So the cost to attend this year counting travel look like they're around
0501,700 per person. So I don't know if that's what the breakdown was for last year. Last year we didn't have a registration fee, >> so that would be an additional fee this year, but that sounds roughly about right. Some of these names are great. Sticks and stones. I mean, who comes up with stuff? Sorry. Um, I know personally last year I felt like it was really valuable. It was a lot of information that probably wouldn't have been um exposed to quite as thoroughly if we hadn't gone. Um, I know I'm not a finance person, so I went in being on the finance committ so that when we met as a committ 5 million questions for Danielle. Um I think if people do go that the board should set aside some time to sit down and
051really talk through because there's a lot of really good information. Um this is like their bread and butter. This is what they do. So um I think that it's valuable um personally, but if the rest of the board does not I think it is. I do think we should invest in at least this virtual one and maybe just sit down and watch the sessions like pick one each board meeting that we can sit down and watch as a group or watch before like a book club and come and talk about it. I don't know. I think um they have some really good information and I looked through at least the inerson schedule and I haven't looked through that online one but there's some stuff that I think will be really good in the upcoming year
052for us to kind of have a handle on. So, I think there's the um team building piece of it to go as a group. You know, there are several boards that go, everyone goes and they look at that as as a team >> um building session as well. Um and so I, you know, I understand that piece of it. Um I think that again, you know, we're specifically talking about this conference. Um but you know there were other other items that were discussed that were you know a substantial dollar amount. You know an onsite retreat for us for just a 4 hour session is going to be around $3,000. And so you know that's that's a chunk. You know if you're you know if it was longer it's obviously going to be more. So, um
053it doesn't have to be all or nothing, but if we could, you know, at least decide um kind of where we are on these two bigger items as far as the the NISPA conference in New York City and then um and then what we would like to do with a retreat, you know, if that's most of our budget line if we decided to do both of those and if everyone participated obviously. virtual option. We talk about team building and meeting as a group a lot. Um we struggle to find dates that are common for everybody. But if we could um you know I think the virtual option of that like we decide as a group what do we need the most? What do we need the most? Um not to waste anybody's time but figure
054out what's important to our group as a whole and then do that. I mean, I'm personally not going to go to New York City. I'm pretty sure Nancy is not going to go to New York City. Um, so the team building aspect is null and void at that point because the whole board wouldn't be attending. Um, but if we were all attending this virtually, um, you know, we're here watching it together or I really like the idea of the book club, watch it ahead of time and discuss. But I do think sometimes stuff gets lost in exhaust like that. Like whereas if we're watching it here together, we can pause it, discuss somebody has a question or whatever. Um, so that I think that's a better option for us. >> Oh, sorry. >> I was
055just going to say so it's interesting point I think that I just picked up like like we struggle in finding dates to do some other things. So we'll like how feasible is it that we will find dates to um watch together or however we decide to together. So that's something just to take into consideration, >> right? But like Elizabeth's idea of if we watch ahead of time and then discuss like then we're all you know able to find time to watch it ahead of time. Um or you know we keep trying to narrow down the time or we pick a meeting where we're available to come in an hour ahead of time or whatever. I mean, I don't know how long the sessions are, but >> are we sure that we can access the virtual
056experience afterwards? Because it looks like they're just scheduled out on time frame. You can for sure. >> According to the website, I >> think it's also important to bring up that it's not always in New York City. Right. >> Right. So, >> Oh, yeah. That's >> historically they they tend to be in the same location two consecutive years and then they'll rotate. So, prior to New York City, it was in Buffalo. Um, they haven't released upcoming sites, but >> next year could be in Syracuse. >> Syracuse. Um, >> I mean, generally speaking, you would think it's it's Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and New York would most likely be in some world the the rotation. maybe some some other little kind of offshoots, but but generally speaking, they'd kind of spread it around across the state
057as well. So, >> I um I was one of the people that said that I wanted to attend again because last year I found every session that I attended to be valuable. In fact, I was like looking forward to bringing all of that information back to discuss as a board. But I also think that um that this event is like the most important event that NISPA, you know, puts on throughout the year. And not to diminish some of the other opportunities that we have locally because I think those are great, too. But I guess my perspective is that this is kind of the the one event that makes sense for us to go to as board members. Also, I appreciate the networking and, you know, the connecting with people that are there, meeting, you know,
058meeting our counterparts or different superintendents in different districts. So, I'll always want to attend in person, but I understand that not everybody that's not for everybody. So, just throwing throwing my opinion out there. >> I really struggle with um like and I know we don't set the budget and the board has a budget. I just struggle with um you know there's a lot of uncertainty right now. A a lot of people in the education world that are you know worried about jobs and things like that. So to take for me as an educator to that chunk of money again like that's I don't know I I don't like that. >> Um so uh going back to what I was talking about with the the goal setting about um some sort of like professional development calendar
059or aotment of what each board member could spend um as far as professional development. Maybe that's part of the conversation too. So, if um we each have $1,000 out of the budget line and I'm just picking a number to spend. And for me, I want to do the webinars that you have to pay for for five months out of the year. And that for me is going to be the best for my professional development um path, then that is what I would do with it. If Mrs. Allen feels that her best choice is to go to the conference um once a year, but that's the only thing that you would get to spend money on, then maybe that's the way. I mean, the the idea would be is that we're obviously trying to uh grow
060and learn in our roles and what's the best way to do that. So, um I think we should just keep that in mind that this would again this would come up again as far as if a retreat which we are just really challenged in being able to find a date that everyone can make and there's someone available to come and train us and then um uh this conference if you choose if you want to do extra PD on your own um so you know I The money is there to be used obviously, but it doesn't mean that we need to max it out either and spend every dime because money that we don't use is obviously could be um given back to the kids. So, >> all right. Just because it's budgeted for it, it
061doesn't mean that it has to be spent. Yeah. >> And it all depends. If if state aid is short, then Danielle needs to figure out what will happen. Okay, we're going to move on. Um, committee updates. Anybody got anything? I know it's kind of a >> I thought we were not doing those right. >> Like I thought we were going to send ahead of time if there was something. >> You're right. That's very right. Thank you. >> Had a line through it. Jeez, Amanda is always messing things up. Just kidding. That was completely me. the committee update. We send it >> one week ahead of or the Friday ahead of time. That's right. Okay. So, um obviously no one had any committee updates because no one said anything. So, um Okay. Anything else for today?
062I would take a motion to move into executive for negotiations matter, please. Mrs. Folz and a second by Mrs. Damon. Thank you very much.