001Welcome to ouration meeting and a second to um journ out of executive session and go in. If everybody could uh remain standing, I just want to do a um moment of silence that we know today marks the anniversary of September 11th that had a profound impact on our country and so many families. We remember the lives that were lost, the bravery of the first responders, and strength of communities that came together in the days that followed. I'd like to everyone to take a moment of silence to honor those we've lost and to reflect on the importance of compassion. Courage All right. Now, we're gonna get on to something exciting. So, we have our two um student board of ed members here tonight. We have Maddie Clemens and we have Marina Cradle. Yeah, we're excited to
002have you ladies. So, are you guys would you like to give a report out tonight? week of school was completed. Um, um, it wasn't That's how they listen to music. >> Yeah. So, >> yeah, they're bringing in like digital cameras and um we're even doing a segment on it going to be very interesting. Overall, we think lots of positive effects of it. getting used to it. Oh, pause. Um and we have council update. We started planning. Um, we both are planning for our two upcoming We have our So, um, as you can tell, clubs are starting back up again. We're going to have freshman. Thank you. Great. our first recognition of visitors. If anyone speak state name and you'll have three not yet superintendent update. So, we're very happy to be back. Um it's exciting
003to see hallway and I'm glad to hear about the cell phoneective effective we um I would like to commend Dr. Rody for his presentation why we're doing um and I think there'll always be little bumps in the road. I love that Scrabble's back out. Monopolies again. Maybe not. I don't know. Um, but it's it's been overall a great um start to the school year. The buildings look great. Uh, there's a lot of fresh paint in a lot of the areas, too. Definitely look great. Right. So, there's a lot of different changes. The gym, Dr. Hayes will give an update on, but there's a lot of great things. You look at some of the board reports. I want to thank all the principles for a great opening. um they were all greeting students drive. There was
004great summer programs at the elementary school. I think one of the things that we should highlight is the transportation department really worked with um students that um are L students to make sure that everyone in so that was um that we had access to um so it was great. It was a steam that worked out really well. You can also see in Dr. um report as well is that all of our orientations whether it's prek or kindergarten were well attended percentages as well as the meet and greet event we had about 95% of our that's that's great have that collap um you can see the board report for um middle school one of the things that I want to highlight in there is the let it grow program. I know that about that at the
005elementary school which is really building independence with our students and we talked a lot about in the first day of school about the concept resilience and teaching our students how to overcome adversity um increase their level of autonomy that's not on decline and this let it grow program um start to move it to middle school is going to be more opportunities for students to have that autonomy peer interactions or how to solve some peer conflicts together, but also just basically provide a better space to navigate some of these experiences that I also want to highlight one of the great things that the middle school also did. Um, we had that new studentation. So, any student that was new to our school or homeschooled prior, they came in beforehand. So, I think that really to make
006sure this welcome. That was a great thing that that went on to ensure that it was she also provided a chart in her report that really talks about us and um working on our DASA programming and really educating uh families, students on the difference between conflict and bullying everyone understands and the best way to get through those different things and high school talked about the cell phone ban. We're already starting to talk to students about the common application because students have to already start applying. So, getting students ready for that. They're going to have a financial aid night very shortly. Um, and everyone knows that we have to do the FAA in the high school now. That's a new mandate that students have to fill out the FASA, which is definitely a good thing because
007I don't know if any parents here ever filled out the FASA. Not an easy thing. You're not even sure if you're done at the end. You're like, did I at the end you're like, I think I submitted that correctly. Um, so I think any insight that our counselors can have to help support that might not that process Um, we welcomed Amanda Allison, our director of PS. You probably saw her email go out to welcome families. She's planning uh three series um of parents as partners. Going to be working with Resources. Um I know some of you might be familiar with they're basically an agency that works with um so they'll come over or the resources that are available for them in the community. So those dates will be October and December and Alison she's got
008will be there to support that. So she's also going to do survey to our about how they would like to work in collaboration with her and students talked a little bit about athletics but that started a little bit about the numbers. So there was 115 athletes that are participating in JV varsity and 9900 for our seventh and eighth grade for our modified um and we're going to be playing um varsity football that should be a great state. So all in all great start over to uh Dr. Summer is going to give us an update on >> Good evening. Yes, it was. We were very happy to welcome back our students and nice to see the halls filled again and you're back. So, tonight couple of things like to start with um stating that we were
009able to find a person capable of teaching French. He is coming to us um through our college map program. She's in social studies at her resume. She's very professional French so with it she's been many times does have enough credits in French. So she very happy we'll be welcoming her tomorrow. Alison, he will be also will be welcoming on Monday Jensen. She's she'll be the new at the sheited to come and join faculty really great things. on professional development in the area of literacy across the content area. That'll be the focus of the secondary teachers this year. Start with professional development on 17th with department chairs. So Alisonino will be coming in. We worked she worked with our sixth grade team this summer to infuse literacy and reading strategies our sixth grade English program. So
010that'll be a full day next week for our department leaders and then we will continue content areas during March conference day. messages. All teachers are agree very excited about that curriculum council today and they are excited to add to their box and excited to have them do that. Administrators are going through the process of trained retrained in the certification to evaluate our teaching staff. That evaluation cycle will be first. So right out of the box we got many many things to great. Thank you. So I want to start by welcoming Sam Pride here. Sam is our new food service director. Welcome Sam. It was a long process to get you here but we are thrilled that you're here. So Sam um comes to us from a variety of places um but we are super excited
011about how passionate he is about food. I remember in his interview one of the first is medicine. So um which was great. His passion definitely comes through. He's very connected to the farm-totable movement. So very excited that he's going to take the reigns from Larry Anthony. He's been working with Larry. So Sam has been here a week. He's been shadowing Larry um that transition but he's been doing a great job. So welcome Sam. Uh on the transportation front, we did have several runs this summer for students for extended year program. We ran trips to Milbrook, to Olter County, Monaceel, and East Durham. As Dr. Warden said, we were also able to support support the L program here at Mil Road, which great so we could buy transportation for those students. Um which helped increase the
012numbers of participation altogether. So that was really great. through funding through grants um and also help from Bard College. We were able to make those runs this year too. We also provided transportation for students that needed to take the summer regions at Boseies. So that was new for us. They were able to take the bus here down to Boseies. We made two runs, one for the morning afternoon exam. They also worked really hard this summer in transportation to do route optimization. So at efficiencies, so they uh rerouted a lot of our bus routes to try to balance out ridership. We took some buses that were really overloaded and tried to balance them out with ones underutilized. So, I commend Anthony Cercio and also John Allessie for that work. That was great. We also have two
013technology upgrades that I had discussed last spring, but we have new radios for transportation. Um, they've been phenomenal. They can actually we tested them across the whole state. We actually went all the way out to Buffalo. Um, Anthony had a conference out there and you could still hear them which was wonderful, too. It was really impressive. So it it was incredible. >> I know. Oh, you're right. So >> of code, but did we have to upgrade those? >> We had to upgrade them because what we were finding with the old system is that there were patches of just dead zones and safety reasons and for communication, we needed to do something. And so Anthony did a great job in researching and triing different things. This company was um wonderful in helping us and as you
014know driving through our area there are still a lot of dead zones for self-service but these radios work really well everywhere. So it's been a it's been huge and even listening I have one of the office and it's crystal clear which is helpful for buildings and everybody to get that communication. So that's been great. I had a couple questions uh on the just for my personal edification um some curious statistics on the bus uh >> where they uh did logistical you know analysis on the routing. What's the longest um it's the longest run that we have? >> It's about 40 minutes. It's a little bit longer as they get used to drive times in the beginning of the year but it's about 40 minutes. So we as you know our our territory is 90 square
015miles. So, we have a pretty big district in terms geographically. Um, but we go all the way up to Hudson and that's our longest run up that way. >> Okay. >> Um, and we also purchased driver tablets, which I had spoken about in the spring, but it's great because when we have substitute drivers, instead of handing them a piece of paper with the route, they could actually have real-time GPS and the route will play out for them and talk to them. So that's actually been really helpful for us to recruit substitute drivers because they feel much more comfortable making those runs and we can actually plug in there um the names of the students and where they need to stop. So it's been great. So we purchased five this year and we may look to
016expand that in the coming. >> Do we have data on how many students actually take the bus on a regular basis? I know we have to we we have to run the route so that we stop at every kid's house or where was a stop for every kid but a lot of kids don't take the bus. So, I was just curious how many what's what do we know what percentage? >> I don't know the percentage. I do know when Anthony and I were out um at the beginning of school. He said, interestingly enough, for Miller Road, our afternoon runs are much fuller than our morning runs. We have a lot of students that drop off. And remember, for our pre-K students, our three-year-olds, they're not allowed to ride the bus until they turn four. So,
017we have a number of three-year-olds that are starting school and they'll start to they have to turn four by December 1st. So, we anticipate ridership for them as well. And traditionally the elementary runs are usually busier than the secondary runs for a number of different reasons, but I can get a number for you. >> Yeah, I don't need a number. I was just curious. Yeah, sure. Thanks. >> Um, on the facilities front, I know we talked a lot about different upgrades that we've made. The painting at the high school, we're getting rid of the pink and blue to do our school colors, which has been great. Um, we painted the cafeteria. We have new furniture coming in, which we're excited about. Um, we also put a new exhaust fan in the home, the family and
018consumer science room so that they could do different kinds of cooking um, and ventilate that better. So, that all happened this summer at Lynon Avenue. We actually painted all of the graffiti proof blue panels, which was not easy to do to find a paint to stick to them, but we did. Um, Stacy picked out a great color that actually makes the hallway feel wider and um, she's gotten a lot of compliments on, so she did a great job with that. They also sanded down, as I mentioned, the cafeteria floor, which was the original floor from 1939. We sanded that down and resealed it so to brighten it up a little bit. Looks much better. Um, at Mill Road, we are continuing now the walkway outside. We're extending that. That work is starting next week. Um,
019and we also have exterior signs that are coming in that we purchased, too, which is exciting. Um, the gym at the high school is done. in terms of the floor that was finished coding yesterday. We anticipate opening for students mid to late next week. Um so it'll be open for full student use in volleyball and then we do have to shut down for a week in October for the bleacher installation. So but it'll all be done by November 1st and we're really excited. It looks beautiful. If you've seen the pictures, Mike's been great about updating everything, but Tom picked out the color scheme. I think it looks great. All the uh walls have been painted. He has the gray stain on the floor similar to the middle school and the bleachers will be red with
020our logo. I think it'll be really, really great when it all gets done. Um, we also started planning for the field work and we're hoping to do that this spring if the weather cooperates. So, we have a sitewalk in two weeks, but we've done field testing for um different things in the soil to make sure that we have the right sod that goes down and the irrigation planning for drainage and irrigation on both the soccer field and field one. and then we'll get into the design of the um track and the fence and the like. Those are all things that'll be coming up in the spring and summer. So, we're excited. Busy place. Um a Rotary update. So, Rotary donated 93 backpacks this summer of school supplies, which was awesome. They came for a day.
021They had a lot of volunteers that packed those at the high school. Um and we did have 93 families stop by and pick up those school supp um with Interact, which is our high school Rotary Club, the kids that are involved. So when I have a date for that, I will share it. And then finally, our the Red Hook Education Foundation is planning a fall fundraiser on um September 28th at Greg Farm from 12 to 4. And that money is being raised to help with our cafeteria project to furnish the second half of the room that we haven't bought yet. Well, thank you. >> Thank you. Um, does anyone have any questions or comments, concerns over the any of the administrative reports? I know we've all had an opportunity to go over those. >> I
022would just like to say that I appreciated the transportation. I It was really good. I think it was helpful. Right. And um so now that brings us to um board of ed member comments. Does anyone have anything they want to add about committees? Any topics that they would like to talk about? All right. Well, I know but I didn't I didn't know like meeting a little bit. Um all right. So, uh the next thing I want to talk about is the topics. Um the uh board of ed uh meeting topics. Uh Does everyone have a copy of that? >> So, I know we've had an opportunity to go through these, Janet. Um, Dr. Warden looked at these and synthesized them. Uh, is there any changes or is everyone okay with what we have down? >>
023Yeah, I tried to look at last year the flow and a couple times that Dr. Summers was supposed to present, we didn't have the data. So, I just try to flush all that out and then um looking at what you all asked for starting the year really with our future focus and our this learning model that we're going to be focusing on uh facilities planning digital literacy and then in January talking about our enrollment trends and athletics but and then our budget workshop which is all the administrators again then transportation and electric bus planning any conversations Literacy update mental health DEI and the Boseies vote the expo and then >> there anything that I missed? >> No, I think you actually you had the perfect number. [Laughter] We can't guarantee that >> she likes her.
024>> So, anything else that anyone wanted to discuss? Right. >> Well, let's move right along then. Um, so now we go to the uh business consent agenda. I need a motion in a sec. >> Second. >> Any questions, concerns, comments on items on business consent? Um, I just had a couple of questions about, um, I see that, uh, Bruce Martin is leaving us or retiring again. Um, and, uh, I think I just have a worry about the replacement. Um, and what that what that might look like. Um, I think it's going to be a difficult role to to fulfill. Um, and just kind of what our plan might be moving forward with that. Um yeah, we're going to post this position. We actually have um so they have like ASBO which is they have that
025we have already like out to see. It'll be a B school business administrator. certified. >> No, I think um the issues that we there's a lot of issues um one that if the the people list are not that we fit you have to go we also think it's important to have somebody with an educ admin program perhaps with a there is a pool tough time of year but there is a they'll start and they'll that's because that's picking right up on budget >> correct. So um questioning. So, I think that we'll be in a good place that we can have that work, but also the people that come in have a lot of tell you exactly But yeah, we're going to have to make sure that there's training. I think we're still um can I
026get uh all those in favor? Any opposed? All right. So now that brings us to our personnel agenda and I just need a motion in a second. >> Motion >> second. >> Any discussion on that? >> I know I thought he could be here so we could just really you know day one just to thank him for his knowledge, his guidance, commitment to this district. It will be definitely a plus for us. Um he'll be around. We've already But he definitely has put his heart without saying that it will definitely big shoes. We also know that for all we appreciate his dedication, his other side congratulate him all his dedication now go and retire and to things that come with retirement congratulations Martin and I will make him watch the video we'll get him um
027all those in favor So that brings us to our second of this. I need a motion and a second to adjourn this meeting. >> Third. >> All those in favor? I. >> Thank you.