001Uh we're going to go ahead and get started now with our regular meeting and we're going to start with recognition and under the new protocol for how we're going to operate our board meeting when we're doing recognition and honoring students uh to protect uh the privacy of our students. We're going to pause the board meeting reporting. Um so uh we just started and we'll now be pausing that recording while we uh recognize signifying and I will so before we get started I know we're in a celebration mode um but it also reminds us the importance of being present and also that life is extremely uh precious. Um unfortunately we lost a long time staff member today Bruno who works in our custodial staff and has worked here for over 25 years and um his wife
002also works in our service. So baby have a moment of silence. So again, switching gears. Um, I'm going to start with our women's SRO, David Schiff, you'd like to come up. I know he likes a lot of attention. Pat, you want to go up with me to tenant grant? Um, I know Mrs. Smith is here, too. Now, a few months ago, I don't remember the exact date, someone's gonna have his marching March March. Um, our SRON uh saved the lives of one of our students and his swift action um was amazing and told about his training, his presence, and his care for our students on a daily basis. We wanted to honor him officially um in front of the mayor and also your lieutenant just say we appreciate you and not only you, but the
003entire program. And I know Miss has a couple words for you, too. Thank you. Yes. So, this past March, we witnessed true heroism um in action in Orlando's cafeteria. When a student began choking, Officer Schmidt recognized the struggle immediately stepped in to perform a highland maneuver and potentially saving the student's life. Um, Officer Schmidt, your quick thinking and training made all the difference. Um, but more than that, your actions remind us of how fortunate we are to have you as part of our soul family. You don't just keep us safe, you care for our students in a way like like they're just your own. On behalf of the Lamb's entire Lamb community and especially Colton and his family, thank you for being exactly where you needed to be when it mattered most. Thank you so
004much. Thank you. to you for uh your service on the board of education. You had extremely thoughtful leadership especially with your work on the policy committee and will that will have an extremely long lasting impact on our schools. You always brought student centered perspective to every conversation and you always thought what's best for all kids in the school district. I am grateful and I'm sure the rest of the board is grateful for your commitment, your compassion and your guidance to the school community and we appreciate everything you did for us for the past three years and will continue to do. Thank you for everything. Thanks Charlie. you're uh you're going to be missed uh particularly your uh your your good thinking, rational thinking, and serving as a sounding board for me sometimes. They really appreciated
005it. in our minds thinking about what decisions are best. Um, one thing I think is really important for the future for this board is um, and one thing that always helped me was to remember that in our community there is only us. There is no us and them. There's only us. So that way we can think about and continue to think about every person. But um I think that's just important going forward given the climate and some other things to mention. But thank you so much. I appreciate it. Was a pleasure working with everybody. Thank you. And last but not least, oh Henry's here. All right. Come on up. Dr. Rody. Well, everyone's got to come up. Yeah, you the whole family's got to come up. Hello. You going to say hello? So, I did
006I slipped earlier by saying Mr. Rody, I'm you know, I'm starting to get used to it, but um we want to commend you and celebrate you for your remarkable achievement by receiving your doctorate degree in educational leadership from Satan Hall University. And the title of your dissertation is faculty and administrator perception of the implementation of the IB diploma program in relation to the Rogers theory of diffusion of innovation. We will not make you recite all that. Um but what he did is really explain the innovative academic programs like IB and how they're implemented in school communities. Um Mr. Dr. Rody, see I did it again. Dr. uh offers really important educational insights into our district and all this work he's done on his research will also contribute to our field. Since you've arrived, Dr. Rody,
007to the school district, you've had an immediate impact. Um you are incredibly bright. You have a huge vision which we absolutely appreciate. You see that every student matters. Every student deserves the best program that they have and we are extremely lucky to have you in the district. Um, and you hold all the values that we hold dear in the district. You always think about equity. You always think about innovation and you have a deep commitment to our student success. So, we commend you for this outstanding achievement. Re, I know it's a lot. It's very hard. So, we really appreciate that you took the time to contribute to the field, but also bring back that knowledge into the high school. I'm almost over. Um, so again, congratulations on your achievement, but more importantly, we appreciate you
008as a leader in our school district. So, congratulations. Got to come up with the certificate. Okay, you got a diploma. So, we didn't get your certificate. Congratulations, Henry. You can have two cupcakes. All the sugar you want. All right. And uh I think uh Danielle had to head out. So uh that will We'll move beyond student BOE report. Um, and that brings us to recognition of visitors. Uh, just a reminder on our policy. If anyone would like to address the boards, you have 3 minutes. I'll give you a subtle wave at about 2 minutes 45 seconds. And we do request that you um uh not use uh student names or teacher names um if there's a particular issue you're discussing. So, if there's anyone that would like to address the board, hi. Uh, my name
009is Carol Brown and I have two sons in the district. They're in second grade and fourth grade at Milroad. And I'm here today as part of a group of parents. We have several of us here today who participated in the Red Hook Reads initiative which I thought was fantastic uh and still ongoing in some ways based on the book The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Height. And a lot of us coming out of those conversations that we had are really energized to do more and to take more steps in conversation with the school board and with the school district and with the community to really take steps to do what he talks about in his book, which is to help our children spend less time sucked into the virtual world and more time interacting with each
010other and the world around them in the real world. So today we as a group of interested parents have started a conversation with the uh community engagement committee. We were at that committee meeting earlier today and we at that meeting put in a request to have uh a meeting which is open to interested parents and students in the community to meet with Dr. Dr. Warden and with at least one member of the school board we hope will be there and an administrator from each school to talk about a series of issues that came up in these conversations that were part of Red Hook Reads. Um and for now in this forum what I would like to express is my support for the proposed new policy on the use of internet connected devices during the school
011day which I know you will be voting on later in this meeting. Um, and it's my desire to see that policy enforced uniformly and successfully in the coming year. And I know that many of my fellow parents feel the same way. I also know that there are a number of parents who probably feel differently on issues like this. And I hope that in all these conversations we have moving forward, we can bring in a variety of voices and really have consensus building conversations uh on this issue because I know that we all have the well-being of our students at heart. Thank you for your attention. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay, that brings us to administrative reports. Um, I don't know if anyone has any questions on the reports. I just wanted to make sure we're
012connected again after the pause. We are. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, no questions on the reports. Okay. Uh, superintendent update, Dr. Warden. So, there's a lot going on every day. There's It's the end of the year. There's excitement in the air. There's barbecues, there's festivals, there's a party for a party. Um, so it's the excitement's in the air for our different celebrations. So, I'm sure the board can see that there's many activities as you read the reports. Um, just to piggyback off the parent comment, we do have an evening coming up with Lenor Shanninski. I think that's Sheek Nancy. I'm going to say her name wrong, but anyway. Uh she's the author of the free range kids and the co-founder of Let Grow which we're starting to implement in our three three through five um
013school and she's going to bring a um which is open to the public to speak to parents about parenting trust resilience. We also have an earlier in the day meeting with some community members and teachers and administrators to come to together and talk about how this would look like in the community um at 3:30. So, we did invite some local government officials and community leaders to also talk about how we can work with the community to um have that partnership that was just spoken about. So, we invite everyone to attend that. And um I think we're going to talk about the policy when we get to that area. Is that okay? And then I'll turn it over to um Dr. Hayes if you have any updates for us. Thank you, Dr. Warden. Um yeah, just
014a couple updates. So the capital project that was um approved in October, the work has begun in the high school gymnasium. So that's completely shut down. The bleachers have all been removed. Um the stage has been deconstructed and they started building uh walls for the fifth al cove of bleachers. So we are on schedule for that. We were able to move up the timeline for the work on the um lamb's columns, those front columns that need to be reconstructed. So that work will be done this summer as well. Um we have a number of projects that are happening this summer in all of the buildings just to continue aesthetic upgrades and um some infrastructure upgrades and we are um have some approvals for extra custodial help this summer to help out with some of those
015projects. So that'll be great. We did trial in our transportation department. We tried a new tablet on buses that has real-time GPS uh which is very helpful when we have substitute bus drivers so that they can be assigned to any route and the GPS will guide them through that. The other nice thing about this is that it will allow the driver to check off when a student is dropped off or picked up. So we have real-time tracking for students which is great for our safety initiative. So, we triled them to make sure, as you know, we have some dead spots in the area with cell service, but these were able to um navigate in all of our 90 miles. We tested in on a number of different routes. So, we are ordering them for the
016buses for next year's. So, that was really exciting. Um just a quick update, the Rotary Club is looking for a host family for an international student for next year. So, uh we have been hosting students for 40 years. We had Anna this year, uh which was great. she was from India, but um we would like to have another student next year, but they're looking for a host family in the community to take one in. And the Red Hook Education Foundation, just a reminder, that their gala is on Friday the 20th. Um and that money will go to support scholarships. So, at awards night, they were able to award two seniors scholarships, $2,500 for each year that they're going to attend school, one for a four-year program and one for a two-year program, which is incredibly
017generous. So this gala will go to support that as well. Thank you. Good evening. What a wonderful night of celebration across the board. Really really proud of our faculty. So in the office of curriculum, we have certainly been busy. Um we have spent the time through a district level um committee and we've hired a new PPS director. Um we've also worked on hiring. Tonight you'll meet the our new computer science teacher and our new social studies teacher at the high school. Um we coordinated and that work started in February the May budget expo managing all logistics faculty, students and district budget funded community involvement and refreshments. A sincere thank you to all the faculty who put forth such a wonderful display of all the good work that happens daily. That is also a sincere thank
018you to the administrative team. Without their help, this would not be such such a successful night for our community. Um, we coord I helped support and coordinate um with Dr. Warden um and led the final district-wide strategic planning meeting which brought together our district's educational leaders to confer on building a district level goal alignment. that was a very successful um meeting and a lot of voices were heard. I have also um participated as a member of the literacy and numeracy subcommittee via Boseies continue we finished all our walkthroughs and observations by June 1st for our faculty and staff. um continue to lead meetings and additional efforts in support of the professional development committee, curriculum council, the coherence meetings, equity committee, and a meetings. I continue to evaluate programming with the support of teachers and building
019administrators to continuously look at improving literacy. Um we work with our literacy coach who is Val Falco. She's been with us um probably around seven years. Um, let's see what else. We continue to coordinate the programming for this summer and we are now working on our administrative retreat. We I continue to review summer curriculum writing proposals submitted by our faculty. We're in the process of collecting and reviewing end of the year reports from the building clubs and activity from the advisors. Um, so we are busy. We continue to manage contracts for arts and education and we have begun the process for the title grants the ESSA title t title grant application. I continue to attend IRA building um meetings at Boseies that's with other assistant superintendent and we also continue to manage the homeschooler documentation
020and updates. So busy busy time of year and um I appreciate all the support from the building administration, our district leadership team and certainly our faculty and staff. Well, I'm glad you're busy. Our students are busy, too. Everyone's busy. Everyone's busy. It's that time of year. Do you have some questions? Yeah. I was just wondering for the strategic planning meeting, was there a certain purpose for that or um goal or outcome? Yeah, I can I can talk to that. So, what we did is we um started with our district goals and we looked at um we had mixed groups from the elementary, middle school, and high school just to talk about alignment and coherence. So, when we're look talking about project- based learning, what does that look like across the school district? When we're talking
021about equity, when we're talking about social emotional learning. So, that was really the alignment and just to hear even though we're small district, we don't really have those opportunities to get together. So that was really and then it was next steps at the building level to continue those goals. So we can present that to you um in the beginning of the school year too about you know the all the things that we have done to meet those goals and what we continue to do. Um so yeah anything else? So I I want to just take a moment too because it um to commend Dr. Summers and Dr. Hayes for all the work that they did this year. I think um sometimes it it it feels like it goes unnoticed, but I completely appreciate all the
022work that you've done and it's you can actually see some of the work. Um but also sometimes you can't always see it. But I want to commend them both for their professionalism and their their constant will to make this district the best that it could possibly be. So thank you to both of you. Thanks. You don't get a certificate, though. I will get you one tomorrow. You're You're the best superintendent ever. Thank you. All right, that brings us to uh policy review. Um uh we're gonna let me bear with me. We need to make an adjustment. Um I'm going to direct us first to item eight under policy. Um uh this is uh listed here as a first read is policy 7680 independent educational evaluations and uh due to some timeliness in getting this implemented
023um uh uh Jackello's asked if we can um pass this this evening. So we're going to make this one both a first and a second read. And so if I can have a motion on uh policy 7680 both as a first and second read to pass this this evening. Any questions or comments on this? All in favor? All right. Um then the rest of these uh are all first reads or abolishing policies. Um so for items uh 1 through 7 and 9 and 10 um do I have a motion? Any questions or comments? And I'll I'll note that um uh this does include policy 7316 as a first read which is use of internet enabled devices during the school day. Um you know we discussed that at the policy meeting this evening. Um uh we
024currently have that in place K through 8 and this is extending that um K through 12. This is in line with and following the state mandate that has come. Um, so I would encourage you uh to read that one carefully. Um, and you know, if you don't have if you have questions now, ask. Uh, otherwise uh we do need to pass this one by August first. So we'll be um doing this as a second read and voting on it uh at our meeting in July. I can review the different areas. Yeah, I was just going to ask for if you could give some background and context on how we arrived here and any change that the the new bell-to-bell ban has over this policy. Um, and I would love to hear about like the the
025stakeholders that came together that that came came up with this. Um, well, it's not a lot of choice. Um, so most of the stuff that is in the policy is part of the mandate that goes with the state. So a lot of the policies will look similar across the state. Um but um Smith and Dr. Roddy did meet with their building level teams and really talk about some of the only decisions really are our on-site storage. So if you go to I don't know how it's going to look on yours, but it says I think page three. So on-site storage, they talked about the best place for students to put it is in their lockers because it seems even when it's if it's on them that could that could be problematic. We also have methods
026that we had to write down for contacting students during the day. So there is a school office phone that parents can also call. There's a classroom phone system and then of course there's also our written notes. We also had to have a discussion about um student discipline um regarding that and it's basically um anybody who there'll be a series of progressive discipline like we have for anything um certainly talking to the parent um asking the parent to pick up the the lunch uh I'm sorry the student's phone having a lunch detention or an after school um but we would consider that any student refusing to provide the staff with um the device would be considered insubordinate. So that's also in our code of conduct. Um so part of the mandate is that you cannot suspend
027students for actually having the phone. Um but obviously it's insubordinate if you're not going to follow the code of conduct. So those are the big things that I think that we had some control over. Um but I think most districts will do them very similar. um our code of conduct is progressive discipline to begin with. So that that matches with that and the methods to contact parents would be certainly what we've always um encouraged students to do. You can come use the office phone if necessary and like we said in case of emergency there's a classroom phone um and then they decided to do the lockers. Um, and I know kids are apprehensive to use their lockers, but that's that's the best uh situation that we're looking at in the policy. And one thing uh
028we clarified in the policy meeting in Austin, you use the term bell to bell um which is a good way to define it because um in the policy they can't use it in the building, but that's um from the be first bell to the last bell. Um once the last bell ends, kids can access their phone. they need to text, there's a change in plans, call them. Right? So that right now there's a lot of lunch and study hall. So that would also be um not allowed. I also just want to emphasize that um there are certain students that would still be required to have this as far as like students with diabetes that have apps on their phones. So anything for a management of student health care would still be allowed um in the
029event of an emergency. Also for translation services. So a lot of times it's used for students who English is not their first language and that may need to be continued to use based on maybe the teacher administrator and also on a case-bycase basis basically coming from maybe a school psychologist or social worker administrator that that deems it to be necessary and then the last one just beware required law. um and also if it's in a student's IEP or 504 plan. So there are some exceptions to those for health and um certain um issues that would be approved by the administration. So any other questions or comments on anything in the policies? I do have a comment on um as far as I can tell it looks like that for prek through 8th that there's no
030change to this smart device policy. Um is that does that sound accurate? Correct. Because that was it was always off and away and I would say I would suggest that we have like the same policy across the board and include the middle school in the putting it in your lockers. um the same as the high school. Um because it's it I'm just wondering why the distinction for middle school students. I don't Is there a distinction, Stacey? No, they have in their lockers, too. Yeah, they do lockers because in the policy it says in a school bag or the old policy and then it said, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it says no changes to that policy. But I will have to change So, or we could just as a group take this whole policy
031as is and just make it for the whole district. District. Yeah. I Yeah, I think that's what we were aiming for. I I thought that was the intention. Um but it's a Yeah, you raised a good point. I don't think it's written in there though explicitly like that. Yeah. So, we could get that in there. Well, no. I think the point is uh this policy applies uh K through 12. There was currently a policy K through eight, but that didn't require um as Jen noted uh putting in the locker and that that's that that was the intention was that this policy Elena is um going to go K through 12, the new policy? Yeah. Yeah. So um is it safe to say or fair to say that the shift that will occur at least uh
032in the middle school and high school is more so in the more unregulated non-classroom spaces like the hallways and the cafeteria and maybe the occasional study hall that permitted cell phone use. Is that where we're seeing now this is no phones across the board? Correct. Right. So, I mean, as as someone that's worked in schools for for the last decade, I I see this as like a gift from the state, right? We no longer have to be or teachers, administrators no longer have to be the bad guy to to say, I'm telling you, put your phone away. It's the law. Um, and I think this is an opportunity to kind of set the tone at the start of the school year. We are enforcing this law, maybe in a different way than than prior. And
033I think I'm hopeful that we can recapture a lot of the focus and attention of students uh in a way that we have kind of seen that slip away. Um so I I appreciate also the the comments from our visitors earlier in regards to the community read that has been occurring. I think conversations over enforcement over you know screen time in school. I would welcome that conversation continuing. Uh, but I am very hopeful and I think this this all sounds great. Have a quick question. Is this a conversation that will be had with students prior to the end of the school? So, no, because they're leaving tomorrow. Um, uh, I think the kids probably know what's coming more than the adults. Okay. Um, I know that Mr. Rody, Dr. Roddy spoke to the ninth grade,
034uh, parents. He he was waiting for this night to send something out to the whole community. He was waiting for the board to give that feedback before he sends it out. I think it's always been something that Mrs. Smith has said in her school. Um yeah, and I think the enforcement thing is is going to be something that we're going to need a lot of parental support with as well. So, um to let their children know to not take it out, supporting the school when we do call and say it is out. Um and we're going to need both support. um not only from the school enforcing it but also help the parent support helping us do that. Now they will still have their uh schoolisssued laptops that are controlled but I'll be interested to
035see how creative our students get. Miss Smith has some experience with that already. Yeah. Uh so any other comments or questions? All right. These are all first reads. So again uh we'll be uh voting on them. Uh well except the the one that we already passed. Um so anyways uh so to vote um we are now voting on bear with me uh policy items um listed here 1 through 7 uh policy 7554 item nine and then we're abolishing some policies. So, all in favor of those I All right. Dr. Warden, um, is there anything on Bosei spotlight that's just was our information? Yeah. Um, did you want to speak on PII? Sure. Um, let me just pull it up here. So, we've had a lot of um conversation about the ED law 2D and basically
036about protecting uh PII, it's called personally identifiable information. So, we have a lot of safeguards in the school district. And one of the things that come up is um our student recognitions as well as public comment and um just really safeguarding students academic records, their health and their medical information, any behavioral reports or family circumstances. Um, so we just wanted to talk to the board about either how we want to handle that when it comes to public comment and when it comes to recognition of students. It's okay to have the student board member. That was something that was okay. But those two areas are something we have to have a conversation about how we want to handle that. I think we gave everybody the the sheet that talks about it. comments, thoughts. So, um is
037this um primarily for I guess sharing I guess I'm what I'm wondering about is like celebrating student achievement. Um how how is this affecting that? Are we still able to to do that in in the same way a newspaper or um a post on the website would celebrate student and students and their achievements? So newspapers don't have the same laws that govern them. Um so we could put a students like we could put what they're being recognized for and not their first and last name on the board docs. They recommend that you recognize a group of people, but when you start naming individual students and their recognition, that could bring personally identifiable information. And Donna also often talks about stealing the data of a young person. They will most likely never found find out until
038they're 18 years old or later and their data is now being taken. So, it's really kind of up to the board how much they want to take it. But we just wanted to bring it to your attention that often times too when there is public comment. At times there could be families that disclose medical information about their children or just incidents that occur in the school that would also personally identify students. Um, and we are live streaming that out. We do have people who are newspapers here. So, we do have a responsibility to follow that law. And when that happens, it's kind of out of our control to do it, but we also have a responsibility to our students to uh protect that. And one thought on that uh along those lines is it's it's
039very difficult to try and regulate what people are saying during public comment. We ask that, you know, they not mention student names um or teachers. Um uh we've talked about adding disclaimer language that if you if if you were a parent and you do that um you're acknowledging that um you're sharing that personal identifi identifiable information. That being said, we have had a number of instances where um uh people have spoken about their child and um uh information around that child that ideally you know that child later in life may not want public. Um, and yet with the recordings and transcribed, um, I, you know, it's, I think these go on YouTube and they're transcribed. Um, so AI can easily do a search and find that information. So, um, uh, one thought we've had is
040to, um, protect the child because I've sat here trying to sometimes monitor and it's just, you know, it's it's it's difficult to try and interrupt people and stop that. So um would be uh during uh public comment um uh to simply pause the recording. So that part of the recording is not there. So that's one option or you could say the disclaimer too. We could say the disclaimer. So those are um some of the things we thought about and there's there's pluses and minuses. I mean, you know, public comment's important. Um, uh, and it would be difficult to decide which public comment we want to pause and which public comment we don't. We wouldn't know until the person starts. You have to pause for all. You've you've been in this seat. How how easy do
041you find that? Yeah, it's hard. I think we could, you know, maybe maybe we do the disclaimer. This would be my recommendation, but then as an entire board remind each other when that's that happens so that we can not only leave it because it's hard to manage both. I I I think it makes sense to start with the disclaimer um and and let's see how that goes. Uh I mean public comment is important and to like not have that as part of the um sess recorded session that people can go view later I think would be not ideal. Um so a disclaimer and you know and and we keep a close eye on this and I think uh whoever is sitting in this seat in in the future just is going to have to be
042more proactive to shut down um uh situations where uh information like that is being In addition, we'll continue to pause the live stream for all recognitions. Correct. I I would just qu I would just have you read that the highlighted one. No, no, no. I The second part, you're right, is that you are all as schoolboard members required to follow that. So, I think I would probably recommend not to record that part. Uh unless it's like a group of students. Um they gave you the four bullet points like hold recognition ceremonies in a special session. Um if a school board wants to broadcast the recognition, do not include any student data in the board meeting agenda. Conduct the ceremony before or after the board meeting and and do not record the ceremony. If the schoolware
043wants to recognize a group of students such as the debate team or football team during a board meeting, the school board should refrain from identity any individual. If a presentations are made to the schoolboard meeting, make sure they do not contain any student data. That that doesn't mean like when we do the like three to eight. Now, one option would be as we did with tenure this evening. Uh we did that before the official meeting started. Um and with our students when we do recognitions, we often try and pull those up early because they need to get home and get school work done or get to bed. Um, so we could do recognitions always. Um, do the pledge of elite. Well, we do it before the pledge. Whatever we do, we do them first before
044we start the reporting. But we could even start at 6:45 or something for that to start them early. Yeah. And their names wouldn't be written in the agenda then. Also, their names would not be in the agenda. I I asked uh when I was exploring this, I asked what about like are we going to stop publishing honor role? I don't this is a little bit more information like I you know us saying like this is the student that just did this. I mean I feel it's not the same child's picture. I think this live streams share I mean this is not this is not new and say your child's name but that don't go to That's I think that's right because I I I think you know we could get lost in the weeds on
045this um on personally identifiable information um but I think if we step back um we recognized Eagle Scout Um I don't think um uh there's any harm that's been done by publicly acknowledging some of our students who have earned Eagle Scouts or have earned other awards our validictorian saludiator and you know other things. Um I think it's one of those things you know it when you see it. Um and I think uh um it's it's those sensitive issues that it's not a recognition, it's you know. Yeah. And you can even do it on the online agenda as well. he's had that disclaimer on. I think it's less about us doing it and more the fact that we're streaming it. So, that goes wherever. I think that's the bigger issue. I think if we didn't have
046the streaming, I think it would probably be a non-issue, but you're you're you're putting that out without the the students really knowledge of how that could impact them later in life, too. So, I think it comes down to the streaming. So, do we do we do recognitions before uh um the meeting starts and then and start the stream and then we have the disclaimer for public comments? Sounds good. Let's try that. Yeah. And then if we if it doesn't it's not successful, we go back. Yeah. I mean, if if the disclaimer um or whoever's in this seat is not able to um you know, effectively limit that um then I agree. Yeah. I have a quick question. Does everybody feel like the live stream is is valuable? I don't know how many other districts continue
047to live stream after co really just curious about that. Yeah, we tal we talked about that. Um and and uh the process for live stream we have we record the meetings anyways and so there's not any incremental um uh there's not uh we asked Elena there's there's nothing more incremental to to live stream since we're doing the recording. Do just the minutes have to be reported? They do not need to be the meeting does not need to be recorded. I mean, I think I think we're living in a day and age that this is something we're always going to have to revisit with the the issues with doxing people, artificial intelligence. There's a lot of things that that can go on with recordings. So, I think this is I definitely I I value the recordings.
048Um I think if we're trying to say we want to engage the community, you know, to take that away sends the wrong message. um because it's not easy to come to a board meeting at se from 7:00 to 9:00 on a week night, especially if you have young kids. Um so I think having that available if not live, then definitely next day to to watch and stay in the loop is is important. And there are um I believe there's a couple dozen uh views usually of recorded board meetings. How many people are live right now? Seven. Okay. And then how many views do we get? Do you So the views are the views are hard to to to determine because a lot of it's me uh John Lea, you know, we have we go in
049and we look at them the next day. We have to um download them and put them on. So I'm in a video three or four times myself at least uh post meeting. Um but there's usually about 20 I'd say and then you know if there's a hot button topic obviously there's more right. Um but there's uh there is a lot of talk with the clerks about what different districts are going to do. Um but I don't you know it it it runs the gamut. you know, some people still aren't even recording their meetings at all. So, um you know, it's it's just it really depends on the district and it depends on um you know, this new thing is adding a whole another level. But, uh I I think people, like Janet said, I think
050people are going to continue to do it because technology is certainly not going away. Yeah. Um, there you go. Red culture. You know what I'm saying? And I like access. I also agree with you that we faced it during we got on Zoom. Well, it's also one of those things to judge what to take out, too. That's not probably something. Well, yeah, it's it's hard to then go back and start selectively editing. Um, well, I I think for, you know, uh, uh, I agree. I think it would be hard to take something away that, you know, at least some portion of our community relies on. Technology is there. I think, you know, the solution is to figure out how to work with it. um not not use it. Um and so may maybe at least
051for now uh we'll do the recognition um at the beginning before we start the recording. Uh then when we have public comment, we'll have the disclaimer and uh whoever's moderate moderating the meeting um I would encourage to be aggressive in um stopping comment um uh if necessary that's inappropriate or that violates you know um you know um um uh because um the issue we talked about was we can have a disclaimer and a parent can just decide to ignore that and then, you know, say all sorts of things that their child later would would regret having out there. Um, and I think we have an obligation first and foremost to protect the child, not the parents right to speak, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Does that make sense for everybody? It does. Yeah. All right.
052Elena, does that need to change any sort of policy? You think? I think you said it. I was thinking maybe we have to um update the you know how we do that pretty much on a pretty regular basis anyway. our our public comment. You know, we have a policy on that that we put on all the agendas. Might be worth um seeing if we need to add any language. I can re reach out to Shannon and ask her. Yeah. Um what what they think about about that. Sure. All right. Uh date for BOE retreat and date of reorg July 3rd. The reorg is June 3rd at 4 PM, July 3rd at 4 PM. See, I I Yes. Can I just say something about that? Um, we did have 5:00 p.m. originally on our calendar for
053the reorg and um, a couple of times for meetings the time slot of like 4:30 gets kind of tossed around and that time is difficult for me. Um, and I think I've said that a couple times. It's really not ideal. Um, and so I just want to put it out there again in terms of us all being able to be at the meetings and, you know, not be late rushing in the door. If we can keep it to outside of the workday, that would just be really appreciated and helpful. Understand that. I I mean, if if I it's July 3rd and one issue that we had was were people going to be leaving town, which is why we were trying to look at other dates potentially. Um would are people okay with uh doing 5:00?
054Does 5:00 work for everybody? Yeah. Yeah. For you too. Okay. Yeah. Is that okay, Charlie? Yeah. Okay. All right. So, we'll make it five o'clock. Is that We already did. We already sent out a notice. Going to change it to five. So sorry we have to send another notice. It's appreciated. No, it's it's important that everyone be here for that. So yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. We'll come we'll come back. Let's talk about the retreat. Well, um, uh, we did it like late August. Um, felt kind of late. Well, um I think that's, you know, I I think what we're going to have to do is uh um maybe let's not do that voting thing. Um no offense. I like those things. Everybody email me um uh the weeks that don't or the periods that don't
055work when you're on vacation and we'll start with that. Um now, uh we will have to do this during the workday. Yeah. Because it's a we take four hours for it. Um more flexibility during August. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, um but what uh I'll send tomorrow. I'll send a reminder email and just reply to that um letting me know at least as best as you know and check with your spouse if you have to um when you're going to be uh away. Um, and I'll consolidate that information and find windows that seem to work and then I'll send that back around to everybody. Um, and then from there we'll try and pin down a date. But let's let's see what windows were all in town at the same time. That's good. We'll look
056at um July and August, you know, from like mid July to late later part of August. Does that make sense? I think one of the reasons uh it it it ends up being late August is because kids start that are doing fall sports or starting sports or um so a lot of people aren't taking vacation, you know, that week before Labor Day. Are you looking to have an um an outside person come in for that or what is the focus? We gotten that far yet? We haven't gotten that far yet. Now, that's why don't we have the reorg meeting and uh that'll be whoever the new officers are can um take that conversation up with you. That that make sense, right? It does take time to find somebody though, doesn't it? I It's easy to
057call the agency. I just know that there's days fill up pretty quickly. So, they're usually pretty accommodating though. I just need to know the theme or what you want to Well, so this will be a two-part email. Windows and themes. Sure. All right. Um, I picked four because that was the day that the most people voted yes. Um, Patrick has question marks on 4:30 and 5. So, I'm not sure if if that's going to work. I don't know what I can reach out to him and tomorrow and see. Um, yeah, of course. Can you do 4:30 worst case? Yes. All right. So, we have to Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't have I don't like text him or anything yet. So, I'll reach out to him tomorrow and then Yeah. See at 4 maybe
058if if he can at least do 430. Okay. If five doesn't work 4:30. Sure. And then we'll do one of those two and then I'll let everybody know. Thank you. Right. So, that brings us to consent agenda. Do I have a motion? Do we have any comments on anything on the consent agenda? All in favor? I opposed. Uh personnel agenda. Uh do I have a motion? Um, any comments, questions? Exact moment. I have to Okay. Um, all in favor I Dr. Se. Yes. I would like to welcome Edward Mars who's sitting right here. He will be our new cons computer science teacher at Lambs. Um probably a very very select group have computer science certification because it's so new to our certification system. He comes to us from Portchester Middle School as where he spent
059a number of years as a computer science teacher. He has taught students in the field of of computer science including computer infrastructure, programming, game design, and cyber security. So, we're very pleased with his experience and what he can add to our students experience at the middle school level. He also is uh excited about robotics. I was just going to say sounds like a perfect fit for robotics. Yay. Yes. and he also has some experience in the private sector um in the IT world. So he's been a software developer and certainly comes to us with a vast amount of experience which will certainly add to our program our academic programming here at Red Hook. So we're very very pleased to welcome Edward Mars. And our next person that I would like to speak about is Matt
060Beam. Matt Beam comes to us um through Hartwood College. He has certainly spent time at the high school. He has helped us in so many ways over the last few years. He has been a business and technology uh teacher as a contract sub. He has certainly um also done some long-term lead positions. Whatever we needed, Mr. Beam filled it and did it well. The kids love him. They really have great respect for the way he teaches. Um, and we're so happy to welcome him. He's also a varsity football assistant coach, so he adds to our community in so many ways. We are very thrilled to welcome Matt Beam as the new social studies teacher at the high school. Perfect timing. Uh we also have three retirements on the personnel agenda. So I just wanted to
061speak to those. All three of our retirements um Rob Zitz, Paul Mens, and Maria Millie are longtime employees of the Red Hub District. Rob Zitz has been with us for 20 years. Um he spent his career at the high school. He started as a cleaner. He moved up to Courier and Grounds and then he was the head custodian at the high school um since 2008. So great guy, very reliable. He did a lot for the high school and he um he's busy. He also has his own um farm where he butchers meats and sells them. So his wife has been holding the fort down for 20 years doing that for him. So she's happy to have him back, but we wish him well in his retirement. Paul Mens, you all know, and he spent his
062whole career here. He's synonymous with Mill Road. He just is a incredible staple here, wonderful to the staff and um the students. and he actually asked to come back in the capacity of a sub aid which is great and yeah so he can work with the kids so um he is absolutely going to be missed by everyone and we wish him well in his retirement and Maria Millie started with us in 2000 and she worked in both food service and then in um our transportation department. She was wonderful with the kids especially at the high school. She would remember their favorite meals and always make personal connections with them. but she is ending her career uh with us this spring and we wish her well as well. We do have um a few other people
063leaving, Ariana Felicia, Claudia Brezky, and Doug Keo who've also added tremendously to our school district. So, we wish them well in their next endeavor. They've they're all three of them will leave their mark um through technology, art, and of course the garden program. and we appreciate them and wish them well in their next adventure in life and they will all be very much missed. That's it. I think all right. Oh, something I missed something. That brings us to recognition of visitors. Uh number two, if there's anybody that would like to address the board. Nope. I'll take that as a no. Uh, that brings us to our final business item, adjournment. Do I have a motion? All in favor? I was like, did I