001meeting today. Okay, I just have one. Yay. We all set inside. So, we're going to start with our public hearing um on real property tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers. I can review that. So, um we had passed a um we had passed a what's it called? A referendum, a resolution. We passed a resolution to allow volunteer firefighters, ambulance, um you know, all of the the people that go chasing into the go running into the the the emergency um to get a discount on their school tax. Um with that being said, it was passed. Then um the state had uh put together a different law which changed the language in that resolution. So this is we put a 30-day notice out today. We are um I'm I'm asking as the chair of the
002budget committee to for the board to approve the um amended resolution so that each we'll say the firefighter if you're a firefighter and you live in Worsen but you're a firefighter for perhaps you still get the um the discount. the way the law had changed. If you lived in Morsing and you were a firefighter in Rhonda, uh, not Rhonda in Khan, you no longer got the so that kind of um, stump for some folks, you know. So, um, we're changing that. So, if you're a firefighter within the school district, um, you will get the discount. Any questions? Moving on to the next public hearing on increased income limitations for real property tax exemption for our senior citizens. I can explain this one too. So the budget committee looked at um the discounts for senior citizens
003and the criteria um senior citizens at at in this moment if they are making less than $24,000 they get a discounted 50% off their tax. Um and 24,000 is is quite low like quite low. So um we have increased that to the budget committee is asking um through this public um through this public hearing the budget committee is asking for the board to approve um an increase to 34,000 for seniors. So if they make less than 34,000 they will get 50% off their taxes. Um, and then there's a sliding scale up. Um, going up, what is it? To 45. Yep. So, it's up to 45. Um, I'm sorry. 5% discount of 45. So, it really helps our senior citizens be able to stay in their homes that they've lived in for years, be able to
004afford their school taxes, um, and afford to eat and all those other good things. So, um, we felt it was important to, uh, support our seniors and, um, raise the minimum to from 24 to 30,000. Any questions? Okay, that concludes our public hearing. If we could please stand for the pledge of allegiance if you are able. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Recommended motion to approve the revised April 22nd, 2025 board of education meeting agenda as presented. I'll make the motion. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Dr. Spado, superintendent. So, real property tax exemption for volunteer fire firefighters and ambulance workers. Uh the recommended motion is with the Roundup
005Valley Central School District has previously adopted the volunteer fighter fighter ambulance worker exemption under the real property tax law section 466-A on November 20th, 2024 sub to certain elective provisions and statutory requirements. Uh whereas that the board of education of the district hereby extends the benefit of the volunteer fighter fires and volunteer ambulance workers tax exemption under the real property tax section 466-8 previously adopted on November 202 24 subject to elected provisions and statutory requirements to any volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker who provides such volunteer services to a neighboring city, village, town, county or school district as presented. I'll make the motion. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Uh increase income limitations for real property tax exemption for senior citizens. Uh the recommended motion. Uh whereas section 467 of the
006New York State real property tax law provides that a public school district may grant a partial exemption from taxation to the extent of 50% of the assessed valuation of real property which is owned by certain per persons age 65 and older meeting the requirements set forth in section 467 of the New York State Real property tax law uh be resolved pursuant to section 467 of the New York State Real property tax law that the board of education approves a partial tax exemption of taxation to the extent set forth below of the assessed valuation of real property owned by individuals who meet the requirements of section 467 of the New York State Real property tax law when the income of the owner or combined income of the owners of the property for that tax income year
007immediately preceding the date making applications for exemptions meets the following criteria as presented. I'll make the motion I'll second. Any discussion? Yes. So, I had um in error I said 45,000. It caps at four. Any other discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. So, I think it I think it would be good to make sure everyone's aware that we do have five board members in um present today, which is our quorum. Thank you, John. Yeah. recommend a motion that the board of education approve the supplemental me memorandum of agreement by and between the board of education of the Roundup Valley Central School District and the Roundout Valley School District CEA the custodial and maintenance unit a copy of which shall be incorporated by reference in the minutes of this meeting as presented. I'll
008make any discussion. All those in favor opposed. Uh thank you Paul and Tabitha for working through that with your team. Um those and now for some recognition we have Lynn Drake who is the math team uh coach and she's going to recognize our math team students. We kind of ran this year, but if you don't, if you're not aware, uh, Ron Valley does have a math team. Uh, we need our Mosaic Greens during our season and uh, practice math. Um, but it's very competitive. They support each other. They take my freshman and sophomores and they show them the the ropes, if you will. Um so this year our team qualified for the sectional meet at Bacher College and they won our section. After that we also had two students neighbor and also have some who
009couldn't join us who made it to want to thank the board very much uh that you support us in doing this. Um it's so important and even when we go to the we do our meet up at Kingston High School against New Cults, uh Red Hooks, Soures, K um it for them to be in that environment with other students who have the same ideas and goals and mindset, it's really it's it's really fun for them, I think, and they grow as people and they see what's out there in the world. So, it's really nice experience. So, we have some certificates for these guys. I'm gonna have to post a picture. So, the three people who couldn't be here, as I said, are cousins Ellie, Freya, Mer, and Harris. And I'll get these two. So, we
010have Rea Nice. And we have shape. in the background. But yeah, we need to have a nice background. [Laughter] Pagora Baron High School is Pythagoreas. Smile for Thank you so much. Congratulations. I'm very proud of you. Next, we have our gender spotlight. Got uh p uh pupil personnel services led by our assistant superintendent to support services. Thank you everyone for passing your Do you want? Yeah, it I don't use those. You want to use it? Yeah, she can use it. Keep going. Did anybody else hear the echo? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you can go. No. Okay. Go. Oh, sorry. Hi, I'm Ruby Hortner. Um, I joined SEA um 8th grade. That was my the first time I've ever experienced it. Um I was in junior national honor society and through that I experienced my first special
011Olympics at Roundup Valley and that's when I knew that I wanted to continue with the program and I knew I had a passion with the students and then I joined basketball my freshman year and that kind of started the growth of the club and yeah that's where we are now. I first participated when I was a freshman. I heard about Special Olympics as like an opportunity to volunteer and stuff like that. So, I went and did that and I really fell in love with like hanging out with the kids. I had so much fun. I love like seeing them put a smile on their faces. It was just it was a really great time overall and I really learned how I enjoy volunteering general with them. Um, so unified sports is our biggest part of
012what we do um at our school. So, we started off with unified basketball and last year we now have unified bowling and then this year we now have intram mural unified bokei which we're expanding hopefully to make it a sport. And then Alicia, do you want to talk? Sure. Um, so unified basketball, um, I first participated in this year and it's always amazing to like see the smiles on the kids as they're like, you know, like, um, coming together and like playing a sport that they really appreciate. Um, this was a like huge like movement for me to like join and I like really appreciate it. whether it's like taking photos of them smiling and like capturing it on camera. It's just like a huge opportunity. It really Oh, sorry. Yeah. Do you want to
013Yeah. Um it really got like the ball turning I guess I could say for like the whole program. It really started everything out. This really pushed us to start all other sports because it really got all the kids involved and they all got excited about doing sports and it got us to do bowling and basketball. I mean bowling and Yeah. Uh, unified bowling began in 2023, about two years ago. I was on that team and it's just crazy to see how much it grew. You can even see in these p I don't know if we have last year, but we had so I think we had about like five maybe six a little bit more volunteers last year, but this year just grew so much. We have like an overwhelming amount of people that want
014to volunteer and participate and come and it really it it makes the kids so happy. We have a huge event at the end of year. It's like a sectionalss and um it it brings all the schools together. It really helps um for kids to be able to socialize with other people from other schools. It's it's a great experience overall. Then this also got us into botchi um which we started doing this about this year. This year yeah and we start our own event. I think we were talking about this. Oh okay. Um yeah so we started doing unified bougie which is like the play on words um with Bachi for Halloween and a lot of the students dressed up. I don't know if you have I think you could see Yeah, you could see us
015here dressed up, me and my brother and um yeah, it was super fun. We had we had a bunch of snacks and yeah, it's a really great way for these students to like participate with us and now not only do these students just have like one sport a year like basketball, now they have three sports. So, just like we get to participate in three sports a year if we want to, now they can, which I think is really important. It's amazing because it shows like the growth of the program to like how it started out with just basketball and now it's grown into all these sports and it gives so much space to participate and it gives them all these options. Just amazing. Yeah. Okay. So, another activity that we do um is the polar
016plunge. I'm sure a lot of you guys have heard about it where we like chop the ice. Um I'll jump in the freezing cold water. Self-explanatory, but um so last year um that was the first year that we ever plunged. Um as you can tell, we had a pretty small group. We raised about $30,000. Um and this year we partnered with National Honor Society. Um, and we obviously had a much larger group and we reached out to a lot of the faculty and staff at the school and they showed huge amounts of support and we raised almost like 112,000 this year. Uh, wellness Wednesday is another thing you participate in. So, if you don't don't know what Wellness Wednesday is, it's every couple months the high school has a day where kids kind of decompress.
017There's different um activities that go on like their slime room and stuff like that. But we do our own Wellness Wednesday. We've had Beachy Botchi Ball, which is new. That was the last one we did. We had Whipple Waffle Ball and all-inclusive beach volleyball. It's really just a good way to spark the interest of the kids and it it's another way to bring more kids in the high school and get them to know about what we're doing and just it's really encourages all school involvement in the program. It's really great. So, just like how we partnered with NHS that like really sparked a lot of kids to join our club and just like this, we have a bunch of students um who come back and sign up for the inclusive activities every single month. So,
018that showed like a huge growth and I see these kids who you never expect to be like talking to these students and now they're like talking to them and it just it's a really great experience. There's also been kids that have come to our wellness Wednesdays that have like reached out to like see and wanted to join and it really helps to get everyone involved and it sparks someone's interest. It's great. Okay, so as you all know probably, we do a Special Olympics at our school every year. Um, and this is how a lot of people join. Um, but this is like the biggest event of the year, I mean, I'd say. Um, and this is where the students work all year and they work on these games and activities and then they show it.
019They compete with each other and they show it to us and they show it to all the other schools. Um, a lot of the high school teachers bring their students and they come and they watch all the games and it's just so fun. Like it's just great. It's a great way to end the year. Usually ours is coming up actually May 2nd. We're having our um, Special Olympics. Super excited. Um, we also go to West Point for Special Olympics, which is coming up this Sunday. We have our um, we have a couple of our athletes participate there. It's really great and you can have people from C also attend that. It's very um, all inclusive gym class. We should do you want to talk about this one? No, he's doing the other one. Oh, I'll
020do that. So, we have a unified gym class and basically it's where students of all abilities can come together and do usual gym class activities, but um it's not just like regular gym class. It's in it creates an environment where everyone feels welcome and included and it's great because it gets other kids into the classroom with other um special education kids and it it really helps to bring everyone together and also it's not just in the high school, we've also brought it all the way down the middle school which shows how our program is growing because we've even passed down to them and also since they're getting to experience this, they're getting more interested in C. So then when they come to the high school they're going to be interested and want to join. It's
021really showing how we we're growing the program through all the schools. Yeah. So, as you guys may or may not know, but we're both juniors, so we both have this year and then next year and I believe we did last year. So, a lot of the members are going to be graduating or so we this is a great way for us to like pass it down or them to bring it up and just spread it. Um I am the C chairman. I so basically what that means is I'm on um the student congress council as like a chairperson and basically I advocate for everything that we're doing. I get the word out what we're doing. Um I spread awareness about upcoming events and what we have going on and I just kind of report back
022on that and also like school events that they're doing. I make sure that they're inclusive to everyone. So I I also report back to our committee and we discuss it and see how we can maybe improve it and then I report back to student congress. It's like a whole loop. Um, this year I also got $500 donation from student congress to support the club's involvement in which um so like back in November we went to where was it? Yeah, Arlington. And we got to meet with a bunch of other schools that have the same like committees as us. And we like took ideas of theirs and we like added them to our committee. And it was also nice to like have the kids go talk to the other ones to like get ideas, make new
023friends and connect more. Um, we also got to share our presentation there and like show them what we're doing so that they can have notes. And it was just nice to like all group together and like learn new ideas. It's a really great way because we also get to see what other school are doing which gives us ideas and it's it's like a whole loop again. It's like we're all learning. We're talking to other kids, whole social event. It's really great. So, one idea that we got was creating an Instagram. Um, so we now have an Instagram Ronda at Valley SEA. And as you guys all know, everyone's super busy all the time and it's hard to keep track of everything. you know, Google Classroom and all that stuff, but pretty much everyone's on Instagram.
024So, now we post updates and we can reach like parents and students we don't see on the dayto day. Um, so yeah, it gives them a good idea of what we're doing. And it it's good to keep updated on everything. Feel yeah, keep updated on Yeah, that's all. Any questions? That's absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for coming all of us. You guys are incredible. Thank you. Glad to be here. Yeah. Thank you. I'm going to keep you here for one second. So, as I said, um there are several members of the of the committee that are not here tonight. Um, but I also want to make sure that we recognize FA Carlson McKenzie and Maryann Harlick who do so much of the of the work in organizing. So we have Ruby Ortner. We have
025strong family represent. And then yes, we'll get the rest of these to the kids at our next committee meeting. Thank you. Very welcome. It is truly brings it so Thank you. Chicken Thank you very much. You're stuck with me for just a couple more minutes. Thank you. Okay. Um, so I did just want to also take an opportunity to give a few more highlights that are going on um with the student support services office and many of the people that that work in our office and the programs that that we provide. So, I just want to take a few minutes to go through some of that. um some of the things that we work on and oversee. Um I'm going to talk a little bit about our special education programs, our MTSS revision that we've
026been working on for the last couple of years. Um just touch on some of our mental health services and then also just speak our clients for a moment with some celebration. Um so our special education continuum, these are the programs that we currently provide um throughout the district. We um provide resource rooms, integrated cotton, 151, which is for some academic support. um our tip classroom which is our therapeutic intervention program, life skills and CASA and some of these programs are offered only at certain buildings. One uh program that we are um looking into based on some of our current trends is to think about the possibility of the communication um program for our incoming um youngsters that we're starting to see some trends with some some weaknesses in some areas there. So that's something that
027we're looking at right now. Um just again brief overviews, we are currently u providing services to about 400 students in the district. Um we currently have nine cross contact students. Those are students that um our neighboring districts look to us to provide uh programs and services for that they may not have in their own district. So we currently have nine students here with us from our surrounding districts. Um, and we also currently have 19 students placed out of district, which is a high number for us. Um, but with closing one of our tip programs in the high school and some um, configuration changes, we're we're up to about 19 uh, students that are placed out of district currently. I wanted to spend some time talking about the MTSS revision because this is really kind of
028the meat of the work that we've been doing over the last couple of years. We acknowledge that our classification rate is a bit high. we really want to bring that down and in order to do that we're really looking and focusing in all of these areas. Um so it really began and started with a review of our ISTP or our instructional student teams and study teams and looking at the students that were being discussed and referred from ISTP to the PSP or special education um committee. And so in order to to look at that um and and what was going on there, we were seeing a lot of trends in students that were struggling in reading. Um so at that time I had brought in um Dr. Shanik from St. Rose to really come down
029and talk to us even before a lot of the shifts have happened with the literacy briefs and so on to really talk to us about the science of reading and work with our IST teams to really better understand the foundations of reading. So that's where that that work kind of really started to get moving. Um, from there I brought in a trainer to work with our um, all of our teachers, gened and special ed in grades K through six to spend some time getting trained in Orton Gillingham again to really start to get a better sense and idea of the fundamentals of reading. And so that we had successfully completed as last year. We also started looking at the writing revolution and the importance of how that could support our students, especially our special ed
030students who struggle in writing and really wanted to start looking at that and the work that it could possibly do to assist our students especially on state assessments um where that can really be a struggle for our students in the region exams or some of the writing portions of the state assessment. So that's something that's still ongoing that we're looking at. very important for us was the data we're receiving from the FastBridge implementation. And so we're using a lot of that data to um look at our progress monitoring and that specific skills um that we are seeing gaps um with our students in reading, writing and math or reading and math. We look at that data to drive some of our decision making for whether or not a student is referred to AIS or if
031they are coming out of AIS. So that's been helping us with some of that determination and movement to in and out of our AI AIS services as well as looking at this progress monitoring data to determine whether or not the student will be referred to PS. So that's been some important data for us to be looking at. We also implemented um or focused on UDL or universal design for learning last year. We really wanted to make sure that we weren't only just looking at curriculum or instruction but also the instructional practices. what's happening in the classroom, what are the potential roadblocks or barriers that are in place for students to access information, material instruction, and how can we remove as many of those possible. So UDL has been one of those areas that we've really
032been paying a lot of attention to. We even shifted our instructional coach from special ed to an instructional coach in UDL to be pushing into classrooms and really supporting that work. That is work that will continue to um um uh move on as we go into the next school year as well. Um, obviously there's been a lot of discussion and talk around the map and the LA curriculum and making sure that we are selecting uh those curriculums and pushing those out professional development training to teachers. We really want to focus at that what we call the tier one level or the universal level to make sure that all of our initial instruction for all students is the best possible case scenario. So, we continue to work very closely with curriculum um and Natalie and curriculum
033on that as well as we move forward. One of the other things that we've been looking at uh we implemented a couple of years ago is looking at our related service provider model. Really again wanting to see how many uh students we can provide with different intervention supports and strategies before uh a weakness or a deficit is found and then a student is referred to PSD. We really want to put out as many universal um strategies and supports as we can early on. And so one of the first that we did was at the K1 level, we um implemented using one of our um certified occupational therapist assistants. Um she pushes into the K1 classrooms, all K1 classrooms to work on handwriting without tears. And we've really seen some some improvement through that at the
034K1 level. And so using that model and that thought process in mind, we're trying to find other ways and places that we can utilize our related service providers to do more things like that. Um so we've been talking about and have done some work around zones of regulation. We're also going to be looking at um the implementation of exorshine next next year in some of our classrooms um which is a movementbased um support. But um but that's our focus right now and seeing how we can how we can do that how we can utilize those service providers. Um, and I have in your packet, I'm not going to go through for the sake of time, but I did share with you in your packets, um, samples of the handwriting without tears of what some of
035those samples look like for students, um, in the beginning of the year and then in the spring. And if I did have such troubles right now, I would put it up there, but you have it if you have questions, we can go through it, too. Um, one of the other areas that I wanted to touch upon tonight was our graduation rate for our um, our students with disabilities or our identified students. And some of the things that I think are important for us to point out. Um, so we see this is our data from the 23 24 school year. We had uh 40 students identified students um, that graduated last year. 28 of those received diplomas. 12 were commencement credential recipients. What I think is important to look at is the number here of students
036of the 28 um that that received that 14 of them half of them are receiving through CTE endorsements um which is really indicative of our Bose program. That's where they're receiving a lot of the the CTE endorsements through our Boseies programs and it really shows here how many students are benefiting from that of our students that are identified. Um the other big note here is that we are um the highest graduation rate for students with disabilities in the county um with 84% graduation rate which is which is really great especially considering when we're looking at the data several of our students can stay on through 21. So this is looking at our data that are completing on time. I just wanted to touch on this again. Um we're not just special ed and student support
037services. We provide a lot of supports and assistance to students throughout the district. And what I wanted to just show here are some of our trends. Um we have students and I just want to point out that this was only through January. We update these numbers every quarter. So I haven't updated them yet. This the last time I've received um our data. But what I want to just show here is the trend in our numbers that as of January we were already at or exceeding the number of students that we um have been placing in day treatments or have may maybe have required hospitalizations. Um so I think it's just important data for us to be paying attention to as we implement some other mental health supports as we go on. Um and also our
038McKin Vento students or our unhouse students is really quite on the rise. So I just want to bring bring note to that as well. Um so some of the things that we have currently in place is the behavioral threat assessment which has really been um successful in in identifying students that maybe have um some mental health challenges or safety plans that we can put into place if there's concern of behavior or something like that. also looking at through AOSI's coser the possibility of an anonymous tip line that we could implement into the district and I'm currently working on a contract right now for teleaotherapy um services for our students which would allow us to give direct referrals into therapy for students and families um instead of having to try and navigate that system we would
039be able to have a direct impact on that and just to leave you with some celebrations that I just think shows all the hard work that is going into our programs and the day-to-day um operations that come out of our office. But we currently have 100% student placement, which is almost unheard of. Um we have spent zero dollars on compensation. We have zero state complaints and we just went through a Medicaid review in which we received full complaint. Any questions? Yeah, first great job. Um and and again, I'd like to thank you and the staff because what we saw in the schools over the past couple of um weeks and Pat, you know, give me some, you know, when I can't remember what I'm trying to say. Um this this writing learning without tears and
040the handwriting, it's just amazing what the staff has done with um with our students. We were looking at compound sentences from kids in the second and third. I mean, really well done sentence structure and and handwriting and it's just so beautiful. So, thank you for giving us these um pictures and kudos to the administration and the teachers because you're really just doing a great job with with with just their growth and and and what they're what they're able to accomplish. We've also been able to push this down to our UPK as well. So, we've been providing um Patrice did some of the same training with our um EPK providers and we've been able to get some of the resources to them as well. So, we're we're trying to drop down as as low as possible
041to get students started. But these are so these are some of the pictures that are in their um folders that we're showing. So, from fall to spring, the differences in the the writing that's I think that's huge. Yeah. Yeah. Great job. Reach out to all the kids and the teachers too. This is all K1 example. I need to talk to one of these first graders often write some stuff. I mean that's amazing for a first grader. Anyone else? Yeah. And I was blown away. I mean, a lot of the writers that was third grade that we saw, right? And I was at Marble Town. It was better than the writing that I saw from my students. I mean, it was it was unbelievable. And to get that kind of writing that level um and sentence
042structure and it made more than sense. It was interesting writing. I mean, I was and so we had asked if we could get some of the samples and and some of the third grade samples I think really. Yeah, we can do more. I just want to give a little it's really a great book. And one of the things that I found remarkable and this is credit to the staff and the administration perhaps and Marvel time you're seeing the same growth. So, you're walking through the halls and these amazing writing um examples from third grade in both schools and second grade in both schools and you want to sit there and just read and read and read and read. Um because you want to give each kid the opportunity that you know they don't know we're
043reading it, but I'm like, "Wow, this oh my gosh, look at this one." Um it was just so wonderful to see how much progress uh the kids are making with this program. So, thank you, Mike. testament to your leadership of your team on all of that. We see it. We've seen it in the curriculum at the curriculum committee level too. All the hard work that's on this. Congratulations on all of that. Moving on to public comments. Do we have one? You're on. All right. Uh recommend a motion uh that the board of education approves the consent agenda items 1 through 10 as presented. Motion. I'll second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. I would like to um recognize our employees who have received stand tonight and I would ask that you please
044stand if you're not too shy to stand so we can recognize I'm going to name everybody just so that everybody so we have Kayen Belaloo teacher Gerald Cheers teacher Lisa Sakone social worker Alex Gillan teacher Amber Huckaba teaching assistant Erica Nap Gagan, teacher. Christine Kurlander, teacher. And boy, teacher photos. Is that a Snider teacher? Erica Field, teacher. Andrew Yubalino, teacher. Danielle Waldron, school. Congratulations. Um, you will also be uh formally celebrated um also at the evening of our distinguished award evening alongside our committee recipients as well as our retirees. for adding our 10 features study. As I said, Michael bigger and better. Thank you so much. More time, Mrs. Mol um going along with talking about schools. Um, I I really wonder if we are if the middle school grades the the test grade, do
045we have something in place? Are we working on goals on their plans for raising those scores? I don't know. But have Have they been talking? Yeah, it's been a focus since the summer strategic goals analyzing their fast bridge data assessments. We've implemented benchmark assessments this year. They actually took a practice state test for the actual state test. So, we're hoping those results yielded some good growth in ELA and math. We're hoping to see the same results state the real state assessment comes. they take the ELA next week and then they take the math assessment. So, it's a focus there. And Pat, um just to add to Dr. Spado, um our curriculum director Natalie Harvest, she also presented at our last meeting some of a lot of that data and what some of the goals and
046what her current focus was. Yeah. So, and we did it also at the curriculum. I don't have anything except all the presentations were wonderful. Say that first presentation was up your own. I love to see all that student stuff. I do. So I I echo what Christine said. uh from from budget. Um April 8th, we passed um the board approved and adopted the the budget to go out on May 20th. May 20th. May 20th. Um so there's that. Um so thank you for all of that and thank you for putting together a really great um distinct budget that is um very detailed but also it it's really very well done. 75% is supporting all of our students and curriculum um where that leaves 25% for the capital bonds projects that we have going on and
047for administration. So um the money is really being spent in the right spots. So, um, we appreciate that. So, thank you very much. Um, thank you to everyone for the, um, the firemen and the senior discounts. Those are important. So, we thank you for that. And, um, one of the things that, you know, when we're going around to the schools and, you know, we see great things happening in all the school. I haven't been able to go to um, high school yet, but I'm sure I'll I'll see those things when when I go. um seeing really great things happening in all the schools and and the data is is definitely a part of it. But just like with with this handwriting, no it's not writing without tears. Let's learning without tears with learning without tears.
048And when you see what the kids do um and you know that the staff and the teachers are driving that and really working probably far more than their their workday to get the kids to where they need to be. It would be great if we could see some examples from four through six and then seven and eight just to see like you know we know that there's data and we know that there's test scores but there's there's also success happening. So um I would like to I would really like to see both you know I know all the data and I know all the numbers but I would really love to see what the staff is doing with the kids and and celebrate them just like we did this. That's it. Dr. Roberts, you know,
049it's a feel-good meeting. I feel so good with the student presentations and math students. Hopefully, we are going to be working for those guys soon. Yeah. God bless us. Um, and congratulations to the teacher for Yeah. I remember the day that I got that accelerator. You got to think about it. the policy committee. We've been working hard watching Lisa work on it is what we actually do. Lisa's done a marvelous job on the 20th. Uh she did a outstanding presentation about where where we are with the cell phone policies, what the state's coming down with, what our next steps are. So I think the community is going to be happy with what our results are and look forward to more of those in the next few months. Again, my hats off police for how she
050did. Uh, if you really like that kind of meeting, May 12th, 5:30, we'll be here discussing some of those interesting things. Thank you. Thank you. Um, thank you everybody. Uh, I also want to acknowledge today, um, it's bus driver appreciation day. So, yeah, hats on off to our bus drivers. to get from our kiddos um to school and home safely. Uh they do they do a lot from general school in the morning and afternoon to all our athletics, our field trips. So, thank you to all our bus drivers. Um and I'm going to be plugging this every board meeting from here on in. Those of you know me by now, May 13th will be our distinguished award night over in the high school auditorium. We will be recognizing, as I said, our tenure teachers, newly
051tenured. I, too, remember when I got my tenure. I also celebrated. What a cool. Um, uh, we're going to be honoring our retirees. Sad to see them leave, but we keep approving them. I don't know. I keep saying we shouldn't, but we do. We keep approving them. We let them go. Um and then also uh our Thomas King Distinguished Service Award winners um when we get those uh announced. So please be there. Uh I would really I think it's always it's been a really fun evening of recognition. So you know please try to attend if you said the date was what? Tuesday May 13th. May 13th. Thank you. Six o'c. Yeah. Come here. Um for our second agenda item here, uh is the Boseies budget adoption. Recommended motion that the board of education adopt the
052Olter County Bosey's administrative budget in the amount of $6,993,83 for the 2526 school year as presented. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Bosey's a board member approval. A recommended motion that the board of education approved the following Olster Bosey's board vacancies. Seat number one, New Paltz Barbara Carroll. Set number seat number two for Ronda Lucy Van Sickle. Seat number three at large Willie Bruce. And seat number four at large Suzanne Jordan as presented. I'll make the motion. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Recommended motion uh that the board of uh education approve the consent agenda items 5 through 8. Make a motion as presented. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Recommended motion to adjourn the April 22nd, 2025 present. Any discussion? All those in
053favor? I oppose. Thank you everybody for attending. Good job.