001good evening Thank you all so much for joining us this evening uh for the May 20th Board of Education meeting If you could all join me with the pledge to the flag 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 And we will begin this evening with our special acknowledgements The Rye Recognition of Excellence Awards Good evening everyone It is so lovely to see such a big crowd tonight for a wonderful celebration of the arts In 2012 we introduced our student recognition program the Rye Recognition of Excellence Awards Tonight I am proud to uh congratulate 67 outstanding music students who we are commending with this honor Tonight's award recipients are music students from
002elementary through high school who participated in the NISMA solo and ensemble festivals this year So please come up to the podium to receive your award as I call your name And we'll begin with our youngest musicians So we have students of Anna Dagmar Johnson Ethan Chang fourth grade violin [Applause] Dylan Chung fifth grade piano Wait stay up here Ethan Ethan come back Go all the way And then stay over by the screen there Keep him up there Okay Venant Des Kamani fifth grade piano Congratulations Aay Up fourth grade piano Scarlet Warren fifth grade piano Congratulations Scarlet Jonathan Waglam fourth grade piano And Jonathan received a perfect score [Applause] Ryan Yao fourth grade piano [Applause] students of Miss Rita Pisano Timmy Higgins fourth grade piano students of Miss Leah Sperber Carla Bejornson third grade piano Nell
003Reutder second grade piano Rafe Reutder fourth grade piano Students of Matthew Strang Mac Gaus fourth grade trumpet Kato Kagami fourth grade snare drum Leo Lax fourth grade snare drum Amcar Manhari fifth grade [Applause] flute Congratulations Millie Morland fifth grade flute Congratulations Angelica Song fifth grade flute Angelica received a perfect score Congratulations Vivian Theol fifth grade flute Students of Elizabeth Burrow at Rye Middle School Brandon Abbate seventh grade violin You've been here before Alyssa Anastasian seventh grade viola [Applause] Rosie Def sixth grade violin And Rosie received a perfect score [Applause] Congratulations Emily How eighth grade cello Margaret Kilroy eighth grade violin Congratulations Xavier Morell seventh grade viola And Xavier received a perfect [Applause] score Hannah Nelson seventh grade violin Asher Newart seventh grade piano Owen Picker seventh grade piano Congratulations Max Rapaort sixth grade cello Charlie
004Van Mannon seventh grade violin Milan Velmore seventh grade piano Victoria Wolf seventh grade piano We have students of Victoria Jesse Eve Balgger seventh grade soprano Eve received a perfect score Congratulations Alexandra Bran Seventh grade soprano Congratulations Thank you Thank you Anna Johnson seventh grade soprano Amelia Harris eighth grade soprano Congratulations Students of Tyler Schwarian Liam Brown seventh grade Liam is being recognized for two instruments alto saxs and bass clarinet Regular clarinet Regular clarinet Excuse me Kevin Chung sixth grade piano Congratulations Micah Golib seventh grade Alto Saxs Congratulations Grace Higgins seventh grade piano Arman Joseapian eighth grade Alto Sachs Congratulations Anastasia Huen sixth grade flute Congratulations Ben Martin 7th grade Tuba Susafone [Applause] Congratulations Elise Mayfar eighth grade bass clarinet Congratulations Ishan Medorita 8th grade Alto Saxs Congratulations Andrew Morland eighth grade French horn Congratulations Andrew
005Ames Song seventh grade trombone Congratulations James Thomas sixth grade clarinet Did I get the right [Applause] clarinet Students of Dan Brown Stefan Gerrique ninth grade trumpet Jenna Klopper ninth grade [Applause] flute Cole Pasian 10th grade Tuba Susophone Justin Qui ninth grade snare drum Congratulations Sahilmore ninth grade bass clarinet Grace Wang 11th grade flute Congratulations And we have students of Elizabeth Burrow at Rye High School Dario Abate ninth grade violin Andre Anastasian ninth grade cello [Applause] Thomas Chen 10th grade cello William Field 10th grade violin Lucas Gordon 11th grade violin Teddy Higgins ninth grade piano [Applause] Tito Diego Wiiwa eighth grade viola Philip Carionis 10th grade violin Congratulations Steven Kilroy ninth grade viola [Applause] Emma Lamont ninth grade viola Timothy Morell ninth grade viola Luke Padavano ninth grade cello [Applause] Taigga Varal 10th grade cello Congratulations
006Maline Wington ninth grade cello Kalana Yang ninth grade violin Finally I have to add that the Rice City School District was just recognized with a best communities for music education designation by NAM the National Association of Music Merchants a trade organization for the music products industry We are one of just over a thousand schools across the country um who have been recognized and have demonstrated a deep commitment to music education Congratulations to you all on your outstanding achievements in music this year And now we're going to Mrs Dur This is a big crowd So Mrs Dur's going to take some photos and she can certainly make them available to you but you'll also be able to come up and take some photos And I will make one last plug If you have not yet voted
007please stop in the Ry Middle School gym on your way out and please vote You get a cool sticker We have some models wearing their stickers Uh it's so important to help continue these wonderful programs and the polls will be open till 9:00 p.m And I believe if you've you haven't had dinner yet and these snacks just made you hungry there's a concession set up outside Oh it's all done Billy you ate all the hamburgers Okay Sorry about that Load up on cookies and fruit um kebabs but we'll take some photos and you feel free to come up as soon as Mrs Dur's done You can take all the photos you'd like All right we will now continue uh with the board meeting with the report of the superintendent Dr Burton Good evening and thank
008you for joining us for our May 20th board of education meeting Today is the day of the annual school district budget vote and board of education trustee election So if you haven't voted please come down to the Ry Middle School gym and vote The polls are open until 9:00 p.m this evening and there is plenty of parking available in the middle school parking lot I will send out an email with the results of the budget vote and board of education trustee election later on this evening so keep an eye out for that There are quite a few things going on on the campus today This afternoon many of us attended a spring for event to mark the installation of a plaque honoring the campaign that brought 200 trees to the Ry City School District campuses
009The National Honor Society induction ceremony for 147 members of the junior class took uh place earlier this evening We had some inductees who are children of board of education trustees participating and of course we just celebrated 67 NISMA students with Rybe recognition of excellence awards here at tonight's meeting Since our last meeting things have been very busy in the district Milton held its annual second grade biography tea Midland's first graders performed the play Character Matters And Osborne students enjoyed a spirit assembly featuring an inflatables race And if you've never seen teachers dressed up as inflatable dinosaurs fish dragons and other creatures racing around a soccer field I highly recommend it I've had some thoughts of potentially spreading this around the community on Friday with my update But um in addition uh we have I think
010you should definitely get yourself into one of those races sometime It looked like quite a bit of fun There have been lots of elementary school spring vocal orchestra and band concerts across the district as well Last Friday was the 44th annual RMS Garnet and Black Field Day This year team black came out on top but the good naturatured competition and laughs were the real winners of the day The middle school music review New York New York took place the weekend before um last to rave reviews Friday was the last day on campus for our seniors as they departed for their senior internships And next Friday night is senior prom Thank you in advance to all the parent volunteers and teachers who are helping check in the students and chaperon the dance The end ofear activities
011will continue over the next month Last week we sent out endofear calendars to parents at the elementary middle and high schools to help them keep track of all of the incredible events They are also posted on the homepage of the district website for all to refer to And that concludes my report for this evening That is certainly a lot We have a lot of exciting things going on It's always a busy time but it's always a great time in the district Uh so we will now move on to presentation and discussion number one where we do not have anything this evening We have hearing of the public on non-aggenda items but we have no public So I will spare you all this evening of my open statement and we will move forward then to the
012consent agenda Can I have a motion please to approve this evening's consent agenda Sean Cloffer seconded by Matt Shibonoff Let's take a look at tonight's consent agenda Consent agenda general Consent agenda Fiscal Consent agenda Professional appointments Consent agenda Classified appointments And consent agenda pupil personnel services and special education Seeing no questions or comments can I have a uh vote for approving this evening's consent agenda All those in favor That's 7 nothing Let's take a look at tonight's consent agenda So on tonight's consent agenda we have adopted a resolution for the modification of the volunteer firefighter and ambulance tax exemptions This allows community members that volunteer as firefighters or uh EMS ambulance workers in other towns to be eligible for a tax exemption here in Rye This is in keeping with exemptions that exist for those
013community members who volunteer as firefighters and EMS workers and live in Rye So now there is parody between those uh crucial volunteer uh jobs that are done We also have the approval of a merger for our girls ice hockey team for the 2526 season You know I always love these as a way to make sure that all of our students can participate in the sports and extracurricular activities that they enjoy In addition this evening we have lots of um uh hires and other sort of HR things but we also have four retirements this evening So we will begin with Angela Borzachini Hopefully I got that right Angela it is with sadness that I announced the retirement of longtime Midland school teacher aid Angela Borzachini Angela retired at the end of April after 33 years in
014the Ry City School District most of them at Midland Miss Borzachini first came to the Ry City School District in 1992 as a substitute cashier and food service worker at Ry High In 2005 she moved to Midland School to become a general education teachers aid And there she stayed for 20 years working as a first and third grade teacher aid and last as a special support teacher aid Prior to coming to Ry Miss Boruchini worked as a hand insert advertising agency Hodess Daniel Inc in Elmsford New York Miss Borzuchini is a graduate of Gakamo Puchini High School in Napoli Italy Miss uh Midland School Principal Jim Bolandhead of her After 33 devoted years with the Rice City School District Miss Borsenchini is retiring Angela began her career here in 1992 as a cafeteria monitor quickly
015becoming a beloved presence at Midland School primarily serving as a general education aid She wore many hats and embraced multiple responsibilities always with a smile Thousands of students have benefited from her kind and supportive supervision over the decades We wish Angela all the very best in her well-deserved retirement and all her future endeavors In her retirement letter Miss Borsuchini said "Midland School has been my home away from home for the last 33 years I leave with a full heart cherished memories and good friends I will forever be a Garnet Miss Borsenchini we wish you all the very best in your retirement We also are accepting the retirement of Miss Rosa Magna It is with sadness that I announce the retirement of longtime Ry City School District secretarial clerical worker Rosa Magnana Miss Magdana will retire
016at the end of June after 21 years working in the Ry City School District Miss Magdana first came to the Rice City School District in 2001 as an office assistant at Midland School In 2004 she transferred to the middle school to become the secretary to the school principal After 10 years Miss Magna moved to the special education department to become a senior office assistant In 2022 she moved to the high school middle school to become a security aid And it is from this position that she is retiring Miss Mcdana is a familiar face to many in the community as she acted as a ticket taker at the Ry High School and Ry Middle School sports events and drama productions as well as a monitor during PSATs and SATs Before coming to Rye Miss Magdana was
017a typist in the Blind Brook Ry Unified Free School District and a clerical substitute in the Harrison Central School District Miss Magdana has an associates degree in applied science from Berkeley College Dr Burns said of her "It is always a pleasure to see Rosa welcoming kids to the middle school or to events at the Ry at the high school with a huge smile on her face It's clear that she adores the kids and vice versa She will be missed Miss Magna I will miss seeing you at many of the student uh events and school events and we hope that you will continue to come and spend time but this time as a spectator We wish you all the best in your retirement We are also accepting the retirement of Miss Laura Cunningham Barrett It is
018with sadness that I announce the retirement of longtime special education teacher Laura Cunningham Barrett Miss Cunningham Barrett will retire at the end of June after 15 years teaching in the Ry City School District and 27 years in teaching overall Miss Cunningham Barrett came to the Ry City School District in 2009 as a special education teacher at Ry Middle School In 2013 she moved from Ry Middle School to Ry High School still as a special education teacher And it is from there that she is retiring In her time at Ry High School she served as a high school writing mentor for from the 2014-15 school year until the 201718 school year She was a new teacher mentor in 2018 2019 and 2024 In 2018 she also served on the district's special education task force Before coming
019to Ry Miss Cunningham Barrett spent three years as a lecturer at Hunter College Graduate Program in Learning Disabilities Prior to lecturing at Hunter she spent five years as a K to1 special education teacher and educational evaluator in the Rinneck Unified Free School District Previously she was a special education teacher for students with autism spectrum disorder in grades three through six at the New York City Department of Education She began her career as an occupational therapist at the John A Coleman School at the New York Foundling Hospital Miss Cunningham Barrett has a BS in special education from Sunni Baroo College and an MS in special education from Sunni Hunter College Director of special education and pupil personnel services Dr Aaron Freedenberg said of her "Laura is truly a remarkable educator She didn't just teach students She
020empowered them celebrated them and mostly believed in them when they needed it most We will miss her dearly and we wish her all the best Miss Cunningham Barrett we wish you all the best in your retirement And we are also accepting the retirement this evening of Miss Lisa Carter It is with sadness that I announce the retirement of Milton School office assistant Lisa Carter Miss Carter will retire at the end of June after seven years working in the Rice City School District Miss Carter came to Milton in 2018 as an office assistant In 20122 she became the interim secretary to the school principal Before coming to Ry Miss Carter spent seven years as the library clerk at the Anne Hutchinson School in the East Chester Union Free School District Previously she was a substitute teacher
021in the Eastchester School District She began her career as a grades 5 through eight grammar and composition teacher at the Immaculate Conception School in Stony Point New York Miss Carter has a BS in psychology from Forom University and an MS in elementary education from Long Island University Milton school principal Anarie Pikarsski said of her "It's hard to imagine our school without Lisa She has been the heart and soul of this place the calm in the midst of any storm and the glue that holds us all together Her dedication warmth and unwavering support have touched the lives of countless students families and staff While we are sad to see her go we wish her all the best in this new chapter Her presence will be deeply missed but her legacy of kindness and commitment will forever
022remain a part of our school's story And Lisa on a personal note as a Milton mom and a PTO president who had lots of needs of help thank you for all that you have done for the school on behalf of the families and the students You will be greatly missed and we wish you all the best So with that we will now move on to presentation and discussion two Miss Bole policy review Thank you So our first we have three policies to look at tonight The first two are ones that we reviewed um during our last meeting Um they are both brand new policies that are results of uh New York State law um passage The first is our exeicio student member of the board Um as we talked about uh last week this was
023based on a law with the intention of providing students more access to experience and governance and civic uh responsibilities but it's also an opportunity for students to have more direct input to the board as it relates to the work of the board Um we did uh have lots of consultation with our um high school principal Mr Hera in uh developing the processes around selection for the students uh who will serve um on the board Um and that is all outlined in the policy It also outlines what the students will be able to participate in and what they will not be able to participate in Um and in addition to that uh we will be creating um a training almost like a regulation that will accompany this that will get into the more of the detail
024around um helping students understand their role what their um what their uh role will be when they're at the meetings and just to help familiarize them with what the board of education does So any questions or items you'd like to discuss Nope Okay Moving on Our second policy from last week was extreme heat condition days Uh this was also a brand new law that will take effect um as of the beginning of next school year Um and and essentially this was something that was based on um health and safety for really schools across New York State Uh that was how it came about Um and it outlines responses that um would need to be uh uh implemented at certain levels of heat that would occur within the building or within spaces in the building Um
025we thankfully uh based on a lot of uh work that's been done over the last several years have addressed a lot of our ventilation and HVAC needs Um and so for our school district because of all that work and the support of the community through the bond um we in speaking with um our director of facilities Rob Gigleaniano he reviewed this as well as Gabby Puio They're Based on what this outlines there there's no apparent needs that we would need to be concerned with in terms of our buildings as they are right now What will um what there already is is a process that exists where if there is a problem and in any space there's a system set up for teachers and individual staff to let the uh facilities department know about that And
026so those plans would just need to be implemented if there was a space that reached either 82 or 88 degrees questions Nope Okay So these will be two brand new policies that we can move forward for adoption um on our next agenda Okay Great And with that we will move on to information and discussion policy 53000 related to the code of conduct Yes So the policy committee took up the charge of reviewing the code of conduct I think it was about 18 months ago um and have spent uh a lot of time trying to do a very comprehensive review of this policy um which has been in place for uh many years Um last June we made a minor change uh to this policy before the uh beginning of the school year to add the
027Ry commitment to it in the upfront Um and so since then as we've comp as we've continued our review um we've really spent most of our meetings looking at the document um keeping certain things in mind One is does it does the document itself align with what we say in the recommendment Are we hitting those those marks of that vision Um we also uh want to make sure that it aligns with all of our current practices Um we also wanted to try as much as we could to eliminate repetitiveness Um uh consolidate where we could uh make it a little bit more of a user-friendly document Um and we also wanted to ensure that we were meeting all of our legal obligations because as things change over time there are small things that change within
028the law And so we've been working handinhand with our uh uh legal counsel as well So if you take a look through you'll see throughout the document there are some line by line edits I'm not going to go through all of those line by line edits tonight because we'll have to have three or four meetings in order to do it Um but the one of the most um I would say uh significant changes or thematic changes maybe is um to how we approach discipline So you'll see throughout the document within the introduction as well as within the definitions and a section later um in the document uh 5300.45 which is titled disciplinary penalties procedures and referrals there's um been a substantial addition to those to that language that um talks about providing opportunities for growth
029for students and and learning through the disciplinary process Prior to these changes the um the approach was pretty much if there was a something that was in violation of the code of conduct it went straight to a punitive uh um consequence So it was either detention suspension uh at least in the language of the of the um document And so what in working with all of the administrators actually throughout the elementary um middle and high school who helped contribute to the changes within the document We added a a change um to the discipline approach to provide um like I said this opportunity for more learning and growth for students rather than simply a punitive uh consequence Um so I'm going to stop there for the moment and see if anyone has any particular questions to
030that because it is one of the larger changes in the document and then we can keep discussing if there's other pieces that anyone wants to um ask a question about or has concerns with I have no questions as it relates to that I just have a statement that I think it is um a wonderful practice for us to implement uh for a few reasons One maybe seven years ago eight years ago we read the book The Gift of Failure Um and so it's nice to be able to see putting into practice conversations that we've had that are more thematic and larger and helping students to be able to understand that failure is not about falling down and not getting back up In fact failure is how you grow and how you change and how you
031learn And so to be able to actually implement that as a district on a systemwide basis I think it's a wonderful opportunity for our students and I think it's a wonderful opportunity for our adults to help our students to grow Yeah I think we there was a lot of discussion throughout about um how do we how do we create an atmosphere and provide opportunities for students to learn those skills of accountability responsibility um navigating when they have a challenge Um and then it also I think there were there were um moments where we were trying I think in in spots to do more of this kind of uh layered intervention but we just didn't have it in a consistent uh manner So this actually does allow us to have that opportunity not just for the
032students to have that but also the faculty and the administrators to go to those to to those um uh interventions that actually help to instill that skill set for the students as they are experiencing what are natural and normal consequences throughout their high school and middle school and elementary school years Right Well and I think as well nobody who knows any human knows you know you're going to make mistakes you're going to make bad decisions and you're going to fail And it's not to be uh it's only meant to help them grow in those moments by having something like this And so setting this up for that I think is great I also do want to say it was very clear to me uh the inclusion of more of the language related to the ride
033commitment in some of this upfront and so I think that was really well done Thank you Any other questions for anything in in the document I think this was the the most um significant change There are other changes as I said primarily they were meant to try to consolidate where we could streamline where we could It's a very lengthy document There are some elements that are legal requirements that we cannot do much with Um and so uh you know if there are any other questions about any of the uh deletions or additions please let me know Sorry I have I have no questions Okay Uh I do well it's not that's not true It's so in the section that speaks uh sorry I didn't write the number down It is 53000.3 prohibited student conduct within
034that section there is I believe that's where that section was Now I can't find it where it talks about behavior on school buses Mhm Um in the language we uh it might be the wrong No there it is It talks about that the requirement of reporting any of um of behavior problems is that of the school bus driver or the supervisor in our schools For the purposes of our schools most of the time most of our kids a significant portion of our students are being transported as relates to sports And so many times we would find a coach would be on that bus with students as well So I do think um perhaps there should be an inclusion for the term coach so that the coach doesn't feel it's the responsibility of the driver or
035a bus aid It we want to make sure that everybody is taking responsibility for all of our students as it relates to student discipline Yep That makes sense And I may have given you the wrong section to I got it Was it in there Yeah Okay Um the other point and I didn't write this down either but you do talk about the the policy rather talks about cell phones Yes And as we know coming down the pipe is a whole policy uh that will be a standalone policy as it relates to the use of cell phones Yes uh this policy really talks about it as it relates to the acceptable use policy and um things that are you know prohibited behaviors in the code of conduct that policy is going to be completely different So
036it there will need to be an update or a change again to this code of conduct once that policy is created Yes So in thinking about that um we did talk about this um peripherilally because at this point we don't have the final language of the law in order to create the policy Y um you know I suppose we could we could do one of two things We could um include what we know will be the policy number and name and indicate that it it will be coming or we can just make the addition at a later date and add it in I don't know that it would change the substance of what we have here Um because most of this is talking about um this is this falls under the search the ability to
037search um if a student if what's on the student's phone So this this section speaks to a a little bit something from a subject matter different But I do believe I agree that we have to have a reference to that policy Yeah I think the other difficult piece is that we will be required per state statute to have a reporting me a reporting mechanism as it relates to students being disciplined for cell phone policy um you know lack of adherence right So my recommendation would be we need to get this policy going and forward and moving We adopt it and once we know because at this point we still do not have explicit direction from the state about what our cell phone policy needs to be that we go ahead with this policy is written
038we create whatever the cell phone policy is and then we we'll just have to go back and make whatever changes we need to in this document Yeah that makes sense Those were my only ideas Okay Okay So seeing no other questions um one thing Oh I said I didn't have a specific question about this I had a question about just code and code of conduct and it where it lives It lives in policy And are will you remind me are kids do kids sign off on the code of conduct I know like family ID does right Yes But do when you register for sports I feel like it references the code of conduct but for students when they come in in September do they when when parents or when parents register them Yeah it's during
039the reg Okay Okay Yeah it's in all the handbooks uh usually too Certainly it's in the the high school handbook Okay Um but there's a sign off as part of the re-registration process Okay got it Um one but to maybe to that related to that point as a requirement of changing the code of conduct is that we have to have a public hearing for it Okay So um with some of the changes that we discussed really just the one change that we discussed tonight we can move this forward to the next agenda and then have the public hearing that same night that we would have our second reading because the important thing is to get go through the process so that we can have it finalized before the July one start of the school year
040Um so more than likely that's what we will do is is hold the public hearing at our next meeting as well as our second reading Um and then uh we can proceed to have it adopted at the at the last meeting in June Got it Okay Great So I do just want to make sure that I thank the policy committee those uh former and current members because this was and the administrators um at all levels from the superintendent to um our our high school principal to anyone else who came and joined the conversation It was um very comprehensive and it was lengthy but I believe um the updates that we have made have really uh helped to reflect more of our approach that we want to be having and and really hopefully reflect some of
041the culture changes we're trying to make within the district Um so I just want to thank everyone for their input and their patience and their um contributions for all of it Great Thank you We will now move on to communications to and from the board And we had two meetings since our last meeting We had audit committee and health and safety Um Mr Shibonoff do you want to give an update on what happened at the audit committee I would be more than happy to Lovely Um so the the focus of uh this last audit meeting was on um our internal audit Um I think the important takeaway was there were no new findings in the risk assessment Um which was great news to see I'm sure I uh a sigh of relief from uh Gabby
042over there Um um but I guess uh the and obviously it had a focus area this year which was uh was human resources Um and again uh clean bill of health um which was also great to see I guess the one area that was um flagged as as something we could work to improve upon was around absence tracking The fact that it's currently being tracked in two locations and they need to be I think best practice if we can rec reconcile those um particularly around um substitute teachers and um and allocating uh payment accordingly Um I guess looking forward we also had uh just a preview of the timeline for the um external um audit Um obviously uh year end is June 30 The prelim will begin mid June They'll start looking at policies contracts
043leases transactions all that good stuff um with the um audit beginning I guess mid August and then we will have the results somewhere um it looks like uh between October 1st to the 15th Um I guess the other only other bit and I know that will show up in the technology um committee but uh the cyber risk assessment was something that did come up as a topic of discussion Um and just uh highlighting that it is great that this is now being done annually um and obviously that information does feed up to um to Gabby as well So there is um a lot of uh cross departmental um coordination of of those results So those were my takeaways If there was anything I missed feel free to share away I think that was a very
044comprehensive summary Thank you All right So then we had health and safety Mr Stein Yep So we had a discussion which was led by our um security vendor Um the upcoming cell phone ban from New York was a high topic of conversation especially around the logistics of IDs where um won't be able to use the phone as the ID anymore and have to switch back to a a physical ID They've got plans for that um and are working through the logistics Um it was also commented that you know while again as you commented earlier have to wait for the final specifics of the law it is anticipated that we will be able to construct something that is likely to somewhat mirror the current middle school rules meaning uh in the health and safety context they're
045not anticipating having to do shakedowns of kids on the way into school to make sure they're not carrying a cell phone or things like that So again you know all uh all of this stuff is a little TBD but that is the uh the current anticipation um and that they will get the uh ID stuff figured out by fall Um there was some also some discussion on new terminology that you know every year the state will come up with different words and phrases that get added deleted modified Um and went over some of those Uh none nothing that terribly exciting for us to discuss but that'll be when they do updates in the fall for faculty and administration and staff We'll go over those Um as well as some new procedures um for things like
046you know events that occur after school if there was a you know lockdown event or a dangerous event or something and and procedures around doing things after school um was off was is coming out in the instate policies and they are will be implementing and updating that as well Great Thank you And Jane the committee too Oh great I had professional learning All right Awesome Tell us about it Okay On May 8th I attended the professional learning committee that Dr Murray um helped facilitate and um what we did is we looked or we started off with the district goals of 2526 which um are critical thinking and social emotional learning Dr Murray had put that you know on the wall and then compared that to the 24 25 last year's professional learning goals and there
047were three of them Um she put that on the wall and so then the committee talked about how to revise the goals from last year um for 2526 to align with the district goals And um it was a very interactive committee meeting We had postits and um where we we rotated around to the the different posters on the wall and put up activities and um and um and goals and things and things like that and have a very robust discussion And then the takeaway was Dr Murray was going to take all of that and come back to the committee with a new um 2526 um goal uh goals and outline And then we present that at the next meeting So there'll be another meeting I think in June and that will then set the stage
048for 2526 Great Sounds like a great meeting What All right Any other communications to and from the board Okay See another none We will be um adjourning into executive session and then we will subsequently be um adjourning out of executive session to go over to attend the results for the budget um votes and so then we will come back here to close out So can I at this point just have a motion to go into executive session Valerie Lapam seconded by Matt Shiboff All those in favor that is seven nothing We'll be back in a bit All right and we are back uh for the budget and trustee vote results and we will turn it over to Lauren Good evening I'm pleased to announce the unofficial results of the annual school budget vote and board
049trustee election This was an uncontested election Board candidate Jennifer Bole received 810 votes Board candidate Jane Anderson received 793 votes Uh the budget was approved uh with a total of 765 yes votes to 158 no votes for an overall total of 923 votes cast for this election Thank you and congratulations All right great news Thank you so much Lauren All right tonight we have received overwhelming support from the community with the passing of the school district's 2025 2026 school budget We thank the members of the community who came out to vote who attended our budget road shows and meetings leading up to tonight's vote The budget is a reflection of the district's priorities for the upcoming school year With your approval the district will expand and continue to provide highquality education to all students while
050further enhancing the climate and culture inside of our school buildings We look forward to the implementation of the international international balaria diploma program and the work of the director of school guidance and student wellness As we progress through the 2526 school year I'm sure we will get updates about this new work as well as updates on the highquality instruction our teachers will continue to provide to our students While we start to close out this great school year we now will start to look forward to next year with great anticipation And with that we will have our next meeting on June 3rd where we will start the evening with a tenure reception Can I have a motion to adjourn this evening's meeting Matt Shov seconded by Jen Bole All those in favor seven nothing Good night
051everyone