001open. >> Okay, we're going to uh call order the March 25th, 2026 board of education meeting. We could all stand for 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. Okay. The first order of business is the acceptance of the agenda. Can I get a motion? >> Second. >> Any discussion on the agenda? >> All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? The agenda is approved. Second item is the consent agenda which is resolution 067 3.5 the consent agenda. Motion. Any discussion on consent agenda? Those in favor? Any opposed? Consent agenda is approved. Next come public comments. Anyone from the public want to address the board. Okay, moving on. Nikki your financial reports. >> Um, so I
002have everything on our share guide. You'll notice that the budget transfer report is a little over age this time, but there's nothing over 10,000. There's nothing major. Primarily, we're covering any salary needs for substitutes and staff. Um, we did increase our library media at elementary level. So, transfer from technology to the library media. And then, um, just covering some CPSC. But again, nothing nothing You ready for the resolution? >> Yes, please. >> Okay. Resolution number 068 2025 approving the budgetary transfers. Motion, please. >> Second. >> Any discussion on the transfers? Those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Resolution is approved. >> You know, it says I have the budget forecast next, but I'm actually going to talk about our reserve accounts. So, um, I made it look a little nicer this year than what we
003had last year. It's printed more of an orangey color than red, so I don't know about that, but the information is all the same. So, it just talks about what the reserve is and why benefits are. Um, and on the back of our reserves, so on the front is the account balances that we ended the 2425 school year with. So, as of January 2025, those are our latest balances. And I just wanted that to be on everybody's mind. um while reviewing the plan for 2026 27. We're not intending to withdraw any reserves from withdraw anything from any of our reserves except the transportation and maintenance reserve fund um for the school buses that we do each year. And then not listed on here because it's um it's unassigned. So it's not part of this. But
004that's what we'll be using piece of that for the forecast. And even even though it's not required to be on this that balance as of June 30th was um 3,197,000 change. Um, so I just wanted to get this in front of you to review and I think so next month or next board meeting I think for resolution to be adopted. >> Any questions for >> next next uh meeting we'll adopt how much is going to get put into the reserve fund. So we just have to adopt the plan which is the back part saying that we're not intending to use okay >> anything other than um >> which is right >> and then I did put the note at the front that says at the end of each fiscal year the board of education reviews
005unspent funds and at that time determines whether to add money to the reserve funds within the limit. It's just it's just the plan, >> right? >> The rest isformational. >> We pulled we used unreserved funds this fiscal year to cover the budget. Correct. >> Correct. >> To the tune of 1.5 >> um >> million. >> Yes. >> And the year before did we do the same? And how much do I remember >> the year before? Is it >> the year before was 2,35,000? >> And and so is it typical district business practice to pull as much unreserved balance on an annual basis? so many years in a row. Like I don't know. I'm I'm gen genuinely asking that in the sense of that's a lot of money that we hold. Are we putting enough back
006that it washes? Is this something that we intend to be doing or we have to do something drastic so we stop? Like I'm just curious to kind of know what that looks like. Well, so I only have experience for a few years of this, but um from what I heard of my colleagues that I attend trainings with, >> um it's it is very common for districts to do this, but Diane probably has a better explanation. >> Okay. One of the things we have to do when we budget, it doesn't matter how many reserved funds you have. When you vote on a budget, that's the maximum amount of money the district can spend in a year. So, every budget has a little bit of savings built into it. It's not like your house where, you know,
007if you if you your refrigerator breaks, you can go to your savings account. here. We really can't go to that without voter approval except for the repair funds. That was a bad example, but if we if we had a bus that broke down and and we've actually had that happen. We had a bus that was in an accident and was not drivable and we had to rent a bus for the rest of the year. We couldn't just go out and buy it or we would have had to gone to the voters. It would have been a hole. By the time we would have done all that, would have been close to the end of the year. So, it wasn't worth doing. So, we actually rented the bus to get us to the end of the
008year and voter approval to replace the bus. >> So, you've got to keep a little bit of money in your budget with the idea that um something significant could happen. Um you could have students that move in that have specific needs that aren't budgeted for. So, it's always a an educated guess. That's why we freeze our budget April 1 because as of April 1, we can kind of tell you how much of that savings account that's built right into the budget, right, >> we are going to anticipate to have left for next year. And all those according to the state, those unallocated reserves are either supposed to go back to the taxpayers like here's your check or go back to the taxpayers by offsetting the next year's tax levy. So that is something that has
009been done here for years. It was it was in place and it's in most districts. Okay. >> Um some years we use more than others. This year we're going to use a significant amount because it also uh we talk about it and I'll I'll jump on it in a minute here. It's in my notes. But uh we're a big we're a big spot with 70 some% of our money being staffed. >> Yeah. And so turning on a dime does not look good for a district. So it also allows us to make some changes over some time. But we had money left last year that we tucked into unallocated and into some of our allocated fund balances and we anticipate we'll have some money this year also. >> Yeah. Not complaining. I think it's true business
010practice. It's more just anticipating we only got 3.9 and from these signs of the last two years that would chew right through that if we did another two years of that. Like >> are there things we're doing as we go along with this process that's going to help course correct? So like we'll be able to keep up with that in the sense of having that actual dollar amount for those situations. That's all. >> That's the hope. But if you keep getting whacked $2 million a year in health insurance increases, right? >> Doesn't take long to have no fun. >> Because on the other hand, you can't offset that by simply saying just raise taxes, right? >> Because you're capped, right? >> So that's what a lot of schools had or have smaller fund balances than
011we've carried for a while. They are currently in crisis mode, >> right? You don't have to go very far in the growth country to find and no fault of their own in some cases, but this is why we always try to keep this fund balance healthy in case there were costs that were given to us that we don't control that we can't say no to, >> right? >> Um, >> we covered, >> but there's a limit to how many years in a row you can do that. >> Didn't we last year we put the lecture in the budget because we didn't know we were going to get any federal funds. >> So then we get the federal funds. then you know that money can go back. >> Correct. >> It's good. I'm always just making
012sure we're going to continue doing whatever it is we're doing. If not making sure that >> 2 million out 1.5 back in. >> Well, that's the point, right? Is >> But that formula largely does not depend on our choices. >> Right. We get to control some of the spending, but things that we have no control over um to deplete that fund in a few short years with an inability to offset it with any kind of increases. Like what's our what's our increase in state? 190 years >> about 19,000. >> Do you want me to jump into the forecast? Would that be >> is that those are all questions that are right on it? >> Let's see. Any other questions for Nikki? >> There's no resolution for the um reserve funds until Okay. So, >> so
013the next thing is the budget forecast which as Diane mentioned um in order to make it balance we are using a significant amount of our fund balance. Our property tax cap this year was at 74% um 75% based on last year. So, >> can you help help us out with this? two people want to know. We always hear this 3% tax cap and that's just kind of a kind of a mythical number. It is >> everyone to the general public they hear that so much that number stays with them but each school has kind of a little different number and the formula it's pretty complicated that we get for us this year it's what >> 74 >> yeah right it's not even near 3% >> right usually it's two it was supposed to be 2%
014but but sometimes it is 3% or 4% and then sometimes it's right zero >> you see many of three or 4%. >> Yeah. >> So, it depends. The state has a whole website that they have a form that you fill in information like your debt service. Um there's so many things on there and can't remember every single category, but >> suffice to say it's complicated. >> Yeah. And it takes into consideration a lot of different things from your district and then it calculates it for you. So it's not like every district is doing their own calculation. We're providing our audited information into a formula that the state is calculating. >> So sorry to back up your way. >> That's that's okay. Um so so that's what we were capped at and so that's why the
015um increase in fund balance this year. But overall, the sections of our budget that we were expecting to increase like our um health insurance salaries with this compound and then we just offset where we could um Dian wanted to talk a little bit further about details of it. Yeah. So it's our budget forecast number one. Um it is a a pretty honest full look at where we stand right now. The numbers are real uh based on what we know today and we'll talk about those that are based on some assumptions. But if it doesn't say estimated in the expenditure part, those are actual numbers. And I think we we've actually worked all the way through it. So there are no estimated uh figures in the expenditures part. Those are all real numbers. And yeah, on
016our revenue side, our tax cap this year is 75%. Which allows for increase in the levy of $189,000. So, but remember the levy is what we go out to our taxpayers with. So, we can collect an additional $190,000 there. And it's tight and it doesn't give us much room because twothirds of our budget comes directly from our taxpayers. So that that's a big number that we have to work with and we have been at 4%. We've had good tax levies. We've had some one points, we've had some two point somethings, but this is the first time in my time here that our tax levy has been this low. Um, state aid is still a projection. So, the governor proposed a 1% increase in foundation aid for districts like ours that are under the whole harmless
017category. Um, but we are using the one house proposals. Each of the houses suggested 2%. We guess that that is where it will end up. It's just a negotiation tactic, but the reality is the the difference is the difference between 180 or 366. So, we're in a 30 $39 million budget. um the difference is not significant. It's not going to move the needle again for our income for that. Um so as I mentioned the expenditure side, those numbers are all real. We do have contracts that are open for CSEA um administrators and supervisors. So we've used reasonable estimates for that. We've done some decreasing in salaries. A couple of reasons for that. We did reductions through attrition of several positions. And we also last year, and I think Nancy just mentioned that, we shifted some
018of our grant-f funded staff out of the grants because at the time that we were building the budget, they were in jeopardy. They actually seem to not be in jeopardy for this coming year. They are for the year after, but not this coming year. So, we have put that step back into those grants. So although the it's a $55,000 difference, it's not really if you included all the people that were included in it last year, it would still be a bit of a decrease, but not a significant decrease, but that does absorb the uh raises and other benefits. >> Yes. Overall count doesn't >> It looks like it goes down more than it really does. Yeah. because you're saturating individuals individually. >> Uh for instructional staff, uh this is a number off the top of
019my head, Zach. I think it's about six reductions in staff. I'd have to actually go back and through attrition. >> Yes. And we anticipate next year there'll be uh some attrition also. >> Program, >> excuse me, >> no loss program >> with with minimal loss. the students will not notice it because we're handling it in different ways. >> Yes. And and we have that moving forward, too. And could we reduce our instructional staff a little bit? We probably could, but I also feel we're doing a lot of moves in a lot of places. And I I would be moving from being able to still offer the full continuum to losing a few things in a time when we're going to need all hands on deck. And with attritions coming up next year and the year
020after um I think it's worth holding on this year. >> The non-instructional static the budget says it's going to be a little bit higher. Is that because of more tees or is that because we're trying to fill vacancies? So, we always we this is a real budget and not I I have my notes, but I'm going to skip around a little bit. It's important to me that I leave the next superintendent with a workable budget that I want them to be able to live a real budget so they can make their own priorities, set up their own budget for the next year. So, the budget that's in in front of us, I could live it, right? If I'm here, I'm not I'm not I'm not moving the cones around and then going out the door.
021It's a good liveable budget. So that means any spot where there's an opening, we have budgeted for that opening. We didn't say, "Oh, we don't have a head custodian. We'd like one, we don't have one, but we're not going to budget for it because we're not going to get one next year." A head custodian, even though we've tried for two or three years to get a heads custodian. We've left in the budget because we really do need one. >> Right. So, so it is an honest reflection of of staffing levels and we know we're going to the negotiation table with them and they negotiated in a very different world than when the SLTA negotiated and that has made for quite a split between their their salaries and we're going to have to adjust for that
022or we'll never have staff in that world. So, >> so yeah. Um Mickey and I have worked with every administrator and supervisor. They've all come in and um we've built their budgets with them and again they're thoughtful and livable. They we done the the moves to move sixth grade supports into the elementary seven and eight into the high school. We work to split that up so everybody's money is moving with them. Um we didn't just absorb it and it's gone. we've absorbed that money in the right place so we can still offer what we're offering or maybe even a little more once the money is combined and we're not doing two separate things in two different locations. Um, however, we've made a pretty sign significant decision, we have, if you look at the debt service,
023we have for many years planned to put some money into our reserves and we've actually pulled those back for this year. Um, but you also look at our reserve balances in those areas in that our capital improvement reserve has $2.7 million. Our transportation and maintenance equipment has $2.2 million and our repair reserve has $1.7 million. So those are healthy reserves. um we felt like in a budget where we needed to to prioritize that was a spot where we could pull back this year and not plan to fund those. We also are looking at our school lunch fund and hoping to make some changes in that. We have to make the fund whole u but we are finding that with our um set program so every student receives breakfast and lunch. Satie is doing an excellent
024job sort of revamping and looking for grants. She's just applied for the snack program. Uh you approved last time for the farm to school, so she's really looking for some grant work. So we put some of that money back also. Um and we've talked before that our reserves are there for emergencies. And I I think that we're in that time right now. you you open up Facebook or you open up the newspaper or the Sun or any of those and all of our neighbors are in the news. Um, last last news is receiving text messages about our our neighbor to the east and their financial crisis which they don't often share. They're struggling too. Our Sable's been in it. Temper Lakes in it. Um, and we are very lucky because we have just shy of
025$4 million in our unallocated fund balance. We anticipate that we're going to end the year with about a million dollars, which is always our goal because that's our that's our savings account within our budget that we then use for the next year. And we are anticipating using a lot of that 2.499 uh for next year's um to balance next year's budget. Can we do that forever, Zach? Absolutely not. Can we do it this year and next year and then have some left over for year number three? I anticipate that this is a transitional budget. We've got all of our reconfiguration happening. We've got the new superintendent coming in. This is a transition. I want to leave them in a good spot. I want to leave the district in a good spot with staffing. I do
026anticipate that next year though there will be uh cuts to the budget. I hope most of it will be through attrition as far as staffing, but I can't guarantee that. But you're right in your question is how long can we continue this? We have it. We've saved it. We've been good stewards of our taxpayers money over the years because we always said someday we may need it. we need it, but we can't just anticipate that this is the way it's going to go year after year. So, uh I think that we often talk about shift versus drift. That was my theme this year, right? Negative shift, not just drifting. And this drifting would be just hoping that we'll just keep throwing money at it and and it's going to fix itself, right? The state's going
027to come in and save us. But this is a we've had a lot of conversation. Nikki is ready to to train up the new superintendent in budgeting and she's excellent at it and we've done a lot of work together over our last couple of years. So she's she's ready to help the next superintendent. But this is really a shift and we have been shifting as you know we've been increasing staff for the last few years. So this is not like oh gee who knew this was coming. We didn't know this was coming. We didn't know our tax cap would be 75%. That's the big piece. And we didn't know our health insurance would be 22%. We put those two together and that's the additional use of the tax cap right there. >> or our energy
028cost as you can see. Yeah. So, so we didn't know those things. That's why we saved some money so we're ready when they come. So that's what you've got in front of you. So I think this is a solid responsible budget. Uh, it is mine to bring a bottom line to you. As you know, I've never come to a bottom line that the the board has told me go back and look at it that I've said no, I'm done. It's all yours. So, it is yours to have a conversation about. I can adjust. I can do what you would like me to do. This is this isn't us at the end of the day, but I feel like this takes care of our kids, takes care of our community, and sets up our new superintendent
029for success. I think line 12 retirement. >> Yes. >> Went down by 200,000. >> Like that never happened. >> Their break up in there some when some retirees, you know, social security or age. Does that change anything or >> that's in our insurance? Yeah. >> Yeah. That's set by TRS, the teacher retirement system. says what the rate will be down this year. >> Yeah, but we're gonna take it and run. >> Yes, fuel. I know the electric and the fuel. >> How is that? Um I guess how >> was that? I want to say that was 175. How much burns up? I looked at it. I've looked at so many figures. I don't want to >> overall >> his overall budget for >> I want to say >> he felt he didn't need to move
030fuel for right now. He's okay because we've actually um we've actually been using fuel to cover the cost of electric. Okay. So, he felt with increased cost of fuel and we wouldn't be moving it. So he changed his budget for electric to reflect what our electric. That's about the only move in except for typical increases in costs and some of these contractual things. That was really big chunk of his budget they change often. >> And does that not doesn't top us off this year? He will not tough off the field for this year at this point. >> Really? Just because >> Yes. >> cost. >> Yes. And and because we're we're all trying to stay within our budget so that we know at the end of the year we have some unallocated funds to put
031towards this budget. And so because he's been moving his fuel money to electric, he just doesn't have it. And then fuel costs are so high now it would not make sense to top off right now. >> So it's all worked out. >> It's all trying to tell them that but >> he'd rather we just found somebody somewhere else. >> Fuel's always a gambler. >> Yes, it is. >> We say it's high now. Next fall say spring, >> right? >> You just >> you never know. >> We think it's an artificial bubble, but >> anything else on the budget? not for me, but we're open for questions. It's not a done deal. This is I'm not bringing it for any anything besides um some reflections. So, you know, when we'll see what happens April 1st with
032the state budget, you know, >> if they pass on time. >> Yes, if they pass on time. But we don't see a lot of unless you send me back with some directions to change something. We just don't see a lot of wiggling. There's not a lot of unknowns left in this budget. >> The uh I mean it's such a low tax increase you know the 1.75% but if it was we talked about this a little bit last meeting if it was a contingency so say you know what would >> I don't think we put our contingency budget together yet but it can be >> well I'm just curious but it I'm sure you have to do it at some point but there's no rush on it But but so so really you just want to
033see how the bud the state budget settles out and but otherwise it's probably as good as Yes. >> Okay. Thank you everyone. Moving on to old business resolution 069 2025 contract school district 60,000. Let's get a motion to get on the table, please. >> Second. >> Yes. >> Discussion. >> Yes. So, we are doing quite a bit of work over the break at patrol. We're draining the system down. We've talked about it multiple times putting putting all the check valves, doing all the work. We have some room in our project budget that we actually can finish out the pneumatics at the trouble, which should be a completely done deal. Um, so I apologize. The first time you saw this in Friday, uh, on Tuesday was that it was through with Danforth through the EPC, but
034we actually didn't have room in our EPC. So, it's actually through our our 18.75 project, which means we have to contract with Gordian. And then Dan, of course, does the work under Gordian. So, that was the if you you're like, does she have any idea who we're working with? That was >> it's a correct correct the because of the way the contract is set up, we don't have to go to bid because there's some booty that happens on the other side. So, that's what it is. It would be very nice. We would have uh on both buildings. The only thing left over here are a couple of items. Um we have an item in the auto shop, a heater in the auto shop that we haven't been able to hook anywhere because it really isn't
035a cost savings doing it. Couldn't do it through EPC because it wasn't a cost savings. And then we prioritize what we want to do with the last of our funding. Um, putting everybody on the pneumatics on a system that works, that we can control, that's up to date, became a priority. But, um, we've done I'd like to say we I've only brought it forward and and watched it and said, "Oh, that's interesting." But really Burn and Chris Pay done a really nice job of updating all that work at really bringing that system up to speed and being energy efficient and they did all that work here a few years ago. So that's been a good part of our construction work. So this is the last of it up to 60,000. >> And is this like
036the insulating wall and that stuff or >> that is already that's already being done. Correct. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor? I >> any opposed? The resolution is approved. Item B, revisiting the Spanish travel for summer 27. Let's get this on the table and then we'll hear from Doug. Resolution number 06. If you remember, we tabled this for our last meeting the Spanish book trip in 27 to uh Guatemal presented. Motion, please. Second. >> Um D, you got anything you want to give us? >> Sure. Yeah. Um I'm not sure if you anybody was able to take a look at the safety and security guide that was distributed. Um I did take some time to highlight. It's quite good information. I highlighted some things that were just most relevant to the board. Um
037so this is obviously a reputable company. They've been around for decades. They have a great reputation. Yeah, it says in here that safety and security is their first. >> Thank you. >> Um so the safety and security is obviously the top priority. They haven't had any incidents. Um they do work with a couple of external agencies that have offices in every region that we visit. So there's one in Central America. Um and they can assess situations on the ground so they have a real feel of what's going on. Um there's a a doctor and team through George Washington University that's on call 24 247. So that's covered. They have about the insurance liability policy is is outlined in here. It's it's massive. Um yeah, I think I I certainly understand the the concerns that were
038brought up last time and I appreciate the discussion. I uh I I think and I think many of us agree here, maybe all that this is a this is a wonderful opportunity and um I think the benefit the potential benefit of this is just is is massive for these kids. >> Any questions for >> Thank you for that all the information is great. That's I mean that's the thing. I just want to make sure right due diligence and you know >> so I'll just add that Joe did you know because he wasn't going to be here tonight he expressed that he felt really good about looking at all that he know he thought they were very reputable and uh he did think our policy needs some work and that's you know we should be doing
039you know side not all but he was so I think it's great Good. All those in favor I resolution carries. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Begin. Fundraising starts tomorrow. >> All right. Uh seven on the agenda. New business. give you a quick update on the superintendent search. Um more as we know here last week did some work. Currently we have two finalists. Um they will come back to meet with our stakeholder groups. It's a community group CSEA SOTA and a group of admin that'll be on the 22nd and then you know we're meeting on the 23rd and we'll review the information that the stakeholder groups give us. Uh on 22nd at some point um Lisa Rud and I will be touring the district get some uh information out to the staff on that.
040That'll be good opportunity for her to see a little bit about where our stuff is and pretty much just one of the halls. Not going to be anything official, but uh thought that would be good to have that. So that's kind of where I'm at. Any questions? Move along pretty well. Dale Bri, I should say again, has been amazing with his assistant Moren in their end and our end Gina has been spectacular with him with all the details we haven't seen. So, thanks again. >> So, I will be here on the 22nd to help organize with Dale groups and Junior will be as well. So, I guess the plan will be um when we when we meet, we'll take some time to review the input and uh move out from there. >> All right, moving
041on to reports. Uh or super den report. >> I don't know if anybody knows this, but spring break is right around the corner and uh none too soon is it arriving. So, we've had a lot of lap stops and first stops as we're coming into the spring season. As I encourage the uh top 15% to take advantage of the activities that are going on, I encourage all of you to do the same. Comes to be a really busy season, but a lot of fun. Um, I'm assuming you're going to talk about the musical. So, I want to discuss the musical. I want to say it was lovely. >> Outstanding. And my only other topic really is to thank our staff. I've asked everybody over the last few weeks, anybody who wants to weigh in for
042suggestions for um they could give me their wish list themselves, their department, who might use the buildings um and put staffing in where uh and I've been inundated with emails. I continue to tell people thank you for being patient but I've learned a lot. People are very thoughtful and it's really good suggestions. Um so driving today we worked on uh on schedules and some of the suggestions specifically drove the work that we did today and it was a really good one. So, I just thank our staff for just being a part of this process. And when I said feel free to email me, wasn't sure they really would and they have and we're making good headway. We are on target as we told our staff we would try to have our courses ready to go
043for our counseling people to begin the process of actually doing um a scheduling by the by the break. And we are going to be we're going to be on it, right Josh? We're moving. >> We're going to have it done before we leave on Friday so we can have it in our hands. So, we're we're on schedule. People have been patient, thoughtful, and uh well, I'll be glad we come back and it's 80 and sunny in two weeks. >> So, when Nancy and I were uh visiting with the employee groups and talking about reorganization, etc., um they were encouraged that we were encouraging them to reach out if you had info. So I'm glad people are taking advantage of that because we all know people that are here on the first floor doing some of
044these jobs sometimes see things that that we miss. So I'm glad that process is moving ahead. >> Anything else? >> That's it. >> Uh no admin Katie got anything for us? >> Yeah, last Thursday was our elementary science fair. It was really well attended. The experiments and presentations were awesome. and the lovely kids in their lab, coats and goggles. I want to thank Sierra Pickering for her helping coordinating that event for both schools. Uh, tomorrow's our last family movie night of the year. It's been really well attended. Such an easy event to get families in and it's been really fun. So, that's tomorrow at Bloomingdale. This week was >> Kung Fu Panda 4. >> It was voted on by the kids. >> Is that the movie we watched at the field? Was that >> No.
045Oh, it was pissing boots. Yes. Thank you. >> You have to bring your own chair. >> Um uh this week we are trying to get our student councils to work together. So they created a nice spirit week um to get through this last week before spring break. Um so that was great. April 23rd, we're having family tours at Petrova for Bloomingdale families that are transitioning to Petrova next year. So, we're hopeful. Those went really well when we transitioned 3 through 5 last year. Um June 2nd, we're having a Bloomingdale community open house. It's for the entire community from 5 to 6:30. All community members are welcome. They can take a tour of the building. Um our head custodian, Mr. Miller found some old yearbooks, so we thought it would be kind of cool to put
046those out. Some are back from the 70s and uh so they were kind of neat to look at. And then also light refreshments. And so we thought that might Diana thought that might be a nice idea just to welcome the community into the building. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Welcome. >> Well, the student reps, what do you got for us? >> Okay. Yes. SATs were yesterday. um scholarships were due last week and then on March 12th Pete Bagen came and and we had an assembly and then last week Mon was very successful and I was so uh I would also like to say that our musical was successful but we should also all go and support the other trikes. Lake Placids was last weekend and I think it went pretty well. We saw it and
047Copper Lakes is this weekend. >> They are. Oh, >> Max. Next Max. Don't give it away. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, now of committee reports. Let's go to uh >> Oh, Josh, I'm sorry. >> It was not intentional. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Thank you. See, I thought you >> um I just want to piggy back on Sierra. We had uh Kate Fagen with our students um on Thursday. Ethan Knight interviewed uh Kate. It was awesome. I think our kids got a lot out of it. um hoping to expand that um going going you know forward with with parents and so it's good. Um Bruce's last day is Friday. Uh Linda Pier will be filling in for Bruce for the remainder of the school year. So I want to thank Linda uh for stepping up and
048helping with that. Today we had the Federal uh Reserve Bank of New York guest speaker come in and speak to our uh seniors, our personal finance and OAS and and then we have a field trip going. of a number of kids. So there was probably maybe a hundred students in there for today's assembly. Just fascinating and and and students were sitting listening for over an hour which was great and uh I think they took a lot from the assembly. So um we're two days out everybody's trying to get to the end and so I just want to thank everybody for for for their efforts. >> Apologies. Um now our committee reports Mike. Uh, I don't know if I'm spoiling somebody else, but uh, they're going to I'm so excited that our kids are going to
049see Hamilton over spring break and go to the Federal Reserve, which is awesome. Other than that, I think you're just awesome. >> Uh, I don't have much. I just want to say I even dragged my husband to the play who is not a play version and he was humming tunes all week. Um >> video evidence please. >> It was awesome. It was so great and it was so great to see so many parents and community members there and you guys did a fantastic job. True. Jack, >> uh, nothing to report other than just, uh, sent circulated the meeting minutes from the head north central school with superintendent, Dr. Shanti. So, thought that was productive and I just wanted to get the context out to everyone. So, hopefully we can think about it as we go
050and figure out what that looks like for us. Justin >> um checking in with Suzanne was curious kind of thinking about with the shifting of grades and everything kind of planning ahead for students and I and she just assured me that all that planning was going well in place to still get the students everything they need. That was good to hear. And then yeah, copying on what Katie said, I went to the science fair in my fifth year in kindergarten both presentations. Always look forward to that. It's always very well done. The cafeteria refilled vinegar all the volcanoes which was always fun to watch first grade going. So yeah, move up. Go ahead. That's it. >> Nancy. >> Um okay. Well, we had a DEI committee meeting last um Thursday. uh talk a little bit
051about Kate Fen's presentation. Um and then uh talk a little bit about planning for the next meeting. We're going to look at um you know goals for next year as opposed to we're doing it in September and October coming into next year. interesting exercise that Diane led that was available as well. So, it was it was a good meeting because we hadn't met in a while. Um, on a DEI front, I don't think I mentioned that I had a my first meeting with the NISSA DEI committee. It was a virtual meeting and it was in early February or late February. I probably should have mentioned it last week, but I forgot. It was just a virtual like about an hour, an hour and a half just to kind of set things for uh this Saturday
052would have been our in-person meeting in all the all day at the m office and that should be really interesting for that. Um, and then just to give a really long report, although it's not both sides, uh, from Amy Spicer Middle School, just so I can do a quick synopsis, um, she said on Saturday, March 14th, the middle school math counts teams travel to Saratoga Springs. Uh, and let's see, they had to students had to first participate in the Champo Regional Chapter on January 31st. Uh, and let's see. The kids that were representing the school were Ellie Henderson, Simon Langden, Meadow Mashett, Key Vanettton, Grace Sadik, >> Tommy Gaylord, and Allison Statlander. Uh, the team of Ellie Henderson Meadow National Key event competition where they competed against 42 teams across New York State. Um and
053then they also got to compete as individuals. Let's see what he's saying. Uh just thank you Mard and for being the team. Uh eighth graders also went to the Aderandic Education Center um to look at the CPS programs >> which was pretty awesome. >> Yeah, >> it was like speed dating though. It was like six groups. No, I had the 10 minutes a piece. >> That's great. >> Um yeah, they toured all the different program areas and ask questions. Then they when they came back to middle school, they met with students and teachers from the new visions program. Uh so they got a chance to just think, hey, thank you to Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Mchugh for organizing that one. Then there was the middle school youth enjoying nifty gnarly activities, which is Yanga. I
054actually didn't know it. Forgot Yanga stood there. That's a good one. Um they had five trips to Titus. Uh they had to postpone a couple of them due to extreme cold. Um, so they did get to go out again last Friday with peers. 27 participants including three brand new skiers. That's great. Um, she put down grades. Uh, one kid from eighth grader never been on skis before said, "I love this and I cannot wait to use this forever and ski with my friends next year." So, it sounds like it was pretty successful. And here we go. I'm almost done. I would like to thank Mrs. Lton. >> Thank you. Sorry. And Mrs. Bernoy for advising the group and exposing those scheme. So that's great. That's it. The rest were previous. >> Thank you Amy. >>
055Thank you. Um I'll just say what everyone else said. Mama Mia was outstanding. I kind of thought Max she would have organized a little Mia flash here tonight. So >> Oh yeah. No. >> How about maybe this spring of a lacrosse game or something? No, >> it's a shame that the amount of work that goes into that and it's three performances >> and you know with all the rights and you know once upon a time we used to film those when I was doing the video club and broadcast them on channel two too when we ran that. It's really cool and the money made people get involved and all the contracts and >> but it's amazing amount of work. So really enjoyed that as well. All right, we we do not need an executive session.
056So they >> I assumed it was Mark. Mark assumed it was me. >> Dina assumed it was one of us. >> So after six months of extra meetings that we're going to get a motion to second. >> All in favor? >> We are. was coming in Another person.