001Stand for the pledge, please. 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. Welcome to the April 23rd, 2025 board of education meeting. Uh, first item is the acceptance of the agenda. Second Mike. Those in favor. Any opposed? Second item is the consent agenda. Motion. Second. Second. Any discussion? I'd ask Diane, can you clarify DPA? Yes. So, it's the data privacy agreements. Since ED law uh 2D was enacted a few years ago, we have to have agreements with all of the vendors that we use for online software. Uh until this point, uh there have been small groups of people who would uh work together. Uh we use wishes right now. Um, but there
002is a uh Rick one is willing to be the main negotiator in approving the data privacy agreements which will save all of our small districts who are all getting the same agreement 15 times um a lot of time and effort. They did ask that we do a uh resolution by the board to allow us to join their consortium. There's no cost involved in joining. Those just save us hours and hours of work. Any other discussion other than just happy to see we're going after uh some other Cabrini Foundation funding? Yes. So resolution 099 2024 approving items on the consent agenda. Um all those in favor I any opposed? Resolution is approved. It takes us down to public comments. Would any member of the public like to address the board? No. Very good financial report. Um,
003not a whole lot this time. Everything is saved on the share drive like always. U, but the budgetary transfer report just had minimal transfers. They're right there at the bottom of the page actually, but nothing was over $10,000. Um, but I'd still like the resolution passed should we have to refer back. Ready for the resolution? Yep. Resolution 100 2024 approving the current budgetary transfer report as presented by the school business executive. Motion second questions. Yeah, I'm wondering about the $8,000 for teachers lounge furniture. What? So, we're required contractually to have a teachers lounge in each building. Okay. And uh the teachers lounge here is right across the hall. Looks pretty nice. has tables and some seating as does the middle school and um Bloomingdale. Um the Prova teacher lounge uh looks like we robbed AMA
00430 years ago, put every unmatching piece we could find together. So, um I that's my special projects money and waited till the end of the year to make sure I didn't have a a more pressing need for that money. But um a lot of the staff use that teachers lounge and that allows it to have a cohesive look and be a little more pleasant and that way all um they're all up to date. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? All those in favor? I any opposed? Resolution is approved. Thank you. Moving on to old business. Any capital project update info? Uh so we're working this week right along the EPC project has been working on the lights uh in this building and over at Petroba. Uh also we've had some air handlers which is the
005other part of the project that's a Gordian project that's being done as part of the 18.75 million that was approved many years ago. We had a few HVAC things left in this building that were not completed and so we're trying to do that and they are on schedule. They were uh today tomorrow they're going to bring it online. They feel they're ready to go. Did it in the cafeteria, uh the shop, other places that it's hard to get to during the regular school year. So, both of those projects are progressing on time. A lot of work being done over this two-eek break for them. And we are working on final submitts for the track project and waiting on APA next steps. Okay. Um board retreat finalization of plans for May 6th. May 6 work for
006everybody? Yeah, at least for me. I won't be there. I talked to J about it and I said don't do not reach out to me. I teach on Tuesday evenings. That's why it always Wednesday meetings for me that May 6 is a Tuesday. um I can't do it and so I don't change. Do you teach from home? This is a hybrid course. So sometimes some not. This is in person because the last two weeks and so it's like final presentations and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I won't be home till we think well past time. I'm sure you will. Okay. So May 6, it should be in your calendar. I Gina put it in there. Anthony, what else you want to speak on? So just is is there a topic that you would
007like uh for your meeting? No. Think we'll do a open agenda. Yeah. Okay. That wasn't the answer you want was. Oh, it's fine. Wasn't open agenda is fine with me. And shall we talk about how we're paying for our meal? I think there were some choices. We were asked about going to the Yeah, we needed location brew house. Yeah, I mean I ha I have it they have it available. They're going to comp the room. The only cost that will be associated would be the meals. Final pay. So we we'll work out the mechanism of that because they're not going to want to do six or seven individual bills, right? So we'll figure that out. But we do want to do brew house. They have a private room. Road trip. Yes. Yeah. Road trip. Road
008trip. Okay. We have to I'll just uh I'll pay the check and then invoice everybody. My office stands as well. I'll be including the farmer sheriff. There you go. New business. Selection of prospective candidates names on the new board uh member for placement on the ballot. Turn that over to Gina. Yes, we had two folks submit their applications to be board of education members. So, I'm going to Well, actually, Nikki is going to pick the first person to be placed on the ballot. Exciting. Oh, they're together. Why does it look like there's further two? Mark Farmer will be number one. There he is. President. And the other person will be Zack Randolph, who you know. Wild. Yes. Nobody else. Huh? No. Uh, it it ended. I mean, not that I want. I'm just saying anybody
009that was until the 21st to submit to the 21st at 4 p.m. is in the paper. It's on the website. All that kind of good stuff. Anybody else? It's interesting when you look at, you know, historically how these things go. Some years you got candidates everywhere and other years they're scraping for candidates and some years they don't even have enough. Yeah, last year was a lot of fun for me and Tori. That was awesome. Really enjoyed that. What What is really amazing to me having been around this particular district for close to 30 years. Um as this current composition of the board has remained fairly unchanged for quite a while. That doesn't usually happen like that. There's always turnover either at the election or or someone can't finish their term for some reason and you
010know we were looking for people. I mean I think that's how we first got you right. That's right. I agree. I agree to it. I think it speaks well. Okay. Uh item B reminder that the vote times have changed this year from 8 to 8. So we're good on that. Our election workers I assume are good on that. Yep. I have enough to to shorten their days a little bit, which we're very appreciative of. Uh item C is Oh, question. I someone asked me if you were going to be out of town, what would be the best way to get a Yeah, they should call me or email me. Um and they would do an early voting ballot. Okay. Um or an absentee. I mean, they're kind of to get, you know, they're kind of
011interchangeable being that it's the same process. So, um, they come in and they fill out an application and then I hand them a ballot. Perfect. Yep. As long as they qualify. All right. I'll pass that along. Yep. Uh, item C is election of the board of cooperative educational services. Four vacancies on the Boseies board. There are four people running. So, we'll take this as the entire slate since there's no challengers. They are Nicole Dumont Malone, Elizabeth Forcel from Racket Lake, Marilyn Cook from Salmon River, and Joan Williams from Lake Placid. So, we'll take a vote on that. All those in favor of this slate of representatives. I'm going to stand. Perfect. So, all those in favor? I I Any opposed? Any abstensions? One. We'll need to give that a resolution number. Gina. Okay. Yes. 101.
012What is it? That's good. 101. So, it's 100 101 2024. Yeah. So, let's just do this again with the resolution number for the record. So resolution 101 2024 is the election of a slate of candidates for the four vacancies on the bosses board. Those in favor I opposed. Any abstensions? Got it. Isn't it 2025? No. No. I checked the other one on the front page is Yeah, but the financial report was 2024. It should all be 2024. Yeah. It doesn't change in the calendar. It's the year you started. I've asked that question at least twice because I can never twice. Huh? Just the first number. Seems weird. Oh, it seems weird. But when we start a new year, it'll all be 2025. Yeah. Okay. Superintendent report. So, we had a meeting this week with CL
013that did our electric bus transition information. uh I have shared it with you and unfortunately I know nobody likes to have stuff they have to lug around but um this is going to be an ongoing discussion so welcome to your binder for uh electric bus transition information I'm going to bring it as a new business item at the next meeting just go over it there's some highlights of this that we should talk through so I wanted you to have the opportunity we meet again on Tuesday so it's not a lot of opportunity but opportunity at least look through it. If you have any questions, I will do my best to answer them. And if I can't, I'll make sure that on Tuesday, I'll collect them and uh get answers for you. So, the binder is
014something we probably should have at meetings at least in the near future. So, we'll be referencing probably Tuesday. Um and then after that, we'll have a little transition because our next step, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but we've got a next step and then we'll we'll add things as we go. So, and that is it. We're all on vacation and so it's uh checking off the to-do list in our office at the moment. So nothing else to report those two. Yeah. So we have no admin or student reps uh due to the break. Uh so board reports anything? Nope. Zach? Nothing. story. I'll be in Washington uh Tuesday and Wednesday for National Alliance of Nutrition and Activity Capital meetings. They're trying to get me a meeting with Stfanic, but we will see.
015Interesting. Otherwise, it's uh and Jerry Blossom should be in focuses. Thank you for that. Mike, the third work and I have nothing as well. Are we need of an executive session? No. Okay. Could I have a motion to adjurnn? Mike. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. We are journ. truck. I'll be interested if you can get that meeting. I'm guessing