001call to order uh our meeting organizational meeting for July 8th, 2025. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. President to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. In the unlikely event of an emergency, we have exits to our sides and to the back. Roza here. Katie Emerson Hoff here. Michelle, you're good. I'm here. Robert Tolman here. Tina here. Carol here. Michael Meyer. He's online. Jeffrey Riatsi here and Tim Wells here. Uh we'll entertain a motion to appoint our new district clerk, uh Miss Virginia Carney, although she's not in attendance tonight. Uh we will swear her in if it's approved. So moved. I'll second it. IA. All those in favor? I I uh point of order. Um
002if the new board members who have not been sworn in, are they eligible to vote on these uh Yes, I think yes. It's okay. Yes, it's okay. Cherry says yes. Yes. Okay. [Applause] We'll now administer the oath of office to our two new board members. That one was longterm memory. Now, I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the board of of ed trustee. Thank you. Amen. Do you solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of Board of Ed? I just need to
003sign it. Thank you. I wanted to open the floor for nominations for board president. Have any nominations? I nominate Jeffrey. Second. Sorry, who second it? Okay. Are there any other nominations for board president? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Congratulations, Mr. President. Mr. Beyonce. There it is. [Applause] I would like to open the floor for nominations for the board vice president. I nominate Kate Emerson Hall. I'll second it. Are there any other nominations for board vice president? All in favor for Katie Emerson Hos as vice president say I. Any opposed? Congratulations Katie Emerson Hos. Mr. President right hand. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of
004president of board of ed education according to the best of my ability. I would. Congratulations, Mr. Rachen. Mr. Katie Emerson Hos, can you please raise your right hand? This one. I do so solemnly affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of vice president board of ed according to the best of my ability. Congratulations [Applause] I'm eating them. You're thought you're going to finish what you start. Oh jeez. Yeah. Great. Okay, we have um just reading through it. Yeah. Yeah. See, accept a motion um for the approval of our annual appointments resolution, which has our hearing officers and then a series of all the the um the appointments that are required um
005for the district to have. So, it's items one and then items 2 A through QQ. So, move Second that h seconded by Molia. Any discussion? All those in favor? I next up is uh D accept a motion for our designations resolution which is everything from the official paper to the school to our bank deposits um and our different hearing officials. So, it's items D1A through H by Miss Bellarosa, seconded by Mr. Wells. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I All right. Other items um accept a motion um for authorizations resolution um our official bank accounts, the petty cash funds, etc. So, it's items E1 A through S and then um our health services contract, our non-resident special education student tuition students and then future board meeting dates for uh the 20 2526 school year.
006Motion so by Miss Keller, seconded by Miss Bellarosa. Any questions on any of that? Um I just want to point out um with the uh calendar for the board calendar that uh it does not appear that we're attending any of the elementary schools. So those who are listening and are used to having to go to the elementary schools October through January. Uh those are not going to happen this year and they're all going to be here in this room. Just wanted to point that out. Yeah. And just to to go on that's a great question. Uh Christine, what we had said was um there were a couple of reasons we did that we made that change. Um number one is the audio and all that in the different elementary schools is very difficult. I I'll
007call out Ricardi specifically when we were in the gymnasium there. We had a ton of people who said we could barely hear anything anybody was saying. And then also it is um while there are a few students that that present to us and um and go through it, we thought we we had a discussion that we just felt that it would there'd be a better way um and that we'll we'll discuss it in August and September to engage the elementary schools to have the board um you know either go visit the schools at different points um to where it will involve a larger portion of the of those particular elementary schools as opposed to one meeting for a couple hours um you know in the middle of November or December. So that was the thinking
008behind that. But great question. So and the students having to be there late and stuff. Exactly. Right. So any other questions or discussion? Yeah, go right ahead. What is the um nature of the special meeting on August 26th? So that is typically we have that meeting at the end because um there are typically a bunch of hiring that that's happening now that needs to be approved before the start of the school year. Okay. Yep. You good? Yeah. Okay. Any other ones? Great questions, though. Okay. All those in favor? I I All right. A motion to adjourn the organizational meeting component of tonight. So move by Miss Keller. Second. Seconded by Mr. Wells. Any discussion? All those in favor? I We're not leaving. We're just switching agendas. Let me do it now. I'll make the motion
009to move it. Yeah. Yeah. Um, let me just find it here. Where do we have it? Fel [Applause] Oh, yeah. Okay. Um I'd like to um make uh have a motion um to move appointments to tenure resolution F um basically we'll do all of F um and move that from where it is on the agenda to right after public comment. So move. Second. Seconded by Miss Bellarosa. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Okay. All right. [Applause] We don't need all the um so this is now the regular meeting of the board of ed for July 8th, 2025. First two items are the approval of minutes of June 10th um and then uh June 30th, the two different meetings we had in June. Um and due to that, Mr. Toman was not in at those
010meetings. He's asked for it to be a roll call um as opposed to a blanket um approval. So um Miss Gardner, when we get to that point, if you could do a roll call vote for these. A motion to accept the minutes by Miss Feler Rosa, seconded by Mr. Wells. Any discussion? Miss Gardner. Christine Bel Roa. Yes. Katie Emerson Hoff. Yes. Michelle, yes. Robert Tolman, abstain. Sina, yes. Carol Keller, yes. Jeffrey Ratsi, yes. Tim Wells, yes. [Applause] Okay. All right. Now is the uh public comment portion of the of the meeting. Anybody who wishes to address the board, um now is the time to do so. Um I'm not going to read this whole paragraph. Um but it it is an it's an opportunity for anybody in the public who wants to address it. Um
011we have in there three minutes. We're not going to, you know, at 259, we're not going to I never touch the gavvel, nor will I ever use the gavvel. But, um, just, you know, as you as you start to, uh, as you frame your comments, just keep that in mind. Um, so, anybody who wishes to address the board, now is the time. [Applause] Yeah. Yeah, you can. Uh, if you could just turn the mic on. Yeah. I don't know why we don't have a chair there. Just pick it up. Yeah. He's like, "Get up." Stand if he wants. Give me that chair. I guess. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just state your name. Uh my name is uh Travis Winell. Um I did reach out to you um Mr. Riyatsi in an email um requesting to speak
012an executive session, but I didn't receive an email back. Mhm. Um I don't know if that was intentional or you didn't get my email. You didn't receive an email back? I did not. I responded. I copied Dr. Hawks on it. Okay. Um so, and just so you know, um I will so I'll give you the um I'm happy you're I'm glad you're here tonight. the the the email which I responded back to today. I I apologize. It was earlier today was um I appreciate you reaching out to expect an executive session, but I think um the more appropriate thing would be to address in public comment. So I think we're doing exactly what my email would have said. So thank you. I just wanted to uh start off and say um you know I I
013was the SRO here. Um, many of you I do know, uh, many of your kids I do know, and many of you I don't know. Um, many of you have formed opinions about me that don't even know me. Um, who have not taken the chance to get to know me, nor have even talked to me. I've worked here for seven years. Um, I started here in September of 2018. the uh class of 2019 was my first graduating class that was here. Um I do speak with many of those students still have connections with them and so on and so forth. Um the reason I am here is because I am actually calling this you know um I didn't prepare a speech because I think everything uh should come directly from me from heart. Um, I
014think it was very one way that I didn't get to um, talk or say my piece about when Dr. Ersig and my chief when we sat in the chief's office decided that it was the board's decision as well as Dr. Ersig's decision to get rid of me as the SRO. Um, I think I've done a lot of work here over the years. I've created a lot of relationships uh with parents, students, staff. I've worked very closely with Dr. Ersi ever since he was assistant principal here. Mrs. Bale, who is sitting behind me, the junior high principal even before she was junior high principal. Uh Mrs. Molino, Mr. Molino, and many other administrators that we've had here. Um I come in every day. I, you know, do my checks. I check the doors. My priority is
015student safety as well as also protecting the staff that are in the is in this building as well. um you know very few and far between unfortunately did I get to um go to elementary schools unless there was a problem. I mean students see my father [Applause] Marion um it's just puzzling to me. It's puzzling to a lot of my uh you know workmates uh my colleagues at the police department uh people in town on why I was you know even let go. Uh, I told a student, well, I didn't tell, I'll be honest. And I was honest right from the get-go about everything. Um, that I yelled at his and told him to knock it off when the student was acting out. And since that moment, and then I also spoke to the mother
016um when she got here, which was recorded. Um, I know about the letters that were sent, you know, to the chief and so on and so forth. Um, some of them had truthful things in them and some of them did not. Um, I never got to say it, but I don't think that I, you know, for discipline reasons I should be let go here. Um, being that I had a year basically left until I decided that I was going to retire. And I've been with this incoming senior high class, uh, the incoming 12th grader since they were we did the drive up co graduations. Um, and I thought that would be, you know, something exciting to do. However, you know, I guess telling a student to knock it off is the wrong thing to do
017these days. Um, I didn't I was upfront and honest with everybody right from the beginning on what transpired and what I did. And again, I don't understand it and there's a lot of people don't understand it and I still have yet to get a clear answer from anybody. I've never had a disciplinary letter sent to me. Um, Mrs. Bale asked me if I got a letter. I did not get a letter. Um I have not had any private conversations with anybody um about this. Uh the only dec uh conversation I had was with the chief and Dr. and that's where he told me that it was his decision that they didn't want me here anymore. Um you also talked about other um you mentioned another name before you pulled back um and that was Mrs.
018Pippeton. um who I also worked with before. Um you know it's life, not everyone has to get along or whatever, but when everyone comes down, we're all professionals here and go work very well and very hard together. Um you know, when we were doing um the Mullen scholarships, uh Cahill had an issue and I had to leave the scholarships to take care of an issue over at Cahill. So I'm available all the time, 24/7. not only answer my phone when I'm on vacation because if a student needs me, I'm there. Um, I have spent thousands of dollars on my students. Um, I've helped all my students. I'm there for everybody. Um, during co all the ENL students, I went and bought everybody a ton of groceries and deliver them with uh Mrs. Constant who is
019no longer here. All hygiene supplies, everything that they would need, laundry detergent, everything. Um, also, you know, with that being said, with those students, I also addressed them. Some of them came to talk to me because they were afraid of, you know, being deported or whatever. And I addressed the whole class and told them there was nothing to worry about. Students had nothing to worry about. Um, you know, there's a lot of people that I don't think know exactly what I do here on a daily basis. more than just educators. I'm here all the time. I'm here all the time without pay. For me, it's not about the pay. It's about the students. That's what this whole thing is about. It's not about me. It's not about It's about the students. I do help everybody.
020And I don't think some people quite understand that. I've had administrators come up to me and be like, "Travis, what happened?" I'm like, "That's a good question." Because I still don't really know. All I know is that I, you know, basically told the student to knock it off and that was that. And I do hear many things. Um, this town is very small. Um, I know, um, one of the former board members did not care for me here and I, you know, him and the, um, complaining at the coffee shop all the time and people listen and, you know, but it's not my job to um, you know, it's common business what they talk about when they're at the coffee shop, but unfortunately my name was brought up a lot. Um, I would just like
021to say that I truly do I told myself take your time. I do care about the student and I would like everyone to reconsider and let me finish out my ear here that I have left before and people do make mistakes. We're human. And I can work together with anybody and if there is an issue which had ever come to me I mean if there was an issue some of the principles will come to me and say hey can we work on this? Yes we can and we figure it out. In this instance, I'm not ever police just like your Again, this isn't just about me. It's about students that I help every day about the families that I help. Sometimes I help too. It's not just the individual students. Don't favoritize or prioritize any
022student for anyone. I bet there's multiple students here. Some you know, I they will go to their teachers and say, "I need, you know, someone to talk to." Some of them will say, "There's a trans student who went and hunted down their teacher to come talk to me because they couldn't find me because I was in the hall somewhere. They felt comfortable talking to me. Help that student out. I help everybody out. It's not just one student. It's not just sport students. It's everybody. Help everybody out. Help staff out. Everybody It's not just not fair to say that I appreciate your time. Thank you. [Applause] All right. So, we're moving F. Anyone else? Okay. So, based on our motion before, we're going to move to um we're moving F ahead of the presentation and honorings
023and the superintendent reports. So, [Applause] you want me to call out the 10 years? Uh I'll announce you'll announce. Okay. All right. Perfect. Okay. So, a motion to accept uh personnel instructional and non-instructional, which includes a bunch of resignations, um a leave of absence, some appointments, um substitutes and volunteers, and then our appointments to tenure. Motion moved by Miss Keller, seconded. by Miss Bellarosa. Any questions? Yep. Um, still learning. No, no, go right ahead. Is it customary that we would take resignation notices so far in advance? In certain cases, it's like 2028, 202. So, contracts there are certain benefits if you give give three years notice, if you give two years notice or one year's notice. So, that is why. Yeah. Benefits to the retirement components. Okay. That is for planning purposes. Yeah. And then
024it lets us plan. Great question. I think I think it's I just it surprised me. So I know I was like I have lots of ropes to figure out here. Anyone else? All those in favor? I All right, Dr. Person. Right. Appointments to tenure. Congratulations. [Applause] I don't think is with us. Can't believe there tenure that graduated with my son with us. Christina Farrell [Applause] Tim Carile [Applause] Desire. [Applause] Dr. Jenny Straber not here. [Applause] All right. So, thank you to those people. Congratulations everyone. And in the crowd, we also have Miss Craft who's getting appointed tonight who got appointed as the MTSS coordinator. Nice. Oh, Marissa Sarasano. She she also got appointed uh as a teacher at Kahill. I'm seeing you there. Mr. Nice. Okay. So, now we're back on regular agenda, which is
025presentations and honorings. Dr. Ersig, steal your mic. Yeah. Um, so June 27th, we had the honor to recognize 212 of our seniors graduating walking across the stage. Um, that night doesn't happen without some very important players who are probably going to be upset with me calling them out. Um, so first and foremost, Miss Keefe, our secretary at senior high, uh, orchestrates really the entire thing with her, uh, crew behind her. our custodial maintenance crew. Uh they take pride in in the work that they do. So we thank them. Uh it's always an honor to have the VFW American Legion there for our colors. The SHS band and choir. Um Mr. Spearig was able to conduct the band one last time. Um we also need to thank Rebecca McDougall, Bernard Spurig, Joan Jensen, Aaron Bines, Stella
026Gafic. Um up in the booth was Greg Dell live streaming Mr. Wickham. Sorry, Greg Dell with the sound. Mr. Wickham live streaming, Andrea Mau, as well as Jackie Hayes. Uh, so thank you to everybody who who uh makes that evening special for everybody. [Applause] All right, with that we'll go to our uh presentations for tonight. Uh, first I wanted to talk about our district enrollment instructional model and then I wanted to have Miss Dr. Kappler just give a highlight high level overview of our district guidance plan for that. Do you have a copy of that Roco or no? Hope so. Can you can you send her then? Are you sure? Mhm. So based off our last board meeting conversation, I just wanted to put the numbers up that I I verbally shared, but I think
027it's looking at the numbers as a graph. I think kind of tells a very clear picture as to the trend in terms of enrollment. So we'll take you through that tonight and talk about steps moving forward. Yes, you're allowed to leave. We know that's why we moved it up. Congratulations everyone. Congratulations. Matt's excellence. Just a reminder, our district mission vision, right? Our vision to become a beacon of educational excellence where every individual is inspired to achieve their fullest potential. Next slide. Better. Okay. So this shows our historical data, enrollment data from 95 all the way to 2022. Now I chose this graph specifically because this is publicly available data, right? This is not me going back into archives. This is me going to a website from Cornell University and pulling the data so anybody can
028verify what I'm showing today. Okay? So I picked the year uh 2004 2005. At that time our district enrollment was 3,425 students. Right? You can see it teetering but oh they're obviously downward trend to 2022 we've got 2,363 students so a drop of roughly one 1,100 students over that time period. Okay, next slide rock. Right, this is just kindergarten through 6th grade. So this is just the enrollment our elementary the same two kind of markers. Right. So from 1,670 down to 1,156. Right. So a drop of 500 students in that time period. Right. Next 7 through 12 similar in this building uh we had 1,755 students down to 1,142 students. Okay, that is just this building 7 through121, right? And just kind of time frame wise around this time I think was when the last
029capital project was right. So we had this many students in these occupying smaller space because this the media center wasn't built right the science rooms weren't updated and all those things. So we have it's about what 600 less students occupying these halls for that. Okay. Next this is what we generate on a daily basis in terms of our enrollment. So this was as of June 2025. So at the last day in June, here's our enrollment in the district at the elementary level. So you can see because a narrative that I keep on hearing is that our buildings are overcrowded, right? As you can see, we've got less students overall, but we're still operating in three buildings versus four buildings at the elementary level. So if we look at this, I'll just take one row going
030across kindergarten. Contractually, we have a cap of 23 students. We have 56 students in Cahill who are who are classified as kindergarten. If we take out students who are going to be in self-contained programs, that means there's going to be 54 students in a kind of a general education setting or in code in a code talk setting. Okay. Uh number of sections we're going to say, well, we have three. We had three. The average class size was 18. So 18 students in a class. Now that's the average, right? So there might be some there might be some weird reason why one class ended up with 24, one might had 16, right? Because students come and go throughout the year. But if you look at the pure numbers divided by section size, we've got a class
031size of 18. Same thing reading all the way down. So that means at Kill last year, the average class size was 20.3 overall. Okay, sixth grade was the highest at 27 because we have we did have 54 students in there. All right. So why is this important? Because if we look at the number of seats that remain, right? So kindergarten last year, we could have actually at Kill educated 15 more students, right? and still been under under the contractual caps. In first grade, we could have educated nine more students and not had any issues. So, in that building alone, we had 120 empty seats that could have had kids in them. Okay? So, when people are saying that our buildings are at capacity or there's kids everywhere, we're a school. We're going to occupy every
032space in the building, right? Whether we have 500 kids there, whether we have 200 kids, we're still going to use every classroom for a purpose. we're not going to have empty rooms floating around. So, the narrative that we're at capacity by these numbers tells a very different story. Okay. Um just something else to point out like so if we look at just for argument sake fourth grade 63 students overall 57 in general ed settings. So that means we've got uh what six students who are in a self-contained program. Some of those students do push out in mainstream for certain classes maybe math, science, English, social studies, maybe specials or so forth. So we do have to leave space for them to push out so that we don't go over the the contraction limit as well.
033That's how we look at that. So that means at Grant Morris we've got two sections of every grade level. We had 90 seats remaining. At Ricardi we had 133 seats where we could have had students in those spots. Okay. Did we use every space in the building? Absolutely 100%. And we will we will continue to no matter what our enrollment is. All right. Next slide. Wait, Dan, before you go on, can I ask questions? Yeah, go right ahead, please. Um, so, but if you could ask them using the mic that way online can hear people online can't hear. You got to turn it on. It's on. So, I mean, this data really kind of speaks for itself where it says grade on the caps. Sure. So, uh, I kept this going from when we did
034our reorganization sites in the past. Contractually, you can have 30 students in the class. Kind of the target was 25. Okay. Okay. So, I mean, this data is very clear. What do you attribute the narrative to? I mean, I would love for more people to ask questions, right? Instead of kind of conjuring up these ideas in their minds and saying it, right? When you go when you go to Ricardi in the morning at the drop off line, I've got kids there, right? I know it's not pleasant, right? But at the same time, our hallways are not empty. And I'll show you in a second. Ricardi which had thanks Ricardi which had a total of this is project one more slide projected slide just so you know there you go 416 last year there was a
035time when they had over 500 students right I think more students took the bus and walked uh then get dropped off so I I'm not ne sure where where the narrative exactly comes from but you know we are going to occupy every space like uh Granty Morris right now they have one classroom that is a full-size classroom. It's shared between a shared services provider. We have a speech teacher in there and special educator goes in there. And then we've got one one classroom just dedicated to OTP. So we're going to use every space. Does this data go to the school building union reps to give to their members so that they know so at least they've got the data and can't perpetuate the narrative or you know you can't stop parents but I can't stop
036anybody really but I mean at least give them the data. Yeah. I mean I I have shared so contractually I have to pro provide the number of sections in June every year. So I I I have shared this I can continue to do so and I just think one of the you know um you know part of the narrative too is you know if we looked at Kill this year which does have a fair number of students um when there was a flood that classroom had to get reallocated to an art room. So when we say there's room for students, there's not a whole lot of wrigle room for space, I guess, would be a concern, right? So my response to that would be, right? So yes, we did relocate them to the art room
037because that was more convenient because art room isn't utilized, you know, 5 days a week because because of of the rotation in that room in the basement alone, we have a conference room. We have a a staff work room as well. So, we could have relocated them to those rooms, too, but that was easier because of the the the path of the hallway. And there's no extra classrooms. We're like at capacity for classrooms. But I'm always going to use every classroom in every building. I'm always going to I'm always going to have a person designated to a spot. Okay. Um, elementary, we can talk about Caleb Moore, right? So, they they actually have a faculty room on the bottom of the basement floor. They have a faculty room, a copy room, which is a decent
038size room on the second floor. And then the third floor, there's actually a work space up there as well. Um, so this is our projected enrollment for September. Uh, just following the top line for kindergarten, right? So right now we've got 37 kids signed up for Khill kindergarten. Um, kindergarten overall has only has 134 students in it right now. Right. We do know that kindergarten to last year 25 new new students joined us over the course of the year. Seven were at Cano. So we just graduated a class with 212 students. Our incoming kindergarters is 134 students. Mhm. Right. Even if we get 10 more, right, that's still a significant drop. 40 more. Dan, you you mentioned you said as of right now the there's 37 signed up. Do you typically see I know during
039the year but by September do people tend to sign up during the summer? Yeah. Is that pretty much going to be the number come right? So when I was speaking with Heidi who who the kids we know about at least for Kill we believe that most of them have signed up maybe I forget exactly what she said but she said most have signed up there. Um kinderg Khill tends to be our most kind of transient population. So I always kind of error on the on the side of caution. Got it for that one. So like 37 kids, we could actually provide instruction just in two classes, but like last year we got seven kids there. So do we want to add another section mid year or is it better to play it safe if we
040can afford it, right? To have a third section there. Class sizes might be small, but we might get kids in in there as well and they're in kindergarten. So that's they're in kindergarten is also our ENL building. Yeah. Right. So even if a student lives in Ricardi, they do get transportation to Kill, right? It tends to be higher needs for that. But you can see right the next biggest class is the next year's eighth or sixth sorry 6th grade 184 students. But as you look at these numbers right all the class sizes right average class size 18.6 uh 19.8.8. Will there be pockets of higher class sizes? 100%. Right? Because that's the model that we have. So overall we're right 20 kids per class. Okay. Kho enrollment. All right. Once again I picked these years.
041I'm keeping in track with the 20 sorry 2004 2005 2122 and then the 23 24. I didn't show last year on this because I got the data right from New York State. Right. Anybody can go on to data.net.gov type in a school. Everything is publicly there. So you can check everything. Okay. Okay. He had 505 students. The year before we reorganized, they had 262 students walking the hall. Right now they're back up to 412. So this is probably part of the narrative. Right. Because there's nothing more kids there. But is that capacity? No. Right. Two separate questions. Does it feel more crowded in the hallways? 100%. Still 100 less than 20 years ago. Yeah. Same building. But Dan, can I ask another question? And this kind of goes to just comparing 0405 to now nowadays
042I guess and you know are the classrooms being utilized differently now when they than they were back then like the needs of our students are changed. So like back then did we have dedicated PTO behavioral rooms redirect centers all of that when you were educating 505 students versus the 412. So are you utilizing your space differently now where the capacity at 412 seems a little more crowded than maybe when you had the 505. So I have to defer to Dr. Cather on that one. Sorry to call you out, but I I I'm I'm thinking so just because right we've got dedicated space for our our um for our students who need specialized reading instruction, right? Wilson reading instruction. That's that's that's a new addition right in that building. We've got two speech teachers, right? They've
043got or one and a half. So they they share space. Um we have, you know, special educators who do push into classes, but then also kind of have an an office space there. So I can't speak to the number of sections that we used to have in in each grade level. Uh but I my assumption is that we're we're very different makeup now than we were back then. But Dr. Cer, do you want to add anything? We definitely had spaces for the OTP. Um there are nicer spaces right now because there are like full classrooms, but before it would be like where we would have maybe a resource room was a smaller room. Now they have a full room, but they do share it. PT and OT would be together. We definitely had it by
04404. Uh, Ricardi, similar. So, 0405, 488, 352, and then 423. Uh, I think it was the next school year 0506 where they had like there were over 500 kids. Okay. Morris Elementary, this is more consistent. 319, 295, and then 305. Once again, I chose these numbers because anybody can go on to this website, search up the school, look it up, and just verify my information. Okay, junior high enrollment 563, 366, 362. Okay. I think when I graduated in like 2002, I think we had graduating class around 240, right? That's an based on the based on the numbers, like you said, this year was 212. That's an entire graduating class we lost. That's 200 students. Mhm. We we're down one full graduating class senior high. All right. So now it's four grades versus the two 1,192
045776 768. So we're kind of pl we're kind of plateauing, right? It also follows through the trend on the big graph from before. Okay. But once again, right, so same building, maybe even a little bit smaller depending on when the construction took place around here, right? with I do the math right Two graduating classes, right? Yeah, that's unbelievable. Wow. Okay. So, a proposed fat path forward. Um I think the first component of this is going to be a formal enrollment study, right, with a with an independent consultant who's going to answer kind of go through and look at these questions, right? So, looking at contacting the building departments, the town, the village, checking out new construction, right? The impacts of recently completed the construction. And I'll share a little bit on that. The average family
046size in the United States is down. It's also down in New York, right? Housing supply, especially in the village, right? We're kind of almost at a capacity of of of housing supply. And then the impact of short-term rentals, right, which has been a hot topic for those things. So, I would like an independent person to come in and kind of do the same thing, right? Because once again, I'm sharing these numbers anybody can access. There's always going to be kind of doubters. Uh, so if we can get somebody to come in and kind of verify and tell me if I'm wrong. Really, I'd be curious also to know the the what is the enrollment in the various private schools over the last 20 years. So good question. So when we visited middleways part of their
047substantial equivalency, we had asked that and they had said actually a lot of their uh students are actually from out of the district and come there. So I don't ne know that it's taking away so students uh for that just curious we do in so from my conversations do have a higher number of students who are um receive home in or home homeschooled um we have like 150ish that's a whole graduating class they are also kindergarten class they told us Dan are you concerned about a declining tax base also with the climbing enrollment. Um, so in terms of tax base, right? So we approved the budget and then it's based on assessments how how that is, right? So I don't necessarily I don't necessarily know there's a mass exodus of people in the area, right?
048Or is it so much as people are not having children or right there's older older older families, second homes um or short-term rentals? control. All right. So, that's kind of step number one kind of kind of on the process just to kind of just here's some leg work that I just did. Right. So, the village of Saras there's approximately 750 single family houses, 57 multif family dwellings totaling 481 units. Right? So, in terms of Kenya, right, Khill encompasses more than just the village, right? But this is the housing for just for the village, right? So, Are we going to see a mass, you know, input of kids and families into it? We historically hadn't shown it, right? So, these are just things to consider. Recent construction, this is not an exhaustive list. This is just
049just ones, right? So, I live by the farmhouse commons. They put in 40 units. We get two students from there. Oh, in one house, right? So, yes, there's construction and it's easy to say, "Oh, there's going to be a lot of kids from that." But the numbers tell a different story. Summit on the Hudson right off uh 9W there, right? 64 units, 19 students, eight households. Those students come from, right? Country Meadow Apartments. That those are the one on uh is it North Street? North Street. Is that what that is? Yeah. 53 units, seven students. Wow. From five houses, right? So once again, very few families moving in with kids. And if they do have, it's some smaller amount than so I think this is this is really good data because to use Michelle's term
050narrative, right? That's definitely a narrative that I hear that all of this housing that's coming in is going to break the school system. And if I look at close just off the top, that's 17%. Number total units to number of students, it's only 17% bring in a new student. Right. And here we have what 30 kids, but it's it's probably 30 kids over 12 grades. Right. Right. Right. It's not one class. Two kids, you know, it's not Yeah. things that we could absorb because that is definitely something you hear you hear that's right. Like you hear that like all this new building, how are the schools going to handle it? That's how you're going to handle it. That's 28 students. Yeah. And these are numbers I asked Heidi to pull based on their addresses. That's
051where she gets information. Okay. I just have a question. And so the summit on the Hudson, did she pull that based on like the street name Trinity Court or whatever? Because some of those kids then have always come here because there was a Trinity Court before they built Summit on the Hudson. Okay. So those So that might even be a little inflated as to what they're and if I'm not mistaken, they have more than 64 units now. They have 17 buildings with 10 units in each building. I don't know if they're or haven't back yet. Oh, they are. I just moved out. They were waiting to move in. Yeah. I mean, I I think if they have two or three open apartment, it's it's just, you know, but there are not a lot of kids
052there. I I did not see a lot of kids playing in the neighborhood. So, that's that there is an apartment. There's a group of houses that are apartments there, but those kids have always come to our school. Right. So, so that could be kids moving. Right. Right. Yeah. And I'm Carol just to clarify for me that someone that's any of those 19 that would or whatever the number is that would go to elementary that would be Ricardi. It depends. They might go to Kill because of their needs but just but a straight but no special needs they would go to it would be so their home school would be Ricardi. Home school would be Ricardi. Got it. Okay. Right. Some other reasons. Okay. Um right. So let's just go. So we so we do need
053somebody to kind of dig into this more and kind of present this right even in more depth. It would be interesting to know if any of those moved from other places in so in other words like they might not even all just be true ads. They might be located within Sorert. So it could be like five additional kids or something. I think you're seeing a lot of that also. So just moving that wouldn't be hard to figure out either. Yeah, that would be that would be interesting to see for the narrative. Word of the day. I love that word. It's It's true though. It's so as we go forward having this conversation about bringing sixth grade up to to the junior high, right? My proposal will be to have a to form a guiding committee
054approximately 20 members, parents, students, and then each of our our bargaining units as well as board of board of ed members. Uh I would propose an application process, right? Just so that we can make sure we got a diverse kind of cross-section, right? I want I want to have a parent who might have a student with a disability, right? It'd be nice to have an ENL parent, right? So that we try to think about all those things. The group beyond 20 I think it's kind of uh unmanageable and unwieldy when we're making when we're making decisions. I also going to also feel it's important to say that like this group is really kind of an advisory group, right? So they're not going to make the decisions. They're going to recommend it to me and ultimately
055recommend it to the board to take action. Right. So that that'll also be clear. So this would be a superintendent committee rather than a board committee. Yeah. That would be my proposal. And then I'm saying probably two meetings a month just because once we get going in September, you know, by the time we get the deadlines, topics that come on this committee would be transportation, right? The structure of the school day for for sixth grade. Is it going to be totally different than everybody else? Are they going to be kind of in their own isolated thing? Classroom locations, flow of the secondary campus, special classes offered, right? So what kind of offerings are we going to provide to to our students? How are we going to staff those offerings? Are we going to need more
056support staff because there's going to be 70 more students there? Right? All those things we need to we need to think about and consider as we go forward. Um then we need to have conversation about the existing programs and staff at at Mount Marian. Right? So if if we do move sixth grade up to junior high at Morris, that's two free classrooms which I'm going to use no matter what. There's three going to be three free three free classrooms for sixth grade at Kale and three at Ricardi. Right. So that does present an opportunity to bring those things that are at Mount Marion to those buildings. Okay. Uh expenses, right? Materials. Are we going to have to retrofit some of the buildings? Um and then right, we're also going to be starting conversations about a
057capital project. So are there certain enhancements that we need to make to the building through a capital project for our sixth grade students? All our students, but particularly sixth grade. Okay. in terms of a timeline. So, New York State does have a March 1st application due to get approval for a a great reconfiguration is what it's called. There would be a a board approved resolution and I do have to submit a copy of the public notice. This is the actual application. It was a sample online. Uh if you do want to peruse it, it does talk about, you know, grade levels impacted. You have to identify the number of students. It talks about staff and and uh making sure that they are still supported and received by kind of the same professional development as has
058been in the past. Okay. So that is it for that. Yeah. Other questions or things you want me to look into? Yeah. just um I'm just gonna do a bit of a brain dump um from some things that Y um I just since we started talking about this last month just kind of things that came to my head and some things that you you sort of addressed um in the things that will need to be considered. Um so you know I'm looking forward to those things kind of getting vetted to help understand. Um and I'm not expecting any answers to these things right now. I'm just kind of going through some things that I came up with or thought about. Um, one, in doing this, are we expecting sort of any cost savings? Because the
059last time we did a district-wide change, there was expected cost savings. Um, but I look now that we're 56 estimated general ed sections next year when we were 58 at a four building um, model, four building elementary model. So, I'm not sure what savings we actually did have from that. Um, so I didn't know if we were expecting any savings when going through this process. Um, and though I'm not opposed to a middle school model. Um, you know, and I normally see that when the middle school is segregated from the high school and and that th those are where my concerns are going to come from as one a parent and a trustee of how we're going to address those things. um you know one from a transportation perspective you know because you could have
060incoming sixth graders who are 10 years old 10 or 11 years old being on a bus or walking a hallways with an 18year-old and now in our K6 model yeah we have an eight you know sevenyear age gap but the maturity difference between a six-year-old and a 12-year-old is a lot different than a 12year-old and an 18year-old so that's just more of some of a parental concern um and you know the maturity you know level um a lot happened. I just had a seventh grader and there's a lot that happen. There's a lot of innocence lost. I'm going to put it that way when you go into seventh grade um in a junior high. So are we moving that up a year? And and that that's a concern for me um as a parent. Yeah.
061And some of those things we can also look to other districts try to reach out because there are districts that are K12 districts. Yeah. Everybody's on the same bus in the same building. So, right. So, that that's just one thing. Um, and then again, logistics and you're probably going to vet this out in some of the things that you um put on there. Uh, like the junior high ended a week and a half before the elementary schools do this year did this year. So, those sixth graders, they considered, you know, where do they fall in in ending the school year? Um, teacher certifications, we have K6 and 712. How does that work now in in a in a middle school model? Um and how does that impact the staffing in the buildings? And uh let's
062see um and then just you know is the this only model we're looking at to do. Um, considering I know that when we did close Mount Marian, um, you know, we had talked about the Princeton model and there was a lot of push back and a lot of people who didn't want that, including myself, um, at the time. Um, but I've grown a little bit. Um, and but I like that. I love it. Well, my kids are older now and I see sort of the benefit of having some grade grouping. I wouldn't necessarily the Princeton model, but if you had a primary and an an intermediary school um where you had four, five, six together, where you had um that grade level, you know, where the six the sixth graders don't feel like, you know,
063they have kindergarters in their, you know, just from a maturity standpoint, is is that something that we would look at? um and being able to group some of those grades because I then I look forward to in three years we had seven elementary school teachers who are retiring. Like would there be a benefit to being able to um collapse some grades based on the class sizes and not have to rehire teachers and actually save money that way. Um, so those are my questions, concerns, kind of brain, you know. No, I I don't I don't think you hit anything that that committee shouldn't be addressing. Yeah, I don't I don't there's nothing there that's out of the I mean the logistics, the middle school model, what's it going to look like, the teachers, the the timing,
064the transportation. I think it's all I think that's the stuff that that committee has to sort through and dig through and come up with options and viable solutions. Yeah, I I think one of the things you got to look at is u what do you hope to accomplish by doing this? that committee should have a charge or a goal so they're working towards something so they're not just spinning their wheels as they go through that right is it to save money to use efficient resources to prepare for the declining enrollment I mean it may be all of those things just nailed write those down I mean because I remember when we looked at it before one of the things that we that you know I found was that actually that it's like K through eight
065schools are actually very successful right I mean and that sort of blows it close it all to hell with the buildings that we have. But I just think that I appreciate uh Christine your you know thoughtful thinking. um because I think there's a lot to think about and we I think we have some amazing resources both human resources and uh physical resources and I think really thinking carefully about them and not letting the narrative that may not be connected to reality drive the decision making and I am just appreciative that we are at a place where we can actually have that conversation in a way that's not so fireladen. Yeah. And I think I I agree with that and I think that the primary question the public is going to ask is why are we
066doing this? Y so I think that has to be defined as one of the first goals of the group in my opinion and of the board and of the obviously of the district. Yeah. I I think one of the I think one of the important things that come about it um that will have to be defined and it's it goes along both what Dr. Hos and Michelle just said is that component of what happens if you were to move if you were to create a 6 through 8th model with some of the other things that are at Mount Marian and stuff like that and and what would you do with the now available classrooms, right? Um I I think that's an important thing to lay out. I think that goes into one of the discussions
067of why you would do this. Um, and it's all about, and you know that word, that narrative word, right, is everybody everybody's always nervous about saying this, but one of the big things that drives that narrative of we're overcrowded and we don't have enough room in our in our things is because people are still upset about closing Mount Marian. How many years ago now was that? Six. Six years ago. No, it was years ago. Years ago, three years. Feels like six, but no, it was only three. Yeah, I'm sorry. Got it wrong. 3 years ago. Still, an elementary school has been closed for 3 years. And anytime you bring up enrollment, people point back to why did we close Mount Marion and let's reopen it. And that's just not viable, right? Reopening it. So, that's
068also something that this committee should look at, like what what's going to happen with what could happen with the things that are up at Mount Mary. So good. And ask Dr. Cer to come and share um just a brief overview of changes to the guidance plan. I don't have it on my phone. Turn this. There is a PowerPoint. You got the PowerPoint? There is a PowerPoint. Comprehensive K12 guidance plan. Yeah, I got it right in front of me. Okay. So, I'll just let you know that um every year we do update our plan and um this year we really focused on input that we got from the blueprint. So, we start off with the priorities of creating a process where the parents knew what was going on with schedules which was a major um complaint
069from a lot of parents. um we haven't gotten to the point where we are signing off but I can tell you that in June the students went home with schedules and then next week I think or the week after another letter is going home to the parents to let them know what are the classes that they're signed up for. Um all the counselors did go into the English classes to give out uh the course selection sheets and they went over classes with the students. Um and then they went back to visit with the teachers after the teachers had some time to discuss those classes with the students. Um we're going to continue to have discussions moving forward to have consistent practices with all the counselors. And then there was an expectation that every single student
070on their case load was met in person. And if that didn't happen, they had to show that there were several attempts and they had to talk to the principles on why it didn't happen. So that that's just to start off on how we started um working on this plan. This year all the counselors were involved with it. Um we actually use PD days. So it for me it was important that every single one of them had a say for just a couple of counselors and some administrators. [Applause] Go to the second one. Okay. Just do it from there. Just do it from there. Yeah. Oh, it's very small. The first one is just uh listing all the um counselors and grade levels. did look at one of the things on the blueprint was to even
071out the counselors on having similar case loads. So it has been rearranged for different um different numbers. We were not able to do the cohort model because we are we are still one counselor short to do that. Um how would the cohort model work? So each one would have a grade level. Okay. And they the true cohort. Yes. you just won't have a great and so we don't have enough counselors that and then this year I mean our previous plan had objectives and and activities and expected outcomes and assessments but this year we added we we linked it with American school counselors association and their model so we added um they have domains which is academic development career college readiness and social emotional wellness that we didn't address those. But when you go to the
072objectives now, you will see that we will list the domains that are there. Um, and that each domain would also show how it lines up to the um national model it's going to it looks it looks big. It's a lot thicker. Um, but when you go to we had activities by month previously, now it's in a table that's more in line. It gives you the tiers. It gives you the objective. It gives you the domain. So, it's just a little more organized and it actually tells you who will be responsible for each action. And of course, it's a living document. So, there's things that are going to have to be changed throughout the year. One of the things that we have to do is we have to make an advisory committee that needs to be
073students and parents and administrators, teachers and counselors. So that's our next um step to move forward with that. Um we also did add um New York State um commissioners regulations just so parents understood what was required of counselors. So that is also in the plan. Um and then as far as the blueprint, if you go slides four and five, I think one more. Oh, that's really small. Sorry about that. That just shows um we really have done everything on the blueprint or at least started. The only one that really is standing out is well, two things. Video resources. We're actually hoping that we can get the students in the CBP to make those so that we can put it up on the counseling. Um, what what kinds of things would that include? So, that would
074be like it could be who can you go go to see if you're having trouble. Okay. You know, it just justformational things. Um, and different way to present it. Yeah. available instead of you know right now they'll go to classrooms and introduce themselves but I think if kids could just click on something or parents they would know it could even be like DASA like what is that and you know is there something going on and how would I fill out a DASA form things like that some of the things we've also talked about too was like um videos like on how to access the parent portal and the student portal right so it's stuff like that great um and then the signature thing for the parents we're still don't have that figured quite out yet,
075but we are looking at that. Um, but we did send everybody home in their course requests. Yeah. Um, and then we still look to do more parent nights. We did a fast night. We um had a financial aid night. Who gets invited to those? So, the FASA one was 11th graders and 12th graders. Um, You really should, I think, the financial aid one. Maybe you should try to get the 10th graders because, you know, you really want to start looking early and knowing your 10th grade year is the year that they use to determine your aid in your freshman year, right? And so families need to know that like if you're going to put a roof on your house or you're going to take a leave from your job or your income is going to
076change, have it change in their 10 year, right? I mean, it's it it makes good. I say we got to quit the difference in terms of financial aid. Um and and I think that and you and it's not a conversation you can just have once, right? You have to have it multiple times because you look at that FAFSA and you're like, "Oh my god," you know, and then you get, you know, because you have to fill it out every year. Well, it's very automated now. I know. I just went through it. It would Yeah, they linked everything to our tax return. It made it so easy. But it isn't. Yeah. I was a student forever and my daughter is in school and so I'm very used to, but it's, you know, You want to have
077all that information right next to you because it logs you out all the time. Exactly. Yep. And kids who Yeah. Anyway, homeless kids. I mean, it's it, you know, and I know that um Mrs. Vale and Miss Molino and Miss uh Jamie Hman, they've been working on a new selection catalog. It's pretty awesome, but it's not done yet, but um I think it'll definitely be more user friendly and it explains more what the steps would be if you're a ninth grader. What should you choose if you were want to go into medicine and other options? Yeah. Yes. Other than college. Any questions? I just a quick question. Um, when looking at the schedule of the counselors, um, I couldn't see it very well, but is there a 12th grade counselor? Okay. It's not in there.
07812 now. Okay. I just I thought it said, but they have the old one. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, she is you actually have it. It's just It's a typo. Like instead of grade 11, she Okay. Oh, that should be grade 12 for Jamie's all true cohort because the numbers worked out all the seniors because she's right along. Great. She's also the be department chair, right? She's our department chair also. So, she has great. [Applause] Thanks. Other questions? You want to be on the committee? Let me know. Anything else? Dr. Urs, no. Topic. Okay. All right. Moving on in the agenda to uh G, which is business office recommendations. Um, we board member remarks. I mean, you can skip it, but you I figured we just Member remarks heard enough of us. Miss Bellaros. Thank you.
079Ari. Yes. Um yes. Okay. Um yeah. Yeah. Microphone Christine. She's got Christine. There she goes. Yeah. Uh I might expand upon this um going forward but um I'd like to make mention every month about uh some annual observance months um that this is disability pride month and also national minority mental health awareness month. Um, you know, as we go, I' I'd like to see uh recognition of of um these these awareness months um throughout the school, throughout our our district. Um particularly because mental health and disability right now are um very forefront in people's minds um due to due to uh due to cuts um that are being made at um at federal levels. So, um I think it's important for uh our families and students to recognize that they they are being seen by
080the community. [Applause] So, I plan to be making mention of those going forward. Excellent. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Steve. Mr. Tolman. Um well, I'm surprised uh to be here tonight. Um it's the last place I thought I would be but um you know it's certainly good to u be part of the board and to help the community. One of the things I struggled with in coming back uh this time is uh I think it's the second time I've reentered the board after being off for a year was um you know what kind of vision uh would I come to the board with. And I think there's a there's two things that I see. Uh, one, I was concerned that there weren't uh, three candidates for three board seats. Uh, you know, I kind of
081I stayed out of uh, the loop for a year. Um, and it felt good, but I I I thought, oh, there's going to be a number of people who want to be on the board of ed, and to my surprise, there wasn't. Then I looked at new Paul's three writing candidates. U, there were no official candidates for the board. So, one of the things I thought is to look get together with the NISSBA and see, you know, what we can do to get more um interested in people being board members because I don't plan on being on the board for the next 20 years. Um the when I looked um at the July 4th parade in town, you know, it's a it's a great time. You feel pride in the community. You see your friends,
082your family, you see the kids coming through. then maybe that's something we need to have more of a school presence in uh to remind people. There was certainly a lot of community organizations in that. Certainly a number of fire trucks. Thank god there were no fires, but um I didn't see a school presence uh where normally we would or maybe even an increased school presence so people have that connection between the community and the good things that are happening in the schools. Um the other thing I'm concerned with is the funding um for the school district. When the um uh budget was coming out from the governor, which was of course late, uh there was a provision to give more money to the Hudson Valley region for schools, which is a great thing, but that's
083a stop gap measure. Um we uh lose out on funding because of our uh the structure of our community. uh we rely heavily on the property taxes and property taxes constantly go up. Um if we had a statewide uh per pupil expenditure like a uniform statewide expenditure, say it was $30,000 or $32,000, whatever that might be, and that was across every county in New York State, we would get a bigger share of state aid than we do now. We're penalized u the way the funding was set up now. And I'm concerned poverty is certainly a big issue in Sorres. Um we're going to have people who can't afford to live in Sorres if the property taxes keep continuing to go up and um during my time off I was involved with the score store and
084seeing the needs that would come out for kids at Christmas time. Uh I dealt with one family that had eight kids in one motel room and the Christmas wish list would break your heart to see that stuff. and it's not all that visible in the community, but it's it's certainly there. U and those kids need a lot. The other thing I I would certainly want to look at is um mental health services for our students. And again, we're penalized by the zip code. Your mental health as a student, your uh success in education shouldn't be um compromised by where you live in New York State. You should have equal access to all those services across the board. So, that's what I decided I want to come to the board with uh for my term this
085year. Thank you, Mr. Plman. You're welcome. Mr. Wells, You're good. Mr. Chillia, Michelle, please. And no, thank you. Okay, Miss Keller. Um, I think I'm going to pass. Okay, Dr. Hos. Um, I'm just thrilled to be here and um um I really I want to thank Michelle and Christine and uh Bob for running because I am glad that we um didn't just have write in votes. Um and so and I it's funny Bob because I had actually thought I was like oh I think the board needs to have a float in the parade. So, um, and I'm really I'm concerned about funding. I'm concerned about the recent federal holding of billions of dollars to, uh, state aid for schools and how that's going to impact us. Um, we have half a million dollars in title
086one monies and, um, that's a lot of that's a lot of people and that's a lot of things. And so, I'm not sure how that's all. I know Dr. is looking at what that may be and what the state has said they're going to cover. But I think we really need to I'm very proud of the work we did this past year and talking about the budget and keeping that forward and really thinking about that out loud with everybody over the course of the year. And I just think we really want to keep that in mind as well to sort of what those impacts might be and what we all as individuals and uh can do about it. So, thank you. All right. Thank you, Dr. Ross. I just have a couple of things. Um,
087one, you'll see later in the agenda, um, the cell phone and electronic policy come up. Um, and I know the the, uh, the discussion has been that that is, um, you know, driven by the governor um, and the legislative legislation that the governor passed. Um, I want to make it clear to everybody that that this was coming whether the governor passed it or not. Um, we had been working, we've been working on this for about six or seven months. Um, and we were going to have a policy for the start of the school year regardless of what happened up in Albany. Um, and uh, I appreciate all the feedback that everybody sent in on the the uh, the survey. Um and um I think everybody both anybody who was pro or against this kind of
088idea had good there was good feedback on both components. But I will tell you the over overwhelmingly um teachers, administrators, parents um are looking forward to this. They want it. Um and um you know we are not groundbreaking here. Um there are other schools much larger than ours, some similar in size that have already tackled this. So we have places to look and see how it's going and to take ideas from. Um but it is like I said, you know, the only thing that the only thing the the um the legislative did for us was force us to have it in by August 1st. Um uh as opposed to having it ready for September 1st. So um I want to make sure everybody is aware of it, everybody looks at it. um and understands it
089um because I think the more people that understand it um it it will help everyone involved. Um the only other thing I want to mention is we talked about it a little bit before um and different Tolman mentioned it uh Dr. Hos mentioned it around, you know, expenses and and funding and things like that, right? Our insurance costs um went up 3x this year from what they were last year um to what they are now today. Um and we'll and what that will cause the district and this board to look at is everything that impacts insurance. Um so when we look at when you are going to hear um discussions about Mount Marian and about that building um and that asset because that's what it is right now um and it's and costs us in
090insurance. So, um, I just want every I wanted to get get it on everybody's radar. Over the next few months, you're going to hear more discussions about Mount Marian, um, and what we do and and how we try and, um, make sure that next year we can bring down our insurance costs as opposed to have them go up again. So, that's all for me. Thank you. Can I move to Gina? Just getting my papers. All right. Next up on the agenda is G, which is business office recommendations. We have 1 through six um which is a treasury report, revenue and appreciations, internal claims audit um a resolution about surplus textbooks and then our propane cost for the year as well as our fuel oil. Do I have a motion to accept items G1 through six?
091Yes, I'll make the motion by Michelle. Second by Miss Keller. Any discussion? All those in favor? I heard. All right. Okay. Board action items. There's a lot of them. Uh we have page 1 through 33. I'm not going to go through read them. Um so I will just if anybody has any questions on any of them. Um I have a motion to accept items H1 through 33. Motion by Mr. Toman. Seconded by Miss Belosa. Okay. So now if anybody has any discussion or questions on any of the 33 items, can I join the second grade dance club? Sorry. No. this I mean this has everything from creation of the second grade dance club our uh our our agreement with Diaz memorial with the ambulance service for the year I just want to make a note
092on that make mention of the fact that I think I can vote on I think we determined it's not a conflict of interest but just on the record I am on that board yes so if I have to recuse myself from 18 I will do so yeah there's no money that exchanges but thank you for for bringing that up Okay. Any questions? Any discussion? No. All right. All those in favor? I motion moved. Okay. All right. I committee reports. Mosao. Quick update on audit. Nothing. Nothing. Okay. And facilities. Uh so the work at Morris Elementary, the paving work is going to begin uh the 14th. It should be four weeks. The playground will be off limits uh during that time. I know another notice went out today from principal Gian Greco reminding the community that
093the playground will be closed for during that time. Um, in terms of insurance, we will be asking, uh, the REE group so that they have a risk mitigation expert or I forget what the proper title is, um, coming to our facilities meeting to kind of kind of go over some things that we need to think about and perhaps do to to lower our risk overall and become, uh, get a better insurance rate. Um, we have gone out for an RFP for a construction manager. Uh so that closes this month. So we'll have um interviews for that and we'll select a construction manager which will assist us with the next capital project. Okay. Um the policy committee uh um real quick I mean the main ones are on we just went through the agenda. Um we
094approved the second reading of the cell phone electronic devices. We approved the second reading of the maximum temperature for school buildings. I mean that those were really the discussion uh the key discussion items out of the last meeting. Dan, anything to add on the policy? I think um just just to put out there, too, like we did review the code of conduct, the safety plan as well. Um and then next up will be the attendance policy as well as family engagement policy for August. All right. Thank you. Okay, Jay. So, this is our second public recognition. If anybody in the audience wants to address the Okay. Um No, you're good. Um, okay. Uh, okay. Uh, accept a motion to recess an executive session for the purpose of discussion around contract negotiations and matters relating to
095the employment of individual. Some moved second by Mr. Wells. Any discussion? All those in favor? I we will be coming out of executive session to adjourn. Nothing voting on anything additional. Thank you. [Applause] Sorry, I'm just kidding.