Saugerties Board of Education Meeting 5/11/2021

001good evening uh welcome to uh this regular meeting for may for the board of education um the emergency exits are to the rear and the right left of the room ms franco would you please call the roll mrs barringer here dr haas here mr mooney present mrs cage president mr van chak timothy wells here mr mcclary here mrs maskel mr tillman here here yeah miss mask goes on all right please rise for the pledge will you lose the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flood of the united states of america and to the republic stands thank you i will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of april 13th and april 21st is there a second second second by mr mooney any discussion none being i'll call for a vote also say aye aye aye

002mr reinhardt do you want to do the honors mr awards sure we have uh two level three nisbo awards um and our awards are here uh dr haas one and mr van chak i'd like to congratulate them for their work um with nisba and i'll make sure you get that before you leave thank you and also we'll make sure mr van check uh gets his peace congratulations uh we also have some presentations definitely i'd like to uh i really want to honor our nurses this year darren covett on what they've been asked to do as far as the contact tracing and the testing and the protocols and the procedures um so i just wanted to i listed our six nurses on on our board agenda but they've done an amazing job uh i believe it

003was last thursday was nurses day but what they've been able to do this year to help us keep open to keep our children safe like i said the contact racing um as well as still doing their regular job that they do every single day so um i just really want to thank the job that our nurses have done this year it's pretty amazing i really want to thank them cersei i'll turn over to you for public recognition the board of education is committed to providing an avenue for audience members to communicate with the board at board meetings the public forum portion both at the beginning and the end of the meeting provides individuals an opportunity to address the board with their comments during the first public forum all communications are limited in scope to topical

004issues only relative to the agenda or events that have transpired since the previous meeting the second public forum after the business portion of the meeting may be used for agenda or non-agenda items any person or persons wishing to publicly address the board will be asked to identify themselves and announce the subject on which they wish to speak speakers will be cautioned that matters pertaining to personnel or students are matters for executive session and therefore cannot be addressed in a public forum complaints by citizens regarding any facet of the school operation shall be handled by the administrative officer in charge of the unit closest to the source of the complaint in the interest of time and to allow everyone who wishes to speak the opportunity it is important for statements to be brief and to the

005point therefore speakers will be limited to three minutes to address the board the board may in its discretion extend or shorten this time as appropriate the board will not allow name calling slanderous remarks or accusations to be made against any members of the board of district staff and administration any speaker who becomes disruptive or dis and or disorderly will be immediately gaveled out of order by the board president or his or her designee and will lose their opportunity to address the board we are aware that there are a number of comments this evening about personnel matters which we are not at liberty to discuss during public session formal complaints can be made to superintendent of schools mr reinhardt all complaints or all comments tonight relating to this will be shared with the superintendent thank you

006uh mr armstrong do we have any comments that can be shared uh right now we do not okay um we move on to the capital project update uh just before that though it's part of my superintendent's report sorry um mr lima just real quickly i want to reiterate the letter that i posted to the community uh we we had a situation friday where a student was made to feel uncomfortable the administrative staff at the high school with the staff reached out to the family and the student i do not believe this incident reflects societies as a community or saudis as a school district that being said um the work we're doing is challenging work it's work that i'm proud to say we started when i started working here with our diversity committee with our town

007hall meetings with our surveys um i believe myself my administration my staff and the board um have really projected a transparency in an open door policy um i tried to get back to every parent and every community member uh that reached out to me over the weekend and i know my administrative staff did as well i'm sorry this incident took place uh slogan is a wonderful community they've been very welcoming to me we're going to take this situation and we're going to put together action steps and we're going to improve the learning and the environment for all of our students and all of our families uh so thank you for that once again like mr ersick said you know please feel free to reach out to me at any time and i'll do my best

008to get back to you as soon as we can i mean with that um our capital project update good evening everyone uh thanks for the opportunity to provide an update uh mr erseg am i presenting or how do you want to handle that okay let me try that thank you jim so can everybody see that all right so again uh thanks for the opportunity tonight uh mike de lima and i will uh give you some updates on the different capital work that's underway so tonight just like to to share some uh information about where we are in the the design process as well as um focusing on a couple of of items related to the capital project tonight namely that of some site work as well as secure vestibules there's a lot of pieces and

009parts that are underway for all the scope on the project these are i think some of the more visual ones if you will at the moment that we thought would be a good opportunity to share some updates on and again everything's still in in design so what you're seeing tonight isn't necessarily the final version of anything uh yet i also like to to share some updates as to where the energy performance contract project is and the capital outlay project the door project at riccardi elementary also like to talk a little bit about the the project timeline and then if there are questions certainly uh welcome that at the end as well so with that uh familiar slide here we know that uh there's a capital process is a very long piece there's lots of parts

010on it you know where we're at right now is we're still in the design process and we'll talk a little bit about that a little bit more in a minute there's we just wrapped up the schematic design piece a higher level look at things and now we're moving in uh we're working on the design development so we're we're in the refinement stage and really the the big takeaway from from the design development phase is really uh trying to to define and describe all the the important pieces and parts of the project getting owner input and making sure that we're adding information that will also be used for updating estimates by uh bbl and uh just leading us in the right direction as we move forward into the con the construction document phase uh with that

011there's still things that we're in the process of working through with with the district and the rest of the team and i think it's a it's important uh to to always remember that obviously we we're trying to achieve all the the work it's important work in a cost-effective manner that's fiscally responsible so basically living within the means we've seen this before it's uh the project summary as a whole and again the very number at the the very bottom there the 22 million 390 dollars is the voter authorized referendum amount so that's that's what we have to uh to work with as a overall project and i know mike and his team at bbl are in the process of providing some of the schematic design updates as well so tonight i thought it'd be good like

012i mentioned to focus on kind of a couple of pieces from each of the buildings and really looking at some of the site work as well as some of the secure entry pieces so we'll go through each of the buildings looking at those two components quickly so what you're seeing in front of you is obviously the junior senior high school site i don't know if you can see my pointer or not but uh you know obviously there's a lot of different traffic patterns that are intermingling and there's a lot going on and and what the design team is trying to start to do is look at ways that uh really we might be able to improve that again this is a conceptual drawing we're still having design meetings working through things but share some ideas

013at the moment with you so one of the things is really looking at moving the way the main drive comes into the parking lot and really what that would do is better aligns back with the main thoroughfare back to the hildebrandt building which you can see here with the the yellow line that's really looking at the potential for some sort of uh ornamental fence and sidewalk that would act as a collector of pedestrians and really make sure that there's a very distinct safety patterns on the site between cars and pedestrians what that does with the drop off zone that you're seeing now is is really defining that as its own space better to keep the pedestrians out really collecting them just in a couple of very distinct locations and this is also one way to

014potentially extend the parent drop-off area as well with that also looking at ways that we might be able to to improve traffic flow out of the parking lot is as well um and really seeing if if we can take advantage of of that flow pattern and then lastly like i mentioned really trying to make sure that we're funny funneling pedestrians so that it's not basically a free-for-all from the parking lot back to the uh some other site items at the the junior senior high school as you can see by this reddish orange coloring on the track and some of the adjacent event surfaces were looking at ways to most cost effectively replace that there's some conversations with some of the uh the installers out there that have worked on on the track before to determine

015if the pavement underneath for instance is in sufficient condition that it makes sense really just to to keep the pavement below the track surface and replace just the track surface obviously would still achieve what we needed to and would be a cost-effective option so something we're we're looking at at the junior senior high school looking also at the secured vestibule an option you're seeing on your screen that we've discussed with some of the the users at design meetings um really the the idea of a secure vestibule of course is that you're you're trying to to slow people down and have an opportunity to really vet the person you know do they belong in the building or not obviously what you're going to see in all of these is components of that where from the exterior

016doors being controlled allowed controlled access into the vestibule itself and then having another set of interior doors where people can't progress any further unless they're allowed by the monitor so in this case that monitor or labeled as office staff has a clear view back out to the doors so they can see what's going on and then that allows some interaction so that credentials can be checked before they allow entrance into the building i would like to point out that uh at this particular uh entrance there's also an opportunity for uh having uh another office where uh the security officer can can uh have some sort of touchdown space and maybe even serve as some of the the overflow monitor at times with with the main entrance so at cahill there's there's not all that much

017sight work going on it's obviously a landlocked area but i did want to share this slide to at least show that we're talking about uh you know certainly looking at uh an elevated surface here getting replaced that being the the roof the secure vestibule at cahill again uh in operation is very similar to what we talked about for the the junior senior high school um just because of the the differences in how the floors sit at this building uh looking at uh how we would have a single accessible entrance from an ada perspective handicap perspective so we're looking at uh probably some sort of ramp in the front of the building and then inside that what will be the the vestibule itself uh adding a lift so that somebody would have access to that main

018floor above where the office is and then adding an interior door this will this particular entrance may also have to take advantage of technology a little bit more than some of the other ones because the office itself is inside of the corridor and more some of the site work that you're seeing looking at improving ada parking to make sure that it's it's code compliant in front of the building some site repaving as well as looking at play surface paving i know we've actually already had great feedback on all of the things that we're showing tonight that are in process of getting updated so that's the nature of design where things are happening uh pretty rapidly also looking at adding a new walk in the back of the building that would connect back to the parking

019lot uh as well as resurfacing the uh the the walkway that's along harry wells road and you're also seeing where the the addition for the platform or stage as we could say would be so as far as the interior vestibule one of the options that we're looking at with the the groups is what you're seeing here where again people have the exterior door you're allowed into the vestibule but you can't go any further until after you've checked in with somebody and then they'll allow you into the rest of the building now marion similarly looking at a a few handicap accessibility parking upgrades as well as some of the play surface upgrades as well and connecting back to the driveway with a new access drive i would mention here that uh there's actually also a it's

020been determined another sidewalk here that's in pretty rough shape and we're seeing uh what we can do there obviously uh needing to work within the budget though but it would make sense if budget allows to also replace that [Music] so inside at mount marion looking at a similar vestigial situation here because of the relationship back to the office we're looking at a few different options as to how to handle that but uh the idea that once somebody is in the vestibule they cannot proceed any further until they've been allowed to again ever cardi you're seeing a a version where we're improving some of the ada parking we're actually currently exploring some other ways to possibly handle that so it's even closer to the main entrance also looking at again some other hard scape area resurfacing

021and connector drive that would lead up to that as well [Music] cyber cardi uh again another secure vestibule once somebody's allowed access they have a little bit more direct relationship back to the office at ricardi so it's a little bit different each building always has its little challenges that we need to work with and then uh once they're cleared they would be allowed into the rest of the building through the vestibule hildebrand uh you know the site work we talked about through the junior senior high school i just wanted to also mention here as well that uh looking at uh replacing an aged roof so that'll be a very useful improvement there so where do we go from here what are the next steps so we've we've talked in the past about some of the

022specialty consultants that the district brings on along the way such as the the surveying and the geotechnical those have been awarded and those are in process of uh getting those underway on site by those different firms the next one is really finding the the environmental survey testing and design consultant those conversations aren't going right now with quest in fact i had a great conversation with them uh earlier today so that will be an important piece to know the environmental impacts and the buildings that certainly have an effect on cost and schedule as well uh tetratex team we've been on site we've been doing lots of field work we've had actually some people out there today they'll continue to be people out there as well next week so that's part of you know getting to know

023the buildings making sure that we've got different uh different things covered as i've mentioned before we've been meeting with the different design stakeholders the design meetings we've had several meetings already and there are more scheduled so we've met with the building principles we've had some conversations about secure vestibules we had a great interaction with custodians and some of our specifically our engineers so that they could uh ask questions and really get to know things and then from an architectural kind of a miscellaneous architectural and site work piece we had some some great meetings as well and there's more to be scheduled since we're living in uh the pandemic at the moment they've been virtual but uh hopefully we'll be able to to explore some other options here as we move forward uh schematic design estimate

024i know uh mike and his team at bbl are in the process of doing that so we should have uh some updated information on the the estimate very soon yeah mecca chime in jim and uh since you provided the documents we've gone through and we are also doing the estimates and take off on it and comparing it to the scope uh we're taking into account you know where some parts of the market right now have been a little volatile with regards to steel and wood and those have been accounted for and then you know just to walk everyone through the process uh very here in the very near future we'll sit and meet with you again just do a santee check and then we'll sit and meet with the district and i think you mentioned

025before your the next big step will be design development and that really will really tell the tale of the project it gets more defined the numbers get a little bit finer and again there are three steps here along the way and there are intermittent steps really that take place if you have specific questions and that you know we had maybe earlier in one of these meetings that have talked about how that gets done you know all the estimates are broken up into specific zones either site electrical or equipment depending on what the project might entail so it's easy to identify where the costs are and where any red flags might be but we're doing making good progress progress back and forth with everyone yeah thanks mike and certainly there's ongoing uh updates as we're doing

026tonight with with everybody with the the board of education there's also the visitation facilities committee meetings that we're we're sharing information at and certainly the district website is is also an important repository of that that information too so just to touch base uh quickly on on the energy performance contract where does that project stand at the moment um so again it was submitted to sed state ed uh at the end of february it's currently awaiting sed engineering review and the the project manager review there um we're getting close there's about 43 projects ahead of it in the queue i've actually asked the pm and sct if he could give me any etn time frame and uh well the answer was uh quite simply no he couldn't so we continue to monitor it the the anticipation

027is that uh they'll pick up the set uh very soon and hopefully by uh you know the end of june certainly we'll we'll have approval somewhere in that time frame and then construction going out uh through the end of this calendar year and possibly some close-out things that carry over into the early part of 2022. you know one of the things that honeywell as the energy services company has recently mentioned is that they're looking to start the process for financing so they're working with the district on that and it's really driven by trying to make sure that they can get boilers for riccardi in time that are part of that project since obviously we have a limited window as to how how offline the buildings can be come to the fall time frame jim obviously

028when we have stated approval prior to commencing the work on site we'll do a team kickoff meeting uh with the district ourselves you honeywell just to kind of talk about schedule sequence all those things um for the upcoming work over the course of the next four or five months yes absolutely and then for the capital outlay project which was uh some of the the interior door work at ricardi elementary um pre-bid conference happened uh april 29th uh the bid opening was actually last uh friday may 7th and i'll let mike jump in here with some of those details yeah so we we had the uh we did have a pre-bid conference we had a good turnout of bidders uh bids were received to the district last week uh there were two bidders that bid on

029the project um the there was a debriefing uh basically on monday i think myself and you jim we met with the low bidder via phone and we talked about scope and schedule we talked about specifics make sure there were no substitutions any concerns we got into the weeds about delivery of some key material items and everything checked out well the bidder felt comfortable the bids were within the project budget we presented and summarized an award recommendation letter to the district for the next steps of issuing a contract so key items like submittals and procurement of those uh doors frames and hardware could take place there'll be a mobilization sometime in early part of june so the work can commence um we'll do it in stages and then for really a wrap up toward the end

030of june for that scope of work for the bacardi yeah so it's definitely a quick hitting project and uh as mike said uh you know i think we were certainly uh comfortable by the low bidders responses so in the overall uh the main capital project uh as we've talked about before we're in the design phase still on track for submission to sed in the fall looking at their review and approval in the the december january time frame uh then it would be looking at bidding an award and construction going over uh two seasons so uh 2022 and 2023 wrapping up in early fall of and with that uh certainly appreciate everybody's time if there's any questions mike and i are happy to help you answer them [Music] so um this is krista i as always

031have a couple questions i actually have three the first one you talked about the high school and the drop off and pick up and and trying to improve that do you have design folks that are coming to witness the uh drop-off and the and the pickup that is happening because it it is a unique situation and having been a parent who uh negotiated that and even more importantly i mean i negotiated it with a driver who was learning to drive so then you're negotiating switching seats as you're trying to move through the process so there's so many variables going on at the same time during those times that um really the the design is is unique yes it very much is and and as you've noted there's definitely a variety of challenges there um yes

032to answer your question we've actually had some of our our site uh architects uh engineers out there and they they've witnessed uh drop-offs and pickup times as well um they also recognize uh that you know we're in somewhat of a unique situation right given that there's probably more of those parent drop-offs happening right now just because of the pandemic but in part it sounded like it was really just um it exacerbated some of the issues that were already there so that's why inherently we're looking at trying to show some of those things that that i did we're extending and better defining some of the drop off the circulation through the different areas and really trying to separate and funnel pedestrians to try to keep everybody as safe as possible so those were all direct reactions

033to uh witnessing things on site thank you um your schematics for uh the vestibules on all of them is it possible in the future to see what the current is compared to what the the change is going to be can is there schematics that can show us how it how it's really going to change in particular the junior senior high school was the one that really stood out for me and i said it kind of looks like what it looks like now but i think that's just i don't know what i'm saying yeah understood so we can certainly do that a lot of these are interior to the building they're not something that's protruding exterior but we can certainly show the comparison that'd be great and then the last question i have is that it

034was nice to hear that you're looking at new items like the mount marion sidewalk and possibly picking out a new project there which is also highly needed i agree 100 but um any items based on what you're seeing coming off the priority list that we previously were saying yes we need to have happen anything coming off based on funding or no longer a priority yes we've seen a couple of things as we've done some of the design meetings um with the different groups that um yeah they've had you know i think second thoughts would be the best way to put it on on so one of the areas i would uh know would be like the uh at the junior senior high school the what's labeled as the the home ack suite that seems like

035there's some uh internal discussion about how it could best be utilized and as a result maybe we need to take a much more uh simple view of of what we need to do in this project so maybe it's just cutting in some new doors to make sure there's handicap accessibility but being careful that you know we don't want to inhibit something down the road that how those spaces might be better utilized once a decision has been made thank you thank you [Music] anyone else thank you guys thank you again is good thank you come on over okay so this is um the budget public hearing presentation for the school budget first slide has um the email address or the phone number if you'd like to call which will be read at the end so next

036we have the property tax levy cap calculation and this was started in 2011 and this is a complex formula with a couple of variables here so we start off in this formula with the tax levy of the current fiscal year that 40.6 million then we multiply that by the tax-based growth factor and that we received from the new york state division of real property tax services and that's about half a percent which is up slightly from last year which is good news then we multiply that it brings us up to 40.8 million then we add in the pilots receivable and the pilots are the payment and limited taxes which brings us up to 41.1 million and we subtract off the current year capital tax levy of 836 000 which brings us back down to 40.3

037million then we multiply by the allowable length of growth factor of 1.23 so this represents the lesser of the consumer price index or two percent so when you hear two percent tax cap that is a factor that goes in in this line it's the allowable levy growth factor and we can we use the lesser of two percent or the consumer price index which this year is 1.23 so multiplying that and um that is the lowest cents 2017 school year that brings us up back up to 40.8 million and then we subtract the pilots receivable for um next year of just under three hundred thousand dollars um we should be receiving one or two additional solar pilot pilots for the following year depending on the timing of their construction if they're completed by the taxable status

038date of march 1st then we would put that into the receivable for the following year if not they would still stay as they are on the tax roll um next we go into the exclusions um we only have a capital tax levy exclusion for next year and this is the local share of our product projected capital expenditures of 200 million dollars so and how we come up with that amount so at the top we have all of our capital expenses so we have our debt service for next year of just under 2.4 million and that's the last payment principle and interest payment on our old project 15 years ago the next is the first payment of our energy performance contract uh the principal and interest payment should be less than 300 000 um it might

039be a little bit lower than that depending on interest rates um which we should be working on that um in june so we should know those by the end of june what that is going to be next we have our capital outlay project uh that we're planning for next year and that is also going to be at ricardi elementary replacing a couple of classrooms and we have boces capital expenditures of just over 150 000 so it brings up the total expenditures for capital of just under 3 million and then following that we have the building aid and boces aid related to the above expenditures so building aid is for previously financed projects as well as cast cash projects that have been done over the last few years including the party roof um the gutters at

040cahill and the horses were along with some work done at mount marion as well and then also included in that is the state boces aid which is the portion we get for our houses share of their capital expenditures and this is newly incorporated into the tax cut calculation as of last year so the total local share of capital expenditures is the exclusion is nine hundred eighty three thousand seven hundred and fifty eight dollars and we add that to the text for exclusions which brings us up to a maximum allowable levy limit with a simple majority vote of 41 million five hundred and twenty two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars um an increase of 891 000 or 2.19 over last year next we have um the state aid projection um and this is exciting news

041um an increase of just under 900 000 or 4 over the current year so um within this there is no local district funding adjustment or academic adjustment um like last year last year we had a deduction in the total state age of 520 000 for the state's pandemic adjustment amount but projected for next year is no reduction and actually increase in foundation aid of 563 983 or 3.65 of that aid there was a reduction in some other of our expense based aids particularly transportation because the aid for transportation along with boces and a few others is based on what is spent this year and this year we're spending less um than we previously have so therefore next year's aid that we will be receiving is less so but the net overall is that um almost

042nine hundred thousand dollar increase so putting all our uh revenues together on the state aid with the increase of 4 the 2.19 increase in the tax levy we did have a decrease in our other sources of less than 10 000 and those other sources include those pilot agreements interest income which is young interest and penalties on taxes non-resident tuition public welfare services boces refund facilities rental medicaid and other miscellaneous all right we will be appropriating a fund balance of seventy thousand four hundred and seventy seven dollars which is um down from the current year appropriation point seven uh our overall revenue increase it's about 1.7 over it was last last year um mostly from that state aid and the tech center so next it's just i thought i'd throw some perhaps in there so this

043one is just a comparison between the different parts of the revenue from next year's budget with the current current year's budget and it stays about the same about a little over 60 percent is the tax levy just over 35 of total revenue state aid and about 2.2 is made up of miscellaneous revenues and fund balance um i just want to touch on the new federal aides again so there's two different pieces to it so to speak one is the sr2 funds which is also called the corona virus response and relief act or chris of funds we just received the updated allocation for these and we will be receiving a little bit more in this category so this is about 2.3 million and then there's the american rescue plan act funds and there's two pieces within

044that um there's a direct allocation of 3.5 million and a learning loss grant from funneled through the state to us of 700 000. um so the total is just over 6.5 million and it's down about thousand um from when we first got the allocations from the state so um i just want to point out that these funds aren't included in our general fund budget they're supposed to be recorded in the federal fund and so it's entirely it's totally separate from the general fund and a few of the reasons for that is that this is supposed to be supplemental money um it's not supposed to be used for concurring expenses and it's temporary and it lasts for um just a period of years and then it will go away so we're still getting some more information

045on that although we did receive the application for the sr2 money yesterday so we're starting to look at that and that has a due date june 15th um yes so expenditure projections um the total is five hundred thirty six thousand nine hundred sixty-five dollars an increase of under uh one percent of 65 391 dollars there's a few increases within this basically the pension systems uh both increased on their employer contribution rate general contractual increases um transportation contract increases uh i've also included an increase for fuel which i only based on marches sort of rates not today which will hopefully go back down shortly um there was several decreases in um both seas expenses and services um as well as some of the boces uh student placements uh the reserve reduction in non-iep mandated teaching assistance

046and there's also a reduction in our district placements including two residential placements we just have students that are aging out of programs moving to different programs or back within the district and there's also a reduction in career in tech of over 56 000. uh we're required to report the budget and three components administrative program in capital um and this just shows the breakdown of those so administer administration being about nine percent yeah nine percent capital is about ten and the biggest is a program at 81. and that stays pretty consistent each year so the first part i'm going to go over is the administrative component this provides for overall general support and management activities including the district office business office personnel legal representation public information and insurance the cost for administration and supervision of all

047the schools is included in here so that would be the all of the principals offices for each building as well as on curriculum and instruction office there's a couple changes i'll go over so uh board of education um the decrease in that is that we only are going to have one vote for next year which is the current year we had two votes one for the capital project and one for the budget so that brings it down a little business personality bill and public info so we have contractual items increasing security and central services we have contractual increasing increases plus uh price increases for our warehouse items um special items includes both administrative and capital costs which have actually decreased but our cost of insurance has increased so it it does net out only to

048an increase at 4 000. and again supervision of schools since contractual increases uh we increased a little for supervision for the credit recovery and night school is programs component this is our largest component this provides funding for instruction and educational support services for all of our students as well as transportation so decreases um that i spoke about the boces students services um the reduction of the non-iep mandated teaching assistance and out of district placements again cte and alternative schools are reduced in cost people services we have an increase in guidance counselor fte and additional social worker and transportation is increasing fuel costs that i mentioned as well as transportation contracts and then we have the same amount for the transfer of the school lunch fund but this whole component has decreased 475 000. next is

049the capital component and this pays for maintaining all indoor and outdoor facilities including electricity heat repairs and it also includes the principle and the transfer of the capital fund is also included so operation of the plant so that's basically what it takes to operate the buildings so that's where we have the um heating oil propane electricity as well as like custodial supplies and those type of items and then the maintenance of the plant would be our maintenance and our lawn grounds and you know fixing things and repairing items then we have our debt service for the serial bonds um again that's the last payments for those and then the debt service you can see that [Applause] the big addition in this category for the epc and then the transferred capital again is that outlay project

050at uh mccarty elementary to replace the glory this one is the budget breakdown a different sort of format than the components um these are um similar so again the board the board of ed and central admin those are all included together in here and that is a reflection of the contractual increases in the insurance increase in the instruction again decreases for the reduction of the bow season the outer disc replacements facilities increase is the international increases the custodial supplies and high prices as well as the heating fuels we have transportation again that the contractual increases but that increase or the decrease to the benefits which is um the net of the two so there's an increase in the employee employer contributions to pension systems but it's outweighed by basically the health insurance rates have remained

051flat and even for some retiree plans have decreased by four percent um i have to say that's one of the big factors that has helped this budget stay so low this year and not contributed to a big increase next and again the debt service with the eupc project coming on and the transfer of the other funds has decreased and just the process budget so you can see that overall um the decrease for a few various reasons i think our share of the central administrative costs has decreased uh the student account cte program the price of the phoenix academy and um valley pathways program has also um decreased these two together um the total expenditures and the total revenue of the statistics million five hundred thirty six thousand nine hundred sixty-five dollars um and kind of

052the what's included in that again is capital project appropriations that capital outlay project of a hundred thousand dollars the addition additional funds for credit recovery programs um that will help more kids graduate on time the transfer to the school lunch fund is needed to help balance that fund and we continue on our replacement schedule for computers chromebooks equipment and furniture throughout the district and the increase in the part-time guidance counselor to full-time district-wide to meet the needs of our students across the entire district and social worker so that we have two at the junior senior high schools students that are now currently being served by one so um this shows our district reserves and estimated fund balance so we have all the reserves listed there on the left hand side and then the first column

053of numbers is the balance as of june 30th 2020. little column is my estimated balance as of uh june 30th of this year and the column to the far right is the recommended balances recommendation of what the balances should be [Music] again i just want to say that middle column is really my estimate that will change so uh the ers reserve um is currently incorporated for 300 000 um and again the right hand column it's recommended to have five expenditures trs um this is a new reserve for us and we can annually contribute up to two percent of the procedure salary expenses to 10 total so the recommendation in the end when we get to the five years worth would be about 2.5 million um the recommended balance now just as 957 because that's all

054we can do because you can only increase it so much a year um so we go down to um the e-bound reserve that's the employee benefits and approved liability reserve and this is to pay our retirees for their accrued time retire um the liability for that account is really 1.7 million and we only have about 185 000 at the end of this year the unemployment reserve is pretty stable it's in a good spot next is our capital reserve um which the amount is being moved out of that reserve this year into the um into the capital fund to pay for the project on expenses related to the project that we have already so but uh we can put a total we can put up to 9.6 million dollars more in that within the 10-year period

055that is allowed for that reserve the debt service reserve will be using not this coming fiscal year but the following fiscal year so that we'll zero out then we have assigned fund balance and for this current year that we're in we did appropriate 1.7 because that was projected deficit for the year but next year we're only projecting a deficit of 70 000. so that's the difference there and then we have an unassigned fund balance um of about 8.2 again like i said it's just right now definitely will change um we have savings from the end of march of 2020 all the way through the end of this year which i'll bring some recommendations to the board in june as to what to do with that excess amount and also projecting for the end of this

056year we would only have a total reserve balance of 1.3 million um and the recommenders um including the full amount for the tss before we even consider the capital reserve amount that we're um eligible to have so one of the things i'll be recommending is moving some of that unassigned fund balance into the reserves um one of the things that's going to happen with the financing that we're going to be doing for the project in the epc is we're going to have another bond rating issued and with higher reserve uh balances you know up to the recommended amounts uh would give us a better rating and therefore a lower interest rate on our bond issue which would help you know lower interest would be great okay even estimated very estimated property tax impact i don't

057even like living this because it never comes out to the exact same thing because there's always changes that happened but i did um look at the uh tentative assessed values uh provided by ulcerative property tax services department um to come up with this estimate um right here for each of the towns so i did ground around those because really you're supposed to take it out to like six places but i'm going to take it out that far um and see the equalization rates did decrease for ulster and woodstock and so as you can see by my estimates here it looks like the town of socrates tax rate is going down um in the town of ulster entitled woodstock each are going up slightly and i have um it's my understanding that the town of socrates

058residents or homeowners have received a lever letter giving them notice that they are um they had an increase in their assessed value of their homes based on the market and how it's been trending um so i had a wonderful volunteer give me his so i could use it as an example um right here so um so if we look in the middle column the 20 20 21 actual so you can see that the original assessed value was 335 500 for this uh particular property and then the estimated from 2122 um increased up to 370 to 500 so there was a change of 37 000 which is 11.03 so a change in the assessed value was actually 11 but since there's a change of the equalization rate from 95 to 100 we take the top number

059divided by the percentage and then we come up with the true value so if we look at the true value in 2021 the true value is 353 158 compared to the true value for this coming year of 372. so that change is only 19 000 or 5 and a half then we take the tax rate that i estimated on that previous slide of the eighteen dollars and twenty cents and um multiplying to come up with a tax bill that would be six thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars ninety four cents and the tax bill that this homeowner had for this current year was 6727.85 um so my projected estimated increase for this particular home is three dollars and eight cents on their tax bill which is only an increase of point seven nine percent so

060don't hold me to it that's my estimate if nothing else changes and everything stays exactly the same it should work out that way but as we know there's um you know updates and stuff and the final assessed values don't come out until july so things could change corrections happen and the grievance state i believe so it depends on what happens so because the whole town went up if everything else stays the same everybody should be about the same as where they were you know what i mean that's why the increase isn't isn't drastic when i kind of play it out in this example because overall the whole district increased in value so next i just have a little history here with the budget and the tax levy changes over the years and i didn't look

061back very far but i know that this is the lowest budget increase since prior to 2011-12 that was as far as i i went any book i don't have time to look back farther but anyhow and the average over these ten years for uh tax levy is still less than two percent over the over the ten years um and then you can see where um you know we started increasing the appropriate front balance in reserves and now we're able to go back down to the 70 000. and finally um the long-range financial predictions so i took my usual format and i kind of condensed it so you just see the total revenues uh total expenditures and uh not really so i have the 2019 and then the 2020 actual uh figures here and then my

062estimated for the rest of this year in the 2021 column then the 2022 column is ejected so that's the budget that's being presented and then going out from there so you can see that the deficit for 2022 is is that 70 000 dollars but going forward um it would go back up again so i'm projecting about um one and a half million for 2023 over 3 million for 2024 and over 5 million for 2025 so that's basically um with aid remaining fairly flat and an average tax levy increase of about 2.12 percent um so really our fund balance that we had available from the end of last year as well as what we have available for this year the increase in the foundation aid from the state and the health insurance remaining flat has saved

063us but it's kind of just pushing things out a little bit farther so that's that's good news in the present time but we're still looking at deficits for the next three years at least unless something drastic changes so budget vote and board elections may 7 am to 9 pm and absentee ballots are due at 5 pm and the budget newsletter should be out in the mail tomorrow we have a budget statement as well as this presentation on the website under the information section budget and financial information um and there's a couple new reports that i put out there and i had i worked with joanne and we kind of rearranged things and to try to capture them all in one spot all the financial budget as well as status reports oh my god wow [Laughter]

064i'll put yeah not necessarily a question but since we're waiting the 10 minutes in case we get any uh public comment right i think that's what that lasts uh so um i'm looking at a media um i want to highlight necessarily which news source this is but um they're coming out saying that we our presentation or our proposal is an increase of 2.19 and so just to clarify i mean i think this is the concern i'm having is that if we have our media sources going out and reporting that we're an increase of two point one nine percent when actually it's a 0.01 percent increase of the tax tax on the budget the increase in the budget is only that 0.01 that's what they're voting on right and that um this also this media source

065is saying that the maximum allowed under the state cap for a district is that correct that our 2.9 is the maximum allowed under the state cap for the district no no the 2.19 is the calculated amount allowable with the simple majority vote so the board could always choose to go above that but it would move that super majority vote so that's what the calculation comes out to be but it's not necessarily only what we're allowed yeah so i i just wanted to highlight that there's misinformation and i'll tell you but um we want to make sure facts are getting out there because when i read this and it first came up i was like oh my god no because it sounds so horrible and we are you've done amazing so that's what should be highlighted

066and i'm frustrated by this thank you jane so do we want to wait as questions come in or we want to have another presentation and come back to see if you have comments yeah there's no comments at this time so we want to go on the next presentation and come back all right uh miss mckinney tell us about ricardi good evening everyone thanks for having us here tonight to give you an update on ricardi we know it's been quite the year for all of us in education and i guess everywhere besides education so all right so if you look at the first slide there it's our current enrollment right now we currently have 357 students and i am very very happy to report we have 93 right now in person and our goal is 70

067to 80 in person and right now we have 93 percent that are attending four days of school and uh i know we have a few more coming back next week as well so we're very very happy with those numbers and i know the kids are really happy to be back in school and you know it's almost a sense of normalcy having them back four days a week instead of the hybrid two on three off so it's been very nice and you know being able to reintroduce things to our students has been nice as well so you know being able to have them play on the playground you know we do it safely using our sanitizer and everything having one class at a time on each you know we're very fortunate that we have two separate

068playground equipments at ricardi and then we have our separate blacktop area so they get to play kickball because we all know at riccardi that kickball is probably the most important thing for our kids so yeah happy to report that uh the next slide we have is um the academic impact that cobit has had on our school so you see in the first graph there on the left that's our mid-year numbers from january right before we went out when um code first hit and then to the right you'll see the pretest that we took in september and with both reading and math there was an eight percent decline across the board with our students uh it just wound up being eight percent in in both content areas so then if you look at the next slide

069these are students the number of students that we have are identified that need some sort of intervention either in math or reading and it's 15 of our students in math and sixteen percent in reading and you'll see that different tiers tier two is um less intensive instruction and tier three are students who um are at higher risk of failing who need more instruction so the next slide we have these are the ways that we identified the gap so we saw how many students we have in each of these categories and how we were going to this is how we identified our students so we we looked at the first thing we have on here it says use stat student teacher advocacy team so i know mrs kelder and mr dikeman spoke about grand rounds when

070they both gave their presentation so i'm pretty sure you guys have a great idea of what grand rounds is all about so with our grand rounds this was last year uh pre-coped you know we looked at it we had about 39 students who really stood out to us who needed extra more than just the interventions that they're getting in the classroom so we we created this team called stat and it's really an advocacy team for these kids and so we created an after-school program that targeted specific skills that they needed so we had the program up and running for about two months before covet hit and so we're really collecting some good data the kids were really making great gains we just felt like there was such a momentum going on and then unfortunately we

071went remote so we were able to use um that data that we had at the end of last school year pick up with those kids where we started off this year this year we have about 82 kids identified for this program and i'll get into that a little bit more so we use that data we also well the i ready that i just showed you the um i ready pathways it's where students go on and they work at their own pace and it shows their progress and where they're at uh running records reading levels classroom observations so as you know the teachers are observed every year so just by looking you know observing them whether they were in school or remotely because the teachers have a lot of the principles are on their google classrooms

072and so we're able to just jump in and out and um at the beginning of the year just going into the classrooms especially the google and seeing you know the deficits and some of the kids especially our little ones was a little bit alarming so uh we put a lot of our resources especially into our primary kids um just individual teacher meetings rti teachers sharing their data we have building uh level grade meetings we have district grade level meetings uh the parents a lot of information came from our parents as well what they were struggling with what they saw at home with their students and a lot of parent and teacher conversations and then in march we took the half day to staff development and we worked in teams in the building to identify the

073gaps at each grade level so with that we identified what those gaps were the students like i said we have 82 students now so we have the program up and running again now that we have the buses and the kids are in school four days a week so on tuesdays and thursdays we're able to have the kids after school it's a very structured program all the teachers are involved we have teaching assistants involved we have the kids working in small groups and working on math and ela skills so if you look at the next slide this is how we're addressing the gaps so within the classroom on wednesdays for support and rti and then our after school program that i was just talking about so within the classroom we're differentiating having those barriers really has

074helped us because we were able to do more small group work where we really couldn't do that with the social distancing before it really limited us what we could do with our reading groups so now we're able to do that we have our ready pathways we also have uh grades one through three we have a strong fluency program that we have in place and that's during the school day with numbers and we track each child has their own packet that they go by and the teachers and teaching assistants support them and once they get through one set of numbers then they move on to the next and it's all individualized which is going to help them with you know as they move on with their skills being ready for the next grade level wednesday support

075i have to say that really has been a great day to help us fill gaps we have our teaching assistants who have full schedules with kids back to back in small group one to one we also have you know all of our teachers so that's a great time for um you know individualized instruction there and remediation so we have our special ed teachers can who can help identify and fill the gaps with their iep students rti students and just any student who's actually falling behind rti during the day really flexible with their schedules and the groups are really fluid so they go in and out of all the classrooms trying to help with those gaps and then again our after-school program that i just talked about it's really teacher driven and it's monitored very closely

076we also have um grades three four and five math fluency after school as well so during the day we really target our grades one through three and after school we have our grades uh three four and five so we've got a lot of um activity going on after school at ricardi trying to help recover um all these gaps for our kids so now if you look at this slide here we have the uh pre-assessment that was done in the fall and then we had our mid-year in january so with the i ready we give it three times a year we give it the beginning the mid the middle of the year and then the end of the year so right now uh we just started um doing the end year today so it takes about

077three weeks to get those results but just from the beginning of the year to now we've increased five percent in both math and reading so students picked up gains where we had lost eight at the beginning of the year we've gained five and this was at the mid-year mark so now if you look at this last slide here it shows where we currently are and this is our third quarter report so you know with the i ready we should see some really good results so this is based on um you know the report cards and all the um data that the teachers are collecting in the classroom so this here for the third quarter is actually three and a half months after the i ready diagnostic that was given in january this actually it says

078four weeks but it's five weeks um that the students have been in school for four days and also five weeks in the after-school program you can see um you know where our most need right now is our sixth grade group you know just talking with the teachers and i noticed that even mount marion and um morris had the same problem a lot of it you know those kids are more independent they're on their own whereas the little ones they have to have someone working with them at all times and so that really has helped with um their success i believe with the little ones at home but you know the older kids um it's really hard to get them motivated again and they've been everything has been unstructured for them so um you know and

079this is a small group that we have in sixth grade here unfortunately a lot of them were on vacations and just you know trying to get them acclimated back into school it was really has been a struggle for us the older students you know the little ones they're eager and ready to learn but we're working on it with our sixth graders and they're really not engaged on wednesdays after school and trying to get them to to come on we've got the parents involved too they're well aware of what's happening um social emotional issues i mean we all know that that's a major um variable here that's impacting our kids and especially you know our older kids and that's why i wanted to bring it to like the next slide so really a lot of that

080was academic data and the social emotional part you know some of the things that we've seen an increase in 504 plans i've we've never 504 plans before you know there's a lot of kids that you know uh are dealing with anxiety unfortunately i can i can't even imagine being a child and and having to you know face some of these things that they're facing right now and i'm just speaking with my psychologist my social worker which you know we don't have full time in the building so there are days we might not have a social worker or a psychologist and i dominate the psychologist and the social worker um but anyway they said that they get an average of two to three calls a week from families asking for help you know or just that

081my child is really struggling could you please meet with them and speak with them and a lot of times i'll meet with them as well so that the child is comfortable if someone's not in the building but you know they've had disruption to routines loss of their social outlets now you know they're starting to play sports and stuff again they're able to you know have recess a little bit more regular so um i see that they're bouncing back now that they've been in four days a week but we still have that population that's struggling and just regression and social skills some of the behaviors with kids acting out and just a lack of resources and i know the district is well aware and i know the board of education is well aware of that and

082and you know that's part of our plan moving forward and that's why i have miss view bell here to my side um miss b bell is a special ed teacher at riccardi and um she's been in the district for 23 years she's been teaching for 26 years and she's currently working on her certificate of advanced study in administration and she's interning with me right now at ricardi and so the stat that i was talking about before the educational piece the academic piece he's going to talk about the social emotional piece that we're working on so thank you sue in the past year party in the wake of cover 19 our grand rounds student review process revealed 6 percent of our students who presented with social emotional factors that were impeding their overall wellness and success

083and included in that 6 percent were several students who receive intensive services some from cscse some from rti but they clearly need more support and advocacy uncovering ways to support and serve our at-risk population at rapari will be the focus of the stat plus program so the staff plus will focus on the social emotional piece staff focusing on the academic uh what is stat plus stat plus is a program that will work in tandem with grand rounds to address the social emotional needs of the most at-risk population at ricardi when we begin working with a stat student one of the initial tasks will be an informal interview a conversation of sorts that will serve as an opportunity to gain information on the student and uncover barriers to their overall success and wellness each quarter following

084our grand rounds a subcommittee composed of teachers and mental health professionals and the principal will hold a comprehensive meeting focusing on individual students the model of that stat meeting will be organized as a work session that will allow time for strategy building action plan development outreach and overall teacher and student support next slide please i'm gathering information we need to know who these kids are and their families in order to serve them best um it's essential that we get to know the stat plus students to build positive rapport establish trust forge a productive working relationship and so on we started having some conversations with kids already in the past few weeks and um it's given us opportunities to talk about their history uh some of the challenges they've have their interest it's helped us to

085understand some of their support systems we've been able to touch on some their resources and um just to get an overall perspective of their school experience um this process has brought to light some new insights and opportunities that are starting to drive some of our action planning for the committee um this is part of my internship work so i am a student and it is a work in progress um but it's already starting to help us plan some seeds and put some plans in place for some of these kids and their families um just to speak a little bit to that um if i could share a story we had a student come into the district a student a few students actually and this was their seventh school seventh and um they were they came

086in they remained remote for quite some time and we would see them on the google meets we see their little icon but we we felt we couldn't reach them and so i know that you um worked with the family very closely to try to coax them into coming into school live and you know when they came we were ready for them and um you know we tried to afford some friendships for them we connected with them with some neighborhood friends and so forth and channeled them right into the stat academic piece of the program to target their academic needs and you know once they got settled we have a teacher in our our school who's very active in the sports programs here and he um really sought them out to join a particular sport and

087then you know made accommodations for the sports equipment that they need and you know it's just been a real beautiful um exemplar of what advocacy can do i mean if you drive past the school on a saturday you see extended family members here of that particular family enjoying this uh you know their participation in sports um in a conversation we had with um the guardian recently the guardian shared that you know we were able to share the success and and how connected the kids are and how well they're doing across the board and the guardian just showed that you know their plan is to try to keep the kids stable and to stay here and feel that celebrities is home to them so that was a really a nice example of what some advocacy can

088do for families and you know just extend that a little bit um that particular family has now extended to another family who is now perhaps going to get into the same sports activity so it was it's just a nice ripple effect that we're seeing happening um action planning uh the strategy building component of our stat plus initiative involves spending time evaluating and addressing our students most prominent social emotional needs and barriers through this process i hope to identify some basic goals initiate some supportive interventions by consulting with colleagues i plan to dig into some of the pbis manuals and take a look at some of those methodologies and employ some of those and as you know with any new initiative it comes down to funding you know and you know the extent and the approach

089that we could take with this program is going to depend on the funding that we have we're taking a look at some creative approaches to the program just sort of um you know in the absence of funding we're really hopeful with some of the covered funding that's coming through the covered relief money that perhaps we can fund some long-term programs for our stat plus program um we'd love to see and i know if we're hearing this resounding theme here that we'd love to see full-time mental health professionals in our buildings each day we've talked about reinstating like a mentor program some evening live support for families um let's see there's something else here um targeted enrichment activities that would promote wellness across the board for our entire student body you know the old special friends

090program i know that's ancient here but bringing that back that was a loss so we lost that having someone who's in an advocacy role for kids on an as needed basis in our building and so on next slide please i'm just looking to the future you know bright horizons for step class it's really time that we start um focusing back on the whole child you know in response to covid what we've all been through we're seeing things in our school that we haven't seen for you know for many years there's lots of needs that need to be addressed um the overarching goal for stat plus is to mobilize a professional team we want to facilitate continued ongoing and equitable advocacy for kids there's always going to be kids that come into our world and you

091know sort of the squeaky wheel sort of scenario we'd really like to be able to use the grand rounds process to allow that to um to work from an equitable review so that advocacy can be available to all kids who present with a need um we need our at-risk students and their families to feel supported and connected to their school communities and that's important now more than ever the stat plus initiative of course is a work in progress i'm a student um and i'm learning as i go but we're looking to a bright future for stat plus in the future um for our students and our program and hoping that we could come back and you know maybe early next year and have some some positive um information to give you about where we've come

092with the program so thank you very much yeah so i think overall you know we're on the right track here having our kids back in school four days a week and feeling some sense of normalcy and um you know they're making great gains across the board they're they're enthused about it you know the community support um just how everybody came together you know they say it takes a village well it certainly takes a village and i'm very proud to be a part of this village that's for sure because we all come together when we need to and our kids are thriving they are under these conditions thank you questions um actually just a quick comment um i just want to thank you for coming and doing the presentation and the same for the last um

093administrators that we've had before us um you highlight the challenges that you're facing the sixth grade data and and i want to thank you for being strong to come and bring the data and bring us the the facts knowing that um sometimes it's not related to a pandemic i mean when we talk about sixth grade sixth grade dynamics have been sixth grade dynamics since my son was out marion in in 2010 and as fabulous as those teachers were and how amazing that school is and how great all of our districts are sixth grade is sixth grade which is why in some districts they moved the sixth grade up into the junior high school because the sixth grade is such a different animal than the younger grades so i just really want to highlight that you've

094brought to us a great amount of information and it's it's great i know i just took a um learning loss webinar that also highlighted that in which i feel like you're bringing to us the that we we are talking about the learning laws and we are talking about the data where we're concerned about our students but at the same time learning loss is not new learning loss is something that we're we've been worth looking at for a long time now we with the best thing about that's come out of this pandemic is we've found new ways to connect and we're finding new ways to track and we're finding new things to make our students better so i just want to thank you for highlighting that again and for all the others brought it to us

095as well you're right we're having those conversations you know and um and it's really nice to to see that you know you walk in and we have our teams together we have our teaching assistants who are part of it so you know it's like all right everybody who works with first grade you're all coming together you know no matter what your job is we're coming together you're going to discuss first grade what do we do what is your role and then we divvied it up for after school so we've got 60 uh no we have 82 kids all together but we have 22 just first grade so you know just having 22 first graders after school you know and then you know the district is providing snacks for the kids so they have a little

096snack they have you know they get to walk around the whole bus loop you know before they you know start working some more and they get a little exercise they get to eat and then you know it's right to work but they enjoy it and um the parents i know are very grateful for it and and we are definitely seeing the rewards of that and um i'm really happy about that and then very excited about the social emotional piece as well i just had a couple questions i just jotted down some things i i do agree with you i do think we definitely need more social workers in the schools i i think it's just something that is becoming commonplace i think uh throughout the country um the deficits i think you went from 39

097to 82 identified kids that needed assistance with the stat program you you need family buy-in are you finding that some of those barriers are more rigid no actually you know we were really pleasantly surprised you know this has been the year of of um parent contact you know from the district um surveys that went out you know you know do you need transportation you're not would you want to come back four days would you you know so you know we've been calling parents from day one from you know march when we went out last year getting information and stuff so again we we just keep doing the same thing we reach out to the parents hey we would like to do this we would like to try this are you interested this is what we

098would like to do with your child um and then we created a letter they had to sign to say they would commit to tuesdays and thursdays or maybe just tuesdays or just thursdays but you know parents are completely on board with it and you know historically first graders are not the ones who stay after school but we started that last year with the staff program because you know just because they're six they they can stay after school so you know it's it's important you know the busing part of it we have a whole you know there's a it's a lot on the building secretary because we want to make sure those kids that get on the buses we she creates lists for the bus drivers with their address and you know so it's really important

099to get those because their bus stop isn't where it normally is so you know that's the biggest thing is making sure that six-year-old or seven-year-old gets to the right person and we haven't had any problems and uh but the parents are completely on board right and with the the i ready diagnostic um obviously this last marking created a lot more kids came back the floodgates opened so the the data that you're using to identify these kids is that consistent with is it online testing at home so versus in person in the fall because we were out until october so the first you know all of september and the first week of october we were out so we were able to proctor online which you know it took a lot longer because we had teaching assistants

100we did training sessions with them so i had my rti teachers train them for reading tests and math tests and um we paired them up with students and the little one-on-one and proctor it remotely and um the older kids were able to do in small groups so they were all supervised and proctored by all the staff like i said took a little bit longer to do it that way but then the second go around they were in the building and we were able to um proctor that way but we were still hybrid you know two days so you know now it's nice because we started today with the barriers in the computer lab we were able to fit a whole class of kindergartners in there at once instead of you know a few at a

101time um so so i guess the piggyback on that are you finding that the kids that were remote longer are the kids that have the deficits or is it a kind of an even spread some kids are performing well at home i would say well yeah i mean some really have some you know wonderful supports at home and um i think just with the older ones who are more left to their own accord and aren't really supervised um as much as the little ones i i would say those strut might struggle a little bit more but it's really situational right all right thank you mm-hmm welcome yeah um thank you again i just want to emphasize what um chris does for me said about i just did all the administrators that are coming to talk

102about the data in the district it's so important that we can actually look at and discuss these things without being worried about like how does it make me look better because otherwise we can't make the improvements um i had a question on slide eight so it says 100 so let's just say for the fifth grade 100 percent for the era proficient math proficient and so just to clarify that final column that their risk of failing this quarter or their risk of failing the whole year well that column too i mean originally it was like do i say d's and f's or you know f is failing d is not failing um for this quarter for the quarter well some there are some are you know for the year but some it's for the quarter okay

103so we're not looking at of the sixth graders are maybe not going to seventh grade no no and okay you know i i went my question about the 100 is what are they failing if they're proficient in math and reading what else is what other metric is going into that failing grade well that's where the work habits come in and assignment completion so they might um you know squeak in and get some assignments done um so the grade looks good but sometimes you know there's the teachers are giving them credit for it yeah habits concerns because yeah i know i'm not sure just curious right i know yeah because we know we want kids to be engaged in school and doing the work that's put in front of them but i just sort of want

104to know if we're saying a child's failing but they have mastered the material how does that sort of jive and so what are the other it's important for us board members to know what are the metrics right particularly when we look at the older grades and graduation rates and everything else what are the metrics like losing to designate a child is failing yeah i just think some of the classroom performance things that you know not necessarily all of their assessments okay great i mean i know yeah it's not everybody so i just i'm just sort of i think it's important for us to be able to ask those questions yeah i think that you know what's underneath those because if we look at this it's an average of ten percent of the kids are failing

105an average across the whole school i guess maybe that that column shouldn't say failing because failing is an f right right this is not you know like i said i was trying to go back and forth with this so these some kids are d's and you know who are not you know they're they're not your high high performing students so these are kids who you know we look at that are rti students um iep students even um that also get supports and everything can i just follow up on those questions and just um so if i understand your question katie what you're asking is more about um because i saw your agenda today for policy and talking about grading policies and to me this feels like a policy question of is this do we have

106a lot of in your seat type grading where you're getting graded because you've turned your your tv your computer on or you're you've got it graded because you made it to school or is the grading because you've mastered the the content so i think that's the right it's a bigger question of the bigger district but it and it's important when we're and again i don't want you to feel like because i'm asking this question like oh my god i wish i could put that in the column because it's really important for us to have these conversations right great and um so anyway so yes that's exactly it's like what is going into the grade failing great you know failing grid what's going in but i and i'm confident in all of the areas that i

107need to be as a fifth grader how am i still failing right how are we getting at that right and that's and that is a whole nother answer no because it is a whole nother conversation that we do have to have and we we've had that conversation multiple times in our admin meetings because you know you can have two teachers in the same grade in the same building and teach i mean great completely differently and so it is something that we need to look at as um you know as a district but but i know you know our superintendent is aware of it i know you know dr westinghouse is also aware of that and um it's something that we definitely need to look at but you know when you you're putting the diagnostic in

108here and then you're um yeah it's a little i know when i looked at that myself i was like you know that just doesn't look like it makes sense but and again that's why um with the the d's and the f's so you know they're not really truly failing we do have the population is a lot less than that with f's where we have some kids a handful unfortunately that really are at risk of failing great thank you and again i just applaud the focus on social emotional efforts yeah um but i would say that any kid who's at risk of failing has probably got some social emotional needs oh yeah it absolutely goes ham you know and i think there's always a misconception that social that socioeconomic has to do with social emotional and

109and you know and you know i just hope that people understand that that's not the case that's not the case the majority of our staff staff plus identified kids were in the upper grades yeah right they were five and six you know higher numbers i think the kids some of the kids are really struggling with um you know they're they're in their own little element at home i see a lot of kids i've never seen this before with their hoods on their hoodies and i have to remind them you know hon take your hood off you know we don't want that in school but they feel like this sense of security with it and some kids you know we just leave them because it is their security blanket for them but um well i think

110that the social emotional in some ways you might see sort of what i just said about you know there being alignment between sort of the risk of failing and social emotional needs i think it's really important for us to be looking at those high achievable kids right particularly the older grades um who may be under the minimum pressure and stress that we may not see because they're getting good grades yeah and it's already been identified through our grand rounds process and that's why we said it was very important you know last year we recognized it you know and did the stat to take it a little bit farther and not just say okay rti is going to take care of this especially it's going to take care of this you know under the umbrella of

111rti with you know counseling um and then now even taking it further with the staff plus with the social emotional component thank you just piggyback on something real quick you know we we saw the high school and the junior high presentations first and then we got to the grand rounds i'm just curious if kids that are identified as needing the support does that follow them to the junior high i know ginger is doing a very similar i'm not sure she's calling her ground rounds but i know yeah she does a groundhog's at the junior high level where she meets without meeting more frequently nowadays but i know that during the transition there's also communication between elementary schools in the junior high and we do have a part-time um guidance counselor now so she is working

112with our sixth graders so she met with them at the beginning of the year um you know just kind of went over you know the transitioning and everything so um i think she's meeting next week uh some in the next couple of weeks she's coming back she's meeting with our sixth graders again to do the transition uh we were able ginger was able to um schedule for the arc sixth graders to come up and visit that's also happening next week and usually when the kids are visiting and doing their tour and stuff the teachers sit and meet with the guidance counselors and then they explain they go over everything for the transition here so if their social emotional needs because i did have a conversation with one of my teachers today about making sure that

113you have a in-depth conversation about a particular student coming here good thank you so much you're welcome and thank you for the gifts uh mr arson do you have anybody from uh budget comments there are no comments um okay uh then we'll move on to the student rep report jaden good evening uh so there's not really much um right now um within the school and then we're back to the four days a week model um a lot of things with activities and stuff we're kind of waiting for guidelines to come back and hopefully there will be some so we can definitely start planning things for uh end of the year activities which um most of us would like so we can have cognitive normalcy today's clear other than that um like we know the school

114is fast approaching the students are eager to get this score um finished the four days a week model um being here i i think it's great it's it's it's awesome to see students back face to face with their teachers and and getting that from a desk instead of i just don't i feel like the teachers are more intact to get the material through our minds that we need to know it to move on to the next class that next year of school so i mean that's just it's great to see and it it definitely shows that the teachers are a helping hand to the students during any tough time now preparing this pandemic um really they're the ones that are getting us to be in school um and staying eager uh following up on that

115um this spring sports season started about a month ago april 19th as what i've seen um from playing baseball and watching other teams practice i think it's going very smoothly and really i don't see a difference between a normal season or what we have to follow now so uh that it's it's great to see the amount of students that didn't shy away from a sport that they've been playing for several amount of years just because of pandemic and just because of the things they need to do it's just it's great to see that everybody's back and knowing that they can play the sport that they love lastly right now the senior class of the junior class 2022 sophomore class of 2023 and the freshman class of 2024 are currently selling the discount cards for the

116places around our community if you'd like to buy one uh they're all they're sent to all of these students google classroom pages for this specific class and then they can give you a link to purchase one or you can let them know and they can give one to purchase they can purchase one for you and then give it out that's pretty much all i got for have you guys discussed anything about graduation plans yet uh we there was a meeting um before the board of ed quarterback meeting um i did not go to it uh but from what i've been hearing is that most students want the same as last year with the drive through and the parade um but it was through the google me so you got to be in the google students

117google account in order to get on it i know i think mr reed if i'm saying this correctly that there will be another one um within a couple days or a week that it that every all parents can get on yes jaden this is uh you're absolutely correct we're going to be scheduling another meeting for probably early next week for any parents that weren't able to make any students that weren't able to make it today to uh to give another round of information what's going on thank you all right now any questions or comments that's great yeah thank you jayden go sawyers um what remarks barringer surprise french um so i just i have some written comments um and i'm just gonna highlight there's in my tenure here on the board we've had a number

118of issues that i thought for sure was just gonna divide our district um in this time in my tenure what i have found is that this board this district and the community as a whole has evolved and i've only been here probably what a decade ish but when i first joined the board comments and public views were disrespected and dismissed i am honored and grateful to sit with this board this district administration and this community welcoming and with open ears and open minds for the comments and the voices i want to say thank you to all who have shared their voices and whatever platform they've used via email phone calls social media the discussion is happening and we are listening i will be the first to say that the discussion as with all the prior

119issues discussions will help our district improve this board is an example of how discussions have truly affected change while we sitting here do not always agree not that you would ever see it here but we don't always agree and some discussions have gotten heated but we recognize that we are all here as volunteers for one common purpose and that is to make sovereignty sovereignty schools better and so as long as we all hold true to our common goal that the value of our discussions will be exceptional if we stay together on that one goal i look forward to continuing this discussion with our diversity committee as well as any other forum that we're going to have in the future i joined the board when i saw a missing geographic voice when i joined i noticed

120that the mount marian community of families was not present and they weren't being heard necessarily they just they did not have the voice at that time so while i'm proud to serve with board members who are here for every single student i can tell you without fail any issue we talk about all students needs not any one particular entity group geographic area we are here for all students and i recognize with that knowledge that there is still a visible gap in the presence from our community at this table so i feel that i have to look to places like our diversity committee and other committees or groups like that to help make us continue to improve so i want to thank everyone again for sharing their thoughts and their concerns and to know that whatever

121happens it's not going to take one meeting and it's not going to take one event things have happened and we have evolved and this district is continuing to move forward and if my experience shows anything and and i hope it really does and i hope we continue to go this way the continued work of our communities our district our administrators this board changes will happen so and i want to thank everybody and i i really appreciate all the voices that we keep hearing and that's it for me mr mooney um you know i i agree with miss barringer and i'll leave it um you know there i think the community will you know come together hopefully just a couple quick notes um a little over two weeks ago i had the honor of attending the

122national honor society induction it was very cold and very windy um but it was an awesome display of the dedication to academics and community on on the part of our students and their families so i just wanted to congratulate everybody it was inducted you know it was divided up so you couldn't we didn't see the first half of the alphabet we were just there for the second half but um congratulations and you know keep up the good work especially during you know times like like like now where everything's kind of in flux so um i just wanted to mention that and i also just wanted to remind people to please remember to go out and vote um a lot of people fought very hard for that right please exercise it and um that's all i

123have any other board members i can't really see out into cyberspace so if any of our board members out there want to speak uh just feel free to speak up but okay then i will move into uh board president remarks um well i appreciate your comments ms barringer i have a a slightly different take it's been a long couple of days um i've been inundated with texts emails uh social media and um you know in the midst of doing all the things that you do when going to work and trying to lead your life i got home from work with about 40 minutes before i had to go to the board meeting and i hit the answering machine and there was a request from a freeman reporter so i thought i could talk to this

124reporter or i could have dinner and the chicken rice was excellent but i couldn't um i just couldn't deal with talking with the rapport at that moment um you know all this dialogue revolves around an incident which we fully don't uh no one get briefed on an exact session but it was about a teacher giving an assignment and a student being uncomfortable with that and from mr reinhardt's letter i understand that they had some dialogue about that which is a which is a good thing there's a story in the bible um of a woman who was caught out there doing something she wasn't supposed to do in a group of men holding stones getting ready to stone her to death go figure times haven't changed too much but well somebody came along and said let

125he who's without sin cast the first stone and all those other people put their stones down and i i from what i saw in my inbox and what i saw on social media there were a lot of people anxious to cast stones at an educator our teachers are tremendously dedicated they go to the normal you know grammar school high school then they go on to college well that's not enough so they get a master's degree and many of them as we heard tonight are still students and learning and advancing if you look at what a school district is it's really a community of learners we have our students who we are tasked with getting them to learn so they can achieve their full potential so they can graduate so they can go out in the

126world and become productive citizens in order to do that our administration our teachers have to be learners there are professional development days for teachers to learn there's teachers that are going back to school to learn because why they want to maximize our students ability to reach their full potential unfortunately one of the ways that you learn the only way you really learn is by making mistakes and i think in this district we have to allow our students and we have to allow our staff the freedom to make mistakes because that's how you learn you don't learn by getting a pat on the back saying good job you don't learn by getting a participation trophy um you know i watched the first baseball game with uh mr whitaker and those guys got beat pretty bad but

127i bet after they got beat their coach met with them to go over how they could do better how could they learn from that experience we do that sports we do that in the classroom every day and we have to allow our staff to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes why is that important well for two reasons one if we don't allow our staff to make mistakes and we just simply hurl stones at them we move to get rid of them to do whatever uh what are we teaching our children about how to resolve conflict or what are we teaching our children about our students about the learning process are we teaching them that we don't value the opportunity to take a mistake and turn it into a learning opportunity that making a mistake

128is rejection well if we do that our students are going to shrink from the learning process and that's not acceptable in this district um with that i'm you know i'm being a little long-winded but i i feel strongly that we have to look at opportunities to resolve conflict to teach tolerance to teach the freedom of making mistakes i thought mr reinhart's letter beautifully described the situation in my other capacity i'm a representative for the school administrators association on their government relations committee we met last week in a virtual meeting with education commissioner rosa and i don't know if you uh know but the timeliness the board of regents is working on adopting a policy on diversity i sent out to the board members a framework of diversity that's a draft from the board of regents

129and they're hoping to finalize this and make this into policy in may in that document they talk about things that's suggestions for school districts they talk about governance establishing a district diversity equity and inclusion committee representative of all stakeholders including students welsage has been doing that for a number of years now so one of the things i see in my dialogue with the commissioner and with sandy's is that we're an exemplary district in promoting diversity and inclusion they talk about teaching and learning school districts should have addressed the need for inclusive and culturally responsive teaching and learning including but not limited to curriculum and content areas books and instructional materials pedagogical practices and professional development classroom grouping policies and practices student support systems full and equitable opportunities to learn for all students and multiple assessment

130measures we're doing that uh when mr reed talked about the book study for stamped at the high school in middle school we're doing those things we are ahead of the curve so um you know while i while i welcome the public's ability to comment it's unfortunate that we couldn't read some of those comments because they were personal attacks on individuals be they students or staff members um we're better than that we're truly better than that i'm proud also to be on the board i value the participation of all the board members um you know it was amazing to see that uh when we put our petitions in um there wasn't a lot of outcry of other people you know coming out for the board and that could represent one of two things either one um

131everybody's satisfied with the job of the board of ed or two nobody wants that and wants to touch it with a 10-foot pole and you know i don't know if we'll ever get an answer for that i guess you know we'll see by maybe the number of voters that come out and vote for the budget um versus the number of voters that vote for the board of ed but again i just felt called that i had to make some sort of statement today and i hope that it makes sense so i will leave it at that um we've been meeting for about two hours now do we need to take a short break for anyone or do we want to push through into the end of the meeting and i'll take that at the pleasure

132of the board all right we'll keep going then uh sociology is course implementation i'll entertain a motion for that unless uh do you want to add anything to what that course is it's a new course and it will be taught by denise ortley who was a has a minor in sociology in her college degree i asked her how she would teach this and then have you know plus her other uh and she said that this next year they'll be having two courses of ap government instead of one so a lot of the students will go there so she'll be able to teach a sociology course i'm really happy that we're adding a new course to our to our uh schedules it's exciting great please so i'll entertain a motion to approve the course so moved

133by mr muniz or second second by mr mcclary discussion none being heard i'll call for a vote also ferry say aye aye standard space report card you're gonna give us a presentation on that or a really presentation i sent you the um i sent you this by email and i'm sorry i didn't know how many would be here so i've gotten together with the teachers to talk about a standard based report card and today i'm not sure i have enough for you sherry but i'll come back to you if i did okay all right so this is very exciting i have to tell you i've never seen such jubilation from the teachers as i have when i talk about having a standard facebook this is a draft guide that i put together i don't want

134to go forward with this unless i have more google if i get bored of people then i will do more than the drafts and i'll also go to parents to make sure that they're included so are you asking for the board to approve a resolution to develop this report card i think i want the board to say yeah we agree with this concept okay so you want to approve them okay so i'll entertain a motion um motion by mr mooney is her second second by ms cage discussion um so if i recall correctly kingston city school districts tried a step at least um i want to say 15 years ago it's been a while yeah but it yeah it did not go well you know why because parents want a's and b they want to

135know their student has a straight day you know what i mean this is this is just for first grade and second grade and the if did you look at the um the actual report instead of the student just getting an a in reading or a in math now it's broken down by standard so the parents are going to be able to see oh my students really good at some foundational skills what comprehension they need to work on so it breaks it down also like one of the teachers said to me it really breaks my heart to give a first grader an f i mean talk about talk about deeply deflating you before you even start you're in first grade getting an f but if they got a one it would mean um it would mean

136they're emerging so as we talk about growth the growth mindset and we talk about students not being failures this is perfect plus it breaks it down for them so yes there may be parents that still want a's first and second grade but also just to clarify the current elementary uh report cards and unless things have changed because i haven't been there in a bit um it's ex it's exceeds expectations meets expectations now that's just those are for learning habits that's just yeah there's a's and b's okay it just says reading bam yeah you know and that doesn't really tell very much or the student in uh especially first and second grade where we need these foundations and i have to say uh we did so much research on standard-based report cards and many districts in

137the state are using them but not that's not why we're doing it but it aligns with our new programs it aligns with iready and i think it's just going to be so much more advantageous for the parents starting in third grade they're still going to have their 80s and their bees and we're also looking to develop rubrics over the summer so if a parent says how did my student get to you will have the answer so um i know i i like this a lot when my daughter was in elementary school she struggled with math and like you said that grade didn't really help but with this i could see where you break it down so a parent has an idea and you could probably also offer a parent okay here's some remedial activities that

138you could do for each of these things four cards to start but maybe a guidebook for where a parent can then you know because parents want to help in first and second grade who just want to see their child succeed so we can give them some tools to you know combine with what uh going on in the classroom so that's great [Laughter] uh reads like an iep goals a lot of this and um the stat plus and the grand rounds would this this information would obviously be cataloged to um sure i mean i mean if we can pinpoint where the academic weaknesses are we we're one step ahead as far as you know where they they need to be more proficient uh so i will present this to parents to make sure they're okay so

139krista we'll make sure we get that job and then we'll work on it i mean it'll look like this but i mean some of the definitions and stuff from other districts and then in the back standards for parents so it should be a very comprehensive guide on the website thank you any other discussion none being heard i'll call for a vlogless in favor say aye um item k personnel on contain motion for k one two three i think that's all we have mr mooney second by mr wells any discussion and being heard i'll call for those in favor say aye aye aye aye aye personnel not instructional i'll entertain a motion for items l one two three someone moved by mr wells is there a second second second by mr mooney discussion none being heard

140i'll call for a vote also say aye aye aye aye business reckon office recommendations i'll approve uh entertainment emotional items m12 3 4 5 six seven eight and nine [Applause] move first second let's gauge uh discussion i know christie had some discussion just a real quick on the budget transfers resolution and this is probably a question for um there were a number of what appear to be very regular kind of um activity get salaries and and things that you wouldn't see a lot of movement in but we were putting money into those accounts so i was wondering was there anything unique that happened this year earlier this month so we're still working on getting everything separated down to the building level okay so a lot of the movement was just to get it to the

141appropriate building okay to cover what was going on so some of the categories for like substitutes yeah i don't know how much it's going to be spent in each building so some of it i left at like a district wide code and then now that we have expenditures in there i kind of projected out what i thought for the rest of the year [Music] so then going forward i'll have good information to you know project next year to what i think would be appropriate for each other in those categories we need those in the past i didn't really have anything to go on so any other discussion done being heard i'll call for a vote also say aye hi board action discussion items i will entertain a motion for item n one two three four

142five six and seven very commotion posted by mr mccleary is for a second a second affected by mr wells any discussion i'm sorry item five while i 100 support this activity i just wanted to just put on the board's table just in case um we've had individuals pass amazing people and what has happened is their memorial and i'm thinking of i think there's a tree at mount marion i think there's a bench here at the high school um they had to be raised the funds had to be raised out they weren't funded by the school district so i just my concern was that if we do this the precedent that we're setting because we've not done that in the past for amazing people who have passed there's a there's a difference uh differentiation in this

143in that there's a difference between approving a plaque from the board and approving a memorial this resolution is not to approve a memorial it's just simply a plaque right it was going to be a memorial within the no i mean at that they had to raise the money for the plaque for the tree for the the bench they had to like no district money was spent on those individuals that have left us too soon so my concern and this is nothing please know this is amazing and i don't want this to do anything about whether he deserves or doesn't deserve because i'm right there my concern is just moving forward have we started something that we might not have wanted to start and i just that's just the only discussion this is nothing about the

144individual that we're looking at any other discussion comments mr mclaren i mean i think um again i i don't disagree with chris there's been many people that have also contributed i just know some of the experience that i've seen and heard i mean you know mr slate really did start the lacrosse program here which um again i just know so many kids that have benefited from it and um i i almost hate to see a a price tag on it um as a limit for all he's done um again nothing against anybody else that maybe has raised the funds on their own i just think that um you know there's some times that i i have no problem i just hate to see a limit on it as far as like just giving him recognition

145for for what he's done for the district would it be safe to say that this isn't precedent setting in the sense that it's a one-time event where the opportunity presented itself to to purchase this plaque as opposed to a group coming forward and asking to do it i think if if this president it's maybe that um we're saying we're approving a plaque we're not approving uh you know a large expenditure like if we said we're going to create um redo the whole football stadium in honor of a particular individual for a cost of like you know 875 000 and put it into the capital project you know that would be physically fiscally responsible but um you know in this community again i i think in the past i'm not sure we did enough to recognize

146the contributions of people that made a difference and it's not it's not so much about the plaque as i think as as the memory of the individuals and i don't know we can stop that community sentiment and i don't know if i want to stop that so yeah i understand your concern krista um and i think we have to you know be fiscal watchdogs as these types of things come up but i'm not sure that um this one you know is going to establish a tremendous precedent that we have to be wary of and again there's other ways to recognize individuals also you know like uh remember jaden came to us as uh before he was a board member and uh eulogized his coach and the contributions he made so you know those things i

147think are healthy and it shows that you know we value our people even when they've passed any other discussion none being heard i'll call for a vote to approve those items almost in favor say aye aye aye audit committee do we have a report jane do you want to um we had a meeting do you want to talk about it jane yeah we um and then we reviewed the audit charter and we also had um a presentation from the hero our uh managing partner from our bonadio group our new cpa firm so we just went over um you know what they're going to be looking for in the audit how they operate and he also discussed on the changes i think that's that right yeah that sounds good all right thank you uh facilities mr

148mooney um basically the presentation kind of covered everything um we did vote on the capital outlay project at ricardi for the doors which came in under budget so we're very happy about that thank you for your support on that and our next meeting is june 2nd at 4 30. thank you uh policy committee dr haas yeah we had a good meeting today um we have a couple of policies that are going that are out of their attorney right now um we didn't have any changes to public access to records through foiable requests and how that all works registration and professional learning we had a good discussion about that about sort of how do topics come to professional learning and what is the role of [Music] policy demonstrating the values of the district um and that

149that comes from a variety of things [Music] uh and then as uh kristen mentioned the grading policy and so really the grading we're not going to have a stand-alone grading policy it was really recommended by our policy folks that you don't have a stand-alone grading policy because that would be always to be held in the faculty handbook but our policy can to provide guidance on what we will have in the faculty vehicle around so there's some consistency and alignment across courses and grades and then also um from brought up today to really also reflect that grading should be feedback to students right particularly older students to help them understand what they're doing and what support they need to be able to manage their learning better that it's not just a summit this is what you've

150got so i think to have a policy that includes that um will be good so we're still working on that any input um school volunteers i think we're going to be sending a slightly edited uh policy off to our attorneys that there will be a tiered approach to volunteers um and that there will be some applications and internal documents that really help keep us safe keep our students safe but then also really allow volunteers to come and engage with school so that is not sort of a opaque process nor an unsafe process and then our wellness policy i'm meeting with uh lee molyneux next week i think to sort of hash out that right now it's required by law that we have a policy about physical education and nutrition and that's been termed the wellness

151policy we are considering including without going into the whole mental health element that needs to be that's included in a bunch of other places to really address this issue of wellness and well-being how we're helping students manage their own well-being and helping staff manage their own well-being um because it's beyond just sort of being physically active those two things if we all did that we would be in a much better place so um yeah so did i believe it again thank you uh public recognition mr sig uh there are no additional comments but i just would like to reiterate that there were a number of comments this evening about personnel matters which you cannot return not at liberty to discuss during public session all formal complaints will be made to superintend our schools mr reinhardt

152and in addition to all comments and uh would be possible for the board to get uh copies of those comments absolutely thank you uh i will entertain a motion to recess into exact session so moved moved by mr wells is there a second second by mr mooney any discussion none being heard i'll call for a vote say aye aye will be coming out of executive session to adjourn the meeting but we don't anticipate on voting any other items so thank you for your attendance today thanks so i will entertain a motion to come out of executive session move by mrs cage user second second second by mr mooney any discussion i'm being heard i'll call for a vote always in favor say aye aye aye hi i'll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting someone

153moved by mr wells is your second mr mcclary any discussion none of being here i'll call for a vote fair say aye aye i think we've gone from the shortest board of ed meeting to