001e e e all right I welcome everybody I'm philan president of the Board of Education whenever please stand the pledge FL flages America theice announcement event of emergency be aware of your rear exits and exits to your left to your right uh we've got a great U board meeting uh scheduled for this evening but before we start i' just like to thank I've been away for the last three board meetings I was recovering from some surgery and I just really like to acknowledge um Mr Austin my vice president for really stepping up to the plate and uh filling in for a lot of the day-to-day operations when I wasn't able to handle it um thank you Paul really uh you know let the charge there and I really appreciate helping you get board as well
002thank you that okay um we going start right now with our um pride of presentations we're going to start with the [Music] sneak okay [Music] got make sure it stays away yeah but you see the difference one like this and that that's tell that because oh this is all right good we want to make sure that there's at least as many people in the audience uh as people on the stage get a little uncomfortable but we promised the students that this would be a smallest audience that they have production uh but while we just get ourselves ready uh my name is Michael hurwitz I'm the director of final Performing Arts uh it's a pleasure for us to present to you a very small preview uh of our spring production of Clue the musical um we've
003got an amazing team working with uh students this year two of them with us today our director leian and tonight just a short preview that doesn't give anything away we have four performances coming up March 20 21 and two on March 22nd uh we're very excited to invite uh senior citizens from the community uh they come for free uh uh and tonight's little preview uh of one of the songs from Clue the musical which is based on a board game uh we specially choreographed for tonight uh because hidden behind the black curtain is actually our Set uh which we didn't want to reveal yet uh to you so uh so the kids have been working really hard uh we're going to bring them out right now and please enjoy this little preview and we'll see
004you in a couple weeks [Applause] was it you or was it you it could be any of you show the tree colors are the love you for lost love you go to jail all my culture this I CH to Die the joy of immortality onp you both insir to killing you're two you're the per will me the bill to a killer neighbor excuse shoes Che might the perfect the DI the final all your sorry that you please your accusations and be sure the [Applause] is not on me your come see the show The Time Is Now the ticket box is open get them [Applause] now free [Applause] by the way every night has a different ending decided by you the audience so come all four shows and thank you so much for having us tonight
005really [Applause] okay next we have a student presentation for Life anti-choking device good evening everybody my name is Charlie rudo I am one of the assistant principles at is high school and I am honored to introduce to you one of our seniors Gavin Michael Williams who's going to present some information to you on lifeback and anti-choking device hi everybody so uh my name is Gavin as mentioned earlier I'll you that myself uh I'm a voler emergency medical technician here in Iceland and uh I come to do a presentation for you on something called the life back device now from my experience this device um is life compared to some other stuff that's been used previously um sorry this is like my first big presentation uh so I'll start with the uh introduction this is is
006an anti-choking device so the way it works is it takes your typical CPR Max and it attaches a suction device to it and now using this you can tilt the person's Airway back whether it's a child an adult it works and it has a 94 to 100% success rate and it has saved over 4,000 lives so far um it's been sewn form much better than the standard abdominal thrusts and this is the instruction so I'll talk a little if you want to look at that as well say easy as Place push and pull so once it is place on the uh person's face all you have to do is push down lightly and pull up this creates a sort of suction to help um remove the object whether there Su the tra the oring anything
007like that why the life act the life act has saved upwards of 3,143 lives mainly children some people are not capable of joing the high due to disabilities or height differences and if you are alone or Your Children Are Young can't oh you can use it on your side but the real reason I brought it to the school's attention is because I figured it would be a good idea if you put it into the school cafeteria so there's some situations where somebody might not be able to perform behind whether it's a student with a friend a teacher with another kid or another teacher anything like that and as I mentioned 94 to 100% success rate and have been approved by multiple um positions of all choking deaths in 2 41% were caused by food and
00859% by nonfood items joking is a leading cause of death in children and one child dies every day every 5 days from choking and taking from my experience speaking I also just had a pediatric choking over the weekend it's not as uncommon as most people might think and now with this time is of just a mere 4 minutes can lead to um brain death in a person well a mere 6 minutes this makes it possible upwards of 10 minutes and there is permanent brain death and the average emergency response time is upwards of 10 minutes and I can say um as I gone to your ENT um Co our coal volume has increased marginally working with other things such as overdoses and what not we've gone from 3, 500 calls to 4300 just in the
009past 2 years in the time by um some costs uh the one life fact home kit is approximately $69 95 so about $70 and it comes with an adult a pediatric mas and a practice masch with instructional cards and a suction device as well but what I want to bring you guys's attention to is the lifeb school it's approximately $240 and provides three pediatric masks and three adult masks along with devices and trainit that includes a practice kit and one section device of instructions giving you free range to practice with this device to learn how to use it to teach other staff members how to use it and um if there is an emergency it can be used uh funding costs can come from public fundraising through the PTA and requesting a free life official
010school email address sum uh the life back device you know as I said have a success rate of 9 100% And it's cting only about $240 for school practice package is not that big considering most cost for medical devices now and can you really put the price on somebody's especially in ch that's it thank you also that um gav came to um our nurses department meeting and presented to all of us we had some building Administration uh there as well U we were able to buy um Le back for each Health Department um John scario was also in my presentation and I have personally bought these for each one of um my you car car family cars my daughters all have one in their car and for their home I gave them a skip a
011break to give gifts because they save a life and if you should go on the web life Pack website if you haven't already done so or saw um there's many many commercials out for Life pack um and you will see what gav has said about um you know people have cameras in their kitchen or in their homes now and they have real life scenarios where they were choking victims who had to use it on themselves or family members um using it and it's been captured on video um so thank you very much I think you may have some questions I do I just had one question so once um youti the life fat anti-choking device on an individual can you sanitize it and then reuse it once it's already been used or after it's been
012used you have to purchase a uh from what I know I believe you can reuse it but I would also say it should really be situational because you know did they vomit on it you know what was on it cuz again it's going to be on someone's amount so maybe not but um you know as I said situational could possibly be reused okay thank you thank you for a great we did a wonderful [Music] job um um about 6 months up really you know also a lot of the times pediatric patients you have to uh see um you know are they larger or they smaller you know would the mass fit them or would an adult Mass fit better so about 6 months up of course anybody else have any questions thank you wonderful thank
013you thank you DAV thank you for that presentation you did a wonderful job and hopefully we never have to use it here but like you said you can't put a price on that and it save someone's life it's well worth it so thank you and I appreciate what you do for you volunteering and out there you work the exchange great thank you I appreciate it all right that's going to bring us to our budget presentation Mr Zed back to the end uh good evening and welcome to tonight's budget presentation on the 2025 26 uh budget uh this is the start of the public portion of the budget development process and we will continue the series of budget presentations over the next four board meetings um during this part of the process uh central office will
014present information to the Board of Education uh on the development of the budget and provide updates as needed based on the criteria selected for each of these meetings um we start tonight with a focus on state the revenue specifically state aid and the tax levy moving on to program services and expenditures at the next budget Workshop enrollment Trends ejected class sizes and Staffing and then hopefully by the end of uh the fourth one we'll have a budget ready for adoption by the Board of Education um but throughout the process we won't be focusing only on each of these topics there'll be other updates provided with uh information that is relevant to the the entire process not just focused on this limited uh areas a few things that the district remains mindful as we're going through
015the budget b process uh we will continue to maintain um districtwide focus on the instructural and support programs to the staff student needs Reserve student opportunities identify the needed financial and Staffing Resources to support those programs and services uh evaluating programs and expenses to make sure that they're being used in a cost effective way and also to maximize the reimbursements that we get in the form of state aid um cooporate some of the environmental impacts that we're dealing with and address both short and long-term uh challenges we actually started this process back in December as we distributed guidelines to budget supervisors there are 17 budget supervisors throughout the district Who oversee amongst them 38 different functional areas so it's a pretty board based uh process and a lot of involvement by everybody who is associated
016with uh managing a part of budget during January we collected all the information began to assemble uh budgetary requests um look at proposals for amending programs going forward and also changes in uh in Staffing we continue to assemble much of the budget um to date we've assemble this first draft of the the revenue budget which we're going to be going over in detail tonight um and this will take us through the adoption of the budget um in April and then the public hearing and ultimately the public vote on the budget there are a number of factors that are that the the district is currently dealing with um and expects them to be u in issues as we go through this year and next year inflationary pressures why things have moderated there still at high levels
017inflation tends to come down much slower than it goes up uh supply chain issues disruptions a lot of contractors and vendors don't have inventories and there's long lead times on on orders and are backordered uh borrowing costs uh have been a challenge for many of our contractors because they need to finance their inventories um but when we going through this process last year we were going through an environment where the Fed was raising rates fortunately the last three meetings they've lowered rates so uh things are under control both in terms of borrowing costs and inflationary pressures that's a good sign commodity prices particularly in the energy sector remain high will continue to be a challenge and the labor market is one of the more puzzling and perplexing ones that we're dealing with as a labor
018shortage exists and it's it's tough to identify and maintain staff and it's an ongoing challenge by by the district to fill positions and retain people um some of the challenges that we were dealing with on uh the financial side is Consumer Price Index consumers which is a measure of cost in the Northeast was at a monthly average rate for 2024 at 2.95% um lower than the prior years but still above where we're restricted on some of our Revenue increases particularly a tax cap which is set set at 2% a positive side though state aid has been fully funded that happened to us uh last year um and although we had some issues with a following current FL last year this year it is following current law and that is a benefit for us the co
019money the federal assistance um that officially ended on September 30th of 24 the district was a beneficiary of funds and we had a little left over as we ended the last fiscal year so it was used up uh and applied to all some expenses during the first quarter of this fiscal year health insurance was a pleasant surprise as premiums for family plans only increase .2% and for individual plans 2.3% some of the lowest increases that we've seen in in many years so surprise retirement contributions TRS for this the upcoming years estimated at 99.59% which is lower than 10.11 which is the contribution rate for this year so slight decrease but on the ERS side a modest increase it ISR 15.2 so it's going up about a percentage point for uh the upcoming and all areas
020all districts businesses public and private are dealing with Rising course and insurance for through many fronts uh school districts specifically with uh New York State legislation and again very specifically the child victims acts although um many districts have had a lot of large settlements the exposures and the higher interest rate premiums are spread amongst those subscribers for insurance companies cost of repairs we've had a lot of weather rated damages Etc and repairs are dealing with inflation and the costs are High um so we're estimating the those increases again around a 15% going into next year so our budget is on the revenue side is primarily um funded by two areas State a and the tax levy which is why the focus will be on these two two areas as we go through tonight and into
021subsequent budget presentations so those two areas account for 96% of the funding for our budget the remaining 4% is our local revenues and fund balance so usually comes down to this 4% which is um the important additional revenues that we look to identify and usually becomes the of whether we can keep certain programs or expand programs um as we go to the next year um back in January as typical the executive or the governor released the executive budget proposal and it was some very positive news we're not used to getting that from the governor in January usually the higher numbers we get when the legislators finalizes their budget in the end of March before the State's new fiscal year which begins on April 1st so the executive proposal was an increase of $1.7 billion 4.8%
022increase much higher than we expected Foundation alone uh foundation made alone would have 1.5 billion which is very welcome and that's largely attrib to two areas one that every district is starting with a 2% minimum last year this was a bit of an issue because the whole harmless provision was removed from the governor's proposal ultimately put back in but the initial proposal did not have it in also last year the governor included in the budget and in the final budget that the Rockefeller Foundation be hired to perform a study on Foundation Aid uh examine it its impact and support the school districts how school districts operate and then make some recommendations now those recommendations came out at the end of the last calendar year and while they're not Bing um some of them were not
023noteworthy and the governor's proposal is incorporated two of those recommendations in the current draft of the budget uh specifically replacing the 2000 census poverty data with something called the small area income and poverty estimates um don't wor they for two reasons one 2000 is correct it's 25 years old so it's extremely old data that's being used to deter going to school districts and secondly the safe as it's referred to is a much broader category of poverty measure and includes many more students than what the census poverty that includes both student counts for public and private schools not just Public Schools like the S the second recommendation that was included was to remove the free and reduced and replace it with the economically disadvantaged count again the economically disadvantaged student count is much broader and includes
024many more areas of poverty measures than the freom reduced and it also includes students from K to 6 where the free and reduced price lunch count is only K through six sorry K to 12 for economically disadvantaged and K to six for uced so that has been largely responsible as a formul generating the the significant increase in Foundation Aid um and on the expense best Aid which is the other category of AIDS there was no formula changes proposed $10 billion increase for next year at 2.2% so attaches as a summary of the Statewide budget for Educational Funding and if you go right down to the uh the total on the the middle section the 2526 you see the 36.6 million 10 1.7 billion increase for 4.8% um broke it down again similar but just looking
025at Foundation Aid and accumulating all the expense driven AIDS uh and then one thing that's no worthy upk funding is included in this but accounted for differently uh by school districts in the special Aid fund not in general fund operator budg so a couple things that are noteworthy again why this big increase in state aid is that for most of the of the past fiscal year of the state there was a projection for a deficit as the controllers got into the last month of the fiscal year the projection is for a surplus about A7 billion Surplus and that's based on an increase in tax receips so the Surplus is being used to fund education Medicaid reserves good to see we get criticized if we put money into reserves but the state is doing it we
026W complain and also funding Reay checks that the state is planning on issuing out to New York State residents um gone is the manipulation of the foundation a formula that we saw last year where there was games being played with the inflation index making it a multi-year average formula rather than just a prior years um inflation index following current law and including rock rock Foundation recommendations um also on the non-financial side a lot of the increase uh in Aid is associated with the reversal of the budget approach by the governor due to low pollings what's on her mind is the re-election campaign for in 2026 and a lot of the press uh has been damaging to her and her numbers specifically regionalization um congested pricing although it's the city Governor's got Associated hand in it
027uh zero emission buses um and the approach that was taken last year to U the executive proposal again without the hold harmless and viation so we're benefiting from it so no complaints Statewide positives translate into benefits for the iso School District um right now our state aid run is for a 29.5 million doll in funding or $683,000 increase very favorable compared to last year where our state aid increase even after the legislative budget was only $32,000 very pleas with that um the foundation formula again working for us for all the reasons we've gone through is $88,000 increase in now but areas of concern is what's going on with some of our expense based AIDS particularly the excess cost AIDS and the B AIDS we see decreases in those um conru material I'll show you this
028highlight this on the the next page which is the the numbers for State Structural Materials pretty flat based on enrollment numbers and a dollar allocated to each student building a slight decrease as we're going to next year because we start to have projects come off from the 2001 Bond and the 2009 Bond um the 2001 Bond had some projects that were pay 20-year pay cycle most pay on 15 years like the 2009 mod but when you do building additions it's a 20-year Payback new buildings are a 25e payback so some of those projects that were filed around 2005 when they were ending uh 20 years this is to 25 and they're starting to come off upk funds allocated special Aid fund and the excess cost AES we get into that in the next page here
029oh so summary of uh of a ra run and 29.5 million dollar 6.83% increase but if you go right into the middle or up in the top you see some of the B categories we're having decreases in high cost excess cost AIDS um and Bowes so here's here's what's behind those that I want to to share everything with state aid is is Formula based and incorporated into almost all formulas is a measure of wealth and the state's rationale for that is we'll use these factors to determine what you can afford without state aid and then we we'll pay what we figure to be the balance so the big factor that's used in everything is referred to as the combined wealth ratio which is the first Power and it's combined because it's 50% based on the
030adjustable gross income from a community um because you report your school district number on your tax returns each year and the other half is bed on property values within the community so then what your number is is compared to the state average State average being one during this past several years combined wealth ratios and other wealth measures have been impacted in the suburbs by the migration out of New York City it's lowered the property values it's a lowered the just justed grow income as people Val where are they moving to the suburbs suff Nassau Westchester and pu counties so property values are going up people from the city who make good money are increasing the injustic growth well injustic growth income in these suburbs so New York City is looking poorer and the suburbs are
031looking more wealthy and that's why if you leave look at the First Column read from the bottom up we were at .93 below the state average to in 4 years we're now viewed as more wealthy than the state average and that has a negative impact on state aid um excess cost AIDS there are two types of excess cost AIDS it depends on the the placement of the student in a public setting or a private setting so the aid formulas so after every child is then what's referred to is a stack process where special ed office submits information to on the students and their cost to generate a reimbursement of of Aid in the public threshold is designated assigned by the state so that means this year the first $74,000 of the expense are the districts
032to cover anything above $74,000 the state delay would only have 48% of that difference four years ago we were able to get reimbursement based on anything over $62,000 and 52% of that so we're getting less back on the cost that we incur for educating these students because of wealth measures very similar with the private contributions the initial contribution uh or or reimbursement based on anything in excess of the private contribution and then Aid it at the private excess cost ratio so it cost about $24,000 the difference deated at 85% whereas 4 years ago that that thresholder contribution was 23,000 take you further Transportation Aid incorporates combined wealth ratio we were getting 62% back four years ago now we're getting 56% back Transportation mostly similar it's gone down a little bit building gate has remained the
033same that's only impacted whether you're adding projects or projects are coming up pain so this is the kind why our expense based AIDS in many cases are showing a decrease year over-year um can you just explain to the community for context when on theart states that the combined wealth ratio is a 1.005 what is that defined as so it when the state is evaluating our district is that is that defined as high wealth District low wealth medil can you just provide the community with that number a 1.0 is refer is the state average and that would be right in the middle so anything slightly above it is wealthier than the state average you could have high wealth districts at 1.5 1.75 so it's it's moderate but the trend is the disturbing part not the actual
034number yes and it doesn't mean that this isn't going to continue as we get into 26 27 27 28 and it also explains why we're getting some less a the expense BAS thank you um for tax levy and we have a formula it's based on many many components every year it's recalculated submitted to the controller for verification and it defines the allowable tax levy increase doesn't mean that that has to be the tax levy increase for a community it means that that is the levy that the district can go out with that only requires majority if the district is entitled to lower I mean coming with a tax Lev increase that's lower or the tax levy increase that's higher if it's higher it needs a super majority which means 60% or more and the formula
035and this is the specific calculation for this this year so the formula Remains the Same but the inputs are are different I'm going to take it right down to the bottom the allowable increase based on the calculations is for 2.42% increase for a levy of 68,500 sorry 68,5 73,000 why is this not at 2% why it's a little bit more it has to do with the input specifically for the capital exclusions which is the n difference between your debt service or your bonded debt for capital projects and the building Aid that you're getting back so in the formula two areas it's recalculated for last year and it's calculated for the upcoming year the Deb service Remains the Same but we're having this decrease in in building Aid so um projects are coming off there's a
036decrease in building Aid which increases the the exclusion and allows for the lever to be above 2% so the year-over-year increase allowable for 25 26 is 1 61.6 million percent incase uh and then other areas of revenues this is the 4% that I was talking about right now we've calculated charges for the services in use of money of $1.1 million uh fund balance they're able to appropriate right now based on projections 1.2 million Pilots which is name in a mo of taxes these are monies or associated with properties taken off the tax roll u based on um Ida combinations but who are reimbursed in a different way at a discounted rate and then some federal assistance for Medicaid reimbursements so what's the area of concern here right now is the 1.2 million appropriated fund balance
037this is down significantly from what we actually applied last year which was $2.2 Million so a million um less at this point the something will'll evaluate throughout the process to see if there's money available but right now it's very tight 2.2 million last year was more than we normally appropriate it had been 1.5 the year before um and much of that 2.2 million came from uh onetime revenues not from the usual source which is available expenditure monies from the budget unspent balances so where does that bring us to as our initial draft of the uh of the revenue budget $29 million from State a 68 million from the tax levy and 2.7 from our local revenues of 100, 895,000 um this is only an $889,000 increase over the revenue budget supporting this year or .8%
038uh state aid typically goes up when we get the legislative budget but because it was generous from the state this year the expectations are low that any more money will come to us and the feeling at this time from Al is that if there is any money more any more money available it'll go to the city because that they've been losing out of resources the levy were locked in based on a calculation and the local revenues which is the only R real area that's subject to uh to change based on fund balance projections I did want since we're talking about fund balance the importance I just wanted to go into another area and take the opportunity to review exactly what fund balance is and how it comes into play so there are really three different
039types of fund balance there's the restricted reserves and those are created to adjust specific um liabilities of the district the district is self-insured for workers compensation um we have third party administrator who evalues evaluates all of our claims um that we have on file from our employees that are pending a settlement or generating expenses um fors contributions to address uh injury related expenses but we're 90% covered small increase from fiscal 23 to fiscal 24 because the district used $26,000 from that Reserve last year to support our yearend financial results um retirement contributions um for the ERS system got these were allowable by the controller for districts to establish and while there's no definitive number that a district must follow the guidance from the controller is that it should reasonably be be at a level that
040accomodates 2 to 3 years of your ERS annual bill so we're at the lower end but within that range TRS which was created by Allowed by the controller more recently um gets us to about 6% I mean U 2/3 of a year acred liabilities that bargaining units by contract are allowed to accumulate time sick time vacation time Etc um they cash it out upon retirement this liability or this Reserve allows us for to accumulate funds to offset that liability one people it's not in the annual operating rate uh budget but a c in years to come so we're 95% funded there which is is a very good number um we have a capital reserve um that's got some money in it but it's sitting there there's going to be a proposition in front of the
041board we need to extract that money use it because there's no more money going to go in to fund that going forward um and the same with the repair Reser of last year withw funds the additional $112,000 was some ACR interest that was uh available accumulated for that fund based on the balance uh we're working with our accountants how do we can get that out and use it to to offset some legit expenses the second time that we have in a bro a category called unreserve is the appropriated fund balance and this is the money that we use to support the upcoming budget um by looking at what accumulated fund vals we have unexpected revenues and un unspent expenses that allows us to determine appropriate and inappropriate front BS the appropriated is applied in the
042district last year 80% of that 2.2 million came from R um and it remain 20% from expend unappropriate is what the district in cap as off set any any unexpected expenses or Revenue shortfalls in the upcoming year by law we're C at a 4% retainage for that um last year was one of our lower levels we winded up at 3.74 and we Ed the $260,000 transfer from the uh workers comp Reserve to bring that up from a 3.4 KN to a 3.74 which is a minimally acceptable level um committed is at year end we have um obligations to vendors who haven't fully provided a service or we have a pending delivery so those are encumbrances that transfer uh and carry over from year to year so in total our fund balance from year year in
04323 and year in 24 went up marginally big reason for that is last year in there was no now it's available to transfer and support reserves every year end we typically have money where we can increase our reserves workers C people are and go through time of contribution and we also use more money for the appropriated fund balance than we typically have so um I bring this up just to make everybody aware exactly what it is and something that we're probably going to have to look at as we go forward in the process um depending on if we have any issues with the revenues going forward and as we compare it to What expenses we're projecting for next year but this is part of the whole process and and the evaluation and the updates will
044go on during the the course of these three remaining budget workshops um going forward the next Workshop will be F uh focused on the expenditure budget provide some information on where we are with with cost related to Staffing benefits Services Program initiatives what may be new what we're looking to maintain um and what are the purchases in terms of supplies that we need to support all those areas um compare that first draft of the expenditure budget with our Revenue projections could be updated from where they are now in the next two and a half weeks and then determine what kind of budget Gap that we have and what we have to to do to close it uh we view revenues increased opportunities and hopefully we do get some good on increased state aid in form
045of the legislative budget and we'd also be looking at what grants that we do have available tile grants ibaa grants where we can shift costs from the expenditure budget which is the general fund to the special Aid fund where we account for Grants and that would help reduce those costs as well as reduce that budget G any questions from the Board of Education slide with the um the one that Matt had asked about the wealth measures what that the wealth measures I believe so yes the public threshold category could you just tell me what that's a percent of like is it out of every $100,000 no each individual stack which is what's submitted um which provides the the stack unit in New York state of our expense per child okay so the state determines that
046and so essentially that says okay so don't you can provide the stack but we're not going to give you any any money if it's below $774,000 okay and then if it's over let's just round these numbers off say the threshold was $75,000 and we submitted expenses associated with a child at 80,000 that means we could be reimbursed on 5,000 the difference and then put at 48% of that so we're going to get $2 $2500 back on an $80,000 expense and that's going down which is why the excess cost dat is going down bye thank you so much any questions from the community well thank you for the opportunity tonight to provide the update uh we will be back here at the beginning of the next uh board meeting by uh another workshop at the at
047March 26th great thank you [Applause] Mr before we start like to good evening everyone tonight we'd like to recognize the incredible contributions of our former active superintendent Dr Kate balahan stepping into this role during a critical Time Dr balahan LED with professionalism clear communication and unwavering dedication B baning two demanding roles I'm going to call her Wonder Woman for that she ensured stability and progress across our schools while quickly earning the respect of staff students and the entire ielp Community her leadership was marked with collaboration confidence and a steady commitment to Excellence Dr o Callahan your work this year has set a strong example of what effective leadership looks like and we are deeply grateful for everything you've done on behalf of the district and Community thank you for your service and Leadership during this
048important year thank you [Applause] okay all right uh next under presentations it's just our is Multicultural family night that was last weekend myself Mr Bost Mr was there drar administrators and teachers um those that were able to attend it was a it was a great night the auditor was full um it was a wonderful to see all the performances represented from all the different cultures and uh if you can make it again next year make it it was it was a great night all right that's all we have under our PRI presentations we're now going to move on to questions on our agenda items are there any questions from the board on any of the items that we'll be voting on any questions from the public on the items that we be voting on this
049evening okay with that then I'd like to get a motion for consent items 5 a through 5K can I get a motion sove that was Mr C and the second was FL us I'll make it Mr Flor all those in favor I oppos abstain and they will all carry uh Mr Brown would you go with the person El SCH please sure Mr this evening on the A1 we have appointments of a permanent substitute at the high school as well as Sherwood Elementary on the A2 we have um some retirements from some of our teachers here on the district a World Language teacher here in the high school an elementary teacher in comac Road and um a deferred um retirement for one of our physical education teachers in the Middle School on the A4 we had
050a coaching assignments uh for volunteers for our for city girls golf as well as our um boys and girls trap or school and the high school on A5 we have appointments for our theater and uh choreographer in the middle school as well as our drama club in the middle school and uh theater technology at the middle school on the E we have appointments for six period assignment for a resource room as well as some High School Musical chaperons on the B1 we have appointments for a school teachery and a school monitor as well as a substitute security guard on the B2 we have a resignation of a special education Aid um and in wi and a special education Aid at the high school as well as a custodial worker at our wing Elementary School on
051the B3 we have have a request for a leave of absence for school teachery and on the B13 we have additional duties to assist with after school activities that's it from me Mr thank you Mr brow okay that's going to bring us next to our public questions I do have one public C card uh Mrs M sorry to Wasing okay all right um so there are no other public comments so we're going to move on to our reports and correspondence uh today was Wayne B reading anyone want to speak to that I know if you to it well I had the pleasure of reading to three uh three classes one3 K first grade and uh kindergarten 75 kids so they they had the pleasure to be talking to them about five EV read to answer
052questions it's pretty good thank you great thank you Mr Leo okay um that's all we have on the reports and correspondence uh next will be updates on non-resolution topics um we have two board members whose terms will be expiring on June 30th uh that will be um Mrs flora and Mr clarine uh board packets are available um uh this evening as well um this car has them um just want to speak a little bit about it there's both candidates will be in each packet we only be selecting to run for one um candidate that's in that package oh sorry uh yes I have the candidate packets here this evening so if anyone is interested in running I you can see me after the meeting there's a little form you just fill out and I can
053go over the full packet but as Mr de said there are petitions for both seats we do run by seat not at large in iseland so you have to pick which seat you're running for you can only submit one petition either for Mr CL seat or Miss FL SE thank you great thank you Mrs car okay uh yeah thank you Mr Denine um I would just like to announce and let the community know that I made the very difficult decision not to seek re-election for a fourth term um it has been an honor uh and a privilege to serve this community through the past 9 years a community where I was raised went to school and a lot of my family still lives here um but I do feel like it's time for to move
054on to some new Endeavors and I cannot wait to see some new energy for this role brought brought here to this district and uh to this board and I wish all those running uh the best of luck thank [Applause] you back FL it's been a pleasure working with you it's been both a pleasure and the pain it's all pleasure it's all pleasure it's that yeah Tom turn the mic off but thank you again for your Serv dedicated service to the community um okay that's all we have under um non-resolution topics dates to remember our next Board of Ed meeting will be on March 26 executive session starting at 5:30 p.m. uh with 700 p.m. public here in the high school and that with part two of our budget presentation uh please make an effort to
055attend and uh that bring us to uh closing of the meeting can I get a motion to close Mr Leo can I get a second second that's Mr Austin all those in favor thank you everyone for attending stay safe and we'll see you at the next Bo G e