001To all rise and pledge, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> And if everyone could just remain standing for one second, as everyone I'm sure not today is the 24th anniversary of 911. If we could just do one, you know, little moment of silence for all those who were affected by that 24 years ago. Thank you. Thank you very much everyone. Welcome to the first meeting of the academic year. Thank you all those attending in person and those you tubing in. Um just a few quick items before we get to the official agenda. Uh need some reminders. Um looking at the calendar, you will now see that we have two meetings
002per month. We used to have one meeting and one work session. We have simply changed the name and to some extent what we do during those meetings. Um just so people know when they'd like to come. Typically we will address student and PTA updates, prior meeting minutes, and most board schedules at our second meeting every month. The first will be moreformational and focus on projects and presentations. But there could be important bit important business and decisions in either meeting. So, I encourage you to review the agenda when it is released, typically the Friday before a meeting. Um, this Monday, the the 15th, is districtwide welcome and school information night in the big auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Is there someone who would like to take two seconds describe what people can look forward to? Sure. We
003have an opportunity for new parents who are in our district to come and hear me speak and Mr. Nightwell and everyone else uh to learn about our district, what the opportunities are. There is a club fair prior to the or an activity fair I should say prior to the the speeches. Then they will break off and go into the certain classrooms and hear from the principles where their children go to school. So it's a great opportunity as a new parent to get to learn all of the things about Jericho school. Thank you very much. We want to remind everyone that next weekend, not this weekend, next weekend is Jericho homecoming. There are events on Friday from 2 to 8. Saturday from 11 to 5:00. There'll be the traditional homecoming carnival, numerous sports games, including football,
004soccer, tennis, bad mitten, and the annual Joe Farrell Memorial Swim meet at 10:30 on Saturday morning. Of course, there'll be plenty of food and merchandise for sale. We hope everyone in our community, including all these eager new teachers, will join us at some point. Come out and support our district's athletes, get some delicious food, some creative swag, and have an incredible time. Last reminder, Tuesday, September 23rd and Wednesday, September 24th, we shall be closed. Do not send your children here. Do not have them waiting out by the bus stop. Teachers, stay home. Enjoy your day off. With that, I turn it over to our superintendent, Dr. Kravitz. Well, we'd like to recognize our new teachers. Congratulations. And as I call your name, I'd like to recognize you. Ask you to stand up. And at the
005end, we'll give a big round of applause. And I think we all have something in common. This is your first year and my first year. So we're all counting. I'm counting today. So it's 73 for me. So it's about 11 for all of you. So that's actually a little bit more than that. So this is great opportunity to welcome uh the new staff members into the Jericho family. So without further ado, if you're not here to know, Red Cornloo, Mike Lin, Maggie Rose Molo, stand up. Stand up. Jim Madonis, Janna Ostro, Maria Coutill, Stephanie Emmanuel, Ariana Ewald, Dana Jensen, Jesse Natali, Simrad Ramy, Alyssa Robbo, Gail Calabrada, Michael Kamiski, Denise Dfano, Angelica DS, Grace Leva, Liam Young Crutcher, Jen, Jenna Libertelli, Laura Simon, Britney Wheeler, Greg Bole, Olivar Bueno, Jacob Geyser, Anna Hicks, Bianca Marston,
006Lisa Kispe, Samantha Tortoello, James Wedi, Lewis Cooper, Andrew Fentner, Molly Newman, Nikki Q, James Restino, Antonia Almaya, Ava Kakuza, Elizabeth Foster, Joseph Seinfeld, Joseph Pania, Jeppa Lopeziano, Nicole Milanta, Victoria Tortilla, Nafisa, Yasim. Congratulations everybody. I might have went Ela Depo. Nope. It's the only one. Congratulations to everyone and welcome to the Jericho family. So, we were in our executive session. We missed the cake. Was it good? >> All right. Great. >> Was enough. Okay. So, you can sit down now. >> Oh, we do have one left. And Grace Keller. Sorry. [Applause] Okay. Well, we're going to hand it right back to you, sir, for for our superintendent report. Please educate and like us. Good evening everyone and thank you for all joining us tonight. I'd like to take a moment to again welcome everyone. As
007I read their names, just to let you know, after the superintendent report, you're welcome to leave. There's no hard feelings. Um, I recently attended my first back to school night in Jericho at the middle school and I would like to commend Mr. Gleason, Miss Batin and their staff for organizing such a wonderful evening. I look forward forward to all of the other back to school nights. Um, additionally, a big thank you to all of the staff, the administration for ensuring a smooth start to this year with very, very few incidents. So, I'm very happy for that. At this point, as I said, if you want to leave, you're fine. But I would like to hand over uh my report to Mr. Emanuel who will ser say share a few words and introduce tonight's speaker. So
008if you want to stay and learn about uh about zero mission buses so I will tell you get out while you can. >> Very excited. [Applause] >> Don't worry about gentleman in the white shirt a teacher. No, he's the presenter. >> Oh, sorry. No teacher. Okay, so um just to give you a little background on the just to give a little background on the presentation that's coming up. Uh about two years ago, the state passed a new law slregulations for uh all school districts across the state that they would be required to have zero emission buses beginning with the year 2027. Um any replacement bus that you're purchasing must be zero emission and by 2035 your entire fleet must be um zero emission. That includes your fleet and the contractor's uh fleet. Uh we briefly
009spoke um uh a couple of months ago about the contractor side of it. We're getting 10 electric buses uh in the spring of 2026. Um but what we did was because the state wants to know how the districts are progressing, we were able to uh get a grant through NAERTA which paid for 75% of the cost of this particular study. We hired uh we hired uh Wendle companies um to provide a study and you're going to see in a few moments how detailed it is. Uh I'd like to say that there are no recommendations at the end of this report. This is justformational for now. Uh we're still waiting and seeing if there's going to be any changes uh to the law over the next one to two years because as you as you will
010see there are uh pretty significant costs uh not only on on our end but the state's end uh and still a lot of uh outstanding questions. But with that said, we did go through the process of doing a report. We wanted to present it to the board and to the community. So I'm going to invite Andy Cena up uh to provide the uh presentation from Wendell. slide. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Adam. But for some reason, everyone says it as Andy or I appreciate the time. No problem. Um, >> it's Adam Adam. So, again, to Mr. Emanuel's point, um, we went forward and performed a study for Jericho School District on what it would look like if they transitioned to using electric school buses. Again, as he brought up, this study was funded 75% finance
011survey. So, a little bit about what we'll be talking about today is um who is Wendle? Um what the mandate is from New York State like you referenced, there's two key days, 2027 and 2035. the scope of work of the study, what we were hired to do, and a little bit of the finding, the details about the analysis, um, and the findings and essentially the impact on the site, the impact on the utility and the phasing and cost. So again, that's me. I have much longer hair. Um, but I'm Adam Palin. I'm an engineer training and I'm a product manager. Um so who is Webville? Webville is an architecture and engineering firm. Um we have four core practice areas. It's construction, architecture, engineering, design and energy efficiency. We are a company of about 300 plus
012but about 400 now. We have 16 offices nationwide and we do work in all the areas that are shaded gray. So we work in most of the states. Um, and obviously a strong focus in New York as you'll see on the next slide. Um, and our local offices in hot. So that's where I'll work on. So the zero mission bus mandate again as Mr. Manuel brought up the state is mandating that all new school bus purchases are zero emission. Um, zero emission really leaves two options. You have electric buses, you have hydrogen buses. type bus are not really commercially available. So you're you're really looking at electric buses uh to meet that mandate. And that's new school bus purchases by 2027 are to be zero emission. And the other main date is by 2035. They
013want the entire fleet, the contracted fleets and the owned and operated fleets by the school district to be zero and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority or NAERTA is passed by the state to provide the technical assistance to the school districts to navigate the transition to 100% electric school buses. So they are the authority who is helping to make this transition. and they're providing technical uh support and they are uh providing a lot of grant funding um to help support this transition. So what did we do? We broke it down basically we call it a fleet electrification plan, a battery electric bus transition plan. Um and it's really broken down into eight tasks. Um again we start with a kickoff meeting. We introduce the team. We go over the timeline. We go over
014the tasks in a bit more detail. and we let the school district know what we're going to know what we're going to need from there. Uh again, it it's uh try to be as hands-on on on asking for stuff from the school district, but the the biggest essential task two are we need data. We need all the route data. We need all the fleet data. We need site uh design drawings and an understanding of the existing transportation site that you use into task three. It's a route analysis. It goes over each of the routes. Is it feasible to use an electric bus? Can a battery, you know, take the uh meet the range requirements that you have to transport students to and from their houses, back to school, extracurriculars, etc. Then we go into test
015four, which is a charging strategy. It talks about not just an individual route, but the fleet as a whole. How much charge is going to be needed to charge the entirety of your electric bus fleet? And does PSCG have the power to provide that for you? Task five is about the utility. So we're working closely with the utility. We submit load letters. We submit site visit request forms which actually has the utility on site looking at the local electrical infrastructure and what it would take for them to upgrade it and the associated cost. Test six is about actually putting schematic plans together on your site about what those phases would look like to make that transition and putting uh cost estimates to those concept plans in which seven and again we summarize everything in a
016very lengthy report. It's 200 plus pages 60 pages of core content that Mr. Manuel gets to go through and Um so that is the task and that is what's included in the scope of work that we need performed for Jericho solution. So um ground analysis conceptual charging. So again we're looking at how much power what are the size of the batteries that we're going to need to transport students to and from their houses and back to school. Um what is the you know are there uh limits to these buses or batteries? where where would it not be feasible to make this transition? Um what is the charge required in between the morning routes, the afternoon routes? You know, a bus goes out, it comes back. How much does it need to charge to be able
017to perform that afternoon route to be able to perform the extracurricular activities? So the route analysis is a very technical analysis focused part of the study. Again, the bore some people here, but this is technical parts about it. It basically says, "Hey, we take really conservative estimates when we say a bus can drive this route." We're looking at cold weather conditions. We're looking at safety factors of 10%. We're looking at battery degradation of about 10%. We're looking at a lower limit of 10% and a higher limit of 10%. So, when we say a bus is able to perform this route, we are confidently saying that. Again, more trends about performance at different outside. >> Uh that is an 11%. Essentially, that means hey, if your route is 100 miles, we're going to make it 111
018miles to make sure again building in confidence in the results. So, here's a results of this slide. You have 20 buses. 16 of the buses are route buses. Four of the buses are stairs. Uh based on our evaluation, there's only one route, one bus that drives a couple of routes that would not be able to be met with the transition to electric buses. So, one of 16 is listed as uh not feasible for us right now. That doesn't mean it will never be feasible. It means we don't have the confidence that it's feasible today. range. It's it's it's really focused on um battery size, battery capacity, range limitations. Again, that bus would work 95% of the time, but in when when we look at it, we want to look at it at zero degree level.
019So again, a couple of bindings. It's a mix of a type A, small bus, a type C, which is the larger bus with the nose on it, and a type D, which is the larger bus with no nose on it. And so we broke down what uh a battery electric bus replacement product would be uh with a focus on Thomas buses. And the Bluebird buses are the longest the largest battery for a type A. So it was required for six of the type A's to have the largest available type A bus battery. And so it's a mix of Thomas and Louvers that were selected for the proposed battery electricity. And again, that one type A bus that is not currently available based on range limitations. 16 buses, four spares, 20 total. We also summarize the
020charging infrastructure. So, it's broken down between three charger sizes. They're all considered DC fast chargers. Many may have electric vehicles. Those use level one, level two, smaller chargers. These are larger and they're able to charge at higher rates and they require more power. And really what dictates these charger sizes is the amount of charge that's required between the morning and the afternoon. If a bus has to charge really fast in a short amount of time, you need a large charger. That's the drives that decision. So again, summarizing results, there's 16 chargers that are proposed for the route buses. Only one that required um anything greater than a 24 kW charger. So one that really had a stressful amount of time It's morning and afternoon routes that require a larger charger. And for the spare buses,
021we propose two 24s. That's a standard, the smallest charger for a spare bus. And one 120 kW charger, which can charge two buses at once. It gives you a little bit of variability optionality, which is say if I needed to charge one bus in an emergency extremely fast, I could plug it into a 120 kW charger. or if I needed to use it for two buses at the same time, that would also be happen. So that's what's proposed for the stairs. And that gives a total of 19 chargers with 20 charging positions. Charge 20 buses, but there's only 19 physical charging. Cost of I don't remember exactly, but it's about $11,000. speed twice as fast. >> Twice as fast has the ability to go up twice as fast. It obviously can also charge 24 at
022that moment, but it can charge up to 60. So again, so that was the route analysis. That's looking at individual routes, individual buses. Then we look at the entire fleet as a whole. So for our charging model, we looked at a um so there's two things here. One on the right side shows the actual uh energy values that we expect when charging a full fleet. The top value is 206 kW. Um that is without what we're calling charge management. So smart charging, charging at the right time, at the right speeds for the right purpose. Not just plugging in your car, go to 100% charging at the level that that bus needs. And really it highlights the difference between uh what you know utilizing uh charge management system which is technology to charge you know optimally
023and versus just plugging in your bus would be 206 kow and 124 kow. So that is basically saying if you um avoid charging during those peak times and charge more at night that's lowered slow rate you can reduce your peak demand by about uh 30 40%. And what you can see there is the blue line which has the larger peak above 200. That's business as usual, right? That's without the smart charging technology. And then you can see the impact of charging at the right time lowers your peak but raises the off peak time to charge. Right? Overnight you're going to charge at higher levels to avoid the higher cost to avoid the larger requirements from the utility. PSG doesn't need to provide as large transformer as large service. you do things. Okay. Okay. And as
024we get into ESCG, so again, we looked at their hosting capacity maps. They are GIS informationational systems that show the available capacity at any location throughout Long Island or territory they serve. Uh, and when you look at it, it's hard to see, but there's a EV load capacity number on the left uh image. It says 2.75 megawws. essentially saying that you have no um you have no power limitation. They have a lot of power that they can provide here in terms of the availability of the distribution system to this site. So that is not the hurdle that this district needs to uh you know overcome. And you can see there's a difference between um the fully connected load which is if every charger was at 100% versus what we project the chargers to be at
025based on those charging characteristics that we described in the previous slide of 185 highlighting either way the utility has the power to provide it to this or to the transportation center just okay Um so now we get into the actual concept plans. So we had engineers on site. They walked the facility. They uh we had mechanical, electrical and architects on site understanding it and then putting together concept plans of how this would work, what that transition could be in phases and broken down into three phases. Phase one focuses on six chargers. It focuses on six buses. The cost there is for charging infrastructure alone. At the end I have an economics model which summarizes everything together. Uh this is a fire protection plan essentially as for electric buses. Um you know we put together a
026concept plan that highlights um fire protection because electric buses obviously can catch fire essentially same as a normal bus could. We want to take precautions to make sure that your facility and site is set up in a safe manner. And so this is the fire protection plan that was put together as part of the plan and the cost is about $1.5 million. Phase two brings another five chargers on site and brings the total to about 11 chargers which serve 12 buses. And again, the cost start to get lower. And phase one is where you put the majority of the electrical uh infrastructure into the project. If you're putting large transformers, you're putting a switch here. You're getting a lot of infrastructure that will then be used as you add on to it, which is why
027the cost is a little high on the first one. The second phase is about $545,000. And phase three brings on another eight chargers and costs about a million. And you can see how it's laid out on the site. highlight some of the incentives that they have. Um, so they are NAERTA, the New York school bus incentive program has vouchers for school bus purchases. They have vouchers for chargers. On the screen is the voucher for the bus product. That voucher actually never even needs to roll through the school district. When you reach out to your bus vendor, that voucher is provided directly to them and they take that cost off the price that the school district pays. Right now for type A's, it's 114,000 base voucher, the priority district, which does not apply to Jericho. The
028scrapage bonus, which is 47,500, and that's for a type A, and so on for a type C, and so on for a type D. For type C, you're over $200,000 voucher money. with a nice starter on New York school bus incentive program. Next slide is for the Chargers. So just to highlight the value of this study alone is you've got an extra $30,000 on a charger voucher just for completing this study. So there's a lot of different reasons that the study adds value to the district alone from the information and the informed capital planning and decision-m um but NAERTA is increasing increasing voucher money and allowing other certain um exceptions where people that have done the plan shown that they went through the steps to be informed about this. There is a uh there was
029federal tax incentive on the bus side as well. right now the federal tax incentive there is still one available for the chargers but when it expires in June 2026 um and again that would pay for about 30% of the physical charger cost in my next slide I believe it's the next slide I'm going to go over the economics that is not included in the economics schedule essentially this highlights any typical project and the fact that from start of a project to getting a project built and operating you're looking at a couple years here minimum just based on lead times of certain electrical infrastructure switch gear transformers it's not I call it and it's here tomorrow okay so this can be hard to read um but this essentially is an economics model which highlights the bus
030costs charging infrastructure costs utility costs and all the incentives that are happening So to not go through each number, I think the numbers that we should skip this way. What's the last number? >> Yeah, exactly. So, okay, we got a couple numbers to highlight here. We got phase one. Let's start there. That's six buses and six charges. Okay, phase one, we go down to $4.6 million. That's cost of district. After incentives, it's $2.7 million cost to district one six buses as chargers for six buses. Business as usual would cost you $710,000 that just buying diesel buses. >> Well, you would buy diesel buses. >> So, that's one comparison right there. um as we go to the next phase again. So again, one of the higher points that's not incentivized right now, which does drive a
031lot of the you know poor comparison in my point is the fire protection because the state will not incentivize this yet although we feel it's valuable for it. So if you were to look at it without the fire protection again, you can get about uh $1 million to $700,000. That's the direct one for one replacement comparison of making this transition with incentive money versus business as usual. Go into phase two, we'll do another comparison there. The business as usual is 500,000. The um electric buses for four buses and four chargers is 580,000. And Harrison starts to get very close. And what I'll highlight here is right now the NERTA grants and incentives will only pay for the first 10 buses. So after those 10 buses, you no longer get that bus voucher, which is about
032$200,000 per bus. So you can see after phase 2 A, I broke it down in 2 A and 2B. The comparisons are worse, right? Those first 10 buses, the comparison of business as usual making the transition are pretty close. And as you go out, that comparison gets further away. So again highlighting a couple numbers here as we get to 2B business as usual for two buses and one charger is 256,000 compared to 695,000. So if we go back a couple so phase one is right here. So it's 2027 to 2029. They're spread out over years. Okay. >> And it's the idea of we went through cross procurement of when they would plan to procure buses with an understanding that it has to be transitioned by 2035. How do you come out of the bus crisis?
033>> I think correct me if I'm wrong, but you're basic based on the current price. The likelihood and what the state is thinking is that once the mass production mass production prices will come down and that's why the vouchers somewhat disappear in years 3, four and five. So when you look at this traditionally it is uh again three years that this presentation is based on nothing changes with the current regulation and the current law. Um you know there's still so many variables out there. Uh you know we're talking to upstate school districts where it's not a Jericho. They're traveling like 100 miles just from regular buses in the winter obviously colder. Um our field trips we go to Rochester, we go >> I understand this is sort of I just wanted to know that they
034just started using status quo using status quo pricing >> it is you know available mass production correct thank you um okay so again back here it's just a comparison again you know this is available providers but it is a a a pretty detailed comparison that doesn't just focus on infrastructure, doesn't just focus on fossils, doesn't just focus on incentives. It is the combination of all of them. Again, end cost if you had no incentives to make this transition is about $10 million. With incentives, it's about $6.5 million. Fire >> including fire. >> You're saying $6.5 million that's >> correct. So, and business as usual, by the way, would be about 2.3 if you were to replace the 20 buses by 2035. 19 chargers. 19 chargers, 20 buses. Um, and that's really what's left of the
035presentation. Again, I'll highlight here what would happen next if the district was prepared to do that would be to go forward with a formal design phase and move into, you know, licensed engineers putting together really really detailed analysis and step up from this concept plan of what that would look like more detailed pricing um and etc. >> That is dependent on what you want to do. I do not have a price available included in >> that is not in that certificate. Uh actually there is there is 6% a fees and put in those I apologize the process. Um that's the presentation. Uh so I appreciate the time. Thank you very much for letting me present. Um I just want to take an opportunity to thank director of facilities Michael Han, director of transportation. A lot
036of involvement in the walkthroughs and details and getting the information to Wendle. Thank you both for >> Thank you. Thank you very much for the time. Similar cost 2.75. You want to look at the bus counts a lot, right? So you have 20 buses now 60 buses. That's complete different on a variable on a per bus. There's nothing. Well, there is well based on your infrastructure, the amount of conduit we're running, the size switch gear we need, the overall electrical impact, stuff like that does dictate the size of the equipment pricing. But yes, it's probably a rough there, >> right? There's other districts that get additional. Thank you everybody. >> You have a microphone microphone. your first meeting. >> I know. >> I'm getting texts that people can't hear us because of the fans. We
037apologize. There was a mechanical issue today, so we needed some fans. Um, maybe we'll try shutting one off and see if we all thought I was hopefully anyone who's still at home watching um can handle us. Um >> I think the ones behind you get picked up. >> Um thank you very much. Before we get on to the opportunity public be heard as part of the superintendent report um should come as no surprise. Mr. Con, could you please give us Mr. Superintendent? Good. Mr. Please give us a quick update on residency reertification. Uh happy to report that we are 100% uh verified uh with all of our families in district uh as of this week. >> Perfect. Thank you very much. Um we are as always what we do this year have the pleasure of
038having our student board member exophysicial member here. Um is there anything you can report about the first couple of weeks of school? something that's working really well, something that's working really poorly. Are the are the ang are the hordes angry? Are they happy? What is going on? >> Yeah, I think I want to talk a little bit about the cell phone thing. Um, I think that it took a little bit of time getting used to, but all the students are really enjoying the actually get to know um teachers and other students or try to tell me that a little bit more. I know there is like a little bit of concern regarding the safety of person ensuring that we are safe that is the best. >> Thank you so much. We will now move along.
039We are up to the opportunity unless any board members have any questions for superintendent. Um, we are now up to the opportunity for the public to be heard. If you would like to make a comment or ask a question, please approach the microphone, tell us your name, and if you are representing a specific group, your affiliation. If you would like your statement to be included in our board minutes, you must hand a written copy to our district clerk, Victor Emanuel, before leaving tonight. Um, before we get to that and before we open up to the mass crowd here who has questions, I want to announce a change to the board practice regarding emails that are sent to the board. Uh, if you attend in person, we are excited to listen and have our entire community
040listen to your comments. However, we will no longer publicly read email comments. Any email comments can still be included in the meeting minutes if explicitly requested. And I can assure you that if you send the board emails, we will read them. We will just not be reading them publicly. You want to read them publicly, come and see us in person. Um, you should send and as I said, continue to send any questions to the board. You will get a response. As in the past, any of those emails, whether comments or questions can be sent to boejerichchools.org org or more importantly for questions boe questions at jerichoschools.org. Rest assured everyone out listening despite this revision we we remain extremely committed to transparency and will always be as open as possible to public comment and as responsive
041as possible to questions from the community. With that, I open it up for the opportunity for the public to be heard. The public is lacking this evening. So, we will absent going once, going twice, three times. We are good on public comment. Thank you everyone. Proy, you had something. Moving on to new business where Okay, this is a long one. I apologize. I will read very quickly. ROC data security and privacy resolution whereas four Boseis I'm not naming them have collaborated and entered into an article 5 general municipal law intermunicipal arrangement for the purpose of improving vendor management and data security and privacy practices for school districts andor Boseis statewide known as the rick one risk operations center whereas the BOE of the Jericho UFSD through its affiliation with a locally based regional information center
042particip participates with the rock and desires for the 2526 fiscal year to authorize the ROC to enter into data privacy agreements and related exhibits with vendors and third party contractors that include the requirements of in compliance with New York state ed law 2D and part 121 regulatory related to student personally identifiable information and certain teacher and principal APR data. Whereas the rock also partners with NYC, the access for learning, student data privacy consortium and the education cooperative to negotiate and approve ed law 2D compliant DPAs. Whereas the DPAs are presented to school districts andor boseies for final execution and do not require the expenditure of funds beyond those budgets budgeted. And be it resolved, the board of education of the Jericho UFSD authorizes the attorneys designated by designated by the ROC to negotiate and approve
043of DPA DPAs for software and/or technology resources. and be further resolved. The Jericho UFSD Board of Education grants the ROC and its designated attorneys the authority to negotiate the terms and conditions of DPAs and take such action so as to effectuate the purposes and intent of this resolution. Do I have a motion? Thank you, Mr. Jen. Do I have a second, Mrs. Citron? Thank you. Um before we move on, if there's any discussion, uh Mr. Emanuel, would you like to give us your abbreviated explanation. Oh, Mr. Goodstad, would you like to give us your abbreviated version of what I just said? >> You said it was a nice thing. Um, no. So, basically, all the programs that Jericho School District uses as well as every school district, they're required to be 2D compliant. Um, there's
044a lot of them and there's a lot of school districts that use them. So, these BOSES have coordinated the effort so that one person will be negotiating all these contracts across the entire state that are 2D compliant for the school district to use. Thank you very much. We are protecting your children's data. I believe is the really short way. Um any comments? All in favor? All opposed? Any extensions? 40. The motion carries. Moving on. Be it resolved. Jericho UFSD UFSD board of education approves the installation of air conditioning systems into six first student buses as per the attached. Do I have a motion? Well, we can't have the question until we have it. We get a motion and then second it and then we'll discuss it. Motion from Mr. Jin, second from Dr. Balachander. Discussion.
045We got an email about it regarding about this um particular installation. I think you already >> Yeah. So um I'll I'll speak for a few moments if it's okay, Miss Pearlman, to and incorporate um some of the questions that were asked in the email we received. Um so as you know uh the district uh renegotiated with first student um to we were forced to to do a a new 5-year contract. Um, we went back to them probably about three times to sharpen that pencil and come back with a uh proposal that not only met their needs but met the needs of the district to try to smooth out the increase over a 5-year period as opposed to getting uh hit all in one or two or three years. Uh so that was a successful uh
046negotiation. Um, following that, as we all know, it was 100° for a few days in June, and we received um rightfully so, many complaints with some of our buses that did not have um not equipped with air conditioning. Uh it was a total of 18 buses. Um we had some further negotiations with First Student and um speaking to the presentation tonight, um the district and First Student partnered uh for grant money totaling $2 million, which allowed First Student to purchase 10 electric buses, which haven't arrived yet. They're due to arrive in spring of 2026. basically it was at the cost of what basically a diesel bus would cost with the incentive that we received and the grants we received through NAERTA. Um so the 18 buses the 10 that we're receiving next spring will be
047air conditioned. So that brings the number from 18 down to eight. um of the eight uh first student was able to uh promise which they um which they were successful in their promise and at the beginning of September they were able to provide us two out of those eight buses um now with air conditioning. So now we're down to six buses um that do not have uh air conditioning. So the board asked if um we could find out what it would cost to retrofit those buses with air conditioning. Not buying new buses but retrofitting. And the cost is approximately $1,55 per bus for a total cost of about um $92,000. So one of the questions was did we uh work with first student and ask them to uh help us out with with uh some
048of the costs and they did. They provided two whole buses that were air conditioned this year which which they didn't have to do. Um as far as if we move forward with this, who would pay for it? Uh there's one authorized vendor to work on Thomas Built buses. All of the buses are Thomas Built brand buses and I think you've heard before Thomas Built and Bluebird are the two main um bus manufacturers um for uh school buses. So Nesco is the only authorized um dealer that would work with Thomas built um buses. So that takes care of that question where there is no they're the sole basically sole source source to work on those types of buses. The next question is are we paying Nesco or are we paying first student. So if we pay
049first student first student would then pay Nesco. First student would get charged sales tax because they are a company and they're not sales tax exempt and those costs would then be floated back to us in a higher price and first due. So if we buy it directly from NESCO um we save on the sales tax which is several thousand dollars uh over the uh total cost. Um next question um that I discussed with first student even prior to receiving uh this email is uh guaranteeing that those six buses that are retrofitted are used only for the Jericho school district and in fact that's the only use that those buses will be for will be for the Jericho school district. Um, I think I hit most of the questions. If I missed any, uh, let me
050know. But again, this was, um, something the board asked me to bring to them and this is the recommendation, so it's up to the board at this point. Any additional questions, please. >> I have a question cuz that was text me directly. Um the question was whether we can have first student take um that portion of their mail because they already have funded contract. Can they you know can they can they pay for it? They can't. Um again we when we were negotiating the long-term contract we went back to them several times because at the initial onset a lot of the increases were frontloaded. uh frontloaded, meaning year 1, year two, year three, and we went back to try to smooth it out over the five-year period, which they they agreed to eventually, but it
051it was a pretty significant negotiation going back and forth. Um, so they felt like we felt like that they came to the table wanting to negotiate, wanting to keep the Jericho School District uh contract. Uh and again when we were talking about the AC buses um the 10 electric buses are coming next spring again with a partnership grant grant funded with NAERTA and they offered two out of the eight buses uh that they would switch in September which they did. So so I do feel like they stepped up and did provide um uh some flexibility and covered some of the costs for the district. >> Thank you. >> My feeling is Dr. Mr. Sunberg, anytime some of your teachers want to borrow Mr. Emanuel to teach negotiation with vendors, you should really take advantage of
052his expertise, whether it's the business law courses, you know, SBLA, this is someone who has done wonder work, wondrous work for our district, and your teacher should feel free to borrow him with Dr. Granit's approval of >> it. Should be known uh that Mr. manual works very closely with the business department uh as as is. So we're we're happy to extend that. >> Perfect. Um guess all in favor for all against all obstaining 40 m motion carries. Be it resolved that the date of the October 30th, 2025 board meeting is changed to Wednesday, October 29th, 2025. Do I have a motion? >> Motion. Thank you, Mr. J. Do I have a second, Miss Dr. Balachander? >> I'm sorry. Did you take all three? >> No, I'm only doing the change of date of the of
053the board meeting. Sorry. Yep. >> All in favor of changing the date of the board meeting to Wednesday, October 29th. >> All opposed. All abstension. 40. That carries. Which now brings us to the schedules. Um with I would think you would say Mr. Emanuel, we're going to take P118 and P119. Uh two late transportation requests. One to St. Mary's, one's to Trinity Lutheran according to what is in our board packet. Um, do I have a motion on P118? Just the first two, P118 and P119. Uh, thank you, Dr. Alan. Do I have a second? Second, second. Someone second, Mr. Jen. Um, any discussion? If not, we can look at the notes. Um, we can see that the first these P118 and P119 did not meet the deadlines required and would equate to substantial costs to
054the district approximately $4,000 per month per each. So, consistent with what we have done in the past. Um, you know, and I think this is this is all in the public package that that it was recommended not to um move forward with that, but obviously the board has has the authority to do whatever they want. We recommend not uh approving. Um all in favor of approving P118 and P119. All >> against Thank you, Mr. Citron. Okay. So, we want to approve the resolution denying 118119. Got it. I apologize. Is that in here? Oh, I'm sorry. So, be it resolved that the request for transportation for one student to attend the following school be disapproved based on the attached letter from the transportation supervisor, that is one student at St. Mary's. And then, be it resolved
055the request for transportation for one student to attend the following school be disapproved based on the attached letter letter from the transportation supervisor. That's one student to Trinity Lutheran. Okay. So, now that we did that, just the formality purpose, can I get a motion on that motion for Mr. Jin? A motion to a second on those two resolutions. Thank you, Dr. Bachander. We've sort of had the discussion. >> Yeah, I'm going to do that because you corrected me. That's why I just run it through. So, we do everything by the book. All in favor of the resolution disapproving of those two schedules. Uh, all against, all abstaining. Perfect. So those two resolutions carry denying those two um trans late transportation requests which brings us to schedule P120. Be it resolved that the request for transportation
056for one student to attend the following school be approved based on the attached recommendation from the transportation supervisor that is one student to Friends Academy. Um do I have a motion? Mr. Jen, thank you. Second, Mr. Citron. Thank you. Um, as anyone can see here, this is an existing route and there is no additional cost to the district, which I believe is the basis for the transportation supervisor's recommendation. Does anyone have any other comments, questions, concerns? All in favor? All against abstensions. Perfect. We are carried there 40. Thank you. Does any board member administration or Cynthia have any final comments before we move to um >> she wants to sing? >> Is she a singer? >> Um would you like to sing Mr. Con? Is that your >> Kenny wants to sing? Does any of
057the administrator anyone who's here want to sing? Okay, that's excellent. No one wants to sing. Uh before we journ, we look forward to seeing many of you at our next meeting on Thursday, September 25th. As all business on the agenda for tonight's meeting is complete, do I have a motion to adjourn? Mr. Citron. Thank you. Second, Mr. Jin. All in favor? 40. No abstensions. No. Perfect. We are all good. Have a great night, everybody.