001Okay. All right. Just the emotion to come out of executive session and the 620. Proposed and I'll second it all in favor. I motion carries the motion to reconvene the public session also in 625 from Melissa and the second second from Stephanie all in favor. I motion carries we will stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag, the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And we will jump right into our second read on the proposals. Hi everybody. So, first, policy. So if you recall, based on the Title IX amendments and the reversion back to 2020 that did impact some of our other policies. So, just an overall reminder because we live here in New York State, and the
002Division of Human Rights and all of the other laws that assist us in protecting people who are members of protected classes. Our follow up and obligation and procedures won't change it's just that those policies that are related to Title IX specifically, we need to make sure they're in alignment with how Title IX reads. And with that, educational opportunities, there is a reversion back to the original read from that from the fall of 2024. And so it's placing the educational services for married pregnant students back into this equal educational opportunities policy which is where it was originally, and removing some of the additions with the Title IX amendment language and reinstating that policy. Then the second policy that's on the docket is a recommended deletion, which was the standalone educational services for married pregnant students. So
003this puts these particular policies back in alignment with the Title IX amendments. The third policy is a new policy notification of disclosure of employee disciplinary records. So, this is a policy that districts school districts are now required to have as one of the policies. It's because of some amendments to Section 87 of the public officers law, and it's in regard to things being foiled. And so part of the amendments to that law include that an employer must notify an employee, or, and attempt to notify a prior employee. If disciplinary records have been foiled, and the districts has provided those disciplinary records. So that's what this policy serves to do is to meet the amendment and to ensure we have a policy on the books. It would be in communication with individuals who may be impacted
004by that foil, just letting them know that it did occur. Of course, anytime we are moving through a foil request, we're in close communication with our attorneys as far as determining what meets the criteria and is actually foilable, and then the redaction portion of that. Little dash and transportation program along with Eric wood. So this is the revision for the trial for 2526 on the reducing the distance policy impacting the middle school and high school kiddos from two miles to 1.7 1.75 miles. I don't like that one. All works will just the policy will just be voted on again at the end of the 2026 school year. Our hope would be not only that it works so that can we continue to make further reductions at where we possibly can, just because this specifically mentions
0052526 full year, but, but I see the numbers can be even better. We're, we're, we're very confident that 1.75 will work. We want to continue to reduce within you know our existing fiscal resources and the infrastructures we have. We want to look to see what that's like over the next 12 months, not just the snapshot that we did do between the spring, fall and winter again. Okay, and last to one is an edit, and then one is a removal because of the edit. So we've been really fantastic here in NT and we've had student board members serving for as long as I've been here I believe. Now there's amendments to Section seven of education law where it's a requirement for districts to have a seated board, seated student board member, and that comes into effect
006on July 1 of 2025. So the recommendation we have had a standalone policy on students serving as board members is to embed that right within the board members nomination and election policy so that way it's a one stop shop, and to include the language that's required under the law. So our process and practice won't change as far as how we do it. We're just embedding it right into the policy but we're all set up. I spoke with Mr. Rolls again this morning, and he's, he's ready to rock. And seven. Thank you. Yes. It's great. Cool. This is a long time ago. It's exciting. It's a long time. Yes. So the first is the revision to move this into 1210 and then the second is to then remove the standalone student. Before we take action. All
007right. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so we'll go right to 5.7 recommended for education approves all policy second means items section five is presented I'll make motion just a second. But we all in favor, and I any votes. All right, and then the last one that we have and we'll do a roll call on this one. I'm adopting the budget for this year which is 6.1. It's recommended the Board of Education approves the 2025 2026 school budget, the amount of $83 million you made it really easy this year, and the company property tax report card is presented. I'll make the motion to see a second second from Pete and we'll go on the horn and Melissa. Yeah. Yep. I. Either way, Stephanie. Gabby. Yeah. Next. So we have a one, two, three, four, five,
008six, two, one, five, one, five, yes, seven or six of us. The motion carries. Anything that anyone has for the good of the district, the board and Jeff. It's like a weird thing. So, when I was at the volunteer fair, Mr Kepa Lupo was talking to me, and he requested I don't know if it's like a board thing that we do, but he thinks that the form that the students have to fill out after they do their service Hours is antiquated. There's a portion of it where they have to do a reflection, but some students have a difficult time like writing that reflection and their hours don't count unless they write that reflection. So he doesn't know what the rules are with the service learning hours sheet and does that have to be on there.
009I haven't looked too closely at it. I'm not going to lie to you, but he brought it up. So I figured I'd bring it up to the board and we could just, you know, go from there. We could definitely look into that and obviously forms like that are things that we can edit and make more user friendly so I don't think that'll be an issue. He said antiquated. Well, he just said like, all students are at different levels and their capacity to reflect on such things, and he can't, you know, It's not fair to let one student slide just, you know, because they maybe can't put together such a strong reflection and you can't like expected of one and not another. And just because it's easier for some doesn't mean they didn't do the service
010learning hours already and just said that it's a barrier. He said that much more eloquently than I did. I can't remember his exact verbiage, you know, the educators, you have this whole like thing, you know what I mean? So it was very smooth when he said it, but I'm like, well, I'll bring it up. And we definitely don't want to put up barriers for students that are doing this work and maybe not people to fully expand on everything that they've done. Anyone else? Just better. We started computer based testing on Tuesday statewide. There were multiple issues, but between our teachers, our administrators and our technology staff. We were able to work through those issues and complete our testing, at least at the three through six grade levels, and then we're still finishing up at the
011middle school tomorrow. But we went through, there were definitely challenges statewide, but as a district, I thought we did a fantastic job with that. That's great. From ISA, just a couple things for the board. May 8th, save the date if you're available. Noah's was putting on a dinner event at Owen Boses at Sanborn, but more details to come. 630 on May. Just to get you a little heads up there. Make sure that you're going to be self-evaluated. We haven't started it. We'd like to get that rolling here over the next couple weeks. So we can get the link out to it. Yes, I would like to do by, we would like to have that ready to go by the time we meet in May. So I would say we can get it done by, you
012know, within the next two weeks. Yep. And then I did have a chance to present to some of our kids out at NCCC on Thursday. I talked to some about some technical careers to our P-TECH students from NT Niagara Falls, which was exciting to talk through them, you know, get them excited about their future in technology. So that was super exciting to do. So just wanted to call that out. But I think that's all we have. So no further business come before the board. Just a motion to adjourn at 636. So we'll go over the self-eval before the budget hearing.