001Executive session at 626. Key first, second? I'll second. Stephanie, all in favor? Aye. Motion carries. And just need a motion to reconvene the public session at 627. Cheryl and I will second that. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. We will now stand for the pledge to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Signed in the Pledge of Allegiance. Is there anyone? Oh, that's our public speech. Is there anyone who wishes to address the board on matters that they'll be voting on? All right. So before we get started with our presentations and comments from the board, we wanted to start with a moment of silence for Taylor Wilson, who sadly
002we lost over the winter break. So if we could all just bow our heads and take a moment of silence to honor her and her family. Thank you very much for that. And just at this time, I will just remind them at the end as well, is that the Bay School is doing a number of things to help and support that family. But this Friday at seven is a home varsity basketball game where they're asking people to attend and wear blue in her honor. And I know that Mr. Rolls has been in touch with her father, and they're very appreciative to all the things that the Bay School has been able to do so far and continues to do as well as the community. So any comments from the Board of Education? Besides Lizard? All
003right. So the first presentation that we have is something that I was looking forward to doing for a number of years, but it took me a minute to get it started. And now we're on our third induction of this. And we're calling it the Lifetime Lumberjack Award. And it is given to a community member or staff member that goes above and beyond to show the traits of a lumberjack. And I would like to ask Ann Lynch to join me up here as the recipient. So, where is the property of education that the Clark County Law Enforcement School District calls for and encourages the support of community involvement and development? And whereas the primary goal of the school district is to develop a sense of values and still a feeling of responsibility to self and others
004in the community, we have resolved that the Board of Education of the City School District of North Panawanda, New York hereby recognizes Ann Lynch as an outstanding lumberjack community member for tireless dedication to improving the relationship of community, administration, and union. Her sense of community and entity spirit will inspire countless generations of future lumberjacks to continue to have hope as the Tree of Hope Waiting continues each year. We have further resolved that the North Panawanda City School District Board of Education points with pride at the accomplishments of Ann and her dedication to the community project she started, specifically the Tree of Hope Waiting Ceremony. Her countless hours of planning are too many to count. So resolved and entered into the record of the North Panawanda City School District on its fourth day of January. I'm
005very honored. Thank you very much. We would like to thank you, the award, if you want to open this for everybody. I'm a little nervous about opening it. I don't know what's going to happen here. Especially since we were just talking about all those presents. I should have saved some of them. And re-gifted them. Thank you so much. It was a pleasure to be able to not only call you a colleague, but a friend. And I think the work that you pushed us to do will last forever and ever. So long after we're both gone, Ann. We went around several times. Yeah. Thank you. It was an honor. My pleasure to serve. Always. My favorite math teacher. Don't tell anyone else. All right. Starting on a high note. Yes. And we'll follow that up. We're
006very high notes. We're very high notes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll follow that up. We're very high notes. Very high notes with our budget presentation. Everybody's favorite topic. If there was going to be anybody who can follow that. So this is the time of year that school districts are busy working on budget. So we always have to have a budget in place to vote it on in May. Lots of times the governor does not finalize their budget until April. So that's always interesting. And at this time of year where we're ready to really take a hard look at the numbers of what that means for programming for next year and taxes for taxpayers next year. She this year isn't, it isn't out yet. So
007we have to wait, but that does not stop the board from planning. And today is a planning session. And we are going to cover a few slides on security, because most of those would be additions to the budget. And Mr. Montaro will start us walking through there and I will help him with certain slides. I think the better. How do you have to turn it up? No, it's not. Yeah. So tonight is just going to be really a focus on security measures. It's still a little early. I think we should be getting closer to a draft in about a month. You know, At this point, I think we can look at this particular topic. This will be one in which there could be some significant changes. So really we're just going to look at the
008security measures in terms of SRO security. And metal detectors. When we get to the discussion piece. There's other items that you want to add by all means do that. We don't have to keep it just to these two items, but these are the ones that we're going to focus on tonight. So Alyssa's law. That was the pack buttons that, you know, boards could consider. They part of their safety plans and. Integrate into their school security systems. We are currently doing that. We're probably about 50% through the product. So it's looking like. In the spring. We thought would be done a little. Sooner, but due to, you know, the delay on raw materials, wires, things like that. that the projects got a little bit slower, but with two schools are fully integrated at this point, we're
009in testing phase and other ones, and just about to get underway. So, by the spring, this should be in place and we can start running drills, practicing and getting the staff familiar with the system. This was funded through the smart schools, which really has no budgetary impact, but I think this is like an informational piece. And did you want to speak to something on this also. Well, just that we had an independent security audit done of the district, or got that presentation as well. And where a lot of school districts are being told to start this or get these into their buildings or kind of want to sort of like Mr. Before the law came out so we're actually ahead of the system because they'll even be delayed further because of the raw materials and
010getting it approved so this will give classrooms, as well as main offices, the ability to put the building basically And so how that works, what that sounds like and that's it changes as every time sadly there's a another tragic event that happens. The experts look at that to say what's the safest thing going forward, and what's best practice. And one of the things that's been determined is that there's somebody in the remote section of the school that saw something that they should have reported it to maybe that could have saved seconds to help save lives. So you think of a building with a lot of high school students here as fast as the high school and as far as back as the science wing by the blue bus garage to the front by the Fine
011Arts Center. That's a huge span and if someone's seen something that they have to walk or find a phone or get on somewhere to notify the office that they see something suspicious, you're wasting precious seconds so That's a huge campus as an example but even in our elementary buildings there's windows that look out at fields in the back that the front office is looking out at the street and so it's a perfect system I'm glad the state put it into a bill. And I'm glad that North Taiwan was ahead of the curve so we can have that hopefully up and running by the do some drills this year. Yeah, I think by the spring we should be, you know, fast testing. And this is much more than just a button to this is, yeah. It's
012embedded into the communication network PA system so it's too many communications. Also, master board which would indicate who which rooms are occupied which ones are so it gives a lot of information to those first responders to us that where they respond so a lot of good stuff this way, way more than just about. Yeah. Okay, so this piece is, you know, the, we're looking at SRO versus security and it's been a discussion, and I think, Mr. Yeah, we started with an SRO at the high school. Years ago, that was a grant funded by Senator Robert at the time, who helped North North North Carolina secure funding for that. Since then, we've expanded to two other SROs. So, I mean, another SROs for two total, and we have one at NTI and then the one on
013the Meadow campus. And after Texas and other events that had happened where there continue to be school shootings, we put security into the elementary building. And one of the reason being is that when you go with an SRO their police officer that comes off of police officer force, and they need time to get new people trained out of the Academy and take their place with so that the city's not hindered by not having. We also are obviously have the different training police officer training there's SRO training specifically. Our security has training that they go through to carry in our in a public building such as this, and most of them are retired officers that we started with at the high school but then when you go with security firm, they went to, let's say, college
014for security, safety that went through their own training. So the training of both an SRO to a trained security officer is not the police Academy, so there's there's different training. When we had the training in the independent security audit done. The main, the trend for districts are kind of want to be in a small city is that you know there is a SRO that travels to the other buildings. And so that does two things there's an element of surprise you don't know if they'll be there or not. They do have the same level of training and as someone who's in the building all the time. So what we did this year is we contracted a local firm that we've used before in the past, and they put. An armed security person at each of our
015three elementary buildings, and they become integral at those buildings and talking with the principles and pulling them beforehand and talking with staff going around, as we knew we're going to be presenting this. They are part of the family they are part of the fabric, they do more than just, you know, stand at the door they're controlling patrolling the outside they help the cafeteria is there, they're a person that's out about talking with parents or checking IDs and those sort of things, because typically the elementary building main office was a secretary and a principal. And if one's at lunch then it's the nurse and the principal or maybe just the nurse watching it while there's an issue that principal had to be out of the office and the secretary needs to get a lunch so it
016was a much needed. The problem with SRO is again as I mentioned this only that we enter into the contract the city wanted us to do a two year contract so it wasn't done yearly. We're in first year of a two year contract for the two that we have. And they would need to send people for training, and they come with a much higher price tag than the security, because there are lots of times veteran officers that are coming in to be the SROs. So, what that just means for a school district down the road is if there is a bad budget year, or you wanted to cut back and go to a traveling SRO one year, you can't simply just do that, you would have to honor the contract with the city because they
017are probably aren't budgeting to pick them up when we say we cut them. To add to the problems, the school district budget is voted on in May and starts in July. The city budget is a January through December, like most people's you know your calendar. And that's just because we start new in September, we have a July to June budget calendar so we're off a little bit there. So, it just means that you could have a good solid six months or a year to six months, if you decided that the school district at some point couldn't afford you might go down to five or four you might be locked into it, where the security, we can call them I've been telling them month by month that we want to keep it and it's been a
018positive so you know we're through the month of January through the month of February with them now. But if I call tomorrow and said we're going to end it in a week, they would stop service so it gives the school district a little bit more flexibility. So the next slide is the budget that we're currently spending on that so 2223 is in white. And so the three if you look at spruce Drake, Ohio, it'll cost the district approximately $75,000 for this hourly armed security, where at NTI withers and SRO. And then, because the mistress of policy the SRO is really in charge of middle school high school he just broke it up by definitely added up it's the same one 12 five. So we're currently spending $475,000 in security, and he's projecting no change in
019the So it's a two year contract with a fixed price and saying, if everything else like everything else in the world that goes up 5% for the hourly rate for the arms security it could go up 5000 so that's a customer that 15,000 more for next year. So the next slide shows. Now this, this is a, you know, zoomed in portion of the contractual lines so usually when I start getting into the bigger budget and the drafts. These benefits, those are big budget Terry lions. This would be in the contractual, so you'll see this reflected as we kind of go through, you know, whatever option you move towards. That's where this is going to look. So, you know, this one shows that if that hourly was replaced with SROs were currently, and I don't know
020if the city would keep it or not because it's a new year right but 110,000 for an SRO. And we would have to add that for the 2324 which brings you from the 4500 number to 625 for 345 SROs. So, what will put a placeholder in the budget, once we get the governor's numbers. And then when we see when you want to, you know, keep taxes low or zero increase, you know, what has to give her or change but you have some options as to the level of security. I don't think like anything else once you have it you can't go back to nothing. So, so we were currently at the lower cost range. That's been very effective and has gotten into a group I would say I think with anything when it was new,
021they had to learn a little bit and find their place but now they're very integral in each bill. Do you think that would be the same as, like, because it's the same person that reports to the same school every day. Yes. So like, if they had to change or the company like got rid of that person right like yeah so we do have to adjust, like, we potentially have to adjust because it's not us sending right like so yeah so yeah they're they're guaranteed to send me someone who's trained in our right, but it could be a different person, it could be a different person next school year or like that say that person retired like anyone else and that's our or like yeah, it could be I've had that conversation with them where we
022didn't want to revolve the doors of purity, but I also didn't want no security. So if someone was sick or got coven or is going to be out for a week or they had a vacation plan. We do want a replacement, you know to come in and that same thing happens with the SRO. When they go for training and things that they need to another officer who's been through SRO training comes to the high school. So, or NTI so it's been sporadic, and it's been because the person that we usually have has time they need to use. Okay. Anything else because this is the end of that SRO security. Yeah, no, but what we'll do is we have the two budget numbers. Yeah, and once we get the governor's proposal, that's when we start to
023shrink what we're where you want it. Yeah, that's a good breakout and appreciate that makes a little bit more sense than just guessing. So I feel like we've been guessing. Okay, so the second half here is on metal detection units. There's always been money in the budget allocated towards state back projects. So this does generate aid. So that's a good thing. So I was like to let you know when something does money back to the district. So, yes, you get the billing aid, but you don't get it like $6,000. And don't know if they'll ever change that because if you really start looking at the technology, it's, you know, well exceeded the $6,000 just buzz, you know, when you walk through type models. There's two that seem to be on the radar, you know, with
024the superintendent's group as well and you know I even did some studies myself research. They're actually using these units and places like the stadiums, you know sports complexes. So, you know, I've been looking at these for a while so these seem to be the two leaders in the market. This first one, as you can see in the picture. It's just two towers, and they're very mobile units, but not as sophisticated. Okay, so there's some product information on there. And, you know, I think the weaknesses here. Again, they're not as sophisticated. You know, I think if you put these outside. I don't think we're like the bill stadium and we're not operating in, you know, adverse conditions that they are. These do you know tend to get moved around a little bit. But they're obviously not
025as durable as the next unit that you're going to take a look at. But these are designed to be portable, right, you want to have an event that you want to dance, right, and you want to move it down to the Fine Arts Center or you're going to have TNT game and you want to get people in safely, you know that they're designed for that the other brands not portable. Correct. So, you know, portable, efficient, not sophisticated but not, you know, not by any means a bad product, right. So it's lower price entry model. The next one is the evolved system. So if you have been to Disney, this is what they use their walk through those. I don't think they're using more of the model that we looked at prior, you know the side
026by side towers, a little bit sturdier at the bill stadium and savers arena. Mr. Kennedy has. Yeah, so I was just in DC two weeks ago and they use these at all the Smithsonian's and at National Archives, right, right. Very efficient. Yeah, so these are super high tech, but very expensive. And they are not as mobile, they can't be mobile. But it's gonna take a little more moving a little bit more manning because there's software there's computer monitors. But the detection unit as it is presented here is much more sophisticated will tell you exactly what it's seeing and where to look. So just to kind of give you an idea like when you take your carry on to the airport, and they put it through the scanner, and they see something that there's an object
027that they can see that this question. This would do that. Yes, in a backpack in a pocket, there's some kind of object. The other one is going to say, I heard or they send something metal in the pocket that's going to be, and then you have to pull them aside and say, is it in your backpack, or where is this thing. So, yeah, it gives you a first level but it's not going to pinpoint. What's the cost difference between the two. We're going to get there. So, now, in terms of this to this is more continuous flow, whereas the other one again because of it's a little bit more hands on. You know, you're not going to get people to use quickly because you know so many buzzes you have to pull besides it's a
028little more cumbersome. This one people just keep moving. So, in terms of the budgets, say back purchase, you know I threw out 200,000. Just because it's pretty significant number one, and you know we could go higher or lower, but this does give you six units of the open gate. The first one. piece, minus some of the one out that comes the next year so that's a factor to this year. It only really gets you one double lane of all sisters. So, you know, I think though as a district. Yeah, a lot of people would agree, probably want the smaller, more flexible entry level but I think one thing that's not factor into this is how do you manage it right, you can't just set it up and you're going to have to get people there,
029but we have security, we have this rose. We have other individuals that could, you know, participate, obviously protocols and procedures just like when you go to any other event. But that's not reflected in this also just keep that in mind like there's going to be a staffing cost there. They have to watch because it does go off. So they both of them need personnel. Right. Right. So, you know, $200,000 get you six of the open gate. Again, this is around time pricing changes so there's probably going to be some escalation could be in that system 10% range. The evolve, I think every time I've seen that pricing, it stayed fairly static, but I would think the other one, it might see some escalation that just because it's a lower entry level model. So, that's not
030those two systems and budget. So anything in my school locally, is it Niagara Falls trying to evolve system and Niagara Wheatfield called me in December, and said, Did you see this new system which we were already we said yes, they were going to try and get some to test. So I think it was going to be January February now that they were going to have the portable one. So, next time I go to the superintendent meeting this month I'll ask them. I think I would also be interested like when we get to sort of like the budget like approval ish time when we get a little bit closer. I would be interested. But like, I'd be interested in the, like the vision of how they'll be used. Right. So like, I, you know, if we're
031only going to buy one. Does that mean we are using it daily we're filtering everybody through the front entrance of the high school. Or is it set up at like the stadium, like, I think I would just be interested to see what the vision would be. So that's the challenge where we have old buildings, and that have, you know, 1950s and 60s and 70s technology or design, let's say. And so right now, like we have bus students come in the back of the high school, and people getting dropped off for driving, you know, come in the front. Any, any security report you see would say you should go to one secure entrance, make people walk around the building, they don't care if it's snowing or raining or whatever like that's how you keep a building
032secure one entrance, you have your garage you have that. We separate buses from walkers and cars so there are kids walking in front of buses and you know it's bad enough at the high school with kids crossing over and parents dropping off you mentioned now all the buses were dropping off in the front at the same time So, you would have to though limit to two. There's a bus entrance everyone has to come in, there's the main entrance everyone else comes in at every building. And we over the years for safety reasons we've kept where the buses load and drop off of their parents loading drop off separate, because we know that that would be a nightmare. When you do like the other one that gives you six, you could have them and maintain the
033flow that we have, you know what I mean, but if you go to the evolve, you're only really scanning half the kids. Yeah, unless you're going to make them walk outside and come back in the right door you know so. Yeah, it's, it's the other one is more manageable than to say we're going to spend $2 million for evolved systems everywhere. Right. For every door you're going to use. I mean we're not, we're not the same right now 100,000 people showing up at our basis right so but we're as fun as trying to give statistics like that like for the open gate one do they say like, I don't know. It takes how long to get like 100 kids over a minute. Right. Yeah, like, do they give anybody. So if you think of it,
034there really are too many doors at the high school double doors, the evolve system would cover that so you, there would be no slow down, just keep walking in and they don't have to take a backpack out there it just, it just will pull people out that there's something in there. And you can set the sensitivity in Niagara Falls, every umbrella every ruler everything was set it off so they had to go through and you know it took them a while to get to the point where it was, it wasn't in that I mean, is that what you want. You know what I'm dealing with as high volume as Disney World, but the high school in the morning, that's a lot. And what kind of bottleneck will be. Yeah, you can't know we can't bottle.
035That would be worse. So both of them though, are just walk through the, the procedure that Stephanie referring to is who's going to pull them aside where are they going to hold until we can check them, you know I mean it's so different than if we were wanting everybody that's to go right because come over, let me want you back. Okay, you can go. Oh you be now you go over there and let me get to the next. So you're actually one, when you have these three kids can walk through together and all the beeps we might have to pull all three over and say wait a minute we don't know who be because there was five of you, but the rest of them will keep going. So, except separate bags from the person. You
036could have some type of audit system where you're checking bags at random. You know that's kind of what they do in the Air Force to check out everybody. But if you're passing the bags through, you know you're checking metal detection on the person, and then every so often And that's another, you know, just, it's more than what you have now. Right. So, the turns is really the primary metal detector. You know, the know that it's there, know that you could get pulled. You know that's, it's not going to catch everything but the security audit also say that these weren't necessary. Right, like am I remembering that. Yeah, he didn't, he didn't, he didn't say they were like, yeah, like, that's a big deterrent. That's another question, numbers you provided on the budgetary, but that doesn't
037include any additional staff. Right. I guess that's, you know, we'd have to put a model together, say what can take the staff and is it people that are on hand already. So is it adding, or is it, you know, just a re deployment of the people that are already. I mean, then they're going to man these differently, or do they need to be where they're stationed, I need to have to review all that so that's gotten that far in our videos somewhere. Yeah, watch them. And they'll come in. Yes, they want some money. Yes. Anything else. No. All right. This is we move through the budget process will add these in. And then in the end, the budget, we take to the public should be a good mixture of added programs and safety is what
038the moderate tax rate so that's what your, that's what your balance. And then the metal detection units would be under the equipment. So, break it down salaries benefits contractual supplies materials equipment that would actually Tony one more thing. So something that I brought to Greg the other day, and that I think he and Chloe and I saw a lot of at the conference, maybe not a lot but. So there are districts that are employing sort of like a, like a director of diversity, equity and inclusion. So we did do start this. You did. Okay, Stephanie mentioned that to me yesterday we're doing the agenda so he wanted to bring it out yeah Katie and I talked about it, we are going to present it once we got it. So every district's running a little bit
039different. Yeah, some of it is a stipend for someone who's already in the district some of them are different positions that when there was retirement they recreated it and added that term to the director of curriculum we want to get that information and then really presented to you with what we think would work in a small city school district, because what a Barker and Wilson does compared to Niagara Falls and North Carolina, could be, you know, same position but light years different. So we have it, which would be an add to the budget is what she said. Yeah, I mean, and as we do these little sessions we'll start adding them to those larger budget lines, you know, kind of, and then pull that back out the detail when you get to the air. Yeah,
040just interested to see what it would do to the budget. I just want to bring it up. Yeah. Great. So we will get into rolling your agenda. So we'll go to 8.1. As recommended the Board of Education approves the agenda order as presented or there any additions, deletions or changes. Not here you need to see the motions. Stephanie and second. All in favor. Motion carries. So we'll go down to 9.14 recommended the Board of Education approves the consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent schools I'll make the motion just need a second. Gabby all favor. Hi, motion carries. But I'm 10.1 recommended the Board of Education approves the personnel agenda order is presented or there any additions solutions or changes. Right now to hear any just in motion. I will second that all in favor.
041Motion carries. And we will go down to 11.17 recommended Board of Education approves all personnel items and section 11 is presented just in motion. I'm Stephanie and I'll second that all in favor. I motion carries. All right, so in that personnel section we had 10 year of our director and Christopher's on our spruce claim to fame the server anything you would like to say or just congratulations. You know I always will say something. With us for years. He is one of the best employees. Fortunate to have. He is not only fabulous at school, but he has done a tremendous amount of things for the district. During COVID he, he ran the whole social emotional program for all of the district. He has also stepped up to be a trainer for the TCI intervention program, and
042is well regarded throughout the whole district. He's well blitzed with that social member, the two of them are fabulous team, but he is a go to person, not just at school, but in the district, and families love him, and you're just so fortunate to have so congratulations. It's a good milestone to get so we're very happy to have you here as that we know that that work just keeps getting deeper and deeper here after COVID so thank you for the work they do. And then next would be the board goals. So, in October, the board met in their retreat set goals. And we've been working a little bit on publicizing them and doing monthly updates so this format would take us through three goals they tried to mirror the board goals for the district goals
043community engagement, safe health and healthy environment, and then the one that's only boards is board policy but that's the big function of what the board does. So, underneath each of those goals. They kind of put them out a year to two or more years to kind of accomplish them. And if you go down, Mr. Fluskell below that page down. Of the goals that are having. So what we would do is we would get this set in the end, every board meeting going forward, and it would be online and as we accomplish or tip things off or make our way towards taking things off the list that the boards accomplishing The community could see what you've done, and when it's being done and what's still to happen, as well as it's a living document so if
044there's something on there that gets ticked off right away let's say goal one is all done in three months it doesn't take them a year and six months to do. They could then start to replace it with a new goal one and have it be a live instrument and just more transparency for the district and the taxpayers to see what they're working on and what's important. So, with that though they are the board goals. So I will let the board president and vice president speak to them. Yeah, so I, you know, we've taken everyone's feedback and you know thanks for Stephanie for really putting this together and, you know, and Greg for making it look nice here. But really I think, you know, our next step is, you know, at our next policy meeting is
045to really, you know, walk through these and see where we want to start to take some items off the list and things we can do I know. And then the first goal you know right out of the gate there's one of the pieces me with legislators so I know the Negro League School Board Association is having their legislative breakfast. We'll get you signed up if you want to go. But that's a great opportunity to get in front of our local legislators to once we have a better idea what the governor's proposal is to advocate for, you know, certain fundings and bills and whatnot so on our list that we can start to make some actions on at the end of January, and same thing as we go through you know what items stand out what
046do we want to start to really focus in on would be kind of our next steps. I honestly I just love the fact that that's it. This adds transparency I think for the board but also for the community so that you all know what it is that we're working on. And I think it also helps that if people are interested in coming to meetings or joining us on the board. But, you know, to say that this is, these are our current priorities and so, you know, are you interested sort of like joining this team or coming to meetings to help or, you know, we're looking to work with local businesses and maybe go to PTA meetings things like that and so, you know, are you interested in maybe helping out in that arena too so
047I think it really adds to the transparency. Absolutely. Anyone else have anything you want to touch on. But what we'll do today is we'll adopt these as our kind of our method if that's okay and then we can start hitting the ground running in our next next meeting. I just give me an update on the goal three. Since we only have a policy complete review of the policy. We work with theory one gives the policies to all school districts in Erie Niagara County, they come from the state. And then there's several bosses across the state ours, ours that we work with Orleans Niagara bosses and hearing one bosses, and they are taking our policies and making them live documents in board docs and uploading them. So you don't have to go and search and they're
048static. If you want to type in a word, you're one, you know, look up suspension or you want to look up security, any, any policy they have those words in it will pop up for the community as well. So that's a great piece of transparency and what they can find, but will be a head with the blizzard and the holiday was supposed to be done for this meeting but we have contact that they'll have it done hopefully by the end of this week, they're back on it, and then we can kind of walk the board of the policy review meeting, how this new system will look at an act going forward because there'll be a little bit change in how we adopt policies. So we start with like with legislators, just to, you know, we
049did a lot of conversation tonight about SROs and security, but SROs are police officers, police officers are funded by taxpayers money. School districts are funded by taxpayers money and so we've sort of said to legislators with a pretty loud voice like, why don't you just give the money to the city and say, put SROs in the buildings, why is it like kind of both people pulling and they train them they hire them. It's their benefits it's their. Everything's them right but they're in our building for security. Why do we give them money. Why if there's a funding source, get it right to the police departments and say put these people in the school building because we know it helps so those are the types of things with legislators where we try to say, make it
050easier for us that harder to get these things that we all agree we should have, you know, so, so those are the types of things that are very important when we do have those meetings because the legislators we think sometimes go sit in a big room and all what he's in. Yeah, yeah, they don't listen to what's going on so we try to bring the voice of recent to them and tell them how it should be. Greg I would say the board office piece I think that's a huge step in the right direction. Looks like today policies today it's very hard to navigate. If you don't know the one you're looking for. I think it's critical to our success. Alright so what we'll do is we'll just take a motion to adopt the board goals
051that we have today as a one for in that format. And I'll second that all in favor. Motion carries, so we'll see that our next policy meeting to walk through in depth. Alright, anyone in public that would like to speak on any school matter. All right, not seeing any. We will go. Yeah, the student board member, he's always got some. First. Yes, absolutely. I will go back and change it up. Well, I mean I don't really have much to say today. Others that firstly game on Friday. What are your thoughts on the security or. I did have like one kind of thing with it I was just thinking about. There's a good amount of students who play instruments and then those would kind of make those go off right. Well, yeah, so, yeah, to work
052with that yeah so we can ask that question, you know which one is better for that, and because that's, that's a big place to hide something to right. Yeah. Just not check those cases. Yes, no, exactly. Yes, that's a good point. Yeah, that's just. Yeah, I know in Niagara Falls. Yeah, thank you. I know in Niagara Falls, Mr Lori said he could have opened a night store. After the first month of using the evolve system in Niagara Falls so. So yeah, you never know what's going on but it's, it's not always for vicious reasons either. We find that a lot of people feel like they need to protect themselves or send things like that or. A new hunting night when they wanted to show their friends or something like that. So yeah, so yeah, it
053would be a good, good stuff and those are good cases for that so. All right. Thank you for the presentation, you know, medium to budget. Congratulations. And, you know, thoughts and prayers out there. So, I also want to say that. I was able to attend the tree landing ceremony. Very well done. I saw the student board member there playing his instrument by toddler was obsessed with the band, he just stood there staring at it. Like you would do other things and he just he just loved it so it was very well done and was a lot of fun. I just want to say that I think it's been a tough year for North Carolina, a tough year for the greater Western New York Buffalo community. So, I hope everybody is taking care of themselves, whatever
054that means for you. You know, just to point out that the 988 number exists. You need help if you are in crisis. If you are lucky enough to work for an employer that has an employee associate or a play assistance program like an EAP, my work calls it AP but look into that and get help. Or just talk to friends and family I think everybody is feeling it so there's no you're not alone. So, I just wanted to sort of put that out there for the community that I think it's been hard. We are tough we are resilient but that doesn't mean you should be going through it alone. Absolutely. And then yeah I'll echo all those things and just what we have a special guest here. Mrs Adler on her retirement so thank you
055for all your years of service in North Carolina. We will miss you over there at Spruce when we come to visit so thank you. On your side. Congratulations for 10 year again. Please try and attend the game for Taylor this Friday when light blue baby blue. And I look forward to presenting a fair budget with a lot of new safety measures. Looking forward to it. All right, with no further business coming from the Board of Education just need a motion to adjourn. Second, Cheryl, all in favor. Hi, motion carries and anyone that needs their sheet sign any of us can sign.