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[0:00] We got rich. Yep. I know we have Molly. We have me. We have the superintendent. We have the business manager. We have the ever important shea. Um, so I think we're, uh, is that everybody? I think we're good. Um, all right. Um, I'd like to call the meeting order and it's everyone. Um, do I mean the pledge of allegiance?
[0:30] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands
[0:37] and one nation under God, the individual, the liberty and justice for the offspring.
[0:46] Okay, I just did the roll call, but I'm going to do it again, since we'll be recording this.
[0:51] Please say present.
[0:51] your name is called John Slinker President, Rich Grino, President, Brian Ferris,
[0:58] President, Molly Grimes, President, and Sarah Fronex, President, okay, are there any
[1:06] additions or changes to the agenda?
[1:09] There are not, okay, it was all that the Board of Education of the Alexander Central School
[1:13] District improves the following agenda, do I have a motion?
[1:17] So I'm going to move this with Brian.
[1:19] Okay.
[1:21] Brian's.
[1:21] Give me the motion.
[1:22] A second.
[1:24] All right.
[1:26] I'm going to give that one.
[1:28] I think Rich jumped in first.
[1:30] So we'll give that one to Rich.
[1:31] And this session.
[1:35] And all in favor.
[1:37] Please say your name.
[1:39] Please say aye or opposed when your name is called.
[1:42] John Slinker.
[1:44] Aye.
[1:45] Brian Ferris.
[1:47] Aye.
[1:47] Are you all right?
[1:50] Hi.
[1:51] Terrific.
[1:53] Hi.
[1:55] Motion carries.
[1:57] Round table.
[2:00] We'll do this.
[2:02] Sir, you get to go first.
[2:05] Thank you.
[2:06] I guess I didn't have much to report tonight.
[2:10] Just a question about reports and what they were going to look like.
[2:18] That's a good question. So they will be mailed out. I believe later this week, but I will have Mr.
[2:24] Taff get in touch with you to give you more specifics, okay?
[2:28] Great. Thank you. Okay. Okay.
[2:32] Both.
[2:35] I had the clips. I was going to ask the same thing about report cards that was on my list.
[2:40] Because I figured middle school high school, I know they might hurt you a lot like on school tool.
[2:45] And I had remembered that they said that they were going to mail them out
[2:48] at the end of the year for the kids if I remember correctly but I didn't know what
[2:52] elementary was going to look like now that everything this last trimester was
[2:59] pretty much virtual so that was a question I had as well and then I had another
[3:06] question but it slipped my mind at the moment because it rained down so when I think
[3:16] Brian? I had one, maybe, one, two-part question.
[3:26] We find, but my question is, if you start
[3:29] starts up where they'll be using the field of dreams,
[3:36] or they
[3:42] in regard to the guidelines
[3:44] that the school, the central school district is following, and if the answer is yes,
[3:50] or that they are.
[3:56] That's a good question, Brian. It would be my, it's my understanding
[4:00] that because the youth leagues are not directly associated with the school in the way that
[4:09] say, for example, our basketball team would be that they certainly have to follow the state
[4:15] guidelines, but the school doesn't have any authority over making sure that they follow those
[4:22] guidelines. That would be that organization. And other organizations do use the field of dreams.
[4:29] we would only be responsible for our own teams.
[4:33] Yep, and we don't own the field of dreams so we can maintain it but we have nothing else to do with it, right?
[4:39] That is correct. Okay, good. Thank you.
[4:44] Okay, Rich.
[4:48] No real report. It's been 16 years for your educational 16 years. I learned a lot.
[4:55] I guess I'm looking at this with mixed feelings but it was, it was, it was a great
[5:03] experience and one that, like I said, very educational for me, I wish other people could get
[5:11] information so that they were not going off half, half not knowing what they're talking
[5:20] about.
[5:21] But it's been great.
[5:23] Thank you guys.
[5:24] I really appreciate it.
[5:30] Okay. And then there's me. So I had the privilege of having my daughter in a senior parade and I thought it was really really a nice thing for the kids.
[5:48] I would like to kind of, I would suggest that maybe we think about doing something like this every year,
[5:56] with the, and have the rest of the kids come, like, come out and line the, the path form.
[6:02] I also, today was the last day for teachers. Correct, Katie? That's correct.
[6:08] And I would like to give a big shout out to Katie and the administration for the way they have handled
[6:16] The pandemic, the shutdown,
[6:22] the
[6:23] for lack of a better term in sanity, that it is caused.
[6:28] I think it's done a great job, and I think the staff is really,
[6:32] you know, the administration has really stopped up.
[6:36] And I just want to get a little shout out to Katie and say, thank you, rich, for your, all of your time and effort that you put
[6:47] into the board. So, with that, I'll turn it over to Kate.
[6:51] Thank you. Thank you, John. I'd like to thank the community and we'll a little bit later
[6:57] certify the vote. Our voters did come out and voted to support our budget. We had 933 voters this
[7:06] year. And I'd also like to thank our community for their support during the closure. Thank
[7:12] as well to the teachers, the staff, the administrators, and the students, and the parents for
[7:19] their work during the closure. It has been an absolutely unprecedented time, but we've really
[7:25] come together as a community.
[7:27] I'd also like to thank Lisa and the-
[7:30] Team that tallyed all the votes. You did a remarkable job managing a process that I think was designed to be unmanageable
[7:38] and you did it really well. So thank you so much for that. So congratulations, Rich. Thank you for
[7:46] your service to the district for the last 16 years. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and learning
[7:52] and this district and all things Alexander. Your work is appreciated and we will formally celebrate you
[7:57] and we're no longer just looking at each other on screens,
[8:00] but know how much your leadership, your work,
[8:04] is appreciated, not only by the current board,
[8:07] but by the community, and all of the boards
[8:09] with whom you've served.
[8:10] So thank you very much, Rich.
[8:12] Thanks, Goodie.
[8:14] Congratulations as well with Chris Mullin,
[8:17] who will be our newest board member as of July 1st.
[8:21] And congratulations as well to the people receiving 10 year tonight.
[8:26] Again, we'll be celebrating them and our retirees when we can do that in person.
[8:32] So, congratulations, tenure is a big deal, professionally, so congratulations.
[8:39] Also, in terms of personality, you'll notice that you are approving or being asked to
[8:43] approve department and great chairs. We are not posting or approving any fall coaches or extra
[8:51] curriculars for next year at this point.
[8:54] But we are doing considerable curriculum and instruction work
[8:57] over the summer and our department chairs are charged with
[9:01] leading and facilitating some of that work.
[9:04] So we need to get these people appointed.
[9:06] So that's why you see those particular positions on our agenda
[9:12] tonight.
[9:13] I'd also like to let you know that our food distribution
[9:16] will continue through the summer.
[9:18] So in our current iteration, through distribution will take place until June 29th, that's Monday, June 29th, then we're taking a few days off and we're kicking things back off again on July 6th, Monday, July 6th and that will be from 9 until 11 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, so the schedule will be a little bit different.
[9:47] That information will be included in our community update this Friday, which will also mark the final community update of this school year.
[9:55] So I will include all that information and again, congratulations, Rich, and that concludes my report.
[10:04] Thank you.
[10:08] So, we're going to go to personal actions, resolve the Board of Education of the Alexandria Central School District,
[10:16] on recommendation of the superintendent, approve the personal action as presented to I have a motion.
[10:23] I have a couple questions, would that be okay, John?
[10:27] About the personal actions?
[10:30] Yeah, just I just had a couple quick questions. They were going to be super quick. Hold on. We need to hold on. Hold on. We need to have a motion and a second and then during discussion Brian, you can ask the questions.
[10:41] Okay, that's fine. All right. Okay.
[10:44] So do I have a motion, please?
[10:47] Come on.
[10:48] There was Sarah.
[10:52] We're Molly.
[10:54] Yeah.
[10:55] Do I have a second?
[10:58] I'll second.
[10:59] That was Molly.
[11:01] So now, any discussion and, right, okay, so I have a couple of questions.
[11:06] One was, there's a separate chair for technology and separate chair for why are this?
[11:17] Permitted, we split that department up.
[11:20] We did, during the last contract negotiation, the A U T wanted that as two separate entities,
[11:28] and that does make sense because of the specialized areas on which
[11:35] those two areas focused that wasn't coherent.
[11:39] I would have to find a way to transcribe that in a way that actually makes sense.
[11:44] But the specialty areas were something that they were thinking about.
[11:48] And so we've had that now for about two years, believe?
[11:52] Okay, okay.
[11:53] And then this question is for both the CDO,
[11:57] left department chair and the technology department chair.
[12:00] How many people
[12:06] are there?
[12:06] That is a good question.
[12:09] Like two people,
[12:12] right?
[12:13] Probably no more than three likely.
[12:17] And so we have chairs for three people, two or three people groups, and then there's a county wall or a group. How many?
[12:28] No more than three.
[12:31] Okay.
[12:31] contractually we have contractually the department chairs are paid based on the number of
[12:40] people that they're in charge of. Okay, all right, and that makes sense and then we'll one last
[12:45] question for Kathy Dwyer. What is special area? What is special area department? So that's
[12:52] area includes Fizzad Art, Music, in Elementary Building.
[13:00] You have a special ed or a chair for
[13:07] health and physical education, and Rachel Clark is
[13:09] Arts and Humanities, and then you have a special ed.
[13:13] That's Dan and Rachel are in the secondary buildings, and then Kathy is for the Elementary
[13:20] Building.
[13:22] But then where does Bonnie Balton fall?
[13:26] with Kathy.
[13:31] So is that like
[13:37] the elementary art teacher? Is that just like an elementary
[13:41] thing, the special area department? Correct.
[13:46] And so Fizzette falls under that, even though
[13:49] because Mr. Prong covers the high school. And by and by and by dollars in with the physical
[13:56] education group as a quarters teacher. It's art, music, is that I believe and instrumental music as well?
[14:08] Okay.
[14:11] The library specialist and which department would they be in with English?
[14:18] We had a district librarian. I believe that Christy does work. I'm not sure which
[14:24] which department she falls into. She's supervised by Ryan Keating, but I'm not sure which.
[14:31] I think she might float between departments depending on the need for the library services.
[14:37] Okay, thanks, Kate.
[14:39] And then I'm sorry.
[14:42] Do they do OTPT speech? Do they fall under special ed department?
[14:50] Yes.
[15:01] Okay, before we go on, I know that we're going to give these guys more of a send-off when
[15:10] they get their tenure later, but I would like if Katie, if you would go through the four people
[15:17] that are getting tenure just so they're kind of announced tonight. Sure. So, I am recommending
[15:23] tenure for Ashley Canjellosi, who is our middle school counselor. Emily Geiss, who is a third-grade
[15:30] teacher, Patrick Arena, who is a fourth-grade teacher, and Johnny Lucas, who is a social-study
[15:37] teacher, and our graduating speaker. So congratulations to all of them. It has been a pleasure
[15:42] to watch them grow as professionals, and a pleasure to watch them in practice, and I am thrilled to be
[15:50] to make that recommendation tonight for all of them.
[15:54] Thank you.
[15:55] Okay.
[15:55] Any further discussion?
[16:02] All right.
[16:02] Resolve.
[16:05] Please say hi or oppose when your name is called.
[16:09] John Slinker.
[16:11] Rich Greenham.
[16:13] I'm standing.
[16:14] I mean the a family members.
[16:17] The personnel.
[16:18] Thank for their position.
[16:19] So thank you.
[16:21] Brian Paris.
[16:23] I.
[16:24] Molly Grimes.
[16:28] Thank you very much. Motion carries. Business matters. There are none. We have a bunch of stuff.
[16:41] All right.
[16:43] So, resolve the Board of Education of the Alexander Center School District.
[16:47] Upon the recommendation of the superintendent approves the consent items A through I as
[16:52] is in it. Do I have a motion? So, hold this a breath. Okay, so Brian, a second?
[17:02] I'll second. Sarah. Sarah? All right, and any discussion?
[17:12] Please do I?
[17:21] Well,
[17:24] please say I
[17:25] are opposed when your name is called. John Slinker, I. Rich Greedow. I. Brian Ferris.
[17:32] All right, Molly Grimes?
[17:36] All right.
[17:37] There are for next.
[17:40] Motion carries.
[17:42] Resolved at the Board of Education of the Alexander Central School District is here by approve
[17:47] consent item J emergency replacement of the elementary school freezer from Arctic refrigeration
[17:52] for $10,570 as presented.
[17:56] Do I have a motion?
[17:58] So moved. That was Rich.
[18:04] Hey, second.
[18:07] I'll second this is Brian.
[18:10] Okay. Any discussion?
[18:14] Should it just break?
[18:16] So last Saturday, the temperature went to almost 38 degrees.
[18:23] And they came down and put free on it and told us that the compressor had to be replaced.
[18:28] And that was $4,500, and as you can see, to replace the entire freezer was $10,5, and it was very
[18:37] prudent because we had the money in our cafeteria fund, large fund balance there, and to replace
[18:44] the entire freezer as you can see was $10,5, and it's 18 years old, so I thought that's my way to do it.
[18:52] And that money was in the cafeteria fund?
[18:55] Right, it's not coming out of the general fund.
[18:57] Okay, just as under. Thank you. Yeah. I agree more energy efficient as well.
[19:05] Okay, and he further discussion.
[19:10] They say I are opposed when your name is called John Sliker. I
[19:14] Rich Carina
[19:16] I
[19:17] Brian Paris I
[19:20] Molly Grimes
[19:22] Hi
[19:23] Sarah for days.
[19:28] Hi
[19:29] of education, the Alexander Central School District does here by approve consent item K, the transfer
[19:36] of the excess fund balance, not to exceed 1,600,000 from the 2019-2020 budget, 575,000
[19:47] to the workers' comp reserve and 925,000 to the Employee Retirement Contribution Reserve.
[19:55] Do I have a motion?
[19:59] So moved.
[20:01] Was it rich?
[20:04] A second?
[20:07] I will.
[20:09] Sarah?
[20:11] Discussion.
[20:14] I'm just going to ask Tim.
[20:16] Why are we doing this?
[20:18] So a couple of things.
[20:21] The, this is for the short while that we may see in the state aid for 2021, and this is something we've been discussing about putting it in easily accessible reserves, so we're able to move those at a later time, and then the board would be able to, and the community would see how much money we're in short of the state aid.
[20:45] Okay, thank you sir. Any further discussion?
[20:58] Okay, please say I are opposed when your name is called.
[21:03] I'm going to to go to rich first. I'm going to go last, so I'm not influencing this.
[21:10] It's I just think there's a so rich green up.
[21:15] All right. Brian Ferris.
[21:18] I Molly Grimes.
[21:21] Hi.
[21:22] Sarah Fernese.
[21:24] Hi.
[21:25] John Slinker.
[21:27] Motion carries.
[21:30] Resolve at the Board of Education in the Alexander Central School.
[21:33] Does hereby approve consent item L transfer of 85,000 from workers to
[21:39] reserve. Do I have a motion? So move, this is Brian.
[21:45] A second.
[21:50] I'll second. That's Molly. And discussion. And again, I'm going to, because I kind of
[21:57] want this in the record. 10 if you would. Please explain why we're doing this again.
[22:03] So this 85,000 dollars is being transferred. That's in the current year budget, the 1920 budget. And
[22:10] This is to pay our premium for the school year for our workers' count.
[22:17] Okay. Thank you, sir.
[22:19] For the current school year or next school year.
[22:21] The current school year, we paid it, but we invited it for that in 1920.
[22:27] And that was what it was approved by the voters.
[22:30] Okay.
[22:34] Any further discussion?
[22:39] Okay. Please say aye or oppose when your name is called, rich
[22:43] greener. Aye. Brian Paris. Aye. Molly Grimes? Aye. There are four nays? Aye.
[22:56] That was
[22:56] 9, it broke up on my end.
[23:00] I'm sorry.
[23:01] That was 9.
[23:03] And John Slicker, I, motion carries.
[23:09] Resolved at the Board of Education of the Alexander Central School,
[23:12] who does hereby approve consent item M, the bid from all court floor restoration
[23:19] to it screen and recode floors for $5,975 as presented. Do I have a motion?
[23:29] Some votes. That was a lie. A second?
[23:33] I'll second. Sarah. Sarah. And any discussion?
[23:41] What, what Jim, Jim Flores, right?
[23:43] Well, Jim, both Jim floors the cafeteria floor, the elementary stage, but this is just
[23:52] recording. This isn't fixing the bubble in the elementary gym floor. No, they did that
[23:59] limit to your molly, they pinned it, and we put a temporary fix on that for right now, but this
[24:05] Okay, I'm sorry if I
[24:09] Okay, thank you
[24:13] Okay, any further discussion
[24:18] Please say I suppose when your name is caused it's green up
[24:23] by
[24:24] Brian Harris
[24:26] Aye
[24:27] Molly Grimes
[24:29] Aye
[24:29] Sarah for names
[24:32] Aye
[24:33] And John Slicker, aye, motion carries
[24:37] Resolve at the Board of Education, the Alexander Central School District, upon recommendations of the superintendent approves consent item and voting results of 2020-2021 school budget and the election of one Board of Education member, whereas pursuant to the Article 2-610 of the Education Law Board of Education has received statements from the clerk of the election of the Candace of the votes for the two candidates.
[25:07] for school board number and 2020-2021 school district budget at the school board
[25:14] election and budget vote held by absentee ballot only on June 9, 2020 and has
[25:22] tabulated such statements and determined the number of votes cast now. Therefore
[25:28] be in result that the Board of Education of the Alexander Central School District
[25:32] hereby declares that the two candidates for the Board of Education receive the following number of votes,
[25:40] 511 votes, Christopher Mullin, 350 votes, Diane Steele, and be it further resolved in accordance
[25:47] with Article 2502 of Education Law that the following candidate is hereby elected with a term of office
[25:56] as declared by the Board of Education of the Alexander Central School District as follows,
[26:01] Chris, from on July 1st, 2020 to June 30th, 2025, 5-year term and be it further resolved
[26:11] that the Board of Education does and hereby clears that the 2020-2021 budget in the total
[26:19] amount of 18,540,258 and to assess and levied upon the taxable property of the district,
[26:29] the necessary tax therefore passed by 67% with 611 votes in favor and 306 votes against
[26:41] do I have a motion
[26:47] to move forward with Brian okay I'm going to give that one to Rich
[26:52] That's in first, is that, yeah?
[26:55] I'll second it, right.
[26:59] Any discussion?
[27:03] I have a question.
[27:06] You read June 9th.
[27:12] Molly's vote was June 9th.
[27:14] The ballot.
[27:16] Yeah.
[27:17] I was just wondering how that works.
[27:20] Yes.
[27:20] The actual budget vote date was June 9th.
[27:28] but the vote still took place on June 9th.
[27:32] Okay, I did, I just was wondering how that works.
[27:35] Okay, thank you.
[27:42] Any further discussion?
[27:47] Please say aye or opposed when your name is called.
[27:51] Rich Greenham.
[27:54] Ryan Ferris.
[27:57] Now are you Brian's?
[27:58] Aye.
[27:59] Sarah for names?
[28:01] Aye.
[28:02] And John Sliker, I didn't want to say this in the discussion because I didn't want to
[28:09] influence your vote, but I think when you get a budget pass by 67% and that many people
[28:16] have voted, it is a resounding vote of confidence for our superintendent and the management
[28:26] of the school. And I just wanted to say thank you.
[28:34] So, let's see,
[28:41] the information and
[28:44] education of Jesse County RFC Partnership Agreement for U.P.K. programs. That's in your packet.
[28:52] I'm sorry, I just said a quick question. Those are just yearly renewals, correct?
[28:57] That is correct. Yeah. Thank you.
[29:01] Is there any for an executive session?
[29:07] Very good.
[29:10] Do I have a motion to adjourn?
[29:13] So moved.
[29:15] Okay, that was Molly.
[29:16] A second?
[29:18] I will second, Sarah.
[29:20] Sarah?
[29:21] All in favor?
[29:25] Frotal.
[29:26] Rich Green.
[29:26] Rich Green.
[29:28] Hi.
[29:29] Ryan Paris.
[29:31] Hi.
[29:32] Molly Grimes.
[29:33] Hi.
[29:34] There are four days.
[29:35] Hi.
[29:36] And John Slicker.
[29:40] The time is 7.
[29:45] 30.
[29:46] So everybody enjoyed the rest of their day and we will.
[29:51] Uh... uh... see you soon, hopefully.
[29:55] Congratulations, Rich.
[29:57] Yes, congratulations, Rich.
[30:01] And now if you're everybody.