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Callers meeting to order. Please stand for the flight. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the State of America.

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Welcome to the September 21st regular meeting of the Board of Ed.

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We're going to turn it open up for public comment.

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Seeing none, we'll close public comment and we'll move on to

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the superintendent report items.

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Thank you.

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We do have a student group here tonight,

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but I'm gonna do a couple things before we go to them.

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So ask your patients for a second.

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Just in terms of an opening of school overview,

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it's hard to believe that today was the 10th day

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of school already.

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I'm not quite sure how that happened,

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but we're off to a great start.

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We've had three of our four open houses.

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I don't want to steal the thunder of our principals

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and administrators but you know we have our open houses are almost done false

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sports are underway. I do want to congratulate CREF on another great annual

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fundraiser golf tournament that they held on September 12th and finally had some

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good weather for it. I want to give a shout out and a thank you to the Bank of

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Richmondville with the help of CREF for sponsoring the all staff breakfast on our

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all staff conference in September 3rd and just give a shout out to everybody our entire staff

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for making the opening smooth especially transportation. Shane and his team down at the bus

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garage they have never been more short staffed in general but then with some unexpected hurdles as well

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and I know the principal might speak to this or they can attest to the fact that Shane continues

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to modify and adjust through a ton of daily basis and work miracles to deal with what's

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really becoming a crushing driver shortage for us.

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Also thank you to the facilities team for working around a capital project to make sure

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that our buildings look great for the opening of school.

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Very excited to announce from the Food Service Department that per conversations at the board

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level last spring. And with the new bid through Boses, Hallmilk is being offered in our schools this year.

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And another opening of school thing is Saturday, September 26th, weird that it falls on a Saturday.

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But it's National PTO Appreciation Day, so I just want to take the opportunity, since this is our last

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board meeting before that date to thank Crest for all that they do for our students and staff.

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They really do work very hard to make a lot of great opportunities available.

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So we appreciate their support.

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In terms of capital project update, I'll keep it real short.

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Work is ongoing at gold and finishing up entrances and steps.

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I can assure everybody that the wooden railings are temporary and the real ones are coming.

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at Ryder some lower work, some work is being done on the lower playground. So that

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playground is for about nine days is going to be unavailable but the students

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are able to use the upper playground until the heavy equipment is out of that

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area. It's just to accommodate one more piece being put in but the area needed to

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be leveled in fence first and we don't want students near heavy equipment so

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that we're adjusting.

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At Radys, we're working through the completion

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of the new PE office in storage suite,

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and we're waiting on the delivery of the stage curtain

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and we'll schedule installation of that

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sometime this fall.

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And we just received state-ed approval

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on sort of a phase three of the project,

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which will be new boilers at Radys.

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So we're hoping to go out to bed sometime this fall

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with that work hopefully beginning

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late spring and through the summer of next year and at the high school or

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wait just waiting on the delivery of the exterior door sat and we'll be

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scheduling those on one door set at a time. Okay so I'm gonna stop there. We have

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an outstanding group of student leaders here with us from the FFA tonight.

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They're here with their advisor Mr. Ferreira who I wasn't for for reasons that he

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We didn't know if he was going to be here or not, but he could run out at any minute

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as well, but they're here to present their proposed trip to National Convention, which

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is on the agenda for board approval.

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So, welcome.

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So I'll start us off, Justin Freire, FFA teacher, FFA advisor, and Ag teacher over in high

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school. Third child on the way. Due date was like the 15th and the 21st and then you know

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any any day minute hour who knows my wife would probably like two weeks ago but it's all right.

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Happy to be here today to present this trip so the one thing I wanted to say before the kids

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introduce themselves and get talking about it. This is actually going to be my first national

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convention that I don't go to. Deb Fletcher is covering my leave and I'm gone for two weeks is

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is also going to be going with them.

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On the trip to national convention, luckily she's been one or two times.

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She's got it down by the back of her hand, but they're going to be in good hands.

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It's going to be a good trip.

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I know they're going to have a great time, and then we also just got some

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relatively recent news that also makes the trip a little bit more exciting,

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but I'll let them talk all about it.

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So yeah, so we have 11 members attending

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nationals this year from cobalt scale with one state winning team that will be competing at

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nationals and we'll kind of get into that a little later into a presentation. But before we start

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our presentation, we're going to introduce ourselves. So my name is Olivia Veniva and I'm currently serving

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as our chapters president.

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Perfect.

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So

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we'll start with the cost. So our cost is going to include

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Over the weekend convention, the students will only be responsible for their fast food

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lunches, as well as any spending money, so if we go on shopping trips during the convention

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and stuff.

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This will also include tours, entertainment, dinner, hotel buses, convention registration,

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sessions, career show.

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They're all included in the overall cost for the students, which is 900, and that's 1200

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for advisors. And then we also do plan on doing some fundraising to help with our students'

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cost. So our biggest being our apple cider sale that we're doing right now at the

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high school. And we'll also be doing it the football game for homecoming. And then we

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also have a Hollis candy fundraiser coming up that will be included in the cost to hopefully

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bring it down.

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Okay, so of course you guys want to know where we're going. So our first

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office to me, Perry's ice cream in our urban New York, we're going to learn about the

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process and commodity of New York's largest industry.

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Second is when we are select sires in plain city Ohio, we're going to learn about the processes

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and growing and selling quality dairy cows.

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And last one, the Mammoth City National Park in Mammoth, Kentucky, where I take a trail that

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is home to the largest cave in the system.

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kind of adding on to our trips is we're kind of taking a different route this year so every year

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We take a different route to get down to Indianapolis and we make different stops every year

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So part of the way we're traveling is we're gonna go down through Tennessee

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And so we're gonna stop at the country music hall of fame in Nashville

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Which is a pretty cool museum that's dedicated to over 161 legendary country singers

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So we're super excited about that

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We're also going to explore downtown Nashville a little bit as we're down there obviously.

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And then kind of wrapping it up at the Bell Med Historic Site in Nashville.

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We're just going to explore some historic buildings down in Nashville before we head over to Indianapolis.

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So then our final stop is obviously Indianapolis, which is where our convention is held.

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While we're there, it's about three days that we're there.

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There is many workshops that we can do.

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So, anything in agriculture, you basically are never standing still at National Convention.

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So, Expo Center, there's a whole bunch of colleges, careers, big brands like John Deere,

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and it's cool to walk around and, you know, talk to them and get a job, or get a job at college.

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So, then the shopping mall, a lot of people's favorites.

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I can almost guarantee that you will walk out with less money than you walk in there.

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And then sessions.

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So sessions for us is like up the big meeting.

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So out of the three days, there's five or six sessions.

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It really is around two a day.

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So and those are basically big meetings, they'll announce winners for all the competitions

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and whatever jobs that are going to go on the next year and what happen the previous

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year.

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This year at State Fair our dairy evaluation team won first place competition and now we

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are going to national convention to compete.

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So some skills at this competition test is your knowledge of dairy cows and the dairy

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industry and also you have to place cows into classes and place them correctly in order to

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score the most points and you also have to defend these placing fairly giving your reasons

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on why they're placed that way.

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So we're able to compete at nationals because we were the top team at State Fair over the

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summer and all four of us placed in the top 10. So Olivia being first, Draco being second,

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I was seventh and Logan was ninth all individual.

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So we're super excited obviously as a chapter to attend Nationals again this year, but

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we are the only team that will be competing out at Nationals, I'm out of the 11 of us, which

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were super excited for, but there are a little bit of us going.

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And then these are a couple of our photos that we got to take at StateFair with our banner

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as a team.

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But yeah, is there any questions you guys have for us?

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Is this the first time you've competed at Nationals?

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So...

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I think it's the first time we've talked.

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No, I actually got the privilege of competing a couple of years ago in the Dairy Handlers

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competition out at Nationals. So I had one at State Fair in London Nationals. So this will be my

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second time competing at Nationals. I think for the rest of us this is our first time competing.

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Yes and then last year Connor competed and Ag McKenna. Actually I made my team so those four of us all

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together so we made three others went out today and competed.

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That seems like an awesome trip

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for 900 dollars in Nashville and all that that's amazing. We are so excited.

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Congratulations again for winning at States, and I'm very excited for you guys for this trip.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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We want to warm up on that.

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Is everybody okay with moving it up?

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So I will make a motion to approve.

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Hi, seconded.

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All in favor?

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Hi.

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Opposed?

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Carried.

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Enjoy your trip.

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Thank you.

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Congratulations.

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Nice job.

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Nice job.

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It's pretty exciting.

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Especially the dairy team.

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I'll just like to make this point.

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So they were like, uh, let's do this dairy competition. I'm like, okay, we got three solid members

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We need a fourth because Logan old enough yet to do the composition and for all four of them to go in there and place top 10 for the first time ever

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competing now, trust me live and Jacob and Logan. They're all very seasoned animal people. They've done very well in many things in the past

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But it's just really cool for me as advisor to see how great that they did

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and now they get to bring that to the national stage.

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So, how do you guys want to do this?

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Thanks.

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I want to give an update on the CASDA optimization study

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in the next step.

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So, we've been working with CASDA, the capillary

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of school development association since June.

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They've been collecting data to support, eventually,

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the recommendations and the best long-term use

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of the district's resources.

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So the data collection has been going on all summer.

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They're getting ready to move into the community engagement portion of that.

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So I put an email out recently to families and

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sent it to local municipalities and we put on Facebook offering the opportunity to join a district planning advisory committee.

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This is a non decision making advisory committee that will act as a sounding board for

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the consultants as they design focus group questions and survey questions and then collect

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and analyze that data.

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So we had an overwhelming response of 27 people aiming for a committee of 10 to 15.

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So we've selected 15, communication went out to those 15 today and a different communication

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to the other 12, just waiting back for RSVPs, but in for those 12 who were not selected

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You could run and make the word.

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Sure, there is a good cross section of different roles and perspectives across the district. But there will be additional opportunities for people who are not selected to participate, because there will be focus groups, there will be surveys. And then ultimately, once CAST, it makes recommendations in the board, you know, receives those, decides what they want to do with it. The long range planning process will continue, and I imagine there will be other opportunities as part of that process.

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us for people who are interested to get involved.

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So excited to be taking the next steps,

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and there will be the first meeting of the District Planning

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Advisory Committee will be September 30th,

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with a likelihood of another meeting mid to late October,

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and then possibly one more in December.

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But we'll keep the board and the community up to date

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on the progress and all the different opportunities.

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And we are aiming for to receive CASD's final recommendations no later than mid-Jing

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where of 2027.

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It's exciting to see the response.

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Yeah, there are a lot of people who want to be involved.

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So New York inspires and I give an update and attempt to clarify some confusion has resulted

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from some unanticipated action by the Board of Regents on Mondays and

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New York inspires is start as the Blue Ribbon Commission has evolved into New York

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inspires. It is the state ed Board of Regents initiative to basically completely

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revamp what it means and what it looks like to graduate from high school in New York

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State. There's a lot of different pieces to it. The ultimate goal is to revamp

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part educational systems that it reflects the diverse strengths, interest, and aspirations

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of today's students, giving additional opportunities to demonstrate learning and competency.

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Part of that is the creation of a portrait of a graduate, which was released last year,

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but we're still waiting for more clarification of.

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And then another piece of this that has been talked about in an effort to give students

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different and additional and multiple opportunities to demonstrate their

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learning is a decoupling of the regents exams from graduation requirements. This

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has caused a tremendous amount of confusion because every time there's an

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announcement related to this it is reported that the regents exams are going

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away. The regents exams are not going away. They will continue to be

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an option for students to demonstrate their learning.

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Students over time, as districts develop other measures, will have other opportunities.

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But the regents exams will still be offered.

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What caused the most recent confusion was that this decoupling of the regents exams from

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graduation requirements was supposed to take effect with the 2027 cohort.

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In state ed speak, a cohort is a group that enters ninth grade together.

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So it was supposed to be next year's ninth graders,

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meaning this year's eighth graders.

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And then they announced on Monday that the decoupling of Regions Exam will start with the class

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of 2028 this year's juniors. Some of whom have already taken five or seven

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regents exams. Those regents exams still count, they still matter, they should

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still plan on taking the regents exams that they're scheduled to take in

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June because we're still waiting for a lot more information about what the

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other measures and alternatives will be. So right now all existing graduation

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some requirements remain in effect and where I'm going to be working with the administrative

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team to put together messaging in the next week or two that will go out.

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But I just want to pause for a second before sending that communication to make sure

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that there isn't another twist or another surprise announcement before we do.

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But there are a lot of questions yet to be answered.

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For example, you know, the 3 through 8 testing program that's been around for quite a long time in the New York State

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Shares a lot of roles one of the roles that it serves is it meets the federal

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Accountability requirement those tests go towards our federal

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S.A. Every student that succeeds that requirements will so do some of the regents exams and

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And if students start having the option of not taking a regents exam, we still have

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a requirement to have tests that every student takes towards federal accountability.

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So you might actually see the three through eight assessment program, which is high stakes

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for schools, not high stakes for students, expand to become a 3-11 testing program.

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So you might have new English, math, and social studies assessments that meet the federal

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accountability piece while the regents exams are optional as a graduation measure.

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So they answered, well they made an announcement and they created a lot of questions.

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So we're eagerly awaiting the answers to those questions and deciding how we're going

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to respond to what we're going to craft at the local level to give our students the best

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opportunities in relation to that new structure.

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But the message to take from tonight is Regents Exams are not going away and all current

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graduation requirements remain in effect and we'll keep everybody updated.

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And once we know more, sometime this year, I expect there to be a collaborative presentation

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at a board meeting landed out.

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We just don't know nearly enough to do that at this point.

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Pause for a second just in case there's any questions that I can't answer.

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And at this point, I will turn it over to our elementary principals for our elementary division

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report and we will start with Mrs. Westwalfe or Ryder.

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Okay, so we've had a successful opening to school at Ryder.

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It's always a little, a lot of unknown actually with our first newest learners coming in, but

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we've had really smooth transition into the year.

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In the area of student learning, students across grades K through two have focused on building classroom

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communities, getting their classroom culture kind of in that positive set mindset, establishing

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routines, starting to get into their core math and ELA instruction. Second grade students

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launched a science investigations unit through involving animal classification as a starting

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point for them. Academic screening and intervention work is also underway. The math fluency assessments

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are complete for grades one through two. The literacy foundation screener is being completed now

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to identify to kind of further drill down for students needing extra support in

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reading. Happy numbers assessments will take place at the end of September that's

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the math our benchmark assessment for math and the math interventions already

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began based on the June results and after that happy numbers assessment we'll

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kind of look at our group exactly we need to make adjustments and reading

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interventions will start soon as soon as that last screener is completed. So, we're

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all underway there. In the area of student support, so there's been a strong

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emphasis on routines. Again, every step of the way, what does everything look like

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explicit teaching of expectations, relationship building, community classroom

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community development. PE classes have reinforced school-wide expectations as well

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and they do a really great job of training on the playground for both the

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students and the playground monitors, recess monitors, which has been wonderful,

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especially with our new playgrounds and what that equipment looks like, it's a

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little different, there's a really cool like merry-go-round spinny thing that needs

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some training.

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They also are working, so they do a lot of wellness initiatives and

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partner with Marathon Kids and Rising New York Roadrunners.

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In their adaptive PE classes, they've been working on sizing the bike helmets and bikes

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for those students.

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And they're all learning their driving, they're earning their driver's licenses on the bikes,

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which is the final lesson that they give.

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That's cute.

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And the music classes have begun preparing writers veterans day for their veterans day assembly,

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So,

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the staff learning, the math curriculum committee met over the summer to finalize

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pacing guides and instructional supports for each grade level.

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And I believe that was K-8, I believe she met K-8.

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So that was exciting to see, she met with each grade level, I think, fans of 2 to 3 grade

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levels over the summer.

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Under student and family engagement, the Title I family night took place prior to her open

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house last week. There were literacy and math activities out in the big

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cafeteria for families to partake in. And then following that was our open house,

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which is always very well attended, despite the downpour that happened.

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Our kindergarten students are preparing for their first field trip to the pumpkin

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in patch on October 1st. Our book bears this week sponsored by Crest. Parent

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Knight for that is this Thursday from three to six. And other upcoming events

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we have planning has begun for writers, first turkey trot event. Our P teachers

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are knee deep and planning that and I have very limited detail. So I'm happy to

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share that in the spot, but I know a little bit more. By our prevention month,

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this week is coming up. We're partnering with the local fire department. Our PE

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teachers also collaborate, like plan collaborative, like stations and

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things aligned to what the fire department is going to be teaching. So that's

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exciting. And then our cardiac emergency procedures will be reviewed with all

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students and PE classes this week also. I think that's it. I'm busy a few weeks.

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Great. Thank you very much.

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And now Mrs. Kaplow for Radys.

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Good evening. Under our Radys is also off to a good start.

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Under our student learning category, we have completed our universal screenings

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and our intervention team has begun working with students

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who need Tier 2 and Tier 3 instruction.

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We had our Title I parent night right before our open house and we had 126 people sign in that evening just for the Title I meeting.

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So that was a huge success under our student support and school culture area.

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I wanted to highlight a special project that Laurie Masserson has been working on and is in the process of completing.

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She invited all of our students and staff, grades three through five, to participate and collaborate on an art project called Our School Shines.

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Everyone created a six by six inch diamond using their own colors, patterns, and ideas.

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there were no rules to this. We were just asked to create a diamond and what we

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would like it to look like. She wanted us to keep in mind how are you like a

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diamond so that was kind of like the theme for the students. When all the

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diamonds come together they will create one enormous collaborative work that

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she is going to post. I think we're going to put it on the hall where the nurse's offices.

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It will be 16 feet wide and 5 feet tall.

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For this, Ms. Masterson, she wanted to show everybody's

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individuality, connection, and community, and each diamond to be different and special on its own,

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But really highlight that when you they come together, there's something much bigger that we all create together.

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Another big highlight of the month was our new playground addition.

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And if you haven't been over there to see it, you should get over there.

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The kids were excited.

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The first few days of recess, we walked through with every grade appropriate use of this addition.

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and they were thrilled and excited to explore it and show me all of the

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blisters on their hands that they're getting from all of the planet so that's

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fun.

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Also at Radys we had a lot of new staff and new faces to the building even

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if they're not new to our CRCSD community. So on September 11th we had a school

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wide assembly just for the staff and students where we spend some time introducing all of

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the staff members of RADIs so that the students could see different faces and put the names

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to those faces. After we then did a jeopardy style game of reviewing our RADIs rules and we

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ended the assembly with our moment of silence to recognize all of those families and people

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who were affected by 9-11.

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So that was something new we tried,

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which was a huge success.

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I think the students enjoyed it,

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and it was a great way to end and kind of be together

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for that moment.

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To recognize 9-11.

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Under student and family engagement, along with our parent night, we had our open house, and we had 223 families attend open house. So that was a huge success as well. It was a very busy evening at Radys. Something new we're going to try at Radys this year is a student advisory team for fourth and fifth grade.

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So this is going to be a group of 10 students and they will have the opportunity for once

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a month to eat with me at lunch and we're going to kind of discuss their ideas and perspectives

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and feedback about things that we could do at Radies to help improve it or for them to

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share their ideas for Radies' rallies, just some way to have their voice heard within

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the building and then upcoming events we have tomorrow we are going to participate in the wall

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that heals. This is where we are going to be out on the front lawn the entire school. We're

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gonna have our little flags just kind of supporting the there is a kind of like a parade of vehicles going

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through that are carrying a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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and they're passing through Richmondville, so we're going to be out there showing them

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our support.

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And then our first radius rally will be held on October 2nd.

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Your student advisory group there is going to be the same 10 kids all year and it will rotate

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them around a little bit.

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So it's going to be the same 10 kids all year.

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I'm working with the fourth and fifth grade teachers,

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the team about how we're going to select the students

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because we kind of want a wide variety and perspective.

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And we're I'm also thinking about and talking with the third

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grade teachers maybe towards the end of the year,

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invite some third graders that might be interested

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to come and see what it's about.

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Sounds like a great idea.

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Thank you. Any other questions?

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It might be a great idea to invite some of our student board members to one of those meeting.

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Good idea.

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So much with the importance of this greater, so it'll be fun.

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Thank you.

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And now, Mr. Sander, for information technology.

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Good evening everyone. Just some updates on what we've been up to past

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couple of weeks. This is by far our busiest time of the year. We're just running

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around everywhere.

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Everybody comes back all at once and needs everything all at

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once. So we're getting it done. Mike and Jollard working their magic and making

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sure everybody has what they need. A big part of that is accounts. We did have Emma

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and guidance over here that usually helped with that,

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but she was fortunate to move up and be teaching here now.

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So, you know, not only does our team support the 2,000 people here,

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but we have, you know, the families that need support

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with getting on the parent portal.

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We've made about 240 and 50 parent portal accounts

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to start the school year, which is great.

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I mean, it takes a little bit of time,

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but that means parents are involved looking at their students grades,

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see what's going on in their lives so that's every time it's made it's it's

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worked but it's good.

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Countless password resets, the town's being unlocked.

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Get a

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couple of those every day. A new student accounts. That's another one. Just

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everything. I mean everything is software based now and everything needs an

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account. Teachers maybe have their own software that they've ordered for their

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specific curriculum and that just needs a council. You know we work closely with

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the teachers with Mr. McDonald in his office and we just really try to keep everybody getting

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what they need. Also the usual classroom setup requests, we think we have everything

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where it needs to be and then a new teacher and they don't like that and it has to be moved.

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So just those sorts of things but again just getting it all done. Also new phone setting up

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their accounts, again accounts accounts accounts. But we also had some other things pop up

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that we think we have handled for right now with a high school PA system was having some issues but I think we have a

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solution for now

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Working Mike and I worked on that mostly Mike

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Is that the original

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That

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could use an update

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And if we need to order something else we also might research some stuff and we can probably buy something if we had to

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before going larger like we did with Golding here last year.

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The other one that's driving us crazy, or me crazy, maybe a little bit, is our fishing

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emails.

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We can go over them, we can talk about them, but they are so tempting to click on, and people

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click on them.

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So, then we have to process where we go online, we have force a password reset.

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We have to force them to log out of everything.

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Then the fun one is, they say I don't get any emails, there was filters put on to push everything

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to the trash. So there's a whole process. We're getting unfortunately pretty good at it.

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But hopefully we can block those out. I've been in contact with their schools. It just seems

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there's an uptick in those kinds of emails. And again, just help out Mr. Sickles. He's always looking

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for gift cards. I'm a frequent target. Or a war. I guess I'm the war.

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On the other side of things, so on the safety side, so I also serve as our district's safety

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coordinator.

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So the new safety charts were given out, they nicely laminated theirs, they hung up,

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so just the new charts for what a lockout is and all the different protocols that we have.

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Those were handed out and provided to all teachers.

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Everyone's done some fire jules and everyone has used the tap app this year to do their

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fire drills in conjunction so that seems to be going well and then we're

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looking for that next step to tie in our police force which I think we're we're

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close.

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Miss Vanilla posted our blurps to the state portal and like Miss Westball said

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the cardiac review will be happening shortly for all of our students.

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Hectic start to the year but we're getting through it.

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Any any questions?

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It's great to hear the tap app getting used.

453
00:37:10,860 --> 00:37:13,520
Yeah, everybody has used it this year, so that's good.

454
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:14,260
Excellent.

455
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:16,200
Thanks, Dave.

456
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,140
And that concludes our report for tonight.

457
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,280
All right.

458
00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:24,620
We will move on to consensus items.

459
00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:27,420
Consideration of the Board of Education Minutes,

460
00:37:27,540 --> 00:37:32,460
where the September, for the August 24th regular meeting,

461
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,800
and the September 9th special meeting,

462
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:44,980
consideration of committee on special education recommendations, consideration of committee on preschool special education recommendations, and the consideration of equipment disposal.

463
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:48,720
Second.

464
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:49,800
All in favor?

465
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:50,720
Aye.

466
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:51,580
Opposed?

467
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:52,640
Carried.

468
00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:55,720
Personnel classified civil service appointments.

469
00:37:56,260 --> 00:38:04,320
Yes, I'm excited to recommend that the board approve the appointment of Marcus Almo as both a school bus driver and a school monitor,

470
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:17,700
52-week probationary period for both effective September 16th salaries for each of those positions listed, and that's due to a comedy training at one level, and then movement into the bus driver.

471
00:38:21,870 --> 00:38:26,580
All in favor? Opposed?

472
00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:31,360
Carried. Personnel substitute, temporary and miscellaneous appointments.

473
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:38,380
Yes, I recommend the approval of the small collection of substitute temporary miscellaneous appointments as presented.

474
00:38:41,410 --> 00:38:42,250
All in favor?

475
00:38:42,830 --> 00:38:43,090
Aye.

476
00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:43,930
Opposed?

477
00:38:44,610 --> 00:38:45,010
Carried.

478
00:38:45,630 --> 00:38:48,750
Personnel, adjustments, and or eliminations of positions.

479
00:38:49,250 --> 00:38:59,130
Yes, I recommend the board approve the adjustment of Ruth Kasmus' period of service as an extended substitute to extend through November 30th.

480
00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:00,250
Move to approve.

481
00:39:01,090 --> 00:39:01,430
Second.

482
00:39:03,450 --> 00:39:04,250
Opposed?

483
00:39:04,650 --> 00:39:05,390
Carried.

484
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:08,490
Personnel leaves of absence unpaid leaves.

485
00:39:08,870 --> 00:39:14,250
Yes, I recommend that the board approve these two leaves for reasons unique to each individual.

486
00:39:15,630 --> 00:39:16,210
Two approved.

487
00:39:18,150 --> 00:39:18,530
Second.

488
00:39:19,050 --> 00:39:19,470
Opposed?

489
00:39:20,090 --> 00:39:20,890
Carried.

490
00:39:20,890 --> 00:39:21,650
Opposed?

491
00:39:22,010 --> 00:39:22,430
Carried.

492
00:39:22,810 --> 00:39:24,690
Personnel, resignations, and retirements.

493
00:39:24,690 --> 00:39:41,490
Yes, I recommend that the board accept the water resignation for purpose of retirement from Jacqueline Grubino with appreciation for her service to the district, that they accept the resignations of Joanne Capone as a school monitor.

494
00:39:42,090 --> 00:39:47,870
Aaron Henry is a modified football coach as he gets ready to begin his military service.

495
00:39:47,870 --> 00:39:50,450
as we wish him the very best in thanking for his service.

496
00:39:51,290 --> 00:39:53,310
Jessica Saltsman as a school monitor

497
00:39:53,310 --> 00:39:55,770
and Hurley and Zurich as a school monitor

498
00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:57,550
effective dates has listed.

499
00:40:00,650 --> 00:40:01,340
All in favor?

500
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:02,320
All right.

501
00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:03,160
Opposed?

502
00:40:03,780 --> 00:40:04,220
Carried.

503
00:40:06,410 --> 00:40:07,590
I'll take the next one.

504
00:40:08,650 --> 00:40:11,070
I moved that the Board of Education hereby

505
00:40:11,070 --> 00:40:13,730
authorizes Superintendent of Schools Matthew Sickles

506
00:40:13,730 --> 00:40:15,570
to a conditionally appoint candidates

507
00:40:15,570 --> 00:40:17,470
for unfilled vacant positions

508
00:40:17,940 --> 00:40:19,710
and conditionally approve necessary

509
00:40:19,710 --> 00:40:28,270
personal adjustments effective September 22nd, 2026 with subsequent board approval on or before the October 5th, 2026 meeting. That is my motion.

510
00:40:29,490 --> 00:40:29,510
Second.

511
00:40:29,990 --> 00:40:30,590
All in favor?

512
00:40:31,070 --> 00:40:31,410
Aye.

513
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:32,530
Opposed?

514
00:40:33,110 --> 00:40:33,710
Carried.

515
00:40:34,350 --> 00:40:35,550
Gift acceptance.

516
00:40:36,930 --> 00:40:43,070
I move upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, the Board of Education that we accept the following donations with great appreciation.

517
00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:48,290
We have $100 from Rose and Gary Sermon for the backpack program at all four schools.

518
00:40:48,290 --> 00:40:56,070
500 board fee of Eastern White Pine Lumber with an estimate value of a thousand dollars

519
00:40:56,070 --> 00:41:02,430
for Mr. Carson's wood shop class from Mr. Leonard Lilly of Irving Forest products.

520
00:41:02,830 --> 00:41:03,330
Thank you.

521
00:41:03,470 --> 00:41:04,130
That is my motion.

522
00:41:05,570 --> 00:41:05,950
Second.

523
00:41:06,450 --> 00:41:06,930
All in favor?

524
00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:07,870
Aye.

525
00:41:08,210 --> 00:41:08,650
Opposed?

526
00:41:09,370 --> 00:41:09,830
Carried.

527
00:41:11,110 --> 00:41:16,570
Out of state trip, FFA National Convention, we already approved professional learning plan.

528
00:41:16,570 --> 00:41:31,330
Yes, so last school year, after a long process through the professional growth committee our multi-year professional learning plan was updated and the board approved that for a three year period.

529
00:41:31,530 --> 00:41:45,110
However, there are some submissions of the stated portal that require proof of annual approval, so I'm recommending annual re-approval of the professional learning plan with no changes from last year.

530
00:41:45,110 --> 00:41:46,710
Move to approve.

531
00:41:47,490 --> 00:41:48,990
On favor?

532
00:41:49,610 --> 00:41:50,490
Opposed?

533
00:41:51,070 --> 00:41:51,390
Carried.

534
00:41:51,990 --> 00:41:54,210
The Corwin Consultancy Agreement.

535
00:41:54,630 --> 00:42:00,990
Yes, I recommend the approval of an agreement with Corwin Press for consultancy to provide

536
00:42:00,990 --> 00:42:06,890
visible learning, professional development and support at the early childhood education level.

537
00:42:07,370 --> 00:42:11,630
This is aligned to an embedded N-R-U-P-K grant.

538
00:42:15,620 --> 00:42:18,460
All in favor, Aye.

539
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:19,500
Opposed?

540
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:20,720
Carried.

541
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:23,140
Consulting agreement for own.

542
00:42:23,580 --> 00:42:32,040
Yes, coming for own is a retired literacy coordinator who has continued to support our

543
00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:38,460
literacy program with coaching and curriculum development services and this is an annual agreement

544
00:42:38,460 --> 00:42:40,300
with her that I recommend for approval.

545
00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:49,150
move to approve. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Opposed? Carried.

546
00:42:51,660 --> 00:42:57,820
Expressive journeys LLC in district agreement. I guess this is an agreement to

547
00:42:57,820 --> 00:43:02,900
provide music therapy services to special education students in district at

548
00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:03,760
the rates listed.

549
00:43:05,980 --> 00:43:06,580
Move to approve.

550
00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:14,580
Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

551
00:43:14,580 --> 00:43:17,840
Expressive journeys LLC out of district agreement.

552
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:23,500
Yes, this is for the same thing, music therapy services for students that are placed out of district.

553
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,300
Move to approve.

554
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:26,280
Second.

555
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:27,280
All in favor.

556
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:27,880
Hi.

557
00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:28,360
Hi.

558
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:29,360
Opposed?

559
00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:30,360
Carried.

560
00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:34,000
It's a Harry County preschool special needs program agreement.

561
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:42,980
Yes, this establishes a reimbursement done model for our special education preschool services that we provide.

562
00:43:42,980 --> 00:43:45,840
the county is responsible to pay for them monetarily.

563
00:43:51,660 --> 00:43:52,780
All in favor?

564
00:43:53,220 --> 00:43:53,420
Aye.

565
00:43:53,820 --> 00:43:54,400
Opposed?

566
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:55,700
Carried.

567
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:56,840
I'm staying.

568
00:44:00,310 --> 00:44:00,610
Got that.

569
00:44:02,150 --> 00:44:04,870
Ed Law, 2D, and Data Privacy Resolution?

570
00:44:05,890 --> 00:44:10,650
Yes, this is an agreement with the RIC-1 policies

571
00:44:10,650 --> 00:44:15,590
to provide to establish the data privacy agreements

572
00:44:15,590 --> 00:44:17,910
for third-party vendors.

573
00:44:19,670 --> 00:44:28,370
second. All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Consideration of transportation contract.

574
00:44:29,250 --> 00:44:34,790
Yes, this contract is with a parent at the rate of $14.36 per day and that is based

575
00:44:34,790 --> 00:44:41,750
on the IRS mileage reimbursement rate. Move to approve. Second. All in favor?

576
00:44:41,750 --> 00:44:42,410
Aye.

577
00:44:42,830 --> 00:44:43,370
Opposed?

578
00:44:44,170 --> 00:44:44,950
Carried.

579
00:44:45,510 --> 00:44:47,630
Consideration of Transportation Contract.

580
00:44:49,850 --> 00:44:53,470
Non-resident tuition rates for 2026, 2027.

581
00:44:54,130 --> 00:44:59,150
Yes, I'm recommending that we approve these rates based on our 2425.

582
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,920
Calculated rates by the state, our 2627 rates won't be calculated and ready until the fall of 28. So for now, I'd like to set these rates. And if we have to, we would retroactively issue refunds and billing statements. Do we have any students that are non-resident said, do you pay tuition right now? I think we have one. It varies from year to year, depending on

583
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:36,460
I mean, I know we have a lot of non-resident students, but that are that don't pay tuition for

584
00:45:36,460 --> 00:45:41,960
right. We have very few that are apparently placed and usually they're looking for property

585
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,820
in the district and once they are under contract for property in the district they don't have to pay

586
00:45:46,820 --> 00:45:52,100
for tuition anymore. So it's usually a temporary arrangement. We'd have one graduate last year

587
00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:53,280
Is it your intuition?

588
00:45:59,170 --> 00:46:00,310
All in favor?

589
00:46:00,730 --> 00:46:00,950
Aye.

590
00:46:01,650 --> 00:46:02,150
Opposed?

591
00:46:03,190 --> 00:46:03,590
Carried.

592
00:46:04,330 --> 00:46:05,850
403 adoption agreement.

593
00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:07,010
Yes.

594
00:46:07,210 --> 00:46:12,290
This is just to reestablish our 403B plan with no changes.

595
00:46:12,470 --> 00:46:15,970
It's just a stay in compliance with IRS regulations.

596
00:46:16,450 --> 00:46:17,110
Move to approve.

597
00:46:17,950 --> 00:46:18,170
Second.

598
00:46:18,690 --> 00:46:19,190
All in favor?

599
00:46:19,650 --> 00:46:19,910
Aye.

600
00:46:20,490 --> 00:46:20,890
Opposed?

601
00:46:22,090 --> 00:46:22,470
Carried.

602
00:46:22,470 --> 00:46:26,630
The next Board of Education meeting is October 5th.

603
00:46:26,630 --> 00:46:30,790
Dates to remember are October 9th, the Superintendent Conference Day.

604
00:46:30,950 --> 00:46:36,210
No students PK through 12 and October 12th, Columbus Day buildings are closed.

605
00:46:36,970 --> 00:46:38,850
Open the floor for any member items.

606
00:46:42,750 --> 00:46:45,670
Seeing none, we will open the floor for public comment.

607
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:52,980
Seeing none, we are going to move that we enter into executive session for

608
00:46:52,980 --> 00:46:54,580
or items pertaining to the appointment,

609
00:46:55,140 --> 00:46:57,260
disciplines, suspension, dismissal, or removal,

610
00:46:57,460 --> 00:46:59,060
or continued employment of a person

611
00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:00,380
or person's known to the board,

612
00:47:01,060 --> 00:47:02,900
items pertaining to potential litigation,

613
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,880
and items pertaining to collective bargaining.

614
00:47:06,620 --> 00:47:07,300
That's my motion.

615
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:08,460
Second.

616
00:47:09,620 --> 00:47:10,360
Fall in favor?

617
00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:10,960
Bye.

618
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:11,820
Opposed?

619
00:47:12,780 --> 00:47:13,160
Carried.