Board of Education, Regular Meeting

1. 0:28Uh Tracy roll call please.
2. 0:30Mar Pace here C Graham here kson here.
3. 0:35Lauren Jones.
4. 0:38Here Calvin.
5. 0:40Lewis Walker.
6. 0:44Here um just want to make one fast change to the agenda and move the student representative report before executive session you guys yeah yeah so make a motion to accept the agenda uh with that one change as notice second all in favor.
7. 1:02All right brings us to the uh superintendent's report. The superintendent's report tonight is just a thank you to all of our fall athletes tonight. I want to celebrate the dozens of talented student athletes who competed during our fall season Sports. Our teams and individual athletes earned many terrific accomplishments.
8. 1:31For example our girls volleyball and tennis teams qualified for the selection playoffs and the boys soccer team reached a playoffs semifinals. In addition three High School tennis players reached the individual sectionals. Three golfers also qualified for the sectionals and Ganon L Advanced to the second round.
9. 1:57It is so very important to note that all athletes gave it their all. Every young man and young woman who wears a Hudson School District uniform makes us proud. It is so uplifting to see their athletic competitiveness their school spirit and their teamwork.
10. 2:22Sports are so very important they build character discipline self-confidence and time management skills. They also provide a payoff for hard work and dedication.
11. 2:39I'd also like to thank our dedicated coaches and families who strongly supported our athletes as well as everyone else who helps our athletes to do their best thank you all. So what's next I can't wait to see the heights of our winter sport team the heights are our winter sport teams will reach. I am sure these young men and young women will be winners on and off the field.
12. 3:08Now I'd like to take a moment to name every team that competed this fall. Varsity Sports we had girls tennis girls soccer boys soccer golf girls volleyball football and cheerleading. Junior Varsity Sports girls volleyball and under modified Sports we had uh girls volleyball girls soccer boys soccer and football. Please get join me in congratulating our fall athletes.
13. 4:01Thank you um brings us to the student representative report.
14. 4:06Hello good evening everyone so firstly um the student council is hosting another holiday spirit week and we're doing this just a live things up before the break. And if you're curious as to what the themes are we're having cozy sleepwear holiday colors family photo which that's where students like dress up with their um friend groups and like they get matching sleep wear and take photo is pretty C. And then it's followed by characters and then Friday the yearbook is hosting their annual ugly sweater contest.
15. 4:41And then clock trial received their case for the year and they have started to get going on preparations for the contest in the spring. And as for the um Israel Palestine teaching I did host that today um and how to go I think it went relatively well for the first time.
16. 5:00We had a good amount of students in attendance uh we were able to hear both perspectives like from both sides and even though it's an extremely polarizing topic we were able to maintain respectful conversation. And bring light to many different perspectives and many different eye opening statements.
17. 5:20Um there's room for improvement in that we could have been more inclusive as to what perspectives we were shining a light on um and could we do better on that absolutely. And I plan to implement more inclusivity in the future when I go more of these teachings so that's all for for thank you.
18. 5:48Um at this time we do need to have an early executive session uh make a motion to enter executive session at 6:09 p.m all in favor.
19. 6:28Don't.
20. 6:30All right um up next on the agenda is thank you for your patience everybody but uh up next on the agenda is a revision to um local law three an amended resolution extending partial real property tax exemption for eligible volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers pursuant to 466a of New York real property tax law. Um and make a motion to accept the amended resolution second all in favor.
21. 7:12Right um brings us to Personnel agenda um i' like to make motion to accept Personnel agenda items 8 through N.
22. 7:22A through what n n where's the N at personel Personnel is it just says a we get a to n yeah we have a you say a to n.
23. 7:39It's just n uh no if you if you read the agenda it goes through n does it yeah I'm sorry yes it does sorry.
24. 7:48Oh you got to touch it there it is second all in favor.
25. 7:55Brings us to uh public comment period and we're about to convene into public comment period of our meeting. Although state law does not require us to hold a public comment period we've chosen to do so because we believe it's crucial for us to hear from our Comm community members about their concerns and issues.
26. 8:14Having said that please note the board is here to listen it's not designed to be a discussion. We take your concerns and questions seriously uh and want to have sufficient time to process and research issues. I'll respond to your questions and concerns at a future meeting or have the proper staff member get back to at the appropriate time.
27. 8:30Uh each speaker will be allotted 3 minutes right here there's a microphone right here since we're stream since we're streaming watch the cords.
28. 8:54Hey everybody uh okay uh I was was I'm here to talk about the junior high school um I have a lot of concerns uh I'm I'm worried about what's going on in the Junior High. Um I have an eighth grader uh who was in student council last year who was in the National Junior Honor Society last year um and neither of those clubs exist right now.
29. 9:25There are no advisers for those clubs there are barely any clubs in the junior high. Uh you come to the high school and you see that there are tons of clubs for these kids to participate in uh there are lots of teachers who want to be advisers for these clubs in the high school but in the junior high there are barely any clubs because teachers are not volunteering for those positions.
30. 9:51Uh I also I'm worried about the academic situation uh my son had three SP Spanish instructors in the span of 2 and a half months this year. We've lost another uh associate principal I'm not sure how many that's been in the last year and a half um and it just feels like the kids are losing more and more academic and uh extracurricular opportunities.
31. 10:19And I mean I know I've loved my teachers have had my KS KS have had great teachers they have
32. 10:31great teachers I know that that we offer in uh I think they get stiens to be um advisers for these clubs so I just want to know we had all these club we had some last year at least last year so I'm just asking everyone here just to be aware of this and I really encourage you to take a look at what is happening in that school there are 360 kids or so there and I don't think they are being served uh so I would just like to point that out and just ask you to really take a close look at what is happening in that junior high. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being here.
33. 11:26nobody uh Tracy that's it okay thank you um brings us to consensus agenda um make a motion to accept consensus agenda items 8 through H
34. 11:37second all in favor
35. 11:42um brings us to new business um please take notice the Board of Education of the Hudson City School District will hold a public hearing on January 9th 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the library of the Hudson Senior High School to consider adoption of a resolution implementing the disabled and lowincome citizens real property tax exemption pursuant to uh code 459c of the New York real property tax law at the following maximum income limits. um this is just a revision of uh a hearing and a policy we adopted um last month to include uh um disabled in addition to lwi income.
36. 12:26and then uh Seer liia any notes on the the policy new policy I'm not policy oh sorry well we just have policy um get the mic oh sorry should be on he'll get it for you yeah okay
37. 12:42policy number 813 0.2 workplace violence prevention is up for first read does anybody have any questions
38. 12:52is it going to be um we don't have another policy meeting until January um there weren't any red lines in it were there noticeable changes it was just changing Dr press's name in it yeah okay that's it actually a poliy oh it's a new policy okay ex okay thank you
39. 13:24okay any comments no um Tracy did anybody else sign up for public comment
40. 13:36um the following meetings and important dates are scheduled holiday recess December 25th 2023 to January 1st 2024 classes resume Tuesday January 2nd 2024 uh Tuesday January 9th 2024 audit committee meeting 5: to 6:00 p.m. in the district office conference room uh Tuesday January 23rd 2024 policy committee meeting 5:00 p.m. High School library Tuesday January 23rd 2024 regular Board of Ed meeting 6 PM in the high school library.
41. 14:11um at this time we do need have a need for a second executive session and there will be no further business uh after the after the session um thank you all for being here have a great holiday um make a motion to enter executive session at 8:29 p.m.
42. 14:29second all in favor thank you again for

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