Board of Education, Regular Meeting

1. 0:28e [… repeated text trimmed] e e call this Mee into order and request everyone stands for the Pledge of Allegiance at 8 I pledge aliance to the flag of United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all thank you Tracy here here Kiren Guston Lauren Jones here Willette Jones here Calvin Lewis Here luy Walker here thank you you're welcome I would like to make a motion to accept agenda as presented second on favor okay we don't need Executive session so we do not need Personnel agenda items I would like to make a motion to set Personnel agenda's item a through I second all in favor
2. 7:36okay welcome with new B good evening good evening everyone I'd like to welcome Dr Elsa Courtright Torres as our new direct executive director of teaching and learning Dr Torres comes to us Dr Courtright Torres comes to us with 30 years of experience as an educator before accepting the executive director of teaching and learning position in our district Dr Courtright Torres served as director in the office of school quality for the New York City public schools for 6 and a half years in this role she conducts qualitative reviews using the New York City School quality rubric to ensure School leaders receive high quality feed back to support School Improvement efforts focusing on their practices and their impact on teaching
3. 8:36and learning before joining the office of school quality Dr Courtright Torres was an interim assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the Pauling Central School District and principal of the gidney Avenue Memorial School in Newberg for eight years Dr Courtright Torres began her career in education as a first grade bilingual teacher at the bilingual bicultural mini School in District 412 among in Manhattan then she held various teaching and administrative assignment serving grades K through 12 among many of Dr Courtright tz's accomplishments she was instrumental in closing the achievement gap for English language Learners and historic ly marginalized students by using student assessment data and systems of support to improve instruction and learning at the gidney Avenue Memorial School and
4. 9:42thus becoming a turnaround School in Newberg Dr Courtright Torres holds a Bachelor of Arts from cuni Hunter College in elementary education and psychology a master's of Science in bilingual education from CI college and a an an advanced certificate in School District administration from Mercy College she also earned a doctorate degree from North Central University in educational leadership where her dissertation study is titled English language teachers self-efficacy about remote instruction during covid-19 a phenomenal study Dr courte Torres is a certified School District administrator School building administrator and a bilingual n through six teacher Dr Courtright Torres lives in hopeful Hopewell Junction with her husband Alex Torres of 18 years she has two children Emily 36 and a Kinder and
5. 10:52who is a kindergarten teacher and Alex 32 a manager at mercedesbenz Dr Courtright Torres has three beautiful granddaughters Elina 6 Amelia 4 and aora 17 months old she enjoys riding her bike traveling reading singing dancing and playing with her Labradors Yogi and Teddy Welcome to our team Dr Elsa courti [Applause] welcome all right recognition so um this past week oh sorry recognition so this past week I received a letter from the New York school boards Association and the letter stated dear Dr pennyman the New York State School boards Association nisba is designed to acknowledge those school board members who strive to continually expand their governance Knowledge and Skills our records indicate that one or more members of your District's Board of
6. 12:12Education have earned one of our board achievement awards ranging from level one to level four this program is designed to acknowledge Schoolboard members who strive to continually expand their governance Knowledge and Skills each of the four achievement levels are reached by accumulating points for participating in nisba training workshops events and activities as well as for taking onboard related roles such as board president and nisa's advocacy liaison please note that the annual cut off date for Point accumulation is March 31st to learn and then it talks about to learn more about the recognition program and the award achievement levels please review the includ the included brochure or visit nisba at the website in Clos you will find a copy of each individual
7. 13:11board member's award letter and their respective Awards which we encourage you to present which I'm doing tonight at a board meeting or another appropriate occasion thank you for helping to recognize your board members who took the time to enhance their leadership skills during the awards period the first award goes to miss cila Graham and the letter reads Dear Miss Graham I would like to congratulate you for earning a level two Lifetime Achievement Award under the nisba board Excellence recognition program at this level you qualify for recognition in our onboard newspaper as well as a certificate of recognition at that conference we confence thank you we have more so Mr Mark dep all right dear Mr dep congratul I would like to
8. 14:29congratulate you for earning a level two Lifetime Achievement Award on the Denisa board Excellence recognition program at this level you qualify for recognition in our onboard newspaper as well as a certificate of [Applause] recognition there is more Dear Miss Walker I would like to congratulate you for earning level one board Achievement Award under the nisba board Excellence recognition program at this level you qualify for a certificate of recognition [Applause] and there is more all right dear Mr depace I would like to congratulate you for earning level one board achievement under the nisba board of Excellence recognition at this level you qualify for a certificate of recognition there's two [Applause] congratulations and thank you so much for all you do for our students our and
9. 16:04our district as a whole we really appreciate each and every one of you and for continuing wanting to be a board that learns yes thank you thank you do that okay I would like to make a motion to accept consistent agenda item ABG second all in favor new business board committee report facility committee oh yes um we had a meeting uh to the Tyler Christ men usually to a meeting um right before the end of the year to figure out what's been happening with the um buildings and grounds and um you know she sent us the email with the notes Let me just grab that here it is so um pool updates Matthew Leonard reported that two to four lifeguards are being
10. 17:36trained right now to come online for the school year beginning um 37 total pool parties have taken place we know we love those the fee for both lifeguards and open roomm needs to be reviewed for the upcoming school year um District website needs to be
11. 17:54updated with pool info QR code and PayPal info so we're trying to make it right now what happens is when you come to swim you pay 150 for students and $2 for parents 150 it's pretty specific so you have to have change so they finally went into one of the the office rooms and by the pool and they found a box full of money and all this change so they're trying to make it so that now instead of having cash parents can just use a QR code and pay with PayPal and It Go directly into our account so they don't have to handle money anymore.
12. 18:27um courtesy cards given the seniors in discounts um they wanted to know who receives that and who gets it and how do they get it so we're going to figure that out and find out um cuz I guess we have more seniors that want to swim which is great love having seniors in the building.
13. 18:42Personnel uh the maintenance department is currently fully staff which is amazing uh the summer they will continue to work on the cgcc workforce summer youth program so typically they get about five to seven students for the uh for the summer that help do projects around the building and they look forward to it um and they learn and they they the maintenance takes them on and put shows them everything that there is to know so we get a good amount of it's almost like a seating program actually so which is great.
14. 19:10um Tyler during along with the love I love you guys foundations our conference the district will adopt the SRP for Ned on 94 of this year building updates uh there's a roof leak at on the 97 ring of MC Smith that's currently being worked on water meters have been purchased and will be replaced in July boiler repairs have been completed with new section boilers two still have leaks which they're working on MDS is out of contract in June and new rfps will go out for the next year.
15. 19:45Chiller pump one has sent sent out the uh rebuild and install Chiller pump two is out for rebuild so when they built those when they put those buildings together and they brought the new building in for um kindergarten there's like a chiller that takes place cuz the building gets so hot so they put a chiller in that's constantly running so the problem is that it's constantly running is that it it'll eventually break down so we have two so one breaks down and they bring in the other one to supplement and they send the other one out for repair so that's what happened and that's at MC Smith School.
16. 20:14in the junior high the elevator motherboard fried it is being repaired and it will take approximately 3 weeks the cost for repaired is $3,000 so any students right now that have difficulties um with the stairs the good news is MC Smith has a lot of ramps so they're either being pushed in a wheelchair with with AIDS or they're staying downstairs and getting assistance with their education that way but what I'm told is everybody just taking the ramp and taking it slow whoever needs uh the support anyway.
17. 20:44uh cameras have been added to the stairwells no issues with havac and destruction of all bathrooms uh they will be repainted and Memorial Day Break we will encourage them to keep the bathroom doors locked as it is helped tremendously in the high school so there was a lot of destru Destruction um into the um the high school bathrooms we don't know why but um they've been doing that and so they've decided to do what the high school does which is lock the doors and have keys they're coming in already okay.
18. 21:20s High School bathroom doors will be added to four restrooms they remain locked throughout the day Chiller motor was repaired and under warranty pump for ice Bank was rebuilt in the tech in junior high sensors were purchased to collect data to flow rates in the junior high and Tech Wing bullets have been okay they're firing up for the summer arm sessions EV car chargers installed new gas pump has been ordered and will be installed on Memorial Day Weekend.
19. 21:51they've added 14 new cameras to high traffic areas in front of the Junior and Senior High School which will help uh greatly with um safety the new software Surfers have been installed Tyler had a two-day uh walk through with the day automation to review every camera and location within the district there is a quote will be in uh there is a quote sorry there is a quote we will be waiting on that will be paid through to the smart schools Grant.
20. 22:21an order has been placed in for two cameras on Paddock Street with the where where something occurred uh two vehicles Zero Turn Mowers this is all things that we're replace for this year two vehicles Zero Turn Mowers golf cart welder proess weed whackers pole saws branches side by side uh uh Vehicles two ride on machines rotor tillers push mowers two Sanders a washer and a dryer.
21. 22:52um halfback projects all 20 units are installed electrician punch lists have been completed the mechanical punch list is scheduled for 523.
22. 23:02I forgot to add with the pools they plan on having um instead of doing written punchings they're going to have them come online with badges so that we can um have everybody know who's in the building without having to go to console the sheet but you can just see them from the the computers right taba that's how that works.
23. 23:21summer cleaning we'll be working on the building principles to come up with their rooms for use in the summer any room that's going to be use won't be be cleaned as thoroughly as rooms that are going to be closed all year. we are on schedule for new furniture in the Junior and Senior High School cafeteria and MC Smith will be taking what will be removed that's exciting.
24. 23:45radio update Junior High received 10 radios High School MC Smith 10 10 on order and are expected to arrive in the fall the new repeater is working great and we are now waiting on a new FCC license so can you you remember how he he broke that out how he said that worked the repeater the repeater yeah so um before our radios were on one frequency so we had a lot of radio noise right so Elementary is calling and and if you talk over each other you can't he that's so we got a new repeater that allows there multip channels so Elementary has a Channel middle school has a channel and high school has their own channel the talk on the radio should only be
25. 24:30happening in that building but because we bought our repeat they have a license for it we're waiting for our license to be coming but um we are borrowing the the repeater the people on the repeater license um phone update original to the building in 1969 that's how old the phone systems were here we're moving to V voice over IP and cloud-based woo welcome to the 21st century um they still have to pick a a program so it could be Verizon it could be Comcast it could be any one of the the uh any one of the people that came in and gave us a show do you know if we picked one yet you know which
26. 25:19one okay thank you thank you Cheryl and then the last thing is alteras who as you know alteras was the person that came in and did our safety walkthroughs to kind of tell us what we might need like that that Nifty thing of having a a remote site for parents if there's a problem to be able to pick up their kids and not be all running here to the school which might not be a safe thing so alteris has updated the D dwsp and the blurp do you know what those mean I forgot I don't know wide districtwide safety plan is dwsp and the blur I remember him building building level level emergency plan okay all right safety plans have
27. 26:05been updated and will be posted in the third part the 30 days to review and adopt at the organizational board meeting in July lunchtime recess has been re relocated which has received really good feedback Dr pennyman shared that a few weeks ago you folks remember that before you could drive by the school and you could identify every kid out on the the front in the parking lot now they're relegated to the backs and side Turfs so that's it's more safe and they can actually get more kicking I think they were kind of slowing their kicks down because they didn't want to hit cars true um inspections on all completed sprinklers fires and elevators MC SMI track no complaints except for the
28. 26:43garbage pickup which they addressed MC fire doors updated getting quotes hopefully receive cops Grant to support the the purchase of the fire doors fire exit updates for MC Smith exit signs and lighting have been replaced and repaired and that is the the end of the fic facilities report thank you thank you thank you I make a motion to suspend meeting at this time until all polling location has been reported reped all favor okay oh you didn't want to do the um student report usually do that oh see it that's why I'm sorry what let's I did not see the student report on here let's rejourn so she can get oh sorry student sorry student we were going to
29. 28:02I um I thought the PO yeaha is great did you see was e r i oh way okay see for for for for for FL brown chocolate I know brh withh is his name is Yi and then the red fox is Teddy eight and N oh she's a p she's active I know got to keep her busy yeah they love to swim e [… repeated text trimmed] e e op for for e e for e [… repeated text trimmed] e e 921 second all in favor uh make a motion to accept the results of Proposition 1 2024 2025 budget um shall the following proposition be adopted uh resolv at the budget for the school year 2024 2025 for
30. 1:24:22the Hudson City School District Columbia County York in the amount of 55,66984 results of the 2024 2025 board member election candidate Michaela mclinton number of votes 91 candidate Amanda rubler number of votes 382 candidate Daryl blanks number of votes 300 incumbent CA Graham number of votes 96 candidate Matthew mackerer number of votes 430 um write in number of votes waren Jones 2 and various ones various votes for with one uh the two candidates with the most votes will serve a three-year term commencing July 1st 2024 through June 30th 2027 each results will be certified by the district clerk second all in favor um Tracy sign up for uh upcoming meeting dates the following meetings are scheduled Tuesday June 11th
31. 1:26:012024 regular Board of Ed meeting 6 PM in the high school library Tuesday June 25th 2024 policy committee meeting 5:00 pm in the high school library Tuesday June 25th 2024 regular Board of Ed meeting at 6m in the high school library this time we do not have a need for a second executive session make a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:25 p.m. second all in favor thank you all for being here e e e e e e e e e

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