CHUFSD Board of Education Meeting - February 27, 2025

in three two one action I should this good evening everyone I'd like to call to order the February 27th 2025 work session of [Music] the school district Bo of Education item 1.02 approval of the agenda recommended action be resolve the Board of Education hereby approve the agenda as presented move second a question all in favor iOS abstain motion carries it 2.01 the 2025 202 proposing budget General support operation and propositions good evening I'm just gonna wait till our slide presentation is up good evening it's it's and you right yeah thank you so good even evening tonight is a budget work session where we'll review operations maintenance transportation and general services this is our agenda for this evening superintendent Walker is going to take us through the vision map Kelly lent our assistant business manager is going to go through General support benefits Deb service and transfers I will take us through the transportation budget Brad Kennedy director facilities will follow with the building and grounds budget and then we'll do a look ahead to follow first we're going to begin with superintendent Walker thank you Denise thank you for being here everyone anyone who's watching at home as we begin or kind of in some ways begin the public facing portion of the budget discussion for the 25 26 school year I wanted to start by saying about the budget what I always say about the budget which is as much as school budgets are about dollars and cents they're also a function and are driven by vision and by values and so much of the challenge in creating a budget is about taking so many amazing ideas and priorities and requests knowing you can't fund all of them but also knowing that all of them are well intended and designed to make the student experience better and one of the challenges that so many systems face is that they don't have the kind of driving document the north star that we have in our vision map that allows us to differentiate when we need to between some of those incredibly important requests and I think what you're going to see as a community and as a board through the next few weeks and months is this has been and continues to be an incredibly challenging budget to put together as we see the continued impact of consumer price indices year-over-year that exceed the tax cap and the squeezing of foundation Aid to school districts like Alice throughout the state making those kinds of decisions becomes more and more challenging but also more and more critical and I think it's incredibly appropriate that we begin this part of the budget process with what is foundational to our schools our operations our transportation because before we can get to the concept of what school can be and the vision map we have to make sure that our schools are safe they're secure they're Dynamic places for our kids and we're incredibly fortunate to have phenomenal team who's not only put together this part of the budget presentation but makes that so makes it true in our schools on a daily basis and so thank you to Brad for and to Kelly and of course to Denise and to Joe who couldn't be here tonight but is of course an integral part of the team for making that work I did I did want to mention from a vision map perspective that it's amazingly it's been almost three years since a team of about 50 administrators teachers students staff members and parents from across the system came together and created what we now call The Vision map with that idea of what school can be the vision that puts the interests and passions of students and staff at the center of what we do that advances interdisciplinary teaching and learning to reflect the complex ways that our minds and the world work and identifies and dismantles barriers to creating the kind of schools that we all want for the children of of our community and from the beginning we've thought about this work and really all the work in the system in multi-year increments and you'll continue to see that through the budget process over the next weeks and months and one of the things that I think hopefully at the end of this budget process will be most gratifying for us who have been a part of creating and living that Vision map is that from a staffing perspective we see this this budget as the culminating aspect of the Staffing and vision act that we had a excuse me we had a plan three years ago when we created it in terms of how to staff it to provide the kinds of opportunities that we think are able to rise to the moment and the occasion and the vision that that that document puts forth for our community and over the next few weeks and month you'll hear from our principles our instructional leaders about how we anticipate now kind of finalizing the dapping around that and the sustainability of that Vision long term in our system so as challenging as this budget has been to to put together and continues to be to put together I think it's potentially the most impactful budget short and longterm term certainly in in my time here in the school district before I turn it over to Denise I just want to thank you again we are incredibly stunningly fortunate to have you as the steward and The Shepherd of this process and every budet process so it's my pleasure to to turn it over to you but more importantly to work there thank I got you okay so Kelly is going to take us through our general support budget there you go I I apologize Kelly is it hard to see you have your SL go through your slides so General support covers administrative costs for the district including contractual salaries supplies and Association duties for administrative offices contractual applications for operations and Reporting requirements of the district insurance coverage for property liability legal cost FY service printing mailing and Communications to the public what we're going to go through is all of those items in each of their budget groups the first Budget Group is Board of Education contractual items include professional conferences and board development services supplies would cover Ned law books and general office supplies those sees would include professional learning policy reviews and updates election management and board do software the district clerk is a stiffened position who is is responsible for attending all public meetings recordkeeping corresponding and conducting business and foil requests on behalf of the Board of Education contractual costs associated with the annual budget vote and trustee election are in contractual and other costs as well as Public Notices the voting machines and training of the and election officer salaries are also included in that note as well supplies would include anything related to the budget and election ballots and his general office supplies Chief School administration covers the superintendent and his confidential secretary the superintendent responsible for leadership management and supervision of the entire SCH system contractual would cover all conferences and professional learning subscriptions and memberships supplies are general office supplies and mailings related to the superintendent's office business administration I'm sorry can I how did the salary go down oh no I see never mind I'm keep going actually before we go just because I know this I see the format we have here the adopted budget and the the proposed budget for next year I know that during the year we have made certain budget transfers maybe not in this area but as we go on I think it is helpful to the board to not only look at the adopted budget as of May 2024 but also how that has been revised by in budget transfers so we understand it's a it's a better opportunity for us to understand what we're doing and what changes are made absolutely this this format is a required format through the spn1 requirement and the budget statement so that's why we chose to present it this way but we can certainly share that information yeah because I think I know where we've done significant budget transfers or budget increases for that matter as I know done with regard to certain taxer settlements Etc it's good for us to know what we've actually spent and I also know we have that information in the monthly financials so it's there but it's not there so that the public can see it and and we can easily grasp it business administration covers the superintendent for business who's responsible for the management and supervision of the district's Financial Resources there is also Personnel that are included five business office staff contractual items include Ed data professional learning for business office staff subscriptions memberships Bosey Services includes services for state aid plan planning and Analysis Envision mag support services and workshops a question just the G treasure is that within business administration treasure has its own life has it we're gon get there go ating we have a claims auditor who audits all claims which are payments to vendors for the district we also have an internal auditor who audits annually the efficiency and quality of the controls in place and we also have a financial external auditor who looks at the financial statements for the district the treasur maintains the district's accounting records and invest funds and performs other related Financial functions contractual expenses would include professional learning subscriptions and memberships Fiscal Agent is with relation to bond anticipation notes bonds and other debt instruments contractual costs associated with the issuance of bond anticipation notes and bonds and other debt instruments anal regarding funding requirements and Alternatives marketing the method of sale security features credit ratings and tax implications and other related matters legal fees and I just point out that we are estimating that that price is going up significantly next year because we intend to to bond our Capital project we've banned for three years we have up B but we will most likely convert that to bonds so there will be additional Fiscal Agent fees Sor sorry additional Beyond approximately 6,000 increase that's why we have the $6,000 okay Mak sense legal fees for General Council for policy development special education needs student discipline contract negotiations 10 years insurity determinations any litigation or other related legal matters bond councel for Bond anticipation notes bonds and other debt instruments we have noticed a huge increase in our foil requests over the previous year from 2223 to 2324 approximately 42% increase and all of those small requests do go with the attorneys prior to being sent out another question since that includes Bond counsel and I know we're going to need Bond Council for what we just discussed about fiscal agents and we also may need additional services from our general accounts you budgeted ,000 increase so we feel that that's adequate based on our current year expenses so as we are constantly looking at our current year expenses compared to what was budgeted and based on our January assessment we think that that is in line with with our legal needs great Personnel includes one Human Resources office staff who's responsible so for civil service processing the coordination of salary and Lane advancement and gby Reporting from the financial statements contractual expenses would cover learning for human resources subscriptions and memberships poy Services would include employee assistance employee benefits coordination labor negotiations super eval certific and certification and the Affordable Care Act reporting compliance and Chief Information officer expenses records management is records retention and disposal in accordance with General Municipal law supplies would cover various supplies is required for the document maintenance and Disposal B service would cover e Do's electronic archiving and the preservation and protection of permanent records and what's the decline there the decline there is because when we first digitized everything there was a population fee for taking everything that was in storage and digitizing it and now we're just paying maintenance so we don't have that thank you so does that mean that everything that is in that large room underneath the kindergarten has been digitized no I don't it's almost like a holding place for things that's still but in order I guess they set everything up okay that's all done now it's just a matter of when we get the boxes over there we digitize everything okay and in terms of that is there as I've been looking at the rules on record retention do we kind of prioritize those records that must be permanent as opposed to those records that need not be permanent yeah not not really budget questions but yes it's usually the students graduating are the ones that have priority to be digitized so that we can access their records okay Information Services electronic communication systems and website development salaries cover technical support specialist to assist with website coordination e-learning site development communication development and other technical supports supplies cover just various supplies for public information FES covers parent Square pars site improve Blackboard social media publication website and graphic development and capturing services and hosting this decrease we had a change in software and for the website that provided us that savings Central Printing and mailing IT supplies for postage office equipment and copy or contracts the increase there is mostly because of the meter renewal we needed new equipment because the postage the federal postal company had new requirements for stamping and everything and also postage has increased significantly Central data processor Central data processing costs related to financial software L internet telecommunications data warehousing and Disaster Recovery all of that is through bosies that increase is mostly because of a allocation between different codes for the services that proes is providing us they've made some changes through lyc as to where they are filling unallocated insurance is Property and Casualty Insurance these premiums are the projections that ner has currently provided for us most of the increases they are seeing an increase in claims and settlements because of the child victims act and enironmental claims School association dues memberships in regional state and federal education organizations assessments judgments and claims our annual sewer assessment and that's been pretty steady refunds of property taxes for tax Seer already judgments we don't have a budget for this each year because we're not ever sure if we're going to have a claim that's going to be paid we do have a reserve that we have money available to transfer in to make those payments when they do come du both admin and capital charges is Pro and Harmon's administrative and capital obligation for participating in the pnw so on that you the fact that we will be voting on The Bose's administrative budget in April after our budget is done you want to disclose your position with both sure I'm I'm on board in addition to being on this board but I guess my only question is the Bose board has not adopted 10ed budget and as we know on Tuesday April 24th I think it is the day for us to be and all districts to be voting on the administrative budget so at this point in time we've got kind of a estimate when I I speaking as a member of the poage board we haven't gotten a final presentation and we will get that and we will vote on that perhaps prior to certainly probably an our April meeting which would be on the second Tuesday in April which may well be after we have it will be after we've adopted the budget our budget so how do we how does this get reflected since it's not reflected now in that line so I attended a meeting last I believe last month where so I guess it was still while to while Todd was there and they provided us with these projections with the impression that that this was the cap so we are going with those numbers for now as you know when we're voting on the budget we adopt the budget in April voting on it in May there are many costs that are still undetermined at that point because of the different agencies that we deal with so we we make our our best judgment okay but just looking at this slide okay I guess the problem was I'm looking at the slide that was in the deck that you sent to us it's not lined up the same way so I'm looking at this and I'm saying well wait a minute looks like we have an increase and you didn't put anything there no you actually did put something there but the column that says 2526 is shaded on what we're looking at on our computers what you said earlier today is not right accurate so I was confused yeah right so we pic we pick that up that one slide did not have the budget to budget increase it only had the proposed and the adopted so we did make that adjustment on board docks okay yeah Neil if you go board no I know it's just I start this afternoon I downloaded it so I had it my file and you had me nervous there you do something that I didn't no you had me nervous and you corrected it don't do that to Denise employee benefits State maned and contractual obligations relating to districtwide employment contracts currently as the budget sits right now employed benefits represent about 20% of our budget different items are ERS TRS Social Security workers comp life insurance Employment Insurance disability Hospital medical and dental for our active and retired employees other benefits that cover Vision and other items per agreements and other employee benefits are contractual items per contracts such as buyouts and vacation pars could you just reflect if did you share the percentage of benefits that is in our budget so how much of our budget represent 20% I just have a question about the unemployment insurance and the other employe benefits they're estimated make sure it just because that's like the base that you estimate and then depending on who collects unemployment or then so we have historically budgeted a lot more for unemployment insurance and we have not seen those numbers of late we also do have an unemployment Reserve that we can capture funds from if needed so we brought that down to reflect that and then the other employee benefits that there's also it's almost goes from 360 to 326 this reflected because we had a lot of retirements with in within Brad's unit and I believe it was retirements that we budgeted for and when you have senior staff members on all levels they have additional for example some of our clerical staff and custodial staff has been here for years so they can buy back more vacation days per year but as we are getting a younger staff is as we go through retri there's less of a respon less of a need for that because they get fewer benefits and less buy out options I believe that that that's the bulk of it but will verify that that service principal and interest payment ation for our borrowings construction Bond principle and interest Bond anticipation Nots and energy performance contracts these items represent about 8 to n% of our budget and the increase is due to the capital project or the Banning and the bonding of the debt but this amount will good offset by the increase in the building Aid Revenue will receive once an cost reports are submitted to the state so I know we've discussed in the past and you mentioned briefly that the fact that we will have increased borrowing costs or increased borrowing because of the work that we are now doing and will be doing next year and I also know that we discussed even we started the facilities budget how debt will roll off and debt will come on but what we do see here and I think it's just important to note is that just in terms of the debt that is anticipated for 2526 it's 20% more than the prior Year yes so we're going to get Revenue back from Once final cost reports file for we've already done done but I think it might be helpful to the board and helpful to the community not as part of this presentation but at some point to kind of go through all of those numbers because somebody might just look at say hey you just borrow more money but we're we're getting money back elsewhere and the picture is incomplete when you just look at budget lines correct because it's local share and local share consists of state aid and Debt Service and and that equilibrium right and I mean I understand that from my experience but I think they may be members of the public or members of board that don't really don't understand that exactly the same way it might be useful to let everybody know I also in looking at this I know at some point as you said those band borrow on anticipation will have to be converted into borrowing and that may be two years three years four years down the road depending on how interest rates are and when we decide to move out of the ban which has like a fiveyear maximum right yes right before you have to pay back those and then move to a longer term part so just kind of better understanding that we might all have about that but not not is part of what I need what we need today but just so we can understand thank you the last two categories are inter fund transfers for special Aid fund which covers costs providing summer school for special education students in accordance with iops and also transfer to the school launch fund which helps to fund the child nutrition program thank you thank if you were nervous we couldn't tell as you can likely tell Kelly has a comprehensive and intricate knowledge of our budget she has been instrumental in working with our principles and directors on their budget looking for efficiencies I'm constantly am at how open her office is and how willing they visit her I think she might be a little bit more welcome but she has been just an integral part of the budget process and resource to everyone in the district especially to me thank you I'm glad to be here good thank you so now we're GNA go to the transportation budget so Joe sens his regrets he was hoping to be here but Joe got a last minute invitation to the SpaceX rocket launch in Florida the Kennedy Space Center so his son was offered a position down there and they said we have two tickets and he came to came to my office and he was like I have a bigy favor to ask I said yeah that's like a sorry not sorry question so so he wishes he could be here but he has so is he going to be learning about other forms of transportation rocket trans right okay so jokes board members are kind of saw more so let's jump into the budget but before before I go into that I just wanted to emphasize the role that our transportation department has in our entire District not only is it are they you know when we think about I I know I have a a bus experience that I won't share tonight but our drivers and our monitors are the first happy smiling faces that our students see before they come to school and they have drivers and monitors have relationships with them they notice that a student is a little off or a little down they'll communicate that to to the to the school office when they get there whoever picks them up they they are an integral part of of our students lives first and foremost the fact that they are providing safe and secure Transportation on time transportation to for our students every day transportation in District is a privilege not all districts have that so we'll talk a little bit more about that and lastly one thing that re Rochelle is really proud of and Joe is as well is the confidence building factor that riding the bus brings a a young student they have to manage and deal with timelines and responsibilities and getting up and then the social component of getting on the bus and it it's a valuable resource for kids and as roelle always said go green ride go yellow go green Go Green Ride yellow so one bus can transport 66 students as opposed to having 66 cars lined up in one of our parking lot so they are a great department and I just want to recognize that so this is our budget and I will walk you through our budget first then we'll go through our vehicle replacement needs some operational highlights and then some departmental efficiencies so this is an overview of our budget this department is predominantly salaries there's an increase of 5.25% that reflects our collective bargaining agreement and then we also so have some contingency in there for additional one additional driver and additional Sports trips or if we have some new ad District students ET then we have the the second largest component of this budget is contracted services so this is technical support to the to the department for a multitude of systems we have bus hide transfinder routing systems communication software it also is a compo there's a component of our vehicle and property insurance in there and of course our vehicle insurance drug and alcohol testing training and support for drivers and monitors through partners and safety then also Technical and maintenance support services for our equipment our vehicle maintenance equipment our F Etc so just one question about that I suppose that also includes if we ever need to contract for actual Transportation yes long range trips Etc yes and we have a component in there for long trips where we need a a large vehicle with u restroom Etc and in this past year or in last few years how much has that b we generally budget about $10,000 for that so it's really first small and I think that's a to the fact that we as a district do provide the overwhelming majority of our transportation needs but our own staff and our own equipment and save a lot of money that way absolutely I will I will even go further into that in some of the next slides and based on our current expenditures we are leaving everything else flat for the year and feel that we can maintain that so this slide details our vehicle replacement needs and funding sources behind those purchases so the first is we recommending the purchase of 166 passenger electric School Bus that cost has not budged since we started this process but fortunately through some grant funding that Kelly was instrumental in securing we will receive $220,500 in grant funding for that vehicle so that will be closer to $275,000 what would a comparable sorry about what would a comparable internal combustion engine bus cost between 175 okay so that covers almost the the difference a little bit less than the difference yes understood and how's the current electric Fleet working so right now all of our vehicles are running but we still have the electricity issue so power power is an issue we are expecting that ConEd is going to get to Transportation within the next couple of months we've said I've said the next month for about a couple months yeah so Brad you have any new news on that solar electric the electrical contractor who is doing the capital project up there they received the equipment for up there they're working on installing it the Transformer was installed conad has wired to the Transformer and once solar wraps up we'll do the switch over I'll con for that yeah so conad will have to do that hopefully in the next month and what does that provide that will get us to a th000 amp service from the 200 amp service that we have which depending on the buses and charger configurations is about six to eight buses total okay medic Sport and we're currently at we currently have three with one on the [Music] way so if we go beyond sorry if we go beyond six we're gonna be going back to Con Edison with hat and hand about eight right six eight yeah it depends on configurations they constantly are changing the Chargers and the setup so probably every seven seven or so they come out with a new version and software so there's a lot of Technology plus or minus a few and then yes but we would have to go back to Kad and upgrade our service again so couple other questions that first is I know we have replacement needs that don't necessarily coincide with the timing of a delivery of a vehicle any vehicle but particularly an EV before we have to take Vehicles off the road Perman so so how we how so according to the governor's recommendation requirement I don't know what we're calling it now it's 2027 we are no longer able to purchase internal that's not really my question the question is we if the voters approve a new 66 passenger vehicle and the other vehicles that you're going to talk about in a moment and we will have a time delay before the order is delivered yes I know that time delay is particularly lengthy with regard to electric vehicles at least that's what's been written in the literature how are we positioned to ensure that we have enough buses until we get delivery of the one that's on the way and then the one that may be approved this year for the 66 b right so we have a letter of intent with the with bird bus indicating that we would like them to hold our vehicle contingent on voter approval on May 20th so that will get us there quicker there is a delay even in in regular Vehicles right now so the timeline and and I'll share about that a little bit later but the timeline between when so when we need to plan for these buses what we need voter approval for for these buses and when we can order them and have them delivered it is a very very very very long lead time so we feel we I met with Joe last week he feels that we're okay with the 66 passenger the the areas that we're having more difficulties is the smaller Vehicles so for out of District transportation for some of our shorter runs those Vehicles we slow down our we almost put our vehicle replacement plan to Halt during covid so now it's kind of catch up period we also lost two vehicles and instead of purchasing newer Vehicles we purchas secondhand Vehicles which are approaching their end of life but as far as the 66 passenger I think that we are we are okay at this point so have enough in reserves that when I know two or three need to be out of service at any point for either repairs or inspection yeah or whatever that number is so we're okay as far as that's concerned for the moment and I obviously we talk about the other vehicles the 20 and 30 passenger and hybrids we will be talking that just want to make sure that we're okay on those as well if you can address that I'll hold it until you I'll hold my question until you talk about the the smaller buses okay so the the first recommendation is for the 66 passenger electric School Bus that will come from our transportation Reserve fund so several years ago we established a transportation fund reserve for the purpose of electrifying our Fleet so that bus will be purchased from there less of the 220,000 in grant funding we are proposing for the smaller vehicles to come out of current year Appropriations so when I arrived in the district we were Banning our buses so we did an analysis and realized that instead of spend instead of borrowing to purchase those Vehicles we could look at current year reserves and ask the voters to approve that at the May meeting so that we didn't have to spend the borrowing costs and that has worked well I think that there will come an end as our bu budgets get Tighter and Tighter that this option may not be a possibility in years to come but for now we've we've done our fund balance projections and we think that we can we can cover it and we are looking to purchase 12 120 passenger vehicle and 130 passenger vehicle and two SUV hybrid so 120 passenger vehicles replacing bus number 135 which is 3 years Beyond its life expectancy already passenger bus oh did I say what one what the EV was no okay so the EV is replacing our oldest 66 passing vehicle which is for 14 years old with I think about 70,000 miles on it then the one the 120 pass passenger vehicle is replacing a 2013 vehicle that is 3 years Beyond its life expectancy the second 30 passenger vehicle is replacing bus number 136 and that will be four years Beyond its life expectancy that's a 2012 vehicle and then the on seven passenger hybrid is rep placing bus 168 which has about 110,000 miles on it and that's from 2019 those Vehicles get a lot more miles obviously so because they're going longer distances and then and then we have two actually we have two Caravans one of which we've already replaced the transmission and actually both have had replaced Transmissions so those vehicles are are around 113,000 M and 103,000 Miles so we're looking at that second hybrid SUV to to cover for one of those Caravans so again both of these proposals would have no tax impact or require any borrowing because they would be used they will be purchased by T by Reserve funds and current year expenses yes so if if I recall correctly there was a lot of concern the last a few years ago when we were purchasing internal combustion vehicles and it was specifically around these 20 and 30 passenger vehicles and my recollection was was the pro part of the problem was that the EVS that were available in that size were not compatible with driving on the Parkways that was an issue for us my question is has the evv situation with respect to Parkway compatibility changed that's question number one and Point number two is this seems like something that might be a a c or for some advocacy in Albany to seek relaxation of the rules concerning what is allowed to what sorts of vehicles are allowed to drive on the Parkways to allow to carve out an exception for electric school buses that otherwise that would be the smaller buses I'm I'm not suggesting that they start to allow 66 passenger buses on the on the parkway but they might consider allowing a 20 passenger EV school bus I understand that that part of it has to do with my recollection was that it had to do whether it had dual tires in theer dual and single axle dual and single axle and a lot of the because of the weight of the battery a lot of them have dual dual axles in the back du they have du dues in the back and currently as far as the the most recent information that I've received from vendors is that first of all those vehicles are are close to $300,000 right now where we're talking about $ 105,000 so they're three times the C and there is the parkway issue and then there's also the do issue so there are New York State Department transportation which inspects all of our vehicles twice monthly has very very stringent guidelines as far as those vehicles and from what I understand there is not one that it has received full clearance for for so we're still so the the manufacturers have more work to do than the legislates in this particular case yes so I do think we need some advocacy to to soften the the timeline of bit I I don't know how the state is going to do it there was a just a recent study about electric school buses and where schools are as far as meeting the deadline for 2027 and 2035 and our district is the most advanced we are the furthest in this process of anyone in the Hudson Valley and yet we are now approaching a dead stop because of the our our capacity at the transportation garage so that along with the cost of the vehicles the return on investment is still very very low the vehicles themselves will the chassis will age as quickly as an ice vehicle so it doesn't have a longer lifespan has the same lifespan but it's double the cost it's and nothing's changed in that area yet K can you just refresh my memory with regard to electrical work that's required at the transportation department to to be able to upgrade how where did that money come from and how much is that so you are you talking about the project or the next phase the next phase to be able to continue to purchase electric buses and able so so we need we need three phase yeah we we've maxed out the capacity that conad can give us without them doing infrastructure work on their side right it's unclear in conversations that I've had about whose cost expense it would be at for conad to upgrade their side but we we are the we are the last facility they service on that line they pass the DPW garage we are the last customer and it it sounds like it's a pretty big undertaking to upgrade to give be able to give a addal power yeah I gu the question I'm asking is smes of trenching yeah but to the extent that it's not just the actual cost of the bus it's also the cost of the infrastructure to be able to accommodate the electric vehicles is there there's no there's there's funding available for that but it it tends to go to high priority districts so highy districts which we are not we not well we've lost out we've applied for oh gosh we've appli for so many so many grants and we just keep getting weight listed and weight listed so to your point I think like this Capital project like electrical upgrade was around $800,000 for the Chargers that we put in for our side and the conad side for them to upgrade since they were just increasing the single phase service wasn't that expense like there wasn't a lot of expense but for our side was roughly around that that area $800,000 but we have done our work our work is almost complete almost done so we spent that money the question is for con to do what they need to do and whether ConEd pays or we have to reimburse P that's going to be the question as I understand what you said is still kind of up in the air well for the current project that we're doing yeah that that's already been decided and we we have the cost for that which wasn't that high because we they wouldn't give us three-phase service they maxed out the singlephase capacity they had and it wasn't a high expense to us for that but moving forward we would have to go to three-phase service which requires a lot of work on their side paid for by somebody UND undecided would have to flip that so I know they keep telling us that but there's three phase the the the ConEd line it's a 1kv line actually I think it's a a 3.6 TV line runs as far as the DPW garage and that is a three-phase feed I can tell just looking at yeah no correct the DPW which is right next to us has three phase I think the issue is the overall load of that circuit and for asking for such an amperage increase would take that that line as a whole to be too high we're talking because it does come up I it comes up over Mount Ary from the corner of furnace stock and mount a is is where that splits off of a larger feeder it comes up over Mount AR and down yeah prior when Paul was here and initial talks were going on with ConEd and getting three pH they were talking about having to rerun cables all the way over from furnace do across all of Mount Ary to be able to support a three-phase service at transportation and we were actually approached by The Village right because the village is also interested in it and we looked at they multi million in debtor three years ago this is a larger topic that is outside of the scope of this meeting but it's something that we do do need to keep following up on and pushing on and it's something there needs to be advocacy on because if districts are expected to stop purchasing internal combustion Vehicles which is a laudable goal the infrastructure needs to be in place to do that and to expect every school district to foot the bill for that is untenable so this slide provides an overview of the scope of our op operations every day we transport students to various schools our own other schools sporting events after school programs Etc so this is this is a look our buses drive over 500,000 miles annually we transport over 1100 students daily to 24 different schools this year so far we also have daily athletic trips and class events just a look at our student ridership M mileage guidelines K through 12 is 3/10 of a mile so if you live within 310 of a mile you would walk to school beyond that you would take our buses 5 to 12 9/10 of a mile and then non-public schools are 15 miles and just one other thing that I know from Rachel perspective want to point out we provide busing for those students based on our IEPs that even go beyond 15 miles 15 miles yeah yeah I think that might be something that yeah if you make this presentation later you might also want I I was toy with putting that on and then took it off I didn't want to get anyone else excited that that's saw 50 miles and thought well maybe I'll go here so yes but thank you for pointing that out and there's another mural from our our resident mural provider again as far such okay our department so this is a configuration of our operations and department so we have 58 vehicles that are maintained by our district mechanics we have a full service garage with multiple lifts that they handle almost every need our vehicles have we have an exceptional do rating so do or is the Department of Transportation they come in and inspect our vehicles twice per month every two months we need to have six Vehicles taken off the road so we need to have six spares while they're inspecting those vehicles at all times so that's another factor in our Fleet replacement plan that we need to consider Transportation Vehicles so our configuration is we have 1766 passenger vehicles for electric the fourth one is on the way 26 mini buses and Caravans and then two SUVs plugin and one plug-in hybrid and then Brad's department has between trucks trailers and our mail vehicle 11 vehicles that are also serviced predominantly by our transport ation Department staff so of course none of this happens without a team right this is a picture from I think Christmas that Joe shared the team is the backbone of the department our drivers transport our students safely every day and then we have our mechanics to maintain our vehicles we have our clerical administrative staff who handle Logistics and Communications with our families each of them is an integral part of the department so we have 32 10-month drivers 14 10mon monitors two 11mon dispatchers and then four mechanic bus drivers who also transport for our Sports trip and on an as needed basis as well as our dispatchers and then one part-time secretary so I will not begin to go into the depth which our drivers are trained so they have requirements for their just for their license in general 19a requirements sbdi requirements then on top of that we have our refresher course Joe does just a phenomenal job planning training and professional development for the team so we have two three-hour fresher refresher courses we have two 1our safety meetings annually 80 plus bus drills that are done every year first aid AED CPR stock the bleed that was one of our last trainings all of our drivers have trained un stock the bleed 19a requirements then we have pre-trip inspections the pre-trip inspection detail is a page long in it in and of itself we have emergency preparation training communication and deescalation training so for parents or students who are struggling or if there is a a an emergency we have student pickup and bus stop controls I just I pulled out one one little bus stop proper procedures for post approaching student bus stop 10 ft before the bus stop activate the yellow warning lights activate the red Crossing light whenever opening the service doors manage distractions be employ the hazard lights with railroad crossings there's another 10 protocols that they need to go through so these have to be continually trained and continually reinforced with our team and Joe just does a phenomenal job professional development and training is key and it also really serves as team building exercise as well which is which is extremely important and I'll share about that in a moment some of our operational and departmental efficiencies is we have reciprocal Transportation agreements so if hen HUD is going down to Master's school and they and they have one student and we have three we will develop a reciprocal agreement and work on Transportation with their students and ours either there at back or both each bus run each shared bus run saves about $40,000 in electricity Andor fuel labor vehicle cost and also reduces greenhouse gases we purchase off of the office of General Services fuel contract we used to do a Cooperative contract with Clarks down but they've since pulled that back and ogs has taken that on we have automated our 19a reporting and maintenance so 19a requirements are extensive do the Department of Motor Vehicle will Motor Vehicles will come in and audit the department now we have everything automated so whatever request that they have we can easily provide that to them and then we also have assurances within that process to make sure that deadlines are net and certifications are renewed on a timely basis We've Joe has done a great work with rout optimization through transfinder and bus hiive so we're using fewer buses and have having a greater capacity on each bus transfinder implementation so it's integrated with Infinite Campus which means that the information in that system is live it's live for our teachers so if a if a parent calls in last minute calls Transportation there's a switch we can make the system that will hit Infinite Campus so the if there's an issue the the teacher or the principal can look into that as well as the transportation department it allows access to routing information for our parents and we can contact them directly through the software so we where we used to have lists of buses and which kids were on which buses and then we have to go and find the family name now that's all automated through the system and then lastly the stop arm CER technology implementation so we were one of the first districts to sign up with the county for this Stop Bar camera technology we are right now we are working through some policy related issues in regards to the internal cameras so we were offered a a dual installation of the external cameras and the internal cameras at the same time but there were some conflicts with policy that were trying to work through because if we don't install both at the same time we will have to incur the cost of the internal cameras if we choose if we choose to so we're trying to work that out so that we can proceed with with bus bus Patrol to to get those in have a question about that the internal cameras aren't I mean it it's possible to get the cameras without the internal cameras right we have them now yes we do have them now but they are approaching the end of of life and are costly but when you said we have them now which we have them we have we have some internal counters within our buses now currently oh okay I that no so my question was actually in terms of in terms of this stop arm camera program is it it is possible just to get the external cameras it is it is but but yes and if we cannot resolve this internal camera issue then we will go forward with the external only do we are the internal cameras that we have right now across the fleet or just like select buses they're not in all all of the vehicles because they've either past their they died yeah and haven't been replaced for a la of the better term but they are on a good portion of our vehicles okay thank you okay so some team building events as we know strong team is essential for the success of a department especially this department there's a lot of stress on our drivers they have a lot of responsibilities a lot of training and they take pride in everything that they do I was hoping I was trying to get a a bus driving simulation for the board I don't know if anyone I have driven a bus it is very very scary it is very very scary and it is a Hu I I mean I did it like in a just in a test drive I was just gonna ask but so building team camaraderie trust within the department is really important to the department and important to Joe and important to the team they are a family and so you could just get I see some faces in these photographs that are not members of the transportation and there's never a transportation photo without food that's what they notice yes we have yeah we go up there whenever we whenever we get invited we go up there whenever we he us food yes so that that concludes the transportation portion of our budget and now I'm okay 8:45 time for me to wake everyone up Transportation we sa the best thank you for having me always excited to talk about how great my department is big thank you to Denise Kelly and Barry doing our our budget presentation helping me out with that we are going to start off with the team obviously director facilities secretary who Sandra recently retired after 29 years I believe in the district and hopefully later on this evening you will be voting on her replacement we also have a a part-time mail carrier we have two maintenance mechanics two custodians assigned to grounds each school has a head custodian a day custodian three night custodians and then we also have sub custodians we have the High School summer helpers and sub clerical and there's a picture from the summer our end of the summer get together training we recently at the last superintendent conference day got together bosies came in and gave a training for all our staff CPR a Nar Canan and stop the bleed we re actually today we ordered some additional stop of bleed kits each school and the district office and I believe transportation had them we purchased some for the the grounds and maintenance shops obviously the carpenter working in his building with the table saw and stuff we figured good place to have stop with K didn't we order them for one or two of the vehicles yeah yeah the grounds have in two of the main Vehicles as well as the building there yes the staff or about two-thirds of the staff was also able to attend the empowerment day at Monroe Woodberry which is put on by the school facilities Association over the summer each staff member got to pick three different training opportunities from athletic field maintenance which the ground guys went to in anticipation of the project down Spencer there was blue blueprint reading there was a one class on near State retirement so a lot of different a lot of different topics and then they each also got an opportunity to go down to to meet with vendors and see all the newest Technologies for the facilities and maintenance of so and there are some pictures there's Mickey and Rob Greco and they are applying tourniquets to some fake legs here we have some facilities highlights one of the big ones we had as everyone knows at the end of last school year the elevator at PV C we ran into some issues and stopped working and due to the the age of it and electronics we we weren't able to procure parts to fix it so we went for a pretty long time without a functioning elevator so that upgrade was completed over the summer working great we continued with security upgrades which included a bunch of additional cameras at C Fe Feld as part of the capital project we increase the length from 300 ft to 330 ft which allows us to put a fullsize lacrosse or soccer field which will assist this spring with Spencer being out of commission to put lacrosse up there boys lacrosse so having lacrosse and them throwing very hard rubber balls around we actually were able to repurpose the ball wall netting from spencerfield and the grounds guys installed footings and we'll be having a net in between the playgrounds where after school programs are going on while the boys were are playing acros on the field about 40 feet away this February break we did some renovations to the multimedia classroom here we took out some built-in cabinets put in a general conference table where chases and seems like that's going well we replaced a bench down on 129 by the crosswalk that had seen the end of its useful life and we replaced that as part of the capital project there was a storage room that was taken over that will be the new cafeteria and we had to relocate a storage area so that moved into one of the copy rooms here which then moved the copy room into the main office so our in-house staff did that renovation over the summer as always we try to do as much painting as possible we try to we're our goal is a 10year cycle and it's amazing how much painting there is to do within our buildings so like laundry yeah it just it just keeps coming so we continued with that and then last the picture to the right there is the condensate steam condensate return tank at PVC which was replaced during the PBC Edition and there was some issues with that and our in-house staff Mickey took care of those and then gave it a Fresh coat of paint and we hope it lasts as long as possible because it doesn't actually fit out the door so we'll have to cut it up to get it out and then to get a new one we'll have to bring it in and weld it back together so we hope to get the most out of that tank possible one of the biggest budget lines in our department is contractor contractors Services covers quite a variety of areas hbac Plumbing electrical doors windows I mean there's a just a ton of stuff covered there to the right is a picture of 130 foot crane this past spring we replaced the chiller at PVC and as part of that with the roofing project we added that 8 to 10 inches of insulation on top of the existing instulation so we had to raise that steel framework that it sits on so that's a picture from that day didn't we fix the Koopa as well oh yeah well during the roofing project the summer yes we replaced the the roofs on the addition we re reab or reab the whole KOA and put a new weather B which might go on most yes I thought you just CED it and put it no well the the actual Weather Vein we replaced a few years ago and during the storm since covid it blew off and so we ended up going back and repl the one we just put up matches the one prior that failed after like 80 years so hopefully it lasts another 80 years versus the six years or five years that the last one did so now and Steve don't stop me we have some new stuff coming and we we did some some budget prep and I I got to tell Steve about some of these things and he just Master Li contain yeah he had to stop me from going on about this stuff so Viking Pure Solutions is something that we piloted the high school we just finished a 60-day pilot and it is to get rid of some dis disinfectants and cleaners that we currently use right now we get chemical concentrates we have dispension systems that take the concentrate put it in mix it glute it Viking pure offers a solution that they give us equipment here it's hooked up to a water feed there's an electrolysis patented electrolysis process with salt that produces a green Pro two different products one's a disinfectant one's a multi-purpose cleaner they are green seal approved you I mean the owner of the company who came and did a demo spraying the stuff in his mouth you can spray the disinfectant is a h 100 times stronger than bleach you can drink it like water and it's a better safer product so we did a six day pilot here the guys raved about it it also currently we order the concentrate we have to store it you have to worry about it leaking it going bad it expiration dates and all that stuff so this this seems like it's working great and our plan is to over the next year slowly roll it out to the other roll it out to the other buildings so that way we can use up the product we have we don't want to throw it away so we're slowly we we did the demo here the pilot shifted all the concentrates we had to the other buildings as they're using it up will then at Price C next and then PVC roll this out and absolutely great product then Master libraries is a work order system So currently we have A system that we've probably we had for 15 years I don't think there's been an update to it in 15 years so one of my big things has been to get into the 2025 like we we a lot of the stuff we did is paper forms and we recently rolled out when school's not in session there are building checks guys come in make sure there's no leaks make sure there's no vandalism windows open doors unlocked and such so we took that from a paper form that would be filled out three hole punched and put in a binder to sit there for a couple years before you throw it out to a Google form we sort of went through talked to the he custodians came up with additional information like you know what would be valuable and put that together on new Google form which every each building has iPads now you come in you carry the iPad with you can fill it out as you go you can take pictures which you're then uploading to that report and you can sort of similar to master Library you can make database decisions from real information so for the past year or so I've been looking into different products and in talking to Associates and master Library seems to be a pretty good one it offers a lot of flexibility customization to our building and you can run reports you can see where right now somebody puts a work order in it gets assigned to a maintenance guy or whoever and that's about as far as the reporting it's like okay this person did x amount of work or this classroom has this many tickets this new software gives us the the ability to track is it electrical work is it Plumbing work to pull up an individual unit like the air the rooftop unit for the library how many times was this service what was the cost of that service when when's the replacement and it just gives us a ton of information to be able to make better decisions about what we're doing so very excited about it that's I love your enthusiasm so and it also it also has a scheduling components so right now we use tandem which I don't know if I've heard of any one who's very fond of that but Master library has has that component and Denise has built that into her budget so we are probably going to be transitioning that in June well and then just last to touch on with contract contracted Services is we're projecting the HVAC and kitchen equipment repair to go up a little bit with our Capital project we have a lot of replacement and additional HVAC equipment we're putting in we're putting in the new kitchen here at the high school so we anticipate kitchen equipment is especially expensive to have worked on a lot of the times you need to get people who are certified from those manufacturers and it hopefully we don't have a lot of issues in the first year and that they're covered under warranty but it's just on our radar for both of those areas moving forward then we have the proposed budget our salaries are up [Music] 1.98% which is relatively low because of some retirements and staff leaving which Denise touched on earlier our contractual Services as I discussed were up 2.69% we're we're looking at a I would say that is not up as much as it would be because of our in-house staff and our maintenance staff anything we can do we we're trying to do inhouse to keep cost down obviously service tax are very expensive but also not the best right now so if we can do it in the house we get a better job and save money OS Services is down 5% or so and that is due to some transferring between different budget lines so it was a move from that line within facilities to another line equipment is up 30% which only represents $440,000 we're looking to replace a truck and a tractor materials and supplies were at zero fuel were down 40 40% were down fuel which is for the generators $2,000 we haven't had a lot of power outages so we haven't had to fill up our generators just basically the weekly runtime for excuse me electric is a we we budgeted a 10% increase like I was saying with the hbac equipment we have a lot of new and replacement equipment we're putting a lot of air conditioning in throughout the district so between the additional equipment and the increase in delivery costs for electric were were sort of hoping that works we'll be hopefully be able to adjust next year based upon the actuals when the new equipment's been in use for a cycle telephone were down 15% last year the pops lines were no longer being supported so we had to switch over to Verizon file so during last year's budget we had a little bit of overlap while we were doing the transition of those systems and now that we've transitioned we were able to cancel out the old equipment water were down 12 a. half% we're basically to all lowf flow fixtures throughout the district and we also with the capital project and Spencer field getting redone we no longer have irrigation down there so we won't have to water that field so there's some savings there and then our gas is flat at zero Josh I'm curious with Spencer out of commission until the end of the capital Pro until the capital work is completed and then afterwards coming back into use as a as a turf field does that save us anything on going forward in terms of fuel expense and maintenance expense and what was the first expense you you so in that not it we're not muming it so we'll have some Savings in labor and fuel cost for the the main of we won't be lining it but overall talking about 880,000 Square ft of 50 acres we have here so not a huge not a h i I would say from a labor standpoint the field lining is probably one of the biggest during season you can be lining three times a week couple hours a a day during the lining so potentially three4 of a man day a week during playing season that we you won't be lining there are maintenance tasks associated with it but nowhere near what a grass field would be so there definitely is some savings there but but then you also have the when you do the work around the field you have to be more careful that the grass clippings the leaves and all that stuff doesn't end up on the field so given take but overall it Sav to sa I was going to say in the labor you don't really save anything because you're not adding or decreasing sta you do have the ability to reassign staff would be doing lining to do other stuff which is good we also and I guess we will learn over time what maintenance is required correct for a turf field I know to deal with the under so we we will as part of the contract they the contractors required to give us some of the equipment necessary to maintain the field the groomers and that sort of thing I would most likely we will be contracting with the service to to do gmax testing where they come out twice a year and do some testing to make sure that the compaction of the field is safe for play so there are some costs associated with it okay moving on Capital project up sorry yeah I just have a question I have an observation I love that you're like what my kids would say geeking out about thisy I love it I'm with respect to the capital Project work that's going to happen this summer because anytime I meet somebody from your department and I always like enjoy talking to them they it's it's a big summer right very big is there additional costs that you've I mean in terms of just overtime and different things so absolutely th this year and we're getting into our capital projects update here but for example we we did a tremendous amount of work during February break or the the contractors did we probably had 70 70 guys working on a given day during that which it's a very short week everyone said going away and this and that we were Friday Friday night we had contractors here till 12:30 1 o'clock in the morning Saturday off Sunday here Monday on the holiday so to have the buildings open obviously those are contractual holidays for our staff no I remember the last day of school the buses are being made goodbye PBC and you guys coming in yeah absolutely we we definitely grasp at any opportunity to get into the buildings when staff and students aren't here so there yes there's been this this school year there's been a large amount of overtime Rel that C we did a batement of third and fourth grade floors which was supposed to go through Saturday luckily we were able to they finish that early Friday so then we had the GC in on Saturday we did floor leveling on Saturday which then once that was completed Sunday we were putting classrooms back together a lot of moving pieces and it's all a c i mean is I guess my question well that's all this year's bu no but but her question was account for summer work and the answered to that oh yes absolutely so Neil do you have something no I mean sure so here we have Capital project update so just sort of a couple key things per space there's a lot more that I can talk about if you want me to but Denise wanted me to keep it short Buck garage we completed the parking lot expansion and Paving this summer and we are hopefully weeks away from powering up our new Chargers Spencer field the bleachers and Crest box are basically 95% complete the field lighting is 75% complete the concession stand is in progress C over February break we did the second grade Cubbies we started the beginning of the gym renovation which included backboards new Partition wall and new wall padding we have some electrical work painting and other exterior door Replacements that will continue we did a bunch of flooring C pbcc we turned over student support suite and they are moved in there we're underway with the Outdoor Learning space in the courtyard and we did a bunch of flooring work over February break which is shown in the right two pictures the cafeteria we put new lvt in and then bottom right is the the lobby with new ceramic tile which turned out amazing and then High School the auditorium is underway and should be turned over soon the cafeteria and Innovative Learning Center are well underway and the music Suite has been turned over and we did some flooring as well which is shown on the left side that's the second floor Corridor there here's some pictures of the bus garage parking lot Joe's team was very flexible the amount of work we did in that time period was astonishing so I I we were Paving day before yeah we it was we Loy vanc Manor actually I spoke to them we were able to use their parking lot to store all our buses when we did the paving so that was fortunate here is Spencer field we have a rendering of the field on the left and on the right we have big cranes setting the Press Box on top of the bleachers here is actually I was putting my budget presentation together and I have a bunch of photos of PVC from 1939 when it was being built and then this is p C in 1954 so that is actually the library which at the time was the cafeteria so different angle of where the picture was taken but the left side is a rendering of the steam space that we will be starting on April 1st at C so it's actually the same ceiling currently that will be getting ripped out in the right picture as part of this project this is the PVC student support left side rendering right side is the actual from a couple days ago in the back there are still some yellow totes full of files that have to be emptied and we're waiting on the light fixure to be installed over the seating area there the middle is the middle piece just like a long table two or separ tabl no that's one table that it took five people to flip that table up divid the long table behind the circle that does move it moves with a lot of people with great fortitude here is the Innovative Learning Center at the high school left side renderings right side actual you can see the air conditioning units and a lot of the hbac work is in place the steel is in place that the Nano walls will hang off of definitely a neat place they were framing up if you look on the right side or the left side in the top rendering that circular wall there was just framed up yesterday so should be pretty neat here is the High School auditorium a lot of work going on there we have the rigging company has been working on the stage this past week a lot of the audio video equipment has been delivered and is waiting to get put up they're doing patching of all the walls and repairs to the the plaster and the color scheme there's about six colors and it it all the trim has like four different colors it's really going to pop and we should be seeing that in or any questions you bring that toiki I need to commend Brad for his proactive leadership he is so committed to the project to this District so skilled and experienced he is just a pleasure to work with and what an asset he is with District thank you so some of our upcoming bring budget March 13th will be Vision math technology and Athletics followed by school budgets building level budgets curriculum and instruction and our pupil Personnel budget and then in April we'll have on the 10th superintendent's proposed budget followed by the adoption on April 22nd the property tax report card and the both's administrative budget vote and then we will slide into May May 8th is our public budget hearing and May 20th from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the high school gym we will have our budget vote trustee elections and also our 10e celebration seven this is a way to stay connected and thank you thank you all thank you now I gotta let them go home because I need them more than good night guys Greg shows us pictures so you want next time you come Vis oh absolutely that's all my phone is pictures of construction [Laughter] and moving into new business item 3.1 side letter of the resolve the Board of Education hereby approves the side letter of agreement between the C and Haron School District and Teachers Association bargaining unit as presented so moved second El a question hold on just one second me all in favor abstain motion carries moving into our donations item 4.1 recommended action be result the Board of Education hereby approves the establishment of the croen Yacht Club scholarship at croen her high school and gratefully accepts the donation of $2,000 my understanding is that this is a St this is donation that's been in existence but it wasn't awarded until after the first semester and this changes that just to allow for the money to be given at the end of the come through the business office instead of going straight to the college right so second on the question all in favor I oppose abstain motion carries item 2 4.2 recommended action be it resolved at the Board of Education greatly accepts a donation in the amount of $5,000 from the David Edward Cohen Scholarship Foundation Inc for the David E Cohen scholarship at Clon I'm sorry to the screen at Cen Harmon High School I just want to say I'm sorry this award is given to in the meem in memory of David Ed Cohen quot in High School class of 20 s who excelled in academic achievement and demonstrated with Civic and moral character David's war and carrying attitude towards others as well as outstanding workship made an a pass passionate member of the community oh I'm I'm moving that okay second question I just want to say last month we established a scholarship and we spoke very movingly about at least I did about David who I had known ever since he was a child and I think it's really wonderful that the scholarship is being funded as generously as it is by this the family yes thank you all in favor I oppose abstain motion carties moving into ongoing business item 5 1 2025 2026 Board of Education meeting dates recommended action be a res the Board of Education hereby approves the 2025 2026 Board of Education meeting calendar as presented second on a question all in favor I abstain oppos motion carries moving into our content agenda it 6.1 non-instructional Personnel recommendation recommended action be resolved the Board of Education hereby approves the non-instructional personals as I'll make the motion or or say it which is a resolve that the board approves all items on the consent agenda has presented Mo that's my motion and I'll second other question give me a moment yes I'm fine thanks I just wanted to draw attention to a couple of items on the consent agenda first number 6.02 the resignation of Gregory cisero Gregory has been a part of this system for more than 45 years now grew up here went to school here started his career at C ET and for the past close to 33 years has been a member of the staff and so when we talk about the concept of once a tiger always a tiger he as much as anyone embodies that we're incredibly proud of Gregory for having been appointed the director of facilities in the High Park Central School District up in the northern part of Dutchess County it's an amazing opportunity for him they're incredibly fortunate and just want to take this on this moment on this occasion to thank him for innumerable contributions not only to the functioning of the place but to the culture of the place he is a part of the DNA of this system so Greg thank you quick note under 6.06 finding an athletic trainer in general in this environment is incredibly difficult finding an athletic trainer the quality of someone like Carrie Tracy is shoting NI so I want to say thank you to Carrie for her willingness to take on this role for the remainder of the school year in addition to all the phenomenal things that she does to support students at chhs and around the district so certainly this is a tremendous Boon for our student athletes for our athletics department so I want to thank shry for the willingness to to take this all in favor hi hi hi same oppose motion vares moving into the closing of the meeting the board will recommend the board will be entering an executive session so recommended action dat result of the Board of Education hereby enters into executive session to discuss the employment of a particular person or persons I'll move second a question all in favor iOS motion carries so we willion session