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e e e here vice president masio here president Des here before we jump into each individual section of the meeting there were two uh
resolutions added um both of them pertain to the Energy savings Improvement plan we're doing um these are the refinancing bonds we have to go we did we went before the local Finance board we went before uh Department of
Community Affairs so this is the next step to continue the process on this that's 15 C6 yes this the last two C15 c16 so we're going to start by our divisions reporting out I'd like to start with our business office if they
could report out they're going to report out some highlights from the committee meetings so all the resolutions were sent out and reviewed by the committee the one I'm going to touch on is tenative budget I just want to remind everyone that the tenative budget is
really the approval for me to submit the budget to the county office the budget hearing is a full presentation of the April meeting with all the details of the budget and the official this is the tenative budget as you know we did lose some state aid uh
the overall budget is down by about $300,000 total get into that a little more thank you Dan I'd like uh Dr dman from curric he's going to speak on behalf of the curriculum Department mic okay good evening we met last
Wednesday curriculum in policy we had a wonderful meeting um I presented the um policies for for the April board meeting one in particular was uh 5511 point2 dress and grooming for high school so you do have all the policies and we had
a very excellent discussion on all of them thank you Dr Dagon I'd like to invite um Miss Becca relli she's going to speak in reference to a special ed and also in reference to a new program that we're hoping to implement uh very
shortly at the high school this year hello um good evening uh one of the things that I wanted to uh talk about is the positive path forward program and essentially this is a comprehensive uh supportive initiative to help students
who are addressing conduct issues within Bayon High School um it be a program during the school day um with all of the supports um to try to get students you know back on the right track um you know as opposed to just an out of school
suspension or something like that so that was our uh one initiative that we wanted to speak about if you wouldn't mind sharing with the trustees where the location of some of the um over in the high strength is that
prepared yet no yes yeah uh the program is going to be located at the ice Rank and it's going to have its own sta it's going to be staffed with current teachers that we have now uh they're going to be working with the kids as we work them back into school and it's going to be very diverse it could be a
one day to 45 day placement for a marking Peri placement it's a transition program for instance uh earlier this week uh Miss V myself the principal uh guidance counselors we met with a student that was going through some
disciplinary uh problems so meeting with the parents and this is something that happens but it just kind of highlights the need for the program and that that student is working their way back to school and it started with a a couple deliverable things that
the kid had to deliver to the principal now rather than maybe start in alternative school or or what schol what you would effectively know as back in the day the night school uh or or Alternative High School this perhaps can be the bridge between
home instruction between in school suspension it can it can it's not a catch-all for everything but we think this is a way where we can actually offer structure environment to teach some
students not between what is right and wrong but what's appropriate resp exactly yeah and and just to add on to what um the superintendent is saying we're also going to have um you know counseling supports there like group counseling in the morning with morning
check-in individual as needed um as well as their academic classes so um you know we're hoping that this will help you know the the goal is to help students to get them on a path where you know they're socially and emotionally well
and and being able to focus focus on their academic success it gives much more structure than a out of school suspension it's it's it's makes me think feel hopeful yeah and it's for General Ed and special ed so very good and I
think we've all spoken about that individually with all the board members with with all of us Insanity right is defined by Einstein is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when we'll take more a holistic approach and go okay let's have
a program and we'll it's Works in medicine yeah yeah so we're we're we're pretty confident that this is just another tool in the bag of things we can try and in the coming months I guess as we go forward would you guys mind
sharing some of the stories that like not in detail but just like some of the feedback we're hearing from students and families because I think that overall impacts them holistically of course so like we would love to hear what look at I think at first it's going to be a tough to Sol but I think as they go along they're going to see the benefits both the parent the child and us as Ed
an education um system system we'll have that data like entrance and like after that would would Happ you know so we'll definitely be able to share out on that data absolutely and student well the goal like the hope is that you know after 30 or or temporary
45 days could be less you know like again this is very individualized for based on student separate student situations um you know the max would be like a 45 day like we you know we the goal is to get them to go back to the
mainstream if that's appropriate for them and and if it's it's not then we could discuss other options from there and to to to your point um trustee the student that we met with last week we gave that student you have
till Friday morning first thing Friday morning to it to write an apology to the principal and explain why you want to come back to high school and you know and what do you think happened at 8:40 in the morning they were in school hand
delivering a letter that they hand wrote to the principal um and we we've heard from the family like it's it's just part of that process that but this is I think going to be a tremendous success yeah and I think being that it'll be you know
we'll have hours during the school day we we need to get the Buy in from parents because we really are trying to support kids to absolutely you know help them to make better decisions instead of just getting suspended suspended making bad decision after bad decision so that's why the counseling also will help families will be involved absolutely
yeah yep yeah that's key that's a key part of it team effort team efforts thank you um and uh last but certainly not least I just would like to point out that in um central office if you happen
to stop by we are out of Seltzer but Tom seems to have an under the supply of Seltzer so point that out keep going two blocks over two blocks over uh so Tom person Personnel uh good evening um majority of my resolutions pertaining to
staff and students so you really can't discuss elaborate V8 is annual job posting this a qac requirement uh annual uh posting we do every year this is not positions that are going to be filled these are postings that we have in the past that have been approved or file in
our office um and we just can get them approved again for this year for next year yeah and I know I had some questions and I want to share some of the questioning right is one it's one more thing to maintain as we going through and we're updating and we're looking at new policies and we're trying to figure out everything that needs to
be done for the future we see some of these roles that have been vacant will remain vacant why keep it on our list to maintain and sustain and manage that's just my perspective I just think we have to spend our time especially the ad our Administration you have so much time
that needs to be div divied elsewhere why have every little thing that we could take off that we could put our time into the students the staff to allocating our money to paying attention what's going on is important while it seems Petty these things add up so that was just my intention behind why I
wanted to know how long they've been baking and if we intend on filling them no are there a lot of them on here that are baking uh there's a handful there's a handful we'll clean it up thanks no problem thank you before we're off
that I knew some were vacant having done this year after year I didn't make any comment on it because you can't go anywhere with any of them that are vacant without coming back to us to fill them corre so I wasn't concerned that they were on there corre um and I know
there are some that you told Melissa and I outright we there's no intention of filling them I took that to mean not now we're not filling much of anything right now after that story the budget um
but Melissa's right if there's things that are like off the charts crazy and nothing to concern with we can remove them yeah now one more question I want to re ask at a different way is it necessary
to take this off now because a majority of them are appropriate or you'll just come back with a revised okay y thank you thank you all right that is all I have is there
any other questions or concerns um just one and I think it's for um Dr Dean the difference between the arm tutoring and the high impact arm stands for after school
reading and math support that's through the title funds okay okay so that's 3 to eight high impact tutoring goes through my office but it's a state funded it's uh grade three and four it's only for it's
three students so it's intense tutoring okay okay and it's um we go through um a vendor that provides the service because it's uh 3 to one 3 to one very good we had it last year we have it this year and we're applying again for next year
it would be great if we could grow it into great and six I think yeah so we're going to apply again very good thank you you're welcome all right you all set all right we'll adjourn the open workshop and
we'll meet back here at 6:00 for the regular meeting thank you