Get used to the vegetable. [Music] [Music] Huh? This meeting is called to Order. Adequate notice has been given this meeting as required by law. Notices have been forwarded for publication in district official newspapers. Post in
the Absagami Cedar Creek and Oakrest High Schools and forwarded to all the clerks of the municipalities within this school district. There are two opportunities to address the members of the board. The board values and welcomes comments and opinions from residents as long as remarks are not personal or discourteous. The public comment portion
of the meeting allows the board to listen to community members and to hear their opinions on school policy and operations. The first public portion is reserved for persons wishing to speak about agenda items only. The second opportunity following the action items when residents may address the board on
any school related issue. Each speaker is asked to limit their comments to three minutes and you're not permitted to yield your time to another. The public comment portion of the meeting during both sessions will not exceed 30 minutes. Upon being recognized, persons wishing to speak should stand and identify themselves by name and town.
Please stand for the flag salute to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. May we have a a moment of silence.
Thank you. Edmonds present. Garrison here. Gunther present. Hartman here. Hassa here. Perli here. Storio here. Wright here. House. You
have a qu. I'd like a motion, please, to approve the minutes of June 2nd, regular and executive. I'll make a motion to move regular and executive. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to
approve the minutes of June 2nd. Are there any questions or corrections on that motion? Edmonds, yes. Garrison, yes. Hartman, yes. Hasa, yes. Carly, yes. Storio, yes.
Wright, yes. Gunther, yes. Motion is approved. There are no special presentations, no committee reports. Any board members have a report? At this time, I will open the meeting to the public agenda items only. Is there
any public comment? Thank you. Information items. The board knows what they are. Do you have any questions, board, on those information items or questions? Business agenda. I would like a motion
to approve or accept business items B1 through B19. I'll make a motion to move B1 through B19 on pages 2 through 5. Second. I'm sorry, who second? Okay, thank you.
Motion's been made and seconded to approve B1 through B19. Any questions? Any discussion? Brian? Yeah, I had a question on uh B sorry B10. Is that the same company that we've
been using for the last few years now? Yeah. Good. Thank you. It's okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Garrison, yes. Hartman, yes. Asa, yes. Carly, yes. Storio, yes. Wright, yes.
Edmonds. Yes. Gunther. I must abstain on B1 page 19. Check. Well, for Jimmy's floors 080917. All the rest. Yes. I abstain on that. Motion to approve.
Okay. Transportation. I'd like a motion, please, to approve or accept T1 through T12. I make a motion to approve T1 through T12 on pages 5 through 9. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to
approve. Hartman, yes. Hasa, yes. Kurly, yes. Storio, yes. Wright, yes. Edmonds, yes. Garrison, yes. Gunther, yes. Motion is approved. Education, page 10 of the agenda. I
would like a motion, please, to approve except E1 through E9. Make a motion for E1 through E9 on pages 10 and 11. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve E1 through E9.
Any discussion or question on that motion? Okay, Hassa. Yes. Carly, it's so good for you to be back. Yes. Sartorio, yes. Wright, yes. Edmonds, yes. Garrison,
yes. Hartman, yes. Gunther, yes. Motion is approved. All right, personnel. A motion, please, to approve except P1 through P23. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to
approve P1 through P23. Any questions or discussion on the motion? I have a freshman it's because of who is on who's committed to us via the guidance conversations and all that stuff.
Yep. Any other questions or discussion? Okay. Carly. Yes. Storio. Yes. Right. Yes. Substain P4 number six and P14 number 24. Edmonds,
excuse me. Yes. Garrison, yes. Hartman, yes. Hasa, yes. Gunther, yes. But I must abstain on page two, line seven, page three, line nine.
Do you have numbers with Sarah? Sorry. H2. Um, P2 number. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I'm I'm sorry. P2 line seven. Okay. P3 to line N.
Okay. Motion is approved. All right. Superintendence report. Thank you. Um, first, uh, thank you to all the board members for attendance at the graduations. Um, I think all three were
successful. We had a couple of electrical hiccups that were not anything we controlled or we played a role in. Um, unfortunately, it did happen. They were able to get them back online fairly quickly. Um, but I do thank you all for your attendance and
and your participation. Um, I thank also uh the building administrations, the senior class advisors, the graduation coordinators that put everything together. A lot of time and power, manpower goes into
getting those days together. And you know, it it seems like it's an hour to an hour and 20 minutes for the actual ceremonies, but those conversations start literally back in March in terms of identifying everything, making sure everything's ordered, getting the budget
items ready, flowers, all those things. So, it is a it is a big day. It's it's our largest attended days of the school year by far. So, it's important that we put our best foot forward. So, I want to appreciate or recognize and acknowledge all the staff, certificated and
non-certificated, that go into putting those days together. Um, we're going to have a conversation on uh July at our July retreat about a couple of things related to the graduations. I want to I want to create some conversations at the
board level um about time and and maybe would we benefit starting a little earlier so we increase our window if there is negative weather on any day. We certainly benefited this year from moving Cedar Creek up um to four
o'clock. by 6:00 or 10 after 6 there was a wall of weather from Sweetwater to Maze Landing that absolutely would have hit Cedar Creek in the middle of graduation. Um so we can dig into details. We can look at both sides work
schedules and etc. I just want to let everybody know we literally began at our level um already looking at the graduations. What worked? What could we try and modify? Um, as an example, we've already talked about the Oakrest stage needs to be bigger. I'd like everybody
that was on that stage with me. We don't need to be that close, especially when it's 90 degrees. Um, and and obviously there are some some movement issues for staff, for us as well as for students, a little bit bigger. And I just say that again so the board knows, we are already
reviewing everything, what worked and what didn't work, and we'll make modifications for next year. It's an ongoing process. Um, I'm going to I want to let you know another topic at our retreat is going to be cell phones. Um, it it's an ongoing
topic. We put out a survey to get some feelers from some staff. Um, it's it's going to require more work on the administrative side this summer. We're going to work with the union as well. I've already met with the union
president, both the outgoing and the incoming. We've had conversations about cell phones. Um I think there's a lot of to to to be short because we're going to get into this in July. There's a lot of oh it's great so and so just bans it and
it's handled. But then you talk to somebody who goes there and it's not that black and white. So I but I do think there are some teachers that have brought up some good questions, some good concerns. I'll share those with you at the July retreat and then again we'll
go back to the building and the district level in August administratively and have some conversations. If we're making changes, I've let everybody involved know by August 15th. We're going to be able to let staff and students and families know what if any changes we are
making and we will make sure that that messaging gets out early and clear so there is no confusion or misunderstanding on anybody's part. Okay. But again, more on that at the July retreat. Just wanted you to give you a an idea on a couple of the larger issues we're going to we'll talk about
at the retreat in addition to our, you know, what work this year that we did and what do we want to look at to accomplish next year. Um, other than that, I think I shared it at the last board meeting for the July retreat. I'll also have the ads have submitted their end of the year calculations, their
summary reports. I'll share that with you before the July retreat. we can talk about it at the the retreat. Uh that'll also give me time to get from the data department all of the participation numbers in performing arts and other
clubs and the such. So you'll be able to see all of that. Okay. Um other than that, I've pushed a lot of info out. We only had a board meeting a couple of weeks ago, so there's not much else I have uh other than what I just shared. So thank you. Thank you on behalf of
Mrs. help the board president and myself. Um, I want to thank everybody and I'm sure the whole board wants to express our thanks to everybody who had anything to do with graduations. Um, the grounds were wonderful. Everybody, the
principal, everybody who had anything to do with them. Um, we it we're appreciative as a board. I'm appreciative of it as the vice president. So is Mrs. Hal. Um the graduations were all different but I felt each one was amazingly amazing.
Each one was beautiful in its own way. Should write a song about that. Um also um I just am so happy and proud of this board that all of us could make at least
one graduation. And I think that's wonderful. And I think it's a it's a good thing. You're interested in the kids. you're interested in the district and I'm glad you're on the board. Thank you. Old business. Is there any old business?
Is there any new business? Yes. Could we maybe look at the graduation? I know you you just touched on the graduation, but like a couple of us board members were talking about. I mean, we don't really need a stage. If you know, if the other
two schools can do it without a stage, why would Okess need it? Another thing was the the the visitor side kept complaining they couldn't hear anything because the speakers and you know, is there a reason why we couldn't turn them around like
the other two schools do to where both sides can enjoy seeing their their person or It was it was all talked about already this week. Um, so they're they're certainly fair points, Greg. I'll also say though that that shift
generated from Oakrest because they had smaller numbers for a couple of years than the other two buildings and people felt like they could have a better view of what they were looking at. But we did talk about maybe that's something that needs to be more specific in terms of
the size of the graduating class. but also when we did it over the last couple of years, I think specific messaging went out to the families. Hey, we're going to be facing the home side. And I don't think that happened this year. So, I'm glad you're bringing it up. They're good points, but those were all part of
our discussions. One other thing, can we get some kind of presentation on since we've had the solar system now for a couple years, how much we produced in megawws? And we're we're in the process of getting our EIP study right now, and that's going to be one of the points we're going to talk about. Very good.
Thank you. I do want to make a comment about your comment of the stages. Some of us board members were talking and we thought we should have a stage at each school. Um, some of us like the stage effect and it brought closer together. You didn't have to run across half a
football until someone gets hurt. Okay. Any other new business? Any new business? My goodness. All right. At this point, I'm going to open the meeting to the public. All matters. Hello, my name is Christine Miller and I live
in Maze Landing. On June 4th, on the way to school, my son told me that Anish, a freshman from our Oakrest family, completed suicide. Anish was a really good person. He has spent time in my home, my car, and he ate at my table.
Therefore, I call him one of my kids. And my heart is broken for him, for his family, and for this entire community that has been affected. As a mom, I would like to thank Mr. Raina, Mr. Manning, and all of the counselors, teachers, and staff that were here on June 4th and the days and
weeks after. I know that before the doors even opened, there was a plan to get the students and teachers support. I appreciate the entire Oakris family for taking care of our kids as they went from shock to grief all in the process of ending their school year. Almost 40
teens were at my house the night of June 4th and many of them talked about how someone came to them to talk to them at school and this may not have happened if it was left up to them themselves. So, thank you for engaging them. As a professional, I want to thank you for
your organized crisis plan that proved effective. I thank the board for reviewing these policies and updating them so that when devastation happens, there's a roadmap to follow. At the same time, I thank everyone for also being human, having empathy and heart. A
policy is only a policy without character. I challenge the board and the staff of Greater Egg to never stop putting social emotional learning in their curriculum. Challenge yourselves to have each student connected to one adult that they trust and never
underestimate the possible role you could have in a child's or a young adult's life. I'd also like to add to this that there was some allegations in social media um about the children that went to the funeral on June 6. They went out to dinner afterwards and I want to let you know that I was one of the
parents there and I couldn't have been more prouder of these kids. they were respectful and there were parents there that supported them and those allegations did prove to be um not correct. So I want to let you know that that restaurant was
tipped. They were paid and I just want you to know for the respect of these kids that had such a hard day that that wasn't the case. I thank you all so very very much. Thank you. Thank you. You any other public comment? Great.
Resolution for executive session, please. Uh, pursuance to section 78 of the open public meeting act, the following subjects will be discussed in a session of the board of education closing the public, client attorney privilege and student matters. Anticipate that the audience mentioned resolution can be disclosed to the
public when a decision is made upon the same or in the case of personnel issues when the need for confidential no longer exists. For more action at the conclusion of executive session may be taken. A motion to go into executive session. Make a motion to go into executive session.
I'm sorry. We Okay. Motion's been made and seconded to go