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I would like to call this meeting to
order at 5:30. And for those who are
able, please stand and join us for the
To the flag of the United States of
America to the stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and
Thank you. Moving on to approval of the
minutes. Be it resolved upon the
recommendation of the superintendent of
schools. The board of education for the
Trumanburg Central School District
hereby approves the board of education
minute from August 19th as presented.
Have a motion.
>> So move.
>> Second. Suzanne. Any questions,
comments, or changes to the minutes?
>> Seeing none, all in favor? Opposed?
Absention. Motion carries. Approval of
minutes. Be it resolved upon the
recommendation of the superintendent of
schools, the board of education for the
childrenburg Central School District
hereby approves the board of education
minutes from August 28th as presented. Motion
Motion
>> motion second.
>> Jamie questions, comments, changes.
All in favor? Opposed? Absention? Motion
carries. Are there any modifications on
the agenda? Are none. We'll move on to
privilege of the floor. We did have
somebody sign up ahead of time who's not
here. Um, however, if they come after, I
would be happy to accommodate them.
Move on to correspondence. There are
none. So, Mina, in a record one and a
half minutes, we're already at it five
and report.
>> Hey, great. Um,
so this is kind of I'm titling this
student happenings, but it's more or
less the first student report we have
here. Um, so
this is sort of just a rundown of some
of the stuff that's kind of happening
between all the buildings um with
various student activities and whatnot.
I mean, starting off with the school
year, we haven't had a whole lot going
on, but we're starting to get some
stuff. So, clubs in all schools, so high
school, we have drama club, student
council, national honors society,
robotics, Spanish club, yearbook,
natural high club, and ski club later
on. So, a lot of these meetings are
having their a lot of these clubs are
having their first meeting. So, I know
drama club has probably met. Uh, student
council is going to start to meet. I was
in a national honor society meeting
today. Robotics, Spanish club, national
high club was also in one of those
meetings. So, there's a lot happening
and there's a lot of new activities that
are going to get planned. Um, in the
middle school they have drama club, the
gay straight alliance club, the student
council fifth grade and sixth through
eighth grade, yearbook, and then ski
club later on. And as for the elementary
school, they're going to do ski club
later on. So that's sort of the outline
of some of the clubs students will be
participating in in all the buildings. Um,
Um,
>> which ones are you in, Mina?
>> I am in National Honor Society and
that's all right now.
>> And a board member
>> robotics is fun.
>> Yeah, I I've done I've done drama club.
I've done student council. I've done a
little bit of little everything, but
that's pretty exciting. Um, so new
student and freshman orientation. So,
this takes place in the high school. So,
here's a lovely photo of all of our
volunteers. Um, so this is important to
know. This is kind of a studentled
event. So, um, Mr. Flood, the dean of
students, helps kind of organize some of
this. But, um, it's sort of a day before
school officially starts to get people
kind of introduced into the high school.
um specifically for freshman, but it
could be new students. Um and a group of
students who are sophomore through um
senior, they sort of help show everybody
around. So, they enjoyed a tour of the
high school. Uh we're told about
available clubs and activities to join,
life advice for high school, and so much
more. There's a lot that goes on in
this, lots of planning. Um this year it
was more or less hosted slashrun by June
um Wford and Josie Pharaoh who are two
seniors right now. So this is a very
great studentled activity, lots of
enthusiasm and I can say as somebody who
went through this as a freshman, it
>> you are not immune to technical difficult.
>> All right. Um, fall sports. This mostly
just covers the high school right now,
but people are starting off with sports,
which is really exciting. Um, today
cross country is at Grten. There's
soccer at Whitney Point, football,
volleyball, uh, JB and varsity at Newark
Valley. So, there's lots of sports
starting up and I it's a great way to
kind of get involved getting into the
school year, especially I know at least
in the high school, very popular for
freshmen who are getting introduced, but
it's exciting. Um, other happenings in
the high school, the first TIG News desk
episode aired yesterday. Um the news
deskes is this great thing that we came
up with last year or more the steam
space did and it's more or less a news
report of everything that happens in the
high school and even around the high
school. So it's been used to help clubs
promote various activities. It also just
talks about student happenings and is a
really great um program that we've
gotten up and it's nice to see it going
on for a second year. So, it's um
currently run by almost all students. And
And
>> where can you watch it?
>> Where can I watch it? They have a
YouTube channel. So, I'll try to I can
see if I can get a link for that, but
they they upload those videos and you
can see them I think all the way till
like about this time or a little later
last year when they started up the
program. Um senior last year, Jack
Linskin started up and was the news
anchor and currently um there's a lot of
underassmen taking it over. So, it's great.
great.
>> Thank you. So that's all for right now,
but there's going to be a lot of great
activities that the students will be
participating in and we will cover all
of those. So yeah, thank you.
>> Thanks Mina. Thanks.
>> Can I ask a question regard how are
things going with the bell to bell nos
in schools for students? I think from
what I have heard is it can be a little
challenging but for the most part people
are starting to adjust nicely and as you
kind of start to get in with the week
flow people are working with that. I
know um emails become people are just
checking emails more often. It was
common we I was in um a national honor
society meeting today and we were
talking about how isn't used as
frequently which is like a messaging
app. So now people are checking their
emails a lot more and there's just a lot
more communication
that would be interesting.
Thank you.
>> That's great. Thanks man. Anybody else
have anything from me?
Administrator's report. Where would we
like to start? Who wants to kick it off? Michael.
Michael.
All right. So first of all, I would like
to promote um a literacy info night that
we're having next week. We are super
excited about this. The reading league,
who we've been working with for a few
years, is coming um to present. So,
they're going to do a half an hour um
presentation about the science of
reading and um what we have learned
about scientifically based research um
to lead to instruction where where
students are really learning to read
versus some of the ways that we were
taught before. So, we've had some
questions from families about what does
reading instruction look like. So, we
are very excited to offer this. You are
all welcome to come. Um, it will be at
6:30 on Wednesday in the auditorium.
>> Are there snacks, James?
>> I I'll get snacks.
>> Just some Megan.
>> Maybe we'll work on snack.
>> I sent everyone an invite.
>> I did see that. That was on our on our
website as well. Yes, we're plastering
it everywhere because we're really
hoping we get a a good turnout. Um just
a small pattern. I know it's a little
too early to really tell, but it does
look like chronic absenteeism is um
better this year. So hopefully I didn't
just jinx it. Hopefully it's not too
early. Um but we're seeing some trends
in a positive direction which is really
exciting. Um, we are also preparing for
our cider making unit where we collect
apples from local farms and we use my
family cider press in the steam pub and
students get to actually make cider and
it's really interesting when you when
you ask them what were the ingredients
and they're like apples. Like that's it.
Like there is no other ingredient. So,
um, of course, Justin Demanio does an
amazing job of teaching them all kinds
of, um, scientific concepts and and, um,
and other things making the cer, but
it's just a great experience for all of
our students. Um, and then finally, um,
just as a heads up, we are supporting
the Conservatory of Fine Arts again this
year with our spaces. So they are um
having dance classes at the elementary
which has just been it's just really fun
to see our students in a whole different
different way. So just to make you aware
of that. So off to a great start at the moment.
moment.
>> Thanks Judy.
>> Um I can go. Uh so things off to a great
start at the middle school as well. Our
new staff members and our fifth graders
are settling in. Our fifth graders
promised to um be the highest level
users of the library that we've seen in
a while. are already up there all the
time which is wonderful to see. Um some
events coming up are PTO movie night is
this Friday night 7:30 Minecraft u the
Minecraft movie. So if you need some
Steve Saw the chicken now's your chance.
That's going to be in the back lot or
weather pending inside in the middle
school gym. Um so people I know people
are looking forward to that. And then
open house is next Thursday. Uh we're
going to do the chicken barbecue again
this year to benefit the middle school
student councils and the PTO will be
there serving ice cream which has been
donated from Trimmers. Thank you so much
Trimmers. So you can come get a meal uh
4:30 to 4:45 to 5:45 with open house
thinking 6 to 7:45 after that. So again,
yeah, off off and running and we're
at the high school. I feel like Mina
honestly hit a lot of what's been going
on. We have, you know, we're getting
back into the swing of things. The mugs
are meeting, the fundraising is picking
up. Students are already planning for
homecoming next week and the decorating
the hallways competition. So, I feel
like those normal pieces are up and
running. Definitely the sports study
hall is is crammed every afternoon with
people waiting for buses and getting
ready for those games. Um, but then
there's also things that are new for us.
So we are almost fully staffed and I
think that what people don't see behind
the the scenes with that was that there
were a lot of our elective program
teachers in August took other positions
and in a very short amount of time
electives like robotics and the civics
and action class and a lot of our other
electives through their steam space went
with new teachers. So those teachers are
picking up new curriculum and it has
been amazing to see how exciting the
teachers are and how excited the
students are in those spaces. It was an
incredibly fast turnaround. Um and I'm
just really really excited that all of
those pieces seem to be coming together
and we were able to have that program
still happening this fall and happening
with really talented educators. So we
are we are this close to being fully
staffed and I am just very pleased with
the way it all came together and there
was a lot of work by the the staff the
juniors behind the scenes to kind of
make that happen. So I just wanted
people to kind of be aware of that. I
think it's going to be a really solid
year. So we're having the normal things
happening. Um and yeah feels really good
to to be this close
>> tomorrow night.
>> Open house tomorrow night. Thank you.
They forgot.
>> We don't have ice cream or chicken
barbecue though. So, I'm feeling a
little bit like the four dozen here. So,
I I'm going to get the job next year
6:30 at the high school. We will be
having volleyball games happening at the
same time on site. So, >> perfect.
>> perfect.
>> So, they could get snacks from concessions.
>> Hillary, I think people at the high
school also appreciate the it's a quick
it's a quick check-in open house.
There's a lot of things going on at the
same time, so they certainly take
advantage of that.
>> Yeah. Hillary question. Um, so the one
class that's been now rebranded as
civics in action. I I hear there's more
than one section of this class or is it
>> there two sections, but it's really a
group discussion course in the
beginning. There there's a lot of
conversation that happens and one of the
sections is quite small. So we've
actually been talking to some of the
students about possibly joining the
larger sections and seeing what we can
do to make that happen for them because
it's going to be a more productive
classroom. So that
>> Yeah. And I and I would actually say
that it's not really a rebranding.
Honestly, the the original plan was to
run the original course, Global Mutism,
and we did have some staffing turnover.
Um, we moved a lot of those kids into
the civics and action because it's it's
kind of a similar I've been hearing from
students, they want humanities, they
want courses that allow them to have
that civics piece, but it definitely is
N quick update.
>> Yeah. Uh I feel like everybody else said
we got a great start this year. Um last
year we launched what was called my my
K12 parent app for our routing software.
This year we really kind of pushed
parents towards that. Um that app is
really awesome because if we were to do
a normal mailing like two weeks before
school starts, we get so many changes
that come in. We had 46 changes come in
from August 27th to the 4th of school.
So from 4th of September, sorry. Um, so
that you can imagine that changes
everything. So that app allows parents
to see current updated times. Anytime we
make a change, they can see their busing
schedule has been affected. Um, I think
that tools helped a lot this year and
our phone calls. Um, anybody that didn't
download the app, uh, we've encouraged
them to and they they're really happy
with what it's working out for them and
their families. Um,
and another thing we've also done the
last couple years is had on the school
website where they fill out a Google
spreadsheet if they need any changes and
me and them both can work on that simultaneously,
simultaneously,
cross them off as they come in. That's
really streamlined a lot of things. So
that my ride K12 has been an awesome
tool for us. It's the thing really
really simplified a lot of things. Um,
we have some exciting news. We had a
driver who's worked all summer for
getting her license. She's really,
really close. Um, she's going to be
signing up for a road test soon. So,
that will be helpful. Also, we have
another person just came to us that's
got her license. We're just trying to do
all the paperwork to get her role and
she wants to be a substitute. So, that
will help with our sports trips has been
a whole been pushed back because the
staffing was didn't have enough. So,
we're excited for that to be closer to
being full staff.
>> What does writership look like compared
to last year?
It's awful early because the first
couple weeks people like to bring their
kids in. I mean, this week would be a
week that we want to start looking at.
Um, I don't see anything too awful low
yet, but it's just it's not terrible.
Um, we actually found like we found
we're adding more stops or some runs we
didn't have before. And then out of 46
of those uh new additionals, I think
there was like nine in roads we weren't
traveling. So, that was a interesting
task to uh try to figure out. But again
with that that app is the most live
information people can get.
>> We talked about in an upcoming uh
transportation committee meeting
>> going back and looking at the writership
even look back the last four or five
years get a sense of how that's adjusted
because I think you know when we when we
do a quick at a glance in the morning
the afternoon our campus is very busy
with drop off. So it would be really
nice for us to share that with the board
so we get a sense of what those numbers
look like.
Just anecdotally, we have fewer car drop
offs at the elementary this year.
There's just fewer cars in the living.
>> Drop off.
>> Still working on that. But yes,
>> I like your sketch, Hillary. Thank you.
>> I It was highly sophisticated.
>> It served everything. It met all the
needs of what I need.
>> Can I ask how it I asked Mary about
students? uh uh adjusting to the the
policy about bell to bell no phones. How
has it been as an administrator? Um
>> I mean I think it's it's just really
nice. I'm seeing the same stuff Nina is.
It's it's really nice to go into the
lunchroom and instead of having an
entire group of of students watching
YouTube videos around a table, they're
sitting around the table doing things. I
I feel like the the gymnasium at recess
time at the high school has picked up.
There's actually even more students than
there were last year. Um, so I think
it's I think that students are settling
into it. It's it's been really good.
>> It hasn't been much of a change at the
middle school. We we didn't allow cell
phone use before and so I don't it's not
a noticeable difference.
>> Same. There's still a difference of that.
that.
>> I work with one school where they had
said that they bust out a kid for using
Door Dash and said, "What do you mean I
need Door Dash to have my lunch
Lane, I don't want to put you on the
spot if there are couple highlights. If
you want to add something, if not, next
month will be I know there'll be plenty
of things to do.
>> Oh, yeah. We'll catch up next month.
>> All right. Good. We'll work on that for sure.
sure.
>> There'll be a lot of things going on. So,
So,
>> here. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
>> I just as I'm thinking back uh it's been
two weeks since we kicked off our
opening days with all of our staff. Um
there's been a lot of really great
things that have happened in two weeks
and like wow is that really two weeks?
It feels like between the games and the
activities and all the students. Um we
have as of what Sunday 965 students
across our prek through 12 um we had
students enrolling I know when I was at
the elementary um open house and so
we're we anticipate that that number
will change a little bit. Um, as far as
our two opening days that we had with
teachers and all staff, um, we took a
different approach this year with our
opening days, our our opportunities for
our mandated trainings. And I would say
that the feedback um was really
wonderful. We had uh people seemed to
really appreciate that the weather was
gorgeous on both of those days. But I
think for all of the administrators, we
continue to hear from people like this
was this was really wonderful for us to
be together and to approach our um our
trainings in just a different um
fashion, a little more active. And so uh
that was a wonderful way for us all to
start and to really feel that sense of
community. So that was exciting for us
to kick off. Um now we're in our open ho
house uh season and sports. We had quite
a turnout last night for the uh soccer
game. That was quite a quite a tie there
in double overtime. So, it's um
wonderful to be out. We've been so
fortunate with the weather. Um but just
getting feedback from families and
students. Um it's it's wonderful from my
perspective to see our campus back
alive. Uh for sure. And I'm looking
forward to sharing in just a little bit.
We have some updates as far as our
upcoming capital project. So, we'll
share some information there. Um, and
yeah, I'm looking forward to being out
and about. I get a chance to see a lot
of folks uh first thing in the morning.
Um, I've been in buildings and all of
our spaces and everyone seems to be
excited to be here. And, uh, also
recognizing as we all come together, we
also share uh, germs and so we've hit a
little bit of that already. Uh, so be mindful.
mindful.
>> Yeah. And so we certainly want to have
um you know a high level of attendance
for all students and staff but also
recognizing that if people aren't
feeling well we recognize the importance
of staying home and taking care of
yourselves as well. So we have hit um
some of the holds and illness illnesses
already um which is to be expected when
we back together. So, like I said,
overall just a really wonderful um
welcome back from all of our students
and staff and look forward to getting to
connect with families in the next few
weeks of how we open house.
>> Thank you for including us on opening
day, too. That was really nice to be
there for, you know, thank you to our
board members that were were there and
they said, you know, how can we help?
We've got it. We're like, no, no, we
want to help. So, um it was great to see
you all connecting with with staff. So,
That's it for in terms of our admin
updates. Josh, I know Josh has been
really busy with the IT department and
we talked about highlights that'll be
shared next month, right? So, lots of
things to share there as well. Amanda, I
think you'll tag team in terms of our
capital projects presentation. Was there
anything really exciting that you'd like
to share from your world? No, unless you
want to hear all about um all the things
that the auditors are asking us for and
action in the portal of state education
department for the SD3 report. So, I'm
going to leave that out tonight.
>> You will get to that
first time.
>> Thanks everyone.
>> Are we moving on to the presentations
piece now or are we going ahead with our
>> We're going to do that at the end. We
anticipate that uh we'll have one other
presenter join Amanda and so if we can
we'll we'll first [Music]
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consent agenda. I am looking for a
motion to take items 7 A and B. Thank
you Tina for B collectively.
So move
>> second even would anybody like to remove
any of those items for additional discussion?
>> Hearing none. Um all in favor of taking
items 7A through 7B together
opposed abstension. Motions all carried.
Moving on to new business. Adoption of
revised text warrant. Be it resolved
upon the recommendation of the
superintendent of schools, the board of
education for the Trimsburg Central
School District hereby adopts the
revised tax warrant and establishes the
2526 school rate as noted. Um I have a motion
motion second.
second. >> Second.
>> Second.
>> Jamie. Um Amanda, do you have want to
add anything here? I just want to remind
folks that when we um first adopted this
in August, there was a footnote
regarding um Senica County's file merge
process and how that is delayed. There
was also um recalculation due to
veterans exemption corrections. So
that's what you're seeing.
Thank you. Any other comments or
questions on this?
All in favor? Opposed? Extension. Motion carries.
carries. >> Sorry.
>> Sorry.
acceptance of donations. Be it resolved
upon the recommendation of the
superintendent of schools, the board of
>> So move.
>> Jamie second
questions, comments, or discussions. >> Great.
>> Great.
>> Y having it.
>> It's a good location. I wouldn't have
thought, but it seems like it's
>> nice looking building, too.
>> It's really beautiful. Jim, you approve
and Lane did a nice job in terms of
supporting and matching right to make
sure that matches with the concession
area. So, we were really happy with it
out kind of that. So, thank you for that.
that.
>> Put a picture up on the screen for for
Are you able to click on the on the link?
link?
>> Um the link that I shared was um was if
for the board, but I can certainly send
a picture
>> or maybe we'll just put it on on our
Facebook or something so that public can
see this. Does it something to be
celebrated? We can put that on our
website. Cool.
>> All in favor? Opposed? Abstension. The
motion carries. Thank you to all of
those who helped to make that possible
both through the donations and you to
your comment on Lane and the team to get
it ready. Um abolishment of teacher
position. Be it resolved that whereas
the Trumanburg Central School District
has determined for the reasons of
economy and efficiency it's necessary to
abolish certain positions, therefore be
it resolved upon the recommendation of
the superintendent of schools, the board
of education for the Trumanburg Central
School District hereby makes a motion to
adopt the following resolution. Be it
resolved that the board of ed hereby
abolishes positions in the following
areas effective September 30th 2025 uh
lo world language one motion
Stephven second Dana any questions
comments or discussions there I just
wanted to mention um in terms of the
physician working with our
administrative team we took a close look
at the needs uh 7 through 12 in both
Spanish in French and with the
appointment 1.0 that we had for our
French teacher this past August um
recognizing that certainly meets the
needs that we have right now but we also
know that we need to look at our 26 27
needs both for Spanish and French. So
though we recognize we cannot justify
that second position at this time we
will evaluate what those numbers look
like and sustainable programs for each student.
All in favor? Opposed? Extension motion
carries and we can move ahead to the
for now.
>> That first
>> uh are we still waiting on the presentation?
presentation?
>> He's on his way. I know Chris would love
to be here for it. Um
>> we we have other stuff getting closer.
>> Yeah, we have other stuff to talk about.
>> Um board forum. I do. We have an open
form too before
>> the other person who had registered.
>> They're not here.
>> Oh, thanks.
>> Um I have one item
>> before Jim.
>> Before Jim. >> Wow.
>> Wow.
I I was just thinking that I know we
have the um committee meeting minutes in
here, but I think as we're starting
committee season, it would be great if
at the end of the meeting, we came up
with like one highlight at the
individual meetings that we then bring
forward and share verbally in addition
to what's written. So, if we can just be
mindful that we start that, I think our
first committee meeting is on Friday. We
have athletics. um just what you know
one big takeaway that we think would be
interesting to um to bring to everyone's
attention in addition to the notes that
if I remember correctly that's one of
the things we did but without the
minutes and
>> the minutes weren't there
>> right and so they just got the highlight
but not the full and so I like the idea
of having all of it
>> because I am the meanest coach ever. We
were practicing in that torrential
rainstorm Thursdays ago getting ready
for our first game and uh rain so we had
to take shelter because there was
lightning and while I was there I heard
some parents talking about the fact that
they felt like and I'm not sure what we
can do about it but just kind of mention
it they felt like there was a lot more
uh car traffic on that walkway um this
year than in years past and because
there are so many kids and so many teams
and so many cases going on a couple of
parents just expressed that they felt
like it was just an accident waiting to
happen. So, I told my make sure that I
brought it up here. Um, and it sounds
like if you had a soccer game last
night, you probably have already noticed
that the scoreboard the number had
broken again. So, I don't know if it got
fixed or not, but um the one digit was
missing and then I think got repaired
and then it was missing again. So, I
just figured I would bring that up as well.
well.
>> The game was 00 and then one to one um
and that's how it stayed. So, we didn't
see any other numbers. So, it might be a
little different in football, but we'll
we'll take a look at that. So, I did not >> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> In terms of traffic, Jamie, just so you
know, we're we definitely received that
feedback and we're working on some
signage and communication to go out to
make sure that everyone's safe because,
you know, it's absolutely busy. We have
accessible parking out by the stadium
and out by the varsity and JV fields. we
certainly want to make sure that that's
available for folks, but also being
mindful um for other people to use our
parking space by the tennis courts on
the other side of the district. So,
we're working on that.
>> I think I think one thing that I noticed
from this year that's a little bit
different than in past years is the
picnic tables are directly
um behind the the spots there. And so
people are naturally sitting right where
people are trying to like turn and park.
So maybe if we can slide the picnic
tables down a little bit further then it
people won't be sitting like right there
with their kids running right there.
>> Um that might that's the only thing I a
>> there I had I did notice especially that
mod the day of that modified football
game there was like we had a modified
football game we had a varsity soccer
game we had booth there was
>> there was a lot of traffic. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
any other
>> Yeah, actually I um last week I was at
Ithaca High School and I noticed that
they had a whiteboard in by their by
their main entrance that uh was
encouraging students to to help
themselves to grab and go breakfast. And
I I asked, do they have to go to the
cafeteria? Like, no, no, no. They they
they're doing this because they have the
same funding that we have available for
free breakfast and lunch. And I know
that next uh Wednesday we have a food
service meeting, but I'm not sure do do
we have that at our school that it's
easy to get or do they have to go
through the queue to cup of breakfast?
>> They have to go through the queue. The
grab and go I think is just like a like
a a little carton of cereal typically
and a milk from the cooler and a banana.
Um so you do have to go through the
queue at the high school gear, but it's
it's not a long line and kids are able
to move through quickly and they
frequently grab their food and we'll
bring it to first walk to eat. They
don't have to stay in the cafeteria
for class. So, it's it functions very similarly.
similarly. >> Cool.
>> Cool.
I can agree as a student who will grab
breakfast. It's I think it works pretty
well. It's pretty smooth. I've got to my
classes on time. I haven't had any issues.
issues.
>> Of course, I has a much larger student
population than than Charles Dickerson.
So, cool.
>> Well, their campus is big, so to to have
to go to the cafeteria and then go
somewhere else can take quite a bit of
time. But we're we're pretty centrally
located with our cafeteria right in the
middle. So in
>> I was just wondering like how do you
possibly swipe or keep track of that?
It's just like kids are taking I know
that that there needs to be accounting
for for for
school purposes to know what what the
numbers are. I'm sure they have >> cool.
>> cool.
>> I'll just um put a plug put my other hat
on. We need help in the concession
stand. I know it's my annual plate.
>> I'll give you a t-shirt.
>> I do. I do need I need a t-shirt or something.
something.
>> Did you get my sign up?
>> Did you ask me how you can help your
school? Um but right now we're at a
point where we have basically zero um
folks volunteering for any of the Friday
night football games, which means we
will author zero concessions. So if
you're looking forward to having a you
know slice of pizza or something,
encourage folks to sign up.
>> Sorry, I have to go back and I always do
that. You know that you should just not
send just fill me in on set.
>> Well, I know. Don't worry. You'll start
>> We good. Fourth form.
Okay. So, now we will go forward with
our presentation. Welcome tetra.
>> Thanks so much for having us everybody.
Uh my name is Amanda Postman. I'm a
project coordinator at Tetrate Tech and
lucky enough to be working on this
capital improvement project team. Uh
your project manager, Presets. >> Hello.
>> Hello.
>> I'll be here. Amanda will be doing the
presentation. So, I'll chime in if there
>> There we go. So, we presented uh at your
July board meeting and actually did the
the next two slides here, but just to
give you kind of a background of how we
got here um in order to kick off the
capital project planning process, we
take a look at your uh building
condition survey, which is uh basically
a report of an evaluation of all of your
facilities that's required every 5 years
by the state education department. Um
being your new architecture and
engineering firm, we wanted to get our
own eyes on your facilities. So we uh
conducted a facility assessment, met
with a lot of key stakeholders uh to
better understand the needs of your
buildings and of the campus itself. Met
um a number of times with the facility
uh committee and had a number of
stakeholder meetings to gather input. Uh
and finally we're coordinating the
referendum team which is the following
outfits. of course, your school
district, our firm, um, CNS, who is your
existing construction manager. We've
been working with your legal counsel,
bond council, and financial adviser to
make sure that we're getting the the
legal propositions, uh, and state
environmental review all squared away.
Um, which you voted on at the last
meeting. So, just to give you a quick
overview of the schedule, uh, back in
April, we started discussing scope
items. What is this coin so beautifully?
Glitter and glue. So, I love that. I've
used that at other school districts.
Completely stolen and I think it's great.
great.
>> Um, and gathering stakeholder input. You
passed your uh budget vote uh via vote
uh in May. And then we've been spending
the last couple of months finalizing the
project scope uh and then also going
through that seeker process. That's the
state environmental review and uh the
legal review of the propositions and the
budget. So at your last meeting on
August 19th, you passed the uh
proposition language and also to flee
agency seekers. So that's great. Um and
then recently you submitted the public
notice of this uh vote for your uh for
your capital improvement projects. So
that is now being advertised both in the
papers uh and via public outreach. So,
we've got some of the materials here to
discuss as well.
So, next steps. Um, again, we were here
at your July 15th meeting to sort of
present what the the focus of the scope
would be. It's a little bit of glitter.
It's a lot of blue maintaining our facilities,
facilities,
>> just making sure everything is is up and
running, you know, appropriately. Uh and
then at the August 19th, as we said,
you've passed the proposition language resolutions.
resolutions.
Uh for the next two months project, uh
the public notice is published and is
out there. Um sort of kicking off the
45day period you need before your
referendum vote
and at the board meeting. The next one,
October 7th, is being advertised as the
community conversation. So when you're
really inviting the community in to ask
questions about the uh the projects at
hand that are being proposed um and just
learn more about what's going on. And
the vote is scheduled for October 28th I
believe at the yeah historical society for
>> Thanks Josh. There we go. So your
capital project budget breakdown. We've
got two propositions that um encompass
this entire project scope. So the first
proposition about 13.6 million that has
no tax impact. So that's utilizing money
that's basically already available uh
and also $2.2 million from your existing
capital reserve fund. The second
proposition for about 4.7 million that
is contingent on the first proposition.
That one must pass in order for anything
to happen with Prop 2. Uh that does have
a slight tax impact. So less than 1% levy,88%
levy,88%
tax increase, which works out to 10
cents per $1,000 of assessed home value.
So if you have a home assessed at
$300,000, that's an increase of $30 a
year for taxes. Extremely minimal. Um
and I think you'll see in the following
scope that these are things I think
that'll be really important to the
community. So, maximum total referendum
amount, that's how we got to that 18.35 million.
>> I don't know.
>> Just use the left. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. There we go. Perfect. So, um
Megan and Amanda and our marketing um
professional Tina have been working to
come up with some marketing materials
for display at things like the open
houses that are coming up and at
sporting events. Um, this one sort of
goes to gives you a good overview of the
focus of the capital improvement
project, both propositions, and it calls
out in yellow sort of what's part of of
what proposition.
Focusing on things, um, dealing with
safety and infrastructure,
uh, drainage, hammer and door security
at main entrances, um, some paving
improvements of the bus loop. We know
the drainage is a big issue, so really
trying to focus on that. fine and fine
and performing arts improvements uh at
the high school auditorium really
enhancing the entrance there uh to
improve accessibility and also give you
a gallery and sort of gathering space
and additional restrooms and changing areas.
areas.
Athletics doing a new surface on the
track. Uh the track service has reached
the end of its useful life. Want to make
sure that it's continuing to be safe for
your students. Uh so replacing that and
uh improving the drainage around the
track so that you're going to get the
most life out of it.
Also in proposition two uh improvements
to the JB soccer field, making it level,
filling in holes, again making it safe.
And then finally, mechanical,
electrical, and plumbing improvements.
All things to uh maintain your
buildings, make sure that they're going
to last a good long time and improve the
the comfort of the people who inhabit
them. So, we've got some AC uh
installation in the elementary school
auditorium along with some audiovisisual
improvements there. So, exactly. >> Please.
>> Please.
>> Yes, exactly.
>> Um so, that'll be nice for those
dancers, too. Uh high school band room,
uh mechanical system replacement,
improvements to toilet rooms, etc., etc. Yeah.
Yeah.
And then we've got um boards that break
out kind of by building or by site work
all of the things that are happening. Um
and so we can go through these one by
one or you get the idea. You're welcome
to come look at these later, but a lot
of work went into understanding really
what is the most timesensitive
improvements that are needed um for your
community. And I think that they've
captured that from these project scopes.
Any questions?
Amanda, can I just add? So, um, as you
go through, you'll see each of the, um,
buildings themselves. We have an
elementary board, we have a middle
school, and then a high school board.
It's going to give even more details.
So, for example, when you look at the
summary board, you might not see the
improvement that we have for the high
school gym. Right.
>> Right. Which is to try to cool that
space. And those of you that spend time
there know that that space um, needs
that, right? It's a community event area
as well. And so that may not be on the
summary part, but if you go and drill
down, obviously there's some space
constraints that we were dealing with.
We also wanted to try to summarize as
best we could on just that one major.
The other thing is um with the funding
for proposition two what Amanda went
through would be essentially the worst
case scenario in the sense that if we
cannot leverage interest rates of monies
that we have right now that is you know
acrewing interest in the banks if we
cannot continue to build our capital
reserve um and look at our other
reserves in a way that we could fund
this project um and then looking also at
our state aid amounts making sure that
you know we're filing everything on
time. If everything goes according to
plan, what you saw there would be the
worst case scenario. And so that's the
the highest threshold of impact for a
taxpayer. Um and so we wanted to make
sure that we we included sort of the
ceiling, not the the basement, right? We
wanted to make sure that people
understood that it could be up to that,
but it could be less than that depending
on um the way that this project is
planned and and the way that we're
managing um the funds as well. That
number won't change
between now and when it goes out on
October 28th, even if you have different
>> what Amanda, well both well both
Amanda's close enough, we're referencing
right now that ceiling that we've
>> that 10 cents per 1,000, right? We're
going to certainly
>> we're right. That's our goal to try to
decrease that. So we want to just be
really clear like right now we
anticipate that that is the the ceiling
there for that proposition too.
And also um as we were talking about the
different boards Amanda Postman went
over that summary board each of the
buildings especially as we have open
houses coming up we will have these
displayed in each of the buildings so
people can see the site map and then
also the individual improvements with
the specific building. Megan, are you
able to also email this out to
the entire mailing list?
>> Yes, absolutely. And we'll show at the
end here that we have this information
posted on our website and so each of the
boards and then also we have the banners
up right now. There's a banner as you're
heading out to the stadium on the right
side by the high school gym and then
there's a banner right now on the
concession building. Thank you boosters
for letting us put it there. Um, and
there's a QR code and all of these items
which will direct you folks right back
to the uh district website uh and
they'll see all of these uh are posted there.
there.
>> Is there a possibility to uh extend an
invitation to the local press to come on
the the 7th or the community
conversation. So then there could
possibly be some coverage in free press
or or what other local
ways that people
>> we are in the in the process of working
on that right now. Absolutely. And then
we will also have um thanks to Tetrate
Tech and some creative work here. We'll
have some postcards that we're going to
be handing out as well. So we have done
a lot right now in terms of in district.
We want to make sure that people outside
the district have this information as well.
well.
>> Great. I really like the boards. They're
>> people will stop and look at them
because it's, you know, attractive and
>> Yeah, exactly. And it it you know sort
of enumerates each piece there by letter
and which corresponds to the area of
each campus. So you can see exactly
where this work is being done and and
find you know maybe the building that's
most important to you and your family
and see what uh this project
encompasses. It's nice that it touches
each building on campus
>> and we were able to get the boards by
our open house. So they were up our
great job that we also anticipate we'll
have some we're talking about some yard
signs as well.
for people to have some key information.
So we
thank you for your time everyone.
And now we are moving on to executive
session. Um,
be it resolved upon the recommendation
of the superintendent of schools, the
board of education for the Trumanburg
Central School District hereby adjourns
to executive session at 6:15 to discuss
matters relating
to the employment of a particular person
or persons.
>> So move second. Second questions,
comments, discussions. All in favor?
opposed. Extensions. Motion carries. And
we will not be returning to public
session. Enjoy this beautiful evening.
It feels like it's still August out.
>> Good job, putting the picture of the
>> You missed the best part of the meeting.
Jim complimented the prefab shed that we
had on our
He had that.
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