ICSD BOE - Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting-04-30-2024

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting

IHS York Hall
400 Lake Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
Fourth Tuesdays- 6:00 p.m. (Anticipated motion to immediately enter into executive session. Board
expects to resume public session at 7:00 p.m.)
Our VISION: 6,000+ Thinkers.
Our MISSION is to engage, educate, and empower. We will strive to engage all students in the
importance and relevance of thinking; to educate every learner to communicate, comprehend, and
collaborate for understanding; and to empower all in the ICSD to achieve academic excellence.
Ithaca City School District GOALS:

* Culture of Excellence: To foster an affirming and respectful culture of excellence where all students
maximize their potential and where we as a community of educators take responsibility for the success of
each student.
* Equity: Produce Academic Achievement for ALL students by removing race, class, gender and disability
as predictors of academic success.
* Communication: To enhance district, family and community communication and dialogue.
Attachments and details of resolutions are included in the Agenda on the website; motions and voting
results and notes will be in the Minutes. Video segments are attached to most agenda items after the
minutes are released.
1. Call to Order
Subject : 1.1 Call Public Meeting to Order
Meeting : Apr 30, 2024 - Monthly Discussion and Voting
Meeting
Category : 1. Call to Order
Type : Procedural
Public Content
Board President calls public meeting to order.
2. Executive Session (Anticipated)

Subject : 2.1 Enter Executive Session
Meeting
Category : 2. Executive Session (Anticipated)
Type : Action
Recommended Action : Motion to enter into Executive Session for the purpose
of discussing the following:
the employment history of a particular individual and
pending litigation
Public Content
1. Upon a majority vote of its total membership, taken in an open meeting pursuant to a motion
identifying the general area or areas of the subject or subjects to be considered, a public body may
conduct an executive session for the below enumerated purposes only, provided, however, that no
action by formal vote shall be taken to appropriate public moneys:
a. matters which will imperil the public safety if disclosed;

b. any matter which may disclose the identity of a law enforcement agent or informer;
c. information relating to current or future investigation or prosecution of a criminal offense
which would imperil effective law enforcement if disclosed;
d. discussions regarding proposed, pending or current litigation;
e. collective negotiations pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law;
f. the medical, financial, credit or employment history of a particular person or corporation, or
matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline,
suspension, dismissal or removal of a particular person or corporation;
g. the preparation, grading or administration of examinations; and
h. the proposed acquisition, sale or lease of real property or the proposed acquisition of
securities, or sale or exchange of securities held by such public body, but only when publicity
would substantially affect the value thereof.
2. Attendance at an executive session shall be permitted to any member of the public body and any
other persons authorized by the public body.
Motion & Voting

Motion to enter into Executive Session for the purpose of discussing the following:
the employment history of a particular individual and pending litigation
Motion by Moira Lang, second by Adam Krantweiss.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Katie Apker, Garrick Blalock, Sean Eversley Bradwell, Eldred V Harris, Adam Krantweiss, Moira
Lang, Jill Tripp, Karen Yearwood
Subject : 2.2 Exit Executive Session
Meeting
Category : 2. Executive Session (Anticipated)
Type : Action
Recommended Action : Motion to return to Public Session.
3. Return to Public Session

Subject : 3.1 Pledge of Allegiance
Meeting
Category : 3. Return to Public Session
Type : Procedural
Subject : 3.2 Approval or Modification of Tentative
Agenda
Meeting
Category : 3. Return to Public Session
Type : Procedural
4. Receiving and Hearing of Delegations

Subject : 4.1 Public Comment Period
Meeting
Category : 4. Receiving and Hearing of Delegations
Type : Information
Public Content
Max 30 minutes. Comments limited to three minutes per person. Sign in at front desk.
Subject : 4.2 Board Response

Meeting
Type : Discussion
Subject : 4.3 Student Reps
Meeting
Type : Report
Public Content
Ithaca High School: Mukund Gaur, Claire Park, Lucine Barseghyan, Caedmon Sethupathy
LACS: Stella Sapp-Dietrich, Leo Scott, Oden Entwood
Subject : 4.4 Board Response

Meeting
Type : Discussion
5. Consent Agenda
Subject : 5.1 Approval of Consent Agenda
Meeting
Category : 5. Consent Agenda
Type : Action (Consent)
Recommended Action : Motion to move for approval all consent agenda items
listed in Consent Agenda, Consideration of Accounts,
Personnel Report, Students, and Minutes of Previous
Meeting as presented
Public Content
Our adopted rules of Parliamentary Procedure, Robert's Rules, provide for a consent agenda listing
several items for approval of the Board by a single motion. Most of the items listed under the
consent agenda have gone through Board subcommittee review and recommendation.
Documentation concerning these items has been provided to all Board members and the public in
advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Items may be removed from the consent
agenda at the request of any board member.
Motion & Voting

Motion to approve Resolutions for DCMO BOCES Cooperative Purchasing for the 2024-25 School Year
with the consent agenda.
Motion by Moira Lang, second by Jill Tripp.

6. Consent Agenda - Consideration of Accounts

Subject : 6.1 DCMO BOCES Cooperative Purchasing
Resolutions for he 2024-25 School Year
Meeting : Apr 30, 2024 - Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting
Category : 6. Consent Agenda - Consideration of Accounts
Recommended Action : Motion to approve Resolutions for DCMO BOCES
Cooperative Purchasing for the 2024-25 School Year with
the consent agenda.
Public Content
RESOLUTION#1 OF BOARD OF EDUCATION
COOPERATIVE PURCHASING SCHOOL YEAR 2024-2025

WHEREAS, The Cooperative Purchasing Service is a plan of a number of public school districts in the
Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES Area in New York, to bid jointly equipment, supplies and
contract items, and
WHEREAS, The Central School named below is desirous of participating with other districts in the Delaware-
Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES in the joint bidding of the items mentioned above as authorized by
General Municipal Law, Section 119-o, and
WHEREAS, The Central School named below wishes to appoint the Delaware-Chenango-MadisonOtsego
BOCES to advertise for bid, accept, tabulate bids and award bids on their behalf; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, That the Board of Education of the Central School listed below hereby appoints the
Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES to represent it in all matters relating above, and designates the
Evening Sun Newspaper as the legal publication for all Cooperative Purchasing bid notifications, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Education of the Central School listed below authorizes the
DelawareChenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES to represent it in all matters leading up to the entering into a
contract for the purchase of the above mentioned commodities, and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the
Board of Education of the Central School listed below agrees to (1) assume its equitable share of the costs of
the Cooperative Bidding; (2) abide by majority decisions of the participating districts; (3) abide by the Award of
the BOCES Board; (4) and that after the award of the bid it will conduct all negotiations directly with the
successful bidder(s).
CERTIFICATION OF DISTRICT CLERK
I, ___________________________________________, District Clerk of the

______________________________________ Central School Board of Education, hereby certifies that the
above resolution was adopted by the required majority vote of the Board of Education at its meeting held on
_______________. ____________________________________ ________________________
RESOLUTION #2 OF BOARD OF EDUCATION
GENERIC
SCHOOL YEAR 2024-2025
WHEREAS, It is a plan of a number of public school districts in the Delaware-Chenango-MadisonOtsego

BOCES Area in New York, to bid jointly equipment, supplies and contract items, and
WHEREAS, The Central School named below is desirous of participating with other districts in the Delaware-
Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES Area in the joint bidding of the items mentioned above as authorized by
General Municipal Law, Section 119-o, and
WHEREAS, The Central School named below wishes to appoint a committee made up of participating schools
to assume the responsibility for drafting of specifications, advertising for bids, accepting and opening bids,
tabulating bids and providing the information to their Board of Education who will make the awards; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, That the Board of Education of the Central School listed below hereby appoints the
Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES to represent it in all matters relating above, and designates the
Evening Sun Newspaper as the legal publication for all Cooperative Purchasing bid notifications and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Education of the Central School listed below authorizes the
above committee to represent it in all matters leading up to the entering into a contract for the purchase of the
above mentioned items, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Education of the Central School listed below agrees to (1)
abide by majority decisions of the participating districts on quality standards; (2) that it will award contracts
based on information provided from the bid; (3) and that after the award of the bid it will conduct all
negotiations directly with the successful bidder(s).
CERTIFICATION OF DISTRICT CLERK
I, ___________________________________________, District Clerk of the

______________________________________ Central School Board of Education, hereby certifies that the
above resolution was adopted by the required majority vote of the Board of Education at its meeting held on
_______________. ____________________________________ ________________________
File Attachments
Resolutions & Memo to School Districts 2024-2025 (1).pdf (156 KB)
Motion & Voting


7. Consent Agenda - Personnel Report

Subject : 7.1 Instructional, Service, Educational Support, Coaching,
Substitutes and Non-Affiliated Staff Lists as
Recommended by Superintendent
Category : 7. Consent Agenda - Personnel Report
Recommended Action : Motion to Approve as Part of Consent
Agenda
Public Content
RESOLVED, that the reading of the instructional, service, educational support, substitute and non-affiliated
staff lists be waived and appointments, changes and revisions in assignments, and resolutions, listed in the
corresponding staff sections of the Personnel Report, dated April, 30, 2024, be approved as recommended by
the Superintendent of Schools.
File Attachments
04 30 2024 FINAL.pdf (1,516 KB)
Motion & Voting


8. Consent Agenda - Minutes of Previous Meeting

Subject : 8.1 Approval of Minutes of April 16, 2024 Monthly
Voting Meeting
Category : 8. Consent Agenda - Minutes of Previous Meeting
Type : Action (Consent), Minutes
Recommended Action : Motion to Approve Minutes of April 16, 2024 Monthly
Voting Meeting as part of the Consent Agenda
Minutes : View Minutes for Apr 16, 2024 - Monthly Voting Meeting
Public Content
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education approves the minutes of April 16, 2024, Board of Education
Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting.
Motion & Voting


9. Superintendent Report/Announcements
Subject : 9.1 Dr. Brown
Meeting
Category : 9. Superintendent Report/Announcements
Type : Report
10. School District Business

Subject : 10.1 Committee Updates
Meeting
Category : 10. School District Business
Type : Discussion, Information
Public Content
Policy Committee - Moira Lang
HR Committee - Moira Lang
Facilities Committee - Dr. Jill Tripp
Finance Committee - Eldred Harris
Curriculum Committee - Dr. Adam Krantweiss
Subject : 10.2 Policy 4700 - Independent Study for a First

Reading
Meeting
Type : Action
Recommended Action : Motion to approve Policy 4700 Independent Study for
a First Reading
Public Content
Draft Policy: 4700 - Independent Study
Subject : 10.3 Policy 5111 - Lehman Alternative Community

School Enrollment and Admissions for a First Reading
Type : Action, Discussion
Recommended Action : Motion to approve Policy 5111 - Lehman Alternative
Community School Enrollment and Admissions for a First
Reading
Public Content
Draft: Policy 5111 - Lehman Alternative Community School Enrollment & Admissions
Subject : 10.4 Proposed change to 2023-2024 Academic

Calendar
Meeting
Type : Discussion
File Attachments
2023-2024 Academic Calendar (PROPOSED CHANGE - June 25-26).pdf (45 KB)
Subject : 10.5 Resolution to Approve Expenditures for the 2024
Virtual Policy Meeting
Type : Action
Recommended Action : Motion to Approve Expenditures for the following Board
Members to attend the NYSSBA 2024 Virtual Policy
Workshop on May 8, 2024.
Public Content
RESOLVED,In accordance with district policy2521, the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District
authorizes the expenditure of funds for Moira Lang and Katie Apker to register for the NYSSBA Live Virtual
Policy Workshop held on May 8, 2024.
11. Other Business

Subject : 11.1 Other Discussion Items
Meeting
Category : 11. Other Business
Type : Discussion
Public Content
Other items to be discussed or shared with the Board.
Subject : 11.2 Upcoming Dates of Importance

Meeting
Category : 11. Other Business
Type : Information
Public Content
Tuesday, 5/7/24 5:00 p.m. BoE Policy Work Session - York Lecture Hall
Tuesday, 5/7/24 6:00 p.m. BoE Human Resources Work Session - York Lecture Hall
Tuesday, 5/14/24 5:30 p.m. BoE Budget Hearing - York Lecture Hall
Tuesday, 5/14/24 6:00 p.m. Monthly Voting Meeting - York Lecture Hall
12. Adjournment
Subject : 12.1 Close Public Meeting
Meeting
Category : 12. Adjournment
Type : Procedural
Public Content
Board of Education President closes public meeting.

ICSD BOE - Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting-04-30-2024

Uploaded by

Document Information

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

ICSD BOE - Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting-04-30-2024

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting

Our VISION: 6,000+ Thinkers.

Ithaca City School District GOALS:

2. Executive Session (Anticipated)

a. matters which will imperil the public safety if disclosed;

Motion & Voting

Motion by Moira Lang, second by Adam Krantweiss.

3. Return to Public Session

4. Receiving and Hearing of Delegations

Subject : 4.2 Board Response

LACS: Stella Sapp-Dietrich, Leo Scott, Oden Entwood

Subject : 4.4 Board Response

Motion & Voting

Motion by Moira Lang, second by Jill Tripp.

6. Consent Agenda - Consideration of Accounts

COOPERATIVE PURCHASING SCHOOL YEAR 2024-2025

CERTIFICATION OF DISTRICT CLERK

I, ___________________________________________, District Clerk of the

RESOLUTION #2 OF BOARD OF EDUCATION

SCHOOL YEAR 2024-2025

WHEREAS, It is a plan of a number of public school districts in the Delaware-Chenango-MadisonOtsego

CERTIFICATION OF DISTRICT CLERK

I, ___________________________________________, District Clerk of the

Motion & Voting

Motion by Moira Lang, second by Jill Tripp.

7. Consent Agenda - Personnel Report

Motion & Voting

Motion by Moira Lang, second by Jill Tripp.

8. Consent Agenda - Minutes of Previous Meeting

Motion & Voting

Motion by Moira Lang, second by Jill Tripp.

10. School District Business

HR Committee - Moira Lang

Facilities Committee - Dr. Jill Tripp

Finance Committee - Eldred Harris

Curriculum Committee - Dr. Adam Krantweiss

Subject : 10.2 Policy 4700 - Independent Study for a First

Subject : 10.3 Policy 5111 - Lehman Alternative Community

Subject : 10.4 Proposed change to 2023-2024 Academic

11. Other Business

Subject : 11.2 Upcoming Dates of Importance

You might also like