The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District Board of Education will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 24, 2025 at Jamesville-DeWitt District Office, and via Zoom. The Zoom link will also be shared on the district website. Zoom
Meeting ID: 914 1323 1822, Passcode: 719033
Members of the public who have questions about the agenda prior to the meeting should contact Dr. Peter Smith, J-D Superintendent of Schools, at 315-445-8304 or psmith@jd.cnyric.org.
Following the meeting, the board will share a transcript of the meeting, as well as meeting minutes, on the district website.
Meeting Agenda
1. Call to Order: Mr. Gross
2. Red Ram Recognition: Mr. Gross
3. Community Comment Time 1: Mr. Gross
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the Google Form to speak at Community Comment Time. If attending the meeting in-person, please give the paper form to the Board Clerk before the meeting begins.
To allow for public participation, one period not to exceed 30 minutes shall be set aside during the first part of each board meeting for public comment, with priority given to comments on items on the meeting’s agenda. A second 30-minute community comment time period will be set aside at the end of the meeting. More information is available in the Ground Rules for Community Comment Time section of the website.
4. Board Action
a. Routine Business
i. Approve Consent Agenda. Items in the consent agenda are to be enacted under one motion and as a single vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the Board votes, unless a Board member requests an item to be removed from the Consent Agenda for the Board Meeting.
1. Superintendent’s Personnel Recommendations and
Substitute Appointments
2. CPSE and CSE Recommendations
3. Internal Claims Auditor Reports
4. Approve Treasurer’s Report
5. Approve Minutes of the March 3, 2025 Board
Meeting
6. Approve Resolution Calling the 2025 Annual District
Meeting and Election of the Jamesville-DeWitt
Central School District and Authorizing Related
Matters
7. Appoint Nancie Romano to be the Chief Inspector of
Elections for the 2025-2026 Budget Vote and Board
of Education Election
b. New Business
i. Approve Town of DeWitt Request for Use of Buses for J-D High School Senior Trip to Darien Lake
ii. Potential Consideration for Future Meetings
5. Budget discussion: State Aid Update and Instructional Budget, Mr.
Bartlett
6. Presentation: 2025-27 Strategic Plan
7. District Safety Plan discussion: Weapons detection systems
8. Reports
a. Superintendent’s Report: Dr. Smith
i. Moses DeWitt Principal hiring update
ii. 2025-26 Projected enrollment
iii. 2025-25 District calendar update
iv. Upcoming events
b. Committee Reports
i. Finance
c. Board President’s Report: Mr. Gross
i. Superintendent search update
ii. Budget advocacy
iii. Board of Education election
d. Student Board Member Report: Mr. Mantalios
9. Community Comment Time 2: Mr. Gross
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the Google Form to speak at Community Comment Time. If attending the meeting in-person, please give the paper form to the Board Clerk before the meeting begins.
To allow for public participation, one period not to exceed 30 minutes shall be set aside during the first part of each board meeting for public comment, with priority given to comments on items on the meeting’s agenda. A second 30-minute community comment time period will be set aside at the end of the meeting. More information is available in the Ground Rules for Community Comment Time section of the website.
10. Unfinished and Continuing Business
11. Adjourn
Next Meeting: April 7, 2025