The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District Board of Education will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 3, 2025 at Jamesville-DeWitt Middle School, and via Zoom. The Zoom link will also be shared on the district website. Zoom
Meeting ID: 927 4780 6001, Passcode: 795235
Or by phone: +16468769923, Pin: 92747806001# US
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 (6:00 p.m.)
2. Adjourn to executive session to discuss the employment history of particular persons
3. Resume public session (7:00 p.m.)
4. Presentation: Mr. Eldridge, Jamesville-DeWitt Middle School Principal
5. Red Ram Recognition: Mr. Gross
6. 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.
7. 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. Approve Minutes of the February 10, 2025 Board Meeting
3. Approve Overnight Field Trip Requests
4. Approve January Treasurer’s Report
5. Award OCM BOCES RFP-225-32 to Grossman St. Amour CPA
b. New Business
i. Approve Agreement with Onondaga County for School Bus
Photo Violation Monitoring Program
ii. Approve 2025-26 District Calendar
iii. Board Policies, Second Reading
iv. Potential Consideration for Future Meetings
8. Budget discussion: State Aid Update and Non-Instructional Budget,
Mr. Bartlett
9. Reports
a. Superintendent’s Report: Dr. Smith
i. Moses DeWitt Principal Hiring Plan
ii. Emergency closing plan
iii. Upcoming events
b Committee Reports
i. Finance
c. Board President’s Report: Mr. Gross
i. Superintendent search
ii. Budget vote and board of education election
d. Student Board Member Report: Mr. Mantalios
10. 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.
11. Unfinished and Continuing Business
12. Adjourn to executive session to discuss the employment history of
particular persons
13. Adjourn
Next Meeting: March 24, 2025