A Williamsville Central School District meeting convened a random drawing to select eight community members to serve on a Board of Education (BOE) compensation committee and eight alternates. A meeting facilitator opened the session saying, “We will be randomly selecting 8 people from the community to serve on this committee,” and explained that selected people would be notified in the next few days.

District staff explained the mechanics of the draw for transparency. An announcer said the on-screen random generator produced numbers from 2 through 126 because the exported spreadsheet’s first cell included header fields (date, first name, last name), so the numeric range began at 2. The draw proceeded until eight primary participants and eight backups were identified.

The eight primary members drawn were announced as: Kyle Hovac (entry 88); Jennifer Golimowski (38); Michael Mommertz (45); Susan McCleary (19); Sarah Reese (84); Steven Ringstad (57); Amber Cassidy (2); and Nicole Ganshaw (52). The eight alternates named, in draw order, were: Shashinder Ramachitti (17); Anissa Flowcare (42); Christina Miron (86); Liliana Davila (96); Andrew Bishop (113); Jing Zhang (89); Leslie Davis (125); and Aaron Wass (103).

Meeting participants discussed attendance expectations for the committee’s meetings. A staff facilitator described the planned scheduling process, saying staff would collect availability and “create a Google Calendar saying, here’s the dates and times,” and that meetings would be scheduled “on the dates and times where the majority of the committee is available.” The group agreed alternates would be used in order if primary members could not attend, and that the primaries would be given a right of first refusal.

On next steps, a co-chair said a letter would be sent to each selected committee member with meeting dates and instructions. “We will be sending a letter from Mr. Manna out to the 8 committee members selected, letting them know the next steps in the process and our meeting dates,” the co-chair said.

The session ended after staff confirmed the full list of primaries and alternates and thanked participants for their interest.