Yeah, it was it was then. I just had Well can tell you in Title IX situations, it's um like business days, like school days when we're in session. And I think we should stick with that then. Do you want to say business days or school days? I think you could put business days cuz sometimes we work on non-school days, right? So, if I violate the principal of the school, so the principal would have 15 work days or business days. And then I think that's the last comment. Um I know we didn't get to the last one, but it is 5:35. Mind me, what are we scheduled to go to? We technically end at 6:00. Um what's the next policy we have? The hazing? Uh I will say I I had no nothing that I could see that I would change in the hazing one, so it probably would be a quick one.
I I would vote for a budget that I think Rachel was talking about which was the the 30,000 the difference from the 87 to the 115 which is like 30,000. So yeah requesting that I think it's the 1.8 million from town that's in the budget and then adding the 30,000 to that amount. >> Okay. But I really do like what Sarah Best is saying, which is offering um you know presenting a level funded >> a leveled service budget which I think it would be asking the town for an additional 115,000 over what we asked them for last year. >> That is correct. And it's a 6.5% increase over FY26. >> So in the light of that, I think that's the right thing to do for students. But I don't know if I could vote for that either. So, >> uh, 6.5%'s pretty high. >> 6.05% just >> 6.05.
The ones that belong to the schools. How do we how do we afford and fund uh taking care of those, the maintenance of those? How do we how do we ensure that our community, our youth sports can can work play on fields that are appropriate, that people aren't going to get hurt on? Um how do we So so it offers us opportunity. I guess that's my greater point. I'm a huge optimist. I know most of my staff will say you're not, but I am. Um last slide for me. Again, focus on the left. Structural stability. Athletics fully funded. School choice now it's available for for strategic needs. Not used to fund $1.1 million of salaries and heat and oil and operations which should be a part of the budget. And it's long-term and sustainable. You know, we we typically will run anywhere between a 3 and a 5% increase in our budget.
She chose her topic because she believes it is very important to produce independent and confident children. Please welcome Leila Hijazi. So I am a camp counselor for little kids over the summer. And as the day went on, as I checked into my work, I was tired. I was hungry. I was honestly thinking of quitting. But I looked to my left and a little kid is on the floor screaming, crying because somebody used the swing before him. Now, I don't know what to do in this situation. Would I start crying? Would I run away? And you might be thinking, what did she end up doing? But I will get to that later. So parents deal with these types of situations 247, but how punishment is delivered is up for debate. So I was at Target this one time and I look into one of these aisles.
My dad coached me through my entire childhood and if you look through my class, and half of my stuff is Raiders. Um Standing here in front of you I have the opportunity to have my dad as my coach through my high school career and I wouldn't want anything else. With this policy, you guys are basically taking away the privilege for me, for my dad, and for my team. I mean, >> [clears throat] >> again, since I've been a kid, he's always been in my corner, my number one corner, my number one supporter, and my biggest fan. Half the time our corner who he supports more, me or her, Floral Park athletics is a big Floral Park guy, no matter where he's coaching, no matter what kid what team his kid's on, he's always in Floral Park's corner no matter what. There's never been hard feelings when Floral Park plays and even when I'm playing.
Um but that being said, uh the stakeholders I was waiting for are here, so I am going to have to leave the meeting. So, Amy, if you don't mind wrapping us up, and then um I'll hop back on if you guys are still on. Uh but we could either pick a new date or we can um you guys could do the policy without me, okay? Okay. Thank you everyone. So sorry to hop off. Yep. Team, what would you like to do? Would you like to continue or would you like to stop now and we can look at the hazing at the next time and then that will give us time to also look at um the policy about clothing. I'll jump in and say I'm fine with uh stopping here. Okay. Um let me see. Justin, are you okay with that? It's scheduled for a week from today, too.
Anybody else have any comments about that? Uh, Rachel. Um, I don't want us to be in a situation of having our proposed budget denied. Um, and I think proposing that the town cover that much is likely to land us in that place. Um, and so I'm not usually the conservative voice among us, but um, my input is that we find somewhat of a middle middle ground there and increase our budget request to the town by somewhere between 20 and 28,000, which is what I'm seeing as the gap that that we have right now between that 87 and the current gap. Um, that is is one. Um I would welcome other input there. Um I did I do have the meeting minutes um from the meeting where finance committee said that they will be increasing the allocation to every department except the elementary school by 2 and a half% which comes to a total I'm reading really quickly so I think it's 18k it might be 16k um but somewhere in there which is obviously a lot less than 2.5% from the elementary school.
That's typically if you go back over the years and and in my budget book you'll see I I calculate that. We we typically that's what we're looking at. But we can manage to that. Chris and I have these conversations all the time. We can manage to that 3.75 number that that we had agreed to years ago. We have to. But we can't unless we're able to to free up some from other funds. So that is really all I'm going to present because I prefer to have conversation about these things. I think it's um the challenge before us as a community is and I think where education itself um has done a poor job is we don't look long long-term. We don't look down range, right? We don't. We look at, "Okay, how do we fix today's problem today?" And worry next year about next year.
This woman is screaming at her parent at her child saying things like, "If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about. So this behavior did not change after she said this. So do these spanking and yelling strategies really work? So parents often say, "Well, I turned out fine or what's the problem? It works." But children need connection. And you break that by physically and mentally hurting them. This is a huge cost to pay for your child to be compliant. So overall, the child learns that connection is conditional based off good behavior and they're labeled as bad children, even though that's just how big their brains are. Number three, they learn that in order to be safe, they have to make other people happy. This causes depression, anxiety, and language processing disorders. So on the other side, the same situation. A kid is screaming in Target, throwing things on the floor, and the parent ignores it, picking up the toys, putting them back on the shelf, saying things like, "Oh, let's not do that." There's no boundaries in this.
So, I stand in front of you hoping that you can consider this policy and allow my dad the opportunity through my high school career. THANK YOU. >> [applause] >> REALLY HARD FOR ME TO COME HERE AND SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Really hard for me to stand in front of the Board of Education. Mr. Wright, Mrs. Mrs. Calafiore, members of the Board of Education, I stand here to talk about the policy. But first of all, fantastic job with this gym. It looks fantastic. I grew up in this gym. I'm here to talk about policy 4230. I'm here to talk about Joe Fusee. Somebody that's been an educator in your high school for 28 years, nearly three decades. >> [clears throat] >> To my students, I'm nothing short of a role model. Somebody that steps into that school as one of the first teachers daily in that school to put my right foot forward to change a mindset every single day.
Are we have another in another week? I does I think Yeah, I was going to say that. It was on my calendar too that we had another one next week at the same time. Yeah, our next one is next Thursday. Um I won't be at that one. It is the night before the meeting, so we may need to figure out who all is is able to be there that day. I am not able to be there for that day, but it is not for that. I have a medical appointment that will be out that day, so. Does anybody else have any um issues with that date? I do not. I can be there. I can reluctantly be there. Okay. And Amy, just if you want to look at the policy and then leave notes if you I will be try to be very clear. I try to add more detail this time so that way people weren't like, "What is she talking about?" Okay, so with that then Do I need to make a motion to adjourn the meeting?
So, with the knowledge that 2 and 12% from our budget is a whole lot more money than 2 and 12% from another department in our town, um I would like for us to be increasing at around 1% which I believe is around $20,000. And with a lot of respect to the work that was done to propose this increase to the registar, I I would like to see a budget without that included because I don't think we have enough information to be increasing central office costs like that at this time. Can I just add that the clerical at um Pelma Elementary School is uh not rolled up under central office. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. I guess we've been talking about it like that's part of central office but that's a pillon position, >> right? Okay. So, but so if that's like part of an effort to not be subsidizing costs from the central office, that still feels like the same conversation and >> I think it's no it's it's not sub being subsidized by the by the other districts Ammerstand.
I can tell you if we don't fix the problem now I will guarantee you I will come back and ask for an override next year. You may say, "No, Jim, we're not going to approve it next year either." I understand that. But my point is that number then will escalate to closer to $5 million. That's the reality. Because at some point it's either that or we we reduce our our employees. And what I'm telling you from the earlier is we've already done that. We're down to 2017 employment numbers. That's that's where we are. And our enrollment has risen and will continue to rise. That's it. Sorry. There we go. Off my soapbox. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Michael. Um so at this point we are going to um start the Q&A portion of our uh our our of our evening. Um so we did receive we had put out to the to the community the option to be able to submit questions in advance and we did receive 19 questions.
And overall, this teaches the child that they don't need impulse control or to regulate themselves and they can't deal with disappointment. And they become very entitled. So, no one teaches a parent how to parent. You need a license for a firearm. You need a license to drive a car. All these things make you responsible for other people's lives. But what do they do for parents? So recently parenting has went from one extreme to another. It started with authoritarian parenting which is rules, power, and do as I say. I'm sure most of the older generations have experienced this. And now they've overcompensated it for it and swung to the other side to permissive parenting. Permissive parenting has no boundaries, no leadership, and lack of structure. So overall, what is the middle ground? According to Dr. Becky from Good Inside, these parents need to be the pilot.
To my colleagues, I make turn key educator. I bring things back and 90% of what we do in our phys ed program is a fantastic phys ed program. The things that I have established. I make leader in that building. I'm a role model in that building. I'm a friend in that building. To my administration, I am the consummate team member. I go above and beyond for my administration. Wherever they need something, just tell me to go there and I do it without batting an eyelash. I bring nothing but respect, dignity, accountability, and sportsmanship to my job that I take fantastic and great pride in. I'm a Cliffside person. 400 Palisade and 40 Prescott Avenue, right down the block from 7-Eleven. I take great pride in what I do. I've worn many hats in that high school for almost three decades. I've been on a negotiating committee.
Yes. I make a motion that we adjourn the meeting. Second. All those in favor? I. I. Anyone opposed? All right, having said that our meeting is over. Thank you everyone. Wait, so for next time Take care. meeting and the the one about freedom of expression again? Yes. Okay. All right, thank you. Thanks everyone. Bye.
I understand. What I'm saying though is um if in the past registration was covered by the cost from the central office and we do not yet know with with the detail that our community is asking for what central office costs are are actually providing to >> Pelum. >> Um I don't think it is reasonable to now put that cost back into our school. That's my input there. Um, >> yeah. >> I also a, as we've heard, we're talking about, I think, in a very good year, 30 new students over the entire year joining the school. And so, $6,000 feels like a lot of money to be talking about for 30 students to have their documents reviewed and join and and be processed through a register. That feels like a whole lot of money for us to be talking about. I understand that it is a cost being transferred theoretically from the central office that was subsidized previously and now moving into the school and until we know what is being subsidized and what's not I don't think that that is a reasonable cost for us to pick up.
Um what I'm going to do is I'm going to read through all of them. Um a lot of them have been answered by things that are that we discussed tonight, but um I want to make sure that everyone feels like their question has been been raised and addressed. Um what we are also going to do, um, kind of mentioned at the beginning, is we will be posting, um, written responses to all these questions, um, both the questions that we received in advance and then the questions being asked tonight on our, um, on the town's website. So, the town has created, um, a specific budget and override page. You can get to it by, um, the town of Ashland's homepage and there's a If you go into the news section, there's a there's a section There's a link to click to click to get to that, um, to that page and all of that will be on there.
So what does it mean to be the pilot? Imagine you're a passenger on a plane and it gets so turbulent. So turbulent that everybody is freaking out. Let's think about three different things a pilot could say. Announcement number one. Stop screaming. You're making a big deal out of nothing. Stop being so dramatic. I'd be thinking, is this pilot even feeling this turbulence? This is the thing that happens when we can't give children ice cream for breakfast. I know that might seem not a big deal for us, but it's the end of the world for them and we cannot connect to the child. So, this is probably not the announcement you want. Number two, oh no, there's turbulence. I'm opening the doors. Someone please help. The pilot loses themselves and they see the child's emotions as our own. So this is what happens when we say, "Fine, just have the ice cream.
I've served on committees that include the culture, climate, attendance policy, discipline policies. I currently, and I still do it, and I'm going to continue to do it, I orchestrated the toy drives for those less fortunate than many of us for the community of Cliffside and Fairview. I hold fundraisers, orchestrate district-wide fundraisers for for flood victims, fire victims, for kids that just fall on hard times. I currently serve on a on a committee that gives scholarships to our athletes, our Cliffside athletes. I go above and beyond my job at Cliffside. NOT BECAUSE I HAVE TO, cuz I don't have to. I check out at 3:10 o'clock. I do it because this is my community. I stepped aside from coaching about 13 years ago. That other man spoke in front of you today. Many of you have kids. I've seen your son walk with his caliber in the hallway.