001will be called to order. Roll call. Thomas Blakeley here. Ryan Casey here. Stephanie Coin here. Roseello here. Jennifer Bulahan here. Michael Keane here. David Keel here. Christopher Laravey here. And Robert here. Please stand for the I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands under God. First, I'd like to welcome everybody who is attending tonight here in person and online. Thank you. The first order of business is agenda item number three, the approval of minutes. We have minutes from the regular meeting of May 27th, 2025 and the special meeting of June 3rd, 2025. Are there any questions? Hearing none, I'll take a motion, Mr. King, seconded by Mr. Blakeley. On the motion made by Mr. Keane, seconded by Mr. likely that the minutes of the
002regular meeting of May 27th, 2025 and the special meeting of June 3rd, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries nine to zero. This is always a fun time of year because we get to do a lot of end of the year recognition. Agenda item number four is begins the awards and recognition. And the first up is the New York State Seal of Civic Readiness. I'll start it and then Mrs. Judge, you'll uh introduce our people. Sure. So, the New York State Education Department offers students a valuable opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to civic responsibility through the creation of a fusional portfolio. This portfolio highlights each students academic achievements, relevant course for and meaningful civic engagement reflecting their growth and identity as civic-minded individuals. To earn the seal of civic readiness, students must
003accumulate a minimum of six points on New York State AD's official rubric, which is divided between two key areas, civic knowledge and civic participation, Miss Judge. So, yeah, this is our third year offering seal of civic readiness to our students. I collaborate with Miss Mus and we make sure that all of our seniors specifically are aware, but frankly then hear hearing about the seal of civic readiness hopefully in ninth grade, but we're even pushing it earlier because students can start earning points for their seal of civic readiness in seventh and eighth grade as well. So, we'll be collaborating with the middle school so they can start building that digital portfolio early on. And what's the why? Why do we want our students to build their seal of civic readiness digital portfolio so they can be
004civic-minded individuals so they can go out into the world once they graduate from Colony, take the skills that they learned at Colony and use it to make the world a better place? We had some growth this year. The first year we offered the SEAL, we had about 85 students earn this recognition. The second year we had about 130 and this year we have 173 students. So again, myself, Miss Mis work really closely with the social studies department. We go in, we talk to the kids, we show them the portfolio and we answer any questions. Um, we hold workshops throughout the year and kids are diligent and they get it done. This year we reviewed the portfolios with a committee and we selected five that we thought were really impressive and then three that we would
005like to come tonight and present to the board of education. So the students that you're going to talk to or hear from in just a moment are students who have a diverse range of experiences in the community, in the classroom, in their coursework. They are involved in clubs, extracurriculars. They um work in the community. They are involved in our CEP program. They are starting off their post high school career on an awesome foot already. All these experiences will lend themselves to them. And they're just three amazing individuals. Hi Rida. Rida did email me. She was stuck in traffic, but she is one of our students. You get settled and we'll have you go at the end. Okay. All right. So, Amber, I shared the digital portfolios with you. I'm going to start with you. You
006want to come on up? Okay. She's going to be one of our first presenters. Are you good, Amber? Do I need to do anything else? No, I shared the portfolios with the board. Oh, so the Okay. Is there any way I can project them for the kids? Is that possible? If not, okay, that would be great. just so they can see them and use them as a guide that they talk to before about. Thank you, Amber. I appreciate it. Thank you, Jacine. Yes. You'll have to tell me when to quit. Okay. Okay. Well, my name is and this is my civilian. Well, I have taken many classes related to civic knowledge throughout my four years of high school. Um, many electives and courses like criminal justice, public speaking, genetics, and my favorite CIP internship class.
007Sorry. Um, one of my students projects was for a girl in the class. Um, I had to attend a meeting here. Um, I believe it was in February. I learned a lot during this meeting. Um, all this stuff about budgets and plans for which I thought was really cool. And um I also wrote a letter to Senator Dilla Brand about the climate and environment in New York for my government class. I thought this is the things I thought I should write to her. And um lastly is my um internship at Sam Hospital for VIP. And I would say um this was probably my favorite part of this year, my senior year. I just recently finished my 64 hours and I had a lot of fun. I met so many new people, doctors, nurses, a lot
008of staff. And um the coolest part of it was like look watching surgeries and um I saw surgery being done with a machine robot which I thought was really cool. Um, and I spent most of my time volunteering in the VR and I will be continuing that during the summer and during college. Awesome. Starting with my transcript. While I didn't take many AP classes, I've taken criminal justice during my sophomore year and public speaking this year. And I really enjoyed taking both classes. In participation in government, I did a research project on stabilation of voting rights and it was really interesting how voting rights have evolved especially in the early days and how President Andrew Jackson um extended voting rights to all white men regardless of their status as that's often overlooked. Then I did
009two more research projects in participation in government. The first one was a political issue in Curry and I chose to do immigration as that's not a topic I was much informed about and it was really interesting to see why immigration is such a controversial topic and through it um I feel like I'm more better educated to make decisions when the time comes in the future. And the second research project I did was state versus local government It was really cool um both for the government to play a part in our lives. Well, local government provides resources like transportation, sewage, education, things like that that affect our daily lives. I did two internships like the first was over the summer at Samaritan Hospital. I've worked in a um lots of different fields such as the O,
010respiratory care, laboratory, um birth center, and the ER. And it was really cool seeing how all the different fields in the hospital work together to um provide patient care. And then the second internship I did was at the high school where I worked with special needs children in an art class and got to see how we have to how to include them while also helping them in order for them to be part of the community and make our community be more accepting. I did a high school capstone project last year um to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the school district. my colony for trails and researched about them, looking into their history, things to do, where to park and all of that. And it was really interesting as we got to see um what went
011into a colony and learn its history and see how it grew. And we made a website for everyone to see. And like the crossings has the library, the park and farmers market. And Amly has um it's Shaker Heritage Museum, please. This is my student readiness. So this is my transcript. I have taken two AP social studies classes, one being AP US and one being AP government. I have also taken Sunni intro to reporting and newswriting and Sunni foundations and journalism along with CIP which is the internship class. For my research project, I did a paper and a slideshow in my journalism class about like different types of news spies and like and we took one article and like we like we took one like topic and we like looked at three different articles and how
012each person um wrote it differently based on their bias towards the topic. my civics project. We did a video on the US Constitution and how it's better than the Articles of Confederation and it was good to learn about that in like a fun way and we did like a whole video in a group. For my service learning, I've done lots of volunteer through NHS as the robotics competition, the chili and mac and cheese, the craft fair Halloween high, and I volunteer with the William K. Stanford library. For my extra extracurricular participation in workbased learning, I've done my internship with Silver Parrot. um I do their social media and for um my business club I also did the social media for being historian and then in the summer I'm a tennis coach for children which I
013did last year I'm also doing this year. All these experiences have been really rewarding, especially the um tennis camp because it's fun seeing like children and like teaching them like different skills and I've learned a lot throughout my internship and um being my the business club historian. Um, I'm doing marketing in college. So, they were both really like cool to see like how it's like how it's good like um it was good to see how like social media like works in like a business. Thank you for board. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you cabinet. Any questions? This is fantastic. You know from a HR1's the skills that you all are learning that you're going to be apply in your future. Um from a you know internships and applying learning skills to your
014civic mindedness and um it shows a lot about your character. um it's going to make you more attractive to to employers. So, we would certainly love to see 200 on that list next year. That's our goal. Yeah. Thanks for taking where you can see. I'm going lucky to have you. Thank you very much. I I do want to say when you start looking outward and doing things in the community and getting up here in in front of a board of education and using your public speaking skills, especially young women. I think that's so very important. Just get up there, let your voice be heard. You've all did a great job with explaining your projects. Um, I know we have a a great mentor in in this judge, too, and I thank you for that. Um,
015I I think you're preaching to the choir. Uh, we aren't paid to do this. We put in a lot of work, and this is for our community, for our civic duty, and we each uh you get more than you give. Really, it's true. You get more than than you get more than you give. Um, so please keep up the work. be in the community. Think outside yourself. Stand up. Speak for yourselves. Thank you very much again. You all be great. Awesome. Thank you so much. You're a big person. Agenda item number five, superintendent update. Dr. Hering, that is you. Yes. Thank you. Uh I want to send congratulations to the 47 teachers, administrators, and teaching assistants that are being presented to the board of education tonight for tenure. uh each of these individuals has demonstrated
016outstanding professionalism throughout their time in South K and exemplify uh the best that we have to offer. So congratulations to those individuals. They have our uh utmost respect and endorsement for for tenure. Um, also wanted to uh make our community aware the mobile devices uh ban that came down from the uh uh recent um enactment of the state budget will take place uh in August for the 2526 school year. It's part of education law 2803. Uh we are going to be seeking some input on that. um plans to send out a survey to students and families seeking some uh feedback on uh ways to best um implement this uh process, but at the same point in time make sure that we're meeting the needs of our our students, our families. Um there are some carveouts
017for uh exemptions if there is a medical need or or some extreme uh clauses. Um but for the most part it'll be a belltobell um telephone uh exclusion and it includes uh any internet enabled device. So smart watch in addition to um a cell phone. So I just want to make that aware over the next couple weeks we'll be surveying families. Uh the goal is to reamp our policy. Um I don't see a lot of changes going on in the elementary and middle school levels at this point in time. Uh they not free range, but the high school level certainly will be a change for our students. Um how we do that, we're still working through the process whether that'll be uh storage device like the yonder bag or some other mechanism. Um we have
018gotten that the yonder bags are pretty expensive. it was about a $60,000 price tag just for the first two years. So, just want people to be aware of that. Um, but we'll be doing that. And, uh, last thing, uh, as we start to march forward towards the end of the school year, I wish all of our students, um, safe end of the school year. Please work hard on your final exams. Um, and, uh, be safe and enjoy your celebrations of your seniors, our class of 2025 to celebrate you and our eighth grade students as well. It'll be a busy summer. A lot of programs going on, a lot of construction going on, but we're moving forward. So, a lot of positives. Questions for Dr. Perry? Um, we announced a while back that we have a
019summer meal program. Yes, the uh food service department will announce that. But we will be hosting at St. Middle School as part of our summer program. It's open to all uh registered students. Um, meals have to be consumed on site, but we will offer both breakfast and lunch for students. So, if you're attending our 512 summer program, uh, that's obviously going to be convenient for you. You'll be in that same building. But, if you're in another building or not attending any summer program, students, uh, can access that same each of the days that our summer program is open. Questions? Thank you very much. Agenda item number six. I I do want to lead this off because um one of the things that we've been directed to do is add a student representative as a board
020member. And it is my pleasure tonight to introduce you to Vincent Fenzo. Vincent right there. He is a currently sophomore. currently a sophomore at the high school and coming in as a junior and you'll be starting with us July 1st. You have a seat at the table. We look very much forward to Thank you. Anyone else? Any of you new business? Um I I want to a couple spring but uh I want to say congrats to our varsity baseball team. They had a heck of a run in the season. Um, I know they fell a little short against Saratoga, but you know, I was in game one of that series. It was fantastic. They they came back to tie it up. Um, bunch of great students, uh, great coaching staff. They do a really good
021job in that program. So, kudos to them for their success this year. Reco June that were in the sectional championships or regionals. We got some student athletes. get some tracks that are states. Very impressive here, Mr. Casey. Thank you. Going along the same lines with the sports and today's pretty sure it was today's or maybe even Sunday's gazette, the all suburban honor role, if you will, is in there and there are quite a few colony students listed in the gazette, all seasonal. Kudos. Um, the other thing is I'm sitting here looking at this list of folks with tenure appointments and you know you're getting old or older I should say or more tenured is when you look at some of these names and you remember when they first came to being hired and now they're
022part of the team. And I say a team because it takes more than just one or two people to do this. And it was obvious. Three young ladies got up and spoke how well this district has done. But we can't do it alone. The folks that sit at these tables, it comes from the administrators, the teachers, the parents, etc. So looking at these names, I am going to have absolutely no problem voting yes for every one of these folks to be uh in it after their I'm sure grueling probationary period. I'd just like to thank each one of them. I know some of them are here tonight, but um the folks watching on the internet, we're proud. We have to be on what these folks have done. um these teachers and parents, especially the parents
023and the students. Listening to the three young ladies here tonight, I'm going, "Wow, this exciting this exciting time for this school district along with all the construction and the things that we're going to see here tonight." Um, so kudos to all those that are getting tenure, including my good friend sitting in the back row who didn't want to sit in the front. Uh, and the other folks, nice job. Thank you. Thank you. Next, Mr. So, as TJ alluded to, I have a chance um I got to go to softball team in the um AAA finals. Um difference of six inches in you know it's a different story but um congratulations to Kelly Marquish. She was Sper Council here. Katie Grey was um Spur Council MVP. Um lots of you know quite a few girls were
024were recognized for for their efforts. Um you know great opportunity didn't you know able to uh watch some of the the track folks and their efforts. I know we've got a number of runners and um and Tesla and some other um and you can give them kudos because they know it's part of your circle um you know that that are moving on setting records the track team uh fall winter spring I think it's the first time that trifecta has happened or at least in in our history um so it's always a it's a fun time you see the kids that are getting the Clearary Award. Um, it's always a, you know, to me it's a special award because it shows the the kid as a whole. So, um, congratulations to everyone. Thank you. That's right.
025But I was I went last week to Ros Mr. Larry. Uh I really think thanks to the the district I I really think that and the teachers that se program internship program and is phenomenal and I only see that thing growing going forward and I hope we have hundred students doing it but it it really is amazing. Uh I want to congratulate Mr. Miller and the Lfield seventh and eighth grade uh u band who uh second year in a row they went down to Agon Massachusetts. I'm glad that we still at least do these tours again. Um and they won um best they were excellent top tier for their group. And he said it was a it was a challenging year. The uh the um uh judges were even harder this year, but they still
026found a way and they were top of the group. So, and then last thing, uh rising juniors and seniors. Uh I don't know if you've seen this out there. Uh Hudson Valley is doing some free classes this summer. Books paid for. No, nothing else. It doesn't cost any money in different sectors. Takes a little time to research it. Go right on their website, take a look at it. It's free credits that your parents don't have to pay for. Very good. That's Thank you for that PSA. Very much appreciate. Who's next? The school. I had the opportunity to attend the final coral coral concert of the year. It was lovely as always. Um there was a new group this year. um I think they're doing um but in addition to the general chorus and the chamber
027singers um there's a treble chorus I think they call themselves um and they had their first inaugural performance um so that was nice to see the diversity in um in our our musicals um I also as I'm a senior so I go to you know crossings thing and I'm really looking forward um next week to the walkthroughs at Forest Park and San Creek um Friday. Um and lastly, I also got to shop around the field trip, the eighth grade San Creek field trip to Boston. Um that was awesome. I really want to shout out the San Creek teachers and specifically Miss There who runs lead on that for a really well planned and well executed um trip. It's really, you know, hurting 200 plus children in three stops around Boston. um you know is is
028a lot uh but on team we had a great time and it was a wonderful trip and I'm I'm really looking forward to having further discussion about how we ensure that all of our kids have access to curriculum skill trips that um are important to their experiential learning. Thank you very much. I'll uh piggy back Mr. Casey talking about our great uh teachers and our employees. Uh Miss Judge, thank you for obviously this program tonight. Your I care. You've impacted a lot of our kids up here. I know you're moving on, but your passion and energy is unmatched. So, just thank you for everything you've done for all our students last several years with AP. Good luck next Mr. You have to say something. You can't be the only word member doesn't speak. Oh yeah.
029Well, everybody's hit my third. I'll just tell you today with Egypt, Italy, and Brazil, it's it's so cute. third graders telling us about King Cut and the rainforests and they know their stuff. They've researched it. It's a lot of fun to do that. Um the concert and as school said was was wonderful. I'll just remind you that there's a an orchestra concert on Wednesday which is superb, always superb and the band will be as equally superb on Thursday night. So, there's my pitch for that and uh nothing else to say. Thank you very much, Steph. I did miss one. Oh, yes. Um New York State Athletic Association recognized um academic teams and when I looked at the list, I believe every team we put out in the spring made that academic. Congratulations to all. Yes,
030that's fantastic to see that balance of Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. Agenda item number seven, communications. Miss Lanigan, we have nothing. You have nothing. Any online? Nothing. All right. Terrific. Thank you very much. Agenda item number eight, board committee reports. First up, we have the academic achievement. Uh we also have the hall of fame. Although these are two different committees, we were able to put them into one night. So Mr. Keel, would you like to take the uh the link to that meeting you can see quite a bit of information there. So I don't know if there's any other questions about anything about graduation inductions. Any questions? The inductees will be announced a week prior to graduation. Does anybody have any questions for either Mel or Mr. Thank you. Agenda
031item number eight, letter B. This is policy. Chris, would you like to go ahead and talk about this? Absolutely. Um, first of all, before I get started, um, I'd just like to say thank you to the, uh, hours of work and revisions that, uh, Dr. Perry and especially Amber put in, uh, to this policies, um, changes, corrections, readings, everything. Appreciate that. I all I am is the chair of it. I don't, you know, you guys do the real work. Said no, whatever. With that being said, uh does anybody on the board have any questions uh as to any of the uh items that uh will be first reading, single reading, and abolishing on behalf of the policy committee. Upon the motion made by committee chair, member Christopher Larabe, recommendations that the revisions made to the
032above stated policies be approved as presented. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 90. Thank you very much, Mr. Larry. Agenda item number nine, reports and recommendations for action. This is from letter A through G. There any questions or comments? Hearing none. I'll take motion. Mr. Blakeley second Mr. Mis on the motion made by Mr. Blakeley and seconded by Mr. releasing that the above stated reports and recommendations be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 9 to zero. Agenda item number 10, personnel instruction. Find this on pages 12 through 16. Mr. Rabalatti. Yeah. Thank you, Stephanie. I think the star of the show are the tenure recognitions in this section this evening. Uh I think Mr. Casey said grueling was the word used but there is a process. Every one of these individuals went
033through a mentor program had the appropriate number of observations were evaluated each year discussions and and really did a nice job to to earn this. Our our teaching staff don't always come here tonight. Some ask about it, but they know we we honor them in the fall. So, we'll give them another special moment from the fall when they return from summer break. We do have some administrators here that have tenure. So, Brian, Steph, The rest of the agenda is typical, but we do have some more new hires positions that seems to pop up surprisingly, but we're doing a nice job. seeing all those names on the list. That's true. Very good. Any questions? Mr. Can you please refresh my memory of the creation of the probationary temporary positions? What like the location of those instructional?
034Yes, please. Go ahead. Administrative position. The four of them. I'm just trying to So it's a 712 science position at Bell. the music teacher. The two temporaries are positions that positions that we had every year. They just have to be reappointed. So, they're not new to budget. Got it. Thank you. And then um I'm noticing um one of our resations also impacts our drama club program at Sanop. Thank you. Any other questions? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Mr. Casey, second by Miss Glyello. Motion made by Mr. Casey, seconded by Miss Gleello. The instruction personnel changes listed on the attached sheet stated June 10th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries nine to zero. Congratulations. Now is a following suit. We have agenda item number 11, personnel support. These are found on
035pages 17 through 28. Mr. Rabalotti, you don't have to say every single one, but you can give us an overview if you'd like. That's not fair. We say all day. Okay. Uh to um Miss uh Mulan's question, a lot of these are just reappointments. These are not all new staff to the district. These are individuals working in temporary roles year to year or they're 10-month employees and they have to be reappointed. So it's more of a business rollover. Then we did not hire this many people in the last two weeks. Quite a difference. All current employees being welcome back. There's some also business for next year as long as the most part it's our temporary. Does anyone have any questions? Hearing none, I will take a motion. Miss Gello, seconded by Mr. Laravey. On the
036motion made by Miss Gibello, seconded by Mr. ity that the support personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated June 10th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 90. Agenda item number 12, bond resolution, school bus purchase. Dr. Perry, this is the uh authorization that voters gave us on the 20th to purchase uh school buses. This is the language that indicates the buses that we're purchasing and total amount to exceed 1.83 million. All right. Hearing no nothing. Um I'm ready for a motion. Mr. Blakeley followed by Mr. Uh motion made by Mr. Blinkley, seconded by Mr. Nis that the above state of bond resolution be adopted. This is a roll call vote. Miss Lanigan, would you like to do that? Sure. Um Thomas, yes. Brian Casey, yes. Stephanie Kogan, yes. Gigello, yes.
037Yes. Michael, yes. David Ke, yes. Christopher, Robert, yes. Vote carries 90. Thank you very much. Agenda item number 13, the board of education meeting schedule. You have any questions, comments? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Mr. King second, Mr. Casey on the motion made by Mr. Keane, seconded by Mr. Casey, that the above stated 2025 2026 board of education meeting schedule be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 9 to zero. Agenda item number 14, future meetings. Just take note of the times. Those are the early meetings by the clock for audit finals. At this time, we do anticipate to go into a The board anticipates to go into executive session for a personnel matter discussion. May I have a motion? Miss Pigleello, second Mr. Keane. On the motion made by Migleello, seconded by
038Mr. Keane to enter executive session to discuss fiscal and employment matters relating to a particular person. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Nine to zero. Time is 711. All right, at this time the regular meeting ends and anybody who needs a participation government signature come right here to this side. I'm a show.