001Okay. All right, welcome back everybody. This is the regular meeting of the Suffern Central School District Board of Education for Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. We are recalling this meeting to order to announce the unofficial results of the 2026-2027 budget and candidate vote. So, the unofficial results are in favor of the budget, which is proposition one. Yes, 1600. No, 780. For candidate Tom Donahue, 1,905 votes. And for candidate Paul Shapiro, 1,826 votes. So, congratulations, Mr. Donahue and Mr. Shapiro. >> Thank you. >> Another three more years. Thank you so much for your service. Thank you to the SEA. And also to the PTA who did a lot of work to raise awareness that this election was coming up and give people information about it. And are there any closing comments? From superintendent. >> Thank you very
002much. I'd like to echo the the thanks that you gave to the organizations that helped get the vote out. I'd also like to to give a special congratulations to the entire Suffern Central community for your support of our budget. All the programs and additional proposed programs that we have um shared with the public will be put in effect for next year. So, that is fantastic news for everyone. Like to give a special another special thanks to our entire administrative team who played a significant role in the development of this budget. Making sure that we were being quite prudent and thrifty with regards to the recommendations that we were making to the Board of Education recognizing that there was a very hard cap. Um In particular, shout out to Dr. Castellane and his entire team for
003the work over the last many months in developing this budget. Uh and to his team, Pam Alfante, who was here to to work on a lot of the the accounting details. And then of course, as I mentioned earlier to Robert Romanowski, our district election clerk, uh doing another wonderful job in securing all the folks to work the polling places, taking care of all the logistics, along with Heather Campbell, who's our assistant election clerk as well. If I missed a few people, um forgive me, but um just a great all around um effort by the entire team. So, thank you so much to everyone. Congratulations. >> Okay, thank you very much. Um so, as I said, these are unofficial results. We should have official results um probably in about a month, which we will announce at
004our meeting when those come in. If you want to prepare for next year's election, it is Tuesday, May 18th, 2027. So, mark your calendars. Um and uh and and and start watching for budget presentations and so forth. Okay, thank you everyone. Thank you for passing our budget. Uh we're very pleased. And do I have a motion to adjourn? What? Nobody wants to Was that you, Ms. Bryan? >> Yes, I >> Oh, excellent. Okay. Uh first by Ms. Bryan, second? >> Second. >> All right, a tie between Ms. Hodge and Mr. Donnelly. All right, this meeting is adjourned. See everyone next time. Thank you so much. >> Mhm.