001Listen to her. We all listen to her. We just follow whatever she says. Anna, does she care? just stand back here and graduation style. Give them a ticket and encourage them to go stand on the ris. Okay. Yes. Are they will they know? Okay, good. Right. Oh. I know. I know. Everyone looks at me like I know. I'm good. I'm gonna All right. Good evening everyone. Okay. Welcome to our June 2025 board of education meeting. And before we get started, I would like to ask everyone please stand and do the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, please take a seat. Okay, so in case you're wondering why we have
002a room full of people tonight and that is because we have the 25 year annivers anniversary as well as the spring athletes recognitions tonight. So, and I am going to begin by welcoming you uh members of the scias learning community, faculty and staff and central administration and board of ed. Welcome to our 2025 uh June 25 BOE meeting. Tonight, we are proud to recognize and congratulate our dedicated staff members celebrating their 25 year silver anniversary with the district. Your unwavering commitment, professionalism, and passion have helped shape shape the success and high standard standards of our schools. You are the heart of what makes this district truly exceptional. On behalf of the board, thank you for your years of service and congratulations on this remarkable milestone. Thank you. And we'll be recognizing each member by uh
003handing them a certificate. So when I call you a name, please come up to the front. Uh Jill Biblo. Okay. Jodie Brown. Elizabeth Brozac. Okay. Tracy Cap. [Applause] Thank you, Stephanie Chippetin. Okay. Allison Giles, Jessica Gonzalez. Stacy Gordon, Bonnie Kimayek, Jessica Corman. Lauren Last Wild Diane Mali Joseph Mcketta Yeah. Okay. Allison Mills, Carol, Marie Palazola, [Applause] Jennifer Perisak, [Applause] Kelly Egan Pinnacle. Okay. Laura Pearson Winger. Okay. Stephanie Russell, [Applause] Karesa Steinberg, [Applause] Steven Toer, [Applause] [Music] Hey K Donna to [Applause] last but not least, Michelle Web. and we'll see you again at the district reception. [Applause] Okay, congratulations to these outstanding teachers again. Thank you. [Music] Thank you so much for your service and we we want you guys to come back after 25 years. Another 25 years. Thank you. Okay. And next on the
004agenda, we'll be recognizing our spring athletes. So, if you guys want to make a graceful exit, now is the time to do so. But you're more than welcome to stay for the meeting, too. I'm just going to stand here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the way back there. Good luck. And maybe he's better to come for me. Thank you. That was a lot easier on me. Uh we're just going to go very bright. The bright and I would have been doing this and you don't need me doing that. No. No. No. [Applause] All right, everybody. Oh, there he is. I see him. I see him. All right. Okay. So, now we are recognizing our spring student athletes and we'll have our uh director for athletics, physical education and recreation, uh Mr. Scott Stuber, who will introduce
005the students. [Applause] Good evening to the board of education, Dr. Rogers, and the administration. It is my pleasure to recognize some of our finest athletes that just participated and some are still participating this spring. And at this time, I'm going to start with boys golf. So, I'm introducing senior Smu Desai and Brendan Junior Brendan Shonberg. Small shot a 7879 for a two-day total of 157. Finished tied for 10th in the county golf championship and had a fantastic two-day total. Brendan also qualified in the top 35 um for the county golf championship, shooting an 82 and an 86 for a two-day total of 168. And we get to have him back next year. Congratulations on a great job. And I'm I you know the next group that we're going to be recognizing is our girls track
006and field team. [Applause] It's a little bit of sweet for me. For the past three years, I've been recognizing many of these young ladies in cross country, winter track, and spring track. And some of them are graduating. So, the girls track team finished fifth at the Nashville County Championship meet here at Sioset. And the following girls earned all county honors, starting with Gianna Lavaka, part of our 4x800 county championship team, also scored points in the steeple chase. Congratulations, Gian. Ariana Sadrahami is part of our 4x800 county champion team and also scored points in the 3000 meter. Congratulations [Applause] Jessica Allessie Allessie part of both the 4x400 to 4x 800 county championship teams and also scored points in a 1500 meter. Congratulations Jess. Melissa Teneri, part of our 4x400 county championship team. She also scored points
007in the 400 hurdles. Congratulations. And we have Ashley Wong, part of both the 4x400 and 4x800 county championship teams. Congratulations. And Juliana Rosa, part of our 4x400 county championship team. Congratulations to Juliana. I want to congratulate you and I want to wish you luck in the states who those you are going. Good luck. Represent us well. Congrats. They should know the routine. They've been up here a lot. Uh next up, I'd like to introduce Coach Dave Anderson of our softball program. [Applause] up here. All right. So, good evening everybody. So, uh we were 17 and seven this year. And this is the highest win total since 2004. And the young ladies to my right have been instrumental in the resurgence of our program. So, I'm going to go through each player. My senior who's far
008right, my far right is Nichollet Ferrer. She's a two count two-time all county player. Um she was nominated for the pitcher of the year the last two seasons. She was 11 and two this year in conference and also in non-league. Um Nichollet has been pitching for us for the last few years and she's won many big games for us and she's led to the resurgence of the program. Um Nichollet will be pitching for Sunni new next season and we're going to miss Nichollet next year. So, my third baseman is junior uh Ella Lanza. She's the the the young lady in the middle. Um she's probably one of the hardest workers I've had since I've been here. Um this is a first time all county player and she's got an incredible work ethic and it's welld
009deserved. Her statistics speak for themselves. She hit 436 in the top conference. Um she had 23 RBI's. She had a five five over 500 on base percentage and the slugging is 909. So she's had an incredible year. She hits for power as well as for average and I'm just fortunate that I get to have her back next year. So Ella Lance did a great job this year. So the next young ladies to my right here to my right. Um Taylor Renie is a 10th grader. So I've had Taylor since seventh grade and she started for me since since seventh grade. So, I just want to give you guys a heads up just how how hard that is to do. Um, she is a threetime all county player and she is the best player in the
010conference and I'll argue with this with any coach in in our conference. Um, she was nominated all state last year. She's been nominated all state this year. She already holds many of the records for Siosid right now, including stolen bases. Um, I can't believe she's only a sophomore, but I'm going to have her again for the next two years, which is great. So, give us an opportunity to continue to win. Um, she hit 554. Her on base percentage is 597. Uh, 25 runs scored and she's got 15 stolen bases. They know she's going to go. They still can't throw her out. So, she's an incredible player and I feel fortunate all three players have had over the over the the last couple years. And again, they've done a great job building our program. So, thanks
011girls. At this time, I'd like to introduce Coach Ray Duca of our flag football program. [Laughter] Thank you. Okay. This season, our girls flag football team went 11 and two, made the county finals again for the second consecutive year. We're honored uh to have four allcounty selections this year. Our 2025 all county flag football girls are Sienna Kumo. Sienna is a junior first year playing flag football this year. She earned a starting spot on both sides of the ball as a receiver and a defensive back. She's a hard worker, extremely athletic, loves to compete, and always has a smile on her face. Next, we have Leah Calderon. She's a junior. She's been part of the flag football program since the beginning, which is now three years. She's a two-way starter for us. She's our center
012and middle linebacker, two very important positions. She lead she led the team in flag polls this season and does all the little things that do not show up in the stat line that makes the team successful. Leo Calderon. Next, we have Kate Nelms. Kate is one of six seniors on our team. Uh first year playing football. She also earned a starting spot on both sides of the ball as our receiver and safety. She led the team in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. And she's just a terrific young lady to coach, Kate Elms. And finally, our program is three years old, and Ivy Matthews in our third year is a three-time allount flag football player. She was our quarterback, safety, punt returner, and anything else we needed her to do. She is truly the ultimate
013competitor. She makes her teammates around her better. Uh she was honored for this year's Conference A Offensive Player of the Year award. She's left her mark here for our program and she surely be missed Ivy Matthews. And that is it. Thank you very much. Have a good night. And at this time, I'd like to introduce Coach Liz Christensen representing our girls lacrosse team. [Applause] Good evening. We were fortunate to have two allcount players on the girls lacrosse program this spring. Jaden Stadler is a sophomore totaling 54 points 51 points this season split evenly between goals and assists. Jaden's big memorable moment of the season was scoring the game-winning goal in our final conference home game in overtime against Farmingdale, giving our team a a thrilling win. Julie Shaughnessy is a junior committed to the University
014of Michigan. She was recognized as a top 100 lacrosse player on Long Island and is ranked number nine in the country in the 2026 recruiting class. She led the power league in points with 38 goals and 28 assists. In one game, she totaled 13 points, which is a program record. We are really proud of these young ladies and cannot wait to have them back on the field playing for Sioset next spring. Congratulations. At this time, I'd like to introduce Coach John Calabria of our boys lacrosse program. Hi everybody. Um, thanks for having us. Uh, boys lacrosse did a great job this year. We came in fourth place in Nassau County. Uh, we lost to Mesopeka in the semi-finals. Uh, that made us a big four champion. Uh, that's 18 years in a row for the
015boys lacrosse team. So, uh, in large part it was due to, uh, the young men you see on the, uh, risers here. So, from left to right, we have Josh Weisenfeld, junior goalie. Josh. And then I think we have uh our next junior Brody Waxer. I see um second from the end there is uh Aiden Clear. We call him Baby Clearary, but um he did a great job at the faceoff acts for us. And then we have two seniors, Nick Turner. He's there in the middle, midfielder, senior midfielder. And um at the end we have uh our defenseman. Um Nick and and and Will are both uh co- captains together, but but Will Collie, our defenseman, uh was also um selected as a US lacrosse all-American, which is the pretty much the most elite honor
016that uh the boys lacrosse can give. And um in a few days, he'll be um in the news day for all Long Island. Will Coley So, thanks again so much for having us and uh boys lacrosse. Uh again, the next person I'm going to introduce has been up here for many seasons, like the girls track team. Uh and again, I'm hoping that we can report more great news cuz they're still playing. uh representing our boys tennis program, Mr. Shai Fischer. They clean up nice buttondowns, khakis. I don't even have to worn them. They're not paying attention. It's fine. That's all my fault. My apologies, gentlemen. So, members of the board of education, administration, community, I'm proud to talk to you once again about some of the achievements in the boys tennis program this past spring.
017And no, this does not get old. We had We're going to start with our individual award winners. Um, if seventh grader Aiden Maddox and sophomore Jacob Prince can hold it up, hold your certificates up. So, these two young men have had a tremendous run in our highly competitive county tournament. Uh, they won three consecutive matches. Not easy to do at any level, especially at their age. And, uh, with the wins, they earned all county honors. And once again, they're only in seventh and 10th grade. Congratulations, Jacob and Aiden. We had three boys earn all county and all state recognition. We had in doubles junior Nikquil Sha and junior Ian Meta. [Music] And in singles we had senior Devin Milandro. Unfortunately, due to a prior commitment, Devin couldn't be here with us tonight. But Nikki, if
018you guys can raise your certificates, if you ask anyone about the level of tennis in Nassau County, they would tell you it's the toughest in the state. All three boys not only had successful runs in the county tournament to earn all county honors, but earned a right to participate and succeed in our state tournament. This past weekend at the National Tennis Center in Flushing, Ian and Nikki defeated teams for from Pittsver, Southerntherland, Comac, and Baker High School. And along the way, even pushed the top seed in the tournament from Geneva to a close three set match. Nikki and Iron earned a sixth place medal. Not an easy feat to accomplish. Congratulations once again to both Nikki and on their allstate achievements. So now for some team accomplishments. You know, coming off a year where the
019boys won the state title for the second year in a row, h expectations were a little high. But even with the changeover of the members of the team from one year to another, what was unique about this team was how each young man from seasoned veteran to newcomer, all they wanted to do was improve their game. As a result, no matter the regular season lineup, everybody was ready to compete, producing a 14-0 regular season conference record. fast forward to the playoffs, which resulted in a Nassau County Championship over Roslin, a Long Island Championship over Half Hollow Hills East, and for this year, a new challenge, a regional championship, which was this past Wednesday, and a win over Horus Gley from Westchester. The boys are really looking forward to making even more history with the opportunity
020to win a third straight state championship when they play a state semi-final and hopefully a final this Friday at the National Tennis Center in Flushing. The job is not done is not finished actually was the boys favorite quote. But whatever happens on Friday, they should all be extremely proud of their accomplishments. Lastly, uh a special thank you to our captains Vy Trevetti and Nquille Sha who these two young men no matter the circumstance always lead by example with the highest level of character serve as amazing role models to all the boys and they they really set the tone for everyone on the team. Uh, also a special thank you to all the parents and community for your support. Congratulations once again on your amazing accomplishment and let's get it done on Friday. We have a
021couple cameras. Coach, I told them on Friday, we should all shave our head. Safe to say that's not going to happen. Thank you very much. And before I go, I just once again, it brings me great pleasure to share with the community that uh the entire spring athletic program qualified for scholar athlete team, which I kind of let the cat out of the bag two weeks ago, but we are qual qualified to be a school of distinction. 100% of our teams are scholar athlete teams. And that's not too bad. Despite what came out on Instagram that we were not an athletic school, it's a lie. this year, 11 Nassau County Championship teams and four Long Island Championship teams and hopefully a state. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you again. I think we know the
022drill. Now is the perfect time to make your graceful exit uh while we setting up for our meeting. So, thank you again. All right. Uh we are going to uh continue with our agenda agenda items uh for our meeting and 5 A B C D can be taken together and they are the approval of minutes of the monthly meeting of May 12th and special meetings of May 20th May 28 and June 4th 2025. Can I have a motion please? Dr. Park seconded by Miss Koshia. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. And uh Dr. Rufol, can we have the treasures report and appropriation adjustments? As shown on the treasures report, the cash on end for the month end April 2025 was $84,53,87.78. It shows the bank balances for all of our
023cash accounts were reconciled to the book balances and were collateralized in accordance with the district's banking agreements and investment policy. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Rufol. 6A and 6B can be taken together and they're the approval of treasures report and appropriations adjustments. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Greco, seconded by Miss Fov. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? Um and then next we'll be we'll have Dr. Rogers to provide us with his do uh superintendence report. Thank you, Miss Chang. And uh again, congratulations and appreciation to our 25-y year employees. We had a chance to meet uh just prior to the board's recognition and I thank them for uh creating the incredible foundation that was in this district when I arrived here and I told them that they inspired
024me to do uh as well with the people that I hire as my predecessors did in hiring them. Uh just a couple of updates uh to the board on ongoing business uh to share. First uh I just want to thank the board for um holding a special meeting last week so that we could approve two consultants. So, at the May meeting, the board uh voted to pursue uh party status in the Propel New York matter. Uh for those who uh weren't attentive to that at the time, the um Propel New York is an underground energy transmission line that will be buried under roadways uh across Nassau County, but some of those uh power lines will be buried under roadways in Sioset. Uh the school district certainly has an interest in this because some of the
025roadways pass some of the transmission lines pass close to um uh an elementary school and they also cross uh major arteries in the school district uh that are used for busing operations. So uh we want to make sure that the power lines are safe uh to be near our students. We want to make sure that uh we have a plan for how to avoid disruptions in traffic. So uh uh we are working with those consultants. Uh the reason for uh the urgency in meeting last week was because the district was granted party status. That means uh that we can negotiate directly with the applicant if there are recommendations and suggestions that we have uh for the applicant as they're concern as they're considering uh mitigation measures to make the project safe. And it also entitles
026us to draw down potentially some funding to pay for the cost of the consultants. Uh that funding expired last Friday. So by moving quickly, we were able to at least apply for the funding. I don't have a report on whether that's happened yet. So uh the updates are we have our consultants in place. I had my first meeting with the consultants this morning. We sketched out a plan of work uh together with our attorney, Miss Tando. And uh I'll have more reports to the board uh as soon as we can. Uh but I we both feel that this project has taken on a lot of momentum and is starting to move quickly. So I'll keep you a breast of any developments as they go along. And again just to uh to recap, we've hired PW
027Grosser to do environmental and engineering consulting. This would be on the safety of the project itself. And we've hired GPI to do traffic consulting. This will help us understand what the potential disruptions to busing operations might be. Second thing I want to update the board on and the public is the progress of a lot of the construction projects that were approved by the public last October. So, uh, as you might imagine, we've been spending a lot of this year, uh, doing the planning work and working on, uh, the drawings that need to be submitted to the state education department for approval. So, uh, that approval process is lengthy and school districts of course try to do as much work during the summer months as possible uh because it's less disruptive to school operations and obviously
028we want to maximize uh the amount of safety that we can. So, there are a handful of projects that will be taking place this summer. So, the things that will be most noticeable here at Southwoods, you'll see a lot of site work. The parking lot is going to be inaccessible for a number of weeks. So, uh, there will be some community messaging for how to get around the parking lot, uh, while it's out of commission. Uh, at the high school, we'll, uh, be doing some, uh, paving work. At, um, South Grove, we'll be installing the bus loop, uh, so that we separate cars and buses when they're doing drop off, and hopefully uh, that will add to the safety at that school. And then there will be some roofing and masonry work done here at
029Southwoods and a couple other places in the school district. Uh but the major construction really gets underway next summer. We'll be working on air conditioning projects in a number of district gyms. We'll be starting the locker room uh refurbishment projects at the middle schools and the main gym air conditioning at the middle schools. at the high school. We'll be starting the new gym, the bus loop, uh some of the science research laboratory work, and hopefully the turf uh infields, and uh some reconfiguration of the guidance department and hopefully the beginnings of the new library at um Walt Whitman and Barry Hill uh will be working on doing classroom additions also at Village. And um Blesses will be working on a new gym at BIS which will eventually uh result in being able to leave the
030portable classrooms there as well. Uh construction operations will continue for many of these big projects through the summer of 2027 and we don't anticipate that everything will be done until we're well through the summer of 2028. So what we're working on right now is uh a tool that we'll put on the website that allows the public to follow this process along and the steps in the process once we're done with the uh design work is gets sent to the state education department. Once they approve it, uh then we go out to bid. Once we have identified the successful bidder, then we have to go through a contracting process. Once we complete the contracting process, then we start setting up a construction schedule. So, uh, with all that said, there's a lot of steps in the
031process, but, uh, there is a lot of work going on. It's going to be very exciting, uh, for the community. Do you want to ask questions as we go along or are there any questions from the board for Dr. Rogers regarding the construction and Propel New York? Okay, Mr. Gecko, do we have a feel for this is about Propel New York. Do we have a feel for timing on the two reports from the experts? So, as the board is aware, we're working with two other school district that that have also applied for and received party status in uh this proceeding. And so, the advantage of that is that we're sharing the cost with the other two districts. So, some of the um background work has already been done by the consultants. What's happening is there
032are um every Thursday there are meetings with all of the entities that have been granted party status. So this would be other local government entities like school districts and uh whoever uh else the um PSC is granted party status to the the judge in the process grants the party status. So, uh, every Thursday there's, um, they have an agenda for a different aspect of the project that is, uh, worked through. And what I anticipate will happen is at every major milestone of the way, they will have some interim reports on what is on the agenda for each of those successive meetings so that we're kind of feeding information into the process as those things are being considered. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. So, I want to update the board on where we are with the mascot
033process and talk about that in context of some of the things that have been happening. So, as the board is aware, but I'll just recap for the per uh purposes of the public. In uh 2023, the state required school districts to retire mascots that had a Native American uh aspect to them. SAS had certainly had one such mascot in the Braves. The state required school districts to retire those mascots no later than the last day of the 2022 2023 school year. So that was uh June 30th of 23. Uh the board of education adopted a resolution in May of 2023 that retired the Sioset mascot. So school districts are not required to have a mascot, but recognizing that the absence of a mascot is not as enjoyable an experience for kids, school board asked us
034to work on the process of identifying a successor mascot. and we've been in the middle of that process and moving along with that. So, I certainly recognize that there's been a lot of activity around the mascot and the involvement of the federal government. So, I wanted to update uh the community and uh the board on where we stand right now. Nothing has changed in terms of the law that is in place in the state. So the commissioner's regulation 8NYCRR123 is still in place. It hasn't been repealed and none of the activity and discussion uh that has been going on has done anything to change that. So the school district is still under the obligation to comply with uh the regulations. So we'll continue and follow through on our process that the board assigned us uh
035to go uh through a community process of obtaining community public feedback and then ultimately uh identifying a mascot. But there's no way that we're going to have uh the ability to remove all uh uses of the existing mascot in time for the end of this school year. So the state's regulation also requires that every instance has to be retired by the end of this school year. Uh so that would be in just a couple of weeks. And obviously there are places, scoreboards, the end zone of the turfield that still use the Braves name and logo. So we're going to apply to the state for an extension. Uh my understanding is that the state has granted that extension to uh several other school districts and in order to grant the extension the state requires the school
036district to have demonstrated good faith compliance with uh the existing regulation. What does good faith compliance means? It means that we've made steps and progress along the way. So we certainly have made uh those steps in progress along the way. I don't anticipate that we'll be able to do the endzone project uh any sooner than next summer. And as part of our construction project, our construction consultants have advised us that it would be less expensive to do that turf project while we're doing other turf projects, uh, notably the softball and baseball infields at the high school. If we do those at the same time, there will be less mobilization, demobilization costs, and some economies of scale. So, we'll notify the state that we think that it's uh financially in our interest uh to delay that,
037and it'll take at least a year or so. will need to apply for um an extension for at least a year in order to get clear of that. Obviously, what I'm reporting is that the law hasn't changed and we're following the law as it exists. But if the law does change between now and then, certainly we will follow whatever new law is in place if there are changes. So, we'll remain attentive to whatever developments occur. uh whether they are from the current moment or if the state makes changes on its own initiative, uh we'll be attentive to that and we'll be in a position uh and have the agility to be able to respond to uh any of those changes up through the course of uh the the extension if the state grants it. And
038uh I'm optimistic that the state will grant us that exception. It was reported in the newspaper that uh other school districts have been granted exemptions uh extensions. So, I see every reason to believe that they'll grant us one as well. Um, excuse me. I'm I'm sorry. Um, there's going to be audience to the public later and if you have signed up, that's the chance for you to speak. And for now, it's for the board to continue with the meeting. Thank you. Okay. Are there any questions from the board for Dr. Rogers regarding mascot? Good. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Rogers. Okay. And moving along, um there are no legislative items and we have one discussion items and that's the Anispa area 11 director nomination. Um, Miss Shami Shamis uh Desiree has um she's been serving
039as the area 11 director for two years and then she's seeking reelection and we supported her two years ago and since the since she was elected as the director uh she has repres she's been uh representing the 56 school districts across Nassau County and served as the uh member of the resolutions committee of NISPA and uh just recently she served as the chairperson for the resolutions committee. committee as well. Um, and at this point, um, I would like to recommend that we, uh, as a board nominate Shamse. Um, and feel free if you have any comments or have anything that you would like to add. Okay, there will be a resolution uh later. Um, so we will do that uh later. Okay. Um there is no unfinished business and we are going to move to
040our new business and 11A is the approval of staff changes. Can I have a motion please? Um Mr. Rotolo seconded by Mr. Abramson. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? Several of those people in the audience if you want to just welcome. Oh okay. All right. Welcome to SASID. Do you want to say anything? Sure. [Applause] So I just want to uh I was under the impression that there are several members of the new members of the staff and I just want to welcome you to Sioset. I hope you have wonderful productive careers. Earlier tonight you saw that we celebrated folks who have been here for 25 years. Uh they are the foundation that gave uh Sioset uh its incredible uh program for students. You are going to be the future of
041that program for students. So, welcome aboard and do your best work. Okay. Um 11B and 11 C can be taken together and it's the appointments to the committee on preschool education and the appointments to the committee on special education. Can I have a motion please? Miss Falov seconded by Miss Levitan. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 11D is the appointment to the section 504 committee. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Rotolo, seconded by Dr. Park. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 11E is the appointment of summer guidance counselors. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Greo, seconded by Miss Falco. Are there any questions? All in favor? opposed. Any abstensions? 11F is the appointment of driver driver education personnel 2025 2026 school year. Can I have
042a motion please? Mr. Rotolo second by Miss Einson. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 11G is the appointment of the board of registration 2025206. Can I have a motion please? Mr. Quo seconded by Miss Falov. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 12A and 12B can be taken together. It's the approval of the committee on preschool recommendations and the committee on special education recommendations. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Rotolo, seconded by Dr. Park. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 12 C is the nomination of NISPA area 11 director. Can I have a motion, please? Miss Valov, seconded by Mr. Greco. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 11D is the first reading of new and revised policies 1741 homeschool
043students for 4526.2 to use of traditional and or generative AI 6240 investments 6700 purchasing 6700 point R 8113 extreme heat days 8130 school safety plans 8134 emergency closings 8334 school district issue credit cards 8410 student transportation services the second reading of stated policies will be during the July 1st 2025 board meeting set policy policies will be will be available for inspection on the district website. 12E is the approval of revised policy 2300 board of ad membership and policy 5150 school admissions. Can I have a motion please? Mr. uh Mr. Greo seconded by Miss Falov. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 12F is the cert certification of the May 20 2025 vote. Can I have a motion please? Mr. Rotolo, second by Miss Koshia. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed?
044Any abstensions? 12G is the approval of of the destruction of the May 21st, 2024 cast ballots. Can I have a motion, please? Miss Felco, seconded by Miss Levitan. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13A is the authorization of service contract. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Rotolo, seconded by Miss Abramson. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13B is the approval of special education and or nursing contracts. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Greco, seconded by Miss Levitan. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13C is the authorization to participate in the New York Island cooperative bid. Can I have a motion, please, Mr. Rotolo? Seconded by Miss Abramson. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13D is the award
045of bits. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Greco, seconded by Miss Falco. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13E is the award of bids for switch gear at SASET High School. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. G, Mr. Rotolo, seconded by Dr. Park. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13F is the award of transportation for pupils 2025 2026 school year. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Gleo, seconded by Miss Falco. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13G is the authorization to enter into agreements both builders risk and installation insurance. Can have a motion, please? Mr. Rotolo seconded by Miss Koshia. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13H is the authorization for insurance policies 2025 2026. Can
046I have a motion, please? Miss Levitan, seconded by Miss Falco. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13 I is the authorization of tax anticipation note resolution of SAS Central School District, New York. Can I have a motion, please? Can I have a motion, please? Uh, Mr. Rotolo, seconded by, uh, Miss Koshia. Are there any questions? Okay. And for this resolution, uh, we are doing a roll call vote. So, when I call on your name, please say yes or no. Uh, Miss Chen, that's yes. Mr. Greco, yes. Miss Ason. Miss Kosia, yes. Dr. Park, Mr. Rotolo, yes. Miss Falco, yes. Miss Levington, uh, Mr. Astrich is not present. Okay. 13J is the authorization to establish limit to fund budgetary reserves for year ending 2024 2025. Can I have a motion, please? Mr.
047Greco, seconded by Miss Falov. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? 13K is the disposable disposal of broken surplus and or absolutely equipment, supplies, and books. Can I have a motion, please? Mr. Rotolo, second by Miss Abramson. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. And now we are going to move to our audience to public. And please bear with me as I read the procedures. The board of ad values community input and provides opportunities to offer that input via email or in person. Persons who wish to speak during audience to the public must register online to speak in advance of the meeting by 5:00 pm the day of the board meeting. A link of the pre pre-registration form will be made available on the homepage on the district
048website one week before the meeting. Persons wishing to address the board in person doing audience to the public must conform to procedures adopted by the board. Speakers remarks must conform to the following rules. One, all speakers and observers are required to conduct themselves in a respectful and civil manner in accordance with the rules set by the board. Speakers must address the board only, not members of the audience or the audience as a whole. Speakers must limit their comments to issues concerning school district operations, school district affairs, or board of ad policy because of the rights protected by state and federal law. No speakers may speak about an individual student or staff member, nor will the board or administration entertain questions in public regarding collective bargaining, negotiations, personnel matters, student matters, or legal matters. Five. No
049speakers may speak about decisions involving specific personnel or specific students. If a speaker wishes to address the board concerning specific personnel or specific students, the speaker must write to the board. Six speakers may not use a slurs, personal abuse, lude, and absent speech. profanity, lielist speech, threat and fighting words or gestures defined as words or gestures which by their very utterance inflict injury or or tend to incite a breach of peace. Any person who violates the rules above will immediately forfeate the balance of their time addressing the board. To be recognized to speak, persons must register with their full name and and address to and attest that they will comply with the rules stated above. In addition, only residents of SAS Central School District are permitted to address the board. Each resident will have four
050minutes to address the board, which may be extended or reduced at the discretion of the chair. The board will not permit polling of the board members by speakers. After every resident wishing to speak has had an opportunity to do so, the board and or administration may respond to residents questions or comments. No residents will be permitted to address the board more than once per meeting. No one may record another members member of the public in a manner that is disruptive or confrontational. And with that, um, I'd like to, uh, call on, uh, Joseph De Biano. [Applause] Hello. Oh, shoot. Sorry. All right. So, I was just want to go like back to like the Braves name thing. Like I was just wondering like why Masipeka gets to keep their name and also like why did
051they fight so much harder than us? And like I feel like we just like accepted defeat and like oh yeah we don't get to keep the name anymore. Yeah. Excuse me. I just want to explain to you you have four minutes to address the board. So you can use all that four minutes and at the very end when the audience to public is finished when other people who sign up have had a chance to speak, they will address your questions. So if you want to continue to use your time, please do so. Yeah. So like I like I have a couple friends from and they all tell me how like all the board of education is always and especially like the like um I love Mr. just through our athletic director, but I've heard like
052their athletic director is also heavily in the fight for like changing their name and keeping their name for Massica. They were even like able to get like Donald Trump to like say something about it on Twitter and to the public. And I just feel like the like Sio in general, like as soon as we heard, oh yeah, the names are changing, we all just like, okay, names change. Like I feel like the Braves is such a historic part of Sioate in general. Not only the sports team, but the whole school. It's been our name forever. It has so much history. We have so many football traditions based off it. We have so many like lacrosse, like all sports lacrosse, even school traditions based off the Braves. And I just feel like it's kind of crazy
053just to give it up, especially I know many of my teammates have parents and older siblings that went to this school that had the Braves name and now they're getting rid of it. I have a younger brother and I want him to experience what it's like to be a Brave and I just think it's not fair that I get to experience that and he doesn't. And also like you know as a like some parents want their kids to experience like what it's like to be a brave like from what I've heard all the parents that went to sasid have great memories. They want to have their kids living here. I wouldn't mind having my kids living here in the future and I just want them to experience what it's like to be a real silent
054brave and I just feel like it's just not fair for you know us to change the name. Not only that is like and like I know other schools have also changed their name but I I heard from many people that they have fought even harder than anything from SAS. I've heard barely any news any updates from SAS they're trying to fight for our name. I just feel like they're pushing it aside. Obviously putting education first which is very important but I also feel like athletics is a big part of SAS. It's the most underrated part of SCAS. Everyone looks at Science as a as a um a smart school as an education school but I like to look at SAS as a great athletic school. We do we do amazing things with what we get.
055And I feel like we we're able to turn something little into something big every year for every sport. We're consistently in the playoffs for football, lacrosse, basketball. We've been consistently in playoffs. We've been consistently conference champions in um conference champions in basketball for like the past five years. Um big four champions in football, big four champions in lacrosse. And we just we have something building and we have a bright future ahead. And I just feel like we want to build on top of that with the Braves name. Not only that is um like I guess you go back to the history like I know like football traditions we do a big thing where we do like the Braves chant for warm-ups to do Braves chant after the PL after the um the the song. Sorry
056I'm blanking out right now. But we do like the the big um Braves chant after we do like I know lacrosse does like a big Braves chant too. Basketball with they used to do all they do all the Braves. Now, I noticed like basketball has been shying away from it because I feel like they're more scared to do it cuz like there's consequences to it, but I feel like there shouldn't be. Braves is not really a um like a a bad name. It's representing what we used to be like what used to be here, the people. And you could also interpret Braves as like Americans. Braves like we're we fought for the country. Like I know people that fought for the country. My uncle fought for the country. And I just feel like it's a
057great name to use for a team. Really shows American spirit, school spirit, and just spirit of the town in general. I know a lot of people here can agree is saying that we have done a lot. We have a lot of spirit inside us with the brave name. I just feel like we should keep it. That's it. Thank you. Okay, the next speaker uh you you you can take a seat. Okay. And the next speaker is Corey Wit. [Applause] Good afternoon. Uh, just be a little less rowdy. Uh, my name is Corey and last month myself and a group of families spoke to you about the district's implementation of policy 5150 when it comes to delaying kindergarten. Over the last few months, myself and several other families joined in on a group project that all
058of our high school teachers would be proud of. uh we not only proof read our work thoroughly, but we cited our sources as well. Uh and while I'm not trying to make light of the situation, we did take it seriously um with a lot of time and a lot of stress. And I would like to thank the district, the board of education, and the administration for listening to our concerns. Uh while I hope families like mine are granted the request to delay kindergarten enrollment based on their preference in the future, I appreciate the district's swift action to alleviate the immediate concern of our group and community. Lastly, I would like to publicly thank everyone up there who has made themselves available to speak with me over the last month. Uh, while I know rules of
059the board meeting state that I cannot name anyone individually, I hope everyone uh knows the gratitude my family has for seeing how the quote unquote system can positively work uh when we can have constructive conversations together. Thank you again for allowing us as parents to do what we think is right for our children. Thank you. The next speaker is Ramse Ahmed. Okay. Ramse Ahmed. Okay. Um Allison Saurin. Hi members of the board and SIASIC community. Um when I originally signed up to speak, I similar to Corey had concerns that I addressed at the May meeting um about policy 5150. Since then, some of my concerns have been addressed and I appreciate the board and administration for making this decision and alleviating some of my recent stress. Um, I hope the revisions to policy 5150 will
060allow future families to make similar decisions for what they think is in the best interest of their child. And if you are interested in hearing any parent or community feedback with regards to the current revisions, I welcome the opportunity. Thanks, Scott Castenbound. [Applause] Okay. Scott Castenbound. The next speaker is Tenant Louise. Good evening. Thank you for the time to speak today. Um, based on conversations I had this afternoon with member of the administration, I too was planning on speaking about 5150, but have no further comment. So, I yield the time back. Thank you. Okay. All right. So this closes the audience to the to the public and going back to this uh first speaker uh Joseph Deeco I totally agree with you that SASET is it's about academics and athletics and many other many more
061and with all the achievements that SAS has uh done in the athletic department as we saw uh 10 days ago at the uh winter uh student athletes recognition as well as today's uh spring athletes uh recognition uh we are very aware of that and as Dr. Rogers mentioned earlier uh we are going to uh stay uh attentive to uh the development uh both from the state and also uh from the federal government and then we will uh keep the uh community appraised when uh any decision that comes. Thank you. And Dr. Rogers Yep. I'll just comment that it's great seeing you take uh part in the democratic process having you here this evening. Uh the school district is a governmental body and the board of education is elected. you're expressing your opinions on a topic
062that is important to you. So all of this is exactly um this is a great civics lesson and I'm I'm grateful to see you participating. So I uh I don't have anything to add to what Miss Chang said except I would just correct one misimpression uh in the remarks which is uh it isn't that one school district is keeping their mascot and another is not. We're all subject to the same rules and we're all subject to the same enforcement mechanisms. So after the uh date the last day of this school year which is June 30th then what remains to be seen is what the state education department will do in terms of enforcement mechanisms. So uh they have laid out what the potential enforcement mechanisms are the removal of elected officials the withholding of funds
063to school districts. So they have made that clear in uh their guidance memos to us as school districts. And so, as Miss Cheng said, we're attentive to that. Um, and we're complying with the law, which is also a civics lesson in itself. Uh, but members of the public are certainly entitled to express their opinions about that law as it currently stands. And as Miss Chang said, we're going to be attentive to whatever developments and evolutions may occur uh during the course of the the coming year. And Dr. Rogers, could you please share that extension letter once it's sent to um to the state and then this way community uh knows that uh we have sent that letter? Of course. And we're planning on sending uh the request for an extension within the next couple of
064days or so. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Okay. And um this meeting uh is adjourned and uh we'll see you uh next month. If I don't see you, have a great summer. Thank you.