001e e e okay good evening everyone uh public meeting call to order in the auditorium of Southwoods middle school and it's the special meeting of the Board of Education and uh can I have a motion please uh M Lev 10 second about Mr asri are there any questions all in favor opposed any extensions and can everyone please stand for the pledge okay 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 thank you please take a seat okay and there are two resolutions and uh the first one is the authorization to participate in the nessle County consorti for transportation services can I have a motion please Dr Park second by Miss kosier are there any
002questions Mr asri Sure Dr Rogers can you give us a little bit uh detail about this uh resolution sure I'll uh do the high level overview and then I'll leave it to Dr rufo to get fill in some of the details so about uh 13 or 14 years ago NASA BOS recognized an opportunity to help school districts uh become a little bit more efficient by bidding out non-public school transportation runs the idea was if a bus from saset was on its way to shamad in minola and it was transiting through Jericho on the way it might be possible to just pick up a Jericho student and then have both Jericho and saset uh share the cost of the bus instead of both districts independently running their own bus to the same location so uh what
003happens is these uh the districts that participate in this Cooperative will share the routes that they're interested in bidding and then the bus companies or bosis itself can uh bid on those runs and if the pricing is favorable the Run might be awarded so uh we might see some favorable costs by um having more competitive uh bids for these individual runs and we might see some cost savings by seeing school districts share runs when most of the run is um going to the same place and you know there's an efficiency because because the bus is passing right through Dr rufo anything that I've missed no I think you you covered it all you're you're buying a seat on the bus as opposed to the entire bus okay all in favor you have more questions okay
004go ahead and Dr aers just to be clear this isn't in any way tied to a regionalization mandate or anything like that this is the kind of thing that cooperation and opportunity that we were able to Source on our own without any requirements from New York State correct this is um this was something that was created by the deputy Superintendent at Nassau bosis again I think it was about 13 or 14 years ago uh it went away during the pandemic because uh school districts were looking to have more social distance between students on buses so um and we also had contact tracing requirements so it was less attractive to put uh students from different districts on the same bus so it went away U nasau busies has resurrected it in this post pandemic World prior
005to the pandemic it saved school districts some significant resources and so it makes sense to continue doing this because it makes us more efficient and no it is not tied to the state's regionalization initiative it predates all of that okay thank you Dr Rogers all in favor opposed any extensions and 2C is the approval of intermunicipal Cooperative agreement between nesso Board of Ed Cooperative Educational Services in the SAS Central School District for procurement of puber Transportation Services can I have a motion please miss leviten seconded by Miss fov are there any questions all in favor opposed any extensions okay thank you everyone meeting adjourned