001good evening and welcome to the october 27th free village board of education meeting at this time i would like to entertain a motion to go into executive session to discuss personnel matters regarding tenure and contracts second all in favor on the agenda all in favor any opposed any abstentions okay motion carries thank you okay good evening everyone welcome to our october 27 2021 board of education meeting i'd like to please welcome riley meckley our liaison to the high school who will lead us in the pledge of allegiance please stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all i'm not signed in no i don't think i have to right
002there's no changes okay so number two uh there are no changes in the meeting agenda and you could do number three welcome everyone and and again i um also offer my apologies for um our lateness we are so excited to have everybody here this evening this is a very special opportunity for us to recognize our board of education our district clerk and our student liaison so um tonight um we are all joined together as a school community to acknowledge and honor our board of education trustees as you are all aware this is a position elected by the school community and one that does not bear any compensation or extrinsic reward however it is a position of great importance and the vitality sustainability and vision of our district is due in large part to their tireless
003dedication devoted concern and altruistic acts of service while our board of education is comprised of seven individual members they work in unison exemplifying the tenants of volunteerism and devoting superlative time and effort to enhance and promote the educational support and co-curricular services and programs offered to our district students while also balancing the fiscal responsibilities inherent within their role they are community leaders advocates and decision makers fervently responding to the needs of our community and serving in the best interests of all children with a resolute spirit they have guided and supported our district with integrity passion and an unwavering commitment it is one that one may aptly purport as a labor of love to each of our board members we extend our deepest gratitude for all that you so unselfishly give to each child staff member
004and community as a whole please join me in welcoming each of our schools and their respective representatives who have some words of praise and a gift for each of our board trustees our district clerk and our student representative we will begin this evening with the three village academy who will speak on behalf of all of our board members and i'd like it is my honor to introduce mr gus uber [Applause] oh i'm sorry if you could just go over to the podium on the other side yes thank you sorry all right hello everyone my name is kyle lewis and i'm a senior at three village academy tonight each school will be thanking a board of member for his or her service to the three village central school district and its community i am here as
005a representative of the students and staff from the academy to personally thank all of the board members and administration for their continued support of our school i know from personal experience that without the three village academy i would not be as successful as i am now so on behalf of all of us thank you i'd also like to thank my teachers hartman scripp and of course my principal mr huber for their support tonight and now i'd like to call up the other school to reckon recognize their board members thank you kyle we really appreciate that and now i would like to introduce um tanya horowitz who is the assistant principal at arrowhead elementary school [Applause] good evening everyone arrowhead is so grateful to all of our board members our superintendent cheryl and the cabinet members
006for all that they do for our students this evening we are honoring one special board member sharie lee tonight i am here with arrowhead student government leaders dan walsh and debbie kerlick they have chosen one of our fabulous sixth grade students sarah mccaffrey who will speak about showree lee sarah is not only a member of student council she is also a member of this science club and an avid soccer player since kindergarten sarah always has a smile on her face is well-rounded upbeat and works hard at everything she does she is a sweetheart of a girl and i could not be more proud to have her represent arrowhead sarah my name is sarah mccaffrey and i'm from arrowhead elementary school tonight we have the honor of recognizing our board of education we raise on sharon
007lee i was lucky enough to interview her and discovered about her job her family and what she likes to do for fun here are some highlights of our conversation miss lee joined the three village board of education this past year she is really enjoying her her experience so far she stated that she has gained a new view and understanding of our district and how it works miss lee said the most challenging part of being a board member is addressing the variety of differing viewpoints most situations present i conver i confirmed that miss lee does have a life outside of being a board of education member she works at the fermi national accelerator laboratory as a principal engineer and group leader involved in the quantum project she is also mentoring a warren melville student in this
008field her family lives in setocca and she has two children who attend nasa keg and ward melville for fun miss lee's family loves to travel they are looking forward to more adventures in the upcoming year miss lee is also an avid reader she has read the diary the entire diary of a wimpy kid series twice actually she loves books by professors in a variety of topics like thinking sleeping and behavior as you can see miss lee is an interesting and hard-working person as our interview wrapped up i remember the way to a board of education member is through their stomach so i asked her but point blank what is your favorite dessert she responded moon cake made with fresh pork sounds delicious in closing thank you miss lee for making a difference in our school
009district and in our lives thank you sarah that was lovely i really enjoyed our conversation i actually mentioned a book during our interview it was called sinking fast and slow it's by a winner of nobel prize um economics so i would like the native book to um arrowhead hopefully this will help every keep there [Applause] thank you arrowhead that was wonderful i now like to introduce miss nancy pickford from minnesota elementary school good evening on behalf of minnasaki i would like to thank the board for your continued support we appreciate all that you do this evening i have one of our fourth grade teachers ms lauren horn here with one of her outstanding students eliana yoon eliana started minnesotaki last year and she has proven herself to be an outstanding student who has worked hard
010to achieve her goals and always treats her classmates with kindness eliana interviewed our district clerk ms inger germano and she has a few words she would like to share in honor of ms gimano hi my name is eliana yoon and i am from minnesota and [Music] for all she does as district clerk mrs jorano had a really great childhood she grew up with her mom dead older sister and younger brother she grew up on long island in a very close community she explained to us that if one family is was getting ice cream all the neighbors were included her own parents helped in their community which made her feel comfortable and safe she was proud of her mom who volunteered to help children now she has her own two daughters they are junior and seniors
011at ward melville right now she knew she wanted to do the same she wanted to run for the board of education so she could help children too she knew that she could make smart decisions about how to spend money and be a voice for children she is now the district clerk she records the information from meeting meetings and is very confidential about it she loved that she could be a part of the team while not busy at work mrs janna keeps busy with her daughters and relaxes at the beach to take a mental rest we are so thankful to have mrs jorano and she told us she truly loves working on the board she loves giving children all they need to achieve their goals and dreams thank you mrs jorano [Applause] okay [Applause] thank you
012minnesaki it's now my pleasure to introduce her mount elementary school miss roseanne de bella good evening and mrs heidrick and i are so proud to be here with our fabulous student angelique lopito mrs galino who is her teacher unfortunately had a family emergency this evening and so asked me to just say a few words on behalf of her so i'd like to begin by saying i'm very honored to be here to introduce angelique i can't think of a more deserving student to be with us this evening angelique embodies all that mount school stands for angelique has a learner's heart and absolutely embraces learning in all its forms whether in science lab or during reading workshop her excitement during our school day inspires others to have a positive mindset toward learning she literally glows through her
013mask whenever she is sharing her thinking and encouraging others when they do the same her language when communicating with staff and students is filled with respect and admiration i am confident that when angelique was invited to interview miss bevlinka she put on her reporter hat and enjoyed every single moment that is just who she is please welcome angelique [Applause] hello my name is angela gloftow and i'm from mount elementary and i'm talking about the president of the board of education miss pavlinka for those that don't know her ms pavlenka is the kind and talented president of the board of education she has been the president since july of 2021 and before that for 10 years she was board trustee as a board trustee miss pavlinka basically did the same thing that she's doing now except
014for the fact that now she's one who runs all of the meetings miss pavlinka became president when the board got together and voted on leadership do you know who was chosen ms fablinka of course during her time on the board ms pavlinka made many amazing things happen she helped establish the step program as well as the pre-k program and one of her greatest accomplishments in my opinion is three village connection miss pavlinka helped create the three village connection she decided to make a group that was full of positive and important information now there are hundreds of three village residents in the group miss pavlinka loves her job because she gets to be involved with the district and all of the students aside from volunteering your time on the board ms pavlinko also has another job
015her position is director of corporate human resources she works for an aerospace company the reason why miss pavlenka loves her other job is because it is extremely diverse she hires handles the 401k all the health volunteer aspects payroll terminations safety training development and she needs to ryan endorse policies and procedures ms pavlinko also loves her other job because she is really involved with all of the employees it is very altruistic position she advocates for employees like she does for the students and staff and mrs bublinka has to protect the company as she does with the district she loves them both equally because they are both amazing in different ways miss blablinka's company is an aerospace manufacturer that makes parts for planes usually are military government officials on site that need to approve all of the
016parts that along with other things make her job very stressful it is a very fast-paced job which ms pablanca loves along with these two large jobs miss blablinka also finds the time to take care of her family she has two children and a dog miss leblanc states that her mother raised to right by teaching her that if there's a will there's a way and what you give is what you get as a child ms blinko went to ws mount elementary school then she went to rc murphree junior high and later moved on to ward medville high school miss wavlinko went to nassau community college and then went to earn her bachelor's degree online in elementary school she was a gymnast a cheerleader and a dancer her phys ed teacher at mount was miss pop when
017miss pavlinka was a sixth grader miss pop put on gymnastics showcase she wanted her to do a routine miss pavlinka says that that just built her confidence and that teachers make a huge impact in life miss blablinka's fifth grade teacher can't see your dance once you don't forget those special people she says to ms wavlinka it is very important that you stay a good person and if you see something bad happening you always stand up for what is right and if you are passionate you will do good to miss vavalinka uni is also very important but the most important things are positivity your personality and your attitude if you stay positive and do the right thing you will prevail always lead your own life go with your gut and follow your heart are some of
018the greatest words ever said and they are of course said by mrs wavlinka mrs bublinka is one of the most benevolent people i've ever met and i'm honored to have the pleasure of meeting her i have great deal of admiration and respect for miss pavlenka because she is a very caring and down-to-earth person she doesn't believe that she's better than anyone else and all miss blink is doing is helping others with the intent to make a difference in the world she deserves everything the world has to offer and i hope she gets it miss pavlink is a very amazing person and i aspire to be like her someday um you did a wonderful job thank you so much and here's a picture of mr lincoln in sixth grade you literally said everything we talked about
019everything wonderful i wish you much success and happiness and i think you're going to go very far in life like i told you after we uh we talked for some hours and i think that's going day thank you mountain angelique that was wonderful now it is my pleasure to introduce nasa keg miss heather levine good evening that's a tough act to follow on behalf of nasa keg we would like to thank the board of education for all your continued help and support we have with us tonight our assistant principal mrs ferrata our fabulous fourth grade teacher miss lavin and two of our wonderful fourth grade students here liliana culver and daniel robinson who will be speaking about our board of ed liaison jonathan cornreich hi hello everyone today i have with me my two wonderful
020students daniel and eliana liliana is a thoughtful and caring student she's an avid reader and writer and she's a wonderful asset to our classroom this is daniel daniel is a kind and motivated student and he loves baseball and loves to write about baseball and is a friend to all his classmates and makes a point to include everyone every day so um daniel why don't you come on up and you can start speaking first okay last week we had a privilege of interviewing mr jonathan cornreich a member of the three village board of education we learned so much about him mr cornrice lived in three village for 20 years he moved here from hot pog where he grew up he has two daughters that went to nasa pig and a morky named lucy he enjoyed playing
021equestrian tennis and skiing he also played the french horn and guitar and his interests include writing especially poetry he likes writing haikus sometimes he even writes his official letters in verse when he left montessori as president of the board he wrote a resignation letter and as a as a haiku the okay that mr coronach is most proud of is how strong and compassionate his daughters are he's able to work from home so he can be there for them all the time when we ask mr cornish what he loves most about the three village community he said it's history he said it's so interesting how there's this long history all the way back to the native americans and some families still live here you can see paintings from revolutionary times and indigenous people in a community
022many families still live here such as a strong family and a brewster family the history is still here mr coroners wanted to be on the board of education because he wanted to be involved in the process and stay involved with his kids kids came to natal cake his daughter for his daughters first went to montessori school in stony brook and he was on the board there and became the president he wanted to continue that and be involved in decision making in the three village school district when we asked mr cornwash what he wanted to be when he wanted to be when he grew up he said a lawyer like his dad but when he was in college he decided to go in business and started his own business he said the path we walk on
023reveals itself as we go he tries to do his best every day he chose his path because he loves traveling he has traveled all over the world he likes real estate and business opportunities and that is his passion the person who influenced him the most in his life is his dad they are very similar his dad is very smart and wise and he's the person he compares himself to he's a very honorable man thank you mr corner thanks for all you do for your community [Applause] thank you nasa keg that was wonderful i'd now like to introduce i'm from setaukit elementary school i'm miss karen mizell good evening it is a privilege to honor each of you this evening mrs nashua and i would like to introduce avani haridat and charlie catania along with newspaper
024club sponsor michelle cimini both charlie and ivani are very talented writers and speakers as you will see tonight we honor our board of education trustee and cetalket school liaison miss irene gish thank you everyone for all you do good evening i'm avani and this is charles we are sixth grade students from the soccer times newspaper club we are here this evening to honor mrs gish to the board of education liaison to talk at school in an interview with this talk at times mrs gibbs recalled the time when her daughter was in fifth grade and there were 30 children in one classroom she was not happy about this so she decided to run for the board of education mrs gish has been a resident of the three college community since 1974 where she and her husband
025have raised their two daughters even her grandchildren have attended three village schools mrs gish has served on the board of education for more than 20 years she was elected to this position in 1982 then retired in 1994 she ran again in 2011 and has served the community ever since before her work on the board of education mrs gish earned a degree in early childhood education from brooklyn college and a master's degree in liberal studies from stony brook university she also worked for sandy brook for 25 years as a head teacher for the university preschool she has a lengthy record of volunteering in the school's district she has participated in pta pto and various board related committees she's currently on the policy committee mrs gish says to be a good board member you have to attend
026board meetings and lesson you have to study the issues and care about the children one of mrs gish's most rewarding experiences in her work with our schools is working with our theater groups at the various secondary schools she has designed costumes for more than 30 musicals in our district mrs gish loves music but has never played a musical instrument her when she was a child she loved math and science her favorite activity was participating in the science club because she was able to do an independent research project and then presented in front of different classes when asked what advice would you give the children of our community mrs gish said my best advice is to get involved in the school and your community that helps students learn about different people and their activities that might
027give them ideas and when they pick a career thank you mrs gish for all the children of three village communities [Applause] okay so thank you so talk it that was wonderful and now um it is my pleasure to introduce miss corinne keene from jalina's junior high school good evening on behalf of mike janzen and the three uh julinas community we'd like to thank you for your service to the board of education i am very lucky here tonight to stand here with mr jansen uh we have our student government advisors mrs indelicato and miss cloonan and along with two students that are here to speak about our board liaison ms sue rosensweig so we are all too familiar with mrs rosenzweig because she has been a jelena's parent for over 10 years uh because her children
028consecutively went through there so we have um it's been a long time since we've gotten to know mrs rosenslag in many different roles and she has been there to support our building in numerous crazy amounts of ways that cannot even begin to say thank you for so uh we invited two students here to speak tonight kiefer stroup our student government president and someone that might know miss rosen swag a little good much much more than the rest of us her son jacob so jacob and kiefer hi my name is jacob rosensweig and i'm happy to speak about my mother and board of education vice president susan rosensweight she's been a resident of the three villa school district for 23 years this is her first year as a board of education member prior to her role
029on the board she has held numerous leadership positions within the district my mom grew up in westchester and moved to long island 28 years ago with my dad she has four children my two sisters who graduated from water level my brother a senior at war level and me a fresh michelinis junior high school my mom went to base college and received a bachelor's degree in english she then became a broadcast journalist and anchored at walk fm and news 12 before pausing her career to raise my siblings and myself becoming a stay-at-home mom allowed her the opportunity to work on behalf of three village students and become a leader within the community she was the board president of playgroup's preschool a girl scout leader a cub scout leader and has held various pta positions she was
030the pta president of talked elementary jalenis junior high school warren melville high school and the three village joint council of ptas over a decade ago miss frozen swag joined the joint family when her oldest daughter emma entered seventh grade miss rosensweges influen has influenced the jawinas community in immeasurable ways from plants and gardens to selling mentos in the school store miss rosensweig has become a very familiar face in the joint hallways in 2015 as a member of the jelena site-based team she presented the idea of bringing one book one school project to juliana's junior high school bringing this project to life has impacted the joyous community in ways beyond we could have imagined having the entire journalist community read life is good the story of burt and john jacobs in 2018 through 2019 brought optimism
031to our life within our school building chasing the bright side in 2020 through 2021 was just what our community needed to be reminded of that we are in control of writing our own stories in the midst of the most difficult circumstances miss rosenzweig has helped give our students that we've joined us some of the best memories they will have as their junior high school experience miss rosensweig prioritizes raising good citizens critical critical thinkers and human beings who feel an obligation to serve the needs of others as they work to develop into their best version of themselves she is a family oriented she is family oriented and student centered every monday she takes the time to facetime her daughters at the university of kentucky to make dinner with them in her spare time she loves to
032watch the bachelor in reading miss rosen miss rosensweig we wish you a wonderful year as you serve as the board of education vice president we look forward to having you as our journalist liaison thank you [Applause] thank you thank oh you you [Applause] that was great jalinas thank you it's now my pleasure to introduce dr brian visgary from murphy junior high school good evening on behalf of mr roofa and the entire murphy community we wanted to thank all of our board members for your continued service and support it's truly appreciated our liaison this year is mr vinnie vizso and we didn't have to do any research interviews plenty of people came forth with a lot of information and please know mr bizzo that that your laughter your voice and your spirit are still alive and
033well in the hallways of murphy junior high school we thank you so much for your service uh and all you've done to to build such a wonderful school um we'd like i'd like to introduce miss hill who is our co-advisor of our student government good evening it's my pleasure to introduce evangelina gomes she is a wonderful student and a very talented musician she is kind a welcoming presence for all new students and a joy to have in class she's an excellent representative of murphy junior high vinnie vizzo a three village resident since 1988 has been married to elsa for 43 years together they have two children who attended mount elementary murphy junior high school and ward melville their oldest son vincent is an orthopedic physician assistant and derek is an engineer mr vizzo began his
034career as a spanish teacher at queen of the rosary academy he came to julina's junior high school in 1985 where he began teaching spanish and theater arts eventually he was appointed chairman of world languages followed by assistant principal of murphy junior high school and ultimately principal of murphy junior high school mr vizzo remained in that position for 13 years and retired in january 2019 after 34 years in three village throughout his career mr vizo was an ardent supporter of the arts in our schools having directed the school musical at julianus for many years and then helping to support a robust theater department at murphy his legacy for so many students lives on today in addition to his work within the district mr vizzo has also worked as an adjunct professor of spanish at suffolk county
035community college and as an administrator in the diocese of rockville center's school system mr vizzo holds a bachelor of arts in spanish from saint joseph's college a master of education in spanish from st john's university and a new york state school administrator and supervisor certificate from new york university mr vizo was a proud recipient of the outstanding regional administrator award presented by the empire state supervisor and administrators association we are so grateful that mr vizzo continues to serve our community through his work with the board of education and that we have the opportunity to thank him publicly for all he has done for three village and especially for murphy he has often been heard expressing that students and their needs should be at the very heart of the school and he is a shining example
036of continuously living that philosophy thank you mr vizza [Applause] thank you appreciate it take a picture thank you murphy that was wonderful i would now like to introduce last but not least of course word melville high school mr bill bernhard good evening everyone we're honored to recognize someone who's been our board liaison many many times here at ward mobile high school dr jeffrey kerman and tonight we have cameron baum art teacher and yearbook advisor along with riley meckley our student body president and board of education liaison riley from the public perspective dr kerman appears to be an ordinary man sitting as one of our board education trustees however he is so much more and has done some extraordinary things to start off dr kerman has served two years as a captain in the army he
037is married to maryland and have been living in setalkit for over 40 years they have two sons alex and matthew who are both ward level alumni both kids were very involved in sports and even went on to continue their athletic career in college dr kerman loves supporting our school district through our athletic program each board meeting he asks if i'm speaking about high school sports dr kerman always keeps track of our school's teams on newsday and he knows all the stats about which teams are going into playoffs and which are undefeated dr kerman received his bachelor's from tulane university and his masters at the university of pittsburgh he has been practicing dentistry for over 50 years and is a member of the american dental association dr kerman is dedicated to his profession as he is
038the founding member of the suffolk county dental dental society and the bronx county dental society currently he practices in miller place and new york city not only is dr kerman devoted to his profession but he is also motivated to help the next generation be the best dentist they can be for 20 years dr kerman has sat as the treasurer on the non-profit nyaca corporation that is an organization which helps dental students while they are in school even with all these accomplishments dr kerman makes it a priority to serve his community he has served on this board of education for nearly 20 years and he has been appointed to the distant citizen budget committee serving as its chairperson to me dr kerman represents the model citizen he is successful in his career has raised a wonderful
039family and works to improve our school district every day i think everyone can learn from dr kerman's dedication and enthusiasm to help others thank you dr kerman [Applause] thank you very much and again [Applause] now i have the opportunity the esteemed pleasure of introducing someone we listen to every time we have a board meeting riley meckley and i remember seeing riley meckley at her jalenist moving up ceremony years ago and thinking that this great orator will be an amazing teacher and leader one day riley has made significant contributions toward melville through her involvement in student government and the patriot league a natural leader riley is exceptionally proud of her leadership positions at ward melville student government president and the patriot league president riley's spirit tenacity and active roles in her community have earned her the
040steadfast respect and admiration of every teacher counselor and administrator in the district riley spent countless hours organizing events meeting with administrators and doing everything in her power to make a positive impact on ward novel high school riley designated researched and implemented the hometown heroes wall this wall displays ward melville graduates from the last 50 years who served in the military riley also organized war melville's first ever homecoming dance she shared that she strives to create a welcoming fun and accepting environment that everyone can enjoy and makes memories of riley's optimism and positive attitude are infectious to everyone around her it is rare not to see her visible whether it's in the hallway organizing after school events or participating in community events to riley being visible is essential and allows students to approach her with questions
041or concerns about our wonderful school i would be remiss if i did not share riley's passion for her community's legislation riley's leadership qualities go beyond the classroom as she is an integral member of her community for instance within the american legion auxiliary riley was appointed as the new york state junior president new york state senator girls national senator national convention distinguished speaker speaker suffolk county girl state representative and the national american legion junior vice president an avid and talented public speaker riley has participated in various national speech contests she has won over nine speech contests throughout the past two years and has placed in the top three contestants for the new york state american legion rhetorical contest additionally riley often serves as the keynote speaker in numerous events riley is also an active member of
042her local government for instance she serves as the three village board of education representative as you know suffolk county legislative team task force member and the town of brookhaven youth board member recently riley provided a speech at the american legions national convention the largest meeting in phoenix arizona this is just one example of riley's dedication to shaping our nation's future riley's position as the girls nation senator allowed her to gain insight as a politician in washington dc this event flew out two representatives from each state she shared that this experience allowed her to gain perspective of different u.s backgrounds perspectives and cultures can you see this is just the beginning for riley meckley the sky is the limit for this fantastic student congratulations [Applause] excuse me mr bernhardt i'd just like to add something as
043a uh long-time member of the american legion i'm especially happy to inform everyone that in addition to everything you just mentioned riley was named the national uh the american legion auxiliaries national junior member of the year uh in addition to speaking at the annual national convention in phoenix uh part of the service that she did to uh to deserve that uh included collecting and delivering food to veterans throughout the pandemic playing bingo with veterans collecting and donating uh paperback books and as anybody who knows anything about the military everything has to have a name and that was known as operation paperback uh she also spent a year and a half collecting coupons to send to american military bases around the world uh and that has saved active duty members and their families more than twenty
044thousand dollars so thank you the last time you took a picture with me i was elmo and you didn't even know it so just keep that thank you riley thank you mr bernhard mr carlson i want to thank everyone here this evening all of our students our staff members our administrators for coming and celebrating our wonderful board of education district clerk and student representative we know it's a late night and if you would choose to leave at this point we will not be insulted of course you are welcome to stay but thank you for making this night so memorable [Applause] start right ready okay good evening everyone so we're gonna ask for a little patience this is going to be our first meeting that we are using utilizing board docs uh we were all trained
045but it's our first time so i'm not trying to jinx anything but just please be patient because who knows what's going to happen but we're going to get through this i promise and we're going to get better every time so the next item is number four reports riley meckley student representative report good evening everyone a lot of clubs have been getting ready for trick-or-treat street although key club organizes this event many kids participate many clubs participate it will take place this friday from 4 to 7 p.m outdoors we encourage elementary aged kids to come and walk the perimeter of the building they will be halloween decorations as well as prizes and candy being handed out to kids again it is this friday from 4 to 7 and kids should come wearing a costume this week
046many of our varsity teams have entered their playoff season including boys and girls soccer boys and girls cross country girls volleyball field hockey football swimming and tennis a lot of games were rescheduled because of the storm yesterday but we wish our athletes the best of luck this saturday weather permitting ward melville's patriot league club is hosting a car wash at the high school all donations go to veterans and they hope to see members of the community there it will be from nine to one in the morning so feel free to come and get your car clean currently a lot of seniors have been working very hard this week because the first deadline for college applications is november 1st the past few weekends have been filled with filling out applications some students have already started to
047hear back from schools which has been very exciting that's all i had to report for today thank you [Applause] riley i just want to just thank you so much for all you're doing for the military and the veterans it's really appreciated and well noted and keep up the great work as usual you're welcome and i guess i'll take this time to say for anyone watching at home too thank you for your service and mr carlton over there thank you and dr kerman i learned that you were a captain in the army thank you too and kevin scanlan oh i didn't know that thank you as well very nice okay item number five items for board discussion for jeff where's that at the end okay uh ms billing i just have one thing i'd like to
048mention regarding the our child nutrition program due to covert 19 school child nutrition programs around the country have been facing supply chain disruptions including cancellations of orders uh food uh product shortages um uh increased food and supply costs um and so that's wreaked havoc among uh child nutrition programs so we're doing the best we can but i just want to make sure everybody knows who i think dr lee would ask the question about that last last time any issues that we're having with our food service program are related to that the supply chain uh problems that that have been caused by coven has nothing to do with uh everybody getting free lunch now in fact we it's not that we're giving the launch for free the federal government is paying for everyone's lunch so we're
049still getting the money for the lunches and uh our um child nutrition program is accounted for in our school lunch fund which is outside the general fund so being on contingency budget has nothing to do with with it either so uh we will continue to do the best we can hopefully things will uh start to loosen up as the year goes on and there everyone is very appreciative of the usda doing that for a second year in a row so now we're going to start with letter m the letter a under six under items for board action yes this is the affiliation agreement with stony brook university for the school of health and technology management we're taking uh student teachers from this program so we're it's our first vote with board docs so can i
050please have a motion but i don't i don't see it on the screen okay you should now see it on your screen you see it no yeah did you get a pop-up no you should have gotten pop-up scroll down there's nothing to scroll on here here there's nothing to scroll pull this bar down a little oh that oh and dr kerman do you see yours okay i just need you voted no come back in the main field i don't see yours there you go and diana just waiting on hers it's figures all right slide down to six idea while we're waiting anger i'll say thank you very much for all the work that you did yes new system this is really going to be very helpful in making sure that transparency maybe i i pulled
051it up too soon so thanks for really coming in a little bit more i want to thank alan because alan uh helped me through the entire process he got more chocolate gold stars than i did allen over jima but no he was a great help and you know as a team effort and i you know i think it's going to be very you know it's going to be a great platform mine's broken well you can enter her photo yeah i can hide it see it's all right there no it's all there where's the stuck carlos and just so everyone knows next week on the next board meeting you'll be able to see it live on the screen as they vote and what the actual vote the voting outcome was can you manually enter me it
052really is broken yes okay so be affiliation agreement with state of uh state university of new york school of social welfare mr scanlon what did you do you did all three you just did that one i have be using the next one letter c response to intervention academic intervention plan 2020 it says c on mine i don't know it's okay this is just the approval of our annual plan for response intervention and academic intervention services so this after the board approves it goes to the state education department okay we have to wait finger right cast your vote i can't but you can yes of course oh next week okay approval of addendum to contract an outside service provider for special educational services mr scanlon no no that would be me um this is an addendum
053to a contract with a therapy company that we use to add some certain evaluation services to the contract okay nothing's coming open yes it's not working okay letter d bid jeff carlson uh included in the uh 2020 school budget capital project section of the budget was the installation of a generator at woodmobile high school that would power the entire building uh as we've done with all of our other buildings this is the last one to do and uh we were waiting to go out to bid till uh the price on this kind of thing came down a little bit which it has now uh so uh we put it out to bid we've got a number of um bids in and we're happy to report that it's uh a couple of hundred thousand dollars below
054what we had budgeted uh from a contractor with a good reputation that our architect has worked with before and the recommendation is to award this bid to them uh the installation of the generator itself probably wouldn't take place till probably next summer earlier if we can but probably not until next summer emotion second any questions or discussions cast your vote that's okay take it okay yes for me motion passes technical question about the stuff yes sir can we change the default from abstain to what do you yes do you mean yes well i'll i'll check on that if that's what the default coming up is that's what do your defaults are so just for this um this meeting since it's not up on the screen like we we're it's going to be in the future
055if we could just we'll raise our hands to so the public can see if you're yes or no or abstain i was here it's just the name right okay okay hold on one sec okay okay okay so we're up to e appointment of construction manager mr carlson uh this is uh to appoint the school construction consultants as the construction manager for the uh generator installation project we've used sec for a number of years on a lot of our on most of our projects uh and they do an outstanding job can i have a motion i have a question about any questions there you go thank you um so this this contract is for 61 000 for construction management for the installation uh to oversee the installation of a generator correct can you describe the scope
056of that project sure it's the uh um well it's it's not just plopping the generator down plugging it in uh it's redoing the electric to accept the generator um uh the actual it's it's not like a generator i mean it has to get be installed uh in place it's removal of the old generator uh making sure everything is uh connected properly is working properly and it's based on a percentage in accordance with nassau boces contract a percentage of the construction cost what's the what's the cost of the underlying project uh the construction cost that was just approved million well 1 million one hundred seventy three thousand okay uh for more in-depth uh discussion of uh what the construction manager service would involve i would uh respectfully ask you to allow me to bring the uh
057our architect in to describe that more because he could describe it a lot better than i could if you'd be more comfortable with that what what does the board feel would you like to vote or would you like to put it on the next meeting i need four four of yes or no sherry do you want to vote now or next next meeting huh looks like we we need more information about us jonathan do you want that's up to you no i'm ok i'm okay with it okay done done i'm okay and we're good okay thank you terrific can i please have a motion and we already did the questions and discussion cast your vote uh and what we could do also just here for the next facilities committee we can have the architect explain
058it then sherry and jonathan i'm waiting on okay motion passes letter f acceptance of donations mr carlson uh we have one donation uh for nine thousand dollars from the um three village stem enrichment foundation and it's going to be split up among the jalenas murphy and ward melville science olympiad allied funds and also the ward melville robotics fund and woodmobile math allied fund absolutely fantastic i think they do that every year right yes we uh yes they provide a lot of they raise a lot of money for yeah can i have a motion please any questions or discussion did you get the pop-up okay good cast your vote okay letter g declare declaration of surplus equipment uh this was from a lot of clean-out work that was done over the summer in all of our
059buildings it's um some musical instruments um phys head equipment uh among other things uh all in either unusable unsafe condition and uh be under there i just have a quick question who determines that the piano or music director okay so that's just for music for for for other things if there's a specific person yeah we'll be like the athletic uh director would determine any of the uh phys ed equipment um music director for all of the musical equipment and in some of the cases for the musical equipment for instance so they'll uh either send it out or have someone come in and determine okay the cost to repair it would be whatever and then a decision will be made either yes it's worth repairing or it would cost us more to repair uh than it
060would be to access it and and purchase new excellent thank you can i have a motion please so moved second any questions or discussion we i are we he wants to vote like verbally yeah as soon as oh here we go yes well okay so all in favor okay um hold on i'm trying okay did it work okay can we see how many yeses and those when it comes in just so you know yeah totally up to you absolutely age declaration of surplus textbooks jeff carlson uh we have uh mostly health uh some science and world language uh textbooks all uh in outdated uh series series can i have a motion please so moved second any questions or discussion go what do we do you asked this question now six months and yeah this question
061comes up a lot and the problem with it is textbooks are heavy and the cost to ship them anywhere is is tremendous uh so we would be glad to donate this them to somebody who could use them but the problem is getting them there um and we've when we've had this discussion in the past it was well we don't want to bear the cost of shipping them to someone and we have yet to find somebody who wants to pay to have them shipped to them uh in some cases they're not it's not like they're in great condition uh mostly they're pretty beat up they're torn pages spines are broken but we would be glad to donate them to somebody who could use them but we we gen yeah or put them in for paper recycling
062okay so we're up to cast your vote or yeah all in favor okay okay seven yes zero no motion passes letter i personnel items instructional mr dubrusky yes so um we are fairly light in terms of that part of the agenda since we had a meeting two weeks ago but we do have um at least one resignation of a nurse that we are looking to fill at this point and we have the appointment of eight coaches and several clubs in the elementary school including at the net safety and the school newspapers excellent can i have a motion please um any questions or discussion okay wait we could do the old camera verbally cast your vote okay seven yes and zero no motion passes letter j personal items non-instructional mr dubrusky yes um so this has
063the typical resignation of employees we have um a security guard an sca and a lunch monitor resigning in addition we have the appointment of several non-instructional subs including sca's and a nurse we have the appointment we have an appointment of our new network and systems specialist one to fulfill our current vacancy and we have a status change of our head custodian etc who is moving from active to permanent status can i please have a motion second second any questions or discussion all in favor okay voting is open okay cast your vote we're a little slow compared motion passes okay we're getting there this is this is like so good and the next two are on a consent agenda so they could be moved together okay recommendations of committee on special ed subcommittee and accommodation 504
064plan meetings of can i have a motion any questions or discussion all in favor any opposed just realized i haven't been saying that okay voting is open seven yes zero now motion passes 7b recommendations of committee on preschool special ed meetings of you move them together i did okay no idea good very good okay so we're gonna do items of interest oh so these are okay does anybody have anything nope okay so i just have a couple things um all american high school film festival so we're happy to announce that a senior from last year's 2020-21 advanced video production class isabella klug was a finalist in 2021 all-american high school film festival in the category best atlantic records custom music video with her song michelle that she submitted last year we are very excited for
065isabella and her teacher lisa capiello congratulations and the next one is daring to dig women in paleontology the museum of earth and wks wskg a public broadcast system in binghamton new york are hosting a virtual panel on october 27th tonight at 7 p.m it's past geared towards middle high school girls their families and educators this panel this panel of eminent women will share their experiences inspiring the next generation of girls to pursue careers in science and paleontology mr peter shuckman who's wonderful science chairperson of salinas junior high school requested to share this with our district science staff to make our families aware of this unique event but we missed it but anyway that was fantastic that he uh he did that um anybody else have anything to say nope okay so i'm going to read
066a statement just of information we're trying to give information so when there's questions we try to answer the community when we can so the board is in receipt of correspondence from a member of the community questioning if the district's current public participation policy which prohibits at the moment public discussion involving individual students staff and board members violates the open meetings law and its and is improper i want to ensure assure the public that all policy changes of the board of education are reviewed by our legal counsel prior to being implemented by the board of education further we have sought an opinion from the committee on open government the organization was general was generally overseas and advises school districts on open meetings law freedom of information law and personal privacy protection law in addition to receiving
067an opinion from our legal counsel that the district's policy is legally sufficient as written the committee on open government has expressly advised the district in writing that the current policy language prohibiting public discussion involving individual student staff and board members is legally permissible that being said as discussed during the october 13 2021 board meeting upon further consideration the board of education will be considering at its november 10th policy meeting an amendment to its public participation policy to permit discussion by the public about individual board members and the superintendent so beginning over november basically after we have our policy meeting beginning november 17th the november 17th board meeting after a unanimous vote the public will be allowed to speak about members of the board and the superintendent so we just wanted that to be clear that
068the community understands that the board of education anywhere cannot just make policy and not run it through legal counsel everything goes through legal counsel for approval before we bring it to the board and then proceed to vote and so on you know on a somewhat related matter i'm just curious i haven't read the i haven't read the most recent um contract that we have with our law firm but are we is uh attendance at school board meetings part of the retainer yes it is okay so oh so there's no there's no cost there's no additional cost uh for us to have attorney president okay thank you anybody else have anything they'd like to say okay so then without further ado that has concluded our business meeting we're going on to the public participation we have
069two who's first ah christy christie mcguire hi christy good how are you christie mcguire arrowhead i just have a couple of questions where did the idea go that board meetings should be an open forum with questions and responses was that just said to throw us a bone prior to the budget re-vote why don't we receive google form surveys to gauge the feelings of the entire community on district issues why is a district not advocating for local control over unnecessary mandates speaking of masks why were we told mask breaks would be frequent and consistent for our children they aren't either one particularly at the elementary level why are students being asked to provide their personal cell phone numbers to the district before parents are notified of this request and are able to discuss the privacy concerns
070and sensitivity of this request with their children why are we as taxpayers left in the dark on so many important issues and decisions taking place in three village more and more people in three village are considering homeschooling myself included for someone who teaches public school that's pretty staggering people are becoming increasingly frustrated with lack of transparency and communication in three village we were once functioning proactively in our district functions reactively it's time to start an open dialogue about how we get the district back to where it once was that requires communication if you truly stand for your mission statement where three village makes decisions in concert with its families that needs to start including all families you aren't working for a fortune 500 company here where the bottom line is money your bottom line should
071be about people not funding you have a tremendous responsibility to the young people in our district and that includes a responsibility to the families they belong to so when do things change thank you okay i'm going to try to get it right i know i got it wrong last week two weeks ago sue wallhurt waller thank you my name is sue wallert i live in east to talk it good evening board of ed meeter members and ms pedesic tonight i would like to discuss the three village diversity equity and inclusion committee i will once again refer to dr terence roberts who the district hired as a consultant to the dei committee his advice to those who want to create change in their communities is simple and i quote start treating every other person in the
072universe as your peer not looking up to anybody not looking down to anybody seeing everyone on eye to eye level and accepting the differences that you see end quote the diversity equity and inclusion committee in three village school district was formed in response to a request from new york state while i appreciate community members who work together to create and transfer information to the community at large i must state that the only way i know what is happening with this group is through the website i no longer have a child in the district this past august a list of recommended books was posted in the dei resources section of the website i was a bit taken back by the lurking bias of some of the books which were listed this list was conveniently taken off
073the school website after a few of us published it on local facebook pages i was told by a board member that and i quote periodically the list will be taken down so it can be reviewed and updated based upon recommendations and input from the committee i question where this list came from and whether the board members and committee members had read these books the list continues to be missing from the page i purchased one of the books recommended for 5th to eighth graders what is white privilege by ericsson and wing from the pages of this book and i quote if you are a white person reading this there are several steps you can take to end white privilege first understand that white privilege isn't good for anybody it does not feel good to have a
074lot of things that you didn't earn when other people's people don't get to have those same things end quote this message is for a 10 year old in essence this breaks down images of self empowering children should be the goal no one is a winner within this paradigm of thought when dr terence roberts spoke to the elementary dei committee he repeatedly stressed the importance of sense of self and pride in self does this book or a book like this create pride in self or create separation and self doubt i am looking to the dei committee to improve communication with the committee community through creating a more easily navigable site using carefully thought out ideas thank you your time is up please know i am watching and listening thank you can i have a motion to
075adjourn second second all in favor good night thank you very much