001Good evening. Today is Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. This is the reorganizational meeting of the board of education. May I have a motion to open the meeting? Peter Scott. The board will now convene to executive session. May I have a motion to convene executive session? I think you need an all in favor to open the meeting. All in favor on opening the meeting. Uh okay. Uh the motion to convene executive session. Peter Allison. All in favor? Thank you. And we will return after executive session. Good evening. We are resuming the meeting of the board of education. This is the reorganizational meeting. We have closed executive session and we will resume. Would everybody please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
002which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we're now going to proceed with the oath of office for our newly elected trustees. Start with you, Mr. Campana. Please repeat after me. I, Lewis Campana, I, Lewis Campana, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear to support the Constitution of the United States to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. and that I will faithfully discharge the duties and I will faithfully discharge the duties of trustee for the board of education of the Tuo Union Free School District of the Tuo Union Free School District town of Eastchester town of Eastchester County of Westchester County of Westchester state of New York State of New
003York according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability and Mr. Abrams. Oh, there you are. I'm in it. Okay. I'm going to administer the oath of office for your trustee position. Please repeat after me. I, Joel Abrams, I, Joel Abrams, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear to support the Constitution of the United States to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Const Constitution of the State of New York. and that I will faithfully discharge that I will faithfully faithfully discharge the duties of trustee the duties of trustee for the board of education for the board of education of the Tuo Union Free School District Free Union School District town of Eastchester town of Eastchester County of Westchester County
004of Westchester State of New York State of New York according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability Thank you. Okay. Now, we'll move on to the nomination and election of a board president. May I have excuse me, I'm sorry. May I first ask the board for a nominee of the position of president? I'd like to nominate Allison Howerin. Okay. Second. Okay. All in favor? Congratulations, Allison. I would now like to call a motion to nominate a board vice president. Scott Beetti. Scottetti. Any second? Second. Second. All in favor? Congratulations, Mr. Pagetti. Thank you. I will now turn the meeting over to Mr. Howerin to continue the meeting. Alison, come sit over here. Come sit. See you. Congratulations. So, Robin, do I need to do these oats for president? I
005was going to do that after. Okay. How about for you for district? Yeah, that has to be. Okay. Okay. Bear with me a little bit. Um okay. So um resolved that the board of education of Tuo Unifreeze School District upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools appoints Robin Dunn to the position of district clerk for the 2025 2026 school year at a stipen of 13,745. I have a motion Pete second. Second, Scott. All in favor. Robin. Yes. Repeat after me. I, Robin Dunn, I, Robin Dunn, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear to support the Constitution of the United States to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of
006district clerk and I will faithfully discharge the duties of district clerk for the board of education for the board of education of the Tuo Union Free School District of the Tuo Union Free School District Town of Eastchester County of Westchester State of New York Town of Eastchester County of Westchester State of New York according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay. Um, so now we're going to start with comments um by the board. Uh, why don't we go down the line? You always did this to me. This is an odd This is an odd view. This is an odd view for me, but I like it. I don't I don't mind the view from here. It's not too bad. Um, uh, well, just really excited about starting off a new school year.
007We have a new team up here. Excited about that. I think one thing that's being a little bit lost in the shuffle that's really, really important is we have a brand new superintendent sitting right here. uh it's his first day today and uh I know I'm super excited about about his arrival and about the direction he's going to take us in. So very very happy about that and welcome to our new board members. Welcome Joel, welcome Lewis and welcome to our new officers. Um so yeah, great start to a new year. I'm excited. Thank you. Yes. And thank you all and welcome Ben. Your first day. Congratulations Allison Scott. Um I'm looking forward to this school year. I'm excited. It's a brand new year. It's a brand new, you know, somewhat new board. I must
008thank Pete, you know, and Allison for the pass and Scott and our, you know, past two trustees that left, Laura and, uh, your TZ. They were, you know, I didn't have the opportunity to speak, but I just very proud of what they've done over their tenure with the school district. And, uh, and I'm looking forward to, you know, a good school year. And you know, best of luck to everybody. I'll go. Yeah, sure. Um, hello everybody. Hope everybody's having a great summer so far. Congratulations to all uh the graduates. Uh, prek Al and I attended the kindergarten graduation with faith. The cutest cutest graduation we've ever seen. It was uh was it was great to be at. um 8th grade uh sorry middle school 8ighth grade and uh high school congratulations. I want to thank
009uh I didn't get a chance to go live and thank TZ and um Laura Banky for their service on the board for many years. Um it was great working with them. I I learned a lot from both of them. Um and I want to truly say thank you to both of them for their time of service. Thank you to Pete Kassen from the president of this board for the last five years. learned a lot by working with Pete and uh congratulations to Allison of course and welcome Joel and and Lou and most importantly um want to welcome Mr. Roberts here for a very successful tenure here at Tucko for a new beginning uh we're excited to have him um just on that front he's Mr. Mr. Robert's been involved in the principal search which was
010fully underway right now hopefully somewhat final steps we will keep you posted or Mr. Mr. Roberts will keep you posted on that. Um, also director of curriculum. Uh, we're going Mr. Roberts is going through that with another committee. So, we're excited to kick off the new year in a couple of months with um with great new beginnings as I say. So, we're excited. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Just say uh thank you to uh to the entire community um and thank you to uh the previous board. Uh, I'm looking forward to building on what was done over the past several years. Uh, I think we're going to have a great opportunity to do that. Um, I want to congratulate Allison Allen on uh, board president and Scott Bogetti on vice president. Looking forward to working
011with each and every one of you and uh, and Mr. Roberts. Looking forward to working with you and believe we're going to have a good time here on this board. Uh, do some wonderful things for the our community. Thank you. Okay. Um, I would just like to welcome Joel and Lewis um to the table. Um, it's going to be a great year and I'm really looking forward to working with both of you. Welcome also Mr. Roberts. I'm very excited for this year and to see everything that we can accomplish together. Um, thank you to Laura and TZ and Dr. Goodman for your years of service to the community. Congratulations to all of our graduates. Um, sorry. Oh, am I not on? Oh, I have to go close closer. Yeah. Um, okay. So, start over. Um,
012thank you Jolan Lewis and thank you Mr. Roberts and um, thank you to Laura and TZ and Dr. Goodman for all of your service to the community. Congratulations to all of our graduates. Um, and may your next part of your journey be a success. Um, I also would like to thank um, Mrs. Pinto and Mrs. Nicollettos for all of the effort and hard work that they put into all of the graduation and end of the year events. Um it's, you know, there's so much that they do. The awards night, um the academic awards nights, the senior scholarships awards and all the work that leads up to that. um the athletic awards, the graduation ceremonies, especially this year having to last minute switch the high school um to indoors because of the heat. I mean, they
013did it seamlessly. They put an enormous amount of effort into it. Um I know sometimes as a clerical worker um you're often overlooked and you are not overlooked by me. I really appreciate all of the work that you guys put into it. um as well as our business office staff who's always busy making sure that everything is paid for and all those scholarship checks are cut. Um and I'm just really thankful to the board for nominating me to be president. Um I'm excited about it. Thank you, Pete. I have large shoes to fill. Um I may often forget the how things are going to go and may need you to step in. Um And that's it. I'm really excited about this year and um a new beginning. Thank you. Awesome. Okay. Thank you, Madam President,
014and congratulations to you and our vice president. Um it's it's an honor and privilege to be here at Tuo. It seems like uh many months ago, which it was in April when it was initially appointed, and I want to extend my appreciation to the board uh for that appointment and that trust as your superintendent of schools. and these past few months uh getting to know several stakeholder groups and and the the great community that exists here has truly been a blessing. Uh today was my first official day here at Tahoe and uh we're underway with some interviewing and getting to know some candidates for some important positions I'll get uh into a little bit but just I wanted to congratulate also uh Laura Banki and Theres Gardier as the outgoing trustees uh did an excellent
015job at service to the board for many years. So, thank you for your leadership and dedication. And to our oncoming trustees, uh, Mr. Abrams and Mr. Kangas, it's a pleasure to be on the board to to work with you. Um, and I look forward to providing the vision for the district in the upcoming months. Uh, working with the board on our strategic plan and many other goals and initiatives that sense. So, little update about just some of the work that I've been a part of um, the last few weeks. Been able to come to the district quite a bit working with the administrative team, all different stakeholders. We've got some important leadership positions that we're working on and we're very excited about. We've had a stake stakeholder committees that we've been um going through for
016the principal position and in addition for the director of curriculum instruction and technology. Uh prior to that, we was I was fortunate enough to be a part of the interview process and the board appointed last week uh who she's here tonight the uh director of special education um Mrs. Ed Deutsch. So congratulations and welcome on your first day as well. So very pleased to have you here. a little bit. Um July 1st is always a significant day in the school world. It s signifies the closing of a successful 24-25 school year. Our graduates were just uh honored a few few days ago last week and now we're starting to turn the page for this upcoming school year which is very exciting. It's also a lot of work. So kudos to the business office. I know
017they're doing a lot of closeouts and uh finalizing purchase orders for the previous year and getting ready for us this year. And it's a great time for the administrative team to start to uh move forward and start the planning for next year. Um and whether it's hiring teachers, other support staff uh so that everybody comes back in September and the entire district is ready to receive our students and families with great success. So I look forward to that journey with all of them. Um and congratulations to our graduating seniors here at Tuck. I had the privilege of attending the event. It was actually very memorable. Um I know the weather didn't cooperate for the traditional outside ceremony. Uh but the indoor one was just as beautiful and uh kudos to the the organizers, the adviserss
018uh and the families to enjoy the students there. It was really a unique uh very quaint and intimate setting and I think it's something that um I will remember seeing it for the first time and being a part of it next year. It will be very memorable as well for that. So uh little more information on our hiring procedures. Um some of the for the principal position we started with 94 applicants. We've screened resumes. We're moving forward with those. Uh we've we've gone through that first group and we brought in 20 additional candidates for more in-depth Zoom interviews uh with all various stakeholders a part of that team. So our team's really looking at uh bringing forth the best leaders to recommend to the to the board of education to select. Uh our we had
019a committee that met earlier this week and we narrowed down the field even more. I'm going to be meeting and checking references with with further candidates as well as some other administrators and then hopefully we'll have a date in the very near future that the board can can see the finalists and make some final decisions and then soon after the director of curriculum instruction and technology uh to get those in place and then we'll complete our team for administrators and begin uh further planning for the upcoming school year. So, a lot of great things going on. I look forward to continuing to work with all the stakeholders. I've got some upcoming meetings with with our PTA Parrot uh council representative and looking forward to that and just really getting to to be a part of
020the community. So, it's a privilege to be here. I'm very excited and uh thank you all for the opportunity. Thank you. Okay. Um and now we have the first recognition of the audience for agenda items. Alison, you have comments by the business officials. Sorry, how could I forget you? Sorry. comments by the business. Just getting your legs on you. Yeah. Um, good evening. Now that the school year has officially ended, I'd like to share some information on the capital improvement work that was funded through the 2023 bond referendum and is now underway at the middle high school. Work began yesterday. Um, this project includes an abatement in the tunnel area in below the building. um that will then allow us to replace steam pipes and domestic water pipes and they actually um already started replacing
021steam traps throughout the building. Um there's also masonry repairs going on on the facade of the building and they will be moving soon to the fieldside wall of the building um for that for masonry on that side as well. and a roof replacement on the original T-shaped roof. Um the center of the building which is shaped like a T for Tahoe. You if you look at an aerial view, that part of the roof is going to be replaced along with um masonry masonry around the roof. So they've already started removing some stone there. Um a bell clock and PA system replacement at the high school. New state-of-the-art bell clock and PA system will be going in. um at Codle. Um most of the security camera work has already been completed. Um they will be replacing
022about 30 doors um in this building and there will be some minor classroom renovations going on as well. Um the infrastructure upgrades are a major step forward in modernizing our buildings. Um and we're so grateful to the community for the continued support of our facilities. I'd like to take a moment to also recognize um and appreciate our custodians and cleaners. Their hard work behind the scenes, especially during these summer months, is essential. As the construction teams come out, they work tirelessly around them to clean and organize and get these buildings ready for the start of school in September. Um it just the way they turn around in such a short period of time is remarkable and um we are very thankful for them for all that they do. Um I'd like to recognize the business
023office. We have one of our business office staff members here, Jen in the back. Um our business office works tirelessly through the summer to make sure our teachers have what they need to start school in September. We're here to support them, make sure they get paid, and um close out the year before and get ready for our audit, too. So, um I just want to share how excited I am to begin working with our new superintendent um and with the incoming board members and say thank you to Dr. Goodman and to the previous board members who left. Um it was a pleasure working with them and it's an honor to be part of such a dedicated community um that values collaboration, excellence, and continued improvement. and I look forward to all the important work we'll
024accomplish together. So, thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks, Steve. Thank you. Thank you. Um, okay. Now, we are ready for the first recognition of the audience on agenda items only. Michelle, Michelle, just remember to state your name and address, please. I know. Uh, good evening. Michelle for 216 Midland Avenue, Tuo. Uh, I want to say welcome to Mr. Roberts and welcome to Miss Deutsch and congratulations to Allison and Scott for your new positions this school year and to Lou and Joel and Pete for all of the work you've done. Um, I just wanted to thank everybody for this brand new fresh start. Um, it's going to be an amazing school year. We know that. Um, and just to uh let you know that uh specifically to you, Mr. Roberts, that um this is an amazing
025community with a lot of support from not only your board and your staff, but also um the PTA with our president, Sue Wernos. Um and I just happen to be on PTA myself, but we just wanted to welcome you and wish you all the best of luck. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you, Michelle. Anybody else? Okay. Um and now we are going to vote on our consent agenda which is quite large because it's the reorg meeting. Um and so it's just a lot of routine um stuff that goes on each year that we have to approve. Um thank you to Robin who put most of this together. It is a lot of work as I know. Um, and I really appreciate all the work that goes into it. Thank you. Okay, so um,
026a motion to approve the consent agenda. Items, items number items number items number two through 49. There you go. Okay. So, Pete second. Um, any discussion? No. Okay. I have one thing. Um, item number 34, the tuition rate. I did bring this up last year, um, and I'm going to bring it up again. I am happy that we have increased our tuition rate, um, by $1,000. However, we are still, um, slightly lower than what New York State SED allows us to charge. Um, and my own personal feeling is that we should be charging what New York sedd does the limit that New York SED does allow us to charge. Um, it's like 18 and change. So, we're not we're not much off, but I do feel that it is a privilege for children to attend
027school here. Um, especially out of district children. And um I know that you know while we want to keep it competitive I do feel that um it would be I would like to see us getting closer to the New York State SED rate for out of district students. Does this count for special ed students? No, no, no. Special aid is special ed is a completely different rate. Um and actually Faith calculates that in a really very very um financially conservative way. Um how frequently how frequently does the uh the New York State limit move? So every year it's based on your Faith. Do you want to talk a little bit about it again? Sure. It it it changes every year and it's based on our expenditures. It's it's a formula that out um it's like
028a two-page formula. Um, so it does vary every year. Got it. And it can go up or down. Up or down. So this is this year it's actually a little lower than it was last year. Understood. Um, so but many schools do go to the limit. We don't and that's just my own personal opinion. Something to look at now or something to look at for next year. It's something for next year. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we can bring it to the finance committee. Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to I mentioned it last year. I want to mention it again. So just out of cur I'm sorry Alison. Just out of curiosity. the recommendation for the for the amount on here how does that come does that come from the finance committee and is recommendation came from
029Dr. Goodman, right? So that's Yeah. So what what goes into that decision? Um so we didn't go to the finance committee. It's something we'll bring to them, but um historically the increase has been $500 every two years. Um and that has been a very slow increase. So this year we looked at it and just bumped it up. Not so much that we would lose any tuition families. We have gained a few this year. So just to keep it still where it's parents would want to stay, but still an increase. Well, it's a good point, right? Because if you dramatically increased it, it would impact the folks that have already already sending their kids here and paying. So it's something to consider. Consider doing like a grandfathered sort of thing, right? You know, you only let
030anybody new come at the higher rate. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, um, we already made the motions. So, um, all in favor Okay. On to business of the board. Okay. Adopt policy 2245 exeicio student board member. This policy is um was given to us by the governor. Um, on September 5th, 2024, the governor signed Senate Bill S9018A amending the New York State Educational Law to allow for the designation of students as exeicio members of school boards and clarifying what student members are permitted to do. This law requires school districts and vosis to designate at least one exeicio student member and their school board. This bill repeals the sections of the educational law that currently call for school district to submit a referendum to voters to determine whether a school district should have an exeicio student member.
031The law will take effect July 1, 2025. Um so we have already read this policy, right? This is the So now we're voting on it. Okay. Um so a motion to um resolve that the board of education of the Tuo Unifree School District adopt policy 2245 exeicio student board members. Scott second all in favor um and we will be coming out with more on who that person is going to be and how we come up with that one. Um, okay. Second reading of policy number 6380, travel event reimbursement. Um, okay. So, this is the district is revising its travel and expense reimbursement policy to align with the current standards and ensure compliance. Meal reimbursements will follow the US General Service Administration G also known as GSA for DM rates based on the travel location sales
032tax on meals consumed during author authorized business travel and reimbursement sorry and reimburseable in accordance with New York State OSC opinion 80-63 gratuitities are reimburseable up to 18% meals that are already included in the conference registration fee will not be reimbursed and no reimbursement will be provided. provided for snacks or other items purchased outside of the designated meal allowance. These changes will be reviewed and were reviewed and discussed with the audit and finance committee. So that was the second reading from that. So we don't need to do anything else, right? Okay. Second reading of policy 8113, extreme heat conditions days. New York state law now requires all public schools to have an excessive heat policy to protect students and staff from unsafe indoor temperatures. Schools must monitor classroom temperatures and take action when they reach
03382 degrees Fahrenheit, including relocating students if the temperature reaches 88 degrees F. This law ensures that schools are prepared to respond to extreme heat and maintain a self learning uh learning environment, safe learning environment, sorry. Um, number four, approve a capital project accounting proposal. Resolved that the board of education of the Tuahoo Unifree School District approves a proposal with the FIN with fiscal adviserss and market marketing, Inc. for capital projects, accounting and state sorry for capital projects, accounting and state aid services for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 at a rate of 250 per hour and authorize the president of the board to execute said proposal. Do I have a motion? Pete second. Second Lou. All in favor? Approve a contract extension. Resolve that the board of education of the Tuck
034Unifree School District appro approve a contract extension with HMBB Consultants LLC for the period of September 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 at a total cost of $5,62.16. Do I have a motion? Scott second Joel. All in favor? Approve a contract extension. resolved that the board of education of TCO school district approved the contract extension with Aramark Educational Services LLC of Philadelphia, PA to manage the district's food services for the 202526 school year with an increase based on the May 2025 consumer price index of urban consumers CPI-U of 3.4%. Do I have a motion? Scots. Second, Pete. All in favor approve a retainer for legal counsel agreement. Resolve that the board of education of the Toko Unifree School District appoint Verban and Ferazo PC as a district's attorney for the 202526 school year for an
035annual retainer fee of 87,750 pursuant to the attached retainer and legal council agreements for up to 450 hours of work to include all legal services which may be required by the district excluding legal services relating to litigation and/or hearing manners and authorize the superintendent of schools to execute the said agree. Do I have a motion? Joel second, Pete. All in favor? Appointed fiscal adviser. resolved that the board of education of the Tuco Union Free School District approve an agreement with Capital Market Advisors LLC for fiscal advisement for the 202526 school year as follows and authorized the board president to execute set agreement for bond issues 7,650 base fee plus 52 cents per 1,000 PAR amount of bonds issued over $3 million for note issues $5,100 for continuing disclosures $2,500 including all required material event notices
036for additional services rendered by the CMA personnel and sorry at the request of the district such as state aid assistance would be build at an hourly rate of $180. Do I have a motion? Pete second. I just have one question. Sorry. So Faith, sorry. Um this is to manage Sorry. Um, is this basically just to manage our bonds that we have out for construction to them advised where to put these bonds? Just a little Yeah, I'll let you tell them that. So, they they handle the bond issuance. So, when we go out to sell bonds, they put together the offering statement, they reach out to the bond buyers, they advertise the sale, they collect the bids for our bonds, and then they recommend um, you know, the awarding of the bonds. And they actually were
037huge when we had um they played a big part in helping us navigate when we went out to bid for when we went out for bond sale on that terrible day and they quickly had us pivot and issue short-term bond bans and we did really well. So so they handle all of that. Um and the additional services would be you know if we were looking for another capital project they can help um figuring out like well what that amortization would look like when you know netting state aid with it. So, they do a lot of work with that. We we're not there yet, but this is we're going to be issuing a tan soon. So, they they they'll handle the sale of the tan and working with um biders to get bids on the t.
038Okay. Very helpful. Thank you. Thank you. So, um we were up to second. Second, Scott. All in favor? Appoint to school position agreement. resolved that the board of education of the Tuco Unifree School District appoint Dr. Rose Rosemary Caligeras as school physician for the 202526 school year and authorizes the superintendent of schools to execute said agreement. Do I have a motion? Scott second. Pete. All in favor approve a cooperative per purchasing agreement. Whereas Sourcewell is a service cooper cooperative governmental organization located in the state of Minnesota. And whereas Sourcewell offers cooperative procurement solutions to government entities located in the United States and Canada. And whereas the Tuahoo Unifree School District desires to use Source Well's cooperative purchasing contract to contra contracts to contract with Staples Contract and Commercial LLC for the use of equipment products
039and/or services. and be it resolved with board of education of the Tuo Unifree School District. Uh hereby approves the use of contract 070924- SECC between Staples Contract and Commercial LLC and Sourcewell for the use of Office Supplies and Workplace Solutions for a term of from July 2020 July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026. Do I have a motion? Scott second. Joel. All in favor? Approve an agreement. Resolve that the board of education of the Tuco Union Preschool District approves an agreement with the Tuo Police Department to provide security detail for the district events for the 202526 school year at a rate of $116 per hour. I have a motion. Scott second. Joel. All in favor? Thank you. Taco Police Department. Thank you. Um, approve an agreement. Resolved that the board of education of the Toko
040Unifree School District approves an agreement with Eastchester Police Department to provide security detail for district events for the 202526 school year at a rate of $100 per hour. Do I have a motion? Lou Scott second. All in favor? Faith, make sure you call the shester first. They're cheaper. Thank you. East Chester Police Department. Um, okay. Approve an agreement. Resolved that the board of education of the Tahoe Unifree School District approves an agreement with the Ed Edgar Panita for photography services for the district athletic events for the 202526 school year at an amount not to exceed $3,500. Do I have a motion? Joel second Pete. All in favor? Are you in favor? Oh, I'm Yes, I'm in favor. I know Edward very well. Um, approve an agreement. Resolved with the board of resolved the board of
041education of Tuco Unifree School District approves an agreement with Lonnie Webb for photography services for the Tuco Middle School and Tuo High School 2025 homecoming pep rally at an amount not to exceed $3,000. 300. Sorry. $300. Faith almost fell business. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. $300. Do I have a motion? Scott Lou second. Um, all in favor? 300. Um, approve a proposal. resolved that the board of education of Tuahoo Union Free School District approves a proposal from the um custom cheer cheerio to provide cheerleading game day choreography in preparation of the fall season on September 7th, 2025 in the amount not to exceed $3,500. Scott motion first, Joel second. All in favor um approve a proposal. Resolve that the board of education approve a proposal with custom cheer cheerio to provide winter competition choreography and skill dates
042for varsity cheerleading to take place during practice on September 13, 2025 and September 14th, 2025 at an amount not to exceed $4,000. I have a motion. Joel second, Scott. All in favor number 17. Um, see, how do I do this? I just like Yeah. So, you we want a motion to table 17 and 18. Yeah. All right. Um, so number 17, approve a proposal and number 18, approve a proposal. Do I have a motion to table um the agenda items for further discussion? Scott second Pete. All in favor approve an athletic merger. resolved that the Tuahoo that the Tuahoo Board of Education and the TuHo Union Free School District upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the assistant principal of student services and athletics approves the sport merger with Eastchester High School for
043varsity and JV boys lacrosse for the spring 2026 season. Do I have a motion? Scott, I just want to say I just want to say thank you to um Andy Col Oh, I'm sorry. I just want to say thank you to Andy Kolisano for really looking into this and Eastchester as well. The the combined athletic merger of this sport, lacrosse for boys, um JV and varsity, the the two athletic directors from Eastchester and Tuck really came together to make this happen. Um Andy figured out that our numbers were going to be low for um varsity going forward and kind of JV was in the mix but keeping modified where it is in Taco um because our numbers were strong and Eastchester had a similar problem because of graduating kids and we lost some students in
0448th grade this year for high school next year. So that offset 20 something kids not going forward to the high school next year. So therefore our JV numbers were really low. Um, and this is also it's a kind of semi- burden off the district for fiscally for for financially, right? Because now we can kind of put funds in in some other places that we're merging with uh Eastchester and uh to go forward and keep growing the program and hopefully maybe one day we bring it back. But hats off to uh the Eastchester athletic director and and Mr. Kosana for making this happen. So, thank you. Yes. Thank you, Andy. Um, okay. All in favor? Oh, second. Sorry. Second, Scott. Second. All in favor? Scott was first. Oh, Scott was first. Louis is second. I apologize.
045Louis second. All in favor? Summer meeting. Okay. Approve an athletic merger. Resolved that the board of education of the Tuck of the Tuo Unifree School District upon recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the assistant principal of student services and athletics approves a sports merger with Eastchester Unifree School District and Pelum Unifree School District for varsity junior varsity and modified wrestling for the 2025 winter seat. Do I have a motion? Scott second. Joel. All in favor? Joel. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. I get the swing of it. Thank you again, Mr. C, for coming up with a creative way to continue our program. Yes. Um, thank you to Pel, your your district. Um, approve provision 2 eligibility. resolved that the board of education of the Tuco Union Free School District hereby acknowledges the district's
046receipt of provision 2 eligibility from the New York State Education Department permitting free breakfast and free lunch for all resident students for the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? I have one question. Just one question. Okay. Wait, you know what? So, let's do So, let's do first, second, and then we'll do discussion. Just make that. Sorry. I did it too last. So Lou second or Okay, raise your hand. Then just okay discussion. What is the is there any um impact on the food that is served? Is it the same quality food or is it a different It's absolutely the same. Okay. There is no change. Um it's the same meals we've always provided. We've always been part of the national school lunch program. It's just now the state is is subsidizing it.
047So everything will remain the same. Um what is free is a complete meal. We did send home some information in our happenings um towards the end of last year about what makes a complete meal. So not everything is free. Um snacks are not free. It's what is considered a complete meal under the National School Lunch Program. So we'll send some more information out as we get closer to the school year. So families know um and there's a lot of ways to make a complete meal um and our cafeteria staff are very knowledgeable on that. So everything is the same as it currently is. Perfect. Also, I just want to mention that we do still encourage all families to fill out the free and reduced um lunch form. It really will make a big difference in
048the amount of reimbursement that we will get. Um the state is very reliant on those forms being completed. So, please, even though it's free for everybody, um, continue to fill out those forms and send them in. It's really, really important. Um, second thing that I just want to point out is that a second lunch is not free. So, if you go back for something else, then you do have to pay for it, but your first meal is is free. Um, okay. So, all in favor? Okay. Um, approve a piggybacking resolve that the board of education of the Tuo Unifree School Deceal Law, the Board of Education of the Tuo Unifree School District hereby authorizes the district to enter into a contract with the following vendors. subject to and through cooperative purchasing with the White Plains
049City School District contract and the unit pricing and terms set forth therein on the basis that the award of the contract by White Plain City School District to the vendors was made to the lowest responsible bidder and promotes the public interest taking into consideration the reliability of the bidder, the quality of the labor, materials, equipment and or supplies to be furnished and the conformity with the bid. documents. And because such a ward ensures that the prudent and economical use of public monies is in the best interest of the district taxpayer, facilit facilitates and acquisition of goods and services of maximum quality at the lowest possible cost under the circumstances and guards against favoritism in improve improvidence, extravagance, fraud and corruption. The award is subject to the submission of all required documents by the vendors to
050the district and the execution of a contract to or purchase orders. AMC Furia Electric Motors Pump Systems Fred A. Cook Drain Cleaning Thermodynamics Corp and Clean Air Quality Service HVAC Filters and Installation Thompson Lock and Supply Company Locksmith Pat Paving Inc. Asphalt repairs, automated elevator service, elevator service, and WBE fencing for fence. Do I have a motion? Scott, uh, Pete second, Scott. All in favor? Approve a payment. resolved that the board of education of the Tuahoo Unifree School District approve a payment to the Silver Star Transportation for this trip to Six Flags Great Adventure on May 30th, 2025 in the amount not to exceed $242.95. I have a motion. Scott second Joel. All in favor? Okay. Um, personnel recommendations. I am going to abstain from this vote because I have a personal benefit in it.
051Um, however, I am in favor of everything in it, but I am not officially voting because I do have a personal interest. Um, personnel recommendations resolved that the board of education of the Tuo Unifree School District approves personnel recommendations action item through N. Do I have a motion? Pete second Scott. All in favor? I I am abstainating. Yeah. Did I say that? Yeah, you do. Okay. Second recognition of the audience. This is for anything you would like to speak about. Hi. Hi, Alex. Just remember to state your name and your address and that it's um three minute limit. Okay, it'll be really quick. So, I'm Alexandra Campana. I um live at 8 Pasadena Road, Bronxville. I just wanted to speak a little bit about um a meeting that we'll be having cuz I'm here representing
052a group of parents that want to start a SEPTA, which is a special needs PTA. I know Sue spoke about that last meeting. Um, we're having our second meeting Thursday, July 17th at 7:00 on Zoom. And I just wanted to put it out there. So hopefully if there's people that didn't join our first meeting and aren't on our mailing list, they're still welcome to join. Um, they can email. We have an email that we've been using, Taco Schools SEPTA@gmail. And that's it. I hope more people are able to join. Thank you. Congratulations. Great idea. Thank you. Thank you. Good job. I'm Michelle Fret, 216 Midland Avenue in Tahoe. Um, just uh a few quick comments really just to uh number 16. Um, I happen to be the president of the Taco Varsity Cheerleader Fundrait Committee.
053Um, and I want to thank you for approving what you have approved this evening for the the choreography. Um the first one did speak just to the varsity cheerleading and I don't know if there's a discussion about where the JV uh cheerleading is also going to have their uh choreography approved. I don't know if that's coming up at a separate meeting but I did notice that it was just varsity on this particular resolution. Um, and then I also noted that um, you did table the next two resolutions that were for the camp. And I just wanted to speak to what the camp is and just for the community. Um, when I first came into supporting my daughter and her team with uh, cheer and I saw camp, I thought they were going off into the
054woods somewhere and going into cabins and sleepa away camp. But it is just something that um is on site here in Taco at one of our schools. Um and it will help support what is becoming a much more rigorous um season with game day cheer starting up this year as being mandatory. Um and it will help support our teams going into the competition season in the fall and in the winter. So, I I just hope that the board will really consider supporting those those camp days for our JV and our varsity teams. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Um, okay. Motion to adjourn the meeting. Resolved that the board of education of the Taco Unifree School District motion to adjourn the meeting. Scott second Joel. All in favor? Right. Have a good night
055everyone. Thank you for coming. Enjoy the rest of your summer. All right. Thank you.