001All right. Good evening. Today is Monday, June 2nd, 2025. Today is a special meeting and workshop of the board of education. All in favor? Uh we're going to go into 7:30. All in favor? Okay. All right. Good evening. Today is Monday, June 2nd, 2025. This special meeting and workshop for the board of education. We already opened the meeting went into session. Now we're back out to our meeting. So, first up is our All right. We actually don't have a workshop topic today. So we can just go around. But I do want to congratulate our our music and uh students. They won number of awards and I'm just so proud of them. We really have such a great program here. So I just want to give a shout out to them and I'll let somebody else
002congratulations and good luck to all the graduates. Metro Awards which are tonight. Hopefully we will win some of those. They were nominations and so hopefully we will win some of those. Um and that's congratulations. on that baseball Saturday. I believe it's Friday and I think congratulations. Um, also just a quick announcement specialist. I love the boys. We lost we lost the first time ever they went to the playoffs we lost but it was exciting I don't have anything was great to double down on the community credit parks Dr. Goodman for all the work that was put into that. So, thank you for that support and good month coming up. This was fun. Great job. Oh, Robin did a great job. I called you last time. I thank you last time and I'll work very long.
003First of all, I also would like to done. I get to see the work that she's doing and it starts way before the budget vote and it goes even that whole day is how many hours did you work? 23 hours he works like a full day. Well, you're not Robin's still working. So, I really do thank her. Of course, I thank Sparks because together incredible very um detailed and visible budget for everybody and of course the board supports some of the changes that were made kind of you know as we went along was because we were really listening to the board and the community. I feel like it was a real collaborative process this year and I'd like to thank the board of education for that. Um some great things happened this past week. our
004strings and the students had an unforgettable day exploring Lincoln Center and this was something that really doesn't happen in most schools. So I'd like to thank Mr. Duche had an amazing time. We all know about our varsity baseball team. Yeah, I think Scott gave them kudos and they're they're just like doing amazing. Um the circus came to Taco last week too. You know, we just we just have an incredible PTA that makes had a lot of fun with that. Um, I'd also like to thank our G guidance counselors. Next week I will be producing all the schools that our students got into. And that would not have happened without their incredible close support with students and families. And again, I say over and over again, we got into some incredible colleges that it was a
005very, very, very hard year for everybody else, but not. And um, and again, I'd like to just So many great coral performances. Our art shows has been incredible. Um just really good work going on in Tahoe and this community spirit with the PTA with the athletic um council which is so new but so incredibly involved and is involved for it and all of the community. I just want to thank everybody and it's June. Here we go. We're on the final stretch. So here we go. Lots of lots of good things this month. All right, Thomas. Um, thank you to the board and to the community. Um, I'm really excited. I think the reserve repair reserve fund was remarkable remarkable. It passed remarkably and I think be really good for the district and keeping us ahead
006of issues that are going to arise. We're getting ready to start construction this summer. So, you'll notice some trailers coming, some storage trailers and pods coming onto our property here at the middle high school. We'll have more information about that coming soon. Um, and we are going to start sending out more information about free lunch next year once we have that from the state. lunch. So, we will keep you posted. They haven't put much information out yet about it, but we're looking forward to it. We already started scrolling through our cafeterias and we've been sending in the happenings what makes a complete meal under this free lunch program. It's not certain. It has to be a complete meal. So, we're trying to get that information out to parents and kids so that they know. So,
007it's our monitors in the cafeteria so they know what they have to take to make I just want to add to that because I don't know if everybody knows this but in Governor Hok's budget was free breakfast and lunch for all students and I think that you know I could say a lot of things about everybody's budget and our government but that was a big big win for every single student in public schools and even you know being a parent myself it adds up and the more kids you have it adds up. So everybody going to get that it's just has to be a what we call a complete reimburseable meal. So you have options. So like a student has to take between three and five components. So has to be a grain, it has
008to be a meat or meat alternate. It has to be a fruit or vegetables so they can you know and getting that education out that a cheese can be alternate. So like really knowing how to build that meal so a student eats lunch. and get what they need, but they can take up to five options. And really knowing those combinations so that they're not, you know, if they're just taking, let's say, that's not free. So there will still be that they can take other things and make you not have the fund. The kids come up and they pay and have their balance only for all items. So we saw some really it and keep track of what they're buying. We have a POS. We don't pay. So, we're not we don't make money on school
009anyway. So, yeah. And this way there's no food there's no embarrassment for any student who doesn't is unable to pay. We try to not have that happen anyway. But this way everybody can get it. One good to and I even like I even like the uh the student representative on the board until we I think the idea was to have represent we started with them coming and sort of giving those announcements which is nice to get to highlight them we have on your It's a policy or is it the school does have to make it policy in accordance with it is it is a banur is up in the school but it is no cell phon and day and the other day that's an important time, right? So, it's going to be gone cell phones
010and the school will have to decide which is what the policy committee can work on is where how you'll store the phones, things like that. Or maybe that's just a regulation that you'll figure out in your building. But this but the um no cell phones for everybody, but you of course will have to know like how parents can, you know, contact kids. So, there were certain things in that policy that you know we've you know have cell phones before parents can call the school but you know you're gonna have to specific ways in case you know emergencies and all of that and that that will be worked out. You have to make Yes. You have to have a group that you talk to and you have to have a way that you're able to store
011these phones and all of that. So, we'll definitely be work to do. This one that we're putting on today, this starts July 1st. So, that's why we're putting this one on today. Okay. Board of Education 2 motion. discuss it. First reading policy student board members. So, um, on September 5th, 2024, the governor signed Senate Bill S9018A, amending the New York State Education Law to allow for designation of students as taxicial members of the school board and clarifies what student members are permitted to do. This bill requires students or school districts and both these designate at least one student member of their school of their school board. This bill repeals a section of the education currently calls for school district referendum to voters to determine whether the district should have an student member that this will
012be effective to July 1. So if you want to go on board docs to read the exact policy that we wrote pretty much covers what we um what we talked about for this year is that we're going to basically make the student body president the first reading so there's nothing going one more time. Next up, approve a cooperative purchased data is a shared service organization based in the state of New Jersey that provides cooperative procurement to public sector entities throughout New York State. Whereas school districts needs to utilize time and materials purchasing contract and whereas districts contract with pure techorated maint theatrical lighting systems under such cooperative purchasing agreements now therefore be resolved with the board of education school district hereby authorizing the use of that cooperative In contrast to the procurement of computer tech
013group incorporated as described above for the term beginning June 1, 2025 April 1st 206 there in favor of PTA donation whereas Taho district has informed has been informed donations to be made to the district for the PTA and whereas district would like to accept is hereby resolved to accept the following donations from the Tahoe PTA as follows. Tiger Enterprises snap part on the go in the amount of $400. Tuck high school field trip the American Museum of History Planetarium in the amount of $481. High school chemistry lab dish in the amount of $27 museum for the fifth grade class in the amount of 7 three new 3D printers for maker space in the amount of $1,500 homework space to support UDL and in the amount of $815 field trip to the science center for the
014fourth grade in the amount of $2,430 quite a bit and quite a bit of good stuff. No, this is great. This is some really good stuff. A lot of fun there. So, we really appreciate it as always. Okay. Donation PTA whereas school district has a donation to the district from the PTA. district would like to accept donation from the community elementary school 2020 field trip $300 motion. Thank you again. All in favor the donation whereas school district has been informed of a donation to be made the district from Donald and whereas the district would like to accept a donation from Donald for the Donald scholarship fund in the amount of $500. Thank you. Whereas the community school district has been informed of a donation to be made to the district sports club and whereas the
015district would like to accept donation from the east sports club athletic scholarship in memory of Augie Cardone scholarship fund in the amount of $500 discussion here. Thank you to the east sports club that donation app. Whereas school district has been informed of a donation made to the district from the family. Thank you. And whereas district would like to accept donations for the future education scholarship fund in the amount of $500. Thank you very much. We appreciate it very much. Resolve the recommendation of superintendent of schools and the assistant principal of student services and athletics board of education of the university students. I hereby approve this force merger with the Brownsville and Edgemont school high schools for varsity and modified ice hockey 2025 2026 an athletic merger schools athletics board of education district approves a sport
016merger with high school varsity boys tennis spring 2020. Second favor resolves upon the recognition here with Mount Vernon High School for varsity boys swimming motion in favor and final one resolved upon the recommendation. schools principal student services athletics high school swimming for the fall 202 we appreciate the cooperation Everybody, right? Now we're on. Oh. Sorry personel the board of education approves personnel action items recommendations sorry recommendations through motion all in favor. All right. Thank you very much everybody. Have a good night.