001Good evening. Like to call the meeting to order. All rise for a salute to the flag, followed by a moment of silence for Eric Christopher Pollson, the brother of Katina Sullivan, Rose Hirs, mother-in-law of Bonnie Hirs, and Anna Mandraia, mother of Mark Mandrachia. Pledge 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'll turn it over to Mr. McNamera for the superintendence report. >> Great. Thank you, Mr. Greco. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. Um, just some updates from me. Uh, we're obviously excited about the start of the new school year, just a couple weeks away. Uh, and we are, uh, busy getting ready. Uh, huge thank you this year to our facilities staff, uh, in terms of
002getting our buildings ready. We have a tremendous amount of construction that's going on across the district. A lot of our bond work from a couple years ago is starting to kick in and it was a very busy summer. Uh so just some quick projects to highlight. Uh we we did uh significant electrical upgrades across all five of our buildings in preparation for our new HVAC work. Uh we have uh we're in the process of installing all new heating and and cooling systems, central air conditioning across the district. Um so we did a bulk of that work at at W High School and W Elementary School. All new unit ventilators are installed. Uh we're in the process of doing the final tie-ins this week um to get those uh those buildings uh ready for our for
003our new HVAC system. Uh we have renovated 16 bathrooms at at Forest Lake Elementary School. Uh we'll be buttoning those up, doing the finishing touches in the coming days. Uh get those ready for the return of our students. Uh we also uh did some roof work over at Wanto Elementary. Uh the main section, original section of the building. Uh we uh we replaced that roof. Uh did a great job there. Uh and then uh full cafeteria renovation here at Wanto High School. So really excited about that project. Uh once again uh you know quick timeline in eight weeks in terms of renovating the entire cafeteria. Uh so that that work is uh in progress and and we'll be wrapping that up next week. And then uh kitchen serving line uh renovations at all three elementary
004schools. Uh so uh it's been a busy summer. Uh huge thank you to Rob Loverene who's been uh you know coordinating with our our contractors and and and doing a tremendous amount of work. So we will be ready for uh for September 2nd when our our students join us. Um just a reminder uh we we have uh some information coming out from buildings uh from the building leaders in terms of the New York State cell phone ban. Uh really kind of business as usual for us K to8 uh we'll be expanding that uh you know in in terms of our our high school. Dr. Dr. Gazon, our high school principal, has a a letter going out to uh all parents about that uh next week. Uh all of our students will be storing their cell
005phones in their lockers during the school day. Uh so uh similar to, you know, the practice that we developed at our our middle school last year. So that'll continue for uh for next year uh at the high school as well. Um update for the community on the Beach Street property. Uh we uh are currently in the process of exploring selling that property uh and uh and it is currently on the market. So we're working with a realtor to do that and we'll continue to keep the community updated about that. The property uh once uh if if we get to a point where we're ready to sell that uh it would be put up for a referendum in the community uh where the voters would then vote on the sale of that uh building. Uh and
006uh you know more to come. We'll we'll continue to update folks as we move along with that. Um, and then just uh we know there's been some questions about uh field lights at at W High School. Uh we uh have not uh you know uh move that any further than where we were last time we left off. That's still kind of on hold. Uh and uh we'll we'll update folks as as we move forward. Um and then uh just uh some some of our in a couple minutes we're going to be appointing a couple of new members of our staff. Uh we have a new assistant uh director for business, Steve Garini, who's with us tonight. I wanted to officially welcome him. He's joining us from West Hemstead where he's really done some outstanding work.
007Uh we're looking forward to the work that he'll bring here to uh to Wanau. Uh so uh so congratulations to Steve. Uh we we welcome you to our WA community. Uh and to Rich Apollo who's uh joined us tonight as well. He's going to be a new teacher over at Forest Lake. Uh we're excited about uh about him joining us. uh he's done uh uh some some leave work over at uh Island Trees and and we're excited about everything that that he'll be bring bringing to us at at at Forest Lake for this upcoming school year. So, welcome to both of you. And with that, I'll turn it back over to Mr. Greco. >> Thank you, Mr. Magnamara. Item D, approval of minutes. And I have a motion to approve the minutes for July 1st
008and the 28th. >> Move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Item E, financials budget transfers. Can I have a motion to approve the attached budget transfers? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Right. Item F, approval of personnel items. Item G, contractual and other authorizations. Um, although let's do F first. Approval of personnel items. Move. >> Move. Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Okay. Item G, contractual other authorizations. Item G1, item G2, item G3, item G4 and item G5. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> G6. G7, G8, G9, and item G10. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Item G11, G12, G13, G14, and G15. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor?
009>> items G16, G17, G18. Do I have a motion? >> Move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Item G19, donations. The board of education wants to approve a donation from the Wanto School District extra classroom activity funds of $300 for the International Thespian Society overnight field trip. We'll approve a donation from the Mandandalay PTA of $560.85 for transportation to Bay View Freeport. will accept a donation from Noah Smithelli of a volleyball serving machine for the athletics department at a value of $3,500. We'll approve a donation from Driftwood Day Camp of $500 for the WTO Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run. Another donation from Sandra Simpson Insurance Agency of also $500 for the Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run. Uh donation from Wanto Century LLC of $500 for the Wanto Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run. Next donation
010is from the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group in the amount of $500. Also for the Wanto Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run, the board of education approves a donation from Dunkin Donuts of $1,000 for the Wanto Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run. The board of education approved a donation from Jovia Financial Credit Union of $2,000 for the WTO Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run. And the board of education approves a donation from Kostas Chelotus and Katarina Mutanos of $5,000 for the W Warrior 911 Memorial 5K run. Do we have a motion? >> Move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. and we thank everybody for their generous donations. Item H, H1, policy revisions and H2 districtwide safety plan. Do we have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Item I, new business, item I
011one and item I2. Do we have a motion? >> Second. Second. >> All in favor? >> Item J, adjournment. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to adjourn. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> All right. We have organization reports. I don't see anyone here. Forest Lake PTA, Mandalay PTA, Wanto Elementary PTA, the 612 SEPTA PTA council, sports boosters, performing arts boosters, or the Wanto Foundation. Seeing no one, that is that is it. The microphone. Anybody wants to come to the microphone? Nobody. Have a good night everybody. Thank you for coming. >> Good night.