001good evening I'm the district clerk Dennis Logan I am the temporary chairperson of the meeting because at this point we are ship with tiller um once the president is elected then I will turn the meeting over to the president um we will start the meeting out by noting the attendance of board members here uh we have Miss Andrade Mr denafo Miss Jennings miss creger Mr Negan M Salazar and M Mr Salazar Miss Smith um I will now administer the oath of office to Mr Negan Miss Smith and Ms creger who are starting new terms tonight how do you want to do you want to come out front you want just stand in your place oh I The Pledge guys iedge the United States of am the stands na indivisible liberty and justice for all oh
002[Applause] e e [Applause] I am now going to call for nominations for the office of president of the board of education for the 2024 2025 school year Mr Logan Mr ZF I would like to nominate Mr Mark Negan um we are so fortunate to have an outstanding individual like Miss sran um taking over as our president or being our President for the past year he's done an outstanding job and I know he'll do a great job again for us this year and do I have a second on that nomination I'd like to second that okay roll call vote from the nomination of Mark Negan Dian Andrade yes Thomas anao yes kellyan Jennings yes Jennifer creger yes Mark Negan yes Francis Salazar yes bernardette Smith yes congratulations Mr ner back do you want me to video
003yor dep [Applause] first off I like to say thank you to my colleagues for their faith in me and everything that's transpired I've had a great learning experience over the past year and it's only going to help me to be better for the district moving forward so at this time I'd like to call for the nomination of the vice president of the Board of Education Patrick MF School District second post Nomine can I have a second please second roll call vote M andring yes Mr jfo yes M Jennings yes M creger yes Mr Nan yes Mr Salazar yes M Smith yes congratulations you are elected LeAndre [Applause] hold on [Applause] okay okay next we're going to move on to uh number 11 on the agenda which is going to be appointments um first up will
004be the district clerk and the Board of Education would like to appoint Dennis M Logan as our district clerk I'll make the motion and a second okay who was second Kell straight motion need a roll call vote no all in favor all oppos say again all in favor in favor all oppos oh all in favor I any opposed okay um I need the attorneys to be able to offer the U oath of office to Mr Logan swear that I will support the constition of the United States I unit states stti of the state of New York discharge [Applause] thanks she's not here I'll sering at the office but you still do okay she's not here so we're moving on to ex official no District treasur you have to vote for her elsewhere at the office
005tomorrow you need a motion for district all right so we need a motion for the district Treasurer which would be Virginia nle I'll make the motion second I'll second sorry straight vot straight vote all in fav favor I all opposed that she's not present at the meeting tonight I'll ad her her V of office at the district office tomorrow now exio student okay next up is going to be the selection and election of our ex official student member let it be resolved that the appointment for the general organization president Ella mccan to be appointed as the ex official student can I get a motion I'll make make the motion I'll second all in favor hi hi all opposed okay that's that okay so Ella come on out actually dad do you want to do front
006that we get better oh mark not kidding Sil your phone please he doesn't know how to do turnning it off you do it for me phone that's the volume one just [Applause] turn Dad if you would send that picture to us Mr mcken then we can post that on the district website you could just email it to either myself or the district clerk and we'll be happy to make sure it gets on social media and the website congratulations okay moving on to the next item on the agenda is going to be the appointment of the district audit committee Mr Logan you want to follow that through yes Mr Ronald ardido will be appointed for a two-year term as a community member on the board so he'll begin July 1st 2024 and end on June 30th
0072026 and then Board of Education Members Mark Negrin and Thomas anao will be um elected to serve one-year terms as per the bylaws of the district audit committee so you need a motion on that I'll make the motion I'll second it all in favor hi I any opposed okay thank you I will catch Mr Ido at another time and I need to administer the oath to Mr gfo and Mr Negan right now I state your name Solly swear toly swear that support the Constitution of the United States I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New York constition state of New York and I will Faithfully discharge the duties of will Faithfully discharge the duties of member member of the audit Committee of the patri M Union
008preschool district committee Patrick un preschool district according to the best of my abil for the best of my ability congratulations all right [Music] congratulations thank you yes all right thank you everybody I'm moving on to number 12 which is the consent agenda I need a motion I make a motion second roll call vote Francis you were fast on that one buddy I got to be that last few times roll call vote on that yes Miss Andrade yes Mr jio yes M Jennings yes M creger yes Mr Negan yes Mr yes Miss Smith yes um consent agenda passes unanimously thank you all right so now um moving on to item number 13 there was nothing removed from the consent agenda no number 14 board member comments we go down the aisle if anybody would like to
009make any comments M truste salar first um everybody have a good summer yeah the rest of their summer I much state today can thank you and congratulations to uh everybody that uh was reelected and and our new offici ex offici and uh yeah have a good summer everybody thank you truste creger I just want to say thank you for all your service and for um stepping up and doing it again for our president vice president our audit committee and Welcome to our new people thank you truste Smith congratulations uh president Negan and vice president andr um congratulations to you young lady thank you very much for your service um and we're going to get moving with the Mee truste Jennings yeah congratulations everyone and I look forward to working with trusty denafo I guess I
010could just ditto that right because it's when you get down the line it's hard but Ella Ella welcome aboard um looking forward to a great year vice president Andrade uh yes welcome aboard Ella it's very nice meeting you and excited to work with you and thank you everyone for reelecting me as vice president and Mark super excited to be your VP again thank you okay thank you and um first off most importantly our new ex officio congratulations welcome aboard and um get ready to work okay it's a responsible job an important job and you represent all the students of this District so take that as seriously as it is okay oh and just so you know it's now I think it's been passed as a law that other districts are starting to use an ex
011officio student but here at patch Medford we've been doing it forever so it's um it's really really good where our students have a voice at the highest level in District politic okay so that's great news thank you to everybody for your support um I love what I do I love this community and it's an honor to serve so with that said I'd like to make a motion to adjourn this portion of the meeting I'll make the motion I'll second all in favor I all opposed that's it going to the next point I don't think we even need a break so no we're going to get right into it a second to repurpose him say again I need to switch meetings hold on okay one moment please Dennis yeah Dennis we're quick oh by the way
012in case anybody didn't know I wanted to share congratulations to trustee kellyan Jen JS who is now a member of the Eastern suff bosies board as well so she deserves a round of applause she will be representing us at the table which is great news so thank you for that Miss Jennings you ready okay so we already went through the call to order and the welcome the ground rules you're calling a new meeting to order oh sorry all right so let's start over I call to order the meeting uh the monthly business meeting of July for the board of education for Patrick M School District at 751 okay um Dennis would you like do to ground rules please in the event the firearm system should activate please exit the auditorium via any one of the
013marked exits proceed out of the building and away from the building and do not attempt to enter your vehicles and leave the property as you may impede the arrival of fire apparatus smoking and the use of Vape products is prohibited on the use on school grounds at all times additionally public comment when we get to that point will be limited to three minutes per person with no sharing of time and should you address a specific staff member a specific student and is are in violation of privacy laws I will cut you off and direct you to speak to the appropriate administrator thank you okay we're going to move on to number three which is presentations and reports we I don't believe we have any okay so then we can skip over number four which would
014have been public comments on those reports and we're going to go to the consent agenda which is number five can I motion Mr denafo made a motion to accept the agenda can I have a second second yes M and yes Mr denafo yes M Jennings yes M creger yes Mr Salazar yes M M Smith yes Mr Negan yes consent agenda is approved unanimously awesome okay moving along this might be the fastest meeting in the history okay so number six is items removed from the consent agenda and we don't have any um information informational items which would be first readings um independent educational evaluations and regulation declassification of students with disabilities and code of ethics would be first reading and second reading policies would be the grading system okay and letter C would be the 2025
015annual budget vote and election timetable Mr Logan would you like to go over that we publish that every July just an anticipation of the school year so everybody knows exactly when it's going on and um the real process begins in late late January early February thank you Mr Logan uh number eight actions arising out of executive session there were none number nine Community comments Mr Logan again minutes I will give you warning two and minutes okay nobody's coming up all right so next up we're going to have comments um by our superintendent Dr jonesk thank you Mr President I'd like to start this evening by by welcoming Ella on board the team is a delight and pleasure to welcome you on board and it is an honor to be uh recognized as the representative for
016your for the high school and for the district and we look forward to working with you I'd like to also congratulate Mr newly elected or reelected Mr President and reelected uh Miss vice president to your respective roles I know that you'll continue to do a wonderful job and we look forward to your leadership continued leadership and collaboration with the district leadership as well uh also congratulating kellyanne Jennings on her appointment that is an honor as well and it just demonstrates that we're out there not just concerned about what's happening in our district but also what's happening all around our our resp perspective Long Island community so congratulations to you as well and to all of our reelected uh board members so I'd like to start with that I'd like to thank the Board of Education
017also because included on tonight's agenda was the um the recommended approval of the superintendent goals and objectives for the school year there was seven goals six of them were continuations of the work that we had already been doing and a seventh goal is around Community engagement and a goal of not just myself but District leadership is to increase Community engagement beyond the thresholds of what we're currently doing and we've outlined ways that we're going to be looking to do that so we're excited about that the board sometimes may not realize that by you uh approving that affords us to be able to move the entire District forward because the success plans that are developed by our principals and directors each one has their own is all based on the superintendent goals so that we're all
018in alignment so they can't complete their success plans until the superintendent goals are approved so you can expect that on the August agenda we will have provided you with a copy of a success plan uh it's basically the goals and objectives of each director and principal for the upcoming school year and that will be for our August 25th agenda so we will give that to you in sufficient time for you to be able to read also once the superintendent goals are approved we can proceed with the district Improvement plan um and the continued work that we're doing as a district as you know only one of our schools remains in a status of designated Improvement the others are all in good standing but because of that one school it designated us as a district in
019need of improvement so Mrs conned is meeting with a committee for the next two days all day long I believe in order to develop the action plan that will be in alignment with the superintendent goals also included on what the board approved tonight is the actual budget calendar that affords us to be able to do the planning as necessary month by month so I just want to reemphasize by the board being committed to approving all that they did it sets our Wheels in Motion to make sure that we remain on time and on task with all the things we need to do over the summer to open and be prepared for a wonderful opening of the school year because uh we are working all summer um just a few other things I wanted to alert
020the board that there are two very important policies that are up for a second reading in August and we're requesting permission to be able to include them in the back to school packet now we can do this to voice uh we can ask permission on on for the August 12th meeting to just make it a voting meeting for those two policies and if that is 30 days out you still the policy no the 30 days the 30 days out would be they were June 25th okay okay so okay yes okay so um we would like to be able to consider that the other option because we want get it in the back to school packet one is the academic Integrity policy which we updated and the other is the grading policy if we don't vote
021on them in sufficient time we'll have a hard time getting them in the back to school packet to get out to the parents so I just wanted to alert the board I can certainly send you something in the update and if you're IM meable to the August 12th date to just vote on that we'll be able to make the plans accordingly okay okay fine thank you so much um there will be many policies as is customary on the August 25th agenda the board knows that typically the business office reviews their policies on an annual basis so I'm just preparing you there's going to be a lot of policies there could be 70 policies on the July the August meeting we'll get them to you as early as possible so if you would like to review
022them you'll have more than sufficient time to review them uh one of the critical policies is the code of conduct and we typically review that very carefully as it governs our discipline over the course of the school year and embedded in that is the restorative practices um that affords us the ability to have a range of consequences for various um in fractions so we're going to ask as we typically do to suspend a second reading for the code of conduct because we need that to begin out as well and it is like a 35 page document that we have the we're in the process of reviewing what do you want to do that public noce on that um I can I talk with the administrators and make sure if we can have it ready for
023the 12th is that okay uh Lisa okay great thank you so much um um so I did want to also share with the board which I have copies here um and just in case you missed it I just want to make sure that you have copies of the proposed Board of Education meeting presentations for the school year a number of updates to this the the presentation which is in alignment with the board um the superintendent goals and some of the commentary that the board had provided to me last year they um the board had asked that we highlight students every other month uh oh I'll give you mine how many more you can read from mine yeah okay I I I no she's got mine I give her mine fine I'll I'll send you I'll
024send you electronically but what it shows is what you can expect each month so in September we'll start by highlighting the students in the Summer Academy and then the following month we'll have employee of the month so every other month we'll do a student highlight and we're identifying what that highlight will be so the board will know that we're always highlighting students at a board meeting on the op opposite month we'll be doing employee of the month and recognizing our staff the other item that would be on every agenda um as you can see in accordance with the superintendent goals would be evidence of what the goal is that we're presenting so for the August agenda you can see that security and the threat assessment updates will be what will be presented we'll send an
025invitation out to um the um security committee to be present but we have an updated threat assessment protocol that has been worked on all year long in connection with our security director along with our director of secl social emotional learning um they have been working with their committee all year long to develop a threat assessment protocol and so we're now prepared to present that along with our safety measures to begin the school year as you know we purchased Vape detectors for our bathrooms and they are going off and we are working that out so we have a new protocol for that as well as our new metal detectors which are state-of-the-art uh metal detectors uh we will be convening a meeting I see one of our members of the committee is in the audience and
026we'll be convening a meeting over the summer to review all of this prior to uh presenting it get to the board so everybody will be aware so I wanted the board to have this schedule because it really lays out if there are any questions or concerns with it uh or or anything in addition that you'd like to see I am happy to make modifications as may be necessary um uh effective tomorrow there'll be a statement on the website that will be governing uh social media comments I just want to alert the community to that uh our goal is always to present positivity and keep the community informed as to all the wonderful things that are happening within the the the school district whether it's relative to our students or our staff occasionally um the commentary
027gets derogatory and if it becomes something that could be considered uh discrimin Ator in nature or are divulging confidential information that's inappropriate we will reserve the right to review that commentary and if if necessary remove it so we will put comments on all of our social media platforms to reserve the right to restrict any inappropriate language on our social media threads so you will see that that will be posted tomorrow I did want want to remind the board I know two trustees are attending the workshop on Saturday noted leadership and education I believe uh Miss creger trusty creger and trusty Smith will be in attendance I am scheduled to be one of the presenters and I will be um speaking at the Saturday from 10:30 to noon Workshop uh the topic will be the board's
028role an advancing academic achievement for all I do commend the board because it is the board working in tend them with me as a governance team that um gave us Statewide recognition for us uh for me to be able to present as it was the school boards that reached out to me and actually to uh Mr Negan to present he will be Mr Negan will be trusty president Mr presid will be away couldn't participate so I'll represent the two of us and I'm happy that two of our trustees will be in attendance to see that presentation um I'm just about done the end of the year newsletter to the community is uh going out to print we're in the process of translating likely will be posted to the district website and will be in the
029hands of the community Within the next uh couple of weeks and uh so please look out for that um and the last thing that I'd like to report is that I'm meeting over the summer with our uh public relations firm to go over the section of the website where we will keep an update for the community on all of the new um developments with regard to our bond issue and and how where we are with the process as well as where we are with the bay elementary school project which uh we will probably be breaking ground next summer Mr Macy next summer we'll be breaking ground on the expansion at Bay Elementary School I believe that concludes my report Mr President thank you Dr Jones okay we're going to move on to number 10 board
030comments truste Salazar yeah I set my piece so uh have a good summer trusty ker I just want to say I hope that all of our staff and our community our students just take some time to relax and recharge because we have another great year coming ahead for 20 2425 trustee Smith um uh same uh I'm looking very much looking forward to the um leadership uh uh conference this weekend and I'm looking forward to seeing your presentation Dr Jones thank you um I've been to this thing this will be my third year going absolutely worth it it's a it's it's a it's a terrific event um and um yeah thank you have a great summer trustee Jennings I have a couple of things um just to let you know that the state and um and
031assembly passed a nisma supporter bill that would help ease the required Transportation um for the zero emission buses so if we wanted to I know Rob Schneider sent it out to do the take action letter it will shorten the period of time of which Transportation Aid is provided to the district for purchasing or leasing zero emission buses from 12 Years to 8 years it has not yet gone to the governor so hopefully we'll go to the governor too so that's why they want them everyone to sign to take action um yesterday was the board of regions meeting so I encourage everyone to go to the website because there are a couple things they proposed the amendment of section two 20.5 of the regulations of the commissioner of Education relating to special education due process hearing
032which they will prent present a proposed amendment for emergency action to clarify the parents of students who are parentally policed in a non-public school do not have the right under educational law 3602 C to file a due process complaint regarding the payment of services when such Services were recommended by the district on an IEP um an individual Education Service Plan excuse me and were obtained by the parents of a student with disability they also there's a couple of them but they also promot um proposed amendment section 0.2 of the regulations of the commission of Education relating to completion of the faser by seniors enrolled in school districts they will present a proposed regulatory Amendment for adoption as an emergency rule to require School districts to ensure that parents or guardians of high school seniors or
033students if they're 18 years or older complete the fastf DREAM Act application a waiver indicating they have chosen not to file an application notify each High School senior at least twice in a school year of the state sponsored scholarships financial aad and assistant available for college or postsecondary education and annual report to the department Center data for all seniors in the district um there's also relating flexibilities to the um supplementary certificate and supplement of bilingual education extension requirements and response to the influx influx of recently arrived in Asylum seeking students so they will present a proposed regulatory Amendment for adoption as emergency rule to extend the flexibilities for the supplementary certificate and supplementary bilingual education extensions requirement for certain education Educators who apply for this type of certificate and extensions from August 31st 20124 to
034August 31st 2025 they also did propos amendment of section 80 . 5.27 of the regulation of the commission of education related to the extended validity priority of emergency covid-19 CER cert certificates will they present a proposed regulatory Amendment for adoption as an emergency rule to extend the validity period of covid-19 certificates that expire in August 31st 2024 or January 31st 2025 by changing the expiration date of such certificates to August 31st 2025 they also did the relating to extending flexible for incidental teaching we proposed a regular Amendment for adoption as an emergency rule to extend the flexibility for incidental teaching where certified teachers can teach up to 10 classroom hours a week in a subject area not covered by their certificate through the 2425 school year and then the last one is the New York
035State teacher preparation program review process they will present an overview of the program review process for New York state Register educator prepar preparation programs and describe the alignment between program requirements the New York Teaching Standards and accreditation standards providing the foundation for a discussion on the topics that should be included in programs and standards so the new teachers are effective with all learnings in the changing world and that's it can you email that to us we can read it sure great thank you thank you trustee Jennings trusty denafo he good to go trusty um vice president andr I I just had a question um about number one Mr Logan maybe you can for board committees what is the date the last date that people can subm September 30th September 30th and then I don't where
036are the applications are they up yet they're not up yet we haven't named the committee chairs okay so once we name the committee chairs the applications will be up and where will now that Mr nean is the president working on September 30ths on the newsed won't have it tomorrow morning thank you okay I'll finish up um I'm proud to say that in collaboration with the entire board we submitted two proposed resolutions to the New York State School Board Association through the governmental Relations Committee and I'm not going to read the entire rationale but I will read what the two resolutions are so everybody knows that we listen and we ACT first let it be resolved that the New York State School Board Association advocates for the minimum Iz ation of field testing and school dist
037and to allow School District decision-making rights to refuse to participate in field testing without penalty from the New York State education department and then there a detailed rationale of why we submitted that and the second one um was that we are resolved that the New York State School boards Association advocates for 30 to 40 minutes per day of recess time being officially recognized as an alternative form of instructional time in elementary schools and count it towards mandated minutes schools then can out allocate adequate Time For Recess each day to ensure the social and emotional well-being and the whole child development of our students so those were submitted this past Friday they will go before um the board at some when is that Kelly the the actual the resolution dinner no V for the nisba resol
038is September 25th the resolution committee has to put it on all right so the hopefully the nbra resolution committee will um think they're worthy and they'll move forward that this will become a change so um I want to thank the board for their collaboration on this and support getting it done and um vice president andr for being in my ear every day to make sure I got it done Mr Mr President if you excuse me I'd like to just clarify for the community that this process is we are submitting a suggestion to the New York State School boards Association for them to advocate for these policies to New York State yes and the process is we submit this and then there is a regional Long Island meeting and the school boards uh from the region
039will get together and say yes or no to this one and a gazillion others and then there's another larger meeting to all filter out again and then it goes to the the state at Large to be voted upon by the New York by the school districts in attendance at the uh convention in October and that's a Statewide so this is a very very first step hopefully we can get it get New York State School boards to Advocate to state for these changes thank you for that uh truste Smith okay with that being said again I want to thank everybody for their support and um looking forward to a new school year and all all the exciting things that have come about when that happens so with that being said I'd like to call for an
040adjournment of tonight's meeting I'll make a motion who made the motion Diana Diana Francis Francis seconded everything tonight all in favor I 17 okay thank you