001Okay, welcome everyone to the 2025 annual reorganization meeting. The HA board of education would please stand for the pledge. Big flag. 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. Okay. Trustee Clemens here. Trustee Valentine here. Trusty McN here. Trustee Copper here. So, at this point, we're going to swear in the new superintendent of schools, Dr. Gail Ducky. If you'd like to go to the podium and raise your right hand, please. Okay, start. Yeah. I, Dr. Gale Duffy who solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the superintendent
002of the Hain Central School District according to the best of my ability. I, Megan Shields, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of District Clerk of the Hing Central School District according to the best of my ability. next. I need to go up next. Okay. So, now we'll have the swearing in of new board of education members and Sean McNal will reaffirm his oath. Great. What am I swearing? Just raising my hand. I, Sean Mcnal, trust me, I Shan Mcnal, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties
003of the office of the Alain Board of Educ Trustee according to the best of my ability. Thank you. Okay, moving on to the election of officers of the Board of Education. May I please have a nomination for president of the board of education? I would like to nominate Peggy Clemens. May I have a second? Second. Is there any discussion? The gratitude. Should she accept this responsibility? All those in favor? I I any opposed? Okay, congratulations. Y was on his way. So, okay. So, actually Oh, should we wait? Um, nope. You can go ahead. Yep. I, my clements, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the Heling Board of
004Education President according to the best of my ability. Thank you. Thanks. Oh, and now I take over. Sorry. Because I'm now the president. Okay. So, now we're gonna move on. I think it's fine for us to go ahead and and nominate and vote on BP. Uh Ezra says he's coming back in. I think he'll be walking in the door. Okay. Um any second and then we can go back to that. Um All right. So, may I please have um a nomination for the position of vice president to the board? I will nominate student Maggie Valentine duty and responsibility and gladly, happily, joyfully. [Laughter] And I'll second. Yeah. All right. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? assert. I Mary Maggie do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the
005Constitution of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties of Office Board of Education Vice President. Thank you, Maggie. Thank you. Um, so I think I'll just I mean I actually don't have next is the comments from the school board president. I I'll mine are actually really quite short. The main thing is just a deep sincere warm welcome to Dr. Dr. Gail Duffy, who it's her first day, but as we've talked about in other meetings, this is actually Gail's seventh or eighth day visiting the district. And so, we're so appreciative of the uh you and I have met a couple of times as well. We're so appreciative of the fact that you're here with us, but also that you've devoted so much time and balancing multiple responsibilities to help make this
006transition as productive as possible. So, welcome to Heling. Thank you. Like the blue dress, the blue name. Good first day. Um and then the only other thing I'll say is that um in in terms of upcoming meetings for the summer, uh the board of education, we're going to have our retreat on July 29th at five o'clock here in the middle school high school library. Um, again, as our retreat was last year, just so the public knows, we're just focusing on on on uh you know, planning and and moving forward and developing our relationships and our our plans and our our sort of guiding principles as we move forward into the new year. I think this will be an exciting year for Halane. Um, and then as is typical, we are going to not meet much
007over the summer, but we'll then have two meetings in August. One will be a very brief meeting via Zoom, but also open to the public on August 19th, and this will be to set the tax levy limit. There's a deadline by which we need to do that. uh but to accommodate last minute hiring and other sort of financial and business things that the district needs to take care of before the school year the school year like students join us for the school year we'll meet in person at a business meeting on August 26 at 7 o'clock here at the middle school high school library all right so we're going to jump back in our agenda a little bit which is um to ask Ezra to come up and take his over. It's properly properly dripping.
008Got baptized on the way. There's the copy. Oh, take a dry. There you go. All right. I just start. I as Clemenson do solemnly swear that I support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution State of Europe and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office board of education trustee according to the best of plan. Um, so next on the agenda is something that we always do at our reorganization meeting, which is to hold a public hearing for the code of conduct and then a public hearing. There's separate public hearings for the code of conduct and the extracurricular they are even though it can be one in this one. It's under one. It is. Oh, it is. Okay. Okay. I think I then it's one. So opening I am now um
009opening uh the public hearing for the um Heline Central School District code of conduct for the 2526 school year. Um, one thing just for the public hearing is to thank that committee that meets every year and always works hard to make sure that the language is updated to reflect regulation and law and policy as well as um the district's uh uh goals for our students code the conduct. But if there's no comments then I am just I'm going to close public hearing and we will the board will act on um approving the code later in our meeting uh comments Dr. Ducky. Is there anything you'd like to say? Sure. So first day here but um as Peggy mentioned I feel like I've been here for a bit of time having been appointed in Mark. Um,
010it's been a wonderful experience so far. Everyone's been very welcoming. I just want to thank Megan publicly for just hitting the ground running with me as she's transitioning with Carl leaving and me starting. So, she's been wonderful. So, thank you for that. Um, had the chance today to walk around the buildings with our new director of PPS and see our first day of ESY. And while we were walking around, we saw Julia doing all her things in the main office at high school and also Maryanne at the middle school. So, even though school is out, there's still a lot of energy and lots of different things going on within the the buildings. Um, getting ready to start my entry plan meetings. So, just for the the board and the community, I'll have a chance to
011meet over the summer individually with each of the board members and then also each of the admins just to get a sense from your perspective all things happening. So, I'm looking forward to that. And then there'll be opportunities within uh the school year to meet with the rest of the community and do the same type of thing. So, great first day. I'm feeling all the feels and just looking forward to continuing to work with everyone. All right. So, next on the agenda are information reports. So, those are the um financial reports that we will act on at our next business meeting. So, at the very end of August. Next on the agenda is um the board of education minutes. So this a consent agenda item. Uh may I have a motion uh to approve the
012minutes from our June 17th meeting? So move second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? So next, as is typical for a reorg meeting, we have quite a few um items that we'll be approving on the consent agenda. Oh no, actually this first bit we did a lot last time. So some of these it's a mix of approving the most recent set of financial uh reports as well as some other approvals. Um may I have a motion, please? So move second. All those in favor. Any opposed? No. And next, actually, here's now where we hit a whole bunch. So, a bunch of personnel appointment um on this next uh consent agenda set. So, may I have a motion, please? So, moved. Second. There's anything really to call out? I looked roll um uh all the
013folks in all the roles that we need to run a school district. Um all those in favor? I any opposed? And next in a similar way um a b a number of designations for various roles um over the course of the 2526 school year. May I have a motion please? So move. Second. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? And authorizations. Um, may I have a motion, please? So, move. Second. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? And next is rates of pay and reimbursement. um for things like summer workers, substitutes, election worker rates, all the things you'll need for the coming school year. May I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? And next, we're moving into unfinished business. Uh so the first piece on this is
014the approval of the revised board of education. uh meeting and work workshop schedule and actually some of these we've already talked about, right? So, um changing the August 19th meeting to a brief meeting, moving the August 19th business meeting to the 26th, and then as we've actually kind of already talked about and I think approved, what's this different about? So, we already approved the calendar. This approves the fact that these bullets are exceptions to the first and third Tuesday. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. That that's what I Okay. So, because our because what we did just a second ago is say that we're going to hold our meetings on the first and third and this is pointing out those exceptions which we've already talked about in public. Okay. Yes. All right. So, may we have recommended action?
015It resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the following changes to the dates for their meetings. August 19th, brief virtual meeting to set the tax levy limit. August 19th business meeting is moved to August 26th. There will be single meetings in November and December. And the February 17th workshop meeting is moved to February 24th. You have a motion, please. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? Uh, next on the agenda is the second reading and the this time the adoption for the policies that we talked about last time which is not notification of disclosure of employee disciplinary records um as well as uh the use of internet enabled devices during the school day. Um may we have a recommended action please? It resolved
016that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby adopts the following heling central school district policies as attached 3311 and 7316. You have a motion, please. So moved. Second. Just to flag, you know, a couple interesting things. I thought you know the main thing about the um notification of disclosure the only change is that when foiled the district will provide written notification to the affected employee and then for the internet enabled devices the main um thing that I wanted just to flag is um it really kind of leaves it open-ended to like store and on-site storage areas as and the district will communicate all of that to the parents. Parents will be notified in writing of methods available for um contacting students during the school day. um we are prohibited
017for suspending students just for accessing their device during the school day and uh the school needs to publish an annual report detailing enforcement of the policy. So these are just things that I thought for the good of the board to highlight. Um thanks very much. Um and I know that there plans to be working on this during the school year. Yes. I mean, not just in the summer in prep in preparation for the school ongoing. I'm sure it will be ongoing. Yes, I'm sure there will be modifications. Okay. Um, anything anybody else has that they want to know? Right. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? And that was the only item of old unfinished business. So now we're missing moving to new business with starting with the CSC CPSC recommendations. May we have the
018recommended action please? It resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the recommendation of the committee on preschool special education and committee on special education as presented below. May we have a motion please? So move second. All those in favor. Any votes? And moving on, post approving uh the Helane Central School District code of conduct for the 25 26 school year. The recommended action, please. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education hereby approves the Haldane School District code of conduct for 2025 2026 as presented. Um, we already had the public hearing, so I think we can just move into approving it. Um, all those in favor? I. Any opposed? and for the approval of the Haldane Central School
019District extracurricular code of conduct. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the Haldane School District extracurricular code of conduct for 2025 2026 as presented. Um, may we have a motion, please? Some moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? And finally on the agenda is the approval approval of the BR bond resolution to purchase the student transportation vehicle which was the big bus that the public voted on in May. Recommended action, please. And this is over. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the attached resolution authorizing the purchase of a student transportation vehicle for the Halding Central School District at Philipstown Duchess and Putnham counties, New York at an aggregate maximum estimated
020cost of $25,000 and authorizing the issuance of $25,000 serial bonds of said school district to pay the cost thereof. Do a motion. Oh, yes. May we have have a motion, please? So, moved. Second. Now, by the way. Okay. Um, President Clemens, yes. Vice President Valentine, yes. Trustee Clemenson, yes. Trustee Copper, yes. Trustee McN. Um, communication from the public. move into board of functions. Does anybody have anything to I send send my apologies for not attending either of our meetings in June because I was otherwise occupied with my night job sometimes gets in the way but appreciate I did watch them reviews are good I believe. Yeah. Right. Thank you so much. another example of how, you know, fitting in board service is can be challenging at times. We appreciate it. Thanks, Sean. Um, any final
021thoughts from you? Looking forward to day two tomorrow. Um, I move to adjourn the meeting. May we have a second, please? Second. All those in favor? Right. Thank