001I know you want to tell We're ready to go. Thank you. Good evening everyone and welcome to our meeting of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District Board of Education meeting. Can we all please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I alian 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. >> Thank you. >> Now I'd like to turn the meeting over to Dr. Yiani for the superintendence report. Thank you, Miss Gastra Javanni, and good evening everybody. Uh it was great to have all the students back. Uh we are in full session. Uh sports is going on, everything is uh moving along and uh we're very happy to see the schools full with students. Um
002at this time, I'm going to ask uh Joanna to give us a report, student report. Joanna, >> hello everybody. >> Good evening. I hope everybody's doing well. So, um, as you all know, students came back to school this September 2nd and, um, after a restful summer break and it was just refreshing to see the halls filled with everybody again, um, students were able to reconnect with their friends and their teachers and just get back into the swing of things after a long summer break. It was just really amazing to be back in school again. Um, along with this, is the um statewide cell phone ban. Um and I'm sure as the year progresses, students are going to really um become more adjusted to this phone ban. And even at the beginning, this first week, I
003haven't really been seeing any phones. It's been working. It's been doing a good job. And as I said, as the year progresses, I'm sure everybody's going to get more used to it. Um among the few uh first few events of this school year, we we had the um club fair which happened just yesterday and it was giving students a chance to see what opportunities the school has for them and all the amazing clubs that we offer. Um I was there supporting international club. It was amazing. I even got to join some clubs that I haven't been able to join yet and I it was we had amazing turnout. Um it was just great. And um recently we just completed auditions at the end of last week for our school play in the fall puffs which
004is the story of Harry Potter told from the Hufflepuffs view. Um we just finished auditions as I said and we have a amazing cast. um they have already started working on the script and preparing for this November and I am just truly excited to see the final product. These students are all so talented. Among one is my sister. So, of course, I have to give a shout out to my sister, but um I suggest that everybody go check this play out. Last year's was fantastic. I'm sure this one is going to be just as good, if not better. And that's all I have for you guys tonight. Thank you so much, >> Joanna. From now on, my superintendence report is going to be a lot shorter. You're doing a great job. Um, so um we
005have uh I want to congratulate Anna Anna Shade. Uh she has been named the merit award recipient for the 2526 News Day Long Island Scholar Artist Award. And this is the first time that Oyster Bay High School um has received this honor. So congratulation to Anna. Uh she's uh nearly a decade long of classical ballet. Um she has been an amazing student uh in the principal honor role. Um award uh uh in French and poetry. uh she serves as the yearbook editor and as um over 130 hours of community service. Uh so congratulations Ana, keep up the wonderful work. Um this year again we had the um annual uh common app boot camp. Uh this year we had a a record of uh 42 students who registered and attended uh to fill out the application
006for the uh college uh process. So counselors worked with um all the uh all the students on the essays uh the application and they also had reps from Deli and Mallaloy uh and they had one-on-one consultation. And so I want to thank the supervisor of guidance and all the guidance uh uh staff who helped and it was a very productive day. Um and at this time I'd like to invite to the uh microphone um deputy superintendent Miss Rainor to give a a final update on the uh 21st century construction project. >> Thank you very much. Yes. So I'm very happy to be able to present to you for the 2526 school year one of the last bond updates we'll see as we are there we go very fortunate that all projects have been substantially completed.
007They are now occupied by students and we are over $2 million under budget for the completion of this project. to go through some uh historical to look back four years already um from the spring of 2021 through December 7th of when this was presented just to remind the community this was presented back by Dr. Iani um as clear a problem when debt falls off and we're trying to run the budget over a multi-year and the opportunity to be able to provide this kind of work for our students to have these spaces. The important piece of this is that the debt service must remain consistent because it has a major impact on the tax cap as we speak about every spring. So this is one of the slides that we had presented back in 2021 and
008you can see right on the bottom here one of the key pieces were to keep that same level of debt service with the approximate $30 million. So it clearly has been a successful mission to be able to have 21st century learning spaces for our students to see them in all the different spaces from high school to TR to Vern and now finishing up phase three. So to go through some of the work, just a brief overview of all the projects looking back to phase one starting in summer of 2022 with our turf field. Before you can see the space wasn't used as much, especially during the day um for the an older grass field. Now we have this beautiful turf field which on any given day during physical education classes, you see students out there
009at all times in the front of the high school building, what it looked like before. And now we have this beautiful space that we see students and teachers uh alike sitting outside on beautiful days. In the space behind our library, there was a storage space and an an additional kind of annex to the library. Now we have this beautiful innovation lab that is multi-purpose. It's a view from the back of it where you can see some where the robotic stage uses on the back right. Moving upstairs, thanks to our team that we have here this evening and many of our students as we see this was an old classroom that has now been turned into a beautiful broadcasting studio which many of you see on our YouTube live videos. Uh attached on the other side
010of that wall we also have the collab space for our students as well. Moving on to James Vernon. As a reminder, before the space, our students, most of the music instruments, especially for zero period before school, was run in the cafeteria um in in smaller classrooms in the back. Now we have this beautiful music wing in which general music, orchestra, and band, and chorus all have an amazing performance space. Here's a picture of what the cafeteria now looks, and students have been absolutely enjoying it. This is also additional picture of the inside of the music wing. You can see all the music storage as well as the nice hallway that leads into the additional spaces. Uh in addition to that because of the rearrangement of the rooms and additional OT PT space was provided for
011our special services for so the support services provided. Moving on to Theodore Roosevelt Elementary. Again before bond these were some pictures that um were brought to the board's attention um which were quickly been able to be addressed in our bond. These were spaces used for OT and PT services on the stage. Um, this was an additional closet as you can see from the sink in the back. Um, an older office space was turned into AIS spaces. And at this end of this existing building, we were able to put this brand new space to really open it up to have brand new classrooms to support the additional full day UPK classrooms as well as also support services to be pilledled off the stage and out of our classroom spaces. And you can see even some more
012small group spaces allowed coming into phase three as we finish this up. Uh as a reminder, phase three, as we've been talking about since probably the end of the fall, I believe it was the music classrooms that used to be in the back of the room have now been renovated. They gutted out the space, reframed them to be more usable for students and now have a classroom and two smaller group spaces. Here you can see what used to be the music room is now a space for teachers and a smaller group space. On the other side of the building, our athletic complex, also used to be called the Butler building, um also received a renovation. As a reminder, the space only had twothirds of it being used for our students. On the right side, you
013can see one-third of it was used for for storage uh for our facilities department. That storage that used to exist on that small part of the Butler building is now into a ground storage space uh towards the way on the back fields by the concession stand. The Butler building itself got a full facelift now that it was opened up for full students use. You can see a little bit of the progress as we went through this summer. It always looks messy before it gets better, but as the messy part cleaned up, this was the rendering in which we were hoping to look for. This is what it actually looks like. um which is truly amazing to see it come to life. Looking down further to the right side, again, this was used for just storage
014of uh vehicles. Tore it up, cleaned it up, new drainage, and now has a beautiful space for students. This was the rendering you can see with a turf space on the left side as they exit the athletic complex with a basketball hoop and some markings on the ground for students. And this is what it looks like as of last week. Moving towards the back as you around the corner into our athletic fields in the back of Vernon. Again, some more construction as we go through the rendering to have a nice space as uh athletes are walking into their back space. Archway has not been installed. We're still waiting on that. Couple little punch list items, but you can see the brand new pillows with our logos on there um with some plantings below. Moving inside,
015you can see it was quite old on the inside, needing repairs for some of the paddings. Um again this was the storage area that was not used for students uh towards the one-third of the building. Tore down the wall, opened it up for full use for students and now we have a wide open space fully airond conditioned. This was the plan of what it was supposed to look like and this is what it looks like now. A big wide open space for students, multi-purpose um for a variety of events at not only for our Vernon students but for our athletes in with districtwide. So, I'd like to thank everybody for the support over the past four years, including the board support of this entire 21st century bond project, the support of the custodians in the
016building every day, weekends, nights, working through this, our staff that's helped become this vision alive for our students, and truly being able to see the smiles on their faces every day is what's made all this worth it. Thank you. [Applause] >> Thank you, Mr. Anor. Does anyone on the board have any questions or comments? I I would just like to thank um Miss Rainer, Dr. Yanni, and all the staff. Um it's incredible what you've done with this bond and that we came under budget and we're really um it part of our board goals that we're going to adopt tonight are just maintaining infrastructure of our school. and this gave us a jump start to maintaining um buildings in the proper order and giving our kids 21st century learning. Thank you. >> That thank you very
017much. >> So now we'll move on to sorry to our approval of the minutes. Um a motion to approve our meeting minutes as listed and attached below. Motion. >> Motion. >> A second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> All opposed. The motion carries. >> We'll now move on to our opportunity for the public to be heard on agenda items. In accord in accordance with the open meeting laws, the school board meetings where school district business will be discussed open to the public. Oyster Bay East Norwich Board of Education welcomes public comment at its meetings. Board of Education will respond to comments and or inquiries in the appropriate manner. This portion of the meeting was designed exclusively exclusively for agenda items. A signin book is provided for those students, those residents wishing to address the
018board. In order to be recognized, you must sign in. Each speaker will be allowed a maximum of three minutes. The board president will call you to the microphone in the which you have signed in. Public discussion is prohibited regarding matters relating to an individual's reputation, privacy, or right to due process which in some way could be violated. A second commentary period is provided for nine agenda items prior to adjournment. So nobody has signed in. Okay. And we will move on to the approval of instructional personnel items. Resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves the instructional personal items as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Do I have a second? >> Second.
019>> Any discussion or questions? >> All in favor? >> I. All opposed. Motion carries. We'll now move on to approval of non-instructional personnel items. Resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves the non-instructional personal items as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. Are there any comments or questions? All in favor? >> All opposed? Motion carries. We'll now move on to special services or approval of special services resolutions. Resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves these special services resolutions as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? >>
020So moved. >> Second. Are there any comments, questions? All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed? Motion carries. We will now move on to approval of new business resolutions. Resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves the new business resolutions as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> A second. Second. >> Are there any questions or comments? Could I ask just um an explanation about the certification of lead evaluators for teachers and principles? >> Yes, that's an annual requirement by the New York State regulations uh in order to conduct annual teacher evaluations. All administrators in the district need to be certified. That training occurred over the summer by Dr. Harrian, our executive director
021for curricular instruction, uh who gave the state mandate train to the all the administrators and all the are people who have completed that. >> Thank you, Miss Rainer. And I'm not sure, but approximately how many students would be attending our 10th grade college awareness tour, you know, the information is still going out there. It is open to the whole 10th grade. I want to say last year was roughly in the 5060 range. >> Um, but not all the signups have card yet. But we'll we can give the board further updates as once the information goes out. Okay, great. Closer to 60. Okay, great. Thank you. >> Okay. Um, all in favor? >> I. All opposed. Motion carries. Now we move on to opportunity for the public to be heard for non-aggenda items. And nobody's signed
022in. Um, I have a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you everyone for attending the meeting. Have a good evening.