001Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight board of education meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. So today's board of education meeting will be conducted in two parts. The first part is the reorganization meeting. The second part is the regular business. At this time, I would like to introduce district attorney first. to the newly elected board. Congratulations. This time we will have the elections for president and vice president of the board of education. So we start with the president. I have a nomination for board president. I have a second nomination. It is my pleasure to declare that president. Now we have Mr. Minister the oath of office to the Vice President, may I have a nomination for board vice president? I nominate Santos. May I have a second to the nomination? It is my
002pleasure to to declare that Miss Santos has been elected as board vice president. At this time, I would like to minister the oath of office to the vice president. All in favor? Now. That's why I'm not a president or vice president. Now we the office So congratulations to Miss Castra Javani and Miss Santos and Miss Kowski. Thank you for all your help over the past five years. It's been a pleasure to work with you. I will miss you. So at this time, I'd like to turn the meeting to the to our board president, Miss Kasuan. Uh yes, we have at this point we are going to nomination appointment of officers four 401. Thank you. of officers resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education central district hereby approves the appointment
003of the officers as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. We will now be swearing in our Yep. our student um board of education member Giovana Lisa. Thank you and welcome to the board of education. Next we will be swearing in our acting district clerk. [Applause] We will now be swearing in the district treasurer. [Applause] Thank you. Now we will move on to the approval of other appointments. Resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby appoints following appointments as listed in their I'm sorry, hereby approves the following appointments as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? Second. Second. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion carries. You don't have to move on to
004section six. Approval of designations resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of school. Board of Education hereby approves the following designations as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? Second. Second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries. And I believe that is the end of our reorganization meeting. Thank you all. Now we'll move on to our our our business agenda called our pledge allegiance. So um I will now move on to correspondence. All correspondence has been responded to since the last meeting. Thank you very much, Miss Santos. Now I'd like to move on to the superintendent report. Dr. Yanni. Thank you, Miss Caster Javani. You want to Nancy, you want to turn it over? Good evening everybody. Um first, uh welcome to Mr. James Ricard to your first board meeting. My entire
005team is very excited to work with you and the entire board to help our students become the best they can be. So, welcome on the board. Uh, this year is a very special year for Oyster Bay since we have a newly elected student representative to the board of education. Uh, Javana Lisa is a mature young woman who consistently demonstrate integrity and compassion. as a dedicated member of the student council. She's a poet. She read a wonderful poem uh the other night uh one of the celebration that we had members uh of the honor society. Joanna consistently lead by example. She's a talented musician participating in both the wind and jazz ensembles. She excels academically while taking multiple AP courses. Javanna sometimes I don't know if your day is longer than 24 hours but Javana is
006uh excited to embrace this new role eager to effectively communicate the happenings that are taking place at the high school and all our schools and we want to welcome you to the board. Uh looking forward to have you every board meeting and I know we have a lot of great ideas. We had a meeting so I truly look forward to that and uh I wish you a wonderful wonderful summer. Uh tonight is also a special meeting. Um and I know the board will um will act on my recommendation. Um but we have several people on on the audience that I want to uh welcome. I won't congratulate them. I will congratulate them at the end. So I'm going to start with our new assistant principal at the high school, Dr. Stephanie Contrarus. Welcome. We also
007have our secondary curriculum associate, uh, Kimberly Corbbo. Our teacher of world languages, uh, French and Spanish, uh, Danielle Villanova. We have a elementary teacher, grade one, Beth Gardner. Beth and our new uh school psychologist uh Megan Allen here. And we also have a uh school psychologist uh Dr. Maria Batas. [Applause] I want to wish uh the entire community a wonderful summer. We had a beautiful graduation on Saturday. uh was inside but it was great. Uh the ceremony was outstanding. So I want to thank the entire high school staff, Miss Argamman, uh Mr. Purdue, uh Mr. Locastro and the entire team. Um we had a wonderful time and uh we're going to miss our seniors, but congratulations to all of them. So now at this point, let me turn the uh microphone to Miss Rainor, a
008deputy superintendent for the public hearing for the district-wide safety plan. Thank you, Dr. Yiani. This evening, we're going to conduct a public hearing for the district-wide safety plan. I'm going to open the public uh open for the public board of education comments. Um before I discuss the plan, I just want to provide an update on the safety committee. The this the current team reviewed the current safety plan in the draft of the 2526 school year. The plan includes a comprehensive planning efforts, addresses prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery with respect to a variety of emergencies that may occur within our district. I'd like to thank uh the Nassau County Bosey's health and safety team for always providing their support, including a vast amount of resources and guidance for our district, as well as our law
009enforcement um that attend our meetings and our head custodians, our principles, as well as our teachers and mental health support that we have on there as well. One important part I'd like to discuss is the five potential plans that do address our district's standard response protocol. Staff and students do construct these drills. Um in addition, this year we have updated our guide for parents, which is a brief six-page document that will be posted online immediately after this meeting that discuss what the five different protocols could be. Hold where you're held in your classroom area. A secure lockout, which is getting inside and locking outside doors. a lock down, which is you locking lights when you're out of sight, an evacuation to a specific location, a shelter, which is has to do with usually a hazard
010or safety weather related type incident. So, all of these are defined so everyone from parents to staff to students know how to react in a situation like this. Um, as I always remind that these protocols as a districtwide level are very vague. Um specifics to these safety protocols are only discussed with the confidential building level safety teams and building level safety plans which for um apparent reasons are not open to the public. Um the safety plan is available on tonight's agenda through board docs as well as after tonight's hearing. The plan will be posted on the district website under the parents and students tab safety and security. The plan will be available for public review and any comments for the next 30 days. The board will then have an opportunity to take action on it
011during the August board of education meeting to be in compliance submitted to New York State by the October 1st deadline. Um again just as a reminder this is only a district plan which is public information. All the building plans are confidential at the level that which is hosted by the principal of each building. Any questions from the board? Thank you very much. That concludes my report. Thank you. of the minutes. Motion to approve our meeting minutes as listed and attached below. Do I have a motion? Second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries. Now we'll move on to opportunity for the public to be heard on agenda items. In accordance with open meeting law, school board meetings where school district business will be discussed are open to the public. The Oyster Bay East Norwich
012Board of Education welcomes public comment at its meetings. The board of education will respond to comments andor inquiries in the appropriate manner. This portion of the meeting is designed exclusively for agenda items. A signin book is provided for those residents wishing to address the board. In order to be recognized, you must be signed in. Each speaker will be allowed a maximum of three minutes. The board president will call you to the microphone in order in which you have signed in. A public discussion a public discussion is prohibited regarding matters relating to an individual's reputation, privacy, or the right to due process which in some way could be violated. A second commentary period is provided for non-aggenda items prior to adjourment. We thank you for your participation and cooperation. We have had one person sign in,
013Miss Emily Longo. Good evening. Congratulations. Oh, thank you. Um, so, uh, I see that we've assigned a groundskeeper. So, does that mean we've you've gotten a response from civil service in regards to what the process the board has done in May? Yeah. Did you Did you We get We received approval to hire two grounds keeping. So you've got an official additional groundskeeper. So you've gotten an official response recently from since last week from civil service. Yes. The day after the board meeting unfortunately. The day after the board meeting. And that was the first and only correspondence you received from civil service regarding this matter. I'd rather have the entire question. So we're not going That's the entire question. I'm clarifying asking you to clarify your statement. So yes, go ahead. That was it. That was
014the only correspondence you've received. No, we received many correspondences. The day after the board meeting, we received approval to hire two grounds keepers. Okay. Dated the day after last board meeting. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Let's move on to instructional personnel items. Resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves the instructional personal items as listed in entirety. Do I have a motion? Second. Second. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion carries. And the first to welcome and congratulate Congratulations to all of you. We'll now move on to 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
015their entirety. Do I have a motion? Motion. Do I have a second? All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion carries. We will now move on to business items. resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves the business items as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? Second. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to special services. 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 special services resolutions as listed in their entirety. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries. We'll now move on to new business. resolved upon the recommendation
016of 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? Second. Second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries. Okay, we will now move on to items for discussion. The proposed um NYSSBA resolutions. Does anyone have have any comments or thoughts regarding the resolutions that were proposed for the New York State State School Board Association? the recess and that was brought up by the New York State um board on the prior uh resolutions and it failed. Um I think the issue is that there's very limited time in the students day. Um so I don't know if anybody else has any sort of issue of concern proposal. So the proposal is that
017they would like to include recess time as counted as instructional time for students. Yes. And that resolution did not pass in the past. I'm not sure if anybody has any thoughts or comments on I just I wanted to comment that the rationale that they um supplied didn't seem to indicate how that would benefit students. So because I'm unclear about that rationale I don't think I would resolution I agree with you um I agree with you the res the just talked about benefits of you know exercise and and time away from school from classroom and fresh air but didn't really understand how it benefit children and having having count towards instructional time I just think we have such limited instructional time as it's hard particularly in the high school to fit in enough courses for children
018to have lunch that I think u I'd much prefer them to have lunch than recess time Any other comments, discussion to the resolutions? Okay, now we'll move on to public participation on non-aggenda items. And we've had one um person sign in, Miss Amry Longo. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I didn't realize that. Okay. Miss Longo. Long. Oh, so we should do this one first. Long. Go ahead. So, I'm just back to um the bond. Did we get a finalization on the bond that the that we were selling? So the the last time the fin the bond that we bought was at 3.4%. Okay. And that was for um $25 million. 25 that was for the it said in the the um what it said in the in the documents. Yes. From what I saw from the
019bond company was a little over $25 million. So, it was 20 the the the bond was for 25, right? Um the total was and I'm I'm giving you the roundabout 25 was the bond that we got that we bought. 27 million was the total and the two millions that we had done before. So total 27 27. So the 2 million that you have before is is so bands is bands. But don't you have to turn bands into bonds when the completion of the work? We had to pay off the the 2 million was paid. Yes. The $2 million that we had in bands, we pay all the principal. So that was paid. So you don't have to bond that. We paid that. How did how did we pay $2 million? Where did we get that
020money from? It was Alec. It was appropriated in our budget. So you we appropriate instead of instead of we floated a bond proposition for 29 million. We were stated that we came 2 million underneath it. Actually two more than two, but okay. Two. Yeah. Two and a half. Whatever. Then that makes it 27. and we floated a bond for 25 which brings us to the two $2.1 million a year in payment for 14 years. Where did the $2 million come from? So the annual debt service, right, Murray? So we received we received approval from the community of 29 and change. Yep. Okay. So we were allowed to spend that amount of money. Yep. So then we pay $2 million for bands. bands, which is a loan that the community approves for and pays back, right?
021Got it. Yeah. So, we paid the 2 million. So, we're left with 25 and we bought bond for 25. But you still have to make a band of bond. It It has to become a bond. Can Meen, you want to clear it? Yeah. So, if I just want to clarify your question. You're asking about the expense side of the budget and how it's being funded. Yeah. Because we respons Come on. Prior to the bond referendum, the district had a debt service expense line on the budget of about 2.22.3 million each year paying off old debt. So the new bond referendum came in in the form of bans for a few years and now bonds the the concept that Dr. Yanni presented four years ago was to have a steady debt service for the district. So,
022we've maintained paying a principal pay down on our bands to make sure we've maintained that expense line of the budget of $2.2 million. Now, we have bonded, which has now put all of those past years at still the 2.2. Now, we are locked in at an expense of $2.1 million for the next 14 years. So, we have maintained a steady debt service expense to the budget of $2.1 million. I understand that. But we still we we we had a bond referendum down to $27 million. Where did the money to pay $2 million in bans come from? Wait, let me can I just back it up a second? Okay, so when you're going So at the time that the last bond paid off during that period, we issued bond anticipation notes. the bond anticipation notes the
023following year after the old debt was paid off had a principal payment due. So we paid the we we matched the principal payments of the ban to the bonds that paid off so that the following year when we would have had no debt service payment we paid the ban down of two and change in million dollars. I understand that you've said that three times. Where did you get the $2.1 million to pay the band off? The bands off if we hadn't floated the bond yet. Did you get it from reserves? Can I just say something? We had a bond, right? I I think it's important that from my perspective, right? I'm not going to able to answer the question because I I tried, right? So, but what I want the community to understand is that
024we had a vote and the community approved $29 million worth of work that was turf, was at the high school, was at Vernon, was at Roosevelt Roosevelt that allowed us to get an extension to the building that for the first time we have four UPK classes that the community can benefit from. We had a beautiful innovation lab. We have a beautiful turf. We have a beautiful We're going to have a beautiful athletic center. We did that after CO when the price of wood the price any anything was a big question mark. So we were able to present to the community and pass it at 29 and change uh capital project. Right. We have completed the project. We we we're like two weeks away from completion. We have completed We have completed the $29 million and
025change project pretty much on time. It was not due to us. The six months delay was because of New York State uh didn't approve it on time. It was not our fault. We have completed all this beautiful project without impacting the education of the students. two and a half million dollar under and maintaining the same debt service. So there would be no fluctuation in the levy over the next 14 years. I think it's a it's a wonderful thing. I'm very proud of I still have the question. I I think it's great that you pat it on the back right now, but but that's not the question. The question is 29 million you came 2 million under which I think is amazing during co with all the stuff that went up um you know um I
026I don't know what the reason is where you cut because material went up it stated that we were going to get a bond of one point a debt rate of 1.5% we came in well over double that and yet we're still at $2.1 million masking where the other $2 million came from. You say bans. We had to pay for the bans somehow. I'm asking where that money came from. The community approved us to spend up to 29. Right. No, I understand. Dr. Yanni, you know what? I will foil it so that I can get it in writing if that's an easier way because I'm I'm just standing up here and we're going back and forth. I'll foil it to see where the money came from. and the of the $29 million what the accounting is
027and where it came from. I understand we get building aid, but building aid it we're at 8% building aid, but $29 million that was approved by the community, right? Was approved by the community at the referendum, right? It gave us permission to continue to use the debt service that we have every year of $2.1 million. It approved it. The $29 million bomb referendum appro approved by the community was for you to do a set of projects for $29 million. Correct. And that and under the promise that our debt service in 14 years would not exceed the $2.1 million not. Okay. All honesty, if you did do the $29 million at 3.75, you would have almost doubled our debt service. So the question is, well, it wouldn't have been at 2.1 million. It would have been
028impossible. The question is, all we're asking, all I'm asking is for an accounting of it. So I put you on the spot. I apologize. It's not No, it's every meeting. It's a spot. But this is like you're leasing a car, right? So the debt service was 2.1 million. You're leasing a car. Then that car has to go back to the dealer. So you go back instead of getting a car that is worth 50,000 we get a car that is worth 100,000 with the same payment. I think it's a wonderful thing. I want I'll ask for an accounting of it. Okay. I think Yep. Thank you. Um I'm not sure whether this was an agenda item or not. Um, Heather Nardoni, excuse me. Non-aggenda. Can Can you come forward? Thank you, Dr. Ayani, for issuing written
029permission to attend this meeting, this public meeting. Please let the record f reflect that no member of the public or taxpayer should ever be required to secure authorization from the superintendent or school board to enter public board of education meetings. This practice is an abuse of a authority and a clear attempt to intimidate and deter participation protected by law. On April 23rd, the board of education held a special meeting where you rescended all five hearing officers who had previously recused. On the Can the board explain why it described impartial hearing officer recusals as withdrawals when all five hearing officers recused? Can you explain why you certified minutes on April 23rd claiming this legal action occurred when it didn't? How does the board justify rescending recusals? What immediate measures will this board take to correct fabrications
030and ensure that the official record is accurate, lawful, and free of deliberate distortions? Thank you, Miss Nardoni, for your comments. Thank you. Well, they're questions. This is public comment section. Thank you. So, when do I ask questions? You can submit questions to the board of ed if you'd like. I do. You you list that I send about 76 emails, but you don't respond to them. Thank you for your comments. So, when do I get my questions answered? Money, we were not able to answer the No, I'm talking to the board. Are you a board member? Thank you for your comments. Thank you. We You don't respond to my emails. You She I'm asking questions. I'm I'm But she told me to submit emails, right? But they don't respond to them. So what is my next
031step? You've restricted me from from public from school property for no explanation why you've used the commissioner of education's case law that doesn't refer to me. Thank you for your comments. You can be seated. I'd now like to make a motion to return to the executive session to discuss matters of personnel. Do we have a motion? Second. Thank you everyone. Thank you everyone. Happy new year everybody.