001for hello everyone and welcome to the March 25th 2025 uh business Board of Education meeting can we all please rise to the Pledge of Allegiance flag thank you I will now move on to correspondence Santos okay all cor all correspondents was via email on um 226 Rachel and Andrew rbr um had a question on tonight's meeting 22625 Francesco ayani response um 226 um Chelsea Mai um regarding incoming third grade concerns uh on 226 um Franchesco ayani uh response um Samantha Stapleton on 226 Revenue budget proposal concerns uh 227 um um Marney uh zidel on the proposed budget concern on 227 Jennifer um Al deal uh regarding uh the Rosevelt Elementary proposal on uh 227 Thomas winhusen update on written request um on 228 Rebecca um Carlo regarding concerns on regarding um an email response from
002Ms argaman um on 228 Monica alar Al Morano regarding the uh Board of bed meeting to recognize athletic accomplishments um Annie Hawk on 33 regarding class size um Carolyn um Morales regarding education on 34 on 35 um Christine um ler regarding concerns on 36 Thomas winous update on written request followup on 36 Adrien um sherov regarding the um OB swim team on 36 Thomas wih housing regarding update written request followup on uh 310 Erica Lusher regarding a board of ed reduced um class size um on um I'm sorry 313 um Monica Al Morano regarding the Board of Ed meeting um on 316 Adrien shto regarding the obn um swim team um on 3177 and there was uh numerous emails regarding um the obn swim team and uh Dr yam's uh responses and on 32 um
003I'm sorry February 26 to March 5th seven emails from Heather nadani regarding various subjects thank you Miss Santos now I'd like to turn it over to Dr Yanni for a superintendent report thank you Miss castra jaavan and good evening everybody uh March is uh music in our school's month I didn't know that but that's that's what it is but Arista Bay every month is a celebration of music education so on March 20th uh in the high school gym we celebrated a bands districtwide and we had 242 students and I I spoke to a lot of parents uh pretty much districtwide and it was truly impressive to see all the bands playing together and the last song was mission Impossible and they all play at the same time and I received so many compliments I didn't
004have anything to do with it but I just want to pass that along so I want to thank all the obviously congratulate all the musicians uh Miss Maisy our teacher M Mr deasy Mr Janetta Mr siia and a a special conductor was here before my time uh laa angelone and obviously I want to thank our director um Erica goop Pac for the wonderful work that that she does I know that uh she was moving chairs all the way to the last minute to make sure that everything was perfect so an amazing job great job and I keep up the great work March 19th on Wednesday March 19th revelt hosted a first grade social studies night uh the first grade and their parents uh visited five activities and it's always nice to see parents students and
005and staff and also our own students from the Honor Society Rolla Honor Society working together with with the young uh our younger students at Roosevelt so they had many activities um so I want to thank everybody and obviously I want to thank our our principal Miss debah small for all the work she's always there um the biggest cheerleader in the school and uh the the students and the parents really appreciate all your work deah um we're very fortunate to have you so thank [Applause] you um March 18th at the high school we had uh Jane poshan uh from 3gn uh an educational nonprofit organization founded by the children of Holocaust Survivors to preserve the Legacy and the lessons of the Holocaust uh Sixth and eighth graders heard um heard about Jane's grandmother story and it
006was uh truly an impressive uh presentation uh they're really empowering students to become informed about responsible decision and to stand against against Injustice so uh great presentation and the students enjoy that uh very much I am also in in the athletic department I'm very pleased to announce that we have multiple students in the winter 2425 season who were named new Tuesday all Long Island teams uh that's a great accomplishment to be named part of a Long Island team um and we were very fortunate um because of the work of our students and the athletes and you know obviously the coaches and the teachers uh to have our students selected in such a prestigious team uh so we had uh Colton schmeing has been selected for First Team all Long Island for wrestling we had Luke
007cougler Scarlet Shelly and Gabriella Sherlock all have been selected for the first team on Long Island for fencing and Jason son was selected for the second Team all Long Island for fencing we're extremely proud of our students you know thinking about the size of our schools and to have so many students um represent Long Island uh coming from our school is is truly an impressive accomplishment so um look for the pict in the news day and um congratulations again W Bay is truly a a special place I said that all the time I'm very proud of be the superintendent of this incredible Community um we recently were faced with with an unexpected challenge uh some people there really have no uh respect for the environment um and no morals I would say uh they dumped
008over 500 tires um in in a property that the school owns that is on 106 and um it's between 106 and and 25 a part preserve nobody knows that the school owns that property but what what happened after that was truly extraordinary um together with you know Morin was there too on on Saturday the community came together and we literally worked with community members and uh to clean up over 500 tires and garbage that were dumped um dumped in there uh we working with the police department we're working with the town we look working with the community we're installing cameras we're putting signs um in order to prevent this from happening again but I think that I want to take this opport opportunity to express my deepest thanks to um supervisor saladino he was able
009to work with us to take all six tons of 500 tires more than 500 tires and kind of uh take that usually the towns take four tires of most uh there were like uh three large containers that were that were taken so um working with the town strong partnership with the town it's truly something that it's um quite remarkable um I also want to thank a couple of people that you know worked um really putting the T bringing the tires up and and physically getting hands dirty uh Moren was there believe it or not she was lifting tires I don't know why she finds the energy but she did Mike rpy Wayne placella and Jose Gman um I was coordinating a little bit down too but um I think Moren did most of the tire
010removal um I just also want to give a big shout out to uh Rob Brasa and Captain Mitch uh they were so creative in terms of coming up with a system to lift all these tires so in a couple hours um really the whole place was cleaned up this experience really highlighted the incredible bond between our schools and our community seeing our our Community come together to tackle an environmental issue is something that it's a lesson learned for for everybody so from the bottom of my heart I want to thank the community members and the wonderful place that that we live in and so we're going to continue to do whatever it takes to make sure that it stays Immaculate as it should be so thank you again at this point I would like to
011invite to the podium um Miss RoR for the third budget presentation and I just want to say a big thank you to Moren we also have Zach over here with us and and the entire business department uh they literally working day and night literally day and night and weekends uh to make sure that we present a budget to the board that is fiscally sound and is right for the students and that's the most important thing at the end of the day um we will do whatever it takes to make sure that the students get what they need uh independently from what we hear from the state where we get or we don't get from the state so um the idea is to move forward and make sure that the students to get what they need
012to be successful so um Miss RoR thank you for all your work Zach thank you for all your work and uh all yours thank you so much I am pleased to present tonight's third budget presentation um as in past presentations we will review some of the basics that we saw January and February as well as go into further details of the revenue expense budget as well as some of the capital reserve um projects you will see on the May ballot so what the work we do is All Surrounded from the vision of empowering all students to achieve Excellence but specific to the budget we are our mission is to maintain and Advance The District in a model of excellence and Innovation providing exceptional opportunities and outcomes for all students by partner with our community and
013staff to ensure thoughtful management of our resources and investments in the future the budget Focus has remained the same throughout the year since January uh first presented staying within the allowable tax levy cap alligning the resources to Foster growth for Student Success um appropriately using our Capital reserves um and of course promoting our fiscal responsibility so as presented last time over the past several years we've been facing an extremely high CPI as we all have in our own homes this year it has slightly come down or I should say significant come down but it's still well over the 2% so many of our expenses throughout the year are still going up by three four 5% but we have a tax gap of two which I'll speak about over the next few slides so most of
014the confusion does come between the allowable tax levy growth factor and the CPI those are not the same our CPI is at 3.3% is which what many of our expenses are going up by the allowable tax levy growth factor is what the New York State Office of controller does at the 2% so what are we allowed to propose for a tax levy increase for year year this is the formula given to us by the state of controller and that outcome of that formula will give us our allowable tax levy or the amount we are proposing for the community to um approve in May it is a multi-step formula it is the same formula for all districts across New York state but because of the factors that go into the formula you will get a different
015outcome which is why you hear different percent increase increases for district to distri District um it is due by March 1st we are in um compliance with that so to go into what those numbers mean uh how we arrive at that number for our district the key components are the tax levy uh the prior tax levy our property tax based growth factor our pilot our Capital exclusions and of course that 2% number so going into further details here you can see for Oyster Bay eastn Area our tax based growth factor is 1.014 and looking at that from previous years you can see that number has significantly made an impact on our tax caps of this year our prior Pilots have seen fairly consistent but has slightly increased which again has an impact but they are
016usually pretty predictable numbers our allowable growth Levy factor is that 2% so again although CPI is uh 3.3% we are capped at 2% and you can see here over the past few years it has been much higher than the 2% capped at two% obiously so the local Capital ly share is something we've been discussing even going back four to five years when Dr Yanni first presented our bond project you can see it's it's very important for the district to maintain a consistent Debt Service level which you can see here we have over the past several years we have maintained a Debt Service right around 22.1 million because again that helps keep the steady uh Levy for the community without having any fluctuations that brings us to our allowable tax Lev limit for the 25 26
017school year of 2.9 which is approximately about $1.7 million increase from a levy to Levy looking at the current school year 2425 to 2526 looking at the budget structure simply put revenues have to equal our expenses uh the revenue is heavily uh on the tax levy which I'll talk about in detail the next few slides and tonight we'll go into the expense side of the budget as well so going back to uh the presentation that was in February you can hear that the majority of our our uh revenue for the district is tax levy 80% comes from the community which is why Dr y just said it is so important for us to remain fiscally responsible for our community while making sure the students have everything they need and we're contining to enhance the programs
018other than tax levy we have about a 5% uh from state aid which we get and other revenue is about 7% and again I'll go into a little bit of details what that is the tax levy is driven directly from the tax cap that I just spoke about which again here you see approximate 1.7 number levity Levy increase looking at the state aid uh back in January we did get the state aid runs from the governor you can see here we received the standard 2% Foundation Aid uh that most districts got we were very very happy to see at least an increase since last year at this time we were facing a significant decrease um our expect a fluctuates a little bit it's down about 100,000 for this year but we did receive that increase
019in upk as we talked about last time now being able to increase our program going from Day program last year to two full day programs this year to next year having four full day programs uh it is a tremendous support for our students this gives a little bit more of a breakdown on uh more of the expense driven need you can see there's certain fluctuations there's certain things like building a that we will see expect to see increase over the next few years as we close out our capital projects from the bond that Aid signant go up things like Bose's Aid fluctuate simply because we add Services throughout the year so this is based on an estimate actual Aid will change looking at the other miscellaneous it is important that every year the Board of
020Education as well as our um external order when they present every fall looks at our our Reserve runs it helps makes us have a long long range planning and a good fiscal condition for the district so each of the reserve reviewed we looked at the numbers for each year this is where we stand for this year again very healthy reserves which is why we've been able to maintain some balance as we've seen spikes in CPI so this shows you over the past few years as the CPI those spikes in the heavy years because of this strong financial condition and the long range planning we've done we've been able to maintain minimal increases to the community because of uh this funding this gives a little bit of an overview on the that miscellaneous number towards the
021end simply things from use of facilities so a lease that we have with another school on Sundays that you see um interest income that we make on interest in our savings accounts things like that so putting that all together our tax ly our state aid and our reserves here you see the year-to-year proposal of what the changes on are those numbers putting it back to the P chart again the tax Lev is 88% state aid and other Revenue going into further detail this presentation we're going to look at the expense side of the budget which of course has to equal the revenue side so this gives an overview of the major categories of course salaries and wages is the highest uh because of the nature of a school Community you that will always be significant
022uh benefits goes right along with that transportation is always a significant cost for districts um and you see the breakdown of uh several of the categories again making sure we're consistent year-to year um and providing exactly what the students need putting it together in a pie chart you do see the salaries and wages and the benefits uh compr uh make up about 75% of our budget uh one important way to look at the budget which many of you have probably seen in previous years is in the budget newsletter that goes out is the three-part expenditure budget this is really important because it breaks down the cost from an administrative lens a program lens and a capital lens so here's what you can see that you would have had last uh spring in your mail sent
023home this is the kind of the items of which means for each so in the administrative it's really the supervision um legal uh audit Financial costs the capital of is the facilities the utilities where the program is actually the the ational cost that's where all the money for the students the teachers things like that are going into so um clearly that's the biggest P section of our part chart these are the numbers on where we are for this year for the proposed budget you can see where they are but more importantly putting it side by side you can see from the current approved budget that we're in right now to the proposed budget uh I'm proud to say that we're continuing to increase the program expenses while decreasing the other expenses again being fiscally responsible
024but making sure the students have everything they need putting it all together year to year here's your budget from the current approved budget to the proposed budget at just slightly over $2.1 million this year we have several capital projects we're looking to be able to support the the work the bond is doing but also maintain the existing facilities in addition to the work so of course to be able to look at what we're doing for a proposed Capital project we always look back to say what we've used and what we've funded in past years because we want to make sure we're maintaining a healthy balance each year so here's a fewe look back and you can see on the bottom of what the proposed is for this year so what does that work for let's
025look at kind of some of the projects we're going to see so at the high school you will see concrete asphalt sidewalk repairs and a parking lot renovation right here along M Le uh this Auditorium we we you can see some of the lights out right now but uh the auditorium house lights do need a replacement and there's several of our older HVAC systems that just need some upgrades and some Replacements so that is the work at the high school at Theodor Roosevelt Elementary uh because of the amazing work with the bond project uh the stage has been turned back over to being a stage and not being an additional classroom space so we're going to be working with um both Miss J Pac and Miss small to look at how we can really use
026that space more as a student centered space in the cafeteria so we're going to do some minor Renovations in there as well as uh air conditioning to provide another main area of air conditioning space at TR there's also some of the old classs just need some carpet and flooring Replacements districtwide we do have several Roofing concerns so we are the administration building has a roof that is significantly old and Beyond repair that has to be replaced and there's some other smaller repairs that we have to do districtwide in all three buildings that is what makes up the $990,000 looking at the technology project this is uh much thanks to um Miss Gibbons and the five-year technology plan making sure our students have all the onetoone devices we need um so this technology Reserve project will
027support the onetoone initiative with students having iPads in K through2 Chromebooks in 3 through2 where they do get a new one as they move uh up to the high school and um replacement of Staff devices again on a very um set schedule every few years as they age out replacing just a few at a year um additional educational display boards replacing Aller ones that have been outdated and also some security system upgrades so we are continuing with our timeline the next meeting will be be on April 22nd with budget adoption followed by the hearing and then the vote on May 20th uh this entire timeline is posted to the website which you can see first let me start with the agenda each presentation the night the night before will be posted here um with all
028the supplement materials as well as on the district website under Board of Ed all of the past presentations as well as the archive for past years will be on this website for anybody to view throughout the budget season um additionally on this presentation there's some information um about whether you're registered to vote how you register to vote so I've provided that to the community it's important to know the last day to register to vote is May 15th and uh I've also posted the information for the District Clerk's Office which is located at R Queens l in the administration building thank you very much Mr R I was just curious the um Renovations that could would happen at at Rosevelt for the cafeteria I have long overdue so thank you what would be a time frame
029or do you have an idea of time frame most of the work we should be able to get done this summer the only one that might be a little bit longer is the air conditioning because of the long lead time and the equipment but most of the other renovation to be able to put students on that stage will be done by September oh great thank you any questions coms nobody um I'd now like to move on to uh the appointment of Officer um resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East norch Central School District hereby approves the appointment of officers as listed in their entirety do I have a motion so second con conratulations Miss Walsh thank you now I'd like to move on to the
030approval of minutes a motion to approve the meeting minutes as listed and attached below do I have a motion so Mo second second all in favor I all opposed motion carries now we'll move on to um opportunity for the public to be heard item in accordance with open meeting laws school board meetings where School District business is to be discussed are open to the public oyer Bay East Norwich Board of Education welcomes public comment at its meetings the Board of Education will respond to comments and or inquiries in the appropriate manner this portion of the meeting is designed exclusively for agenda items a sign and book is provided for those residents wishing to address the board in order to be recognized you must signed in each speaker will be allowed a maximum of three minutes
031the board president will call you to the microphone the order in which you have signed in public discussion is prohibited regarding matters relating to an individual's reputation privacy or right Todo process which in some way could be violated a second commentary period is provided for non-agent items prior to adjournment we thank you for your participation and cooperation nobody has signed it okay we move on to instructional Personnel items approval of instructional Personnel items resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East swiit Central School District hereby approves the instructional Personnel items as listed in their entirety do I have a motion so move second second all in favor I all opposed motion carries now move on to non-instructional Personnel items resolved upon the recommendation of the
032superintendent of schools Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East Norwich Central School District hereby approves the non-instructional Personnel items as listed in their entirety do I have a motion so move second second all in favor I I all opposed motion carries now we will move on to the approval of 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 so move second second all in favor I all opposed motion carries we'll now move on to special services resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the board ofed if a of the Oyster Bay East norch Central School District hereby approves the special services resolution as
033listed in their entirety do I have a motion so Mo second second all in favor I all oppose motion carries now we'll move on to new approval of new business resolutions resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East nowi Central School District hereby approves the new business resolutions as listed in their entirety do I have a motion so a second second all in favor I I all opposed motion carries I'd also like to thank the uh PTA for their donations we appreciate that very very much next I'd like to um open up for a discussion um an item for discussion the ath banners deani Alex do you mind to put the so over the past couple years since I've been here we've been looking at
034every corner of the school and we have been trying to revamp everything that um has been here so one of the one of the things that I would like to bring to the board tonight is the um possibility of um looking at some of the signs that we have at the at the in the gymnasium and some of them have changed colors over the years um some of them are falling down some of them have been up there for many many years and I think it's important that we recognize the students we recognize the the hard work of the the the teams and so I put together a a brief presentation and I've been working with uh Shannon mckinty new athletic they're not new anymore you all day I've been in place for a long
035time but um I've been working with uh Shannon and miss argman and the entire team to just look up what we have and and present to the board some some options so I would like to hear your feedback so when you look at the current uh banners that we have uh that there wonderful representation of the students accomplishments but um some of them like I said before they they're changing colors because they're they are been there for many many years so I took a couple pictures to just to give you an idea and we can certainly um I'm sure you have visited the gymnasium many times so you see some of them the way they are they're just falling down of being discolored and um I think that it it sends a a message that
036you know we want to send a message that we we care about the students and we care about the hard work so um what I have and and again this is on the other side um the some of the one of the ideas is to change the banners and to organize them in teams and organizing um by you know by teams and then put all accomplishments all the different accomplishments they have every year and we can update those B banners every year once we put it in place so if the students if a team will win the championship they we keep adding um and it's part of the will be part of the the the entire plan so when you zoom in into the proposed banners would have the name of this is just a
037girl girls basketball would have the team and it would have all the accomplishments in the years so once we fill out a banner then you know obviously we'll go to the next one and we we keep adding I think this would be a wonderful way to reorganize and and at the same time to recognize all the hard work of the the students the athletes obviously the coaches um and would be a nice way to revamp that entire gymnasium you com well I I think with all the accomplishments this year we might even run out of wall space right if we had individual banners but um I think it's a great idea because you could at a glance see a program and see all the wonderful accomplishments that the um girls basketball the boys basketball and
038you could see over the years um the success of our school because we have tremendous success um our athletes and then we were saying you know for those outstanding athletes like that win the state wrestling championship we will have them showcased they'll have their own showcase so um I I definitely support this IDE I support it also I think cleaning it up making it look uh straight down newer mod is uh is the way to go I I support looking into it and looking at the price and how much it would cost because I also want to be able to support some of those emails that came in and looking for the same cost for something like swimming I would want to be able to into both those so we have lot into the cost
039of um putting um all the teams that we have up and and everything and it's around the 18,000 18 20,000 rate would be to redo the gymnas and that work um if the order would be placed in the next um before the end of April um we would have some sort of discount so the work would be within the $20,000 and would also uh be done during the summer so when the students come back in September they would have the project will be completed I agree with Miss Santos I like the idea of um being able to look at a program you know this case we look at girls basketball and to see all the achievements and also the longevity of these achievements now strong these teams have been for all these years so um
040I prefer this as opposed to the individual banners all over the gym and I'm sure the banners were were great when when they were installed but when you're thinking about banners there 30 40 50 years old um I think they've been maintained very well by I our custodial staff but you know after a while they you know part of the natural uh process I didn't think about that but uh definitely I'll think about it I definitely it's something that uh you know we would have to figure out a way of you know kind of Folding It storing it and maybe create like a thinking like almost like U thinking alow like uh put it in a frame and and post it around different place so something like that definitely not dispos them okay thank you
041all thank you thank you everyone have a nice evening