001e e e thank you I'd like to welcome everyone to this Tuesday February 25th 2025 business meeting agenda of the Oyster Bay East norch School District I'd like to call the meeting to order can everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance uh Miss Santos correspondence 125 um 124 Nora winous Ms basketball 127 Lindsay schnecker regarding a question 128 Nora winous of Regarding Ms basketball 131 Tom winhusen regarding update written request 214 uh Lindsay shner regarding a question 123 through 22445 emails from Heather nadani and George deol regarding various subjects thank you Miss Santos I'd like to turn this over now to Dr Yanni for the superintendent's report thank you Miss kowaski and good evening everybody I hope everybody had a wonderful winter break I'm sure it went too fast but as I was visiting
002all the schools today everybody was older students were happy to be back and be with uh their friends and our teachers uh tonight tonight I am deeply honored to share a truly remarkable achievement by two of our exceptional students Adrian Kim and Brandon antonetti have been named finalist in the 2025 National Merit schol Scholarship program this prestigious recognition is a testament of their tremendous dedication to academic excellence and their extraordinary potential for future success the National Merit Scholarship program as many of you know is a highly competitive process that begins with approximately 1.3 million Juniors from 21,000 high schools Nationwide and to advance Adrian and Brandon not only demonstrated exceptional performance on the PSAT uh but also validated those results with outstanding SAT scores furthermore they presented an exemplary academic record earned the strong endorsement
003of their High School and submitted a comprehensive application that showcased their rigorous coursework extensive extracurricular and volunteer involvement and compelling personal essays out of the initial pool of 1.3 million students approximately only 15,000 have achieved the finalist status uh this means that aen and Brandon are among the top 1.1% uh of I school students in the country I am so proud the board is so proud we are so proud as a community because this is an an amazing accomplishment so I want to congratulate Adrian and Brandon uh the athletic department at a a wonderful wonderful winter V uh season um I'm happy to share that every winter VAR City team uh have achieved a scholar athlete team the fall had the same thing so we are in line for um the highest um but I
004don't want to Gin myself I'm very superstitious so um they they're doing very well receiving uh doing very well on the court on the field but also uh in the classroom uh in terms of some of the the teams I know that next uh next week we will have a a full next board meeting we'll have a full uh report but um we want to congratulate the girls and boys varsity fencing team who had a dominating Presence at the naso county individual champ championship tournament Gabby Sherlock took home the title of County champion in foil I'm also excited to share that def fencing Community has honored Co coach John brockner uh by naming a county sportsmanship award in his name and Arisa Bay was the first recipient of that uh which was great uh congratulations
005to the competitive cheerleading team who advanced the semi-final at the last trip that they had at the Orlando and uh the usca and placed second in the naso county Class B Championship the following weekend um the varsity boys Track and Field Four 4 by 800 meter relay composed of Zach green Alex arnos James salvado Anon ESO and Alexander strich advaned to the New York State Championship uh with a time of 849 uh the state qualifier which was impressive uh they will compete Saturday March 8th in Stan Island and I also want to congratulate Olivia Garcia of the varsity winter team track and field who was named a Class C County championship in the shop Hut The Varsity wrestling team had an outstanding weekend at the county wrestling tournament on February 14th and 15th Colton schmeing
006took home the title of County Champion for the 108 weight class and this is the second year in a row that is achieving this a major accomplishment um the the championship will take place Saturday in Albany so we wishing Colton um lots of luck girls and boys varsity best basetball team have also Advanced the semi-finals and then we'll report on the great results um when you think of a school this small and you think about all this accomplishment it's quite impressive what you do in the classroom and on the field so I'm so proud of you we are so proud of you my last piece is the science fair was a a great the seventh grade science fair was was was great to see parents and and students uh showcasing their projects uh we attended
007um and it was nice to have them explain all the projects and I just uh I was driving home and I was thinking to myself I wish when I was in seventh grade I was able to do that um so a a a big thank you to all the teachers and and and the volunteers of the Honor Society uh for judging their projects uh it was great to see the parents attending uh always a great event when we have parents teachers all together students it really shows that we are a big family and at this point I know we are prepared maybe I'm taking too much time uh but uh I'm going to invite Miss Erica goop Pac to the podium to introduce some of our [Applause] stars all right so first I have to
008ask you to take your field trip everyone on the day is down here and right into the sectioned off area in front so you can get the best view possible okay thank you so much so this evening you are going to see an excerpt from this year's High School Musical production which is The Adams Family and if you don't know about this musical you might just be familiar with the Adams Family from the various iterations over the years but this story focuses um around Wednesday Adams who's growing up and falling in love with a a normal boy someone very different from the rest of her f family and it's kind of just about navigating navigating these differences and challenges between families but still keeping those Eccentric Family Traditions alive and well and the story is
009told kind of almost by this Greek chorus which are all the ancestors of the atams who come to life so when you come to see the show and they in costume you might see like a hippie or you might see like a caveman it's basically all the atoms from the different parts of History so some of them have some really interesting characters that they've all individually embodied um so throughout this production and throughout this process our students really got to learn the true meaning of the word Ensemble and that the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts our students have taken part in so many facets of this production everything behind the scenes from Scenic construction design painting prop making sounds writing marketing headshot photography the list goes on and on and
010of course our onstage performers who are singing acting dancing and playing um I give I like to give my stats this is my math time so let me Revel in it last year at this time we had 54 students involved in Chicago the musical and this year at the very same time we have 73 students involved which is a 35% increase from last year so I'm really proud of that and before we bring our amazing students to the stage I want to thank all the people in the village who helped to make this production possible there are so many incredible passionate adults behind the scenes so I wanted to take some time to introduce them before I do that I want to thank everyone on the board Dr Yani Miss Rainer my amazing clerical and
011custodial staff here here at the school and all the families who get your children to and from rehearsals cuz we definitely could not do this without your support so without further Ado help me in welcoming our artistic team starting with our newest Miss Divine who helped with the music and vocals followed by Miss Razo who helped with the art and design crew uh you all know Mr dalan up in the balcony and the Bayman backstage crew which are our pivotal crew that makes the show run of course we have Mr sisia here who led our pit Miss Kemp our assistant director of the show and last but certainly not least Miss Cheer party our fearless director and choreographer so please join us on Friday uh March 7th at 7:30 or and or hopefully and Saturday
012March 8th at 5:00 pm and I know it's going to be a spooktastic night of musical theater so without further Ado please allow our students to haunt you with their performance of when you're in Adams enjoy ah the intoxicating smell of the graveyard once a year We Gather beneath our family tree to honor the great cycle of life and death come every member of our clan Living Dead and undecided and let us celebrate what it is to be an Adams come to me my luscious wife oh she of skin so pale eyes so black and dress cut out to Venezuela and show us what it is that every Adams hopes for Darkness grief and unspeakable sorrow I love it when you talk sexy [Music] Bunny [Music] Hop do the twist rigger mortise death rat [Music]
013oblig to the it's family first and family last and family and when you're an ad [Music] when you're in ad you do what Adams Do or [Music] Die thank you everyone that was just a little snippet of what's looking ahead for you so we'd love for you to join us on either Friday or Saturday and on Saturday night we are having a costume contest so come in your best Adam's attire to show us what you got thank you very much we appreciate all your love and support through the year so we look forward to seeing you then and bard of Ed thank you we're just going to get out of your way [Applause] first for Miss Rainer it's going to be very tough to do a budget presentation after this but uh at this point
014I would like to uh invite uh Miss Reno our Deputy superintendent to discuss uh the budget the second budget presentation um and also want to thank you for all the work that you're putting into getting ready together with uh Zach nberg executive director for finance Zach give a stand up just let everybody see you there you go that's up Miss RoR is all yours can you hear me there you go I would say he's the man behind the c curtain but it's really The Man Behind the spreadsheet we say at the business office so um so yes I don't know how I'm going to follow that that was quite an amazing performance but we like to say that we have a good part of making sure that they have everything they need to do that
015as part of the budget so um tonight I am definitely pleased to present the second budget presentation this evening we are going to review uh the vision the mission the focus talking about a little bit about preparing the budget um specifically tonight focusing on the allowable tax levy and um an overview of our Revenue budget and really decide some of the the big factors in that number so going into the vision obviously our budget follows the district's vision of empowering all students achieve Excellence when we develop the budget we are keeping our uh mission to advance the oy Bay nor District as a model of excellence and Innovation providing exceptional opportunities and outcomes for all of our students while partnering with our community and staff to ensure thoughtful management of our resources and investments in
016our future our Focus has remained throughout this whole budget season to be within the allowable tax levy cap which you will see tonight we are uh strategically aligning our resources um specifically to Foster our student growth and success making sure we're using our Capital reserves and our budget allocations um investing our facilities to support the work we're doing with our 21st century Bond project as well as to prioritize safe efficient and Future Ready learning environments and of course promote our fiscal responsibility which we've seen over the past few years it's been extremely important with our um spikes and CPI going into the budget preparation it's really important to discuss the tax levy cap that comes from the office of State com controller there's always a big discussion and confusion regarding the 2% tax cap so
017the Consumer Price Index this year is 3 3% that is not what our allowable tax levy factor is the allowable Levy growth factor as determined by the state is the lower of the number of the rate inflation and 2% so this year you can see CPI at 3.3 means we have to use the lower number which is the 2% here you can see a historical look over this um this gives us the CPI has been fluctuating um obviously anybody who's followed especially the past two years we've saw it Spike over 7% although it is down this year it's still significantly over our 2% tax cap so we are facing our expenses as we all are at home as well expenses over 2% at 3.3 on average um but we are capped at that 2% so
018again just to give some historical background here you can see the difference of um the CPI in green the levy and red and the budget change from 2011 to 2021 you can see it's fairly stable where they do align those three numbers however when we look at the years from 2021 right through to the current year you can see that Spike that we've seen they are no longer aligned um and again this really does become uh extremely important when we want to maintain an enhanced programs why making sure that we are proactively planning to keep a a strong financial state of the district so despite this increase in CPI we have been able to maintain a consistent Levy which you see that red line along the bottom in the prior years you can also see
019here that um not only the past four budgets we've had um a significant turnout but we can see that we have maintained that Levy consistently within that um allowable Levy limit so let me go a little bit more into depth about what the levy limit is it's what allows us to what we calculate let me say to to determine the amount of Revenue the district is able to propose as part of our annual revenue budget this formula is determined by the New York State Office of controller it is calculated um um based on several items you can see here which I'll go into more depth in the next few slides but the outcome of this calculation is what's referred to as the allowable tax levy this is a multi-step formula which I'll go over in
020the next few slides uh it's important to know that it is the same formula across New York seat but every district will have different results on what that allowable Levy limit will be even though we're all using the 2% cap as that one number the actual outcome of the tax formula will be different for each um every district is required to subit this by March 1 to the contr controller which is why this is important that these numbers are presented this evening so the formula really takes into account the prior years tax levy the tax tax based growth factor Pilots we have in our district Capital exclusions and of course that allowable uh tax levy growth factor I just discussed at 2% that's what gives us our allowable Levy for the entire year so going
021through a couple of these pieces um the detail about the tax based growth factor is the key component as you can see it's the first multipli up here it accounts for the fysical increases in the taxable property base such as new constructions and improvements throughout our district here we can see over the past couple years the number stayed fairly steady for the prior three years this year it is a pretty significant increase which is what is changing our um tax levy C for this year the pilots are another big piece of this our Pilots have fairly been consistent but slightly going up um which we are able to get which are a little bit closer to 900,000 but those are pretty stable this is the number that I was talking about at the 2% even
022though CPI has been 2.3 over 7% 6.26 3.3 for this year we are still capped at 2% so even though expenses are going up well over the 2% we are capped on what we can use in this formula for the 2% um the last piece that's a a major factor in this formula is our local capit Capital Levy share you can see going from the prior years slightly over 2 million 2.09 2.21 2.16 sorry 2.16 you can see we're somewhere around the 2.1 number this is really important even as Dr Yanni said four years ago presenting our bond project the main factor in this line is our debt service so maintaining a consistent Debt Service for the district while maintaining or upgrading facilities is really what's important so the community has a a very stabilized
023tax levy which we been right on target as we've been discussing over the past four years so that's what brings us to our final number you can see here at the bottom that's what that calculation works out to be so for this year for the 2425 school year our allowable tax levy for the district is 2.91% which is a slightly below a$ 1.7 million increase budget to budget so putting this into the revenue budget when we look at this simply put your revenues must equal your expenditures to balance your budget um these are our main categories as I spoke about last time on what comprises of our budgets tonight's we'll really focus in depth on the revenue side of the budget so these are the three main categories that bring up our budget 80% of
024it does come from our community and our tax levy which is why it's so important and the board has been committed to staying within the allowable tax levy cap to understand what that does for the community so going into more depth uh starting with the tax levy as I just reviewed um the driving Factor on that is going to be the CPI um and again you can kind of see this graph I I'll revisit this later in the presentation but CPI has been high but we've been able to maintain a consistent tax levy which has been the the focus for several years now here are the actual numbers of what that means as I said it's almost a $ 1.7 million increase but tax levy to tax levy from the current year 2425 to what
025we're proposing it is going up about $1.7 million to have uh 59 m8910 th000 and again that is within the allowable limit of 2.91% going forward into the state aid category many of you have probably seen in news day um the governor did release her budget proposals I believe right about the time uh we had presented in January the good news for Oyster Bay we were very happy to see that our foundation Aid received a 2% increase um which is extremely positive for what we've heard in in potential years especially in last year facing potential cuts at 2% increas is is very positive for our district um the expense driven Aid did go down slightly however as we close out these Capital Bond projects we do expect that number to come up expense driven Aid
026does include building AIDS so again those projects should be closed and that number will be coming back up the really important piece for us here which I'm really happy to talk about tonight is uh our upk Aid did go up by over 50% so now we are receiving upk of just over a million dollars so as Dr Yani announced I believe one of our previous meetings in January that as of the February 3rd application deadline we had received 68 upk applications therefore as part of this year's budget preparation we were reviewing class siiz guidelines as well as current and projected enrollments so um these are the current class siiz guidelines looking forward uh looking through TR you can see it does fluctuate 89 in kindergarten 95 in first and so forth the actual class sizes
027can fluctuate anywhere from 198 it goes up a little bit um even when we look at Vernon maybe a little bit higher but still well either below or within the guidelines here therefore what we are looking at and proposing is uh the consideration in this budget is to increase um because the increased enrollment and interest in our prek program um is to increase the number of prek program to four full day sections to allow all 68 um applicants have an ability to sit in upk for next year um so that would if if approved in the budget that would allow the need to eliminate the lottery at this point since this proposal would place all 68 students in our program for next year at TR however in looking at this in order to support this
028increase we have reviewed the project enrollment other grades and as you saw some of the class sizes in other grades were a little bit on the lower side so we were able to then review it and look at the current first grade the sorry the projected first grade and the projected third grade and reduce each of those by one section still maintaining the lower end of our class siiz guidelines without increasing that too much finally the mean the third mean section of this Revenue budget is comprised of our reserves our fund balance and our miscellaneous Revenue uh that includes things such as leasing properties um interest income we have and other things along that nature the reserve funds is extremely important these are reviewed not only by the district but by the Board of Education
029each year to make sure we are best using these funds to support the budget um specifically for long-term planning um the balance of each of these funds is presented here but it's also presented on our financial statements for those of you who were here back in the fall when our external Auditors presented it they also speak about these but again they're reviewed not only at the end of the year with our external Auditors they're reviewed at the time of the budget to make sure we're appropriately using them um for our financial condition this year's uh proposed budget does include the same amount of appropriate res serves an appropriate fund balance as the prior year as we're still seeing a little bit of high CPI rates um but again this this chart shows not only the
030past several years of appropriated fund balancing reserves you can see that um as I stated earlier with the increase of CPI this is a a strong reason of why a strong financial um health and condition of the district and and very strategic long-term planning allows us to offset the increase of CPI that we've seen because we have this ability to um use these res funds and fund balances um to offset some of those costs so putting all three of those categories together the tax levy the state aid and the other you can see here this is our total revenue budget for this year um bringing up to 67,69 1,61 that is sorry just about a little over $2 million increase um from the prior Year's budget but again those are the very specific numbers for
031this um and as I started the section with this is the revenue budget which of course will have to equal the expense side of the budget so putting it back into the pie chart you can see again the tax levy is 88% those numbers from the previous slide which is again why we're so mindful of how um we are presenting this to the community with the tax levy being within the allowable Levy cap so look looking forward to the timeline um the next budget presentation will focus on the expenditure which will uh balance out to the current Revenue budget um and the details of the EXP will be there on March 25th as well as the capital technology Reserve projects that are going to be proposed um followed by an adoption on April 22nd uh
032budget hearing on May 6th and concluding with the vote on May 20th this is the entire timeline that we've been presenting since the the beginning of January um this is on our district website um as well as all the other budget resources we have available each of these presentations are on our board docs um agenda before the day before the meeting um these presentations are available uh where you can see right here on the screen as well as all the information through the budget is continually updated on the district's page under Boe um budget you can see here everything that I've gone over since January as well as tonight's presentation will be placed there tomorrow um will be there as well as on the left you see the archives of all the information that has
033been over the past three years and that's it for the budget thank you very much thank you does the board have any questions I had a question about the state aid um that that increase when news day reported we um had an increase in Aid of 7% uh significant amount of that money is through the universal pread correct largely that was because of the 50% increase in upk correct are we able to um allocate most of that money for our Universal prek if if we move forward with the four full day programs yes the majority of that will be used thank you anything else okay so next we'll go on to the capital project I have a brief update on phase three Mr Perfect okay um so as we've been doing I believe the last
034time we show was in December um since then uh right Mr D you might have to help me this I lost it perfect okay so as I present in December we are starting into phase three um as we have been discussing over the past full uh yes we experienced some unforeseen delays through through the state um approval process which we couldn't affect we couldn't change but we are moving forward um we did uh award the bids in January and have already broken ground so um um yes we have a revised schedule to be finishing this spring but we are still significantly under budget at this point we're projecting to be good at least $2 million under so going back to the for where we first presented this about four years ago although we have the
035authority to borrow up to 29 and a half million let's say um we will only be borrowing what we need to complete the projects and at this point it's about a good $2 million underneath so looking specifically at phase three which we are now um just as a reminder where that is that's our the current or actually I should now say previous m music rooms in the back where they were last year um the goal was to turn those into a large classroom a small group instruction and an additional small uh group instruction space right now a wall has been built to separate that construction um as I stated uh back in December this construction will occur throughout the school year with little to no impact on our students and you can see that construction
036area is simply just a simple white wall with the students being able to move throughout the building as typical from the exterior uh a construction fence has been put up to uh keep the protection between the students and the construction that's going on however you can see the way we Str strategically place that fence students can still exit the building and use the existing playground space safely separate from the construction looking at the athletic complex again that's on the other side of the building closer to lawn Lane on the opposite side from where the new music Wing is we are looking at the Butler Building currently as you saw the Butler Building it was um two3 of it used for students other of it was storage and grounds um facility work um now this was
037the plan to open it back up for full student use um just a remind you of some renderings that had showed previously this is the way the current Butler Building looks the plan is to turn into a nice athletic compax here you can start to see on the inside as I move forward this was just an Alleyway for construction for our ground screw now it's turned into a fully um open space for our students to be able to use looking in the back we'll also have a nice entry weight into our Athletic Complex in the back since we do have a nice turf field and track back there baseball field softball fields um as well as many others um looking to the inside of the building you can see here it's severely outdated but this
038is what the proposed uh rendering will look like turning back the other way you can't even see half the building it is behind doors with storage it will then open itself up with a projector on the far side So currently if you walk down the end of the fifth grade Wing you see a wall at the end to again protect the students from any uh construction work um although you can see the light right here to that front entrance way that exit at the end of the hallway is still available to exit to the front of the building um and again the fencing is protected um to keep everybody separate in the back as well um and the gate across the front to keep students um out of that area and keep the construction safe
039inside um again here's on the back keeping it separate from the sixth grade entrance Wing as well as the baseball field throughout so although we will use the left side of the building around the new music Wing the baseball fields and all the fields throughout this spring will still be able to use we you know we were careful with how we place the fing for that so that's where we are we're again very proud to be along um again slightly delayed but still significantly under budget and to have all this project done within this school year so thank you any questions thank you Miss Raina so will the Butler Building be done then by Spring of 2025 it should be done by the conclusion of the school year um maybe a few punchless items over
040summer but most of it will be done hopefully by June okay and I think it's great that you're under budget so thank you for that definitely yeah um the board do you have any other questions no just that it's important to note that the butlet building is delayed because the state did not provide the approvals correct there was a delay in the state approvals correct we were beyond our control absolute we were on time with when we filed everything with the state um it was the delay in getting the approval process and we we made our timeline of what we needed to be up there we did not expect the delay to happen at the state level but now that we have approval we've moved very quickly thank you thank you and then renderings look
041great and and the other thing did did I didn't hear if you noted that we're we possibly are not going to utilize all the bond proceeds right million correct when the voters approve the 29 and change million dollars that authorizes the board to borrow up to that amount but we don't spend it we do not borrow it so our goal is to borrow under if not about $27 million at the point so we will not be borrowing the full amount great thank you thank you anything else I just I just wanna great job M Reno I just want to point out that with the current proposal that we have we will not have the loty schedule for the upk every student that sign up will be automatically in as of right now and then if
042we have more students than 18 per class which is 72 then uh that will put on the weight list but there will be no Lottery as of right now okay great okay let's move on to approval of minutes do I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes as listed and attached below second any discussion all in favor I all opposed motion carries let's move on to public participation on agenda items in accordance in accordance with the open meetings law school board meetings where School District business will be discussed are open to the public the oyer Bay East norch 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
043sign in 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 the order in which you have signed in public discussion is prohibit regarding matters related to an individual's reputation privacy or right to-do process which in some way could be violated a second commentary period is provided for non-agenda items prior to adj German we thank you for your participation and cooperation Miss amarie Longo with me I'm G to go back and forth good morning good evening so I just have a couple of questions so the bond um so on the bond you under you didn't make the Butler Building did not make it on
044time so is that due to the state is that not eligible for building Aid in the future once completed because it wasn't completed on time or can you fight that because it was a state issue no we will submit for the building a has nothing to do with how much building I mean is it that based on your presentation is it that thus far we've received um how much did you say in building Aid you called it what' you call building Aid I'm looking at your nothing Aid your in your in your state aid hold on let me get to it you called it Foundation a well yes you the foundation a is building a I think maybe that is it it's a confusing uh term no it's not I'm not confusing the term I'm
045not saying you are basically the presentation said Foundation Aid that's our standard Aid expense driven Aid you you stated is that building Aid that's I think that the explanation you had expens has several categories one of which is building Aid CRA How how much of the 1.4 is building Aid can you and how and what is the other expense driven Aid if it's not state aid it could be anything from textbook Aid Library Aid so anytime we buy textbooks we get money back so there's a whole series of categories on that but but on the building Aid it's specific to where it could go to the bottom line does it go to offset the taxpayers um um responsibility on the 2 the $27 million of um money that we are borrowing expense driven need comes
046back to the district as Revenue so it doesn't matter it doesn't offset Bond at all or can you associate that to offset Bond expense well as part of the whole budget it's not one for one as PR it's part of the revenue end of the budget so yes the revenue will have to need the expense equal the same so in it does indirectly but it's Revenue not an expense Debt Service is an expense of the budget where the aid coming in is revenue on the budget right I get it so it does offset it because we have to could you break down how much of that is um building Aid on that expense Aid is it possible that we could see that I mean because we have 27 so the break so the question is
047a breakdown on the expense and driven how much of it is expense driven Aid so and how much of the expense driven Aid is building Aid is the question let me ask the question you Aid of $1 million I think $2 million $2.5 Million number so what is your percentage of building Aid what do you get 10% 10% and on the upk aid you only get that money if based on a headcount am I correct correct if it's $15,000 a kid you only get at 62 children or 72 72 children you would get that money you don't get it so it's not a direct for .3 million because you're not going to get all a million dollars at 72 children I'm not following your math but what I'm I'm just saying is we we received
048we received we're talking about the upk right we received the amount of upk about three 1 million 21 MH so that was an increase of 54. 73% so um the number of students that we enroll we'll get the amount of money for each student but you don't you don't so are you saying that the 1.21 million i''s say yeah is divided among 72 children and that's the head number if you only got 36 you would have gotten double that per child or is it a per child number that amount to maximize out at1 million we had so let's say I had more room and we had more people enrolling then we can go up to that am so the question is how much are you getting per child 10,000 10,000 per child 10 and you
049had no outside schools apply no for it yeah okay we did an RFP and we didn't receive any any any additional okay and can we get a breakdown of the re of the expense side of the budget the expense side would be on the next right the next presentation on March 25th will you give a a line by line expense budget at that point or can we foil it so you don't have after it's adopted we post it online no I'm not waiting I mean prior to its adoption is it possible to get an expense budget line I mean yeah we used to give them out at budget meetings we checked all the we checked pretty much all the presentations I me whatever was given before we are giving that and more but I'll like
050I've done with you personally before I'll provide everything that you need I mean I'm not hiding anything I'm I'm doing over here no no let me finish one second because what what I'm doing over here I'm studying and I've been questioned on we had two F day we got two full day under my leadership now we have full classes we have a full classroom which $2.5 million on the budget and I'm being questioned like I I'm hiding something we are providing everything and more than it was ever done before and trust me I've looked at every single presentation over the past 10 years so but that's okay what whatever you need whatever will make you or any Community member comfortable I will provide because I want the community members to know that this district is
051in great hands because of my leadership so that's s of my opinion I guess yeah so Dr Yanni the questions aren't meant to make you feel that we don't trust you you've been in the seat so you know question exactly so that I myself and I'm not sure I can't speak for anybody else are knowledgeable about where the money is being spent my money my tax dollars my right that's right okay I don't mean to question you so that you feel defensive but I will state with board members who were were on the board with me there were line by line budget numbers with expense driven lines that broke down all the different categories within the budget handed out to any Community member in addition to that if you go back years we had a
052budget Forum day that lasted eight hours that went line by line by line that every so I understand what you're saying right now the information that is given is less than transparent I want you but can I say something I want you to know that since last time we spoke and we spoke since last time we spoke I took time to go over every single Public Presentation and my district clerk and my assistant took time to go to every single board meeting I know you're shaking your head I don't know what took place in executive session on other sessions but what I can tell you is that from a public perspective I've looked at every presentation and my presentation my all my presentations are a lot more comprehensive from what I see in public if
053it happened behind the scene you were giving out information I don't know I can't speak for that was it was so in it was never discussed in executive session and there were line by line budgets I mean I don't are they still all online all those presentations no I don't even think we were online back then but but wait I I think we're saying the same thing we're going provide the line by line expense budget to the community right at point and I'm also willing to provide anything that any Community member will need to feel comfortable on approving this budget because with a fluctuation on the CPI that we have seen if we can bring that presentation up is is one of the slides with the fluctuation on the CPI 2.3 7.1 6.2 3.3 and
054the budget that we passed with all the programs and all the initiatives I I think we have managed the money but I'm always open to be even more transparent so if there is something that I'm missing that I should be put forth for the community to feel comfortable that we are managing the money correctly I'm all for it and on top of that I also want to notice for the public listening at home that for the past three years is we had a a clean audit which is something that I never had before and that's not because of me because I don't know anything about Finance but my people my team they are just meticulous so whatever you need that's my answer whatever you need whatever line by line we need before the adoption I
055will make sure that it's something that we can share and I will share because I have I have no problem so okay fine thank you okay let's move on to approval of appointment of officers resolved upon the recommendation of superintendent of schools the board of education at the Oyster Bay East knowledge Central School District hereby approves the appointment of Officer listed in their entirety do I have a motion second second any discussion all in favor I all opposed motion carries let's move on to approval of instru instructional instructional Personnel items resolved upon the recommendation the superintendent of schools the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East nor Central School District hereby approves the instructional Personnel items as listed in their entirety do I have a motion second any discussion all in favor I all
056opposed motion carries let's move on to approval of non-instructional personnel items resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent schools the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East norch Central School District hereby approves a non-instructional personel items as listed in their entirety do you have a motion second any discussion all in favor all opposed motion carries let's move on to approval of business items resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East nor Central School District hereby approves the business items as listed in their entirety do I have a motion second any discussion all in favor all opposed motion carries approval of special services resolutions resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education of the Oyster Bay East nor Central School
057District hereby approves a special services resolution as listed in their entirety do I have a motion second any discussion all in favor all opposed motion carries we have a motion to amend um the agenda to add the following items 13.13 new business settlement agreement and release be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby authorizes and proves a settlement agreement and release with a certain parent known to the Board of Education which has been executed by such parent on February 24th 2025 be further resolved that the Board of Education authorizes the superintendent of schools to execute said agreement do I have a motion second any discussion all in favor all opposed motion carries moving on to 13.01 approval of new business resolutions resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education
058of the Oyster Bay East norch Central School District hereby approves the new business resolutions as listed in their entirety do I have a motion second any discussion yeah um Dr Yanni the elimination of the two girls athletic teams I assume it's it because there was a lack of um numbers like Cor in order to cor so um did most of the students um that in the JV teams these two JV teams will they be playing varsity or I'm not sure but I will follow up and get back to you okay and if you could also just let us know why we think those numbers have decreased so when you look at the uh JV soft well has that number has been pretty much that that team for the past couple years we never had it
059so that that number is not there um and I believe that the second one is the same but I will verify and get back to you yeah I think we added the JB badminton team just a few years ago because we had this a very large number of girls who wanted to join so wonder if it's went went down um so all in favor all opposed motion carries now I have the opportunity for the public to be heard on non-agenda items has anyone signed in no do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting second thank you everyone good night good night e