001We're ready? Yep. Good evening, all. Thank you for joining us. This is Middle Country Central School District's July 8th organizational meeting. I'm calling the meeting to order. It is now 5.02. I'd like you all to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. At this time, I'm going to administer the oath of office to the newly re-elected board members. When I call your name, please join me in front of the dais. We have Dawn Chirock, Robert Feeney, and Robert Halleck. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United
002States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of Board Trustee of the Middle Country Central School District according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. Congratulations and welcome back. At this time, I will be accepting nominations for the office of president of the Board of Education of Middle Country Central School District. Does anybody want to make a nomination? I'd like to nominate Dawn Chirac as president. How was I supposed to do that? Excuse me. You stole Arlene's thunder. Yes, Ms. Zaffini. You stole our thunder. Would anybody else? I take that back. I rescind it. I yield to my colleague, Ms. Barisi. I'd like to nominate Dawn Chirac for president of the school board. Thank you, Mr. Feeney. You're welcome. Thank you, Ms. Arprizzi. Are there
003any other nominations for president of the board of education? Being that there are no further nominations, at this time, nominations are closed. And I'd like to take a vote. Can somebody first motion it? Can I have a second? All those in favor for Dawn Chirac being president of the board of education? Thank you very much. Seven to zero unanimously. Born Chirac is declared the President of the Board of Education for the 2025-26 school year. Before you go to your seat, Ms. Chirac, please come. Thank you. Please raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. And the State of New York. And the State of New York. And that
004I will faithfully discharge. The duties of president of the Board of Education of the Middle Country Central School District. The duties of the president of the Middle Country Central School District. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability. Before we go further, we're going to actually swear in our two new ex officio student board members. We have Rose Miller from Sunridge High School. And we've got Dylan Blake from Newfield High School. Will you guys join me in prayer? I'm sorry. I'll make you run a mile. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York. And the Constitution of the State of New York. And that I
005will faithfully discharge. And that I will faithfully discharge. The duties of ex officio student board member. The duties of ex officio student board member. Of the Middle Country Central School District. Of the Middle Country Central School District. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability. Now I'm going to turn the tables over to Ms. Chirac. I want to thank. my colleagues for once again entrusting me to be president of the board I look forward to it it's an honor and here's to a good school year so thank you I now need a nomination for the office of vice president of the Board of Education I'd like to nominate Bob Feeney can I have a no I have to ask if there are any other before I do it first
006any other nominations Arlene, are you good? You don't have to? OK. Since there are no other nominations, I need a motion. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations, Mr. Feeney. Join me in the front. No turning back. Raise your right hand. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of Vice President of the Board of Education of Middle Country Central School District according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. i also too just want to officially welcome our two students rose and dylan we're really excited to have you on board with us and uh look forward to working with you so welcome i need a motion to accept
007the consent agenda and now for the organizational meeting consent agenda schedules 25-07-om1 through 25-07-om21 any questions or comments all those in favor Opposed? Motion carries. And now for the oath of office. If I could please have join me in the front here, the superintendent, district clerk, district treasurer, deputy district clerk, deputy district treasurer, deputy clerk pro tem, claims auditor, and claims auditor backup. That's you. I need a motion to adjourn. Move it. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Now we're going to move on to our next meeting. Oh, did you close the whole thing? Steph, we may need assistance. Good evening. I'm going to call the meeting to order 516. This is a regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting and also a public hearing. For our first public hearing, it is a
008review of the district-wide safety plan for 25-26 school year. Excuse me. Just wanted to be known that we had it posted on our website for the last 30 days for public viewing and comments, which is required by law. All comments were due to the district clerk by Monday, July 7th. Did we have any comments, Ms. Larkin? No comments. Thank you. Are there any comments here this evening? Seeing that there are none, the public hearing portion is now closed for our district-wide safety plan. I'm going to need a motion for us to adopt the district-wide safety plan for 25-26 school year. Move it. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. For our second public hearing, district code of conduct. Are there any questions or comments? Seeing that there are none, the public hearing for
009the District Code of Conduct is now closed. I will need a motion for us to readopt the District Code of Conduct policies. Move it. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. We are now reconvening our regular Board of Education meeting. Board commentary. We will start with our student representation. This is the portion where you can make comments if you have any. If you don't, you can say pass. So we'll start with Dylan. Blake, please. Yep. Show him. My name is Dylan Blake, and I'm the GEO president at Newfield High School, so I'm here representing Newfield High School. And I'm very excited for this opportunity and excited to see what this year holds. Thank you. Ms. Rose Miller? Hi, my name is Rose Miller. I'm the GEO president at Center H. Same thing Dylan said. I'm
010very excited for this opportunity. I'm very grateful to be here. I'm excited to see what this year brings, so thank you. Thank you. And again, welcome to you both. Mr. Halleck? I'm sorry? Okay. Ms. Mann-Rodriguez? I just wanted to welcome our student board members again. I'm so happy that you both are able to join us, and I look forward to a great year, and I look forward to hearing all of your thoughts and all of your input, and it's greatly appreciated and welcome. Thank you. Ms. Haggerty? Pretty much the same, but again, welcome. Thank you for doing this. It's quite an incredible opportunity for you, but also for us to have student voices at the table. And I just wanted to say, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We're all here
011to help you along the way. Thank you. Ms. Barisi? I just want to thank everybody for being here again and starting a new year together. We've got a lot accomplished, and I'm looking forward to the new year. Also, I'd like to thank our students. That was really a big move on the state's part, and we welcome your input. You're there, so you know what's going on. We only can guess what's going on, so we really appreciate you being here and working with us. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Feldman? Ditto. Welcome. And let's have a great year. Mr. Feeney? Yes, ditto again. Welcome, and thank you for doing this. And also looking forward to your input to help our students in this district move forward. So thanks. Minutes. You have minutes of our regular meeting from
012June 11th. We have minutes from our special meeting on June 25th. If there are no comments or edits, we'll accept the minutes as they are. Thank you. Excuse me. I need a motion to accept the consent agenda. Move it. Instruction. Comments, questions? Pupil personnel services? Personnel instructional? Personnel classified? Finance? Questions, comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Superintendents report 25-07-SR-2, dedication and planting of a memorial tree. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. 25-07-SR-3, Memorandum of Agreement, Retirement Waiver. Move it. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. 25-07-SR-4, Memorandum of Agreement, Administrators Association. Move it. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. And 25-07-SR-5, universal pre-K contracts for the 2025-2026 school year. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Policy 25-07-PO-2, first reading of the following new district policies. 5695, students and personal electronic
013devices. 81... 13, EXTREME HEAT CONDITION DAYS, AND REVISION TO POLICY 0110.3, SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF STUDENTS. MOVED. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? Motion carries. 25-07-PO-3, waive the second reading of the following new district policies, 5695, student and personnel electronic devices, 8113, extreme heat condition days, and revision to policy 0110.3, sexual harassment of students. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Our weekly correspondence. I want to thank everybody. I'm sorry. Vote on what? Yeah, I just did that. Right? Yeah, okay. uh i want to thank everybody who was in who attended all of our events towards the end of the school year i know it um gets hectic we have a lot of events we get invited to wonderful events and i want to thank everyone we kind of worked our schedules and we had representation at
014pretty much everything so i thank you guys for that um you know we'll have a little bit of a lull and then we'll start back up in september unfinished business new business yes I'm sorry miss Parisi are we going to be getting a list of the committees new committees and revised committees okay thank you you ready our committee reports and our liaison committee reports I know we're not really don't have any committees right now in the moment in the summer. But we're going to be sending out, I will ask all of you what your top three committees are. And we'll have the list of the committees attached so you see what they are. And I will ask for you to return that to me. And I will do my best to get everybody on. their
015committees of choice i might have to you know juggle some things around depending on coverage but i will say we'll wait till probably after our interviews to do that so but just be on the lookout for that follow-up board discussion I think this is follow-up. It's July, so I'm hoping maybe we can get the students booked so we can meet them October the latest, so that we can really see them through, because it was a big difference between the beginning of the year and the end of the year. Agreed. Thank you. Public input? regarding our last meeting excuse me our last meeting where we had some speakers in response to the public input made on June 11th we are pleased that this evening the Board of Education approved an appointment of an additional instructional personnel
016for a second section of AP chemistry at Newfield High School the students that spoke that evening will be notified that their schedules now include AP chemistry in response to the representative from CSEA regarding contract negotiations. Negotiations are in process and a status comment will be made in September. Any public input this evening? None. Thank you. I need a motion to adjourn. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Good evening.