001You know, the one thing that stood out in that letter to me, right? [Music] Got room seven. Everyone okay? Good. Okay. Meeting call to order at 8:07 p.m. Roll call. Myself, Katie Graino, Diana Corbel, and Rob Coleman. And Dave Sansson is again out due to family emergency. Um, can everyone rise for the pledge? 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. Good evening everyone. A little bit later today, a little later start, but thank you for being here. Um I guess we can start with board announcements. Does anyone have anything to share? Um, I did attend the um literacy literacy night. Yeah, that was it. Literacy night and it was a really
002fun time. My kids had a great time. Uh, all the students had a good time. We didn't get to read to the dog because I was late to sign up. So, but we have our own dog at home, so they could just read to him. But it was a really great time. I thank all the teachers and the staff and the students that put it on. I was approached by a student who is on the ESBOT team, Sobots team, sorry. Sobots team. and she was thankful for all the support that they get. So, I just wanted to say that. Great. Yeah, that is a great night. Um, it's the one night uh my my kids are jumping to read, but uh thank you for everyone for for putting that on. All right, if there's nothing
003else, we can move on to the superintendent announcements. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. Nice to see so many people here tonight. It is budget vote night. So hopefully everyone came out to vote tonight. Uh we have a just turn that down a little bit, guys. They've been working since very early this morning. The polling sites and everything. Uh before I get into uh superintendent's report or too far into it, and it's going to be pretty brief tonight. I just want to take this opportunity to thank our district clerk, my right hand, Kathy Mscari, for uh all of her work with the election. Um, I see firsthand how much goes into planning for the election, working with the board of elections, uh, dealing with iPads and, uh, some tech issues this morning. It was interesting. It was
004Apple iPads and Microsoft software. They finally, I guess, started talking to each other at a certain point and, uh, the iPads did eventually work. So, everyone was able to come out and vote. But, thank you for all your hard work. And it's not over yet. All right, at this time I'd like to call up our PTA presidents. We have Laura and Karen and Michelle here from Sos and Tapenzy High School. Hello. Um, sorry I'm short. Um, so we just want to give a huge thank you to everyone. I know we talked last time about the fun run. And I heard the comments um after last on last week's board meeting. Um we were blown away by how much money we raised. Um when we went into it, uh Dr. Paige and I had no idea.
005And we're like, "Well, what do you recommend?" And the man was like, "Well, like a school this size, he's like $18,000." And she and I were like, "Okay." Um sure. Let's go for it. Um and as of today, we got donations from 27 states, five countries. We're up to $26,845 in donations and 2385 in corporate match contributions. Uh way more than we had anticipated. Um today it's still open. [Applause] All right. Can you just repeat those numbers again? Yes. Um so donations were 26,845 and then corporate match is 2385. um with the corporate match like if anybody has little kids who were in it when you do the donation it asks you if you want to cover the fee for the school um and I think 66% of people actually said yes so that was
006awesome with the corporate match we get 100% of that amount um and that cover that more than covered um the initial fee that we had to pay to start the program that's awesome um we made it out before the rain literally as the last group was going the rains came Um it was fabulous. So today's the last day um for donations if anybody wants last minute donations. Um that ends at midnight tonight and then we're going to tally the totals by class. Um the highest earning class in each grade will get an Italian ice party. Um and then since we reached our fundraising goal, Coach Jacobs, Dr. Paige, and Dr. Koulat will be getting pied. Um we will pick a date soon. And we also have a few other surprise volunteers who were very excited
007to jump in. Um, so it should be a pretty full stage. Um, we decided to postpone this year's spring family funday. There was a lot of conflicts with the high school students um with their sports schedules, their dance recital schedules. Um, so we are still planning it for next spring um but we're going to do a fall festival in the fall um to kick off the school year. Um, if anybody had students, I guess if they're in fifth grade or older, there used to be a fall festival. Um, so if anybody had students that are older that have been to it, um, we'd love your input on some information about like what it was because we'd like to basically redo it. Um, kind of like a carnival Halloween theme. Um, so you can reach out
008to us for help. and we are doing our first hopefully annual kindergarten family meetup on June 9th from 6:00 to 7:00 at the Schaefer Pirate Ship Playground. Um we have representatives from Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, the YMCA. Um and we're also reaching out to some of the local sports teams to come and just talk to families so they know what's available. Um hopefully some representatives from the libraries to say what programs are over the summer. Um, we are also looking for current PTA members to come to help welcome the new families to talk about what the PTA does. Um, help us with some signups for membership and all that fun stuff. So, we will be sending out um a signup sheet for that or you can just show up. And we're doing our school supply
009sale. U make sure when you're ordering for your student, you order for next year what grade they're going to be in. Uh, not the grade they're currently in. Um it's really fast, it's easy, and everything will be delivered to school on the first day. Um and finally, we're getting ready for our annual flowers for families distribution. Um it's scheduled right now tentatively for the second week in June. So we'll be reaching out for volunteers to repot the flowers the day before and then to help the students um with distribution on the flowers. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate all you do for our schools. And I was sharing with Laura when I was at Cottage Lane that just Cottage Lane alone with this one fundraiser raised more money than back in 2008
010all three elementary schools combined. So great job. My son had me call everybody in my phone box. I need to see your contact list now. And I'm like why? And he's like we have to earn money. I have $18,000 to earn. What? Good luck with that. It's not going to pass. We were like there's no there's no way. He took it personally. He called everyone. The kids had a great time. Thank you. Hi guys. Um I'm reporting on behalf of SS PTA tonight. Um at our May meeting, we approved the budget and the board for the 2025 2026 school year. Um Amanda Leven will be serving as treasurer, Julie Pena as secretary, Gina Shala as vice president and myself as president. Um we will need to hold a meeting in June to vote on the
011bylaws which will expire on July 1st. Uh it should be noted that both both national and state membership fees have increased over the past couple of years. So that is something you might see reflected in the membership fees for the upcoming year. Um so that's just something to consider. Uh we will be posting uh information if anybody is interested in joining in on that Zoom. Um, a huge thank you to Liz Branotti, Amanda Leven, and Ronda Park for hosting uh, control alts and connect, a panel about internet safety featuring Rockland County ADA, Gerard Damiani, TZHs pres uh, student Laura Estaban, and our own George Brady, director of technology. The event was made possible by the National PTA Internet Awesome Grant uh, powered by Google and YouTube. We celebrated teacher appreciation week uh very successfully including
012family donated snacks and drinks for the staff lounge. Students wrote thank you notes and the PTA purchased a lunch for the staff from Paris Baguette. Um as far as future events, we have the last school store on Thursday, June 5th. We need volunteers. Uh there will be a sixth grade watermelon party at the end of the year. The event will take place on June 18th. And we also need volunteers from 6:00 to 8 to help slice and serve watermelon for the students. Uh the 8th grade party will be Friday, June 6th. The tickets are on sale. Um if you need alternative payment methods, we ask that you just send an email to SS PTA. We don't want any student to miss out on an event due to financial hardships on the family. So please, if
013there's any questions or anything, send an email to [email protected]. Uh we also need support for these events such as volunteers uh for the party and rehearsal breakfast um as well as donations uh on the Wednesday eblasts. We have links to all of the signups and all of the spreadsheets and all of the all of the things. So just make sure that you're keeping an eye on those eblasts. Uh the PTA is also selling candys um to order by June 13th for the eighth graders. Uh they get those at the eighth grade breakfast. Um, and yeah, once again, just all these links for volunteer opportunities and donation opportunities are available on the eblast as well as the Facebook class pages. And that's all I have. Thanks, Karina. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Michelle. I'm I'm
014um presenting for the TZ PTSA. Um, we have project graduation coming up. Uh, it's moving along nicely. The entertainment has been booked. Fundraising. Um, we're doing the June balloon sale. Uh, June balloons are still for sale. The June balloons are still for sale until June 2nd. Um, there is a Google doc uh on the website. Uh, June balloons are for sale for the second, fifth, and eighth grade and 12th grade students delivered to the house of the student. Uh, lawn sign fundraiser is closed. The solicitation letters for scholarship and project grad are to be mailed. Uh, the food trucks have been booked. Ticket sales begin on um May 21st. Uh they're $20 per student. Um and the volunteer form is coming out and will be posted. Um you guys are all invited to project graduation.
015[Laughter] Can I ask a question? Absolutely. We even though we're not part of that the high school PTA, can we still of No, they need everybody. It's it's better for you to have it's better for um We can still volunteer to do two. Sorry. uh it's uh better for you to volunteer as your kids are coming up because then you'll see what it is and they they want what we want is we want more people to know what's going on and to have a basis that it doesn't start fresh every year and it's a really amazing program when I went to here like a gajillion years ago it was very cool and it's even cooler now and to volunteer and to see the kids it's awesome so please volunteer please come awesome you're going to
016have a great time now I'll be there yeah I stayed until midnight last time and I kind of wanted to stay later but I was very tired But it's really really fun and they stay until five o'clock in the morning. Stay very late, you can get hypnotized. Yeah, there's like and it's I mean every the the project graduation is an amazing event and I'm going off to script here, but everybody leaves with something. Um all the kids are made to feel special. It's a really great night. They have games over here. They've got games over there. There's food everywhere. Um, everybody they gets like um a prize table and everyone gets picked for a number and they get to like raffle something off, but they get at least you leave with at least a gift
017card. Some people are going to leave with like an like other cool things. It's just really a great event and it's nice for the kids and it's nice to see the kids and I love it. Um, okay. Uh, the scholarship, the PTSA scholarship, uh, the prompt was this year the PTSA works together to serve parents, teachers, and students in our school community and beyond. tell us about a contribution that you've made uh to your community and how it impacted you. Uh we had a lot of really great um essays. Uh and then uh we awarded 11 students $300 each and that they're going to get that award uh um June 4th at the senior awards. Uh decision day was May 1st and that was really great. We had an ice cream truck and the kids
018really enjoyed that. Uh there was a lot of great pictures on the Instagram. Um and then we just finished the parent uh the teacher appreciation um from May 5th to May 9th. We uh stocked the teachers lounge every day. It was a different thing uh different theme and it was great. And then we awarded um $250 grants each to four teachers. So Emily Cabrera, uh Patricia Ayer, Nicholas DSantis, and Kristen Driscoll. And that's and that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Uh just last thing with my superintendence report, I had the opportunity this afternoon with Dr. Arietta, Miss Luciano, and our high school staff to go to the computer science honor society where the kids had an opportunity to share some of the projects they're working on. Uh and they were also honored
019for their work in the computer science program and many of our seniors are going on to college. So it was kind of like a signing day for our seniors. So it was a great event and always nice to go every year. We had a lot of parents as well. And that concludes my superintendent report. Okay. Um, so we can open the floor to public commentary. We probably have at least one. So I'll start reading. Protocol for public commentary is as follows. All opinions are heard. Everyone should be an active listener. Each person is responsible for his or her behavior. Respect diverse perspectives. Be conscious of your speaking time and tone. Limit of three minutes is appropriate time frame to state your issue. Speakers may not give unused time to other speakers. Issues of specific personnel
020either positive or negative cannot be discussed at board meetings. References, comments, or discussion that does or may identify a specific student or students by name or situation will not be discussed publicly due to furpal law. Issues pertaining to specific students should be addressed privately with the student's teacher, principal, or school counselor in accordance with policy 1400, public concerns, before bringing the issue to the superintendent's attention. The board reserves the right to close comments on an issue if the residents become unruly or disrespectful or if the topic is something that the board is legally unable to discuss in public. If an unusual number of people are attending to bring forth a specific issue, the number of speakers could be limited. Depending on the number of people wishing to speak public during public commentary, the board reserves
021the right to reduce the time limit on each speaker until everyone is heard. The sole purpose of public commentary is for the board to actively listen to the community. Meeting protocol requires that questions presented to the board during public commentary will be responded to when possible. At the board's discretion, questions requiring investigations will be referred to the superintendent and will be responded to in a timely fashion through future board meetings, electronic mail, mail, or telephonically. Provided the contact information is supplied on the public commentary signup sheet. Hello everyone. Yes. My name is Hermando Dominguez. I'm from cleaning service of Hudson Valley and I'm the BP. I live in 18 Parker Road Garner, New York. Uh as you know, I was here last week and I brought to the B attention the concern of that the
022business office recommend the school board to approve the bid of cleaning cleaning and summer services 2025 to Apple Maintenance Service. If you recall, Apple maintenance was the highest bidder submitted in in the response to the request for a proposal. The business office never made the determination as to bid cleaning service of Hudson Valley or even the contractor that submitted the second highest bid. To refresh the board memory, the bid submitted were as follow. Cleaning services of Hudson Valley 793, $88155. SJ services 858688,688. Apple maintenance $895,10. Tonight, the board is voting in the proposal budget for the school year. Can the board please explain to me or an reminder of the people present tonight and the taxpayer the status of the bid for cleaning service cleaning services and summer cleaning services 2025 2026 and why the
023business recommended over 100,000 more than the price by cleaning services of Hudson Valley. Thank you. Thank you. So, we'll have a quick comment and Miss Espanel, our assistant superintendent for business and operations, will also uh make some comments, but as you know, when we put a request for bids out, we have certain specifications and responsible bids. Uh, and we need to make sure that the people that are responding to those bids meet those specifications. Do you want to clarify? Thank you. Um so within municipal law we have to um award to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. Responsive means that you're meeting the request within the bid specifications. Of course it's favorable for the district if the lowest bidder is also responsible to the bid specifications. So that would be ideal which I would say
02499.9% of our bids awards are such. But with this one, there were vendors that didn't meet all the specifications and requirements within the bid document. So that's why we recommended the other one. Thank you, Miss Espanol. Thank you. Is there any more public commentary? No. Okay. Um so we can go to um board discussion. Any committee reports? I have one. I don't know if anyone else has one. No. Okay. So, I'll go over the facilities committee notes. All right. So, um on May 14th, we had a facilities committee meeting um discussing phase one with CL and and William O'Hafer. The schedule was reviewed. Abatement from 7:5 through 7:19 uh with substantial completion being on 8:23. Floors to be waxed by Sunday. boxes move back into rooms by Monday 8:25. CPL uh sorry C wow CPL
025punch list scheduled for Monday 8:25 and 8:26. CPL will share Google Doc with facility team for tracking status by classroom. Um we're hoping that that can um really help us know which classrooms are ready. So um you know if there obviously is any extra time to get those teachers in. I know that um they're contractually obligated um only for a certain time, but uh we obviously are doing our best to get them in there. Um we have phase two at TZHS schedule review um same as above except for substantial completion date. The abatement again from 75 through 719. We have substantial completion on 8:22. And then we have teachers to pack uh soon and custo custodians and movers will be moving boxes to trailers being leased. Floors to be waxed by Sunday. Boxes moved back
026into rooms by Monday 8:25. CPL punch list scheduled for Monday 8:25 and 8:26. CPL will share Google Doc once again with facility team for tracking status by classroom. And then we have the TZHS nurses suite ADA restroom which is in the 2025 2026 budget. CPL held user group meeting option one 159,000 and option two 151,000. CPL and TPG recommendation is option two. It would not require re relocation of SRO and the nurses are okay with losing their storage room so that we can supply the nurses suite ADA restroom. Um committee decided on option two. Then we have phase three in SS and the SED approval has been received. So that was the facility notes. Um do we have any agenda items that we need to discuss? I just have a report out. We had a
027school safety meeting. Um, Mr. Galino led that meeting. Um, Miss Gravino was in attendance and many people here. Uh, we talked about the school safety plan. So, that's a plan that gets updated annually and Mr. Galino has spent a lot of time with different stakeholders making sure that plan has everything that needs to be in the plan, not only for the district, but for each of our schools. We also talked about reunification training. So, we're still in the process of rolling out reunification and I know you and I think uh two of our staff are going to visit a school in the coming weeks to witness a reunification drill school that seems to be further ahead. Um and so we're looking forward to that and planning on having some of those practice drills uh with
028some staff starting this summer and then into next year. Uh there was also a safety conference forum that you attended with Dr. Tessic. Uh, and we're looking at our security enhancements that if the budget is approved tonight, we'll when the voters approve the budget, we're we're looking at more security enhancements this summer uh in all of our schools. Did I miss anything? Good. Okay. Can I ask a question? So, just going back to the facilities report. Yes. So, 8:25 the boxes will be back in the rooms. When was the cleaning uh scheduled for the rooms? So, the cleaning will be um immediately following substantial completion and throughout the summer Saturday over the weekend. Yeah. And that's the final cleaning. That's not so 8 23 and 824. 8 no 822 and 823. So, we can do
029a walk through on to make sure. Yeah, we're planning to schedule a walkthrough probably I think before we had the date that we're not well we're going to do one walkth through at the end of July, beginning of August and then another walkth through at the end of the summer. But the difference this summer is that the cleaners are following the construction crew. So it won't be that they're just showing up and hoping to get the rooms cleaned in two days. They'll be here throughout the summer and then the final cleaning will happen. I think a walkthrough should be scheduled too for the week after of 85 825. Yes, we are doing that. Or like midweek just before school opens it. You like these two? Yeah, I would like before the boxes. I want to
030make sure that there's no Yeah. Yeah, we will. Thank you. Y All right. Um, so everyone had a chance to look at agenda. Is there anything that we need to discuss? Any changes? Any No. Okay. Doing good. All right. So, we can move right to motion to approve consent agenda categories 8 through 10. Motion second. Thank you, Diana. Thank you, Katie. All in favor? I I All right. And a chance for new business. If not, we can Okay. Motion to adjourn to executive session to receive advice from legal counsel at 8:33. Motion. Thank you. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I I All right, everyone. Uh we're just going to go to executive session for a little bit. We have some time to uh do some other business while we're waiting for the results of
031the election. Um we appreciate you being here, but you can do whatever you need to for that time. Yeah, there's no more business. Of course, this is black. Okay. I didn't have minutes or not, so I just fine. Sorry. I just don't want to mess up. I trust, but I don't presume. All right. All right. You could be testing me, too. Like I said, I measure success by learning from my mistakes. I got a couple people that said they like that. I was like, thank you. That's good for me. So, we got to go downstairs. All right, may as well leave my stuff. Coming back [Music] 60°. There's a separate [Music] Well, that's what Oh yes. I guess Ready? Smart. [Music] a smart dude smart I'm waiting close Where's it coming? My house. They don't
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033Oh yeah. Yeah. How old is he? Oh yeah. Yeah. You can buy two of them. Okay, that's fine. Yeah. No, that's fine. You're welcome. No problem. No problem. Okay. message. Oh, come Hold on. All I Okay, so the results annual district meeting board of election board of education resolution declaring the results of the May 20, 2025 annual school district meeting budget vote and election of board members. Whereas the annual school district meeting was held on May 20th, 2025 to vote on the budget proposition number one for the 2025 2026 school year and for the election of two members to the board of education. And whereas the inspectors of election have duly counted and canvased the votes on the budget proposition and election of two members of the board of education and have delivered to the
034district clerk signed statements of the canvas of the vote setting forth among other things the total number of persons who voted as shown on the printout of each voting machine and by the said inspector's records the number of absentee ballots votes cast and the total number of votes cast which is attached here to and made a part of this resolution. Therefore, be it resolved that the said board of education declares the results of the said canvas on the proposition for the 2025 2026 budget as follows. Votes in favor of budget proposition number one, 1685. Votes against budget proposition number one 556. And be it further resolved that the said board of education declares the results of the canvas on the election of two members of the board of education as follows. Board seat incumbent Steven
035Finn votes in favor of Steven Finn, 1456. Votes for others 86. Board seat incumbent David Sansone. Votes in favor of David Sansone, 176. Votes in favor of John Savage 1,214. Votes for others one. And be it further resolved that the district clerk shall record the results of this vote upon the budget proposition and the election of two members to the board of education as hereby announced and declared. Motion to approve the resolution declaring the results of the May 20th, 2025 annual school district meeting, budget vote, and election of board members. Do I have a a motion? Can I have a motion, please? No. Supposed to say something. I need a motion for this motion. Thank you, Rob. second. I mean, what do what do you I believe we do. Yes. Try a second. Thank you.
036All in favor? I can I Thank you. Thank you. I Okay. All in favor. Thank you. All right.