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Hauppauge School District Board of Education Public Session on July 22, 2025

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YouTube / Hauppauge Public Schools
Date
2025-07-23
Location
Suffolk County, NY
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1,633 words · about 10 min
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2026-06-29

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001Thank you. We're back for the hot school board meeting. Please stand als one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all to number four the updates update back. >> Thank you, Mr. Scrio. Uh, welcome everybody. It's great to see so many people here uh spending time with us on this uh in the 30 days of summer. Uh we're going to get to some recognitions very quickly. Uh and just for my remarks, uh just a couple things. Last time we met was just before uh the 4th of July. I hope everybody had a great Fourth with your families uh celebrating. Um I was just came from the high school uh with Mr. Tasmin, Mr. Craf, Dr. Cra uh just seeing the progress with the bond. Very very cool to see the tennis courts and

002the pickle ball courts coming together, the logo. Uh everything is is coming along very nicely. We're on track there. seen the wall go up across the street uh that the Sienna calls wall ball instead of handball which is I grew up playing. Um but all everything is on track throughout the district and um you may have seen the banners that have gone up on the fences uh at all of the schools. It has a QR code and a a tiny URL where you can kind of track our progress. Uh we've received some some great ideas from members of the PTA. That was one of the ideas. Uh so I thank always the members of the PTA who help us uh to message things uh as best as we can. Uh one of the things that

003we'll see on the website soon for the bond is some easy to follow renderings of kind of what the finished product will look like districtwide. So that's coming soon. Um, and then just lastly before we uh I turn it over to our student board members. Um, obviously just tremendous buzz in our community uh about um Michael Aloto. Um if you've been able to kind of track this, I mean it's it's uh I'm hearing from friends from from all over the country. Uh drafted by the Detroit Tigers uh 34th overall. Um Mr. Tasman helped to identify a fact here. So, also Hop resident James Hagens was drafted by the NHL. It appears that we are the first Long Island community to have two athletes selected in the first round of major American sports drafts in the

004same year. Um, this is according to Chat GPT, so we have to verify this, but we're we're moving forward as if that's gospel. So, there's a lot of pride in our community. Uh and uh all of us up here know Michael uh in particular very well. Just the most humble kid, great kid. Um it's just awesome honestly and uh a lot of uh teachers and coaches and really it takes a village. The re the entire community should take pride uh in his success. Mr. Butler of course. Uh so just great news all around. So that's all I have for tonight. Yes. Let's round of applause. And with that, I will turn it over to my friends over here, our student board members. In preparation for the upcoming school year, students will have to know where

005their lockers are because they have to put their phones there. Just the cell phone ban. On August 28th, the freshman or freshman open house will be occurring and all preparations are being made this time. Also on August 28th, the senior class is preparing and getting excited for their paint the parking spot fundraiser. This year there will be uh an ice cream truck. Uh music and class shirts will be handed out as stated on the forms for class shirts. In addition to that, all of the students are enjoying their summers. >> Awesome. >> Thank you both. Mr. Butler, have you served for the graduation award? Thank you. [Music] >> Good evening everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and recognize some of our student athletes uh for their individual and team successes uh in

006this spring season. Uh as uh Dr. Dr. Murphy alluded to a lot of pride um in the community right now uh not just um through Michael and Jiggins but for all of our student athletes who have really achieved greatness and uh notoriety not just uh locally but on the state level and the national level as we'll we'll hear tonight as well. So what we'll do tonight is is go through this list uh give the accolades for each individual. As your name is called you'll move up uh you'll receive your certificate and we'll just wait up in the front uh for a photo up here. So, um, to start us off, our first, um, individual, uh, Dr. Murphy alluded to could not be here tonight according to his mother because he's working, and that's Michael Aloto.

007Uh, he, uh, was named All County, First Team News Day, All Long Island, and the Silver Slugger award, as well as a delicate finalist this spring. So, for varsity baseball, Michael Aloto. in varsity flag football all county and all Long Island. Taylor Mleti [Applause] vars flag football all county. Megan Boutank, flag football, all county. Lindseay Adams, [Applause] boys lacrosse, all county. Nick Cump, boys lacrosse, all county honorable mention. Ryan Nisel, varsity girls lacrosse, all county. Abigail DSantis, varsity softball, doublea suffach county classification field player of the year, all county offensive league MVP and all Long Island. Kaylee Collins in softball, all county and all Long Island. Chrystal Abriscato, [Applause] boys track and field. Uh boys track and field team finished second in the county championships this year. So very proud of their accomplishments. Uh varsity

008track and field all county, Donald Dunenship. uh this next group of four who we'll we'll talk about right now. Not only did they uh make us proud during the during the season, but at the conclusion of the season, they went to um the Adidas Nationals and took second place at the Adidas Nationals, earning all-American honors. So those individuals are Preston Pabas, President Stewart, [Applause] Cat and Sha, and Terrell Jeff. In addition, boys track New York State Championships qualifier Tristan Pierre Louie. Boys varsity track Suffach County champion in the steeplechase and all county Bryson Smith. Uh, boys varsity track, New York City championships qualifier, S County champion in the 400 meter hurdles, and all county Jake Pere [Applause] and boys track and field New York State Championship qualifier Logan WZ. We'll next meet members of our

009first time Suffach County Champion girls track and field team. Congratulations to the team on that. Making history. Members of the team are Rachel Budkkey, New York State Championship qualifier, all state, all Long Island, Suffach County Champion, and an allcount uh performer. That's Rachel Budkkey. [Applause] Suffach County Champion and All County, Katherine Duro. [Applause] Suffach County Champion in the discus and all county. Kate Aloto, all state and Suffach County Champion in all county. CC Mosia, [Applause] all state suffered, [Applause] all state and all county. Ava Delicertie, [Applause] other members of our track and field team, county champion team, Gwen Taffla, Catherineo, [Applause] Kenzie Clark, Emma Turs, [Applause] Juliana Hec, [Applause] Julie Sopano, [Applause] Grace Lazowskis, [Applause] Anna Lingan, [Applause] Amelia Vitali, [Applause] Brianna Pena, Julafa, Ariana Res, Rowan Mur, Rowan Ashby, sorry, Ella Murphy, Lisa Dove,

010Paige Tederellis, [Applause] Kate Maretta, [Applause] Sophia Mariani, Ava Lingan, Jamie Donado and Rahan Curtis. [Applause] >> Uh, also with us tonight are coaches, track coaches, uh, Mary Noatarski and Jim Ryan. Congratulations. [Applause] >> That was a challenge, right? Yeah. Let's get ourselves closer together here, guys. Boys, stay in the back. Ladies, come on this side. Come on in the front. >> I can just tell you got 10 seconds to get a good photo established, right? You got 10 seconds on your own. Ready? Nine. Eight. Watch how good Watch how fast they do. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Two. Come on. Look how perfect a little. You're all going to stay still until everybody's parent gets the photo they want. Everybody can see. [Music] >> Get a little Congratulations to all of our winners. Happy Tristan. Good

011job. Great job. Congratulations. >> We want to thank you all for coming. Student athletes, outstanding. We want to thank the parents of course, all the grandparents. If you know this doesn't go by student. Thank all you guys. We take a five minute recess. So anybody wants to >> you don't want to stay for the rest of >> great job everybody. Thank you. Welcome back. We're going to move on to 5C, the adoption minutes for your meeting July 1st, 2025. Motion second. Those four. Okay. Yes. [Music] >> That's why we have our attorney. I want to make sure >> what do you suggest attorneygest? All right. So, Mrs. Collins with the motion second. All those in favor. >> All right. We're going to move on to number six. Any questions or comments on tonight? >> I

012want you to know I could have all of them. >> We'll set that up. >> Okay. We're going to look for the consent agenda which is going to be 7 through 7. Yes. I got a motion by Doc Cer, second by Kylie. All those in favor move on to policies. Mr. Tasman policies. >> Yep. The policies that are before you today for second reading and adoption are the student personal electronic devices and extreme heat condition days. Both policies align with um law and have been reviewed by our attorneys and our policy committee. >> I just want to reiterate and remind the audience also following the video uh that once again starting this school year there'll be no cell phones allowed in the classroom. Um or actually how about the lunch? >> Now it's a bell.

013Okay. I just want to remind everybody of that so there's no questioning that. Okay. Um >> Yes, please. >> Uh to those who may be watching, we we'll have plenty of communication on this in advance of the first day of school. Um that outlines uh exactly what this is about. the le, you know, this is all derived from law and uh it will include an extensive FAQ that kind of covers all the bases because we know this is new. Obviously, we care most about our community, but it's across New York State. So, everybody is going to be adjusting uh come fall, but we'll be uh we'll be prepared for that and we'll make sure our our kids are prepared and parents understand. So, more to come. >> I appreciate that. >> Yep. Once again, I

014figure the more communication the better and our two students can help us out. Thanks. I appreciate that. >> Um, we're going to move on to committee reports. We'll probably do on these, but push these so we have the other board members on that. Um, number 10 is discussion matters. Anybody have any discussion? Number 11, new business. I do want to bring up and I know the attorney to look into possible question. We have to vote on the policy tonight. >> Yes, we do. Okay. Second. All those in favor. >> Thank you, >> Paul. Um, number 11, new business. I want to bring up to the attorney. We did have some phone calls about the proposed I apologize if I'm saying the word wrong. Best maybe a new battery substation over in hot and some homeowners

015have been notified of some safety concerns um stuff like that. So is that something you can look into gene that we can >> Sure. I mean, as in the past, when there's a constituent concern involves safety, the school board has authorized us to look into it and provide information to see if any reaction or position will be taken by the school district. So, I already put in a foil, Bridget reminded me in March, and I'll follow up on that and I'll provide you with details very shortly so that next meeting you can address any concerns you may have. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. That way, you can let the community know where this is going, you get to turn it to the school. Uh number 12. Any questions or comments? If not, we're going to

016adjourn. Our next business meeting is Tuesday, August 19th of 2025. Mr. Collins with the motion to adjourn. Michael second in favor. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Have a good night.

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