001Welcome to the HA board of education meeting. It's July 1st, 2025. Please stand for the flag to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So like to welcome members and [Music] like I swear. At this time, I'd like to take nominations for president of the board. Okay. Thank you very much. I'll take nominations for the election of a vice president. I will nominate Mr. Scrio. Do I have any seconds or any other nominations? Yes. Second. Thank you. Any other nominations? All those in favor? Opposed? Abstensions? Thank you. 401. Mr. Scrio abstains. Congratulations. Uh I will uh take a motion to designate uh our district clerk uh for the school year 2526. I'll make a motion. Mr.
002Grio seconds. Any discussion? All those in favor? 5. I will now administer the oath of office to district clerk. Have that. support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York. Thank you, Paula. Congratulations. And the district clerk will now administer the oath of office to superintendent of schools, Dr. Murphy. I support the United States of York. Thank you. Congratulations, Dr. Murphy. Number seven on the agenda is questions and comments from um the community concerning tonight's reorganizational agenda only. Uh the consent agenda set agenda for the reorganiz reorganizational meetings is number 8 through 44. Are there any items from the consent agenda for the reorganizational meeting that members would like to have removed? Yes. Yes, I would ask to remove 26 A sub4700 26 A sub4. Any others? With
003that, I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda minus 26 A4. Thank you, Mr. M. Collins. Sorry, Mr. Collins is in the audience. Uh, the second, Mr. Michaels. Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor? 5-0. I will make a motion to table 26 A4 which was removed by Mr. Michaels. Uh I'll make a motion to table it to our next meeting. My motion, Mr. Michaels second. Any discussion? All those in favor? 5. I ask the clerk put that on the agenda for our put it on the uh not the consent agenda. put it on a stand as a standalone item please on our next meeting. That concludes the uh that portion of the meeting. Mr. Scrio seconds any discussion 50. Now turning to the business portion of our meeting updates number 45 on
004the agenda. Dr. Murphy. Thank you, Mr. Par. Uh welcome back everybody. It's the start of a new school year. Even though we just ended the last, I have to say that the last week in Hopog uh is always just a a tremendous uh daily celebration of our kids culminating with middle school moving up on the field and then high school commencement which was last Friday. Um I just want to recognize the principles at all the buildings um and really all faculty and staff. It's a group effort. Um uh during our speech, Mr. Bar and I talked about it takes a village when we were recognizing and honoring our local heroes of our local police officers, firefighters, veterans, etc. And uh you truly see that spirit and feel that energy when you attend some of these
005events. It's just tremendous. And honestly, it's um in many ways recognition of the board of ed, all the work that happens throughout the year, the the decisions at these board meetings, all leads up to that kind of crowning achievement. So, just tremendous job uh all around. Um I do have some recognitions individually as well. Um between the last board meeting and today, a lot has happened. So, I'm going to go through these uh methodically here. I don't want to leave anybody out. Uh so first up congratulations to Pines Elementary School student musicians and music teachers Mrs. Ray Dolan. Mrs. D Rose Pines L was recently named the elementary school of musical excellence by Scamia uh for having extremely well-rounded and robust music program. Congratulations to them. Uh congratulations to Hop senior student athletes Mary Schroeder
006and Michael Aloto. Both were honored as nominees for the Delicave Award. Uh actually just saw this newspaper clipping at home today. Uh the top student athletes in Suffach County representing Hop. Michael was selected as a finalist for the award. Uh of course we've seen Michael's name all over the papers this last month as well. Uh the ice is of arts council annual teen awards celebrating excellence in student theater and musical theater across the region were held earlier in June. Several Hoplo students were recognized for their their outstanding achievement in the performing arts. Honores Matthew Barier, uh, Aaron Delgado, Trinity Garcia, Matthew Conungle received accolades for their contributions to the hot dog theater department. Special special recognition went to Alexa Aloto, Michael's sister, uh, and Jacob Solomon. Both were honored with the director's choice awards for
007their work in Mama Mia and a Midsummer's Night Midsummer Night's Dream. uh Teen Awards for best supporting actress went to Julia Cristiano and Em Amelia Duca uh for their performances respectively. Uh also very proud again of senior Alexa Aloeto recently received an award and scholarship from Nisame Suffach as one of the top 15 student musicians in Suffach County. Uh she was recognized for her dedication to the high student uh 20 elementary students who participated in the 2025 Brook Haven National Lab uh elementary um science fair. I'm sorry. Alexa is not Michael's sister. What is What is Michael's sister's name though? Caitlyn. My apologies to both Caitlyn and Alexa for that mistake. Are they cousins related? Two different families. My apologies. Um, we have uh our our participants included all of our first place winners from
008kindergarten through fifth grade from all three elementary buildings along with the first and second place winners from sixth grade. At our middle school, a total of eight students won awards across all four buildings. Uh, the judges choice was Aiden Npalitano, sixth grade hot middle school, the effects of aging on reaction time. Um and then lastly at the last meeting we congratulated our girls and boys track teams for their accomplishments at counties. They followed that up with impressive performances at the state qualifier meet. Our state qualify state qualifiers were Rachel Buttky, uh, Alex Wetterham, Cece Mchia, Amelia Vitali, Ava Delicertie, Terrell, Jeffrey, Matt Machana, Tristan Pierre Lewis, Jake Peret, Logan Wartz, our 4x100 relay team of uh, CC Matcha, Alex Guerhan, Ava Delicertie, and Rachel Budkkey ran a personal best at the state championship, finishing fourth.
009Alex qualified for the final in the 200, running an impressive race and finishing fourth. So, big round of applause for all of these students. Thank you. And then lastly, I'd like to recognize two other students here that I'm going to be uh handing the mic over to in a moment. Um so we have Hannah Hartin and Alalakin Oanchakin who are our two new uh student uh exeicio members of the board this year. Welcome to you both. Um they were recognized or recommended by Mr. White. I forwarded their recommendation to the board and uh the board is welcoming them here tonight as am I and the rest of cabinet. So welcome to you both. And now I'd like to turn it over to two of you for an update from the student. Thank you for having
010me here. Um, the upcoming junior class has made the deposit for junior prom and they are very excited for another great year. Thank you as well for having me. Um, senior class just did their t-shirt fundraiser and actually raised a lot of funds, so it's great for us. Um, we're working on senior prom and that's being the parking lot fundraiser getting very excited for that at the end of the summer. It's supposed to be extra fun this year. We're adding a few surprises into it and working on summer. Awesome. Thank you. You have plans for the summer. Any family vacations coming up? Um, I'm going to Ohio, but yeah. Awesome. Anything for you? I got I had a family member during Maryland. Awesome. Nice. Enjoy. Thank you. And again, welcome. Number 46 on the agenda
011is adoption of minutes from the business community meeting of June 3rd, 2025. Do I have a motion to discuss screen for second? Any discussion? All those in favor? Number 47 on the agenda. That is the um question and answer period regarding tonight's agenda only. Does anyone have any questions concerning tonight's agenda? The consent agenda for our annual meeting are is numbers 48 through 51. Are there any items that the members would like to have removed? Must 49 C1 49 C1 Any others? I will remove uh 49 B2 as do Christy. Yes, sir. I will take a motion to approve and set agenda minus 49 C1 and 49 B2 as do Mr. Uh, yes. So, if I have a motion make a motion, please go. Thank you. Do I have a second? Mr. Michaels. Thank you.
012Any discussion? All those in favor? 4.9 B2 as to Chris. Do I have a motion? Thank you, Mr. Mino. Do I second? Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? Extensions. 401 as far as Shay's name 49 C1 as to um Mr. as to that's the Mr. bus removed. I'll make a motion second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed extensions. 401 discussing. That concludes the consent agenda. I want to go back for a moment to item 43 on the consent agenda for the reorganization meeting. I'm just going to run through the committees and appoint temporary chairs uh whose uh duty it is to hold a meeting and uh have an election as to the for the permanent chair of each committee. For the oil committee it will be Miss Kylie the board policy
013committee it will be myself town board school Iceland town school boards association representative will be Mrs. Thomas steering committee will be myself, Miss Bar. The HIV A committee will be Larry Traa. Code of conduct will be Mr. Scrio. Districtwide safety team will be Mr. Basino. Districtwide health and safety facilities will be Dr. Traa. Curricular instruction and technology will be myself and I'm also appointing committee member Jeff Salia. uh to that committee. I ask um that the clerk advise Miss Salvia of that uh the bond subcommittee uh Dr. Ka and I will again form an ad hoc uh committee entitled regionalization committee to serve the same purposes as it did last year and I will appoint Mr. Michaels as the chair of that committee. Turning back to our regular agenda number 52, policies, there are none.
014That's not true. Uh 5281 uh is policy 5695. Mr. Fasma, can you um give us uh update on as to what that is? Sure. Policy 695 personal electronic devices. This is the first reading of a state mandated policy regarding no cell phones or electronic devices in school during the instructional day. Is it fair to say that that policy is just bringing us in line with what's required by the state now? Yes, it is. Um any comment or u questions from the board concerning 5695? Mr. just I just want to make sure that we are sending out parents and students needs to know that you're not supposed to have cell phones classes at all. Yes, we will be communicating that to all families. Uh Dr. Murphy, is it the intent of the superintendent to have a
015regulation implementing that policy? Possibly. Um Mr. Screen's point, we had a a committee that met and discussed this. Uh, as you mentioned, it's required by um law. So, um there's um a few decisions we have to make, but honestly, it's really about communication and making sure our community is well aware of this. So, we're going to have a campaign this summer to make sure that we communicate and support parents. We have some resources in copy to help unpack uh the complexity of the conversation about just homes in general. Uh so a regulation may be forthcoming but uh it's TBD at the moment. So we the board leaves that to you to determine whether regulation is necessary as far as a policy goes. Any other questions or comments? We'll return 5695 to policy committee to be
016um proposed for a second reading. and our next meeting 52A2 is policy 8113 Mr. Taz. Yes, that policy is connected to extreme condition heat days where if the temperatures rise above a certain degree, we need to make sure that students are in an area where it's cool and uh we do everything we can to eliminate the heat or reduce the heat in certain occasions. Is this a new policy or is this an amendment to an existing policy? This is a new policy again. line to the law. Yes. Any y I just want to add this was someone not the policy but the topic of heat was uh in the papers recently. Um just happened to report in all of our classrooms have air conditioning. So really of course it was hot of those days but
017our classrooms were all cooled. the bond has now gone to take care of uh larger spaces in the elementary schools and the three gymnasium areas. So, we were already have been in place to kind of deal with that heat where some other districts are kind of playing catchup. So, um just some good news on that. Lindsay or or Joe, is this a policy that is required regardless of whether we have air conditioning or not? Yes. Any other comments or any questions concerning 8103? We'll send that back to the policy committee as well to be proposed for a second reading. Discussion matters. Uh do any board members have any discussion matters that they'd like to bring up? Actually, there are no discussion matters today. New business. Do any board members have any new business that they
018like to bring up? Mr. screwed on. Can you give us an update as far as we know the tennis courts, you know, neighbors welcome things. I just want to see where we're at. Yeah. So, I'm going to ask Miss Hannah to jump in here again. One thing I do want to point out, um, we just recently put up all of the buildings, um, what do you call them? QRS. Yeah. like that diagram with QR codes and also a short URL. You pull up to the light with electronic scoreboard on town line grab that QR very easily. We can do so on all the buildings to address what Mr. Fredo's talked about. There's a lot of interest and of course questions. So that brings our uh parents community members directly to our website with updates. But
019um Miss will share some of the good news surrounding that question as well. So the community update will be going out tomorrow where there'll be a little bit more information just kind of detailing everything. So across the street uh from high school the middle school will begin the track was ripped up sports were ripped up. Um Pines the front parking lot will be redone in the summer. So that's starting a lot of things are happening within the next couple days. The goal is to get all the work done so it impact the first day of school um and then work from there on out. So one thing you will see updates coming from our office just detailing everything that's going on and refer people to that website where they can see more information there. So
020it's really exciting stuff. It'll be so interesting to see how people Thank you. Any other new business from any members? New business from the um administration? No. No business. Any new business from our student members? Question. Sure. Hannah was joined us at a conference earlier this year. Sorry, you were nine. Yeah. Um I did join a conference to hear more about foreign policy. I definitely think that it will improve the focus from students, but I've heard different things from the students. You know, it's all debated. Thank you so much. Any other new business from anyone? Questions and comments from the community concerning anything uh related to the district whatsoever? Uh I personally I just want to congratulate and say thank you to Mr. white horse were an amazing uh I've got so many compliments not
021only about my speech of course but about the um my speech was starting about uh the commencement in general and how smooth it was and just it was a great day. So uh congratulations to you and and your whole staff there at the high school. Job well done as always. Our next meet uh this meeting is our next meeting is a business meeting on July 22nd 2025. I will take a motion to adjourn. Mr. Screen makes a motion. I will second. Any discussion? All those in favor? We are adjourned 50. God bless America and God bless. Thank you. Young Steve Swansman in the room. Yes. Yes. Oh, that's it's also my wife. Yeah, my wife Allison to everyone pick a perfect day and not mess anything else.