001Good evening everyone. Welcome to the um Yorktown Central School District board meeting. Um can I get a motion to go into executive session to discuss the employment history of a particular pedagogical individual? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Motion to go back into session for the August 25th, 2025 school board meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Um, can we start with uh the pledge of allegiance to be followed with a moment of silence for our armed forces and those in the Yorktown Central School District community that have lost loved ones, especially the father of Lisa Sanfalippo, the father of Pam Trillis, the father of Tara Sicaranza, the mother of Joanne Vendetti, the mother of Michelle Deleggy, the father of
002Barbara Driscoll, and the grandfather of Kim Manakus. Oh, the mother of Mark Wexler. I apologize. It was on my old copy. Start with public comment. >> We'll start with We need to open the public hearing for the district-wide safety plan. Can I get a motion to open the public hearing? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Dr. Hider, can I turn that over to you? >> Sure. So each year, and thank you for that. So each year, school districts are required to post their district-wide safety plan to their website for 30 days for the community to review. boards then hold a public hearing for input and for discussion. Our district-wide safety plan essentially speaks to some of the protocols that are in place in the event of emergency and and wide ranging emergencies. And so that's
003been posted for our community to just review and and peruse. The building level plans are confidential. Those get filed with the state. I do anticipate this board needing to hold another hearing on our district-wide safety plan as there was recently legislation passed that takes effect in January of 2026 called Desha's law that talks about have school districts having a cardiac arrest sudden cardiac arrest plan for each venue in which they hold events. So, we will certainly work with our school district legal council, our medical director, and our staff here, our nurses, our athletic director and athletic staff to make sure that that gets implemented. That will then be incorporated into our district-wide safety plan. And then we'll certainly come back to the board for um another public hearing and adoption. But as it stands, the
004safety plan has few modifications from prior year to this year. And we continue obviously to prioritize the safety of our staff and students. >> And that plan was on the website. >> Correct. We posted that I want to say back in July, I believe, was when we posted it. I'm looking over at Brian, but I think it was July when we initially posted it. May have even been sooner than that, but I think it was July is a safe bet. >> I think it was July. >> I believe it was July 1st was when we posted. So, it's been on for longer than 30 days. >> Anybody have a comment? >> Okay. So, I'll get a motion to close the public. >> Oh, was there any public comment of it? >> Can I get a
005motion to close the public hearing? >> So, moved. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Uh, Dr. Hatter, I'll turn it over to you for the superintendent update. >> Where? Sorry, I got to change this computer. Um, motion to adopt the district-wide safety plan for the 2025 2026 school year. >> So, move >> second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> It's the sliding of the thing. I'll get it for next meeting. Thank you though. >> All right. Now, I'll turn it over to you. >> Okay. >> And I'm going to recommend one like I have because I find it a little easier to interface with board docs. So, I will recommend that. That's certainly a challenge on that Chromebook. Uh, with regard to my report, the opening of school is one
006week away from tomorrow, and we look forward to welcoming our 3,500 or so students back to our campuses. Today, we had the privilege of welcoming back our fall student athletes. It was so great to see so many students back on campus, although we had students on campus for the vast majority of this summer. Our last board of education meeting was on July 1st and so a lot of time has gone by since we last provided that update on some of our programs. Although I did issue a letter at a couple points during the summer, but just a few updates. As you come onto our campus, you'll notice some enhancements. You'll notice that the parking lots at the middle school and high school and the driveways have been sealed. The lines will be repainted. So, as
007you watch this meeting tomorrow morning, please know that we are in the process of applying a second coat and then repainting the directional lines on campus. The parking lots have already been relined and we are putting directional arrows in. My thanks to the town of Yorktown for paving the commuter lot. That is such a wonderful enhancement to that space. It it certainly enhances safety. It enhances the student experience and parking in the sea lot. We will be lining the sea lot with parking stalls and directional arrows to further clarify um the directions in in that parking lot in the interest of safety. So, we look forward to to that addition. Much needed addition. This evening, the board of education and I had the opportunity to walk through the middle school and high school. And I
008just want to extend my thanks to Dennis Vero and his team, the custodians, the operations and maintenance staff. What an excellent job. Our buildings are so widely used, especially the high school over the summer and the work that our custodians, our cleaners, our maintenance staff did throughout the summer. Both from a standpoint of the projects you can see, but also projects that you can't see, replacement of air filters and some of the other plumbing work and electrical work that are more behind the scenes or behind the walls, but equally attended to. So, I just want to commend Dennis and his team for all of the work that they completed. As we begin the school year, there are some new policies that are in effect and and as many know there is a internet enabled device
009restriction that's in place in all of our schools. I did put that out in a letter. The principles subsequently have put that out in their respective letters. I'm optimistic that this is a great opportunity. There are some parts of the legislation that I wish were a little written a little differently, but overall I think there's merit here. And so we have published the policy. The policy is going to be reviewed and and amended this evening and we encourage you to take a look at it before the start of school. And if you have any questions, you're certainly welcome to reach out to the principal of your child's school. Just a couple of more items. The Yorktown Volunteer Fire Department recently approached me to inquire about the possibility of extending a partial exemption to their school
010property taxes. And what I'd like to propose is I will continue to investigate this. I've already done some preliminary investigation. And I've learned that the town of Yorktown extends an exemption, a partial exemption. The Lakeland school district also exam extends a partial exemption as do some other school districts in neighboring communities. So what I'd like to do is just study the full financial impact that this will have. I I don't believe that it is a substantial impact. I believe it is a very modest impact, but I'd like to, if it's okay with the board, do a little further investigation, follow up with you with some additional numbers and possibly proceed from there. >> Yeah, that would be great. If you could get back to us on that for the next meeting, >> um, and we
011can look into it, I think that's great. Okay. >> The sealot, um, are you going to put directional hours? How is the parking going to work in in the sea lot? >> Yep. So, we're still finalizing the configuration to do two things. To balance safety with capacity. So, we obviously want to have maximum capacity. As as it currently stands, we believe we have 95 parking spaces in the lower lot. And that's predominantly the lot that our students use. And so, what we're looking to do is have one-way directional arrows in the seot. Not I'm not really interested in having two-way in the parking lanes because I do think that we have relatively inexperienced drivers in that lot. So I I like the idea of one-way parking. I also like the idea of angled parking so
012that it facilitates this oneway directional arrow. Um but yes, we are going to certainly line it by the end of this week. We anticipate the sea lot will be lined as well as our high school driveway will be lined and we anticipate one directional arrows painted on the respective parking l uh drive lanes within the parking lot that indicate one-way traffic flow only. >> Okay, great. Lisa, could I ask a question? >> Sure. >> Is it is the seot that's the one that was student driven having that paved? >> I appreciate you mentioning mentioning that. So yes, we have a superintendent student council at our high school and at our middle school. And one of the areas that our superintendent student council decided to take up was the paving of the sealot. This meant so
013much to them. And the superintendent student council is focused on really big ideas and really big work. And I shared with them that I'm finishing my eighth year at the time and I haven't been successful as maybe this group of teenagers will have more luck than I did. So we invited the town supervisor and the highway superintendent to one of our meetings. The students made such articulate and passionate cases for paving the sealot and and we're so grateful to the town supervisor and highway superintendent for not only hearing the perspective and concerns of our students but agreeing to pave the sealot uh at the town's expense. So we're just delighted by that. The students are incredibly happy and proud that they were able to influence such an important change in our community. And as I
014talk to students who have graduated from our district 10, 15, 20 years ago, inevitably the sea lot comes up and now when I share that the sea lot's been paved, there's just this sense of just pride and amazement that that lot has finally been paved. So I appreciate Jackie you mentioning that. Yes, this was student driven and and we really respect our students for advocating for something they believed in. Anybody else comment? Um okay, we'll move on to board reports. Our newest um committee, the artificial intelligence committee, Rashmi. >> Yeah. So um our newest committee is uh getting ready uh to have the first kickoff meeting with Dr. Hatter and his leadership team and Mike and Peter and myself um who serve on the committee from the board. Um so we're trying to get that
015going in the next couple of weeks and then we'll kind of um firm up some plans and ideas uh from there. >> Uh we'll go back to you for audit committee Rashmi. >> Uh let me think. Yes. So we do have a meeting coming up uh September 29th with the external auditor uh to go over the draft of the external audit report and they are coming to the board in October. uh at the first October meeting uh to present the report to the board before the submission to state by middle of the month. >> Jackie facilities projects committee. >> Okay. So we have been meeting every two weeks during the summer. We had a lot of work done. We finalized the Brookside and Mohansic bid documents. It went out for bid and the bids were
016returned last week. So, our construction manager, Aris, is reviewing them, and our hope is to have the bid awards on the September agenda so the work can begin almost immediately, at least by October 1st. In advance of a school starting, we've had construction fences put up at those two schools. So, the parking and the play areas are being adjusted as needed, but we felt it was better to have schools start with the way it was going to go on for the year. for the fields in the concession building. Um, we've been working on the bid documents. The drawing specs and the specs were made available to contractors last week, so we're waiting to see who's picked them up. Uh, when the bids are due in what day, Lisa? >> Um, September. I'm not sure. >>
017At some point in September. >> Okay. Um, we have gotten comments from D. We'll be discussing them at tomorrow's steering meeting. So, that's our work for the summer. Um, uh, Mike, fiscal advisory, >> uh, fiscal's quiet over the summer. Uh, we don't really meet until, uh, school year gets up and running and then we focus on budgeting, uh, almost immediately. So, I anticipate, uh, probably October will be our next meeting. >> And policy is Cheryl and she is not here tonight. Um, I know that policy continued to meet once a month over the summer and worked on the policies. A big part of that project was the cell phone policy that we're going to look at tonight. Can I get a motion to amend agenda item 7.01 other appointment on the July 1st annual organizational
018meeting agenda and replace the name for the student residency design with Lisa Sanfalippo. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Question. What exactly does that mean? >> Yes, please. So originally I was appointed as a student resid res residency designate and just given the appeals process it's probably most appropriate to have Lisa serve in that capacity and then appeals can either come to me or they can even go beyond that but it made sense to have the process kind of rest with Lisa and then I can be a next stop. >> So you're delegated >> correct? >> Wow, that's growth. I love it. Can I get a motion to approve? Oh, so >> all those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Um, can I get a motion to approve the minutes from July 1,
0192025? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. Policies. Motion to approve the first reading and adoption of the following policy 5695 student and personal electronic devices. And I know that there's some uh wording that needs to just be proof read and and tightened up, but I think Cheryl was busy with family things this week. Didn't get to it, but she will do that before it goes public. >> Do you need a motion? >> I need a motion. >> So moved. >> Okay. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Motion to approve the second reading and adoption of the following policies. 8505 charging of school food items. 8520 free and reduced price food services. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >>
020Any opposed? >> Okay. The board will conduct a first reading of the following policies. 2210 annual organizational meeting. 4321.04 Independent Educational Evaluation. 43.2104R Independent Educational Evaluation Regulation. 5420R student health services regulation student concussions. Any questions on those policies? Nope. >> All right. Move on to personnel. Upon recommendation of the superintendent, a motion that the following be approved. And there are appointments. Part-time appointments, temporary appointments, other compensation, extra duty, teacher coordinators, teacher leaders, extended school year. July 7th through August 15, 2025. Additions to the substitute list, coaches co-curricular for 2025, uh coaches, appointments, volunteers, corrections, a removal from the substitute list, unpaid leave of absence, resignations, recisions, appointments under civil service for classified personnel, extended school year July 7 to August 15, 2025, additions to the substitute list, unpaid leave of absence, removal from the substitute
021list resignations for the purpose of retirement and resignations. That was some list. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Next. Business office. A motion to approve the intermunicipal agreement with the town of Yorktown for the 2025 2026 school year pending receipt of required insurance documents. >> So move. >> Second. >> All those opposed. I'm all those in favor. >> Any opposed? >> Motion to approve the 2025 commuter lot license agreement with the town of Yorktown. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Be it resolved. The board of education hereby awards the contract for the public address and audio system service repairs and replacements project bid award to SoundProNY, Inc. as the lowest responsible bidder. >> So move. >> Second. All
022those in favor? Any opposed? >> Whereas the Lakeland Central School District has requested two students, one from Lakeland High School, LHS, and one from Walter Panis High School, WPHS, be permitted to participate with the Yorktown High School ski team as a separate ski team under the shadowing rules of section 1. and the New York State Public High School School Athletic Association and Yorktown Central School District wishes to permit such participation. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Yorktown Central School District hereby approves the participate participation by one LHS student with the YHS ski team during the 2025 2026 winter sports season upon upon the following terms and conditions. The LSH student and Walter Panis student will practice with the YHS ski team, but will compete as independent athletes at the LHS.
023As the LHS and Walter Panis ski team, the LHS and Walter Panis student will be responsible for transportation to from YHS for practices and meets or for arranging their own transportation. There shall be no additional cost to Yorktown as the result of the LHS and Walter Panis school students participation. And be it further resolved that the student superintendent of schools is authorized to execute any form necessary to enable such participation by the Lakeland Central School District students and an intermunicipal agreement for such participation. And be it further resolved, the district clerk is to send a copy of this resolution to the district clerk of the Lakeland Central School District. >> So moved. >> Second discussion. >> Y >> just to clarify, it should be uh participation by one LHS student and one Walter Panis High
024School student. Correct. In the resolution line >> right before the bullets. >> Yeah. I think they skipped it when they sent it to us. >> Got it. Aette, can you make that change? Thank you. >> Good. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion to approve the following YHS athletic trips. UCA cheer camp trails End and uh Beach Lake, Pennsylvania on August 21 to 24, 2025. The cross country competition Albany Skenctity on October 3 to 4, 2025. >> So move. >> All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion to approve the Google Workspace for Education Service order for the 2025 2026 school year. So move >> second. >> Do we get a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion to approve the
025following PPS independent contract agreements pending receipt of the required insurance documents. Listening partners for the 2025 2026 school year. Marie Commni for 20 August 27, 2025 through December 19, 2025. >> So move second >> discussion. Just a quick question. Um the prices are within the contracts, but they're not not to exceed. So how do we know what the final price is going to be on these? So these services are dictated by students IEPs. So um we don't really know what the final um total will be because it can vary based on changes to the IEP and and things like that. So we don't typically put a not to exceed because we don't want to have to come back and ask for an increase. Um but it is dictated by the IEP. >> Okay. Thank you.
026>> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education hereby declares the items on the attached list as obsolete and/or damaged equipment items as surplus and recommends the sale and/or disposal of set equipment from the 2025 2026 school year. See attached list via its IT asset disposal vendor, e-waste. So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Be it resolved. The board of education approves the establishment of a cafeteria petty cash fund petty cash fund in the amount of $600 and appoints Jerry Muchelli as the custodian of the funds. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Just discussion. Um 11.09 calls it 2425. I think it's to be the 2526 cash. >> Oh, perfect. Thank you. Okay, I'm good.
027All those in favor. Any opposed? >> Motion to approve the following budget transfers as listed below. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Motion to approve the affiliation agreement with Iona University for June 20 June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2026. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion to accept the following change order from thermodynamics for the HVAC replacement project as listed below. >> So move. Second. >> All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Be it resolved that the board of education of the Yorktown Central School District approve the agreement dated August 25, 2025 relating to student number 5425 and authorizes the superintendent of schools to execute set agreement and take all steps necessary to affffectuate the terms of the agreement.
028>> So move second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Be it resolved that the board of education of the Yorktown Central School District approves the stipulation of settlement agreement dated August 25, 2025 relating to student number 5602 and authorizes the superintendent of schools to execute set agreement and take all necessary all steps necessary to effectuate the terms of the agreement. >> So moved. Second. >> All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Be it resolved, the board of education hereby ratifies the execution by the board president and superintendent of schools of the 2024 2025 APR implementation certification form for its annual professional performance review for classroom teachers and building principles covered pursuant to education law 302-D and subpart 30-3 of the rules of the board of regents. >> So move second. >> All
029those in favor? >> I. Motion to arrange for the following placements as listed below. So move >> second. >> All those in favor. >> Any opposed? >> Motion to approve the instructional services agreements between the Yorktown Central School District ascending school district and the following school districts as receiving school districts for the 2025 2026 school year. We have Croin Harmon Free School District, Curious Joel Union Free School District, and Mayapac Central School District. >> So move. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion to accept with gratitude the following gift grant donation from Krompon, $25,000 from the Krompon PTA to update the Krompon stage lighting system. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Okay, we're up to board comments. Mike will go down there. >>
030Sure. Thanks. Um, welcome back everyone. exciting new school year ahead of us and um I'm sure we're all looking forward to it and um congratulations on a great job tonight. Not easy doing your first meeting. You did wonderful. Thanks. >> Thanks, >> Jackie. >> Well, you flew solo because you did the agenda meeting and this and you're doing a fantastic job. No, it's it's not easy. You're doing a great job. So, keep it up. Um it's the buildings were beautiful. I mean, the custodians you have put in place have doing a fantastic job. So, it it was really nice to see and I can't wait for construction to start on our additions that we've worked for the last year and a half to produce. So, it's exciting. So, welcome back everybody. >> Press me. >>
031Yeah, wishing our uh staff and students a terrific uh start to another school year. Um I agree the seaot looks amazing and Dr. Hatter, you've always had a great partnership with our um you know, highway superintendent and I think you know it really shows. Um so thank you Dave and thank you um Ron for uh that. >> That's all Catalina >> just wishing everybody a happy school year all our staff, students and parents and um congratulations Lisa. Amazing job. And about the sea lot um your superintendent council I know some students they're they feel so empowered they're they're talking about it just so thank you for starting that committee and you know they they the way they're speaking about it it's amazing so thank you >> yeah I I echo everybody's sentiments the buildings the
032high school and the middle school they look fabulous you can see that they were working so hard especially in the high school because the extended school year program was here until just a week or so ago Um, so they really did um >> put it in gear and make the buildings look great and the the parking lot, the sea lot, even our our regular parking lot and it just looks great. I mean, thank you so much and and we're looking forward to a great school year. You guys have anything? Okay. Uh, anyone for public comment number two? All right. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> Second. >> All those in favor? Any opposed? >> No. >> Good night.