001okay we're gonna get started i just wanted to welcome everybody welcome to the hope hack community to our uh monthly board of education march 21st 2002 uh excuse me april april 21st 2002 with the thanksgiving right so in any case but i'd like you right now to help you from trustee martin down there very good all in favor all right please i enjoy allegiance to the life 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 everyone okay so like like we said this is really more of a celebratory uh evening a lot of exciting things going on in our community and in our schools um it's just it's just really is pretty incredible uh what's going on
002we've been up to the fields down over here if the rain ever stops and stuff dries out it can be very very exciting but uh but i appreciate all the athletes and all the which is absolutely phenomenal and then more walkthroughs with uh with all the good work that's going on in the high school the library and the science rooms has really pulled so i'd like to do right now is we had a student of ours that that passed away as you know hope hope antony passed away after a horrific accident just really just a really very very unique situation uh hope's passing saved six uh six people um with their uh donations so what i'd like to do right now is let's just take a quick just a quick moment of silence for pope
003mentor thank you very much hearts and prayers i think what i'd like to do right now is let's try to try to get back up tempo again and the easiest way to do that is to uh is to introduce our uh our superintendent of schools mr anthony carlo but before i go to anthony i just wanted to acknowledge that christine taught our incoming superintendent school supports tonight [Applause] so before we go into tonight's athletic reward presentation i just want to thank our athletic director mr steve muchiano uh tonight's certificates in award winners um before i turn it over to mr from the new york state public high school athletic association so they announced their winter and they're celebrating winter of 2022 scholar athlete teams and individuals i want to read what star athletic teams are
004all about this went to the new york state high school athletic association recognizing 200 school athletic teams to qualify as a scholar athletic team the team's grade point average gpa for of the roster must be greater than or equal to 90 may pack high school had every single team this winter recognized as a scholar athlete team so that is boys basketball girls basketball bowl hockey track and field ski cheerleading girls indoor track girl skiing gymnastics and wrestling so we work 12 for 12. that's absolutely congratulations to your cultures because i know how important uh student athlete means to them and of course also to your parents for instilling that that love for sport but also understanding first that academics are paramount and i will tell you in the next uh number of months when you
005see the accolades of this senior class and what has gone on and is schools that these young men and young women are getting into is absolutely unbelievable and that's just that's just speaks of our program so once again congratulations [Applause] this is disorder before a board meeting before um before i get started i do want to thank um your our coaches for the winter season and our student athletes we have an amazing group of student athletes here at you know being here two years now and getting to know our student athletes and our students here i'm very lucky to have such an amazing group of young men and women to see perform every day practice your dedication and games practices it's it's amazing what we hear what we have here made it back and you
006know being an athletic director for 15 years now this is one of the most special senior groups that i've ever seen or been a part of their leadership that they've given to our programs to just set the foundation for our younger grades to live up to moving forward and then the bar has been set pretty high i'm excited to see where this goes in all honesty i wish i had more time with you guys it's been an honor to see what you've done the last few years and you're going to do great things once you graduate here so you know thank you for just being great for the last few years so best of luck to you guys um the first thing i'm gonna do is we're gonna do our team awards we got our
007employees and girls basketball team each win their leagues both of them are undefeated i don't know if we've ever had two teams from the same sport go undefeated and be playing winning championships that's a type defeat and their dedication and their workmen throughout the season was tremendous and um you know things might not have done as well in sections as we wanted but their seasons are one that always remember and it was fantastic so i'd like to start with the boys basketball team i'd like to first introduce our coach tom mcmahon [Applause] our assistant coach folks [Applause] and now is our team members we have ryan reilly maxwell's [Applause] right joey gracias craig perry [Applause] we have joey hutch but he's that baseball game right now jake cousins [Applause] liam dodd [Applause] larry reyes phil
008salmon jack moore [Applause] we had a few individuals that were brought up in the jvt for the playoffs john harney connor grey and danny dutch i'm going to go off strip a little bit while what one of our captains hasn't been asked to say a few words [Applause] i'd first like to start off by thanking the board of education superintendent carlo mr luciana and everyone else who helped this team along our journey this year seeing all of your pile into the tax dance at our home game the crowd going wild and you guys right beside them shows how involved you are with this community superintendent carlos staying courtside and celebrating every time we hit a big shot or made a good play was always a highlight in the film room also mrs valgette answering every
009athlete's questions most importantly being are the sandwiches here yet she would always be about fist pumps as we cross paths in the hallway walking into the gym and was always there to pick us up after a tough loss i'd be remiss if i didn't make a comment about a girl's varsity team who had a phenomenal season it allowed for us to cheer them on while showing off our most ridiculous outfits something that i found interesting this season that this little john brought up was that both teams were undefeated league champions which had not happened in this school in a very long time now to wrap it up and to give thanks to the best group of guys the captain could ask for we put pac basketball back on the map and to who gave respect
010to a program that gave people respect for this program we haven't seen in years to my dad and coach basra thank you for being great basketball minds but more importantly excellent role models you guys created a culture in this program that will live on for a long time this team that i wouldn't want to be led by anybody else we are all eternally grateful for this community and the atmosphere they provided during the season and moving forward in our lives lgp forever [Applause] and now our quote mr tomato [Applause] thank you again superintendent carlos and members of the board of education for recognizing our student athletes tonight i would like to take a brief moment and express how proud i am of these great kids their athletic accomplishments are well documented and are well deserving
011of tonight's recognition however superintendent de carl already stole my thunder here they also earned new york state's dollar team and superintendent dicarlo explained how difficult that is to get and i'd just like to point out this is the most important accomplishment of their season their academics i would also like to thank the students made back in the community at large for the support they showed our team this season as patrick mentioned it was great to see pat james back in the back and the loud crowds and everybody that came out the number of texts we've got after being before games the people that came community members students it was truly amazing i really wish everyone understood what it meant to these kids although i think patrick pretty much gave you an insight how important it
012was to them to be able to experience that particularly for our seniors who have lost so much lastly i'd like to thank uh matt calabro anthony nappy brian leone steve luciano lin long and brenna who were absolutely fantastic and we could not have done anything that we did this season without all of those people so thank you so much [Applause] now we're going to honor our girls basketball team who are also league champions we have our assistant coach jason coughlin here [Applause] adriana franzo [Applause] julie de broghie [Applause] watts yes [Applause] christina rush [Applause] briana ferrari melanie up [Applause] julia palacio [Applause] marissa mccartney and lauren um [Applause] the last team award we have for tonight a pretty prestigious special award uh our hockey team you know they might not have had the strongest record
013this year but i never saw a group of kids staying together for an entire season and work as hard as they did they easily could have gone into town quit you know quicker in the season and not having nominated a quality season these guys came to work every day improved every single practice every single game and it made it a great season for everybody involved and section one named us um the howard cassell sportsmanship [Applause] i just want to take a second just to recognize the importance of this award because it's always easy when things go wrong for people to be critical and savings but these are the kids who represent us and you know to have a sportsmanship award because of their desire to you know support teams whether they want to lose is
014a testament to who you are as a group of young men and women so thank you very much for the bottom of my heart i know the board of education truly appreciates us getting this award so congratulations once again [Applause] all of our hockey coaches wanted to be here for this because it meant a lot to them for how the team performs and it's a testament to the coaching staff as well but both coaches coach spring sports they had games that so they weren't able to be here but our coaches tim donahue and shawn mcgee were absolutely tremendous this year and i want to give them credit for this award as well [Applause] so now we move into our individual awards we're going to honor our winter athletes who were all lead all section and
015also who qualified for our state championships this year uh we're going to start with jordan donaghy [Applause] julianna greco all leads in all section [Applause] mia calgaril aldi in all sections alexis leblanc was also all the in all sections [Applause] alexa volusionic was called the wall section isabella giotti from ceiling with all league in all sections jenna duffy was all lead in all sessions karen mcdowell was all lead for cheerleading and our cheerleading team they were also runner up for um the section one championship this year they had a great performance and i think they lost by a few hundred tenths of a point they put on a great show as we hosted the championships and they finished runner up in the section they were fantastic now we have lexi kashmir power from nastics leah
016pratt with paul lee she also qualified for the state championships wrath caleb kelsey then was all lead in all sections for gymnastics [Applause] and liam the nation's baldness this one is important important to be on a verb actually on a personal level i also am the second one coordinator for bullets i went bowling for the entire section and we had two of our bowlers um qualified for the state championships this year uh one of them is here tonight and we also had another bowler who was named um westchester fuller of the year girls world of the year um unfortunately she can't be here today but uh gavin marino who was a goal [Applause] it's all 4113 qualified for the state championships was the westchester platform of the year i think she's actually working at a
017bowling alley right now so um unfortunately she's going to be here so i'm alyssa i have a tremendous season emma wong [Applause] so boys basketball all lead we have max bones sessions commander's ball section end all week [Applause] for girls basketball we have belle de mayo only [Applause] julian rocky paulie christina rush ali and lauren [Applause] we had three wrestlers qualify for the state championship which is huge they all did a tremendous job uh our first wrestler that i'd like to honor angelo centrone i don't think amber is here angelo is a three-time section one champion three-time all-state champion had over 100 wins had just an amazing career here um at bay pack it was tremendous watching his intensity wrestle he used to be wrestling [Music] at portland next year where i went through so
018i'm very happy for that um but angelo was representing that very well absolutely tremendous so congratulations [Applause] next we have nick greco nick with all league all section also qualified for the state championships i think they should even have a big year next year we're looking forward to seeing where that's going to go nick greco george johnson in eighth grade was all in all session and also qualified for the state department so for an eighth grader to have all those accolades i cannot wait to see what he does grades 9 through 12. so george johnson sandra's milskey was all league end-all session [Applause] and joseph ramirez was all lead in all sections for us i have one more award to do this one i just want to thank the board real quick for allowing and
019giving us the opportunity to outside football this year i cannot thank you enough for what it's like [Applause] thank you so much for giving them that opportunity we have our first home tomorrow 4 30. if you're around but um [Applause] so our last award and this is very well deserved i mentioned this um at the last quarter and i attended um to honor our fall athletes but i think mr carl has two board meetings left after this um he was nominated and he won the new york state athletic administrators association section one distinguished service award i came one of the major reasons why i came here was to be able to work with this man um i see i've seen him in meetings i know how invested he is in the community here and what
020he's done for me not just the athletics but for the community we've hosted session 1 championships here he's always been a big he goes to athletic council he was an athletic director at one point in his career so he understands what we do i can't go on enough what he's done for section one athletics may pack athletics the mayo pack community um you know it's sad to see though but it's well deserved retirement but congratulations mr carlo at the new york state athletic administrators association distinguished service award mr anthony [Applause] thank you steve it's the new york state um athletic administrative association but this is our this is not viable okay this doesn't happen if you don't live in a community that really understands the importance of sports and extracurricular activities so the board thank
021you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to sit on athletic council and executive um it's meant the world to me thank you for allowing and trusting me to be a part of that to student athletes we went through code okay and part of that happened on the state level was because of all of you and your family's dedication to getting proud of advocacy but this just doesn't happen okay so i'm honored and humbled but this is our world community i can't thank you all nothing god bless you all for allowing me to do what i've done for the last four and a half years has been an absolute honor two months left and we're going to finish on school so thank you all again [Applause] okay thank you again we're going to
022continue on we're going to honor a number of weeks ago back on april um seven it was the 37th annual hugger county youth award and every year the public county youth girl honors seniors and juniors throughout the county and all the high schools for those who are participating in so many different community service hours and we were honored this year to have three recipients upside five recipients receive awards i was also humbled because i was the keynote speaker and i was really amazed by the number of hours that these young men and women put into community service and many of you that are sitting here in romans who are told [Music] so when we get these youth to be able to start to do that they're gonna they're gonna do some special things our first
023uh award recipient who received the award was emily ponteau emily has dedicated a volunteer trying to the child's press at the 4-h events at timmy foster she's coordinating your 4-h giving tree for cold care 2021 pcu forum she was planning committee and she is involved she can't be here tonight she's involved in the legacy project i just want to read you a little bit of what was said about emily uh by by some of the people who uh put up for me lord emily is a wonderful young lady who demonstrates leadership in everything she does she enjoys helping and making a difference she's a true true team player as it is able to interact with people of all ages she is not afraid to try or learn something new and she's willing to help where
024and when needed so emily congratulations so the next recipient next young man that truly really embodies what youth court is all about uh when i heard a little bit about heaven and i read that's healing second and his role in court and his admiration uh to uh judge jim reach that night of his own leader those of you know we lost uh judge reece a number of years ago uh it was just a pillow of our community and really you know the the man behind the scenes of the youth court kevin has embraced volunteering and being events are i just want to read to you a little bit about what was said about gathering kevin whitwash kevin has been an active member of the putnam county youth court program since september of 2016. one of
025the major goals of our youth programs to give youth offenders a second chance our new court members such as kevin do this by taking on various court rules and hearing new cases in an actual court he is a he is great at keeping our members on task during and after youth court cases he's always sure to make sure he's available to help other members like questions come up about cases he brings with them to every youth court cases leadership creativity and outstanding personality he's mature behind his ears kevin whitmore congratulations [Applause] our next award recipient is healing anne hammond kaylee um has done a lot of work around the community and they're back high school helping to lead out over the gardens clean up chamber park and our bike path in town cleaned up on
026camp sites in our areas and has really worked really hard with our girl scouts uh truth in planning and shopping organizing events and uh being the head of the pajama program what was said about hayley ann is she's extremely positive and is undaunting by uh by being giving of herself in all types of projects whether they're small or large she takes a role the girl scouts very seriously while she enjoys the company of her fellow scouts she is always very active in whatever activity during exhausting troop one two eight six has been active since girl scouts and she has been acting with them since girl scouts and daisies they are very fortunate to have kelly involved with their troops since ninth grade they thanked her for her dedication and her time and her energy haley
027anne congratulations next we have rebecca lazar rebecca has to do incredible work attendance shalom she's a teacher assistant she's a youth event coordinator she helps in stopping organizing the food pantry booster and she helps organize carnival planning and leading different types of organizations within the technology community uh i've got a brief note for pacquiao um worked as a teacher assistant grades case seven at temple bench alone after graduating from the same program she was eager to give back to the next generation she helped learn how to read and write the hebrew israeli geography jewish holidays and more rebecca encouraged interactive discussions of creativity and projects and activities regarding these topics she's her knowledge and demonstrate she demonstrates an excellent work method at the temple she always knew that she could depend on everybody can depend
028upon rebecca what needed to help out both with the youth and the elderly the president has been loved in her mind by both her teachers her assistants and all of the children that she has for rebecca lazar and our last award recipient is emma has done an incredible job active in our interact club um here at high school in the leadership of mr reversing she continues to put in hours and hours of dedication to the club just reading a little bit about hammer emma has been an active member of the mancock high school interactive for her entire four years at handcuff high school she has been extremely active in all the public activities both inside and outside school the past two years as a club officer she has mentored members as well as organizing activities
029uh her level of involvement in the club has been easy to pick up uh and vote for her because she just does an incredible job everybody loves her emma makes everyone feel needed cared about confident understood she appropriately delegates making sure everyone has an important quote uh he congratulated us again congratulations to all tonight's recipients and then next we have our um research science award winners this took place on march 24th uh high school students from westchester partner campus were honored at the 21st annual regeneron westchester department science engineering uh wesley competition i'm happy to say that we had four students awarded um that night our first was mateo guerilla was a senior this category was chemistry this project title was improved pre-trial method to predict the ability of new additives to increase stability of
030sn pb peripheral spike for superior solutions say that a couple times he was awarded the rich sustainable development awards congratulations [Applause] thank everybody for being recognized for this week's meeting so my project was essentially looking at a new branch of solar panels in research and i researched a way to kind of help them make them more stable so they can be used at a commercial again scale up is emma rooney she's a junior category engineer her project title testing the hardness of residents the first step to 3d printing uh mouth guards to prevent mild traumatic brain injuries wow she was awarded to these students tomorrow's engineer award congratulations to emma rooney i just want to thank everyone and of course my science research teacher i couldn't do this without her ms stevens i decided to
031test the hardness of resins to determine which one to use for directly 3d printed custom-made mouth pairs because as an athlete i know of the wide set problems of mild traumatic brain injuries so i wanted to do a research project to prevent that issue and prevent outpace in the future [Applause] that night was cindy maskel's junior category behavioral science project title examining the differences in the traits slash behaviors of individuals with autism spectrum disorder she was awarded first place in behavioral science and top finals selected to attend genesis olympiad and international science fair typically showcases showcasing the work of 1200 students from 75 countries congratulations [Applause] [Music] um is it really just to examine deeper the differences between males and females and causes of spectrum disorder since there's such a gap in diagnosis and um
032in the long run a proper diagnosis or an accurate diagnosis can really help people have access to the resources and laws that they might need in order to have an easier time in adulthood and be more successful [Applause] and we have um our last divorce recipient is diana senior category of behavioral science project title preventing nightmares effects on lucid dreaming induction techniques and dreaming bizarreness and degree of individual metacognition on lucid dream frequencies ammo was awarded second place in behavioral science diana come up a picture award congratulations hello i would first like to thank the board of education and ms stevens and my project was observing individuals who suffer from ptsd depression insomnia and anxiety who usually have a frequent negative and the idea was to use luciferian reduction techniques to mitigate the effects of
033having a severe nightmares every day [Applause] i got into columbia um [Music] johns hopkins tufts u-pen university of southern california university of michigan i think that's the topic for biomedical engineering [Applause] [Music] science research our project legal way the incredible comprehensive high school that makes it make back where our kids are going and what they're doing it's just unbelievable so you do are so proud the four of you and everybody here tonight that we awarded again congratulations we wish you all the best closure going on to college and career and those of you coming back continue success thank you all very much now we're going to have this look up campbell and a library board come on up i think they'll thank the board of education so frank you're bored you know i'm not used
034to having my back to the people i like and love who said great work but forgive me and i want to introduce the board members that were able to come with this schedule stephen baranowski okay we have uh gene eugene walsh my vice president and i know why irene is here my secretary and our ceo of director michelle capozola but the other five who were on the road the f9 said please let them know we really thank them for all the work that you do which i will explain in a minute and thanking anthony and that would be joe todd joe martin tori scott weiss and uh elizabeth costello and john batista i think i got everybody yes they just couldn't be here with their schedule but they know how closely anthony has worked with
035us and i will share how we're thoughtful and thankful for what you all did is moving towards our june 7th vote on our capital plan but anthony i want you to come over here i've never shared this with anyone before and i i have to do this you know when i was a supervisor at the town of farmland a young man who i really really loved his name was jimmy mcdonough he was on my town board at the time and those were the times when bipartisan was the name of the game we really got along in fact dick opeler who i replaced used to come in every month for a cup of coffee and he's just a wonderful person god rest his soul as well and jimmy would say to me by the way i
036know you're going up the county executive office i got a great candidate running in november and really who is he his name is anthony dicarlo and he's fantastic he's a school administrator just like you and he loves sports he coaches he's in the back squad he's a fantastic guy oh that's great well anthony did make the town board he then went to the county and did a remarkable job for the town and the county but tonight we think he did an enormous job in the four and a half years as a superintendent of school and i would like to read the resolution that we as a board did and it was unanimous last month at our monthly meeting whereas mr anthony mcdowell who resides in may of act has worked in education for 40 years
037maybe whereas mr chicago was hired by the advantage board of education as superintendent schools in january of 2018. and whereas as superintendent of schools he has brought the school and the community together and it's all the school budgets this is amazing we're clearly explained and cost-effective that resulted in all being affirmed each year of this tenure whereas mr mccullough was the assistant for many stakeholders in the community and he asked me to help out i was just one of a bunch of other people directed and succeeded with the 52 million dollar capital plan of much needed upgrades for our school facility these are the schools my children went to in the 70s and 80s and he certainly needed this review whereas mr nicardo steered and made that district were very difficult and uncharted waters of
038the pandemic which with much success and whereas mr dicarlo guided and helped facilitate a curriculum area for the elementary schools to make sure they're on the same page at the same time and as an educator myself that is not just a phrase to be on the same page at the same time means you're growing every month that you're in that classroom and he has to be credited and his teacher and whereas school staff continues to work closely with our library staff and with our administration michelle and her assistant and so many of us there to serve and enrich our students throughout the school year and during the summer recess so it doesn't just end in june and we thank anthony for allowing that to happen therefore the maybach library board of trustees wish to acknowledge
039our appreciation anthony and gratitude to mr dicallo for as many positive contributions to our community and extend our best wishes to him and his family on the history timing effective june 22. this was signed by the mayor back public library board of trustees and i just happen to be the president it's no big deal but i have a president and they're a great group of people we all are a team you know somebody i've been a little sad [Applause] this vote set up and melanie thank you for your [Applause] i diligence uh i really asked andy senator to have michelle just tell the public a little bit about our capital plan that'll only take a few minutes michelle will come up [Applause] and we really truly understand the importance of the collaboration between the you
040know the bank central school district and the library because that's where learning happens well during school after school all of our students go by and sit and read books and do their homework together and then the programs that we have during the summer are incredible so on behalf of myself my cabinet the board of education our administrative students we thank you very very much for the partnership and again thank you very very much [Applause] um so on june 7th the bangkok library is going to have its annual budget vote and trustee election um but this year there's going to be a lot of proposition on the ballot um in the amount of 3 million [Music] hundred eighty 154 dollars for major improvements to the buildings energy efficiency which includes insulation sealing as well as upgrades
041to heating ventilation and air conditioning systems um the proposition will not increase taxes because we are just carrying over we paid off the bond from the building and now we're just carrying that over to pay for this bond so there will be no tax increase um matter of fact the library has not increased our levy request for the past four years so it's been flat the project is subject to public bid i've just seen some questions so yes we are subject to public bid as per general municipal law so if the bond passes we will prepare bids and we will put them out there um the you can visit the library's website this is important we have a web page dedicated just to this project it's www.mayfivelibrary.org you go on this big yellow button right
042at the top of the page you click it that page has a lot of information on it as my contact information you have any questions you hear people have questions please call me because it's just really important now to get the direct information out there also we're going to have um a um meeting on may 4th at 2 o'clock p.m you can attend virtually you can attend in person i'm going to leave some bond information booklets and i'm going to leave some little bookmarks with the information about how to register for that session um so it's going to be on the third floor in the community room and like i said you could tech you can attend virtually as well it will be reported and it will go up on that website and we're going
043to have our architect there we're going to have our and our construction management two people from the construction management company so in case you have any more in-depth questions i can answer you know a lot of questions but if you have particular questions about the project um the scope is on the page too so please check the web page if the bond passes we are going to put a lot of information on that web page will be updated all that the costs and expenses um that are going to be up on that web page because the board and i are dedicated to be very very transparent so thank you very much [Applause] okay thank you [Applause] um just a couple reminders this is our our last board meeting before our budget vote so i want
044to remind everybody on tuesday may 17th is the annual board budget as well as our trustee election it is from six to nine pm high school um please do have to vote i mean it's so quiet and one of the things that i heard today in my pnw superintendents meeting is that not just here but all around our surrounding districts nobody came down to the budget institutions so you know exactly everything's going well i hope so but it doesn't matter if you don't get alcohol so the the please on our website there'll be some stuff i'm sure putting in the uh news we'll have the big uh you know signs up in front of all the schools but you know again may 17th also work encounters wednesday night may 11th okay from five to six
045i'll be doing tour number one at the high school we just talked about the bonding mr del campo spoke about the 54 million dollar bond of the work under phase one uh so to be a tour led by me uh from five to six at the high school and i'll take a half hour break and i'll do another one from 6 30 to 7 00 so it'll be publicized melanie is going to put it on the website um and it'll be in my update so uh look at the keeping opportunity now that covert is over when you start walking around all the buildings kind of take a look at the great spaces and things that uh that have really been uh enhanced to the to the program so um that's it um [Music] [Applause] on
046april 5th with the good fortune of uh having a uh human resources committee meeting uh president of the meeting we're a superintendent of carlow uh mr vice president himself adam sabino uh trustee david farrow uh assistant superintendent for human resources uh deborah logato and uh and some guy that was uh that was zooming in from his car driving home from new jersey uh with uh with the band hung in the background at mike pognan so uh um what you have right here is you've heard me every month because we do this but it's uh but it was a uh it was a terrific meeting um you see the fruits of that of the labor that are in this uh that are in this agenda uh the agenda for this evening so uh again many thanks
047to the committee many thanks to assistant superintendent alvargato and to our superintendent uh mr anthony carl um we'll continue on down to agenda items we have three items the consent agenda what i'd like to do right now is i will read the first one uh and then i will read the a and then vice president will read me upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools that the board of education does hereby approve of the budget for the 2022-2023 school year in the amount of 133 million 11 332. what i'd like to do right now is get a motion to accept [Music] thank you very much and i know ben was right there uh all in favor please any opposed thank you very much i'll turn right now for pete and uh good evening everyone
048we resolved on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools where the education hereby approve the bus proposition for the 2022-2023 school year as follows that the board of education of the baltic central school district in the county of parkland new york the district is hereby authorized to purchase various school buses bands and related equipment for use by the district and to expend one million one hundred sixty thousand dollars therefore that a tax is hereby voted in the aggregate amount not to exceed one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to pay such cost said tax to be levied and collected installments in such years and in such announce as shall be determined by the said board of education and that in anticipation of said tax bonds of the district are hereby authorized to be issued
049in the principal announcement not to exceed one million one hundred sixty thousand dollars and a tax is hereby voted to pay the interest on said bonds as the same show becomes new and payable okay [Applause] this is for the property tax report card resolved from the recommendation of superintendent of schools the board of education does he apply through the nationwide central school district 2022-23 property tax reform okay can we get a motion to accept please vice president cedino second second david tomorrow and trust me all in favor opposed okay thank you very much and we go over to our uh consent agenda can i get a motion to accept this week's consent agenda this is trustee second please second trustee mcdonough all in favor opposed okay and now we'll go right over to our resident
050comment area [Applause] yes [Applause] before the preparedness we're mark michael thank you for thanks very much for sending us tonight um we went through the details of this on tuesday and thank you again for hosting us on tuesday the remarks for the board of official at once um on behalf of the combined may impact vfr american legion i want to thank you for your consideration of expanding the existing veterans tax the existing veterans tax to the same weather as the town of karma when we hear people say thank you for your service it gives us pause to reflect on that service the risk to life and the action of sacrifice to family separation mental and physical stress and a list of time yet fewer and fewer people show up for memorial services the folks sitting
051on that in the stands there are folks that hold those services and while the public doesn't come anymore veterans represent less than one percent of our population less than 10 percent of that population searched in a combat zone less than 10 percent of that group will older veterans are increasingly being taxed out of their homes younger veterans can't afford to live in the community increasing the taxes of tax exemption to the level that the town offers allows these older veterans to stay in their homes and provides younger veterans an opportunity to live in the community they grew up in increasing the tax exemption for the same level of the town is this community's opportunity to truly thank those men and women for their service and like i thank you guys and thank you for all
052you do these are these are really the trustees of the veterans you guys are the trustees of our school system we'll get you the details on this thing the town is working on it and we appreciate your consideration thanks for having us tonight [Applause] melissa welcome good hello so i'm right over here you know one of our last garage and i do want to thank you for listening to me and sometimes answering um questions i'm left and right i think [Music] but tonight i'm really trying to focus on what's going to come for next year and you know as we know from new york state um here we continue to show dpi and crt downhill approach and i have many concerns about that um one thing i'd like to speak about is the word equality
053and equality is something that we can all agree with as a parent i have taught my children that we are all equal you're all unique but in die dei the e is actually standing for equity which really means giving people what they need in order to make things fair this can encourage people not to identify as members of a community but rather identify with certain groups race sexual orientation etc and the consequences to that is there's division and segregation instead of unity so i would say all we really need to do is go back to the old school way and teach our kids about equality and that we are all equal and we are all unique and i think that is what is going to unite us as a community and as a nation thank
054you [Applause] okay well listen thank you i want to thank the umpac community for a great evening um as mr episode carlos said uh let's uh let's get out and vote let's uh you know let's let's really slam down let's get out there let's get a real good uh thank you very much everybody safe home