001So don't come He's here. How are you? I don't even know what it is. [Music] Hello, how are you? [Music] I know. I know. How are you? [Music] [Applause] [Music] I think Kelly has And we love to eat. Two minutes. [Music] You're always All right. United States of America stands for our troops. All right, let's get started. Welcome, welcome, welcome. So, here we are. This is the final board meeting of of the year. So, we're very happy. And at the final meeting of the of the board, we tend to uh recognize our students and our staff and we try to get these wonderful awards in uh all before June 30th. Congratulations. Um to facilitate this night, we're going to do we're going to go on a different type of agenda and we want to see
002any visitors that have come here to talk about the board uh agenda or anything outside of the board agenda that any of the visitors want that come here to talk. We want to get those done up front so we can go have a consent agenda quickly and then we'll go to all the recognitions and make it a really festive night. So, if you have anything that you want to speak to the board about, this is the time. If not, we'll go to the consent agenda and then we'll go to the recognition just to move the night along. Anyone at all? It's always best. Good. Thank you. Here we go. So, let the record approves the minutes as presented. All those in favor. All right, we got action item number one, please. Approval to authorize second.
003Any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion. Action item number two, please. Approval of consent agenda for action items number 20 through 20 and April 2025, financial reports. Second. Any questions? All those in favor? I oppos. Motion carried. So now we're going to start recognizing our students, the wonderful students. We're going to start off with the little ones first and I'll bring up Dr. Fischer to help me out and then we'll take some pictures with the board, but we really want to recognize uh these three young people in our schools. Good evening everyone and I have Ms. Meritz and Mrs. Grillo joining me. They are teachers of two of our first graders. Mrs. Kern couldn't be here and our math coach who traveled to Albany with the kiddos. Mrs. Mkusi also couldn't be here
004but they all are cheering for you long distance. So, the first in math competition earlier in the spring, 10,000 students across New York State participated in a virtual contest in math and three of our first graders were regional champions and they were invited to Albany to participate as a team to solve math problems and they did an amazing job. We are so proud of them. So, we're going to call them up and recognize them. So, Alalma, come on up. Mason Green, come on. And Maya Brown, come on. Were you kids that went to Albany? They went to Albany. They worked together to solve math problems and compete against about 150 teams from across the state. Um but they were one of only a few um local regional champions. So they are now rockar [Applause] [Music]
005tomorrow. parents. Where are they going to wait? [Applause] Next, we're going to invite Mrs. Acriman up for SC. We have an award winner from Scopes. Mrs. Okay, we have two students, but we're going to start with the one student that entered the Cambodian writing contest, which is through Long Island Language Arts Council, with such a creative piece that it immediately brought her to first place and this is all across um Long Island and that's Chloe Chen from our school sto. Okay. So, we have another student who also is an emerging writer, another fourth grader, Quinn Benadetti, who won an award from the NASA Reading Council was actually published in the Young Authors Booklet. So, we're super proud of him. Come on up, Quinn. Here we go. And we'll get mom and dad taking pictures. [Music]
006And from more of the reading council awards, we have Mr. Ke come up for the middle school students. Mr. Very excited to be here. very excited to celebrate all of the honores this evening. Uh at this particular time there are six fantastic writers who are honored by the Nassau reading council. Um they were representing Island Trees Memorial Middle School and we're very very proud of each and every one of you. Um Miss Gonzalez is here tonight representing our English teachers. Thank you for being here to celebrate these wonderful kids. So Debbie Bano, Mrs. Banano is here tonight to celebrate our kids and all other teachers who are not here but who've put these great kids forward. Um, Miss Ben, uh, Miss Benjamin, we're so happy and Miss Freeman. So, thank you teachers. But here are
007those amazing kids. Starting with Sabola, Adelman Colton, [Applause] Lauren Gotti, George Kennedy, Cassandra Saul and Kelly you. We'll do another board picture and Thank you. The nice thing is we like to recognize the kids. We often see this these little awards propel the kids to the bigger awards when they get the high school. It's really really a good feel to watch these kids. Some of the kids with the time they get to high school have been recognized on the board 12 times. I think that's the record that we had in 2019 that we had our student here recognized 12 times at the board. So for the young people here, you know, that's your goal time. Mr. Keegan, you got more. You got the east cyber mission kit. Oh, here it comes. They're out of this
008world. And I I know not everyone loves just being called up, just to be called up and be recognized, but I have to do this. U Mrs. Anderson, if you could join us tonight for these to celebrate these awesome kids. Mr. Anderson. Thank you. And Miss Goldstein, if you would join me, please recognize [Applause] your hand. So the US Army um funds and organizes this ecyber mission competition designed to grow problem solving skills amongst students at all age levels. Island Trees Memorial Middle School for many many years has set the standard is is the gold standard right now in East Cyber Mission and we're happy to announce again due to your hard work the work of the science department our kids came in first in New York State came in second in New York State
009and came in third in New York State. So our third place team in New York State. We appreciate you coming out to be celebrated and giving us a chance to honor all of you. We're the hypo I can't even pronounce it. You're way beyond me. Hypothermia heroes. Miss Goldstein science students. Miss Goldstein science enrichment kids. Ebie Colton, Caitlyn Lesica, Giana Gianna Rotino, come on down. [Applause] These wonderful students created a heated life suit designed to protect people from hypothermia if they become stranded in the cold or open water. Awesome. [Applause] Second place in New York State, Mrs. Anderson science students, Miss Goldstein, science enrichment students, the Night Riders, made up of Ryan McN, Frank Greenberg, Shan Mahoney, and Lorenzo Marazzo. The Night Riders developed a high techch bike vest equipped with shock absorbing materials and
010innovative turn signal lights activated via glove mounted buttons. And the first place team in New York State, the football fanatics, Mrs. Anderson, science students, Miss Goldstein, science enrichment students. This team is made up of Daniel Pablo Garcia, Raymond Uolino, Timothy Barren, and Moyes Ahmed. And this awesome team engineered enhanced football padding using materials like D30 oobleck and polyurethane foam to better absorb impact and reduce injury. Thank you. We'll get some pictures up with the board, please. Thank you. Hey, bring Mr. Gibbons. And is Mr. Burns out there? There he is. And we'll bring up the coaches, too. Evening everybody. I'm especially proud to also be up here to be able to share the celebrations of our students. Uh we're going to celebrate a couple of our student athletes tonight who were county champions in track.
011And I would first like to thank the three coaches that are standing beside me who put a whole lot of dedication, time, and effort really from before November all the way through June to cultivate our student athletes. So, Coach Carol, Coach St, Coach Johnson, I want to thank you for your efforts. Specifically, I'd like to recognize Coach Johnson, who's an Island Trees alum. He has come back to uh lead our children and help them succeed in track and field along with uh Coach Stell and Coach Carol. So, thank you very much for all you do. [Applause] Track takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, uh support of our parents. um our children that are sitting here today, but like most of our track athletes are both winter track and spring track athletes. So,
012they're really doing this since November. So, they've really been doing this for eight months. And I'm very proud that they stand up here with us tonight um being rewarded for their efforts because they both ended up as county champions. Mecca Laraji in the discus and Patrick Hall in the intermediate hurdles. [Applause] That's it. All that. Hallelujah. [Applause] the principles of Snoke Star Middle School, High School help me out here. So, you got the administrator from the all four schools to help me out with the retirees. Much as this isn't a happy occasion with recognizing all the Polish students this year, it's a sad point because we do have to say goodbye farewell to some of our staff members who have chosen to retire. And we're going to recognize a few of them today. So the
013first one that we want to recognize from Spark, Peter Mari [Applause] from Stoke School, Barbara D. Simone [Applause] Don't forget to dance the aisle. Make us feel good that we will be back at from the middle school. I Anderson from the high school. We have more [Applause] Maria Griven [Applause] Kevin Co, [Applause] Angela me, [Applause] Joanne Mendes, And from the district office coron we have my secretary now the call. This is our top 10. So congratulations to all. We'll get we'll get movement a little bit. We'll get a picture on the other end of the photo. We have we have one more recognition or two more recognition on the agenda but we're called in this week. So we just want to share them with you. We have John here from county. We have Dennis D
014here from the town of Hemstead. We have Henry from the American Legion. and they want to say a few words to the board of education. So we have Mr. Don, Mr. Freddy, and Mr. Welcome. Good evening. And this is a long time coming. I don't know why we didn't do this earlier, but each and every year we get lunch on Memorial Day. And most of it's because this guy all the kids all too is unbelievable tireless work and uh we were talking about I said you know anything for letting us start the parade back there used the bathrooms while waiting for the parade to start the big important things Dennis the bathroom and what's he doing each year without hesitation and you be so cooperative. Your band is excellent and you know and each a
015high school band but you can tell each year the kids get better and better as they as they're very close by the young ones they play the marine easiest song to play and like five schools play that and then you know the middle school high school too. So we didn't want to just be forgotten any long. It's not that it was forgotten. We really appreciate what you've done for us and we're going to do a picture of your office presenting us to see it. This is for you for being so cooperative with us because I him $250,000 for the storms that wonderful thing you did at the high school and uh you said yes. other schools were like trying to head their way and want to get involved said yes center county for the reason
016for the money that you got to the school is so the first responders their families can come on trees to get comfortable everybody else had to go to the farm houses and come up more than going to the center of a mile coliseum but uh we had you provide trees for us. We gave a lot of money and it was good for the school to get the money. It was good for us to have you guys, you know, be there for us. So you guys, thank you somehow. This is going to give to the union just to take a picture of the the so you can have it forever. Reserve another $250,000. See you guys later. This one school board and uh you guys he couldn't do it without citation right here. One more second.
017Here we go. We wanted to take this time to to thank the Island Tree School Board along with Dr. Murphy. As our councilman said, hosting Memorial Day parade every year. I mean, as somebody who's lived in a lot of town my entire life, it's very special. We have the biggest parade in New York State on Memorial Day. And it's because of incredible veterans who built our town. Veterans like Henry and our own councilman, Dennis Dunn. So, I want to thank our veterans, thank Councilman Dunn, thank Henry, and we're here today to acknowledge the incredible school board, our Island Tree School Board, and of course, Dr. Murphy, who's a great partner to all of us. So, I'm not a politician. I'd like to start off by saying that when I come back to this auditorium 20
018years ago, I was almost taught and funded out of here. What happened was we were changing the name of the school to build school and Mr. Dr. Seedor, Mr. Sodor was in charge at the time and they were having a meeting about it and that time the Iraq war was just starting. I said there's more issues than changing name of the school. So I looked back, I was sitting up front, I looked back at the audience and said look okay. So I stood, my guys told me, "Don't do it." I said, "Nah, they're all right." I stood up to say, "You know something? It's not a bad idea." And then it turned and then my friends said to me, two friends said to me, "There's the door. I think we better go." No, seriously. But
019you know, the back of the parade, the beginning of the parade where we started from, it's just as important as the front of the parade because you got to start off from some point and get get them out. And so the back end of them never gets your recognition. And this aisle of trees has always done it for as long as I've been involved in which is about 30 years. So we appreciate that. I just want you don't want want you to think that we just come in here and say, "Okay, good. We're gone." And I come from the old school where we get something done, we say thank you. Because you know why? A thank you goes a long way to to people. And you'll get that thing done again when you have to
020do it. The veterans appreciate it. All the people that come to the parade down trees, man, we ask for bugers and singers. we get them all and we appreciate your your participation and input. Without you, the parade is not complete. So I want to say thank you for on behalf of all the veterans from post 1911 that sponsors the parade and a heartfelt thanks to you guys middle school for the veterans and honor the veterans and the parade ends at the memorial park. So that's the two points that are important. We're going to close up this meeting. We're going to get the kids out. We have lots of social media matters. You want to take a picture, you want to take a picture with me, then you're more than welcome. If you want to take
021a picture with feel free, but we're all here. You want to close the meeting and we'll get these guys out and the kids enjoy the rest of the summer. Thank you very much. [Applause] So in closing, just uh just jump on what they were talking about about starting, right, guys? Cuz I trees, it all starts here. It all starts here. You can't have an end without a beginning. Everything starts here. Like when you see the little ones coming up here, getting recognized, getting awards as they grow, as they grow, as they grow. Like Dr. Murphy said, kids get awards. They come here 12 times. award every single year as they come through. It all starts here at tries. So with that being said, I want to thank everybody. Thank you to our retirees. Thank you
022for [Applause] goes to High Street community. You know, we're we're brought a family. So, thank you guys so much for your service, dedication to the district, the kids, and like I say, every time, you know, they're almost prized possession. And thank you so much for, you know, doing what you did to help them along their charities. So, thank you so much. Um, thank you. [Applause] That motion to all those in favor? I motion carries. Good night everybody. Have a great night. Go faster.