001Please stand and join me in saying the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag >> 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. want to say the meeting was called to order at 8:05. Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. Effective September 1st, 1991. Chapter nine of the laws of 1991 requires that we inform persons other than students who attend meetings within a school of the proper procedures to evacuate a building in an orderly and timely manner in the event of a fire emergency. If you must evacuate the room because of an emergency, please use the north exit doors. walk quickly to the north athletic field. Okay. The board of education accepts the minutes of the board
002of education meetings held on August 13th, 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> So second moved by Sue Kouls, seconded by Tom Smith. All in favor say I. >> Opposed. Okay. The motion carries. Okay. The board of education accepts the minutes of the board meetings held on August 21st, 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> So moved. >> Moved by Tom. >> Seconded by Sue. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay, next on the agenda had a lot of we were really busy in August. The board of education accepts the minutes of the board of education meetings held on August 29th, 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> So moved. >> Moved by Tom. >> Seconded by Sue. Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >>
003Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. The board of education acknowledges receipt of the treasures report for the months of June 2025 and July 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> Some moved. >> Moved by Tom. >> Seconded by Sue. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. The motion carries. Okay. All right. So, we're going to do the presentation. >> I'll have the comments then introduce Dr. >> Okay. Good evening everyone. It's great to see so many people here. Um, first I want to thank Dr. Ta and the facilities team at the high school for the cleanliness of the building and the PTA for the refreshments from the board. uh previously. Um I also want to thank all our staff, parents, students for a wonderful opening day, the start of the school
004year was a tremendous success and wouldn't be so without everyone involved. Um I had a chance to visit some schools as well as the district office administration and it was so uplifting to see classrooms filled with smiles and genuine engagement right from day one. I'm continually impressed and kind of in awe about how seamlessly school starts. It's like you end in June 26th and next thing you know you're back to school like you haven't left before. So uh kudos to our students and our families and students at the high school. We started a new um policy with the cell phone restriction ban and I really want to praise the high school students and speaking with Dr. Ta and teachers. Um they said that we've seen an immediate impact already. Um the students are having conversations
005in the hallway. They're making eye contact. they appear to be more engaged when they enter a classroom. Um but really impressed by the maturity and the fact that they've really come to school open arms without pushing back on this law that was um put upon schools. So um really want to applaud all the high school students um for their cooperation and high school staff for implementing the the policy. But we're really seeing wonderful impact already and hope it continues to be a positive uh policy. Um, I'm also pleased to share that the district has upgraded the website to include all the capital improvement projects. I know that was something that um was requested when I did the coffee and conversation piece, some greater transparency. So, the link will be in the next Baldwin B and
006mailing so everyone could click on it. But if you just go to facilities, you will see the capital improvements page and when you scroll down, there's so folders for each school. So, you just click on that school and you can see some photos um within the photos right now. If you don't mind, I'll get up and I'll show everyone quickly. You'll see that there are all the schools. When you click on the schools, you'll see some photos and photos represent the current work that was taking place this summer. Primarily bathrooms. Um, no real pictures of roofs because there's nothing really to highlight about roofs other than a new roof. Uh, so I want to thank again the facilities department, um, Dr. Robinson, Miss Randazzo, Tamil for your hard work and making sure that everything works
007very smoothly this summer. So please take a look through those photos and throughout the course of the year for all facilities projects will be updated on this particular page. Okay. Um, and this evening we have two presentations. So, we're going to highlight uh some information from the school year that just ended um some of our summer programs and uh like to introduce Dr. Enifo and some of our summer school administrators. Dr. M will introduce them to come up to the mic so they could highlight our summer programs. Thank you Mr. Mcnella on you here >> at all me >> better. >> Yes. >> Okay. Excellent. So hello, good evening. Thank you. Very excited to be here tonight. Um I along with some of my colleagues are going to be sharing with you some highlights from
008last year 2425 as well as some really nice accomplishments that have happened over the summer. I'm actually going to begin with something we are very proud of. Um our continued high graduation rates um from 21 through 25. But I am definitely proud to share that our graduation rate this year was 98%. Something really important to remember in that number is that includes all students in our cohorts. So it also includes our ungraded life skills students. But what we really need to recognize in that number is that 100% of our diploma seeking seniors did graduate. And that's something all of us and all of our students should be incredibly incredibly proud of. Something else I'd like to share which is also super important which we always want to make sure that all of our students are
009supported is that every subgroup is achieving success. So when we look at this chart over the years we want to make sure that there are little to no gaps between our graduation rate and our student success rate. So, as we can see, we are working towards that every year and we are having tremendous success across the board with all of our subgroups. So, in New York State, students receive a region's diploma. In Baldwin, our students go above and beyond and work towards an advanced regions diploma. So they take additional math classes, they take additional science classes, they take a language and they want to make sure that they are achieving above and beyond. So when you look at this, one thing that you should notice is between 2020 and 2023 we had significant growth. There
010is an asterisk in a few of those years because a few of those years we had allowable COVID exemptions. So those years are telling but not telling of the whole story. Now that we are entering 2025, we have an opportunity to sort of recalibrate. And something really remarkable about that number is more than 50% of our class is achieving advanced regions diplomas. But I think something more significant than that is something I'm going to speak to on the next few slides. Our students want more and they're going further and really thinking about what AP courses can I take and what designations or distinctions can I achieve in that realm. This year we've gone up about 225 exams which essentially is about a 23% jump in the number of tests that students are taking. Not only
011are they taking exams, they are achieving national recognition in those exams that they are taking. So something of note, we have our AP scholars taking three or more exams, achieving three or higher on those exams. We have our scholars with honors, four or more exams, average is increasing. Scholars with distinction, five or more exams. And while some students take it a step further and take two incredibly challenging courses such as AP Seminar and AP research, our capstone students are taking research seminar and four or more additional AP exams. So overall those numbers are increasing. Our students are really reaching for the stars. And if we look at Baldwin High School, our ranking is 286 out of 1,276 schools statewide. Ultimately, Baldwin's in the top 22% of schools. outcomes in terms of graduation rates, AP exams,
012as well as minimal gaps among some groups really speaks to this accomplishment and this achievement thanks to students, staff, and of course, families. So, something we are truly proud of. I am actually going to pass the mic along to some of our summer school administrators. First up is our middle school administrator, Miss Le, who will speak to some of our summer school accomplishments. Good evening. Um, I'm in charge of the middle school summer enrichment program, and this is a program that's offered to sixth and seventh grade students, giving them the opportunity to jumpstart their literacy and math skills to be successful in the upcoming school year. But this program really starts in April and that's when I'm analyzing student data. I'm looking at their ELA and math projected final averages in conjunction with their I
013Ready scores. I'm also working with administration and um support staff to figure out who would be invited to this amazing program. The program runs for 20 days in the summer. This summer it started July 7th and ended August 7th. Um Monday through Thursday only. It's in person. Students receive 90 minutes of ELA instruction and 90 minutes of math instruction. Our ELA students are given a grade level essential question. This is basically a big idea that helps them to make meaning um throughout their discussion and their reading and their writing. Our sixth graders are given the essential question, how does literature help me understand my own identity and gain insight into the identities of other people? Our sixth graders read the books Code Talker and We Are the Ship. Our seventh graders were given the essential
014question, how do we become agents of change? and they read the book Claudic Kulovven twice toward justice. After finishing this book, these books, they were able to complete their summer assignments in ELA. For the math portion of our program, our sixth graders were enrolled in a summerbridge math program in which they are given the foundational skills to be successful in seventh grade math. Our seventh graders are participating in an algebra readiness program because remember most of our students are taking the algebra regent exam in June and in this case June of 2026. Um, one of the highlights of my summer is when I visit the seventh grade math classes and they're engaged in a performance task. That performance task involves measuring the classroom, calculating the perimeter, using algebraic expressions to figure out what furniture can
015fit in their classroom. Students really are engaged. It's hands-on, and I think it allows students to not just associate math with numbers on a paper, but to see that math allows for critical thinking and real life problem solving. This summer we had 125 total students enrolled. Um I think we all recognize that the two main goals of the program are to prepare and strengthen their math and literacy skills and help support them in completion of their summer assignments. But I think it's important to highlight the um essential skills that they're building. So, creativity, communication, critical thinking, skills that are often underutilized during the summer break and that are pivotal to um long-term success. So, I'd like to really thank um the board and administration for allowing me to um be the coordinator of this program.
016I'd like to thank the staff members for working so hard throughout the spring and summer months. And I'm so proud of the students for their hard work. and I think they're already off to a great start. Um, I'd like to introduce Miss Melanie Hirs. Hi everybody. Can you hear me? It's good. Okay. So, I'm here to speak on I didn't click it. We're going to put that down. It's very sensitive. I'm here to speak on our I didn't even touch that, Jordan. Just be sure. I'm not touching it where Perfect. Thank you, Jordan. Okay, one more time. Hi, everybody. I'm here to speak on two programs that ran this summer at Meadow School. We had our ENL summer program and then I'll speak about our special education extended school year program. So, our ENL program
017had students grades K through 11 from all buildings in this district. There was about a hundred kids over the course of the summer. It runs for a month. They're chosen in conjunction with their classroom teachers, ENL staff in each building and building administration with the help of Dr. Calamaris to kind of oversee the choice of students who are entering the program. What's important to note is that we have students of all levels of language proficiency from very very early very little English um in their vocabulary to almost conversational in our older students. So, it's nice to have those students immersed together from all different buildings over the summer in their classrooms. We had the largest number of classes this summer ever in this program. When I started with them a few years ago, there was
018four maybe five classes. And this summer, we had eight fully staffed um classes of children, which was wonderful to see all of those happy students entering the building every single day through two grants with title three this summer. They were able to take field trips. So, our secondary students went to Beth Page Village Restoration and then they went to the Cradle of Aviation. I I swear I didn't touch it, Jordan. I know. He helps me in my classroom every day, too. So this is this is good. And then our younger kids, the um elementary students went to Jones Beach and White Post Farms. So those again were funded by Title Three grants that allowed them busing and we were able to get them a full day experience this summer of a leaving to learn outside
019of their classrooms. There we go. Which, as you can see in the middle, the content focus of the summer helped support those trips. So their in-classroom knowledge was then expressed in their leaving tole learns outside of the building. We also had Queens College and Mallaloy University student teacher this this summer. We always do and this was the biggest program I've had. I think there's usually a lot less but it was almost we had two to three in some of the classrooms depending on their level and they would assist the classroom teachers and the students and all of that and some of them were actually Baldwin staff that are going for extended degrees and then others were all teachers from surrounding districts. So it was nice to get their insight this summer as well. The content
020focus every summer differs depending on what their focuses are during the school year. So this year their content focus was colonial life for the social studies history aspect of it, engineering and design and environmental science which also incorporated a lot of literacy and reading skills because as they're entering the upper grades that's where they're seeing that they need more support. So those teachers did fully immerse them in vocabulary, reading and writing using those three content areas as a focus. So, it was really nice to see those kids every day just enjoying being in school, being here, and having so many students from the upper grades for the first time, those 9th through almost 12th graders who are coming to better everything about them. And then, you know, they leave at about half day. Um, and
021then they would tell us, I'm I'm going to work today after this and I use this from this program as the skills I'm getting. So, it's nice as the program grows from year to year to see that growth. Then on the other side of Meadow School, we have our extended school year summer program, which again was the largest we've had um since I started in this position a few years ago. We had 11 fully staffed classes, our 811 life skill students, and our 151 enrichment students. This summer, students came from either Plaza or Meadow, the middle school or the high school. We also housed student teachers this summer, which we don't always have in the special education program, but we were fortunate to have a few this year that were with us for the um
022full six weeks. Our goals are always to prevent regression of those students so that when they reenter their classrooms in September, they are on level or above where they left in June. So it increases their success improving their life skills, improving math and reading proficiency, and then bringing in a little cultural identity and social awareness to them in those different programs. So some of the pictures are highlighting different things they're doing from our butterfly study, which I'll talk about on the next slide, to individualize math and reading programs, especially for our older students in the middle and high school to immerse them in more content areas that they can use when they get back in September. So, our special events this year, although I try and make it a little more exciting and fun being
023in the summer, all focused around things that the students could do. So, we do have a carnival and we have parades and we ask our students to create all of the resources and we ask them to choose what they'd like to study for those events. Um, we do our butterfly study in all classes and I like to, you know, you go to every classroom and see how every teacher individually shows the students what's going on from all the different levels, elementary through high school. And then additionally, we do have theme days each week that we ask the students, what do you want to do? What do you want? You know, where do you want to go with this? And you can see in the photos that they're so proud of themselves and proud of what
024they can do and accomplish just in a summer program. Um, so the program does run six weeks, one of the longer summer summer programs that we have and it is full day. So we were there all day um from morning to night and I just want to thank there was a lot of work going on. So the facilities team was very helpful and you know always at our beck and call. So, thanks guys. And now I think what? Oh, Miss Abby. Yeah, Miss Abby Handler for our high school program. I wasn't sure if it was her or >> Hi, good evening. Um, so I was the principal of the um high school summer school program. Um, our goals of our program were really twofold. one, having students have the opportunity to earn credit back, so
025credit recovery. Um, we also had students participating in regent review classes to help prepare for their August regent exams. And we also had opportunities for students to um advance in art, health, and then our social studies classes, participation in government, and economics. Um, our program runs Monday through Thursdays um throughout the summer months. Um, and we have those regent exams at the end of August. Um, we were fully in person. Um, and each course had about 110 minutes of instruction. Um, and we were servicing students from grade 8 through grade 12. Oops, sorry. Okay. So we had a total of 297 students that were enrolled in the credit recovery and also participating in our regions review classes. Um this was of a total of 434 seats. Um students were redeeming their credit towards graduation, filling
026in gap areas and just preparing for those regions exams. Um some of the images we included, we had our um students who were participating in the art class showcase their artwork on our last day of school so that other um uh you know faculty members and teachers were also able to see their work and the kids were able to speak about it as well. Um we also utilized the learning collaboratory in the high school. Um so teachers were able to take their classes to it just a different space and be able to uh collaborate in the different rooms in the library. And then we also had the support of our library media specialists to also um assist with our classes. Um and overall just very thankful. We had a great um great team supporting us
027and our teachers really um did a great job working with our students this summer. Okay. And next is our summer arts enrichment program. Mr. Manella, thank you for including the fine performing arts summer enrichment program in this presentation. I always look forward to any opportunity to discuss the steady progress that we're making consistently in the arts. So, thank you. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the summer arts enrichment partnership that we have with the Baldwin Friends of Music and Art and the Atlantic Wind Symphony Incorporated program. This program is an example of an incredible partnership between parents, an outside organization, and the school. This regional organization helps us to organize internally. Our parents are part of securing the facilities from the school district and our teachers are the instructional wind that
028sort of sets the sails for what happens in the program. Um, this program is designed not only to extend the arts and learning for all participants, but it also provides opportunities for articulation between the elementary and middle school level and an opportunity to extend the culture of practice and the culture of personal mastery that is essential for arts instruction. Some of these goals, all of these goals that were set uh for the program, we actually met them. Uh, the program is self-sufficient. Um, we are targeting beginner students at our elementary schools. So, when they participate, they're getting really set up for a really strong start in their respective schools. Um, and we are introducing the theater culture much earlier than than normal. Uh, and this is has been paying dividends for us in the last
029few years. Uh, anyone that comes to our program will see that we are very well subscribed and this is part of the reason why. This year we had just under 90 students participating. We had 80 student 87 students participating across four different opportunities. Art, strings, theater, uh, and band. These programs are designed to sort of interlock but not necessarily intersect. So a parent and student can participate in as many of these programs as they want. The programs start typically at 9:00 in the morning and will some in some cases go until 2:30 in the afternoon. So, it's a it's a really good opportunity for our students and parents. I don't know why I'm struggling here. Need my glasses. One of the benefits of this opportunity that happens over the summer is I and the teachers
030have learned over the years that we have an opportunity to demystify what the middle school is like. So, when parents are bringing their children to the middle school, it's a big school. They see a lot of tall, good-looking kids running around, and it's hard to imagine how your fifth grader is going to sort of work their way into that. But our teachers are expert in welcoming students and explaining to parents how many students through the arts find their voice and find their tribe. And so, that's a big part of the discussion that we have throughout the program. So, by the end, parents are ready. Their students are ready to audition when they get here and participate. and don't shrink away. Each program has a culminating activity at the end. All of our art students do
031an exhibition. They explain their artwork. They take every viewer and visitor through the work that they've done over the course of the art program. Our theater students put on a multi-staged program with um dancing and singing and script reading and improv and things of that nature. to really show off what they can do. And our band and and orchestra students also perform. We offer opportunities to some of our high school students as well to come down who are highly motivated and responsible students to sort of lead and and assist the students in their development. Overall, this is a big win-win for all involved. It's a win for families, for a lowcost program, and it's a win for the school district as we're able to extend our reach weeks into the summer to impress upon students
032the importance of practice and good habits for our emerging students. And I think that concludes my section. I will take any questions or I guess Miss Ringifo will sort out the questions. Uh we just want to say thank you for allowing us to present to you this evening. Um the opportunity to really highlight all of the hard work of our students um all of our educators K through 12 and as well as the support of the families. So if you have any questions, we collectively would be happy to answer them. Uh but thank you. >> Yeah, I was curious, you mentioned Atlantic Wind Symphony. Is that some independent company that we work with or >> Atlantic Wind Symphony is a semi-professional band that meets out in Suffach County, but it's predominantly retired musicians and teachers.
033>> And so they're sort of a nonprofit organization and we partnered with them to assist us in some of the administrative components of running the program. >> Oh, I gotcha. Oh, cool. Thanks, Any any other questions? >> Okay, I had I had one more. Um, I was a little confused. I I I know that these acronyms change, you know, year after year, but there was one slide that talked about ENL and ELLL. So, I think ELLL is English language learners, but it was English language learner students and ENL teachers. So, what does ENL stand for? Sometimes it's referred to English as a new language. Okay. >> So those would be the instructors that are teaching all of our students who are learning English. >> Okay. >> ENL refers to the teacher and educator. EL referring
034to the student. >> Okay. Gotcha. Is there a reason they're different? >> I think you I'm splitting here. Sorry. >> The the name changes every so often. Um that's the technology that's been determined. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes, I'm I just wanted to comment. I'm always amazed at how much is accomplished during the summer in just a few weeks and just the presentation shows that the children are actually learning. They're engaged. uh there's a lot of uh student choice and that's something that we uh want them to be a part of especially in the summer when that's their break, right? Um so it it's always a great opportunity to see these presentations for the community to see that the the students are aren't being forced to attend. So they are >> they
035are thriving and thank you for the presentation. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Great job. >> I just want to echo thanks to the summer school administrators uh Miss Hersh, Miss Light, Miss Abby Handler, Miss Ochi who's not here, um Miss Marillo, Dr. Tom Harris who assists also from behind the scenes because the preparation for these summer programs really starts I think Miss Light said April but really we started our meetings in like February and the hours are done like typically after school hours are looking at potential participants looking at um determining who might be there outreach starts early staffing starts early so it's a tremendous amount of work and you can see we have a very busy summer program but all these summer programs assists with those high outcomes that you saw earlier with
036the graduation great outcomes, AP outcomes. So, um thank you to all our teachers, administrators, our summer administrators um for all their work um for the facilities who have to work around all these programs and especially to the board for allowing these programs to take place and supporting them. So, thank you. >> Okay. Are you giving them a pass to leave? >> Yes. Thank you. Let's hope we do that. So, some of the school administrators, thank you so much. Have a great evening. >> Thank you again. >> Thank you. And like to call up uh Mr. Sir Dazzle is going to give us a brief overview of the um facilities uh report. Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. McNeel. Good evening to everyone, the community, and to the board. Um tonight, I'd like to give a quick
037overview of what we call the facilities report card. It's not as exciting with this PowerPoint, but it's a quick overview. I just want to explain to you what it is and um how we put this uh report card together. Um, the purpose of the school facilities report card. The school's facilities report card was originally developed as a regulatory requirement under the commissioner's regulations 155.6. Although this regulation was repealed in 2011, the district has continued producing this report because it serves as an excellent guide and snapshot to ensure we are consistently reviewing the conditions and performance of our facilities. The report card highlights the district's ongoing commitment to maintaining a self uh healthy and effective learning environments for students and staff. It demonstrates that we are pri prioritizing our facilities need investing in building upkeep and
038monitoring the operational efficiencies of of the schools. This year, our energy consumption remained steady across oil, natural gas, and electricity with a slight increase in electricity uh due to the additions of um air conditioning in nearly every single classroom within the district. Um there's also a piece of our cost uh for keeping the buildings in a good state of repair um which rose slightly uh primarily as a result of normal material price increases. Um by continuing this report we ensure that the transparency and accountability while emphasizing the importance of the facilities and management as a key factor in supporting both health and safety and the overall quality of the educational environment. So the report card we continue even though it was repealed in 2011 because we feel that it's a great snapshot um for the
039board to see um how our any energy consumption is is moving and um to show that we're really keeping up with the buildings. Um and it's a six- page document for each building. But it's important because it has the the history of the building, what work we've done, what work we we'll be doing for the future. Um so the board can get an idea of um how to plan for the future. Um and a big piece of it is energy consumption. Um the health and safety of the district um and of course the upkeep of the building. So I know there may be a few questions. So, please if you have any questions, >> do you have any questions? >> No. No. I think we received some of the information that you presented last month.
040So, great. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Randazzo. So, next on our agenda item, we have comments and reports from the board of ed. Does anyone have anything to report on? Um I think all of us got to one or both of the uh superintendent conference days which were um fantastic. Well done Mr. Mella. Um and everyone who who helped run that. Um and the speaker from Sanica was super interesting guy. Um uh the the photo booths were a lot of fun. Um it was it was a great great day. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. I would say uh the same. Um we had we'll have the opportunity to see some of those pictures highlighted. Um staff would they seem very excited to uh come back to a a fresh year. Uh
041I hope that remains the uh we have some educators in the audience. Hope that remains to be true for the entire school year. So yes, it was a great opportunity to uh see a a lot of uh educators that are coming back for their 28th or 30th year and then also to welcome new staff into our Baldwin community. Yes. Okay. Anything for you, Miss Goss? >> I was able to attend the welcome breakfast for new staff and that is always exciting. It's so nice to see um fresh new faces that are excited about being here in Baldwin and um also Ditto with superintendent conference day. It was a great day and welcome back everybody. >> Okay. And anything from you, David, that you'd like to share? >> Absolutely. >> Yes. >> There we go. This
042works. Look at that. Um, just before the first day of school, I had the privilege of working alongside our high school volunteers for our freshman orientation program. In the morning, in the early day, we had our students come in and later evening and the night, we had our parents come through. Um, first we were able to tour the building with our freshman students and they were introduced for the first time to our academy programs and some of the great clubs that we have that can get them involved such as our student government program, our business academy and DECA and performing arts. So for some of these students where it was their first time seeing the building um and they hadn't been previously exposed to it, they were able to get that hands-on experience with students
043who have been in their place or these will be the students where they are in their place in the future. So they got that experience from the peers which is a huge thing not only because it's it's genuine, it's coming from people who are experiencing it but it's on their level and that was a huge deal. And the students that we had we had I believe over a hundred and we had more than three dozen volunteers. It was a great experience for the seniors and the upper classmen who came out and the freshman surely seemed to enjoy it. Um later in the afternoon I spoke with our student government president um Leila Gentles. We spoke for the parents and gave them a lot of the same insight. Um in my experience anyway the parent orientation
044is such a big deal cuz I attended it when I was a freshman and that was a huge motivating factor in allowing me to be engaged in the high school community and and take on the roles that I've had. So that was a that was a great thing to be involved in. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity from faculty and administrators um to present there and get the school year started and so far it looks like with the phone rule changing. We haven't had a lot of push back and I think there has been a positive change in the atmosphere and the climate um for all the students involved. So that's been a great thing and on the ground level from what I've seen anyway we're looking forward to a great year when it comes to
045that culture staying as positive as it is. Thank you, David. And I we received uh great feedback from parents who you gave you a standing ovation for your presentation. So, thank you. >> Okay. >> So, we're Yeah, >> that's the question. >> Oh, email address. >> Oh, okay. So, we're moving on to the comments and questions uh section. So questions and comments can always be submitted in advance by noon on the day of the meeting on the following form. So you can just email uh the district clerk or in person and I'll address that. Public discussion on matters relating to staff and students at which their reputation, privacy or right to due process or those of others could in some way be violated is prohibited. Okay. We ask that you if you do have some
046questions you can state your name. You have three minutes and I will address the first question that we have. Okay. >> Okay. So you want enter you want to address the person. >> Oh yeah. >> Okay. All right. Um so there is a question uh pertaining to it says the last two days of June or early dismissal and sending students to school for 3 hours followed by one hour the next day does not seem to be conducive to instruction for teachers, parents or caregivers. Is there any flexibility to consolidate dates or hours? So would you like to address that? >> So we always follow the regulations as outlined by New York State Education Department about instructional uh hours, days, and and minutes per week. Um that dismissal process is because we have to get ready
047for our summer programs, get buildings cleaned. Um so we've had a long-standing practice of that. Most school districts in Long Island do have an early dismissal the last day. Um, I will certainly call the the parent that raised the question and have a deeper conversation with them about that question. >> Okay. Are there any other questions or comments? Okay. Seeming that there are none, we're going to move on with the agenda. The board of education approves the personnel actions report dated September 10th, 2025 as detailed in the mailing. >> So moved. Moved by Sue. >> Seconded by Tom. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. The motion carries. The board of education approves the recommendations for services of the committee on special education subcsecom and committee on preschool special education
048for June, July, and August 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> So moved. >> Moved by Mr. Smith, >> Seconded by Miss Kohl's. All in favor say I. >> I. opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Next agenda item. The board of education approves the home tutoring and special education service report for this month as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> So move. >> Okay. Moved by Sue. >> Seconded by Tom. All in favor? I >> opposed. Okay. Motion carries. All right. So, as board president, I'm calling for consideration of a consent agenda for business items 8.03 through 8.23. Are there any items members would care to withdraw from consideration under the consent agenda for further discussion or a separate vote? >> No. >> Okay. So, can I have a motion to approve? >> So, >> okay.
049Move by move by Sue, seconded by >> second >> by >> who else? Right >> by Mr. Smith. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? No. Okay, the motion carries. So let me go to 8.23 and we just did approve a consent agenda but then you have to approve the business items >> through where what are those? Oh, go back. >> Yes, I can just approve the consent today to approve all the items. >> Okay. So, I'm going back to So, the next agenda item would be, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda including business items 8.03 through 8.23. >> So, moved. >> Okay. Moved by Tom. >> Seconded by Sue. All in favor say I. Opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Okay. What page is that? >> Right. >>
050Yeah. >> Mine is here. >> Okay. The board of education approves the updated use of facilities report from July 2025 through June 2026 as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> So moved by >> moved by Tom. >> Seconded by Sue. All in favor. >> Opposed. Motion carries. The board of education has a first read of the following policy as detailed in the mailing. That would be policy 5550, student privacy under the protection of pupil rights amendment, which is the PP RA. I have a motion. >> We don't have to vote on >> Oh, we don't read them. Got it. >> Okay. So, the board of education has read >> and adopts the following policy as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> And that one first and second. >> Okay. Okay. Can I have a motion
051for that? >> So moved. >> Okay. Second. >> Second. >> Tom. Okay. All in favor? >> Okay. Oppose. Motion carries. Okay. So, all right. So, the board of education accepts the resignation of a board member, Mary Joe O'Hagen, as detailed in the Friday mailing. >> Reluctantly moved. >> Yeah. >> Moved by Tom. >> Reluctantly seconded. Second by Sue. All in favor? >> Okay. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. >> So, we have although Mary Joe is not present, she is hopefully watching uh live stream. Um, we just wanted to recognize her and honor her for her 30 years of uh, service to the Baldwin Board of Education as well as the Baldwin School community. So, this was uh, put together for Mary Joe. So, here you go, Mary Joe. I'm not ashamed to see this way.
052[Music] Everyone Thank you for being stand. Thank you for being a friend. I want to thank you. Thank you for being Wow. A So, in looking at the pictures, one thing that remains constant is uh Mary Jill's beautiful haircut. Her hair bob. Yes. But uh we definitely appreciate her service, her commitment. Uh and she, as she stated in her, um her letter, she will always be a part of this community and she will continue to advocate for this community. She's been involved in so many programs and she maintains that she still will be a part of them. So we thank her for her service. >> Yes. Okay. >> Um appointment. >> Okay. Um so in in light of that, I just wanted to say that um we are looking at um the appointment of um
053a board member to replace her until we go into election. So that would be something that we are going to explore and we'll keep the community informed on that. Okay. Next agenda item right here right. >> Oh this one. Okay. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Baldwin Union Free School District, having reviewed a confidential settlement agreement and general release in executive session concerning a member of the non-instructional staff, hereby approves such confidential settlement agreement and general release and directs the board of president to execute such confidential settlement agreement and general General release on behalf of the board of education. >> So moved. >> Moved by Tom. >> Seconded by Sue. All in favor? >> Any opposed? The motion carries. Be it resolved. The board of education approves the immediate termination of
054the employee referenced in the letter dated uh September 5th, 2025. >> Moved by Sue, >> seconded by Tom. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Okay. Do you have the date? >> No. Do you >> There's no new business. >> No. Okay. Is there any new business? We do have some dates to uh be mindful. So mindful of just refer to your calendar on the website. We have our first game that's coming up. Um what is that? this first football game this Saturday. Uh, anything else that I'm missing? So, just refer to the uh school website for that. Okay. >> I was about to do that. >> Oh, do we need >> homecoming is on the 26th. That's I'm sorry. The pep rally is on the 26th so everyone knows, but the game is
055on the 27th, Saturday. 2:00 start for the game, but at 1:00 >> is when the pep rally and and the good vibes will begin pregame. >> 11 >> Grand Baldwin Festival on October October 4th starting at >> Got it. >> 12:30 to 4 >> correction 12 to 4:30. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you for that. See we need community at our meetings. Thank you for the input. >> Okay. So if there no other business I journ the meeting at motion to adjourn the meeting at >> 9:02. Okay.