001I pledge algiance 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. Effective September 1, 1991, chapter 9 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 this room because of an emergency, there are four exits that may be used. Exit one is on the west to go out the door and walk onto the field away from the building. Exit two is to the south. Walk through the door across the parking lot to the fields away from the building. Exit 3 is to
002the east. Go out the doors, turn right, then left. Exit the building and walk to the south field. Exit four, go through the door, turn left, and go out the rear doors of the cafeteria. like to take this opportunity to compliment the principal of Meadow School and the staff on the condition of the building. It's beautiful. And also to thank the PTA for the refreshments that they provided during our executive session. Um, okay. I'm going to proceed with the meeting. Okay, I just waving. We have a guest uh uh that's going to be with us in a few minutes. Um, and I would also like to remind people who may want to participate in the comment question uh for members of the community that we ask that you fill out a card. The cards are
003located in a box. I assume that it's at the back of the room and uh and then those cards will be read during the uh the comment portion. Thank you. The board of education acknowledges the receipt of the treasurer's report for the month of February 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. Moved by Mr. Smith, seconded by Mrs. KS. All those in favor? I board of education accepts the minutes for the March 19th, 2025 board meeting as detailed in the Friday mailing. Moved by Mrs. Green, seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I. Okay. I will now turn the meeting over to the superintendent of schools, Dr. County. Thank you, Mrs. O'Hagen. Welcome everyone. Um, just a few things before uh we have a a presentation. Um, first I want to congratulate our girls
004basketball team on their New York State win. Um, it was quite a game. Absolutely. Um, second, I I want to share that um I want to say for uh nine or 10 of the last 11 years, we have hosted a realator's breakfast um in the community and um we had one a couple weeks ago. Um we had about 25 realators who uh came to the district. Um we host that that meeting um in the high school. They get to learn about our program. They get to learn about all the things that are happening in our Baldwin schools. Um it has been um a real transformation in those meetings. They are very thankful um to hear the work that is going on in our buildings and the successful nature of our program. Um it helps them
005when they are going out um while they can't sh they can't sell a school district um it is helpful for them to be informed of the types of programs that we offer here in Baldwin. Um, and so we did have uh another realator's breakfast which um was actually lovely and it's it's kind of fun to see some of the realators are um former Baldwin students that are back and and um and in that business. Um this past week we had a ribbon cutting of our new sound studio at Baldwin High School at Schubert. Very well attended. Um the kids were phenomenal. Uh it is just another dimension of our career teched program um that we sh that we have here in Baldwin. Um I want to share that we had a um school district from
006Maine RSU22 which is in the a northern part of Maine. Um we have regularly hosted school districts who have come to Baldwin um to learn about the work that we're doing. Um, and I just want to share they they did a whole stack of thank yous to our students and to um some of the teachers and administrators that hosted them, but I think what they had to say is better said in their words and not my summary. So, I'm just going to read two cards. Um, this one was addressed to all of Baldwin High School. Um, to all of Baldwin High School. I and these are teachers and administrators from that district. They drove in a rented suburban um nine people uh 9-hour drive to come um to visit us. Um so to all of
007Baldwin High School, I just wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for welcoming us during our visit. We were all so impressed with all of the incredible things happening everywhere in Baldwin in the unique spaces you've worked to implement and also the K12 in uh the K12 work in your district. I saw such innovative practices and student- centered programs. Everything was about the students and their lives as future adults in the real world. Your passion, dedication, creativity was strikingly clear and inspirational. Thank you so much for your hospitality. We came back really um ready and excited to celebrate with our own students and find ways to collaborate with them for all their futures um beginning at HA, which is the name of their high school. with sincere appreciation. And this one is addressed
008to the student leaders because we had students lead the tours through the high school and we had our students speaking to the visitors. To our Baldwin leaders at Baldwin High School who showed us an amazing tour, a heartfelt thank you. Your enthusiasm and passion were contagious. Hearing everything you shared about the AP Seminar course and how much it helps you personally was truly an honor. To see students excited and motivated felt encouraging. The course itself was very impressive. I wish we could read about the cultural ramifications of Egyptian artifacts in museums, the effects of technology, i.e. digital dementia and all the other topics you shared with us. It was fascinating. I wish we could hear all about each paper. I walked away feeling completely inspired. You could not have done a better job at sharing
009your school and how it works with us. we would love for you to be able to share with our students. Anyway, thank you so much. And so, um, it was really, um, lovely to hear from from their own voices. These will be distributed, um, tomorrow. Um, last couple things. Um, you might have seen in News Day, our all island, all decade girls basketball players from the 2010s. Kaia Harrison, Isaiah Hudson, and Tom Catapano were all recognized in that article. News Day's top 10 Long Island softball players for 2025 are Baldwin High School senior Erin Tims. Uh Timus is featured um as a Newsuesday top 100 Long Island softball player. Um lastly, um we have our budget road show um schedule. Um they will be at all of the PTA meetings over the next uh couple
010months um as well as the civic association um the chamber of commerce and Sterns Park civic. So um uh as well as board meetings. So please feel free to attend any um or all of those. Um last I want to um ask Miss Charice Desire Yeah. um who is um representing um the Nassau School Boards Association. Um she has a present uh New York State uh sorry New York State uh school board. She has a presentation to make to our board. Charmese Yeah. James. Yeah. Good evening. There we go. Good evening. Thank you for your patience. Greetings. um Baldwin Board of Education, Dr. Cammy, administrators, and the Baldwin family. My name is Charmese Desiree, and I um hail from Unionale, but on tonight um I am um representing the New York State School Board Association,
011the president of Sandra Rufo, but I am the area 11 Nassau County Liaison, a fellow board member serving along with your board of education. And on this evening, I want to give a brief overview of the Champions of Change Award to explain why I'm here this evening. Several years ago, the New York State School Board Association wanted to create a program to highlight the positive programming that was bringing change to the students, communities, and districts of New York. They created this Champions of Change program to do just that. The recognition is unsolicited. member. The member relations team within the or association combs through online clips, news articles, and highlights various programs that they see across the entire state. In addition, the member relations department visits upwards of 300 school districts each year to discuss their
012challenges and successes. All programs are brought to a committee that chooses the programs that are recognized through a beautiful recognition banner I'm holding here. Um, and on tonight there is so many great things to celebrate in Baldwin, but right now I'm talking about one and this committee was notified about your wonderful new jewelry program and it deserves great recognition. So, it's my honor to be here on this evening to celebrate that initiative as um it is the mission of the district to help pave the way and provide different opportunities for young people to excel and be entrepreneurs and maybe own their own business and you know make their impact on the world. Um so I wanted to come this evening to celebrate with all of you and present this to the district to Dr. Cammy
013on the board of education on behalf of the New York State School Board Association. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, you have somebody here to take you figure that out. Yeah, just give us a second. Was I supposed to move so that we can share this right to celebrate? The next item on our agenda is comments and reports from members of the board of education. Does anybody have anything they would like to I never get to go first. Can I go first? Of course. And I didn't do all that much. Um uh I I did get to Staten Island to see our wonderful girls compete. Oh my gosh, the track team. They're just incredibly inspirational. And we got best in state for this and best in state for that. And um it's uh and
014they have the funnest parents. So, um it's it was nice to do that uh a few weeks back. Um Balden Teacher Center, that's what I liaz with. That was uh April 8th. I was like, uh yesterday. Yeah. Um that's where folks get together to talk about what kind of um continuing ed the district is going to offer to the teachers. So, that's always uh an interesting discussion. And last night I was at the uh spring concert for Plaza Elementary where um uh in case you didn't know or if any of you are Plaza parents um Mr. Nadian is a music teacher that we've had for um 31 years I think Mrs. Wilden might know and uh he's retiring and the concert was amazing. Um he played his 12 string guitar to accompany his kids singing.
015Um it was a whole lot of um there was it was a whole lot of folk music because of the Bob Dylan movie. Is that not Bob Dylan? Yeah. Bob Dylan. Yeah. Okay. Yes. And uh my kids know about that stuff. I don't know about that stuff but but it was great. Um and uh we wish him well and and he had a student come from 2002 who someone a woman an adult who was his student in 2002 came and gave a little speech uh congratulating him on his retirement. a nice night over there. That's me. Thank you. If anybody I have also had the pleasure of attending a few of the spring concerts. In fact, I was here yesterday and it was quite enjoyable. Um, honestly, it's I think our favorite part of being
016board members, being able to to go to the holiday concerts and the spring concerts and um and and see all of our beautiful students shine and of course, you know, the little ones are just so cute. You just want to hug each and every one of them. But that's always so enjoyable and um look forward to attending a few more. Um, I had the pleasure of actually attending a few lacrosse games. So, we're in spring season now. Uh, those were getting well attended, but uh, Baldwin's high school varsity team and the sweets and sweets concert was, um, also a good opportunity to watch the kids eat some sweets. Uh, the other thing I wanted to mention is we have our facilities meeting every month, but it did not take place yet this month. So, I'll
017give an update next month for that. Thank you. Okay. Do it's the same concert. Okay. Same thing. Okay. Yes. I was uh an attendee at the scope dinner. That's a dinner for really hundreds of educators that takes place out in Suffach County and it honors uh people from a wide range of uh things in the educational community. There's awards for teachers, for schoolboard members, for administrators, for districts. Um, as Dr. Cammy mentioned, we had a realtor breakfast and everybody that every realtor that attended really was enormously impressed with the students who spoke. Uh at the end of the tour uh we had students speak uh and everyone was just I think blown away at how articulate and um composed they were they were just really terrific. Um we had a ribbon cutting uh another one
018maybe we'll get another award um intense at our alternate at our uh high school at Schubert uh for the sound studio and I think again everyone was everybody there was very impressed. It was a lot of fun. The students were so excited to show us the facility and to show us what they can do and what they're learning. So that was really lots of fun. Um, I too attended some of the spring concerts, three of them. And I also attended a Long Island Association breakfast. Um, the Long Island Association is the business association for uh, Nassau and Suffach County. They have a large breakfast, eight or nine00 people. Uh, the guests were the four uh, Congress people that represent Long Island. So, uh, two Democrats and two Republicans. So they had a panel and there
019was a very effective conversation. I think uh everybody got a lot out of it. Uh and then this morning um I co-chair the Long Island Education Coalition. We had our meeting this morning. Dr. Cammy was present. Uh but we had an opportunity to have an entire meeting with the new regent uh uh Felicia uh Thomp Thompson Williams. Yeah. uh she has just been appointed and I think this is one of her first meetings. So it was very exciting to get a chance to share with her what our concerns are and have her give us an idea of where she's coming from. So it was a really good meeting. So anyway, that's it. Yes. And um so I just want our girls to know that you were not at the last board meeting, but I commended
020your New York State win on the last meeting. I don't want you to think that we did not do that. Um I also want to share um that um our meadow I was obviously at concerts as well and um I'd be remiss if I did not um point out the meadow concert. Um so ironically I attended the New York Philharmonic um does uh four different events where they show a movie and they play along with the score of that movie. And so I had the um the privilege of um seeing Back to the Future um with the New New York Philarmonic which was really outstanding. Um and our Meadow um music teachers basically recreated something just like that. Oh, it was No, that was Meadow. Um was it Lennox? Oh, it was Lennux. Sorry. um
021Lennox and um the the the talent. Um so they created the film um and they created the score to go along and the kids sang along with it and I was just honestly stunned at how creative um and professional um they they did that. I will share that at Meadows concert that I went to amongst just incredible talent um it I would be remiss if I didn't mention um that our Meadow um school um has the 811 program. So our most disabled students that are in district attend Meadow School. Um so they have an 811 program and the 151 program here. Um, I'm just going to say that um the the teachers and the administrators here, they do God's work. Um, the way that our students are integrated as one unit and one family. Um,
022and how our students who are in the 811 program and the 151 program are a just a regular part of the concerts like everyone else. I've worked in a lot of districts and I have never um seen such a seamless, welcoming, inclusive um community as they are in Meadow. And so they really do deserve um just tremendous kudos for the incredible work they do um with young people who um have um some of the more severe um disabilities. So um I just needed to share that. Thank you. Yes. Just wanted to highlight to what Dr. Cammy was saying with the Linux performance. The music teacher said it was the first time in 23 years that she received a standing ovation. So that speaks volumes to the the performance that evening. Amazing. It was amazing. Thank
023you. Okay. Now we come to the uh portion of the meeting for comments uh from members of the community. Um as I said earlier, if you wish to speak, please fill out one of these cards that are located in the back of the room. I see there are a large number of cards on the same subject. So I don't know if you each want to be called up individually or whether one or two of you want to speak to specific things. I I don't even know. I'm not sure how to pick any. The one right on top is um Jamila Joseph St. Bernard. Is that someone? I can't hear you. I'm sorry. And maybe I'm mispronouncing it and I apologize. Chamila. Yes. Okay. Okay. Would you like to? Yes. Yes, please. Did I know the
024three minutes? Yeah. Uh I just want to remind everyone that each speaker has three minutes and we have a total of 30 minutes uh allotted for discussion and remind them we cannot discuss person. Oh right of course I'm sorry Mr. Dresca just reminded me that I need to remind everyone that we cannot discuss individual uh personnel or students. Good evening board. So my name is Jamila Joseph St. Bernard. I'm a member of my son is actually a member of the VTEX track team and we have several members here including the girls who won the state championship and I was just wondering if VEST can use the high school track and field to practice at least one or two days a week when when we um put in the track the new field the turf field
025and track um we really decided to take a year to see what the wear and tear would be, what the usage would be. We have a number of of groups that would like to use the both the track and the field itself in practice. So, we wanted to get a little time to see what the upkeep would be. It's a major investment on the part of the community and we wanted to be able to give it a year to see what that looked like, what the upkeep looked like, what the kinds of needs that were out there looked like. So by the summer, we'll probably start to have those conversations, get those reports back on what this look what this has looked like during the course of this year so that we can formulate a
026process for deciding who and how long uh individual groups from the community can make use of the facility. Obviously, there are individuals in the community that would like to just walk the track. there are people there are groups that would like to use it. So, we have given ourselves some time to make those decisions and uh I would say at some point during the summer, it hasn't officially been opened a full year. We even though we had graduation on the field, that was actually before it was officially opened. We had to be very careful. Nobody could wear high heels and so on. But we this summer is probably the time that we're going to have that conversation about setting up some kind of procedure and process for people to apply and for us to be
027able to make the decisions on who and how long people can use the So currently who's using the facility? You say wear and tear. So that means someone's using it for there to be wear and tear, right? Sports teams. Well, first of all, the main people who would be using it are the school's own sports teams. And then are you talking about the track or andor the field? Track and field because I mean these kids that's I'm saying that's part of VEST. They're in the bowling community. So So we have So our first priority obviously is the students in the school, all the teams, the varsity teams, junior varsity teams that are part of the high school. And then after that there are there's a list of people who have informally come to us and
028said can we use uh the track. So as I said we are going to take time this summer to think about how we're going to prioritize those requests. Thank you. Okay. These are again these are all on the same subject. I Yes. Did you do you have one of these? Yes, I have one of those. Okay. Yeah. Would you come to the mic, please, so everybody can hear you? If he gets his name, then pull it out. What? You need help? If he says his name, then pull it out. So, what is your name, sir? My name is Marvin McCree. And it's it's basically a rebuttal to your response. You guys said you don't want to use the track, right, until the summer just to see how the maintenance and and track that, right? But
029you have a warranty period, correct? Right. You should have got closeout documents when you completed the construction work. So, you have a warranty period. So, if you don't utilize the track, that'll be an additional cost once the warranty expires. So, the best time to use the track is now while you're in the warranty. Once the warranty expires, right? because you should have got a warranty from the general contractor on the materials used for the for the construction, right? On the synthetic field. So, if you don't use it now and your warranty expires, that's additional cost to the citizens. And we shouldn't incur that cost, right? So, it's not good practice to hold off and wait because your warranty is limited. I'm not sure of the period, but you should have submittals and closeout documents regarding
030that. And that should tell you the duration of each warranty for the track, for the bleachers, for the field. So, it's not good practice to wait. Use the track now. That way, if you get any deterioration, it's no fault to us. I have I have another question in there, but it's irrelevant now. And I thank you for that. I in fairness I don't have the warranty in front of me. I don't have but I I know we'll definitely take your your thoughts into consideration and take a look at it. You should call them for it. M Okay. Okay. Um wait, Mrs. Conusion that maybe we need to clarify that we're not holding off on using it. students during the school day using it, but we're keeping it just I thought I said that. Okay. Okay.
031Understood. Okay. I'm sorry. We're not using it. I Mrs. Kohl's just wanted me to to clarify that it the obviously the facility is being used by our students now. It just is not being used by groups that are not current. I understand what you're saying, but I thought was hoping that was clear that our teams are using it again. Did Did you And what is your name? Yes. What are you talking? I think she should go on to her part, but they're all on the same. That's what I think she should do, too. Okay. All right. I'll call these out for you after this. Okay. After this one. Yes. I'm going to the end of this two-part question and I'm going to address it to each of the board members who voted against your name.
032Ingred Edwards. Yeah. It's going to be a two-part question. There wasn't enough room on the card. So, it's going to be addressed to each of the board members and who may have voted against the use of the facilities. Um, we are with the PAL track um team as well. Many of the students on the PL track team also attend each of the Baldwin schools within the town and the high school. In regards to the use of this track and you're talking about the use of the field and the timing of when you're going to look to use it, why was it not considered or was it considered when you were doing the budget for overuse of the track? We were told that it was concerned on overuse of the track which is why we were
033not allowed to use the Baldwin High School for the PAL and the other um inter mural track clubs as well. So was it considered when we were doing the budget that our taxpayer money paid for that track? Was it considered overuse? Was that built into the budget? That to my knowledge that was not part of the conversation. No. the when we uh decided to to uh install the turf field, the primary primary purpose obviously was for the use of our varsity and junior varsity teams. So, you know, we did not have lengthy conversations around who else would have an opportunity to use it, who else within the community. So it wasn't and there was not to the first part of your your your question there was not you know a vote the way that you're
034speaking of among all of us on this. We had a conversation and everybody agreed, you know, that we would give this uh a chance, give this a year to uh to be able to make a determination on on what what the upkeep would look like and that then we would revisit the situation and we would consider the different people who applied to to use the facility. So, we are here now asking for reconsideration for us to utilize the facility. In addition, our ch our children in the pal and I'm not going to speak about the the the high school um kids who are using spikes. Our children are not using spikes. They are not utilizing the field in that manner. We have ran at the armory and they just put down a new track and
035you're talking how many hundreds of people that are there and that track is not being overused. You're going to tell me that Baldwin High School track is going to be overused by children of 5 to 13 year olds who are not using spikes. As I as I said, we you know, we're certainly we're listening to what you have to say. When this was installed, that wasn't the conversation that we had. So, we would like to put So, go ahead. We would like to put on the table for the Baldwin PL and in addition to the other track clubs to be considered to get the permit to utilize the track for this season. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm I'll let you finish, Madam President. If you have anything to respond to that, I'm just going to
036I want to give I want to give the next speaker a chance. So, what we the only thing we have to do is we're going to um Mrs. O'Hagen is going to call the names out. I know you guys are creating the lines, but she's going to have to do it in this order first. Um, so she is going to call those names and continue with the names on the list. Okay. So, there's no need to wait on the line because she's going to call it in order. So, can we go on record? But you can continue yours. We like to go on record that we are requesting for this to be reconsidered for us to utilize the facility. Our season is actually starting next week where we are at the middle school. The conditions
037are not safe as you think. There are three to four clubs that are out there. It's overcrowding. You have the rabbits that are on the field. It's just it's it's not as safe as you think it is. In addition, I mean, the the little children have to use the bathroom. There's just so many things to put into consideration. So, we'd like to go on record to be reconsidered to utilize the facility at the Baldwin High School. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next. Well, uh Sariah Duresa. It's all you can say all four names. It means Oh, okay. And Brienne Barnett, a Jazera Ali and Khalis. And Kiss Walker. Yeah. And then you can go through these on the list. These you already did. Okay. And these to help with these with that? Sure.
038These are complete. Okay, we're all just going to go back and forth to use our allotted three minutes back to back. Okay, recognizing all champions addressing the disparities in high school athletics. As a student athlete at Baldin High School, the success of athletics is a point of pride for the entire community. This year, the track and field basketball and wrestling teams have demonstrated excellence on the state level. Being varsity athletes on the track team, we have qualified for the New York State Championship and NYS Federation Championship for an impressive impressive four consecutive years. We meddled all four years and secured seven state and federation championship wins. Despite these achievements, a concerning disparity and recognition has emerged between the high school sports teams. The school recently announced a sendoff event to celebrate the basketball team's journey
039to the NYSPSA Class AAA championship, complete with announcements in a schoolwide celebration. When the girls basketball team won state, the administration quickly organized a community parade to celebrate and welcome the team home. However, no such events were organized for wrestling and track and field teams. Despite the girls track team's continued dominance in four consecutive years a state level success, to see another sport receive this massive amount of attention from the community and high school has resulted in a sense of unappreciation, especially knowing that we have achieved a high magnitude of success. Throughout the winter season, we have tolerated numerous inequities on account of the school's shortcomings and recognizing us for our contribution to Baldin's athletic history. Examples of such disparities are during our years as varsity athletes, the school has yet to organize any form
040of sendoff for the track track team heading to the state championship despite doing so for other sports in the past. This has been especially noticeable as our parents have taken upon themselves to organize a send off for us in previous years. Daily announcements were made sharing information about the upcoming basketball games, including the times, locations, and dates that the games were held in order to encourage students to support the teams. However, none of this was done for track in preparation for the conference county or state championships throughout the indoor season. In order to be featured throughout the school or any of the boards, we had to demand to be featured at the as long with the rest of the sports. Even then, incorrect information was posted. and overall lack of acknowledgement from our coaches and
041administration. We have gone actively through the chain of command but have yet to see any actions being taken, only apologies. But is known that actions speak louder than words. The excuse has always been that they were unaware or uninformed of our achievements. But it would be appreciated if there was more productive steps taken to acknowledge our accomplishments. That's right. [Applause] This situation reflects a broader issue in high school sports. The unequal recognition of different athletic programs. Traditionally, both basketball and football received the most attention in many schools due due to their spectator appeal and historic popularity. Other sports like track and field, wrestling, bowling, marksmanship, and cross country often struggle for the same level of acknowledgement even when their comp even when their achievements surpass those of the more publicized teams. We are looking to
042change that as as all high school sports should be treated and recognized equally. Now, we have elevated the Baldwin track and field program by consistently representing the school at the highest level, bringing home state titles and earning national recognition. Some of our accomplishments include runner up 4x200 relay indoor state champions in 2022 as a all freshman and one eighth grade runner team. Threetime indoor New York State and federation champions in the 4x200 meter relay from 2023 to 2025. Threetime indoor New York State and federation champion in the 55 meter from 2023 to 2025. Indoor New York State and Federation champion in the 300 meter 2025. multiple individual conference and county championships throughout our entire high school career 2022 to 2025. We hold the 4x200 relay New York State indoor meet record, the 55 meter New
043York State indoor meet record, and the 300 meter New York indoor state meet record. We are the first sports team in Baldin history to advance to New York State Championships title three years in a row. We are also New York number six all time in the 4x200 meter, New York number three all time in the 55 meter, and New York number three all time in the 300 meter. Our dedication to training physically as well as mentally competing and succeeding should be celebrated with the same enthusiasm as any other sport. The lack of a standoff event raises questions about equitable recognition for all student athletes regardless of their sport. Let it be known that we are not complaining. We are voicing concerns that advocate for meaningful change. As young ladies soon to be entering the real
044world, we feel deeply hurt that only that the only people who seem to care about our success are our parents, friends, community members, and family. Support should not simply come from those closest to us, but by the institution that is meant to support and guide us. No one should feel invisible or undervalued when they work tirelessly to represent their school. It is time for the administration to prioritize the well-being and success of all students, recognizing their contributions in meaningful ways. Simply saying that we did not know or we did not realize is no longer enough. We feel it is imperative that we hold the administration accountable for the trauma it has caused us and hope no one else has to experience this level of unaccountability. To be clear, this is not about diminishing the accomp
045accomplishments of the basketball team. Their success is welld deserved and worth celebrating. However, it is crucial then it is crucial that the school administration and the athletic department ensures that all championship level teams receive equal support and acknowledgement. Here are a few steps that can help bridge this gap. Consistent sendoff events. Any team that is advancing to a state level competition should receive a sendoff event fostering school spirit and support from all athletes. Increase media coverage. Announcements, social media highlights, and schoolwide communications should so should showcase all athletic achievements equally. Athlete and coach input. Athletes and coaches across all high school sports should have a voice in how recognition is handled. the booster club and community support. Encouraging community involvement in all sports can help balance disparities and recognition. Having one parade at the end
046of the season for all sports that have won a state championship title. The Baldin community takes pride in its student athletes and their hard work deserves consistent and equal celebration. Whether on the basketball court, wrestling mat, or on the track, all students rep represent the b the best of Baldwin and should be uplifted as they strive for excellence. It is time to ensure that every athlete and every champion gets the recognition they deserve. [Applause] Based on the letter that was just read, we would like to see changes to how the school and district streets treat street treats all sports equally. We are asking if we could have a meeting with you, Dr. Cammy, or with you and the assistant director to together to brainstorm ideas and work together on our proposed changes. If a proposed
047meeting cannot be considered now, can you at least let us know if a proposed meeting will be taken under consideration? Thank you for your time. [Applause] I can, but I was going to say [Applause] I was going to ask her for a copy of the remarks. Thank you very much, girls, for for sharing that. And if I can ask, can we have the copies of your your information? I hope you don't mind, but it would be helpful for us to be able to take a look at what you've what you've read and to review it. Thank Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. And we will we'll get back to you. Are you okay with me? Yep. Go ahead. So, um, girls, first of all, I'm happy to meet with you. Um, and and
048I think you know that. Um, and and I'm talking to them and I'm talking to them. Well, you don't I'm talking to the girls because I see the girls in the high school. I talk to the girls in the high school. Um, you know that there's always an open place to have that communication. He may not know that. You know that. I do want to share with you that um a few things and a few things that I know that you tell me whether or not I have misinformation. Um so you know that in the May board meeting we celebrate all of the accomplishments particularly um that reach a milestone right? So last year you were part of the May board meeting. Certainly this year you will be part of the May board meeting again.
049Um that's where um equitably across the district we make sure that students who reach a level of accomplishment have gotten to the Nassau County win, a Long Island win, a New York State win. Um that's the level of accomplishment that we celebrate um at the May May board meeting. You know that you will be there again. At least I hope that you know that you'll be there again. When you talk about an organized parade, um there hasn't been an organized parade. And one of the things we are talking about is making the Memorial Day parade having a special place for any of those teams that have done that. Um the dilemma that we have there is that um what we hope to celebrate is not just our athletic teams which clearly have a place. There's
050no question but there's a lot of academic success also. And so we want our community to know that we celebrate our academic successes, our athletic successes because they are equally important. They are different, but they are equally important. And so we're trying to figure out is there a way to do to make sure that we treat those equitably. I'm sure you understand that if we at the Memorial Day parade have you guys, the basketball teams, the wrestling team, um, and we don't celebrate the academic teams who have gone to a New York State Championship or something like that, that they're going to feel slighted. So, we're in the process of figuring out how to make sure um that we equally do that. Um the the other thing that that I I know and you'll tell
051me if I either have misinformation or I don't have complete information. Um I know when I walked into the high school um last week, I think it was I mean in the screens that we have in the Commons, you guys were all over that. Um, and so if I'm missing something about the way that you think somebody was a team was publicized that you were not, um, I do want to know about that. The boards that were put on the school, we had to ask them after they had put on both both the basketball championships on the board and even after we asked them to put it on, they had the wrong race on there. Okay. So, and then they didn't change it after we asked them to put them on and it's still up
052there. And then when we put when we actually put on the board, it took days after basketball gone. Okay. So those are the kinds of things when we do meet you. You have an open line of communication there. And um if there are things in addition to what you shared in the speech, I do want to hear it. Y I just Thank you. Oh, sorry. I just wanted to add um not it's very hard to be at this table and wear two hats. However, equitably, I just want to out loud, um, parents, I hear your comments, but I think we need to all just take a moment and realize this is the beginning of the challenges that they're going to encounter throughout their lives. So, let's just take this moment and just commend the fact
053that you were one comfortably able to speak out loud and advocate for something that you saw was not right, knowing that I sit at this table and knowing that you need to do what you need to do cuz it's not going to get easier, right? lack of equity exists in many different spaces. This is not going to be the first time. So, I just want to say I commend you all as students for coming to have a respectful conversation and trying to make change for people that are going to deal with this potentially or trying to change it for those that are coming after you. That's all I wanted to say. Yes. [Applause] So I think the point is the request that you made is being accepted and you will hear from Dr. Cammy or
054someone about that at some point. Thank you. Thank you Mary J. Yes. [Music] I just wanted to add to that that I commend you also because you came you didn't just um complain or it wasn't a gripe session um but you came with next steps and suggestions for right action plans and I actually took notes and you know like Dr. Cammy said those things will be addressed when you meet. So again, well done. Indeed. Indeed. She has a schedule, but she has a schedule. She's just going through the list. She's going through the list. Yes. Yeah. Um Sharon can earn stuff. It's just we're going to do it. We're just going to do, you know, do them in order. Yeah. because that I can't, you know, you're going to have to probably answer that or
055silly asking this now. My name is Sharon Canornild. I'm speaking on behalf of my daughter and my grandson who's going to go into We were hoping the universal prek, but he's on a wait list. Can you can you explain what the universal prek is? It just done by lottery. How is it that um and how many is enrolled? explain the weight list because I've only heard of one child that we know of that who's gotten in from the lottery and so many others who are on the wait list. He receives services. So I I just wanted I guess when we have our meeting we can decide you know talk about what happens then in the fall again we're in September when he starts services again. my daughter is asked or called about different things and
056they sometimes is not given much information or we're getting conflicting information. Can it just be explained the whole process with the universal prek? Yep. Absolutely. Dr. Robinson, do you want to answer? Uh, sure. So, uh, the the lottery is because the number of, um, the dollar amount of funding that we have and the seats available in in classrooms throughout the district to house the students. So, that number usually exceeds the uh, number of pre-registered. We do the lottery from a pre-registration list. So, people pre-register, we run the lottery. Uh the number this year that we started with was 86 that were in the spaces that we had available. Uh and there is approximately the same number on a waiting list. Um unfortunately unfortunately the numbers that we go through in terms of that waiting list
057um this past year we got through literally everyone that was on the waiting list. And what happens is in the registration process, there are documents that have to be um provided to our registration office. They go through the whole process and some people simply aren't eligible. A date was wrong on a birthday or an address isn't, you know, assigned to they don't have the documents necessary to prove that they live in Baldwin. So, there's a process that goes through. As I said, last year we went through our entire uh weight list. So, there was no one left that had expressed um interest in in the pre-registration process. Um so, that's where we are right now. I would I would encourage you if you do have what you think is conflicting information, you can call the
058business office and we can give you specific answers. Now, and just just to clarify for you when the going through that the list, um we do residency checks because we find that um sometimes people who don't live in Baldwin are putting their name in the lottery. Um we there are duplicates. Um we've had some parents that have entered names five times. I think they think they have a better shot if it's five times. Yeah. Um they don't. Um and um and then sometimes people um have changed their mind. So when we say that we go through the list and we can exhaust the list, by the time we we get through all of those um pieces last year, um we were able to accommodate everybody that wanted a slot in the UPK. But I heard
059like by August, but by August if he she wanted to register him for like a a nursery school, they could be filling up. So when could we maybe even hope to get him in or like you're saying once you check everybody else? He's already registered with the school district because of his um his not call disability his the services he receives. So he's already registered. Is there a different registration process then to get them into preK? No. The whole the whole thing with universal prek is it's for all students. That's what the the word no pun intended, no sarcasm. It's universal prek. It's for all students. So if they have he's already registered with the school district to receive the services. Is it a different process to register him with the universal pret? That's what
060I'm asking. No, just so so because he's already registered in the district, they've gone through a process of checking for residency and things like that, but he's still going to be on a list with other students. So, until they exhaust the people that are ahead, right? Okay. Yeah. All right. So, any further questions can go back to you said the business office. Yep. Now, just a quick question. um if you had 86 spaces available last year. I'm just curious, did you have a lot more registration? You know, people who wanted to get into the prek program, the universal prek, or I mean, you have if there's 86 spaces available last year, you said you had 86. There was a long waiting list last year, too. Longer than the 86. I mean, is there I don't
061remember. Yeah. our our numbers in in terms of the pre-registration list um it usually hovers just north of about 200. So, but it's critical to point out that going through the process that was just outlined, a lot of those names get I'll say weeded out because of residency issues, age issues, we have numerous numerous duplicates that do not go through the lottery process, right? We weed those out. If it's a duplicate, it only counts as one. Okay. Um, so, so we actually have less of a total number this year, probably by about 20 students than we did last year. Um, it it's difficult to say how far into the list, but as we said, last year we got through the entire list. Okay. I just wanted clarification. Thanks. Understand. And you still Okay. The next
062person, uh, Roger Miller. Shar. Oh, Sher. Yeah, you keep Yeah, thanks. Almost all the others are track. I'm going to do that. Uh, good evening everyone. Good evening. All right. So, as you know, a lot of the qu is this thing on a lot of the questions around the use of the track and I know that you guys met as a board and talked about doing this one year. Let's wait and see. I mean, you guys knew that a lot of organizations we would be impacted by this. So in your decision making, why didn't you guys involve us in the decision to talk about the potential overuse so that we can talk and figure out a resolution to all this stuff? Like why are we going to permits and finding out that we cannot use
063the track because of this so-called overuse concern that you guys have? We have always had a system of permits. Um I I guess I don't understand why we would have changed that process because we've that's has been traditionally the way that we have worked with community groups is that we have had a permitting system that people request the use of facilities for any number of things not just the fields. Uh and then those are processed through our facilities office. So yeah, but understood but we understood that the track was under construction last year and you figure once the track is done that we would go back to business as usual and we weren't involved in any of this and you know we want to have a seat at the table as well to discuss things
064that will potentially impact our programs. you know, six sixth graders are not allowed to participate in school sports for whatever reason. I'm not sure why that is. A lot of kids utilize the PAL to fill that gap. And now by this decision, you're undercutting that conduit for these kids. Was that considered when you guys made the decision? Did you did you want to speak to that? Could Could I just I I I don't know if this is going to help, but but what I would like to say is this. Please understand that nobody is saying that you will not at any point have use of this track. What we're what we're trying to or field what we're trying to to say is that we are also unsure of of having such facilities right we've never
065had it before. So, we want to handle the investment that has been made by the community as carefully as we can and that has to first and foremost be for the school during the day athletic programs. But again, no one's saying that the outside organizations will not have use. We just as a board had come to the conclusion that we needed a certain amount of time to responsibly be able to observe and evaluate and we still feel strongly if you're not letting anyone use the facility because our school athletic teams are using it. It is used. See, and that's another thing that I I think maybe isn't being understood. It's it's being used quite a bit by the by the high school athletics. But so as Mrs. O'Hagen had said in the beginning, once this
066time period is coming to a close, which will be at some point over the summer, we will do a number of things. We will get together with buildings and grounds. We will um we will get information from from other coaches, other programs, other areas to really evaluate and make sure of what we're doing going forward because we need to as a responsible board to our community make sure that we can get the most life out of this investment that we can. So we hear all of you. you know what we live here to the community and I'm trying to explain that to you though but but we need we needed a certain amount of time so we can have the proper information to go forward and it is being used it's being used by the
067high school teams and and and furthermore furthermore I had a third I had a third and fourth grade team lacrosse team that wanted to utilize the the uh no the lacrosse field instrument they couldn't they were told they couldn't utilize it so they had to use a 600 field I come up to the school see the kids playing I look at the track I look at the the turf they're kids playing on the field their parents walking their kids around the track so how come they're not being told that they can't utilize track and we're told and we've told we can't utilize it and we've worked so closely with the schools over how many years that PL's been around. So you're telling me that people could come off the street and utilize the facility and
068we can't actually and I hear you. I hear you. My son was in PAL. I I hear you. We've had a partnership for a very very very long time. So I do hear what you're saying and I understand. I'm not going to say, will you get the middle school because I know that that's not what you're here for, but I just want to say that I have to reiterate what we're saying. Please give us the opportunity to have a conversation about this. We feel very strongly that we have a responsibility to the whole community to sort this out in a way that makes sense and that makes that facility sustainable. So, we're listening. Believe me, we're listening. We're hearing what you're saying. But I c I can't give you a yay or nay at this
069moment. We have pledged that we would take this up again in the summer when we have time to reach out to everyone. We've talked about the community. I'm sorry. Over 80% of the kids in PAL are from this community. I understand that. I understand that's always been the case. And and when you say that there were people on the field, this has been another issue is security. You know, we have spent time and effort trying to make sure the field is secure that not just everybody has access any time when we have students there. So there are a lot of things we are trying to manage. That's all I'm saying and I'm listening. Yeah, we are all listening to what you have to say. And two weeks ago, I was at the home opener for
070the varsity girls lacrosse team. Almost every girl on that pitch played PLA. I know. I know. I I hear you. I hear you. As I said, we we were pal. Can I just add So, I I just I just want to add one thing. I just Roger, are we going to get down? It's way over the It's way over. I I I want to also point out that our kids are here and our our kids are watching us. Okay. It's way over. So I I am addressing Mr. Miller. Okay. I am addressing Mr. Miller. You're you're you and I have met. You and I have talked. And so I just want to just put it in perspective. So you're asking for two days a week, right? That was the original application. Yeah. There are two
071other groups asking for two days a week. That's six days a week. So the question then becomes and the question that comes up to there are three groups asking for two days a week. That is that's all continue. Thank you. So the the the the balance that the facilities department uses when those requests come in are can we accommodate everyone who's who's asking because we can't treat the three groups differently because then the group that was told no would come up right I I and I understand your perspective and I understand where you're coming from but from from facilities side the question is you have three groups asking for a use of the track, you have the community that is looking to use the track. And so I I think the question is how do
072we make sure that we we can either say yes to everyone or no to everyone? And and the other part of this, which is something that I heard from someone earlier, which I think the board can consider, um is it one day a week? Right. Right. I mean is there is there for the remainder of this school year is there a compromise right so I now already hear a no so and I think that's the question because that also helps us look at from a graduated perspective is there a way to look at the uses x now if it was one day a week would it then be y and then we can see the difference between how some of that use is I think that everyone's not going to get everything I think you
073just hit it on the nose um Dr. Cammy PL out loud utilizes needs use of the track between May, right? April April to May. A April to May. It's one month. Well, eight weeks. When does it end? Tell me what the the It ends on the 17th of of of May. of May. Okay. Between April and May, that's the only period PL is asking for to utilize it twice a week. Mhm. The other two potential intramural teams, I'm not asking the public. I'm saying this out loud for a reason cuz everyone's not going to get everything and we're going to be here forever. The other two potential team um teams would be utilizing it over the summer. There's an overlap in period the April and May and there's an overlap. Something to consider since PL
074needs it only for a certain period of time. They get the two days a week and the other teams don't get two days a week. You guys can say whatever you want. I'm just putting options out there. Maybe they get it one day a week during the time that PL has it and when PL is no longer utilizing the track that they can potentially get it two days a week. Everyone's saying something again. We're not going to get everything. I'm just saying it out loud that that's a way that the board can consider offline to what you were saying, Dr. Cammy, because everyone's not going to get everything is what the board is saying out loud. A compromise PL gets there two days a week for the period that they're asking and the other teams
075that have that overlap get one day a week until PL is no longer utilizing the facility. So, a lot of people are saying, "Sounds good." Okay. At this point, at this point, can we decide to have a special p? Will that work for P? No, unless we're making a decision. We are really I don't mean to cut this off, but we are way past the 30 minutes that is allotted for parent input. I No, they're not. She said something that we can consider. The board can consider what we have. Can I rebut? That's not what she was asking, right? Can I make a rebuttal? One second. No, we're not making that decision out loud. I'm board members. I'm not saying we're making that decision out loud. But are we deciding to have a meeting where
076we will discuss your proposal? That is what I'm saying it out loud to say just like Dr. Cham was saying something to consider because everyone can't get everything that we could have an offline conversation. What PL is asking for that I think we're all they're asking for a change now so that they can start their their season now. We're not guaranteeing that we're going to give them an answer, but if we put something on the table to have the conversation and say yes, we agree or no, we don't agree, at least we could either let them know sooner than later. There's no decision we're making out loud here. I understand that. I would Can we decide now to go into executive session after this meeting? That is a decision by Madame President. I cannot make
077that decision. Uh I would propose that we return to executive session after this meeting. something that we can consider. Is everybody up for? We're not making it's not I think there's something to consider. That's all. Okay. Well, then can we can we schedule let can we agree that we will schedule a meeting? That's what I in the coming week everybody was willing to stay. I know. I know. I'm I'm asking I'm asking every I've seen schools in the next special. not say that out loud. No, no, no. Obviously, we cannot give any kind of definitive answer uh now. But if you uh would indulge us, we are going to have to get uh we in order to make any kind of decision, we're going to have to get some information both from our facilities department
078and uh any other information that we may need from the leadership of these groups so that we can have a a more informed conversation. So I would just gently request that you give us some time. We will we understand we've heard very clearly that especially in the case of PL the decision needs to be made sooner rather than later. So we're going to try to get that a meeting set up as quickly as we can get the information and then we will be getting back to you with uh with what the decision is or what we can do going forward. I I appreciate the passion. I appreciate everyone's interest in being here. I we cannot continue. Uh we are far beyond our time for public comment. So we have other business things we need to
079take care of. So we have to move on with our meeting. But I do promise you that we have heard what you're saying. We will be assembling the information that we need so that we can have a conversation, a realistic conversation on this. Well, no. If it's on the same subject, I say I just think Hold on one second, please. I don't think I would do it. What do you want me What do you want me to do with Greg? Treat him like anybody else. Well, he's not on he's not on the list and I'm shutting it down. No, he is on the list. I know, but he's not the next one and I'm shutting it down. I'm just I just want to rebut the question I'm asking. Do the middle school is a 400
080meter track. The high school a 400 meter track. I think the question that's been not been asked is why everybody choosing to use the high school track. It's the same type of track. There's no difference. I'm going to tell you the reason why. It's a help concern at the middle school. I understand. Because when you're in the middle school, there's a lot of bugs around the time you're using it in kids are getting sick. I understand. That's what I'm saying. That that's what's important that we don't use a middle school. I understand. Thank you. I I as I said, I apologize for cutting the conversation short, but we have to move on. Right. That's what I said. Just we can have her call. I'm sorry. I have one more question. I will email her. Whatever.
081You don't want to do that? No. Okay. It's I have one more. I'm sorry. Please. Can I Can I just just a quick question? It's my original question. I didn't get that asked. It's on the card over there. Barbara McCree. I apologize. Yes. I'm sorry, sir. The the only question I want to know is I know what was the original budget for the track renovation. Do you guys know? I believe it was something around $16 million or something that was proposed to renovate the track. Is that true? No. What What is the original cost? I don't I don't have the figure off off the top of my head. I I just want to know what the citizens of Baldwin were responsible for paying versus the actual cost because you did have contamination issues. So, you
082had a huge change order to renovate the field and the soil. So if you had a budget of a certain amount, how far over that budget did you actually go and where can we find that information? Also, who is keeping m meeting minutes where I can find the meeting minutes for this meeting and review view those minutes. Okay. Meeting minutes are on the website. Uh and someone will get back to you. We have your name and we'll get back to you on You don't have any of my information because I didn't put it on the card. So how would you get back to me? Look, okay, then you'll have to do that if you Wouldn't that be uh shouldn't that be public record to see the actual cost since our tax dollars paid for it
083versus the proposed cost? Because if it's an increase in cost, we should know how much we're actually paying. Also, this is the reason you're not letting us use the track. So, essentially, we bought a car that we can just pay maintenance on, pay the gas, rotate the tires, but we can't use. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Board of Education approves the personnel actions report dated April 9, 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. So move. Moved by Mr. Smith. Second. Seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I. Board of Education approves the recommendations for services of the committee on special education subcsection for January, February, March 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. So moved. Moved by Mrs. Green. Second. Seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I. Board of Education approves
084the home tutoring and special education service report for this month as detailed in the Friday mailing. So moved. I'm sorry. Please just let's vote on this second. Sec. I'm sorry. Moved by Mr. Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I I Board of Education accepts the donation of $3,800 from the Orceli family, Lisa Costello, Paul Arcelli, as well as their four children or graduates of Baldwin High School to be used to support the high school bands programs music commission project with guest composer Jessica Meyer as detailed in the Friday mailing. So moved. So moved. Moved by Mrs. Green, seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I I thank you. Orcelis, I am con calling for a consideration of a consent agenda for business items 3 through 23. Are there any items that members would care
085to withdraw from consideration under the consent agenda for further separation, further discussion in a separate vote? No. Oops. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda including business items 3 through 23? So moved by Mrs. Kool, seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I I I And that's the only need. Yeah, I I skipped it. Okay. And then I I'm sorry. I need an a motion to approve all of the items on the consent agenda. Uh items 3 through 23. So moved. Okay. Moved by Mrs. Cool, seconded by Mrs. Duresa. All those in favor? I. I. Okay. Do we need to have the microphones on to say I? Jackie. Oh, you need to have the microphones on for us to say I should be so Okay. She couldn't just count it once.
086Give me a minute. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Not exactly. No, but that's fine. All good. Board of Education approves contracts G1, G2, G3, and G4 for the roofing replacement projects at Brookside Plaza Steel and Meadow Elementary Schools. to be awarded to Barrett Roose, Inc. for a total of $2,71,000 as detailed in the Friday mailing. So moved. Moved by Mrs. Green. Seconded by Mrs. KS. Are there any questions? All those in favor? I. The board of education approves the updated use of facilities report from July 2024 through June 2025 as detailed in the Friday mailing. So moved by Mrs. KS second. Seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I I Okay. The board of education uh sorry this is the read and adapt. Yeah. Yeah. because it's regulations only. That's why it's only a first read.
087Okay. Board of Education uh reads and adopts the following policy. Policy 1120R, School District Records Regulation. So moved. Moved by Mrs. Green. Seconded. Seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I I the board of education has a first read of the following policy as detailed in the Friday mailing. Policy 8113 extreme heat condition days. Does anybody have any comments on it or questions about that policy? This is a a new policy for us because it is a and it's a state uh regulation that we uh control the heat in uh in the classrooms. And I would just like to point out for anyone in the public who is listening that this is something that is being is coming down to us as mandate without any uh any state aid attached to it and most
088of our buildings are older. This will be a rather honorous requirement. Not to mention the fact that I it will be very difficult to enforce uh because it it really means that if it gets too hot in a building that we're supposed to send the children home. Where are we at with by the temperature? I believe that it does. I Yep. On days when the outside temperature is expected to reach 82°, the superintendent or designate will develop a strategy for maintaining a temperature below 82° and or of course then they have to move the children out of the classroom. Okay. Then if there are no further questions that will come back for uh a vote uh at our next meeting. Okay. Okay. The board of education adopts the 2025 2026 proposed budget. I'm sorry. I'm
089I'm sorry. I skipped one. Oh, okay. The board of education has a second I apologize. The board of education has a second read of a revised policy. Policy 8130, school safety plans and teams. Okay. So, I need a vote. May I have a motion? Second. Moved by Mrs. Green, seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I have. Okay. Now, it's the budget, right? Okay. The board of education adopts the 2025 2026 proposed budget in the amount of 172,880,888 as detailed in the mailing. So moved. Moved by Mr. Smith. Second. Seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I. Be it resolved that the Baldwin Union Free School District will convene its reorganization meeting on July 9, 2025. Moved by Mrs. KS. Seconded. Seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I. Now, do I
090only have to read that paragraph? Okay. Board of Education approves the SRA type 2 resolution recommended by H2M architects and engineers and prepared by our legal council which declares that the career ed teched add edition at Baldwin High School and the existing auditorium renovations at Baldwin High School projects be classified as a type 2 action under the current Department of Environmental Conservations State Environmental Quality Review Act. SRA regulations section 6 NYCRR 617.5C2 and section 6 NYCRR 617.5C2 as detailed in the mailing so moved moved by Mrs. Green seconded seconded by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? I I Board of Education approves the secret type one negative declaration for the Baldwin Middle School turf field roof replacement and repointing project which upon the environmental review conducted and the standards set forth in SRA, it has
091been determined that this project will not have adverse environmental impacts. May have moved by Mrs. Duresa, seconded by Mrs. KS. All those in favor? I. And this one. Do I have to read the proposition? Just the resolution. Be it resolved that the board of education shall present to the qualified voters of the Baldwin Union Free School District at the annual meeting to be held on May 20th, 2025 the following proposition in substantially the following form and oh I can read this. Shall the board of education of the Baldwin Union Free School District be authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $450,000 from the technology reserve fund established on May 17th, 2022 for the purpose of performing the following projects. A, new Chromebooks for third grade students. B, stylus pens for third grade students. C,
092hard cases for Chromebooks. D, bags for Chromebooks. and E Medvision medical manqu man mannequins all of the foregoing to include all labor materials equipment apparatus and ins incidental costs related to so moved moved by Mr. Smith second seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I I The board of education approves the following resolution as stated and listed. Be it resolved that the board of education shall present to the qualified voters of Baldwin Union Free School District at the annual meeting to be held on May 20th, 2025 the following proposition in substantially the following form. Shall the bo the board of education of the Baldwin Union Free School District be authorized to expend a total of $18,100,000 from the following one $10,640 Oops, I'm sorry 10,647,867.94 from capital reserve fund number four established on May
09321st, 2019 together with all acred interest thereon representing all remaining monies from capital reserve fund number four and two an amount not to exceed 7,452,1326 from capital reserve fund number five known as capital 2023 established on May 16, 2023 with the purpose of performing the following projects. A. Baldwin High School Career Tech Ed Center Edition. B. Baldwin High School existing auditorium renovations. C. Middle school Baldwin Middle School new turf soccer field west of track. D. Lennox Elementary School AC electrical upgrades. E. Meadow Elementary School AC electrical upgrades. All of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus, and incidental costs related there too. So moved. Moved by Mrs. Cool, seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I I Okay. Okay. The board of education approves the following resolution to authorize a proposition to
094establish a capital reserve fund known as the capital 2025 reserve fund as stated and listed. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Baldwin Union Free School District hereby authorizes the following proposition to be placed on the ballot of the May 20th, 2025 annual vote. Shall the board of education pursuant to education law section 3651 be authorized to establish a capital reserve fund number six known as the capital 2025 reserve fund for the purpose of performing the district-wide capital improvements instructional and non-instructional space improvements renovations upgrades included but not limited to classroom improvements renovations upgrades and or additions to ex existing facilities, auditorium renovations, gymnasium renovations, cafeteria renovations, library multimedia center renovations, exterior renovations, reconstruction, computer technology upgrades, security system upgrades, plumbing improvements, renovations, upgrades, electrical improvements, renovations, upgrades, HVAC improvements, renovations, upgrades,
095energy efficient improvements, renovations, upgrade, upgrades, including the installation of solar power improvements, rena renovations, upgrades, renovations required for the compliance with ADA requirements, vocational and career preparation renovations, portable classroom replacement and/or purchase, roof gutter leader replacement, window replacement, masonry, concrete replacement, interior and exterior door entryways replacement, toilet room renovations, lighting upgrades, Floor replacement, wall replacement, boiler replacements, elevators, carpentry renovations, purchase of buildings, land, site renovations, reconstructions, press box, dugout, fieldhouse improvements, renovations, upgrades, bleacher improvements, renovations, upgrades, upgrades of signs, athletic field renovations, reconstruction, playground renovations, lockers, locker room renovations, public address, clocks, system replacement, security system upgrades, sound system upgrades, telephone system upgrades, hazardous material remediation, storage space renovations, furnishings and equipment, including the purchase of vehicles. All of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus, and incidental costs related there too. The
096maximum amount of the afor capital reserve fund shall be $25 million plus investment income. The probable term is to be five years. The funds are to be transferred from surplus monies if any remaining in the general fund including a sum not to exceed $10 million from the 2024 2025 budget and thereafter an annual amount of not more than $10 million for each remaining year of the probable term. So moved. Moved by Mr. Smith. Do you need another glass of water? Draw that. Seconded. Seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I a lot of upgrades, huh? It is indeed. Kitchen. Board of Education approves the 2025 2026 property tax report card as detailed in the f in the mailing. So moved. Moved by Mr. Smith. Second. Seconded by Mrs. KS. All those in favor? I
097I The board of education approves the pay rate increase as legally required for election workers contracted to work the annual school budget vote and election. This rate increase is due to the change in New York State minimum wage. Election inspectors at $16.50 per hour. Chair poll coordinators $18.50 per hour. So moved. Moved by Mr. Smith. Seconded by Ms. Kools. All those in favor? I Okay, here we go, folks. Volunteers happily taken. Who would like to uh be the chairperson for the budget vote? Oh, I can. You can. Okay. You have to be there early. 7 o'clock. 6:30. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Okay. The board of education appoints Pamela Green as the chairperson for the May 20th, 2025 budget vote and board election. So moved. So moved. Moved by Mrs. Dures. Seconded. Seconded by Mrs. KS.
098All those in favor? I. Thank you, Pamela. Okay. Uh, is there anything uh new business? No. Okay. And Okay. I just wanted to uh mention a couple of upcoming dates. Uh we will have budget road shows coming up on the 22nd, 23rd, 28th, and 30th. Uh as well as uh May 6th and our annual budget hearing will be on May 7th. And our next regularly scheduled board of education meeting uh will be on uh May 7th at 7 o'clock at the high school. And the budget vote and election day as was mentioned earlier will be on May 20th. Oh, and I'm sorry. Yes, I would like to make note of the change of time. Uh this year, uh polls will close at 9:00. They have traditionally closed at 10:00, but we will open the polls
099at 7. They will close at 9:00 in the evening. Okay. Okay. If no one has anything under new anything else under new business then I would like a motion for adjournment please. Moved by Mrs. Kools seconded by Mrs. Green. All those in favor? I I have that shared sheet.