001e e e you can wait just a second Welcome to our uh work session rescheduled thank you very much for coming out on a on a Monday um uh have an executive to go in uh excuse me have a uh motion motion God to go into work I'm really not that bad motion to go into work session second all in favor I opposed so carried okay we're going to start off with uh our Denmark exchange Mr suan Mr Sullivan Mr oh okay Mr Mr Gordon sir good evening everyone nice to see you all uh so I think we're back I think this is the third part of the trilogy right yeah yeah so so we're back this evening um thank you for having us to share a little bit about the experience that was the
002Denmark cultural exchange uh before we dive in and you hear from the students themselves I I personally on uh from the building we just want to offer a thank a big thank you um obviously for the support from the board and from district office but also for uh Mr Sullivan and all of his hard work in planning the exchange both the Danes coming over and US heading over to Denmark as well as we have all three of our other chaperon with us tonight so Mrs Rogers Miss wickenhauser and Mr ianello took the trip with our students and we are very thankful and they took very good care of them from what I understand on the Monday that they came back uh I had multiple students come up to me in the hallway and say if
003you need us to speak about the trip we're ready to go um so they they obviously had a great time uh a very valuable learning experience there in Denmark and they're going to share a little bit about their experience tonight but first off Mr Dan Sullivan hi everybody can I uh cue this great thanks all right well I just want to um Echo Mr Gordon's thanks uh for um the support that you guys have given us you know this year and other years and uh for the recognition of of what a valuable experience this is right so on the slide says br ing Horizons both external and internal and um what I mean by that is right when you travel obviously you you broad your horizons like literally right um you're seeing different Horizons the
004further up in the northern hemisphere got dark real early in February um but I think more than anything this is about internal expansion and um one of the anchors of the IB program is something called the learner profile which I think I've brought up before and this is something that I think we should think about not only for IB students but for all of our students as sort of goals um for what we should achieve or what we should be looking to instill in our students just as Educators and people as part of this community and I think that all of these factors there's 10 of them I won't go through them all um are are things that we were able to nurture on this trip um the second thing I wanted to give thanks
005for was uh the chaperon who came along um Patricia Rogers Mr Joseph iel and Mr Lee wickenhauser they were incredible um and this was their first time on that trip and and they really proved to be you know an asset to me in in so many ways and to the kids and you know when you're on a trip like this you you you plan and plan and plan but of course things happen right snowstorms happen and um whatever sicknesses and uh they were all able to step in at various times and and it really um made for a great trip and and more than anything I you know personally want to thank this year crop of students who were amazing right and it's not just well behaved right that's you know that's that's sort of
006something that is uh should be expected um but that they were Earnest and engaged and and every aspect of the trip and hardworking I think is really part of this because this is not just a tour um this is not just a you know an experience where you're on vacation they had to do a lot of work and and I think hopefully some of what they speak about later um uh will be about some of the work that they had to do along the way but I first I just wanted to introduce uh a student Alexis trampy can you can come on up for a sec this is Alexis um so during the trip uh she kept on grabbing little clips of people and I didn't really know what she was up to and uh
007so you can maybe just talk quickly about what you did okay so basically the song I'm Like a Bird by Nelly ferado was a song that we like played maybe once or twice when the Danes were here in America and then like Victoria's Day named Carla like started singing it and basically I feel like it just like got around with the group and everything and like every time we played the song like I feel like we'd associate it with Denmark and stuff so of course we were like so excited to go to Denmark and travel across the country so I wanted to like document it in a way that like like connected it all together and I didn't get a lot of us like in the school so because like I wasn't like we were
008presenting a lot and stuff but but yeah basically we Associated the song with our trip and I was like inspired by like a Tik Tok with lip syncing and stuff so yeah you can see in the video there's some cringy parts for me but I'm going to try we'll see if we can guess e e e nice job excellent that's awesome isn't that great yeah um so uh while we're there um we also want to make sure we're keeping in touch with parents at home so we used Instagram this year to in a closed private group that we got permission for from parents and signatures just so you know um to uh to send to send some of the things that we did and and I'm going to have students talk about various parts of
009the trip but obviously it was a multifaceted trip a few days we spent in Copenhagen and that's when we did the touristy stuff in the hotel um which is really not the thrust of it but it is certainly a fun part and it's and it's nice to have that time together just as bore people doing our thing and these are some Instagram posts from that time um but most of the time we spent um at the school in with host families and doing various activities which actually left Le led us out outside of the school a lot into the town hall the kids learned about government um we went to a museum anthropology where they learned about human history and existence and um a lot our kids did a lot of presenting and uh they
010spent a lot of their time in the school going to different classes and presenting aspects of government and American culture um and cooking food which some people will talk about we did lessons on dancing and folk uh folk dancing in Danish culture um and also we had a lot of time spent with families as they'll talk about as well so um this list has actually changed somewhat but I'm going to bring up uh Thomas who's going to talk about our experience in Copenhagen some of the highlights for him and we'll kind of just do it that way right Thomas having way hi guys I'm Thomas having way um I think one of the highlights for the trip to Copenhagen for me um we took a bike ride all throughout the city and we started we
011like started the morning we were like in the city and we were like walking towards the bike shop and all of a sudden it starts snowing and it keeps snowing more and more and it turns into like a full-on like snowstorm and then we're starting our bike ride and we're going all throughout Copenhagen like top to bottom like on our bikes for for 2 hours with like the coolest Mr svin calls him his favorite Dane the coolest bike tour guide ever and then so yeah it's just like fully like blizzarding on us and we just got to see like all of Copenhagen it was my favorite part of the trip and then afterwards we were walking to lunch and we were walking through the park and there was a bunch of snow so we started
012as you saw in the video we started having a snowball fight with Mr Sullivan and the park and I just feel like overall like Copenhagen brought a lot of us as students closer to together and like developed a lot of like great friendships and there was a lot of other great things that we did like we went to Hamlet's castle and we went shopping at like the my favorite day in the store was weekday and I literally spent $300 there over the trip but um yeah overall Copenhagen was really special for us as like a like Mr suvan was saying as a Bay Shore group um to like grow closer together thank you we have a couple of students we're going to talk about the experience of living with families and and you know having
013to adapt and be open-minded um and and it takes a lot right to to do that right to put yourself out there and live with people that are basically strangers so um I think Victoria and Sophia are going to talk about that Victoria Gil and sop Jo hello I'm Victoria so um I was very excited to live with my host family cuz I feel like we clicked really well when she came to America and I was excited to meet her family cuz she told me all about them but like I was pretty nervous because like personally I don't have any siblings so like I'm not really sure like like all the only people I'm used to living with ever is my two parents and like often times I just like do things myself so like
014I wasn't really sure what it was going to be like to have people like near me like constantly which I know like I'll have to do that once I get older but I was a bit nervous but um so I um but like it was crazy cuz like I felt like their family was like the Danish version of my family like the parents like were so like it was such a similar Dynamic at least for me and they had she had a little brother as well well he was like 7 feet tall but he was her younger brother and um it was a but it was a really nice experience um like they they gave me like my downtime like of course like when I cuz I knew I was tired and jet lagged so
015I would have time but then we would like a big part of the culture um was always eating dinner together and like they showed me a new type of food every day and it was all delicious like I never went hungry like it was an amazing like it was so good um like dinner breakfast everything was great and um like just like seeing what it was like at their houses cuz like biking like Thomas was saying is huge there and like we biked to school um which like I was up for it but I wasn't sure what to expect but it was really fun and although it was cold like I felt like it was a very good experience and not a lot of people could say that they did that so I was happy
016and um overall it was just like really nice to like see how other people live especially in a different country and like basically just get to almost be like a fly on the wall and see someone's house like completely different experience and like I wouldn't trade it it was amazing and like I was happy that we got to be there for a big amount of time cuz I got to experience like a whole week like it was just like everything and I just feel like it was really eye opening and like the conversations we had like at family dinner was probably like my favorite part because like they would ask me things and I would get to ask them things and like it was just a very like like experiential learning kind of experience so
017it was very good thank you hi I'm Sophia and going off of what Victoria said I feel like we had a very similar experience when my Dane came in October we became really close and so I was so excited to go live with her and her family I obviously heard a lot about them and knew a lot about her family just going into it and I feel like learn living with them for the full week I mostly learned a lot about like the Danish traditions and the differences between like traditional Danish life versus my life like here as a student and I learned a lot about just like what they do in their free time which is was so different from like what we do um and yeah I mean I loved how we like
018a big thing in Denmark is everyone eats dinner together and every night they showed me like new Danish foods and everything and we walked to school every morning which was definitely a change for me but it was very nice and it was good to like be up early and walking around but yeah I loved it and I feel like I learned a lot about just the about their down they honestly like when they come home from school they don't have a lot of homework like they don't really like when I come home from practice like I just go and do my homework she's like we don't really have a lot of work so they kind of just go and like either just relax or like hang out with their friends which is so different from
019what I do but I loved it it was great and they always asked me questions about like politics us politics at dinner which I always loved I thought it was so interesting to learn how like they run things over there but yeah I loved it it was a great experience all right so next up we have uh attakus and Amma and Samantha who are gonna talk about the experience of of being in the school at s nudes gymnasium and the kind of things that we did while we were there so I think so hi everyone my name is Amma um for like being in the school setting it was very different from what we're used to because for me I would say it felt more of like a college setting rather than a high school
020even though everyone was around my age I'm 17 um but for them it felt more like a college because they have like four classes a day and they spend longer than normal 41 minute class that like we do so I think they retain more information and they were like like uh like they don't have a lot of work like that was said just now like they don't have a lot of work so when they get home they're like really relaxed so when I was there it felt more of like college like and then on top of that like the kids were very like they have to interact with each other I remember lunchtime they have to sit in the lunch area and then like talk to people talk to their class face to face so
021it was really different for me cuz it's out of the norm for me I'm like this is more like college and high school if anything okay um hi I'm attakus and um uh we did a lot of things in the the school I felt like the school was where a lot of the um the cultural exchange actually happened um we were able to um go into groups and put together presentations that about you know American P culture and stuff that's like on TV and stuff about our school that's different that or maybe different than than theirs and they had actually a lot of questions about just how different you know School runs for us compared to to them and a lot of the questions were were really interesting and they were kind of shocked from
022our answers and like you go to school at 700 a.m. it's like yeah um and um there were also opportunities for different people to go into uh different groups to to share um different like cultural areas so I was in a in a big music group with you actually um and what we did is we put together um a mini concert where we we rehears for a week practicing learning a Danish song and then we learned An American song and then we performed both of them for the for the school or at least the the students um involved on the Friday which was which was really fun and really interesting and a little bit stressful learning a new song in a week but it was it was really fun and um yeah it was just
023it was an awesome time to get to know uh other people from a different country country in a completely different environment a lot better and it was really interesting thank you for for putting it together it's it's it's awesome t for out thanks for everything thank you hi I'm Sam and um what kind of just going off from what adaka says one of my like favorite like comparisons almost was the music classes because I take music classes here in bashore and seeing the differences between like the teachers and how they interact and I don't know what the other workshops but with our workshops we were able to work with like other Danish musicians and other Danish singers and they were just like the sweetest people in the world and they were all super talented and
024so it was really fun to see how differently like they teach music almost and like how quickly the kids were able to like interpret what the teacher was saying and also throughout the school there was like many places for students to just like sit down and work cuz this is was like shock shocking to me that like if they just have class work to do and nothing else they're allowed to leave class and just do it somewhere else and it was just like cuz sometimes I would be like sitting near our like home base and then I would see like my day just just doing work like wherever she wanted and so that was like really cool and also all the teachers are also they're they're very like so open-minded to like everything like when
025we were doing our presentations even the teachers were having questions about American culture and like like we did a presentation on American slay words and you they were like saying them and trying to use them so it was like just really sweet so everyone was trying to interact so yeah that's it thank you I should also mention before we conclude that one of the groups and I just kind of go back here um did uh and Amma you were in this group right um they they shared some cultural cooking and these kids cooked how many how many empan did you guys make I they from uh scratch Gio who was in the picture she kind of like spearheaded that and they were working in this really tiny kitchen and they they generated like a a
026catering tray amount of empanadas and mac and cheese that they served to the school it was just an incredible amount of work and and um I just as as an overall takeaway there's just so much that um goes into this and so much that the kids get out of it so again I just wanted to say thank you for all that and and like I would open it up to questions for them if you guys have yeah I think I was getting at it before what were the the other differences that you noticed and just a question to all of you so that not one of you has to answer things you could let us know that are different um I also forgot to mention like in the school system like it's more like the
027students are like at more level with the teachers so it's not like when we called Mr SUV mrv they're like you call him Mr suiv we call them by their first name it's not like a power IM balance it's more like you know this is someone that's teaching a subject but then again so there was te so what you're saying is the pressure is off in the classroom and you're having a conversation which just like you're talking to home with Mom and Dad and everything like that so I think another difference that I saw is um college is not as huge of a life decision and like especially with a lot of us like going waiting on so many decisions from so many big schools like in colleges at the front like the front of
028our minds right now they're like they're like my Jame's brother was like on his second Gap year and college is a lot less more a a lot less expensive me and a group did a presentation on American education and when we told the students we converted how much like a typical year of college could be like gassed throughout the room and then we said and that's just for M that by four double G but the colleges that the kids were going to they were publicly funded for the most part or partially publicly and I think some of them are getting paid to go to high school to go to right once you turn like 18 you get paid to go to school and then when you go when you go to university you get paid
029like more and that covers like your food your rent because you don't they don't have like DS right there's a student that one of one of us one of the B students hosted a boy who has his own apartment so like he's being paid by the school to cover his rent so he can live and my last question to whomever would like to answer the scheduling when you're in in your classes how long were your classes TimeWise how many per day hold on how many per day and like how much time did you have in between classes to go from one to the other more than three minutes I bet they use clocks right five or 10 minutes and also I'm pretty sure that that class amount is is a maximum because there's like some
030days my Dane was telling me the the week after we left her Wednesday she had one class so she only had to go in for like she had to go in at like 10:00 a.m. have one class and then she could just go home and also if the if the teacher's not coming in the class just gets canel if they don't have more like college all right thank you very much thank you so much thank and I did notice how clean it was there as you guys are walking around in the architecture it's amazing thanks for going guys thank you Mr n Gast updated Health interval interval form that's a tough act to follow a piece of paper have fun with that I used to talk to Mr Nelson when they used to go on
031spring break I go John can't you go in February there's no Sports he goes how cold it is there in February so I'm glad to hear they embrace the cold so good evening everybody thank you for allowing me to present um talking real simply about a form that we're updating for our health physicals or health screenings uh as per some changes at the New York state requirs of what they're looking for in a physical we had to update our forms looking for more in-depth information from the child to get a little bit more background history so that when our doctor performs the physical it's a true physical in-depth knows the background the family history and can really diagnose the student and perform a full assessment currently the physicals that we give are not really true
032the word physical they're more of a screening and they're used for kids for sports working papers some kids just to get their physicals in seven n9th 11th grade and in order to fulfill this at the state level we had to come up with a form that's a little bit more in depth so that's for your review to look at um it is an English and in Spanish version so that we have it covered was worked on by Mr agustino and the nurses put some time into it along with Dr donelly our school physician and uh we're very comfortable with it and look forward to getting started using this going forward so this is the form that our our internal physical from our physical yeah not the not the state mandated for they have to bring
033to their doctor to no this is more like the parents will help fill this out if it goes home they bring it back and then they get the physical okay when's this getting implemented um probably tomorrow after you guys approve it tonight so it's you know it's going to be a nice thing and the biggest thing is we have to communicate this with the parents to make sure it gets filled out if your child's taking one of our physicals at school is there any way to digitize this um we are going to post it on the website you mean like as a fillable form we could do that I know Don valone's done that for some other forms that can certainly be a spot be emailed in right download and sent in yep on I
034know we do this but some kids miss this stuff all that kind of stuff are they able to bring this to their doctor and submit it this isn't there's a separate form from the state that comes from your doctor yes they have that access to that this is more of an updated form if they're taking the physical in school and they couldn't get to their doctor and you know one of the biggest thing Dr Donna Telly was very persistent on this is that Physicians School Physicians are going to start to be audited and he wanted to make sure that all the paperwork was in line to prove that what he was doing was validated and secure for all the kids everything the same so I just want to check if you are having the physical
035at school you need this and then the school physical form if you have you need this filled out then you get the physical then they just fill out all the go and then if you have your physical at your doctor's office they have the state form and that's you don't need this form then no you just hand that form to the nurse and you're good to go it's this with the school physical or just your home right this would be attached to it okay did we update the state form to modify so so it's in we can't modify the state form we don't so there is already updated we're upda towards there correct so if you went to your doctor your doctor fills that out all good y y this is just for those people
036maybe who perception can't get to their doctor any other questions right thank you thanks good thanks you don't want to sing for us no you okay we have a policy update second read um Rivera now going to be singing singing a long because I do like that song very catchy how's everyone good hi so um last time about two weeks ago we met did the first read I made the revisions that we discussed um last time any questions that you have or any sections that you like to review it's good pretty thorough last time guys know what you're doing thank you can't get any easier thank you is there a form that goes with this I BR like the notification or um I brought one copy if you want the sections that are in R
037I was waiting for appr of this um there's some sections on the emergency form um and I can email that to Caitlyn so that you have it um there's some sections that are in red that include the debriefing that was the new section last time if if we can I'd like a copy of course thank you so the updates that were made to this form were just consistent with with the updates to the policy so I haven't handed this out to the buildings yet waiting for this to be formally approved and then everyone will receive a copy I thought there was something just you'll give it to Christina she can give Kaitlyn excuse me thank electronically it's good easy peasy okay thank you have a good thank you thank you thank you and uh Mr
038pasin the uh student board member just a real quick side note um as having experienced the the Denmark trip uh I just again want to thank everyone for the support of that you know we started many years ago and it I think you know Dan was trying to share how difficult it is staying with people that you have never met for a full week is not an easy thing to do especially people from a totally different culture the amount of experience those kids get from this trip is remarkable it is shapon stay we stayed uh and I stayed with a family that I you know had never met before they were the kindest you know people and and just to get that experience that is that as he said much more valuable than the the
039sightseeing which is also great for the kids so you know I know it's a lot to put the Trust In every everyone for for doing that but that they they will remember that forever um the as you heard the school itself it functions like a community college they all I I mentioned this before the kids eat lunch all together at the same time with zero supervision there is not one adult in the room they all are expected to you know obviously interact with one another and the all the adults eat separately all together at the same time it's a very different scenario very different culture very different expectations with supervision and all of those things that's all to be you know that goes into it but it is again it's just a tremendous experience for
040the kids and you could see how much they all appreciated it um and it's just you know sometimes it's hard to know that until you've had a chance to do it and and you know a number of years ago when I was able to go it was definitely a wonderful experience so again just want to say thank you for that we really appreciate it um in your work session folder you have have the updated version of the student member of the board policy which is again a new required policy as it has been put into state law uh so in addition to that I'm going to give you an additional item it's very similar in in what it's um showing so there's going to be very little difference uh the reason why we had that
041we just wanted to make sure that we got you the the base basic uh version of the policy with all of the items removed and then we had to check on some some legalities in order to add the additional piece after some discussion so I'll just take you through it very quickly again we've gone through this before but the initial uh first paragraph just talks about the purpose of the law and what it's intending to provide to students and districts the next session section on the position focuses on what the uh student member will be entitled to do and what the student member is not allowed to do and then continues into expectations the only adjustment is on the second page and you will see that we added and I don't have a copy so
042you can see that we added that that we are the student must be a member of the senior class and that was uh just an up that just minor update to the qualifications the selection was something that was already shared in the past and then the additional provisions on expectations what while the student is serving the term it is a one-year term uh as well and there's also some language about if there is a vac vacancy that the board can decide how they would like to proceed based on the time and the scenario so uh just the rest is part of the policy uh if you remember the last one was about eight pages because it involved Bose's districts and large city districts we just took all that out so this is the base of
043where we're at at this point just want to see if you had any additional questions or there's anything on there that you wanted to uh discuss so for us when does that person will get um let's say go through the same process we go at like our um rorg they would be a part of RoR they the person would be select yeah goad they do have a virtual training also for the student I think it's in June I think it's June first week of June so the student would get selected in the spring of the junior year because we would want to select them for the summer um and then we can decide what type of uh training uh to to provide to them or what kind of guidance to provide to them at our
044discretion obviously it's not the same as a new board member but it is uh to provide the student we do have a session coming up by the beginning beginning of June that we can utilize for both if you'd like to participate or just see that we can make that try to make that available but for the student to understand their responsibilities right okay any other question questions on that know when that person is good thanks short okay got to approve the policy first okay he's got not giving anything away okay thank you very much thank you all right thank you say I I've talked to quite a few other districts that have this in place already and they all are just they it brings so much to the meeting it's just it's just a totally
045different perspective so I'm excited looking forward to it uh last but not least for our work session agenda budget session number five Miss firster okay I'm going to I did yes that's it right okay so good evening uh budget session number five is centered on Staffing for the 2526 school year uh before we discuss Staffing for next year I just wanted to remind everybody of District goal number five which is regarding high quality personnel which is of course to recruit can you not hear me a little louder all right see this this is what happens when you go after Mr pashin and the microphone's above my head is that better okay District goal number five is regarding high quality personnel and of course our district goal is to recruit develop mentor and rettin highquality Personnel
046to support students social emotional and academic growth and to that end uh the following positions will be vacant at the end of the 2425 school year and this is by a 10e area so at the end of the school year we will uh have vacancies in special education one teacher one school psychologist position one social worker one speech teacher three enl teachers one high school guidance counselor one Elementary dual language teacher with a bilingual extension three elementary teachers one English teacher and one high school science teacher who possess multiple certifications um at this point we are going to be reviewing student enrollment program needs to determine the necessity to replace these positions um again once student enrollment has been completed we've taken a look at any and all uh transfers that we may have from
047our faculty and staff um we may identify the need for reallocating these staff members in different tenure areas or perhaps requesting additional staff uh specifically in special education if necessary um and if that does occur we will be coming back to the board at a later date with more firm numbers in terms of enrollment and program needs uh but at this point these are the vacancies that we will have available at the end of the school year those charts we usually get per school that's coming that talking about so as of right now yes if needed as of right now we're going to try to the very best of our ability to utilize these vacancies that we have if there again depending on enrollment numbers we may need to replace some of these we may
048not need to replace all of them in which case if we have additional needs in other areas we might be able to move the position that's already allocated in this number to one of those other positions if not we we take a look at enrollment and program needs if we see that we need to in addition to these positions come back with any additional ones we will do that in the future but right now with enrollment needs we're not done with our kindergarten registration to know exactly what our firm numbers will be in those specific areas you're talking about like sections correct yeah like that chart we we don't have that we have that we'll have that I didn't but for the purposes of tonight which is on Staffing this is what we have so
049far you think you'll know by next month we have to adopt I mean that is what do we have three positions Elementary yeah yeah we we really are going to focus on efficiency this year um and again as we already discussed at the last board meeting you know it's we need to really work to control expenditures next year next year is going to be very very tight you can but just so you see if you look first page we only have the three pages today this is all salaries but uh if you look across at the actual expenditure right so each year has you have year 2122 and you have your you have uh the budget and then you have what was actually expended so if you look at what was actually expended in 2021
050right shutdown right hybrid learning 2122 and then you move to 22 23 23 24 and you see those significant jumps um you we have had an influx of monies from the uh Federal stimulus um that have been coming down uh we did we did it a little differently than a lot of schools did we still had some of the same obligations but we kind of did the grants differently and we took mostly uh one-time expenditures or Acquisitions out of the grant money and we put Staffing in the Reg budget so you'll see some large increases both Pages if you look at the next page you'll see the same Trend over which is this is your uh non-certificated staff you'll see the same Trend over those four years of actuals so next year we're really going
051to work to uh contain those numbers uh so any activities outside of um everyone's regular salary are going to be very very closely monitored we're going to have to going to have a couple years of trying to regain our equilibrium uh while we build in while we convert from bands to Bonds on the settlements and while we bring in the uh the new debt for the EPC we've got a couple of really difficult things happening we're still facing pretty high inflation even though that's starting to turn around it tends to lag a little bit with us from an expenditure standpoint so even though it's starting to turn around in the economy that isn't not isn't necessarily reflected in our budget yet so we are anticipating a a couple of rough years but we'll get our
052feedback on the ground we'll regain our equilibrium and it'll be okay um but I think I anticipate a little bit of complaining next year because it has been there have been a lot of additional duties that people were able to take advantage of in the last couple years and some of that is going to have to be dialed back down for a bit all right but I am so if you go to the last page and I had told you this uh I think at the end of the last session that I'm balanced at this point in time I'm still probably going to make a couple of shifts because a Debt Service before I turn this over um and before Christina and I start working on our uh Publications and distribution I may still do
053a few shifts um we are of course still waiting for the state budget to be approved I would anticipate that sometime middle to the end of next week and we'll have those final state aid numbers and we will wrap it all up um so if there's any other changes I'll let you know um but I don't anticipate anything else significant significant coming down we're pretty much there I read this morning in Newsday this morning they said she's going to be kind of late on her budget have been you're very optimistic it's been it's been I mean they're going to try to get it done before they leave for the break right they're going to want their break so they're going to try to get it but by the end of next week I'm quite sure
054but listen I have been here in the 25 years I've been here I've had budgets not come across until September October yep so to me a couple of weeks it's not bad can't complain about that it's been pretty good and it's been pretty predictable um the state budget so I'll take it thank you South school now have a few minutes before the official start of our public so anything else here you want to talk about W our visit to west tyon in the work session so we had the Isel Town school board meeting at uh West Isel myself and uh we me and Jen and all the administration went over there to uh H see it and I have to tell you I was very impressed uh I think everybody here was impressed um to
055see their welding facility their machine shop their auto shop their uh just the way they were doing a few things you know and you know what we're always out there reaching and it's good to go to other schools and do what we see that's why we try to move the the is Town School boards around so we see what each school's doing in our area area and you know what it was we know we have our it stuff and we have this going on and like when I was back in school we were talking about you know auto shop we had auto shop Andy I know we had right we all had it Mr Grace was in there all the time doing all his stuff with the auto shop Mr Smith was doing this the
056wood shop and all that stuff and we kind of we kind of dictated away from that a little bit and to see that they uh the workforce is especially what they had I couldn't believe how much room they had correct Steve that was that whole Wing dedicated to manufacturing technology in terms of just the programs and they think I think the article's in Sunday's paper today it was in today's paper it was in today's paper's um because they did an article because the defense industry and this was several years ago we went suff Community College they were talking about a need um for different areas of the defense indry in terms of manufacturing jobs and they were trying to work at the time with John Lombardo and this was specifically in West Iso they're working
057on submarines yeah making pieces for the submarines brackets brackets so the submarines theil to use and some several school districts across the country they're doing that um but again even just the Machinery they had in the classrooms was all St it was eye opening yes they had $2 million machines in there and right two and they had like four of them and it was pretty interesting to see and lifts they had the lifts they had the they had the I mean the welding was I I was just it was nice it was uh you know and the kids the kids how interactive they were with us and they were proud to show off the stuff that they were doing and uh it was just a good ice of town school boards meeting with all the
058all around with all of us together to watch what other schools are doing and again we all go there to see what we're learning and what we can do and you know and everybody can reach out maybe maybe maybe someday we could all share Services you know like send kids to West iand West I kids come here and I come here and all so that stuff we're looking at with we're going to be talking about that stuff next you know because listen if we could share dual services and we have we could fill classrooms with their kids and our kids that might be a good way of going going you know I just wrote down while you were talking consum because we we were we we're we're way ahead of it with uh Bob Veo
059is going to start talking about it and some stuff like that so we're kind of in that mode of you know sharing services and doing things we take one part of the career in Tech and then then somebody else takes no not duplica we could do then you could have different are we could share and you can you know there's things kids out there can learn you know and um look I I know in my life one of the mistakes I made is not going to college but sometimes kids can't go to college and kids can't do things and you know what sometimes their they need they they need every option they can because you know what you got to make money now and uh they're learning that in life and if we could teach
060them that listen they're coming and I I was enjoying I enjoyed every bit of that meeting that was probably the best one of that I think guy's initial point though they had space large classrooms there probably five classrooms I went to four of the five but very very lar a whole Wing garage door I mean it was it has their enrollment come down in over the past few years not really is it's right it's about the same they're they're in they're in league three yeah but when I was in high school they were above us in terms and they are below us in division so they've had U and they've closed actually I think two buildings yeah they have closed they have closed went en it's leveled off now but it definitely allowing for it
061but the idea of a Consortium is a really good conversation that's that's stuff we can talk about that's what that's what the ice of town School boards is about that's what we're going to try to start doing is maybe sharing Services we'll see what happens but the GU the collaboration that they had with the manufacturer like these businesses I didn't even know they existed on where these kids are coming out of high school certified with jobs like like they're not even sometimes they have to go to a trade school too Mr bamo Mr balamo has has has that career day right and he had he had every now I'm in the union brick layer and he had all the unions here do a great job looking for kids and and and doing stuff and showing
062them OPP you know what we got to share that more and and they were excited about that you know so it's stuff we're doing and stuff they're doing and Bay port's doing and Kat's doing and you share you learn and that's what we're trying to say so it was a good it was a very productive meeting yes it was so it's good all right thank you very much guy it sounds great anything else all right motion to go out of work session motion second favor I I opposed so carried we have five minutes take a little break before we well depends on the angle you look at the clock s got three minutes e e e no uh not quite scheduled we had to reschedule this meeting because of conflicts with uh several of our
063board members we appreciate you coming out before we get going here uh got a motion going into public session motion second all in favor oppos so carried Let's uh stand to pledge please I'll take us out I pleas to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all before we get underway here we have a presentation to make to our PFA South Country School I'm actually going to call merski come up with the members of the PFA we we thank you so much I know this has been a major undertaking the last sure a major undertaking um with everything you're trying to do for our students in bay show we truly appreciate it as I said I
064know uh been in four years you've been talking about trying to do this for four years so we again appreciate your donation your time to making sure that the South Country Community has what they need for our students so we appreciate that and I know you wanted to say a few words regarding that I'm going to turn it over to you yes I do here is this good okay um hi I'm Wendy this is our board Katherine Marietta Steph and Dana um I just want to share a little bit of our thoughts over a project we've sort of underwent over the last four years um all right four years ago after the world went dark during covid our South Country Community came together and agreed it was time to shine some light on outdoor play
065our mission was to meet the playground needs of all our students including our special education children who at the time had little accessibility to our play area it was clear our student population was growing and evolving and knowing inclusivity is key and allows the spirit of our community to radiate we decided to step out of this darkness and into some sunshine and well this unbreakable Bond of togetherness and a steadfast commitment to the wonderment of our of our students made magic happen with the support and generosity of our South Country family we were able to enhance the social and physical capabilities of our students with the additions of the new swing Bay including two ADA compliance swings the omnis spinner the we saww seesaw and the musical panel children of all abilities some who find
066comfort in vestibular sensory stimulation now have the opportunity to swing Rock and spin safely and the best part they can play in our outdoor spaces as a team right alongside their peers I know I can speak on behalf of our PFA board when I say we are blown away by our community for this to come together it took a village of very special people and we are Beyond grateful for ours like we always say we are Simply Better Together so thank you from our hearts to yours your support has meant everything and lastly but certainly not least hearing their giggles and seeing the joy in their eyes eyes on these new pieces has been absolutely Priceless watching the Friendship connection and unity arise from this project is simply the bonus but if you've been lucky
067enough to listen intently to the smile in a child's voice as she rides the swing for the very first time you understand what life is all about thank you wait wait wait wait don't go away please we have a plaque want to take a picture picture appreciation given [Applause] it's okay before we get into the uh main part of the agenda here just read these notes for everyone uh comments from the audience on agenda items will be heard after the pledge just momentarily if you have any questions on the uh agenda items I'll be asking for them shortly uh comments not on the agenda it uh not on the agenda will be heard after the adjournment of the public meeting we'll have a session for your uh General comments in that regard please limit your
068comments to three minutes the board May recognize a speaker not more than twice on the same topic please feel free to give uh board any additional comments in writing in fact we as I say every meeting we encourage that you leave your comments here in writing with us uh neither the Board of Education nor the superintendent of schools will entertain in public comments relating Personnel matters or individual students Please be aware that both staff and student privacy are protected under the law if you have a Personnel concern or an issue regarding a staff member or students please call the superintendent of schools for an appointment and uh we we bring this up every meeting and I hope that uh you know it gets annoying at times when you're making public Com when you're making comments
069in public but we do have to be uh keenly aware of not talking about Personnel uh with that being said are there any questions on today's agenda yes ma'am uh or you can yeah come up to the microphone so CU it's going public so it it makes it better the public can hear what you're saying I just have a question um on B8 what does that mean the non-schedule appointments I don't think I've ever on B8 yeah right here Christina are approved at reorganization meeting in and July those are appoints that not not tied to specif ORF grou any individual okay okay perfect thank you so much thank you any other questions on agenda items only all right with that we'll start page A1 a motion to approve the Board of Education minutes of the
070executive work and public sessions of February 26 2025 and the executive and work sessions of March 12 2025 motion second any questions all in favor I opposed so carried Mr pasin Page B1 on page B1 the board will find a motion to approve the professional staff resignations and retirements as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I oppos so carried page B2 on page B2 the board of find a motion to approve the professional staff appointments as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I opposed so carried page B3 b3a on page B3 and b3a the board will found a motion to approve the Civil Service resignations and retirements as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I
071opposed so carried page B4 b4a on page B4 and b4a the board will find a motion to approve the Civil Service requests for leave as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor oppos I I got you sorry posos so carry page B5 on page B5 the board will find a motion to approve the Civil Service reinstatements as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I I oppos so Carri page B6 B6 A and B on page B6 and B6 a through b the board will find a motion to approve the Civil Service appointments as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I opposed so carried page B7 b7a on page B7 b7a the board of find a motion to
072approve the substitute appointments as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I opposed so carried page B8 on page B8 the board will find a motion to approve the non-schedule appointments as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor all opposed so carried page B9 b9a on page B9 b9a the board find a motion to approve the civil service changes in assignment as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I oppos so carried page B10 on page B10 the board of find a motion to approve the Civil Service salary changes as listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I oppos so carried page B12 oh B1 sorry page B1 on page b11 the
073board are find a motion to approve the coach ex schedule and salary for the Department of Health physical education Athletics for the 24-25 school year as presented we recommend its approval motion second all in favor I opposed so carried page B12 on page B12 the board of find a motion to approve the volunteers for the 2425 school year as presented we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I opposed so carried firster page C1 C1 a through o on pages C1 and C1 a through O The Bard will find a motion to accept and place on file the financial and claims auditor reports for December 2024 and January of 2025 we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I opposed so carried page C2 c2a on pages C2
074and c2a the board find a motion to approve the budget transfer as listed we recommend its approval motion second second any questions all in favor I I opposed so Carri page C3 C3 a through K on pages C3 and C3 a through K the board will find a motion to accept and place on file the 2324 Federal single audit for the bore ufsd we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I oppos so Carri page C4 on page C4 the board will find a motion to revise uh a uh resolution previously adopted uh we're doing this for uh town of iset they just wanted a little bit of additional ver in there in a little bit more detail but there are no changes to what's already been adopted this is in
075regards to the volunteer firemen and ambulance workers uh exemption from real property taxes we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I got I have to abstain I got to abstain because I'm a volunteer F so I'm just going okay one exstension uh no one opposed motion carries page C5 C5 a through D on pages C5 and C5 a through D the board will find a motion to approve the classroom use agreement between the bore ufsd and bosies for the period July 7th 2025 through August 15th of 2025 we recommend it's approval motion second any questions all in favor I opposed so Carri page C6 C6 a through D on pages C6 and C6 a through D the board will find a motion to approve the classroom use agreement also between
076bashore ufsd and bosis for the period July 1st 2025 through August 21st 2025 we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I oppos so carried page C7 c78 through D and again on pages C7 and C7 a through D the board will find a motion to approve the classro agreement between the bore ufsd and bosies for the period July 7th 2025 through August 15th 2025 we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I I I oppos so Carri page C8 C8 a through C and on pages C8 and C8 a through C the board will find a motion to approve the classroom use agreement between the bashore ufsd and Bose for the period July 1 2025 through August 31st 2025 we recommend its approval motion second any questions
077all in favor I I opposed so carried page C9 c9a on pages C9 and c9a the board will find a motion to approve and accept the donation of $4,440 25 from the South Country PFA toward the purchase of playground equipment we recommend it approval motion and thank you once again it's a sizable dention that's very a lot of work principle it this is the princip the commitment is phenomenal so thank you thank you PFA but miss Gro and Miss Mar all you work also worka for citizen thank you no questions I assume all in favor I I opposed so carried thank you again uh Dr Outlaw page one I have one more one I'm skipping all right sorry that's okay P I'm Sorry Miss F page C10 C10 a through C and finally on pages
078C10 and C10 a through C the board will find a motion to approve an accept the donation of an assortment of lenses for the photography class at the bashore middle school from Canon USA we recommend its approv Mo second nice any questions all in favor I opposed so carried now Dr Outlaw page D1 on page D1 the board will find a motion to endorse actions taken by the bashore committee on special education pertaining to students being considered for services as noted in the csse minutes listed as well as the annual review meetings for the 2425 school year and referrals for the months listed we recommend its approval motion second any questions all in favor I opposed so carried page D2 on page D2 the board of final motion to endorse actions taken by the Bay
079Shore committee on preschool special education for services as noted in the minutes listed we recommend its approval motion any questions all in favor I I I oppos so Carri all right that concludes our regular uh agenda items for the evening before we get into uh public comments I have a uh statement I'd like to read on March 21 2025 we shared with the community an uninsured claim brought against the bayaw school district under the child victims act that went to trial in October 2024 four the jury in the case returned a verdict against the district and awarded the plaintiff $25 million on March 20 2025 the trial judge set aside the award in the interest of being factual excuse me on March 20 2025 the trial judge set aside the award in the interest of
080being factual I'm going to read directly from his ruling the court Court grants a new trial on Damages unless the parties agreed to a reduction of the sum awarded by the jury as follows a total recovery for the plaintiff in the sum of 4 million the decision to request the trial judge review the jury's determination was not made lightly by this board as it brought renewed attention to an already challenging situation we trusted that the trial judge would weigh all factors and determine the p forward we remain committed to acting with fairness and understanding while ensuring that all actions and outcomes allow our students and School District to continue to thrive with that we'll go to public comment we have one person who signed up if you did not sign up and you care to
081speak of course you're welcome uh I think Walter lace am I saying saying that correctly y good so uh this is the first time that I've ever attended a board meeting I've lived here for uh going on 48 years and I've seen the Baya School District you know really Blossom over that period of time when it comes to academic education as well as Athletics uh among other things uh I read your our schools uh pretty Faithfully but why I'm here is you you brought up the um the litigation and sometimes we can get caught up in the monetary the legal and forget about the people I happen to know personally a few of the people that were abused over the last over the 30 years that the teacher was here in the district and I
082know being an educator that when um people send their kids to our schools there is a legal aspect of a in local parentis in which the schools are responsible for the well-being of the children that are placed in their care I am here because a young man asked me to ask you not for anything in the past but but for the present and the future you certainly are not responsible for what happened 30 years ago 20 years ago but going forward what you do is going to determine how anyone who comes forward with an accusation of sexual abuse is going to be treated and that will be on you now I've looked through our schools things that were sent I have yet to see what policies and procedures you have put into place to make
083sure that when someone makes complained that they don't fall through the cracks 30 years is an awful long time and a lot of cracks all of you are parents I'm sure some of you may be grandparents like I am and when you can send your son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter to school I'm sure you want to feel that they are absolutely in a safe environment and that if something untour should happen that they will be listened to and they will be protected I can tell you I know several of the boys involved and it explains a lot of their behavior when they were teenagers and and young adults and their emotional situation continues for those that are still alive so I would ask you not as some board but as people to please
084put into place some procedures and POS and and policies that will make it more difficult for something like this to happen in the future and I know Bay Shore Is Not Alone Catholic schools Catholic Church Babylon and other school districts the Boy Scouts have had some of the same issues but it is imperative that all of them and the church I know is trying to put into place policies and procedures no one can ever make 100% certain that these things will not happen again but you certainly can try and please understand the human element here these people have suffered their families have suffered and they deserve better thank you thank you very much Mr [Applause] Li is there anybody else who would like to have a word uh I appreciate the emotion you obviously displayed
085coming up here in front of us and uh you hit the nail on the head I am a grandfather my two granddaughters go to these schools here I share your emotion and it's very difficult to sit up here at times and just listen we are operating under constraints I know people get sick of hearing that but uh it is what it is but there is nothing more important to me and I'm speaking for me now than the safety of our kids in these schools I don't know what else to say other than that but thank you for coming up uh anybody else again before we close this out well thank you very much for uh for coming out with that I'll take a uh motion to go out of public motion second all in favor
086I I yes uh we're going to go back into executive go B going to do a motion back there motion to go into executive motion second second got a second yeah all in favor I so carried thank you again for coming out tonight