001Yeah. You want to call the order? Okay. To the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Congratulations. [Applause] Okay. So now I will call for nominations for the office of president for the board of education. Can I have a nomination? I'd like to nominate Gus Huber. Okay. Can I have a second? Okay. Are there any further nominations? Okay. Nominations are now closed. All in favor? I. Okay. Motion now passes. Uh, I declare Gus Yuba is declared president of the board of education for the 2025 2026 school year. Congratulations. I will announce you in this. Okay. Raise your right hand, sir. I state your name. Huber do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of
002America. I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties and I will faithfully discharge the duties of board president of school district according to the best of my ability to Congratulations sir. [Music] Okay, that's okay. I will now officially turn over the meeting to the new board president, Miss Huba. Okay. And this is for you. Okay. So, at this time, I will now accept nominations for the office of vice president of the board of education. Like to nominate Sue Hurmer for the role of vice president for the board of education. 30 seconds. Any other nominees nominations? As there are none like to recognize Sue Hmer as the next
003vice president of the board of education. Oh, we got to vote. All those in favor in favor. I congratulations. [Applause] Oops. Okay. Okay. Raise your right hand. I state your name. I, Susan Hermer. To affirm to affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties and I will faithfully discharge the duties of board vice president of board vice president to the Com School District according to the best of my ability for the Com School Duty. Congratulations. [Applause] Okay, this goes here. [Music] I promise you next month we'll have a little bit more. Congratulations. Okay. At this time,
004I'd like to uh conduct a roll call. Uh we will start here to my left. Uh Mr. Scott, assistant superintendent for human resources. Miss Laura Newman, assistant superintendent for business and operations. Miss Dana Schultz, board trustee. Dr. Bill Hender, board trustee. Mr. Dr. Jordan Cox, superintendent. Myself, Gassuber. Uh, Miss Surmer, board vice president. Mr. Nicole Goldstein, board trustee. Mr. Tim Russo, assistant superintendent for curriculum instruction and assessment. Mr. Gene Barnowski, District Council, Miss Debbie Ferger, District Clerk, and Miss Kyla Gruber, our student representatives. Welcome, Kylie. All right. So, at this point, I would need a motion to approve appointments for the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion there? Second. Second. A motion to approve official designation. All in favor? Oh. All in favor? I I Okay. Uh and a motion to approve
005uh the official designations for the 2526 school year. Motion. Motion. A second. All in favor? I. Okay. And at this point, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Cox for the administrative report. Thank you, Mr. Huber. So, I'm just going to quickly go over the agenda. Before I do, I just want to welcome everyone to our first board meeting, official board meeting for the 2025 26 school year. Um, for us, yes, the school year starts July 1. So, we're very excited. Um, on tonight's agenda, we're going to start off with a public hearing, uh, district-wide emergency response plan. Then we are going to have our new student exeicio board member um, present the student body report. We should close the meeting and start the regular meeting if you don't mind. No, go right ahead.
006All right. So, at this point, I'm going to make a motion to close the reorg meeting. Motion. Second. Okay. All those in favor? I. And then now we'll make a motion to uh conduct our regular board meeting at this point. Motion motion. Second. All those in favor? No. No words. Thank you. All right. Here we go. Part two. We are still going to do the public hearing on the district-wide emergency response plan. This is still our first board meeting of the 2526 school year. Um we're really excited, Kyla. We've had the chance to meet a number of times. I'm so excited to hear your uh first report and we welcome you uh as our exeicio student board member. Congratulations again. Um we will provide uh Mr. Palpoli will provide our director of facilities an update
007on some of the summer work that's going on and then at the end we have a few policy updates, some new policies, some that are renewed annually during this meeting um that we will go over. So we're going to first start off with our board of education public hearing on our district-wide safety plan. Mrs. Newman. All right. Thank you, Dr. Cox. And yes, we are starting our uh district-wide emergency response plan public hearing. The purpose of a district-wide emergency response plan is to provide instructions and guidelines for students and staff as well as visi visitors in case of an emergency situation. The scope of the plan covers all district-owned buildings including our auxiliary buildings. Each of those buildings will customize their own building level emergency management plan as well. the authority. The district incident commander
008is the superintendent of schools or his design. Likewise, in a building, the incident commander is the principal or their design. Every school district in New York State must have a written plan and must review it each year. Regarding our drills, when we do a lockdown drill, we announce to staff, students, and anyone in the building that this is a drill. this is a drill so that they are aware. We do not do that for evacuation drills. Parents will be notified at least one week prior to any and all drills being given so that they are aware. One of the new items that the state is requiring is when we do our drills that we be mindful of trauma that could occur between students and staff and that we are to conduct our drills in a
009fashion that does not promote trauma. Meaning they do not want any sort of realistic simulations to occur. I will um emphasize that com has never done that. uh we have always not used simulations um within our drills. The state has also changed some of the terminology. As some of you are aware, there has been widespread uh confusion sometimes between lockout and lockdown drills. As a result, the state has now changed the terminology. From this point forward, we will be calling lockouts secure lockouts. You may also know that Dr. Cox whenever he sends out communication to the community and parents has always put that definition within the communications to help um negate and mitigate some of that confusion statewide that they have recognized that as well. The process for our district-wide emergency response plan, we begin
010this evening opening up a public portion, a public hearing for the response plan. The response plan is on our website. The public has the opportunity to provide comments, suggestions, etc. We ask that those be emailed to our director of security. His email address is on the screen and will also be on our website. That occurs between now and August 11th. During that time, district staff will be reviewing not only the the response plan, but any public comments that we receive. At the next board meeting, which is August 21st, the district will place the response plan uh on the agenda for the board to provide approval for. This would conclude the uh public hearing portion for this evening. And I would now open up to the board of education if they have any questions and then
011the public questions. Okay. Thank you. Any questions from the public? Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Newman. So, we're all excited. It's Kyla. Totally up to you. You feel comfortable. I'm going to give you the clicker. You can come up here. You want to Let's hear for Kyla. [Applause] Hi everyone. I'd like to start off by just saying that I'm really excited to be here for my first board meeting as a student member. As the school year begins in September, I'll hopefully have more like actual student-based voices and information to share with you. But for now, I'm just going to be going over some of the exciting end of the year highlights and achievements across the district. So, at our primary schools, each building held Flag Day celebrations. They brought in special guests such as veterans and
012school leaders, and they also had patriotic music to make the day special for all the students. Each building also held the second grade moving up ceremony to celebrate the students as they'll be moving into the intermediate schools next year. And a very special tradition of the senior walk brought all of the high school graduates back to their primary schools where they were able to connect with their primary school teachers and inspire the younger students by showing them how far they've come. At Burns at Burn Sawmill, they wrapped up the year with incredible achievements and fun. Sawmill students competed in the National Science League and they placed second in the nation. In addition to placing second as a team, fifth grader Jason J earned a perfect score and he placed first in the country. Um, students
013were also recognized during the first ever superstar awards ceremony. In this ceremony, they were recognized and celebrated for their perseverance, determination, and hard work throughout the school year. At Burr, students participated in Ride for Life to raise awareness for ALS. They celebrated field day events filled with fun activities to bring all of the students together. And they also held a memorable Flag Day ceremony. Comarmac Middle School also ended off the year strong. They held a formal moving up ceremony for eighth graders as they'll be moving into the high school next year. They also had money fun events for the eighth graders including the eighth grade dance, eighth grade barbecue and yearbook signing and fun eighth grade field trip. As for student recognition, two eighth graders, Shaun O and Tommy S. were awarded the John Newman
014scholarship. This award is given to students who show good character and fair play in the CIO program and it honors the legacy of John Newman, a longtime coach and COMAC community member. One of the most exciting moments for Comarmac High School this year was when we were featured live on CBS New York's class act segment. We were the first school in Suffach County ever chosen for this honor. More than 700 students and staff packed the gym at 5:00 a.m. to bring the energy for a pep rally showing COMAX spirit. The segment showcased amazing things happening at CHS, including our new Bloom Bloomberg Financial Lab, esports arena, mocktra courtroom, and college style cafeteria. At this event, we also have the cougarettes performing and the marching bands playing songs. In addition to the CBS feature, Comarmac High
015School held many other special events. We held Battle of the Classes where each grade competed in events showing their school pride and spirit as well as class unity. We also held our second annual COMAC day bringing the entire school together for an unforgettable afternoon. It was filled with performances, career panels featuring COMAC alumni, and games and community activities. As the year came to a close, the seniors began a new tradition, gathering on the football field for a senior countdown. And they counted down the final 10 seconds of their high school careers together. And of course, we ended it all with graduation where the class of 2025 officially became comac alumni. It was a beautiful ceremony celebrating all that they've accomplished and everything that's to come. Thank you. Thank you, Taylor. Great job. A great place
016to go to school. We're so incredibly proud of you. And if this is your first presentation, you set the bar really, really high for even my administrative reports for the rest of the 2526 school year. Um, at this point, we're going to invite Mr. Palipolei up to uh present um some of the summer work that's taking place throughout the district. Thank you, Mr. Palpoli. Great job. No pressure. Act tell you that right now. Great work. So, as Dr. Cox said, thank you. Um, so this is our door jar project. We'll be starting this actually is coming Monday. Um, we currently have door jar at the high school and middle school. And this project, as you can see here, and it it lets staff members know if a door is open in the building, it's it's
017actually red. If the door is closed, it's green. So, it's another kind of checks and balances we have throughout the district for SEC security, excuse me. Uh district-wide door placements. Uh some of these doors are original to the buildings. You can see there that door is kind of deteriorating in the bottom there. So, we're placing some doors on certain buildings throughout the district, and this is a needed update uh we needed to take care of this summer. uh district HVAC upgrades. We have two actually now one unit left. We installed our second to last unit. Actually, this was Tuesday at uh sawmill. So, I wanted to show this slide. Um I'll come back in a minute. The sheer size of these units that we need two uh rigs to do it, two tractor trailers, actually
018have to get permits to pull these units onto roads. So, it it takes some time to get these things done. Um that's why we have to do these after hours or on weekends or holidays. we can't do it during school day uh for the danger of safety of students and staff. Boil upgrades. Uh again, I I joke with Dr. Cox a lot. These aren't the attractive things we like to do throughout the district, but it's something we do need to do. This is actually Smith's Lane. It's actually the oldest boilers in the district. They're about 50 60 years old. Um so, we're replacing those um this summer. And heating pumps. Again, not a very attractive thing that people want to see or look at or understand, but uh these heating pumps actually what helps us
019circulate heat throughout wings in the buildings. So again, um if we don't have them, you're going to realize that you won't see them or look at them and and notice them, but uh it's something you will feel um if you don't have those working properly. So we're trying to reinvest our infrastructure throughout the district right now and continuation of the uh gym floor upgrades throughout the district. Um, we're doing two more additional floors this summer. This is actually the new gym at the middle school. So, as you can see there, that's about 20 years of polyurethane on those floors that are standing off with that machine the gentleman's riding on there. Um, and we're rebranding the floor with the comarmac paw print, all new lines in there, and also going to reseal it with actually
020water-based polyurethane. Uh, New York State, there's no more oilbased, only water-based. So, we're trying to go eco with everything now moving forward. And this is our in-house project. We do we have a lot of projects but to highlight a couple. This is Burr student union space similar to the sawmill uh beaver den. It's kind of a wreck room they have there. This is kind of similar what they're doing at Burr. So we're building actually a stage area for students. They're going to have a green screen in addition to that. Some stadium seating along the windows there. So I know it's a really welcome addition that they're looking to have. And this is our team here doing this. Actually last week they're putting new uh sheetrock up. And this is a continuation of the diamond cutting
021project we've been doing throughout the district. Um what it is is basically we're wet sanding the floors. Um and it comes with like a really nice shine. I know Dr. Cox was walking buildings last year and he said, "Can I walk in here? Is is it is it safe to walk in here right now?" Looks it looks almost wet. It's so it's just shine so much. Yeah. Um so you know, as we all know in middle school, that hallway there is almost like a runway. Um, so they're they're doing that this summer, hitting that whole hallway and it's going to definitely be a welcome addition to that building for sure. So just real quick on the diamond cutting process, Mr. Palipolei, it's accurate to say it it also although it looks wet and slippery, it
022the traction is actually better. That is correct. It's actually a non-slip clause with that when we actually invested in this item. Um, in addition to that, also the savings on wax, no more waxing floors. um no more, you know, labor for the staff to take time doing that. So you can focus on more cleaning in classrooms and also dusting and painting throughout the building. So it's a win-win for everybody. This is a our in-house project for uh the life schools room at the high school. I've showed this slide once or twice. I apologize if those of you who have seen this um but actually that floor in that room is going in starting this Friday. So as soon as I have new uh pictures of this, I'll share them with everybody. Uh the furniture has
023been ordered for this space. Um, so when I have a new updated picture probably for August possibly, I'll share that photo. In addition to this space, right adjacent to that, there's another life skills room. We're working on that this summer as well. So I have two spaces right next to each other have done for next year. And I just like to highlight some of the the things that these custodian staff does over the summer. Uh people a lot of times don't realize what they do do. Um, so this is example of basically they take everything out of a classroom every year, clean everything top to bottom, paint, clean out lights, desktops, chairs, scrub the floor, wax it, and then put everything back in there. So every room is basically clean top to bottom every summer.
024So when the kids arrive next year, uh, September 1st, it's a brand new classroom for them. Questions from the board of education regarding some of the summer work. Good. All right. Thank you, Mr. Palapoli, sir. Well done. Thank you. At this point, I'm going to invite Dr. Informer up to the podium to take us through some of our policy updates. All right. Thank you, Dr. Cox. Um, just for some context, um, 2019 we redid our whole policy book. um from then we do from then we do our best to keep it as up to date as possible and hold these sessions monthly or as needed so that we are always in alignment with our goals our vision and of course the law. So tonight we have four different categories of work we're going to do
025associated with policy. Uh first is a code of conduct public hearing. Second and third we have annual readoptions. Those are policies that by law must be um readopted annually. Some have changes, some don't. And then we have a couple of new policies. So we'll go in that order. The first being the code of conduct. And very simply stated in the commission of regulations, it says that each board must annually review and update as necessary code of conduct. Ian come here, our administrative staff, our principles, our legal team, we all look at the code of conduct and present to the board any uh recommendations after that review. This year there are two reviews uh or two action items I would say. Uh first we're looking to update the list of DAC coordinators. So we have a
026new principal at Northridge, a new assistant principal at Sawmill. So those two names will be updated accordingly. And then under the subsection of prohibited student conduct, there's language added that would be related to the cell phone policy that will be discussed also later in this presentation. I will remind everybody that um the approval of these uh policies don't come until later to the agenda. This is you know presentation to the board and um at this time. So code of conduct like the safety plan is a public hearing. So, first we'll ask the board if they have any questions and then we'll um ask the public. Any questions from the board related to the two revisions for the code of conduct? Any questions from the public? Thank you, Dr. Infor. All right. So, next slides that
027follow, you know, annual policy reads, new policies. The what you see on the screen are the six policies that have no recommended changes. So, what we're asking the board to do is as required by law, again, readdopt these policies with no revisions. as you saw them for the last 365 days will be for the next 365 days. However, there are two um that require annual readtion that do have changes. One was the code of conduct which we just discussed and the other is related to title 9 um and it's less a change but it's more a recision of this policy and the readoption of the 2020 version which puts us in alignment with federal law. The three new policies that we're putting in front of the board tonight for consideration of adoption. Um, first independent
028evaluation. I will share that that's not a legally required policy. However, it's one that we're asking the board to consider as it codifies our practice in alignment with commissioner regulations in the part 200. This essentially has to do with the rights of parents to ask for independent educational evaluations. In the next one has to do with the max temperature. This was a law passed last year that had to do with thresholds such as 82 and 88 degrees where if a building gets too hot, certain actions have to be taken. uh the policy outlines what those actions are from whether it be shutting off the lights or taking a temperature or you know some other matter of cooling down the room. Um the policy outlines those actions and again aligns with the law. The third and
029final policy next to the big star there. And the star is there because I'll go into a little bit more detail on the following slides is related to the governor's legislation that was put into the uh annual uh New York state budget that was passed in well was late this year. So I think it was April May May it was. So that's the what they call the cell phone ban. Um internet connected devices and cell phones uh during the school day. So again that is New York state law. Um our role here is to implement the law and the law requires us to have a policy adopted by August 1st. So to go in a little bit more detail about that um first I just want to say thank you there all of our policies
030involve the people. We don't present something to the board that comes out of one person or comes out of you know um a document we get from you know Boseis for example. Um there was a group of people that had input uh on the cell phone policy that includes our technology committee in which Miss Schultz and Miss Pium sit. Um which included parents, administrators, students um and community members. Uh we also took some time, you know, again, thank you Dr. Cox and building principles, Miss Lipen Holtz and and um Dr. Larson. You know, we spoke with students um and got their voices as well related to the cell phone law that uh came out from the governor's office. Um, so big thank you to you because that helped us, you know, write the policy and
031be able to present it to the board today. And this is what the policy includes. First is definition. What's an internet enabled device? What's a cell phone? What's a school day? What's school grounds? So, for example, as it will relate to this law, school grounds is it's basically you take the property line and it's everything within the property line. Property lines here, banned. Property lines here, it's okay. So, it has that property line language in it. It's just example of one. Uh there is a section about uh students are prohibited from using cell phones uh from bell to bell. So what's that mean? It means from the uh you know the minute you walk into the building and school starts till the end of the day. Uh however you may be authorized or students may
032be authorized to use their cell phones when it comes to educational purposes. Uh for example our one-to-one Chromebooks or has to do with health care management. Uh there are apps that if a student has you know diabetes that they may need to monitor their blood levels, things of that nature. So, the law does provide for certain um authorized uses. Um also, if it's written into a student's IEP or 504, again, uh would be allowable. In terms of student discipline, the law is very clear, students cannot be suspended for violating this policy. However, and this relates back to the code of conduct, if there's a pattern of insubordination, then that would be a violation of the code of conduct, and that is actionable. Whereas, suspending a student simply for having a cell phone would not be.
033There are requirements in terms of posting, notification, translation, reporting. Those are on the screen. The policy is of course posted to the website as is all of our policies. The parents are going to be notified in the ways of which um uh contacting students during the school hours. That will be in our district calendar will be the notification as well as Dr. Cox sent out, you know, something a few uh days ago or a few weeks ago. Um also, we have to do an annual report. So if and I say if a student was um using the cell phone and it's documented as a warning or there's some other type of action um disagregated data so you know it would be on the on the website and we were required to take action if there's
034any sort of disproportionality with that and again only non identifiable data. So to the little bit um of the nitty-gritty in terms of storage. So it's different K5 and 6 through 12. So students in grades K through five um personal devices called a smartwatch, a smartphone, um any other internet uh connected device that comes with them to school will be stored in designated areas in the classroom. For example, the classroom cubby and that's where we'll stay from start to end. In the secondary schools, um student provided lockers are where those devices will stay from the start of the school day until the end. in terms of contacting your student during the day and ways for your student to contact you. You know, we are building expanded phone access. So, there's additional phone lines being placed
035into the middle school and the high school um and throughout the district where students can pick up and they can call home as needed at an appropriate time. There is uh student access. So, for example, all students have email that is right now contained within our network. But if your parent or guardian's email is an infinite campus, we will light whitelist it, which means that now you can have that conversation with your child and email. And then lastly, staff support. I mean, you can call any office, you can call any staff member, and if you need to get a message to your child, we will get it to them. So, with that being said, that is a little bit more detail on the um cell phone policy. We looked at a bunch tonight and of
036course questions from the board. Are you saying the kids can't use their cell phones in between classes and at lunch? That's correct. It's from bell to bell. So, it is instructional and non-instructional time. And I just want to clarify the emails only for the middle school and the high school students to communicate back and forth, not for Thank you, Michell. Yes, for secondary students only. So, I have a question related to students with IEPs and 504s who may be given use of their personal devices as opposed to requiring us to provide them with district technology. Is there is there something on their personal device that they would be doing that they couldn't do with district technology? That would be something that we would evaluate. So, if we have the opportunity to be able to create
037a pathway for them through their Chromebook, we would look to do that first. Okay. If we could, but ultimately it would be a cse decision on whether or not that gets placed on their on their IEP. Okay. And then my second was when we talk about high school students or secondary students keeping them in their lockers, h what would be the purpose in having them in the classroom then? say, say, "I'm a history teacher and take out your cell phones and let's look at this." That's not a possibility then. So, using them in the classroom at teacher discretion really wouldn't be possible because they're stored in lockers. Correct. Correct. They would have to be pre-arranged. So, if you're a teacher and you're doing an assignment and you had, you know, spoken to your administration or
038however the procedures work, we're just establishing the policy, but the procedures for each building. Um, you know, if the teacher went to the administrator and said, "Hey, I'd really like to use our phones tomorrow because we're going to be doing this activity in class," then they would have permission to bring their phones to the classroom, but otherwise, they have to be stored within the the lockers during the school day. And again, there's something on the phone that that they would have access to that they wouldn't through district technology. Is that something as far as the assignment is concerned? Yeah, I'll let Mrs. William if you want to. So in certain cases there might be um you know for example um I'll use an example that we used from comarmac day with doing a goose chase
039certain certain applications only allow for iOS or they need you to capture a video with using it on a Chromebook. It wouldn't have that that ability. So where possible it would be done on a Chromebook. But there are there is very few exceptions but there are exceptions where certain video or certain application based things would aren't available on a Chromebook. Yeah, my concern would be just creating like gray areas for kids. So, if I brought it to my fourth period class because my history teacher is doing something, then I have it with me for pretty much the rest of the day. My friends see me with it. So, the kids don't have that kind of discretion to just bring it to fourth period class and then go back to their locker room and put it
040back. I'm just saying it kind of muddies the policy a little bit, particularly at the secondary levels. So, I don't know. Maybe the assignments could be based upon district technology as opposed to a cell phone. I'm not sure, but that's, you know, down the road for high school administration, secondary administration there. Good luck. Good luck. Yes. Um it listen, it's difficult. It's a very difficult policy as you know going into it. It's a part of the culture. So, so one of the things that when we met with the students that was um that really came to the forefront was the ability to communicate with parents, parents to communicate with students. So, obviously the elementary is going to look a lot different than what the secondary is. Um we took a very different approach to this.
041You know, we wanted to find out exactly what it was from students and from parents, you know, that they used this device for. um we will find ways as much as we can if we have to purchase maybe some additional iPads for certain areas um we can do that but when it gets to the point where it becomes cost prohibitive there may be exceptions to that where you know we will find ways to manage it with the cell phones we'll find opportunities um I know one of the concerns is whether or not the students are going to have time to get to their lockers in the morning or the afternoon we've had that conversation we will have the ability because there's time built into the morning and the afternoon of the day in both secondary
042schools to allow students to store them in their lockers. Um but we wanted to create we wanted to find opportunities to enhance communication. So one of the things that Dr. Inforer said is um email and the ability to whitelist emails in infinite campus of parents who have their email in infinite campus. um secondary students will have an email um platform and so if the parents need to get in touch it's a great tool for time management for students to say hey you know what I'm going to check my email during lunch or I'm going to check my email in the before school or after school um but of course if it's an emergency when I sent out the letter to the community the FAQ has numbers in there so if you really need to get
043in touch with or relay a message there are numbers that you can call in each of the buildings to get in touch um with a staff member to relay a message to your child. Yes, this will this will be something that we will manage. Um and um you know it's something new. It's it's it's you know the law you know Miss Armor you asked about you know hallways, recess, things like that. They it's explicitly stated that they are not allowed to use them during those times. So obviously we're finding ways to allow students to be able to communicate differently using their Chromebooks. Um but this will be something that it'll be a learning process for all of us. I' just like to thank everyone who participated in the committee. I know uh what a difficult
044task uh this was um having partaken in myself um with little guidance and a very short deadline of making sure that it's all done before August 1st. So uh thank you for everyone that put the time and effort into it. One of the uh things that was um you know discussed and I'm glad Dr. Infory mentioned it was uh school grounds and what the definition of school grounds is because I know there are parents that have concerns when a child goes on a field trip per se uh overnight or something along those lines. Um once they're on a field trip they are not on school grounds. So correct me if I'm wrong. Besarring any procedural changes policy-wise they would be permitted to utilize their cell phones at that time. Thank you. Yes. Y and uh
045good luck Dr. Larson and Mrs. Lienholtz uh on the uh procedures that you're going to follow. And then I guess also informing the parents and students of what phones kids can use to reach home right during the school day because normally they didn't do that. So now they're going to have to go to different offices. The district is working to add offices, cafeteria, main lobby. Okay. We can't go back to payoneses. I'm investing stock in payoneses. Actually, I'm investing. Yeah, in New York. Yeah. Okay. Right down by the north gym. All right. Thank you all. Thank you. So that so that concludes our um policy. Thank you, Dr. Infora. And our next meeting will be in August where we will present to the board uh the opening of school as well as our board of
046education goals. We'll be prepared to present them at that time as well. So at this time, I turn it back to the board president. All right. So, at this point, we do not have any committee reports. So, these are names of teachers that are here tonight. So, when we get to that point. Okay. Um, and I think we're going to be going into our first public session, correct? Or is that out of order? I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm going to ask uh Miss Herman to read the board of education statement. Our board meeting has two opportunities for public comment. one where the public can comment on specific agenda items only and one at the end of the meeting when the public can comment on other school district matters. Please take a white card if
047you have a question or a specific agenda items and a green card if you have comments during public participation on other school matters. Comments must be no longer than three minutes. The district clerk will call each person by a number. We are monitoring the time and we will let speakers know when their time is completed. When called up to the microphone, please state your name and whether you are a district resident. Please only speak to the board directly. The board appreciates the community's feedback. These commentary periods are not times for public debate or for answering specific questions where a direct answer cannot be provided. We will make a note of any questions where the answer is not known and provide a response as soon as possible to the person asking the question. Public comment does
048not allow for positive or negative statements about a specific employee as it relates to his or her job performance. Any matters related to specific students will not be dis discussed. The president shall terminate the right of any speaker if they are overly lengthy, repetitive, disruptive, disrespectful to anyone or andor offensive as well if the public becomes unruly and lacks respect for others. Thank you. Okay, at this point I'm going to ask Miss Varger to call up uh the numbers. Okay, this would be the white card if anyone has a white card number one. No. Anyone else have a white card? Okay. Okay, that was easy. Thank you. Okay, moving on. Uh we're going to go to donations. Um I'm going to make a motion to adopt a resolution to accept the following listed donations. Uh
049so be it resolved that the board accept on behalf of the district donations by the following to be applied as requested and it be further resolved that the district will deposit these funds as listed and be it further resolved that the board authorize an increase as necessary to the listed budget code for the use of these funds. Uh we have a donation from Daniela Ki Foundation for a butterfly reading bench for Soulmills library valued at 2,195. And we also have a donation from the comarmac Soccer league uh to uh provide temporary lighting for soccer under the stars at the com high school on June uh September 30th, 2025 valued at 5,200. Can I get a motion? Motion a second. All those in favor? All right. Discussion. Uh yep. Just uh Yep. That will be the
050last time hopefully that the Comarmac Soccer League will have to donate for lights. Um, thank you to our public for voting for um, the budget which included lights for our turf field at the high school. And uh, that also means uh, you know, myself doing a little math that the ComX Soccer League will be reducing rates in the future now that I have three kids in there. Thank you. Okay. At this point, I'd like to acknowledge uh the correspondence as listed. That's we're out of sorts here, right? We're skipping, right? Approve of minutes. Okay. Uh so at this point I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes from the June 5th, 2025 board meeting uh and the June 12th, 2025 special meeting and the June 23rd, 2025 meeting. Can I get them? Second.
051All those in favor? I. Okay. So at this point, a motion to approve the minutes from the June 5th, 2025 board of education. Oh, sorry. Where am I? It's not going here. Uh, a motion to approve the personnel agenda. Have a motion. Second. And all those in favor? I. All right. So, at this point, I want to acknowledge a few people in the audience who are here tonight. Uh, some are getting probation. Um, Skyler Buchini, is she here? Skyler, congratulations. James, I see James. James Cardell, congratulations. Patrick Clancy, congratulations. Thank you. Michael Karero, [Applause] Briana Lutakus. Lutsakus. Okay. And Heather Macaron [Applause] and Ava Napoli. All right. Welcome. And we have someone getting tenure tonight. Uh we have uh Joanne Fenosy, our director of mathematics. Congratulations. Anybody I missed that's sitting in the audience? All
052right. Welcome to the Carly. Carly, please stand. All right. [Applause] All right. Welcome again to the uh Comx school district. All right. A motion to approve consent agenda items as presented uh 2 through 15. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. All those in favor? I. Any conversation, comments? Okay. Um, a motion to approve cons. No, where are we? Here. It's not gone. Okay. Uh, be resolved. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education approves the first reading of policy number 7316, use of cell phones and internet enabled devices during the school day. Also, policy 768, independent educational evaluations. Uh policy 3410, the code of conduct policy. Uh policy 5685, maximum temperature for school buildings and indoor facilities. Rescend and replace policy 3421, title 9 and sex discrimination policy. 5220 district
053investment policy. 5410 purchasing competitive building bidding and offering policy. Uh 5411 procurement of goods and services. 5412 alternative formats for instructional materials. wellness policy. Uh also 8260 the parent and family involvement. Be it further resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education approve the second reading and moves to adopt the policies tonight. Can I get a motion? Second. Those in favor I acknowledge receipt of professional services from bond shonik and king plc for the month ending May 2025 in the amount of $24,612.50. Also acknowledge receipt of the May 2025 financial reports listed below. I need to read them all. Yeah. Um, acknowledging receipt of the federal and state grants received in the 2025 2026 school year. Acknowledge receipt of the internal claims auditors monthly report monthly update. Sorry. Acknowledge
054receipt of the committee on special education. uh June 9, June 10, June 11, June 12, June 13, June 16, June 17, June 18, June 23, June 24, June 25, and June 26. Acknowledge receipt of the committee on preschool special education for June 10, 11, 16, 18, and 25. and the board of education of the Comarmac Union School Free District shall hold its regular meeting on Thursday, August 21st at uh 6 PM at the Hubs Administration Center, 480 Clay Pits Road, East Northport, New York. It's anticipated the board will make a motion for the purpose of adjourning into executive session at this time and at 7 p.m. the board will reconvene in public session for the purpose of holding its regular business meeting. And with that, we'll have our second public participation. Okay. This will be
055the green card. If anyone has a green card and they would like to speak, number one, green card. Okay. Anyone have a green card at all? Would like to speak? Okay. Okay. Being that no one is looking to speak, uh, I'm going to make a motion to adjourn this board of education meeting. Can I get a motion? Second. All those in favor? I meeting ajourn. Thank you all for coming.