001to say that this is my final report that I'm going to be giving for all of you. So, thank you all for just report. We had pretty competitive races for the treasuration and also for our temporary representative positions and we decided that we're going to start very actively elections in the future. So election more competitive so that we can get more involvement because the same kids running over and over again we have a hard time getting as much as possible. in addition, we're going to be going into the next year with far more organizations than we did in the past year. Uh so, for starters, we're uh compiling a guide for the president of student government. And this is going to be a living guide as student procedures involved. We're going to be adding to
002the guide to the guide. And we want it to be sort of like a how-to book so that we don't have to figure everything out for ourselves every time there's a problem comes up. If someone's encountered a problem before, the solution should be written down. They don't want to have to go looking for answers when they're already there. Uh so that guide is going to be made. Uh and we're going to have one thing that we're planning on doing is we're going to have all of our agendas be made public so that way everybody can be tuned in to what student government is doing. Um, and now I guess it's time to introduce our new board. So, let me start with our new secretary B. One thing I just forgot is our yearbooks are out.
003So, I want to present every board member with a copy of our yearbook. [Applause] Um, sorry about that. Uh, now Bri is going to come up and introduce herself. Hi everyone. Um, my name is Gabriel. Everybody calls me Bri. I was treasurer this school year for the student government boards and this upcoming school year I will be our new secretary. And um, I'm really excited and as saying we're going to work on our advertising. So I have a lot of ideas for that and I'm excited to put them in play. Right. Next up, I'm going to introduce our treasurer, Paul. [Applause] Hi, my name is Paulina and I was the um student representative for 11 this past school year and this year I will be the treasurer and I look forward to the next school
004year. All right. Now, uh Jaden, our new vice president. Hello everyone. My name is Jaden. For this past school year, I was a junior class representative and for the upcoming school year, I'm very happy to be the new vice president alongside. And now final now finally in my last words addressed as president to this board. I want to pass the torch to the new president Angel. [Applause] Hello everybody. I'm Lisa. I'm the new student government government body president at uh I care a lot about making the student voices heard, especially when it comes to academics, school culture, and athletics. I really care a lot about students who are athletes and how they might need help classroom and like the time that takes place in um as I do track. Um, thank you so much for
005this opportunity and I'm looking forward to it. Stay there. Want to welcome the new board. Um, appreciate it. And what Angel has not told you is he is going to states. president who thinks his last duty was done. I have a yearbook that needs to be signed. So before you leave, I want to sign and congratulations all year. I wish you love. [Applause] Okay. So, want to thank them again. Wish the new board good luck. Look forward to seeing you next year. Um and the rest of this year uh you guys have probably one more. That's it. That's the last your last report of the year. Okay. And uh for those of you who don't know it um because I can't say it enough um congratulations again to thank you for all his service um
006and a great year today and also ride. Okay with that we are going to move on to item number eight which is our PTSA update. [Music] Good evening everyone. My name is Annaise Valerio and I am the PTSA president. I have three updates. So May was mental health awareness month and the PTSA had a mental health awareness event here at Hamilton. We were joined by family ties of Westchester, family of kids and Riverside mental health. It was a psychoeducational event where we talked about uh signs and symptoms of mental health. Um, we talked about the demographic of the school district in particular, uh, mental health disorders that impact specific demographics, uh, based on our population here in the district. And then our partners, Family Ties of Westchester, Family of Kids, and Riverstone Mental Health, uh
007shared about the services that they provide, where they can be located, if they're taking on new clients, information regarding insurance, and how to best support children and adolescence. The second piece I want to share is that the PTSA had a scholarship. Just circling back, um this was our final event of the school year and um it is the hope of the PTSA that we can continue to collaborate with school building and school district leaders in providing events as the school year uh comes our way the next school year um collaboratively. So, thank you to our building and district leaders who have partnered with us and provided us support and guidance um this school year and uh we hope to increase that support and visibility next year. PTSA scholarships. So, we had three scholarships that we
008gave to seniors. Um the first was to Ashley Robinson, the second Joshua Samuel, and the third Aurora Johnson. our participants or our winners of the scholarship were selected by a scholarship committee. Um they did not know uh who they were reviewing um in terms of applications and essay. Um and these were the three students that were selected. Uh, our first runner up, Ashley Johnson, is going to be winning a scholarship for $750. Joshua Samuel for $650, and then Aurora Johnson for 500. This will be my last uh BOE meeting as ETSA president. We will be having a new executive committee the academic year to come 2526 and that will be comprised of President Melanie Johnson, Vice President Sharon Son, Secretary Allison Gore. We will have a corresponding secretary as well, Crystal Pena and Treasurer Melissa
009Williams. Their term begins on July 1st. and thank you all for your support. Go to item number and hand over to Thank you. We want to thank the community for the support of the district's budget uh that passed with 66% approval. We also want to congratulate um Miss uh President Hec as well as Miss Freda Azer Lion who also uh will be elected to terms beginning on July 1. So congratulations. Thank you so much to our community for the support of our budget. Uh we have 12 days remaining um in the school year and there are many celebrations and events planned. Um, tonight the Dixon School had their school play and we want to thank the many teachers and staff involved in tonight's production and special thanks to Miss Carrie Young for her leadership. This
010Friday they have a donut for dad event at 8:30 a.m. and they have the Dixon moving up ceremony on June 25th. Um, so we invite everyone uh to come out for at Dixon for donuts for dads and we hope to see parents at the moving up ceremony on June 25th. Brady Elementary also hosted um numerous events and uh they had a first time school poetry slam last Friday and students read original poetry and we thank Mrs. Penelope Bar who organized the event. Um we also had uh our sixth grade dance and it was wonderful. I I visited and we thank Dr. Hamilton for her leadership as well as the sixth grade teachers uh who when I visited they were dancing and dancing. So uh congratulations to our sixth grade students and they are having their
011graduation on June 24th. And when Alexander Hton High School will be hosting the school prom tomorrow and we'll be hosting graduation on Thursday, June 26 at 5:00 p.m. on the fields. Uh we've increased the ticket allocations to eight tickets per family. So we want to make sure that we have all of our families um being able to come and join us. We also want to congratulate students for the academic awards ceremony that we just had this past Monday as well as the varsity sports awards ceremon ceremony that took place yesterday evening. Uh this high school also had a successful Raiders game day field day with opportunities for students engaged in grade level competitions and scavenger hunts sidewalk riding. I mean it was endless. And we thank Miss McCleas. She was back there for organizing the
012whole thing. It is the best field day events that uh we've seen and we just thank Mr. McLeage for his leadership. Uh you missed everyone in this room. The the fashion show with recycle items. I think that was probably the one that I enjoyed the most. Uh we thank um also and acknowledge Dr. who has uh been at countless events for awards ceremonies and such who joined me with uh the uh board uh trustee datino, vice president Lazama and board president Hec who joined me yesterday to acknowledge uh we want to acknowledge the Elmsford Rotary that awarded our students several financial scholarships and we are so thankful the partnership um we have with the Ellford Rotary. Thank you very much. uh they hosted a wonderful event to celebrate our students. So, we hope that uh
013as we close out this school year that we can just pause and celebrate and honor the accomplishments of our students and our staff. This summer, we will be having construction projects that will take place um as a part of the capital projects. If you recall, we had a capital projects presentation a few months ago and we are set for Grady Elementary and Dixon Elementary to have the roofs be repaired. Uh we successfully also completed a large portion of these projects that we think are um stakeholders from our community who passed a valid approval that uh allowed us to now successfully, if you notice throughout our schools. We have district-wide voiceover IP phone systems in every classroom. We also have districtwide safety cameras. You can see them up here as well as our districtwide PA system
014as well as our Hamilton High School parking lot that was completed. And what we want to just note is that many of these projects came in under cost. For example, our high school parking lot was uh estimated at a total cost of 1.14 million and actually came in under budget at $816,59. as well as um the other areas of the voice over by IP phone system and security gap cameras and PA system. Um through the expertise of deputy superintendent Mr. Yap, we were able to also have OC's reimbursement for many of these costs. So we were able to have a great number of savings that came back to the school district. So as we continue these capital projects and we celebrate the work that Mr. Fes um and Mr. Kirk has been leading as well
015as Mr. Mantro in numerous ways to have these projects be completed. We we're really excited to say that uh a large majority of our projects are completed and we expect to continue to do more work this summer. Unfortunately, as a result of this work this summer, we will not be able to have um the summer enrichment programs and camps that we did have at the elementary level. Um and unfortunately due to the end of all ESER and ARC funds, we will not be able to host EM elementary summer school programs enrichments like we have in the past year. Uh we thank you everyone uh for your support in these capital projects and we look forward to be able to having another season uh to finish them completely. Tonight we also have uh a first read
016as well as what I would propose an adoption of the exeicio student member board policy. Uh for law as required we are uh required to have at least one exeicio student member and this exeicio student member will be entitled to sit with the board members at all public meetings. They will be sitting up here and uh participate in other board activities at this discretion of the board. Uh but they will not be uh participants in the areas of the executive session that is only for board members. We believe that the Sophicia student member will bring a student perspective to the board's discussions, bring student event announcements and concerns to the board's attention, represent the student body of the board, report back to the student body, and solicit input from students soliciting um impacting matters uh
017to the district at the direction of the board. So tonight we have that as well as um Angel Hidalgo uh is also being recommended this evening as the exist student member as she just mentioned as the student body president that was elected by his peers. There's a new legal requirement that will be upon us in the coming school year. The 2526 New York State school budget includes a new law prohibiting the use of internet enabled devices during the school day for all students K through 12. The focus is on non-educational use of personal devices especially smartphones and smart watches. The board of education is required to adopt a district policy by August 1st. Uh in alignment with the state law working with administrators, area school districts, superintendent, and district legal council, uh we will have
018a proposed policy for the July meeting. uh it will be policy 5695 student use of internet enabled devices during the school day which will be presented to the board for our first reading during the July board meeting. Um during that time we will um ask for public review and feedback which will be be requested. Um please note that the policy is substantially based on the New York State law uh and which provides little flexibility. Um in this they state that personal devices linked to the internet may not be used by students at any point during the day of school grounds. Um and there is opportunity for variability with the regulation which we will be discussing at the July meeting. We have another policy for the board to review next month and it's a new law
019that sets 88 degrees as a maximum temperature for occupancy of all spaces used by students in public school um buildings beginning in September 25, 2025. Um, at 82 degrees, schools must implement measures like turning off overhead lights, using fans, closing blinds and blinds, and at 88 degrees or higher, schools must have plans to have um different spaces for students and staff when practicable to um spaces that are below ADA. So, that is another policy that we will be bringing to the board for review. And finally, we want to congratulate all our graduating students and our retirees who have devoted their lives to serving our district as well as our students who have worked extremely hard for their graduation. We will miss you. Your contributions have been great and you have touched our community in numerous
020ways. As we wrap up this school year, we want to recognize our students, teachers, and staff for their hard work and for reaching new heights. We also want to acknowledge our administrators for leading valiantly and for being flexible and resilient and persevering. We thank the PTSA and our parents for being partners in supporting our students in multiple ways. And we want to thank the board of education for your visionary leadership and excellence in governance. You have provided direction student support and helping us achieve our mission. And we thank everyone for an excellent school year. Thank you everyone. Okay, moving to item number 10, which is approval of minutes. I have a motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. We're going to recognition of the audience, which is panel number 11. It's
02120 minute block necessary. Uh 3 minutes each uh the microphone. So, we are going to open that uh time is 8:17. We're opening that for um 20 minutes going starting now. Okay. We do not have anybody who's wishing to get up to the microphone tonight. We will move on to item number uh which is policy review. Um under that we have item number 12.01 1 which is going to be first read policy 2245 officio student member of the board and adopt that policy. Um do we have a motion to adopt the policy? Okay. Do I have a motion for the first reading? Second. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Uh, all passes. Now we need a motion to adopt the policy. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion is adopted. The policy is so we have
022adopted and the policy is adopted. And with that, I'd like to skip to it 16.01. Okay. So, this is where we're going to the appointment of execution student uh member of the board. Um, do I have a motion to approve? This is for Angelago. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Um, we all saw before. So, congratulations, Daniel. You will be with us whether you like it or not. Okay. So, we're going to move back down to 13, which is finance purchasing, which carries us 13.01, 13.07. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Uh moves us to 14 to present special recommendations instruction. Um that's 14 14.01 01 through 14.14. Um, do I have a motion to approve? Second. All in favor? Motion carries. We'd
023like to recognize Ala Garcia who is in the audience. Welcome as our new uh teacher. Congratulations Ocean. All right. With that moving to item number 15, superintendent of personal recommendations, not instruction 15.01 15.07. I have a motion to approve. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Brings us to our last item here which is 16 um new business and discussion. Um which is 16.01. 1. Oh, we did all sorry. So, we're going to 002. Thank you. Through 16.19 which will include 16.20 um which we said earlier. So, this is the actual um that this uh that would be um 16.01 Okay. Um, Okay. So this will include 16.20 which we read in the beginning. Okay. So this goes from 16.02 16.20. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion
024carries. Brings us to our last motion. Second. All in favor. Thank you for coming tonight. Everyone gets home safe.