001and it was really successful. We have at least 60 kids there and we're planning on having another one fingers crossed for next week. So, we're excited for that. We want to try to make them like monthly because they cost nothing and then all the kids have a lot of fun. So, we're trying to make a regular event. We also had our middle school dance last week Friday and um we really thank Mr. Kita because he brought his professional DJ equipment DJ by night teacher by day and um he really showed the kids a good time. He brought like a light show and better than anything we could have done. So special thanks to Mina and he also offered to come to our high school dance which we have for the 22nd I believe same day
002games. Um so huge thanks to him and uh I was saying high school dance coming up 22nd of May so far uh it's going to be line up games. So it's going to be a fun day for all the students. Also on that same day, we're going to have our elections for new student government positions and by the next meeting I'm going to be joined here and I'm going to sign off and you guys for so thank you everyone. It's been a pleasure and uh be here next month. Thank you very much. Um, we have PTSA up. Good evening everyone. My name is Anelise Valerio. I'm the PTSA president. All right. This evening we held our PTSA elections for the 2526 academic year. The president for the next school year will be Miss Johnson who
003is currently our second. At this time we are listing a senior scholarship initiative. This year, the Elmsburg PTSA receives a total of nine applications for the senior scholarship. A PTSA scholarship committee has been formally established to manage the review process. The committee consists of five PTSA members who are collectively reviewing each eligible application which consists of an essay, a transcript, and a letter of [Music] recommendation. The committee is currently in the evaluation phase. Next topic item is strategic planning for the academic year to come. The executive committee thanks all BTSA members who participated in the strategic planning meeting. On Saturday, April 5th, we connected at the Greenberg Public Library to talk about what kind of events we wanted to see on the calendar next school year. We came up with several events for each month.
004And when we meet again on Saturday, May 31st, the objective of that meeting is to really skim down the list, what's feasible financially and realistic in terms of things that we can lift to support our educators, administrators, and students. Um, a lot of great ideas, but we just need to cut it a little bit per month. So, perhaps one to two initiatives per month. Uh but if you did not join us for the first member meeting, excuse me, for the first calendar meeting, we welcome you to join us for the second. That will be on Saturday, May 31st, and more information will come out closer to that date. The BTSA was asked to host a candidate forum, otherwise referred to as VA candidates. that event is not going to be taking place after having connected
005with um the Westchester um my apologies president of um the League of Voters. So, I connected with the League of Women Voters and they indicated that we needed two to three candidates to essentially throw their name in the hat. I'm sorry, I got some side there. Um and nobody came on up. So that event is not taking place but I wanted to share that just to be responsive to that request. There was a request to have the event but no one actually kind of put their name in the hat for us to do that and collaborate with them. Regarding ongoing PTSA events, the PTSA has hosted and participated in several community centered events uh which included a community Easter egg hunt that took place on Saturday, April 19th and a PTSA movie night took place
006on Friday, April 11th. That was in collaboration with the student government and it took place outside. current initiatives. Right now, the PTSA is hosting teacher appreciation week and making sure that we pour into our educators in each of our building. Thank you to our PTSA members who have carved out time to coordinate this event and visit buildings and make sure that we honor our teachers this week. Upcoming events include a May mental health awareness month. May is mental health awareness month and we're hoping to do a mental health awareness night. Our goal is to identify three different agencies or organizations. We locked in one in June which will be our last uh June will be our last event. Cultural connections celebrating Elmsburg heritage. Elmsburg is a beautifully diverse community and we believe every student thrives
007with their culture identity and experiences are seen. We're hoping that we can lift this event. We need volunteers from the community. Information has been shared on social media regarding this event, but in essence, celebrating Elsworth Heritage is more than an event. It's an opportunity to support the education of all students through inclusive community rooted learning. This celebration will invite students and families to share their backgrounds, explore new traditions, and foster deeper understanding across cultures. How will we be doing that? I don't believe we have enough members to host cultural tables that represent their heritage um in a meaningful way. Um and students go from table to table and then collecting a stamp or a sticker and that's how we are going to support their learning of inclusivity and acceptance of differences and also learning about
008their peers and their families and where they're from. So, if you're open to hosting a table that represents where you're from or even dress up um in traditional garment, we welcome that. And we just want to close out the year having fun, but also honoring our difference and um showing our students that that difference can actually stay. [Applause] Okay, thank you very much. Uh, we're going to go to the superintendent report. You President Pec. Uh, tonight I want to introduce Todd Curry who is uh to my left, our new assistant superintendent of finance and operations. We thank Mr. Curry who has been intrigately involved with our current budget as well as numerous capital projects and he's been here I think for 15 12 days 12 days. So thank you Mr. Curry. Uh since our last
009board of ed meeting we've had many national appreciation days that uh I would like to spend some time to acknowledge. We had administrative professional day on April 23rd. And I want to especially thank our district clerk, Miss Diane Kerno, who works behind the scenes. Yes. Let's let's work behind the scenes set up our board meetings, our agendas as well as receptions. She also uh serves as uh the chief of everything that is organizational and administrative um in supporting me and I just want to thank you so much personally. We thank our administrative professionals who support our schools and district offices. On May 1, we celebrated National Principal Appreciation Day and we thank um Dr. Jeff Capuano, principal of Alexander Hamilton High School, Dr. Andrea Hamilton, principal of Grady Elementary School, and interim principal, Dr. Ashley
010Cruz. Yes, Dr. Ashley Cruz, who we congratulate uh for successfully defending her dissertation at McGill University. Um, and Miss Bernard, who's the assistant principal of Hamilton High School. Yes, let's give them a call. This week in is teacher appreciation week and we honor our teachers. We thank our teachers for being our guiding lights to our students to not just to teach them but they love, they listen, they uplift and sometimes they even cry with our students. We thank them so much. They provide guidance for our families and partner to help students be their best selves. So please remember to appreciate our teachers this week. Uh teacher appreciation week ends on Friday. We also celebrate school nurse day. We thank our school nurses for helping to heal our students in numerous ways. Uh I I want
011to say that uh Grady had Grady and Dixon has some of the best business days and we just celebrated the Grady family fitness day and it was wonderful for families to come together um as well as siblings and aunts and and grandparents and games and activities and it was also wonderful to see a slide presentation of our staff families that were presented that day. We also had the National Honor Elementary Society. Um, Miss Bazinski uh as well as Dr. Hamilton hosted the National Elementary Honor Society induction on Tuesday evening, April 29th. We had 23 students who were inducted as well as 17 students who were reinducted. And we also thank Mr. Webb and the Grady Band for complimenting this wonderful evening with a performance that was extremely well attended. Dixon Career Day. Now, think about
012teaching students about careers as young as in kindergarten. Um, our students learned about careers from our parents as well as our partners from the village of Helmsburg. We want to give a a special thanks and shout out to Aya Dashiva, Joe Dorentes, Rob Harish, Dave Caner, Manuel Montenegro, Rachel Shiml, Oscar Contreras, Katie Caner, all parents who came to talk about their careers as well as nurse Carly who pinched his one one person for the show. And we thank Elms Police Department and the Elms fire department who also came to introduce students to careers and students who were also dressed um in the career that they would like to be when they grow up. We also want to acknowledge our school counselors Monica Ahern and Stephanie Luchion as well as Dr. Capuana uh for providing an
013overview of the high school experience for eighth grade parents. And we learned so much from that process. Um there's so much that happens. Uh it's all on the Google Drive of the counseling page and so we encourage eighth grade parents to reach out to our counselors as they transition into high school. We want to congratulate Justin Acido um our Alexander Hamilton student was nominated for lowh baseball player of the week. He is the junior pitcher third baseman and helped the Red Raiders to three straight wins. So, we congratulate him for getting nominated and uh we thank him for his accomplishments. Tonight, I'm also recommending two administrators for a board of education approval. These two administrators went through several rounds of interviews with stakeholders and the board of education also had an opportunity to contribute them.
014I want to thank everyone who participated in the interviews and tonight I will be recommending Miss Leah Zillick for the director of special education and PPS who is currently the district coordinator for special education PPS for the Greenwich public schools and Miss Deborah Earl for the primary school principal at Dixon Elementary who is currently the UPK coordinator and teacher in the Garrison School District. We also want to acknowledge their presence here tonight and we'll uh come back to them later in in the agenda. And this month we acknowledge Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month as well as Jewish American Heritage Month as well as mental health awareness month as well as National Military Appreciation Month and we honor all the contributions and achievements. This uh Memorial Day is a designated day of resemance for US military
015personnel. this honor to honor those who have given their lives and service to our country. Uh the village of Ellsworth will be having their 95th annual Memorial Day parade and everyone is uh invited. It will start at 10:30 a.m. at Easter Park on East Main Street and continue to Village Hall for the memorial service. And finally, just a few updates. Uh looking forward to Dixon Muppets for Moms. Moms, I know we have Dixon Moms here. Do not miss it. It is the best event at 8:30 on Friday. We also have a superintendent coffee hour on May 13th in the Alexander Hamilton High School Library at 6 p.m. I invite all our families and residents to join me for coffee uh right before our best concert, the final concert of the year, the Mil Williams district
016concert at 700 p.m. on May 13th. Also a reminder that uh the school district budget vote and trustee election is May 20th at Brady Elementary from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. And we also have uh one big resolution that we're voting on. We do do snow day givebacks. And so we will be recommended to the board resolution for snow day givebacks. So that school and the district will be closed on May 23rd, 26th, and 27th with school resuming on May 28th. That is my report for tonight. Thank you, Superintendent D. Um with that, we're going to move to item number seven, approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion to approve 7.01 through 7.04? Second. All in favor? I motion carries. So, we're going to move up to uh item number eight, which is
017recognition of the audience. This is for anyone who would like to go up to the microphone. We have 20 minutes and 3 minute sessions for any comments that anyone would like to make. Uh if we have anybody who will entertain it, if not, we will move on. Okay. So, uh anybody wants to do tonight? Will you move up? So, we're going to go to review policy number nine. Um, do I have a motion to approve 9.01? [Music] Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. We're going to first finance 10.01 through 10.04. Um, do I have a motion to approve? Second. All favor. Post motion carries. All right, here we go. Two attendants personal recommendations. This is instruction 11.01 through 11.05. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries.
018Congratulations. Appreciate it. Um, I'm going to have mic back over. Uh, we want to just introduce director special education EPS for the 256 year. if you can just stand. Um, but I just want to say I'm honored and I'm humbled to be serving the community of Ellburg from start to [Music] finish the board. I felt that just has a ton of heart and it's a community that I truly feel blessed to be a part of and I'm very excited to serve all of our students and give students and staff community. So, thank you. Thank you. And I also want to introduce uh the new principal of Carlo Dixon Primary School, Deborah Brown. Everyone, I am so so happy to be a part of Elvis. The minute I walk into this school, we have set the
019heart, it's just overwhelming. And I immediately felt like I was home. And I'm so excited to be the leader of a school of the youngest learners where everything begins. And this is my family. is my son and his girlfriend and my two daughters, my best friend. So Sam, we did medicine. So thank you so much. Thank you for coming. All right. So we're going to go to item number recommendations. Uh do I have motion? Second. All in favor? All opposed. Motion carries. Okay. The next one was 13.01 and 13.19. Uh new business. What we are going to do is we're going to table 13.13. All right. So, we'll be voting on to approve uh 13.01 through 13.12 and 13.14 and 13.19. Okay. So, do I have a motion to table 13.13? Second. All in favor?
020Opposed? 13.13 is table. Motion to amend 13.12 as charge. Okay. So, um with that provision um we need to vote on that one separately or just going to say uh make a motion to accept that provision as amended. Second motion second. Okay. All in favor I posted. So 13.12 uh will be as amended um and 13.01 through 13.11 as stated 13.14 through 13.19 as stated. So do I have a motion to approve? Second. All in favor? Okay. Post motion carries. Um I'd like to thank everyone again tonight's meeting. We celebrated a lot of really cool things and it's the Lord's pleasure to uh have these events because there's a lot of work that goes involved and a lot of people doing a lot of good things um to get us to the things that we
021want to celebrate. Um so with that including the budget and all the work um I want to thank my administration for all the hard work that they did to uh bring a budget to our community um that we can all be proud. um it's student focused and it's responsible um and it keeps us in the right direction moving forward. So um thank you all for coming. Uh have a great night and I have a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Everyone have a great [Applause] night. Congratulations. Thank you. [Music]