001Welcome to the March 10th, 2026 work and special sessions of the board of education. This is Kristen Papis, vice president of the board of education speaking. Thank you for attending in person or through Zoom. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Due notice of this meeting has been provided to the public and each member of the board of education as required by law. Tina, will you please take attendance? >> Present. present. >> Present. Present. May I have a motion to accept the agenda for the March 10th, 2026 work session as presented? >> All in favor? >> I >> um first we would like to welcome our Garden City band who is going to share about
002their um Disney experience with us. Well, good evening everyone. My name is Mr. Regan. I'm the coordinator for music and the arts. Um, we just got back from Disney about a month ago and it is truly it was truly a life-changing experience, I would say, for our students. They were they're they just want to share about it and they asked to be here tonight to share their experience with everyone. So, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Delamonica and the students now. >> All right. Thank you. Uh I'm Dan Del Monaco. I'm the high school band director. Uh we're going to start off by just showing a brief clip uh a collage of our trip uh with some pictures and then a video of our performance. This was at the Wateride Theater uh at
003Disney Springs. So we're just going to show a couple minutes from the the start of that performance as well. So enjoy. are proud to present The Garden City High School Concert Band from Garden City, New York, under the direction of Daniel Deammonica. Please welcome to the Atel Wateride stage, the Garden City High School Concert Band. Heat. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat. Thank you. Thank you so much. It was really cool experience because at the top with the lights, they definitely had the music and was queuing up the lights with their with their music. Uh was was it was great. So, thank you. So, we have a couple students who are going to speak here. First, I have uh I have Ben Um, hi. My name is Ben Ciphford. I'm a sophomore. Uh, I
004went on the band Disney trip this year and I felt that like all the rehearsals uh definitely brought us together as a family. Um, it made it just the uh band just feel way more comfortable for me. Um, uh, I made friendships with people I normally wouldn't hang out with on this trip. And uh at first I wasn't really pushing myself in band, but the trip made me realize uh that I have to keep pushing myself and improve um to audition for that upper band and play Nismo this year. Uh hello, my name is Colin Deburch and I'm a freshman and I play a bass clarinet in the symphonic band. For some of us, this is our first time playing uh and going on a trip outside away from our parents and so we had
005to learn to be responsible and taking ourselves and like holding ourselves accountable. Uh I had a great trip and I would like to do this before I graduate again. >> Hi, my name is Michaela. I'm a senior. This is my fourth year in band in high school and I was also fortunate enough to go on the trip. Um, I'm going to talk about the workshop a little bit. That was one of the opportunities we had on the trip. We performed under a professional saxoponist who plays professionally both at Disney and in other places. Um, it really helped with our site reading. We played a lot together and modeled what professionals do where they don't have that much time to practice and then they put their performance together really quickly. We also got to play with
006click tracks and headphones. So, pretty much what that means is we listen to like the background orchestral music and it kept us all on time and then we played on top of that. Um, it was really really cool. We also got like the scene from the music that the music's from and they put our sound over the scene in the movie. So, we like made a whole movie scene in like 30 minutes. It was really really cool. >> Good evening everybody. My name is Aiden Classic. I am the student band director of the wind ensemble. This is my fourth year in band. Loved every minute of it. Um, one of the coolest moments that I felt was stepping foot on the stage inside of the park. And not only is it a different experience to
007play outside and having the wind blowing in your face while like your music's flying all over the place. But it was also really cool that we were able to play not just in front of our family and friends, but we got to play for real people. Um, sorry. You know what I meant? I met people outside of our family. >> But it truly was a special experience to recognize that we're playing for something more than ourselves. We're playing to earn recognition from other people. And many people stopped by. They recorded videos. They took photos of us. They actually listened to the music and thoroughly enjoyed it. And by the end of it, I think more than half more than full more than the sorry everybody more than half the seats were filled and there were
008so many people just sitting there watching us and it truly was just such a special experience and I want to thank Mr. Del Monica and Miss Regan and everybody involved for helping set that up. Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Alex. Um, I'm also a senior. I play the flute and I'm also a student director along with Michaela for our band. Um, I just wanted to talk about how while the trip was obviously very well organized by Miss Fian and Mr. Del Monica and all the other administration, um, we had a certain degree of freedom. So, we had to learn about like time management, like getting to certain places on time, navigating our ways around the park. Um, and I think this gave us um, responsibility. And as seniors going off to college, I think we
009can all agree that having the experience of living in a room with somebody else for um a few nights, um not having like someone watching over you all the time, it really helped prepare us for what the future is going to be like. And not only was it a great experience as a band, but it helped us build life skills and um skills that we'll be using over the next few years in college. So, thank you. >> All right. Great. Uh thank you all so much for for the time. Uh we really appreciate it. It was an incredible trip as as all the students had said. Um I went when I was a junior in high school and it's been like on my bucket list for over 15 years to to go as well. So
010I just want to thank thank everyone for their help and support with this and for the students. Thank you. >> Can I just u say a few words? I just wanted to thank our students um for coming and sharing. I think every time I think the last couple of years we've had the trip, but every time our students come back with this experience that I think they'll never forget, just like you haven't forgotten when you went and so it's a wonderful thing that we're able to um we brought that back the Disney trip and I think it's been a wonderful experience and we always appreciate every every time you guys go to when you come back and you share those stories with us lets us know why uh we have these trips. So thank you
011and thank you Mr. Monica, Miss Reagan as well. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> Sure. >> I'll go with you. >> Yeah. There you go. Great job. Great job. All right, we'll start with the um first of our presentations for tonight. So, um, we would like to welcome >> Andy Kaufman. Um, oh, Adam, I'm sorry. Adam Kaufman from Wendell, who is going to give us a presentation on um the the feasibil feasibility study on the um zero emission vehicle buses. Okay. hi everyone. So, yeah, I think it's working, right? Can you guys hear me? >> Y >> good. So, hi everybody. I always seem to go after something really fun and exciting. So, um I don't know that I'm going to be able to meet that standard of a trip to Disney, but
012I'm here today. I'm Adam Calfman. I'm with Wendell. I'm here to present on um a study we did for Garden City on the feasibility of transitioning to uh a zero emission fleet or a battery electric bus fleet. Um so again I'll do a little bit of you know the team that worked on it. It's just me today. There was one team member fortunately couldn't be here. Um we'll do a little bit about the mandate. So I don't work for the state but the state has a mandate about school districts transitioning towards a zero emission bus fleet. Um, I'll go over a little bit of the specifics about Garden City's district and the routes that they have to drive and the feasibility of it. Um, the utility requirements. So, PSCG is your local utility. They have
013to be able to provide power to charge these buses. And then go into the phasing and cost of it. Obviously, capital and infrastructure cost and the cost of the buses. So, I'm Adam Calpin. I'm the middle one there. Um, I am a project manager um at Wendell. I've been here for about 10 years and I do a lot of the uh tri-state area alternative fueled um zero emission vehicle work and Ryan is someone who worked heavily on this study but here today um so Wendell Wendell is a full-ervice architecture and engineering firm um we have four core practice areas architecture engineering energy efficiency and construction management um heavily focused in the northeast we have six offices in New York but we're nationwide in the shaded regions is where we do Um so the zero emission
014bus mandate. So the state has released a couple key dates around this mandate. Um the first one coming up is in 2027. So that date speaks to purchasing new school buses. So after 2027, the state's mandated that all new school bus purchases are to be zero emission. Again, zero emission means electric vehicles. Um and by 2035 is the end date that's currently in place which means by that end date the entire fleet uh that transports pupils or your students um are to be zero emission or a battery electric bus. Um basically the state the senate is requiring the state to identify the issues the barriers to getting there to meeting that 100% mandate. Um and Naerta uh New York State Research and Development Authority who is one of the entities that funded this initiative for
015Garden City um is really tasked with being the technical guidance for the school districts in the state to understand is this possible and how can I do this? Um there is a two-year waiver for that first date. So 2027 is the first date coming up. There's a two-year waiver you can apply for. It pushes that date out to 2029 to be able to purchase new buses. Um so what we did uh we broke this down into nine tasks. Um go through it rather quickly. Um so basically we introduce the team. We go over the timeline and the schedule. Um we do a lot of data collection. So a heavy focus on the district to give us the routes and the buses and the sites and any infrastructure about you know your existing fleet and your
016existing sites that we have to study. Um the third is about looking at individual routes. So an electric school bus the same same range capacity as a diesel school bus. So, you have to be really focused on can this school bus complete those routes. Um, when we do this, I'll speak to it a little bit more. We're looking at a very stressful condition. So, we had a pretty significant storm recently. We're looking at really cold weather, snow on the ground, things like that that affects the the rate. Um, the next thing we'll do is we'll look at the whole fleet together. to hey they have to charge at certain times of the day and um what is that total charging capacity that we would need to charge not just one bus but an entire fleet
017um and then we will look with uh we'll discuss with PSCG the local utility to say can you guys provide that amount of power and how much will it cost um we looked at a couple different sites because the existing site where the buses are stored is rather congested so we looked at a couple different sites for what we could do if we needed additional space. And then we basically laid out, you know, the electrical infrastructure, conduit, uh charger, switch gear, and the costs associated with that transition at the sites that were selected. So, a little bit about uh the bus routes. This is Garden City specific. So, there are 66 uh existing district route buses or school buses. Um basically what we found, we are in Long Island. It's, you know, pretty um dense
018and so the school buses are able address all of the normal standard routes that Garden City drives. Um, so 100% of the routes were able to be done. That's using really, really, really stressful models that looks at winter case conditions. And of the 1700 sports and athletic trips we were provided, about 95 of those are feasible. There are outliers that, you know, we would not feel comfortable saying could be done by an electric school. Um, below is basically the breakout of the products that we selected. They're type A buses. They're type B buses. Type A buses are the smaller buses. Type B buses are the longer buses with no nose. Um, and you know, there's a total of 66 of them. And then we looked at the the table below that is about the chargers,
019the charger sizes. They're all specified as DC fast charger. So if you have a Tesla, that's normally a level one or a level two charger. These are a little bit faster and larger. Um, this is again just saying, hey, when we say something works, we have a high degree of confidence that it will work. If you look at a manufacturer cut sheet, they're going to say it can go 200, 300 miles. We're going to say it can do much, much less than that. You know, probably 50% of that. Um, and it looks at all these different factors that takes efficiencies and weather conditions and safety factors and things like that to make sure we're confident when we say it can address a route. Um, so we looked at a couple sites. The 20 Cherry Valley
020is where they're currently stored. Um, and we looked at two additional sites to see if we needed additional space, which site would be more feasible or better. Um, and so we looked at 98 Cherry Valley and 56 Cathedral Avenue, which is, I believe, across the street. Um again I think 56 Cathedral Avenue would was what was selected um as you know additional space required the right location for that. Um we looked at the power capacity requirements. So we need about 500 KVA um that's a unit of power that we would ask for from PSG um at the main site at 20 20 Cherry Valley. And we needed about 73 KVA at 56 Cathedral Avenue. And here is the bus layout. Basically, we broke it out in phases. I believe it's three phases. Um, and it
021basically looks at, you know, major electrical infrastructure is in phase one. We size switch gear, transformer, conduit all for the entire transition. And then in the next phases, we bring on more and more. Uh, here's a buyer protection plan. So there's, you know, we you know, and Wendell as an engineering firm obviously prioritizes safety. And so as part of an electric uh bus transition, we want to make sure there's proper fire protection appropriate uh associated with it. So there's uh you know the the concept plans, there's also fire protection plans. And here is the next phase of buses that would be brought on. Here is the next site that is 56, the last phase of buses that would be brought on. And then we have some grants and incentives. So again, that was a phased
022out plan. There's detailed cost estimates that go with each of those. And then here is um IERTA not only funds the study that I'm presenting today on some of our findings, but they also fund the purchase of buses and the purchase of chargers. So this is for buses. Basically, um when you buy an electric school bus, they'll give you a certain amount of incentive funding. Um, if you add up these categories, the ones that are applicable to you, you guys are not a priority district, so that category doesn't apply to you, but you know, you can get about $200,000 per bus index of funding for the purchase. And here is the same, uh, New York school bus incentive program for the chargers. There's two aspects of it. So, um, because you've done the fleet electrification
023plan, you get additional, uh, voucher funding. It's standard at 25,000. If you've done the plan, you've done the work and the research to understand what it takes, you get an additional $30,000. It's 50 $55,000 per charge. Here's a little overview of PSCG. PSCG also provides funding towards this. And here's something interesting. I don't know if everyone's going to be able to see it, but when you take a deeper look, you can look deeper. Um, it basically lays out a pretty detailed cost of infrastructure, bus purchase, fire protection, and the avoided cost of what it would be to purchase diesel buses. Um, uh, a schedule. So, a schedule basically just shows the mandate first starts in 2027. You can get a two-year extension to that. But you know purchasing buses for switch gear or transformer a
024lot of you know large electrical uh materials doesn't you don't get that overnight. It takes six months eight months to get in terms of lead times. So um the the process of getting there is not a light switch that you just flip up. You know you don't snap your fingers and it's done. It can take a little while. Um so again if these are highlighting what could be next steps again obviously the school district will decide what makes sense for them. Um what's highlighted on the screen is really uh a pilot project. So it's basically understanding the technology purchasing. This highlights three buses. >> Um so that this is what leverages the existing capacity not having to do a new transformer upgrade from PSCG. This says, "Hey, if I just use the existing electrical panels
025I have and installed three DC fast chargers at 24 kilowatts um and purchased three buses, here's what the cost would be." And just highlighting uh the normal cost of three diesel buses is estimated at $333,000. And the cost of purchasing three chargers and three buses with the incentive money as a pilot project would be 404,000. So, it's a pretty affordable first to say let me understand this technology better and that's what I have to share today. Um so thank you very much. I don't know if you guys have questions. >> Thank you very much. We appreciate you doing the work for us. Um would you mind just going back to that slide that has the total cost of the project? >> Sure. >> And would you mind just like is it possible for you to
026zoom in and just name like what the actual like cost is of this complete plan for the community? Yeah, >> the the actual number and then the number with any of the incentives. I think it's just important for the community to see the total cost of this project. >> I think that's fair. So, if you look at it, if you do all the buses, there's 66 total buses. Um, we highlight the incentive money and you know the the fire protection cost. It comes out I know can't really see. So, total it's $30 million 32 $760,000. That's before the incentives and then it's 28736,000 28,736,000 after the incentives. So the incentives go a certain amount. The incentives are geared to get you started on this transition. So the charger incentives are capped out at about $2
027million and the bus incentives is capped out at 10 or 14 buses. So again, I think it is a daunting number and I think you know >> Yeah, it's a 20 million a $29 million project, right? >> Yes. >> To be funded by the taxpayers. >> All right. Thank you. Any questions from the board? >> Yes. Um I was just wondering in terms of um two questions. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Sorry, I had two questions. First was um about you talked about the different bus routes that our 66 buses take between driving to school, multiple schools in the morning, picking the kids up, and then sports and field trips and things like that. Um I was curious. I I own an electric car and I know on a busy day I've got to recharge um
028sometimes and I know a bus and a car different things. But I was wondering if what the charge is like on a bus if um a bus is going to do that multiple routes of to school, home to school, home from school, they have a field trip in there midday and then you know the track team's got to go to St. Anony's and back. What does that look like for a bus that would be doing a route like that? >> Um, yeah. So, I think as part of it, we definitely take like midday charging. So, charging in between the routes that they have to drive. Um, it's really what drives the total peak number that we report to the utility. I go back that would be nice. But, uh, these numbers right here are driven
029based off what you're saying right now. So, that drives the we need at the site. If you just did low and slow overnight, you wouldn't need that much power considering they need to recharge in the middle of the day to account for afternoon field trips athletics. >> That's what really drives that, you know, higher demand essentially. But that is incorporated in the models that we did. >> Okay. And so when there's a higher demand obviously the cost of electricity costs more also then >> depends what rate you're on. >> Okay. Um and then the other question I had um was just sorry I had multiple questions. Um would you happen to know in terms of fixing these buses typically what do you see in terms of um who's in charge of repairing? We have our
030own bus fleet. We have our own mechanics. We have our own garage. Is it that the people in our district will have to be trained to learn how to fix these buses? Or is it oftentimes if you you go through the manufacturer of the bus company, they're the ones responsible for fixing the buses if something were to break or malfunction. >> Yes. So, a lot of it is standard maintenance that your mechanics will be familiar with, brakes and tires and things like that. And then there are like battery specific issues. You would want to have either your vendors or manufacturers send their techs out to do that. It's considered high voltage. So you would, you know, it's possible you train in-house staff. But for the beginning of it especially, you would expect to call your
031manufacturers and vendors. >> Okay. And just I was curious in all of these models, this is the school districts would be purchasing the buses. It's not like it's leased or anything like that. >> Correct. Okay, thank you. >> No problem. >> You can finance. >> Yes, we finance. You can finance and you wouldn't buy all of them in one year. So, >> yeah, >> you know the paying for this. You want to speak in the mic because it would have to be a combination of leasing and and purchasing because of the the dollars. Have there been other districts that have um neighboring districts that have done this feasibility study? >> Yes. >> Now, how does this differ for a district who contracts their buses? Are the contracting are the the contracting companies are they doing
032their own feasibility studies or how does that work for >> Yeah. So, the bus contractors are doing a lot of their own work. They do work with, you know, engineering firms like us as well. uh they are the bus contractors themselves are not subject to the mandate but the districts that hire the bus contractors are. So in turn they are preparing for this transition themselves because in order to contract them and have the terms with the school district they need to be subject to these mandates as well. So they are going through the same planning process. >> So how do districts anticipate the cost then? other contractors. I don't have a great answer for you. >> If I can just add um this is a um you know a topic particularly in Nassau County where
033we are so densely populated. This is something that districts I think all of our neighboring districts that has been a topic of conversation for the since this uh was um shared with us. It's been what two years now? Two years I think uh with um that Governor Hokll announced this and it is a very very difficult um situation for all school districts. So, we're looking, you know, we're actually in in in our I know in my quadrant, I don't think any of any of our districts, any of the districts have gone this route as of yet. And I'm sure there's some discussion in your group with the um the business officials around the same topic. >> Oh, yes, quite a bit. And uh you know, we keep updated on that. Um as Adam had said
034earlier, the um the governor came out with the two-year waiver for this. So you you know we could uh put off the purchases of it um and seeing what's going to happen next on it. I think we're all sort of looking to see uh what's going to be required actually in 2029. So um but in order to qualify for the waiver, you have to do certain steps and take certain steps. One of them is to do a feasibility study. So it's good to have that road map in place. good to have what it would cost that 28 million. It included all the buses. It >> included all the buses. >> Okay. So, it's all the buses and the construction. Um, you know, it would be over time because obviously that would have to be financed
035and um, you know, a uh a purchase plan would also have to go in place. So, um, you know, the other thing is is I what Adam also said is we were looking for space because things are so congested down at the bus garage. Um, it really would be virtually impossible to keep the fleet as we know it today in that one location. So whether you know what would happen with that, we'd have to decide. So this is really um a first good step. Gives us a lot of information and um, you know, use it for planning over the next few years. We actually did the right thing by getting the study done. We had budgeted for this study. So I'm glad two years ago and I'm glad that we did do the study because
036of um just the cost factor of this is pretty extensive. >> Dana, I just had a question for you. If the 20207 deadline is if we don't u go for a waiver, anything like that, would we already have to start looking into budgeting for buses next budget cycle? Um the the following one in the 27 28 school. >> Oh okay. Not okay. >> So in 2026 you can purchase buses >> but we will most likely file for the waiver. >> We are planning on filing for the waiver. We did the feasibility study. We certainly qualify for the waiver. It's not due for a year. >> So um you know there was a lot of confusion on when you had to apply for the waiver. originally said this year they were saying originally said that and
037then >> they retracted and >> revised March 2027 >> the waiver right >> so um yeah so this waves it for 2728 and >> so you know we can still kind of sit back see where this plans out there's a lot going on um we were asking a question though so you know just to build on Kristen's question the the districts that contract buses, they're also required to do feasibility. >> Yeah. I mean, so they in in in theory, basically, they're going to want to apply for the waiver as well, right? So, they want this two-year extension so that they can continue their contracts with their contracted fleet and, you know, which is why they're also doing their feasibility study. Again, it's less of the infrastructure and more of the routes of the study. >>
038So, is the expectation that they would provide the charging for the buses that are contracted? >> Not necessarily. So there's different setups. A lot of different districts have different, you know, uh, configurations, but, you know, they want to do the study to basically speak to at its very core, are the routes that I have to drive feasible to be done by an electric school bus. The expectation of the study is not that they're installing charging infrastructure on their site for the contractor. You know, to one of the previous questions, the contractors doing a lot of planning as well, but for them to apply for their waiver for two years in order to continue the contracts they have with the contracted fleet, they're supposed to show that they're making positive steps towards understanding the impact on
039them. That focus is more on the routes for those districts. >> Interesting. >> Good. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. We're going to continue with um tonight's presentation. Our next presentation is on the 2627 um budget. This presentation includes the overview and all non-instructional areas, administrative and capital components. So, Dr. Singha and Miss uh Dicapua will give that presentation for us. >> Thank you, Miss Papampus. So, tonight um you know, as you know, our very first presentation that we were supposed to give um we had a uh we didn't have that budget meeting because of the snow. So, this particular presentation will be comprised of both the budget overview, the administrative, the revenue, the expenditure and also the um the capital end of it. Oh, thank you. >> No, no, that's
040okay. Thanks. >> Okay. All right. So, um, you know, as we with all of our work that we do in our district, we always begin with our our mission. So, responsibility is to create an learning environment where students have the opportunity to grow academically, socially, and personally. So this proposed budget reflects that commitment by supporting strong educational programs, safe learning environments, and responsible financial planning. And this is the, you know, and before we begin, I do want to take a moment to thank um all of my colleagues here, Miss Dapia, Miss McLaclin, and Dr. Bowman along with our U administrators, our principles, and all of our administrators. The budget process um I always say it ends and it starts. So this process has uh we've been uh working on the budget I think starting in
041the summer believe it or not in planning for what you know what it would take. So uh we're very pleased to present this to you this evening and again um this is uh tonight's presentation is the first step in a series of uh discussions um that will take place over the coming weeks uh before the board considers adoption of of the budget. And these are the various items that I just shared earlier that we'll be discussing today. So, our total um if you look at our total proposed budget for the 2627 school year totals uh $142,385,117 representing a 3.36% increase over the current year and a tax levy increase of 2.98% and that's within the um the MA within the allowable limit that tax levy. Um, and again, this means that the the district is
042not uh proposing a tax cap override, which we'll be we'll discuss in a little bit. So, who we are as a district, uh, we are close to 4,000 students, 3,894 in district students. We have students that go out of district. We also have our UPK program that continues to grow. In terms of our employees, we have, believe it or not, if you count all the substitutes and whatnot, an some of those ancillary positions. Also, it's over 900 uh employees that we have. Our facilities, we have nine total facilities. Um, and then we have our buses that we just talked about. We contract and plus we have our own bus garage. And this year, we expanded our our lunch program. So, we have free lunch uh in all of our buildings with two cafeterias. And we're
043really pleased because of our AAA bond rating. We're one of the very few districts that over the last several years we've maintained this high bond rating. And I it uh you know and I want to mention that because it really reflects the uh long-term financial planning in our district that we engage in year after year. That AAA bond rating is something to be really proud of for us. Um so some of the uh budget our budget reflects uh key priorities including supporting our student success, maintaining safe and supportive um schools and strengthening academic and social emotional learning and continuing to invest in facilities that support our um students and staff. So you can see that this um um the proposal reflects a careful balance between supporting our students and remaining responsible stewards of our community's
044resources. So this is the you know the big picture for um our the school um the school aid. So while local priorities really guide our work, the district must also operate within the financial framework established by um New York State. So the proposed state budget includes a 3.6% increase in school aid statewide. All districts will receive at least 1% increase along with the expanded UPK funding and continuation of the universal uh free meals. The other thing that in the proposal um that they also that the governor also proposes a requirement for instructional best practices for numeracy and the teaching of mathematics um students in grades K through five. So these are um you know um these are the other components that we look at very carefully um when we're developing the budget. All of these
045different variables impact our budget. So again, I just went over this uh earlier. You know, these numbers, I won't repeat them again, but this again, our budget is within the um maximum allowable levy. Our our property tax cap. Um this we go we we share this slide every single year about how this is calculated. the property tax cap. There's a formula that the state uses and we follow this formula for our uh you know for our tax cap and this is another important factor with our the tax base things that really impact our our our district is the change with the CPI. We did have small increase with our pilot and the capital exclusion and all that information is up there. Um, I'm going to turn it over to Dana. She's going to go over
046the revenue and the expenditures and and the codes. >> Thank you, Dr. Singh. Good evening, everybody. So, over the next few meetings, we're going to be talking a lot about the budget and we're going to be concentrating on the expense side of the budget. What we do in this first presentation is we also talk about the revenue. So the revenue is the funds of how we're paying for the budget and it must equal. So the revenue budget and the expense budget have to equal these. Okay. So these are the major sources of revenue that we see which is uh listed here and I can start and this is how they fall out totaling the 142 million. So as we saw on the prior uh slide, we have state aid, local sources, pilot, which is payment
047in lie of taxes. So those are properties that are not on the tax role, but we receive money through an agreement, through a pilot agreement. Probably the biggest one that people would know is the 555 Stewart Avenue. Um that's the one that's actually causing much of our pilots to increase because that was on a progressive schedule as the uh as the property stayed. So uh pretty much the total increase in the pilot is from that property. We have an appropriation of reserves and fund balance that we do every year. We also have monies that were left over in debt service from interest that we have made over on our debt or premiums on our borrowings. So that appropriates back to the taxpayers. Uh we've been doing 150,000 on that for quite a while and we
048can continue it. And then we have the increase in property taxes. So to uh Dr. Sinha had said earlier the total budget is 142 million 385117 same as the revenue budget just to go into a little more detail and starting with state aid. So this is the different categories of state aid. You can see at the bottom we have an increase of a little over a million dollars. We were very very pleased with those results. I know it's hard to see on the slide, but um we saw an increase in a little bit about 300,000 in foundation aid, but we also saw it in our um in our reimbursement aid. So, building transportation boses. Uh there's a lot of factors that go into that, including wealth factors and assessments and those uh with the changing
049assessments in Nassau County, it actually worked in our favor this year and um we did see some additional aid there. So the total of state aid that we're projecting is 11.7 next year uh up from 10.6 in the current 2526 budget. Continuing on revenue, these are our miscellaneous and services code. So this is everything we bring in from either uh interest on deposits, um musical instruments, loss, you know, educ continuing ed fees and so on. We also provide um health services to all the uh non-publix that are in Garden City and this is monies that we charge back to students that attend those schools that we provide health services and special ed services. So that comes in as revenue to us. So um there's not that big a changes in there. You could see it's
050totaling about 2.1 million. Last we have the property related items and reserves. So you see there uh that's the difference in real property taxes of uh we have a total tax levy of 118 million112601. Our pilots are increasing about the 200,000 we saw on the prior page. Uh the reserves and fund balance allocations are about the same. So the total at the bottom totals 142 385 117 and that is the revenue side of it. So we did not give the presentation because of the board meeting that got cancelled. So we are combining two presentations tonight. What we normally would be doing is the administrative and capital and everyone would be waiting for that. But um so we're just going to start that. We did try to make it brief, I promise, but we're going to
051go through that. So just following through. So we break the budget up into three components. Capital, program, and administrative. The arrows are showing, we're talking about capital and the administrative budget tonight. So, as the three-part budget, you can see the administrative is 11.56%, so it's under 12%. Uh, the program is at 75%. So, the majority of our budget goes towards program and capital is just under 13. Those numbers don't move all that often. Do you want to add? >> No. No. I was just going to say they're pretty consistent year-over-year. We're we're going to just both of us will be talking about these things because we both have a lot to say, but we're going through the administrative. I'm not going to go through these because we are going to go in detail, but these
052are all of the codes. So, budget codes on school districts are not a mystery. All school districts use the same coding. It's a uniform act that we have to abide by. And so it doesn't matter what district you go to, but the 1,200 codes are going to be the superintendent. The personnel is going to be at 14:30 and so on. So ours abide by that. Those are the codes that are included in the administrative side of the budget. These are the codes that are included in the capital side of the budget. Okay. Um, we are going tonight going to talk about transportation because and some of the non-instructional codes. We do that because we really don't talk about it in our program. At the same time, Dr. Bowman's codes that are lit, they they sit
053in the administrative side, but we usually go over those when we talk about program because she has so much bearing on that part of it. So, that's where we are. So, we're we usually start this presentation and we talk about where we are with our current capital projects. Last year, we um voted on the bond and started all of those projects. So, those are listed here. Many of them were completed in the summer. Many of them are still open, but we have had some great success. And we actually last year you would have seen these with not done pictures, but here we have some done pictures. So, um, the one on the bottom, uh, right is really the most exciting. So, if you haven't seen, but the the addition, the steel is in the process
054of being, uh, put up. That's a few weeks old. So, we we we have even more and they're starting to do the decking on the second floor and on the roof. >> So, started putting the you can see the two floors now of the addition, which is so it's really come along. But what we done what we've done since the summer since the 25 26 summer of this year um although a lot of the planning and the purchasing and the bidding was done before that but we actually got started on all of these projects here. So you know the boilers uh the gym here at the high school was completed this summer. Bleacher replacements we changed out the divider curtain which is in the picture on the top left. Um, the athletic edition is in
055the process and that's going to have concession and outdoor bathrooms, which not only is good for spectators, but it's also good for the building that we don't have to have people walking through. So, from a safety perspective, we're very excited about that. >> We have all the turf fields are finished. We were just on the field today going over and looking at the sod because outside of the turf, we do have some sod and that has started to take. So, it's it's knitting in. And we were very very pleased with what we saw today to get kids out there. I believe they went today because told them a few hours earlier, you're good to go. So, um you know, there they have we still have some restrictions because we don't want hard play on it
056yet. As much time as as much growing we can give. So, that's good. Yeah. The snow did help with that those projects. So, >> but I'm glad the kids can go out on those uh the baseball and the softball and the multi-purpose field as well. >> Right. So, the air conditioning projects at the high school have not started yet. Um they have, you'll see on the next slide, all of the others have been done, but the air conditioning and a lot of that work is being done this summer with the interior work. Um we did find out during this project that our electrical service um was not enough. uh PSEG did not approve. Uh while our building was rated, their transformer was not. So they are having us replace the transformer and that's become part
057of this project. We get these uh you know that that was um that's actually in the process and we're actually bidding that out. I believe we're opening up in next week or the week after uh those bids. Uh we did uh replace the turf and the netting uh Actually, that's for that's being bid out also and that's going to happen this summer. And the air conditioning in this building is also out to bid. Uh just finishing up the projects. Uh these are mostly the um air conditioning projects that we did this summer and those are all done. We also did the cement repair and the HBAC upgrades at the building. Uh for those of you that have seen at Stuart School, we did add that parking lot which we've gotten very good feedback on and
058we've also done a lot of beautifification. So all of that is is in the the things on this page have really been completed. Okay. Part of the general fund budget includes a transfer to capital this year and in the 26 27 we are proposing a transfer to capital of 1.2 million. that was 2.3 million last year. When we came out with the uh bond and all of that proposal, we had said we were going to reduce it so that we did not fluctuate the tax levy with it. So, you'll see later that um the transfer to capital went down the 1.1 million and the debt service went up the 1.1 million. That's what we talked to the taxpayers about being levy neutral and that is why I will add that next year is the last
059year of the NH performance contract. So the plan is really to bring that right back to 2.2 starting in the 2017 28 budget but we knew that we were going to be down here in one year um for next year. These are the projects that we are proposing. Uh some of it is towards the roof projects that I'm going to talk about um in a little while, but this is towards um the roof at the middle school, and we'll talk about that because it's an expensive and another project. But these are the other things uh that we're looking to do. Um some enhancements for athletics uh on the fields. Uh they need some replacement backboards. Uh we actually need 10 of them replaced. Our plan is to do uh some each year. So that's going
060to be the first three. uh technology has their five-year plan that Miss Maguire will talk about later on and uh that technology infrastructure uh supports that. We have beautifification and what we mean by that is that we have peeling paint and stairs and and other things in each of the buildings that we have been uh working on and uh that will continue that work. Uh we do need a uh tractor for buildings and grounds. And then we have masonry and repair. Uh that masonry and repair uh pointing is going to also be part of the middle school because you'll see on a couple of slides that we'll be doing some work there. We've already started the permanent lockers for the locker room with uh we started with some grant money this year and that finishes
061it up. that that's for the middle school project uh for so our students our goal is to have lockers that with the locks right on the which would be much better that we have that at the high school and then the music storage is something that they've needed at the middle school for a bit and uh Miss Rian had come to us with an idea for this and that's in support of that idea. So that is part that is all part of the capital side of the general fund budget. In this coming uh budget vote, we are going to have four propositions on the the four resolutions on the ballot. One of them will be for the budget. The second is going to be for the use of the capital reserve. And so so we
062have an capital reserve that we have uh saved money in and we are looking as part of that we're required to go out to the taxpayers when we want to spend those funds and this is one of those times. In addition to that we have money in capital so uncommitted funds in capital. A few years ago we had put money away to um or money aside to redo the courtyard actually outside in this building. um we really we it became a very a much larger project and we had thought better of not doing it. So we're at the point that we have decided along with the high school administration that we're not going to do that project and we would like now to go back to the taxpayers and commit it for other purposes. So
063we are looking for both the capital reserve. So the authorization to spend. So we have this money in hand. It does not impact the tax levy. It does not impact the budget. We have this money in hand between the capital reserves and money uh in the capital of 13.6. And we are looking to continue to do some of our roof replacements. The full roof replacement for the middle school is a little over six million. We have these are old old buildings. They're expensive to replace and this is why we save the money up because we know that having to do these out of your regular budget would eat into program and we have been talking about this for many years about ways of saving ahead of time so that we don't have to do that.
064This is that time. So we are looking to do the roof replacement and the window replacements at Garden City Middle School. The windows are old. They have the storm windows inside. Many we we're having leaking issues on them and it's it's we're we're seeing water coming in in several classrooms and and other rooms and it's being recommended that we replace them. The reason we have some of the pointing money that I had in the last slide is really to support this uh project. Um and there will likely be some abatement along with it also. So that's what happens. So some of the mortar and things like that you have to get abated during these projects. So this is money out of there. We also one of the last projects uh on the p this is
065the last of the primary schools but their uh warranty on their roof is up for hemlock school and the administration building which is a much smaller project. But this finishes the roofs in >> we've done them all. We've done the the two primaries. This is the last primary. We've done the high school the high school Stratford. We did that and Stuart. Yes. Stuart was the last big project. So these are those. So really the whole capital reserve is I'm going to say it's for infrastructure because it's really for that envelope of the >> and this is all you can spend the the I mean we actually do in in our district because of all the facilities we have. You have to put the money aside for these projects and they are very very costly. So
066budget would be the first resolution. Spending of the capital reserve and authorizing um any excess funds in capital would be the second one. The third one we were going to talk about is a new capital reserve. So as we said we have been saving all along. We've um pretty much used up that last capital reserve. there's uh a little bit more in there that we'll be able to authorize with the next group of projects, but um for the most part that's used up. So, we are looking to go back out to the taxpayers and open up a capital reserve. Again, we're not funding it today. It doesn't cost anything. It's just where we would be saving the money for any any um any budgetary savings or any uh unanticipated revenues. So this is the capital
067reserve. So a capital reserve is is really is that rainy day uh savings account for the purpose. So you can use the capital reserve for anything that you would normally go and borrow for. So any of the capital money so that you could go and do bonding you can use the capital reserve for. This targets the total we have uh 10 years that we can keep it open. the total amount to acrue over time we're looking for 11 million and that would be over over the years we would be saving for that so we just have some more information on it but it's most of this I've said already uh you know how reserves can be spent how the reserve but what I would tell you is that in order to establish the reserve instead
068in in in order to spend the reserve the taxpayers have to approve so Just because we're opening the reserve today, you don't have to feel that we wouldn't want to know. We wouldn't know where the money is being spent. That would come same as we're going to have a resolution on or a proposition on this ballot. We would have a proposition on any other ballot to spend more on capital reserve. The voters approve all capital projects. Okay. So, we have finished the capital. you finished the capital reserve spending and we finished the discussion on the new capital reserve. Now we can get to what we usually talk about which is just the um the general fund budget. So here you have um the uh general fund budget. This is broken down into its major expense
069areas. I'm not going to go into detail because people are going to kill me, but um it's really broken down. We show this same slide on every presentation. and it breaks it down between salaries, equipment, contract, tuitions, and so on. It's a really nice way to look at it. You can see all combined what both costs, debt service. That's where you can see that debt service went up 1.1. And if you look two lines down, you can see capital projects went down the 1.1. That's what I was talking about of tax levy neutral. Um, and uh they're, you know, those are where it's broken down. This is so earlier I had showed you the codes that we have for uh on the administrative side of the budget. Um there's really no great changes here. Um
070you know and and it really shows you so board of education central admin which is uh really consumes codes. uh business is going to be mine. Legal services are um for all of those, you know, for all of the uh legal services that we have and and those expenses. Um there's, you know, some changes there, but this really handles uh everything in those codes. So, like let's say in the business office, it's going to cover the 430 or 453,000 is going to cover all expenses for my office. um auditors, all of those kind of things. Uh I'm sorry, the that 1.4 I the 453 is in in consumes, but um the 1399 codes, that 1.4 million is going to cover all the auditors, all of the um transactional expenses, um all of the uh business
071office, my office, all of those. And that's really the same for all of them. Uh continuing on administration, you have personnel which is Miss McLaclin's offices. So she has one and a half uh secretaries. Her office uh they handle training comes out of there. Advertising comes out of there. So all of those are broken down. We have the full budget on the website and uh when you look through the 1430 it would name all of them. Uh she also handles community relations. So that's the 1480 codes. that we have printing, uh, insuranceances are on there. Um, you'll notice at the top of the page that even though we're covering these tonight, and this is what I was talking about earlier, that these actually show up on the program side of the budget, but we go
072through this because they're really non-instructional in nature. Uh, the transportation codes, you do see um a dollar amount change of 800,000. Um we are seeing in there um about a h 100,000 of that is for equipment mostly the this a little bit for um salaries but really what we're seeing big increases on is just in contract transportation. We saw it this year and then it's continuing for next year. Um a lot of the contractors the the new new contracts are coming in very high and we're budgeting for them. So, um, we did see that some of it is making up this year, some of it is going into next. Um, that's really what the biggest change is there. Um, the school census, I know that always looks weird, but we do a school uh, we
073do a, um, enrollment study every other year. That's something Miss McLaclin does. Um, every other year it's on. This year it's on, next year it's off. So, it comes in and it comes out and you show it. Um, not a big dollar amount, but there it is. And then uh this is the capital side of the budgets and and benefits. So 1620 is the codes, the buildings and grounds codes that cover the actual buildings. 1621 is the maintainers and the groundskeepers. So that's really more of a district-wide code. Uh those are the capital projects that we talked about. So um I think I had said we're going from 2.3 in the current school year to 1.2 next year, which was planned. The debt service kind of evens that out. And then employee benefits. Uh with
074employee benefits, we are seeing increases in some of the retirements and and and health insurance. So uh you know that's showing up there. We do budget um we are budgeting. So health insurance is covered on a on a calendar year. So we know what the what the premiums going to be for July through December. We do budget uh a 10% increase in premiums for the second half of the year. So you can see that 5% is probably mostly in there, that 5% increase. And that's it for me. The end. That was great. >> Um, so as we, as uh, Mr. the capio were just sharing the you know the four items on the ballot for May 19th is the u the school district budget the use of capital reserves and that includes the reallocation of
075the unused capital funds that she was mentioning earlier establishing a new capital reserve and then election of one board of education trustee um this is our calendar our next presentation is um you know instructional part one um and then followed by part two. Uh part two includes special education, athletics, technology. That'll be for part two. Uh but I do want to mention that this um budget, this proposed budget, it's um you know, I hope we've given you a good overview of this, but it has been really um there's been real careful planning that has taken place for this budget and we are very much committed to ensuring that we have a you know again a dialogue with of course our board of education and our community. We do take input um because this is we're
076as we're developing it there's you know there's this is why we share it full transparency in terms of um how the money is being spent. Um, and then questions. I have a question. Uh, I was just wondering, uh, two things. This is very small, but I was curious more than anything. Was the 23% increase in textbooks? And I was also wondering if the budget passes, do you look to start doing the roof work this summer? How does that work for if if that all is approved with the three roofs, when does that work start? Okay. So, um I don't So, a lot of the increase in in textbooks has to do with literacy. >> Um and Dr. Bowman is going to be going into great detail on that when we talk about instruction, >> but
077the majority that's probably the biggest code that changed >> and that we the first year that we roll out any new materials like that, they're always budgeted in the um central curriculum codes and then after that any replacement books and so on are are going there. >> Okay. I will also say that um uh Christina Cardella has done an outstanding job in keeping the costs for our math workbooks and uh those materials in check and somehow she got them to keep the prices the same for the last three years. We are seeing an increase there. So um we do have monies in each of the buildings uh for increases in math >> and literally and there was something because we'll be adapting. >> So it was definitely science kits. It was definitely um lit maybe
078it was just literacy. >> Yeah, it's literacy is the big bulk of it. >> So we are seeing those probably in both we're seeing those in both codes both on the um you know both on the uh district side and in the buildings. So, I know it's not huge numbers compared to it, but >> No, I really appreciate you asking. >> No, it was an increase. >> As far as the roofs, what happens is so the first thing we do is get voter approval and we get voter approval hopefully in in May. >> What happens is the next steps is that um it really gets handed over to the architects and um we have to get secret done which is the environmental impact study. We uh these things drawn by the architect and they go
079up to the state for review. What a goal usually is is to have it up to the state by I'm going to say November December. >> Okay. >> Um and depending on sometimes the state you know doesn't have a lot of backlog and we get them back in two or three months and sometimes we don't. So we are always you know I think in best case scenario is that we get it back in February March it goes out to bid and we start the work that following summer about it. So that is generally what we do. Okay. >> I would say in the more recent past like these groups very much worked in that. In fact SED was so fast we got these bids out early and we got beautiful prices. >> Couple of years
080ago it was bad. >> Couple of years ago we had to postpone the projects a year. So, you know, I I don't want to say >> Yeah. No, I was just curious how that process starts. >> I I know it's outside, but there's a lot of noise with roofs and the ripoff is messy. So, we try to get that those really are >> Yeah. summer months project. >> So, our target would be a year from this summer. >> Got it. That's why this year we're l now so in the current year's budget or you know we had um permission to uh do the field and the netting and the uh air conditioning. We're out to bid as we speak. >> Right. >> So um that's why so the board would then approve those uh bids.
081Then we go into contract and then we start again. And that's some of the work that we'll be doing this coming summer. Okay. So, it'll be it'll be hopping and hopping up here again, you know, because we're going to be finishing up the interior work. Um, you know, the science rooms, what's going on on the in the business rooms, the art room. We're going to be finishing up uh you know, the addition and >> this air conditioning and the field. So, >> we're really um you know, no other stuff here. So, so right after graduation, it's like it ready. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. And I don't have any um additional questions, but I just wanted to um say thank you very much for all of the hard work that goes into um creating
082this presentation and creating this budget for us. Um staying within the tax cap, I think is really important, but that we're still um able to invest in a lot of projects to improve our buildings. Um we'll be continuing with our prek program. >> Yes. which have been expanding which is wonderful. >> So the universal universal prek that money does not get contracted through it doesn't get processed through the general fund. All of that is through the special aid fund. So I'm glad you brought it up because that's important. Um we we we're in very good shape. Dr. Bowman's been working on that for um can I um so yes she's been working on it for sorry for uh this year and um all of the funding you know some districts don't get the same funding
083we did this is a grant that we applied for uh three years ago >> two years >> uh that we were very lucky to get so we are able to uh really fully fun it through gener through the special aid fund which is terrific. Not everybody has that luxury um and you know so on. So and the governor's proposal by the way um it actually has you know the full 10 the same $10,000 per student um with no cap. So it would continue to be able to um fund as as many classrooms and as many seats as we can. So, uh, yeah, the amount that they gave is just an estimate they came up with, but, uh, there's language in there. Whether that goes through to the final budget or not, we don't know, but
084it is in the proposal. >> What is the UPK enroll in next year? >> Tell us. So, we are just about working our way through the end of the wait list of um lottery submissions and we have 154 seats and it looks like we will have 154 students. We will have been able to offer a seat to every person who put their name into the lottery. Uh we did have some families decline the offer um and that's their purview of course and so we will have gotten through everyone to offer them a spot. Now like I said some people decline it based on personal preference and logistical things with families and whatnot but we're excited to say that we'll be full and we got to everybody. >> I do want to mention I mean Dr.
085Owen has done a significant amount of work. The lottery is pretty extensive and making phone calls um and making sure that we go through that list uh the waiting list. There's a whole process that you have to follow right to the tea. So, thank you, Dr. Bowman. >> Any other questions from the board? Okay. So, this is the time period designated for the public to address the board only on the presentation we have given. Questions or comments are limited to three minutes per person. A maximum of 30 minutes will be set aside for public comment. Please come to the microphone and state your name and address. Not for next year. >> Favorite house program which kids have really focus on community service that my family has enjoyed, but there are so many great things at
086the middle school. Um, as I'm sure you're aware, there are also some things that need to be worked on. I do appreciate the windows and the he >> don't say that I'm able to really follow all the budget stuff. I don't really understand that, but um I would like to put it on our radar. Additionally, I'm committing the There was a rafter using the restroom. There was no paper towels. I was able to shake my hand on my jeans, but that was an unfortunate situation as I was heading to a meeting. Um I don't know why that's the case, but this is a faculty bathroom and I feel like when we treat our faculty provide nice for them to um like monitors at the middle school. This week my kids found out they're going to
087be able to go outside every other day which is amazing for home. Um I don't know how that would be included as a budget but the elementary school schools have bus drivers that go outside and monitor. Um I feel like the teachers continue to work on students and you know all the work that they would be so great to have. Um, I'd also like for us to consider putting everyday gym back in especially for the boys around the middle school. I'm not sure I was able to understand why that was taken out when I I didn't get a clear vision of why that was taken out. And one more thing forward the class of 2030 is going to be starting at the high school next year. I know we're not ready for it. >> Thank
088you. >> Can I say something? Um, Miss Hogan, I just want to let you know, so the next two budget presentations are going to be on instruction one and two. Uh, we will go into detail about FTEES and and staff and curriculum and what's going >> and we're very prepared. You're going to be nope, you're going to be very pleased. So, >> yeah. So, yeah, we do we >> we are we do a five-year building condition survey and so we have there's a lot of projects out there and I agree with you. There's definitely, you know, staff bathrooms, there's some student bathrooms. We've been talking about that. We do have to make the decision every year. Um there's just so much you can do in one year. So, heard on the list and I I
089think, you know, over time we'll have to address those things. But um the other stuff, you know, we've um I think a lot of that will be answered in the next few weeks. >> Thank you. >> You guys, you can pull that down >> or maybe take it out into it. You got it. >> There you go. There you go. Mhm. Thank you. >> You did a great job, both of you. >> Yeah. And you know what? I think um I think you will be going outside when you get into sixth grade. Okay. So that you did a great job, both of you, advocating for um for recess. Thank you. Now you have to talk. >> Yeah. You actually budget arbitrary. >> It's not arbitrary. Um, a lot of it has to do with um,
090so foundation aid where we did see some increases, there's a whole harmless on foundation aid. So that really And you wouldn't see that as it sits in law right now ever go down. So because there is a hold harmless there. There was a one had said earlier in the presentation when you look at the state budget um last year there was a 2% um increase for anyone on hold harmless. This year in the governor's disposal there was just a 1%. So the foundation aid as it sits is very strong on the um building aid transportation and um Bosey's aid that could fluctuate but not on the formula doesn't fluctuate but the percentage of aid which are the wealth factors and assessments are what drives a lot of that. Um what are we expecting over time?
091I I mean they're they're solid. They're solid where they are. And um I got on the phone with the state. I had a session with state a planning went through all the details. They're good numbers. So it looks good. Thank you. And may I have a motion that there's no further business to come before the board. The work session should be adjourned and the special session should be opened. >> Move. >> All in favor? >> I. The special session is now open and um all members of the board are present except for Joe Silio who is um excused. May I have a motion to accept the agenda for the March 10th, 2026 special session as presented? >> All in favor? >> We'll start with the treasures report. Miss Dicapua, please proceed with the December 2025
092treasures report. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Mhm. >> Uh this is the treasures report for December 2025. We had a cash balance at the beginning of the month of 87,228,750. During December, we had receipts of 3,344,142. We had dispersements of 15,169,947 leaving us with a closing balance of 75,42,945. Thank you. And then Dr. Sinhow will just give a um a quick superintendent update. >> Yeah. Um you know um just two quick things um that I wanted to mention. One was um just the middle school musical which was a wonderful um this past weekend. I know some of you went to the musical. It was phenomenal. And um I just want to commend our students. We see students up on stage that you would never think they'd be up on stage singing and performing. and our
093um teachers and staff. They do a phenomenal job though. It was it was spectacular the talent there. And then this week uh weekend we have Foot Loose coming up for for our high school musical. And um you know the musicals when you see them from elementary, middle, and high school, it is incredible what these kids are able to do and what our teachers you know what they do with the students. So I'm looking forward to seeing Foot Foot Loose. I also wanted to mention our girls uh basketball team. They did a great job and they're headed to the Nassau County Champions which is on which is tomorrow Stony Brook. So we're excited. The girls had a wonderful wonderful season and we wish them best of luck for tomorrow. And then just on the agenda um
094oh uh you know wanted to mention we've the the um the calendar is on the agenda an amended calendar. The dates are all the same. What we did is, you know, we had the unexpected snow this year. So, we've in our district, we've had three days due to snow days and we have those makeup days. What we did was with this calendar is we've added two additional snow days as makeup days if that happened. And the reason we did that was because um you know we if we go remote instruction that's a day of school that doesn't count as snow days. But say for example there is um you know um there power outages or whatever it may be and the school is closed closed and there's no remote day then those days we'd have
095to make up. So um you know we're going to change the wording a little bit at the um you know what that means day one makeup day two day three and the two additional makeup days would be in the uh April break the 30th and the 29th. So, we're going to update that. And then, um, you know, again, the days don't change is just adding more snow days into the calendar. Okay. And that we wanted to make sure that our parents are aware of. So, we will send this out to our parents as well. Make when I give my update to the community, I'll add this so they're aware of it. And I also wanted to take an opportunity to um thank our grounds and facilities and transportation department with the snow. They did tremendous
096job cleaning and clearing out. It was uh I think they were here for a good one and a half days doing that work. So really uh we want to thank them. And then the another item that we have on the agenda, we have a donation of $6,000 from the New York Giants. If you remember, uh coach uh was invited to the Super Bowl and we received this donation. We'll be spending it on uniforms. Um, and then on the agenda, you also have the capital reserve fund use proposition is also on the agenda. Thank you. >> Does the board have any questions on the agenda? I >> I just want to clarify. You said we're adding more snow days. We're not adding more snow days. We're adding more snow makeup days. >> That snow makeup days.
097Yes. Thank you for the clarification. Yep. Snow makeup days. >> Any other questions? >> This is the time period designated for the public to address the board. Questions or comments are limited to three minutes per person. A maximum of 30 minutes will be set aside for public comment. This will allow the board to complete the agenda, which often has personnel or time-sensitive matters. Please come to the microphone and state your name and address. Okay. Questions or comments? To make more efficient use of meeting time, the board of agenda authorizes the use of a consent agenda as part of the meeting agenda. A consent agenda allows for one motion to approve multiple items and such items are identified as such on the agenda. The vice president of the board will ask for a motion to approve
098the consent agenda and will ask if the board members wish to have any discussion or clarification. Following the discussion, the board will then vote on the consent agenda motion. In addition, a board member may request to have an item removed from the consent agenda in order to vote on the motion separately. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda, which includes business of the board matters F1 and F2, personnel matters G1 through G3, and business matters H1 through H6? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Does the administration have any new business? >> No. Does the board have any new business? Okay. Um, our future board of education meeting, our next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 24th, a regular session at 7:30 here at the Garden City High School. May I have
099a motion, that being no further business, is to come before the board. >> All in favor?