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Board of Education - Special Session - June 3rd, 2025

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Source
YouTube / Garden City Public Schools, NY
Date
2025-06-04
Location
Nassau County, NY
Material
Transcript
Extent
630 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-08

Transcript

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001of the board of education. This is the president Joe Silio speaking. Thank you for attending in Zoom or through person. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice. The due notice of today's meeting has been provided to the public and each member of the board of education is required by law. Tina, will you please take attendance? Present. Present. Dr. School. Present. Business. Present. Resource leadership development. Present present. We have a motion to accept the agenda for June 3rd, 2025 special session as presented. So move. Second. All in favor? I. Are there any questions from the board on the agenda? Are there any questions from the citizens? Questions or comments? I just wanted to

002Yeah. before you yeah take a motion. Is that okay? Yes, absolutely. All right. So, I just wanted to mention that um you know on this uh agenda we have um appointments. So, I wanted to first introduce uh Mr. Edward Esco Escobar. He will be our interim middle school principal and um just a little bit. I did send a a letter to our staff and I'll send something out to our family, our middle school families as well. Uh Mr. Escobar comes to us with um secondary extensive secondary experience for Minnola um which was their high school was 8th through 12th grade and then also um he served as an assistant superintendent for HR and leadership development for the Sioset school district and then again did uh went back to Mola to do an interim and now

003he's with uh he'll be uh he's being recommended uh this evening and um in just having um you know Ed be with us these past uh week or so just highly um the the the references were stellar references that we received and I think what the needs are at the middle school. I think um he's going to do a great job meeting those needs and in addition to that uh Miss McLaclin will continue to you know um um you know look for that right person for our middle school. So, we're really uh fortunate to have Ed here and Okay. And then we also have Shannon Roberts here. She is um she went through also an extensive interview process for special education at the at our high school. And then we also have Sean Brady um

004for the high school for for an English position. again has gone through extensive process um with the hiring process and we're really fortunate to have them with us here this evening and there are other uh appointments on the agenda as well. Thank you. No, those are the mo most to make more efficient use of the meeting time. The board of education authorizes use of a consent agenda as part of the meeting agenda. The consented agenda will allow for one motion to approve multiple items as identified in the agenda. Uh the president of the board will ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda and ask if board members wish to have any discussion or clarification on any items on the consent agenda. Following discussion, the board will then vote on the agenda. Does anybody

005have any? At this time, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda which includes personnel matters E1 through F7 and business office matters G1 through G4. Second. All in favor? I. Um I'd also uh like to mention that we have uh one one member of the community who will become familiar to everybody. Mrs. Durchen in the tenants are good to see you tonight. Um it'll be a nice warm it'll be a nice warm seat up here for you. So thank you for thank you for joining us. Um do you have any uh any other agenda items or any business before the board? Does the board have any agenda items? Future board of education meeting, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, regular session 8:15 here at the Garden City High School. Um, there's no further business,

006may I have a motion that there being no further business to come before the board that the meeting be adjourned. So move second. All in favor? I. Our next meeting will be on June 17th and we're hoping yeah for that meeting um just I just wanted to mention we'll be um it'll be our last board of education meeting for the uh for the school year. We do have two students that'll be going to the Naval Academy that will will honor them that evening with um giving them their diplomas. Yeah. Then we have a couple students who are unable to attend graduation. So we thought it would be nice to have them uh receive their diplomas here next week. So, be nice if some people could come and attend. We'd love to have we'd love to

007have a crowd like uh we have on graduation. Thank you. There you go.

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