001Good evening and welcome to Tuesday, August 12th, regular business meeting of the board of education. I need a motion call the meeting to order, please. >> Motion. >> I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I motion passes under the pledge of allegiance with To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. And I think everybody's pretty aware emergency exits are. So we will go to our we need a motion for the approval of order agenda first please motion. >> I need a second. >> All in favor report ma'am. >> Be it resolved that the board of education accepts the minutes of the business meeting held July 15, 2025 and being resolved
002that the board of education accepts the minutes of the rework held July 15. >> Okay. Can I need a motion? >> Motion. >> Any second? >> Second. All >> in favor? >> I motion passes. Public comment. Per speaker will be recognized who wish to address the board on agenda items only. >> All right. So then we will start with Mr. Clemenson. Okay. Welcome. It is the Sunday of the summer, right? August is Sunday. Um we're getting back in the mode. You can see the buildings are starting to sparkle again. Uh but first, um some of the sparkle in what we get to do in the summertime is on board and welcome new faculty, uh to the Hampton Bay School community. And I'm we've we've approved a number of these individuals um now colleagues um over
003the last several board meetings, but the August meeting is a is a great opportunity to get as many as we can, and some could not be here tonight. Um they'll join us in September um to introduce themselves to you. They've all prepared a four to seven minute speech. Oh, they principal didn't tell you that. Just kidding. Uh, but what I am going to do is ask uh Mr. Morgan from the high school and Mr. Meyer from the elementary school. Uh, we have our middle school folks coming um in September. But first, let's start with Mr. Meyer to introduce two uh fantastic faculty members joining us this fall. >> Thanks. I'd like to ask these two outstanding new members of our team to come on down. Christina Piaza, Christina, come on down. And Paige McNola, come
004on down. Christina comes to us with an incredible background. She completed her undergraduate studies in Georgetown University. Uh she received her mers in Queens College. She's had extensive experience in the Middle Country Public Library designing various programs for children and youth. And we were so impressed with her during media process. We just knew she was the right person to come to Hampton Bay Elementary School and take the library media specialist position uh to the 2025 26 level where we're going to be at. So, we're so proud to have Christina on the team. We're so looking forward to the great things that she's going to do. yourself well. [Music] >> Next up, Paige McNola. Paige comes to us to complete her undergraduate studies at Penn State University. Paige has been our ultimate um utility player the
005last couple years. She's been filling in all over the school in various positions and she's been exceptional at all of them. Um, Paige gave us a scare this year where at one point we thought she was leaving us and I never saw Mr. Clemenson, Mr. Carlson work quicker than they have. They went into immediate crisis response and uh although at the elementary level of course we always work on using our words and not our actions. I do believe Mr. Carlson had a violent interaction with a with someone from another district, but it all worked out for students with us today. Uh Paige has been absolutely outstanding since we had her here. Again, she's filled in every position, every grade level. We knew she know she's going to do great things in her new position as
006a special education teacher and we look forward to great things from you. Keep up the great work that you've been doing the last couple years and welcome to the team full time. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Music] Congratulations. [Music] I am wearing high. I would like to pronounce officially around. We got a couple. It's always an exciting time when we can have new and talented teachers brought into our district and site is one of those times. I am excited first to introduce Kayla for Kayla will be a special education social studies teacher on a lever placement for this year. Kayla holds her certification in social studies for grades 5 through 12 and has just recently earned her master's degree in special education from St. Joe's University. She's eager to be an active part of our school community and
007her demolescent interview proved to our entire team that she is ready for this next step in her career. We are confident she will do a great job in this role and will be a fantastic addition to our school. Please join me in a welcome I'm also thrilled to introduce Lane Buck who will be taking on a mathematics position at high school. is a recent hygiene graduate from the University of Rhode Island where she earned dual degrees in both mathematics and secondary education. Graduated with suician honors. Her college resume was very impressive and showed someone who is a well-rounded and brings a lot of different talents to Hampton Bay. Throughout the interview process, Lan's passion for math and her genuine excitement to begin her career here at Hampton Bay is unmistakable. We are confident she will
008be an outstanding addition to our faculty and a true asset to our students. Please show your welcome. >> And finally, I'm delighted to introduce Mr. Thomas Cummings who will be taking on a mathematics position. [Applause] Tom has experience instructing students in geometry, algebra, and applied mathematics. He also has experience co-eing and supporting English language learners, which is a tremendous asset for our students here at campus. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics education from Sunni Portland and is currently uh in the process of pursuing a master's degree from Stony Brook University. He's been a real team player for us here at Hampton Base. He's actually worn a few different hats this year. First starting as a permanent substitute in September where he immediately became someone that we could always count on. When a leave of
009essence opened up at the middle school and stepped up without hesitation and most recently, he's been working as a teaching assistant once again filling a crucial role for our students. Whenever there's been a need, Tom has been there for us. He's shown incredible flexibility and genuine desire to do what's best for our kids. He has already proven he's part of Anthony's family that we couldn't be happier to have. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to [Music] So that is the work of what administrators and leaders are up to all summer long. Mr. mayor I think in the past has said at best that the best new crop of colleagues and faculty members they're not a large class but um the the new community of um professionals we just said goodbye to to folks
010who gave you know more than 100red years of service collectively um to Hampton Bay and and so we're hoping to commit and and you for you to commit a a generation uh to our community and it's a mix of farm team folks that we've grown from our own and and others uh who we've had to muscle other school districts out of the way to make sure that uh we get the best for the Bayon here in Hampton Bay. So congratulations really we are all looking forward to working with you. Um in two weeks we have new teacher orientation and tra as is tradition the first thing we do is get on a yellow bus and we drive around Hampton Days and uh while many uh folks know Hampton Days for their for our restaurants and
011and other places uh folks might have gone I don't know on Sunday afternoons uh or elsewhere in Hampton Bay. Um, this bus ride is special because just a week later when kids come into the classroom and they say, "Oh, I was at the skate park or I work at Outfish or I was a beach attendant or I really wanted to go to Pqua Beach this summer, but you know, my you know, I was working the entire time." Uh, there's some there's some vocabulary and some currency that we start to to know our kids and where we come from and and all the pockets of our Hampton based community. So looking forward to that. That's a tour that I get to MC. I don't get to drive the bus. Um but that's probably for the best.
012So um congratulations. Looking forward to working with you all. Uh we are wrapping up this summer quickly. I'm just going to keep saying it for you, Mrs. Colleine. Um and putting the finishing touches on um on a lot of work that has gone into um all corners of the comm all corners. I'll leave the bathrooms to Mr. Loose. Um he can talk about a lot of things, but tonight's going to be bathrooms. Um and uh in September, we'll be able to hear from Mr. Carlson a bit more about tremendous work that our elementary school teachers have been doing around literacy and uh writing uh education um at the K4 level. Uh we have conference day coming up. Um that's uh superintendent conference day on the Tuesday after Labor Day where we will focus on the
013tactical work of getting into the classroom and and getting the lights turned on. Although I have already seen in the elementary school um walking through today some back to school bulletin boards already done. So that work is done. We're going to get into AI. We're going to get into unit planning lesson planning to make sure that the year starts off strong. Um you'll see new enrollment. Uh we anticipate kindergarten to be roughly where we were last year. Uh that's somewhere between the 115 and 130 range. Uh this is go time in the registars's office as as folks are settling where they're going to live perhaps um and coming in to make sure their kids get set for the first day of school. We have 22 new enrollments uh over the course of first grade through
01412th grade um in uh coming to us from other communities, other countries. Um, and so we'll welcome new Bayman as well. Um, as we as we get going, we still do have seats. We have in our pre-k program. Um, scope 3K is filled AM and PM. Um, but just kids, we still have a number of seats in both the AM session and the PM session. So, um, as you're out in the community and you hear um, moms or dads that are looking for something, it is half day, um, which doesn't always work for every family. um hoping to change that in the coming years as we've discussed at board meetings before um and uh you can send them to the registars's office and we'll be happy to help them. So uh not a big tremendous
015report today because the bulk of our work has been focused on making sure uh our teams are filled and ready to go. So I want to thank the leadership team uh for the work that they've done this summer. Uh we look more relaxed but the work has uh the work has continued. We got a chance to work with uh a couple of facilitators last week at Long Island University. Uh they hosted us um as their guests at the White House Experience, which is not only a field trip uh location for our kids, but um also a great professional development location. So, uh, Long Island University has been a great partner of ours with, uh, you know, graduate work, but also looking, uh, potentially with accreditation, articulation where our kids could get credit by by taking
016advantage of opportunities here. So, that relationship was great. Uh, we worked with AI, the cell phone van, um, which is what did you call it? Belltobell no cell. >> Okay. I hadn't heard that before, but a bell to bell no cell or internet enabled devices. That doesn't rhyme with bell, >> right? So, uh we'll be rolling out that policy in September communicating with families and kids in the next couple of weeks. Delta bell means 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or whatever first period to 9th period is passing periods, lunches, study halls included. Um so, it's it is intended to create a distractionfree environment um in the school. So it will be a transition. We have the policy in place. That was easy. Um the practice is the policy is easy. The practice might be more
017challenging to change. So um with that, I'll stop my report and look forward to an opening school report uh the next time we're together, but I'll take any questions that anybody has at this time. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Mr. Loose. >> Thanks, Mr. Sper. Uh just to update you where we are with the uh work this summer. The window replacement project in the elementary school and middle school is complete. It's done. The only uh window that is outstanding is the skylight in the middle school which was a change order that we put in only a couple month or so ago. So that that'll be coming in the fall and make it but uh that'll be long. the elementary school bathrooms. We're redoing all the bathrooms in the K-wing and the first grade wing. Um
018they're all tiled. Uh both walls, floors complete. They were putting in fixtures today and I think the only hangup was uh lighting fixtures were ordered and then backorded. So uh there was a scramble of emails today as as uh we're working out, you know. what's a good replacement lighting fixed for a spec. Uh another alternative is picked out and uh I believe they're going to be done uh the end of this weekend by the end of next weekend. So we'll be ready to get those hallways cleaned up, get the rooms together and ready for the first day of school. >> All right. >> Thank you, gentlemen. There's nothing more stressful than summer construction because you only have eight weeks to get done. So, while Mr. Meer is here smiling over there, hearing Mr. L say,
019"Oh, it's going to be ready. It's going to be great." They're cautious smiles. All right. Well, since it's August, we're going to do a consent agenda from 4A to 7D, unless there's any questions. If not, I need a motion. Motion. >> I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I motion passes. Uh public comment. Anybody persons may address the board of education on any matters of interest or concern. The board president will recognize all speakers. Time limits may be opposed based upon agenda needs. Nothing. No one. Okay. Um, in that consent agenda from 4 A to 7D, I'm going to recuse myself from 7G 6G number 45. I need that. >> I need a motion for that one. >> Motion. >> I need a second. >> Second. All >> in favor? I
020All right. Well, go home. I need a motion. >> I need a motion to return the meeting. >> Motion. >> I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I passes. Don't get used to these. >> No.