001Good evening all. Welcome to the board of education regular business meeting. Today is November 17, 2025. Can I please have a motion to open the meeting? Teresa 1, Annie 2. All in favor? That is everyone. It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education enter into executive session to discuss specific legal, collective bargaining, personnel, and or other matters in accordance with the open meetings law. Can I have a motion to enter into executive session? Kelly one. Um Tom two. All in favor? That's everyone. We will be back around 7:30. All right. Welcome back. Can I please have a motion to real quiet exit the executive session to reenter the public meeting? John 1, Annie 2. All in favor? That is everyone. Let's all please rise for the pledge of allegiance.
002Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right. In case of emergency, please direct yourself to the illuminated exit signs uh which are at the back and the sides of this room auditorium. There is a smoke-free build. This is a smoke-free building. Smoking or vaping is not permitted here. Now, we're going to jump right into the approvals starting with the board of education meeting minutes of October 20th, 2025. It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve minutes from the meeting of the Huntington Union Pree School District Board of Education uh dated October 20th, 2025. Can I have a motion, please? Tom one, Kelly 2. All in
003favor? That's everyone. We have a few FYIs uh from 2 through six. Uh any questions, comments? There was one favorable one. I mean, they're all favorable, but there was one exceptionally favorable. I think there was good news in the way of FYI number four where we're getting a deduct change order in the amount of $10,92366, which has been issued to the J. Taylor Finley Middle School Science Room Reconstruction Project. I guess it came back a little bit favorable to us which is always good news. All right, moving on to the treasures report September 2025. It is recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the September 2025 treasures report. Can I have a motion please? Annie one John 2. All in favor that's everyone. And then the warrants. It is my
004recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the attached warrants which are certified for payment on October 22nd, 2025 and November 5th, 2025. Can I have a motion, please? Channel one, Kelly 2. All in favor. That is everyone. All right, we're moving on right along to board member communications and announcements. I'll start out with um I was fortunate today to attend a high school assembly uh where an organization called Generation SOS delivered a presentation. I'm sure a lot of you high school students that are here today with were with in the um auditorium today. Um I observed our students showing remarkable vulnerability as they shared their experiences with uh mental health and substance misuse issues. Uh in our most recent update, uh Beth sent us an article about how federal government
005has revoked millions of dollars in federal mental health grants that were intended to expand on the school-based support systems. And and seeing what I saw today, I really hope that that's not the case and that we can continue to support our students the way we have been for the last years. Um that's all I have for for now. Um I open the mic now to uh Emily. >> Um good evening board and community members. Huntington High School's schools spirit has been soaring in the athletics department. The football team had an impressive playoffs game against North Babylon with a score of 41 to4. The game consisted of outstanding performances from the marching band and Highsteppers who heightened our Huntington spirit. [snorts] The football team advanced to the semi-finals at Hills East High School on November 15th
006at 12 p.m. The team put forth a valiant effort during the entire game and although they will not advance to the next round, they will be they should be proud of their commitment and hard work. The trial run for the botchi team was a major success in our school. The team consisted of 45 students who attended all the practices and pract and participated in the mail dam game with Walt women in Northport. A total of 100 students attended a fantastic turnout for its first time. This sport has been a great addition to our athletic department increasing our inclusivity in sports so all students can have fun and learn crucial skills of collaboration and teamwork. Winter sports have already begun. Today being the first day of practice for many sports teams. This season we have boys
007and girls basketball, boys swimming, unified bowling, boys and girls fencing, boys and girls wrestling, and boys and girls indoor track. An exciting season is ahead of us, and I wish the best of luck to all teams. Moreover, the high school held its annual elective fair in the cafeteria on November 6th. Students are encouraged to take advantage of exploring their interest by taking elective classes if they have free periods to fill. The high school offers a variety of classes that fit any interest the students may have. On November 5th, the music department performed their informance. The orchestra, band, and chorus all had their moment to shine and play beautiful pieces of music. It was impressive to see their musical talent, and it was a nice sneak peek of the per the performances they will conduct for
008their winter concerts in December. The drama club is preparing for their fall production, Lost Girl, written by Kimberly Bellflower. members are hard at work finalizing their performance which will be held on this Friday, November 21st at 700 p.m. and on Saturday, November 22nd at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend and are encouraged to support the drama club. Tickets will be available at the door. And the Huntington PTA Council is also running a sneaker drive. They're encouraging students districtwide to donate gently used or new athletic sneakers. All donations will support our annual scholarship fund and help make a meaningful impact in our community. Addition additionally, several clubs such as Awad, Italian honor society, and science honor society have been accepting donations for the food pantry. We stress students to make a a
009cont a contrib sorry a contribution to ensure families in need have a nice and comfortable Thanksgiving. as we we as a school can make a difference in our community by working together and setting our best foot forward. Thank you to all who have donated so far. It is greatly appreciated. >> Thank you, Emily. You mentioned the sports and it's incredible how we keep adding sports to our our roster. We're going to end up running out of space in that gym. [laughter] >> I open it up to our fellow board members. >> That was smooth. >> Anyone? No. All right, Beth. It's all yours. >> So, a couple of announcements tonight. I just want to congratulate our honor society uh inductions that took place the last couple of weeks. We had our humanities, our ELA, and
010social studies honor society. Uh we have our high school drama production coming up this weekend, as Emily mentioned, Friday at 7 and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. So, we hope to see you there. We have our high school national honor society induction coming up on November 24th at 7 p.m. as well. Um, and just to give a little update on our budget, we have begun the budget development process. Administration, principles, directors, and department chairs are working on their individual budget areas, and meetings have been scheduled for December for us to begin working with our administrative staff on those budgets. Uh, we did have our Huntington High School open house on November 6th where we invite our private school families to come and learn about the wonderful things taking place in Huntington. And we
011decided that this year we're going to also have an elementary open house uh for our primary schools um on nove on November on January 14th and our intermediate schools on January 28th for our private schools to really come and get private school students to come and see all the wonderful things that we're doing in our elementary schools here in Huntington. Uh there is a an approval item on tonight's agenda related to the Belltobell cell phone ban. So, as you know, we have a bell-to-bell cell phone ban that was implemented this year, and we were allocated funding to either purchase storage units or provide professional development or supports for families and students and staff in understanding the adverse effects of technology and andor cell phones if we use it too much. So, we have uh purchased
012the book, The Anxious Generation, which is a work that takes center stage in discussing the role of technology in the lives of young people. And we will be hosting a book discussion with this book uh facilitated me by members of our faculty which will serve to support our students by providing them with uh student staff and families with a venue in which to read and discuss this work. We will work with faculty facilitators and teams who will prepare and lead discussions in three different settings for staff members, students and parents or guardians. Each group will meet for three two-hour sessions to discuss this book. >> [snorts] >> We have a team of educators who are ready to begin this work, including teachers, school psychologists, social workers, and administr administrators. In the coming months, information will
013be shared with parents, students, and faculty members who would like to participate in the book talks, and we will be purchasing copies of the work for those who register. [snorts] In the area of robotics, I just want to mention that our robotics team has been actively engaged in several technical workshops and recently participated in pre-season robotics competition. On the business side, students have been diligently working to secure sponsorships and funding, [snorts] and I'm pleased to share that we have acquired a new sponsor and received a $1,200 contribution to support the program. Uh they're looking forward to welcoming Petty Officer Andrew Piaza from the US Navy, who will be visiting to speak with our students about careers in the Navy, engineering, and related fields. And lastly, uh the robotics team is looking forward to their annual
014fundraiser on December 15th. A robot demonstration and presentation will be on the agenda for that evening and more information can be found by visiting www.team516.com. I do also want to provide a comment on our intermediate planning. Uh we have begun curriculum writing, research explor resource exploration, signage adjustments, staffing implications and busing matters. Our intermediate planning team meets monthly to ensure that we are on track for roll out in the 2627 school year and we will continue to keep you informed as the year progresses. In the area of fine and performing arts, just want to mention our Finley road show that took place on October 24th where the high school students shared and presented to our eighth grade students about the offerings they will get to explore as they enter Huntington High School. Uh Kellen Anderson
015was selected to exhibit I can't imagine a 9x6 watercolor on paper from 10:21 to 11:16 at the Huntington Arts Council. So if you have time, please go check out that awesome exhibit. In the area of music on October 23rd, our marching band evening parent performance and senior celebration was a huge success. It's really a great culmination for the marching band season where we all get to go up to Huntington High School at night and watch them perform right before they go to Syracuse. Um, and as you'll hear a lot about tonight, our wonderful marching band earned fourth place out of 11 with a score of 87.1 in the New York State Field Band Conference Championship in Syracuse. And we will hear from them shortly. I just want to give them a huge round of applause.
016[applause] We also had our nice game all county rehearsals which began on 1113th and the concert was on 11:14. Um and in the area of um the Long Island String Festival Association, we have 13 students who were selected to participate under the direction of Ariel Harvey at Finley Middle School, Steuart Henry, Gretchen Schmid, and Nova Camarada. At Jack Abrams, Daniel Gibbon, and at Woodh Hall, Iona Jimenez under the direction of Kelly Flynn at Jack Abrams, we have Lydia Lim and Jasmine Kloff. And at Woodhall, Valentina Lee and Sarah Zulaga Rivera. Under the direction of Mr. Deglio at Huntington High School, we had Quinn Raldi, Man Preit Core, Rachel Huth, and Caitlyn Wajeleneck. Let's give all those students a round of applause as well. [applause] [applause] And last but not least, in the area of athletics,
017I would like to commend Huntington High School senior Yasier Jones, who was chosen as Newsday's player of the week after rushing for 267 yards and four touchdowns in the final regular season game. He is among the top running backs on Long Island this fall. I would also like to congratulate our boys varsity football team on an amazing season, winning their first playoff game in 13 years and fighting hard in the semi-finals this past weekend. We are so very proud of all that you have accomplished. So, congratulations to you all, Coach Wilson, and the entire staff. This past fall, the Huntington girls tennis team enjoyed one of their best seasons since the team was formed nearly 50 years ago. While the most of the starting lineup will be graduating, the future looks promising as the Finley
018team saw a surge in participation and went nine and one this season. The athletic department hosted a college signing day ceremony for several blueevil athletes who already have made commitments to play at the college level. They include Grace Gordon, Lafayette College, Valentina Puchio, Hopster University, Bridget Calerie, Quinnipiac University, Jolie Winrder, Ruckers University, and Jack Camstein at Sunni Jio. All of the seniors will be playing college lacrosse, and we will be announcing additional commitments as they are made by our students. And last but not least, we have about 150 Finley students trying out for our uh four winter season one teams. There are two boys basketball teams and two girls volleyball teams. The teams will generally play 10 game schedules. In mid January, Finley students will be able to try out for winter season two, which
019will feature a wrestling team, one boys volleyball team, and two girls basketball teams. We really are doing everything we can to ensure that every student in our district can find their place, whether it's athletics, music, fine arts, performing arts, whatever it may be, robotics. So, congratulations to all of our students and our staff who are supporting them along the way. [applause] I did forget to mention that it's Kelly's birthday today. Happy birthday, Kelly. Yeah. And moving on to items for discussion and action. We have something pretty exciting. Dr. Odawa and Mr. Rudo, I believe you have a presentation for us today. >> We skipped the public commentary. >> Oh, I did skip the public commentary. All right, somebody better get up now and speak. Public commentary uh is the moment that we open up for
020the public to speak. It's open to residents and employees of the Huntington's district. Speakers are limited to three non-transferable minutes per person. There will be a maximum of 30 minutes total for all comments. We will open it up again for a second public commentary towards the end of this meeting. Priority will be given to comments related to today's regular business meeting titled items for discussion and action. Public commentary is a time dedicated to sharing your thoughts with the board and your input is valued. It is meant for expression rather than dialogue. So, please understand that direct discussions with the board member with board members or administration will not be part of public commentary. When you approach the podium, please identify yourself uh and your affiliation to the district. Whether you're a resident or an employee
021of the district, use the form at the podium to sign in. Please refrain from naming any students or employees of the district. Public commentary is now open and we do have a second public commentary. You can come back towards the end of the meeting for a second round of public commentary. >> Okay. Now we move on to >> So at this time I would like to just first commend our Huntington Blue Devil marching band on an unbelievable season to see your development from the home show at Finley uh at at I'm sorry at the at the summer home show at Finley when you weren't even in your uniforms yet and you were really just figuring things out after working so diligently for all those weeks in extreme heat conditions. You were awesome men, but to
022see your development over time has just been unbelievable. And we know how hard you worked and we know how much effort and time and energy it took. And we are just so very proud of you. And at this time, I would like to introduce Dr. Wadawa who will say a few words and then introduce Mr. Vudo. [applause] Okay. So, Test this works. So we often hear in education, it takes a village to raise our children. And I think tonight celebration is a perfect example of this. And it come talks to the ripple of impact that I speak about regularly that as adults we make decisions and we do things every single day and the results of that impacts our children and their success. So with having a board of education and a district leadership team
023that provides us [clears throat] guidance and leadership and resource allocations, it encourages and inspires our teachers and our parents organization, BEIPA, to go out and inspire children because they feel supported and appreciated. And through that appreciation, they're excited to come to the table every single day and support all of you every day and helps you achieve those amazing things. So, I want to congratulate you on all of the things that you achieved, but I also want to introduce Mr. Rudo because he will give you all of the stats and all the specifics. So, congratulations, [applause] test number two. All right, good evening everybody. How's everyone doing tonight? Um, so first and foremost before I get into the statistics of things, um, as the director of the marching man and an employee of the Huntington Union
024Free School District, year in and year out I get to say this. I am very blessed and very fortunate to work with such amazing students each and every day. Um, the old adage of you never work a day in your life if it's something that you truly love. And I and I swear by that. Um, and I've told that to the kids. So, you know, it's not about feeling too loud. It's not about me. It's more about them. They inspire me to be the educator and the teacher and the director that I want to be, but really all the hard work comes from them. So, can we please have a round of applause for all of our students, please? Thank you. [applause] So, this year was was very extraordinary, a very very successful season. Um,
025but I have some numbers here to define that success. Success is not defined by the outcome. It's by the journey that you take to get to your destination. So, with that being said, as Miss McQuay said a few minutes ago, um, we finished in the large school 2 division, fourth out of 11th place, which is the biggest competing class in New York State Field Band. So, you finished in the higher percentile of that whole division. So that just shows how amazing and h how much hard work our kids dedicate to this activity. With that being said, throughout this throughout the year through judges critiques at competitions, you're able to, you know, kind of predict the score in a way. So our final score that I had predicted for us was an 853, which is a
026phenomenal score and we ended with an 871. So you overachieved your goal. So that is amazing. >> [applause] >> And then one more fun stat that I like to, you know, I guess brag about. Um, there are 52 bands in the entire competitive circuit of New York State Field Band. Um, 11 of those bands, including us, are in the large school 2 division. So, what New York State Field Band does is they take all the best scores and they create what's called a top 25. So, the Huntington Blue Devil Marching Man finished 20 20th in the top 25 out of 52 competing bands in the entire state of New York State. So, congratulations on your hard work. [applause] So, like I said, success is not is not defined by necessarily the outcome. It's usually it
027can be defined by the journey that you take, what you put into something. Um, a trophy and accolades are beautiful, but your journey and your experiences are a much more rewarding experience. So, um, thank you all so much for, you know, taking a chance on the marching band, being a part of this wonderful organization. Um, thank you to all of you for all of your day in and dayout support to not just not just our kids, but our whole community, our entire staff here at Huntington. Um, we are truly blessed and fortunate to have such a great team at the helm. And, um, in addition to that with the marching band and I will always say this, um, as Dr. Wat has said, it takes a village to run an organization like this. And it's
028not just the competitive um staff side of things. Without our wonderful band parent association of Huntington, we would not be able to do the things that we do get to the places we need to go um on the cold nights where the band parents come in a few minutes early before the end of rehearsal and give the kids, you know, sweet treats and hot cocoa. So, please can we give a round of applause for our band parent association, please? [applause] And then like I said, I am just truly blessed and fortunate to be in the position I am. Um I absolutely love what I do. My wife gets tired of me talking about it all the time. Um but you know, I I I am very fortunate to call this place home, to be able
029to work with such amazing students, the best students on Long Island. So I just thank each and every one of you so much for making this place somewhere I get to call home. So thank you all so much. Thank you for having this celebration for us. And we're going to look to be even better next season. And thank you all so much. [applause] >> Huntington, New York. Please welcome the HUNTINGTON [cheering] >> [cheering] >> LILY [cheering] 2025 field show is entitled Stranded and includes the following selections. Bellafarta string quartet number two. Symphony number five movement two by theor Ilich Chaikovski and original music written by Richard Gillan and Dr. Jason Gettys. [cheering] The judges are ready. Drum majors Paul Lima, Dana Saramago, and Lily Wasi. Is your band ready? [cheering] Heat. Heat. [music] Hey, [music]
030Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat up here. >> [music] >> WOO! [cheering] [applause] [music] HEAT! [cheering] [music] HEAT. [music] HEAT. HEAT. HEAT. [music] HEAT. HEAT. [music] >> [music] >> HEAT. [music] HEAT. [music] HEAT. [music] HEAT. [cheering] [applause] >> [crying] >> Matthew [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Woo! Woo! [music] >> [music] [music] >> Come on. [cheering] [applause] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [cheering] [applause] >> Let's go. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. HEAT. [cheering] HEAT. HEAT. [music] HEAT. [music] [music] [screaming] [cheering] HEAT. [cheering] [applause] HEAT. HEAT. [music] HEAT. [music] HEAT. WOO! YEAH! [cheering] [cheering] Look like a lot of fun. All right, so moving on now to the budget calendar. I just want to make one comment. I I know that many of you might have homework
031or studying to do. So, if you would like to exit, we would like to give you one more round of applause and congratulate you on an amazing amazing season. [applause] Wonderful job. >> [applause] >> You don't have to leave, but you you can leave at this time if you'd like to. >> We have some very exciting presentations tonight that you might want to hear. >> Trying to force a crowd. [laughter] >> Yeah. All right. Now, we're moving on to the budget calendar. It is my recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the attached budget calendar for the 2627 budget prepar prep preparation and adoption. Uh can I have a motion please? Jenna one Kelly 2 questions comments. All in favor that's everyone number three the 202526 reserve plan. It is
032my recommendation from the super superintendent of schools at the board of education adopt the attached reserve plan updated as of November 2025 based upon auditor confirm fiscal year ending 6:30 2025 position. Can I have a motion please uh Teresa one uh Annie 2 um and I think we have a presentation. Yeah. >> Yes. I'll present before you vote. All right. So, uh it's in my opinion my favorite time of year. Uh other people may not feel that way. Um but tonight you will see um two items, well multiple items, but one being the 2025 reserve plan as well as some information from our fiscal year end audit. So um I tried to and and the audit committee can attest to this. There is a lot of information uh probably close to 60 or so pages
033that come from an audit. I tried to provide some snapshots of information of the things that I really focus in on. Um if you have additional questions, I'm always open for questions. So this provides our uh summary of changes on reserve balances. uh what I did here is I want to show a couple of years what has occurred in regard to reserves. There will be another uh slide in this presentation that will give the inflows and outflows of that. Um what you will find here is that we do have healthy reserves. Um the restricted areas include workers comp, unemployment. There are two types of retirement contribution reserves that is TRS and ERS. Um we have the employee benefit acred liability reserve, our capital reserve. Um we have the appropriated fund balance and unappropriated uh fund
034balance as well as the assigned fund balance all listed here. And it shows from the audited June 30th, 2025. The 2024 column is June 30th of 2024. And then the 2023 information is June 30th of 2023. So you can kind of just follow it backwards to compare or to gather additional information of utilization. This next slide um provides the use of reserve funds that happen by June 30th of 2025. Um those are usually reductions. So those are the items that are approved by the board in the community as we prepare each year for the budget saying we're going to use some funds from the reserve. These are the dollar amounts attributed there. Interest is always placed back. That's work that the district does with our auditors to make sure that we are providing the correct
035amounts of interest into the different reserve accounts. And then you have the funding area. The funding is additional funds um left over. So when you uh receive revenue and you haven't spent every penny on the expense side, there's usually fund balance. We put funds back in our reserve as one should do. As you use money, you should be saving it back up. And then we're also as we are funding these areas, we're taking into consideration how much was used out. We do try to level them back up. Um, we also take into consideration what our future capital plans are. Uh, as many of you are aware, I don't know if the community is so much aware, we are paying off our le last debt service payment. So that means we are putting the funds in
036the capital reserve. We are receiving voter permission to spend those funds each year and then we are doing capital project without increasing a debt liability. So that shows the inflows and the outflows and where we ended as of June 30th of 2025. Any questions on this slide? >> Uh I have a question. >> Okay. >> With regards to the workers compensation, this is really more for public consumption. Um we we have a workers compensation insurance policy and then we are have a self-insured amount that we pay for claims that aren't covered by workers compensation insurance. When does that occur? When when do we have that moment happen? So you have the initial policy piece in place and then so you have uh premiums and then you can have subcharges that occur that's more so handled
037by an outside uh entity and then we get build for those. So, we're just making sure one that we have the funding available and two, in the event that you were in a year where we, let's say we budget 500,000 and we actually have to expense more, that's where something like a workers compensation reserve helps offset the expense without having a large impact to your actual budget. >> And then the debt service, you said that we're paying it off this year. When's the last payment going to be made? uh before June 30th of [laughter] which >> 2026 >> which is really exciting. Right. >> Yes. And I also um have a slide on that as well. >> Great. >> Okay. So this is a summary of the capital reserve. Um as you know we have
038had multiple uh reserves. They're usually uh capital 2028, capital 2013. Um, so this shows all of the different capital reserves over the snapshot of time as well as the funding that was provided, meaning the funding that was allowed to be provided and um interest earned and use of reserve. So currently to date, we have about 9 and I'll just round it up. So, 978 million that can still be placed in the 2022 uh capital reserve account. And then, if you recall, which I'm sure you do, uh the voters approved a $15 million capital reserve fund in 2025. You do not see that here because we have not yet begun to fund it. Uh as that begins to be funded, that will be an item that you will see appear here on this chart. Okay. Um
039as mentioned uh we have our last year of debt. Um so the wonderful news here is we did uh do a transfer uh for debt service. So we are going to use the funds that are in our debt service fund towards this last uh bond payment in the 2025 2026 school year. um this will then not appear next year. I'm assuming it'll be a zero uh that you'll see here and that debt service payment that we account for. So as we produce the budget that will be zeroed out as well. And then I like to do a terminology define because we use all of these fun accounting terms that are not always easy to understand. So, this just goes through some of the areas that were shown in this presentation so people can understand uh
040appropriated verse unappropriated, the different reserves and how you're allowed to utilize them and any of those other terms used throughout this presentation. Is there any questions? >> No. Great. Thank you. >> All right. >> Very comprehensive. Um there was an open vote. is all in favor. That is everyone. Thank you. And moving on to the external audit report for uh 6:30 2025, fiscal year ending in 6:30 2025. It is my recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education accept the external audit report for fiscal year ending 6:30 2025 as prepared by Cullen and Denowski. Can I have a motion, please? Uh um Tom one, Jenna 2. Uh any presentation, comments, question. All in favor? That's everyone. And then moving on to the external audit management letter corrective action plan for fiscal year
041ending 6:30 2025. It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education accept the attached management and corrective action plan document in response to the external audit conducted by Cullinin Denowski LLC for the fiscal year ending June 30th 2025. Can I have a motion please? Teresa one John two questions comments >> I just wanted to comment that um Colin Danowski has continually said um and commended the our finance office on not only uh their cooperation but the ease of which they're able to work with them and um it's you know not uncommon for there to be things that you know come up um and these were on their um in their opinion you know commonplace kind of things out of the ordinary. So, um the finance office has a terrific job
042and just wanted to thank you. >> Thank you. Anyone else? All in favor? That's everyone. We will move on to the long range financial plan historical view. I believe this isformational. >> Yes. >> Thank you. All right. I'm just moving this because I have a lot of papers. Okay. So, uh if you recall when I first came to the district and I did my first budget presentation, I did a lot of talking about, oh, I want to look at the past, right? I've looked at the last five years. I looked at the last seven years. It's so important to understand the history to plan for the future. Um, so through that and through a lot of time and support and digging, um, I was able to put together what is part one of a long
043range financial plan. Um, so I'm going to go through some of these items. The plan is meaty. It's a lot. Um, so I'm going to focus in on a couple of things. If you have questions, feel free. And then I'll talk about uh, next steps. I think the first thing that is important to express here is this is not a audit requirement. This is not a state mandate. This is truly administration wanting to make sure that we are prepared for the future by looking at what has historically happened and then bringing in the proper um external people to help us plan. And this is perfect timing with the strategic plan now being in place. really just aligning those so our resources are aligned and um we are putting forth our best foot to provide the
044community and the kids with all the wonderful things you've seen today all the things that have been spoken about and anything that pops up in the future minus a gym. [laughter] Okay, so just to provide a little bit of summary. So the purpose of this plan is to promote predictability, transparency and fiscal stability. Right? As I mentioned, um this was something we've start seeing in our presentations. We look a lot to the trends over the last couple of years. This is taking that and putting it with in a way that I hope is easy for people to digest or be able to explain a bit more to provide um some comfort in those areas. Um so also this will be used to assist us in aligning with our blueprint for excellence as we move forward.
045Um the historical review focus on our internal operations um how we've performed yearover-year. So that's what you're going to see and um the comparative analysis looks outward. So, uh, just so you are all aware, if you have not gotten a chance to read the entire, uh, meaty plan, um, this really looked at our neighboring districts within the town of Huntington. And in case anybody is wondering where that came from, um, so we are looking to see if where there's efficiencies, see where there's things we can do better, um, where we, uh, done things really great as well, and, um, use that to plan for the future. So some of the areas included are revenue and expenditure history. Um you will find some just little blurbs here. Uh your revenue sources is local revenue which is
046really our tax levy. You have state aid, federal aid and miscellaneous revenues. And then expenditure is really the general support. Um so that's operations, facilities, you have transportation, debt service, capital expenditures. Um this does uh from the outside viewer look like old data because it goes to 2324. I would remind people that information from the state is behind. So I have Huntington's information all the way up and including the current year. I do not have other school districts information until they do their reporting to the state and then I'm using that information to then backfill and create the comparative analysis. So I wanted to make sure both sides were looking at the same thing. This will be something that is updated uh at least once a year if not more. So each year you will
047see this plan again with updated information. Another area that is uh discussed and included is fund balance. So this gives a historical view of fund balance and just reminding people what is included in each area. Unassigned fund balance is the part that we talk about the 4%. Um we talk about that a lot at least being at 4% but not being over per the state requirements. Then you have assigned fund balance that we appropriate for the subsequent year. Restricted which is all of the different reserves which we spoke about and saw tonight. And then you have committed. So these are reserved for board approval future obligations if so deemed. Um, so this provides fund balance history by category and then reserve fund history by category. And when you're reading the document, there is a lot
048more details and explanation and ways to compare or analyze the information. I felt like that was a lot to do at this meeting. I did have the opportunity to uh sit with the superintendent and uh our meeting was lengthy going through this. So if you need more information, just let me know. But it it's a lot of meat. And then we get into the comparative analysis. So really what had to happen here is um I found everything is public information just a lot of digging uh and did different districts websites to pull their actual revenue, their actual expenditures. So everything you see in there is information that was pulled from uh New York State Education. uh whether that's their ST3 or the uh data source to compile this information. So revenue performance is really how
049close were you actually to the revenue that you put forth when you had your voters vote on the budget. And you will see that historically we've been pretty close, which means that we are taking the right amount of efforts to put together the budget, right? Not overestimate revenue. That's the last thing you want to do. Um or underestimate revenue either. Um [snorts] so that just shows the years of effort that has gone um by the board and by the administration to make sure we're accounting for that correctly. Expenditure performance uh is similar. How closely do we actually spend to what we tell the community we are spending? And we're pretty close, which is the goal, right? Um if you are under spending uh that means there is a possibility where you have tons of fund
050balance. Um and and then there become questions of did we need to levy what we actually levied. So these are all things that we take into consideration and we will continue uh as we move forward. There are other uh comparative charts uh throughout the presentation or the the actual plan document. I used those two because they were a little bit simpler um and just to provide a snapshot. But I did want to go through what our next steps are. Uh if you recall the board and administration spoke probably around budget season of working with somebody regarding forecasting for uh fiscal mon fiscal modeling. So that work is set to begin with probably within the next two weeks. um we will start working uh things that go into that just so you know it will be
051uh the ST3 which will now be fully complete now that the audit is complete. So, we'll look at ST3. We're going to look at audit. We'll look at all the historical pieces that I put together, but also contractual obligations, um, health insurance increases, all of those things will go into that plan. And then that will be something that is presented to the board, not by me [laughter] by uh by uh RG Tims, which will be great uh because that is an outside vantage point, able to explain everything that I try to make in in as much as layman terms as I can. Um and then we will work to make sure that we are aligning with the strategic plan. So everything all the work that's went forward um will be incorporated to the best of
052our ability and then as we are planning we'll be able to see where the finances are in comparison to what the plan is saying. Um this will also help with capital and facility considerations. Um we will review current and projected statuses for capital project capital reserves. They actually will look at all of the reserves. We do a lot of deep diving in um building out future uh levy allowances based on the parameters for the levy. So there's it's really looking at the expenses as well as the revenue so you can know where or if there are shortfalls and what to do in preparation for uh that also includes uh fund balance and reserve. So we will look at our policies and reserve levels to ensure that we're able to continue the fiscal health and compliance
053and then as expressed that will be communicated. Uh I think one of my uh strong suits I hope is transparency when it comes to financial things and this it will help uh increase that level of transparency so everybody is understanding the history and the finances moving forward. That's it. Great. Thank you. Any questions, comments in this budgetary forecasting? I'm I know that there's this is an outside agency coming in. Maybe we could remind them that we're going to be seeing some um sewers coming into the Huntington Station area that's going to change the way we see that landscape. There's going to be new buildings, potentially new tax revenue coming in from that district. Um see if they can tap into giving us a forecast of what that would look like. So I know there's already
054been some applications being filed for some bigger buildings, uh more residential buildings coming into that district. um and maybe a source of revenue or or even a way some of our taxpayers don't have to pay as much as they're paying today. >> I can definitely make note of that. And then just so you're aware, another area where some of that gets captured is in the uh tax cap calculation. So, as things are happening to the properties and um the areas around us, that is a factor that is factored in, but we'll talk about that when we get to that lovely time of year. >> Anyone else? >> I just want to say thank you for preparing this presentation for us, Dr. Harris. Um I especially thought the comparative analysis was very helpful and informative. um
055explaining the expenditure performance was really a great way for the community to see how how close we are in in what we're budgeting. So, thank you. >> Not a problem. I thought you can see anyone else. Right. Thank you for that presentation. Right. Moving on to NISPA advocacy. It is upon recommendation of the superintendent of schools that the board of education identify three advocacy priorities for submission to NISPA. Can I have a motion, please? Channel one. Tom 2. Um, and we have a few things to talk about. I know that Jenna uh had been approved as our advocate for this. I'll start out with the NISPA adopted positions and then we'll ask you to jump in for the NISPA position statements. The NISPA advocacy, the position statement states that the guide uh the New York
056State School Boards Associations are outlined in the list of resolutions adopted at Nispa's 2025 annual business meeting. the statements that were um introduced by members uh of the boards of education, NISPA's boards of directors. Uh each fall during the association's annual business meeting, voting delegates adopt official positions which lay foundations for the association's advocacy agendas and priorities priorities. Uh once they were adopted, each position remains a uh formal positions for five years unless it is rescended or the action the position calls for is accomplished. Um so I guess here if there are any remarks with regards to those already adopted positions we would pick one to uh seek to go after otherwise they would stand as is. Uh is there anybody does anybody have a position with regards to the already adopted positions of 2025.
057>> So just as a point of clarification so the there are two separate documents here. One is the adopted positions. Those are new positions that were voted on and already adopted at the resolutions dinner. Um, and some of those were sun setting resolutions, so they were just sort of readopted. Um, I think what NIST was looking for from us is is what we think the advocacy should look like. >> Yeah. I think so. What I'm asked to do on behalf of our board is identify our top three of the adopted positions. Um, and not the way I understand it is not necessarily the three that we as a board will be most likely to advocate for, right? Because there are some within the 137 odd positions that are very important to Huntington but perhaps not
058very important to other boards throughout the state. This is identifying three that we hope will become paramount for NISBA's advocacy, right? Um, so all of the boards throughout the state will do the same thing. We'll fill out a survey that literally just is like list your three and I imagine they will tally and those will be the three that are at the top of their agenda as they advocate and then obviously every individual board can do what they do. Um, >> right. This is awesome because now having you in this role, I mean, uh, for one of our former board members, Michelle and I used to go, we've gone up to Albany every year and sometimes you go in with a NISBA advocate or an area advocate, sometimes you go with a NISPA advocate. Um,
059but when you do meet with your legislators and your assemblymen, um, of course there's a docket of New York state themed, you know, everybody's, you know, experiencing these issues. Um but then as you meet you're meeting with your um your legislators and assemblymen of course you're going to talk about Huntington specific things. So when we were speaking today like we you know we wrote a resolution for a transportation declination or opt out of transportation services. Of course we'd want to talk to that um when we meet with them but I doubt that's going to be on anybody else's agenda really. So we were looking for more like bird's eyee view I think. Right. >> Yeah. So, if it's a helpful place to start, um, you know, over the past few months, I've talked with all
060of you at some point, and I think I have a we'll see. Um, I have a sense of what's important to different people. I've been paying my best attention at the board meetings in terms of what's important to the community and what would be helpful to Huntington and then also with an eye towards that bird's eye view of what might be a position that would get kind of support from other districts such that it would end up at the top of the docket. Um so I'll read five as a starting place for discussion. Um, and certainly people can throw out additional ones that are near and dear to your own hearts. Um, but again, I skipped some of those that are near and dear to my heart because either I don't think they're representative of
061the community as a whole or I don't think they would be picked up at the state level by NISPA. With that said, here we go. Um, so position 1.2, two, I'll go in order of the very long document for anyone who's following along. Speaks to charter school expansion. This is NISSBA opposes proposals to raise the number of charter schools authorized in the state. Uh position 2.8, comprehensive reform of the foundation aid formula. NISBA supports a comprehensive reform of the foundation aid formula. Pretty straightforward. uh 2.9 fully funded statewide pre kindergarten. NISBA supports universal prek fully funded by New York State for three and four year olds statewide. Um I'll make a note here that there were a couple that addressed prek but and again people are in love with one of those but this is
062the one that seems the most straightforward and provides funding as opposed to mandates that are unfunded. So there you go. 2.18 Funding for Health and Mental Health. NISPA supports proposals establishing additional dedicated funding for student health and mental health services. Um, and last one on my starting list, 2.11, dedicated school safety funding. NISBA seeks to initiate legislation at the state or federal level that would provide dedicated funding to be allocated for school safety measures, including staffing. Um, and again, for both mental health and school safety, there were several that addressed them, but these seemed the most straightforward. Obviously, even on the starting list, there were five, and we have to I get down to three. I can send a follow-up email. I don't know if anyone will read it. Um, so whatever we send in
063as the three they will read. >> Um, so I'll I'll just start. I think your list is fantastic. I actually bolded the ones that I had on my list also and I had a lot of the same. So the charter schools for sure I thought should be on fully funding um, prek foundation aid reform, the mental health piece. The the safety was not on my list, but I would support that. The only other thing I liked was um the the nutrition funding. I don't know if we want to maybe think about that. Just getting lunch um lunch paid for. There were a couple one or two. I didn't write down the exact ones, but there were one or two that allowed for the continuation of the funding of um meals, but otherwise my list aligned
064with yours, so I'm good with with those. >> Yeah, I don't feel like I have to be the one to respond to everybody. Obviously, lunch is excellent and funding lunch. I the only reason I personally didn't include on this is because at present that is fully funded and so I didn't know if we wanted to advocate for things that that are current issues. >> I think that um the charter school expansion was top of my list as well um as something we've seen on Long Island uh growing and taking taxpayer money um away from the school districts. So I think that that's something that we certainly could advocate for. uh at the state level. I agree with the rest of your list as well, but I just wanted to note that. Thank you. >> I
065just wanted to share, thank you, Jenna, for sharing that out. Um I absolutely agree with the list that we have going so far. Um I did want to take a look at um 2.9. And I know there's a couple of prek numbers, but um just to designate the difference between 2.9 and 2.13. >> Yeah, sorry. Let me pull it up. Um >> 2 2.13 says NISPA supports legislation that would assure equal full day pre kindergarten funding for all New York's school districts. >> Yeah. Yeah. And so here, maybe Teresa will have more information having been at the dinners. Um, but the way I read them, right, is if there if there's equitable funding that's not fully funded, right? >> I mean, I guess or there could be fully something fully funded and not equitable. And
066it's sort of like I don't know which of those is better or worse. I'm glad to go with either if people >> Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, I think the the fully funded piece was what got me over to to number nine as well. Um, thank you. But your you know, your list I know we we spoke so our our lists kind of aligned. Um, I think the charter school um issue is important as well as fully funding prek, fixing the foundation aid formula, >> [snorts] >> um, and mental health and of course safety funding as well. So, I'm really fine with Andy and all of them. And as you said, you know, you can follow send a follow-up email, but you and I will be engaging um with both the the county levels and
067and the state level. So, um I think this was really just for them to kind of get a sense of where everybody is. Um but when we go to Albany to advocate, we'll certainly be advocating for all the things that are more specific to Huntington itself. Um in in terms of how I'm feeling, uh I feel we're very much aligned. Um which, uh makes me quite happy. Uh starting off with the um uh the uh funding for charter schools, uh you know, agreeing with John here that this is taxpayer money. Um, and while it might might be going to taxpayers, uh, the equity component, um, uh, you know, taking away from Huntington, uh, as a school district, uh, pulls at the fabric of, uh, of our community. Um and we've got such a wonderful as
068we just saw in our uh uh presentation um from Rub Ruby earlier is that uh we're doing it right here and uh to have this funding in place uh to continue the wonderful programs we have uh which make Huntington so strong. Um yeah, I'm I'm I'm for keeping things uh you know, making sure that the public schools get the money that um the taxpayers voted for to come here. uh and uh to continue again the opportunity for um funding uh prek. Um this is becoming more and more uh difficult obviously on parents, working parents uh to be able to have not only child care uh in one component but on perhaps as an educator more more importantly it's properly preparing our students and giving all students the opportunity to be able to succeed not just
069those who might be able to afford a prek program. Uh and uh that's something that uh you know data shows pays enormous dividends. So uh that's my two cents. >> Anyone else? >> I feel like we've got kind of two front runners and then a less clear third. >> Third. Yeah, we didn't really whittle that list down, did we? >> So I I think that the 1.2 is a definite the charter one. The 2.8 eight is um the one with regards to comprehensive. Yeah. >> Yeah. And it seems like there were pretty clear on the prek funding, right? So, it's what's the third >> um I mean I I'm going to advocate if there's a third one would be 2.18, especially after what I saw this morning in our high school. Um mental health just
070seems to be something that our district can't afford to go without. So, that's what I would say would be the third. >> I'm fine with that. I strongly advocate for that as well. That's a incredibly important point uh and hits many different uh marks on here. Everything from school safety uh down to uh most importantly um you know the health of our our our students. Um yeah, for sure 18. >> And thank you all because I know that you've all read all of these. There's many of them. There's over a hundred and they're all very important to our district. because we've selected three doesn't mean that there others that are less important because there's a lot of things here that do hit uh some of the needs that we have here in our district but
071they're asking us to pick three. >> Exactly. And I I think that's you know there's a unified voice that kind of comes to the top but when we have conversations with you know our legislators and assemblymen we're we're advocating for all of it. There's you know there's so many important things. Um, but this is really just to kind of uh give the New York State School Board Association an idea of the themes that pop up to the top and and they really are very similar for most districts. The foundation aid has been a constant conversation and um yeah, so thank you Jennifer for taking this on and happy to help in any way that I can. >> Thanks everybody. All right, so confirming out loud. Um I don't know if we need to vote, but
072I will feel better if we just nod at the very least. >> Well, we'll make it we'll make it formal. make a vote for uh 1.2, 2.8, and 2.18. Can I have a motion, please? >> Hold on. I thought it was 2.9. I'm sorry. Yes. >> 2.9. >> Right. So, charter no charter schools. Yes. PreK funding and yes, mental health funding. >> Yes. Yes. >> Okay. Okay. >> That's 1.2, 2.9, and 2.18. >> Okay. Yes. >> Can I have a motion, please? Teresa one, John two. All in favor? That's everyone. Okay. >> Thank you. All right, moving on to personnel. >> Curriculum. Man, I just keep moving ahead of myself. Sorry. >> You know, we had this delicious cake and executive and it was like full of sugar and I was all amped up about
073it. I think it just wore off on me. >> It just crashed. >> Curriculum, please. >> It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve CSSE CPSC submissions as delineated. >> Have a motion, please. Jenna one, Kelly two. All in favor? That's everyone. And now some fun stuff, right? >> Yeah, we have a whole bunch of uh courses. Did you want to go through? >> Should I just uh describe? >> Sure, I can I can call on it. >> Is my recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approved the college introduction to digital journal journalism course for implementation beginning in the 2026 2027 school year. Can I have a motion, please? Channel one, Tom two. >> So, this uh course will enhance our current journalism
074course offering. Students will explore the basics of news reporting and writing through in-class exercises, outofclass reporting assignments, and close reading of daily news articles. Emphasis is placed upon the values, ethics, and practices of journalism. Critiques and discussion will reinforce the newsroom essentials of objectivity, fairness, balance, accuracy, and speed. By semester's end, students will produce basic news stories worthy of publication in the school newspaper, The Dispatch. This program is an excellent opportunity for students enrolled in the Huntington High School journalism course to attain three Stony Brook University credits at a reduced total cost of $300. Students who qualify for free or reduced lunch um will see the um uh further discount for $100 uh for the three credit course in total. questions, comments. >> I was just going to say as a current journalism teacher, I
075am just thrilled about this course. >> I think it's it's going to be great and it's in alignment with what we've been doing, but it's also an opportunity for kids to get uh important college credits. >> All in favor? That's everyone. Moving on to the next one. course proposal computer science essentials 1 and two. It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the adjustment from computer science 1 as a fullyear course to computer science 1 and computer science 2 as two half-year courses for implementation beginning in the 2026 2027 school year. Can I have a motion please? Jenna one Kelly 2. Upon approval, this uh our foundational computer science course, computer science essentials, will be revised to be presented as two half-year courses. Computer science essentials one will
076address the New York State computer science and digital fluency standards, including digital literacy, careers in computer science, block and script coding, and cyber security. Computer Science Essentials 2 will build upon the first course and this course will continue to address the New York State computer science and digital fluency standards. Topics for this course will include the history of computing, data representation, internet safety, script coding, and artificial intelligence. Revising this coursework to be presented in half-year sections will provide additional scheduling options for students, which will allow them to balance and explore an array of electives in all disciplines of interest while gaining valuable exposure to computer science foundational topics and skills. >> Questions, comments? This past Friday, I had the pleasure of listening to Elon Musk give a presentation about AI and about the future of
077AI and how important it is for high schools to prepare for uh that type of future. Um, but he's out there. I mean, he's got us going in into space. It's incredible. All in favor? That's everyone. And I did skip again. I'll go back. Course proposals AP cyber security is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the AP cyber security course for implementation beginning in the 2026 2027 school year. Can I have a motion please? Annie one John 2. So this course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of cyber security offering students a broad understanding of key principles practices and areas of study in computer security. Emphasis is placed on building foundational knowledge and readiness for advanced coursework and practical applications in cyber security. Major topics include computer
078hacking, malware analysis, software and network security, cloud and endpoint protection, application and mobile security, digital forensics, and security certification pathways. The course [snorts] also familiarizes students with the structure and focus of college level cyber security curricula and related academic programs. This three credit dual enrollment course partnered with Farmingdale College is essential for students interested in computer science, business, math, and digital art. Farmingale State College helps bridge the gap between high school and college level study through Farmingdale's University and the high school program. The UHS program allows students to earn three college credits at a reduced tu tuition rate of $35 per credit for a college level course. These credits can be used to pursue a degree at Farmingdale College where they can be transferred to another institution uh depending upon the institution. Uh [snorts] pursuing
079college level and AP course work often leads to better postsecary outcomes as students are more prepared for the college experience upon graduation from high school. The AP cyber security course aligns well with firstear college cyber security courses. >> Questions, comments? All in favor? That's everyone. >> Arts, right? >> Course proposal arts. >> Yeah, we have two. Uh >> yeah. Uh, unifier. Okay, here we go. It is my recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the addition of unified courses for creative >> Yeah, I keep jumping. All right. It's my recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the change from full year to halfyear courses for creative crafts, media arts, and studio art courses for implementation beginning in the 2026 2027 school year. Can I have
080a motion, please? Kelly 1, Tom 2. Heavier course options in studio art, media arts, and creative crafts will allow for additional scheduling options for high school students as they work with their counselors to build their course selections. A semester length and/or alternate day section of these courses will provide students with the [snorts] opportunity to experience more fine arts coursework by aligning art courses with semester and alternating day courses in other subject areas such as fizzed business electives, health, science labs, SAT prep, math, ELA support uh classes. By adding these additional options, students will be more able to fully explore the arts offerings at Huntington High School while maintaining focus upon all aspects of their academics and their [snorts] ability to explore other areas as well. This may lead to additional students finding their passions within
081the arts, opening up pathways to advanced level fine arts coursework. >> Questions, comments? All in favor? That's everyone. Thank you, >> personnel. >> And the last one is unified. >> Oh, did I miss that? You know why it keeps light? >> That cake really did you in [laughter] the last one? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay, here we go. I can't get this one wrong. It's the last one. It is my recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve the addition of unified courses for the creative craft, media arts, and studio art for implementation beginning in the 2026 2027 school year. Can I have a motion, please? Teresa one, John 2. >> These unified half-year courses in media arts, studio and art, and creative crafts will provide students with a variety of
082projects intended to build students skills and techniques as well as a thorough understanding of the elements of art through creative hands-on projects. The unified setting fosters collaboration and team building between Huntington High School students who are in the life skills program and those who are in the general education setting. Huntington's unified sports and physical education offerings have been very successful and have served as a model for others to follow. Expansion of our unified offerings will be of great interest to many of our students and will serve to foster our students academic and social growth in a nurturing, engaging and collaborative environment. >> Questions, comments? >> All in favor? That's everyone. >> Thank you. >> All right. personnel. It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve personnel items on
083schedules 1 3 5 8 9 10 11 13 16 and 22 motion please Teresa 1 Annie 2 all in favor that's everyone >> I have a few announcements first and foremost the board uh just appointed the wonderful Trisha to a new role and capacity as assistant director of DPO CIO UPK grants and home schools so congratulations [applause] it's quite with the long title. We also just appointed two new probationary staff members. We have Julia Flood who will be serving as a science teacher at Huntington High School. So, welcome. [applause] And we also have a new school psychologist at Jack Abrams STEM Magnet School, Miranda Califhatis. Welcome aboard. [applause] The board also just appointed and approved um Katherine Giuliano for tenure. here. And we do have a rose up here for you. So, congratulations. [applause] And
084I have a little quick speech. And and by the way, your daughter is adorable and so well behaved. My 8-year-old son could not do this, so it's great. Um, but it's my absolute pleasure to recommend Katherine Giuliano for tenure as a school social worker here in Huntington. From the moment she joined us, Katherine brought a warmth, steadiness, and deep care for students and families that can't be taught. It's simply who she is. Whether she is supporting a student in crisis, partnering with a family, or collaborating with our staff, Katherine approaches every interaction with empathy, professionalism, and heart. And our schools are better because of her. Kathy, you've made a real difference in the lives of so many in our community, and it's an honor to celebrate this well-deserved milestone with you tonight. So, thank you.
085[applause] And the last announcement, although it's bittersweet, and she does have one more board um meeting left in her, um the board did just um approve the resignation of Miss Blake Dunn as she goes on to pursue uh some really great things. So, congratulations and thank you for everything that you've done for us. So, well done. Appreciate it. [applause] >> Dr. Harris, business. >> All right. It is upon recommendation from the superintendent of schools that the board of education approve business items I through N. >> Have a motion, please. Annie one, Teresa 2. >> All in favor? That's everyone. >> We have a donation tonight from our very own Miss Michelle Gustera who's presenting a donation of various board games to Woodall Intermediate School with an approximate uh donation value of $200. So, thank you
086to Michelle. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> At this time, we open up the public commentary for our second session of public commentary. Same rules apply. Hi, thank you. First, thanks you all. It was informative session. I want to thank Dr. Harris for presenting numbers and graphs. I love that. And getting back at me last month's just a comment. I wish we could uh I really appreciate offering the dual programs at Farmingdale and Storybrook. I just wish we could as a community cover that $100 for the story for the disadvantaged students. I know it doesn't sound much, but I know a lot of people in the community that's still a lot for the parents. The kids might feel like that's too much to ask the parents. They won't enroll at the high school. They're not
087going to talk to their parents. They're just going to have that in their mind. As a taxpayer, I would love to cover that for students to take those kind of courses. I know probably doesn't apply to this year, but it would be great if we can just cover it instead of having them pay that 100 bucks. It's a lot for a lot of families in our community. Thank you. >> Anyone else? All right. Closing remarks by board members. >> Just want to remind everybody to go see the play this weekend. Those kids work so hard. It opens on Friday. lost girl. I think it's Friday at seven, Saturday at 2, and again at uh 7 o'clock on Saturday as well. >> Annie, >> just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. >> Um yes,
088we're we're so blessed to have such a great community. So, happy Thanksgiving with your family and friends. >> Tom, I saw you turn it on. >> Well, it's a little antilimactic after those nice farewells, but I didn't want to interrupt uh Mr. Cusack's uh discussion of all these courses uh individually. I just wanted to say as a whole all of these courses that are being put together, I'm not sure the community realizes um this is not a normal thing for most schools in the quantity that we've been approving. The amount of course offerings and the amount of college options, the amount of APs that are there, um it is an unbelievable opportunity uh that um most districts offer some but not in the amount especially per capita that we offer here. And um I'm really
089grateful for these uh opportunities for our students here and I would really uh just um highly recommend taking advantage of them and appreciating again one of the uh wonderful things that our administration does for us here. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Motion to adjurnn. Kelly one Jenna two. All in favor? Have a good night.