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006[Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can we please have a moment of silence to remember all those are serving our country at home and overseas? Thank you. Please note Maryanne Adrien and Peggy Morangi are excused from tonight's meeting. Um, please take a look at the beautiful artwork that's displayed both on the walls of this room as well as in the hallway. Many thanks to the students and staff from Wisdom Lane Middle School for sharing their artwork with us this month. We are now going to be moving to the auditorium for the transportation recognitions as well as our winter athletic recognitions. And we will return here in about 24 and a half minutes. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.
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009on with our meeting and I'm going to send the meeting over to Mr. Winch. Thank you, President Msina. Uh so I have a couple quick things to just talk about. I wanted to give a brief update in regards to the Wisdom Lane construction. Uh you may remember that we had a meeting uh right before break just to authorize um kind of a an emergency with the state for some cleanup. Uh where when we were doing work behind the school for the new turf field that was approved by the voters, uh we did unearth uh the remains of uh an original school building uh which was the Wisdom Lane Elementary School that was built in 1947. And so um unfortunately unearthing anything from that time period usually ends up having some asbestous involved uh which was
010indeed the case. And so clearly when you find something like that you have to make sure it is handled appropriately. Um and so while we uh did have Mr. Griller architect with us last time that we met um I did ask for some representatives that are actually a little bit more closely involved with the work to be here tonight. Uh but I actually I'm first just going to uh ask uh Mr. Camarada, our facilities director. Can you just kind of come up to the microphone and just introduce who we have here tonight to share an update with the board? Sure. This on good evening everybody. Thank you for having us here tonight. Um, tonight we have with us uh two representatives from Park East Construction. They the construction management firm that's overseeing this project. And
011also we have uh Mr. Ed, sorry, Chris Riviera and Franchesco I'm sorry I can't board Jezy. Um, and also we have Mr. Ed Maguire from JC Brderick. JC Brderick is the environmental firm that the district typically uses for all types of environmental testing, asbestous, lead, um, mold, things like that. So, that's what we have. I agree. So, I don't know who wants to kind of just start about a little bit about um, if somebody just come out and give the board an update on where we are in regards to the project and and what's kind of happening and that way if the board has any questions, they can ask you. Thanks. All right. Uh, so good evening everyone. I'm Franchesco from Park East. Um, Chris at Magguire. So, uh, we did uncover, um, some remains
012of a building in the ground. Uh, it's pretty extensive from what we know. We have not started remedial procedures yet. Um, but when we do start, we'll have men on the ground um, monitoring the trucks and the soil being removed. Uh, we'll probably get tickets at the end of each day that we'll be signing. Um, making sure that, you know, whatever is stated that's being removed is the actual quantities. Uh maybe Ed could speak a little bit more about the uh remedial procedures uh specifically. Good evening. So as you may know uh asbesus materials within New York State is very highly regulated. So upon discovery of the material uh we had a file uh with the state department of labor asbesus control bureau uh to submit a work plan uh for their approval prior to
013starting any work. that work plan has been approved. And part of that work plan does include that as the abatement contractor is removing all of this material that perimeter air sampling around the work site be done on a continual basis uh to ensure that uh everything is being done properly and that there's no emissions uh from the site. Uh that will happen continually for the duration of the project. and the Department of Labor local office uh for the asbesus control bureau uh who's already been in contact with us will be making periodic visits uh making sure that everything is going uh satisfactoryily. Does anybody from the board have any questions in regards to the project, the process of the abatement or anything else while we have the folks here? Phil, when do you when do
014you start the abatement? I think right now the abatement contractor is waiting for approval from the uh facility which is out of state. So once we have approval that they can take the um the loads, then we'll we'll begin immediately. Mike, did you want to go? I'm going to Sure. So, being that you don't know the extent, you have no idea when it's going to be over. Correct. Uh, excuse me. Being that you don't know the extent of uh what debris is down there, you wouldn't know any approximate time how long it should take. We have an idea of the size of the area, but until we actually get into it and start the removals, we don't know. It could be could be less, could be a little bit more. Um, but we are estimating
015probably about 60 to 90 days. And is the entire area do you suspect being um as spec contaminated? I believe everything needs to be removed as fable asbesus material. Correct. So within the building footprint. Okay. Thank you. Not being not being a specics expert, how do you know like the ground underneath? Are you going to test for that? You know, underneath the foundation? Yes. The procedure for the removal is as the contractor removes it uh we go to a depth where we see visible material uh make sure that we get everything and then from there we have to look uh even below that and document with uh photo documentation that there's no additional uh material to be removed. Can I I'm I just want to understand the process as a whole. Do you kind of
016go in, you remove it in small pieces or like in small parts and then ship it and remove ship or is it like remove it all and then ship? Sorry, just uh it's shipping as it's being removed. The idea being that uh nothing is removed from the ground until they're ready to containerize it uh and then ship it out immediately. This way we're not having uh piles of asbesus contaminated waste on the property. Uh there's an asbestous contractor who will be operating a excavator. uh other workers will be on the ground keeping all material uh wet so that we're not having any emissions coming from uh the soil removal and that will be immediately transported into a uh what's called a airtight and leak proof container uh for trucking to the waste facility in Ohio.
017So the removal is done by your company or the construction company is it like so two separate people are working at the same time? Totally separate companies. Uh so we're the licensed air monitoring firm and then a asbestous abatement contractor is a separate entity has to be separate uh by law. Okay. And now does there like inspectors that come from like the state or the county or is it just like you said you're going to provide pictures so there's not like we have to wait on somebody to come to check to make sure it's legitimate or anything like that to that's going to slow down the whole cleanup? No. Our on-site project monitor is authorized to uh clear the removal uh when to say that the removal is completed, but the local inspectors from the
018asbesus control bureau of the department of labor will make periodic visits as well. Okay. Is there an already agreed upon like depth that you're going to go down to find out any more materials or is it just something as like as you go that's when you make those decisions? Uh it's more as we go. We know we have to go to approximately 3 feet at least. Uh and then uh they will turn the soil and uh for us and make sure that there's no residual material any deeper. Okay. The 3 ft is like a standard for like industry or is it just from like from our job site? Uh from your job site as uh as we're waiting for approval from the variance. We did an investigation uh towards the north end uh one to
019confirm that the extent of the contamination went the entire building footprint and to get a gauge on the uh approximate depth of uh where this material was. Okay, did you want to go? And then Mike, I think you touched upon it, but you know, we have our kids going to school there and we have houses around there. So, um, how do you contain it from being airborne? I think you said something about wet soil, but I'm sure that's a concern from our neighbors and obviously for our kids that are going to school and teachers and staff and faculty. Uh, regulations state that uh nonabatement personnel can be on the property uh in excess of 25 ft of the work area. Uh so we have that as our first barrier. Uh the contractor will set up
020uh a uh temporary fence around the work area and post signs uh to make sure that uh no one accidentally enters the work area. And then yes, engineering controls uh primarily keeping uh the materials wet so that and no dust becomes airborne. Uh in addition, we do have uh perimeter air samples that we'll be running uh at all times while operations are are are going on to make sure that not only are we not seeing any airborne releases, but we're not actually having any airborne releases. Are there any other states in the United States that have such stringent uh asbestous abatement rules and regulations? New York by far is one of the most stringent uh for a case like this with uh found demoed material under the ground. This does fall under a federal regulation
021as well. So this would be ne uh this condition would be necessary uh in every state. Uh but New York then throws uh more regulations on top of it. How does Ohio accept this? Uh they have a EPA permitted landfill for fryable asbestous waste where New York does not. All they have to do is wet it down. That's it. Uh essentially they uh it's a landfill that is uh again permitted with the restrictions uh for that landfill. Um and it essentially gets uh it gets buried. All right. Thank you. Anyone have any more questions? Thank you for answering all the questions and just on behalf of the school district, thank you for obviously working with us on this as this was uh uh unforeseen. um we obviously collaborate with with all of you on a
022regular basis, but uh it's good to have good people when we, you know, experience kind of an emergency. So, thanks for just being there, uh handling the situation, but also for coming and spending some time with us tonight to kind of allay some concerns. Just so the board is aware, we did send a letter to all of the families at Wisdom Lane, the staff at Wisdom Lane, as well as the households that uh live around that perimeter. even though not required, we just felt that that in the you know kind of spirit of transparency, it was best to let everybody know, listen, this is the situation. We're doing it the right way. Um it's definitely not not cheap to do it the right way, but uh you know, we we're not going to bury materials
023that you know are not good. We're going to make sure they're remediated appropriately and leave uh leave leave the place better tomorrow than how we found it today. So we appreciate all of your efforts as well as from our facilities department, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Williams, uh Mr. Leult as well. Um, obviously not something we planned for. We have a lot of projects going on. So, uh, this does, you know, just kind of complicate everything a little bit, but, uh, everybody's working hard to make sure that our families are safe. So, thank you again for being here tonight. Thank you. Have a good evening. Okay. Um, just a security update briefly. I did leave. I know we've been talking about this a lot and uh, people that are listening at home may be saying, "Why does
024he keep talking about this but not doing it?" Uh, I left at your desks as well as uh at our student liaison a copy of the um the pending security survey that we're going to be sending out to um parents, staff, and students. And so I know I've shared this out with a lot of you already multiple times. It has not changed since the last time that we worked on it. Um but obviously if you have any questions as you're perusing it right now, um this would be the time to bring it up. Um, and so, um, you know, like I said, it it's pretty much straightforward and we're just looking to collect data from our stakeholders, which are those involved. And then once that information goes out and we collect it, we will share
025it at the board as well as at a public meeting. Go ahead. Looking at it, I think it's very user friendly. So, I commend whoever put this together because I think it's really easy to follow through. I don't know who did that, but it's I I mean, I could follow it pretty clearly and it seems to be very organized. So yeah, I think it's a good uh document. Thank you. I did it alone by myself. So no, I'm just kidding. It was it was a team. It was a team effort with central office and then with the board. Mr. Msina had a lot of input in regards to the questions and No, no, she she listen it uh these things are are never simple, right? because questions can be um read in different ways and
026we we want it like you said to be clear and and people to respond based on the questions that we are asking them and we want to make sure they interpret them the same way that we are and so I will say we got a lot of feedback from the board especially Msina it's not bad to have feedback um and we do always take feedback and try to make the product a better product and I think it's at that point but student liaison as you're reading the student questions if you have questions you're like you know what we're you're going to get a bad answer on this And um just, you know, please let us know and and that way we can uh because we do want to send it out soon. All right. Um
027my last uh comment in my report tonight, if if um Derek, if you could just bring up my um two little uh pictures here. At one of our previous meetings, uh the district had talked about or the board had talked about uh doing a better job of advertising our board meetings. And I actually think at the time our student liaison had shared that, you know, really kind of doing a better job at social media pushes uh to advertise board meetings would probably be more effective than whatever we're currently doing. Um and so the board had asked for us to come up with some um some new, you know, forms. We do we do put it out on social media right now. It just it just appears in a like calendar list what we put on
028our Facebook page that says, you know, it's a board meeting. Um and so these are two examples if the board is interested in them. Um, so Mrs. Msina, I don't know if you want to get feedback or if you have other ideas, but this is this is what I bring to you. I wanted to first actually open this up to our student leaison. I don't know if this is probably the first time you're looking at it, but maybe just like your gut reaction um at seeing this. I think the purpose of this is to get more exposure when the meetings are going to be, make it look a little bit more visually appealing. And um, so I don't know if you guys want to take a minute to look. I can come back to the
029adults and then come back to you if you want. You want to try that? I'll put them on the spot. That's better. James, Mike, Christina, or Phyllis, anyone want to Come on. No one has opinions. Oh, Christina, thank you for letting me know you have the process. I think they're eye-catching. You know, the one on the left gives a little more obviously what's going on, and the one on the right is just like, hey, there's a meeting reminder. So, I don't know if we can do both of them. Like, one's a little more detailed if people want to know what's going on. the other's like, "Hey, it's coming up." So, you know, I think they're they're good. Thanks, Phyllis. Mr. Papis. Yes. So, if you look at YouTube, and I keep track of this every
030meeting, it just went up from four to six. Now, it's down to five people watching. So, we're really not getting our message out there. And that's normally it's two to 10 maximum unless there's some controversial issue uh regarding a sports team or a coach or a major tax increase which we don't have which is always a good thing. Um the less people that show up apparently it means you're doing everything well you know that's why I look at it you know anyway that's my that's my thought. Can I move over to liaison? You guys look really excited to share. So my first reaction when I saw it, I think the right one was definitely more aesthetically pleasing. Like if I probably saw the social media, I think like most of my generation would probably like
031the right one is definitely more. But the left one's definitely also useful. I think that definitely like helps parents or those that are like definitely interested in getting more information. But overall, I think they're really good. Sorry Madison, it's your turn now. Um, I like the one on the left just because I feel like it's very informative and I feel like the one on the right, the white background, it's very plain and it's not like as like capturing as the left one. Also, where would you be posting these is my question. Where should we post them? Young young students of the district. So, not Facebook. Is that where's everyone at the consensus? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you you were like leading them with that. That's why you shared that. Yeah. Yeah. Where should we post
032that? Instagram. Okay. Instagram. Okay. And I think if you like posted like the same format every month, someone will be like, "Oh, they might remember the format of it more than just it saying board meeting." Like you post the same one with different information on it every month. That's a great point. Um, I I'm going to give my opinion now because why not? Um, I think the one on the right is like more I'm going to say modern looking. So, is there a way to combine them? Cuz like the one on the left, the LPS logo, while I do love it, uh, is quite large. So, if there's a way to bring them together for a common groundb. Yeah. Yeah. So, like it's informative and eye-catching and it'll take away some of the white background.
033I don't know. But I think it's nice that we're going to do something on social media to try to bring in bring in the crowds for the refreshments. Do Do I Are either of you involved in this kind of work or or No, not really. No, you're like, "No." Well, wait. Madison, what? I run my classes Instagram. I don't know if that Well, I guess I guess the question was more of like you're more than welcome if you have a another idea that merge these two to present if you want to bring to the next board meeting. Uh an example. Yeah, you'll think about it. All right. All right. All right. All right. And if it's on Instant, you can actually have both. You can have the first monthly meeting reminder and then that's slide
034one and slide two can be the next. I'm just saying we can have it all. Very true. Or you can make one like an Instagram post and then the other one like an Instagram story cuz sometimes people don't scroll down enough. Okay. I love that. I'm out. All right. You just showed me. Christine, I was just about to give you props for your Instagram knowledge. I'm so sorry. We could do that as part of our retreat if anyone we could we'll just talk about it. We'll think about Well, then uh how about how about then um either you Madison or the two of you together uh kind of come up with an idea that you might think even if it's not the finest product you have a a template that you think this might be
035good if there's like a like you talked about whatever that structure is you mentioned about you know whatever that was the story and I'm not an in I'm a Facebook I'm old I'm a Facebook person uh but um come up with something and then maybe it doesn't have to be the next meeting because we're not going to really start this until the next school year uh but talk about leaving your mark the two of you come up with like structure of how we would advertise to get more people involved um by really utilizing the social media channels that we're clearly not getting anybody uh to to even watch at home because you would figure a lot of people would listen at home but but they're not so we're not reaching them. So maybe between now
036and our last meeting on June 7th 4th 4th 4th uh maybe you come back with something and then we'll we'll take a look at it and maybe that will be your legacy when you leave. All right. All right. Thank you. Oh Mike, go ahead. So when I was young many many years ago, there was always a way that I can get my parents to believe that I they should let me do this. And you guys are I'm sure fantastic students and you have your finger on the pulse of your parents. So you know what would make them look and say, "Oh, let me go take a look at this meeting. This looks interesting to me." So we kind of need that aspect also. you know what would make your mom and dad uh just an
037adult come and see this you know instead of you know it might not be flares and lights and everything but what would get them if you wanted to tell your mom and dad that you wanted a new car how would you get them this to get that well this is kind of a little less than that but I think you guys can do it thank you [Music] uh that that is All I have in regards to my comments. Um followup to public pover heard public art question was completed and I answered all board questions. So that concludes my report for tonight. Thank you. We're now going to move on to the board of education's portion for comments and reports. Um Mr. Moran, would you like to report on the recent convention that you attended? It
038would be my pleasure to to to make a report. Um yes. uh myself and uh a couple of other board members and superintendent. We attended the national conference in Atlanta and uh first I have to give a shout out to Gentle Expressions Dental. I have to give a shout out to them. If anybody wants to know that backstory, I'll tell you, you know, not on microphone, I'll tell you somewhere else. But uh anyway, they did a great job and uh you know it enabled me to enjoy the rest of the conference. But uh I went to a couple of sessions and the one session that really caught my eye being a security is is a is a hot issue everywhere and uh there was a company in there was a local district that was presenting
039with this company that um called Expon um and they have a a new product that they're they're putting out there. It's it's a badge like the ID badges that are that everybody wears around here, but it has other features involved in it like uh it has there's a a GPS or a tracking device within. So um if you're looking for a student, a teacher or a visitor comes into the building and he wanders off where he's not supposed to be, they they could actually pinpoint exactly where this person is. Um I thought that was interesting in itself. And there's also um like uh the teachers, the administrators on their badges. There's a um you know like we have that rave app that that we have this has it right on the badge in their classroom.
040So god forbid something happens they just uh you know activate it and uh everything happens lock down you know all that stuff the homeland the police all that stuff happens just by a push of a button in the classroom. So, I thought it was very interesting and uh you know, I spoke to uh Mr. Winch at the conference about it and I know that's that I believe they already spoke to the company and and we've dealt with the company well not this particular company but people that are involved with this company. We've dealt with them before and uh I just thought it was a great uh that workshop was one of the best ones that I attended. I did not go to the electric bus one this time. I did not. No, I got as
041much information as I I need right now to make a uh a a a decision on where I stand with that. But uh it was a good conference overall. I think what we we learned a lot and it's it's always good with the networking. You you you know you meet people from different districts, you know, uh big districts, small districts, you know, uh and just to share information. It's it's a good adventure. And that's my uh report. Thank you, Mr. Maroon. correspondence. We have nothing correct. We're going to move on to our student leaison. Oh, I never remember who went first last. I'm sorry. Uh, how about Madison? Can you go first from MacArthur? Thank you. Good evening. Before I begin, I hope that everyone had a nice and relaxing spring break with their family
042and friends. I'm sure we are all excited for a great conclusion to the school year. Since our last meeting, there have been a lot of fantastic happenings in general nation. First, on March 7th and 8th, we conducted two phenomenal performances of our spring musical, The Wizard of Oz. If you were fortunate enough to attend either of these magnificent shows, I am sure you would agree that it was absolutely amazing. Special thanks to our dynamic director, Mrs. Levvenberg, our music producers, Mrs. William and Mrs. Ton, as well as Mrs. Bzinski, and all of the members of our lighting and sound crew, and of course, our spectacular and talented actors and actresses for their magnificent performances. On March 14th, we conducted our annual junior banquet in our beautifully decorated gymnasium. Over 300 11th graders attended this beautiful
043celebration, and we all had a fantastic time enjoying the delicious food and desserts, and most danced the night away to the fantastic sounds of our incredible DJ. Huge congratulations to our girls varsity bowling team as they became the first bowling team in MacArthur High School history to be crowned Nassau County champions. Additional congratulations to our coach, Mr. Lehey as he was named the Long Island coach of the year for girls bowling. Way to go, Generals. On March 3rd, we conducted Oh, nope. On April 3rd, we conducted our very successful night of honor ceremony where new members were inducted into the art, business, math, and world language honor societies. And on April 10th, an astounding 152 new members were inducted into the National Honor Society at our beautiful ceremony where we also honored teacher of the
044year, Mr. Russell and community advocate of the year security guard Mr. Pretti. Congratulations to all. And one final report on our very own Melody Hong regarding her finish in the prestigious Regeneron National Science Talent Search Competition. Melody competed in the final round of the competition in Washington DC throughout the second week of March and she had to present her research project along with answering a myriad of intense questions to several committees consisting of renowned scientists and politicians from across the country. At the conclusion of the competition, it was announced that Melody received their remarkable sixth place reward and was the only New York student to to place in the top 10 and earn an $80,000 prize. Way to go, Melody. Upcoming events include on April 29th and 30th, senior class adviser Mrs. Rolson along with
045all the senior class officers will be selling prom tickets during all four lunch periods for our highly anticipated upcoming senior prom which will be on June 5th at the Piermont catering hall. On May 1st we will be conducting our first concert of the spring season which will be showcasing our ultra talented symphonic band under the direction of Mr. Romano. The show begins at 7:00 and from May 5th through May 16th we will be administering our advanced placement exams. So, please join me in wishing all of our AP test takers the very best of luck. Thank you. And this concludes my report. Thank you, Madison. Bey, you're up. Good evening, everyone. I hope everyone had a lovely spring break and it's great to be back. To begin, there are some announcements to celebrate at Division. To
046begin, the division ambassadors program led an event for the first time for freshmen to connect with their peers called Build a Bridge on March 27th. In build a bridge, peer leaders talked with their freshman students about important topics in our community, including inclusive inclusivity in the dragon community. Students had a wonderful time and the event was very successful. Special thanks to Miss Wheeler and Mr. Brevis for helping to set up the event. Additionally, the Division Avenue Key Club participated in LTC on March 28 to 30. The attendees were able to network with the other Key Club district key clubs and learn how to continue um improving our community. From my friends, I heard that they had a wonderful time. To add on, the positive club at Division Avenue had a sisterhood suaree filled with love
047and empowerment. Females had the opportunity to sing along to favorite songs, share hair and makeup tips, and eat snacks together. This event took place on March 26th. Thanks to Miss Wheeler. Last, our students had their junior prom on April 5th. They had a wonderful time dancing to the music and connecting with their friends. for major upcoming events. AP exams will be administered in schools for two weeks May May 5 to 9 and May 12th to 16. We wish our students luck. Additionally, the Division Avenue Culture Fest will take place on a date yet to be decided during the beginning of June. Students will share their culture through food, dance, and posters. Last year, elementary school students came to visit. This concludes my report. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Vinie. We're now going to move the
048public be heard. The first person we have signed up to speak is Stephanie Teamer. Did I say it right? Um Stephanie, when you come, you just got to give your Do you give her name and her address? Okay. [Music] Okay. Hi, my name is Stephanie Teamer and I'm a senior at Division Avenue High School. I'm currently working on my Girl Scout Gold Award and I'm building an outdoor classroom for Summit Lane Elementary School. Stephanie, I'm sorry. Can you just say your address really quickly, please? 42 Bent Lane. Thank you. The cost of materials for my project was less than $250. The gold awarded committee that the gold award committee also requires that I do a bunch of presentations to teach others about my project and why it's important. So, thank you for letting me tell
049you about my project and why it's important. So, an outdoor classroom is a learning environment outside of a traditional indoor classroom setting. They can enhance the education as well as other aspects of a child's life. And many people just haven't thought of the benefits of teaching kids outside. Some key benefits are enhanced creativity and thinking skills, improve mental health and well-being, increased physical activity, and motivation for engagement and learning. One benefit is the creativity and thinking skills. So being outdoors has been proven by experiment to heighten creativity. In a study, the people walking outdoors showed more creativity than the people indoors. The nature also provides many sights, sounds, and textures and smells that encourage the children to think outside the box. And there's also a lot of stimuli that could spark their imagination. Another benefit
050is the mental health and well-being aspect. So, we all know about winter depression or SAD. Um, and being outside could help maintain their normal serotonin levels, which will get rid of this. It's also shown to have a calming effect to be outside and it lowers their stress hormones and it's also a break from devices, which everyone needs. Another benefit is physical activity. So, many kids just aren't getting enough exercise in the modern day, and this would provide a natural way to add more movement into a child's day. It will promote their bone health and muscle development which will decrease their risk of injury. So if they're playing a sport that's very helpful and for their motor and cognitive development. It's also associated with improved academics. The final benefit is engagement and learning. So students have
051been shown to be calmer and better able to focus when learning in nature. In a study by Harvard, um there was rate of redirects or instances where a teacher interrupted the flow of instruction to redirect the students attention and it was almost cut in half after a lesson in nature. It also greatly benefits students with learning disorders like ADHD. Some potential problems may be weather conditions, temperature, accessibility, and cost to build. Some solutions may be for the weather, the school could add a canopy to shelter the outdoor learning area. For the temperature, parents could be encouraged to help their child dress accordingly. And it's also a good opportunity to teach the kids about the importance of dressing for the weather and wearing sun protection. For the accessibility, the outdoor classrooms can be built very close
052to the school, which will make it very easy to access. And for cost, my project proves that outdoor classrooms don't have to be expensive. They could be as simple as benches. Many schools have already started with North North Carolina. They got a grant to build the outdoor classroom. And in Rocky Point, Long Island, they were gifted their outdoor classroom from the PTA. Outdoor classrooms are the perfect way to bring light into the lives of students and teachers. The next generation of this world deserves to have a new space to embrace learning, engage with, and be taught about the nature around them, and have the opportunity to benefit from and explore the possibilities of life without walls. Stephanie, the three minutes up, can you just bring us to the end? Yeah. Thank you. So, on the
053next page, there's just a picture of some of the benches that were built. And that's it. There's also a QR code. So, if you don't want to do it on the paper, you can scan the QR code. Thank you. Thank you. But just to reiterate again for you that you handed out the surveys to the board members, you do want them to fill it out to give back to you. Correct. Yes. So, do you want them to leave the mic on the table? Is that good? Yeah, that's good. Okay. Okay, next up we have Matt Mattie Bies. Thank you, Madame Chair, and and good evening, folks. My name is Mattie Buckies Highland, and I'm um I live at 1297 Shaw Place in Seafford, that is in Levittown, my friends, and I'm an advocate for people
054with developmental disabilities. I had a busy day today, as you could see. Um well, I was first at the town of Babylon meeting. Um, you know, and Rich Schaefer, the supervisor said, you know, you got a great program you have on the show for the Winter Center for Autism. On Monday, April 7th, me and and Tibilis George, whose own Tom de Vepski introduced a presentation to SEPTA. My feedback would be if it my opinion would be to write to invite you know the five-star programs or anyone with an IEP who has an autism classification um to be to be come to the winter center for a field trip program from division new MacArthur. this could be an opportunity for learning to them and I hope that we will do that by the end of this
055year because it would be nice to get more more children involved in that and thank you Todd for the ne second letter I sent for the last February board meeting. You were right about one thing if and if we don't meet the 180day requirement then that can meet no federal or state funding and that means we have to cut our discretionary spending and and possibly our mandatory spending. But I would like to make one thing clear. Thank you for all you do and advocating for people with autism. It was not long ago on July 26th, 1990 that a Republican president named George Bush signed a bill into law that was signed by then by sponsored by then a Democrat um US senator from Iowa Tom Harkin for their part in doing this. And it's important
056to keep advocating and disres. So, I remind to all of our elected officials, please do not cut funding. Don't cut Medicare. Don't cut Medicaid. Don't cut Social Security. With that being said, please have a great evening. I'll see you all in two weeks. God bless you. Thank and and before I go, I hope you indulge me in a moment of silence. Honor the Pope for for his work throughout this [Music] life. Thank you. May God bless him and and I will return to you one time a holy Bible that can be used in the boardroom when district members take their oath of office. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Imran Pasha. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Imran Pasha and I represent the Levittown Muslim community group. Uh thank you
057so much uh for giving us an opportunity to express our gratitude. Um over uh one last one month um our Muslim community has uh observed the uh Eid festival of Ramadan. Uh childrens do fast uh continuously for one month and then we celebrate the Eid. So we wanted to thank uh the school board for understanding the needs of the children and being very supportive. One of the best thing uh of the Long Island uh the greatness about this Long Island and the school district is its uh diversity. Our strength lies in the incredible diversity and uh we want to thank uh the school board uh for you know supporting and advocating uh for these kind of activities. So we want to from bottom of our hearts we really want to thank the entire school board
058uh for being so inclusive and also accommodating. Um we have witnessed this over past few years. So we want to continue this uh partnership uh next year as well. So we we we have got a few gifts to present it to the board. If you can please accept that it would be great. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you. Just want to thank everyone who came out to speak to tonight. Uh we heard all of your comments and we'll keep them in mind as we move forward. Your input helps us to make better decisions for our students and our schools and we appreciate your time and involvement and thank you again for all the wonderful gifts. Good luck with your project too, Stephanie. We're going to now move on to our agenda. For
0595.1, we have the approval of Bosey's budget and candidates. Do I have a motion to accept item 5.1 on the agenda? James, do I have a second? Phyllis. Um, any discussion? We have to talk about the three names that have been chosen. Correct. So we have Fran Langner and Robert Shon and Michael is it pronounced him? Thanks Mike. Those are our three for the Boseies uh election of their board of trustees. So do I need someone to make a motion to accept the item as amended? Do I have to do that? Perfect. James again and fill us your second. All in favor? 5. We're on now up to 5.2, which is budget transfers. James, are you good? Okay. 5.2 for budget transfers. Do I have a motion to accept 5.2 on the agenda? Mike, and
060a second, Christina, any discussion? Go ahead, James. What what are the uh special projects that maintenance is going to be doing with the Thank God we didn't use all the overtime snow, but what are the special projects? What kind of special projects? Okay, thank you. I did enjoy how you said we send the guys out at night. Well, the part of the issue is you got to run electric to those where there was never electric before. Correct. Isn't that one of the main issues? Are we all in favor? 50. Thank you. 5.3 of the schedules. Do I have a motion to accept item 5.3 on the agenda? Phyllis. Second. Mike. Thank you. All in favor. I have zero. We're now moved to the consent agenda. We have Can I have a motion to accept items
0616.2 through 6.23 on the consent agenda. Thanks, Christina. Do I have a second? James. Any discussion? All in favor? 5 Z? Yes. Yes. Phyllis, I see your hand under the table. And now we're going to move to action items for gifts to school. Uh recommended motion resolved that the Levittown Board of Education does hereby accept with thanks the following gift. A check and a BJ's gift card to be donated to MacArthur five-star program from the Shampoo. That's awesome. Pauler LLC 1704 Washington Avenue in Seafford, New York. Do I have a motion to accept 7.1 gifts to school on the agenda? Phyllis second. Any discussion? Accept with thanks. Yes. All right. All in favor? 5 Z. We're going to move to ad hoc. I'm just going to mention that at the next meeting, we should have
062the next batch of policies that the policy committee has been faithfully looking at. Uh we're now in the 3000s and so we'll probably bring about 14 policies to the next meeting. They are an amazing read. Um they actually really were uh they were fascinating. Uh for upcoming dates, we have Wednesday, May 7th is a regular meeting and the budget hearing at 7:30. Tuesday, May 20th is the budget vote from 700 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. And then the regular meeting will take place at 7:30. And the next one after that is Wednesday, June 4th, which is a regular meeting at 7:30. May I please have a motion to adjourn the April 23rd regular meeting? Phyllis second. Christina, all in favor? 5-0. Thank you. Meeting adjourned.