001I pledge 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. Thank you all for being here tonight. I'm going to turn the meeting over to our Thank you. I am going to turn the meeting over to Mr. DeAngelo for the for our budget hearing. Thank you, Dr. Galley. So, we're just at the very tail end of our budget cycle. It is May 12th, which is 1 week before vote, which is when we have our budget hearing. And what the budget hearing means is it's an opportunity for anyone from the public to come and talk about the budget. It's already been adopted by the board, so this is the same budget that's going before the voters
002next week. So, it's not the time for any changes, but it's the time for people to speak about things they like, anything they want about the budget before the actual vote. This is a public hearing where anybody can speak about the board's budget that's going to go before the voters at the polls next Tuesday, May 19th. Just a real quick recap. So, some foundational principles that are always behind the scenes when we prepare the budget, and it certainly was in place this year as we put forward the budget, um, smart spending, which means that we want to make sure we get the best value out of every dollar that's in all of code. Make sure that all of it is going towards student success. So, every time you look at any [snorts] one of our
003line-by-line items, you're going to think, "Yes, this dollar that's allocated in this way is going to contribute to student success and long-term stability." Which means that for some of the new programs that we have that we're going to talk about this evening, we've talking about over the past few months, that we're going to ensure that it goes on in the years to come. It's not just a one-off, but that we thought about it and said, "Yeah, we're going to be smart, make sure it's efficient. We're going to make sure it contributes to student success, and we're also going to make sure that we can sustain that program for the years to come, especially in the near future." So, you're going to see a few highlights that we're going to talk about this evening, and it's
004going to be in a nice graphic that we have this year. And we're going to touch on a few different areas: academics, music, and even the facilities and construction. So, let's first start off with some of the important instructional program initiatives. For example, we're going to have more AIS teachers at the elementary level. Um more physical education, and also something we're really excited about is the creation of a new Bloomberg lab. So, what does that Bloomberg lab going to look like? It's going to look like something that could even be on the trading floor. For next year, we're going to put it in one of our classrooms, and we're going to explore the idea of maybe putting it on the ground level of the library, um to see if it's feasible based on the type
005of space we have at our high school library. But, we're going to get started with it, and uh it'll look like something like that. Students who are studying math or economics, it's really a hands-on experience for them, especially the students who are interested in going after a career in finance. Uh I would also like to just touch on, in terms of athletics, we're going to have um some new coaches for game day cheer, wrestling, and field hockey. Some growing sports that we have, and we're going to support the growth in the student interest in those areas. In our arts, I'm really proud of the arts program we have in the district. We're going to be updating our TV media lab at the high school. So, last time, about 15 years ago, we put this brand
006new TV media studio at the high school and now 15 years later, it's time to update that. Equity is a really important value for us here in Long Beach. So, we have in the budget funding to make sure that we participate in this new BOCES dual enrollment college course program. What that means that for the college courses that we have been offering for the most part over the past several years, I think all of them maybe one or two are not going to participate in this. It will not cost our families any money to order to take the course. That is going to be funded and then we're going to partner with BOCES and get some money back from BOCES in this program. So, this is also something very new that we're participating in for
007next year. Health and wellness, another important value for us, something that we've been really enhancing over the last couple of years. This past in the current year, we started the new wellness room at the high school and now we're going to create a new wellness room in the middle school. Student supports, meaning what can we do to engage our students in various ways maybe outside of the classroom hours. We have some new clubs like rock band, fishing and water polo and we're also going to have a new high school barbering program. So, students do not have to travel to a BOCES site, but they'll be able to do it right at Long Beach High School on site and it's a collaboration with BOCES. So, again, something else to engage kids. And the last area that
008I'd like to talk about is our facilities and capital projects. So, there's funding in the budget for next year for ongoing repair and maintenance support. We're always looking to make sure that we invest properly in our buildings and increase security at the elementary schools. There's funding in there. We started doing that in the current year to make sure that we have guards there at our after school programs. Those are requests that came from our principals and uh were happy and the board agreed to um respond favorably to that request. Another request to add a cleaner at the high school so that the night custodian who's there can really focus on supervision and help elevate the level of cleanliness there. So, there is funding in next year's budget for that, something we already started this year.
009And then, excuse me, $1.7 million for upgrades to the high school pool and the pool bleachers. Here's a chart that shows you some year-to-year changes in some general categories. So, on the left, we have expenditures, and it's broken up into general support, instruction, transportation, community service, and then >> [cough] >> excuse me. Debt service and transfers. And you see the increase is about a 2% increase in our budget from current year to next year. Then you see the individual dollar changes and the percent changes. Revenue, you'll see that our budget, right, our spending our expenditures equal our revenue projection is about $162.5 million. And you see our tax levy increase about 2%. And you see the increases in the other categories. This is a nice slide that gives you the year-to-year comparison. This graphic is
010the same graphic that you're going to get in the 6-day notice that you should get for everybody who lives in the community in their homes probably tomorrow. And the revenue sources also um is something that you'll see in that 6-day notice. So, just a little bit about the tax levy. The maximum allowable property tax levy increase that's calculated using this tax cap formula pursuant to New York State legislation. Otherwise, our tax cap number is 2.65. Right, that's what we were allowed to go up to. That was the maximum allowable in terms of an increase in the current from the current year to next year in the tax levy. But the board said that we're going to set the levy at 2.2. Right? So, that's substantially less than what we could have got to under law
011by following the tax cap formula, uh but something that will support all these wonderful programs that we've had in the current year and some of the new ones that we will have next year. So, like I said, here we are at the hearing May 12th, have one more PTA presentation tomorrow at East School, and that will conclude my April and May PTA community presentations. Uh we still don't have a final state budget, although, you know, we do hear that they're close. But this is something we've been waiting for uh for the past month and a half. But we're almost there to the magic day, the third Tuesday in May, which is the day that statewide all school district budgets and trustee elections are held. That's a quick recap. Our balanced budget again, we want to
012make sure that every dollar we spend is efficient. We take a lot of time to make sure that we're trying to be uh effective and efficient in our spending. It contributes to student success, the long-term sustain- sustainability, and it's balanced. Not only balanced in these three foundational principles, but balanced in that our spending plan for next year equals our revenue projection. And this is the balance. 162.5, 162.5. Questions and comments from the board? I [snorts] I just have one question and comment, and it's on this slide. So, the last slide you were just on. This one? Yeah, when I read it, it was a little bit deceiving to me cuz I couldn't understand what it was trying to explain. If we can change it a little bit for the civic cuz when you when you
013read it when it's printed, it doesn't show very clearly what we're doing. Yeah, but we explained that. Yeah, it's better in the presentation cuz it's dynamic, but when it's on a static page, it's kind of hard. Maybe if we can switch the graphic to show like here is the cap and here we are. Cuz I was like, what is this what is this slide? Now I understand it, so thank you for clarifying. Besides that, once again, Happy to do all the hard work. Happy to change stuff. You're doing all the hard work. You're doing all the good work with the EPA. Thank you. presentations. Thank you. Yeah. That's close enough. Thank you. So, um Mr. Svida, thank you so much for your presentation. Um and also thank you very much for your transparency during the
014budget process. Thank you. You know, as you know, we do take this very seriously. We take our taxpayers' money very seriously. We take our students' programs very seriously. And Mr. Svida really does take the time out, starting from December, to really kind of lay it out and see where the budget is going and how we can really make it a live budget so that that suits our students. And I just want to like, you know, Dr. Gallagher and Mr. Svida, I really feel that you know, the same age college guidance really isn't sufficient enough for our kids when they face the future. And what this budget shows is that we understand that. We're giving children a lot of hands-on engagement. We're showing we're changing the culture to help encourage participation by all children. The Bloomberg
015Lab, the extra physical physical education at elementary schools, which I think is a long time coming, um I think are just two examples of that. So, I'm just And also the capitals work that you've been doing, one thing um Mr. Svida has been very dedicated to ensuring that we maintain our buildings so our buildings don't fall apart cuz that will definitely cost us more money. Throughout the years, Mr. Svida has been very careful in ensuring that we have enough funds so if something is leaking or something is breaking down, we take care of it. And you know, that kind of avoids bigger problems down the road. So, I want to thank you, Mr. DeVitto, for your dedication and your care. That and Dr. Gallagher, I want to thank you for all that you've done for
016our budget to ensure that this education is for all kinds of students. Thank you and I'd like to thank our staff that is here for all that you do for our students daily. I don't want to repeat anything that Nancy just said, but ditto for what she said and and and mainly just thank you for taking the time to bring us through the process step-by-step-by-step so that we can see clearly what the vision is for everybody. And so, we really appreciate that and I think it looks great. I'm so excited for the new programs and everything else that we have in store. So, thank you for that. I budgeted out, Mr. DeVitto. Working and listening, seeing it all. I do think it's pretty much reasonable budget. I had an issue with the additional Is that
017I was hoping it'd be something more academic with the asset kids at time. And I had an issue with that. But, that's my final issue with this, but I think it hits all the bases in a reasonable way. Once again, in the back of my mind, I have Rocco Centor, Mr. DeVitto. Your official came up 4 million dollars short in terms of the budget. And I hope under your stewardship, we never find ourselves in that position. I hope so, too. Thank you. But, I did also want to say that it's a team effort and I really thank the whole team who's worked on this. And I know you had a chance to get prepared at a prior presentation. She's very involved in this, as well as Brian and Lisa and you know, some others who
018really work on it. So, I want to extend my thanks to them, as well. Thank >> All right, uh questions and comments from the public on tonight's agenda. Okay. Uh treasure report for March 2026. Uh approval of minutes of executive session and regular session meeting um April 14th, 2026. Second. Is there discussion? Mr. Pintus? Yes. Um yes. Yes. I should pick Mr. Wilson. Yes. Mr. Wilson. Yes. Okay, presentation of Mr. Pintus. Thank you. Uh before we uh go any further, I'd like to read the first three to walk on resolution. Be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Wall Township School District hereby suspends the employee reference in executive executive session as employee A effective May 12th, 2026. Motion. Second. Discussion? Mr. Pintus? Yes. Mr. Comstock? Yes. Mr. Stout? Yes. Um Mr. Wilson?
019Yes. Mr. Wilson. I ask the board to consider item one to see if you need to go into executive session. Motion. Second. Discussion? Oh, yeah. Sure, it's exciting. Go ahead. >> [laughter] >> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, I just want to thank those uh who are retiring for their service to the district. Also, uh really excited about a few of the appointments that I think Dr. Gaglioti will give a little bit more detail on, but both Mr. Wilson and I are really looking forward to getting everyone on board in these roles. Anybody else? Congratulations to those who are coming on board. Certainly, you know, we will miss those that are retiring, but this is very exciting. So, congratulations to all of you who are staying here and just changing your hats, so to speak. We're
020very happy. Coming on board. It's nice when people you know and people you work with in the district move up. There's an old expression the Irish money came with the floor that nationality who would doubt you know it's better than the devil you don't. >> [laughter] >> But Dr. Newman and Mrs. McHenry provided that you're moving up politically that you both are still staying. So we congratulate you in terms of your past accomplishments. We look forward to your continued achievement for our kids and for the district. >> [applause and cheering] >> It's always nice to know that you guys want to stick with us. >> [laughter] >> Um okay. Uh we're voting. Mr. Pinzone. So I vote yes. Ms. Conway. I vote yes. John. Yes. Ms. Belzi. >> Absolutely yes. I vote Yes. Yes. And
021I vote yes. YES. >> [applause] >> I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE DR. NEWMAN, MS. MANN, MR. Balsamo who are now moving into more permanent positions and and higher level positions in the district. I'd also like to introduce Elena Cocalis who's our new business teacher at the high school. Welcome. >> [applause] >> And who's our new teacher at West? >> [applause] >> I GUESS IN THE NEXT SESSION. HOLD ON. >> [laughter] >> OKAY. UH so we're going to keep non-certified personnel. Motion. Vote. Second. Discussion? No? Mr. Pinzone. Um yeah. I vote yes. Okay. Ms. Conway. Yes. John. I vote yes. Ms. Belzi. And I vote yes. And I vote yes. And now congratulations TO JOE REPPY. >> [applause] >> AND I REALLY ASK THE BOARD TO CONSIDER AS THIS preacher said What you made? Second. Any
022discussion on that? I just have one question and I know we I just want to make sure that when we do the approval of the use of schools that we do make sure there's no conflict with these different events and they've all been on the fields a few times where there has been a conflict. Um Yes, we do and we have an extensive process for that and usually when and I'm going to try to say this nicely when there's a conflict it's because someone decided to use the fields without going through the right channels. But yes, we do have a list. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Uh Mr. Pinzone Uh I vote yes for the Lincoln board. Yep. Okay. Yes. Yes. Ms. Selby? Yes. And I vote yes. I think in that it discussed the
023scholarships. Yes. So I just I don't I don't know if everyone is aware that it's in here it talks about the scholarships that are offered but the number is outstanding. Incredible. Over $200,000. But this is unique to Long Beach which I think is super special and I mean I looked at this night and I saw it when I read this prior and then I was like wow, that's a lot. I feel like that's a lot more than last year and I asked Dr. Galvin if it is it. So this is like a lot of personal contributions and you know, community members that give back to our students and it's just it's just incredible. It's really incredible and so cool and thank you on behalf of the Um okay. That was great. Um you will know.
024Yes. For the best. Anybody? Um actually I I have a question for Mr. DeVito. So, there's been some buzz lately about the electric bike buses. Can you please explain to us what's what's going on? Electric powered buses. Like electrified, maybe, because I'm thinking about my happiness and batteries, but I just thought I'd raise my hand. >> [laughter] >> I was thinking I'm sorry. I was thinking about the batteries. Well, so there is some legislation out there that says that districts cannot purchase anything but an electric bus starting in 2027, and all bus fleets must be fully electric by 2035. Um, that put everyone into quite, you know, quite a shock, because electric buses are about three times the price of the conventional bus. Um, also, there's the whole concept of infrastructure, setting up charging stations.
025Um, but we, Long Beach, uh, is a couple years now into a communication study that's funded through the state. [clears throat] It's called My Serve, and they released their final report on what that would mean for us in terms of creating an electric infrastructure to charge electric buses. Um, and there will be an opportunity to present that to the board um, at some time in the near future. Um, we also submitted a waiver so that we would be considered, um, waived from that 2027 requirement in terms of if we wanted to purchase a new bus, it would have to be an electric bus. But there's really a lot to consider, partly because we're we're on a barrier island, and you know, we would need to elevate any of the charging stations. Also, the weather is
026very corrosive to the electric bus structure, to the engine, to the batteries. Um, so I don't know where it's going to end up, but I I can tell you that we've been moving forward with studying it, trying to comply with the mandate. We've also purchased an electric vehicle for student use this year. Hasn't been delivered yet, but it will allow us to have like like an SUV type of a vehicle like a Ford Bronco type. That will allow us to take up to three students and sometimes we do have a trip with one, two, or three students. This is to you know, what it's like, how it manages in this climate and also give us some experience with electric buses. So, and so what we did preparing for the mandate, trying to see and seeking
027a waiver of the initial 2027 requirement. Wait to see what the state is going to do about that 2035 requirement. We suspect, you know, that they'll leave me and my counterparts in other districts in Long Island and across the state to suspect that that's going to be changed, but for right now that is, you know, what's on the books and we're doing our best to prepare for it and also seek alternative approaches about that mandate. Just with the Ford Bronco, you can plug it in. You don't need to have another battery. And so the Ford Bronco would only be used >> Like a Ford, like a Ford Bronco. It would only be used to transport children. It wouldn't be used for other school >> Yes, so it would be registered as a school transport student
028transport vehicle and it has to have certain safety measures in it and a certain identification as a student transport vehicle. That's very interesting to see. Yeah, I'm thinking it's going to be yellow. Yellow. Yeah, I I don't know if it's still happening. At one point they had to be yellow. I don't know if it needs to be painted yellow now. They just have to have some sort of identifying designation. And they'd be able to I mean turn on that. Yes, yeah. Okay, that was my next thought. So, do you think then with all of that all your discussions going on because we live near the ocean because of the corrosive environment that we might actually be able to get a waiver from even having the electric buses? I don't know. I I I feel pretty
029good that we'll have the waiver approved that we can buy a bus other than that. Right. An electric bus in 2027. I'm hoping that the fact that we had to do green fleet all these years with our compressed natural gas buses. I mean, we really are a leader in terms of being environmentally conscious with our transportation fleet and caring about emissions and caring about all the things that the legislation was designed to protect. And so, I'm hoping that maybe as we get closer to 2035, that there'll be more opportunities to look at alternatives besides [clears throat] what is now a zero emission like because the CNG is very low emission, but it's not zero emission. And that's the current language. So, hopefully, um with, you know, some years ahead and maybe some advances in technology
030and maybe some, you know, practical implications of these policies that there may be some movement there, but I think we're well positioned and talking with NYSERDA, which is that state agency, about what other districts are doing. Um they say that Long Beach in terms of where we are is, you know, ahead of the pack in terms of trying to comply and and manage this. So, because each bus will be about $400,000, how many buses do we have in our fleet? Well, you know, we have some spare buses, but I can tell you right now we have 38 routes. So, we need at least 45, um right? Yeah. To have some spare buses there. Right. And that would be like forced mandate upon us. That It wouldn't have to make us any additional aid for anything.
031Speaking of aid, have we heard anything about the foundation aid from Again, what we've heard, it looks favorable that there will be that 2% increase that that revenue projection is based upon. Um so, we all feel pretty good about that, but nothing more than just they're close to uh final budget, they're close to an agreement, and that it seems like the 2% foundation aid for those districts like ours, you know, um would remain in effect. If if she if the gov the Albany decides to opt in, as they've been discussing with the federal government, to send some tax cuts towards private schools, would that affect us at all? I haven't heard anything about that. Yeah. And I know this bill was talking about it. >> Yeah. It will, for sure, but one of the things
032that they're And it looks like she's going to. >> Yeah. One of the things that they're recommending is that public school districts form their own scholarship granting organizations. So, I haven't even had a chance to talk to counsel about this yet, about what that would look like. Um but certainly it's something that all districts will have to wrestle with. Because in effect it gives everyone a $1,700 tax credit to contribute to these scholarship organizations, which would presume presumably fund private school tuitions. So, I could donate my $1,700 to an organization that would pay for your daughter's, you know, Catholic high school tuition or whatever. So, it it could definitely have an effect on us. Um you know, we have we have members who do attend private schools in the district, not many in some districts,
033but I think if we potentially could set something up here, it would benefit. So, that would be a definite mess. Thank you. I just do have one more shout-out that I know I see Dr. Smith here. Um a few weeks first week in May, we had uh Ms. Kristen Ford and some high school students and Dr. Smith come down to the boardwalk. We had our middle school children and some of our high school kids create uh mental health awareness banners that the kids helped to put up. Dr. Smith was there making sure they wouldn't blow away in the wind. Um Ms. Ford did an amazing job with with this project. And you could see the kids who came to help set them up, they were just so proud and just so happy to see their
034artwork on our beautiful boardwalk. So, I just want to give them a big thank you. >> [applause] >> Are you and Abigail there at the boardwalk right now? Yes, we are. And the banners? Good job, everyone. Making sure the wind didn't blow them away. So, what are the boardwalk? Go check them out. I just have one comment that goes back to the uh $162.56 million dollar budget. I have grave concerns about our attendance of chronic absentee rate in the district, 50%. I also have grave concern about the percentage of our students' grades uh 3 through 8 who opt out of testing. I have concerns that the budget of $162 million, we have to do a better job of getting the kids that aren't coming in to school staying here. We talked about equity, we talked
035about the variety of programs we're offering. We have to do a better job. But these are statistics to me when I see them in the news day or when I see them in my board updates, it's staggering. There are a lot of kids we're just not reaching, and that's a grave concern. So, although we're celebrating $162.56 million, $162.56 million, I just want to say we still have to do a better job in terms of reaching out to those kids and to encouraging a culture of academic challenge. When I see a a number of students who are opting out, to me, and it may be a naive interpretation, I see kids who just don't take school seriously. Or even on another level, parents who may not take the seriously. And somehow we have to get through
036to them. Because kids are going to be taking tests for the rest of their lives, whether it's academics or job, or career, or driver's license, or whatever it is. And I just think they're giving up a great opportunity when they don't participate. So once again, we have to do a better job. Thank you. I'm sorry. One more thing. I'm sorry I forgot to bring up. Um obviously if anyone was following the news last week or so with uh the Pan African School International news you got that we also know that one of our students wrestled um a match in his native country of Congo. Uh he uh Dines Soumana, he wrestled for the African World or African Area Pan African Games. He wrestled against uh First he signed up to be in the under 20
037division and he's only 17 18 years old. And he won that against challenging challenging wrestlers. And then he decided the next day to go up against the adults. And he won the world first place again. So this is a great story and it's making great international news. This whole story is impressive and it just brings a very positive light to us uh to the program and to the district and to his family. So I just wanted to make bring it up here tonight. Thank you. Congrats again. Thanks. Thanks for bringing that up. Um questions and comments from the public? Karen Axelsen. I just hello. Excellent. Um so my questions are mostly for Mr. DeVito. I'm wondering if the um if it was the 7% that we're saving in the transportation. So I just I don't
038know if you mentioned that at a previous meeting but I was hoping you could elaborate if that was some strategy or just enrollment or for how we did that. And then a second but related question. I think um you did a nice job of showing all of the things that we can have if the budget is passed, but I'm hoping you can kind of uh recap if the budget were not to be passed. The people who are maybe tuning in at home who don't necessarily want to vote yes on it, or the people that I will talk to, older people, about voting, what would we not be able to put in place next year if the budget doesn't pass? And I don't know if you've decided what you would leave out and what you would
039proceed with, but I'm curious to hear. Thank you. Thank you for your questions. So, I'm going to answer that the last one first. So, if the budget fails, we go on something called a contingent budget. And what that means is that certain things have to come out. So, first of all, capital. So, there's a $1.7 million transfer to the capital fund to redo the high school pool and the pool bleachers, that comes out. Um some other equipment comes out. Anything that's we say is not contingent, and there's a definition of that in this we can go function by function. I can tell you what comes out. Um something as an example of this funding in there, if some extra help for clubs and sports, you know, something extra that's not part of the core program,
040that has to come out. And that's on the expenditure side, right? Then on the revenue side, if we are in a contingent budget situation, we cannot raise the tax levy, even the modest amount that we're proposing in the 2.2, it has to stay flat. So, our revenue is constrained, and our expenditures are constrained accordingly. So, it has to match, and certain expenditures have to automatically come out, like trying to fix up the pool. Um now, talking about how that transportation function went down, it's really a combination of factors. A few is where some of our special needs students um aging out, right? So, knowing that we're not going to have to provide interpretation for some and that's a costly endeavor. Also, for some of our private school students who we know have returned to the
041district and that um or we are returning to the district that we know of, so we can cut there. Um in addition, in the current year budget, we did a factor of 10% because we were concerned about skyrocketing rates. We were told transportation rates are going to skyrocket. They increased about 5% but the differential between the 10% and the 5% also accounts for how we can bring that number back down. So, you have some savings in routes. You have some different types of routes and then the factor that we had put in wasn't quite as high as we thought it was going to be allowed us to save some money there. What's interesting about that though is that, you know, we're still in a bus driver shortage, right? So, it's it's not that we don't
042have the funding for the bus drivers we're trying to hire. We actually have funding for 40 slots. Like I said, right now we have the 38 routes. We're trying to bring up more staff. There was actually an appointment of two new bus drivers on tonight's agenda. So, there is funding for all of the 43 slots because we want five spare drivers which we didn't have in the past. So, I don't want anybody to misinterpret that oh there's there's not funding there. No, there's certainly funding for the five additional spare drivers. It's on the contract side in terms of where there's savings for the reasons that I specified. You're welcome. Five minutes? That's all? Okay. Uh announcements. >> [clears throat] >> All future classroom Okay, before I officially do my uh final [clears throat] LBC day,
043I have Christie Tursey here who's begging me to just give a shout out because she's in Phoenix, Arizona with Karina Rios and Cynthia Oliva who are there for the international competition and in case you didn't see the spaceflight got photo for tomorrow. This is great. >> [laughter] >> They're all watching live right now and they can't keep it down. Okay, yeah. Well, I figured if it was we were going to be watching it because Um so, Ms. Percy and the girls, good luck out there. Um everybody else, I just give you congratulations. Obviously, Anthony, we love um so glad that he's going to be official for but more official than he was. Jackie, our former student over there, another great role. Dr. Franji, we're so happy that she is in this role. She has been
044great for us. Joe, good luck filling Carl's shoes at East. But he did a very good job and we are so happy to have him back. So, thank you all for that. Congratulations to all the teachers. Um John, thank you. Um thank you, Mr. DeVito, again for the budget and everybody go out there. Go. Administrators, faculty, and yes. Good evening, Keith Esmond, AFT rep Uh thank you, Mr. DeVito, for your work and your team for the work on the budget. Uh congratulations to all the new teachers uh to the district. Um congratulations to Anthony in his new role. Uh we want to thank the board and the district for moving to the K-12 guidance director model. We appreciate it. Congratulations, Jackie. We also want to thank the district for returning to the assistant superintendent for
045curriculum position. Congratulations, Fran. Human Um this year at the high school. Um and congratulations to Joe on his new middle school. Have a good meeting. Uh I'll be at the AFT. Mr. Percy? No. Uh PTA? Uh My name is Sophia and I'll be here. But we did some invitations. The inspiration behind our elementary school is the parents themselves. We would love have you there. Thank you, Mr. Davito. Congratulations on your day. Congratulations to the new hires. And the PCA is absolutely devastated. We will miss you, Mr. Rodriguez. >> [laughter] >> But we send our congratulations. Okay. We got a motion >> Motion. I make a motion to go into executive session. Second. Discussion. I just want to let everyone know that I'm not taking part. So, what happens now? We just We go into executive
046session. You guys are welcome to leave and stay if you wish. Um we will return to the room when we're done. We can't tell you how long it will be. Um but for all intensive purposes we are This is I hope you laugh. Yeah. Certainly. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> [laughter] >> I think I was The audience is sitting there. 10 dollars I don't know. I don't I think the female is All right. Well, they're all talking. What is the policy I don't