001to the stands one nation and justice for all. >> Thank you so much. So nice getting here with these bastions on our chairs. Feels like Okay, I'm going to turn over to our superintendent. >> Thank you so much. And I have a few briefs. Um, don't miss by the way from our metal materials and your lovely wood students here and then I think we'd like to start tonight with our external. >> Thank you Dr. the board of education administration and the community I'm a partner with results between 30 and 2025 when attached to the general purpose financial statements the larger document the highest get on the activity funds because of the conceptual uh the district does controls in place. Part of what the external budget does is to assess the internal control structure of financial
002transactions. target checks and balances in place and uh the business office has effectuated system controls and checks and balances open financial in the general purpose financial statement there's a reconciliation of the board of education gets chance I would direct them to page 16 and then back to the budget to act pages that's probably the most important part of this actual document it's a reconciliation of the unassigned fund balance And we know that the unassigned fund balance is a free and clear fund balance. We know the real property tax law says you cannot have more than 4% of next year's budget in your unassigned fund balance. The district's in compliance with that might be underneath that amount. The buildup in your unassigned fund balance we know comes from how did we do with respect to our
003revenue side of the budget. And you can see there's about $600,000 over. So it's very close. And then how did we do on the spending side of that budget? And on the spending side of the budget, when you get the chance and you look back at page 62, it's 1.8% of the budget was remaining. So you were really pretty good as far as funding on the market. And so the unsigned fund balance then build up revenues over budget, expenditures under budget, grows your unassigned fund balance, and that gives you the mechanism to come up with funding for next year's budget to reduce the tax. So that's the majority of where that funding went. And then you did put some money $550,000 into the capital reserve capital. And so I think that that's we're good as
004far as we ended up on the spending side of the budget enough to go ahead and reduce the tax levy kind of in line with what we did in years past, but also to take care of the capital reserve. And by the way, congratulations on the capital proposition passing. That's very exciting. So this is additional money that you know voter approved from years past and so the $550,000 is a good place. The other reserves that you have the auditor has to make a decision whether or not they're complying to general municipal law and they are okay and that the funding and spending is in accordance with whatever the board of education horizon happen and that was okay and the capital reserve as we know the board of education. Um so I think that's kind of
005the board overview of the financial statement. Um there was a communication underneath that general purpose financial statement and it's several pages but um on an abbreviated basis basically what it says to you is that all of the um all of the items that are presented in the financial statement are in accordance with the standards they management in conducting the audit. I really wanted to thank Mr. to veto and the staff who had cooperation during the audit process was a little lengthy this year because of the compensated absence compilation. The district did implement government accounting standards for number 101 which is compensated absences. It's the presentation of this liability on the governmentwide financial statement and basically what it talks about is what is the value of the days that we pay out when someone leaves the
006district or the sick time or vacation time that they use when they're with the district. So the district's in compliance with that equity. Um we had a few journal entries and you'll see them attached to the document. Nothing significant. Okay. We had no disagreements and everything was in accordance with what we had expected. And just you know a reminder at the bottom page two in that letter there's something called corrected and uncorrect in the statements. That's the terminology for journal entries. Okay. So sounds a little bit more ownorous. So I did want to just bring them to the board of education's attention. Um behind lash 10 we have the management letter and so as I talked about the internal control structure we have no new comments. Okay. And the one comment that we uh brought
007to the board of education's attention last year uh the district went ahead and implemented additional procedures. So that's been remediated. Okay. So that you know talks to the strong internal control structure that you do have in place. And then the last document because the state education department wants to report separately on the extra classroom activity funds cash basis is the extra classroom activity funds. And so there is a discrete accounting record for each of these various clubs and activities. Money that monies that have been collected by the students monies that have been dispersed with the controls in place. And you can see the ending balance. It's about $150,000 of cash flow that goes through these various clubs and activities. So that's my abbreviated version. I'm sorry if I went fast. Any questions, please direct them
008back to Mr. and I'm more than happy to to discuss that person. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> As the report was most welcomed by me like I was in an economics class with you. I mean generally a very thorough make presentation very well grateful the service coming he and his office were you offered everything you were certainly pleased with the uh report itself. So thank you for coming and thank you your abbreviated report because even in this abbreviated moment it's still we're doing a good job. We're on the right track for that. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Appreciate it. Thank you so much. >> Have a very good holiday. >> Thank you so much. >> And now we'd like to introduce our metal and wood students who will do the student
009showcase for tonight. Good evening ladies and gentlemen board. My name is Steve. the director of technology public schools. Tonight we have three members of our technology department here to discuss two of the uh course pathways that we provide that offer here at public schools. We have our workshop teacher Eric Kek our metal shop teacher Kenner and one of our students Alice Kriski who's been in a variety of the courses that we offer here. Um together they are going to talk about the courses that are offered in our wood shop and our metal shop and the u the pathways that these courses these classes provide our students with in our CTE pathways. First up is Mr. Learner. >> I'm Dan Learner or also sometimes known as Mr. So the courses we offer in the metal shop
010are metal processing one and two, welding one through four and robotics also takes place inside metal shop. Um so metal one is an entry level course. Um, every report starts with shop safety. Um, and then we have a whole bunch of different projects started, but the top left corner you see the metal tea project. That project, for instance, require students to learn how to use a ruler and measure, how to use a hacksaw, uh, cut the materials. They then use a bench grinder to debur the edges, a file to debur the interior edges, and an angle grinder to remove the coating off the outside of the material so that it doesn't contaminate the weld. Once you've done all of that and spend some time practicing welding, it can then weld and um then we destructive
011test the project and you can see what failed, why, and how to improve. So there are uh numerous projects inside metal one similar to that where students can work their way around the room and learn how to use um tools, machines, equipment and how which materials they should be using. Metal 2 is a kind of like an extension of metal one. It offers additional exposure around the classroom and some more advanced projects. Um you can see Leo stamping the metal leaves. So, if you guys see your roses, those were actually all made by students during a tech expo. Um, which is why I had some, uh, which is why I still had some. They all, they've already taken some home and made their own. Um, so they actually use a CNC plasma cutter for that
012project. They learned how to use all sorts of other different tools and machinery. They learn how to use masc. Um and then they weld different thicknesses of metal as well. Um we touch on a couple other things including an individual project and also uh we get a little more into welding which um if they enjoyed the past two courses leads us into the welding one through four courses. So welding one through four are actually some of my favorite courses. Um, we start with lessons and techniques and procedures, but the vast majority of time is spent hands-on. Students actually weld. Um, we TIG, we MIG, we arc weld, and we use a torch for oxyetylene welding, which is what you can see Brandon doing uh in the top. So, he's actually welding with a torch oxygen
013and acetylene. Um, we weld in various different positions. So some of our welds are flat table. We move to vertical or horizontal. Um and we weld various material types. So we weld steel, aluminum, and stainless steel. Um and um yeah, our welding three and four students actually take on mentorship roles for the welding one and two students. They're actually able to help them. And they also will do some more advanced welding. Um, aluminum for instance is easier to weld flat. Is very very difficult to weld horizontally or vertically. If you've ever melted aluminum, it drops very very quickly from gravity. So these are the type of things these students learn in those classes. Um, at the end of these courses, at the end of metal one, I'm sorry, the end of welding 2, if they've
014taken a full CTE pathway, they get that stamp on their transcript and they also leave with something else. So, at the conclusion of those courses, as long they as long as they've completed the pathway, um we bring in AWS, which is American Welding Society tester, and he will provide an on-site test for these students. In the past years, I've had four students walk away with a national certification, um which is amazing. Boseies, for instance, does not offer that. They offer a an internal qualification. So if they were to go try to get a job in California, that would not be recognized. But uh our stuff, our certification is recognized anywhere in the country. >> That's great. >> Thank you. Robotics is offered in the metal shop. Also, in addition to all the robot based things
015we do, there's also a focus on abilities that um some students might get loose with. And I'm taking that from having designed a team robot over a number of years. Um, we go over electrical theory. So that bottom video that Can >> that bottom video, um, we actually go over voltage, current, resistance. We learn how to solder. We learned how to use a multimeter and we actually solder that kit together. Um and then we move on to things like the design process. So those putters in the picture, the second from the bottom on the left, um those are putters that each students individually designed um and then 3D printed. And we will eventually play around with golf. Um but we can't yet because the cardboard boat race has started. Um which is a much more
016serious uh design process. Um and it teaches them a whole bunch of things including research, leadership, critical thinking and subgroup organization. Um this year we've also brought in the community and uh the middle school is going to be coming to the boat race. hopefully this year as well as some outside schools. I'm hoping to expand that um in the future. Um but this is one of the most fun things for me. Um that that boat happened to six laps back and forth across the pool and it sunk with Dr. Smith and I as as we were going down and he turned to me and said, you remember what he said? He said, "This is the most fun I've had in a while." And that's that's what this is about. It's about learning but having fun.
017And that's what makes it really stick. Um, so unless there are further any questions, I'm actually going to hand the room over to Alex Kaminsky, who is my student, who has taken every single one of those classes. >> Yes. Uh what's the interface between your program and internships? >> What is are there internships? So there are not as far as I'm aware. I wish there were. I wish we could organize something like that. That would be really awesome. I have had a number of students who left my class and immediately got jobs. Well, is that because it just hasn't been a hookup or there's just not a need or just overlook so because I'm told that we have a pretty vibrant internship program high school. I was an extension of this program. I not that
018I'm aware. I would love to have some things come through. Thanks. >> You think that um companies welding has its own set of safety standards. Do you think part of the challenge would be getting companies to take kids on as apprentices prior to them having the certification? >> It's possible. It's possible. Um, a lot of companies also um use their own internal qualifications also and would test somebody right off the bat and and might ignore like BOS's qualification anyway. So, so it really depends. Thanks. >> Actually, can I ask just one quick question? So if kids wanted to pursue this like further, are there college level welding programs as well? So they've come out of school obviously with this national certification which is awesome. So I guess better question is is it necessary to have
019more or higher education? I'm just curious. >> We have tried over the years to partner with different colleges and we are trying those things right now. Hopefully we're we're looking into doing that. So at this point there aren't colleges that >> right now we're not right now we were not aligned with anybody. I'm trying to get a >> Yeah, the trigger program. Right. No, but I'm worried I'm wondering about college. >> Not necessarily at this point. Okay. I was just curious. >> What about underwatering? Is that a college? >> Oh, that's a >> Well, I I definitely thought that we were going to do that in pool. >> Yes. Um, >> I don't know much about underwear wallet. >> Yeah, I know it's a huge huge career and they make a ton of money to
020be dangerous. There are pathways underwater. >> I think the dangers are less related to the welding world. And I would also just like to say I know personally a few children who you helped with the welding and you made such an amazing difference in their lives whereas before they found welding didn't always feel successful. Your program helped make them feel successful. They were able to graduate from Long Beach High School and now they are working and loving the work that they're doing. So, thank you for all that you do because I know you reach so many students who sometimes school doesn't really reach them, but you do. So, thank you. >> Thank you, >> Dan. Do you know what the average salary for a professional welder is in New York? >> I don't I know
021that you're going to start start somewhere around $20 an hour and and it goes up very very quickly. have to know students that went up in 20 some of the students I know are now making like 50 60 grand a year you just said >> you know 22 years old my name is Alexinski um and today I wanted to share how the welding and met programs at home school have achieved me to who I am both as a student and a person. Um when I first started taking metal one, um I had no idea just how much these classes would impact me. Um since then I've also taken metal one, two, three. Um and I've also taken welding one, two, I'm currently in three and I'm going to pursue welding four in the next semester.
022Um each class has pushed me to my greatest uh strengths, challenged me, um and taught me how to do something new. There's not uh tools uh or the techniques, but also about myself. These programs have given me the opportunity to learn real hands-on skills that most high school students never get the chance to experience. I learned how to cut, grind, weld, and felt I learned how to take an idea from a sketch to a financial project. But beyond technical skills, I learned how to problem solve, how to think creatively, and how to be patient when things don't fit right. Most important, the class has helped me build the confidence. There is something powerful about taking wrong material and turning it into something useful, something strong. Every time I complete a project, there is I feel
023more capable. I started to realize that if I could handle the sparks, heat, the precision, and challenges above them that I can handle at all. Here I have a piece of aluminum, just a piece of aluminum. Here's one project I did. Um, metal one is the spinning top. I learned how to cut on the leaf. Um, and I created this. I sketched out how I wanted it to look and I created this This is um little whistle. Mental not polished anymore, but I learned how to polish it, cut it on the lathe. Um and came out really well. It's pretty loud. Microsoft, but it's pretty loud. So, take the air hose, put it in there, freaks. Um I also want to recognize how lucky we are. Um not every school offers something like this. I
024have friends that go to school in Oceanside and other places. Um, even kids in Tennessee. I was talking to somebody, he says they have a farming class. They don't get nowhere near some experience working with metal or anything like that. Um, and even fewer of them charge you for free. Um, these classes open doors for me, doors to my future, opportunities, careers, and passion I might never have discovered otherwise. The well programs at LHS gave me more than technical knowledge. They gave me confidence in my abilities, pride in my work, and excitement for my future. Thank you. >> Al, what grade are you in? >> I'm in 12th. >> Wow. I don't know if you remember me from the east school playground. Um, good evening everyone. Thank you for having us back again. Um, it's
025always great to have the opportunity to brag a little bit about the wonderful things that are happening in our shops and brag about the amazing students that we have. Um, I'm going to start with an overview of the woodworking curriculum and what a typical year looks like in wood shop. Um, we cover everything from basic measuring, project layout, general safety, proper tool machine use, uh, machine specific safety, all the way up to project design and construction. In a typical year, I try to include at least two individual projects along with two group or service projects. And I'll give you a peek at some of those on a later slide. Um, I also want to share a little bit about our DDP curriculum, which stands for design and drawing for production. We begin the year with
026some traditional mechanical drawing techniques and an introduction to the drawing tools. Uh which is always an interesting experience because uh oftent times I find that drawing boards and ts squares triangles are are pretty foreign to our to our students. Um we also work with computer aided design. We explore different types of drawings, orthographics, isometrics, pictorials and we learn how to dimension properly. Pretty much everything we do is all based around the engineering design process. Over the past several years, I've been trying to incorporate more of the production side of DDP um so that we can spend some time in the wood shop where I'm also bringing that um class up tonight. Um, so we spent some time in the wood shop building both high and low fidelity prototypes and I'll also share a few of
027those examples in just a few minutes. Uh, here are a few of our recent individual uh, projects. The chess board is a project we completed last year and thanks to the addition of a 3D printer in the wood shop, the students can now design and print their own custom chest pieces. So the chest pieces that you see with that board, they weren't purchased. Um, the student actually drew those out in SketchUp and then printed them on our 3D printer. Our cutting boards are always a a big hit with the parents, mostly because they tend to show up as holiday gifts. And the students love being able to personalize them using the laser engraver. So if you see in the lower left hand corner, the wave and the last name, those were all designed in Canva
028and then printed with the the laser engraver that we got in 2021. These are some of the group and service projects from past years. You might recognize the picnic tables that are located in the high school lower commons. Uh we built those last year at the suggestion of Mr. Myers and Mr. Epstein in an effort to make that area more inviting for the student body. And the first thing Dr. Smith said when I showed up in September this year was what what are we planning to make for the school this year? Um, the Adoramic chairs are always a fun project and they teach a lot of different woodworking skills. For the past two or three years, we've been building chairs for the PTSA um to raffle off at their morning madness fundraiser. Thank you for
029bringing us in. >> Hi, I'm And a few years ago, we had incredible opportunity to build some gifts for the Northport Veterans Hospital. Um, one year we delivered 10 customuilt American flags. That's the picture in the upper left. Um, they were distributed throughout the campus to decorate various common areas. And the second year we built and gifted 10 adoric chairs to the facility that they placed in various places around the the campus. This gave us the opportunity to take a field trip to tour the campus and meet a few veterans that were residents at the nursing facility there. Um, it was an amazing experience that I certainly know I'll never forget and I I think impacted the students that were involved as well. Unfortunately, that was precoid and you know, we weren't able to do
030that trip in those uh co years, but hopefully that's something I can bring back at some point. Additionally, we gifted the the Fllanders Fields plaque to the Long Beach VFW and built the hardwood American flag that hangs in the high school main office. Um, finally, I'd like to leave you with a short video that gives you a peak into what's happening in the shop uh right now. who are mess. I lost. Wake me up when September So you get here like that. >> So the finger joint adds a lot of strength. Right. >> Excellent. And what are we making? >> Not cocky. Right. And what's today's job, Riley? Do not stick. All right. Excellent. Nice job, guys. All right. Walk me through your design. >> And our sides are trapezoid. And then we're adding on.
031What are we making solar? And here are all your parts. Okay. What's been the most challenging part of this project? for all sides. And how do you think it's going to work? >> All right. technology classes because I like doing things with my hands rather than just writing and page notes and it's much more fun to work in any sort of tech room with my hand rather than And you're graduating in June, right? >> Yes, I am. >> Where are you going in September? >> For what? >> For >> nice. That's awesome. So I mean that video was made a couple of days ago today when we were in the um the ending video was you know the lady saying that she's hopeful state uh for tech focusing on welding it uh today >> she
032showed up with her excited. So these are two, you know, two of the classrooms that offer two of the pathways. Um, and Dr. >> We have um a little bit more about >> Yeah. Yeah. I I'll just my part will take just five minutes. So um I just wanted to contextualize this presentation in terms of our whole career tech program here and some of the plans that we have for the future. Um thank you. So our CTE programs we believe start in our elementary schools with foundations that help our students kind of to think about the building block technology. further developing the middle school and then the high school is where those pathways really come in and we think we have some great possibilities for the future as well. Our elementary foundations include career explorations
033through our guidance program. Every elementary student creates their own digital portfolio in grades four and five and that progresses to them through the grade levels. Um it's the STEM program at the middle in the elementary school. We've already seen some presentations on coding, Shark Tank projects. Um, students learn to use presentation software. They garden. You've seen our great new hydroponic gardens as well as our greenhouse. The middle school. At the middle school, we start to offer courses in technology. Um, some courses in sixth grade and seventh grade that build on those foundational schools tools rather. in eighth grade. Every student now in our middle school takes career financial management. That's a shift we made this year. And Island Park also made vegetation as well. Setting our students up for two things. First of all, any
034career pathway in technology requires career and financial management as a prerequisite. So, they get that in eighth grade. It also is part of the new state graduation requirements that every student have has to have a certain amount of financial literacy. So we do that in eighth grade to give our students the basis to start to think about these things in high school. Everything from, you know, we say balancing a checkbook. I don't really know anyone who does that anymore, but understanding check balancing a memo, you know, but fighting for mortgages, car loans, um just all kinds of things that they still need to know in their future life. And it's not too early to really start thinking about that. in our high school. This is a little too small to see on the on the
035board, but we have several CTE pathways. You've heard you've heard from our automotive students before, TV and film, network metal working, innovation and design, business marketing and computer science as well as our medical assisting program which we offer through NASA's on site in our building. All of these pathways um end with students that get career and industry ready certifications. accept statements, step out of high school, and get a job. Whether that job is to help them get through college or is a pathway to is some kind of career, a exit here with an industry level credential. There's a list of the courses that we offer both in business and in career technology at our high school. You can see that list is pretty impressive. our business courses. We are pursuing um many different dual enrollment
036options. We hope for next year. We've been talking to the board about some of the exciting possibilities for dual enrollment. Um it looks like we may be able to offer dual enrollment courses to our students at no cost next year, which is unbelievable for both. I don't want to make any promises because I'll believe it if I see it. But that does seem to be the way the state is going and the way we'll be able to do it as well. So the more upper level courses we can get accredited for dual enrollment and if it costs nothing to our families that would be amazing. We have a number of CTE clubs at the middle school and high school. Um the robotics team always makes an appearance at board meetings and I'm sure they'll come
037back this year as well. That's last year's robot and we are starting this year um some career with industry advisory boards. We started already with marine technology um but we want to pull together some people in the community in various fields who be willing to come to like one virtual meeting a year and just pick our brains a little bit about how we could better prepare students for that appear in that field and to serve as a resource for us. you know, do you know of places that want welding interns or are there ways that we can hook our students into um finance, local finance in our community or finance, you know, the virtual level. Um even some of our cyber cyber security computer courses, which I'll talk about in a minute. We're educators. We
038don't not necessarily experts in cyber security. Few of us have the kind of skills that um our teachers have who are here tonight. So, we need to tap into those industry professionals to make sure that we're doing the right thing to prepare our students whether it's for a career in law or medicine or welding or woodworking. Oh, I just want to go back. The first of our career and technology industry advisory board meetings will actually be December 8th at 7 pm. We're going to be sending out an email to people in the community. see if anyone wants to hop on our Zoom and help us think about how we can better integrate things into our curriculum that will help us prepare our students for that field. Future possibilities, this is what we're most excited about.
039We will be begin offering AP cyber security next year. Um we're we're experimenting with that. It's new to AP, but it does seem to lead to an industry level certification. um we think that's an important field for the future and something we want to encourage our kids to go into. We have a lot of kids who are majoring that in that in college. So if we can offer something like that in high school that would be definitely beneficial to them. A little bit of a different proposal is a barbering program and you know I have two girls and I didn't really know much about barbering. All I remember is my dad got $5 haircuts when I was a kid, but I have three brothers and when I asked them about it, they said I was
040out of my mind. That their haircuts are up to $40. They have to go every two weeks and it is a very upand cominging field and very lucrative for kids. AI cannot cut your hair. Um so for students who want to get who like to be with people, like to socialize, like to talk to people, would love to work with their hands, have a little bit of an artistic bent, we are investigating bringing in a barbering program that would be housed at our high school. It would be offered uh in conjunction with Nasobose and our students again through a one-year course would graduate able to work as bloggers or hair stylist hair stylists. And I did look up the median salary for that and apparently it can be between 60 and $80,000 a year. Even
041more if you get into some of the shishi, you know, high-end beach studios. We also are trying to next year create a Bloomberg lab in our high school. This is something we've been talking about for a few years. A Bloomberg lab essentially is renting terminals that give our students access to Bloomberg software. Some of the better high schools in our area have been doing that. They've had great success with it. Um it's costly. It would cost us about $100,000 a year, but we u believe that we have some donors who might help support that. And we'd like to try to really provide that in our high school. It would elevate our business courses tremendously. It would also give our social studies courses, economics, participation in government, some great research resources as well. And finally, as
042I said before, we're really trying to pursue more dual enrollment courses. Um, what we're seeing is for, you know, for many kids, freshman, sophomore year of college are core courses that are very similar to what they took in junior and senior year of high school in terms of rigor, in terms of responsibility. And you know, if we can graduate kids with a number of high school credits, that gives them the opportunity to specialize more in college to really pursue career opportunities to maybe save a little money for their parents because college is expensive um to pursue graduate level studies even earlier. So, we're trying to really if that this promise from Boseies comes through and we can do this at no cost of this, we think that would be great for our kids. And Dr.
043Smith and um Miss McBan, our guidance counselor, visited our we sent a number of kids out right now for barbering and as each year so they visited their facility just to see what it would take to create that year and while they were there Dr. Smith got a haircut and it's looking pretty good. >> Not much going on there. >> So that's it. We just wanted to give a full overview of the whole program tonight. Um, any questions and comments? >> I just when Mr. Chris came up here, he reminded me of Jesse Eisenberg and now you see it. He held a piece of aluminum up and then he held up the whistle. As far as I'm concerned, you two guys are musicians what you've done to this program in high school. I visited your
044program during the day and I've seen it in the evening. Kids are engaged. They're having a great time and you guys quite enthusiastic and wonderful role models for them. So behalf of the board, I want to thank you for the contributions you've made. You brought a kind of a weak program to to new life and like I said, you guys have been magicians and I'm very very grateful for the work you've done for the kids and for the district. So thank you and thank Mr. You may want to see now you see it with Jesse Eisenberg. And my last my last point was when I saw the wood shop, I thought that might have been an infringement of Home Depot because when I first saw it, I thought it was Home Depot. But thank you.
045Thank you very much. >> So I I also just have a quick comment. Um first of all, wonderful. It's really great to hear such enthusiasm and how much you you're really learning and I hear a lot of geometry in in your angles and I I just think that it's marvelous that you can really bring to life why we have to learn what an angle is, what a triangle is and you create such beautiful things. Um, my first question is, um, do you guys need anything? >> You stole my question. >> I stole my question. >> Um, what do you need? Do you need anything? Is there something else that you would you think our students would like? >> Don't be shy. Don't be shy. >> We're going to save Mr. Tito some stress. I think
046we need in the metal shop. Yeah, >> I think we're giving you a whole new facility. We are >> But until like I'm thinking different machine because you mentioned the machines from 2021 and I know a lot of those break down early. >> Listen to >> if you can. Yeah. If there's something that you do need, please let Mr. Devito know. >> Yeah. I actually just set up a demo for a machine that I saw at a conference superintendent conferencing Mr. Harvey and Mr. Theo figure of how much it cost. >> Uh it's actually pretty approachable I think. Um anywhere between three to $4,000. So, one more one more thing. I saw those beautiful flags that you made. Um, have you ever thought of making any for maybe our BFW in town for Park Avenue?
047>> I I think I made one for the BFW the same year we did the platform. Um, I went with the Life Skills students. They did a field trip there and one of the teachers have kind of mentioned how much the BFW does for that program like gifts and everything. So, we made a plaque and I'm pretty sure we made a flag too, but I don't remember. >> Okay, I'm when I go back there, I'll be >> I think they would love one. >> Yeah, it's something we would be happy to do. The the service projects um I started incorporating after uh Sandy because we did an aderonda chair raffle to raise a little bit of money and the kids were so uh just really into doing something to give back to the building and
048that's that hasn't changed when we do the service projects they're very a lot of times the individual projects when I clean out the lockers at the end of the year they leave them take them home but when we do something for the building for the BFW or um to add on their chairs for the kids purchase and really they like to give back. So >> have always been a nice gesture as well that you woodworking donated to the district. I believe this one in the high school was made by woodwork. >> Yeah. Well, this one I think was Mr. Cross in the middle school and years ago Mr. Crywood made some for the high school as well. >> Yeah. >> And we made the emblems for the front of it. And these are beautiful. They're
049beautiful. Thank you. >> Hi guys. It's always so good to see you two here and I'm just so impressed all with all the things that you do. What kind of paint did we use on this? Just curious. >> It's a roleium primer and paint. >> Love it. It's beautiful. And the plaque is beautiful. Um, one of the things I was wondering about is and and I I know with scheduling in high school it's probably very difficult, but were you ever able to have like a double period so that by the time you get your equipment out, it's not time to clean up? I'm sure that the time constraints >> can be challenging. >> Neither one of us do it. Jim Johnson has a double for autumn. >> Is that something that you would want to
050have happen? I would certainly not discourage >> because I can only imagine by the time you get all your equipment out, you get prepared, it's like, oh, clean up >> and then clean up. >> Yep. >> Yeah. It's hard to uh make a lot of progress. >> Yeah. Well, what you're doing is just incredible. I'm just so impressed. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Yeah, I mean, sorry. Um, so thanks for the presentation, Alex. Great public speaking. You're getting becoming a public speaker. It's pretty cool. I'm amazed that came out of you. Uh, this slide doesn't work though. >> I know. >> It's fun. So when I think of school, I think we see these presentations. This is what makes me happy. I mean, I fulltime workforce at 18. So having the skills is
051incredible, tangible skills to really be productive in life. So went through the whole presentation with the with the uh all the certifications and the career readiness. I just makes me really happy. There's no other way to describe it. So keep up all the great work and keep providing these awesome products because I mean I had to order paddles for someone's retirement recently and they were all done up on wood shops. They were like $300 each. So keep that in mind. If you guys open up an Etsy shop, we'll have a lot of people interested. So way to go everyone. Thanks again and thank you for the whole program as a whole. It's very important for us. >> It's super impressive. Do you guys have dual periods ever? So anytime do like woodworking combined with welding.
052So you do like combined projects or not not yet. We have had a couple table >> right legs or something. >> I asked because my my husband's a woodworker and something he is really interested in is the one that finds you afterwards is learning how to weld because now he's getting into bigger projects. He's like I should really learn how to weld. But I think I think what Stan said is super important. I I did not take these kind of classes when I was growing up. was a very traditional, you know, academic route. And now in my later life, all of a sudden, I've discovered things like painting and I'm taking oil painting classes and I truly enjoy I can't wait to go to my painting classes. I send my pictures to Nora for critique
053every week. But I think it's it's amazing that I've lived half my life and I didn't even realize that this was something that I would enjoy. So, I think it's incredible that our kids can dabble in this stuff even if they just take level one, you know, to get their feet wet a little bit and understand, you know, these are studies that are transferable throughout your entire lifetime. So, I think it's super cool and I appreciate what you guys do. It's it's super important. And thank you, Dr. Gallagher, again for your vision because, you know, in the years since my kids started here till now, this district has completely evolved and emerged. And I'm almost like jealous that I can't go back to high school and take all these classes. It's really amazing. Really cool.
054So, thank you so much. Okay, I think we're good. >> We can move on. What are we up to now? >> Student organization announcements. Uh, how's it going, guys? >> Um, so I have a couple things to report on over the last couple of weeks. So, recently we just finished uh two of our biggest events for the year. We had the trick or treat and canned goods. Um, out of all four of the grades, we raised upwards of 900 cans for uh the Long Beach food pantry. So, that went straight to the students and we were able to feed them for for a little while, still feeding them. So, that was great. Um, we had our blood drive, I think two two weeks ago on Friday, and we actually we we were we were stressing
055about it the whole time, thinking we weren't going to be that good. We raised I think 50 units of blood, which saved you 150 lives. So 30% of all blood transfusion blood comes from high students. So it was definitely great to have that be successful. And lastly, the Kanas Club from outside the high school has reached out to us, which is a charity club. Um we're unsure of the events they want to do with us in the high school. I was talking to Dr. Randy. He said he'd be a great opportunity to definitely implement it in the high school eventually. So I'll keep you guys posted on what's going on with that. And thank you so much. >> Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. So you know the key club is the sister child club. >>
056Yes. >> Awesome. Okay. Questions and comments about public. >> Hello. Uh good evening. Um few questions. uh thank presentation but um I think that in expansion of business programs we should push for more personal finance specifically as a requirement even if it's in a class in June you know for one week I think that we should have it because I can tell you of people who are younger for my age um there's not understandings about credit cards versus debit cards there's not uh understanding about what a mortgage is um how this how this is paid. I uh you know credit how student loans work. I had a a math teacher in high school had to you know he actually explained to us how students work how how uh student loans work and the actual principal
057and interest payments and create showed us an Excel spreadsheet. So, I can just say that as a as a student who went to Long Beach High School that uh personal finance should really be prioritized and that uh as a I worked as a bank regulator uh and federal government and I I just see even with people who are older um there's not a very good understanding of personal finance particularly around uh what protections there are and then I can go on uh you know at length of of how people really don't understand about do I have to pay my full credit card, how much would it cost if I want to make the minimum payment or many many topics that a lot of people that there seems to be a gap in the education system.
058Um, also I think that we should push for more dual enrollment. Um, particularly a crisis facing my generation is student loans and uh, uh, the average student loan debt is over $30,000. And I think that if we could maybe prioritize getting the first year or all the core requirements out of the way, that could be significant savings for students. I think we should focus less on IB, less on which is almost has zero uh course transfers uh to colleges. Colleges uh um they're very limited uh for IB. can say I can say but I I know from my own experience and from many of my friends experience who received the IB diploma uh with the exception of the Sunni system there is very little recognition of IB and I think that if you if we
059want to do IB versus AP AP beats it every time um uh my questions are uh we have a reading of the code of conduct tonight of a revised code of conduct and I'm very pleased that the district is taking this step to comply with the law around code of conduct And I just like to uh it was not in the agenda and I didn't see it posted online. So when will it be available? >> I believe it's online now. Mrs. Do you know? >> Is the code of conduct posted to the agenda online? >> There is one posted will be up tomorrow. >> Okay, great. Yeah, as you know there'll be three readings. And there will the audit be posted tomorrow as well if it's time. >> Anybody else? Report for September 2025. No
060action needed. Um next approval minutes of executive session and regular meeting of October 14th, 2025 and executive session and regular meeting of October 28th, 2025. Motion >> second. Um, sorry. Miss Conway, >> yes. >> Mr. Pinto, >> Yes. Miss >> um presentation of superintendent to consider item one personel motion. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Miss, >> yes. >> Mr. Kto, >> yes. M do >> yesy >> yes >> item two non-certificated personnel >> motion >> second >> miss com >> yes Mr. Pento >> yes >> missy >> yes items three and four we can take together their adoption of um new policies one tributes and memorials and actually a revised policy on field trips and excursions motion Second discussion move. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pinto, >> yes. >> Doc, >> yes. >> Miss Kelsey, >>
061yes. And I vote yes. >> Items five and six don't require any action for first reading of revised policies. I'd ask the board to consider item seven, the approval of the steps teacher evaluation plan according to education 112. >> Motion. >> I'll second it. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. I just I read the plan ago before it was revised. I'm just concerned that there's no provision for student evaluation in the evaluation plan. >> That's correct. >> Why is that? >> Because the state now has taken that out of the evaluation. >> So we don't have the license to put it in if we want. >> No, there's certain choices that you can make within the uh prescription of the steps plan. You can't really put it in in any kind of a formal way. You
062could do it as part of the teacher project, but the teacher would have to elect to do that. >> And why do why do you think what do you think was the rational state to propose student evaluation as part of the teacher? >> Well, you know, that was a relatively new component to the teacher evaluation program. It wasn't instituted until I believe 2013. So, have you read about that? Yeah. And um you know it was controversial from the beginning like judging teachers based on the old how do you judge how do you judge the success of a woodworking teacher? How do you judge the success of a welding teacher? How do you judge the success of a music teacher? Um and so I think you know part of it was the controversy over that part
063of it was the recognition that assessments are flawed. you know, you can't necessarily trust any one assessment as as the be all and end all of student progress. So to really evaluate teachers according to student progress, you have to look at the whole of their progress throughout a year and even throughout the course of their their schooling, I think it's actually a good move. I think move back in the right direction of more holistic evaluation of what what teachers do and how students are evaluating. I'm not so sure. But in terms of the individual teacher projects, will many of them focus on evaluation or do we not know yet? >> We don't know yet. They have not until the plan is approved. They don't have to submit. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Can I
064get a motion? >> We have a second. I >> Okay, Miss C. >> Yes. Mr. Pto, >> yes. Doc, >> yes. Miss >> Yes. and I vote yes. >> Um number eight is the acceptance of the financial statements in the external audit report at corrective action plan. >> Motion second. >> I just want to let you know I went out to speak to uh auditor outside because this was a record time in terms of a presentation. It was like watching paint dry when you had this presentation in the past. I was somewhat apologetic, but I did tell her I thanked her because I think she hit all the salient points in terms of her presentation without reading the presentation to us and to you. So, I was grateful for the for the delivery. It's for
065being comprehensive and for being relatively concise, respectful of of time and other matters we have tonight. out there. I just wanted to thank her and let her know that we were pleased with the the the comprehension of her report. >> I would also like to add a little layer of thanks to Mr. Devito and his team. Sorry. You know, I we look when we read through the report, there's so much detail in it, so many different different pieces of information. And you know, having the auditor come really makes us feel secure, but I'm sure it also helps your team feel like appreciative and gives them the knowledge to know that their hard work is paying off. So, please give them all our extended thanks. >> I love >> Yeah, I just wanted to echo Miss
066Conway's statement. I was showing her the the draft and it's extensive work done by the auditors, but it probably is just as extensive by your team. So glad that it has positive reviews. I mean not saying positive like positive negative but uh qualified versus uh unmodified. So those are good things and great jobs. >> Anybody else? >> Yes. >> No. No. We're good. >> Okay. Um do we? Okay. Great. Um >> yes. >> This is good though. >> Yes. >> Can I vote? Yes. Um number nine is just a notification of the availability of the districtwide school safety plan on our website. Um you know remember that we did approve it um prior to the entire meeting of the school year but the state asked to include some additional information in it specifically um according
067to Dash's law which has to do with response to cardiac emergencies. For that reason we need to add some additional information. So, we're going through the process of getting it approved again, and it requires that we post it for um I'm going to do items 10 through 15 together, but I have to make a comment first. You'll notice that on item 12, we are accepting some donations, lovely donations from the Ruby Foundation for our wellness center. Our wellness center has gotten donations, which we so appreciate this important work forward. But I have to tell you also um a member of our community came to see me this week and he introduced himself and said he wanted to make a donation in memory of his father Barney Lesing who is a career educator and a lifelong
068musician a passion for jazz. And I'd like to particularly thank Mr. Mark Lesing who's here tonight for $100,000 donation to our music program. Um that's the kind of donation that can change a student's life. You heard stu a student tonight who's found a passion for a program in our district and I as I said to you last week we're going to discuss investing some of that so it can live on in perpetuity but I can guarantee that a few children will play the saxophone as a result. So thank you. >> I believe that that is that is tremendously generous and really will go to a wonderful cause here and we are eternally grateful. Really phenomenal. >> Well, I'm really grateful for everything all you do and all the teachers do every day. You guys are
069really the ones who are donating your time. >> The staff wherever they are, they're the ones who really make a big difference every day. But to be in a position to do something like that and to honor your father in that way is is really tremendous. And for someone in our community give back to our schools is just, you know, it just speaks volumes of who you are, who your father was, his memory and legacy will live on in these kids. And I think that's fabulous. So thank you so much. a danger getting invitations to >> Okay, anybody else? >> Um, actually before I go to donations, um, Mr. Tobago, can you please explain what exactly happened at the legal complex with the light leak and the rooftop chiller? Sometimes these things happen where you
070know our equipment failed. There was a leak and it had to be addressed. We couldn't wait to really um >> It just sounds kind of serious because I said overheat. That's what that was my concern. >> So what time of day was this when it occurred? >> Sorry. >> Okay. Okay. That's okay. But um we got it taken care of. address. No, that's part of why it's on the agenda and declared emergency because we had to deal with it immediately. >> Okay. And you'll let us know to ensure that the work was done properly. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> And Annie, I don't want to cut you off, but we just have to vote. You just have to accept everything >> because that was off the topic of No, that's okay. So, why don't do
071you want to make the comments about the donation before we vote on that? >> I know. >> Yes, actually I do. Um I know that um Neil from the Bury Foundation wanted to be here. Um but she just they're just so appreciative of the high school and they really want to give back um to the high school and to all that you guys have done to our community. Um and she also wanted to let you know that they want to be able to give more. So if there other needs the high school has or the wrestling team has um please reach out to the Ruby Foundation. they'll be more than happy to donate. >> Thank you. Okay. Um, now can we can we vote? We had motions. I can't recall now. Okay. Thank you, Miss
072Conway. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pa. >> Yes. And thank you. >> Stop. >> Yes. Please. Thank you. >> And Missy? >> Yes. And I vote yes as well. Thank you again. >> Okay. Now, moving on. I think we're up to board of education old and new. So, if you have other items, Andy, you're welcome to bring them on. >> Um, yes. Thank you. And and I'm sorry if I got off. It's okay. >> Okay. >> I'm not on There we go. Never mind. First of all, I didn't get a chance to thank you for that $100,000 donation. Thank you. Thank you so much. Your generosity really does speak volumes. I I know you can't even there's no words, but thank you. Um, I I do have a couple of questions. Uh, Mr. Devito, I I've
073heard some things about the pool being a little cold at the high school. >> Well, I mean, >> yeah, >> it's, you know, it's supposed to be at about 80°, >> Right. And that's where it is for our swimmers. I know that it could be cooler if people are used to swimming in 88° indoor pools, you know, at different places. But that's really the target temperature, >> okay, >> for our swimmers. And um it really can't make it warmer than that just because then it's not good for our our swim athletes. >> What about the air around surrounding the pool? >> I haven't heard anything that is I think you know that's just really how it is. I know that the rec pool is actually colder. The back pool is full. >> I was just
074No, I was concerned because I was hearing that it was chilly on the deck and I know that we have the pool in our capital gone. So, I just wanted to make sure that we needed to help ensure that that area was >> basically what we're doing with the project was actually on the proposition last year, right? >> And um so you may remember we had to drain it over the summer. So, we took all the measurements. Those designs are going up to the state and then in February we're going to start doing all the reconstruction of the pool deck, you know, the whole bleach, everything in the pool, but the pool is fine. No, so it's not really addressing the heating or the temperature. That's not going to change. That'll always be degrees because
075that's our target temperature. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Um, I wasn't able to go because of my leg, but I know that the beach boutique um Dr. was absolutely amazing. Um really really the the community was raving about it and how many clothes they got. So and all the volunteers you had and I know that it wasn't just you but you were very instrumental in it. So please thank you so much and please extend our thanks to all of those volunteers and the kids and the adults as well for it was really very well done. Um I also want to give a big thanks for our field of honor It is wonderful to drive past all of those flags and to see such beautiful loyalty towards our country. Um for all that hard work
076done by our middle school and those are all of my comments. Thank you. >> Sorry. >> Nope. Sorry. So Annie stole my um my field of honor. It was really great seeing all the kids and then the paper put the flags up as a service member. It's really nice to see. Um so it's great. And also for Veterans Day, it was great seeing the BMW in the city and and our local students go down and uh salute all the veterans and our middle school, Mr. Hoffman came in and uh they were help giving sweet treats which made the veterans very happy. But yes, Mrs. Conway missed >> I have to say about the football was amazing on Sunday. >> Oh yeah. So congrats to the football team. They did a great job in the semis.
077They're going on. >> They were the first final in 39 years. 39 years. They play like such an amazing team. It was such a great game to watch. >> It's going to be at Hopster on this Saturday. >> Don't bring anything with the principal of Garden City. I know it's high. >> We'll see. >> Yeah, sort of wager, but it's pretty exciting. No matter how that a game ends up, we are truly proud of all our sports and our athletes and our coaches and our cheerleaders and all our fans. So that's really great to see and um let's go beach on that >> beach academics. I just want to congratulate 136 students who were inducted into the national honor society high school last week. Very nice ceremony decided to say parents are quite proud. It
078was nice to still give congratulations to those students and thank them for the work they've given but it was already so and I do have the pleasure of attending that that swap um the clothing swap and my daughters came with me and we had a blast. So thank you Dr. Really really wonderful event and so please thank those um volunteers for us. I appreciate that. Um, okay. Uh, I think we're up to questions and comments from the public on anything. >> Hello. Good evening again. Um, as I stated earlier, I have not read the opportunity to read the uh revised code of conduct because it was uh not up this morning when I pulled up the agenda. But I would like to give my comments on any revisions to the code of conduct. I think
079a new code of conduct needs to prioritize discipline. And I think we need to end both restorative justice and all aspects of progressive discipline. Progressive discipline and restorative justice is this idea that suspensions is are bad. that suspensions uh hurt students, hurt the school district, and that our restorative justice attempts to reduce these amount of suspensions. And I think that that is both ineffective and wrong. I think that what we need is we need strong discipline with strong consequences for violating the code of conduct. I think also that um having progressive discipline is very similar and also has similar consequences to progressive law enforcement and progressive prosecutions. We've seen in many cities throughout the country where uh low-level offenses include lawyering, fair evasion, um uh uh uh marijuana use in public, and many others have
080been decriminalized or refused to be prosecuted. This has caused significant issues for these cities, including New York, with widespread uh violations not just of laws that are still on the books and not being prosecuted, but also um leading to more disorderly conduct and greater issues. I think that this idea that we should suspend less people under the guise of equity, under the guise of progress, is very unpopular amongst the school district voters and people in the community. And I've spoken to a variety of people over the past three weeks who live in the community. and they've all expressed to me that they think that attempting to reduce suspensions, attempting to not punish people or provide more lenient punishes for people who commit violations of the code of conduct is wrong. And I think overwhelmingly, if
081we look at the results of the election uh two weeks ago, especially here in Nassau County, that there was a rejection of uh progressive uh law enforcement, progressive prosecution, and I think that that trickles down into how many people feel about school discipline. So, I think that um you know, many people are opposed specifically on Long Island to uh recent proposals by the New York City mayor, for example, to end uh um prostitution uh prosecutions as well as all misdemeanor offenses. And I think that um it's wrong to try to say well you know this thing it may be in the code of conduct it's not really a big deal but I think that if we're going to end uh we have very strong for all different areas of the code of conduct. Thank you
082very much. Anybody else? Thank you. Um, okay. Announcements. Long Beach Classroom Teachers Association. >> Hello. Thank you, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Hack and Mr. Learner and Alex for the presentation. It was awesome. Uh, thank you. A huge thank you to these donors, especially who's here tonight. Thank you so much. That is awesome. Um, Miss Ford would have loved to be here. She knew the Barup one was going to be on here. She wanted me to extend the thank you as well. Um, it also, I know we've heard it in our districts, but today is also SRP day. I just wanted to say thank you to all our SRP workers as well. Um, and one, we didn't get to sum up, but in in combination with our SRPL, the SCA, and LBCTA, we were able to
083raise over $7,300 this year for breast cancer last month. >> And that was worth it. And put us over 66,000 since we started a few years back. Um, yeah, we're currently now taking for the food pantry. We're almost up to about a thousand. We're going to donate that before break. So, thank you to everybody who has contributed and we appreciate all the help. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can I ask you can I ask you a question? Um, as far as donations for the food pantry, are we at the point now where we're not collecting food anymore and just money? Is >> buildings some buildings are collecting food and they don't make the food donations? What they have found the past few years when I spoke to the person who runs the pantry, what
084we actually do is I take out cash and give them cash and bring it Tuesday. So they go buy their last minute, you know, turkeys and things that they need for the families. So they have liked preferred the cash donation. So that's what we've been doing. >> Great. Thank you. >> Um, okay. Administrative supervisory. >> Hello, Andrew Smith, vice president. wanted to thank the generous donations um use it for the Ruby Foundation. Um I wanted to also congratulate the SRPs for wonderful they're the backbone of our of our school district and often the unsung heroes. So I want to congratulate them and thank them for thank you >> um LBSCA group C >> nothing okay parent teacher association Hello. You noticed on tonight those giant white bags on your chairs. Enjoy those board recognition gifts.
085Thank you so much for everything you do for us. >> Thank you. >> We're the co-president on behalf of all. >> Thank you. >> And thank you for your donations in the music department. So very happy wellness center. So thanks >> very happygiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Why? Like don't take