001reorganization and regular monthly meeting. Please stand for the pledge to the flag of United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We're going to start the meeting with um swearing in our elected officials, starting with Mr. Lunar. Repeat after me. Stand. Yes. Raise your right hand. I, Andrew Lunar, I, Andrew Luner, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faith faithfully discharge the duties of trustee And I will faithfully discharge the duties of trustee of the board of education of the Limbrech Union Free School
002District of the Limbrech Union Free School District. Town of H Hemstead Town of Hemstead Nessa County New York according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. [Applause] Okay, thank you. Okay, Mr. Helen. I, Daniel Cullen, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution in the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties of trustee I will faithfully discharge the duties of trustee of the board of education of the Limbrook Union Free School District. Brook Union School District, Town of Hemstead. Nessa County, New York. According to the best of my ability. Congratulations. [Applause] If you could also just sign. Yep. Great. Thank you. Okay. Jackson Bowler.
003I, Jackson Bowler, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties And I will faithfully discharge the duties of exeicio student board member of exe official student board member of the Limick Union Free School District of the Lim Union Free School District Town of Hemstead Nassau County, New York. Nasa County, New York. according to the best of my abilities. Congratulations. first ever. Probably not. He may be. He may be. He may be because we have an early. We July 1st. You may be the first in Nassau County. You should be very proud. Congratulations. the first student
004board member of Linda. All right. Yeah, that's very cool. Now I'd like to call for the nomination of president of the board of education. I move to nominate Leslie Denino. Second. All in favor? Congratulations. You just hit the mic on. Andy, could you hit the mic on? I, Leslie Denino, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constit Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties And I will faithfully discharge the duties of president of the board of education L Brook Union Free School District Union Free School District Town of Hemstead Nassau County New York Nasso County New York to the best of
005my ability. Congratulations. I'll come back and cancel. Okay. Okay. I call for the nomination of vice president. I'd like to nominate Shawn Murray. Second. All in favor? I, Shawn Murray, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of Vice President and I will faithfully discharge the duties of Vice President of the Board of Education of the Limbrech Union Free School District of the Board of Education of the Limerech Union Free School District. Town of Hemstead. Nassau County, New York. According to the best of my ability. Congratulations. Two pages this time. Okay. [Applause] Thank you. Call for the nomination of secretary.
006I would like to nominate Tara Aragona. Second second. All in favor? Okay. [Applause] Okay. Uh, raise your right hand. I, Tara Aragona, I, Tara Aragona, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties of Secretary and I will faithfully discharge the duties of Secretary the Board of Education of the Limbrech Union Free School District. the Board of Education of the Lmberg Union Free School District. Town of Hemstead. Nassau County, New York. Nassau County, New York. To the best of my ability. Congratulations. I'll fill it in. Thank you. May I have a motion to appoint Terresa Moran
007as district clerk for the ensuing year? Miss Kelly. Second, Mr. Cullen. All in favor? I'll come to you. Well, we don't have to do it up here. You don't want to do it front and center of the whole room. Position yourself behind you. You still you want to go outside with raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I state your name. I, Teresa Moran, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York. Constitution of the state of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties that I will faithfully discharge the duties of District Clerk district clerk of the Lindbrook Union Free School District the Lindbrook Union Free School District. Town
008of Hemstead. Town of Hemstead. Nassau County, New York. Nasa County, New York. According to the best of my ability. Welcome back. [Applause] May I have a motion to appoint Paul Lynch as superintendent for the ensuing year? Mr. Lunar. Second, Miss Aragona. All in favor? SP I, Paul Lynch, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of superintendent and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of superintendent of the Lindrech Union Free School District of the Limbrook Union Free School District. Town of Hemstead Nasa County, New York. According to the best of my ability, according
009to the best of my abilities. Congratulations. [Applause] May I have a motion to appoint Deborah Sabara as assistant district clerk for the ensuing year? Mr. Murray. Second, Mr. Gillespie. All in favor. The oath of office will be administered at another time. May I have a motion to appoint Linda Gillespie as treasurer of the Lmberrech Union Free School District. Miss Araguna. Second, Mr. Cullen. All in favor. Perfect. Now I need um members to serve in the following positions. Legislative representative. Perfect. Okay. Did you see do you need to announce them or you got you got it? Okay. Perfect. PTA council delegate. Adult education advisor compact committee leaison. This table's coming in hot. Bosey's budget rep teacher center. I'll do and then we need um board members to serve on the following committees. Audit committee. Okay. Policy
010committee. Great. And facilities. It's Tara, Andy, Sean. And facilities. Thank you. I'd like to ask for a consent agenda on reorganization resolutions 257R10 through R69. Miss Kelly. Second, Miss Saragona. All in favor? So, this concludes our reorganization meeting. We'll now begin our regular monthly meeting. May I have a motion to accept the minutes of the June 11th monthly meeting? Those present. Mr. Second, Mr. Lunar. All in favor? I have to abstain. Okay. May I have a motion to accept the minutes of the June 27th work session? Mr. Lunar. Second, Miss Kelly. All in favor? At this point, we would like to welcome new staff. Jesseline Dominich, elementary teacher at Marian Street. Jesseline has had two fully year long long-term teaching positions and now joins us as a full-time teacher. Welcome and we wish you the
011best of luck. Reports from trustees policy committee. Mr. Murray. Yes. Um just tonight we're doing a second reading and adoption of the code of conduct policy 5300 as well as the policy 8113 extreme heat days which are um that's a state requirement. Um and we're rescending policy 1930 which was the personal um cellular phone use by students because it's being replaced with a new policy 5695 which is uh required by state law regarding students and personal electronic devices. Um so the policy committee met after the discussion that took place at the June 13th meeting. Um and the proposed policy was shared with the collective bargaining units and with the PTA and we received feedback from all those stakeholders. Um and based on that we wanted to make a few revisions in real time and then
012wave the first reading so that this policy could be approved right away and distributed out to families. So um I don't know if that how we go about that. Okay. I would like to ask council how take a motion to wave the first reading then discuss the amendments to approve the amendments take a motion to wave the second reading and then vote approve the policy so I'll move to to uh wave the first reading second just for the record favor the only reason you're doing that literally is to avoid having to read the entire form what you're going to do is you will be referring to certain sections and those are the Hopefully there'll be changes. So that's the only reason we're doing this first. Okay. So we voted to wave the first, right? Yes.
013Reading and the amendments. Um so I can review what those amendments are. Um basically it was a lot of clarification and language. So, we wanted to clarify that um the students who had exceptions to the cellular phone ban based on their 504 or IEP did not have to make an additional request to the building. Um that permission would be automatically part of their 504 plan or IEP if it referred to that. Um we just wanted to make that clear in the policy. We also clarified that the principal would be the person in the building making decisions regarding um use of cell phones under the exceptions that are allowed. Whereas it said just school, we wanted to clarify that it was the principal of the school. Um and then finally, we wanted to specify that the
014communication regarding this policy and how um parents needed to uh adapt to would be made in writing to parents. That was not clear in the original policy. So, we just wanted to clarify those things for um for our families and for just ease of understanding. So, now we have to take a vote to wave the second reading. Okay, Miss Kelly, Mr. Colin, all in favor? Perfect. Now, I would like to vote to adopt the policy as amended. Mr. Murray, second, Mr. Paskky. All in favor? Perfect. Thank you. any reports PTA leaison or any attendance at events that we want to discuss. Oh yes, I'd like to report it. Um the Limber Council PTA's big fundraiser, the Fly with the Owls. Um it's going to be the second year. It's Sunday, October 12th, 9:00 a.m. at
015North Middle School. They will have a fun run at 8:30 before. This year they're trying to make it even bigger and better. So expect think like food trucks and even better than it was last year. Um the site is live so uh you know you can register or if you want to become a sponsor you could do that on online as well. But either way please come out to support the event and more information will be coming soon. Thank you. Um, I'll just report I had was able to go to a lot of the graduations this year. Um, both middle schools, all of the elementary schools, and the high school, and they were all special in their own way, and it's really nice to see how each building takes their own take on it. And
016it was just so nice to celebrate with everybody. I'll just join in what Miss Denino said that the um the graduations were incredible this year. each school. I mean, I didn't attend all of them, but I attended several of them, and each school really did a bangup job. I think the district did a really great job. Dr. Lynch and your team in terms of pivoting with the weather. We had uh, you know, an extreme heat day on on a couple of those and we moved them indoors and it was seamless. You would have thought they were planned to be indoors the whole time. So, you know, hats off to you and your team also and the principal. So, I said and your team and the custodial staff. But the the services were really they they
017were incredible. So, thank you. I'm gonna turn it over to Dr. Lynch for superintendent's report. Thank you, Mrs. Denino. So, I wanna I do want to pause and so normally Mr. Bowler will be uh actually having a piece uh where he will be reporting from students, but I think I want in in at this point to just point them out again the fact that we have been joined by a a student rep. This is historic and um we look forward to So, I will I want to let the community know he's already hit the job running. So he asked me to email all the principles uh so that he wants to not just get input from high school students, he wants to make sure that he's representing all of the students. Uh so I've asked
018the principles to kind of put him in in uh contact with like the the SGA reps from each of the schools. So we look forward to some really great work and we look forward to hearing some of your reports. So welcome on board and the rest of you are okay too, but I'm going to just I think you'll all allow me to welcome him a little special. So today we launched summer playground and there are 585 campers this year. Um at the same time uh we also launched uh the the extended school year program down at at uh Waverly and we also launched the summer wreck program. So lots of uh good stuff happening there. Uh starting next week we will have our first instance of the camp invention. So that's the uh the STEM
019uh camp that will be happening and that will be followed right after that by our own enrichment programs in reading and in math. And then around that same time, we'll be launching the uh summer science research program and then also the inspirit AI program which is staffed by people from MIT and Stanford University. So, uh I know that I I thank our custodians for your patience because literally at this point the buildings are not coming down at all. There's just so much going on and I think it's great. It's just opportunities for students. So, we're very very proud and we thank all the people that are doing that. And um Mr. Press, do you want to talk a little bit about capital projects? Sure. Um a lot of activity going on um throughout the district
020at this point in terms of capital projects. Um work has begun here uh on the uh two restrooms on the second floor here. They have completely gutted uh and abated. Um the faculty restrooms at the high school are the demo is 90% completed over there. There's still some um some asbesus abatement uh to be done over there. Um the the elevator cab at the high school is going to be replaced. So they've brought in all the the new um pieces. The disassembled new elevator is on site. Um deconstruction of the existing elevator is supposed to begin tomorrow. Um the uh we have West End and Marian Street. The classroom doors are being replaced there. So that work is underway. Um there's uh some of the paint as these buildings are old. Some of the paint
021has lead in it. So, there's the uh lead abatement going on uh at West End that should be done at West End by Friday. Uh the Marian Street lead abatement is done and they've already replaced 18 doors at uh at Marian Street. Uh and uh then the in-house crew is doing some work at West End uh on Room 3A uh related to some of the reshuffleling there. So, um lots of stuff going on in addition to all the programs that we have. Uh there's a lot of construction work. Yeah. And the doors are beautiful. I have to say Mrs. Maki gave me a little tour of them and really beautiful. So may I ask Mr. Press a question just on the um asbestos abatement in the high school and then the lead abatement at West
022End. Have we taken the proper precautions given all the programs going on? There's nothing going on at those building. We intentionally moved them out. So the playground usually happens at West End and Marian Street. It's uh at north and south so that they can just have free free run of the building. Yeah, great question. All right. And I'm also proud to announce that we have launched a new board minute program. So right now we used to use a a program. So now it's going to be uh uh better for the for the community. So again, we she's not going to want to to take our thanks, but uh Mrs. Moran has been working tirelessly. So another you see how complicated this meeting is. It's about as complicated. So why not start with the most complicated
023meeting of the year? So we thank Terry for her work. What's going to be very nice about it to the community. You can go on to the website, go to the minutes and you can sign up for alerts so that the second that the minutes are released, you'll be able to not the minutes when the agenda are are released, you will get that uh and be able to click on all the attachments. So something like the policies uh something like even bound to the to the reports of of the finances of the district. So we proud oursel we pride ourselves on being incredibly transparent and I think this even improves our transparency more. So I thank you for that and more to come on that and I turn that back to Mrs. Dino. Thank you.
024That's great. At this time the floor is open for public comment. If you have a comment please come to our imaginary microphone and state your name. Yeah. No one now. Okay. Seeing no one at the microphone going to move on to a sympathy resolution for an Toronto. Mr. Whereas the members of the board of education of the Olympic Union Free School District have learned with sorrow the passing of an Toronto former employee in the Limbrook School District. And whereas Anne Toronto served as a teacher at Waverly Park Elementary School for 40 years from 1960 through 2000. And whereas the board of education is mindful of the contributions made to our district by Miss Toronto during her years of service to our community. Be it resolved that the board of education records its sorrow, its sympathy,
025and the esteem in which Anne Toronto was held. And be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the family of an Toronto with the hope that they will find solace and comfort in the rich heritage of good works for which he is remembered and revered. Thank you. The board gratefully accepts and acknowledges the following donations. $1,000 from Southshore Community Chest for a family of a student who attends Lmberrech public schools and a step and repeat valued at $1,450 from the high school PTA for use at various high school events. At this time, I'd like to ask for consent agenda on resolutions 257 C1 through C3, 257 NC1 through NC4, and 257 G1 through G56. Mr. Murray, second, Mr. Lunar. All in favor? Okay. May I have a motion to accept
026the consent agenda? Mr. Cullen. Second. Mrs. U. Mr. Lunar. All in favor? Okay. Our next meeting is on August 13th right here at Atlantic Avenue Boardroom at 7:30 p.m. and the board will be having its annual retreat this evening in Garden City. Have a good night. Meeting adjourned.