001mr poleski pat i think you'll have to take over the responsibilities the goal please rise for the pledge of allegiance um you all may be seated welcome to the regular monthly meeting of the liberty board of education for january 8th june 8. just making sure technology is lined up or if you have a paw it is all right sound is back on begin with roll call hanson here marcus polesky murray de nino yeager yaker as you noticed mr yaker is not here mr yaker if you could please stand up we will be proved we will be quick so mr yeaker has recently resigned from the board of education uh we are said that he is going he's been a very very useful member of the board someone we've relied upon and enjoyed our conversation discourse
002with but what is all lost is the district's gain he is taking over as an english teacher in the high school as well as our head varsity football coach mr yaker comes from a family of coaches and i know that's always been a dream of his to have this opportunity so i'm sure his father and mom are very proud and congratulations welcome to the family [Applause] all right now go sit down may have a motion to accept the minutes of the may 4th 2022 budget hearing mrs marcus second mrs hanson or not opposed all in favor may have a motion except the minutes of the may 17th 2022 budget results meeting mrs hansen second missing markers all in favor mr cunn's art gallery please he got smart he knew how hot it was i will
003move on to dr burak for presentations good evening everyone we have a lot of presentations for you this evening so sit back most of them all good all good the first one is can you hear me the first one we have is the 2022 nassau county humane essay contest this contest was co-sponsored by the nassau county executive's office the humane society of new york north shore animal league nassar county spca and there were two winners selected from each participating grade grades three through five across nassau county and we have one of the winners for grade five so we're very proud to congratulate maeve morrissey for the fifth grade winner of the nassau county humane society essay so so her essay was entitled being kind to animals and and i think many of us know if
004you're kind to an animal you can be kind to people too so maeve why don't you come up and get a shirt olympic pride shirt maeve is maeve here she's she's with mr khan somewhere okay all right we will get the shirt to maeve looking for a parking spot okay all right the next one we actually have a special special presentation uh pseg ran a safety art contest and we actually have someone from pseg mr hornick mr hornick are you here can you please up there you are mr horna you can go to the microphone there and you can announce our winner winners uh safety contest where we educate children a little bit about situational awareness if you see something say something had them do a poster on electric safety we have two winners of
005that and their posters will be displayed at the long island children's museum through july these are both in ms russo's class at marion street school and is is dahlia gerina here dahlia is charlotte horowitz here no okay is miss russo here no but the principal is here the principal's [Applause] thank you here just want everyone to know that everyone was invited i don't know what happened it's been a busy month i think thanks everybody thank you thank you [Applause] okay and mrs macchia hopefully you don't have to accept these next ones um okay okay um i last year i announced that we're actually one of the few districts that still teaches formal handwriting remember the old art of script writing um with texting and all the printing kids do or barely writing at all lindbergh
006we still maintain that art of handwriting and every year zainer blowza holds a national handwriting contest and last year i recognized a student who again i'm going to recognize her as well so she's a two year in a row winner allison wong and in addition to allison penelope dole congratulations both girls for winning oh i [Applause] moving on to staff issues june is always a busy month we have many coming and sadly we have some that are leaving us we have four retirements this evening if mr baldwin could please stand up whereas mr robert baldwin information technology specialist in the limburg public schools has announced his intention to retire after 25 years of service effective october 28 2022 and whereas mr baldwin began his limber career in the fledgling technology department over a quarter century
007ago by founding the district computer network later overseeing its expansion with then director of technology miss melissa burak to create one of the first school district-wide area networks in nassau county and eventually developing the network's breath to include full district wi-fi coverage and whereas mr baldwin masterminded the creation of the district's first network operations center at limbrook high school and supervised its multiple upgrades as it evolved into the current cloud-based hybrid enterprise connecting over 5 000 devices available for 24 7 anytime anywhere learning and whereas mr baldwin's sense of coordination and logistics was highly sought after with each and every step the district took with instructional technology the installation of interactive whiteboards and accompanying sound systems in every classroom the establishment and refurbishment of computer labs the creation of the one to world tablet initiative
008and the formation of tablet depot and the hybrid learning model during the height of the pandemic lockdown as well as other projects he was happy to be a part of and whereas mr baldwin's priority in leading the staff of the technology department was always to remind them that the teacher in the classroom and student access to the curriculum comes first recognizing that a failure in the technology can blow up a craftingly carefully crafted lesson plan and whereas rob always led by example showing up to the schools after hours when the power was out or during the height of superstorm storm sandy or putting in extra hours on a sunday afternoon to manually cool down the network operations center when the air conditioning failed and whereas rob's profound literary inspired emails for matters as mundane as
009remembering to shut down classroom computers before a three-day weekend have brought smiles and admiration from the knowing and confusion and consternation from the untutored and whereas the december holiday week at limbrick high school will never be the same without his themed parties and specially designed games now therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the limbruck union free school district accepts the resignation of mr robert baldwin for the purposes of retirement effective october 28th 2022 and wishes him many happy days with his wife anda some sam and his wife brittany and granddaughter shea congratulations [Applause] so before mr baldwin comes up for his plaque um i just think he earns the right and i hope i can make it through this earlier i said most of tonight was going to be happy i
010know people can't remember a time but how far we've come with technology but there was a time in limburg when mr baldwin and myself were the only two people in the i.t department and as a teacher i fixed computers i fixed printers i installed programs i helped support teachers and that was just being a regular computer teacher i helped support other people um and that was before mr baldwin was hired mr baldwin was hired on december 2nd 25 years ago and i remember walking into his office his workshop at the time saying you are the best birthday present i have ever gotten and to this day 25 years later you are still the best birthday present i have ever gone [Applause] [Music] margaret marshall please stand up [Applause] whereas mrs marshall senior stenographer and principal
011secretary at waverley park elementary school has announced her intention to retire effective september 30th 2022 after 31 years of devoted service as a dedicated professional who has touched the lives of countless staff families and students and whereas mrs marshall was hired by the lindbergh school district in 1991 when she joined the special services department as a stenographer for nine years mrs marshall then joined the south middle school staff in 1999 following this role in 2002 mrs marchelle was appointed senior stenographer at waverly park and has acted as the principal secretary to date mrs marchelle has been a dedicated and valued member of the waverly park school community for 20 years she is truly waverly's energizer bunny her work ethic is second to none and she has always been the go-to person at waverly park she
012meticulously manages all the demands of the main office daily occurrences with ease mrs marchell has mastered the yemen's task of coverages supplies and all things budget related to name a few and she does it all with heart mrs marshall makes it a priority to make sure everyone is just right students staff and families margaret is everyone's therapist and always willing to lend an ear and offer advice even if you did not know you needed it whereas mrs marchell is the first one in the parking lot the official greeter each morning as staff enters and usually the last one out the door she does not miss a beat on any given day you may hear mrs marshall utter one of her famous phrases to name a few all is hunky dory or we have more bucks
013than carter has liver pills or i giveth with one hand and taketh with the other or singing happy birthday to students who come to the office for a birthday surprise and her famous early dismissal call ding dong dell this is the bell she has truly left her mark on the waverly park main office and school community mrs marchell always goes above and beyond to lend her support in whatever capacity is needed she is everyone's biggest cheerleader whereas mrs marchelle is a respected valued and integral member of the lindbergh community mrs marchelle can be found front row at every board of education meeting she not only listens intently but speaks from the heart in support of all things related to her community and weaverly park elementary school we know this dedication and passion for all things
014limbrick will continue beyond her departure whereas the board of education thanks mrs marshall for her unwavering dedication and commitment to waverly park elementary school and the limber community the entire staff students and the limburg schools wish her a joyful healthy retirement with time to travel daily starbucks lattes werther's candy and endless quality time to spend with her husband john her daughter lauren and her husband ryan son jt and her granddaughters kayla and taylor now therefore be it resolved that the board of education accepts the resignation of margaret marchel for purposes of retirement effective september 30th 2022. [Applause] francisco marte please stand up [Applause] whereas mr francisco marte cleaner at the west end elementary school in the linbrook union free school district has announced his intention to retire effective august 26 2022 after 20 years of
015service to the administration faculty and staff of the lindbrook union feast free school district and whereas mr martay began his career in the linbrook union free school district as a substitute cleaner in 2001 before being promoted to a full-time cleaner in may of 2002. during his 20-year tenure mr marte worked at the south middle school marion street and west end elementary schools whereas the board of education wishes to thank mr francisco marte for his service to the lindbrook you school district and wish him a happy and healthy retirement with his wife claudia his daughters clarissa and marion and his son jorge luis frank plans on enjoying splitting his time between the dominican republic and new york and being sure to enjoy his retirement years with his family friends and four grandchildren while he eagerly awaits
016the arrival of his newest granddaughter in the coming months now therefore be it resolved hold on that the board of education hereby accepts the resignation of mr francisco marte for the purposes of retirement effective august 26 2022 and wish him all the best in his future endeavors [Applause] maria madruga please stand up [Applause] whereas mrs maria madruga stenographer in the linbrook union free school district has announced her intention to retire effective august 30th 2022 after 21 years in the department of special services and whereas ms madruga was extremely passionate about her work in the office of special services where she supported the department in facilitating the scheduling of cpse and cse evaluations and reviews for students with disabilities ms madruga always provided a cheery response to parents when they called to get assistance she has
017been an integral part of the operation of the office of special services for 21 years her contributions to the department and her sunny disposition will be missed by all her colleagues in the administration building whereas miss madruga was a resident in the linbrook school district district for 36 years where she and her husband of 43 years raised their son ed and daughter nicole and whereas ms madruga has moved to massapequa to be closer to her family and looks forward to spending more time with her three brothers children eddie and his wife gigi and their children eddie and ella and nicole and her children freddie and maddie as well as her partner jeff and whereas miss madruga loves to travel exercise and cook and has plans to travel more in her retirement and whereas the board
018of education thanks ms madruga for her commitment to the lindbergh schools and wishes her a happy and healthy retirement now therefore be it resolved that the lindbergh board of education hereby accepts the resignation of ms madruga for the purposes of retirement effective close of business on august 30th 2022 mr madriga if you could come up wow [Applause] so sadly as we lose some happily we gain some we have many teachers receiving tenure tonight and some appointments we held the reception earlier in honor of those teachers receiving tenure before the meeting but we now like to publicly congratulate them please stand when i call your name principal at waverly park allison van hazel [Applause] teacher at marion street alexa corvelli [Applause] math teacher at south jenna giblin [Applause] well so far south's winning let's see how
019north does science teacher at north keith hoffman [Applause] reading teacher at west end melissa kuwakowski [Applause] foreign language teacher at north valentina le piccolo [Applause] science teacher at south katelyn picked teacher at kindergarten center julianna rotman [Applause] science teacher at south matthew schneck [Applause] and enl teacher at the high school karen smith congratulations to all of you [Applause] we also have some new staff appointments this evening assistant principal at the high school brian garcia please stand up stay standing this is the beginning of the embarrassment i i just got finished telling those up for tenure that we're finished embarrassing them for their probationary period yours is just beginning did i say retired tenure tenure um so miss just so you know mr garcia is being announced as the incoming assistant principal for limbrick high school
020effective july 1. he will fill the role currently being served by mr cirosi who became the school's principal as you know mr garcia will come to limbrook after having served as the vice principal at south bronx early college academy charter school and as the ela chairperson and class supervisor for the eighth grade at the dr richard is credo health and science charter school in the bronx mr garcia also has teaching experience as an ela teacher and multiple grades as a t as a teacher integration specialist at eastern suffolk boces he received a master's degree in education at st john's university where he also received an advanced teaching english to speakers of other languages certification recently mr garcia served as the educational panel member at a new york university event for current and emerging teachers he
021is currently the manager for the massapequa cyclones 11u travel baseball team and as you can see evidence right there his son so mr garcia we welcome you to limb brook high school [Applause] she's already getting standing [Applause] also principal at north middle school mary ann healey who may not be here this evening no mrs healey could not be in attendance as uh her daughter is graduating from college so she is unable to be with us but as excuse me mrs missy what you heard earlier about mrs marshall is 100 percent true she's still giving me orders as you know mrs healey is the current interim principal at north middle school but effective july 1 she will serve as the official school principal she served as the interim principal since january and has been doing a
022great job communicating with family staff and students and it has helped north middle move forward over the second half of the school year she was a sixth grade english teacher and the teacher in charge at north middle before serving as the interim principal prior to limbrick mrs healey taught english at wantour middle school and high school and she also you may not know since 2006 taught at south middle school lindbergh high school and then finally north middle school she also taught at all lady of peace in limburg mineola high school and junior high school 231 q in springfield gardens she earned her bachelor's degree in english at queen's college and a masters degree in education from cw post and she received her administration certification from dowling so we welcome her back and we wish her
023well as she begins her new role july 1st music teacher waverly park and kindergarten lauren behan [Applause] physical physical education health teacher high school brian donaldson [Applause] orchestra teacher north and south veronica underhill [Applause] audio visual helper for the district actually working with us tonight brandon larkin [Applause] who is a graduate graduate of lhs and this last individual better be half as good as his colleagues in the guidance office keep talking about them guidance counselor high school andrew rosenberg [Applause] now we can live up to the pressure also want to congratulate stephanie crochet on her appointment as director of information and security systems [Applause] and dr burak you go the distance awards please thank you a couple of years ago we started something known as the hugo the distance award um every year our teachers
024go above and beyond um in trying to service the needs of our students making sure they reach their maximum potential but every year we try to highlight a couple of individuals who really go above and beyond as we say you go the distance for the students and this year actually one event took place not too long ago that really made these individuals to stand out the high school did go through a an event just prior to the beginning of the school day and there were three particular teachers who were involved in de-escalating a situation very calmly very professionally with dignity um and maintaining order and peace and protecting other students who are in the high school and and quite frankly they didn't want to come tonight and um because that's just who they are they
025do their jobs they do it professionally they are calm cool and collected at all times and that's the kind of individual and that's the training also that that we help teachers to go through in trying to de-escalate um situations that could be potentially harmful to others um so without you know divulging many details uh for for a number of reasons i would like to recognize and deservedly so tina doherty kathleen scotia and maria manticos who could not be with us tonight [Applause] so [Applause] well as dr barrick had said there was good things tonight and some sad things unfortunately in addition to mr yaker it is mrs hansen's last meeting after nine years on the board um and she will be missed i have learned actually a great deal from mrs hansen most importantly her
026passionate and aggressive pursuit of showing support for our special education program so that will always be appreciative and never forgotten um i have learned so many new words to my vocabulary from mrs hanson i greatly appreciate so um i can't be the only one that learned that from her so um you will definitely be missed heather i've definitely enjoyed our conversations and and the debates that we have had sometimes it's not as you see here there's a lot of conversations we have to take place that don't take place publicly because they're for executive session and it's always been heated and i guess you don't really all the time see all the work that the board members do i sit up here and i do the script but there's a great deal of work and passion
027that goes into the work being done and heather has always brought that passion and energy to all the issues we discussed i always appreciate that and thank you [Applause] i just i couldn't let you go without even though we're still going to be friends i couldn't let you go without you know saying something um i also was going to say i think my vocabulary is um pretty strong but you take yours to the next level um you are very you know like billy said very passionate um about your causes about the students and i you know enjoyed working with you over the past nine years you know thank you for your service to the district [Music] [Applause] i will also miss working with you and i'm glad we had this opportunity and i've gained a
028friend from working with you all these years [Applause] heather i only had the opportunity to work you with you in this capacity for one year and in that time i appreciate your mentorship advice and late night calls to help me understand what was going on um but i've known you for many years through kevin and and little kevin and so it's just great to be part of that family as well and thank you for your service [Applause] well heather you know i just want to say that when i ran for the board you gave me some great advice and took me under your wing to a certain extent and even though a lot of the things that happen in this community we always see eye to eye on the thing that amazes me about you
029is more so than anybody else i know you're always willing to listen to rational arguments and come up with your own informed decision no matter how you felt going into it you you have a great open mind and it shows in some of the decisions you've made on this board over the years and uh you know i didn't realize the uh hour and a half long phone conversations were prerequisite to be on the school board when i get a phone call from mrs hanson but i'll tell you this much you know they they inform me a lot and they are part of my continuing education and i hope even though you're no longer on the school board i still get you know the privilege of those conversations on occasion [Applause] i've been thinking about this
030night for over a year that i i think something inside me went it's time when i got on the school but when i ran for the school board all they talked about i was the pta rep and all they talked about at school board meetings were turf fields that was like all they talked about at every school board meeting and i got on the on the school board and nine years later i think we've talked about turf fields once i think we've talked about everything you can possibly imagine it has been such a privilege i thank you to this community for allowing me to do this allowing me to contribute in a small way to your children's lives i've i hope i have made them their lives better i i walk away from this with
031with so many friends with so many connections and encounters with such talented committed devoted people first and foremost the people i share this deus with pat i think back the first text i ever got this paleshi guy or who are we voting for this polishy guy it was from a friend of mine and i said i've talked to him smart ass great questions that still holds um there's there's so much intelligence and integrity and leadership there i am so excited to see what you're going to do on the board um sean sean came in from the first meeting prepared like he has always been here just a true asset insightful experienced and just a wealth of knowledge leslie there is just nobody who loves being on the board like she does she loves the questions
032she loves the community she loves the events i have no idea how she keeps up with these four busy children and her and all her work in the community and to her own career and honestly my nails have never looked better and it's your influence you are you walked so i could run frankly um ellen ellen is the person um the person who's gonna take my seat i'm gonna look at you andrew luna you're gonna hear her in executive session go i have a question if you're writing stop writing and look up if you're chewing stop chewing and look up because she's going to ask a question that's her superpower ellen asks the great questions and has probably more than any person on this board quietly made a huge impact on this community and your
033kids education mr belmont there are times in your life where you meet people who are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing it's been challenging it's been difficult but you were the person who should have been the president of the board of ed for the last three years there were times i marveled at your ability to handle really difficult situations even if i didn't necessarily agree with your fine points i walked away going nobody could have handled that like he could at some point in my life i'm going to run a meeting and i'm going to think about you because to me you're the gold standard of how to run a meeting nobody works as hard as he does nobody is obsessed with your children for free like he is and since we're talking
034about people who are obsessed with your children we'll talk about the staff up here paul lynch rock solid um he's great with the numbers and he's as good if not better with the public i've never seen somebody explain numbers in such in such an entertaining way and we've come to take it for granted in linbrook like we're like oh yeah the audit went great oh the budget all the numbers work out and the audit committee which i sat on for years has to say to him has to say to us no no no he's really doing it great because we kind of just take for granted that paul's nailing it and um and that's part of what makes this district run as good as it does it's on a lock like this one over here
035maureen poise who hr poise intelligence patience there have been so many amazing people who you have bought to this district and again quietly without a lot of fanfare has made your kids lives better in so many ways by exposing them to amazing talent my buddy and she sat next to me for how many years jerry balekas is not here and i would have just kissed him on his forehead had he had he been here and that just would have been terrible jack it's been a pleasure it's been a pleasure jack who is just our attorney and does a great job and is just uh just what what you want in a district attorney he does a great job um dr birak dr burak years from now they're going to look at these things that have
036happened in this district the north middle extension the marion street work waverly park the elevator the high school bond the alternative high school the massive expansion of special ed adding of sports and they're gonna and the p and the pandemic who did all that she did in the middle of with everything on the face of the earth thrown at her from day one she came in in as difficult a set of circumstances as ahead of a district can come in and managed her staff and their grief and her own grief and took this district forward in a thousand ways during a global pandemic um it people don't realize we did extended year we did work we got a high school off the ground an alternative high school off the ground and did a bond during
037a global pandemic a lot happened um you've been transformative for this district it's been an honor it's been a pleasure way to break that glass ceiling hey there we are how do we is this on come on i just said great things about you there you go so heather we also have this you don't want the gift terry i forgot about terry i can't forget about terry she likes to hide in the corner but i okay terry i'm still gonna call you every once in a while i love terry because terry laughs at every single thing that i say but seriously terry is melissa's right hand does an amazing job and keeps all of us in check and is amazing she's mine also she's she really hides because if everyone realized that she really runs
038everything we don't want anybody to know but heather why don't we take a picture with the full board getting your gift in front of our mr yeager you work for me now please stand [Applause] i think [Applause] now as the expression goes if you got tenure if you retired or you were appointed you don't got to go home but you can definitely leave here so we'll take a two minute break so those members can go out and celebrate their recognitions this evening moving on with reports from trustees mr murray could you report on the policy committee the first readings sure we have a number of new and some revised policies that the policy committee met to work out i'll just very briefly 1405 is it creates a formal process by which someone can complain about
039the district misusing certain federal programs and that's required under essa the federal uh school educate school funding act is revised language to make our current policy um line up with the new lease and purchase agreement that we've made through boces just puts our policy in line with our practices 45 31 is an adjustment to language for overnight student trips to just better align with our actual supervision needs and bring in that policy up to date 6145 is just a renumbering of an existing policy because that number is now required for a new policy and then it actually also revised to reflect our current actual reserve funds uh there was an old one in there that didn't belong anymore 6640 is just some changing in the language to reflect that we are now digitally maintaining our
040inventory list as opposed to paper 6680 is a new policy that details the internal audit function that's been in place by regulation for a while but now that is written into policy 6700 is a new exhibit again this coming out of some of the auditing work and mr lynch dr lynch's great department and basically it's just more specific paperwork for any sole source vendor and requires whoever is purchasing from our district to really demonstrate that there was no competitive bid available before we go with the sole source 8110 8112 and 8120 they were all updated policy language to align with new state law around school safety any board members have any comments also i'd like to have ask for a motion to wave the little literal reading of all those policies and just go with
041your summary have a motion mr poleski second mr mrs denial all in favor yeah that terry thank you anybody else have anything to report i was at the uh varsity dinner on monday night along with mrs hansen and mrs denino and mr belmont who was there with his family as his daughter is graduating and won a couple of nice awards it's always nice to see all the students dressed up and at the event and hear all the accolades all the different sports it's one of the you know many nights at the end of the school year that we get to really you know recognize the students in different ways um tomorrow night is the music dinner so we will continue on uh with that and hear all of our great musicians there's a lot of
042them in the district thank you mrs marcus anything else on the board in addition uh to the dinner i was at um the concert at the high school which was lovely it's so nice to be back at everything and it's always a wonderful concert and also the flag football game our girls made it to the finals for the first inaugural season it was wonderful to watch them and it was really it was great to see lindbergh participating in this wonderful new opportunity and how far they came so they really should feel proud thank you miss did you hear anything else on board moving on to old business uh dr lytch if you can address the elementary school lunch program sure so uh we've been looking all year about the possibility of launching an elementary lunch
043program and we had agreed at the last meeting that we would move ahead with a potential pilot at the elementary schools next year so our next step as ordered by the board was to have a food tasting so about two fridays ago uh we had a bunch of the elementary kids up here at the uh at the high school and it really was a very fun day i have to say uh they got to go thumbs up thumbs down they had some pizza they had some chicken fingers uh they had some sandwiches and i have to say they were actually very positive about the food that they tasted so that's that's the good news uh some news that we've discovered that we're going to have to take back to the food committee is since we're
044doing this as a pilot the state of new york will not allow us to enter the uh the school lunch program so therefore we cannot see reimbursement on sold meals so that will affect somewhat with the price that we would be offering the meals at uh we would see it uh about competitive or around where uh pta would be selling their their current lunches so that's just the update as we know it now more work to be done at the food committee but just wanted to let you know where we're at in the process so if they were to do the state as they have this year where they offer free lunch so if that was the case would that not qualify for that that would be correct but all signs are that there will
045be no free lunch next year question we we a few years back you know we tried to to make food that we would serve that the kids would want to eat and the the challenge we encountered was by the time we got the food to a level that they wanted to consume it it was prohibitively expensive to the point where it was not appealing to a lot of the parents what's our strategy to kind of keep from running right into that same wall yeah so i think the the the fact that this is a pilot so the reason that we're doing the pilot is that pta wants to continue to be able to serve special lunch so that's going to continue uh what the this was a very big concern of the food committee they
046mentioned to aramark that you can't price them outside of the of the ability to do that so we'd be talking about serving one day a week as a sampling of the meal if this goes well the elementary schools will have to join the lunch program therefore meals will be subsidized by the government therefore price naturally will come down at that point thank you going to go out of order especially because when i was growing up in limbrook i was obsessed with being an astronaut i still remember in fifth grade mr ottoman had a class where we had to design an egg inside of a shoe box and launch it against the wall probably the last science class they paid attention in and then through that we learned about gravity how it impacts space so i'm
047very excited to hear about this presentation we're about to hear so before i turn it over to mr vesalico i get things across my desk all the time um to special projects programs that if we want if we have any interest in it um and i forward it on to the different chair people directors other administrators in the district and and i can always count on mr fasalico for for sharing my passion for the for this and mrs hansen i appreciate everything you said but also steam my heavy emphasis on steam and especially women in steam as we've tried to promote to try to get more females interested in these steam areas so this one came across my desk and i got so excited by it and i followed it on to mr fasalico because
048i just thought it was a great way to try to get a lot of kids involved and also interdisciplinary and literally in less than an hour he responded back he's he's all in and then he was able to also get buy-in he's got a lot of teachers and and we're very pleased to share with you uh this new program that we're going to be uh launching how was that was that good literally launching yes thank you um like dr burak said a little over a month ago she had forwarded me some information about a program called the student space flight experiment program and like she said we were extremely excited about this opportunity and so um right away we formed a team which we lovingly called our mission control team of administrators and teachers and
049pulled together a plan which we submitted to the student space flight experiment program and we are very happy to announce tonight that this plan was accepted and we are now one of only 32 schools in the country to be part and selected for the student space flight experiment program mission number 17. and what this means is that we have a spot on a spacex dragon rocket for a student-designed experiment from linbrook to go to the international space station in 2023 in the spring not only will the experiment that's designed by our student go to the space station we will also have two accompanying mission patches designed by our students here at linbrook so what our team put together for this plan for the student space flight experiment program is what we're calling liftoff leaders and
050innovators and what it stands for is linbrook's inspirational flight to orbit for future leaders and innovators and what it really is is it's a steam competition that we're starting in september and it has really two components to it so the first part is the micro gravity experiment proposal that our students in our sixth seventh eighth and ninth grade science classes all will be doing as part of a project-based learning and designing a microgravity experiment to submit the other part to the competition will be the mission patch design competition where we will have the high school graphic design classes design mission patches to send to the space station and we also are going to open up the second mission patch and open that up to any student in the district k-12 that's interested and passionate about
051art and hoping and dreaming that they can get their artwork up to the international space station and back and once all of the proposals and designs are submitted we'll be selecting 12 semi-finalists for the microgravity experiments and we'll be selecting 10 semi-finalists for the mission patch designs and they'll all be invited to a selection symposium on november 1st 2022 and at this symposium we'll have scientists and artists professionals come and evaluate our semi-finalists and we will be choosing three experiments to send to nasa and we'll be sending two patch designs as well and then of course nasa will decide and we will select and announce probably in december the winning team for this experiment and the two mission patches and those students will be sending their experiments and their patches to the space station um
052in late 2023 so we're really excited about this opportunity we know we're going to be able to engage so many of our students here at linbrook and i want to thank the team our mission control team for helping support a lot of you are here tonight to make this possible and if you want to keep up to date with it we'll be putting out information um through the principles and we formed a schoology group if you want to join the schoology group the code is there we'll be putting out a little bit of information over the summer and then we're really launching it um september the first day of school like i said in all of our science classes six through nine and that's it so one one i really i really hope you can
053give a pose to that to this just remind one please keep us up to date because i i think this is amazing but you know these are the little things that you don't see or hear about maybe if you didn't come tonight or you didn't watch it you wouldn't hear about it but just think how simple it was for this to have been missed you know dr barra gets an email that she could have disregarded we just thought nothing of it but she took the time to look at it and she took the time to send it to the staff and the staff could have disregarded it and said they're too busy or they're doing other things but they didn't and they said hey this looks exciting just think how that's going to inspire the
054number of kids that'll work on that how it's going to impact their future what they're going to think about how it's going to change literally it sounds dramatic but it could change the course of what they're going to study because they're doing something exciting like that that is one of the reasons this is an amazing district it's not just all the great accolades we get in the accomplishments which are numerous but it's little things like that that starts with the superintendent and goes to this administration goes down to the staff that jumps on something like that and turns into a project like this so i i think that's awesome really great kudos for taking a run with that thank you thank you mr vasalico for the work there's a lot of work this man put
055in and i volunteer if they need any of the shop or on down to the kennedy space station one day um all right so moving on to oh i got a lot of sheets here moving on to new business all right so in new business we have a personnel issue so as we noted earlier um well mrs hansen is leaving at the end of a term mr yeager left during his term and as a matter of law the obligation of the board is to appoint someone in a reasonable manner to that position the person who gets appointed to that position serves until the next election cycle and there's an election and it um actually the way it is is when that election takes place at the next election cycle the person who ends up having
056the least number of votes will serve out the term of the person being replaced so we don't have to worry about it that may be a little confusing that will play itself out next year um so the board having the ability and discretion to choose anyone they want would then have to go through a uh a process of deciding if we could agree on who that person would be and the consensus of the board was probably the most transparent and fairest way to do was to look to the recent election and to see what the results were there and so having done that and looked at that the next vote getter who had a decent showing and a good showing of that election was tara aragona who the board was considering doing [Applause] really didn't
057say we were doing it people were just talking about so any thoughts on that mr murray yeah i would just like to to add to that not only did her vote tally show that she had pretty community-wide support especially as a writing candidate but just knowing the time effort and dedication that she's put in as a pta president at the unit level and at the co council level she's already very much up to speed on a lot of what's going on in the district and i feel that she'd be able to to step in and hit the ground running so i think that makes her uh an ideal appointment as well anything else made in the board members well that was exactly what i was going to say that you know with the amount of
058volunteering she's already done for the district at multiple um she's in the council room she knows you know what's being discussed she you know can easily step into this role and like you said hit the ground running so i think that you know um that you know she would be a perfect you know fit [Music] is there a consensus that's what we want to do let's do that by resolution um be here by resolve that pursuant to education war this is an additional resolution that was not included earlier it's resolution 2206 g66 be it hereby resolve that pursuant to education law 1709-17 the board of education of the liberal union free school district hereby appoints tara aragona to fill the vacancy on the board of education created by the resignation of trustee david yaker effective
059july 1st with such term continuing until the next annual district election to be held on may 16 2023 may have a motion to accept the appointment of taragona mr murray second mrs de nino all in favor has passed that actually will take place um the oath of office will take place at our reorganization meeting on july 5th at the same time that mr luna will also take his oath um moving on to we're gonna [Applause] the um moving on now we're going to actually close this meeting and dr lynch will open up our district safety plan meeting i think it's just the cover okay thank you so tonight is a requirement of the new york state safety law so by law once a year we must present to the community with the opportunity for community
060comment on the district-wide safety plan a couple of things that i have to note about tonight we are talking about the district-wide safety plan that is the public plan that is available on the website it is the one that we can discuss in public it is the one that we frequently discuss in public and that's kind of the the ground rules here part of the district safety plan are individual building plans so each of the seven buildings have their own building level plans by law we may not discuss them under any way shape or form i need to be clear before public comment that we may not by law discuss anything in building level plans if you do a little bit of thinking about it we do not want to give bad actors any understanding
061of how we defend our building and how we defend our children against those bad actors the documents that the principals fill out in conjunction with their safety committees are highly confidential documents one of the few documents in educational law that are not subject to foil requirements so those are the ground rules tonight i think it's important to set that and then moving on i will now start to talk about the district-wide safety plan so by law we have to review this once a year uh it actually starts at the district-wide health and safety committee that meets about four or five times a year uh there is a requirement that we post it to uh for public comment on the district website and basically the important thing that happens here is when you read the plan
062it establishes district-wide and building level incident command structures so there are charts in this in this uh document that say who is in charge at every building when an emergency happens in the at the august meeting dr burek has that legal authority she delegates it to me at the at the august meeting and it becomes my responsibility for the length of that year at the district level at the building level each of those principles are the district are the building level safety incident commanders we have an incident command structure that goes five people deep so that if the principal is out of the building someone else immediately steps into the into the role if that person is out of the building someone else steps into the role uh people are very conscious of this it's
063it's actually you know i don't want to say it's a joke but when i leave the building i literally turn over command it is just like you would see on the movies i literally called down to dr berman or dr burak say you now have incident command i'm going to a boces meeting and they then take over that that incident command that becomes very important because when law enforcement shows up in an actual emergency they will want to know who's in charge the incident commander's job is to execute the building level plan with precision so it could be evacuating kids from a building it could be sending kids into a lockdown or it could be doing a lockout procedure that is the the basic job of the incident command team law enforcement shows up they
064have their own incident command our incident commander surrenders control to that incident commander now lindbrook pd is in charge the fourth precinct is in charge lindbrook fire department is in charge and they investigate the the uh the incident when they see that it is safe and that we can proceed normal operations they then tell our incident commander and our incident commander then is able to release whatever uh procedure we have put in place it sounds very hierarchical and it is we drill this constantly everyone knows when they're in the hot seat and what they need to be doing to respond to that so that's really the most important thing that this plan does other things that happen is we're always drilling there are laws that say that the principals must conduct 12 drills a year
065every time they conduct a drill they have a debriefing at their own building every time that we have a district level safety committee we're debriefing their debriefing so that the district can learn about the procedures to make it better anytime there's an actual emergency we immediately debrief on that emergency so as we know there was an incident yesterday the the administration met today and immediately debriefed on that on that incident so that's another important part uh it anticipates the hazards we start we literally and at the buildings here we start to think what could go wrong we really we're very depressing at times we're thinking of okay what would happen if a gas truck spilled over on sunrise highway oh wow it happened in rockville center a couple of weeks ago those are the types
066of things that we're always trying to tabletop we're always trying to think through and we do have those discussions at district level and more importantly at the building level a couple of other things recently this always had an appendix called a pandemic plan it kind of sat in the back and no one really paid attention of it and it was it's been there since i think around 2005 or 2006. well guess what we had a global pandemic so now we had to institute that plan and now this is where you will find what our actual pandemic plan is uh and then as i indicated before when the board adopts these this plan in in august they will also be adopting those confidential plans that the principals have briefed me on so what happens who are
067the district level safety committee uh the the board appoints them every august uh it's a representative of the board of education the superintendent and her entire cabinet is there all school principals officio are there our major directors of facilities health guidance technology and our technology coordinator are there there is a requirement that all bargaining units are present we are very fortunate in this community that members of the lindbergh police department and the fourth precinct are pretty much always there as a well our people are homeland security liaisons so we have a very active police presence a representative of the pta is there we have a student on the committee we have a boces health and safety consultant and uh our insurance carrier is also there and that can actually be very handy at times so
068that's who uh composes the committee so what are the requirements of the plan uh if you take a look at the back of the plan it basically says who needs to come to work during a pandemic and we list the titles so that if the governor so it happened last time the governor said no one's allowed in a school building unless you've designated them to be allowed in a school building we have a list that says we're allowed to walk into a school building our nurses are allowed to walk into a school building and it details what those hours are and how we would handle that it's required consultation we can't do safety without consulting with our bargaining units there are protocols for telecommuting uh we we talk about staggered workloads we talk about ppe
069we talk about contact tracing and we uh talk about uh required collaboration with the local entities a new thing this year and i i say you know not the critique the state but part of the building level plans is a reaction to a cyber event that really is a district level uh response so uh each of the plans basically refers it back up uh to central to do that so that's kind of what is required in that plan so what happens now all right so the the health and safety committee met about a week and a half ago they have been and when i say they review this plan they actually review this plan people who are sitting in this room right now called me on the telephone with ideas of how that plan should
070be removed be changed there are people in this room who sent me emails to say this needs to change that needs to change finally we take that draft and we present it to the health and safety committee and they approve it to come to here tonight which is the required public hearing the board will then review it for the next uh 30 days and then at the july meeting they will direct me to put it onto the website when i put it on the website you all have an opportunity to comment on it to me via email in august it will be adopted the board will appoint the district-wide safety team on or by september the first we must convey it to all our police entities the state police lindbergh police uh the fourth precinct
071uh lindbergh fire he lit fire uh and then uh then we continue to to do the uh the plans with the local police that's technically by august of october first but we always have it done by uh september 1st so that's the the timeline that will get us into compliance so that you all know when it is on the district website this is where you will be able to find it it is under uh the district tab under health and safety and then the plan draft is right there one thing i do want to highlight of what's going to be going on in this year we thank the good voters of linbrook who approved proposition 2 in the last budget vote in that proposition there was 471 dollars allocated for the wiring of this district
072for security so this is something we've been talking about a couple of years we originally started the plan uh thinking and hoping that our own guys could do it uh it is really a monumental job so now we are going to be hiring a wiring firm that will be able to do this wiring uh hopefully completing that uh by september or october and then immediately on the back of that we will be taking devices cameras uh swipes and other things that are going to now infringe on the building level plans not to go into too much detail there but all of the security uh appropriate uh technology infrastructure will be in place supply chain welling willing by uh next june of 2023 and yes we also we heard mr belmont did an appointment tonight of
073stephanie gousha as the director of information and security systems so that's a relatively new role so rob retired tonight and his role was information systems uh her role is a little bit different it's going to be information systems so the traditional network but also it is it's an it's a very important position to to we need someone to worry about all of those devices and we have a very good person in place to do that so uh that appointment took place tonight so on that note that's the general overview of the district level plan uh i will uh defer to the board for uh questions um dr liz i want to point out because while we do this every year it's not that many people always maybe attend or see it and don't really understand
074the amount of work that goes into this you know i was lucky enough when i first moved back to limbo prior to even running for the board dr barbarino asked me to participate in this committee and i have with that much perspective to say even when homeland security comes in and nassar county comes in they always give great kudos to the work that was being done you know what dr burger is doing and that you're doing it it's always been a priority it's always been something this district takes very seriously and it's not just obviously with world events there's a lot of concern about active shooters and those type of situations but that's not the only thing the committee and the plan has to look at as you indicated we had a pandemic that got
075pulled out there also so there's a full spectrum of things that they want to look at and because of recent events i know as we announced last month we recently switched over to a new security company and now we have our security officers will all be retired law enforcement um and the specifics of those plans obviously not for public conversation and one of the things i would like to at some point have a conversation with or at least entertain is to what level of increase do we feel it's necessary to have an increase in security i especially specifically with the conversation taking place of whether or not we should have armed security i definitely don't think we need to have armed security in our buildings i don't think we need to have metal detectors in
076our buildings i think those are things that come more from an internal threat and i don't think that's the culture our district wants but it would be interesting to gather some information maybe from our security company as to what would be entailed if we had an external guard that is a retired police officer and probably hr 218 compliant hr is the federal law that allows police officers who get certified to carry anywhere in the country that they want so and also the new security firm is also going to do a you know look over our entire district and look at every building and i think it's important to look at building by building is it something do we need security we have security here at the high school south has done a great job with
077what's occurred i feel really happy and you know my child is there and safe that they handled that so well but we do need to take a look at what's going on in each individual building and they are the experts that we have hired and i would like to hear feedback from them what you know what the risk is and what they're saying um you know inside each building do we need security even just security in each building as opposed to someone sitting you know at the desk um if i could just add to that um i've worked as a building principal in a number of districts and am part of that safety plan construction and in any county-wide conference that i've been to around school security um limbrook has always been lauded as a
078district for others to aspire to so i want to thank dr lynch and and the rest of the people that put that plan together um you have absolutely put together a plan that mitigates uh as much as possible and i think that's for me that's the priority is is mitigation as opposed to reaction so our new security company as i understand it they're doing a very detailed threat assessment right now to see where there may be some [Music] areas of concern that we need to address and mitigate um and i again like miss dinion have said i'd like to hear from them before we go into the deep end of a deeper conversation so i just want to be clear that i'm hearing two charges from the board tonight uh one would be to investigate
079the ability to expand uh security into other buildings and to investigate the possibility of armed guards that as not as a decision but as and something that you would like investigated right i'm not sure i may be dealing with sentiment on that i think the culture of our district is not so much that there's an internal threat but my perspective is that if an armed threat shows up at the building if we had the ability to cut down that response time with an equal response to that um i'd like to us to at least consider that i think right now over the years and again it's a question of we're an open campus right so we we can't secure this building you can't secure your buildings you just can't do that in education it's cost
080prohibitive and it's not realistic so the idea is where is our greatest threats we've had situations where the man traps and the security upgrades we've done from our grant have been great i mean they're doing what they're supposed to do the reality is we are more likely to face a custodial issue or of that nature than we are an active shooter but the reality is an active shooter may pose a greater threat so they're very difficult things to weigh because again we have to take into account culture and budget and so forth i like that we have moved to a company that takes security seriously it uses individuals that have experience in some very difficult situations in some threatening situations so i think that's great and and i think we'll just have to see what
081information we gather from them as we move forward as we do that to just really recognize in those last two lockouts that did take place that our protocols did exactly what they were supposed to do so i mean our safety plan as it stands did exactly what was supposed to do which was to make sure that a potential threat remained outside of the school buildings and that law enforcement were able to interdict that threat and and take care of it so that all of our students were safe at all times at this time if anybody from the community would like to ask any questions just specifically on this plan you may do so hi mary beth stalter i'm a resident i don't know if it's it is about the plan because it's about safety i
082know i've been up here years ago talking about having some type of presence at all of the schools maybe not a hundred percent of the time but someone who maybe goes around to all of the different schools um i do think that that's something that should definitely be explored and you know obviously doing due diligence but just given everything that's going on in the world i think it's difficult to say that you know we are not the culture is not that we would have an active shooter situation i don't think anyone can say that ever again so um i do think that we need to eva you know have them evaluate um i appreciate that we have a new company um but may i just add to that so part of going to this new
083company we are we are getting a security supervisor who is doing exactly what you just said so that person will spend a certain number of hours every single week going from building to building working with the principals and as of right now they've started the threat assessment to check our vulnerability areas but they will be more present and be looking throughout the entire district on a weekly basis that's good to know i mean i just think i know hewlett has someone who drives around in a car all the time and you just see them driving in their little security car and i just think it makes parents feel like you know there is someone and they might not be there at the moment but they're around um but my other question it will be is
084going to be about i know what you're going to say voting in schools like how are we we're still having voting in schools with like everything that's going on i mean it's like insanity and i know that it's out of your hands i understand that but i'm just i have to keep bringing up again because on election day my phone was like all day like how do we just how do people just walk in the schools and i'm like obviously you have you're new here you don't know that i like what i've been doing over the years about this um so i i don't know if again given we can go back to our legislators and say like i know there were bills in the assembly and matching bills in the senate like five or
085six years ago and then kovit happened and then brian curran wasn't re-elected and then that kind of fell to the wayside um so i know he i'm just saying that because he was one of the sponsors of the bills um uh we just need to like move on that again because it's it's really insanity it's like those days will remind him as he runs for election that that's something you should keep going with but that's again one of those things where people come to us and you know hopefully the more community members that get involved the more of an issue will be well i know the school board association a number of years ago had come out you know with a position on it so you know i would also like you guys to go
086back to the school boards again and say how can we as a board you know a collective board go to the state and say this is insane during all this work this amazing work that everyone's doing and then on election day and it like it does it's all like and just you know they brought that up and they did bring it up again in february the new york city school board association okay i appreciate it also one of the things i'm sorry that we do bring in secure we do hire extra security on voting day but also just so you know my particular stance on this is well known um in the county that every year and mrs moran is laughing at me the attorney for the county calls me personally um because he knows
087he has to try to massage me in order to get voting back in the buildings and i give him what for because he knows i'm definitely against it um and this year we didn't have it not that not that i did it as they kept pushing it off so that worked but they know very well how limbrick feels about voting in our schools i mean it is a legislative thing and yeah i know we say it all the time you have to go to the legislature right and i know that but we within our own you know we have to have our own elections in our buildings i even think that we need to look at that because you know there are people coming through the front door like why why are we letting them
088access through the front building and i know that there's you know we have the man trap and all that but why aren't we like letting them vote in the gym having everything blocked off and only one way in one way out like they do at south um i just think you know that needs to also be looked at going forward i just want to clarify when you came up you made a comment about i want to make sure you didn't misunderstand my words that there is no culture where you can say you're not subject to an active shooter that was my point one there's no way to know that it's a very random and arbitrary act that's what makes it so scary absolutely my point was the internal student body that we have is not
089the nature of with i believe we need metal detectors at our doors i agree with you okay no no i understand what you're saying it's just you know it's obviously i don't think any school set thinks that they will ever be in that position so i don't think we can you should ever let your guard but they may not think it but understand that is part of our training in our district plan they do handle that no no i understand thank you hi everybody jen saya i'm a resident short and sweet is there any way that you can pull the community on these issues just to understand where the community's at it's just it's just a question does anybody have a response is there any way to pull the community with respect to how do
090people feel about armed guards in the building patrolling the building no armed guards at all metal detectors just put together a google form of some sort to pull the community i work in a in the district about 40 minutes away from here and the superintendent in that district at the start of the pandemic sent out surveys to the community repeatedly and just got feedback from the community it's a just a harmless question i'm not trying to cause trouble it's just i know i could get up here and do that from time to time but it's just an honest question something to consider because it's definitely something to think but i would think also now that you mentioned that that this is such a hot topic issue i would think that while we're considering that and
091the mechanisms to do that that hopefully the pta which has a great infrastructure because it goes from the council to the buildings might at least at their meetings be able to get a sense from there it's not maybe as widespread as the surveys we've never had great results with the uh this is the last survey we did we did one a few years ago but at least while that's out there if you know the pta can at least at their next meetings just get a sense of it and they report back and dr barrett meets with them often enough to get a sense from them at least what their thoughts are on that okay that that's a good option i i feel like every parent should have an opportunity to say something whether they're yes
092ptas is a great gauge for something like this but these are hot button topics and everybody has an opinion on it so maybe it's worth putting together a survey it's just an idea all right thank you good evening everyone my name is joe konza i'm in the district i have a first grader at marion street um dr bjarak i don't know if you remember back in november of 2021 i asked the board some questions in the wake of the michigan shooting um and you indicated to me that you have a great role the district has a great relationship with law enforcement and that after unfortunate events like these you review your protocols which i i'm certain that you do and here we are in the wake of another and obviously we're talking about the safety
093plan um and so i i do agree with you mr belmont about what our district needs and what our seven buildings need i don't think um we need uh armed law enforcement or school resource officers as they're often called in our buildings and that's not to say that i don't think there's a school out there that that does need them i'm sure there there are schools that do need them i don't think that our schools do for a variety of reasons i think we're fortunate in the safety plans and protocols that we have in place i think we're fortunate in the relationships that we do have with local law enforcement we are fortunate in where we live and the kind of response times that we get when law enforcement is called in um and so
094you know for folks that do think um you know an in-house uh armed uh personnel is necessary um i know where you're coming from um you know we all want the best for our children we all want to know that our children are safe so i i know where you're coming from and while i disagree with you that's okay it's okay to disagree i think this is something that should be openly discussed and debated by you with obviously your input from the security company that you've retained but i i do feel that that is not what's needed in our district for a variety of reasons and i you know i'm sure your security company will educate you and you will educate yourselves but um specifically the fbi's report on school violence prevention as well as
095the journal of the american medical association and their study that they've done on school shootings they all point to the same answer and that is for a district like ours and schools like ours and armed law enforcement you know personnel in the buildings is really not necessary in fact the first thing that the fbi recommends is that you do a needs assessment and it says every school is diverse and has varying needs right and so it is this individual decision and based on the school's individual needs and for me and i think i'm right sros are for schools that have day-to-day violence problems which as mr belmont said we do not and we're fortunate that we do not an sro just to address the you know while it can happen anywhere it's fortunately unlikely event
096of an active shooter an sro is not the answer to that and in fact the journal of the american medical medical association actually and this is not a cause effect analysis that they've done it's strictly correlation base but having an sro not only does it not help the situation it's actually the number two factor in the increase of casualties in a school shooting and the theory is it's because of what they call the weapons effect and that if the shooter and keep in mind the shooter knows whether or not there's armed security because the shooter 85 percent of the time is either a current or former student the shooter knowing that there's an armed security is going to increase his weaponry knowing that there's armed security right and so now you have this escalating thing
097and that's why there's an increase in casualties when you have an sro on site right and number two and just as problematic most school shooters are suicidal so rather than an sro being a deterrent it's actually an attraction because they can help the suicide happen if not by the person's own hand by the armed personnel and so i i want you to to discuss these things and think about these things i want you to look at the fbi's report on school violence prevention i want you to look at the journal of the american medical association the findings they've made and like you said to think about the culture we have and what the impact of having an armed person in-house in the school what what that would do to the culture um i think it
098would have a negative impact and i think the benefit is non-existent as far as what most people are concerned about and that's safety in the event of a school shooting and the last thing i i would like to just talk about um briefly is you know there are a lot of unintended consequences in having an sro in your school and that is dealing with where did where did disciplinary issues go right does it stay with the administration within the school does it get funneled out to the criminal justice system and the data will show you that having someone in-house makes it too easy and cast too wide of a net on cases being funneled to the criminal justice system and it has a very negative impact on our students um i've unfortunately seen this as
099a criminal defense attorney and you know sees what like see what happens when young people and they are they're young they're kids still and i'm not again not to say that some incident should never go to the criminal justice system sometimes they have to but when it the net is cast too wide a lot of harm is done to students and families and the community and you know there is a tremendous cost associated not just for the personnel themselves it will affect without a doubt or liability insurance whenever you introduce a firearm even it's a firearm with you know a good guy um it'll have a significant impact on that and the last thing i guess i'm concerned with is you know the impact it would have on us um attracting talent in our schools
100i'm sure there are teachers that want someone that's armed there but i'm sure there's teachers that don't so i i'd be concerned with the impact of that um so you know like i said i invite you to you know you should openly debate this and you know listen to each other and you should listen to the community um but obviously i hope that we don't change our culture here i hope that we do not have our own personnel in our schools i think our current plan and oh i'm sorry one last thing i apologize for my length but when i spoke to you after the november shooting in michigan you know there are a lot of missed signs there in that particular case and it turns out that in 93 percent of school shootings there
101are warning signs and in 80 percent of them students know and didn't report it and so i think to the and i don't know whether or not this goes on at the high school level but you know there needs to be education and encouragement on spotting signs reporting signs it's easy to figure out why it doesn't get reported students are worried about you know blowback and being at snitch and you know things like that and how it's going to impact them so then you have to think about should we have a not an anonymous tip situation but you also have to consider and educate students on the damage that false reporting can create um because students could use this as a weapon right especially if it's anonymous but i think our best defense you know
102in in these school shootings is given what the board can control right we can't control you know gun legislation if that's whoever thinks that's an answer you know we can only control you know what the district plan is and so i think the most important thing that that you all can do is educating folks on spotting signs reporting signs you know how to do it and um encouraging them to do it um and so i think that's all i have and i thank you for your time and i trust that you'll you'll openly debate this and take in all the information you need to take and and i do hope you come to the decision of not having um armed personnel so joe the um i appreciate your comments i just want to address a
103couple of things one we have a very robust and a well advertised anonymous tip line that goes to parents and to students and one that's taken very seriously and we can't promote that enough to let students know to do that and in fact one of the reluctances like you said that's why anonymous is so important because not only can you do that you can follow up anonymously also with with the system that we have and there's a variety of ways that you can call into that and also to point out that the staff are trained that if you're uncertain call 9-1-1 um i would love to debate some of those studies with you but we're not there's never been a conversation of sros i'm happy we're not having a conversation about arming teachers like in
104other states because that would be a whole nother thing so the only thing i was referring to that i want us to look at is having a more tactical external presence around our buildings discreetly nothing to do with our kids nothing obvious like that and that's what they'll look at but our staff knows that if somebody comes to the door and they're not sure they call 9-1-1 you'd be amazed when studies are done people like why should i call 9-1-1 am i allowed to call 9-1-1 our staff are trained to know if you have any hesitation that's what they do so the training of our staff is very much on top of that as well as that anonymous highlight because like you said we're not going to solve the legislative issues here and like you
105said professionally you work with that a lot but the mental health issues are something that you may see a friend who's in trouble and not want to say something but you have that ability to get that to our administrators who can then get those resources so you can't promote enough the fact that we want to make sure people know we have that hotline it's anonymous and you can call it anytime you want and even if you're not sure call it let the professionals look into what you're saying and see if services are needed if intervention is needed so i appreciate you bringing that point up mr kansa was it oh yes uh i just i i think you and i have some of the same taste in reading some of those studies that you were
106talking about were ones that that uh i've looked into myself and shared with my colleagues up here and the other one that you didn't mention was the american association of school psychologists put together a study of studies with similar findings of you know the best defense is is the mental health of the students in the school and and attending to that is the thing that's going to make us the most safe and i think we do a good job of that and we're always looking to do a better job yeah well and to be clear i i have you know when these things happen of course i'm concerned all over again but i i am confident in our district you know and its current plans and its current review of their plan so i you
107know um i i do believe you when you you tell me about your the protocols that you have in place and that you review them and that you know so i am confident that so thank you good evening craig hershenberg president of the teachers association uh and i just want to just say a couple of things uh about the need for security personnel at all of our buildings and um we're constantly reviewing our plan i'm on the district safety team i think every single year we do a better and better job securing our buildings but it's one thing that i hear from teachers in the six buildings that aren't the high school is that you know it would be nice if we had security personnel if nothing more than as a deterrent outside of those
108buildings and um you know we've had security here at the high school for a long time uh and it's i've i've been hearing it from the other buildings for i can't even tell you how many years and unfortunately when we have these kinds of terrible incidents like what we've um you know seen in the news a couple weeks ago and i mean it just keeps happening over and over again every uh couple of years um it's uh it's it's scary and it's scary to be inside of of a school and and wonder if you're safe um and then we had a an incident uh two incidents um similar incidents at uh south middle um in which you know we have these safety protocols and we review them and they worked i mean our staff is
109the staff was great i mean and the protocols worked but it begs the question and the question kept coming up to me over and over again well if it was clear that um individuals weren't allowed on the school grounds during the school day and if it was cl if we had uh security personnel standing outside of the building well then perhaps it could have been diffused before it got to the point of implementing the next layer of safety protocols so uh i appreciate as dr lynch was saying that you know you want to consult consult with the new firm obviously they should be involved in those kinds of uh needs assessments um so i appreciate that i just [Music] i just want you to know that it's it's something that i hear from all the
110buildings regarding safety thank you thank you good evening my name is raj budu i have two young children one at the middle school one in elementary school i appreciate the fact that you guys went from flashlight security guards to hire an actual firm that has prior law enforcement because you can't teach that experience you can't teach that level of confidence that you need to do assessments speaking from experience unless you've been in that situation you don't know how to handle it everyone can monday morning quarterback how to solve a problem and come up with the best solutions and the best plans but unless you're in that situation a scenario you don't know what to do unless you've been trained how to handle that situation my children are young i want to keep them safe i
111appreciate the fact that the new team that's going to come in here actually has experience in the field that's a very important thing i'll share your statistic if you don't mind reading it for you just give me one second fbi statistics since two thousand seventy percent of the school shootings ended in five minutes fifty fifty two percent of that seventy percent and done in two minutes the police commissioner of nassau county patrick ryder said nassau county our response time to violent crimes and progress is three to five minutes that's a scary statistic so if we're waiting for nassau county and lynn brook and yesterday port authority showed up with their canine unit to the area that's two to five minutes i can get to school in two to five minutes also if my children are
112in danger that's a concern for me so with someone being here the response time is shorter if you're concerned about suicide by cop that person is intent on destroying lives it doesn't matter if their life gets taken but more children are saved than responding to an active shooter or a barricaded subject in which you're waiting for additional units nassau county bso they're in mineola they're not patrolling around here if you have an active shooter with a tactical unit to respond it's going to take a long period of time nine millimeters and maybe a shotgun might help but a presence around this school doesn't have to be inside it's going to minimize that deterrent make it a lot safer thank you for your time any questions thank you hi elise blank i have two children in
113the district i also work in a neighboring district i just think that what mr belmont was saying about having someone outside the school is our most important thing that we need to deal with because once someone's in the school it's too late we've seen that in all of these shootings as he just said five minutes we have 20 dead kids in texas look at the response time now look what happened if he was never able to get in the building all those people are safe it's not foolproof because nothing is but it will definitely help us get our kids safe in the buildings while a armed person an armed person who knows what they're doing is trying to keep them out that's our most important thing i know nobody wants to like everybody says it's
114going to change our culture that's not changing our culture the world has changed our culture like this is what's happening every day nobody expected it to happen in parkland nobody expected to happen in texas and most of those people weren't going to those schools they're not students like mr bellman said i don't think we have an internal threat but we don't know what's going on even this person that came to south high school twice they're telling us he's not a threat how do they know he wasn't a threat yesterday or last week when our kids had two lockdowns in two weeks we don't know that he's not a threat next week but if we have somebody outside the school making sure he's not getting in our kids are safe i think that's all we have
115to worry about nobody wants a gun inside the school i don't i mean maybe some people do i don't want a gun inside the school but i'm not opposed to it outside not if it's going to save my kid's life or give all of the staff a chance because guess what i work in a school too i don't know what's going to happen to me every day and i'm the one jumping in front of your kid if there's a shooter coming in i want to go home to my kids too but we need to keep them out of the building that's our that's our biggest concern as far as i'm concerned once they're in there's going to be casualties because we're not ready for that inside the building we're going to hide behind a desk
116i mean that's not helping us i just think we need to really consider having somebody patrol each school even i mean we have a huge budget we pay huge taxes our kids should be safe every single day thank you thank you hi uh good evening my name is courtney nack and i have two children who currently attend weebly park elementary school and one going to the kindergarten center this fall um i'm one of those people my mom went to limb rock i went to library my husband went to library like we are the archetypal uh limburg people but i'm also a teacher i've been working in great neck public schools for 15 years so the issues of school security are very important to me i'm here to ask that before a district makes any decisions
117about changing our security protocols that the board conducts a data-driven analysis of school security and consider the modifications we've made in the past if i recall back in 2018 i remember people were so deeply concerned as i'm sure all of us were about school security after the parkland shooting i did closely follow what limerick public schools were doing and the changes were monumental i remember you know the keypads going in on doorknobs everything really was stepped up in a way that made me feel incredibly safe and so grateful to live in this town and even in that time in 2018 armed sros or school resource officers were not implemented then and i also take comfort in knowing limbrick has its own police department we have a close working relationship with lindbergh pd nassau county pd
118and i'd also want to know like what is what are the police officers feelings about dealing with armed sros you know how would they interact with them particularly in an emergency um and again with the data that's come out i think mr murray referred to it from the newest jama study on over 130 school shootings that fatalities are three times higher in instances where armed school resource officers are available so that is deeply concerning to me i know we all want to protect our kids but i don't want to add a factor that could make one of these very rare dangerous situations even worse um and the other thing is too is that i feel like there's been a little bit of a buzz about like what our kids are not getting in this school
119district which while i might not share that sentiment it's something that people do feel and inevitably i would be worried about the costs of having to hire armed guards outside of buildings and what would that do to our insurance policies to have um a weapon on school grounds on let's say a retired police officer so i mean personally if i had the choice between something that's directly going for my children's educations or an armed guard outside i don't know what that choice would be but i do think that there is a fiduciary concern to be considered so all i ask is that before any changes would be proposed or voted on by the board that security experts would be consulted and i do really am heartened by the new security information and the new firm
120i think that's really wonderful news and that data from experts were really carefully considered before any of these changes were made thank you thank you see no more questions i'm going to close the regular meeting dr burak moving on to superintendent's report federal grants update sure actually i'm going to turn it going on any order you want dr i will actually i'll let dr lynch have a break um in the absence of dr balekas i will do the curriculum update as you know we are continuing to deal with what we hope is the tail end of covid but the impact that covett has had on the instructional process and assessing the children and just the overall instruction all year that last month i asked dr balekas to convene a committee to review the regents and
121the weight of the regions and you recall we had a committee a few years ago that that did the same thing so the committee uh decided to compromise actually there was spirited debate um over the impact of the regions and how it should affect a student's overall grade and the recommendation was well thought out and is intended to recognize both the lingering effects of covet and remind the students that of the importance of still taking exams seriously in order to earn the high school diploma so the change would affect both middle school and high school regions courses and that change is for this year for this covert year you do know that currently our regions is worth 10 percent of the overall grade but for this year they will lower that to five percent um
122so that is a compromise um from all and there were parents teachers um administrators on the committee um that to to reduce that in light of the lingering effects of covet in addition continuing the theme of trying to give our students the benefit of the down and present them in the best light moving forward starting with this year's and this is not just a one-year decision starting with this year's junior class only students highest region scores will appear on the transcripts so all the scores on the regencies will continue to be stored and the course grades will not be adjusted retroactively just so you know we're not we're just starting with this year's junior class um and what we're going to do is if a student has failed a test or received even a lower
123grade on a regents exam but then retakes a regents in in august and gets a higher grade currently we maintain both of those grades on the transcript we will not use the lower grade we will only keep the higher grade so that's going to be starting with this year's junior class and will it will put the students in a better light moving forward can i ask a question um regarding the waiting of the regents being that the beginning of the year there was no remote option and there were some students who were quarantined possibly for long periods of time and possibly missing some long periods of instruction and might have lower grades than anticipated is it possible that the five percent could actually harm some of those students and that doing no harm would actually
124benefit all students instead so i just don't understand why we would go to a five percent instead of a do no harm so we put in the hands of a committee and you know when we hear about getting feedback from pit from people that's why we have a committee okay committee has stakeholders and do no harm is very misleading remember some people think do no harm is do no harm but it could be harmful for some students um i know that's i have to just go by the recommendation of the committee i mean just looking at the other districts that have come out roslyn has done that hewlett put out a letter today and i just have to say i'm somewhat disappointed with the results and i'm afraid that it could possibly harm some students
125have unintentional results to harming them and you know we wouldn't want to do that i you got to bring up the regents at my last meeting man um i you know i share mrs miss denino's concerns you know we the decision not to turn on cameras for kids who were forced didn't choose were forced to sit home was was a choice was a choice we didn't have to do it we chose to do it and the consequence to the students are are great i mean you know i know we talk we give out awards to all these amazing kids my kids are mere mortals you know they're mere mortals they they cannot teach themselves chemistry at home they cannot teach themselves algebra two at home and so for a lot of these kids they were
126in the hole almost from jump street we were having kids at home immediately and i just don't feel like we've completely righted that ship for those kids now my understanding is the regent scores are not factored into appr am i correct about that correct so the teachers are not going to suffer so i i just you know we're i i also am not quite square we have honor students we have region students taking the same final as it were and yet one group i believe is on a curve and one group is not on a curve is that correct am i wrong no i i can't speak to that okay you can't speak to that okay which is fine and and i understand what you're what you both are saying but we do put these
127decisions in the hands of a committee i know and and it was a very spirited committee and they came to a consensus and and this is what they have recommended like we look at the state and we say so often that we don't trust things they do so they just pulled the um american history regents because of a question if that question was so insensitive maybe that question shouldn't have been on the regents in the first place okay so clearly they're not trustworthy enough to make the regions we had a geometry regents several years ago that had to be graded about three times so how trustworthy is that test so we are now talking about these tests that are really not that trustworthy we have ap exams for the highest learners in the school and
128those tests are not averaged into their grades we have let's talk about ap physics students who take an ap exam in i think it's april they learn five topics for that exam and then they're cramming the other five topics in for a regents so there's the potential for those students to not do well on an exam there and then have that factored into their grade when they potentially could have missed part of this the year in that grade so that five percent could potentially hurt them on a regions when they maybe got a better grade on an ap exam it just seems harmful when we're talking about the social emotional well-being of our students why would we ever want to harm any of our students i just don't understand it i just feel like i
129had to express my displeasure with it that's all uh mr dean i understand what you're saying and i agree that do no harm can definitely you know help certain kids but i i just want to say mathematically five percent of their grade like let's say for instance you have a kid just to make the numbers easy has an 80 average over four quarters five percent of that is four points that that means at 76 points of his final grade will come from the 95 percent that's not part of the you know uh the final the final exam's five percent so five percent let's say he gets a 50 on a final exam that's two and a half points so if you add the two and a half points to 76 points and round it up
130to a 79 you're talking about a one point drop in their average because the five percent is minimal but i do want to it but some children on their transcript that one point is it they're hanging on it could be yeah but i i think it's i personally think it's gonna hurt less kids hopefully i hope so but i just don't understand why we would want to hurt any children kind of a different question to go um you had said that this is a a uh change in our grading um that we're doing for this this year because of copenhagen um so i guess my my question or suggestion would be rather than you know try to have this conversation at the end of a school year based on you know situations outside of our
131control that perhaps this is something that we should look at in in more depth beginning in september and come up with a long-term solution that is you know research-based best practices in grading an assessment in general and i don't know who's on that committee if that's just a staff committee but if if it is then perhaps that committee should include some some more voices okay and now dr lynch federal grants update so this is another one of those by law i have to give this report tonight so what happens is new york state received 14 billion dollars in federal assistance in response to the pandemic some of that money was given out to local districts and there are reporting requirements so that is what tonight's presentation is all about so it came in three waves
132uh the cares act with which the district received 106 thousand dollars the krisa act the corona response and relief supplementary appropriation act the district received 2.7 million dollars the american rescue plan act where the district received 1.4 million dollars so in addition to that uh the the state education department has used some of its allocation to increase our foundation aid so this year we received an extra 1.5 million dollars in in foundation aid and next year it is anticipated to receive 2.6 million dollars so uh from a financial point of view that sounds like a lot of money the problem with that type of money is that it is going to disappear at some point so it is an artificial uh uh injection of cash into the district so we have devised this strategy with
133which to use those funds those three major federal funding categories are being used for short-term pilot type projects or to introduce items that we think can be sustained through future budgeting processes therefore if we start something in the federal grants we pick it up with that increase in foundation aid and then we're moving towards establishing it in the real budget if it's something we intend to keep knowing that the foundation aid even band-aid will be disappearing by 2024 or 2025 thus creating the potential for a fiscal cliff so we need to start planning now for 2025. there's a requirement that there be stakeholder representation in all of these plans so there was a five-phase reopening committee that established this establish the goals for reopening and those goals were meeting academic social and emotional needs of
134our kids mental health supports and our operational continuity after the reopening plan took form we now have three standing committees that continues that work the social emotional learning committee chaired by mrs mitchell the diversity equity and inclusion committee chaired by dr balekas and the technology committee chaired by mr mcdermott so we've been regularly dr boleckis's reports have been sharing the outcomes of those committee reports uh the funding plans are on the website for uh full disclosure and we have established an email address where people are free to uh put their thoughts together however i want to report on what are some of the real things that are happening with those dollars i think that's what people would be mostly uh interested in so our first goal for meeting academic social and the emotional needs of
135students one dr beleckas has been reporting on for months the science of reading the sounds right program that we're implementing at the kindergarten center and then next year into grades one and two we are hiring in the current budget additional reading and speech support we are continuing to hire extra special education support both at the administrative level and the teaching level we're creating professional development opportunities for teachers in differentiated instruction we're creating summer learning opportunities for students we have a english as a new language school program after school program and then something like the alternative high school program that is being proposed is being funded in its pilot form uh with using federal funds similarly with mental health supports we are and these are the ones that we really want to see continue so we
136need a plan to how to get this stuff into budget we have increased psychologists we've increased social workers and we've increased guidance staff you saw that as late as this very meeting where we approved new guidance staff so those are currently being begun under federal funds we're going to continue it in the budget next year through that increase in foundation aid and build it into the actual budget so that by 24-25 we have normalized it when those big increases are no longer coming from the state of new york we have introduced social and emotional learning breakfast support so at the middle schools there are social workers and psychologists uh in the morning at the breakfast program just talking to kids getting the temperature of what's going on and then we are also engaging the uh
137boces central nassau guidance program for additional highly specialized psychological and social work uh our third goal which is operational continuity has mostly been used on technology so during the height of the pandemic we had a nice easy plan that we had a 6 through 12 one to world prob project we needed to suddenly get devices in the hands of kindergarten through fifth grade so we used the cares act funding for that we created a remote instruction infrastructure we adopted brand new learning management systems in schoology and seesaw originally funded by federal funds continuing through foundation aid increase eventually heading to budget and then additional uh curriculum software and online databases uh mr mcdermott has given some good updates on this where you know we probably skyrocketed three years of what our technology plan was in
138the one year of that pandemic so those are the specific use of the funds uh these plans will be uh issued on the website and we encourage anyone with questions to use the email there to share your insights to us capital projects and the capital projects update all right so we have our old projects at the high school here we're in the final punch list phase and at the marion street uh elevator project we're also at punch list we are doing testing and getting ready for the safety inspection unfortunately some bad news on the waverley park courts project tonight there is a walk-in resolution where the board will be rejecting all bids uh the bids came in too high uh the low bidder which we thought was going to be the winner had to withdraw
139their bid at the last minute uh due to a mathematical error so that was a a if we weren't recording this you all know what i'd be saying right now in this room but yeah it was a mathematical error okay so that was uh so that so they are authorizing the withdrawal of those bids and we bill we will be re bidding that uh the high school library project uh are those drawings are being sent to the state and and thank you to the voters of lindbrook you have approved some new projects that we are now going to be finalizing and getting to the state the marion street turf and playground project and the north middle turf and lighting project so all of those are still being drawn we actually have a meeting with marion
140street pta next week to take a look at some of those plans so we're continuing to build thank you at this time we can move to public comment if anybody want to address the board please come to the microphone identify yourself indicate if you live interact district margaret martial resident first i'd like to commend the board on your picking of tara aragona for your replacement member i don't know her personally but i'd rather bother and heard about her she'd be a very good addition to the board now secondly this is really minor but what's happening with the diamond baseball diamond at waverley park that we have roots growing through the sand i brought this up many years ago about the field over here i saw that there myself when i was doing the walkthrough with
141the security supervisor um yes it needs a little sprucing up yes i think the grounds crew concentrated on the sporting fields um you know where we have games and stuff but um but this is the waverly parkway come on i understand okay thank you hello my name is harleen salazar sweetie and i'm here to just make a statement i just want to take the opportunity to thank the board for the support you've given the limb broke athletes in particular the boys swim team i don't know if you remember but nine years ago some of you were on the board especially with dr burak for sure my son and i he was nine years old he came with all his medals and he stood here with me asking to consider funding for this boys swim team
142you guys listen and we were persistent and yes we went through with it and it's been you know wonderful from since then um we joined forces with the south side limb brook uh south side rockville center and the lindbergh high school since then we had not only county uh qualifiers we had division qualifiers conference qualifiers and state qualifiers as well my son the little nine-year-old that stood here in front of you nine years ago was one of them and he wanted to be here today but considering the time i think he made a good choice not to be here with me i would have a very interesting 17 year old you know next to me but anyway so in fact last winter season out of the five state qualifiers for this boys swim team four
143of them when we're from limburg high school four of them and my son was one of them and i'm so proud of him so as as my children finish the years in limb break i want to thank all the coaches the teachers administrators board of ed and all the staff for everything you've done for my children we all the parents appreciate it please continue to support all of our children every one of them counts even those parents who are not as vocal as some of us are for the last 16 years please continue to support them thank you so much for everything you've done for my children and myself have a good night thank you [Applause] hi it's me again and now i'm going to cry early i've been crying since the dinner the other
144night so if i start to cry sorry um i want to ask a question about the regents i was i stood up here in i never in a million years thought that lindbrook would adopt a do not harm policy and i was shocked when we did i was just as shocked when we only waited one year until we turned it over again and we dropped it to 10 which is what i was hoping for in 2018. so um and then covet hit and we had no regents last year we only had like i think three or four regions available and it was kind of optional so we really don't have any data to see how like they do not harm would have like transpired over the years so um i'm asking you to reconsider i
145do know that the parents on that spirited committee were four do not harm they were not happy with the five percent uh compromise um for some of the reasons that have been discussed especially what mrs hanson said about students not having access until january a lot of students grades in the beginning of the year were lower than would have been if they had had the instruction so i think we owe it to them and i just want to let you know like that this does not affect my child so i'm here for all children um if it's 5 rather than 10 that means every quarter will be a higher percentage so now you have students who beginning the year might have a low quarterly average that is now being weighted higher because the regents is
146being weighted lower so i don't think that that's fair to change the rules at the end of the game i think you either need to leave it at or keep it or consider do not harm um that do no harm as mrs deniro mentioned is being adopted by many many many districts throughout nassau and suffolk county on a one-year probational basis due to everything that's happened with coven so i would ask you to reconsider um i also am curious who makes the final decision is it a board decision or is it administrative decision who makes the policy on what the regents is the final say like why i understand that some districts are make it a board policy so why is it not a board policy and why is there not more discussion amongst every
147board member and why is it just what a committee of a few select people met and compromised can i respond for a second okay i i've of all the contentious things in nine years perhaps the regents exam was the most full on bare knuckle roll i've seen forget your masks forget your shirts that was the most intense thing i ever saw it pitted teachers against board it pitted student against student it pitted parents of smart kids versus parents of not as smart kids it was insane and ugly stem to stern i would suggest now that i'm not gonna be here i would suggest that because we're gonna go through this every three years and every three or four years we're gonna have a brawl and i think the board should set the policy and just
148have a regents policy and the board should be part of the committee as opposed to the board getting told because this is what happens everybody no one's happy they come to the board and then ultimately the board who is out of it until that last second we end up being the hockey referee and i don't think it's a great position to be in i think the board should be in the discussions from the beginning and it should be a board policy so that the board owns it so that it's not right well that's why i'm asking what who makes that decision if it's a board policy versus not a board policy because not all school districts are doing it the same way just as all school districts don't weight the regents the same way so
149who's has who makes that decision um about you know who makes the policy and as far as like the committees i can guarantee you that 99 of the people in this district had no idea that these conversations were even happening so we're having these committees with the few select people without as another person spoke about about another issue but without the greater community even knowing what's going on so tomorrow we got a letter from the principals stating this was the grading policy you knew at the beginning of the year we were just it was reiterated two weeks ago and now all of a sudden you're gonna go back and tell everyone like oh i'm sorry you know you've just spent all this time getting up for regents review and going every morning or going after
150your sport and spending hours at regents review sometimes money going weekends to boot camps so that you can study for these regions that you have an understanding will count for 10 of your grade and now you know what it's only gonna count for five because we think that that's best because but it might not be best for everybody so it could hurt just a few people but why would we want to hurt just a few kids like why would we want to hurt one kid it doesn't make any sense to me and and to mrs hansen's point it doesn't get factored into the teachers and when i stood up here in 2018 that was the concern of the teachers union that it was going to have an effect on their rating and that's an issue
151this year so the teachers are gonna just get it doesn't matter them as far as their rating but the kids it does matter so we have other districts rockville center hewlett psyoset we're all going to have the same kids applying to schools at the same time and again we have like we're going to have iniquities it doesn't make any sense and it'll still be listed on their transcript no matter the waiting right so you know you say oh there the other argument oh the kids aren't going to care if they don't think it counts for anything that's an insulting comment in my opinion to think that little of our students that they won't care like because i don't experience that and the kids who aren't going to care aren't going to care if it's 5
152or nothing so let's stop putting it on the kids and saying they're not going to care because that's a ridiculous argument so i would like you to reconsider maybe take a survey i don't know but make it a board policy i don't know what but it's not fair to keep changing the rules at the end of the game we complain that the state does that to us all the time cuomo hocal whoever oh this is the date this is what you have to mean this is the criteria but guess what now you met that no never mind it's now this it's like the 11th hour how are you how do you tell kids now all of a sudden that i've been studying oh it's not 10 anymore now it only counts for 5 and that
15366 you got in the fall is now going to count for 23.75 instead of 22 percent like it just doesn't make any sense we tell kids this is the rules and then we're changing them where it could potentially have a detrimental effect on some of the kids we also sit here and talk about seo we're all worried about the kids for so many different reasons we talk about how it's so important to focus on that especially in light of all of the safety concerns so we're worried about their social and emotional well-being but we won't adopt a policy that will ensure that they won't be harmed so i implore you to please reconsider oh my god mary best alter bringing all the merry best alternatives it's been a while i haven't been here in a
154while it's been building up unbelievable i came here just for you i mean i i mean i totally agree and there's not a villain here that's the thing this isn't about identifying things that were and weren't wrong if you're a kid and you have an iep and you got quarantined your iep was out of compliance for that week i mean right or more or so then were we were we able to mitigate what happened during that week of non-compliance i'm not entirely sure but what i see is like again we're talking about our kids mental health here's an opportunity you know they're in the pressure cooker let's like let a little steam out of that as opposed to just turn up the temperature and and i i think do no harm this year and then
155really hunker down get a committee that includes the board together get it together and nail this period and then not talk about it for a little while and then gather some data and see how it goes and pray aliens don't arrive and screw up another how many school years of ours but let's at least next year put together an actual policy that involves the board and then gather data for a little while i agree with you and i mean as i was walking out of the house this evening i was getting phone calls from children and adults who saw hewlett's letter that came out today and they were better because it was posted on social media and they're like oh we have a do no harm policy i'm like no and i go back and
156look where you found that and it was hewlett's letter so you know i said no no we have a board meeting tonight i don't know you know what's happening so that's not the case so i know that there are people who are interested in looking at what the policy is and hoping that's the case so i definitely hope it's something we can go back and revisit for this year and yours going forward i'm done thank you see or no one else we're moving on to we have two sympathy resolutions this evening rosemary brosnan whereas the members of the board of education of the limburg union free school district have learned with sorrow of the passing of rosemary brosnan former senior account clerk in the limerick school district and whereas rosemary brosnan served as an employee
157of the liberal public schools for 25 years from 1971 to 1996 retiring from the facilities department and whereas the board of education is mindful the contributions made to our district by rosemary brosnan during her years of service to our community be resolved that the board of education records sorrow its sympathy and the esteem in which rosemary bronson was held and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the family of rosemary brosnan with the hope they will find solace and comfort in the rich heritage of good works for which he is remembered and revered sadly we have one more and a writer whereas the members of the board of education of the lindbergh union free school district have learned with sorrow of the passing of anna ryder former food service
158worker in the limburg school district and whereas anna ryder served as an employee of the liberal public schools retiring from south middle school in 1982 and whereas the board of education is mindful of the contributions made to our district by anna ryder during her years of service to our community be resolved that the board of education records its sorrow its sympathy and the esteem in which anirada was held and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the family of anarida with hope that it will find solace and comfort in the rich heritage of good works for which she is remembered and revered have three donations this evening we gratefully like to acknowledge and accept the following four flats of assorted annuals valued at approximately a hundred dollars from alma's
159garden center for the purpose of planting at the kindergarten center approximately three thousand twenty five hundred dollars from the marine street pta to be used to fund a the following assemblies let's go there bubble mania and step up stand in stop bullying at marion street elementary school eighteen hundred dollars from west end pta to be used for the performance of a year with frog and toad assembly at the west end elementary school moving on to superintendent's recommendations we have additional resolution for capital improvement that was not on the original agenda it will be voted on as part of the consent agenda i'd like to ask for consent agenda and resolutions 2206 c1 through 2206 c27 2206 nc1 through 2206 nc15 and 2206 g1 through 2206 g65 2206 g67 may have a motion please mrs hanson
160second mrs marcus all in favor may have a motion to accept the consent agenda mrs hansen second mr marcus all in favor like to have a motion to go into executive session to discuss the matter of personnel mrs hansen second mr murray all in favor thank you good night get home safe cool off you