001Morning everyone. Welcome to the Manhasset 2526 um school board reorganizational meeting. Would everybody please rise and join me for the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. We would like to begin our meeting by the ceremonial swearing in of our trustees. We will begin with Nadia Geianopoulos. If you would please read. >> Raise your right hand. I, Nadia Janopoulos, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of trustee of the Manhasset Board of Education from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028 according to the best of my ability. We've actually
002sworn in our trustees. We're just doing this for ceremonial purposes. Welcome Allison. >> I, Allison O'Brien Silva, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of trustee of the Manhasset Board of Education from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028 according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. At this time, I would like to ask if we have any nominees for the board of education president. Do we have any other nominees? We have a second. All in favor? Congratulations, Ted. >> Oops. You know what? Okay. >> Hi, Ted. post do solemnly swear that I support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of New York and
003that I will faithfully discharge the duties of President of the Manassid Board of Education from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026 according to the best of my ability. Anyone want this? >> I would now like to call for a nomination for the board of education vice president. >> Nominate Nadia Geianopoulos. >> Are there any other nominations? All in favor? Congratulations. Yep. You're gonna sign it first. >> Nope. You got to say it. >> I think that's right. >> Yep. Same thing. >> Oh, no. I, Nadia Janopoulos, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of Vice President of the Manhaza Board of Education from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 according
004to the best of my ability. Okay, I turn over my mic to Mr. President. Right. Thank you, Nicole. Uh, so very exciting. We're in business and the first order of the day is to go back to Nicole with appointments of our district officers. Um, so Nicole Rosenberg is hereby appointed clerk of the board of education of the district from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Sunji Sunniv Chapra is is hereby appointed as district treasurer for our academic year 25 to 2026 and Gerard Antoine is hereby appointed assistant treasurer for 2025 2026 school year. So congratulations to everyone and uh we look forward to working with you in your roles this year. So next uh we'll move to appointment of committees. Um so we have a large number of uh committees that are served. I
005think everyone can see um on the agenda. Uh is there any uh objection or any issue with any of our appointees for um our various committees on special education? >> All right. So certainly we're we look to the leadership of uh Laura Peterson in her role as executive director of student services. So um all in favor of uh these appointees. All right, Laura, we look forward to a fantastic year this year under your leadership. Next, um appointment of committee on preschool special education, CPSCE. Uh you can see all of the various uh appointees here. I'll just read this just for completeness. In compliance with New York State and federal regulations, the board of education has asked to approve the appointment of the following persons, members of an hasset committee on preschool education. You can see
006all of our um our team on this. Uh any objection? All right. All in favor? All right, that's approved and thank you again, Laura. Moving to appointment of chairpersons of section 504 of the rehabilitation act of 17 of 1973. Same here. Any questions? All right. All in favor? Approved. And then uh by mandate appointment of audit committee member. Uh, so BOE member Allison O'Brien Silva is hereby appointed to a one-year term from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, uh, we should say June 30, 2026. Just make that amendment that little, uh, edit, Nicole. And, uh, all in favor? All right, that's approved. Appointment of other district positions. So you can see we have uh a number of appointees for all of our required leadership positions. Take a moment if anyone has any questions. And so
007you know we're relying on our our leadership team to fill a lot of these positions. But any uh questions or objections? All in favor? Approved. Excellent. Uh now we'll move to appointments of professional service providers. So each year the district has to approve engaging with a number of our professional service providers. Um many of these here we we've worked with for many years including uh our bond council evaluation group uh auditors, our capital markets advisors for our bond issues, uh claims auditors. There are two here we would like to table Nicole just to make sure we can uh review the contract for our architect and and legal counsel which we will do. So let's let's table those two for for now and we will take that up at our next meeting before the academic year
008begins. Any questions or comments on that? Okay. All in favor with that stipulation? Okay. Approved. Uh going on to the next approval of agreement uh with textbook central textbook uh service provider. Any questions, objections? All in favor? Approved. Appointments of other district positions. Uh professional service providers, athletic trainer, orthopedic associates for our student athletes. All in favor? approved resolution to reinstate our 403b retirement plan. This is business as usual. All approved. Yes. And now we get into financial authorizations and designations. Uh this is uh a function of our of our business office. These are traditional uh financial authorizations. Establishment of petty cash funds. Designation of depository. So where we hold our cash, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, safekeeping and collateralization. Again, using JP Morgan Chase and the Bank of New York as custodians. Facility use
009uh fee schedule. Any questions? I think this is all standard. All uh in favor approved. Authorizations. Authorization to open bids. The assistant superintendent for business operations, director of facilities and operations, purchasing agent and assistant purchasing agent are hereby authorized to open bids for the school year July 1st, 2025 through June 30, 2026. So this is important this year given all that we have going on in the district in terms of our facilities. Uh but that's standard that this group would would have that ability. All in favor? Approved. authorization to make budget transfers. So essentially transfers of 10,000 or more or more shall be approved by the board president or in the president's absence the board vice president. Um otherwise the business office will have the ability to make those uh transfers. All in favor? Approved?
01050. Authorization for approval attendance at workshops, conferences and conventions. Obviously, our staff and leadership teams attend uh various events and conferences. All in favor? It's approved. Authorization for superintendent to apply for grants and state aid. I think this is definitely something we we want. Uh all in favor? Approved. Authorization to maintain membership in the Nassau County Schools Cooperative Self- Insurance Plan for workers comp. So, this is standard. Uh, all in favor? Approved. Approval for a rotational list of impartial hearing officers. uh officer when a when a request for an impartial hearing has been filed for the dis with the district pursuant to part 200 of the regulations of the commissioner. So this is standard. All in favor approved. Authorization to maintain memberships with NISBA with NS NSSBA and the New York SSBA schoolboard associations for
011NASA Suffach and for New York State. Uh all in favor? That's approved. Okay. Moving right along, uh, board policy review. So, as part of our annual mandate to approve our code of conduct, uh, which is obviously important to how we govern our our schools, um, you can see posted online and here all of our various, uh, code of conduct, policies, uh, rules and regulations. Um, you know, I think this is something that, you know, we will we always look at in on an ongoing basis, but um any any questions or thoughts on any of this at the moment? you know, the only comment um for those who are reviewing and for the board, keep in mind we will be reviewing the um cell phone policy. And so once that is complete, we will be looking
012at any changes that could or would be updated in the code of conduct. So just to preempt that, that will be a necessary piece. So for those who are interested to sort of keep track of of those topics, >> right? So in other words, the we will rely we could rely on aspects of the code of conduct to help enforce cell phone policy. Okay, >> that's correct. >> That makes sense. >> And the actual policy is personal um student and personal electronic devices. So if you're searching, it won't come up as cell phone, you will find it, but it's personal devices. Okay. All right. So with that being said, uh all in favor of renewing our code of conduct policy. All right, that is approved. Reaffirmation of policies. Uh board of education reaffirms the following
013policies for the school year July 1st, 2025 through June 30, 2026. Parent involvement, parent involvement, exhibit, investments, purchasing policy and regulation, purchasing authority. Um, no comment here. Any objection. All right. All in favor? Approved. Moving right along. Official newspapers. Uh this year, Manhasset Press and Long Island Business News are hereby designated the official newspapers of the district for the coming academic year. All in favor? Approved. Uh we have our board meeting dates listed out for the school year. I think that looks good. It's it's largely in line with what we did uh last year. Any questions or or or thoughts on that? Okay. All in favor? Approved. Excellent. We have our schedule now for the school year. And then I think we can just do sort of a group uh mileage reimbursement rate setting of
014substitute teacher pay which just to read this out as elementary 130 per day, secondary 150 per day and has it retired teachers um shall be paid elementary 150 and 170 per day in the secondary school respectively. All in favor? That's approved. All right, we did that relatively efficiently. Do I have a motion to adjourn our annual organizational meeting? >> Excuse me. >> I do have a question. >> Um, back back under appointments of professional services, you did not approve two contracts. Therefore, the business office has no authorization to pay them for any work after July 1st. Is that the understanding of the board? I just want to be able to direct the proper people in the business office. >> I mean, >> the board didn't have an opportunity to review any of the contracts with
015the professional services. Therefore, we were going to reach out to both entities and have them draw up a contract from June 30th when it ended through um the next month so that we could pay them for their services as they've been operating outside of their contract. Those were just shared with us and they were dated June 5th. >> Right. So I think in in the instance where we do have services rendered and we have to make a a payment that will have to be done for the time being on a on a one-off bespoke basis and we could grant that authority as needed until we've had time to review the contract. That's how we'll deal with this in this interim period. All right. Is that fair? Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mary. Anything else? Any other
016questions? All right. Motion to adjourn the organizational meeting.