001[Music] We're gonna get started. >> If you would please rise and join me in the pledge. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. And we will begin with Dr. >> Okay. So, welcome everybody. Tonight is board of ed recognition night. It is absolutely one of my favorite evenings because we have have the opportunity to publicly thank the board of education and express our gratitude to the trustees for their selfless dedication to the the district. They volunteer countless hours every year to ensure that we provide our students with an innovative with innovative educ educational programs and empower our students to become the leaders of tomorrow. I greatly appreciate the students, teachers,
002and staff and administrators who are here tonight to share in our appreciation of the selfless work that is done by your board every day. There are several presentations tonight and we will begin with the Harbor School. So, I'm going to introduce Miss Basila and Miss Savage. Good evening everyone. I'm Miss Basila, the proud principal of the harbor school with Miss Savage, our very dedicated and talented assistant principal. And we too love this night as well because we always like to take a moment of gratitude to Vic, our board of education for bringing us all the new cutting edge initiatives, really supporting us and really knowing us as a school. So we just want to genuinely thank you from the bottom of our hearts tonight. So as a district, we all know that we are anchored
003in excellence, but this year at the Harbor School, we are anchored in math. Let's see if I can work the presentation. Miss Basilica is not as techsavvy as Miss Savage. >> So, this year we've been having so much fun with our math program, but let's listen from some of our friends from the Harbor School. >> My favorite thing about the new math program is working with art games. My favorite thing about a new math program is working with partners. I like the math program because we can learn different stuff. In the math program, I like um I like solving problems different ways. We can we can practice anything times plus minus and divided percentage. If you just practice, you can get better at it one by one. With the math program last year was like
004you didn't get time to think of like for you both have the answers. This year you get to think of the answers and know what like you both know the answers together. >> Um so the new math program really good because it's a smaller book and you can use blocks and cubes and especially your brain. A >> I like the new math program because it teaches us smarter things like factors. >> I like the new math program because it shows us different ways to solve problems. >> I like the new math program because the lessons feel quicker than go. >> I like the new math program because the students get to do it more on their own. >> I like the new math program because it's less confusing and it and You get to do
005it more by yourself with teachers and pediat because um it's harder and it's more challenging. I like to program because you actually get to talk to your book because um it lets you do a lot of things outside the book, but sometimes we use cubes and also I like it because the teachers does not do a lot of talking and you do most of the work. I like the math program because we get to work with partners. I do math program because the teacher doesn't just tell you the answer. She lets us um go over it by ourselves, then we talk to our partner, then she goes over it with us. I like the new math program because the wording is easier to go back. >> I like math because of the cubes. >> I
006like when when we count their partners. >> One time we took we got we took out Adam counting. >> I like to count last time. >> I work with a friend in >> math. >> There's games and they and the teachers don't tell us the answers and it's really fun cuz we get to figure stuff on our own. Thank you for the new program. >> So this year our theme is a takes a Viking village and we are so proud that you are a part of ours and thank you for a new math program, illustrative math that really nurtures clearly our abilities to work with our friends and to think independently. But we still have another special treat with some of our friends from the harbor. So without further ado, Julia Greco, Cove Hartman, Riley
007Gorman, Mallerie, and Taylor Kern. [Applause] >> Thank you. So, if you open your folders and follow along. of a fighting scholar. In our breaking village, brave and bright, we set ourselves towards the learning light. With numbers and lighting to every quest, we solve, explore, and do our best. We add our effort. trapped in doubt. We problem solve and think throughout. >> A secret scholar in truth finds mouth in all we think and do. >> Thank you Board of Education. We love our new program. Going. [Applause] >> Thank you, Harvard students. You did a beautiful job and we love our new builders and thank you for all your effort. We really appreciate it. Okay, next uh we have Miss Cutis [Applause] everyone. Okay, good evening everyone. On behalf of Manor Elementary, I want to extend a
008heartfelt thank you to the Seafford Board of Education for your support of our new illustrative math program and the approval of our adaptive playground. Illustrative math is already transforming our classrooms by deepening student thinking and engagement. and we are eagerly looking forward to a playground where all students can actively participate and feel included. We are excited to highlight both of these initiatives in our upcoming Manner Morning News segment and we even had a couple of surprise guests visit our studio to help us share the excitement. Thank you for your continued continued vision, support, and dedication to ensuring every student in Seafford feels seen, challenged, and included. Thank you. Without further ado, I'm going to bring in some of our amazing matter students. We have Giana, Charlie, Hampton, and Sean. So, take it over. >> Good
009evening. We're so excited to share a special episode of the Matter Morning News made just for you, our incredible board of ed. In this episode, we're showing off amazing things happening at the matter. We are so lucky to be students in this district. At manner, you inspire us to be mindful, principled, and resilient to take risks, stay flexible, and to keep a sense of humor along the way. You help you help us grow as innovators, communicators, and reflective learners who build strong networks and leading with the Viking pride. Thank you for everything you do. Now, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. [Music] Hello seafood and welcome to a very special episode of Nana. Like last year's special episode, we are very excited to thank our wonderful board of education for everything they do for
010us in >> That's right, Ella. We are so excited to show everybody how far we have grown with our production skills. For our first segment, we are going to visit a real life construction site. This year we're going to be getting a brand new sensory playground and between B way and Cway. Let's kick it on out to Camden and Sean who are outside on the site. >> We arrive on site for soon to be new playground. >> Without our wonderful board of education, new things like our playground would not be possible. We are so lucky to be Vikings. This will be a great place for our students to come to come play. [Music] >> Great report, Cam Dennis Sean. Wow, our students are lucky to be getting a brand new playground here at the matter
011school. Thank you, board of education. For our next segment, we are going to hear from some of our friends who are excited to share their thoughts on our brand new math program, Illustrative Math. >> I like the new math program because it helps me be creative. >> I like the new math program because it helps visual learners have a hands-on experience. >> Math games help me learn. >> I like math because I like the centers. Our math program is so awesome. We literally did it a bunch of times and it's so awesome. >> And this is our center for math. >> Math is fun this year. >> Wow. It seems like we really do love the new math program here at the school. >> Thank you to our board of education for allowing us to
012be innovative thinkers and explore with our new math curriculum. We have a little surprise for our viewers for our next segment. That's right, Luchia. We are very lucky to have two extremely special guests in our studio. Our board president, Mrs. Herbert, and our and our board vice president, Miss Mat. >> Sit back and enjoy this little treat, viewers. Mrs. Ella Anderson, here in the studio, Mrs. >> Hi. Thank you for joining. >> My pleasure. >> We want to start by saying thank you for every everything you do for our schools. What's one thing about Seafford that makes you most proud to serve on the board of education? >> Well, thank you, Ella. Um, serving on the board of education is really rewarding because as a board member, you get to volunteer for a really important
013job and give back to the community that often times does a lot for us. So, uh, my mom is a teacher and I come from a family of teachers. I'm not a teacher, so I don't work with students. I'm an attorney, but, um, I love kids. I have two of them. And I always thought it would be really cool to help out the schools that they go to and to help make sure that the school is going in a really positive and great direction so that you all have an amazing educational opportunity. >> My name is Luchia Jenito in the studio with Miss Matulitz. >> Hi Lucia. >> Nice. Thank you for coming. >> Thanks for having me. >> We know being on the board is a big job. What's one of your favorite moments
014from this school year so far? >> So far this year, there's a lot of moments already. Um, I have to say homecoming this past weekend was one of my favorite moments. And I like homecoming because I get to see students from all the schools, not just one. Um, and it was great to see all the kids walking in the parade. It was great to see all the different organizations and everybody supporting the football team at back at the high school. And I just love seeing everybody in the community come out to watch the parade wearing their safer green and cheering on all of our sports teams. >> That's cool. >> Well, we just want to thank Ella, Chia, Giana, and Charlie for this amazing experience. We really enjoyed being interviewed by you all and we're
015so happy you're enjoying this special experience at the Secret Matter School. >> Yeah, what a pleasure to come and see your broadcasting studio here and to hear all your thoughtful questions that you've asked us about being on the board. We really appreciate it. Thank you, girls. >> And Miss Charlie, go Vikings. Go Vikings. >> And a special thank you to Mrs. Herbert and Miss Matulitz for popping on down to the studio so we can get to know exactly what you do and why you are so special to us. We are so lucky to have all of you working hard for Seafford. >> Well, that does it for us today here in the studio, fellow Vikings. >> On behalf of the entire morning Morning News crew, thank you for tuning in. Remember boys and girls, keep
016sailing forward, be brave, be kind, and make today a Viking victory. We'll see you on the next voyage with the Matter Morning News. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Well, we hope you enjoyed our little Mana morning news segment. We're getting better each and every time. Um, we are absolutely working on that humorous treat. Um, but the kids are amazing with it. They're getting to see behind the scen. We have Charlie here who works behind the scenes. Some of them are front of the scenes. So, they're really getting to uh utilize that equipment also that was purchased for us uh to to do these wonderful things. So, thank you and from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for everything that you do on a daily basis. Um our students here have a little gift
017for you and we hope that you all have a wonderful night. Thank you so much matter students. That was an amazing production. You are all learning very quickly how to be great journalists. Um and the work you did behind the scenes there. It was our honor to be your guests. Thank you so much. It's my honor now to introduce Dr. and Mr. Fiti. [Applause] >> Hello. >> There we go. Um, good to start a conversation about technology with um not knowing how to work technology. Strong start. All right. Go Vikings. So, good evening. Um, we are here today to um thank the board of education for all their support. Um, we are going to showcase um some amazing students, amazing teachers, and some amazing things happening at the middle school that is only possible because
018of your support. So, I'd like to um invite up the crew, the team. So, our tech teachers, our students, you guys can come up. I'm just going to do um so with us tonight we have our incredible uh tech teams. We have Mr. Bros and Mr. Fontino. Um with us also we have four incredible students who are true robotic uh rock stars. We have Haley Ramore, we have James Kofad, Ken Deah and Ion Naveiv. So um we are going to showcase some of the cool things that we're doing in robotics. This is a hands-on experience for the bordet. So get ready. Um, and sincerely thank you because this is um a bit of a lift to get robotics like a good robotics um class on the ground. Um, you have a lot of cool robotic
019things in the pipeline coming up as well which we're going to discuss. Um, but hanging out to teachers. So, thank you. >> Hi everyone, Mr. Bros. Nice to meet everyone. So, I'm new to Seafford. I'm loving it already. My classroom is the best classroom in the building. Sorry. Um, so the Seedford Middle School robotics program that we are kind of cultivating this year is not about just students building robots. They're learning how to think and act like engineers, which I think is a key vital, you know, utility in the world we live in now with all of the new tech advancements we have to deal with on a daily basis. Thank you, AWS. Um, each scholar uses these beautiful engineering notebooks to document all of their learning and they showcase it through trial and iteration
020which shows off not only what they're doing in the classroom but also reflects back to what actually the learning process occurs. Um, I have to go back to my notes. I'm sorry. So through that they are not only showing their their their I would say strength as problem solvers but they are also showing how they can be flexible, mindful, resilient and learners who can communicate the learning that's happening and the activities they're doing in class through all of that process. That's the beauty of robotics. [Applause] VEX Robotics is really fun and what's name on the feet. Um, VEX Robotics is really fun and helps us learn new things because we get to build stuff, work together, and solve problems. It could even help with um applying for margin world jobs like coding, making AI, or
021creating a cool game. >> Hello, my name is Haley Ramitar. In my robotics class, coding is essential for fully understanding the technology behind our robots. I find coding incredibly fascinating. I feel it's wonderful to watch my robot follow what I say through coding. Through my experience of coding, I have learned that you have to problem solve and stay persistent. You must stay positive until the end, no matter how hard it gets. [Applause] >> Hello, my name is Ken Denah. One thing I learned from robotics is teamwork. Working with my partner to build, drive, and share the robot has taught me how to work with teams. It was both difficult because we both wanted to drive the robot at the same time, but we learned to compromise and split the time evenly. [Applause] >> Hi, my
022name is James Kofod. In the robotics vex class, we expressed many seaffort scholar traits. The trait used most is resilience. We demonstrate resilience when our robot is not working because we can analyze what is wrong, fix it, and make it better than before. Mr. Frontier, I'm also new to Seafruit just like Mr. Bose and just like Dr. Moria and Mr. Bros and all these excellent students that we have here uh all said before me, your support is unwavering. You're allowing us to bring new robotics programs into our school. We are allowing new opportunities for all of these students and the students that follow them. We have a new competition robotics team that we're starting soon. We have these incredible robots that you're about to witness and you're going to actually get to play with yourselves.
023Uh also, so >> Oh, that was a surprise. Forget what I just said. My apologies. >> Get ready for the final. >> It takes a little bit of time to get connected. So, we're doing that first. So, I don't really need the microphone to kind of explain what's going on. So, we right now have a two vers two competition. We have two robots on both sides. They are identified by the flag that is hanging from the top of the robot. These robots have been coded to do two different things. Actually, no, a ton of different things. not only drive, not only have a detectable motion sensor, not only have a bumper switch that will tell us if they were tagged because guess what? We're playing Freeze Tag. So, the game of Freestag works like this.
024Two verse two. Once robots have been connected through connecting. I gave him a new robot today. He doesn't know it yet. Magic. Yeah, magic worked. Button clicks for sound effects. There we go. >> It's a very important thing when we said resilience before that we're mindful of resilience. James, let's go the controller there. >> This is a a no chip one. >> No, that one connected. The one that's blue. >> We ordered more batteries. I thought No, that's the most important thing as >> resilience. >> Great demonstration. >> Resilience. >> This is how you go through the resilience for 15 different things. It's interesting to think about with these robots, there's about 230 different points of failure for a robot according to how many different things can go wrong for a robot. So, what do
025you do? You practice resilience. >> You change it. What What language did you change it to? >> Who knows what it is? >> Oh, I'm not That's not my robot. It's okay. I can actually speak that. magic. >> They also time out after about 15 minutes, so you have to actually do it live. So >> ready to go. >> Resilience again. Ready? Okay, so we have one minute on the clock. The way this game works is when a robot is attacked, it will freeze in place. Once it is frozen in place, it cannot move for about 3 seconds. It should, knock on wood, make a noise. And our judges on the side who have score sheets. >> Perfect. We'll score according to it. We have one side with flags that are squares that are a
0264x4 setup. The other side does not have the other flag on it because we've removed that robot. So, we just do another reset. It's entertainment. It's all about putting on the show. Really? >> Who's team one and who's team two? >> Boom. Who wants to be team one? >> Team one is our square flag robots. Team two will be our team black flags. So you score for the other team when their bumper is pressed. I've got a minute on the clock. Hey Siri, start. One minute timer. And you are going in three. You don't want to listen. Okay. Two. One. Go. Very important move made by the robot on the right back end because he didn't tag his teammate right there. There was a tag there on team D. 30 seconds on the clock. >>
027Oh, I heard a dig. >> That was the second dig, but it looks like it was friendly fire. >> Uhoh. going out. >> Uhoh. >> Flashing light. >> So the flashing light does what, guys? If he goes up to 10 last seconds, we can do two things at once. >> Oh, they're too focused. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 free. >> What does the flashlight mean? >> It means that you got tagged. >> Means you got tagged. So it's a visual indicator. Now why is the sound effect happening? She can like tell which someone >> Why did we make that modification? >> So it's easy to keep. >> Someone's ringing doorbell just went off. That's another switch right there. >> That's another bumper switch in real life right there. Look at
028that. So the ring, the actual sound effect was actually volunteered by my second period class because they said it's hard to see what robot actually gets tagged because your lights flashing. But if we decide to go three verse three, four verse 4, 5 verse 5, it's hard to see. So, it's how we actually use that iteration troubleshooting and the problem solving. All right, you know what you guys have to do now? Pick someone. Make them learn how to drive a robot. >> You got one boss here. Right there. >> Show them how to drive the robot though. Forward and backward. >> And what's the object? [Music] part of the other >> there's always a little bit of debugging. >> I I destroyed somebody. >> There's a bumper switch that came off. >> Is it mine?
029>> It might be mine. doing. So >> I was >> Why is this weight on the back for the bumper? >> Because what's wrong with the little target? >> Does it count if I'm hitting the edges? >> So it depends on how it pushes all the way down. I need to be a student in this class. I'm out of this year. >> So, we reset the robot. There's another school that have to go as well. >> Thank you guys. [Applause] So again, thank you very much to the board of education. You will see us on the battle next year. >> Don't hit Mr. H. >> Well, hello there. >> Thank you, Sever Middle School students. That was a lot of fun. I think you all realize how much we need to learn in robotics and
030we are glad that you are enjoying this class. Um, and a hands-on uh demonstration is always fun for us. So, thank you. Okay, so last but certainly not least, I'd like to introduce Miss Stable, Miss Judson, and Mr. Mante. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for this opportunity to celebrate and show gratitude to our board of education. I can just tell you I don't get stressed very easily. But uh one of the most stressful tasks that I have all year is coming up with a way to show gratitude for all of the hard work that is put into like you said a volunteer position that gives back to all of our students who mean so much to us. So this year we are really excited to um also provide a hands-on demonstration. Um, we
031are so excited to share some of the work of our emergency medical technician uh, certification program. I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Mante who's going to start off our presentation. Mr. Mante um, as a side note oversees our program on the dayto-day alongside Mr. Mill who is also in the classroom. And we also have Chief Raleigh and Miss Judson oversees senior the senior class. So all hands on deck. We're really excited to show you what they've got. >> Surprise, not Mr. Mante. Good evening everyone. On behalf of Se High School, I want to begin by extending our deepest gratitude to the members of the board of education. Your hard work and support makes it possible for us to offer these incredible programs and opportunities that truly enrich our students lives and provide them
032with a competitive edge over other students in the county. Mant several years ago, our students came forward with a vision to create an EMT program here at Sever High School. Together with the students, we worked to develop a proposal for an in-house program. And thanks to this board's trust and commitment, that vision has become a reality. With the board's support, the program continues to grow, providing hands-on learning experiences that prepare our students for future success. Tonight, we're proud to introduce Chief Tom Riley and a Nassau, a member of the Nassau County Vocational Educational Board and several of our students who will share and show what they've learned uh and present a small token of appreciation. May these tools always serve as a reminder of how important and impactful your support truly is. And I'm going
033to introduce Emily Brown who is going to speak. This was this is not rehearsed. So Emily is just going to speak from the heart and share a little bit about her experience in the program. [Applause] >> Hi, my name is Emily. I'm in the Gu department Explorers. I've been here for four years now and I've been a captain for three of them. I'm also the treasurer on the Nassau County Junior Firefire Association board, moving up as president in January. When I graduate from Cra High School, I want to go to school to become a nurse. And I think that the EMT program is a very good experience and has furthered my education to become a nurse in the future. Thank you. >> I don't have a resume like Emily. this man he didn't tell me
034to prepare a speech and I had to break it down but this is my second year teaching a program in SE high school I've been teaching emergency medicine for 27 years uh mostly to adults but I got to tell you this has been a rewarding experience myself um the students that Mr. man mission able has provided to me last year and think they can get any better this year but they have um been a great group of students they are eager to learn and hopefully this opens the doors into medicine if they go on to being a nurse or doctor or even part of the CE for fire department and help provide emergency care to their fellow residents and their neighbors. It's definitely rewarding for me to be able to teach them. So what we'd
035like to do is have the students check the blood pressure of some of the board members and we'll see who's not taking their blood pressure medication. while uh while the students are getting set up, I'm also just going to introduce quickly Miss Deil, who is a part of the class every day. She really is our eyes and ears and truly every day helpful, very helpful to us. >> I'm much shorter than Mr. Man, so um I've been with the EMT program since the inaugural year three years ago. >> The first year we had seven kids. Last year we had nine. This year we had 15. So it's growing every year. It's growing in popularity and I'd have to say my favorite part is watching the kids from the beginning of the year and they're a
036little nervous and watching them broke this program and actually become EMTs by the end. They have the confidence, they have the poise and they're ready to go in everything they do. And you know, as Chief Riley said, this is a great bunch of kids this year. So, thank you for this program. [Applause] This is this actually isn't their first experience with real world stuff. I uh I'm the chief of the Oy Bay Fire Department. We have most of the Oyster Fest last weekend. So, we have about 200,000 people coming to town. And for some reason, we have mostly people that can't walk from their car to their door, but then walk three miles that day. So, we have a lot of medical emergencies. Some of the students you see up here tonight actually did help
037me out with emergency medical care at the festival. There were some fairly serious emergencies that they were a part of. Hopefully just a little bit that they came with but u a lot of doors open up for them but also provides either money off or free to free room board at most major universities and most medical schools actually require you to be an EMT to actually apply to medical school. They'll also PA programs take off time in their program because they have contact hours with patients. So it really gives the students a lot of boost to the medical world and hopefully uh I try to preach actually saw one gentleman stand in the back of the seat for fire department applications because here in Long Island most of us actually get emergency medicine from volunteers
038that are neighbors. So hopefully when they settle down when they settle here on Long Island or somewhere else they'll volunteer their communities and they'll help provide care to their fellow neighbors. And hopefully uh I think sometimes they'll think about me. [Applause] [Music] How do you do it? So, our students will be leaving our board of education with some tools so they can take their blood pressure, maybe share it with their friends and family. Little Friday night fun. What else is in there? A CPR mask, stethoscope, the CPR mask, and the blood pressure cup. So, um, >> enjoy and go Vikings. [Applause] Thank you, high school students. So glad you're loving this course and we appreciate the free medical care. So, thank you. >> Okay, once again, thank you so much to our administrators, teachers, and
039our staff who came today to help us recognize the board of education. I think that we have one of the best in the state, if not the country. So, I'm a little biased, but thank you so much for all the work that you do. And I am going to turn you ready, Mr. Kind. I'm going to turn the mic over to Matthew Cind who is our ex official board member to give his report. >> Good evening. So, I would like to share with everyone that this past week, homecoming was a huge success. And leading up to homecoming, the high school had an electric sphere week, as I like to say, and the pep rally was awesome. All the student body from 9th grade all the way through 12th were heavily involved and everyone enjoyed it.
040At pep rally, Seafford's Viking Nets, and the cheer teams put on amazing shows and performances, so we're grateful for that. Prior to the football game, the Seabird community marched in the annual homecoming parade. The marching band did a phenomenal job playing all day long and Seafford's dance and cheer teams put on incredible performances once again. It was just a really special night for everyone. and the icing on top. Maybe a little bias, but the football team had a huge win over there. So, the football team goes, >> I would also like to briefly remind everyone that on this Thursday is the annual Newsuesday March band festival. So, come support and show your Caesar pride. And on the topic of sports and athletics, playoffs are beginning starting this week here at Sebr. So come out and
041support our student athletes. And lastly, the National Honor Society, they began their peer tutoring program. So not only are NHS members paired up individually with students who need tutoring, but the library is staffed after school every day with Nashville Honor Society members for walk-in tutoring. So I think that that's a great addition to this year that'll be extremely beneficial for the whole student body. So, that sums up my student report and thank you >> as always. Great job, Matt. >> I want to echo what Matt had said about homecoming. It was probably one of our largest crowds and pep rally that was the precursor to homecoming was equally as energetic. That's a good word to use, right? And um it the activities for the entire week at the high school for spirit week were just
042fantastic. I think the spirit was really really high. So it actually met the the intent of being a spirit week. And I have to say the halftime performances I agree with you Matt were wonderful. The dance team was fantastic. Our cheerleaders are absolutely phenomenal. The band performance this year with the movie theater is super super entertaining. So again, come out and move them on again um tomorrow night at New Day Festival. And I do want to also say uh this year was particularly significant homecoming court. Um Mr. Kind was the homecoming queen of queen. [Music] The homecoming king real king and um and he did something really sweet. He passed it along. So the homecoming king this year is Charlie Herbert. So, we thank you for that act of kindness and I cannot agree more
043that Charlie is an incredible secret homecoming king. So, thank you. And the football game was not an easy game. The limber wing was tug of war for a long time during the game and then you guys pulled it off with a big win of 49 to 28, right? That was the score. Okay. >> So, fantastic. >> Matt also mentioned playoff games. We have our first victory today. So we have the so girls soccer came in with a win of 70 over We [Applause] >> Okay. So um next what I'd like to do is this this week we had gotten a number of um I well I'm going to just read what I wrote. Okay. So, I want to take a moment to speak directly to our community about an event that many of you have
044been asking about. Over the past several weeks, our district has been working with an organization to bring the FDMY NYPD lacrosse game to our campus. This game was to hold special significance. It was to be played in honor of one of our own, an alumnist who was recently and tragically taken from us, Joey Herman. the board the board of education and myself as the superintendent of schools and also as a lacrosse mom were invested in making this happen for our community. When a request was made to use our facilities, there are legal and fiduciary requirements that all school districts must follow. Legally, the board of education is not permitted to use school funds to pay for events that do not directly service current students. This prohibition includes paying the wages of employees for non-district events
045during the weekend. For this lacrosse event, the anticipated crowd was between 1,000 and 2,000 attendees. We needed custodians and security guards to work the event. The cost of these all wages must be passed along to the organization that is using our school facility. We advised the group that we would be getting volunteers to work the event to replace some of the guards, thereby reducing the costs. In order to mitigate these costs, several administrators and members of the teaching staff offered to volunteer. We also asked the NYPD and FDNY if they could get additional volunteers to assist with security and then they advised us that they would work on that. We were also seeking outside organizations who could defing the costs associated with this event. Unfortunately, while we were working to find solutions to reduce the
046financial burden on the organization, the district was notified that the lacrosse game will be moved to a different location. >> Which location? >> I want our I want our community to know how disappointed we are by this outcome. Our district deeply values our alumni and we are honored to be considered to host this event. We were honored to be considered to host this meaningful tribute. While we weren't able to make it work this year, we remain committed to supporting our alumni, their families, and we sincerely hope that we can work with this organization in the future. The Seafford School District is planning to honor Dur Joey Herman at the first playoff football game on November 7th, and we hope that the community members will attend the event. >> Yeah, no one should for that. >>
047Excuse me. >> Please do not speak out of order. If you'd like to if the proper and appropriate time is during resident comments section. >> Okay. We'll let you know when that is. >> Okay. We're going to move on to business. Okay. I need a motion for agenda item 5 A1. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> I need a motion for agenda item 61 and two. >> Move it. Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I need a motion for agenda items 71 and two. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. This is the resident comment section. I presume you'd like to speak. >> Ah, maybe. >> Okay. Well, I'm going to read my spiel and then you can make your decision. Okay. In keeping
048with its philosophy of open communication and informed decisionmaking, the board of ed welcomes input from the community. However, it is important to note that while the board of ed meets in public, it is not a meeting of the public. Respectful input and behavior by each member of the community is appropriate and expected at all times and should observe the following rules at board of education meetings. The board of education will listen to comments and input from the public. Debate between members of the audience and/or board members and/or administration is inappropriate and will not be permitted. The board is not permitted to address personnel or individual student matters in public. No person shall present orally or discuss at any board of education meeting charges or complaints against individual employees directly or indirectly. The speaker shall identify
049themselves and must confirm their residency as Seafford within the Seafford school district. The normal time allotted for individual speakers shall be 3 minutes. The board of education may in its discretion decrease or increase the time allotted for individual speakers. To allow for public participation, a period not to exceed 30 minutes shall be set aside as a specific agenda item during each regular and special board of education meeting. The period may be extended by a majority vote of the board of education. At this time, are there any uh Seafford residents who reside within the Seafford School District who would like to speak? Come on up, please. State your name and confirm you're a resident of the Seafford School District. >> I'm a reser school. >> Okay. Your name, sir? >> My name is Chris Salvadio. >>
050I'm sorry. Last name. >> Chris Salvadio. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. I have two daughters in the Harvard School. >> Okay. >> I was a good friend of Joey Har. It's uh it's a disgrace that that game's not getting played in Seafford. Um and all those politics and everything. Was it like was it discussed among the board about having the game here at all? Like or was it just like Let's throw numbers out or just curious. I mean, the game's getting played at Blanto High School. That was a rival growing up. I mean, the whole community, everyone's talking small town. Sean's a really small town, you know. Uh, and Joey was a really good athlete, you know. He played lacrosse, football, Nashville Community College, NY. It's it's it's a shame that that game's not
051getting played here. You know, a lot of people are upset. I'm surprised there's not that many people here tonight. Um, but I'm not going to let that go unnoticed. So, um I mean >> So, do you s >> No, I just want to give you the floor for what because it's not going to be a Q&A, but we're going to address your comments. I just want to make sure if there's anything else you want to say that >> I just you guys should have talked that over, you know, a lot. I think I think I mean, you know, the number was pretty high that you guys were asking. I'm not going to sit here and say numbers, but I mean, you know, Wantol is doing it for free. >> Want to not doing it for
052free. >> Oh, no. No. Well, that was that's, you know, like I said, there's a lot of rumors that go around >> and you just hit the nail on the head and that is the problem. >> I'm just just letting you guys know disgrace. >> I understand. >> You know, I'm sorry, but that's all I really want to say. >> That's fine. >> Yep. >> Thank you for speaking. And I will say, as Dr. Pakora just explained quite extensively, we wanted the board approved this. We wanted it to happen here. >> Crazy. It it isn't actually crazy. There's a concept called misuse of public funds. And what you cannot do as a school district anywhere, sir, we're not going to do this is inappropriate and we're not going to do this. If you'd like to
053sit and get the answers to the questions you just raised, I would invite you to return. >> But if you don't want the answers to the questions you are raised, well, then there is the door. But I will say for the benefit of the public, as Dr. Pakora just said, we wanted this to occur here. We of course we value and honor all our alumni. I think nothing is more evident of that than the amazing tribute that we do on 911 that has occurred here for the last 24 years in honor of five alumni who tragically lost their lives during that terrorist attack. We honor our police. Every year our schools uh send baskets and comfort packages and food to police precincts. I think it would be remiss of any of us to pretend as
054though we do not in Seafford adequately and with fidelity honor our law enforcement and all first responders. Unfortunately, this is not a public park. There are rules and regulations that we must follow. We cannot misuse public funds in a way that runs a foul of education laws. We are not permitted by law to pay the wages of employees on the weekend when they're supposed to be off for an outside organization no matter how noble the cause may be. And so what we do in those circumstances is what Dr. Pakor said. We looked for volunteers. In this instance, we had teachers who volunteered. We had administrators who were volunteering their time on a weekend away from their families to defay the costs in order to further reduce the cost of custodians and security. We were also
055seek Not we, not the board. This is not our job to do these things. Administration was doing these things. They were seeking out outside organizations who could pay whatever remaining balance for wages that there might be. As they were working hard to get this uh to a number that was appropriate and to defay the costs either significantly or in their entirety, we were informed that they had moved on to WA. Uh it is unfortunate. I can say on behalf of all of my fellow board members, we were happy when we heard that it was occurring here, but I mean we did everything that we could do and sometimes things are a little bit out of our control. Do we wish they didn't go next door? Of course we did. >> Okay. But but but I'd
056also like to say that there is still a number of faculty and administrators that still want to go and support the cause. So I know that Miss Nabel has been working with the W high school principal to see if we can have efforts because in all of this, what cannot be lost is that we did want to honor the memory of one of our alumni and we will be doing that. As a matter of fact, the event that's for November 7th was rescheduled to a time that's, you know, more appropriate than one that was originally selected. So, this has been something that I know particularly um the coaches and teachers who had had worked with Joey Herman feel very passionately about the community itself. I understand feel very passionately about that. So in the difficulties
057we had making this come to fruition here. I would it would be a shame if the real sentiment of what this is about is lost. So I will encourage and mission will help me. We have a whole team Mr. W. I see him in the in the um audience here as well. will work as a team to make sure that Seafford shows up with Viking Pride to support that cause as well as the tribute that we have planned on November 7th. And I do believe that the lacrosse team, the Viking lacrosse team here, as well as the youth lacrosse team may have something planned in the spring as well. So, I felt that we would be remiss if we did mention that because that's what this is really about. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Okay,
058moving on. All receipts correspondence has been responded to. We're going to do the next few together if that's okay. I need a motion for agenda item 10 A 1 through 3. >> It second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I need a motion for agenda items 10 B 1 through 4. Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> I need a motion for agenda item 10 five. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. There is for item five. There is a typo in the last sentence before the registration procedures. Um there is language that says who who has received and it should say who has not received. So we want to add the word not into that language. Um and then page 707 under the paragraph fraud. There's a small
059typo. It says the superintendent of schools shall notify the proper authorities will be notified of the fraudulent act. We'd like to remove the language that says we'll be notified. >> Got that Marian? >> Is there anything else? >> No. Okay, that's >> Thank you, Trisha. >> Okay, all in favor? >> Yes. >> We don't have to start. I made a motion for agenda items 10 B 6 through 9. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> Do you miss us, Carmen? >> I need a motion for agenda items 10 C through D. >> Move it. Second. >> Oh boy. Any discussion? All in favor? I. >> Any miscellaneous discussion items from the board. Okay, closing comments. Uh, I just want to thank all of the students, uh, those the administrators of of our four school
060buildings, those those great little kiddos and some big kiddos who came out for a board of ed recognition. Um, you know, we love this night not for the recognition and not for the gratitude, but we get to see, you know, our students of all ages showing us what is new and what they love and what really resonates with them. And um, you know, It's great to see uh it's great to see the kids and what they're learning and what they really gravitate towards. So, thank you for all of that. Uh homecoming was an amazing an amazing event. Congrats, Mr. Kind uh on being uh named homecoming king. And of course, >> thank you very much. >> Yes, you're welcome. just the reference street