001How are you? >> I don't have any equipment to plug in. So, if you want to fine. >> Yeah. Um, >> are we connecting someone else's or we're just one of ours? Hi Matt. >> Hi Matt. How are you? >> How are you? >> I'll rotate. laptop. >> Um, you move her over. >> If I'm going to screen on that screen, I need her to move over to the left. I I need per >> otherwise you're going to be in the way of the screen. Thank you. [Music] >> Yesterday I was doing stats. >> What? Yesterday I was doing AP stats. >> Why? >> You're not doing AP stats. >> At work people needed help. But I didn't give a summer assignment. There should be no >> it was a sio summer assignment. >> Oh
002god. >> See, aren't you glad you don't go to sio then? >> I know. >> We have a couch PC. >> You want to see it? >> They have the same. >> I like to see what the enemy is doing. >> They have the same copy. >> Yeah, cuz they probably stole it from me. >> Or wherever the internet has it, you know. Which one did they have? >> Um, it was only like >> Thank you. I'll take the blame, but I'm not quite sure what's going on. >> I know. >> What was the punch line? Do you remember? You're going to draw people in me. FYI, you don't know. You know what? I missed the text earlier. I'm sorry. >> Very impressive. You just got to touch it. That was >> she knew It's
003still again having sat through it for the years >> and it's hard to get this one. It's a double >> scrolling button. We have to hit >> I was trying to say a couple of words after >> no need expectations. >> Yes, they're not. question. [Music] >> I went to my eye doctor. like this. My eyes get better. >> Good evening everybody. Thank you for joining us. Please rise and join me in the pledge. I pledge algiance 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. Um, this evening we're going to get started with a presentation from our internal auditors. Uh, we have Darren from Milwaukee Smith. Thank you for joining us. Okay, great.
004So, thanks for having us everybody and squeezing us into the agenda. Uh, it's important that we come this time of year to close out the 2425 year and that's what this brief presentation does for you. Just as a brief reminder, your internal lung function um is mandated to have a risk assessment done each year and then a cycle that um so most of you in the room who have interacted with us probably have are very familiar with Demetriles. He's in Greece today. So I'm covering from him although he and I work very closely together the past almost 20 years. Um so I'm familiar with with your district. So our risk assessment which is required that's going to talk about today um is was completed as of April and the goal is that is to assess
005high moderate lowrisk areas within the district. we had 92 um pressure points that we look at so to speak, risk areas and you can see as we get to the results I'll explain how we got there but initially what we do is we conduct interviews uh throughout the district with key people in various departments starting of course with superintendent and all the way through um all your departments payroll benefits um who's handling fixed assets, food services, transportation. Uh our list has 21 areas which has grown over the years as we see risks emerge throughout educational organizations throughout the country locally throughout New York State. We kind of revise our our risk profile to include it for our clients. So what we learn elsewhere we like to bring to all of our clients. Um we request
006a lot of documents which um business office and other departments are sometimes used to and sometimes it's not timely for us to ask because as many audits going on different times with different organizations. We appreciate the hard work everyone puts in to accommodate our requests, meetings and documentation. And then we go through that process of interviews, reviewing documents, doing test work and come up with ratings based on the operational areas, the intensity of the area, how complex transactions are, turnover possibilities, training, system changes, all these impact our ratings. So the results stage two I mentioned we do a high moderate low risk rating. So we should be happy to see that consistently have no high ratings. If we had high ratings those would be areas that we have further discussions about why they're high, what
007needs to be done pretty much immediately. And um the moderate ratings you can see from last year 23 24 25 you had a decrease from 8 to four. So that improves your risk profile. So it's a very positive um thing to see. And the low ratings again uh you know in in same relationship with the moderates have improved have increased. So that improves your risk profile. Our reports contain recommendations that are operational risk management type recommendations, internal control based recommendations. So we had six recommendations last year. Um it's great to see that they were all implemented and uh we do interviews collect documents and we'll test those recommendations if they're complete. So it's nice to see that they were they were done. Often times if we have five or six recommendations it's not uncommon that
008you would see one or two in process, one or two not started. There's many plausible reasons for that which are fine, but this is great to see that we had six and six. This year's risk assessment, we had five recommendations. We have one in the revenue and cash management area, three in payroll, and one in transportation. Um as a result of these recommendations, the district was required to generate corrective action plan which is already in place. Um three of those recommendations are already teed up to be complete either by now or within I think it was marked for the end of July. So I'm pretty sure that they're they're one is geared to be complete by November and one by February. So you have a very precise plan to those recommendations uh which is great
009to see and having a timeline that you can stick to and even if it moves a little bit justification that's really what the state's looking for and if there's any reason why recommendation can't be carried out you know we're in a relationship with the district that's partnership so we're here to assist in navigating what you know what challenges are to So you should be happy to know that you're in compliance with the internal loan function 20 425 and we'll be kicking off uh the 25 26 year work sometime in September. >> I know you have a big agenda but happy to any questions if anybody has >> any questions. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you for working this out. Have a great night >> every couple of reorganization items to approve. Can I
010have a motion for agenda item 4 A through E? I'll approve it. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I uh we will now move on to Dr.'s administrative report. >> Okay. So, good evening everyone. I just wanted to give a little bit of a shout out to Russ Costa and his crew. We have a tremendous amount of projects going on right now. The most notable is the construction that's being done on the middle school route. Um, we've also gutted and put a new ceiling in the middle school library. So, we're waiting for the porn to go in. Similar progress has been made on the freshman sophomore cafeteria at the high school. So, there are a lot of projects that are scheduled to go continuously throughout the year and he just does a really
011nice job managing all of that. While in the process of doing all that, the other day um he was alerted to the fact that it was a fairly large sinkhole that was right by the Snapchat on the high school campus. So immediately he had the appropriate vendors come in and it it was caused by a container that used to be underneath a pool draining pool that was there. So it was removed. He replaced the dirt, pounded it down. We're waiting for the the ground to settle a little bit and then all the black top don't hurt him. Um, but I I can't stress enough at all times he's always welcoming things that make our campuses even better for our students. So, I do want to thank him and his entire crew for their diligence and
012um the joy with which uh they complete their projects. So, I also wanted to talk a little bit about I know the board is cleanly aware of the distractionfree school law that's in place right now which basically um bans phone usage by students um for the entire school day. So I sent out the initial letter alerting the community to this on July 18th. Subsequently, there have been every building administrator has sent home the letter and there'll be another reminder at the building level and then in my welcome back letter I'll remind parents again. Um, so this is something that's predicated on information about how children have an over reliance on technology and how it is um, barring their social development and academic development. And I think that that's the cornerstone for why the law was
013put in place. And at this at this point in time, we have procedures in place um and and hopefully students will be respectful and compliant and um we won't have to exercise any disciplinary consequences. Any questions about that? >> Okay. And then um I just wanted to um also um point out that uh we will have a contract on for approval tonight where we'll have a field doctor. vendor. So there will be a doctor on the field for football games and the same company um Orlando will be providing a a trainer when not present if they're available. It's basically >> I do want to point to um a couple of things on the P. So um first I wanted to make sure that I mentioned that is the retirement of Tom Lively. He is one
014of our security guards that has served the district so nicely. Um and he's done an excellent job representing the values that we have as a school district. Um he makes sure that we stay safe and secure yet he has always been very friendly to everybody in the community. He was one of our pop officers and then when he retired from the Nassau County Police Department, he came and worked with us for several years and I wish him the best in retirement. I know I express the desires of of basically everybody that's worked with Tom lovely to have known him and we were lucky to hire. So all the best in retirement. Um, also on the P, we have somebody that is part-time uh, clerical that's now going to be joining us full-time because she's just
015been an tremendous asset to the data team and the STEM office and that's Audrey Barnes. So, Audrey, welcome. Audrey all day long now. And then last but not least, um, it's been a tradition of ours that when we've hired teachers, we've invited them to the board meetings when being appointed. So tonight we have with us Sarah Leini. So Sarah's joining us special ed and ELA over at the high school. And Rihanna's here to welcome her. Nicole's here to welcome her. Um she went through a very thorough interview process. Um she has a very strong working knowledge of not only special education practices and and pedological techniques, but also a very strong knowledge of of literature and ELA. Um she comes to us um from having worked as a public school teacher in Queens and her
016educational degrees are as follows. So she has her mers of science and special education from Her University, a bachelor of arts in secondary English from from Manhattan College, and she had also had an advanced certification in literacy from Mercy College. So Sarah, welcome. You're going to have an incredible experience at the high school, and I'm sure you will enjoy working with Rihanna and Nicole. >> So welcome. And that is it for my report. Now it is my pleasure to have our really first report or kind of second report from um Mr. Kind, our high school representative, student representative on the board. >> Thank you. So good evening. Um as the school year continues to rapidly approach, the anticipation is growing. So after talking to the senior class, it's very clear that the seniors are especially
017eager for the best year at the SE high school. So although it is sad, it um for all the seniors including myself, we are ready to take on the challenge of our senior year, but more importantly, we're ready to continue our favorite seaffort traditions and to prepare for our future lives and careers outside of the high school, but even to to continue to make in more everlasting memories with one another. But the most important thing for this upcoming year for us seniors in my opin opinion is we're also super excited to welcome in the freshman. We were all freshman once and we know how stressful it is entering the high school. It's a whole new building. But as seniors, we're ready and excited to show them around the school and to guide and prepare them
018for successful high school careers, which I have no doubt will have will happen. So altogether the SE students and I were extremely excited for this upcoming school year and we will make the freshman feel as comfortable as possible and we're eager to be their mentors. >> And I'm sure Mabel will appreciate the help. >> I'm crying like he's my son. >> That's great. Thank you, Matthew. >> Okay. >> We look forward to your future reports, Matt. Thank you. Um, all right. Okay. Can I have a motion for consent agenda item 6A? Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. I need a motion to remove agenda item 6B and C. Please move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Need a motion to approve agenda
019item 6 D one as amended. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Motion uh to approve agenda item 6D2 as amended. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. I need a motion to add to agenda item at the instructional um personal action report number two. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> And now I need a motion to approve agenda item 63. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> need a motion for agenda item 6 E one and two. Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. The resident comment section. I take it. No one is here to speak. Okay. Correspondence. All correspondence has
020been responded to. Um we're going to do the next several involved. That's okay. Sure. We need a motion for agenda item 9 A 1 through 10. Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I need a motion to add to the agenda at uh a contract with True North for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh >> and authorizing the board president to sign it. >> And authorizing the board president to sign it. We do that when we approve it. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> And now I need a motion to approve agenda item 9 A1 um subject to review and approval by legal counsel. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I need a motion for agenda items 9B 1 through
021two. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> need a motion for agenda items 9 C1 through 5. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Um, any miscellaneous discussion items from the board? >> Okay. Closing comments. Um, just to echo Dr. Por's sentiments, congratulations to Mr. Lively on his forthcoming retirement. Welcome to Miss Lavini. Congratulations to Miss Barnes on your quire position and we hope everybody's having a great summer. That's it. >> Anything else? >> No. Good. >> Okay. Need a motion to adjourn. Please move it. >> Second. >> Discussion. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you.