Riverhead board approves consent agenda including contracts, committee rosters and meeting schedule changes
Get AI-powered insights, summaries, and transcripts
Subscribe
Summary
The board approved a lengthy consent agenda covering committee assignments, CSE/CPSE appointments, banking and bonding choices, impartial hearing officers, library services, multiple service contracts, memberships and disposal of surplus equipment; the board also set most regular meetings for Wednesday evenings.
The Riverhead Central School District Board of Education approved a consent agenda that included committee assignments, personnel appointments, service contracts, and a change to the regular meeting schedule.
On unanimous motions recorded as passing at the meeting, the board named members for standing committees (audit, health and safety, intergovernmental and policy, wellness, and facilities), approved appointments for the 2025–26 school year including Committee on Special Education (CSE) and Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) representatives, and designated banks to be used as depositories of district funds. The board also approved a slate of impartial hearing officers for the coming school year and set the official monthly Board of Education meetings primarily on Wednesday nights (with the April 21 meeting remaining on a Tuesday to coincide with the budget vote schedule).
Contract approvals on the consent agenda included educational and behavioral services agreements; an item listed as "Excellent Tutoring Services" and an entity recorded in the transcript as "Silver Lying Home Care Agency" (transcript spelling), a boiler service and repair agreement with Island Industrial Boiler, membership in a Long Island cooperative (LI Co-op), bus transportation with Suffolk (as listed), and memberships for the Suffolk School Boards Association, SCOPE and the New York State School Business Officials/Business Association (listed on the agenda as NYSBA). The board also approved conference attendance for board members and administrators and authorized disposal of surplus equipment, including a Ford dump truck.
Board members had an opportunity to question the items; no votes against or recorded roll-call tallies were provided in the meeting transcript for these consent items, which were presented and approved as motions. The board noted that the change to mostly Wednesday meeting nights will take effect after the reorganizational meeting and that the district’s annual budget vote remains scheduled on the April date noted on the calendar.
The approvals complete routine administrative business for the district and set committees and vendors for the coming school year. Several contract and vendor names were read from the agenda during the meeting; the board did not discuss individual contract expenditures or provide dollar amounts during the public portion of the meeting.