The Mineola Union Free School District Board of Education approved multiple operational and personnel items at its Aug. 28, 2025, meeting, adopting revised policies, ratifying memoranda of agreement and understanding, accepting audit corrective‑action plans, and authorizing a transfer into the district capital reserve.

The board voted to waive the second formal reading and adopt revised policies including Policy 3420 (nondiscrimination and anti‑harassment) and Policy 5685 (maximum temperature for school buildings and indoor facilities). The motion (Resolution 22) was moved and seconded on the record and approved by voice vote: “All in favor? Aye. Resolution 22 passes.”

Personnel and operational approvals included:
- Resolution 23: Approved Jillian Perino as a varsity golf volunteer coach for the 2025–26 school year (motion moved by Patrick Talpe; seconded by Stacy DeSilas; voice vote passed).
- Resolution 24: Approved a memorandum of agreement with the United Public Service Employees Union (clerical/secretarial unit) to provide an annual stipend for bilingual translation duties and authorized the board president to execute the agreement (passed by voice vote).
- Resolution 26 and 27: Approved memoranda of understanding with Adelphi University — one to implement a health student‑teaching (registered dietitian) program for Sept. 2025–Aug. 2026, and another to allow Adelphi to use the district’s tech/fab lab classroom for teacher certification and EdTech instruction (both passed by voice votes).

Financial and audit items included:
- Resolution 28 and 29: The board accepted corrective‑action plans related to (a) a risk‑assessment report and (b) detailed testing of the district’s information technology; both resolutions instructed the assistant superintendent for business and operations to file the corrective‑action plans with the New York State Education Department Office of Audit Services and were approved by voice vote.
- Resolution 30: The board authorized, under Education Law §3651, a transfer of up to $6,000,000 from unassigned fund balance (FY2024–25) into the Mineola 2022 Capital Reserve Fund for future capital projects; the motion passed by voice vote.

Labor agreements:
- Resolution 31: Approved terms of a memorandum of agreement with the Mineola Teachers Association (teaching assistant unit) to modify provisions of the 2025–29 collective bargaining agreement, and authorized the board president to execute the agreement (passed by voice vote).

The board consolidated several routine personnel and administrative items under a consensus agenda (Resolution 32) that included retirements, new hires and other personnel matters; the consensus agenda passed by voice vote.

All recorded motions on the consent and consensus items were approved by board voice vote with no recorded opposing votes in the meeting transcript.

No new budget appropriations beyond the capital‑reserve authorization were adopted at the meeting; several items were described as administrative or routine. The board instructed the assistant superintendent for business and operations to file the required corrective‑action plans with NYSED as stated in the relevant resolutions.