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Board approves 2025 annual election arrangements and consensus agenda; moves to executive session
Summary
The Mineola Board approved Resolution 43 setting the district’s 2025 annual election and budget vote logistics and approved a consensus agenda (Resolution 44); the board then voted to enter executive session to discuss negotiations.
The Mineola Union Free School District Board of Education voted to approve arrangements for the district’s 2025 annual election and budget vote and approved the board’s consent (consensus) agenda; the board later voted to convene an executive session to discuss negotiations.
Why it matters: The resolution sets the legal and logistical framework for the district’s annual budget vote and election, including the polling location, polling hours, public notices and the schedule for absentee/affidavit canvassing. Those administrative details affect voter access and the conduct of the district’s May budget vote.
Resolution 43: President Margaret Ballantyne read a motion establishing the annual election schedule and related arrangements and asked for board approval. The resolution sets the district’s annual election for Tuesday, May 20, 2025; a public budget hearing on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 7 p.m.; a special evening voter registration on Tuesday, May 7, 2025 from 4–8 p.m.; and designates the Mineola Synergy Building (2400 Jericho Turnpike, Garden City Park) as the polling location. Ballantyne read that “The polls on the date of the annual election will be open for the period from 6AM to 9PM, both inclusive.”
Cheryl Lampersono moved Resolution 43; Patrick Talty seconded. The board took a voice vote, recorded as “Aye,” and the president declared Resolution 43 passed. The resolution authorizes the district clerk to arrange voter registration and rental and delivery of voting machines and specifies that the inspectors of election and registrars will be compensated at $16.50 per hour. The district clerk and designated poll clerks were assigned a post‑election affidavit‑ballot canvass meeting for Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at the Superintendent’s Office.
Resolution 44 (consensus agenda): The board approved the consensus agenda (items J1A through J46C) by voice vote after a motion and second; the motion was seconded by Trustee Stacy DeSilas and the president declared Resolution 44 passed.
Executive session: Later in the meeting the board moved to executive session for negotiations. The motion to enter executive session was moved and seconded (second: Trustee Patrick Talty) and passed by voice vote; the meeting then adjourned to executive session.
Ending: No amendments to the resolutions were recorded at the meeting. The resolutions set the administrative timetable for the district’s budget process and open the period for public hearings and registration ahead of the May 20 vote.
