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Oceanside board reappoints leadership, confirms vendors and adopts policies for 2025-26
Summary
The Oceanside Union Free School District Board of Education reorganized its leadership for the 2025-26 school year, appointed officers and vendors for district services and adopted five policies required by law, the board voted unanimously on a slate of resolutions at its June meeting.
The Oceanside Union Free School District Board of Education on June 11 reorganized its leadership for the 2025-26 school year, swearing in officers and approving a series of administrative appointments, vendor contracts and required policy updates.
Board members unanimously elected Michael D'Ambrosio as board president and Stuart (Stu) Kaplan as vice president. The board also approved appointments that the superintendent recommended for district clerk, district treasurer and deputy treasurer and confirmed a number of external service providers, including legal counsel, internal and external auditors, and fiscal advisors.
Superintendent Phyllis Harrington administered oaths and presented the slate of routine organizational items. The board approved the appointment of Frasier Fund as outside counsel under the retirement agreement terms ($24,500 plus hourly fees for extraordinary services) and named Alice Abrams as external auditor and Milwaukee Smith LLP as internal auditor for 2025-26. The board approved Capital Markets Advisors to provide fiscal services, contracted the Seneca Consulting Group for ACA consulting, Omni Group to manage the 403(b) program, and Professional Athletic Training Services PLC for athletic training services. The board also approved the district's list of depositories and established petty cash and other administrative funds for the year.
The board voted to adopt five policies that the administration said were required by changes in law, including a policy on harassment and grievance procedures under Title IX and an extreme heat conditions policy. The petty-cash reimbursement cap was revised from $25 to $50.
All motions on organizational appointments, contracts and policies were presented, seconded and approved with the standard roll-call procedure of “Aye”/“Any opposed? Any abstentions?”; the meeting transcript records the motions as passing without individual roll-call tallies recorded in the public minutes.
Board President Michael D'Ambrosio then turned the meeting over to the superintendent to continue the agenda.
Ending: The organizational actions set the district's administrative and vendor structure for 2025-26; routine approvals and policy adoptions concluded the reorganization portion of the meeting and the board proceeded to reports and presentations.
