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Riverhead board approves $29 million tax anticipation note, MOAs, consultant and several agreements
Summary
At its June 24 meeting the Riverhead Central School District board approved a not-to-exceed $29,000,000 tax anticipation note and multiple memoranda of agreement, employment contracts, a consultant agreement, a SUNY Stony Brook partnership and a town grant for a Phillips Avenue water-quality project.
The Riverhead Central School District Board of Education on June 24 authorized a not-to-exceed $29,000,000 tax anticipation note for the 2025–26 fiscal year and approved a series of contracts and memoranda of agreement covering retirement incentives, a sick bank, consultant services, college partnerships and a town grant for a local water-quality project.
The board moved on a single motion to accept the consent agenda and then voted individually on listed items. The board approved a resolution authorizing issuance of a tax anticipation note, described in the meeting as “not to exceed $29,000,000” in anticipation of receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026. The motion carried by voice vote; the minutes record “All in favor? And the motion passes.”
Board members approved multiple agreements with the Riverhead Central Faculty Association (RCFA), including participation for certain members in a retirement incentive approved March 4, 2025 and the establishment of a sick bank under a June 11, 2025 memorandum of agreement. The board also approved employment contracts for six employees who are not subject to collective bargaining, and approved an extension of an individual employee's probationary period, moving the employee's new tenure date to Aug. 31, 2026.
The board authorized a consultant agreement with TJ DeRosa to provide physical-therapy services on terms to be stipulated in the agreement. It also approved a no-cost agreement with SUNY Stony Brook, for the period beginning July 1, 2025 “through February,” to establish a clinical education and training program for Stony Brook students in student teaching and leadership programs, as presented at the meeting.
Separately, the board accepted an agreement with the Town of Southampton tied to a grant for a water-quality improvement program for Phillips Avenue; meeting remarks indicated the effort will “get Phillips Avenue hooked up to a sewage system.” The district accepted a donation of art supplies from Robert and Dr. Rita Rice Wiesersick valued at approximately $2,000 and approved contracts for school athletic uniforms and for automotive fluids and lubricants (motor oil).
School leaders also presented a final, second reading and board approval of multiple revised policies, including grading systems (policy 47.10), fiscal management and fund-balance maintenance (policy 62.40 and a new fund-balance maintenance policy), fiscal accounting and reporting (6600 series), purchasing (6710 series) and contracting for professional services (6741).
Why it matters: the tax anticipation note affects district cash flow for 2025–26 and the Town of Southampton grant will affect sewer and water-quality infrastructure on Phillips Avenue, a named local street. The MOAs and consultant, plus the Stony Brook partnership and revised policies, reflect operational and staffing changes the board approved ahead of the coming school year.
Meeting minutes record the votes as voice approvals (“All in favor? And the motion passes.”) but no roll-call tallies appear in the transcript. The board also acknowledged new hires and appointments described in the meeting: Stacy Woodhull as incoming principal at Pulaski Elementary and Christopher Marino as new director of pupil personnel services, both introduced during the meeting.
