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Board adopts $202.14 million 2025–26 budget, approves personnel, policy and contract items
Summary
During the public session the Bay Shore Board of Education approved the 2025–26 budget, a property tax report card, personnel appointments and changes, designation of lead agency for several interior reconstruction projects, retention of internal auditors, and policy updates; motions passed by voice vote with 'Aye' and 'So carried.'
The Bay Shore Union Free School District Board of Education approved a slate of routine and business items during the public meeting, including acceptance of the proposed 2025–26 expenditure budget in the amount of $202,138,570 and adoption of the related property tax report card.
Other approved items included personnel motions (resignations, appointments, salary changes, civil service actions and substitute appointments), coach and volunteer approvals, approval of several facility‑project lead‑agency designations for high‑school and elementary interior reconfigurations, retention of Sereny & Associates as internal auditors for the 2025–26 school year (fee not to exceed $26,250), and adoption or rescission of several board policies. The board also approved the memorandum of agreement with the Bayshore Power Professionals unit and certified special‑education committee minutes and individualized home instruction plans.
Motions on the public agenda were presented in sequence (minutes approval; personnel and civil service items B1–B11; facility and budget items C1–C7; budget adoption C4; tax report card C5; auditor retention C6; library obsolescence C7; special education actions D1–D3; and policy and union items E1–E5). Each motion was put, seconded and carried by voice vote as recorded in the minutes: "All in favor? Aye. Opposed? So carried." No recorded roll‑call tallies or individual member votes were listed in the public transcript for these motions.
Notable specifics recorded in the meeting transcript include the exact budget amount ($202,138,570), the auditor retention fee cap ($26,250), the adoption requirement to distribute the property tax report card within 24 hours, and the designation of the Board as lead agency for several interior reconstruction projects that the presenters characterized as Type II or unlisted actions for State Environmental Quality Review purposes. During discussion of one lead‑agency item a board member asked whether designation as lead agent meant the district would act as general contractor; staff clarified lead‑agency designation related to SEQRA procedural matters and would not by itself commit funds or procurement steps.
All motions on the published agenda were approved by the board during the public session; the meeting record shows unanimous voice votes and no recorded dissent on the items presented.
