Board approves minutes, communications, donations, policies and personnel in unanimous votes

The Great Neck Union Free School District Board of Education recorded a series of unanimous votes on routine and personnel items at its meeting.

At the start of the meeting the board approved minutes for the February 11 and February 13 meetings and accepted two letters from residents as communications; each motion passed by voice vote recorded as 4–0. The board also approved donations and scholarship awards listed on the agenda (items 9a and 9b) by a 4–0 vote.

Policy adoptions: The board accepted three policies on second read and adopted them by a 4–0 recorded vote: Policy 42‑30 (Curriculum Adoption and Management), Policy 81‑15 (Pesticide and Pest Management) and Policy 91‑50 (Staff‑Student Relationships, non‑fraternization). The policy committee represented the proposals to the board for second reading before the vote.

Consent agenda and personnel: The board approved a consent agenda covering items 11b through 14h (motion recorded as item 11a) by a 4–0 vote. Embedded in the personnel portion of the consent agenda were labor agreements to fill two building leadership positions: Tom DePaola, approved to begin Monday as acting principal at North High School, and Jerry DeCarlo, approved to begin at South High School (appointments approved via the personnel/labor agreements listed on the consent agenda). Each of those personnel approvals was part of the consent motion and carried with the 4–0 vote.

Motions, votes and tallies recorded in the meeting transcript were uniformly recorded as voice votes and listed as 4–0 for the motions above; no roll‑call with member names was recorded in the transcript excerpt.

Ending: The board proceeded to other business after the consent votes, including the budget presentation later in the agenda.