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Board actions: summary of motions and outcomes from the Feb. 12 South Huntington Board of Education meeting
Summary
The board voted on a range of routine and substantive items, including personnel schedules, contracts, course approvals, calendar changes, donations and several health-service agreements; this article lists each motion and the recorded outcome from the meeting.
The South Huntington Board of Education on Feb. 12 took votes on multiple items during its business agenda. The board used voice votes for routine motions. The following is a concise list of motions, movers/seconders where recorded, and outcomes as taken from the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Adopt the agenda — Mover: Mister Scragg; Second: Mister Bronson. Outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Approve minutes, financial items and bills (items e–h require one resolution) — Mover: Miss Myers; Second: Mister Bingaso. Outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Student disciplinary appeal (executive-session matter) — Motion to deny the suspension appeal. Mover: Mister Bingaso; Second: Miss Meyer. Outcome: appeal denied (vote taken in open session following executive session).
- Request to remain in South Huntington (new-business item 2) — Mover: Miss Licara; Second: Mister Bronson. Recorded confusion during vote; final outcome in transcript: request denied.
- Approve Diana Cinquamani Friese Impact Award (establish memorial student award process) — Mover: Miss Meyer; Second: Mister Scragg. Outcome: approved.
- Calendar revision: close schools June 6 for Eid al-Adha (2024–25 calendar revision) — Mover recorded; Outcome: approved (June 6 observed as a day off for students).
- Establish separate collective bargaining agreements for buildings & grounds and transportation (division of bargaining units) — Mover: Mister Scribe; Second: Mister Biengaso. Outcome: approved (union already agreed, per transcript).
- Approve supplemental sick bank requests (two separate requests discussed in executive session) — Motions recorded with movers and seconders; Outcomes: both approved.
- New course approvals for Stimson Middle School (three courses: guitar, introduction-to-dance, dual-language honors math 7H) — Mover: Mister Bingaso; Second: mister Scrank. Outcome: approved.
- Declare Canon imageProGraph large-format printer obsolete (teacher center) — Mover recorded; Outcome: approved.
- Health service agreements (district providing or receiving health services; multiple individual contracts) — Multiple motions to approve contracts with Hicksville (services for 1 student), Smithtown (services for 5 students), Jericho (services for 3 students), and a batch of agreements billing other districts for services to parochial/private schools within South Huntington boundaries. Outcome: each agreement approved as presented.
- Accept donation from Walt Whitman Wildcat Band Parents Association ($20,000 toward new trailer/equipment) — Outcome: approved; donation designated to equipment code.
- Settlement agreement (Bernstein and Edelman property-boundary dispute) — Mover recorded; Outcome: approved; matter discussed in executive session prior to vote.
- Overnight trips: DECA state competition (Rochester Mar. 5–7) and Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute weekend (Albany) — Motions approved.
- Approve board member attendance at NYSSBA annual lobby day (Albany) and National School Boards Association conference (April) — Motions approved.
- Lease agreement: North Shore Learning Center (Montessori) to continue using wing of Memorial School — Outcome: approved; district to receive rental revenue and retain building availability for future district needs.
- Approve 2025–26 draft calendar (180 instructional days; staff report Aug. 27–28; first student day Sept. 2; last day June 26) — Mover: Miss Meyer; Second: Mister Scribe. Outcome: approved.
- Personnel schedules (multiple personnel items including retirements) — Motions approved.
For items where the transcript records only voice votes and the board chair called for “all in favor/any opposed,” the meeting record indicates approval unless the transcript explicitly records opposition. The transcript does not show detailed roll-call tallies for the majority of motions.
The board convened into executive session at the end of the meeting to discuss personnel matters and tenure reviews; votes noted above followed the meeting’s business agenda and executive-session items where applicable.
