Board approves minutes, calendar, policies and consent items in 5-0 votes

The Great Neck Union Free School District Board of Education voted unanimously on a series of routine agenda items during its Feb. 11 meeting, including approval of minutes, acceptance of communications, adoption of a revised 2025–26 meeting calendar, donations, certain policy actions and the consent agenda that included personnel matters.

The votes were recorded as voice/roll-call motions during the meeting and were announced as passing 5-0 on each item. The board chair called for motions and seconded actions, and the board recorded unanimous approval on the items listed below.

Votes at a glance - Agenda Item 3a — Approval of the minutes from the Jan. 14 meeting. Motion passed 5-0. - Agenda Item 4a — Acceptance of communications received (letter re: PTO meeting at North High). Motion passed 5-0. - Agenda Item 9a — Adoption of the revised 2025–26 Board meeting calendar. Motion passed 5-0. - Agenda Items 9b and 9c — Acceptance of donations appearing on the agenda. Motion passed 5-0. - Agenda Item 10a — First reading of three policies (42-30 curriculum adoption and management; 81-15 pesticides and pest management; 91-50 staff-student relationships/non-fraternization). Motion to accept first reading passed 5-0. - Agenda Item 10b — Policy 43-31.1 (summer school attendance) presented for one read and adopted on first reading. Motion passed 5-0. - Agenda Item 10c — Abolishment of multiple outdated policies (51-54; 81-16; 81-20.2; 81-20.3; 81-20.4; 81-20.5). Motion to abolish passed 5-0. - Agenda Item 11a — Consent agenda (covering items 11b through 14d, including personnel actions). Motion passed 5-0; consent agenda included acceptance of a resignation for the purpose of retirement from North Middle School assistant principal Nancy Gunning. - Final motion — Adjournment. Motion passed 5-0.

Notes on vote records The meeting transcript records repeated roll calls as “Aye” and announces each motion as passing 5-0; the transcript does not record individual board member vote names on those items. Where specific vote tallies or individual roll-call names were not read into the record, the motions are recorded here as unanimous (5-0) with the transcript note that votes were voice/aye and passed.

Summary These votes covered routine governance and housekeeping items; none of the votes recorded substantive policy reversals or new long-term obligations beyond the previously approved budget and capital planning discussions covered elsewhere in the meeting.