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Votes at a glance: Kings Park Board approves contracts, calendars, audits and donations
Summary
At its Jan. 28 meeting the Kings Park Board approved a consent agenda that included a memorandum of agreement with CSEA, a teacher-calendar MOA with KPCTA, the 2025–26 school calendar, various personnel items, field-trip and donor approvals, audit reports and vendor additions.
The Kings Park Central School District Board of Education approved a slate of consent-agenda items during its Jan. 28 meeting, including labor agreements, the 2025–26 school calendar, internal-audit actions and several district contracts and donations.
Key actions (voice votes recorded as “Aye” in the minutes; individual roll-call tallies were not specified in the meeting record):
- Memorandum of Agreement with CSEA: The board approved an MOA with the Civil Service Employees Association covering the negotiated terms; staff said increases will appear in paychecks beginning with the Feb. 14 payroll. Outcome: approved.
- Memorandum of Agreement with KPCTA (2025–26 teacher calendar): The board approved a calendar MOA that moves a conference day to Aug. 28 and sets the first student day for Sept. 3, 2025, allowing staff an extra day that makes the Wednesday before Thanksgiving a holiday. Outcome: approved.
- Approval of 2025–26 school calendar: The board approved the district calendar for the 2025–26 school year. Outcome: approved.
- Approval of minutes (01/14/2025): Outcome: approved.
- Personnel schedule: The board accepted retirements, coaching and hiring appointments, and additional transportation hires. Outcome: approved.
- Field trip approval: The Tri-M music club was authorized to attend a performance of The Outsiders at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on April 9, 2025 (grades 9–12, 37 students). Outcome: approved.
- Donation acceptance: Irvin Simon Photography donated $3,050.26 to Fort Salonga Elementary; the board accepted the gift and noted the district’s donations-to-date total. Outcome: approved.
- Vendor approvals: The board added and verified new vendors to the district-approved vendor list. Outcome: approved.
- Internal audit and risk assessment: The board accepted the updated risk assessment report submitted by Serenity and Associates LLP and approved the internal-audit test area recommendation of IT inventory for 2024–25. Outcome: approved.
- Treasurer and claims-auditor reports: The board accepted second-quarter (Oct.–Dec.) reports from the treasurer and claims auditor. Outcome: approved.
- Contracts with service providers: The board authorized the president to sign agreements with Metro Therapy Inc. for tutoring and related services and approved out-of-district provider agreements where listed. Outcome: approved.
- CSE recommendations: The board approved 13 Committee on Special Education (CSE) minutes and individualized-education-program recommendations dated Dec. 2 through Jan. 17. Outcome: approved.
- Flyer additions: The board authorized adding local organizations to the district flyer distribution list. Outcome: approved.
What the record shows: For each consent item the meeting minutes record a motion, a second and a voice vote in which board members responded “Aye.” The transcript does not list individual board-member roll-call votes or numeric tallies for those motions; the meeting record records the motions as carried by voice vote.
