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East Islip Board approves personnel actions, consent agenda and appropriation changes
Summary
The Board approved certified and noncertified personnel items, appointed Jenna Gavrakian as a world language teacher, approved consent agenda items 8.1–8.12 and accepted appropriation changes for the 2024–25 school year; several policy and field-trip items were discussed and will return for future approval.
The Board of Education approved several routine personnel and financial items during the meeting.
On motions brought during the personnel portion of the agenda, the board approved certified personnel actions (resignations, terminations, leaves of absence, position abolitions, appointments, tenure appointments and salary changes) "upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools." The board also approved uncertified personnel actions under the superintendent's recommendation.
The board congratulated Jenna Gavrakian, who was introduced and appointed as a world language teacher; she will teach Spanish at both the middle school and the high school.
The board approved the consent agenda, identified in the agenda as items 8.1 through 8.12, and later approved attached appropriation changes for the 2024–25 school year. Each of these motions was moved and seconded and carried when the president called for the vote and members responded "Aye." The meeting record shows no roll-call vote totals or named vote tallies in the transcript; outcomes are recorded here as approved by voice vote.
Under new business the district's attorneys recommended abolishing policy number 8332 because its content has been incorporated into the district's Computer Network and Internet Access policy; the board was told the item will appear on a future agenda for formal abolition. The board also heard a request for preapproval of a planned student trip to Albany for state finals (a preapproval was requested in the event a team qualifies; final approval will be sought at a later meeting) and was told administrators have been developing an eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., both of which will return for formal approval.
The next regular board meeting was announced for Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Summary of formal actions recorded in the transcript: approved certified personnel actions; approved uncertified personnel actions; approved appointment of Jenna Gavrakian as world language teacher; approved consent agenda items 8.1–8.12; and approved appropriation changes for the 2024–25 school year. Where vote details were not specified in the transcript, the article reports outcomes as recorded by the board president's call for "Aye."
