East Meadow board approves Nassau BOCES $27,877,216 tentative budget, endorses three trustee candidates

The East Meadow Union Free School District Board of Education approved the Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) tentative administrative budget for the 2025–26 school year, totaling $27,877,216, and voted to endorse three candidates for Nassau BOCES trustee seats at its meeting.

The board approved the tentative BOCES administrative budget by a 6-0 vote. Board members moved and seconded the motion and voted unanimously to adopt the proposed figure of $27,877,216 for the coming school year.

The meeting also included an election of Nassau BOCES trustees. Board members reviewed resumes for five candidates and then put forward and approved a slate of three names to appear on the district’s ballot or to represent the district in the trustee election: Douglas J. Pascarella, BA Showin and Fran Langser. The board voted to approve the three names as its selections by a 6-0 tally.

Board members conducted the votes sequentially and then took a single motion to approve the chosen slate. Resumes for the candidates had been distributed to board members ahead of the vote, according to remarks during the meeting.

Both votes were procedural and brief; no extended public discussion or debate of the budget or the candidates is recorded in the meeting transcript. The board adjourned after completing the votes.

The actions affect the district’s share of Nassau BOCES administrative costs for 2025–26 and name the district’s selections for BOCES trustee seats. Specific impacts on local property tax rates or how the budget will be apportioned among member districts were not discussed in the recorded remarks and are not specified in the transcript.