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Wantagh board approves minutes, financials, personnel and accepts $20,232,024 external audit
Summary
At its regular meeting the Wantagh Board of Education approved routine business including minutes, financial and personnel items, accepted an external audit noted as $20,232,024, approved several PTA donations totaling multiple thousands of dollars, and passed environmental and intermunicipal items on the consent agenda.
The Wantagh Union Free School District Board of Education approved routine business on its agenda, including approval of minutes, financial reports, and personnel items, by voice vote.
Under contractual and other authorizations the board approved donations from the Forest Lake PTA: $1,460 for a fifth-grade field trip to the YES Community Center (Nov. 2024), $3,489.88 in Scholastic-purchased magazines for Forest Lake teachers, and $1,140 for a first-grade field trip to the Long Island Children's Museum. The board publicly thanked the Forest Lake PTA for the contributions.
Agenda item G4 recorded the acceptance of an external audit identified in the agenda as $20,232,024; the board approved acceptance of the audit report as presented. The agenda also included a revised wage-rate item (G5) cited as "revise 02/2024, 2025 wage rate," which the board approved.
The board addressed a series of consent and business items (G6–G10) including strategic evaluation and data reporting, extra classroom activity charters, disposal of obsolete equipment, a State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) resolution, and a County of Nassau intermunicipal agreement; these items were moved, seconded and approved. The transcript records one brief negative vocalization (“No.”) during a call for a motion, but the motion proceeded and passed on a roll call of 'Aye' in the meeting record.
Other items approved included policy revisions under unfinished business and Committee on Special Education and preschool education recommendations under new business; the board also approved superintendent goals. Most motions were made and seconded on the consent agenda and recorded in the transcript as approved by voice vote with 'Aye' responses from members; the transcript does not list individual member vote tallies by name.
Next steps for these items are standard implementation through district administration and appropriate follow-up in future board materials.
