Board hears budget, enrollment and facilities updates; accepts $5,000 donation
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The Hampton Bays UFSD board received enrollment and budget planning updates, was briefed on capital work including a middle-school skylight and planned walk-in freezer, heard about a pending town grant to support food assistance, and approved the consent agenda including a $5,000 donation and a teacher professional-development plan.
HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — At its Dec. 9 business meeting the Hampton Bays Union Free School District board received several operational updates and approved routine consent items.
An unidentified district administrator reported a slight enrollment decrease at multiple levels that will inform the 2026–27 budget cycle. The administrator said enrollment figures drive state foundation aid and that budget preparations are already underway. "As we get into budget season," the speaker said, "enrollment will, of course, drive foundation aid and the state budget proposal, which we expect sometime in January."
The administrator also said the district expects a grant check from the Town of Southampton to provide food supports to families over the Christmas and New Year’s break and credited local partners including Food for Thought, Stop & Shop, the Kiwanis and the Rotary Club for complementing district efforts.
On postsecondary opportunities, the district described an early-college pilot with Suffolk County Community College and Stony Brook University to offer two college courses (introduction to health careers and introduction to psychology) at the Southampton College campus starting in a limited pilot; the district said Stony Brook is exploring an additional freshman seminar in marine biology.
Facilities and capital-work updates came from Mr. Luce, who said a middle-school skylight replacement was completed over Thanksgiving and that HVAC work at the high school encountered plumbing rerouting that is being resolved. Luce announced a request-for-bid schedule for a new outdoor walk-in freezer for the high school kitchen, with bids to be issued Dec. 16 and due Jan. 13, and an anticipated installation for the 2026–27 school year.
The meeting’s consent agenda included two noted items: acceptance of a $5,000 donation from Fidelity Charitable on behalf of Teresa Strano to support the Class of 2030, and approval of a professional-development and continuing teacher-leader education plan. The motion to approve the consent agenda passed by voice vote.
Procedural motions to adopt the order of business, approve the prior clerk’s report and to adjourn were also made and approved by voice vote during the meeting.