Hempstead board approves personnel moves, contracts and policy updates; denies private-school transportation request

The Hempstead Union Free School District Board of Education on Tuesday approved minutes and financial reports, accepted the annual audit for the year ended June 30, 2025, authorized several personnel appointments and resignations, approved contract and licensing agreements and updated multiple board policies. The board also adopted a resolution denying a request for transportation to a private school.

The board’s actions, carried by voice vote and announced as “Aye” in each case, included routine personnel appointments and resignations across bargaining units, approval of consultant and program contracts for the 2025–26 school year, and the adoption and rescission of several district policies.

The action list contains items the board described as standard business for the start of the school year, including approval of an audit report prepared by RS Abrams, a multi‑year service agreement with BOCES for purchase and installation of Canon networked copiers, a scope license agreement for an SAT preparatory program for 2025–26, and amended rate sheets for consultant contracts previously approved in July and September. The board also approved listed budget transfers and declared several district items obsolete, including a 2015 Ford Fiesta.

Student representative remarks and a recognition: Dylan, the high‑school student representative, briefed the board on spirit week activities, changes to the school ID system and a new phone policy. “We currently have around 80 students doing test trials” of the new ID badges, Dylan said, and the district hopes to implement the system by Oct. 15 to simplify attendance and track student locations. The board recognized Juliana Abella for her scouting service projects, including efforts to support a local food pantry and crocheting stuffed animals for children at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital.

Notable personnel actions included the board’s acceptance of the retirement notification of Eileen King, effective close of business Feb. 27, 2026; the full‑time probationary appointment of Mary Ella Canales as a teacher assistant at Terryville Road Elementary School effective Sept. 25, 2025 (four‑year probationary term through Sept. 24, 2029); the full‑time CSEA appointment of Fabiola Morales Navaros as senior office assistant (12‑week probationary appointment effective Oct. 6, 2025); and the appointment of Emmanuel Anwalter as night foreman effective Sept. 2, 2025. The board also approved lists of extracurricular club advisors, coaches, substitute teachers and nurses and drivers for special education transportation as listed in meeting materials.

On policy matters, the board voted to rescind policies 71‑22, 71‑22.1 and 71‑22.2 (attendance records, excuses and absences, release time of students) and to approve updated policies including 71‑10 (comprehensive student attendance), 71‑20 (age of entrance), 71‑21 (screening for new school entrance), 71‑22.3 (noncustodial parents) and a set of policies in the 76‑series addressing students with disabilities, committee appointment and training, use of recording devices at CSE/CPSE meetings, transition services and impartial hearing processes.

The board also considered and approved a resolution denying a transportation request to a private school; the board said it had considered the matter during an executive session on Sept. 30, 2025, and “hereby denies the attached transportation request.”

Most motions were presented, seconded and adopted on voice vote with no further public comment; the meeting’s public‑comment period had no speakers. The board adjourned after approving the agenda items and taking a brief photo.

The meeting materials referenced audit committee review of the district financial statements and multiple attached memos and lists for personnel, substitutes, coaches and consultants; those supporting documents were listed as “as presented” in the board packet and were approved as submitted.