Superintendent reports on concerts, honor societies, athletics and PTA volunteer needs

Speaker 2 (the district superintendent) opened the meeting's superintendent report by highlighting recent student performances and upcoming music events. "It's really nice that our students and music department puts on these performances for families in our community before the holidays," Speaker 2 said, and thanked music staff Russell Wagner, Robert Bennett and Nicholas Kent for organizing the Thanksgiving concert at Tappan Zee High School.

The superintendent noted upcoming winter concerts on Dec. 9 and Dec. 10 at "Psalms" at 7 p.m., and a program at Tappan Zee High School on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. The report also covered honor society inductions: the Tappan Zee Italian Honor Society inducted 20 new members on Nov. 19 and the French Honor Society held its induction on Nov. 20; Speaker 2 said they attended the National Honor Society ceremony the previous night and that multiple juniors and seniors were inducted.

On athletics, Speaker 2 highlighted state and regional results from Nov. 22: Lonnie (recorded variously in the transcript as Lonnie Bao/Bau) placed fourth in the 100-yard freestyle and sixth in the 50-yard freestyle; other athletes named included Kimmy Kasanda, Alicia Bau and Paulina Chapalski. Speaker 2 also noted Bridget Dunn finished 21st out of 295 runners at the New York State Federation championships with a time given in the report as 18 minutes, 58 seconds.

Speaker 2 closed the report with an announcement from the associates PTA: holiday shops will operate at William O'Shaker through Friday and at College Lane from Dec. 9—11 during lunch and recess, and volunteers are requested via associatespta.org/volunteer.

The superintendent's report was informational and did not include requests for board action during the public portion of the meeting.