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North Babylon Board approves multi‑year paraprofessional pact, settlement and SUNY Potsdam student‑teaching agreement
Summary
At its Aug. 8 meeting the North Babylon Board of Education approved a five‑year memorandum of agreement with paraprofessional/cafeteria aides, a stipulation resolving a parent dispute over a student with a disability, and a student‑teaching agreement with SUNY Potsdam effective Sept. 1, 2024. The board authorized execution of the agreements; individual vote tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
The North Babylon Board of Education approved three district agreements during its Aug. 8, 2024 regular meeting: a memorandum of agreement with the paraprofessional/cafeteria‑aid chapter of the North Babylon Teachers Organization, a stipulation and release resolving a parent matter related to a student with a disability for the 2023–24 school year, and a memorandum of agreement with the State University of New York at Potsdam to support student teaching.
The board authorized the board president to execute the paraprofessional agreement, which the meeting record describes as covering July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029 and which will be incorporated into a collective bargaining agreement. The board also approved the stipulation and release related to the special‑education matter and authorized execution of that agreement on the district's behalf. Separately, trustees approved the SUNY Potsdam student‑teaching agreement; the board record states that agreement would be effective Sept. 1, 2024 and that the superintendent is authorized to execute it.
All three items were moved and seconded and the chair announced each motion carried; the public transcript records the outcome as "motion carries" or equivalent language but does not record individual member vote tallies or the names of specific movers and seconders for every item. The approvals were handled during the consent/agenda portion of the meeting and during separate action items called by the chair.
What happens next: each agreement will be executed by the authorized district official (the meeting record notes either the board president or superintendent as the signatory), and implementation will proceed under the terms described in the agreements. The transcript does not specify contract dollar amounts, the precise text of the settlement, or additional implementation deadlines.
