Board approves routine consent items, vendor additions and budget transfers; sets May 19 budget vote
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Summary
The Kings Park board approved the schedule for the May 19 budget vote, multiple personnel and field-trip items, donations totaling $30,057.89, a $195,000 transfer to electric services, participation in Eastern Suffolk BOCES cooperative bidding, authorization to sign service contracts for 2026-27, and acceptance of 113 IEP recommendations.
During the March 10 meeting the board moved through its consent agenda and approved multiple routine and operational items by voice vote.
The board adopted the attached schedule of voting details to conduct the annual school-district election and budget vote on May 19, 2026 — including directing the district clerk to take required procedural steps. The board approved minutes from January 13 and the February 10 budget workshop and meeting.
Personnel Schedule No. 11 — which included Regents tutorial program appointments, coaching assignments for spring sports, 12 spring-sports volunteers and a new bus driver — was approved. The board approved field-trip requests, including authorization for 165 fourth graders from Argio Intermediate School to travel to the Bronx Zoo on May 19.
The board gratefully accepted gifts and donations totaling $30,057.89 for the 2025-26 school year, authorized disposal of outdated textbooks and materials, and approved adding verified new vendors to the district vendor list.
To cover increased electric charges the board authorized a transfer of $195,000 into the district electric service account ($170,000 from an interest-cost code and $25,000 from the unemployment-insurance code). The board also approved participating in the Eastern Suffolk BOCES joint municipal cooperative bidding program for 2026-27 and authorized the board president to sign listed service-provider contracts for related services and home tutoring in 2026-27.
Finally, the board accepted committee-on-special-education recommendations, covering 113 IEPs from 11/18/2025 through 03/03/2026. All actions on the consent agenda were approved by voice vote with no roll-call tallies recorded in the meeting transcript.
