Port Washington board approves BOCES budget, nominates BOCES candidates and moves into executive session

The Port Washington Union Free School District Board of Education approved several routine items and took formal actions April 28, including approving the BOCES administrative budget, selecting candidates for a BOCES election and moving into an executive session.

The board voted to approve the BOCES administrative budget. The transcript reads the budget motion as for the "2620 7 year"; meeting remarks indicate this was the motion to approve the budget for the upcoming school year (announced in the meeting as adopted by a 5–0 vote).

On the BOCES election ballot the board considered four candidates and cast votes name by name. After the roll call and tabulation, the board put forward a slate of three candidates to advance for the BOCES election: Deborah Coates, Jean D'Esposito and Lawrence Greenstein. The chair described the voting procedure (each member could cast up to three votes), and the chair announced the selected slate.

The board also moved to approve the April 14, 2026 meeting minutes and to approve consent agenda items 6.1 through 10.2; the chair announced both actions as approved (votes noted as 5–0). Following the business, the chair moved that the board recess into executive session to discuss the employment of a particular person and to seek advice from counsel. The motion was seconded by Miss Milani (the roll call earlier listed Danette Milconian as present); the motion carried and the board recessed into executive session and did not return to public session.

All formal board votes and motions announced during the meeting were reported by the chair as unanimous (5–0) in the public record.