Great Neck Union Free School District elects board officers and appoints clerks, treasurers in reorganization meeting

The Great Neck Union Free School District board completed its July 1 reorganization meeting by swearing in newly elected officials, electing board leadership and approving appointments to district clerk and treasurer roles.

Trustee Marissa Brandeis Karmannian was sworn in after the board-administered oath. The board then opened nominations for board president; a nominee identified in the record by variants of the same given name was elected by voice vote reported as 5-0 and subsequently sworn in as board president. Steve Chen was nominated and elected vice president by a unanimous voice vote and repeated the oath for vice president.

The board appointed Suzanne Malazzi as district clerk and Kanika Lang as assistant district clerk for the 2026-27 school year; both appointments passed by voice vote reported as 5-0 and the appointees took oaths. The board also approved Stacy Padone as district treasurer and Jennifer Durockos as deputy district treasurer, with both taking the oath of office after motions carried by voice vote.

The meeting record shows routine consent-agenda motions and donations approved by voice vote, 5-0. There were no public-comment cards submitted for this meeting.

Notes on the record: the transcript contains multiple inconsistent spellings of some names (for example the board president's last name appears in several forms in different segments). The article uses the name forms appearing where the oath or self-identification appears in the transcript; unresolved transcript inconsistencies are noted here.