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Votes and actions at a glance: budget, BOCES, donations, personnel and cooperative purchasing approved
Summary
The board approved the BOCES administrative budget, authorized the clerk to vote for BOCES candidates, accepted a $500 baseball donation, approved cooperative water-testing procurement through BOCES, accepted CSC evaluations and approved personnel appointments and the superintendent evaluation authorization.
At this meeting the board recorded a series of routine but consequential approvals. Key actions taken in open session included:
- Approval of the recommended TST BOCES administrative budget (presented as $6,435,983 total; the district’s share was described as roughly $122,000). A motion to approve the recommended BOCES administration budget was moved, seconded and carried (see SEG 905—117).
- Authorization for the board clerk to cast votes on the board’s behalf for three incumbent candidates on the BOCES ballot (motion moved and seconded; approved).
- Acceptance of a $500 donation to the district’s baseball program for equipment (donor requested the Newfield boosters club match); the board moved and approved acceptance of the donation (SEG 943—100).
- Approval of a cooperative purchasing resolution to facilitate water testing and sampling through BOCES procurement, described as no-cost to the district (motion moved and carried; SEG 1305—133).
- Approval of CSC evaluations (motion moved and carried; SEG 1537—159).
- Approval of personnel appointments and terminations as presented, including noting retirements of long-serving employees (motion moved, seconded and carried; SEG 1598—166).
- Motion authorizing the president to sign the superintendent’s evaluation effective 04/21/2026 (moved by S5, seconded by S3 and carried; SEG 2008—2016).
Where specific vote tallies were recorded in the transcript they are noted in individual agenda items; where open-session votes were taken the chair called for aye/nays and the motions were carried as recorded in the meeting transcript.
