The Croton-Harmon Board of Education filled four teaching positions for the fall, expanded a middle school air conditioning contract to $805,800, and moved $200,000 into the district's deficit-running School Lunch Fund at a special meeting on June 29. This article is written solely from the meeting's draft minutes, as generated by the district clerk; croton.news had no reporter present, and no video or transcript of the meeting exists. Board President Ana Teague called the meeting to order at 5:03 p.m., with members Anamika Bhatnagar, Neal Haber, Theo Oshiro and Allison Samuels present. After approving the agenda, the board entered executive session at 5:04 p.m. to discuss the employment of a particular person or persons. Trustee Omar Mayyasi joined the meeting at 5:37 p.m., during that session, which ended at 6:17 p.m. In public session, Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen gave a presentation on fund balance and reserve projections. The board then opened a public hearing on the proposed usage of the district's Repair Reserve at 6:48 p.m. and closed it at 6:49 p.m. — no members of the public were present. The board approved the expenditure, which Harrington-Cohen explained would fix boiler #2 at Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School. The minutes note that the reserve fund has proven valuable to the district — crediting Mayyasi for the initial proposal — and that the expense would otherwise have had to come out of the general fund. The board made four probationary teaching appointments, all commencing August 26: Dana Prem as a mathematics teacher at Croton-Harmon High School at a salary of $118,987; Samantha Perlman, also in high school mathematics, at $81,328; Robert Simels as a high school science teacher at $73,889; and Jeffrey Barile as an elementary teacher at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School at $63,275. Two leave replacements, each effective August 26 through June 30, 2027, were also approved: Caroline Browne in high school social studies at $125,661, covering for John Bohuniek, and Kaydi McInerney in visual arts at Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School at $63,275, covering for Ashley Lupfer. On the labor front, the board approved a memorandum of agreement with the Croton-Harmon Administrators' Association and a revision to a side letter with the Croton Teachers' Association, extending an additional period of instruction from May 21 to June 26, 2026. The consent agenda carried the meeting's biggest construction item: two bid alternates awarded to Clean Air Quality Services Inc. for the second-floor air conditioning project at Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School — $149,320 to expand the DX coil in an existing air handling unit and $72,250 for a fourth-floor electrical upgrade — raising the total contract, awarded June 11 at a base of $584,230, to $805,800. The board also awarded a $285,777 tennis court lighting contract at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School to ER Electrical Corporation. Before the consent vote, Mayyasi asked about the benefit agreements on the agenda; Superintendent Stephen Walker explained they are for non-union bargaining individuals, with increases typically of 2.5 percent, consistent across the region and reviewed annually. Haber asked about one employee's agreement given her membership in the teachers' association, and Walker explained it is above what she receives under that contract. The board approved 16 such agreements for 2026-2027. Other consent items authorized replenishing the district's reserves from unappropriated fund balance as of June 30 — up to $400,000 for the Employee Retirement Contribution Reserve, up to $500,000 for the Teachers Retirement Contribution Reserve Sub-Fund, up to $100,000 for the Employee Benefit Accrued Liability Reserve, up to $1,661,800 for the 2013 Capital Reserve Fund and up to $50,000 for the Unemployment Insurance Reserve — with final amounts to be determined when the year's audited financial statements are complete. The board separately authorized transferring $200,000 from the General Fund to reduce the operating deficit of the School Lunch Fund, determining that student meals are an ordinary contingent expense. It also renewed the district's HVAC services bid with Clean Air Quality Services, approved summer program aides and a temporary maintenance mechanic, accepted four non-instructional resignations, and approved the minutes of its June 4 work session. The board entered a second executive session at 7:01 p.m. to discuss the employment of a particular person or persons and an exempt subject involving a confidential student matter. Mayyasi departed at 8:15 p.m.; the board returned at 8:19 p.m. and adjourned.