Croton-Harmon Union Free School District

Good evening, mister mayor, trustees, madam attorney, mister manager. My name is Chester Edwards. I'm a US Navy combat veteran, and, I'm the president of Vietnam Veterans of America chapter forty nine and a member of the American Legion and VFW. I'm …

Just like the school district lines.

taxing bodies, like the school district and the town? The ability. They have the ability. The ability to offer. And hopefully they will. Yeah. Hopefully they will. Yeah. I mean, generally and I'm not saying this, I'm just stating it matter of factly.…

Yeah. So, I mean, to Steve's point, that that'll tell us that, okay, they're gonna add 10 students and we got capacity for 10 or or whatever. The applicant across from shop, right, in their application provided, you know, not only how many students t…

So kinda going back to Steve's point about fiscal analysis. We've we've got in here a fiscal analysis can be requested by the planning board regarding schools. So I'm I'm referring to two seventy dash two two thirty dash seventy twelve. The adequacy …

Is it captured in that? So that the table that was provided last time broke it down into how much tax revenue estimated would go to the school district. And however the school district chooses to spend it is up to them. How much would go to the villa…

From Truesdale Drive. I'd like to thank the board for the work they've done in this technology in the classroom. It has its place, but it's not just a fraction of the percent of where it's been. And it was a subject of the last selection. And rather …

We also have a developer that has come in and purchased some properties on Cortlandt and on De Peyster. And so we're hoping that we can kinda kill multiple birds with one stone as we're doing the streetscape improvement to take into account his devel…

Thank you. I'm not an expert on Freedom of Information Act or Freedom of Information Law. But, essentially, under the Freedom of Information Law in the state of New York, municipal entities, school districts, municipal governments, state government, …

Right. So I think part of the purpose of tonight's meeting is to get additional ideas and potential projects. Right? So something like you mentioned with the public park, you know, That's something that we can go back and and speak to the village abo…

Great. So you'll see that the survey, had a lot of the same themes as the listening sessions, perhaps unsurprisingly. There were a 182 respondents, as Omar shared last week, a 155 of whom were parents or guardians in our district. People were allowed…

I will say that we have high tax burden in Westchester, and it's not the fault of little village mayors or, whoever you wanna blame, but it's a systemic issue in that in the county of Westchester, there are 40 municipalities each with their own schoo…

Good evening. I'd like to call to order the 08/27/2026 work session of the Croton-Harmon board of Croton-Harmon Union Free School District's Board of Education to order. Starting with item 1.2, the approval of the agenda. Be it resolved that the Boar…

You know, we're not cutting down trees and putting in, you know, all that. So it relates very specifically to the natural environment, meaning, like, you know, existing climate, landscape, etcetera. This the the the the proposed scope of this project…

On the question? There are no questions. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? The motions carry. Moving into the closing of our meeting, I just want to, quickly say before we go into the next item because we don't have a sort of next meeting kind of,…

So I am seriously concerned about any relationship that this school board would have with an organization like Planned Parenthood. Secondly, I'm dealing with the new pot store that's going in. First of all, you may know that a place that can lease th…

President's report is gonna be is gonna cover a few areas that needs to complete reports on in the update on your future. I'm gonna open with a preview of some key items on the agenda for tonight's business meeting. In addition to our monthly hearing…

And I think it's also an expression from the board's perspective about what we value in our educators, actually, because we trust them to do the work. It's like speaking to both sides of this. In some ways, to focus on trust is, like, the value. Prio…

So I'm gonna move on to the school analysis and schools impact report. So page two has an inconsistency in the table. We talk about the low point of enrollment at Croton-Harmon School as being twenty twentytwenty twenty one of thirteen ninety four. T…

Right? It's Yep. Trying to get a preliminary number from them. So That would be helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you guys could pursue that. Yep. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, based on the preliminary estimate, the tax revenue that we generated for the school d…

So I'm gonna go through. Thank you. And I'm gonna go first on behalf of the administrative team to Madeline, to Nikki, welcome. And thank you for your leadership on behalf of the student body. To Betsy and to Jake, welcome, and and thank you for your…

So thank you and congratulations to everyone who's involved in those. Also wanna make mention that over the past year or so, there's been a great deal of discussion in our community about how we engage with our broader community, how we communicate a…

Riley from Truesdale Drive. To the items I failed to mention, which were major disruptions handled poorly by school districts almost unanimously throughout the decade was the COVID the COVID epidemic and shutdown, which in the school district lasted …

Con Edison did not notify the village, the school district, or emergency services prior to the start of this project, which constituted numerous violations of the permit issued to them, and we will be seeking penalties accordingly. Our offices are cl…

Because I saw that the county put an announcement on social media, But I think that some people got our emails, some people like, I I want people to know because this was, you know, something I've been talking about for a long time. People ask about …

Good evening, everyone. We are now resuming the 06/29/2026 special meeting of the Croton-Harmon Union Group School District. We called to order. We approved the agenda. We then entered into executive session. We left executive session at 06:17PM. We…

In favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. Moving into item 4.1. Item one. Item 4.1, instructional personnel. Croton-Harmon Administrators Association child memorandum of agreement. Recommended action, be it resolved. The board of education …

On the question? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. Item 4.2, the side letter of agreement between the Croton Teachers Association. Recommended action be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby approves a revision to the side…

I appreciate everyone's comments. I welcome them to continue. At this point, I don't think that I am planning to change the hours for this year. There's a lot of things that are going on in that area with regards to the construction, and we'll we'll …

Thank you. I decided to wear a patriotic outfit this evening. It's it's America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. I do appreciate everyone coming out. Just a little bit on process, you know, we have, work sessions. We only schedule one work sessio…

>> Thank you, Anna. Good evening everyone. Good evening to those who are here in person, those watching at home. Um, as I think everyone who follows the school district is aware, this is a a stunningly busy time of year in our system in all systems. …

Um, and probably most importantly, our students have shared with us that they feel our implementation has been respectful and that they don't have a problem putting away their devices for classes and honestly do so willingly recognizing the positive …

I think they are just you know from my observation it is true that that that the majority of people who are at at common lunch are actually interacting with each other and so what we think about is like what are the ways that we can support that in t…

>> Good evening, everyone. We are resuming the June 4th, 2026 work session of the Clarkstown Central School District. We have open meeting, we have called to order, we approved the agenda. We had um as we had entered into executive session, we are no…

>> I have one other I have one other thing to follow up on. Yesterday, I had the opportunity with a couple of other trustees to observe the visit of alumni to the high school to meet with high school juniors in small groups to talk about their experi…

>> I'll just chime in and say that I think that one of the great things about this process has been that you know, as a as a board and as a community we've been talking about the importance of our community partners and these organizations that do al…

Second by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Larry? Alright. Consider referring various correspondence received on the leaf below or law to the Conservation Advisory Council for their review. I think it wo…

I just wanna say that there are legitimate quality of life concerns raised by many folks that have written letters and legitimate operational and economic concerns. So, you know, just wanna be sure that the Conservation Advisory Council is weighing, …

Thanks, Ana. Good evening, We will recognize Marissa and some other folks in a moment, but I just want to say a couple of things by way of introduction. Tonight is a special night for our school district community when we have the opportunity to come…

Whether receiving tenure, counting twenty years of contributions to our district, celebrating retirement, or having achieved national board certification, every one of these staff members has become a part of the fabric of our school district communi…

National board certification is widely considered the highest professional honor a teacher or educator can achieve. And reaching this milestone takes an incredible amount of work. The process is notoriously grueling. It requires hundreds of hours of …

Alright. Thanks, Tara. Welcome, everybody. Tara said, I'm Laurie Schultz. I am a member of the League of Women Voters of the River Towns. As your moderator, I don't live in Croton-Harmon, so I have no stake in this race. This event is sponsored by th…

Sorry, that is a long question. I think that to just to continue the conversation that we've begun in recent years about academic rigor, we do have to continue to look at, the performance of our students across a wide variety of metrics. Test scores …

So as Neil mentioned, you know, one of the main ways the board holds the superintendent accountable, for the responsibilities of managing the school district is by our annual, evaluation procedures. So those are something that actually start earlier …

Is that alright right now for questions for Filomena? So, DiMarco, I just wanted to say also just because I had a chance to attend. It's like very rare that I get to do anything as a parent in the school district. It's such a pleasure to be able to g…

This collection allows you to check out unique objects like a sewing machine, air quality monitor, or specialty cake molds, thus extending the sharing economy concept beyond just a printed page. In our lobby, we opened a community pantry with input f…

Lots more. Okay. So throughout the year, we've also been having a lot of thoughtful conversation about student data privacy, which is a very important topic to me. In an age where we are all more vulnerable and malicious act are exponentially getting…

So I think that one to one device use should be titrated to age. As I've already said, I think that not having them in k through two is a really good start. I was speaking to a friend today who is her son's a rising kindergartner in Red Hook, New Yor…

Okay. No. That's fine. Yeah. I I mean, what is there to say? I mean, I think it's pretty clear that the policy isn't being implemented effectively. It's pretty clear that it's not being enforced. I think there's a lot of credible evidence. I've talke…

I'm concerned about this outcome that I'm not seeing for my student. I'm concerned about x, y, or z, whatever it is. What are they doing? They are advocating for a human student that is in their family. That's the person that they're representing. An…