Neal Haber
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803 mentions
Background
Spoken at:
Board of Education (17 meetings, 2024-10 to 2026-06) ·
School Board Election Coverage (1 meeting, 2026-04 to 2026-04) ·
CHUFSD Board of Education Candidate Forum 5/12/26 (1 meeting, 2026-05 to 2026-05)
Name verified via: entities registry (verified=1, id 1097); CHUFSD BOE clerk minutes (in rag.db)
In our coverage:
- School Board Grants Tenure, Debates Cell Phone Policy Future, and Bids Farewell to Two Trustees 2026-06-11
- School Board Approves Two Pre-K Provider Agreements, Spends Bulk of Special Meeting in Executive Session 2026-05-21
- Five Board of Education Candidates Debate Technology Spending, Accountability, and Communication at League Forum 2026-05-12
- School board candidates press for clearer limits and accountability on classroom technology 2026-04-23
- Croton-Harmon Board Sends $62.8 Million Budget to Voters, Declines to Back BOCES Candidate 2026-04-21
- Board of Education Holds Brief Executive Session on Personnel and Student Matters 2026-04-14
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Board of Education
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Croton-Harmon High School
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Denise Bisaccia
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School
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Appearances (50 most notable of 803)
So what I understand then is sometime during the next year, right, that 120,000 utilized. So will that will be decreased, obviously, by 120,000. And, of course, the other thing to point out, which is Which is why we increased this. So that was done t…
I just wanna point out more for the public so that it's understood that it's not like we could just save oodles of money the way the village can Right. And stick it in some Right. Account. Right. We are limited in each of these as to what we Correct.…
Yeah. But even if you were to say, let's go for a rent or a 10, I I don't think we can pull it off in two weeks. Even if you said what? If you want to go for revenue or tax exemption, though, we wouldn't be able to get that money in a two week period…
>> policy >> policy committee met on June 5th. Um, as you can tell, we had talked about having policy 580 on the agenda today, first reading, which you did not because there questions that came up. The um policy committee asked me to speak with the l…
My other reflection is that I'm a member of the what does success mean for schools committee which I'm hoping that I will have the opportunity to continue that work as a community member as well as on the feedback and assessment because there we've h…
She was a mentor for those students who were uh those student athletes on the softball team at a college career and is now a high school coach in uh a school in Long Island. That is a measure of success to me. success is someone who I saw last night …
Um Student Faculty Congress spent the meeting in part at the beginning having snacks and things that people brought to celebrate the end of the year and then had a very um extensive discussion of student body congress priorities for next year includi…
>> Not every policy. Things where it was felt that community input to help guide the policy committee to make a recommendation to the board was would be useful. Now, all of that being said, it will be up to the board to develop the scope, to develop …
>> Yeah, I I was just thinking about the fact that >> We've literally formed committees to take on one policy and not been able to accomplish that. >> But but but but if I can if I can continue um I was thinking that that and that task that ad hoc co…
So we're looking forward to their comments. We thank them for for for their hard work on that. The trustee Nicholson and I met on the fifteenth with our school liaison count counterparts. So very productive. I wanted to take a minute just to congratu…
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Not Present at Vote: Omar Mayyasi
Action: 1.3 Approval of Agenda
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the agenda as presented.
Motion by …
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, hereby appoints Nicole Macaluso as a 1.0 FTE Science Teacher (Science Tenure Area) at the Croton-Harmon High School, at a salary of $76,868 (MA Step 3). …
Motion by Neal Haber, second by Theo Oshiro.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Not Present at Vote: Omar Mayyasi
Action (Consent): 7.9 Fixed Asset Disposit…
Policy Committee met on May 11. We continued our discussion on the policy zero zero zero zero that had been discussed at the May 7 meeting. We do not have anything to report for the June 4 meeting. We are meeting on June 5, that Friday, and I hope we…
Thank you. I have a couple of things, Dan, which are not really in the liaison, but just things that I had the pleasure to go to. First was the Hope for Heroes girls softball game on Friday evening in which the girls pulled it out against North Salem…
Thank you. This is a difficult topic because a lot of things happen where the district does not hear about them immediately and things fester. Our policies and the role of the Board is to establish strong policies against discrimination, harassment, …
There are several ways that we work to hold the superintendent accountable. One, which is our statutory responsibility is to evaluate the superintendent, which we do annually. That's a rather extensive evaluation with a Likert scale, but also a lot o…
Thank you. I think our first objective and first priority is to have a common understanding and a frank public discussion about what success means. What success means for every student in every grade, how we measure it and what we have in place as a …
Policy will be meeting next Monday. The agenda has been included in the announcement of the meeting so that the public can see what is on that agenda. The first item on the agenda will be discussion, if any, on policy zero zero zero zero that we disc…
Yes. Yes. And and now our question really is is can we have discussed in the policy committee but not come to a resolution in discussion with administration is how okay. We have to do that under the concept that this is not a competitively bid contra…
Second grade did the same Front shot? Yeah. He went to interview the shoemaker. He probably took some pictures in, you know, the shoe maker on the registry, wrote a report, and then probably, I don't remember, they presented in class, they presented …
I don't I I I think that nobody at least has spoken thus far is is in major disagreement about what we are facing. I I look at it a little bit differently because I happen to, for better or worse, have we've raised our children during the time when t…
One of the advantages or disadvantages of being the last to speak on a topic is you could easily just say, I agree with everything everybody said. Okay. How's your And I do agree with everything everybody said. I have been, as a member of the board a…
As I think my colleagues on this panel have said, what we are about here is for the kids, all of our kids. And the way I look at it and as a starting point is what skills, knowledge, abilities will our kids have to navigate the world when they leave …
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the Side Letter of Agreement between the Croton-Harmon UFSD and the Croton Teachers' Association as presented.
Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Anamika Bhatnagar.
Final Resolution: Motion Carr…
No: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Ana Teague
Action: 3.4 Memorandum of Agreement - CSEA Custodial Unit
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education of the Croton-Harmon Union Free School District hereby approves the memorand…
Action: 5.1 Donation - Agnes Zaharias - Christos Zaharias Memorial Scholarship
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education gratefully accepts a donation of $250.00 from Agnes Zaharias as a contribution to the Christos Zaharias Scholarship at Croton-Harmon…
on parental rights and negotiation trends. There's some good information there and those slides are also available so let's take a look at that. And lastly, the
So moved.
So moved.
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Neal Haber.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Allison S…
Special Meeting (Tuesday, April 14, 2026)
Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Members present
Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Meeting called to order at 6:06 PM
1. Ope…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education leaves executive session and returns to the special meeting.
Motion by Neal Haber, second by Theo Oshiro.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo …
>> Thank you. >> Thank you, Neil. And thank you, Laura. Thank you even more so to the students who we honor tonight. And I just want to say as somebody who has been for the last few years a member of the PNW Boseis board of ed and thinking about the …
>> I have one just one question which I sort of I think Carrie sort of answered already, but I just wanted to comment to say I think in terms of the um the increase in budget for curriculum development supervision, it's great to hear that we're makin…
I have a question which actually goes K12 and it's something that I have just kind of read about and I'm wondering and not something necessarily for presentation today but something that I think I would certainly like to hear about. the New York Stat…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the repair reserve proposition resolution as presented.
Motion by Neal Haber, second by Allison Samuels.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar…
Special Meeting (Tuesday, March 31, 2026)
Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Members present
Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Meeting called to order at 7:48 AM
1. Openi…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the 2026-2027 Notice of Annual Meeting and Budget Hearing as presented.
Motion by Allison Samuels, second by Anamika Bhatnagar.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Ca…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby enters into Executive Session to discuss the employment of a particular person or persons and an exempt subject(s) involving a confidential student matter regarding a particular student.
Motion by Sarah C…
Special Meeting (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)
Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Thursday, March 19, 2026
Members present
Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Meeting called to order at 6:03 PM
1. Opening of Meeti…
2. Closing of Meeting
Action: 2.1 Adjournment
9:07 pm
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby adjourns the meeting.
Motion by Neal Haber, second by Anamika Bhatnagar
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Neal Haber, Omar…
is one of the things that I have this is kind of a precursor to what we'll be discussing probably the next couple of months from the policy perspective is in the area of artificial intelligence three years ago we had a presentation from high school p…
Well, while we're getting I don't really have a question. I guess about what is presented. I think we I'm not a technile. So a lot of the things when we talk about the particularly the infrastructure upgrades are things that I won't really understand…
Thank you. In 2017, this memorial award was established for Jean in memory of Gene Perl. At that time it was a monetary award to a graduating senior who was a member of the or was in the tradition the transitional alternative program TAC program whic…
Action (Consent), Minutes: 7.11 Minutes - February 12, 2026 (Regular Meeting)
Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the minutes of the February 12, 2026 Regular Meeting.
Motion by Allison Samuels, second by Omar Mayyasi.…
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Action: 4.3 Establishment of New Scholarship: Laura Martinez Legacy Scholarship
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the esta…
Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Anamika Bhatnagar.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague
Action: 5.2 Donation - David Edward Cohen Scholarship …
Thank you for the Department of Policy. policy policy committee met on February 6th. We took the opportunity to have a discussion on the premium discussion on a policy on artificial intelligence policy 8636. And as what has happened in that regard is…
Okay. So, policy 1050, annual district election and budget vote. Okay. policy that basically deals with the process on the day of the vote. the one thing that you'll note is added is that well one thing added is the additional day of voting if in cas…