Sarah Carrier

Okay. Yeah. Let's talk about that for a second again just for the benefit of our two new trustees because we haven't had a chance to go over all this in detail. We don't have write ups on all these. It's a that could be a new job for board developmen…

>> It is, yeah, I'm not going to be able to speak in the way that Neil did. Um, but it has been an absolute pleasure uh to serve on this board um to serve this community. I've learned so much from so many of you sitting at this table. Um my forward c…

Every new trustee has to participate in a certain number of hours of governance training to understand the function of a board and get a basic introduction to um the regulations and rules that determine how we um can conduct ourselves [snorts] and ho…

Um yeah, so just to follow up on the uh the alumni event, um like as as Neal said, uh thanks to the guidance department, and particularly uh Zo and Nadine for really spearheading um putting together that uh the event. It was It was a really incredibl…

>> Um I think so just to say it I like the community advisory committee idea. I think it's important that we have um various voices and viewpoints as part of that committee. Um and it it seems like that is the structure that probably, in my mind, lik…

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…

Okay, so advocacy, I'm sorry I don't have my notes in front of me. Didn't realize what I'm doing this tonight. So we met last week and we will be working as a committee on preparing a resolution for the NYSSBA annual meeting. So that hopefully we wil…

No further report on communications from our last meeting. Our next meeting will be June 1. Thank you.

of what Anamika said, was really a great event and it was so lovely to see so many different people from our community come out to support this initiative by Ms. Leslie, which again was an incredible undertaking on her part. And yeah, looking forward…

Thank you. So I think, you know, what we need to to do and what we need to continue to do and to do better is to evaluate a broad range of data. We need to look at quantitative data and qualitative data. We need to be hearing more student voice, and …

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 …

In terms of the role of a trustee in setting priorities and what I would find as my my greatest priorities. I think a lot of it goes back to the vision map as I spoke about earlier in the day. I think putting that vision map out there and working thr…

There we go. So communications met at the beginning of this week. Yeah. That was this week. So we met and we discussed some we discussed the hearing public preamble that we had been working on at the last meeting. Thank you to Allison for her suggest…

So at the last meeting, I think I had mentioned that LHEC had submitted a petition to the Public Service Commission. And for to do this informational proceeding to examine electric utility readiness to support the school bus fleet electrification. So…

Correct. Okay. 2035 for it would shift I'm sorry. '20 so '20 it would move from 2028 to 2032 Okay. For the no new purchases of it, and then the shift to full electrification would be about five years from that. About 2037. '37. Okay. I'm just startin…

you very much. So in terms of the the proliferation of of ed tech in our schools, You know, as I think as Anamika mentioned, something that that's been happening for many years and has we've seen increase. And and oftentimes, it was done in an in a g…

Thank you very much for the question. So a k through 12, how much of, in my view, how much of our students re learn reading should be analog versus digital is I I mean, personally, I am I am a book lover, so I would prefer our our students to be read…

you. In terms of what I think is is the most, important aspect of of my vision for tech in schools, I think it's being thoughtful. It's being it's really being deliberative in our choices. It's really looking at the things that we you know, what are …

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…

we would start with advocacy. Sure. Alright. Advocacy as we've been hearing and I'm sure we'll hear more as we discuss the budget that we we have had a fifth budget extender filed. They expect that the legislators will be back in session tomorrow to …

So the advocacy committee when we have our next meeting which we need to schedule, we will be looking to prepare a letter of support for that PSC petition filing for the board to consider at our next meeting. Unless you said that directly impacts our…

Communications. Alright. So communications at our last meeting, we were working on updating the preamble for hearing of public to clarify information. So I have shared that with the full board. If anyone has any feedback or information on that, pleas…

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 …

RESOLVED: That the Board of Education gratefully accepts a donation in the amount of $500.00 from the Croton Policy Association, Inc. as a contribution to the Officer Charles Riegel Scholarship at Croton-Harmon High School for 2026. Motion by Sarah …

Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Omar Mayyasi. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague Recognition: 1.3 Recognition of National Technical Honor So…

A1621.201-06-0000 O&M : Main of Equipments              39,764.25 A1620.466-06-0000 O&M : Projects A1621.477-06-0000 O&M : Electric           232,553.00 A1620.466-06-0000 O&M : Projects A1620.400-06-0000 Architect Service       …

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…

If you have additional feedback to give us, so most of what we discussed in our meeting, we did we did have our meeting finally this week after being rescheduled, I think twice for so we met on the 4th. and what you will see in later on in tonight's …

Yes, absolutely. so, the communications committee u met on March 2nd. we discussed some of the UPK coverage following the press conference. we also discussed some of the ongoing work that we're doing with regard to updating the website the the VOE se…

Thank you very much, Ellen, for for putting together such a a thorough presentation of the budget, but but also giving us that greater context of the the framework and the why behind behind some of these numbers. and I was really happy to see that yo…

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.…

Policy 9230 was reviewed by Keane & Beane, who agreed that hiring an internal candidate without external search was not outside of the policy. This could've been explained to the public. Ms. Teague gave many recent examples of appointments to show th…

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…

Thank you very much. thank you for indulging me for just a moment. I knew we were coming up to board reports. while the advocacy committee need to actually reschedule our meeting, we will be meeting again next week. I did as as advocacy chair have th…

So that was certainly something that I brought forward and reminded them of our recent resolution and we we also then were able to shift and discuss foundation aid funding and the the fact that our foundation aid formula has not been updated for an i…

No. but I think a short answer no. but I think you know what what I've heard from a lot of legislators is they understand that this is something this is certainly not the first time they've heard about issues with foundation aid. it's something that …

Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague Report: 4.6 Update: Stop Arm Camera Installation on District Buses Assistant Superintendent for Business Den…

All right. So, advocacy met my notebook and turn it back on. so, advocacy met last week, last Monday. and much of our meeting was on the discussion and revision and preparation of the resolution that you will see later on in the agenda in the new ite…

Yeah, thank you. so as part of as part of the advocacy committee's work and and the the board's work in hearing the advocacy of many of our community members, the the advocacy committee has presented has put together a resolution that we think strong…

I'm wondering if just because I think there's been a lot of information here we don't have necessarily everyone in our community who's invested in this issue listening [clears throat] in and even if you did listen to this meeting I'm not sure you'd t…