The Meeting Record
Apr 21, 2026 · Croton-Harmon Board Adopts $62.8 Million Budget, Rejects BOCES...
Packet documents (21)
Every attachment from the meeting packet, grouped by agenda item. Summaries are AI-generated from the document text — the original PDF is always the authoritative version.
Action (Consent) - Budget Transfer - Facilities - Flooring
Action (Consent) - Budget Transfer - Facilities - PA Installation at PVC
Action (Consent) - Health and Welfare Services Contracts for 2025-2026
Action - 2026-2027 PNW BOCES Administrative Budget
A notice from PNW BOCES Clerk of the Board Veronica Shea announcing the BOCES Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 6 p.m. at 200 BOCES Drive, Yorktown Heights, with the agenda, meeting notice and 2025 minutes attached. The notice summarizes the tentative 2026-2027 budgets: a $12,679,000 administrative budget, including $8,714,644 in retiree benefits, a $1,560,000 capital budget and a $128,391,000 program budget, for a grand total of $142,630,000. The BOCES board roster includes Neal Haber of Croton-Harmon, with Richard Kreps of Carmel as president.
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A PNW BOCES budget pamphlet showing Croton-Harmon UFSD's budgeted BOCES service expenses for 2026-2027, totaling $847,547. Line items include Administration at $344,675, listed as a 4.66 percent increase, Capital at $52,850, Career and Technical Education at $372,605 based on a three-year average of 27 sessions, plus smaller services such as the Curriculum Center, Employee Assistance Program, Regional Safety and Insurance Management. Portions of the per-session cost figures are not legible in the extracted text.
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The PNW BOCES proposed budget book for 2026-2027, presenting a $142,630,000 total budget: $12,679,000 for administration, $1,560,000 for capital and $128,391,000 for programs, with special education the largest program area at $43,430,000. District Superintendent Neil Boyle's cover letter cites a proposed administrative budget increase of 4.47 percent, a 2.90 percent district share, driven by retiree benefits that represent about 69 percent of administrative costs. The book explains that administrative and capital costs are shared by component districts based half on resident weighted average daily attendance and half on four-year average true property value, with the annual meeting April 7, 2026 and budget vote April 21, 2026.
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Action - 2026-2027 Property Tax Report Card
Croton-Harmon UFSD's 2026-27 Property Tax Report Card, prepared by Denise Harrington-Cohen and dated as official April 16, 2026. It shows a proposed budget of $62,762,808, up 2.90 percent from the 2025-26 budgeted $60,996,050, and a proposed tax levy of $46,417,623, a 2.19 percent increase that exactly matches the district's tax levy limit, requiring simple majority approval. Public school enrollment is projected to fall 1.24 percent, from 1,538 to 1,519, and the form lists district reserve funds including capital, repair, tax certiorari, ERS and TRS reserves.
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Action - Award Gas Supply Services Contract
An April 16, 2026 natural gas supply review for Croton-Harmon UFSD for a contract starting November 2026, based on total annual consumption of 184,710 therms on Con Edison. Four bids for a six-month firm all-in fixed price are listed, with NRG Business Marketing LLC (Direct Energy) lowest at $0.5420 per therm under dual billing, against $0.7850 from UGI Energy, $0.7057 from Great American Power & Gas and $0.7110 from Northeastern Power. The recommended terms project savings of $12,960 year over year at the contract rate average and $30,365 versus the Con Edison winter average; the current contract price is listed at $0.5199.
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Action - Donation - Agnes Zaharias - Christos Zaharias Memorial Scholarship
Action - Memorandum of Agreement - CSEA Custodial Unit
Action - PNW BOCES Board Member Election
A March 23, 2026 announcement from PNW BOCES Clerk of the Board Veronica Shea that one candidate, Richard Kreps of Carmel, has been nominated to fill one vacancy on the BOCES board for a three-year term running July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029, with the election to take place in each component district on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. The attached resume states Kreps has served on the BOCES board since 2002 and as its president since July 2012, previously served on the Carmel Board of Education, and is a retired New York City Police Department detective who worked in the Crime Scene Unit.
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Action - Side Letter of Agreement - Croton Harmon Administrators Association (CHAA)
Action - Side Letter of Agreement - Croton Teachers Association (CTA)
Report - Superintendents 2026-27 Budget Presentation for Adoption
The Superintendent's proposed 2026-2027 budget presentation of April 21, 2026 outlines a $62,762,808 budget with a proposed tax levy of $46,417,623, a 2.19 percent levy increase described as within the allowable tax levy. The May 19, 2026 ballot at Croton-Harmon High School, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., includes the budget, a $380,000 vehicle proposition for a 66-passenger diesel bus, a 20-30 passenger bus and a hybrid SUV, a $300,000 repair reserve proposition covering PVC and CHHS elevator repairs and a PVC steam boiler, three trustee seats, and a shared-ballot Croton Library levy of $1,526,158. Highlighted enhancements include new CHHS courses such as AP Business with Personal Finance, AP Psychology, PLTW Principles of Engineering, Theater and Modern Journalism, with a public budget hearing set for May 7.
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Report - Superintendents Report
The Superintendent's Report slides for the April 21, 2026 Board of Education meeting highlight Points of Tiger Pride including the PVC musical Legally Blonde Jr., the CHHS musical The Fantasticks, Take Back the Night, technology in the schools, and Universal Pre-Kindergarten, noting that as of April 1 the New York State budget had not been finalized though both legislative houses expressed support for Governor Hochul's proposed increase in UPK funding. The report also lays out the PVC principal search timeline, running from position advertisement in early February through a finalist interview with the Board of Education in April.
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