School Budget & Tax Levy

Report: 7.2 Board Reports Board Trustee Anamika Bhatnagar reported on the Advocacy committee: a letter was submitted on behalf of the Board of Education in support of the Village's grant application to improve pedestrian walkways. Board Trustee Omar …

Village Police Advisory Committee SELC Parent University Boys' Volleyball Team's Section 1 Sportsmanship Award Christine Drago's Appointment as Director of Health, Wellness, Physical Education and Athletics The new Self-Defense Phys Ed Elective a…

Action (Consent), Minutes: 5.10 Minutes - February 1, 2024 Motion by Omar Mayyasi, second by Neal Haber. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Ana Teague, Theo Oshiro, Anamika Bhatnagar 6. …

Reports Information, Report: 3.1 President's Report Board President Sarah Carrier reported on the following topics: Budget presentation updates Early Mail Ballot applications BOE Trustee elections Kindergarten registration Spring sports PVC p…

Student Trustee Ex Officio Amelia Sackman reported on the following topics: Band performed at Universal Studios Sophomores to visit Holocaust museum SFC update National Hispanic Club fair in April Interact Club raising money by duct taping princ…

Motion by Ana Teague, second by Joshua Diamond. On the question:  Board Trustee Joshua Diamond asked if the First Light agreement was a renewal or new contract.  Per Asst. Supt. for Business, Denise Harrington-Cohen, it is a renewal. Final Resoluti…

WHEREAS, Croton-Harmon Union Free School District (hereinafter, the "School District") asked the Board of Elections of Westchester County if the School District could use two (2) Optical Scan Voting Machines, one (1) Ballot Marking Device, and three …

Supt. Walker is working on two presentations: Vision Map and Collaboration/APPR. Board Trustee Ana Teague wanted to address concerns of the public that think the work may not be being done on the DEI policy just because it has taken so long. The urg…

Work Session Information: 2.1 2024-2025 Budget Reports: Building-Level and Pupil Personnel Budgets Superintendent Stephen Walker introduced the budget reports of the evening. CET Principal Kerri Bianchi and Assistant Principal Craig Campanaro pres…

Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Personnel Services Rachel DePaul presented the proposed PPS budget for 2024-25. Highlights included specialized programs, embedded therapeutic services and the new community family liaison, multi-tiered system of su…

CHHS Principal Dr. Laura Dubak, Assistant Principal Mark Maxam, and Dean of Students Erica Fiorini presented the high school's proposed budget for 2024-25. Highlights included interdisciplinary courses, passion-based classes, concentrations, schedule…

1.            The annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2024-2025, and to authorize the amount thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District. 2.            The Croton Free Library tax levy in the amount …

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that applications for absentee or early mail ballots must be received by the District Clerk no earlier than thirty (30) days before the Annual Election. Applications for absentee or early mail ballots may be obtaine…

Reports Report: 2.1 President's Report Board President Sarah Carrier reported on the following topics: Repair Reserve on tonight's agenda April 16 (Tuesday) BOCES budget vote and work session with new teachers April 17 Parent University on picky…

Report: 2.3 Superintendent's Report Superintendent Stephen Walker spoke on the following topics: Passion Pursuit Pageant at PVC Color Wars at CHHS Cultural Dinner at CHHS PVC Production of Newsies Jr. Visit by Board of Regents member Fran Wills…

Superintendent Stephen Walker and Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen presented a summary of the 2024-2025 budget. Topics included: Budget development timeline Budget priorities Vision Map goals Making systemic change …

CHHS Building Planning Council met today and discussed the academic honesty policy. Board Vice President Neal Haber attended the PVC passion project pageant, as did Board President Sarah Carrier where it was rewarding to see students' transformation …

Business Meeting & Budget Public Hearing (Thursday, May 9, 2024) Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Friday, May 10, 2024 Members present Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Ana Teague, Theo Oshiro, Anamika Bhatnagar Meeting called to order at 7:33 PM 1. Op…

Library Budget Discussion: 2.1 Croton Free Library Budget Presentation Jesse Bourdon, Director of the Croton Free Library, presented the library's proposed budget of $962,222. 3. Public Budget Hearing Action, Discussion: 3.1 Open Public Budget He…

Work Session (Thursday, June 6, 2024) Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Friday, June 7, 2024 Members present Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Ana Teague, Anamika Bhatnagar Meeting called to order at 7:37 PM 1. Opening of Me…

Baseball team won Section 1 championship Friday Night Stripes at PVC CET incoming Kindergarten family orientation CET Field Day District Wide Chess Tournament CHHS Seal of Biliteracy Spencer Field Groundbreaking 3. New Business Action: 3.1 Re…

New Business Action: 4.1 Tax Warrant - Croton-Harmon Union Free School District 2024-2025 RESOLVED: That the Board of Education approves the 2024-2025 Tax Warrant for the Croton-Harmon Union Free School District as presented. WHEREAS, the voters o…

WHEREAS, the Board of Education authorizes applying $2,917,126 from the Undesignated Fund Balance, $400,000 from the Employees' Retirement Reserve, $200,000 from the Teachers' Retirement Reserve, and $200,000 from the Workers' Compensation Reserve to…

so tonight is the first in our series of budget presentations for 25 just wait a moment right getting steps into my this will be a good time for gon begin with the budget development timeline oops see I don't seem toing might be slightly delet longit…

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so we're going to begin with looking at our Revenue we generally look at revenues first because we don't have a lot of opportunities to create Revenue it's kind of like we have what we have so we begin by looking at state aid a big portion of state a…

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Debt Service increase so debt services increasing by close to a million dollars this year though that will be offset by some state aid it is still an increased cost to our budget technology upgrades to infrastructure new spaces with been our new buil…

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so this year we have one pilot from the previous year's development which is about 44,000 that P was implemented to last year the housing developments themselves next year the only it will not increase the revenue that the district receives the distr…

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no I understand that but it is a 1% increase in the tax levy each year plus or minus whatever however it changes but that is still a growth versus the prior Year yes right so if the allowable growth Levy factor is 2% C at 2% which is what we expected…

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well just just in terms of like us and our tax levy like sometimes they will exceed their tax levy and we do not do that no we do not nor have we ever right so we always say we are more obligated than them to stay within the L I think they have a lot…

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sorry there was a a point that was made at some point with regard to potential funds that would be available the 192,000 in taxes that would be available property of LA and the argument was made that we we as a district could potentially reach some o…

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I will say that historically probably 10 or when when the tax levy C W station was first connected and we were going through this analysis with one of your predecessors we as a board did talk about whether it might be necessary at some point to ask t…

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clarification I think just just to point out that historically we have not done this and also to point out I think just for anyone who's listening to this it does require a significant majority percentage in the community to improve it I will also ad…

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Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen gave a 2025-26 budget development update including: Budget Timeline Revenue Assumptions Expenditure Assumptions Next Steps Budget Presentation Schedule Board Trustee Neal Haber a…

Board Joshua Diamond asked if the tax-based growth factor account for increases in the supply of housing and its value?  Ms. Cohen responded that that is a portion of it, but that number rarely moves. Mr. Diamond as if there would be an increase in …

good evening so tonight we are going to discuss our preliminary Revenue budget thank you you sure I can't use it okay A little safety so tonight put our agenda for this evening first we're going to review the governor's executive proposal and state a…

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this is an expectation that just a slightly lower amount of services and that number changes that number is generally off a little bit I mean based on what happens you the course right okay try to keep everyone awake for this portion of the presentat…

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so just want to add one other thing about the difference is school districts are the only municipality or public entity in the state that requires the vote of of the public all municipalities and other public entities are subject to the 60% for overr…

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thank you so here we have the the tax cap formula We Begin always with the prior year l so this number is critical because as I as I mentioned over the years some districts have including hours periods of time have have lowered the tax cap to for exa…

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so then we take prior year Capital Levy exclusions multiplied by the allowable growth factor so the allowable grow factor is the lesser of 2% or inflation so if inflation is 3% we are held to the 2% allowable tax levy if the if inflation is 1% we are…

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no intention as of now to recommend a budget with a tax levy my tax levy percentage increase greater than 2.6% but I think we should all as board members and members of the public just kind of be aware of what potential consequences could be as you'v…

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so this is just a couple of years in review of our inflation factors and allowable growth Levy so as you see 2021 our inflation was 1.23% that became our allowable growth factor so we are constrained when it's low and we're constrained with it's High…

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also think that we need to start having conversations with the village about representing this accurately to voters and to the public and in terms of how this potentially could impact the district because they're kind of like break the tax levy it's …

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yeah just have a couple of things oh are you done oh my my stage voice okay so I attended attended I watched online last week the nisb capital conference and I will note that the recording was sent out by Danielle raso today so I would really encoura…

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Report: 2.4 2025-2026 Budget Presentation (Revenues) Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen gave an update on the budget development focusing on Revenues: Governor’s Executive Budget & State Aid Proposal State Aid Comparison…

Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Theo Oshiro. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Ana Teague 8. Closing of the Meeting Report: 8.1 Hearing of the Public …

thank you Denise thank you for being here everyone anyone who's watching at home as we begin or kind of in some ways begin the public facing portion of the budget discussion for the 25 26 school year I wanted to start by saying about the budget what …

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General support covers administrative costs for the district including contractual salaries supplies and Association duties for administrative offices contractual applications for operations and Reporting requirements of the district insurance covera…

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actually before we go just because I know this I see the format we have here the adopted budget and the the proposed budget for next year I know that during the year we have made certain budget transfers maybe not in this area but as we go on I think…

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okay 8:45 time for me to wake everyone up Transportation we sa the best thank you for having me always excited to talk about how great my department is big thank you to Denise Kelly and Barry doing our our budget presentation helping me out with that…

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so and it also it also has a scheduling components so right now we use tandem which I don't know if I've heard of any one who's very fond of that but Master library has has that component and Denise has built that into her budget so we are probably g…

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so here we have Capital project update so just sort of a couple key things per space there's a lot more that I can talk about if you want me to but Denise wanted me to keep it short Buck garage we completed the parking lot expansion and Paving this s…

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I need to commend Brad for his proactive leadership he is so committed to the project to this District so skilled and experienced he is just a pleasure to work with and what an asset he is with District thank you so some of our upcoming bring budget …

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Work Session (Thursday, February 27, 2025) Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Friday, February 28, 2025 Members present Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Ana Teague Meeting called to order at 7:34 PM 1. Ope…

Denise Harrington-Cohen, Assistant Superintendent for Business, introduced the 2025-2026 Budget presentation Superintendent Stephen Walker presented the budget as it relates to the Vision Map. Kelly Lent, Assistant Business Manager, presented the 2…

thank you Anna like you I can be brief because I have two administrative colleagues so I know are chomping at the bit to share their budget presentation through me this evening but I did want to start by congratulating on behalf of the entire School …

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yeah it well welcome everyone to our inaugural budget presentation for technology and Aesthetics for the 2526 school year okay so today we're going to review our Department's guiding principles key Investments budget breakdown future plans at that su…

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and we are going to move this in April till Fridays from 4 to 6 so it will be during the week starting in the spring so that we can hopefully get just one both Fridays and Saturday just just one yeah yeah just one there's pictures here as well unifie…

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Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Anamika Bhatnagar. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Ana Teague Action (Consent): 7.3 Election Registrar Recommendations Resolution: R…

WHEREAS, Croton-Harmon Union Free School District (hereinafter, the "School District") asked the Board of Elections of Westchester County if the School District could use two (2) Electronic Voting Machines (Plan A), one (1) handicap accessible (Plan …

contagious right so our next slide is again the breakdown of the C proposed budget it unless someone has specific questions about that I'll let you kind of absorb us there but I have some notes here if you have specific questions in regard to any of …

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before Kerri jumps in if I could just share so these budgets are done based on function codes so unlike Rachel's which is one function she's 2250 so it's broken down a little bit differently it's BR went down by salary supposes Etc the building level…

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so before we jump into looking ahead at our proposed budget we want to just take a minute to highlight some of the past budget items that have kind of come to fruition this year so at PDC we are super excited to be finalizing our instructional coache…

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if you just go back there what I'm really happy to speak about tonight almost in a celebratory manner is that three years ago we came before this board when the vision map was still in the fledgling stages and we said what we wanted to do in that Vis…

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and looking forward we have this slide which seem to create so much questions I'm just going to keep going but as you'll see with this slide Neal put your hand down very similar to CS with the same thing and and I think what it really illustrates the…

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you didn't like to post a stamp analogy comment because I didn't know where you were going with know I just want to say as somebody who grew up on 80s t right there was time when I watch The A Team a lot feels like it's an appropriate thing to say to…

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1.            The annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2025-2026, and to authorize the amount thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District. 2.            The Croton Free Library tax levy in the amount …

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that applications for absentee or early mail ballots must be received by the District Clerk no earlier than thirty (30) days before the Annual Election. Applications for absentee or early mail ballots may be obtaine…

Thank you. just to continue with my president's report. That was amazing to have to highlight kind of student involvement. It's just so rewarding. we are still accepting applic application universal prek program forms are available through April 28th…

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Thank you, Ana Teague. And good evening again, Tigers. knowing that we have a budget presentation to follow this. I'll be relatively brief, but I did want to highlight and call out some of the exceptional achievements and activities in our district o…

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item 2.5, the superintendent 2025 2026 budget presentation for adoption.

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So wanted to begin just by there we are highlighting the what we call the budget roadmap. this is this is information that the board and the public have seen previously but I wanted to mention it primarily to say that the budget is truly a yearround …

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Thanks. Okay. So, I just wanted to share this to kind of show you what brought us to this place today. As Superintendent Walker shared, this is a year-long endeavor with the hope of finding clarity also transparency for our community, opportunity for…

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And incidentally that that miscalculation of the pilot actually benefited our taxpayers. So it it it was overp projected and that benefited our taxpayers. So it didn't have a negative impact. So this is our wacky tax rate history projection. So as we…

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then the second component of that proposition is for two 20 to 30 passenger buses and two hybrid vehicles. We're finding that we're needing more of the smaller vehicles now based on our out of district placements and some of our shorter runs bringing…

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Right. So we have done multiple applications. So we've applied for probably about four separate grants there. Some of them are still through NAERTA but a separate grant. this one, Kelly Lent in our office, Kelly Lent Lent did most of the leg work on …

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So, yes, thank you. Okay. So, we're next budget presentation will be on Oh, so April 22nd, we will have the adoption of the property tax report card and also the Bosey's administrative budget vote. followed by May 8th, our public budget hearing. And …

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All right. so communications met on Monday this week and we spoke a little bit about budget communications and just again a thank you to Denise Harrington-Cohen and Jackie Burton and everyone in's office for all of the hard work and Greg Cavalieri Ca…

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It was the 20th because of the budget vote in the

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8th grader Avery Gosnell was introduced to speak about her GS silver project to prevent sports involvement drop-off.  She developed a Sports Showcase to introduce students to sports offerings, to be held May 28 at CHHS 6-7:30 pm UPK still accepting …

CHHS ELL students visit 2nd graders CHHS Drama: The Laramie Project 2nd Grade: Build A Business PVC's 5th Grades visits CET's 4th Grade Report: 2.4 Student Ex-officio Report Student Trustee Ex-officio Isabelle McLaughlin reported on the followin…

Ongoing Business Action: 5.1 2025-2026 Property Tax Report Card RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the 2025-2026 Property Tax Report Card as presented. Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Neal Haber. On the question:  Assistant …

Item 2.1 the three library budget presentation. So tonight, Jesse will be presenting the, three library budget. An exciting night. It's a, it's our public budget hearing. So we'll have a presentation for the pro three library and then another present…

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Then I'll, thank you everyone. I'll keep it a little short. Good evening. Across the country, libraries are facing increased scrutiny and pressure, more than we've seen in years. We're witnessing a troubling rise in attempts to censor information, ch…

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It's we we have it's hard to say. We are not we're reducing kind of what we put in the operating fund for it. So saying kind we were doing we were funding it through our fundraising reserves for certain programs and now we're just saying these reserv…

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[Music] Hello, Tiger community. As we approach our upcoming school district budget vote on May 20th, I'm hopeful that many of you have been able to view our public discussions with the board of education, administration, and staff regarding our propo…

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question. All in favor? I I opposed abstain. Motion carries. Moving into reports. Item 4.1, president's report. I will keep this very brief. obviously our upcoming budget vote and trustee election is on May 20th. Pulls will be open from 6:00 a.m. to …

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Discussion: 2.1 Croton Free Library Budget Presentation Jesse Bourdon, Director of the Croton Free Library, presented the library's proposed budget. 3. Public Budget Hearing Action, Discussion: 3.1 Open Public Budget Hearing The public budget hea…

RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby closes the public hearing. Motion by Neal Haber, second by Sarah Carrier. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, A…

Work Session (Thursday, June 5, 2025) Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Friday, June 6, 2025 Members present Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Ana Teague Members absent Neal Haber Meeting called to order…

New Business Action: 2.1 Results of Budget Vote & School Board Election - May 20, 2025 RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby accepts the results of the May 20, 2025 school budget vote and school board election as presented. Proposition 1: …

Gwen Glaser spoke in support of Superintendent Walker and how she is impressed with budget presentation and day to day activities.  She has met with him twice and he has listened to her.  She feels Superintendent Walker has earned our trust, he's up …

Superintendent Stephen Walker addressed the group by stating that he appreciates their collaborative efforts and we all believe in the importance of the quality of pre-Kindergarten. The district was an early adopter of UPK which was detrimental to ou…

Call the question. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. Moving into item 2.1, which is the president's report. I'm going to keep this brief as we have a packed agenda and gala gala I don't know how to say it. so, good evening everyone…

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I also understand that this board would have the ability to raise a tax levy on the town, which by my math, which please correct me if I'm wrong, would amount to somewhere between 80 and 120 dollars of additional tax per year per household to fund th…

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I'm also a little embarrassed to admit that I don't know the intricacies of how this board functions. I've only just recently become aware of the severity of this issue. if if what is needed is a half a percent increase tax levy, the town of Croton r…

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Hi everyone. My name is Jodi Epstein, and I live at 1 Sunset Drive in Croton. Thank you, Superintendent Walker and board trustees, for again addressing UPK in Croton. I have a 4 and 1/2-year-old and a 19-month-old. I chose not to put my son in UPK no…

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It's always I know. [laughter] I actually looked back we did get our preliminary state aid runs they around the 20th of January last year which is helpful. So, and then moving into February yes. Moving into February we'll we'll get our teachers retir…

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So, these are of course preliminary projections. there's lot going on at the state and federal level which is going to potentially impact grant funding and Medicaid reimbursement. Right now I feel that we are pretty comfortable with our we've submitt…

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The tax base growth factor, which was reviewed this morning, so we have rates from December, and that rate remains the same, which is 1.004%. So, that's what we're using in our allowable tax levy projections. That number can change as late as March o…

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In the state and now we're going to take a look and see the effectiveness of what we've done so far and make some decisions about how we want to proceed at this point. and then again assessing our current year budget performance and preparing our fun…

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Okay. No, that I think that's just good to know. So it's like it's so we can be thoughtful about it. It's not like there's an imperative to to make a decision and it doesn't necessarily tie in with this budget vote either specifically.

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We will be discussing it at the next policy meeting and we'll be discussing SFC next week on the 15th and so I'll be there to see if anybody else has any other comments that come along with what we've already received. So, we have five policies for f…

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Dan McNamee stated that UPK was a big part of why his family chose to live in Croton, it's a good investment for the town, important for families. Jodi Epstein spoke to support continued UPK, she and others would advocate raising tax cap if needed. …

Policy: Committee Chair Neal Haber reported that they met on 12/16 and approved polices for first reading today, and changed some that had first readings, to second readings.  The next meeting is 1/20, 1 pm. Liaison Reports: None Report: 2.6 Assis…

Good evening. my name is Lianne Rice. I live on High Street. I really appreciate the efforts to advocate for UPK that the board and the district have made. The efforts to keep us informed and to manage the program. It's a lot of work. I want to raise…

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I believe item 2.6 6 the 2026 2027 budget budget presentation on revenues and I will turn it over to assistance superintendent

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good evening. So tonight we'll be presenting the preliminary revenue budget. I say preliminary because there are a lot of factors in here that are still unknown at this point. We'll cover in this presentation an overview of the executive budget, stat…

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so in addition to that godly tax cap provisions the property tax cap which I'll talk a little bit more about later is another constraint for districts like like Croin because we receive so little state aid that our entire budget needs to be funded th…

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We'll have our board event budget adoptions and property tax report card submission followed by the board event public budget hearing on May 7th which is a requirement by law followed by our budget annual vote on May 19th at the high school. So state…

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But we we probably I don't know if I'm going to get that number before the end of next week. Thank you. Okay. So, property tax. Just some facts, fun facts about the property tax cap. it was originally designed to restrain excessive t tax growth in th…

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So the tax based growth factor which I'll talk a little bit about more later measures quantity change growth and development within the community if there are enhancements to properties if there are new developments etc. The problem is is that there'…

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then we have available carryover funds which are none bringing us to the total levy before exclusions. So then we get to the after exclusions calculation. So we also there's an addition that we could add for pension expenses if they exceed 2% more wh…

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If if I'm not mistaken, last year our tax levy increase was like 2.69. Even though even though we%

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Yes. So that right the 33 that's when that was pretty yeah the 30 something building there. So so it just a culmination of a lot of factors and they don't align because the assessments are one year the tax base growth factor goes back two years. but …

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Just want to thank you for outlining these processes. Thank So I just wanted to add something which really is as much for the public and for those they're not here those who here before but hopefully they'll realize that if what we're saying is that …

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And we'll talk more about reserves in in later budget presentations, but they are we have been very responsible in in reserving and allocating things to needed and necessary expenses and and it will it will be a great resource to us in the future.

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And also the principles meet too. Aside from that and and all of the building principles also meet independently with with Rachel with Ellen to kind of make sure that all the intricacies and the requests are also aligned. So there we have a lot of bu…

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so voting day Tuesday May 19th from 6 a.m. to 900 p.m. in the Croin Auxil Croin High School auxiliary gym. On the ballot we'll have the budget vote trustee elections and the library vote and propositions followed by the also that day is the tenure ce…

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Wait, I'm not done yet because I do have another question about the calendar which I did the board of education meetings. Yeah, our calendar. Okay. which is on the Boseis board. The Boseis board decided that because of where Passover falls, okay, the…

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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…

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Liaison Reports: Board Trustee Neal Haber reported that he attended Student Faculty Congress where they discussed additional thoughts re: Policy 2125 re: the student ex-officio.  They engaged in a robust discussion re: changes to be made to CHHS sche…

Policy 1050 -- Annual District Election and Budget Vote (Re: process on the day of the vote -- in case of inclement event and not enough voters show up, there is now a new date that can be added for the election/budget vote) Policy 1230 -- Public Co…

Item 1.3 board report which is a discussion. I'm actually just going to start with a president's report. So prior to the start of this meeting, trustee Oshiro and I held the first of two information sessions for prospective board of education trustee…

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So we will now move into our budget presentation from our transportation director and our director of facilities Joseph Bernardi and Brad Kennedy.

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I I have a couple. The first is I just want to point out with so everybody knows that the the Boseies amount that you that you talked about is just the contribution by our district to the administrative budget. Just to make clear in capital when we w…

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So this includes both our bond anticipation notes and bans as well. So we can ban for another two years on our current capital project. If you recall in our previous project, we went to bond early because the rates were so favorable. I don't expect t…

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Well, let me begin by saying thank you, Denise, and thank you to all of you for the recognition. I know that our transportation staff would be very appreciative of that. Very appreciative. so let me begin by talking about the transportation proposed …

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Thank you. Yeah. And we didn't get into it too much in this budget presentation, but the degree of training and professional development that you provide them, I think, makes makes a huge difference. Hey Joe, just look at that picture and see some ob…

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I was actually going to say I think this for me this is one of my favorite budget presentations every year.

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I mean, I'll just add that this is fundamentally about asset management, right? Like these buildings and these vehicles, they're assets to this community. the teams that you work with and the guidance that they have benefited from by having both of y…

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so this is your road map for our next presentation. So March 12th, get ready for vision app technology and athletics. followed by the school district bud the school building budgets curriculum and PPS and our superintendent's budget will be on April …

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Athletic Director Christine Drago will be monitoring this and they also discussed ways to keep athletes safe, healthy, and active. 2. Work Session Presentation: 2.1 2026-2027 Budget Presentation Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harring…

BOCES Admin & Capital Employee Benefits Debt Service Interfund Transfer - Special Aid Fund Interfund Transfer - School Lunch Fund Transportation Supervisor Joseph Bernardi presented the 2026-2027 Transportation Budget including: Overview: Trans…

Hi. Ben Faber. we live on street. a couple things. the I note that the the athletics department budget presentation is up for tonight. so I do have a comment and request about the athletic department. we get so the the district adopted parent square …

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Thank you again, Anamika. Good evening again, everybody. three topics from me this evening. let's start with technology. as the community is hopefully aware, we've been engaged in systemwide thinking about the role of technology in our schools for ov…

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So I just want to put that out there that I think that's a point of contention in this topic in the spirit of trying to be constructive about this so that I yeah I think sometimes you just have to service where there's some disagreement about things …

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our student trustee is unable to be here this evening. So, I'm going to segue us over to board reports and ask for us to keep them a little bit shorter than usual. we can maybe come back to it a little bit later because we do have our very important …

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so thank you so much for taking the time to let me share some of the remarkable work that we have done this past year and to frame the continued improvements and upgrades planned for the 2627 school year. To ground our future plans, we must first rec…

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still doing the dry air in here. I don't think has I think he has not intended any question much. I believe that he is good. So I think we can say with the group, thank you so much for such a nice presentation in the highlighting just before and and …

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Yeah. Wonderful. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. We move to item 6.3, next board of education meeting. So, our next meeting is scheduled for March 26th, 2026. It is a work session where we will be covering school budgets as they relate to curric…

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Technology 2026-2027 Proposed Budget Long Term Upgrades Christine Drago, Director of Health, Wellness, Physical Education & Athletics reported on the 2026-2027 Athletics budget, including: Continuing to Build A Stronger Future: Athletics, Physical…

Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby appoints the following Election Registrars at a rate of $20.00 per hour, Translators at a rate of $21.00 per hour, and Election Co-Chairs at a rate of $22.00 per hour for the Annual Budget Vote…

Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the minutes of the February 26, 2026 work session as presented. Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Allison Samuels. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Ca…

>> Thank you, Mona. Good evening again to everyone and thank you for everyone who is watching from home. I'll be brief because we have five uh phenomenal building leaders and our wonderful assistant superintendent PBS who are going to uh speak in som…

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We have added a new co-curricular morning program in addition to our drama program that the fourth grade did for the first time this year with their success with Spongebob. So that's you know the nuts and bolts kind of thing. Um this pie chart just i…

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>> I love this next slide. Um, this was put together earlier in the year when we were talking about a focus on student achievement, but I keep going back to this because in the center of everything we do is our students and their achievement is so im…

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and it has certainly been a year of um trans transition um and continued growth at at PDC. Um but our goals have remained consistent, which is exciting. So, we want um to continue to emphasize our our goal of every student feeling a sense of belongin…

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So, um I have a question about project lead the way. Um and it's the slide 33 um that kind of lays out um how you how you plan to roll out the various courses. Um so it you know like the first year you're focusing on principles of engineering and the…

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>> So, this is a summary of our budget presentation schedule. So, our next meeting will be on April 21st. That is a Tuesday. Um, and we will be voting uh to adopt the superintendent's budget along with the property tax report card and uh the BOS's ad…

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Superintendent Stephen Walker introduced the budget presentation for buildings and PPS. Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School budget was presented by Principal Kerri Bianchi and Assistant Principal Craig Campanaro and included: CET- Highlights of ou…

The PVC Middle School Experience … the Vision Map in Action Evolution at PVC Croton-Harmon HS budget was presented by Principal Dr. Laura Dubak and Assistant Principal Erica Fiorini and included: Croton-Harmon High School 2026-2027 Proposed Budget…

Success in Schools: Postsecondary Pathways College Acceptances for Class of 2025 Pupil Personnel Services budget was presented by Assistant Superintendent for PPS, Rachel DePaul and included: Pupil Personnel Services 2026-2027 Proposed Budget Cul…

WHEREAS, Croton-Harmon Union Free School District (hereinafter, the "School District") asked the Board of Elections of Westchester County if the School District could use two (2) Electronic Voting Machines (Plan A), one (1) handicap accessible (Plan …

Shifting gears again to the topic of technology in our schools. Again, one of the ongoing conversations that have been a part of the system for a good deal of time now. So, you know, the board had the opportunity to spend some time with doctor Moskow…

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So as negotiations continue in Albany, we are now on our fifth budget extender with another one probably to follow tomorrow. Some of the items on the table are looking to pause the bus electrification incentive mandate. Also some insurance, some non …

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Then we had transportation which is up 2.16% and then employee benefits, debt service and fringe benefits. So that accounts for about 29 or 30% of our budget. This is another look. So this is the same budget but with a different look. This looks at i…

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Well I think that sounds great. This is something that came up during, as I think Superintendent Walker mentioned, it came up during our technology budget presentation and I think looking at it like the lens of the budget was sort of like one way of …

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Liaison Reports:  Board Trustee Neal Haber did not get to attend the latest Student Faculty Congress but will attend the next one.  Board Trustee Sarah Carrier noted that WPSBA is sending out budget related materials and the last EdLaw lunch of the y…

Enhancements to Support Our Vision New Video to be launched 4/22 Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen reported on the following: 2026-27 Budget Presentation Schedule summary Budget Drivers NYS Budget (delayed) Anticipat…

Next committee is May 11. Liaison Reports:  Board Trustee Neal Haber did not get to attend the latest Student Faculty Congress but will attend the next one.  Board Trustee Sarah Carrier noted that WPSBA is sending out budget related materials and th…

Enhancements to Support Our Vision New Video to be launched 4/22 Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen reported on the following: 2026-27 Budget Presentation Schedule summary Budget Drivers NYS Budget (delayed) Anticipat…

Thank you very much. I'm just trying to so far, I might just talk over this thing about messing around with the microphone at all. So alright. We're good. We're good. Good evening, everyone. I want to thank the district and the school board for the o…

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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…

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This shows you the gradual increase we've had while remaining under the tax cap and what this one time increase will look like going forward, where their red arrow is pointing up there. This new level becomes our permanent baseline. This does not mea…

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Building debt service directly into our operating budget is a fiscally responsible move. It creates a sustainable cycle where down the road, refinancing can provide the free cash flow needed for future maintenance without requiring another major tax …

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By slightly expanding into the central garden area, we're able to create this protected environment for our youngest learners without encroaching on the rest of the library's footprint. These renders highlight new reading nooks and quiet study areas,…

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And you know as presented in the budget presentation we're able to cut 33% of our ed tech tools this year in our software line. So now that we have the tech tools that are ready, we have to seek out the research and information regarding what is best…

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Consider it the cognitive diff difference between passively scrolling for hours on TikTok and active tasks like writing a novel, video calling grandma, running physics simulations, or coding a game. They fundamentally different cognitive experiences.…

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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…

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It will be our our ten year celebration. It is also the day of our school district budget vote and trustee election and our district wide

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Liaison Reports: Board President Ana Teague noted that the Booster club is holding their annual golf tournament on 6/8. Board Vice-President Anamika Bhatnagar reported that PVC Friday Night Stripes is tomorrow night, 4th graders are invited to this a…

Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby appoints Jonathan Hiller as an Election Registrar at a rate of $20.00 per hour for the Annual Budget Vote and School Board Election held on May 19, 2026. Motion by Anamika Bhatnagar, second by…

>> 2.1 The results of the budget vote and school board election. Recommended action, the result of the board of education hereby accepts the results of the May 19th, 2026 school budget vote and the school board election as presented.

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Board Vice President Anamika Bhatnagar described the alumni event -- there were several panels, juniors could attend, a wide range of alumni, those with different paths were involved. Juniors felt relief after attending and suggested that sophomores …

And one of the things I did like about your presentation is how you talked about the progression and how, you know, we're looking at how students are progressing over a period of time through the curriculum and how different things are experiencing u…

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Board Vice President Anamika Bhatnagar asked for some clarification of the meaning behind the numbers. What's the story behind the aberrations? Board Trustee Allison Samuels responded that she would like to see breakdown of 3s vs 4s. Would be helpfu…

No. Like, that underwriting process and Sure. I don't think it's Yeah. Significantly longer. Yeah. In one of my former districts, we had to do rands annually, and it becomes, a very bad fiscal problem. Because once Yeah. Once you're in that cycle, yo…

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Great. Just wanna clarify, think that when we do it in alignment with the budget presentations, we should have it for all three schools. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Agree.

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RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the instructional personnel leave of absence of Katherine Ellingson Motion by Omar Mayyasi, second by Allison Samuels. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Omar Mayyasi, The…

WHEREAS, the Board of Education has estimated its 2026-2027 State Aid receivable in the amount of $10,556,717: and WHEREAS, the Board of Education has estimated its 2026-2027 non-tax revenue in the amount of $12,428,260 (which includes $10,556,717 S…

Yeah. Thank you. So just to elaborate a little bit on this, Allison, Samuels and I, trustee Samuels, attended the West Putt advocacy meeting Monday night over Zoom. There were about 30 representatives from school districts throughout West Chester Put…

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That's where we fell regarding all those West Pet recommendations, and we fell out of line with, what some of what NISPA was doing. But I just just wanna highlight for members of the public that there are some real advocacy issues, that, NISPA is con…

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