🎓 Board of Education
School Board Hires Four Teachers, Shifts $200,000 to Reduce Lunch Fund Deficit at June 29 Special Meeting
Jun 29, 2026
At a June 29 special meeting, the Croton-Harmon Board of Education appointed four teachers and two leave replacements, authorized a Repair Reserve expenditure to fix a middle school boiler, expanded a middle school air conditioning contract to $805,800, moved $200,000 into the deficit-running School Lunch Fund, and authorized up to $2.7 million in reserve replenishments.
Key Actions & Decisions
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Appointed four teachers — Dana Prem and Samantha Perlman (mathematics) and Robert Simels (science) at the high school, and Jeffrey Barile (elementary) at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School — plus two leave replacements running through June 30, 2027
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Authorized an expenditure from the Repair Reserve Fund to fix boiler #2 at Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School, after a public hearing at which no members of the public were present
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Awarded two bid alternates to Clean Air Quality Services Inc., bringing the middle school second-floor air conditioning contract to $805,800
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Awarded a $285,777 tennis court lighting contract at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School to ER Electrical Corporation
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Authorized transferring $200,000 from the General Fund to the School Lunch Fund, which is operating at a deficit
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Authorized replenishing reserve funds from unappropriated fund balance, including up to $1,661,800 to the 2013 Capital Reserve Fund
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Approved a memorandum of agreement with the Croton-Harmon Administrators' Association and an extension of the Croton Teachers' Association side letter on additional instruction