West Babylon Union Free School District Board of Education Packet Summary — Meeting Date Not Stated in Packet Text
Key Items on the Agenda
The Board of Education is scheduled to begin with an executive session at 5:00 p.m., followed by the public session at 7:00 p.m. The agenda includes consideration of minutes from the July 28, 2026 regular Board meeting, a superintendent presentation, a consent agenda, a first reading of an attendance policy, and a Board discussion about naming or dedicating district facilities.
District Goals for 2026–2027
Superintendent Dr. Yiendhy Farrelly is scheduled to present the district's goals for the 2026–2027 school year. The agenda identifies this as a discussion item rather than an action item.
Naming or Dedicating District Facilities
Under new business, the Board is scheduled to discuss naming or dedicating school district facilities. The agenda specifically states that the discussion will not involve specific names.
Major Financial Items
A substantial group of finance matters is included on the consent agenda, including budget transfers, transportation, donations, actuarial consulting services and the June 2026 claims auditor report.
$92,400 Payroll Encumbrance Transfer
One supporting document proposes a $92,400 budget transfer to cover payroll encumbrances. The transfers would move funds from aide salary accounts at JFK and the senior high school to several salary accounts:
- $25,100 for Personnel/Assistant Superintendent clerical salaries.
- $29,100 for junior high school principal clerical salaries.
- $25,600 for senior high school guidance clerical salaries.
- $2,300 for junior high school nurses and overtime.
- $10,300 for Tooker nurses and overtime.
The agenda contains several separate 2025–2026 and 2026–2027 budget-transfer items, so the packet text does not establish which numbered finance item corresponds to this particular transfer.
June Claims Auditor Report
The Board is scheduled to consider approval of the June 2026 claims auditor report as a consent item. Cerini & Associates reports that it reviewed 454 claims, including 11 Medicare reimbursements, totaling $14,211,363.59, and approved the claims for payment and release.
The report states that there were no outstanding inquiries or held payments for the month and lists no findings or other matters.
July 30 Schedule of Bills
The July 30, 2026 accounts-payable schedule is presented as an informational item. It covers bills for the period July 9–29, 2026 and reports a combined total of $3,046,286.97 across the listed funds.
The schedule includes $3,018,604.16 in general-fund-related payments, $9,430.15 in lunch-fund payments, $16,258.76 in federal-fund payments and $1,993.90 in capital-fund payments.
Other Finance Actions
The consent agenda also includes proposed action on:
- An extension of the van and field trip transportation contract.
- An addendum to the Career and Employment Options contract.
- A 2026–2027 Sound Actuarial Consulting Services agreement.
- Multiple additional budget transfers.
- Acceptance of donations, including a donation to the IT Department.
- Designation of sports uniforms and a nurse's scale as obsolete.
The packet text provided does not state dollar amounts or detailed terms for these items.
Instructional Technology Equipment
A July 17, 2026 New York State Education Department letter confirms that West Babylon UFSD is to pick up 100 pieces of CREATE computer equipment for instructional purposes. The equipment consists of:
- 53 Dell Optiplex desktop CPUs.
- 47 Dell Latitude laptops.
The computers are listed without hard drives. The pickup is to occur at New York State Courts, County Court, 262 Old Country Road in Mineola, but the date and time remain TBA, with the district instructed to contact the listed court representative to schedule pickup.
Policy Review
First Reading of Policy 5100 — Student Attendance
The Board is scheduled to conduct a first reading of Policy 5100, Student Attendance. The draft says the policy is intended to promote regular attendance, reduce unexcused absences, tardiness and early departures, maintain attendance records, identify absence patterns and support intervention strategies.
Among the provisions in the draft:
- Parents or persons in parental relation would receive a plain-language policy summary at the start of the school year and be asked to acknowledge that they have read and understood it.
- Attendance would be recorded daily, with class-period attendance at the junior and senior high schools and subject-area attendance at elementary schools.
- A student would be considered chronically absent after missing 10% or more of the school year; satisfactory attendance is defined as missing 5% or less.
- Secondary students would have a guidance-counselor conference scheduled after a seventh class cut or unexcused absence and an administrator conference after the fourteenth.
- Elementary families would receive additional interventions at specified levels of unexcused absence, including principal conferences at the fifth, tenth and fifteenth unexcused absences.
- Junior high and high school students with more than 8 unexcused absences in a half-year course or 15 in a full-year course would be denied credit for that course.
- Elementary or junior high students exceeding 30 total absences would be reviewed by the principal to determine whether promotion is appropriate. High school students exceeding 30 absences in a course would be reviewed to determine whether course credit is appropriate.
The draft also addresses excused absences, religious observances, parent notification, attendance incentives, grading consequences, potential educational-neglect referrals and annual Board review of attendance records.
Personnel and Board Consent Items
The consent agenda contains numerous professional and civil-service personnel actions for the 2026–2027 school year. These include proposed probationary appointments, substitute and annual appointments, summer work assignments, a salary adjustment, revised probationary dates, temporary appointments, prior-service credit, and a resignation/retirement item.
Separate Board of Education consent items call for consideration of a Laurel Associates Agreement and an Undue Burden Independent Evaluator Hardship Waiver Form. The packet text provided does not include substantive terms for either item.
Public Participation
Residents have two opportunities identified on the agenda. An early public-comment period is reserved for agenda items, while a later residents' statement period covers other district matters.
Each period is scheduled for 15 minutes, with individual speakers limited to 3 minutes.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The superintendent's presentation of 2026–2027 district goals and the Board's discussion of naming or dedicating district facilities are the agenda's principal discussion items. Policy 5100 is also significant because the Board is scheduled to begin formal review of detailed attendance rules affecting absence classifications, interventions, grading and course-credit consequences.
Financially, the consent agenda contains multiple transfers and agreements, while the supporting materials document the $92,400 payroll encumbrance transfer, the $14.21 million June claims audit, and the informational $3.05 million July 30 schedule of bills. These are presented in the packet as matters for upcoming consideration or information, not as outcomes of this meeting.
