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Smithtown School Notebook: 2 Meetings This Week

Check out all the news and notes from the district for this week.

Meetings

After a Passover-Easter Recess week where the held just one meeting there will be two meetings this week.

First, there will be a Board of Education special meeting for the budget adoption. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. and will be held in the auditorium of the Joseph M. Barton Building on New York Avenue.

Following the special board meeting is a Policy Committee meeting, which will take place Friday starting at 9 a.m. in the Joseph M. Barton Building.

News and Notes

After two years of negotiations the  and the Smithtown Teachers Association have .

The new contract is a five-year agreement with an average annual salary increase of .7 percent over the length of the contract.

26 students total from both  and  were presented with the , which is handed out to students in registered New York State high schools that had exemplary grades in specific Regents exams for up to five years of undergraduate study.

The East and West combined . The team faced off against 15 teams from across Long Island.

, formed by  students Dana Cornacchio, Ally McFadyen, Jacquelyn Cuccurullo and Courtney File, sold pink bandanas  for $2 each to benefit Operation Smile. The group sold more than 300 bandanas.

The took down Westbury, Patchogue-Medford and Hempstead in the 29th Annual Mock Trial Tournament held at Dowling College. The Western Suffolk BOCES sponsored event brought districts from all over Long Island.

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KFM May 21, 2013 at 04:17 pm
How, in a period of rapidly declining enrollment, can costs be increasing so much from year to year,Read More you ask? The answer is in front of you in black and white. I urge you to READ your district’s budget: we are funding retirements when many of us cannot afford to fund our own during difficult economic times. These wheels were set in motion by contracts negotiated in times of unrealistic growth that may likely not occur again. It is time to open up these plans and relieve this unfair burden from our shoulders. Whatever other measures are pursued in order to control costs, including consolidation within and eventually with other districts, are never going to be enough if you cannot get this problem corrected. Write your congressman, for the love of God. If you need any more incentive to do so, please go to http://rocdocs.democratandchronicle.com/database/teacher-pensions-new-york and look at what Smithtown’s retirees are collecting MONTHLY. It will sicken you.
KFM May 21, 2013 at 04:12 pm
They are allowed to exclude the pension and employee benefit increases when expressing the increase.Read More
Billie B May 20, 2013 at 10:17 am
Tomorrow is the vote..vote NO NOW or our taxes are going to continue to sky rocket. Unless we doRead More something this town will continue to spiral down. More taxes aren't going to help. We need to cut expenses and get ourselves on a fiscally responsible plan.