Month: March 2019

2019 NY State Comptroller Audit

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Click here to read the full report (PDF).

Report Highlights

Audit Objective

Determine whether the Board and District officials effectively managed general fund balances.

Key Findings

  • Unrestricted fund balance totaled approximately $2 million on June 30, 2018, or 58.6 percent of the ensuing year’s budgeted appropriations and exceeded the statutory limit by 54.6 to 73.4 percentage points from 2015-16 through 2017-18.
  • The District’s budgeting practices included appropriating fund balance not needed to fund operations and adopting budgets that overestimated appropriations by a total of more than $911,000 (11 percent) from 2015-16 through 2017-18.
  • District officials failed to take corrective action to our prior report that pointed out the excess accumulation of fund balance.

Key Recommendations

  • Develop a plan to reduce the amount of unrestricted fund balance to the legal limit.
  • Adopt realistic annual budgets based on historical or other known trends.

District officials disagreed with certain aspects of our findings and recommendations. Appendix B includes our comments on issues raised in the District’s response letter.

2019 Board of Trustees Candidate Folder

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Dear Board Candidate:

Download the attached PDF files (English/Spanish) for a copy of the Wainscott Common School District’s Board of Trustees Candidate’s Folder.  The folder contains the following:

  1. Board Member qualifications
  2. Instructions for filing nominating petitions
  3. Education Laws of the State of New York pertaining to Candidate Expenditure & Contribution Statements
  4. Affidavits for Expenditure & Contribution Statements
  5. Release of your name, address, and telephone numbers.
  6. Publication from New York State School Boards Association:
    Have YOU considered running for the school board? see website: www.nyssba.org
  7. Petition

Please note one member of the Board of Trustees will be elected as follows:

One (1) member for the term of three (3) years commencing July 1, 2019 and expiring June 30, 2022.

Completed petitions are to be returned to the District Clerk’s office at 47 Main Street no later than Monday, April 22, 2019, at 5:00 P.M., and are required to contain the signatures of not less than 25 qualified voters of the district.

The enclosures, in connection with filing expenditure and contribution statements by candidates, indicate that the first statements must be filed on or before April 22, 2019, the second statements on or before May 16, 2017, and the third statements within 20 days following the date of election (June 10, 2019). In addition, candidates must report, within twenty-four hours, any contributions or loan in excess of $1,000.00 received after the filing of the second statement, but prior to the election. It is the candidate’s responsibility to submit the statements in a timely fashion.

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February 28, 2019 Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting – Agenda

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REGULAR MEETING

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

February 28, 2019 – 5:30pm

 

 

  1. Welcome / Pledge of Allegiance – David Eagan, President
  2. Acceptance of Board Minutes – Regular Meeting (January 16, 2019)
  • Financial Report – Mrs. C Schnell, Business Manager
  1. School Report – Kelly Yusko, Teacher K-1
  2. Public Comments – Agenda Items Only
  3. 2019-2020 Budget Development
  • Superintendent’s Report – Mrs. D. Haab

– Enrollment Report

– 2019-2020  School Calendar

– Old School repair proposals

– Eastern Suffolk BOCES Official Call of Annual Meeting April 3, 2019

– Eastern Suffolk BOCES Call for Nominations April 16, 2019 Election

– Syntax proposal – public relations

  • Resolutions
  1. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of its regular meeting held on January 16, 2019.
  2. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees approves the Check Warrant January 2019
  3. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees, acknowledges receipt of the Audit Trail   January 2019
  4. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, approves the appointment of Jennifer Buklad for Math Consultation to assist a student attending the Ross School for the 2018-2019 school year at a rate of $100 per hour/three hours weekly.
  5. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, approves sponsorship of the Cornell Cooperative Extension parenting workshop program “Discipline is Not a Dirty Word”

 

  1. Resolved, that the Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and Director of Special Education, approve the rate sheets for the following special education service providers for the 2018-2019 school year:
  • Aimee Geehreng, LCSW
  • Nancy Hallock, M.S.
  1. Resolved, that the Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of the Director of Special Education, approves the services as recommended by the Committee on Special Education for student #011144261

 

  1. Public Comments
  2. Executive Session
  3. Adjournment

 

Wainscott School
47 Main Street, P.O. Box 79, Wainscott, NY 11975
Phone: (631) 537-1080
Fax: (631) 537-6977
Superintendent: Deborah Haab

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