Rosemary Bonasia

The Merrick Union Free School District's 2022-2025 Instructional Technology Plan serves as a roadmap to maximize student potential and foster lifelong learning through technology. It centers on three main goals: promoting student-centered learning by tailoring instruction to individual needs and abilities, providing ongoing professional development for educators to ensure effective technology integration, and empowering all stakeholders as leaders to drive system-wide change. The plan emphasizes equitable access to technology, critical thinking, and responsible digital citizenship within a supportive learning environment.

This document outlines the Merrick Union Free School District's comprehensive safety and emergency management plan, designed to prevent, respond to, and recover from a wide range of emergencies. Key areas include risk reduction through prevention and intervention strategies, detailed response protocols for various incidents including acts of violence and communicable disease outbreaks, and robust recovery procedures to ensure continuity of operations and instruction. The plan also integrates specific Cardiac Emergency Response Plans and addresses emergency remote instruction capabilities, emphasizing coordination with external agencies and clear communication with all stakeholders to safeguard the school community.

The Board of Education recognizes that certain district employees are required to carry cellular phones in order to meet their job responsibilities and the requirements of Project SAVE. Administrators will be required to purchase their own cellular phones but will be reimbursed monthly for the use of this cellular phone.

The proposed budget for the year includes allocations for instruction, employee benefits, general support, and transportation. It also outlines revenue projections from real property taxes, state aid, and other sources. The budget is higher than the current year's budget but still only a small percentage higher than the budget from two years prior. The budget includes administrative, program, and capital components. If the proposed budget fails, the board may resubmit it, revise it, or adopt a contingent budget with significant expenditure reductions.

The notice discusses the annual budget vote for the fiscal year 2021-22. It presents the overall budget proposal, including the budget adopted for the 2020-21 school year, the budget proposed for the 2021-22 school year, and the contingency budget for the 2021-22 school year. It details the total budgeted amount, increase/decrease for the 2021-22 school year, percentage increase/decrease in the proposed budget, change in the Consumer Price Index, administrative component, program component, capital component, and estimated basic STAR exemption savings. It also includes the proposed levy to support the total budgeted amount, levy to support library debt, levy for non-excludable propositions, total tax cap reserve amount used to reduce the current year levy, total proposed school year tax levy, total permissible exclusions, school tax levy limit, and the difference between the school tax levy limit and the total proposed school year tax levy.