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Herricks Board of Education Notebook: May 3

Other news from the May 3 board of education meeting.

Posted Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:37 am ET|Updated Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:02 am ET

The Herricks Board of Education held a meeting on Thursday, April 26. Here are some of the things you may have missed.

Student Honorees

Several students were honored from the DECA International Career Development Conference in Utah recently. Yonatan Benyamini placed in the top 10 of the accounting applications event and Justin Hsuan and Sachit Singal were in the top 10 of the financial services team decision making event.
The following students were recognized at the WAC Lighting Research Association Science Fair: first place: Anisha Chava and Neel Patel; second place: Meenakshi Krishna and Abhinav Talwar; third place: Benjamin Pleat and Jensine Sajan; honorable mention: Fahmida Rashid, Esther Koh, Eddie Ham, Dustin Liu, Nancy Wei; merit: Ankoor Talwar, Andrew Koe, Madeline Huang and Aseer Amin.
Diane Li, Anjali Agarwali and Si Chen took first place in New York state in the group documentary category of National History Day. Corrin Chow received first place for her exhibit as well. Grace Neumarin, Jeffrey Kim, Kristen Bianco and Khusbu Patel received a research in minority studies award for their group exhibit.

Certiorari Reserve

The board approved a measure to establish a tax certiorari reserve fund and money will be placed into this fund on June 30.
These settlements occur when residents and businesses challenge their tax bill and assessments and the county makes adjustments for their mistakes and people are reimbursed for paying an excess amount of tax.
Previously the county would make up the difference for the schools since it controlled the assessing, yet after the repeal of this practice, school districts would have to fund and pay the county back for any moneys they reimburse on their behalf.

Other Board News

The board approved being part of a transportation cooperative with other public school districts in Nassau and BOCES to help keep bids from transportation companies down. Herricks Superintendent Dr. John Bierwirth said that even when Herricks does not make a bid as part of the cooperative, being part of it and having the bus companies know what numbers they need to meet is helpful and has saved the district money.
The eighth grade boat trip will take place on June 22 in Manhattan for 300 attendees who have paid $17,040 was approved by the board.