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The Board of Education continues to be actively engaged in the process of hiring the next Superintendent of Schools for Port Jefferson. Several rounds of interviews have already been conducted, with the priorities identified by our school district community providing the foundation for these interviews.

A comprehensive selection process is being followed and is nearing completion. The Board is confident that our April target, set for the appointment of our new Superintendent, will be met.

Please know that the members of the Board of Education take this responsibility with extreme seriousness and have spent many hours in pursuit of the person who best meets the considerable criteria set as the new leader of the Port Jefferson School District. We thank the community for your input and support.

Dear Resident of the Port Jefferson School District:

The Port Jefferson School District uses a communication service called SchoolMessenger, to communicate regularly via email and recorded phone messages, to residents who have children attending our school district.

We are pleased to announce that all residents of the school district will now have the same opportunity to receive school messages. The school district has contracted with West Corporation, the provider of SchoolMessenger Solutions, to implement a program called Communicate providing this same service to all district residents.

In order to accurately deliver this service to residents without children attending our school district, we need your assistance. If you would like to receive school district messages, we kindly request that you create your own contact preference profile using our school district’s subscriber website for Communicate. This will enable you to control the ways in which you prefer to be contacted. It also works like a mailbox, giving you a place to review messages that you may have missed.

In order to utilize this feature, simply follow the steps below to create an account through this secure website.

For additional information, please call Kathy Hanley at 631-791-4221.
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Steps for setting up your account:


1. Enter the following URL into your web browser: https://asp.schoolmessenger.com/PortJeff/subscriber/


2. Click the Sign Up Now link near the bottom of the page.


3. You will be taken to the Sign Up page where you will need to confirm the encrypted image, your name, a valid email address and a password. You’ll use your email address and the password you entered to access your account. Review and accept the Terms of Service. Click Create Account when you are done. (Note: West Corporation has a strict privacy policy and does not sell or distribute your contact information to any third-party organizations.)


4. Check your email. You should receive an account activation email from support@schoolmessenger.com with the subject “Account Activation.” Follow the directions to activate your account - activation codes are valid for 24 hours. Next, click on the link which takes you to a confirmation page. You must enter your password in order to activate your account. (Note: Do not reply to this email directly – you only need to follow the directions).


5. Once your account is activated, you’re ready to select your notification preferences.


6. Simply select the type(s) of notifications you wish to receive and the groups to which you belong.


7. When you have finished making selections, click Save.


8. Follow the instructions to add additional contact information to your account, ie. additional emails, phone numbers, etc.

Please know that you will need to reactivate your account each school year.

We hope you enjoy Communicate and take advantage of this opportunity to stay connected to our school community.

The March 26, 2019 work session meeting of the Port Jefferson School District Board of Education has been changed to a special meeting to be held at Edna Louise Spear Elementary School at 7:30 PM. Call to order will be at 6:00 PM at the District Office for the purpose of entering into executive session to discuss personnel and legal matters.

The Port Jefferson Board of Education has been very active in its search for the next Superintendent of Schools. The Board has contracted with Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) to assist with the search and selection process.

As of this date, a number of steps have been completed: a recruitment brochure and advertisements were developed and distributed; interested parties were sent packets which included an application; and employees and community members were asked for input on the desired qualities of the next Superintendent.

Applicants were prescreened by Eastern Suffolk BOCES and completed applications were forwarded to the Board to review. This week, the Board of Education will begin interviewing candidates they have selected from the initial screening.

The Board of Education is grateful to the school community for participating in the survey and community forum and for providing such valuable input for the Board to consider in the selection process.

View the results of the community survey below.

Thank you for your continued interest and support.

The Port Jefferson School District presented the first draft of the 2019-20 school budget, which is the first school budget in the post Town of Brookhaven and Long Island Power Authority property tax reassessment settlement. Presentations were made at the January 22 Board of Education Work Session and the January 24 School-Community Connection session (see attachments). Additional presentations and discussions will be held throughout the budget development process.

Through meetings, emails, letters, and phone calls with Brookhaven Town officials, school leaders learned how the details of the Town’s settlement would impact the school district. The Town of Brookhaven and LIPA property tax reassessment settlement represents a 50 percent reduction in the Port Jefferson’s main power plant’s assessment over a nine-year glide path beginning in 2018-19. As a result, 2019-20 represents the first and second years for the district and a six percent reduction in LIPA’s assessment.

The first draft of the school budget stays within the estimated tax levy cap. It represents one of the lowest increases in the property tax levy since the tax levy cap was enacted in the 2013-14 school year. The estimated cap for the 2019-20 school year is 1.18 percent. The draft budget represents a budget reduction of approximately -$230,000.

Information about the targeted reductions will be shared as we progress through budget development. The district is prepared for the challenge of scrutinizing discretionary spending as we continue to provide an outstanding educational program for students.

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE VOTERS OF UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK, ON BEHALF OF THE PORT JEFFERSON FREE LIBRARY:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a special meeting of qualified voters of Union Free School District No. 6, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be held in the Port Jefferson Free Library located at 100 Thompson Street, Port Jefferson, New York, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., prevailing time for the purpose of voting by paper ballot upon the following items:

To adopt the annual Port Jefferson Free Library budget for the fiscal year 2019-2020 and that the Board of Education of School District No. 6 be authorized and directed to raise by taxation the necessary moneys on the taxable property of the district.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for the purpose of voting at such meeting on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 the polls will be opened between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. prevailing time, and the voting will be held in the Port Jefferson Free Library Building.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for the Port Jefferson Free Library’s purposes, exclusive of public moneys, may be seen by any taxpayer in the School District during the seven days immediately preceding said meeting, except holidays, at the Library: 100 Thompson Street, Port Jefferson, New York during regular library hours of service, between 9:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Saturday; 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, prevailing time.

A Budget Information Meeting will be held on Monday, March 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room.

By order of the
Board of Education
Union Free School District No. 6
Janice Baisley, District Clerk

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