The Fairport Central School District’s Code of Conduct is currently under a 30-day review. Comments may be sent to the District Clerk by emailing tbuffa@fairport.org.
The Public Hearing for the Code of Conduct will take place at the Board of Education Workshop on Monday, August 10,
At the Board of Education’s reorganizational meeting on July 7, incumbents Margaret Cardona and Joyce Kostyk and newly elected board member Erica Belois Pacer were sworn in to three-year terms. Peter Forsgren was re-elected president and Timothy Slisz was elected vice president.
The full 2020-21 Board of Education is as follows:
Damon Buffum
Margaret Cardona
Peter Forsgren
Joyce Kostyk
Judy O’Leary Sargeant
Erica Belois Pacer
Timothy Slisz
The Board of Education meeting schedule for the 2020-21 school year was also approved.
Dear Fairport Community:
Discrimination, bias and racism are underlying threads that are an ugly part of our country’s history. These issues plague our nation and even our own community as we learned early this morning. Sadly, we know that discriminatory acts occur far too often for our families of color.
Residents in the Fairport Central School District approved the 2020-21 school budget with a 69% approval.
The results from the budget are as follows:
2020-21 School Budget– 69% Approval
YES — 5,473
NO — 2,446
Proposition 1 (Capital Technology Reserve Fund) – 81% Approval
YES — 6,392
NO — 1,534
Board of Education (3 seats)
Margaret Cardona (incumbent) — 6,385
Erica Belois-Pacer — 6,123
Joyce Kostyk (incumbent) — 6,025
Public Library Budget–Approved
YES — 5,712
NO — 2,203
Public Library Trustee (1 seat)
David Giambattista (incumbent) — 4,268
Paul Jaynes — 2,362
The Fairport Board of Education has released a Statement on Racism.
Future planning in the Fairport Central School District, with its focus on Educational Programming, Fiscal Sustainability and Facilities Planning, is making progress since the District’s Strategic Initiatives were finalized in 2018.
The Board of Education meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, June 16, 2020 has been rescheduled to now take place on June 23, 2020. The meeting has been rescheduled due to the need to tally absentee ballots for the 2020-21 School Budget Vote & Board Elections on June 16.
The District’s June 23 Board of Education meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Read more »
The annual school budget vote and board election has been rescheduled for Tuesday, June 9, 2020. All voting will take place via absentee ballot. Ballots must be received by the district clerk by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9 to be valid. All District households should have already received two ballots each.
The District’s next Board of Education Workshop on YouTube is on Monday, June 1 at 5 p.m.
Fairport Central School District’s newest edition of the Commentator is now available. The 2020-21 proposed budget vote this year is via absentee ballot and must be received by the District on June 9 by 5 p.m.
To read about the latest in news as it relates to the budget development process for 2020-21,