Education

Bond pitch, tenure appointments set for tonight’s Riverhead BOE meeting

By Vera Chinese

Riverhead High School

Members of the Community Partnership for Revitalization — a group of community members, teachers and administrators dedicated to devising a community supported plan for improvements — will formally present their findings to the Riverhead school board during tonight’s meeting at Riverhead High School.

The team is expected to pitch a $78.4 million plan to the school board for capital improvements at district schools. If the plan is approved by voters, district officials estimate a Riverhead Town taxpayer who owns a median-priced home would pay, on average, $185 extra per year for 20 years.

• As reported, the district is expected to vote on the appointment of a new assistant superintendent for finance and operations.

• In other news, the following 18 district teachers will be eligible for tenure at tonight’s meeting: Angelica Diaz, Charles Gassar, Paul Hewitt, Dali Rastello, Elizabeth Scaduto, Frank Amitrano, Kristine Cresser, Donna Elmore, Katherine Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Howlett, Caitlin Jablow, Alison Laino, Marisa Medina, Denise Stevenson, Susan Monahan, Christine Morris, Stephanie Piraino and Keri-Ann Westfall.

Click to read tonight’s agenda

May 24

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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