STEM Alliance Agreement for Marine Education Center Extended

by Kathy Savolt -

Last Spring, with Marine Education Center (MEC) programs scheduled and booked, there was an abrupt change in Village personnel that left the Village in a quandary.  Summer was fast approaching and children were enrolling in programs, and appropriate staff had to be found fast.

In May, the Village entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The STEM Alliance, a local not-for-profit that provides educational programming for children in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (see previous article HERE), to provide educational services at the MEC from June through October for a fee of $10,700/month.

At their November 8, 2026 meeting, the Board of Trustees (BOT) unanimously voted to extend this MOU (see HERE) until the end of the calendar year (two more months) on the same terms.  The agreement was questioned by a few residents, and the BOT will review the issue during the next budget cycle.