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I'd like to call this Barnagate Board of Education meeting to order, please. The notice of this meeting has been forwarded to the Asbury Park Press, the Beacon, and placed in the foyer of Beach Barnett Township School in the Barnett Township Municipal Building and has been filed with the Bar Township Municipal Clerk in conjunction with the Open

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Public Meeting Act, NJSA 104-10. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Churnney, >> here. Miss Kinanza, >> here. Mr. Mr. Fedorzik >> here. >> Miss Jeanie >> here. >> Mr. Hearn >> here. >> Mr. Pizaro >> here. >> Miss Terranowski is not present. Miss

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Washburn >> here. >> And Mr. Sarno >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> And if you please join us in the flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice and sorrow. Kevin, >> thank you. All right. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda as it stands,

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please? So move or I can go to your excuse me back. So thank you very my mistake. So the agenda has one change to it. Um item three motion three and

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personnel will be pulled off. So mark that on the agenda please. Item three and personnel will be removed. Letter B. Letter B. It's too mad. >> You hot. >> Can I get a motion to approve the

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amended agenda, please? >> So move. >> Second. Roa. >> Get. >> Miss Churny. >> Yes. >> Miss Continzen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. >> Miss Genie. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Hurry. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pizarb. >> Yes. Miss Miss Washber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sarno. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item six on our agenda is approval of minutes. >> Can I get a motion to approve one and two, please?

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>> So moved. Second. >> Roal. >> Miss Churny. >> Yes. >> Miss Continzen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. >> Miss Genie. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pizaro. >> Abstain.

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>> Miss Washburn. Yes. >> And Mrs. Sarno. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item seven is the student upstanders. So I will turn it over to Dr. Lis. >> I'll invite Miss Camado. >> The upstander program is a wonderful opportunity to recognize and celebrate

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students districtwide who demonstrate a specific Bengal pride trait. These traits continue to enhance the positive climate in our schools and support the growth and success of our students both at home and at school. This month we are proud to honor students who exemplify

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dedication representing the D and Bangal pride through their persistence, focus and commitment to overcoming challenges. They have inspired others and made a meaningful impact on their peers and school community. When you hear your name, please come forward to join board

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president Mr. Sarno and Superintendent Dr. allow us to receive your plaque. First from Bernaggate High School, we have Laya Ty. Ila is the epitome of dedication. Whether whether she is focused on her academics, athletics, friendships, or

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family, Ila approaches every aspect of her life with unwavering commitment and a full heart. She consistently gives 110% not because she has to, because that is simply who she is. Ila is val Victorian of the senior class and NJSIA

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scholar athlete, president of NHS to name a few accomplishments. Her passion, determination, and genuine care for others are among her greatest strengths. Leila sets high standards for herself and works tirelessly to achieve her goals while never losing sight of people and values that matter most to her. Her

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enthusiasm is contagious, her work ethic is admirable, and her kindness leaves a lasting impression on everyone she meets. She is so deserving of this recognition. Congratulations, Ila. Next from Russell Brackman Middle School, we have Mal Molina Linton.

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Molina is an outstanding student who consistently demonstrates dedication, responsibility, and a strong commitment to her work. She approaches each day with a positive attitude and always strives to do her best. She embodies the qualities of an upstander by showing kindness, respect, and support for those

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around her. Her hard work and positive example make her truly deserving of this recognition. We are very proud of her accomplishments and the impact she has on her school community. Congratulations, Molina. Next, from Robert L. Horbell Intermediate School, we have Gavin

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Mcnite. Gavin's dedication to his school work has always been evident through his hard work, perseverance, and commitment to doing his best. He consistently sets an example for those around him. What makes him truly special, however, is not only his academic dedication, but also the

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kindness and respect he shows others. His willingness to help, encourage, and support his classmates and teachers reflects the strength of his character. Additionally, Gavin has a passion for music. His talent shines as he participates in concerts within our walls. Muc music has become an important

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part of him. It is exciting to think about where his passions may lead him in the future. Congratulations, Gavin. Next from Joseph T. Donahghue School, we have Elelliana Raj. Elelliana is an outstanding student at Donahghue. She is an active participant

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in both the classroom and no hate no place for hate program. Even when faced with challenges, Elelliana demonstrates perseverance and determination. As in no place for hate student leader, she is committed to helping make the school a more welcoming and inclusive place for everyone. She exemplifies this

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commitment each day through her caring, kind, and thoughtful spirit, making a positive impact on the Donahghue community. Congratulations. Next from Celeste Collins School, we have Autumn Arbina. Autumn is a student with many qualities

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that exemplify dedication. Autumn joined the Barnagget School District this year. She quickly adapted to life as a student in Barnagate. Autumn is an excellent student who excels academically. Her success is due to her persistence, self-discipline, and passion for learning new things. Autumn is a very

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loyal friend. She is consistently a student making good choices, will always help others, and puts forward her best effort. We are very proud of Autumn this school year and know that her dedication to school, she will have many more successful years to come. Congratulations, Autumn.

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Next, from Lilian Dumpy School, we have Emmy Tadeshi. Emmy consistently shows dedication in everything she does throughout the school day. She works hard to complete tasks even when they may be challenging and always tries her best. Emmy is dedicated to listening, learning,

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helping others, and being a positive role model for her classmates. She is determined to walk into kindergarten next year with a big smile, confidence, and a love for learning. Congratulations, Sammy. And next from the ASES program, we have Ryland Abato.

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Ryland consistently demonstrates dedication to our classroom routines and takes pride in helping keep his peers on schedule throughout the day. He is thoughtful during transitions and makes always makes sure everyone is together before moving on. Ryland takes great

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pride in completing his work and enjoys sharing his accomplishments with others. He is kind, respectful, and polite with both peers and staff. Congratulations, Ryland. >> Congratulations, students and families. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Thank you.

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All right. >> All right. Next item on our agenda is the student representative. I don't see Kaylee here. Um if she does pop in, we'll switch over when she she gets back in and then we have something for her.

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Um we'll then jump to the Barnett Education Association liaison which is Mrs. uh Morganoff. Thank you. The Barne Education Association would like to thank Dr. Lwis, the board of education, and most

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importantly our amazing Barnagget families and students for another successful school year. We would especially like to thank Dr. Latwis, not only for his leadership, but also for his positive relationships we have built together. We truly appreciate your willingness to listen, engage in

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respectful dialogue, and work collaboratively to address the needs of our members and our school community. Best of luck in your new endeavor. You'll be missed, and we wish you continued success in this next chapter. And we wish everyone a wonderful, safe,

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and relaxing summer. Thank you. Thank you as always, Miss Morganov. Uh, next item is our state and New Jersey school board representative and our county. I'm not sure if there's any nothing. I don't think there's any meetings. All right. So, we will jump into our

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committee uh discussions. Each month we have uh the representative chairperson of the committee um report what has happened in the committee the previous month. So we will start out with finance which is chaired by Miss Towski but the report will be given by Mrs. Continenc.

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>> Uh thank you Mr. Sarno. Uh the finance committee met June 10th. The finance committee reviewed the June bills list payroll transfers and monthly financial reports. discussion included several purchase orders related to communication services, guidance, scheduling

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equipment, food service, residential student placements, and district-wide concrete repairs. The committee also discussed homebound instruction costs, out of district placements, transportation contracts, annual service agreements, shared service agreements.

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In addition, the committee reviewed year-end budget planning and reserve funding strategies to address ongoing financial challenges with utilities, health care, and special education costs. All the agenda items were reviewed and are being recommended to

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the full board for consideration. The next meeting will be held July 15th. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Continenc. Next is buildings, grounds, transportation, and food services. and Mrs. Washburn is chairperson of that committee.

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>> The buildings, grounds, transportation, and food service committee discussed a proposed PTA spirit rock fundraising initiative at the Collins School, which will be piloted with the PTA oversight and later considered for expansion. Updates were provided on food service programming,

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uh, summer facilities projects, graduation preparations, transportation operations, driver recruitment, and extended school year routing. The committee also reviewed facility use requests, which we will have a motion tonight for that. Um, noted that transportation and facilities budgets

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remain on track. Um, and we forwarded a motion to the finance committee to accept the Spirit Rock as a PTA donation for the pilot program. That's all we got. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Washurn. You're >> welcome. >> Um, next up is education committee.

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Chairperson is Mrs. Churnney. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Good evening everyone. The education committee met on June 9th and reviewed several agenda items. Items including book purchases, district work-based learning, CBI

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locations, professional development requests, field trips, special education updates. We also discussed the value of summer safety education, positive updates on recent student learning experiences and field trips.

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Our B Our Barnagget High School US History 1 students enjoyed a field trip to Cedar Bridge Tavern and the Barnagget Historical Village. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission and truly thank these organizations for the

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funding provided which covered cost of transportation. Our sixth grade social studies students also had a memorable experience during their recent visit to the Ocean County Historical Society Museum and Huddy Park. And our AP human

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geog uh yeah, human geography class attended the trip with our US history students. Our AP students are sharing presentations and posters with our Horbelt students about what they learned on the trip, about the history of Barnagot at as it relates to their

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course and the 250th anniversary of the United States. Ty Gavad Narrow visited our US history to students and the VFW visited our seventh grade social studies classes at the Bman Middle School. As

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our nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, uh these his history lessons focus learning experiences provide uh our students with an opportunity to bring history to life and inspire civic pride

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and patriotism in our students. Our next meeting will be July 14th. Enjoy your summer break safely. >> Thank you, Mr. Churnney. Uh, next up is governance and chairperson is Miss Continenc. >> Thank you, Mr. Sarna. Um, governance

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committee met June 10th. The governance committee reviewed several strauss policy updates and recommended approval as presented. On tonight's agenda, there is for approval second reading and adoption on the policy regarding student

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dress and grooming, which is policy 5511, along with several mandated policy revisions, and one new mandated policy addressing curriculum, equity, career, education, and counseling, graduation requirements, diplomas, and

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superintendent duties. Tonight's agenda also has first reading for public notice requirements for board meetings, family leave eligibility timelines, federal grant controls and expenditures, procure procurement procedures, and school

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nutrition program purchasing uh requirements. Administration confirmed the district is currently compliant with all these requirements. The committee also reviewed one mandate regulation revision concerning allowability of costs for federal awards and funds which

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provides additional oversight and compliance guidance which is a first reading on tonight's agenda. The policy committee recommends approval of all policies and regulations as presented on the agenda. Our next governance meeting is July 15th and everybody enjoy a safe

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and happy summer. Thank you, Mr. Continansza. Uh, next up is health, safety, and technology, and Mr. Hearn is chairperson. >> Thank you, Mr. Sino. The June Health, Safety, and Technology Committee meeting was held on June 11th. We have one

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motion on this month's agenda. That's a motion to accept the fire and security drills log as presented for the month of May. An overall district security update was provided indicating the improvements made over the past month and the security improvements we are working on

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moving forward. The district safety committee met on June 9th. Uh they have continued improvement on insurance claims from previous years and all school buses recently had their DMV inspections and all buses passed the

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inspection. The nursing update included number one, the district will be hiring a long-term substitute nurse to cover maternity leave and the LMDS will be hiring an additional part-time nurse due to an

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increase of students. Technology update included the technology department is preparing for end ofear ceremonies and graduation as well as the Chromebook collection will be completed on June 15th. Our next

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health, safety, and technology committee meeting will be held on July 16th. >> Thank you, Mr. Hearn. And lastly is personnel committee. I'm the chair of personnel. Um we met on June 8th and we will meet again on July

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13th. Um our next meeting. So in personnel, we went over obviously personnel matters. Uh there's a couple here that I want to touch upon. Um two retirements. Um, first we'll start with uh Miss Lynn Rack who was a part-time PAR professional at the Collins School. Uh, Miss Rack worked at the Barnagate

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School District for the last seven years. She was hired in January of 2019 as a PAR professional. She has worked at the Cecil Collins School, Barnett High School, and Joseph T. Donnyu school over the last seven years. Lynn has also worked for our extended school year

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program over the last several years. She is a dedicated employee and who has always gone above and beyond for our students within our district. So again, thank you uh Mrs. Rack for your years of service and dedication to our students. And secondly, I'd like to touch upon um

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Dr. Saxton. He's here. No, he's not here tonight. Oh, okay. Um Dr. Saxton has worked in Barnett School District for the past 22 years. Uh he was hired in August of 2003 as the principal of the new opening

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Barnett High School. Um Dr. Saxon was principal for the high school for nine years. um he did a tremendous job in opening up and you know running our uh high school for the first nine years uh in his existence.

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On August of 2012, Dr. Saxton uh became the principal of the Robert L. Warbelt school. He was involved in the reconfiguration to convert the school into grades 5 through six building. He worked very hard to make this a success. His vision was always to make a

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difference for all of his students. Uh at Dr. Saxon's retirement date on September 1st, 2026. Um, he still remains the principal and continues to focus on the students and the staff while looking forward to his retirement to spend more time with his family and his future after his

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retirement. So, we thank you very much for everything he's done for our district and the commitment to our students and our community for his 22 years of service. >> Um, also you notice >> just real quick, he would have been here tonight. I did have a chance to speak with him today. He's home celebrating

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his 42nd wedding anniversary. >> Well, that's more important >> and I know his his wife just recently retired too, so they should have a awesome time uh moving forward. Also on the personnel, you'll see we hired a new

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uh bus driver in our transportation department, a uh that one's off. Full-time PAR professional, which is districtwide, a behavioralist, which is also districtwide, a multiple disabilities teacher in the Brackman ASUS program, a multiple

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disability also teacher in the Brackman uh ACES program, and a AC a ICR teacher in the Donnu school. Um, we have uh Miss Ventasel, who's whose contract will be appro approved tonight, I'm sure. Um,

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>> we have uh Mrs. Payne, who will be the interimm director of curriculum and instruction um for the next upcoming year and Mr. Kevin Carroll as the interimm superintendent um effective July 1st um moving forward next few

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months. Um, we have a part-time PAR professional that's moving to a full-time PAR professional. That's good to see. Resource teacher,

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school bus aid um is being hired for a substitute school bus aid. Several other are just internal moves. Um, and some summer for pause academy over the summer.

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um custodial extended years program, extended year substitutes. Um I think that is about it. Maternity leave. So that is it on our committee discussions. Um next up is a superintendent uh

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highlights. I will turn it over to Dr. Latmus. >> All right, we have quite a few things for tonight. We will be kicking off with our uh Hall of Fame inductee as presented by Jelia. Uh was supposed to be Jen Brad, but unfortunately she had a scheduling conflict tonight. So if Jia

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is here, there she is. All right. It is great honor that we induct Sue Rogers into the Hall of Fame. Through her distinguished career as a learning disabilities teacher, consultant, Sue exemplified dedication, compassion, and

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an unwavering commitment to the students, families, and the community of Barnagate. Her depth of knowledge in the special education combined with her ability to collaborate effective effectively with teachers, administrators, and families made a

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profound impact to our community. Her commitment extended far beyond professional responsibilities. Sue invested countless hours collaborating with colleagues, mentoring staff, and working tirelessly to improve outcomes for students. Her work never

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simply a job. It was a lifelong passion rooted in the belief that every student could succeed with the right guidance and support. In addition impact career in education, Sue also made an

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endearing difference as a coach. Sue set and maintained high standards for all her athletes both on and off the court. Sue also encouraged her athletes to participate with her to and support the Ocean County Special Olympics by running

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practices and drills with the participants. Her influence helped shape confidence, perseverance, teamwork, and character in many young people whose lives she touched. Sue leaves behind a legacy defined by service, leadership, and heart. She lived and breathed

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Barnagget. The lives she influenced both in the classroom and coaching stand as a lasting testimony to her impact. Thank you, Sue. Why don't we jump to Mr. This is

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good evening. Um tonight I would like to um recognize the our therapy dog program. Um we have really grown in the past years. Um people call all the time. I've certified therapy dogs and I

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welcome them because I really believe that therapy dogs really do a lot for our counseling program. So, um, these all of the dogs here today, they volunteer their time to come to our schools and

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they are just wonderful people. Like I can call them up anytime and say, "Hey, you know, we have, you know, a student in need and can you please bring your therapy dog?" And they come right away. We did have um our therapy dogs attend the Dumpy School for Pet Week and they

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came and the kids got to see the dogs and pet the dogs and it was wonderful. So, um, these people are very special to me and our school district. So, with that being said, I'm going to call them up individually. And if you can just

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stay here because I got you all a special gift. So, first we have Lisel. >> Thank you very much. You're welcome. And Lisa works at the Horbel School with the 56 students. Next we have Winnie. Winn's at the

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Collins School for K1 and two. >> Minnie, come over here in your little outfit. And our newest addition this year is Ryder. He works at the ACES program with Miss Cooney.

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>> Uh Stella works at the Brackman School, but she could not make it today. We also have Coconut. She works at the high school. She goes to Donahghue school. Um, she was at Horbell for a while. So, she's all over

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our district. >> And then last, who couldn't make it is Jagger. He So, he got um ACL surgery today on his knee. He is our >> He's doing really well, but he's our big bortal uh mastiff. >> South African mastiff.

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>> Yes. So, okay. So, I would like you, if you guys can, there's a little box in your bag. I want you to open them up. Oh yeah. So, these mugs were made by our students here at Barneut High School in our claw mart. I thought it was a nice

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tribute to um but do not put them in the dishwasher because they will fade. So, we got pictures. We It took us my uh colleague Kaylee and I strolled Facebook and Google to get pictures of the dogs.

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Yeah. Okay. Thank you for all you do. >> Y'all do media now. Yeah. >> Oh, wait. Is that >> I think I put yours in And that's Jagger. Here's your mug.

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>> Okay, there you go. >> All right. >> Okay, I'm up again. Okay. So, our eighth grade health classes, they do a unit on um substance uh awareness and drug prevention. And based on what they learn

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in class, they put together what's called a public service announcement. They could do a um video, they could do a poster, and then what happens is um our our coalition Barnate Communities that Care and myself, we judge them and

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we give out prizes. This year we decided to pick two winners per marking period um and award them with a $25 gift card to WAWA um donated by RWJ Barnabas Institute for Prevention. So this was

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very difficult to select. The projects were awesome um but it was very hard. So we picked eight winners. So, um, Kelly, upload the slides. Okay. So, our first winner is Michelle

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Ulanis. She did a video >> to Florida where deputies say an alleged drunk driver is >> drunk driving on drunk driving. Woman who drove drug this drunk driver was >> paradise. Woman's been reported for drink driving >> seen in court. A young woman, a drunk driver

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and killed two of her children. Seriously injuring pedestrian in Barkshire after >> accused of killing a bride on her wedding night, slamming into the golf cart, carrying the bride and groom. Michelle and our next winner puts up

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Alen Harker. Come on out. I think she she has a video. Yeah. All Our next winner, Faith Kamani. She's not here, but she did a song, so I thought that was really original.

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all the time. Never be like you. I would give anything to take away your blueberry ice. You're smoking every day. Now you're high

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all the time. Never be like you. You're only human. Can't you see? If I can't handle all this, don't just look me in my face. Tell me everything's okay cuz you're addicted. Nothing like you. You're only human. Can't you see? I

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can't handle all this pain. Don't just look me in my face. Tell me everything's okay. You're addicted. I'll never be like you. How do I make it go away? The temptation

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of drugs. They're selling every day. Now you're high all the time. Never be like you. Stop looking at me with those eyes. I know you're really high and I'm still

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wondering why you even smoke. It's not a joke. Never be like you. You're only human hand. Don't just look me in my face. Tell me everything's okay.

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Never be like you. You're only tell me everything's okay. You're addicted. Never be like you. And our next W winner is Nicole Negron. She did a poster. And our next winner is Ryan Landworld,

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but she couldn't make it tonight. Our next winner is Ethan Tomkins. Our next winner is Michael Hickeyi. And our last winner is Giani Dolce Hamilton. Y >> Hello.

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I'm here. Open up. Yo, what's good, bro? What I got? >> Let's go. >> See, bro. >> This I feel so dizzy, bro. We should sit down

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before watching uh going to the party. >> Yeah, let's go. Let's want to watch the game. >> Yeah, let's watch the game. >> Freaking love >> party >> down the street. >> Down the street. >> You want to go? >> Let's go. >> You want to get lit? >> Yeah, let's get lit.

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out this, >> bro. >> Nah. Seat belts for whisies, bro. >> Let's hit him before. Going to be lit today. >> Come on. This probably about be mad fun.

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>> All right, let's go. You ready? >> I don't feel it. >> You guys did fabulous. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. Um, I would like to start by thanking Miguel, who was the magnificent um, high school student who

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was playing as you were coming into the board meeting tonight. So, thank you, Mr. McGrath, for allowing me to set that up. And thank you, Miguel, for doing a fantastic job. >> It is my privilege today to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments that reflect the dedication, talent, and passion of the district music teachers

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we have here in the Barnagan Township School District. I'm proud to announce that our district for the seventh straight year has won the NM Foundation best communities in music education award. As the supervisor of visual and performing arts at the secondary level,

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I have the pleasure of working with each of our music teachers across the district. Um, not only throughout the school year, but also at the one Barnagate music and arts festival. They put in countless hours outside of the school day, during the school day. They work so incredibly hard. Um, and I want to thank each and every one of you that

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were able to make it today and the ones that were not able to make it, um, because we want to celebrate and honor you for all of your hard work and dedication to their to students of our district and their families in the community as well. So, thank you. Um what I would like to do is call up each of our music teachers by the school

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in which they have the wonderful students that they get to work with. Um and I also asked each of the principles to share a little bit about the impact that the students do have or sorry that our teachers have on the amazing students they work with each day. So the first teacher I would like to call up is Miss Jennifer Brennan.

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Hello, board of education, members of the Barnaga Township School District and community. My name is Michelle John's. I'm the principal of Collins and have been an administrator in a lot of our buildings. I've had the privilege to work with our esteemed music department over the past 15 years now. I can

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personally attest to their professionalism, commitment, and dedication to music education and more so to our Barnagget students, no matter what age, instilling in them a love and appreciation for music and liberal arts, which is why we are celebrating Barneut

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being named one of Nam's best communities for seven consecutive years. I would like to take a moment today to speak about our Collins Elementary music teacher, Miss Jennifer Brennan, and all that she has done for our elementary music program. Miss Brennan graduated Suma Cumloudy from the College of St.

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Elizabeth in Marstown, New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in music and elementary education. Before Barnagget, she taught instrumental music and general music to students in grades four through 8. In 1999, she began her career here in Barnagut teaching music at

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Collins School and has been here ever since, entering her 28th year at Collins this fall. That deserves a round of applause. Thank you, Miss Brennan. She has a husband, Ed, who is also an elementary music teacher and who also

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helps us to set up and to run our Collins chorus shows. and she has two adult children, Emily and Gavin, and a cat named Piper, who is often a part of Miss Brennan's Google Classroom and lesson plans, introducing students to a new music lesson with a funny animal joke. And in addition to her work in the

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classroom, we're all very proud of the clubs and activities she directed over the years, including the Singing Seahawks, the ukulele club, and of course, our current second grade Collins Chorus Club. She's also enjoyed performing with our students at special events like pause for a cause holiday

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family fun night, the one Barnagate music and arts festival, at board of ed meetings here in Barnagate High School, and all of our Collins chorus shows. Miss Brennan works with the chorus club after school to create exciting new themes each year. This year's chorus

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show face uh featured amazing animals. Last year faced the great outdoors. We're very thankful and appreciative to her for her commitment, her dedication, and her hard work. She leaves our students with an appreciation of music at a primary age that then they carry on to the rest of our Barnagate Township

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schools as they continue their education and their love of music. Thank you, Miss Brennan, and thank you to all of Barnagate School's music education department. Thanks. Um, the next teachers that we'd like to recognize were not able to make it today. Um, Mr. Brown and Miss Coun at

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Donahghue. Donahue. Hello everybody. We have Mrs. Coons over at the Donna Hugh School along with Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown teaches band which starts in fourth grade. So you'll see because we have a little video prepared for you to

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showcase our students how it all begins. And now when you hear the high school, you see where it all ends. Okay. And along with Mrs. Coons who we have chorus that continues from the Collins School but along with Mrs. Larson who we have here in our audience. Um we started

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drama performances over at the Donna Hugh School and students sing solos, they sing together. They put on beautiful performances and I hope that some of you can come and join us. So let's watch the video and enjoy our students at Donna Hugh. playing along.

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It's a holiday of music. Do your very best to hear our happy falls. Helps to make the season bright. Music fills our hearts as we make a

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world with the mastery. I'll be right here any longer trees. You see a trillion tree. One blood in front of another. We're

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ready to begin. Come on, my sisters, brothers. Let's let the future in. We've come so very far to reach a shining star. And now we're here to say this is

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our day. It's our time. Oh, it's our time. Oh, it's our time. I got my head on the sun. I'm laughing

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my favorite. I only got one thing on my There are mountains and rivers and oceans and plain, cities and castles and vessels and trains. Flowers and puppies

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and rainbows and birds around and around in our all around. All around. All around. All around. And the world. And the world. All around. All

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around. We will live. We will learn. We will laugh. We will love. Long as the world goes around. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. The next teachers we would like to honor

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are teachers from Horbell. Um they were not able to make it today, but I'd like to give a shout out to Mr. Orchio working hard with our fifth and sixth graders in the band there. Um Mrs. Sewall for working hard with our students in our general music classes and chorus program. Um, as well as Mr. Brown, too. Um, because we have the

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opportunity to work with him as well at Horbel in our general music classes. So, thank you to each of them. Great. The next school we'd like to honor are our teachers at Brackman. Um, which is Mr. Gagnen and Mr. Walt. I'm going to ask um, Mr. Toddings to share with you a little

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bit about them. >> Good evening everyone. Um, unfortunately neither of our teachers could make it, but I just want to come up and say a few words about Mr. Gagnon and Mr. Wald. Both of them just do an amazing job. As we all know, they've both been in the district for multiple years. I know Mr.

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Gagnon over 20 years and Mr. Wald at least 10 to 15. Um, and just do a tremendous job year in and year out. Our select choir and our jazz band reached a gold status, which is the highest rating that they can achieve. And they just do

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a tremendous job. They recruit kids. They bring them in. We both I think both programs have over a hundred students in them is just a testament of how hard they work. The competitions they go to um every year and just crush it. They are amazing at what they do. They put on

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um not only the competitions but um benefits. They go out into the community. They're everywhere. They were at um the Barnagate Fest last week or two weekends ago and just everything that they put their hands on and touch just turns to gold. No pun intended. and they are just amazing at what they do

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and we are blessed to have both of them in our program. So, thank you. >> The last two music teachers we'll be calling up today are Mr. Sam Sgaro. So, Sam, come on up. And Mr. Dan McGrath. We are very fortunate to have both of them at BHS doing an amazing job finishing

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the music career of our students in Barnagate as they have the opportunity to work with these teachers in 9th through 12th grade. >> Fantastic. At Barnagga High School, uh, music education continues to strive through a diverse range of performances and creative opportunities for our students. Um, under the leadership of

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Dan McGrath and course director Lauren Sewald, um, students get to showcase their music talents and at concerts, community performances. If you were just at the men's or women's club over at the Mirage, there was a fantastic jazz performance. It was fantastic. Um, their commitment

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is without question. Um, but then take a step further. Uh, they went on to perform at the Teen Arts Festival and then advanced both our chorus and our jazz band onto states, which is something that I can't remember last time it happened. So, fantastic. Um, in addition to our traditional music

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ensembles, uh, we also have Mr. Salgaro who heads up our recording arts program. Um, and if you're not familiar with our recording arts program, it is something to behold. Students are learning the technical aspects of creating music, recording music, and producing tracks. some of their tracks uh not only have

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benefited us in terms of playing like the intros for football games here um but they've gone on to crosscurricular projects produce music works with other classes and then to take it a step further we have had artists both put I'm looking right at you because I'm going to make I say it right we have put

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tracks and albums out on Spotify and on Apple Music so we're actually taking that barrier of classroom and turning it over to real world so really adv advancing our math program, our music program. Um, and it's something to behold to see how they've grown our programs and expanded them over the

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years. So, thank you guys very much. Hey, listen. Math is a big part. Like, you know, 1/8 time or something. Here we go. Quarter time. All right. Fantastic. Congratulations, Mr. McGrath, Mr. Algar. >> Thank you all so much. Um, we were excited to share the opportunity to recognize our teachers with the district

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today. Um, I'm so incredibly proud to work with each of you and have the opportunity to collaborate every year. So, thank you guys so much for everything you do for our students. >> Hi everybody. Um it is my pleasure tonight um to continue the celebrations and recognitions of the day. I feel like

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the entire dedicated to that and that's been such a pleasure. Um but it's my pleasure tonight to recognize our outstanding staff members of the year um in various different categories throughout the district. Uh

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there are a few that I know can't be here, so I will announce them at the end, but there are a few who might have been able to be here tonight. So um I'll call those out first. So sorry, I need my glasses for this. In the category of

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K12 paraprofessional, Jod Canazaro. Is Jod here tonight? at the Donnie Hughes School. Teacher Gerard Degrazio, secretary Jessica Gangan, a preK prayer professional, Diane

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Hathaway. Oh, she came with a cheering squad. at Duny School. Teacher Tara Carroll, >> custodian Tim Willis, and teacher at Barneut High School, William Thorne.

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So, I'd like to say congratulations to all of those who are present. Uh, I'd also like to announce some who couldn't be present tonight because of various different conflicts. very busy time of year at Bman School. Jonathan Gordon,

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teacher, AC's paraprofessional. Maria Fontana, child study team member. Kristen Reed from Colin School. Teacher Allison Greco from Horbelt School. Teacher Giovanno Degrazio.

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and from our transportation department, bus driver Lorie Kennedy. So, congratulations to all of those who were honored tonight. Give me a second here. All right. Um, so we just wanted to take a minute to

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recognize a several of our board members, which we do whenever they've uh made an achievement. So recently, uh, three of our board members have, uh, received certification through New Jersey School Board Association, and we're going to, uh, recognize them

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tonight. So, Mr. Hearn and Mrs. Genie both to uh uh receive their new board boardsmanship certification recently. Uh to do so they had to accumulate 10 board member academy credits and at least three core areas of

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governance, student achievement, policy, finance, advocacy, and special education. uh attend a face-to-face governance, one new board orientation, and attend at least one statewide or regional professional development, at least two county association meetings, and one

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annual New Jersey schoolboard conference. And it has to be done within the first two years of serving on the board and they have can have not violated any school ethics acts. So, congratulations to both of you on achieving the certification. Very proud.

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And our third member is Mrs. Churnney who has earned the certified board member certification. Um to earn this you has to earn at least 20 cumulative board member academy credits in at least four of the core areas of governance,

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policy, finance or special education. Attend at least four county meetings. Attend at least one annual New Jersey school board workshop. attend at least one delegate assembly and attend at least one state or regional program and have completed at least three full years

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of service to attain the certification. So again congratulations Mrs. Churnney and again thank you each and every all nine of eight of you um for everything you do for the district. So greatly appreciated. Few more things really quick. Um, couple

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highlights. Uh, I'm sure everybody saw on social media. We rolled out the STEM bus. Uh, made its inaugural stop at Colin School where students explored the science of volcanoes. Uh so thank you to the board of education for your support of that initiative. Um and thank you to

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the various administrators um and the staff members that came together to to make that possible. So that was very very exciting. So congratulations there. Um just a couple sports related things to put out there. We obviously had our inaugural year with the shore uh with

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our flag football. Um and uh the team went undefeated and won the short conference which was uh unbelievably excited exciting. I think they would have continued to go on uh however this year there was no state format but it would have been awesome to see uh those young ladies compete for that. So congratulations to that team.

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Congratulations to uh Patre uh coach Petrusi on winning uh football coach flag football coach of the year. Um, as well as, uh, shout out to the girls softball team, uh, for making school history and winning the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 Championship. So,

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congratulations to them. Uh, and then lastly, I just had a few words. Uh, this is obviously going to be my last board meeting. Um, as many of you know, my journey in Barnick, it began about 11 years ago, uh, when I arrived as the director of special education. And in 2018, I was given the incredible opportunity to serve as

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superintendent of schools, a responsibility that has been one of the greatest honors of my professional career. When I reflect on the past decade, I'm incred incredibly proud of what we have accomplished together. We've expanded opportunities for students, strengthened academic achievement, developed an award-winning preschool program, successfully

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navigated unprecedented challenges like COVID, and continued to move the district forward while always keeping our students at the center of the decisions. Whether it was the high school getting middle states accredited or passing CUSAC for the first time in history of our school district, uh we have become stronger, more innovative, and more student focused because of the

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collective efforts of our board of education, administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and community members. I've been fortunate to work alongside dedicated professionals who care deeply about children and who show up each and every day committed to making a difference. And together, we've celebrated successes, faced challenges, and built a culture that reflects the

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pride of this community. I really do appreciate the BEA leadership. uh you guys have uh partnered uh with the administration um which I think really made all the difference over these uh the last decade. The administrative team both past and present is second to none and I'm proud of the progress made in

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the challenges that we've navigated together. And uh most importantly I'd like to thank the students of Barnaga Township. Your your accomplishments, resilience, and spirit have inspired me every day and you are the backbone and the reason behind our Barnagan inspires. So while I may be leaving Barnaga Township School District, part of me

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will always remain a Bengal and I will forever be grateful for the friendships, experiences, and memories that this community has given me. Once a Bengal, always a Bengal. So thank you. >> I think that concludes the superintendent district highlights. Back to you, President Sarno.

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>> Thank you very much, Dr. Lawless. Um, again, I thank Dr. a lot for everything he's brought to this district and uh as a board and board president, I only wish you well in your endeavors moving forward. Um I hope you have great success. I'm sure you will um in your

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new district and uh you know wish you the best. So thank you. Um few things I just wanted to touch upon. Uh one of the the we had the superintendent meeting last Tuesday to uh conversation with the public. We had a nice turnout um at the

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meeting. A lot of robust conversation um and last we checked with the schoolboard representative. I think online there was over 150 um responses. So we're waiting eagerly for that to close to kind of get a view uh when he

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call puts it all together um to see what the thoughts are um from the community staff. I know there's some students there um to hear their their feedback. So, really appreciate that and looking forward to it. Um, obviously graduation is tomorrow on both ends,

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>> 3:00 for middle school. Thank you, Josh. I would have been there at 4. Um, so again, appreciate everything the the staff administration does putting this all together. I know it's not a small endeavor. Um, a lot of hard work goes into it from everyone from your

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principles down to your your secretaries, your custodians, your maintenance guys, um, and girls, everybody, uh, really puts a lot of effort into this all the way through, not just to the graduation, even after the graduation. So, I know there's a lot that goes into it. Greatly appreciated on behalf of the board. Um, it always

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turns out perfectly, runs smoothly, and um, I'm sure the same again tomorrow. So, looking forward to it um, on behalf of the full board. Um lastly to our staff and no students here but our students also um again enjoy the summer.

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Um you know we appreciate everything all the time you put in all the effort that you put in for our students our community. Um the summer I hope you know is obviously welld deserved for each and every one of you and those that are not here. Um we're grateful on behalf of the board of for what you do for our

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students and our community. um we can never show you enough appreciation and thank you enough for uh what you do for our students. So again, very grateful and I just hope you enjoy your summer. Have a safe fun summer and the same with our students. We'll address that

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tomorrow. Just have a a great fun summer, safe summer. That's the most important thing. Um and again on beh uh the board itself, I just want to thank the board members, the eight board members here. It's been another successful in my eyes uh school year. Um, and we have our differences. We

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don't agree on everything. We don't see the same things with with all items, but at the end of the day, we come to an agreement on things and we put the students first, we put our staff first, we put our community first in all the decisions we make and we will continue to do that moving forward. So again, I

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appreciate each and every one of you, all the time and effort you put in um on a daily basis. It's uh greatly appreciated. So, thank each and every one of you. And with that, I am done with my president's remarks. We will move on to item 15 on the agenda, which

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is public session. Baring Township Board of Education appreciates and welcomes public comment, advice, and suggestions, especially when it's intended to assist the board of education. Please feel free to speak to the board during public session. Comments and discussion will be limited to one five-minute period per individual

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unless requested by the chairperson to continue on a point of clarification. Public comment at special meetings of the board shall be related to the call of the meeting. In accordance with the board of education policy, each participant must be recognized by the presiding officer and must preface their comments by an announcement of their

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name, address, and group affiliation if appropriate. Your anticipated courtesy to the members of the public and the board is appreciated. >> Can I motion to open public session, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Miss Jurnney. >> Yes.

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>> Miss Continz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedoric. Yes, >> Miss Jeanie. >> Yes, >> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes, >> Mr. Pizaro. >> Yes, >> Miss Washburn. >> Yes, >> Mr. Sarno. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> With that, public session is open. Is there anyone that would like to address

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the board? I see Mr. Jano's hand up first and Morgus. >> Okay. >> Hey everybody. Uh, my name is John Gmano. I am the president of the association of uh born again administrators. I just wanted to take a quick moment on behalf of our entire

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administrative team. We wanted to thank the board for a great year. We wanted to thank Joe Saxton for his leadership and guidance. He was our board. He was our ABBA president for about the last eight years. He's uh kind of been a mentor to me. Me and him go way way back. Um so we

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wanted to wish him well as a unit. And we also wanted to thank Dr. Lwis. He was a very very good superintendent for us. We all wanted to say something very nice. We appreciate your friendship, your leadership, uh your honesty, all the things that you gave to the district, your heart, your soul. It

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means a lot to all of us. It's not unnoticed. And again, we wish you nothing but the best when you go to Ocean City. Um and that's just from us, but everybody want to say a little bit quick. >> I got you. We were each gonna say one and John just

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stole everything. So, uh, again, I was just going to say to Dr. Latis, thank you for your time here, Brian. Um, people forget just from everything just not only as a superintendent for your service, um, also as director of special education. I was actually on that hiring committee back in the day with, uh,

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Superintendent Wood at the time. And, um, just learning from you, growing with you is uh, it's been a privilege. And you know again on behalf of everyone here we just want to say thank you for your friendship for your support for your guidance and um you know it's been a great learning experience and again we

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all want to wish you the best and uh wish you nothing but health and happiness in your next endeavor and um you know it it'll be uh we'll miss you and we thank you for your time and everything you did for us. Thank you. >> I want to echo much of the same sentiments. Uh Dr. Lowis again was also

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on that same hiring committee. uh appreciate your mentorship over the years. Appreciate everything that you've done for the teachers, for the students, and for the families of Barnagate. Um if we go back to a previous time, we weren't focused on things like Lexile scores or fontispanel scores or or

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knowing where our students were. Um making those gains that we had didn't go unnoticed. So, aside from pushing us to make sure that we were being our best every day, you made sure that we set the groundwork for our students to make sure that they could excel and they had a strong foundation. and we truly appreciate that and we appreciate truly

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appreciate everything that you've done for us. Um, and I'm going to look over to the camera real quick. Joe, I know you're not here. Uh, but I I truly appreciate Dr. Saxon in the same much of the same way. It's a very unique situation when you come in a very unique situation when you come

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into a high school and the former high school principal is still in the district and you're able to make a phone call and pick up the phone and he's able to, hey, this is graduation tip. Hey, watch out for this on the first day of school. um he always was that for me personally. And so I just want to say

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thank you. I I wish you the best in retirement and and thank you for all you've done for the many many families uh and the parents and the teachers and educators that you've influenced over the years. >> So I'll just close with a short statement. Truly, you can time me.

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Everybody is I know. But uh I'd be remiss without coming out here personally myself. But again, thank you for your leadership and support and confidence in all of us here. uh tremendously appreciated. You know, uh behind me, we've been here for over 20 years, us and we've got a great crew

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over there, a lot of new additions, and one of the best things that uh I'm grateful for is certainly the camaraderie that we have as a group and that leadership from you and support has been well recognized. I want to personally thank you too, especially in this uh new challenge that you uh put me in this role as director of special ed.

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Uh I can't tell you how much uh how grateful I am for your guidance and your support throughout that process. Thank you and I wish you the best in your next endeavors. >> Thank you. >> I don't have a group with me, but if you give me five minutes, come

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on. Come on. Uh, Lisa Voggas, director of transportation. I just wanted to say again, um, funny story is I picked up the phone one day and it was this guy named Brian Latis on the phone and he said to me, "Why do you have that ringtone and who's your favorite sports

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team?" And I said, "I don't know. I didn't pay my bills, so they took my ringtone off, but it was Hell's Bells and I like the Mets." And he said, "You're hired." Um, well, it kind of went like that, but I just wanted to say that in transportation, the big joke is

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that we're kind of above the playground aids. Um, and it's rare to have a guy bring you out of that and make you part of admin. I wasn't going to do this, but my kids are graduating in two days and the whole

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menopause thing, it's tough, Brian. Okay. um he took a chance on me and every crazy thing we wanted to do and the board as well and the board backed us and we are the department that we are because of Brian Latis and the board of

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education and I you know we know where our bread is butter don't don't get me wrong but um there would be no one Barnagget without that gentleman he made us drink the Kool-Aid we believed and I want to thank you personally cuz you know who's going to

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hire the little chubby white chick from Bayville but you. Thank you. >> Good evening Jared Burke 103 Oregon a and also vice principal at Barnett High School. Uh we'll get to him later, but there's a couple other folks in here I

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want to congratulate. First, Miss Sue Rogers. Uh, I've gotten to see her over the years as coach, as uh, case manager for her students, and I can say just the relentless passion and advocacy for her students is just impressive, and I hope our our younger case managers are taking

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note of that, and we could use a few more of her in the years going forward. Congratulations. I'd also like to congratulate Mr. John Gmano. This probably is, and I'm not sure the official stats on this, but this is probably the most successful varsity

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season in Barnagate High School history with the number of state titles, coaches or state titles, division titles, coaches of the year, players of the year. It's absolutely been amazing. So, John, congrats, buddy. Next one is Dr. Saxton. Um, he that one

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hits close to home. He was my high school English teacher and home room teacher for four years. So we go all the way back to I think 1994. And so it's it's bittersweet to see him go. Happy for him because obviously he's put his time in from dealing with me back in Lacy High School to all he's

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done for Barnett over here. Just wish him the best of luck and congratulations. And lastly, Dr. Latwis, I just wanted to make a a point to say thank you. Um, you know, a lot of us on this admin team, the the group that was up here, they've been around for a while. They were on the team before you, and I I felt that

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there was that special connection knowing that you had the faith to give me an opportunity and the support to help me grow. Just want to say thank you and best of luck. Is I think over here. Yes. Hi, Caroline Pstera. I live at 30 Tower

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Lane and I'm also the library tech at Collins School. First and foremost, I am so happy that we inducted Sue Rogers into the Hall of Fame.

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Sue has been a very important part of my children's lives. It began with a little tennis camp in 201 13

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with my Anna. It was those free camps for the week and Anna said, "I want to do tennis." She was throwing shotp putut for the middle school and she was playing baseball and Sue Rogers put a tennis racket in her

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hand and she ended up being third in the county and got a full academic ride to College of New Jersey and her fifth year was paid for because she was their assistant women's coach. So she also touched my son's life by

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also putting that tennis racket in his hand and I he played baseball and he decided to go out for the tennis team and he ended up being first singles and he was second in the county and he

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played for his college. Uh he went to Mercer County. He is now an airline pilot. He went through their aviation program. Sue Rogers was an integral part in the human beings that they are today. She taught them sportsmanship.

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She taught them kindness. She taught them a good handshake. She taught them how to speak to people. She was just a wonderful mentor for both of

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my children. And I know that she touched many, many, many children's lives. Both my children did tennis challenge challenger league with Sue Rogers and my son ended up walking a student at

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graduation. Um they taught she uh a proponent of love is the gift of self-donation and always giving back and giving of

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yourself. Um she's just uh I'm so happy that she's in the Hall of Fame. so welld deserved and I know that she fought very hard and diligent for this district to always do the right thing by every student whether

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they were special education or general education whether they didn't speak the language or did speak the language Sue was always their advocate and that's the word

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mentor an advocate and we as a district should be very honored to have had her with us. And uh I just wanted to say that. And secondly, my children were

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also touched by the music departments of this school district. Another Hall of Famer, Frank Constantine. My daughter plays piano. My son plays guitar. He mentored both of them first

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with Mrs. Brennan in the Collins school. Gave them the love of music. Wanted to play an instrument. So we made music a part of their life. They will always have that. And uh non-negotiable. They both tried out for

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the jazz band, vocal ensemble for my daughter and excelled in both. Anna played uh piano and did gold status. We traveled all over. Fun fun fun. We had the jazz band uh van and all the

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competitions. Always taking gold and uh the music program here has also made my children who they are today. It enhanced them as human beings. So kudos to our music department because they do

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a really really great job and music is something that every child should have in their life as well as art and uh it's something that you'll always have. You can as long as you can read music and uh so I wanted to to say that for our music

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department and then lastly to Dr. Atlas, I uh we've had our moments that one back to school night, I think. Sorry, I'm over my time, but anyway, thank goodness you have such a great

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sense of humor, but I just wanted to say that um I've been with the district for 25 years and seen many superintendent. I can honestly say uh in my time with the different superintendents,

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I felt that you were probably the most down to earth for me anyway. Uh attainable, uh reachable, and um always

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were there. and I thank you for choosing me for the superintendent's advisory committee. I was honored to be on that committee and collaborate with you. Pause for a cause. Also uh my joy to uh

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do that for the district under your toutelage and um I just want to thank you for your service for the students and staff of uh Bornean Township. sad for us um unfortunately but you know um

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happy for you that um you have this afforded this opportunity and I wish you only the best of luck in your future and um I just wanted to offer that to you and I thank everybody for their time.

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>> Thank you. Is there anybody else like toward? Seeing none, can I have a motion to close public session, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Miss Churnney, >> yes. >> Miss Kinanza,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Vorzik, >> yes. >> Miss Genie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Bizaro, >> yes. Miss Washburn, >> yes. >> And Mr. Sarna, >> yes. >> Motion carried.

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>> Thank you. All right. Item 16 on our agenda is finance committee motions. We have motions 1 through 23. And get a motion to approve those 23, please. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Miss Churnney. >> Yes.

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>> Miss Continanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. >> Miss Genie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Bizaro. >> Yes to everything. I'm going to abstain on 21 due to my employment with the county. >> Thank you. Miss Washburn. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Sarno.

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>> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Item 17 on the agenda is buildings, grounds, transportation, and food services motions. And there is one. Can I get a motion to approve that one, please? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Miss Churnney.

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>> Yes. >> Miss Continza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. Miss Jeanie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Pizaro, >> yes. >> Miss Washburn, >> yes. >> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item 18 on your agenda is education

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committee motions. We have motions one through six. Can I get a motion approve those six, please? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Miss Jurnney. >> Yes. >> Miss Continanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. >> Miss Genie. >> Yes. Yes.

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>> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes. Miss Pizaro, >> yes. >> Miss Washburn, >> yes. >> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Thank >> you. Item 19 on the agenda is education committee information. Uh there's just two there. They are information for the

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public. Nothing to vote on. Item 20 on your agenda is governance committee motions. We have motions one through five. Can I get a motion to approve those five, please? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Miss Churnney. >> Yes. Miss Continanza,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Fedoric, >> yes. >> Miss Genie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Pizaro, >> yes. >> Miss Washburn, >> yes. >> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Item 21 on your agenda is health safety technology committee motions. We have one motion on there.

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Can I get a motion to approve that one, please? >> So moved. Second or >> Miss Churnney? >> Yes. >> Miss Continza? >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic? >> Yes. >> Miss Genie? >> Yes. Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Bizaro, >> yes.

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>> Miss Washburn, >> yes. >> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> You item 22 on the agenda is personnel committee motions. We have motions one through 23. Can I get a motion to approve those 23, please? >> So moved. >> Second.

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>> Roll call. >> Miss Churnney. >> Yes. >> Miss Continza, >> yes. >> Mr. Fedoric, >> yes to all. No on number five. Miss Genie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Pizaro,

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>> yes to everything. No on number five. >> Miss Washburn, >> yes. >> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Personnel committee information number uh item 23 on your agenda, information for the public.

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Nothing for the board to vote on. And item 24 is executive session. Can I have a motion to move into executive session discuss report personnel matters and CSA evaluation please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Miss Churnney.

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>> Yes. >> Miss Considanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedoric. >> Yes. >> Miss Genie. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pizaro. >> Yes. >> Miss Washburn. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sarno. >> Yes. Motion carried.

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>> Yep. We will be well. >> Shouldn't be that long. all this morning board of education meeting to order, please. Roll call. >> Miss Churnney >> here. >> Miss Continanza >> here. >> Mr. Fedoric >> here. >> Miss Genie >> here.

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>> Mr. Hearn >> here. >> Mr. Pizaro >> here. >> Miss Washburn >> here. and Mr. Sarno >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> You um under new business, we have motion number one, motion to approve the HIP report as presented in executive by

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the superintendent. Can I get a motion to approve that, please? >> So moved. >> Second roll. >> Miss Churnney. >> Miss Continanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. Miss Jeanie, >> yes.

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>> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Pizaro, >> yes. >> M Washburn, >> yes. >> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Item number two on new business. >> Item number two is motion to approve the following reser resignation for the 20 26 2027

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school year. Sorry, I can't speak. Britney Sher, supervisor of special education administration, effective date of August 14, 2026. >> Motion to approve that, please. >> So moved. Second >> roll call. >> Miss Churnney. >> Yes. >> Miss Continanza.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Fedoric. >> Yes. >> Miss Jeanie? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hearn? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pizaro? >> Yes. >> Miss Washburn? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sarno? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Item number three under new business. >> Motion to approve the following two new

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hires for the 2026 2012 27 school year. Uh, Junior Appaloon, teacher of French Spanish at the high school. effective date September 1, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 on step one, MA30 at an annual salary of $67,989.

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And number two is Gina Rios, supervisor of special education effective September 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 at an annual salary of 104,500 step B on the guide. And that will be prrated for her September 1st start

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date. Motion to approve that please. >> So moved. >> Second. Roll call. >> Miss Charnie. >> Yes. >> Miss Kinanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. >> Miss Jeanie? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hearn?

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Bizaro? >> Yes. >> Miss Washburn? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sarno? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item number four under new business. Motion to approve Junior Appaloon as substitute teacher for the ESY for the 2026 2027 school year.

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>> Motion to approve that, please. >> So move. >> Second roll call. >> Miss Jurnney, >> yes. >> Miss Continanza, >> yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic, >> yes. >> Miss Genie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hearn, >> yes. >> Mr. Pizaro, >> yes. >> Miss uh Washburn, >> yes.

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>> Mr. Sarno, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item number five on the new business. Uh it's a revision to the motion in April. So it's a motion to approve the 2026 2027 food service management company cost reimburseable agreement between the Binget board of ed and neutrerve for the

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school year 2026 2027 which is year three of a 5-year agreement. The agreement is awarded through the renewal process and this agreement is in compliance with all required processes for the national school lunch program. The cost reimburseable cents per meal is.2266

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and a total cost of the contract is 1,869,6 uh46. The guarantee to the school is the 50,000 with a projected annual gain of 101,8682. >> Motion to approve that, please. >> So moved.

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>> Second. >> Roal. >> Miss Jurnney. >> Yes. >> Miss Contin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedors. Yes, >> Miss Jeie. >> Yes, >> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes, >> Mr. Bizaro. >> Yes, >> Miss Washburn. >> Abstain, >> Mr. Sarno. >> Yes. >> Motion carried.

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>> Thank you. Item number six on the new business. >> Motion to approve the following new hire for the 2026 2027 school year. Colleen Camurn, uh, teacher of grade four for Donahghue School, effective September 1, 2026 through June 30th, 2027. Step three

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BA an annual salary of $63,89. >> Motion to approve that, please. >> So moved. >> That's it. >> Roal. >> Miss Jurnney. >> Yes. >> Miss Continanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fedorzic. >> Yes. >> Miss Genie. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bizaro. >> Yes. >> Miss Washburn. >> Abstain. >> And Mr. Sarno? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> And that's it. Right. That's it. >> Can I get a motion to adjurnn, please? >> So move.

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>> Second. >> Roll. >> Miss Churnney. >> Yes. >> Miss Continanza. >> Yes. >> Mr. Vorzic. >> Uh before I give my vote, Mr. Carol, welcome aboard. Uh regardless of my vote this evening and last week or you know, last month, whatever it was, uh I do

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pledge to work with you as we usher in and move this district forward. So just welcome aboard. And lastly to Brian, Dr. Lwis. uh we interacted for the first time. I was on the other side of the deis uh was up there at the podium quite a bit and uh we didn't dis you know we

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didn't agree on a lot of things uh but I do want to thank you for your openness um just you know your ability to sit down have discussions uh and even as a board member uh just being there and just you know talking through things. So congratulate you. Good luck down there

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and uh you know maybe we'll cross paths again with that. Yes. Let's close. >> Miss Genie. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hearn. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pizaro? >> Yes. >> Miss Washburn? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sarno? >> Yes. Motion carried.

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>> Meeting adjourned. Thank you.