All right, I'll call to order the uh workshop portion of the board meeting. Do a quick roll call. Trusty Bashet. >> Trusty Burke >> here. >> Trusty Gesi Rodriguez absent. Trusty Gonzalez
>> here. Trusty Siola >> here. >> Trusty Scofphane >> here. >> Trusty Young >> here. >> Vice President Mio >> here. >> And President Desmond >> here. >> All right. The packet was emailed out and obviously
discussed at committee meeting. There are two small revisions. The first is to A4 which is field trips. There was three additional field trips added. You could see it on the back page
of A4. >> Mr. Castle. Oh, I can hear you. >> Can't hear me. >> No. And now >> got me now >> a little bit. There we go. Thank you. >> There we go. >> Far away down here. [laughter] >> Is that better? >> Yes. >> Okay.
>> So A4 is the three extra chips. And then the other revision is B10 is a duplicate of A3. So, we're going to hold B10. >> Okay. >> Are there any questions regarding those
changes or anything on the agenda? >> I just want to be clear because I have to do something with these. >> Okay. >> A3 is the one I'm concentrating on. >> Okay. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. Okay, that is all I have for the agenda.
Um, before the assistant superintendent discuss anything, do you have anything uh present? >> No. >> Thank you. >> Okay, superintendent, anything? >> Uh, no. We'll have uh uh from left to right uh Dr. Dagman start his
presentation. Thank you, Dr. D. >> Thank you. [clears throat] Good evening. Our elementary students are currently in the thick of a very successful academic competition season. We are seeing incredible talent and sportsmanship across the district. First was the
district spelling bee and after several competitive rounds, the first place title was awarded to Isaiah Cassie, a seventh grade student representing Horus Man School. Second place honors went to Macashri Chicherella, also a seventh grader representing Dr. Walter F.
Robinson School. And the third place winner was Noah Johnson, an eighth grade student from Lincoln Community School. All contestants demonstrated exceptional spelling skills, confidence, and dedication throughout the competition. The district's top finishers, as well as the top spellers from each participating
school, will advance to the Bayon Hudson County Spelling Bee scheduled for February 7th at 8 a.m. at the Hudson County Schools of Technology. We also had project innovate and following the school level competitions, 88 elementary students advanced to the
district project innovate competition. Their work was evaluated by a panel of educators, local scientists, and community leaders. From this group, 45 elementary students were selected to advance to the 68th annual Hudson County STEM showcase. They will be joined by 19
Bayon High School students for a total of 64 students representing the district at the countywide event which will be held at Liberty Science Center on March 2nd. Project Innovate is more than a competition. It is a meaningful learning experience that encourages students to
think critically, problem solve, and share their passion for science. We also had our district chess tournament uh which was a 4-day event held at Walt F. Robinson School and was a success for all the students and coaches who participated in it. We had
over 150 students participate in this event. Our overall champion was Lincoln Community School and our B team winner was also Lincoln Community School. Presently, we are looking forward to our next event which is the geography B. Please stay tuned for results. I am
proud to announce that the district has awarded the NJ DOE literacy initiative for thrive for families and thriving communities also known as the lift grant. It's a competitive federally funded program that allows us to impact our community even before the students reach school age. And what's the
mission? To build homebased literacy habits for children from birth to age three. and we'll be conducting the workshops at our community partners, the Bayon Public Library, the Community Day Nursery, and the Bayon Youth Center. And our goal is to ensure every child in Bon
has a foundation for literacy that begins at home. Once again, we continue with our lead day. And on June 3rd, all grade five students will participate in lead day. This is a positive, high energy collaboration with the Bayum Police Department focused on making healthy
life choices. This month, the Bayon public schools are proud to celebrate Black History Month. Black history is American history. We are kicking off February with vibrant celebrations of African-American history and achieve a achievements in both the
elementary and high school. These programs highlight the contributions of African-Americans that have shaped our nation and our local community. And finally, I'd like to take a moment to address our families. While we all have these amazing programs, their success depends on one
thing. Students being in their seats. We understand that children get sick and they should stay home to recover when they are ill. However, it is of utmost importance that children are in their seats when they are not ill. Every day a student misses school is a day of lost instruction that cannot be fully
replaced. When students attend regularly, especially when they are healthy, they build the social and academic stamina required for long-term success. Please help us help your children by making school attendance a top priority. Thank you.
>> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Dr. Dn. Uh Dr. Reglin Brown. >> Yeah, I'd just like to make a comment. But I I was fortunate enough to attend the spelling be and the STEM competition and I was blown away at the STEM competition on how well done the
projects were and that's just a testament to our teachers. So I'd like to commend them for the hard work that they do in and out every single day and congratulate all those children. They were fantastic. >> Yes. >> Thank you, sir.
>> Good evening. Um, I would also like to say a huge congratulations to the following students for coming in first place in the county Hudson County GOB. Um, this event was held on January 22nd. We had a group of phenomenal students
placed first. Last year we placed third. So these students, I would like to recognize them. Victor Suarez from Henry Harris, Gregory Goffin from Robinson, Giannis Hammani from Robinson, Yavanni
Aras from MJ Mary J, Maria Isaac from Lincoln, >> Juanis Diche from Horus, man. Eric Sierra Castellon from Midtown in the office
>> and Jonathan Roel from Wardro Wilson. Also a special thank you to our phenomenal G&T coaches Terasto, Lisa Gomez, Tanya Meley and our phenomenal teachers for preparing students for this event. Also this upcoming um Saturday we
do we have 22 students participating in the King Scholar Academy consisting of seventh and eighth grade students and is through a explo exploration of science through the arts and this program is developed by the department of integrative science and technology
through Kain University and students have the opportunity to attend sessions on eight um different Saturdays and the first one like I mentioned before starts this Saturday. Um, another upcoming event we have from for students is the Princeton Youth STEM Conference. 22
students will be attending this event. Um, in March, students were identified who showed a significant interest in science and math who displayed leadership and also high academic potential. and we do eight of the winners of the project innovate will be
attending this event along with 14 other students um identified through other measures and then finally I'm excited to share that we are in partnership with Ruckers and NJ DOE um six members of our
um district NJTSS team will will be participating in this event is a live forum of community members who basically the goal is to help us with the imple implementation of NJTSS and we are looking forward to strengthening our
district's NJTSS process. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Vicarelli. >> Good evening, everyone. Um, first I'd like to um acknowledge our Bayon High School students in our project
independence program. They have started their mobile coffee cart, their baking goods, managing inventory, sales, profits, and expense and expenses. Um, this is a great opportunity for our students to gain true work-based learning experience. And as a district,
we're going to continue to create create these opportunities for our students. Um, they still do work outside in the community as well, but it's important for us to create opportunities for them and it's been a major major success so far. So, we're very excited about that.
Um, we're we'd like to acknowledge uh Bayon High School student council. Um, every year they host a sweetheart dance along with Miss Mar's unified PE class. Um, they will have a dance for our project, they host a dance for the
project independent students and it's always a great success and something that our students look very forward to every year. Um, February is rare disease month. Um we will you know be promoting um awareness, positivity, love and hope.
Every year we do a fundraiser um where all proceeds go to the Fighting Hard Foundation and we will do that again this year um along with raising awareness. And finally, we had a CPAC meeting, um, special ed parent advisory
council meeting last week, and we had many, many parents attend, many parents interested in being the organizers of the CPAC. Um, we had a great presentation from the Hudson County Access Program, which provides
um a a program for students to help prepare them for entering into college. Um, we also had the division of vocational rehabilitation come and speak with the parents as well. We have been doing workshops all through the year. We
will continue and we'll have three more parent workshops and CPAC meetings. So, you know, we will continue to encourage families to come out and get as much information um that you can and we're always going to continue to provide these resources to our families. Thank
you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh not to put him on the spot, but uh Mr. Cooz is substituting for Mr. Fagu, who's detained at hockey. >> Thank you, Superintendent. Uh all of my
items will be discussed in uh executive today. They're all personnel items. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, sir. Madam President, >> I just wanted to um congratulate staff and students and their families for
supporting them. but all the traditional educational programs participations expansion of of um experiences with all whether it's the
spelling be or the um programs that came these are all so important and give such balance and exposure um I I just find it very exciting and they're doing so well the is incredible. So I think the the
students um for participating but the staff for preparing them and offering the additional experiences I think it's very very important. >> Thank you President.
Uh, just one more thing. I'd like to wish everybody a happy Groundhog Day. And, uh, Ernie >> six more weeks. Six more weeks of winter, but I think that's going to change next year. Ernie's in training with one of our project independence
kids uh, for next year for him to be the groundhog for Bon. So, there's a there's a big project in works where we're going to build him a little house and he's going to come out. But, it it's it's really working well. So, uh, uh, Miss V, thanks for allowing that young man to
work with Ernie to become our groundhog. He wasn't ready this year. We don't want to put too much pressure on him, but that in any event, uh, Madam President, >> does anyone have any? >> Yes, I have capital question saying, um,
it seems that we going back to Tuesday meetings. Um, I want to say whoever came up with it, thank you. Um but we didn't have that issue with having a Monday how it is now. It just the communication was not there. um you know uh if you
wouldn't somebody would to say something to us that you were moving the meeting from Tuesday to Monday you know I think we will be you know I agree with it but there was no communication between you guys to us um and now we going back to
Tuesday and I feel that that is um kind of a little disrespectful when we went for the Monday meeting and we had nothing to do um you no one say anything to us. Um you'll receive the dates. It was supposed to be on Monday.
I coach to different sports. I do after school program and I clear my Tuesday meeting to be able to um to be here on Tuesdays. The other question that I do have is I don't know if we can discuss this to the
public but is regarding the administrative leave in this district. We have over after today we will have more than half a million dollars in salaries in administrative it seems like administrative leave but this one particular individual that I'm very
concern you're not concerned about is is that um according to in February he was put on administrative leave and now he's uh in medical leave and we never approved that and I never seen
documentation stating that We approve his sick leave. Um I just want somebody to give me a clear answer on his status. Um there was an investigation also being placed um by uh >> yeah trustee I I we'll we'll handle this in executive session. It's getting close
to uh it's over personnel all personnel items have to be discussed. >> Executive session doesn't work either because y never gave us straight answers either on that. >> So >> well I'd like to address the Monday Tuesday thing. I'm not aware of anyone that had requested
Mondays instead of Tuesdays. I apologize for not realizing it was Mondays because we all agreed to Tuesday. So, I'll take ownership of that one. I didn't realize
even after getting the same information you all got, it was when I was here that I realized those dates represented Monday. So I apologize. >> According to Castle, you received those date December 19th. >> So >> I did assume
>> Mr. Castle say out loud. I assumed it was the same Tuesdays we had agreed previously to Tuesday. So I do apologize. I didn't check. >> For me, that's a way of disrespectful. So that's how you know. >> I apologize.
Good. >> All right. It is 5:52. We'll now close the workshop portion and be back in seven minutes uh for the regular meeting. Thank you guys.