[Music] United States of America stands nation. All right. Very good. We're going to call our meeting to order. This meeting's been posted in accordance with
chapter 231 PL1975. Um, we'd like to welcome School Offices Solutions with Tina Ikeo. Would you please do our roll call? >> Thank you. Trusty Leon
>> here. >> Trusty Gillis >> here. >> Trusty Munice >> here. >> Trustee Misagia >> here. Trustee Pacheco >> here. >> Vice President Darl >> here. >> President Bennett Meanie
>> here. >> We have a quorum. >> Okay. We have a motion to approve our minutes from July 21st, 2025, both close session and public. >> So moved. >> I'll second that. Mike Mike Darrow. >> Sorry.
>> All right. All those in favor? >> I. >> Okay. It um would it make it easier if we say our name after our motions tonight? All right. >> Okay. All right. So, let's start with some reports and let's also welcome our uh
student government organization rep. That's Joselyn Sepulvina. Hi, how are you? Welcome. Thank you for coming here over your summer and um it's yours. >> Hi, thank you. Good evening everyone. I hope you're all
enjoying your summer. In old news, on August 5th, the Belleville Police Department hosted National Night Out at Belleville's Miss Municipal Stadium. Our community gathered around for a fun night, including music, games, truck vendors,
and more. In new news, Belleville High School's freshman orientation will be held on August 19th. All incoming freshmen and other new students are highly encouraged to attend. The orientation will include a tour of the school, anformational session for parents, and an open house for school
clubs. Please visit belleville schools.org for more information. On August 21st, there will be a back to school supply drive at 5:30 p.m. This event will be held at Belleville School number 7. It includes a backpack and school supply giveaway, bounce houses,
food trucks, and more. Lastly, I would like to remind everyone that the first day of school is September 4th. I look forward to having an amazing school year with you all. Check out and follow the the journalism club on Instagram at Belleville Buccaneer to access
Belleville High School's monthly newsletters with school news, information, updates, and events for students, staff, and teachers. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. All right. Our administration has been very busy this
summer. Um, and we are well into August and soon it will be September. Um, again, Dr. Alonso has been working hard and his lines of communication has been open. He's got a lot to tell us. There's a lot going on. So, with that, would you
like to take it over? >> Good evening, President Benamini, members of the board, staff, family, and members of the community. It has been, as the president said, a very productive and busy time at central office as we prepare for the 2526 school year. At the end of July, we hosted a leadership
retreat that brought together our district leadership team for ve three very important initiatives. The first one was a vision planning session with addressed by myself and we chartered the course for the upcoming year. Our focus is on the back to basics and
communication. That is what we're truly focusing on in this year. establishing quality communication. The following day, we had a legal briefing by NJPSA lead council David Nash, and it was just to make sure that our leadership team is up to date with uh litigation, compliance, and
governance. And then we finalized with a very engaging and active two-day StrengthFinders workshop. They were led by certified coaches and they were designed to help our administrators identify and maximize their leadership strengths in service for our schools as well as working with each other by
knowing each other's strengths. In addition, we had a group of our administrators actually attend a national convening in Washington DC where officials from the US Department of Education uh hosted us. This has not only gave our team access to national
perspectives, but it allowed us to elevate Belleville and really establish that brand of Belleville excellence. I'm also proud to share that we were able to reallocate external funding that we had from a previous grant for fostering diverse schools grant from the
US Department of Education. Over $30,000 of that funding covered our summer programs. So, it's a huge savings for the district as well. Now, looking ahead, as our great student rep mentioned, August 21st, we're collaborating with
assembly Dr. Morales for the annual backpack drive. As part of the event, we're actually hosting a districtwide lunch application drive. We strongly encourage all families to come out, complete their applications, take advantage of the resources, and our staff that's there, our bilingual staff
that's there to assist them in completing this much necessary uh process. We can't stress enough that completion of lunch applications drives not only free and reduced lunch, but our programs and our funding. So, we urge our families to please come out. We are
there to support. We're there to help. We have paper, we have computers, whatever you need to help you with this process. And as a treat for completing your application, you're going to get some Belleville gear and you get some free ice cream. So, I would do a lot for free ice cream. A lunch application will
definitely be one of them. Now, additionally, as we all know, we are very committed to the enhancement and progress of our middle school. I'm very proud to announce that the new classroom furniture for the middle school has arrived. It creates a much more modern look, student centered
learning environment, and the installation of the new doors look absolutely fantastic. It has revitalized the middle school, giving it a great look. We already saw an increase in their academics last year, and now with the aesthetic touch to it, it's going to be a great focal point for the district.
And as we prepare for the new year, we've been conducting a comprehensive audit of all programs across every school and department. The goal is to maximize efficiency, enhance accountability, and ensure that funding is stewarded at the highest level responsibility. We're looking to at the
end of the audit uh prepare a report and inform our community of the savings that we've uh accomplished during that time. And finally, I'm thrilled to announce that we'll be launching our Belleville Aspiring Leaders Academy. This initiative is designed to support staff
members who either hold an administrative certificate or are currently completing their coursework to attain one. The space is limited and I strongly encourage all interested staff to apply. This is an efforts for our grow your own model that reflects our commitment to Belleville to our staff and to helping them grow and really
building a strong base within. Before I forget, as part of our grow your own, we've also been empowering our staff. We're very happy to announce that one of the recommendations today is for one of our in our in-house substitute teachers is being recommended for a middle school math position today. So
that is a fantastic uh recommendation as well. And in closing, I want to express my gratitude to the board, our staff, and the community for your partnership and trust. Together we are laying the foundation for a strong student soon centered school year where every decision is guided by the belief that
our children deserve the very best and we will be relentless in that effort. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you very much. All right. And I believe we have a um an update from Tina Ikeo on some of the business administrator stuff.
>> Yes. Thank you, President Benamini. Uh good evening board members, administrators, and community members. Uh thank you for having me tonight as your board secretary. I just wanted to take a moment um to give you some brief financial updates from the business office. Uh your full year 26 IDA federal
application was submitted for the full allocation of $1,385,881. For reference, this amount is less than 1% change from last year's prior allocation. So um we looked at kind of flat funding for that, which is great. The allocations for the full year 26 ESA
grant which includes your titles 1 through4 is $2,43,310. Uh Mr. Dia and I uh met today uh to discuss a little bit of the allocations there. He's going to be working through those allocations with his admin team over the next couple weeks for submission by midepptember. The business
office is working diligently towards closeout for the full year 25 year. Um, the auditors have already received all of their preliminary reports and samples for the 2425 purchasing cash and budgetary system. And in preparation for the finance and facilities portions of CUAC, I have held preliminary meetings
for comprehensive review of all of these items within these sections. And we're looking forward to successful successful inspections as both a result of this review and collaboration. Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Okay. And moving on, we'll do our remarks by
citizens. Um, so three minutes. Do we have a motion to open participation? >> So moved. >> And that's Dr. Liz Misagio. >> Yes. >> And I'll second that. Mike Darrow. >> VP Mike Darrow.
All right. So let's call first to the podium Michael Sheldon. Give me one moment, please. Okay. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Michael Sheldon, 47 Floyd Street. I have a few questions to ask regarding agenda items.
Uh firstly 9-11 uh you're hiring an interim uh business administrator board secretary. So obviously Mr. Paladino our previous BA won't be coming back anytime soon if ever. Uh but I I out of curiosity I
looked at Mr. um I'm sorry if I pronounced the name incorrectly is Bickiy's uh LinkedIn page. Uh maybe it hasn't been updated for a while, but it it lists that he is currently the business administrator for the Carne Board of Education and he's also
presently the assistant superintendent finance and board secretary for Garfield. I assume that those are obsolete um and are just legacy things, but uh I trust that our interim BA this will be his one and only focus. So I
just would like that to be confirmed if at all possible. Moving on. Um items 937 through 940. Uh it looks like you are uh reorganizing the district's security
officers, but I see four titles here. Are are these just simple uh uh ch job description changes or are you hiring new people? I'd like some clarification on exactly what is being proposed with
items 937 through 940. Uh 9-49, you're giving uh Dr. Dia a new contract, but it's not posted in the agenda. Uh I would like you to make that available as soon as you approve it without me having to file any OPER request. You are also
moving tonight to extend the lease agreement with Dors, Mr. Dorso for the um former state fair complex which is now most of the the district's business offices. Uh I would like the details of
that contract. Again, it's not posted here. Could you please make it readily available without having to go through the uh drudgery of filing another OPER request? Uh let's see here. And let's see. All right. Uh,
agenda item 12- 27. Um, approve northeast roof maintenance to do an emergency repair of a bathroom leak at the board of education building. Now, I'd like you to clarify. Is this the Dorso complex? And
if so, then why isn't Mr. Dorso doing the repair at his expense? So, could you please clarify what building is involved here? and why our district is having to spend the $1,600. And then lastly, I only have a few seconds left here. Um I
agenda item 12.38, approve Malaki Parts and Service as a vendor for kitchen commercial equipment, parts, and repairs. I noticed in the um in the uh summary you're paying this company $150 an hour for labor and I
just want I thought that was kind of high all things considered because I think Mr. Bush's firm gets $150 an hour. Was it 175? >> Yeah, it's gone up over time just like everything else. All right. I don't know exactly where we are right now, >> but it's probably not much more. >> It's not 150 an hour though.
>> It's a little bit more. >> I don't know. I don't know if one's I don't know where we are. I couldn't find what the the out off the top of my head because we range within a certain dollar. >> All right. But I would just like >> Is that it? Because your time's over. >> That's Yeah, that's that's it. Those questions for the uh for session one,
but I just thought uh if the Bush Law Group is getting $100 or $165 an hour um for appliance repair, $150 an hour doesn't seem proper unless those folks also have JDs. So, you can answer my questions, I'd appreciate it. Thank you.
So in response to the security personnel, there's no new hires. It is revision of the job descriptions and a realignment. So there are no new hires. As far as the leak, as we know, every lease agreement has nuances and details. This particular repair did not fall
within the confines of the lease agreement. Therefore, we were responsible for paying it. >> It was before my time here. Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. Can we have a motion to close public participation?
>> If I go ahead. >> Yeah. >> Sorry. So uh ju just to kind of clarify that I mean in my experience most commercial leases that we incur in any capacity for the most part um once the the the owners are only responsible for
providing the MEPs and then any other uh costs associated to running the the facility usually falls on the tenant. Is that not is that not not the case in this scenario? I mean, for any any commercial lease I've ever done has has
had that specify that, you know, they essentially give you a white box if it gets to that level and then anything beyond that is the responsibility of the tenant to maintain. >> So, this particular agreement is actually a very flexible agreement. So, it is from what I've seen better than a lot of agreements I've previously seen, but this particular Yeah, you're right.
This one does not fall within the lease agreement. >> Okay. So motion to close public participation. >> So moved, Dr. Raja and second. >> Second, Leon. >> All those in favor. >> All right. Very good. So we're going to
move on to our uh resolutions um suggestions by our superintendent, Dr. Eric Alfonso. Just so everyone knows, we've had some very, very thorough meetings and discussions. to all of our committee meetings that we took part in. Um
we really felt welcomed and it was uh very productive our our meetings more so than I can remember in the past. So I think we all want to thank you for that. We really felt that we were taking a part in the true decision making for our
our community. Um with that said, so moving to resolutions on personnel items suggested by Dr. Alonso from item 9.1 to 9.55. Is there a motion? >> So move, Dr. Maja.
>> And a second. >> Second, Leon. >> Is there anyone that wants to discuss any of the items on personnel? Hearing none. Could we please call the role? >> Trusty Leon, >> yes.
>> Trusty Gillis, >> yes. Trusty Munice, >> yes. >> Trustee Misagia, >> yes. >> Trustee Pacheco, >> yes. >> Vice President Darrow, >> yes. >> President Bennett Meanie, >> yes. Resolutions for curriculum and
instruction. Is there a motion? >> So moved, Dr. Massa. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Leon. >> Did anyone want to say anything about the revised curriculum? Hearing none, you please call the role.
>> Trusty Leyon, >> yes. >> Trusty Gillis, >> yes. >> Trusty Munice, >> yes. >> Trustee Majia, >> yes. >> Trustee Pacheco, >> yes. >> Vice President Darrow, >> yes. >> President Bennett Meanie, >> yes.
>> All right. And we have board action and board policy items recommended by the superintendent 11.1 through 11.35. Um if if I can request, can we take 1132 um resolutions for second reading and can we split those apart which would be
the ID and the dress and grooming so they can be voted on independently? >> Yes. >> All right. So we're going to revise that. So, we're we're taking a vote to approve or
disapprove all from 11.1 to 11.35 with the exception of 11.32. Does that sound right? >> Yes. >> All right. >> Correct. Yeah, we're we're voting on that one. No, all I really want is to
split 11:32. So, yeah, I guess whatever whatever that means. Okay. >> So, so we're voting 11 to 11:31 and then 11:33 to 11:35 and then separately we're voting on 11:32 but on each policy individually.
>> Thank you. >> All right. Did we get a a motion in a second for this? >> I make a motion. All right. So move second. >> So Darlia, >> thank you. >> Any other questions or comments?
>> Trusty Leon. >> Yes. >> Trusty Gillis. >> Yes. Trusty Munice. >> Yes. Yes to all. Um, wait, hold on. I just got to >> 11:32 is out, right? So, we're voting on
everything except 11:32. So, yes. Yes to to everything. >> Okay. Um, Trustee Misagia, >> yes. >> Trustee Pacheco, >> yes. >> Vice President Darl, >> yes. >> President Bennett Meini, >> yes. All right. And now for item 11.32,
which were the second reading of the two policies, the ID badges and the dress. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. M. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Did anyone want to make any comments? Hearing
none. All right. Will you please call the role? >> Trusty Leon, >> yes. >> Trusty Gillis, >> yes. Trusty Munice, >> uh, yes to the ID identification resolution and no to the dress and
grooming. >> Trusty Majia, >> yes. >> Trusty Pacheco, >> yes. Vice President Darl. >> Uh, yes to both, please. >> President Bettini. >> Yes. >> Okay. And resolutions on purchasing and
business services items 12.1 to 12.41. Is there a motion? >> So moved, Miss Saji. >> And a second. >> Second, Leon. >> Okay. >> All right. Is there any discussion on any of these items?
Okay. hearing none. >> I just want to make a verbal clarification um from Miss Luna that she brought down. There was a small mistake on the original agenda that alluded to uh 34 Ralph Street as the address. So, if anyone had the agenda early enough,
it said 34 Ralph Street. It is actually 54 Ralph Street. The leases themselves are correct. So, I just want to provide that clarification. That being said, Trustee Leon, >> yes. >> Trusty Gillis, >> yes. Trusty Munice. >> Yes.
>> Trustee Misagia. >> Yes. >> Trustee Pacheco. >> Yes. >> Vice President Darl. >> Yes. >> President Bennett Meanie. >> Yes. All right. And resolutions on finance item 13.1 to 13.9.
>> So moved. Missia. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Leon. >> Does anyone want to discuss anything on the finance section hearing? None. Please call the role. >> Trusty Leon, >> yes. >> Trusty Gillis,
>> yes. >> Trustee Munice, >> yes. >> Trustee Misagia, >> yes. >> Trustee Pacheco, >> yes. >> Vice President Don, >> yes. >> President Bennett Meanie, >> yes.
>> Okay. And finally, our final remarks by citizens. Is there a motion to open? >> So moved. Vajio second. >> Okay. Second, Munice. Thank you. Give it to me. All right. And we'll call Michael
Sheldon to the podium for comments. >> Uh, good evening again, Michael Sheldon, 47 Floyd Street. Um, in regard to the dress code policy that you just revised, could you please provide details? There are so many agenda items that ha, you
know, you reference new policy statements, new booklets, procedures. There are no details and you were we're supposed to have the opportunity to ask questions about agenda items, but we don't know what questions to ask because we not we're not given any of the details. You got us kind of caught in a
vicious, you know, circle or catch 22. So, could you please clarify later on what exactly is changing with the dress code? Um, earlier this year, Mr. Darrow uh warmed gave me a nice warm feeling. Uh early Christmas, get will. He said that the uh district's policy for
meetings was going was undergoing revision and he was hoping by spring to have some serious changes uh important changes to announce. That seems to have been dropped. I'd like an update on that. Um in regard to minutes, u I don't
know if you're aware, but since January, Board Docs has no minutes posted. there's nothing there since the beginning of the year and in fact you're supposed to provide not only minutes for public meetings but also closed session with the necessary redactions. Uh as far
as I know you've never provided at least through board docs uh any of the minutes for your closed sessions. So I would like you to look into that. Uh let's see here. Uh the OPRA request system. I've uh pointed this out to Dr.
Alfonso and uh a couple board members since the uh beginning of this academic year. The Oprah form still indicates that the form is to be sent to Mr. Paladino. You guys really should uh create a a placeholder, you know, an
email address oprabelchools.org and then behind the scenes direct those OPAR requests to the appropriate people because otherwise, you know, how do we know if are you guys I know you can't answer it, but you know, I assume you're monitoring Mr. Paladino's account, you have it disabled, but you're still
looking at what's coming in to him, but you you have a legal obligation to make sure that the Oprah system is responsive to to residents. And right now, I don't think you're you're doing that much. Uh let's see here. Uh the the I brought
this up at the beginning of the year. Our board size has been seven for forever, but so many other nearby districts have boards consisting of nine members. And it seems that state law by default uh boards are supposed to have
nine members. Uh Nutley's nine, Bloomfield's nine, Garfield's nine, Saucus is nine, etc. So, uh, at the beginning of the year when I first mentioned this, uh, one of Jonathan's, uh, partners was here, and I forgot her name, but she said she was going to look
into it to see how this change came about. My understanding that the only way you can reduce from 9 to seven or five or even three is that the community has to have a referendum. The voters have to approve the reduction. And uh several of us have looked long and hard
cannot find any referendum in the history of Belleville where the residents of this township allowed the number of board members to red be reduced from 9 to 7. So I think you guys might have a little bit of a statutory problem in that regard. Uh I'd like to
know if um with uh Dr. Alfonso now at the helm, what's going on with the parking garage? Three years ago in April 2022, Dr. Tomco and the town hall rushed through the process, a 12 million dollar bond ordinance, most of which was
supposed to result in the construction of a huge parking garage next to the middle school. Three uh three and a half years later, nothing seems to be going on, but somebody's sitting on a lot of money. I know uh 5 million of that was used to buy the former Eastern
International College on the corner of Hton Manhattan and Washington, but you guys uh still have a huge pocket of money there. And what's going on with it? And lastly, uh Dr. Alfonso, you mentioned during your comments that the middle school has um achieved some
significant academic improvement. I don't know what you're looking at and if we're looking at the same results, but uh this year's NJSLA test results, which were presented earlier this spring before you came to Belleville, they clearly showed that our eighth graders
in mathematics had the worst aggregate performance of all communities in Essex County. We're at the bottom amongst all Essex County districts. In fact, we're the fifth worst. Our eighth graders of math math are performing fifth worst in
the state of New Jersey. The only other districts that are performing worse than Belleville at this point as far as eighth grade math is concerned are places like Camden in Trenton. So you're saying there's been significant academic improvement in our middle school. Please
please elaborate. Please show me that evidence because what I see from the state DOE shows just the opposite. So I see my time is up. I would appreciate if at least a couple of my questions here could be answered. >> Thank you for your time.
>> So, as far as the Oprah request, it has been corrected and again, thank you for bringing that to our attention. >> It is at superintendentchools.org. >> Correct. Yes. >> As far as the parking garage, I've been here seven weeks. So, let me get back to you on that.
Um, BMS performance, as I'm sure you know because you've been on the board, NJSLA is one indicator. That is not a true holistic measure of academic performance. There several assessments and we've used several data
points and there was absolutely an increase over the last year. So, we could definitely get into correlation analysis, but uh there's no need for that. As far as the building itself, it definitely showed improvement over the last year. We cannot measure ourselves
by one series of standardized tests. Although sadly that somebody the perception might be to the public, but there's a lot more than goes on in our buildings. Again, as being a previous board member, you know, numbers don't say the whole story. So I'm very proud of the improvements that
I've seen over the last year in the middle school is a very positive linear trend trending upward and eventually we will absolutely see that in NGSLA but let's not forget that math itself is abysmal across the state. So when we're talking about margin of error and the
standard deviation, there's a lot of things to take account for. Okay, I can I can take the policy committee, the dress and grooming. Um the committee wanted to revise this policy in which they did and they
basically just made it a little simpler meaning just using the polo shirts and a bottom. Um and that's how they wanted to move forward because of much of the feedback that they've gotten for the last few years of the policy. The way it was written was not being followed or is
very difficult to try to follow it. Um we know that there are other components of um dressing and uh spirit days that are going to come up which we are also looking into uh because we do want to try to make this policy or the policy
committee wanted to try to make this policy um more enforceable or to at least attempt to try to make this more enforceable for the start of this school year. So those were the only revisions that were made to this policy and it it will be posted correct and we are are
going to be sending it out to parents. Did anyone else want to make any comments? >> Policy committee. >> I actually want to make a comment. I wanted to commend >> uh school solutions and TNO on doing an amazing job really hitting the ground running when we needed them. It has been
a almost seamless transition and honestly kudos to them and the entire company for doing the work they've been doing. Yeah, I'd just like to add again President Benamini if I can. So, regarding policies, since welcoming Dr. Alfonso into the district in July, there were other critical policies that need
to be looked at in priority order uh to the start of the new to start the new school year. So, other policies that were left hanging will be picked up again hopefully during the September October committee meetings. I've not forgotten that's still over. As as the committee chair, I do remember that. I
do mention this regularly to the committee teams. So, we will be revisiting some of the ones that I did make promises in the past on. So, we will be getting back to them. We just wanted to get the school started uh the students and everything with the dress code policies and everything else uh to be aligned first. But we have not
forgotten. >> Okay. Very good. And is there a motion to close? >> So moved. >> And is there a second? >> Second, Leon. That >> was Dr. Maja and Trustee Leon. >> Okay. Would anyone like to make any
comments before the closing of our summer August meeting? >> I do. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Um, >> I just wanted to say good evening and thanks for coming. Um, just to reiterate what Dr. Alonso has had said, "Please
make sure to join us on August 21st to fill out those applications so that way our students can receive every scent of support. And it's not just for the meals, it's also for the valuable programs that we can offer. And since I won't see you until next month, um
remember first day of school September 4th except prek. They start on September 5th. And to make sure to check your emails for the prek because Mr. Vargas and his team have been busy sending us um information and school supply lists have also been shared by the schools and
I know that our team has been getting the schools ready and our staff and teachers are prepping to welcome everybody back. So have a good first day of school. Very good. Anyone else want to make any comments? >> Can I say something? >> Sure.
>> Okay. >> Dr. Majia. >> Yes. um based on just the reports that we got the other night in committees um all of the tremendous efforts that have been put forth this summer by Dr. Alonso, Dr. Dia, the administrators, the
faculty and staff and preparing our schools, staffing our buildings, and providing our children with the supplies and the programs and the technology. um all the tools necessary I believe we have in place now for our students to
have a very successful school year. I know I'm very excited about it. I'm actually myself looking forward to going back to school sort of. Um so I I wish everybody a very very successful school year all of you and uh welcome to Dr.
Spiki and thank everybody for coming out this evening. Thank you. enjoy what's left of the rest of your summer. May May it all be enjoyable, restful, and safe. >> Okay. Would anyone else like to make any comments?
>> All right. Vice President Darrow. >> Yes. I would like to welcome everyone out to our August meeting. I hope that uh all of you are taking some time out of the out of your schedule to enjoy some of the summer days for as long as they last. We are excited and filled with anticipation as we will begin another school year very soon. Uh, we
don't want to keep anybody necessarily longer tonight, so I'll keep my remarks at a minimum for this time. Thanks. Very good. Anyone else? Okay, on that note, I'll close it out. We want to wish everyone a happy rest of
the summer. We'd like to say thank you for our buildings and grounds crew for doing such a wonderful job in getting our schools ready for the start in September. We'd also like to thank the business office. We can't forget about them in the midst of what um you know we saw as a little chaotic at times.
They've been functioning very well and putting together a lot of the missing pieces. So we appreciate them very much for all of our administrators for being there and for getting your buildings ready for the children and the teachers. We appreciate you very much. We're looking forward to the start of school.
And we also just want I just wanted to say that the board has been engaging with our superintendent. Um and he's been very transparent with a lot of the things that have been going on. There ha has been a couple of things that have been coming up and I think that they've been doing a great job trying to deal
with with some of these issues. As you can see, we do have an interim now business administrator and we are trying to trudge along. So, we do really appreciate everyone's hard work and we know that this couldn't have been easy and things were left um you know once
the monitor was uh once the monitor left in June uh things have just sort of been a little chaotic. I I won't say chaotic. It hasn't been chaotic, but we've definitely been pulling it together and we really do appreciate that from everyone. So, with that said, we just
like to say good night to everyone. Enjoy the rest of summer. We'll see you out there. We will see you for our September board of education meeting. Thank you very much. Is there a motion to close? >> So moved, Miss Aio. >> And a second.
>> Second, Leon. >> All those in favor? All right.