Long night. Excuse me. Oh, my computer's sleeping. [Laughter] The New Jersey public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discovered or acted upon. In
accordance with the provisions of this act, the Belvadier Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place thereof posted with the Star Ledger and Express Times and submitted to the town clerk of the town of Belvadier on March 26, 2025. This
meeting will be live streamed at Belvadier that will be live streamed at www.belvd.org. Flag salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] The mission of the Belvadier School District is to celebrate our past and empower our future while focusing on the four cornerstones of our district, tradition, excellence, academics, and
community. We strive to build confidence and promote collaboration. We encourage an equal partnership with our students and staff as well as its community members. We empower everyone to develop the best version of themselves. The Belvadier School District is committed to shaping students into global citizens
who take initiative for the success and contribute to the continued excellence of the district. Our students are leaders in the decision-making process of their education and will be prepared to excel in a 21st century society. Roll call. Mr. Blum. Mrs. Serbone here. Dr.
Mr. Zepath here. Mrs. Duckworth. Mr. Scott here. Mrs. Stefen here. Mrs. Walton here. Mrs. Wer, Mrs. White here, Mr. Cherelli here, Mrs. Gardella here, and Mrs. Herbacham here.
Okay. All yours. All right. All right. So, we got uh well, I should say Mr. Caribbean, I got our signals crossed a little bit about presentations tonight. Top 10 versus scholar athlete. So, we're actually winding up with with neither. Um but with that that means that um
Maline Dur gets the the complete spotlight tonight on student recognition. So um a couple of months ago um I think I had sent out to the board uh just a little blurb about that. I'm going to read it again that Mrs. uh Kimell had sent out on behalf of Maddie.
Um so and then I'm going to have Maddie come up. She's going to tell us a little bit more about her uh Daughters of American Revolution Good Citizen Award. So, I'm incredibly proud to announce that our very own Maline Dur achieved an outstanding accomplishment. She was awarded first place in our local chapter for the Daughters of the American Revolution Ditens Award. And she didn't
stop there. Matt Maddie also took first place in the New Jersey state uh D essay contest. We are all very proud of Maddie. So, Maddie, I'm going to have you come on up and just for a second or two just explain to the board about your essay and the award. We'd love to hear
about it. Oh, you can. Um, so we are given the essay prompt when we get in the room. So, we have no preparation or anything. And I sat down and wrote the essay, not thinking
anything of it. And then I won the region, I guess. And then moved on to the state and won that. And I went to a bunch like a couple D um celebration meeting things. I don't
even know. They were all dressed really fancy. But and then I read my essay. My essay was about my dad. And the prompt of the essay was about citizenship. And I was like, "My dad's a great citizen." And I
just talk about that and I won. So [Laughter] So this sounds so easy. Yeah. So um I got the chance to know Matt, get to know Maddie a little bit more in Greece. Um certainly I I would hate to um I use the
term a lot, but she's just a super neat kid. We we played a couple of games together. Um, we won't say this out loud, but we actually let Mattie break curfew one night because we were playing the games a little too long. Um, but um, Mattiey's just a great repres represent representation of what Belvadier has to
offer. She's one of, we always like to say the best of the best. She's just a great kid. We're going to miss her next year. Uh, we're going to I know where you're going. You want to tell everybody where you're going? Uh, Ruckers University uh, for nursing.
Excellent. So, happy nurses me. So, so we're very proud of your accomplishment, not just this award, but also who you are and how you represent Belvadier. You do a great job of that. Um, you'll certainly be missed and we thank you for all you've done uh for the high school and the elementary school,
too. So, not just the high school, but thank you. Now, if you don't want to stay, you can leave, but uh you're more than welcome to stay. Thanks for thanks for that and thanks for the the summary [Music] and okay I don't see Andy
here. I don't know we didn't know she wasn't coming. Um so I guess that'll go right to my report. I'll just take over for you Mrs. Duck for it in a couple minutes. Um I have a few things to mention before we get into the budget presentation. Um actually have more than I realized as I was making a list today.
Um I just want to start by mentioning um Dr. McKenna approached me this afternoon or actually more this morning. She was made aware of a Tik Tok challenge uh that deals with Chromebooks. So the parents um this afternoon we're going to get a communication just a letter uh we put together just explaining what this
Chromebook challenge is which is basically taking something whether it's a a paperclip or something like that and sticking it into the power source of the Chromebook which those of us that understand the concept of electricity understand why that could be a big issue. Um, but it's obviously uh going on, moving along pretty quickly. In
fact, we actually had a student who tried it today before we got the the information and communication out. So, parents are going to get that. So, if you saw that weather comes in an email, um, you at least know what that's about. Um, I did want to mention that I did finish my CSA evaluation part yesterday. So, sometime tomorrow, you'll all get an
email from school boards that it's ready to go. Um, I'll just run through the list real quick. I do want to mention last night Mr. Zetstrom's concert. Um, it was it was actually a lot of fun. I think it's the first time I knew the vast majority of the songs, which either makes me really old or extremely hip
when it comes to music. Um, but it was really a nice show. Uh, couple of, uh, good solos that that took place. Um, you know, I always find one or two kids that I think did a great job. And Jack Cherish, I thought, kind of ended the show and really kind of stole the show at the end. So, congratulations to Jack.
Not that I'm slighting anybody else because I thought that a lot of people sang really, really well. Um yesterday afternoon myself uh Mr. Kennedy, Miss Prylac, and Miss Wardell went to Warren Hills to visit their uh MD classroom for the life skills that
we've been talking about. Um I was going to save this for uh continue business, but I'll mention it now. And I do want to thank first of all Mr. Climber and uh Miss Miss Rolland who's the child study team director over there for letting us come in and they gave us a great tour. Got some great ideas. We're going to attempt to visit a couple of more schools too. But yesterday was really
good to really visualize what that life school classroom could look like and how they uh Warren Hills constructed it too to meet code and meet everything that has to get done. So that was really really good. Um nothing to report on Third Street. Um we seem to be just getting nothing from the state at this point and Mayor Meyer had reached out to
me asking if there's anything she could do and I said Kathy I'm at a loss. I don't even know what to tell you anymore. Um, so I just want to add that we have now gotten a little bit of a response from um, one of the two people, the head of the department down there. So although the one that responded is
not the one that's in charge of the application, hopefully that'll at least roll the ball a little bit faster for the um, the other head to get back to us on what the holdup could possibly be. Okay. Um, just to mention graduations, I I'd just like to mention a few times we
have uh the eighth 8th grade promotion ceremony is 5:30 on the 12th in the auditorium and uh high school graduation is 1:00 on the 13th on the uh athletic stadium. Um last year we went off on our own top 10 dinner um as it our date
didn't match up last year with the county. Um the county top 10 dinner has now gone by the wayside. Um, but Belvadier will still continue its tradition of the top 10 uh dinner and that is uh the 3rd of June. It'll be at Architects this year. Looking forward to that. Last year was a great program. I I
actually liked that a lot. It was more intimate and we got a chance to really um talk with the families more so than when went in the bigger group. So looking forward to that. Um it is also teachers appreciation week. I know you mentioned nurse day today. Um I have to say that I'm impressed with first of all
thank the PTO today for providing lunch for the elementary school. They did an awesome job. Um and Dr. McKenna, Mr. Carabinus and Miss Black have been doing great things for the staff. Um so far the three days and with two more days planned, Dr. McKenna sent out a really cool little flyer on Friday just
explaining everything. So, um I do want to mention that I think we have an outstanding staff here. Uh our teachers are I think I just think they're tops. I really do without saying a lot. Um, I you know, sometimes we get beat up for the things we do, but I I really believe
that every teacher that walks in this building cares about kids, and that's the most important thing I can say. Um, and I think our kids are are lucky with their interactions. And so, thank you to the teachers and all that they do. Um, sometimes a week isn't enough to show our appreciation. The last thing I just want
to mention was our trip to Europe. Um, it was a overall successful trip. Um, I have to say that seeing our students at ancient sites in Greece and trying different foods and I'm always impressed when the kids try different things um was just great to see. A great time was
had uh I know Mrs. Coke will have a couple students come either in June or July just to show some pictures and talk about the trip, but everything went off really really well. Um and it was just a great time and we had 40 kids and um it was also a good opportunity for me to get to really get to know some of the kids on a different level. So it was
great great trip and now I think we're ready for the big presentation. Unless there's any questions. I don't know how to work a mic. Um, with respect to the Greece trip, it's great that it went well. I'm super impressed that we were able to send 40 kids. Were
there any incidents or discipline items that would prompt us to have to think about potential changes for future trips? Obviously, breaking curfew to play cards with the superintendent is fine, but anything else given it's international travel with team. We had a couple of minor issues. It'll be
something we'll look at for next year. There was a couple of couple of minor things. So, they uh were handled well and as I like to say, I'm glad it was after I left. So, but yeah. So, we'll take a look at that. But I think um and Dr. McKinn's here. She was on the trip also. I don't think we'd have any
reservations about continuing intake groups. Okay. All right. So, you want me to use the microphone, Eric, for the Yeah. Looks like it. Okay. So, this is uh my 12th and now
last budget presentation. Um, and I say that without a whole lot of sadness. Um we've we've you know this something we do annually and from year to year it can some years we've had 125 people here and tonight we only have about 10 or 12 which is uh I don't know sometimes which
is worse or better. Um but we just go through the budget just go through uh some of the changes that have been made. Um and we tried to spice it up a little bit this year Mrs. Stefan since you asked us to but I don't know how we how we did that. Okay so we start out with student enrollment.
Um and thanks to Mrs. Mr. Bone for catching the fact that we missed sixth grade completely when we put this together. Um but you can kind of see where we were from from 2122 um over to where we are projected for next year. And I will send well I sent the presentation to everybody um earlier
this afternoon and it should have all the updates on it. You can kind of just see the numbers as to where we project and I think as was discussed by Dr. green uh back on the 9th that we starting to see some some better numbers um in the lower grades and that's going
to obviously have an impact moving forward. Um then you can kind of see so total uh 2122 for um preK to 8 was 238. Next year we're projecting at 272. So a modest increase. Um on the flip side you can
see high school we're at 366. We're down next year to 314, but we went from 37 to 303 back up to 314. So, that's also a good sign that we're starting to see some more students um in the high school. So, any questions on the enrollment. So, this is a overview of
the total budget um for 2526. The total general fund is just a little over $12 million. It's an increase of $189,000 over last year's budget, which is a 1.6% increase. And the other piece
of our budget um is called the special revenue fund. That's what's funded by the ESS ESA grants, the idea grants, and our preschool. And we have about $95,000 in our special revenue fund.
That's up 5.2% from the prior year. Our revenue sources basically drive um our budget. Whatever revenue we have becomes the money that's available and then we have to then take our expenses and make them match up um whatever gap
is in between is would be our shortfall. But the revenue itself is made up of sending district tuition. That's the um money from Hope, White, and Harmony for sending their kids here. Um our tax levy um is just slightly more than the
tuition revenue at 4.3 million. We get just short of 2.9 million in state aid. Because we have more than 40 estimated kids that would qualify for semi. We have to do um semi
Medicaid revenue. We were supposed to get around 25,000 but we really are looking at only 3,000. Uh we have some miscellaneous revenue which is our interest. Each year we try to carry money forward from one year's budget to the next. That's called budgeted fund
balance. For 2526 we're looking around at $200,000 moving from this year to the the next year. We pull money down from our maintenance reserve to fund our maintenance projects. Um that's 350,000. And for this coming
year, we we've talked most every month about the JCPNL grant that we are hoping to have. Um that's a grant from JCPNL of about $600 and some thousand for an HVAC. Well, it's
for boiler upgrades and for lighting out in the stadium and some other outdoor lighting. At the time of the budget, we were waiting for the notice to proceed. So, we budgeted for that project. 168,000 of it is coming from our capital reserve from our local funds. The rest
was as a grant. Right now, we're a bit up in the air with that. They've since tried to push us off to Elizabeth Town Gas instead, but we are aggressively trying to hold them to their word to continue with the grant so that we can get that completed in 20 the
2526 budget. So, this is just a little more detail about those if I didn't say it already. So, for tax levy, it's a 2% increase. That's $85,000 increase in our tax levy. State aid went up $163,000 this year to the 2.8 million.
Our tuition revenue overall, it's actually a decrease of $261,000 from this current year to the to the budget year. That's due to seven less high school students being projected versus the prior year. We are
increasing our tuition from 192 up to 196 per student. Uh the biggest reason for that increase is this capital reserve withdrawal for the the grant project. So that plays a big part. So we're hoping that's going to come through for us. Um, otherwise the the
tuition is decreasing by a little over $200,000 because of tuition adjustments. Every two years we true up our tuition from the actual amount to what was charged so that we're always charging exactly what the costs were. And some
years that brings more money in and some years that sends more money out. And this particular year it sent more money out. The resource program is increasing 46,000. We have one additional um self-contained
student than the prior year for our MD program which gave us an increase of 30 grand. The maintenance reserve withdrawal increased $125,000 up to the 350 that we just talked about. The budgeted fund balance decreased. Um we usually like to do
$300,000 pushed from one budget year to the next, but we've had additional special education costs that just haven't allowed us to have the extra at the end of the year that we would have liked to. So, we had to decrease that down to 200,000. And then the last bullet just talks again about that the
grant that we're waiting on the outcome from. Okay. And then just some of our uh changes from last year to this year or this upcoming year. Uh we will be adding a second first grade teacher as we have um just the numbers. We have two kindergarteners right now. So that you'll start to see that as we move
forward. Um probably next year will be third and and moving forward. Uh we are increasing our wood shop teacher to 100% between the high school and the middle school. Um and we are re not we're ending our sharing with Harmony for the 40% art teacher. Um we are looking to increase our high school electives next
year. You know Mr. Carabin has been working and Dr. McKinn been working with the staff to get those electives up and running. Um we've talked extensively about the breaking up of the child study team cluster uh between the four cluster groups and now it'll just be Belvadier and Harmony only. So we will uh
eliminate the CST director position and put in a stipen for a child study team supervisor. Um also includes the estimated salary increases. Um 9.5% of benefit increases which is actually a relatively low number. Um we will be
reducing one special ed teacher um and one high school uh middle school English teacher and we will have elementary program and three levels of multiple multiple disabilities classroom for next year. Okay,
this is just a pie chart to just show how the expenses are broken out. Um, our regular education makes up 35% of the of the expense. Then it switches down to our employee benefits, it's 20 20%. Special education is 12%.
um administrations 10% 13% for operations and maintenance, five for supporting services, and five for extracurricular. This gives you a tax levy trend over the years. Um for many,
many years we've done 0%, but I think looks like we've had to start increasing the taxes a little bit more over the last three or four years. Um I know in 23 and 24 and 24 25 the current year we used bank cap as well. So the increase was over 4%. This year we just went to
2% which is the just the standard amount the standard amount that we're allowed to increase. Um they have made exceptions this year that we could have gone up to 9.9% tax increase and then we had um extra adjustments on top of that that
we could have gone much higher. But the the board chose that we should stay at the 2% increase. Um in respect to the town, this shows the general fund. Um at the beginning I said it's just it's just a little bit over 12 million. And this just shows you that you know over the
last decade we had you know we're working with basically the same amount of money over all these years even with the cost increases and the salary increases and the benefit increases that have happened. If you go back to 1516, if you highlight over that, it'll show
you that that was 12,156,000 versus the current year is 12,38,000. So, it's actually a lower budget that we work from in 2526 than we did back in 1516. And we just want to say thank you for your support. Um, and the board thanks you as
well. Any questions? The the art program that was going to 40, we're making that 100% too or No. So, um, in order to have Mr. Any other questions?
Could you just clarify then if we're ending is there a negative impact on our art education program? No, we have Mr. Lots will be taking a little bit closer to a little more. Okay. So, our students will still continue to have the
same. And where you said the 5% of the budget is for extracurricular, I assume that includes athletics and clubs, anything. Any other questions?
No. All right. Before we look to go into exec, I have something that I just want to read because it's teacher appreciation week. So on behalf of myself and the board of education, we would like to say thank you to all our teachers and support staff for all they do for our
students and community. We appreciate their dedicating their dedication and unwavering commitment to our students at Belvadier. Many do so much with limited resources and go above and beyond to provide for our students. At Belvier, our teachers strive every day to create
a warm, caring, supportive, and accepting environment for our students to grow and learn in. It does not go unnoticed. The staff continues to support our students and community through projects and activities. Never
underestimate the difference you make or the lives you have and will continue to touch. Thank you for your dedication and hard work. We appreciate and support you more than you may know. So, thank you to all everybody. Say thank you to a
teacher in the next coming days, please. [Applause] Okay. Now, can I have a motion to go into executive session for personnel and hib? Motion. Second. All in favor? I.
Any abstensions? Okay. Any discussion held by the board which need not remain confidential will be made public as soon as practicable. Minutes of the executive session will not be disclosed until the need for confidentiality no longer exists. The
board will reconvene in public session at the conclusion of the closed session in approximately 20 minutes. 20 minutes. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry I forgot to ask if there's correspondence, but I've been
told there was not. So, sorry I missed that. Um, we are on to our first part of public participation. This public participation will be on agenda items only. We will have a second one after we're done with the agenda. So, do I
have any public participation on agendum agenda items for tonight? No. Okay. So, can I have a motion on agenda items 1 through 20? And there are additions on
your sheet tonight. 20B 20B to 20B. Motion second. All right. Any questions on one through 20B? Nope. All right. Roll call, please. Mrs. Sabone.
Am I approving? Yes. 20B. Well, if you vote yes, you approve. Okay. Yes. So, I'm abstaining from two uh substitute Matthew and Dr. Zith. Yes. Mrs. Duckworth.
Yes. I'm abstaining from number four and I'm sorry I got to look at the other number and from number 11. Mr. Scott, yes. Mrs. Stefen, yes. Mrs. Walton, yes.
Mrs. Wer, yes. Miss White, yes. Mr. Chigarelli, yes. Mrs. Gardella, yes. Mr. Robbatham, yes. Okay. On to agenda
items 21 through 28 with the additions, but we're going to table number 21. Can I have a motion for 21 through
28? Motion 22. Oh, just motion without that since we're tableling it. Okay. So, we're going to go I'm making sure there's nothing else on. Yep. 22 to 28. Motion. Second.
All in favor? I. Any abstensions? Any nos? Okay. So now we will go on to business items 29 through 40 with no additions.
Can I have a motion for 29 through 40? Motion second. Any questions? No. All in favor? I. Any abstensions? No. Okay. So, that brings us on to continuing
business. Does anybody have any continuing business tonight? I got a couple things just to mention. Um, we uh had a meeting tonight, our first meeting of the special ed uh ad hoc committee. Um, I don't Mrs. Whenever you're the only one that volunteered. Somebody else
volunteered that I didn't. Mrs. Gardella, sorry, I missed you in the email. We're going to have a follow me. Well, I wasn't at the meeting, so apologies. Um, we just met, Bob wasn't here either, so um, we just talked about some of the goals of of the committee
um, and just some of the conversation I brought brought to the committee's attention, just some of the conversations I've had with some of the special education parents and some of their concerns. So, just we started with with that. We're going to meet again, uh, probably within the next two weeks. Also, probably invite a couple of the special ed parents to come and join us
to to be able to give um, more of a firsthand account of of some of the concerns. Um, but I will absolutely make sure you're there this time, Miss Cardella. Um, at the last meeting, I think we talked were discussing or asked about the bathroom damages that have
been going on, some of that. So, I had uh Mr. Kennedy put together just a list today um of some of the things that have been going on uh between the middle school, elementary, and high school. Um, and you can kind of see broke it down um pretty specifically and what's been
going on. There has been over the last um few days some vandalism that has pertained to some graffiti on the wall too that he didn't he didn't put in here. Um but I figured I'd just let you see that. If you have any questions, let me know and I can talk a little bit more about that the next meeting to how it's been addressed and and what else has been
ongoing. And then the other thing that is a continuing business um was what's going on in study halls. I know I owed uh conversation about that. So uh Mr. Caribbean has asked me just write up a little bit about what's been the study hall protocol. So I'm just going to read
um from what he wrote me today. Um study students assigned in study hall have been assigned a section of the auditorium and attendance is taken. Lab students who have assigned study hall also have assigned section of auditorium and attendance. In the event that we do not have a cover for coverage for a teacher, these classs are also given an assigned section of the auditorium. The
assigned sections facilitates attendance each day. Once attendance is taken, if a student has a pass to go to another class, they were able to uh leave and go to the class. Uh I asked if there was food was allowed. The answer was yes. Talking yes. Phones yes. So I tried to
cover as much as I could. If you have specific questions, let me know and I'll get answers to those. Um I mentioned Third Street before, mentioned the multiple disabilities life skills room. I think that's all I have for continuing business. Any other continuing business?
Where where are we with the cell phone? What's the is it kind of per class or do we have a a like every So it's definitely per class, but it's basically they should be away and they can't have them in the hallways at this point or in the
bathrooms and that's been pretty heavily enforced. Are we re-evaluating kind of what our current um policy is with cell phones to determine how effective it is and if we need to um adjust that policy given that it's a new policy put into
place this year? Yeah, we'll evaluate all that over the summer. Okay. I I thought the state was coming up with was discussing coming up with a cell phone. I'll see it when I believe it. Okay. I'll believe you when I see it, rather. Sorry. Well, I did see some discussion on it. There's a lot of discussion. I think there's there's also a lot of um
hesitancy on the state's part to put in a one-sizefits-all all about that. Are are we adjusting the handbook and and will the will there be some of those um adjustments brought to the board as an FYI? Yes. Okay. Yeah, that'll happen over there.
Y for the bathroom. Yeah. I mean since we have elementary school boys we addressing any of these from a disciplinary action and we are we're trying we know we track them down with the cameras if the best we can Mr.
Caribbean has been talking working with the kids. Okay. And so if the elementary school bathroom near the gym is closed and the bathroom like where are these middle school bathroom? I'll I'll ask that question and get an answer. Thank you.
I'm pretty sure we've talked about that a few times too. Yeah. About like where are they going to the bathroom coming up? Yeah. I mean I it's the gym one isn't is Yeah, definitely open today.
close like how Yeah, we do like people outside the bathroom like we have um we tried that a couple years ago when it wasn't well received. Well, I guess the question is like legally with the occupancy of the school, how many bathrooms do you need to have open?
That I don't know my head. Yes. So, we should make sure that we're meeting that that requirement. And then I guess my other question around that is since the middle school kids are in the high school and if they're traveling to the elementary school, I know it looks considered one
building, but what is the risk they're not really in the same building as their classes? Are clearly not going to be able to go in between classes? So, um, look into all great
questions. Any other continuing business? No. All right. New business. Does anybody have any new business? I have new business. Okay. So, I know Maryanne doesn't like to be in the spotlight,
but I had the pleasure with Mr. Kuruba to go to the NJSBA, Warren County NJSBA meeting and Maryanne was recognized for 15 years of service. Um, I was at the middle school concert,
just so you know. We figured that out. And I can I Yes. Yes. So, here you go. Congratulations. I get a pin too. Come to the street. You do in every meeting.
Other new business. I just wanted to um highlight I had the opportunity to attend the FFA banquet. I was going to say for uh the first time. I know that that we have a very active FFA program. Um, you know, I've bought citrus and I
love the pictures of tractor to school day. It was extremely impressive to hear not just what the kids do in this community. I know today they were helping refurbish Butler Park,
but the level of success they have in competing at the state level and um for a small school. Granted, we are the farm county, but the diversity among the students who participate, they're not all farm kids.
As a community member, forget about board, I was extremely impressed and proud of those students and Mr. Duckworth's um accomplishments and uh you know I thought they deserved a nice recognition for their achievements at a state and
national level. And I did also want to add I know you brought up Butler Park, but there has been a lot of talk around town about the wonderful job that the kids are doing um with Butler Park and we look forward to pictures. But um want to let you know I had a couple of people reach out and say
that kids were doing such a wonderful job with the planting and recognized that's that's in Washington along the Musket. No, Butler Park right on Water Street. Oh, it's a res. Oh, that's called Butler Park. Okay. I did not know that. I know
there's one in Washington. I'm like, okay, we're helping Washington. No, no, I know. It's relatively new. A couple of years maybe. Yeah, it's a house. Yeah, it's a house lot. I know where it is. Yeah, now that you mentioned it. But the p pictures that were posted today on Instagram were really nice, but
in person it looks much better. Yeah, they did trees and shrubs and everything else. They're going to since our student representative is here, isn't here. I know they're doing Mirav tomorrow, Friday, something one day this week. They're going there and
planting flowers and stuff. And the residents, some of them will come out and help them too and talk to them and they feed them. So, they love our kids there. I I can't tell you how many people from there have told me how great it is to have them there. And then they're going to Rally Point in
Lopat next week or the week after them. 15th. Yeah, the 15th. So, they were there last year. I heard from people in Lopat what a great job our kids did and how hard they worked shoveling mulch for hours. So, they will be doing the same thing there this year. And that's
usually FFA and Leo's Club and I don't know the couple organizations get together and those teachers work together to get those kids to and from and it's pretty fabulous what they do. So our kids are well known for many places and I was going to say the FFA banquet too is extremely well. I mean
people say oh we're a Hicktown. Come out and listen to those kids give their speeches. Amazing like the jobs that they do. And I know they now will have banners much like we do in our gymnasium. Mr. Duckworth was able to get
them. They were presented at the um meeting the other night and they will be hanging I believe down by the egg department. They'll be hanging there where we can put state degrees and everything on there. So, it's pretty awesome what those kids do and the hours they spend doing that work. So, pretty
awesome. They're delicious. Any other new business? I have two things just uh I remembered what I wanted to say when Mr. Ga talked about the life skills room. So if we have individuals or agencies that would want to donate funds to that who
would be the contact person because some of them need letters letters of request for grant or donation. So who is they can send us myself or Mr. Kennedy. Okay we'll be heading it up. All right cool. Um, and then just to piggyback on a side conversation before, um, not only the AP
students that are doing their exams this weekend and next, um, because then their schedules will open up a little bit, but maybe another productive way for the kids that are in study hall that aren't there for a lab or something. Maybe we could have them do something slightly a bit more productive if they don't have
school work to do, especially at the end of the year. U, maybe go help out with the littles. um any any helping hands down there especially, you know, we have the future educators, but there's other kids in the building that are interested in tiny humans too. Um then it would be
more productive way um utilize them and I'm sure it could be worked in as ours. Any other new business? No. Okay, we are on to public participation
then. Any public participation at this time? Come on up. I just want to preface this by saying that today was the first day that I heard that student athletes uh awards and the top 10 were going to be recognized by the board, but I'm going
to read this anyway because 90% of it is true. Can you say who you are from? It's going to say right here. Yeah. My name is Michelle Hickeyi and I'm here tonight not just as a parent, but as an advocate both for both the students currently walking your halls and those who will soon follow. The unfortunate
truth is I shouldn't even have to be here tonight. I first raised my concerns in a detailed and respectful email to both the superintendent and the principal on April 16th. I never received a response, not even an acknowledgement.
The silence was deafening and it was that silence that led me to look deeper uncovering even more concerns concerns I will bring to light this evening. Recognizing student achievement should be automatic. It should be consistent and it should be done with pride. But instead I find myself addressing a
troubling pattern. One where student accomplishments are ignored, minimized or selectively acknowledged. Let me begin with a glazing glaring issue. the disparity in how student achievements are recognized. Recently, students who earned the prestigious Scholar Athlete
Awards were quietly pulled into a room and verbally told they had received the honor. That was it. No formal presentation, no schoolwide announcement, no celebration. Yes, photos were taken, but never posted. Not on the school website, not on social
media, nothing. In contrast, we've seen assemblies organized for other students athletic award. Deservingly so. But when it comes to students who succeed academically or who balance high level athletics and academics, the recognition is
non-existent. How come individual sports achievements and prom court selections are announced but academic excellence awards are not? That kind of inconsistency speaks volumes about what this district chooses to value. To make
matters worse, the only acknowledgement my daughter received was a printed letter to the athletic director for nominations. He basically just passed what he received on. They couldn't even personalize a letter. No effort to make the award meaningful. That's not recognition. That's shuffled paperwork
and it's shameful. In addition, when students were informed they had made the top 10, they weren't told their ranking. My daughter specifically asked if she was validictorian as she needed to fill out a scholarship form. Rather than a clear answer, she was disregarded and
said, "Let Mr. Kay have his moment." Mr. K is the principal and with all due respect, what moment justifies withholding a student's earned distinction? She had to wait and ultimately did not include it on her scholarship application. In the past, validictorians
were informed promptly about their specific ranking. They were notified individually before the top 10 were called together. I know this firsthand because my other daughter was named validictorian in 2022 and the proper process was followed. And yet again, for
this year, there has been no recognition for the achievement either. It wasn't even announced on the loudspeaker like it has been in the past. Yet again, prom court selection was you tell me how that makes sense. I'm not asking for grand gestures, a simple media post, a website
update, a morning announcement. These take minutes, but their impact lasts a lifetime. Yet, none of that has been happen. In fact, the school website hasn't been updated in over 3 years. If you look at scholar athlete on the website, it's from 2022. In today's digital world, that's
just outdated and it's unacceptable. And let me ask this. How is it that you can update your website with pictures of your peers acknowledging acknowledging their success but not of the students who should be at the center of everything we do? This isn't just disappointing. It's a failure to uphold
your own mission. Belvadier school district claims to value tradition, excellence, academics, and community. You say you promote confidence, collaboration, and equal partnership with students. You say students are leaders prepared to thrive in the 21st century society. So, how can they lead
or feel empowered when they're ignored and dismissed? When academic excellence is invisible in a culture that claims to honor it? This isn't about one misstep. It's a larger cultural issue. A school environment where academic excellence isn't celebrated, acknowledged, or even visible. Worse still, this lack of
rection, lack of recognition carries very serious consequences. Every single college application asks for awards and honors. But this district offers very little. And when it does, the recognition comes after college submission deadlines when it's too late
to make a difference. That's not a missed opportunity. That's a systemic failure. There are plenty of awards out there offered by colleges, national organization, local media. And again, I know because my older daughter in 2022 received many of them. She had a
guidance counselor who advocated for her, a teacher who nominated her for an award, staff who celebrated student success and made sure it was seen. But those staff members who truly cared are gone now. And it seems no one has stepped up to continue their work. The
recognition stopped, the nomination stopped, the effort stopped. That's a failure in leadership. Supporting and preparing students for life after high school is not a side task. It is your job to ensure that those deserve recognition receive it to advocate for
them. There are undoubtedly students in this building right now who deserve awards, honors, and nominations, but remain invisible simply because no one put their name forward. So I ask you, where's the visibility for academic achievement? Our students shouldn't have to chase recognition. They shouldn't
have to ask for what they've earned. In conclusion, the absence of acknowledgement, broken traditions, lack of transparency, and administrative silence all form a pattern that I challenge firmly and ask the board to take real action to stop this trend and commit to change by one creating a
transparent, timely system for recognizing academic achievement, including validictorian, saludedictorian, top 10 honors, and uh scholar athlete awards. It should not be a secret. I'm a proud parent, but their own peers should know. They shouldn't have to stop him in the bathroom and
say, "Were you top 10?" or "What number were you?" That's ridiculous. Number two, establish a recognition program that celebrates student excellence meaningfully and publicly, not just in sports or popularity based events, but across all areas of achievement. Number
three, implement communication standards so that no parent or student is ignored when valid concerns are raised. I wouldn't be standing up here if someone would have just responded to my email. I mean, it's ridiculous. Update number four, updating and maintaining the district's website,
social media accounts, and communication channels so our community can see and share in the success of our students. Let's create a school culture that doesn't require parents to show up at a board meeting to fight for basic recognition. Let's build a district that says to its students, "We see you. We're
proud of you, and your hard work will never go unnoticed." Thank you for your time. Thank you. Any other public participation? I wasn't prepared to speak tonight, but um I'm not the best public speaker, even if I was. So, if you'd bear with me. Can you speak into the microphone? You're
hard to hear. Maybe I'm too tall. Oh, he's got Thank you. There was an initial error made in the selection of scholar athletes. Mr. the principal is not here. That's the individual I spoke with. My son was
actually one of them. But he was not recognized and everyone else was called out of the classroom. So he missed that opportunity. And unfortunately another child had to be told, "Oh, I made an eerie." That child has feelings. That parents, I'm sure they're very proud of
that child. that miss the principal told me and I quote, "I sat with guidance. I sat with everybody. The grades were done after the marking period March 27th. Several times I implored him, please look at the numbers again because I knew
for a fact my son did not drop two spots from in senior year knowing the grades he got, the classes he takes, the classes this other individual takes." Very short. He said, "I made an error." And he pretty much just cut me
off the phone. And that was the day of pictures. So my son, of course, as the mother, I'd like to be him to be a little bit more presentable. So he didn't have the opportunity as the other nine scholar
athletes. Maybe they could have done it later, maybe the next day. He probably didn't care how I looked. I do because I'm proud of him. I believe it was mentioned in the last meeting by the superintendent that scholar athletes would be honored
tonight. And I just learned earlier today because I reached out to a board member that they would still be honored tonight. And if they were still to be honored tonight, why wasn't my son or me as a parent notified, please come to the meeting, your child will be honored tonight. That did not
happen. I don't understand why there's that miscommunication. The day my the um the pictures were the principal told my son there's important information and dates. I'll get it to you and your family. Three weeks later, James, get
with the principal. Well, I guess they kept crossing paths. James, email him then because this is three weeks later. I don't know what I don't know. I don't know because I know uh one the Skylands had their whatever the Skylands had
celebration. So, I don't know when his would be. And it's apparent, I don't want that to be missed. I see the work he does. James emailed him. Then week later, no reply. So, mom steps in. He did reply to
me. 10:15 architects pictures. When I have the itinerary, I'll let you know. I have no confidence that he'll let me know. Are parents invited? I don't know. We'll have to take off work if it is. I can't know the day before and miss work. My husband can't. James, please follow up with the
principal again. He did. He sent another email. No reply. That's unacceptable. The communication I understand. I was told I came in a little late that there was miscommunication. I understand that. But
for this week, the superintendent still being say that it's on the agenda for student athletes tonight and we weren't informed. That's unacceptable. And I totally support what Mrs. Hickeyi said and she spoke very well. And I hope
this gets corrected and I hope that the principal does inform my son, answers his email and lets us know what's going on because I'm I'm very unhappy about it. And to overlook number one, you know, he went
down. I won't say the number, but my son was higher than that person. He did the right thing by correcting it. How's that missed? And it seemed reluctant to me to even look. Thank you. Thank you. Any other
public participation? Hello, my name is Katie Galene. I am here as a parent of Belvadier students and as an advocate for them. I recently had a police officer at my house and regarding the teacher with the penis drawer. This officer was not aware of the penises in
the yearbook. Didn't the administr he also did not know if administration knew about the yearbook. They do. Um the officer gave all kinds of false information about the woman who gave me the video. And next time you have the cops come to my house, please make sure
that they have the full truth. Last meeting, I heard a lot of interesting things about the teacher penis drawer. Um, sorry. Despite the claims that the kids made about the yearbook being being done
by kids, at the end of the day, it was run by her. Okay. So, is nobody is she not looking at it before she's submitting it? Are you not looking at it? I don't know. No one's looking at it. But there should be some sort of oversight when it comes to yearbooks. so that we don't end up with pictures with
penises in the yearbook. Okay. I refuse to accept that she doesn't clean out the drawer because of her ADHD either. That's an unacceptable scapegoat. I have lived with ADHD since childhood and would never think to accumulate such a drawer. It's been noted that she does in
fact allow them to lay around in low lighting during English class. This is English class. Have you seen our scores? Okay. Have you seen them? Because they're horrible. student brought up a fantastic topic which was the rodent infestation of Belvadier. This from what I've gathered
this infestation has been consistent for the past three to four years now. I have since spoken with students, staff and parents all who know about this and there have even been multiple students been bit by the rodents. There are traps in the lunchrooms by the vending and by
the vending machines where our children eat and are. My son specifically told me about this which like what is this 1980? Why do we have the the open traps around the kids? Crazy. I would like to know who our integrated postmanagement or pest management
coordinator, the IPMC, is at Belvadier. What is their plan historically with these rodents? What is their future plan to exterminate all of the rodents? Does the school get funds to keep the rodents out of the school and keep the school sanitary? And
if they do, where have the funds gone? Because it hasn't been to taking care of rodents or any pest management. The bathrooms are another whole separate story. They're a serious concern. My kids tell me daily about the bathrooms
being shut down. Toilets and urinals are leaking and overflowing. The high school bathrooms are being closed down, too. The children deserve adequate facility and bathroom access. My son gets told that the kids are doing it. The kids are messing up the bathrooms. But are they?
Because if it's overflowing o on a regular basis every single week, that says plumbing issues to me. When was the last time that the bathrooms of the school have been investigated with the plumbing? When was the plumbing last replaced? When was any of this has any of this happened? Because I really don't
believe that it's just kids destroying these toilets. Um the elementary school females bathroom I know firsthand there out of the three stalls two of the doors don't lock. I went in there have a video of it. One of the you lock it. It just
pushes right open so anyone can walk in. The other one you have to grab it from the top and the bottom and push it open to get it open. What about our special education students? What what if they get stuck in the bathroom? No one obviously cares about that and that's a safety concern for me. And speaking of
our special education students, I would like to know what's going on with their investigation. I have seen parents every single meeting since the situation with that aid and that boy. Every single meeting we've had at least one parent
here asking, I want to investigate it. What's the information? What's the this and that? Is there an investigation or is this just something that that that us parents are really concerned about and asking you guys about and just getting ignored by you? Because I haven't heard any of you guys come out and say, "Yes, there's being an investigation. Yes,
we're looking into this. Yes, we care about the safety of your children." We hear nothing. And I think that's disgusting. The same thing with the little girl who was supposed to have the elementary um the playground setup. She was supposed to have turf put down. That
just never got done. It was supposed to be done over a year ago. Hasn't been done. Little girl doesn't have access to the playground. It's It's despicable. It is absolutely despicable. And for a superintendent who makes so much money and a BA who makes the highest paid in
the county, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Ashamed of yourself. That's what you should be. Because if you use even remotely a small amount of that money, you could get rid of the rodents. You could fix the schools. You could you could help with the playgrounds for Christ's sake. You get funded by the
school by the state to do it. Yet, it's not done. It's always a story. It's always this and that and third. We're getting real sick and tired of it. And I know that you guys don't care, but I'm hoping some of you do. I'm really hoping that some of you do care and are going to step up and are going to have questions about this because the
school's falling by the wayside. It's a mess. Our to our our grades are in the toilet. We got freaking teachers that are letting the kids lay down in class instead of having English. We got rodents. Like, it's it's just it's just horrible. So, you guys need to step it up. Apparently, the school used to be a
really good school at one time in the past. And people love to talk about how amazing Belvadier was in its heyday. Well, it's seen its day. It's seen its day and it's since you it's a mess. So, I hope that you guys clean it up and get some answers to us parents instead of
sitting there and not giving answers to anybody. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public participation? Hi, I'm Sarah Danker. I was gonna go off of this, but I will just talk. So, I'm sorry if I stutter or if I'm nervous,
but I'm here because a couple of reasons. Um, one, you know, I was really nervous to talk and say what was going on because you get ostracized for talking. Your children get ostracized for talking and but I decided I was going to speak up because of my morals
and my ethics of a lot of things that are going on that are wrong and then hearing that people are talking about me and spreading mistruths about me because they're trying to deflect off of a more serious issue. Um, I did not get fired because of a student, my son's
girlfriend. I was asked because it was conflict of interest to go work in the elementary, I said absolutely not. Then when my son's girlfriend wrote an email explaining how everything really happened, they asked me to work back at the high school. So I don't like how we
try to deflect off of a situation that I did bring to your attention um at the end of last year. And I hate to say that everybody's like, "This is an old story." It's not an old story because nothing was done about it. So, I took pictures of this teacher's desk. I
wasn't searching in her desk like some people would like to say. I would never go through somebody's desk. A freshman student brought it to my attention. The whole class told me it was true. The student went around me, said, "Did you know about this teacher's uh drawer of penises, went around me, opened the
drawer, and showed me. then told me that students make penises for her, cut out penises, pictures of penises, clay models, um, foil models of penises, and she keeps them, and she shows all of her classes, which some of them are
elementary students. And they said it happens in all her classes. She finds it funny. So, I took a picture and yes, my daughter was in the class and took a video because she was in the class when this happened. And we were besides ourselves because this should not be happening. this is not appropriate for a
teacher to be doing with students and the students in her class think it's okay because the school does not step up and tell them that this is not okay behavior between a student and a teacher and I I just have to say that like I you
know was scared to bring it to anybody's attention I talked to another teacher that I'm friends with and they told me to say something so I did I brought it to your attention and then I was subbing again in her classroom and I found out nothing was done and This was the beginning of this school year. And then
an elementary student came up to me and asked me if I knew about the drawer. And I pretended I didn't because I didn't want to like talk about it. And they said, "But you know what? She had to get rid of it because somebody tattled on her." That is what she's telling her students because she thinks this is
okay. And it's not a coincidence that she is on the yearbook and when the penises are going in the yearbook, too. and it's a back of a student's head. She's not taking a picture of the face of the student. So, you know, she's taking the picture of the wall of the
board with the penises cuz she finds it funny. It's like a perversion she has with penises. I don't know. Like, there's a time and place where you make penis pictures and you can laugh about it, kids laugh about it. Yes. But between a teacher, I'm just going to interrupt you for one second. I know you haven't said the name of anybody. Okay.
Not to say names. You just have to be careful. some of the things you're saying, okay, could be subject to you to to defamation. Okay, you just use the word. I mean, okay, but so I I appreciate you haven't named anyone, but I'm just cautioning you, okay, to be to be careful. Okay, but but then how do
you say it when you're trying to say like, you know, you're trying to like divert from it. Like I I feel like trying to I mean, I have proof of it. I took pictures of it. I mean, I I don't know what else to say. I just my kids are in this school. I do not want to be ostracized because I'm bringing
attention to this. I expect better for my kids in the school. I expect better teaching. I expect better learning. Um I mean since 2013, I think I read it was the school's um academic performance was
20.8 and ever since 2013 to now it's 9.5. That's how low we are. We are 555 on the academic like level compared uh out of 613 schools in New Jersey. I don't understand. Our school is so
small. Why are do we not have better programs? Why do we not have programs in place for students that are struggling? Why do we not have better programs in place for kids that excel? My children excel. There's no programs for them. They don't even get recognized for excelling. My daughter tells me, "Mom, I
don't get recognized for any of my achievements, whether she excels at sports or she excels academically." She says, "I'm ignored because, mom, I" She go, she literally thinks the school hates her. I said, "No, they don't hate you. They hate me because I speak up because I say what's going on." And I
should be able to I shouldn't get ignored by you. I shouldn't get ignored by the principal when I write emails. I have the email I sent you of everything that's going on in the school. And all you wrote back to me was, "I received your email and I understand your concern. Please address your comments for the board and not today." Okay.
Okay. And I don't understand when, you know, administration is getting paid the amount of money that they're getting paid for, but they cannot return emails and phone calls because they think you're a nuisance parent if you're complaining. I have the right to complain and I have the right to want
better for my children. I want them to have a better program. I want them to have a better school. The school is failing these children. When I sub in here, children tell me this is a what do they call it? They call it a
um Maddie a flyby. A flyby school because they know that they don't have to try. That they can just do whatever they want and they just get pushed through and they they will graduate. And it's when you have teachers that are, you know, having drawers of penises and
the low lights. I would submit in the class, I would turn the lights on because I couldn't see. And students would walk in and be like, "Oh my god, turn the lights out." Well, and then I hear, "Well, they have HDHD or whatever." That is low lights is not for AD ADHD. That's for kids that are
autistic or mentally challenged. ADHD, you get those desks that you stand up at and they have that um bar and you move the bar like that because they have them in White Township for some of the children. Um if that was the case that these students needed it to learn and
to, you know, cuz they have ADHD, then how come when they're going to other teachers classes, they don't have to have the low lights and they don't have to lay around on the ground that they do in this teacher's classroom to learn? How come no other teachers are having problems in their classrooms with penis
pictures? It's only this one classroom. There's a problem and it needs to be investigated. It needs to not be thrown under the rug and acted like there's no problem. And also with um I want to talk a little bit about the uh athlete
scholar award. I think that with the athlete scholar award, I think that, you know, it's being given to students that or should be given to students that are academically um excelling but also excelling uh with sports as well. It's
been given to some students that are only on varsity because they're a senior and only because they, you know, like I said, they're on varsity. And somebody brought it up to the principal and he said that cuz I think the um the what is
it called? The handbook says you have to play 50% of the games in varsity. And a parent brought it up to him and he said ignore that. And he said that it's his decision to pick whoever he wants. But my definition of an athlete scholar is that you're excelling athletic wise too,
not just sitting the bench. Some of these seniors that were picked are sitting the bench. So, shouldn't that just be in a scholar award then? They're excelling scholarly, but they're not excelling athletically. So, why are they getting that award? I think it should go to students that are excelling in both
areas. And the one thing with the student that got overlooked, the only reason that was changed is because two girls were picked for the athlete scholar award and they were number two
or three on the uh on the top 10. So, they got picked, but they don't really play that much and they sit the bench. But then somebody on the boys were higher up on the top 10. They were like number 12, but they play really well
with sports. And then somebody else maybe doesn't play as much and they were number 11. They got overseen. And then a parent brought that to Mr. K's attention. And that's when he changed it with the boys because they said if you're going to do that with the girls and pick people that sit the bench then
you need to do the same thing with the boys and pick somebody that is a lower number. You can't go by favorites. The school picks favorites all the time. You have a pep rally for a student. Yeah, it's welld deserved because of their achievements, but where are all these
other students pep rallies for their achievements? There are students that are excelling and they don't get their pep rally. they don't get their like, you know, award. It's favorites. You pick favorites in this school and it's sickening because if you want kids to
excel, you think that you would award the kids that deserve it. It would make the kids that aren't excelling, maybe try harder. Even with sports, our sports are failing. You have certain coaches that should not be coaches, that are not qualified to be a coach, that are closer
to the age of the students than they should be, and the uh the team does not look up to them and teaches or looks at them more like a peer than a coach. Um I don't know because I'm just talking off like I'm nervous.
But I just think that a lot of changes need to be made and I just think that I don't know I and also I want to put in there the travel club. I have a question about that. I know you probably won't answer but I don't know. We usually give
you five minutes and you've been going for 10. Okay. But I just want to know. Go ahead. Ask your question. I want to know with the travel club who pays for the chaperones? Can we answer that or part of the cost? My cost that I paid
for my student. Well, I didn't have nobody gave me that information. It said right at the beginning it reached Mrs. Cook. I didn't have that transparency and a lot of other parents I talked to did not either. It's it's very clear Mrs. Cook makes that extremely clear. Well, it wasn't made clear to me and other parents. It was not It wasn't made
clear to you, but it was made clear cuz I definitely would have sent my daughter then and paid for her and paid for some subs to be going for the travel club, too, which I think is inappropriate. And then also when you have subs in the school, you do not train them properly. You just throw them in there. They don't
even have half the time I didn't have student lists. I didn't have anything for like emergencies. I was just thrown in there. And then when I had a problem, nobody would come and help me. I had problems with people vaping in class. And then nobody came. They made a joke. When they finally got there to the
class, they made a joke with the students and then they left. I had pro a problem with kids vaping in the bathroom by automotive. They did nothing about it. Then when I worked in the elementary, I had students that would throw desks and throw tables and I was
told to just take the students outside for recess. That was the answer. They would take the students that misbehaved and they would give them an like a little reward or some candy that was misbehaving. That was the answer. Or these students came back with a little booklet to say, "Oh, well, when I
misbehave, uh, go get my sister or go get this when I'm feeling that way." If I could just interrupt for a minute. Yes. We've been loose tonight. We allowed everyone to go over the time. So, we've continued that with you and allowed you to go over the time. Okay. But it, you know, the board in the interest of getting business as they do,
so we appreciate we've allowed you to go way over the time. Please, please try to finish up. Okay. So, I'm just saying that when you have subs that you need to train them better and also students that have behavioral issues really should not
be in classes with the mainstream students because also these students are having a difficult time learning themselves. I've had students complain to me that they get headaches, they cannot concentrate, they cannot do their work when they have students that are misbehaving in their class on a constant
basis. So, that's all I have to say. Thank you. Any other public participation? No. Okay, we are I lost my Can I have a mo motion?
Wait, what? Oh, there's somebody coming up. Okay, now come on up. Come on up. Um, so I hear a lot about name please. Vicky Davenport. Um, I hear a lot of complaints about the website and yes,
the website freshen frustrates me all the time as well. Um, how do you go into like what do you do to design a website? Is this something that we can make into like a high school kind of a class where each we have obviously computers. Can we
somehow make it so like the kids learn how to do this and teach them a skill as well and then like next year's class, you know, updates the website, does whatever and then they just keep going like that. Thank you.
One more. It'll be quick, I promise. Yeah. Hi, my name is Kimberly Wilson. I have a student here. I just had a small suggestion. I've been talking with uh the child study team about children that
need like how my son gets along o with older children and one of his things is he likes to go spend time. So I know you guys were talking about the kids in study hall that have nothing to do or maybe helping out. Maybe that's something we can look into seeing if they would like to go with these younger
students that need that support just to you know as a how do I put that as like what they can do during their study hall instead of if they're done with their academic works go help these students that need to sit there you know help them cuz my son likes to sit there and learn stuff and he learns it from the
older students so that might be something we could look into for the children that gain from that to have the older kids go with them. Thank you. Thank you. All right. This ends public participation and I need I lost my
paper. What are we going session? What does it say? I need a motion to go into executive session to discuss the superintendent search. Can I have a
motion? Motion. Second. All in favor? I I any nos any abstensions? Okay. Any discussion held by the board which need not remain confidential will be pa made public as soon as practical. Minutes of the executive session will not be
disclosed until the need for confidentiality no longer exists. The board will reconvene in public session at the conclusion of the closed session in approximately an hour or more. But there will no there will not be any action taken when we come back.
Okay, have a good night everybody.