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I'd like to call the meeting to order. This is a regular session of the Baton Board of Education held for the purpose of transacting appropriate board of business. In compliance with chapter 231, laws of 1975, the notice of this meeting was advertised in the Mars

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County Daily Record. Copies of the agenda of this meeting were appropriately posted and made available to the public. >> Mrs. Barn here, Mr. >> Frame here, Mrs. Cabana, Mr. Chen here, Mr. Pinger Mr. Johnson

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Mrs. McCry >> here >> Mr. Mills Mr. Rosenberg >> here. >> President of principal >> to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands

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one nation under God indivisibley justice for all. >> Great. So Regina is not here. Is she? >> Okay. So we'll finish it. No worries. So we are going to start presentation by

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Dr. Paul Pierro on our board selfition. >> Oh no. >> Uh so 30 minutes 40 minutes 45 minutes. >> That's fine. >> Yeah. The meeting starts at 7:30. So >> Okay. Okay. >> But it started the regular portion start.

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>> I I can do this in a lot of different increments. So great. I'll keep an eye out. Great to be back here. Um, this is like a little home away from home. It's my third time here and it's a very cozy place. So, thanks for asking to be back and uh it's a very exciting time here,

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but also so my heart goes out to you as a former administrator. So, good luck with all that. So, uh you've done your um board self evaluation and you've used our tools. So as a result of that here we have a compilation and I was able to

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what I like to do is put it into a couple of different uh forms. Okay. So we can I'm going to like leave it at just tell you what each piece is. So the thicker uh packet on top that's the combination. So what you have there is

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the um all of your ratings are there and then averaged out and all of your comments are there and they're anonymous. So the the meat of what uh the compilation becomes for me when I review with you all is common themes. So I look through that through the comments

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we look for common themes and uh in a bit we'll just start walking through the ratings and and some of those common themes. So this is the compilation is the raw data. Then you have two other documents. Uh one begins with uh some numbers. So you'll see numbers on on the

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front page of one. I consider that the uh sort of quantitative analysis. It's just the numbers from the ratings um that you did for each uh standard area. And then the other one uh I consider we won't spend as much time on this. We would spend time on this if we did a

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followup. We spent a little bit more time on this for goal development. Um, but this is what I might consider a qualitative sort of study because this takes all of your comments and makes common themes out of it. Um, so that being said, I do want to encourage everybody if you haven't read through

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all of your comments yet, it's great to hear each other's voices. So, I've pulled out common themes, but they'll sound like commonations, but when you read through them, um, not to necessarily say that a comment you say, "Oh, I know who that was." That's not the point. The pain though is when you

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hear the voices from around the table, it feels more authentic. It feels more real. And some of that really popped for me, too, because I I saw a common theme um on one that as I went through it, it became a lot more alive to me. Uh

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this second the policy area. Um yeah, so that's what the pieces are all about. I think a really good way to start out, even though I said we're not going to spend much time here, if you'll indulge me, I'd like to read the executive summary. I won't read everything else

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out at you at all. Um, but I I think it does pull together the comments really well. And I've read your comments and I've also read, you know, the compilation uh and all of that as well as the common theme being pulled from it. I think this does a nice job of it. So, I will read it.

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So, so we're just going to read the narrative here and then we're going to turn back to the um the other doc with the numbers on. So, the Boom Township Board of Education demonstrates a strong foundation in governance characterized by a collaborative culture, open communication, and a shared commitment

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to student achievement. Board members consistently highlighted the strength of their professional working relationships, transparency in discussion, and alignment with the district's vision and goals. The board benefits from diverse perspectives and experiences which contribute to

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thoughtful decision-making and a cohesive approach to addressing district priorities. At the same time, the board identified several barriers for continued growth to enhance its effectiveness. These include strengthening community engagement and communication, improving onboarding and

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support for new members, and potentially increasing the consistency and effectiveness of committee work. Members also emphasized the importance of expanding the use of data to inform decision-making and oversight as well as ensuring clear follow-through on board goals and strategic priorities.

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Collectively, these focus areas position the board to build on its strengths while continuing to refine its governance practices in support of student success and district progress. So, uh that's sort of the overarching echo of the comments that were in there in your self evaluation.

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want to comment on that to each other. So, does it sound like you? >> I think it does. I've only known you a while, but it does. >> I think it does. I mean, I think the part with community engagement is

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it's perpetually >> our drive to do that. And the community doesn't always isn't always in response. We don't always get, you know, your thing. So, we always have to come up with maybe new ways of reaching out and

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and getting to the community because it's sort of I don't want to say an isolated community, but it doesn't always get involved. >> Yeah, that came out in comments. Absolutely. else >> in that area of like opportunity or

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need. What's your experience been in other districts where communities aren't so involved? >> Yeah. So, it was a it was evident. So, and we talked about that I think the last time I was here too because with

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regard to the referendum getting your word out. Um I'm not exactly sure. I haven't done an audit of what you are doing but I guess the idea would be maybe to have to reach to the individual constituent groups.

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I'm sure you're connected to PTO PTA and all that but to find those and then um you know make excuses as a board to create leaison with them. So that might be something um I think that's always good. Uh

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I'm sure you're I don't know if you're doing some social media. We talked about that too. I'm still looking some of that for you all. Some ideas there. Um that's a double-edged sword sometimes social media. Um but I I think primarily uh the idea of making those constituent group

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connections could be something. Also, I'd be curious to see what the folks in the community feel as far as why they're not connected. A lot of times it's they're happy. they're complacent in their language can be a negative. Um so I I'd be curious to find out a little

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bit more from that like what would would you so um I don't know if you've done surveys about climate and and uh culture to your extent or at least the climate or maybe there's some hints in there as to

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what could be done. Maybe they just think we're all just doing such a good job. >> Well, we did get a lot of feedback when we conducted our superintendent search from the community in what areas they wanted to see improvements on and I

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think you had a survey that you created for the referendum earlier in the year as well to gain insight on what community felt as well. had a lot of good. >> So, it's just the physical aspect of coming here tend to be lacking.

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>> Yeah, >> I think I wish I had thought of it because I was looking at um some of our referendum resources. There's one program that we have. Um it's short talks about what you do when you have when your referendum doesn't pass because you're not alone. And one of it

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was to look very carefully at the comments and to embrace them and to be reflective and and uh really openminded to it. It's not too late to do that. As well as the superintendent search, I've done those um input surveys from community members uh and and gotten hundreds of

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responses and talk about common themes. Those are really helpful. So, you may already have some of that raw data to mine through to find out what ways you might be able to connect. Those are those are good suggestions right here from the table.

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Okay. I do think it's frankly it's hard for parents to show up. I don't know that this is a totally different question other than but are there uh governing policies on us recording and using AI to summarize our

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meetings because that would be you have an hour and a half meeting that AI could basically put in a bullet point form and then people would like them to come but people would at least be more informed. They would say, "Oh, I get one page report coming out of the board of what happened

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>> like a cliff notice. >> We already recorded it." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You got to be careful because your minutes are your official records of the meeting >> and it's not a transcript. They're, you know, really the date, the time, you know, who was there, what the votes were, what action was. >> But I mean like the votes and stuff. I mean, like they want to hear the

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dialogue, right? People like out of like a 90-minute meeting, we might talk about like something that interests some somebody for like five minutes out of it. So, it's hard for them to come. There's a there's also the point I think saying tongue and tongue and cheek. I think people are fairly pleased like with how districts are funding. So like

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you know when I talk >> if something was wrong they'd be they'd be showing up. Yeah. I I talked to some people and then they're like yeah we don't go because we don't have anything like it's fine right? >> So there's a little bit of that. >> I think people are happy enough but it also I think there's probably enough

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they don't really feel like there's a great outlet to express anything. I mean, most you can do is come here and talk for two minutes and let us stare at them and no response. Like, you know, it's not really a great method for sort of like generating

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dialogue or anything like that. I mean, it's fine, but I mean there's I I would assume it's all happen. >> Well, and then that goes back to the chain of command where you know, reach out to the teacher, the child, you know, versus coming here. You're right.

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Because we don't We don't >> we don't >> and I think we've always been feel like we aren't really supposed to have like listening because of the whole might be helpful.

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with some sort some sort of business to that institution >> even. So when we when had the um community connections with the last one it was three board members and one other person who's come to several other

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events. So we have those kind of um nice but still not many people coming to them. I was I was thinking what you're saying we could you know when when we don't want to interfere with you know getting people up to the community connections we could advertise and support members will be here tonight or

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whatever night community if you want to whatever talk to us hopefully it doesn't interfere but >> I I'm not sure if you're going to go a long way with this but I I feel that if parents are not feeling that I'm available to them that they'd be more up to come to a board meeting and

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complaint. So I do get emails, phone calls, meet with parents on a regular basis. So if I was closed off, you may have a little more of an audience here complaining and worried about >> I agree with that. The school being accessible >> and that tags on to Christine's comment

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that chain of command. If everything's working down there, it never rises to the level of I'm happy. They come they come when you're getting rid of a coach or athletic director or something. They'll have a crowd in it. But if they're happy and and they're getting the answer, isn't it? >> Yeah, very true. I mean, communication

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from uh from the administration from the school is very different from you know the connection that boards make. Um so I don't know if you celebrate the students here much at events that'll bring parents because they're going on to class. >> We do support doing that. I mean that's a good way to

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engage and and maybe connect information to that as it gets to a point where you do want to share some more information. Um, and then I don't know if you have some strong connections with people in the community. Again, it could be PTO. Uh, and ask them too, you just say, you

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know, our board wants to make sure we're connecting with our community. What might help that? Um, the other side of the coin too is authentic is helpful. So, if you're giving just information after a while, people shut down. It's just saturation.

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So, um, yeah. So I I think the idea maybe is to to keep exploring what the community how they might want to receive information or or what topics they might want to you know when it comes to board um they might want to explore or just learn more about celebrate. So you know

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maybe it does start with more celebrations. Sounds like you do some of that already. Keep talking about it. Keep thinking about it. Um but we can do so that was one of the two or three things that come. So there you We already had a conversation about

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one. Um let's walk through what I call the sort of the numbers document two two pages for sides. Um and walk through that a little bit and you might glance at the compilation as well because that's the table. So what I what I try

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to do in this uh consult report with the numbers is uh highlight what the strength was in that area and then maybe an area for challenge and opportunity. But here's the thing. You're right up to 4.0, right? So, you're going to have a lot of in the middle of threes because

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you're uh, you know, you're you're well-run district with a high performing board. Um, so you're there's not going to be glaring differences between what you consider a strength and what you might consider area for challenge. So, if you see something that says it's a

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3.6 or 3.7, and that's a strength because it's the highest number, um, and then you see a 3.4 before and that's listed as an opportunity. We have to keep in mind that that's not really there's no significant margin of difference there. So that's why it's the

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ones where you're going to see and you know I'll highlight those. It's it's the areas of the seven um where you see a low number like below 3.0 that's a flag and you say all right that's something we really want to look at. Um so as we go through this we'll

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keep an eye out for that. So the first one, vision, mission, goals. Our board is committed uh to a shared vision of our district future. It mission goals to move our district forward that are focused on student achievement uh guide district strategies and reflect community values. So your overall score

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there was 3.4. The the one with the highest score, there was one demonstrates through our vision, mission, and goals our focus on student achievement. So your student focused, which is great, and you agreed on that to the point where it was a 3.7. And then um there were two indicators that

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came in at 3.2. Again, that's not below three, so it's not really a red flag, but it might be, you know, sort of a flag. Uh and those two were revisiting uh revisits, reaffirms, or revises our vision, mission, etc., and ensures the vision, mission, and goals are clearly

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articulated. So there's a little bit of that um that does run through a few of these categories where it talks about um articulating uh to the district state goal areas again and um just sort of making some connections for them. So, this is one

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that I wouldn't think if you were looking to do uh goals to pull from these, but I I have a sense that you'll probably carry forward with a couple of your goals from from the past because they're communication based uh and and a couple other student achievement based.

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So, um this one doesn't really jump out. So, I don't know if there's a goal there for you other than taking with you this idea about uh district stakeholder connection. So, that was one when it came to policy. um you scored yourselves a 3.3 and there were some interesting

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comments to dig into there. So I would encourage you if there's a section you want to read through the comments that was there um and I'll share that in a second. So the strength there was adopting policies that are clear, workable and based on relevant practices that emphasize a belief that all

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students can learn. And then uh there were three indicators at the 3.2 2. Again, that's not really a low low number at all. Um, but there were three areas that you you rated yourselves at a 3.2 and that was the lowest rating for that category. Uh, policy and it was

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operates in a policym body through the development of broad policies that give administration sufficient authority and latitude to manage day-to-day operations. The other indicator was provides the opportunity for feedback on new legal revised policies and another one was uses our policies and bios as

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framework for board governance and decision-m. So again there's some crossover there among yourselves too. So there were some common themes about um communi communicating more about policy. Uh there's also some comments comments in there about um maybe organizing it

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more and being more uh routine about it. I don't know if that's the right word, but um I wrote notes to myself like do you schedule out your policy revisions, that kind of thing because that that can help if there's a sense that um you know you're not necessarily keeping up with

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or or however because there's hundreds of them, right? So uh so that was those were some takeaways that I had from that as well. Anybody wanted to mention on policy and try to keep it out of the box too. Okay. Um and then so accountability for

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student achievement. Um this sounds uh so this is one I think you want to take a closer look at. It sounds uh tricky to see like a 2.9 when it comes to accountability for student achievement. But the flavor of that 2.9 is more like are we making the

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connection between student achievement and everything we do at the board table. Uh again so the idea is yes of course everything you're always thinking about the students. you're number one in your hearts and your minds. Um, but I I the comments seem to be suggesting, but are we like connecting the dots as much as

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we could? So, if you're covering something at a board meeting, whether it is a policy or uh curriculum, are there opportunities to uh make stronger connections to student achievement? Um, so that was the flavor of those uh

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comments. Um and so the the strength there was modeling a culture of high expectations and believes that all students can learn and then the challenge was ensuring that communication to the public links our decisions to student achievement data. So yeah there was talk of data too there

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comedy scatter. So there's a lot of overlap. So the idea of you know some people were one one person was saying one board member was saying something to the effect of is there more that we can do with data you know can we help by looking at data um having conversation

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and connections to the data uh to to the achievement. So there there was a bunch of that. So ensuring that communication to the public as well links decisions to student achievement and the data that proves that. That's that's a little bit of hope.

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Okay. Then there's the governance team relationship. This is where um there were really great comments about your teamwork. But then there was one challenge opportunity uh that came in at a 2.9. So five indicators at 3.8.

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Overall I would say that the board sees governance team relationships and accountability is very strong. So I think it's the contrast that suggests uh by that challenge. I'm not going to read all five, but it means most of most of what goes into being, you know,

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governance and team relationships. Um, you're you're considered as as a group, you consider that very high performing as a board. Um, but there there was this indication that indistrict orientation for new members might be something. Um, and I I think it wouldn't just be one or

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two uh voices for that because it was a 2.9. I think a few of you are probably reflective on that as well because I did see multiple comments about, hey, maybe there's more we can do there. That's a pretty good thing. If if if you have a bunch of 3.8s that say you take it seriously, you get along well, and you

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respect governance, um then I think uh if one thing pops, that's that's something you can address as far as uh providing some district orientation for your members. You know, I can help with that, too. Do you JSBA have like best

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practices? I think we just kind of have I don't know done you have a few members of you have things you you recommend this school boards does the the whole new board member orientation and there's a couple ways that that's done. So that's

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really helpful. It's also a bit overwhelming I think too and it's hard to retain that. Um, some districts will do like a mentorship kind of thing and it doesn't have to be formal. It's not like a mentor to a superintendent or somebody. Um, but it can be somebody that's just looking out for a new board member. Um, so that's another practice.

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And then, um, really, uh, new board members on their own can go to our website, find other, you know, some of them are quick, um, you know, work, not workshops, but online learning. So, they're they're those kinds of things. um and even reaching out to to me your

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FSR chatting about things that seem to come easy that don't and um you know then maybe I can direct towards one of our learning modules that might help but I guess in general questions different

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right training but right it's just either like modules or things or a buddy this stuff. Well, you have the you have the oneonone training person training developers, right? >> I don't know. It's like it's tough to

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me. It's like you got to I guess for like I didn't figure it out in like sitting in the meeting is almost like the only way to figure out what what is going on. Uh so the mentor I think the

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ide recently and we talk about a binder John, right? And >> on boarding yes, new members and >> school boards does an excellent job. They have so many workshops that's that's how to be a board member that all the different trainings you have to stay up on. Years ago, it was all coordinated

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through like the district and then somewhere along the line, school board said, "You guys have to take responsibility for your own training." But anytime a new board member comes on, we have the binder and it's it's really how we operate, not necessarily how to be a board member. Because if you think about it, the election happens, you're

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on the board. Sometimes you might see how the board operates just from the video or you come to a board meeting. Really, there's no onboard training for new board members. You're elected officials come on board and you're in the trench. >> So, school board, well, school board

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does an excellent job with the resources uh go online and read about and go to go to meetings and hear from your colleagues. >> Yeah. And um you know you could become like a New Jersey School Boards Association website nerd. I can't even

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get through it all. Sometimes I use AI to say where do I find it on my own website. So but there are like board notes that come out regularly. Uh they're random though. It depends on what the hot topics are. But there are two other things that pop to mind as you guys were all chatting about it. One is

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the problem of being a new board member is with regard to the training that school boards does is um governance one, two, it takes you three years to learn how to be a board member because you have governance one, two, and three one at a time. So that's one challenge and that's why some of the overview stuff we

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do uh and then maybe even hands-on in a district because there are different things that might be important in a given district and time. Um so there might that's sort of mentoring a bit even if it's informal. Um the other thing we do tell new board members though is put pressure on yourself

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because you know there's nothing wrong with not understanding everything the first time through listening learning then you know you don't always have to ask I don't love to ask questions publicly so I usually after a meeting is over call what I call a mentor type I say what the hell was that I didn't

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quite get that I didn't understand that how can I learn more about that um so it is a job uh it's a challenge so I will A lot is thrown at you when you start having just that gone through it and going through governance one on the

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website. That's a lot too. Um sometimes I think it'd be helpful to condense and focus on what's really really important to get to get a handle on being a board member. Um I think one

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of the documents that could really help here is actually the bylaws. I think the bylaws would serve as a manual on how the board operates just sort of here here are bylaws. This is how our this is how the board is

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supposed to work. Uh please familiar start with this. So that's one I'd say that's one document that you may be highlighted more so than others. That's kind of what the the new board

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member orientation that superintendent and I always do. It's really just how we operate. We have a committee and it's really brief and you're coming in. It's the very first meeting with the administration trying to like talk about we have a a bargaining unit this is how

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the votes are. But the one thing I always appreciate is I'm sure you appreciate the same thing that we we never get blinds. So if there's a question on agenda and you do your homework and you read the agendas, you ask questions, you email us, hey,

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what's this about? A lot of times it's answerable or gives me an opportunity or an opportunity to research and come back to you with an answer rather than for like this which is a test.

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I'll also add uh for not only new board members but all board members a local option the Morris County School Board Association if there's a topic that interests you as a board member it's a great way to hear discussion ask questions they're typically local you

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can even log on uh virtual you know >> yeah that's a great suggestion so the county meetings and if you also Sometimes it's it's in between the learning when you're just communicating with uh new board members as well, but any board members just like sort of being uh

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being immersed in the environment sometimes helps a lot. But there is that um on our website, but there is a very specific link to use Google. So that might be a good place to start. Um yeah, there's a lot on there, but again overwhelming, but at the same time, you

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can choose the things that come up. I remember last time I was here, one of one of the times I was here, the idea of um committees and how they function came up and that's very confusing to a lot of folks. I get calls from you know very senior board members and they're like

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we're having trouble with the the board and how committees are run um because sometimes communicating from the committee from the committee to the table is challenging that thing. So that becomes almost in conflict. Uh so it could be even just things about

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committee. I think it's all in transit if anyone if you know if I can ever be of any help to anyone you know new board members never hesitate to call happy if it's one of those things like what was that or or something's on the agenda you know what

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is this and what do you think about that you know I'm happy to help anyone anytime the benefit of a mentor or some I mean that's great mentor I throwing in January

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really going on this stuff and Chris was fantastic. kind of like me aside like speed

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Okay, that might be uh an area to continue looking at. I believe that was one of the goals in the past. Our fifth category is resource management oversight. Uh overall score there was a 3.6 out of four. Two indicators were very highly rated 3.8

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provides the public with information regarding district finances and the budget and advice public. So um there are those two 3.8 reviews audit findings and responds for. So, uh those are two really good things to be good at as a

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board because it has the fiduciary and uh tax standard. And then a challenge opportunity 3.3, you know, that's that's not like a as I said a red flag, but it's something to consider. In that case, it would provide for high quality facilities to support

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student learning, which we know here probably means that you need a lot of credit. So, that's not That's all right there. >> Uh, community leadership. So, our board recognizes what does that community

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mean? So, the definition or description of what community leadership means in this context is that our board recognizes public education's impact on a community and understands how strong connections mean everyone is invested in successful school. So, your strength uh your self-rated strength of 3.7. So, the

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overall score was 3.4 for strike was a 3.7 understands collaboration begins with us and models the collaboration we expect in others uh I think that's a fair statement on behalf of you all I've seen that in the time I was coming to know you and then uh a 2.9 so that's an

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area you better listen to this and say hello look maintains a presence in the community to understand it strengths and needs develops productive relationships and engages it uh it resources that that's what started the conversation when we read the executive summary

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So um before I get into the individual members contribution to the team and look at goals uh how you rated your goals I think maybe two themes have come out of this the communication right um and finding ways to connect so it's not poor communication or less than good

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communities it's connection right so that seems to be one of the things that popped as we went through this so far and then another area that pops into hey how can we now use new board members uh learning, you know, at a more rapid pace, let's say, rather than say, oh,

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just hang in there, you'll get it. So, that those were two thoughts. Does anything else coming out of this data besides those that you know, I always like the test you say to yourself, what do I remember from that conversation? Well, two things pop

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for me. They're pretty consistent. Okay. Uh so moving along your individual members. So the tool allows you all as board members to also rate yourselves rather than thinking in terms of the full board and how you're operating as a

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full board. Um you get a chance to talk about yourselves. And so the overall score for that was a 3.5. The high score category is a 3.9. Comply with all state requirements. We'd love to hear that at the school board, including training,

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financial disclosures, conflict of interest, and the code of ethics. Really, that's like the prime directive. Those are all the things that to be ethical and to be um careful in uh how you apply the resources that are provided to you as a district. That's super important. So, it's great that uh

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you feel confident in that. Um and then uh the category score 3.1 familiar with the bylaws in active accordance with their direction. I think a lot of boards would say I wish I knew my bylaw better. So that's something to keep in mind. Um

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but those are pretty good reflections there. Um right jump into the just a quick review of your goals. Uh so satisfactory progress or achieved was how you rated yourselves on your

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four goals. So split down the middle for number one foster constituent involvement and increased communication to improve engagement with the district community. We talked about that a bunch. I think the four and the four probably suggest that you felt you heard about it. You looked at it but you want to do more about it. That's probably why it's

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so important. Second support, monitor and communicate the progress of the district's 5year strategic plan. But that did come through. Um, but see it's funny. It didn't come through loud and clear on what I walked you through, but it does come through in the comments. So, uh, I think what we see there, six

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same satisfactory progress is made. It's on the radar. There's some things done, but maybe we can do more. I think that's how it should be that goal two. And then number three goal uh the third goal develop and implement a facilities plan that addresses the district's evolving educational priorities and

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foundational facility needs ensuring safe flexible future ready learning environments achieved six. I'm going to I'm going to guess because we're getting a little short on time. Six versus two. I think what that means is you put a lot of thought into it when you went to referendum and you're very well aware of

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those needs and that's why you uh you rated yourselves high in achieving that goal because the knowledge is there and now it's the idea to do something about it. Is that a fair? Okay. And then uh the fourth goal um continue board training to achieve the

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Carol New Larson certification provide ongoing education training and mentorship for new incoming BOE members. So you are making satisfactory progress towards Carol New Larson. Um I wrote it down. We'll get there.

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We need I don't >> just ask Yeah, you're close. We have a little work to do. I by May of 5:27 I want to say it's after today I believe it's four credit hours so four hours more between

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now and May that's sticking out May 2027 so um we'll get there uh I had a few thoughts that I can talk offline about as far as like what we might do we still have a few other topics that we

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talked about so that I can come back for so it's very doable that's you know something to be proud Let the book out there. Okay. And then, you know, so that three versus five might have something to do with work with that. All right. So then

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on the last page, greatest strengths, those are written in there. I don't um want to read read them at you again, but uh I encourage you to look through those. And also um

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on the docket that says executive summary. So a short version of that could be if you look at so there are common themes for each thing we just went through. Like if we were going to spend more time I would say note how the bullet points shift from being strengths

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to needs. Um so you might just notice as you go through that. So these are the common themes pulled from commons uh and maybe the language of the ratings. So just as an example on that executive summary document uh I kind of boxed off the bottom three. So if you wanted to

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read through those you would see like need for more consistent use of data opportunity to improve communication of goals. You see this common running everywhere desire for more regular monitoring goals that was that reference to the strategic plan. So I think um the connection I'm making for you there is

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on this back page it's a narrow description of what those goals are saying. So there there's a lot of redundancy which is a good thing because I think it keeps putting our focus back where we want it to be. Um, if we were doing a full-blown retreat on goal

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setting, uh, we would break into smaller groups, let's say, and then we would chunk that out, like, you know, maybe small groups two of each of those categories and look for gaps between what the data was suggesting to us here and what we know and and so um, but I

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think this was a good overview, um, appropriate dose to start on what the self-evaluation that you participated in suggests about you know going forward and some of your focuses. So uh with the remaining

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30 seconds I don't know if you want to ask me to look into some more share a major thought or two what would you like ideas about community engagement anything you guys think works or people try

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I'm open to anything but any I guess if I could What would be what's our success criteria for showing up to our meetings or like like how do we like what are we measuring like what is the objective say what are

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we trying to get right like is it just question for me it's I'm trying I would be it's hard to measure trying to get their parents maybe you have thoughts for us you should do that and if there any barriers now that prevent them from

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sharing you should remove that it's hard to measure but I think right now we're that's pretty so anything measures important even if it means uh you know saying we're going to do four activities this year that's a thing

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measures you did them you completed them um but and I like the word barriers like finding out. So again, it could be that surveying some of the constituent groups, what's keeping us from connecting as much as we want to. Uh and it's also a really good thing for the community to hear you say that we want

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to connect. We want to be more a part of, you know, uh your conversations. I think that's a Right on time. >> Exactly. Uh, congratulations on your junior year. Good luck with the wrap up with that. Thanks for having me and I'll

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look forward to speaking more about what else we can do together. Appreciate >> everybody, very very much. Thank you. Byebye. Ready? Board business. Okay. I have a motion to approve board business motions A1 to A14

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and B. Board business motions one and three. One move. I have a second. >> Second. >> Questions, comments, or discussion? >> Yeah. All right. Which did you remove? I'm sorry. >> No, I'm merged then.

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>> Oh, okay. Gotcha. >> You move. You move the A1 through 14 and >> B13. >> Oh, I see what you did. Gotcha. Okay. All >> Thank you. >> So, the questions on the adoption of

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business items A1 to 14 and board business 1 to three. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any extension? You want to move tonight? >> I have a few items. >> Okay. On the uh facility front, the

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boilers were shut down for the season. They're scheduled to be cleaned and inspected the summer. Um after this police now we had a large storm that had knocked down the chestnut oak. Not our pinnos in the circle. >> Not with the bats. >> Not with the Indiana bats. No, but uh

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and I never knew there was a chestnut oak. >> It was right in the circle. It fell across the road. >> Town actually came in with a front end loader and moved it off of the roadway. Otherwise, Monday morning buses wouldn't

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get through. So, uh, I did reach out to Davana and thank them, acknowledge the fact that they helped us out. Uh, and that was June 7th. So, uh, we cleared that up. So, Monday morning through there. Um, and I have a street contractor in we move that street as

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well as other dead ones around. So, yearly I like to go around safety crew. You know, we had a couple of widowmakers up there. So, we bought the property and they cut them all down on Saturday. So save that one. Uh H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H HBAC contractor was

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here to uh repair some rooftop units that failed in the child study team office and couple of those classrooms up there. Uh commencement, we found out who um who will be attending. We'll have homes for those folks reserving some spots by the grass field. We have

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commencement out here. Uh I met with the architect and the roofers today on the summer roof project. So we were doing the staging where all the supplies and everything were going to be ported probably to worry about dumpsters. So we squared that away waiting for the project

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schedule report. Um you recall I went to the New Jersey out conference my annual state association of business officials during the week of June 1st. Several days of professional development and I was honored to receive a distinguished service award. Um, I also received

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another $1,000 scholarship uh to award to a graduate senior that choice. So, between last year and the distinguished service award and then the other award, I was able to award $3,000 in scholarship to um seniors and those

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folks are Brody Hud attending Ruckers University. Again my criteria was um either in a field of education within the state of New Jersey staying here um trying to pursue so either business or education weren't too

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committed people doing education so Hudac Rucker University study business supply chain management Dominicelli attending TCJ an interest in business and finance and Michael Shannon was the last one to receive going to Rio College

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studying And then New Jersey school boards come. So I now know who a couple of them are if um we'll cancel the rest of the rooms will give an opportunity for other schools that didn't get a room to get one. And uh I'll keep them open until

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somebody and that's my report. >> Welld deserved. I work closely with the guidance department and students and you know somebody who's going to be giving back the same here. >> That's fantastic. Thank you.

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>> I'm sorry. >> Say no. >> Thank you, >> Superintendent Mr. Just a brief overview of some of the things that have been happening in the school recently. Um on May 20, the academic math and literacy night where all the parents came in, they're able to

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discuss some things that go wrong on math, how the kids learn math, uh ways to help their kids at home with on May 28th, our chorus uh students. RBS received high status due to their performance and skill level.

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Of course, as everybody knows, the right of passage field trip was awesome. Kids had a great time. It was well run by our teachers from morning till night. We saw many many monuments

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to this battle. Uh this is new for this year. We're doing art screenings to help us out with early intervention and providing guidance to teachers right from the start of school. >> And I'm sorry just a quick question and

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it's back when they go to DC and it seemed like they had matching t-shirts on different days. Is that how the school does that or who who does or is that part of their that's part of the eighth grade activities? >> Yeah, that's right.

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or the or the eighth grade. >> Oh, okay. Okay. Uh just last week we had day for grade three and grades six and also

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pizza. Uh of course this was a this was something new this year. at the eighth grade uh soccer game. Uh the Ed Foundation, eighth grade teachers and um bunch of parents came by to support the

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kids and having a good time and Kona the ice cream truck was here for you. >> So I was the ref. They all won. >> I was happy I didn't get any workers compliment >> injuryree. So you won

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>> injuryree. Exactly. Um, uh, just this week, uh, yesterday we had the seventh grade party again. Very nice time to wrap up the year.

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And we had our kinder and alphabet parade. And what's the end of the school year without a preschool graduation? It's just a third step. I'll just briefly touch on some of the district goals. Uh to me, goal number

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one, some of the things uh to meet this goal were the three connections that I had throughout the year starting September. Uh from September to to just about last week, I had approximately 50 sessions this year, which is on average between one and two sessions per week.

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Um and that's every week the school year. Additionally, uh with sports schedules and all the extracurricular activities and events, uh I felt that this progress towards the

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school and of course the community that's like bingo practically. Goal number two. Uh, one of the things I did to help achieve this goal is to continue to train our primary grade special education support staff.

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Currently all first and second grade teachers for training. The trainer who is also parent came here and served as the trainer and we were hosting a location for this training. other districts came to our guests which was a savings to the

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district. Another thing was I built uh in concert with Mount Lakes supervisors and teachers and RBS teachers courses for second and eighth grade students and implemented the math path and clear objective criteria for students to enter

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the math path courses. We also implemented a clear and trust track criteria to answer the enrichment program and we partnered with a professor, researcher, author and publisher of STEM and gift to shape and scaffold our assessments and criteria

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for students entering and maintaining their attendance in the program. So our mindset was was and is implemented uh which is also our education program and as you all know we obtained the hall in education

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team teaching or the pro teaching model you hosted collaborative meetings presentations curricular articulation and implemented the first code district full day of professional development including township on mountain base presentations were done by concern

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faculty members. Uh we also had a Saturday play date and we joined the mountain lakes fair uh at the library and finally to identify instructional and learning outlines to maximize

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consistent and constant implementation of the RT or responsive intervention model. We continue to as I mentioned before continue to train our primary grade special education course and the important building approach and we also use differentiation in the classrooms

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utilize the data and AI to assist students so that the teachers can proper lesson assist them and that's the end of our So we'll move to commendations accommodations for this month. Falcons

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of the month for June. Congratulations to the following students for storing high for strong character and academic record. Fifth grade, Zeke Hel. Sixth grade, Aisha Ibeck. Seventh grade, Ray Emis. And eighth grade alone. Fourth

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grade, flying high for me. This certificate is awarded each one to recognize those students who display a variety of outstanding character and or achievements within the classroom. Congratulations to Evelyn D. Martini, Dean Hagger, and Sullivan Lee.

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Congratulations to the RVS Falcons that will soaring from the mark of play. As you all know, pass showing respect owning their actions. They acting safely and hard reaching for essence. Ellis Lanca, Foster Fondell, Gio Chor and

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Yara, and Lonnie. The spotlight on student work is exemplary work by students in preschool through third grade which are displayed in the lobby on a marketly basis. Julian

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Au, Kayla Gabian, Hayes Lynch, Maya Fito, Thomas Wise, Henry Rooney, Liz Taylor, Natalya, Nico Maria, Dominic,

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Sawyer, Lee, Johnny, Connelly, Maya, Lan. Thank you to everyone who made Washington DC Washington DC so memorable and likely for our eighth graders faculty members Mrs. Mongan Mr. Savage

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Mr. Monaco Mr. Bordino Mr. Turner and Mr. Ner thank you to the HSA for working together with the school providing ice cream pizza and t-shirts for field day and congratulations to our Tre students and their mentor Mrs. us to get a great

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job by all our entrepreneurs. Thanks to the Foundation for underwriting this valuable program and finally congratulations to our public radio course and students on achieving a rating of superior highly spec and that concludes.

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>> Thank you. Seeing correspondents one and two. So our first open session, the first public comment period will be limited to agenda items only. The second public comment period will be open to any topic. Please be mindful that public comment periods are available to enable

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the public to give comments and feedback to the board. Personal matters and day-to-day operations are not appropriate subjects for board meetings. These can always be most effectively resolved with the appropriate staff members or administrators according to the chain of command concept. Questions

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may be directed to the appropriate school personnel or board through email. Please state your name and address for the record and all comments are limited to 5 minutes. comments. Okay. Mountain Links Board of Education. Anyone have any updates?

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>> Looks like the meeting yesterday. That's all I want. >> Oh, last night's meeting. >> Yeah. >> You might still be there. >> Fair point. >> Uh, New Jersey school boards, please. >> Nothing.

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>> Nothing. Okay. Schools County School Boards. Uh Morris County School Board has written up for Thank you. The educational services commission >> state last Wednesday year fiscal year and 15 represent 40

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plus school districts. >> Sure. Okay. Um, Gluten Township Special Education Parent Advisory Group. >> Okay. Gluten Township Education Foundation. >> Yours wrapped. Traps was a success. That's it. So, >> there's a meeting tonight or

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>> there's like a celebration. >> Okay. Great. Thank you so much. Uh, the home and school association. So, the big thing that's being worked on behind the scenes that will be communicated this week is a new launch program. So just waiting on approval for that and it we

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are losing our vendor in going to local restaurants >> for the entire week >> the entire week Monday through Friday. So we took we had >> 21 people filled it out and ranked their

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choices and then I'm going to distribute the survey results this week and we have put our vendors in place for next year. So you're saying simply coordinated? >> No, >> I think it's fantastic. I mean, we're staying local

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kids, you know, reaping the value of it, but it's fantastic. For years, it's been talked about and I just think it's great that it's it's something. >> Yeah. So, it will be Roma twice a week. >> Pizza. Exactly. And J&M Caterers

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Chipotle Jersey Mike knows. That's fantastic. That's pretty much it. So, we're kind of wrapping that up. We're buying a warming machine to keep the food warm. Um, we obviously sponsored field day, which was very fun.

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Hot one day, nice the other day. I can't think of anything else at this structure. >> No water on some complaints, but you're not going to township of committee, please. Okay. Um, few things to report. The

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Dittles Landing playground rebuild update is on June 3rd. The township committee held a successful community playground preview with the playground designers at RBA Fields. Revisions will be made to the plan based on community

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input receives at the preview. Looking to finalize the plan in the coming weeks and have the playground rebuilt by the fall. Save the date for family movie night under the stars at RVA Field, July 8th

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at 8:30 p.m. A free summer concert at RVA Field on July 7th at 700 p.m. featuring the chapel band. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets.

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And last is the BA Townships 250th anniversary fireworks July 25th. Rain day is the 26 at RBA Fields. Festivities start at 6:00 p.m. with a DJ, bounce houses, and games along with food

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vendors, desserts, and ice cream and kettle corn. Fireworks start at dark. That concludes my report. >> Thank you so much. I just want to back up because I you reminded me of something. We are doing a fall festival like a welcome back to school on

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September 19th which is a Saturday. So we're curating that through the HSA right now. >> Is that going to be at the field >> here? Here >> 19. It's a Saturday night. >> Mhm. >> 2:00.

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>> Yeah. I think it's 2 to 5. Just looking at notes. Yeah. 2. >> That's playground existing there. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a really bad I can't even remember when that was originally built. >> Yeah. Long long time. So 25ish

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>> years. Yeah. >> Terry might have played on it. >> All right. Thank you so much. So blue. >> So today was the ribbon cutting for the new community garden. right outside. Saw a bunch of people. >> I did see people there on the way in. >> Yeah.

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>> Hanging on your sign or doing something. I don't know what they were doing. >> They were doing a ribbon cutting. >> Nice. >> And there's a new and there's a sign say um funded by Sustainable Jersey and PSNG. Um there's been constructing the uh the new beds that anyone in the community

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who's interested can receive on the plot and come and grow their grow their plants. Um besides that uh the green team is working on ensuring that we maintain uh and get actually improve get silver

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standing from sustainable Jersey so that way we can qualify for grants for more projects to uh clean up a beautiful they used to donate a lot of vegetables >> uh don't know yet. Um I don't know who they who got the plat plot so far, but I

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will ask. Just curious. >> Nice. Thank you. Facilities report. >> Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. Could you back up one second? >> We're going to do Mountain Lake student rep. >> Yes. Our Mountain Lake student

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representative will not be here tonight. She was attempting. She was attempting to attend a high school senior event where some seniors in softball. So she was trying to go there tonight to support that competition. So June was a busy

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month. Just June was a busy month, but MLHs is finishing strong. The minor leakers score shout outs. The big news is that boys and girls lacrosse teams both advanced to the north finals. The Broncos team hurt a strong 95 but lost

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to 76 times team captured the group one state championship with 97 victory over rival Russ last Friday. Lakers continued their postseason run last night took high school in the first round. They were standing up performances by

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the track. Joe finished in the state at the post for champions. On the academic front with ML delegation performance act hosted by Park High School on May 30th Santos was awarded state delegation

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heading post research several Spanish for honor students earned national recogition of the 202 Spanish exam receiving medal or honorable mentions unit as the largest exam in the United gold ink.

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Looking ahead to MHS is looking for a TSA engineering team for next year. TSA's national high school level engineering competition for teams time to put out speech as a chapter and get a chance to send multiple teams to compete

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senior events. Uh I know these well graduating class of 2026 have had a very busy final two weeks. Last week they attended after fire presentation by seat dormatory fire survivors. They used their own personal stories to teach fire safety and resilience after the tragedy.

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They had their athletic banner signing for the MLHs athletes acknowledge last Tuesday. They have senior engineer missing a senior six flagship senior heart review

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and tomorrow June 17th the last day of school special and graduation will take place at 700 p.m. in the return of awesome. Congratulations to the class of 2026. >> Thank you. >> Now we'll go to our facilities, please.

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Okay. So, a couple things um to bring the board up to speed on regarding uh facilities. We had a meeting on June 8th and during that meeting, if you can remember back to last month's board

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meeting, we discussed um communications firms. So, four firms were contacted to RFP that John um sent out. Two firms submitted proposals. Those are the two that um we spoke to last week. One firm

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declined post meeting. um they were a little more unresponsive and I think the architect firm eventually did get a response from them. They were respectfully declining uh responding to the RFP and then the fourth firm that

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firm had basically retired. Um, so we spoke with two or representatives from two communications firms. I have to be kind of general of what I would talk about here because we didn't make decision at 81 of them that we filed

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about. Um, so I have my notes here. If anybody wants to see them, I'm happy to pass them over. Um and then the committee asked both um the art techch firm Dan and John who's on the call to see if they can extend the outreach to

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other firms just to see if you know were we missing anyone. We just wanted to make sure we had a qualified pool of firms to choose from and making our decision on um hopefully helping us with this

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question. So you have some followup. Yeah, I just I reached out. I'm still working on, but I reached out to my colleagues through our statewide forum asking the question, you know, the firms out there that that they work with referendum. They've worked with various

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various uh firms for communication, but very limited. It's a kind of a narrow niche for referendum. There's only one firm that we talk to. That's really the premier for for referendum. We're still trying to reach out try to get a broader I didn't get many responses back but I

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want to reach out to a broader audience of business administrator to see if we can get firm somebody out there has to work some of these firms. Uh there were there were varying levels. Some some were okay do basic communications um and you have

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zero debt. We're retiring debt. So a lot of the work would be on the district rather than the need for communications for a full-blown referendum. So there are various reasons for the responses I got for why they chose the firm. So

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again, I'll continue to reach out, but I hope to have something relatively soon that I mean probably with firms that are engaging these business. >> So basically that's the challenge. um it seems to be a very niche um area

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for whatever reason. So we don't have a lot to choose from. But just to kind of reorient everyone, what we what the RFP and you know John the RFP also asked was communications for that specialize in

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referendum >> an extend experience that and then we followed up with the size of the referendum with school districts. So I can reach out to my colleagues to see what and I have started to reach out to some of them to see what involvement they had either

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they were doing themselves or what what these firm what the firm knows this one firm. >> Yeah. So there's one firm and you can see the name there um bump it up uh to the top. Um and

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again they would be you know doing honey soup to nuts really taking the pressure so to speak or the task off of the administration team. We have, even though we're smaller

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district, the same number of communications uh steps, if you will, or tasks are still present. But unlike a larger district, we don't have a communications director. We have a superintendent/principal

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who is very busy um with all things education. So, we're really looking for a firm that potentially could interact with bond, you know, on the bond side, with attorneys, with township, following

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up, managing all those moving pieces. Um, and hearing our feedback to based on the failed market from two years ago. But I haven't given up on trying to reach out.

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My goal is to try to find somebody out there, some firms out there that work districts. It's all fair. If you're coming up dry on a permanent network to the permanent school districts

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generally it's not as if it's rock can't find that any sure >> public policy >> you kind of broaden I mean and and districts will hire firms for veterary reasons damage control sometimes uh

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issues happen to get public relations out there and engage with the community. Referend is a very, you know, very narrow scope. >> Well, I mean, it's it's unique. Yeah, it's unique though in that, you know, you want somebody who can give you help with those specific things, but work

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with a team of architects and and bond because when things change, it's constantly evolving. Once the tax comes out, we have to have everybody working together to engage and get the message out. Again, we can't say how to vote, but we just need to make sure that the message gets out so that the voters who

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go to the fault can have an position. That's that's all you're doing with communication. What do you do yourself or have somebody help you? Can I ask for >> Oh, either. >> Yeah, they gave a scope of the

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>> paper. >> Oh, >> you don't want to talk about any negotiating. >> No, no, not negotiate. Just like >> But they did give a scope of work >> like what they're going to show like what the output is, what modules are in there. Um, >> so just understand that each each firm

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Yeah. London did too gave us documentation. I wouldn't say it's how it's going to play out here necessarily because they wanted to kind of tout their um abilities and experience. And

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then we had conversations with well, how would you do things differently? What's kind of playing in other districts? you know, do you do this, do you do that? And I would imagine those type of conversations would also re-engage. So, so if you're looking to see like their

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list of how they would >> uh work with us, it's going to be a little different. >> Yeah. Well, not even just like are they I assume are they going to do an FAQ document? They're going to do a website, they're going to do >> those are all things we talked about. >> Some like like I would be interested like more like what the output is like the things that they're actually going

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to produce. Um, and then like if they have to what they did for the other districts, I would I would like to see like what what they did frankly because depending on what it is, I don't know if I'm convinced that we need to use them. Depending on what it is, like if it's a

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video, probably yes, cuz no one can make a video, but if you're saying like a simple talking point, bullet point thing, like there's a lot of ways we could do that. Well, the followup that we asked for, they gave us links. Like I said, you know, give us some examples of what of work from both both firms that that you were responsive.

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>> Give us some examples of districts you worked with and they gave us the links and you can click on it and you can see all the things that either firm had done. >> If you could share, >> I can share I can share that. >> Understand that the challenge becomes

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>> who's going to manage that at that you know 30,000 foot view. It can't be Mr. Patini. It can't be us and it we don't have a communications arm of the board. So that's why that

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kind it's not we're not just saying different channels. That's part of it. But just monitoring everything being able to have those conversations with those different stakeholders. um you know having someone to you know let's say if we have a question if it becomes

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I don't know a need for a PR release having someone who's going to run with that and maybe suggest hey I'm seeing feedback on social media maybe we can tackle it by this or that and come back with suggestions >> so it's not just and I'm and I know this

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wasn't the intent of your question but it's not just like maybe making a brochure it's it's pulling that through all different channels we talked about maybe doing text blasts, um how to respond to social media, you know, maybe there's community advocates. So, they

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had some ideas. >> Um that larger view, too. >> Okay. I think that's why I'd be interested to see like kind of like their past work and like what the scope would be, right? Because I think that's if it's more like that like where it's almost like consultation and like

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reactive like work and stuff like that's more meaningful to me than like creating like a a trifold brochure like I we could probably make >> Yeah. >> So we can stop this discussion and bring it into close to kind of address some of your questions that we can't formally

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answer in front of the public but later. >> Yeah. So just know our next meeting I think it's on there I think it's July 8th hope um very but we should try to because right now if we engage somebody we have the benefit I think what is it 5

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months and the longer we can down the road so to speak um that window narrows and their taxes get more chunky July 6 maybe that's what it That's my report. Thank you so much. >> May I have a motion to approve

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facilities items one and two? Any questions, comments, or discussion? The question is on the adoption of facilities motions one and two. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? No. Any abstensions? >> All right. So, we're on to finance Jen.

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So finance didn't officially meet but Mr. Murray did send out some notes and I'll only highlight the public most of it is usually business. Uh the one that I'll highlight and Mr. supplement my comments here speaking. Uh I'll

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highlight finance motion number 11. It's just that uh because of the board rules, we have to pass things by June and uh so we're approving here a transferring capital up to 800,000. I don't think Mr.

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May will have the final number uh till July, but this is essentially giving us an ability to up to that amount. Um just so that's clear. And the other one that I will highlight is the last one is uh 17 because this is something that we've discussed at program before which is

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approving the frontline absence management uh which I'll speak for the program committee is is a significant improvement for uh you know a lot of the staff here but significant how to manage the uh absences and substitute

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pretty very standard um tool that's used across a lot of districts. um across the state itself. There's no two otherwise the rest of >> I know you probably can't elaborate but

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can I just ask finance 16? >> Yeah, that one can go in close session. >> We'll talk about >> Thank you. May I have a motion to approve finance motions 1 through 17? Did you want to hold that off until

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after we discussed it? >> I mean, I think I think we would approve what happened. I just was a little more detack after close. >> There's actually no dollar figure. >> So, we come back after that. >> Oh, we'll discuss all that.

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>> Okay. Vote tonight after >> in the attachment 135. Right now. Right now, do 1 through 15 and 17. >> Okay. >> And then hold 16 till after we come out. We'll bring it back. >> All right. May I have a motion to approve motions one through finance

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motions 1 through 15 and 17? I'll move. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Questions, comments? The question is on the adoption of finance motions 1 through 15 and 17. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. Any

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extension? Thank you. All right. Personnel. So personnel, when do we meet? Monday. Monday. Um you'll see on the agenda that it's heavy with all the appointments of

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staff for next year. So there's 19 motions. I'm not going to read through them all unless you all anyone has a question. Any questions? Okay. May I have a motion to approve personnel

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motions one through 19? >> Did I miss one? >> I printed it last night, so maybe there was one added. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Sorry about that. >> 1 to 20. >> Who made that motion? >> Um, any questions, comments, or

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discussion? The question is on the adoption of personnel motions one through 20 and this is a roll call. >> Mr. Bardock, >> yes. >> Mr. Brandon, >> yes. >> Mr. Cavana, >> yes. >> Mr. Chen, >> yes. >> Mrs. McBride, >> yes. Mr. >> Mills, >> Mr. Rosen, >> yes.

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>> Thank you. And we're on to the program committee. We talked about a lot of stuff though. >> Uh talked about the reunification plan CC. >> Consistent with what Chief has told us a

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couple months ago. So that was just >> contin updates. There was a reunification plan. We spent a lot of time on that. It >> was a short one. I think we're good. >> Wasn't that wasn't that important. >> Yeah. >> All right. We'll move on to policy,

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please. >> Okay. Um there are the policies that are up for approval that we discussed last meeting and the policy for first read 9321 time place notification of meetings. There

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was additional language added um regarding the electronic notice of meetings under the sunshine law and there was additional legal references added to that policy as well. >> Thank you so much. >> Can something was just pointed out. Can

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we just so we have a question from the minutes go back and make a modification or amend P20. So we would do that again hold vote but special education teacher should be a general education teacher. We need a

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motion to >> got a motion to amend amend 20 and change special education to general education. >> Correct. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second that. >> A roll. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. Mr.

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>> Brandon. Yes. Mr. Cavana. >> Yes. >> Chen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mcry. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mills. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Rosen. Yes, she carries. >> All right, we're on to governance, please. >> There are no policies, are they? Did I

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miss it? >> Sorry. >> All right, there. One second. >> Oh, it's just not There's no line. >> Maybe it's supposed to be >> I don't have anything on my agenda for policy. >> It just says >> policy for approval. >> All right. So I'm going to add in move

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and second it similar above. So you need a motion to approve motion. >> There second. >> All those in favor >> any. >> All right. Thank you so much. governance.

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>> We have not >> although everyone wants to be governation, right? >> Seems like a great summer conversation. All right, the second public comment period will be open to any topic. Please be mindful that public comment periods

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are available to enable the public to give comments and feedback to the board. Personal matters and day-to-day operations are not appropriate subjects for board meetings. These can always be most effectively resolved with the appropriate staff members or administrators according to the chain of

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command concept. Questions may be directed to the appropriate school personnel or board through email. Please state your name and address for the record and all comments are limited to 5 minutes. Okay. So, we'll go on to any old business on the board.

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Any new business? Right. So, we are about to enter into close session. May and we will have no well, we will have one motion to approve when we come out of close session for finance.

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>> And may I have a motion to enter into close session for student matters and contracts >> and legal matters >> and legal matters. >> Is there a second? A second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Thank you. >> Yes.

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>> All right. Back opposed. May I have a motion to reconvene? >> I move. >> I'll second. >> Those in favor say I. I. >> All right. So, we have one finance motion. Finance motion number 16. May I have a motion? Is there a second?

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>> Questions, comments? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> No extensions. Okay. Thank you. And now we are going to move into closed for the superintendent evaluation. So we need a motion to enter and close.

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>> I'll move. >> Second. >> Um all those in favor say I. >> I. >> And we're entering into executive session to discuss issues that warrant confidentiality as permitted in the open public meeting act chapter 231 of the laws of 1975. These matters may or may

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not be made public when the board reconvenes. They will be made public when the confidentiality of the subject is no longer warranted. And again, this is a superintendent evaluation. We will not reconvene for any board business after. Ready?