##VIDEO ID:3uTdhBcacoA## do we have a high school or yes one she's down there yeah yeah they're both here oh okay could see it's a long long r can't see anything past 2 feet this way uh moving on to section five routine business we have the board secretary's report for November of 2024 the treasures report for November of 2024 the receipts and appropriation adjustments for November of 2024 uh the monthly transfer report for November of 24 the high school activities report for December of 24 the Food Service management cost performance statement for December of 24 the certified Bill list uh as of January 15th of 2025 approval of the minutes uh regular session on December 17th of 24 executive session on December 17th and the reorg minutes of January the 7th of 25 U Miss Ione can I have a motion to approve section five items a through H so move second second thank Mr Maker comments or questions from the board hearing then we'll take a vote um Mrs Eileen blin um yes to all except H um the minutes for December i i i i i i i to everything accept H regular and executive session minutes for December 17th I motion approve approved moving on to section six routine matters uh we have the enrollment report as of January 17th of 2025 the Health Report as of December of 24 the fire alarm report as of December of 24 the crisis drill report for December of 24 the superintendent monthly report Mr capillo thank you Mrs Fitzwater thank you thank you to members of the public for being here this evening uh I start my remarks this evening on a bit of a somber note not uh as many in the district know last week we lost a beloved member of our community and every month at the beginning of the board meeting we take pause for a moment of silence and I know that this month when we took pause for a moment of silence I was thinking about Helen Peters and I would ask everybody in attendance to join me for just another brief moment of silence as we think and reflect upon this beloved member uh of our school Community thank you uh January for those of you that don't know is board member appreciation month uh I am always extremely appreciative to the nine members of the sentiment and Board of Education when we have our students come in for youth in board education day one of the first things they always ask is how much the board members get paid and uh we we did some calculations and it's negative I don't know how much money it is they are true pillars of the community and that they volunteer their time and their efforts on behalf of the schools and the students that they care about so much and I am uh indebted to our nine board members and thank them for fely for their service to the community uh while I'm giving out thank yous another round of thank yous are due to Mr Tindle and his buildings and ground staff even on weekends when we don't worry about things like snow days our schools still need to be cleared our parking lots and our sidewalks as we try to keep our schools open for community events and for our athletic events so thank you to them for working through the night hours to make sure that all of our uh sidewalks and roads were passable along those same token also thank you to miss miss Heather Van Mater and the transportation staff we had some volunteers come in on the holiday weekend to clear off our buses so they didn't all ice up so that they were safe for travel this morning and that is a big effort for our bus fleet of nearly 65 buses also like to recognize a couple of Staff members Terry Crowley and Dan fory who serve as our district CPR trainers there was actually a CPR training going on earlier tonight from 400 to 6 o'clock where some of our staff members got recertified in this very important skill of CPR so thank you to them for leading that effort uh update out of the rush school like to congratulate our December students of the month they were Luke Smith Logan Kellum Dylan Tor and Ashley raik congratulations to those students one of my personal favorite events in cinamon is coming up on February 5th the annual super supper coming back to this very space that we're in we be amazed how quickly can turn from a boardroom uh to a soup dinner uh for interested folks in our senior community they're encouraged to reach out to Miss Melissa D Clemente and there's information on our website so that you can RSVP and it's always a great event and thank you to our staff members who provide some delicious soups salads and bread for members of the community and uh all that we ask for attend is a couple of non-p perishable items that we would then donate to the food bank uh absent from this evening Mr Gorman sends his regrets he is over at the high school right now as we're hosting a FAFSA parent event with over 50 families registered so hopefully they are finding that information informative uh on their path to filling out the financial aid forms for college uh this is hot off the press I'm going to apologize as I read this because it literally came in moments before the board meeting but congratulations to our middle school project challenge future City team that won four awards at the compettion ition this weekend uh that's the most Awards ever won by a cinon team and they won the following Awards constructing for the future the Samuel herb automation Excellence award best engineering based project and excellence in Highway engineering design so congratulations to Mr bacon and all of the students who worked very hard uh on that project including I believe our Middle School representative down there at the end so congratulations to you uh finally this will be the last board meeting we will have before February 3rd which will be the official opening of our next two classrooms for 30 new prek students to join our district we continue to grow we're very excited about that about an hour ago the board took a tour of the new facilities and they're not quite ready um but they'll be ready to go to open on February 3rd and again I thank Mr Tindle and all of the members of his team for working so hard and doing the work in-house to make sure that our students have a great space to learn in and we're very excited about that so be sure to check out our social media early in February as we have some pictures of the launch of our new classrooms so thank you Mr Fitzwater that's my report thank you Mr Capello and they are coming along nicely uh Miss uh trumpe can I have a motion to approve section six routine matters items a through a motion second second thank you Mr merer comments or questions from the board hearing then we'll take a vote m m falano i i i i i i i i i motion approved um moving on to student representative report section 7 first we have the high school student rep report from Gwen chansky good evening everyone the Golden Apple award for December was presented to Miss Judy Rex by senior Brian Driscoll the December students of the month are for the class of 2025 Lauren Brown Class of 2026 Kennedy Kowski class of 2027 Jake Barb class of 2028 marac C December athletes of the month are class of 2026 Shiloh Moore and class of 2025 Eddie fry for the boys basketball team their record is 7 and4 their senior night is February 12th against pton for the girls basketball team their record is 7 and four nursing unit is also February 12th against pton the boys wrestling team record is currently 8 and five their senior night is February 14th against mortown they've recently hosted the first ever cinnamon and Duels which featured eight strong programs across South Jersey the team also hosted the eighth annual fallen heroes match where we honor all military First Responders and former wrestling alumni troop Sean Cullen who passed away in 2016 the girls wrestling team is thriving this season winning their first ever dual match against BCIT and recently defeating rankokus Valley for winter track fry placed a new school record for pville and had won his past two meets and Kellen kler just missed the school record for the 800 less than 1 second away the swim team's record is 4 and three the senior meet is January 23rd currently the swim team is ranked sixth in the central Group C for the njsia tournament that will take place in February for play unified the Pirates got their second win of the Season by defeating e-wing High School School 39 to 36 the girls bowling team is currently 10-2 sophomore Elena Miller and Junior Alana mive have both achieved career Milestones of 10,000 career pins on Varsity the boys bowling team is currently 56 and one senior Chase long and Junior Ian jungut have both achieved their care career Milestone of 10,000 P for student council during January's month of servance student council is sponsoring CHS second annual Super Bowl of caring students will bring in cans of soup to their second period teachers from January 21st to February 7th the second period teacher that collects the mosta most cans will win a bagel breakfast hosted by student council the week of February 12th all soup will be donated to the food bank of South Jersey our goal is 1 th000 cans work is underway with the CHS drama club production of The Little Mermaid Cass and crew have been learning their blocking learning their music and building the sets in anticipation of a great show season they were happy to welcome back students for their second annual alumni showcase and look forward to the upcoming mortown theater Expo they quarterly invite you to come out in support of the show this late this February and early March as you join them under the sea 31 cinnamon and deca members attended the 2025 NJ Deca southern district conference competition on Tuesday January 7th at the Double Tree Hill Hotel in h by Hilton in Cherry Hill while all members gave their best performance our chapter had six members qualified to compete at the 2025 NJ Deca State Career Development conference to be held at Harris Resort in Atlantic City on March 4th through March 6th those members are Tabitha Brickley Sarah Delgado Bui Mustafa Emily renol Luke Ryan and Benjamin tenof congratulations to these members on their achievement and best of luck in the next stage of their competitive Journey the National Honors Society will be hosting their annual blun blood drive on January 31st in the honor gym from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. students and community members will be able to donate schedules and information to sign up are posted on CHS High School's in Instagram Facebook and X platforms the CHS chamber choir performed on January 15th at the Maran for Community senior citizen dinner which was enjoyed by all congratulations go out to both Kim Mason and Sam borbon on their acceptance into the all Eastern choir they will perform their concert in Connecticut this April our annual poetry out loud competition was held on January 10th in the auditorium during periods 8 eight and N congratulations to Allison yodis on winning the Poetry out loud competition Allison will represent CHS at the county competition on February 2nd thank you thank you Gwen now we'll hear from the Middle School uh student representative Noah Bundy happy New Year and good evening to all of you it's been a while since I last shared I hope everyone had a relaxing and healthy couple of months I would first like to report our December students of the month our Middle School students for December were sixth grader McKenzie man seventh grader Lucas thess and eighth grader Dean Jernigan the faculty member of the month was Miss jenab Beth Curran 8th grade social studies teacher congratulations to all on January 10th the CMS counciling department and the cin mentors hosted a winter breakfast for new students the students had the opportunity to reflect on the start of their new school year and enjoyed playing some games they also participated in some of Icebreaker activities to learn more about their peers and our school winter sports have started update on winter sports scores are boys basketball a 2 and six boys basketball B 5 and3 both boys basketball teams will host haddenfield on the 22nd boys B basketball will travel to Riverfront Elementary on the 23rd and boys a basketball will travel to Harrington Middle School on the 24th girls basketball a 4-4 girls basketball B 5 and3 girls b basketball will travel to to Riverfront Elementary on the 23rd and will travel to haddenfield Middle School on the 22nd girls a basketball will host Harrington Middle School on the 24th wrestling 8- one wrestling will have two home matches this week versus Rivers Riverside Middle School on the 21st and Glenn landing on the 23rd we have many events planned for February CMS is H hosting a super supper for cinnamon senior citizens on Wednesday February 5th at 5m. pm. in the cafeteria guests are encouraged to bring two or more canned or non- perishable food items all collected items will be donated to the local food pantry and the food bank of South Jersey CMS students and staff will assist seniors and entering the cafeteria and helping them with soup selections salad coffee and dessert our CMS student council was helping to organize a winter Snowball Dance for sixth and seventh grade students only on Friday Fe February 7th students should wear casual attire we are also planning an after school bowling trip for 8th grade students on Monday February 24th the PE department and the student council are teaming up for the student vers staff volley for heart fundraiser on Thursday February 20th all proceeds will be donated to the American Heart Association thank you and have a great night thank you Noah we're going to move on now to uh presentations we have a presentation tonight from the cinamon school secondary music teachers right good evening everyone each year we usually have a couple of academic presentations uh from the different content areas in our district last year we heard about the elementary literacy program we also heard from our TV production uh teachers or media arts as they call it now uh this month we're going to hear from our secondary music team um from the sentiments and middle school and the high school I'm going to introduce our director of the performing arts department as well as World languages and ESL Mrs Suzanne fiser who will introduce the team and now board members while she's coming up there is going to be a visual presentation so if anyone would like to relocate to the front or turn your chairs around up to you good evening thank you for inviting the music department and I to present I'd like to introduce Mrs Natasha Sigman Mr Luke Banis and Dr Nick dovio who will share a little bit of news and updates about the music department um in the middle school and at the high school thank you my name is Natasha Sigman uh this is my 19th year uh at in the district my first 14 years there was at Elanor Rush school and this is my fifth year at camenson Middle School um we would like to share with you how the 2020 New Jersey student learning standards have shaped the curriculum that we wrote and are adapting currently at the middle school the big shift in 2020 student learning standards is from appreciation to music making to performing creating responding connecting presenting and that has been The Guiding uh force behind our curriculum at the Middle School uh in sixth grade we begin with the singing unit singing is something that if you can't speak you can sing and if you think that that is not true I dare you to come um after school and I'll give you um a singing lesson um so singing is the fundamental instrument that we all have if you can sing it you can play it uh we start with the singing voice uh we then move to movement and dance research shows that moving and dancing activates the same area of the brain that is responsible for higher level thinking so we know that movement and dance is very important uh for um for higher level thinking skills specifically in literacy then we combine singing and moving and dancing with storytelling and um put it on stage right here in our musical theater unit musical theater is for everybody it is a as a absolutely a wonderful um opportunity for students to express themselves live because mistakes become opportunities in live performances um in musical theater you can have a lead but but without the Ensemble and stage crew and um scenery it doesn't it doesn't exist so everybody no matter what classroom and program they come from from they have a place in the musical theater unit um so uh this one at the top is a picture of Lion King gunam matene and um I will talk about the bottom picture in just a moment um as I mentioned Huna Matata scene is one of the scenes we put together also your welcome scene from from Moana um The Dance Project is where students work in small groups and create an original dance which is a challenge for a lot of students these days because they're not used to being in groups and negotiating their ideas and accepting each other's ideas um stamp project is a project that if you are familiar with with stump it started on Streets of London where very very um gifted musicians who did not have money used objects to create music um The Stomp combines um music making with stage and students um have an opportunity to use anything they can to put together a story with introduction rising action climax um resolution and finally in sixth grade we end with a ukulele project where students also work in groups and learn basic harmonic structures on ukulele and work together to play a song um this is um a demonstration of how simple piece uh of long brown paper and some markers turned the stage into Moana set um in seventh grade we move on to literacy and literacy in music is U something I'm passionate about is when you're looking at music notation and you can hear it so in seventh grade we start with Reading Writing and composing and applying it to Rhythm instruments um this is a picture at the time of a student playing um their composition um then we move on as I said we we do a stump story and then we move on to ukulele song study where students develop more advanced skills in ukulele and then um finally we move on to melodic Music Learning with Recorder Karate uh we do not actually do karate in a classroom but we start with a simple song Hot cbns you probably heard it in your Elementary School and if student can played with proper technique they earn a white belt which is just a Rainbow Loom little piece of that goes on the bottom of the recorder and students can then progress in their own way at their own skill level um through the different songs that get um harder and harder um so this is a little example of the stump story and after that I'm going to pass it on to Mr Banis who will take all of these wonderful projects and apply them to um a different media [Music] [Laughter] [Music] um one one more thing I'd like to mention about um specifically the Rhythm unit which does take um takes take a leap into this project is that um when we learn to process Rhythm it helps us to see patterns and that we know that helps us to understand patterns in other disciplines for example math and science so Rhythm unit is also extremely important and with that I pass it on to Mr panis good evening uh my name is Luke panis I am the band director here and one of the music teachers and this is my third year here at cinamon middle school I'm going to share with you some information about the eighth grade music class uh which is titled music technology um as Mrs Sigman introduced before we continue uh building on many of the skills that we develop at the rush school and in Sixth and 7th grade music um but we take them uh to kind of to the next level and add a technology component uh in with that so uh students will develop their own musical skills and technological skills through a series of projects and collaborative assignments um you can see some of the units of study uh that we cover in this course we talk about how technology has shaped the musical world from you know 1985 all the way through to 2025 uh we build the same similar skills of composing and arranging um we give a very basic overview of Acoustics and the science of of um sound and we also give a very basic look into audio editing uh which are some and audio engineering which are some skills that students can carry on uh even if they decide not to be a musical artist uh they can still carry these on to some other aspects of life um if a student was looking to make a podcast for a project or a YouTube video or something along those lines they would have all the skills necessary um to to accomplish that so uh before I show you a couple examples of some projects I just want to give you a look um this is a website that we use called bandlab um it is a digital audio workspace similar to something like GarageBand or logic pro uh but the great thing about band lab it is available on Chromebooks and it is entirely web based uh so students can accomplish this work in class as well as at home on their free time um each of these little blocks that you see here are different pieces of recorded audio that students either found in band lab or recorded themselves and arranged them into their their own unique songs um like I said some of the the main skills that we emphasize in this class are computer literacy um and audio recording and editing and just a few examples for you all um this is a a project that we do where uh Mr spear who runs the pyate TV class uh sends me the introduction to our pyate TV news show and our students go and create their own original songs to go along with it so this was a student from this semester again this uh we get the video just blank of audio and they create everything themselves [Music] I have one more example to show you um this is from probably my favorite project uh throughout that we do throughout the semester um students were given the option of three different uh silent movie clips that were I found online and they were able to create all the sound effects themselves uh this student decided to not put any music at all just sound effects but every sound that you hear in this video uh she created on her own minus one crowd laughing sound uh that you hear at the end that she found online [Music] all right and with that I will pass it over to Dr salvio from the high school thank you very much good evening uh again my name is uh Nick D salvio I'm the band director at the high school uh I've been at the high school for the past three years before then I was the band director and music teacher here at the middle school for four years um so seven years in total in the district um and again just being able to work uh collaboratively with the middle school team on a lot of these things that they've already talked about uh has been huge as far as a lot of the uh the our ability to continue this stuff at the high school um you know just speaking specifically on uh this eighth grade technology class uh this you know directly ties into the audio engineering and uh production program uh class that we have at the high school where we take exactly uh what Mr Banis was talking about with this uh band lab this is digital audio workstation um and then we we use those same skills and we apply them to our uh Apple uh Lab at the high school uh using garage band uh and we start to dig in on more of these Concepts that they start at the uh Middle School excuse me uh on the same uh end of the coin like uh Miss Sigman had mentioned uh we also uh taking some of those skills that they learn in their ukulele uh here uh we have our guitar program at the high school that's now in its third year um this is now our second year of our Advanced guitar program where we have students who elect uh to push themselves a little further and uh dig a little harder on their skills um can come down and and learn more on performing on guitar um we found this has a huge impact on the amount of people who find themselves in the music department Wing uh I've I've come into contact with people who get down there by their 12th grade year and they go I've I've never been down this hallway um and that's not a sentence we like to hear so uh all of these programs you know we just are trying to get as many students involved in music as possible whether it through be through our Coreal or band programs or else through uh you know digital music uh or our um guitar programs our strings programs um as far as happenings at the high school uh we do have a lot lot of exciting stuff that's happening and coming up uh first of all just an update on our indoor drum line and color guard uh these are we're going to our second year of this program this uh last year was our Flagship year for our indoor Color Guard uh and drum line um they had a really successful first season uh the drum line has been promoted uh this coming indoor season to compete in the Scholastic Regional competitive class uh in fact I was informed today uh by our drum instructor that our uh drum line has gone 462 days undefeated um so he was very excited about that um so we are excited to welcome back our returning staff members for IND our drum line Dr Doug Ferraro uh Amanda Beard and Adam Solomon uh and we're also welcoming a new indoor color guard instructor this year Reagan soble um so very excited about going into our second year of our indoor program and uh not only its recruitment possibilities but it's uh you know it's training purposes for going into our outdoor season uh next uh fall uh we do have our district band day coming up uh this is something that we've had every year I've been here I know it has taken place long before I got here as well um we we have every year in February both a District Band day and a district choir day these are usually right before uh the middle school begins its course selections um this is uh so that we can give the uh the Middle School specifically the middle school students kind of a Peak at what curricular and extracurricular activities and offerings we have as far as far as music go uh at the high school um so you know students will come out uh Middle School uh band students on the 4th and the next week choir students but the band kids will come up and they'll make some music for the day uh with the high school band students uh it's awesome for me as an educator as well just having been at the middle school and having seen many of these students come up every year both as middle school students coming to banday as well as high school students helping middle school students on band day um they get to experience both aspects of uh in kind of a full circle moment for a lot of them um we uh also have a new way of doing our our spring programming uh for our concerts this year we're going to have continue to have our districtwide uh band concert uh we like the collaborative Spirit of that uh we like having uh especially you know our Elanor Rush kids be able to see what's coming at the middle school and then for those middle school kids to see what's coming at the high school uh and for all of us to get together in our uh wonderful performance space together um but we're also going to have a high school band concert the week before that's going to High School uh showcase high school students uh uh more deeply have a couple more uh pieces I believe we're having a middle school band concert here as well uh so we're going to have dis uh building wide concerts that we can have more concise and uh allow for more opportunities for other ensembles to perform uh finally just to wrap things up uh as was mentioned by our high school representative uh we do have our spring musical The Little Mermaid coming up uh I'm excited to continue the collaboration that we we've always had in the music department with the theater department and provide live music for this um many places especially in high schools and high schools are uh size around our area you're finding more and more often they have pre-recorded music uh and tracks that they're having along with the uh uh the performers uh I think not only is it you know great for everyone in a live studio or a live music performance to hear live musicians but it's also a much more educational experience for our stage performers uh to perform with live musicians as well as giving our students the opportunity to perform this music in the Band program and the Strings program uh as I mentioned to my students when they signed up uh these are not high school Arrangements of the pieces these are the actual pieces that you know these musicians will take on Broadway with them so you know when they sign up for pit Orchestra they know they have a lot of work to do uh to rise to the occasion um and so it's a great opportunity we have here at cinnamon um so that's all we have for the High School I appreciate your time um just to summarize I I really think you'd be hard for us to find such a cohesive music program as the one that we have in cinamon the teachers next to me and the teachers in the entire music department in the district really hard to collaborate with each other to make sure that we have a true K to2 music program where we have students singing their first pitch in kindergarten to engineering and producing music music and playing Broadway music in our pit Orchestra with Dr D um we have so many electives and courses and after school activities to help our student musicians to grow and like my colleagues mentioned to reach those students who maybe never knew they were M musicians until they stepped into one of our classes um and we're grateful to work in such a supportive District where hundreds and hundreds of students are experiencing and creating music every day are there any question questions from the board thank you for your time thank you thank you everyone great job I just wish that I had that kind of program when I was in school who knows where I would be right now thank you all we're going to hear a presentation from uh our auditor Mr Robert invero sorry you have to follow that Rob yeah it's a hard act to follow that okay thank you I'd like to go over the financial summary where we stand as of June 30th 2024 hopefully everybody has in front of them the annual um Financial summary if I can direct your column your attention the left-and column we took in this year tax levy 36 million 220,000 tuition 575,000 Transportation Aid 1,784 miscellaneous Revenue 423,000 federal aid 46,000 state aid 20 m768 th000 total revenue 59 m818 162 we expended in the same period 57 million 794 781 giving us an gain in operations of 2,023 381 we started the year with a fund balance of 9,091 234 we're ending with a fund balance of 21, 1114615 that amount is defined right below what makes it up uh reserve for incumbrances these are orders that were placed that were not um they'll be fulfilled in the next period 543,000 capital reserve 5,315 maintenance Reserve 2,552 excess Surplus 5, 9935 that's the amount that must be placed in the 2526 budget designated for this year next year's expenditures 4, 8762 that that's the amount that was placed in the 2425 budget unemployment compensation 494 254 and unreserved and undesignated 2,239 643 totaling 21 million 1114615 the amount of the Surplus calculation is defined below what how do you come up with that number that 2,239 it's your expenditures 57 million 794 781 * 2% gives you 1,155 and extraordinary Aid and nonpublic transportation Aid of uh extraordinary Aid of 1,046 437 and non-public Transportation Aid of 37310 totaling the 2,235 643 as far as budget actual this year we had a budget of 64 mil 23167 6 we expended 58 milon 338 1110 or close to 91% um that's the way we're returning money the way we return money is not on the revenue side it's really on the appropriation side and all school districts are the same this 95% of your money is District tax and state aid which you receive 100% of so the way you return money is by watching what you spend and that's how we're able to generate this Surplus each year there any questions on the financials uh hearing none I just like to say otherwise uh the business office records were in very good condition there's no comments and recommendations they did a good job thank you robt okay thank you thank you thank you thank you and thank you Mrs wiy uh section n is correspondence to the board do anyone have anything that they need to share okay uh moving on to section 10 committee reports we did not have committee meetings this uh month as we just formed the Committees for this year uh and so we're moving on to section 11 public comment U members of the public are reminded the comment should be limited to items appearing on the meeting's agenda there will be another opportunity during this meeting to comment on non-agenda items all members of the public wishing to speak on agenda items only should raise their hand to indicate their wish to speak when called upon participants should State their first and last name and address clearly for the record in accordance with sentiments and Board of Education bylaw 01646 comments will be limited to a maximum of 4 minutes per person and the Comon period will be limited 30 minutes in duration have anyone um who wants to make a public comment on agenda [Music] items okay then we're going to move on to section 12 Personnel certified non-certified Mr Capello thank you Mrs Fitzwater I'm under section 12 Personnel under letter A appointments and reappointments seeking the board to approve the following items number one and two and those are listed in the agenda under letter B transfers there are two listed under B1 in the agenda seeking the board's approval for that resignations and retirements there are three items listed in the agenda under letter C and seeking the board's approval of them under letter D leaves of absences there are also three of those and they are listed by employee number in the agenda moving up to letter F seeking the board's approval on the following advancements on the salary guide those names are listed under number one in the agenda under letter G extra Duty appointment seeking the board to approve items 1 through four and they are listed for approval in the agenda under letter H Mentor teacher seeking the board to approve item number one that is listed under H1 in the agenda student teachers there is one student teacher seeking the board's approval for that gentleman for this evening's board meeting approval under letter J seeking the board's approval for item number one letters a through H and those names are listed in the agenda and finally under letter K seeking the board's approval for items one and two that are listed in the agenda that is Personnel Mrs Fitzwater thank you Mr Capello Miss Kate blind blin can I have a motion to approve section 12 certified non-certified item Ms a through K so moved second second thank you m trumpe comments or questions from the board I have a question MH I'm sorry a question for um appointments and reappointments number two um just for transparency sake um there's a transportation department consultant that is being paid uh per DM at a rate of $600 a day I was just curious if just for transparency um do we have a head of transportation and why do we need a consultant at that cost and how long is the consultant there and you know how often do we use that consultant yeah we we are expecting a very rare need and I appreciate the question uh so as you are probably aware miss Tom quit served as the head of that department for a number of years um when she retired some time ago there was a little bit of transitional difficulties in the department and without saying anything more to those specifics um this is an effort to keep her expertise available to our district should we need it um and and anticipa very limited need for that individual to serve in that capacity but it is to assist with the transition of the longtime department head in that department so we're fortunate to be able to retain her services for that and is there a period of time that we keep that consultant or just until we're up and and ready so this approval would be in place through the end of the year to be called on an as needed basis thank you anything else okay hearing that we'll take a vote um m falconero I I except I'm going to abstain from letter f i i i i i i i motion approved moving on to section 12 curriculum I'm I'm sorry section 13 curriculum and instruction Dr goldber thank you very much under uh 13 letter A requesting approval of the professional development requests that are attached under letter B the field trip requests that are attached nothing under letter C this month under letter D curriculum approving the 2526 course offerings for sentiments in high school Under letter E the monthly Hib report letter F the monthly suspension report and under letter G uh adjustment to the school calendar for this school year which will as a result of the January 6th snow day make Friday May 23rd a student day now was originally scheduled as a professional development day and the governor also recently changed Primary Election Day from Tuesday June 3rd to Tuesday June 10th that was originally scheduled to be a professional development day so now Tuesday June 10th will be a professional development day for our staff and those are the requests this month Mrs Fitzwater thank you Dr goldurn uh Mr Meer can I have a motion to approve section 13 curriculum and instruction items a through G so moved second second thank you Mr K any comments or questions from the board hearing now we'll take a vote M K blin oh I'm sorry missen blin looking that um I vote um yes for all or I for all b i um vote no specifically on field trip number seven the wine seller trip I I I I I I I I motion approved uh moving on to section 14 special education Mrs lelling thank you Mrs Fitzwater under letter A contracts number one seeking the board to approve an agreement with first Children's Services Regional enrichment and learning center to provide home instruction for a student in their transition program from January 8th till the end of the school year at a rate of $215 per day and number two seeking the board to approve an agreement with first Children's Services to provide home instruction from January 10th to June 30th at $70 per hour for student for home instruction and $10 per day per teacher travel and letter B student placements seeking the board to approve the contract agreement with banro school for one student from December 11th till June 30th and letter C consultant agreement there are none thank you very much thank you m lellan Miss falconera can I have a motion to approve section 14 special ed items A and B so moved second second thank you Mr Trump comments or questions from the board hearing n we'll take a vote Miss e blin i i i i i i i i i motion approved um there are no policies and regulations this month so moving on to section 16 business and finance um Mrs wilky thank you Mrs Fitzwater under Section A there are no grants this evening under Section B Finance number one that the board approves the annual comprehensive financial report and the auditor's management report for the fiscal year ending in June 30th 2024 with no recommendations item number two that the board approves the mileage reimbursement request for the staff members as attached items number three donations item 3A is that the board accepts with appreciation the donation of two 3D printers from Mr Fred camp to the Middle School sixth grade science program that the board accepts with appreciation the donation of $1,000 from seasa to the middle school for staff recognition prizes and events and item 3C that the board accepts with appreciation the donation of deductibles item D contracts item number one that the board approves a contract for Bond Council services with W Goldman and Spitzer for the time period of January 22nd 2025 through June 30th 2025 as attached item number two that the board approves a settlement agreement between the sentiments and Township Board of Education and meta platforms as attached and item number three that the board approves the contracts with Rico copiers as attached thank you Mrs Fitzwater thank you Mrs Wii uh Miss e blin can I have a motion to approve section 16 business and finance items a through D so moved second second second thank you Mr Maker comments or questions from the board hearing then we'll take a vote Miss falconero i i i i i i i i i motion approved uh we have no other business tonight so we'll move on to uh section 18 public comments uh during the public comment section of the meeting the board will seek public comment on any item members of the public are reminded that if they wish to speak when call upon participants should State their first and last name last name and address clearly for the record and in accordance with sment and board Ed of Education bylaw 01646 comments will be limited to a maximum of four minutes per person the comment period will not exceed 30 minutes is there anyone um wishing to make public comment tonight Brittney rvis camenson so I apologize to the new board members I didn't get dressed up for yall tonight I got my pajamas on so uh wasn't planning on coming here but here I am um so I wasn't going to speak either but I just had I guess um some concerns um with the transportation situation um that's a lot of money I mean I knew they have a lot to do I know Mr Capell I was going back and forth with you in November with some concerns of a bus that cuts through the street um you had mentioned that we're working on working towards budgeting for GPS's on the buses so I'm just wondering where we stand with that um cuz I think again safety concerns is it's important you can't argue with a GPS and I think in 2025 we're not talking million dollars here so um I I really think it's necessary and appropriate um I've given up calling Transportation um but when they end up hitting a child or anyone it's going to be an issue so again I'm asking where are we at with budgeting for the GPS's for the buses thank you than you and welcome yall thank you Mr robon I will certainly follow up with you with the answer to that question but just so you know it is as I as I said before it is a priority in the transportation department to put that in our budget for next year next year it is Our intention to put it into the budget for next year a lot A lot has to happen between now and then for that budget to get finalized and I can't make any promises on behalf of this board as to what makes the budget but um it's been on our radar for a number of years we do have 65 is buses that we needed and know there's some costs associated with it but we have the technology on the back end to support it now we switched transportation software last year well this was our first official year using and that was an integral part of being able to have a platform that integrates the GPS into our backend software so I'm happy to follow up with that conversation with you after the meeting if you want to hang around for a minute but it is a priority and it is a great idea anyone else okay uh comments from the board Mr Kenny thank you Mrs Fitzwater uh first off the board we would like to pass along our condolences to the family of Mrs Helen Peters who passed away last week Mrs Peters was a beloved member of the rush School Community for 16 years and she will be greatly missed congratulations are in order to the middle school project challenge students and the high school Deca students as well as the high school student Allison yodis for winning the Poetry out loud competition and great job to Mrs Wilkey and the business office on the 2024 audit we appreciate your hard work thank you to our dedicated music teachers for an wonderfully informative presentation regarding the amazing programs they provide to our students across the district thank you to Gwen and Noah for the reports as always it is always a pleasure to hear updates thank you for the donations thank you to Mr Tindle and Mr zami and their Crews for getting the preschool classrooms ready as well as for keeping our parking lots clear from the recent snow and ice and a thank you to Dr Lori banow from the new New Jersey school boards Association for her board members ethics training tonight her presentation was very informative and thank you to the public for coming out to voice your concerns to the word we appreciate you taking time to bring them to our attention the next regularly scheduled meeting is on February 18th at 700 p.m. right here in the Middle School cafetorium more information can be found on the district website that's it okay uh Mr Bramhall can I have a motion to adjourn so moved second second thank Mr trumpe all in favor I opposed meeting is adjourned have a great