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I'd like to open the meeting at 7:02 p.m. Can I have a moment of silence, please? Please stand for the flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call. Mr. Kenny >> here. >> Mr. Bramhol >> here. >> Miss Falconero >> here. >> Miss Zia Con >> here. >> Mr. McGuff >> here. >> Mr. Mr. Mer >> here, >> Mrs. Tadley >> here,

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>> Mrs. Trump >> here, >> Mr. Fitzwwater here. >> Statement is hereby made that adequate notice of this meeting was given by submission of said notice to the Burlington County Times, the Courier Post, the Cinnamon and Township Clerk, and the District website on January 7th, 2026.

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Uh, we're moving on to section four, routine business. We have the board secretaries report for May of 26, the receipts and appropriation adjustments for May, [snorts] the treasur's report for May, the monthly transfer report for

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May, high school activities for June, the food service management cost performance statement for June, certified bill list uh for June and up until July 21st, and the approval of minutes uh June 9th.

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the regular meeting and June 9th executive session. Mr. Kenny, can I have a motion to approve section four, routine business items A through H? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Trump. Any comments or questions from the board? >> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Tadley.

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>> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section five, routine matters. We have the enrollment report as of July 17, 2026, the health report for June, the fire

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alarm po report for June, the crisis drill report for June, the superintendent's monthly report. Mr. Capello, >> thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Happy July, everyone. It's been a minute since we've had a July board of education meeting. So, we found ourselves kind of in the middle of summer rather than we normally

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meet uh at the tail end. We're celebrating all the work that has been done over summer. Today we are celebrating the work that is in the middle of being done. >> Uh we also find ourselves in the tail end of summer camp about 170 strong and join camp as we speak at the Rush School coming uh up to the tail end of our ESY

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program and our pirate enrichment academy as well. Happy to report to the board uh that those summer programs are going very well and successful. Uh a couple points of congratulations. Uh huge congratulations to our Cinnamonson pirate Jackson Lane. He's a rising

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junior. He made history as the youngest winner of the Riverton Country Club Championship and this has been a tournament with st uh that's been standing over a hundred years. So uh congratulations to Jackson and I understand uh he beat uh some very fierce competition. Uh also the last time we met we were doing some student

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recognition in the month of June. There were a couple other accomplishments uh that are worthy of noting. I want to recognize Mia Denalovich for earning the player of the year for the BCSL in lacrosse. And also a just general congratulations to all of our athletic competitors at Cinnamonson High School.

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Uh Cinnamonson officially won the very first Chick-fil-A Cup uh series of competitions that we spend against uh that other Burlington County School next door in the brown and yellow. So we'll look forward to defending our cup championship as fall sports gets started this year. Little bit of a personnel

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update for the board. Uh we're approving several new appointees to join the pirate ship this year. Uh we're coming to the tail end of hiring season. We're down to just one certificated full-time staff job uh that is uh not been filled yet and a few long-term subs. And what looked like it was going to be uh not

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necessarily a very large new teacher orientation uh has been growing over the summer and we're looking forward to welcoming uh new staff, several of whom are on the agenda for approval this evening. Uh things are going very well with our efforts to expand our prek program. Uh we've slowly been moving into our new space at Westfield Friends

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doing a little bit of construction to get that space ready to receive the 30 preK students uh who will be there for the first time as public school students uh in the fall. We're very excited about that and also expanding our footprint in the Newman Learning Center. Uh really been enjoying this public private partnership we've had with some of the

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pre-K facilities in town and I know our parents have reported uh a lot of success in these partnerships. Want to recognize the work of our 12-mon staff. Uh we celebrate our custodians, secretaries, our technology professionals, and our administration who do all of the wonderful things behind the scenes to make sure we are

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ready to receive our pirates in September. Uh a little bit of a preview on behalf of Dr. Goldburn at our August board meeting. We can look forward to a presentation from Mrs. Fischer, our director of instruction for world languages. We'll be talking about our access scores and also uh the success of

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our seal of biiteracy program uh at the high school. So something to look forward to next month. a little bit of a referendum update for members of the public. Uh members who are here in attendance can certainly look at um some of the upgrades we're planning to do. Uh they are on display in the back. And if you're not here and watching online, you

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can visit our website, cinnamonson.com/referendum, and learn plenty of things about the referendum uh online. We've continued to update some of the plans and are working on educating the community right now. So stay tuned for some uh local events that the board will have a presence at, including upcoming on August 4th. We

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hope to have uh some information out available for the public at the National Night Out. We'll be hosting a welcome back picnic for all of our students uh in September where we'll be available to answer questions and uh we are in the midst of finalizing the ballot question that will ultimately be mailed to all

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voters registered in Cinnamon Township. Uh any questions about the referendum can certainly be directed to the superintendent's office. Uh finally, in closing, just want to send a message of love and support. Um, Colton, we are thinking about you and sending lots of strength your way uh on behalf of the

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board, the administration, and the entire sentiment community. Mrs. Fitzwater, that's the superintendent's report. >> Thank you, Mr. Capella. Mr. Trump, can I have a motion to approve section five, routine matters, items A through E? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Maker. Comments or questions from the board?

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Hearing none. Um, Mr. work. So move I'm sorry. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I [clears throat] >> I >> I >> I uh motion approved. Uh we have no student rep representatives. [snorts]

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We have no presentations. Uh anyone have any correspondence to uh report on? >> I did. I received a message from a resident um inquiring about student parking over on the other side of Riverton Road and some brush in the road and things like that. So, I'll pass that

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information along. >> Okay. Anyone? Okay. Uh committee reports. We had um no [clears throat] committee meetings this month except that uh the referendum committee just met prior to this meeting

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and we will have the uh minutes of that at the August meeting. Uh public comment. Uh members of the public are reminded that the comments in [clears throat] this section should be limited to items appearing on this meeting's agenda. There will be another opportunity during this meeting to

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comment on non-aggenda items. Is there anyone who would like to speak on agenda items? Okay. Moving on to section 11, personnel certified non-certified. Mr. Capello. Thank you again, Mr. Fitzwater. Under section 11, certificated non-certificated staff, letter A, seeking the board to approve

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certificated staff. Number one, items A through I. And that's all of those new staff members I was talking about earlier that we are excited to welcome into Cinnamonson. Under number two, non-certificated staff, there are three items listed in the agenda, A through C. Under letter B, resignations and retirement, seeking the board to approve

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items 1 through six as listed in the agenda. Under leaves of absences, we have three for the board's consideration this evening. They are listed in the agenda under employee number. Skipping down to section E transfers, there are a number for the board's consideration this evening. Under number one, letters

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A through N, those are the transfers. Skipping down now to letter H, student teachers, there is one student teacher for consideration of the board for approval this evening. Under letter I, substitute teachers. Uh seeking uh the board to approve items 1 A through G and

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items 2 through six uh 6 A through D. And finally, under extra duty appointments, letter J, seeking the board's approval on items 1 through 13, and they are listed in the agenda. Excuse me. Finally, letter K, uh, seeking the board's approval on item number one, letters A through E, and

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those names are listed in the agenda. Mrs. Fitzwater, that is the personnel section. >> Thank you, Mr. Capella. Miss Syone, can I have a motion to approve section 11, personnel, certified non-certified items A through K. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Kenny. Comments or

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questions from the board hearing? None. We'll take a vote. Miss Tadley. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section 12, curriculum and instruction. Dr. Goldburn. >> Thank you very much. Under uh 12, letter

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A, requesting approval of the monthly professional development requests. Under letter B, uh requesting approval of the monthly field trip request. Under letter C, instructional materials, there's one approval uh in the [clears throat] attachments for high school financial

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readiness and anatomy and physiology. Under letter D, uh requesting approval of a new course proposal at Cinnmenson High School for marketing 4. Under letter E, the monthly HIB report. Under letter F, the monthly suspension report through the last day of school. Under

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letter G, requesting board approval of the submission of the emergency virtual remote instruction plan that's mandated by state law in the event of an extended closure. And under letter H, requesting approval of a revision to the 2627

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school calendar. This results in September 15th being a half day for students, same day as the referendum. >> Thank you, Dr. Goldburn. Uh Mr. Bramhol. Can I have a motion to approve section 12 curriculum and instruction items A through H?

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>> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Trump. Comments or questions from the board? >> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Uh moving on to

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section 13, special education. Mr. Capella. >> Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under section 13, special education, letter A, contract, seeking the board to approve the 20262027 [clears throat] agreement with the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. That agreement is listed in the agenda. Under letter B, student placement,

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seeking the board to approve a tuition agreement, a sending agreement between the cinemates and board of education and various eleas who are the receiving districts. Under letter C, consulting agreement, seeking the board to approve the following consulting agreements listed in the agenda. number one with advancing opportunities incorporated to

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provide assistive technology evaluation and support services and under number two amazing transformations to provide onetoone support uh for our students and those are listed in the agenda and that is section 13 special education. >> Thank you Mr. Capo and Mr. Maker. Can I have a motion to approve section 13

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special education items A through C? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Uh thank you Mr. Tadley. Comments or questions from the board [snorts] hearing? And now we'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. >> I >> I >> I >> I I >> I >> I

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>> I >> I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section 14 policy. Back to you, Mr. Cabella. >> Thank you again, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under section 14 policy under letter A, seeking the board to approve on second reading the following policies and regulation revisions. They are listed

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and linked in the agenda. Then under number two, seeking the board to approve the codes of conduct for the all of our respective schools for the 2627 school year. And this annual approval is a requirement of CUSAC. So that's why is appearing under the policy section and that is section 14. [clears throat]

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>> Thank you Mr. Capella. Miss Falconer, can I have a motion to approve section 14 item A policy and regulations? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Trump. Comments or questions from the board. Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Tadley. >> I >> I >> I

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>> I >> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section 15, business and finance. Mr. Capello. >> All right. Section 15, business and finance under letter A grants. Seeking the board uh to accept funds under number one, seeking the board to accept

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the funding for the optimal comprehensive universal screeners or focus competitive grants. Number two, seeking the board to approve the idea grant submission and salary distributions as listed in the agenda. And under number three, seeking the board to approve the ESA consolidated grant submission and that is also listed

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in the agenda. Under letter B finance, there are three items for the board's consideration. Uh, mileage for the month, donations. Like for the board to accept with appreciation the donation from Mr. Richard Peak for providing Kona ice trucks for the Eleanor Rush fifth grade and New Albony second grade end of

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year celebrations. And under letter B, seeking the board to accept with appreciation the donation of $50 from the WER family and that will go towards the Ela Mendeloo Pinchuk invention convention fund. Uh, as I mentioned, under number three, scholarship closure, seeking the board to approve the following scholarship closure that is

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listed in the agenda. Nothing under operations this evening. Skipping down to contracts in letter D. Sorry, my board docs is a little slow today. Uh, there are also a few items for consideration. Number one, seeking the board to approve the joint transportation agreements. Uh, letters A through C that are listed in the agenda

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with various ESC's that we coordinate with. Under letter two, preschool rental agreement, seeking the board to approve items A and B. And those are rental agreements between the board of education and Temple Sinai and the Board of Education and Westfield Friends for the use of their classroom spaces for the upcoming year and for two additional

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years at Temple Sinai. Those are listed in the agenda and that is section 15, business and finance. >> Thank you, Mr. Pella. Mr. McGuff, can I have a motion to approve section 15 business and finance items A through D? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Iikone. comments or

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questions from the board hearing. None. We'll take a vote. Miss Tadley. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section 16, other business. Mr. Capello. >> Thank you once again. Uh seeking the

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board to approve letter A, standing orders for the board to [clears throat] approve the nurses standing orders for the 2026 school years. And these are the orders from the district's school physician for our nurses at all of our locations. So that is the only item under number 16. Other business. >> Thank you, Mr. Capillo. Miss Tadley, can

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I have a motion to approve section 16, other business? Uh, item A. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Aone. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing? None. We'll take a vote. M Mr. McGuff. >> I >> I >> I I >> I

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>> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Uh moving on to public comments. Uh, all members of the public wishing to speak 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

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accordance with Cinnamon and Board of Education policy, comments will be limited to a maximum of four minutes per person. The comment period will be limited to 30 minutes in duration. Uh, with that said, is there any members of the public who wish to speak? Okay, we are moving on to section 18.

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Uh, comments from the board. Mr. Kenny, >> thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Pretty light tonight. Um, just a couple of things. Congratulations to Jackson Lane for beating Eagles place kicker Jake Elliot to win the Riverton Country Club Golf Championship. >> I wasn't going to say the name, but I'm

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glad. I'm glad you did. >> I did. Jack Jackson, heck of a job. Proud of you. [laughter] they [clears throat] thank you for the kind donations and that's it really. The next board of education meeting is Tuesday, August 25th, correct? At 7 p.m. right here in the cafeteria. More information can be

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found on the district website. Thank you and have a good night. Have a good school year and rest of the summer. >> Good. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kenny. All right. We are moving into executive session. We will most likely have a small item of business afterward.

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>> Very likely. Um and so uh Mr. Kenny, can I have a motion to convene into executive session? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Mer. All in favor? >> I opposed. All right, we're executive session.

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All right, Mr. Bram Hall, can I have a motion to resume ex uh open session? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> We're now back in public session. Uh Mr. Mr. Capella, we're going to move back to personnel for uh an addition.

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>> Uh yes, thank you to the board. Uh we did have an additional item under section 11 personnel [clears throat] letter A. Uh letter J is listed on the agenda for the board to approve Aaron Foy speech therapist. It's a point6 position at Cinnamonson Middle School effective August 31st, 2026. That is the

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only additional item uh for consideration. >> Thank you, Mr. Capella. Miss Syakone, can I have a motion to approve that addition to personnel certified non-certified? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Maker. All in favor? >> I

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>> postel. >> Okay. Uh, Miss Falconer. >> I >> I I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> Thank you. Mhm. I thought we actually

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had an option, but okay. Um, we're moving down to item 21, other business number two. [clears throat] Um, >> Dr. Goldber. >> Dr. Goldberg. >> Uh, under number two, the board affirms

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the administrative determination in the HIB case listed in the agenda as discussed in executive session. Thank >> you. U Mr. Maker, can I have a motion to approve section 21, other business number two, light letter A? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second.

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>> Thank you, Miss Ike Ion. Uh, comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Tadley. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I uh we're going for a motion uh for adjournment. Miss Tadley, can I have a

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motion for adjournment? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I oppose. We are adjourned.