we're gonna David can we stand for the pledge please bring it here i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible and liberty
and justice for all welcome everybody to the Kusel Park Board of Education uh regular meeting April 16 2025 i'll ask everybody uh we saluted the flag it's good loop roll call please i'll just read a quick statement mr pan
do the roll uh the New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision provision of this act the Cliffside Park Board of Ed has scored notice of this meeting to be
published by having the time date time and place thereof posted in the office of the board of ed the offices of school numbers 3 four five and six in the high school on March 19 2025 and notices were forwarded to reporters of the record March 19th 2025 this is an official
meeting i'll take the role now mr capano here mrs abru here mr capano here mrs fredo here mr mr garcia here mr naru here dr pontelliano here mr rancor here mr russo here mr bakia here mr nuzi here
okay mr capano welcome everybody um I'd like to start off with the superintendent report and then to follow with our assistant superintendent report and I would like to begin the superintendent's report by asking Mr kapano and Mr tabaki to please join me i guess I feel like
this so ladies and gentlemen of the public and the board of education I know October may seem like a long time ago but on October the 3rd I forwarded you an email from the high school principal Mr
pinto who shared with us a heartwarming story about one of our own Mr james Liry earlier that day Mr liry exhibited exceptionally quick thinking and bravery when he intervened to save us to save a student's life i said it to you last
month when you had a group of your students out in the audience and I say to you again ladies we're among greatness tonight this is a great young man he's a fantastic English teacher he's a fantastic football coach he's a fantastic basketball coach and we're blessed to have him on Cliffside Park
High School staff so with that Mr ter would you like to say a few words yeah I have a couple words to say here you don't have that energy like you do in the basketball court come up here come up give me the energy give me that positive energy i need it right now i Hi
hi everybody nice to meet you so if you watch him in person thank you he gives a good energy to all the students congratulations i'm not my costume but uh I have a little speech for you but his energy is always positive
you're not a cliffside kid but you do bleed cliff side i give you that much credit i'm sorry to say that he does bleed cliff side i don't know what energy but his energy is always positive on the court i watched him a lot this season cuz I was at a lot of games and all that his your energy alone i have a
little speech here for you i am also a first responder so you know I it's great that I'm saying this but I also just wanted to say a little personal stuff but I do I did watch you this season even at football he's I thought I was hyper at a young age he's triple the
energy that I have so I hope my son is shaking i hope my son doesn't have his energy a lot of energy there but on that note uh this evening the board board of education along with our superintendent our sister superintendent u we are proud
to recognize Mr james Liry an exac exceptional educator and coach in our district whose quick thinking and heroic actions made a life-saving difference in October Mr liry noticed a student in distress and immediately jumped into the action using the Him
remover does everybody know what that is so basically you go behind somebody and you go like this and Okay so I want to commend you for that cuz a lot of people are nervous to jump into action when there's distress usually they go the opposite direction so I'm just saying it
he su He successfully dislodged the object and saved the student's life his swift response bravery and deep care for our students went far beyond the call of duty tonight we honor we honor you Mr larry with this award and as a token of our deepest gratitude and min for his
courage and commitment to the well-being of our every child in our district so I know I'm a little bit emotional here but it's very hard and I do a lot in the community i'm a fireman i'm first responder i try to mentor our young first
responders it's it's a natural behavior that you did that so I commend you for that it's very people get nervous and all that he went to quick action and you saved one of our students so it could have been a bad day for all of us it turned out to be a good day for you thank you for always looking out for the kids in our high school and everything
else thank you for all your positive energy on the on the on the football field and on the basketball court trust me it goes a long way a lot of kids look upon you which we like to see that cuz in 10 years from now it's going to be like coach Bernelli we still call him coach right right all these years later
we still call him coach all we still have the respect so you're building that foundation so we want to thank you with a little token here from all of us okay so thank you for everything all right all right thanks so much congratulations you don't need to be nervous
protection man you did that so good i need to lose weight that was that was bad i just You didn't You did the right thing appreciate it yeah thank you so much for everything
you always get absolutely Thanks for everything absolutely family pleasure we're going to take a one minute recess in case you want to go ahead and grab a bite to eat or what you have to do james thank you so much for being here thank you very much
you illegally no uh so the superintendent's report is just to let you know there were 18 personnel resolutions this evening all prefuncter and I did explain to the board of education in private uh the body of a few um under policies and
procedures i wanted to let you know that there were three Hib investigations this this period uh two were alleged one was confirmed within all three investigations parental contact was made counseling was provided disciplinary
action was taken in the confirmed case and Mr capano that concludes the report of the superintendent any questions for Dr hayes i'll turn it over to Mrs calibri our assistant uh superintendent of schools mrs calibies thank you Mr pano
um I'd like to first start off with um thanking the board of education for giving us our first full day of PD on March 31st we had um the students had a day off and I hope students had a nice day off while the teachers were in class
so uh teachers um prek through 12 were in various um workshops the main workshop was Renaissance Star Reporting and um that took up a majority of um the staff's day um they had breakout
sessions for NJSLA work sessions uh across content areas obviously ELA math and science um we have curriculum dialogue and articulation meetings across grade levels and departments um the staff were provided with um just an
opportunity number one to um come to school and uh be able to work with their colleagues for the day and uh we look forward to more of those days next year because they were definitely worth um we I received many emails from staff saying
that it was a very productive day so thank you for giving us a full day of professional development we really appreciate it uh at this time we're uh actively planning our 2526 school year um so that's what we're
very busy doing here um at the board of education so thank you very much that is my report thank you Mrs calib any questions uh for Mrs calib turn it over to committee reports any committee reports from the board
i'll turn it over for the high school report valentina I see you have a beautiful Clemson hat on yes actually and I'm assuming that's where you're going yes congratulations congratulations everyone in my family got rejected by Clemson oh congratulations i had I had
one of my daughters got rejected and well actually she's on the waiting list and the other one got in but they they decided to go together to uh James Madison University but congratulations and it was beautiful everyone looks super happy so I We'll be visiting you though oh thank you yes I'm expecting
you now what's what's going on at the high school so tomorrow we're having our pep rally yeah i got postponed because of the weather but tomorrow's supposed to be pretty nice so we're very excited it gets the students very really excited for the sports i just recently went to the baseball game today they won against Dwight Mororrow they're pretty good um
and yeah so as far as the um upper classman going out for lunch it's been going pretty well um I feel like I tend to usually see them go out more when it's like nice out and then when it's a little bit colder they like to stay in so I guess I like that it's a balance so they're like when you go to school when
it's cold it's like you see everybody you still get to talk to your peers and when it's nice out they get to go out so it's kind of a good balance like it doesn't feel like so isolated and alone when it's like when you're in school so yeah excellent anything else that's it thank you what time is the pep rally uh
the pep rally is usually 2:00 p.m yeah it's usually uh at the end of the 7th to last tomorrow 2 p.m in the gym um no outside of the field yes may I attend yeah of course all right 2 p.m
you're going to Clemson what's the nickname nickname of their football stadium what's it called death Valley all right great place you guys coming for a game any questions for Valentina good luck all right congratulations so what will
you be majoring in um business hopefully marketing very nice okay um Lou um your report please okay Mr thank you very much um we are starting to work on believe it or not
year end in regard to surplus where year ends are going to take us our auditors are getting set to start their early audit that's always fun stuff um there's three resolutions I'd like to take the board and the public to take a look at if I may on page seven resolution number
20 uh Mr danho he authored this uh for the right to know chemical hygiene plan with the chemical inventory list this is just about every chemical we have in the building in the high school and throughout the school district and Mr rodano and his team really do a great
job uh with hazmat materials stores materials overviews to the county and to the state he does really a wonderful job and this is the plan that gets reviewed by the county and the state each and every year it gets updated uh it's a probably a 50 60page document so I
commend Mr dano and his team i also like to take you to pages 17 and 18 if I may please uh page 17 is each and every year we're fortunate to get about $8,000 from New Jersey Schools Insurance Group for a
safety and security grant what we're actually going to do with that money we don't I'm not 100% sure yet we'll work with the uh the staff and co in regard to the best use of that money but the first thing we have to do is get it uploaded and get it approved to use the money and
that's what we're doing tonight is we're going to get the resolution approved we will upload it tomorrow morning with the help of Mr savastana so I don't muck it up and then we will get formal approval and then we can engage in a project for 252 we get this money pretty much each
and every year and on page 18 resolution 47 that we spoke about that's the multi-purpose room at number six school uh a bid was awarded to Blackstone as Mr capano alluded to in the work session
the total bid is approximately $1,392,000 and it's going to be a complete rena of the multi-purpose room on the elementary side at number six school mr capan I wanted maybe want to give a little overview of exactly what we're going to be doing there windows
and flooring excuse me it says growth contract grove contract big they were the lowest bidder and then he withdrew it as you know we've had experience with Grove Construction paragraphs says withdraw okay and and being part of a lot of bids
he underestimated the job and then he he thought about his numbers and he pulled his bid and in a way it was a saving grace we we had budgeted around 2 million so this came way below under budget the cost estimate was about a million7 and Blackstone is currently
working in Cliffside Park on um senior activity center and housing authority administrative offices expansion um we have some experience with them you can pass by the housing authority complex and uh you can see that the structure is already up so they look like a sound uh
outfit uh company um in construction and Land Associates has checked their referrals and we're currently working with them on the housing authority end but uh they're a good company it's going to be an overhaul of the entire multi-purpose/ gym some structural work
with uh has to be done also it's also going to become ADA compliant with um going to have a a chair lift in there a lot of good things uh are going to come out of there uh I know it's going to affect a little bit um the recreation program but I'm pretty sure that uh Joe
Rut the bird administrator is going to be meeting can I interject we met with myself uh Sir Spanella Mr rut okay and Magna today on a plan in regard to how we're going to work the recre summer recreation correct the fall recreation
everything to do with recreation with Ma Magna gave us kind of a laundry list and what she needs from us how we could potentially be compromising her business what we can do to help her uh you know kind of reinvent the wheel so we got a kind of a plan in place and we'll continue to work closely with Magna and
Mr rush good so you know we're looking forward to this project getting uh done any questions or comments yes can the board get a copy of the award and can the board get weekly updates on the project that's uh when you say a
copy of of the award the whole bid the whole bid package yeah we can send you the big package electronically it's not a problem have land associates send the bid package with the specs and uh uh an elect an electronic version of the um uh
the drawings i I I have one in uh in my office but you you can share that with the entire board and then we uh then the board should have weekly updates every Friday of the project this this is a project that you don't do weekly updates you do bi-weekly do every two weeks you're not going to
be discussing uh you know stuff things are in motion uh but we always have meeting minutes but every two weeks they'll they'll have a on-site meeting or via Zoom uh I've worked with this outfit uh and Atlanta associates has to get those meetings and Lou you can share that with the entire uh board also like
you always do anyway we send all the meeting minutes out any other questions anything else Lou um not on the financing thank you Mr any questions or comments from the public or anybody
online seeing none can we please get a motion to approve uh the April 16 2025 consent agenda i'll second it roll call lou Mrs abru yes mr capano yes mr fredo yes
mr garcia yes mr nadrru yes mr rancor yes mr russo yes mr bakia yes mr yunzi yes okay at this time I think it concludes our meeting can we get a motion to
adjurnn and I'll make a motion to adjourn second all in favor everybody happy Easter happy Easter i'll ask Mrs calibri and uh Lou and myself to just stick around just want to discuss one item if that's okay