Good evening everybody. Um I'm going to call this meeting to order. It is uh Thursday, March 19th, 2026 and uh notice has been given of this meeting. Um so Miss Coleman, roll call, please.
Miss Brown is absent. Oh, she's gonna be late. >> Okay. Probably stuck in that traffic, right? Uh Mr. Chu >> here. >> Mr. Marco >> here. >> Mr. Divine >> here.
>> Miss Maya >> here. >> Mr. Sakowski >> here. >> Miss Sherman >> here. >> Mrs. Z >> here. >> Mr. McMillan >> here. >> I think Mr. Dus will be absent. Okay. Okay. Stand for the puzzle.
Okay. So, there was no executive session at this time. Um, and are you guys you're going to do presentations at the regular board meeting, right? Monday. Okay. Danielle is here. Um, just everybody take a look at section
five future dates and miscellaneous information if you need to. Uh, put anything in your calendar. Um and then um uh routine business, we do that at the next meeting, correct? >> Yes. Okay. So, student report is at the
next meeting. Uh superintendent's report at the next meeting or >> Yeah. Got it. Okay. No presentations today. Um our public comment section, that first section is actually for the regular board meeting on um which is coming up next week. But this tonight,
our public comment section is going to be at the end of the night. All right. Um and then we'll move on to section 10, business administrator's report. How quickly time flies. Um All right. So item 10.01.
Hope everybody everybody has their computers up in hum. Um 10.01 01 is a listing of the February um 2026 um school budget um transfer report. We have not exceeded the 10% limit um by
law and towards the back are the detail of all of the transfers. Right now we have a lot of people going out on leaves. So you'll see a lot of transfers for payroll into excuse me into sublines. So that is your transfer report. Item 10.02. Stop me with any questions,
too. By the way, um your board secretary's treasurer's report. It's hold on, it's loading. Um but all accounts have been reconciled and everything ties out. There's no no line no line account in your financial report has been overextended. Um and the cash flow analysis is looking good um through
the end of June. Um your cash flow report, but if any questions on the financials uh report um please let me know. 10.03 03 is the listing of the student activity cash report. 10.04 is the food
service financial statement. And I'm pretty sure I'm pleased to announce we are finally in the positive with the food service operations. Woohoo. Um yeah, we're actually in the positive by about $28,000. It's taken us a couple years, but um and then items
10.05 and 10.06 are still being uh worked on. We'd like to we'd like to publicly thank our principles for working collaboratively with Neutraserve in order to get uh the bills um uh and the
balances reconciled. Um I know that it's a huge monumental task. I know that there's a lot of folks that are out there struggling. Um but it uh it takes a it takes a village and it takes a team. And I don't want us to look lightly upon that. This time last year we were negative $70,000.
And so our school leaders, our uh nutritional services teams, they've been working collaboratively to work uh in partnership with families uh to be able to reconcile this uh and it's paying dividends. So thank you. >> And in addition to that, my state
association is still um lobbying with Trenton to just um find room in I know it's not in the governor's budget for this year, but maybe in future years. They just Stacy heard me preach to this like a week ago, but just feed the kids and I want to get out of the business of
like doing this just feed everybody breakfast and lunch and just be done with it. Um like other other states have figured out how to do this and um we have a meeting coming up with uh Lou Greenwald and that's when one of my talking points is to is to bring that up as well. Um okay. And then 10.05 and
10.06 um they'll be up um by Friday. We're still getting that information um in the board office. And then 10. So jump down to 11.09. 11.01 through 11.08 are all those items that I just talked about.
11.09 um is the budget resolution um for approving the budget to go to the county office for review and approval. Um as required by law. I did attach in the administrative content section to the
board members a copy of the entire umund and some odd page document for the department of ed as well as the state aid printout so you guys can see like um the local fair share that they say we should be getting and the equalized value valuations um that they're using as well as the average income numbers
that I know we always talk about these things but I wanted to give you guys the actual document um I believe I sent that to the retrospect as well um so the resolution reads obviously um approving the budget total total budget for the general fund and that's our operating budget for the school district
43,283,794 of that um local tax levy $25,39 or $39,859. That is a I know people are going to ask I'm just going to say that's a 6.43% increase in tax levy. Um most of that is
generated through the health care adjustment. As in prior year >> [snorts] >> um we get a 2% increase on our tax levy and then increases in health care um beyond a certain percentage it automatically increases the tax levy and
it's a pass through to pay for the increased cost of healthare. Um as you know the state health benefits plan the school employee health benefits plan um their increases are about 31.9%. So, thank God we're not in the school employee health benefits plan. Um, but
we're still looking at 22%. Um, which is I'm used to 8 n% for health care. So, having something in the 20s is breathtaking um because it's such a large jump from year to year when 2% only gets you about $400,000. So, two 2%
on your tax levy is about 400,000 and it doesn't even cover a fraction of the healthare. >> Yeah. Is there any like you said you were going to meet with Luke Greenwald. Is there advoc advocacy happening at the state level to cap >> that is also on my list and I also brought up chapter 44 that we need to
look at that again. Um and I brought up he's well aware that the school employee health benefits plan is not working like the state health benefits plan that they need to do something about it but obviously he didn't have any answers but I know that's on their list.
So, um, and then special revenue fund, that's your grant fund. Um, 5 point 5,759,44 debt service, that's just the pro the 2005 bond that we're continuing to pay down. 1,256,363
for a total base budget of 50,299,1. Um, so of that, the healthcare adjustment um is a little over a million dollars. which is astronomical. Um, but it's just
the cost of healthcare. Um, in addition, we're withdrawing funds from our cap capital reserve of 136,000. Um, the purpose of this withdrawal is to um we went out for a grant with Department of Community Affairs for the tennis court.
So, this would be um part of this 136,000 would be for our local share. In addition, um we're going to do some work at one of our elementary schools on a roof and work on um water in in infrastructure. Um and then we are also withdrawing monies from our maintenance
reserve of $52,87. Um of that tax increase, it comes to about forget that $320 a year um on the average house in Collingswood. And what everybody wants to know, yes, we got cut in state aid. Um, I'll give you the
brief overview. Um, and as is in that large budget document, we were short revenue of 1.2 million in balancing this budget and increased cost of 3.3. So, our budget is actually $4.6
million lower than it was last year. So, I've cut $3.3 million in expenses in this budget. Well, obviously on Monday it'll be in the presentation, but that is what is being the B budget is balanced as I'm supposed to do by law. It'll go
to the state. Um, but I just wanted, you know, Monday we'll have more of a presentation, but for the purposes of this exercise, your budget is balanced. It meets all the statutory requirements. Um, and yeah, I'm ready to take any questions. Hopefully,
>> should we enter committee first? Sorry. Thank you. I'd like just to make a motion to answer a committee of the whole. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I uh Miss Coleman to clarify on the
resolution is the the 1,54,000 the healthcare adjustment. Is that just the healthcare adjustment or that that's the 2% plus the healthare? >> That's just the healthare adjustment. >> So then there's an additional 400 on top of >> Yeah. The total tax increase is $1,529,852
over last year. >> And so that's about six% of the school tax levy portion. >> Yes. >> Right. So not the entire uh tax. >> So if we didn't have the healthcare adjustment, we would be in much worse shape. Yep. >> Than than we are. Um I don't know one
school district in this area that's not taking the healthcare adjustment um because we're all suffering right now. Um but yeah, our tax levy only generates about $400,000 >> or 2%. >> Right. Because that that tax that healthcare adjustment will goes directly then to the healthare.
>> Absolutely. Yes. Mhm. Just so I'm clear. Sorry. Um 2% tax increase plus the tax levy cap million. Got it. Yeah. So your total tax increase is about 1.5 million. >> Yep. And just to further clarify the
mechanism when you go to do the budget, it forces you to take the adjustment before you can do anything else. Like if you qualify for it, it's an automatic interior. It's like a complete I can't even say no, I don't want it. It's a pass through right to the tax levy. I think it's also important to note that
the additional healthcare adjustment does not cover the full increase in healthcare. It helps to offset, but it doesn't it's not it's not equal. >> Yeah, the software lets you go up to the increase that the state health benefits plan is at. So, they're at 31.9. So, I
could have gone to 31.9, but we're only at like 22%. So, we're getting an adjustment on our cost. But there are school districts that are in the state health benefit plan and are going got 31.9% on their increase. Any other questions? I'll keep moving.
>> Um I just want to thank you for putting that document or you know up there and giving us all you giving us all that information. I really appreciate that. I know that was a lot of extra work on your part. So thank you. >> No problem. And again, it's the DOE budget document, so it's not very user friendly, but it does literally have everything in there that's in the in the
budget. Um, and if you have any questions on it, just let me know. Um, everybody's okay, I'll keep going through. Um, 11.11, oh, wait, excuse me. 11.10. I skipped. Um, even though it's included in the budget document, the state is very
redundant. So in the budget document is our preschool our preschool budget but the office of early childhood wants their own budget and their own board resolution. So in addition to the budget we're also approving um the preschool budget for submission to the department of ed office of early childhood and our
preschool budget is $4,348,518 and [snorts] those documents are attached also. Um some good news in item 11.11. Um the Collingswood Civic Collective um civics in action. Um they're going to be offering a scholarship going forward. So
I'm looking for approval to approve this scholarship. Um that they're going to set it up as an expendable trust account and it's going to be funded funded by the Collingswood Civic Collective. Um and going forward uh they'll be offering a scholarship to a graduating senior.
So, that's some good news on this gloomy budget meeting. Um, the next item 11.12 a little um I'll kind of explain what this is. They changed our open public our meeting
requirement. You know, I have I have to advertise in the paper. So, there [snorts] have been some changes to how we um not notify the public of our meeting. Before I used to have to advertise 48 hours in advance, put it into papers, blah blah blah. as of March 1st it can go on our website. We have to
have an interactive link on our website that we update constantly. Um so this resolution is basically saying as of March 1st we are compliant. Um the retrospect will still be our first paper of choice. Courier Post is a backup and as of March 1st um the notice the
notices to our meetings will be on our website and in the past our budget um when I advertise the budget the little I don't know I don't know how many pages it is but the little copy of the budget that goes in the paper that will also be on our website moving forward but it [snorts] is required that we pass this
resolution. There's also a state site that I have to um I have to hyperlink our site to a state. So if somebody goes on a state website and wants a links to our district websites, I we have to link them and I'm in the process of doing that. So it's a little more complicated, but that's basically what that
resolution is saying. >> Miss Coleman, >> yes. >> Um does that still have like the the same timing as the newspaper thing? >> Yep. just makes it, I guess, easier for people that are on their phones or want to like go to the state website and want to they click on Collingswood, they would rather just see a link where from
Collingswood site. Yep. And then item 13, we're just um recommending approval to accept the mental health screening grant in the amount of $68,869. Item 14 um is we're accepting the school-based mental health grant in amount of $50,000.
Item 15, we are um uh need approval to send a special education uh child to Brookfield [snorts] and the tuition agreement. Item 16, sorry, my thing's not refreshing.
Item 16 is an annual approval. Um no, I'm sorry. Item 16 is additional special ed child. Item 17, no charge. Obviously, youth wrestling charge wrestling camp is gold wrestling camp because it's an outside provider. Um the
cost for them to have their wrestling camp um is $1,000. And then Matty Dogs, believe this is the gentleman for the Fourth of July parade sells hot dogs. And that's $200. And that is all I have for finance. Any
questions on anything? Do [snorts] you know how many kids are going to KY County Tech? >> Um, let me look through my folder. I want to say a dozen or more because included in that is like a 20ome,000 adjustment from prior year. So, I'll
I'll get the exact number for you. >> So, Miss Coleman, when you said >> I'm sorry, 28 kids as of October. I'm sorry to interrupt. As of as of October um 2025, we had 28 children at the tech school. um when you said that you made 3.3
million in cuts will be the details of those cuts will be communicated to us on Monday. >> Yes, it's going to be part of the presentation. Yeah, we'll give you the the descriptions and the what areas, what categories and everything like that. >> It'll be categories. It won't be won't
be details. Okay. Can I ask for 13 and 14 for the mental health screening grant and does that go towards those two 13 and 14 that go towards salaries or does that go towards >> I believe um judging by the dollar
amounts no um doesn't go I think I think it's stipens for people to do the screening in item 13 um school best me schoolbased mental health I Yeah, I think it's like it's a bunch of stuff. It's like stipens and
>> yeah, >> I can tell by the dollar amount. It's not it's not a full person. >> Okay, thank you. >> Sure. All right, moving on to section 12. Meredith, you're up. Any I'm sorry. Any other questions? >> So the because we're getting the the
budget presentation on Monday um to to clarify on our part the because there is with the 3.2 or $4 million of cuts those are that's going to be in line or similar with what we discussed with the as the full board on uh in February
during the retreat. Is that correct? >> Okay. >> So before we move on I just want to um tell Matt that we just announced that there are $3.3 million in budget cuts and we just were talking a little bit about you know that not the details but some of the information is going to be coming out on Monday but I just wanted
to make sure you didn't have any other questions related to that or um any of the other uh se stuff in section 11 which is the buildings and ground stuff. Okay. >> And everybody knows how to get me so any questions let me know.
Do you know if the governor's office has announced any additional like leave tax levy options? >> Yeah, I had my county meeting yesterday and we all asked and it doesn't look that way. I think she because she started her speech with there will be I
will not you know of course everybody's taxes are going up because the cost of healthare so it's kind of like read between the lines. I don't think so. Again, I think if memory serves from last year because I still have PT PTSD about what went through with the budget we lived through last year. It was after
our budgets were submitted to the county that they started releasing all this stuff. Um, believe me, if they do, I'll be the first to tell you. Um, but it it doesn't look likely, especially when we met with Lou Greenwald, he didn't seem to think that that was going to be an
option this year. question. Do you see us um them changing the numbers at all in the next couple of weeks or probably not until later on the in the like in June? >> You mean the state aid numbers? >> No. Okay. Now, they've very rarely the only time they changed the state aid was
two years ago when they made a mistake. When they when they started looking at the value of the towns and the income and they were using like the wrong tax numbers, um people started screaming because if you you're a tiny town and you have somebody rich moved in, all of a sudden everybody's paying more in taxes. So, that was the only year that
they actually changed people's um state aids. But, um I've never seen them do that other than that. So unfortunately, we're going to have to make it just make do >> with the state budget process there. The governor's put out their budget. Now it'll go through with the legislature
and they have to approve the final budget um in the summer. So there's a chance that there could be something because there's because there's a lot of school districts that are facing this. But I think also to be honest, I think a lot are also trying to get school districts prepared for very hard
changes. And I think they're going to use this as a mechanism to start forcing school districts to make very very hard choices because the cost of running school districts is is challenging. Um particularly if you don't have uh a local tax levy that's going to support
when you get cuts from the state like we did. And just so the public is aware, by forcing school districts to make hard choices, you mean consolidating school districts or regionalizing, correct? Or >> closing school buildings, consolidating consolidating with other districts. Uh
yeah. Uh all all things cuts. It's Yeah. I would add that um even if the the budget changes a bit through the process, right, the state process uh until it gets finalized in June. I I would not bank on Kingswood
with getting any additional money. Uh if if you look at page eight of the state aid um uh calculations PDF that uh Miss Coleman attached to the agenda, what you'll see is the that's
the the state aid change limits page. And what what you'll see is that um in fact the 3% cap. So basically what the state has been saying last two years is we'll only decrease your state aid by at maximum 3% of what it was last year and what you'll
see is is that um there they were supposed to decrease our state by 2.4 million and so the 3% cap actually stay kept us at 311,000. So if there's any change, I would not expect Kingswood to
get anything extra because they're saying that that we should actually be losing, you know, 2 million more. >> Yeah. The only thing that saved us was the 3% and not that that's great. Um I would expect probably in the near future us to continue to lose state aid. So I
think the um the tenor moving forward is how do we generate how do we how do we generate that missing 2.4 4 million permanently going forward so that we're not always on a I don't want to have to do this every year and nobody wants to hear me doing this every year. So I think that's something like let's get
through this and then let's figure out what we can do in this area so that we are okay. Um what that looks like I don't know but we need we're we're going to continue to get cut because they consider us overfunded by a couple
million dollars. Yeah. So, sorry. >> And M, I know Miss M. Sherman asked about the tax levy uh incentive aid program, whether or not that would come back, but uh other than that, have you heard from other business administrators or school districts about whether or not uh they're going out for um budget
referendums to try to try to close these holes instead? >> Yeah, I just got an email today from another BA asking if we were considering it. Um there's several in Camd County that are considering it in September. The Yeah, the operational referendum. Some of them went out in March. I think
Robinsville failed, but I can pull it up. Robinsville failed, but there was one of them that passed. There was like two in March. One failed and one passed. No, like a week, like March 10th, like a week and a half ago or a week ago. Sorry. My
>> uh was it Middletown, I think, had is that one? They had two questions or yeah something one up north they had two questions >> and then there was the one that overdrew their budget >> that did the referendum to try to save themselves and I don't know if they
called it yet because >> that's the one so yeah Montlair won the the question one >> did it win did they win >> question one was just the one time to close the hole >> passed but the second question to do the the permanent 5 million increase is I think currently eight votes apart
>> and they're they're 24 votes outstanding >> yeah takes them a few weeks to certify the election. So, I don't know. Yeah. >> So, I think a lot of districts are going to be looking at ways to permanently
save themselves and stop this um >> blood. >> When would if districts were looking at those reference, when would be the next time that districts can go out for for budget referendum? You can go out in September, December,
March. Um, >> you can do you can do one in November if there's a general election. I don't think there's one. >> Is there one in May or June? >> Uh, I thought >> there's four. September. I'm having a brain issue. Brain. Uh,
September. >> March. Yeah. March. September. December. There's another one in there. I'll look that up. But there's four dates in addition to the regular election in November. So the next one
would be probably September because you need n you have to give the county 90 days notice. >> Are we holding that there is any I mean getting more revenue that feels like that's not an op like I'm I'm just trying to make sure we're holding the right frame. We just heard we're going
to get an explanation of $3.4 4 million in cuts. And the question I have is, is it going to be enough to not have to continue to try to go about out for a vote to get more money from a community that is already fairly tapped, right? Like, are we I I appreciate the
questions, but I I I want to sit in a space of do we truly believe that that question is even reasonable or um solvent in this community? And so I just would offer ask that whatever we
are presented with on Monday in that level of detail, it is getting us low enough that we're not in that can we hit a referendum question vote to close a gap in either this year or next year. I I just I want to make sure we're really having a plausible or balancing
something that's truly plausible. I think it's and it would be cautioned to think that that would solve everything because we still would be in the same place where we can only raise our revenue each year by 2% of that tax base and cost of um healthcare is going to
continue to go up. Costs of transportation, salaries, all these things continue to go up. We're still capped. So maybe it is a stop gap for years or two, but it doesn't change the fact that we've got to make hard decisions here in in our district to to
be more efficient. Um, so I think I hear I've seen that with other towns and how they're talking about this because a lot of them that passed these huge tax hikes are now having to close schools and people are coming and asking, "Well, why did we just raise taxes?" And it's because even
the amount of revenue that we can bring in each year is never going to be able to catch up to how fast expenses are growing. Um, and that's that's going to be a problem no matter what how much we get in a referendum. I do think that this is a definitely a
question that we we need to wrestle with as a board, right? Uh whether or not um we want to raise revenue or not or we want to ask the town to raise revenue or not. Well, I think one thing for us to keep in mind is Collingswood has the second no,
sorry, the third lowest effective tax rate in Camden County and that's like entire as entire um uh count as entire county, right? So, so our tax rates, you know, are the third lowest in Camden County. Um and so that
is something for us to to consider whether or not that means that we have more space uh uh to be able to raise revenue to to pay for, you know, health insurance um and, you know, teachers in classrooms and facilities or if if there
are other options that we have to look at. >> I think it's got to be you definitely have we have to do something about revenue. There's no doubt about it. um because the state's going to continue to cut us, but we have to look at the expense side of things because
our expenses are just the cost of everything is just through the roof right now. I mean, we're I'm even we're all feeling it in our homes, you know, imagine it here. Um the costs are just we just can't keep up and the states having a problem because they can't keep up with the cost. So, it's everywhere.
Um you know, I I would be remiss to just just blow this off. It's an expense issue and I think we're all feeling it. Um, I wish I knew the answer, but I think it has to be both. I think we need to look at where we're spending, how we're spending, and revenue so that we're left with something that we can
all agree on. Um, because this isn't I mean, this isn't going to go away for for a little while. I mean, now with what's going on in the Middle East and everything, like prices are through the roof. Um, [snorts] so I mean I'm struggling with it. I mean
like Yeah, because we're going to raise Yeah, we raised the money last year and then we're back right where we were, but we didn't really cut anything. We just plugged the hole last year like we really didn't address. So now we're cutting. Um, but then once we cut like I don't know if we're in this again next year. I
like throw my hand in the air. That's kind of where I think that's why people are like we don't know what to do at that point. Um, to be honest, I don't know that the governor's office knows what to do. I don't know that anybody knows what to do at this point. Um, certainly know the president doesn't know what to do at this point. Um, you
can quote me, too. But that's kind of that's just where that's the space we're living in, right? Um, so I can tell you what has been presented to you is it's met your requirements as a board. Um, and then we after we get through um the
public hearing in April, I think we just I need to start meeting and having serious discussions and come up with a plan we can present that we can all live with. I mean, that's what we have to do. Any other questions? >> Is there any mechanisms at the state
level that like cap inflation costs for like third party services that are sering Oh, I wish. >> Absolutely not. >> A great law. >> Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? Like, yeah. No. Um, they actually the
state things get passed down to like um I don't know how to say it. Like the least common like things get passed down to school districts that people don't even understand. [snorts] Um we we pay for everything. Um and there is no cap. The only our taxes are capped on what I can raise to pay, but the the the fees
and the costs of certain things just get passed right down to the school district. Um, we did mention this when we met um with the fair funding group. Um, there's a lot of unfunded mandates, a lot of laws that they pass that make sense, I guess, in the moment, but they don't realize the financial impact it
has has on the people actually doing the work that are in the seats trying to make sense of it. [snorts] And um, so yeah, I know um, the Fair Funding Collective, I know they have a meeting coming up at the Green Wall. I I came up with some talking points that I would like to give to
them. Um, but I welcome any other anybody else has any great ideas on how to um, you know, close our budget holes or give ideas for things for them to present to the governor's office um, from Cam County when they start having their
budget discussions on what they can do. I think I came up with like an eight an eight bullet thing. So, if anybody um, has any ideas, let me know and I'll add it to my list. I mean, I don't really have an idea right now for us, but you know, it's the same thing, expenses and revenues at the
state level, right? And so they the the governor put in 12.4 billion into into the uh school funding formula portion, right? And that's what 300 billion or 400 million more than last year. Um but the problem there is
that it probably needs to be like 15 billion, right? But There's not enough uh money at the state level. >> Yeah. They don't have enough revenue either, >> right? >> So, they need to increase taxes and I think there are a lot of different
progressive ways to increase taxes to pull that revenue in. >> Very vocal and I will not. So, >> well, >> I mean, you can see that that some of the stuff that that she's doing, but kind of you need to do it at a bigger scale, right? Uh, I think one of the proposals was to lower the was it the
anchor tax or something property benefit from a cap >> to stay in New Jersey. >> Yeah. From like 500,000 income down to 250 income and and um like those type of things. I mean, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she uh next year recommends
a lower right uh um income cap there because that's how you raise revenue um to be able to pay for this to add more, but in the end, you know, we can talk about the school funding formula and how
it needs to be changed or whatever, but if there's not enough money to put into it, you're always just going to be in this cycle. >> So, I just want to make sure I remember from last year, our revenue sources are taxes, enrollment,
and uh grants aren't really revenue, but they can fund things. Um and then maybe if we can get revenue from events, right? Am I >> tuition? So our biggest our biggest one is our actually the biggest dollar amount is is um taxes. Um we get about
6.3 million from tuition. That's from Oakland and Woodland. We do get some unrestricted miscellaneous revenue. So that's like you know interest and use of facilities. That's about 280,000. Um and then we get 10.7 million from the state.
And the state is based on the number of students enrolled. Correct. >> It should be. >> So I guess I'm going to ask >> it's a weighted average. >> So they look at the last five years and they it's a weighted average on the number of kids that we've served. Our enrollment is going down too. So that's obviously not helping our situation.
Correct. >> So my line of question is kind of around is our trajectory over the last five years that our enrollment is going down. And so one of the things I'd like to offer ask that we discuss is what is our plan to address enrollment? Because if we get more butts in the seats, I get it. Difficult,
but it is part of the math, right? Um I'm just offering can we impact enrollment is really the question, not >> so let me let me let me let me let me let me let me interject because I think that there's there's there's two trains of thought from a budgeting perspective.
The state assigns a projected enrollment number on average uh in terms of students that are transferring out from year to year. We we went and checked it's 35 students. And so um for example uh uh this current year we were
projected by the state to have 750 students at the high school. It's 680. And so that's showing that there's a discrepancy between what the state thinks we have and what we actually have. And so in terms of like the number of kids that are leaving, it's it's it's
35. Um and so I just want to make sure that we're framing around that. And so From an enrollment projection perspective, this is how we're reporting to the state. But from an actual enrollment perspective, it's 35 kids per year. >> Yeah. And the reason I'm actually asking is that I do think we need to start to
frame enrollment in what we actually are getting supported funded for versus what we're seeing because I I'm not suggesting it's worse or getting it's going down appreciably more now than before. But I do think it helps with that. Well, how much is going to get us to a number that will help us increase
funding is really why I'm offering the question. >> I I I would I think if you look at how the the state funding formula is calculated, especially for us, enrollment really doesn't have anything to to do with it. And it it's because it's part of the base, but but because
our losses are capped at 3%. You can probably change your enrollment by 100 200 and we the amount of state aid we would get would not change because we're >> what what it would give us is in an enrollment adjustment but then an enrollment adjustment as you know goes on taxes. It's not state
>> right. So, so essentially because one of the biggest pieces in the school funding formula that is affecting our um uh fair share is uh the multiplier on our local property tax or sorry our local property
values and local income, right? And because that those two things are rising heavily and also because the state is is increasing those multipliers then our local tax burden looks to be a lot higher um than it was before. And so again if you if you remember earlier I'd
said that the the state uh their calculations say that they should be giving us uh from last year to this year $2.4 million less but they're only taking $300,000 away from us. Right? So, what I'm saying is is if we if we had
more enrollment and the state said we should get $1.5 million less, it literally changes nothing in our uh in our state aid because we're the amount that we should lose is so much bigger than what we're capped at right now. So
really like these these sort of 35 students uh uh right now those those kind of year-to-year changes I would argue don't really have that strong of effect on our uh or really honestly any effect on our uh state aid probably the most uh places where enrollment does
affect our budget it would be uh Oakland and Woodland student changing and uh that would be right because that's direct tuition amounts. >> Yeah. So I think that's that was actually the thread I was trying to pull is around how do we ensure that those sending districts into the maximum number of student right like it is the
campaign to keep and m maintain that flow. I'm not suggesting that the that I totally appreciate that the tax base is a quandry for us, but it is also how do we make sure for our sending districts we are really bringing in as many students as possible. Something just a
strategy to think about because as we make tough decisions and as I try to square I think five to six preks, I'm trying to understand how those tough decisions what they look like in seven years. And so I just want to make sure that I'm clear, right? Or even I will
have prek or next year, what will it look like when he's five, right? Like, so I'm just trying to make sure that we are not making decisions to get through today that cannot sustain us for tomorrow and that we are also trying levers in other ways that we're that are within our control because at this point
it's unless we can convince our own local municipality to fundamentally change how they tax, I'm not sure that we have much else to really play with other than major cuts this year and hopefully getting more students districts if I'm
not mistaken here and maybe asking the community to pay more if we can swing them. >> I did look up the dates. I forgot January. Okay. Uh, good evening. Um, I don't have a eloquent transition to my section, so
I'll just carry on here. Um, uh, tonight, um, there are a few items that I'll run through. We'll spend the bulk of our time, I imagine, talking through calendars. Um, so we'll start with 12.02, 2, which are some elementary field trips for approval. If you have
your computer open, you can click in and see the attachment. It's a variety of This is the time of year we're going to start to see every every month lots of field trips. So, I'll just pause to let you skim, but you'll see both for the elementary, middle, and high uh your
typical array of spring and end of year museums. um 18 to 21 year old um community b community based learning projects and out outings um 12 uh 12.03 is the middle
school and 12.04 are the high school. So I'll just pause to let people open and skim and ask any questions that you have about any of those. I think we should plug the middle school choir from June 4th. They're singing the national anthem at the Phillies.
That's awesome. item I'll just keep going but I can come back if there are any questions. Item 12.05 05 R six seven I think one carried on to the next page. Um uh medical special
education uh and a disciplinary um home instruction item 12.06 is an outof district uh placement. Uh Bethanne referenced that in her section earlier.
item 12.07 will uh you'll want to click on the uh on the attached link. Um so we're going to talk a lot about calendars for the next probably 10 minutes I imagine here. Okay. So 12.07 07 is the um uh the
amended updated June 2020 this June 2026 um calendar um to make the necessary updates and adjustments based on winter inclement weather and our district's um recognition of Junth on June 19th. So let me talk through a couple things here
related to that. Um bear with me because I have to say this then this then this. So, I have a few kind of things to talk talk us through. Um, so first and foremost, we had two snow days this winter. Um, so you may be thinking we
should be making up two snow days. You would be right to be assuming that. Um when we went back to double, triple, quadruple check everything in the 2526 calendar, we realized that in the template that last year's working group
used to design this calendar, I designed the template and then many people collaborated on it. But I inadvertently left off Friday, May 1st. So we approved a calendar for what we thought was 180 student days, but actually we made a mistake in the right direction. it had
181 student days built in. So unless everyone would like us to continue to make up those two extra days, jokes, [snorts] um we only need to then make up one student day. So that's why you see the last day of school shifted to
Monday, June 22nd, a half day. Um and you see the 19th is uh grayed out as a district and was building and central office holiday in in recognition of June 19th. uh [snorts] Junth um uh the la the last
day of school then is the 180th day. Um the 18th of June is the um high school graduation as you heard us discuss at the February meeting. And then if there were to be any other unexpected closures you see noted at the bottom on the right hand side the 22nd, 23rd, 24th would be
the any well the 23rd and 24th, excuse me, would be any additional makeup days should we need them. I'll pause there for any questions. >> Moving on then to 12.08, which is the uh the approval on Monday,
the approval for the 2627 school calendar. So, I'm going to before we go into the review of the actual calendar, I'm just going to zoom out for a minute because we have some new board members with us now. And so, I just want to take a moment to talk through the process
that we use to create the calendar. Um, uh, some of it was almost identical what we did to two years ago. So, um, we put out a message to the entire Collingswood and Oakland school communities for anyone interested in serving on a voluntary working group, um, with the
goal being a unified working group of calls and Oakland employees and staff to create a unified calls in Oakland prek through 12th grade school calendar. [snorts] Um, so I'm going to thank some folks by name tonight. Um, and you'll hear hopefully as I read out these
names, there's about 13 people here. Um, some of whom are here tonight. Um uh we have intentionally a a really diverse array of individuals involved um from folks who teach or lead prek all the way up through high school buildings and
grounds, teachers, leaders, general ed, special education um to make sure that the committee is formed intentionally formed of a really diverse array of perspectives and viewpoints. Um some of the committee members were on the committee two years ago and so brought that like historical knowledge with us
and about half of the committee were new folks. Um so again kind of keeping some continuity but bringing in new voices and and perspectives. And so I'll just thank by name tonight principal Jim Balden in Oakland, Kim Halenbeck, Mike
Sessi, Dave Oliviveri, Todd Weisenstein, uh Oakland fifth grade teacher and the OEA president Robin Hogan, Kathy Whan, Heather Murray, Dr. White House, Jen Floyd, Brad Klein, Laura Laura Crebel, and my and congratulations to Laura
Creel on a beautiful new baby. Uh Laura Crebel and and myself served on the calendar committee. We met over um three uh three meetings a couple of couple of hours at a time and um drafted the calendar here that you see before you
tonight. Um a couple things that I want to call out in terms of what's included in the calendar and why. Um number one, uh we included as much professional development time as we possibly could within contractual limitations. So there's an additional
half day for professional development in October. the usual one and a half days that we've taken over the last few Februaries and another half day in March. Probably the biggest change that you see included here is um a reduction as much
as possible in elementary half days. Um, and so if you live or work in this community or or or a parent or know a young person in this community, um, you've probably heard over the last several years a lot of feedback about the number of half days that our
calendars have typically had over the last several years. Um, and so, um, this year we put out a survey, um, to any, um, pre-K through fifth, current preK through fifth grade families in Collingswood and Oakland, current
elementary staff in Collingswood, Oak in in Oakland, and any folks who are staff and parents um, in the community. Um, we got over 300 responses um, and uh, 100 slightly over 100 sort of open-ended responses. In addition,
incorporated in those replies, we asked for folks feedback around when fall conferences occur. Um, and we asked for folks to weigh in on any adjustments or feedback that we could make to better serve our families, staff needs, etc.
Um, the response was um pretty overwhelmingly um to please make an adjustment in how we structure conferences and half days. Um, and so in response to that feedback, what you see on the calendar are two
things that we've been responsive to. Typically, uh, fall conferences, I guess I'm using air quotes, typically fall conferences have occurred in in early December, um, on that feedback in that feedback survey, um, families and staff
rated, we gave them a few options to choose from. families and chef staff most preferred the conferences to occur not in December because of the hecticness of that time of year and asked for them to occur earlier in the fall if at all possible. Um because as
we typically do conferences in December, it's right when report cards are coming out. And so some of the feedback we heard was if we could do the conferences earlier, it would give families a chance to hear any feedback or suggestions for ongoing work that they could do with
their child and children at home early enough to be proactive and make an impact before the report cards come out. Um and then sort of coupled with please get it out of December, which is such a tricky time. And so that's why you see the conferences are shifted to the last week of October. um that will occur
after our fall universal screeners have occurred and we think far enough into the school year for um new teachers to have formed a connection with their their kids and have enough um information and context to to share with families. Um [snorts]
the second big thing related to that that we shifted is if you notice in March of 2027 um in fact like this week right now um is when we would have our typical fall conferences. And so what we are are doing here again in response to feedback
um from families and other stakeholder groups um we've reduced it to two conference half days on the 8th and 9th of March 2027. Um there was a bit of a mixed a split decision in the working group. Um some
members of the CA were wishing for more time to meet with more kids and more families and I can understand that feedback and that request. Um I feel like the 300 survey responses are compelling us to do something different and to to listen and try to make an
adjustment. So, I'll be the first to say I don't know if this adjustment is the perfect plan. And um as you've heard me say before, we'll be watching and listening and asking for feedback to see if this is the right approach. Um it feels like some steps in the right
direction to be responsive, but it may not it may not be. It may not work as exactly as it intended. Um the two conference days with the um amount of time slots that we can see, each teacher will be able to see about half of their class. Um uh and the idea there is for
it to be sort of a targeted conference um rather than hitting everyone. Um and so um again maybe not a perfect solution but I think it is us attempting to ask for feedback, listen and be responsive and we'll continue to make adjustments
um if we if we find that that's not the right kind of cocktail. [snorts] Um, uh, uh, a couple other things I'll say here. Um, uh, the there's a 4-day weekend in May
of 2027, um, that is intended to be a huge thank you for teacher appreciation week. Um, you've heard me perhaps share before that teacher appreciation week always, usually falls in the first week of May, which is also usually smack in the
middle of state standardized testing. and it's gets tricky to be able to do something because the week is so kind of tightly scheduled for testing purposes. Um, and so in this year's calendar, May 2026, we have a half day on the Friday
before Memorial Weekend intended as a thank you to to staff and teachers. With the way that next year's calendar falls, we have a few extra days available because one of the Jewish holidays in the fall occurs over a weekend. We would normally take off for that. the winter
break is a day or two shorter next year than it was this year and next February is a leap year. Um, and so there's a couple extra days at play and so we were able to make that a four-day weekend um, which we think uh is a even better way
to thank our teachers um, than we were able to do this year. >> Next February is not a leap year. >> It's not. >> It's not. >> It always coincides with pres presidential election years. Justin, >> great to know. Go. >> Oh, you know what? Trivia thingy. >> You know what? You are correct. I know.
I I know why I just confused myself because we also drafted and designed the 20 You're right. We did two years ahead. You're right. It's I'm two years in the future. [snorts] Um Okay. Okay. >> I learned something. >> That's great to know. Um Okay. I think
that is everything I have to say about the 26 27 calendar. It's not a leap year but the 2728 is uh I'll take questions suggestions at a lot of eyes have been on this but there there might be an
error or mistake that I you know that we haven't so please like this is a before we approve it on Monday please um any questions >> so uh I just have a couple one question about the 2728 calendar I don't see that on here are you going to be putting that up there soon
>> it's not quite done yet um So, uh, we drafted it, we designed it. I could share a draft with folks if that's helpful, but it is that it is it needs a little bit more TLC and contractually we need to approve the calendar this month
for 2627. So, we wanted to get this one done and then we will keep shipping away at the 2728 one and we'll probably approve that in the next month, have that for you to approve in the next month or two, but it wasn't quite ready for tonight yet. When you get those two calendars up, are you going to be
putting them up on the website? Yeah. Okay. Um, and then the last thing I just want to again, I said it last year and I'll say it this year. I think the fact that you had such a diverse group of people and they were all involved and I think that, you know, them being part of the decision-m process really matters.
Um, I wish we could do everything like that. So, I think that's great and I appreciate all your work on that and for everybody that was involved. >> Um, [clears throat] thank you for this. Uh yeah, I was also going to ask about the because I thought you said there was you're going to start doing two years. Um so thank you for
answering that. Um as you know uh I always brought up the ICS, right? Or the ICAL. So we're going to do that again. I trust. And one more thing if I can just put some feedback if we could have a color legend on there because you see you have colors right now. Now now we
have green and and orange and two different blues. I think >> you have to guess what that means. Well, that's not I I'm done with school. I don't want to think about that. But if you could put a little color legend on the bottom, that would be that would be pretty amazing. >> Sure. Good feedback. You always have the
best ideas. Last year was IAL. >> Now it's color legend. >> Uh I have a question about the spring conference days for the elementary. So if we have this calendar which is 2627 and we're already working on the 2728 calendar. If this setup doesn't work, we
will revise the 2728 calendar to reflect what based on feedback. >> Exactly. So like in the way that we just amended the June calendar, we would Yeah, we would do exactly that. >> Okay. Thank you. And then um this is great. I just want to make for the
spring conferences. This isn't really calendar, but will the approach be 15 minutes or will it be allowing for a different time slot because I actually probably was one of those who was like, I'd rather be able to have more time than 15 minutes to cover everybody. So, how will that be
the adjustment to have a conversation? Um, or will it be the same thing to get them all to account for everybody? >> Yeah. So um it depend one of the things that I said that maybe I should have emphasized but it would this would be targeted conferences by invitation and
so um I don't want to make any like generalizations about a typical class because there is no typical class but um we allocated enough slots for about half of so 12 or 13 or 14 kids to be seen. Um it's
atypical in Collinsville gratefully that that many kids would be designated as like struggling academically or for whatever. Um and so um you know we'd be looking at sort of those like tier three students that need uh and that's a pretty small uh percentage of our
students. So where I'm going with this is if if a teacher needs by invitation only to meet with six or seven kids, then it could be a 20 or 30 minute conversation rather than 25 26 27 kids, a 15-minute conversation. So we have enough slots to be able to see half a
class should the need arise. >> Um if that were the case, they would still be that 15 minute length, right? But uh ideally um we're seeing fewer kids for a longer um more in-depth conversation. >> That's fair. I'm just putting in a plug
for the targeted approach. I just want to make sure. I was reading the corn makeup days which probably need a review again to make sure I'm right. Reading this correctly. May 5th is that day special? Like is there a legend on Well, may I recommend a legend for makeup days
so no one's surprised? So like make it a snowflake, make it uh red, I don't care. But like so people can see these days as they may be it. Um because I was trying to figure out why is May 5th important. I think that's the date. So >> yeah, I I would I would >> I was trying to understand how to read
this. So either can you decolor code it or tell us how to read this May half day. I missed how to read it then clearly because I was like is that the >> I would echo misdefine because it it is confusing. I my interpretation of it is that's actually May half day.
>> Great. >> 28th, right? >> Okay. Well, yeah. Spell out half or >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because basically the idea there right would be that the 28th would >> would be coming >> here. Let me explain it what it means but then yes we can if that was yes we'll certainly clean that up in the
legend. So the May 28th of 2027 is a currently on this calendar full closure. >> If we need we have 181 days in this calendar. If it snows once no change. If it snows twice the 28th would become a
half day. So that it count four hours counts. >> Yeah, I just >> But we just need Yeah, I just wanted to say what that meant, but you know, I just did not read that as easily. >> I can see why that was not clear. Yes. >> Um and I actually want to jump on the the makeup days, too. I would encourage
if it because I don't think it necessarily uh would be inappropriate. I would encourage us to maybe add a few more possible makeup days because I don't like who knows what's going on with climate just so that like you know if maybe If it makes sense to just say June 21st
and June 22nd, 2027 could also be makeup days because >> it was a tundra this year. >> Yeah, I who knows what's going on with the climate. I think it's just better to be prepared. >> I mean, can you do that um Mer because I know you said that you have 184 days
contractually, right? You have to stick to >> these would I think Roger's point was just to denote more than one or two. Um, so that wouldn't impact the ceiling of student or staff days, but yeah, we can we can extend that out
[snorts] back to the colors. What What do they mean? Is the light blue elementary? >> Did I get the theme? >> Okay, hold, please. All right. >> No, I think I did. I I cracked the code. Light blue is elementary. Yippee. What's green mean?
>> All right, I'll start at the beginning. Um, >> St. Patrick's Day, obviously. >> Oh my goodness. >> Orange means it's a staff professional development day, full day, no students. Light blue, bright blue means it's a half day for all K12.
Uh, gray, um, with a full X through it is a holiday. Green is a half day holiday for all no staff professional development.
The lightest blue is elementary only. I don't know why you would need a color legend. That was so clear. >> There's colorblind people out there. Just saying. >> Thanks. >> That's all the colors. >> Thank you.
>> There's full X's and hashes also. >> We will add a legend. It's in it's in the notes to add. >> And I would like to just apologize that we beat you up about the calendar every year, but it's you're doing great. >> But if you have it on your phone, the
good. So, >> I I just like to add that I I think I I really appreciate the the um willingness to try something different with the elementary school conferences. I know I've uh I've had some families talk to me maybe especially about the December ones, right? Where it feels as if their
their students could never get into any sort of rhythm in December because uh especially after it's like I've literally had parents say it's as if school's over once Thanksgiving break comes, right? And so having this uh so that you can at least maybe have like
three weeks of real school in December seems like uh hopefully will pay off for our students um and and maybe for for the staff in terms of uh be able to wrangle the kids better during December. So um really encouraged by this and
hopefully it turns out well. Um, if there are no further questions, um, I'd also like to close by thanking Irene Graves who inherited this, uh, work from Anita before her. So, um, many thanks to Irene who's gone through many
versions of edits of this, uh, over the last few weeks. I've been very patient. [clears throat] Um, I have four or five other items if we're go if we go back to the agenda then. Um 12.09
is where I think we pick up. Yes, 12.09 um is an approval for an external one to one to spend 20 hours per week with a uh student. No cost to the district. 12.10 10 is a preksp specific workshop,
but maybe something we might all be interested in benefiting from is a um a workshop on reducing screen time and alternatives to screen time for young children. Um and that
is everything for me. Any other questions, comments? I think we're good to move on to section 13 is covering that. Sorry. All right. Um item 13.01
01 is just a listing of subs um that we need approval for for the 2526 school year. 13.02 is a listing of um the travel expense form. Um we have two resignations in item
13.03 Caitlyn Cely um and 13.04 Sky Case. Um we want to congratulate in item 3.05 05 Ingred Kinkler is retiring. Um items 13.06
through there's a lot of them. Hold on. 13.11 are all FMLA NJFLA requests. And then 13.12 and 13.13 are revised um FMLAS.
Um 13.14 um we're approving um Sue Kish. Um, we're going to issue a long-term sub secretary uh contract, $117 per day. Item 13.15, um, Jenny Barry Hill, a middle school
special ed teacher, um, long-term subrement. 13.16, Samantha, hopefully I'm saying her name right, Mosner, a long-term subrementer, uh, for high school math. 13.17
um issuing a long-term sub replacement teacher contract to Lindsay Jeria uh high school history. Uh 13.18 Steven Collis um permanent sub for the high school. Uh 13.19
it's a temporary placement contract for Penny Bigalow uh for LTC work. Um it'll be either a pdeium or an hourly uh arrangement to get us through March through the end of this school year. Uh 13.20
is uh issuing a long-term subcontract to Christopher Kulic um high school science teacher. 13.21 Chris Kelch um is we're recommending him to provide supplemental health math support sessions. Um it's
going to consist of 10 30 minute sessions. Uh 13.22 is a listing of the 26 27 psychology interns that we will have in the district next year and they will each be paid a stipen of $11,000 each
and I'm so happy we can still able to get them. They're hard to get. 13.23 um approving uh the 2526 student teacher stipens in accordance with the uh CA contract. 13.24 24 is issuing a contract
for a a high school um athletic stipend uh weightlifting and then 13.25. So 13.24 is replacing the gentleman at 13.25 and that is it.
Okay, we'll move on to or any questions for everybody. Section 13. Okay, so we'll move on to section 14 policies. Looks like there's a a lot up for review. So, a lot a lot to read through in terms
of uh the policies. U majority of them are uh just language revisions to existing policies um that are mandated. Um and so we would ask for you to uh read u through those and then uh be able
to generate questions so that we can make the appropriate adjustments u before you vote for them to go to first read. I do have one note. Um, Oakland has the same items up. Um, if I remember correctly, and correct me if wrong,
item, see policy 1220. Is that the one? The employment. Yeah, the employment of the chief school administrator. You have options to choose. Oakland chose the first option in the back, but they want to be consistent with what Collingswood does. So, whatever you guys decide. I'm
assuming that's going to be that one, but that's what they chose, but they'll be consistent with what you guys do. Okay. Would it be possible to upload the um the stress SBA memo as well that comes with these policies? I think there
was some mention of them in some of the policies. >> Yeah, I'll get I'll get Irene to upload it. >> Thank you. I think there was also a mention um if I recall correctly
uh about policy 2430 and the alignment between uh Oakland and Kinsula districts the the uh it's the co-curricular activities. There's just >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> There's a yeah there's there's a lot of differences between the two. I can't
really I can't I can't name them. I mean it's literally four pages to two pages. Um, but I think we wanted to get those kind of aligned a little bit better. >> 2430 the only
Oakland is reviewing it simultaneously. Uh, bless you. Um, the only >> Yeah, you had it in your It wasn't in the policy readings. It was in your section of the Oakland board that we talked about two days ago, I think.
>> Yes. I'm But this board review 2430 February. So maybe I'm sorry maybe I don't follow your question. >> I think the question was um it was Teresa that asked but I think there's just she a she wanted to make sure that we that Collinswood did have this and
but if you look at the two uh 2430 policies they're they're they're wildly different. Um so if we could maybe just look at them and kind of get them aligned together plus I mean the The one for the one for Oakland is four pages
and the one for Collins was two pages. And it's just I mean obviously a lot more uh a lot more differences than we have just to discuss right here. >> Yeah, I can go back and double check. I think I shared my screen and showed the
like blue highlights with the policy committee at OK. >> That was a different one. I remember that. But that was a different one. I will go back and >> thank you >> triple check. >> So just to check the ones that are um
new, we've never had those policies in, you know, for the district. So we've never had a sexual harassment for staff policy before or was it kind of like mirrored in, you know, in something else? I don't know
>> if I remember correct. I did read the Strauss Esme memo that came out and I will get this uploaded. I think what they did is it was in a bunch of places. >> So they took like I think you're going to see us abolishing a couple policies in the coming months and I think they
all just they smooshed it all into one. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. If you can upload them just >> Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's what it said, but yeah, I'll get that. Yeah, sure. >> Yeah. And >> and the library materials one, I think. Isn't that a recently passed law? I
think it was that one's Yeah, >> that one's brand new and the other ones are all revisions. Yeah, everybody okay? All right. And then in miscellaneous, we just have um 15.01. we have the uh our
HA HIV report from last month [snorts] for approval. And then 15.02 is the mandated um memorandum of agreement between um uh the school district and law
enforcement. Anybody would like to read that? Really? >> Oh, Fred just announced the policy. The stress may alert is in the admin section. Sorry. >> Thank you. >> So if you guys want to read the 85 85
page document with the MOA, um it is attached as well. >> Is that the policy alert summary? Sorry. Okay. Thank you. >> The MOA, that's typical. We do that every year, right? Okay. Basically a
statemandated Before we do public participation, does anybody have anything else that they want to talk about or any any updates on anything? Okay. So, at this time, we'll move into a
discussion and public uh participation. And I think we need to come out of the committee as a whole. Yes. Thank you. So at this time I'd like a motion to exit committee of the whole. >> So move second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> So for this section of public comment,
um you're welcome to come up. Please stand, state your name and address and keep your comments to three minutes or less. The public is reminded that all attempts to resolve that attempts to resolve all concerns and complaints should first go through appropriate staff members and administrators. And I believe Miss Coleman will keep time for
us. All right. No public participation tonight. Um, so I'm going to move on to section 17. We already did that. I move on to we're move on to section 1702. Motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. Second.
>> All in favor? I