I'd like to open up uh tonight we are going to be going into a working session I would like to put a pause and go into executive session I right now with the time delay I expect executive session the last 30 minutes to get out here by 6:55 to start our board meeting promly at 7 p.m. I need a motion good moved to Executive session at
6:20 good evening can I have a motion to come out executive session please thank you we are now at an executive session I would like to formally start our Board of Education meeting for tonight I would like to First have a order Mr M is abent Mr V here here Mr here Mr
is I would like us to have a moment of silence I'd like us to uh keeping our thoughts all the victims and everybody close to what's happening on the west coast of wildes please thank you if we please stand for the
flag salute I pledge allegiance to the of the United States of America [Music] thank you reading of statement of act notice notice of this meeting to the
open public meetings act has been given as follows advertising in a carrier post on January 19th 2025 posting on the school bulletin boards and main entrance stores on January 15 2025 fing ritten notice with the clerk of the Lano Township on January 15th 2025 posting the notes on the district website delano.ca January 15 2025 can I please have an approval of the minutes on December 18th 2024 regular
meeting December 18th 2024 executive meeting and January 6 2025 reorganization meeting can I please have a motion motion approved now on the community liaison report I'm sorry roll we have discuss this is my first time doing this so I apologize ahead of time do we have any discussions just a couple
things under the last um December meeting just about notation about the commit one thing was about theard self evaluation thank you thank you anything else from old
business uh roll call vote please Voice vote in favor all in [Music] favor opposed motion passes community on reports Riverside High School do we have Riverside High School representative do we have a BCIT representative from
West an or Med okay I do have something from Delo [Music] PTO Miss reports due to illness she unfortunately cannot make it tonight to Delano spare Weare store is still open please visit the Delano PTO Facebook page or the school's website we to obtain the link to shop our next dine and donate is February 12th at
Chick-fil-A in Del we hope to see everyone there information will be coming out to coming out soon for our Valentine's cination sale and follow our Facebook page for the most up-to-date information on what the PTO is currently working on and Miss wishes everybody a Happy New Year now I want to D Recreation and Township committee that be you Mr harlot good evening everyone hope everyone had
a great holiday and a Happy New Year to everyone that's here uh for the township committee we held our reorganization meeting for the year on January 2nd uh Miss Carolyn Seuss is the mayor for this year and Kate Fitzpatrick is Deputy Mayor and fernette Phil mcfaden and myself round out the rest of the township committee and of course we welcome Phil uh the committee for his first term our meeting last week was pretty quick and eventful our next meeting is next Monday night at 700 p.m. and we will begin working on our 2025
budget and our budget work session is following day on Tuesday for Delano Recreation adult volleyball is still ongoing Monday nights in the gym here at Pearson from 79 no sign up or skills are required to show up and play also Recreation is hosting a trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 5th you can go to the Township's website for more information on that it's uh $40 per person includes one admission ticket and transportation to Philadelphia to the
convention center and that not driving there itself Rec is working on their event schedule and planning for events for this year and some fun stuff as always stay for that and for Del win basketball is ongoing and registration is open for spring Sports you very thank you very much Mr barl again I am filling the shoes of President Eric Moss up he is not able to attend tonight so of course my welcome
back message is first off Happy New Year I hope everybody enjoyed the holiday season with your family loved ones and friends and last all I would like to uh basically send out my appreciation and thank you to our maintenance staff at the lanco Township School District but also to our Township wide uh staff who help with keeping a safe Toano for roadways and both the sidewalks for easy
transportation for our students each day so we very much appreciate that next up will be our students of the month and that's why we were really all here so I would like to bring up our vice principal over at atlan Miss KY come on up start with mid start with middle school so I'm going to do a little bit differently middle school so I'm going to ask icob Kendall
Phil and Lucas so that's you Lucas Jacob Kendall and Phil that's why I think I think that's all from our Middle School correct okay come up come up here so everybody can see you and this is for our students of the month for car do we love we don't all love people on
the spot however these T we do have a couple more individuals haey is not here and Sophia is not here and Ava but these so we had seven students of the month from middle school so we have four here tonight Lucas Phil Jacob and Kendall and I'm going to just talk a little bit personally about them and then I believe if you didn't already get your certificate in school you'll get it tomorrow but caring caring means displaying kindness and concern for other s a caring and invaluable friend so that's an example and I can say
personally that all four of these students are very caring individuals and very good friends all for um some examples I WR these down some personal examples um we have a lot of new students that come to the Middle School pretty much every year we have one that started yesterday in eighth grade and right away the 8th graders Jacob Kendall everybody in eth grade jumped in and just befriend with them which is really Hardward when you're in Middle School especially and you're coming in and you're not sure who you know you don't really know anybody and you're not really sure so we have some really
caring so I really appreciate it as the wife principal because it makes my job a little bit easier especially also I have known these guys for a long time so I know for fact they're very kind to their classmates they're very kind to me um which is very sweet I've known them for quite a bit of time so Lucas Skil Jacob and Kendall I always it's always a pleasure for me to be able to like have a conversation with them and talk to them and just kind of get an idea of what's been going on in their lives Lucas right here is wrestling for Riverside and we get to spend a little
extra time when we have to leave early so it's nice um they always are helping others and including others so when it comes to school work when it comes to anything like Phil over here for example Phil's always helping out he's got a couple kids in his class he's always helping out right Phil you're always do now you're helping people find the bathroom helping people um with their work helping people just anything Kendall today was esorting the new student all around school to figure out what to get his Crome book yeah and Jacob earlier in
the year there was a brand new student that started the year and where does he sit at your table right so we have all four really caring students so caring is an a special an entral component in relationships and all of these guys um definitely display it and they're wonderful individuals and I have the pleasure of working with them so they make everyone around them better and I feel and they make everyone feel like they matter which is nice so these are well these are four so Lucas Bill and
Jacob and K these are four for our caring um students of the month from the middle school so give them be recognized but you guys are awesome so you you can sit down you don't have to stand up here anymore anybody like a picture come all right I have to come back up okay I'm going to do these are now the elementary school students that did um that were also for the character
creative of caring so I know a couple of them I saw some people in the crow but a couple people are not here so I'll just go kind of quick for the ones that aren't here so Timmy is from prek and Timmy was Timmy got caring and he's I'm just going to give you one back up Timmy when he grows up he wants to be a train driver and then we have D who's actually our board president's um daughter is she was doe of the month for caring and when she grows up she wants to be well this
will come in handy especially now a builder of houses so that is Dylan from kindergarten from Mrs Aria's class from Mrs Ker's class we had Elijah I don't think I I don't think I saw who was here so if you happen to be snuck in and you're here then just but Elijah from Mrs Ker's class he when he when he grows up he wants to be a daycare teacher he's in Mrs CR kinderg grating class and then we have Luke Luke from Miss dior's class for the character
trait of Karen when he grows up he wants to be Ola okay from first grade [Music] Giovani giovan from Miss B Class his favorite animal and F his favorite animal is a white tiger and his favorite game is Spider-Man I did see this young lady from Mrs well called Madison madon [Applause]
come sorry you have to be yourself you have to be by yourself okay you're okay this is Madison she is in first grade your favorite animal is an arctic fox perfect for this wonder your favorite color is lavender your favorite game is Mario Kart do you play with your brother and sister yeah do you beat
them y said yes that's and when you go up you want to be a doctor to help people so this is Madison from verse three okay K I don't think I saw Cas come in but K is from second grade and when he grows up he would like to be a doctor as well lots of caring lots of caring people okay I did see you three
Mrs de de debris from second grade deis your favorite animal is a turtle favorite color is blue your favorite game is football and when you grow up you want to be an Eagles football player I think help the maybe you could join
team maybe get there that J keeping those all right congratulations for caring congratulations to J okay Sarah from third grade I don't believe it's here but Sarah when she grows up she would like to be a police officer um Emma from third grade I don't
think it's here either but when she grows up she would like to be a singer or a chef all right I did see so gaana from fourth grade everybody's inside cuz it's so cold but she three words that would describe G of her fourth grader animal lover kind and friendly and when she has and she has two goals for this year and her one of her goals is to master division all right so I know we have our
two fifth graders here so Josie come on okay Josie you are November 29th birthday so you're Sagittarius right nice sarus three kind words that describe you are kind happy and outgoing Your Favorite Things Are your favorite color is purple your favorite book is smile your favorite food is pasta your favorite subject is science your
favorite place is your house your favorite sport is volleyball and your two goals that you have this year are to get better at volleyball and also to get better at math this is Josie from fifth grade and last but not least Jose I knew I you Jose on all right Jose say your birthday is coming up March 19th it'll be here hopefully it's warmer okay your favorite things your favorite
color is black your favorite Goku is Bakugan all right your favorite food is hot dog your favorite subject is gym your favorite place to go is the park your favorite sport is soccer I did know that cuz you're very good I've seen you play it at recess and two goals for this year are to be to get better at socer and to get better at Art all right
don't go too far G so thank you very much Mrs KY for stepping in tonight uh right now we're going to give that 3 minute window where if you do not wish to stay for the remainder of the board meeting you can s out what we would like is all our student recipients to come to the front so that can get a picture with our superintendent and Miss ky ky at the moment so again we will look to go back
into the opening session at about 7:18 thank [Music] [Music] you sign as I was reminded it's about 7:18 I'd like to bring this back to uh our Board of
here so we at that point of public comment on agenda items public participation during the Board of Education meeting will be governed by policy 0167 the Board of Education welcomes comments for members of the public concerns about the school district should be addressed to the appropriate staff members prior to being brought before for the board also please note that the board will may be hearing your concerns for the first time and may not
be able to address those concerns during the meeting an online form for public comment has been posted to the [Music] website can I please state your name and address please Fernand 22 rank L thank you um this may or may not
be on the agenda during your discussion the library Theon committee and the library my question because we're Partners um with the library the school and is there anything that should be aware
of the discussion that takes place I appreciate that we haven't opened that up yet and voted on it so that would be kind of new business so that would come at the end that come at the end yes also being contract this month as we did our reorganization myself Mr and so I guess at the end of the meeting might have who the two board
members are sub is Let's uh have that conversation after the after the board that's we can organize that for thank thank you moving on to superintendence report Dr Fitz can I have a motion to a motion is requested to approve the following the superintendent report motion by m second byin
Hopkins I yes thank thank you very much I'd like to do several things this after this afternoon okay I just want to tell you as you watch the students that came call tonight they have 377 other students that look just like them they come to our district with plenty of energy
they're excited of our learning and I just want to thank you for sending me the kids and giving us the opportunity to work with you let me tell you about some of the things that we're doing some of the things that we're working on we're working on our Tac report and that we will file that report in a time with manner by the end of January and no later than February 6 we will submit our complete documentation to the State Department of Education for approval I want to also share with you
there are some safety concerns they've been around for a while in the school district we worked with the parking area out here and with the traffic flow and we're doing the best we can but it's not good enough I'm now asking that the township engineers and any other person who can help us deal with traffic and how we can improve the traffic flow for for exit as
well as entrance would build interesting entering this area to join me uh in in in in the very near future to come up with some concrete plans that we can present to the Board of Education I want to ensure the safety of our youngsters and our staff let me shout out give a shout out out to some people and tell you how important they've been to the school district I want to give a shout out to
arene Kim Phil and T they played a critical role in helping us to rent out the wall school I want to also give a shout out to one of our board members Mr Jazz at one time we had to take documents down to the municipality and being a new person you know I didn't know where to go I almost had to get Google to get me to the
location he drove me down there and walked me into office and directed me to people who readily accepted my paperwork and in a short time that paperwork was return return to us that allowed us to make a successful closing on that sto as a result of Arlene's effort Tim and Tammy and all the rest they are generating a revenue I'm going to give out the dollars unless she tells me not to that that program will generate about
$115,000 a month now I've already spent it up spent the income for for the you know for the year so there's nothing else for about it again because I'm talking about putting in programs for kids but it's a great Revenue stream for the district and that it's good for approximately 5 years and it can be up for Renewal after those 5 years so we're very very blessed we're very fortunate that we had that kind of leadership to work with us on bringing closure to Theo
School building we're getting ready now to prepare a comprehensive budget for this school district a comprehensive budget that will reflect the programs and the compliance needs for the school district and I'm going to be talking about some of those compliance needs that I've got to address in the next 3 and a half at once we've heard the bo talk about committee work and I just wanted to go
public and be able to say to to the to the board our staff is ready to support you in any committees that you would like to work on myself and arene are available at any time and all times to you but let the staff members have schedules that we have to try to respect and if you'd like to invite them we would say to that LS let us know we'll extend the invitation and tell that the board would like to have your participation in any commit in that
committee me our special education program our special education program is undergoing some revisions and these revisions are to bring us in compliance with the State Department of Education we have to make sure that we have uh compliance in terms of having to support people in there work whether it get AIDS to support people the psychologist occupational therapists uh a speech therapist the
list goes on so we have to look at the IEP of every youngster and Define what that child's needs are and we have to make sure that yearly we review that IEP update with parential input and make the appropriate Provisions is that the special ed has created a committee of parents that will be meeting I believe prior to the 600 PM board meeting to talk about their concerns for their
youngsters we've got to identify staff certifications for multiple classrooms we have we have relied too heavily on single certifications rather than multiple certifications and what am I talking about I'm talking about I need a person that will hold two certification a sh a uh an admin a young childhood education
certification and a special education so that they can work with regular youngsters as well as work with special education because I'm have I'm merging classes and sometime when I merge a special education population with a regular education population I have to literally put two teachers in the classroom okay so if I can give people with multiple certification I can reduce the numbers from two to
one we relied very heavily in this school district on whole instruction is that we just bring all the kids together and we teach them as if they are in a university class well we got to make a shift I've got to go to to small group instruction I've got to do cluster group instruction so then we we've got to make this Shi we don't have to make it fully but we've got to move in that direction to get
better outcome for our youngsters we've got to improve our student performance our student performance must be given specific attention for our kids to do better I want to continue to look at summer enrichment Program for Young some of our youngsters are lagging behind and they can't get all their work done in 9 months so I might need something like 10
to 15 days of an intensive uh educational camp for youngsters that you will bring them or we will run the bus to pick them up and bring them to school during the summer and address some of those unmet needs or the areas that they are lagging in and they're lagging in several areas they're lagging in math in a math area they lagging in the science uh
area probably number eight I want to talk about the unmet needs of our youngsters that I'm now devoting attention to if I can get it started this year I'll try to get it started this year but if not it's going to be preparing them for September our world language program I've got to deal with making sure that I provide kids with a comprehensive language program it might be Spanish and English I don't know what it might be
but whatever it is we've got to decide to teach our kids another language well how we going to do that I'm looking at options it doesn't have to be a full-time person because one we do not have the population to support it at a at a full time teacher base you need about either a twoth Time teacher or a 3 fth time teacher that's two days a week or 3 days a week and I'm
looking at that to see can I get that through shared services can I find another school district that will share that we can share teach you with they can do three days in that District two days down here in my in my district if I can't do it that way I might look at saying let's get some teachers and I'll give them a stifle they can come up with a cont cont stien so I can pay him a stier but I've got to teach roal languages to my kid I might have to look at an electronic class I did that many
years ago and I taught my kids uh I I taught I taught the kids uh Japanese and uh and Chinese uh through through through you know just through through a satellite we brought in a satellite and the kids did very well in that class we might sub our word language program for sign language but these are the options I've got to play with to get this
program going in in the school district we have some kids who are bright creative and talented we've got to turn our attention to that population it might be small but they must be served and so I now must develop a program a program to identify the youngsters and then a program to implement to serve them and so I so I
got to look at that either through the lens 2th 3 fths or I got to look at it through a teacher stiping I might have to retain a consultant to write the program to publish the curriculum to monitor it and to work without staff and I might have to draw upon staff just to implement it in the class in small group instructure I don't know I've got to make sure now that I look at
a librarian media specialist and all these positions must be certificated I just can't put people in those positions and say do it it must hold the proper credentials to do it so this can be a two or 3 or it could be a teacher sement or we could retain a library we our media specialist consultant to come in and to work with our teachers and to work with our uh work with our staff to implement a
program and set up what I call libraries in the classroom for our youngsters so what I'm basically saying the work is not finished we have a lot of work to do and we are prepared to do that work and we will do that work for you but I want to tell you I am most appreciative of support that you provided to us in the school district for passing a bond
referendum to to secure our space here and to make sure that our ventilation and heating system will remain effective and that we can prevent the leaks from occurring in our building you're doing your work as Citizens out there and again I thank you for that and if you have any questions I welcome the opport for you talk to the board members come to the board members stop in to see us and
then we will respond thank you Dr uh can I have a motion to approve the superintendent report question do we have any questions um under for number one the safety concerns um I respectfully suggest that a meeting be set up with Mr Schwab the township administrator and
um and new Dr V because I believe he is noted as the public safety director for the township um for the you had you had mentioned a February 6 is that for the qac report being submitted uh that's when I had to mail mail it in to the uh to the state of education but you going to have another you I'm asking for time on a special meeting for you to approve it okay you so you'll get a chance to
see it approve I think that might febrary 5th February 5th 6 o00 6 o00 um for number five since I'm the for in the site on behalf of this board with uh committees um we had worked on a spreadsheet to compare District to District look atar and with the school districts in Burlington County that have a committee structure I reach out and with the
exception of Riverside I I didn't get in touch to get the answer all of these schools that have a committee structure within their system are meeting at night so understanding that we're dealing most respectfully with interim staff I actually we're not going to be able to to meet this task because we have our board members work during that um and we've been totally agreed upon this last December so we are you know into month
13 hasn't started I don't know if it's going to even happen we don't have board members that are able to attend so is this something should should be Ted until we have permanent sta I would respect you as a board president the vice president if you suggest that you would like to table that I don't know I would respect is but we've indicated that
we I've asked this who is in charge of putting the Committees together it was the board President we did this we did this with our job okay and then you have to it's structured with the my understanding is it's a collaboration
with the administrative team they have to be somebody does yes yeah am I is that everybody's well right now we have to change it because four of those members from8 months ago are no longer we we had an update and then we we had an update that we were given and then we have two vaces so are you understand so we don't we have to from my understanding we have to organize the
board and our role of the board first and then Eric hadone um when Miss lug was elected Mr was elected he had put in slot like where that other person sat so I don't I mean we did have that I know we have two openings but still it's still there's five members here so um I don't know what the feedback is first
reg that was just my opinion okay any other questions on the superintendent report yes um what does it mean to working with the county to identify all programs for final approval for special okay all programs in a school district must be approved by the county office which says that the state approved it I
have my special education program discovered several programs had never gone through the approval process okay and so Kathy Saxton who is kind of like the director of the assistant director of the special education is ensuring that all of those programs meet the certification requirement inms terms of having the teacher with the appropriate credentials in the in the classroom for that population that the ACH working
with that's that's what accomplish and then finally um my last question um well I have two actually um under the resolutions that I don't believe we really talk about yet um what are they needing the school for for that month time I don't I I don't have an answer
for that but I can get the answer forly and what is a semi me under number two it's uh basically U student needs a oneon-one nurse or something like that it's regarding special ed we don't have we're under the amount Reed so we're going to apply for another lab the um the amount that it cost for us to run
that program far exceeds what we get reimbursed in the state okay you make cost as 50,000 to to run it program we only get 19,000 back okay and then finally again I I I tried to hold this up and I'm so sorry I can't understand I don't know where to look to what is a special education monitoring c-part to I don't I can't figure out what that is or where should I look okay
you you can look in the state department report but it is there's a group of special education programs that must be monitored and I think we are in the cohart to C that's right and Kathy if you want greater details I'll ask Kathy to give you a call and she can share all the final details of but I don't know respectfully I don't know how I'm supposed to approve something that I don't know what it is that's my it's nothing but a population
of special education District that's going through a monitoring process and we're one of them being any further questions from the board this is a voice note so all in favor I [Music]
oppose next agenda item will be budget and finance motion to approve 1 through four on budget and finance thewin line M Lugo is number two this is followed up by roll call vot oh I'm sorry any questions on items 1 through four um I just have one with the uh in Loop is that for um we paying for
transportation are me does that include um private schools as well private schools private schools Charter Schools about how much of our budget go so that's perial schools too correct correct we have about 58 parents that that submit for their children $1,177 per child we don't provide transportation so they're paid in L of and that's 58
children we have about 58 right now yeah no not children parents parents excuse me they could have more than one child so it's per child per child and that's part of your budget and about what is what I I can't do the map I'm not looking what is the 1177 for child yeah and so I'm asking how many children I don't know some some parents
that more than one so that's per child yes but so it's 58 parents but it might be more kids I understand in February we do you have the number of children or just the parents we I would just be interested because I didn't I learn just learned this and that's huge cost I didn't know I didn't know that we provided transportation for private I didn't know that could be 2 to
300,000 yeah that's a chunk of change yes thank you any further questions on budget and finance followed up by a roll V okay Mr VAR yes Mr L yes Mr J yes Mr Hopkins yes Mr lug a motion for operations of facility a report on maintenance activities I would need a motion I'm sorry do we have any
questions oh no I have to do a motion first motion Mr Hopkins first and Miss mine too any questions on the report on maintenance activities this will be a Voice vote all in favor I opposed great now down to board liaison reports from Riverside Mr
Hopkins uh I have my orientation um for the Riverside board tomorrow um and I will attend their first meeting next lovely from the njsba and bcba M schline not anything official to report I just said and Eric I forwarded today uh emails regarding um the the criteria for a uh media specialist and also appending new piece
of legislation regarding media specialist um we have a board of director meeting the State Board of Directors meeting next Friday we have the School Board Association meeting which I'm going to have to miss because it's going to be the same night I'll get the notes though um the only thing I encourage all board members is to when you have a moment um go through the webinars they're very very comprehensive they're a wonderful tool um and they
really do mirror the training sessions that were made available at the School Board Association conference in October thank you m out of our Township committee Miss luga I was able to attend when I was here for the um superintendent search and phone se but I did video that the to put together um they did a presentation on the decorating the Christmas or holiday decoring contest um
mutant Landing has invited the h m Landing H invited Township committee and acting police chief to the meeting on February 13th to hear concerns of the residents um the Zer Park construction starts in March and estimated completion in July update on the affordable housing is in a posit position as it's in compliance and we have to construct unit um register captain dogs
registration that's correct thank you for that reminder they get you $2 a month I I'm terrible at that I love per moving on to Personnel can I have a motion to approve Personnel a through f with Excuse me while pulling D we are removing dat so can I have a motion for personnel a through f with the removal
of dat M number one Mr jazz is number two do we have any questions regarding A's through f with the removal of dat just on F about how many St participate in this and is it is it uh the 1500 total or is it first St person maximum maximum total okay thank you so much any further
questions this will be a wel call Mr vargan yes Mr M yes Mr yes Mr hins yes m l yes thank you any old business just the board self evaluation thank you we've noted that I think Arlene wants to speak to you afterwards any new business um I discussed a little bit
earlier but I just wanted to suggest to the administration um that look into the lift for creating some sort of social media some sort of newsletter something that is public facing that people can you know take in as residents as students parents um just so that you know there kind of that you know we can brag about how great our school is and you know post pictures it would been you know I mean we could have posted all the the students tonight you know would have
been as easy as take a picture posting it um so if uh if if I I would like someone to look into how big of a lift that would be and if even looking into it is that big of a lift I think we need to talk some more about it so thank you we did discuss that uh as communication is one thing that we would like to pursue uh we do extend that conversation with our current Administration so that's happening anything else for new
business i' like to bring up uh again the um suggestion of we have we either have to meet more or we have to meet more efficiently um we're not getting through things the communication needs to be improved and um I'm just asking again if that could be discuss so maybe that can be added to the thank you a public comment on non-agenda items
public participation during the Board of Education meeting will be governed by policy 0167 the public Board of Education welcomes comments for members of the public concerns about the school district should be addressed for the appropriate staff members prior to being brought before the board also please note that the board may be hearing your concerns for the first time and may not be able to address those concerns during this meeting an online form or public comment has been provided via black board connect to all district recipients
as well as posted to the website the president or vice president will read the comments from the online at this point we have no online comments we are at that point for open to public comments when you wish to come up to address the public comments please come up to the front uh if you would like the microphone it is up here uh please address your name full name and your address please for notating thank you Matt Barkley 18002 Street uh as Mr
olette asked i' like to answer on the record what is going on with the library contract we submitted it to the town to the school district in August and we have not received a response yet and it's very concerning as we need to put the budget in our Township budget that we're starting we need to put these numbers in the budget but still don't have a contract or any response so I unfortunately was not a part of that conversation when do you need an answer
by I needed in December okay so you need an answer with ASAP yeah our budget our first Township budget session is next Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. and I'm waiting on clarification of the expenses email from a f yeah iing was down onor leave I think the original what was given to you was only through maybe
May laste that's why was matter we still know what's nobody who are you sending in Eric M originally I know Miss schline has put a fire under certain people recently as of
Monday I've seen a couple emails so I will do my best to convey that to Eric know you're in the tonight that's fine and I'm okay with it but I definitely want to hear I I respect you I respect our Township so it's definitely something we need to get done yep no later than Friday the 24 I have here okay thank you I will work on that you come
up do you need a microphone no5 stre F superintendence report you had mentioned something about librar and the did you mean get library on that libr libraries in the classroom that what you will do you will set up uh a designated area in the library I mean not in the library in the classroom okay
and that the teacher will have time for reading from the books brought in children get reading their own books or we can transport books from the library uh to the to the to the classroom okay and they will have a reading time and some and discussion time instead of going to the library that's right instead of going to the library what was the thought process behind that just curious like how is
that beneficial well the one thing it cuts down on a lot of movement okay it it allows teachers to get involved in directing the reading you know they might be reading uh in current news they might be reading in science exploration so it engage the teacher with the child in develop better reading techs okay so the focus is not getting away from the library the library still
have the library there there's nothing changing with that this is just in addition to that right okay so we'll have the library contract back to us very soon hopefully get that don't anticipate any maor changes with the structure that sounds like there's something happening behind the scenes that I'm not sure that we're being transparent
about I'm just trying to ensure that I meet all the requirements for the state to make sure that all our programs are approved our district that's all that's all I would atten to do thank you so much I have I'll take the mic [Music]
sure hi amem Barrett 621 Delaware um I'm the president of the library board which is not what I'm going to talk about at all surprise number one um snow days I'd love to see them on KYW and the news outlets um because people who are traveling through the county use those listings to know whether or the roads are safe um it's not just your population that needs to know that and your parents and your grandparents there are other people that are involved with those children other school programs
other after school programs and also the library is closed when you're closed so we have that word out without having someone have to go to the school website to find out that would be great um second question is for Dr Fitz um I felt a little concerned when you talked about um combining two classes you talked about having a special education teacher in a classroom and a regular ed teacher in the classroom looking for multiple certifications and then having one student one teacher so that class would
then not be an inclusion class anymore it would be a mainstream situation and the parents would have to sign off on that on I and would be well aware of the fact that there was no special educator for them in the room is that the vision there's I mean there's a number I know what I know what the numbers are either way so I'm C that makes for a much larger class it's really all dependent on the I correct but having those if you combine them then you have a much you don't have inclusion and you
don't have a limited number of students with special needs and then you have a much larger class of result so I'm just clarifying that okay and then thirdly I very much in support of a a library contract with the township we are not a signatory of that contract but it certainly affects us it affects every single person in town you're Saturday parking lot full we have a Full Slate of burs for adults and children we have to turn people away so this is we Blanka
doesn't have a community center this is it we've done everything we can to make a you know the third place you have work you have home then you have the third place it really isn't any other place like that Ino so thank you very much for moving that contract forward thank you this is my first time in this video I'm a little bit nervous so I prefer to see
my phone but let's see let's try that so I would like to know hold on first [Music] first2 so my question is and I would like to know if you can provide me with any add about hiring the new director of curricle and also I would like to know if you have any AD dat or where we are
about the gifted and talent program the gifted and talented program is not even in its infancy stage it's in the conception it's got to be developed okay it's a that's where it is it's it's a ground zero got to be so why do why this Delay about something that is really important because you know as you said there are kids that have
different academic levels and there is a program for kids that have low level what about the other one so you know this this program will benefit not just my son but many other kids and also will help to bring the low academic level that this school has so I think that that should be a priority should be something and you know this is I have been you know asking about this and I have been talking with three different principles and know they so they say
last year next year and three year have been pass and I think that that is a priority I have been you know begging for that to have that program so so far there is it won't happen this year I want to just be okay no thank you for honest we appreciate I I will be developing it on paper to give to someone else
because I won't be here okay I know all right so let me let me get let me get through that process thank you for being known as I will tell you this with our superintendent search it is one of the items that we have for the future of the superintendent good okay so it's not something as well to hear that and I I don't think we addressed your first question oh yeah the first question about the director of CLE I heard that I had the chance to meet her she's very
nice lady very professional and I was so excited after that I heard that she she just was temporary something like that so know it's an executive session conversation right now okay it's okay thank you thank you do you have any other questions
yes I think I don't [Music] want you
to yes so I believe fernus Aven here inco uh two things U logistically uh and moving students from classroom to library U remember being in junior high school we Swit classes and maybe you can't do for 6 sth and eth but maybe as they approach seventh and eighth grade it's looked at to get them to the library cuz once they get to the
high school uh becoming familiar or having that exposure and to learning how the library operates and having the world of BS we're part of the growing County uh library system and any books we don't have here we can get from the uh the county library or from the other libraries that are associated with the county so just a consideration uh
the other thing I have is I saw something online uh I think it was like a six page uh School paper that that was published where did we get a copy of that uh paper copy um I tried to print it for my uh laptop or iPad and I wasn't able to but uh you were not I'm sorry you were not a I right it could have been technically Challen I thought it well put
together put and then again as as Library contract appreciate thank you so much just one quick thing about the newspaper is that um able to be shared publicly the photos are all signed off there's no
issues with the child photos or anything I to have that shared on Facebook and she was going to check to make sure all the kids were signed off on that did you that's a i because some kids are so PTO is part of the the school organization school scho so um there was something else that happened throughout the year that I I had to check if the parents
individually is okay although their names are not in it their pictures are still in it and um some kids Doo doish photo some do nototo name so I I I have I like have it so I go through yeah she today she today and I told heris we thought it was a great to share
with the community so that's awesome and then they are putting we are putting it on the the website we have it too and then it is a Google doc so I think you might be able to well I publish like the link to the web but normally but it will be on the I I think we should make a PR friendly version take out some pictures P just just text or something yeah when the um two advisers do it they and the ks um did a
really nice job with it they could probably just do a it's a nice job though for would you like m hi I'm Kimler I'm to Preston Lan um in deleno and I wanted to raise a concern
that I have um as a developmental psychologist and a person concerned about the rhetoric that's going on um in our country right now especially as it might affect um children who are hearing about concerns um are you a resident or you not a resident these are our neighbors and I have real concerns about anxiety just the anxiety that the the context is uh ramping up so teacher preparedness administrative preparedness
supports for families know your rights kinds of approaches so that we know what's going to happen if something changes drastically in our state um and locally so I wanted to express that this is a a true thing research shows that anxiety anxiety about um differences and anxiety about being part of a group that is um being disparaged it has a big effect on children on their learning on their sleep on their well-being so I'm
hoping that we can talk I can talk outside of this uh meeting if that would be helpful about the ways we could amarate those effects of the current climate thank you will you take me up on it thank you can I who should I talk to question right now I right I have two or three counselors I would have to Dr Fitz would have
to of one of their teachers she was discussing that they might actually having somebody lawyer for that for that to discuss that nature
we are P which is very nice we have and then we are partnering with the liy outside ofy students we have anybody
else at this point at 8:08 I would like to go into executive session do I have a motion to go in executive session m and Mr Hopkins thank you very much uh uh the purpose of our executive
session is to swear in our new board member so that's what we're going to go through with that an interview I interview a potential board member thank you your back going to K power to happen thank uh motion to adjourn our
meeting coming out executive session coming out of executive session at 8:35 E36 motion to adjourn are moved second Mr J any other questions that's it to Jo thank you very much for attending