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All right, it is now time for the pledge of >> allegiance. If we could all rise to the flag of the United States of America to the standyice for all. >> Okay. So, our first uh item on the

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agenda is I mean it's put under special presentation. I'm not really it's just the best spot for it, but this is just to uh hopefully get our goals um at least preliminary goals set up for uh for the upcoming year. I on the you all

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have access to that um board goals 2026 worksheet. On the top of it, I I put a quote by Dr. Panero because I've been having some back and forth conversations with him over what what a board goal is. And he one of the

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lines in the email that he sent was board goals are best thought of as boards shared priorities that warrant collective focus monitoring and measurement. One of the reasons I put that there is because part of the conversation was, you know, what really is a board goal?

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Because if it's really, for example, like one of the examples I gave him was if if certain things didn't make it as board goals, we'd probably still do them as individual board members. You know, I think like James would still um you know, if in some way

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the the health care doesn't make it into health insurance doesn't make it into a board goal, I'm sure he's going to be um you know, working it in somewhere. And and for me, there's things that I have interest in. So, there was a lot of back and forth. He didn't have, you know,

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great answers, but it seems like it's something to really wrestle with. But there's something about a board goal, I think, in in in response to that that it's got more of a shared responsibility, more of a collective kind of thing. And the other the other part was that counter to the way that

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we've been leaning, board goals should probably be general, not specific, and that the the specificity should come in the action plan. So, we're sort of So, our task tonight is really to try and

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get some some uh general generally worded board goal that we can um make more specific in upcoming meetings that's got sort of a a collective focus to it. Um, one of the things that I had put on there, um, was

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that, um, for number one, the the board will identify and participate in targeted professional development opportunities designed to strengthen its effectiveness in governance, policym, and strategic oversight. That's the generic sort of general piece to it. But

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my thinking there was, and I I spoke to Dr. Dr. Panero and he said that um we could schedule him to come at a variety of times to our board meetings and I was trying to find a way how do we um do this without burdening ourselves a bit more you know in other words if we're scheduling things outside of our board

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meetings that that can become difficult but if we could um sort of push in you know bring bring uh bring him in there were several kind of topics that sort of came up in the um our board evaluation there were several questions about policies the difference between policies

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and regulations and things like that. So, it seemed like like that could be a topic and maybe we could all brainstorm together, come up with some topics and then um I could reach out to him about scheduling times to come in. Um I I just as a as a sample too to that, I think I

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put in like the audit thing because he did kind of mention, you know, that there's sort of a clinic to how to how to evaluate an audit, how to look at an audit. So I think there it could be um really beneficial um if we can think of some some topics that we would really be interested in

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need some help. So that was sort of my first thought on on on a possible board goal and um maybe we could just start by talking about that is if that's a a viable one or not. >> So um we actually we had a goal like

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this very much like this a few years ago and I found it very productive. Um I actually used it as a springboard to finish some personal um education to get my ma my master board member. So like it's it's a really was really useful at

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the time. It was uh Charlene and she she did several um sessions at the time. Green sustainability was a big thing at the time. So she done that you know kind of initiatives in terms of getting a green sustainable committee off the ground which we did. Um insurance was

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one. Uh we did one on salary guides and how salary guides work which I think is you know going to be really timely as well. So yeah I mean I think this is I think this is a great one. Um and you can we can cover a lot of ground with it. Um there's a lot of there's a lot of great resources that's sitting there and

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they even did some of the some of the sessions >> that down there. um they were even able to do some of the sessions um via Zoom like they would do the training and we would

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be here participating. So, and yeah, I think you're right. Doing them in the in the space of a meeting or you know expanding a meeting a little bit to do it I think is probably the best approach. >> Great. and and uh maybe we'll uh if we go along those lines, we'll pick your

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brain a little bit too on some of the topics since you've you've had a a feel for it because that that sounds interesting. Cliff, I would say I I I agree with uh Dino on one. Um and I agree with the idea of kind of making it a little bit

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more general and I think we could take some of these potentially and kind of generalize them a little bit more. Um I think I think certainly the uh you know long-term strategic planning uh makes a lot of sense. the the idea of like you

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know some financial things like whether it's self insurance or something just because it's such a big topic that might be worthwhile for us to kind of look at but maybe make it a little more general. It's a very really good point from uh Dr. Panero makes sense.

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>> Yeah. I guess maybe then then I'm wondering if because one of the notes that I I put in since the next item on here was um the the AI uh from James and I'm just wondering if we could um if it makes

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sense then to kind of fold that along with some other policy stuff under a like a larger goal like I have for number five and then talk more about um what to do with that and um you know get get an action plan together including

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because I don't think that necessarily means that all of that has to fall under governance either. I think it can be spread out and and chunks of it can be spread out which is sort of the idea of a of the board goal anyway that there's sort of this collective responsibility. So maybe there's ways to to spread it

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out a bit. We're all kind of working together to to achieve the the purpose. Um since James since it's your some of these are your passions I just wonder what your thoughts are on that. Yeah, I was thinking more about it after you and I spoke, uh, Cliff, and I do think

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generalization is is appropriate, you know, especially since, you know, we focus on the what uh and we do that through policies and I think uh Dr. Panera says that, you know, we let >> not quite as limited. It's just we have

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to um sort of decide in advance as a board what you know what we're allowed to talk about which could be part of that process is what do we want to communicate at you know some of the where we're liaison at at the PTA meetings different things and there

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could be some real um uh um ways in which we can kind of get the message out um as board members just just to clarify so um Mrs. Sadelis, you're suggesting that the the professional development piece and the policy piece fall under

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like a governance um uh goal like under one one goal. >> I'm seeing like governance as again as an action plan of what individuals can do and then what we can do as a board. So training and certification is

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available through like NJSBA and there's other certifications that we could be taking advantage of. I do feel like we have this conversation a lot or it's like well we don't have the trainings. They're they're there we just you know you know sometimes they pass us by or we have to they cost a little money or

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whatever it is. So, we're trying to figure that out. But, um, I do see it as a potential individual goal at for each of us that we all can, you know, accomplish at our own pace because I again also I think Mike or Dina was

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saying that um, we could invite, you know, speakers here as well and and that would be an opportunity for the st for the board to learn altogether. Um, but there are definitely opportunities for individual self-motivated self-starting um, trainings as well. So two like a

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two-tiered thing. >> Okay. But you you see do you see um because you mentioned the three three goals. So do you see the um the policies like the AI and that sort of thing under

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that one governance as well? >> Yeah. So governance as the goal, governance as like the umbrella and then within the action plan opportunities for the board to take advantage of training and certification individually and then

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research advocacy strategic planning together. Um, and then in that research advocacy strategic plan, putting AI under that umbrella because we're going to need to, you know, research policies and see what's, you know, what's mandated or what's not or, you know,

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have some examples of of what we're trying to do here for for AI specifically. >> It it's not really hashed out. It's just it's there. It's just like >> So the way I the way I the what I took from that was you're kind of you're thinking of rolling one, two, and five

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together, >> right? Because some of what you just said is in five. >> So kind of collapsing them into one, >> right? If we want to do large goals, >> right? Right. >> Um yeah, rolling the one, two, and five.

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You said >> one, two, and the AI. I mean, which then is kind of repeated in five. So yeah, kind of >> I mean it's doable. I mean if if we think about what uh I think it was I think it was James said if we combine it all some of these things we could kind

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of work together as uh you know so we bring in Dr. entrepreneur talking about communication. We work out like a communication strategy almost in that in that workshop and then that sort of is setting the stage for that part of it and we can maybe even think about

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possible um workshops that Dr. Panera could do to address some of these other things as well and kind of um pair them up that way. So, I mean it's possible to roll the three in. I think it depends on how far you push each one down. And I think you can kind

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of pick and choose that, right? So you don't we don't have to make it any deeper than we're willing to um you know to do. The nice thing about number one is that it once we set it up and once we kind of identify the topics and the things especially at the board level where we're doing it together during a

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meeting, the extra time is not that much. It's only to Andrea's point, if an individual board member wants to kind of do those individual trainings, then that's where there's going to be a further commitment on time, time, and energy. So as a for just a general consensus do

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we feel good about like governance goals space actually wait a minute so that kind of do we want to maybe now that we have this uh give us some time to digest it during the meeting like maybe uh 10 or 15 minutes during the meeting and then

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for the good of the cause, work on the wording and maybe individually we can start uh thinking about what the wording might look like so that when we get to the good of cause we might have something to formalize and uh vote on or because this is not something we have to

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vote on. So, right. No, I was just kind of hoping we would get something general together and then we could we could vote on it and and uh you know maybe next meeting or the or something like that, but I don't know if we have to do we have to vote on it.

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>> We do. Okay. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, um but but just for clarification, um how many goals do we have right now

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because it looks like with with with collapsing? Okay, so we've got >> Okay, so one, two, and five. Okay. So, we've got um governance, space, and

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community engagement as three goals. Is that is that what I'm seeing? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, the only one that would not make the short list in this scenario, at least the top the concept is the self- insurance. That's the only one we're kind of leaving off the off the table

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right now conceptually, >> right? I mean you could roll that into the governance and have you know research into that. I mean that's again trying to be broad of research advocacy and strategic planning keeping it as a topic or a

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subtopic and giving yourself you know a goal of within six months we're going to research this we're going to know what we're going to do etc. But I mean AI and health care should fall into that larger governance goal.

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>> All right. Well, we can I guess I I guess we'll we'll hash it out as we do the action plans and all that. And again, I mean, this kind of goes back to just because something isn't in our our goals doesn't mean that we can't do it. I I have I was telling uh Mr. Kim, I

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have a uh Excel spreadsheet of personal action items of things that I want to um see happen over the year and I sort of have my own little um time schedule when to bring them up. And I was even thinking that that might be something we could do as a board too if people wanted

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to kind of add to it. We could make space for it on the uh the agenda where we go and visit certain things. Um, and uh, maybe we could talk more about that when we do the action plan, but that way so we're not feeling like if things don't make it on this list, then we're not going to touch them. I think that's

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going to be a little too much pressure. Um, and then these goals will be unmanageable. So, I'm going to um, if it's all right with with you guys, I'll take Mr. Kim's suggestion. We can kind of process it a bit. We'll just come back at the end of this meeting if there's anything more and then we can kind of formalize it for the the next

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meeting. So now we can uh wake up Dr. Forte so that he can do the superintendent's comments. I just wanted to say obviously it's my last meeting and um I had a couple things. There's a letter

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that's going to go out to the public from me be on my last day, which is which is the 30th of June. So, a little little piece of that. I just wanted to say over the past 12 years, I've been fortunate to work with outstanding board of education members, administrators,

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teachers, staff, students, township officials, police officers, first responders, PTA leaders, Denville Education Foundation, and community partners. The prog the progress we've made has never been the result of one person. It's always been a result of teamwork, trust, shared purpose, and a

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commitment to what's doing best for students. Um, I just wanted to say that I'm very happy that Dr. Cullis will be taking over as a superintendent and that um, I know that there will be seamless transition for

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her and she'll take the district to new heights. and I just wanted to thank the board and the public for uh the trust, support, and partnership and friendship that you've shown me over the past 12 years. It definitely has been a privilege to serve and an honor uh serve

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as the superintendent, especially since it's the superintendent, the township in which I raised my own children and with my wife. So, um, just wanted to say thank you to everybody and, um, it'll it'll be it'll be definitely weird not,

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you know, having a regular job every day. I'm sure it's going to take me some time to get used to that. Um, and uh, I'm not sure what the future holds, but I do know that you guys are in good hands with Dr. Collis. So, thank you all. Thank you, Dr. Forte.

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Um, we don't have uh the assistant superintendent here. Um, are there any uh business administrator comments? >> No comments at this time. >> Okay. So, I will move to the uh public discussion section. Uh this portion of the meeting is open to any individuals

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for the purpose of addressing resolutions on this agenda or matters that they find is important to the board of education and is governed by board policy 0167 and we'll open at 7:56. Okay, seeing no one online and no one

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coming forward, we will uh close it at 7:56. We have old business action to be taken. I'd like to move to approve the following resolutions under old business. Under A, we have the uh treasurer of school monies report and

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the board secretary report. Under B, we have uh student enrollment and health office report and HIV VV11. And under C, we have the minutes for uh work and executive session May 11th and

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regular session and executive session May 18th. >> I second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Idelis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Asterino. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cass, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Capello, >> uh, yes on everything except uh, C2, the minutes uh, for May 18th. I was not in attendance. >> Mr. Kim, >> yes. >> And Dr. Moore, >> yes.

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>> Rebecca, I wasn't here on the 18th, I think, so I'm going to abstain from that one. Sorry. Got it. Next, we have new business action to be taken under personnel. Mr. Capello, could you take us through that? >> Uh, I'd be happy to. Uh, if there are no

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objections under personnel, I would like to move items one through eight as a block. Uh, one includes, uh, usual new hires, resignations, retirements, employee leaves, extra pay, salary, and adjustments. Um, number two is the

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master staff list, tab one only for the 2627 school year. Number three is the updated staff list for extended uh school year esyville accelerated learning academy and the child study team for summer 2026. Number four is approving sick day payout at

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retirement for Dr. Forte. Number five is approving vacation day payout uh employment contract also for Dr. Forte. Uh, number six is approving the attached memorandum of agreement with the Dville Education Association regarding ABA teaching staff at Riverview. Number

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seven, we're approving um an employee uh leave of absence under FMLA act commencing June 20 uh June 26 of 26. And finally, number eight is approving the mentor mentee relationship for the 2526 school year for uh Rachel Brooks at Lake

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View with Jenn Cuff. I'll >> second. Uh, roll call. >> Mrs. Idelis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Asterino, >> yes. >> Mr. Cass, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Capello, >> yes. >> Mr. Kim,

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>> yes. >> And Dr. Moore, >> yes. And under instruction and program, if uh Mrs. Asterino, you could take us through that. Um, I move to approve the following resolutions under instruction program concerning the following professional

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development workshops with expenses for staff members and or board members payable through the professional development account. The first is for uh Christina Theodopoulos, a virtual attendance of leading for engagement one day and then also the Valley View

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Library weeding log as well as um the board adopting TCI social studies program for grades 6 through 8. and then the attached list of staff to virtually attend UFLI Foundation's training courses for 4 days in July and August.

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>> I'll second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Zidellis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Asterino, >> yes. >> Mr. Cass, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Capello, >> yes. >> Mr. Kim, >> yes.

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>> And Dr. Moore, >> yes. Uh, under governance, there are no actions to be considered in finance. Uh, Mr. Anderson, could you take us through that? >> Sure. If there are no objections under D finance, I'd like to move items number

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one through 12 as a block. This includes our uh bills list, a resolution regarding the capital reserve transfer as noted in the agenda, resolution regarding the maintenance reserve transfer as noted in the agenda. uh the board of education in

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the township of Danville to approve authorizing the business administrator board secretary sec secretary to proceed with all necessary entries for the 2526 school year as noted in the agenda. Item number five is for the board to approve the standard operating procedures and

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internal controls manual. Item number six is for the board of education pursuant to PL205 chapter 47 renew award or permit to expire the contract previously awarded by the board of education uh as noted in

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the agenda. Item number seven is for the board to approve the purchasing manual for the 2627 school year. Item number eight is for the board to approve the attached bid award letters for the Educational Data Services Inc. Commission of Morris County for school supplies for the 2627 school year. Item

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number nine is for the board to approve a student as noted in the agenda to intend uh enrichment classes over the summer 2026 at Lake View School at no at a cost not to exceed $480. And number 10 is for the board to approve the Valley View Middle School uh to accept the gift

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of a decorative baseball bat from the parents and players featuring the names of the athletes on the 2026 boys baseball team in commemoration of the team's championship season. At number 11 is for the board to approve non-resident uh elementary school tuition contracts

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uh as noted in the agenda. Uh at number 12 is for the board to approve district placements as per the student's IEP as listed in the agenda. I'll second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Zidellis. >> Yes.

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>> Mrs. Asterino? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cass? >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Capello? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kim? >> Yes. >> Dr. Moore? >> Yes. And uh Mr. Cass, could you take us through operations? Be

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>> glad to. Under operations, item number one, transportation. I'm asking the board to approve the following parent transportation contracts for the 2026 2027 school year. Item 1.2. I'm asking the board to approve to place an auction to solicit bids in connection with the

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sale of two school buses. Bus number 185, a 54 passenger 2010 international. And bid number two, bus 186, a 54 passenger 2011 international. Item two, buildings and grounds. We have

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2.1. I'm asking the board to approve the submission of the anticipated facility requests for the 2026 2027 school year to the Morris County Superintendent of Schools. The board of education does not anticipate applying for changes or use and or dual use for the upcoming school

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year. Item 2.2. I'm asking the board to approve the attached quote from Reliable Lift Truck Services for the purchase of a new JLG model 25 a.m. pusharound vertical lift in the amount of $14,225. >> I'll second

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roll call. >> Mrs. Zidellis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Asterino, >> yes. >> Mr. Cass, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Capello. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kim. >> Yes. >> And Dr. Moore. >> Yes. And now we have uh good of the

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cause. Um any uh committee reports. Okay. And uh >> Sure. I want to thank the uh administrators, the teachers, um the science teachers

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specifically for another wonderful green fair uh this past Sunday at the farmers market. Hopefully we're able to get down there and see all the great projects from the students. So, thank you um to our wonderful science teachers who are doing a great job with the

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sustainability committees and um helping us get to that silver maybe one day. It's a lot of work. I know that grant is terrible. So, but I appreciate their their hard work and dedication to that. Um, and then I want to congratulate all the fifth graders from Lake View and

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Riverview who graduated last week. Um, we're excited to see them hopefully at Valley View next year. And then of course for our eighth graders, I didn't cry. I didn't cry and I shook as many hands as I could as so many hands.

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Um, and they were all very gracious and excited to graduate. So, congratulations to the eighth grade class 2026. Very proud to know so many of them and um good luck to them all in high school wherever they may go. So, thank you for

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Thank you. We're we're happy to have had you and then now they're going, >> but it's okay. I might but I'm gonna stop talking. Dr. Moore, if I might, um, I I did want to, uh, say thank you to Dr. Forte, uh,

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Mr. Corman and Mr. Englishman for a great job at the Valley View graduation. Actually, uh, was at PT today, and my physical therapist was like, "Hey, were you at the Valley View graduation? It was really well done. It was like his nephew or something like that." So, uh, it's great to hear from somebody who's

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not necessarily affiliated. So, um, and I did write up a quick thing. I just wanted to kind of make a quick statement during Dr. Forte's last meeting. Um Steve, you have led this uh district for the last what was it 12 years through

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celebration and a lot of challenges, right? There's been a lot of things we've talked about over the time that has been challenges. Um but you've always remained focused on what matters most, providing the children of Denver with the best possible educational opportunities and supporting the dedicated staff who serve them every

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day. And you've always kept the two of those in in your first mind. Uh you told us um that uh you know that that we are in the people business or you were in the people business, right? And uh you've always kept focus on the staff uh to a large degree which has been hugely

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important and and obviously gained benefit and and allowed us to work so well with our staff. Um and then thank you to you for for that. Um, public education is not always easy and and leadership often requires tough decisions, right? And you've always uh

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said that, you know, we we need to make sure we have the best staff and you always make the right decisions, including uh the staff with Dr. Cullis who you've done a phenomenal job mentoring and and we're excited to have her take the reigns of the district. On a personal note, it's been an absolute

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pleasure to serve alongside you. Um, I've seen you personally support underprivileged students at times just out of the goodness of your heart, you and your family. And um, it's truly been in us, uh, inspiring to all of us. So, I wish you, your family the happiness,

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good health, and success in your retirement. And just thank you for your 12 years of dedicated service to this incredible district. >> Thank you. That was very nice. I I appreciate it. Uh yeah, I I guess just um as I as I

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think about you, I I would sum up your uh my experience of your reign here as uh ethical and proactive. And those are really important words to me. The the proactive part means we can relax so

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much more. I mean, you're you're there before uh any of the board members have to ask. And the ethical part, I mean, uh, I Don and I just had a conversation and, um, earlier today and I I mentioned it there. It's like that's such a that's

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such a key piece. I mean, when you think about all the the shady things that go on in in some of the schools uh, just in New Jersey alone and and to know that um, that was never a concern, like you were always going to do the right thing.

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I don't know if if everyone always agreed with what the right thing was, but it was never a question. I think um Mr. Capella said it last time, there was never a question about where it was coming from, you know, and that's really important. I mean, a school can really

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rest on that to have someone who's uh and uh exceptionally proactive. So, um that's that's my my thought there. >> Thank you, too. Appreciate it. I think you guys certainly covered it

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more than more than covered it. So, I'll just say it's been a uh a really interesting 12 years like you had said I think earlier, highs and lows, but uh you know it we always had confidence that you were here for the right reasons, you would do the right thing. Um which you know to Cliff's point made

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our jobs a lot easier. So I appreciate that very much and uh yeah, we're going to miss you. So, you know, good luck and thanks for everything. >> Thank you. It's great having, you know, relationship with all you guys and my neighbor right next to me. So, thank you.

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>> I just want to add one big thank you from a sports guy in town. We finally got the Valley Field done and I remember we were at a game and we walked the field at halftime and it was in terrible absolutely terrible shape and we uh and

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we did it the right way. We had irrigation. We have a maintenance plan. It still looks good. And lest anybody forget uh you were the head person working out a deal with the town council and the township that that would be a community

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field after school hours and a school field during the day. So it was a major accomplishment to get that done and it's still looks great. >> Thank you. I'm proud of that field too. Proud of for the town. proud of it for

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me and just it looks great. It's amazing. Thank you. And for the township, too. Great great partnership. >> All right. So, we have uh board meeting highlights. So, this meeting we don't usually do it because we the last Friday folder was

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last Friday. So, we typically pick it back up in July and then but they don't send it until like August or late August. Was there anything on there that's like of high importance that we want to mention? >> There are absolutely no highlights to

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this board meeting. >> I thought about putting the thing about the buses S, but I don't know. >> Well, yeah. All right. So, let's let's just talk about the uh let's see if we can um wrap

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up the board goal discussion a little bit. Are there any um any thoughts uh regarding solidifying our language? >> All I know is that Mrs. Adelis was uh typing away over there. So, if you

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wanted to share what you I don't have my computer. >> Okay. What do you got? >> I just put as a means to address Sorry. >> As a means to address emerging educational, financial, operational, and legislative challenges, the board will seek to enhance its effectiveness

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through professional development, policy development, strategic planning, and advocacy. Potential action items would be the NJSBA board. >> That's way too fast. How the heck am I supposed to >> I second that goal. Okay. >> Read.

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>> Yes, please. >> Okay. As a means to address emerging educational, financial, operational, and legislative challenges, the board will seek to enhance its effectiveness through professional development, policy development, strategic planning, and

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advocacy. >> Okay. >> I mean, I can type it up. I just couldn't find a computer. >> I'm writing it. >> I'm just writing. Would you like me to pass you my paper? >> Yeah, that's a good idea. >> Here we go. >> That's why you're on the roller.

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>> Okay. So, essentially, that's perfect. I think we'll write that into our notes here. I'm not sure if everyone has access to it and is looking at it right now, but it's okay. Um, what I've done is just created an objective. So, an overall goal of what we're trying to accomplish, which I think is what we

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really need tonight. Um, and then within this document, we're adding some action items so that we are clear with what that means. You know, the board goal is broad, but the actions themselves are what we're trying to accomplish. So, I think that's wonderful. As a means to

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address emerging educational, financial, operational, and legislative challenges, the board will seek to enhance its effectiveness through professional development, policy development, strategic planning, and advocacy.

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Um the action that we've identified tonight would be uh for us all to do some professional development to to research, identify and participate in professional development either individually or as a board with board workshops. That's number one of an

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action item. Number two would be research, review and formalize any AI policies which would then go to the IMP committee which I would assume. And then uh C is to research review and discuss healthc care advocacy or opportunities something along those lines and that

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might be done within the governance committee. Um so one one down. >> Yeah. >> If you're on >> and we'll we'll take some time with the action items in the upcoming meetings. Um >> so what what do you got for two?

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>> That wasn't much time. There was a lot of me having to tap and roll call, but the English teacher and me can sit down and and what I just did with that one to the other two. >> Terrific. >> And I can add them tomorrow morning after work. >> Yeah. I mean, one of the things we could do is just um people could write it onto

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the uh onto this document and over the next I mean I think we have a longer gap, right? over the next few few weeks um we can look at it and uh um make suggestions or and then by the time we can make the assumption that whatever is

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there um by the time the meeting rolls around is pretty much ready to go. Um and and and kind of do it collectively that way. Um I think >> I have a comment on number three which

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we discussed a little bit at the uh at the at the last meeting. Um AB and C good information there. I see them as objectives as we mention mentioned at the last meeting 2028 is when the rubber hits the roads

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in terms of the you have the largest amount of students according to Dr. Forte and Dr. Carlson's comments at prior meetings and uh it takes about a a year and a half to get all the paperwork done and actually build an addition on a valley

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view. So I would see and I think we've have enough statistics to validate that and maybe the objectives would get us clo you know more specific information but I really think we got to have the expansion as a goal for next year. So

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when 2028 comes around we're we're ready. We're not overcrowded. >> Can you all just remind me though that our five-year strategic plan will be up in 2028. Correct. And so that means that next year 2027 we

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should be starting our next strategic plan planning workshop committee. >> Okay. Just just remember that >> we're talking about for the public, right? You >> Yes, for the public. But for the public, for us, but if we have decisions that we've already made moving forward, then

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it'll be, you know, with >> with the community with, you know, with the community in mind or having that conversation moving forward. >> You know what I find very interesting is that uh Mr. Cass mentioned the ex uh expansion in Valley View. Dr. Cullis and

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the rest of the administration feel like the expansion should be I'm sorry, Don, did you say Valley View or Riverview? >> Valley View expansion. Yeah. Okay. not not Riverview Valley View and you have the annex too which is part of their Riverview expansion the second floor.

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>> I withdraw my comment. Thank you. >> It it is a good point though Mrs. Zidelis makes that this may line up well together and maybe this is a holistic goal where we talk about strategic planning along with because it is very important that we get the buyin on a

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strategic plan to make sure that and we've talked about it generally right we've obviously had a lot of strategic goals that have talked about you know not maybe not directly but indirectly or sub goals of maintaining class sizes and things like that so I think now's the

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time the rubber meets the road to kind of have that discuss discussion in 2027 and make sure that we are ready for that moving into 2028. Agreed. Yeah. And and I think that as we as we

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talk about the uh action items um in the upcoming meetings that uh that can be worked in and discussed. And I think there's a few of the the goals that kind of could dovetail into that um uh pretty seamlessly

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because I think just and not to belabor this but one thing to think about is that there needs to be a strategic plan on our side to understand the details of how we're going to do this, right? because I I don't have the details in

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front of me. I was trying to uh quickly kind of pull it up in the search, but um we obviously went for a vote within the past year and that vote wasn't like 90% in support of doing it, right? So, as you go for a larger number, you would

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imagine we've got to be really strategic with how we go about this to make sure that we prove the need and we're making sure we're addressing and getting the information to everybody throughout the community so they understand why we're doing it, right? So, the buyin of different pieces along the way are going

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to be extremely important in the next year. Like that should be where our focus is in my opinion is making sure that we are kind of laying out a plan that we are strategically kind of aligning in the right places and providing the right information. That's all it is, right? We have the information, but how do we get that

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information out? What is the message? Make sure we're really concise with how we do this. >> Yeah, absolutely. And I think that that's right in line with our uh our number three or part of our number three is to to really kind of hammer out

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Good, good, good. >> Just just to make sure you guys are aware that the strategic plan is good for two more school years. So, next year you're probably going to continue with it and then the following year you might start planning for the new one. >> Yeah, it'll be 2028 we'll have New

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Jersey school boards come out which I mean it gives us time but at the same in the same breath I mean I'm going to stop because >> No, but I I think this so couple things to think about like I don't think we need to make decisions on this because

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we're starting to the action plan, but there's an idea. You don't have to wait until that strategic plan expires and we find that it's really important to do it a year earlier. We do it a year earlier, right? Because things are changing rapidly within the district. So, I guess we should set a goal that talks about kind of strategically how we want to

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approach this and the data we need, the information, and that might include or might not include doing a strategic plan a year earlier, for instance. That that may or may not be on the table. So now we have a lot of people on this document at one >> at one time. So if if if someone wants

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to to maybe just uh temporarily put that under community engagement, the strategic uh um the upcoming strategic plan and how we want to when we want to do it, how we how we want to um you know kind of make the most of that in terms

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of uh our space considerations and all that. Did you add that? >> Yeah, you already >> there. So, I didn't mess with it. >> Cliff, while he's doing that, I have one very tactical thing which I would

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suggest and it's actually related to the agenda. Right now, we have board and district goals as under discussion items under go to the cause. I'd like to separate that out, have board board goals specifically as an item. And I think we it's something we can address at every meeting. We kind of we kind of

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breeze through that. Um especially if there's no district goals to talk about. I think we should hold ourselves accountable. Um and it kind of touches on your point of coming back, you know, during the meetings to kind of revisit some of the goals, see what the activities are. So >> I just made a note of that and I think

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it's a great idea. I also want to play around with the idea of trying to move some of this earlier in the agenda. I just I just it seems like we we talk about um talking about these things and then by the time it rolls around there's

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just not a lot of energy for it. So I've really been kind of toying around with figuring out how to how to get it uh earlier um so that there's a bit more um engagement. >> Yeah, I'll bring up my idea again. It is very important

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have a special meeting just on that topic because you're right you get an agenda that gets pretty busy and like have presentations for something like that going on. It eats up a lot of time and uh the goal setting especially with the student count going up uh very very

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important that uh we're focused. >> Yeah. Maybe occasionally we do like what we did today. You bring that up to the front, right? you know that that special presentation becomes becomes more of that you maybe do it every other meeting or every third meeting I don't know but but some on some cadence

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>> sense >> yeah this is something I wanted to bring up uh this is a completely random topic but in lines with what I guess it's not random sits in align with what Mr. Bellow saying is that uh there should be a section for president's comments so that if there are uh a topics that the

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president wants to address before the meeting starts I think uh having a space for that and that's something I could have governance committee uh work on to change the policy if everyone's okay with that. Great.

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>> Um, just so you guys know, there is something in the policy that says opening statement. I guess you that could be it. >> What What's it? It's called opening statement. >> Yeah. >> And that's from the Well,

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>> call to order. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. We >> the the only thing about the agenda is the agenda is actually in our policy. So if we want to make a change, we have to just >> Right. That Yeah. >> All right. So let's I I mean I know you

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raised it uh some time ago and and there's that that may be um something for us to talk about. I think the workaround is is we can still kind of use the special presentations for now and then see, you know, if if if it

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makes sense to uh to have the president's comments. Um all right, so let's uh yeah, make that a board. All right. So, um, so what we're going to do is, uh, over the next few weeks, we're going to

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look at this, uh, living document and, uh, um, by by the end of it, um, whatever's there is what we'll we'll end up, um, voting on in the upcoming meeting. And then then from there, we'll talk about the action items. Probably

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that same meeting. Um, at least I'd like to start talking about the action plan then. Um, so if if there's no objections, I'm going to move to the open to comments. >> Good. >> Okay. This portion of the meeting is open to any individuals for the purpose

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of addressing resolutions on this agenda or matters that they find is important to the board of education and is governed by board policy 0167. And we'll open that at 8:26. Okay. Seeing there's no one online and

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uh no one is coming forward, um we'll close it at uh 8:27. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All right. Uh how many uh roll call on gays? >> Yay. >> Yay.

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>> Great. >> Well, this is it.