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Testing. One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Testing. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two. That's one, two. I know.

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Absolutely. I agree. Yes. Okay, we ready? Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order. For those who wish to provide public comment remotely, a Google form was posted on the district website at 6:30

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p.m. Those remote comments will be addressed in the second public comment section. This meeting, which is hereby called to order at 7:18 p.m., is in compliance with the notice of the law. Public notice was posted in the office of the board of education and

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communicated to the municipal clerk in the daily record on January 12th, 2026. Can you please stand for the flag salute? >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Miss Asavo, can you please read our mission statement? >> I certainly can. Working together as a community, our mission is to welcome all and provide opportunities for our students in a safe and accepting

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learning environment become creative, empathetic, resilient, and who choose to make an impact. >> Thank you. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Miss Esto >> here. >> Mr. Mark, >> present. >> Miss Phillips >> here. >> Miss Final >> here. >> Miss Gates >> here. >> Dr. Center,

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>> present. Miss Shower >> here. >> Miss Son, Mr. Miller >> here. >> Okay, I think we're gonna uh do some presentations. We're going to do a little out of order. Mr. Haimey. >> Good evening everyone. Woes. Uh so we're going to start with different

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presentations first. Uh Miss Bass, we're going to kick off with our presentation with the NJ consortium of G&T programs and Dr. Kina. And I know Miss Bass, you're going to make the introduction. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Haimey. Good evening. I am thrilled to share that the

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students in the enrichment and G&T classes participated in three competitions with the New Jersey Consortium of Gifted and Talented Programs. The first event was the K to6 design engineering challenge in which students in Dr. Kina's enrichment

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program at Northover constructed a snowman using recycled materials. The challenge highlighted the six pillars of character, caring, citizenship, trustworthiness, responsibility, respect, and fairness. Students were

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excited to find out that Dover received a first place award and two finalist awards. Congratulations students. Mrs. Lyster's G&T classes at Northover, Mrs. Derritter's G&T class at Academy Street and Dr. Kina's enrichment classes

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at Academy Street participated in the poster design challenge in which students created an ideal floor plan. All learners enjoyed the project and they were happy to discover that Dover received a first place award and an honorable mention prize. Congratulations

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students. Students from Easttover Elementary School in the enrichment program engaged in the steam machine challenge. Their task was to build a Ruth Goldberg invention that could pour a bowl of cereal. The students were excited to

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learn that Jover earned a first and second place prize as well as an ex auxiliary award for machine structure. Congratulations students. Two students from Northtod Elementary School won the third grade Bonnie Mega

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Cabbage Plant Award. The objective was to grow the largest cabbage. The students won the state competition in both 2024 and 2025. Congratulations students.

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I am now honored to introduce Dr. Dr. Kathleen Kina, who has completed her third year as the driving force behind the enrichment program. Thank you, Dr. Kina, for your creative insights and your dedication to our students. Dr.

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Kina will now introduce the winners. It's my pleasure tonight to introduce those winners to you. First of all, for the snowman engineering challenge competition from Northto School, we took a finalist in grades five to grade eight

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category who was Ariela in grade five. We'll give her an applause, but she wasn't able to be here tonight, but her project has been dropped off. She had another commitment and that's the first one on the edge over there. So congratulations Ariela. In the grades K to2 category and this

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was probably amongst about 30 schools in the state. We had a finalist Ethan in grade one. And also in the grades two category we took first place out of all of those schools. Julio grade one. Come on up Julio.

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little bitty shy. Your sister can come with you. Your sister can stand with you. Okay. This is Julio. >> Okay. With the poster design challenge where the students had to create a floor plan

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um under Mrs. Lyers's uh program who Mrs. Lyster has been a key leader in the development and execution of the new G&T program at Northstover School. one of her students, Salame, um took the first place prize in grades three to f five.

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Come on up, Salame. Um enrichment student at Academy Street School in Kada to 2 got an honorable mention. That's Camila. Come on up, Camila. The Easttover students that participated in the steam machine challenge, which

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was really complicated challenge to do, was to pour a bowl of cereal with a Rube Goldberg type invention, which means they had to have about five to eight energy transfers and different types of materials used. It was really complicated. So, we could not re reset

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up those machines. But what they've done is the families have brought a copy of the video that we sent in that won the prize and so they'll be available to peruse with the students um during our break um at the tables over there. So

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I'm pleased to introduce that in the grades five to six category and I believe this was amongst about 13 schools in the state. We took again first place in grades five to six with Nicole and Nelly's Nelly machine. Come

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on up, Nicole. We ended up taking some auxiliary awards for machine structure. We took first place again with Nicole and Nelly. And second place for machine structure was Liam. Come on up, Liam.

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And those were the New Jersey Consortium of Gifted and Talented Programs competitions that we entered. Additionally, we entered the third grade Bonnie Mega Cabbage Plant Program. And what that is every year, and I've actually been doing that for probably 30

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or 35 years with students, and it's really hard to win, they pick one child out of every state every year. And in 2024, we had a winner for our state of New Jersey with the largest cabbage.

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It's Giovani. Come on up, Giovani. And you're not going to believe this when I tell you. But the very next year, 2025, last fall, we found out that his brother, Valentino, won the state of New Jersey prize for the largest cabbage.

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Come on up, Valentino. So, that's quite a remarkable feat to put Dober on the map. Um, I would be remiss if I did not mentioned that Mike Clear gave me significant help, insight, and editing tools to be able to send

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some of these videos to the competition. And interestingly enough, thank you, Mike. Interestingly enough, his daughter won first prize in one of the New Jersey Consortium for Gifted and Talented Programs competitions that she had in was in in her school. Um, so what's

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going to happen is the students are here and their families will be over at their projects during the break to answer any questions if anybody would like to see what they've done. And just one more big round of applause for our Dober winners. >> Thank you board. Uh, can we just take a

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five minute break to look at the with the students? >> That's completely up to you. I didn't really know how. >> Yeah. Yeah, let's do that and take a picture with the students so that we can look at their work because we won't have a break once we get going again. >> I wasn't sure when that happen.

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>> Is that okay with the board to to take a couple minutes to look at the the artwork with the students? >> Perfectly fine. If anybody would like to students, if you'd like to go and your family stand by your projects and anybody from the public or the board would like to go over and see their projects, that would be wonderful. They

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worked really hard on them. And thank you Dr. Kina for all the work you do with our students. Thank you Miss Bass as well. Uh the works are great. Again, the video was fantastic. So now I guess you don't have to serve your own cereal. You could just hit a button and go from there. So that's fantastic. All right. And now for our uh next

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presentation. This is us honoring our retirees from here from do and the service that they provided to our community. Dear members of the board of education, Mr. Haimey, honored retirees, administration,

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teachers, students, staff, and community members. I am excited to share that 10 members of the Dober public schools family have retired during the 2025 2026 school year. They are Maryanne Gibbs,

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director of human resources. Sharon Gordano, elementary teacher at Easttover. Thomas Herins, elementary teacher at North Dover. Janet Hooper, paraprofessional at Academy Street. Aelia Lantigua, paraprofessional at

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North Dover. Mercedes Longore, special education teacher at Dover Middle School. Patrick Pandalfo, director of student intervention and testing, former principal and vice principal at North Dover and teacher at Academy Street.

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Rebecca Perkins, paraprofessional at Academy Street, Kristen Senzig, psychology teacher at Dover High School, and Raymond Snyder, business teacher at Dover High School. Together, the length of service for this group in Dober is

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over 165 years. Tonight we gather to celebrate a remarkable group of educators whose dedication, compassion, and commitment have helped shape the lives of countless students in Dover. In a district whose mission is to welcome

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all students and provide opportunities for them to become creative, empathetic, resilient individuals who make an impact. Our retirees have adhered to that mission every day. For many years, these educators have been the heart of

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our schools. From preschool classrooms to elementary schools, from middle school hallways to the classrooms at Dober High School. Over the years, this group of retirees witnessed tremendous changes in education. They adapted to new technologies, evolving curriculum

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standards, and changing student needs. Through every challenge and every success, they remained focused on what mattered most, the students in Dover. To our retirees, as you begin this welldeserved chapter of retirement, we

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hope you carry with you the pride of knowing that your work has left a lasting mark on the students, this district, and the community. The impact you have made cannot be measured in years of service alone. Your impact is measured in lives changed, opportunities

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created, and futures shaped. On behalf of the entire Dober public schools community, thank you for your extraordinary service. We wish you happiness, good health, new adventures, and many joyful years ahead. Thank you

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and congratulations on your retirement. If the retirees could please come up to the table, that would be great. We have the district has a gift for you. and Rebecca Perkins. Congratulations. >> Okay, congratulations everybody. Thank you again to all the retirees for

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their dedication to our students and our district. I wish you the very best in your future of retirement. Okay, we are going to move on to the first public comment section of the meeting. The board recognizes the value

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of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters. To ensure fair and orderly expression of such comment, each statement shall be held to a time period of three minutes. Public comments limited to items on this agenda shall be

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entertained for approximately 30 minutes upon the discretion of the presiding officer. Please understand that public comment portions of our agenda are not structured as question and answer sessions, but rather they are offered as opportunities to share your thoughts

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with the board. The board may or may not respond to public comments. However, all comments are considered and will be investigated and addressed as appropriate. Please be courteous and mindful of the rights of others when providing comments. Comments may not be abusive, obscene, threatening, or

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irrelevant. Please understand that students and employees have specific legal and privacy protections. The board is not permitted to respond in public to comments about students or employees. Please be advised that you are commenting at your own risk. Any public

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comments that are directed at a particular individual or individuals could subject you to legal liability for defamation. With that, is there anybody from the public that wishes to uh address the board on uh on agenda items only?

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Mr. Miller, perhaps we could at least ask the retirees to stay so that they could get the cake before. I'm so sorry, Mr. Yeah, we're gonna >> No. All right. >> Let's just let the comment be said first

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and and just we're we're gonna we'll come and have cake afterwards as soon as we're done with the public comment. You leave it in there. Go ahead. All right. You're keeping us from cake, so I better hurry up.

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>> She's leaving. All right. John Keniglio, 24 Taylortown Road, Montville, and I'm speaking tonight in my capacity as DEA president. I would like to bring forth a discussion regarding an item on tonight's agenda in the personnel section, specifically item number 12.

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As I begin, I would like to be clear that my comments have nothing at all to do with the individuals listed, nor their job performance, but more so to do with the actual plan suggested for approval tonight. I am asking for the reason behind these

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rather significant central office salary increases. I presume that the reason is that these individuals are picking up additional work responsibilities from other central office positions that have been abolished or job responsibilities that have shifted causing an increase in

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workload. Although these salary increases may save the district money right now in the short term by not hiring a staff member to work the abolished job, this will set a standard for our teachers, for our power professionals, and for our security guards to receive the same

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roughly 11% increase in compensation if they see an increase in workload as well. The DEA will not start negotiating with the board until the fall of 2027. However, we will watch this vote tonight to determine if a similar 11% increase

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is also in play for any time any one of our members has an increase in workload. instances such as some of our dual language teachers being asked to teach both Spanish and English world in a standalone classroom with no switching

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when they used to be only one or the other, Spanish or English, thus not needing to hire an additional staff member, such as instructing our teachers to add ESL lessons to their daily instruction when ESL has traditionally been pushed in or pulled out by another

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teacher, thus also not needing to hire an additional staff member. such as some of our staff at Dover High School being asked to teach an additional sixth period class without any additional compensation when the traditional amount of teacher class periods is five, thus not needing to

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hire an additional staff member. Again, if my assumptions for the increase are off base or incorrect, please clarify. I just simply ask that you consider my comments when deciding this very important vote tonight. Thank you. Is there anyone else from the public

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that wishes to address the board? Seeing no one, I'd like to close this portion of the meeting. Um, and we're going to take another break because I did not know there was cake. So, the the only good thing is that there's a lot more cake for fewer people. So, we're

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going to take a five minute break and we'll be right back. I did, but at this point >> video. >> Okay, we're going to get started again. Uh can we are going to be looking to approve the minutes of May 12th both

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regular session and executive session. Do we have a motion to approve those? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Do we have a second? Second. >> Second. >> Uh do we have any questions or comments on those me minutes? >> Okay. Um and that also includes the

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special meeting on June 10th. Okay. Can I have a roll call, please? Uh yes to the May 12th um meeting. As a conflicted member, I will have to recuse myself as required by law for the June 10th meeting.

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>> Mr. Mar, >> yes from May 12th, abstain from June 10th. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes to May 12th, abstain from June 10th. >> Miss Penellis, >> yes. Miss Skates. >> Yes. >> Dr. Center.

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>> Yes. For May 12th, abstain for June 10th. >> Miss Sher, >> yes. >> Miss Sness, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> yes. >> Okay. We I believe we just had one whole board uh correspondence

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um from Antonio Acasta about live English to Spanish translation during the formal graduation ceremonies. The question basically was is there another way to provide a technical translation service simultaneously so that it

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doesn't break the flow of the ceremony. Uh so we have utilized uh transitional screen technology indoors. We will um investigate methods for an outdoor event to see if we can improve the graduation experience as part of the communication

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um with Mr. Acasta. Was there any other whole board correspondents that I >> missed and our student representative is grad didn't graduate but school is out so wouldn't expect her to be here. So we'll

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move on to the president's report. So good evening again everyone. Sorry for all the confusion uh today. Um, as we conclude another remarkable school year, I have to say that the past month has been filled with outstanding

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outstanding events that showcase the achievements, talents, and hard work of our students. I had the honor of attending the Mars County Valadictorian and Saludiatoran dinner where Dober High School's top graduates were recognized. Congratulations again to Musha Mu Bashir

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Ahmed who will be attending the University of Southern California to study aerospace engineering and Matthew Lei our former student board liaison who will be attending the University of California to study engineering I believe. I couldn't find what type of

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engineering but I believe it was engineering. Uh their accomplishments are a testament to the dedication and serve as an inspiration to our entire school community. I also attended a wonderful National Junior Honor Society induction ceremony.

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It was truly impressive to watch these young students demonstrate such confidence, poise, and character. Their speeches were exceptional, and I have no doubt they have bright futures ahead as they continue their educational journeys. During the month, the board of education

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conducted a special meeting to complete the student student superintendent's annual evaluation. Right after that meeting, I attended the Mars County Educational Services Commission meeting in which I was elected vice president. The following day, I had the privilege

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of participating in the senior awards ceremony as a scholarship presenter on behalf of the Dober Historical Society. It was uh inspiring to witness the generosity of our community um and the recognition of so many deserving students. One student earned a full

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scholarship covering all educational expenses. A tremendous accomplishment. The following week concluded with both the curriculum and finance and facilities committee meetings where we continued our work to ensure that our students and staff have the resources

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and opportunities they need to succeed. The school year concluded with two of my favorite events, the Dover Middle School promotion ceremony and the Dover High School graduation ceremony. Thank thankfully the weather cooperated perfectly and I'd like to um give thanks

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to Mr. Haimey for his unwavering optimism and confidence that it would be perfect and it was. Uh more importantly, I would like to thank the administrators, teachers, support staff, and everyone involved in planning and organizing these

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outstanding celebrations. Both ceremonies reflected the pride, tradition, and excellence that defined Dober. To our graduates, congratulations. We are incredibly proud of your accomplishments and excited to see where your future paths will lead. Whether you

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are continuing your education, entering the workforce, serving our country, or pursuing other opportunities, know that you will always be part of the Dover family. As we close another successful school year, I want to thank our teachers,

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administrators, support staff, parents, and community members for their unwavering commitment to our students. Together, you make the Dover School District a very special place to learn, grow, and succeed. The future is bright and I look forward to seeing all our student seeing all that our students

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will accomplish in the years ahead. So I thank you and enjoy a self safe and welldeserved summer. Good evening everyone. Uh for my report tonight I'm going to kick off uh just to kind of continue on with the sentiments from uh Mr. Miller. And you know, we

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know that once miday hits, we are recognizing and acknowledging all the hard work that our students have done. And in preparation for our end of the year ceremony, which is our moving up ceremonies and graduations, I had the privilege of of attending as many events

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as I could. One of them uh the robotics banquet uh which Mr. Snyder was there that evening. I had the privilege of sitting there with some of the teachers, some of the parents. It was a great turnout. Uh great food by the way. I I really loved the food that that evening,

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but more importantly, I I I loved how our students acknowledged uh Mr. Snider's retirement and um certain speeches that the kids gave really spoke to volumes to the dedication and the commitment that our teachers give to our students and what it means to them. And

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at times, uh you know, in education, we don't get that instant gratification. Um but there are those moments that we have that makes everything and the sacrifices we put in together totally worth it. And in that moment uh it happened you know just seeing every one of the kids coming

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up whether we're alumni or current students or students graduating uh the impact uh that you've had on them will last them a life uh a lifetime. So it was great to see that that evening. Uh I also joined the middle school junior honor society which was beautifully well

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prepared beautifully done. I had the privilege of going to the middle school awards night again. Great evening, great opportunity to recognize the students, be together with the do community. Our senior awards night, which at that evening we gave out hundreds of thousands of dollars to and awards,

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scholarships to our students. We also had 113 students uh get the seal of biiteracy and congratulations to them, right? What that means for them is that they strengthen their college application. It demonstrates a workforce ready language skills. recognizing the bilingual multilingual students including English

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learners who maintain that proficiency at home to maintain two languages which is not an easy task. Um so congratulations to them but again to all staff members involved in preparing and putting this together especially as school counselors thank you again because it was a very well um turnout

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that evening and well very well planned. I've also had the privilege of going to our family stem night and thank you to Miss Shaw and Mr. Kiski and the work that they've done with our family STEM night which was held at the DO public library and again great turnout for our families to participate and be part of that evening and seeing the work that

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our students putting together and again you know I know that as a year progresses right it it's we have our ups and downs but these are the moments that we get to really see all the work that our staff our students our administration puts together and and kudos to them uh again with our

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graduations yes the weather worked out beautifully and it was a great great turnout um I have to say the middle school one did have me a little worried with a particular cloud but it cleared out and we were good to continue on. Uh and the middle school moving up ceremony ended in 47 minutes which was fantastic.

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I couldn't believe that and uh Miss Carpinsky kudos to her who called it from the beginning. Um but again it was great to be at these ceremonies uh to see our students, our families acknowledging uh this great moment, this this time in their lives. And I've always said these are the Super Bowls of

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our district. This is our our big Harra. We have the ability to create an memorable moment or create a situation that may not be ideal. And thankfully our staff, administration, custodians, um counselors, everyone involved knows

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the importance of this evening and all hands on deck. And and to our custodial staff who set up all those seats, make sure everything was dry that day because it did rain pour that day and they were out there make sure everything was dry and prepared for our families to come in, our security guards, our do PD. I mean, again, it's all hands on deck for

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an amazing evening for our middle schoolers and then for our high school graduation as well. The sun was out. Uh we were out there and kids did a fantastic job with their um with their speeches. And again, uh it it was great. And I just want to give kudos to whoever

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it was that thought the uh the new gowns with the orange on top come out. I thought that was a fantastic touch. Um I was not expecting that. I thought those gowns were fantastic. They're amazing. again our our colors orange, black, gray, white and and again represented do to the fullest. So whoever's idea that

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was thank you and to all those involved in all these ceremonies at the end of the year fantastic job. Thank you again. I also joined so think about it. I went from 12th grade then I went down to preschool moving up ceremony and totally different but just as exciting right because this is now our future. This is the future of do coming up into our

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kindergarten classes. So again, to everyone involved, and it didn't matter whether you were moving up from kindergarten, um, preschool, sixth grade, going to to middle school or fifth grade going to the new DBA meeting, uh, building. Uh, again, everyone had their opportunity to

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acknowledge and and really uh, talk about these right of passages for all of our students. And I want to thank everybody that was involved because again, these are memorable memories that our kids and our families will have for a lifetime. Um, I want to congratulate our ES ESL Century University uh

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completion for ESL certification. Uh, we had uh the following individuals and I want to make sure I don't I uh give credit to everyone as we have now a new cohort of teachers that have their ESL certification. Uh we have Marissa

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Baharushi Sitta Goss, Susan Grabowski, Juliana Kaden, Kayla Lions, Candace Morris, Lilana Cuisero, Cheryl Reassi, Lois Shameski, Megan Thompson, Eric

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Zalis, Paige Banks, Stephanie Bird, Cassandra Kapasi Smith, Jessica Diaz, Patricia Edgar, Kylie Asen Smith, Tatiana Suarez, Kristen Marx, Antelena Toth, Amy Van Vanipart,

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uh Joanna Wasco, and Trisha Zanrinko. Congratulations to them on getting their ESL uh certification. Uh and that is all I have for Oh, sorry. No, and the last thing I wanted to say, sorry. Uh and the last thing I wanted to mention is uh again, I want to thank our teachers, our

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support staff, custodians, uh administrative team. I know that this year we had some challenges um for the district whether it was on budget or or with the loss of our one of our students, one of our own as well as a staff member. It was definitely a tested

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year for all of us. But I do want to thank everyone coming together as one and really moving the district and moving forward for the sake of our community and our district. It is. It does take a village to raise a child and we showed that this year as it was a year that was tested us. But we

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definitely showed that we are do strong and we stuck together and I could I couldn't be prouder of our team here in do of everyone being part of it. So, thank you again for this great year that we had. We accomplished so much as a team and I'm looking forward to next year and continue that growth as a

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district. So, again, thank you to everyone and I appreciate it and I'm looking forward to the next year. Thank you. Any questions or comments for Mr. Haimey? >> Okay. Business administrator report. Mr. Savahulu. >> Good evening everyone. I'll be talking

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about finance and facilities agenda items. Items 1, three, four, five, and six. The financial reports for April and May 2026 are presented this evening for the board's review and approval. Item two, we thank the Marine Community Foundation for their generous donation.

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Items seven, eight, and nine, waiverss and temporary use forms for the two 2026 2027 school year are up for approval. Item 10, out of district contracts for the 202627 school year are up for approval this evening. As you know,

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there may be terminations and additions throughout the year. Item 12, contracts for 2026 2027 preschool private providers are up for approval tonight. Item 13, the Special Olympics New Jersey Champion Schools grant application in the amount of $7,000 is up for approval.

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Item 14, 15, and 16, these represent the professional services district receives annually. Item 17, this is the standard resolution required for all districts in order to add funds to their reserve accounts including capital and maintenance reserves. Item 18, 19, 21,

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and 27. These are the annual renewals of existing contracts for 2026 27 school year. Item 20, we are transitioning from file bank to data bank for the storage and digitiz digitization of school records. Uh we will begin with 40 boxes

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per year and aim to digitize 40 or more boxes annually. Item 25 and 26. We are rescending the academic street elementary school playground contract approved at the last meeting and approving a new contract with a higher amount for a larger playground. Approximately $7,000 of this project is

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funded through the local recreational grant. Items 30 and 31. These are the Do high school auditorium ceiling and lighting upgrades and East Do Elementary School restroom upgrades. Both of which were approved as capital projects in

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2026 27 budget. Item 32, the reverse bid opening was held last Thursday and second life Mac in the amount of $155,240 is our recommended highest bidder for the purchase of our MacBooks. Item 33.

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We apply for cops grant program but were not successful successful. We are receiving support from our grant writing vendor for next year's application. If awarded, it will be provide it will provide $500,000 to be used for security services. This concludes my report.

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>> Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Sabahulu? >> Okay, we're going to move on to the board of ed reports. As I mentioned, I attended the Mars County Educational Services Commission uh meeting. Um, but there's nothing to report back to this body. Uh, legislative report, Miss

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Gates. >> Since our last meeting, the following legislative actions have been taken and they these are currently sitting on the governor's desk awaiting the governor's signature. link to subsidized school meals application, which would require public schools to post links to the

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subsidized school menu application and an informal video uh produced by the New Jersey Office of the Food Security Advocacy regarding the application in a prominent location on the school's website. The following bills are currently being considered. Guidance on

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accommodations for fasting students would require the Commissioner of Education in cons in consultation with the Commissioner of Health to develop and distribute guidance to public schools concerning accommodations from students who are fasting for religious or medical reasons.

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Therapy dog pilot would establish a three-year pilot program to assess the academic and health benefit of using therapy dogs in public elementary schools wellness programs. Spring break recommendations would require the commissioner of education to annually

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recommend but not require the dates on which a school district would be permitted to close its schools for spring break. Voting instructions would require the state board of education to adopt New Jersey student learning standards and social studies pertaining

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to voting and ensuring that instruction on voting is incorporated in an appropriate place in the curriculum for all students in grade 12. Revide Foster graduation requirements would make permanent the requirements that students complete a financial aid

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application as a prerequisite for receiving a high school diploma unless a waiver is submitted. Consequences for bias related conduct would require a student determined by a school district to have committed any bias incident on school property at any

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school sponsored function or a school bus to meet the district's mental health care professional once a week for a minimum of nine months. Social media use and advertising would require the social media research center to research and make recommendations in

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coordination with the office of youth online mental health safety and awareness uh within the department of health regarding various aspects of youth social media behaviors. farm to school grant program would establish a $4.5 million grant program

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in the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to re reimburse school districts for the cost of expanding local food procurement activities. This concludes my report for this month. >> Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions?

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So, if I asked you a bunch of questions to give me the details of something, you'd be able to answer it, right? >> I'm I'm trying. >> Okay. the Morris County, New Jersey School Boards Association report, but Mr. McCort, >> uh, the the Morris County School Boards Association has taken the summer off, so

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there is no report. I know. Um, that's terrible. Lucky them. Um, our next meeting is scheduled for October. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Next up is administrative approvals. Do we have a motion to approve items 1 through 11?

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>> So moved. Second. >> Second. Okay. Any discussion? Dr. Could you please explain the summer youth sports clinics? Are these new? How did these come about? How are we advertising? >> So, the new summer uh youth clinics is

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is something that um our ad uh Mr. Bullock and I have had some discussions. Um, you know, when it comes to our athletics, we we want to find a way to continue to improve our athletics to continue to provide the set of skills for our kids to be successful. And in

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doing so, uh, we had a conversation about potentially running some of these clinics here in house for our students in hopes of developing some of these skills further to again continue to, uh, expand our sporting uh, competitiveness at at the high school level. Um the it

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is new um and it's only for for do for do students and it's going to be advertised uh through social media. It's also going to be advertised through our website and sent out to our parents in hopes that there would be an interest in and hopefully kind of develop some of these skills for students. I know that

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uh last year uh Mr. daughter was doing the wrestling with the wreck and that's kind of that that that that kind of led to that conversation as well, you know, to continue to expand it to other sports as well. >> That's fabulous. Thank you. >> Any other questions?

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I know I have one uh about the emergency virtual remote instruction plan. Um, and so I know that when during COVID when we were virtual, it took us some time to kind of get to the point where we could get people up

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and running and we we learned a lot from that. But um, I'm wondering if uh we could test this out at least one day a year to be sure that all the technology and things we have in place actually work to do a day. I know our tech team

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just loves me right now by asking that question, but if it if we did have an emergency, are we really prepared to be virtual for a period of time? And I would say no, that we're probably not. Oh, we are. Oh, that's perfect. Then we

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can do a day. I'm just suggesting it because how else do you know if it really works? >> I think I I get what you're saying. You're right. Um when and that situation occurred, you know, none of us were prepared for a

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situation like that. We definitely had a huge learning curve. Um, but very similar, I guess, to like if you do a drill or security drill, right, where you want to test to see how people react or or or do things when it comes to procedural pieces. Uh, we could do a small sample of sorts, I think, and uh

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try something out. >> Well, that that'd be good. A sample. You don't have to do everybody, but that would be good. >> We're ready, Tanya. Okay. Any other questions? Can have a roll call, please. >> Midto? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mor? >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips?

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>> Yes. >> Miss Penellis? >> Yes. >> Miss Kates? >> Yes. >> Dr. Center? >> Yes. >> Miss Shower? >> Yes. >> Miss Sness? >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller? >> Yes. >> Okay. Personnel. Miss Selenus. >> Good evening. I would like to make a motion upon the recommendation of the

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superintendent and the board to approve personal items 1 through31 including the hand carry resolution resolve that the board of education reappoints employee one employee ID number 14375

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subject to a corrective action plan second chance agreement. >> Second. Any questions or comments? Excuse I'm sorry. I have one question about the camp invention summer program.

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Can you talk about what that is? Um as well as who can participate in that? >> Absolutely. Uh it's very uh exciting. Uh so our cramp uh invention will be hosted at East Elementary. Um and it will be for upcoming Sorry

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>> question >> maybe not. Sorry that was a false alarm. My apologies. Um it's the upcoming third and fifth graders. um for the age group it it's um it is open to everyone and um part of the camp I mean not all it's

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also open to outside of districts as well um and they it's something that they there is a fee to be paid for um and we are advertising throughout the district and again it's it gives an opportunity for our kids to for our kids to continue on that STEM growth and that

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opportunity um and they're also looking for any uh high schoolers that can help out as instructors to help us support that. So again, it helps out with that mentoring piece, but it's open to our kids again uh that have that interest and and and

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and in science and stems and mathematics and continue to explore those options. >> Another fabulous program. I hope our families are aware and are attending and uh volunt volunteering or are they getting paid to mentor the high school students? service credits. It's a volunteer.

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>> Okay. Still an awesome opportunity. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> I just wanted to say Mr. Miller, uh, again, congratulation and thank you very much to all of our employees and a lot of them are longtime employees who have

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reached retirement. Um, good luck to you all. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, roll call, please. >> Mr. Sa, >> yes. >> Mr. Mor. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Um, no to number eight and yes to everything else.

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>> Miss Penelis, >> yes. >> Miss Skates, >> no to number eight. Yes to everything else. >> Dr. Center. >> Yes. >> Miss Shower. >> Yes. >> Miss Sles. >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller. >> Yes.

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>> Negotiations. There's no report at this moment. >> Thank you. Governance, Miss Asdo. >> Good evening. The governance committee meeting was held on May 19th at the Belmont Avenue Administrative Building.

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In attendance where Mrs. Shower, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Solenz, and Mr. Hime, Mr. Havo, chairperson, was absent. Uh, thank you Mr. Shower for taking notes on that meeting. Um it was a brief meeting as there were only one item for discussion on that uh for that day. Uh Mr. Hammer

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presented policy number P 0142.1 uh on nepotism which as mandated appears as part of our bylaw uh section. Uh unfortunately we will have to reschedule the July governance committee meeting as

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it conflicts with the board of education um meeting for July. I will not I will now report on the status of the do board of education goals as part of the governance committee responsibilities. Board goal one advance student

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achievement through datadriven decision makingaking. We will ask Mr. Hime and Miss Chewy to kindly put together a presentation related to this topic to be given during our July meeting. Thank you M. Uh for goal number two, um strengthen

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board governance through targeted training. The board completed a full board training in May and will have a second full board training in July. Uh we are waiting for the New Jersey School Board Association representative to confirm individual trainings. Board

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goal number three, enhance community engagement and communication. Members of the community relations committee have been attending PTA meetings and working with the PTAs to reach more parents. Over the over these summer months, the community relations committee will plan

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additional outreach opportunities in line in the beginning at the beginning of the school year. Board number uh goal number four, ensure accountability on progress towards board goals. The first report was provided during the joint mine hill and do board of education

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meeting on our goal progress which was open to the public. This is the second report and going forward we will need to revisit the timing of these reports since the committees are restructured in January and may not meet until February. We will provide another update at our

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August meeting and another in November to close out the year. This concludes the governance committee report as well as the do board of education goals second report. I now move for approval of the first reading of policy P 0142.1

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nepotism. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Dr. Ser. >> Um just a request. I'm a visual learner and uh Miss Ato did an excellent job uh capturing what we've done in terms of our goals. I would really love we have

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that beautiful board behind you. Um perhaps in three months when she reports again a visual aid to help us see all the progress would be helpful. >> Sure. >> No problem. >> Okay. Any disc any other discussion on the policy?

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>> Okay. Roll call. >> Mr. Suo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mor? >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Palees? >> Yes. >> Miss Gates? >> Yes. >> Dr. Center? >> Yes. >> Miss Shower? >> Yes. >> Miss Son? >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller? Yes, >> student achievement and curriculum. Dr. Ser,

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>> thank you. The student achievement and curriculum committee met at 5:15 on June 16th in addition to uh me, Mr. Hime, Mr. Carl, Mr. Chewy, Miss Selenus, and Mr. Miller were present. Um, you will see on

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the agenda advanced ESL advanced seven and eight as well as AP computer science A as two new curricula uh for us to review. We discussed a number of memorandum memoranda of agreement memorandas of I'm not sure memorandums

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of agreement um with St. Elizabeth University as well as um CCM uh to bring uh various courses into our uh um into do high school as well as give students

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opportunities to earn college credits. We learned about the duel program which will be led by Sergeant Sperry and Mr. Renshaw. Um this is a a program that I had the pleasure of seeing um about a month ago um which will

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detail for students what happens when you get pulled over. Um and so this program attempts to build connections between the police and our community and give our students um some information that is important for a really stressful event. even if you happen to be um far

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older than a teenager. Um and this connects to our share the keys program. We learned about the G&T program survey data. We had over 20 parents respond as well as 40 teachers and staff and used that to identify some strengths as well

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as some areas for improvement. We learned that um enhanced peer modeling and motivation raised the bar for students in all classrooms. there were increased peer integrations um in both within classrooms talking about peers

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but also um some of the parents use the word friendship. Um and then we the staff and teachers said that these programs target um specific instruction since we have students who attend humanities, STEM or both. And so that

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reinforces that we are identifying the correct students using our new model. Um improvements. Uh parents uh only said that they wanted more communication and teachers and staff had some issues with scheduling and loss of core instruction

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time. Um there will be um G&T teacher meetings with grade level teams next year to try to uh fix some of these scheduling issues. Um the bilingual ESL world language department Spanish phonics pilot program will start

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um next year in grades K to K and first. Um there is a cursive writing review committee um that met to bring cursive writing back in grades three through five. Everything old is new again. Um we are piloting the uh units of study in

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writing uh grades three through five. Um This provides readers and writers workshop resources for teachers to teach writing with an emphasis on differentiation. So that allows um some more resources for our teachers. There's also a Spanish version for our bilingual

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class classes. Um we have been invited to continue our partnership with Rutgers University in the Crant partnership. Um this focuses on strengthening K to5 educator prep and support in inter in sorry in early reader inter

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Um if the dober has submitted a letter in support of recctor's grant application and if they see they receive this grant we will receive the benefits that um I mentioned as well as more. Um we received $6,592

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to support universal screening in K to3. Um I would like to recognize Harold Rosado Kamacho for his outstanding participation in the inaugural NJCGTP. Um Ed talks scholarship compet competition. Hariel's discussion of the

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impacts of access to steam on adolescence was carefully considered, well supported and engagingly delivered. His presence, clarity, and confidence earned him third place in this year's competition. Um I would like to uh

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congratulate a a host of staff members who attended the NJ Tissel convention um in middle of May and we had several um teachers and admin who actually presented sessions. So, congratulations

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to Michelle Ferrer, Jessica Diaz, Vina Taylor, Michael Dmitri, and Mary Kundai on their programs, as well as the numerous teachers who attended um to learn more um and improve education for all of our Dober students. Um I would

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like to reiterate um Mr. Thanks for the Do family STEM night, especially the teachers and Do High School National Honor Society and Math Honor Society members who participated and make this happen, as well as Aaron Shaw and Matthew Kazinski. And then

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finally, reiterating Mr. Haime's congratulation of the ESL certification cohort. These staff, these 23 staff members completed a two-year program in conjunction with Centinary College and earned over

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earned 15 credits over the course of two years. Um, and shout out to Miss Rodriguez and Miss Murman for organizing and supporting the teachers. Um, these teachers could also choose to um, take two additional courses to get reading specialist certifications. So, that's a

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big task in addition to being excellent teachers. So, a shout out to all of them. With that, oh, I'm sorry. I'm not done. Uh, we have 10 Dober High School students accepted into the aspiring educators summer program this year. which is a program at William Patterson

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University. Um and the curriculum committee will be continuing with summer curriculum work. Now I am finished and I would like to move items 1 through 9 under student achievement and curriculum. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any other questions or comments?

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>> Um just for clarification item number seven. No. Yes. the bilingual waiver. The numbers that are shown on there, those are the number of students that have asked for a waiver. Is that correct? The number on

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the uh the attachment. >> If it helps, I have in my notes that elementary schools do not need to submit this because they have bilingual education. So, this would just be for middle It's just 7 through 12. I just wanted to clarify that those numbers that are shown are the number of

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students that have asked for. >> So your question once again >> the numbers that are shown on that those are the number of students that have asked for a waiver. The waiver is because of the programming that we have in the middle school and the high school. >> Okay.

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>> Yeah. >> Okay. No other comments. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Swed. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCord. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Palees? >> Yes. >> Miss Skates? >> Yes. >> Dr. Center? >> Yes. >> Miss Shower? >> Yes. >> Miss Son? >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller? Yes.

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Community relations, Miss Kates. >> Oh, thanks to my fellow board members here. I do not have a report to read because they they've addressed everything that we were going to talk about. >> Well, thank you so much. >> This concludes my report. Thank you. >> That was the best report I've heard.

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>> Okay. Policy committee, Miss Shower. >> Uh before I go on to that, um I would like to add because it has not yet been mentioned, but Miss Asdo and myself attended the kindergarten moving up ceremony. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I could have said that for you. I'm so sorry. >> That's all right. Um and it was

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absolutely adorable. Uh the first three minutes of it, we were sobbing in tears because it was just so cute and they did a fantastic job and it was very well attended. It was standing room only in the back. So, congratulations to them um

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and all of the other graduates as well. Thank you, Miss >> Okay. And moving on. policy. Uh the policy committee met on May 19th, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at 21 Belmont in the conference room. In attendance were

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board members myself, Mr. TC, Miss Gates, Miss Phillips, and administration was Mr. Hime. Uh policy for second reading, policy number 122, employment of chief school administrator. No questions. Policy 2535,

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library material. No questions. Policy 9130, public complaints. No questions. Regulations for the second reading. Regulation 2535 for library material. Again, no questions. Um, regulation

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9130, public complaints. Again, no questions. for discussion again for the second or third time. Uh regulation 7510 which is our use of school facilities and policy 7510 both were um extensively

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discussed and clarified. We uh codified an increase in charges for the use of our facilities. A minimal increase but an increase. We also clarified language that had been in discussion uh previously and edited previously. Uh we

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added and left off some uh details about the use of facilities um and uh removed wording that stated tiered group from policy which was no longer applicable. Um with that being said, policy 7510

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and regulation 7510 with these changes and edits now reverts back at our next committee meeting to the first reading and then the um it would be presented to the board for full vote. Again, it would be the first reading um that was the end

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of the meeting. Our next meeting date was proposed for June 30th and I believe we have conflicts um for that. So, we will be trying to work on another meeting date. It's it's hard this time of year. And that is my report, Mr. Miller. And with that, I would like to A

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motion to approve policy items one through four. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Question. Dr. Sander, >> I just have a question about uh Mrs. Shower's report. Mrs. Shower, you just I believe said that policy and regulation

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7510 would revert to the first reading. And yet they are on here for second uh as the second reading, which would make them which am I missing something? could make them in effect. >> Is it on here for a second reading?

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>> If if I may, I don't I don't think that it needs to go back to first reading. I think that after the last meeting, there were some changes that I we made, but they weren't substantative. Hate that word. Um so I think this as a second reading I think is fine. Well, that

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that's the notes we had that at the next meeting at full board meeting, it would be reverted back to the first reading. But because we did not have the policy again as a first reading at the committee, I assumed we wouldn't have that. But it's fully prepared for the first reading. So,

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>> okay. >> I couldn't see the red. Sorry. I I'm confused now. >> So >> So it's either on No, I appreciate So it sounds I agree that if it was previously approved on a first reading, >> it was >> if there were some minor changes made

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that were not substantive changes, then it can be done as a second reading tonight. >> Only if there were fundamental changes with >> but but the way Miss Sher is reporting it is it's as if she thinks it should be a first reading.

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There were there were some changes that were not discussed at the meeting when it was approved for with the first reading. Uh for example, the fee charges were not discussed at our last meeting. >> We changed the fee charges at the last meeting. At our last committee meeting

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at the committee meeting it was discussed and those those prices were set but they were not at the last meeting when it was a first reading. >> Th those changes were not discussed. to to Miss Shower's point, um I I I couldn't remember, so I I pulled up the

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agenda for the for the policy committee meeting for May and it and they were listed as items for discussion. They weren't listed as first or second reading. We did not make any substantive changes to the policy, but we did make substantive changes to the regulation. Um

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so, >> right, I think the changes that we made were language changes that we had already discussed that Dr. Ser had pointed out didn't make it into the version. So that was just added and then those that wording was tweaked. So that would not be a substantial change. But

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my misrecently is if we change the fees then I think it would have to go back because changing the fees is significant. >> I thought it was just the language changes. I actually forgot about the fees. >> Yeah, we did. We did change the fees. >> All right. So that that particular policy sounds like though it was on the

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agenda for second reading. >> It is. >> All right. So, did we already move and I I just lost track now. >> I just I moved it. Yes. >> Yeah. So, we So, we moved it on for a second. So, something has to be done now about that. So, which policy number is that? >> 7510 and regulation.

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>> Okay. So, if it's a policy and regulation 7510, if everyone's in agreement, we can just without having another vote, we could just change that to first reading for that. >> Perfect. >> Is that what you want to do or do you want to take it off and put it on for first reading? >> That's fine with me. That's fine. So to

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clarify um and please someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it's just the regulation that needs to be moved back to first reading not the policy. >> Well >> unless you want to treat them together >> unless you want to do them together. >> I I'd rather keep them together because I we had also mentioned that we wanted

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the fee schedule listed with the policy which it is not now. So we did talk about that also. So I I think keeping them together is a good practice. So if everyone's okay with that, then the motion would be policy 7510 and

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regul policy and regulation 7510 first reading and whatever all the other ones were remains the same. >> Were they all second reading? >> Yeah, the other ones are second reading. >> Yes, there were two. Three. Yes. >> All right. So, everyone's in agreement. We're good. Okay. Can I have a roll call?

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>> I have a I'm sorry. I have another question that I submitted earlier. Um, what is the difference in the job description for the job that we're abolishing, which is supervisor of school counseling with the new job director of school counseling? I see very little between in difference

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between the two job descriptions. >> No, no problem. Uh we've added uh MTSS which is a new initiative for the district uh which is going to you know speak on our social and emotional piece for our students tier one tier 2 approaches uh prek through 12. Uh we've

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also added attendance as another piece as well that's been added to that as well. For me when it comes to attendance is something where school counselors need to be involved in that discussion especially at our high school level. Uh but now attendance is going to be going under our new director from prek to 12

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uh together with our director registration who also works with attendance as well. So it's combination there. Uh INRS and 504s as well prek through 12. >> I'm sorry I did not submit this question because I just thought of it. You mentioned the the director of

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registration. >> Yes. And outreach. >> Okay. um is that person now supervised by the director of >> Okay. So I I guess the question I'm asking is what is the difference between a supervisor and a director?

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So from from supervisor to director. So what they were in the supervisor position. So one of the things that I've noticed is that when you're running when you're working on a department from K to prek to 12 and you're now hosting different parts

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within your department where you're now adding MTSS attendance and it's all lining up to social and emotional in the counseling department piece. um as a director uh coming into that position there is to me one of the big things is that

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and I don't know how to word this um the person coming to the director position will will have more control over those items than they would as a supervisor to a degree if I'm making any sense um increased strategies and things of that

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nature so now the responsibility is just greater uh as opposed to that as a supervisor. >> I I have just one thing. Um I would also point out um that um aside from the

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differences that Mr. Hime mentioned that um the salary differential between a director and a supervisor is quite substantial to the tune of about $20,000 at step one.

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Any other comments or questions? >> Roll call. >> Ma, >> yes. >> Mr. Mako, >> um, abstain from item four. Yes. On the rest. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Penellis, >> yes.

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>> Miss Kates, >> yes. >> Dr. Sra, >> yes. >> Miss Shower, >> yes. >> Miss Son, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> yes. Finance and Facilities. Mr. McCor. >> Thank you, Mr. President. The Finance and Facilities Committee met on Tuesday,

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June the 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. All committee members were present along with Mr. Haime, Mr. Savahoglu, and Mr. Toth. Uh Mr. Riley from Centric Benefits Consulting also joined us for part of the meeting. On the facility side, we have a few good updates to share. First,

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work continues at Dober Bridge Academy. The flooring installation is underway and expected to be completed by the 4th of July. And the sighting work is also moving along with completion expected by the 2nd or third week of July. Uh we also have a community open house that is

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scheduled for Saturday, August 8th, which is very exciting for a lot of us. It'll be a nice opportunity for folks to come and see the space, ask questions, get a better feel of uh what's happening there. We also reviewed a couple of smaller but still important projects. Uh the high school courtyard planter box

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project has been completed. Uh while the district will be handling the plantings along the sidewalk, student groups will be responsible for uh taking care of the interior sections. This project will not only improve the building, but will also give students a chance to have some ownership in the space. The North Dover

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Elementary cafeteria lighting upgrade has also been completed. On the finance side, the committee heard a presentation from Brian Riley of Centric Benefits Consulting about health insurance costs. I want to thank uh our admin business administrator for organizing that. Um

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the big takeaway is that these increases are not unique to do. Healthc care costs are rising across the board, including hospital costs, prescription drugs, newer therapies, and other postcoid pressures. In plain English, this is a tough market right now and school

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districts all over New Jersey are feeling it. We also discussed uh the idea of something called self insurance. Essentially, it would mean that the district would take over the running of the insurance plan. At this time, based on the information presented, it does not appear to be economically feasible

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for the district. That said, the committee will continue monitoring the situation, including claims, experience, and market options, so we can stay on top of this and make sure we are looking carefully at every reasonable path forward. Our next finance and facilities committee meeting is scheduled for

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August 4th. Uh, as always, I want to thank the administration and committee members for the work that they are continuing to put in. A lot of this work happens quietly, but it matters. Keeping our buildings moving in the right direction and keeping a close eye on the dollars is not flashy work, but it is

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important work and I certainly appreciate everyone's attention to it. That concludes my report. Um, I would now like to move items 1 through 34 under finance and facilities. >> Do we have a second? >> Second.

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>> Do we have any discussion, questions? Dr. Um just uh thank you to the Marin Community Foundation for their $2,500 um Wendy Gruber artist fund donation. >> Anyone else? >> Roll call, please.

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>> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mort? >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Uh I'll recuse myself from payments to vendor 1950. Yes. To everything else. >> Miss Penellis? >> Yes. >> Miss Kates? >> Yes. >> Dr. Center? >> Yes. >> Miss Shower? Yes,

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>> Miss Son. >> Yes, >> Mr. Miller. >> Yes. >> Okay, moving on toformational items. The upcoming meetings July 28th, August 25th, and September 15th. We had some facility requests, the town of Dover

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Recreation Department for the July 4th crooks fireworks celebration, which is actually on July 2nd with a rain date of July 9th. and Mars County Vote Tech um utilizing the Dober Middle School for adult ESL classes.

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Uh do we have any old business? I have new business. A few items. So, uh tonight I must announce that effective July 1st, board member Victoria Panales will be resigning from

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the Dober Board of Education as she and her family begin an exciting new chapter in their lives. and move to a new home outside of Dover. Victoria, on behalf of the Board of Education, I want to sincerely thank you for your service and

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dedication to our students, staff, and community. While we are saddened to see you leave, we are happy for you and your family as you celebrate this wonderful milestone. Your contributions have made a positive impact on our district, and

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you will certainly be missed. And I believe Mrs. shower. You have something you'd like to present to Miss Panales? >> I do with pleasure. >> As this will be her last meeting tonight. Thank you. >> All right. With that,

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my second announcement is that with this vacancy, I would like to formally announce that the board of education is seeking interested residents to fill the unexpired term ending December 31st, 2026. Any qualified resident interested

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in serving the students and community of Dover is encouraged to submit a letter of interest and resume to our business administrator, Mr. Tabahulu, no later than July 15th. Candidates are also asked to attend the

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board of education meeting on July 28th where they will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and briefly share their reasons for seeking appointment to the board. Following those presentations, the board will deliberate in public session and appoint a new

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member by majority vote to fill the vacant seat. Does anyone have any questions about what I just read? >> I would just like to clarify that it's any Do or Victory Gardens resident that is eligible. >> I I I also have a just something to

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raise. Um just want to point out that if you hold the statements and you know presentations by the candidates in public, the board can actually deliberate in executive session. The board doesn't doesn't need to deliberate

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in public. I think the past practice was that we did it in public and I think we should continue that unless somebody has a different idea. Okay. I do have a on the subject I have a

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question um just for Mr. Kroo. Is there any u I know that if the board fails to appoint somebody that that that then falls I believe on the county superintendent. >> That's correct. >> Um is there I know with municipal

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vacancies there is a statutory deadline on you know you have to act by a certain time. I'm just curious is there a such a deadline in law with boards of education? >> Yes there is. It's I believe it's 65 days from the date of the vacancy. So it sounds like the vacancy will be as of

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July 1st. >> So but for instance, if you don't res, >> let's say it's the summer and you don't get any applicants in by the July board meeting, you'd still have time to try again in August >> or >> or if you couldn't pick someone. >> We don't we don't like maybe the the

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choices before us and then we could move it. We could we could take it up again in August. >> Yes. Let me rephrase it. If for any reason you can't make a decision in July, you would still have time uh to do something at the August. >> Okay. I also want to add that uh I would like

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to remind members of the public uh that if you're interested in running for a seat on the DOA Board of Education for the November election, the deadline for nominating petitions with the Mars County Clerk is July 27th uh at 4 PM.

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Whether filing individually or jointly, candidates must submit petitions containing at least 25 valid signatures. Um, serving on the board of education is a meaningful opportunity to contribute to the future of our schools and community and I encourage anyone interested in public service and

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education to consider becoming a candidate. The next thing is um we're going to do our doodle poll right here for our board retreat. I have two dates with our uh representative from New New Jersey

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school boards. It's a August 18th or 19th. It's a Monday or a Tuesday. So, if you can just check your calendars to see if uh the majority can meet on one of those days. While people are checking their

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calendars, Mr. Miller, can you um uh clarify the vacant position will not require a special election. Correct. >> No, no, it's just by majority vote from the board. >> Just to serve the balance of this year. >> Just to serve the balance. That's exactly.

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>> I'm sorry. You said the 18th or the 19th. >> Yes. >> So that's a Tuesday or a Wednesday. >> Okay. Hold on. >> Maybe I wrote the wrong dates. A lot going on. >> And I would also point out that there is

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a town council meeting on the 18th. Uh, it's it's a Tuesday or Wednesday the 18th or 19th. >> That doesn't matter. Our board business is important. >> Do you want us to answer now? >> Yes. >> I'm available either any of those dates,

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the 18th or the >> I'm fine right now. Fine. >> Okay. Is everybody available on the 19th? >> Yes. >> Since we won't conflict. So then I will tell the representative there will be August 19th and uh during our training in July. He's

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going to start the first part of the training um the um board self-evaluation. Just quickly going over the importance of that because that will be that the result of that will be part of the retreat. And then the the second part of the training at the next board

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meeting is going to be governance which was an excellent program they provided to school board presidents and vice presidents this past year that to give to our board. So I think it should be a good one-hour training for the July meeting.

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>> So we would be starting the training at six o'clock, executive session at 5:30 and the public would be uh we'd start the public session at at 7 o'clock like last time.

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>> Mr. Miller, do we need an executive session before the retreat? >> No. No, we're talking about the next board meeting with the training. >> I think he was asking what time the >> retreat August 19th is the board retreat, right? >> Yeah, the board retreat. We'll figure

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out the timing of >> I would like to >> Yeah. And then we'll we'll figure I'll look what we did last year and we'll just make it the same. >> I thought you were talking about the next meeting. Okay. >> All right.

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>> Mr. Miller, I have a >> comment if if I may. Um, I probably missed the um the opportunity to say this, but um I just want to give a shout out to our one of our translators um Rosa Munoz. She did an outstanding job um translating Miss Ross's um speech. I

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just want to say congratulations. That was it was awesome. >> She did a fantastic job. >> Also, the one for the middle school was was very good, too. I'm not I'm not sure of her name. Okay. Thank you, >> Mr. Miller. I had one item for under new

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business. Um, I did want to mention and we all did receive it from Mr. Haime, uh, which in the many years that I was on the board, um, only privy as president of the board to a lot of the information that he shared with us, but he shared with us a a tremendous

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document for his summertime huddle uh, series because it's it's a series of dates and um, trainings. And if we look in that under who handles what, it gives job description um broken down

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beautifully with a an abundance of information and it does give uh the director, it gives the supervisors and you can clearly see the definite distinction between those two um positions. You can also see and as I

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said through the many many years of of having experience with knowing job details in the district. I was privileged to be able to know a lot uh about who does what in the district. Um this is the first time that I have ever

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seen a document like this with so much detail as to what everyone is supposed to be doing. So I thank you very much for that. But that also um should clarify sometimes the need for um what has to be

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done in uh distinction between different jobs. I'll leave it at that. Thank you very much, Mr. >> Any other comments? Okay, at this time we're going to move on to our second public comment portion.

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The board recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters. To ensure fair and orderly expression of such comment, each statement shall be held to a time period of three minutes. Public comments not restricted to items on this agenda shall

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be entertained for approximately 30 minutes upon the discretion of the presiding officer. For those who wish to provide public comment remotely, a Google form was posted on the district website at 6:30 p.m. Remote comments will be read by a member of the board of education. The board of education will

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alternate between inperson and online comments. Please understand that public portion public comment portions of our agenda are not structured as question and answer sessions, but rather they are offered as opportunities to share your thoughts with the board. The board may or may not respond to public comments.

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However, all comments are considered and will be investigated and addressed as appropriate. Please be courteous and mindful of the rights of others when providing comments. Comments may not be abusive, obscene, threatening, or irrelevant. Please understand that students and employees have special legal and privacy protections. The board

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is not permitted to respond in public to comments about students or employees. Please be advised that you are commenting at your own risk. Any public comments that are directed at a particular individual or individuals could subject you to legal liability for defamation. Is there anyone from the

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public that wishes to provide comment to the board? Good evening again, John Kiglio, 24 Taylor Town Road, Montville. So since 2017, the entire Dover Education Association membership has voted for one

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educator of the year in each of our work sites and one par profofessional of the year across the district. Voting is conducted by all DEA members over a period of seven days. Tonight, I wanted to recognize our Dober Education

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Association educators and power professional of the year. This year's winners in each work site are from Academy Street School, Ashley Ditter from North Dover School, Rose Cesa from Dover Middle School, Rich

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Guglyamo from East Elementary School, Kayla Lions from Dover High School, Jackie Camarada. And our par professional of the year was Mariana Morales. There are also plaques in each of our uh district work sites that

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reflect our current winners and prior winners since 2017. Name plates for this year's winners will be updated in the fall. So, I just wanted to mention that tonight those were our winners from this year. I wanted to recognize them publicly. So, please join me in giving

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all of them a round of applause. Thank you. >> Enjoy the rest. Congratulations to all those that were chosen as the winners this year. That's a wonderful news. Thank you. >> Are there any comments online? >> No.

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>> Is there anyone else from the public? Seeing no one needing to make a comment, I close the public portion. At this time, I'm going to um uh ask for a motion to move into

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executive session uh for personnel discussion, but we will take no action uh when we come back. >> Do we have >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> Thank you everybody.

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I know. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Okay, >> that's it.