testing one two test one two two two two there you go call this meeting to order at 6:07 p.m the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to advance notice of and to attend the meeting of the public bodies
at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of the act the East Rutherford Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting by having the date time and place thereof provided to the record and
South Bergenite newspapers to have published and posted in the vestibule of the Burough Hall in the public library copies of agendas are available 48 hours prior to said meetings in the uh in the board of education office and are posted on the East Rutherford School website
www.erbo e rb.net uh please stand for the flag salute and remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of the members of our police department fire department first responders and our armed forces i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you you may be seated roll call
miss Caruso here miss Collie here miss Meta here sanders here miss Shmley here mr banka is absent miss Laruso here uh fire exits front of the room and
out to your left uh committee reports uh school business administrators report mr verach thank you Madam President uh before I begin uh I would be remiss not to say something uh unfortunately over the
spring break uh the East Rutherford uh Board of Education uh mainly a custodian uh passed away during the break um Guy Mule I knew him from Little Ferry so we had a connection back there and we had the opportunity to
work together again um what I could say about Guy was his smile he just had this incredible smile was always positive always wanted to help people and um my heart just goes out to his family and
his friends he really truly was an amazing person i I did get to know him my time in Little Ferry and my time here so uh just you know just to let his family know that you know they are in our thoughts and that he will be uh
surely missed not just for what he brought to our district but what he did bring to his family and friends thank you Madam President okay thank you everyone appreciate that uh tonight we will uh
have the presentation of the 2025 2026 school uh budget presentation with myself and Mr jen Caspro sp2 is the adoption of the maximum travel expenditures for 2025 2026
uh since the last time we met the work session there are six new finance items f1 is the approval of the bills list for April 2025 uh Miss Caruso thank you very much for coming in appreciate that
greatly uh F8 is the approval of the financial reports for March 2025 f9 is the approval of the transfers report for March 2025 so the board will approve February and March so we're all caught up f10 is the approval to amend
F5.2 as approved at the November 14th 2024 board meeting for extraordinary services for the 2425 school year the reason for this is that the not to exceed amount was going to go over by not less than
$1,000 so we needed to go ahead and to change that from $35,200 to $36,000 that's the reason why we are amending that F11 approval of the 2425 statement of assurance submission for lead drink
and water this is done every 3 years uh as required by the state uh that the information has been sent in and has been posted on our website and F12 is the approval of early registration can't
believe it the New Jersey the NJSBA workshop 2025 in October and just to let the board members know we do have our accommodations so we're good to go with our accommodations we'll go with that any
discussion i have a quick question in regard to the lead testing there was two that exceeded what do we do in that case they were completely shut down they were not used they were retested and we passed and we
passed okay thank you whenever that happens Miss Meta uh even when I was in my prior discu we immediately shut it down it is not to be used one was in the kitchen so just to let you know everybody know one was in the kitchen they stopped using it immediately and one was a water fountain that wasn't
even being used in the classroom so it wasn't even being used at all but they when they come in they test everything so immediately that was shut down but Mr batishani reassured me that that drinking fountain in the classroom does not get used at all so but it was shut
down okay it was retested and we're good to go thank you you're welcome any other discussion okay thank you Mr verra you're welcome Madam President um should we let should we let Miss
Barley go that way since you All right we're gonna have Miss Balli on behalf of the Thank you schools okay for FA school uh the students and
staff celebrated Autism Awareness Day by wearing blue on April 2nd the basketball and cheer team had their pizza party celebration on April 11th for a great season thank you to Miss Ravitini Mr chipkin Miss Orana and Mr cauley for all
your help and your support throughout this season fa school teachers will be attending the NJSLA trusting we we attended the NJSLA testing uh training also um we're excited today to
invite our guests they had a lot of fun and my teachers are exhausted and it was a great day to get a lot of work done and also they're all preparing for the
busy NJSLA assessment coming up um and Lincoln School wind classes have been working hard to close the gap as we approach the back end of the school year students have been hard at work practicing key skills that will lead to
successful spring our fifth graders continued their LE program in collaboration with the ERPD officers have been continuing their weekly lessons to support a safe and drug-free community cafe 101 has been a
huge hit to date and this month as our CBI students continue to develop valuable life and workplace skills the NES chapter is partnering with T
EM to join forces I believe I believe that's NJS not ne uh to join forces with Nyaka schools in Uganda for promote civics and global competencies in the coming weeks our
students are looking forward to streaming into their classrooms to learn more about their culture their schooling and ways we can support one another report cards for working period 3 went out on April 11th uh parents are
encouraged to talk to their children about their progress mckenzie which I cut in half spirit weeks Wildcat Fridays the Golden Ticket program and our monthly ROAR assemblies continue to energize our
students and staff special shout out to everyone who participated in our staff undercover spirit week what a blast we celebrated ReadAcross America with deemed spirit days and welcome community members and parents for readalongs throughout March thank you for helping
us spread the love of reading we were honored to host the National Honor Society students from Beckton FA and Lincoln schools who joined us for readalouds engaging activities thank you for your time and Wildcat Pride the
kindergarten concert was on April 2nd and it was a huge hit bravo to our talented performers and thanks to our amazing PTA ERPD we enjoyed the Lead VU assembly on April 10th the fun and educational event
focused on respect resilience communication tolerance and mindfulness great lessons for both staff and students and so you have it before you thank you all right superintendence report
thank you Madam President so as Mr barra had mentioned we're going to be discussing the 2526 school budget um as well as the New Jersey performance report that we received that was just recently released from embargo um so that we can share that with the public
um it will be posted on our district website after we review it with the board tonight um so the parents can view it as well um S1 which is the approval of the fire emergency drill which we didn't have at our last meeting which we now have the board will be looking at
that for passing of that resolution as well as the approval of uh HIV monthly reports we have seven um not all of them are bullying but we do have seven reports to res to discuss with the board this evening just so you know what that is all about okay and then also we have
under personnel we had our personnel actions which we had last month but we do have something that's new sorry last week um is P2 which is the approval of travel expenditures uh going over my report we have student enrollment
McKenzie school 383 has not budged stayed the same fa school 236 stayed the same lincoln school 173 also stayed the same total number 792 all of our fire drills uh were done for the month of April thanks to my
building principles um underneath uh long range facility plans mr barachi and I along with Mr abatisani is looking forward to the summer um and looking to implement a lot of the different facilities plans that we have coming up
in the near future um underneath let's see underneath um special education very brief report uh just grab it there real
quick okay CST members uh we're reminded that the extended school year for the 2025 has been scheduled at Miss McKenzie School and will run from July 7th to July 31st we're looking for Paris to step up if they would like to come and work um please make sure that um they
are resending their email to Dr king Dobson so that we can schedule them accordingly um invitations for students that are eligible for the extended school year will be sent out tomorrow which is Friday April 25th parentmies
that are still left in the district is May 8th a virtual session titled mental health is health uh which will be offered to all parents on May 21st a virtual session titled Protecting Tiny Teeth uh which is really interesting uh we we saw a preview of it i It was great
it was really nice will be presented to preschool parents uh which is another way of uh keeping up with our hygiene at such a young age for our youngest Wildcats um underneath curriculum instruction and updates um so uh the assistant superintendent curriculum
instruction student services working with middle school world language teachers to discuss professional development for the 2526 school year uh which is also included to meet with the math coaches to develop instructional framework for the 2526 school year as well as meeting with the science coach
as well for PD for the 2526 school year and that ends my report other than the data report any discussion no okay thank you Mr jean Casper i say we do the presentation and then
move on with the rest of the agenda how does that look at home how does that look it's kind of a delay so I want to be sure we don't saw it and people can't see it okay so we started our budget process
way back uh when we worked Mr vari and I I want to personally thank Mr vari for the hard work that he did uh along with the administrative team in preparing the 2526 school year budget um I will say publicly that the board uh was very good with trying to get us to making sure
that we were fiscally sound to our taxpayers out there as well as providing programs for our students our Wildcats here in um East Rutherford uh we did have our preliminary budget which was presented to the board which all of you have seen um nothing has changed since
then um and it was recently approved by the county superintendent on April 11th uh 2025 and that's why we are having our budget hearing today on April 2024 mr raj my turn uh before we begin I I want
to publicly thank the finance committee Mr banker Mr caruso Mr sanders for all your hard work your support the dialogue going back and forth and I would be uh remiss not to thank all of the board members for uh their support throughout this process it's not easy it's not an
easy process thankfully we're not one of those districts that have to make these massive cuts so thankfully and I will I will say publicly thank you to the board for supporting myself and Mr jan Caspro with this cuz like I said it's not an
easy decision to go above the tax levy so thank you so the district tax levy increase for the general fund is 3.25% i just want to remind everyone uh here and at home that that last year well the current year it was
4.9% so instead of 4.9 we're at 3.25 because we went 1 and a4% above the 2% threshold uh that was an increase of over $600,000 which will go a long way not just in the short term but also in
future budgets down the line the district tax levy increase for debt service this is for the referendum uh increase by $473,745 the district did utilize we were um fortunate enough to have an enrollment adjustment so to offset
um to help balance the budget I should say we utilize $232,25 of enrollment adjustment we did not go into the health waiver we did not use bank cap thankfully we did not have to go that far into all of our uh adjustments and waivers uh good thing we
didn't we did get an increase in state aid uh of 17.8% which equals $69,917 that's separate from preschool education aid cuz state aid is considered fund 10 preschool education aid is considered fund 20 we did receive
a substantial increase of 44.5% which equates to 264,732 uh a slight decrease in uh debt service aid from the state of $182 maintenance reserve uh we did
utilize $184,885,000 this was slightly above than the current budget by by about $20,000 to help balance the budget uh capital reserve we did take we did withdraw uh 1.1 million and the reason why is for the roof replacement at
McKenzie here at the board office the exterior door replacement project at fast and the media center change in use at McKenzie so that's where all that money is and I I just want to remind also the board that two of those projects are rod grants so what we
should get back from the state is about $275 $5,000 out of $686,000 so we will be getting some of the money back from those two uh roof projects use of surplus i have to thank our auditors they really have guided us
along this whole process uh this is $700,000 the goal um for everyone on the board is to slowly chip away at the use of surplus so that's the goal having the conversation with the auditors is little by little chip away at maybe try to do
$25,000 less or $50,000 less little by little to chip away at the use of surplus and it's to maintain the long range financial stability and the health of the district but the auditors are are very happy they're happy with our
reserves they are happy with how we are using the surplus to help uh bring forth this bud this uh budget uh continuation of instructional coaches in the areas of mathematics language arts science social studies and world languages with grant
and local funds hiring additional district staff to meet the district's expansion needs and finally district continues to increase student capacity and rigor while decreasing the placement of special education students in out of district private schools next one go to
you on that one so as we build the 2526 school budget we look at our current goals uh which we have which is building and supporting positive culture accountability for our students and staff curriculum instruction program and assessment as well as diversity and equity so from
that next during the summer the board members will get an email from me regarding the 2526 budget sorry 2526 school year and the goals and usually what we do is our goals are anywhere from 3 to five years and we try to continue with them because it takes time for us to develop those goals as we go
and we meet the needs of our of our students so this is something that we're looking at for the next school year so you'll see all the board members you'll see um most likely the end of July you'll get an email with something similar to this where you'll get some you'll give us some input on what you would like to see as a board and then
from there I take those goals your board goals put it into district goals then the district goals become building level goals and then it goes all the way down to our students which would be SGOs's right our performance so that's something that we continue starts with our board and goes all the way down Mr
you Mr jin Caspro so this is our breakdown of our 2526 budget by fund we have bund 10 our general fund is 22 22,684,312 i just want to go back to 2425 this is our total operating budget
is 22,615,493 it's only an increase of 3/10en of a percent so again thank you to the administration really thank you to the board for supporting us because of all of our efforts because we are mindful uh you know not to to be very
mindful of how the monies are spent we are very very mindful the local tax levy is 19,180,116 special revenue fund in the amount of 1,342,298 debt service we budgeted
2,213,758 of that from the local tax levy that is to help pay down the referendum is 1,448,995 so now when you look at the total base budget you're talking you're including fund 10 20 we don't have 30 but 40 is 26,240,368 as compared to the current
budget of 26,110,000 it's only an increase of 510 of half a percent so I'm very proud to present that to the board and for your support okay next is the annual tax levy
increase this is where we show fund 10 and fund 40 fund 10 uh this is where the board will uh vote on going above the 2% cap and the reason why we were able to do that is because of the enrollment adjustment uh by going up by
1.25% so from the current budget to next year's budget is an increase of over $600,000 uh the debt service fund there it's a difference of $473,745 next and this is uh your 10-year history
of the tax levy increases very similar to what you've seen in the past obviously last year it was 2015 i took that off uh as you can see times are changing uh unfortunately districts are facing very
tough decisions right now when it comes to the tax levy they are so again publicly I want to thank the board for their support for their communication back and forth and really if it wasn't for the board we wouldn't be able to do what we
do tax impact as a homeowner myself this is this is what I want to see the most important screen this is one of the most important screens so the actually the average assessed home value did increase last year I believe it was 461,000 this year is
509,000 that's the average assessed home value the increase for the year is $93 per year or $7.75 per month or 26 per day on an average assessed home of
$59,000 that's what it will cost it's less than what it was last year i think last year was over was maybe 110 120 something like that yeah so the so the increase is a lot less uh this
year than it was last year the next is a revenue comparison from 2425 as you see your tax levy tuition i want to point that out that's when before P school education
um came in we were actually collecting tuition we could no longer collect tuition so that's why you see that zero i don't want you to be alarmed but that's the reason why uh another thing is slight increase in rents and royalties uh miscellaneous we increased
it that's really interesting accounts one of our accounts is actually earning very good uh interest again I want to thank the board for supporting me in the decision to try to uh move the funds that we have to to
gain uh more interest semi unfortunately they changed the formula right Miss Collie you know this came out as a surprise to a lot of us they did change the formula and the so this is what
we'll expect for next year we did not expect this much of a decrease but uh we were able to pull it off as well as extraordinary aid instead you what the auditors want to see is that we don't depend on extraordinary aid And I was able to and some people think thought I
was nuts to bring it down $125,000 but I was committed to bring it down as much as possible the goal ladies and gentlemen of the board is to get extraordinary aid to zero because whatever we get from the state is like a bonus so that's what it is so uh most
recently we only received we received about 104 105,000 extraordinary aid the goal is to get that to zero if not by next year in in two years uh state aid went up uh let's see uh withdrawal from capital reserve those are the capital
projects that I talked about maintenance reserve went up slightly to help balance the budget budgeted fund balance uh our goal myself and Mr jen Caspro is to little by little start chopping that down the budgeted fund balance so that will be the goal and as you can see the
total operating budget from the current year to next year um is only an increase of 3/10en of a percent uh our special revenue fund has gone up uh let's see and then you have your debt service the tax le this is to pay off the referendum
that has gone up just for next year and let's see and pretty much everything else has been flatfunded and then when you look at the total budget when you bringing in fund 10 20
and 40 the budget only went up half a percent so I'm I'm very proud to present this to the board to the public and and again I can't thank the board enough for their support where's the pie chart there we
go all right so it's okay revenue where does it come from guess where it comes from ladies and gentlemen 73% of it comes from the tax levy and then the other 27% comes from debt service aid miscellaneous the tax levy that's for
the referendum special revenue fund budgeted fund balance you have your look at the withdrawal from maintenance and capital that's almost 5% state aid is at 4.7 and then we have miscellaneous so that is our revenue breakdown
and next is our appropriations well how how are we going to where where will the money be going pretty much how will the money be spent and you're going to see the pie chart how salaries and benefits take up a
large chunk but as you can see regular program instruction all the way you see special education you see bilingual instruction a lot of reason for the change the increase is is really is salaries salaries go up so that that's the reason
for that change uh let's see support services went down that's because you know pea helped us out we were able to move some positions from the general fund over to preschool uh what else do I want to
point out employee benefits yeah there it is 10% increase so that was budgeted uh almost $366,000 uh capital outlay we were able to break it down by almost $376,000 which is good charter schools
uh we have three students so I I budgeted for them let's see special revenue fund increased and the debt service fund decreased slightly and then the next one is who where does it all go
well you're looking at about 68.5% that's more than 23 of the budget is already spoken for in terms of salaries and employee benefits and then the other third goes everywhere else so
it's not a lot of money to disseminate when you have salaries and employee benefits we're This is not unique to us this is every school district and you see how it's broken down operations and maintenance instruction support services tuition administration
uh student that's student transportation capital outlay special revenue and debt service fund so that's where the money will be is is being allocated to so like like I said you're talking about over 23 of our money is earmarked between
salaries and benefits for full-time and part-time and um board members any questions got one discussion yeah yeah on that extraordinary aid yes great job reducing that by 71% um is there a negative
impact on anything with doing that no the auditors actually recommend that you you not rely on that money because what happens if let's say we were to budget 150,000 and we don't receive all that money now we're at a we're at a deficit got it so the goal is to get it to zero
so whatever we receive an extraordinary aid it's like a bonus perfect so I was and you could ask Mr jen Casper i was I was persistent i wanted to get it down i wanted to get it down i wanted to get it down so I got it down to 50,000 which was 125 grand that's all and our orders
are really good like they actually sit down it's almost like they school you as you're going through and they look at the pros and cons of the of the budget what we can do what's a what's not a good practice uh and we try to stay away from them i I have to say since I've been here um our auding firm that the board has hired is they're very good
they're very good they're knowledgeable they're pleasant to work with they they help teach us through things and new laws that are out there purchasing laws and I'm really really It's really a good company that we have and we actually did run this by the auditors when we were
looking at the revenues and they were they were very pleased with they were so happy they they were very pleased so just wanted to have a you know another set of eyes on it they said no we you're doing a great job and continue to do the work great work thank you you're welcome
thank you anybody else no um can I open up to the I'll um I will open to the public for questions or comments but only on the
finance on the budget only guess I could do that why not it's not a room full it's not a Okay scratch that okay I'll open to the public on agenda
items only you will have five minutes anybody wishing to speak will be given the opportunity to do so state your name address for the record none okay seeing none I close to public
comment on agenda items budget and agenda item yes okay so are we so then we vote on you SP12 no people want to go home okay Mr j thank you Madam President so uh first to
the board my apologies to getting this out so late um we had um an embargoed period of time which we weren't able to share it um but we did get information i was also waiting on Dr king Dobson u for her input on it as well um in her absence so we were just able to get this
out um I sent it out late probably the board members got like at 10:30 night like what is this text me email coming at 10:30 tonight but tried to get it out as quickly as I possibly could uh for you to review this is just basically going through the steps uh we're we are required to report out to the board um
about our school performance and this would be the 23 24 school year so not the current school year that we're in um and what we're looking at is we're looking at each of the individual schools we look at the district first overall all the demographic areas and
then we look at McKenzie Lincoln and then FA only thing is when we're looking at McKenzie school you got to keep in mind there's nothing to compare it to there's no growth that we're looking at we just either met the target or we didn't meet the target where in the other schools we can we can look at
growth um one of the things um that we pride ourselves in I I will tell you and I've shared this with the administrative team and among the teachers as well um we just have a really dynamite school district we we really do um from the board all the way down to you know down
to our custodial team our bus drivers our aids we we all pull it together and this was so evident in our QAC review um we hear it at our CQAC review we've heard it at the county level where you know they're constantly selling us ala
accolades of just how wonderful our district is doing um and why we were able to pass QAC is because the level of growth not just meaning the target like how much growth you have in any given area um and that's something that you know we when I say we I mean the
administrative team and I know and I know the board as well uh with the support that you've given us over the years so 10 years ago when I first came on uh it's totally a different district than what we have now um the teachers are like just incredible um they had cried
out for a lot of professional development which we were able to provide the teachers um our student body is totally different they're able to take different types of assessments um and how to take the assessments is really really important understanding what to how to answer a test right how to answer it how to approach a question
um that are now our tests our regular everyday tests pretty much mirror our state assessment because we really want the children to to start getting used to that type of testing so that when they're in the moment they're like "Oh my goodness they don't panic and they're able to get through it right so trying
to build that build that up and that stamina in our students." So we are a very diverse school district with different student body right that that's a broader demographic and our demographic is changing all throughout the state of New Jersey so our job as educators and administrators and boards of education is to move with the punches
right and just move with the time so our student teacher ratio remains the same um and we're really ensuring the intention of you know across McKenzie school Lincoln school and th school and we've always heard that you know East Rutherford is a transient district we have families that come in and come out and come in and come out that's what
makes East Rutherford so unique you know and it makes it you know a place to work a place to educate your children uh which is really really nice we do have um special populations so we look at not only of our demographic areas but we're also looking at students with disabilities we're looking at English language learners and then our targeted
groups um that we look at so the teacher's focus is this not on just passing content it's really understanding who our children are educating the whole child so that's the one of the hardest jobs our teachers have um but I will tell you from at
least the moment that I've been superintendent the teachers have been been very receptive they've been very receptive to change sometimes it's hard change is hard for everyone change is hard for me change is hard for our administrative team you know it's it's just the way it is but because of the unique um dynamic that we have as
educators it really reaps the benefits of showing this in our students our students and how well they're doing so again we're focusing on academic growth which is balanced in our social emotional learning and we're looking at meeting the target which is set by the state right as well as growth so to
focus on growth is what we're really looking at so I'm going to take us through these are indicators um if I were to show you all of the individual detail the the individual um data I would probably bore you to death but I do have that so if any of the board
members want to see that please come to my office i will show you the thick packet of individual data that we have and I'm more than willing to share that with anybody so basically right now is what we're looking to do and this is another reason why we pass Qstack so we're trying to meet the target so when
we look at growth it's anything above 60 60% to 99% that's where we want to be in growth and that's where East Rutherford is is being looked at and shared among my colleagues at least um at at roundts that we have so you can see where we
exceeded um the standard in um in ma in language arts literacy and in mathematics so that's showing district-wide all the demographic areas right all of those areas we have exceeded it which is really nice to see the blue we always want to be in the
blue that's that's our goal right um then we look at target did we meet the state target now what our goal is and the board parents at home may say "Oh we're green this is great state it's not good enough we want to be at the 80
percentile that's where we want 80% to 100% that's our goal so when we look at this remember what I said to the board over the last year it's a 3 to 5 year projection so we're trying to do it within three years that's what we're looking at the teachers have been working a lot right the administrative
team working a lot our paras are working our parents are working so it's it takes an army it really takes an army so this is where we are districtwide as meeting the state right moving right along let's look at Mackenzie School okay so when we
look at McKenzie School don't get nervous right don't get nervous when you see this okay we're not nervous we have we have a game plan as we're moving forward so let's look at mathematics right now mathematics were at 46.6% when we met the state we're all not happy when we say we I can say that
administrative team the teachers right we want more than that we want the blue but we are working hard on trying to get this to the 80 percentile um remember now in math sometimes the math dips not be just because of computation because it's
language in the math right so we're looking at like long like um problem solving you know all of the the language part of it that we're we're we're really working hard with we're looking as a school district to pull children more into small group instruction to be able to give that one-on-one attention to our
students that need it i've also not boring our students that are advanced and and and can can go beyond go beyond so what do we do with this so just oops just to give you some data points here so math performance okay in mathematics
is 46.6% of the students are at or above the state standards slightly exceeding the state max minimum of 40.2 too so even though we're above it we're still not happy right we we want we want more but still we're below the aspirational
goal of the 80% and this is this is I pretty feel comfortable saying this across the Southern Bergen County that when I speak to my superintendent colleagues we're all in the same boat on this so we're trying to really work hard on this um so again we're trying to strengthen numeracy right that's that's
what we're looking to do ela concerns only 42% um of the McKenzie school students met or exceeds expectations in English language arts and which places us below the state of 52.1% right so this is something that we have in there
we're we're being very transparent and this is what the board always holds us accountable for be transparent right this is what we're working with we're working with the population of students that need assistance we are providing that assistance as we go through now one of the biggest things as we start tracking this is we look at I've said
this at parent teacher conferences I've said this at back to school nights it's important that our students are in school because when we look at chronic absenteeism rates right and we look at and we share it across the curriculum right and we across the demographics
when students are out there there's there's regression right so we try to do that now we understand parents keep their children home they're sick no of course we don't want your children here sick right and then that's not we want them to be at their optimal state right making sure that they're healthy being able to have the stamina to get through a school day
that's what we're looking for so what's the the strategic focus so when we look at ELA and the proficiency gap we're looking at targeted intervention we're looking at those skills right comprehension inferencing skills word attack skills vocabulary pulling those
students that are struggling a little bit more instead of once or twice a a week three to five times a week in small group instruction and the teachers are great with this they're working really hard but again we do have some obstacles right we're trying to work we're making sure that that homeschool connection is
there so whatever our teachers are working hard with our students in the classroom parents are picking up from where the teachers left off and then send those children back to us the next day so that there's you know continuity within instruction right it just doesn't stop at the end of the school day and then pick up again the next morning it
it's continuum so I do want to publicly thank our parents um we have a great set of parents here across across the district who will reach out to our teachers who will reach out to our building principles and say well how can I help my child how can I do this how can I do that um especially at parent teacher conferences the information that
I'm getting back from my building principles saying you know we're getting some good feedback um if there is some feedback where we need some improvement it's shared shared with the teacher the teacher shares it with the building principal principles share it with uh Dr king Dobson and I and then we start looking at ways that we could adjust our
instruction um and the types of assessment that we're using um with our children um moving right along over at Lincoln school Lincoln school 75 really like close to that 80% 60 we're over over and and this is exceeds so we're
exceeding in growth 60 to 99 at Lincoln school and 67 um% which where we are over in mathematics so what we're looking at and and parents have you know reached out and had shared and I think some of the board members had shared this with us as well is like well when
we're tracking data are we tracking student data or are we are we tracking instruction right because what we try to do is we try to focus on where our third grade students are then next year they're fourth grade and the next year they're fifth grade so we're trying to attract that and we're trying to figure
out like so when they're going from third grade at McKenzie school and maybe they're just under meeting the target but yet when they get to Lincoln school they're excelling like what is it like what is it is it the curriculum is it the content is it the framework of
the assessment so these are the healthy discussions that we have amongst the administrative team trickling down to our teachers because our teachers I mean they're front line they're on the front line so if they're going to know anybody's going to know they're going to know right so and they'll be able to trickle back up to us so that we can provide them with professional
development um and and keep moving forward so again Lincoln School did quite well in growth and met targets okay so they met target again 66.4 49% excellent right are we happy no ask my teachers no they're not we want 80% we
want 80 or better and we're striving every single day to do that so at Lincoln School here are some of the highlights so again it's consistent improvement in mathematics raising proficiency over the past year remember this is year two we're going to go next year's year three and then we reconfigure again so it's every threeear
cycle as we go through because there are curriculum changes right there's there's different standards that are assessed we're looking at we're looking at how it's placed on an assessment what's assessed um and we do have a seat at the table uh at our curriculum consortium meetings that we have uh one of the
things too that I I I pride myself in is that I'm able to sit at the governance relations committee which is at the state level so we get to hear it right from the governor's office first so that if I hear something it's coming out i'm going to share that with all of you as a board um ELA scores are on par with
state averages and targeted reading in uh initiatives grow uh driving growth so we're constantly seeing that growth movement um attendance rates at Lincoln School have improved and again that's why I said there's a direct correlation to chronic absenteeism and test scores
right and not only just state assessment like we don't wait for the state assessment our teachers are seeing it if even on our day-to-day assessments where if a child's not in right or if they're not really working at home on the content they're not really passing right so we're trying to work with them work with parents to getting them to
understand that how important it is to make sure that your children um number one are healthy of course and of course coming to school uh and our community engagement which we're we're constantly doing with parentmies i would love and I say this publicly please parents come to our parentmies they are really really good my staff really works hard um along
with our PTA I know PTA is in our in our in our audience today uh this evening you know which a really nice um marriage nice marriage for lack of better words right uh on how we can help raise our test scores foul school so again this is
growth growth look we're in the blue we are in the blue and and again I'm going to say this and I'll say it again over the last 10 years this is not the same district our test scores are moving okay slow and steady right slow and steady but you know we've had that we've
changed tests remember we changed the format of tests then we had COVID we were coming out right before CO we were a trajectory moving up and then all of a sudden co CO hit and we plummeted now we're back up again so anybody who's been with me for 10 years we know it's been up and down up and down we're trying to maintain that that that slow
steady increase as we go through with not overwhelming our students because our students get very overwhelmed right so we try not to focus on the test scores but we try to focus our students on you did a really good job and I just had this conversation with one of my principles today Mr
valardi and it's important for students to know and see this because think about it if you're playing baseball right and you're getting up to bat you want to know what your batting average is right you want to know how many more times do I have to go to the batting cages right to to to work hard so I think data is important as long as it's introduced to
our students gingerely right saying it's okay you're okay we're here we're going to move further we're going to keep working hard as long as it's like no our scores are low you got no you can't do that right so it's important to become that that the students are part of the process part of the process and then
again met the target 72.1% how close are we in ELA right really really close and we had some struggles at the middle school right mrs barley and her team have worked really really hard you know trying to work in content areas especially in language arts literacy and mathematics and in some of the other
areas like Spanish and and in and and and um science and history or social studies we're also looking at the piece of how math correlates with science and how language correlates with social studies so it's it's one big big machine
so here are some of the highlights so a foul school was showing growth especially particularly in ELA the median growth percentile of 66% indicating there is progress faster than the academic steer appears of the state so those are some of the things that we do and we have these conversations among
superintendents as well when we round tables we're always talking um about just where our students are and how we can help each other as superintendent to move our students numbers up to a higher level growth um also exceeds the state standard at 62 showing consistent instructional effectiveness the growth
score suggests that overall proficiency might vary but the rate of improvement and that's something that we had shared that I had shared with you uh the focus moving forward is building and maintaining growth constantly seeing growth because with growth you will see the set uh the the target being met if
we we don't ever want to see no growth that is a huge huge red flag because as long as our students are growing we're good we're going and and and it's something that you know uh like I said the county office sees us doing and and again gives us a pat on the back so
kudos to my teachers administrative team thank you board for assisting us with this um okay so the district has improved uh in student attendance maintaining a uh did I did this already hold on one second yep that's a repeat that's all I have any question
i have a question do you and I think I know the answer to this so for the growth on the the charts so for fourth grade that's showing growth from third to fourth it's tracking the same student we're track we're tracking and we and if you remember Jillian if you remember um in October when we do the that actually
has the trends so we're able to track them because we just have to be careful because data is great but if you're not using data correctly you're going to get a number that's not good and then we're going to be doing the wrong thing right so what we try to do is we look at the individual grade level to see how our
teachers are instructing and what we can do as administration to provide heavy duty professional development to make them feel comfortable but then again we track our students just to see how they're how they're doing in language arts literacy and mathematics so yes absolutely and then my other question is
regarding the ELA so I know I think this is this year the first year of that new phonics program yes what grades are currently utilizing that it's It's uh kindergarten no first grade second grade third grade at the elementary not Not third not third i'm
sorry yeah no absolutely yes it's not third grade another great program that we used like way back when so it does like you know the phonics first does feed into that okay um and now being almost a full year into phonics first again thank you um it
really is a great program I do think that um the students have growth and I've seen like the tangible positive impact on their okay and what we were trying to do is
because we had the words their way which is intense and then we just felt that the phonics program wasn't up to par where it needs to be to to to marry those two personally myself I've seen a huge difference just from one child to another with the new program but I just um but we won't see the effects of that
i was just wondering they say about three years and three years is a long time yeah yeah yeah but I just didn't know where that fell right and on this uh when we're looking at year over year because I know we're doing step by step to get to 80 percentile which does feel like a mile
away um it might be good to show where where we've come from yeah so maybe there's we look at next years we can see you know what the previous five years were and the growth that we've done incrementally to get there and I think it's good for the minister for the staff to understand
where their schools stacking up year over year absolutely absolutely and that's part were you with us Mr sanders in September October no you so no so that part of it so I agree with you so we do we we will do that with our individual test scores from the year before here we we there it's a little
different it's the way it's it's set but I could show you the actual individual pieces for each of the building but yes I agree with you 100% because this way at least our teachers know and our administrators know hey well this is where we came from here's the increase well why is it such a little increase from this year what happened like you
know absolutely 100% 100% it's easier to forecast it that way yeah on that note as well are we comparing us to the previous years in terms of how successful we've been with growth and assessments because in comparison to the previous years while we're doing a tremendous job in keeping
in the blue and exceeding standards overall it there is a big discrepancy between the 2022 to 2023 reports to this year i do have one thing a big decrease talking to Mr vach one thing I would say though just in
looking at that is if there was a big jump from 2021 to 2022 you might not expect as big of a jump i didn't look so I'm just saying like no that that's but I will tell you to answer your question it's an excellent question so the the thing is let me just pull it up so you can just see it one more time view
slideshow so for this part here for foul school and and Lincoln school it's been a consistent growth growing up mckenzie school has been a slight dip slight dip from last year to this year but because like one of our teachers just said we changed the
phonics program so next year's comparison uh Miss Man to your point is going to be like right on the mark because we'll be able to see now one year with the new Fox program into a second year and to track those students to see if the growth is there so yes I
agree with you 100% 100% yep i think one other thing to consider and and track or look at you know I I think there's some um uh with the with the prek coming in and kind of having that under our house that we should see some behavior
development and things that are going to impact testing because we we know we're we're we're grooming you know we're building them from ground up right so I would be curious to see what McKenzie does just because of that as as a year or two goes by absolutely and and we I think we had mentioned it we mentioned
this in an administrative core meeting we said like now that we have these children earlier right we're able to intervene very quickly so if there's something with reading that we have to pick up on or mathematics or where the confusion is you know where we'll able to pick up on it right oh absolutely 100% and that's that's agreed upon the
total administrative team and I know our teachers would say the exact same thing absolutely i just have one other question about the chronic absenteeism so I think last year it's definitely progressively going down but it was still at like 11% is there are you noticing a decrease already this year from last year and is there any
like steps that we're putting in place to help that it's been steady it's been steady but I do know that each of the building principles have an attendance committee that they work on at the teacher level and then trying to give them incentives for children to come to school and to do these things but sometimes it's hard you know we try to
tell the parents to get them to come to school it's hard we we we we try to but then again because we do not that I'm blaming anything but we do have a transitional this in and out kind of thing so we do look at that if if students are out for a longer period of time we do take them off of enrollment
and then we if they and then we have the parents reregister them because everything affects numbers it's just it's sad but it's like all about numbers and it shouldn't be about numbers should be about our children right but unfortunately we're held accountable to numbers so yes we do and we do meet and the and the building principles will
notify me if they see any dramatic change notify us and then we convene as an administrative team yep anybody else no yes thinking about it
maybe the wheels are turning no okay okay thank you Mr jean Caspro my pleasure okay so we're going to do SP1 in SP2 okay uh so I need a motion
to adopt uh SP1 the adoption of the 2025 2026 school budget and SP2 adoption of maximum travel expenditures for the 2025
2026 school year so move second doesn't matter okay Irene second it okay so we'll do the roll call for Okay okay Miss Caruso yes miss Collie
yes miss Mena yes mr sanders yes miss Shmley yes mr banker yes and Miss Laruso yes now we'll do SP2 hey Miss Caruso yes miss Collie yes miss Mena yes mr sanders yes miss Chmley
yes banka yes miss Laruso yes both motions pass 70 um okay so moving on with our agenda correspondence to members of the board we had a letter from the ACLU on
4925 and I have a walk-on um later this afternoon we received an email from the ERA um adoption of prior board meeting minutes upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves
the following meeting minutes uh March 13 2025 work session meeting minutes march 13 2025 work executive session meeting minutes march 18th 2025 public session meeting minutes
so moved second i don't know which one we're doing second any discussion roll call miss Caruso yes miss Collie yes miss Mena yes mr sanders yes to March 13th
and abstain to March 18th thank you okay shmley yes mr banker yes and Mr louso yes uh superintendent resolutions upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves motions S1
through S3 s1 approval of fire and emergency drill report s2 appro approval of enrollment report and S3 approval of harassment intimidation and bullying monthly
report oh anything dis any discussion yes so if you look up on the screen there was a lastm minute change so if you look if you're looking at your hard copy it's going to be different so just to recognize for the board it's two alleged at one verified Lincoln school zero two
verified and McKenzie 3 zero verified so that's the change different than what's in here it was a last minute change that we couldn't get out they're all going to be discussed tonight i have them all here but just so the numbers are slightly off that's all and this is just approval of the report
itself not the individual correct correct correct i just want to make sure that you know what you're reason yep okay any discussions no roll call miss Caruso yes
miss Collie yes miss Mana yes mr sanders yes miss Shley yes mr banker yes laruso yes all right curriculum committee miss Shamley thank you Madame President uh upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves
motion C1 c1 approval of student field trips and transportation requests for the 2024 2025 school year second any discussion
roll call miss Caruso yes molly yes miss Mena yes mr sanders yes Miss Shamley sorry yes Mr banker yes and Miss Laruso yes thank you Miss Shley concludes my report
uh personnel committee Miss Caruso thank you M madam President upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves P1 personnel actions and P2 approval of travel expenditures second
discussion roll call miss Caruso yes miss Collie yes miss Mena mr sanders yes miss Shmley yes mr banker yes and Mr louso yes and that ends my report Madame President
thank you okay uh physical facilities committee Mr sanders thank you Madam President upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves PF1 through PF2 pf1 approval of monthly facility
calendar May 2025 pf2 approval of district use of facility applications second any discussion roll call miss Caruso yes miss Collie yes miss Mena mr sanders yep miss Shmley
yes mr banker yes and Miss Larusa yes that concludes my report thank you Mr sanders okay community relations Miss Collie thank you Madam President upon the recommendation of the superintendent the
board hereby approves motion CR1 and CR2 cr1 Administrative Professionals Week acknowledgement cr2 Teacher Appreciation Week acknowledgement and I'm assuming we vote on this first and then I will read them the acknowledgements yes want me to read
them now can read them first sure okay be it resolved uh upon the recommendation of the superintendent in schools the East Rutherford Board of Education approves the following resolution honoring administrative assistant secretarial clerical and bookkeeping personnel and proclaim
proclaiming the week of April 21st 2025 as administrative professionals week whereas the East Rutherford Board of Education administrative assistant secretarial clerical and bookkeeping staff members have successfully served the East Rutherford public schools its administration faculty and student body
in the daily performance of their duties and whereas the East Rutherford Board of Education administrative assistant secretarial clerical and bookkeeping staff members have faithfully and unselfishly carried out their duties in an exemplary manner to the benefit of our students and the community and whereas the East Rutherford Board of
Education wishes to formally recognize and honor every administrative assistant secretarial clerical and bookkeeping staff member for their personal dedication now therefore be it resolved that the week of April 21st 2025 is hereby proclaimed administrative professionals week for the purpose of
providing public recognition and appreciation for the contributions that the administrative assistant secretarial clerical and bookkeeping staff members to the East Rutherford School District in the performance of their duties [Music] and CR2 teacher appreciation week be it
resolved that the East Rotherford Board of Education approved the following resolution pro proclaiming the week of May 5th 2025 as teacher appreciation week whereas America's greatest strength has always been an educated citizenry and whereas that educated citizenry is the directly is directly attributable to
our system of free and universal public education that provides an educational opportunity for all students and whereas the foundation upon which that system of public schooling rests in the classroom teacher and whereas the classroom teacher is challenged daily to reach out to every student regardless of ability
interest in learning social or economic background physical mental or emotional handicap race religion creed or ethnic origin to provide assistance and guidance necessary for full intellectual development and whereas the classroom teacher is key to the intellectual and occupational preparation of our
individual citizens who collectively determine the quality of life in America and in our communities and whereas the work of the classroom teacher immeasurably affects the future lives of all students and whereas the classroom teacher deserve the deepest respect and admiration of citizens of our communities now therefore be it resolved
that the East Rutherford Board of Education hereby proclaims teacher appreciation week on May 5th 2025 for the purpose of providing public recognition and appreciation for the dedication and contributions of the classroom teacher not only to our communities as a whole but to each of us
individually as citizens any discussion um just wanted to say thank you to administration and faculty it's great to see is there is there a color for Cincoa that we should support the teachers with
[Laughter] i don't know we should I'd wear it but thank you you're welcome sorry discussion [Laughter] okay yes um I would like to you know
personally thank um all our administrative professionals and all of our teachers their hard work does not go unnoticed um so I'd like to personally thank each and every staff member for
all their hard work roll call miss Caruso yes miss Collie yes miss Mena yes mr sanders yes miss Shmley yes mr banker yes mr russo yes and that concludes my report thank you
Miss Collie uh technology committee I know there's no new business is there anything to report this month thank you Madam President information security program plan the district continues to proactively evaluate all appropriate district technologies to
ensure the safety and security of our data and information systems planning of scheduled maintenance and improvements for the 2425 school year is ongoing including meetings with our consultant to schedule scans and testing protocols are continuing to be updated to best meet the security needs of the district
and scans are nearing completion ai and programming initial conversations are ongoing as to the scope in which the district may look to embrace the tools so commonly found in today's landscape as the conversations deepen stakeholders will be engaged to provide valuable insights and feedbacks in terms of the
expectations as we navigate this dynamic landscape budgeting for the 2526 school year is nearing completion initial meetings were held to discuss all anticipated purchases renewals and so on to support district infrastructure programming and technology needs as we
progress through the budget cycle the technology team continues to ensure that the technology and support needs for all district and staff are considered when evaluating items and services for purchase the 2425 school year sees a continuation of the annual technology fee to help support technology programs
within the district all students throughout the district will need the fee to be satisfied alongside their acceptable use and damage agreements in order to use and take possession of district owned technology the district has added Pay School central as a payment servicing provider for these fees and parents are encouraged to
create accounts for all district financials if they have not done so already fees will continue in future school years to best support the growing technology needs of the district the district continues to use Genesis to share and collect data from families through the forms portal to allow for
efficient and paperless communications forms are updated annually to account for new information the addition of parent square has has been a welcomed one and we look to better communicate with all community members if you have not already done so we encourage you to download the app for even more features
the district continues to evaluate varying technology platforms to help support productivity efficiency and instruction within the district and lastly the district continues to evaluate policies and procedures related to appropriate technologies to help support productivity efficiency and instruction and that concludes my report
Madam President thank you any discussion okay thank you Miss Mena uh finance committee uh Mr banka thank you Madam President upon the recommendation of the
superintendent the board hereby approves motions F1 through F12 f1 approval of bills list April 2025 f2 approval of March 2025 payroll f3 approval of semi initiative corrective action plan for
2025 2026 f4 approval of professional services maximum amounts for the 2025 2026 school year f5 appointment of the public employer trust agreement for East Rutherford vision plan for the 2025 2026 school year f6 approval of financial
reports for February 2025 f7 approval of transfers report for February 2025 f8 approval of financial reports for March 2025 f9 approval of transfer report for March
2025 f10 approval to amend F5.2 two as approved as November 14 2024 board meeting for extraordinary services for the 2024 2025 school year f11 approval of 2024 2025 statement of insurance
submission for lead drinking water f12 approval for of early registration for NJSBA workshop 2025 second any discussion roll call
miss Caruso yes miss Collie yes miss Mena yes mr sanders yes mr shmley yes mr banker yes and Miss Laruso yes that concludes my report madam thank you
um any old business any new business uh so at this time I will reopen to public comment opening public comments on any um non-aggenda items state your name address for the record address the
board president each person wishing to speak will have five minutes each anyone wishing to speak will be given the opportunity to do so hello Kevin Lion here speaking on behalf of our East Rutherford PTA um I just wanted to bring you up to date on all of
the exciting activities that the PTA is up to as my daughter recently reminded us or me uh we have less than eight weeks left in this school year so it's coming to a close and there are a lot of we spend a lot of the beginning of the year earning money for PTA we spend a
lot of the end of the year spending money for the PTA our responsibility is to spend the money that our community graciously donates through all of our causes so we do have a few fundraising programs still going on our spring spiritware ended on April 8th but spiritware is always available on our
website uh our shoe collection continues that will continue now through the month of May uh we have 40 bags of 25 pairs of shoes each we need about 90 to make our goal uh we'll have upcoming events in May for more collection uh events and uh
we've removed I believe two of them i think we're going to get all three of those collection bins from the school we feel we've exhausted the parents in asking them to send their kids in with shoes uh but we'll be putting them in public places like the uh local library or local businesses that have agreed to
help collect on our behalf um our biggest fundraiser of the year is coming up on May 9th that is our Tricky Tray we started it last year it was a huge success we're looking forward to it being a similar success this year we've had a lot of prizes donated by local businesses our community members uh town
services including our fire and police departments and also our schools and teachers i believe we have a prize for uh lunch with the principal and you know ride in a firet truck or all kinds of things like that so there's going to be a lot of prizes um and tickets are on
sale they can be found at the PTA website we keep posting on our Facebook page and also on the ERBOE website in the virtual backpack section under the PTA uh logo you will find the flyer with the link for the um tickets for that tickets are on sale again for the May
9th Tricky Try oh my goodness all of the activities that we're doing we had the uh last month I reported about the McKenzie School pot of gold St patrick's Day coin challenge miss Alkalit Alkalites class raised the most money they chose to have a cookie decorating
party and Steph's baking boutique in town here was kind enough to provide those cookies this week so either yesterday today or tomorrow they'll hopefully be decorating their cookies um McKenzie School also because Miss Gomez the school counselor had recommended a
character education assembly called lead you um it focused on respect resilience communications tolerance and mindfulness and it was a great lesson for both the teachers and the students we co-sponsored that with our police department and I believe Mr barrow had posted some pictures on the X feed the
Twitter ERSD feed so if you want to check that out there are some pictures out there um upcoming events with Mrs uh Derovich had recommended a grit on the- go assembly with a company called Grit Ninja uh that's co-sponsored between our PTA and our Lincoln and FA schools it
will be hosted on June 11th for grades four through seven i think grade 8 has a field trip that day so they won't be able to attend um and it's basically physical education lessons and a ninja style obstacle course that they will set up um and then we also do our annual
Holly Rock Entertainment it's a game show quiz show kind of format for the um third grade through 8th grade that's after the NJSLA kind of as a okay you got through it here's your you know here's a little fun day for you and we do that May 23rd which is the Friday of
uh Memorial Day weekend when they have a half day uh third through fifth grade will have an earlier session one session and then they'll do another session for our sixth to 8th grade later that morning um and then we're also planning all of our endofear moving up uh ceremonies and parties so the eighth
grade will have their formal at the fiesta held in June i believe it's June 12th but I don't know the exact date i I think that's when it was and the PTA school reps are working with our principles and administration to set up celebrations for both our third graders and our fifth graders who will move to
the new schools next year um we've been coordinating with the art teachers Mrs masher and Mrs spear for our field day t-shirt design contest this is where the students get to design the emblem or the logo that will be on their t-shirt for for field day uh entries will be
submitted by the end of this week uh and we'll go through them and select the winners those winners will get a a small ribbon or trophy and a cake and cone gift card as a thank you for their design and we will this year do a separate t-shirt design for each school so the FAA winner will do the FA
t-shirts the Lincoln winner will have all the Lincoln t-shirts and the Mackenzie winner will do all the Mckenzie shirts uh and then for field day we provide not only that custom t-shirt but I believe we also do water bottles as well as other items for the kids and I believe for the middle school we do or FA Lincoln we do an ice cream
or Kona ice truck for that day uh we just announced the Beckton scholarship so students at Beckton High School who are graduating this year can apply for the East Rutherford PTA scholarship uh it is on our ER erbo website directly on
the PTA page uh it's also available from the school guidance department um and it's for any graduating senior who has spent at least three years in the East Rutherford School District from pre or K to 8 uh grade and applications are due May 9th and the scholarship will be awarded at the June 7th Beckton
scholarship uh ceremony and our eighth grade committee has their spring hangout and dance it's the second to last dance before the formal uh this Friday April 25th so we're asking for volunteers who would like to attend or would like to help with uh that activity as chaperoons
and I know you mentioned uh Mrs collie about the uh administrative professionals and the teachers but I also want to point out that this week also April 21st to 26 is volunteer appreciation week and of course PTA thanks all of our parents and teachers
and staff who volunteer for all of our activities and join us pta from national New Jersey level state level and local level is run by volunteers we truly appreciate all our volunteers in addition to our administrative professionals and our teachers and staff
thank you any anyone else um I just wanted to say I'm I'm at Mackenzie's school and I really wanted to um say to Mr varra and the board and anyone who is listening that we were really affected by Mr guy's passing we I
want um I want his family to know that we were really we are missing him and exactly what you said his smile he he would go running for anyone or anything and he really um kept our school nice so
please pass that along i couldn't um have heard that said something so thank you i will close to public public comments um at this time we'll adjourn to what can I just ask one quick thing i'm sorry
um it just it brought it up when Mr lamb was speaking can we check the date of the eighth grade graduation because I think it's the same day as our board meeting now i believe I think they were I went to put it in the calendar and I thought they were both the same day but I could have put it in wrong so I just wanted to check it before we get too
close it is but I some reason there was an email that Yeah I thought that there was an email that went out about band that I think said the 12th was the eighth grade eighth grade graduation that's why I just wanted to make sure could have been the date was incorrect
in the email so yes I just wanted to give you the advanced notice to check it so that we have two months out at least so we have time to You did it's okay though i'm just How much stuff is like on the June agenda that could we just do it the
May the May is the most important because that's all the contracts as to teachers you know all the placements and May is much more important than Yeah i just wonder if we need to go before the end if we do we can move it to Tuesday and do the
third week of Yeah are you I can't come on a 10th but if everyone else is here it's not a big deal right now I mean so like I mean do we need to do
we want right that would be an actual board meeting saying don't have the work session no just keep the only do the 26 like Yeah yeah
no I'm just asking if we I don't care either way anybody said I think we'd rather all have one meeting I think than two if we had to go but I don't want to speak for everybody when But when the 12th is the work session or the
public is the work session so when is the regular one when's the 26th was it was conflicting with something else we had changed it it was changed and it just conflicted everything okay don't worry man
okay 26 is fine 26th i'm not I'm not I'm not here that week cuz my daughter's Oh that week we can Okay well then that poses another question if we move it make it happen if the board's okay with
it i up to you guys i would if we're only doing one meeting because if board members have questions and whatnot I would prefer you to be
sitting here um so the 10th is not past that we don't have a lot of content in our agenda say are we going to have enough for the 10th yeah there's not much and just keep on
meeting just do one meeting on the 10th just do it on the 10th that's fine 10th's good one meeting on the 10th one meeting it's six days before the last day of school anyway last day of school
remember we're into the valuation stuff that That's a Yeah because so then you know we can do the 10th and the 10 it wasn't you i thought about it the other day but it just reminded me while
it I'm not sure yet so let me So we can do the 10th as a work session and then the 26th as our public we'll just make sure we have any hardcore questions yes in That's smart that's smart before you know yep before then and then that way
it's evaluation time then at least we have the two meetings to do the evaluation uh 10th is a Tuesday yes i don't think I have anything so the 10th becomes a work session yes so the 10th will be our work
session and the 26th will be our public session six o'clock 6 o'clock board work [Music] session then the 26 okay primary is it
primary day on June 10th everybody just go out and vote early monday the 23rd the 26th or the 24th or the 23rd or the 23rd and we keep one session make an earlier debt so is that what you
saying miss yeah keep move the 26th the 23rd or 24th okay and that way we can whatever the 23rd or the 24th and then Mr ger come we can do one session
as opposed to doing the two okay everybody the 23rd or 24th 24th is a the Tuesday i can't do the 24th but I can do the 23rd 23rd is she said she can't do
Monday i can't do the 23rd but I'm good for either one of those dates so okay so who can't be here on the 23rd just Ireina right you can't do the 24 so
either way Monday or Tuesday i can do the 25th he's not here oh oh okay you're just trying to work around okay so I think we're good on either one of those dates we only We're missing one person so you pick
[Laughter] well pick a date out of a hat it's fine one session yes okay i can check it beckton's June meeting is on the 25th so it doesn't conflict not to throw a wrench doesn't
that a wrench because we recently got our our leadership date but we didn't know before this but May 15th which is a Wednesday Sharon and me are not here because we're at the leadership conference in May in Atlantic City 15
161 17 unless you just have the one in May or just have it without me or Sharon as long as there's a quorum you could still have a meeting 14th no the 14th 15th 16th we're not here oh
is the 21st may 21st may is the lunch no good what was you say the 13th did you say the 13th the 12th not neither am I 12th
the 12th the 12th it's tough because you're getting sports yeah but the 15th is Tom you could they could still have the board meeting without me as long as you're have a quorum right and you're here and the board president i mean as long as I'm It's only a work session right on the minutes i mean I don't want to stop the
board hold up the board we're down we probably could but it's the work it's the work session so nothing's being voted on right all right so the most important one is the 22nd because we're not voting on
anything on the work session for May anyway for staff so I mean plenty of time to figure this out yes yeah i would just Okay
15th yep so yeah let's not go it's not changing so June No the 12 26 and we're doing the 23rd mhm right okay monday yes this way
i'll have um I'll have sunshine but do we still want to have the work session on the 10th so like if we're going into evaluations it's primary day oh primary day okay so then we really have to have
that evaluation like submitted because then I think it's a lot yeah so that's the only concern one board meeting in June on Monday the
23rd at 6 yes monday the 25th yep yes oh we're replacing the 12 it will be a work session the 26th is being moved to the 23rd public session i'll make it happen
i'll make it happen we'll figure it don't worry we're good we'll be here don't worry i got I got the We'll make it happen okay thanks exactly all right so at this time I think I'm
going to adjourn to executive session um there's going to be no action right no action taken when we return correct no action okay um resolved that in accordance with
section 8 of the open public meetings act chapter 231 the board has the authority to adjourn to close session to discuss matters pertaining to legal personnel negotiations attorney client privilege andor student matters said
matters will be made available upon the determination by the board that the disclosure of the minutes will not detrimentally affect any right or interest of the board the board expects to
return to the business portion of this meeting in approximately um we have what did I hit negotiate h HIV negotiations negotiations it'll be relatively quick i got some information on some litigation a quick
update on the ERA have that contract signed tonight um those will be very quick okay but I think we're probably still looking at an hour and a half i was going in an hour and a half too but those you got two personnel matters
so to discuss i mean you want to say an hour or we go so I I'm going with the hour and a half yeah so I don't make the call you guys I'm gonna say an hour and a half to two hours well pick a You
don't want to cut You don't want to come out early and close the meeting right so I We'll go with an hour and a half and Okay i don't know if we're going to make What you want to go no no go no go ahead sorry say it want to say an hour yeah
say an hour and then we'll Okay we'll return okay we'll return in 60 minutes motion second second favor i Anybody oppose
okay all right 740 we're going to remain in executive session for another 30 minutes a motion to return to the regular order of business second all in favor all in
okay so motion to adjurnn but before we do that the next meeting will be held on Thursday May 15th at 6 PM okay motion to adjurnn
second all in favor i any opposed meeting adjourned is that you were taking those