Good evening everybody and welcome to a regularly scheduled meeting of the East Windsor Regional School District. Written advanced notice of this meeting was provided at least 48 hours ago. Such notice provided the time, date, and location of this meeting and included the agenda to the extent it was
known at the time. Notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with law. Minutes of this meeting are being kept by the board secretary and will be made available promptly to any member of the public requesting them from the board secretary at 28A Leon Lane Heightstown, New Jersey. Minutes
will be provided at cost in accordance with board policy. Are there any board members present who believe this meeting to be in violation of the open public meeting? There being none, we may proceed. In compliance with the fire code of the state of New Jersey, I call your attention to the emergency exits
for this room, which are located behind the audience and to our left and right. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one
nation andice for all. Item C. Having read the materials received, I move the agenda be approved as submitted. Second. Pull the board, please. Miss Polei, yes.
Mr. Trick, yes. Miss Laruso, yes. Miss Patel, yes, Mr. weeks. Yes, Miss Lance. Yes. Item D. Be it resolved that the East Windsor Regional School District may hold two closed sessions at this meeting. These
close sessions concern personnel uh staffing report non-renewals and the HIV report of May 7th, 2025. Minutes of these closed sessions will be made available to the public when the need for confidentiality no longer exists. Second pull the board, please.
Mr. Jolie, yes. M. Yes. Muso, yes. Miss Patel, yes. Mr. Weeks, yes. Miss Lance, yes. We will now move on to item two, which is a 2023
2024 audit presentation. Okay, we are going to flip the agenda and actually do our student representative report first. Okay, good evening everyone. As always, it is a pleasure to be here with you all um and share some of our school happenings. So, we'd like to start off
our report with an exciting update. We have finally reached the time of the year where we are able to share our college decisions with you all. So, I'm happy to announce that I will be attending Georgetown University in the fall with a major of global health on a premed track. Um, I'll be attending Carne University
to study at School of Computer Science. On that note, let's celebrate the class of 2025. You can check out the senior decisions page on the Instagram to see where everyone is headed next, whether it's college, the Army, the Air Force, or any other exciting paths. Our
seniors also had their own special celebration on May 2nd where they got the chance to take pictures with their friends and teachers to mark this huge milestone. We're so proud of all that we've accomplished in our last in these four years of high school and we look forward to ending the year
strong. Um now getting into AP testing updates. The second week of AP testing is currently underway. These exams are critical opportunities for our students to potentially earn college credit after their year-long courses. Good luck to all test takers. Congratulations to all finished test takers. To accommodate the
logistics of NJSA testing, we'll be implementing a delayed opening schedule starting this Friday, continuing into next week. This adjusted schedule will ensure that proper testing conditions are met for students who are participating in the testing and communications have already gone out to families via email and grade level
Google classroom. So, check that out. Now, to give students something to look forward to as they're in the midst of testing season, we have begun our planning for Ramboozle, which is student council's biggest end of year event that will take place on June 19th from 11:00 to 2:10. It will be an afternoon of food
trucks, inflatables, games, and much more activities for students to participate in. This is a great way for students to celebrate the end of the year, so make sure to be in attendance. Senior awards ceremony will take place on June 3rd. Invitations were mailed out this past Friday, and I'm looking
forward to celebrating the accomplishments of our graduating seniors. Next up, we're excited to talk about this year's senior trip happening on June 6th at Hershey Park from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Seniors will get to spend the entire day enjoying the amusement park and a meal with their
friends. It's the perfect way to celebrate the end of the year and make some final memories together. And we and we both are definitely looking forward to it. Um we'll be hosting a special session to recognize the sea level literacy recipients on June 5th. This award honors students who achieve proficiency
in English and at least one other language. This will be a great opportunity for families and friends to celebrate SEAL literacy certified individuals. Now we are also happy to share that our HHS stage will be quite active in the upcoming weeks as students take the stage for multiple
performances. For instance, our drama club will be hosting their one act on May 30th at 7 PM featuring three original student written, produced, and performed plays. Tickets will be on sale soon for $5. So, be sure to keep an eye out for them. Additionally, our school's
South Asian club orth will be hosting their annual performance celebrating South Asian culture with fusion dances, ac cappella, and skit on June 7th. And tickets will be available for $6 and will also be on sale soon. Our students have worked extremely hard all year for
these performances. So, be sure to come to these amazing events and offer community support. Pleased to share that the National Honor Society or NHS induction ceremony was held last week. Congratulations to all the inductees on their well-deserved recognition. And thank you to everyone who made this submitted success
including school administration and the NHS advisor, Mrs. Try out. Now, as the end of the year rapidly approaches, we have officially initiated the process of selecting our class and student council officers for the next school year. Student council applications were open today and are due
this Friday. And interviews for all potential candidates will take place um on this on Thursday the 23rd. The interviews will be conducted by our student council adviserss, Miss McDougall and Miss Blandford, as well as the current student body president, Jasmine National. By next meeting, we
hope to introduce you to next year's board of education representatives. So, we are very excited to see who will be representing our student body in the upcoming year. Stay tuned for our incredible students. We know they will be doing an incredible job. This concludes our report for tonight. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. We will now move on to our Oh, sorry. Can I just ask a question? Sure. Absolutely. Any questions? I don't know if you'll be able to answer. Mr. Vincent might have to answer for Ramboozle. Um, do we have any sort of rain or accommodations if
there's bad weather. We actually do have a rain date. Um I can pull it up. Um but just accommodate for what happened last year. I think it's it's June 23rd as of right now.
Any other questions? I do have a question. This is a simple one. Um the class trip, the senior class trip, do you guys have like a survey that you guys like pick like what you want or is it just automatic we're going to Hershey? Oh, we it was a whole survey
process. We were debating between doing the cruise that has been done in past years and then we also introduced Hershey Park. I think there was one other option but I don't remember but this was a class and this is what we're doing this year. So, okay. Thank you.
Any other questions? Okay, we will now move on to our 2023 2024 audit presentation. I'll hand it over to Mr. Todd. Thank you, Miss Lance. Tonight, we have the partner in charge from our auditor, Scott Cleen,
who will be presenting the results of the 2320. Thank you, Mr. Todd, and good evening, everyone. I appreciate the opportunity to be here tonight to present the results of the the past audit. Before I get started, I want to thank the
superintendent and Mr. Todd for all the time and effort they put in uh during the audit process. As we are all aware, there was a lot of extinguishing circumstances with the audit process this year with the uh significant vacancies in key positions and the illness that was in the business office
the early part of the year. Um, so it took a little bit longer than usual, but we got there. And I want to thank Paul for um pitching in more than he normally has uh because he didn't have the staff to assist us early in the order process. So I want to thank him especially for
for jumping in. Um, from an audit perspective, the audit is a clean opinion placed on it by the order firm. Uh, which means the information provided was accurate for us to place such an opinion on the order report. And overall you have a very very good financial
position at the end of the fiscal year. Uh your overall financial position in your general fund increased by $4.4 million. Also you had fund balance in excess of 2% which equaled 4.5 million or 4.4 million I'm sorry 4.6 million
which was utilized in your recently approved budget. uh you also prudently put funds aside uh in various reserves which I wish more districts would do so so they have funds set aside in in difficult times. Uh you
have good funds set aside in capital reserve about 10.4 million. Uh those funds can be used to pay off debt service. They can they more more importantly they should be used to uh fund capital projects and they also could be used towards any rod grants as the local portion if you ever get into
additional rod grants. You also have put together or put aside maintenance reserve funds which at the end of year you have about 2.7 million very consistent with the prior year. Uh your cafeteria operations did very very well again uh that continues to have a very
good financial position of just point over $2.4 $4 million of a fund balance or net position. Um and also a couple years ago you put together a self- insurance fund for your uh health benefits and in doing so you
set up a separate f separate fund which allowed you to put the full liability of all claims that have been incurred and those an actuarial calculation comes up with what has been recurred but they you have not heard about yet. And the good news is that entire liability is set
aside. So it's not affecting your net position. And in addition to that, you have about $1.7 million of funds set aside for any runoff claims or any other emergencies that come up in your health insurance plan. Uh due to the fact that you set it up as self-
insurance. From a findings perspective, um there are a couple more findings this year than we had in the past. U most of those items that we identified were in the first three or four months of the year. Uh most of that was attributable to again vacancies in key positions and illnesses in the board office. Um I
talked to Mr. Todd about two things. One is trying to get the time frame up a little bit earlier next year um to get the audit done and also talked about status of the findings and I know that he has put before you as a board a corrective action plan which must be
implemented um as soon as possible. And I know from speaking with him with Mr. a lot of those items have already been addressed and are currently being addressed so that we don't anticipate the same items again next year. Um overall again uh good financial health
of the district and we look forward to continuing to work with the board and the district in the future and I'm more than happy to address any questions you may have as a board. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any questions? Sorry, I I do have one question. So, you
mentioned that uh you asked uh Mr. Todd for him to um give you the information earlier, right? Um how much earlier were because the the audit is from 23 to 24. So, how much earlier as opposed to the
time you were given? Our goal is to get the audit done in December as opposed to in February or March or so forth. So, we're looking to move it back. Uh, what's happened in the past couple years, the state has been, I guess, delinquent in getting us information and
they they sped that process up. So, most of the firms are now getting back into a normal time frame hopefully, uh, so that all reports can be issued before the end of the calendar year. And if I'm speaking, Mr. Todd, we're looking to to meet that goal as well, um, moving forward. So, we're hoping to have this
meeting in January or February of next year. Okay. Thank you so much. Any other questions? Okay, thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. Have a good evening everyone. Okay, we will now move on to our
superintendent report. Okay, good evening everyone. Um hope everyone's well tonight. So, a couple of things I like to highlight. Uh I do want to kind of go back for a moment. I know they just at the exit but definitely wanted to congratulate our
student representatives Sahana and Sanjie for their college selections for the upcoming school year. Obviously Georgetown and Carnegie Melon are impressive choices and reflective of the quality of education IT High School. uh as just a quick look back as well. Last
week was teacher appreciation week um across across the uh across the country, but definitely want to highlight one that we we uh uh we took some time to appreciate our educators within the East Windsor Regional School District uh community. Just want to thank our PTOs
u in particular who kind of really stepped up to kind of highlight and showcase their level of appreciation uh for the work of our educators. We also wanted to uh shout out and praise our teachers for for the amazing work that they do uh day in day out. A few uh event updates. Last week I
had the opportunity to attend the National Honor Society induction ceremony for the class of 2020 2026. Uh I also want to congratulate our students for their um accomplishments there. also had an opportunity just to
kind of share some updates regarding the college plans for the class of 2025 members of the national honor society honor society. So, um it's always uh I think for me, uh just reaffirming just to get a sense of what some of our students are doing and achieving, not
just academically, but uh as you know with the National Honor Society, there's a there's a significant um amount of energy I would say placed on service and a sense of community. So, definitely proud of those students accomplishments. Also, last week I had
the opportunity, pleasure I'd say, to attend the eighth grade concert. did not have a chance to attend the sixth and seventh, but I would imagine uh the quality of performances were equally as impressive. Uh I thought it was uh I take for a middle school uh having
served as a a middle school principal for for almost 10 years. That was uh that was a that was a very impressive concert. Uh also had the opportunity to attend the winter concert. So, I tend to like to do somewhat of a comparison and I would just say that I was thoroughly
impressed with the level of progress uh more than anything uh that our students displayed as it relates to uh just really their level of confidence but also precision um and discipline as it relates to performance. So very entertaining
evening and I definitely want to commend the middle school music educators under the leadership of the uh visual performing arts supervisor uh Miss Libby go. Tonight as it relates to just I mean we have a number of uh performing arts
events. I mentioned it at the last meeting. I'll say for tonight actually we have our our G&R chorus concerts happening uh as we speak at the moment here at the auditorium. Uh but also tonight we have our this week, I should say, uh the remaining portion of the
week, we have uh the PLLD concert series, I'll call it. So, tomorrow evening at 6 PM uh here at the high school in the auditorium, we'll have the fifth grade concert uh on Wednesday, May 14th, here at the high school auditorium at 6 p.m. Again, we'll have the fourth
grade concert, and they'll conclude the performances this week with the third grade concert, and that'll be back at PLLD in the gymnasium. So I definitely encourage uh whether you are directly connected to PL or not to uh to try to
attend at least one of those uh performances. Um mention this the last meeting but I'll just highlighted again we are in the throws of uh state assessments at the moment. New Jersey student learning assessment. Last week uh our students in grades three, four,
and five completed the ELA and math sections of the assessment. this week uh today and tomorrow, our fifth grade students will also uh participate in the science portion of that assessment. In terms of the middle school and high school, um I believe beginning tomorrow,
we have the middle school uh complete actually May 13th through the 16th, the middle school will be completing the language arts and math sections and uh on May 19th and 20th, 8th grade students only will complete the science portion. For the high school, we have the dates
of May 16th, 19th, 20th, 21st. Uh, selected students will complete the ELA, math, and science portions of the assessment. Just a note to welcome tonight um here with us at the meeting. It was
the first day for our uh new MHK principal, Dr. Aluga. Uh so she experienced the first official day she's been here as she's been transitioning but today was the first official day. So definitely pleased uh for her to make that transition to our district and the
middle school. Look forward to uh working with her, supporting her as she begins to uh lead the middle school. Uh moving forward at next month's uh board of education meeting scheduled for June 9th, we will recognize and celebrate
those individuals who are wisely uh retiring uh from the East Vince Regional School District this year. Uh as uh keep it in tradition due to the recognition, we'll begin the meeting on June 9th at 6 PM. We'll have it in the same location
here. Also on June 9th, um we will provide an update regarding the student safety data system, also known as SSDS, which is a requirement through the New Jersey Department of Education. We'll have our uh district
anti-bullying coordinator, Lauren O'Brien. Uh she'll provide a quick update. It's twice a year that we're required to do this. Districts across the state are required to do it. Uh and there were kind of reporting windows. So in terms of the student safety data system, uh it collects two types of
information uh from school districts throughout the state. First being incidents on violence and vandalism, harassment, intimidation and bullying. Also weapons offenses that are reported uh substance offenses u not
including tobacco um restraint seclusion or any other incident leading to a student removal from school. Also uh part of the process talks just about any kind of hip trainings or professional development or hip prevention programs that we have within within the system.
So in terms of the reporting windows um Mrs. O'Brien will be reporting on period 1 which collects the data from September 1st 2024 through December 31st 2024. uh the reporting window uh for that is
from January 1st of this year through June 30th. So she'll be reporting that out uh during the month of June. And then we have um period two um that we need to submit to the Department of Education that date that
kind of runs from January through the conclusion of the school year. That needs to be submitted within the system by August 11th, 2025. and then uh districts are then required to kind of report out and communicate that with boards uh between the dates of September 1st and and December 31st. So I'll
provide an update regarding when we'll do the period two communication, but definitely period one will happen at the next meeting. As a reminder, um we've been sharing this in recent weeks due to us not needing to use any emergency closing dates this year. We have built
three into the calendar. Um, and since we did not need to use any and we would be kind of peeling away in terms of when those would be needed, uh, it did create an extension of the Memorial Day weekend. So, in addition to Monday, May 26, uh, schools will also be
closed on Thursday, May 22nd, Friday, May 23rd, and also Tuesday, May 27th. Uh, kidare will also be closed during that time period, and all schools will reopen on Wednesday, May 28th. And that concludes my report. Thank you.
Thank you, Mark. Are there any questions? Okay, there being none, we will move on to our first opportunity for board member comments. Do any of the members of the board wish to speak? Okay, there being none, we will have our first opportunity for public
comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak? Okay. If you so to speak, approach the podium and um state your name and address. And if you can also sign in on the clipboard on the to the left of the
podium and it'll be helpful to press the little button on the bottom right of the speaker console. That'll light up the red dot. And you have three minutes. Thank you. Can you hear me? All right. Uh Jay Guza,
East Windsor. Uh good evening. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you tonight. After a recent discovery on Wednesday, I've come forth with a letter directly addressed to the administration. I learned the decision
was to mandate the quota of the students for our elective to run to 15. I do not fully know the reason for it, but I'm aware of the outcomes that director resulted from this change. On Wednesday, my counselor told me that three
electives chosen for my senior year would not be running. The reason being that none of students have signed up to fill the new quota. The three electives are honors broadcasting, meteorology, and graphic
novel. I find it hard to believe that there is a lack of interest for these classes, primarily with honors broadcasting, as I know that many have expressed their interest in that class. But this recent change has
created a great expectation that no less than 15 students must sign up for it, which is very unreasonable for certain classes. The journey to be given the privilege to be afforded the choice to choose honors broadcasting has taken
years and specifically required me to take video production my freshman year, throws in chills and life in the studio my sophomore year and narrative film and film beyond reality in my junior year.
And now I am suddenly forced to look for alternative electives while also having that choice taken away. has not only made me disappointed but greatly frustrated. For the past three years of attending Hightown High School, I have
chosen electives that I found to be very intriguing, not just classes that were rumored to be easy. Inevitably, every year, news would come months later, usually in the summer, that those electives were unavailable, and I often be forced to pick new
electives, even though the choice were very limited at that time of year. It has happened to me on multiple occasions and is upsetting and confusing, particularly this year since
this was an honors class that required prerequisites that took time to take. I have also talked to other students, including those I've known for a while, who have also expressed their confusion and frustration about honors
broadcasting and other electives they wanted to take next year. And it makes this decision very confusing and very hard to understand and accept. I would like you to reconsider this choice, especially as it relates to
honors broadcasting. a a class I've waited to take in my senior year. 30 seconds, please. The cancellation was very unfortunate and unfair to students who have signed up for a next year and continues to create
confusion for me and other students trying to get their schedules in order from their counselors. Thank you. Thanks, Jay. Can you please sign in on the clipboard next to the Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members
of the public who wish to speak? Okay, there being none, we will go move into our executive session and we will be away about so about 30 minutes. Thank you. Okay, we now resume
our regularly scheduled meeting and we will start with item seven old business and we have our committee meetings listed there and I believe Michael has an update on us for curriculum that Yep.
So we had the meeting tonight and one second uh they presented uh some information about high school electives. Um just giving us a timetable about the
the they began working on the elective selections the beginning of the calendar year ahead of the year they were before. Um they use the term roller coaster describing how they'll certain electives
are run in odd even years to ensure either that they are not over or under saturated based on demand. Um talked a little bit about courses in the commons which allow students a chance to kind of check out the
electives that are available. Um they clarified that under 15 requests for an elective considered uh shifts that elective to uh be undersubscribed and most likely will not
run in that calendar year. Um and it went over the number of electives that are running next year and the number of electives that were not running some detail around the broadcasting program. Um there's been
some recent uh questions around the honor broadcasting class which was brought up today in public comment as well. Uh that it's undersubscribed but it's a elective driven by prerequisites and there's concern around
um the unavailability of that class for this upcoming year. Um they are introducing a new class uh it's broadcasting sports news and entertainment. It's a fullear non-honors level class. Um, but they're hoping uh
that's on the agenda tonight for us to approve the the addition. Um, and they're hoping to um use that as a feeder program into uh other broadcasting
electives. We went over several programs. Um, it's a continuation of what I think was some pretty great programming we've had the last several years. uh for uh rising first through second grade. Uh there's
literacy programs. Uh rising three through five math and literacy, rising fourth gifted and talented program. Uh there's uh rising first through fifth literacy and ESL program running this summer. Um an extended school year
program for all students in district with an IET. There's a rising sixth through nth ELA class uh at a math class as well for uh four weeks. So
hopefully those students can get some extra help. Um there's also some enrichment opportunities. Rising sixth grade, there's pre-alggebra readiness class. Rising eth there's a science readiness class. Uh AP enrichment.
edition is happening. Uh, rising 8th has an ELA advanced class uh to help students uh acclimate to what an advanced level class might look like. Rising 9th grade, uh there's a first time honors prep for people getting
ready to go into high school honors coursework. And then there's a multilingual learner enrichment class uh for rising sixth uh and rising 9th students which is four weeks of supplemental um learning to reduce
language loss over the summer. And then there's a repeat of last year's uh summer music program for fifth to eighth graders uh fore class culminating in concert. Uh there's 9th through 12th grade uh
credit recovery um opportunity for students to uh earn credit for up to two classes using an online program uh online platform called Apex. And then uh rising freshmen,
there's a there's two opportunities for a three-part day in the life of a Ram, where and who do I go to and team building. And on the second of the two dates, there's going to be a barbecue, which sounds
fun. Um, middle school schedule changes. Uh, they are going to be modifying the world language program of seventh and eighth grade to an every other day schedule. Um, effectively cutting the those classes back
um to roughly half Yeah. So, it's effectively they're getting instead of two full years of educ um and then the the the alternating days would become a day
for additional electives. Um and that's the summary. Did I catch everything? I'm looking forward to the music camp. Um, which is, you know, always has a
great concert at the end. Yes. July 24th. I need to find a way to incorporate a final performance for some of the other classes. Mathletes or summer math athletes. That's not a
thing. Um, regarding the world language at the middle school, what precipitated that? What was the reasoning behind cutting those classes to middle school students only having one year of world language prep? There's a host of reasons. I mean,
I don't want to use the word cutting, but really kind of redefining the program. I mean, I'm actually I've never been in a place where you've had world language every day as a middle school student. This is the first experienced that. So I think the issue is we're recognizing twofold.
One, it's treating the um you know standards from the state talk about students being exposed to world language at that middle school level. Obviously, we want to make sure that we're preparing them uh for high school transition and and the world language graduation requirement. Um you know,
having every day, one could argue is deemed as an academic course. Um, there could be some discussion surrounding that. Um, one could argue that it it has an academic base, but I think it's usually approached from kind of
um, a cultural immersion and that you're using that language conversationally. We're also dealing with some of the realities of um, shortages regarding world language teachers. I'm going to be completely honest with you. So when we're looking at balancing class sizes and creating an
environment where we believe we've got an adequate number of teachers but also balancing numbers within those other unified arts programs, this just appears to be um not a cutting but something that we think is a little bit more meaningful um streamlining the process
as it relates to a two-year program. So uh there's a host of factors there. We think this is something that is good for kids. Uh we think that enables students at the middle school level to to kind of engage in uh a marking period's worth of some exploratory uh options uh expanding
that uh unified arts uh offerings because it does open up another block. Um so ultimately we believe and also the other pieces when we're looking at the data in terms of students having two years of world language at the middle school where they should be theoretically ready for the year three
transition that hasn't been the case in recent years to be completely honest with you. So we have not seen that level of student readiness um having the two years and and it could be a host of factors. Uh I think sometimes there's an apprehensiveness of taking that leap when students are
transitioning to the to the high school, but we just haven't seen that bang for buck in terms of you know world language uh every day for two years and then propelling students in large part uh when they make that transition to the high school.
Um followup question then in terms of our teachers at the high school. Will we be revamping not necessarily the curriculum but the pace of what they're learning and where they're starting? Like basically starting at ground zero
on day one of freshman year with world language. If they're just learning a little bit, they should probably do a review and go from there. We're going to look at how we're teaching the students. It will be ground zero. I mean students are going to have two years uh which is still I don't I don't want us to discredit it by having two full years of
every every other day delivery of content would be so that would it's not ground zero but we would assess their readiness when they're exiting from the from the middle school to determine the appropriate recommended placement for the high school. Okay. Thank you for the clarification.
Any other questions? Okay. Being none, we'll move on to item eight, our second opportunity for board member comments. Uh, I know Mark mentioned the concerts last week, but I found myself uh at all
three of the concerts, which um just because of the blended um seventh grade band situation with Wind Ensemble, which I thought was a really excellent way uh to to give
parents who have some of the struggles at any of the grades to be able to see, you um those a grade level that they may not be familiar with, but um being in the building three nights in a row for those
three concerts is probably the most exciting thing I've seen in this district. Personally, I know there's plenty of great stuff happening, but because I've got two kids in the music programming, um watching But it's um it's you know I I'm an arts
guy. I that's what I know best. So it's I don't ever want to come off as one note, but um being there three nights in a row, all those kids, all the instructors, the work that Libby has put in
um is so incredibly impressive. I I can't I can't express just how happy I am to be part of a district uh with a program like that. And I know it's not the only one. So, it's speaks I think to the DNA of what's going on um that we're
able to provide some people might not necessarily think is a core academic pursuit, but I think it's so incredibly important that we support the arts and thank you for all you do and what the whole team does to support that.
Any other questions, comments? Okay, then offer our second opportunity for public comments. Any members of the public wish to speak? Okay, there being none, we'll move on to item nine, mandated policies for second
briefing. uh a policy 5111 eligibility of resident non-resident students b policy 5460 high school graduation C policy 5512 harassment intimidation or bullying D policy 5533
student smoking E policy 7441 electronic surveillance in school buildings at on school grounds F policy 8500 food services G policy 91 63 spectator code of conduct for interests.
Second. Any questions? Yes, I I actually have um questions for three of the policies. The first one is policy um 5533 on uh page one paragraph 2. It
talks about any other matter, right? So policy 5533 when it talks about smoking and it's page one paragraph 2 and it says any other matter. So it says
lighted and then it says any other matter. Yes. Right. So right. So I guess um two parts. So lighted does it have to be lighted? And then any other matter is does that
consider um you know because people can smoke on anything, right? Um so does that talk about those items also? Is that what any other matter means? I'll talk a couple this piece just in terms of breaking down kind of like what they're defining, what the policy is
overseeing. When we're referring to smoking, it's is when you're typically inhaling something that's lit or coming from a device that you have to inhale something. So, I think the matter is is like a catchall. You know, if you're engaged in something that you're inhaling or smoking, that may not fit
that criteria. But then what if they're in possession of it, but they're not smoking it? That's a different That's a different That's a different violation. Yeah, would be a different issue. Okay. All right. So then when we look at
policy, Thank you for that. We look at policy uh 7441 and it talks about on paragraph two it talks about the recordings can be in student records. Can you explain
that? Is it only disciplinary proceedings that can be in the student record if it's on video or is it anything that can be in their student record as long as they're on the video? Um, let me put it this way. We're
not actually going to put the video on the student's record, but it's almost like these be these board meetings, right? the fact that we record them and then they're accessible. One could argue that someone
would like to say what uh Gene Worley shared on May 12th as part of her record as a board member. Okay. So therefore, it's something that can be pulled as evidence to substantiate something that may have occurred because there's visual
proof. Right. All right. Thank you. And then the last one is policy 9163 uh 2 C right so two talks about um the board prohibits unsportsmanlike conduct C says entering the field of
play before during or after but if the event is happening and they attend how is that a violation and sometimes like I know for me I like to go to an event early right to be the you know I can get the parking spot or whatever. So the
person can get um it could be a violation if the person arrives early. Now this is referring to actually the field of play. So it's you know we're talking about a basketball game you know we don't want spectators on the basketball court itself. If it's a
football game or a soccer game we don't want spectators on the field to play. You know, something like this just happened in the NBA recently. Did you see that? Where where the excited father of a player entered the court at the end
of the game and it created some some tension. That's that's what it's referring to. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Pull the board, please. Miss Bourley, yes. Miss Drake,
yes. M Russo, yes. Miss Patel, yes. Mr. Weeks, yes. Miss Lans, yes. Item 10, mandated regulations for second reading. Uh, item A, regulation 9320, cooperation
with law enforcement agencies. Second. Pull the board, please. Any questions? Pull the board, please. Moli, yes. Miss Drake, yes. Miss Laruso, yes.
Miss Patel, yes. Mr. Weeks, yes. Miss Lance, yes. Item 11, recommended policies for second reading. Item A, policy 5701, plagiarism. Item B, policy 5710, student grievance.
Second. Any questions? I do have a question. So my question is um these policies, how are the students made aware of them? Are they in the handbooks like when they enter school every year or are they expected to look
online to see them? Like how do they know about them? Great question. Plagiarism should being handled at the secondary level it's referred to. We also have an AI policy now that's also referring to plagiarism within that. So I will double check but I'm pretty
confident that the plagiarism a reference to the plagiarism or integrity policy is in the hand student grievance. I'm not sure I'll double check on that. We should make that you know not that I want to promote student grievances but but I do think
you're right. Uh I think right now student grievance probably just lives uh in our stress made policy portal which is accessible. I'm not sure if that's in the Okay. Thank you. Any other
questions? Word please. Just Yeah, I had a question. Sorry. It's okay. Want to get back to the agreements um process. Uh it says a return notification. Is that done normally? email or they actually need a paper copy
signed by the in initiator or like an email format is accepted. I was trying it didn't say specifically uh like what could you just tell me where you are? Uh I had um present in writing B let's see what is it second
level. Oh second level yeah and it says like any documentation grievance given to a statement. No, it's just putting something in writing. No, but does it is it a paper copy? That's what I meant. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's just that they want to go beyond verbal.
So, it just has to be written down. Thank you. Any other questions? Pull the board, please. Miss Boli, yes. Miss Drake, yes. Miss Laruso, yes.
Miss Patel, yes. Mr. weeks. Yes, Miss Lance. Yes. Item 12. Motion to approve routine items by exception. Having read the materials received, I move that the board approve the routine agenda items as submitted.
Item A, staffing for May 12th, 2025. Item B, HIV report from April 28th, 2025. Item C, approved new field trip sites for upcoming trips. Item D, approve three new HHS scholarship opportunities. Item E, technology
recycling batch number 56. Item F, approved new high school course, broadcasting, sports, news, and entertainment. Item G, travel, and related expenses, May 12th, 2025. Item H, surplus property, wheelchair. Item I, advocate
replacement. Item J, co-op purchases. Item K, tax levy payment schedule for 2025 to 26. Item L, tuition agreement for the Roosevelt bureau 2025206. Item M, transportation agreement with the UCSC,
MCSSD, ESCJ, and MSC. Item N, resolution authorizing the use of state contract and cooperative purchasing programs for full year 2025 and 206. Item O, Bergen County co-op membership. Item P, approval of
professional services for 202526 school year. Item Q, approval of proprietary providers. Item R, charable contract renewal year 2. Item S, accept 2024 audit. Item T, transportation bid
results. Item U, approval of remote board member participation. Item V, board meeting minutes for April 28th, 2025. Item W, executive session board minutes for April 28th, 2025. Item X, revised board minutes,
March 24th, 2025. Item Y, report of board secretary and financial report for March 2025. Item Z, expense and transfer reports of school monies report for March 2025. Item A, AA, bill list of May 12th, 2025. Item BB, job description
maintenance supervisor. Second. Any questions? I just have a comment on F for the new high school course broadcasting sports news and entertainment. Just want to say I think it's great that we're revamping that
course in hopes of getting um other students interested in it. However, it doesn't really take the place of honors broadcasting and the students that really wanted to take that class and cannot take it. Any other questions? Yeah, I need some
clarification on something. Um Paul uh if you can help me out uh section S accept 2024 audit uh they had some issues uh and they had findings regarding some health benefit plan and the employees deduction was not
calculated correctly or something like that. Do we have an actual software that automatically does this or we have to do this manually? No, for the most part it it does calculate for us otherwise we'd never be able to get it done. What we have to do
though because of the software if you could Thank you. Um if you're a first year employee we do have to do a manual calculation. So of the probably 6,000 calculations that are done
throughout the year. Of course, the way it works, the auditors found one and that's just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. So, it's in there. It's duly noted and we, you know, we'll make sure that we double check and triple check our work, but it was one
instance out of about 6,000 that we do a year. Another one I had where they had the reconciliation of the student activity funds, student body activities supposedly they were not package was not
submitted and not reconciled. Did we have this similar issue in 23? Because this is related to 24. I don't remember seeing this. Which time? I'm looking at uh 2024 on
-1 student body activities. A district of choice of dispersement package contains all pertinent information including invoices um checks requests and approvals and so forth. Yeah, that actually wasn't a finding. So what they actually have to
make is statements in there that they reviewed it and everything was acceptable. So that wasn't a finding actually. Do we need to keep it in there then? Yes. So there are certain statements that the department of finance maker
auditors actually uh affirm to the positive that things are happening. So that report is just not necessarily a compliance and something's not happening and should be they have to make positive statements that things are happening as they should be. Thank you.
Hi, I have a question on uh L uh tuition agreement for Roosevelt Burrow. Um it talks about uh their funding is not going I'm sorry their costs are not going up. Is there is there a reason for
that? Is it because um we own our buses? So, um, the board made a decision seven years ago to hold the Roosevelt funding flat in the form of
tuition and transportation. Um, the decision that was made at the time is that, you know, we were not really crammed for space. It was kind of found money and with their financial distress, I mean, every year I'm surprised they have another year in them
to keep on going. Um that that was just a decision that was made back in the day. Just so that that decision is not cemented. The board would like to revisit that discussion. Certainly can. And we don't really have a I think
we have about 40 40 students from Roosevelt enroll from grade six through 12 total. So it's not a huge number of students. So on average it's about like two kids per grade level. All right. Thank you.
Um I also had a question or clarification for item F. Um this new broadcasting course, will we not run that until 2627 or will it be offered as like an augmented curriculum for our existing
broadcasting course for 2526? It's a good question. We're looking to offer just go back to Nicole's point. the whole point well well taken. The goal with this is obviously to look to expand the feed system for honors broadcasting so we can have what we think will be a viable number. In terms of this course, we are looking to offer
it for the 25 26 school year. So it will deem to be kind of a a reconfiguration or revision to some course work that we currently have related to um TV production. So the goal is to offer it for the coming year. And will our
guidance counselors be reaching out to students who have expressed an interest in video production and named didn't take it? Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Oh, sorry, Michael. Just and just to to to get it on the record, is there an
active process happening right now to review the enrollment for the honors broadcasting class? Because I know there have been public questions around um accuracy of the number of students that were recorded as requesting the class.
I'm not I'm not familiar with there was no accuracy issue but there was no receive that the the the feedback was that only eight students had registered but their student was not in that list and I just want to make sure if there's any additional outreach that can be done
just to see if it's possible to run that program. Um, I believe that that's already happened, but I will definitely follow up to determine is there anything we've u not considered as it relates to uh determining whether or not that that
course criminal. As far as I know, we've done that. Um, and uh, in terms of the the eight versus nine thing, I'm not sure. me there. Not to get too in the weeds here, but sometimes when when this determination is made that the course is
not going to run. Um sometimes students we've we've determined the student won't be going in that direction and kind of gets pulled away. So I'm not sure exactly what occurred there but uh in terms of the question regarding I think if there's anything else we can explore I think
we've been doing that but I I will confirm with the the high school guidance department to ensure um that the eight or nine is um kind of exhausting who we believe may have some level of interest in that course for the upcoming school year and also the
prerequisites that that are in line with that. Um I mean that that's part of the com the larger conversation is um yes we we we obviously wanted something closer to 15 obviously we would work within that uh we currently have I believe for this year 16 students
enrolled in that course the larger question uh that we're asking is you know what what potentially may be steering students in other directions that may be eligible for that course. Um, you
know, we heard tonight it could be some circumstances where there may be some juniors that that were eligible but decided for various reasons to say I'll wait on that. So, so we're not we're in the process of trying to determine why do we go from having 16 students
enrolled um to now uh you know eight or nine students who are potentially exploring that course for the upcoming school year. Why was there a drop off there? So, it's a it's a host of factors related to it, but we are in the process of trying to determine what we think the main ones are that we can course
correct. Is there ever a time and and I understand you there most likely will not be because it is an AP class. Um, is there a time where in order to be able to run a class, you would look at people
who are close to meeting the prerequisites who within the next two years need that class to fulfill an ARC to be able to um I'm not sure. I mean, typically typically we wouldn't I mean, if we've got if you've got a student
that didn't take a prerequisite, if you take it out of this coursework, you typically are saying, especially at the honors level, you know, we don't want to set students up to be unsuccessful. So, I think that um I think that we would want we'd like
to take a look at a number of factors, but I don't think we could say just because you're interested in something absent having some evidence of prerequisite understanding that we think will put you on a trajectory to be successful. Um I think um that will be
difficult for for us to take a look at. I think at times though, you're right, we do look at um situations where we we want to have a kind of a broader sense of criteria for what we think a student's eligibility might be. Uh I think I think we constantly try to do
that but I think we we definitely don't want to uh do it in a way we want to do it in a way we feel a sense of responsibility in terms of putting a student in a good situation. So there are definitely times where we um when we look at kind of like the you
know the multiple criteria that could make a student eligible with engaging in some of that work right now with our summer programming obviously different content different level but we are looking at students that we think are close to meeting um eligible eligibility
for certain advanced coursework and we're providing some support to get them there. Um but I I never want to look at like as a one a oneprong termination uh for that to occur. So for this it will be a little bit difficult because you have to have some coursework that you
needed to complete in order to be eligible for u this particular course. That is my concern. I don't I don't want I don't want to just focus on this because I understand there's probably there's other classes that don't meet the
requirement to run. But it's just it's it's a little concerning just you know hearing the public commentary both you know through email and speaking here um a requirement for completing this
track that people are working multiple years towards being able to achieve are unable to get to it. Yeah. My only my only counter argument is that you know we can engage in a conversation about I mean, there's over 20 courses that aren't being available next year
under the elective umbrella. So, I understand that this is creating some attention, but if we're going to have a discussion, as I shared with the board before, if we believe that the class should run with eight students in it as an elective, let's have a conversation about what that means, because we can't
just cherrypick a course to say for a host of reasons we're going to run it. If the board wants to engage in a discussion regarding the number of students that we think should be the viable number for a course to run, we have to talk about that. We have to talk about the budgetary implications of that. We have to talk about being able
to staff that. So, uh, we can definitely talk about are we offering too many courses? We can have that conversation. Can we talk about potentially looking at some courses and and I do think we need to engage in this and I share this with Nicole where we do need to take a look back to say you know if we were looking
at some courses over a two to four year window that we believe have been underenrolled and therefore not running um you know what does that mean for us should we be looking at maybe combining courses we're trying to do something right now to create more of a feeder so I do think it's a you know we we're
offering courses in the program of studies because we I think they're worthwhile. They fit the students pathway. Uh we want to make sure there's an element of interest there. Um but the reality is they're electives, right? So when you have electives, that
means students are electing to take them or not. So some of those courses aren't going to uh have the requisite number of students in them in order for them to be a viable course. So that's the piece that I think we definitely need to reflect on. But I would hate for the
conversation to to be or the narrative or the takeaway to be that we're being somewhat unfair to honors broadcasting when there's a host of other courses that we're not offering due to there not being enough students who signed up for it. So um so so I'm you know I'm
definitely open to get getting a sense of like we can we can talk about having too many courses and then we can reduce the number of courses that we're going to offer and I think we would also face some backlash potentially because there may not be enough offerings. So I think
it's probably striking that balance. Um I think the the the the piece the main piece right now related to this particular course is that I think the question the first question is why if it's so popular why do we only have eight or nine students sign up for it
and what are some of the competing factors there that may have deterred a student uh or or maybe have that student place their energy in a particular uh different direction in terms of the the situation regarding the student who talked tonight. I think it's a very
legitimate um uh issue in that student's regard because the student was eligible to take the course as a junior for whatever reasons. Um I'm not sure if it was advice provided by whomever, but the student decided to wait until the senior
year to take the course. Now the course is not available. That is a that's a that's a frustrating circumstance and maybe we need to have a conversation about um you know, and this of course historically has been something that's been available. So once again, I think that the the initial question just needs
to be why didn't we have that same level of draw from students and is it something that we can avoid? Uh is it something that we may have created as it relates to students having other options available to them. So I think we just have to kind of go through that analysis to determine u you know
obviously this was not deemed as a roller coaster course as far as I'm as far as I know. So therefore, I think that probably lends itself for students to think I can wait and then and for it to not be available is unfortunate. But I would venture to say there are
probably some other courses that also fall under that umbrella. So I think we just need to take a look at our elective process kind of holistically to get a sense of those courses that are not running for this upcoming school year. Uh I think outside of one I think you know once again it's just for the upcoming school year. doesn't mean that
golf ever, but I realize for a student that needs it or wanted to take it and this is their last opportunity to do so that that's that's a concern. But I venture to say there's probably some other courses and some other students who are also experiencing that. So uh I'd love it if students could get what
they want right the choices they're they've uh selected especially when it's on a particular trajectory as it relates to some advanced coursework. Um so we'll take a look at it kind of in the bigger picture to get a sense of what we can control and what we can avoid uh moving
forward. So looking at the ones that are not running from what was presented today six of them are either identified as AP or honors. So my question is focusing on that cohort. I understand that an elective class is
an elective people are choosing. An AP or an honors course with a prerequisite load means that there's a student on a track and I get that that that population is going to diminish over time always because they're going
to be winnowing down their choices to hyper, you know, hyperfocus on a specific area of study to prepare for college. And you know, we're talking a fairly small universe of kids that are kind of filtering through this level.
Um, so what can we do for those six classes that are not running next year to ensure that those students if they're going into their senior year are getting a level of support to be able to work on that expertise level they're they're
looking at as a a key component of their college applications. Yeah. What I'd say is we have to take a look at that because just because those are AP and honors courses, it doesn't mean that those students it doesn't mean that those courses are always geared towards a specific student's journey. What you'll find is with more advanced
students who select advanced coursework, you know, often times when they get to senior year, um sometimes it can create the opportunity for them to uh look for some other experiences in their senior year that may not be as
uh rigorous. um or they may just feel like they've got their pathway set and they want to actually engage in some electives that can be something that kind of broadens their horizons or something that just can be part of the curriculum that they may not have dug into. So, so we'll take a look at that.
Um I don't want to be irresponsible tonight, but I don't want to equate the fact that some honors and AP courses are not running, electives are not running with something that's preventing students from um you know, that's enabling them to kind of pursue some
post-secondary experiences. If that's the case, we do need to take a look at that. I think our counselors do a great job in terms of navigating students towards what they think is most appropriate as it relates to the courses before them. So, I do know that the counselors engage in in in alternative options for students if it relates to
something that may not be offered. Typically we we you know I'd say that we we generally actually have kind of I don't want to say kind of like a replication but I know we have some commonality with some course. So if one avenue may not be available usually
there's something that's comparable that enables you to still kind of pursue that but I want to dig into that a little bit more just to provide more of a responsible answer to that. Okay. Yeah. I'm only using this because this is fresh data that we were provided right before the committee. So um but just
could definitely share that. Yeah. You know, based on what I know about the high school experience, I I don't think obviously, you know, honors broadcasting can serve as an example that probably will run contrary to that. Um because we don't kind of have like this parallel honors TV production type of course. But
I think for those other areas, there is there is something that's an alternative. But I'll I'll uh take a look at that and I'll definitely get back to the board with something a little bit more definitive in terms of what that means. Yeah. Because I like just as that example, honors broadcasting and honors narrative film making are both not running. And if I
look at the courses that are running, there are no honors or AP classes in that category. So yeah, and I used that I said that would potentially be the exception, right? So just to give an alternate, there's there is no alternate even as a retake for
additional credit or anything. Right. So it just speaks to you know, in order to have a class, you need students in the class. I just take, you know, I just got to say it and just you just do and we can have a conversation about the minimum number just, you know,
we just have to have that discussion because I can't just I can't support it for just one course. That will be the standard for all electives and I just think we have to engage in that discussion and the lack of sustainability that will come along with that. So um so so I definitely will
revisit this and provide the board with a little bit more of a definitive update in terms of where we are. Can just to follow up and I've talked to you about this extensively with the we we do offer an extensive list of of electives in the high school. um if
you could get back to us just on maybe there is too many choices or um I don't know is it something in terms of students being more involved with a particular thing whether it be honors broadcasting or or business class um it
can't just be the students just trying to like what else is being done by the school. It can't just be the students trying to get other people to take the class. Is it something that teachers are doing? Is it something administration is supposed to be doing? Is it something that counselors are supposed to be doing for all of the classes that aren't being
run? Whether it be that there's too many choices, is it a scheduling issue? Is it the teachers that are teaching it? Is it the material that's being taught? Just if we could just have a followup on that. Yeah. So, so just so I'm not misunderstood, I did not make any as the
insinuation that it's a student issue. No, that's not what I meant. No, that's not what I meant. You said but you said that. Well, then I guess you I'm not blaming the students. I'm saying saying that you're blaming the students. I'm just saying that there's not student interest that there has to be a way for the
students other students to be involved or know about the classes. I know I think this year was this the first year or have we done elective like a courses in the commons? They had the courses in the comments. Was this the first year or been done in other years? I I don't
know. I don't know. I didn't know that. My kids do not know that. But but in terms of I I think there could be a a few different factors. I do think we have a lot of elective options and so therefore we do and I I don't want to put a the onus on
teachers solely but and we had this conversation as well. I mean you know right I don't think it's just I don't think it's just one. It's not teachers or students. No, I'm just saying like students typically um are going to sign up for a course of
the elective umbrella that they have some level of uh especially as you kind of are elevating in the grades in a particular level. It's going to be based on some level of interest that you have or something that you believe is on a pathway to a potential post-secary
experience. uh and and what happens is students do have choices. So the question is right if if someone is not choosing a particular course it doesn't mean they may not be interested in it. It could be that they may have more interest in something else or it may be that they've
actually experienced some of that course and they believe that they like to delve into something else. So I think that the reality is that this is just the reality. there's always going to be some electives that don't have enough students. I mean, that's just that's
just the that's high school USA. So, I do think we need to still take a look at that and and look for ways in which we can blend, merge, combine. Um, but teachers understand and the administration will support that and maybe we can go to greater lengths to do
it. But, but but there is a selling that comes along with the course, especially when when students have the ability to choose something else. that's just that's just the reality of where we are. So, I definitely will make sure we take a look at what we're offering. And I think we do need to engage in an
analysis where if we've got some courses that have not been um populated, I think we need to ask ourselves why. And I think you're right. I think there's a host of factors that may uh contribute to some of those issues. I want to make
sure that if there's any barriers that we may have uh as a as a system that we want to make sure we remove those. We're talking about an honors course on AP course. Obviously, we're talking about prerequisites, but I think the larger issue is here uh it's student interest
and and those interests sometimes can be in various places. So, I think uh so we'll take a look at it. All right. Yeah, this report that you have from the curriculum, is that a public information or I don't know which courses are in or
out? Where would it be posted if any? Like if I am a parent going in high school and I see like prior year they had x amount of AP class and now I'm looking at the curriculum this year. How do we get this information? Like who you know it's an e and flow. You may have an
AP course that's not available this year, but another AP course is where is this information? Well, right now information regarding courses will be specific to your child. The courses are in the program studies. All of the courses that are available that students could select from are contained within
the program of studies which is a publicly accessible documents on the website. It's on that. Yeah. So, it's just as we're going through the course selection process, the courses are are, you know, students can avail themselves to those courses, but when the when the dust settles and we start to actually
look at who's actually signed up for a particular course, yeah, we definitely wanted to run on this broadcast, but we didn't have enough students. I was just trying to find where the courses are and like when you you know you're right the number of the kids who are participating in the course study
but now every year it's going to differ because you're not going to get x amount coming one year like you said any test I'm not taking one so now is that program study guide updated every year to reflect what is offered now or do
they write it's added or it's removed to something question. So what I'll say is, you know, um, for example, even though this is we're talking a lot about honors broadcasting, so we'll use honors broadcasting as an example. You know, honors broadcasting is not going to be
removed from the program of studies. It's just a course that appears will not run for for the 2526 school year. It doesn't the course is not cancelled. It's not banished. It's just not running at this point in time as we move forward. So
um so the program of studies contains all of the courses that are approved to be available. So we would rarely erase courses. Sometimes we update modify um and through updating the curriculum
we may change the title of a course and it takes the place of something before. But just because something like those courses that are actually not eligible to run the 24 courses or so, uh we'll take a look at those, but but I anticipate we're not looking to unless it's something that just has not had
traction for multiple years. It appears that they're not vanishing from the program of studies. Just to clarify on's question, I think maybe that's what you're asking. those courses that are not eligible to run at the moment. I'm my perception based on
my experience is that guidance counselors are telling students and and it trickles down from there. Um is there anything beyond that that's being done to notify or parents parents are not being told it's just the
students being told? I'm not sure. I know that the first place is the student uh and and oftent times you the guidance counselor communicates with the student to indicate that that particular course or those courses aren't available and let's talk about some other things that you
were looking to do. I don't think that's always an immediate parent communication. It could be but I don't think it's always the case. I think the issue here comes to it's like you start freshman year take one course and you follow there's a train
track that you're following you're going up up up level this is very strange that you're not getting those same people who were on the track you're right they probably want to experience something else but it's very different number like you know you have x amount and now it
jumped down 50% like all of a sudden they don't they're not interested in broadcasting or any other classes because they put in their time for the three years to qualify for this last course that they it's very strange.
I I don't think it's strange. I think I think it comes down to choices. So I I have to be honest with you. I mean um it comes down to choices. So I think we'll take a look at that though. I do think we we have um I think we should do that for any course that's not being offered
for the upcoming school year due to under enrollment. And I think we should ask ourselves why. So that that's my only question. I think we just need to engage in that process. And there's a host of factors, but I definitely think it's helpful to be able to articulate why we think it is. So I will I will uh provide the board with some more uh
thoughtful feedback regarding that so we're not just speculating. Thank you, Mark. One last question. I'm sorry. um for our feeder. Um can you re refresh my memory for the rising ninth
graders? Like I know they received the program of studies, but is there anything hands-on? Are they coming up to the high school during their orientation and meeting with students who are taking electives? I know we do things about the clubs, but do they have any um one-
on-one opportunities to speak with existing students about electives that are being offered? Is that something we could add to the orientation one on oneonone? That would be the survival undertaking with 400 students, but definitely when they have the the
inperson experience, which is kind of, you know, it's usually around March, so it's slightly removed, but they do have opportunities to obviously visit the high school as rising freshman. Uh I do not believe I think they also have um I believe our rising freshman parent
night. They used to be uh some information what those options were, but I don't know if there's any direct communication with students regarding electives. I don't I don't think so. Um, but we can, you know, we can take a look at what that means as it relates to, uh,
the elective process. A little different for rising freshmen, um, in terms of the elective process, but, uh, we can revisit to get a sense of what that may look like. But, but to answer your question, I don't believe we're engaging students in oneonone or small group discussion regarding elective choices.
All right. Now, it may it may anecdotally occur when they're here and and and the peer leaders are engaging with them. Uh I think it's more of a broader conversation regarding electives in the process. But in terms of uh some smaller, more in-depth discussion, I'm
not sure, but I'll double check on that. Maybe something more purposeful we can look at. And then when is the last time we actually had a curriculum fair? I know we used to have them, but I I don't recall if we've had one since CO or
we haven't we had the last one we have was in 2019 maybe that's something we could look at is too and then students we can get excited about what comes next and just something to consider. Well the curriculum fair I mean I experienced it
once I will say that it definitely was a meaningful but but but heavy lift. Um I think I think the the the notion was can we kind of make pockets of experiences to to engage the community as it relates to some of our
uh instructional offerings. So co played a factor into it but but I think the larger issue was it was almost like is there a way we can do this in a little bit more of a micro packaging versus the macro. The macro was great because you had a chance to see elementary through
high school uh both um you know from a from a a core curriculum and also a co-curricular uh standpoint. It was just um a lot to digest uh in one evening. So I think we can definitely revisit uh conceptually what
that looks like. I think we kind of fragmented things in certain nights. So now you've got like STEM nights and and certain things, but uh we could definitely look to revisit at least take stock in terms of what we think we currently do that resembles that uh in
terms of engaging in that process in the same way that it occurred. Um the last time I recall was my first year here. Uh we can have that discussion. I know we we did definitely talk about that and it just felt uh like I said it felt like a heavy lift and we weren't
sure if that was the most meaningful uh use of energy. We could definitely revisit that. Thank you. Any other questions? I do have one question for um I'm sorry for why
in the um in the report for the federal funding it says 11 cents. It says the inter uh governmental federal is 11
cents. It's line um I guess in assets it's 142. Which report are you looking at? The board secretaries report. Uh yes, I'm looking at the page number.
First page, page one, line 142. And this is 11 cents. What's your I just don't Yeah, I don't understand what 11 is for. It's probably just a miscellaneous amount that's due from a federal um
federal source. Also, like they they Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? Pull the board, please. Mr. Yes, but abstain from you. Thank you, Mr.
Yes, abstaining from X. Yes to the rest. That was X. Yes. Thank you, M. Patel. Yes, Mr. Weeks. Yes, Miss Lans.
Um, on item line item G, abstain from the information related to myself, but yes to everything else on line item G. Abstain from V, W, and
X, and yes to everything else. Okay, thank you. Okay. Um, we have no need for a second executive session this evening. So that concludes our regularly scheduled