Testing. One, two, three. Check. Check. One, two, three. So, we're going to start the meeting. Please stand. Black slope to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one
indivisible and justice for all. Roll call please. Yes. Mr. Shei here. Mr. Vichel Patel here. Miss Pang. Miss White here.
Mr. Romano here. Miss Angina Patel here. Mr. Luggo here. Mr. Ron Patel here. Mr. Ero here. We have a quorum. Okay. Opening statement.
In accordance with the open public meetings act public law 1975 C231 sunshine law. The Edison Township Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place thereof posted in the Board of Education administrative office and posted on the district uh
district website. Thank you. President comments. Um um yeah, we had a very good opening day. Um we had uh compared to the past year we have much less bus issue than we had.
That's for that's uh um unfortunately uh you know Doug is not here and I have to thank him and his team. I sorry I made him work but uh you know it's all good. We had much less issues uh for transportation.
solve the issue at the beginning of the uh the first day and we're going to reopen up um the uh registration for bus um October 1st. Uh special thanks to our facility folks uh Mr. Kibus and uh
uh and his team. When I went to uh um Marshall on Friday, it was still a lot of work needs to be done, but they pulled it off and the cars were parked there on Tuesday. So, there's still little touch-up work we need to do, but
uh great work. And also the Edison High School, um similar scenario. I I went on the same day. The cafeteria was still in the progress of uh being done. Uh I was promised by uh uh Mr. Ross that uh on uh
was it Tuesday or Monday that the launch will be served a breakfast will be served on there and thank you for the team again to uh get it done. Uh it's beautiful work. Uh the security office still need final touches but uh we're
well on the way. Um Edison uh JP Stevens massive paving project. Um they're done. you know, right before the school starts, you always, you know, try to see if I have a heart attack and everything. You know, every time I go, it's like still work work, but the day before it's
done. Thank you for you and your team um for getting us ready. Superintendent report. Sure. Thank you very much, Mr. She. Um good evening, ladies and gentlemen, members of the board of education. I'm going to use the majority of my port report to um review agenda items as we
usually do during caucus. Um, but just a little preview as to uh what uh my report will look like on Tuesday. We actually have a couple presentations uh for Tuesday night's uh board of education meeting. One in which we'll celebrate um Middle Sex County uh teacher of the year, uh Miss Pamela Ang
from Lincoln Elementary School. uh we will be uh celebrating not only her accomplishments but also invited some special guests to uh present her with uh not only the award but uh you know to to be the representative of all the great things that go on here in Edison Township. So uh looking forward to that
presentation. We are also the district's receiving an award in relationship to um artificial intelligence and its use of that in relationship to um uh student information uh staff information uh and counseling. Uh it's been really really
good. Uh we are on the front level of uh product development in relationship to this and uh I'd be remiss if I didn't compliment Dr. Tui and his team for taking those pieces to the finish line through our newly developed Edison Success Academy. Uh so that's uh some accolades right there. Uh and we're also
going to highlight some of the great things that Mr. Shei just represented too. Uh maybe a little bit of a slideshow, not only from the uh newly renovated uh addition over at JP Stevens, but Edison High School. We have some parking lot components, too. So all of the great things that have been done
over the course of the uh of the last uh summer and last year. So uh looking forward to those pieces in relationship to that. Uh but I do want to and I will repeat myself on Tuesday. I want to congratulate and thank everybody who contributed to the success of another
smooth opening for the 2025 2026 school year. Special thanks to our transportation and facilities department uh did an unbelievable job. As always, uh our teachers and power professionals and all our support staff that welcome our students with open arms on the very first day of school, especially those
little ones when there's a little bit of anxiety as they walk through the door that first day. Right. I've always uh always a special day of school. Um and and teachers uh really really shine on that day. Uh and there's an excitement. It's the just like back to school nights. It's the pep rally for school. So we look forward to that. Uh we work
with the best administrative uh leadership team on the planet. Uh building level, department level, central office, cabinet, everybody soup to nuts. Uh did a great job so that our students experience a great first day of school and uh we continue that success for the remainder of this school year.
79 days after that too. So, uh thank you so much. Uh and uh without any further hesitation, I will review um this portion of our agenda items tonight under the administrative uh and curriculum and instruction report. We have uh a couple items for board of
education approval. As you know, we had a retreat over the summer in which we uh came together, talked about norms, developed board of education goals. These are the three goals that we look for uh for the upcoming year in relationship to board of education approval. Action steps will be
accompanying those as well. Uh moving forward, we will do our midterm evaluation towards those in January as we do at every board of education meeting. And these three goals are obviously aligned with uh our 2030 strategic plan and vision. So I thank
you so much for your input on that day. I think we'll all agree it was a a really uh uh it was a great day to kind of come together and and there showed a lot of synergy in the uh things that we have in common in relationship to that. So it was great. Uh couple annual pieces that we have to approve here. Our school
improvement panel for each in every single school. Uh our self- assessment uh determination grades for our anti-bullying bill of uh bill of rights act which is mandated by the state yearly. Uh and we are renewing our memorandum of agreement with uh Middle
Sex College uh for our partnership in our dual enrollment program. Under curriculum and instruction little bit longer list than we usually have. Uh we are approving a couple of dates. We have our PSAT testing dates as well as some field testing dates for the newly
developed tests for NJ SLA. Uh the adaptive test in grades four through 10 as well as the NJ GPA test uh for 11th grade students. windows of time are listed there as well. Uh new company administering those field tests this year too, but I'm confident in our team
that these will go off without a hitch. Uh you also see some field trips for approval, right? Some of our band, our uh our scholastic, our our u co-curricular programs as well. Couple curriculum guides as well for approval too. All of which have been um talked
with uh talked about during our uh curriculum committee from the board of education. uh and it runs from social studies to secondary components to uh 9th grade health uh some of the STEM academy pieces in which a lot of them were uh changes not only to credit
requirements in in consultation with the uh standard changes but to also match some of the new and innovative programs that we have going on here in Edison Township in relationship to themies as well as our pathways. Moving right along there, Mr. she we also have our pupil services report for
our out of district placements and underneath of these pieces right now we uh have our annual adoption of new special education programs that are mandated throughout the district for board of education approval as well as the dissolvement of some of those programs at the following locations. Um
many of those are based off of not actually all of them are based off of enrollment as well as uh availability within the school and classrooms. Uh and then our annual approval of some of our service providers, not necessarily ones that we use, but um in the event that there needs to be overflow, uh we have
these uh service providers at our disposal. Uh we have our a couple memorandums of understanding in relationship to uh our prek program. And those look like the highlights, a waiver of application, which uh was customary
in relationship to the uh application of the grant. uh the exact same piece that we did last year. And Mr. Shei, that is my that concludes my portion of the agenda. Just making sure. And I will turn it over to my very talented
colleague to my right. That will be our business administrator, board secretary, Mr. Toe. Thank you, Dr. Alelli. Uh my portion, uh first up's the bills list in the financial reports. Uh part of that section is the approval of our FY27 budget calendar. uh the budget calendar that we're going to approve tonight.
We'll start the process for developing a new budget which will uh see a kickoff meeting starting in October. Uh we also have the disposal of some fixed old uh obsolete fixed assets along with the uh approval of some uh special education
tuition rates. These are rates that are charged for out of district students that we bring in from uh other districts to um utilize programs that Dr. uh TUI's uh department utilizes. Following that, we have our contract
section um which highlights some some equipment purchases, vehicles for be uh buildings and grounds, uh the tech department, some uh cabling and infrastructure uh purchases, instruments for students. Uh there's a variety of items uh contracts for special education
related uh services such as OT, PT, speech um for supporting those programs. Item three under uh procurement is an approval for um acceptance into the byboard national cooperative. It's a
national co-op that we could use uh for purchasing educational related items. We have one change order at the JP uh auditorium under item four that is for some paneling work as you come into uh JP Stevens where the you know we just
had the auditorium renovation that's for outside for all that lovely uh wood paneling grants we have the application and acceptance of the FCCLA grant STEM grant uh along with the Holocaust education grant and then under the
transportation report. Uh we have two uh routes that we're going to be awarding uh at the upcoming meeting and that's what I got. Okay. Thank you very much. So uh we're open for public comments. Public comments. Anyone?
Anything? Ship Freeman, I just heard you talking about Holocaust grant. Do you have a grant for Amastad? Amastad. We approved that. Uh Amastad was mandated the same time the Holocaust was.
Yeah, I think we approved it last month. The answer is yeah, I think they think we approved last month or month. So recently. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just checking because I I don't hear much, you know. I mean, for both of them to be mad at the same time, everybody's like, "What? What?" Like, they don't really know what's going on
back and forth. Then I just wanted to say a little something too about uh the people going toward elections and stuff like that because it really bothered me today that the person running for office got docks and you put all the information out
about different people, you know, is it really a sad state of affair that we're into right now? And then I see whereas the people who are running for different boards and different councils and stuff like that. And I see like the nasty
personal tone, you know, like I'm I'm really getting sick of it because it's coming. It's too much now. It's too much in the air. It's too much for our kids. And it's too much of people every time you turn around there's another shooting at the school. I mean, the teachers job has become more d more dangerous than
the FBI and the police department. You know what I mean? like like we're we're really really going down down downhill as a country and it and it sad me like I asked like somebody asked me the other day they said something about Shannon Pang and I said well well well what's
wrong uh with her that you wouldn't vote or anything not you know not to be that they told me oh cuz she friends with Jerry and these are adults these are adults talking like this I mean I did I did middle school when they were all
acting like that. And when they promoted me to the high school, I was like, "Yes, I don't have to be with middle schooler anymore." But the adults are becoming middle schoolers. We We have to be better as a people. We have to do better and speak better and talk about our
pluses rather than our negative because we only have one woman at all running for the board of ed. All the rest of men. All right? So, I'm just saying, you know, can we do better in the different things that we do? Can we do better when
we do more diversity and let people know that DEI is not it's not poison. We have handicap people. We have people with different functions and stuff and people just go by acronyms and stuff and they don't have a clue. So I guess we have to
do better uh teaching people what different words means and different things mean and you know we got to be more inclusive of other people because we when you're doing a panel if everybody is the same way then what's the difference? And if 75% of your
friends all look like you you got a problem. If you only identify other people by the people you see on television those are not real people at all. So, I think you should reach out more and talk more and because I just want a better life for our children. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Joyce. Hi, Cal Reinhardt uh from North Brunswick. Microphone higher a little bit. Yeah. Uh just wanted to comment that it is quite regrettable on the subject of diversity that the only woman running for reelection this year uh voted to
throw transgender kids under the bus earlier when repealing 5756. Um so yeah, panel of men, but at least men who stand up for what's right. Thanks. Thank you, Sue.
Sue Campion, Edison, New Jersey. I'm wearing two hats today. One is uh the chairperson of the scholarship committee and it's Bosco's friends helping friends time of year again. The sale is October 22nd. Um the coupons are $5. All the
money goes to the scholarship committee and um you can use it online also. So if anyone wants to buy one, I have plenty available. Um I just have a couple of comments and questions. as um a resident of Edison and a taxpayer. Um well, first
one thing with I am Jewish and about Russia Shana. Um I was a little disturbed that um on uh Monday after school there were games um scheduled for um at least middle school and um as somebody who is who is Jewish just going
forward a calendar suggestion to close early on the first night of Russashana and um not necessarily have off the second day. Um, I can tell you growing up and all of my Jewish friends and uh pretty religious family, you celebrate
the first two nights generally um the the last day. Some people go to temple in the morning but they don't have dinner that night. It was very very difficult for me um to be able to get dinner ready and you know if you're going to services it would just be better in my opinion to close early the
first night and not have the second night off and be respectful. um still it's more important. Um the other thing is that I saw on Facebook yesterday and I was kind of um surprised and shocked. Um I didn't know when we purchased this property on Talmage Road about this
bubble um that they're talking about a sports bubble. Um I was wondering if it's approved by the town already. Um I happen to live off Talmage Road and I'm very concerned. I literally cannot make a right, never mind a left, out of my
neighborhood most times. um concerned about the traffic um that that this will bring um what the cost to build this is going to be on top of the $9 million that we spent for the property. Um, and I know that that it was mentioned about
um earning revenue to pay for other things for the school district, but how many years are we going to have to collect if people are willing to rent it um in order to break even with $9 million for the property and then whatever it's going to cost um to build that where um there is a pipeline back
there. Um it's a swamp. So, um, you know, I am just concerned about these things and, um, I'm not quite sure why we wouldn't consider building a preschool with maybe some a couple of special ed classes. Um, we're busing kids for preschool all over Middle Sex
County. Um, ELC is on like a postage stamp piece of property. They have a playground. Um, I I don't know why that wouldn't be um, you know, something that we're thinking about. Um, because who gets priority for this bubble? We have four middle schools and two high
schools. Like today, the soccer games were canceled. Who who who would get to play there um if there's one soccer field. So, and Middle Sex County is um the town is building something at the college. You'd be in competition with them. So, um just some of my concerns
and questions that I had with that. Um thank you. Okay. Um, nothing has been done for sports uh for the uh the uh the facility. Everything is open and I said multiple times in
public. Once the purchase is done, we're open for public input. So 9 acres is if you're talking about, you know, soccer game, it's can we can probably at least put a, you know, two, three soccer games, a soccer field there at least two. I don't know about you know three
but u you know everything's open and we're looking for public input money maker anyone else yeah Matt Revnack ETA president uh first of all I want to jump on what Sue said
about the boss call for $5 it's 25% off you buy one thing at $20 you got your $5 back but we also get money for scholarships for our students students at JP Stevens and Edison. So, I know I go every year. I get the the I buy four of them actually. I even hand them out
to some friends in the neighborhood or whatever. And um you know, I usually save myself $30 $40 for the $5 I invest. Second thing is uh Monday we have our C ETA candidates night. Um as was mentioned before, there are three seats up for election. There are eight
candidates. If you're not familiar with it, it's held at James Monrose School. So, first of all, if anyone has not responded, please respond by tomorrow, so we know you're coming. Um, we did receive from the candidates, but there were other invitees from the town, etc.
Uh, the second thing with that is it will be as usual livereamed. The easiest way to get the the link for the live stream is I will have it put on our ETA website tomorrow. Um, so you can link in at six o'clock on Monday and that is
edisona.org. org. So, if you go on edisona.org, I'll make sure my web master puts it right on the front page and you you'll be able to link it and live stream it at home. Next thing, um we have a few other
events coming up. I just want to mention um our annual trunk or treat is October 19th um at Milo Park School. Um that'll be from 12 to 2. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and it'll be like we usually do. who will have set up a DJ
and cars and lots of candy to give out and costume uh awards and things like that. The final thing I want to mention, um Dr. Alderelli and I received an email the other day. We have a former staff member, retired staff member, um I
worked with her for a number of years. Her name is Diane Wyans at JP Stevens. She put out a plea. Her daughter is in need of a kidney transplant. She's on the waiting list, but times are getting a little bit desperate for her.
Originally, they were looking for anyone that was like O negative because it's a lot easier, you know, with blood types and all. Obviously, O's the universal uh donor, but now they're asking anyone that would be interested and willing to possibly donate a kidney. I'll be honest
with you. I would do it myself, but I have kidney issues myself. I can't. But to please out there, if you don't know who Diane is, many probably don't. I'm sure very few, if any, in this room do. I do. Wonderful lady. She actually
retired early herself to take care of her sick husband and now she's going through with her daughter. So, if anyone is interested in information, you can reach out to myself or I'm sure Dr. Alderelli, we can get you the information in contact,
you know, to be able to help her out. Wonderful lady. It's just a shame she's having, you know, her daughter's having to go through this. All right. Thank you. So, Matt, is that information posted on the ETA website? That is not I just received, we just received the email on Monday. In fact,
we discussed how do we want to kind of go about doing this? So, I told Dr. Alder if he'd like, I'll make an announcement here. Um, it's it'll be more about contact information. I don't want to put, you know, everything up and I don't have that that much in terms of Mr. She I think I think Matt and I will
talk about the best way with the family to get that information out. I think there was it was out somewhere on a platform or maybe an email or something along those lines, but we'll find out the best way to go ahead and do that. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for advocating for that. Thank you very much. Anybody else?
Motion to Motion to close public comment. Second. Okay. Yeah. Uh let's All in favor? I I All member comments. I was at I was at a function the other day.
Actually, uh the library board u I am superintendent representative. Do we have on the obsolete list? Do we have anything uh like 20 microscopes
that are on the obsolete list? Because on the library someone got up and said that they were willing to donate 20 microscopes from the school system. I was wondering is
are there 20 microscopes that are being obsoleted? Not as I can see. Not Mr. code. So, in terms of um approving the obsolete items or disposal of fixed assets, microscopes wouldn't these
microscopes or microscopes in general wouldn't appear on it because their value is less than $2,000 per unit. So, we wouldn't need a board approval um to my knowledge. I'd have to reach out to the supervisor to find out if there's something that they're you know, no longer
I just want to make sure that you know somebody takes these microscopes and donates them. Yep. Some we'll put them to good use. We have a problem. Oh, I understand. I just want to make sure nobody gets in trouble and usually there's an obsolete item item.
I just want to make sure nobody nobody overstepped it or bounced it. I want to make sure that it's protected. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you, Mr. Anybody other other talking about microscope? Microscope. It reminded me actually we bought some when
Dr. Bragan was here. So, uh, they're pretty new. Um, you know, unless some of the old ones that, uh, way before Dr. Braden, uh, those microscopes should be pretty new. Yeah, they told they what we said, Mr. She uh, what we said is is that, oh,
they're getting rid of them. Well, if they're getting rid of them, is there an obsolete issue? Okay. And can we make sure that due diligence is done here? Okay. And the person that said that is an employee of the district. And I would like to make sure that that employee
knows uh if they're being thrown away, it's one thing, but there has to be an obsolete system. And to be honest with you, is that thievery? So please, can you check on that?
Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay. All right. So today is the uh um you know caucus meeting. So uh do we have any other board member comments? None. So all right, we're going to go to
the uh uh close session. Um, in accordance with the NJSA section 10 column 4-12, the Edison Township Board of Education adjoins to confidential sessions for the purpose of discussing the following confidential personnel and board matters pending litigation,
student matters, property acquisition. Can I have a motion to adjourn to the private motion to approve session? Okay. Second. Okay, John got it. All in favor? I. All right. We do not expect to uh come
back after this. So I'll see you guys on Tuesday. We are in Wood Wilson, right? Yes. Yes. You're welcome.