Check. Check. Check. One, two. Check. Check. One, two. Start the meeting. Uh, please stand. Flag slope. Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. She here. Mr. Vishel Patel. Miss Pang here. Miss White here. Mr. Romano here. Miss Angina Patel
here. Mr. Lugo here. Mr. Ronac Patel. Mr. Erico here. We have a quorum. Opening statement. Yes. 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. Copies of this notice were sent to the Home News Tribune and to the Star Ledger. Thank you. So today is a combined meeting, so we're going to go to close
session first. Um so in accordance in accordance with the NJSA section 14 attend our four hyphen 12 the township board of education adjourn to confidential sessions for the purpose of discussing the following confidential
personnel and board matters uh student matters property acquisition. Can I have a motion to adjourn to the privilege session? Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Eric and Jo. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Okay, so we have a relative short
agenda, so we'll probably be back at 7 o'clock. Thank you. We're going to restart our meeting. All right. Can I have a motion to reconvene to the public? session motion. Do I have a second? Mrs. White,
Joe and Mrs. White. All right. Uh, all in favor? I. All right. So, first up, the president's report. Uh, hope, uh, you know, everyone's enjoying the summer and, uh, everyone was safe, uh, you know, for
that huge, uh, rain and everyone is you know, we had a little bit water in the in the in the in the school and uh our uh custodian has done a great job of cleaning that up and uh we're you will see a couple proposals on the finance
section who will try to remediate that um down the road. So, it's it's not going to happen. And if you go to JP Steven, you will see there the township is is uh you know cleaning up the drain uh to help uh uh that situation. So, uh
I hope that that will not happen. again and I hope everyone enjoying the summer and the weather has been nice and they're ready for the uh the new school year which is right around the corner. So Dr. Thank you very much Mr. Shei. Uh good
evening ladies and gentlemen. I hope all is well. Uh July 1st officially kicks off the uh 2025 2026 uh school year. Um we are in the preparation cycle for many things. We are in year two of our strategic plan. Um, just want to give a shout out to all of our co-chairs as
well as the people that are working behind the scenes, right? Administrators, teachers, uh, support staff to make all of the actionable steps uh, come to life. In year one, we did a great job looking to build on those progress and those pieces. Uh, for year two, we have uh, summer curriculum
work that's going on right now currently focusing on many of the things that came out of the strategic plan uh, plan. uh that would be our biomedical academy as well as information related to uh computer science. Uh we've got a few textbooks that we're adopting uh moving
forward as well too. So very very busy summer as it relates to curriculum and instruction. Special thanks to our supervisors, our chief academic officers, and our special education department um for all their hard work. Uh I will echo Mr. Shei's sentiments in
relationship to facilities operations. Mr. Calibus, Mr. Murphy and his team have done an absolutely wonderful job under the leadership of Mr. Toth in um making sure not only that we're managing the many infrastructure projects that we have currently going on right now um but
uh navigating summer school uh our facility managers, our custodial staff, you know, uh as well as our maintenance department grounds where the rubber meets the road. They do a great job especially during emergencies. Uh, I know Edison got hit uh pretty badly with rain uh as well as most of uh Middle Sex
County. Uh just special thanks to everybody that came and participated and uh getting those pieces cleaned up efficiently and uh we're at JP Stevens. You couldn't even tell that it rained there. They did a wonderful job. So, um my congratulations to that team over there. And uh summer is hiring.
Recruitment and retention over here is paramount. Nison Township. Uh we are looking for the very best in our uh open spots here for our vacancies. Our HR department as well as all our hiring managers are are doing a great job. We
are uh looking for a full staff come August 31st so we can start the school year off on a uh a wonderful year. And uh the that is that's actually it for my uh we have a couple administrative retreats as as well as a board of education retreat coming up. Uh so uh
it's been a very very busy July and that that'll conclude my report. Mr. She thank you very much. So before we open up for the public uh comments on the resolutions do you mind you and John just walk through so then we can open up for the comments. Y absolutely
absolutely. So if you take a look at our right we have our our personnel agenda um our administrative reports currently right now. If you take a look under administration, curriculum and instruction, uh the annual adoption of our virtual instruction plan, uh as well
as the approval of the June Hib report, which is tradition on each of these um board of education actions agenda, we have our professional development agenda, right? the board's commitment to ensuring that not only certifications are up uh to date, but advancing all of
the great things that are going on in teaching and learning and how we support our teachers and administrators here, as well as approval of some math textbooks as well as some social studies and history textbooks as well too. Um uh I know both supervisors did a wonderful job in in uh with the uh curriculum
committee's uh blessing uh in presenting these adoptions. Uh they did a great job. We had a couple pilot programs as well too. Uh looking forward to those that implementation over the course of the year. We have our pupil special services agenda which is just our out of
district placements in relationship to um our special education population uh and the annual adoption of our athletic training plan um for both Edison High School as well as JP Stevens. I will now turn it over to my colleague to my right
uh Mr. oath. Okay, so we have our f the first item up on the uh finance section is obviously our financials and bills list. Uh obviously we got to pay our bills, accept our financial reports. We're also going to uh be accepting our state aid for the non-public schools that we
manage uh as the custodian of their funds. Uh under the contract section uh you're going to see a lot of educational software licenses because you know schools uh mainly don't use textbooks anymore. It's it's you know texture site licenses uh for computer software. So a
lot of that uh some furnishings for uh the buildings uh in terms of classroom furniture. Um we're also going to be doing some paving at uh JP Stevens uh to finally make that uh parking lot uh suitable that my small Acura can drive through it and not get swallowed up by
one of the massive I think it's actually like almost like a swimming pool, right? But no, we're going to take care of all that. We're going to grade it. It's going to get a whole new uh system. So, there's going to be grading done, uh, base coat, top coat, it's going to be really nice, and it definitely needs to get done. Um, procurement, uh, the bid
threshold under in the state of New Jersey has changed. Uh, it's now 53,000. So, we're going to ratify that. Um, under facilities, we have a change order at the JP Stevens addition and alterations project. This is for an area of refuge, which is the stair towers.
There needs to be communication systems put in there that uh interconnect with the fire systems. So uh we have a change order on the agenda for that. Uh uh the other items under facilities, we have an application uh to the DOE, a project application uh for HVAC for uh putting
in uh HVA air conditioning at uh JMI, Washington, and JMP. So those are three schools that we be fully aironditioned. um hope to go out to bid uh sometime this fall. Uh and then the last two items are obviously we've talked about
this before in public board's interested in purchasing a parcel of land over on Townage Road. Uh it's about nine acres. There's an application there's a resolution to uh apply to the DOE for approval of this land purchase and the uh the resolution that follows that is a
resolution to authorize Dr. Alderelli and myself to enter into negotiations and due diligence with the owners of that said property. So hopefully we could strike a deal and close on that property uh in the upcoming months. Uh following that, we have some grants on
the grant section. We are going to be uh submitting our safety grant for FY26 along with our IDA basic and preK grants um and the general prek grant uh that comes out in October. Uh, and for transportation, nothing at this time.
That's what I got. All right. Thank you very much. Now we're open to public comments for resolutions only. Resolutions. Yeah. Joyce. Good evening. Um, I'm interested in this parcel of line land. You said is nine
how how big is it? Nine and a half acres. Nine acres. So n What are we purchasing? Sure. What are we purchasing it it for? Why are we purchasing it? Can you answer all all your question? Okay. I just want to know why we were purchasing it. And I thought that
that particular acreage, whatever, was too small to actually build a school on. So that's why I'm wondering about uh purchasing that. But the reason why I'm worried so much about
purchasing that and spending extra money because it's common knowledge that um Washington DC is coming with a a hatchet to cut down funds for education and I don't
want us to not be able to take care of programs and stuff for our children's because we p we purchased some land sitting over there that we may not be do able to do too much with. Yeah. So, please give me some explanation of that and where it's going
from this point on. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. You guys want to try? Yeah. Yes. So, we actually a great questions too. So, um uh this has been a property that has been discussed um with the board of education and previous boards as as long as I've been here
almost five years now. Um I believe yeah even longer than that. Um I believe in uh 2021 the board had a rendering done of a school approximately 750 students um that it could house including parking lots things along those lines. So it can
definitely house um a larger elementary school or a smaller middle school at that time frame as well too. Uh the resolution's written in a capacity though that also provides the board and our administrative body with latitude on how to utilize those pieces too. It can be utilized for a number of different
things from uh sports fields to bus depot to schools to anything that we kind of um look forward in our long-range facilities plan that's tied to correct me if I'm wrong to as long as it's tied to our long-range facilities plan um and uh approved by the board of
education. Uh I think it will uh not only assist with our overcrowding issue but the modernization as well. If you want to add anything to that Mr. She but I think I hopefully I answered the question. Yes. So, uh, the the when you look at the property and you look at what the developer wants to to do with a
property, we actually have a a a drawing from the developer, John. I don't know if you you have that. I have it in my office. Yeah. So, if you I have it. I can I'll probably get it up there. Yeah. If you can get it, you know, from the office, that'll be good. So, um, yeah, if we can do that. uh they are
planning to do a 248 or 260 uh unit apartments. So by uh you know the minimum minimum what we do is you know we buy that property these apartments are not coming up and you know there will be kids coming from these 200 something apartments it's
not.5 students per apartment as the rucker study so um you know um instead of uh spending more than $10 million to build classroom to accommodate all these uh um you know apartments I think it's it's a
a move for us to uh uh take the opportunity to acquire this land and there are not a lot of uh um landing Edison that that's this is relative uh actually I use the word clean land that we can we can use yeah in a flat and um
do a lot of things down the road. So uh there a lot of good ideas that from the board members and we'll be reaching out to the community for what what is best uh to use that uh property but the minimum we stopped these 200 something units. So uh here is a drawing uh if
anyone who has any interest you can you know feel free to to take a look at it. These are what they were planned uh I think they submitted their original um plan to the township um you know for this. So that's just uh I hope I answer your
question. All right. Anybody else? Yeah. Right. Uh Brian Rivera Edison. Um Dr. Alderella, you actually answered a lot of my questions. To me, my my concern was just like reading the resolution itself. the board intends to utilize the
property for an athletic field and or school purposes. So many of the questions I asked where were why wasn't classrooms listed like to me when we're discussing overcrowding you know we were an athletic field that's something tangible classroom
there's no listing of classrooms so that was one of the questions that that people were asking me about um the other question was why an athletic field and also if you could define school purposes like someone made a joke were you going to host a dance there or something um so
they understand like the the definition of school purposes. So, I think if the resolution was a little bit more clearer and especially if you put classrooms listed because that's what a lot of families want to see. They want to see classrooms. Uh I don't think they want to see another field. Um the other part
of this resolution too is says engages services and in consultants. So, has the board engaged in any of these service consultants? Any conversations with them yet? Like I'm curious what type of is is the land good land? Um will it get flooded? Like do do
we have I hate to buy something that we know it's going to be useless? So I was just curious if you guys engaged in talked to surveyors or or or or just make sure that the property is adequate for for school use. You know, I understand your uh the reason why you
purchased the property to save it from units. I didn't know that was going on. So I understand the strategy of doing that. Um, but this is $9 million. So, we want to make sure that if we're spending $9 million, we're using that property for something, not to hold off something. But I understand the
strategy. Um, then while I was going through this, I also looked at uh the grants. I see the preschool grant. So, my questions is more as a comparison for this grant being submitted versus the the grant that we submitted last year.
So it says uh we're going to partnership with private licensed childc cares and head start agencies. So how many uh child care providers are we working with and head start this year versus last year? Is it the same amount of
numbers or if have we decreased because I know we lost funding. Also we apply we're applying for 2 million461 not to exceed. So we're applying for this. What did we apply for last year? What was the number? I'm just trying to see if there's a comparison and also with spots
and money, you know, that now we're talking enrollment. So, how many kids do we have uh projected to be enrolled this year versus last year? And then my last question too, it's kind of related to this. You know, there was an article that was posted. It said New Jersey will
be freezing enrollment for child assistance programs and uh it'll that would start be starting at the end of July. Um, will that affect Edison students and Edison funding? May. Yes, if I may, Mr. President. Um, and I'll
defer to the superintendent u to the extent he may need to supplement on the first question you asked about the real estate issue. Um and admittedly this is my first meeting but um the limited information I have about it is that there is and will be a period of due diligence um wherein the board of
education will be allowed access to run certain tests and assessments um of the property. Um that will of course involve uh negotiations with the current owner. Um and so I would advise the board and administration just to limit um any
potential um comments um at this time uh so as not to infringe and violate any confidentiality andor leverage we may have. Uh my understanding of the definition of school purposes under title 18A um and regulations at the department of education, it is rather
broad and the board and administration intentionally are keeping it broad so that their options can be open um subject to and dependent upon what the conditions are on the lay of the land. So that's kind of the the the nature of why you pointed out some of that language, classrooms versus field, etc.
School purposes can be a lot of different things. Um anything that helps with the business and operation of the district. Um, so that that's on that point. Dr. Alderelli, if you want to comment on anything. No, I think I think it captured everything there, Mr. Taylor. I appreciate it. Yep. Um, without disclosing um any of the uh information
in relationship to the negotiation for the land. Um, much like all purchases and acquisitions, whether you were buying a house or a car, there's a period of due diligence that would ensure that the land is suitable for school use.
And then the preschool. Yeah, the preschool. So, Dr. Tui could probably give um uh detailed numbers in relationship to the number of pro providers in relationship to last year uh to this year, but it's definitely smaller. Um we did go with a smaller
grant. Um uh we've worked with a couple of consultants. Smaller grant would be a little bit more appealing. it is still um something that we'd be on the hook for to capture our entire universe in five years which is 2100 people Dr. to to students somewhere in that ballpark.
So the end result is still the same but the manner by which we we get there um we're moving a little bit smaller incrementally. Um the freezing of enrollment in relationship to child assistance program uh we don't know how that's going to impact currently right now. We haven't seen those numbers as of
just yet but we are monitoring them. um you know, we're monitoring that. We're monitoring federal freezing of funds and and and all of those pieces in relationship to that. But um the the grant is definitely um smaller by more than half I would say to right Dr. Tilly.
Yeah. Went down. Perfect. Okay. So any other public comments? Yes. Beth Talkey, 15 Midwood Avenue. I'm glad that you guys clarified that that land is going to be, you know, if we don't buy it, built on more units.
Concern is also over on Wood Avenue and Oak Tree Road. They're proposing between 200 and 300 apartment dwelling units to go where the old food town and the um roller skating rink was. So, I'm hoping we're looking for like into the future for that. And if we do
buy Well, also across, you know, right down the street, it happens to be in Woodbridge, but right across from Metro Park where that BASF property is, they're leveling that and they're putting apartments there as well. Even though that's, you know, Woodbridge, that's Woodbridge. I hope they don't come to Edison. Well, it's it was
brought up as planned because of the intersection down there, Route 27 and Wood Avenue that there's the intentions of between 200 to 300 apartment units going on Wood Avenue. So, I'd hope that you would look into if we are going to purchase this land to put another building on there because we are going
to have an influx of children whether it's on Talage Road or Wood Avenue with apartments coming. I also had a question. It says um for the finance stuff, JMI show cause has been delayed to August. The project is on hold. Can
you explain what that does that have to do with the um addition that's being put on there that that's being put on hold? Because that kind of concerns me too being that down the street from me on Wood Avenue. They're intending on, you know, building all these properties which will be on waterfront property
being that in the raintorms it keeps flooding and the cars float down Wood Avenue. But we can get a ferry to get them to school. I suppose. Um, but if you can just clarify what that show cause has been delayed to August. The project is on hold. Thank you.
Mr. President, if I may, just in that last point, um, the show cause, that's an order to show cause. That's a legal proceeding. Um, essentially it's a a motion hearing. Um, it's been adjourned to a date in August, I believe August 25th. Um, it involves a bid dispute. Um the board and administration can't
comment much further on that because it is active pending litigation. But again, a hearing on a bid dispute that was filed by one of the applicants um has been filed and we have a hearing or return date that was uh rescheduled to I think August 25th. I want to say
thank you. Any other public comments? Okay. See none. All right. So, can I have a motion to end public comment? Motion to close public comment. Have a second. Second and Joe.
All right. So, can I have a motion to approve the personnel report? Motion to approve. Joe. Second. Ralph. Switch the order. Mr. Erico. Yes. Mr. Lugo.
Yes, Miss Ana Patel. Yes, Mr. Romano. Yes, Miss White. Yes, Miss Pang. Yes, President She. Yes. Motion carries. Motion to approve administration,
curriculum, instruction, pupil, special service report. Can I have a motion? Motion. Okay. Joe, I have a second. Jenny. second. Yes. There we go. It sounded sounded like Miss White. Sorry.
Okay. It is. It is. Okay. All right. Here we go. Mr. Erico. Yes. Mr. Lugo. Yes. Miss Anja Patel. Yes. Mr. Romano. Yes.
Miss White. Yes. Miss Ping? Yes. President Shei? Yes. Motion carries. All right. Can I have a motion to approve the finance report? Motion. Too late. Well, you should let the ladies go first. All right,
Jenny. I'll second. Ralph Ralph Ralph Jenny. Roll call, please. Well, Mr. Erico. Yes. M Mr. Lugo, I had a question, but you already started roll call. So, what's the procedure here?
This is about Congress. If your board's okay with it, we can Yeah. Right. I like the way you put that. That was very good. Respectfully is not No, I got you. Sorry, I should have been a I should have been a little more assertive with that, you know. So, 100%. Yeah. So, just just real just real quick
going going back uh to uh the the the language that was used for for the contract for for per potentially purchasing the property. So, there's nothing at this point that would actually that we know of that would actually preclude us from classrooms. Correct. Correct. Correct.
Okay. And in fact, you know, for educational purposes, that would include classrooms. Correct. Classrooms. Okay. How about it may include there's no defined plan. Don't have to, but it says school purpose. Well, that's what I'm saying. It would be classrooms would be covered under the
umbrella of school purposes is what I'm saying. Correct. Yes. Okay. I just want to make sure question be interpreted as a commitment that it would include class classrooms because that has not been decided yet. That's my my understanding. Correct. Correct. Correct. Okay. Also too, I just want to make sure I I just
understand this um thoroughly. So these resolutions will allow you right to take the necessary steps, you know, the you know due diligence um hiring the external professionals that you would need, you know, to to conduct due diligence. Uh settle, correct me if I'm
wrong, settle terms of the contract. Yes. Okay. And what about signing the contract? This authorizes us. The signing is is authorized as well. Correct. Okay. Okay. That was that was my question
number one. And um question number two, um this actually has to do with the bills list. Um and I just found this maybe about like five 10 5 10 minutes ago when I was like thumbming through here. Um, could
you explain what the Edison Township Ice Hockey Parent Association is and why there's a charge for almost $25,000? Sure. You want me to? Yeah, so that the the ice hockey association, that's what we the I'm
thinking lacrosse. Ice hockey is for the um that's rental of the rink. The rink rental. Correct. Because they we don't have our own rinks. So I believe we go to Woodbridge and they I believe the parent association helps with the rental fees if I'm not mistaken. It it's a joint between Edison and
Mataching as well. So we share the cost. It's been like that for years. Yeah. Okay. So there's school teams for ice. I didn't realize that. Okay. Now I learned something new. Even with uh like with lacrosse, same thing is I believe we
we have some joint activity. Yeah, it's a joint team between JP Stevens, Edison High, and I Perfect. Thank you for the explanation. Anything else? Okay. Okay. Uh, so are you yes or no or indifferent? You got to start over. Let's start.
We start over or Okay. All right. Mr. Erico. Yes. Again. Mr. Lugo. So, um, yes. Yes. With two Generally speaking, yes, but there's going to be two areas where there's no and one
abstension. Okay. So, um under uh finance and facilities under contracts and award, I'm a no to number six. And what is that? The issuance for hold on one second.
that is uh uh for the architects and uh also to for the resolutions for the purchase of the property. I I I understand we need the
property. Absolutely. But right now I'm I'm an abstension because there's actually some more information that I would like to see, you know, prior to approving a $9 million purchase. All right. So I have a no on number six contract and a no and an abstension on
the land that so that's part there's two resolutions of those two resolutions. Yes, both of those. Thank you. Noted Miss Ana Patel. Yes, Mr. Romano. I have a problem only because I would like to have the board have
final say as to the res uh actually to comments about purchasing this piece of property. I have no problem with anybody
with the administrative staff, but I do have a problem with them allowing or allowing them to sign off without board approval. That's the only problem that I have. So I I
would say yes on everything, but with the stipulation that the superintendent and the administrative staff a answer questions at a later date and that probably be the
only, you know, and I'm quite sure somebody's going to say something. Go right ahead. I was just going to say as a point of order, I mean, we're technically back into the roll call again. So this is where you say yes, no or abstain. Um but I think that the administration would be
you know well advised you know subject to time constraints uh to keep the board readily you know in real time apprised um either through electronic communications which of course are confidential um and or in what is to give you an an update when we get
closer to having contract terms. Well that's why I just want to make sure people understand that. Correct. That's what I'm that's what I'm saying is as it's written now the resolution um as represented by uh Mr. Toth does allow the administration and or your other agents, lawyers, etc. to
execute a contract. Um but as I indicated, there are a number of due diligence steps that are also kind of embedded in this resolution um that are going to take some time and the administration as the superintendent just affirmatively uh agreed uh will keep the board updated, you know, prior
to it being touched in stone. Okay, I understand that. So, what is the vote? The vote no now. I'm going to vote no for everything. Okay. No for everything. You got it. Okay. Thank you, Miss White.
Okay. I'm going to vote yes on this, but I do want to be informed before we sign off on anything. Miss Pang, I agree. Yes. Thanks, President Ch. Yes.
Motion carries. All right. So, all right. So, we are open. Oh, committee reports. Uh finance and facility. So, uh Vshow is not here. So, uh Ralph, you want to take it or you want me to?
I don't have the Okay. It's uh it's in theronic. I'll be happy to uh to take this. So, it's a short agenda. So we had a meeting on July 15th of 2025 from 4:30 to 5:30
uh in attendance was uh Vishel Patel uh Ralph Farrago myself uh and uh our VA Jackie uh Dr. Alelli and we have uh uh Mr. Collibus uh Mr.
Murphy and also we have two representative from VMR. So the topic we discussed is the JP Stevens high school stormwater update from uh DMR. There were a couple proposals uh for that. And the second
item is the uh town mage purchase and the appraisal is $10.4 million. So uh you saw that our resolution is up to $9 million. Uh the JMI show call that was asked by uh by Beth uh to delay to
August. The project is on hold and the uh Washington JMPI HVAC project application will be on the agenda which we are just approved uh for the air conditioning sub submitted to uh um the
state department of education for approval. And then the other item which is approved is JP Stevens parking lot grading and paving. It's uh close to about a million dollars. Uh there for facilities there's a change
order for JP Stevens uh communication system which John also mentioned about the tower in the elevator. So uh that's um um on the agenda was approved as well. Uh so that's basically is the u
you know the highlight of the meeting. So next up we have transportation committee Chris. Mr. Just a quick question. Yes. Can we get air conditioned for this building, too? This one is This is air conditioned. Is this Will Calendant,
but he just turned off. The same energy. Sorry to interrupt you, Mr. No, no, no. In the words. Thank you, President Xi. So, uh, transportation committee, uh, we met on Tuesday, uh,
July 14th, 2025 at 4:30 here at the education center. In attendance was myself, uh, President Shei, and, uh, fellow board member, uh, Virginia White. The intent and purpose of the meeting was to go over a state kind of like a
state of the department and, um, the, uh, as to be reported. Um, number of drivers currently in the district is 48 and that's not including two new drivers uh, to be approved. And number of buses, 64. Okay, we had
we had 66 two which a had aged out and um and Dr. Alderelli when I get to the bottom of this I did find my notes there's something maybe we should add to the minutes before maybe amending them. So, so for subscription busing for the
for the students, um for the 2425 school year, uh subscription, we're uh we're looking at uh 3160 uh subscription applicants received uh coming up for the upcoming school year, 3,894
subscription payment requests sent 2,992 and subscription students placed on the buses 2973. Now, from what I understand, these are rolling numbers, correct? So, uh that was one of the questions I had in the uh in the committee is uh they're not uh
they're not static numbers. They're dynamic. They're always changing. So, uh we're they're still waiting to hear from more students. You know, they're they're filtering in every day, you know. So, if you're looking at the numbers if they don't add up, you know, that that's why I had that question the other day. And uh you know to date subscription
payments received $1,813 for a total of 1,128,125 subscription payments open 1,158 for $723,750. We had 5,000 in fees waved and um those claiming free or direct um uh cert
certified are uh excuse me my uh 570 and claiming reduced launch is 134. Then we actually moved on. We talked about class trips uh for ath for athletics, band, orchestra and field trips in general. And for the 2024 25 school year had a
total of 1562 class trips. Uh the buses reco required to cover those trips are 20 2,18. Um just to get a little bit of perspective, JB Steven High School trips um came in at 557. Edison high school trips came in at 539
and for miscellaneous field trips about 300. Um hourly cost rates of $150 and the cost of the trips were $1,350,120. Um, and then we broke it down to Edison High School band and JP Stevens band with $38,175
and $43,575 respectively. So, what I wanted to to add according to my notes here, we can go back and uh um talk to M Mr. Doug. Yeah. that uh uh four buses um well uh
there was a total of four buses that actually are um uh scrutinized um with two uh approaching the age out and the age out is roughly 15 years. So, um there was actually um uh two there, you
know, so we we talked about the aging out of um uh some of the uh uh a couple of the school buses. So, what it just wasn't reflected here. So, and that's that's all I have. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. She. Yes. Uh
the library, just to let you know, uh the library on uh actually on Oak Tree Road, they've closed the library on Grove and they're remodeling it.
That's going along as planned. There's extensive remodeling. There's walls that have to take and be dug out and and that project's going forward. Uh at the main library, the
main library, the upper floor is almost done, but the ground floor, that's the one that they're still working on. So, all I say is is please be patient. Go out and get a library card.
Uh, our libraries are busy. The Clara Barton really busy and just be patient. We have signage up on Grove for the library and the new location is
on Oak Tree Road. And the library is good. It's great. It's good for the kids. It's good for the senior citizens. It's good for people that want to come in and
use the Wi-Fi. So, please just be patient. It's coming. Trust me, it's it's really going to be great. And that's all I have to say about that. Okay. Thank you. Uh I just want to add uh you know to the
uh transportation uh report. Uh we have already added seven more new routes uh so far and more routes will be added and the number that was uh you know the subscription application received 38.94 uh some of the people who actually do
not need uh subscription uh they are outside the radius but they still submit it. So the number is slightly a little bit uh high but I just want you know the public to know. All right. Yes.
Uh these buses that are uh outlived their time, is there any proposals anywhere on uh adding new buses? You want to add, John? Yeah.
Yeah. Mr. I think um as we're going to be starting to build next year's budget that's going to be kicking off relatively soon uh in the month of September, we're going to be having those conversations with our director of transportation, Mr. Gillian and his staff. We're going to be planning uh for the age out of those um older buses and
acquiring new ones. Are these buses going to be diesel with diesel emission fluid or are they going to be gas? I think we're going to look at all different options. Um I I believe, you know, we're going to get input from the transportation director. I uh I know
that he likes diesel. We'll also look at gas. We're going to look at all options as to what's you know cost effective, but what also is going to be uh an efficient running vehicle too that's going to have less problems with you know breaking down and things of that nature. Well, the uh reason I'm asking is uh
it's called DEF, diesel emission fluid. If you idle a bus, here's the key. If you idle a bus more than the state law, 15 minutes, 15 minutes is not really the number.
It's a little bit less. With a diesel, when you idle that bus, it clogs up the deaf system. Now the other issue is is that if you
use this gas for for fuel uh have we looked into have we looked into solar panel
retention on top of the buses? I mean that's something that we have yet to look at. um you know we have solar obviously in a lot of our uh businesses but you know if there if there's a possibility for something like that it's something to look into right you know I
think that we have to explore all options you know whether it's through uh solar innovation or the use of diesel um whatever is going to do the best for our students to get them there you know safely and in the most cost effective way I think you have to look at it all and put it all on the table
you know I had I had not a concern I had a parent concern concerned that the students when they went on a trip, the buses are warm. And the reason that they asked was,
"Well, my my student has to get into a warm bus or a cold bus and we can't idle the buses." See, that's some of the things that you know over and above the parents should know this
and that's one of those issues that is it a hot bus? Is it the maintenance of it? The problems that we have with the maintenance of it. Not that we're having problems, but if the
if the if the I got to be right. If the the people are complaining that their kids are too hot
and they want the buses running, the fact of the matter is that we have to understand that Now, I was a truck driver a couple years, and I know that you're not allowed to idle a diesel.
So, that's what I'm asking. Has anybody consulted with people that actually know what's going on with diesels? And gas is another issue. And what is the range
on these buses? The amount of money that's spent on class trips which I am not for stopping them. The fact of the matter is is that has anybody discussed that
meaning the discussed the transportation end of it the cost. Yeah. I mean, I I believe during all the transportation committees, right, we're always addressing, you know, I you know, cost. It's one of the largest parts of our budget, right? But for our kids, uh you know, the class trips and their
sporting and co co-curricular activities are something that and and you as well, uh as a board are invested in, right? But we're always trying to find ways to do it, you know, in a in a uh more cost-effective way. Whether that be, you know, partnering with other districts,
um buying newer equipment, newer buses that are obviously more fuel efficient, all those things we tried to do to drive down the cost because we want to give our students the opportunities to um go on class trips and to be part of sports teams that play throughout the county
and and hopefully the state. Um, but like I said, we always put everything on the table uh during, you know, transportation committee meetings that you've been a part of and and finance as well, right, to try and and solve these difficult problems. Still got a lot of questions, but you go
right ahead. Just uh, you know, so the public knows, in the past five years, we uh, purchased probably 30 brand new buses. Uh, they're all bluebird buses. Uh whether we should p purchase a blue border international, it's a different debate, but we did
purchase 30 uh blueboard buses and they were all on gas if I remember correctly. And some of the the buses that's being uh you know aged out. They're like in the mediumsiz bus. It's not it's not a small bus. It's the uh it's not a 52
passenger somewhere in the middle. And that's really the old buses. And moving forward when we purchase new buses, we're going to get the, you know, either the small ones or we get the 52 passenger buses. So, this is something we'll um talk in the committee and we'll
consider all of that. All right. So, uh now let's open for public comments. Any comments from public? Hi, Wendell Castles Southside on Edison. You got the microphone a little closer. Thank you.
Hi, I'm coming today because this is our last resort. I've met with administration. I've reached out to some board members. I'm going to be at every board meeting and I'm going to be discussing some of the violations that have occurred on the south side in some
of one of the schools. I'm going to come to every board meeting and every time I come, I'm going to come up with another violation. We're going to discuss 2023 two AP exams that have to be voided
because of proctor error. We're going to talk about denials for 504s. We're going to talk about transcripts and grades that went out incorrect even though the administration knows about it. And every time I come up here and I
expose something, every month, I'm going to let you know I have the tangible proof for it. I've met with your administrator, both of them.
And each time I have 11 errors on a report card, I have four errors on a transcript. I have two AP exams that had to be voided for proctor error and not receiving accommodations.
And each time I came to the administration, they told me it was a miscommunication. They're on it. And then the last time I'll get to it. You sit here and you talk about all the
things that you do for our students, and yet the basic things of making sure your paperwork is correct, that your transcripts are correct, that testing is followed, and these are not from just teachers. This is
administration. It starts from the top. So now I'm going to come to every board meeting and I'm going to bring tangible proof of all the violations, the HIPPO violations of administrators calling
without clearance, no documentation to get information. Oh, and before you tell me that I must be, you know, misconstrued, let me tell you, I got the audio tape because it's gotten so brazen.
And your administration knows it. But their attitude is, well, get an attorney. And it cost us $1,500 an attorney so far. And it costs my kid scholarship money. So, I'm gonna have to ask you, how many of you be willing to look a kid in the
eye and say, "You know what? I'm sorry I didn't get to the paperwork." You lose out on your scholarship money. You sit here and you praise the kids and you talk about all the things you do, but when you're administrator that makes pretty good money and both of them up
top finds that it's not important enough to make sure documentation is correct. So now parents are going to be forced to come here, parents are actually getting annoyed because when we go and we ask them why
this is being done, for instance, a 504, go look on the website for JP Stevens compared to Edison High, JP Stevens has all the listings for it. Tells you exactly what you need. Edison High, you have to call and chances are you're
going to be denied. You are the board of education. You're the head. This person works under you and everybody else works under them. And yet no one can fix the problem. 11 errors. You tell me. Any of you would
tolerate it? And we keep our mouth shut because we don't want to make ways for our children. And yet we have to come back here to be belittled so that we can sit here and
talk about paperwork after paperwork after paperwork. Your superintendent, your sister's superintendent, they have all this paperwork. It was never corrected. So I'm asking the board, are you going to do something for our kids
or do I have to come every month? And every month I'm going to come, I'm going to expose another thing we've had to deal with because we're not being heard. We're being mocked. We're being ignored. We're told that we're lying or we're stupid or we're
crazy. Guess what? All this paperwork, it's tangible. Your administrators have it. I'm sure they never tell you that two AP exams were avoided for Proctor Eric on separate days, not the same day. Two
separate days. Two separate tests. And you know what we were told? We were told you didn't work hard enough. You didn't study. Meanwhile, they were lying to the student because they threw out the test.
So, you think about that when you sit here and you say how you're doing all these things for these kids and these kids are asking for help and your administrators turn around and they ignore the emails. They ignore the phone calls. They ignore the actual
documentation. They tell us in their own words, "Yes, we made a mistake. Oh, it must be a comm a miscommunication." It's not a miscommunication. It's purposeful because the first time's an accident. The second time's a
mistake. The third time you knew what you were doing. No one here are newbies. No one here that I dealt with was right out of college. Didn't know what they were doing. They were lifelong people that were in the system getting ready for retirement. I believe some of them even retired.
Ma'am, your time's up. Thank you. Any other public comments? Young man, you want to say something? You here? Oh, okay. You usually have the the the kids go first,
huh? Yeah, absolutely. That's that's uh that's what you're here for, right? So, just talking about how there's some problems with the buses and how a lot of parents are complaining that the buses are too warm. I feel like a good idea would be creating a public service
announcement. So I'm not too sure what schools are being affected the most, but just creating a simple public service announcement explaining the Just uh your name, please. Oh, so Guladi. I'm a sophomore in high school. I live in North Edison. So I feel like creating a simple public service announcement kind of explain to
the parents where our funds are being allocated and how we can kind of try to improve the situations while also trying to explain to them why, you know, leaving the buses idol is not, you know, the most viable option. So I think creating something simple just information to get out there and kind of
explain to them why we can't do the things they always want us to do but kind of trying to create a in between that will work for both them and us. Okay. Thank you. Any other public comments? Yeah. I just got a clarifying question for
you, man. I'm just trying to understand it. I understand a statue. You say it could be anything. But why did you write why does it say field uh a field and this because a field could be anything as well. So that's what's just confusing me. If it just said for any school purposes that's
everything but it says field and school purposes. So did you get my misunderstanding or like that's that's where I'm kind of confused at. So that's why I was wondering if you said it could be broad. Yes. Well a field is broad too. So, I'm
just curious why it just said field. Like, so that's that's what it's bothering me. So, I I had to I had to get that out. Um, the other thing, too, is if we decide to purchase this because I know we did a budget presentation a couple of months ago, and I'm sure this
wasn't included in that budget presentation. Um, so where are we getting that $9 million from? Is that going to be this current budget that you presented? Are you taking 9 million out of that or are
you taking it from next year's budget? Like I'm just curious where this 9 million is coming because I'm pretty sure if it was the budget you presented that 9 million was allocated for something else probably because you weren't planning on purchasing this land. So I'm just trying to figure out where where are we getting that $9
million. Thank you. You want to go? Um yeah. So in all honesty, I was not trying to bother or annoy you with my response. Um, I didn't draft the resolution. I believe it was drafted by the district's
bond council um, in connection and furtherance with this project that they've been working with the administration and on behalf of the board with. Um, my comments and answer to you were just to explain that the law provides for a very wide latitude and discretion for what school purposes
means. And I imagine from my brief review of the resolution um that the bond council that worked with the administration to draft it wanted to be as um as much latitude as possible. So could it have said what you said versus
maybe I don't know but the way it's written now it is legal as to form in process to move forward. Thank you to superintendent now. Y John you want to tackle that $9 million? Uh, I can tell you it was part of the budget, but you want
that that's Yeah, that's accurate. It it um it was part of the if you guys recall when we uh presented the budget twice, it was it was part of the uh $22 million that we withdrew for Capital Reserve. So, we do have the funding right now, not as part of our operating budget, but
we withdrew from Capital Reserve. I believe in that presentation there was a litany of things. One of them on that list said land acquisition. So, we're planning on purchasing that land then? Yeah. Yeah, I mean this has been talked about since prior to my employment here. So it's been you
we talked about this presented. Yeah, you audible for three years. We've been talking about this for three years for more than three years. So I you know I I don't know what to say. So uh yeah. Uh Matt Matt Ravnaki TA president. Uh just a
couple things. Um, first of all, can we get paper copies of the personnel report when we have these joint meetings? It's very difficult to try to look on your phone because it's not like properly formatted for it. So, in the past, we always did get them. You can't even ask a question because I couldn't even go.
In fact, I fel I don't believe in somebody looking at the phone when someone's speaking. Dr. Alder was given his report and I'm scrolling to try to read it. So, if it's possible, I'd appreciate it. I know normally speaking when we get the personnel partis part of the agenda in the regular meetings
that's fine because you can look at it beforehand. Second thing I actually you know I know Brian's been talking about it all. I think it's a good move on the the board's part and I know it has been in discussion for a number of years um especially seeing the building of and I appreciate you sharing that the 246 you
know apartments etc. Um, one thing that's never happened in this district the 37 years I've been here is looking like really to the future and seeing what that enrollment and how it can affect things. So, I I do, you know, commend you. I do agree with some of the things said. I think communication is
important. You know, giving somebody the ability to sign off on something without the board, you know, knowing about it or whatever, I think is something that, you know, you need to think about. Um, number three is um I'm asking that the board members please
be careful when you post things on social media. Um, I literally was in Alaska for two weeks on vacation and I'm getting texts one day and a couple phone calls about there was a posting about block scheduling going into effect next year
and Dr. Alderelli and I and and some of the central administration worked hard to put together a team to do all kinds of research on block scheduling. I actually was part of JP Stevens group that went to Piscataway uh back in I believe it was May. Um and I'm getting
you know calls from people well if this is a done deal and we're told it's happening next year what do we have in a committee? Why are they wasting my time? So you know the ramifications of sometimes those posting come out to Dr. Alderelli and myself. Um, last thing I needed to do is I'm Alaska having to
deal with this stuff. So, you know, in in the future, you know, just be aware that sometimes when you post things that there is sometimes some ramification that comes along with that. You know, maybe saying something like we're taking a look into block scheduling uh would be
okay, but to literally it was said like almost like it's happening next year and it it definitely is jumping the gun. One thing I'm very big on when we implement it is that it's done the right way because if it's not thoroughly looked at, it's not going to be successful. So,
not that I'm opposed to block scheduling, it's something we need to look at. But, you know, the message out there was like it looked like it was going to happen next year. And again, the fallout of that is now we're getting committee members saying, I don't want to be on a committee if it's decisions. What are we wasting my time for? So I'd
ask that in the future that you know just be a little more aware of stuff like that. And the final thing I'm going to embarrass Dr. Alderelli a little bit. I want to wish you a you and Mrs. Alderelli happy anniversary. I know it's your anniversary next week. Thank you. Next week wish it to me and my wife. I believe it's a big one too,
right? 25 25. Congratulations. She told me the lease was up. So other than that, again, enjoy. Have a good rest of the summer and um we'll see you in August. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Matt. And please don't uh text Dr. Already about the
block schedule next week. All right. So, all right. Any other public comments? Motion to close public comment. Uh do I have a second? Second. Okay. All in favor? I.
All right. Now, we open for board member comments. Gary. Yes. You want go ahead. Uh $9 million. It's n It's not $9 million if there's a
bond council. Am I wrong? It's $9 million, but we're bonding it. No. So, we're bonding actual $9 million. No, we're not. Well, that's what I'm asking. There's people out there are talking about it's
$9 million. What is it? What does it really I mean really mean? People hear numbers and they go, "Oh, my taxes are going to go up." And the fact of the matter is if there's a bond council, what is it going
to cost the taxpayers per year? Just ask a question. This is cash. It's all all planned. There's no bond for this purchase. So I I don't know where that that uh you know uh thing comes from. But John, you can you can No, that's accurate. So be very clear.
I'm sorry. Oh, the term bond council. It's that's obviously it's a that's your legal representation who deals with, you know, financial transactions such as real estate, bond referendums, uh ground leases, which is a lease purchase on a
building. However, in this instance, um we are not borrowing money. So, we withdrew money for the fiscal year of 26 uh budget development to take money out of our capital reserve which has been you know savings that's been generated over the last several years and we are
going to pay for this property in full at closing. So, there'll be there's no loan there's no impact. See? Okay. Now, now it makes sense to me that, you know, I mean, I heard that word bond. Mhm.
And I'm saying, well, okay. Okay. So, now we're using $9 million of the taxpayers money. That's all taxpayers money. Every penny we use. Yeah. Okay. And $9 million.
Yes. How much is one tax point in dollars and cents percent? What are you talking about on the local tax levy? Yeah. I mean, the people here are paying taxes. I'm just saying on our I'm not going to
speak to each person's individual what their tax rate, you know, I'm not going to do that. But, you know, if if you look at 1% on our local levy, which has been the same uh for the last five years, which is probably like a record, I might add, it's probably like about $2.3 million.
So, you can consider, you know, 2% would be 4.6 and so on and so forth. So, we're using money in the reserves to buy to per maybe purchase. Let me rephrase,
maybe purchase, but the fact is is that if the money is there to be used, is the taxpayer, how does the taxpayer look at this?
Well, if they got $9 million, why should Why should there be a tax increase? There is no tax increase for I didn't say there was. All I'm saying is that the taxpayer
sees that we want to invest $9 million of their money. Of course, me too because I'm part of it. And then they look and they say, "Why is my taxes so high?" If they have $9
million, why don't they put that $9 million back into the budget? I mean, I'm just a dumb truck driver. Mr. Roman, if I may, and um you always make good points and we've had conversations into uh in regard to
school finances, but yeah, in the instance where the the board is um saving money through their legally restricted reserves, uh in this instance, the capital reserve, um this is one of the only uh legally
permissible uses for acquisition of land, construction of a building, we can never withdraw that money and then allocate it into our operating to our operating budget for current expenses or what you consider our operating cost, you know, whether that be salaries or
supplies or things of that nature. This is, you know, so, you know, if you want to look at it, this has been uh something that's been done through prudent savings uh by this board, the previous boards before that I I before I was even here to bring us to a time uh that we're at right now, we're able to
buy this type of property outright without u going through any type of borrowing process. I understand. Tell it to them. Tell it to the television. Tell it to them that they are
complaining that their property taxes are high, especially their school taxes. Tell it to them. Look into the camera and tell them that don't worry about it. It's only $9 million and it's Oh, it's your money.
Joe, let me tell them. Let me tell them for you. If we don't purchase this piece of property, there'll be 250 units that will cost triple the 9 million that the taxpayers will have to pay. So, either you buy the land or you
don't. If we don't buy the land, there's 250 apartments going up with probably 500 kids coming out of those apartments. What are we going to do with those 500 kids? Hire. We have to hire teachers. We have to pay for more buses and busing. I mean taxpayers, that's the answer. It's
simple. We're making a smart move here by purchasing if we purchase this property for whatever price it we come to. It's the best thing we've done in 50 years. Thank you. Any other public comments? Oh, poor
comments. I'm sorry. Am I? No, you're you're a board member. could you could stay there. It could be public. Okay, Jerry, just I just want to just say, you know, we had graduation,
believe it or not. Seems so so far away, right? And and here we are. But it was incredible. You know, both schools did a magnificent job. Uh, you know, if you had a graduate, you know, congratulations. But it was a beautiful thing. And as a
board member, that is my most favorite thing to do is graduation for both schools. It was well done. And we're so proud of all of those people. All those kids, I mean, they're just going to take over the world. We know it, you know. So
that's Yeah, it was great. Yeah. 12 close to 1300 students. Yes. Be a beautiful site to see. It really was. Yeah. And yeah, we did a provide facility for these people. for sure. Right.
So, any other board member comments? Um, uh, yes, Gary. Yeah, I just want to echo what R says. I agree this is probably the purchasing this land is probably the best move in the last at least 10 years, nine years that I'm on the board and we have been talking about this for years.
Uh and just to stress again this is not increasing anybody's tax and this money comes from the capital reserve which is not going to be we are not able to use that on any operation cost and we have talked about this for years and I don't hear the questions before so I don't
know why the question come today for the text but we are happy to answer the questions again so I'm agreeing with uh Raf that this is the best move and also want to say you know I look at the calendar today It's only like four or five weeks left in the summer. So, I
hope everybody enjoy the summer as much as they can. Yes. Yes. And uh wait till school starts. Thank you. Okay. All right. Any other public any member comments? Okay. So, um today uh we have a new face
uh sitting on the dis and this is our new attorney uh Mr. Lester Taylor. So, welcome. So, why don't you take a couple seconds to uh introduce yourself to the Edison uh residents. Thank you. Uh Mr. President, uh board
members, uh administration, members of the public, uh physically present as well as watching out in the matrix. Um I'm Lester Taylor of Taylor Law Group. I've been practicing law for about 25 years. Um representing specializing in education. I represent several school
districts across the state of New Jersey. Um our firm is uh conveniently located in New Providence, New Jersey, not too far from here. Um again, we're a full service firm servicing school districts in all capacities, special education, labor and employment, general counsel, procurement, etc. And it's
honor and privilege to uh be up here in the day. Um but I've also had the uh privilege of serving as special education counsel for the past three or four years as well. So I'm very familiar with uh your school district and this commu uh community and we look forward to being part of the team. Thank you.
Thank you. So, he's not really new new, but he's been the, you know, on the on the back, now he's he's sitting at the front. So, welcome to the to the board. So, um the you know uh people probably heard about me talking about um we have
a lot of uh vendors that we work with a lot of vendors uh in our district and I'm looking for vendors that are giving back to the community and a lot of them making millions and millions of dollars and they're there are some of the vendors are giving back through um you
know scholarship they're uh giving back uh to helping the community with internship And uh we have been expanding in part of the thing is expanding the internship especially we have these uhmies uh that's going on and we have the career path that's coming up uh and
next school year for different areas and we need collaborations with the local businesses or or uh these vendors industry to have our students gain some hands-on experiences and uh I'm just happy to report this year we expand the
uh internship program beyond the traditional So 10 uh from the tech department and 10 from the uh the facilities department. We also added internship in the um um public um with working with Heather on the web pages and so on. We have uh internship from
our uh insurance brokers and we have uh internship opportunities from from banks and we also have uh internship opportunities from the um our food vendors as well. So uh during the process and uh recently uh you know
uh one of our bank is first bank uh they're based in Somerset. So uh in the recent process of working with them for internship uh we actually got something more uh from the uh first bank. Uh with that said I going to have
uh uh Mr. toast. Uh tell us what are the collaborations we're looking down the road and and what that will help us uh for the for the school programs. Sure. This is um a new opportunity for our students. As you guys know, uh we've been with First Bank for a few uh years now. We we've uh had money with them and
made uh great money through some rates that Mr. She may have negotiated or assisted with, assisted me with. Um through that partnership, uh First Bank wants to u expand opportunities to our students. So, they've come up with um a cooperative um purchasing type uh
position, like a student cooperative, almost like an internship, but run through the year. Um like a part-time type position. Um there'll be an application process uh I believe that will open in September. Um Dr. Alderelli and I will be meeting next month with the president of the bank. um and
they're going to roll out roll it out an application um and then with the hopes of having students start um in October and working throughout the year um kind of like on a a part-time basis to learn commercial banking. So um students that are interested in that it it gives you
more than just the short four to five week period or six week period that is a summer internship. this is something that's, you know, um an entire year that would look uh great on a college application um and not to mention give you um exposure to the commercial banking world. So, we're really happy
for this um new and exciting opportunity uh with First Bank and our partnership with them. Uh and we we'd really like to have our other uh vendors and partners do similar things because it's um really great for our uh students for you know, our juniors and seniors so on and so forth. So,
yeah. And uh also uh with Spencer Bank, yes, we will be having a summer internship with Spencer Bank. Um there'll be an application period. So it's going to be something very similar, not the exact same, but uh another opportunity in commercial banking. Uh as
you know, Spencer's one of our newer banks right here in Edison, uh North Edison, so they'll have a location there. Um but they they said that they would um also maybe have opportunities at their corporate headquarters. Okay. Thank you very much. So this is the especially you know we're looking
for the um you know we're targeting next year for the business academy okay we're working on it so we need a committee members to to join that to uh work with us okay so uh um that's that's a segue into
that actually I'm for the business well done well done with that one good yeah that's that's all the plan but we did we didn't have enough time to to to put it together this year uh with targeting next year and hope it it it comes through and you know um yeah I
just want to echo uh what um you know Mrs. White said, um, great graduation, uh, you know, a great ending for a school year, uh, to our staff and and all the, uh, all the members, uh, in the district and, uh, as Shannon said, only five
weeks left. So, enjoy the, uh, the short summer and we're looking forward to a a good school year. And uh you know before that we going to have a meeting at August 26 and I hope by that time we can
have the uh JMI um thing settled and we can move forward uh with that. So with that said um that's the end of the meeting. Motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Okay. Uh all in favor?
I I All right. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much. All right.