e e e e e e e what a crowd tonight MIT he's an excellent basketball player you know who name I'm definitely
butcher tonight Lindsay now that I practice obviously it makes sense for me to make welcome everyone I just gave everyone a very short quick break we have been here for quite some time so as
soon as our last board member returns our last two board member returns we will get started welcome thank you so much for being here that's what you get can I get a roll call to call the regular monthly meeting of March 18th
20225 we convened and called to order at 7:59 p.m. at the Thomas Edison school Eugene and bza public meeting room room 19 37-1 fairon Avenue fairon New Jersey there are 13 members of the public in attendance today roll call Mr balowski
here Dr bertolini present Miss Brown present Mr Aliyah present Miss felich present Miss Caso present I'm gonna do Mr Santana present Mrs Yurman is absent and Mrs
Mayhan here we have a quarum the New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of the public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the faom board of
education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof distributed to the persons on the approved list posted in the Board of Education administrative office and sent to the Bergen Record and the Star Ledger the announcement posting for the regular monthly meeting along with the date place and time thereof was distributed
on January 24th 2025 please join me in flag salute I pledge allegiance to the flag un States of America stand [Music] naice we will start with our student
Representatives report I am excited to um welcome s Von our Memorial Middle School student representative and Daniel mitchek our TJ Middle School School representative to start us
off good evening I guess I'll start with a little Shamrock Shenanigans a huge thanks to Memorial's PTO for making St Patrick's Day extra sweet with 850 green glaz donuts for staff and students they even planned ahead with two go containers for those
observing Ramadan plus their gold fundraiser for seventh grade ended with senorita patch rocking a full leprechaun outfit all day and yes full length Ginger beard was included Senorita's second period class also enjoyed a bagel breakfast to celebrate their
Victory from the Arts congrats to Shir Sam girtler and Aaron Chen who successfully a auditioned for the north Jersey region Jazz Ensemble this Ensemble is a very select group made up of high school and middle school students from Bergen Pake Essex Morris
and Sussex and Warren counties only 20 students who a s were accepted and of those only five were middle school students in celebration of holy world Culture Club took to the sidewalks with vibrant chalk messages sharing joyful
greetings and sparking conversations those who celebrate or know about holy were able to share their knowledge and traditions in a meaningful way fostering understanding and Community this celebration reinforced the message that Memorial is home to all spreading a message of acceptance and
inclusivity only 57 days in counting until the carnival returns to TJ the carnival will open again on Thursday night May 15th our thanks once again to the TJ PTO for once again providing all students with 1 Hour preview on Friday May 16th any board members wishing to
volunteer in a game booth may contact the school and we will put you to work for re Across America our n JHS eth graders took a walk down memory lane and visited their elementary schools West Morland forest and linkr to reach a younger students it is always a special
treat having our students to go back where their reading Journey began on Wednesday March 19th TJ's peers for peace will be visiting mil's school for read alouds in classrooms that align with our work with the ADL and no place
for hate initiative congrats to sixth grader Samantha gon for taking the top prize at this year's Memorial geography geography be it was a world of fun see what I did there also congratulations to the following Memorial students who
auditioned for the njsm regional course and earned the honor of performing on March 23rd at 3:00 at Clifton High School sanen Lily ballestros Emily skana Gia Blanchard Sydney Lazarus this honor reflects the students incredible
dedication to their musical craft we are so proud of their hard work and Talent on March 24th during the 1245 dismissal as part of the district's Wellness initiative and our efforts to light it up blue for Autism Awareness students will compete with home rooms
against the grade level peers in Thunderball with other choice Wellness activities planned throughout the day proceeds from our peers for peace B sale for the day will be dedicated to purchase of recess items for the Stepping Stones classes at West Morland
School Memorial and TJ's 7th grade students took a trip to space to the Fon High School planetarium that is a special thanks to Mr derso memorials Mr Knudson TJ's Miss homeron and the entire science department for working to get
the planetarium back up and running allowing students to continue this out of this world tradition before we leave you here are some upcoming events at Memorial that we look forward to sharing highlights from next board meetings but for now we'll keep
you on the edge of your seat our annual hoops for Humanity event will soon kick off with our students and staff once again answering the call of our school modotto enter to learn go forth to serve this year's cause is Meals on Wheels helping deliver meals to those who are
Homebound and before you begin to worry this the students won't be the ones delivering the meals memorials di Club is headed to kinon this Saturday to compete in the Destination Imagination competition last year they took second place good luck di
next Tuesday March 25th fairon high school student mentors from Heroes and Cool Kids will visit fifth and sixth graders for the second time this year to help Foster connections and build confidence this New Jersey based program is like Big Brothers Big Sisters of
America helping younger students feel supported by their High School Role Models so that's a wrap as always thanks for having us we look forward to seeing you next month thank you guys so much uh Lindsay Samuels faon high school student rap hello everyone and happy belated St
Patrick's Day I'm thrilled to share updates about Falon High School we're excited to be working closely with you our annual musical mam Mia premieres on Thursday March 20th showtimes run from Thursday to Sunday for tickets visit the link on lhs's musical page on
our website tickets can also be purchased at the door we hope to see you there many of our honor societies have recently inducted new members or have upcoming induction ceremonies in the coming weeks we are proud that so many of our students have been inducted into these prestigious
organizations in addition sgaa and class Council officers and members are preparing for their upcoming elections for the 2025 to 2026 school year the open candidates meeting will take place on Tuesday April 1st this meeting is mandatory for anyone interested in
running for student government or class Council positions for the next school year we're excited to meet our new group of student leaders speaking of class Council our freshman and sophomore classes have had successful class dances the Junior and senior proms are coming up too with the necessary paperwork
being officially available also our class Council spring apparel sale is up and running until this Friday March 21st and I'll pass out the order forms at the end of my report if you're interested in purchasing some f chess merch it will be greatly appreciated and additionally our
senior destination page is finally up which you can follow at flhs destinations on Instagram in other news spring spirit week is officially on from April 7th to April 11th with new fun themes like concert tea day and backwards day that's
all for now thank you and I will pass out the order forms [Applause] now Lindsay sambie and Daniel thank you so much um Lindsay if you want to leave the form for a little while um I can
definitely get it back to you oh amazing and Daniel fun fact if people want to volunteer for Carnival they reach out to me so fairon I'm your girl reach out we need
volunteers um so if you want to leave them awesome um you guys are absolutely welcome to stay and join us and listen to um what goes on in your community's government governance but I also do know that it does get a little late and you guys have worked so please feel free to
excuse yourself um at any point thank you guys so much for coming the High School play it's Thursday to Saturday Thursday to Sunday hours a musical I say two and a
I'm guess but they also have that makes noise during second I'll let you know when [Music] okay I didn't know
okay Dr dionio um we will move forward with superintendent comments the floor is yours good evening everyone thank you very much um welcome and uh thank you to our students for the wonderful updates and presentation I have a few Updates
this evening for the board and for the public first I would just like to draw everyone's attention to resolution 5A on the board agenda this evening uh this will not come as a surprise as we did last week our preliminary budget presentation and I would just like to once again
sincerely thank our business office in particular M manuso Miss Bey uh the entire business office support staff Administration as you heard last week incredible amount of work goes into it um I believe that what you heard last
week and what the board is approving this evening for the adoption of the tentative budget is um fiscal management while prioritizing our students educational excellence and making sure that we continue to support our teachers so uh thank you once again for all of
the incredible work um and for the support of the Board of Education uh to get us to this point tonight uh on student on the student front I would like to publicly recognize some wrestling success so we have Giana
bonac Cora who made fairon High School history last weekend uh becoming our first first ever girls Bergen County Champion Regional champion and highest state medalist since Scott Kemp in
1990 uh at the njsa state tournament in Atlantic City where she earned fourth place in her weight class as a senior Captain Gian had a season to remember ending her season in a career with a 27
and3 record and her coach Dimitri uh Vince Dmitri said Gianna's perform performance was focused and determined with her eyes set on placing in the state she made the most of her opportunities by wrestling tough opponents in order to earn a state medal
we are extremely proud of her accomplishments so I just want to all uh publicly congratulate Gianna for her wonderful accomplishments read Across America we had our district celebrated uh not only last week uh well March 3rd to the 7th
uh but over the past uh six weeks or so so i' just like to thank everyone and all of our schools for all of their efforts all of our board members who were able to fit into their schedules all of our members of the public and the administration um no place for hate initiative uh Warren Point and Forest
Elementary Schools implemented the mix it up lunches where students from different classes sat together and used conversation cards to spark discussions promoting kindness and inclusivity our feron high school unsung hero uh Johnny Fitz Gibbon received
prestigious Bergen County unsung hero award on March 4th uh and principal M vice principal matina highlighted Johnny's leadership in social studies Honor Society his role as a morning announcer and his active participation in Access for
all uh there is an update that uh I'm required to provide to the board and to the public it's called the ssds update which stands for the student safety data system update we report out twice a year um most
recently there was an update that was a submission in January uh of 2025 for the period of time of last year of July through December of 2024 it's related to the number of incidents that are related
to student discipline in our school district as well as HIV or harassment intimidation and bullying um the number of incidents that are reported uh as far as we had 15 recorded um incidents
across all schools of discipline with suspensions of seven at Falon High School Memorial had five and Thomas Jefferson Middle School had three we had 20 HIV allegations in that
period of time that were recorded uh with nine at the high school and seven at Thomas Jefferson Middle School Hib trainings uh 13 hi hi IBS conducted across the entire district and then the
Hib programming our prevention programs implemented districtwide demonstrating our strong commitment to a positive School climate there were a total of 62 HIV prevention programs it's also worth noting that many of our elementary schools report minimal incident numbers
reflecting our proactive measures across the district for student safety and positive School climate and then last but not least NJ cusac that's the New Jersey quality single accountability Continuum today we
welcomed the Department of Education Representatives um that came in to do the quote unquote audit for our district those are the areas around uh facilities instruction and program fiscal management governance and Personnel the
facilities audit actually occurred back in January and all went well there um today we had the other four areas of instruction and program fiscal management governance and Personnel we had a very long but a very productive and successful day um there will be
continuation of documents provided to the county department of education and then we expect to get our final update on our qac score once that evaluation is completed by the county doe later on this spring and that concludes the superintendent report this
evening thank you Dr dionio um before we open the floor for public comment I just wanted to note that this evening um there are no committee reports because our small committees over the last several weeks have been based in our budget where we discussed
during our work session and we will be voting on the preliminary budget this evening however moving forward we will be hearing committee reports specifically on what took place during that Committee in the previous month so that our community is aware so with that said this portion of our board meeting
is specifically for comments on resolutions listed in tonight's agenda when speaking please state your name and Municipality of residents specify which resolution you are addressing limit your remarks to three minutes state law prohibits board members and administrators from discussing Personnel matters student discipline or other
confidential issues please note that this is not a dialogue or Q&A session between speakers and the board when we may not respond immediately or to every comment made tonight all input is carefully considered and helps inform our decisions resp responses may come through emails reports board statements
website updates or after comment period closes thank you for your participation in our school community's governance the floor is open to comments on agenda items you guys are going to wait till the next one Google doc there are no comments on
the public comment document okay the floor is closed I will now open the floor to board member comments on agenda items only Miss Brown um I just wanted to thank the
administration teachers and um administrators in the school buildings for all of the um extracurricular trips that we're approving tonight I'm really excited to see them um and as an educator in a
different District who has started to look at field trips and started to get word from the top that they're going to become a thing of the past I'm very much appreciative um that they are not becoming a thing of the past here and that we're continuing to fund these extracurricular activities for our
students so I just wanted to thank you for that M Mr Bowski I you uh just very quickly and so funny that you also mentioned extracurricular trips uh because I was simply going to
highlight that um Miss Brown and I were at student dialogue this evening and the freshman class president Julian uh expressed his gratitude for our potential approval tonight of the Nickelodeon Universe for the freshman class trip so just wanted to highlight
that um the students are well aware of what's on the agenda so they are eagerly wait an our approval for these trips so thanks Miss calovich I would like to say I would like to first thank the two retirees um for on the today's agenda I
would like to say thank you for your combined 46 years of service to the Fairland School District I would like to also say thank you to the I wrote it down forest radburn and the fairon high school PTA for your
donations I have a couple more questions for 11g the yearbook printing it costs 42,2 I have not no objection to it my question is how much will the district receive bag for the sales of the T and how much would it actually cost the
district out of out of the 42,000 the next question is 11h what is the 20 20252 uh 26 Fair loan special education Medicaid initiative action plan
um that's my turn and tonight I'm going to vote uh again for the bills I'm going to say the specific check numbers um I honestly believe that there should be a way to have a check and balances I understand that our audits are great but
our audits only represent 1% of everything that we have ever use because if an auditor sits there and looks at most of our bills they would be here for years literally to look at every single thing so if it's only 1% it's not easy
to catch everything so I would really would like the administration to come up with a way that all the bills would have an explan with that are need to be redacted need to have some kind of student ID some kind of explanation what
it exactly it is and to my surprise this year this board meeting Mr uh kegal group PC also bills were reducted I he is kind at least I as my any time I ask uh one of the
attorneys uh legal questions regarding board questions they always answer me they never say to me oh I can't give you legal ad because you're not my client because they always answer me so they technically I'm considered their client when I ask them a question so I don't
understand how can you redact um bills from a client and the same thing for the other attorneys so I'm going to vote no for those bills because I don't believe those bills should be redacted and I also don't believe the other six I'm sorry 67 bill should be
redacted there needs to be somehow especially if if it's a fple violation if an auditor wants to see it then there has to be a way to show to the auditor also without violating the fura so there must be a way to make it so that it's clear for everyone to see what the bill
was and how and what why why it was spent of the district's money thank you so much I appreciate it bye-bye Mr Santana on 4 example we have almost 100 students currently attending Bergen County
Schools that's a huge bill to taxpayers because tuition and transportation costs are very high I believe we need to try to provide what those students are missing in fom so they don't go to the county school they stay here uh f a as
an apple it is my expectation that we are able to switch not I apologize it is my hope and I pray that we are able to switch healthcare providers so we can lower costs and of course provide equal or better plans to our wonderful staff
and faculty members the healthcare companies have a monopoly on prices and it's not fair on taxpayers that have to bear these huge increases that many school districts are facing uh our town is our town is facing gentrification overdevelopment and
influx of many many many residents Desir Desiring to live in a wonderful Community the board has no control over the growth of our town uh our great superintendent business administrator Miss manuso and the assistant assistant business administrator and the central office
staff have done miracles to keep the tax levy to an acceptable level considering the fact that our stay a was reduced um um I encourage our elect State elected officials to work harder uh so
fair loan don't get decreases in our state aid the tentative budget takes care of fiscal management prioritizes the educational excellent and support of teachers on 6a as and apple congratulations to our retirees we love
our professionals and our boss drivers thank you for your service in happy and healthy retirement 6D I will be voting No 7 A7 uh is a wonderful Workshop I wish more teachers would attend teaching
grammar particularly those teaching grammar um to students learning a World Language or foreign language uh it's very useful uh but it's quite hard so anything to make it easier for students to understand uh it's always welcome 7
b14 and 7 B8 I know it is a walking trip to feron library from forest and it's only one block away but I don't think one shoer on for 23 or 24 students it's safe in my
opinion so I I will be voting no because I don't think um taking 24 students two two or three blocks away in Crossing furong Avenue with one shoer only I don't think that's safe uh AE I uh thank
you to superintendent for reaching out with the uh information that I requested as always uh you're very receptive I uh I really admire that in our superintendent 11a thank you to the donations to our district can I go a second time when everybody want yes
thank you president anyone else Mr Santana you can have another three minutes 11j taxpayers are making a big effort to support this District they're working hard some of them are getting home at 8 p.m. some of them are working overtime
to pay these taxes we must continue to work hard to find efficiencies share costs wherever possible and reduce spending without compromising the excellent school district and the quality and the great uh quality of teaching and learning taking place in
Falone um I attended the social studies uh in English Honor Society induction ceremonies um at Fong High School in the evening of March 4th it was a wonderful event our students work very hard to qualify for the special recognition I was very happy
to be there to support the event several parents came to support the children and we are lucky to have such a dedicated Administration and faculty members in those content areas English and soci studies I was very happy especially hearing our wonderful High School principal recite a PO and a very
passionate speech by the social studies director and um I just would like to talk about the checks and the the um during my first term on the school board okay I do not remember this is my second term on the school board during my first term on the school board I do
not remember at all checks being redacted so I would like uh through the chair I would like if the board attorney can address if there have been any changes in state law which we are bound to follow state law why all of a sudden we have all
these redactions when in the past I was I was here uh 2019 uh 2020 2018 I believe in my first term we did not have all these reductions and what Miss F I do not agree with everything she said but she
she there's a rational there's a rational um there's a logic behind the board is the client of the board attorney therefore there should be there should be um very little
um reduction in terms of what we see because we are the customers we're paying we're paying thousands of dollars in legal bills our legal bills I don't know if the board members are looking at the legal bills but we are paying very very high bills so if we are paying and
and I mean this we all do do respect my father is an attorney if we are paying a lot of dues a lot of a lot of B High legal bills why do we have to have so many reductions we need to fully understand what is what is it that we
are paying for and I don't feel comfortable with what is taking place I don't necessarily agree with what a board member stated as a whole but I think if Miss Madame President if we can add that to the board retreat because we're not on the same page when it comes
with with these bills thank you Mr Bowski thank you I just wanted to clarify with uh 11c Finance the approval of payroll and other bills as a point of
information bills are being presented as one item for approval tonight be it resolved that we approve the payroll and other bills as detailed below it is one motion for the entirety of the bills as board members to clarify we do not vote on individual bills correct ma'am that
is correct thank you madam president um that is all yes Miss Brown uh I have just a clarifying question if you could answer it tonight or not um if any board member had questions about said bills we could
reach out to you to ask those questions correct that's all I wanted to answered anyone else Miss elich just to clarify we have a two 1.6% increase for tax but the one it's
really 2. 6% 1% is that um Bank cap I just wanted to make sure I understand that correctly that's why it's instead of that's why in our booklet it's 2.6 but in really it's 1.6 thank you yeah I'm just going to wait for all the questions to be finished because
that is not a question I can answer for right now okay are we good okay before I turn this over to Dr dionio to answer any questions that we can answer tonight I would just like um all board members who have been on the
board um for several years and to clarify for our new board members um Mr Santana when you were on the board in 2018 2019 and 20120 we actually rotated bills so we only saw bills every quarter right so there were three of us per
month that rotated reviewing of bills so I just want to be clear that we didn't always see every bill period because we were only looking at it on a scheduled basis um however I will defer again to our Administration to be more specific
about um some of the new updates regarding the uh clarification and um confidentiality of some of our bills thank you Miss Mayhan thank you board members um as it relates to and I'll let M
manuso jump in on here on any of the items uh and also miss DeFranco on any of the items as it relates to uh questions or comments that were made um the board does have the opportunity to ask questions in advance uh which I received
so I did not get specific questions on the matter regarding bills action in these board questions um that is a question that has come up in the past in public and as I've stated before um The District Administrative Office does make
redactions and those redactions are related to personal identifying information okay so information that the board does not need to have in order to be able to be informed to be able to make that informed decision uh regarding
board resolution that's before you this evening um as it relates to Legal bills as well when you see redactions in there that is also information that's personal information it may be a student's name
it may be a family's name or initials or a student ID number once again information that is not pertinent in order to be able to have the board make informed decisions on board action as far as the question regarding the
yearbook and the proceeds that are generated from that that's something we can follow up on and we can provide that information at a later date to the entire board so we'll we'll note that for our business office um to be able to follow up uh and get those
details I will leave um the question regarding semi on um 11h to um M DeFranco and Ms manuso and I believe that
covers well and I'll also leave any questions regarding tax levy increase to M manuso as well and if at any point Miss manuso think something needs to be corrected I know you'll tell me um the uh semi initiative is an initiative required by
the state to capture parent consent and funding for certain therapeutic and Medical Services delivered to students with disabilities uh the state requires a certain percentage um each year of what we should be capturing within that total um
despite our Outreach efforts for consent and logging of services sometimes we do fall below that threshold this is an action plan that the district has agreed to provide at the county level and state level in order to improve those efforts so what you see on that plan is what we
are committing to do in terms of increasing those efforts for consent and funding and just to um answer the question regarding the tax levy um you are correct in we follow the um the budget binder that we provide all the board members that's something that
Melissa and I both inherit when we came to fairon so um we've actually already talked about ways that we can present that a little more clearly next year so thank you for your feedback the 1.60% that is the estimated tax impact on the calendar year that is um how I
prefer to show the tax increase because that's actually how your taxes are calculated but in your budget book we do also calculate that tax impact on the school year which is where you see the 2.67% but that's not how taxes are actually that for the members of the
public both here and at home uh on that first point of the 1.6 is from January to December which aligns with the municipality and the 267 aligns with July 1 to June 30th of the following year a school calendar
year that's where the discrepancy is right so um th those are just rolled out both ways that's how that makes sense can I ask a question about the responses is that possible I'm looking oh can we clarify something
thank you it'll suppos be seconds I thought we weren't using back Bank cap we're just using the waiver for medical insurance uh we are just using the health waiver um adjustment we are not using I'm sorry I didn't uh realize that
second part of the question we are not using banked cap this year we are just using the en uh the healthc care waiver that we received due to the premium increase from the State Health Benefit Plan go
ahead if I may I ask um the to the uh to the chair the board attorney if there's any in the law that have changed since 20 2019 2020
2018 that prevents the duly elected uh representative of the people of ferone in this board to view who is getting paid with our tax dollars legally is there anything that prevents us the taxpayers representative to view who is
getting paid taxpayers money on the bills what what which law can you site Mr attorney so I'm actually going to defer to miss manuso on this as she can answer it as our current um qualified purchasing agent so I I have answered this question
previously and when you look at the bill redactions we only redact anything that is personally identifiable for student information or potentially a parent's name right because that could identify their child the description of who is being paid
is only redacted again if it's personally identifiable when you look at the bills there's still a description for what those services are and who the vendor is that's being paid to unless it's directly to a
parent so to answer your question that is in compliance with the law I have reviewed it with Mr kamgno that we are not able to provide personally identifiable information we're not able to do that the Reon I'm ask the question
thank you for your respon but my question is my qu my question was why was it legal then that now is not legal why was it legal and and M Madame President stated we had the the review
of the bills on a rotating basis yes I remember sitting in that office for hours nothing was reducted so were we violating the law back then and now we're following the law I don't think so so this is I need some correction from the board
attorney those documents prior to me arriving in faon as the fiduciary were linked as executive content or confidential attachment the public has a right to see those bills as a public attachment which means when we post our
board agenda all of the bills have to be linked as public documents for everyone to be able to view that's also in compliance with the new Oprah regulations that were recently passed you have to make bills viewable to all of the public not just to board members
and if that was a practice in the p in the past that had personal identifiable information I can't speak to that I can only speak to what we are doing now and that it has been decided in conjunction with our board attorney that we are following the correct process I would also say in in addition to that that
that would that practice is also consistent with practices that I've had a super superintendent and other districts um it's also consistent with our practice of redaction for the board on any Hib reports that the board members receive that we remove any
student or parent names that's not identifiable because it's based on the substance of whether it's an Hib case or whether it's a bill list or whether it's a legal bill or whether it's a settlement agreement any of those items we redact for as large as fair laon is
the reality is it's still a small community and the name on each of those documents is irrelevant um and does not hinder the board in making informed decisions thank you so much we are now closing the floor as all of these conversations are inappropriate at this
time this is not a back and forth um so with that I just closed the floor I closing the floor and I will allow our board attorney to make one comment I appreciate the questions we appreciate the questions uh and I I want
to I want to underscore and affirm everything that the administrators have shared I also want to point out um and this is consistent you know this from your prior tenure on the board uh and it's been validated in auditing reports and otherwise if you look at 11d
there's specific language uh which refers to board secretary and Treasurer reports there are various regs that are uh referred to it's very serious business when um the
business office presents bills to the board and the business office and and the questions as a fiduciary every month you know certainly I'm sure the the public appreciates the fine toothcomb um the business office has to certify
certify um at risk of certification and lure that the information that it's sharing uh in including the board secretary uh in ba that it's valid under oath it it it it's actually a specific and special part of the agenda where you
don't see that in other parts of the agenda the business office has to say essentially I'm holding up my right hand and certifying to the validity of these bills and certifying that certain uh amounts haven't been overpaid and certifying uh as to the
accuracy that is for the benefit of the public that's also for the benefit of an executive body uh which and again with great intention and just a quick look at the bills there's $5 million in bills this month there there's nine pages of bills it's not the the responsibility of
volunteer elected officials to have to look at every single line item and uh and have a question mark uh the system is set up to provide those assurances in this language under law and you hear
that from your administrators you can certainly see it in the reports that are provided Ed and again the Auditors come before you in a $100 million plus budget and have said with the dozens of samplings that they did zero recommendations in finance it's the only other thing I want to add but thank you
for the questions okay so I am going to start with uh 3A uh be it resolved that the Falone Board of Education approves the minutes from the executive session of 2 227 2025
only can I get a motion motion second roll call Computer Mr baldowski yes Dr berini yes m brown yes Mr alyah yes Mich yes M
Cy obstain Mr Santana yes Mrs Mayhan yes motion passes can I get a motion for four nope
five a so moved [Music] second roll call please Mr baldowski yes Dr
bertolini yes m brown I Mr Aaliyah yes M felich it's five correct correct yes Miss casoy yes Mr Santana yes Mrs Mayhan yes motion
passes can I get a motion for 6A and hold on sorry A and C so moved second roll
call Mr baldowski yes Dr bertolini yes Miss Brown yes on 6a no on C FG yes on everything
else thank you Mr Aaliyah yes Miss bovich abstain un succeed Miss casoy yes Mr Santana yes point of
clarification I I misspoke on my no can I amend it yes okay um yes on 6 CG no on six c d c d wait so no yes for everything
except for 6 C D no except for 6 c d is a no is a no and everything else is yes got it if I may just add to this I for clarification the way that the resolution this is the first time it's been written this way the entire resolution and Miss Brown you can
correct me if I'm wrong is six C and then under 6 C it's a through K so you're voting no on of a through K you're voting no on just letter D correct and can we change the small letters to the numbers next
time thanks Mrs Mayhem [Laughter] yes okay let me just wait I just you got everything motion passes
yes D so we will voting on a read in for 60 someone just say a point of order yes okay 60 will be read in resolved by the Board of Education after review and consideration of all relevant
information including information provided during an appeal hearing with the board the board determines that student R 03224 does not properly reside in Fair Lawn from November 2024 through to and concluding the present date and authorizes the removal of R
03224 immediately can I get a motion so move I'm GNA read them both I'm doing them one at a time oh never mind keep going thank you
can I get a motion so move roll call please clarification this is what we discussed earlier correct that's what we're looking okay so it's keep Qui Mr baldowski yes Dr berini yes Miss Brown
abstain Mr Aaliyah yes Miss fich yes Miss casoy yes Mr Santana no m Mrs Mayan yes oh then we're good so it's double okay we actually
went with the residence number number student number we are all set to go um you're on S so we are moving on 27 a b and d so
moved roll call please I'm sorry did I have a second yep Ed still yes looking back at the audio you do have to speak more clearly Che Mr baldowski yes Dr berini yes m
brown yes Mr Aliyah yes Miss F valovich yes Miss casoy yes yes Mr santiana no on 7 b14 and 7b8 for the
reasons I stated previously yes on everything else thank you Mrs Mayhan yes motion passes can I get a motion for eight a through e and G so moved second roll call please Mr baldowski yes
Dr bertolini yes m brown yes Mr Aliyah yes M fich yes M casoy yes Mr Santana yes Mrs Mayhan yes motion passes
can I get a motion for 9 a through C so moved second roll call please Mr baldowski yes Dr berini yes m brown yes Mr Aliyah yes movich yes yes Miss Cy yes
Mr Santana yes Mrs Mayhan yes motion passes can I get a motion for 10 a through K so moved second roll call Mr baldowski yes Dr
berini yes m brown yes Mr Aaliyah yes Miss felich yes M casoy yes Mr Santana yes Mrs Mayhan yes motion passes can I
get a motion for 11 a through l so moved second Mr B yes roll call please sorry Mr baldowski yes Dr berini yes m
brown yes Mr Aaliyah yes Miss felich yes Miss casoy yes Mr Santana yes Mrs Mayhan yes motion passes
okay we are now going to open the floor to public comments I'm sorry I made a mistake on my voting I thought it was 13 SE that was uh for the bills is it is it 10 C it's it's 11: and we are voting in entirely so you can vote no no I we were
told by an attorney not Mr kamno but another uh attorney he said that you can pick the individual bills I think that Joe just made the point of order so I'm just going to defer back to Mr kamno on how the process should move and then I can certainly amend your
vote Yes agreed uh it it it's uh bills and and I'll I I will affirm what the vice president indicated this is um listed as an item the bills list is listed as
an item not individual bills of nine pages on this agenda sometimes more sometimes less so if there's a concern about a bill you can vote no uh otherwise it's a yes vote so our previous uh attorney was incorrect when they he said you can vote on particular
bill cuz he said we were allowed to before now all of a sudden we changed I I didn't understand at this point in time we have to take the information provided Ed To Us by our current superintendent board uh secretary and
our current board attorney and that was the advice given so we'll be moving forward with the information provided by no for the bills okay I am now going to open the floor to the public portion of our board meeting
which is specific to any business any other business when speaking please state your name and mun municipality residents limit your remarks to 3 minutes state law prohibits board members and administrators from discussing Personnel matters student discipline or other confidential issues
please know this is not a dialogue or Q&A session between the speaker and the board while we may not respond immediately or to every comment made tonight all input is carefully considered and helps inform our decisions responses may come through email reports board statements website
updates or after the comment period closes thank you for your participation in our school community's governance the is open and with that I understand there may be other people who have comments but I am going to invite Nathan and Maya up to speak first so that they can then
excuse themselves should they have other things to attend to because it is 8:54 and I don't think they anticipated being here this late so guys please join us at the podium please make sure to write your names down and then turn on the microphone
hello Board of Education I know it's late and you've all been here a long time so I thank you for your time my name is Maya rednick and I am a sophomore at Falon High School I am one of the Falon high school students who who had the opportunity to compete at the Atlantic City fpla the future
Business Leaders of America competition I am very proud to say that my partner and I came away with first place in the entire state of New Jersey and have qualified for the National Championship in Anaheim California I am also proud to
say that my friend Nathan casoy also qualified in third place for the national championship the three of us can now prestigiously represent Fon high school at the highest level and most importantly academically tonight I will be giving
you an overview as to the reasons why we are here today we are addressing you because the cost of traveling attending and staying for 5 days is very expensive as I sure you can imagine the cost can begin at close to $2,000 per person
which can easily be exceeded and that is not even including meals or any registration fee in addition to our own personal fundraising any help in assisting us with the cost would be greatly appreciated for us and our families as this expense is a
considerable burden I feel it is vital to mention that my partner's mother a single mom is feeling tremendous stress as she wants to give her daughter the opportunity to go but is currently dealing with overwhelming Financial Obligations moreover we feel it will be
crucial for for our teacher Miss glebus to be funded for the trip as well as she is the leader of fair launch chapter in this organization and would be extremely helpful in guiding us through this competition looking ahead we would like you to consider putting fpla in the
school's budget going forward as with the fast growing success of our chapter in new members joining every year there is a reasonable expectation that there will be more students qualifying in the future this is not a simple guest or a reach last year faon achieved sending
two students to the Nationals we want to ensure that others have the same opportunity to Excel without Financial barriers standing in the way by competing at Nationals we can enhance Fairland High School's reputation while obtaining a valuable
experience that can open doors for greater recognition and acceptance into top tier colleges and universities and your support would Mak would make a significant difference in allowing us to represent fairon on the national stage thank you for your consideration
hello Board of Education I'm Nathan casoy and I'm also a current sophomore at faon high school along with Maya and her partner I also qualified for the fbaa national leadership conference I'm so incredibly grateful to have gotten this opportunity to represent both my
own and Fon High School's academic Talent as you know the college acceptance season is here and I know many students in the senior class are hoping to get into those top prestigious colleges now more than ever competitive universities are looking for engaging extracurriculars leadership skills and
compelling personal experience experiences fairon is not lacking an academic achievement and it would benefit the students and the district to have the opportunity to display it so many students at faon qualify for these fantastic experiences and they can really expand their academic future but
only if their financial circumstances allow it the national leadership conference gives so many opportunities for students to expand their skills interact with other students across the country and put faron's highest level of academic rigor on a pedestal we
encourage you to invest in the students at Fon High School giving our students opportunities and allowing them to achieve their Highest Potential is crucial for getting the school's name out there increasing faron's academic ranking and making faon a more prominent name in competitions around the country
now my fellow team members and I owe a lot of our success to miss glebus who has been a crucial supporter in this process at the fbl state leadership conference she organized so much and along with the other chaperon help students succeed in our events at the national leadership conference a chapon
is required to attend in order for the students to attend although a parent can attend as a chaperon the other students and I believe that miss glebus our club supervisor should be the chaperon as the leader of the fbaa club Mrs glebus being at Nationals means she gets the experience of seeing and observing the
conference putting her in a position to better prepare future qualifiers there are also a variety of educational workshops for teachers for them to enance their knowledge and business education however this does not eliminate the issue of the cost in order for Miss glebus to support her students she would have to pay this massive fee
out of pocket this would put the burden on Miss Gus who has already given so much to this club when considering the additional financial assistance to the fbaa team we encourage you to keep the entire team in mind unfortunately our tieline is quite short we returned from
States less than a week ago and deposits for Nationals are already due next week if there is anything you can do to help get our whole team to Nationals this year we would greatly appreciate it thank you so much for your time it's kind of hard to go after them huh uh is there anything on the Google
Doc no comments on the Google Doc okay any other comments on the floor okay the floor is closed I will now open the floor to board member comments on other business Mr Dr
berini thank you board president I'll try to speak a little louder than I usually do because Danielle was mad at me last so first of all it's kind of easy to before you leave I'm going to say something nice about you don't leave yet just wait a
second first of all it's it's quite obvious uh why they won or they finished third and first that was a phenomenal presentation I I do appreciate that in my school years uh we were in Deca more than fbl but Deca and FBLA are two
different competing organizations for marketing and business but whether it's fbaa or Deca it's something that takes a lot of time and a lot of effort and uh compliments to our students for qualifying especially as sophmores and
to our moderator who spends probably countless hours working with you throughout the year I I think it's just an oversight to be quite honest with you I'm looking at the agenda thoroughly tonight and I saw that we increased tonight for the indoor percussion group
we went from zero donation from the board to a $5,000 donation tonight or stien for uh going to the Nationals in Dayton Ohio uh we certainly I believe we pay for our wresters when they go down to the districts because it's it's the time frame and certainly I don't I've
never heard that the fpla has done well in the past I didn't know until tonight that they did well again and maybe they've not asked for money that's I think it's an oversight I don't think the board would say no or I don't think the administration would say no uh for such a a worthwhile event it's an
academic it's prestigious and again you saw how good they were tonight so uh I know that we usually don't do this Julie but I'm going to ask tonight and then I'm gonna ask tonight can you please I have I know I'm can you pause that thank
you I'm just looking at my CL I hear you I do I would like to allow our Administration to say that to respond okay fine and then you can have your minute and 13 seconds back gotcha
first of all I Echo Dr bertolini's sentiments thank you superintendent D I appreciate that not yet because you guys are amazing and congratulations like just superb job it is clearly evident why you're going to
Nationals and we are extremely proud of you and you are going to represent Fon and your families extremely well um that said I would recomend recommend and while I recognize the timeline we do have new board members here on this board we also have a
longstanding policy and practice that's been consistent for many years around paying for extracurricular trips um so that's clearly delineated and any decisions that are made have to be discussed through the
Committees because it would be have a far-reaching impact not only on any trips that are out of state but even any of the trips within the state of New Jersey um even locally within Bergen County um as I understanded a number of
years ago the board spent some time reviewing what trips we would pay for and which ones we would not pay for so I would recommend if the board is interested to bring this back to both the education and finance committees just because of the implications but all
of that said clearly amazing job well done and we're really really proud of you good luck to you so I am going to give you your minute and 13 seconds back what I will ask you to do which is
also against my typical standard practice and better judgment probably we do have some committee meetings coming up on Thursday so rather than have a conversation here if we could
maybe ask that those be sent to this committee um those committees and you are the chairperson of the education committee and our vice president is the chairperson of Finance um and if everyone is
comfortable I know that we have long lists of um things that we'd like to discuss in these committees but if everyone else is comfortable Mr Dr berini during your next one and a half 1 minute and 13 seconds you can ask everyone if they'd be okay with that going to the top of the list in support
of these two young people who just waited here for the last two hours okay so I would like to Res respectfully go it's on I I got it I'm good I'm good so I I respectfully disagree with the superintendent on this
now for for for a couple of reasons one uh the deadline for payment is when next week so even if went to committee this week week we wouldn't be able to get it to them until the next board meeting correct correct I believe please I'm going to keep talking though I don't
want to lose my 55 seconds you got 50 okay the thing that I'm confused on is is if we just I mean besides the sports teams that we fund for them going overnight those are not funded by our board those are funded by the athletic
parent athletic ass okay so then the $5,000 that's being funded by the board for per cussion which is an extracurricular I mean it's it's a competition where they're going to the Nationals and we just I I didn't go to education the the
change from zero to 5,000 I'm on I'm the chair as you mentioned earlier I'm the chair of education so you're saying that it has to go Education First I didn't even I've never s the percussion Z to $5,000 so I would again argue and I have
7 Seconds quickly I I get three minutes later though right I'll stop I'll be back oh I can second round go I know but I nobody raised their hands Miss Brown
um I also want to congratulate Nathan and Maya uh for your incredible presentation um I was taking notes because you both are Dynamic speakers and I long to be one of those um I whatever we can do
as small committee members I am in full favor of doing so whatever we can do to get you what you need I'm in favor of it um I'd also like to congratulate all of the winter athletes who are accepting their Awards and accolades tonight for their sporting Endeavors at the uh
winter sports assem awards assembly tonight um I'd also like to shout out uh a women's foil fencer Carol karolina Lazar she was our a strip foil fencer and she placed third
Team all state which is a very prestigious um Accolade for her and for faon high school um you know you have to basically show up and perform at all of the top state events in order to earn
points to get on to one of the three Allstate teams and she did well enough to uh land herself on the third team All State uh for the women's uh fencing team for foil so I just wanted to congratulate her um and that's it I
yield the rest of my time to Dr bertolini Mr Santana yes um I I I'm highly impressed by the presentation and um it's a little difficult to convince me sometimes but Maya um Nathan you do the wonderful job
uh I'm a high school teacher and I tell you I'll be very proud to call you my students your teachers should be very proud and your parents your first teachers your parents also should be very proud um yes I definitely support painful H trip it's a national trip and
I I understand it's next week but you know you can't plan for winning a competition uh and qualify for Nationals and and and give it a notice to to the to the to the boorder of ucation to month in advance so they just qualify I
know from my 20 plus years teaching uh FBA is a it's a very um rigorous extracurricular activity you you know it's it takes a lot of time and many students that participate in fpla become
very successful leaders in our society so um whatever you're selling I want to buy it you gotta let me know but hopefully I can afford it um I would like to I think we should definitely discuss
the policy on field trips um because as the board members stated you know if we're if we're paying for for a filter of $5,000 and I didn't go through a committee you know we have to we have to have we have to organize the house we have a little mess with this with this
uh um we have to keep track of the money that we are spending all these field trips I have no idea how much money we spend on field trips as a board member so we have to create revisit if needed policies for that um I would like to um inquire to the
superintendent um about the enrollment um any plans for next year as far as redistricting or uh any any concerns for enrollment for next year um also if you can share uh with the
board the lone range facilities plan I believe it was updated uh correct me if I'm wrong I would like to uh spend a few hours studying it um and um I I'll go a second round
anyone else Miss uh Dr berini okay first when you compete in a a regional and then State and National it's I don't consider it a field trip I consider it a competition and we we do
uh bust our kids to sporting events Etc so I do not think it's a a a field trip I think it's a competition again to to finish first in the state and or to finish third in the state you're talking talking about a ton of hard work a ton
of hard work and I just think we need to be uh uh consistent in the future I the the answer to the question for them in the future is to try to convince the budget the VA to put it in the budget for the following year because you're right you
can't you don't know two months in advance if they just found out last week and is a short turnaround so in the future I think the fpla should be listed on the budget so his money set aside right away but the issue is this year and the money that we don't have set
aside but I'm going to go back right to the percussion group no offense to our percussion or people however if we went from zero well it said zero dollars in in February 27th this year
okay but it but it wasn't in in the February 27th uh uh minute which I looked up it said zero and now it's saying 5,000 so two months later we we can find $5,000 and I know in a very large budget I don't want to run out of time so I just would like to finish in a
very large budget I'm not saying I I will I I like the idea of will comp pay for the entire trip but I don't know at this point with a week to go that we can pay for the entire trip but I think we should pay a significant amount of the trip at least half which is you know around the $55,000 and I don't think our
shaon should have to pay I I don't think that occurs when we go travel elsewhere I don't think our chaperon should pay so that's that should be automatic for our chaperon to be able to go represent our students chaperon our students properly again no offense to our parents but I'd rather have a a school Personnel person
chaperoning our kids whether it be for the percussion group or for uh the fpla but I strongly believe that this is an exception this is something that they're going to do in the future I'm sure they'll be back next year but they'll be back earlier next year when they they can get it in the budget and they can
sort of plan it a little better than this year so My my suggestion strong suggestion is that we fund somehow partial part of their trip and we do it for tonight because if we wait until next month it's too late and we talking about one of our students might be a
free and reduced student single parent struggling financially we don't even know that situation so I would strongly want to see Fair alone represented in the Nationals and not be excluded from the nation because financial reasons thank
you Mr Santana you're the only person who asked for a second time no one even went a first thank you I just wanted to hear that um before I got on the board uh the district pay and I mean this we all doe respect uh over $20,000 to renovate the
logos for the district and I don't know if there was a grand or but there was money found for that I agree with the the my fellow board member Dr bertolini we got to find the money to uh reward excellence and high achievement we got to find the money from somewhere we got
to find the money we found the money to re to to redesign logos this is the future of our society we got to find the money and with respect of course uh we
uh I request uh respectfully uh that the business administrator uh dig into the books and find the money for a children and yes I don't think uh the children's uh the students mom or grandmother uh or
father should be the chaero the The Faculty the advisor should be the the chaero and this is a great honor for our district for for for furom for our state you know for their family this is this is amazing you know we if we can't find
if we cannot find the money for this shame on us okay we have to find the money for this this is excellent and I want to put I want to associate our name our our Board of Education name in our district and the taxpayers name with this this is exactly what we want to see
if we can spend $80,000 on summer school we should be able to spend at least $10,000 to send them with with enough money to eat a nice lunch okay so I'm I'm I'm usually very very um picky about money and spending money but this is
exactly what we want to see this is a return on our investment as taxpayers all right and I I want to say this in the minute that I have left we have when my daughter started school my daughter is in in eighth grade now but every year the PTO and the
ptas will sponsor trips okay and I mean this with with a lot of sincerity and from the bottom of my heart I would like to see the PTO come back during my first term the pto's and PTA press presidents they will all be here during the meetings I don't know what's going on
that we don't see them here during the meetings when during my first s they were all here but now we don't see them we the ptas and PTO are the blood the uh The Blood Line the blood life the life blood I can't say it they so important
for our district we need them here not just for the money but for the sponsorships okay uh we have many businesses in ferone we have a um I don't want to start name I don't want to start naming all the the the great businesses that
are doing very well financially where are you we need you to sponsor our children's field trip we we have so many that I should be naming them we need to have a program to reach out to them to sponsor the field trips thank you Miss
fich Amaya Nathan you did a great job so um I do support that we should be funding something for their trip I do agree with Dr uh with a fellow board member there's at least 50% this year and then next year we can bring it up so I respectfully ask the administration to
be able to fund this program for the kids thank you okay uh the floor is closed Nathan and Maya thank you so much um should there be a resolution to your presentation um our Administration or
myself will be in touch thank you so so much for presenting though and if you do have a fundraising goal that if any of that can be shared with us feel free to email me okay have a good
night I can't speak on behalf of everyone I'm willing to donate so thank you you upcoming meetings upcoming meetings we have April 24th 2025 is our public hearing final
budget adoption 7:30 p.m. Edison school room 19 May 1st regular monthly meeting 7:30 p.m. Edison school room 19 May 29 2024 regular monthly meeting 7:30 p.m. Edison school room 19 these are all being held in the Eugene Manda public meeting room here in Edison school room
19 with that can I get a motion information wait point of information yes I thought I was going to be allowed to put a motion up I asked you to wait until after anio did and then you had another minute and 13 to do that and then an additional 3
minutes and you didn't the floor is closed I'm sorry can we have a a a poll Flo is closed and I've already moved down I'm you told me i' would be able to say to continue at a minute and 13 and you said after he finished I would be able to make a motion correct you did you
were able to continue at a minute and 13 and then you were given an additional three minutes Dr but Dr Dino had not said what he wanted to say I don't believe yes he did okay I did not he spoke and then you were given additional three minutes with that I guess I guess
I can't then that's correct point point of order we have moved on we have another meeting we have a Str Ball by the board we cannot we have moved on the floor is closed is that even allowed under Rob of rules absolutely we have the floor is
closed can the board attorney is not a back and forth between the president and the board we have moved on the floor is closed our last our May 29th 2024 regular monthly meeting 7:30 p.m. Edison
school Eugene andand public meeting room 19 can I get a motion to adjourn so moved second have a good night up we didn't do a vote roll call all in favor
I roll call please yes no yes you skipped me yes no I have to abstain on
this she does you can that's absolutely fine you keep going that's fine point of information does the board member have she don't have to abstain yes she does if she makes the choice to
okay MH no yes IES have a good night