Um, the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of this act, the Frankfurt Township Board of Education has caused advanced
notice of this meeting and general agenda to be submitted for publishing in the official newspapers as well as district and municipal offices on May 19th, 2025. This meeting may be recorded for subsequent public broadcast. Please rise for the flag.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we'll call. Um, I'm Mandy's here.
Caitlyn is not. Kate is not. Jamie Armando, yes. Chris Dter, yes. Charlie Molmar. Yes. Chelsea Stole. Yes. John Tiger. And Jesse. He was at the sewer meeting today and he said he'll see me tonight. I don't know. Um Okay.
Recognitions and presentations. We have student of the marking period number four. Um kindergarten is Hunter Hosk. First grade is Ramona Peroli. Second grade is Fontini Partllos. Pretty good job.
Kane Rogan. For third grade, Harlo Cosantino. For fourth grade, fifth grade, Amaly Morero. Sixth grade, Emma Smolinsky. Seventh grade, Charlotte Adam. Yay. Eighth grade, Lily Emma. Congratulations, Kate.
That wasn't on the agenda that was emailed out. These were all like to be determined. Yeah. So, maybe Kate's name. Does Kate know? Probably not. Um, we have a staff member of the month who's not here.
Sorry, Lori. That means it's not um Do you want me do I read it anyway? Um and see if he comes up. Okay, but we could just say it's Dominic La Karuba. Dominic Lauba. Um recognition circle were through June. Special awards, the Frankfurt Hero is
going to Joey Mcuade. Yep. And we have two more that we just announced this afternoon. Um our valadictorian for the class of 2025 is Miss Daniela Master. And our saludiatoran for the class of 2025 is our board of eds own Shawn Molar.
Yes. Congratulations, Charlene. Did you know? I just turned on this afternoon. Sean, great. No report from student council. So, we have our NJSBA representative, Kelly Mitchell, here and she is going to talk
about the 2425 boarded self-evaluate report. Thanks for having me in everybody and thanks for doing this. I I know that this was probably a heavy lift at a time that it's really busy for you all, but it's really helpful. It helps um decide the board goals and and then it um talks
about how you can better serve the uh the district itself and and the students. So, I think it's an important task. So, in your packet, um, you have a copy of the board self-evaluation with everybody's comments on it, but in front of that is just an overview. So, I'm
going to go through the overview and we'll just chat a little bit about um, some of the things that are written in there. Um, I'm going to talk about the glowing aspects of the board itself and then some of the things that you had identified that you need a little bit of growth in and we'll talk about those as
well. Um on the other side of your packet, you'll see that there is a board's um responsibility sheet that just kind of keeps you on task each month. Um but underneath that is the CSA evaluation and um we'll we'll chat about
that when we get to the governance piece because of um having to have that done by July 1. It's it's super super important. So we'll start with the overall scoring. So in the um the vision, mission and goals uh it was a
3.31 a pol the policy was 1 uh 3.17 accountability for student achievement 3.16 uh governance team relationships and accountability is 3.20
resource management and oversight was the highest um at 3.71. So, thank you for your help, Chris. It was that was um that was great. Uh it was by far the highest that everybody scored. Um and then community leadership
was 3.41. So, let's talk about uh the category of vision, mission, and goals. So, some of the glowing remarks that you all had about each other was that um you use relevant data to engage in continuous district improvements. That's really
super important. um that you're data driven and then also that uh you have mutual respect and trust for each other so that you work really well as a team. So when you read through the board self-evaluation you can see that you really feel like you're connected with
each other and that's really super important. some of the growth indicators that you had mentioned was that you wanted to see um in your goals demonstrated that vision and mission that um you felt that maybe that needed to be a little bit more cohesive um and
that you needed to have more concrete goals uh for the board and and the district and just we'll just chat about that for a minute. Um so that comment was throughout uh the board self-evaluation and uh you know we can be invited in I
can come in and do a workshop and you can do your board and district goals during that workshop. It makes it really easy because um we facilitate the conversation and then write a report based on the conversation to formulate those goals. I don't know if that's
something that you might want to consider but um we can do that. Just keep in mind that you pay a lot of dues to New Jersey school boards um by statute. You you need to be a part of New Jersey school boards and every time I come in, it's part of your due. So,
you're not paying any additional fees. So, if you ever need us to facilitate anything like goals, things like that, um it's all within uh your dues. So, as far as the the goals go, so the goals on your monthly checklist,
right, it looks like they we would approve them in September. So, it's something that we should be thinking about at our August meeting. Is that something we do during like public discussion in the August meeting or is it a separate meeting? Sometimes I do it as a retreat uh that I
would do the board evaluation and goals together as a retreat. Um, usually boards do it either June, July, and or August. some time in there. Um, and that way you can have them ready to adopt at the September meeting. We did that once, Mr. Lazar, but pri
prior to Yeah, I know. Yeah, we um last time we did it was probably two or three years ago. We've done it every few years. Okay. So, um so when everybody weighs in on the board and district goals, it really
helps build the team and then builds that focus. Uh so it might be something that you want to consider. Um and then with policy I I read throughout it said that um you were putting of course a bigger focus on policy. I saw that in
your board goals. So um the glowing remarks is that the board operates as a policym body and that you normally review and update and adopt policies, procedures and bylaws annually as or as required. So so that's great that you do
that. some of the growth indicators was um to provide the opportunity for feedback on new or revised uh policies prior to the final adoption. So um customarily when you are going to revise policies, how do you do that at um at
the board meeting or do you do it at the count? We have a policy committee that will meet the hour before the board meeting and we'll go over it with the administration. Um and then the policy committee would come on our agenda when it says like policy committee time. They
would communicate it to the rest of the board and then you can vote accordingly on the first reading and second reading whatever you feel. Um we we just started um we asked Mr. Newman this year to pull some of the
older policies or maybe policies that we should be proactive in looking at and possibly changing. So, we are working um on those right now, like not just the ones that are mandated by the state. This needs or the county, this needs upgrading, this needs changes. Um we're trying to look at older policies that
you know may be outdated or irrelevant at this point to try to update. Yeah. So, um our policy department down in Trenton um can do a policy wellness check uh for free for you all. So, if that's something that you would want to do,
to your recommendation. Um, so if that's something that you would like to do, it's it's free of charge. It's something that um that we do as a a team down there. They also said that um as far as updating older ones that if anything's five years old
or or more, that would customarily take you take a look at and you can certainly adopt them exactly how they are, but they say to just timestamp that. So that would be the recommendation there if you um while you're doing that. Any questions on policy?
Okay. Then we're going to move on to student achievement. So, um the glowing remarks is that uh you ensure that communication to the public uh links your decisions based on student achievement data, that the district models a culture of high expectations
and believes that all students can and will learn, and that um you approve curriculum aligned with state standards that clearly define what students need to know and um can do at each grade level. So, that's that's great. some of
the growth indicators was to continue to review student data to make data informed decisions. You um throughout the uh evaluation, you said that you wanted a little bit more data to tie that into that student achievement piece
and then continuing to do more um recognition to celebrate student achievement. Um some districts have uh the students come into board meetings to recognize them and that's just such a a really nice moment for them. Um so that
was uh that was what you had for student achievement. Any questions on that at all? um just I don't know if any of you have done the um governance three training but that put a strong focus on student achievement and talked about that
lighthouse study where it really shows that boards that focus on that can really move the needle um for the district itself. So uh something to be really mindful of that as a board you really can move the needle on student
achievement. Um then we'll go on to the governance uh team relationship. So the glowing remarks that is that you do abide by the school ethics act that you take collective responsibility as a board for performance and come to the
meetings prepared and that you maintain confidentiality with all matters in accordance with law policies and procedures. That's super important. Some um boards struggle with confidentiality and and we really don't. So that's that's awesome to see. some of the
growth indicators was um completing the CSA evaluation by July 1. That was the lowest indicator um and we have uh you know some members that haven't done that yet. Just know that in that packet that I gave you in that booklet, that last
page uh has the actual statute and it says very clearly that you have to have that done by July 1. So, if you haven't been able to get on um and just log on and do that, if you could please do that and make sure that you have that summary report done for July one. It needs to be
signed. I did it, but I may be affecting our low score because I wrote thing was all the way like not observed was Yeah, sometimes that skews it. Yeah. Yeah. I put not observed because I didn't know if anybody like who else had done it or not. So, I probably
Yeah. So, we have quite a few um members we have quite a few members. um missing doing it. So uh sorry. So super important to just have that done because um that is a fact we do. No, it's review of Mr. Newman. Mr.
Newman's job review. All right. What we remember we messed up like two. Yeah. And then last year we had Mr. Mooney and then we had to like So you're not used to doing it. Well, we did. So Cusack marked us for not having a review. So Mr. Mooney asked
us last year to just each send like a email with a paragraph just so it looked like we reviewed him around March so that when Cusack or maybe it was February so when Cusack came in like he had like oh well here is my review my interim review because we had never done
it before. And that's fine. I you don't have to use our tool. Um I think our tool is is really um very very good and and easy to use but you don't have to. But you do have to do something. So, I just thought I would put that little um
packet in there so that you can review it before you sit down to go ahead and do the evaluation so that you'll really understand what they're looking for from you. But if you have any questions, um my cell phone is in, you know, my business card's there, my cell phone's on there. I answer it seven days a week.
So, please, um just contact me if you if you're struggling with that. Um and then another indicator of growth was a comment um that all members should receive all relevant information to make decisions before a discussion arises. So
um there was an indication that uh maybe some board members are receiving information at a different time than others. So um try to make that a little bit more cohesive was um a growth indicator. Um and then participate in board trainings and retreats. Uh there
were some comments that um you know you have a desire to have some more training and and a retreat um and certainly I can do that if if you wish. Any questions on governance? No, I just have a comment on that. I'm
personally I'm kind of like annoyed with the comment making all members or having members receiving all relevant information whatever because Mandy you do like anything comes up Mandy's like on it too with like just Yeah. So that like
I'm sorry that cover I call them like I call all of them I was born president I remember calling all of them too as like that annoys me for Mandy like it really annoys me. So, whoever put the comment, I'm not happy right now. And participating in board training and
retreats, none of that's mandatory, right? No. So, I mean, I really trying to I think I did put on there for go for growing there. Uh, even and maybe maybe I put it in a different Yeah. I came here straight from the job. So, like and I have I have kids as well
as everybody else. with you. I'm just I think I put in there like I know Kate attends and Charlene has attended the Sussex County School Board at I forget was like Roll Hawk or Newton Country Club. I just feel like just things like that. Kate and Charlene
that you should know in this, but to be a board member, it's all about being moral. You need to be morally correct me. So, yeah, you're right. Yeah. Anyway, that was all. Sorry. No, you're all good. I didn't take offense to that. No, but I
took off the fence for you. Sorry. This is just a growth thing. Like this is just an understanding of how people are feeling. So it's good more. Sorry. So uh and then um resource management and oversight like I said that was the
highest indicator. You really had no um growth at all like indicators at all. um did it. It was really glowing. So that you ensure the health, safety, and security for all students and staff. You review the audits and findings and respond accordingly. And you
consistently monitor um the district's near uh and term and uh future financial help. So you're really taking that oversight piece um financially to heart and and really working very very hard on that. um and uh and you have a great
relationship with your BA and your superintendent and you're all working together to have that um that view of what's out there in the future. So that's super important and you should congratulate yourselves for that type of job because uh that's a tough one. So um
so good stuff with that. You really had no um [Music] um community leadership. Uh the glowing remarks was that you conform um to the requirements of open public meetings act and open public records act um and that
uh the board is always present at all the school functions. That's really super important to the community um and that uh and to the students and um you use many ways of communicating with the community. I saw that you that you email, you text, you you do everything
you possibly can and now you have these weekly mailers. So that's exciting stuff, too. So you're doing a really good job about connecting with the community and and that's really super important. Um the the only indicator of growth was a comment that said that um
you'd like to gain more community input. Um sometimes we struggle with uh community coming to meetings and and hearing what you have to do. So that that's a struggle across the board with all boards, you know. So um so there's different things to do, but you're out there in the community. you're going to
those events. So that helps as well. So that's great. Um and then we're on to the board goals. So um currently like we had spoken that you had uh decided to do an update on those policies and you're really being
proactive about those. So that's great. Again, if you want us to do um the policy wellness check, we certainly can do that for you. So that was marked as achieved because you really did work very very hard on that. Um and then your second goal was to attend county meetings. Um and there was some like
some said you had satisfactory uh attendance with that and then some said that you really didn't have that much Adam. Yeah. So she's good. We got we got her as representative and she could come back and and report back to everybody. Kudos to her. You know, I mean it's a lot of work,
right? being a board member. And some of the strengths that um you all said was that you're active in your community um and that you're really good communicators and you really have a great um oversight on the financial piece. And again, uh some of the governance areas that you said that
possibly could have a little bit more focus is the county meetings, maybe have some more trainings, um a retreat, and then the continue the policy. So, any questions for me? Well, thank you so much for doing this.
It's really super important. Thank you for coming, Callie. And if you have any questions on the CSA while you're doing it, please please let me know. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you. So, next up, we have our staff member of the month.
So, I will read what was written about him from his nominator. It is with great pride that we recognize Dominic Lockaruba as our staff member of the month. Dominic is one of the first people to arrive at school each morning, consistently demonstrating his level of
commitment and dedication. Rarely taking a day off, Dominic ensures he is always present, not just physically, but emotionally and professionally for his students and colleagues. His reliability and presence have made him a cornerstone of our school community. A true team
player, Dominic is fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre fre frequently sought out by his colleagues for insight advice and calm perspective when navigating challenges. His thoughtful collaborative approach helps build a strong and supportive professional environment. He brings a consistent positivity and
energy to the building that uplifts both staff and students. Dominic's dedication to academic excellence is evident in his regular collaboration with third and fifth grade math teachers through vertical articulation. This alignment work focusing on pacing,
expectations, resources, and vocabulary vocabulary ensures consistency and continuity across grade levels directly benefiting our students learning experiences. In recognition of his leadership and commitment to professional growth, Dominic was recently accepted into a prestigious
mentorship and fellowship with the modern classroom project. He will travel to New York City this summer to receive training and he is already planning to implement this innovative instructional approach in the 2025-26 school year. Dominic Laruba exemplifies everything we
strive for in education, passion, dedication, collaboration, and a forward-thinking mindset. We're fortunate to have Dominic as a part of our team as we proudly celebrate him as our staff member of the month. And
I just want to say that I know Dominic a very long time and Dominic probably doesn't remember this or know this, but in high school, Dominic gave me advice. Dominic's hair was kind of like and he told me, "When you rinse your conditioner out of your hair, always use
cold water." So to this day, when I wash my hair and I use conditioner, I turn the shower to cold. It's down in the locker room. I told you I was wrestling fans. Also, we're very happy to present this gift card to a High Point wrestling
alum, class of 9. Thank you. Congratulations. That was awesome. Do you remember? Yes, I do. I feel like a given hair advice.
I still to this day do that. I actually said that to my brother. supposedly start the advice that is okay. Um superintendent and principal section. Um yeah, just real quick um coming down the home stretch here. We had a great elementary field day uh this past
Friday. Obviously my first experience. Everything is a first for me this uh this year here at Frankfurt School. U field day was awesome. Just all the other events kind of leading up to this point of the school year. um you know looking forward to you know our
graduation coming up you know for our eighth graders at the fairgrounds um but what I can honestly say is you know you can hear about these things and you know before you start here you know it's a very community oriented uh you know
school community um great PTA great staff you know great student parents and I can honestly say that that is 100% true um you know, I couldn't be happier being here. Um, you know, during my first year here at Frankfurt, it
really truly is a family atmosphere that I am so happy to, you know, be blessed to be a part of. So, um, you know, short and sweet, you know, update. We have a lot more things on the the agenda today that we'll discuss later on, but I just wanted to say that, you know, as we wrap
up the 2425 school year. Thank you, Dave. What kind of nice things do you have to say? You're so interested. No. Um, again, it's been my first full year through. Um, and you know, I'm just like Kevin said, super proud to be a
part of this um, this community in the school and super proud that my kids are going to be coming through here. Um, it's nowhere else I'd rather be. Um, there is history, there's tradition, there's community, there's everything you want in small town America and what
I grew up with and what we all grew up with and it's nice to see it continue in Frankfurt. Um, other than that, um, it was a great great first year, first full year. We're fastly yet slowly approaching graduation. Um, and, uh, it's going to
be great. It's going to be awesome. Great. Motion to open. Public comment. Motion. Oh, wait. Second. Second. Chris here. So, Kate and Kate, they like Yeah. I don't know what to do. Does anybody have a public comment?
All right, Mrs. Uh, first of all, I'd like to just thank the PTA for all that they do, especially Mrs. Rouseer. She heads the field days and she does a great job. It's a lot of work and we truly appreciate that. So, I just want to recognize all that they do
at the field days. Um, secondly, when since Mr. Sylvester is talking about history and tradition, I would love to see in the future um graduation come back to be here at the school. Um, I just it was always here. The only
time it went to the fairgrounds was during COVID. It moved over there and it never came back. I realize it's easier for the custodial staff, for the teachers, for everybody to have it over there. And I don't mind if that was a rain day over there, like if that was the rain pavilion type of thing. If it rained, that we have to go there. But I
really think it was really special to graduate in the courtyard for many, many years. And I know they took down the the the platform, but I'm sure we could figure something out there with the platform, but um I do think it it's important for our students to graduate from where like at a place that they
they've been here. You know, they graduate from the school you're at versus the fair grounds. I mean, I love the fairgrounds, believe me. You know, I'm very involved over there, but I think it's it's just something special to be able to graduate from. Does it hold as many people in the courtyard? Yeah, that was See, that was always the thing that drove me nuts. It holds as
many people as you want. I'm fascinated. There's never been an issue and I heard that from other people saying, "Well, I heard it goes over there because everybody's unlimited seat." You can have unlimited seating in the courtyard. We never had an issue with any numbers attending because all they do is they put the chairs out, then they put the bleach the benches out from the
cafeteria and there was plenty of room and you could stand in the back. It was never an issue that hearing, "Oh, you can't attend." That never was an issue. So, I don't know if we can ever get it back because I I know some of the eighth grade teachers, I've talked to them and they like it over there because it is easier. I mean, they set it up, they
take care of it, they do it all. They don't, you know, just traditionally, we've always done it prior to co, you know, that's all I just want to add there. And it was a special place to have it. You have my and I have a couple other things. Um, I know they're on the agenda, so I'll just
ask them. And if you're already going to speak about it, then just tell me that and and that's fine. Um, there's a policy number 5118 for the non-residents. Is that for staff members that bring their students here? Yes. Okay. Is that something that we're going to get to that? We'll speak
to that section. And then transportation. I just had a bunch of questions. Are you going to speak on that as well? Okay. Perfect. Thank you so much. Sure. We're speaking on transportation. Motion to close public comment. Motion.
Feels really Dominic. Like feel free if you don't want to sit through this. Okay. I'm interested. Okay. Communications and public relations. We're winding down the school year. Um, on June 10th, we had the ADV, we have tomorrow the Adveck's final
presentations at 6 p.m. Also the middle school pavilion concerts at 6 p.m. 611 Frankfurt's Got Talent. Question about that. Are is that just for inschool people or is that for parents can attend? Typically, it's for in school. Um, if
parents would like to attend, they would have to sign in through the middle school office and get a visitor's pass and and go. And the video club records that, right? So, they'll be able to watch it at a later date if they aren't able to see it live. Okay. What grade is that?
5 through 8. 5 through 8. Also, on June 11th, we have the FTEA ties and tiara's fatheraughter dance, 6:00 to 900 p.m. Um, on the 12th, we have the Holocaust Assembly. the 13th, the big little buddy picnics. That's
fifth fifth grade and first grade. On the 18th, we have early dismissal at 12:45. And the 19th, we have the last day of school and graduation. Um, also early dismissal. So, that brings us to policy and curriculum and discussing the
non-resident policy. It's in the back here. So, a few things um that have come up in here. Um we talking about the parttime are we talking about?
It mentions um in here that this is this policy is intended for um full-time employees to be able to bring their their children here as students. Um, right now we do have one part-time
employee that brings students into the district and we have another asking to bring in. So, the question is where do you draw the line? Do we just grandfather in the part-time employee that currently has her students here and stick to the full-time or are you going
to allow every part-time Are we changing the policy to that every part-time employee could bring students here? Um, so that's the discussion by the board. What does anybody feel? Um,
I'm just asking what do you want? I want to add something to the changes. There are recent changes in laws which are kind of where this has started coming from aside from us having it in our policy already is that now aside from certificated staff
sending their children to the school with their non-residents if they're not certificated staff any non-resident student requires the county commissioner to approve the tuition rates. So uh that would apply to also
pair professionals as well. Um, but anyways, it applies to everyone. The county has to approve it. Applies to everyone aside from certificated staff who send their students to a district as they have a board policy that has it in place, but non-certificated just like any other non-resident wants
to send their student here, we would have the county would have to approve the tuition. So, the county approval is an update in the policy that we have to do per the county. So, that's how this kind of opened up. And when you read it, um, in our our board policy,
when was this made? 2011 is that it was like a Yeah. 20ou in 2011 is when the board made this policy and it it strictly says full-time employees. So, um, the part-time employee that has students here already,
the decision can be made that we stick to this policy and it's only full-time and we're asking that part-time employee to remove her for students and go back to their home district. Um or we can grandfather those students in and going forward
say it's only full-time employees or we can open it up to any employee can bring their student here. The part-time employee there's no busing. So the part-time employee needs to drop off and pick up, right? So if they're out of district and they
live whatever 20 miles away, that's their commitment to drop off and then come all the way back and pick them up in the afternoon. So we have one part-time employee right now that's bringing Yeah. So my understanding is that was allowed two years ago for my time and Mr. Mooney's time I guess. So when I looked at this policy because we were
looking at the whole right the cost of $200 and right above it it says in the item number one any full-time employee. I'm like well that's a problem. So that's why how this kind of got brought up. It reads full-time, but I know we have part-time, a current part-time staff member, and I had another
part-time staff member that's a power professional ask me like, "What's involved with my child here?" Like, wants to bring her child here next year. So, I was like, "We probably should discuss this so we're on the same page." So, I mean, it's I just feel like I just
grandfather absolutely. Um because I think that's horrible to take children out who have been in the school just because of something that was not looked at properly. Um I agree. I agree. Where where do we we have to draw the
line cuz it's almost like we're like we're not school. It's two it's uh two two children. Yeah. You know same you know parent that works here but she has two children that come here. Great. Fourth and sixth. Yeah. Yeah. See, that's that's not fair.
You know, grandfather them in. Got it. Yeah. Absolutely. But then you have to look at this new part-time employee and say, "Not for you." Correct. Yes. Agreed. Agreed. Okay. Yep. Um and then the the second part of this is the fee. So in 2011, the the board
then assessed a fee of $200 per school year per student to cost to cover the cost of consumable items. Um, so I know in discussing this with a with some board members, um, that aren't here. Some would like to
keep it the same. Some would some think that it could go up to $500 per student to to kind of gauge inflation or the the cost between 2011. I actually I actually just Googled and said like if I had $200 in 2011, what would I have now? And it
comes to 200 I think in $86 or $82. Um, so it's just under $300. So I didn't know if um if the board wanted to do the increase to $300. That's what I was thinking. I know at the beginning of this when when we were looking at this
when board meetings were heated. Um I had talked to a couple of board members. I was not present at the time. I was just sitting over there and talked to to some people about it and they said, "Oh, we should charge $400 at that time." But I don't think a a 100% jump is fair.
No. Um, but I do think $200 is fair. I think we need to talk about possibly increases just like there's increases in salary every year there's increases in just to help with inflation, there's increases in taxes. I think we need to
look even if it's like every two years or something like that, like every two years. It needs to be just like a little up just to help with inflation because these days it's The consumables are going up. How many students require how many teachers bring their kids? I think there's 10 right now, right?
Last year was 13 total. This year there's 10 kids. So, it's not like it's not filling the gap of the budget by any means. Um, no. And I'm not saying that I'm trying to deter anybody from bringing their students. Um, but I, you know, we're
here for the business of the board. And so I mean you're looking at every year maybe every two years like yeah like if we if you you could also set something up in the policy that says like so for next year we we would need to tell them now right for next year if
it's going to 300 and then in 2 years you're going to be at 350 and in 3 years you're going to be at 400. And you could cap it and you know say you know the board needs to look at this policy again in 2030 but it's going to go up by 50
bucks every two years between now and then and in 2030 they need to revisit it and then I won't be here but somebody would need to remember to look at that you know like um we could do something like that like just and I'm not even saying $50 every
two years. You guys tell me what you think. I don't know. I feel like it's a it's a touchy subject. You know, we're obviously not free daycare or anything like that, but I mean, uh, start knowing because you have teachers that have been here that that are, you know, can say, "All right, I'll give you
your 400." And then you have teachers that are good that just started and they're like, "Hey, man. I that's half my paycheck, you know." So, there is there is available right now like a payment plan where they would take, you know, $20 out of each of your paychecks, right, over the course of the 10 months of your pay. So like they it's
not you don't have to just like set up like you know like you got to buy lunch, you got to do this. Well, there are rules. So like you can't you can't need an IEP, you can't you're not getting any special services and you can't be behavioral issues. So like if that happens, those students
are not welcome back. Mhm. Um, but again, I think can we do like a I'm trying to think like an in like a not like a dollar amount, but like a I don't know like 5% increase like or
something like a or Chris. So when was this established? 2011 is that we since 2011 it was 200 or the big. So it was 200 but it was never it was never um collected wasn't collected the first until just a few years ago.
So the policy was in place and we just we just never collected money. So as of I think yeah last year or something last year the year last year um we said no we need to collect this money. Um and it looks like it was readopted June
12th of 2023. So it looks like it was readopted June 12th of 2023. That was last year. Yeah. So last year was what do um other districts do as far as like the increase? Is it based purely on like does the percentage that they're
raising it match with the percentage that the supplies go up? Because if we're saying that this fee is for consumable materials, then if the incre like I feel like the increase should align with that. But I also am wary of
the raising the amount um to kind of speak to John's point in terms of the impact that that will have on the staff because I do think that having the staff bring their own kids here does a lot for
just the quality of the I mean if my like my kids do come here and if I worked here I would work a little bit harder You know what I mean? Like cuz my kids are here and and they have the bonus of them not running out because they have to get home to get their own
kids off the bus. Like I think there are a lot of a lot of like a lot of um perks to that. Yeah. Perks to that that you can't really put a dollar amount on. I and maybe I'm skewed. I personally don't think $300 a year per student is a
lot. I pay $400 a month for afterare for my kids to have a babysitter get them off the bus. So like to me I'm paying a lot more than the $600 that it would cost me if I worked here if I need my kids to be devil's advocate cuz I see both
sides. The preschool parents for 2 and 12 hours pay what 4,000? Yeah. Almost $4,000 a year. So that's Yeah. 400 a month. Yeah. 400 a month for 2 and 1/2 hours. And those are parents that are in
district. Those kids are in district and they have to pay $400. So just to be double that there too, you know, we have parents paying that. So show that I can't speak sorry to all all schools like Spart doesn't allow it. So you can't there's schools that don't
even allow you to we don't at High Point there's no fee. So I think it's all over the place. So like I I don't there's really no like there's like a I don't know that there's like a we have nothing to Yeah. I don't think we can go by that cuz it's all over the place. It's just
really locally how you want to decide, right? Definitely say yes to a current increase, but is there a possibility of putting like a variable of plus or minus 3% depending on economical standpoints or is that to like has to be more concrete probably in the policy?
I mean, it could be anything we want it to be really. But, um, two, I don't it's not appropriate to ask a teacher what's your household income, right? Like what your h what your spouse makes or whether you're a single mom or you're not a single mom. No, but you want to you don't want to
make it individualized either. That's right. Yeah. So, I think I mean I I see the point of having your students here so you aren't running out the door to have to go get them from somewhere. Um, but again, I also
you could always take your kids and go like it doesn't mean you're going to stay longer or participate in more or do anything else. Um, can we All right, just playing because we haven't collected it so no one's had to pay it, right? So, we're just starting to get it and now I feel like
we getting greedy. Um, could we do can we write in there and like in So, starting So, last year we had initiated it, it was 200. It's 200 this year. The following year, which would be that two years, it's going to go up that like $50. So in like another year it goes up
50 and then it will be 250 for those two years and then it goes you know since we just kind of started like I don't know if that's like instead of going right yeah just building it in instead of just being like automatically like oh you have to pay for the first time last year and now this year you have to pay for like so I was just saying what if you did you
like had a starting level of 300 with 6% increase capped at 10 years. So if you had a kindergartener, right, you would be here through 8th grade at 10 years at 6% every year. The most you would pay would be 480. Okay. And it just 6% increase every year.
From the start. Well, you're talking everybody's paying a different rate then versus it's only 10 kids, Mr. Lazard. You can figure that out. That's all I said. No, it's 10 kids. It ain't going to make us. No, it's not going to make or break us. It's about It's about the policy really.
And so we so we're in a consensus that it's full-time employees grandfathered in the two kids that are here. Yes. Um so then it's just the fee that's the other part. And I missed Lazard. Explain it to me again. I can't remember. Is it So we we get
money on the formula per enrollment of students. Those 10 kids are included in our enrollment, right? They're listed as Yeah, they are listed as current resident students. They're included in the resident account. Yeah. So, we get them in the state aid
count for Frankfurt, Branchville, technically Frankfurt, uh is what they're listed as. And how much is it per kid right now? 200. No, no. I mean, regular res. Yeah. What's it cost? The overall that includes facilities,
costs, and everything. Just averaged out among everyone, it's about 15,000. 15,000 a year per kid, right? Yeah. But that like I said that's everything in regardless of the number of students. So it's just if there's fewer kids it just ups the count the amount. So those
10 kids provide do provide a tax burden on local they use water, electricity, but not on average much but we're getting the state aid for them in the the original plan. What are we spending
on average for supplies and any and on consumables altogether? And that's kind of where we came up with the $200. uh it hasn't been changed in obviously 13 years and we've only been collecting it for two years at this point, right? Um but Oh, so
why was it in the policy and then they didn't collect it? They didn't want to collect it. That's all they were pull the whole board. They didn't want to collect it. What was that? I said something redo the policy. Yeah, that that's Yeah.
You had to take it out all together, but I put it in there. But I I'm comfortable with $300 per year. I actually don't mind what Dave is saying that you're you're starting at that in your kindergarten kid and you're moving up. So the most you're ever paying is 480 by
8th grade. But then that means you have 480 for your eighth grader. You have, you know, 350 for your right third grader. I just want to simplify and just make same. Yeah. We've got to be the best we can go
to just do every two years we're escalating by this but but everybody would get but they would get a cap of whatever or revisit up this much go up by $25 I think cuz I kind of hear what you're saying I hear what all everybody's
saying but maybe we'll go to 300 like for the purposes of this right now maybe we go to 250 for next school year I like 300 we can it's it's Not my vote. Everybody gets to vote. Everybody has a say. I'm just saying when I when I put it when I
Googled what does $200 in 2011 what do I get today? It was like$ 2.86. So that's why I said I mean I don't want Mr. Lazar to be charging 286. I said go to 300. But um I like 250. I just feel like it's a more palatable
increase for the people that have been paying it. Especially coming off of it. And I feel like it's a huge perk. I feel like it's a huge perk. And like I I'm sorry if I'm getting sour, but like my my kid is in fifth grade and I'm still paying for her afterare. So I mean like
you know it's I mean it depends on your kid and if you're going to trust your kid or what you're going to do whatever but like I I just I don't know. I don't feel like $300 is a lot of money. 250 to 300 what's I don't know.
But it's not I'm not I'm only one vote. I'm only one vote. I hear it. I got a teacher salary like right over here. This right here 250 is like What do you think, Chris? I don't I honestly I'm all over the
place, but I'll give you my thoughts. I don't think it's worth it. Um just because I think there's a lot of goodwill with kind of what Charlene said. Having those kids are probably some of the better kids here. Um it is a perk. There's no way around that. You know, Frankurt kids are better than Frankfurt kids. I'm just I'm just
asking. No, I just think they're kidding. I think it I think it says a lot if they want to bring their kids here cuz it's not an easy thing to do to bring your kids out of district to a school where they're not necessarily with their friends. So, there's got to be a reason they do it. I don't think
$1,000 is is worth the negative. It sounds like it was a big deal. I wasn't on the board then two years ago when it even you asked to collect the money. Still don't know if it's worth it, but um and if it If you had to do something, I would
support probably 250 more than 300 just because you weren't paying it for 12 years or 10 years. All of a sudden, we started collecting it. There was a reason. Wow. We didn't collect it for 10 years. I'm imagining they just didn't right want to collect it. So, that's it. They didn't want to ask more. Um,
I don't think there's a big difference between 50 and 100. That's just I still don't know if it's worth what it sounds like you went through when we even asked to collect the 200. I wasn't here, but it sounds like it was not comfortable. Um, I don't know. That's just my thoughts.
What do you think, Chelse? I'm 4300. I am. John, what do you think? It's a hard one cuz I feel like we could look other places for it. You know what I mean? I hear I know that the the town people, they're like, you know, these are my taxes and I can hear cuz those
are the people that aren't here and you can I can see their frustrations. But uh I mean if you have a teacher that's been here for a while you know obviously every year you make more and more and more. I'm cool with like all right you pay more whatnot because you're getting more that's fine like you say you pay
for afterare but then again you know we want to charge 300 bucks but you know what about uh what about the stipulations like the resident kids have to buy the insurance for computers and whatnot like well they have to do that too. But no but you have to be responsible
for your own computer now. you know, this isn't a school. You know, you you're responsible for the computer now. You don't get the insurance like everybody else does. It's like you take these precautions and more responsibilities
than uh I don't know cuz I feel like to make it worth it, you'd have to charge a lot more than 300. Like Chris said, it's 15,000 a year for a kid on everything. So, I mean 300's kind of like spitting in their eye, you know? I don't know. That's how I feel about it. But I feel
like there's other ways where you can be like, "Okay, well now you're responsible for these certain things." You can't. But then again, that's not fair either. So I'm making entirely, you know, sounds. So I'm sorry. I was speaking out of both sides of my mouth. But uh I
don't know. It's a hard one. It's a hard one. Yeah. So it sounds like three three people are willing to go to 250. Chelsea and I are willing to go to 300, but John's undecided. So it sounds like because when it comes to the money it's like it's I I don't know.
It's right now it's it's I don't know. I feel like money is like tough right now. We're feeling it in the school, you know, every I feel like the school constantly has its hand out for money, right? Exactly. Um that's kind of where I'm like how the school constantly.
Oh, I know. Yeah. you know, and I mean, we had to find But this is 10 students, right? So, it's not it's not affecting everyone. If you're in district, you're in district, then your children are coming here. If you teach in district and you live in
district, like Mr. Sylvester is in district, his his children come here. They don't have another place to go. you you're if you're out of district and you're bringing your children here for the educational experience that we provide,
which is excellent. I understand that. If you're bringing them here so that you, you know, can can say after school and do your work, you are also responsible for watching your children. And I know that sometimes
things get rowdy, right? Like so there are things that there are negatives to it too to have the children staying here after. There is an email that went out about the rowdiness in the hallways after school of all of the staff's children not just
these 10 children. So I mean like those are also considerations. one of, you know, I mean, obviously the school has insurance and everything and whatever, but something happens to one of those kids. Maybe you need to start a finding policy. Now, I worked for a couple
companies. Yeah, man. You break something, you get a fine. You break another thing, your fine goes up. You break a third, you're terminated with a fine. But anyway, um, so in order to have Mr. Lassard help us change this policy, um, it seems like the consensus is to go to
250. Um and then find some kind of like escalation process through the through the year through the time frame. Unless it unless it go um trying to think of something easy
policy will be re-reed every two years. Every two years. Yeah. But like if a new teacher comes in because we can only say in two years like it's okay after that and then no what we're saying now is because we don't have an escalation and we're we're we're not able to agree on one is that
we it'll be that this policy is reviewed again in two years and the people on the board at that time can look at it and say they can decrease all right it can go to it we'll take it to $1,000 or they can say we're going to bring it back down to we're not going to charge. They can even say we're not going to charge at that point. Like it
it just depends on who's on the board. Oh, maybe I have a question. I don't know if I'm allowed to. Sure. But she he actually had his hand up first. I Yes. I I understand your whole thing.
One of the things I will say is I'm councilman from branch law. Some of the comment that have been more so even about besides this is just the idea of your the teachers and then their children coming. It's as the gentleman
over there expressed the the thing about everybody paying taxes. You know, they feel there's been comments made at times. How come these teachers are coming here being I'm not trying to be rude. understand coming here being paid to do a job and
then their children are also coming to the school to be educated by our tax dollars. Yes. Understood. So I think along I don't know if that's No, no. I I that's exact I
I don't know. I'm not trying to put words in the gentleman's mouth, but if that's what he was kind of trying to drive on one side of my mouth, the other words were on other side. Yeah. And I I I what it's like to sit up there. So, thank you. My question was just I know Mr. Lassard
earlier said that they could counted in our numbers. So, does that actually help with state aid? We get more state aid because they're counted theoretically. Yes. State aid is based on however much money they put into the formula and then the
formula calculates from there. So, in theory, we get more money. It certainly helps us to have a higher enrollment count when they're doing state aid. How much it actually helps us, I don't know. Right. But generally, there's no county just like every other kid. So, technically, it should help us with the
state aid. Should help us because from what I understand about the process, I would my kids I'm in township so my kids went here in the township. But from what I understand is that there's not so many that were actually adding to the tax burden because they're spread out like spread out without the
grades. And definitely like you mentioned, Manny, there's no IEP or services allowed. So they're from what I understand, they're really not charging or costing the district anything. They're just interspersed. So the tax burden wouldn't go down because if we didn't allow them.
So like this is this is correct. Here I am sitting. Do I have to stand over there if I want to talk as Mandy the parent? No. Who am I? When Darby was in kindergarten, there were three kids in her class. Also, if you go back and look at the yearbook last year of Darby's kindergarten, there
are nine adults on that yearbook photo in her class. Parents got very upset when the yearbooks were issued last year. And I had about how many kids were in her class? 18. I had about 12 parents coming beling to me when we're on that playground. Why is what what is going on? What is going on? And so, what you
also have to look at is in that class, three out of district students in her class required a one-on-one aid. No, didn't require other students required a one-on-one aid that we have all of this in her class. The other two teachers did not have that. But this specific class
had these nine adults. So Darby Dar Darby does not require any services, right? But what what what did she lose out on on her time with the one-on-one with the teacher if now we
have many students that need help, extra help and we have the one-on-one aids and we have students that are here from out of district in her class taking up time with the teacher as well. So like what what does that do
for the student? Like that's not moneywise. That's looking at it as a parent, your time, what what energy was put into other places that didn't get directed to my child or those other 12. But if you look at the 10 the 10 that I
think you said there's 10 right now and you take kindergarten through 8, that's nine grades. So you're looking at like one point in in a whole out of three, you know, you have three kindergartens, three first and there might be one or two, not even in each class, but in a but I I understand completely what you're saying.
So I mean there's a nonmoney value that comes in it too and just like listening to the community and looking at that class money off of it versus Yeah. I mean I don't have a strong opinion either way. I'm just I just It's also the non-money pieces. Right. Sean just got fluditoring. It's awesome.
Right. If a if a child of a teacher here that wasn't in district eat them out and finish second, that's frustrating. Just like on a sports team, there there's that piece that which is why a lot of schools don't allow it. It's that student's not supposed to be here and they are the starting point guard or
this or the valictorian. So that there is a it's not an easy decision to make because it does potentially cause whether it's time or someone else losing an award because that person I don't I don't know if I'm talking myself out of what I was said before
just it's a lot I don't know if there's the right answer measurable factors I think the money is concrete and then the other and as as a teacher here it's like at Freeden for example they had it and then right when Charlotte was coming into
preschool they stopped it and I was like oh man like it would been nice to have her right go there it's not a lot of schools do it so like even just the fact that we offer that is just a benefit in itself and I feel like that's like you know that's
a perk of in itself of being here just being allowed to have that um not money factor but yes so I have a personal anecdote to share um my son was at freedom school. Um his uh first two months of kindergarten were
terrible for him at school. It just went really badly. So I had the option to take him out of there and bring him here. So he finished out the year under my purview and then as soon as I could, I got him back out when we moved because
I didn't want him here. But for that time, it was the most valuable thing that could have ever been offered to me because I would have been so distracted by what was happening with him at Freeden. Here, I just dropped him in Angie Agnore's room and
it was problem solved for that year. Um, I don't think it's like um used like that, but for me it was extremely beneficial and I would have paid whatever they asked me to pay at that point. Yeah. I don't think the 250 and 300 is
is a big deal. I don't I don't think Well, bring back to the money part of it. That's $150,000 out of the taxpayer for 10 kids. So if it's 15, that's to to the councilman's point is
you know the taxpayers and I know Mr. Silverthorne has spoken to me about it and you know people come up to me. Yeah. It's just it's it's there are there are intangible things to think about as well on both sides.
the great side for the teacher to Dominic's point, the side for the that the parents are looking at to Chris's point, right? Like Yeah. And I think we're all being a little bit overly cautious with it because we had some backlash when we first So, I think
we're all kind of like, you know, where do we kind of go from here? It's a little end because it's too much of a conversation. That's it. It's it's really that's that's what it is. You know, it's it costs a lot. And I mean, like you were
saying, if it uh if there's special circumstances, are we allowed to like a service or is that just like inappropriate? But to the staff just like I I don't know. I don't know. I guess I'm just thinking
back to uh the town and let them decide. Yeah, I mean honestly I think dive in pretty deep into this which is a great discussion and it's up a lot of time but so I think $250 and she said so I think that the thing on the table is $250 per student per year reevaluate
in two years and every two years the board has to look at this. God bless every two years. Perfect. Okay increase and then the other is use of school facilities. want a summary. Uh I have the draft
version in here and shows what's changed. So we have we've revised the school facility use policy as well as the form. Um because the way it was working out was that we were averaging out of pocket costs for exempt
organizations which was almost every organization that used the facilities. Uh there we were going out of pocket for all the supplies that were getting used. Uh so we revised it to pretty much no more organizations exempted except for
the few that are directly affiliated with the school. That would be the PTA um any of the organization right school sponsored student clubs organizations athletics PTA teacher staff development FTE. Yes. So other than that, I mean up to
now they would pay the cost of the custodians whether it was overtime or extra time or anything like that. But in the end we were using a lot of supplies from the bathrooms, from the cafeteria. If the cafeteria is over, they kind of use supplies from there sometimes. And
it was at a point, you know, we're trying to we're getting really tight on the budget and you know, you might be using $60 a week worth of trash bags, paper towels, toilet paper, soap, any of those items. So, we're trying to recover recoup those costs and then as a result,
we had to remove all a lot of the exemptions because before it was if you were a nonprofit, you had no fees. If you weren't charging fees for people that were coming there, you'd have no fees. Um, but I know some places are charging fees still and not
paying a fee for what they're using. So, you can think sometimes on a Saturday the gym can be pretty full and definitely stuff's getting used aside from the fact that it's just creating a lot of extra work for the custodial staff. It's uh trying to keep things
recover whatever costs there are. So, that's what the main revision is. uh just removes those exemptions and then it just codifies the fees that are listed in there are going to be applicable to any organization. So then what do you do? You send a letter out to these these that are going to include but not limited to.
So when they fill up the form so we have the form here for here as well. So the application for school form facility. Yeah. And the application must include all of the required documentation at the time of submission. Previously, it was allowed to turn it in and then get the
stuff in before the event, but then that was creating a a right that's a lot of record keeping tracking that had to be done versus get it all in and submitted. So, you know, in the front office, they were busy to begin with. Yeah. So, one less thing for them to chase.
Yeah. There were a few occasions where like these, you know, um entities were reaching out to us the day before. We're like, "We need this, we need that." Like scrambling like pushing them to get us what we needed. So basically the new policy is going to be like they need to get everything to us. It needs with
payment and then it needs to get board approved and then you can have your event. It's not going to be like the event's tomorrow and we need all these things. This is like for wrestling. This is like every time they use the gym. Yep. Y So well not every time they use the gym. So for the wrestling um
Okay. Yeah. That would be what we talked about the different classes if you will. So we have five classes of their classes. Oh and a new thing. So what we decided was right there would just be $100 right up
front. So we're not going to track like their usage just Yeah. We're talking about like class two like all your sports, all your activities. Um and then a new thing we added is class 5. If you look at that. So, we've had unfortunately a lot of problems with our after school before and after school
program with damage to equipment. So, something new that we would like to do in that policy is charge them $25 a week to cover supplies and custodial coverage. We weren't. No, it was free of charge is a convenience. Um, they never got charged
to have host their I feel like that's is awfully fair. $100 a month, right? $1,000 school year. Also, sidebar, I was just looking at the other policy and I was thinking it's 250 a month, not 250 a year. So, I'm good with 300 a year. Yeah, it's a year.
That was just mine. I was not paying attention. Yeah, it's not a month, it's a year. So, I'm good with 300. So, this for the nonprofits, what you call nonprofit and Well, isn't there paperwork that you can fill out that goes back to the state and the state
reimburse you for what you lost? is that like we're we shouldn't be responsible for you know we have the building and everything and yeah we can take the hit in the beginning but isn't there another process you can go through where you send it back to the state and the state reimburse us for that nonprofit get
together no not in this so and so these groups could just come here use the school for free do whatever they want like well yeah that's what I was I mean well they had to follow our policy if they were violating you know the oversight and any of the other
report. No, I mean they're coming and using everything and some cases destroying stuff and different things and then we're stuck there with the bill. Yeah. So, if we're able to find out who did it, uh we've address Well, if anything gets broken, we address it with the uh the organization which there's
been broken equipment which has been paid for by the group that was, you know, using it. Um key is just making sure there's more, you know, more input as to helping cover the cost
of what you're using is a big deal. Obviously, these are public facilities and taxpayers pay for the use of them. Uh, and although you know that usually is where the argument starts as I pay taxes, but at the same time, all of your neighbors don't need to pay for the supplies that your group is
using. And that's kind of where we're at is to do that. And I don't feel like these are like astron am I like skewed here? Like am I thinking like these are not astronomical charges? I'm thinking like I'm thinking of like people. No, but I mean like even the facilities
things like I'm surprised the before and afterare people were just here for free actually think about it but I didn't know that was the case. But I do like the idea of these classes and identifying and I do wholeheartedly believe that the school
sponsored uh PTA, staff development, FTA, they're a part of the school. They're doing work for the school, right? You know, it's not like teacher and staff development. We should charge everybody a quarter for their telling to bring their own toilet paper, right,
Mrs. Zucker? Or hold it. You know, like I mean that's that's part of the staff's requirement of being is a different way. Yeah. Well, when you hear about the cost of this sewer time, you might be holding it because we can't
sanitary. Okay. So, those are all good. Everyone's in agreement. Everyone's fine with the charging of the use of school facilities. Yes, cuz I read it correctly this time. Okay. Um, so then next we're on to the physical plant transportation finance.
So, um, Jesse and I attended the sewer meeting today. And if anybody would like to read the report, sorry, I wasn't there, man. Very interesting. Um,
did you send it to our old board? Let them read the report. So, because we didn't tie into the sewer when Branchville offered it to us, um we're looking at if it just for the water and sewer improvements for the school only, um you're looking at
$4,694,000. Um a part of this would be helpful to our neighbors if infrastructure was provided for the church down 206 Pines Road. And the study that the engineer did is in here to list all of those neighbors that
would be in it. That then costs $6,888,000. But that burden, the difference of that burden would not be on the school. Um it would just be that it would be one whole project. What we also found out today is
Skuma um cannot welcome the school as a new client. It has to be the township. So we um Mr. Silverthorne was Mayor Silverthornne was at the meeting as well as Mayor Fredo um the engineer that Branchville had when they did the sewer
project there um as well as two of the engineers from Kleinfelder the service that we hired and um Joe from Skuma Administration. Um so kind of next steps Mr. Lass is going to figure out where we get this money
from. He's making a couple phone calls. So, we're going to have to pay to use Skuma is what you're saying, right? They're not We would pay the sewer fee. Just like if you had sewer Frankfurt would go to pay for it to use sounds like that solar field out there.
Frankfurt would pay us. The fact of the matter is we've been saying that this septic out here is 65 years old and it dawned on me. Mr. Mr. Newman reminded us that next year is the 75th anniversary of Frankfurt School and that elementary septic is original to the building.
So it may be 75 years old. At this time, the best we can do to get through this is at least 2 years of permitting, getting approvals, going through the channels, and starting
summer of 2027 to get infrastructure to tie into the sewer at this point. So then you're just praying that our septic holds up and that Mr. ransomware can work magic out there uh with the septic and we're not allowed to put a new septic in, right? That's so we're not
allowed to Well, no, we clarify we we're still allowed to do an inind but uh you know, so we couldn't change it up. It's just if it fails like we did once before in the in the middle school wing,
you can build what you have right there. Uh again, except for a few caveats depending on what what the failure is caused by this port. The idea is at this point uh at some point it makes sense to connect to the sewer as EPA regulations
get more and more strict and they may potentially remove these uh inind replacement allowances. So it's it comes down to how can we do the financing? How much is it going to impact the community? um and do move forward. There
are two components to this. It's just the sewer or the sewer and tie into the Branchville water. Um because right now we're on a well, we have a lot of costs with associated with lead testing, monitoring, all of those items that would then become Branchville's issue,
which should largely be a wash aside from the fact that we'll now be paying for water usage. But so it is two components. we would have the Branchville uh sewer tie-in um in which case we're trying to coordinate as far as again as overall benefit for the
community itself is to fill out the entire uh district. Yeah. The the entire sewage um map which is here you know the Pines building which is not in use obviously and then the food properties along 206 but then
the school as well. We discussed where to put the pump station. Um being in lower field, those there are some options that were discussed how to affect water for fire hydrants or anything like that. Uh but then like I said, the water is an alternate option.
They just figured if we have the road opened once, it'll probably cost less in the long run to just run the both sets of pipes down the road while the road's open and tie the school in. Um you know, a lot to be discussed. Where's the water coming from for Branchville?
They have two stand pipes using one right now. Testing for the other. No. No. They shut that one down, I think. Right. Yeah. One of them shut down for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We have two wells. Two wells. They I don't again I don't want to over stuff.
Yeah. No, we one of their wells right now is in use. The other one is waiting for testing or filtering. Not good news. So, two weeks from tomorrow, the Frankfurt Township Committee, they're going to have a preliminary meeting, but they'll meet at their town committee to go over this uh
project. Um because, right, so we can't own it because Frankfurt has to be the customer. Frankfurt has to be the customer to Frankford Township has to be the customer to Skuma. Okay. So, um a lot of moving parts here, a lot
of things to learn about. Um, and we we did ask the engineer when they're when they draw up their drawings to kind of uh list alternates so that we have our base project. But then if you want to tie in the fire water, like that's
another 80 that's $80,000 that is built into this price right now. We don't have to do that because we have the pond that they can pump if there was ever an event a fire event here. um and they can bring tanker trucks and all of that, but um it's kind of like if you're doing it,
you might as well do it right. Like don't skimp on it now because things just get more and more and more expensive. Um also taking a look at this is like lead times on things. So once we do get all all of our approvals in two years, we
get our approvals in two years, you know, how long does it take to get that pump here? How you know and build the pump? And it needs a it needs a a building, an enclosure down there. We have a shed, but the shed is packed full. So, do we add on to the shed or do we have a standalone building? And just
a lot of kind of moving parts on the sewer. The thing has to be a standalone thing, but um but we have a report. Yay. One more question about that though. I don't know if you guys know or not, but he said it was going to be 6 million for
if other people joined us or 4 million for us. Now, that's not going to force the hand of these people to have the tie in, right? Like or so it's a township ordinance that would have to be made and they give so when branch
So this would be like a township question then. Yeah. It's not a school question. Yeah. Yeah. They would make an ordinance and they would out outline what needs to be done now versus what can be put off versus what that timeline looks like. But that's not on the school. Andy, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
It the the Frankfurt thing, what it actually is, it's Frankfurt Township has a certain amount of al what they call allocation, right? gallons per day everybody that because it's Branchville's even
though it's over here it was put there but it's still Branchville's sewer system per se that's controlled by Skuma um it's what they what's considered as the reason yourselves have to go to Frankfurt Township because of course
it's Frankfurt Township territory Frankfurt Township has a certain same thing is for the water there's there's certain allocation that is allotted. Um and yes, it does include those other entities along with some other entities
in Frankfurt Township, but it all has to be go to the township for them to then they have to go to Skuma to Branchville for everybody to agree upon. All right. This is a very long process we learned
over this past year. So now that 6 million does not necessarily mean it's 6 million directly paid by referendums. There's the biggest options which are still being determined in this whole process and some of the professionals we got a contract with help us figure out
but there would be would be seeking grants from the USDA as well as the New Jersey I banks trying to find whatever incentives we have to help cover the cost. It looks like some of them might be now down to up to 25%. But it all depends and as the timing
goes and how politics change things. So it wouldn't be 100% funded through local referendum. But you know the amount is to be determined. Um that's the phone calls Mr. Mustard is making to our bond council and then also Frankfurt Township will call their bond
council so we can work together. And isn't there is there something for like churches too? Especially if the church is Italian or like so the church can't be where the can't be the owner of it and they can't be the pump station. There's environmental issues over there. So darn
we were hoping so we were hoping space unfortunately said that today church is only good for school and school needs it. Put that up. All right. Mr. Lar, can you talk about the Carol Han scholarship funds update? Okay. Yeah. So um moving along, Carol
Han, so when I started here on the board, Carol Han was the president. Uh she had cancer and passed 6 months after I started. So when she passed, uh a group got together and did fundraisers in her name. Longer Burger Basket
fundraiser. If you've been here, you may have been one. Blew my mind. Uh anyways, anyways, we did fund raise for about five years and with the help of Jerry Ward handling investing the the funds, we're able to raise enough to do
scholarships every single year. Two at Frankfurt School, two at High Point, totaling $2,200 uh to Frankfurt students graduating from here or High Point. Uh Jerry just came in last week and gave me an update. He
said there's a he's a little bit shy. enough money to do two more years worth of these scholarships before the funds run out. Uh we didn't think we'd get an extra 5 years. So it's been about 20 years of doing these these scholarships. So I just wanted to give you an update
in about two years that that scholarship fund will be done. Uh so it's mostly an FYI just let you know. Um you I'm pretty surprised how well I mean Jerry's certainly a whiz with investing. So very generous. Great. um very thankful
for all the work he's done, all the volunteer work. Uh 2025 26 pay to participate. Uh we've discussed obviously this year we added the fees for doing activities. Uh we estimated tried to estimate to break even as much
as possible. We actually come short just over $1,000 on the cost for the transportations officials any of those items. Uh so we met to discuss how to address that. Um I don't if you want to talk about it uh what we're proposing
for the revi the revision to the fees is in the agenda but yeah so I saw the old one in there. I Yeah. So Dave and I talked today with Chris kind of breaking it down. Um yeah. So currently the first child if you have somebody that does pay to participate
$100, right? So, we were thinking to cover that loss, you know, we're thinking like we should probably account for a 20% increase with um you know, just inflation. I know we we're discussing school buses, right? Um we might have to contract out more um you
know, with the craft bus company, you know, getting rid of, you know, two of our buses and drivers. So rather than the 100, we were thinking 125 and then it was just an increment of, you know, 50 on top of that. So if you have one child, it' be 125 for your whole year.
No matter how many activities or sports you participate in, then it would just go up. If you have two children, it would be 175 total. And then the third, if you have three or more children, two children would be 200. 200 200. Three child. Oh, sorry.
Yeah. So yeah, it would be 125, 200, and 250. Why not make it 300? No, I'm just kidding. Come on. We're raising it because we we lost out on transportation basically.
Well, we came up short, so we're trying to make it up. You just said though, you said that we lost out cuz transportation cost us more. Yes. Now, I'm all about it, but uh I do have to say, do we do we argue with the bus company this much? Cuz I feel like there's some things here that we just
throw at these parents like cuz they don't get the chance to negotiate. But I will negotiate for them. And I mean, do we negotiate hard like this with the bus company? Cuz we've had nothing but problems with Craft. Yeah. And I feel like we still have Craft, you know, and then Craft accepts no respons.
How long is our contract, Mr. Lassard? Oh, it's an annual contract. Um, but there's no other we don't get other bids. We we barely even get No, there is I understand there's nobody in town, but I mean, yeah, we we do solicit quotes from multiple bus companies. Stock craft
for student and sometimes per student comes in cheaper. So, but they're all based on quotes. Uh, and same thing with the bids, which we're we're rebidding for Roots this summer. And the last two bids,
uh, we did get craft was a new one. They came in significantly lower cost than First Student, but First Student raised their rates significantly. They didn't want to rebid because they wanted to raise their rates and they craft blew them out of the water. But in most all
the bids we've done, it's usually been one company bidding. I mean, I can a lot of competition. I mean, we pay craft though and then we pay to service their buses and we pay to take care of their equipment. It's like, well, you know what I mean? It's it's like all these different charges
said was that we're going to choose that. Yeah. Um, but I will say since we started in September, there's a rocky road. I can honestly say that and then with crap and then, you know, the winter the first, you know, phantom snowstorm. But
I but I can honestly say like since then to now um they've been much better to work with. They've you know been very accommodating. We've had a few internal things that we cannot discuss because it it involves like certain students or certain routes or certain employees driving the bus but they've been very
accommodating and you know have kind of have worked with us. Um you know I know there was a certain route there that goes to a branch where there was a very big problem. We worked together and now that over the last month or two that seems to have gotten ironed out. So started rough, but
I can honestly say there's definitely positive progress being made as we approach the end of the school year with them from my experience in my first year. Great. Anybody any questions on the pay to play? Um Oprah form update.
Yeah, I get this in one other item also. So, OPRA form, the Department of Community Affairs just instituted a new mandatory OPER request form. Um, they've made several changes to the OPRA legislation or statutes, whichever. Uh,
the most notable change as far as a form is it now has a certification section that says whether you intend to use this for um commercial or private purposes. So, they have to certify that. If they do not fill that out, it's not a valid request and it gets sent back to the
requester. Same thing as technically with Oprah, you don't have to use the the form. You can just send in an email. I would like to see these documents. My name is such and such, but they still have to certify the the purposes of of the use. uh they've been kind of trying
to combat how there was an imbalance of of uh Oprah requests and the who would pay legal fees if they were uh denied. So, it's kind of different caveats as far as if it's intended for commercial purposes or not. I'll tell you as the records custodian, I regularly get
requests from commercial entities across the country wanting all of your data about sometimes they want all of your employees data that that's public information as well as all of your purchasing information. So that way essentially they can sell you back your
information for you know they aggregate it and sell it back to you. So they do gobble up time. So, this is certainly to help some of the complaints there have been over the years with the government records council and uh you know I welcome it. It's certainly not a major
change and generally you're over requests. It was just the here's the new form. It's already on our website. Uh they just need to certify whether they're doing it for personal needs or or commercial commercial needs. Uh so anyhow since it's a an encrypted
document I could not incorporate into here but it was emailed to to everyone in u when the agenda went out. I have one other item just to add for I forgot to list as a bullet but in June every year we we only have one time of the year except for at budget time to put
money into our reserves. Oh yeah. So uh every year I have two resolutions. One is to put funds into uh into capital reserve. uh and one to put into our maintenance reserve. Maintenance reserve was an open dollar amount, but I trying
to get $40,000 into there. We've used uh just over 30,000 this year. So, I'm trying to replenish what we have used. Uh for capital reserve, I have anything that when the audit is said and done, anything left over above $70,000
uh will go into capital reserve. And that $70,000 is what would be going towards tax relief for the 2627 budget year. Is that the consent agenda to approve? Yeah, it's down near the back reserve. It's
resolution 44 and 45. So that 70,000 the significance of that is that is money in the budget that I have to find to make sure we don't spend. So whether there's something gets dropped, you know, we find the savings
in the budget, I have to find and make sure that as the year gets down the road, we get towards the end of the year that I'm ending up with that minimum of surplus of that $70,000 because that's going to tax relief. And then every year that tax relief if you
you don't generate that that savings in the budget it creates a hole when you create the next budget because you no longer have that right that offsetting surplus. So you know this is one I monitor very closely. have actually been trying to whittle it down
from year to year just because it was a lot easier in the early years. But once chapter, not chapter 78, chapter 44 came out um and they started aggressively reducing state aid, it become very hard
in the past two years. Once we got to the triple digit aid release of um reductions, it became very stressful this time of the year trying to make sure we we met that uh uh surplus number. So anyhow, that's the long- winded explanation of why that is, but
in month of June is the only time uh we can designate surplus and to reserve. Great. Thank you, Mr. Lassar. Um school safety and climate, there's a fire drill on June 5th and a school safety drill on June 6th. Um so now do we need an
executive session? Yes. Motion to go into executive. Before you go into executive, the blessing, you said you were going to discuss it and I didn't hear anything. Oh, just about transportation. What was happening because we were just reducing our bus fleet. We're we're putting up for sale in the
consent agenda. Is it three buses? Right. I had some questions about the whole thing that I I just wanted to public comment, but I you said you were going to discuss it, so I figured I'd I didn't know how in depth you wanted to go. So, um do you want to allow her to ask her questions before?
Sure. Are you leaving? No, I'll be here. But I know you're voting on it. I just had questions. I mean to say, are you leaving? I just want No, no. I know what you're saying. Okay. I'll wait until afterwards, but I just thought I mean, if you want to ask the questions before we vote on it or the board votes on it. Sure.
I know Mrs. Vinegar is resigning and and um I saw the buses being sold. So, I just wondered what's the plan for next year. Lori Eert will drive your children to school. She's got a very big car. Let her know. She'll round them up and pick them up. Green le's on that list.
So, so the no few few items. The buses themselves are rusty. Uh, so when we looked at it, originally I was planning to replace some buses, but then we've had even our current transportation staff,
they're we don't have them here for very long. Um any so with that in mind, the cost to replace the buses versus the the the personnel necessary for it and the uncertainty, it was going to be more
costly to have staff, even a part-time bus driver, and pay for new buses. So, it became a lot simpler to first off eliminate the maintenance cost, the financing cost for five years for up to
at least two to three new buses. Uh it just made more sense budgetary-wise to just we're going to sub out our transportation fleet and just sell off our old buses. We're still going to rem maintain our 29 passenger and I'm hoping to buy a uh used bus that would be used
just for activities. We only really have one driver that's still interested in doing uh activities busing, potentially two, but it all depends on whether they work with one of the contractors or not. So, bus drivers has become extremely
difficult to to keep, let alone find additional subs. Um, right now we've been paying we've been using Craft's subs for two routes for the past few months because we've had a few drivers out and it's at this point it becomes Craft's
responsibility or if Craft doesn't get the bids or whatever bus company it is, but we've literally been relying on two of Craft's three subs that they have in the county just to handle our daily routes because we have, you know, substitutes available. So, it didn't make a lot of sense to buy new equipment
that we may not even have people to drive, unfortunately. And I saw a shared agreement with High Point. Is that who's going to do transportation? That every year they they coordinate our non-public and charter school transportation. So, every year they do
an agreement which says they're going to charge us. Okay. So, that was something. So, who's planning on are you planning on replacing Dian Baker then since she's retired? you have on the agenda tonight just a um that's what we're one of the things we'll discuss in person about or an executive session executive session yeah can't really
discuss that before it's I understand that and I the other person that's here part-time that I know um that drives a bus I don't know was she in the pension like is there anybody that's all of the drivers were in the pension system uh regular drivers
is anybody I mean I'm just speaking out of tone but is anybody that would would prefer to is now being asked to leave because of this. Um, no. No. I mean, there's no one's indicated there. I mean, any would probably prefer to stay, but I I can't
really discuss a personnel matter too much. So, so we're losing There are people that are losing their jobs because of this. I can't really comment on that. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Will you be able to after executive session
tell me this? Sorry, but we have to stop talking about all this stuff. Yeah, we're going too far. Yeah. So, executive session is for personal legal matters. Personnel and legal matters. So, we haven't talked about it. So, the board acts as a whole. We can
Okay. All right. And and and you said that you possibly may buy one bus. Yeah. The other day, we're looking to replace our spare. So it would be a bus that's probably four or five years old. So we can have something for activities because we have a driver. So the idea is if we still
have an activities driver, it will not affect after school sports as much. There's no guarantee that it'd be available during the day for field trips. Yeah, that was my other question was I know like right now we go free anywhere in Frankfurt Township with the bus. Will
that remain that way? Probably not unless we have a driver. And that the problem is like our activities driver said he's very interested in doing the after school activities but uh during the day I there's no guarantee at this point.
Okay. Uh the plan is we're going to be doing a whole lot of quoting the contra the cost is going to go up. Uh you know as a comparison we were going through the co-op and we had quoted I forget which trip it was but the only company
that quoted on this trip was from Loi and wanted $600 to go I think it was it was within county. Yeah. And we said never mind to Right. Well, that's why I'm just wondering because I know that could happen, but if you have your own bus, you have a little bit of options there. Yeah.
Now, there is, you know, there are other they did change some legislation, but I don't really have any plans to do that was they do allow now for nonCDL staff to transport up to I think it's total nine passengers including the driver.
Um, but we haven't really discussed that as a board. Buy a couple minivans. That's it. No deal. Well, we still have the minivan. Hold on to it. Bus driver. Anyone wants to get there? No, because it was it was difficult too with sports when we have to leave really early or really late. It took away from the education.
I know. I know. It's been hard with trips, too. So, yeah. Okay. Thank you. There's more more to come. All right. Thank you. Motion under executive session. Second. Thank you. That's interesting.
3739. Okay. All right. So, before we vote on the consent agenda, Tom, go ahead and ask you're looking at number 27. What is a affirmative action team? So, that is something that um is
required by the state. So, that's Mr. Sylvester, myself. We just look into um you know that was in the packet, right? Yeah. But the team is just the school, the uh a community member, myself, the
school social workers. We sit down and we go through this document and answer all the questions. The document is in package. Oh, and this the package you guys
not that one in the back of the back of this one. Yeah. Is that that's also for 28? Yeah. So that starts on page 32 of 119 in our packet. And then uh what is a comprehensive
equity plan? It's that 3219. All right. Yeah, there's three different plans in this. Are you also asking about 209, John? The remote instructional plan.
Yes, there it was. I was knew I looked right over my phone. Approve of what is a remote instructional plan? Learning. So that's something the state kept implemented after, you know, virtual learning, right?
Yeah. So basically that says like the only way we can go back to virtual learning is if you know there's a public emergency or determined by public health officer for three or more days that's when we can implement virtual learning again otherwise that's why we can't do it on a snow day but every year has to
be updated you know maintained in the event of a hopefully never again but how we would run get the building operational and education continuing absent of inerson learning Affirmative Action Team. Why Why do we
have a community member on there but no board members? So, it just says community member. Oh, this her name. Yes, she was there. Oh, she's part of She's part of the committee. Oh, yeah. She wants to be. Well, no, it was like we we sat down.
This was unfortunately like how the state works is, hey, by the way, you need to have this plan done by June 20, whatever. We're like, our last board meetings June 9th. So, we found out at the end of last month, we literally had two two weeks to put this whole plan
together, but there's a template. It's all a lot of, you know, repetitive information and Yeah. Nothing earthshattering. It's just to be in compliance that we did it. She volunteered to be on this committee or she we asked her. Oh, okay.
Cuz we saw a community member like, "Oh, yeah. She's good. She's Do you have any other questions, Sean?" Yeah. the uh the celebrate the children extending the school year. Is that just something that we do for kids? No, that's for student
program, but we're not there's a special need student that goes to that school that we're No, they just have your IEP. Most IEPs, but a lot of the students have an extended school year, but this one is out of district. So, yeah. I didn't know if we were like trying to extend our school year type
deal. That's what I don't know. All right. Good. I think I'm good. You're resolved that the Frankfurt Township Board Oh, motion. Oh, you started. It resolved that the Frankfurt Township Board of Education accept the
recommendation of the superintendent of schools to approve the above identified regular agenda items number 20250-3 through 20250-46. Motion to vote. Motion. Second.
Second. Jamie Armando. Yes. Chris Dexter. Yes. Charlie Molar. Yes. Chelsea Stole. I said to the stand from three and four in here, but yes to others. John Tiger. I'm going to stand from three and four.
Going to have to go Noah with 23. Mindy joust. Yes. Is there a regular agenda number 47? Mr. Lisar. That's a motion to open public comment. Motion. Second.
Mr. Eric. Couple questions. Thanks for hanging in there with us tonight. Um, just on the pay to play, I I'm not a real big advocate of having to our students have to submit a cost to play. I understand
the need for it. Um, but I know like when we do our field hockey camp in the summer, we run it and we offer scholarships to anybody who needs it. Not that many people take advantage of it, but I know it's free and reduced to zero, but you possibly could say if anyone is going to not be able to
participate or play because of the cost that there are that we could wave the cost for those people because I do think we want to encourage students to play and participate in activities especially when so many go home and just play video games or sit inside. So, I think, you know, possibly saying that, I'll be
honest with you. If I get one out of the whole group that needs a scholarship and they truly need it for the to play, do our camp in the summer. Um, that's all. So, I don't see people taking advantage of that. But, I do see it as an option for a family who may say, you know, this
is I don't have $250 right now for you for the I think we do do that, don't we? Yeah. You do? All right. So, anybody is that is that made like are they aware of it? Anybody? It's in the letter. It's in every email and it says it says if you um have a hardship,
financial hardship, financial hardship, please contact. Excellent. Okay, great. Yeah. Okay, great. Because you know that way everybody can participate. And that's the good thing too about being like such a big great community is you as teachers know like if there's a kid like that wants to play like you'll let us know
like you know this student really wants to play but they're say that they're struggling and they can't play like the teachers can come to us and let us know as well. I just didn't want it to be a situation where a kid said to their parents hey I want to play basketball or I want to do something and parents like well you're already playing wreck basketball I can't
pay another $100 for you to pay you know that type of thing and it we don't know about it. So, if it's at least on the form and parents are aware of it, it's on. Okay, great. Um, also Chris, do you have any anticipate anticipatory number for
what's going to be above the 70,000 for C you plan on putting in capital? If I'm lucky, $10. I I won't know until the audit's done. I'm redoing my end of year projections right now. Um,
I'm thinking at most if we're lucky $30,000, I don't even think it's going to be that high. Okay. But I I you know, I'm just thinking gut feeling is right. Based on what you're you can easily find a 70. No. Oh, no. I'm hoping
I was going to say, Mr. Lassard, this is a conversation. Usually I try to put like 50,000 into into maintenance reserve. That one really helps us every year. But I've there's some end of year items like usually in January do the wish list the teachers have. If there's funds
available, we try to make these things happen that we couldn't build into the budget. We try to make them happen if funds become available. And it's become increasingly difficult. I I I start getting nervous even though I do my projections in January. I update them in March. I look at them again in April.
When I get to June, I start getting really worried that maybe I missed something. And mostly it's just because so much stuff is flying at you in in the spring. Um we've had a lot of things flying at us as far as I'll say is a lot
of long-term uh absences that have resulted in a lot of sick time and subs long-term subs that really been putting a strain on on that alone itself. So and when is that audit date?
Well the audit's effective June 30th. So the audit is going to be done in the fall but Okay. So you won't be able to put anything in until the fall. No. Yeah. So it when the auditors are done they calculate everything and say here's how much is going into those reserve deposit to the reserves. So approximately what date would you
know? Well the audits due December 5th. So it's it's a long ways down the road. Okay. So nothing transferred to Yeah. it it's just they'll say okay they look at this resolution they calculate everything that's finally done and they say okay this amount's going into that
reserve so the the maintenance reserve and then whatever's left over above 70 will go into capital reserve okay so that's really not till December at all yeah we I mean I'll have an idea but it's not done until the audit's done right it's not transferred into reserves
no okay thank you yeah uh what was I going to say on I don't remember that. Great. Okay. Motion to close public comment. Motion. All right. Other second. I thought you were motioning and second.
I was like that was amazing, Jamie. Um Frankfurt Township School 75th anniversary discussion. Um yes. So, Jenvance um has proposed throughout the year next year um doing some kind of middle school
mural with potentially tiles that we could have like a pasta night one night and you can your family can come and decorate a tile. She'd like it to be things centered around the community such as the scarecrows or you know, so like each tile you would do something
um that represents the community to you. Um, and then you know throughout the year have different things going on kind of surrounding that and then possibly at the end of the year having a picnic or a barbecue and unveiling the mural once it
mural once it's installed, right? Is that what she's thinking? Yes. Big reveal. Um, big reveal kind of at the huge picnic that we would have. Yes. Um, I don't know who's paying for the huge picnic. Um well I think he got right to bring back
community then wasn't that he thought tied into um Don started that his car show back up which was honestly a huge success even though the weather was iffy. Um that was kind of the first step in bringing back community day in some form
or fashion. Uh, and then kind of couldn't be better if we're thinking about doing that, the 75th anniversary of Frankfurt to kick it off. Mhm. Being the one that knocks it out of the park. And it would be just that barnyard food
truck, bounce houses, beer wheel. Duh. Yeah. Going to get that floating car. Sandy can just drive away. All right. So, we have to start really start kind of thinking about that and putting that in motion and talking to
Jen, I guess, about that. I think it'd be great for the community members, like older people to be able to come back into the school and actually take tours and visit. I think they would love it. Well, yeah, I have some ideas to try and find like old plans from when this building was built, stuff like that.
Do some digging. Too bad our time capsule failed. Um, okay. So, our next scheduled meeting is August 25th. Um, I guess we really do start need needing to plan that so that
you know maybe what it would be like October like having the pasta night starting with the tiles thing or something but getting kind of the feeling out. So, our next meeting is August 25th, 2025. Complete your annual governance training board members. Um, also
CSA and your CSA evaluation due by the 1st. Um, also I wanted to just um highlight a thanks to the warts for the donation of $750 to the eighth grade class trip activity fund. Uh, very generous of
them. And also um thanking uh anyone in the building that's taking on some extra added tasks. Um, we have a few people that are really stepping up. So, thank you to the staff for continuing to do
that. Am I allowed to say a name or no to answer's question or no? Uh, no. Yeah, it's unapproved. So, included in her already um long list
of tasks, Victoria Armstrong is going to head up the transportation. She'll do a great job. I'm sure she'll do a great job. Yes, she's uh very competent and she'll have overlap time. So, she officially starts July 1st and Mrs. Bittinger is not retiring until August
31st. So, there'll be some nice overlap time where they can work together for that to smooth that transition, if you will, of roles and getting a new contract. I hope that was on this evening's agenda. We revised it. Yeah. Good. Revised our contract. We took care of
um I would also like to thank uh Mr. Sylvester for stopping by the eighth grade dance and also Chris Dexter for being such a willing participant to shop around the eighth grade dance. Just want to let you know I wasn't supposed to be there. Maybe tell me that I had a relative there so I wasn't supposed to. I had a relative there last year.
I hated it. My niece was very mad that you made it. To to your point, I kind of want to thank all the parents that showed up to clean up because there was a little bit of a confusion there on uh you had to be a part of PTA to help set up the dance
to be covered by their insurance, but every parent was expected to help clean up the dance. So there So I didn't know that there it's not a board it's not a board sanctioned event. That's purely on the PTA. for everything they do. Um, but also I did want to put out there, uh,
graduation is on the 19th, 6 p.m. Sorry, Mrs. Eard, it's at the fairgrounds pavilion this year. Um, and this year we do have three board members with eighth graders. So, Charlene, John, and Caitlyn will be handing out the diplomas this year. Very nice.
Motion to adjurnn unless anybody else has anything else. Motion. Motion. Second. Thank you. Thank everybody. Thank you.