the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and 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 Frankford 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 17th 2024 this meeting may be recorded for subsequent public broadcast please rise for the flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the repblic for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and Justice roll call Jesse vaugh here John tiger here Chelsea stole here charene
mola here Chris Dexter absent jery Armondo here Kathleen Adam Caitlyn Fredo herey Jou here so recognitions and presentations we had the students of the marking period received their High
honors um so in kindergarten we had Charlotte Dowling in first grade Darby joust second grade Charlotte Armondo third grade Hannah bardello fourth grade Jackson Sherer fifth grade Russell Bellis sixth grade Autumn sck seventh grade Maddie Laver eighth grade Joshua
par so congratulations excuse excuse me congratulations to all of them um we have recognition Circle I don't think there's anybody added there that's the same um you have no Heroes jeez not nobody's stepping up
nobody's getting recommended not that not to say that anybody's doing anything bad it's just right not getting over that hump okay and we wish Mr yanof was here right now but I he may be on his way but he was a
awarded the highest honor of Mr Newman's first superintendent Roundtable award so congratulations to Bryce that's really cool um so when he comes he can give his not read again like last time okay um so
that brings us to the superintendent and principal section um yeah so I wanted to congratulate as you just did our students of the markting period 2 and I also have Bryce yanov here um you know my first experience with uh going
through that process was very it was a very uh rewarding experience for me um getting a chance to meet uh some of the middle school students um that were up for the the eighth grade um award but
you know Bryce was a all around uh great uh student and um you know I think that write up if you saw the Bulldog bulletin kind of just uh expresses all the great things he does inside and outside of school for our community as well so um
I'd also like to congratulate our winter Athletics and all of our clubs and a special recognition I'm sure Mr Sylvester might mention it too to our girls basketball team for winning the county tournament so very impressive it was a great group
there um and then on to we're awaiting the state aid release I'm sure Mr L will also discuss this a little bit um the address on the 25th and we should have our numbers on the 27th we received notice that um we are to anti anticipate
no less than 3% from what's that no more no more right no more Cuts than 3% of what last year's uh numbers were so that kind of puts the number at what 27,000 I think we said so I guess all things
considered we know what the worst case scenario is was was stated um it's 27,000 less than what we got last year and then uh we have conferences uh we just locked them in Wednesday April 9th and Thursday April 10th those will be
early dismissal days um and they're both evening conferences so um they'll be added they're already on our our school calendar on our website we'll remind everybody as we get closer to those dates as well and currently our de our last day of school or we we don't have
any more cancellations is Friday June 20th that's our 181st day so that's also is gr graduation no no um so there is there would be a conflict with the um
Fairgrounds on that day of the 20th so we would host graduation on the 19th okay or if we get another cancellation then we might just do it on the 23rd that Monday if we go to the 23rd right because that's available so we so we can
always vote to remove the 80 181st day that brings us back to juneth which is a Federal holiday which maybe eighth grade parents would like if they're off from work and they have the day to set set up whatever they need to set up I don't know so just think about that remembering that that is a Federal
holiday um if we do go to the 23rd barring you know bar ing the knowledge that we can't do the 20th for e8th grade graduation we could still do the 19th for 8th grade graduation and not come back a half
day I would not to you know so just keep that in mind we can always vote to lose the Monday have the last day of school be the Friday which is technically a half day have eighth grade graduation on the 19th I don't know how many eighth graders are coming back on on the 20th
but maybe they do for that walk and last goodbyes yeah yeah yep and we actually had a good discussion you know with um the president today Mr Sylvester and I we discussed a lot of these things and those were a few things that came up for the uh the walk I know with uh course
the Barnard not being there I think the branch will find yeah she asked me actually I was waiting for um a date well I was so I'm going to just say I'm just kind of G to say can you make sure we have the 19th 20th 23rd and I'll just take care of that tonight and just it'll
be one of those days but yeah it'll be fine whatever you want whatever you want great so then they cater that or the parents cook there what they um so that would be I believe typically in the past
yers um I know uh know some of the parents were in there cooking at the firehouse it's a lot easier because there's more people that can help and obviously you need more people to clean up and do stuff like that it would either be the parents cooking or it would be yetter's I know the
that's very would imagine that's spored by the PTA y okay um yeah that's uh my report for now thank you motion to open public comment motion
second did you get that Mr we had a motion to open public comment by Caitlyn and second by Jesse sorry Kate wasn't around to do it she a little she usually is know sorry L longberry um just wanted to note
uh in the minutes here or the the agenda items that um staff initials are being used along with their ID numbers and that is really not private um you can look on the staff directory and match that up so I don't
know if that's something that you want to Omit in the future and just use staff numbers but I can answer that I don't I don't know if it's prohibited uh we used to have the full names on those but the problem what happens is 15 years down
the road someone's applying for pensions to buy back time and when we just have staff numbers or even their mids it creates a real hard time to prove whether someone had some service time so I tried to at least put it down
to initials so it's not completely obvious um just because I do get probably every year or two we get a a historical look back from pensions trying to see someone's proving that they substituted or you know we're here for a a leave of
absence of something so I tried to get it down to initial um I can take it out but it will create an issue down the road for several people so that's that's you it'll be not I mean I I can talk to you turn if you want me to about it but
that's the main reason I try to keep at least something that will help us look back when we need to anyone else Mrs Z you came in a little late did you want to sign up I'm good thank you oh perfect um Communications and public
relations for March um the 28th the Lions Club Vision screenings are happening for PK prek through first grade um also on that same date is the seventh and eighth grade Winter Dance from 6 to 800 p.m. um
on March 7th the student faculty basketball game at High Point at 700 p.m. the eth one book one Community young authors conference and book fair March 11th is the PTA meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the library March 14th is piay
17th is the Board of Ed meeting at 6 pm. it's also St Patrick's Day um March 18th is the eighth grade trip uh for the 2025 parent info night in the library from 6:00 to 8: the 19th is the treps
marketplace they also have the family fun night by the PTA uh March 21st ftea pep fiber fun at 4 p.m. the 25th Jump Rope for Heart and the 31st unsung heroes award ceremony where's that
unsung heroes sport up this year oh last year was at High Point this year it's ATA is that during the day or it's at night it's at night at night who's invited to that our un her award win yeah so that's um has that been chosen are you're working on that
not yet still working on that one right yeah um so that's an award for a student that might not be the highest academically or um I think they just implemented it last year was last year the first year around the state Tyler one kind of came out quick last year
like Hey we're thinking about doing this hey we're doing it right yeah so it's a student that might not do so good academically but but just effort it makes a huge difference but maybe maybe doesn't always get the recognition that like you know the headlines
or other students got is the dance actually 6 to8 or is it I thought it was 7 to n it's 7 to n okay the dance is s to n yes um policy and curriculum um nothing new technology
nothing new um Mr lard Governor budget addresses scheduled for February 25th and then the state aid release that Mr Newman spoke a little bit about is on the 27th so we do have a little Matrix here Jamie um Jamie
Chris already responded Caitlyn and I filled this out tonight so we will have a finance committee meeting in the next week or so um just to go over all of that there one added on we have the semi waiver that's a special education
Medicaid initiative there's a resolution to wave participation uh state offers a waiver for any districts that have fewer than 40 students estimated to be eligible um they're only estimating a potential revenue of $1,300 but it's a
significant amount of work for your child study team uh We've waved it each year and in fact this year the projections dropped by 80% of the funding eligibility so I'm going to keep up with the waiver that's the resolution
on there number 24 actually uh just quick updates you know budget we've been working on it a lot I've been working on it pretty constantly uh we'll be meeting again as Administration for a third time later this week we're waiting just for the
state aid numbers to come out um you know it's it's tight as as Mr Newman mentioned they estimated no more than 3% state aid reduction of about $27,000 so we're looking at you know what scenarios do we have we're trying to find any big
savings items especially in the areas of where the savings are mostly available are what things we can do in special education to try and adjust for Staffing hopefully get some more enrollments from other districts those are going to be major items um and
then you know just see what scenarios we can come up with we'll let you know especially once we meet with the finance committee we'll have a lot of that our options you know kind of on the table to see what we can come up with so is that something discussed at the
superintendent Round Table the um possibility of bringing in the tuition students for the special education services that we provide here just like putting it out there and like notifying them that we're accepting yeah yeah so that's more like um like email like like
you know and a lot of times what will happen is a school that can't meet a child's needs in their in their home District they'll send out an email to um you know the county superintendent group or or a special education group so like when we see those we look at every
single one and you know inquire and um you know like look would it be a good fit like could we meet this kid's needs like legitimately within our district okay so okay so then we had a we did we have a fire drill today we did fire drill and
school sa is school safety drill on February 5th was that one that wasn't anticipated and then it happened yes yes okay yes and the fire drill was today um Personnel there's really
nothing motion to go into the executive session motion second it's K and Jessie again they fast we do have a few items to talk about in executive session um so I'd like to tell you it's 20 minutes it's
usually always like 40 right so we actually have welcome [Applause] Bryce superintendent round T recipient Bryce way to go is he the only one left
out there you the only one out there Bryce you planed this so you didn't have to talk in front of everyone else very smart BR we got some other hey you can start thoughe all the student council report for the board bed meeting February 24
2025 good evening my name is R I'm the student council vice president and thank you for inviting the student council to present their report this Friday night the student council will be hosting a dance for the students in seventh and eth grade we decided on a winter theme and have received many permission slips
so far we are expecting a nice turnout we collected over 225 items for the 100th day of school surprise Drive school supply drive we collected it such as toothbrushes toothpaste bars of soap body wash deodorant shampoo conditioner toilet paper and pocket tissues student
council PL to do another collection in the spring we're planning stages of a movie night for kindergarten in second grade activity nights for the Middle School helping out a pep event fiber from March 21st and thank you so much for listening to this report and we'll
report again in March great conat congratulations on superintendent round T if you want to leave now you can that's a little boring he's like let's
go all right everyone so you've had a chance to review the consent agenda and we are can I have a motion to vote on the we it resolve that the Frankford Township Board of educ accept the recommendation of the superintendent of schools to follow to approve the above
identified regular agenda items numbered 20252 24-3 through 20252 24-23 K Adam yes Jamie Armondo yes Charlene molar yes Chelsea sto I have the same from three and four John
tiger I'm going to abstain from nine and say yes to the other Jesse vaugh yes Caitlyn Fredo yes Mandy Jou yes motion to open public comments second does anybody have a
comment Oh yay just just two quick comments um one I know I've mentioned this before when there's policies that are pass but they're not read um and sometimes they involve the staff we don't always know how what they are is there a formal way
that we can get them or is there a policy to get the policy so um I did have a good meeting um with a few staff members about this so um for those for those of us here so when the school year starts all the
staff members like review it they're given the policies and they approve them but that's a great question because during the school year when new policies pop up or they're approved they might not be you know notified of them so moving forward after the second reading and once they're approved I'll just
attach them in an email send them out hey FYI this new policy you know was approved please let us know if you have any questions um so I think moving forward that's that's what would that would be help solve that problem as long as you attach it like I know um you were able to it was it's because on the
website it's very difficult to read but I know uh they updated and I was given to one who could read so that it was good to print off so I appreciate that sure um next not concern three minutes [Laughter]
I know you mentioned about bringing in other special ed students tuition students into the district I just hope it's considered what their needs are with additional services and our personnel and how busy their schedules are so I think that really for
otpt um and they're also put into a lot of special classes and I I think some consideration needs to be given to make sure that um that not just tuition is being collected that we're considering all the aspects
of how it affects all our special services and classes and things like that so I appreciate thank you just so you know Lori we can't make money on I you can't but yet why didn't then why do we want them we I I know you can't on
paper but you like if outside facilities are charging 80 grand a kid right if you send them out of district and we've had that before then when they come here I you can only charge them a certain amount but so if we're not we can only charge them for the services that we're
giving them here right right Mr it's it's obviously charging them but it works out to an equal it equalizes across the population the amount we charge has to when the audit's done they consider the enrollment and the total cost of the program and then they
average it out so after a year we might have to give them money back or they might have to give us an adjustment back but it's designed to cost you exactly what the per pupil amount is they do pay so that's the cost for the teacher salaries teacher
benefits um any of the other classroom costs as well as cost for the facility itself the heat supplies all of that but in reality if you're not adding any teachers or anything else on the payroll for them to come then that's actually you said it's it creates a savings right
you have money there I'm just saying as they come in the numbers that come in and already had an influx it creates a burden on some of our special services because now there's not additional teachers being hired or Services being hired those people are stretch very thin in their schedules and it makes it
difficult so I just think you know they need to be considered a little bit because um I know sometimes they've been combining classes and students and I don't know if that really is what's supposed to be in their IEP or not but time wise you know there's been a little bit of a crunch there so I think you
know that should be just taken into consideration and a lot of you probably don't even realize that so I just wanted to bring it to your attention that it has been a concern a little bit thank you thank you you're not asking for a tennis court oh yeah by the way
we still working on it I didn't didn't have a question with the the resurfacing Grant have we you wrote that already and put it sent it out the one for the fields yes yes that uh they usually give you an answer in May yeah that has been
submitted do that have any I know a long time ago you talked about if we did hook up to the sewers that there' be a big processing plant here it sounds like something has changed a little bit that it's not going to be as enormous as it was it's going to be essentially hopefully the footprints a little
smaller because the equipment's different but the goal is to put it in a spot that is not going to take any Fields away take away the fields you just want to make sure if we're doing the grant to fix it and then we you know yeah I mean there will be there will be doing some work going through the fields
obviously if we get they'll be abandoning the septics right now these resurfacing are mostly the baseball diamonds and and drainage along the edge of the roow so um okay now we appreciate that that you know the fields would be
great because they could always use it and we do thank um Frankford Park they usually come down in the spring and help clean up and do things so um maybe they would have to this year because I don't are we probably wouldn't be done till next year I would over the summer if it gets that would we would like to get it
done over the summer okay uh we have actually I think a year and a half to do it but the goal would be is if we get approval by April May we're going to try and get it done starting in June corre so it can be done and used in the fall okay thank you very
much motion to close public comment motion second motion then second I think she her own motion all right the next schedule meeting is March 17th 2025 um board members check your FTS
email for instructions and links to complete your annual School ethics disclosure um and then one other thing um I don't know I think it's Wednesday the PTA is sponsoring a popcorn bar act surprise when
it um so if you if you or your SP or your spouse could donate something so uh I know that they had put out a Facebook post that they still need a couple things so um if you could look on their Facebook and just you have a chance for
your food shopping um get it here by Wednesday morning that would be helpful anything else for the good of the order I just have a question about this the I don't know if we can discuss it now or not is the next year calendar like this is just for us to check out or this is definitely what that was on the agenda
for tonight okay oh that was one of them all right perfect so the teach and the teachers were okay with that yes yes yep had a meeting discussed it with them um got the feedback so um trying to be as transparent as possible so that will be a change as you'll see um on the 2526
calendar um traditionally the students come back at Thursday and Friday but now they're going to come back the Tuesday after Labor Day for next year it's nice for the end of and staff the two staff and service days will be the last week in August last closing day it looks nice and early nice and and the benefit of
this is by starting that early um the last day without any snow next year would be Thursday June 11th so even if we have a few bumps until like maybe 15th 16th but not bad that'll be nice Al that
December 22nd kind of rough one question I don't mean to interrupt but um has there been any scheduled for spring conferences set yet any dates nth and 10 no we had came in the beginning yeah so that's if you go on our web page on the
um the little tab for current calendar 25 or 2425 it's updated on there so you'll see that April 9th and 10 it's a Wednesday night and Thursday night hey Mrs have campon I was going to say do you have a date for your second night so it'll be the 10th
so I can send that out then all right okay yeah we do it later on it's not early it's like at 7 7:15 to me to put a long conference with you before I gotth grade anything
else motion second Kate and Kaitlyn that's it thank you