##VIDEO ID:TWyGrjNfvcU## flag of the United States of America we already a first this evening communication committee report good evening very excited to share some updates on our district strategic plan for communications for the fall uh part of this school year this plan aims to streamline our Communications across the district enhance accessibility and better engage with our school Community let's dive into the progress that our committee has made over the course of these last few months just as a reminder here our communication efforts are Guided by two key principles updating and streamlining communication methods at the school and District levels driven by survey feedback and Research into best practices integrating a proactive media Communications program to highlight our District's goals challenges and most importantly our accomplishments and these goals ensure that we're not only communicating effectively but also celebrating the Fantastic work that is happening here within our school district the first area that I want to throw out here uh is our significant achievements with class do when we initially met with you uh from the initial work here within our Communications committee CL Dojo was something that we had really looked at and that was based upon the feedback that we received from our initial survey uh we were fortunate that Mary fdm school had already instilled some excellent practices with class 3 J and with it being our Primary School the parents as they came into our district were quite accustomed to it they were used to it so our committee felt that it was only natural that we continue utilizing this platform at both Main Road and also at the Ridder school and over the past year we've been able to connect 100% of our classroom teachers on the class so they're all utilizing it and they're utilizing it with communicating with parents and Guardians across the district as a building principle we also use it in order to share schoolwide uh events schoolwide occurrences that are are going on within our schools we've seen a tremendous amount of parents uh increasing their usage here with class dojo um our last statistics showed that almost 97% of parents and Guardians have joined their child's respective classrooms so each teacher can create a classroom on class dojo which en enables seamless communication about classroom and also School level Updates this ped October so our October figures and I also looked at no November and December and it remained consistent we had a little over 1600 active parents you can see more than the students we have involed in our dist in the upper grade level students are even using Class Dojo to share their learning progress directly with families students use the dojo to communicate with families about their academics their learning progress through the do Dojo portfolio application and some of these classrooms also use Dojo as a Behavioral Management tool this plat platform has become a Cornerstone of our efforts to keep families informed and engaged and just looking through some monthly statistics that we're able to receive just in December alone our District's educators across all three schools sent over 6,100 messages to families um and we received almost that amount messages back from families to our our teachers across the district so just by that number alone you can see uh how much the the families have become involved with dojo and truly how much communication back and forth has occurring the last time we had a an update we had talked about the updated website it's our new website that was created and it's well beyond just the new website the new website which we use an app uh called thrillshare that's really the Cornerstone behind what our capabilities are it's ada8 compliance if can go ahead and translate messages I can type in English can translate to so many different languages we've seen the translation across multiple languages just within the use of our website it also is quite efficient um it allows anybody with user access to very uh easily post not just to our district website but to be able to post directly to social media which has allowed us to have an increase in our social media presence we all know how many parents and community members are flipping through on social media in order to get an impression of about our district and it also even more importantly allows us to put out push notifications just in case there is an emergency we're not delaying in order to get that important information out to the parents and also to the community so with this new website uh that Miss gra had communicated with all of you about it has allowed the integration of all platforms as I mentioned social media mobile apps alerts and push notifications that all come from one central location it also looks aesthetically quite nice as well it allows for a userfriendly navigation and also refresh content through the uh Google analytical data it's ADA Compliant and allows for automatic translation into home languages it's very easy for somebody who speaks another language or reads another language to go ahead and translate um there are time-saving tools for families and staff alike um I personally find a site quite easier much more friendly to use when posting content um which I'm sure you you probably see on our social media and District websites accounts uh just to show you some some information here we have gone up by over 2,000 users from the minute we got to this new website so from comparing the amount of users from while using a mobile device so this is a mobile friend friendly uh website automatically Transitions and becomes mobile friendly when looking at it from a phone there's been an increase of over 2,000 users from the old site to this new site and we've also seen an increase of about a th000 users just on a desktop application so we've seen those increases um just to give you a figure about the translation there's been over 200 active users that have been translating this in Spanish since the time we started the website we did a soft roll out of the website in May a full rout roll out really over the course of the summer so it really hasn't been that long since we've actually had this out you can see the impact that that it's already provided to all of our community members so I mentioned the ease with social media this this really blew it out of a border when I took a look at this data so Mrs graph um who is the co-chair of the committee here along with myself um she provides me this information she is also um our district uh instructional technology coach and she she gave me the statistics here on Facebook reach so this is how many times people are either scrolling through and pause or actually click and look at our articles okay we can't decipher the difference between the two of them somebody's looking at what we're putting out there as I mentioned May is when we did our soft roll out of this new website and it's not the new website it's the ability for people at the building level to go ahead and start posting to Facebook an easier ability to post to Facebook and also to Twitter if you take a look April of 23 we had pardon me a April of 24 we had a little over 4,100 within the reach time that increased to over 14,000 just within that first month and we've been pretty steady since then you know over the course of the summer sometimes we see that drop off especially there in June depending on how long the school year goes and we're there at 12 over 12,000 13,000 even in December when we're historically at a slower time everybody's obviously busy with with the holidays the previous year we had 59 with within our reach for Facebook now it was our lowest at 3,000 but it's still over a 5,000% increase our increase just with Facebook alone sharing the positive of our district and what goes on in our schools in our classrooms each day has tremendously increased that's what we were looking at with this and also the ability for parents to be able to read in the language that they utilize um just some other efforts that I have here uh each week we put out a weekly communication uh from the school level uh we utilize an online program called s'more it's quite user friendly for us with uh formulating our newsletter makes it look a little bit more official um but with smore it also gives us statistics so when we take a look at that the median viewing um that we look at over the course of the past year um you could we we have a tremendous number of views two of the schools in particular have more views than students even enrolled so that's the median view uh for each of our schools so just another way that we are going ahead and communicating with all of our families and also the community about what we're doing we're not finished we're constantly revealing refining and seeing how we can continuously improve our communication efforts by doing this we're going to enhance our commun emergency communication methods for family and communities we're going to continue to look at how we can constantly improve upon that making sure that our messages are efficient and timely and provide the necessary information in case there is an emergency strengthening internal communication with faculty and staff that is always an ongoing goal for us making sure that communication from Central Administration build building level Administration all the way through the individual teacher and staff member everybody knows what's going on and there is communication there that is something that we continuously bring up address and assess in our school leadership committee meetings and also at our district leadership committee meetings and those two entities themselves are part of our uh streamline of communications we're going to ensure that we have consistent classroom level updates about instructional content and also about the students achievements then we also have a collaboration especially with Mr moris here um as a member of both the Township's communication committee uh but he's also a member of our Communications committee so Mr Morrison and I have continuous conversations about how we can post uh good things about our dest um different events up on the township communication channels um so that is going to be a work in progress we've made some great strives with improving Communications across our district our Focus remains on building a connected and informed School community and on behalf of our committee we would like to thank you for your support and feedback as we continue with these efforts any questions yeah I I hope you recognize that and see that onine as well good you all right the next item on our agenda is resolution for scho board recission New Jersey ahead resolution thank next item public uh comment section for agenda that motion public second anyone from the public address this time on the agenda seeing none I make a motion to close the public a second second all in favor uh next um item is a nomination for candidate to F the unexpired term left Mr Michael um that resigned so with that I make a motion uh to open the floor for nomination for the uh unexpired threeyear term that we have available have a second all fav right the Flor open for nominations anyone like to nominate any yes I'd like to nominate there second that second nomination there for there any other nomination for the I'd like to nominate uh nomination second all right are there any other nominations uh hearing further nominations I want a motion um nominations second all in favor all right um Mr and and just remind the U executive session interview I think Reon for your uh for your vote explain why you're V uh Tre you every procedure when your name another obviously or your support I just explain why so I um um to his military background and bring a different com again um I not Bar meeing for a myriad of reasons um some of them being that she has been a board member um for many years not just member but an active board member um who's brought a lot to the table when we've had discussions and conversations um the board is going to have to deal with some very unique topics in the next year whether it be regionalization which Mrs chenini has on through or choosing a new superintendent which Str has also gone through the process um I feel those two alone stand as very good reasons to have someone on the board who has gone through those for those of us who haven't or making very new to the board and just the processes of what the board does um she did receive over 3,600 votes when she was in the ballot I appreciate Mr Hayes coming out for the right in and hope that he would put his name in The Ballot in the future um but the years we've had various openings for wrs um and people putting their names in which is great but ultimately they we need people who are going to submit their names to the ballot so that they Chosen and Mr sh was done that year after year so I nomin um Shang um due to her past experience and the comment she made during um her interview I fully agree with a lot of L Bar is the odd thought she's not where everybody is living and I like conversation I like understanding other people's perspectives um and she's not afraid to do that fora um I also um voting for a parttime leaning for all the reasons it's already stated but in addition just her commitment um every meeting she's here she participates in every meeting and her passion for this community and the school district just stands out and she's really the best P for this um open WIS why don't think um this was not passway um go to with um I like the fact that his children uh being present and his involvement with children here in school uh back and getting a fresh I'm going with cuz I think in the district um someone involved with the p part of P milary back of commitment obviously there start I came here tonight left my sick child to support Mr shank because I thought it was that important and I hope this doesn't fall on ears because I'm disappointed in several members of this table but Mr Shang has more than 20 years of experience this board many of those years as a board president she is by far the best board member that ever been seated at these people with in fact I know a lot of the fact that I was able to become first as the board president and the board member that I find myself to you today because of her guidance and her leadership she's going to every convention She's continually learning she's always the one that's on extra committee and she spent 2 years working on regionalization and we consolidation that has beened by D and while I appreciate what new views can look like I think it's irresponsible involved so much that we still are right um my vote is for uh Mr mes um that's not to say that at all every stat has about specifically the oning for long time service to the board she certainly has qualifications I never dece that um however I know we appointed Mr sh the board um previously and she has gone in several elections and just recently had an election at which she was unfortunately uh re iank Township to uh make a appointment someone was unsuccessful forl coun SPL that decision will by the county superintendent um so yeah your options are continue to vot theity that's up to the board or you have 65 days um but not to like this this election process this selection process um County a de are we really going to go to the county with somebody who been on Bo 20 years of experience look like that we could put somebody on this board I mean let's put all of personal aside the adult and do what right this and Jason in response you said she got 3,000 votes 36 over so in position four on a presidential election position four right last presidential election I also lost because I was not in the first second or third position and you know yourself everybody does she has commun support I think you need to be responsible again motion second I don't for the good of the leadership I'm not sure person change it's not a personal attack part with division on this board based on some of the class membership so call for all in favor anyos can we just give the name another we made the motion and we had a second so now we need follow that um so all in favor any oppos I um I know how much commitment dedication he has to children and his community um and I do feel like be from a believe and a lot of the comments in regards to um different perspectives I don't even know if some people are aware of what perspective to you should have for sh sh star great I'd like to repeat what I said previously I never doubt your commitment or your ability is nominated to the thank you to theow M yeah Mary I just want to say thank you for really thinking about what you did and for doing what you think now was best for the board it's always I know and but it's really appreci very much not personal all right moving on um report School president uh report SCH presid report um I have two things I wanted to St the board uh the first was we all got an email from M she's president Pitman we had a discussion about it and session um I did reach out to her let her know that you know I BR uh her uh email up the discussion at our meetings if anyone uh like 10 regards to the state a um issues facing Bost County that's on 27 pit M SMI attend the meeting if I'm available I will also attend meeting um and for any M of the public um which would uh be interested in a discussion regarding State formulation how they affect clure County General that me 7:00 right she yeah Mrs Miller presid of the board indicated all MERS yeah I didn't on January 12 I mean one person in public oh yeah you're right you did it's just maybe she went through that's fine and then the second item was um and I sent this to Alicia originally and then I did send to to mrl one of our count County with r one of these groups now can't more with every um has an internship uh program for for educators are going through the process um you know to get their teaching certificates and uh the program I'd like to over obviously you know have a background in that um it looked like it was pretty interesting where I they um you know partners with local districts to send like their students for internship you the district it's growing but it's also they have this this internship program which look very interesting and like I said one um one of our our res here that reached out with participa in the program now improve to get her Early Education he one brought you with sport commission you how to Mr you know continue look into that allow to explore that opportunity so that's all I have on my report MRC me everybody I want to thank Ted and his committee for the presentation work to do with Communications quick story a couple weeks ago I'm walking across the parking lot mom pulls up rolls down the window say are you the new inter superintendent I said maybe are you wife uh she said I just want to say congratulations the communication in this district is amazing it's really improved and thank you so I course took full credit of that and really job yeah it's great work that theit's done and and just follow from their staff and her parents uh it's great to see that communication is so important uh I've not heard anyone complain about lack of communication across the board so it's really a strong here quick thank you to Dave Z and his um band of married men who cleared parking lots uh sidewalks put down um salt on last week snowstorm they did a terrific job we were able to open on time next day Tuesday Mar and thank you sorry and thank you to Sharon supervisor ofation uh for preparing the bus drivers and for being uh someone that I will light on to see the road sa here C uh to CL school thank you to to everyone up eight the uh because of that snow day you are looking for as of right now one makeup day the district calendar sheet says that we're use a Friday spring break I don't like that at all bad idea um we're trying to retain teachers and bring teachers back kids back parents back to vacation for a Friday education is not a really great idea so looking at other options um because we are just in January may get another day or two or three um but later in the uh early spring I'll making recommendations to update this year's calendar to reflect those school closing CL just that one day um we are working on the 2526 District calendar for work in progress I'm hoping to have approval something to you by February um the challenge with this is if you look at where Christmas Falls it's in the middle of the week so you bring kids and staff back for for 2 days or you take a full two week Break um and anything you do there has repercussions the butterfly effect throughout the rest of the of the school year I am working with the Union leadership uh who are reaching out to their uh membership coming up with ideas but I will have something for you I've also worked with superintendent f delsi we're trying to arrange our calendars to be as close as possible I know that's been an issue here in the past I will have something for you uh to improve hopefully next next month apologies uh policies were late being put on the agenda we met uh yesterday yesterday um and Michelle give you some some updates on where we stand Poli in our first reading but apies because we just yesterday on the agenda early foration some good news I shared with you last week in my Friday update uh really seeing some great improvements on State Testing fifth to sixth grade l chares in Ma we're outperforming County and other districts in District fact grou so it's really uh over the past few years really seen those stores moving in the right direction kud those to to everybody really great growth over those two years and last mention to talk and go public with this more having ongoing discussions with the administration as well um we're looking to apply for the preschool expansion Aid which would allow us to offer free preschool for residents of the township um for three-year-olds and foury olds hopefully starting sometime uh early next school year the application we don't know when it's due yet usually they're due late spring have to be announced with the funding we've already started working on the application uh Mr Vero Mr Peters um and myself putting together this application so we're hoping to use we use the format that's been submitted over the past 2 or 3 years and if we have to modify some things for a new application we can do that but we should be ready to go and apply for this pre preschool expansion implementation um KN on next school year very excited because it has great ramifications in many different areas across the board here that's all I have yeah so um there is a virtual meeting um on Tuesday February 4th for C and W County at 645 and that is on developing a strategy sorry developing a district strategy for AI um this presentation will provide school board members and District Leaders with strategies for developing plan for the state and policies once we do a second meeting to implement uh protocols for using AI for our staff and our students uh T's been forming a committee at a school it's really going to be AE on how we use AI kids are already using it teachers are using it I use it everyone uses it um but we need to have uh gar what we allow here in the district the policy that you will approve as a first reading says that we will come up with guidelines on how when where to use AI in our district so very different MERS make a motion to approve minut from our 12 Mee think um uh I will now make a motion approve minutes from our reorganization Bo meeting on the of January ask you to approve Michelle you oh yeah sorry I just Clos the agenda by Ming um but I'll just go through I may go through may not be in the order that they're on the agenda but um and if I mess up anything um yeah so the policy committee met yesterday with myself um Brian and Alicia and um I'll just go through all the policies that are there most of them are mandated and you'll you'll see that but um first one is 9320 which is memorandum of agreement with local police it's really a policy that's catching up with current practice we we already have communication and work with in terms of um day-to-day convergencies and so forth so that's pretty much what that policy is covering um 5512 is um our hi policy it's a revision um basically what is has changed most is um when the district has to notifi police in when we're investigating a hip that involves an assault or B injury to a child or student um we have notified Poli of that is that we have to stop yeah so we have to stop the investigation of the police um take over and investigate and then they'll notify us when if we can continue with those our own investigation um policy 5533 is student smoking basically the changes in there are when the student is found to be Bing on school property um The Item B item has to be compensated and um abilities um policy 7441 um electronic surveillance um the change in there is that we have to have live stream available to the police um to the authorities when they're in the event of an emergency situation so there's a lock down that's called not planned um the police need to be able to see the stream in that school what's happening to identify anything that might be going on um policy 9320 was co-op with law law enforcement uh the definition of law enforcement changed it also um included the definition of called Handle With Care where law enforcement will notif by the school district when a student um possibly the night prior uh was involved in the traumatic event seeing something um you know dramatic to them so that the school is aware and can obviously meet the needs of that child that day um policy 2365 is the AI policy which was just mentioned we're going to approve that policy and then work with admin and staff to come up with the regulations on how to U enforce and utilize AI policy 5111 is elil of um resident and non-resident uh teaching students and teaching staff basically this is for teachers who have students um whether or not we um will allow their students to attend um and the policy is recommended for no that uh out out of District teaching staff will not be able to bring their students to um the district policy 5516 use of electronic devices this is a new policy um we have one in place but some of the language is really old so it's definitely going to need some revisions um what the policy committee decided was to get some feedback from staff and administration there's already um reference to this conduct hand so we wanted to collaborate that information to go into the policy um so we're going to get feedback on that probably come back maybe next month or in the near future with that policy um policy 5701 academic Integrity is basically just a change in language from playism to academic integrity um the Abol uh policy 8500 for Food Services um really just includes a lot of new terminology Trish did go over the policy um and concurred that everything we're doing already in the district follows the policy that's there you have one policy to be abolished which is uh 5710 people griev it um we just felt it wasn't unnecessary it's not a mandated policy to recommended and we just felt it wasn't necessary to have for the district did I miss speak or the aiy tonight sorry I thought it we can either add it or wait we're working on it now okay well it's up to you I thought we were going to have a policy on what's right so we'll scratch 23 okay cell did I miss that one not um the governor's big thing this week was cell phones there 12 or 15 St do that um to CH in give their what they question thank motion P yes do yes yes Wilson yes Smith yes star yes yes uh educ motion to approve it IED by the super by comments yes s yes Brown yes Hingham yes yeso yes Wilson yes yeah General Administration motion to approve General Administration s yes s yes Brown yes Hingham yes yeso yes yes I like how you're pushing up the um you're up operations yes um claims is listed transfer the secretary report and report it 3 and 4 for the month of4 report real time on that 6 s eight or none n we have two listed and one is a simple change of location add hear motion to uh approve operations committee items K1 through K3 as recommended by the super second yes yes yes um yes I thank you Smith yes yes Brown yes um business uh anyone have any com calendar just on the plan calendar I would I know that didn't say that the work Del but I would just like to really try hard we always have but to make sure that we we align I don't know how many of your R but we did delay and delayed and it's always an up in this town we don't do what school district more that we can keep everything aligned with them much as we can for our own best yeah Mr I think you said you're close right not we couple days I before I saw the announcement because um you know a lot of our high schoolers watch the youngers students so if they're in school delay that's so I it's wor the other way doing other way it's worse the other I grew up outside B so was dust get the kids to school I agree I I agree with that it wasn't that much but I think everybody I got okay that's all the other way andil I so um I'm going to make a motion but before I do I just want to say I want to have a discussion as a board I when you ask questions I want you to um just a productive discussion okay um so I'm going to make a motion to approve the proposed regionalization ballot question with any changes that we make tonight um so we have been uh working on this for half so long right um we're at a time cont this Point okay so we need to move forward and improve or change this question so I went ahead and made copies of the question I will pass them out I highlighted I know there was some disagreement with some of the sentences I would like to talk about it maybe remove them maybe change them whatever you know the board thinks um but I wanted to read it and really give it because tonight it's really important that we we finally get it to the public however however it's read it's time to get it to the public to vote right now we none of the other board have approved the question yet right so if we approved it we have to submit what we approved to them or share what we approv to them yes no the yet and the problem right now is that their board meetings are early February are late February there's a cut off if we don't have is to whoever at need to by February 15th this now pushes the vote until September okay and as you know that's get in room and it's great but we need to move forward through the hiring process to hire a superintendent if this fails and this pushes to September that's just making more difficult for the friend SCH so does everyone have it so on November 6 this was emailed out to us I think it was everyone right Jason I don't I think everyone on the board got this I so I think everyone got it and there was some discussion it seemed like everyone thought the question was okay so I give everyone time especially Lacy who you know read the question let's read it ourselves and we can move from there I'm not going to discuss this just the wording the ver used usually be conversation can you speak into your microphone please I can we please speak into a microphone so sorry we can't hear and we want to be able to hear conversation I will say this U and I'm not going to get any further into it you've all received my email with my um thoughts comments regarding this um at this point yeah that's I said that even now I'm not going to get the content of it because that is attorney C PR you know my thoughts you know my comments it really is at this point um your determination as to what you think uh really the proposed explain statement um I mean if you want to change proposed question that's completely up to you guys all I tell you is that I attorney disagreement that regard yes and I I think the board I think we agreed with that we were we all like the question it was sentences in an explanatory statement which some of us felt were ambiguous unclear misleading whatever it was so if we I think we want to ask you have that part of you where Alicia has as as our attorney can we just remove that so and let me be clear this you can do anything to on I don't know what the other boards well they would have to agree to they have to agree but we have to take the first step you the yeah the direction would be I would tell you president Pro this you're giving B direction that conversation it's up to you it's up to you you and that's fine I think I think though but I guess she needs done tonight it needs to be done otherwise we're now we're we're now shreding water and again disrespect we're the only board that has to do something as far as are we going to consolidate and have someone who leads us or do we have to hire someone are we willing to give up eight more months because at this point if it's going to fail let it fail when be done so we can get along with our work cuz we're the only board that's suffering not suffering we're not suffering but we're the only board that's as me of what direction do we go and this was brought to us from Del stre not costing anybody money but was costing us time and what our future superintendent SE does not seem to only C I will give you is you you can absolutely approve this uh make changes not make changes whatever the case may be I just can't prise you and if they don't agree you understand I think if they don't agree with it and they delay the timeline then they need that direct access for it right if we give them every opportunity to say this is what we're okay with if you're not and you're going to then risk that timeline maybe we don't wait around them anymore but it isn't at our lack of effert on our part well my concern um is that I don't know that there's majority board support to move this forward well we won't know until we take for us to go through and do the ballot question I mean could be a feal effort no we have not we have not yet sat together as a board to discuss this this is ridiculous November 6th we are held up because of the change in board member we now have our board member it is time to move on and have this discussion it is time well I'm not disagreeing we can have a discussion what I'm saying is I don't know that there's the support to even approve question so you don't think there's more all Bo here don't want to leave it up to the voters to vote correct that's I mean me me personally I mean information or La thereof information is is ablished this I can not never conscious agree to present a question to the voors based on the amount of information we provided this point so I but I think that's the bottom line I think the problem is we are nine votes in a community of how many J at some point we have to put the ball in the court of the community and let them decide did you have enough information because if you don't both no because we didn't start this process and it's not costing anybody any money but it's costing us our time right I I mean you and I can just disagree on our philosophy on whether or not and I know that you don't support it but let it go to people and let them then not support it and we did our due diligence and then we can move forward doing the work that this Board needs to well the problem is I don't feel that we did our DU and we don't have the information present to the public to make onec we we we've not provided a level we were given a question right we don't have to agree with it but we were given a question if if what we don't agree with in the explanatory statement not the question just in this evening take it out we would be doing our work to say sure here's what we agree with are you okay with it and if they're not then we make our next move we're picking up our chest piece and putting it right back now but we we have work to do I understand you're you're okay passing the public vote on based on the information I toally understand that because I feel like you don't have enough information just like you said you would probably be a no vote then let them just V well I I don't feel comfortable asking the question without providing question and Jason let the so all they need more you think the community needs more explanation then we will talk to dely and we'll have weekly meeting up until vote come open florum let's talk about it but no one is moving forward no one is making ini it is time to move forward it's time ficia I'm just telling you I hear you I hear you I've heard you for 2 years I hear you the vot let's vote me let's read it let's talk about it let's be productive and come up with a decision and then we vote that's I say to take out the um highlighted point we did pass a resolution to move this forward we are now waiting on passing the approved question so we did pass a resolution to move forward that that resolution we don't this is where this is why we don't get fact we pass a resolution work in front of us question let's just stick to the work in front of us we we moved past that point we did that work the resolution was pointless the resolution not the resolution time but now we're at the next step that nobody wants to put the next no one wants to put this next nobody wants let's hear from everybody we're just hearing from you Jason Bor can please add to the discussion if anyone want to add to this please thank you um so as a non board member I did go to the September uh meeting at dely um I was with I was there with people with other parents um people went with an open mind they left the important questions and answers I think that's the biggest concern is people are going to go about you know oh you should do this because you know it's going to save you money but it was such a misleading presentation that it it's it's misleading and I think people felt that it almost felt like a car salesman uh was what people had commented so if you I'm not going to put you on the spot you don't have to answer you were at that meeting yes you were just the general public which I was yeah right tonight right we passed this would you say I'm not V for something I don't have enough so I'm going to go vote now because I was there right play how many people were there were not many at all there weren't and I think the agenda the the idea is to have another informational meeting which we can't answer until we start let me correct you there because it was specifically stated the last heing meeting which I know that you're not a part of that there would be no more public hearing that's not true that is exactly true they did not say that they did say that no they did not Mr you were not I think this is discussion for mon I'm asking someone elsee they heard it was asked about additional public TR not what I heard Trish you asked about additional public meetings because you knowed that Henry hson they have no less than five public meetings and so then we make that well again I'm just trying to clarify that it was said that the last there will be no more public meetings right and we can say we disagree we want public meetings and then we F in from our board take initiative and hold a public meeting that's how that works holding public meetings has been spoken about since the Inception of this after and throughout right before if and when there was going to be a public vote there has to be more information given out we talked about streaming it recording it so if people couldn't be there they could watch it later so there were many discussions in regards to having another meeting if not more than one meeting before it was able to go to vote now the time frame has changed so there may not be able to be more than one but the last conversations we had were that there would be a community meeting it was going to be in delsy it was going to be recorded that was the preliminary idea so that those couldn't attend could watch that's not discussing here well if there is who runs it because the last one was s people ask questions and the three men that set at the table didn't have one answer Noe that doesn't mean the regionalization itself is bad just because the presentation is bad doesn't mean iing all that money when the people who are in charge of it I think we get I think we're going I may be wrong here's how I see it and I will give you my personal opinion I don't know that I have enough information and if I had to go vote tomorrow I think that not having not feeling like I had enough information I could support this but at some point we have to turn it over to the people and say good bad or different I don't think it's responsible to turn it over without the information if we who went are UNC comfortable and we are 100% split how do you put it out to the public who just hear brand say go dely and they're going to let's go doy and have no idea my we can from this place the ones that are supposed to be the most educated about it and looking into it are uncomfortable how do you hand people who didn't if you put something out so I see I don't see this as an endorsement I see this as a responsibility that we were given when we put in the seat to represent the public and say here you go this is what we were given this is what we can provide you you choose I think it's irresponsible to allow them not to have I don't think we were ever there was any obligation for us put this out for public vot but putting it out the public vote isn't our enforement I'm going what I want in that in the Val well again I mean we disagree on that I can't good conscious s something out that I don't believe for that iend like Michelle point we're supposed to be the ones with the information we don't have the information how can we possibly expect the voter to understand have the information we can't even provide ourselves are we willing then to drag our feed on this we said of October October but now against thetimeline of the state hold a special election well the problem is is that there's no one that really has any interest in moving it forward that's why it's not moving forward the folks that were supposed to moving it Forward are not interested in doing what are you talking about they have wait on us yes they not not waiting one they they can't do anything until we get back this but who want is at that meeting everyone I heard that stood up we have to give this back to Del board they are St out a St until no it all stopped when the attorneys were looking at the question and we now come January 1 no one's reached out no one just come to us and said we need to do this work they they're disinterested in doing it no interested in moving I me not any I mean you clear what about it you want to move the other Bo are interested they are interested why have they not reached out to us we we wering anything we got this in November nothing can move without this and we never agreed with that because then we have to tell them this is what we agreed to if you're okay with it then they send it up supposed to happen between Mr and his solicitor for I question is that no you understand this point my understanding is thisne um and I told him that we had to address these issues so he is waiting to hear back from us I so I had November 6 what is the DAT like but we couldn't do anything until a week ago when they swor in so we a week L but the lawyers mons we've been sitting for what s days like when did you get T that's the extens no they had a question November but we could address it so we could have vote on seven days we're not 3 months right I mean talk lawyers everybody's had it understand was because of the L Issue which everyone agreed that we would wait until we had a board you so go ahead you made a motion I made a motion because if we don't do this tonight why are we going to wait like didn't vote for because we were in L up session we're not in Lan up session anymore right again I don't think there's majority mon support when is there going to be board support that we can put this question out to the community which we're voted into to give it upen to vote when will that happen are you saying that will never happen so you're saying that some of the people at this table are going to make a decision over the 20,000 community members that are in this she made a motion for a vote and ited doesn't it have to be voted will be anybody want to take out the part that she highlighted would that make you feel more comfortable with the question question change numb if we remove the highlighted part so the motion is to the question so why we do this first thing you need to do is AG on any changes and then you decide whether you want to approve the question Peri I'm fine with taking out the highlighted part and I think if you took out the highlighted part I would feel much more comfortable with this as something to send back to Del and say this is what we're comfortable with but we're not comfortable with that possibly not being should we not decide if it work whether or not we want to even discuss the question regard regardless of yeah CLE the motion was to approve the V question with any changes that we if the vote is to not approve I want to make sure we're all clear on this if the vote to make the changes and you vote no that you don't right vote Yes we sending the Chang is I will contact your attorney and say this this is what voted on you're voting on or not right well I guess if we vote whether or not regardless of the changes uh would be no V on there's a motion that has to be Ved on first okay we're going to go through the the Motions of looking at Chang or something we haven't inreased so now we're open for questions so I'm I'm expressing to take this out and that's the question that I will so I think everybody should take the turn and say out or not are we making changes or not so we know what we're going to go again I'm just a little bit confused I'm not I'm not going to put yes to any question regardless of the question that's fine that's fine but when there's a motion and a second then discussion no I'm Notre I mean she can resend the motion if you want to um I just don't understand how we discuss something that we haven't PR but originally before we were held up Lan D issue when we talked up first time the first time everybody's concern was that cing part in even right so I think where we at is does everybody want to take that out yes or no yes I El let take that out yes yes and if you no say no and then that is the question maybe the better way to say anyone want to keep that language iation itself everything so mising and and I who's going out to this vot like when if that vot go sa it goes to a vote public vote when well so we move this forward we need the timeline of spring if we don't then the earliest that could happen would be September right but let's face it that people who only know about what's going on will go out and you know what I'm saying like I know like no I don't think we can get the mind of the voter go out we're not we shouldn't be trying to figure out the mind of the voter not our job well it should be a November that's what if another another change I Pro I don't understand but we're not voting on whether we're regionalizing now we're voting on to put this on theall you can you can only on that's it that's it let's be clear that's why I'm trying to that's why I'm trying to that's why we're trying to make this clear elici motion was to approve the Ballance any changes you're going to approve whatever changes you're making now right you would either approve it or not approve it if you approve it it goes you have do if you don't approve it I would say JT it's over and I right not necessarily how about let's just do this guessing what shouldn't happen next yeah I'm not going understand I mean can you amend your motion to I thought my motion was clear I don't know how much more clear I hav wrote it down and I read it 8 million times for a came here to make sure make a motion to approve the proposed regionalization ballot question with any changes that we make tonight that was what I said so that means that I want to approve it I want to approve a question tonight she seconded so now you would say okay questions we talk about statement removing it a question a question needs to be created needs to be finalized the other boards are going to finalize a question at their next board meeting they have at least we sh our hand and said sorry so I yes take the verbage out yes means the question going for a no vote of leaving the verage in question question to make the motion amend the motion to vote on the question without the highlighted language am my motion I want to make a motion to approve the proposed realization ballot question without the highlighted sentences that again okay so a no vote a yes vote would be to proceed to public question only sending they still have to work on it doesn't mean if we say this is the question we're okay with it doesn't automa all of us doesn't he have to approve this question all the boards question yeah so the comme right yes it has to go to the commissioner next yes does to go to the commissioner correct by in terms of his vote so that was a specific motion to vote on specific language right so if you vote no I think that's the concern is you V know that you're not agreeing to the one of two things you either change about question or you have another vote and you decide you're not going to that's really decision two questions but you go you have to go through the first one first and if yes send tose then has to send it to the commissioner of education then has to so it's not like we said yes Del says yeah good St it we're going to get a B has to go to the commissioner now yeah ESS we're send no I don't necessarily think so to say this is what we are okay with you work on May says no we're not doing it without that sentence and then we say then it's over then it goes to the commissioner then it goes to commissioner still not like before April so we're voting tonight but it's not final question the commissioner would have to give us the final question and everybody says send it to the public I wrong I Wrong well I VI this if we approve this question then we approve the question going to the public yes a question yes most likely it's going to be very similar if not the same question we're approving tonight because everybody has to approve all parties have to the question am I am I correct that the was also used and presented to us in the fact that it was used for other um public votes so um there probably wouldn't be much that the commissioner would not agree with but if he don't we have isn't there one more step where we would all say yep that's the question and then we say we're fine with he would say it would be a such and such date and we would then vote yes we're fine with sending it to the public on that date isn't there one more I think the only way that would happen is that there were changes from after we improved it to Del so dely got it and they made additional changes or added language then it would have to come back to us but if we approve it and D approves it then it's off to the well once we approve it our hands are on the so you V yes on the motion because it helps you they decide whether they're agreeable and that helps if you vote no then you have to valid question you have to make a decision as okay what's the next sense okay I thought they were more sense that's why I asked if I more steps yeah I there would be more steps but one more we say now okay that's fine I just one that everybody saying so second know like understand in my case where I'm because La of information I will go if you want this to go um to the public as it is um public no not as but with the languageen the way it's been well when I say without any public on as um then you go or you can have stain if you feel like you don't have inform question C yes noo yes Wilson no Smith no star yes Brown not car so then we going to tell could not agree on this so I'm going Direction um you couldn't have question brings us not before September yes because our next meeting is after February 15th so even if they hold more public meeting and even if they change the question and we're all comfortable and we find a question then we all support it it would not get to the public before September is what yeah the first week in February yeah we have 10 so they have our meeting on meeting theth so is would it be would it be acceptable for me to to say if if it's at the board's pleasure for you to go back to Del and tell them we weren't comfortable with the question and in general this seems like it has a lack of support here because of the lack of clear information so they need to have to us by the 10 a plan and an outlined plan of what they intend to do to either have they J the question for what their role as far as rolling out in the public would be because on 10 we either have another question to V on or we move forward call their attorney and have that conversation but the attorney have a conversation should be um so maybe you guys should have a conversation as and then the committee whever you have done it um with ran and have that conversation I was going to be my recommendation the steering committee hasn't met since I believe nov November prob November um so there's been no meeting since then to explain the board issue as well as the uh resolution passed in October so could be Del keeps convention um but I think it's more or less the steering committee that would need to get back together ones that puts if having any any regardless of of that and obviously board members here on the steering committee could take that back well I think the steering committee should tell Nel on or before February 10th this is the information that the majority of our everyone on our board once it very minimal to address this again and if not then we see where we're at you do thatte correct yeah I just I mean I'm just a little slightly confused there there's really no interest from the other parties on this matter the board just V tonight there's no there's not a majority support for this board how long are we just going to keep that's the question let it go to Mo we can just end it we just chose I mean what more information are it's going to happen it's going to change the minds of the folks just tonight I mean this is why not trying to step on do anybody's job but I think sometimes we have a lack of communication if we go to ding now through the steering committee and for the attorney for tell them he did not support the question this is the concern there is a lack of support and this is what it seemed as though the Franklin Township Board is interested in getting by 10 or it could die the we put the ball on their Fort right I am on the steering committee the information that I would like to have seen I said at every single steering committee meeting over and over and over again and it was ignored Time and Time and Time Again from the from the first stearing committee not right so thinking that all of a sudden there somehow miraculously going to be all this information provided by someone a group that's not interested in moving for I mean that's and I and I hear you but when the last time we had really needy discussion about this and we agreed this board agreed to give them an October first deadline things got done they have the February 10 deadline now if they're the one leading this call we didn't initiate this so can't move because they don't want to move forward but there's no that's then that's the answer well that's fine I mean right so we February 10th February 10th is the next time that eight or nine of us will be together again if we don't have the information we requested and they can't be surprised if this board says we're done we're moving on I don't think multiple public hearings uh so on and so forth in the next they're not willing to do the work and they gave us the answer if they're not will to this is what we need they're not willing to do it absolutely nothing they're not going to do something in we keep pushing our own out um I mean if you if you recall I mean I wanted to move in March of 2024 uh to start looking for a new superintendent I didn't want to wait around exact reason so we had an OCT Dead one you know that went so but when we gave them that week timeline again you realize it's always been us it's always been Dr until we but at no point but at no point public will ever may be out the public say well Franklin voted not have it I don't know Franklin requir certain objectives to be met and when they weren't it moved on there's you need to feel comfortable it is it is because if we're not going to give the if we're not going to give the vote to the public I want to have a reason that if somebody says well why didn't we all that work was done two years worth of work and all that Bond money was why didn't you give it to the people this was why see that's the thing so are you suggesting that Jason reach out to that's what you're I think that the lawyers should reach out to the lawyers and the committee and you're on it and you're a board president they should know these are the things we requiring by the 10 if you don't want to do them probably we won't you your board doesn't have this support it was displayed tonight in a vote I just don't know how you're going to listen those items I mean one of those items would be have an inform public how you about that have some public meetings where public support because this is just my personal opinion as a member of the public if I went to that if I went to that public meeting everybody can agree that I would have left there and said if I have to vote on them tomorrow I'm a hard not okay if I went to the first one and I I hear that they're going to have a second one I'm probably going to go if you didn't learn from your mistake and you don't make the improvements that you know the people are are asking for and it's still not enough well that's fine but was presented with that information and the steering committee decided could not hold any for the public that was the decisioning so but you go back to them and say we're one3 part of this steering committee and this is what we require to be willing to consciously send this to our voting public and if you're not willing to do it then to Jason if you're not willing to do it as far as in committee I will reach out to fr the consensus I'm asking I'm asking of all I don't think it's appropriate for myself or any member to reach directly come from superintendent or come to our legal account previously I mean I don't think there's any consensus on what these items are I mean in my mind I'm not saying that somebody from this someone from this board or someone from Franklin should reach out to dely to let them know what occurred at this meeting today the discussions that happened around the ballot question and move on from there what occurred at this meeting was the bo V is you keep talking on whether or not uh proceed with regionalization and they voted not to that's what's happened right here exactly right you can tell why absolutely that's exactly what I just said because the lack of information that everybody own agreement that voted against it because so they're not if they're not willing to provide information that we require feel comfortable with it then they let it die are you clear on that on what the message is I I am clear on the message and that's a conversation with their attorney ultimately you guys information you want to tell before right they don't even know they don't even know what information they're looking for but they want information we want the pr that's 108 page docent that work so hard it was sent out by dely by by brand maybe of it how about a transparent accounting of how much it's actually going to cost Regional that's an impossible number to get well that is impossible to get so I guess we don't know who's retiring we don't know who's leading we don't know who's coming going that is St to make because they easily calulate information what's yeah not we just voted not vote well I think by February 10 have clear we have to re with or without this on our monthly like for good I will have conversation with what happened and then I will reach out um Brian Jason theing it be just Michelle and Jason at this point Mich Jason right yes thank you all right um we skip this veral keep it short quick I follow up that um in line with the budget uh calendar the budget projection module in the accounting system was made available to the administrators and supervisor um 11154 departmental budgets were submitted for their inial review on 12324 uh we are currently this we yesterday today and tomorrow completing the departmental budgets with the supervisors and directors so that's why this is pretty short everything um we'll continue to do that next week and then in February we'll hope to have additional report um key notes key dates keep in mind are Tuesday February 25th as that's the governor's address and two days later we should at St notices um about how much they he received or did not receive um health insurance last year went up about 5.34% um so far I'm estimating about P I won know anything about that until late February when the ship completes um to reiterate some numbers from last year 22 teaching staff members will be eligible for family benefits starting July 1 of 20125 uh that cost toing about $550,000 increase um but about budgeted or not will stand to reason at some later Point um revenues looking at tax per Levy increase 2% represents 2 $153,100 um there's no bank account available so the high 2% would be used unless there are any other adjustments provided by chapter 44 adjustment enrollment adjustment or uh State Health eff costs as they increase Le year about 15% um still working on new fill tuition numbers so that's not included in any figures um that's pretty much all I have so far any questions February have you heard any rumor um yeah a lot of rumors um expect poal decreases um black funding will be great proceedes thing um our enrollment on the ASA did decrease about 15 students um over last year's number so the St is calculated based on 5ye enrollment average plus the equalized values of thees and then the state does some other things just so so the correct correct I mean you really can't that yeah the only we really can do at this point is to continue putting in the expenses that we know we're going to have and anticipa and then probably come back question make a motion public second second all favor any any M of the public wish to comment I'm up as chair of the Communication Commission for the township for those who don't know that meeting was videoed it is still on YouTube and if you and Elk which you guys seem to be ignoring and don't care about CU you're talking about dely it's you and El merging into delsa their next meeting is February 13th if it goes to a vote or if there's another presentation it will be videoed it will be on YouTube it will also be on the township TV station thank you evening good evening I appreciate the support and I hope everything works out well um I do want to say being on that committee for 2 years um to kind of calm everything down it was very disjointed and there were a lot of issues that weren't clear which includes the steps that needed to be taken at each each way um you know I when I found out that our attorney had not been involved at all until the very end was kind of disheartening because I kind of thought he was in the loop which would have helped with the understanding of everything don't you think if the attorney had been involved um so the confusion you're displaying up here is very valid because I don't think there's been clear step by step what has to be done and I was at that last meeting that Jason and Michelle disagree um as far as what was said I believe that there were several ideas thrown around that once the question was okayed by all the parties because it has to be all the parties that dely and and um not just the superintendent but the uh assistant superintendent came up with three or four ideas as to what they could do to make it better for the community they were going to have a you know a presentation that would be public they had a special email address they were going to set up for particular questions a Q&A those kinds of things however that was the end of October in the hopes that it would be done by the middle of November so they were kind of talking about that four months ago so it is a confusing situation and I don't think it's been I just think it's it's been kind of halfhazard done and I think that maybe there's a difference between Mr Brant and myself and maybe even Mrs Cunningham myself as far as what was expected of that team that did the study that team was not supposed to be selling it the team was giving us supposed to be giving us information it what they weren't supposed to sit at that public meeting and I agree the public meeting did not go well they were not supposed to be selling that regionalization they were supposed to be providing information which in agreement was not done well at all we all know we were all there we all sat there so this just so you know your confusion is understandable because it it's a confusing situation but I really think in my own opinion but now it sounds like it's not going to go that way I think it's up to the community to make a decision on whether they have enough information or not it's up to the community I don't think nine people at this table have a right to say they can't vote but they also have the responsibility to provide a good question so it's kind of both ways I think so I'm just saying it's been a tough situation that we've been through but it will be Revisited trust me because this is the third time I've been through it third so it'll be Revisited in a few more years but this time the state might be a little more more U assertive about well I don't know I heard that 20 years ago too Alicia I know I'm just saying I heard it when Mr Sweeney had the big County one we were going to be one big County school and we had to go to Washington Township and see that it does come around a lot it does it does come around and that's the big threat and but who knows who knows what what's really going to go down so I kind of see every side to this to be honest with you and that's all I want to say but thank you all for letting me sit here next to Michelle again I appreciate it and that's all I got to say Jeff than okay I'm close uh my name is Brook Sanders I'm a TFA member first grade teacher at jvir um but again this is my second time coming up here I actually have a voice this time uh I am coming up as a parent uh it's disappointing to hear a lot of no votes tonight uh for sending out to the public um I do agree with Barb when she's mentioning uh you know the the community does deserve a right to vote um it's unfortunate that we're listening to you guys collaborate about this question but the community doesn't even know what the question is you know and I believe not only as a parent in the district but as an educator in the district the parents have a right to know what you guys are talking about in some capacity um and I do believe that it's important for the community to be able to make a decision on their child's education I will have three children going through this District I would like the opportunity to make that choice I unfortunately don't have the opportunity to be able to sit on the board of education I work in the district but for me this is something where I join the PTA I want to be involved because I want to be involved in my child's education just as much as I'm sure you want to be involved in your child's education that's why you're here I think it's really important that we're Focus Less on our opinion on it because I noticed that there's a lot of just focusing on our own opinions on it per se instead of focusing on the fact that you are making a decision for the entire public and I think it's really critical right now to focus on the fact that we need to be speaking for every everybody and not just for myself when I think about myself as an educator I'm thinking about the betterment of all the children in my classroom I'm thinking about 23 students I'm not thinking about what's the benefit for me in all of this I'm thinking about how can my students be set up for success and I'm asking you that you think about the public right now and think about how you can set them up for Success allow them to look at the question allow them to make that vote because in all actual ity you're the board is going to be null and void at some point you're not going to be the president forever you're not going to be sitting on this board forever so give the community the opportunity who's going to have 18 plus years of having their children in these districts I believe that they have a right to make a decision on that thank you else I want make public um anyone else have any comments we have our next meeting February 10th at 6m meting febru any EV to e