mrs carousel here mr cohen here mr corey here mr hayward here miss Palamus here miss Randelle here miss
Stevenson here miss Calves here dr robinson here we have a quorum thank you all right all right so Mr corey if you could please lead us in the flag salute 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 all right adequate notice of meeting in accordance with PL1 1975 chapter 231
notice of tonight's meeting was mailed to the record in the Ridgewood News on January 7th 2025 notice of this meeting was also mailed to the boro clerk and was posted on the bulletin board of the board of education office in the administration building on the same date
mr cohen are you able to read our mission statement the Glenarch School District founded on principle of education in partnership with a supportive community provides an exceptional education to all the students to cultivate resilience responsible and engaged global citizens
thank you all right Hudson welcome are you able to give us a update yes I'm now able to give you a report thank you uh good evening everyone um hope you all had a great and relaxing spring break uh as seeing as there's a
lot of people here I can just get right started into the report so uh for sports uh we're in mid-season for all our spring sports and so far our teams have been very successful uh I'd like to highlight that our baseball team went to Myrtle Beach South Carolina for a tournament during the last weekend of
March so that was an exciting uh moment for them and then of course we have our boys and girls basketball teams here but you'll hear about them in just a moment um for clubs uh National Honor Society inductions will take place on May 1st and so we'll have a new class of
students who are going above and beyond in their classes and in and out of the classroom and our spring production is this week the 24th to the 26th uh and the Glenrock Theater Company is putting on Too Many Detectives at the Murder Mansion um so I encourage you all to go
and watch um in other news spirit week was the week before spring break and we had themes such as Pajama Day and twin day where you would you know have a twin and wear the same outfit as them and that concluded on Friday afternoon with the pep rally uh where students from
various classes compete against each other in games and activities um and just brought up the spirit of Glenrock um our NJSLA testing is next week and the following week from April 29th to May 2nd and the week after that is the
start of AP exams and those will be from May 5th to May 16th um and yeah I mean at this point uh the students are energized after a hopefully relaxing spring break and I think also the weather plays a big part in school
morale and just the energy you know in the building and so uh yeah it's an exciting time in Glenrock and after next time I see you all these exams and things will be done and we'll get to the fun stuff so all right thank you very much
thank you [Applause] [Laughter] excellent all right uh Dr charles good evening everybody welcome back uh again to echo Hudson's comments hope
everybody had a a wonderful and relaxing uh spring break we're ready here for the kind of sprint to the to the end of the year we do have uh Mr vante here to recognize our boys and girls basketball teams for their outstanding um seasons
so Mr valante would you please come up and I think we'll start with boys basketball you stay here and at the end we'll Okay finally got it right yeah okay this fall season was one of our most successful athletic seasons that we've
had in quite some time won five league titles and two sectional titles and our winter teams picked up right where the fall teams left off and continue that tremendous success athletes and coaches put in a lot of hard work and effort and the best thing is we can be proud of our
athletes compete they compete with outstanding sportsmanship regardless of the score i was recently notified that Glenrock will be receiving an NJSIA sportsmanship banner as selected by other NJSA schools it's nice to win but
it's even better when you're recognized by your peers for the way you compete tonight we would like to recognize our boys and girls basketball teams for their unbelievable seasons for those of you who follow these teams the excitement that they generated during their sectional player front was amazing
nothing was better than watching those games in a packed Glenrock gym and experiencing the energy and enthusiasm that took place during the games with all ending in that Saturday double-headed sweep to win titles in back-to-back games was a wonderful and fitting way to conclude the sectionals
an unbelievable success the way our boys and girls competed we want to recognize him tonight we'll begin with the boys since coach Middleman is running a basketball clinic surprise and he must leave uh so we'll begin with the boys basketball
team accomplishments 20 and 37 237 record ngic undefeated Colonial League champions north one group two sectional champions the first sectional title since 1972 53
years i don't know if it was worth waiting for but it was unbelievable to get it done and if you were in the gym that day it was terrific they were the Bergen County boys basketball public school team of the year and Jason Middleman was the NJC Colonial League
coach of the year jason could come up and give out the uh certificates [Applause] zack Ashkenazi [Applause]
noan eli Bashan well poor Bodin Matt Boyce Tyler Bosen Tyler Brazzle Will Casper Noah Finincy Michael
Clackento Charles Garrett Zack Kaplan Robert Lopez Daniel McCarthy Quinn Reen Aiden Schwarz Sam [Applause]
Vigiano last but certainly not least Mason Manion stand here for a second yeah right here okay the all-time leading scoreer in school history 1,411 points coach Middleman says Mason
is a three-year varsity starter it's pretty amazing that he broke the record in just three years he finished his career as a sectional champion a two-time first team all county selection and Mace will be attending the College of New Jersey to continue his basketball career that's
our boys team congratulations told you was that quick enough do it outside jason that quick enough which one isn't going to say they're not rest [Applause]
okay girls basketball 26 and5 record njic undefeated Colonial League champions ngic conference champions north one group 2 sectional champions first sectional title since 2013
sarah Roman NJIC Colonial Coach of the Year and even one step better Bergen County girls basketball coach of the [Applause]
year okay emily Mcknney the only senior Abby Gro Anna Heisen Anna Permentor Rihanna Sapel Avery Schwarz Mia Virgil
Dios Isabella [Applause] Barlada we also have our girls lacrosse team is practicing tonight so that's where a lot of these young ladies
are isabella Flakavvento jade Khan Anna Lendal Samantha Mati Morgan Grove madison Weiss two tremendous teams with two tremendous seasons they brought a lot of
enjoyment uh not only to Glenrock High School but also the Glenrock community congratulations boys and girls thank you thank you very much thank you [Music] we'll give the students a moment just to celebrate
and then we'll have some remarks okay oh [Music] I mean I think we all will be able to say that uh it's just amazing to have watched um both the basketball teams excel this year um it's amazing um to
have the coaches invested it was it was just wonderful for the community for the students and for everyone to see and it was wonderful oh thank you all right so next on our agenda is uh Jenna Yim who's a grade 11 student here
to talk about our French cultural exchange proposal yes so um before Jenna starts I had the pleasure of of meeting with with with Jenna a couple of weeks ago i know that she had emailed um a couple of months earlier about
uh an exchange proposal with a school I think just outside of Paris if I'm not mistaken and so Jen and I kind of went over what what the requirements would be and the process and she was she's very enthusiastic and she also put together I
thought a really good presentation um so I asked her if she would be willing to share it tonight at the board uh meeting and and and she was so Jen I'm going to turn over to you but uh the board has seen um your presentation they're all equally impressed so we look forward to
sharing that with the community so thank you again for coming Jenna um so I'm Jenna Yam grade 11 um and this is my French exchange proposal for this coming 2025 to 2026 year so a little bit introduction about
me um I'm Jenna i've taken French for about 5 years now and I love the language i love the culture of France i've been to Paris many times before and I think it's an amazing cultural and educational experience for French learners or anyone who's like immersed in the French culture so I love France
because my passion for it started in middle school so since then I've been to Paris a total four times now so I love anything like French food French music French culture fashion everything so um how did I think of this idea so one of
my close friends um Quantin actually lives in Paris he's French um he attends this school so we both thought that this would be like a really good idea for like our schools to like meet up and like have this like cultural like diverse like lifestyle together so just
to try like the exchange so the school is called Honor Debbalz which um also liz um so basically the introduction to the school it's located in Paris France being one of the largest public schools
in Paris um it's very walkable to like walk there cuz everybody like my friend included like they all walk to school every day so it would be like really close if like Lumrock students were like staying with um French students we would able to walk like very close to the school um and then like if you see like
the paper or the um the screen you can see some pictures of the school it's very um academic and diverse in language and the students are also very like great there so why this school so I chose I decided to cho choose um LC deac um
mainly because my friend goes there but also because um it's an international school meaning that the most the students who attend will be able to speak fluent in English making communication really easy um for the Glenrock students and the French students so we can communicate while
also like immersing ourselves in that French language so following a lease student schedule Glenrock school uh high schoolers will be able to attend like baseline classes like math science and history as well as um language classes such as German Portuguese or Spanish so
this school has a language like dual enrollment system so if like Glenrock students would be interested in learning a different language or like just trying a class out in the school like they would be able to attend those classes so um additional benefits of being in Paris so Paris is obviously one of the most
popular cities in the world so we would have the chance to experience um the amazing sites such as the Arctic Triumph the Eiffel Tower and Notream so there'll a lot of cultural foods and we'll also be able to experience the daily lives of French teens because we will be
following their um daily schedules so the benefits to the ex this exchange is that it's affordable accessible um has the emotional appeal to French students um allows us to immerse in the French culture and language and the lives of French teenagers and also making
lifelong international connections so what have um what I have done so far so in March 1st 2024 like last year um I sent an email to the one of the head teachers at the school to um talk about
this idea and we emailed back and forth during like September to October and we would like we discussed how this idea was going to work and then in October I had a phone call with her um and with Miss Alsw about how um the exchange program
would like go about and then April I'm meeting with all of you and Dr charleston before so the future plans um if you see like the little like thing um from April to September I'm planning to get this approved and then um in May I'm
trying to confirm the dates and housing and estimate cost and funding and then decide if it's like a oneway like Glenrock only to France or like both like France to us and Glenrock to France and then in June we'll probably promote the trip with like fundraising and announcements and then September of next
year we'll continue to finalize the dates and fundraising the school year um so the co the funds so the cost for the flights are very affordable um due to the very niche of like airlines such as North Atlantic Airways French B and
Air France costing up to $165 for one plane ticket which is not which is relatively not that expensive so we're expected to home stay with the least students but if not there are many affordable hotels for school trips such as Generator Paris which I just found on
um Google reviews which is $80 a night and has 4.0 reviews yeah four star review so ideas for funding um how we plan to make the money so we would either get donations from alumni parents fundraisers like bake sales crowdfunding
campaigns such as GoFundMe or Double Good um which we did for our 2026 promotion for our great our grade um and then partner with local businesses in town so um my last slide is a potential
problems and solutions so the current problems are that we need to approve from the lease debac first and then or get both approvals from both sides and then my solution is having a school administrator contact Lay which um they have already done and I've already um
contacted the teacher also uh to officialize the process and make it more appealing and then my second problem is that or the second problem that could happen is that lease students would not be able to visit Glenrock High School because of costs so my solution is that we can highlight the long-term benefits
of a full-term exchange which would attract future funding opportunities and oh sorry um if you look on the paper it's not on the presentation sorry but there I did a Google form on the French club i posted it um and you could see like the stats
of like everybody like the pricing how many days you want to go if they're comfortable staying with the French student and then what grade they are so majority of the people that responded were in sophomore to senior year so I think we'll be keeping the exchange
program like juniors and seniors and relatively like um shorter like periods like people voted for so yeah thank you for um listening to my proposal and yeah nice job Jenna as as good as when you
came and visited me in the office with the with the PowerPoint you certainly covered uh all the bases i will share that Jenna did give me the contact information i have reached out to to the person and they they did respond back so
we're very much in in the infancy here of establishing um a relationship which we look forward to doing the one thing I did share with Jenna and the board may or may not be aware but before we send students uh
overseas especially to visit schools and to do home stays it does require a site visit like we want to make sure it's a good fit for for Glenrock so um if we're going to move forward with this and we still have to have several conversations and you know I have to actually get on
the phone and have conversations with their principal and so on um the board would have to authorize an administrator to go for at least three days because we're putting students in people's homes and we're visiting school we want make sure all that is the right fit for our our children right we want to make sure
and I don't doubt anything that Jenna is saying um but uh in good conscious we we we have to make sure that we we do that so um that's kind of the next steps but Jenna is here to answer questions i'm here to answer questions as best we can for the board
thank you so much Jenna that was a phenomenal presentation and it takes a lot of courage to make that kind of presentation in front of us and um the entire community um a a tiny question was um on that survey it said "Are you comfortable staying with French
students?" And it said yes no is the orange like maybe or Oh wait sorry that was like a mistake but um everyone said yes yeah yeah that was like another option but like I don't think there were none okay all right perfect um anybody have any questions or comments yes
Christine thank you that was an amazing presentation i appreciate this idea and the concept very exciting um overall how big is the school how many students are at the school and can you when what time frame and how long do you picture students going for um well it's the
biggest it's one of the biggest public schools in Paris so I would say I don't know the exact amount of students but I know it is a pretty large school um and then we'll be able to go for I think majority of people said seven days or five to seven but um it all depends on
like what they can do and like what Glenrock can also how long we can stay but I think we're planning for five to seven days awesome any other questions dan yeah I wanted to say I think it's great how you put the data together at the back you
said you me um you surveyed people from the French club so that's that's a great audience there's 25 people that responded that's a great amount of data um so good job on that uh I noticed that you you picked some dates which is good helps our administration pick Yeah pick
how to solve this those So those were all non-school days so you tried to pair that up with breaks that you can um Yes so I I put down like the four biggest breaks or like the three biggest breaks and then like June which is like kind of
like when the Chinese trip is going like this year um but I think the majority picked November break so but it's like all relative again cuz like of what like our school can do and what they can do so it's not very like it's just what um the French club members like wanted the
most so the one big question it does the French school year line up with our school year like September to June did you know that um yes i I think it's the same but I think their summer break might be a little bit like later but I don't think it's like an is an issue
with like the traveling and everything yeah great job thank you thank you thank you all right so Jen our next steps um again great job and is that your parent back there did you bring Oh she did a nice
job all right well done yeah stephanie a question sorry I I did have one question great job great presentation um do you expect interest from out of the French club student body or is this really would be exclusive just to the um French yeah so we're right now we're like
prioritizing like the people who take French and like but um you can still be in the French club if you don't take French uh which is like in the Google form also so I think like five people didn't take French but majority of the people like we want like French like speakers to go because like they want to
you know obviously um immerse in the French language more and like learn it better to like pronounce things better thank you excellent so our next steps um as I shared with Jenna and I'll share with the board is that um I will
continue to to to dialogue right we just had initial email exchange um with the leadership there we'll try to get uh some phone conversations lined up over the next next uh couple of weeks uh and then see if we can um get to the point
where we can nail nail down dates uh again it it will require it is going to require a site visit so the board has to be okay with sending I'm not interested in going so it have to be sending someone not for any other reason just that um I think it's time for other
people to to to go see um to make sure it's a good fit and again the reason for that is we trust everything Jenna is saying but we want to kind of get an idea of where our students are going to stay in the home stays we want to get an idea of the English language and how our students will be able to communicate the facilities at the school in terms of the
touring of Paris that's pretty easy like we all know that it's more about the home stays and that cultural exchange which is really important um we want to make sure our students have have a good experience and again that the schools line up u with the same types of visions and standards and things like that which
again I don't doubt because I know that Jenna has done her homework so Jenna we'll be in touch and I'll continue to work with you over the next several weeks right and we'll have those conversations and then maybe we'll come back and share with the board um maybe at the second meeting in May kind of where we're at does that work yeah great
job thank you yep well done all right um so if we as a board could me uh just read the statement with regards to the national administrative professional day and um after we read then we'll have a motion to approve this
um resolution do you want to start sure whereas administrative professionals are the backbone of the school and district organization they are the link between parents teachers and administrators and whereas administrative professionals
complete a variety of tasks including accounting scheduling appointments maintaining administrative calendars and caring for students and staff they maintain attendance records answer the phone pay the bills and communicate with parents community members and staff and
whereas administrative professionals ensure that school site and district staff have the information and materials to do their jobs effectively and whereas administrative professionals are the face of the school and district and are usually the first contact that parents and community members have with our
school district it is through them that the community members and parents form positive impressions of our schools and the work that is accomplished in the district and where administrative professionals keep pace with advancing computer phone and documentary production technology in
order to better perform their duties and whereas administrative professionals listen to students parents community members as well as staff members and guide them in finding resolution to their concerns and whereas administrative professionals are
the lifeblood of the everyday eb and flow of activity in the school and district offices administrators teachers other classified staff students parents and community members depend on our administrative professionals on a daily basis be it resolved that the Glenrock Board
of Education recognizes and acknowledges the positive impact of administrative professionals on our district thank you i know sorry Ed um so in honor of uh National Administrative Professional Day on April 23rd 2025
um can I have a motion to approve the resolution as stated miss Stevenson seconded by Mr hayward and if we can call a roll miss Kerasola yes mr cohen yes mr corey
yes mr mr hayward yes miss Parlamus yes miss Randelle yes miss Stevenson yes miss Calves yes dr robinson yes motion passes thank you all
right dr truster all right um so at 7:34 we'd like to open a public comments one of two on agenda items only if you could please state your name and your address and then you'll have three minutes when the three minutes comes you may hear a
slight chime just to um as a reminder thank you good evening i hope every Elizabeth Cartu 31 Hamilton Avenue i hope everyone had a nice Passover and happy Easter um I would like to extend my
congratulations to the boys basketball team and coach Middleman for an outstanding winning season your hard work teamwork and tr and dedication truly paid off i would lo also like to honor and congratulate the girls basketball team and coach Wman who is
still here her devotion and unwavering dedication to these athletes is truly inspiring after being wronged she returned not only to coach but to lead this team with strength and determination over a decade later she
guided them to a winning season and earned title of coach of the year in her very first year coach Wman thank you for stepping up and leading with grace dignity and purpose your impact goes far beyond the scoreboard all right thank you Miss Carr
[Applause] all right are there any other members of the public that would like to make a comment all right seeing no other comments at 7:36
if we can close our first comment section all right can I have a motion to discuss uh G1 through G9 miss Parlamis uh seconded by Miss
Calves all right any uh comments or questions on G1 through G9 all right seeing no questions if we could please call a roll miss Carasola yes mr cohen yes mr corey yes mr hayward
yes Miss Parlamus yes Miss Randelle yes Miss Stevenson yes Miss Calves yes Dr robinson yes motions pass thank you um can I have a motion to discuss B1 through B7 mr corey seconded by Miss
Calvis all right any questions or comments with regards to B1 through B7 all right seeing no questions or comments um are you able to call a roll please miss Carousella
yes mr cohen yes mr corey yes mr hayward yes miss Parlamus yes miss Randall yes miss Stevenson yes miss Calves yes dr robinson yes motions pass thank you can I have a motion to discuss P1
through P8 miss Stevenson seconded by Miss Parlamus any comments or questions with with regards to P1 through P8 if we could please call roll miss Kerasola yes
Mr cohen yes Mr corey yes Miss Hayward mr hayward yes Miss Parlamis yes Miss Randelle yes Miss Stevenson yes miss Calves yes dr
robinson yes motions pass thank you um and as usual you'll see the vandalism suspension and hip reports and then we move to public comments two of two seeing no members of the public it
will open and close at 7:39 p.m and then on to old business um did you have anything specific for old business no okay i'll I will um provide the board with the the first draft of the policy um the goal is that by the end of this week so that
you'll be able to take a look at it and then send me any like questions comments and then we'll work through to um have the first draft for the first read at our next cow um that was my update with regards to that um any other old business
anything okay all right on to new business reverse power up sure so sorry um so the the district acquires its um uh utilities of electric and uh natural gas uh via a reverse auction uh process
uh so we we use a consultant to do that um in May is when uh we are going to be coming to the board um with a strike price um and then once we have that strike price which will be um uh the
result of bids from various utility companies we're talking about electricity here not natural gas um we'll set the strike price and then the reverse auction will begin which and what that reverse auction will do it'll give uh the business administrator the
uh authority to enter into a power agreement for the strike price and or less if we don't like the prices that we get we could reject all of them go up out again get another strike price and do the whole um reverse auction uh again
until we get a price that we like um unfortunately supply is going to be uh the the the not the driver of our electric costs next year it's going to it's actually going to be the distribution um which we're all going to
see in our own electrical bills as a result of the auctions and all of the artificial intelligence uh data centers so um that's that's what I have on the reverse power auction and uh just again a reminder on May 5th we'll have our public hearing on the budget
excellent thank you any questions for Mr canelis all right uh so we have our next meeting on April 20 um sorry our next meeting on May 5th thank you um and that is it can I have a motion to
adjourn the regular session Miss Carousella seconded by Mr hayward all those in favor i any opposed nope meeting is adjourned 7:42 thank you