no one hear yes we can I'd like to bring this meeting to order notices of this meeting were forwarded to The Inquirer crya post Clerk of the township the district website and members of the Board of Education and posted in the Board of Education offices at 17 area Road
Blenheim New Jersey please note that this board meeting may be audio videotaped can we stand for the flags United States of America and the for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and
Justice we get a roll call please Mrs Fritz here Mrs gck here Mr gons here M Gore here Mrs Henry here Mr Hutchinson here Mrs Johnson here
M Tino here mron here um can I get a motion to go into executive session um I'm gonna give that one to Mrs Johnson first second Mrs
Gore um there are two employment items correct Mr B okay um any questions no okay we get a roll call Mrs
Fritz here I'll take that as a yes Mrs gck yes Mr gibons yes Miss Gore yes Mrs Henry yes Mr Hutchinson yes Mr Johnson yes M dintino yes Mr Donal yes and we'll be back out at
7 this meeting back to order can I get a roll call please Mrs Fritz here Mrs gck here Mr gibons here Miss Gore here Mrs Henry here Mr Hutchinson here Mrs
Johnson here M Tina here M oon here uh Mr bados our students thank you thank you Mrs odonnell members of the Board of Education welcome to Glenn Landing Middle School uh I'd like to
turn tonight's uh program over to our assistant superintendent of schools Mr Mr Tim tro Mr tro wow Applause that's the first time I ever got Applause at a board meeting you're welcome I appreciate that um good
evening everyone welcome out thanks for coming out on uh St Patrick's Day I know some people would rather be elsewhere maybe but who would who would not want to be at a school honoring some students so thanks for coming out um this is an exciting time each month at the board
meeting where we get the opportunity to recognize some deserving students and um some of the staff members for the great things that they do and so just for those of you that this might be your first time what we do is we call up um the administrative teams from each of the two schools that will be recognizing
students they'll talk a little bit about what's going on bring the students up and then we also have certificates here from Mr Bido our superintendent in the Board of Education um that will be given to the students um after the presentation and then we also do break
and get some photos that we can put on the district website and uh to put out as well so we'll ask you to stick around for that so I will finish up then and turn it over to the people who really matter that you actually came out to see we're going to start with our friends up the hill right they decided they were
closest they get to go first uh from luring Fleming Elementary School Dr Rose Mr morfeld there you go all right thank you Mr tro good evening we'd like to thank the Board of Education and Mr Bilo for this
opportunity to recognize our students at luring Fleming it is my pleasure to recognize a remarkable group of students from luring Fleming who have gone above and beyond to promote kindness and build a positive School climate can I please
have the luring Fleming students who participated in the kindness club and kindness this week join us up front let's give them a round of applause what a great group I have here guys good hey while I'm sharing a few words about the great work the students have
done please direct your attention to the Smartboard to see the students in action as active participants in our kindness club and kindness week these students have demonstrated a true commitment to spreading kindness not only within our school but throughout the entire
Community their efforts have made a meaningful impact from creating warm fuzzies with gratitude for teachers to reading to younger students greeting their peers with kindness posters during morning arrival and even organizing dress up theme days to promote
positivity through these actions they have embodied the values of kindness empathy and encouragement showing us all the power of small acts to create a big difference tonight we celebrate these students for their leadership and dedication to making lauring Fleming a
better place for everyone they remind us that kindness is contagious ages and their efforts INSP Inspire us to do our part in creating a more compassionate World congratulations to these students we are incredibly proud of you and also a special thanks to our counselors Mrs
schlanger and Mrs havlock who couldn't join us tonight and our counseling intern Mrs Bishop who's in the back if you could just give a little wave and also let's give a nice big round of applause for our students for their work during kindness week in the kindness Club
we have certificates and we'll hand them out once we go over to the cookies great job guys so I don't I don't want to start any trouble but um the two ladies I'm to bring up next suggested that Loring Fleming go first because they said we'd
want to save the best for last so I don't know I'm just saying so we've got uh our team from choose Elementary School coming up Miss kid and Miss Lewis all right so while Mrs Lewis is plugging in the slideshow I would like
to call up Mrs summer backy and her kiddos who are here tonight come on Dan come on up Rose Lily Johnny who else is here Yan Eva yay come on over all right so these are just a few
of Mrs beaky's kiddos and they have been working this school SCH year whenever we have an early dismissal they have the mighty delicious Cafe and they have served some of our board members they have served some other special guests
who have come to the building specifically to visit the cafe and as well as some others so they serve coffee tea right what else what are some of the other things that you've been serving hot cocoa right that was a suggestion so we're learning how to like
do good customer service how to take orders how to add up how much everybody's stuff costs how to make change and give change right and how to prepare everybody's order for them right all right and they're working towards what are you
guys working towards what are you saving that money for two oh they don't know oh oh it's a surprise I guess guess where you're going Busters all right so as you can see here I'll
click that and you can so everyone is invited to our Mighty delicious Cafe presented by Mrs Becky's class so the students are gaining experience with social skills and math
skills this is their order form each order when the staff members come up each student has a clipboard and they will take our order and then check us out so these are some students waiting
to complete their sales and these are examples of the individualized service so when the students are waiting their turn for their shift to begin they're also doing work inside our conference
room they're ready to take our orders clip wordss are ready and we have another satisfied customer these are some of our board members who visited Mr Gibbons Miss Johnson and miss o'donell so thank you
so much for coming and we all also had officers who were in the process of doing lead training come and visit our Cafe on Friday and they had a wonderful
time thank you all so much Mrs kid before you leave could you stay there a second um I just wanted to uh commend both you and M Lewis for doing such a admirable job running and leading choose
School this year so thank you for stepping in there was a lot of discussion on who would step in and fill the shoes and we know that uh Mr Williams is uh returning hopefully soon uh but he couldn't have uh give the building to someone two people better to
run it so very good job again just a great opportunity to see some of the um the many different things that are happening in the building that are special um across our district and we just appreciate the students the families and our staff for all the excellent work that they put
in you have any other announcements I keep saying I keep dismissing people and then wait there's one we're good all right by the green tie for for next year I know I know I got dressed in the dark this morning Monday morning's rough um at
this time we're going to break for take a short recess again we'd ask if you don't mind to have your students U meet on the other end of the library here miss Bon is going to take photos um and then there are some refreshments for you there we'll take a short uh 5 to 10
minute recess take the photos if you'd like to stay for the rest of the business portion of the meeting you're more than welcome to stay otherwise um you can take off and get the kids to bed whatever it is that you need to do and the business portion will resume in about 10 minutes all right thank you have a great
night you didn't hear me can I get approval of the minutes I need a a motion we're gonna bring the meeting back to order there you go voice can I get a motion to approve the
minutes for executive session February 24th so moved Mrs Johnson thank you second Mr Gibbons for the second we get a roll call please Mrs Fritz abstain Mrs gck yes Mr Gibbons yes
Miss Gore yes Miss Mrs hry yes Mr Hutchinson yes Mr Johnson yes Mr stino yes oh I'm sorry misson yes can I get a motion for the regular
meeting Boardman minutes February 24th mov uh oh I'm giving that one to Mrs Gore second you can have that mrsn can I get a roll call please Mrs Fritz
abstain Mrs gck yes Mr Gibbons yes Miss Gore yes Mrs Hendry yes Mr rinson yes Mrs Johnson yes M dintino Mr odonnal
yes uh Mr bido do you have any changes to the agenda uh no I do not uh I have a change to the agenda oh okay so 6.0 committee reports um Personnel committee met and was not on
there so I would like to add the Personnel committee as e as an ed please to the board committee reports okay thank you my apologies thank you we have a
date um I'll do it when I do the when I do the report thank you um can I any public comments regarding agenda items none uh yes hi if you could stand to the
microphone phone just your name where you're from to just yeah just town it's good hi hi my name is Vanessa and I'm just asking about the um the Hib investigations okay you have something
specific yeah my um daughter had a Hib 338 form that was founded and was supposed to be submitted to the board so I just wanted to find out what that room was um that's not something we typically discuss publicly because it's a student
issue um and I could have Mr Bido reach out to you and let you know if it's on this agenda okay go yeah so what happens is once it's reported to the board which happens tonight then the letters go out with the outcome following this meeting
to both the accused and the target okay this is this is already my third investigation and this is supposed to be the meeting that is um replied and you guys are supposed to give your ruling on it at this you appeal it uh no I'm just
making sure that nobody else is at this point consider we no appeals pending for tonight okay all right all right thank you anyone else for agenda items um report of the solicitor Mr long um I was not an executive session this evening but due to the decision of one
person up here uh but I have nothing at this time thank you Mr thank you uh committee reports um policy committee can we do the report Mr Gibbons uh sure I guess
I'm the first one to report on you are the first committee report congratulations on any report make it good all right um so the policy committee met on February 12th uh myself Miss Odon Miss Johnson Miss Henry and Mr
buildo were in attendance um most of what we discussed had to do with Strauss Esme which is a company that sends regulation changes that have to do with abiding by state rules and things like that so that was the majority of uh of
this there was um student residency uh eligibility issues talked about and how to handle those um cell phone usage was a topic that was talked about at length and gone over too with uh some administrators teachers principles um
food service we talked about um committee reports and this whole thing to the whole transparency and accountability to you guys of what actually goes on was discussed not on the 12th but in general so this whole thing I think is a you know it's a very
good thing it's where all the work of the board is actually done um what else here it also allows if somebody had a question of something that's on the agenda maybe the policy Committee Member can address you know that question at that time I think um
let's see here oh another thing that's new on here is board member attendance I think that's a a good thing you know when we're talking about student chronic absenteeism I think it's a you know it's it's it's our responsibility to be here for this position as well so that being
out in the open I think is a good thing but I think other than that was pretty much the majority of the most recent policy committee updates I can give so it's a lot of work thank you um AI committee uh good evening um we had our first meeting on February
13th um the board members and attendance were myself Mrs Henry Mr Hutchinson and Miss Fritz um the administration intendant were as Mr Bido and Mr tro uh we basically talked about the goal we
reviewed it um so that we all understood it and known the action that we were going to take the committee discussed the meaning the meaning of the goal and uh we want to um show progress in this area for AI so we are um doing um
extensive research um and that was the homework that was given uh we talked about what the policy should include um the scope of the AI policy and we um gave well I gave everyone homework to read some um policies that um we had as
um examples and some articles um for everyone to read to get more familiar with it and uh we had our next meeting on March 13th which I'll give a summary next time we meet thank you finance
committee so finance committee um committee met uh February 19th I'll keep it simple we really just went over the budget which we was in the agenda for tonight um and we also just talked about the state aid that's coming in so that kind of contributes to the budget and
determine what our needs are for the upcoming year so pretty much it thank you um curriculum the curriculum microphone sorry sorry no you're good uh so the curriculum uh committee met on February uh 24th and attendance was myself Mr
Hutchinson Mr belau Mr tro and Mr Mason uh we discussed the um District's uh new science curriculum and their recent selection of amplify materials that will be used in all the science classes in grades 6 through eight um many of
teachers have volunteered to be trained and began using those materials for the remainder of the year um the committee also reviewed data about progress towards District goals and attendance and student achievement and we learned that absences year to
date are higher than last year and we believe the flow and other illnesses are higher than last year Year and hope that the numbers will get better as the spring approaches and uh then we um wrapped up the meeting um talking about the U math
goals and reading goals and uh we meet every um time that we have a board meeting um before the board meeting so we met today and we'll have a report next time we meet on that thank you um and the last is Personnel um and I am
the chair of that we met on March third Mrs Johnson thank you in attendance were Mr Bido Mrs dintino Mr Gibbons Miss Henry and myself we discussed um student registration uh the summer work week the
2025 2026 school budget staff requests um and other Personnel matters Personnel of course um we can't get too detailed on as it is you know a private issue so that one will always be a little vague that was great thank you so much
everyone uh Mr Badoo report the superintendent thank you Mrs odonnell I'd like to ask the board for consent resolutions uh they would be beginning with item 7.2a through 7.6 k
can I get a motion so moved Mrs Johnson thank you can I get a second second SC thank you any questions I have one question okay um in general question for inter for
intermittent um FL different than FMLA don't they have to be recertified every year like FMLA does because there's one on here for two years intermittent and I thought they have to be recertify for every year Mr Ricardo you uh want to assist on
that question there's two types ofla can we just get him a microphone please I appreciate that thank you it doesn't come up on the recording it's terrible thank you there are two types of leave FMLA which is fedal leave in New
Jersey Family Leave Act so the requirements for FMLA on the fedal leave is 1,250 hours that you have to be work in the previous year and be with your employer for a year that gives you 12 weeks of leave intermittently or at a block time now
it's very specific who you can take your leave for it's your intermediate family could be your child or your spouse a mother and father there are other scenarios where where the New Jersey FL is grander in general scope I can consider Jean who
I'm not related to as family and I could take leave for him uh it's grander in scope with New Jersey FL so that gives you 12 weeks over a 24mon period of time uh and you only have to work a thousand hours prior to taking that leave and
this particular scenario that individual who they're caring for does not fall within the scope of FMLA okay so yes you can I didn't realize it was two years I had asked him I you can apply for it every year but you also have to meet the threshold of 1,250 hours that you had in
the previous 12 uh months thank you thank you thank you any other questions I have one question Mrs hendri um we have uh 7.6 C is in cat uh we have some people who have decided to resign I
believe have we been doing exit interviews do we know why they decided to no longer be a part of our district we uh have instituted uh for all departing staff the opportunity to
uh fill out an exit interview I don't know if these particular staff have uh they probably waiting for board action before you know they would be subject although there's February in here so uh I don't know if they elect to do that Mrs Henry but they are offered that how
how is that offered is that are they given something on the way out the door an email I believe it's an electronic link to answer hold on hold on me again the day after the board meeting all the individuals that
have either resign or retired or were terminated or send an email as a Google doc and they have the option to complete the questions we asked them to help us in our approach to hiring people what could have we done better why do they leave and those things they're not obligated to complete it but we have a
Google doc and we keep that on file do we do we get a lot of them returns do can you give me an idea half the retirees the retirees complete the form um those that resign uh or we terminated um no is it Anonymous it is
anonymous uh you can gather you can gather from some of the comments of who who it may be of course or may not be uh but is anonymous is sent to them the day after the board meeting after you approve their resignation termination of retirement uh and that's collected on our Google doc perhaps at the end of the
year we could provide a summary of the school year and provide that to the board if you like or that would be that would be great okay we've been talking about that for a long time so that would be awesome follow followup question do we do the same thing for those who decide to decline the
positions no you don't ask them like hey why are you deciding not to take the position it is is there are times uh for instance I'll give you an example we we have a job fair that we do uh pre last year we had it in uh mid July the
previous year we had it at the end of June and these are support uh positions that we're offering so secretary bus driver custodians and they're looking for a job now and but that job's not going to start to possibly September if they're if they're a power professional
or classroom made or latchy so there are folks that we I call it summer melt that over the summer they just tend to go away uh there are some folks that go through the process they'll start the process with our office and then they'll for some reason do not complete the
process for whatever that may be thank thank you anyone else questions uh roll call please Mrs Fritz yes Mrs gck yes m Mr GI
yes Miss Gore yes Mrs Henry yes Mr Hutchinson yes Mrs Johnson yes stentina yes m o Donald yes report of the business administrator hi yes um my stuff has
moved down to uh item eight so my report begins on eight all the way through 8 7 7M and if anyone has any questions after you get your roll call I need a motion
first can I get a motion so moved Mrs Johnson second second thank you nobody wants it uh any
questions Mrs hry yes I have a question um with regards to our partner Brett denovi um it is it seems that our uh partnership is increasing year after
year um with him so just wanting to see you know do we have a handle on this so therefore doesn't keep on increasing or um do we have a long-term plan so therefore we can have
District employees as opposed to Outsourcing the uh rovi is one of a handful of resources that um for total vendors that are used for support uh for students special needs um I know that
every year the scope of what is ask for and in turn the work we give to Brett penovi to support our students is growing it's very very expensive the board in Prior um months has tried to as it were
pilot and have a mimic of Brett denovi and so there was approval of job descriptions there was posting of them and there were not there was not a great deal of yield for people interested in that Mrs Henry so unfortunately we need
to continue to service these students because they have IEPs and um it um it's very frustrating because you see the need but we also glare at the expense and it seems to be a
runaway uh chain as it were for money so I know that uh Dr Martin is attempting to uh pilot things but it just the amount of students that uh she needs to
serve they continue to grow and um is a very very difficult answer right now other than we are paying a great deal of money to for for these supports because we can't Garner them ourselves and I don't believe we are alone as a
district there are many other districts that do the same and are paying I don't know what they're paying but they are paying the same firms wait if if we can if you want to answer I would love for you to come to the microphone and hear what you have to say we just can't hear you from
there good evening Dr maren thank you for uh coming and answering um we've been on this train as Mr B said for I've been here since 2012 um we've been trying to create our
own programs for many many years we have packets for special services committee this evening that paints a picture of the learning profile of the students that were currently charged with servicing Brett denovi was has been a Saving Grace for us because although
there are other agencies that are we approve everybody who applies who meet the threshold they're the lowest price they've never gone up on us um one time they did because the laws changed and
with the laws changing it requires so many hours of supervision by bcba oversight of every individual that's in rvt and that's a state that's a a law because of their licensure right um and
it doesn't matter what agency we use they all have the same responsibility but Brett is the less expensive and the most qualified we have a other agencies that we use and there's a very high
turnover rate of Staff because they don't have the skill set to address the needs of our students and then the other thing is the business is competitive they want benefits so if an individual is here they love working here um but if
someone offers them a program or another opportunity and they can get a full benefit and get more money they're going to that uh for continuity purposes Brett is fortunately the one who continuously
supplies a substitute no one else is able to do that um the next largest company in this area is great minds and that's the one that we've been having more I'd say some difficulties with uh
she continues to raise her price but her primary responsibility and commitment is to Vorhees Public Schools the elementary schools because they have 16 autism rooms so her staff a majority of her
staff that she's able to maintain are in wores public schools but this is a systemic issue um we're out of teachers we're teacher resources in this particular population are extremely
challenging right now um and it's not just in districts it's out of districts as well in fact we've been looking to pull some of our students back and we've been watching some of the things that are happening and if it doesn't happen
the way that we expect it to happen then we're pulling the students and putting them elsewhere so we're keeping a very close eye on it but we were in today and it it's disheartening the needs of our children
and we're trying to connect them with Community Resources um there's a brand new organization that just moved into the area and they do insurance-based services so we're trying to get parents to connect with them they will assist in
doing everything that they need to do as a parent partner we got the Camden County CFO that is working with their families we're really trying to bridge that Gap because the state just recently drew a demarcation line between between
what is educational and what is medical so that's had a huge impact on practice and they have you can go on the state websites and they will tell you the role of a bcba the r role of an RBT and an
educational setting is this and anyone doing outside Services is that and the two shall never cross so we're working in tandem with Community agencies with our students with our famili is doing our best to try to be smart about our
resources but I got to tell you the picture is a bit Grim because we're out of space and we're also out of Human Resources so it's not easy but anybody is forever welcome to come in and see all of our wonderful
programs and all our beautiful children because the door is always open thank you I appreciate that thank you Dr Martin you do have for the special education committee a meeting scheduled next week yes okay
well okay that was the segue I ask that you RW that before we come because there's not enough time but most important certainly what I didn't say is that we had our programs evaluated because the state just changed the regulations on what an Autism
program should look like so we've had our programs independently evaluated that summary is in there they also just released the behavior disabilities um emotional regulation programs so this summer we are evaluating that one so
we're in the process of trying to make our programs align with best practices thank you thanks I have one more follow-up question sure so as of right now Brett is probably the best resource and Avenue to go but we as
a district do we have a road map to start chipping away so therefore we can grow our team so therefore we're not so reliant on out outside resources
I didn't see you creeped it up there so my staff Kevin and um Jackie they're consistently interviewing every week trying to meet the need you guys do about what five to 10 interviews a
week right each month we keep we have a whole entire um log of everybody that we've interviewed uh the problem is on boarding like Mr marado spoke of Staff
when they're looking for a job they want to work now so if I go to an employer and I'm out in public sector I get my fingerprints I do my physical and then whatever shots I need to be cleared and I do my assessments and then I get to
start there is training during that time that we're able to provide but here with the school the way it works is you have to do the interview then you go through the onboarding process you have to get your physical you have to do your background checking and it has to come
to you and then we hope that all the paperwork and everything is completed by the time after tonight tomorrow we can pick up the phone and say Hey you can start they don't want to wait they want money they want to eat and it just takes
too long the process is too long process is very long but it's a public school I've been doing this for like 38 years and I gotta be honest with you I always whenever I had students I
always had a problem so I was pulling in college students and getting them you know cleared and getting them to work we've gone to the colleges we've tried to recruit students we Pro we bring in at least a hundred sub uh student
teachers a year it's about a hundred and we really try to reel them in and it's just so competitive because again it's not just us that's looking but when I ran my separate public school programs I
brought in students doing tours and every student left there with an application and I substitute certified them for the day they either got $75 and it was a while ago $75 for the day if
they were coming in as an aid or I would pay them $95 if they had a substitute certification once we process them because the college did all their clearance with the check background checks and the physicals my secretary
would get them border prooof process them and they gave us all their availability so we always had a bank going all the time so I didn't have an issue with getting them in but it's very very difficult because you only have
this school here whereas before I was right near Rowan so I could do it more but you only have the community college and a lot of those classes are no longer in person they're virtual nobody wants to come out there I
actually have a question would you say that there's actually a savings realized over time because of your ability to staff consistently so you don't have to have
like all these empty slots and then also realized over the time not spent managing HR issues time not or money not spent on providing benefits to
hired so I will tell you a secret yeah if you look at the roster that we just gave you in projections for one school next year if you don't program and provide the resources that will cost a district just in that one school $7
million so every position every seat that we program for in our Union Valley Elementary School is a potential 100 to 130 minimally a
year minimally without transportation if you add a one-on-one which we have now you're talking almost $200,000 you start multiplying that and we also are communication training our
children we're we've Mr O'Brien's been we've been purchasing I pads and trying to facilitate language early on so we start in the preschool program and then we work and train them on how to use their
talkers um once they are proficient with it we're trying to connect families to getting it done we got an arrangement with um our tech department to where now we can download safely apps instead of
paying last year I think I paid almost $100,000 doing um augmented communication evaluations because everybody kept saying we need a they need an a Val they need an AAC AV so by the time you do the
evaluation pay for the device download the software and then Train everybody and you start multiplying that with your populations I was like this isn't working for me so we started to incorporate that into our programs so
that they are becoming more proficient and as their language increases we give them the iPad with the talker with everything that they need we bring the parent in and help them train and then once they're proficient we connect them to the agencies so that they can get
their own devices for free because they're we're not allowed they're not allowed to or we're not required or not allowed to demand and that a parent bring their child's device inside the school we're legally required to provide all of those
resources so we're just being more efficient in how we're utilizing that so that probably realizes another Savings in Security in meths to um computers technology well we bought a new thank
you to Mr moli he told us about a way to secure the walls of all the device es that we're using so now we can use the talkers with no security breaches um our tech department has done an excellent
job and helping us keep them going um it's been really really nice it really has so we've saved a lot but now our kids are much more independent too we just need [Laughter] toilets can we put a workshop together
for this topic that we all talk about like what the hurdles are and see how we can we could as a board maybe take I would suggest maybe after they have you're having a a meeting Monday next Monday yes yeah I mean if if you think
that the board would benefit from having a much deeper conversation about this with everyone involved not opposed I don't there are I not believe everything she said I'm just I don't understand how Brett denovi exists if all these costs
are on them as well how can we not be but yeah yeah this is time place to have that thing that's it's a really deep convers I get your point there's we could go and that's not a you know a special Workshop meeting we'll be fine
with that but it's a very complex question right and this is place for that's what I'm saying can we dedicate a time and place for that an hour for I don't I don't see why not yeah I don't see why why not okay okay thank you so
much I appreciate that thank you anyone any other questions we're just running before the meeting on Monday just a couple numbers going into covid we had about 140
District AIDS coming out of covid we had about 80 we had 96 District dates on November 11th give or take when I ran this we have 98 now so we've only gain two since
November we had 64 I think it is um attempts to interview from our website for district Aid and we have 17 hired so that's what's been going on we broke that down last year too the trends
are the same but there's numbers for you on why we have to use other people we couldn't ever meet the needs of our students um in the township with just District AIDS so there's a much longer conversation but I want to give you that
thank you Mrs Johnson uh yes um on gosh administrative report second discussion report 8.7 J it says be it resolved included in
budget line 660 budgeted withdrawal from emergency Reserve uh for the replacement of the door intrusion system is this at at bler Township school it's it's every single
school okay it's a door intrusion systems how you get into the building yeah it's much more sophisticated it's that's why they called an intrusion system like you know when you hear like uh someone held the door open with a rock we would know about it okay um not only we know about it but also
after however many minutes you want to set like a minute two minutes three minutes you'll have an alarm that'll go off the door that says that's this door has been propped open so people in the in the hallway would know that that door is open okay are we putting this on every door every every school yeah every single door of in every single school
okay all right that's good thank you I do have two more I'm sorry sorry um on the bill list there is it says trans T TR NSP contract
reimbursement is that it Aiden Lou yes um I think we just issued them in um is it this month or last month that's probably what that is yeah yeah there actually there was two of them on there
are they the same amount of money uh no no they were two different ones but okay and then one other one one other question on check number 13687 for a Vincent
Spinelli it says NP and I think it's probably a misspelling of security oh yeah yeah Our Lady of Hope yeah that's nonpublic we don't get to choose who they who they use for their security they have a I
guess it's a parent who does their like video cameras and stuff like that that's that's who that's for it's not with it's not our it's not our money it's it's Federal it's Federal money for that right right but that's not with the SRO no no no this is something different from okay thank
you that's it I had a question on um check 136 842 Remington and verick they're are they not doing fire alarm systems for us so we say Johnson Controls to do that and we pay them an
extraordinary no they did the design of the three fire alarms that we replaced Glen landing chw and Glendora over the summertime they did the design I think that's just a follow-up Bill you're seeing right there yeah they had three I guess three different bills that were on
there same check yeah so so they only did two things for us they did the fire alarms and they do the rod grants so you're probably seeing the fire alarm finishing up because we just got um the certificate of occup whatever it's called with that and all the warranty
information so I think they finally build that out and then every other month that you're seeing is probably all the rod Grant design and administration yeah now it wasn't the rod wasn't what I was questioning I was just wondering why they get because I feel like Johnson Controls we paying them 7 some thousand
a month for something or other explain this and now it's ver Johnson Controls just does the service on it but but the actual design was done by Remington when it was installed okay and then the other question was the check 1
36888 pest control for $565 is that the entire District probably that's probably monthly you probably see that that bill monthly I think that is we need to they need to expand and do all services they do our entire district for 53 I mean I
I'd have to look at the invoice it could be for a specific call A lot of times they get called into cafeteria seems like was every single school I feel like pay more in travel expenses to people going back and forth to school and that's if that's either are we not doing would
they not are they just so cheap that that's I would have to look at the inv I'd have to look at the invoice but they are in monthly microphone right yeah all right that was all my question um and I just have I requested
that we do an electric update during old business is that going to happen or should I question during the bill list I can give you the answer now the answer is I don't have an answer only because I've been spending most of my time doing this budget which is very
complex but my time will free up now and I will get back on the phone to find out what is going on that's the answer okay that's good any other questions can we get a roll call pleas oh M Mrs Senator yeah I saw that there
we bought a bunch of portable heaters why did we need so many portable heaters I don't I don't really have that answer without looking at the invoice do we have a heating problem in our schools are they for the classrooms are they for the schools I mean I don't know without looking at the invoice I
don't know what it's for how much is a lot of money um I believe I think it came from HD Supply um if you give me the check number I'll shoot you an email tomorrow let you okay
perfect thank you anyone else okay can I get a roll call please uh Mrs Fritz I'm going to abstain from 8.5 a b c and d and yes to everything
else Mrs gck yes Mr gibons I'm a no on Check 13677 Yes on the balance Miss Miss Gore yes Mrs Henry I'm a no on check number
13677 yes on the balance Mr Hinson yes Mr Johnson abstain on check number 136 718 and 1367 95 yes on the
balance missano yes Mr Donald yes Mr Bido any old business new business not at this time your microphone's not on not of this time times two thank
you any public comments on any items I Mrs fortunately I didn't see I I saw her but I didn't realize who got the special ed packets that is on the special ed
committee and who was the chair of that I am all right I was going to also say about Brett denovi money I think we really need as a district and I know it's hard but I think we need to start start looking
into I and I know it's a hard subject I mean I know people that are in it but I think we need to do our due diligence and Mr Gibbons I think that was a great idea maybe everyone together maybe everybody will understand a little more
thank you thank you any other public comments on any items none any board member comments board member comments Mrs dintino I'd like to congratulate the star students um I'd
also like to thank um Dr Martin special services for allowing me to go out again I do go out to the special service classrooms um to see what's going on and um watch them engage and see the new programs that they're doing over there and she did make mention of it today um
there was one in particular student that I saw that was very very very low functioning and I give them so much credit to deal and still get the job done and to assist the children and still see that the program is still running properly
um they just do a good job I just like to thank the uh supervisors there and all the staff I I think that they do do a good job over there thank you any other board member comments I unfortunately missed the most recent
Cafe uh this past I think was Friday ago I missed that but I want to congratulate those star students um I also want just in questioning this whole thing it's not no one's against the program no one's against anything it's just a matter of how can
we better do it I we we don't know the hurdles that they're handcuffed with you know where she's saying it takes a month for somebody to get hired maybe there's something that we can do to help free that up or make that process go better and I feel like that Workshop would
definitely help that to learn you know more of that if they can present it all to us and we all have open dialogue about it I I really think that would be helpful because I understand that you know it's we only had so many applications but if word is out there that we're no longer using their
services we're hiring internally maybe that number changes when they know they can go to Brett Bretton noi exists because we have a need right if we say we're not allowing you to fill our need we're going to do it ourselves that changes the whole dynamic of who we're attracting and everything else so I I really feel like there's a conversation
that we should have I know they're not easy conversations to have but easy conversations are hard conversations are where you know things happen I think I think we should go that direction but thank you everybody for coming out tonight too any
other um so I have a few things um um I wanted to thank the board for the committee reports um I think that is a great addition to the meeting um and a lot of times you're up here just going yes no yes no and giving opinions here and there I um I appreciate everyone
doing that I received a text message from someone um thanking the board for the science labs um one of the employees they absolutely love it so I wanted to pass along that message um I wanted to
congratulate the kindness Club boy don't we need that in the world um and the choose Cafe I missed also um but it was Pi Day so they didn't have Bagels so I didn't really feel bad about that um when they have Bagels again I'll be
there um Mr Bido can we get a and it can we get a handheld mic for when Dr Martin or uh Mr Marcato or someone needs to speak I just feel like they're not just addressing the board but they're addressing the public too and if they could just kind of be off to the side
with not their backs um to the audience an additional mic um yeah just a handheld that that Dr Martin can use and Mr marcata can use and they don't have to stand at the mic and have their backs to the people that they're addressing them as well should should we put a
three minute time limit on um on Dr Martin and Mr Marcato no Mr tro we can talk about um I was also mentioning today how um after tax season I'm not listening to you after tax season I also do want to
go on a tour um and visit the special ed um classrooms maybe you can go with me Mrs dintino um and I agree on your Workshop I would like if the board has any other topics that are kind of Brewing under there and they would like
to um give some suggestions if we're going to do a workshop meeting I'd rather cover you know any other topics that people are really interested in other than just one but I I'm not opposed to doing it for that um and I think that's all for me that's it
question do you think if when we do the workshop like in the event that it's maybe quarterly we can also see how we're progressing in our board goals that would be a nice way to check in see you know as the temperature to see you know are we on track off track or I
can't think of the third one off the top of my head but you guys are working on the AI goal which I appreciate I know one is um around um uh testing right so I'd love to come up with actual measurements of that I think is a great
idea so yeah board goals can definitely be a conversation I love that idea thank you and if anyone else has any ideas please let me know but yeah I'll um I'll send something out to get that scheduled and I will uh request Dr Martin be there
if she can make it sorry they want to talk about your department sorry would that be an executive meeting I'm wondering because there personal it it depends so there if we were talking about individual students or individual staff members then absolutely that would have to be there would just be constraints as to
what we can talk about publicly like anything else for sure but we can have an open dialogue regarding if we were to have an ex let put it this way everything we talked about tonight was fine totally fine and I would have tried to kick you under the table as I did with some pass board presidents from
time to time uh once it kind of veered in that direction but that kind of discussion is perfectly okay in public there's sometimes it can cross over and that that point if we need to go to the back we could just for for those limited purposes but know that kind of thing
where it's broad Strokes challenges but when you talk about individuals that's when it kind of crosses into ex de can I ask so s I I know that the um committee reports is new um is it I know
I know we had to turn in a you know like a draft of what we were going to say is it possible to do that sooner and then be shared with the rest of the board or here when the Committee Member gives the report ask is there any other questions from other board members about
that to allow us to ask questions if we don't yeah I think actually I think that's a great idea there's nothing I love more than open dialogue while we're here so yeah I'm not opposed to that at all if we want to um send committee reports to the entire board I just
requests that you send it and in the memo just don't do not reply all because when the entire board is involved in um and you can probably speak on this uh an email chain it's a quarum right so you
could send it to yourself and BCC everyone else I yeah send send it to yeah and send it and then um his secretary can send it out that's fine however we want to do that I'm not opposed you can send informational items to each other but when somebody hits the
reply all that's when it constitutes a meeting and of course it has to be advertised right yeah so no I think that that's a great idea that way we can read them in advance and then if we have any questions or we have any I I love that idea so thank you anyone
else down poor guy we have no sympathy can I get a motion to adjourn thank you second my second you all in FA all in favor thank you have a have a great
night everyone