like to call a meeting to order. Adequate notice has been given this meeting as required by law. Notice has been for publication in district official newspapers posting the apps Cedar Creek and Oakrest high schools and forwarded to all the clerks of the municipalities within the school district. There are two opportunities to
address the members of the board. The board values and welcomes comments and opinions from residents as long as remarks are not personal or just courteous. The public comment portion of the meeting allows the board to listen to community members and to hear their opinions on school policy and operations. The first public portion is
reserved for persons wishing to speak about agenda items only. The second opportunity following the actions items is when residents may address the board on any school related issue. Each speaker is asked to limit their comments to three minutes and you're not permitted to yield your time to another. The public comment portion of meeting
during both sessions will not exceed 30 minutes. Upon being recognized, persons wishing to speak should stand and identify themselves by name and town. Do you mean the flag, please? >> I aliance 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. Everybody will join me in a moment of silence, please. Thank you. I would ask that uh the three newly
elected board members join me up front for their oath of office. Everybody here of the United There are two government status. I your name by law member of
that I am not qualified as a voter to qualify conviction of a crime offense. faithfully from all of that office. Thank you.
I know exactly. >> Oh yeah. Nerve wrecking. >> Now I'll do roll call. Edmonds >> present. Garrison >> here. >> Gunther >> here. Hartman >> here. >> Hasa Hal >> here.
>> Kurly >> here. >> Storio >> here. >> Wright >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> At this time, I will take nominations for the office of president. >> I nominate Carol Hal. >> Second.
>> I make a motion to close nominations. >> Okay. I got a first and a second on Hal. And I have a motion that the nominations be closed and that I cast a unanimous ballot from Miss Hal from uh >> that was Lois Garrison.
>> Have a second. >> Second. >> Edmonds. >> Yes. >> Garrison. >> Yes. >> Gunther. >> Yes. >> Hartman. >> Yes. >> Carly. >> Yes. >> Storio. >> Yes. >> Wright.
>> Yes. Help. You can vote for yourself. >> Okay. At this time, I would ask uh Mrs. House to take the old president. Congratulations. One time Thank you.
>> And here's your g. >> At this time, I'd like to um we need to open the floor for nominations for vice president. I'll nominate March Gunther. >> Second. >> I make a motion to close nominations.
>> I need a second. >> Second. >> Second was Darl. >> Yes. >> Okay. There was a first and second to close the nominations for vice president and unanimously support Mrs. Gunther. Edmonds.
>> Yes. >> Garrison. >> Yes. >> Gunther. >> Yes. Yes. >> Kurly, >> yes. >> Storio, >> yes. >> Wright, yes. Cal, >> yes. >> Motion is approved. Congratulations. >> Put it upside down.
Did you All right. This time I need a motion for E and F found on page. >> So moved. >> Second. Resolutions E and F have been moved and seconded. Any questions, comments? >> Edmonds,
>> yes. >> Garrison, >> yes. >> Gunther, >> yes. >> Hartman, >> yes. >> Kurly, >> yes. Storio, >> yes. >> Wright, >> yes. Hal, >> yes. >> Motion is approved. >> Now we begin the regular meeting.
>> Carol, I'm sorry. I can't I don't know if the microphones are working, but I'm having a hard time hearing this. >> I think I'm Hold on. >> How about the chair with no thanks? Okay. >> Can you hear me now?
>> Yes. Okay. Can you hear me? >> All right. Begin the regular part of the board meeting. Um there's no minutes to approve special presentation. >> Uh I am going to ask Principal Parker and uh history teacher Briles to bring
up one of their students or all of their students and share their assignment with us. This is just an assignment to go along with unit five on political participation. Um I feel it's best for them to see it at the local level. Uh so
they are here just assessing a local board meeting. What are the things that the reorganizational meeting uh most importantly I think sets up the year. they get to see the uh election of the president and the vice president uh the
uh ex you know acceptance of our scheduled meetings. Um it is my intent to encourage them to become more aware of your local political bodies. Um I think that's where they have the most impact. Um I have not assigned this in
the past because I was acting as the association president and I thought it might look weird if I had it might look dis yeah yeah disingenuous. So I can finally assign this since I'm no longer acting as union president. So they are
just watching you wonderful board members who are here voluntarily work on their behalf. So um Vinnie as you know is our school representative. So he spoke a little in class today about his role and uh so that was something that
um you know I've been very excited about that you have continued. So he was able to speak to the class about that. So thank you. No, we're not storming the board. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um no committee reports but I'll
go to board member reports. Anyone anything to share? Okay, I just wanted to since I have it written down so I don't forget. Um, February 11th is the next county meeting. It's virtual so you can do it online from home. Um, if you missed the last one, it was very nice. In December
it was at a Harour Township at the um, Alder School and uh, they had a nice dinner and Amy Halco spoke about legal issues that the different district were facing. It was very interesting because she talked about some like cases that had just happened this past year and the
different changes. So, it was nice that um we could be updated on that. And once again, there's a lot of uh training goes on at those county board meetings. And now that you can do it virtually or in person, it makes it easier to attend or to virtually log on and hear what's going on.
If no one else has anything for that, I will open the meeting up to the public comments for anything on the agenda. Okay, I'll move to business action items. >> Business items can be found on page 12, items B1 and B2.
>> I make a motion or page four. Yeah, >> I'll make a motion to move B1 and B2. On page four. >> Second. >> Brian, was that you? >> Yes. >> Okay. B1 and B2 found on page four have been moved and second. And any questions or comments about these business agenda
items? >> Garrison, >> yes. >> Gunther. >> Um, yes. I'm sorry I didn't. >> Hartman, >> yes. >> Carly, >> yes. >> Storio, >> yes. >> Wright, >> yes. >> Edmonds, >> yes. >> Hal,
>> yes. >> Motion is approved. >> Okay. I see no transportation items. Education action items. >> I move E1 through E3 on page five. >> Second.
>> Okay. E1 through E3 found on page five. Been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these education items? >> Gunther. >> Yes. >> Hartman. >> Yes. >> Kurly. >> Yes. Toro, >> yes. >> Wright,
>> yes. >> Edmonds, >> yes. >> Garrison, >> yes. >> Hal, >> yes. >> Motion is approved. >> Okay. Personnel items. >> P1 through P5 on pages five and oh, page six.
>> Second. >> Okay. Items P1 through P5 found on page five and six have been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these personnel items? >> Hartman, >> yes. >> Kurly, >> yes.
>> Storio, >> yes. >> Wright, >> yes. >> Edmonds, >> yes. >> Garrison, >> yes. >> Gunther, >> yes. >> Hal, >> yes. >> Motion is approved. All right. I think it's time for the superintendent
report. Mr. Reena, >> thank you. Uh, first off, happy new year to everyone. Uh, and thank you to the students for coming out. Uh, I think Miss Bryles hit on an important point. If you look at your local school board, you look at your town councils, that is
where you are going to see people, you know, every time you walk into that room, you're going to hear voices, excuse me, that you may know in a different capacity. the local shop owner or your your soccer coach when you were growing up. And I think it's important for you to realize that at this local
level, it is real people who are doing that those jobs or in this case as the school boards volunteering and committing their time. So, I just I just want to um congratulate the class for seeing this and recognizing the opportunity and the importance. um for
the board retreat next week. I'll send out um an agenda for you the end of this week. Similar than we've run the last couple of years, just kind of an update on on where we are at to this point in the year in terms of goals um and and
any other topics. I'll I'll throw in an opportunity for um an update on the um concession stands, some stuff like that. finalizing and finalizing those projects. Um, you saw you approve the
calendar tonight. Uh, as I shared with you in the December meeting, I had already shared that with all of our constituent and sending district supers, eight weeks ago. We'll send it out again tomorrow letting them know that it's been approved. Um, there is some
connection for uh shared PD with some of our districts. I know Mullica and Cedar Creek always make sure that there's time. Orest and Hamilton Township always make sure there's shared time. You've heard me say it before. Even though on the days where there aren't shared time,
I'm a big believer in professional time or having the principles figure out coverage. I think it's important for seventh and eighth grade teachers to get time with ninth and tth grade teachers a few times throughout the course of the year because really so much of of what goes on in ninth grade is directly
related to what they're coming to us from. Um so I appreciate you approving that so we can get it done early. One of the things we talked about is in and Carol and I talked about it in December. every once in a while moving forward, I'm just going to try and give you a
couple of legal updates on some conversations that are going on in the state level, legislative level. Um, in any given week, sometimes there's nothing going on. Sometimes there's 40 bills being advanced, of which 39 of them will never get out of committee,
but somebody is meeting an obligation by writing a piece of legislature that they realize isn't going to go anywhere, but they can turn to a constituent group and say, "Well, I wrote it. It didn't get out of committee or or you know, whatever the case may
be, and here's a politics lesson." Um, there are a few though. We just finished the lame duck section of the legislature. Um there was not nearly as much pushed through as some people thought there might be two months ago.
And much of that is likely due in fact to the fact that you're seeing the governor's mansion stay in the same political party. So there wasn't a rush to move stuff through. So it was actually a very quiet last six, seven weeks of the year. There are a couple of things though that we have talked about
previously or that you've heard me talk about previously that are gaining some speed. Um it looks like there is finally going to be a vote moved into the assembly. You've heard me talk about the desire for local education authority so
each individual district have the opportunity to utilize virtual instruction on weather or other emergency days. I don't want everybody to be bound by this. I understand if you're a K to eight and you want kids to go out and play in the snow. We are
trying to fit three graduations in one week. Uh if I could turn around and create a 4 and a half hour virtual day to make sure that we stay on calendar schedule for the rest of the year, you know how strongly I feel about that. Um so it looks like that bill is finally
going to get to a vote. The other nice thing is they've moved it so it's not just about weather. They're also looking at scenarios where one one building in the district may have lost heat or sometimes in the spring you get the floods in North Jersey, especially in some of the communities along the rivers
at the base of some of the the mountains. So, it's the idea that whatever a local district would need to make that decision on. They just need the way it's worded right now to provide notification to the county office. So, you're not seeking permission from the
county department of ed, you're notifying them. We could talk about this when the bill gets passed, but I think when we've talked about it before, we all recognize at the high school level if we could do something like an 8:30 to 12:30 day virtual online that that
probably we assume most people would be supportive of if we allowed allowed us to keep our schedule the same. So, I'll give you more info on that as it goes through. Um the second the the major topic