They have some they have some I had French and I don't usually have to be up there too and they don't usually I'll go there something you can go
I know I Not a great I'd like to call this meeting to order. Thanks. All adequate notes has been given this meeting as required by law. notices in for publication of district official newspapers posted in the Absagami Cedar Creek and Oakus high
school high schools and forwarded to all the clerks of municipalities within a school district. There are two opportunities to address the members of the board. The board values and welcomes the comments and opinions from residents as long as remarks are not per personal or discourageous. The public comment portion meeting allows the board to
listen community members and to hear their opinions on school policy and operation. The first public portion is reserved for persons wishing to speak about agenda items only. The second opportunity follow the action items when residents may address the board on any school related issue. Each speaker is
asked to limit their comments to three minutes. You're not permitted to yield your time to another. The public comment portion of the meeting during both sessions will not exceed 30 minutes. And upon being recognized, persons wishing to speak should stand and identify themselves by name and town. Please
stand for the flag salute. 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.
And I ask for a moment of silence. Roll call. Edmonds here. Garrison here. Dunther here. Hartman here. Hasa here. Carly here. Storio here. Wright here. Hal here. You have a qu.
The re reorganization agenda begins on page two. You want a motion? I need a motion for Okay. to uh um I move A through E. I think it's F. I think it's it's FF. That
was a typo. I'm sorry. A to FF. That that's what I meant to say. I'll second it. Who is that? Second, Lois. Okay. Uh motion
for AA or A to F have been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these reorganization agenda items? Edmonds, yes. Garrison, yes. Gunther, yes. Hartman, yes. Hasa, yes. Pearli,
yes. Sartorio, yes. Wright, yes. How? Yes. Except abstain on D. Motion is approved. Business agenda action items. Oh, I looked I flipped the wrong page.
Sorry, I went ahead. I need a motion to approve the minutes from April 14th. So moved. Second. Got two seconds. Okay. The minutes from April 14th, regular and executive have been moved and seconded. Any questions, comments,
or corrections? Garrison, yes. Gunther, yes. Hartman, yes. Has Storio? Yes. Wright? Yes. Edmonds? Yes. How? Yes. Motion is approved. Okay. Now we have special presentations. We do. Um
I had shared with you about a month or so ago an email with the success of the Oakrest brain brawl team. The students are here tonight to be recognized. I'll have Mr. Manning uh do the work. Yes. So first let me just apologize uh the cross
team just won a few minutes ago. So that's why a little bit. So uh I'm not going to give you a presentation. I want to allow you to hear a story which I think is actually pretty cool. Story begins the first
academic competition that uh we went to this year and uh our our blue team which is our our 12th graders they did very well. I think there was 28 teams I think got like third or something like that. Uh but this story is not of our 12th
grade team the blue team. This is the story of our 11th grade team, our great team, and how they did at that competition. What they decided after that competition, and then knowing that they had just a few short weeks before
they would be coming here to Oakrest for our home competition, the bra of what they decided that they were going to do about it. So, I'm going to bring up our great team of 11th grade athletic competitors. Come. Hi
guys. They're coming back from crew practice and everything. Sorry. Welcome. I don't feel desperate, but neither do I. But, uh, thank you for having us. Um, we'd love to tell you about how we prepared for the rest of the Mets.
Um, honestly, going into that first competition, it didn't seem like you weren't in it to win it, you know? You just wanted to have fun. But after recognizing how we could improve and
learning how um the competitions work, it really helped us navigate our way into the next competition which we knew was coming around. So like we prepared, we had many meetings um like what what do we do to prepare?
Okay. So, as very blunt as it is, as we started to go to meetings in the morning, we had beaten the seniors um countless amount of times and we recognized we recognized our strengths and what we brought to the table. And when we first went to the competition,
we did not take it seriously. However, as we went into the next, we had to prepare more. So, as we recognized, oh, I was, you know, good at science. Well, you were good at math. Math was not my area. So, I sat there and, you know, you would take yourself out of the equation because only four can sit at a table. and we took those strengths and brought
it together and I feel like it came very well because we've already been friends for, you know, a long time and we're in, you know, AP classes and we're in those other classes. So, being able to recognize those things and, you know, bring it to a competition that we had no idea existed, maybe even a month before
the compet, the first one, um, you know, really brought us together and, you know, brought home a win, you know. Um, you want to go? I mean, go downstairs. Okay. We weren't in it to win it the
first time. We were there for like the experience we can get better like for the next time or next time. However, there was still a lot of pressure and we still kind of wanted to win. We were bumped when we saw how awful we did the first time. So, we started to like practice at our own time and getting
more like meetings like she said. Um, and one of our seniors, Alex, was so helpful with like the questions that her teacher, the seniors were really helpful helpful and help helping us study. But
that was I was really nervous my first time. Also just having like a general knowledge of everything like just not like studying too in depth per se like knowing everything is good but being able to like make logical assumptions and like like knowing about features for
example like we were able to get a lot of points just by like knowing pages like Van Go and like being able to make like logical assumptions like this one question like this Italian painter from like this sort of you were able to like just based off able to make logical
assumptions like we know this painter this era function. I think also like you said it was there was like multiple subjects like history and the arts and literature only at a time but it was a
lot like don't quit learning everything and answering everything all one split up so that everybody had a fair share of winning and knowing all Yeah. And like during during the the competition where we actually won, um it
was crazy to see it like live, you know, we during our first round, right? Um what was it? I think it was like history. It was it was like Oh, yeah. It was those, right? And so it when we pulled out of the final the
first round, right? We went up to our our blue team, right? The the supposed better team, right? the ones that had to do this for a while. I mean like um we found out that we had pulled ahead like we had pulled ahead like two points ahead of them out of like 15 questions.
So we actually we thought we had like a good like chance to you know pull ahead and actually have a shot at winning or like placing. So it was really fun to see it live and like actually feel the the strive to win.
It's so funny. So, so really helps you. He's so nice. Was that a lot of zero period work that you did? Yeah. Yes, we did. We did have like Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm No, you can go. I mean, there you know, there are meetings
with Mr. So that we did have and you were going against the seniors. It wasn't like you were sitting there like, let's look at the current events today. Well, that's not going to happen when you're in a competition. They're going to ask you the question. You have to put something on the board. So, so Clutch would give a series of questions or even Alex Garsa made the sum himself, you know, put them up on the board and we
just went through them like, you know, whoa, I don't I don't know who that guy is. And there'd be sometimes like during the day you'll see the seniors in the hallway and they're asking you like, so who's the German somebody somebody? And we're like, oh, I don't know that one. They're like, well, that's a current events question. You got to remember that one. You know, keeping us on our toes and, you know, having our own time
just to go over questions and even making up questions on our own. There was even one point you know we had an aviation topic and it's like airplanes like or even talking like military history these things that you know the it's not common knowledge you know pushed us to learn new things and yeah I
think that was a great thing so if you don't know Mr. I only know him for a year so he's a macroeconomics feature, right? It says something, right? When I saw him the morning after the great raw competition, he was still
so excited. Like, I just see it in his face how happy he was, uh, how proud he was because he saw that it worked so hard for the weeks that were done in the competition. And we're super excited to see what you guys are going to do next year. Are we going to the blue team or
are we going to just stay going to the gray? Listen, if it isn't broke, don't fix it. So, keep that momentum going forward. All the kids all super involved in in all sorts of sports and everything. So,
good. I just want to make sure I say I want to make sure I say congratulations to all of you. Thank you for rushing here tonight from wherever you came. We appreciate it. Um it sounds like it was a great learning experience, but you really learned to rely on each
other and be able to help each other and uh I I just very proud of you and hope you do more next year. But it sounds like it was a great experience for all of you. Absolutely. Yeah. Then we went on to win the best in the next one. You know, we're going against
Okay, Mr. Gracie, you get to talk. Follow that. Yeah. Everyone I want the same enthusiasm number. Come on. You got it. All right. Welcome everybody to the annual technology for next year. We're
budgeting 549 students ACIT and that is up from 532. Um the total budgeted cost 2.454 billion. Um and we since there are
opening up section about 20 25 years to a point positive and they had level offition cost another challenge is charter school
tuition from 25 to 26 we're budgeting 20 students tech this is also down to the year before our total budget amounts for next is $47,000. The average cost three students is
$23,500 and the left male large next year is 19,000. Uh school development party or I like to call the petty tax. We bring this up each year. Um since 2010 when we
built high school that share on critical assessment each year as 61,000 goes from 2011 we take 8,374,000 for the SBA some budget highlights um we are
meeting students academic social emotional needs we continue with for all students free breakfast for all students we have pantry in each building 3 last year request
program now ourselves. We have the SS two programs, family counseling, trauma, addiction and loss. And then we focus on some of the mediation prep programs. Continually we uh started when
I came back here in 2014 program. So continue with that in next year's release computers, Chromebooks and technology infrastructure media studio upgrades
updating and came and virtual system for all the schools updating public system and next year we'll look at building equipment that would be a along last year. Remember, we went with
zero software to create a full security this past summer and uh we're still closing it out, but it is up and running as a renovation of the 12 Arizona student upgrades summer 2006. We'll do the ceiling at high
school. That's we have left replacement for our rest summer 23 and service was also done in 2023 and if you remember also in asking it wasn't actually part of the budget gym we have a little bit
of lead the ask gym we have to replace the large portion referendum the sessions work from all three schools uh award agend We talk about that. We'll make these short days are proper and we see that
two weeks 2019 library window and the athletic activity bus pick up mostly completed. Again, we're just closing that project out of all three schools completed. We still
ted the trailer is gone. All the toy upgrades are in process all these schools. We just list have been completed. We are mostly completed on the exterior have also been completed. Remember we use 1.250
2.0 million in capital reserve to fund this and there's no taxes tax last year investor tax was down $52,000 this year went down 200526 general fund was
4273 compared to last year 3981 so we saw an increase,000 6% increase service tax 1.291 last year and 1.21 this year. We
actually saw decrease that's due to the fact that our total amount of death service going out was less paid was less and less our tax. Summary fund is made up of three parts. General fund reason every day supplies
salaries that is $84,885,000 special revenue fund which will be with grants both federal and state $1,693,000. and get a debt service fund all the classes in the last 15 to 20 years
$4,700,000 total budget is $91,250,000 breakdown expenditures current expense capital charter school fund all fall under that first category was budget current expense operations of the building
83 capital outlet The only thing we had under the capital did our estate assessment $211,000 and our charge was also picked out and that was $47,000. Again, those numbers for
federal state project is a special project is 1,63 is $4,700,000. So again, a total expense is 91,280,000. So we have this pretty high chart here
alth 14%. The next biggest piece will probably be transportation was kind of jumped over tuition this past year 9% all on the revenue side we budgeted balance in our operating budget that is
money that at the end of the year we have money left for expenditure that we didn't spend we move that over to the fund balance some of that money we put towards was maintained 1,742,000. We've also funded some
reserve and we have just under $600,000 left in there, private local taxes from our um district transportation fees. All those items we got
39,717 and our state source of 3,223. is a special education medic. One interesting thing I want to talk about the local sources versus sources. You know going back 14 years it always used to be that our local sources
was much greater than our state aid especially if you remember that period when we approach our state aid and jump up but the funding that they have given us last years now jumped ahead. get more money from states. Uh another budget revenue
guarante 693 we had $1 service fun um total service pass 349,000 state 1,291,000 total
revenue 28,3 and this is what our highart revenue. Again, you can see that same sources the biggest local sources like I said other way everything else is a smaller piece
of pie in there. This is a little about how trends. Let's go back to 2000 2001 years. We had some ups and some downs. Uh you see in 2003 24 we had a little
bit of dip. We bought some programs in house to save some money up a little bit. Um last year when we did this presentation we got a tuition adjustment deposit from ACIT. This past year we owed that money.
So that was a big portion special this past year comparison last year general fund increased to 8485 and 81170. has a 3,750,000 increase of
4.58%. Best revenue the state tells us is to budget 85% on year four even though there are some questions about what our federal funding might look like last year. So that's
what we did for one part of the law which we know won't be damaged. That's why it went down by 19% 750 service fund went from 4.7 million to
4.778 million 4.7 all decrease of 78,000 or 1.64% 64% decrease. So our total budget is up 3,237,000. This is the allocation for taxes. Every year we talk about the winners and losers. This is one of the
pieces of that pie. We get a print out from the state of New Jersey letting us know who responsibility. So each of our city went from 4.1% of responsibility to 14.32 council 15.3% to 50.5% not much of
a change that month 36.1% 35.7 again not much of a change that council went from 9.4 4.3. So looking at this, you can see
we're really only losers today on the city. But there was no loser as compared to the previous years when one district would be going down 5 cents and another district going up 10. We don't see that. This is the further explanation to deal with how the state comes up with
percentages has to do with the people valuation taking into account the elementary enrollment versus the regional enrollment district and we created regional equalizations how we got
those want to food deliveries taxation including actual property secondass properties business property is used to measure the wealth of
tax. The other piece of the pie is real. Um so what I do is on February February I re the taxes of four constituent districts with the four constituent municipalities and ask them what the assessed value is on February 1 and then
so Harvard city their assessment went up $1.4 4 million7%. Gallery assessments went up $32 million. Hamilton went up 12.9 million
million. And $541,000. So the more that their assessments come up from year to four, the less impact will have tax. So here's the impact of the tax rate for our four constituent business
municipalities. Hey Harvard city for general fund taxes increase of 4.21 cents. So on $100,000 home the annual increase would be $42. Gallery Township is seeing an increase of just under one cent of8 of
one. So on $100,000 home they would see an increase of $8. Hamilton County has seen an increase of a quarter of a penny. So they will see an increase of $2.40 $100,000 home and
count increase just over one penny $10. So again you can see where this year they are serious the worst but again it's not as bad as been previous our total increase in the general fund tax that you see in the
bottom impact services I explained earlier our debt service tax went down $56,000 so aber city is really want to saw increase of just over half a cent so for $100,000 doing up
$52. Gall went down, third penny, Hamilton went down, third penny went down half and you see there what that bet that is $100,000. Add those two together to tax
rates now 4.62 cents is what their increase is. $46.20 for $100,000 home is at 6.651. So $650 on a $100,000
home is way out there 510 of a penny um 500 of a penny. So they see a 50% increase $100,000. So they're basically plast and voluntary actually saw a
slight increase because they are such a small tax base that's a small amount of $10. So the positives other positives accepted the class of
2024 schools we have 26.2 2 million awarded an academic affair scholarship. We have some pictures here from last year's graduations. college university acceptances for the class of
2024 schools here as you see over here and students have the option of taking an advanced placement exam first college credit 28 cc and dual credit courses with college
county credit and 24 dual credit. We also have articulation students to earn three college credits with ACC. She has arts program in addition to receiving free
tuition for students who receive lunch also receive $14,78cc pay tuition if they have the same grade of this plus college programs university 3 plus three programs attending this program
will have the option to complete three years after high school graduation and ACCCC students will receive the high school and associate degree in general studies program graduates college seniors will be receiving the associate degree in
general studies joining ACC test on May 22nd. Six students, two students, and three students. Our schools have 81 varsity sports programs and over 100 activities. I'd like to thank the board
of education uh without staff for support of this arena and the district administration. It is possible for me to get this program put together. At this point in time it is 7:34. I am opening up the meeting to the
public for any comments of the budget. I thank you very much. Nice job. Yes. Thank you, Mrs. South. Yes. I would just like to say thank you very
much. I think it your presentation was very clear. This is very clear and very I can spend money but I'm not good at budgeting. Thank you very much. I'm sincere when I say you did an excellent job. Appreciate it. Thank you. I feel like I
have to say um on Peggy's behalf how unfair the SDA's taxes if anybody doesn't realize like if you look each year what we've lost over cumulatively over something that was not supposed to be budgeted for us. It's just so unfair.
I'm just I feel like something would have happened if I didn't mention that. Tom, what what was the original amount we got from them? 46 47 million. Yeah. So, actually the whole process is a $90 million project, right? I thought
our portion of it was going to be about twothirds of it. So, I'll get some information exact dollar. It just it just puts into perspective how much after the fact is costing us compared to what we originally got from that. And technically that should end when our
debt service ends for Cedar Creek, but still have a few more years left. Okay. All right. Well, thank you again. Um All right. Committee reports. Um personnel committee. Mrs. Hartman. Yes.
We met on the 28th at UPSami. We went over um Mr. Gracy's annual contract and we approved that. We also went over a couple nonrenewals on performance that we were all in agreement on. We are actively searching for a transportation
supervisor that is ongoing. Um the interpreter with Galloway, we're going to kind of lease them out and share with Galloway Township because we don't have a need for this year. It's a flexible agreement that we everybody kind of agreed if we have a need in the future,
we can kind of bounce that person back, but it should work out pretty well. Um, and then we are interviewing for some retirements. We may have to um pay them off the guide a little bit just to kind of match up where they're where they're
going and what our needs are. And I think that was it. Did I miss anything? No, I think that was good. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I will go to board member reports, but I'll start with our students. So, Chris from Absigami, if you would start.
Good evening. Um, going to start with athletics first. Our girls and track field team is are now conference champions after their win over Vinland last week and they remained undefeated. Um, baseball, our senior pitcher,
Michael Harass has reached his 100 career strikeouts and now more softball. Sophomore Megan Johansson has also reached her 100 career strikeouts and then some. Um, another one for softball.
Alyssa Bailey, senior has broke the home runs in a career record with now 14 and it was previously held by teacher history teacher at AFCA now, Miss Rebecca Rush. Um, for golf, our senior Cassie
Hughes tied first place in Atlantic County Championships and qualified for girls tournament for champions and ranked top 50 in the state. Um and junior Liam Kisby for golf won the Rumble at Renault
tournament. School news. Uh we had our winter and spring pep rally combined on April 17th, the day before we went on spring break. It was a combined pep rally because our gym was closed due to the pipe
burst. Um May 1st was the spring band concert. May 16th, we are having a greater egg champions day that involves our reach and harp students. Um, all students from the district will come to Absagami and they will have an entire
day on the track in the football stadium with multiple different events that they will run. Um, May 17th is our GAA and field hockey community car show. Um, and I know the last meeting I wasn't here,
but the color run was advertised. That has been cancelled. We did not have enough participants, unfortunately. So, we had to cancel that event and that's it. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. I'll move to uh Cedar Creek, Malaya.
Good evening. So, for this month, last week, Wednesday, we had our National Honor Society ceremony. Um, it was really fun. And our performing arts programs took a trip to Disney right after spring break and just came back yesterday. Um, for our sports, Miguel
Manang, who's a freshman, won the Cal Championship title for boys for boys tennis. And girls lacrosse is currently 12-1, while the boys are also 12-2. They're both having really good seasons. Um, our boys baseball team qualified for the Diamond
Classic on Saturday. Over 150 members of the Creek community volunteered at the Earbor citywide cleanup. And coming up May 15th, we have seventh graders coming in from Egg Harbor City, Malikica and Poor to take tours around the school. Thank you. Thank you very much. And
Fatima for Orest. Um, good evening everyone. Um, so it's been a busy like couple of two weeks. Uh starting with our animal uh blood drive at the end of April which um NHS um supported uh last
Saturday. We also had NHS at Egg Harbor City Cleanup and Hamilton Town Resource Fair at Hess. Um we also had JV softball and baseball tournaments that day as well as our annual uh green fair crew had two votes make
Philadelphia city champions. And on Sunday, girls lacrosse had their annual bowling fundraiser at Kingpin. Uh, sophomore Maddie Carlin reached reached 100 goals um last Friday
and Fatima Sugafara beat school record with 600 saves. Um, we're looking forward to the rest of AP testing this week, which started today with AP Bio. Um, we also have the
evening freshman orientation city this Friday. So, yeah. Thank you. Any other board members have anything to report? Okay. I'm very excited. Um so this week I am at the national convention in Philadelphia for the National Council
for Mental Well-being. This is a huge organization that um has over 3,200 member organizations which includes full hospitals and behavioral health centers. Like it's a massive organization. Well,
lo and behold, as I was there, um they were announcing their impact awards. And one of the impact awards they announced was organization of the year. Um although organization of the year is not one that sounded familiar to me as they announced the honorable mentions which
only included four. They announced Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District which means that we are one of the top five recognized organizations by the National Council for Mental Well-being. Um I reached out to mental health association who had um
specifically put in the nomination and unfortunately they didn't have the letter because they had put the letter in via portal. So they didn't have a copy of the letter but what was said to me was that they were nominated as a district for their ongoing commitment to mental health and well-being for the students, staff, parents and school community and making mental health a
priority. And the correspondence that came from the national convention uh was specifically sent to the mental health association and said thank you for submitting the nomination for the 2025 mental health for state impact awards. The national council received an extraordinarily high number of high
quality submissions and your submission was a clear standout. Unfortunately, you were not selected as the 2025 mental health for a national impact award winner. However, we are pleased to inform you that our mental health for state impact awards committee selected your nomination as an honorable mention,
mental health for state impact award nomination, including general Jennifer Rushton on behalf of the greater egg harbor regional high school district. Um, we will announce at uh we will announce the honorable mentions from the main stage. So, please don't tell them
until May 4th. So I that's how I found out and said a number of the submissions and the high caliber cal caliber of the year's nominations made the selection process particularly difficult. So there were thousands of submissions and out of all the submissions we were a part of
top five that were um and we were the only school district that was named. So I just thought that was really cool. The other submissions um was Every Mind Inc. in Maryland, Albert Jewish Family, um, and Dana Marie Foundation, and I don't
actually have the one, but regardless, um, we were the only school district that was off, we were the only school district that was recognized, um, out of, and this is, this is countrywide, no, out of the entire country. So, I
thank you very much for sharing. Can I add something? Um, so we had no idea. A Amy was texting me as this was going on. Um, and and as I was reading it, I was kind of like, "Okay, hold on. That I got to be missing
something." Um, but a few people and a few few different things need to be recognized. John Keenan started this conversation when he was superintendent. and worked very closely with our sending dis our
constituent and sending districts as well as with local mental health organizations and as a board you know whether it's been in program committee or it's been in fully staffed in this area. So I want to thank the board for your continued support in this area. Um
I I want to thank the teachers who go through the trainings who do the PD the administrations. Mike Manning sitting here, he could tell you that, you know, two and a half years ago, we had a conversation about this and I said, "Look, if you guys like the
tier two from ESS and and you like the tier one at Creek and Gam from Atlanticare, then you owe me a teacher over the next two years out of retirement because we're not going to say when the federal dollars dries up, we no longer care about mental health."
So the principles over the last two years made a determination, you know, if it matters to you, you have to fund it. And funding in a school district means staffing it. So, so it it really I mean it goes back to it. It's like 2016,
maybe the first night here when we hosted Atlantic and Kate May County Mental Health Association on like a Tuesday night here at Oakrest. Um, and since then everybody, staff, students, community, certainly the board, um, and
Jen Rushton for keeping this a priority within the PD. But this is truly something Amy and I talked, we're going to get some stuff up on the website. This is this is a special recognition. Um, if only for the reason that the individual that nominated us trains just
in the area dozens and dozens and dozens of different districts. Yep. Yeah. they they um mental health association is in charge of all the teen mental health first aid for the state. So every single district that has gone through teen mental health first aid has gone through
it with this particular organization and they specifically called that great array. So to even get to the national stage you know it it took a recognition from our partners in the state of what this district does. So, uh, hearty thank you to everybody involved as well as a
congratulations. Yeah, I kind of screamed very loudly. I'm just standing there and randomly they just announced it. I'm like, wait, what? Yeah. So, but it was very exciting and um I just want to thank everybody because this is something that's to me. So, but this is
a massive organization and I'm just so happy this that we recogn what what what Okay. Um I will open the meeting up to the public. Anyone wish to speak on agenda items only can come forward. My name is Rosanne Weiss and I'm from
Galloway Township. Amy, please tell me what your award was because Amy won an award too at that convention. Seriously. Uh I was one of the top trainers state uh but for specifically New
Jersey both mental health first. Thank you. We know that. Okay. If no one else is coming up, we'll go to there's information items listed on page 10. Page 11 is business agenda action items.
I need a motion through B7 and pages 11 and 12. Second. Okay. B1 through B7 found on pages 11 and 12. Been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these business
agenda items? Garrison. Yes. Gunther. Yes, Hartman. Yes, Hassa. Yes, Kurine. Yes, Storio. Yes, Wright. Yes, Edmonds. Yes, H. Yes. Motion to approve. Transportation action
items. I move T1 through T39. Second. Okay. T1 through T39 found on pages 12 through 22 have been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these transportation items? Gunther. Yes. Hartman, yes. Hasa, yes.
Kurly, yes. Storio, yes. Wright, yes. Edmonds, yes. Garrison, yes. Hal, yes. Motion is approved. Education action items. I move E1 through E13. Second.
E1 through E13. found on pages 22 to 24 have been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these education items? Hartman, yes. Hasa, yes. Kurly, yes. Storio, yes. Wright, yes. Edmonds, yes.
Garrison, yes. Gunther, yes. Hal, yes. Motion is approved. And personnel items, I'll move P1 through P13. Second. Sorry. P1 through P13 found on pages 24 to 27 have been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on these personnel
items? Okay, Tom rolls. Yes. Carly, yes. Storio, yes. Right. Abstain P6 number three and yes.
Edmonds, yes. Garrison, yes. Gunther, yes. Hartman, yes. How? Yes. Motion approve. Okay. Yeah. Um, first off, I I want to thank the students. You knocked about threequarters of their stuff on my I had
on my list off. One thing I didn't hear at the risk of answering or asking considering both schools are represented here tonight. Who won Oak Crest Absagami Girls Lacrosse? No, it was a tough game. I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure it was Oh, I'm
pretty sure um I was going to try and sneak over. I thought it was a four o'clock start. Then I thought it was a five. I knew I'd never get back. Um I did have uh congratulating Amy on my list also, but thank you for for sharing that, for bringing that up. Um, I sent an email
out to the board today, Saturday. I mean, there was so much going on. It It really was. I spent um better part of the morning driving around Egg Harbor City, taking pictures of different groups, checking in on them with the principal, Mr. Parker, then came back
here. I think Mr. Manning and I crossed each other in the driveway, coming in and going out. Um but the this building was packed and we had Oakrest students also working at Hess and working at Davies with different programs going on
there with the community connection. So you know that's been something over the years we always talk about what are we doing to keep our faces and our names involved but also let the kids learn some of what was going on around them. So Saturday was a huge success in terms
of that. Um, one of the things that was great to see from a standpoint and I I had a nice walk and talk with the mayor of Hamilton Township Saturday morning, the um recycling line was was absolutely jammed. Recycling paper as well as
recycling technology. So, that's good to know that that stuff's being taken care of the right way and being handled the right way. Um, we started hearing or we heard the first prom is coming up. We are entering prom season over the next four weeks. Um, so that'll be, you know,
that's always a huge time for our kids and and for for everything that goes along with that. And then obviously coming on the back end of that is the senior awards and the recognitions and the graduation. So it's here. It's May. We're six weeks. It it it's going to come
quick. Orientations are next week, I believe, right, Mr. Manning? fresh uh incoming incoming uh orientations for the incoming eighth graders. You heard about some planned visitations going all the way down to the seventh graders. This is when we like to make sure the
seventh graders know who we are and the relationship starts. So when we invite them in the fall, it's not the first time they're hearing from us and and that's not the first time we're making comments. But all three buildings will have all of the incoming freshmen um coming in with their parents. It's a
huge It's a very important day. There's a lot of messaging that goes out from us to the eighth grade families as well as from the middle schools to the eighth grade families because this is your chance to meet all your fall coaches. This is your chance to meet the band and the drama and the choir and get all that
stuff set up for what comes over the summer because they all run summer programs also in addition to some of the other stuff that goes on in the buildings throughout the course of of July and August. There is a great we are in the midst I should say of a great sports season. The
three students touched on it. Each building has something at least one or two things that they are excelling in right now. And it's really good to see, you know, every building is doing something special this spring somewhere and getting some some recognition.
Sometimes we get into seasons where it kind of just feels like one building is running around with stuff, but there are great things going on at all three buildings this spring and it's cool to watch. Um, the performing arts were mentioned. I did get a chance over the last couple weeks see a couple of the
spring concerts. Uh, I put something out before. I I'll try to remind myself to put it out again the list. But if you're looking for an hour and a half to be um to be very well entertained, the the kids are phenomenal, especially as they get towards the end of the year and the
seniors start producing some of their own works, being a little bit more creative with that. And other than that, I just want to again thank Tom uh as as I know Carol did and and I'm sure will again. Um but I I say it all the time, but it's it's worth repeating to make
sure it it never goes far from anybody's knowledge. this district is run very very well and is very very financially responsible and we get that messaging all the time from the county and from the state. Um and Tom sets that tone in the way he handles the big picture and
the expectations he puts on everybody to handle their areas. So thank you again. Okay. All right. Um, I don't have as much because some people have touched on some of the things I was going to say, but uh, I'll move down to,
um, Thursday night if you are going or going to be online is the Atlantic County Board of Education meeting. That's at uh, the Great Bay Country Club at 6:00. If you're logging on 6:45 um, they recognize the teacher of the year who is from ABS see this year and
celebrate milestones. So any board members that have been on certain numbers of years get certificates and get recognized. Um so just don't forget that if you did sign up and we'll see you there if you did. Uh it's always a nice night and
it's nice to recognize people from our board or any board who have served a long time and to listen to hear the teacher of the year which I think last year was one of our teachers two years in a row prior for us. Yeah. So pretty good pretty good uh thing. Um, and just to reiterate to reiterate the thank you
to Tom and the staff for everything and just like March said that it's you have to go over the same stuff, but you make it very clear and easy to understand and for us and for the public, I think, and that's really appreciated. I know it takes a lot of work. So, um, thank you. And the last thing for the board
members, just make sure that you keep your Saturday, uh, I have the 12th of July, I believe, retreat at Creek will be our summer retreat. So, just make sure that's on your calendar because I know once graduation happens like everybody's in summer mode. If you have um kids or family and you're doing
anything, just try to keep that in mind. And the 12th of uh July, it's a Saturday. This is 9:00. Yeah, I think they changed it to Oakrest or am I wrong about that? Um well, it doesn't matter.
We have time. But yeah, that's I was looking at the original one. So if they changed it might not have been it it is Orest. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Orest. And the last thing is just to the students. Um you know hopefully
I'll see you again next month. But I just want you to realize we know that you're all busy students. That's probably part of the reason you're here. But when you come and share with us it's our one chance to really get a perspective from a student of what's going on into your buildings. And
there's so many things that go out and tell us what's happening. But to hear it from you guys, we really get a better feel of what's important to you, what's important to your school. And I love that all three schools are doing great things, but you're all different. You're all you all have your own personalities. And so, um, we just really appreciate
you coming and being part of our our meetings every time. So, thank you. And that's all I have. Does anyone have any old business to bring up at this point? Any new business? Okay. At this time, I'll open
the meeting uh the meeting up to the public. Anyone wishing to speak on any matter can come forward. Okay. Seeing none, um Mr. Graci, is there a resolution for executive session tonight? There is not tonight. No. Then I believe I need I'll make a motion to adjurnn this meeting.
Casey Gford keeps the less than an hour streak going. I get a second. Who was second? All right. All those in favor. Those against those are fading. So
move. left to drink.