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Okay. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> In accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act NJSA 10:4-6, adequate notification of this meeting has been provided in compliance with PL2025

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C72. notice was published on the district's website under public notices, posted in the board of education administration building, and filed with the city clerk. To ensure accessibility, interpreter services are available upon request. Please submit your written

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request at least 48 hours prior notice to the board meeting to Brenda Perry, business office executive assistant at brenda perry hacksacschools.org. I would like to call to order the regular public meeting on Wednesday,

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July 29th, 2026 in the Hackinase High School Media Center at 6:16 p.m. Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call? >> Excuse me. Trustee Alen Balaputra, did I did I say that correctly?

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>> Yes, you did. Um, she'll be arriving late. >> Okay. Trustee Yamahza >> here. Trusty Carol, >> I think he just walked in. >> He just walked in. >> Okay. Trusty Gilmore >> here. >> Trusty Jones >> here. >> Vice President Martin

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>> here. President Harris >> present. >> I suggest a quorum. Madam President. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Um, please stand for the flag salute. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

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stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Please be seated. >> Okay, so um welcome. Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us on this very nice warm summer evening.

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Uh so I just wanted to remind folks that our regular public meetings uh usually begin either with a student presentation, but we do not have one this evening. So, we are going to go straight into our executive session. We do have a very lengthy executive session this evening. Um, so please bear with

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us. Um, I can't guarantee a time at this point, but we will keep the public posted in terms of how long um, how much longer we will be. So, uh, be it resolved that the Hackinack Board of Education determines it necessary to meet in executive session on Wednesday,

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July 29th, 2026 to discuss legal and personnel matters and be a further resolved that these matters will be made public when the need for confidentiality no longer exists. Can I have a motion to go into executive, please? >> I make a motion. >> Okay. Motion by Vice President Martin and a second.

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>> Second by Trusty Jones. All those in favor say I. >> Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? All right. Thank you all. It is 6:18 p.m. and we will try our best to be out

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before 8:00. Thank you. Okay. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for your patience and for waiting. Um, can I have a motion to go back to the public, please? >> I'll make the motion. >> Okay. Motion by Trusty Jones and a second. >> Second.

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>> Second by Vice President Martin. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you. Okay, so good evening everyone. Thank you for waiting. Um for this evening, we do not have a presentation. Um but before we get into

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our public comment portion, I do have a statement that I do need to read in regards to a June data breach that um happened at our district. Uh to be fully transparent and address some of the misinformation I saw on social media, I want to inform the

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public of a recent data security incident that was quickly discovered and contained by our staff in late June. Initially, our board can confirm that no damage was done, no information or data was stolen, and our security measures that were in place did work. But like

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everything else in this situations in these situations we learn from them to make systems stronger and better which we have as described in resolutions which you will see tonight D28 and D29. The district became aware of the

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possible of the possible incident when a very small number of staff members clicked on a link in what is commonly known as a fishing email. This email was sent districtwide. Per our procedures in place. Our IT and administrative staff took quick internal

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action to contain any possible damage. As the district has insurance coverage for these kinds of incidents, we quickly notified our carrier who then immediately arranged for the retention of outside cyber security teams to investigate the incident, determine

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what, if any damage was caused, and to make recommendations going forward. The thorough investigation was performed over the last few weeks and it has been determined that no data was taken, accessed, deleted or compromised in

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large measure to the security systems that were already in place and the quick action by district employees. Please note that the district has a number of security measures to prevent system compromise and malicious activity as well as a safeguard data and we will

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continue to invest resources to keep students and staff data systems and network secure and operational. I also ask that all of us with school email accounts, board members included, continue to be vigilant and mindful when

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receiving emails and opening opening links in our school's emails. Thank you for your attention in this matter. Okay, so at this time we will now move into public comments. Public participation shall be governed by the

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following rules. A participant must be recognized by the presiding officer and must preface comments by announcement of his or her name, municipality of residence, and group affiliation if applicable. Each statement made by a participant during the first public comment period shall be limited to a

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threeminut duration. Each statement made by a participant during the second public comment period shall be limited to a one minute duration. All statements, questions or inquiries shall be directed to the presiding officer and any questions or inquiries directed by a

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participant to another board member shall be redirected to the presiding officer who shall determine if such statement, question or inquiry shall be addressed by the presiding officer on behalf of the board or by the individual board member. At this time, public

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comments will now be open for anyone in person. If anyone in person here would like to speak, please come up. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> My name is Miss Roman. I am a parent of multiple children in special education here at Hersac. Over the last few months, I've been spending a lot of time

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reading IDA and New Jersey special education code because honestly, I feel like parents have parents had to teach ourselves the these stuffs just to make sure our kids get what they supposed to. One of

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my children have missed 12 speech therapies sessions because of the layoff. I've asked for the IEP to be amended so those sessions could be added up with compositary services. Mr. Peton told me that he needed to review the

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sessions. But when everything I've been reading says if a district doesn't provide services that are in an IEP, they have to at least look over whether constipary education is needed.

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Just saying I'll review it or okay, I saw your email. I will personally take care of it. Doesn't mean doesn't seem like following the spirit of the law. Back in May, we were told over and over that superintendent and

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department of special services that South Burning Junction had services covered. We were told not to worry because they could do it all. But here we are. From everything that I have have been able to find,

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they've only hired five initial speech therapists since all of hackers and therapies were let go. That information is taken from public public South agendas. That doesn't exactly make me feel confident that that

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there was every a real plan. I've also had additional question. Mr. Personon is becoming the athletic director on August 1st. Miss Kristen Bader has been out of our medical league. So, who's running special services? Seriously.

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Seriously, who's making sure evaluations are getting done, IEPs are followed, services are provided, timelines are met, and somebody's actually keeping track of all of these. It seems like having Mr. Mr. Monsano and Mr. King run

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the athletic department with this fight would have been made more sense. Instead, the district decided to award Mr. Peton for not doing his job as been paid to do it all along. And yes, I did say it and it's personal to me because

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of my kids. I do want to thank you guys for bringing transportation coordinator back in the office of special services. I think that was the right decision to make. Transportation is huge for a lot of kids. A lot of the kids especially mine

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and it was a mess over the summer when I w when I voiced my concerns about transportation issues during extended school year told well our transportation coordinator was let go. If anyone saw the mess that was going on at Nell K.

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Parker, especially for my three boys, that's my nephews and my son. And I was terrified for two 5-year-olds not be put on the bus to come back home when I had to go to work and also be

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picked up in the morning. No one else had to deal with that. No one else had to see it. No one was there. and Nelly came on July 1st to see the chaos that was happening. My sister still had to endure that with my oldest nephew until

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we got everything down. But for Mr. Peton to tell me that paperwork was given to the school bus and to also tell me on June 30th, we lost a lot of staff, but

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we checked our paperworks three times. But for the bus company not to have neither three of the boys to come home at 12:30 is devastating. If anyone knows and knows me knows I go

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for bat from my kids, especially my nephews. That was heartbroken for me. My sister was pissed off and so was I on that matter. I hope the board edge starts asking some of some questions to parents because I'm sitting here very frustrated

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with a lot of head nods, a lot of lip services, but I'm not confident on the plans that's in place. September's is four weeks away and I'm concerned

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for my kindergartenner that he's not going to get his speech therapy and my fourth grader that missed 12 sessions this past school year and not get her speech therapy this upcoming year. I've asked Mr. Peton and I've CCed Miss

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Parchman in each and every email for an updated IEP for Pamela Roman because she missed 12 sessions. And I would like for her to be put in her IEP

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so there's no miscommunication come September. And I'm not here in front of you guys again begging for my kid's IEP to be amended for those 12 sessions that she missed.

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Thank you. Anyone else in person that would like to speak? Seeing that there are none, we're going to move to online. Go ahead. Good evening. >> Good evening.

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>> Oh, good evening. Sorry. Uh, Donna West, uh, teacher, resident, taxpayer. Um, I know that the three minutes is for the agenda item, so I'll come back on at the one minute, but um, I did notice down, um, I think we're or something about renewing the contract with, um, HMH,

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which I understand. My question is what do we do with the extra materials that we already have in the school because we have been consistently told that we have to order these things and I'm just concerned my now I'm going to put my

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taxpayer hat on. Uh I'm concerned about the amount of waste um considering that we're talking about money and how we need to be more fiscally responsible. But uh Miss Allen um did a wonderful job of doing inventory at Park just Parker

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School alone. And we have storage closets full of materials like uh foundations. We have um HMH, we have the uh reveal map. So, I'm concerned about whether or not the companies are

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dictating to us and saying that we have to order things because there are certain components of the program that I'm sure with the consumables that can be replaced without whole kits being replaced. And I would just like to see the money used uh more wisely. Thank

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you. >> Thank you. Good evening. >> Good evening. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Okay. Wonderful. Good evening everybody. I was initially going to get on here to ask questions regarding

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how the decision was made for the um >> I'm sorry. Can you state your name, please? >> My name is Natasha Taylor, Hackinack President. >> You're welcome. I was initially going to get on to ask questions about how the director athletics was chosen, but after hearing some of the things

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that I've heard tonight and previous to tonight, makes a lot of sense. Hackinack is doing what Hackinack does. Sounds like there was a problem and to try to fix the problem, another problem's being

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added. So, um I guess I'll hold my questions to when there's more problems and then they can be addressed then because it seems like that's the way it wants to be addressed. So, I'm not even going to waste my time tonight. Okay. Thank you. At this time, public

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comment sections is now closed. Um, Miss O Parchment, I know this was discussed during our curriculum committee. If you could just discuss in regards to what are we doing with extra materials, the question was also about

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um is this something that we have to order um with HMH? If you could just explain that. Uh that question came up before and I will um allow my curriculum director to answer that question or we can get back to Mrs.

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West if she's um not able to respond to it now. >> Hi everyone. I'm Jen Lineski. I'm the director of curriculum and instruction. So um to answer the question, we have multi-year contracts with various

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publishing companies. Um one of the vendors is HMH that we all all aware of and that's the question that we are we're addressing in particular with that vendor. Those the money has been spent regardless of what we're ordering. So

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any adjustments in terms of what we're ordering will not net us any additional funds. So it doesn't help us save any money by not ordering. However, the instructions that every building received this year and last year in

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terms of ordering was that they were told to take inventory and it's on our spreadsheets and only order what you need because I know in the initial order in year one when I was not here, everyone got everything and not every part of the

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program is being utilized. So we have ordered and have tried not to be wasteful in terms of what we are ordering. The problem is though with HMH as well is that they do not allow us to break things down further. So when we're

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ordering from them, I cannot order specific modules. I have to order the whole scope of every consumable for that grade level. I am not able to just say, "Oh, I only need 25 of module one for

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grade one and then I need, you know, 15 of module two for grade one." Uh, I cannot do that. It does not allow us to. I have reached out to them multiple times and that's just not how their system works. Same thing with McGra Hill. McGra Hill

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for Reveal Math is very similar um process. Again, multi-year deal. money's paid um over time based off of the initial materials that we decided to purchase. In terms of ordering, Mo um McGra Hill does allow us to itemize a

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bit more. There is more flexibility there, which is great. However, the same situation arises if it's a part two. If like a book has two parts to it and you only need part one and you don't need part two, you cannot separate that order. But in the large scheme of

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things, they do allow you to break things up a little bit further than HMH does. For foundations, Foundations has a whole bunch of consumables that go along with it. They have durables and they have consumables. Their durables are supposed to last multi multiple years.

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When you order their durables, it is more advantageous for us to order those larger packages because you get more, but it's also at a very discounted price. And that's their strategy. That's their business strategy. But again, schools were instructed to only order

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what they need. Those come out of our obviously local funds, but they also come out of the school's direct budget. In terms of what we order at the district level for foundations, we order access to platforms, and those are itemized based off of the number of students that we have or actually for

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foundations, the number of teacher licenses. So that's something that we can easily control. So any digital resources we have more control over and vendors are more flexible in terms of ordering. But that's just kind of a synopsis of how this whole ordering process works, especially with

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multipleear deals. You really have to look closely at what you're purchasing initially when you um sign an agreement like that. >> Thank you. Good. >> Thanks. Yes. Okay. Um and just to remind the public um we are not able to discuss

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personnel matters. So, we're going to move on from that. Okay. Um, on to our superintendence report. >> Uh, good evening. >> Good evening. >> Our enrollment uh for Hackinack Public Schools is 4,836

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uh students enrolled and as you can see on the agenda is break broken down by school and program. completed um HIV investigations up until July 29th, 2026.

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Uh we had three investigations. Two were unfounded and one was founded and one is pending. In addition, uh our reimagining team continues to meet. Uh it's the group of

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staff members uh who are helping to plan and assist with with the future of our schools. We met today. uh we looked at uh situations and concerns that have been addressed or or presented uh to me

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or to the board of education and uh looking at ways to resolve uh some of the items addressed. Uh parent meetings for reimagining schools has occurred at five of our schools. Uh we still have

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Jackson Avenue uh elementary school. it had to be um we have to have that meeting again and ECDC also. And we also finally have summer programs

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at each of our elementary schools that are supporting our academics and enriching our student experiences. Um the last day for those programs will be this week and that is it.

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>> Thank you Miss Oats Parchment. Um can I have a motion to accept the superintendent report? >> Motion. >> Motion by Vice President Martin. >> Second. >> Second by Trustee Carol. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? All

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right. Thank you very much. Okay. So, we're going to move on to our committee reports and resolutions. Now, if you notice, uh the agenda is um the the format is a little bit different. So, please bear with us as we go through

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this. Um I do I completely forgot to um acknowledge and introduce our new board secretary slash um interim business administrator, Dr. Dennis. Um if we can just give him a nice round of applause. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. He's keeping us in

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order here. Uh so we are going to begin. We are on page four of our packet and we are going to start off with personnel and the chair of personnel is Trusty Amrahems. >> Thank you so very much uh Madame

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President. Um before I get started with the um personnel agenda, I do want to just um table uh personnel items A4 uh numbers 1 through three. Okay, so we have a motion from Trusty

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Amraza to table items A4 1 through 3. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Trustee Carol. Um all those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. Excellent. So that item is tabled.

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>> Thank you so much. Um the personnel committee met um and we have items um A1 through A27 to offer with the exception of the tabled items A4 number one three. Um,

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and I do just want to highlight um, number uh, A1, item six, the appointment of our athletic director as it is a big um, district-wide position. Um, and um, Mr. Darius Peton. Um, we know that uh,

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he has very big shoes to fill. Um, so I did want to just highlight that. Um, and I offer that for consideration. >> Okay. Thank you. So we have a motion from Trustee Mahamza. Is there a second? I'm sorry. Say that again. Okay. Second

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by Trustee Jones. Uh Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call? We are on page 13. >> All right. We have a motion and a second on personnel actions A1 through A27. And you've already tabled A4.

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>> Correct. >> Trustee Alen Balaputra. >> Yes. >> Trustee Amahamza. >> Yes. Trusty Carol. >> Yes. Uh but I recuse myself from A1

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numbers 1 2 18 and 26 and also A6. >> Let me have that again trusty Carol so I have it correctly right. A1 number one and number two numbers one number two number 18

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and number 26. 36 >> and A6. >> A6. Thank you. >> Trusty Gilmore. >> Yes. >> Trusty Jones. >> Yes. >> Vice President Martin. >> Yes. >> President Harris. >> Yes. >> Motion's carried.

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>> Thank you. And I just want to say just for the record on A2, there is a typo for number 20. That's page six. I guess the public caught that. Oh, >> page six. >> All right.

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>> So, A2 number 20. There is a typo on the stipend mount. >> Oh, yeah. Yes. That's very extensive stipend. >> Yes. So, that will be um corrected. And um

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>> yeah, we went over this a 100 times. Yes. >> Yes. And just to also um I believe A5 you had mentioned number three also should have been Uh yes, actually this person was looking for a full-time and was able to obtain it in another district. So we're just

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removing her and the date is September one, not July 1, >> correct >> for the Yes, >> we do have September 1st. Perfect. Okay, thank you. >> Okay, so moving on page 14, we are now in policy and the

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chair of policy is Trusty Austin Balakutra. Good evening everyone. Um I'm taking over for uh former trustee Siobhani Pringle. >> We offer a committee met and we offer B1 and B2. I do need to highlight some

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information about the um district's implementation of the new state statute regarding internet enabled devices spec uh particularly cell phones. So I'm going to read um a highlight of that.

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policy is number 5516, internet enabled device policy, which is on today's agenda. In January 2026, former Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation requiring all New Jersey school districts to adopt policies governing student use of cell

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phones and other internet enabled devices during the school day. In accordance with this law, our district's new policy will take effect beginning September 1st, 2026 for the start of this new school year. Over the last months, district administrators have

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been working collaboratively to review the policy and related regulation to ensure compliance with the new law while maintaining the flexibility needed to support our students and school communities. Our policy will ensure we abide by the new legislation while also

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providing for the use of cell phones on school grounds before the start of the regular school day and after the conclusion of the regular school day. To help families better understand the new requirements, the New Jersey Department of Education and the Commissioner of

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Education have have published a set of frequently asked questions FAQs. These we have copies of the frequently asked questions. The document looks like this on the table next to the agenda for your use. We also have posted the

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frequently asked questions list and the guidance documents for schools regarding student use of internet enabled devices. This document is posted to our district website in addition to you can find it on the New Jersey Department of Education website, but we are making

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sure that we push these documents out for all of our stakeholders so you have direct access to them. And the please pick up a copy of the frequently asked questions. Both documents are linked next to the agenda also. So if you clicked So for those of you

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participating at home, if you clicked on the go to our homepage, board of education and agendas, the sub menu for agendas, these documents are also linked there as well. So please take a look at them. We know that um

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there are going to be some changes for our student in terms of how they interact or lack thereof interaction with their cell phone. So, I think it's important that students, families, and all stakeholders are really familiar and

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well-versed in what this will look like. Um, and and understand that a lot of what is incorporated in our district policy is being driven by state law. So, we hope that everyone stays informed of that as well. The frequently asked questions along with the draft version

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of our district's policy are available on our website for your review. We value the partnership of our families and will continue to work collaborative collaboratively as the policy is implemented. Parents and guardians guardians are encouraged to share feedback and questions with their school

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administrators or central office. Thank you for your continued support as we work together to provide a safe, focused, and productive learning environment for all students. And with that, I'll offer B1 and B2. >> Excellent. Thank you so much. All right.

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Okay. So, we have a motion from Trustee Austin Balaputra. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Trustee Jones. Any discussion? >> Okay. Seeing that there are none, Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call? >> We have a motion and a second for policy

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resolutions B1 and B2. Trustee Olsson Balaputra. >> Yes. >> Trustee Amar Hamza, >> yes. >> Trustee Carol, >> yes. >> Trusty Gilmore, >> yes. >> Trustee Jones, >> Vice President Martin, >> yes. >> President Harris, >> yes. >> Motion's carried. Thank you. Moving on,

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we're on page 15. Moving on to curriculum and the chair of curriculum and instruction is Trusty Austin Balaputra. Thank you, President Harris. Our offer for curriculum C1 through C12

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for your consideration. Okay. Is there a So, we have a motion from Trusty Austin Bellucha. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Trustee Carol. Any discussion? Okay, see that there are none. Uh, Dr. Dennis, roll call, please. Right.

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>> We have a motion in a second for curriculum instruction resolution C1 through C12. Trustee Austin Valiputra, >> yes. >> Trusty Amarah Hamza, >> yes. >> Trustee Carol, >> yes. >> Trusty Gilmore, >> yes. >> Trusty Jones. >> Vice President Martin,

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>> yes. >> President Harris, >> yes. >> Motion's carried. >> Thank you. Moving on. Page 19, finance, and the chair for finance is Trusty Gilmore. >> Hi, good evening. Um, I'm taking over finance for newly retired trustee um,

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Mark Stein. And tonight, um, on behalf of the finance committee, uh, we met, um, couple weeks ago, and I would like to offer resolutions for your consideration D1 through D29, but I

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would like to highlight a few. Um D8, I would like to highlight the approval of the continuation of the SRO agreement with the city at no additional cost. Um tonight, um we are accepting more than $415,000

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in grants and grant funding that will support literacy initiatives, professional development, and environmental education while helping to reduce uh the tax burden on local taxpayers. Um they are the focus grant, impact grant, and trees for school

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grant, excuse me. And lastly, um we are fortunate to receive uh generous, uh community donations. Um D7 is a donation from the Nelly K. Parker PTA in the amount of $3,400

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to support nonverbal and limited verbal students on the playground. In D24, um, we are accepting $300 from the Hackinac chapter of Unico National to support the Hackac High School Italian

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AP program. So, I have for your consideration D1 through D29. >> Excellent. Thank you so much. Uh, so we have a motion from Trustee Gilmore. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Trustee Emma Hamza. Any discussion?

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Seeing that there are none, um, Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call? >> We have a motion and a second for finance resolutions D1 through D29. Trustee Alston Bula Bellutra >> and yes to all except for D2. I need to

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abstain. >> D number two. Abstension. So noted. >> Trusty Yamahza. >> Yes to all. >> Trusty Carol. >> Yes. Trusty Gilmore. Uh, Oh, sorry. >> D4, I think it is.

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>> D8. >> Yes. Um, I have to recuse myself from D8. Yes. To the rest. >> So noted. So yes to all except for D4. Abstain D8. D8. D8. >> Got it. Okay. Very good. So recorded. Uh

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Trusty Gilmore. >> Uh yes to all and I have to recuse myself from D8 as well. >> Trusty Jones. >> I. >> Vice President Martin. >> Yes. >> President Harris. >> Yes. >> Motion's carried. >> Thank you.

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Um moving on. We are on page 24, buildings and grounds. And the chair for buildings and grounds is Vice President Martin. >> Um, building and grounds is pretty much standard. I'd like to motion E1 through E13.

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>> Second. >> So, we have a motion from Vice President Martin. Second by >> Second. >> Trusty Carol. Any discussion? Okay, moving on. Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call?

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>> Right. We have a motion for uh buildings and grounds resolutions E1 through T13. Before I call the role, I want to note on E9, which is the replacement of the Jackson School playground replacement. You will notice I have pending capital

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funding. Uh I haven't identified where those funds are coming. So, the project will move forward once I've identified the funding and I let the full board know that we do have the money to move forward with the project. >> Thank you. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Excellent. >> Trustee Austin Balaputra, >> yes.

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>> Trustee Amahanza, >> yes. >> Trusty Carol, >> yes. >> Trusty Gilmore, >> yes. >> Trusty Jones, >> yes. >> Vice President Martin, >> yes. >> President Harris, >> yes. >> Motion's carried. >> Thank you. And before we move forward, um, we need to I need to make a motion.

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Some want to make a motion for us to extend our meeting past 10 o'clock. It is 9:58. So we have a motion from Trusty Gilmore, a second by Vice President Martin. All those in favor say I. >> Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? All right. Thank you so much. We're going to try to move this as quickly as possible.

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All right. Um so we just did this and we are now moving on. >> So we on page 26. >> Uh we're on 26. >> Yes. Madam President, moving on to legal other. >> Thank you. Okay, so we are moving on to

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legal other and Trusty Amrahems will take this one. Thank you very much, Madame President. Uh two separate sets of um uh resolutions to be voted on. The first resolution um F1 um is a resolution on the non-renewal of the

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superintendent's employment contract. Um and uh be it resolved that the Hackinacks Board of Education in accordance with article 6A4 of the December 23, 2023 employment contract hereby approves the non-renewal of Dr.

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Thomas J. McBride Jr.'s employment as superintendent of the Hackinack Public School District effective June 30th, 2027. And be it further resolved that the interim uh SBA board secretary is directed to send written notice of this non-renewal to Dr. McBride and the

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board's general counsel is directed to send written notice to Dr. McBride's legal counsel. Uh so I offer um item F1 for consideration. Thank you. Um Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call? >> We need a second. >> Oh, I'm so sorry.

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>> Second. >> The lateness is getting to me. Okay. So, we have a motion from Trusty Amarza. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Second by Trusty Gilmore. >> I will have a motion and a second. >> Thank you. >> On F1. Trustee Olsson Balaputra.

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>> Yes. >> Trusty Amra Hamza. >> Yes. >> Trustee Carol. >> I recuse. >> Trusty Gilmore. >> Yes. >> Trusty Jones. >> Yes. >> Vice President Martin. >> Yes. >> President Harris. Yes.

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>> So carried. >> Thank you. >> All right. So moving on to other personnel. Um >> we don't relations. >> Okay. Um Okay. So we're moving on to other personnel items and that will be for Trusty Armsa.

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>> Thank you, Madam President. Um we have um other personnel items F2 through F7 for consideration. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Trustee Carol.

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Dr. Dennis, can you please do a roll call? >> All right. We have a motion and a second uh for F2 through F7. Trustee Olston Balaputra. Yes to all with the except exception.

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I'm voting no to F4. >> F4. No. So recorded. Trusty Amarahamza. >> Yes to all. >> Trusty Carol. >> Yes. >> Trusty Gilmore. Trusty Jones. >> Yes. >> Vice President Martin. >> Yes. >> President Harris.

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>> Um I need to abstain on F2, F3, and yes to all. >> So noted. Motion carried. >> Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Now we're going to move to community relations and the chair of community relations is

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Trusty Gilmore. >> Excuse me. Um so the community relations committee met um last week. It it was a short um meeting. It was essentially to um distribute the reimagine one pagers

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to the committee asking them to share it with um their friends and family encourage their participation in the um in the sessions and um I don't know if many of you know um uh the community relations uh this committee's term will

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be ending in December. So there will be um new applications going out for new community members. So, be on the lookout for that. And um lastly, uh we plan to have a presence um at each of the back to school nights uh sharing information

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to the community about what we're doing and some of the initiatives that we hope to do. So, please be on the lookout for that. That's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. So, now we're going to move on to our second public comment portion. Each statement made by a participant during the second public

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comment period shall be limited to a one minute duration. Is there anyone in person that would like to speak? Seeing that there are none, is there anyone online? Hi, Donna West again. Uh, very quickly, uh, welcome back, Dr. Dennis. I didn't think I would see you again. Oh my

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goodness. Uh, uh, positive. I wanted to just say um we have a temporary or he was I'm told he's a temporary uh custodian at our school and he has been absolutely amazing. I'm not giving you his name because then you might take him from us, but this guy has been

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absolutely absolutely amazing. Um I've heard a couple of you say tonight about pushing information out, pushing it out, pushing it out. And it would seem like the district is relying a lot on parent square, but I will tell you that um we were given parent square as a like

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figure it out. And I can imagine that many of the families have figured it out. And I know that because I did attend the reimagining meeting at my school on Monday and several of the parents had not um received the information. So, I do want us to really

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consider training the staff on Parent Square again, but especially our families if that is the means of communication when we just assume that a lot of people know how to use it and they don't. One last thing, I'm so sorry. Um, really quickly, if someone can explain, bilingual kids used to exit

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at four and now they've been the score has been lowered, their access scores to 3.6 six and a lot of the students I know personally struggled in gen ed this year but and yet we're not allowed to retain them. So I'm I'm trying to figure out what's the rationale for exiting them

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now at lower scores um setting some of them up for to struggle um and then we can't retain them and we're struggling somehow to um help them meet grade level standards. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful rest of your summer. >> Thank you. You as well.

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Anyone else online? >> Hi. Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes. Good evening. >> Hi. Uh Carmen Bren Morton, a parent at Nelly K. Parker. Um I also attended the uh reimagining um meeting at Nelly K Parker. I also have to say there weren't

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um a lot of parents there. Um, I also wanted to ask, I know that there was mentioned of like focus groups that were going to be met over the summer um with the board to kind of get um to to kind of meet with you guys more to get our

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input more. Um, though the meeting was informative, I don't I mean I don't think it I don't know. I I I don't think it was informative enough for me to feel comfortable and with going into September. Um, so I think Miss West is

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right in terms of parents square. I don't think it's getting to especially the Latino community. I also would say that having it in English and in Spanish probably would have been imperative. I know um there was a mom outside. I had to ask her, you know, did you understand

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um what was going on? And you know, her daughter who was in middle school said, well, I um I'm sorry if my time went up. I she was able to translate for her. Um, but you know, I uh tried to to explain to her to the best of my capability. Um,

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but yeah, I wanted to know where we were with that cuz I know that that that was mentioned at other board meetings that we were there were going to be groups met over the summer. >> Thank you. >> That's it. Okay. Thank you. So, the the

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second public um comment portion is now closed. Um, uh, Mrs. Parchman, are we able to answer about the bilingual students exiting with a lower score? >> Mrs. Monlo will be coming to respond.

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>> Thank you. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. The state cut score is has not changed. It's 4.5 to declassify student. That alone doesn't declassify student. Uh

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students are declassified multilingual through the cut score of 4.5. Additionally, teacher recommendation. So unless we have those two things, we can't exit. For example, this year I had a child with a 5.1

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didn't exit because the teachers so I don't exit students uh the teachers actually exit them their scores plus um the lang the recommendations of the teachers. What historically has happened and it happens all over the state is when a

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child reaches a certain proficiency level such as 3.6 six, we recommend them to come out of a bilingual setting in which they are uh experiencing a lot of Spanish

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instruction and we want to put them in more immersive environments which the state allows us to do. Um otherwise, alternatively, the parents refuse services. For example, after we

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get their access scores, we send out letters to parents saying, "Your child is going to be in a bilingual program." Um, I've in the last two weeks, I've gotten over 25 parent refusals. So, I have to

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take them out of a bilingual setting. They are allowed to refuse services in a bilingual setting. They're allowed to refuse ESL services or any combinations. I'm not allowed to even recommend uh uh just give them options per the state.

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Um, so while we do want to offer students opportunities to have more immersive uh English environments and while we do want them to be exposed

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to more English as they progress, we do that very very carefully. We don't just look at an access score. I look at report cards. I look at grade books in middle school. I call parents. I'm

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keeping my parent log of all the parents I've called for the past three weekends and have deep conversations with parents. That's how we move kids out of bilingual settings. I repeat, moving them out of a bilingual setting into a

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sheltered instruction setting is not the same as exiting multilingual status. I hope that answers the question. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted to also comment about uh the Spanish session for reimagining

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schools. I just want everyone to know we're committed especially in Hackinack to always translate information in Spanish and in English. Um our schools have a Spanish session and an English session. I know they had that at

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Hackinack Middle School recently. So, uh, we will revisit it, uh, with the building principal to see, um, when we can have the session for Spanish speaking parents. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Uh, moving on now to

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board comments. So, Jesse Gilmore, >> um, excuse me, sorry, I'm a little under the weather. Just wanted to um wish everyone a happy remainder of your summer and looking forward to a great um

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upcoming school year, re-imagined school year. >> Trust Mahamza. Um, I do want to thank um, uh, acting superintendent Parchment and the entire reimagined uh, committee um, for all of the hard work that

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they've put into um, putting together the one pagers um, coordinating the meetings. Um, obviously we would love to have maximal participation. So we hope that folks will continue to access the information. I think there um recordings

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or materials that folks can access. Um and so please uh share information about all of that. Um and um I do um also uh want to congratulate uh Mr. Peton um you know on his new position um and we wish

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him all the best. Um again huge shoes to fill um but we do wish him all the best. Um and just hoping everyone has a wonderful rest of the summer. Thank you, Trusty Carol. >> Um, yeah, the summer's flying by. Um,

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so enjoy the rest and everybody be safe and have a good night. >> Thank you, uh, Trusty Jones. >> Um, I also wanted to, uh, congratulate Mr. Peton, uh, on the athletic director position. Uh, I know he's he's very passionate about sports and hack. I

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think he's going to do an incredible job. Um, and also I wanted to welcome Dr. Dennis. It's been a pleasure thus far, sir. >> That's all. Everybody enjoy the rest of your summer. >> Thank you, Trusty Austin Balaputra. >> I echo those sentiments. Um, I'm

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enjoying meeting, getting to know, and working with Dr. Dennis. Um, congratulations to Darius Peton and his appointment at as athletic director. I'm excited about that as well. Um, I was fortunate enough to attend the reimagining session at Hackac Middle

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School. Um, while the attendance was lower than I expected, it was a great session. I wish more parents and families took advantage of it. Um, the sessions were at the middle school at least offered in English and Spanish. Miss Monllo was was in the house and it

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was great to see and get to talk with Dr. Whiting who who ran the English uh version of the session. Um I'm I'm excited for what's to come at the middle school this year. The one pager was very helpful. Um and I'm the middle school

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also has some sessions for incoming students. Not just for the incoming fifth graders, but they talked about um orientation sessions for new students who are new to the middle school who are older than fifth grade. And I think that will be very helpful for students and the the incoming families. So, I'm

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really excited about Dr. Whiting and and what her team is doing there. So, it was really great to get to participate in that. Um, so good night everyone and and be safe and we'll see you next week. >> Uh, Vice President Martin.

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>> Okay. I wish everybody a a healthy summer and uh what's left of it. And please keep your eyes open for the Junior Police Academy which will be coming up uh next month under the Chief Antista and Lieutenant Persia uh out of

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the uh juvenile division. Uh captain attendant, >> Captain Dep Persian. Now he was promoted. Congratulation, Lieutenant Persia to Captain Persia of the Juvenile Division. >> Congratulations. And um please uh yeah

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uh stop by uh they still located at uh Nelly K >> Jackson. >> Nell, then stop by Jackson Avenue School and uh and uh see some of the uh good things that our students are doing. I believe it's close to about the last I

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heard was about 80 some students. So um also uh my uh big pet peeve is continue on please coming to the mic coming in person we always looking forward hearing from you hearing uh your concerns and um

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they're very important to us and um whatever we can do we will do or bring it to the proper people uh in um Miss uh Oak's parchment cabinet. Thank you again and have a good evening. >> Thank you. All right, Miss Oats

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Parchment. I I neglected to uh welcome Dr. Dennis. I look forward to working with him again and I'm very excited uh about the appointment of Mr. Darius Peton um who I look forward uh to

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working with who is bringing going to bring great vision um and extend the great vision already of the athletic department. Um welld deserved and congratulations Mr. Pimbertton. >> All right. Thank you. Um, very quickly

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again, they're reimagining meetings. If you haven't gone to one, please attend to your school buildings. They're reimagining meetings. They are in Spanish and in English. Um, I was also told and I saw in Parents Square there were some schools that did create a one pager uh for like frequently asked

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questions or just informative. Um, I thought that was very helpful. Um, also, you know, we do have a month left of of the summer. Please enjoy as many days as possible. Um, shout out to the city who has a lot of free activities going on

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over the summer. Take advantage of those days. The concerts, the movies, the the yoga under the stars, the salsa going on, >> library with their teen space. >> The library with the teen space. There's AC in the library. Um, and a lot of very cool splash pads. So, um, there's a lot

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going on in the city and, um, it's a very great time to be in Hackinack and just take advantage of that. Um, and again, congratulations to Mr. Peton as our new athletic director. You definitely have some big shoes to fill. Um, but we are very confident that you

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will do well. And welcome Dr. Dennis to our um board. All right. Um, so unfortunately, we cannot endure the meeting. We are going to return back to executive session to finish up um some items that we need to discuss. However,

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no action will be taken after that. So that means that our online portion will be closed. Everything else will be off and then we'll be closing the meeting after our executive session. So at this time can I have a motion for us

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to go into executive session please? >> I'll offer. >> Okay. So we have a motion from trustee Emirates Hamza. >> You have to stay personal and legal matters. Yeah. >> Okay. So just to clarify that executive session is staying for the discussion of legal and personnel matters.

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Gracias. All right. So, we have a motion from Trustee Amraza and a second from Trustee Jones. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. Thank you all. It is 10:18. Thank you all for staying with us this

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evening and I hope you have a great and safe summer.