All right. Do notice that this meeting has been provided to the retrospect and the courier posted legal ads on July 9th, 2025. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Spelling please ask Mr. Club here. M Desi here. Mr. Kendall here. Mr. Lutz here. Mr. Vinci here. Mer here. Miss Williams here.
M here. Uh section three minutes. We don't have any minutes on to approve at this meeting. So we'll move to section four correspondence. Just to confirm we don't have any correspondence. Thank you. So then we'll move to section five. Uh public comment. This is for
comments from members of the public for the board on items included on tonight's agenda. Seeing none, we'll move into the superintendent report. Okay. Welcome everybody to Vance Skyru School. This is our location for the month. This is a new location for us uh
with all the construction happening at the middle school high school complex. Uh some real bright spots to begin the year. uh probably nothing brighter than welcome our new students back and the back to school nights that have already
occurred in our district throughout uh most of our schools. Um our parents came back with enthusiasm. Our students came back ready to learn and our teachers came back uh it seems to me extremely spirited. morale is uh seems to be very
high um despite all of the challenges particularly at the middle school and our high school regarding building construction. Um we opened kind of by the the skin of our teeth. Uh and um we received a temporary certificate of
occupancy just 24 hours before uh we were due to open. our teachers uh were resilient and were able to get their classrooms set up and welcome our students for a successful day. Um the next brightest spot in my opinion is the
upgrades that we have made to here at Vance Skyver regarding the uh student transportation drop off and pickup. This historically has been a hornets nest with buses and cars kind of coming together conglomerating the small areas um
representing and safety concerns just after one day, not even one full day. Um uh by the time this missile rolled around here in the afternoon, our parents understood the routine and uh this was we're thankful for the way it
was designed and thankful for the way uh the construction occurred here and uh we an excellent safe drop off pickup and school bus uh area. We are much ahead of schedule this year compared to previous years in terms of
our uh morning music program at the middle school. That's due to start this week, I believe on Thursday. And we're also starting fourth grade instrumental uh in the next few days uh last year. These programs didn't start until later in the fall. Um and we're excited to uh
to start them earlier. Soon we're going to return to having some administrators come out and present to the board and our public on different things happening from around the district. In November, uh Mrs. Carter is going to come and talk to the board about the new special education programs
that we have now in district advance Skyber and at the middle school. And in October, principal Suisiki is going to come and talk about significant progress that is being demonstrated at the middle school. You may recall from last spring
we have had we have data that supports a significant drop in disciplinary occurrences at the middle school and uh just recently we started to review some test score data which indicates um significant increases in student
achievement on the NJSLA test. So we're excited to welcome Andrew and he and the middle school team um will be acknowledged and supported in October. We also have the week of respect coming
up in October and uh we are excited to bring the a World War II cattle car exhibit to Haden Township. It will be the end of the week of respect. I'll be sending out literature early next week.
Um and this program is being sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council. I think this is an excellent learning experience not only for our high school seniors. We may be able to make time for some of our uh middle school students also to see the cattle
car during the day. But in the afternoon after 2:30, this exhibit will also be um available for teachers and community members. And I don't have the exact day yet that it's going to be in Had Township, but it will be the week of the
6th to the 10th. I think we're going to be scheduled on the 10th, but on the 6th, this exhibit uh will also occur in Cherry Hill um as well. And I look forward to kind of seeing it there. I'm sure it would allow the board and any
other community leaders or elected officials to preview the cattle car in Cherry Hill if you're interested. Um this is typically a5 to $6,000 uh event that's um being provided to us uh free of charge and we're excited to
bring it to our to our students. I think it's going to be a powerful uh learning experience regarding a very sad time uh in history. Our enrollment is the highest that I think it's been in the last this is my sixth year as superintendent and we were high water mark for enrollment in terms
of September. We are at 2,134 students. That's an excellent, healthy, strong number. Our highest class in this district right now is our current kindergarten. We just registered and welcomed
174 new students to our kindergarten class. Um, and this community is showing signs of vibrancy. It's showing signs of new families moving in who value education will understand what a hat and
hatch of education is. And our students, the new families that um entered into kindergarten, you may recall are many of them have parents who are not from the surrounding areas or not from Haden Township. We're seeing some new uh
families who have migrated, had passion from different parts of of the tri-state area and students appear to be um coming to school loved and supported and ready to learn and that's exciting us um to partner with our families in those
areas. about all I have for my report other than I'd like to uh congratulate and thank April Tammanski, our uh transportation coordinator who's been in that role I think about four years now, maybe five. Uh she has served uh she's
been incredibly reliable uh regarding transportation. Transportation's tricky and this is the my first year out of 11 because I was so consumed with uh building construction. I never checked on transportation one
time until the very day before I saw April. I said, "April um I didn't check the summer." I said, "How are we looking?" And she said, "We're fine." And and that's that's that's the way she led that department. And and we certainly were. And April
serves alongside been uh in that area and we thank her for her service. The board have any questions about anything that I reported on either here regarding the work session. Tuesday we're have a day off for Rashashana in observance of Jewish
holiday and we have school boards uh convention coming up about a month. I hope that we can gather it down there. I know Kelly presenting a topic uh with another school we were president on the
top of the school funding and hopefully that will be a productive time for us. All right, thank you Dr. Moving to section seven presentation. There are no presentations on for this evening, so we'll move straight to
section 8, finance and facilities. Can I get a motion to approve items 8.1 through 8.7? Any questions? Memorandum of understanding that's
correct that we started last year. Correct. Roll call. Mr. Cook. Yes. Desi. Yes. Mr. Kendall. Yes. Mr. L. Yes. Mr. Richie. Yes. Stout. Yes. Yes. Recycle. Yes. Moving to section 9, instruction
and program. Can I get a motion to approve items 9.1 and 9.2? Second. Any questions? Roll call. Mr. Cook. Yes. Messy. Yes. Mr. Fendle. Yes. Mr. L. Yes. Mr. Richie. Yes. Ser. Yes.
Miss Williams. Yes. Missing. Yes. Moving to section 10, personnel. Can I get a motion to approve items 10.1 through 10.17? Second. Any questions?
The mentor is that every time you teach your tenure, then that's correct. Sorry. How many international students do you have? Uh, I have this answers. We're approving one tonight, right? Uh, we
have one Italian groom that came to uni here. We had one student from Germany who was supposed to come and changed her mind. And this student was also from Germany. I think two. I just received another
application from an Italian boy who wants to come for the second semester. That'll go out. So I think two additionally come over in their junior year, sophomore, junior year. Do we ever get middle school?
Rarely. I mean, I think it's all one application for fresh. Any other questions? Roll call. Mr. Cook. Yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. L. Yes. Yes. Yes. Miss Williams.
Yes. Yes. Moving to section 11, student services and activities. Can I get a motion to approve items 11.1 through 11.12? Any questions? More of a statement than anything else.
The uh the number one second um out of district placement. Wow. Just I know talk about all the time but the numbers just seem to get higher and higher. That's just one student. Correct. And speak for yourself. That's um
for student year. All year. Yeah. Speak for yourself. Just I'm sorry. Communication device. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Any other questions?
Welcome. Mr. Popey, yes. Mr. Campbell, yes. Mr. L, yes. Mr. Richie, yes. Mer, yes. M. Yes. Mel, yes. Moving to section 12, policy. We have no items on for our second reading in 12.2. So, we'll move straight into
section 13, public comment. This is our final public comment section of the evening for any topic. Um, any comments? Seeing none, any comments or questions from the border administrative team? I I just want to bring one thing up. Sorry
to take you off guard, Chris. Uh we have a Camden County School Boards Association meeting coming up. I don't know if you want to elaborate on that, Chris, but we can all sign up and go to these which is nice. Chris is now vice president vice president
and uh it's going to be at the Delia at the end of the month. Yeah. So, you can look at your uh Canon County School Board's uh website and see about this meeting and uh into the
Delia, good food. And there is a hybrid option for folks who wouldn't be able to attend and I believe there is dancing lights on or off. Depends on what you want.
I'll take that didn't welcome. Anything else? Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Second. All in favor? I. Thanks all.
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