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The Action Presentation. Before we have the upper awards. What is better one week, those things that you Follow the meeting to order.
Why could you please call Rob just present distress here Mr. Esplan. Miss Hollywood. Mr. Douglas here, Mr. Here, this side here. Vice President
Hooker. President Crooked here. They stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. populations to The blood United States of America and to the Republic for
which it stands one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, please read the statement. Concerning open
public meetings. Public notice of this meeting. Pursuant to the Open Public. Meetings. Act has been given by the Superintendent of Schools. The following matter of January 9th, 2026 notice of
this meeting was posted on the interior. School Administration offices, 95, Grove Street Haddonfield writtenhouse was submitted and fought with the Haddonfield Borough clerk and
notices her email to the career post in the retrospect newspaper. Thank you. Okay, so today we have a really big night. We have the all South Jersey,
elementary chorus here with us tonight. We're going to jump ahead a little bit in the agenda and do the presentation first so we can hear them. sing. And then we're
gonna do the awards that way you have your hands holding the award you. all right, so do you Yeah.
Okay. Catch up on top and put it in your pocket. Save it for a rainy day. Catch a falling storm is running, never. Let it goes away.
That's your phone. Sorry. when your troubles started multiplying and they just might, it's easy to forget that. We're gonna try. We just books are like,
Molly, sorry, catch, it forwards are and running in your pocket. Your pocket. Save it for a rainy day for when you're trouble. Starting multiplying. And they just might it's easy to forget that with a
trying We just a pocket. Rules star and catch it falling star and put it in your pocket. Never let it go away. That's the fight song. Save it for rainy day. Go away.
What South Jersey want to explain to the process and how these things about? so, Schools from all over South Jersey can choose up to five students to participate with other four
through sixth graders from around South Jersey to participate. I don't know how many schools there were actually quite a lot, but we had at
least almost 200 students there, you know. So it's a lot of students, a lot of schools that come together for that day, to rehearse practice music together and then have a performance at
the end of the day, It's a really great experience in about this pledge, working hard towards a goal and memorizing. The music. Did you guys think
you're gonna be able to do all that? Yeah. Yeah, great job and the finger lights? Yeah, I thought really was important, you know?
Charlotte. Is he? It three. Eva. Caitlin. We're gonna get a picture so maybe we can get two rooms in
front of you. Here certificate like this. There we go. I'm so perfect. It's usually as well now. It's like, okay. so, It already, congratulations.
Thank you for coming. All right, we're gonna jump right into committee reports which I don't think we have to be happening here. You have a policy or, you know, I
would policy for sure. Right? So nothing for you yet. Just finding facilities, not yet, right? A machine, you have something for policy. I was gonna say it
was a super short and efficient meeting. We had no policies for first reading for second reading. We just went over the same policies that I've talked about in detail at our last
public meeting on February. 19, or at the public, meeting our program and there was no further discussion or questions on any
of those. And then the review we did look at policy 33 24, which didn't require any action or discussion at that time. Okay. Lrft.
a pretty quick meeting and all the updates are pretty positive which is nice to see. middle School. Auditorium is going really well. It should be ready about three weeks. Chairs are coming in a month later. That's gonna be Just negotiating the certificate
for there and we're gonna actually hold. potentially our May board of Ed meeting there just you know, show it off to the public and also I've been
open house 1890s building also, moving really well. That is gutted down to the studs. I find a little bit of asbestos but not friable asbestos, which
I think is it, primal is a much bigger deal. This is tiles. So it requires it when they removal process but isn't too much of energy. There.
They're gonna hopefully break through from that building into central over over spring break. We've got a bunch of feeds coming soon so we'll have more,
you know, more interesting updates coming soon. The roof replacement bid comes in in a week for King and Lizzy the nurse suite and some of the central classrooms comes back on
that that day and a lot of contractors. We think you're going to pay for those. I can
ever say this phrase without a laughing, but Lizzie riebert's based on the value engineering. is That's gonna come up on the 20th. And then Hopkins Field is also the lights. The parking lot. That's come in pretty soon.
We think that's gonna be ready for fall sports, which is terrific. And just in terms of stuff, coming further down the road, we're gonna get revised designs for Tatum, but we don't want to
rush that that's something, you know, we, we know it's been thinking about so let's get it right? And then designs for the new gym are ahead of schedule. So we should be seeing those
I'm not sure right? But six to it, six months earlier we thought Right. Any other any
questions for Mike? Thank you. Anyone. All right. Moving on,
Dr. Priola. Do you have anything? Mr. Klaus a few things. Oh, did you question? No the comments just yeah. Yeah I know right. Um state ages
released today. My s*** refresh. Sorry refreshing computer 704 and around like came and told us we are getting 1.4% increase which is 49,000 42 hours if you remember. increase in state, if you remember, we budgeted negative
99,000 which is a maximum loss. So we actually picked up a 42 dollars. and I'm not doing anything more than budget,
because the reason we plan a meeting next Tuesday, with, to give us time to think and look it over. So, to Mike, and I spend a lot of money Mike and
it's got a lot of time. I've cheered him on from the back of working the numbers. and possibilities scenarios on Monday. Maybe 15 are getting together. To look at, remember
to my list of 54 things, we have, we prioritize them but now we have the money, we start changing. We want three big things or six small. Days and
start looking at that obviously, staffing is something. We look at I'm going to get enough of my update. Put update this week. I'm gonna assume the board.
Kind of the things around the table, the big things are on table. So that way you guys will have an idea. So, you know, walking Tuesday, not know what
I'm talking about. And then my presentation, the next season, we'll try to get that you guys by Monday afternoon, the latest you have time to look at it and
walk in, you know, I'll go through it because Tuesday's meeting one item. One agenda item, we're gonna talk about that. Then next Thursday will
come back or Thursday. 26 will come back. Michael give his actual budget presentation, and that's more vote on the recommendation. And those pieces.
That's budget stuff. Any questions on budget stuff, you know, can I make one? I mean, we all get it but I just want to make one clarifying point for
listening audience because we are very excited because it could have been worse. It's still Yeah. So but we're very happy and we appreciate, I think that they are considering some of our
feedback we've been giving about about the about, how the funding the formula. Maybe it's advantage, just a little bit or something, maybe more accounting for and I do feel
like some of that has been baked in a little bit maybe to this. I don't know those things into this one. I know that it's big to Where they're going. That
one. I don't if you were to talk about our meeting with some degree will year before, but Yeah, are you going to? Um we can talk about So we met we were
with a bunch of superintendents from Ken and Gloucester and Berlin County with southern Greenwald, and superintendents and board members. And we're
talking about school funding and how it's affecting us and how challenging it is. He talked about a lot about his goal of lowering property taxes
and what they've not been successfully, will do is lower property taxes. and when he spoke, I mean, this group, because this consortium fair funding had been speaking.
About a couple real strong talking points when he spoke. They're the things he was talking about addressing. So as you say, as a move forward, To create a new
fair funding formula, which will take me to 18 months which I can't believe that I say. Um, They're, they're the things they're looking at. They're looking at the things that
we're concerned with. So I think that's a real positive. I mean he did mention You know, it was interesting way phrase. He said
This is a formula formulas winners and losers you have to understand that that's that's part of that's the nature of the beast, right? You also talked about consolidation
school districts. which I think right now the legislation, every counties get superintendent has a plan to consolidate school districts for
Counties. So that there are some of the things that are coming down the line. Um, in terms of that, a lot of the talk was based on
not necessarily K to 12 districts, but it is districts, are K to 8 or lower high school only like to be regional, you can count it and yeah. So there's I've not to say
that we're but at this point I don't, I I know that there was talk years ago, going back like 15 years ago about This area and I don't know that
it would impact us directly just we haven't pure speculation is you start off with the elementary school districts, who all send the same feed. The
same high school district. That would be logic with the speculation I think. That's where you start. And do this. And that is what has been at least portrayed.
That's that's what has been in the literature that. About what what has been a major part of that discussion? Yeah, I'd
assemblyman agreement Greenwald was very Open to suggestions ideas. and he was very care. He's a big proponent of education and very
candid about that. That being like we're all in the trenches and we might have suggestions ideas that that would benefit the legislate. So there's a board member so yeah we're never gonna help him learn that's what
I I was. Yeah it was it was a beneficial And then I'm meeting with Tammy our high school principal and Rick he's in charge of our grounds tomorrow to see if he
works out an idea of how to get that parking lot, access relatively inexpensively and quickly. So, hopefully we'll have a solution to that soon good and then I
just a side I met with was a high school students on Wednesday. It's about academic integrity and AI and it was a
really deep intriguing. conversation. and I think, you know, can talk how could they are just doing someone now like
you'll even no answers. a lot of confused books talking in circles because don't quite understands By the time we saw, I said That's how we started the
conversation about. How many finished it aI changed, right? So that's that's a challenge we have but we're gonna visit next
week. The academic integrity and A Why? Why is it? She feel that's growing? They were better at, catching it out
because we had better tools maybe and this new states, it's a lot of us time pressure and those things and I can't get to everything. So I take it. I
might be easy step. Um, but not one student said, Oh yeah, you should be able to cheat, that was good because that they are. But, um, and I actually said, we
talked about consequence. I was actually they were very partial that. I really. Yeah. So that, that means an interesting conversation with me. Again next
month, we're gonna talk about those. Those pieces and I know that she knows dealing with please talk about dealing with AI stuff, from bring out feedback back to Gmail from the
students. Right. Yeah sorry. Sorry I don't budget comment. Yeah, I I have a neighbor who has written me.
to letters, but it is insisting that the The way to cut the budget is to cut down on administrator. I've pointed out to him, some of the fact that
I've learned from, you know, There's other districts and things like, I just want to Throw that in there. Okay? As
you're doing, as you're doing it, there is Good situated has brought that up. Yeah, that's something where we we said similarly to to stop last week and off fairness like or last
meeting like if somebody brings to you a concern, always direct them to give them their email that they can email that concern and and what we want to avoid doing is bringing
people's individual issues to the Is not someone who can. Use it. But yeah. didn't. Yeah. Then you can come
to meetings or do a phone call very like but that's just important in that. We make sure that we're not. We're we're not using the position to represent any individual, good, or. And it
also sees all of us from kind of feeling like we're like we have this individual power and then people kind of pressure you act, all right, we're individual
responsibility responsibility because that's exactly what that it, protects us. It wasn't driven by feeling like I have any power by feeling like as a representative, I have to pass
on, right? It's concerns and so instead, reminding them Ask them on. Yeah, directly. yeah, it's not fair that because somebody knows you they get
their opinion brought out in this meeting or someone who might not have access to, you doesn't get their opinion unless they show up. Yeah, it's just not there and you're welcome to
show up. Yes the position, right? When I first came on, Please show us. I feel like people would approach me more
with their individual issues when I first came on because I haven't driven, I haven't Drawn that boundary and now people
stop that. It's really good. But the right now it is the right boundary, but it's also about understanding it because none of us are in that role in any
other part of our lives. So it's it's about recognizing the best way to kind of feel that And still become. Good. Okay. Thank
you. yeah, I I just wanted to mention that we got an email today from Holly Pennant about the annual Mental Health, Resource Fair,
which is going to be Tuesday April 7th at the HM Hsd, Jim 6328 and that is open to the whole community, right? There's one site babysitting with the
NHS volunteers, there's going to be Aga. Sponsored activities, giveaways, snacks, Again, this is sponsored by our HEA, which is our our teachers organization. And
we encourage you to join. There is going to be some information sessions and And again, it's for for you know, anybody in the community.
Oh, I am working on our, I think we're ahead of the game on. the self. The board. We are all right, you know, very early. Yeah. So that's why. Um, it's no brush but Oh what I do need is. So we one
thing that we didn't I was not aware that we needed. Oil, new county level. We have delegates. Um, we should are supposed to have a delegate on our board that goes
can go to the community. Now, it's not. I I would think that nobody's list this far, so I don't have the commitment is but essentially someone in our on our board can
serve as a delegate and go and go to the the njsba meetings and usually it's kind of like it's when they talk about the the legislature
that they're going to be arguing for essentially supporting and then you can you can provide testimony to the njspa in terms of helping decide and steal
which legislation they're going to get behind and which they the arguing against for I'm not asking now but that came up in my efforts to get the
self-evaluation going. Um so And then we need to counties for board association representative but I volunteered to do that
because I'm on the count of Thank you. All right. Maybe Albert on public comments.
I'm gonna any. The only one like to be currently come pick it, so yeah. All right, I will
close public comment. All right, we'll review the agenda. Governance. Curriculum and special education.
Related gender, all personnel, and a pretty straightforward video. Definitely I am which is, I feel like Maybe. Yes, the law. Yeah. And
then the budget started. Yeah. Yeah. Business and finance. Yes, and make sure you, yeah. And then minutes.
so do make sure you're I know everyone checks their boarding email but Mike is going to be putting an updates because of the upcoming budget. and then like the so called all these that are blank with the
bids like those other foot like those will be, by the time we meet again, like it so far away.
Yeah. Okay. No, no, I know that it's time. Yeah. But I was just looking thinking timing wise based on the next report you it'll be contract, major
rejection of the bits, For protection, okay. and then, Oh, we are meeting on Tuesday.
For, that's what we're going to be just for the budget. So, the committee of the whole just to discuss the budget at that time. And then any items for future consideration?
all right, we will maybe send out an email soon about actually it's on my computer to do. Yes. So I mean it's okay. No but it is sitting right, we're really
this is like two sap last year because we're so used to be like right on it. That it was, that what points? We're not going
to. It's right. All right, anything anything else? All right, motion to adjourn.
That's right. That was a record.