[Music] good evening this meeting is being held in compliance with the Sunshine Law having been advertised in press City no post Township clerk's office M post office post office L County Library as well as all the schools of districts being
reported roll call please Mrs anchor here Mrs bar here Dr Sereno here Mrs Jackson here Dr the here Mrs pero here Mr Rogers here and Dr Nelson
here this time I'd like to make a motion to convene into executive session second second by Mr Rogers all in favor I HST I have resol be resolved pursuant
of section 7 and8 open public meeting ACT public shall be excluded from portions of the meeting involving discussion of legal matters attorney apping privilege Personnel Transportation HIV and Board of Education vacany be it further resolve that the discussion of such
matters an executive session can be disclosed to the public when formal action is taken on such subject matters or at any other appropriate time be further result the board may take actions on items discussed in executive session now therefore
any resol the board will be in executive session for approximately 30 minutes evening uh motion to close executive session motion by n second by m bro all in
favos have at this time can we please stand FX United States stand indivisible andice take a moment of silence for private reflection
at this time I'd like to make a motion to approve minutes regular executive sessions of November 13th 2024 so move second motion by Mr Rogers second by n
questions comments see none roll call Mrs Anor yes Mrs bar Dr Sereno yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr L yes Mrs
Pera Mr Rogers yes and Dr yes at this time I'll turn over to Dro for the presentation thank you and I am going to turn it over to Mrs Bryan who hopefully has our reading challenge not
yet coming in that's supposed to all right we'll table it see if they show all right I'm going to give I'm going to give Mr Deo two minutes to get down to the table so we can get this uh rep going on invite
and now the William D's Middle School student councel like to update us challenge day is back and in full swing the dates are December 3rd 4th and 5th thank you to the teachers staff and community members who made this event
happen challenge day is designed for seventh grade high school forc students to come together and open a up about life school and make connections this holiday season Hamilton Township School District partnered with Hamilton cares for our annual Giving
Tree this initiative ensures that our families and our community in some surrounding areas receive presents and holiday cheer a huge shout out to all those who are working behind the scenes to make this happen and a big thank you to our NJ just for helping also a big
thank you to our community the resilience Action Group attended a field trip yesterday December 3rd to the acua landfill in Egg Harbor Township in the Water Treatment Facility in Atlantic City students got to see
where our trash go how it is processed in the lack of sustainability in landfills students saw how our waste water is treated and purified as well as a small Wind Farm producing sustainable energy to power our
community William Davies middle school media department for the first time in Hamilton Township history seventh and eighth graders hosted a successful live football draft for the entire school to enjoy the annual flight football frenzy where eighth graders are drafted onto
teams by their teachers teachers took on took on a level of excitement this year mirroring ESPN sale coverage students saw themselves featured on the big screen and a live J stream into that entire School the event was hosted by eighth graders Hank Frank GI AR India
Ethan Erikson adding energy and professionalism to the groundbreaking BR the live stream draft and game day photography has reached over 70,000 people on YouTube and Instagram as of September the dragon Network is the most watched Middle School YouTube channel in
New Jersey Based on data released by [Applause] Google on December 13th the media department will be live streaming an in school basketball game versus Hamington from by seventh and eighth grade eighth graders where they plan to unal instant
replays if all goes well NJ chess will be visiting Shaner and hes schools to read to the classes on December 11th they will also participate in elf calls from DEC December 16th to December 18th the food
distribution took place on November 26 and all food items were distributed we had more cars than food packages and everything went fast lead from the front lead from the front is a club that started on November 25th it is about
creating leaders and establishing a foundation for personal growth and Leadership it is led by Cornell Thomas and and the advisors are Mr K Miss Giglio and Miss rtis additionally this Thanksgiving we will a we were able to
provide hot meals to families that were delivered on Thanksgiving Day this could not be possible without the help of a family bus andand in choir here are the Music Department events for December today choir performance at the Ocean City
Tower for from 8 a 8: a.m. to 10:15 December 10th dav's B rehearsal at H December 11th Davies choir rehearsal at H December 12th is the Davies Winter concert at H at 7:00 p.m. December 16th band and choir performance at Shaner
from 8: to 11:30 December 18th select choir members perform on the radio at a brandle Estates December 20th sixth grade choir performed at the board office and for Davies PR from 915 to 10:30 that's
it nice job guys I can't tell you how proud I am of you guys you do such a great job thank you so much Mrs Bryant I see we have a visitor come on down read challenge please this has to be the favorite part of my
job so this is Chloe Carney she is in third grade in Mrs aras's class Miss Aras said Chloe is kind and friendly to her classmates and teachers she loves math and gym class outside school she loves gymnastics congratulations Chloe
[Applause] soret congratulations [Applause] okay for my superintendent report please if you won't mind there's an article uh
about our partnership with Hamilton cares and the toy store um and how we're working to make sure we're getting all our kids toys so please take a look at that and you'll see uh we had some really good press with that congratulations to Mr Anthony
perto our technology coordinator who was named the JF safety star of the year for his efforts to keep our school state since our last meeting I visited all the schools during par conferences attended our PTA meeting participated in the Hamilton Township celebration we're excited to announce our teachers of the
year that we will bring at the board meeting in February uh we have one more to announce tomorrow afternoon over at chainer and uh we last night rended the jip dinner where Emon Township won multiple Awards including that syy Star
Award update our district goals we still continue to work on the three goals of inclusion clro management and our code of conduct for your review please see the registration transfer student statistics for the last month enrollment discipline and our hi reports the
following are gates To Remember December 5th we have our H 45 choir concert in the auditorium at 7:00 p.m. at house uh the PTA D and dony will be on December 11th uh all day if you guys want to stop
by there that'll be at Red Robin on December 12th Dave's Winter concert will be in h auditorium at 7:00 uh school will be closed from the 23rd to the 31st of December will also be closed on January 1st for New Year's Day um we
will have our reorganization meeting for the board of education on January 8th right here in the D cafeteria and the next meeting in January will be on January 13th this concludes my superintendent thank you at this time I we'll take public
comment there are two opportunities to address the members of the board the board values and welcomes comments and opinions from their residents as long as they are not personal and disc courties the public uh comment portion of this meeting allows the board to
listen to community members and hear hear their opinions on school policy and operations at first public portion is reserved for persons wishing to speak out AG about agenda items the second opportunity following the action items is when residents May address the board
on any school related issue each speaker is asked to limit their comments to 3 minutes you're not permitted to yield your time to another the public comments portion of the meeting during both sessions will not exceed 30 minutes upon being recognized persons wish to speak
should stand identify themselves by name and address seeing none we'll move on to board member comments anybody to the board wants to make any comments I just wanted to mention I did have the opportunity stop by a challenge day yesterday with the seventh graders
and it is just a phenomenal event so thank you to all of the staff and the students that participate in that I know it's a really special event um getting our school family together and working on those relationships so thank you to everyone that does all of that hard
work than you n else okay um I just add a couple things I wanted to say thank you to the student council reps uh you guys are doing a great job and the um doing uh awesome on delivering what's going on with in your school I appreciate it
thank you very much um I wanted to uh also make a comment that you know uh that two years ago at this time our schools were you know dangerous if you will over having fights all the time and uh at before every meeting we get an
update on how many of those instances have occurred and uh it's night and day difference to uh you know a couple months we had zero this month we only have one which is n i mean i can't tell you the difference between the you know you guys know because you guys are out
there but I want to say thank you to all everybody just making the difference it's it's at every level and it's uh clearly showing and uh I know we'll have to deal with for the next couple years when somebody brings up an article saying back in 2019 our schools were
dangerous you know it was published in 2024 or whatever but um clearly uh you guys made a difference and um I I just want to say thank you very much I also want to say congratulations to Anthony Berto on receiving the safety star just
so you guys know there's 25 districts right 25 districts that competed for that and Anthony got it so that's great for us and uh again shows how you know again safety is everybody's concern including technology to help enable it
and um I want to say congratulations to the teachers of the year at least so far and uh won't spoil the next one but congratulations to all the teachers uh and uh support staff yes espb thanks and then uh this last one I want to say is
thanks for putting up with me as the president this is my last meeting as a president so after reorg it it'll be somebody else I just want to say thank you and uh dealing with my Shenanigans I've appreciated it and it's definitely a different position to be in than just sitting idly by uh and uh
listening to somebody else make mistakes answer all right that's it for the board comments at this time we'll do personnel and policy committee M Jackson so um personnel and policy met also with curriculum curriculum this week um the meeting was
on Monday December 2nd at 5:15 we met virtually um those in attendance were uh myself Mrs PTO Dr Miss SRA Dr Sereno um Mrs Bryant Mr
Soko and Mrs litski um so we discussed and reviewed curriculum matters PIR professionals new hires Etc our next meeting will be determined after the reord meeting um so can I have a motion to
approve 91 through 919 want to make a motion motion by Dr trino second by second second by Miss bar questions comments none roll call please Mrs Anor
yes Mrs bar yes Dr Serena yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr L yes Mrs P yes Mr Rogers yes and Dr Nelson yes so I see that we do have someone here that I would love to come down and
just say a word to come on down Mr Brown [Applause] [Music] for so when I was hired for the acting role um at Davies the first thing I talked about was all the different roles I've played in this District all the
different hats I wore um I was looking at the board agenda and I just want to say that I wish I'd be more as a substitute parent professional when I started so I wish that I had that opportunity just kidding um seriously I wouldn't be here without the support of my family and the team that I have the
fact that I got to do my internship at Davies and then have the opportunity to be here um now as a permanent vice principal um has been fantastic so I just want to thank everybody who' you bring with you I have my parents my uncle my cousin and my entire
team Mrs bronis did you want to [Music] come it's my pleasure to introduce Marissa Neel as a par professional here at Davey I have to say Marissa's application came through Apple track over the weekend on
Monday I called and said hey we're interviewing for par professionals can you come in ver said sure I'm available Thursday Friday I said how about today a board meeting on Wednesday and we really need to you know make this happen so she made it happen the personnel office made it happen you were
all flexible with the agenda so we appreciate that and we can't wait for Marissa to stop start her sister is a teacher here at Davies the first year teacher so anyone else who wants to bring their family members in please ask them to apply um and on behalf of the
administration here in Hamilton Township we want to thank you Dr Nelson for all of your support over the years we really do appreciate it we've enjoyed working with you through the PTA and as a board member so thank you and we'll miss show thanks
all right thank you uh finance and operations Dr leof um finance and operations met on December 2nd at 4 p.m. um our next date is to be determined and I move
102 104 we have a motion is your a second second second by Miss bar questions comments hearing none R call please Mrs
Anor yes Mrs bar yes Dr Serena yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr LW yes Mrs PTO yes Mr Rogers yes Dr Nelson yes all right any old
business heing none new business I do have some gu suppose all right uh motion to appoint Beverly beretto to the vacant seat graded by Christine Miller's recation expect of January 8 2025 for a one-year
term unexpired roll call oh sorry can I get a second I'm just L reading Dr Sho questions comments complains none Ro Mrs AG yes Mrs bar yes
Dr Serena yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr L yes Mrs perto Mr Rogers yes and Dr NS no yes congratulations well deserved [Applause]
okay um public comment this is a received comments from the public in attend uh in accordance with public policy and participation in a board meeting there anybody in public that would like to make a comment hearing none no action will be taken executive session at this time I
would entertain a motion for adjournment so move okay agre all in favor oppose eyes out thank you