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Okay. At this time, uh, we will take a motion to go into regular public meeting. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Cleo, seconded by Miss Bolton. >> Yes. >> Discussion. >> Roll call, please.

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Miss Art. >> Yes. >> Mrs. M. Miss. Multi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Paloo. >> Yes. >> Mrs. F. >> Yes. >> Mr. Vega. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Here. >> Mr. Fleho. >> Here.

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>> Mr. >> Yes. Meeting regulations. During each regular meeting, two opportunities are provided for citizens to ask questions, to make comments. During first opportunity early on the agenda, the meeting is open to the public for the purpose of addressing items listed for approval on this agenda only. The second

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opportunity occurs just prior to adjournment when citizens may address any subject matter that is burned to and or directly related to the operation of the school district. Persons wishing to speak must upon be recognized, rise, state their name, address, and subject matter. Comments and questions shall be

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addressed to the board president or the presiding officer and shall be limited to five minutes per person. The board may or may not respond to issues raised by members of the public at the time they are raised, but will provide a response if and when appropriate. The board asks that members of the public be

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courteous and mindful of the rights of the individuals uh when speaking. Please note that the board will not respond to comments regarding students andor board employees in light of their of the privacy rights held by those individuals. Moreover, the board discourages comments about such

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individuals and will not be responsible for such comments. Members of the public who choose to speak during the public session should carefully consider their comments since they could be held personally liable for any statement they make. Finally, please note that in

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accordance with district policy, the board will not officially comment or respond to any matter mentioned unless it can confirm that the matter has first been brought to the attention of the appropriate school personnel and attempt to resolve the issue. Public be heard.

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Agenda items only. Seeing no one, moving on to the approval of the minutes. June 23rd, 2026, regular meeting public and private. Motion >> Motion by Mr. Leo. >> Second. >> Second by Mr. Discussion.

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>> Roll call, please. >> Miss Multicolton, >> yes. >> Mr. Paloo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Spone, >> yes. >> Dr. Vega, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Clego, >> yes. >> Miss Artra, >> yes. >> Mr. Taro,

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>> yes. Correspondence. Seeing none, move on to reports. Superintendent report. >> Thank you. Good evening. With August just around the corner, our district continues its active preparations for the opening of the 2627 school year. Throughout our schools, classrooms, and

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facilities are being ready, schedules are being finalized, and our administrative, instructional, and support teams are working diligently to ensure a smooth and successful start to the school year. We're excited to welcome both our returning staff and students as well as those who will be joining Hawthorne public schools

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community for the first time. This also marks the start of preseason for many of our student athletes. Hawthorne High School football camp began this week, marking the unofficial start of the fall athletic season. It's always exciting to see our athletes back on campus working

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hard alongside their coaches as they prepare for another year of competition, personal growth, teamwork, and school pride. We wish all of our fall athletic programs a safe and successful preseason. We're also looking forward to hosting Hawthorne Leadership Camp at Lincoln

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Middle School from August 10th to 14th. This unique program is designed to support our incoming sixth grade students as they transition to middle school by helping them develop leadership skills, build positive peer relationships, and foster a strong sense of school pride. I'd also like to

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provide an update on our new fourth grade introductory instrumental music program. Author Public Schools is excited to offer this opportunity to interested fourth grade students during the 26 27th school year as an introduction to instrumental music

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before entering the fifth grade band program. The optional lessons will be held before school 8:05 to 8:40. Students will have the opportunity to explore two different instrument uh over the course of the year, allowing them to make a more informed decision before

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selecting an instrument for fifth grade band. Uh the schedule will be September through January is flute, clarinet, and saxophone. February through June, trumpet, trombone, and percussion. So we'll be offering halfyear rentals. So if your child wants to start out with flute, they decide they don't like it,

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they have the opportunity to explore percussion um in February. So, we're very excited about that. Um, at this stage, we're still in the planning period, but we had about 50 parents that filled out the Google form expressing interest in the program. Additional

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information regarding scheduling, transportation, instrument rentals, or purchases, and program expectations will be shared as we finalize details. A reminder to our students that they need to start working on their summer assignments. Um, being a parent of a high school student and a middle school

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student, I'm all over my children currently to get their work done. We also will be sending out reminders um, next week, but the work can also be found on the school website. I like I would also like to extend a warm welcome to our new assistant superintendent, Mrs. Heather Weinstein,

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as she joins us for our first public of education meeting, board of education meeting. We're thrilled to have her as part of the Hawthorne public schools leadership team and look forward to the experience, expertise, and dedication she brings to our district. At this time, I would like to invite Mrs. Weinstein to say a few words.

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>> Um, thank you. Thank you to the board um for your very warm welcome and for um embracing me the way that you have. Um, I've actually gotten a chance to meet with the administration. Um, gotten to know some of the principles pretty well and some of the teachers who are writing

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curriculum over the summer. It's very that everyone is super dedicated and committed, which is really nice. Um, and I'm just looking forward to meeting the rest of the staff in the fall. Um, and working and and being aligned to what the goals are. So, I appreciate it and look forward to working with everybody

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closely. >> Thank you. >> Um, so as always, I just want to thank staff, our technicians, um, our custodians for getting the buildings ready during the summer. It's a large task. um our secretaries, our administrators, their dedication and

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commitment to our students and community are greatly appreciated. Um and I just want to say, you know, we're in towards the end of July right now, so so in the rest of the summer because the school year is upcoming. And at this point, I'd like to um pass the presentation over,

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Miss Wing. We have not received our NJ GPA scores to date. Um if you recall for both NJSLA and NJGPA this year they moved it to an adaptivebased test. Um so the results the cut scores um they're not quite out yet but what we did

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receive are WEDA scores. So for tonight um Mwen is going to give us a little bit of background on how our students performed. Are you okay? >> Okay, thank you. So, um, as Mr. Minionelli said, we did receive the WEDA

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score. So, this is kind of forecasting a little bit forward based upon what I'm going to present to you, but also keep in mind that the scores are coming from the um assessment that you did in the spring for the 2526 school year. And I figured I would start with just a little

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refresher of what Access is, which is an English language proficiency test. And what we're trying to determine by giving this adaptive computer-based test is how our students are currently performing with the acquisition of English language and how they are acquiring the language

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as they walk through the grade levels K through 12. So it is an assessment that's given K to 12. Um for all of our multil- language learners, they are given a test and it determines through each domain what

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level they are at. So you will see one at entering all the way through two emerging, three developing, four expanding, five bridging and six reaching. Students that would be achieving a score of 4.5 or more would

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be students that we could consider have reached the um threshold to be exited from the program. Um this is just a breakdown in common language to give you an idea of where each student would be on each level. So you can I won't read them all to you,

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but for level one entering that student would know very minimal social language, minimal academic language, and with visual and graphic support necessary in the classroom. So you would see your kindergarten students that were coming into the country for the first time or potentially students that were speaking

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uh native language at home um coming in at a level one all the way to uh level six which would be reaching and at its highest level would know and use social and academic language at the highest levels and be measured by this test of exiting the program.

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um these children would be uh wellversed in content vocabulary and have the ability to sit in content without any other support. Um so these are some statistics that I thought were important to show you because we are making good growth. Um I

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broke it by uh high school Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt and Jefferson. And what you're looking at in the first column would be the percentage of growth. So the scores that our children uh attained last year versus the growth that they had between last year and this

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year. So 25% being the growth over last year for the majority of students as an average um at Hawthorne High School and then obviously 14 at Lincoln, 29 at Roosevelt or rather at Washington, 42 at Roosevelt and 52 at Jefferson. Very good gains. And then I thought it interesting

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just to look at the percentage of students that would be in the level three or above. So if we just go back quickly, level three would be developing, which means those children at that level are knowing most of the social English that they would be using um in a social situation, but then also

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gaining academic language with those visual and graphic supports in the classroom. Um so the next slides will show you the breakdown banded together of uh elementary, middle, and high. So 53 students of ours participated in the

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ELELLL test. That's grade levels K through five. Of the 53, 17% of those sto scored in the expanding level, which is very impressive, at a level four. Um obviously for confidentiality reasons, I'm banding those grade levels together.

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And then in the last um portion you can see what our participation rate is which means that of the 27 of the K to2 children that were tested 100% participated and 100% of those scores came in. Um obviously for 3 to five it's

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the same with 26 at 100% as well. Um for your elementary children two students exited with scores above 4.5. And then in the fall, what we do is uh another um test which would be for modeling out

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those students who potentially would be scoring in the range of 4.0 to 4.4 which means that some of those students would actually be uh acceptable to leave the program. We lean very much on how they've been doing over the course of time um teachers and their ability to

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then take another screener in the fall to show that they would be able to exit the program. This would be for your middle school. So 14% or 14 students rather participated in grades six to eight. Of that four students scored 4.0 or higher. And one

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student exited with a above a score of 4.5. In the fall consistently three students will be administered the WEDA model in September for the preparation to also model out. Here you also had 14 students tested, 100% scores received,

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which is 100% participation. And then finally for high school, 38 students were participating, grades 9 to 12. I broke that between 9 to 10 and 11 to 12. Nine students scored above uh 4.0. And five students exited with scores

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above 4.5, which is very promising, very good news. Four students will be administered the WEDA to model in September for preparation of being modeled out as well. Here in 9 to 10, 18 of the 19 students participated at 95%

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believe one of the students has exited the district. I just have to check that because I don't know them yet. Um and then in 11 to 12 it is 19 of uh students tested and 100% participating. And then finally, just some of the way

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that the programs look in terms of the interventions that we're given um broken by grade level. So in K to five, we're giving uh one to two times per day of pull out resource or service depending on the level of the child if they're

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emerging um all the way through uh expanding. And then in six to eight also pull out services one to two times today uh per day. and then in grades 9 to 12 given specific learning supports. Some of the um programming that we're using

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is learning a toz bundle starfall and then we also use sheltered instruction observation protocol and training to prepare our teachers and that is all. >> Thank you.

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Anybody have any questions for us? >> How many students do we have that are categorized ELL? Because that's the overall category, right? The ELLL >> and ELLL MLL. Yes. So if we added them all together, it would be as of last

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year there were 53 on the elementary level and then 14 on the middle level and a total of 38 on the high school level. >> So everybody participated in the program. Is that what So everybody

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that's participated in the in the testing? >> Yes. So they look for participation rates to see when your scores come back. Is child that's currently participating in the program being tested. Are we receiving a score? The one child that wasn't I believe left district.

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>> Thank you. You're welcome. >> So my question was this is the entire school year but when are they actually administered deleted >> in the spring >> and then again in the fall >> all of them or just the ones who score a certain >> correct just the ones that score above a 4.0 because potentially those students

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could exit the program. >> So um technically they should have a 4.5 to exit or between a four and a 4.5. >> Technically a 4.5. Okay. There are circumstances where a child potentially would be 4.0, 4.1, 2, three or four that

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could potentially exit the program >> um dependent on >> how old they are, where they are in terms of their content level, vocabulary, how they're performing class. >> So, I think it was the high I don't have it, the high school slide. It said that um

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I don't know quote me not up maybe five students got 4.0 but only one exited or a 4.5 but only one exited >> um because they probably had a 4.5 so 4.0 up

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>> exit exit but only one out of the nine or whatever it was exited. >> If there are 4.0 to 4.4 they wouldn't exit. Correct. >> Oh, they do have to. So, it's not lenient in that sense. >> No. No. >> So, those are the kids we would then test again in the fall.

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>> Correct. So, so the five students exited above 4.5. >> That's okay. Um, so then how do we manage that at the high school or or even the middle school level with their classes? Would that change? No, because they're being pulled out for ESL ML and

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then having push in. How? So, so if we're testing them in the fall and they they are now eligible to leave the program, are we going to then have to have to change their schedule of classes is what I'm asking. >> Correct. If they're if they're being if they're exiting the program and they're in a block in which they're receiving

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because on the middle school level, they'll have an ELA block >> where they'll have a mental teacher working with them. So potentially if they they cross that threshold at 4.5, we're not completely pulling them out of the equation, but they wouldn't qualify for the

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Okay. So, it's not like an integrated class where you have like half gen and have special ed type of situation, right? It's literally just ML students alone in that class. >> Correct. >> That's the Okay, that's what I wasn't understanding. >> Okay. Thank you.

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>> All right. Moving on to committee leazison reports starting with legislator Mr. Carr. >> Moving on then finance administration Mr. We >> Thank you, Mr. President. The finance committee met in person on July 14th here at the high school on the agenda

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were tuition rates. The tuition rates for the 2026 2027 school year will be in alignment with the state's tuition rates. There haven't been in the past as there appears to be some discretionary uh to some discretion to some extent as to whether you have to align to the

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state or not. Uh these impacts these updates will impact special education rates and rates applied to students uh spec uh in addition uh the rates were included in the uh handout that's part of the report uh the barricade tuition

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will go up to $103,666. Uh the barricade enrollment is projected to be between five and eight students which includes uh one out of district student. Uh it was reported to us that while according to code the barricade can accommodate up to 12 students uh the

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consensus is that eight students is the ideal amount of students to be housed in that space. We had two grievances that we discussed in SEC. We also had a grant aotments what you're going to see on the agenda. The grant

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funds came in satisfactory in alignment with past uh experience. Capital projects were also on the agenda which BNG will will report in detail and that concludes my report.

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>> Thank you. >> Moving on to council leazison and personnel miss. >> Thank you Mr. President. A few updates from the council and the mayor. Um so bear with me. Um number one sad was installed at Franklin Field. Um the

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mayor and council thank everyone for their patience, dedication, and support regarding these field updates. We know that's been a hot topic and the field is looking good and getting lots of rain lately, I guess. So hopefully good playing conditions for everyone. Um

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second, they wanted to note that last week there was a groundbreaking ceremony for the new community pavilion in the back of the library. This is in memory of our former mayor Goldberg and basically a welcoming public gathering

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space. It's a project that truly reflects the power of collaboration and community spirit between the burough officials, volunteers, the Lions Club, Rotary Club, the neighborhood preservation program, Downs Tree

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Service, and a bunch of different um businesses that have donated and unteered. So, the groundbreaking took place and it'll be a nice space for people to gather soon. Um, a few

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reminders for events that are coming up. Every Sunday, the farmers markets at the library from 10 to 1:30. There are concerts at the band shell. The grounds open at 6. And check the Barrow website

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for the schedule. And then two more, the Hawthorne's National the police department and I guess all first responders. It's Tuesday, August 4th, 5:30 to 9 at the bandell. And

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lastly, the chambers 14th annual classic car, motorcycle, and truck show is taking place Sunday, August 16th. So, lots to do this summer here in Hongorn. And regarding personnel, no report. We we did not meet.

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>> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> All right, moving on. uh curriculum instruction I believe Moti Colton is going to be doing that on behalf of Mrs. Goff and then as well we'll do NJSBA and PCSBA. >> Okay. So on behalf of Mrs. took off for

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curricular instruction. Um we discussed the fourth grade instrumental lessons with our superintendent who's already mentioned we actually received um 49 responses uh as our meeting on um July

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15th from parents um on our Google form. Um it also allowed questions to be asked about the program. So this would be divided into two terms. The fall would be flute, clarinet, and sachs, a phone, and the spring would be trumpet,

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trombone, and percussion. Um, some parents asked if they could do both. And this possibility is being explored, which would actually enhance our instrumental program. So, I just want to say thank you to um the superintendent, everyone, our music teachers who brainstormed to come up with this as an

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alternative. Um the second thing we discussed were um we were on a cap which is an attendance uh plan for middle school Washington and the high school and we are very happy to report that the Lincoln Middle School and Washington

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will be coming off of the cap as we have improved our attendance um in those schools. Unfortunately HHS will still be on the cap moving forward. However, um students were previously swiping in and we think it was some error with that. Um

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as they're moving toward a home room where their attendance then taken, they will also have um to turn in their phone. The length of the home room and other details will be worked out and shared. So, we're hoping that'll give us a better um accurate attendance picture which will then approve our attendance.

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Um next, we discuss summer assignments. All AP except for AP psych has a summer assignment for the high school. Moving forward, they will meet with their teacher prior to leaving at the end of the school year to go over the assignments. Um the superintendent

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uploaded assignments to the board folder for us to look at. The goal for 2027 is that all AP classes will have summer assignments. Uh AP scores are trending in the upward direction. So, yay. Lincoln Middle School, there is a book and then a essay um for each grade.

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There is an optional math packet available. Um teachers are planning a classroom incentive to complete that math packet within the first week of school. Um they are going to send out a standalone communication, sorry, the administrator are going to send out a standalone communication about summer

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assignments. for elementary assignments. Um the kids had to do like a perfect 10 chart um as we have in the past. So we're going to look at that and see if we can come up with something more up to date. Um and the teacher writing 1A

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curriculum have suggested the incoming students also have assignments. Um next we discussed the NJSLA scores and NJ GPA scores um will not be released anytime soon. They are even looking into a committee

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to determine cut scores. Whereas the presentation tonight um we discussed that we currently have one ESL teacher for the three elementary schools that is full-time. Our percentages of students passing have grown with Jefferson being the highest Roosevelt

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and Washington then LMS and HHS as you saw on the presentation. Elementary level 53 students out of 53 students two exited seven are being retested in the fall. Middle level is 14 total and high school is 38 with four exiting and 11

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being retested in the fall. Enrollment at this time numbers are fairly equal. This is for kindergarten enrollment registration. Um special requests will not be honored this year as per our new policy. Um last year our superintendent got about 10 special requests. This year

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we're down to about four. So that's been great. There are eight sections of kindergarten throughout the entire district of the three elementaryaries. Jefferson is up to 32. So they'll have two sections. Washington has 28 uh seven current registered students. So that

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includes steps and two sections. And Roosevelt is up to 71, which also includes LLD and is up to four sections. Um sorry, we had a lot on our agenda. Uh, next was the belltobell mandate,

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which is a new policy 5516, which Dr. Vega will discuss in further detail, but Mrs. Goff wrote, "The district has the ability to allow students to use their phones only before and after school. During the day, will they not have they will not have access to their phones at all?" Um, the superintendent is looking

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at this as an ability to engage students from bell to bell. Students will lock their phones in a safe in their home room and will not get them until the end of the day. Seniors will be able to get their phones during the lunch block if they are exiting the building. Our

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superintendent will sell out the send out the first communication and then specific emails will come from the principles. The superintendent will ask other districts what they are doing to see how they're implementing this new policy. Um the mandate states that all K through 12 students must be prohibited

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from using their phones for the entire day. Uh next is language bridge. Um our superintendent met with the owner last week of the program and we are providing exposure on the elementary level. This will be offered to grades

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two and four. It's a digital platform that uses headphones and microphones to replace our Spanish program in those grades. Um, and the last thing is title one funding came in flat and the funds and fund and this funds some teachers

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salaries so it's good is what she wrote. Thank you. Sorry. Oh, I have to keep going. >> And Mson, I just want to make one comment about the so the bell to bell policy which the NJ do has >> um required all school districts in New Jersey to participate in. There's a

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policy we're adopting tonight. The specifics and the enforcement of it is something that the board will be discussing as a whole to determine what the stance of Hawthorne will be because the actual regulation gives le leeway for us to make decisions as to what are the best practices that we want to

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implement in Hawthorne. So just want to add that >> it's just the first reading tonight. Correct. >> Right. So we're not even technically adopting it. >> Okay. Uh so NJSBA um just a reminder that our convention

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is coming up October 19 to 22nd. Um and then PCSBA we have not met they don't meet over the summer. So the next meeting will be sometime um right around the beginning of school year fall. And that is it for me. Thank you.

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>> Thank you Mr. PL have CPAC PTO's. >> Thank you Mr. President. I do not have a um report tonight, but I would like to uh address negotiations if you don't mind. Okay. Uh negotiations has been meeting o over the past several months

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for both the HASA and the HESA um contract. We uh were hoping to have it on the agenda for tonight. Uh but due to some time constraints, the negotiation teams was not able to meet um with our business agent and

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superintendent to discuss the final um proposed contracts. So as the chairperson, I take full responsibility of it not being, you know, available tonight. Uh I just didn't feel comfortable until we get an opportunity to read through it. Um, so

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on a positive note, we're meeting this Thursday and if we could feel comfortable moving forward, we're willing to have a special uh board meeting so that we could approve those contracts. Uh, it is not our intention to push it off into the August 18th meeting. Hopefully, we can get it

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resolved this week and hopefully meet next week and um get those approved. Thank you for the time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh, moving on. Dr. Vega, buildings, grounds, and policy. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Buildings and grounds. Let's start with buildings,

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grounds. We met on July 14th. We did cover a number of topics. Um, we are going forward and um we're moving forward with the high school third floor renovations. Um, we

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got a preliminary estimate um and we are going to hopefully start that within the coming weeks. Um, we're also looking to move forward with the high school security vestibule um, which I have spoken about in past

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um, meetings. Um, with regards to the facility walkthrough, we wanted to as a board and as a committee um, take a walk through all of the facilities here within our district. Um we are anticipating that this walkthrough is

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going to be about two days so that we can um thoroughly and accurately walk through all of the buildings. Our first walkthrough is going to be held at the end of the month on July 30th. Um so if any board members do want to join,

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please let me know. Um I am going to move on to policy. Policy also met on July 14th. Um during policy committee we did um review a couple of new policies. Um all first readings which are on the

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agendas. Um we have the superintendent duties, curriculum, career education, um the eligibility of resident non-resident students and choice of schools within the district and as well as um bell to bell um like madame vice president

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stated belltobell is a policy that is mandated from the state. It applies to cell phones and other electronic devices. So that's going to include our smartwatches, tablets, laptops, earbuds, headphones, metagasses. Um, and the purpose is to reduce distractions

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throughout the day and to um establish clear expectations for what the appropriate um device uses are with with our students within the schools. Um, like uh Mr. Manelli Minella said, sorry.

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Um this is the first reading. So we are looking into the implementation um which is the regulation portion of it. Um so the committee and the board will be discussing to make the necessary revisions um before we do the final adoption. Um and as and that's all I

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have. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to action items curriculum instructions. Uh we will go to Missy Holton on behalf of Mrs. C. >> Thank you Mr. President. Pursuant to the recommendation of superintendent schools, the committee on curriculum instruction recommends the

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following resolution C1 through sorry C1 on page four through C9 on page five to C15 on page six. on the behalf.

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>> So move second. Thank you. Second. Thank you. >> Seconded by Mrs. Mer. Discussion. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I would just like to um commend our superintendent and our supervisors of science and math

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and humanities for uh growing their job titles and descriptions which is in here for approval tonight from 6 to 12 to K to 12. Um I think it's going to make a great difference in our district and I appreciate them. That was all. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Anyone else? >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Multi Colson. Yes, >> Mr. Paloo. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Spone. >> Yes, and I recuse myself on C14 and C18. >> Dr. Vega,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Cleivo, >> yes. >> Miss Arantra, >> yes. >> Mr. Petaro, >> yes. >> Personnel Art. >> Thank you, Mr. President. The following resolutions are pursuant to the

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recommendation of the superintendent of schools. P1 on page 6, P2 through P1 on page seven, P12 through P23 on page 8, P24 through

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P32 on page 9 and P 33 on page 10. Behalf of the committee, I move >> second by Mr. We go discussion.

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>> I I have a question on P33. Is is that a new um responsibility or >> No. And uh Mali, correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is um the athletic registration that she does every summer after summer.

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>> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Comment and a question. um comment first. I would like to welcome there's several new hires on here. So, welcome to Flororn and as well as the six interns from Ramipo College. Welcome and

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and thank you for the teachers and administrators that will be um overseeing their time here. Um the question, Mr. Do you do I think you'd explain it a bit

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better, but P24 through P27 just noting that. >> P23. >> Oh, yeah. P23 through P27. Thank you. >> So, the

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idea behind putting these new special education building lays on positions is to ensure that we have continuity and consistency between our five schools. as you know we have Mr. Sarah, that's our current um director of special programs. Um we have a large staff. Um so for him

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to lead but allow that trickle down to go to the special ed liaison who are going to be the ones that are communicating some of the district goals some of the pertinent issues and special education allowing them to take some roles in terms of our Monday after school

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trainings and faculty meetings. So that's the first piece is to align our special ed program. But as a district, I also think it's important that we are consistently offering opportunities for some of our teachers to uh lead, right? So, this is another level of leadership

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for some of our really amazing special education staff members. >> Thank you. >> So, are these special ed teachers at these are their home schools that they're doing this for? I would assume. >> Correct. And it could be CST or special ed teachers, >> right? Oh, of course. Yeah. Okay. Thank

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you. Any questions? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Paloo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Spe, >> yes. >> Dr. Vega, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Pivo,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Art, >> yes. >> Miss Multicolson. >> Uh, yes to everything but P8. >> P8. >> Yes. >> Is a no. >> Abstain. >> Abain. Okay.

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Mr. Petaro. >> Yes. >> All right. Moving on. Finance and administration. Mr. Cleo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Pursuit to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee on finance and administration recommends the following resolutions on page 10 F1 through F3 on

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page 11 F4 and F5 on page 12 F6 through E3. On behalf of committee, I move second. >> Second by Mr. Loose discussion >> roll call please

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>> Mrs. Phone >> yes >> Dr. Vega >> yes >> Mr. Carr >> yes >> Mr. >> yes >> Miss Aaron >> yes >> Miss Mson yes Mr. Paloo >> yes

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>> Mr. Zaro >> yes >> right back at you Mr. frames. >> In accordance with NJ AC 6A col 23-2 colb C3 and C4 it is recommended that the board approve the bill list for the

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month of July 2026 >> second by Mr. Carr discussion roll call please >> Dr. Vega >> yes >> Mr. Carr >> yes >> Mr. Fivo >> yes

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>> Mr. Yes, >> Miss Multicolson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Paloo. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Stone. >> Yes, >> Mr. Petaro. >> Yes, >> Dr. Vega. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Pursuant to the recommendation of the Superintendent

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of Schools, the Committee on Buildings and Grounds recommends the following resolution BG1 to BG6 on page 13. On behalf of the counc second by Mr. Kho discussion >> roll call please

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>> Mr. Carr >> yes >> Mr. Po >> yes >> Miss Arantra >> yes >> Miss Moly Coulson >> yes >> Mr. Paloo >> yes >> Mrs. Spone >> yes >> Dr. Vega >> yes >> Mr. Taro >> yes >> policy Dr. Vega

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>> thank you again Mr. President, pursuant to the recommendations of the um superintendent of schools, the committee on policy recommends the following resolution PO1 on page 14. On behalf of the committee, I so move >> second.

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>> Second by Miss Roll call, please. >> Mr. Po, >> yes. >> Miss Art, >> yes. >> Miss Multicolson, >> yes. >> Mr. Paloo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Phone, >> yes. >> Dr. Vega, >> yes. Mr. Clark. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Petaro. >> Yes. >> All right. Moving on to the public be heard. At this time, members of the public may ask questions or make comments on educational issues or school matters. >> Hello everybody. Ricko, 18 Miss Court. Uh I'm here on behalf of the uh athletic

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hall of fame committee. As you know, I'm the president of the committee. I'm also here with the president of our athletic booster club, Bob Pasqual. So, we're here tonight to uh talk to you about uh the next step for us. So, as you know, we held our first induction

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ceremony in March of 2026. We had almost 280 people attend the event. It was a fantastic night. Um, and we are planning to host another one uh in March of 2027. So, we'll be hosting one two two uh two years in a row and then we're going to

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take a couple years off between our inductions. However, the next step now that we've inducted uh our first round uh for our first round of inductees is we need a space to uh to honor them in the school. So, uh, we had talked about,

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uh, the possibility of creating a display case in the main hallway, uh, right across from the main office. I can tell you that that space is conducive to what we want to do. And I'll tell you why I know that. Because there used to be lockers in that space. And when we remove the lockers, we cover the wall

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with sheetrock, but there's still a cutout where the lockers used to be. So, if we, you know, if we were able to just remove some of that sheetrock, we could easily put a display case in that space. All right. Now, on top of that, what we'd also like to do is we'd like to

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renovate the existing display case so that they match. So, there's one currently across from the principal's office or close to the guidance office. We're going to be putting the new one across from the main office. So, there'll be two in that hallway, but again, the goal is for us to renovate

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both of them so that they will match and look uniform in that hallway. All right. Our display case will not have trophies or or plaques. We're going to do an electronic. So, it'll be two TVs. Uh that will be there'll be a searchable database for people uh who have been

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inducted. So, that's the plan for the display case. Um and again, we have the funds that we will be paying for. We're not asking for any money from the board. Uh this will be all come from the athletic hall of fame committee uh and the money that we've raised through our first uh induction ceremony.

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>> All right. So really what we're here tonight to do is just to ask you for your approval to move forward. Um I can tell you that we did share uh our plan with Manny uh the supervisor bills and grounds. He has it um and he's supposed to be acquiring a quote for us. So we're

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just waiting for him uh to do that. But otherwise we're ready to go as soon as they are. We'd like to get it done this summer if possible. Obviously it's not really conducive to do during the school year uh obviously with you know kids in the building. So, uh, if if possible, we'd like to get it done at some point

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before school opens. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Oh, thank you. And, uh, you know, like I said, as long as the board is okay with it, we really move forward as soon as we can. All right. >> Appreciate it. >> Thanks, guys. >> Thank you.

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>> So, Dr. Spo, I just want to say number one, thank you and Mr. basketball. I had the opportunity to attend the athletic hall of fame. Really great event. Uh lots of old school Hawthorne committed individuals and just to get to know about the different programs that we've

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had in district was really special. Um and I've seen some of these hall of fame displays in other districts and they're just really special especially for our current high school students that get to see the successes of uh the alumni of Hawthorne. Um so what I'll say is that I'll reach out to you. We'll pull Manny

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in and we'll I'll obviously talk to the board uh prior to and we'll develop a plan action. So, thank you. >> Construction. >> It's a good thing. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, it's a good thing. >> Seeing no one else, we will move on. Uh

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we'll go to the board for general comments from the board of a to schools. Uh I'm also a new business old business. Just state which one it is and we'll start on my left with Mr. CL. >> I just want to welcome our new assistant superintendent. We look forward to

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working with you and you know thank you for being part of our team. >> Thank you. >> I second that. Welcome Heather. I know you hit the ground running and we're all happy to have you and welcome and nice to see some faces out there. Few of you

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but all smiling ones. That's all. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Forward to work with you. Continue to work with you. >> Um I just want to thank all the staff who's working over this summer to get us

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ready for the school year and also writing curriculum and all of the things. So, thank you and welcome. Thank you. >> Welcome, Heather. And that's enough for me. Thank you. same day. Welcome. >> Thank you. >> Best of luck. That's it.

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>> More business. Uh in regards to that BNG walk, do we have a time in mind? >> I think we were going to try to start first thing in the morning. Um but we can follow up with an email maybe 8:30 because to get through all five schools. I don't know if we're going to be able

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to be a multi multi-day thing. >> I'll follow up. >> So July 30th a.m. Right. >> Yeah. I'll I'll confirm the timing. I I believe I sent out a a calendar invite, but we'll we'll double check the timing on that >> just because we did it once before a few

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years back. Maybe Dr. B, you and I can just touch base and kind of put a plan of action as far as like what building will hit first and kind of what the sequence will be. >> Some may need more attention than others. >> Sounds good. >> That would be appreciated in the event that we can't make the entire time

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slotted for it. But if there's a certain building that you would like to see, we have some familiarity with some building because of being in that school. So maybe not that need to see those, but maybe other buildings that you don't necessarily know. So that would help. Sure. Thank you. >> Come up with a schedule. >> Then the other one in regards to new

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businesses in regards to the belltoell policy. Uh it was stated that the board will be participating in the implementation of what that policy looks like. How will the board be participating? Will it be just at a committee level or will we >> I wanted to talk about that with uh Dr.

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Vega being the policy chair as to what is the best way for us to gather the insight from the board. Um because the regulation it offers different check marks of how we would like to enforce and implement it. So I'll start with Dr. Vega and then we'll figure out the best

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way to get the input of the board as a whole. >> Taking that part of the uh input that you've got I mean it's from the principles obviously right at that point. Yeah, but it's also the board would definitely have to have a say because I, you know, not that it's a controversial policy, but it's a huge

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shift in how we're implementing technology, especially on the high school level. >> My say is it is a very sensitive topic for certain, you know, certain segments of the population. Um, will we have community input? Are we seeking their input in any way, shape, or form?

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>> I think that's not a bad idea. And again, that's something that I can talk to Dr. about and figure out if that's something. Either way, we had multiple layers of communication that we were going to put out to the community, but the input of the community actually I think is a good idea >> prior to the implementation just to get

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their input just to have them be part of the process. >> Okay, awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And then what is it? Uh general business, general comments. Want to thank the administration for the efforts to supplement the fourth creek program.

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We also want to thank all our summer staff for all their work and do want to encourage any parents of any uh rising sixth graders to sign them up for leadership camp. >> It's absolutely 100% worthwhile. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, that being said, motion to

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adjourn. >> Second. >> Hold on. Motion Dr. Vega, second by Miss Colton. Discussion. Roll call, please. Multiolson. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes.

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>> Mrs. Yes. Dr. Vega. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ko. >> Yes. >> Mr. Art. >> Yes. >> And Mr. >> Yes. Have a good evening everybody.