##VIDEO ID:KMwibCenYR4## good okay may I call to order the September 24th 2024 meeting of the High Point Regional High School Board of Education please stand for FL pledge Al to the flag United States of America to the stands na indivisible and justice for all public meetings act statement in New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of the ACT board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof posted at the Augusta Branchville and Sussex Post Offices and no sent in the New Jersey Herald Sunday Herald in the clerk of the bus of Branchville and Sussex in the townships of Frankfurt Lafayette and wage Mission State High Point Regional High School in partnership with staff family and Community is dedicated to the Quest for individual Excellence by fostering high standards of achievement we prepare students to become responsible and productive members of a diverse Society ask for a role Mr uh yes Mr D here M here miss pal here miss sh M Tona here Mr vanstone here Miss Wise here Dr here and we have so at uh this time a motion will be made that the High Point Regional High School Board of Education enter executive session provide an update legal personnel and negotiation items that are exempt from public participation pursuant to New Jersey Public Law 1975 chapter 231 open public meetings act any discussions held by the board which need not remain confidential will be made public when appropriate minutes of the executive session will not be disclosed until the need for confidentiality no longer exists the board will reconvene in public session in person and virtually at the conclusion of the executive session is not anticipated that any action will be taken for members of the we anticipate that time to be approximately 7 p.m. so I'll make that motion may I have a second second all in favor I e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e okay we're all you ready okay may I have a motion to return to public session please motion second all in favor I oppos okay we have returned to public session uh we have no unfinished business so we'll move to approval of minutes the regular meeting minutes from August 27 2024 and the executive session minutes from August 27 2024 uh I'll make that motion may I have a second I second it any discussion comments on those meeting minutes pleas yes M Dona yes Mr vanstone yes M pal yes M ory yes Miss Wise yes Mr D yes okay that brings us to our first public comments section of the evening on agenda items only in accordance with open public meetings act we will open public comments or agenda items only at this time each speaker should State his or her name and address you will have three minutes to address the board uh which will be Time by myself we will limit this section to no longer than 45 minutes please be respectful mindful that your comments are being recorded and as always uh we have two methods to address the board one being in person at the uh lecturn and two the email address is posted on our virtual site anything at the virtual site any comments from anyone I just got word that the volume they've lost volume on the on the vir testing testing one two yeah we're good um if no public comments I will ask uh to close public comments I'll make that motion hang on on agenda agenda items this is the first time I've been one of these meeting so so yeah technically we have two public um comments sections of of the agenda um the first one we do typically limit to anything that's on our agenda and the other one is for uh any item um can I read into that you may have public comments that are not related to agenda items thank you for the clarification yes okay um if there's no disagreement from the rest of the board seeing that we have at most three public attendees I would uh be willing to wave and allow those public comments in our first section of the evening that's fine okay so if you'd like to make your public comments feel free from here yes yes okay great um if you give us your name and address be good evening my name is John hartage I live in Lake Nea uh 69 sub dra uh I come to you uh as a taxpayer since 2004 I join the community met my beautiful wife a professional musician of 30 years a music educator of 20 plus years and a parent of a new freshman student The Bullying situation was pretty rough right after as you know after covid and we had to move my son from the Sussex wage Regional uh Middle School in sixth grade over to the Char school had a great experience but there was no music so we paid for private lessons during that time so he could still uh have some musical involvement he was in the local Orchestra of the Su County Youth Orchestra so he kept some music going we're really looking forward to getting to High Point high school because of the particular director and that's also his his passion as as reads my son is a sax player so we were excited to come to High Point Regional uh with James alaney their current director um today there was an announcement by an admin personel some admin Personnel in person at the start of concert band class and they came into concert band class and informed not only the students not only the director but the students in uh in present in front of them that they would not be uh filling the the assistant band director position was a teacher but was a part-time position that was I think Casey Carol I think he got a uh a position in August that was a full-time position um so right now I think the supervisor had said if you were maybe more than 60 students we might be able to you know have some bargaining bar bargaining room and I understand that so they're about 55 in the program but I will tell you that in the Sussex Regional School already there's about a 100 kids in music now that's Sixth sth and eighth grade but there are other feeder schools so this program here at High Point could easily double in a year we're still recovering from Co because during Co you could do virtual classes but you could not do virtual music the the tech had not caught up now the tech has caught up you can but we couldn't do it during Co so we lost a lot of students and some of those students were behind but I will will mention that the director that you have here has under his Tage has sent amazing musicians to my summer theater uh orchestra that I've operated for 25 years Highland State and I've had a few of them even professionally work worked for me at West Milford High School I've been directing there for 14 years in the spring at the high school he produces amazing musicians but amazing individuals academically uh I think you're losing an opportunity because if this because currently and I'll tell you what the challenge that I know Mr Asen is having right now is there in education I've been in education for while I teach in ore Public Schools differentiation is everything if you can offer yourent students that challenge especially the students who are excelling and right now there's concert band and Wind Ensemble and Wind Ensemble provides a little extra of Applied challenge harder pieces he and mran I know can't be in two place the same time and the other is private instruction private instruction they had even up to last year with a part-time position assisting Mr as um four or five kids in a session really great individual opportun with that teacher now those grow those classes are going to grow to 8 to 12 so it's going to provide a little less contact and less challenge for some of those students who are excelling and just setting up that that that program uh that program uh continuation that you need the challenge that you need from from an experienced teacher I can tell you as a professional musician he is something else but he's the the relationship he gets with these kids is unbelievable there's another parent and one of his P members here too I didn't know they were coming but I uh I just feel that we're missing an opportunity um that if there's a way to to PO post that position or at least consider bringing on another with maybe there's a certain level that you might need to see of of student involvement but the challenge with something like this as you know is you start to get attrition if you can't keep devoting the resources but what happened today it's a little bit like and look the team's doing great I I love the spirit that this football team has this year and some of the other uh athletic uh organizations in the school are we came to the parents night we were so impressed um and I'm jumping around here so I'm trying to be quick uh we came to parents I'm so impressed by the the feeling I'm getting from all of the teachers my son the the crop of teachers that he drew this year I cannot believe how good what I'm hearing teacher so positive so caring um and what I was saying about the the the other teams that would be like uh going into the practice room right two days before a big football game and saying you know coach we uh we got to we can't really you know you know justify you having that assistant coach or that conditioning coach we're going to have to you know call it and I understand you know resources are tight everywhere but something about music it's not just just it's not just what you know what you may you know think on the outside the program of music is so key and it affects so many other areas of cognition it's so so amazing for the development of these kids and it provides a team experience for kids that normally wouldn't Place Sports so it's a uh it's invaluable of course I mean I'm preaching to my own choir I'm an educator for a long time but I do see the effects that the Arts have your uh visual the visual arts here oh my goodness those teachers I I'm so impressed now that goes right along with your with your Tech and your design area fabulous but I really think the Performing Arts is so very important doctors lawyers any professionals sales they have to be able to have confidence and know how to prepare for presentations how to hold themselves and no better traing um I'll close with um uh I'll close with again the need for that differentiation and I just hope that we don't miss the opportunity to have available for these students that are coming up from the feeder schools because it's it's coming back like it or not music's on fire right now in the middle schools where we just couldn't do it during Co and it's exciting but I just hope we don't miss an opportunity not be ready for it thank you for your time I appreciate you let me go over time sir can I ask you a qualifying question AB typically never can speak and so I appreciate you hearing like um you had mentioned the the number of students who were in the private SE sessions you had said was five or six and that would increase to a certain number I yeah with the assistant he could keep that more like four to six maybe seven depending on which instrument my only question would be is um to what extent where from where did you get those numbers oh from the band record okay that is now priate sessions will increase in some cases thank you so much I appreciate it sir thank you for your time thank you any other public comments I good evening my name is Gary Mar I live at Le Bantry terce here in wage I'm speaking to you tonight both as a concerned parent I both as the president of the HB band parent Association a booster club whose sole purpose is to exist to support all the students in the band programs at High Point Regional High School I am here in front of you tonight to bring to the Forefront issues and concerns that have Arisen in the aftermath of the resignation of the assistant director position previously by Mr Casey Carol my child honors Mar junor a third year in the Band program here they have found a passion for music founded in no small part by the wonderful directors and staff here at High Point they are planning to follow this path through college and Beyond seeking a career as a professional musician and also pursuing a degree in music education paying it back to those that have inspired them and to give rise to the next generation of hopeful musics however their ability to follow this path along with many others in the program has suffered a critical setback with the recent departure of Mr Carol from the music department as amazing as Casey was as an educator a mentor a confidant it is not Mr Carol's departure specifically that has delivered such a V at the program it's the decision of the administration to issue rehiring for the position which as I understand is still part of the budget for 2424 2425 fiscal year school music programs L have attain the unfair stereotype of being seen as extracurricular Hobbies instead of serious Pursuits for example the marching band is a halftime show to boost the morale of the players and The Spectators Rah raah rally the team for victory sadly this couldn't be farther from the truth music programs are an academic discipline on par with any other students in this vertical take their education seriously as they are looking to turn this into their lifelong Pursuits to dimin their and their passion is an insult as members Collective the Board of Education are stewards of the institution both in a fiscal sense but more importantly as exerted from your own mission statement dedicated to the Quest for individual Excellence by fostering high standards of achievement we prepare students to be become responsible and productive members of a diverse Society I realize the board's guidance is predicated on the information you presented with from the administration I call attention to the gap between the black and white of a spreadsheet or a report and the resultant range of gray that is the actual outcome of these these decisions that are made my apologies a spreadsheet can show the elimination of a position as not a remarkable event it can show a popular class being covered by a theater Department member in the interim it can cover one instructor teaching both concert band and Jazz Band classes and it can cover one instructor teaching all the different types of instruments the reality however is that losing a core instructor creates a huge void to the department popular classes such as guitar are popular because it's a filler class it's checking a requirement box for graduation the overwhelming majority of the par participants in that class do not pursue a single music class beyond that classes simultaneous on the schedule due to the departure of Mr Carol right before the school year the classes were already set in stone and they cannot be moved and you know you cannot split the current music director in half to teach them both at the same time so the students lose out one or the other and finally a different expertise is needed for different instruments can your mechanics instructor teach even though they're both considered trades eliminating the position of severely limited class offerings cup programs threaten the cut programs and reduce the competitiveness of our students applying to college without these programs our students are severely hamstrung in their Scholastic opportunities which will have a devastating ripple effect on their ability to attend college and Beyond in closing I would like to ask the board to dive into the details to examine the Fallout of the decision to not refill this position I would ask the board to take into consideration the long-term har to the and provide the students with the proper tools to be able to fulfill your mission statement thank you for your time thank you you any further comments from the public is this um my name is mar I also live on B ter and as my father stated I'm a junior in high point and I'm a very active member of the band recently the assistant B was like has resigned as a student I gathered some testimonies that two students at High Point have given me addressing their opinions on the resignation of the former assistant B director the first testimony is from a senior professional the loss of the and she says the loss of the former assistant fan director isn't just about losing as a teacher personally but rather as his position hasn't been filt it is a detrimental hit to the music department our program was just starting to pick up the pace again and now it feel stunted as a percussionist I was always done teaching myself but now instead of two amazing sources of knowledge I'm trying to get information out of one teacher who has a workload of two now re hiring somebody in the position of an assistant band director puts the band in such a difficult situation and my next testimony is from a senior brass member our director she says our director now has to now do double the work because of this we have to drop things within the band now that the person in the assistant band director position is gone his specialty is now gone too there are members of in the brass section of the band that are brand new to their instruments that I've been able to help teach yes Mr slaming would be able to teach them on his own that he simply does not have enough time along with time he is not specialist in the brass area like Mr Carol was it will be very difficult in the future for us to not have a specialist in the brass area whether whether the work was a part of his job or he volunteered himself doesn't matter what matters is that we had something important to the department and now you don't now the point is the point of this is not about Mr Carol but realizing the true importance of his position and putting someone new in in place with him it is in the best interest the survival to rehire the position of the assistant B director as soon as possible thank you for hearing me thank you thank you you get any comments come through virtual in the any other public comments yeah so we do have a second section public comment section at the end of the evening if anyone listening virtually would like to submit comments uh we will read them um during that section so with that I have a motion to close public comments and the second all in favor any opposed okay turning to our agenda presentations first up is our HPA representative president car good evening everybody I would like to welcome the new board members that are here um I was doing a cross country flagging today it's very interesting anyway that's why I'm dress C out um I want to thank the administration Mr tal Mr Campbell and Mr for it was a it was a 100% better opening this year we felt safe and secure things were in place I know they must have had uh many meetings over the summer to make sure to ensure our safety um it's interesting how when you put rules in place and you you adhere by them and how the students will fall in line and we're on the same page I'm not saying that we don't have things to work on but we do um help as far as the media center is no longer you know a place where you can go eat lunch so during lunch they not need lunch in there so it's academically um restricted which is nice and um the smart pass where teachers are getting used to it the students are getting used to it and we have rors now that are holding iPads and roaming through the hallway so if a student is out they ask them you have a smart pass who are you and they look and make sure that they're in the proper place that they they're passed out to uh we still have to work on the cell phones they shouldn't be in the hallways with their cell phones but you know they hide them everywhere so you know you got to judge what do I do teach teach what I'm teaching make sure you do your smart pass you know so it's it's juggling um it's my 25th year here so I'm still learning but anyway um the staff seems to be comfortable and uh we're assured and supported by our Administration and I look forward to going further as far as what next has to be in place because we're still juggling with the outside influences of you know what and it's scary it is scary a teacher Andor student today because you know you're getting the school threats and but we have to deal day by day um otherwise we're doing good as far as I wear many hats and as an nja executive we're working towards closing the gap of the pension inequities because I'm tier one 25 years and we have people coming in at tier five which isn't fair so at least I'm proud of nja is working on that because you know a situation and it's just the inequities that's involved not your fault it's U gold past things another thing that njaa was very capable of doing is getting rid of sgos for 10e teachers so just non 10e teachers have to do sgos at this point in time which takes a lot of Burden off of the rest of us and that's all I have welcome back thank you next report is our principal report Mr John welcome to uh kyley our student representative Kyle just literally came off the cross country trail with some of that I saw out there as well so it's a long night walk help um as Mr said we had a great opening to our our school year I want to thank all those that are behind the scenes to make that happen we talk about that a little bit in August when we were in the board office but secretari of Staff Transportation staff um the support staff Our IT department Mr Mr toer our security staff most importantly our custodians and maintenance who work around all the obstacles um in terms of making sure that our school is ready to go so um we're very thankful for them what they do every single day and I'm sure without them we wouldn't be the doors open so I want to make sure that we um continue to thank them for all that they do for us on an everyday basis as Mr said too we start strong and we able to end strong that's our goal every single year um people outside of Education ask about what it's like in a school building right and it comes life and usually August we start get students around it becomes more of a school and less of a building I talked about that a little bit in August um the other important part of it is the bookends right September and October and May and June are so important um school and the functioning of the school and getting those book ends set the rest of the chapters and books um so it can flow pretty nicely so it takes a team effort as Mr set our administrative staff and also of course our um teaching staff in the cloud effort to make sure that we get a strong opening we always want to monitor our areas um because we all have areas of growth and we continue to make tweaks along the way um and work with our student leaders Kyle's part of many needs already with the student leaders continue to get that feedback of areas that we can continue to grow on as we continue to to work together our nth grade parent night which was two weeks ago that went very well so some our nth grade parents there um I want to make sure that I thank everybody I want to miss anybody thank you to Chris Jacky Jess Cardinal Becky Sno Chris Dexter Jack McCarthy Brian Dr and Brian Emma for their awesome presentations that they gave to our students we do a those that don't know we do like a three session um informational session for our parents um and they able to Bas the group and they get a welcome and student panel um It's really informative and they ask questions student panel which is always awesome that's different grade levels and then we also have um informational sessions for our parents different than our back to school um so we had about 80 ands that evening um Contin do that which is unique not a lot of schools do a nth grade parent at night we think it's very beneficial to our nth graders many of the parents that were here um that night were first time night grade parents sometimes you go through right at a couple times say okay I kind of got it down but there were many first time their parents there so thank you to all our team for their assistance most importantly we it before Kevin Perry who's not here but hopefully he's listening somewhere um Dan knows this but knows but he is essential about essential workers during the co came up he's essential to our school building every single day I say this to him I say it out loud I say to public um he is doing everything all the time and you don't have to ask what's going on so for he had things set up smoothly running from the volleball game we had that evening to get things set up and then back to the volleball game so he making that up running so I want to give a huge shout out to to Kevin Perry for all that he does um to make sure that when the computers actually push turn on they come on everything works back to school night was last week um as you have seen really postco there's a lower attendance um for those those events people are busy we get that we know that but the the parents that were there are heavily engaged um I had a chance to as my um middle daughter of a sophomore high point I had the chance to follow along the schedule as much as I could in the classes and I just want to say say before um kudos to our teachers um you know what that looks like right as a principal and you appreciate that um when you get to sit in in the seats right as as a classroom um student um see that first thing um we really are blessed every single day and really proud of them and I told them all that um individually as well so that was a great night this week is a big week for us it's Spirit Week our first spirit week of the year homecoming uh game uh um Friday against St and our homecoming dance on Saturday uh in between we have all kinds of fun activities for spirit week uh today was 20 day um in terms of that aspect of it yesterday we [Music] had it's all to me um tomorrow go to backpack day one of the most uh anticipated end days of the year all kinds of requests that come in for that um so we looking forward to that and we have decades day and school col day on um on Friday Monday was Jersey versus Jersey short to get little cative and then we have the Fall Pepper alley first kickoff led by our student council and also our um sports teams our captains are recognized March B is out there playing we're excited about that looks like it's going to be good weather so it'll be out in the football field instead of being inside so that's always a nice thing we also have our first extracurricular a lot of stuff happened in September I'm sorry U our first extracurricular activity Fair um which is going to be on Thursday that's a question I came a lot with gr parents that's the Chang for stud not just nth graders um to go into each gym and see all the clubs that we have to offer um and that's really a great experience because I believe that there's a club and activity for everybody in their building if you want it right it has to be a two-way street um in terms aspect of it that will happen during the lunch we have our first parent University again an evening event for our parents we did that last year our intent was to do three we have a great attendance on the first night but we did do one we had a really good feedback from the parents that were there and our focus on October 10th um at 6 is going to be um you might have heard of this before vaping and substance awareness what that means from a parent perspective um which as uh you know you Google anything right it's it's one of the probably the biggest issue facing um our youth today um and that's a sad situation but we have to be on top of that and the board supported many layers of preventive methods for that and we're also going to be focusing on cell phones and social media um as well as have a portion for ESL students make sure that they have a chance to be part of that as well so that's going to be on intent um College Fair coming up October 2nd that's our first college fa thank you to M Magie Meer coordinates that and our guidance Department um if we get anywhere it depends on the night in terms of where the colleges are in their rotation in the country anywhere from 15 to 75 colleges there two-year colleges and fouryear colleges as as well as um Career technical schools and then in the spring we do our our career it's also run by our guidance department so looking forward to that it's been very successful over the course of the last um couple years on the 23rd of October we're doing a mental fitness program a new program that we're trying here um it's a speaker uh a presentation to our students and also a staff Workshop um and the focus really to to break it down and summarize it right is that we can spend just much time taking care of our our mental challenges that we focus on and breaking those barriers that are there um some of those those roadblocks there for that you spend our physical um Fitness as well so we're looking forward to that and that will be extended day event with our staff and our students the last thing before I transfer over to Athletics is our school food pantry I know many of our board members ask about that on a regular basis we have our food pantry again this year um thankful Mr gley is one of the ones that coordinates that as well as Mr Percy um and also Mrs bang Mrs batt had done that for close to a decade um food pantry was a huge loss so we have a lot of work to do in terms of that we had a first drive already um because as you know in our school communities the need is um extensively high and it continues to be High um so we continue to do those drives we have many families in need immediately in the first couple weeks of school and we we uh jumped into staff je day and the food just pours in um so I'm thankful to our staff for what they do for the outside Community because many people from the outside Community donate on a regular basis as well so we're happy pleas to have that that support Mr D okay Athletics okay uh we have some play P events coming up to mark your calendars for uh field hockey on October 15th um and girl soccer on October 17th and again so those are play pain and KCK The Cure follow those two events there's going to be more as well but those are the two that are set right now our students continue to organize and drive um local charities and they'll they'll raise whether it's $2 or $5,000 doesn't it's coming together as a school Community um for a mission for a goal um and the kids I mean I know I've had kids on a team they go out and get Don they get the sponsors um and they do the work on the ground to make sure that that is is taken care of so those are the two nights that we have set up um our fall Sports is full in action as we said we had cross country today with Ki KI and also L um running into the wi hours of the night I think they may five sit when they finish up pretty close um night so Kyle was one of our seniors that was there in honor as well as Tom Marcel and EV dong so we're excited about that aspect of it um The Fall season is up and running um football has another game come this week girls tennis you saw our coach walk L late game um girl soccer they have games all up field hockey won today I was 21 against Walk Hill um volleyball if you haven't got a chance to watch a vol ball game it is absolutely the most exciting um probably 45 minutes that you can pack gym the last two games pack jym um it was almost like it felt like a wrestling match feel there you know what wrestling matches feel like um it was a rocker crowd and the girls have won three games in a row not teams that they were not expected to beat so pretty fun to watch that growth um and excitedly watch that as well like I said cross country had their seas day today um first week of athletes of the week Maria kazlowski tennis jar marus for football Dylan M for football football and Le Morell for soccer and then last but not least I want to publicly thank um Mr Patrick um and Miss Heather Freeland for Their donation of our flag um and the football field so that is newly installed thank you to Jeff um and Mr McGrath for installing that we saw that pictures actually day today it's beautiful they donated um all of that labor as well as the materials so we're very very excited for that and if you have not to close heard about our Friday Night Lights competition look on the signs out front and trying to uh compete with the local Regional Schools um we're doing a pretty good job with that thank you to Mr Chris detic director who has been organizing that basically what ises that it means that U T-Mobile has devides a really brilliant marketing um experience and they're getting a lot of schools involved with that so the goal is is push it back it's supposed to be this weekend and push it back to October 10th um the more views likes um and posts that you have out there on social media particularly with with their hashtags that they have to be part of um the better it is for them because it generates their increased Reven it's very good marketing and then in turn the school that wins is eligible for a football um Stadium makeover um which is you know upwards of a million dollars plus so right now we've been a to basically reach benchmarks again with Mr dex's leadership of $1,000 and $5,000 um and that's something that we see the bo would also see later on this week with the presentation next year is $25,000 and then I the rep the other day when we had a little student um shout out with him and we had all our father so show me money let's keep it going um so it was excited to be part of that and again it's just a good Community thing to see um our youth lead and our participating something that's good for the overall community and as a busy September that's all we got any questions on any of those than you commission just add thank you certainly um I'd like to thank Mr Jim Rice for his cooperation also to keep us safe and secure thank you Mr Sheamus Campbell with our 2024 njsla results discussion I'd also like to say a great start to the school year 65 de temperatures tail and cheese and some nice music and uh we really got off to a warm our first two days were great lot of collaboration close relationship it's a special day to welcome everyone back Comm to the year I think we did that effec so a really nice our next in service is October 14th and I just want doing many things that day but I want to thanky and Dr Stacey who together put together a workshop for AP teachers distributed everybody sign proud to be able to host a regional event bring in 80 teachers um we have breakfast have coffee and we're going to build relationships teachers teaching the same event so thank you to them for organizing that great event last month I touched on the njsa results because they were relevant to results they've since been publicly released and I will give you a very brief overview of those results here reminder of who takes this assessment freshman and juniors English Math and Science the letter went home last week the letter guided parents on how to access student results and also provided an assessment calendar of all assessments they'll see this year at High Point very important um this is a BRI presentation I'm presenting tonight is on our website right now so anyone in the audience public watch home you go to our website on the right hand side shortcuts 224j results it's actually been updated I apologize under shortcuts it just says assessment results so you just look for assessment results in that location this presentation um Can first important we improve on all three assessments sizable increase in English a nice increase in math and very modest increase in sence we are pleased with this progress but we're far from satisfying if you look at a threee snapshot you'll notice how significant last year's Road was yes there was generally an uptick from 22 to 23 but it was mod where it existed um this year I went back today and I looked at the state results and how much did the state increase and I was very pleased to find that the state results did also increase but our increase far outpaced the state incase so our Improvement is not simply because the state average or the assessments got easier Etc we're outpacing that growth and we are um close to uh in all um the state mean which is by no means our goal as Dr stated last month we're not satisfied with these results we do not strive to the average we want sustained growth and I believe we successfully draft this chart here shows you for each of the tests taken what percentage of students scored at what level so members of the community that U more expensively furb for privacy matters requires that any data point that is U reflects less than 10 students must be blacked out must bepress uh the idea there is if you have three students that are in certain category that the scores are too reflective of those specific students and it could infer uh individual student results so as we see here is less than 10 many of the subgroup categories in our results are locked down nonetheless they're available here for public review um nothing dramatic that I thought warranted conversation evening Algebra 2 we did not have any categories where there were 10 or more so the entire results are um locked down what we typically see in sub groups and I presented this we typically see female students out ping male students in ela something we're working on and we also see um students that are U economically disadvantaged performing less than their peers Le up and we're targeting that as well so we know where the subgroup stres exist and we're focused on trying to see improv uh gradea um science important to note that students with significant disabilities do not take the regular um assessment they have the dynamic learning maps of the DM I think last year we had three students take this assessment so there are no results we can share from again uh I just want to say to anybody watching this evening or anyone down the road who wants any information contact me and all of those um results are listed there when our academic performance report gets released I'll also present to show that not only can you see our results you can see our results going back for 15 years and you can see every district and every school building in the state for 15 years how they did on every single assessment it's pretty easy to navigate um so there's transparency there on the state level and on the local level that's easily accessible again so um please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about those assments questions great one other very quick thing um really happy with our media specialist um this is Michelle aludo she is a magnet for wonderful people and she has a group of students that are just drawn to the media center it's a very warm and liing place for academic study and for um feeling comfortable and and social and so a group of students proach said can we start a new club on the agenda this evening for your consideration is the library Outreach Society um I thought it was clearly written by the students but very authentic and sincere The Proposal basically we want a place where we can hang out in the library decorated have special events um no strict rules about attendance just something to gather around and do positive fun things in the media center about ly so thank you to to these great students organizing okay that wraps up our presentations uh we have two items under other business first one noting that our October board meeting will be changed from October 15th that's the third Tuesday to October 29th the 5th Tuesday I believe uh notices will go out to that effect but this is just notification uh first item under other business otherwise is a recommendation by superintendent that the Board of Education approves Kyle Lansky as the student representative member of the Board of Education as per New Jersey statute as listed uh the duties of the representative shall include attending all board meetings except that a student representative shall be excluded from discussions of a board involving subjects which are confidential two representing all students within the district and presenting student proposals and concerns to the board for its consideration and three keeping students informed of the business of the board by providing a monthly report to the student council concerning the activities of the board I will gladly make that uh motion and have a second second any uh comments or discussion oh we don't have all in favor any opposed okay welcome number two is a recommendation that a board approves a memorandum of understanding between High Point Regional High School and the New Jersey State Police for the 2024 2025 school year actually I will move number two and number three together number three is also another recommendation to approve a memorandum of understanding between High Regional High School Board of Education and the sus County Sheriff's Office for the same year uh so I'll make that I have a second second any comments discussion on items two or three under other business this one I mean sorry a a these are memorandums Mrs di yes Mrs donon yes Mr van Stone yes M ory yes M wise yes M yes m okay now we are at our action items uh curriculum instruction and Technology Mrs Schuman is not here um I will let's see how many do we have for 10 I will first uh note uh items one two and three uh which are the faculty attendance student attendance and the suspension reports uh then I would like to move items one uh excuse me four through 10 uh together for is a recommendation to approve the harassment and intimidation and bullying reports for August 28th and and September 24th 2024 item five is a recommendation to approve the field trips uh listed at the on the attached roster six is a recommendation to approve professional development activities on the attached roster seven is a recommendation to approve the ongoing current enrollment relationships with the following schools as listed and that's extensive uh item eight is recommendation to approve a revised submission approve submission of the revised Perk consenter Tech Grant application for the fiscal year 2025 uh as listed item nine is a recommendation to approve the district nursing Services plan for the 2024 2025 school year and item 10 is a recommendation to approve the 2024 High Point AP Round Table uh as this so that is items 4 through 10 I will make that motion may I have a second okay any comments or discussion on any of those yes yes for 4 through 9 and I will abstain from 10 Miss ory yes Miss Wise yes Mr yes Mr vanstone yes Mr dun yes I turn it over to Mrs ton yeah I'd like to move items one through five the first item is the approval of substitutes as listed uh two is the approval of Alissa ragnet as the substitute athletic director as listed three is the approval of Grace virt to participate in the work experience program as listed four is the approval of all shifts a temporary staffing um for credential School nurses as listed number five is the approval to use swing education which provides substitute teachers in that we cannot secure than you motion seeking second second discussion roll call please Don yes Mr van Stone yes M ory yes M wise yes yes yes Mr D yes uh with the exception of two I have to obain um extracurricular I do that uh under extracurricular I would like to move items one through five one is a recommendation to approve the Cooperative agreement with W Valley High School for 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 uh for voice and boys and girls swimming two is a recommendation approve the baseball team to attend the Florida coast Spring Training Academy March 19th March 202 March 24 2025 uh the trip will be paid for by fundraising parent contributions um and are requesting the board to cover the cost of the school bus to and from the airport not to exceed $1500 uh item three is recommendation to approve the following extracurricular appointments for the current year uh item four is a recommendation to Nick Joes SC and Steve Toro as Volunteer football coaches for the current year item five is a recommendation to approve the creation of Library Outreach Society a new volunteer Club um as listed Michelle will serve as the volunteer advisor so I will make those moot make a motion for through I second any discuss of those appreciate volunteer yes coaches and volunteer advis so true have M yes Mr vanstone yes M wise yes M yes Missy yes Miss pal yes Mr D yes uh we have no policy action items nor do we have any negotiation action items technically don't have any buildings action items but I want to maybe mention that we are coming very close to the conclusion of some major hbac upgrades in the building that uh we would be we will be very happy when they're completed ums Mr Stephan gra and our uh and our staff have done a phenomenal job of managing in getting the building ready around those workers when they were here for the summer and they'll be finishing up shortly where the H on the roof will all have been upgraded and H units new units in the upstairs classrooms will be which is phenomenal most of which more than half of which was funded by uh State gr so we're very pleased to be able to have upgraded facilities to such a degree capacity of community funds and may I also recognize Mr mcra team for our new set of stairs Lely at the uh side of the bleachers um I'm certain that they will be appreciated Friday evening so um so much did the work in housee very talented and very pleased to be able to have an asset most districts do not have so we're very pleased to be able to do that we're looking forward to possibly increasing those uh steps to other locations yes uh so moving to finance uh I'd like to move items one through five together one is a recommendation accept the report of the bu uh Business board secretary business administrator for July and August 2024 two as a recommendation accept the report of the treasurer for July and August 2024 uh three as a recommendation approve the report of transfers a minimum expense transfer report for the month of August 2024 for is the recommendation approve for payment the attach schedule audited bills paid September 24th 2024 item five is recommendation and accept the adult Adult Education Agency account athletic account cafeteria account construction account do uh principal petty cash account scholarship account school store and Student Activities reconciliations for the month of August 2024 and that was 125 so I'll make that motion second coms pleas Mr vanstone yes M ory yes M yes M Jonah yes M pal yes is wise yes Mr dun yes and we have a few um donations that we like to move independently so that we can recognize them item six is a recommendation to accept the high school psychology Outreach Grant the amount of $500 from the American psych uh psychological Foundation applied for by St Runa teacher of psychology to use at our discretion for the 8 ground table workshop I'll make that motion second any comments thank you for your work in applying for that MRSA that M wise yes yes Mr vanstone yes M pal yes Mr Diaz obain Mr Dona yes Mr dun yes item seven is a recommendation that the board acknowledges and greatly accepts a donation of three used Bruns bowling bowls for our bowling team from Karen or a de Phil with an approximate value of $150 make that motion second any discussion Thank you very M wise yes Mrs Diaz yes M yes M palis yes Mr vanstone yes M ory yes Mr dun yes item eight is a recommendation that the board acknowledges and gratefully accepts a donation in the amount of $6,000 from T-Mobile as part of their Friday Night Lights competition to used at our discretion make that motion any comments there thank you to T-Mobile but thank you also to anyone that has a hand in doing what's necessary on social media so that we receive these funds in it's uh let's let's keep it going Mr pal yes Mr van Stone yes M ory yes Mr Don yes M wise yes yes Mr D yes and item nine is a recommendation that the board acknowledges and gratefully accepts a donation in the amount of $2,975 from Patrick Freeland which paid for the installation of a new 25t flag pole by the sport Bo I'll make that motion second any comments thank you yes thank you I haven't seen this in person but I did see a picture um this is amazing I mean we we have had uh um I won't say complaints but comments in the past that our flag position was not ideal and it's being not being lit appropriately in the evening hours and this certainly remedies all of that so we're very grateful for uh this donation proud Mr vanstone yes M Diaz yes Miss ory yes M pal yes M Dona yes M wise yes Mr D yes uh move items 10 and 11 together last item is under Finance uh 10 is a recommendation to author approve and authorize the execution of an agreement between the Sussex County Head Services Commission and High Point School District provide ancillary Education Services for the 2024 2025 school year and item 11 is a recommendation to approve and authorized execution of the following tuition contracts High Point Regional High School as a semi District in the following districts related information they are as listed I will make a motion on those two have a second any comments there wise yes yesy yes M Jonah yes M pal yes Mr van Stone Mr D yes and under transportation I'll turn that over to voy for transportation like to move items 1 through 13 together number one is recommending that the board approved qued contract for burshire transportation the route is to monville high school number two recommend the board to approve thearter contract awarded tow claron the qp3 number three for the board to approve joint Transportation agreement for Choice students to and from for the 2425 school year post is lety Regional High School Joiner is High Point Regional the destination is len Valley Regional High School Number Four recommend a board to approve the joint Transportation agreement to and from Transportation Choice school for host is ptin Regional High School Joiner is high Reg is K number five recommended to approve renal contracts for transportation of students for the 2425 school year DW Clark renal number eight to Lakeland Andover DW Clark and Sons renewal number 12 the school Chapel Hill Academy DW Clark and Sons Incorporated Ral number six to celebrate the children DW Clark and Sons Incorporated renewal number four late Learning Center renal renewal 114 destination is inclusive Learning Academy at Butler High School DW Clark and Sons Incorporated renewal number two destination Chancellor Academy for 2101 and 2102 DW Clark and Son's Incorporated R renewal number two to Newton Medical Center DW Clark and Suns Incorporated renewal number two to Windsor School valy Regional High School BW Clark and Suns Incorporated renewal number one destination Shephard Preparatory High School number six recommended to approve renewal contracts for transportation of students for the 2425 school year to burshire Transportation renewal number n the school is algro school Berkshire Transportation renewal number seven destination is Northern Hills Academy fure Transportation renewal number four L Handover Berkshire Transportation renewal number two it's ESS Valley School Windor school rockberry high school number seven recommended for approval parental contract with the parents of student IDs as listed destination is Jefferson Township High School number eight recommended to approve contract dendon for additional mileage for the 2425 school year DW Clark and Suns Incorporated renewal number one to Shephard Preparatory High School number nine recommend for approval contract theendum for reducing mileage for the 2425 school year Berkshire Transportation renewal number one addendum 2 to Windsor School number 10 recommended for approval contract theendum for additional mileage for the 2425 school year First Student in Lafayette renewal number n addendum One tosex tech charter number recommended for approval contract addendum for additional mileage for the 24 25 school year first student at laet renewal 9 addendum one Sussex Tech charter number 12 recommended for approval joint Transportation agreement for the transportation of students on pum rooms for the 2425 school year as listed and finally number 13 recommended the board approve joint Transportation agreement for the 24 25 school year for the transportation of choice students to and from High Point High School as listed I'm making a motion seeking a second second please yes Mr Don yesy yes yes to all except number seven and for number 12 item recurring to Jefferson Township High School I'm sorry what number it's sing from from seven and from number 12 the line item for Jefferson Township High School M wise yes Mr vanstone yes Mr dun yes uh we have no legal action items so um moving to I don't know copy of that correspondence uh the project self-sufficiency letter regarding Alexander Gonzalez season of Hope okay as I thought it is a thank you doesn't begin to express our gratitude for your generous donation of 100 handmade wooden toyes made by the wood shop students for project self-sufficiency annual season of poloy shop uh your generosity was a deacon of Hope four local families in need uh and that was addressed to uh Gonzalez who is our um uh one of our Tech education wood chop um teachers so just want to acknowledge that thank you Mr Gonzalez under miscellaneous I think we already heard about the two games the pink games and the k for cure the girls wrestling tournament that's a little bit out there so uh in January but we will be hosting the hws girls wrestling tournament on January 5th uh hws comprises 19 schools including High our standing item about school board mandated training is there uh so that brings us to our second public comment section of the evening St roues apply as the first section um don't know that we have we have any additional comments from anybody in the room we did receive two comments less than add one it's about the band yeah so there was a um a comment made or submitted virtually that looks like it may be related to you possibly U again John har parent ban parent and also uh volunteer for the uh the field crew and also helping a little bit of the tech with the percussion um the uh the band went to a competition uh at Sparta the first competition of the year and they had one other uh band in their class they do it by a size of band but they did uh have the top score out of the two and their score best at um a couple of schools that have much bigger bands and uh for the first time I think right for giant Stadium uh October 12th they'll be representing High Point High School at uh giant stadium for um one of the most uh visible uh competitions and we do we are actually preparing for that if you came in and you heard them practicing they practice Tuesdays and Thursdays so that's a real like like I was saying before there's a there's a lot of uh Community uh awareness that happens because of your band and if you can project that quality just like the quality of the of the uh the sports teams and their and their production uh it it really does add a lot to the local community thank you so we had two uh comments submitted to our uh email that were forwarded to me um I was going to offer you Mr har the opportunity you got your your is it your daughter or your wife uh uh faith is my wife okay um I I'll read them I'll read them if you wouldn't mind oh that's great I didn't know she from Faith partage 69 Summit Drive Sussex I am commenting on a band position recently decided to not hire one it was announced playing band class in front of the students which was highly upsetting for my freshman son to hear it was the first thing he told me when he came off the bus this band at one point was full and com competitive in the latter tenure of Harold Wood's Direction it was not required nor inspired toward toward marching band participation you now have a teacher in James aslanian who has the talent and energy to reinvigorate this one's once vibrant program why would you want to stop that having a program and a band show representing your school is good for everyone especially the students who have been working hard to achieve the skills of the individual instruments that they play music is a type of math that has to be learned in and practiced encouraged and inspired it is your job to make sure these kids have the same opportunities that other schools have band kids generally go on to be lawyers and doctors hold White Collar jobs inspiring humans to change the world type of kids if you did the research there is much you will find in Stanford studies Harvard studies that link between science and math encouraged by music studies please consider investing in your music program and give Mr aslanian the teacher uh the kiss he deserves I think thank you uh our second public comment from um hello this is Megan horac uh president of the high point football club I am a Lafayette resident 91 Meadows Road we are very excited for our school Community to have been awarded $6,000 from the first round of the T-Mobile 5K Friday nights uh sweep Stakes as the presence of this competition is to support the football field and all of our Sports and activities that may use the space we are hoping the board and administration will use those funds towards the football field our scoreboard is missing light bulbs and other upgrades could be made the football club is actively supporting the 5G Friday night light social media campaign and have encouraged our feeder program to do so as well which they have been we hope to have public input as to how these winnings will be used to help support the field as a whole for the whole school Community thank you Megan unless we had other ones come in that's all okay uh that was the public comments that we know of so may have a motion to CL public comments motion a second all in favor I any oos okay uh non-committee board member reports or comments if I may I'm just going to start make a plug for the uh sus County School boards Association um meeting on next Tuesday October 1st it is a uh hybrid so uh there's an inperson session in Virtual held at the same time uh if you are interested in attending you can register through your uh New Jersey School Board Association for that event and uh I'll be there as I'll be uh sharing the meeting you SE um that's that's all my comments anybody else okay so under other business just uh well we have nothing under other business that's just the placeholder so with that I'll entertain a motion to uh adjourn motion second all in favor oppos okay we are