##VIDEO ID:XWMuUjeqSto## [Music] good evening everyone we're going to get started welcome to the November 2024 Hoboken Board of Education meeting thank you all for being here if you're joining us this evening to speak on agenda or non-agenda items kindly use the signup sheets located at the podium down in front miss good can you please read the statement of compliance yes this meeting is being held in Conformity to the open public meetings Act njsa 10 col 4-6 proper public notice of the meeting was published in the local papers on January 5th 2024 if any board member or member of the public and attendance believes that the meeting is in violation of the open Public's meeting act the Hoboken Board of Education request that they make a statement at this time the board wishes to make those in attendance aware that this meeting is being recorded on video and will be broadcast by the board at a later date on catv channel 77 and files channel 46 the full meeting recording will also be made available on board docs which can be accessed through the district homepage the Hoboken board of education is committed to preserving the deor of the public process and is mindful that we live in an electronic age of computer cell phone and other electronic communication devices nevertheless we respectfully request that all meeting participants kindly silence their electronic I'm sorry devices during the course of the meeting and if use of the device is necessary we ask that you please leave the meeting room if you need to conduct personal business thank you Miss good please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for [Applause] all as many of you know the city of Hoboken suffered a tremendous loss last last Tuesday with the sudden and unexpected pass oh God Miss we'll do this we do that first with the sudden and unexpected passing of city council president and six ward council meeting councilwoman Jennifer gtino please join us in a moment of silence in remembrance of councilwoman gtino [Applause] thank you and I apologize I skipped over the roll call so miss good can you please read the role Miss Angley here miss katamori here M delira here Mr delator here Mr Grana here M Conor Mr cluel here M Norwood here M mcgury here thank you Miss G returning to the tragic passing of Jen fortino I just wanted to say that she was a friend to this district and to every family in the city of Hoboken Jen was a person who was hyper focused on helping her community and especially seniors and families who were at risk she will be missed and our thoughts and prayers are with her husband Joe her three sons and all who loved her and I don't know if anyone on the board wanted to say a few words if you do you can do so at this time good uh Jen Jen was a a neighbor and uh friend for many years I first got to know Jen actually in 2012 um when I was running for my first term on the OB openen School Board um along with the G Marie Mitchell and uh Ruth tyroller at the time and it was a November morning right after Hurricane superstorm standy uh so everybody was busy doing stuff at home uh but as we were getting ready on Election Day I think it was November 5th that year um Jen shows up with her three boys in toe ready to campaign for us um and I'll always remember that because I know that as as you alluded to aen that uh she she Not only was a brilliant Council woman and a lovely neighbor and spirited Community member uh but also an advocate for good governance and uh quality public education so um I just want I just wanted to share that that sort of a personal connection to the board and to uh public education thank [Applause] you thank you Tom we're going to begin our evening with recognitions for the October students of the month at this time I will turn the meeting over to assistant superintendent Sandra Rodriguez [Applause] Gomez thank you before we begin I would like to honor the brave men and women who have given so much of themselves for the good of our country it is with deep respect and admiration that we thank all veterans for their service and sacrifice welcome to the student recognition portion of this meeting I extend a heartfelt welcome to the members of our Board of Education superintendent Dr Johnson our administrators faculty who may be present certainly community members students and their very special guests their families I stand before you filled with pride as I introduce our talented principles and they take the podium to share detailed information and anecdotes about the students being honored here tonight as October's students of the month these exceptional students embody the value of hard work perseverance and kindness they set a powerful example for their peers and are a true source of Pride and inspiration to their families and teachers each of these students has distinguished themselves through their dedication to learning their positive attitude and their commitment to their school Community their achievements remind us of what can be accomplished with effort and resilience and they motivate us to strive for excellence each and every day we are also very proud of you and C wait to hear about both your academic and social accomplishments we will begin the recognition with the Joseph F brand school and its principal Charles Bartlett he will then introduce the Connor's principal Miss Addie and she will follow the same pattern introducing our next presenters principes Shannon sorine and Petra of Wallace Hoboken middle and Hoboken High School each will celebrate their school's selection and pause for a picture opportunity again thank you for being here with us this evening and with that I would ask principal Bartlett to join me at the [Applause] podium thank you Mrs Rodriguez Gomez and good evening community members Dr Johnson and members of the board at this time I would like to ask Leah dhy to come join me at the podium remember [Applause] congratulations to lead the Brandt Elementary School student of the month for October 2024 Leah is a second grader in Mrs Gardner's class and was nominated by her World Language teacher Miss Lynn miss Lynn said Leah always tries her best to use Mandarin outside of the classroom she greets people in the hallway and even practices what she has been learning during lunch or the passport after school program Miss Lyn also said Leah has been excellent with class participation she can name 17 parts of the body from her head to her toes in Mandarin she says the classroom rules in Mandarin to remind the class to stay focused during instructional time and she also helps her classmates when they are in need Leah's Home Room teacher Mrs Gardner said Leah has flourished in second grade she is consistently following classroom rules as well as making sure that she is on task and trying her best throughout the day Leah is a kind and thoughtful friend and is always always willing to help students when they have a problem to solve Leah is an active participant in the classroom and is always enthusiastic about the new learning topic of the day Leah has a wonderful personality and is full of energy when I see her during the school day no matter if it is in the early morning or later in the afternoon she greets me enthusiastically and helps me see that students are learning having fun and feel comfortable while doing it her energy is best displayed outside of our main office on the student of the month photo board and if you happen to pass by that and see her smile in the picture you will know exactly what I mean Leah's older sister Giana crossed p with me in the hallway when I was working on this speech and when I told her what I was doing she took a moment to say that she was proud of Leah because she works really hard and tries her best at whatever she is doing Leah plays soccer outside of school and is very proud of her team for making it to the playoffs she also likes to play Roblox play video games on her Nintendo and play with her magne tiles her favorite subject in school is math because she wants to get even smarter with it when she grows up she wants to be a nurse because she wants to help people Leah said she is proud of winning this excuse me Leah said she's proud of winning this award I like learning because it is really fun and I want to become as smart as I can be she said well Brandt is certainly lucky to have your enthusiasm and love of learning Leah keep having fun while you learn and keep being a great example to all of our students please join me in congratulating Lea Dy our Branch student of the [Applause] [Music] month at this time I would like to Welcome to the podium the principal of the Connor Elementary School Mrs Juliana Addie at this time I'd like to call up Christian dako our Connor's student of the month Christian Delio was nominated for student of the month by his fourth grade Home Room teacher Miss gwendelyn Rodriguez Christian is an exemplary student Christian has been a Conor koala since kindergarten he was nominated for this honor because he is hardworking thoughtful and helpful both to his classmates and his peers often volunteering when help is needed Christian completes all of his assignments and homework participates in class discussions and strives to be a top student Christian is an asset to the class because he sets an example for class participation and dedic to learning he is kind and friendly to all students and staff his favorite subjects in school are English language arts and Mathematics but he also enjoys art music Mandarin physical education and science which is basically his entire schedule he is a member of the Connor's band where he plays the trumpet in addition he comes to school early once a week to learn how to play the ukulele Christian has many academic and athletic achievements he earned honor roll throughout his entire third grade year and it his it is his goal to continue to achieve honor rooll status throughout his entire fourth grade year in the past he has also won awards for physical education art and Mandarin during our Conor pep rallies outside of school Christian is heavily involved in athletics he started playing baseball when he was 6 years old and currently he is a pitcher and a short stop for the young dem's little league team he plays basketball with Hoboken Elite and in the Recreation League last year his Recreation team competed in the championship game he also has played soccer and Lacrosse Christian is not sure yet where he wants to go to college nor what he wants to study however he knows he wants to play baseball in college his career aspirations are to become a professional baseball player Mr aaro shared that Christian loves music music his ability to grasp new mus music theory Concepts is amazing every time his class is assigned a music theory lesson Christian is always one of the first students to complete his work side note he always receives a perfect score not only does Christian excel at music theory he has a passion for playing the trumpet that is so uplifting and filled with joy his pitch is perfect and he never misses a note I'm so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Christian as a music student and I look forward to seeing and hearing him grow as a musician congratulations Christian rock on from Mr zardo when Christian learned he was chosen to represent Connor's school as District student of the month he said I love being a Connor koala his advice to others Conor other Conor Connor koalas is that whenever they feel or any if anyone ever feels that they can't do it his advice is for just to try your hardest and you will succeed congratulations chrisan on achieving this prestigious award we are so proud of you can everyone join me in a round of applause for Christian Delo [Applause] [Music] [Applause] perect congratulations at this time I'd like to call up Mr Martin Shannon the principal of [Music] [Applause] Wallace we are here tonight to celebrate rockel Baron as the Wallace student of the month for October nominated by her teacher Miss Perez Raquel has shown outstanding leadership and has been a wonderful role model for her kindergarten peers always eager to lend a helping hand she embodies the Wildcat Spirit of kindness and inclusion rockel has been working diligently on her writing and consistently participates in both Ela and math lessons contributing insightful answers and following directions promptly her enthusiasm for learning shines through in every lesson in in addition to her academic efforts Raquel has enriched the classroom and the entire Wallace Community by helping friends with their work and making everyone feel welcome her kindness extends to playtime where she ensures that everyone is included outside of the classroom Raquel loves reading singing and playing soccer at just 5 soon to be 6 she dreams of becoming a singer fashion designer and Dancer when ask about her experience at Wallace she simply said I love kindergarten let's hear it for rockel our Wallace school soon of the mar [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and next I would like to invite principal sorin of the Hoboken Middle School to the [Applause] podium thank you Mr Shannon good evening everyone please welcome emran gasal pook and middle school student of the month for October 2024 Emron was nominated by his Ela teacher Miss rosm who describes him as an exceptional student in every way from the moment he steps into class amran's commitment to Excellence is clear he's always prepared with his materials and homework ready fully engaged in every lesson in ela Amron is both attentive and insightful bringing thoughtful ideas to discussions and staying focused on each task these qualities shine in his social studies class as well where he's respectful responsible student who's always ready to learn and engage with his Pairs and teachers emran's work ethic translates to his grades as well he's consistently achieves at high level challenging himself to excel across all subjects he's even enrolled in cty showing his drive to push himself even further amon's impact at hobok middle school goes beyond academics he embodies kindness respect mindfulness setting a positive example for everyone around him he greets everyone in the hallway follows our school expectations and is a wonderful representation of our core values his respect and empathy for both his teachers and classmates make him an invaluable part of our school Community Mr Tam tamber Am Ron's math teacher speaks highly of him as well he describes Amron as a natural leader willing to help willing to lend a helping hand and quick to grasp new mathematical Concepts always eager to help others learn Mr tamber also had the pleasure of of seeing Amron Excel on the cross country team where he's been a standout in long-distance running consistently placing in the top five in our meets amon's combination of academic excellence and athletic Talent make him a role model for his peers his infectious personality and posat look will carry him far behind Beyond his academic career emran's friends JP and Gavin also had some words to share JP describes Emron as thoughtful and caring friend who always there when he when you need him most and also as a talented soccer player showing him how well-rounded he is Gavin e Gavin Echoes JP's words adding that Emron is an honest genuinely good person it's clear that Amron isn't just an outstanding student he's a loyal and supportive friend when Emron found out he' been selected as student of the month he was generally surprised he thought he might earn grade level recognition but expect to be chosen for the entire School in his free time Amron loves playing sports especially as part of hobok Middle School's first ever cross country team as well as hoboken's City soccer team when he grows up he aspires to become an engineer given his strengths in math and science Amron you embody the best of what it means to be a Hoboken Middle School tiger and I can't wait to see all the great things that you'll continue to achieve please join me in a round of applause for us of the month for October am [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] at this time please welcome Miss Petra the principal of Hoboken High School good evening everyone unfortunately my student of the month yelin Dominguez will not be able to join us tonight but she is going to join us next month she had a soccer dinner and the girl soccer team did had such a fabulous year I did not want to pull her away but I'm going to share just a snippet of what people had to say about her this young lady this is me this young lady is one of the best that walks the whole at Hoboken High School she is a student that is loved and admired by her peers teachers and administration because she gives 150% to all she does Mr mcau shared that yelin is an outstanding student in the video and the connected World 2 class she has given everything she has to her screenplay storyboard and directing our latest production she has also shown the True Entertainment spirit of The Show Must Go On after injuring her leg she still comes to class focused on the production and without any complain yelin is not just the student of the month but the director of the year so congratulations on this honor well earned she's an outstanding student who participates in class and completes every assignment if she misses a class she Advocates and checks in with me to find out what she has missed she extends kindness to her class classmates and participates in the school Community she is bright who is committed inquisitive and insightful and empathetic she always brings A New Perspective to consider during class discussions she's involved in Hispanic culture club agapy club soccer National Honor Society Ana tutoring craft supervisor supervisor at elementary school dance and she works as a teacher's aid in a daycare I look forward to celebrating juin at our next Board of Ed meeting congratulations [Applause] juin congratulations to everyone who was recognized this evening we are so proud of you and we cannot wait to see what the future holds for you we'd now like to welcome the representatives from the Hoboken Middle School Leba Newfield and Avery battles up to provide us with an update on everything that's happening at HMS good evening Dr Johnson Miss Rodriguez Gomez hobokin Board of Education and all others and attendance tonight my name is Avery battles and I'm an eighth grade student here at Hoboken middle school and I'm Leba Newfield also an e8th grade student at Hoboken Middle School it is a privilege to be here this evening to represent our school and share the exciting events and programs from the first marketing period at h Ms first we'd like to highlight our vibrant Club offerings which include artists Corner GSA best buddies student council the academic team National Junior Honor Society debate team entrepreneur Club Junior thespians band chorus classroom Without Walls River Keepers and more allow us to share some highlights from a few of these our best buddies program continues to Foster inclusivity and compassion at hobak Middle School this year we are thrilled to have Miss Kristen baroff and eighth grade student K buerman represent us in the best buddies champion of the Year campaign through their efforts they are helping fund initiatives that build meaningful friendships create employment opportunities and provide leadership training to advocate for those individuals with intellectual and developmental problems we are proud that Miss baroff and keani will be honored this Friday at Best Buddies Gala in tatua New Jersey let us wish them luck as they continue this important work another exciting new program is our entrepreneur Club where students explore the world of business develop creative ideas and gain hands-on experience in this club students learn key skills like problem solving teamwork and financial literacy and they even run our school store we can't wait to see the Innovations our students will bring to HMS and the impact they'll make on our school Community we are excited to introduce our first ever Middle School sports program this fall HMS athletes have proudly represented our school through girls volleyball girls soccer boys soccer and co-ed cross country these student athletes have shown incredible dedication balancing practice and game schedules with their academic responsibilities each practice in every game has helped some grow stronger and more skilled we invite our HMS Community to keep up with our Weekly Newsletter for upcoming winter sports and announcements including boys and girls basketball wrestling and co-ed swimming additionally Hoboken middle school has launched a new co-ed athletic training program for our sixth graders in collaboration with prime athletic development this program focuses on functional movement speed strength and conditioning in a positive and structured environment helping our younger students build a foundation in phys physical fitness and teamwork academically we had a schoolwide reading of four perfect Pebbles a memoir by Maran Blumenthal lazan recounting her experiences as a holocaust Survivor in this powerful book Maran shares her memories from Nazi concentration camps and her ritual of finding four perfect Pebbles to represent her hope that her family would survive together this past month we were honored to host Mary and Blumenthal laan herself at HMS where she shared her story with us directly answering our questions and inspiring us with her message of resilience hope and tolerance we also enjoyed our annual Fall Festival on October 18th a celebration that brought together students families and staff for games pumpkin painting and fall activities it was a fantastic event that highlighted our school spirit and sense of community thank you to everyone who participated and helped make it a success looking ahead we're excited about the upcoming PTO Bingo night on January 16th and hope to see everyone there thank you h board of education for allowing us to share these updates we look forward to keeping you informed about our achievements and activities in the coming [Applause] months thank you so much for that very thorough update ladies I'd like now like to ask our representative from Hoboken High School Jenna Serio to uh provide us with an update from all the good things happening at HHS [Applause] good evening my name is shenna Sero and I'm the Hoboken High School student government representative and thank you for having me this evening for General events on October 23rd Hoboken High School held their annual Showcase of Excellence from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. students helped represent their favorite clubs and organizations through booths and tables on the 24th Hoboken High School hosted their seventh annual Powderpuff game held at the tagy stadium this year our Juniors defeated Ed the seniors in a really close game 14 to 13 and while it was a heated match our Juniors and seniors continued to show support for each other and shake hands at the end emphasizing that we are still one big Redwing family on the 29th we held a bake sale in order for breast cancer winess it was very successful and delicious later into October the junior class had held a popcorn fundraiser from the 26th to the 23rd where students and parents had the opportunity to purchase bags of popcorn for their class in which all the money would go towards dos and trips it was also extremely successful raising hundreds of dollars on Halloween we hosted our annual Halloween costume contest with different categories of funniest best group cutest Duo and more many of our Red Wings had a blast with some even choreographing dances to go along with their presentations for clubs our National Honor Society has been very active in both our school and Community we are currently making t-shirts providing many service opportunities for members such as can food drives shelter shelter help and tutoring our math and bi Olympiad clubs are focused on studying for upcoming upcoming competitions yba club and literary magazine are working hard on their projects with literary magazine running a raffle for a Stanley Cup and posting a fall writing contest for our students and there will also be one in the spring for future events to look forward to on the 21st we will have our Student Government induction ceremony held in the auditorium on the 14th the student government will plant flags for our field of hero events after school followed by the ceremony the day after be sure to spread the word and please show up if possible registration is currently open for our first annual holiday cookie competition the event will be held on Sunday December 15th at 2:30 p.m. if you interested in being in the contest please contact Mr Munos at Hoboken High School the student government and National Honor Society in conjunction with the Hoboken Community Center is hosting a canned food drive that's running all of this week and for sports just a quick shout out to the girls tennis team for being County Champions thank you very much for this opportunity to speak and we look forward to seeing you at our events and as always go Red Wings thank you so much for that very informative report we're now going to turn it over to Dr Johnson for her superintendence report if anyone needs to get home for a early bedtime we understand if you need to sneak out as we all get situated she want us to sit down there Goa that's M that's right mine's getting earlier and earlier it's not that I'm getting old it's a place to get to work at I don't know why classes don't start until 8800 she wants to go but she do get organized and stuff so she just sets the alarm for 5:00 every [Applause] [Music] day so we put it there so you guys could see it as well so it make it a little easier yeah but if you feel like you can see it you can it it's okay I my glasses [Applause] so something [Applause] okay okay uh so uh this evening we have um a student achievement presentation which is really uh a sneak peek uh to what families are going to see at each of the schools um and each of the schools there'll be a little bit of a a more um in-depth presentation because it'll be um more disaggregated data more um specific to each individual School each individual grade in the schools so tonight what you're going to uh see is more of an overview of our districtwide data um once the schools do their presentations we will put both the district presentation as well as the school's presentation on the district website so um we'll start off with um just an overview of enrollment um because this this does play uh a role in our student achievement data so in terms of our enrollment data um what you can see in front of you is a breakdown of our prek um enrollment data from 201920 all the way through uh 20242 you can also see our enrollment data for kindergarten through fifth grade you can see our Middle School data from grad 6th through 8th grade our high school data 9th through 12th grade you can also see our uh total kindergarten through 12th grade data and our grades uh prek through 12 data so just to give you um a little overview I think the best thing to do is to focus on our uh pre- 12th grade data to start so you can see that in 2019 2020 our prek through 12 um enrollment uh showed a um number of 3,99 students and as of uh October 15th 2024 2025 our enrollment data was 3,667 students um you know often times people will talk about the fact that it's our kindergarten through fifth grade data that's increasing or it's our prek data that's increasing but um if you take note of for example our high school data we see an increase from 201920 from 426 students to 653 students um in in a matter of uh 5 to six years so uh if anyone has questions on the enrollment at the end of the presentation um any board members I'd be more than happy to answer those questions so now let's move into njsla Data so njsla is the state assessment that's administered to um all students in the state of New Jersey in uh Public Schools uh it's administered to students in third grade uh through 9th grade um and it's administered in English language arts mathematics and in science and so what I did was I I put some data together for you so you can see where our students uh started in 201516 and where they uh ended in 20123 24 there are a couple um years that you'll see between 2019 um and 2021 that don't exist but that's because of covid um and the pandemic um halted testing for a few years it's kind of interesting just to point out that um back in 20156 and 16 17 you can see that the district um was um underperforming in terms of the state's average um but then right around that 20189 Mark we made the crossover um and our Trend just continued to um increase and so now you can see that um our students um in grades uh 3 through 9 holistically in English language arts are outperforming the the state of New Jersey's average um what I did here for for all of you is just to provide you with a breakdown of the English language arts data by grade level so that you um could actually see where we are in each grade from 3 all the way through 9ine so you can take a look at that and while you're looking if anyone has any questions you if you want to jot them down by all means you could do so and then we'll come back to them at the end of the presentation on this next slide um what I provided for you was our data collectively at the elementary school level the Middle School level and then the high school level so that you get a sense of you know how in from 2022 to 2024 how are we doing um in terms of our performance uh kind of compar to our eles over over those three years so you can see where we are the high school has made some um wonderful uh progress in the last three years now we go into District subgroup data and what I would like to uh draw your attention to so Board of Education members in front of you there is a um a stapled uh piece of paper um two pieces of paper the first one has math data uh the second sheet of paper has Ela data so the reason that I provided this data to you is because the state of New Jersey has provided districts with um disaggregated data for both subgroups and programs so when we talk about subgroup data we're talking about um a breakdown of of students in terms of uh race and ethnicity and when we talk about program data we're talking about data in terms of um students um who fall into um different categories such as um uh free and reduced lunch status 504 status elll special education or general education the state of New Jersey does not release Statewide averages so I'm not able to provide you with the overall States average yet um that probably won't be until maybe early spring that I can provide you with the state ad averages but what I was able to do was just pull um some District presentations off of their websites that they've done over the last couple weeks and I tried to give a little bit of a range so uh you'll see there's a comparison uh of hoboken's subgroup data and um program data in comparison to I selected Tom's River North Arlington and Robinsville because it kind of gives you a little bit of a range of of districts in terms of um demographics so you can see that in mathematics um you can kind of see where where we're performing now please understand that these numbers um from the other districts do not represent the state's averages it just represents those school districts averages but I wanted to be able to give you a little bit of a a comparative view um and you can take a look at our program data so um I know a few of you were asking me some questions about our um economically disadvantaged students in mathematics and our special education students in mathematics and how they compare so you can get a little bit of a sense of how they compare against these three districts um and in terms of mathematics for example at the middle school level we're we're kind of um tackling the achievement Gap with our um economically disadvantaged students by providing a intensive um uh math Intervention Program during the school day um and so that's happening three days a week and um it started in October and it's going to run all the way through May and so we're really curious what our um economically disadvantage data will look like next year after this intensive program if you turn the page you'll see our subgroup um and program data for English language arts and um if you drop yourself your your eyes down to the program data uh piece you can see um that our special education students where they're performing um versus these three other districts you can also see our 504 students are doing extremely extremely well um and you can see um where our um elll students are are performing as well so again this is um not necessarily part of the official presentation but I did want to provide Board of Ed members with a little bit of comparison so you can see um what the subgroup and District program data looks like I also wanted to provide you with um our data uh for something called access testing not sure how many of you are familiar with access testing but if you're not familiar with it this is the testing that we use for our elll students and um we are required to uh report out what the access testing data looks like and so you can kind of see from 2021-22 we have 15% of our students in all grades because access testing um is administered across all grades uh 15% actually scored over um 4.5% and in a matter of 2 years years you have you can see uh an increase um to up to 35% and we attribute some of that to our um uh not only our elll program but also our reading interventions that we're implementing in our classes um next you can see our njsla uh data for mathematics and similarly to the njsla data for ELA you can kind of see both at that same time that 201819 time period you can see where the district is really closing in on uh the state's average and you can see where we ultimately cross over and begin to outperform the state and you can see that we are continuing to do so in 2023 24 um if you go to the next slide this is kind of interesting because um the data looks like it's um um kind of inconsistent um but I provided you with some notes on the right hand side of the slides just to give you a little bit of um some context so in 8th grade in mathematics our students have two different um types of mathematics that that they can participate in they can either take uh eighth grade a general eighth grade mathematics class which focuses predominantly on pre-algebra or they can take um Algebra 1 one in 8th grade interestingly you could see that our eighth graders that are taking Algebra 1 are far far far outperforming uh the state's average um and someone asked me at one point about how many kids is that and what is that really equate to so 56% of the 8th grade students last year took Algebra 1 um in 8th grade and um you can almost see the same phenomenon happening at the n9th grade level so at the n9th grade level um the students who are in Algebra 1 in 9th grade are the students who were in um General mathematics in 8th grade these are uh our students who um do show and exhibit some challenges in the area of mathematics and this is an area that we are absolutely working on but interestingly you could see that um 46% of n9th graders are actually taking geometry and out of the um 54% of the n9th graders who took Algebra 1 last year 20% of of those students were school choice and did not um attend our kindergarten through 8th grade program so I thought it was kind of uh interesting to provide you with a little context there uh here you can see our um Elementary our middle school and our high school level mathematics data so you could take a peek at that and then we jump into the district's subgroup data and also um The District's program data and again um in front of you um on the uh Little Packet that I gave you you can actually uh take a look and see the comparison um of the Hoboken School District um versus uh districts such as Tom's River and North Arlington and Robinsville um in terms of the uh math and Ela data it is important and and I would like to report out that um based on the data that I've been able to gather I think we will continue and we have continued to maintain the um highest performing Ela and highest performing math status uh for traditional K to2 districts in Hudson County based on the 2023 24 data as well um and recently I uh saw an article a few few of um of the administrators pointed out an article to me recently um about some of our local um school districts um uh kind of reporting out perfect scores on the njla and I thought it would be important to see that um in our grades 3 through 8 we had 48% uh 48 students scoring uh a perfect score on the njla and 16 students in math and comparatively speaking and from a percentage uh perspective um that's considered to be a pretty pretty good percentage based on on our number of students we also had 11 students at the high school score uh perfect scores as well but I didn't include that in the data because comparatively speaking it would have skewed the data um I also wanted to provide you with um some information regarding our cty program and I've I've reported out on this before we've discussed it in I think our curriculum committee meeting and I've talked about this with some of our administrators but um uh myself and Miss Rodriguez Gomez and um Miss scudo are going to be um beginning shortly a pretty intensive review of our gifted and talented program at the elementary level um we've been getting some really good feedback from parents um with some um recommendations and some some feedback and recommendations from staff about how to enhance the program a little bit how to diversify the program in terms of offerings for students um so that it isn't uh solely uh cty offerings um and however um we have noticed a really strong correlation between our CT data and as you can see from 201617 to 20242 you can actually see the um pretty dramatic increase in the number of students participating that data correlates pretty strongly with the number of students who are um falling in the exceeding category on the njsla so um we do want to make sure we keep that in mind um we thought it was kind of interesting to to let you know that um in 2016 we had 12 students registered for English language arts in John's Hopkins uh Center for talented youth um and in 2024 uh we have 192 students participating in mathematics we had the same 12 students in 2016 and we have uh now 287 students that are participating in taking John's Hopkins classes in mathematics so now on to some High School uh data so um I selected just a few years so you can kind of get a sense longitudinally where we stood and where we stand now in terms of PSATs and and msqt averages so you can see back in 20156 we fell right in the uh lower part of the 800 score level 8115 in 2023 24 uh we showed an average of uh 9942 and that um I'm not sure if everybody knows this but we do administer the PSATs to 9th 10th and 11th graders at Hoboken High School you can see our SAT average from 2015 2016 um we were at 904 in 20156 and in 2023 24 uh our average Rose to uh 1044 and now on to some of our AP programs um I selected a couple years as well back in 20178 uh we had 21% of students participating in AP program score uh a three or higher and as you know scores of three or higher um typically indicate uh college readiness um and can be used by colleges and universities um to bypass a particular class for credit um and in uh 2023 24 our percentage Rose to 79.6% um and on the next slide I you know we talk about it a lot from the perspective of overall um scores of three or higher um but often we don't really break down so you get the opportunity to see which classes you can see some growth in so I I wanted to provide you with some numbers um by class so I gave you uh 2020 um averages and these are the averages of all of our students that um took these particular AP classes and then you could see what the averages were in 2024 so you can get a sense of the growth um and and I have had people ask well that's great but um has has the enrollment increased has the enrollment not increased in our AP program and the number of students taking AP classes has dramatically increased at Hoboken High School um this is a really um nice um summary of our AP program growth on the basis of Scholars um and Awards in the AP program and if you just draw your attention down to the bottom where it um shows you the number of total scholars in 2019 um in that testing year we had seven total scholars in the AP program um and in 20 uh 24 we had 77 um it's not only at the high school are that we are focusing on College um board work at our Middle School we also have students participating in um pre-advanced placement courses our Algebra 1 course at the middle school is a preap course um we also have a pre-ap offering um in world history um in um 8th grade and then we also have um the Performing Arts uh preap courses so you can see the increase in the number of students participating at the middle school in the preap courses from 82 and 2021 122 uh to 156 in 2023 24 and the primary goal for um introducing the preap courses at the middle school is really to provide students with an opportunity to experience the um advanced placement curriculum um and the rigor of those programs so that when they get to the high school level they're not necessarily intimidated by the possibility of taking a class and they're more apt and likely to do so and we certainly see um on the basis of our ninth grade AP uh programming that many students um are are certainly willing to take the plunge and jump into AP coursework um I I wanted to provide you with also a little bit of um a background on the US News and World Report rankings so you can see that in 201819 our ranking um um high school ranking nationally was 8,618 um that ranking has Rose to 3,793 in 2023 24 at the Tri-State level um we've uh increased from a a ranking of 584 to a ranking of 372 and our Statewide ranking has risen from 265 to 155 um we also have some shoutouts and I'm not going to go through all the athletic components but I will provide you with a little bit of um an overview of some of our academic um accolades um the international schools Olympic uh academic Olympiad that we participated in last year I know you remember the board meeting when kids were given medals and it seemed like a lot of students but um we had over 300 hobokin Public School students participate in the uh international schools academic Olympiad and we had 109 Medals of excellence and 12 Medals of international distinction um also um wanted to report out that all five uh schools in the district um have earned the ability to display the US News and World Reports best uh schools ranking uh badge as they call it um and so you will be seeing um those badges um in the form of signs at each of uh the schools after this meeting all five of our schools also earned the uh Lighthouse uh distinction uh through the Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence and um it's something that was extremely extremely important to our principals um and to myself and our assistant superintendent um our schools worked extremely hard staff members participated in numerous meetings with um assessors that were on site um the assessors uh administered surveys they spoke with individuals and we've reported this out before um it also included a uh pretty thorough review of our student achievement data our disaggregated data um and um provided an opportunity for our principles to uh work with an assessor on developing action plans for continuous Improvement it was a fairly rigorous process um and I think uh all of our principles feel very strongly about having gone through the process and um it's interesting because after we completed the process you will now begin to see more and more schools in New Jersey and New York um who were right behind us in this process um in fact lenp Valley just recently was awarded the lighthouse distinction um Blue Ribbon distinction and um there are a few other New Jersey schools that will also be um awarded in December um I've put on on a few of the next slides um some accolades in the area of theater uh music and marching band you can take an opportunity and look at this when we post these on the website uh once again um we were from 2021 through 2024 named uh best community for music education by the Nam Foundation um we have some great accolades in the in the area of basketball um we had our head basketball coach in 2024 was named the national division coach of the year uh we had some great accolades this school year in 2024 in boy soccer and in girl soccer as well and we certainly give a shout out to our um head Varsity soccer coach Victoria Gemma for being named coach of the year as well um and for the team winning the um uh conference Championship in tennis as you heard earlier um from Jenna our high school representative our tennis team um earned the distinction as uh Hudson County Champions and uh we give a shout out to Diana rienzo as well she was named uh conference coach of the year as well um and our volleyball team um has had a great two years of a a run um uh coach Fernandez was named Hudson County National division coach of the year last year in 2023 last year the girls uh made it all the way to the central group one girls volleyball championship we lost a heartbreaker to um New Providence uh was it New Providence who did we lose to last year who was it d d oh oh yeah denan um yeah and in 20 24 which is this year we also won the conference Championship but uh we competed in the central group one state sectional final today um and we lost in in two sets it was a a heartbreaker so um girls are are pretty upset about it but they'll be back next year team is growing and it's building we had some football highlights for this year so you can see that um Jon Walker um and um jalis Reyes and Isaiah blanks all had um statistics this year that rank them um in the New Jersey uh stats leaderboards so uh we're we're happy about that and you can see that our football team is um um uh kind of in a in a building block stage um but we look forward to great things to come from them and we also want to give a shout out to Brand Elementary School for being selected to participate in the Rucker promising practices project regarding mathematics achievement um and we should be seeing more of the Publications regarding their work uh pretty shortly and then lastly um in terms of pandemic recovery it's kind of interesting because um there is a body of work um out there um that has produced an education recovery scorecard um and as a result of the work um that we did during the pandemic um our student achievement data looks really interesting nationally um in comparison to a lot of other districts and so you can read a little bit about the project and the education recovery scorecard um it's it's a body of research um put forth by Tom Kaine at the center uh for Education policy research at Harvard and Shan Reen at Stanford's education opportunity project and um their data and their scorecard it's really interesting because you can put uh your District in and you can compare your District uh to other districts across the country and um we're waiting for them to put the uh 2024 data up um so far we have 2023 data we've had it for reading but we didn't have it for math so you can kind of see where we Stack Up and um how we've done nationally since the pandemic um you can see an upward Trend in the area of reading in grades 3 through 8 um which is the only grade level band that the scorecard um uh uses for their research uh they don't include High School uh data and then uh you can kind of see here each grade I mean each year where um you can see changes and all of our uh data um on the hobo Bing column is showing a positive trend while uh New Jersey and similar districts in New Jersey show a little bit of a more inconsistent Trend and then in mathematics uh they have finally uh included the math data and you could see where we stand in mathematics as well and where you see the dots uh the DOA lines is is during the pandemic when there was no data collected as a result of no testing and then you can also see once again um the trends and you can see where Hoboken stands in terms of our positive Trends upward where you can see New Jersey and similar districts in New Jersey's uh Trends are a little bit more inconsistent than than ours and so um at this time I want to give uh the board an opportunity to potentially ask some questions that you might have um if you don't have any questions I would definitely um encourage you to uh take a look at the school's testing reports once those are posted um because you will get a probably a better perspective on um grade level by grade level in the schools um and once we get those like I said we'll we'll post all of those but for now districtwide does anyone have any particular questions that you would like to ask ask or um have any comments anything I have a comment um so my family started out in the Hoboken Public School District in 2010 and before I say this Dr Johnson thank you for this amazing presentation because it's great to see all of this in one place but um when I started off you know with a child in prek in 2010 I could have never imagined what you just showed us tonight um and that was actually part of the reason I decided to volunteer my time um as a board of education member um because I support public education and wanted the best for all students in Hoboken um but seeing all of this in one place and the successes and the opportunities that our kids are given it makes me so proud and so grateful for all that you have done since you have been in Hoboken um and I see us going even further um under your leadership so thank you Dr John [Applause] here thank you Dr Johnson for your superintendent report we really appreciate it at this point in time we will trans no questions from anyone else on the board just going once going twice okay we'll transition into committee reports miss good do you have a business administrator report this evening no thank you we'll go to Mr gr for curriculum thank you um tonight's uh action and consent jenda items are as follows 9.01 which is a we discussed in committee it's a memor memorandum of agreement between fairly Dickenson University for dual enrollment um which is a program attending of applicable classes at the high school level have access to college level courses and activity with fdu it's the longest running Duel of rment school in New Jersey and we want to partner to create Academy programs that allow access to fdu um services for um participating in high school students 9.2 which is the submission of the Innovative dual enrollment pilot Grant in the amount of $93,000 we have applied previously uh the grant has moved from the um switch levels of government and so we are approving the approval tonight to vote Yes is to reapply reapply submission of the NJ dooe artificial intelligence Innovation and education grant in the amount of $75,000 this is an inmigration Grant to help us plan for how AI is implemented in our schools uh 9.4 is the submission of the threeyear preschool program and updates we submit the this every year and 9.05 committee requests your approval for the approval of um high school trips thank you very much than to you thank you Mr gr we'll now go to Mr delator for facilities facilities committee met on Wednesday November 6th in attendance were Dr Johnson Mr cigie miss mcer stara Mr Gana and myself all agenda items were discussed we recommend all for approval a few few notes uh the safety doors at Connor and Brent Elementary have been installed and are functioning properly Hoboken High School and Wallace Elementary safety doors have been measured and ordered the install date is still being determined uh our new school bus has been received currently uh our new job coach is working toward her Cel the current buses housed at tger stadium have reached their useful life and have been auctioned off and will be removed shortly lastly we are awaiting pricing SL quotes from vendors to retrofit and install the netting around Hoboken middle school now that the scaffolding is coming down more information to come on that front thank you thank you Mr delator uh I don't know Miss kan's not here this evening did she pass off the finance report to someone she asked me to uh give the report thank you Mr Club you're welcome uh the committee did meet uh along with all the other committees on Wednesday November 6th uh with me were Dr Johnson miss good M Lopez Miss catori Miss Angley and Miss Conor um it's a short agenda this evening uh there's nothing unusual uh and the board did review and recommends all for approval thank [Applause] you thank you Mr Kel we will now go to governance with Miss katamori thank you governance committee met on Wednesday 6 2024 in attendance were Dr Johnson Miss Norwood miss mcer m Mr clell myself committee discussed um all agenda items and recommends them for approval um today's agenda includes among other things the following items um 10.01 through 10.07 includes the acceptance of various resignations appointments recisions and modifications to appointments um of certificated staff and um Power Professionals for their current school year 10.08 through 10 10.12 and 10.14 through 10.15 approve the appointment of and related stiens for additional co-curricular advisors at WS Conor the middle school and high school as well as after school CST personnel as well as our theater and athletic departments as well as uh Personnel for our theater and athletic departments 10.17 approves the HIV self assessments performed by each of the district schools on October 24th 2024 and 10.20 covers a sidebar agreement to the contract between the board and the h regarding the addition of the position of job coach at the H workiz and that is my report thank you thank you Miss camor will now move on to Wellness from Miss Norwood just a minute thank you the wellness committee met on Wednesday November 6th in attendance were Dr Johnson miss mcer Mr delator Miss delara and myself there is one wellness policy on the agenda item 7.01 which the committee recommends for approval and the committee also discussed a number of other items on the agenda is the first reading of revised policy 5350 this is a revision to the district Suicide Prevention policy which requires a mental health professional to sign off on a child returning to school after a threat of self harm to ensure that that student has been cleared by an appropriate professional a list of free resources are available to those that may not have um otherwise access to uh these types of medical professionals Church Square Park safety has been a topic in our community and in light of these recent incidents in the park the administration is reached out to the hobooken police department to discuss safety issues in the park we note that the park is city property but many students are in or through the park before and after school we do look forward to being a part of the ongoing Community conversation about safety in the Park food philosophy program with Melissa benese um this uh course has been led by the baked by Melissa founder and the hbook and public schools and it kicked off on October 25th there are four sessions in the program which seek to empower students to make informed choices about the food they eat by understanding its nutritional value and its effects on their well-being the course includes Hands-On activities meals that align with session topics and the program uses produce from The District's aquaponics units the first session was very well received the District student assistant counselor Gina Mata is handling the annual receipt of and training of staff on Naran kits that are provided every year by the county at the end of the school year the kits are returned to the county there are um we're considering new sports uh for school year 2025 to 2026 Administration is sending out parent surveys to elicit interest thank you very much thank you Miss Norwood I have a brief president's report this evening I wanted to start out first of all um just saying thank you to Dr Johnson for putting together such a wonderful comprehensive presentation for us on the njsla data but also all of the ancillary achievement data and I know you miss Angley mentioned it earlier I don't think any of us sitting here could imagine this District would be where it is today um going back 10 or 12 years ago so thank you for all the hard work that you've put into getting the district to where it is these results are a product of a robust commitment from Educators administrators students and parents all of us up here remember the times when Hoboken was a low performing School District the road from that point to where we are now has not been a smooth or an easy one challenges both internal and external have been overcome all with the goal of best servicing every single student in this district and I think in looking at those results from this evening it it really shines through that this is a district that is doing its best to service every student and if something isn't working we're going back to the drawing board and you and your team are figuring out another approach and I think that's something that should be commended investing in our teachers and students yields really tangible results and I I personally am so proud of the work that's been done here think I can say that on behal of everyone who's sitting up here but I want to emphasize that this work continues it's not something that's done it's a school district is a living breathing organism and I know from the conversations we've had already this fall that you and your team have some really amazing things planned for the future but I personally want to thank each and every teacher and administrator for their tireless commitment to our students it does not go unrecognized to our principes who are here great I wish there were more people here for you but we're so proud of all of you and lastly this weekend there is a great opportunity to see our high school students on the stage performing The Broadway classic a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum the show opens Friday at 7 p.m. and will continue through the weekend with two performances on Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday please come out and support our amazing theater Department I think the show is going to be fabulous and it's a great way to get to you know engage in some fun and arts locally right here in Hoboken so next we will go to public comments on agenda items and before we get started I'll read my disclaimer over the years and most recently the board has been asked why it does not prohibit or stop comments about School District employees from individuals who speak during the public comment portion of the meeting the short answer answer is that the law prevents the board from censoring comments made about District Personnel the board does not condone nor is the board a party to comments as such however just because a speaker may have the right to say what he or she feels it does not absolve that speaker from liability for any comments that could be viewed as defamatory by an employee should speakers say something that subjects them to a civil suit the responsibility Falls squarely on the speaker and not on the board board policy requires that all speakers please state your name Municipality of residence and business affiliation if any speakers are allowed 5 minutes and vice president engley will quietly motion when you have 30 seconds left please address all comments to the chair board policy states the board welcomes comments on matters of interest to the board but this is not an opportunity for dialogue or debate between speakers and board members or the superintendent Miss W this is so funny that you give that presentation but you fail to mention that you guys have an attorney here Mr goggly Ari that super season so when you say risking a lawsuit you feel like you got confidence in Mr gardi am I right so I can't address him either with these matters and I'm an employee in in-house mayor this is not designed to be a back and forth between you and I need an answer so I can proceed address all address address your comments to me and move on from Mr these are your clients am I right just the you sir just placed on the record so learn professionalism please and try to bring some Integrity back into the board I'm here to speak on a few items is this agenda items cuz I can say my other comments for the public potion this is comment on agenda items okay it's real disturbing I was told and also another employee was told that you cut in funding and fundings are short and we don't have no funding I'm seeing grants I'm seeing hes I'm seeing well again the stiens on page Francis oh I don't want to say names either cuz nobody's sign the right SM but on 10:09 10:08 approv this young lady $2,858 three times I hope just with it being written three times that's three times she get paid or is that just one stien and that ain't no dialogue I need an answer cuz we we talk about this far too many times the same title the same exact band title chores whether you're singing dancing Elementary advisory she get that three times right first first of all it's he he she I'm sorry well I don't give names the individual they get that three times yes because it's three distinct different activities good let me go do this fast that's good Lu um the sniping all again on the next page the following page 10.11 the approval of 997 that's just a one time stien right for the africanamerican yes that's a that's a one-time stien for advising the African-American Club they advise for the duration of the entire school year so that's one time $997 no matter how much time the person puts into it okay so that's a whole different scenario from the 2,000 three times okay I'll come back on a public portion and to disposal of the equipment this the first time ever seeing this when I overheard yesterday a parent was told to do a police report over broken computer is this why because the disposal of the computer and you being very rude I'm going to give you an opportunity you can address your boss Miss Dr Johnson or whatever but I'm talking to you I'm addressing the chair as you said in the beginning okay so can we give respect on both Avenues thank you go right ahead and the and the big the big for the um the two bids the 30 90 93,000 make sure I got it right for the artificial [Applause] intelligence these are not bids these actually grants and um Mr Grand said tonight please approve yes I mean these grants are for like the whole district is our kid allowed to utilize it because we definitely some um the artificial Intel is this a class these two grants Mr gr maybe you can help them out you mentioned the grants it's on the agenda could you tell just reference what agenda item it is and we can tell it's on it's on it's two WIS it's just two I just want to know is it like how we going to utilize that money is it a grant for a class or whatever AI the AI Grant yes the AI is another the the AI Grant is a New Jersey Department of Education Grant that's um a competitive Grant it's for a whole host of things like um professional development for staff members um for purchasing technology um Innovation Innovation the whole language all right so this is what I'm saying and artificial intelligence these going to be classes that our kids could utilize also correct if we're granted the if if we if rewarded the grant if you get the reward for the grant was other bids this was up for bid for anybody it's not it's not a bid we are submitting to the state of New Jersey for grant funding and then they will select the districts who receive the grant funding we're not guaranteed it all this is doing is the board approving our application and we're at 5 minutes that's sufficient all right I'm wrapping it up with the thank you checklist see the facility director here Miss been five minutes the on aenda I'm wrapping it up I said the facilities director is to it's been miss waiters it's been 5 minutes you're welcome to come back up for comments on non-agenda items so I just closed it out one second I'm asking you about the facility directly to agend and it's and it's been 5 minutes you want respect from me you have to respect our time where's the courtesy too I see people come up here all the time and wrap it up and you give them the courtesy I'm going ask you a simple question I just want to know you have another 5 minutes and comments on agenda agenda item I just ask where do the funding go I don't need you to get upset every time just that was would have been a second you just gave me more than that I just want to know where do the funding go which which particular funding on which of them you got two co uh I think one of them is z here we go right here before you interrupt me this is all I wanted to know simply it says facility directed they renting our facilities where do the money go y'all have a ky the money comes back into the school district all right thank you that's all right I'll be [Applause] back no no more questions no more um Mr another speaker it's not it's not hi good evening Christopher Muno Hoboken Education Association I'm a teacher at Hoboken High School I just want to clarify that the member that was brought up in question is being being paid three separate stiens as you mentioned um president mcer for this uh for these positions there are three separate positions not being paid three times for the same thing and I want to clarify that because it's clearly stated in the agenda also uh the what this is compared to the African-American Culture Club are two separate roles and responsibilities uh one's program one's an AF school program and they're paid at h8 rate so it's not like we are prioritizing early ear morning chorus over the African-American Culture Club at hobok high school which as the Student Activities coordinator I'm proud that the African-American Culture Club is coming back but as an haa representative as a vice president I couldn't in good conscience sit in the audience and have it presented as it's being one members being paid three separate times they three different job roles thank you thank you thank you Mr M we're going to move on to our consent agenda is there a motion motion second miss good can you please call the role yes I can miss Angley I am going to abstain on 6.02 and yes on everything else Miss camori yes Miss Dela yes Mr delator yes Mr Grana yes Mr Mr kful yes Miss Norwood I'm abstaining on 1303 and yes on the rest 1303 thank you um and Miss mcer abstaining on 10.04 and yes on everything [Applause] else motion passes we will now move on to public comments on agenda and non-agenda items Miss Waiters [Applause] Patricia waiters and for the record I'm doing my own five minutes cuz I'm not here to make an enemy and you cannot silence me cuz I'm going to say it anyway this is serious when I come out here I'm out here for almost 4,000 or more people that voted for me okay and clearly the last speaker it's embarrassing when you get up here and you try to defend wrongdoing I you know exactly where I was going with that three different thing that one person doing three different things I'm guess him him used to go and do the same people come up here all the time and question your integrity okay so I can list anything and that's how politics go in this town dirty politics so that bring me back to what I'll be speaking about tonight miss mcer since the last election between you and I you raised concerns okay whether it was legal or was I doing something illegal with respect to somebody donating me a few Flyers however I had the contract here I mean I'm sorry to compl here from one of my opponents that served on your ticket was charged you an attorney you was Char again let me finish because when stuff is public information you cannot hide it okay this is public I shared it with everybody but my main focus is not holding you guys accountable I don't care if you friends with Mr BR you friends with Dr Johnson you friends with Tom I don't want to be nobody's friend I'm going to get to the bottom of this okay since I'm the underdog that y'all always attack every year I'm told not to run I'm being harassed and I said it for 2 years and Council please please I didn't even look at it as a friend clearly professional I reached out to you you waited 4 days later you contact me and this is your statement okay you said to me I am not authorized to discuss the district matters with an individual employee and you also reiterated on what I said earlier you are their client okay those are your clients right so if those are your clients it's a huge conflict of interest when I told you I got over aund we've been doing this for two years I got over 193 videos that I've been in court and you keep telling me that the Board of Education don't supposed to have nothing to do with the union and what the union did to me you absolutely correct however I called the New Jersey bard of Education Association you know who they sent me back to you I got everything in writing I keep notes still to present you ran against me three more times none of you had enough Integrity To Say pat let's me you told me clearly here you're not having this conversation with me not even knowing what I'm talking about I'm being harassed still I'm still employed I'm being retaliated against and when you asked me I told you I got proof this is what's disturbing so when we went to court Thursday rewind and update the judge looked at the prosecutor cuz you know what he said I want to take and change my venue but because it's a conflict of interest Robbie you your Law Firm is on Robbie's contract guys and I asked you for 2 years let's do this right there are 4,000 people that voted for me and is fired up and fed up you keep winning and sitting up there claiming Victory with all of this Shenanigans I'm telling you I'm not going nowhere I'm telling you out of respect because all of y'all sitting up there y'all kids are benefiting and parents is still coming to me our kids are being kicked out they at home I work here every day is disgusting it's none of yall kids you come and pick up your kid I'm taking my kid to the my kids is going home for disciplinary issues this is serious guys do what you got to do to me I'm ready to fight and I'm asking you Council please please find it in your heart to find some type of integrity and bring back to this boy to protect the reputation of this border of Education cuz we far too way in y'all all look the opposite way and took a disregard to the seriousness what happened to me and my family you have families that live here we don't need no Outsiders coming in this community dividing our families and hurt so many people in spite of being scared of me and y'all losing power y'all made my enemy just like you you everybody watching you you just started an argument with me the ahead this way this but I've seen people I've been come to meet in 27 years standing here and you say okay go ahead wrap it up people watch or disrespect me three times Mr comfor the seat became available y'all didn't put me in that seat do you know how to make my people feel people that look like me the Latinos the blacks the Housing Authority 30 seconds Miss waiters they are fed up and I can't help but get emotional cuz my kids is being impacted my parents are being impacted just like your kids in the district we depend on the public school district we don't have money but we can go elsewhere with your kid with a nice cushy job your kid with a job my daughter qualify one can't get one cuz I'm pathway not cuz it ain't no fun cuz I pathway Mr go I'm rapping it and I'm ending it with this and I promise you I will do it for minutes I need you to put me in the right direction and yes I will be following up with this please please let's do what's right for this community thank you there there's no other names on the agenda [Music] she has I I it's in the same email I'll take it so the the board president has asked me to respond publicly and I I don't know that she saw the the email that I sent you so I I just want to be clear for you and for anyone who might be concerned about what you have to say what what the email said is that I am not authorized to respond to complaints from employees one might only imagine what the district's legal bills would look like if I was but the email also said that there are avenues for you to have your concerns heard so there is a a grievance process through the union there is an affirmative action office uh that is available to all employees and then of course there's the court system that you made reference to so there are many vehicles available for you to articulate your concerns have them investigated and have them addressed my response which you only read a small portion of is that the board does not expect their outside Council to be that vehicle for hearing concerns when there are other wellestablished avenues for you to have your concerns heard and addressed read the rest you said therefore therefore consistent with the ethic well I don't have it I don't have it in front of me I just have a good memory the rest of the emails this is serious I did goira action they said any nebor relation you was right to agree but you didn't lean on you did not look at the evidence that I had I never father complain that I had the evidence to share with you that's what they told me I should reached out to you you keep saying the union the one I'm complaining against is the union understand that foress so I gave you I gave you I gave you three Avenues I I'll do one more time and obviously if you filed the complaint with the affirmative action office here and they and no no I'm saying if if you filed a complaint through the vehicles available to All District employees of course they would turn to my firm for advice but my firm does not consider employee complaints that's not our role we advise our client when the employee files the complaints through the appropriate channels and that's what I'm asking you to do if you want to have your grievances considered goir everything time stand dat I will do that okay thank you okay thank you thank you thank you madam president thank you Mr gagi uh we will be going into executive session now for the purposes of discussing matters covered by attorney client privilege we will not be taking any action so we'll be just coming back to close the meeting we will be approximately 45 minutes to an hour do I have a motion no I need to read the resolution that Veo gave me do you want me to read it but EXA session yes the the uh you want me read the entire resolution no I don't think we do that the the reasons the reasons for the executive session are contractual matters and matters covered by the attorney client privilege that should just be reflected before a vote is taken all right then I'll it no action no action will be taken thank you do we have a motion motion second second miss good can you please call the role Miss Angley yes Miss camori yes Miss Dela yes Mr delator yes Mr Grana yes Mr kful yes Miss Norwood yes M mcer yes motion passes at 8:37 p.m. good evening it's now 9:51 p.m. and we are coming back from executive session do I have a motion to resume the meeting motion second roll call please miss good Miss kamam Excuse Me Miss Angley yes Miss camori yes mrra yes Mr delator yes Mr Grana yes Mr kful yes M Norwood yes M mcer yes motion to agend and with no further business do I have a motion to close the meeting motion second well all in favor say I have a lovely evening [Music] oh