e e e e e e e e e e e e e e I hereby call to order the regular meeting of the Kingsburg Board of Education to be held in the buer middle school media center adequate notice for this meeting has been mailed to the Asbury Park Press f with the municipal clerk of Kingsburg posted on the district website and posted inside the office of the Kingsburg Board of Education 100 Palmer Place Kingsburg New Jersey April 28 2024 roll call please Mrs Clayton here Mrs friselle Miss Kell her Moran here Mr manowski here Mr kitchen here Mr cook here Mr cisano Mr Hoff here Miss Ferrara here please stand for the pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we're going to move on to our budget presentation for our Ba OH and please take note of the exits behind you and to the side case of emergency you good to go Lindsay welcome to the4 for the and we're going to get started on the budget development timeline it is a yearly process I know we teach back and then we already get started you know in October already asking questions thinking about programs thinking about you know looking ahead and where we're going to be so Administration and really get to through the budget review and information out in November we go into a review with the Tue on where we are mid year with the district and you know where we'll need to be and then between that time we're working on the budget trying to determine what needs to go Staffing salaries um working with our vendors so we can understand what those contract renewals will be and U where those Trend analysis are coming from and then in February we always have our state release of C8 numbers at the in February at the end of February by the governor and the governor after he does his address we get those numbers within 48 hours and at the same time uh we're waiting kind of on pins and needles for our preschool expansion gr budget and so that we can take care of that because there are some things that coincide with our local budget and we're doing both budgets at the same exact time we have about a week's turnaround to get the preschool budget back to the state and at the same time we only have about 20 days from the release until we need to get our budget for tentative approval to the county and that's always due by March 20th and then they have about a 30-day turnaround to provide any feedback or anything that we need to anticipate or change and then we have to post it into the paper these are all election and statutory requirements um with the asur par press it takes about five to seven business days for any legal ads they do consider the advertised budget a legal ad so sometimes that's a just like this year came from that um so we appreciate that you were able to change the meeting around so that we could meet the requirements of the election calendar we did have to have everything advertised in the budget by mayin that in before on the 30th so we met that timeline and then we have to have this hearing no later than the 7th and we're here today so we'll meeting that timeline and then later today we will adopt the budget so what does that do for our tax impact that's always where we want to get started since M County does participate in um you know reassessing our ratables every single year uh we actually had an increase on our average home about $20,000 and with that our school tax actually decreased from last year creating a decrease on the average home value of a little over $100 or about $10 a month so we are thrilled sometimes there's a little bit of a timing issue of when the county releases their abstracted ratables so we can only go with last year's data you know around that February timeline we're releasing information and then luckily we got these new assessments so we can see increase for next year so as per how our property tax share is divided within hburg about 2300 comes back to the district for home and on an average home in New Jersey it's 5100 so that table that you see on the left hand side where it says about 35% that's your portion that comes back to the school the reason that they had S2 they want to see that red part of the pie increase and they want to see you know the other parts of the pie decrease and they want to see that we are contributing towards our own funding and we'll kind of get into a little bit about that later on about what that means for adequacy and what local fair share means and why you know finally S2 within its last year parameters that we take in order to create the budget we the first thing we do is we look at enrollment uh we're very lucky because our rment has stayed steady and that means that there isn't a potential for a decrease outside of the S2 for SE and the other reason why we want to C is some of our neighboring districts are having to consider closing schools and we are not having to consider that whats and we have room for everybody that we need we also have to have special education requirements statuto covered and with that uh we are currently in the process of going out for request for proposals for some of our special ed and we do this in a matrix format so that we are taking into consideration the best services and the best pricing for our students we definitely spend um a good portion of our money on instructional and with those instructional supplies and materials we do follow all purchasing laws and we are utilizing U more than ever co-ops and Educational Services we have professional development throughout the district uh next week is Teacher Appreciation week and on Friday there will be a bunch of different activities that teachers will be able to participate in our technology requirements we will continue to advance uh we were lucky to receive stabilization Aid money and this summer we'll be putting in a new phone system throughout the district as for facilities throughout the district with the stabilization money and with the RFS funds we able to do the high school parking lot last year and then as we come into this summer The High School will have agback Windows boilers that the middle school will have ageback and for athletics and extracurricular uh we did not have to be any Cuts there unlike again a lot of our other neighboring districts so we're very pleased with that and we also continue to go after every gr that we had accessible so we were awarded earlier in the year the local recation for a new scoreboard the purchase order has been placed and we are just waiting on install so we can't wait to see that installed uh we do have contract requirements those contract requirements are mostly made out of salary and benefits they range from 75 to 85% of your budget Professional Services are your attorneys and your Auditors and for us um in the last couple of years with all of the construction that's going on also the architect Fe we we in the last year or two Reserve accounts and those Reserve accounts are capital outlay as well as um maintenance and emergency and so we are going to utilize some of our maintenance Reserve which is a no tax impact and that'll help stabilize our budget and continue to ensure that maintenance get done throughout the district so we did have one change that was a request from the DOA and that request is that because our interest rates that we're receiving are 2 to 52% they want to see that we are showcasing that in an increase in our interest so we are increasing the original tenative to the approval process of 26,000 it's all at a no tax impact and it's all due to the fact that we are trying to capitalize as much as we can as interest rates are going up to earn interest on the money we have while it's there so you'll see that capital reserve increased by 000 maintenance Reserve increased by 5,000 emergencies 1,000 and then miscellaneous is off based off our general fund and that's 10,000 so as per the revenues and how our district is compiled our local tax levy makes up about 20% that orange color and then our miscellaneous which is the darker blue is miscellaneous so that's interest and rents that we rece discussed state aid makes up about 56% so that light blue column preschool is also but it's a it's a separate under grants so I just didn't want to get confused between General operating versus grants and preschool Aid is 8.7% of our budget we do we are required to have Medicaid reimbursement while that is a smaller number of the 044 or the yellow color it is a requirement because we over 40 students eligible for Medicaid and that's great for us because the district as a whole can receive reimbursements back for health related expenses we just ask that parents allow us and give us permission and sign the waiver so that we can maximize revenues coming into the district and provide those Services it is and again it is a federal requirement we are not allowed to have our budget approved unless we're taking 90% of the total in which they did to you so we did speak about the reserve withdraw we are utilizing maintenance Reserve so that we can continue to do maintenance throughout all four buildings and that is about $600,000 and again no tax impact so we're thrilled that we have this ability to do so with the grants we have seen a decrease for this year it's gone down to about 3% and the reason why is because we won't miss the pmic we will miss the federals millions of do Prov to us so there is a little bit of a decrease in that regard and then our fund balance you'll see is that green color that's that 10.7 now on a typical school year that would be much smaller there are two parts to this so there's the assigned balance and then there's the unassigned we have to ensure that we are lapsing at least 2% of our money every year to show a stabilized budget we have more in ours and that is because we are stillz our stabilization money and that's assigned within within this fund balance to be utilized for things like um we were able to buy new maintenance trucks we were able to do the parking lot last year we were uh able to then go ahead and do we're going to have kitchen the phones and we're going to have classroom furniture for the middle school and the high school so that is in the works so then if we talked about revenues how is our budget going to be spent our budget is going to be spent mostly in classroom instruction and that's where a chip spend so that's about 53% of the five or the orange side that's going to take care of your classroom instruction as in regards to salaries supplies textbooks subscription fees the green one is support services and support services are your attendance your child study guidance secretarial aids your light pain is Administration and your Administration is made up of superintendent the business administrator principles technology that blue portion of just shy of 16% is operations and maintenance and then the 3.2 covers extracurricular exports so then where does that put us and where do we compare with other like districts that are K to 12 and enrollment is 0 to 1800 in students and and from the taxpayers education guide from the 2223 school year our actual per pupil cost was just shy 18,000 whereas our like districts were over 18,000 so we are showing that we're spending our money effectively and efficiently now where is our money going well most of it is going into total classroom instruction so for us we're spending 11961 in the classroom or about a little over 66% which is exactly where we want it in the classroom with the kids and so when we look at our state average of where other like districts are we're they're $800 lower per people or about 1.3 million less than what we're spending back into the classroom so we're very proud that we're able to do that and then as for the administrative cost ours are about 1,400 with that the state average is about $100 more than us and is a maximum by Central and we are actually over $1,000 less than where we need today so we did speak a little bit about the adequacy budget and what does that mean so adequacy is how state aid determines how much money we're going to receive and so it's based off of our enrollment numbers and the enrollment numbers are weighted and it's weighted lowest from kindergarten highest to high school so wherever our students are that is how we receive our funding so if we were to receive an increase that's where it is there is actually a bill on the table that if we had an increase um we would be able to do a amendment to our asssa report to then hopefully receive more CD it hasn't been signed yet but it is on the table and it is being spoken about so for us because that excess amount shows4 were considered that were under adequacy and why is that because the state has determined what our local fair share is and they're saying that we should be spending 30 million and even with the equalization they're calculating ours to be about 2 million so they're saying that we're shy and that we should start lowering that amount which we have been doing over the last few years but we we need to be fiscally responsible while we make these changes in a slow because every dollar in someone's household matters so then if we look to our future and when we're looking ahead what are the things that we're considering well we know we just went through strategic planning so we definitely have an outline of where we want to be for the next 3 to 5 years we know that we're always looking for alternate funding we have the grants that we're doing you're going to see a couple today um within the agenda that need approval and we've gone a every single year that we possibly can and we've been awarded we've been able to then like I said purchase maintenance Vehicles do kitchen upgrades get furniture so when those come out we'll continue to go after them and any others that we see that will assist the district and hopefully offset the local cost so then we also are always talking to our legislators to ensure that they understand our district needs and what we need um and with that some of our cost-saving mechanisms are shared services so we do participate in the mon ocean Cooperative shared Insurance Fund and that's for our property and casual so while we do keep our autonomy we get to use purchasing power with as many districts that want to participate that as possible uh one of the wonderful offsets is that we were able to actually go after a safety grant that will approve tonight to offset some of our expenditures for next year so we're thrilled that there's ways within working with these Insurance funds and programs that we can other revenues back into the district we have a partnership with the kingburg police for our SOS we definitely for our special ed always consider doing Transportation joint so that we can share that cost and then I'm a perfect example of shared services so and then what does that mean then for challenges as we move into the future well we know that now that we've hit the seven-year plateau of the S2 funding reform they're going to be looking at making changes we don't know what those changes are however the new commissioner is going to be speaking at the Garden State Coalition meeting later this month so we'll definitely be there to hear and try to understand what his future plans are for the Department of Education so that we have a thorough understanding that whatever Direction they're moving in we're prepared for so we continue to be faced with the 2% budget cap and that has its good with his bed right we know that living here even just groceries alone ever costed before so we know that our Consumer Price Index just to run the state is a little over 3 and A4 and that that impacts the things that we're able to do so we're always having this balancing act on trying to be fiscally responsible and give the students everything we need there are unfunded mandates from the state uh one of the newest ones that we have is that we need to implement the new um Ela standards and mass standards for this coming September we also budgetary obligations that do not go away like our pension payments we have already received an email from the Department of Treasury uh that the health benefits are not doing as well as they anticipated and that we will see a double digit increase for next year so we're only planning this year and they already know for 25 26 we're going to have a double digit increase so we're going to continue to work closely with our vendors to ensure what other Solutions do we have or options that we have because when you do participate in the the State Health Plan you can only get your claims numbers every two years if you want to get it on an off cycle year you have to pay for it and a lot of times you don't receive that data in significant enough time so that you can utilize that to find other alternative options so we will continue to look for that though um there was a new bill that was passed that you can create a school health insurance fund as long as you have two and employes and we're trying to find ways for healthare that stop being this heartbeat or stop being these double digits and start being more of a flat line right so that we can maintain what we're doing and not push all of that into just benefits chapter 44 for the benefits was supposed to be uh assistance however it isn't there's fiscal implications that come along with that every year we're required to give the on if utilizing chapter 44 is saving money it is not and here's why so back when a retired teacher used to leave there would be breakage right there would be money that would offset the difference between a retired teacher to someone that you're hiring new well when they're contributing 15,000 for their healthare benefits and now the new person coming aboard is only contributing 5,000 the district has to offset that other 10,000 and the difference is the people that were grandfathered into that old plan it had it had to take into consideration what the health rate premiums are as well as salary and that was the calculation where the new calculation for chapter 44 is only based solely on salary and with that we know salaries are increasing at single digits where health benefits are increasing at double digits so that means that the district as a whole is having to take on Almost 100% of that double dig cost so there are huge financial implications for the districts as a whole as it relates to chapter 44 we will continue to look and see what we'll do we know chapter 78 Sunset chapter 44 is supposedly going to Sunset but we we haven't heard what their new plan may or may not be and so we'll continue with that to you know meet the needs of the scope of what our children District the budget and this presentation will be available on the website I'm sure today but at least within 4 hours which is the requirement are there any questions that I can answer sure thank you uh so I just want to be clear so the budget actually was not an increase in any type of tax it was a decrease this year Noe and in the beginning when we were creating the budget we only had the 22 data to fall on that would have created inre but now when we have the 23 data and the went up okay and I have just one more question about the grants so the covid grants have already been expunged they're exhausted they're done correct September September okay so then I guess with the current grants that we have now we have obviously supplemented a majority of that correct we haven't had to supplement any of it no okay so these are just pre-existing grants okay we we used a lot of our funding for a lot of onetime cost to that those were things that we wer going to have to live off okay and anything that we did we worked year to to incate that the budet so that it wasn't just a one okay thank you so just to be clear we've not lost any teachers we've lowered taxes and we still plan to do facilities improvements correct thank you that's all my questions Mr Hof I'm going to pck you back on M but in reference to the previous slide when you look at um challenges and then you look at is there any way like shared services with Benefits say Middletown and say four districts come together will they get a cheaper rate from an insurance company that feasible I mean no you're fine so that's exactly what we're trying to do so it it's called the school health insurance fund and so the school health insurance fund kind of had a monopoly in it of itself to to only if you could get in you could get an actuary to write a plan that that's the only way you could get in the reason bill that I spoke about was that so we can create our own right it can be called The Shore school health insurance fund so we're trying to see how many other districts like ours want to get an Actuarial view on what their district is and see if we can kind of all go and branch in together but still keep our autonomy like we are with the m oce Co-op right so we want to keep our autonomy but we also want to use and kind of put our purchasing power together so that we can really Flatline health a lot of those increases though that are coming up are prescription costs um injectable medic you know medicine is right now hot and it's 190% increase just on that so prescription has not only SE double digits they anywhere between 25 to 35% of the total meice and then you spoke of a new phone system I believe the phone system we have if there is Extreme emergency there's a Code punch in that would go right to the police depart that's the same thing going to happen awesome hopefully a better system outstanding um the scoreboard can you mention that again the scoreboard was purchased shre the scoreboard was received from a grant the scoreboard was received from the local Recreation Grant we received uh $77,000 so we put the purchase order out the scoreboard has been ordered we're just waiting on an installation from the compy okay so when you say local Recreation Grant has nothing to do with the bur of no it does not it did not go to the baral keing it did not okay and then you talk about taking money out of um the reserves are we going to replenish that is that is there a plan like go that so next not not in your not in the original main meeting but in your June meeting every year you'll notice that we're we'll have a resolution it'll seem a little absorbent it'll say something like um please allow the district to put up to say $5 million into Capital res and there'll be one for maintenance and then there'll be one for emergency when we take a look at where we end the school year we'll want to replenish what we took out and hopefully put in a little bit extra so that we can continue to plan for a future but while we're planning for a future there is this great thing we can take it out and have no tax impact but still got the things we need to coule more and then the speak of S2 being over and then the unfunded mandates when you and I guess it's a two-part question when this goes to the website can you make sure that you put down unfunded mandates mean because there's people who say that you understand budgets but then there's people who don't understand a budget in the same breath so what an un unfund mandate is that means that where's that money coming from right it's coming from our budget correct so for instance uh one of the new bills that was put in was that we need to provide us sanitary actions to the bathroom and that we have been told that the state has a pot of money that we're going to be eligible to have a reimbursement however we don't know when that will be when we'll receive information on putting those reimbursements in but we are going to be required to have that up and running yes ma'am did again just a blur what an unfunded mandate is so and the example of ela is is a really good example to give so we have to implement these new Ela standards in order to do so we need the materials for the staff to be able to teach to those standards that could cost $350,000 that they're not giving us so we have to find it but they're saying you have to do it but find your own money to do it yes and I understand that again there's experts out there who claim to read a budget but doesn't understand what an unfunded mandating and then again it just leaves the bigger questions in the same bread and again there's no tax increase to the residents because the town wealth went off correct you is that going to be in there too again so this slide will be in there your H presentation will be available on and again if there is any questions I'll make the update to the definition yes ma'am if there's any questions they can feel free to call there's nothing hitting there's no six budgets thank you for your time thank just I know everybody's asking questions about taxes being raised but I just want to make sure that I understand and so other people understand in the in the budget where inance taxes to be raised and we have a number there a little over $8 million that's not raising it from0 to 8 million that's what we're asking for is a set number of $8.4 million that's the total we get right correct and if the values of the kingburg homes go up we don't get any more money than what we asked for that's why they change that rate down to give us just what we asked for right so and again if if anything changes the assessment every year uh the values of the homes all that stuff we don't get extra extra money just because the values of the homes no State a for school or I'm sorry local tax levies are just created of a flat dollar am so even when the wealth goes up we do not receive additional funding for that okay so when I see articles that say we have the highest tax rate that doesn't mean we have the highest taxes that doesn't mean that we charge the most that just means that the number we ask for tax thank you for clarifying that by the way you're right they don't so in that middle slide will tell you what keur's tax rates are what mon County's are and then what maures are so you'd be able to see all the differentials of you know how your tax bill is broken up and where that money is going but on the average home value no there's there's a negative impact that's great thank you and also following the same line too if you were to look at a different town that's typically not a former avot you would see in the pie chart the percentage of local taxes that are used for school taxes is well over 50% that what I would say like 75% typically goes to school taxes whereas in kingburg of your collected taxes 35% of it goes to the schools I think you explain this pretty well with the with the balancing and stuff too but we get more Aid when we have more students right corre and so if we had more students we would have more money coming from the state correct and I I guess this is a question that's not directly related to the budget but I'll I'll ask Miss oare later we actually have a lot of vacancy in our schools right we do not have overcrowding we have hundreds of openings and if we had more money we could hire more teachers to have more people in classrooms to teach those students right yes do you want me to speak to that now or wait to it later I'll ask you later okay I'm sorry thank you Mr mow so in reference to we talked about um the aid can you also put on there for the special Aid strike that special education it's only rate for special education yes don't get student per student so what happens special education there's two factors it's weighted and it's also um there's also a wealth indicator so we're not CA at the wealth indicator so we Reed 100% of that categorical portion but we don't for the other part I believe right don't we receive an x amount of dollars for the X I think you talking about extraordinary Aid okay so extraordinary Aid is for any any student that goes that is in a public setting over 40 $40,000 so anything above that and then for any of our ordinary students that go to a private facility it's anything 55,000 and over um however the state Administration said about 3 to five years ago that they would add additional dollars to that pot of money they haven't so what's happening right now is all of us are putting together our pack what's going on in the current year and it's due by the end of May and then we get um a reimbursable amount in the next year in the end of September or October that's Pennies on the dollars it does not include Transportation it only includes any money over 40,000 outside of transportation and I think Mr Hoff what you're referencing too is there is a cap on that so A more affluent District who collects more in taxes and may have a smaller percentage of special ed will get the same percentage of funding towards special ed as a district such as ours that gets less local taxes and has a higher percentage of special ed yeah am I correct in the 30% it's 30% whether you have less than 30% we are underfunded special that's correct and that's why I'm going with this the budget experts out there who think that um that everything's again we have a money tree somewhere yet to see the we're severely underfunded for special education that again reference to that it's a state formula and I believe when I called the state to ask for the formula I was put on v for two weeks and he still hasn't been answer awesome that is all I have again thank you any questions from any other board members no thank you Mrs Cas for the presentation than you moving forward you'll see that we have student representative reports obviously they're hopefully in class at the moment as as well as the executive session will actually be moved to the end of the meeting through the board members that have conflicts and no action will be taken just so the public is aware of that do we have any committee reports just briefly on policy um you'll notice that there's a new policy should say new policy there's an amendment to the current uh field trips policy and regulation um in our packet um that policy is being changed to reflect the common practice and and what's been happening and to resolve a conflict uh regulation and our um policy had differences in the number of chaperon that were required um and so that caused confusion because if you looked at one it said you had to have a certain number you looked at the other said they had to have a different number so we simply combined those to what the common practice is so it's 1 to 10 um for pre to fifth grade um of chaperon to Children um 1 to 15 for sixth graders uh to seniors in high school um and only one other change our senior trip required admin uh to attend um that has never practice has never been a practice and so we're just amending that again that's no longer going to be um in the policy and that it simply requires the correct number of shop runs for the strips thank you very much no none other move on uh we'll open it up now to the public for comments and questions relating to board agenda items only anybody from the public would like to have a question or have a comment seeing none we'll close that portion um so I'll need a motion for the approval of minutes for March 19th I'll make that motion thank you Ken can I have a second I'll second Mr manowski roll call please Mrs Clayton m Kell heran yes Mr manowski yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hoff yes Miss Ferraro yes you're up the superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items under Personnel one resignation two retirement three elimination of phys four Reemployment of per of personnel professional and paraprofessionals for the District Five no step increase six transfers of professional staff seven leave of absence medical revision eight leave of absence unpaid Child Care nine leave of absence maternity Child Care 10 long-term substitute teacher revision 11 daily substitute teacher 12 daily substitute teacher revision 13 daily substitute power professionals 14 substitute teacher power Professionals for the district 15 externship for summer of 24 16 volunteer for Joseph R buer 17 Orton Gillan training 18 Orton Gillan training and 19 professional development costing $150 or above do I have a motion for the approval of personnel I'll make a motion thank you Kim do I have a second I'll second thank you Ken any questions comments concerns from fellow board members seeing none roll call vote please Mrs Clayton yes Miss Kell her Moran yes Mr Man uh yes however I abstain on number four page six the 18th name down manowski number four page six 18 Nam on my name not my name yeah same last name same last name thank you and also number six on page 10 again the 10th name down manowski okay thank you Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hoff yes and Miss Ferrara yes by have stain on page five six name down thank you under policy and regulation number 20 policy second reading 21 policy first reading and 22 regulation first reading have a motion for the approval of policy and regulation motion thank you bro do I have a second no second thank you Judy any questions comments concerns from fellow board members seeing none roll call please Mrs Clayton yes Miss Kell heran yes Mr manky yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hoff yes and Miss Ferraro yes Mr President can I take a second I I failed to abstain number 19 the first name Mr bird is a supervisor possibly in my way so I can amend my vote on the uh Personnel oh sorry my note suat was down a little further okay you'll have that noted Mike thank you under General number 23 the district hip report and number 24 School Bus evacuation drill for the district do I have a motion for the approval of General I'll make that motion thank you Ken I have a second thank you Brook any questions comments concerns all board members seeing none roll call vot please okay Mrs Clayton yes M Kell Moran yes Mr manowski yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hoff yes Miss Ferrara yes School business administrator board secretary's report the superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items uh board board secretary's monthly certification certifies that no line has been overexpanded payroll certification one receipt and acceptance of February 2024 board secretary's report two approve appropriation transfers three approve bills list four approve home instruction five approve added District tuition number six we're going to table this item uh pending further documentation seven approval of the uh budget for 2425 number eight approve uh the New Jersey Insurance Group Grant uh safety Grant and nine approve the advanced placement International Balor course expansion competitive Grant acceptance do I have a motion for approval of the ba report I'll make that motion thank you can I have a second I'll second thank you Judy any questions comments concerns let go uh yes so could we just get a little more context on number 8 n the two grants just what they're going for they are Mr want to speak so number n is just for training ctif ohce nice so they'll offer more AP courses once they have that training oh that's great that's great to hear internal and external repl oh so more security nice two very big improvements good to hear that anyone else roll call please okay Mrs Clayton yes Miss Kella her Moran yes Mr manowski yes Mr kitchen yes Mr Hoff yes but everything but number seven and I have a statement um all the hard work that has been put into it is not going notied again there is zero increase to our tax base but the formula of S2 is disgusting and even though this is our last year other districts are starting to lay off teachers I mean I believe I truly believe our Administration can write a book about it on how to survive S2 but they not there for us but I'll I still in heart can be there for the other districts that are feeling our pain from M2 so again no disrespect I'm going to get a whole bunch of rash from my mentor but I have to vote no because I just think S2 is just totally disgusting so thank you Miss Ferrara yes oh sorry Mr cook yes thank you now we're going to go back to the executive part okay did you want to do public yeah public first all right yeah we'll open it up to the public for comments questions seeing none we'll close that portion yeah Mr Hoff do you have anything you'd like to say I do thank you Mr President um first uh good luck to our retirements um Miss carrier is born in Brad hensor she's school you know she's going to be sorely missed we may have to hire 10 teachers to replace her um and will not be here next week in the buildings but good luck to our teacher week you know just how we have everything for our kids now sometimes it's very happy that our teachers get to to do something fun Cool Spring sports are in full swing for those who don't know the titans of hburg beat the cas's of RBC flag football so yes I was happy and said um didn't you have a bet riding on that I did when I see that individual I will make to on the 14th of May is election my question I have a two-part question do we receive money from because we're a voting station no no then can we look to have that changed in the future because so the board can write a letter to the buau if you'd like to we can draft it requesting a change of voting location Senator the only reason why because we're doing so much school security and then for one day we have people come here I I I just that's just almost a definition of what some people on the other side will call an oxy that we have so much security but then we're coming here to vote we don't want people on the grounds but that day take it up with the mayor maybe okay but I I will attend a uh council meeting but we wouldn't change the security no no no he's just talking about the fact that we have to let people into a school to vote during school hours students are present which I have to agree I I'm not the biggest fan of it's a process so it takes a couple months so obviously it wouldn't change for right now to have it taken out we could you would just put an official letter so I can write it on the behalf of the board if you all well no that would be a straw sensors but I'm saying though is all day long we don't want people on grounds and then and then that's going to caveat into my next it is odd stand there on Election Day and um yes people can just walk into the front door we do put the polling station directly into the media center so when you walk in it's right to the right but we still are allowing open access to the building for election day and then that P into my next uh I'm sorry Mr if you can draft a letter if unless anybody's in disagreement with that there was a there was a station changed so we we may get four 5 600 people coming here and say oh I thought I voted here and they don't so with that being said are we can we have extra security can we have somebody we do okay we do okay may ask a question in regards to that just out of curiosity we have some of the back buildings um in I guess the high school is there any way that we could use that so that they're not coming into the actual School itself so we had asked their certain technology and things that they need to have access to to set up a a polling location okay I asked you about this last year yeah I remember we had a conversation about this last year I was just curious if maybe we could not have them so uh mesh together with the students we did move them it used to be in the gym or the cafeteria okay so and then they did have to walk through the school building to access so we did move it right to the media center so when you walk in it's directly to your right but it is still people accessing the building when students are in session okay and then also though we still want to make it a friendly place just why again it may be a high turnout but in the at when school our kids are off the ground but again just at one day we bring people here and then we have a presidential coming up in the next school school year so if we can just eliminate everything and it's no to the voting system thank you and then thank you next Mr far do you have anything Mr macowski um I do just want to Echo something that Mr Huf said before I do want to thank U Mr seti um just case um all the administration the the principles for all their hard work with everything they need to do to move Personnel around create the budget where I want to Echo is S2 is terrible we lost lots of money I went back through budgets all the way back to what we have on 2014 2015 our budget has not gone up as an overall number very much because we've lost so much funding that we've had to get it from the the taxpayers essentially and that's what the state wants they actually want us to raise taxes another 50% on the school if I'm reading this correctly we're raising at 8 million we're supposed to be over $12 million and and we you know we don't have that money obviously we can't just push all that to the taxpayer so I realize that that's a lot of hard work in order to get that budget done so thank you uh Multicultural night was held it was another big success um just showcases the diversity in our community and in our schools um I think a lot of the take away from that is all the great food um but there's a lot of Education that goes on as well where people are able to talk about their cultures talk about where they're from um information like that so it's really great um State Testing is is going on um for parents please ask your kids how you did um how they took it we still have issues where I see that like our schools get terrible grades um that we're the worst schools around and a lot of that is based upon the testing that happens there are still my kids are in the school district they talk about the kids they come in turn their computers on and refuse to do anything it's not that our kids don't necessarily have the skills or the knowledge if they get a zero on this test they get a zero and it brings down our entire community and it makes it look like our teachers our schools are not doing their job they are the kids have to do their job up to um so please just ask your kids how they did ask them to take it seriously all right um and one last thing I know that there's a lot of concern recently about the um development that's been happening in our town um one particular part that bothers me is that there were some people saying that there's no planning that's happened that once these apartments are filled some 700 apartments that are coming up we're going to have this over um that our schools are not going to be capable of handling it um so if if you don't mind I'm going to ask mare a couple of questions um there were planning board meetings that were open to the public did you happen to attend any of those yes I did were you prepared to talk on behalf of the school in case questions came up about the amount of students that were going to come in yes all right um I know you were there because I was there the other parts of that are our school is overcrowded right now so I actually am glad you asked I did write it because I did want to speak to this because obviously I see things too and I hear things too um so I did write down the numbers just so we have them so kingburg high school is outfitted for 576 students and currently has 380 Boulder middle school is outfitted for 648 students and currently has 345 uh B uh Caruso Elementary is outfitted for 881 and currently has 635 and the Early Learning Center is outfitted for 340 and currently has 170 so overall as a district we're running at 60% capacity and as Miss case indicated earlier if we had more students that wouldn't increase the cost of a building that wouldn't increase the cost of our administrator it wouldn't increase the cost of a lot of things that we have the same number of maintenance people all those other things but if we had more students hundreds that were deficient in right now we would have possibly millions of more dollars coming from the state to pay for stuff and every time we get maybe 10 more teachers if it's 15,000 per student that we get an aid that's 150,000 right 150,000 that' be another teacher so when that's the other thing to I want to touch on when we do our budget when we find out what we're getting a big part of it is our current enrollment so enrollment is taken from us every October 15th in a snapshot at the Assa and they say this is how many students you have on October 15th this is what we're going to base your funding on for your next school year so for us at our size because we're smaller there's years when we'll lose like 15 students and we're like this is a catastrophe because for us our per pupil amount if we lose 15 students that might be two or three teachers if we gain two or three students that might be a teacher so we want students we definitely want more students to come in that's great I mean nobody wants over cing but the idea that if we get more students we're in trouble is it's just a complete FAL thank you very much is that all yes Mrs Clayton you have anything just congratulations to re Mr cook you have anything uh thank you yeah I just want to uh definitely thank the administration Miss case mrti Kathleen all of you for such a great budget I I mean it's really hard to see the S2 funding and how it has been such a detriment to this District in other districts and that we've been able to pull ourselves through and adequately provide good education good staff good improvements where you know just before we mentioned about the grants AP courses which adds to our education security cameras these are things that without your experience it would have not been possible so I want to thank all of you for that and uh definitely those improvements he wants to go m m just want to add that we do receive a lot of phone messages what's going on in the school most most importantly right now we're getting messages about testing right make sure your children are getting a good night's sleep good breakfast charg your you know your laptops what you need to do the work but every day I still see children going to school late and it's where the proximity of my home is and I'm talking late and it's not one or two kids there's several children the same people every day so we could do so much and give the children an education but it's parental responsibility to get your children to school on time and you know I just want to thank everyone we put a lot of work into this between our administrators our teachers everyone has a hand in this to make sure our kids get quality education but we need the support from the parents and Guardians to help these CH kids be successful thank you thank you Mr M I did I'm sorry if my notes are I do multiculture night was amazing it's pretty funny that these kids were trying food for the first time but when they get home act I'm not eating that yeah they were walking around I saw my son literally doing that I saw this one little boy at that spoon was going you get home I I don't that but again to the young lady who's in charge of that um I believe Mr Hof was there with u if you don't know his son's adopted we're not going to tell him until he's 25 but um they had stuff from Korea that was it was everything all over the Hannah from the one young lady from India incredible I wish we can do more of that like a couple times a year and then um the second half of the parade he you said one thing takes four months to plan it's going to be on the 5th or may uh the 5th of the 19th May 19 519 24 fifth month he was going to say everybody um there's about 60 groups participating we would like to invite the Board of Ed and the Kaa and anyone else who they can attend is that the same day as the food festival or the food festival is the 18th that's another the um food truck festival I think it's the 5th or 7th or maybe 9th it's the 18th 18th it's the day before no no no no annual oh yes I'm not sure the fourth fth or 6th annual food food truck festival fth sixth I believe please um and then we'll piggy back with the parade the next day and Father Time fishing is also on see my notes on the 18th you have notes or a book so again thank you Mr Pres thank you for everybody got the fre Father Time food truck and as always if anybody does not want to walk in it you are more than wel yes and the board of educ Board of Education members have we have a float for I just uh I want to thank the administration for coming together with the budget I want to thank my fellow board members for great clarifications of points made today and also making this meeting so that we can get this budget sent to the state for approval right away I want to congratulate uh Mrs car Miss Carri on her retirement and thank you I see members of the public here thank you for coming I know Friday 9:00 a.m. is not ideal but none of us you know this is not our first option but it was the best option that we had so I just wanted to thank everybody for that no yeah executive for so do I have a motion to enter ex yeah do your read be it resolved that in accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act the keensburg Board of Education shall conduct the osed executive session pursuant to the personnel and legal exceptions prescribed by njsa T and Ford S12 for the purpose of discussing Personnel uh it is anticipated at the length of time this executive session will be 30 minutes and that action will not be taken in the public after the executive session be a further resolve that the minutes of the executive session will be released when the need for confidentiality in accordance with njsa 10 4-12 no longer applies I have a motion enter an executive Brook Brook bro do I have a second I'll second thank you all in favor I any opposed 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 do I have a motion to come out of executive I'll make that motion thank you Mr cook do I have a second second thank you Brook roll call all in favor I I any opposed now we also need a motion to adjourn the meeting I'll make that motion thank you Ken do we have a second thank you roll call all in favor I any opposed no thank you all thank you guys thank you again thank you