the regular meeting of the keensburg Board of Education will be held in the buer middle school media center adequate notice for this meeting has been mailed to Des Park PR filed with the Municipal Court of Kingsburg and posted on the district website and posted inside the office of Kingsburg
cour 100 New Jersey on January 11 call Mrs Melle here mam here here
Mr Mr here Mr H here miss here United States of America stand indivisible with liy and justice for all case there
to get oh um good evening um last month we honored our um educational uh teachers and support members of the year unfortunately Miss angre Army our support professional of the year was unable to be here so I'd like to honor and congratulate Miss angerami com up as
our like real quick I would like to say that uh Miss anami makes buer and uh her classroom of Paradise one would 10 right a little inside joke between us but uh we're lucky to have have Miss Jami um she makes buer a better place and I
think you could see that in the um faces of her students um so once again congratulations and thank you very much have report from student council the have folks from the high school we have
Madison so want to go first The Bu middle school cheerleading wrestling and basketball teams ended their Seasons with all students giving their best ort our students are now looking ahead to sign up for the next
season's athletic teams of baseball and softball the egaming club continues an enthusiastic group of students who are making this new club a big success the Multicultural Club still draws many students from grade 6 s and eight they all have f with the various activities
some of our drama club members are participating oh sorry are practicing for the kingor high school spring musical there will be an assembly coming up for grades seven and eight presented by the behavioral health group on the topic of beyond the height missley Antonio seventh and eighth grade GIF and
talent students on a class trip at the end of January to the Middletown Art Center the next trip for sixth graters coming up will be at the buer Space Center in par Mrs nuro C held a coin draft during all the lunches for one
week to benefit the California fir the money collected donated to American Red Cross there was an ass for grades seven and8 from the preferred behavioral group where the where three presenters spoke on the topic of Visa change promoting
and inclusion to prevent bulling bu middle school held parent teacher conferences on February 6th in the evening and February 7th after the gied in talented students in Miss Le Antonio's class worked on a project where they created a display of foods
and made presentations to show to the administration faculty were able to vote for their favorite truck and students were rewarded in an assortment of categories thank you thank you High School it has been busy at Kingsburg
High School this past month we finished off at midterms and we be celebrating our second Mark period on all students next week all students who had zero conduct points also got to celebrate at a no conduct party with games and delicious breakfast vated by Winston's culinary we have also been loving our
new coffee bar at lunch with iced coffees and our Key Club has been well they recently volunteered at the parade committee gift auction and spent the night running gifts to the winners two of our officers as well as the H Club are out for multiple awards at the Deacon award ceremony this coming April
the pocketbook Bingo gift auction is right around the corner on March 14th Friday we sorry we are still asking for donations which are always greatly appreciated the seniors are hosting their annual March Madness basketball the night before on March 13th we are excited to see if the students will hold
on to last year's Victory or the teach the title all four grade levels are also hosting an urban air fundraiser on March 26th the Flyers will be going home shortly for that event our sports team to make us proud the the wrestling team is 10 to n record going into the
individual District Tournament being this Saturday at M region at 9:00 a.m. the girls basketball team continues their incred season 16 have a tournament home game on Wednesday February 26 at pleas the girls haven't had a home any so we are all
very excited the boys basketball team has doubled their wins from last season and still have more games their senior day is this Friday like we said the high school has been non stop and we very excited to see that the second half of the year will break thank [Applause]
you have any committee reports see moving forward we open up for uh to the public for questions and comments Rel board matters only on the agenda C we close that part
[Music] okay so ladies and gentlemen um we had a board member uh resigned several weeks ago so um for the next couple minutes uh several people put in to be to fill that slot so we're going to have interviews so you guys get to
have excitement going on we get a chair right here I think a chair would be [Music] do you want sit if your tum a little bit that's fine if you'd rather stand behind the
podium whatever okay I'm going to ask the questions by the time the last person hears them they will know well because the same question for every so first of all you tell us who you are and and your
name and your address so we get okay why do you want to serve on the board of education and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the Kingsburg School District I'm happy to repeat it any any number of times you
want why do you want to serve on the board of a and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the key SCH so um actually I think I have actually
probably wanted to serve now several years um but I waited um I actually both of my children have gone through the school um I've been now for over 25 years um but i' I've been doing
several things um I work in another school district I worked here for two years um but then I was laid off and been out for 17 years the current work and uh so I watch my sons go through the district
and here wonderful with them and I just I actually love the school district and I love the things that we do but I do feel like everything I want to serve the community I'm private partn as well I'm social worker um and I do feel like I
like to give back and help I do feel that my doctorate I just earned my doctorate also helps and I also have done curriculum and programming so I feel like the time is now for me to step forward and do things
do I'm sorry what was your do I just social work okay what do you see as the most important challenges facing the kingb school district and how would you contribute to addressing them as Board of Education member most important
challenges and how would you address them so I think um some of the challenges I think are probably um working with our community um and working together um to build
relationships and sustaining relationships over time with the students and their families and actually building those relationships and kind of helping our kids in the future to have the skills
that they need uh in relationship building and Academia and making that go hand in okay what do you think the role of a board of education member is what do you think the role of a board B member is I
think the RO of a board of education member is to um look at things um and to be fair um and to look at things kind of and weigh all of your options um and to
look at all of all of sides of the equation and try to raise them out and do the best things for your community and for your students and for your staff and try to look at all sides of the equation and make the best decision possible for your community and for your students
well thank you very much other three questions you don't have to leave the room now you canay oh waiting for Michael to get back he has things he pulled out of the hat so we can tell
a I didn't understand it so I don't think you should why the hot dog have a sweater [Laughter] on sit there or you stand at and my first I do all the questions are all the same but I'm going to have
her okay and give us your name and address okay I'm Samantha richardi and I am at 17 okay why do you want to serve on the board of education and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the
Kingsburg School District okay if you need me to repeat any part of it again I will be happy to do so um so I um want to serve on board education just because I have a really good understanding of equ access to
quality services because of the work that I do now and um so I would like to impact education um to quity ucation sucess um
I'm currently a practice manager at the I've been there years now impacted by making changes in the community um and being involvement
um want to more now I have that's going to go into um so starting from the beginning I did have um a my siblings were in the district I
was in the district um I adopted my nephew and he just graduated in 2024 2022 begin so I would like to be of his story also I do want to add a little bit more about my experience in general so um I have a
lot of experience in um budgeting policies being because I work for AED qualifi hear everything off of Grant um so there's a lot of different decisions you have to budget wise just because if you don't have the fund you have certain programs um and so
I think that Al a lot ucation decision have could you move that seat up about six or sevenet I can't [Music] hear I know you can't hear either but I
I if I can't hear some of them are no one as old as me but me repeat anything no absolutely not I heard it but it was like not as strong as I could this way it be better I what do you see as the most important
challenges facing the kingburg school district and how would you contribute to addressing them as a board of education member um most important challenges and how would you so I think one of the most important
challenges isance to have because you want to make sure that the resources programs um services for the students match what you can afford right because it's there's a
good balance there um I think that Community Fe is really important I think involving the community um whe that's out um to help make those decisions
um I think that K has a very diverse population of people and um having people on your board that are is really important and coming from different backgrounds to those students to help strategic
decision okay what do you think the role of a board of education member is what is the role of so decision which I think is everything you don't have to I will put the chair
no have to back maybe at this [Music] teer yes you don't hear until after [Music] [Music] so you can just tell us your name and
address my name is Tom BR I live at5 okay and all the questions I'm asking the same questions of all the afri so that we can judge them kind of apples and apples so and if you need anything repeated I'm happy to do it um and
there's three questions the first one why do you want to serve on the board of education and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the schol one of the things one of the
reasons what made me one of those things that over the years I've to appreciate the work that people do uh to do this type of thing and um I felt that this would this is the the right time for me to do this in
my life uh I also think with the vacancy available it can give me a time and an opportunity to say is this something I really want to do so the timing was perfect uh as far as going to my my skill
set I would imagine everybody has our resum so um I've worked in high about 27 years I and about half half graduating class so I have an idea what
high the number one consumer and also working in public sector I also know how it operates I come already come with the uh okay what what do you see as the most
important challenges facing the kingburg school district and what would you do to contribute to addressing them I think seeing where most of theing comes from advocacy for continue to get the funding
that that the district needs St so I don't know that that's fine what do you think the role of a board of education member is okay and that's all there are
goes fast thank you only six five voting oh no sorry voting no one has to stay on go ahead I'm very excited about it I [Laughter]
didn't thanks hi I'm going to be asking the questions they're the same questions that are asked of everyone um and there's only three of them so um first we start off though with having you give your name and your um
[Music] address okay why do you want to serve on the board of education and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the school district I believe that I possess
uh having been a prior educator I was both a teacher and administrator in the Warren Township School District I think that the skills that I was able to cultivate Within Myself and the collaboration I was able to develop
within the district um really led to the success dur my time there I do believe that I can contribute uh significantly to the success of hburg schools need of the students and the necessarily
necessary um interest and um cultivating the learning that we need to address I think that my ability to work with parents what do you see as the most
important challenges facing kingburg school district and how would you contribute to addressing them as a board of education member what are the challenges and how would you address them I think the challenges um understanding looking at some of
the results of scoring and so forth and testing would be to address uh the needs of the Learners to actually cultivate and bring their experiences um to a level that would be uh demonstrating
success with what I'm understanding of the school district the statement says that you're looking for rigorous curriculum you're looking for ways to motivate students bring in members of the
community and actually cultivate a positive and supportive learning environment and I think that that in itself would probably bring around a better look at results
that looking at the scores at least percent would that to at Focus GRS at opport to bringa ways okay and that's how fast it goes
what do you the role what do you think the role of a board of education member is RO would be to work collaboratively to policy and regulations and actually being implemented implemented for staff
and teachers also I think probably one of the things be very helpful BR atmosphere to try to cultivate and bring in and concerns from the community to
help really bring learning environment togethering thank [Music] we have another joke what do you call deer with no
eyes ears oh um no idea at this point I'm go home [Music] hi I'm going to be asking the question and start off with just and feel free to take deep breath and
relax going be um the your name and address start off with the heart well it doesn't really matter but as long as we can hear you if you need me to repeat anything I'll be happy to repeat it there three questions and everyone has been asked
the same questions why do you want to serve on the board of education and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the Kingsburg School District okay um first I
to I I believe that from my experience I have have experience I do volunteer Church um in that's where I GRE up um I also volunteer with the animal shelter
for many years uh probably from 2012 to 2018 um have volunteer with the Board of Education in any District um I believe that from my educational experience I graduated rers I Come From New York um
New Jersey um which is a great educational system on own but I believe in hard work and I believe that everything that I've done in my experience to get where I am today can
foster um I have a lot of ideas to sh um new stances um I will to support any ideas that the board has um and take a positive outlook also with hearing from the public as well about what their concerns are and we want
to I would to say bridge that into the gap of the educ we do challenges we're doing that now what do you see as the most important Challen is facing the keensburg school district and how do you contribute to addressing them
as a board of education member the challenges fac in the district and how would you address it first of all um I want to say that I'm not from schol District I think the biggest
thing that I hear when I say the kingburg school district I kind of get um from outside people they go it's tough that's the first um for me um the biggest thing I think the challenge that faces any schud is
budgeting um I know that everyone believes that yes there could be a billion dollars that can be spent on one way or another but there's um a tactic that's involved as plan um and I think that with bud I'm very very good at that and seeing where okay this is what our
needs are this is where we're spending maybe too much time on um what's is this working properly those are things that I that I help address also rol responsibil I like you had different ideas you know
try different things I like having ins input okay what do you think the role of a board of education member is help to help enforce and drive and build a
student in the school district their success to want to build into a future for themselves I mean the district is the backbone I just don't think the people realize it too there's teachers there's students there's curriculum there's Educators you guys are behind the scenes
so there's a lot like well thank you very much that concludes the three questions you should be the king of queen of them no [Music] [Music] whatever you come
what everybody do just be comfortable um I'm going to ask you three questions which all an asked by the other the other candidates and they're not very long if anytime you need me to repeat something just let me know I'll repeat it as many
times as you want first thing now let's get your name and address for the record so my name is C Ryan and it's okay why do you want to serve on the board of education and how do you believe your skills or experience will contribute to the success of the
Kingsburg School District first and foremost uh it would be an honor to be on the board I have pass the family members that have sat on the board so very
um former graduate of Kingsburg both my children went in here I believe that District okay and what do you see as the most important challenges facing the Kingsburg School District and how would
you contribute to address them as a board of education member are there challenges and how would you address them as a member stud and and I happy meeting between that we could maybe brighten up
the school BR what do you think the role of a board of education member is um I believe they are important to handle the budgeting and also Hing
people um try to keep everyone in Che correct there no right or wrong anwers to anything and um we're all done so we appreciate it you're the one we've been looking for because you're the last one in the list
[Music] but you're welcome to stay here now okay I ke Board of Education shall conduct the Clos executive session pursuant to the personnel and legal exception prescribed by njs 104 S12 for the
purpose of discussing personel and legal is anticipated that the length of time this executive session will be 30 minutes and that action will be taken in public after the executive session be a further resolve that the minutes of the executive session will be released when
the need for confidentiality and accordin NJ 10 4 S12 no longer applies got it got it first second all in favor come out and tell you um
we and their action will be taken um at the end e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e e
e e e e [Music] right I think motion come out the executive session I'll make that motion a second second all in
favor first of all on behalf of the Board of Education um I would like to thank all the applicants tonight um who took the time to come and apply and to come to board meeting I would like to say um and I will say that this was an extremely
professional group it was a group that um the board would love to see all of you participate and continue to be involved to come to the meetings we have so many different um things that we could have you involved in for the betterment of the school and every
single one of you was that type of person that the board would like to see and involved and continued it was really an impressive group um we you know we don't see a whole lot of interest sometimes generated and I think some of you talked about that as to that would
be something that would be able to be improved upon but I I just want each and every applicant to know this was not an easy decision it was not a decision where we could sit and eliminate five and then have one it was an argument as
to who was the best of the best and that's what you should all feel too because you were all good not just good you any one of you could serve on a board of education I think would be an asset to that board and to that community so made it a very hard
decision with that having said I turn it back to um the president thank you Mr presid now um fourth um open the board nominations they
conceed for the Board of Education a second any other any other nominations roll call vote Mrs frelle M K yes Mr mowy yes Mr cook yes Mr Ho yes Mr
yes congratulations someone to explain that having been said um because of um not for any because um there willon not be a squaring in this evening because we want to make sure
that every eye is dotted and T is crossed and the state has been very become much more so the and we didn't want to do a background check on all seven people that had originally applied that they cost money and I'm cheap
so the decision was that once the person was decided we would do a background check and have that process that's going to be done by central office or directly on by central office it'll approximately be 2 weeks at that time um as Ryan can
come in um and be sworn in the board office she will will then get be an official board member we will have a ceremonial swearing at the next board meeting um but she won be have the package and all the information to be prepared to be able to to vote at that
meeting tonight if she was sworn she probably would have whoever was like would probably have abstained because they didn't have anything in front of them so we thought that would be a better way to hit the ground running and also cover ourselves by having and that was going to be we're not having a
background check just because it's a r but that would have been the case for anybody just so that there's no no question just if I could really quickly explain what the process was because I know some of you might be like what just happened so what it is is there's a nomination process so um there was discussion by the board members when
you're in executive session and then when you come out anyone can nominate someone then when someone is nominated there's a role called nominations if someone hits the required five votes they're automatically on because they receive the majority of the Board of Education if the first nomination had
not received then it would have went on to other the other nominees after that just so everyone understands how that went it wasn't just like you have a second call vote Mrs
M keam yes Mr yes Mr cook yes Mr Hof yes superintendent schools recommends positive action on the following items under personnel number one retirement number two resignation number three nonprofessional Employment Number Four
long-term substitute teacher number five the of abs Medical number six leave of absence medical revision number seven leave of absence expanded sick leave number eight substitute teachers and fire professionals number nine substitute computer
technician number 10 student observation number 11 coaching positions for the spring at Joseph arer Middle School number 12 coaching positions for the spring at kingburg High School number 13 coaching positions to fall kingburg High School 14 volunteers at Joseph arer
Middle School 15 Central detention teachers Joseph arer Middle School 16 changeing degree status movement on the guide revisions 17 professional development costing $150 or above 18 bcba field work hours and 19 CTE
Administration Kingsburg High School revision my motion please any questions a second any questions coms 18 so it's a a bcda is a behavior
analysis so one of our own staff members is going back to school to further her education and she's doing some of her field work here with us Mrs relle M K yes Mr yes Mr yes Mr yes Mr Ro
yes but I on 19 first May under General 20 District HIV report 21 disposal of unused outdated broken furniture and Equipment 22 acceptance of donations for Early Learning Center 23 in state
can I please get a motion second any CH reports the the high school did very well and so the ear Learning Center as far as on the ranking but the other schools was pretty dispy between one
school in particular and the high school and yet kind of surprised me since it was not really examples of things happening it was more training and preparation for what we've done why would we not be doing all whole thing all there is but there's different
expectations at the different schools and different check marks that we have to hit so we have to work on some of other thanks the very thorough report of course than just quick question is there anything specific that
we're no so that's a rolling one every month so that rolles every month because we have to cover ourselves Mrs yes M yes yes and thank you to the Head Corporation for their generous donation
Mr Hof yes thank you for your donations Mr and I have addendum items A1 resignation revision uh we want to thank M par she's actually extending
when she's leaving because we were not able to find a leave replacement right now so she did agree to extend um A2 L Bassin medical A3 inclass State uh in state class trips and A4 this is actually Senator talking about
the H self assessment for the district I please have a motion yes I just have a question on 83 it says the cost of the process being donated back by NJ so there's no cost process I'd like to thank M as well for staying
selfishly my son was one of her students so much happier of having a fulltime teacher than long-term self roll call Mrs felle M K yes Mr Man yes Mr C yes Mr H
yes M yes School business administrator board secretary report board secretary's monthly certification I certifi that no line item has been overexpanded and that sufficient funds are available to meet to meet the district's Financial obl
Obligations for the remainder of the fiscal year payroll certification for January 15th and January 30th the superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items one receip and acceptance of January board secretary's report two approval of appropriation
transfers three approval bills lists four approve home instruction five approve out of District tuition six approv commission for the blind seven approve mckenny vento
tuition eight approve Perkins secondary Consolidated Grant Amendment nine approve the 25 26 21st century Community Learning Center Program grants acceptance and submission 10 approve attendance at njsbga
Workshop 11 approve the resolution to apply and obtain a grant from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs motion I'll make ation concerns number six um
they come to school but for this student transfer that need but they do Vision screen for all does she have a service out does she have anything um he's not in
need roll call Mrs Fel Kellan yes Mr mowy yes Mr cook yes Mr H yes now open up to uh any public
comments or questions please come up mic stay your name see no one that Communications from Communications from the board member Mr cook thank you Mr President I just want to say thank you to all the
applicants that came out this evening it's reallyu a blessing to see so many people from the community that are engaged and willing to dedicate their time to the students and to the community I want to thank you all for coming out uh congratulations to Miss Ryan um for our board and uh just hope
everybody's bearing this winter weather it's uh quite brutal hopefully the summmer is are right around the corner thank thank you to all the appli it's nice to see people that want to be involved again with our school district and don't give up we welcome you to come to our meetings you know we like to hear from
you and like to share can email us let us know I also want to thank Justin she's been a longterm educator with us it's going to be sad to see her go she's done so much for us [Music]
I and just want to everyone else congratulations I'd also like to thank the athletes for all coming um this is like no other job interview I've ever done um having done it myself and sat in the middle and get three questions and it feels like you're
talking to nine people we didn't say welcome you know individually like I would in any other job application or interview that I would do so I realize that this is an odd situation but please stay involved um there's an election in 7 months eight months whatever it is um
you want to point out read Across America is on March 4th at the kuso elementary school from 6:00 to 8m um so we in the cafeteria there anybody who would like to read you could reply to um my other half so they know that you're coming um but miss manowski runs the bre
across so she's not here tonight to advertise um just a real quick thing I I know a couple people mentioned during this budgeting and stuff I actually just got my esro back for my mortgage and my taxes went down so um as we continue to get our cuts and we've unfortunately
been forced to ask the um for a larger Levy each time um luckily our tax um burden across has actually gone down so hopefully that's happen for other people in the community as well but I we see people saying it's doubled the values have gone up and stuff but you know where's all the tax money
going our uh government uh our state funding has gone down I know Mr SE is well aware that there was report that came out today where at least we've been told that there is a 3% cap on the amount of loss that we might have U mentioning the fact that saying flat is not flat because everything else went up
we're we're estimating at worse to 3% across all the uh the standard for um funding that we get so but what explaining is that if there's a 3% and I believe Mr brenon you had mentioned it too that does not account for even if we were flat funding we have raised cost of living which is typically at least like
5% of everything healthare costs are going up 21% for school districts in a lot of places so some people get excited when they hear flat funding or only 3% cut what they don't realizes exactly we said that's sorry I hate to be doom and Bloom but I just want to make sure that
everyone understands that and just the last thing just I want to thank buildings and grounds um we've had a a difficult couple of weeks um I know we had a couple delayed openings and stuff but the sidewalks have generally been clear at the schools there's plenty of rock salt down as far as I can see um and you know so I think the work that
they do because they're here during the delate openings making sure that the schools up thank you I also like to thank all the applicants who came out it's not easy again come to um to fill a seat so thank you and hopefully again we'll see you
soon uh retirements we have some outstanding teachers we always encourage them to move on like we do our students um a big shout out to Mr folks and you want to know why um if you look on Google Maps Google Maps you down Palmer place and the last second you see to
Doon entry sign and people blow through that every day so was a matter of time before someone's going to get hurt so Mr folks figured out a way to contact Google and everybody else to say hey how about you come in off the rain place all the way around like you you should so hopefully that was taken into
consideration and changed so the Mr folks put the leg work into that and uh it gets a big data boy um the students mentioned earlier about all of our sports that come to and Our Girls part the basketball team lost in double overtime was a nail fighter but
again it was um it was an exciting game the boys again are approving the wrestling are moving on now as an individual SCH reference to get to the states so um this past Saturday the Kingsburg parade committee had a gift auction and
kuas helped under the uh guidance of this leag they were amazing run running the gifts back and forth and checking tickets so big shout out to with that being said our parade is on the 29th of March it's at 1:00 I would like to invite the Board of Ed the KA
and the prek you guys see prek rolls in strong like that I believe we celebrated our 100th day of school I love that I'm I'm like a little kid on certain things um again I'm also talking about read Across America because this is my partner we've been
doing it for uh several years now right you know bring my book with pictures in it also I would like to thank the maintenance staff the maintenance staff worked hand inand with the town the town U put down was that solution called Bri that helps it with um the roads and
everything else the past storms and maybe a future storm this week but either way whatever I think other nature throws at us our maintenance staff is standing there with a shovel so big shout out to them and that's all I have so thank
you Senator just one thing have any you just notes when exective session you just turn them into the board secretary just so that we don't have any things Flo around I don't you don't have to identify their name make sure you don't leave them laying around so you give
them to them that'll be fine I already gave them mine and go to the girls basketball game they have a home state game and that like never happens so Wednesday I don't know if you guys know what time it is tomorrow Wednesday no next Wednesday we have a so to be to get a home game you have to be the high
enough seed that you score a home game and our girls are 16 and4 right now which in Kingsburg history has been a very long time since we've had anything like that so we got our first home me that we've had in the long time it'd be awesome to pack the stands for that' be great for the
girls all right thank you everyone for coming we'll see you next time [Music] next e