##VIDEO ID:yfPnGrzL4oI## I hearby 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 filed with the municipal clerk of Kingsburg posted on the district website and posted inside the office of the Kingsburg Board of Education 100 pound repl Kingsburg New Jersey on January 6 2024 call this is yeah Belle here M K Moran here Mr mowy here Mr kitchen here Mr cook here Mr cisano Mr Hof here M bar here please stand for the pledge 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 see we don't have any presentations we'll jump into the student represent representative reports from buer middle school we have L and folks and Jessica lambing the boulder Middle School winter sports team have begun we have our cheerleaders boys and girls basketball teams and wrestling teams starting their season now the student council organized what they call a white elephant event for the eighth grade students to be held on Friday period 1 there were several rules for this event such as you need to sign up to participate by a certain date to receive a gift you must enter the media center with the gift there will be a price limit Etc students are excited to participate the eighth grade officers held a goodie bag fundraiser where all students of Faculty could purchase a little bag filled with candy canes and other seasonal treats for themselves or to give to someone special the Multicultural Club continues to have monthly meetings with lots of fun activities and delicious food the Dr the drama club allowed eighth grest to audition for the Kingsburg High School play Evil Dead the musical The Joseph all Middle School band had a holiday performance on December 10th and the entire audience enjoyed it our school had its annual holiday shop last week where everyone could purchase gifts for their family members or for themselves at a very low discounted price they were having fun looking at all the items that were available for sale Boulder's new e e gaming Club is a big success it held it is held daily after school where students have the opportunity to to compete against other schools in the area this week is school spirit week each day of the week is designated with a theme for the day for example the first day of the week was called Mary Monday and students were asked to wear the colors red and green pictures were taken of students who participated and their photograph will be in the yearbook the culmination of spirit week will end with a pep rally on Friday everyone at buer is looking forward to the holidays and vacation time we would like to wish everyone a very happy holiday enjoy the time with family and friends we will see you back next year in 2025 thank you thank you [Applause] thank you to our Boulder rips and from the high school we have Lindsay Rivera and Cameron sby evening everyone December has been a busy and exciting month at Kingsburg High School it began with us announcing our teacher of the year support staff of the year and Educational Service professional of the year with that being said we want to congratulate Miss bony miss lowski and miss King for all they do for our Kingsburg High School Community yesterday we kicked off Spirit Week With pajama day and our annual cookie Wars competition Mr broy Mr Reed Mr Manos Miss D Martino and our food service manager Mr ditel judged to had the most delicious homemade cookies out of our students and teachers Mr folks and Bella Fernandez claimed Victory with their incredible cookies Spirit Week will continue throughout the week this week including our annual door decorating contest and our beloved Iceberg games which will will occur at our winter pep rally on Friday winter sports are in full swing our wrestling team won their first try today to open their season big congratulations to coach Anderson who got his first and second varsity win in his head coaching debut our bowling team has already acquired two victories so far this season and both our boy and girl basketball teams kicked off their season tonight the Esports team is up and running with a committed group staying after practicing and getting ready for their UPC upcoming competition other news report as you all know art Titan 5K was last month but it needs to be mentioned that we raised over $3,500 for Tunnels for Towers which obviously is a huge win for the incredible organization please also save the date of our annual pocketbook Bingo and gift auction which will begin on March 14th if anyone is interested in donating for the event please contact Diana Lopez as you can see we are non-stop at Keb high school but we want to take a minute to wish everyone a Wonder upcoming holiday season and happy New Year thank you to our high school Representatives moving forward we have any committee reports just uh the finance meeting uh was held earlier this evening there's no news to report at this time everything is in financial standing and good help thank you thank you Mr Co any others seeing none we'll open it to the public requirments and questions related the board agenda items only anyone from the public seeing none we'll close that I need a motion for the approval of minutes I'll make that motion thank you Mr cook we need a second Mrs Clayton yes M velle yes M Kell Moran yes Mr manowski yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hof yes Miss Ferrar yes but I stain on the November 19 meeting I have to okay on the 19th thank you superintendent of schools recommends positive on the following items under Personnel one retirement two salary correction nonprofessional Personnel three substitute teachers and Care Professionals for the district four substitute computer technician five keensburg after school program revision six Kingsburg after school program salary revision seven Burton gillahan after school teacher peruso eight 2425 CTE Club instructors for Joseph R buer 9 2425 te Administration kingburg High School 10 high impact tutoring for math and Ela Caruso 11 curriculum writing 12 professional development costing $150 or above I need a motion for the approval of personnel thank you Mr a second thank you Brook we have any comments or questions from fellow board members stand on roll call oh M har is number 12 and the addendum item A4 sorry A4 about the AP online Workshop are those the same no um to like to be paid to attend the hours of the workshop on the agenda and this is the cost of the workshop on okay thank thank you any other questions or comments saying none roll call please okay Mrs Clayton yes Mrs friselle yes M kellar yes Mr mcy yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes and congratulations on all the retirements Mr Hof yes M yes but have stain on eight n thank you under General 13 District HIV report 14 Cooperative agreement between kingburg high school and Keyport High School 15 furniture removal and Disposal need a motion for acceptance for approval of General a second call second can any comments or questions for fell War please Clayton Mrs friselle yes Miss Kell Moran yes Mr mowy yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hof yes Miss F yes addendum A1 Reemployment of personel nonprofessional Visions for the district A2 employment contracts A3 memorandum of agreement with law enforcement 2425 A4 AP online workshops for the Springs 25 A5 professional development costing $150 or above A6 supervisor of Athletics High School revision have a motion to accept the agenda thank you do I have a second second thank you any comments or questions from 12 board owners just one question for A3 we just have one page it's a standard one that's on the you go the website and we just use the one on there but I I'll send you a link to it to we don't choose anything about it it's one that's given to us oh okay thank you thank any other questions or comments fell bmer see go call please Mrs Clayton yes Mrs felle yes M Kell yes Mr M yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hof yes but Iain from on A1 the seven name down and then on A2 uh we'll call it the account number on the 21st number now please thank you the is yes Miss F yes but I have stain on security on A2 and A6 I have school business administrator board secretary report the superintendent schools recomend positive action on followings board secretary's monthly certification certifies that no line line item has been overex exended and that sufficient funds are available to meet the district Financial Obligations for the remainder of the fiscal year payroll certification for November 15th and the 29th one receipt and acceptance of November's board secretary's report two approved appropriation transfers three approved bills four approve 24 2024 2025 attendance at Tech texo 25 number five approve 2425 from instruction uh number six approve change orders PCO 10 12 13 14 15 and 17 do I have a motion to accept the ba report make motion second any questions or comments from fellow board members Mr yes four please where we're going yeah yeah so the big thing that we're learning about is AI in school and yes that's like the major reason why we're going this year that's the topic of the whole thing okay yeah um that's all over news today too but are they going they're talking about AI writing papers AI doing this not just that like for everything and there's we have Toop policy so we're going there to like learn about the policy and the adoption and all that okay and that would go once everything um you learn we go guess stra is that would they do our policy so they gave a sample policy but it's very similar to the sample one that they gave us for Co that we fill in pretty much everything so we have a lot to choose within this one whereas the usual ones we don't so we don't really know so we need to go about it oh a is going to place me thank you Mr thank you Mr any other questions or comments can I just on Mike on the total amount of the change orders to the cap of construction they don't come anywhere near the I know but I just want to put that on the record thank you Mr mowy Mr Ben just still have my question um the other question is there any cost outside of the scope of the that have already been no no any other questions seeing on roll call please Mrs Clayton yes Mrs felle yes M kellar yes Mr mowy yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr Hoff yes M Ferrar yes uh we'll now open the meeting to the public for any comments or questions rela anything seeing no one from the public that section uh old and new Communications Mr Hoff you have anything I do Mr President um the two speakers here steal most of my thunder so we'll talk about the winter sports I have a question hopefully someone if e Sports have a home game how do we watch them very question yeah so in the past there was an option that we could kind of Zoom it and that so some schools do it that way too where you can like zoom in and watch through that aspect I don't know if we have that set up yet to do um as we have a new person doing it this year but um I could definitely ask them if they sure I know how to get to the bowl and Alley I know how to get to the gym wrestling match are you asking specifically like if you can go in person to watch if you I don't know we can ask yeah I mean it is like a small it's like in a classroom so the the space isn't huge but like not everybody gets to play at like a match so basically the other people that are on the team cure on those that are you know competing at that like that specific de I have another silly question what kind of games do they play and I don't a big one is Super Smash Brothers sorry I don't play it's Mario characters and stuff like that they fight each other yeah that's on Nintendo it's every like character from Nintendo basically really but they do all different ones there is Mario Kart that's one yeah where they race everything else that was number one Brook Community College has a big eorts program but they have combined that because of exactly the question Mr Hoff's asking is how do we watch this that they are essentially doing close to a radio television film type broadcast that they have a whole group of students that are not the Esports people that are not interested necessarily in video games but are actually broadcasting and uh producing the whole video and the YouTube feed of the people that are playing so they're learning how to to do the other side of this which is how I think you it's a billion dollar industry right there a club you know and then puts them up for anything else that they want to okay um an amazing day today we've had U cuso school sing two sessions I only made one but it was an amazing job say I yeah but an outstanding job amazing job pass on to the teachers good luck to our retirees um how come we didn't give out Awards tonight for the teacher of the year support staff it's after we still the district it's usually January okay well congratulations I look forward that's one of my favorite times of the year um so in yesterday's paper as Park mess as I call free old school districts looking for $137 million for upgrades and everything else I kind of feel bless that we did everything under grants security doors under grants and then the stuff we just approved today I don't think they're going to get approved we talking about security and we're ahead of the game I know when we look at the line and what it cost everybody but now they're going I don't know what they do with their grants but they didn't spend that like we did I'm kind of proud of that because even though they say it's only going to be $37 to the average tax person but I don't know malan I voted that voted that resolution down we are ahead of the game so that kind of puts a smile on my face that everyone's come and lay for the table and we're already here um if nobody has a place to go on Christmas you can come to my house Andor you can go to the Episcopal Church in Asbury Park 503 Asbury they be feed from 12: to 2 Santa will be there as well uh for families they give out gifts um the Board of Ed gave it um donation for Christmas the project PA so and on behalf of my family to your family to everybody out there in the audience merry Christmas happy New Year uh whatever holiday you celebrate I wish you the best thank you thank you Mr Melle you have anything I just want to say congratulations to the re myces thank you Mrs relle you have anything I just want to HCK you back on what you said I intended one session today and the kids were great they were very excited and they did a wonderful job happy holidays everyone thank you Mr M you have just my condolences the family of Mr pulman um and the family of Miss Smith um the Mr pulman and I passed um a little bit he was in high school my wife was not before I was on the board but we did serve on a couple of ad hoc committees to get to know him um also just want to address you know nationally school shooting in Wisconsin um no teacher no student should expect to come to school piggy back to a degree of Mr Hof today we're signing uh again another memorandum of understanding with our Police Department um our security guards our district has been ahead I believe of security make sure that we have police officers in each building and making sure that we have um all the security and things that we need to and you again my thoughts are with the people there but knowing that we've taken action so that hopefully that never happens anywhere but definitely never happens here again just happy holidays Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah and happy New Year thank you Mr melain you have anything um just congratulations to all the retirees and merry Christmas happy year than you thank you Mr C uh yes thank you Mr President just had a few points I wanted to share uh last Thursday the M County New Jersey School Board Association had their what say monthly meeting and it's nice to see that on our agenda we have the tech expo that our administrators or teachers are going to be going to that because their topic was Ai and how it's been implemented into not just the education but how it's expanded into student learning and it can make not just our lives easier but it could also expand on our knowledge so it's nice to see that our teachers our staff kingburg is going to be in the future age um also on top of that uh Saturday was the delegate assembly and though there was a couple points that was discussed I think something that should be aware and you said yeah it's very Park sorry was that last part of it um anyways a lot of these news organizations are switching to digital media and with municipalities and school districts where we have to give up open public notice that whole environment is going to be changing and then from what I understand the municipalities and New Jersey school board is going to be working actively so that way everybody is in compliance just a new age and something that we're going to have to be updated with and as far as updates in this school year I just want to say that this year has been a prosperous year it's been a successful year I want to thank heing for a lot of that Su success and that Vision it's not a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication it's not just her but also her team and the teachers and last wishing everybody a happy holidays a Merry Christmas A Joyful New Year happy Hanukkah happy Quanza andjoy thank you Mr cook Mr Mor you and I just want to say my condolences to thean um as you know Ray Coleman was with our district for 41 years I was probably his second class when he started um and a lot of good memories with him and when you read so many positive beautiful things about him they're all true I mean he was a friend he was a mentor he was an educator he took Sports we didn't have um a bowl and Alley but he made it happen and he was a champion and our kids learned to bowl and they brought home rings and a lot of positive influence same thing cross country we didn't have a track but we had Great Hills and streets and beaches and things to run and my memory with him is the Grateful Dead I might not look like a dead head but I am and I want to tell you that right after I graduated in 1977 I went to the Dead concert at the Intown graceway and he was an influence so not only did he teach us science in a different way but he taught us to love music and it's okay to different so um for that we were blessed to have him in our school district he he was someone that everyone admired he was kind he wanted you to be yourself and it is a great loss that'll forever be in our hearts and I'd just like to wish everyone a very happy holiday it's about being kind and respect and love each other and that's something we're instilling with our students it's nice to see them happy um thank you to the administrative team the Educators all the support staff we have a great School District going on it's growing we're doing good things and the purpose is to make the kids have a better opportunity thank you thank you Mr do we have a a motion to return I'll make that motion Mr C favor 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