testing. Can I have your attention, please? We're going to go ahead and get started. I knew our our student rep Oh, here he is. Here's Luca. He had a baseball game, so we'll just give him a minute to come down. That was quick looking. >> Quick change.
>> Okay. Welcome everybody to the Kennalan Board of Education regular meeting for March 30th. The New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting
their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of the act, the Kennelan Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published in the suburban trends on March 25th, 2026, posted in the Kennelan public library, filed with the burough clerk, and posted on the
district website. Mr. Mangle, will you call the board, please? here. No close sessions needed. So, pledge of allegiance, please rise. Okay. Approval of the minutes. We have the February 24th regular meeting minutes and the February 24th executive
session. Can I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. Discussion on the minutes. >> Okay. Since I was not in attendance, I will be abstaining from that. But um you can go ahead and pull the board, please. >> Mr. Eisener. >> Scazer. >> Yes.
>> Mrs. Leonard. >> Mr. Myers. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pepe. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Pella. >> Yes. >> Student Representative Luca. >> At school. It has been a very engaging and enriching month for our students. families enjoyed the I'd rather be
reading event at the Kennan public library where students participated in storytelling and crafts thanks to the support of the library staff Mrs. and KHS student volunteers. Our first graders had a unique hands-on experience with Gloria the potter creating pinch pots and learning about
the art of pottery. Students also enjoyed a special author day assembly with Anna Kang and Chris Wans gaining insight into the creative process. We are proud of our four destination imagination teams who competed at Liberty Science Center with Science
Squad earning an impressive second place finished against older competitors at Sony Brook School. Students and families participated in a variety of meaningful and celebratory events. Readacross America was a tremendous success highlighted by a visit from
author Jen Kalonito and the supporter and the support of KHS students and Cedar Crest Retired Educators Club. Students also explored their creativity through a pottery residency with Gloria the Potter. We are incredibly proud of our destination imagination teams, both
of which earned first place and will advance to the global finals in Kansas City. Additionally, our fourth grade goal students placed in the top 12 in the state in the uh in the law fair and our fifth grade kindness crew led a schoolwide assembly focus on citizenship and connection. We thank our families
for their continued support at events like the Kesha Tricky Tray and Skate Night. and we wish everyone a safe and relaxing spring break. At Pillar Miller Middle School, students have demonstrated both academic and personal growth through a variety of initiatives. Peer mentors visited Keel
School to lead kindergarten students in lessons on kindness, building meaningful connections across grade levels. Eighth grade students in the social outreach club also visited KE to celebrate Read Across America, sharing their love of reading with younger students. The classroom students in integrated
language arts completed their unsung hero projects combining research, writing, art, and presentation skills. We also congratulate all students who participated in the annual talent show where they showcase their diverse talents and courage in front of the school community. Kennalan High School
continues its tradition of excellence across academics, arts, and community engagement. We congratulate Millie Cho on her academic decathlon achievement and inov an an invitation to compete at nationals as well as Ganna Gianna Familiaro for being featured in the fine
and performing arts spotlight and George Tusenov as investment club trader of the month. We are proud to recognize our class of 2026 valadictorian Selenium Matal and salutatoran Zachary Kesler. The high school is also looking forward to several upcoming events, including
the intergenerational prom and the tri recital, while continuing to build community partnerships such as our collaboration with the Kilan Historical Society. >> Thanks, Luka. >> All right. Reason everybody's here. >> Thank you, Mr. President, welcome
everyone. [snorts] I do enjoy seeing a packed house. So, welcome tonight uh for our show. Uh but before I get started on a few district updates and before the reason why everyone's here uh with our students achievements um in the last six
and a half weeks, our school community and the overarching community has suffered great loss in losing two students tragically. One in our school, one who was in these seats not too long ago, two years ago and graduated. Lost each of them too soon. And there's no
greater loss in life for a parent. So, if you would just join me in a moment of silence in honor of them both and their families, thank you. Okay. So, just a few district updates and um some of it we kind of went over, we rolled
over in our citizens advisory committee and many faces here I know and I recognize as you're coming through the doors because you've been here before and some not. But just know that anybody in our community is welcome to join our citizens advisory committee. We meet a half hour before our public meetings and
uh it's where you have an opportunity to engage bring agenda items and just listen to the happenings of the district aside from what you may hear on the outside or from your children at home. So uh during that a few of these agenda items we touched on the first one being teacher on assignment or TOA. Uh that's
a position that the board and I developed a few years ago. So, if you're north of 50 like I am or maybe even a little bit below 50, um you remember the old positions known as deans that helped the uh building principal that they would manage student discipline. They would manage the building. Well, under
the B section tonight, we have our assistant principal, Mr. Aoyo, here of the high school who has to step out for a few weeks and uh handle a situation. And so in the meantime, we have Miss Ellis, who's actually walking down the hall, the hall down the aisle right now, who is an approved district TOA as it as
it is. Um she was districtwide. Uh we engaged her because obviously Mrs. Alawali will need support and uh what she will be doing is engaging our students, our parents if it, you know, if necessary and if needed. So I wanted to welcome her, put that out there to our staff. I know Mrs. Alawal and to our
community. Uh it'll be a little bit different because it's a teacher on assignment, but it's still the same. still an authoritative figure within the building. So, Miss Ellis, welcome and congratulations on that in building uh going forward. So, Miss Ellis,
so option two for physical education, that's also on the board agenda tonight for approval. And this is big as it stands for the high school specific. It's not K8, it's the high school. So there is um wiggle room for high school districts where you can uh offer your
students so long as it's approved in board policy which we'll be moving forward with and in the uh the student handbook where students who are active 150 minutes a week uh whether it be in a team sport here in the high school or in a activity outside of school and you
could take your pick whether it's club, whether it's travel, whether it's equestrian, whether it's dance, it doesn't matter as long as they could approve that uh what Mrs. Alawala her vision for next year and discussed at the board level is to move forward with that option for our students here in the
high school. So it would be on a pass fail basis and it would be marking period and if students opted out um they would uh have the opportunity to have that study hall period and as you know many of our students here add up and they bulk up on on classes and very
academic driven so that might actually help them in that case. So, uh, more information from that from Mrs. Alawali's office will be coming forward with option two, but I wanted to put that out there since I know we were going to have such a large crowd here tonight. So, that option two up for
approval tonight and more information next month. Uh, Miss Kelly, I know I saw you earlier, Miss Kelly. So, we hired a new culinary arts teacher. I just want to introduce Miss uh, Megan Kelly to you. I had the pleasure of sitting in her classroom uh, last week and her
demonstration lesson was excellent. Got my hands very dirty and learned a few new things. So, Mrs. Kelly, welcome to Kennel. Yep, you got it. Thank you for coming. The parental bill of rights policy, that's something that um our board
attorney had shared with the board and I and my office a few months back and we're working on that. Uh we will have a second draft for the CAC committee next month in April or uh in May. I'm sorry. We don't have a CAC meeting next month. Um, and then we looked to have it board
approved in June. And that really gives parents rights. So, uh, we wanted to customize it and former board member Miss Portman, if you remember her, she worked extensively on it and that was her her last mark on our board as she went out the door. Um, so that will be
up come June. More information there. And then the uh 2627 budget address and approval will be April 28th. I am not someone and for those of you who who don't know me, this will be the first time that likes social media. I don't believe in
it. I think it causes a lot of issues. I think there's a lot of inaccurate information and I think if you want an answer sometimes in life, you just come to the source. Um, our novel, when I say our, I mean the board and I and the district is out there. It's on our website. We've created board highlights.
We send them at the after every board meeting. I sent that communication in January. So, I promised everybody in February I wouldn't talk about SB across the across the town. Uh, but that's not on the docket for next year. I can't make any promises about the year after,
the year after that. All you have to do is look around in other school districts. All you have to do is listen to how much health benefits cost and what school districts are going through. We're no different. So, uh, I won't, you know, I won't talk out of turn. Obviously, we'll have some changes staff-wise
going forward. Nobody has been right, so we're not here to discuss that obviously. But I thought again, this is an opportunity for you to receive accurate information right now. Okay. So, that's where we are as far as our budget. Please come out April 28th. In the meantime, you have a
month, look at that information. If you have some concerns, you could always email us, call us, whatever you want to do. We're here just like you. So, um, just feel free. important dates to remember all and again all this information will come out
tomorrow and be on the website. April 23rd we have our intergenerational prom with PRM in the high school. Uh the 27th through the 29th we have the NJSLA. It seems that testing never ends onto May Stonybrook after that. Then if you come to our our public meeting in May on May
19th Mrs. McGlaughlin spoke for the HSA and their consolidation. and they'll have a short presentation and introduction. And then we also have our teacher of the year at specialist of the year and retirey recognition. So that'll be a big meeting as well in May. Uh on the 21st we'll have a tri forum video
sent out. We know time is of the essence, no different the next day with the principal forums. We don't want to waste your time. We certainly don't want to waste ours especially at the end of the school year. But videos work. So when you have time, and I'm not I'm not asking you to do homework on it. You'll receive it. You'll know where it is.
You'll have the link. feel free to look at it and review it. And then of course in June, it's a sprint. On June 9th, we have our district-wide student spring sports recognition right here in our public meeting. On the 10th, Stony Brook will be in this very uh room for their moving up celebration at 10:00 a.m. June
11th, Mr. Suda had made the decision to move PRM's graduation from the PRM field to the high school field, which I agree with and support. Uh he has a great plan and uh has shared that with our student council. So, that'll be June 11th at 2 PM and then on June 12th, 10 am here on
the field. And that wraps it up. Then we have a lot of construction and u building projects that'll be taking place right on this campus. So, um I know that was a lot and that's not why you're here. So, I'm going to stop talking. I'm going to ask Mrs. Alawal, our principal of the high school, and
Miss Witworth, our athletic director, to please come up. I'm going to sit down and then the show is both of yours. Thank you. Enjoy the evening. Thank you everyone for coming. Uh first we have a short video that was put together um by the brother of one of our
students who was able to uh get on the ice for the hockey game, the championship hockey game. Uh it's a really cool video. We want to share it with everyone tonight. A chance early. There's a scramble in front. Alan McGregor hit the post. Tell you what, the Mustangs came to play on
the big stage. Later in the first, Andy Brown on the left wing to Braden Cisco. He sets the table for Michaelisha. KJS United has drawn even in the third. Braden Cisco takes over. Brown with a great attack. He knows where Cisco will
be. Brandon Cisco has tied the game. 139 later, Cisco works the [music] give and go with Panda. the pass through with the five hole and Braden Cisco on the rectate and yeah have the foam KJS United takes a 32 lead and a little luck
for KJS Cormatical [music] goal number 31s jerseyion winning it United Public Co-op State Championship. But now the question is, can they run it back?
State champions. >> Today's the day we compete. Let's get going fast. All right. Get out there and start playing. [music] You work the puck around. You have to leave it all out there. All right. Don't regret this forever because you will.
You got 45 minutes. 45 minutes to do everything you can possibly do to beat the guy in FRONT OF YOU. ON THE left [cheering] >> in the middle on the right
the assassin. [cheering] >> [cheering] >> And in between the P. >> Yeah. Michael. Yeah. 5 4 3 2 1.
The Colts close out a remarkable season the same way they did a year ago, lifting the trophy and repeating co-op state champion. There's always Okay. To make it to the credential center one time is incredible. To make it two years in a row is just unheard
of. I I want to give credit first first to Nick Roslin for creating that video because I think it was absolutely incredible and really a nice way for the guys to have a video of what they've accomplished. At this time, I want to bring up the boys uh ice hockey co-ad ice hockey team coach Jeff Mein and um
no better no one better to speak upon his team than than him. So come on up, guys. [applause] All right, thank you everybody. um this this group of kids um you know you got to see a taste of it right there what they go through um and how successful
they were. Our goal every year is to try and improve um and we had a tough task coming from last year but we did we won one more game another state title advanced a little bit further in uh our county cup in the Menon Cup. Um but just just a phenomenal year. Great group of
kids. They they work so hard day in and day out. We're at the rink every day. Um and just They're so fun to coach. So, um I want to thank them for all your hard work and all this recognition you're definitely deserving of. I want to thank my coaching staff, coach uh Mark Tuno and
coach Nusbomb. And I'll just list off the kids that are from Kinnolan that are part of this state uh state title. Uh Stefan Filawitz, Matt Stack, Kaden Lombardo, Alex Roslin, Braden Cisco, Michael Prey, JJ Arnold, Bel Cisco,
Gabby Rodriguez, and Maximo Rodriguez. that's the that makes up the the Kennelan varsity part. Um, but we are, as you know, we're combined with uh Jefferson and Sparta, but a good portion of our team is is Kennelan. So, um, thank you to everybody. Hopefully, we can keep it rolling for you and, uh, just real proud of this group. Great
job, everybody. [applause] >> Thank you, coach. as you can see some of the accomplishments, individual accomplishments some of these uh some of these ice hockey players were able to achieve. It's really an incredible thing. Um next I'm going to speak on on behalf of Coach Souls. He was un able to
make it tonight. So I'd like the uh championship sectional championship bowling team to please come forward so we can speak about them for a few minutes. If you're here from bowling, come on forward. So, our our bowling team is similar. They've had back-to-back conference
champions. Um, and they were threetime sectional champions, which is incredible to do it multiple times again. They won multiple uh tournaments throughout the year. They were ranked 13 at the end of the season. I think the top the highest
they got was six. Um and they've got a lot of wonderful individual accomplishments. So, Zack Kesler rolled a 300, the only the second player in history uh to do that for Kennelan High School. He's he's also our saludiatoran. First
team all Morris County, first team all NJAC. All academic and qualified for top 100 in New Jersey. [applause] We had Jonathan Sprag first team Morris County first team NJCA and qualified as well for top 100 New Jersey.
Michael Sprag first team all county first team all NJAC qualified for top 100 New Jersey as well. Preston Jones, third team Morris County, second team Njac and Jack all academic. [applause] And Joan Joe Canarado, honorable
mention, all Morris County, honorable mention NJAC. [applause] One of the wonderful things I want to mention about this group is that the entire team starting group was mentioned in either Morris County or NJC. They all
got honorable uh first, second, third team or honorable mention which is pretty incredible for your whole starting group to get that. So congratulations guys. Again, conference champs and threetime sectional champions, our bowling team. Well done. as we move forward. Um, we're those two
teams are champion team championship teams for the winter. Um, absolutely incredible. We have a lot of winter athletes. I think the most that we have is in the winter. Um, and we have a lot of players that are being honored tonight. Going forward, um, as I call out the names of the players being
honored, I'd like for you to stand. And following the athletics portion, we can meet outside and you guys can take pictures as a group. So for boys basketball, we have Nick George, first team alljack, and Jack all academic. Boys basketball, Tyler Grande, second
team all academic. [applause] Dylan Islani, honorable mention. NJ and we had freshman Mason Huber being voted as the top freshman by NJ.com this season. Congratulations. For girls basketball, we had Kylie Whan,
first team all Njack and Jack all academic. Gia Shikatella, first team all NJ and Jack all academic. Olivia Kzeki, second team, all NJ and Jack all academic. Kelly Donaldson, honorable mention all
Morris County. Taylor Mulch, honorable honorable mention all NJ. Okay, for indoor track and field, Elario Beldementi second place in the high jump, fifth place in the 55 meter in sectionals, and in the group meet,
placed sixth place in the high jump in the entire group one state. So, congratulations to him. Sarah Hinton was third place in the 55 meter in the sectionals. Kieran Fitzgerald, sixth place in the 1600 meter.
[applause] Gavin Far Barnard, sixth place in the pole vault. For fencing, Juan Jarillo in the Saber was first team all Njac, third team all state. He finished eighth in the state and recorded over a hundred career wins
which has only been done I think one other time. So congratulations to him. [applause] Dylan Castellano Smith in foil was first team all Njac and Njack all academic. Sam Baldino and Saber was second team all Njac and Njac all academic.
Olden Wood was in foil. Honorable mention Anjack. Vivian Cipax was EPE. Honorable mention Anjack. Sophia Sanchez and Saber was honorable mention NJ. Okay. For our swim team, we had quite a
few honors because this is done by event. So, Nora Papendic was second team in the 200 medley and second team in a 200 intermediate med intermediate medley. Sean Nick Sweeney was first team 100 backstroke, second team 200 medley
relay, and second team 200 free. And at NJC all academic, Kylie Papendic was second team 200 medley relay and second team 100 breaststroke. AJ Connelly was first team 50 free, second team 200 medley relay, second
team 200 free and njack all academic. Ella Bohan was second team 200 medley relay and second team 100 free. Trevor De Anton was second team 200 medley relay and second team 200 free. and Jack All academic
Nicholas Papendix second team 200 medley relay Claire Fritz honorable mention Matus Sniaak second team 200 free relay and Jack all academic John Mskowitz honorable will mention all Jack.
For wrestling, it's very similar. A lot of individual honors and place winners as we sent quite a few down to the state championships down in uh Atlantic City. Paulina Scarcova Scorzafava was first place in the Njac in the girls division, first place in
the district, first place in the region, and was on the podium down Atlantic City finishing fourth place in her weight class. Wyatt Cisco was first team alljack, third place in Morris County, first place in the district, third place in the region, a state qualifier down
Atlantic City, and recorded over a 100 wins in his career as well. Steven Maltifano was first team NJC, third place Morris County, first place in the district, fourth in the region, and a state qualifier down in Atlantic City.
Dominic Malfetano was second team, third place Morris County, third place in the district, second place in the region, and a state qualifier down in Atlantic City. Roman Raco, second place in the NJAC, fifth in Morris County, third in the district, and fifth place in the region.
Leo Demitrich, first place in the NJAC, second place in the district, and fifth place in the region. Michael O'Hara, fourth place in the district. Jerry Elle Pales, fourth place in the district. Kais Fa, fourth place in the district.
Xavier Garcia, second team, all NJAC. Ethan Bartto, honorable mention, all NJAC. As we move on to PRM sports, I just want to say that our our winter sports involve a lot of individual athletes, which is why you see so many place winners and so much recognition on the
board. Um, we have a lot of tremendous athletes here and uh they do an excellent job getting those individual accomplishments as well as team accomplishments. For PRM sports, we have four sports that happen in the winter. Girls volleyball is kind of a late winter sport, but as you can see, boys
basketball is four and six, girls basketball four and five, girls volleyball six and four, and wrestling with a tremendous 10-2 record. Our wrestling program, our wrestling program at PRM, because again, it's an individual sport, we had some place winners in the counties. Um,
so we had sixth grader Joseph Deelloo get third place in the county. Giana Pepe got fourth place in the county as a sixth grader. Ephraine Jarillo got third place eighth grader. Jake Pepe third place
and Damon Marcowski finished in second place in the county. I want to congratulate all of our winter sports uh teams and our athletes for the wonderful accomplishments they've had this winter. I'm going to pass it off to Miss Olawale for her portion of the high school.
Okay, good evening everyone. So, if we can have Jacqueline Loi come up and join us. Mr. Royo and I are so proud to be able to present her with an award this evening. So, every single school year we have New Jersey school boards and they
annually recognize a graduating senior who has overcome obstacles and despite the obstacles that life can throw at us, they achieve in leadership uh capacity as well as making positive contributions to their school community and achieve
academically as well. So again, Jackie, we are so proud of her. We are so grateful. On March 5th, we also went to Handover Park Regional High School where she was formally recognized by New Jersey school boards as well. And we just could not think of a more deserving
senior who's graduating from Kennelan High School this school year. So we are so proud to present our Morris County Unsung Hero Award to Miss Jacqueline Lo. Congratulations. And next up, I'd like to invite Mr. Strad to the podium.
>> Thanks everyone. This time of year is our honor band and honor choir season here for all the performing arts and we definitely want to uh recognize uh some of our fantastic musicians here at Kimmelan High School. Uh first up uh and you're going to hear
this name quite a bit. So Luka just stay there. Uh the North Jersey Region One Band and Orchestra uh Luca and Alfie Arena and also the New Jersey Allstate Band Luca. >> [applause] >> our students that um are in the North
Jersey area band. We once again had Luca Anel Fiorino, Aaron Charles, if you guys are here, stand up, please. All right. Uh Lindseay, Maddie, Michael Piccolo, I saw Michael, Matu, Sniaak, Emily Sun,
and Colin Tobia. the North Jersey Region One Intermediate Grand Intermediate Band, which is for grades seven through N. Richard and Colinia bring up Mr. Lenel to talk about the choir. Thank you for being here tonight
and what they do. Uh the Morris Morris area honor choir which is actually a smaller smaller choir representing the area of Morris County and around Morris area to be accepted into. to have three high school students in
that please stand up uh in our region honor choir which is all of North Jersey again uh is a larger uh larger area and more prestige uh again please stand Dylan Castalano
Smith, Savannah Mango, Anthony Mana, and Michaela. And we had a great year for New Jersey All State Chorus. It is a very difficult choir to get into and we were very lucky to have five students represented this
year in the New Jersey All State program. Sophia Anker, Dylan Castano, Smith, Alice, Savannah Mango and Michaela. Congratulations. We're excited to welcome Miss Frell up. Good evening everyone. Um, Carolyn High
School celebrates student artistic achievements. Members of High School National Arts Honor Society recently participated in the Mayo Performing Arts Center Empia received honorable mention for artistic
merit and Jackie's runned inside the official performance programs for the 2026, giving their work visibility to thousands of audience members throughout the year. In addition to their artistic
accomplishments, the National Art Honor Society members partnered with the Kalan School community to support the Crayon Initiative. Students collected over 180 pounds of used crayons, which will be recycled and transformed into new
crayons, especially designed with flat edges so they do not roll off the hospital trays. These crayons are distributed to children in hospitals across the country, helping bring creativity and comfort to young patients. Um,
[applause] and the Kilan High School Artists are also being recognized in the local arts community. With only a limited number of spots available from over 500 applicants, 14 artworks submitted by 11 Kennelan High School art
students were selected to exhibit their work at the Blackwell Street Center for the Arts Gallery in Marstown, New Jersey. The exhibit will run March 30th through April 30th with an artist reception on April 9th from 5:30 to 7:30
on the 5th floor of the Atrium building at 10 Court Street, Marstown, New Jersey. [applause] The following Kilan High School artists were selected for this exhibit. Gian Gianna Famulo for honorable mention for
ceramic sculpture. Payton Triano ceramic sculpture. Caitlyn Kissert ceramic sculpture. Jacqueline Lai honorable mention for photography. Sophia Cav Cavello first place for oil and soft pastel. Sabrina Lopez digital
illustration. Lilianne Baldino second place for color pencil. Alexandra D'Angelo digital photography. Alexandra Tyolof, honorable mention, painting. Lauren Demar,
I'm sorry, Demarcable mention, color pencil. And Maya Borchinsky for third place for mixed medium collage. [applause] The Kennelan High School art department is very proud of these students for their creative achievements, community
service, and dedication to the arts. Thank you. >> [applause] >> And at this time, we'll turn our attention to Keel. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. I mean that we have so much to be proud of in our
Kennelan students. We've seen musical accomplish athletic accomplishments, athletic accomplishments, academic accomplishments. Um, and I think what we see in all of these students too is just such really strong character and that's something that we're really proud to
recognize in our KE students tonight. Uh the Kenny's Keel Koala Kindness or 4K award for short recognizes those students that live by the full values that uphold the pillars of character that um you know just go about their
day-to-day life in a student not only doing their best but also making life better for the students around them. They make KE a wonderful place to be and we are really proud to honor them tonight. So, uh, we're going to do this by grade level. When I call you your
name, uh, I'm going to ask the students to please come down. Uh, I would like, uh, for while we call kindergarten, for example, just for all our kindergarteners, kindergarten students to remain. Uh, we'll snap a quick picture, but then they can go up outside and right after this, uh, we can take
pictures by the banner outside. And so, I would like to begin by calling our kindergarten 4K award winners, Waverly Ki. Please come down. Valentina Lahi, [applause] Phillip Petresi,
[applause] Grace Pierce, Zachary Putinano, Coloulston Ramali, >> [applause] >> Bodie Robinson, [applause] Samantha Snares, and Calvin Zelanac.
Thank you everyone. Congratulations to our kindergarten 4K award winners. [applause] >> Yes, kindergarten students, you can return to your parents and then we can take pictures by the banner outside right right out there in the hallway.
On to our first grade award winners. First graders, when I call your name, please come down. Congratulations to Tegan Adams, Gianna Allesandro, Asher Hyorth, Charlie Moser, [applause]
Nathan Papendic, and Emily Zuckerman. Congratulations to our first graders. And now I'd like to call down our second grade 4K award winners. Congratulations to Aiden Burke, [applause] Olivia Connors,
Nev Gallen, Emily Golino, Nora Mariano, Eleanor Monavich, Olivia Reed, and Valentina Vicaro. As I said, these are students that really brighten KE Cisco by their presence every day. We are so proud of
the character that they show. Um, thank you all for honoring them tonight. Congratulations, everyone. And now let me turn the program over to Mrs. Utel from Stonybrook. >> Good evening everyone and thank you so much for coming out this evening. This
is a very unique group that we started about a year ago. Miss Presioso, our school counselor, helped me organize this again this year. This is a group of fifth grade students who have taken on the role of kindness counts at Stonybrook, but in a completely different way. They work together giving
up their lunchtime to come up with ideas to show respect, to show kindness to their schoolmates. So, some of the things they have done are awards and homework passes at Valentine's Day. But one of the biggest ideas that they have come up with this year is running the
first ever studentled assemblies. We focus on kindness, respect, leadership qualities, and the implementation of our Let Grow program, which is one of the biggest initiatives that we have this year. So, I'm incredibly honored, as you can see on the screen, how many students
have given of their own time and their lunch to join the kindness crew. So, I'm incredibly honored right now to start to call down the students. Students, I'm going to ask you just like our Keel friends if we can make a line. I'm hoping our line's going to go a little bit longer and then families afterwards
we'll gather outside for a group photo. So, at this time, I would like to call down and if you're here, please come down. I apologize. It's I'm gonna go by the things because it's out of order. Uh, Michael Skolski, Isaiah Roman,
Grant Rosenberger, Aubrey Udder, Magdalena Zumalovska, Phoebe Francis, Marissa Gataletta, Lauren Kari, Vera Tenchenko, Olivia King, [applause]
Sienna Lightig, Vita Perez, Liliana Pasalqua, Madison Weber Conlin, Sage Luckkins, Maisie Messik, Matteo Arasco, Bodie Storms,
Augustine Yam, Jocelyn Mahia Lopez, Emily Ains, Ava Simone, Annie Delju, Llaya Wilson, Vincenzo Mana,
Kelton Singley, Miranda PZ, Annaise Bellman. Good job, Gianela Curid. Zeland Chen, Joseph Gallo, Kevin Shakiri,
Vincent Lorcowski, Caitlyn Collins, Lyanna Roas, Ella Walawek, Maline Riley, Zoe Goldworm, Kayla How,
Hattie Palmer, Logan Papendic, Oliver Vasic, Olivia Smith, Aiden Saravalo, Ava Clark and Avette Camian.
Please join me in giving them a huge round of applause for their participation. I now would like to welcome from PRM Mr. Suda and Mrs. Yosephites. Good evening. I would also like to thank you for coming out
at PRM. As you walk into the building, you will see our pillars of character. Pillars of character represent caring, citizenship, respect, responsibility, and trustworthiness. The PRM staff every marking period will
get together in their team meetings and they nominate students who are are the foundation of these pillars. It's my privilege to identify the first our pillars of caring and this is awarded to students who are compassionate in their interactions with
others with the staff. They make PRM truly a warm and welcoming place. I'd like to call down Charlotte Butra, Jason Rodriguez, Lydia Prawl, and Rain Russo.
and I will be reading the pillar of citizenship awards. The pillar of citizenship is awarded to students who make choices that protect the rights and safety of others, demonstrate the qualities of being a good community member and cooperate well with others.
Simply stated, their actions make our school and community better. The following students received the pillar of citizenship in the second marking period. Jonathan Dennis, Kadijah Hashmi, Aiden Atoce,
Julia King, Leila Incora, and Charlotte Stoson. [applause] The pillar of respect awarded to students who are considerate of others feelings, courteous to others, and accepting of differences, and treat
others how they would like to be treated. They let those around them know that their words and actions are valued. I'd like to honor the following four students. Claire De Jagger, Jamar Puland,
Andrew Gallas, and Casper Gorski. The pillar of responsibility is awarded to students who consistently try their best, persevere when they face challenges, demonstrate self-discipline, and are accountable for their words and
actions. They set a positive example for everyone with whom they interact. The following students received the pillar of responsibility in the second marking period. George Quincens, Emily Trescowski, Lucas Ruiz,
Mlin Fouts, and for a second time, Charlotte Stoves. The pillar of trustworthiness awarded to students who are honest, loyal, follow through on what they say and what they will do. They can be relied upon in any situation and show integrity throughout
all actions. I'm happy to recognize Joseph Channing Markley and Catalina Koala Thank you students for being the pillars of character and the foundation of PRM. Thank you.
>> I'd like to now call up Mrs. Hendris. Good evening everyone. It is my distinct pleasure to honor the remarkable hard work, dedication, and artistic growth our PRM instrumental students have shown this year through the New Jersey State Honor Band programs. Middle school is a
pivotal time for young musicians. It's where practice turns into passion and individual notes become a musical community. These students have dedicated countless hours to the study of their instrument and have proudly represented PRM at the state level with the highest level of musical achievement. Thank you
to the parents and families who unwavering support and encouragement makes this wonderful music journey journey possible. First, we have our sixth grade students who will be representing PRM as members of the NJSMA Elementary Honor Band. Their upcoming
performance and rehearsals are on May 9th. Please, when I call your name, come down. Laya Peele on flute. Amy Redzio on clarinet. Evan Lombardo on clarinet. Sanv Patil on clarinet.
McKenzie Ziggmmont on alto saxs. Jenna Rose Greco on trumpet and Thaddius Louie on baritone. Our next group is comprised of seventh and eighth grade students who performed with the North Jersey Area Band this
past January 17th. I'm called Come down when I call your name, please. Jack Eisener, trombone. Ephrain Jarillo, tuba. Andrew Marillo, trumpet, Luca Petrovski, French horn,
Shimone Sojiaak, clarinet, and Julie's son, flute. Thank you. >> And now on to Mr. Lyn. >> Like to thank you all for sticking it out tonight and uh the end of this presentation. The uh
the been very very lucky here in Kin High Kin High School and Middle School uh Middle School uh to be able to have so many students that are involved in our honor choirs, honor bands and uh it is a lot of work to get to prepare for
these auditions and uh going up against hundreds of uh students uh from around uh the area and from the state. So congratulations to these students. Uh and I'm going to announce all of the uh all the recipients of to please come on down. We'll take a picture with all of
the groups. Uh first off is New Jersey Region One Honor Choir, Helina Palmer and Jaclyn Wall. Morris Area Choir, Audrey Hersen, Dylan Pierce, Jaclyn Wall, Okay, we're going to take a quick break so that board members can use the
bathroom if they need to and then we'll get started in about five minutes. Okay, we're going going to go ahead and get started so we can get out of here. Okay, thanks for that awesome update and
all the student recognition. It's really great to see how well our students are doing. Um, we're going to go now to committee reports. First up is finance, facilities, and security. Frank Hey, good to see everybody. Um, first thing we spoke about was the summer pay
for 10 month employees programs will be something that we would administer. It's a benefit to employees because you're spreading your 10 month salary over 12 months. School districts do it. It's a reasonable thing that we were looking to
assist with. We discussed the sale of an unutilized bus as $22,000 and that'll have to be approved tonight. Um we continue to look at the long range
facilities plan. There are some amendments to it. that would be to be um we spoke about an update on the culinary arts project which I am very very excited about. So that's going to be amazing. And then we discussed the
PSG visit that we had in March to help us try to find ways to optimize our energy usage uh andor drive any favorable benefit to our funding. Quick meeting but a good meeting.
personal negotiations. >> Yeah. So, just very briefly, we did meet the only thing on the agenda tonight, the culinary arts decision. Um, we just >> Okay, thank you. Education students activity.
>> Yeah, we had a meeting and I need to apologize. I forgive my technology. Um, it's in a Google doc and I thought I had shared it with everybody like right from the meeting and I don't know if it got out there. I apologize if it did not. If it did, great.
Yeah. Um, we did have a meeting. We covered a dozen or more topics. Several of them are on the agenda tonight. We approved several guest speakers for various um opportunities uh coming up here at different levels of the school system.
We reviewed and we as a committee recommend approving the fizzed option two that was talked about earlier. Um we also heard from Missal about the freshman academy that's coming together
for next year with incoming freshmen. also looking at challenger program with co-curricular thing with CCM and Morris County Tech allowing students to kind of float through and also meet our graduation requirements.
Um took a look at student climate survey which we asked them to work a little more on and come back with some recommendations. And then we also looked at some
additional uh new track coach for the spring because apparently it's the most popular sport of you know in history couple hundred people coming out for spring track. So hey that's the place to be. We need more coaches. Um
yeah it was a good good busy meeting. Um and you have any questions let me know. Do let me know if Thanks. Okay, thanks Jonathan. Policy. >> Yes, we met on Tuesday.
We have been talking a lot about the parental bill of rights. Um, and that's a draft work in progress right now, but we did work on that a little bit. Um, we talked about two KHS and one PRM. Um, we talked more about the option too. And I
just wanted to remind everybody that um this past fall we talked about it in our education committee and it is a really great example of how our students have wonderful ideas. They come to our administration, our administration researches it and finds ways to meet the needs of our kids. Um we have really
amazing students that really push themselves and want to be the best version of themselves. So we have a lot of student athletes that are also taking you know tremendous academic loads. So, the option two will allow them instead of gym because they're already doing a lot of athletic stuff each week to have
that extra time to focus on their academics. Um, so I'm really excited that that came to fruition. Um, and I know Lauren Thomas spearheaded that. So, she started that and we brought it to fruition and I think it's great. Um, we also talked about changing policy 3232,
which is tutoring services. Um, up until now it's been that uh teachers uh couldn't tutor someone that was in their grade. We kind of tweaked the wording on that and made it so that it just wouldn't be someone that was in their class. Um, it does seem like our parents are very interested in getting tutors
and they want tutors that really understand the curriculum and the course work that their children have. So, I think it it's going to really be quite helpful for everybody. Um we talked about how we have a library um board liaison and that's uh an opportunity
that we're looking for and we also talked um a little bit about um just some things that have been going on in the other committees as well that you had already mentioned. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh delegates uh
anything from school boards Carl did you >> Nothing. >> Right. Okay. You'll send the email. Nothing from Morris County. Right. Um, what else? Uh, legislative rep, nothing. Um, educational services. >> We did meet on March 11th. They put
forward their budget. So, we talked a little bit about their budget. >> Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. And then, uh, community relations did not meet. Okay. So, now we have petitions and hearings of citizens for agenda items. If anybody has anything they want to come up and talk to the board about, you're welcome to
come up this time. Anything online, Jay? Okay. All right, agenda items. Um, so now I'd like to have a motion for a block vote on a roll call on the block vote for agenda items A, B, C, and D. Can I have a motion? >> Motion
>> as Oh, as amended in the agenda. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Okay. Discussion on the agenda items. So, most of this was everything we talked about. We're finishing the uh payments to the upgrade to the auditoriums in here,
>> the approval for the summer savings plan for the 10 month. to people who would like to do the 12-month payment. Um Dana leaned over and asked um sorry for adding I'm not bad um but that is on the agenda and I had skipped that in the
report but there is a um the shepherd the spectrum sheepard AI tool that we're approving is in the agenda as well and that's a limited focused um project for uh just an evaluation to see how the app works.
>> Right. So, we're going to pilot that program, which is a community uh community members are looking at um >> developing an app for kids on the autism spectrum to help them with executive functioning and planning
their day. And so, this is with parents can opt into. So, this is up to the parents if they want their kids, their students to participate. But we agreed to pilot it. Um anything else? Anything odd? Anybody else have anything? We have the We have
the um the unsung hero award for Jackie, which we're approving that motion in here and everything else is pretty much what we discussed. Okay. All right. Can you uh pull the board, please, Dave?
>> Mr. Eisener. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gazer. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Leonard. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pepe? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Pella. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Donaldson. >> Yes. >> You have a majority vote, Mr. President?
>> Okay, great. Uh, committee of the whole. Anything for the whole committee? No. Nothing. Unfinished business. Does anybody have anything unfinished? Nope. New business. Okay. >> I I'll have a report for our April meeting, and I think it's perfect timing
to see um a meeting that I have upcoming with Mrs. Tromba, with Senator Gopal about regionalization. That's on the 13th of April. So, Any information I have, I'll >> Okay. >> Be happy to share that night on the 28th. >> Okay. Um,
correspondents, do we have anything? Nope. Okay. Petitions and hearings of citizens for anything agenda or non-aggenda. Okay. Nope. Don't see anything. All right. Board member comments. Anything over here? Nothing. You guys
are done. We all done? Yeah. Okay. I think I think the presentation for the students spoke for for all of us. Well done. Thank you for all of our administration putting all that together and all the initiatives and recognizing our students. It's really great. Okay.
Uh we have no executive session. So can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. Second.