administrators present >> and if so, we should add it to the >> Yep, no problem. I have my notes, so we'll just review it. >> Okay. So, we'll um reapp So, we'll hold off on the executive session
and we'll table that uh postpone the vote on that until the next meeting for those um amendments. So, thanks for bringing that up, Jen. >> Thank you. So, can I have a motion to approve the September 30th regular
minutes? Oh, sorry. Okay. All right. So, we'll go ahead and uh um roll call the board for approval of just the regular minutes. >> Yep. Mrs. Leonard. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers. >> Miss Abson, I'm sorry. Mrs. Pella, >> yes. >> Mr. Pepe,
>> yes. >> Mrs. Portman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Eisenhire. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Donaldson. >> Yes. Okay. Luca, student representative. Recently, students at Ke Elementary have been celebrating Ke School's 30th anniversary, which was this month.
Students opened the time capsule created on the occasion of KE school's dedication in October 1995 and are creating their own time capsule. The theme in KE's Let program this October was spread your wings as students have worked on independent self- selected
projects. Kil Cisco has also had their first assemblies of the year. The BG Great show used magic and humor to educate students about the pillars of character and the Harlem Wizards came to generate excitement for the Kennalan staff versus Harlem Wizards basketball game. We thank Kesha and the KHS HSA for
bringing these events to our students. In addition to these, the Kinan Police Department will be presenting Halloween safety assemblies for the students tomorrow, October 29th. We thank them for taking the time to do this to do this. The art club and the board game club have started and have been meeting
after school. We thank Kesha again for making these activities possible for our students. Lastly, the Kil Cisco Halloween parade will take place on Friday, October 31st at 10 a.m. We'd like to thank Kesha for sponsoring the BG Great assembly, which was also
featured at Stonybrook this month. In addition to Kil Cisco, students at Stonybrook kicked off their like grow program as well with the theme of spread your wings. Students chose their first project that they worked on independently. We are looking forward to November with the next theme being service.
Stony Brooks chess and art clubs have started. Thank you to Kesha for sponsoring these amazing programs. Sorry. The first ever K through 5 skate night was a huge success as students enjoyed a fun-filled night of roller skating. We would also like to thank the
KHS HSA for having the Harlem Wizards visit with our students at Stonybrook as the students enjoyed the Wizards versus Kilan staff game. In preparation of Halloween, the KB KPD will be meeting with our third grade students about Halloween safety on October 30th. Sony
Brooks Halloween parade will also be held on October 31st at 11:15. And the school musical sponsored by Kesha will be held on Sunday, November 2nd at 2 p.m. We hope to see everyone there. PRM had a great spirit week during the week of October 12th. Spirit week ended
on October 17th, closing out with an exciting pep rally that took place during the day. As for athletics at PRM, we would like to recognize the boys and girls cross country teams with um which both play which both placed fifth in counties. Congratulations to both.
Lastly, the eighth graders will have a trip on Tuesday, October 28th to see the show called Tales of Edgar Alan Poe at the Pax Amicus Castle Theater in Bud Lake. We've had some outstanding academic achievements here at KHS. We had four students recently recognized as
commended students or semi- finalists via the National Merit Scholarship Program. Congratulations to Zachary Kesler, Olivia Lee, Sebastian Lee, and Salony Matal. In addition to this, on October 27th, the KHS Colt Chronicles student newspapers took home um nine
awards at the Garden State Scholastic Press Association's fall student press day at Ruckers University. Our sports teams have been having a phenomenal fall season with boys cross country earning first place in the NJAC Conference and varsity football with a winning record
of 8-1 and a division title. The first round of playoffs will be held Friday at 700 p.m. at the Spiro Sports Center. Our student section was also named the week six student section of the week by the NJSAA. Spirit week was hosted last week,
October 20th through 24th. Thank you to the student council executive board and Mrs. Dories for making this amazing tradition possible. Congratulations to the senior class who ended up beating the junior class by just one single point. We would like to thank the KHS HSA for organizing the
homecoming dance this past Saturday evening. Around 140 students attended and our homecoming king and queen Saurin Prada and Courtney Darlington were celebrated as well. Senior students and families were invited to participate in a college planning and financial aid webinar with
the KHS counseling team last college um last Monday, October 20th. Juniors and their families should mark their calendars to attend junior junior uh college planning night with the counseling uh with the counseling team on the evening of November 20th. Tickets
for KHS's The Great Gatsby will soon go on sale as well. The show will be performed on November 13th, 14th, and 15th. So, look out for the performance times soon to be released. Lastly, we hope that families will join us for coffee with the KHS admin team on
Wednesday, November 12th at 7:30 a.m. This will be a great opportunity to engage with uh with us on all things KHS. >> Thanks, Luca. That was a lot. We're busy. Okay, superintendent's update.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Luca. Welcome everybody. And um what I have for you here tonight is an update on the board's approved 2024 to 2029 strategic plan. As I shared in the citizens
advisory, there are 22 slides and there is a lot of information. It's positive information. It's a lot of work. Starts with the board and central office and our building administrators and funnels right down into all of our
staff. You need a strategic plan. You need a roadmap. It's also a board goal for this current 2526 calendar year. So, um, we're ahead of schedule there. So, let me get started. Just a little bit of history. If we go
back in time, we had our first strategic plan meeting on September 27th in 2023. That was all about strengths and challenges and opportunities. We met again on November 2nd. And when I say we, I mean the board, central office, district administration, teachers,
parents. It was a it was a whole group. And then the last and final meeting was January 25th of 2024 was goal setting and objectives and then the adoption by the board in spring of 2024. And again, it's a fluid document. It's a five-year plan, but really it's a road map. It's a
map that steers the district financially. It steers the district programmatically. It steers us from security, transportation, every facet of what we do is built into here. And um no students are left behind at all. if I
ever reference their NCLB and we move forward. So the meeting one outcomes, we identified strengths, we identified some challenges, everybody has them. So we wanted to maximize our strengths and we wanted to um overcome our challenges and
our opportunities which I do believe we have been doing and will continue to do. Meeting two, we had shared visions. What is it that we're looking for? Who do we want to be? How does that fall out? And you see here with literacy and math fundamentals. We talked about the scores
last month. I know that I embarrassed Mrs. Utell and asking her to stand up, but I'm sorry that's the way that that goes. Um, technology and AI integration. Mrs. Trombetta's office has been non-stop and our folks in our regular tech department and our our hardline tech. It's been three years in a row of
infrastructure upgrades and in training for our staff and resilience and bringing back grit and that it's okay to fall down as long as you get up and that friends are around you and learning old school ways in a new school world. Um global awareness, cultural adept
students, we have them. You heard Luca, our student representative, just speak to it in all those awards. And then modern infrastructure and facilities, we continue to do that step by step, day by day, year by year. Um, we're not in a position where we would want to go out to a referendum. We talked about that
last year. It was a board goal. We discussed it. We felt it best to stay away from that. We've been creative in finding means and methods and increasing our budget and going after state grants. We have a few up for approval tonight. Um, and being creative and that's how we
will do it. So, um, meeting three was just finalizing the goals and moving things forward. So we have district goal one and again as you could see it's very in-depth with a goal statement of empowering students with academic and technological
competencies to be flexible and adaptable. Underneath there's four objectives from 1.1 to 1.4 and then the best way possible and in central office when we were putting this together I I finally gave into Mrs. Tromba today because I had a different
version of it. Um but I think hers read a little bit easier. Goal one key highlights. We wanted to make highlights for everybody. So when you go down that and you do a comparable the onetoone technology now, yes, that did roll out during COVID and was steered by COVID
money. Well, guess what? That ran out years ago and there was no backup plan. So now you have these these um devices with no plan that break. Now what? So we've been able to in three years actually catch up. But that was the
idea. Uh AI integration, we know that Mrs. Trumpet is now the AI um coordinator for the district. We passed that a plan and that that adoption unified digital platforms professional development for staff at technology teams and 21st century program
plannings. I don't want to read each one in between for you. I do promise that this information will be on the website tomorrow along with and I had this for the board this document. Thank you again Mrs.
Shetta for creating the uh the cliffnote version, but it's very good. It'll be up there. For those of us that are old school readers like us, all of us here, this document would be the easiest thing
to follow online. That'll also be up there online tomorrow. Continuing with goal one highlights, media curriculum modernization with K8, culinary arts, vocational pathways. I mean, so much that we're doing, expanded the wood shop. We have a phenomenal
teacher in there now. We have a new robotics teacher, engineering program, home repair. These were things that our students, we went out to our students and asked in a survey, what do you want? What do you want to see here in Kolan High School? If we can make it happen, what is it? All right. There tomorrow's
teachers program. That was Mrs. Thomas brought that. And Mrs. Jexo is doing an excellent job, I believe. What do we have? 11 students, Mrs. JXO, in that program. What do we have? >> Seven. Okay, the top number is 12. We don't want to exceed that. That's for students who actually want to go into
education. So, it's an opportunity to learn for two years. Um, psychology, sociology expansion, conflict resolution, and community- based instruction. It's all ongoing and implemented. District goal two, create an environment that promotes academic achievement for
all learners. PreK12. We included the prek even though that's not state required but once they're ours that's why we went to inclusive all day and then you see those 1.1 through 1.4 for quite a bit encompasses a lot early literacy and foundational skills
and standardsbased reporting and assessment and regardless that the state department constantly uh has school districts now it's early fall testing and I know what's been going on in our buildings and I want to thank our admins and central office and our teachers because it's quite cumbersome to deal
with more state testing on top of teaching and learning and homework and regular assessments through the course of the year. Um, but we deal with it and we've had the increase in our scores to show it. Professional development for our staff. One of the first things I asked them
when I walked through the door is what do you want? How do you see it? How can we do better? What can we do better? And they wanted to move away. And actually, Mrs. Joua and Mrs. Todros both were part of that uh those conversations representing different buildings at the
time um and had a voice. They had power. and then curriculum alignment and revision, you know, social studies, grades four through eight, uh, bridge to middle of the high school and then the pre-K through two creative curriculum implementation. It's a lot.
We wanted to focus on our special ed population with executive functioning skills and study skills. Our CST has been doing an excellent job regardless of the the influx or the flow in the at the head of the department through the years. still doing a strong job. Our building principles are really in tune
and in depth with special education. We wanted to bring in programs. We have especially here at the high school with both of our programs. Um strengthen relationships with TCJ and NJ school jobs for partnerships and fairs. It's where we're finding people. You got to go knock on the door. You have to find
people. Believe it or not, people today don't look to work. I don't I don't know if that turned off during COVID or what, but folks don't want to come out and work. It's a different market than when I started in 1996. Totally different where you were just happy to have a job because everybody wanted the jobs. Today
it's not like that. So um and then of course student wellness special services with programs and real time actually um aside from being an excellent tool forformational purposes and scheduling and data, it helps with child study
team. It's it's it's quite good. Works well. District goal three, community engagement. We wanted to engage all the stakeholders to ensure inclusivity of all community members. Well, we have our citizens advisory. We have all of our meetings.
We put out all these forums. When I first came uh on board, there was a feeling from community members that, hey, we don't have, you know, we're not in forums enough. We don't we don't have enough interaction. Our building principles did a tremendous job from day one by having forums and creating
forums. Then we went to a security form. We went to curriculum forms. What we found was in I'd say 18 months, nobody came anymore. We'd get folks maybe online. We'd have a lot of folks reviewing the day after or the week after, but nobody wanted to come in person. They had enough. I think it was
a little bit of overkill. I have that habit every now and then. So, we still upload them. They did a great job, our administrative staff, and getting that information out to parents. It's there for you. But nobody could say that we don't engage folks. There's always an opportunity to engage my office, our
stakeholders, and of course the board. Colt Connect, uh, Mrs. Trombetta, you you put that together. Fantastic. Mrs. Donaldson, I give you a lot of credit. You had a a vision in a comm one of them late night committee meetings years ago and all of a sudden it, you know, we
went down a little bit of a rabbit hole. I lost my way, but I don't know. Mrs. Trump better found it and uh, put it together. really there are a lot of other districts several that love our colt connect and thatformational piece that you can find anything you need right here so um that's a big one the
parented community workshops expansion uh of family engagement now Mrs. Oh, you're going to do your breakfast on November 12th, the day after Veterans Day. That's nice. It's another good way to engage parents, give them an opportunity to walk through the door. And of course, showcasing success. So,
three times a year, we always um honor our athletics, but also we have our PRM pillars of character. You have Keel School uh Koala Kindness. You have Stonybrook, our students that have the math awards or their reading awards. We bring students up, we honor them, and we'll continue to
do so. Actually, the December meeting is all of that. So, December, March, and June is all about our students every year. That's what we've been doing since I I came and the board that was a board initiative discussed in in the board interview process so many years ago,
which seems like a a light year away. Community and safe partnerships where we partner with uh KPD on all our fire drills. They're constantly in our buildings. We have our class threes. Obviously, we changed uh we practice reunification, god forbid. We do it twice a year at all our buildings, at
all our sites just for muscle memory and just so our staff knows where and when, as well as our kids. We need KPD involved in that. They are. And um that's something that we'll continue to do. We'll never move away from that. And of course the MOA um the memorandum of
understanding with the law enforcement uh folks we launched quarterly special services newsletter that that's coming out Mr. Zeleleski you said this December. So look for that. That quarterly newsletter is coming. Um we we continue our weekly newsletters at all
the buildings. We have sports days to connect the high school teams and our youth programs. And um we're planning a tra planned the transition and work study program for KPEG and BOE meetings to celebrate inclusivity. So that's coming. That's from high school programs we have right now. I know Mrs. Thomas is
working with Mr. Zeleleski and our staff interior wise here at the high school. So that'll be a presentation in the future. And then number four, it's another big one. It's operations. It's everything we do that's encompassed. Um, and that's the development of state-of-the-art
facilities to ba based on our student needs and learning needs. There's quite a bit in the room we're standing in right now. The board is committed. We drew down a quarter of a million dollars on our um surplus for this current budget for the acoustic and
auditorium uh sound renovation. You have the KHS track renovation. We have HBAC and boiler upgrades for EIP. And um now we're approving the um PSEG proposal. That would also be a 60/40 split.
Whichever one comes first hopefully uh we'll move in that direction. Uh we did replace two of the rooftop units of six up on Keel School and we're looking at redesigning the PRM media center. Security improvements obviously vestibule and entry upgrades,
electronics access systems, surveillance upgrades. That's districtwide and again that's ongoing. again, fluid document. Um, facility planning and expansion. Uh, the auxiliary cafeteria expansion. That's the outside piece. I know Mrs. Sapio, I think you had a big piece of
that with the kids years ago. We're looking at wanting to I don't want to say beautify it, but I guess in easy terms, yes, with an awning, maybe some lights, redo the pavers or do something there, whether it be concrete, something a little bit more stable that doesn't dip
or flood for our kids so they have an outdoor space to use during lunch a little more often than they do. Um, not enclosing. And at first, we envisioned enclosing it, but then we figured, why would we have to? We don't need to do that. So, it'll be a couple dollars. We all know what that stuff kind of costs
on our own home, but it won't be 1.1 million like the architect suggested if we wanted to enclose it. Big difference. Big big difference. Um, the Stony Brook lockers. I know Mrs. Tajos and Mrs. Utel, don't don't yell at me, but yes, we want to look to move away from the
lockers and storage. Um, and the locker room renovations, PRM, we we cleaned those up thanks to Mr. Contella brought me in about a year and a half ago and I I um it was time and I'd also looked to do that here in the high school in the
next budget cycle or two. Uh and then go four continued. We have our route consolidation. We talked about that tonight in CAC. More information with that will come out uh in the February and March public meetings leading into our budget approval, final budget approval. Efficiency analysis. We're
monitoring to reduce uh redundancy across the board with all of our schools uh KHS grounds uh improvements, the landscaping, the walkways, the visitor bleachers. And just so everybody knows, when I know it's an eyesore because I live here too,
the visitor bleachers, we have two quotes. So when I say we, I mean central office and the board. And so for those of us that are the taxpayers that would fund those bills, the first quote total project was 265.
>> 235. The second quote was 366. Okay. So just so everybody understands, that's why it's not as simple as ter I can't stand it. I couldn't stand it the second I moved into town and drove down Kolan Road. But you can't just rip
something down and have nothing. And when you're talking about a quarter of a million dollars or more by these contractors, we're kind of stuck. So, we're looking, we are looking, we are going to improve it. We want to add the walkway over there for our visitors and for everybody. Um, and we'd also like to
repurpose those bleachers to the practice field if possible, but uh it's a lot of money and you just can't spend that kind of money because you want to. You have to really vet out the process. So, we're waiting for one more bit to see where we land.
And then of course we're developing that three-year outlook program. Uh M Mrs. Lawler and I will be working on um in our collective bargaining agreement with the association next year. They're due for a 3.3% increase. So we're looking at our whole
staff aside from our admin and central office, which is small compared to the mass, but we kind of know where those numbers will lie anyway. And we're going to have what that denominator is. So when we're working through our budget, no matter who wins the election next Tuesday or not, we can figure on how
we're going to balance things the smart way. So, um, that's that three-year outlook. You want to be in an 18-month cycle. You're in the current budget. You're planning for next year, and you're going to plan ahead. And then the long range facility plan. Actually, next month, Miss Lawler will
come up and she's going to present our long range facility plan and then showcase every project that we've completed since January 1 of 2023, which again is a testament to the board, the folks that are elected. This is the job
that they have for no pay, and it's cumbersome to say the least. So, it's a lot of credit to them. Um, it's a lot of talking. It's a lot of time out of their life. And so the road map forward for us is to continue to progress and monitor the BOE and district goals. I'll update
I update them twice a year, halfway point in February and then final in June. Prioritize the funding alignment, expand partnerships as best we can. I know we've been doing that through the high school uh with dual enrollment in college coursework. Uh strengthen our student supports and regular progress
reports and community updates like we're doing. So um did I go over the 15 minutes there, Mr. Miller? I bypassed it. >> Close. Where am I? >> I think it's 14. >> Yeah.
>> So, um I don't Does anybody have any questions or you want me to back up? This will be on the website tomorrow also with the hard copy of what I passed out to the board. Listen, it really is a road mapap and so when we're talking in these meetings at
Nauseium, it really gives you a playbook as to where we're going. Any questions online, Mr. Johnelli? Anything? Nothing. Yes, Miss Simp. >> Yes.
>> Yes. Most districts look at a 12 month. We want to ban out 18. Meaning, where are we? What do we know in the immediate? And then where are we behind that? kind of like you want to play that balance. That's how you really start to get healthy. And like I said in CAC, we're getting healthy. I don't want to
come out with anything specific. I'll let the auditors do that because that's because that's what they do. But it took a lot of hard work to get there. And that's why I had mentioned that during the interview process for the business office last spring and the board as well. We want to be on an 18-month K.
This just doesn't go away. We're not a one shot in a pan deal anymore. Those days are over. Definitely. Y >> and the budget calendar that was approved is for it's um more internal for staff where we're going to have meetings. We're going to send me to staff and start um really delving into
the budget. So it's looking at 26 27. So that was approved at the last meeting and then as Mr. Mango said we always look at the next year ahead as well. >> Schools are meant for kids. We all know that. I don't want to quote Nick Noly and date myself from the movie Teachers at 84, but I love that movie.
But the reality is without strong financing, you can't do anything. So that's so it took us to this point to get here and um we're just moving it forward. So um I want to thank the board. I want to thank central office and all our admin and I want to thank everybody who's who's here listening
tonight. I I hope I didn't bore you. Um that's all I have, Mr. President. >> Thanks. So in essence what we do is we're fine-tun we're building next year's budget and then we're we're outlining the budget after that with all
the items we know from capital projects and our continuous staff costs. And that way we kind of have a framework from which to look ahead and make sure that because we will be having to address roofs for the
high school and the middle school which was um pointed out to us from the architects uh evaluation that we had done in 2023. So that's some so there are some big ticket capital reserve projects that we're going to have to
kind of look to anticipate to cover. But we also have the HVAC which is another really big one that was in that as well. But we've had some other grant opportunities. So when we can build those out then we can take advantage of grants like Grod grants that we did with
the other two buildings. So that's the idea is to get way ahead on some of those really big ticket items. So that because those grants take time. So that's where we're trying to look for the 18 months out just to clarify. Okay. we are now up to. So, thank you
Mr. Mango for that. That was uh that was a lot of work. And I also would just like to emphasize too that that was a community effort and we had a lot of community members come um and help us outline the strategic plan, which is how we do um come up with our district goals every year, our district and board
goals. So, our hats off to the community administrative and staff that participated. We had a lot of people participate. Okay, we're going to go on to community report committee reports. Uh first up is finance. Carl couldn't make it tonight, so you're up, Frank. >> Thanks, Jean. Uh, also nice to see
everybody. It's easier to do this when there's people in the audience. So, uh, I love that and I love the engagement of this community. Um, first and foremost, at the finance and facilities and security committee meeting, which was held on October 23rd, uh, Caitlyn did a nice job of finding a $3,494
free school grant um to support no phones in schools. So because we had already uh started the initiative of taking phones out of schools um in essence we were able to find a grant uh that will be on the agenda for approval. So that's good news.
>> Thank you so much Mr. Meta. >> Uh Mr. Tromba did a lot >> Oh sorry. Thank you so thank you so much Mr. Um as we do at all of the FFS meetings we reviewed our 2025 capital expenditures and maintenance schedule.
Uh we do have some ongoing capital projects that we're working through right now um which have been referenced in prior meetings uh culinary arts uh the acoustics and some other things. We've also had some unplanned maintenance about 131k for HVAC and
boilers. Again not any impediment towards our budget. Um in looking at some other capital projects that have been closed in the year we have a small bit of favorability. Um, hence we're under budget and we're discussing if we can use that capital for other things
this year. More to come on that in future FFS meetings. We've had some discussions uh about both the flag pole uh outside near the football field and a new scoreboard. So, we're discussing potential donations or
financial pathways uh for new flag poles and score and scoreboards uh in collaboration with um some people in the community who would like to see that happen. Um on the agenda tonight, we're going to review a topographic survey uh for our
fields outside. So, it's going to be an expenditure to review how we can uh get the survey done and utilize the fields more effectively. The agenda is just the um approval of the survey, not doing anything subsequent to the survey.
Uh we have a PSN we have a PSEG opportunity that Mr. Mango just mentioned. Um there's a potential program to improve energy herein. I believe it's a 6040 split and there's no capital outlay to start. So basically PSG peng I don't know why I can't say
that tonight. um comes in, evaluates where we can save energy and uh there's financial benefit to our school district. Um we're also working through a water infrastructure grant submission. This is a re reimburseable grant applied to
water fountains and there's a resolution to approve that submission tonight. So we would invest that capital up front, get reimbursed subsequent to that. Uh, additionally, in some other resolutions tonight, um, Miss L, Mrs.
Lawler was, uh, looking for some updated modules in our accounting software, which will improve some of our business efficiency and continue to give us the correct level of visibility and some of our financial reporting uh, and planning, which I think is spectacular, and as Dave has trumpeted, we've done a
nice job with that. Um, we touched on the visitor bleachers, which at the time of the meeting on the 23rd, we had received one quote. As of now, we had received two. Uh the quote was 235K. Uh we thought that was high until we saw quote two. So we discussed that but no
further action in the meeting. We looked at the 2627 calendar draft. Uh and we came up with what is up for approval tonight. Uh you'll see later on in the meeting for 2627. there was some alignment about adjusting
our half day timing um to consolidate kind of or so to consolidate or align the timing for PRM or KHS. Um timing is going to move closer to four hours depending on busing. Right now our current half days
are really like twothird days um because we still go to school for about four hours and 45 minutes uh in some of the schools. So just alignment and standardization. We are going to move forward with a winter dance team pilot program. Um that
will be approved as a club rather than a formal sport to ensure that we have the uh participation without taking away uh from other sports that exist uh in a very heavy winter with a lot of sports at a small school. Um it's going to be a
moderate budget to it. So bringing that up, but nothing big. Uh we also have up for approval some minor revisions to the bus driver handbook. We of course look at that every year. Uh make sure that it's up to snuff. Everybody's reading it and we're all good. Um and we're
discussing as we had at the citizens advisory committee and here and just now the consolidation of buses and what that looks like um from a financial perspective to ensure that we are good stewards of our assets and of our budget. So really heavy meeting. It's
good. >> Thanks, Frank. >> Thanks, Jean. >> Personnel negotiations, Jonathan. >> Yeah, personnel negotiations met last week. Um, it was pretty standard meeting. Um, we have not uh we do have a a calendar um we have calendared the
next um negotiation session and I believe that's the night after the next board meeting in November. Um on the agenda are basic, you know, a lot of housekeeping things, just kind of keeping things moving, making sure teachers are on assignment or getting
reimbursed and that kind of stuff. Did want to mention um if you didn't see it towards the back of the packet, that's just where it is because it's in order, but that's where there are um job descriptions um up for just discussion at the moment or first reading or however you want to put that
um for class advisors and co-curricular positions. Um so just take a look at that. Um those stipens are part of the co-curricular list already. There are people already incumbent in them. There are incumbents in those positions. Um but the descriptions themselves um take
a look at um yeah. Thanks Jonathan. Okay. Education student activities. Kelly. >> Sure. So, we met on Tuesday, October 21st, and we um discussed a PRM,
potential PRM sore presenter, uh that we'll be approving tonight. He was the first legally blind athlete to play in D1 football. He went to Louisiana State. He's a really impressive young man. I think our students are really going to connect with him. Um so, that was a great way to start our meeting. We
talked about the calendar draft as all the other committees did. We talked about the half day minimum revised end times that I know you talked about in um the other committees. We talked about the um the dance team and I really just wanted to showcase here because I know Jen took the time to share this story
with me. We had um four freshmen reach out to Jen and really say that that they had the agency and the autonomy to say that they really wanted this program. And I love it that Jen was Miss Aluual was able to send out a Google form, see
if the other kids were interested. We got 18 kids that are interested and, you know, we're we're going to make it happen. And I love that, you know, those girls were able to do that. There are 10 uh home basketball games, so that is where they're going to be doing it. As Frank had already said, we're going to
be rolling this out as a club. See how it goes and then we can always go bigger, but that's really how it's going to start. Um Elena Dories will oversee it. Um, we also talked about really how to showcase our KHS athletics. Um, we really want to make sure that we are
showcasing all the amazing things that our athletes are doing and that we really make sure that they're recognized for their achievements. So, we talked about how to really do that in the most impactful way. So, that's still an ongoing conversation. Um, as Mr. Mr. Mango had said earlier, we have been
receiving some estimates for visitor bleachers, much more than we thought that they were going to be. Um, hoping to actually recycle the ones that we have in another space and then maybe get some new ones based on the third quote that's that should be coming in shortly.
Um, we have PRM and KHS math replacements. Um, Mrs. Thomas was talking about um just how how wonderful the RTI program has been for a lot of our students. So that's a program that we have that identifies any student at
risk. Um and when a student enters into that program, Mrs. Thomas reaches um reaches out and lets them know kind of what they can expect while they're in that program. So there'll be an engagement a parent engagement meeting on that coming up. Um we also have the
NJSLA has changed their format this year. they're going to make it a little bit more interactive. So, in order to um to set up what they need for the spring, we're doing like a trial run in the fall. So, just kind of explaining to us what needs to happen, getting all the
teachers involved in that. So, it's going to be a fall trial run and then it's going to be held in the spring. Um we had an AP English book approval. It's that book by Jonathan Hate that a lot of us have read and love called The Anxious Generation. I'm really excited for
students to read that. Um they're going to be learning about the power of uh persuasion through literature. So um they're going to read it and then hopefully have some great conversations on it. Um we also talked about the science league at KHS which is a really
great opportunity. We're always looking for opportunities for our um science students. Hope thank you so much. I know you brought this forward. um for our science students to learn more about areas of interest. And this club will actually give them the opportunity to test against other students in New
Jersey and within the nation. And if they rank, then um they can really see how they stand up to the rest of the country, which is really awesome in very specific areas within science. Um and then we also talked about uh we really
want to showcase uh honor role moving forward. We think it's a really it's a big accomplishment for students at KHS. So really how we're going to um let those students really feel valued and appreciated for all the hard work that they do and then maybe that might
motivate some other students too. So it was a busy meeting. Thanks. >> Wow. Yeah, sounds like it was. Um okay, fall and JSLA. >> What?
So what is it exactly? What >> students comfortable for it. So the actual test questions are from the prior years content. So fourth graders are taking third grade
level. >> And the attempt is to inform >> the test to see Okay. >> It's a new format this year. >> The fact that it's adaptive. Yeah.
>> No, I'm I'm not concerned about that. I'm already concerned about the imp impedement in instruction time in the month of May which is really time consuming and takes away from our instructional period which was one of the reasons we started school before Labor Day because
we have so little like May is basically a wash with NJSLA testing >> everybody's concerned they've been concernated >> we were told that it was mandatory coming up here the next year. So, I
wanted to make sure nos were not happy about it, but they're doing a phenomenal job getting >> signed in and I don't think that you know the entire time
instruction. >> Okay. Not the not the best news ever, but >> did anybody have any awareness of this? Was like just sprung on us? >> They did. >> Okay. >> All right. This is something maybe that we put down with that um
>> at my school, >> the county legislative meeting because uh we're already testing. I mean, when we when I was at the con uh the school board's convention two years ago, it they brought it up.
The state board of education actually doesn't like it either. It's a legislative thing. So, yeah. Yeah. I'm sure there'll be a lot of people that are concerned with the amount of testing and the time. Okay. >> I I could
I'm at a point in my life in my career where I could say certain things. I'll just say I I understand it's mandatory and we have to follow and yes we're cacked again next year. I am not a fan of this at all. Zero. Sometimes the state comes up with these great ideas
like HIB >> and a lot of other things and there's no financial backing. It's a complete disruption to the school day and it moves away from the core re one of the core essential reasons of why we're in school to learn to socialize to grow not
just to constantly test. So, I agree with all our teachers who voiced their concerns so far. I'm sure more will. Hopefully, maybe there's uh some changes real soon. >> Well, that's certainly what um a union voice would be good for as well. So, >> I think if a few large districts banded
together and pushed back, um unfortunately, it's you know, the carrot or the stick cusors and these things. It's it's unfortunate. >> Okay. Well, we do have a new uh organization with the county, so we'll bring that up and see what we can't do
because this is um I mean, it's like the the the graduation test. It's the whole thing is whatever. Okay. Um I just wasn't until I s read the minutes, I hadn't even heard of it. So, thanks for putting that in your notes. Um okay so
policy Jen >> uh we did not meet this past um because we we don't have any first reading for policy so it's just second reading the policies um I did just looking at the hip report brought up to Dave earlier
that the way it's reported for the board members to read to be able to say yes you know approve it I feel like there needs to be some more details in there so we were talking about next policy meeting having administrators present so that there could be kind of like a
conversation on like these are the details that would be helpful to us to know whether to say yes that makes sense it's a yes or a no hip >> right that actually thank you >> to what Jen to Jen's I'm sorry uh to Jen's point what I was going to recommend but we're just having
discussion is that tonight the um hibs number two and three that we move forward one is a second reading one is a first reading, but when you look at them, you know, uh the information, you have the background both to table four, five, six, and seven so we can get
together and talk about it. Um I did send out a communication to our admin just giving them the heads up that from here on out with HIVs, I think it'd be a little bit better um and more constructive if we all got together, it's only a half hour and we just talk.
Doesn't always have to be face to face. if some people have to do Zoom or however we manage that we can manage it but I think it's easy um based on that. So I I would I was going to recommend when we open the A through D section to revise and to table four five six and seven.
>> Okay. All right. We'll do that then when we go through um discussion on those agenda items. Nope. >> Nope. Nope. That's fine. I mean it was appropriate for policy. >> Okay. Um, and we all discussed the calendar, which was really a big thing
anyway. So, yeah. Um, and nice work on the calendar. I really I really appreciate all the effort in making that work. Okay, delegates, uh, New Jersey School Boards Association. Um, the one thing I wanted to point out is I saw a survey come through to all
board members from the NJSBA. if you know you want to take a look and provide input, it's there. Thanks. I get so many emails from them, I don't read them all. Yeah, thank you for pointing that out. Okay,
>> Morris County School Boards Association. Whoops, Carl's not here. Legal representative Jonathan, anything? >> Uh, they haven't been in session lately because it's silly season, >> right? uh Morris County Educational Services Commission.
>> Not till January. >> Community relations and KA liaison. Are we doing it that anymore? >> That uh KA liaison is December 4th. >> Okay. So, I won't mention that again until December 4th. Um Kares,
>> nothing. >> Nothing. Okay. And KF, that's on me. I keep for I got to schedule that appointment, that meeting. Okay. Petitions and hearings of citizens on agenda items. If anybody has anything for agenda items only, they're welcome
to come up and bring them up to the board. Sir, >> hey there. Um, so first of all, I just want to thank you guys for what you do. I'm sure the time committed tonight is just the tip of the iceberg seeing all the work you guys do. Uh, so by by way of introduction, my name is Chris
McGrath. My wife and I have lived here. and Amanda have lived here for 11 years now. Um my daughter goes to my daughter's nine, she goes to Stonybrook. My son is in sixth grade. He goes to Craig school. He's got special needs. And so that's really the reason I'm
here. Um I reached out about him joining the wrestling program. He's a huge athlete. I actually had to leave uh coaching football to come here. He's he's a cult. One of his favorite times of year is when he gets to play Butler, the mayor's cop representing Kolan. Um
so I reached out to the athletic director and was told that he couldn't play uh wrestling for Kennelan for um sorry I get a little nervous talking in public. Take a deep breath. It's funny. I do this for a living and in front of people directly it's difficult. Anyway,
um basically the net of it is because he goes to private school according to NJ NJSIA, he is uh ineligible to enroll and and wrestle for kin. Uh even though um homeschool kids can there's like an
exception for homeschool kids. And I actually I think I sent you all a note about this. And so when we when we found out that hey this is a state issue, it's not really something the board has control over. The first thing we did was read every line of the constitution of
NJSIA. And luckily we found a loophole. Right. So in uh in the bylaws article V art article 5 section G clarification six it actually does say that a pupil who is disabled
and placed by the parents or guardians at their own expense which is us uh in a non-public school for treatment of the disability shall be eligible to participate in the athletic program of the student's resident school district provided the student otherwise meets eligibility requirements of the program
and students participation has written approval of the board of education uh where the program is located which is why I stand in front of you and so Colin meets all those requirements all we need is board approval for him to participate
>> okay so um what we'll do is first of all you read all those bylaws and I'm impressed >> it's a little bit of chat you be doing >> okay okay >> NJSIA Mr. McGrath is like a kangaroo court. Trust me. So that's impressive that you found that.
>> Yeah. I mean, we'll just you'll route it through the it'll go to the athletic director and then we'll >> Okay. So, yeah, I think you have all the emails to all the people in this room. >> Yes. The only >> What's the next step? >> No, the only question I have is um you have to register. When does registration
end soon, right? >> He did register. >> He's already registered. >> Oh, he's registered. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, so you're all set. So once it comes up to us, we'll Yeah. I mean, unless there's something we we're missing, we should >> we could do a small revision.
>> We're just doing that >> if you want. I mean, I don't Somebody want to pull the >> Yeah. Okay. Why don't we All right. So, you have >> You're in favor and then we could move that forward. I didn't see a copy of this, Mr. >> McGrath. I don't know. Did I get that?
The one with the circle, Mr. McGrath, is that by law. >> Yeah, I saw your email. I saw your >> Yeah. See, I I wasn't on the emails. >> Okay. >> Jean, I just have a question. When does um This is for PRM, right? Right.
>> When does we do is um >> I don't want to hold up the meeting. So, what we'll do is we'll go through um >> I think we can I'm not sure it needs to be board approved. Um Oh, you're saying it does have to be board approved. Okay. Well, it's not going to hold it up because November we can approve it. The
meeting's the first, the 2nd, or the 18th. So, then plenty of time for wrestling season. So, we're going to go ahead and take a look at this. I I'm just going to tell you I can't see why we won't approve it unless um I mean if that's what the the law states then we'll approve it. We'll just approve it
officially at that meeting. >> Okay. >> But um I don't want to tie it up with this meeting in our agenda. Um but we'll add it to the next one board approved and I'll sign it then. >> You guys okay? >> Yep. >> Oh yeah. >> You Mr. McGrath, you may not even have to
>> You don't have to come here in a month. We'll just stay in contact with you. Somebody from >> Yeah. the office will be in touch with you. >> Sounds good. >> Yeah, you don't have to come. It'll just >> perfect. >> Because we'll probably We'll have to draft the official letter, have it signed. >> Yeah, it's like the Yeah.
>> Yeah. It'll probably go through the attorney or something like that. Just whatever. And then we'll have that and then we'll put it on the next the agenda because that's plenty of time for him to participate. When does wrestling start? >> It's uh November. >> Thanksgiving. Oh, okay. >> Okay. Okay. Well, we'll make sure if we
have to. We'll make sure it gets done. >> So, he can wrestle. >> Prom Miller's the 17th of >> 17th of Monday. >> Monday. Okay. All right. >> We'll have something to you prior to the board meeting and then that'll just kind of be >> the >> a walk through. Right. But I am happy
you found this because I you know in what is this year 30? So 25 years of the 30 I've been involved in high schools directly and the NJSIA doesn't do anything about all these private schools recruiting our kids with
you know they have these staged bylaws but it happens day in the night all over the want to make it impossible for families like your own to join us and then when you contact NJSA they tell you don't do that because of this but nobody tells you about this
so if you didn't find this we wouldn't be able to do her wife. >> Well, I'm thanking Mrs. McGrath then. So, you could tell her I said thank you. >> Awesome. >> All right. Thank you. >> You got it. >> Thank you so much for >> Okay. Uh agenda items. So, I'd like to
have a motion for a roll call on a block vote on agenda items A, B, C, and D. Okay. I have a motion. >> Second. >> Okay. >> Okay. So discussion on >> well we're sorry discussion on them
first. So uh any discussion on agenda items A D A B C and D >> is this the point where we're going to Yes. So we do need to so one point of revision is for uh we're going to
postpone the vote on hibs >> four five six and seven. So we'll remove those for vote. They will be discussed uh referred back to policy >> for those four hibs.
I'm wondering does it make sense to table all of the first readings, you know, just with the same consideration. I didn't think there was a discrepancy when I read the one, you know, that >> Well, the second one's the number three is not confirmed, so we're not we don't
have to approve it. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I get it. Um, let's see. I did have one thing uh I wanted to bring up on the dance team was that not only what one of the reasons
why we really wanted to move forward with it and make it a club this year is that there were a lot of seniors that wanted to I think four seniors that wanted to participate it and we wanted to give them an opportunity their senior year. So we decided to do that right now as a pilot club so the seniors could
participate. So I just wanted to point that out. Um, not not only did um the freshman bring it up, but then when it went out to the the whole school, there were a bunch of a bunch of kids that were very interested. 18 >> 19. So, yeah, very exciting for those
kids. Yeah, that was really great. Um, then the one thing I I I'm just still really don't understand under and I know it's in the contract, so it is what it is, but the this the class advisor
positions the s the junior class advisor makes $500 more than the senior class advisor, but the senior class advisor looks like they do more. So, if I'm going to approve a job description, I I I don't understand what
what the $500 discrepancy is because if you look under senior class advisor, I mean, the senior class, which I'm grateful for for all of my kids that have been seniors, do a lot. Um, and that's great and there's a lot of
coordination. I I just besides the prom, unless we take the prom off of the senior class advisor and it's really just the junior class advisor. I I just that was what I was told originally was that that's why the
junior class advisor has makes so much more money. I mean, it's $500 more, right? 500 and >> $520 more. I I don't know why >> somebody somewhere along the way when they negotiated their stipens, they
included an extra couple dollars. I'm going to think it if I went back old school was probably because of the prom, but that would be all I could ever think of. I don't know. >> Okay. So, I'm just saying that um from the job description, what I'd like to do then is postpone the vote on the job description. I'd like to send it back
and kind of maybe revisit that because I I'd like to justify the $520 of what that's for. Um because I know June the senior class is the one class in this school that does a lot. Um they have a
brunch, they have sunrise, they have sunset, they have um they have senior awards balorate. I'm missing something. something. Oh, they go to Dorney Park. They Yeah, they have project grad. Like,
there's a lot that happens senior, which is amazing. Um, I don't know of anything the juniors do specifically besides what everybody else does. So, I'd like to postpone the vote on that and kind of tweak that and get some more feedback from people. I'd like some
justification at what that money is for. Um, >> that's fine with me. >> Okay. Is that okay? All right. So, we'll amend the is that policy >> under the B section >> under the B section. Okay. Personnel.
Okay. So, >> all right. So, we'll we'll send that back to personnel. >> And also, I just wanted to thank Miss Lawler for um revising the out of district placement tuition number there because I thought it was really high
last month and she found it and it's corrected. So, thank you for Yeah. Yeah, thank thank you for catching that by the way. Yeah. >> Anybody have any other discussions? I think that was it. >> Non-aggenda items at the end.
>> Okay. All right. Seeing none, you can pull the board. >> Are you calling the vote now? I have a quick question about an agenda item just about the >> Oh, about agenda >> calendar with consolidating the minimum days that would be across schools. All
schools would go to four hours. I'm sorry. Was that what I heard? >> Oh, okay. Just a little bit of clarity from from that um from Mr. Pepe shared is that the elementarymentaries actually are the problem with the elementarymentaries is that it's the shortest day that I've ever seen in an
elementary school. It's six hours. Typical elementarymentaries are anywhere between six and a half to seven hours and 15 minutes. We did try to negotiate, but you know, we also had PRM on the schedule and we knew what was happening, so that kind of fell off. Um, but their day won't change. The four hours is the
four hours. After we get through next year, we might look at what does that really look like? Because it's our transportation and our bus personnel that are telling us, we think if you moved Stonybrook and Keel back to 8:00 or somewhere in that window, not getting
the students to school, it's at dismissal >> that they're all because then KHS and the and PRM are seven hours. So, they're going to go an hour beyond them. >> Got it. >> And it's like that's where it's the it becomes a little bit sticky. um salute.
But for the high school, their half day is four hours and 45 minutes and PRM is four hours and 25 minutes. So makes the half days or those early dismissal days that especially let's hope that we don't have any craziness with the weather because that's everybody's worst
nightmare. >> But it never ends. It's like a day of hell, >> right? So our thought is next year once we know the start and end times of PRM and KHS that there those are like four hour and 10 minute days. >> Got it. >> And that's it. Everybody's gone. Not
this like the high school starts at 7:25 or 23 right now and they don't get out until almost 12:30. That's that's a long run. >> Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for um please state your name just for >> I'm Lauren Langone. Thank you.
Mrs. Leonard, we're pulling board. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Okay. Mrs. Pella, >> yes. >> Mr. Pepe, >> yes. >> Mrs. Portman, >> yes. >> Mr. Eisenmeer, >> yes. >> Mrs. Donaldson, >> yes. Okay. Uh, committee of the whole. Is
there any business for committee of the whole? No unfinished business. Does anybody have any unfinished business? New business. Uh correspondence. Is there anybody anything online? Do we have any letters or anything?
>> Nope. Okay. Okay. Any uh petitions and hearings of citizens non-aggenda items? You want to say anything to us? No one. >> Sorry. My name is Eric Hal. Yes. Sorry. First board meeting ever. Um my wife sent me. um she had heard about a
consolidation of the schools at some point. I don't know if this is a town rumor or whatever, but she wanted me to come and ask if there's plans with the budget to look at potentially closing Stony Brook and consolidate schools. So, yeah, >> let me I'll give this you take it back
home. It'll be nice and easy. Um I will pre the board has directed me, but it's also part of me as well. So, I'm not going to put it on the board in looking at all avenues to be safe financially, to just be financially sound. Um, a couple years back when uh the health
curriculum was heavily contested in a lot of towns across the state, the state had told us that if you do not implement, they didn't say how, they just said if you don't, that they would pull our state aid. Well, I've been part of that under then Governor Christie where everybody lost state aid with his
first budget address. And so that never left me because that's a very daunting task when that's taken away. And I tried to tell folks in our community then >> you don't want to do that because if you lose that much state aid, which right now I believe we receive 3.2 million, it's a lot of money. Where are you
finding it? >> And so um one of our goals is for me to look at what that means. So in the February public meeting, I will present it. Um it's not happening. It's just, hey, this is what we found. This is what you would need personnel wise. This is
the cost estimated cost maintenance and care. This is how the build the buildings would then be facilitated. This is the grade level. If there's ever a rainy day and you need to much like the courtesy busing, not the consolidation of routes of PRM, KHS, and the elementarymentaries, but courtesy
busing, if there's ever a rainy day, since our buses are half filled all the time, but we're paying for it as taxpayers, you got an ace in a hole. You know, one day we'll all be gone, but somebody's going to be here and cost only goes up. So that's all it is. It's not it's not a rumor. It's fact. But
that doesn't mean anything's happening. It just means you have the information. >> I got it. So So it's a it's a depending on what happens with funding. It's a plan B scenario. If funding were to be pulled and the budget had to be balanced, that could be one avenue to balancing the budget. >> It's an option. Yes.
>> So we've done a really good job balancing our budget and keeping things we're we're doing really well. We're very healthy. But if there's something where all state aid goes away, there's a new election coming, there's if things change, right now federal government shut down, we do have this as a backup
plan. It's basically an exercise kind of a contingency plan. If we needed to, we have it. Um because we are we are we basically have um a district that's capacity of over 2,000 children and we have about 1,600. So we have a
whole building's worth of kids that we don't really need that building for. So this is in case we needed to. This is how we would do it. >> It's just to have that in the back. >> Kind of like a a a reunification drill that we run. God forbid in the worst
case scenario, at least everybody knows where they have to go and what they're doing >> financially, then you know where you are. >> We do the same thing. I work at a bank and we do the opposite. If we were had to get broken up, what would we do? So this is the opposite. If we had to bring it together, what would we do? I understand. and very help. >> But no plan, that's not really the
board's intention. We have no no plan to close any buildings right now. Just we like the way it is, but >> Yep. >> You got it. I'm glad you asked. >> Okay. Board member comments. Uh who wants to go first? Or Frank, why don't you go first?
>> Uh a couple comments for me. one just uh I I kind of had put a comment out there that I wrote for myself, but the diversity of success that we're seeing in our school district is absolutely amazing. Every single time I turn a corner, I'm talking to some of our schools leadership, some people at the
board office, people in the community. Just today, Luca listed off a plethora of things that are going right in our school district. Let's rally behind that and celebrate. The newspaper, nine awards from from Ruckers was amazing. the athletics right now going on with
football, the support of having the best fan section. These are exciting things and they're not just limited to kind of one scope in our school. All the departments across all schools are operating very effectively. So, I want to congratulate everybody on what I'm
calling the diversity of our success during the fall. Two, I always want to thank our leadership uh about their I want to thank our leadership at the board office and in the schools for their accessibility. Miss Olawale uh's initiative on the 12th to invite parents
to breakfast and see what she's doing um is amazing. You know, there's no better way to get uh feedback than opening yourself up to that feedback and requesting it. Um which is why I also love everybody here asking questions. Um you know, I think that's awesome. Uh and
then three, I want to thank Caitlyn. I think uh in the FFS committee, all the grants that you're tracking down uh is amazing. And much like we're talking about fiscal responsibility um with some of the things that we're doing for long-term contingency planning, Caitlyn is pounding the pavement every single
day doing that at a micro level and those wins stack up. Uh and lastly, uh you're welcome. And lastly, uh you know, I want to thank Dave for his transparency uh as well as the um all of his team. there's going to be a lot of good information that's publicly and
readily available. Uh should you ever feel the need to uh kind of quote or discuss things with your fellow towns folks, I think referencing the information that exists uh would behoove everybody for for good fruitful conversation. >> Thanks, Frank.
>> Would you like to go next, Kelly? >> Sure. I just wanted to um thank Dave. I know there were 22 slides tonight to talk about our strategic planning. Um, but it was really really important information and it really gave such
great it was such a great opportunity to talk about all the seeds that we've sewed and how strong our leadership team is and how the community came together, the stakeholders came together, the teachers came together, our administrative team and we figured out what we really want for our schools. And this board has just worked tirelessly
with this leadership team to make sure that we are moving forward. And we planted a lot of seeds over the last couple years, right? Like that started 2022. Um so I it is it's really great to see how many wonderful things are coming to fruition now. And it's amazing um
what awesome things can happen when people work together. I love I love that. I love teamwork. Um I also wanted to say that um the grants are amazing. So, thank you for working on that and thank you for kind of hitting the ground running with um working with us. I feel
like there was no learning curve with you. Like, you just started and it was a very difficult job and you've really jumped into the role really well. Um I just love our leadership team. I think that everybody worked so hard and tirelessly and it's all for our students. So, thank you to everybody,
all of our principles, too. Um and that's it. I hope everybody has a very wonderful, safe Halloween. Have a good night. >> Thanks, Kelly. Jen, >> um I echo what Kelly and Frank were saying. Um I just wanted to also thank
the two families that donated things to our school, the Bosch family and the I don't know if you say it dre or family. Um and I know that there's other families and community members um communicating with the the FFS committee about other donations and you
know it's very very appreciated and uh from what I see I feel like the donations and dollars that are given are are used well in good stewardship. It's good. Thank you, >> Dana.
>> Um, I have just one comment that I intended to share last week at committee and I actually forgot. I ran into a parent of a of a nursing student um who's off in college now. she wanted me to share and so I think it's it's actually better to share it tonight how grateful she was for the allied health
program the teachers the curriculum all of the uh background that her daughter was able to obtain at the high school here she said she's thriving and some of the other students are really struggling so it just kind of u brings up the
academic piece um preparing these students for you know what they're going to face in real life hopefully successful careers along with all of the other, you know, values that are um supported here. And then just the the pathways that I know
Mrs. Trump Trombetta and Mrs. Thomas are working on additionally sort of some of those whether they be business, engineering, just additional coursework to sort of line up the curriculum so that these you know interests are really supported here at the high school. So
that's all. Thanks. >> That's great, Jonathan. Yeah, ditto to everything and I'm done. No. Um, but yeah, you know, thank you to everybody for all the hard work and looking at the, you know, the planning and working together to make those
plans. Um, and looking looking to the future. You know, you're sitting in this room. Um, and it gets used all the time by a lot of different people for a lot of different things. Um, long overdue for an upgrade, not just paint. Um we're
just about to get into the busy season down here. Great Gatsby's just a couple weeks away and then there's going to be all those col all those holiday concerts um that are going to be in here. Um so you know in the notsodistant future you know things are going to be um improving
you know all around and it's just an exciting time to you know not just work uh not just work on the planning side but to start to see things happening you know this time next year there's going to be a homec um lab for better you know for better word for it. um we already
have a an instructor lined up for for that, you know, and it's just incredible that we're able to, you know, put our, you know, put our heads together, ask what what we would love to do, you know, dream about it, and then see it happen. So, um it's great to be a part of that. It's great to be working with everybody
here and um great opportunity for families for now and the future, too. And one last thing. >> Yeah. >> Um I asked because I was un not unaware but I don't have it in my phone but next week is three half days and two days off. >> Yeah.
>> Well it's three half days >> for anybody else that might need to remember that. >> Not for the high school, right? >> High school has >> one half day and then >> and the elementaryaries have >> right. Um >> y >> for teacher convention. Dave, do you
want to say anything else? >> Uh, no. I listen, we're the way I do math, we're a third of the year through, >> even though it's the end of October, so a lot of good hard work. Uh, like Mrs. Plla said, it's been non-stop for three years for us. We'll just keep it moving
forward. It's Halloween week. It's a great time of year. It's a great time to be outside. I know Facing Lakes will be lit up on Friday afternoon and Friday night. Um, everybody just have a good time. If you have some free time, come to the state game. If not, enjoy your Halloween wherever you are and have a
safe weekend. There are some people out there that, you know, take advantage. So, just be aware. That's all I could say to our parents, to our students. Make good choices and be aware of people. But, uh, overall, good time, good time to be outside and be happy. >> Okay. I just have to say I'm really
excited that Let It Grow is, we're doing stuff with Let It Grow. If you read Jonathan Heights book, which I'm now really excited some of our high school students are going to read. Um, I might just make it mandatory in my house. Um, I think that's really awesome because it was a board goal and we're really
excited about that. Um, and one of the goals that I've had since I've been on the board is to just really make this a spirited, fun, great place to go to school and all the things that we've been talking about, the diversity of success, the planning that we've been
doing for years. I mean, I've been on the board for five years and it's just been something I've been really trying to do some improvements that actually make this place look great like Field of Dreams. If you build it, they will come. If you build it, they will stay. And that's really what we're doing. And spirit week and all the fun things we
did for spirit week and the like the homecoming dance was a huge success, which is really great. Um, that's, you know, school's a lot of work, but should be fun, too. And that's one thing that the board's really has been focused on since I've been on it is let's make this
a really great place to come to school and want to come back. So on that note, I'd like to thank everybody for coming and for asking questions. Please come anytime. And if you're not sure and you see stuff on Facebook, you can go on the website. My email's right there.
Donaldsonjkalon.org. Don't send it to DonaldsonJ students. That's my son. He's 13 and he will not read it. But if you send it to me, I will. So please reach out and anytime you have a question, come to a board meeting, come to the citizen advisory
committee or email me. So with that, that's it for comments and we don't have an executive session. So can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Okay. All in favor? Bye. Bye.