Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started regular meeting January 27th. Jersey public meeting law was enacted to ensure the right of public and to attend meetings of public
interest. In the provision of the act of education has caused notice of this meeting published trends on December 28 posted on the kennelan public library filed with burough clo clerk and posted on the
district website. Caitlyn would you roll call the board please? >> Here uh there's no closed session need at this time. Please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of America and to the republic for it
stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. >> Okay. Routine matters. We have approval of the minutes for the December 16th regular meeting. The December 16th executive session. The January >> I'm sorry.
>> Yeah. January 6 regular meeting and the January 6th executive session. Could I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Okay. Um discussion on any of the minutes. Anybody? >> Okay. Seeing none, um can you pull the
board, please? >> Yes. Luca, you're up. >> Got a lot of stuff this month. So, uh, bear with me, please. >> Kisco would like to welcome all of our students to 2026. Kisco students began the year sharing all of the fun things that they did over the break during the
class meetings. Kindergarten registration is now open for the 2026 27 school year, as well as for new first and second grade students. Students had their first spirit week of 2026 during the week of January 12th. K through2 students and staff had a lot of fun
dressing for the daily themes. The engineering design club began meeting after school on Thursday, January 15th, and the kindergarten students and staff also enjoyed their field trip to the Mayo Performing Arts Center to see the Pete the Cat show. Lastly, Kil Cisco would like to wish
everyone a wonderful 2026. Sony Brook started the school year with a uh schoolwide assembly with a focus on their Let Grow program. Students shared the things that they've been doing at home independently and what they are proud of. The fifth grade business club
visited KHS on January 16th and met with Mrs. Gilligan and the future business leaders of America club. The fifth graders learned about interview skills, how to write a resume, and even participated in mock interviews. Thank you to the high schoolers for an amazing experience.
Sony Brook's Kesha sponsored third grade dance was held on January 23rd and students had an amazing time. Thank you to Kesha, to all the families and students that attended and to Mr. Tedesco for being a great DJ. In addition, Stony Brook is also celebrating school spirit week this week
and is looking forward to the fifth grade for staff basketball game and the pep rally at the end of the week. Finally, congratulations to our governor's educator of the year, Mrs. Catalano, and to our educational service provider of the year, Mr. John Manion.
At PRM, student committees ran a hat and glove drive during the month of December. As a school, PRM collected 37 hats and 34 sets of gloves, and all of the donations went to Project Kind. Thank you to everyone who participated. Congratulations to the following PRM
band students for successfully auditioning into the junior North Jersey area band. Julie Sun on flute, Simon Siaak on clarinet, Andrew Marillo on trumpet, Luca Petrovski on French horn, Jack Eisamanger on trombone, and Ephrain
Haramillo on tuba. PRM was selected as a rehearsal site and welcomed all the members of the junior and area band at their first rehearsal in December. These students represented PRM as members of the select ensemble and performed with other students from North Jersey on January 17th at Mount
Olive High School. The PRM wrestling team had a successful season as they had a 10-2 record in the Morris County tournament. They were all well represented as Damon Marowski placed second, Jake Pepe, Ephra Haramillo, and uh Joseph Dello placed
third, and Gianna Pepe placed fourth. Congratulations to all for an excellent season. The seventh and eighth grade dance, Night in Paris, will be on Friday, January 30th, and the show for the PRM spring musical will be Beauty and the Beast. Back to the 80s is the
sixth grade teen canteen theme which will be on Friday, February 20th at 7 pm. And the seventh and eighth grade uh teen canteen is scheduled for Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. as well. Lastly, KHS students are off to an incredible start
to the 2026 school year with their academic and extracurricular achievements. Congratulations to KHS students for the following. Lindsay Maddie is the artist spotlight fine and performing arts student for the months of November and December. Congratulations to the following students who were invited to perform
with the Morris Area Honor Choir. Raina Ferman, Savannah Mango, and Anthony Mana. Um, congratulations to Dylan Castalano Smith, Redeema Chowan, Raina Ferman, Savannah Mango, Anthony Mana, and Michaela Tobia who are accepted to the
new uh New Jersey Region One Honors Choirs. Moving on, the following students successfully auditioned to area Library magazine also visited with Mr. Polo's advanced creative writing class, collaborating on poetry and a shared
love of writing. Two weeks ago, KHS's Future Business Leaders of America delivered a presentation preparing for an interview to Stony Brooks Business Club, which included conducting mock interviews, which was an awesome experience for all involved. The KHS Art Honor Society is collecting
broken and or used uh crayons through the end of the month. And if you have any to donate, please consider dropping them off at the high school this week. Lastly, please come out and support KHS HSA by attending the Winter Wonderland Bingo and Tricky Tray at the Legacy
Castle on February 7th. We hope to see everyone there. >> Thanks, Luca. That was a lot. Okay, superintendent's update. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Welcome everybody. Um before we have a few presentations, but
um you know just listening to what Luca shared just once again solidifies and reinforces everything that I tell people in town when they approach me or send me an email or make a phone call. You hear all those accomplishments of our students, right? Where are you going to
find that somewhere else? You're not. So, uh I'll say it till the day I'm no longer here and then when I'm no longer here, I'll still say it. You're just You have no reason and no other cause to look outside these walls. Our students
achieve whether it's athletically, it doesn't matter if they're in the arts because Luca did leave one um accolade out that I will say shortly. And um and it doesn't matter academically like we cover all the bases and we cover it well. And it's also part of the
reason why my wife and I chose to move here seven years ago. So I say that as a superintendent. I say it as a parent. So we're not perfect. Nobody is. But man, we have an active group. So um and with that too, Luca,
two years in a row. Now I know that'll be in March where we do student recognition, but two years in a row for all state for the All State band. God bless you. That is a fantastic achievement. To your family, I know your dad's here tonight. To your mom at home, um congratulations. Really, you do us
proud. Okay. So, we do have two quick uh presentations, but the quickest of both will be start with Mr. Shivis, our special projects and on the SSDS report. So, Mr. Shivus. >> Good evening everybody. My name is Vinnie Shivas. I'm the supervisor of
special projects and Luca, I'm going to average you out. So, because I got a short presentation, yours is kind of long. We're all good. Don't worry about it. So, I'm reporting tonight on school safety data systems, which are required to report uh twice a year. Um, from July 1st through December 31st, that's report
period one. And then on the back half of the year is report uh period two. What the school safety data system report does, it collects data on two types of information and these are more of the vi more um major of the infractions. So
violence, vandalism, substance is the one class and HIV is the second class and that also includes founded and unfounded HIVs as well as any trainings the school uh has presented to its staff. Again, purpose of this report is to
ensure that it's accurate and to make everybody involved aware that is the board and also the public. And again, those are the two periods that I previously mentioned that uh we're reporting on. So, tonight we're reporting on period one only from July 1st, 2025 through December 31st, 2025.
Now, um I say this every time, it's kind of hard to read. It is probably a little better being up here because we're a little more intimate, but uh it will be posted online and you can look at the data there. So what I have here on the top chart is a 20 is period one for this
year versus I always put the period before that from last year. Same same reporting period for last year. So you can make comparisons and see if there's been any major changes or any swings. So what you what I'm looking at right now is that there was 10 total incidents at
this point last year. This year there's 11. Not dire, not too too far out of that. Um the high school had a total of nine this year versus seven last year. They did have two violent incidents last year. There's no violence incidents this
year, which is great to see. Um if you look at KE, they went from one down to zero. That's that's great to see, especially for such young kids. PRM had two total incidents uh for both years. So they're right on where they were last year. Um if you look, there's
really not much change. The one thing that stands out is there's a little more HIV confirmed this year in the high school than there was last year at this point. But if you recall last year there was a big uh uptick towards the end of the year. Um so that's something that I'm sure Miss Olawoli, myself, Mr. uh
Aoyo are going to look into and make sure uh we can do everything we can to prevent that from climbing. But overall it looks like we're right on track with last year and uh doesn't seem to be too many differences. >> Does anybody have any uh questions?
Thank you everybody. Have a great night. Okay. So, next up we have our district auditor, Mr. Wols. So, um the floor will be yours. I know this is what you do, so we won't interrupt. We just might have a lot of questions. Maybe you're going up top. Okay, that's fine.
What? Whatever works for you. >> I'll do it from here. That's okay. It's hard to imagine a year went by. They go fast. The older you get, the faster they go. So, I'm here to talk about the June
30th, 2025 audit, uh, which was recently issued. I first would like to thank Caitlyn, our new business administrator, for all of her help. she pretty much started uh and there was an audit and it had
nothing to do with her or you know Barbara was here as an interim for two years. Um but she was very helpful. My understanding in talking to my partner Kevin who is involved in the fieldwork is that a lot of the things that show
his findings in in the 25 audit already fixed. Um his comment to me today was well she's coming in and she's doing it her way which actually is the right way. So
for for board members that should be very uh comforting that uh you finally have a full-time business administrator that's uh coming in and taking the bull by the horns and dealing with some things. And again, the
findings in the in the audit report, they're all compliance type findings. There's nothing material in here relative to the fiscal operations of the district. Um, one of the high points for fiscal year
June 25 is you were able to almost double your capital reserve, which is a pretty monumental task. I know when we first got hired a couple years ago, things were um a little shaky when it came to the budget and and and and that kind of
stuff. And I the superintendent and I had some some pretty pointed conversations and he said he was going to straighten stuff out and uh he straightened stuff out. Uh the proof the proof is in the pudding that you you now have I think about $4.6 million in
capital reserve which is the more the better. That's where you draw from to fix, you know, god forbid boilers, windows, you know, buildings are not that old, but they're not getting any younger. Um,
so this is a good audit. I wouldn't be overwhelmed by the number of findings because again compliance no materiality and the state mandates that school district audits are a combination of a
fiscal financial audit and a compliance audit and every year they come out with more things for us to do um more things to report on but again there's nothing in here that anybody on the board
anybody in the public needs to worry about. Again, a majority of these findings have already been corrected and moving forward, I would suspect that when we, you know, God willing, we're back here a year from now that the findings will be
minimal at most and uh and you'll continue on your way. kind of nomenclature and accounting like you were saying compliance was like just making sure you had the right name for the right account and it was in the
right general fund with a line item for specific >> correct charging to a the wrong sub account. >> Right. >> Which again this if you ever took a hard look at the the statemandated chart of accounts there there's a lot of there's a lot of
little numbers on the end >> and It it it to to to them it makes a difference whether it's one place or the other >> doesn't mean that the expenditure is not valid. >> Yeah. >> But uh a lot of where they pull their
their published per pupil cost >> comes from these places. >> So they get kind of touchy, >> right? >> Um >> yeah, I think all the a lot of that stuff's been fixed already as of November. >> Yes.
Yes. So again, uh a good audit still and the most important thing is you were able to squirrel away a significant significant amount of money in capital reserve and the continuation of that is is critical
just based on everything that's going on economically and what have you. I don't know if people read the paper or watch the news, but there's a certain district in Bergen County now that's got a big problem. Unfortunately, one of them is mine. So,
um >> yeah. Uh which is why it's so important from from a fiscal perspective that everything is is done the way it's supposed to be done. And and and again, I think with Caitlyn now at the helm, I think you'll be you'll be in very good
shape. And with that, I would any board members have any questions? >> Not a question, but just two observations. One, I just want to thank you and your firm for the audit. Um, and I honestly, you know, as a CPA, I' I'd
rather have an audit with some findings. >> My condolences, >> you know, but another CPA. >> It shows that like you you were doing an audit, you know, rather than, oh, everything's great, you know, with zero. Um, >> no, thank you. We do an audit. Yeah, no
question about it. Because >> I learned a a long time ago, and I've been doing this, I know I look very young, but I've been doing this 46 years. And my license is important to me. It's the
way I brought up and educated my children. It's how we do the things we do as a family. So, there's nothing that would would make me or or or you know have me do something that would jeopardize my professional stand
standing and that's just not the way you're supposed to be. And the second is a a dovetail on on that, you know, that it really gave, you know, an honest look, you know, to to Caitlyn, Dave, and everybody come, you know, to say, "Hey, this is what we got
to focus on." And just thank you guys for jumping on that because as as Gene already said, you know, you look at that right hand column there with, you know, that's already been addressed, that's been addressed, that's been addressed, that's been addressed. So, um, that's the way it should be. You know, it's it's very useful to have that team, uh,
dynamic going. So, thank you. I think it helped to for Caitlyn to have kind of a list of things that she could focus on initially and kind of clean up some of the stuff we knew that needed to be cleaned up. So, yeah, we look good. I know there's a lot of district out
there. I um we have a new New Jersey school boards association rep and he I chatted with him just to catch up and I was like, "Yeah, we're in good shape." and he's like, "Wow, I don't hear that very often." We've done a lot of work over the last four years to make sure
that we were planning ahead and we're still doing the same thing. Um the times change. You never know what you're going to get or where the cuts are going to come from. And so we are in very good shape and we have great programs for our kids and we're being very fiscally
responsible to our community. So good work from the board and especially Dave and Caitlyn. So, thank you both. >> Thanks, Steve. >> Yeah, you don't need to stay if you don't want to. I'm sure you'd like to
get on to the next board meeting. >> Okay, have a great night. Okay, to committee reports, finance, facilities, and security. >> So, um, we spent quite a bit of time talking. >> Hello, welcome. Um, can you hear me now? >> Yes.
>> Good. Um, so we started the meeting, spent uh quite a bit of time talking about um possibly creating um a Kinolan High School special education program uh and what that would look like and how we would fund it and the benefits um to our district and something that you know
we're going to consider uh as we go forward in the budget process. We evaluated the preschool tuition rate uh and we set indicatively what that's going to look like during the budget uh process at about you know 1,200 a month
12,000 a year. We discussed a little bit about the bus route consolidation. Um we talked about the required school safety data systems report which Vin has already presented. Um and then we spoke a little bit about both the budget
process uh and our look at some of the capital projects that we're going to invest in. Um so that's all going to come together over the next two to three meetings. As you can imagine, a lot of focus on the budget. Um so working with Caitlyn and understanding where we are, where we're going to land, what we can
invest in, what we can't invest in, um you know, as we're building out what looks like um an effective budget. Um, as Dave mentioned in the citizens advisory committee, um, we did speak about the pros and cons of the Stonybook shuttering. Um, and there's going to be a lot of back and forth over the next
couple committee meetings, uh, about what that looks like from a financial perspective. Um, you know, just so we have the numbers available um, if and when, uh, you know, that discussion needs to be accelerated. Um, after that,
a little bit around uh the EIP program and some of the savings uh that we may be able to generate to help us continue to be fiscally responsible and take advantage of all the programs uh that currently exist. Um, and then there was a couple other things that we discussed,
one being the corrective action plan from the audit. Uh, talked about the findings and I guess I echo what everybody said and I just waited till I had the mic. Um, but as a as another CPA, we we may be overindexed on CPAs here. Um, but as another CPA, I think it was awesome for Caitlyn to come in,
handle the audit effectively, have a punch list of things that she can effectively work on. Um, and it'll be nice to see that progress uh, year-over-year. Um, and nothing gets me more excited um, than good books and records uh, fiscally responsible um, boards of education. Um, and then we
talked about a couple things that needed to be uh, approved um, during this meeting, which is the ESA grant uh, and a boiler repair uh, that came up. Okay, thanks Frank. It was uh a productive meeting and we had a lot to
talk about. Um just uh one of the things we are still working on is our long range facilities plan. So we were originally going to approve that tonight, but we uh the committee wants to go through a bit deeper dive on some of the projects that we um have have to
have done. Boilers being one as you see on tonight's meeting, but the we also want to do something nice and fun. So give back to the community in some way that also provides like maybe new stadium seating or something for the visitors something fun and something
that takes that has to be done. So but we need to really crunch the numbers and see what projects we can do um because we're always I think there was flooding in the high school rate today. So there are things that we have to do. Okay. Personal negotiations.
Carl. >> Okay. Uh so yeah, it was actually my first uh meeting for the personal negotiations. It was a very short and sweet meeting. I'm told they're all like that. So um but we we did discuss a lot of the repetitive topics that um Mr.
Pepe just said. So I'll just briefly roll them off. We also did talk about the KHS special education program. Um that sounds like a really great initiative. It seems like we have already have all the infrastructure in place. It's just needs somebody to kind of put it all together. So that's great. Um we also talked about a little bit
about the Tony Brookke uh shuttering. Um we also looked at some of the reviewed uh job descriptions and then Dave filled us in on his um Richfield Parkkins caucus visits. So it's pretty short and sweet. >> All right. I like those education
student activities. Jump in. >> Yes. My first meeting with the education committee. Um and it was not as short as the personnel meeting, but it was also on time. So, um, we reviewed and approved, um, a guest
speaker request form, I guess you call it, um, and also several guest speakers that are coming to talk to senior health and, um, first grade science and the fishing club of all things. Um, so I, if anybody wants to hear that guest speaker, I think they're talking about,
uh, fishing off the land, but I digress. um approved a a textbook request for the giving tree for Dr. Florio and some of her sections of classes. Um heard a review for the the PD day that happened
last week for staff. Um approved a a research survey of AP students um just for the community's benefit because I know that has been a thing in terms of surveys. Um it's just from another high school student in a high school course. Um and just
anonymously asking students about their experiences with AP courses. Um so there's that. SAT prep is um being advertised. I saw an advertisement. Did you see an advertisement? Okay. Um your dad told me to ask, but the uh we also
approved a curriculum uh request for advanced art at PRM. um kind of building out from just basic art to advanced art and it's a six-month uh looking to make that a full year. Um and also the steam
camp for summer is on the table uh in the agendas this week. Um and some uh job descriptions um that are also on the agenda as well. So there you have it. >> Thank you, Jonathan. Policy and
governance, Mrs. Po. >> Um Yes, this was our first committee with me as the chair. I'm still learning, so bear with me. Um, we talked a little bit about the parental bill of rights opt out, which was something that has been discussed at our previous meetings and um, while we did have
discussion about it, we are going to continue to discuss it at our further meetings. Um, we also talked about the possibility of changing uh, rewriting our policy or just changing some wording on our family leave policy. Um, twice a year the alerts come out from the state of New Jersey. So we had the first
reading on the alerts that had just come out. Um we also talked about three hibs in the district at KHS that are at their first readings. Um we also like the other committees had talked about we talked about the pros and the cons of um
the Stony Brook shuttering and and what that would look like for the district as a long-term option. Um and we uh Mr. Mango was able to tell us uh a little bit more about the Ridgefield park visit and what was involved in that. Um, I know we had 13 staff attend. He said it
was a wonderful example of strong leadership and they're a 7 through 12 model. So, it was nice for our staff to kind of get a great model and kind of just see how they're doing things. Um, if at any point that becomes an option for us. >> Okay. Thanks.
All right. Delegates, New Jersey School Boards Association. Anything, Carl? Okay. Um, Morris County School Boards Association. Did you? No. Okay. Uh legislative rep. >> Yeah, we had a good a good meeting. Uh
we've got some initiatives on Hib and some other couple things. We're trying to narrow down to things that are effective, but the session just started two weeks ago. Um >> are they trying to eliminate HIP? >> No. >> Uh but we are >> disappointed. >> The the tact for the school board side
because we're all members of school boards. Um is to just ask for kind of like a revisit as a commission kind of thing. So, you know, we're not shooting for the moon. We're just trying to get the conversation started. Um, and and then say like, hey, let's talk about how
it's worked for the last, you know, is it going the way we want it to? Is it not? You know, how can we tweak it? And most legislators we've found, don't even know what HIP is. Um, because a lot of them weren't there when it happened the first time and don't have kids in schools or if they are, they don't know
what HIP is. So, um, it's educational, you know, for them. So, we're right now we're just trying to line up some meetings with legislators um to offer our assistance and ask for some help. So, we have another meeting not next not the Morris County School Board
because that's next Wednesday, I think, but the following Wednesday. So, >> I'm always available. >> Okay. >> Uh Morris County Educational Services Commission. They haven't met. >> We did actually. We had a meeting on Wednesday, January 14th at 6:30. It was
a virtual meeting. Um it was the equivalent of their reorg meeting, so it was pretty quick. Um they had a superintendent report and then they um talked about their proposed rate for services for the 26 27th school year. >> Yeah, >> they actually
were >> they just talked about it a little bit um and what they were thinking about, but nothing was decided that night. Yeah. Community relations and liaison. >> Did you guys meet this? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Leaison. We did meet.
Yeah. That seems like a lifetime ago. Yeah. >> I could go. >> Yeah. It was we just we we met at PRM and um honestly it was the most fluid meeting we've had. >> And I know Mrs. Suffin's not here
tonight, but she I know um we roundt afterwards. We just talked about a few things here and there throughout the district, but um small items much different than three years ago. December, originally those meetings were in December, but this year we had a cross up in December. Much much
different. >> Yep. Talked about the sick day bank. So, we're still in that process. >> Where are we with that? >> We're just going to go, but we're they had some questions for us and I thought it would be best that they really fine-tune it and then uh Mrs. suffen and
Mr. Strad will bring it to me. I'll bring it to our committee. Okay. >> And we could just >> still >> Yeah. >> report cards. >> Okay. So, she was just talking about we're we're looking at doing a sick day bank
for our staff where they can participate in banking sick day and then someone who does have an issue can use that and everybody contributes um and it's back with the union for them to figure out their side. The board's already kind of come up with an outline. So, we're
working on that. That was a request from the staff and we were happy to support that. And then the other thing that Miss um Leonard said is the um what was the other thing? >> Oh, the dates for Yeah. Yeah. >> Realigning the the
>> realigning the semester mark period with the start dates in August, >> which is a good point. Okay, moving on. Petitions and hearings of citizens for agenda items. Does anybody have anything for agenda items? Anything online, Jay?
Okay. All right. So, I would like to have a motion for a block vote call on a block vote for agenda items A, B, C, and D. I have a motion. >> All right. Discussion on agenda items
ABC. So, under the B section, we have a resolution to accept the res and she was my second hire here. Mrs. Trump was the first. She's also part of another resolution section
along with her ed tech piece. We'll figure out the math uh portion as we discussed in committee next month and going forward. Um but I you know I just want to Thank you to Mrs. Thomas. She did a tremendous job in her time here with us. She came on at a good time when
we needed that consistency. I thought our relationships amongst the board and admin team and teachers were second to none. Um, you know, I've been doing this 15 years. It seems like a lifetime. And Mrs. Thomas now is pleasure of my number
nine superintendent making it to another district which I'm very confident she'll do well. And she's my best. So, Mrs. Thomas, I want to thank you from everything from here. We've had a long run, but you know, all good things come to an end, but we're still here. But,
uh, you'll be missed. Mrs. Trumpeta, we're very confident in your ability to multitask that position and your future along with your piece and everything you've already done for the district. So, jokingly, I said to Mrs. Trump,
it's like Mrs. Trump and I were here Lauren for those like six months and then it was Lauren and now it's going to be post Lauren. you know, the world is small and we all still talk and we're always just a phone call away. Thank you.
I think that it's um a tribute to Dave's leadership that he mentors people who move on to bigger positions and we will miss you Lauren, but um I know your new district will have a great superintendent. So congratulations on
the new job and Amanda have to stay at least three years before you become superend. >> I'm not letting you leave. It's three years minimum though. >> Yeah. How about that writing? Um there's also um a motion on here for
we have identified the funds for the culinary arts program that works to go ahead. We're approving the construction. We've already seen that for a year. So we're excited to
It's three different boilers that we're getting fixed there. >> So Sorry. The boilers throughout the year they needed repairs. So three separate scopes of work. >> Yeah, our boilers are not in good shape.
>> Something unfun. We're going to have to fixely. Um, anything else? Okay, seeing no other comments, can you uh roll call the board, please? Mr. Eisen. >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Mrs. Leonard. Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pepe. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carella. >> Mrs. Johnson. >> Yes. Um, committee of the whole. There is nothing unfinished business. Does anybody have any unfinished business? No. Okay. New business. Um, I did set up
our ethics training for the beginning of the preliminary budget presentation. So, um, that's for the board. That's required training every year. and our new NJSBA rep will be here for that. Um, >> is there a specific day on that?
>> March 10th. >> Yep. >> March 10th. >> And, um, so that's kind of new business. And then I'm working with him on trying to do something for financials as well. So, if anybody has anything from a training perspective that they would like to see, um, please let me know and
I can reach out to him, okay? and he can add that because it's a pretty dry quick thing and he's happy to do any other training the board would like. So if there's anything you would like, please let me know. Um correspondence.
Okay. Petition and hearings of citizens for anything agenda or non-aggenda. Okay. Don't see any board member comments. Who wants to go first? Jonathan. >> Yeah. Just wanted to um I I heard it at
the CAC, but just echo again, thank big thank you to Ralph and his team at um snowb blowing, plowing, salting, and everything else to keep not only access to the building, but make school happen. Um I know I was getting yelled at um in my house about there being school, but I
think that Ralph is uh you know, a a great find and did a super job at at getting this place up to up to speed. So, thank you Yeah, we were all hunkered down. Ralph was out here cleaning snow. Melissa, any
comments? Frank? >> Yeah. Um, I just kind of want to acknowledge um Dave and Caitlyn and the board as a whole uh in discussing some of the kind of tough topics around budget and our financials. Um, I know
it's sometimes easier to, you know, not have these discussions and push problems into the future. We would never do that, but as you can see in the news, you know, town show up and are $52 million in the hole and people say, "What have they been doing in the last 10 years?" Um, so I appreciate the ability to
discuss things with the board and with the public at large that may not always be pleasant. It may be challenging, but doing it in an open manner so that everybody knows uh what we're thinking and how we're evaluating things and why we're evaluating things. So, just want to say thanks to everybody who's here
and listening. on that. I also, you know, Luca, I love when the student representatives give their updates. Um, I think, you know, I'm an excitable person. Uh, so I get really excited to hear all of the great things that are happening in arts and humanities, music,
performing arts, athletics, education, development, growth. I mean, it's a running list of success. Uh, Dave echo what Dave said. It's just exciting to be a part of this. You know, very rarely if I'm not I'm not not wearing my kin on
green and prideful about everything that goes on in this town. So, you know, great work bringing that to the forefront, Luca, and great work all of our educators and leaders in continuing to deliver uh just top-notch quality educational experience for our students.
>> Thanks, Frank. Dana, >> so I wanted to acknowledge there's a donation from the office for wireless system that their generosity um that helps
every I think you know this board looks at every um every dollar helping and just really being efficient and along those lines. So what Amanda and Lauren have done I think over the past few years together really just looking at um
having the best curriculum lined up for students the best opportunities you know driving excellence um meeting students where they are giving students who need additional resources um those pathways you know in high school to prepare them for college um or their
careers just you know tremendous thank you to both of you and and best wishes to you Kelly Sorry, technical difficulties this evening. Um, I wanted to say the the record amount of snow that we got. For
once, the meteorologists were right. Right. Um, but Ralph was so diligent. I mean, before the storm, he had a very comprehensive list of all the things he was doing to prep at every single school. Over the weekend, he was here almost the entire time. Uh, I I was very
happy to be safe in my house. So, I'm very appreciative to the people that worked very diligently to make sure that our kids could come back as soon as possible. So, thank you so much to Ralph and his crew. Um, I thought they did a great job. Um, Lauren, I had the privilege of working Lauren Thomas, Mrs.
Thomas, I had just the privilege of working very very closely with you as the director of curriculum, um, being the chair of the education committee. So I know all the initiatives that you started um and all the wonderful things that you did for our students including getting grants for before school and uh
just jumping in there and actually teaching it yourself for our students because you didn't want to waste the money and you wanted our students to have the best possible opportunity. Um, you had just great initiatives for our kids like the whole school reading the same book and the RTI very concrete
specific criteria for students that were entering and exiting that has made a really big difference for a lot of our students. Um, there's just been way too many things to name, but those were just a couple and you will definitely be remembered because you have left your mark on our district. We wish you all
the best luck and we know you're going to be great. And Amanda, you have very big shoes to fill, but Mrs. Tromba, we know that you are going to be wonderful and we're very excited to work uh just as closely with you. So, thank you so much. Um congratulations, Luca. That was a very big deal. Um we have some
talented students and I I like Frank love hearing about all the wonderful things that the students are doing. Thank you so much for bringing that. Um, I think we become a little desensitized sometimes because we have such amazing, successful, talented students, but this um, this community really comes together
and I'm just so proud of the parents and the children that they have and the students that we have in the community. Um, I also wanted to point out that the two guest speakers that we have, um, Phoebe Gallion, who's going to be, uh, she's a Kinolan alum. She's going to be speaking on environmental science. um
she grew up here and she graduated KHS and she went to Dickinson College and is really passionate so she wants to come back and share. Like I think that's amazing. We also have uh Chuck Quant who's going to be helping with the fishing club. Um and I he's a parent here in town and I he doesn't have any kids at the high school but I think it's
amazing that he wants to help out and it just speaks to the community that we come from. Um and I'm just very grateful to be here to help with that. Um, Frank, I would like to congratulate you on being on the cover of Kinnolan magazine. He has done amazing things with our
wrestling program and um, he helps and volunteers in so very many ways. Uh, we just really have an amazing board as well as the community. So, I wanted to point that out and congratulate you because you've done wonders. Um, you looked great. You looked great. But, um, it's been a wonderful year and we're
only halfway through. So just wonderful things are happening here in Kennelan. >> You want to say anything else? >> No, I I think that's that's really it. We hit out all the for for the last two months being so miserable
with this winter to have such a high in a meeting like this coming off the blizzard we just had makes me very warms my heart like like what's his name? The the the snowman from from Frozen Olaf. I feel warm with all this. I feel a lot of
love in the room. So, I feel good. I want to end it on that note. >> Um there's I hope this community um advisory the citizen advisory committee just put to rest any rumors. And again,
people can always email me. My email is on there. And when you email me, I reply with my cell phone number and you can call me anytime you have a question. Mr. Mango is always available. We're here to answer any question any rest. The board is looking at options in case we have to
make changes. That's it right now. The only thing we're doing for sure is we're consolidating bus routes. We're going to take a pause. We're take a breath. We're going to look at how we can save more money if we need to in the future. But we do have aging facilities. The boilers are an example. Lighting's bad. Our
kitchens need to be renovated. Our staff rooms are not good. a lot of the bathrooms are aged. So, these are things we're going to tackle bit by bit. We're going to try to throw in some fun things, too. Like I said, we're upgrading auditorium audio system right
now as we speak. Um, and there's other things we'd like to do that are nice so that people can actually also enjoy the facilities for the community. So, those are our plans. They're not set in stone. and we're going to take them step by step and everybody's going to know when we're going to make a decision because
we're going to engage the community. Amanda and Lauren, what do I have to say? You were like the dynamic duo. Lauren, you will be missed. I said this many times already. I sent you a text. I have your cell phone number and you're not getting away from me. So, too bad. So sad. Too bad. Amanda, I need your
cell phone. Um the key the KHS HSA event looks like it's going to be awesome and we could raise great money because we've been our community really does do a good job with that. I know they still have tickets. Please put the word out. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's at the Legacy
Castle. I'm looking forward to it and it does help us do other fun things for the the high school and for the other schools. So, please put that in everybody's bonnet. Come get dressed up. We're wearing winter glam. I think that's the I don't know. I don't even
know what that is. I don't know what that is. Apparently, it's silver and sparkles and snowflake looking. Anyway, push that out. Let that know there are people that there are tickets still available. Okay, I think that's it. Can I have a motion to adjurnn?
>> Motion. Second.