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e e e e e go ahead and get started so excited to see a a packed house for a board meeting awesome okay welcome to the kinan Board
of Education regular meeting for March 25th 202 the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in
accordance with the provision of the act the kenalan board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be published in the Suburban Trends on January 19th 2025 posted in the Kenan Public Library filed with the bur Clerk and posted on the district website
Miss Francisco will you pull the word please Mrs Leonard here Mr Meyers Mrs Pella here Mr pepy Mrs Portman Mr Eisen minger here Mrs Donaldson here please rise for the Pledge of
Allegiance fled States of America the for it stands na okay routine matters we have approval of the minutes for the February 1st 2025 special meeting and the February 25th regular meeting May I have a motion to
approve motion second second okay any discussion on the meetings minutes no I just would like to say thank you Miss Francisco because you really did nice job capturing a lot of the comments we had a lot of C comments on the 25th some positive and negatives but you really
did a nice job capturing them as a matter of record so I appreciate that I will thank Lauren because she helps okay well please let Lauren know appreciate itut okay seeing no other further discussion can you pull the board please sure Mrs Leonard Mr Meyers yes Mrs
parella Mrs Portman yes Mr eisener yes Miss Mrs Donaldson yes student representative Salone hi all I hope you're all doing well I just like to share some accomplishments of the students from the halls of kinan public schools so
starting off with keil Cisco firstly Kil Cisco had a fantastic week celebrating our love of reading during read Across America March 3rd to 7th 2025 thank you to the PRM and K KHS students who came toquel to facilitate special activities with our students to commemorate the
week next we also host hosted the adventures and Aviation program at the kinan public library the evening of Wednesday March 5th thank you to our families for coming out we had more than 75 Kosco students in attendance thank you to Mrs gersen and the public library
for all of their efforts planning for next year's program with the B theme has already commenced our second grade students are very excited to have pen pals in this year's KHS trust Club students thank you Dr Florio for coordinating the special program for our students we are also very excited to
welcome Gloria the Potter to Keel this week to facilitate a special pinch pot making activity in all of our art classes now that spring has officially sprung we are very excited about all the growth and learning that is in store during the next few months at K Cisco we
will issue our April calendar at the end of this week with an exciting sneak peek moving on to Stonybrook on February 28th Stony Brook hosted its fourth grade dance thank you to Kesha for sponsoring this event and to all of our students and families that attended Stony Brook
also celebrated an exciting read Across America week during the week of March 3rd thank you to the retired Educators Club of Cedar Crest the KHS Honor Society students and Maya Freda who who visited our classrooms and readed to our students Stony Brook also welcomed
author Chris grinstein on March 10th he met with our students and shared his experiences as an author thank you to Kesha for this amazing day next social School worker week was celebrated during the week of March 3rd thank you to our school social worker Mrs Sultana for all
that you do for our students also congratulations to our fourth grade boys and our fifth grade boys travel basketball team who won their championship games we are so proud of you also congratulations to our Destination Imagination team they won first place in their category on
Saturday March 22nd in the NJ tournament congratulations go out to Layla xenox Aiden Cavolo ER Ella wck Leo dunzo Anna martiano and meline stos lastly Stony Brook School is excited to welcome Gloria the Potter during the week of
March 31st moving on to PRM the PRM talent show was held on Thursday February 27th our student performance treated the audience to an amazing show and musical performances by our staff members were enjoyed by all we thank our talent show adviser Mrs ker for
everything she did to make this event possible also representatives from the Seeing Eye the organization that raises and trains seeing eye dogs visited with our sixth graders on February 28th our students learned about their important work this also marked the beginning of
the sixth grade pennies for puppies fundraiser moving on the parent meeting in preparation for the 8th grade overnight field trip to Philadelphia and Gettysburg took place on March 6th a recording of the meeting is available on our website next the seventh and eighth
grade teen canteen was held on March 14th our seventh and eighth graders had a great time with a variety of activities including a silent disco games Hungry Hippo inflatable basketball cornhole and more we thank the PRM HSA
for making this happen and lastly PRM presents The Little Mermaid on Friday and Saturday April 4th and 5th tickets are available on our website and can also be purchased at the door and lastly KHS KHS announced the class of 2025
valedictorian Miranda dce Miranda earned the highest cumulative GPA in the class over her four years at KHS Miranda will be attending Princeton University and majoring in Applied Mathematics the class of 2025 salutatorian is Sarah gar over her four
years IKS Sarah earned the second highest cumulative GPA in the class Sarah will be attending New York University Stern School of Business also a huge congratulations to the KJS United hockey team for winning the public Co-op ice hockey championship with a 4-3
victory over Mar Marlboro and home so this was a victory over marolo and hell at the credential Center KJS United which is Kinnelon Jefferson and Sparta was formed in 2020 and this is their first state championship as a triop team and kenan's second overall
state ice hockey championship and lastly this week KHS welcomed former NFL player Ray Lucas who gave his presentation knockout opioid abuse to the KHS student body thank you nicely done soney okay so the reason
why you're all here the superintendent's update thank you Mrs president Salone we have riveting business to discuss at the very end of all this so you're welcome to stay it's just really exciting all right so welcome everybody
this um this is what it's all about so unfortunately um part of what we deal with as a board of education and in my role and sometimes in classrooms it filters down you're not blind to it uh with the news and everything else where
aspects of our world and Society filtering to school and really they have no place there this is what school is about this is why I many many years ago got into this profession and I love this profession to give back and why our Educators here in kelan give back and
here we are to a packed house tonight to honor your children our students so um these are the moments that you want to hang on to for our students our young students I know you're excited to be here every time the first time or if it's more than your first time you're excited it's a new experience and I also
know for the middle schoolers and for our high schoolers and maybe in your mind you saying oh do I really have to do this again but uh but remember years from now you'll remember sitting here with your parents or your grandparents and that you had this moment together so embrace it and enjoy it because the time
just goes by too quickly and I wish I had some of those moments back myself so that's just some advice from somebody who's north of 50 to our young people today um okay so just a few announcements that um hopefully you want to share with your neighbors I know there's a lot of discussion out there
about the give back days these are the two dates that are unofficial right now that are on our calendar and traditionally um if you grew up in the 70s and 80s it was a phone chain and usually it was a snowstorm but what we know now is there's many more reasons why we have to close school so we call
them emergency days right now despite the cold of three months which fell from Thanksgiving till the end of February we only used one we were pretty good A lot of those storms and Ice storms hit causing delay days or um you know early dismissals or they fell on weekends but
we do have two days left so we're going to hold on get through the month of April and then at the April 29th meeting if we haven't used any days those would be the two days we would extend um our Memorial Day break and Sprint into June into all our commencement I double checked with our Athletics and each of
our building principles because as you know that's State Testing there's class trips there's much that's going on aside from the world of Athletics and those would be the two best days to utilize so so um please share that information with your neighbors or you know guide them to the website come tomorrow that's what we're looking at if anybody wants to
pre-plan uh we do have some big events coming April 12th we have our second diversity Derby day and this year it'll be held at Stony Brook School it's a big event um it's been an initiative of my office in the board of education for the last two years and I really I want to thank uh our co-founders and
co-presidents one of them who sits at our table salani Mattel and Al also Katherine Fritz here both students at the high school they came to me two years ago with Mr suda and they had an idea about a club ability awareness um in impacting in a positive way our
special needs population both within our community and out they've done a tremendous job and then Mrs davidman came on board I want to thank her Dr bot our our very own Dr bot as the adviser K Care's this year jumped in kennel Onre Mrs Shuckers I want to thank her and our
Keesha of course K5 tremendous so all of those groups are coming together on April 12th everybody's welcome to attend at at Stony Brook School if you have nothing to do that morning stop on by then on April 29th we do have our public presentation for our budget adoption for
2526 I always encourage our community to get involved at least you know take a look back to the preliminary budget or gain some knowledge as to why sometimes your taxes go up and you get that little tax bracket change in in August as we all do um but that'll take place on
April 29th then on May 1st 6th and 8th we have principal forums but they're more or less introductions at different schools the names change uh at the school but you know the people and the players you have Mr mongan who will do his introduction over ail school you'll have Mrs Ola at the high school on the
6th and you'll have Mr suda in the Middle School on the eth on May 20th In This Very Room we will recognize our teacher and Ed Specialists of the year and our retirees on May 21st I encourage everyone once again to join us for our uh second Tri
Forum presentation that's steered by curriculum instruction and education and our department chairs and District administration it's about all the new programs we will be implementing going forward a lot of that impacts K12 so I don't want you to think that it's just a high school thing or it's a PRM thing
it's a K12 it's Universal it covers the gamut so um if you can't make it on the 21st you could always zoom in and the next day all of our presentations are on the website so you could always find us uh May 29th we have our senior Awards here at Kenan High School the 10th we
will be doing this again at our public meeting with districtwide student recognition and spring Sports also with our 2425 district and Board of Education uh update on our goals then June 10th we have our uh moving up celebration earlier in the day here from Stonybrook
on June 12th we have PRM at 9:00 am that commencement C ceremony and then June 13th Friday the 13th last day of the year 10:00 a.m. hopefully it doesn't rain we don't have storms that we have to play the game and move things back um but that kicks off at 10: a.m. on the high school field so a lot happening it
will happen quickly so for anyone in here who is a parent of a senior or our senior students hold on to the moment because it goes quick and with that now we will start our Awards how it will work is that each of the building principles will come up building by
building they're going to do their own speeches they're going to do their own presentation when they're done there's a backdrop outside the doors here if the parents if parents you want to go with your children you want to take pictures uh we will have staff there you can do so okay and that's how we'll do we'll do
it orderly and uh building by building so at this point I'm done speaking Mrs alaala you were up first with your Kil koala kindness Awards Mrs ala wall [Applause]
good evening everyone thank you so much for having me tonight my name is Jennifer oloy so thank you Mr mango and I am so very excited to present our Keel koala kindness award recipients this evening so what I'm going to ask our students to do so beginning with
kindergarten when I call your name please stand up in the crowd give us a little wave so that's how we're going to operate this evening and then following our recognition I will meet all of our students out in in the hallway outside of the auditorium so that we can take a picture together and really celebrate
you and all of the great things that you bring to Keel school every day so our our Keel koala kindness award is all about our students who really represent our full values they come into school every single day putting their best foot
forward consistently have a positive attitude and really just serve as the model as exemplary students who are really building and forging the foundation of our great schools here in kenalan so we are really excited to recognize our youngest Learners this
evening and we'll start with kindergarten so kindergarteners when I call your name please stand tall and proud and give us a wave as we celebrate you this evening so we're going to begin with Leila blle Lila if you can stand up
congratulations and we'll keep naming our students RJ Ken stand on up for us we see you there congratulations we have Holden dav's here this evening there he is in the
back next we have Kenzie rof Kenzie I saw you there you are congratulations James Liber James congratulations James if we can have Charles Moser
Charles congrat congratulations congratulations to Charles Benjamin walwick Benjamin congratulations Benjamin excellent job Avery cavalo Avery congratulations
there she is I know we've been excited all day and Thomas Holman will round out our kindergarten congratulations congratulations our amazing kindergarten students thank you for being the example and we're going to go on to first grade now if we can
recognize Sophia n stat Sophia there she is anley Jordan anley there she is congratulations San Patel
San there he is congratulations we have Nev Gallen Nev there she is congratulations Nev amazing job Ava Pastor Ava there she
is congratulations Eva and last but not least we have Shay grao Shay congratulations and congratulations to our first grade Keel koala kindness award recipients so thank you and then now
we're moving moving on to our second grade students this evening we're going to start with Michael deck congratulations Michael all right next we have Jason dun Jason there he is Shane Maloney
Shane congratulations abrielle mcder abrielle congrat congratulations we have Ellis Meyers Ellis congratulations and last but not least Maya de maray Maya there she is
congratulations so once again thank you all so much for your support of our Keel koala kindness award recipients you are all amazing we are so proud of all that you do on a daily basis and I will meet you out outside the main entryway door is here so we can take pictures we will
start with kindergarten and I have our little Keel koala goodies for you thank you all so much and I'll pass it to Mrs utel [Applause] sure okay
sure I'm just going to give everyone a minute to go [Laughter] out I love it that's what yeah that's what I figured give them some time once that gets out then I'll yes
I thank you but we got to write on the certificate don't worry are you [Music] I love where I can bring kids up like here to here Mr shman where do you do you want
to stand next to me so that you can speak and then I'll kind of shimmy over and hand out the certificates I I'll take that out okay yep I have it here too I could just leave this to you and then you can hand me the certificates sure I'll leave these here and then you just hand it to me as if you want to do
this yeah easier I'll a perfect okay all right good evening everyone and welcome I first want to say thank you to Mr go into the board this is such an important
moment because we get to recognize students who first of all get to school on a Friday morning at 810 and thank you to parents for getting there so early but it's really just a moment for you to understand how hard they work in this business club and I just want to if you
see next to me there are some very important people that need to be recognized before we really recognize the most important people in the reason why we are here this evening Mr sheckman has been doing the business club for years it is one of the most sought after clubs as students begin to enter fifth
grade they talk about it during fourth grade it usually has a waiting list that is a page long and he gives his heart and soul into this program the students walk away learning about finances credit card debt how not to go into credit card
debt they talk about stocks they buy stocks they sell stocks and to listen to them on Friday mornings talk about money and financial literacy is amazing but then to my right he has made this amazing connection with the people like
KHS that has to be spoken about Mrs Gilligan is the head of the business Club at KHS and also teaches business classes next to her are two amazing co-presidents of the business Club along with one of their members they currently are up to 44 members of The Business
Club and the end of our business Club at Stony Brook ends with our students making a trip here to the high school and I come every year and thank you parents they are dropped off at 7:30 here at the high school because as we know they start much earlier but they
share their knowledge and wealth and more importantly the kids get to sit and interview with every student of the business Club they come dressed up they learn about etiquette when they go on an interview they learn about what to say and what not to say they talk about
things that they're going to encounter in the real world even if they're going for their first job in the summer of their high school years and it is an honor so I just want to take a moment not only to say thank you to Mr sheckman for the job that he has done with our business Club at Stony Brook so please
join me in first giving him a round of [Applause] applause but then I really want to say thank you to Mrs Gilligan and Mr suda Mr aroyo for allowing our students to come here to the high school to really see
what business life is like as they move up so thank you thank you to your students thank you ladies to the thank you to as being a member they did a wonderful job and I just please join me in acknowledging them as [Applause]
well so what we're going to do at this time we're going to do a little bit differently we're going to call each student up we're going to ask you to come up boys and girls I'm going to have you start standing here we're going to hand you a certificate and then families afterwards we'll have the students go up the middle aisle go outside for pictures
we like to try to take a group picture with our high school students as well as Mr sheckman and Mrs Gilligan so if you can bear with us afterwards we like to go take a group picture and then you have the time to take individual photos because it is as Mr mango said a moment to remember so we're going to start and
Mr sheckman has a few words before we begin so for some of the younger students that are still here the business Club covers a lot of topics Mrs utel covered a lot of them some of them include creating a mock business which is perfect because it goes right into the treps club which is a prom Miller
and I know that um Mrs Gilligan and fbaa actually do a lot of work with the treps club as well so the treps club gets to work with the younger ones from Stonybrook Business Club as well as the older ones at Kenan High School Mrs utel spoke about the stock market competition and one of the students I I know
students learn probably the most important thing in their financial literacy which are these things can anybody tell me the most important thing you learn about credit cards anybody remember Evan pay them in full that's right
exactly so without further Ado I'm going to call your students up have them come up get their certificate and uh let's get the ball rolling Mrs Gilling you want to say anything I'm sorry oh well see there's a lot of younger students here I hope to
see you in a few years we have a very rich Business program here at kinan high school we teach um I mean I I teach five different courses accounting honors business law Finance entrepreneurship and marketing but we also have four
Business Clubs and together all those clubs have 130 members so [Applause] you want to all right Emma bordano come on
down tell her I'll sign that later okay y Amanda Brock Valentina [Applause] Siri Laya [Music] [Applause]
Siri Emma coka Zachary koho Matilda [Applause] Deja Aradia duain she's not here I know okay I don't think so I know she is pton
[Applause] Everts Magnum Gunz Wyatt Jefferson Julia [Applause] King Jax King I think they're Sports yeah Evan Lombardo Evan Evan come here
Evan th was th was Luke Emily mcdan [Applause] Sophia [Applause] Maris Eric Maris shanning
Markley Nathan [Applause] Meadows I don't think he's here Roman Pella [Applause] svi Patel Giana
Pepe Annabelle Pia Costa Charlotte Reed Jackson [Applause] Reed Cole ringer [Applause] Stefan
[Applause] schaer Sophia schaer Benjamin schaer Oak Shaw Isani here not here okay Byron
sing Emerson Tate Madison Taylor Matthew ztek and last but not least McKenzie zman these are all the EX oh McKenzie sorry these are the extras I'll get
them again I just want to say thank you to all of you parents for your time dedication support bringing them to school so early to Mr sheckman to Mrs Gilligan to her students and most importantly to our students I am so very proud of you and the work that you have
put into this club and you should be very very proud of yourselves please join me everyone and giving them one last round of [Applause] applause so families I'm going to have your children boys and girls we're going to go up the middle outside to the left
and then parents if you would like to follow we should try and take a group photo and then you can take individual pictures thank you [Applause] everybody e e good evening everyone it is so wonderful
to be able to do this celebration with so many people around um Mrs yoses and I are here to to recognize our pillars of character and I think one of the great things about middle school is over those years between Elementary and high school
our students really go through a journey of finding themselves of moving from that childhood stage to that young adult stage and over the course of that we really get to see so many amazing changes we get to see all the ways in which they stand out and what we're
going to talk about today these pillars of character are the ways that these students truly shine our teachers on the sixth seventh and eighth grade team and our core team uh Mrs yoses and I our counselors all our support staff we always have our eyes out and we get to
see the wonderful ways in which the students interact the wonderful ways in which they set examples and the students that we are talking about today truly shine in the way that they just raise the level of themselves and everybody around them so with that said uh let's
look at our pillar of character students when we call your name please come down um we're going to have you line up over here uh to my right and you're going to uh we're going to have everybody together we'll take a picture at the end as well we'll begin with the pillar of
caring this is awarded to students who are kind and compassionate in their interactions with others the way in which they carry themselves makes PRM A warm and welcoming place to be the following students earn the pillar of caring in the second marking period please join me in congratulating
Catalina Gomez and Reagan [Applause] Caden good evening the pillar of citizenship is awarded to students who
make choices that protect the rights and safety of others demonstrate the qualities of being a good Community member and cooperate well with others simply stated their actions make our school and Community better the following students received the pillar of citizenship in the second marking
period Richard Cho Andrew gallis and Jacob [Applause] kbov the pillar of respect is awarded to students who are considerate of others
feelings are courteous to others are accepting of differences and treat others how they would like to be treated they let those around them know through their words and actions that they are valued the following students receive the pillar of respect in the second marking period Please join me in
congratulating Chase Lawrence and meline Murphy [Applause] the pillar of responsibility is awarded to students who consistently try their best persevere when they face challenges
demonstrate self-discipline and are accountable for their words and actions they set a positive example for everyone with whom they interact the following students received the pillar of responsibility in the second marking period Victor gloak Robert
Hampton and Julia lock the pillar of trustworthiness is awarded to students who are honest loyal and follow through on what they say they will do these students can be relied upon in any situation and their integrity shines through in their actions and interactions each day the
following student receed the pillar of trustworthiness in the second marking period Please join me in congratulating Ian [Applause]
espeo congratulations to all our pillars of character [Applause] okay thank you to our pillars of character um right outside the door
parents if you would like to there is the backr the kelon backdrop if you would like to take pictures and students you can go up through the main aisle that way congratulations again I will do yeah I got you all right and in the next phase of
tonight's recognitions we are going to move on and uh talk about some truly outstanding musicians so so to commence that portion of the evening please join me in welcoming Mr scanland thank you as Mr mongan said um there's some seriously high level
accomplishments that we are extremely proud of uh these kids for for doing this but there's uh a couple other things I'll mention but the first thing I'd like to do is uh mention the kids who were uh selected and successfully auditioned for North Jersey area band um so I'm going to do them in a different
order than than what's up here um simply because there's a few things uh that I'm going to want to say about them so but either way I'd like to recognize our two clarinet players who were Michaela gatala and Amelia jeek both eighth grade clarinet players if you're here please come on
[Applause] down and then another one I'd like to mention is Miss Isabella Holman and if you know her is Izzy Holman but one cool thing about Izzy was Izzy started playing bass clarinet with us a little
into the seventh grade year and learned so fast worked so hard and was able to um achieve this high level so I know is he couldn't be with us tonight but I did not want to skip over that incredible accomplishment of this incredibly hardworking young lady then I would like
to recognize our two uh our two trombone players um these two guys have been at each other's throats in a very nice way for two straight years now 've been at every competition where we can go and the two of them work together and it's amazing how close they come but Mr John
fusa um on trombone and it's really important to to recognize um Richard Cho who was a first chair that means he was the highest scoring one come on down Richard I know John couldn't make it tonight and then it's also important before I go to the last kid as I should
have said this before Richard came up but before this going back to about 20 I was around 2019 maybe 2020 around the pandemic or a little bit before that but we went through about a 10year run maybe eight to 10 years where we had one or two kids who were what we call first chair in other words the highest scoring
kids in the group on their instrument it's important to know that Richard was one of those first chairs but John fusa was one point behind him but before we call up our last guy Colin toia also played first so we had two first chairs and it's been an incredible accomplishment we have not had that in a
long time come on up Colin I know you're here it was it was great to have such a large number of kids this is a group that's made up of 30 schools we all recommend kids then they select to make a balanced band and then those kids audition for their spots but as our program is
growing it's nice to see our numbers in the group are going back up with six kids in the past our biggest year was 12 we had a much larger band but hopefully we're on the way back up and we'll see if we can have that but thank you guys so much and especially Richard and Colin for bringing that first chair honor back to Pearl Miller where it belongs we're
very happy with you guys we have to do this all over again it's a whole new thing we have to start again so the next group um New Jersey region one Junior highb band this is um the most competitive group that a middle school instrumentalist can audition for
this is the entire northern part of the state um it is extremely competitive in most instrument groups there's as many you know from 30 to as many as 80 or 90 kids trying out for a very small group of spots um but you can see there's a
couple Pats up here but I definitely want to mention something about these three guys very very important thing we were at their concert it was actually you guys kept me busy this year I was at a lot of concerts on many Sundays all over the state um but one cool thing is at this year's region concert they
recognized a young gentleman because for this group you're eligible for seventh eth and Ninth Grade so you have three years you can be in there and this one young man was there for his third year so they called him up and recognized him at the beginning of the concert and I thought that was pretty cool then I
started thinking what happens next year all right so for I'm going to call these guys up but this is uh on trombone Richard Cho and John fusa and I know John couldn't make it again come back up Colin let's get our exercise in colobia on percussion now there's two levels of
bands within it it's pretty cool to mention that Colin plays third in the highest ranked band so that was a pretty serious accomplishment so next year I think it's going to be really cool because I think after two years they're probably going to make it their third year but I think
it's going to be pretty cool to recognize three kids from the same school being in this group three years in a row really looking forward to seeing you guys repeat this one more time so thank you guys very much and I am now I'm done so I think next on the agenda is Mr
Lenell and if guys if you want to grab some pictures with this weather beaten old man we'll go out and meet you in the lobby thank you good evening everyone um thank you so much again for uh for the opportunity to uh show the you know shine a light on the uh on the accomplishments of our
students um especially in the coral Arts we've had over the years we've had a lot of students that have that have performed in uh area choir and uh in region choir All State Choir um the uh National Honor choirs in in all these choirs and it's really great that uh we
as a community also really start to uh to honor these students so thank you for that opportunity um we're starting right at the at the top uh this evening um this is our first year delving in I'm not sure it's our first year ever but um at the at the middle school level we
have not uh in the past um uh participated in the All State uh at at that level and uh this year um in uh in my going down there I sought out that opportunity and it's our first you're able to do that and not only did our honory uh make All State Choir but she
came in fifth in the state which is really a uh a tremendous honor so um when I call your name please come on down Savannah mango congratul so this is also our uh uh we have a honory for uh region choir region choir
uh involves all of uh North Jersey uh and as these choirs become more select become a little bit smaller in the state there are fewer students that are uh that are selected and so even though it is a more uh Regional uh uh choir it is
uh still very uh difficult for the students to make it and uh we had a student that was uh selected you might know the student that Savannah [Applause]
mango in uh Morris area choir this year um that came uh was in uh January we had we were very lucky in having four students that were able to uh participate in that choir put on a wonderful concert uh and uh please come on down when you called Audrey Hinson
Shrea John Walla Savannah mango and Jacqueline Waller please come on [Applause] down thank you ladies we're very proud of your accomplishments and we hope uh you'll be many more of these choirs
going ahead thank you [Applause] oh good all right so perfect they put me back toback so I wouldn't have to worry about pictures so at the end we'll take pictures of uh all our choir students so
again we're starting right at the top uh New Jersey All State Choir The All State Choir is obviously uh uh a very select Ensemble they get to perform uh not only uh in down Atlantic City but at the New Jersey Performing Art Center uh which you have if you if it's really neat to
to not only get to be there but to perform on that stage and see uh the beauty and and and the spectacle of of being in that uh so we had a uh student that was uh involved in that this year Anthony
[Applause] Mana uh region one choir the region one choir again is is all of North Jersey and again uh even though it is a smaller area being uh all of of uh the uh
Northern New Jersey it is uh more select Ensemble because it's a it's a smaller choir we were very lucky to have four students that were involved in that this year at the high school level Dylan castalano Smith Raina fitman Anthony
mana and Michaela toia congrats [Applause] and Morris area choir again uh as these ensembles uh because it's not sort of like sports in uh in the way that uh it's sort of always the same same number
these ensembles become more select as they as they become in a smaller area so even though it is a uh uh more centralized location for it they do become it becomes more difficult to get in so congratulations to our Stu our two students that were uh selected to Morris
area choir Sophia ankner and Anthony Mana [Applause] all right so thank you to uh to all of our students that uh were able to be here tonight we're going to take a picture out in the hallway so uh all of our choir students go ahead out we'll
take a picture thank you so [Applause] much thank you Mr Lenell Gary suda principal of the high school I would like to call up Mr Ryan stoud for our
Performing Arts in our Band program is anybody else interested in hearing the uh inner workings and minations of how band and choir auditions work in the state of New Jersey because I can really walk you through it um I'm just kidding so we
start out in the area we move up to the region and then we finish up in all state and we're going to go backwards here so we have New Jersey All State Ben and Orchestra uh two really fantastic percussionists who both made the top group in um I think a lot of that's due
to maybe their percussion teacher who uh resides in the Middle School in Mr scalin but um want to congratulate Luca and alop furino and Michael Piccolo [Applause]
yeah stay here you so this is the this is the back the backbone here this is the vertebrae of our Band program um so North Jersey region one band we had Luca and the north Jersey region one Orchestra we had Michael so now we spiry out a little bit um and
we go to North Jersey area band really uh like Northern New Jersey is super competitive in in instrumental music um and we had five kids who made ARA band and it's the first time I want to say since before the pandemic that we've had as many as five kids involved in AR band
so super proud of these kids for their accomplishments this year um and really really looking forward to you know a bright future we had a really a really fantastic year in our Band program so uh please join us up here Aaron Charles uh
hope serenes and Emily son all right and like everybody else we're going to parade down the center IR Hill uh did anybody bring their instruments okay thank you very much for your support thank you Mr
stad I'd like to call up Mrs sapio it is our pleasure this evening to recognize one of our very special students Miss uh Salone Mattel go Salone can you come up I just want you to stand there for a
minute so sonone uh came into our high school a couple years ago and right off the bat you can tell that Salone exhibits uh all the attributes of a natural leader immediately she was communicating with our Student Government advisers with the
administration and such a kind respectful and mature way we're going to talk this evening about how she was selected to the New Jersey Association of student councils as a state officer and this is really a just a remarkable accomplishment that
our school has participated in over the years but it's very very difficult to receive this nomination and go as a delegate but before that Salone last year Mr mango mentioned she was one of two critical leaders in our diversity
derby um just amazing work bringing together the community for uh special needs also she was a part of our Deca club which about a few weeks ago I received an email they were going down to Atlantic City and son took it upon
herself to reach out to me and mention how the cost per student was about $500 and we were looking at offsetting some prices some some costs for parents so we worked diligently and found some funds and we were able to work with Sony so here she is as a student going
through her daily routines and actually working with the administration and to help her peers and also with the community so they went down there and they did an amazing job so salony Mattel I'm GNA have Mrs sapio speak a little bit more Mrs sapio has been a part of this program for over 10 years and she
really has the insight into the New Jersey Association of student councils thank you Mr Suda um we have been with the New Jersey Association of student councils since 2012 and we uh took upon ourselves to uh run for State
uh what's nice is that New Jersey does not recognize Central Jersey they uh only consider the North and the South and we get to run every other year so this past fall we uh were able to run our wonderful Salon matal um as a uh
executive member and um we have been doing this since 2015 we had other alumni we had Ryan Kabir um Alex Boron Mia calano uh Sophia Hardy Jordan doy and now we are on our sixth member and
we're so proud of Salon um and she won executive member of State charity and this past March she uh attended a meeting and she is going to be selecting uh one of three charities to represent the state um and she'll be running a
meeting in April uh in 28 um on April 28th uh what's wonderful about Salon as well is that she started as an administrative assistant for the njc uh so she was super involved she attended the leadership training conference if anyone is interested in that it's an
amazing uh opportunity in the summer um but she was involved and now look at her she is now on the State Board there are only nine members on the board uh in the state of New Jersey and we should be very proud of her and we're so happy that she is representing kenalan High
School um as our sixth member of the um njasc so congratulations sonone and we look forward to what you're going to be doing in this upcoming term thank [Applause] you and thank you to the board for
supporting us good evening everyone congratulations to uh all of the accolades that are given out tonight um we have some a lot to celebrate in our winter sports a very exciting season a lot of conference State and State sectional championships
um so I'm going to bring the coaches up because they are the best to speak about their teams so we're going to start with pearl Miller Athletics and Mr contella to speak about wrestling with his coaching [Applause] staff yep we have all the wrestlers this
that all right great uh first I like to thank um the board Mr mango and board for putting the night together you know he said earlier about remembering these nights it does go quick um so make sure you enjoy these these moments that you have with your parents with your family uh I also like
to uh thank uh Mr mongan Miss ysus for all their support throughout the year just what we're here dealing with my nonsense calling her all the time bothering a little bit here and there um I also like to thank the parents for all their support throughout the year and
also coach Anthony for all his support at the high school because without that again wrestling is a family type Sport and with everybody getting involved it just makes us more successful that way uh talking about the season we were very young this year uh we are six and six
but we had a lot of sixth graders step up because we had a lot of eighth graders uh leave the program last year uh the one thing I could say is they gave everything they had every time they stepped on the mat uh people don't realize the schedule that we hold is pretty competitive we go against a lot
of bigger schools Mount Olive East Handover moristown so these are some bigger schools so when we step on the mat um you know it's a challenge all the time and our kids always step up to the challenge the two handsome gentlemen
next to me uh Mr Jones and Mr Ortega they deal with my nonsense as well in the room uh they helped out this year assistant coaching and I'll tell you I couldn't do a lot without these guys because again wrestling is a unique sport uh takes a special person to do
that um some of the accomplishments of individual impressive records we had uh gunar lutkins uh Jake pepy and uh Damon marowski have 11 and three records um we had Hudson Bop which is right in the middle he had an eight and five record
Lennox Manton as well eight and five record uh with the counties uh we took six out of it was 16 teams which is pretty good for not having a full lineup um Damon took second uh in the counties
Damon marowski and we had gunar lutkins and Aiden Fernandez take third uh we also had Ana marowski who unfortunately was hurt during the season she took first in the states so that was pretty good in the state tournament so pretty good accomplishments there besides
Hudson we have Carman pasta and ephra jillo here as a part of representing the team I know a lot of people had some things happening but I just look at this as you know another step building blocks for the bigger pitcher and that's to make Kon wrestling known in the state so
with that I'd like to thank everybody appreciate your time thank you Mr contella we're g to bring up boys basketball coach gof and his team every year I write something down and I'm just going to wing it so first thank yous to the board Mr
mango Mr mongan Miss yides coach Cella and Coach Fink for working together with me to to figure out our schedules of course Miss witler for for supporting everything that we do um coach kinger at the high school we've
worked together for the last eight years and hopefully we're sending up some quality players to you and even better young men um and of course the parents so our record was three and seven um but you know if you know me it's more than a
record um I think the Middle School philosophy is more of growth and getting better and having the fundamentals set so when they do get to the high school um they hit the ground running um um and obviously to me you know these these kids all had hearts of Champions they
showed grit determination um and just great team spirit you know some years you have to remind the kids that they're on the same team but this team never had to worry about that they were even just sitting back there they're all you know they're just good guys
um so real quick uh we have Mason Huber here's the short one in the middle there uh Evan plao David ivic Max Taylor Sam Batista Sam was our third highest scorer this year on a team
uh River Ashton and Evan plao eighth graders eighth graders just raise your hand for a minute I want to just recognize you guys for putting all the effort and being leaders on a team and then David you have some big shoes to fill literally next year all right thank you
[Applause] everybody thank you coach Goff we're going to bring up uh girls basketball coach Steph Fin and any of our team that is [Applause]
here one spot hi everybody thank you for having us tonight and recognizing our middle school program uh we have our eighth grade mave here with us um who since she's the only one that came tonight I'm going to talk a little bit about her so as sixth and seventh
graders it's extremely difficult to come out and try out for the middle school team there's a lot of nerves that go into it there's um height differences and different challenges along the way and it's extremely difficult as an eighth grader to come out and try out
for the team but our little ma here she showed up on the first day she was ready to go those shoes were tied and she put her best foot forward and she really showed our team our teammates her parents everybody um what it takes to be a part of the middle school team so I
want to say congratulations to May for Having the courage to come out for our [Applause] team our team struggled a little bit this year so we're going to get back on the Bard next year and uh they did work hard and we'll talk a little bit more
about them next year and now I would like to can I just go right into it bring on Coach moo and talk about our Middle School volleyball team which Audrey come on up anyone else from middle school okay come on stand over here so
there is actually two of us I know it's confusing Stephanies and we match often we actually just came back from practice so that's that it's not why we match I wish it was but uh it happens often um um we were lucky enough to coach the
high school team all the way down to the middle school program uh this year we're able to have three levels we had over 30 girls try out and we decided that since there was two of us and we can kind of split our time a little bit we were going to keep three levels so we had an intermurals A B team and an a team The A
Team majority played uh the best of three sets and then we were able to get a couple sets in there with the B team and the intermural was just there for practice but I would say overall I think coach moo and I can both agree that it was one of our most successful teams that we've had maybe not necessarily in
record um but we also have a lot of rules they we don't allow them to underhand serve which a lot of the other teams do we make them pass set hit we run it like it's a varsity team and sometimes that sacrifices for the wins and losses and the last thing I'm just gonna say I have a really funny story
about Audrey I don't know if you know me don't know me but I am not a hugger I maybe give you a high five at every once in a while but that's the most physical contact you're going to get from me so this year when uh Audrey as a sixth grader found out that she made the B team she came running over and gave me a
big hug and uh I gave it right back to her because she should be proud of herself she was the only sixth grader that made the B Team um it was welld deserved and she did an awesome job so congratulations to Audrey right back
there a look at [Applause] that thank you coach Fin and Coach moo awesome job down there at the middle school thank you to all our middle school athletes and coaches um we're going to start with our high school sports we're going to bring up our girls
basketball coach coach trari and any basketball players that he has with him all right hi everybody um we had an extremely young team this year in our girls basketball program uh 80% of our players being underclassman uh but that
didn't stop us from competing hard throughout the season as we continue to improve playing our best basketball down the the stretch um final stretch of our schedule some of our highlights from the season we um we won our first two games over botin and whiy park where we scored
a combined 100 points total in those games um after a tough stretch over our winter break we bounced back to win seven out of our next 10 games with two come from behind wins in the fourth quarter over walkill Valley and Kent Place um another two game stretch where
we had wins over New Brunswick and Loi where we combined to make 18 three-pointers score a total of 117 points in those two games uh we emerged as one of the top three-point shooting teams in the area this year finishing with a total of 121 three-pointers uh
made as a team which was good for second in our conference and seventh in Mars County which is widely regarded as one of the best uh counties in the state for girls basketball and uh we had a great performance in our final game of the season where we took the number four seed Waldwick into overtime in the state
tournament coming up just three points short of pulling off a big upset uh we ended the season with a record of 13 and 13 with eight of our losses coming by single single digits so I'm extremely proud of the way our team competed this year how much imp how much they improved and uh the positive way that they
represented our school and our community and the future for this program is extremely bright um I'd like to recognize our players who um received postseason honors we had four players uh one of whom is here tonight our amazing senior Angie Winters
[Applause] um Angie was our second leading rebounder this season and finished top five on our team in points Steals and assists Angie finished the season with 148 points 149 rebounds 29 assists eight
blocks and 48 steals her performance this season earned her hon honorable mention all Mars County Angie Winters um even though our other players aren't here I'd still like to speak about them they had terrific seasons for us so we have freshman guard Gia sella Gia LED our team in Block shots
and was second in three-point shooting with 38 three-pointers made on the season she also finished third on our team in points rebounds Steals and assists Gia finished the season with 171 points 148 rebounds 31 assists 20 blocks and 68 steals her performance this year
earned her honorable mention all conference um next we have another freshman guard Olivia keki uh Olivia not only LED our team in steals this season but she was also the leader in steals in our entire conference she also LED our team in
assists and finished second in scoring she finished the year with 212 points 106 rebounds 71 assists and 105 steals uh her performance this year ear second Team all conference [Applause]
and um our final player is freshman guard Kylie Wellen um Kylie not only LED our team in scoring this season but she was also the leading scorer in the entire conference finishing third on our team in rebounds and second in steals she ended the
season with 354 points 43 rebounds 28 assists seven blocks and 84 Steals and her performance this year earned her first team all conference and that's it for girls basketball thank you thank you coach I'd like to bring up our boys basketball program coach
kessinger his staff and players that are here tonight good evening everybody uh I have five seniors with it uh with us tonight plus my assistant coach Dell uh it's hard to imagine these guys
are seniors goes by so fast Jace Marone Nick petracelli Dominic petracelli Zack gr and Ryan gang um we had a good season we had eight wins we beat some local teams um
um we beat uh pany and botin um Pompton Lakes Butler um and we played a lot of close games uh we have nothing to be ashamed of and um I think I think these guys did
an incredible job setting an example for a very young team we had 25 players start the season and we had 25 players finish the season and that's really important uh that everybody stayed with
the program um for the whole season um and these these guys did a great job um setting setting the example for the younger players um the younger players they we don't have a freshman team we just play JV and varsity so it can be
quite intimidating at the beginning of the season but these guys did a great job um Zach got honorable mention in the uh conference and Jace and Ryan got second Team all conference so we're going to miss these guys but uh they did
a great job carrying the tradition on so thank you very much for all coming tonight and of course I thank um our principal suor assistant principal oroo who I coached with for many
years uh our athletic director Miss Witwer and of course the Board of Ed and Mr mango thank you very much now retiring that's okay uh just before boys basketball leaves I just want to thank Mr kessinger
for the time he's put into our program he is retiring this year from coaching so we want to congratulate him wish you all the best on your retirement and and enjoy Mr ker thanks a lot thank you so much all right I'd like to call up coach
CH wig and coach Hall for winter track and any staff members and players they have here today um thank you everybody for being here tonight again like to thank everybody that makes Athletics possible here um we have a couple of our Representatives here for track um a lot of people
couldn't make it tonight but we want to highlight our winter track season if anybody knows track winter track's a bit different we don't have a conference you go to invitationals you go to Championship meets um so we don't have like there's no All Conference because there is no conference but we have
counties and at our County uh relay Championship meet we took home first place in the 4X two with Joseph Mendy Jay Kang Harrison cornette and Muhammad um and at the county Championship individual meet okay Joseph Mendy took
second in the 55 and the 300 Sora Hinton took second in the 55 as a freshman so she's got a great future ahead of her um just missed all County because again you have to win the county meet to get all County so it's one person in each event
or hit a standard like a super standard or an a standard which get adjusted each year um based on the me data that the county puts in so uh Joe Mendy did receive all County because he hit uh super the a standard Sora did hit the B standard um and was
up for nomination um but there was only one spot left and it ended up going to a senior at at Morris Hill so sometimes the the big schools sometimes beat us out for that but again she's she's right there um in our state series um at the sectional meet the boys took second
overall and the girls took seventh overall and then the following athletes qualified for the Dave group meet uh Joe many took first in the 55 and second in the 400 Sora took second in the 55 um and just missed um sorry never
mind I'm jumping ahead Jay took third in the 55 Henry man took third in the 1600 and fourth in the 32 came in clutch for us to even put us in a position to be competing for the title at the in the in the 4x4 at the end of the meet Vanessa
Korn took uh fourth place in pille Haley Nolan took Fifth and high jumped Kieran fitgerald took six in the 1600 alesio s took six in the 1600 and six in the 32 and our boys for by4 team took fourth overall um so all those people all those
athletes I should say went on to the state group meet and at the state group meet um the top three are automatic qualifiers for the metet of Champions and then you have to receive a wild card which is you know you have to they give a certain amount out over the whole
state uh Sora took fourth and just missed in the 55 at meita Champs and I have no doubt she'll be there next year but she also qualified for the Nationals in the 60 meters um which she ran uh Nike and Boston Nationals this year um
so again as a freshman quite impressive um also she broke our school record in the 55 the 200 and the 60 meters so again took three records down as a freshman um and then Joe Mendy qualified
for for meet a Champs in a triple jump so you have to be the top 24 in the state and uh he he jumped 459 and a half at a open Invitational so that qualified him I think he went in sixth or sixth or seventh in the state um didn't have his
best day at meita Champs but again he qualified for Nationals in triple jump and the 60 which he competed at Nationals in both of those as well and we had a couple other school records uh broken um Jay broke it in the the long jump Muhammad uh broke it in the 55 High
hurdles and our 4X two team took down the 4X two record for our school as well so we had I think a pretty overall successful winter season uh our numbers are smaller in the winter but even with that I feel like we still compete amongst the best and then you know we carry that over into the spring and
we're looking super strong coming for the spring on the boys and girls side and we're really excited uh want to acknowledge that we have our uh one senior here um SI and she's been part of our program in the winter and the spring so she's still with us so I don't like to say bye to my seniors till it's
absolutely necessary but um she's one of our hardest working kids on our team and definitely why she always we look to her to be a leader and I would say all the all our athletes Sora Henry and Haley again they are big big players as far as
what they do for our team not just on the track with their performance but also with their leadership skills and and how they kind of even though they're younger they still step into leadership roles for us so again thank you very much for giving us the time to come talk about our season and uh congratulations
to everybody this year on a great winter season no you're good you got to recognize thank you coach um congratulations to all the athletes that accomplished so much in winter track I'd like to bring up boys and girls fencing coach Mark Tech his staff and any uh
members that we have of the team there we go hi everyone unfortunately coach Mark couldn't be here today so you have me Skyler assistant coach um so last year we lost five
seniors but this year we were fortunate enough to have a lot of freshman come out and have a lot of sophomores return and they performed exceedingly well for being new or new were to the sport so we had Matthew wble who's
graduating this year make First Team all conference for men's foil Juan Jero make First Team all conference for men's saber um also every single day he showed up to practice saying I'm going to make it to counties I'm going to do really
well in counties and this year he came in third place in counties we have Dylan castalano Smith who made second Team all conference for men's foil Sam baldino makes second Team all conference for men's saber Daniel kosi for Honor B mention
all conference for men's epe um funny enough for him he started off as a saber but we only had two men's epe so he stepped up and he performed exceedingly well there were a lot of
times where he surprised himself but he was getting close to winning against some super tough competitors especially those in Morris noes Randol chadam so just really surprising himself more than you know us we knew what we
expected of him and he performed to what we expected and then we have honorable mention all Conference women's epe is Emma cits and honorable mention all conference for women Sabers arushi Kumar um so here with us we have Juan
Dylan and we have Emily who's a freshman this year and came out for our girls foil and she also did fantastic this year and we are really excited to see how they turn out next year thank you coach okay we're gonna
bring up coach Borman and any members of the girls and boys swim team all right looks like we just have the boys team here think Atlanta left all right well first I'd like to thank obviously the board uh principal
Mr suda or R ad Mr wiber uh my assistant Co Mrs C Mrs Cromwell she couldn't make it today and then obviously our parents um training and competing off site off campus you know sometimes not a lot of people know the success that we
have as a swim team very proud um of both of my teams I'm lucky enough to coach both the boys and girls team um first with our girls unfortunately not a lot could make it tonight we had some girls have received the awards but they're training for uh their Club national team down in North Carolina so
they could not make it tonight um our girls have had a lot of success this year they finished 5- two they finished second in the N Jack uh independent division they finished fourth at the moris counties we are lucky enough to have a county relay champ this year for the 200 medley relay so congratulations
to them um we made it all the way again to the state sectional finals unfortunately we lost to our Rivals Mountain Lakes it seems like us and lakes always make that make that me I think it's eight years in a row that we've been swimming each other we want want it to pass the previous two years
um we made moc's which is the made of Champions and typically you get about 20 to 30 kids in the whole state that qualify for that event we were lucky enough to have four girls participate um our 200 medley relay got second in the state which is pretty amazing the only
team that beat us was a private school pingry so technically we're the first the fastest Public School in the St New Jersey we had a record breaker uh Anna konin who's going to be swimming at the University of Villanova next year she broke her 100 fly record and she also
got third place in the state in that event um as far as awards for the girls team there are many um I'm just going to go through them really really quick for our NJ we had honorable mention melen Luchi girls second team uh kathern Fritz
in the 53 and then we have a whole bunch of first teams we are lucky enough to have two relays get first team in the NJ conference our girls 200 medley relay two free relay for individuals we have Anna kilon with the one fly first team Kylie pinck first team uh 100 free Ellie
deuker first team 500 free and then uh atanta iPic in the 100 back first team so pretty amazing season and just to reiterate how good the girls have been I again again I wish they were here tonight but um in their our senior group
in their four years of being here at Kon they have a combined record of 41 and N they made two state championship appearances they've won their conference championships two times and they are two times sectional chance so let's give a round of applause to our senior girls
for our boys here we have matus here we have Oliver and ever finals ever was a team captain this year and then we have AJ Connelly and then we have sha mcweeney so for our boys team our boys team had a great year um
we didn't know what the expectations were going to be with the boys team but they really just had a great great season they went undefeated in their conference play and they are the 202 2 and Jack Colonial conference Champion so congratulations boys the boys also made it to the
sectional finals where it was a close meet came down our last race we unfortunately lost the par Hills but you guys should be really really proud of yourselves we had four again four members make moc's um standout performance was by Johnny panick who's not here tonight he got 11th in the 100
free and he got 10th in the 503e and in the 503 he broke actually his uncle's record who I actually taught in sixth grade which is kind of crazy he's a 13-year-old record and if you know Luke Papik he actually swam at the Olympic trials so if you ever break that record that's a pretty good one um I had to
made sure I had him text his his uncle about that um really good again we have a lot of awards with the boys for honorable mention Noah montavo got honorable mention for the boys we have Shaw mcweeny who is here tonight second
team 500 free congrat congratulations Sean pretty impressive as a freshman uh Kyle bar got second team in the one fly and then again we have numerous first teams we were lucky enough to get two relays First Team all conference was the boys two Med and then the boys two free
relay um David Zoltek got first team and the one free we have an AJ Connelly who's here tonight first team one fly congratulations and then Johnny panick who was the fastest swimmer in the in the conference in the 50 free so again I appreciate you guys coming out
celebrating our swimmers uh you guys had a great year [Applause] congratulations thank you coach and congratulations to all of our swimmers on all their accolades next I'd like to bring up coach kabella and the wrestling
team and his coaching staff all right um again thank you to the board Mr mango uh Administration Miss witler for uh all the continued support uh with me today just going from I guess that side of the Horseshoe here uh Ryan
aswi Ethan BTO Anthony Mana Dominic and Steven malano Nate perella Xavier Garcia Karan Hinton and Paulina Shard dakova scor Zava I think I said it right um wrestling we took a lot of positive
jumps in the right direction we improved our record from last year which was F uh five and 15 to 12 and N which gave us the NJ Independence Conference Championship which is the first Conference Championship since 1991 um that was a goal they had set out
pretty much since uh since I've been here to try to win a conference title and we we got it done this year um we also qualified for the state section tournament for the first time since my first year coaching years ago um so a lot of people were excited about that and I'm extremely proud of them um just
some individual accolades um we had a couple of tournaments so in the lenpy valley Holiday Tournament Dominic Mal fatano took third place in the lenpy valley Holiday Tournament I'm sorry the first one was the Laker Holiday Tournament the leny valley tournament um we had Luke Batel take first place Wyatt
Cisco take first place Roman Raco Jack Dodie and Steven Mal fatano all took second place demitriou Karan Hinton Xavier Garcia all took third place and Lucas D Lorenzo took fourth place um in that tournament as a team we took second
place just getting edged out by H park by a couple of points which is a big deal because they are uh a very cultured program so that's the level we want to try to get to uh in the Mars County tournament Wyatt Cisco took second place and Roman
Raco took sixth place uh moving to the postseason District Tournament Dominic Steven Mal fatano and Wyatt Cisco all took second place in the districts to move on to the regions Jack Dodie took third place to move on to the region tournament uh in the region tournament
um Wyatt Cisco took third place to qualify for Atlantic City and Paulina won her region tournament um qualifying for Atlantic City for the first time and going down to Atlantic City uh although hurting her ankle a little bit still taking sixth in the state um we returned
pretty much the entire team except a couple full of people so we're excited to kind of build and pick up where we left off this year um thank you thank you coach and congratulations to our wrestling program next I'd like to bring up coach souls and any of the
bowling team and staff that he has here today I'm 58 years old and they still call me Jimmy call me Peter Pan okay all right so um I'll introduce our Bowlers first um we have just wave your
hands guys uh Christian we have Nate eisener also known as Nasty Nate uh John spra Michael spra JoJo Preston and Zach uh coming off last year where we were state champions uh we really didn't know what to expect but I knew we had a lot
of talent coming back but um we had another great year um this team really had a season for the ages when you hear of all their accomplishments it really is amazing and it's a testament to the hard work they put in along with their parents um and um support from Miss
witor Mr mango Board of Education um we couldn't do it without all of you um they were undefeated Conference champions this is the first team that has won a conference Championship since 2016 when it began um Montville won
every single one and we were two and0 against Montville this year um and like I said these guys very good [Applause] undefeated uh they ended up with a 21-2 record okay which is a School record for
wins and they are back-to-back North one group one Champions so I'd like to talk about some of the team achievements um they set a team record for High series um and that was against Dell Barton it's always good to beat Dell Barton okay um in the N
Jack championships they were first place with a high Team Series um in the Falcon frenzy tournament they were the champions in the Morse County uh championships they had the first place High Team Series in the role for veterans classic they had the first place High Team Series they were the New Jersey Super Bowl champions they were
the north one group one Champions they were the N Jack East champions um during the season season we reached the rank of three in the entire State that's all groups um uh in nj.com uh we ended up number six and uh like I said those our
team [Applause] achievements for the individual achievements um every single Varsity starter made either all County or All Conference which is amazing in itself um mors County championships um uh we had
two individuals that tied for High series High series um Nate eamer and Michael spra [Applause] okay in the All N Jack East first teamers we had Nate Eisen manger and John spra second team C Cooper Kaplan
Zack Kesler and Michael spra and honorable mention Preston Jones for all Morris County and um uh the winners of these awards were attending a a lunch in tomorrow at the Randolph Diner good food try it out um we had first team Nate eisener and John
spra second Team Cooper capin Michael spra third team Zack Kesler and honorable mention Preston [Applause] Jones during the season we had two nj.com and Jack Bowlers of the week uh
Nate eisener and Cooper Kaplan and we had two uh Bowlers that were in the top 100 averages in the state um and um that really is amazing because there's over 2,000 Bowlers in the state of New Jersey two of our guys they made the top 100 that was John
sprig and Nate eisener and last week the All State um winners came out for all group one uh First Team all state was John [Applause] spra and second team all state was Nate
eisener um for those of you that are still here um bowling is cool come out and try it all right guys thank you so much for your time thank you coach and our bowling team next I'd like to bring up our uh state championship hockey team coach
myON his staff and his team come back here guys so everybody can see show your face all right well first off just like uh all the other groups I want to thank the Board of Education and everyone here for having us and being able to showcase
the fine work that these young men did this year um with us tonight I have my assistant coach Patrick Mark tuno all right we have Joe Marino Andrew curado Matt stack uh Costco and Kaden Lombardo
okay um hockey is a little different than some of the other sports we don't have n Jacks and things like that it's broken down we play in What's called the men inis division from Morris County Morris County has three divisions it's tiered they have the H sheret the Halverson and the Menan so just to give
you a little um you know history we formed this co-op in 2020 and the co-op division in the state is the largest uh bracket that there is they have private Co-op and then just simple public and the co-op division is the the biggest
one so um to give you a little history on we've been building the program um so before this year last year we graduated nine players uh we had won previously won the Halverson division the last two years we won the Halverson cup um we were actually undefeated the previous
two years in conference play um but after graduating nine and moving up to the the metan division which is the most prestigious um the toughest division um you know we were a little unsure we were very young going into the season but we started out 80 and one um and we started
to realize we we might have something special here so um we had a rough January and then February we started to put it back together again and you know we were seated eighth for the state tournament we had just previously um
lost in the men and cup semi-finals we finished third in in our division in Morris County and uh you know that really got us battle tested for States so we went into States and we were seated eth we weren't the eigh seed but uh you know seed at eth you got a tough
road you got to play 89 then we had to play the number one seed then we had to play the number four seed so we took care of business you know and uh had a great week of hockey you know winning each of those games handedly we went into the the credential Center where these boys got to be Pros for the day
you know they brought three communities together uh kelan Jefferson and Sparta we had a police escort we had youth clubs we had everybody you know cheering on these guys um they went down to credential Center and like the rest of the season we handled adversity very
well we went down going into the third period down a goal and these guys put it together and uh we came out Victorious winning the uh the state championship down to credential Center so that's a memory that you know not only these boys but a lot of people in this town will
never forget you know these guys 20 30 years from now every time they walk into the credential Center they're going to feel like you know I was a pro for a day I came through that tunnel I played on that ice so what an experience for them to have I couldn't be more proud you know for the way these guys worked just like swimming and uh you know we're off
campus every day so it's hours and hours and hours and you see a quarter of the team here um the other guys this week is Club tryouts so everybody's at Club tryouts one of our our top players is uh G to be competing in Nationals so he's up in Connecticut right now playing so
we are missing some but everybody's that's because they're working hard with their sport you know they put in a lot of time so I'll give you um some team and individual Awards we got a lot of them and they're broken down a little different so I'll kind of try and
explain um so first team men in division Awards so we have a couple there we have Jake pry a defenseman Braden Cisco a forward they were both first team then we have third Team all men in uh Brian cyy our goalie and we have an honorable
mention cormack giv he's our captain at forward we also got the men in division MVP which was Braden Cisco um in the State final game they give an award called the Johnny and Matty GD award um and that's for the MVP of the State
final game Braden Cisco was awarded that and if you happen to be watching news12 this weekend this guy was all over it um the New Jersey Sport Zone hockey player of the year all right for the entire state public private everything uh the entire year was Braden
Cisco then we have all state Awards overall All State Awards 1 te was Braden Cisco then it's broken down we have First Team all public Co-op Bren Cisco Jake pry then we had the star ledgers Morris County secondary school's Ice
Hockey League Awards and that was uh Braden Cisco as well as far as team Awards um we had overall ranking of 16 so we were top 20 Star Ledger um you know that's that's overall public private and uh Co-op so
with a ranking of 16 we also won the New Jersey state inter Scholastic Athletics Association second Champions the public Co-op for the North and then the big one the New Jersey state inter Scholastic Athletic Association overall state
champions for public Co-op so these guys had a heck of a year it was a lot of fun um thanks for your support everyone and I couldn't be more proud of you guys what a year you're never going to forget it all right congratulations on a great year couldn't be done without their hard
work my my staff's hard work they're at tryouts as well so the other two guys Mrs whiter Mr mango the whole Board of Education thank you for letting us showcase showcase this tonight and uh so proud congratulations
[Applause] boys congratulations coach and our ice hockey team well done do we need them to stay the administrators can go if you
guys want do you guys want to stay there's it's empty okay where's John Jonathan is anger oh is he taking pictures mrm anger all right we'll we'll go ahead and start with finance and facility okay so
committee reports the Committees did not meet this last week but we'll just uh ask any of the chairs if they have anything they want to say Finance yeah just very briefly um we did meet with the Town Council to go over a few items um it was really productive very collaborative meeting uh we'll have more to discuss in executive session so but
very good yeah that was a really collaborative meeting with the town I agree um Personnel hey John do you have anything from personal committee you want to pass no okay uh educations Kelly you have anything we
didn't meet this month um but I'm I'm sure April's gonna be a big month anything from policy anything say no okay all right um delegates New Jersey school boards Association do you have anything to pass no Morris County
anything from Morris County oh sorry wrong person nope okay legislative nope Morris County Education Services anything Kelly yes they did have their first meeting of the year and they approved the
budget all right uh community relations Kaa K Kaa Le Lea on are we we okay um Mr Pep's not here and KF okay petitions and hearings of citizens from
agend for agenda items does anybody have anything they want to say Mr petrielli okay all right so we have agenda items a through D like a motion for uh block vote a roll call block vote on agenda items a through D can I have a
motion second Carl motion and Dana second okay discussion anybody have any discussion on any of these items just wanted to confirm that that the three summer courses were we've
we've found Personnel for each of them right that's great so was this just amendments right the was just updates on the volunteers for personel and for
the attachments so for this one personal negotiations the co- the curricular list yeah they were just the updates the start amendments okay and could I ask to move
the the third Hib on first reading to Executive just to to chat okay so you want a motion to postpone the vote on the third one just the third one okay so can I have a motion the one that
says ongoing that's the yeah it does say ongoing so okay okay so we'll what we'll do is we'll make a motion to postpone the vote the first reading vote on the third Hib can
I have a motion for that I'll make that motion okay you'll make the mo I second it all in favor I okay all right so now uh approving agenda items a through D with the exception of the third
Hib any other further discussion okay seeing none could you pull the board please Mrs Leonard Mr Myers yes Mrs Pella yes Mrs Portman yes Mr eisener yes Mrs Donaldson yes uh Committee of the
whole we don't have any unfinished business is there anything unfinished no new business anybody have any new business correspondents do we have any correspondence anything digital nope okay all right petitions and hearings of
citizens for non-agenda items okay none board member comments does anybody want to talk no okay all right motion to go into executive
session okay um all right