All right. Good evening. The uh New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of the act, the Kinlan board of ed has caused notice of this meeting to be published
in the suburban trends on January 19th and posted in the public library, filed with the burough clerk, posted on the district website. And I see that you all found that we're not in the auditorium. So, I'm glad you made it. Um, roll call. Yep. Mrs. Leonard
Mr. Myers here. Miss Fela here. Mrs. Portman here. Mr. Eisener here. Um, we will have a close session at the end of the meeting. Action will not be taken. Um, and with that, let's get to the pledge of
allegiance. Thank you. Back there. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. All right. Approval of minutes from the meetings of June 10th, June 24th, uh, regular and executive. I have a motion. Thank you, Miss Leonard. Do you go through each one or just
any any discussion first? Any ways to make it better? Okay. No, it's okay. Thank you, Miss Leonard. Mr. Myers. Miss Pella. Yes. Miss Portman. Yes. Mr. Eisenhire. Yes.
Luca has a summer off. Yeah. Okay. So, we'll see next month. Okay. Great. That means we're up to you and the superintendent's update that quick. That's it. All right. Well, thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to start by
welcoming Mrs. And with that, we have presentations tonight, just some updates from my office that are kind of like a preamble to the welcome back letter which will go out to the community by the third week of August, next month. Um, and then we
have Mr. Shivus with his SSDS annual report and Mrs. Thomas with her NJPGA report. Okay, so just a few updates. We do have a lot happening. Um, I can't believe that it's already July 22nd. It feels like the last five weeks have gone by in
a blink. And so some of our Summit academic programs and updates, uh, we've hosted the second summer learning academy at Stony Brook School thanks to Mrs. Thomas. Um, that was another success. We completed our first Steam program at Stony Brook School. I don't know why Stony Brook, Mrs. Utell, has
been the the choice this year, but it it's been the choice. Um, our ESY program is still underway. Mrs. Toddros who's here. Uh thank you. Doing a great job. This is the final week of it. Today we had our car wash and uh it'll conclude on Friday. The summer math
academy, thank you to Mrs. Trombetta and her team at PRM and KHS. We did an intro to algebra. It concluded earlier this month and geometry concluded today. Pre-calc honors is still in session. And um what you'll find under the C section, and a big thank you to Mrs. Alawalle is
a motion to approve our first ever study abroad trip to China, which is August 4th through 9th. So, I know that Mrs. Alawalle uh Mr. Aoyo, who's also accompanying her, and a bunch of our students, we'd like to have them back for our August 26th public meeting and
uh to have a few words and talk about the trip, maybe share some photos, whatever you want to do. Um it was it was uh a lot of work that happened rather quickly, so thanks to the board for supporting it and thanks to Mrs. allow for jumping on something so fast in this um immediate transition to the
high school. So projects, we can't get away from our facilities and upgrades. Uh currently, if you've been outside on KDan Road, you'll see that the track is has been underway, the resurfacing, and actually now it's that loop of green and black. It meets it's I think it's a very nice
upgrade. Um and paving at the back parking lot of KHS will happen in August. Our back paving lot right here by the media center uh needs some repairs in at PRM. The concrete steps between PRM and um Keel School are currently being uh redone and
resurfaced. We have boiler repair PRM as well. at KHS. Uh we we made a um concerted effort to purchase window units, I believe 24,000 BTUs and put them all throughout the first and third floors of classrooms that did not have
HVAC or any other classroom that didn't have HVAC uh functioning well enough. And we also added that to the wait room. We're almost done with that project. The KHS auditorium upgrade, the resolution's on the agenda tonight with Pure Tech for acoustic and audio uh upgrades. That's
the phase one uh motion for uh what we're looking to achieve in the auditorium as far as um increasing it and better improving it. Our interior security gates, you can't get away from security are on site. They'll be assembled and our security surveillance
should be begin in August at Keel Stony Brook and PRM and all those back fields. Um along with that, we're working with our architect on phase one of the culinary arts renovation at KHS. And we also um have begun the dust collection system which has been upgraded at KHS
for the wood shop because we were not up to code and needed a a lift. So we have that along with Mr. uh Janiselli and the tech department's phase three of improving our uh interior and our infrastructure technology. So
I know a lot of folks some I may call family at time to time think anything go on in the summer. It's a lot. It's definitely a lot. Every summer looks different, it feels different, the finances are different, but it's a lot and everybody's involved in that, uh, including the board with
what seems to be non-stop information sent their way. So, I apologize if anybody was on vacation when I send those those notes and updates. Some fall dates to remember, it's right here. So, we have our back to school nights. September 15th, Stonybrook. Uh,
September 17th is Keel. The 18th is PRM. Man, that's going to be a loaded week. And then the 25th is Kennelan High School and that's also the week for our uh public meeting which is the 23rd. So that's a very busy month September. And then additional obviously the high
school is the flagship. So some events we have Thursday October 9th is the eighth grade uh and new student openhouse. We don't have it on here but uh Columbus Day is on Monday October 13th and that's our first professional development day half day minimum day for students. We
have Friday, October 4 uh 24th is the homecoming game. The 25th homecoming dance and the 13th to 15th is the fall drama performances which we're very hopeful that in the timeline with our acoustic and audio upgrades that the auditorium will be ready to go for that
performance. And then our holiday winter concert schedule again Monday, December 8th is the choir here at the high school. Stonybrook follows the next night. Then you have Wednesday the December 10th in the day the kindergarten show. Thursday the 11th
is the first grade show in the day band back here at the high school at night. Um Friday December 12th is the second grade music show all in the day over at Keel School. And then Monday the 15th is the prek show in the morning with PRM choir. Uh follow at night here at KHS.
And then Wednesday the 17th is the PRM 67th eighth grade band. And then it we finalize on Thursday the 18th with Mrs. Utel's team and Stony Brook. all here at the high school. So again, December very, very busy month, November a very short month. Um,
and so with that, at this time, that's my report. Does anybody have any questions on any of that information? No. Okay. So, at this time, I'm going to call up Mr. Shivus, our supervisor of special projects, um, which are many, and, uh, he will present the SSDs, uh,
up update. Mr. Shivus. Thank you, Mr. Mango, and thank you everybody for coming out tonight. I hope you're having a good day. Um, I'm Vinnie Shivvis. I am the supervisor of special projects, and twice a year, we're required to report publicly on the
school safety of the district. This report, it uh collects data on two different types of information, violence, vandalism, and substance. and also uh threats and the second one is HIV, harassment, intimidation and bullying both founded
and unfounded and any trainings that school put on for their student uh staff andor students. So the purpose of this report is to make sure that everything is accurate and to make sure that everybody all stakeholders community members staff
board members have the information. The report's presented twice a year, basically from September through December at the start of the school year and then what we're doing today from January 1st through the end of the school year or June 30th. And uh like I said, today is going to be reported for
January 1st to June 30th of 2025. Now, please bear with me. I know it's hard to see. This slide is more for the presentation when you look it up online later on. This is the data from 2023 2024. votes a year ago. So it gives us something to compare to what happened
this year. All right, just so you know, just looking at the bottom line, we had 39 total incidents in that year um for the 23 24 in the district. Most were in the high school and middle school, which is normal for the older kids to have uh
the bulk of incidents in most schools. Um, so moving forward to the 2425, this is where we're at. And I'm glad to say we had significant drop off in incidents that have to be reported. We're down to 23 total for the year. Um,
that's again the entire district with the bulk still being at the high school and the middle school. So here is something a little easier for everyone to look at and read. and it compares 2023 which are the white columns the 2023 2024 school year to the green
column which is 2425 school year. So obviously we want the green columns to be less than the white columns to show that we're making an improvement and you can see in total incidents the high school dropped by three ke is their normal usual minimum one incident. Um
PRM dropped significantly from 18 down to six. Uh, Stony Brook had one. I'm sorry. Stony Brook dropped from one to zero, which I don't know how you improve on one, but you did. Congratulations, Miss Utel. And as a district, we dropped from 39 total incidents to 23. As I said
earlier, that's about a 40% drop from one year to the next. That that's phenomenal. If you just look across the uh bottom line, the next big one that really comes up is substance. And again, that's usually the older kids. The high school went from 12 substance situations
down to five, which is phenomenal increase again. And moving along to the right, u two more columns to the right, you got HIVs confirmed. We dropped significantly from 24 to 14. Those were the confirmed ones, not total. Um, and
the big savings there, the big increase there, improvement there I should say, is PRM. PRM did a phenomenal job going from 18 incidents the previous year down to six. um this year. So kudos to Mr. Mongan and Miss Ysef and uh hopefully
Mr. Sudo can keep that trend going down in uh next year. And then the alleged HIVs in the far right hand column, you can see we did go up, but those were alleged those were not found. So there really wasn't much there. It might been might have been a code of conduct
violation, but it did not classify as an HIV. Um the one thing I do want to talk more about is Mr. Mongan and Miss Yosephites made it a point to cut back on HIVs this year. So they uh they had a plan in place in which Miss Mlan went into each classroom, spoke to the kids
about HIV, what constitutes an HIV, what doesn't constitute HIV consequences and so forth. And then later on a few weeks later, a month later, Mr. Mongan and Miss Yosphites went into each classroom and reiterated what she taught them and uh
went over expectations with the kids. And I think that helps significantly. So, we're looking to continue that and hopefully the trend continues uh going down in the near future or next year I should say. That's pretty much it for the SSDs.
Anybody have any questions? All right. Thank you. And uh Miss Thomas, you're up next, I believe. Good evening. I'm Lauren Thomas, director of curriculum. So, I'm here to report the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment results. We have
to report that to the public every summer. So, quickly, I'll just give you a little recap of the NJGPA um as I do every summer. All 11th grade students have to take the NJGPA. It is um they're tested in ELA and math. So, it's aligned to the grade 10 ELA
standards. And the math is algebra 1 and geometry. So pathway one is the NJGPA because if students do not make the cut score for the um ELA proficiency or math on the NJGPA, there's other pathway options. So
pathway one is the NJGPA. They must achieve a 725 or greater on each section. Um and again, as I mentioned, there are other pathways if they do not pass that. Pathway two, we make this available to
students who have completed the NJGPA. So, they must sit for the assessment first and if they're unsuccessful, then we can seek out other pathway options. We can't automatically use other options. Um, they do have to sit for that first. So, any of the second
pathway options could be the PSAT, the SAT, the ACT, or the ACUPPLACER. and pathway three, if they're unsuccessful on any of those other competency tests, then we can use a pathway three, which is a portfolio
appeal. Um, and what that includes are just a compilation of the student work, student transcripts, an intervention plan for the student. Um, and then we create the constructive response tasks within the building. we grade them in
the building and we just submit those scores to the state. So it's really run by us in the district. Um so those are for students who really need that more support and really are struggling with taking those formalized assessments. So this is another great option in order to
assure that they've they are proficient in ELA and math before they graduate. And these are our results. So KHS compared to the state. Um this is pretty similar from last year and even the previous year. Our ELA remains strong.
We are at 96.7% proficient which is fantastic. We have a very small percentage of students who did not reach proficiency. So we are exploring those other pathway options for our students. And in math uh we have
an 86.7% graduation ready and 13% not yet proficient. again nice small groups. Um we did incorporate the ACUPPLACER last year that was new to us in district and the ACUPPLACER is one of those secondary
pathways that we can use. What's great about that assessment is is it's um not as intense as the NJGPA. So for students who do require that support, it's a little bit easier for them, but it still assures that proficiency in those two
subject areas. Um, so what we do is we pull those students, we put them on a specialized plan, we work with them, we prep them, and then we sit and test them in a nice small group. Here's our subgroups. Uh, just female,
male, and IEP students. Any other subgroups? We really don't have enough of a percentage here in district. So these are the subgroups. And again, this is very similar to what we've seen in the past. So, next steps, as I mentioned, we are
going to prepare our small group of students who weren't proficient in either ELA or math, and we're going to prep them for the ACUPPLACER. So, we plan on giving the ACUPPLACER sometime in the fall, probably late fall. Um, that way it gives them enough time to
prep, plan, and prepare. Um, and then for students who don't who do not meet that cutoff score in ACUPPLACER, we'll move to the portfolio assessment. Um, we did not have to do the portfolio assessment last year, I don't believe, right? Um, we had all of our students pass through the ACUPPLACER. So, um, as
I mentioned, it's a pretty, you know, fairly easy test to give, fairly easy test to prep for. So, I'm pretty confident that we can do the same this year. Um, and we'll work closely with the supervisors and with Mrs. Alawalle to make sure that we pull those students and and prep them with enough time and
enough information. Um, and that's really that was it. Um, so those are our scores. We're, you know, maintaining again like we have in the past several years, pretty good averages for the proficiency. Um, and all of this went home to the parents. So parents, you
should have received a notification. It was sent through real time. This was done a couple weeks ago, so you are able to view your students scores through real time on the parent portal. If you have any questions, please contact me at the board office or you can email me and I'm happy to walk you through that.
That's all. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you for the updates and the reports. And um as we're resetting, we move into committee reports.
So uh fair warning for committee chairs ready. All right, Mr. Myers. How was finance? Uh yeah. So we did meet uh on the 16th. Um we met uh probably for about an hour and a half. We covered a whole lot of different topics. So I'm just going to
run them down, some of which are on the agenda for approval today. U we did talk about the KHS uh track um estimated August 3rd to be finalized. Uh so great progress there. Um we did talk about um
new cafeteria point of sale. So um this is some the financial ways to pay for the things in the cafeteria will be connected to the parent portal coming up in the near future. um new facility schedulers, so how people can book uh rooms and existing uh infrastructure
here um externally and internally. Um some tech updates talking about uh network additions, Chromebooks, etc. Um some security updates uh some of which include security gates, some surveillance uh installations. Um also
reviewed some bus attendance. Um reviewed the attendance summary which is really fascinating I think. Um so we can get into that at some point. Um we discussed uh mascot uniforms uh which is a fun fun conversation. Um equipment
replacement such as HVAC uh boiler repair etc. Um surplus cap reserve um some of the other things in that uh area are the KHS uh paving stats which is on the agenda for approval. Also, as we said, the auditorium audio audio um
facilities also going to be on for approval. Um we also talked about uh playground and lunch aids uh cafeteria and and Matiano's um updates, the visitor bleachers um with desire to kind of update those as well. Um we talked
about different types of morning arrivals um potentially for early morning arrivals at KHS and also reviewed some of the board goals. So, it was a very dense uh you know rapid fire meeting with a lot of topics. That's it. Great. Thank you. Um personnel did have a
multi-hour meeting. Um want to thank the committee and uh and also the representatives from KAA who joined us for multi-hour discussion and um it's ongoing um so nothing to report there. Um on the agenda you'll see a lot of
housekeeping items. Um but I think the most substantive is the salary guide for um the lunch aids or the playgrounds, right? Um yeah, Kelly. Uh education.
Sure. So we met on um last Thursday, July 17th. I know we've all been talking about we do get so much done in the summer. Again, almost three hours in our meeting. Um lots on really exciting stuff. A lot of things on the agenda tonight. Um so we talked about a lot of
coaching positions that are open. Um you know what's happening, why there's movement there. We also talked about um the KHS uh calendar changes, some schedule changes. Um and we also talked about reentering um midterms and finals.
And we're really happy about that because we think it's going to provide our students with the best optimum academic opportunities. It's going to align with postgraduate work, which you know, if you're in college, that's exactly what you're doing. So, it'll get our students ready for it. Um, and on
the days that they have the midterm and the finals, it will be half days. Um, and it will be however the teacher decides to assess uh the end of the year. It could be a presentation, it could be a paper, it could be a test. It doesn't necessarily have to be a down
test for the midterm and final. Um so that's exciting. We have um we have um lockers are going to be reintroduced at both PRM and KHS. Um so I'm sure the students will be happy
about that. Um it will be definitely a change for them, but I'm really excited because I think it will be helpful for everybody. Um we talked about the cell phone policy. I know policy did this, but we also talked about it um within education. We also talked about now that
we have new principal and new leadership at the high school uh some changes that are going to be rolled out for like you know next year. We talked about uh an inspirational keynote speaker that's uh coming in to speak with the students and get everybody excited for that first week of school. It's on the agenda
tonight. Um, we talked about a club fair kicking the year off so that the students can really decide and assess where they want to put their attention and focus throughout the year. We talked about the possibility of a mascot um, and getting, you know, how would we fill that role, what would we do? Um, and
talking about really like the costume, where we would get it, how we would design it. um and just talking about the Colt Cafe, which is going to be just a really nice addition for our students this year to have a place um when they're not in class to kind of relax and get a coffee and confectionary. We
also talked about um the Beijing and Tang Shan trip to China. Um we're so excited for our students to be able to get that opportunity. Um, so we do have 14 students that will be heading over and we just talked a little bit more about the details of the trip and all of the educational opportunities for it.
Um, we talked about the Colt Connect which has been absolutely fantastic this year. Um, it's really uh provided a lot of important information very in a userfriendly way so that everybody can kind of go on and connect with what's new in our district. Um, we also talked
about the project lead the way, which was a really exciting grant that we got for our robotics teacher. Um, that's going to open up some really great opportunities for our students at the high school this year. We also talked about um building a stronger relationship with Caldwell University.
So, we're going to have a lot of dual enrollment classes and what we're going to do for that is we're going to allow our students to be able to pay and then get college credit for that. um which is really really an amazing opportunity for our students again um and Caldwell University is a wonderful university.
We're really excited about partnering with them. Um also we have our let it grow initiative which is one of our board goals for last year. Um, and we are continuing to move forward with that. And we have some really exciting opportunities for our younger kids um, to just really become more independent,
grow in their autonomy, be able to play um, and just build their sense of self uh, without parents kind of scaffolding or teachers always scaffolding that. So, we're really excited to implement these interventions that are really going to
support our board goal. Um, and then we talked about uh just the possibility of expanding the cafeteria, just the possibility um and meeting with some architects to see if we could do that. Um, and just really providing a little bit more space during the lunch hours
for our students. So, it's a busy meeting. Thank you. The policy um we met last week and um we talked about the unteer coaches policy. It's up
for first reading tonight. Just looking here. Policy 9181. Um we didn't make a lot of big changes. Some of the things that we looked to change was to designate the director of of athletics to be the point person to
be um organizing or making decisions um within this policy for volunteer coaches and adviserss. Another thing we um looked to add to the policy was that all
um rules and requirements would be followed um as designated by the NJSIA. Um Miss Witworth had said that, you know, she's making sure that's happening anyway, but it would be good, you know,
she advised that it would be good for us to add that to our policy, which we agreed. And then we were just looking to um have some type of statement that would um kind of have volunteer coaches
match the amount of students we have participating and also kind of like the spec specificity of the sport. So, some teams, some sports require a lot more technical um input, which would be
valued by volunteers. Some sports um don't need that quite as much. Um so, we felt that the director of athletics and the head coach could be the ones to determine that. That's pretty much it for that policy. And then um Miss Thomas
just um updated us on the virtual remote plan. Uh we have one every year. It's just you need to have it updated to show who, what people, what dates, what things like that. Everything else is pretty much the same in it. And then we
briefly talked about um draft version of board and district goals and with the idea that we would kind of mull that over and continue to discuss that with a goal to have more firm goals in place by August.
Great. You know, one thing I wanted to um mention for policy 9181. If you click on the hyperlink, I just noticed this prior to the meeting. It's like a little part of the paragraph got cut off as we're
going from page two to three. So, it should still be okay, I think, to approve it as first reading and then we'll just make sure that we have it written correctly. It's not that we're is it removing anything. It's just a t like a
typo. Oh yeah. Illness or a combination of the two. sickness and family consecutive days. So tonight
will be final. We do have our 25th. If there's any kind of combination of the three that's really governs Our job is to consistently just
so that's up for first reading. Thank you. um delegates, New Jersey school boards, back to um there it's been quiet so the past month
we did put a nominee in for unsung hero so it's a little teaser um but I haven't heard anything yet. Okay. Uh, Morris County. Okay. Um, legislative. Um, there is a new county
committee with the legislative folks. Um, and all I know is that it's happened. So, um, I think this fall there's going to be a little more countywide action in terms of talking. So, there are things that we are facing is probably going to be facing other
districts, too. So, we may be working together to um, make that make our voices heard. So that'll be pretty cool. Uh county ESC, they don't have a meeting till the fall. Cool.
Uh community relations. We haven't had CAC. That's right. Uh K cares Frank is indisposed. and KF that's not you.
Anybody want it? Making sure. Yeah. Yeah. All right. True. I understand. Petitions and hearings of citizens on agenda items or attendance, you know, anybody
anything online? Okay. So, we'll take uh agenda items uh as a block vote. Um so, there's a lot of business. Thank you everybody for um highlighting your sections and any you know critical or substantive issues. Um
any anything that needs further discussion or clarification? Take a a minute. Just I was going to ask about the U policy number two, the If I I think there was some additional
discussion. Okay. Um if we could table that sure until next month then I don't know. Okay. School's not in session anyway. So any anybody opposed to that table till next month. Okay. Cool.
Anything else? Sure. So page four and five miss for condensing the motion
on all of our contracts under facilities. I like this idea going forward just tells the tale right there. So as opposed to separate motions it's one motion block and it goes right down spoke to
me. Thank you. I also appreciated having that little cap reserve notation for the things that are falling under cap reserve. So, thank you. I'll remind you
somewhere like the first week of August, not the week of next week, but the following take a look at the draft goals because there's a lot going forward at
that further changes. What does that mean for Stony Brook? there. What do we want to do with their schedule as opposing depending on who you talk to in our community, some people are happy they're looking at it. Some folks might not be
so happy, but we're not Burger King. And so, you know, there are statute, there are rules, there are buses are not being utilized. I think that's a very big taxdes. in facility upgrades that we desperately
need. So I think there's a lot you know just take a few minutes look at it send it to me and committee meetings are that following week
on the 25th public meetings the 26th our students start the 27th and 28th but they have Yes. Absolutely. So, we have two other things that are coming. Um, one will be in the
will that we've done as far as facility security infrastructure before. I'll be helping her, but her fall that'll be in the fall maybe like the November meeting because typically our November meets
and that would be a good way it's a good segue into June when we would want to consistent so and again for our community just tells these are the things we're able and here are some things in some areas that we need to continue to improve and
assess and then also with Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Trump but we'll do a presentation at one of our public goals because really a lot of our district goals come from so I think it's important
as process. Did you have something else? Okay. No, no, no. Vice President Vice President for the day. Yeah. Thank you. Good.
Good. Okay. Um then uh we need a motion to um take the vote on all the agenda items as revised. Yep. And tableabling the uh the one in policy. Motion. Thank you.
Um any discussion? Policy D2. Okay. All right. Mrs. Leonard. Yes. Mr. Myers. Yes. Mrs. Carella. Yes. Mrs. Portman. Yes. M. Mr. Eisener. Yes.
All right. Um, anything for unfinished business? The track is unfinished, but it will it's looking good. Yeah. Um, any new business?
uh correspondence, petitions and hearings from citizens on non-aggenda items. No. Okay. Uh and board member comments. Who'd like to go?
Sure. I hope everyone's having a wonderful summer. Don't forget to go to the carnival. It's the first week of August. Thanks. Good night. You're good. Anybody else? Um, it just needs to be said and we all feel it.
Uh, Dave shared the information with us about the passing of Mrs. Merluchcci. So, we're all praying for the Papendick and Meruchi family. Yes. Um I agree with that and u goes without saying our you know our hearts
are broken and um everybody's thinking and thinking of them and uh and the young people who you know were doing their job you know on duty that day and um anything we can do as a community to support them I think we should
Yeah. All right, with that, um, we do need to move into an executive session. So, we'll need a a motion to, uh, go into exec, as we said at the top. Um, we're not intending to
take any action tonight. Um, so, nobody needs to stay. We need a motion though to move. So, motion. Thank you. All in favor?