like to call this meeting to order please rise for the pledge allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice
for all adequate notice of this meeting was advertised in the Asbury Park Press and the beacon on January 9th 2025 and by posting the notice in the forkid river and loka harbor post offices and by filing a copy of the notice with the
Lacy Township Clerk as represented uh as requested by the open public meeting act roll call please Mr armato Mr or Mrs Mr here Mr Peters present Mr Bell here Mrs
armado here Mrs Walker here Mr conned here and Mrs Claus here all right we're going to go into private session be it resolved that an executive session be convened for the purpose purp of discussing confidential student matters including but not limited to harassment intimidation and bullying confidential
legal matters including but not limited to the current case load and confidential Personnel matters the subject matter of these discussions will be disclosed to the public when the reason for confidentiality subsides the length of the executive session is estimated to be approximately 60 minutes after which the board shall reconvene and proceed with business at 7: p.m.
action may be taken motion motion Peters second all in favor I okay thank you ready okay okay I'd like to resume the meeting and we're going to start out with the student Representatives uh Kayla and
Eric strin yeses first um I would like to start us off with some news from the student government Association this month um sgaa last met on February 4th this month the freshmen have been busy um planning their talent
show which is taking place tonight in the auditorium super good and the sophomores have been coordinating their Valentine's Day candy Graham fundraiser the juniors are rolling out their signups for their March 6th volleyball T tournament fundraiser and the seniors
are are beginning to plan their senior prom and a dime to donate fundraiser and last of all the next sgaa meeting will be taking place on March Mar 3rd uh thank you Kayla we also have two unsung heroes this month other we'd like to announce the first being the February
unsung hero Erica dolfinger is Erica [Applause] here uh this month's unsung hero for February is Erica do finger Erica is is always in a positive attitude in and out of school her laughter is contagious and she is always there to help a friend in
need along with being an academically successful student of the STEM Academy she is also a part of numerous clubs including the in being the interact vice president and a member of the Surf fiter Club as well as being a member of the yearbook Club student government and being on the stem committee her hard
work and dedication to everything she does along with her sweet personality has surely made her deserving of February's unsung hero congratulations we would also like to announce our January onsong hero Ezra tandola is Ezra [Applause]
here for the month of January the student government Association of lacy Township High School would like to recognize Ezra tandola as unsung hero Ezra is an exeptional student and a Valu student of our school he's a proud member of the leadership academy and as such he taking numerous honors classes
and has very excellent grades Ezra is also a part of freshman football and track teams outside of school Ezra participates in flag football and pickle ball Ezra is extremely talented and always works his hardest at everything he does for these reasons Ezra tandola has been selected as January's unsung
hero congratulations thank you okay now we're going to do the uh report of the superintendent M I'll start with Mr uh principal King we'll come down to do the uh seniors of the month two or three this month two two
this month mon yes sir all right good evening everyone I am proud to announce our February seniors of the month two seniors that are welld deserved of this award our first senior of the month is Haley Miller Haley come [Applause]
on I'm Haley Miller and I'm proud to be named February senior of the month for Lacy Township High School I'd like to congratulate Haley Miller for winning February's senior of the month at Lacy tchip high school I am a proud station manager of wltstv head lighting designer
and technician for the lths theater company a member of the National Honor Society and the president of the fishing club I was lucky enough to have Haley in my freshman English class and within a few weeks she was asking to go help in the TV studio I knew that this kind of initiative so early on in her High
School career would lead to great things and successes throughout her next four years outside of school I enjoy reading baking and fishing I also enjoy working at my job at Six Flags Grand Adventure as a street technician when you see
Haley in the Halls inside or outside of school doing some kind of community service she's always working hard to make sure that the final product always comes out perfect she spends most of her time helping others and assisting wherever she can After High School I
plan on attending OCC and furthering my career with Six Flags grade adventure and hopefully gaining a job at the Hard Rock in Atlantic City additionally I would like to get my bachelor Fine Arts degree in design and Tech with a minor in broadcasting which will hopefully get
me one step closer to NBC Studios hay I want to wish you the best of luck for the rest of the year and all of your future endeavors whether they're here or abroad and make sure you send us lots of [Applause] postcards like a
too oh yeah [Music] and Haley's joined here with her entire family rows and rows of people so a round of applause for them as well nice to see them here all right our next senior of the month is Shane O'Neal Shane come on down
his family's up there as well Round of Applause for [Applause] them hi there my name is Shane O'Neal and I'm proud to be February senior of the month at least touch of high SCH School Shane O'Neal congratulations for
winning senior of the month for February 2025 so I have been a part of the football team since my freshman year so all four years of high school I was part of the volleyball team my sophomore year and I just recently joined the lacrosse team my junior and this year senior year
I am a part of Surf Rider sgaa and interact Shane you are super deserving of this honor you have become one of the most well-rounded students in the entire Leadership Academy program as well as one of the most well-rounded students I have had over the last four years you
play sports you're a scholar you work with the Elks for their leadership conference activities and antlers and you've also taken it Beyond to focus on your personal leadership attending uh seminars and off-campus events during
the summer so some of the things like out of school I like to read like to play across my friend Derek outside school does the practice and get ready for the season um I also am a volunteer at wtown EMS and I'm a volunteer at L fire Shane as if all those great things weren't enough
you also happen to be the only person at Lacy who's a member of the Lacy boys volleyball program but isn't still a member of the Lacy boys volleyball program it's okay you're going back to the lacrosse program that's your number one sport we love you we miss you but
just realize there's always a home for you in our gym so some of my favorite memories in high school have been just making friends and the connections I've made with teachers and everything I've been able to do and all the coaches I've taught me everything I know now Shane even though I see you daily in my room
for our shared lunch I just want to say congratulations one more time welld deserved you're an amazing young man and we cannot wait to see your progress after you graduate well I don't know what college I'm going to yet but I plan to go to a 4-year University I plan to study cyber security or computer science
I want to do cyber security FBI after college to help director [Applause] country [Laughter] up don't worry only have 50 people watching you
[Applause] all right Mr that concludes my presentation all right we're going to bring Mr homberg up next right did you not expect us it's just a little weird say Mr Mr homberg is our band director at the middle school and
he has a presentation two students two yeah okay we have should I have him come up here Pres all right Victoria and Cole all right good evening uh my name is Matthew Holberg and I'm the proud director of bands and teacher of Music
at Lacy Township Middle School it is my honor to acknowledge the accomplishments of eighth grade band members Victoria branck and Cole leedum both students auditioned for and successfully obtained placements in the South Jersey region honors band Victoria earned 12th place
out of 45 flute players uh who auditioned and Cole earned seventh place out of the 20 percussionists that auditioned the students who audition for this Ensemble came from middle schools from Tom's River as far south as Kate May both Victoria and Cole take all honors classes participate in athletics
and they both enjoyed their first year this year as members of the high school marching band as their director I've had the privilege of watching them grow as musicians and human beings since I first met them at milpond as fifth graders knowing that they both learn their first notes over Google meet in 2020 they have
come a long way and I know they will represent Lacy Township very well in Egg Harbor at the concert in March so congratulations and uh Cole and Victoria you guys cool all right congratulations very good
[Applause] okay all right talk a couple things um you know as always thank you to our student body president Kayla and uh and Eric class president um and Mr King for your presentation and Mr Homer for kind
of a surprise presentation that's really great when they uh when they achieve that um the uh 42nd 42nd annual science fair uh happened last week the um results are posted online but the grand champion was Best in Show was Natalie
McGovern the impact of microbio activity on pollution and climate change I just I can read you all these titles I don't know what half of them me's not here but I I just I always Marvel at this I Marvel at at what they are
interested in what they want to research um so really great stuff this is posted up on the High School site I believe somewhere the winners Miss Malloy our science supervisor puts all that up we have all sorts of different uh categories and the kids really are interested in that next we have just a
couple slides from synergistic that Tom's going to put up for me so we contract with a company and the company provides us with um call it advice about how to save energy we also pay for
What's called an energy manager um this is very brief I'll give you just a couple slides what I can report is that we're good at saving energy um synergistic is the name of the company uh we employ a manager who um watches our usage from electric gas and water
water and sore okay all those things cost money all those things come out of our operating budget and the more that we can save the better we'll do okay uh senat listic providers a very brief report um they we've been with them a year I believe we're one year now so Tom
if you flip a slide here um the uh our cost for the last 12 months on energy is $835,000 this is what they call our base Year from um uh the base year we were at 951
853 so one year of using them we've saved money we pay him some money but not that kind of money so uh we certainly have saved money there Tom next slide okay um the utility rate Trend
that you have here electricity was up but natural gas and water are down so the energy conservation program assisted to minimize the impact that the cost increases has on the budget okay we had a hot summer you can imagine what electricity was like last summer uh but still it was not the same increase that we would have seen if we
did not have our energy manager next slide and then they talk about our our cost savings to date um how many times he's audited our buildings so the energy manager he does full audits of the buildings on a constant basis over the
last year he's done 287 of them and we've saved 1,667 metric tons of CO2 and he gives a visual Tom if you go to the next slide okay so that's 20 7,560 trees that really kind of is
baffling uh how much CO2 how many trees you would need to offset those CO2 emissions 4 million miles in cars and 210 homes uh use that stuff up a year uh next slide talks about our electric use
there is an electric use reduction overall we've reduced our electric by 18% um that the green line is us right now so that's all good stuff there how does he do that he monitors our systems my best example give you is that when we
walk out of here he shuts off the fans in this room okay that's what happens they're all in setbacks so it's constantly uh watching how we're running our stuff how we're running our heat and our electricity next slide is gas all right gas reduction is 15% and then I
think the next one is water and seore if you go to the next one Tom NOP he doesn't do a water and sore one okay so then it talks about our electric use intensity okay we're well Bel below the regional average uh well below our base here
um and we've decreased our electric use intensity by almost 16% so it's pretty good uh last slide I believe Tom uh we are also now energy certified you see those on buildings A lot of times but five out of six of our buildings are
energy STAR certified um as my plug I'll put it like this there's a chance that if we approve the referendum and we improve all the hvbc at the middle school they might be energy certified as well uh in the upcoming years so by our lowering the usage of all this stuff we
now have energy STAR certified schools um he's helped us with it our grounds and maintenance staff uh they've done a huge uh portion of this because they're upstair maintaining the systems making sure the systems are running right uh and we're directed to do those uh all day long I think is there one more slide
time or that's it oh and then we have accumulative savings us again is a green line we're going up that's good here we're saving money and then I think the last slide is there contact information we will post this on our website as well okay so that's the synergistic uh
commentary U or report right that's it for me for now and I'll you want dismiss the students or uh students can always go at this point in the evening if they have homework or otherwise thank you thank you hi congratulations thanks everybody
congratulations you good night have a good night night good night thanks yeah so okay a lot of fans that was a lot of fans for
all of our unsung heroes and seniors of the month yeah that's great how are you okay now we're going to move on to public comment for your grandchild an audience member wishing to make a comment will raise his or her hand and when called upon will state their name
address or affiliation and intention to make a statement comments will be addressed to the board president comments will be made on one issue at a time comments will be limited to 5 minutes no audience member shall be recognized twice until all that have wished to comment be recognized this portion of the meeting is for public
comments only and there will be no questions answered the purpose of this board meeting is to perform our business in public everyone is entitled to a public comment if there is a question for the board there's an established chain of command to follow does anybody have a public comment
tonight go ahead good evening uh my name is Karen Hobson I'm a teacher at the high school I'm also an LTA rep for the high school and I co-chair the LTA District pep and fast Grant programs I wanted to share some of
the lta's work in securing and facilitating the njaa pep and F grants which bring in over our budget is over $42,000 to benefit students families and our school community at no cost to the
district um first is the fast grants it stands for families and schools together um that we have a budget of $21,400 um we've started accessing this grant this year um but actually last
year but we've increased the usage this year um and we're going to continue exp to expand this the use of the fast Grant fast grants strengthen family engagement in education by funding events that
promote academic success college readiness and student well-being some of the grants that have been approved for this year include fajitas and FASA this year we had two nights at $1,500 a night uh the Early College Plan planning night
was $600 uh the Healthy Choice awareness night which I think is going to get folded into the mental health awareness night was $1,151 uh literacy night uh was
$966 mental health awareness was $800 steam night I think the steam literacy night and math night were all at foret River School that we put under fast and that is uh almost 3,000 that's about $3,000
combined the other Grant system and we've been using this for years is pep pep Grant public education partnership pep grants fund community building events that highlight Public School successes and strength and
relationships between schools families and local organizations some of the grants that have been approved for this year include money for back to school night uh what do we have I do have amounts here but not for that uh Lacy we had $150 trunk Retreat
$700 Veterans Day celebration breakfast $853 uh the parade uh $500 the holiday parade um intergenerational Club Christmas paint and craft party
$978 intergenerational snow day party and winter warmup that's where the kids get together with the uh the senior citizens to do uh good works um and that was almost $1,100 the college academy information night
$600 the elementary school conferences 900 the intergenerational Friendship luncheon again intergenerational Club is almost 1200 literacy fair 833 uh intergenerational bingo party
470 uh math night 1300 the Lacy unified Champions bingo night uh 300 uh the career day at loka Harbor 350 Earth Day at the high school uh 2,000 Earth Day at lenoa Harbor 600 career day at Cedar
Creek 9115 the college academy breakfast 750 the steam night at lenoa Harbor 650 the end of the year picnic for the intergenerational club uh 1
1,39 fifth grade Fair well celebration of forid river 1900 Project Graduation 600 and then we do have in the summer uh we sponsor um the Lacy 5K too and we go to
that event um I don't have the amount for that but we sponsor a full page in the book and we're present giving out um items so Grand portals for these grants normally open in July and they close January 15th uh the the pep fast
Grant portal has temporarily reopened until the third week in March now allowing funding in response to the human humanitarian crisis caused by recent changes in federal policy this will provide an opportunity for new grants that directly support students
and families affected uh the reopening allows us to continue supporting our students and community in meaningful ways we can invite conversations with members or Community groups that might might be working on projects currently and we can jump in and assist them
assist our students and Community um lta's role in this we write these grants LTA members write these grants provide The Upfront funding we organize the events or we coordinate with event coordinators and we ensure compliance
for reimbursement and these all these programs enhance education support families strengthen our community and it does not involve Financial commment from the board so we appreciate your support in recognizing the value these grants bring to our schools and I thank you for
listening oh thank you very much that was amazing you guys really make a difference thank you anyone else for public comment go maybe an ltaa night I think all right
hello Matthew Holberg Fork River teacher at the middle school but I'm here in a capacity as a LTE representative at the request of our second vice president Jen Bentley who couldn't be here tonight um to share some good news and she says thank you again for the opportunity to
share with you some of the good news in our schools first of all we would like to wish all the staff students and families a happy 100th day of school only 80 days left to go I didn't know it was 100 days all right our ltaa pride committee which Miss Hobson just talked
about has been working on getting our district pep grants to help support activities in our schools pep grants are public education partnership grants for Association community outreach programs pep funds were used to provide Hospitality tables at the schools for our parent teacher
conferences um the high school held its annual science fair last week in the media center like Mr zinsky said thank you to all the judges helped to evaluate the students projects and congratulations to all the students that participated tonight is the high school talent show Good Luck to the performers
the high school will hold the National Honor Society induction next week a huge shout out to all the new NHS members we are so proud of your hard work and commitment to academics and volunteering the lths art students and Starbucks on Lacy Road have collaborated on a project
to design new custom artwork cups these beautiful Creations are available for uh public vote voting and the top three designs will win prizes from Starbucks stop into their store to check out the artwork and vote for your favorite cup designs uh encourage your friends and
family to vote as well they're right in the front it's easy to vote at the middle school the student council decorated the hallways with hearts to surprise the students which made everyone feel special and loved the school hosted its annual student teacher volleyball tournament uh the Lacy PBA
joined in for a night filled with sportsmanship entertainment and laughter and let's just say students one staff zero guess it's time for a lesson in teamwork I don't write the jokes I'm reading what you um and finally our school choir took a trip across the
field and combined with the high school choir for their annual choir day where they had the opportunity to make music and connections with their High School counterparts the loka harbor School proud Paws hosted their annual Super Bowl soup Drive students and staff donated cans of soup with a vote for which team they predicted would win the
Super Bowl lenoa did in fact predict the Eagles Victory with 278 cans of soup donated for the Eagles and 199 donated for the Chiefs in the end a total of 477 cans of soup were donated to the Lacy Food Bank the Lacy Food Bank appreciated
the generosity and the students enjoyed the friendly competition yesterday the intergenerational Club hosted their annual sweetheart luncheon VIPs from the Pheasant Run Community principals supervisors Mrs cloths and other special guests were treated to a catered lunch the students decorated the tables and
provided each guest with a flower bulb they played would you rather and shared uh special showand tell items all the students and VIPs also got to take a guess at an estimation game it was a wonderful event filled with Foods smiles and laughter our next event will be a bingo pizza party in March we would like
to thank the Lacy Police Department for hosting an assembly for the students to promote the cop card program for 2025 the students learned about the importance of the police department and what to do if there is any type of Emergency the students are super excited about collecting cards and meeting the
officers and I can tell you firsthand at the middle school they have met officer Roger and he's met a lot of them he's a popular guy with his cards uh all schools completed all schools completed parent teacher conferences NWA testing midterms and are plugging along with additional winner assessments we would
like to encourage all community members to check out the school website to get the most accurate and current information about the referendum and the ltaa looks forward to working with our students families and the Boe in the upcoming month thank you for your time thank you thank you for your positive comments love it thank you is there
anyone else for a public comment okay I'm going to close comments it's great all po positive today it's wonderful first time ever probably stop shock all right we're closing it so it was a good night all right let's do board committee reports and we'll start
with uh Mr conned with facilities and finance please yeah so we uh head on Wednesday the 5th of February uh qu four myself um
Miss Claus Mr Peters Mr zalinsky mrby Mr romano and uh Scott and uh Mary Allen from cogistics um H facilities uh
Senate shis sixs update um discussion [Music] help by uh Mr mure which was pretty much everything that we had up here tonight um prek update Mr zinsky had a discussion on the status of
the prek project at mil Pond um it's almost complete it may be complete at this point um there was a couple items on there to finish up um um pref discussion on the status of the
referendum which was L by uhor be um discussed uh the banners how they're outside the schools uh noow uh update which was the um painter
for the high school um his SS be uh discussed that and they should be here the first week of March hopefully to uh survey and assess everything um under
Finance uh uh his rsby updated us on the land survey quotes for mil Pond Fork River and L NOA Harbor schools um we originally thought that would be on tonight's uh agenda but because of the
uh thresholds has to go out to uh RFP um so she is working on that uh creef discussion on the 25 26 uh budget
um WR it on numbers um and then discuss the gymnastics shared service agreement um uh with barate and that'll be on on
tonight's agenda uh to approve that as well um update on the grants uh has ORS be um and over everything that we have applied for
are coming to apply for um and then a demographic study uh hisor we talked about the need for a study and we had discussion follow after that um in regards to Food
Services a steamer cabinet Sharon right no it's just the actual steamer steamer itself um broke at the high school so you got quotes to repair
that and that'll be on tonight's uh agenda as well um Health curriculum um hism be gave a brief update on the uh superintendent
search um and under technology uh Shi renewal as be discuss the renewal of manage engine um that also be on tonight's agenda and
CDW renewal um for Network scanning and penetration testing that will be on tonight's agenda as well um under transportation his be had a discussion on need to replace two buses and
one van in the 2526 budget year um discussion was had with that that is not going to be on tonight's agenda um he discussed use of facilities
professional development um a revised uh District calendar which is probably going to change a little bit again and then um the 2526
LTC sta calendar um our next meeting was scheduled for Thursday the 13th of March but from the end of this to tonight there's two or three other meetings in there um had the meeting
adjourned at 5:45 and that was it did you have something no Sor oh no this is that go over here okay and that was it thank you Mrs Walker would you like to do curriculum curricul
y okay sorry I'm having trouble hearing you down here um good evening everyone the curriculum committee met on February 4th at 2:30 p.m. in attendance was Mrs omato Mr omato myself uh Mr zalinsky and then three of our district supervisors
Mrs Amos Mr Dow and Mrs C cow here I go with that name again uh uh we talked about um our Deca team they made the state competition they're going to to Atlantic City the beginning of March March 4th so we wish them a lot of luck
there are eight members that made it to that level so congratulations and good luck to all of you uh we Mrs Amos and Mr Dow outlined the prior the price qu quotes that have been received for K through 8 language arts materials
Replacements and high school math material Replacements these Replacements will be in the budget dependent on whether we get any money so so bad but our our curriculum our materials
are becoming outdated and we need to upgrade them so if we do get money that's one I think the priority that we should look at uh PD the professional development day was uh last week uh they uh the supervisors went over and gave us
a copy of the schedule for that day uh we talked about Mr zinsky talked about uh a therapy dog that will be coming to milpond school details are being finalized and proper permissions will be obtained in the upcoming weeks the
district supervisor DET supervisors details some benefits of the program including helping young readers and school refusal refusal um Mr Dow described the language arts research advanced placement course
that will become a core requirement of the leadership cohort at Lacy Township High School but will be open to Junior and seniors as well as an elective uh tonight we're going to be voting on The paraprofessional handbook item 18 on page seven the handbook will
be placed on on the agenda for our approval uh a lot of work went into this handbook and it's really a good document they did a good job Mr zalinsky described the Grant from the New Jersey Center for inclusive education that will
train and Coach our inclass replacement teaching team he also described the presentation by Mr merman and Mr Lidle on our digital media program at the annual texo conference uh let's
see the referendum presentation was held in January 28 uh it was very well attended and Mr sininsky thank you for all of your work um and all the administrators for doing such a great job it went really well uh
um that's it so our next oh the science fair it's not on this paper but the science fair Kim and I were able to attend that uh I was amazed at the the projects some of them I couldn't even pronounce but uh they were fascinating
they did I think this year topped prior years really good job so congratulations to all those that were in that science fair and to the final winners and our next meeting is March 10th at 2:30 thank you thank you Mr Bell
would you like to do policy sure this way oh this way I'm used to you down you mov they mov me around all right our policy meeting was uh Thursday February 6th at 4:15 myself Mrs klouse Mr conned Mr
zalinsky uh went over some new policy regulations for review and or discussion policy 5111 eligibility of resident and non-resident students advised this policy is being updated to comply with the provisions that
prohibits the admit ad yeah admission of non-resident students to a district without the payment of tuition it is also being updated to allow for the student tuition program to include grades K uh through two the previous policy only included
grades 3 through 12 all grades other than preschool ATT accept tuition in the proper program exist and space allows policy 5710 student grievance revised this policy is being revised to provide more details regarding the
student grievance process the revised policy requires documentation timelines and ways to respond to a student grievance uh policy 9163 spectator code of conduct uh for inter Scholastic events this new policy
is being adopted due to the njisa uh re requirement that every uh School adopt a spectator code of conduct policy during the 2425 school year the policy will provide uh for the immediate removal for a person violating the
policy and will have a minimum disciplinary measures including suspension from future events violating the policy a few for discussion policy 2365 uh the AI policy this policy is
being developed by a school-based committee for future board consideration as well as the cell phone policy uh PR 5516 uh and then policy 571 academic Integrity as well being uh put developed
by a school-based committee co-curricular uh No Agenda items to discuss Safety and Security No Agenda items to discuss uh as far as ltaa as well and then other uh 2425 ltsd School
calendar revised and then 2526 child study team calendar uh next meeting is Wednesday March 12th uh at 415 thank you Mr Peters would you like to talk a little bit about the superintendent search abely thank you uh
president CL first I'd like to thank Mr Bell and Mr rato uh a few months ago we picked a corporation a company Onan company to uh assist us with the superintendent search why we've never done it before make sure we're doing it right and we had an extremely good
candidates uh plot we started off I believe was 22 we brought it down to nine and now we're down to our final three candidates for the uh superintendent position uh March 6 is our next uh
presentation where the three candidates that we picked as a committee myself president clus and Mr M um picked the final three candidates we're going to bring present them to the entire board and let them also be involved um and
hear questions to the uh applicants unfortunately uh there are two board members that are conflicted that not cannot attend that meeting um and uh we're moving forward we're looking good okay thank you superintendent comments do you have any additional comments I do
because it's going to be my last plug for the uh referendum um so I just want to um uh Point everybody in the direction uh you know we're having our referendum March 11th uh come out and vote uh make your vote be heard uh on that day uh regular
polling places regular polling times uh do not believe the misinformation campaign that's out there um it's a bunch of Lies uh it's a bunch of uh misdirections our website has been updated it's updated just as recently as
last week if you go there you can't miss it because I made every button up top the referendum please log in please please go there please look at the information there's ways to contact my office uh if you have further questions about the referendum remember there's three questions it gives the community a
choice uh on their level of investment in the entire referendum uh we encourage everybody to come out and vote uh who's a voting member of our Lacy Community um on March 11th um I'll try to do as many reminders as I can we have a mailing that'll come out uh probably the Friday
before it'll hit your mailboxes to remind everybody to vote on that day um again regular ping places regular time uh come out and make yourself heard on this um you know the the right information is on our website it's not located anywhere else uh don't believe
um the ones that out there want you to believe um that it's not in your best interest to look at this and look at it objectively and come out and vote on that day so that's my big thing with the referendum it's kind of my last board me a chance to do so thank you president okay thank you okay now we're going to
move on to uh board member comments and I can start if that's okay with everybody I just have some updates um our board attorney uh Bruce padulla has decided to move on and uh leave our contracted firm to start his own business and we wish him the best of luck with that being said we
are an excellent hands with Cameron and uh we are going to continue uh with Cameron um and we look forward to working with you a little bit more than we have in the past but thank you um our board uh we are going for board certification um we've been working with
the njsba um to earn the certification we will be the first board in Lacy to complete this among other requirements we have 12 out of 16 credits which need to be completed within four years so um we'll be scheduling another um inservice
date uh probably next month also March 12th is our tenative scheduled uh budget Workshop so please keep an eye out for the advertisement for that and that is open to the public uh it should be at 6 p.m. and again March 11th is our referendum vote please
help spread the word and come out to vote um and refer to our website for detailed breakdowns of question 1 2 and three this is an very exciting time for our students and our community the referendum committee has worked extremely hard to identify all areas of
need of improvement so please come out and vote I would also like to recognize our Acting Superintendent Mr zalinsky he has G gone above and beyond to relay all information out to the public he has done an excellent job being available to our community and wanted to give him a
well-deserved compliment so I want to thank you for that yeah he's been very available and our next board meeting um will be March 18th not the 28th so just make note of that okay um Miss Walker would you like to have do you have any comments sure okay just very uh quickly
just want to congratulate the unsung heroes that's one award as I always say is my special award because they're the people that are in the background doing work um so congratulations to them and kudos for their dedication to this school student of the month
congratulations haly and Shane uh the band that you Mr uh hulberg thank you I was only as principal for a while uh congratul to two of them Victoria and Cole and as I
spoke before where Eric's over is Eric still here or they leave they uh just going winning just a trying out at these all state competitions is unbelievable I mean I was the nervous Rec just watching it you alone have to play in it so kudos
to them and congratulations um the science fair I already talked about um and congratulations to the ltaa for all the work that you do for the district and please everyone get out to vote on March
11th any of you that have sat on this board or have students in the school or grandpar children in the school you can see that this referendum is so desperately needed for repairs in our school our money's been taken away we've
tried to patch up as much as we can over the years um so I hope that everyone gets out and uh votes on March 11th thank you thank you Mr Arman I have nothing to add to that she was great thank you sorry Mr Bell okay any
okay Mrs arato do you have anything to add um no congratulations to all the students and I want to thank you for that Grant update that was um excellent that's congratulations that's must be a lot of work um and uh that's it really just March 11th come out and vote
remember if 10 people come out it's the 10 votes that count so either whichever way you feel if you don't vote you won't be heard so please come out and vote thank you that's it and thank you everybody coming out in this very cold chilly night I'm impressed when you come
out in this weather Mr Peters I think every covered thank you okay thank you Mr conned uh hello everybody else the only things that weren't touched on uh next Friday and Saturday uh Frozen Jr is
being uh produced by the Middle School drama club right um 6:00 p.m. on both nights and tickets are being sold only at the door right perfect and
then 3 weeks after that the High School Musical of The Adams Family is being put on here uh March 27th 28th 29th at 7:00 and Sunday the 30th at 2 o'clock tickets are on
sale now know via Facebook and a couple other spots I believe lth sbook tix.com so should be a great time not all the kids have been working hard
on them so vote on March 11th and that's it V okay thank you all right we're going to move on to new business you ready ready okay uh A1 meeting
minutes can I have a motion please motion second roll call please Mr armado yes you have to um abstain on me yes mhain for what you on the meeting
minutes for the 15 oh okay I AB okay sorry all right so I'm going to abstain from A1 special meeting minuts y yes thank you Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado
yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conned yes and Mrs Claus yes thank you A2 list of bills page two uh can I have a motion please motion second roll call please Mr Amato just checking
yes you're good now that was it Mr Peters yes i' like to obstain from A2 OC BTS 2112 one0 please thank you Mr Bell yes Mrs arato yes Mrs Walker uh yes
but I'm abstaining on A2 uh bill number 95533 7 due to conflict thank you Mr conned yes I need to recuse on hman friendy Allison 995166 his orms be 955 339 and my
employer Verizon Verizon Wireless 289 299 and 28330 thank you and uh Mrs Claus yes page two A3 and four transfers move thank you second Peters
thank you roll call please Mr armado yes Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs AR yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conned yes and Mrs Claus yes page 3 through six finance and
Facilities can I have a motion please mtion Peter second uh roll call please Mr armato yes Mr Peters what items were we through again could you read that again uh A5 through a12 pages 3 through
six yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conedy yes and Mrs Claus uh yes but I have to reuse myself uh for a12 Lacy
grid iron football thank you or was that the foundation didn't it say Foundation or did it say grid IR GD iron it should okay GD iron G iron okay page six through S um a13 to a16 student tuition and transportation can I
ask a question on 14 uh yep uh for out District placement there's two students for the same time frame one is at 15,000 the other one's
at 23,700 do we know why off the top of yeah one one is a standard tuition rate the other would be a student who probably has a special program okay uh some it could be special ed it could be speech it could be any number of things okay could be middle school and high school
uh not likely at those prices no it's probably a special education program so wait is the first one just to transfer out is that that no it's it's a mcken vento they're replaced by the homeless act so the homeless act goes back to the last uh School of residents which is us for these two students okay that's by by
Statute they were transferred from Lacy to Bayville and now they're going to pay to school for them correct anything could have happened but for whatever reason we're the responsible party and those are investigated by Mr Bond in every case all right thank you thank you okay can I have a motion please motion
second roll call please Mr armado yes Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conned yes Mrs Claus yes page 7 a17 to a21 can I have a motion please move
second roll call please Mr armado yes Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conedy yes Mrs CLA yes page 7 through eight policies and regulations can I have a motion
motion second uh roll call please Mr armado yes Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conedy yes Mrs Claus yes hibs a24 and
a25 motion Peters second roll call please Mr armato yes Mr ERS yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conned yes and Mrs Claus yes page eight
donations and the board would like to thank everyone who's donated especially the curtains oh especially oh yeah the curtains wow that's a big one number 5,900 Middle School PTC for the stage of the middle school thank you can I have a motion motion Peters
second roll call please Mr arm yes Mr Peters yes and thank you Mr Bell yes and thank you Mrs armato yes and thank you Mrs Walker yes thank you Mr conedy yes thank you and Mrs Claus yes
uh yes okay page six professional days and workshop travel can I have a motion please that's page I'm sorry page eight yes yes okay professional days and workshop travel move second
can I have a roll call please Mr armato yes Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armato yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conedy yes but I need to abstain on his SWS be please thank you and Mrs Claus yes page 9
through 13 certificated Personnel all right this is going to be per the addendum um number two um there's just a change for um so instead of Spinosa it's fear
ready okay can I have a motion please I'll move is that only for one day is that what it is it it was an overlap day uh from a attorney okay roll call please I need a second oh
me S thank you Mr Amato yes Mr Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conned yes and Mrs Claus yes uh page 13
to 18 non-certificated Personnel all right this there's a couple changes here so on number two there's a couple date changes um Katherine baloi her date changed to the 20th and Angela C changed
to the 13 on number four we removed James cahoot on number five um Janette Lansky she should have been at mil
Pond uh right below her Carmen Ramos was a date change uh from 224 to 33 and then on number seven it's no longer a transfer U Mr laal
um is just going from a head custodian to custodian at milon and that is it great can I have a motion please motion second you want me to be roll call please Mr armato yes Mr
Peters yes Mr Bell yes Mrs armado yes Mrs Walker yes Mr conned yes and this is Clos yes good we good okay before we adjourn I'd like everyone to look at the clock it's not even 8:00 we did a great
job motion to adjourn motion second second [Music]