website and through Parent Square. Okay. Uh please stand for the pledge of Can we please do roll call? >> Miss Troy >> here. >> Mr. Grow >> here. >> Dr. Mester. Miss Molina >> here. >> Mr. Park. Mr. Zepka
>> Mr. Seagull. Miss Thompson, Vice President Melman, President Lee. I suggest a quorum. Madame President, on our student, senior rep, uh, we have Miss Cho
>> President >> and junior student rep, Miss Palmiri >> here. >> Call president accounted for. >> Please note for the record that Dr. Mester, Miss Thompson, and Mr. Lee all contacted Dr. frontal regarding their absences tonight due to personal
conflicts. There are no presentations for tonight's meeting. This brings us to item 1.4, public comment. Anyone from the public wishing to speak on agenda related items, please step up to the podium and provide your
name and address for the record. You'll have two minutes to speak. Arthur's a 125 relies have a a number of things to go over. Uh but since there's so many people here in the audience, I just appreciate patience while I run through them. Most of them are just questions. First one is regarding a nine
$9 million variance under appropriations, which I don't understand. That usually means that you're um we're planning on spending it. We budget it. We didn't spend it. So there's a variance between the budget and the actual. The difference was 9 million. So I don't know what that is.
It obviously means there's something we haven't done that's pretty significant. Hopefully it's uh I can get explanation for that. Uh under health and safety at school evaluations. I know that you assigned all these. There's E1 for each but there's no there's no
explanation of what it is. So if you could just tell me what's involved in a safety inspection briefly. It doesn't have to be in detail. I'd like to know. Um, under school facilities there is, uh, it's the one that's highlighted in yellow. Uh, Dennis, it's um, it's
showing that for 26278,000 planned on spending for the board of education house. I'd just like to know what that is, if it's an estimate, if you don't have anything in mind, but I presume there's something in mind that you have for that. Um, the total expenditure planned for for the
facilities is a million dollars, but the schools obviously require amounts of of maintenance. Um, under bills and claims under there's a uh uh a rooftop unit they call it's referenced in RTU. It's uh for a carrier
unit, one unit is $6,000. I'm wondering what was involved in that. That's an awful lot of money for a rooftop air. You know, it's a variation on your on your window unit. Just they put them on the roof and then they're they're it's a package unit normally or a split unit, but it's a lot of money. I wanted to
know what if you knew what the uh what what drove that up. Under ABS environmental, there's asbestous inspections. Now, that's a good idea. Is this an annual thing or is this just a oneoff? Because once you inspect it, if you haven't got any asbestous in the building, there's really no reason for
us to uh do this each year. Um unless it's some state mandate. But I'd like to know if it's a oneoff or um uh if it's going to be an annual thing. uh um copiers. We spend about a half a million dollars a year in copy releases. I
brought this up a year ago, several years ago. Um they're listed in two separate places. One for $95,000. It's a it's $7,800 a month. That's about 95. And then another place location, it's all
TNG industries. It's 285 for the year. It's about almost $400,000 a year for copers. Then plus the supplies we do with it. I how many copers we have. Another way of tackling that if we can reduce the copiers, but half a million dollars for copers for me seems to me to
be an awful lot of money to spend. So, I'd like to see how we can possibly attack that. Um, under Ali Electric, uh there's also on bills also. It's $162,000 for secondary replacements. Now, we had
a primary problem as a result of the uh supertorm Sandy, which was covered by insurance. So, I don't know if this is covered by insurance also or what what is driving these secondary electrical replacements and why we had to pay $162,000 unless it's offset by insurance because
it's still part of the Sandy thing, but I'd like to know what that is. Under uh file bank, we're spending about $120,000 a year for storage. I don't know if that's paper storage or electronic or data storage. Uh is there another way we can store this stuff uh
safely rather than pay this year in and year out? It's just a thought, something to think find out if we can do it. Under Krueger International, it says general supplies. Um, that may be just a the description uh error. It's not an error. I look at this when I see these, I look
for the money. I look what it what it is. And a general supplies to me is is a suspicious description for, you know, for $50,000. But I've since learned it's a furniture purchase. So maybe you could explain what the furniture was for. Um
that is the minutes. Uh in today's minutes, the one you're going to approve, there's there are no public minutes specified or or written out. In the past, there was always pretty lengthy ones. I don't know if there were no public comments that day or not. There may or may not have been, but if there weren't the membership public
saying there would no public comments. There's just nothing there. Um and I think that is it for now. Thank you for your patience. Arthur, I'll be happy to sit with you and show you those documents and I want
to actually get the PO number so I can provide you the appropriate backup. >> Any board comments? >> So, I can respond to some of just the the questions that you asked, Arthur. Um the uh particularly the copers the
copers have been a long um we've gone through variations of the copy machines and just the copy structure that we have. Um we moved to this structure we have about um seven to eight copy machines per building um if not a little bit more
plus a machine at the annex plus a machine at the board office. Um so you know talking a number of machines across the district. Um and they're used very various sizes. You know the faculty rooms obviously have bigger machines because they're used more frequently than we have machines in the various areas of the the buildings. Um you know
not all of them are color. There's like one one color copier in each building. Um before we moved to this structure we had printers in every single classroom and every single office. So that took even that was even more of a lift because we had not only printers that we
had to maintain, we also had all of the supplies and toners for those printers. Um with our copers, uh we have um within our contract with our copers, a lot of the supplies other than paper, most of the supplies are already within the copier um within the copy contract that
we have. So we we reup toner every time, you know, every time there's low toner, it's within our reup within our contract. Um so we did move to this model maybe three or four years ago. Um we've seen um we've seen uh a is we've
been more efficient with the copier with all of the supply use. Um so you know something that we're evaluating uh now that we have um a tech department that has been a little bit more proactive about the the copy machines and everything. Uh things have been getting
fixed faster in the schools. So, um, yeah, it's just it's something that's been since I've been here, it's something that we've been evaluating for for many years. Um, but and yeah, it's a five-year lease, too. So, um, so yes, so the that's the copy
machine. Uh, file bank um, to explain file bank is where we house all of our documents. So, we are required by law, by state statute, to keep certain documents for certain amount of time. So, you know, student records, I think are 100 years that we have to keep student records for, personnel files,
all of that. Um, we used to keep them in the district. Um, it was not the most efficient process and it was taking up a lot of space within the district because you figure 100 years you you know all of those files from 100 years ago have to be stored somewhere. So, it was taking up a
lot of storage space for our storage use. Um, so, uh, I think it was two years ago we moved over to File Bank. Um, it's also helped us um, kind of get a faster evaluation of our file. So, when we need a file for something, if somebody reaches out to us and they're looking for their student file from 30
years ago, you know, it's more efficient to go to the system, we just, you know, email them and say, "We need this file and then they give us that file versus uh us having to sift through all of the files to find that." Um, so it has been a more efficient way to manage and keep track of our files.
Um, Krueger, so it's funny that you mentioned the uh Krueger, the PO for general supplies. I just had a conversation with our accounts payable. Um, in the next week or so, I am going to speak to building administrators and their admin assistants about how we um what we use in the description of our
POS just to be more transparent to the public for this exact reason. Um, it shouldn't just say general supplies. Like we should have wrote whatever furniture that's for and whatever building that's for. Um, to be more transparent so that way whoever is looking at our bills list knows knows what we're spending that money on. Um, that money was for furniture. Uh, we did
purchase new classroom furniture for all three of our buildings. Um, there were a few POS. So, I'm not sure which exact one you were talking about, but we did purchase um uh furniture for classroom furniture for all three of our schools this past year. Um our classroom
furniture over time, you know, gets old, gets broken, needs to get fixed. Um so, we've we're we're in a pattern now to replace classrooms every few years or every every year replace um a set of classrooms. So, that way we're constantly replenishing the furniture.
And I think the rest I will have Dr. Dennis. Okay, great. Safety inspections. Anyone else from the public wishing to speak on agenda related items, please step up to the podium. provide your name
and address for the record. Seeing no more, um, we will move on to the consent agenda. Can I have a motion and a second for the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Second, Eric.
>> Mr. Seagull. Sorry, Mr. Seagull. And second was Mr. Crow. Um, would any board member like to pull any specific item from the consent agenda for discussion? >> Seeing none, can we have roll call, please? >> All right. Do we have a motion and a
second for resolutions 3.1 through 8.1? Miss Troy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Grow? >> Yes. >> Miss Molino? >> Yes. For abstaining on ACS? >> Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Zepka. >> Yes. >> Mr. Seagull. >> Yes.
>> Vice President Melman. >> Yes. >> Motions carried. >> We are going to move on to the superintendent and committee reports. >> Okay. So, I have a few um few updates from the past. It's been a while since we've met. Uh we met last middle of
October. Um so, we are a few updates for you. Um first I wanted to go back to some events that happened after we met. Uh first the Leonia we had our first uh Leonia Edgewater administrator summit where we met with our admin uh team from Edgewater. Uh this op this uh first
meeting was an opportunity for us to get together um you know get to know each other um kind of share ideas about what's going on in our schools and also uh brainstorm ways we can uh connect our our schools a little bit better uh or a little more frequently. Um, we have uh a
plan for some music events to send our uh uh high school music uh program over to the EBG and GW for a concert for over there. So, that should be coming in the winter. So, we're excited for that. Our next meeting uh our next summit is in
January. Um then in October, we also had students and staff from the Gimhi International High School in South Korea visited our high school. Um this is a this is the second time that they visited us. Um and again they had uh cultural presentations from both the
Gimy students and our students. So they shared uh they shared some cultural experiences. Um and then they had classroom visits. So they we allowed classroom visits to allow the guests uh the students from South Korea to experience what life in high school was
like is like. Um and then they had lunch in the cafeteria with our students as well. So, it was a great um a great day for our kids. Um a few weeks ago, we had our staff flu clinics in our school buildings. Each building had their own flu clinic during the staff
lunch period, so staff could go and get their flu shots if they wanted to. Um uh this was all set up through the bureau's health uh public health educator, uh Mrs. Clefane. She kind of coordinated this for us. Um on November 4th, we had our professional development morning. Um
it was a delayed opening for our students and a full day for staff. So we had professional development that day. We had sessions that included uh best practices in gifted and talented uh instruction. Uh we had an examination of the Holocaust, a workshop on the examination of the Holocaust and ways to
uh incorporate that into our classes. Um we had uh curriculum work around cyber security and AI. And then we have district-wide meetings on special ed articulation and uh these emotional the social emotional competencies alignment across the district. Our next PD day is
or our next late opening is January 20th and we started planning that and we've got some good ideas in the process for that. Um we have our fall season has wrapped up. Our fall sports season has wrapped up. Um we'll have a full update of uh the sports season from Mr. PRA in
the next district newsletter which will come out on the 1st of December. Um but I did want to share some great news from cross country that we learned today. Um we have some of our students made the all county team. We have Dominique Cameron, Daniellea Cameron and Eleanor
Chang all made first county first team all county for the girls cross country team. And Calvin Deu made first team all county for the boys cross country team. and Jeremy Garcia made second team for the boys cross country. Our girls cross
country team was named team of the year in the county which is very exciting. They absolutely deserve it. Um and then some great news for our coaches. Our coach uh Mr. Ryan, Tim Ryan, uh was named cross country coach of the year or
was named coach of the year. >> Yeah. >> So, we're very excited for Mr. Ryan and for the whole team. Uh the winter season uh has officially kicked off on Monday, so we'll see where that takes us. We're excited to see some bowling and swimming and basketball. We're ready for some of that.
Um thank you. Um we la we are launching uh we are launching um an ad hoc facilities committee through the buildings and grounds committee of the board to uh as
part of our strategic plan goal five of our strategic plan is to review our uh physical infrastructure. Um so part of that work will be this ad hoc facilities committee that will the first step of the committee is to conduct a full district walkthrough. So, we'll be meeting on December 6th to do a complete
walkthrough of all of our buildings um to see where we have some needs um and then make a plan forward. Uh today, I met with our team from Mosios, which is our school lunch provider. Uh we discussed opportunities to access uh healthy lunch in schools um and how we
can better promote the healthy lunch options that we do provide to our students. It was a really great collaborative meeting. They are great to work with. Um very you know uh willing to work with us and willing to be a partner in our in the work that we do. Uh we recently launched our process for
the green team sustainable jersey initiative. Uh we will be applying for reertification. So right now we're bronze certified and we'll be applying for reertification this year. We today we met our teacher culture and climate committee meeting met uh team met. Uh this is the committee that we have a
grant for. Um, basically the goal of this committee is to identify ways that we can promote uh and support teacher culture and climate within the district. So the committee at this point has narrowed down to a few key fields that we're going to focus on solutions for. So we've identified some areas and now we want to focus on solutions and then
we recently began the budget process. So and I'll we'll let uh Dr. Fernapple um give some more details on that. >> Great. Thank you. So, we'll move on to the board secretar's report. >> Thank you, Vice President Mullman. I do
have a report today. I want to report on the budget process for school year 2627. Um, we had a preliminary budget planning meeting which was held on November the 12th with the administrators. Uh, we provided a template for preparing
the program budget for next school year. Uh we have now scheduled meetings that we will be meeting personally with each of the stakeholders the week of December 5 to 8. Uh staffing will also be discussed at these meetings for next
school year. Uh we anticipate to have budget estimates by January 15 and then we'll be moving to the finance committee uh probably by the end of January and this could change if we have it sooner and we will schedule those meetings and
then um refine the budget as the process moves forward. We haven't received the budget calendar yet from the department of ed at this point. I want to talk about the state educators health benefits plans. We did have an open enrollment period in October and as we
have been speaking about the increase in the state health benefits rates was 37.25% and that will kick in on January 1 because their plan runs a calendar year rather than a fiscal year. And I'd like
to report that we've had 15% of our district employees who opted to change their plans for plan year 26. So that's good hearing. Uh also I want to talk about the health benefits claims experience. Uh we did uh go to the state
health benefits plan to ask them to provide us with a claims experience for our prescription drug and for our medical. You pay for that plan. We did. It was $2,000. Uh we received the uh prescription report on um October the
16th and the medical report on October the 25th. I forwarded these reports to Allen Associates. They're our carrier who will be marketing the carriers. We had a very good claims experience. So, we do expect to have some uh good offers
and other um venues uh and uh providers would want to ensure us here in Leonia. Uh we anticipate to review these plans prior and we're hoping to to the December 9th regular board meetings over the next couple of weeks. Um, I expect
to hear that they have some some plans that we can sit down with the board and discuss where we're going to move with them. The last one is we have our reorganization meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 6th. Uh, I'm going to give you tonight a copy of the tentative
board meeting dates for 26. I'd like you to go over them and let me know if there are any problem with any of those dates. We're keeping the meetings on Tuesdays. Um and uh we will have we want to finalize the reorganization agenda by December 19th before we break for the
for the holiday. And thank you. >> Uh now we're on to our student representative reports. >> Homecoming took place last Friday and it was a great success. Students had a lot of fun and the turnout was very strong. And we're also excited to announce that color wars have been brought back this
year with each grade competing against each other in volleyball. And club registration is now open as well, including for the LHS ski and snowboard club, which will be taking trips to Mountain Creek this winter. Last week, LHS also held the academy openhouse with students presenting
acrossmies and informing middle school students and parents about opportunities at the school. Um Leona High School Service Club also held a food drive amidst SNAP benefits being shut down this month. Um we shared food packages to 20 families from Leonia and Edgewater
uh in need of food and toiletries. Special thanks to Miss Wilson from the guidance office who was able to make everything happen. Uh finally we have the LHS debate team which competed last Friday at Fort Lee in a varsity match. Uh eight students represented the school
and senior Pepua Salem won a judge award and each competing LHS team won two matches. Uh, prior that week, the debate team held the first junior varsity match at LHS since pre-COVID times with eight other Burton County high schools attending. Nearly 25 students from LHS
participated in competing, judging, timekeeping, or just helping running the event. Uh, special thanks to Mr. Griffin and Miss Albanesey's our debate coaches. >> Great. Thank you. Uh for committee reports, we'll start uh practices and principles. Um we have not
met. Um we're hoping to schedule a meeting um an end of year meet for December to review everything. Um so we'll go to buildings and grounds. >> Um yes, we have not met yet, but um December 6th, as Zanti mentioned, we're going to meet and tour all the buildings
and then come back with a report. uh education. I believe uh Maria usually does that, but she is out. Do you want to >> We met last week. Uh we talked about um the uh we I gave an update on our tech inventory and our uh current process
that we're we're demoing uh different products for uh the future of our tech um devices for our staff. Um so we're in that we're we launched the demo today actually. And then uh we also spoke about um our graduation numbers and uh
where we are going to hold graduation. Um we currently are exceeding limits of our LHS gym. So we have been looking into our options because we have nowhere to hold it indoors. Um so we are we the education committee spoke about um some
options based on our numbers and then projections also over the next few years and finance and planning is uh typically Mr. Lee um I think he'll give it at the next meeting. Yep. We'll do that at the December meeting and policy.
>> Yes. So we actually met last uh Tuesday. There were a whole host of Strauss as may updates that we went through. They're on the first hearing uh for today's agenda and we're actually meeting next Tuesday as well to review some additional updates. >> Thank you.
>> This brings us to item 10.1, public comment. Anyone from the public wishing to speak on non-aggenda related items, please step up to the podium and provide your name and address for the record. You will have two minutes to speak.
Hi. Good enough. All right. Thank you. Um, my name is Edward Van Skinwick. Uh, I was only resident for most my young life. First at 323 Westview Avenue and then 119 Paulen
Boulevard. Um I guess I was in the class of 1980 though I did not graduate from high union schools. I was a victim of Mr. Ragnoski.
Um, and I told you my story before and again whatever happened to me personally not so bad in the scope of things frankly. Um, but what I came here before to say
had to do with when I reached back with my inquiry in the late 90s. Was this guy still around? Was he about um and look out for this guy?
Um that initial letter, the reply was nobody of that name has ever been employed here.
So that's what I take with me regarding my abusers. However, as individuals, they are flawed. They know that they are flawed and they live in a hell of their own.
And so because of that, I forgive my abusers. What I have trouble with has to do with the bureaucracy that enabled my abusers.
I don't know here what I want. All I know is that I'd like you to be able to hear my story and accept it as true. beyond that for myself personally I don't know
but what I do know is that I am grateful for what it's worth for these kinds of forums to be open for person like me to
say his or her truth. I appreciate when an institution listens honorably and I also appreciate when an institution wants to listen
as honorably as they can. Thank you for having me. Anyone else wishing to speak, please step to the podium um and state your name and address. >> All right. Hello everyone. I am Leroy
Truth of Leroy Truth Investigations. I'm an investigative journalist and I report on my YouTube channel, Leroy Truth Investigations, and on Facebook. And I highly recommend that you subscribe and see the work I've been doing. I'm also a sexual assault
survivor, having been sexually assaulted by a Roman Catholic priest for four years, starting at the age of seven years old while I was an older boy. No one believed me. No one would stop it.
A few weeks ago, Michael Gonzalez reached out to me because I've been investigating and exposing an extremely the most corrupt politician in the state of New Jersey for the last two years. And his name is Mayor and Senator and head of the New Jersey
Senate Judiciary Committee, Brian Stack. I've been investigating over 5,000 allegations of corruption against him. pay to play sexual assault, sexual assault coverups, sexual assault against children in Uni City Schools.
Michael saw the work I've been doing. I've been attacked over 63 times on Mayor Stack's orders. This is unbelievable. If you don't see the videos on my social media, you will not believe this is true. I just got out of jail. I was assaulted
and arrested by Uni City Police this past Friday because I had the goal to attempt to get this teacher suspended. His name is Edward Marinez. Now I know with is it John Agnostia?
Agnosti he is dead but the pain like the gentleman who shared here is still here. And I want to support the Leonia survivors who are here as another person that who can
compassionately be there know what they've gone through. And it it is not easy. No matter if it was five weeks ago or 50 years ago, I've had people, women, come to me who
are survivors of sexual assault allegedly in Union City. and the mayor, Senator Brian Stack, not only didn't investigate or have the police investigate the alleged sexual assaulters, as soon as these brave women
came forward to share their stories and to go to the police to attempt to get protection, Mayor and Brian Stack had them retaliated against. They would come to me knowing I'm a survivor and I'm an independent investigative journalist. I can't be bought off.
And then about a month ago, there was a student who was a gra or a graduate of Union City Schools named Jonathan Almeida, a 2003 graduate. And he said, "Leroy, I've been seeing your work that you protect women. You're a survivor as
well. And can I share my story with you?" And I said, "Absolutely." And one thing I want to I want to note something. Your attention and presence to what I'm saying is remarkable. It says a lot about each of you because I've been bringing these allegations to
Union City and I get arrested. I was in Hudson County Jail. Was this this weekend was a man who died or was killed while I was there because I'm trying to help children. Jonathan Omea, his name is 2003
graduate. He reached out to me and I asked him, "Would you be on my show, my channel, my program?" And he said, "Absolutely." "Are you willing to give your name?" Absolutely. So, I was actually in the parking lot of a health food store and I said, "Let's do it
right now." He courageously shared what was going on with him. And what happened? He said that when he was a child playing football in Union City High School, this coach, and now he's an assistant principal because he's still teaching,
he would gather all the kids, all the children into a huddle and suddenly and inexplicably, and excuse my language here. I'm just quoting Jonathan Almeida. He said Edward Marina as the coach would suddenly ask the kids, "Who wants to see
my dick? And Jonathan said it was so bizarre that no one had a chance to process it. And he would, again, excuse excuse the language, but he would whip his dot dot dot out and show the children
and then he whip it back in. And then whoever Edward Marine as the coach and now assistant principal would see looking at his dot dot dot, he would call him the gay kid for the day. And then the other kids would make fun
of him because he made it like a game. That's what PDFs do. Century myself there. And this went on for two years when he was in the football team.
However, was Edward Marina suspended immediately? You would think so, right? I mean, the attorney would probably agree. You got credible allegations. Immediately. I don't know if he's guilty or innocent, but he's got to be suspended immediately. Well, Mayor Senator Brian Stack refused to suspend him. Instead, you know what
he said? He told everyone Leroy Truth faked that interview. It was AI. So then I did a video interview with Jonathan Almeida. He said the same exact story. It was explosive. And Mayor Stack, the entire board of
education, not you. I don't think you would do that. They refused to suspend him. And why I'm sharing this with you is what John Agnosti did. We can't
change what happened in the past, but I'm asking to work with the survivors here and any any one of you to protect Union Skitty school children right now. Because after my story came out on my program on Leroy Truth on Facebook,
dozens of other graduates came forward to me. A 2024 graduate just graduated last year. I'm friends with his father. I told his father and his father asked his son, "Did Edward Marine ever whip his
dot dot dot out in front of you?" Knowing his son would say no. His son said, "Yeah, Dad." He used to rip it out all the time. The father said, "I want to go stab that guy in the eye." I said, "Well, no, don't do that. We got courts."
And the father and mother were extraordinarily upset. I then spoke with that young man, I think he's 19. He gave me the same story. He said the coach would gather them all together and if they're not doing well in a game or in a practice and these are not one
kids the entire team and he would huddle them all together and say listen you got to grow some and you need to see what a real man looks like. And he would whip his d same thing. And so I asked this young man, "Were you 15 years old like
Jonathan Ameda?" He said, "No, I was seven. He said, "This coach did it for four years. Everyone knew all the other coaches, all the other teachers, and they never stopped him. And he was on football for four years until they threw
him off the team after he called him a bunch of rapists, 10 or 11 year old. They kicked him off the team. Turns out Edward Marine allegedly has been having sex with students since they were in the ninth grade.
dozens of them for over 23 years. He's still a teacher. That that's is this the connection here. You anyone here can help me to protect these children. And then in finishing this part, I then called the superintendent of schools. I don't think in a million
years your superintendent would ignore my calls and my request for an appointment. She did every single time. They would hang up on me constantly. They know who I am. I've been investigating stack and corruption for now almost two years. She wouldn't give me an appointment. So
I had no choice. I peacefully went to the board of education building which is not even connected with the school. It's miles away. And what does she do? She calls the police. Calls 911. This just happened two weeks ago. Six police show up. They did not escalate.
And they wouldn't she wouldn't see me. Okay. If she doesn't, that's her choice. I made no big deal of it. I then filled out an Opra request. I then went a few days later, Michael Gonzalez came with me and we become very good friends. He shared about his experience and the
horrificness of it and I can relate and the board of education superintendent Sylvia Abbato locked us out of that building public building. I had to call the police to force the superintendent to let us in and they did.
I asked once again Soviet to meet me. would I was told go to the board of education meeting there the next day and share the allegations there and I did peacefully as always for two minutes the attorney which wouldn't be you the attorney read for two minutes how and
they they said this for me you cannot talk about anything other than what's on the agenda which you know is not OPMA you have to have two sessions you have the agenda time and you have open public comment time and I know this was a setup
So, I start sharing the story and simply asking the board of education and the superintendent to immediately suspend Edward Marine, the alleged sexual predator, until the outcome of investigation. Not only did they refuse to do that,
they had police forcibly remove me about two minutes into my public comment time. I just found out I got a new criminal charge. I've I've had over 20 over the last two years. All bogus. new criminal charged for disrupting the public meeting because they said talking
about and trying to get a an alleged sexual predator teacher suspended is not on the agenda. And then it gets worse. I went back there. Well, I went to the board of commission meeting. One minute into my
comment time, out of the five minutes, Mayor Senator Brian Stack shut the entire meeting down. And myself and I have a team. We were threatened with charges, criminal charges before we even walked the building, walked into the building. And then lastly, I once again I'm I'm
committed to protecting these children. I know what they've gone through. I have personally talked to them who have been sexually assaulted by Edward Marine. Even married one of his students as soon as she turned 18. She even let me know in my Facebook chat. So then this past
Friday, I once again peacefully went into attempted to go into the board of education center and they locked me out again. They wouldn't let me in. Superintendent gave strict instructions. No Lew truth in this building. So I once again called
the police. They forced security to let me in. It's all and all of this is documented on video on my channel on on Leroy Truth on Facebook and on YouTube. I once again peacefully asked to speak with the superintendent. They refuse is what it is. Said, "But I want to protect
children. I'm then doing some Oprah requests related to all of this." And then there's one cop. There's two police officers. Three, now four. And then there was a parent that went by with a teenager. And I asked the woman, "Ma'am, have you heard of this teacher
who and I use I didn't even say sex assault, which I could have, but I said who has s allegedly s assaulted children. your child could be in danger and she didn't want to hear it and that's her choice. Suddenly the lieutenant named Lieutenant Glangasta who's on the Brady list, a known liar,
he starts escalating and escalating. So you can't talk to a woman, you know, in public like that and he's not a little kid and I didn't I never used the term sex assault and he kept escalating. I said stand down, disengage. I want to finish my opus, but Mayor Brian Stack had a plan
to have me finally arrested once and for all. So Glenn Gaston, Lieutenant keeps escalating, escalating until he >> just want to be cognizant of the time. It's 75. Um, we usually give two minutes for public comment. You know, out of
respect for all the victims, we've been allowing a lot more time, but I just want you to be aware. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much for your extra time. >> And I got about a minute left I want to share with you. And so I'm sitting there on a chair in the public lobby of the board of education center and this
police officer, Lieutenant Glenn Gaston, is like, you know, you can't talk to her like that. She's long gone. She's not in in here. And one other officer tries to intervene and get him to deescalate, but he won't. And suddenly he grabs me, pulls me off the chair, and then fake
falls, or not fake falls, he intentionally falls back. And the moment he hits the ground, he says, "Aggravated assault. It was a setup. Stack is trying to stop me. I've been numerous death threats, numerous arrests. I was charged, arrested and charged with aggravated assault against police
officer. I went to jail to Hudson County Jail in the weekend. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Why did I go to jail? Because I'm trying to protect children and I'm trying to expose this teacher. The allegations I'm
looking at years in jail. They're throwing the book at me. They want at least 5 to 10 years. Now, coming back to Leonia here again, I have great compassion and I'm here as a support person. I was a leader, one of the leaders that got the Child Victims Act passed in New York State, which came
originally came from Mark the whole the foundation. So any survivors of John >> Agoni they're open to connect with me and I'm asking them to join with me and to you you to join with me because this teacher
is teaching children right now and I don't want him doing more John John Agenasti things to a single child. So thank you for your time. Thank you for the additional time and your attention. God bless you all. Any other members of the public wishing to
speak? Uh, please step forward and state your name and address. Seeing as no more any board comments on non-aggenda related items. So, I I do want to um just say, you know, to the gentleman that was here
before um and to to all of the public um you know, this is a place Mr. Lee said last time um President Lee who's not here today, he said last time, you know, this is if this can be your platform and this is um a space for you to share and for you to to express um this is we we
have you have this space with us. Um and it is we are here for you. Um, like we've said, we can't speak about any active litigation. Um, we've we've said that over and over again. Um, and I cannot speak about what other districts are doing. Um, but I can say confidently
that here in Leonia at this point in time, we do everything that we can. We we have every measure that we possibly can. Um, we do absolutely everything we can to protect our children um of Leonia and of Edgewater that come into our
schools. Um and we take every um every uh everything seriously whether it's um the trainings that we make our employees do or the education that we provide children on uh developing healthy relationships and consent. Um all of
that is very um uh planned, thoughtful, and important to us and important to um we know important to our staff and important to our families. Um so I just wanted to reiterate that. And I know we've said that multiple times in the past, but I did want to reiterate that and just share again that we have
everything in place that we need to and we go above to make sure that our children are safe. >> Yes. Yes. Of course. Have a good night. >> The board will now be going into executive session for approximately 30 minutes. Um after which time we'll
return to take a vote on personnel and adjourn the meeting. Um thank you for attending. um and watching on YouTube. Um uh motion motion uh Mr. Seagull second >> second
>> uh second Mr. Hi. Close session at 7:50 8:45 and we're back in open session. Um, so we will do
um for personnel agenda. Um can I have a motion? >> Motion. >> So Mr. Park and then Mr. Seagull. All in favor? >> I Oh, do we need roll call for that?
>> Okay. Meeting adjourned. Oh, motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Motion, >> Mr. Park, >> second. >> Uh, second, Miss Molina. >> We are adjourned at 8:47.