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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: r-n5AkYhJqI):
- 00:06:50: Student, Teacher, and Education Professional of the Year
- 00:14:00: Gratitude for Staff Hard Work and Refreshment Break
- 00:24:34: Public Comments Begin; Facilities Requests Discussion
- 00:31:45: Public Comment Continues: Rules and Appreciation
- 00:37:53: Budget Transparency, Public Involvement, and Constructive Criticism
- 00:39:48: Board Echoes Public Concerns, Revenue, and Enrollment
- 00:42:35: Consent Agenda Approval and Quick Updates
- 00:43:35: State Testing, Surveys, ACS Playground Grant Update
- 00:45:11: Science Lab Bids, Year-End Closing, Supply Orders
- 00:45:45: AP Exams, Flag Football, Prom, Celebrations Discussed
- 00:47:12: Committee Reports: Education, Finance, Policy, Governance
- 00:48:44: Public Comments on Non-Agenda Items - None.
- 00:49:02: Board Comment: Delegate Assembly, Health Costs, Cameras
- 00:52:42: Executive Session Motion and Adjournment Preparation
- 00:53:13: Motion on Personnel Items Before Final Adjournment


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Smile. I would like to talk about She's gentle. and artists contribute to the welder environment that makes me such a special. She has also been an incredible supporter of our club and making

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critical contributions to both our garden and the creation of our help students new projects. I would like to congratulate and for

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our student. Next up, we have our teacher of the year, Mrs. Aler. It's my honor and privilege to recognize this year's LMS teacher of the year. Mrs. She is an exceptional supporter of our

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students and collaborative team. Most importantly, she ensures that every student feel valued and support by holding the highest standards for their learning and for their growth. Her leadership, professionalism, and dedication make a lasting impact on our

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entire school community each and every privilege to congratulate Miss Thank you for all that we do for our students and our work as goes

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to ensure that every student She collaboration. She played a key role this year in building strong collaboration with our ESS team during their first year at LHS. And her clear communication with students and families helps navigate even the most complex

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situations. Whether through her counseling, case management, flex activities, or her role as senior class advisor, Rachel brings professionalism, compassion, and reliability to everything she does. She's deeply respected by students,

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families, and colleagues alike, and her positive team oriented approach makes a lasting impression on our school community. Congratulations to Miss Rachel as our educational services professional of the year. for our teacher of the year. Miss Lauren

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Kelby exemplifies the very best of the high school. She's a passionate and highly skilled educator who brings history to life through creative, engaging experiences that challenge and inspire her students. Whether guiding them through interactive simulations

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such as her Renaissance lesson where students their desk to recreate Michelangelo's painting of the chapel ceiling which I witnessed myself but

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her historical speed dating activity that deepens understanding of differences or differing perspectives. She maintains high expectations while ensuring every student had the support to succeed. Lauren is also a leader among her colleagues. consistently

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sharing innovative practices, fostering collaboration, and strengthening our school community. Her commitment extends well beyond the classroom through meaningful experiences including field trips to Washington DC, Boston, Germany,

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and the 911 museum or those were just this year alone, as well as her work with student clubs. Respected and admired by students, families, and staff alike, Lauren's dedication, and leadership make her truly deserving of this recognition.

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Congratulations to Miss Kel as our teacher of the year at Leon High School. so much that are here are professionals as well. Um but really without all of you and the

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exemp work you're doing really none of it can happen at all. We're really grateful for the hard work. We're going to take a few minutes to some refreshments to cate Okay, I'm going to call the two-minute warning.

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If you could back to your seats, appreciate it. Now item four comments. probably the same. Question 13. Yeah, my Okay.

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I'm also Okay. There's certain rules. I appreciate that something by this time nextle for And then

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some of the other items probably working on our facilities request. We do have to, you know, I appreciate the in the building. Um we do have a lot of summer programs that run out of here. So most of our summer there are students in the building for various programs including our program here. Um but we

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will definitely Wait a few seconds. We'll do some digging into it. efforts by generator. Every year's tough paste. our mission

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administrative staff. I say it all the time. We do that particular your point. Anyone public. Our budgets are also posted online. Everything is out there for what we're, you know, what we're doing and where our money is being spent. Um, and

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and it's the board's responsibility on a monthly basis to look at and approve the bills that come through. Um, so, but I appreciate I appreciate you you making that comment. Um, and I encourage the public, you know, always like take a look, see what's involvement

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from the public um in the school district. I would love to see more people come and have questions that have more interest. I think it does speak volumes to what our staff is doing that that I think that's we're doing a good job and for the most part you know most people taxpayers in town, parents,

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they're happy with what we're doing and you know that's what we strive to do to keep up all the time. But thank you for I really do appreciate you calling that out. And we're and we are not perfect. So we do we do appreciate, you know, positive criticism or

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>> we appreciate you keeping us on our toes. >> Excuse me. Constructive criticism. Any other board member comments? >> Yeah, I ju I just wanted to echo kind of what they said already, Arthur. Like I hear from the public, not just Leonia,

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but every every town especially, they're going through hardships. It's the board wasting money. And to your point, if you just look over the bills, you could see exactly which what each school is spending on. Um, but everyone that says

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that never points to an item like saying you wasting money because you spent X. um if they ever do it, they just say administrating cost, but they don't really explain anything fruitful. They just take that s sound bite and say it's

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a wasted. So to your point, I I hope they all like audit and look over it for a couple weeks and then you could come back and say if that's true or not. Um and then the same thing for bringing in revenue. I I know you mentioned the one child. Um, I know Zanti, maybe you could

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speak to a little bit more, but if there's ever opportunities, it could be more than one child that paid um, tuition in our school district. >> Yes. Um, in my notes last week to the board, I shared that we are our parent

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paid. So, we have districts that come in uh, that send us their students. So, that's usually special ed students. Um so we generate revenues that way but we also have parent paid tuitions where parents elect to send their students to our schools. So we are up to our um

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eighth parent paid tuition for next school year. Um this year we had uh was seven we had this for 2526 and now we're we're heading at eight for next school year. So and we keep listen we we have the space right because we know that enrollment is going down. We have strong

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programs. So we get this is the time of year where when students don't get into Bergenmies, we're literally the second option. Like we're the next best thing. Um which is great, right? Because Bergen Academy I personally I think we are the best thing but um you know some people

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may think differently. Um but you know we our principles do a very good job with getting those kids meeting those parents making sure they're good fits. We don't just let anyone in either. You know there has to be a record review process and all of that. Um, and that's to keep um our school integrity. Like we

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don't want to just open the doors and let anybody in and then cause problems for ourselves. So, any other board member comments? Okay, seeing none, we will move on to approval of consent agenda. That's item 2.1. Can I have a motion and a second?

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Motion. Dr. in a second. >> Second, >> Mr. Park. Um, any items that any board members would like to discuss. >> Okay, seeing none, can we have roll call, please? >> Dr. Mester.

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>> Yes. Mr. Park, >> yes. >> Miss Rabana, >> yes. >> Mr. Zepka, >> yes. >> Mr. Sagal, >> yes. >> Vice President Thompson, >> yes. >> President Lee, >> yes. >> Motion pass.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Okay, so that brings us to item 4.1. Dr. Parammanos, >> I just have four quick updates. Um, I know we had the teachers here and the education service professionals. Um, but four things I wanted to um share with the board. We are wrapping up state

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testing. We had science testing, uh, makeups, uh, APS, you know, wrapping all of that up and then we will be back to normal buildings to end the year. And we're very excited for the end of year. We've got a lot of, you know, we're gearing up to that time of the year where every night there's a different event. Um, including tomorrow the

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elementary school um, musical and then, uh, Thursday is the spring concert at the high school. Um, we're be everywhere. So, if you're there, I look forward to seeing you. Um, we just closed our school culture and climate survey. Our administrative staff will

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dive into that data in over the summer with the their skip committees with their school improvement panels. Um, they'll work on uh analyzing that data, seeing the growth over time, and then making plans for the next school year. Um, and I did want to point out one item on the agenda that was uh on the consent

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agenda was the local recreation recreational improvement grant that we received. Um, we applied for this grant back in January. Um it was uh you had to apply. It wasn't like a just a a given grant, right? You had to actually apply for it. And it was a a competitive

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grant. Thank you. It was competitive. Couldn't think of the word. Um it was a competitive grant. Um we applied for that grant to uh support some of the work that needs to be done in the ACS playground, including the flood mitigation work and uh some improvements

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to the equipment. So that grant we it's uh about $69,000. Um and there's a district match and that will be towards again the flood mitigation and then some uh improvement upgrades whatever we can do after the flood mitigation is taken care of.

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>> Wonderful. Thank you. >> Um Dr. Niss >> just a uh a couple items. Uh one we'll be accepting bids May 28th for the science lab renovation. So we're excited

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to get that moving. We are uh very much in the process of closing out the school year. Uh not only we closing out this school year, we've already started the purchasing process for next school year. So all of our schools, teachers, administrators are busy uh putting

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together their supply orders for next year and we're looking forward to getting all that stuff out and make sure that we get it back in time for the opening of school. >> Thank you. And that brings us to Mia. >> Um, as Dr. Carmono said, AP exams just

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wrapped up last week from May 8th to May 15th. And the girls flag football team has been on a 6-0 streak with AJ Scopa winning coach of the week from the Jets flag football team. And senior prom is coming up on May 28th.

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And pre-prom at the high school is a thing. If you've never been, it's a great experience. All the come dressed and they, you know, they walk in, they get their red carpet moment. It's one of probably one of my favorite events of the year to see our our seniors all doled up like that.

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Every day from now until June 25th, the big day here, we've got a lot of great things we're celebrating in the next few weeks. Yes. >> How far did

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>> Okay, that brings us to committee reports. Um, education, Miss Thompson, >> we are meeting this Friday. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Um, finance and planning. That's Miss Choice. She's not here tonight, but we we did not meet recently. Um, so we'll look forward to

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an update at our next meeting. Um, 5.3 is policy. Um, policy, we did meet yesterday and we reviewed several items. Yes. Uh we reviewed the um some hygiene management plan policies um just to uh

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change over some language uh to be um the designate who who the design would be. Um we also reviewed the uh policy for gifted and talented our regulations for gifted and talented um to to kind of reflect the work that we've done over

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the school year. A lot of the programs that will be in place for the next school year now our our policy and regulations will reflect that. Um, those will both be on the agenda for June. >> Thank you. Sorry, I didn't have my notes pulled up.

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Um, and that brings us to board governance. Mr. Sle, >> we haven't met live, but we have been working towards some end of year goals offline and we continue to share those updates um the next meeting. >> Thank you.

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Okay, that brings us to public comments on non-aggenda items. Anyone from the public wishing to speak? Okay, seeing none, um we'll move on to board comment on non-aggenda items. Any comments from the board on on any non-aggenda items?

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>> So, um the uh I went to the last um the Saturday I went to the uh the delegate assembly for the P one and there's a couple things they just passed it but um nothing really major but um just like a couple things that they passed it was um oh or before

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that actually they also like all other schools the same thing has a pro trouble with you know healthcare cost is the same as like ours and so um the basically one of the item they passed it was um the uh you know due to the uh you know um the uh ICE

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investigation the school which is already does it that um a lot of school. We just basically proposed that the uh you know the school and school grounds um you know prevented the ISIS of that with those and other thing is that um the pilot program you guys pilot program

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is right and usually um that is um the only just like municipality versus whatever the developer but I'm like the school one we want we like to involve as well too so there's some some codes that can be you know um that discuss a school

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as well too part of it and also um I mean that's pretty much it and you know these these um the rules are not really impossible but however these are like our the SBA's um you know position that um you know these are like we're going to um lobby to the uh you know the

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our lawmakers and stuff so hopefully uh the u better situation happens and one more thing is that um is a separate item um the uh is that possible that we could add some security camera at the uh lockers

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near because like um the IM I'm hearing that that there's a No, no, I mean the you know the the the book lockers >> the hallway. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Um I mean we have cameras everywhere but we we could talk more about that's a

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security thing. I don't know if we want to talk about that in general public. >> Yeah. Because I'm hearing that there's some couple instant that like students uh uh you know took out somebody's belongings from the >> Thank you, Mr. Park. Um, I actually

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forgot under the agenda items or under the board comment for agenda items, I did want to um discuss item 7.1, which is under finance. Um, and and it alludes to what Mr. Park was talking about at the the state delegate assembly. Um it's

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a resolution essentially supporting um basically school districts who are struggling for through finances in particular because of increase in in health costs. Um it's it's pervasive. This problem is happening not only for schools but also for for state

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government, municipal government um with all the increases in health costs. It that spreads to everybody, right? So, um, you know, through taxes, uh, this resolution that's on, uh, it was it was requested to be to be provided, um, and requested for for school boards to to

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support, um, a push for the state to actually look into to see what they can do to actually help support us financially, um, to navigate through this issue. Uh, because if these increases in health insurance, which are double digits the last three years, um, like no one's going to be able to

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survive that. So, I just wanted to make sure I called that out and um make sure I remind Dr. Nissen off after, you know, after tonight's vote that tomorrow we send the sign resolution over to, I believe, our state delegates. So, with that, uh any other board members

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any comments on non-aggenda items? Okay, so that brings us to item 12.1, executive session. We do have a need to enter into executive session tonight. Um we expect to be in executive session I'll say for about 30 minutes. Um can I

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have a motion to go into closed? Motion >> Mr. Park second Dr. Mester. All in favor? >> Any opposed or abstensions? >> Okay we are in close session at 7:56 p.m. For those people watching on YouTube we'll be back in about 30 minutes to vote on personnel and to

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adjourn. Mia, thank you for being here. Okay, we are live on YouTube. Okay, can I have a motion and a second on personnel items? >> Motion, Mister. Second, Mr. Park, can we have roll call, please? >> Yes.

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I Mr. Rabana, >> yes. >> Mr. Zepka, >> yes. >> Mr. Sagal, >> yes. >> Vice President Thompson, >> yes. >> President Lee, >> yes. >> Thank you. And can I have a motion for adjournment? >> Motion.

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>> Mr. Zucker. Second. >> Second. >> That was close. I think uh Mr. Park I think Mr. Park edged you out. All in favor? >> Abstensions? We are adjourned at 8:56