all right let me know yeah oh okay yeah laura go ahead we're live all right can everybody hear me all right call to order this is a this is to advise the general public that in
compliance with the open public meetings act the lil harbor board of education meeting was advertised in the asbury park press atlantic city press and posted at the office of the board of education located at 307 broadon road little lake harbor new jersey and posted
at the office of the municipal clerk of little lake harbor roll call please mr sakone here mr mr fichello mr fichello chris i think he's frozen all right here i'm
staying here okay uh miss lawrence here mr leega here dr snyder here miss martin here miss ber here you have quorum
okay um can we recite the pledge of allegiance yes we can i have a flag in my office ready for this okay i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the
republic for it stands nation under god indivisibley and justice for all thank you all right i recommend a motion to approve the agenda tonight
uh laura did you did you have an amendment that you wanted to make well yes yes i thought the resolution is going to be on there but yes i i would like to add the resolution if that's all right uh with my letter to the budget
senate budget committee is that okay with everyone if so can i have a motion and would you like me to read the motion we didn't get that ahead of time yeah i sent it to the board members but just to have it on record okay go ahead okay
resolved that the board of education approve the submission of a letter to the new jersey state budget committee chair in support of more p funding to public schools and every and everybody has a co all the board members have a copy of
your letter all right with that thank you can i have a motion motion i have a second second second are there any questions okay all in favor or is that your robert
i'm sorry that's okay all in favor i i any opposed any abstensions the motion carries okay the floor is now open to the members of the public the board of
education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues the board requests that each statement made by a participant is limited to three minutes as cited in policy 0167 there is a sign in sheet please sign in or please state your name before
you speak and we have access for the public to actually call in yes they do okay okay so they're they're admitting people into the meeting who have signed up to speak okay
i hope i'm going to be able to hear them i'll let you know what they say if you can't okay say it it's just saying okay oh we can't well we can't do all 200 okay so yeah apparently there's a lot of
people that want to speak and they can't get in that's i have a neighbor also that said the same thing as allison okay so um uh yeah i thought they could call in apparently they're waiting to get in the
zoom okay okay do you have a list of people who were who were trying to get into the zoom i don't i i just had a neighbor text me i i was on the live version and there is no phone number listed so i just went to there from here
you know i see the closed captions because i have closed captioning in but there's no phone number posted unless you have a phone number even the admin can't get in message to everyone in the waiting room asking who wants to speak oh okay we're sending a message to everyone in the
waiting room asking who wants to speak because it's it's either an all or nothing you have to let them all in or or none so is amy easturner first speaker can you say that again chris is amy eastburn our first speaker we
don't know yet well she's on the she was admitted as one of the participants we're asking to see who's who wants to speak and we're going to admit those people in so i just got another text saying that
people are trying to get in parents and staff members to ask questions but they can't okay is the note out there to say if you want to get in please okay and who's who's did nobody
okay i'm not sure you can see the chat in the waiting room can you yeah no you can't you can't see the chat not in the waiting room you have to be in to see the chat so you either have to start letting people
in or a plan b is there any way you could get the phone number any other way what's what's he doing we're just going to let one person at a time okay all right we're going to let we're going to
start letting people in okay oh it's there please respond to this message if you'd like to make a public yes but i just got a text message saying there's no chat in the waiting room so they don't see that okay can he put a chat in the waiting
room but did you you're only talking to us in that chat the only for us it it doesn't work that way they're on the outside either you let everybody in or you don't which come and look come and look no
there's this is all i see michelle would you like to speak michelle would you like to speak no okay cindy can you can you can you let them in just in the chat and like mute them and tell them if they want to chat you
can't mute them all okay miss plesi would you like to speak miss plesi would you like to speak miss pig miss pacy would you like to speak okay so she all right she's on mute so she's a no who's next on the list
and jessica would you like to speak nick are they unmuted because they're showing is muted on my screen all right can you can you unmute the people that you're letting in they are muting themselves oh they're mute okay so they're muting themselves
all right nick let them in if they're if they're if they're muting themselves then then they can't hear me so now they're saying they can see the chat box but there's no let me see what it wrote um can see chat now but no response box in order to be able to
respond to write something in there hey um i'm being bombarded with text messages right now so i'm just going to try to replay what's going on people are saying that they were never told it was going to be on youtube and they can't get in
um people are concerned about there being a waiting line of everybody who needs to speak um they're very i my phone has been blowing up constantly now for the last 45 minutes so can you state your name
amy english and jacqueline finnegan was in the in the waiting room she got booted out so we're in a whole group chat and we're just trying to figure out what's going on parents are on the facebook page saying that they were never notified that it was going to be on youtube they have no way of
contacting anybody so can this be meeting be adjourned until the tech issues get worked out because there's hundreds of people trying to get in yeah i think we should reschedu i do think there's too many technical
difficulties here i'm good with that i i'll also okay so i'm going to just can somebody make a motion and somebody else second it well can we discuss on what date we're going to be talking about here because i thought there was an urgency
to have it today and that's why i modified my schedule to be here this evening we can't have it without public comment so i appreciate that but can we decide to do it thursday we need a
couple i can't do it thursday i i can't christine christine once we make the motion and somebody seconds it then we can open it up for discussion okay okay so can someone make a motion i'll motion it okay john sakone is the
first yes i okay and and mr leega is the second what's the motion uh the motion is to postpone the to discuss to postpone the meeting and discuss a meeting that can be held uh live
okay so this this discussion is what's a good date for everybody oh oh wait live yes because i thought we were going to postpone till wednesday or thursday we could do it virtual that doesn't work out well that's what that's what we're discussing now i think i
don't think we should do virtual i think live is best i think there's too many people to consider this virtual if we have 200 people in the waiting room right now um i think there's too many questions um and i you know i just don't think
it's possible um thursday's a really difficult day for me but i was under the impression that this had to be done today is that not correct that we did not have to approve it by this deadline of today the county office was encouraging us to do it as soon as possible but it was not required so and
i and i'm out of state so i was hoping to get this done tonight we'll we'll be able to we'll be able to put you in virtually laura can we do next monday uh live i can't do mondays i have cl night class and i let them out next tuesday
it should be this week it should be this week wednesday possibly i'm going to fly out to florida on thursday so wednesday would work for me if that's works for that would be this week but otherwise tuesday next week would be for me i can do wednesday
i'll make myself available for wednesday abby abby you have to be available because i won't be there to run the meeting just in case there's any more glitches i'd like you to run the meeting 11 i'll make whatever day work that i
need to i'm good for wednesday right yeah i'm sorry guys i can't be there but laura we can we can put you in virtually that's what i'm saying i don't yeah i don't like to run the meeting virtually
but well you won't you won't have to abby said that she would take over okay what time on wednesday 7 o'clock okay with everybody after six is best for me
seven is good the earliest i'd be available is 7 7:30 would work best for me uh but i can make seven work okay so so i'm hearing that we'll res we'll reschedule the meeting for um for march 20 wednesday march 26th at
7 p.m yes yes that gives the newspapers enough time yeah we we have just under 48 hours we only have to send it out we'll we'll send it out right we'll send it out right now email blast and we have to
send it on our our messenger hopefully for the parents yes we can do that and and just a reminder this will be live everybody comes to the board of ed comes to the and can i just ask a question can we this needs to be in person
yes correct can can i uh can we accommodate people that were able to attend this evening because it was virtual and possibly allow them to email questions that they would like read and answered at the board meeting well it's for comment it's for public
comment not necessarily back and forth but they they can comment certainly i mean we used to have it years ago that um you know the public would send in questions to be addressed at the board meeting so it's not a back and forth but at least they can have if they have a question regarding the budget or
anything about this that they could have answered that evening cuz think about it when do we ever have 200 people potentially trying to one of our meetings don't forget this is a special meeting there's going to be another meeting accepting the budget
i appreciate that but there's a possibility that people want to put their input when they feel that it's still going to be heard before we're finalizing it that's just me from being a parent in the past i you guys that's fine but we don't normally go back and forth with every comment is what i'm
saying or answer every single question the board's questions you know they're free to ask questions it's a board meeting but people public comment they're free to comment on anything they want well could we uh start to populate a
list of those individuals that came out tonight that would like to comment not have a back and forth comment about what they want to comment about populate that list so that they will get that opportunity we just go in order they can
reach out and send an email that they would like to have the opportunity to have three minutes to make a comment can you put them on a list yeah that they can come to the meeting and and we'll have a list well i just thinking if there's that this many people it might be organized
we can organize it it can be organized yeah we can't promise that we read everybody's comments if they're three minutes long but i mean they can submit commentary for sure send we don't we don't have a time length on public comment we don't have it's not in our policy anywhere that public comment is
list limited to an hour and a half limited to two hours are there if people are there for three hours they could be there for three hours so we don't have that having this in advance and potentially answering these questions what i'm saying
christine is that the board doesn't have to read all the public comment they can submit it ahead of time i'm just saying people that want to speak they let it be known that they would like to speak so we have an idea
of how many people are planning on speaking they're going to come and say what they want to say and they're given you know as christine's saying they can there isn't a time limit but at least they know they're going to get an opportunity by getting their name on the list kind of like getting into the club
you know what i mean but uh allison every there is a time limit three three minutes per person every everybody's in the club anybody who wants to speak is allowed to speak there's there's no it's an unlimited amount of time that the board allows for each individual to
speak but understand i think there is there a time limit that we have to end the board meeting on wednesday we are starting later and i'm there's no time limit so we can be there till one o'clock in the morning i've been i've done it before i have a question though what if there's just an
email address that people that are on here now want to comment you know maybe they can't make it wednesday but they want to just have their voice heard is there an email address that someone can send an email to thank you chris that's perfect you have a district email that's okay but we cannot read those i understand that laura but i want to see
what the the public has to say and what their thoughts are and since they're here already the very least after making them wait we should be able to give them an opportunity to tell us what they're thinking anybody can email but laura we're trying this is a very
challenging time and this did not go well for any of us involved this evening and i realize some technical things were out of our control cindy no but i do think that the people that took the time to sign on and waited for us to start they have a right to be
heard by us compassion saying they don't have a right to be heard you're saying they don't have a right to be heard as i'm speaking to make it easy for them if there's a generic email so they don't have to go on the website and look up every one of us is there like info at
little harbor school district yeah we're creating we're creating one right now we're going to create one right now we're in the midst of creating one and then you're going to post it in the chat yes yes yes and then anybody that's on here that you know wants to comment or
question or you know just like a regular comment correct just send it to that email yeah just everybody everybody stays on and we're going to post it in the comment being created right now there is a comment in the
chat stating 152 people are currently watching on youtube youtube comments in chat are off i understand we i don't think they're ever turned on but the comment is in the chat i don't and i think what chris and i and i don't
like to speak for other people ever but um we just value the people that came out tonight um logged on even if you're comfy sitting on your couch watching it we really appreciate it and we want you to get your chance email on youtube okay so we're going to get that email
posted on youtube very shortly oh and in this chat too all right just give us a few minutes we'll have that is there anything else we can do in the meantime or just wait for that
yeah we got the meeting time but but is it 200 people at about 10 hours robert did you hang up on me nope i'm still here okay okay so right now we're just waiting we're create getting an email created so that we can post it on youtube and in
the chat so that um everybody can send in a comment or a question via the uh email all caps okay go ahead and post it okay email is about to be posted on youtube and in the chat
apologize to the robert i'd like to apologize to the public for uh this uh technology problem i guess it is technical difficulty yeah and uh apologize and you know they'll have their chance to be be in person now
because of this okay so somebody's asking it to be posted on facebook we'll post it on our facebook website okay or not website on our facebook page okay we'll get that posted on the facebook page
too okay there it is l e go ahead chris l e h s d as in school district b o e as in board of education q a at
lessd.org so i'll repeat that lh s d b o e qa at lessd.org did we get it on the youtube page yet there's no chat in youtube okay we're there's no chat in the
youtube so we'll post put it on our screen somehow and this way people will see it you know use a whiteboard something on zoom drop it in the chat they're seeing the chat now too no but on youtube they can't see the chat can they oh okay i'm sorry i misunderstood oh if we put it on the a whiteboard or
something then everyone will be able to see it uh amy english said to write on a piece of paper and hold it up christine's grabbing paper ready b o e q okay she's uh uh we're going to put it
up on the youtube right now there's mine i don't know if you can see mine i can't see me and you might as well put it on the the text message that went out an hour ago about this meeting because everyone is probably signing in through there as well i don't think you can see me but
but there should be a whiteboard application you can just put the whiteboard up and put it on there click okay you could see who's talking and you can see over okay
i want to show you our superintendent there she is miss guski or gagookski we can hear you you need to mute please you guys are live we can hear and see you now robert i guess we could talk about
this later or now um as you get these emails how is it going to be distributed to the board how are we going to get to see all these is it going to be aggregated or um i can i can print copies out and send them to the board why don't we see what
we get and then we can determine how best to distribute it yeah however you guys come up with the way to do it want to make sure we see it okay it's now up on the uh it's now up on the um youtube site
thank you for the whiteboard ab you're welcome can you make this i do this all day for work can i make it bigger think so anybody that can see that can hit the little plus on the right hand corner of the bottom of the screen it'll go bigger
for them there she goes she's got it [Music] might your box okay good thank you and they just made a suggestion can you please include the email with the
announcement the new the new meeting notice and the reminder via blackboard so if we could just make sure that anything that goes out regarding the new meeting has this email and that was from the chat yeah anywhere we post this will
be on there anything public is there is there a zoom webinar license that we could have gotten here that might have helped us out no this was this was it we got the pro package again in the past uh greg what we would do i don't know if that uh we would um
there would be a number a phone number and people would call in on youtube live um and we would pause give people a chance to call in and that's how we would answer it and respond to their questions um this is the first time that we've ever tried to do it with just oh
so was that john um the last the last time this is the first time we've ever tried to do it strictly through zoom well there were so many people that the president couldn't even get in so this was a bad idea i guess
well i don't think in the past we've ever included the zoom link we've let we've never done it where we've let people have the zoom link this is the first time we've done that in the past we've done it where they've watched live and the phone number and the zoom was just for board members that's what we
did during co facebook amanda in the chat said "can you please send us out to all the parents in the community via text and email the same way you're notified everyone about the special meeting?" yes that's what i said before yep i
agree yeah all right so what else do we have to do right now i think we have to adjourn the meeting i hope that this many people come in person i know i say this all the time and i know this is um very different
circumstances but uh it'd be really great to see people in person regularly um just to have regular attendance from the community and parents um so if you can make the time please do
yes sorry just wanted to say that i'm happy yep does anybody else want to say anything before we adjourn i just want to thank everyone for coming out and i do really hope that i get to
see everyone's questions um if they submit them um and that we have a chance um to address them if you have a question and i do hope that you also are able to come in public on wednesday um because i do think this is a very
important topic and we really do want the public's input and we really want to hear from everyone um i do not forget where i came from and i remember being a parent sitting in the audience um as agendas are being passed and
people are saying yes so i very much listen to people when they speak so please know that and thank you for coming tonight yeah i just want to say i apologize for the way this uh meeting went it wasn't our intention to do you know all these
technical things um but we did provide a way for you to have your voice heard we definitely want to hear uh what you have to say whether it's via email or if you show up on wednesday it's going to be a tough next couple months um and we do want to hear we want to make sure that you have a voice and that we want to
hear the feedback um thank you for joining us tonight and thank you very much for your patience thank you chris okay anyone else i have a motion to adjurnn motion second
all those in favor i i i i i thank you good night we'll see you wednesday at 7 o'clock right correct i thought it was 7:30 no no 7 p.m chris said that or somebody else said
that frank said 7:30 i think it was better for him yeah we have to do what works for the public and uh also we're expecting a lot of comment i think the earlier the better
seven's fine i would agree okay we're going to close the meeting now okay good night good night good night