here here here here thank you so much adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the following means an annual notice was sent to the uh Record
newspaper Township Clerk and posted in the lobby of the town hall and board office setting forthcoming schedu meetings and public meetings of the board approval sorry need to approve the minutes from
the last meeting janary motion drino four Miss Stella four and Mr valano motion carries next up we have uh Drew banro here as our student representative report please good evening to all thank you for joining us here tonight um the
LHS Student Government held a Super Bowl themed can drive from January 31st to February 7th during this time students were encouraged to bring in cans of soup or other food items and place them in one of the two bins near the student entrance based on which team they were rooting for during the big game students
were also told to place a sticky note with their name and grade on the can so that they may receive class points for their participation a Tricky Tray was held at the senior center on February 13th at 6:30 with proceeds going towards renovating the LHS wheat room many LHS
clubs and organizations chose to contribute baskets filled with themed items for the event congrats to the cast of lay misel on their exceptional performances on February 13th 14th and 15th at 7 p.m. tickets were sold in advance online and at the door of Linhurst middle school for $12 with the
class of 2027 fundraising during intermission by selling snacks and other Refreshments with their 2-0 win over Montville on February 22nd the LHS bowling team won the North two group to State sectional Championship congratulations to them there was a mlan Awards interest meeting held for the
senior class on February 24th during lunchtime in the auditorium students were informed on the process of applying for scholarships of the mlan awards and the various requirements for the application the future Business Leaders of America have been hard at work these past few weeks preparing for the state leadership conference which is set to
take place from March 10th to March 12th the conference is set to include competitive events officer elections and various workshops for m members to attend relating to the respective interests furthermore members who are planning to attend the conference got the chance to work on their projects and present them to miss Lelo and Miss
chanowski on February 26th in preparation for the event this concludes my report thank you thank you so much state monitor's report please I have reviewed the financial reports for the month ending January 2025 and support tonight's
resolution that certifies that there were sufficient funds available based on the January financials to meet the district's Financial Obligations for the remainder of the 2425 school year the state has just released state aid figures to all districts and our district is receiving a reduction in
state aid as compared to last year's amount the administration is now developing the 2025 and 2026 preliminary budget based on the reduction in state a that was just received the board must adopt and file their preliminary budget to the county
by march8 March 19th 2025 I have also reviewed and discussed the resolutions on tonight's agenda with Mr dorso and support his recommendations to the board that they approve all of the resolutions on tonight's agenda this
concludes my report for this evening thank you so much Mr demov and I just want to for my part of report I just wanted to thank Drew again for always doing an amazing job and I want to recognize as well from a board perspective uh the play lay mid is and
Drew's role in that and what remarkable performance it was and an incredible task for all involved so we want to we want to thank them for all that they do uh Jean veljan is a tough role to play and and just so you know bring it home is one of my favorite said you did an
amazing job so thank you so much uh as an external OB I'm not directly involved with our relationship with ph Felician uh but I just want to let everyone know that I do work there and when I walk the Halls um there's a couple things that are happening I see a lot of the liner
students around not only going to class but uh using facilities studying I thought it was remarkable to see I shared that with you Joe as well um and uh my colleagues said that some of the students are a lot of the students there are are more engaged than some of our
own students uh and that's exciting to hear about uh as well um and uh just wanted to uh just remind families and parents who are watching that if if there's any issues that come up there is a on on the on the um the School Board
website there is a chain of command and a place to look at who they need to contact as they go through that and uh just remind them that transparency is important part of our mission uh here as a board uh thanks so much I'm going to pass this over to the superintendent
report Mr torso thank you Dr Scardino um just to piggyback off of what Dr Scardino said too um our Felician program has really been growing gr and expanding and in fact um Mr demov talked about our budget next year um and although you know we did receive a
reduction a we are expanding our Felician program and we also are building a trade program at the high school so um we are um obviously um you know wanting our students to explore um their interest and their passion that
doesn't necessarily mean um that that's a college experience you know at Felician or whatever College they eventually choose to go to we have to also um honor and value the students that may not be going the college route so right now we're currently renovating um a room in the basement of the high
school and next year we're going to be offering four new electives um in the trade Fields um so we're really excited about that um I hope in the very near future um to have some pictures um for everyone um hopefully by maybe the March 27th board meeting will be a little bit
further along in that process and I can highlight some of the renovations down there and we do know the courses we're going to be offering so I can share that um with the community um like Mr demov said um unfortunately we did get a reduction but um you know myself along
with the admin team have been preparing for that um the state put out a memo a few weeks ago um so we expected that so um you know we're trimming in certain areas and looking at ways to restructure programs and bring additional revenues into the district so we're working to do that um that will be showcased on March
18th like Mr demov said the the budget needs to get to the county on the 19th so we're going to hold the special meeting March 18th at 5:45 here um to to to review the budget um and go through it
um uh also in the in the agenda you'll see that the calendar for next school year the 25 26 school year it's right directly after um page 7 you'll see the calendar um like Drew said also
congratulations to our bowling team this is now the second sports team that has won a sectional title and um we're going to be honoring them in the March 27th board meeting we're definitely honoring the volleyball team I'd like to honor both that night
um we'll see but um congratulations to them so um we have a great um we have great things going on throughout the district whether it's the the play like Dr Scardino said our sports teams our academic programs our trade programs so we're trying to expanding grow and do everything we can to give opportunities
to every student no matter what their interest is um and we just need to just stay stay the course so um thank you everyone and that concludes my report thank you so much uh the first committee we're going to look at is finance Mr
petronio he has to see if anybody yeah like my students I don't leave yes thank you public uh to be heard on agenda of items we don't have anyone um now board discussion and formal business agenda
no one Mr petronia please Finance pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the committee on finance recommends the following resolutions be moved forward for a roll call vote I make a motion to
move forward Finance resolutions 1 through 15 to be adopted second second Mr abat roll call Mr aat for Mr andrinopoulos for Mr guso for Mr
petronzio for Dr Scardino for Miss Stella for and Mr valano for motion carries education and curriculum uh Mr Valvano please pursuant to the recommendations of the superintendent of schools the committee on education and
curriculum recommends the following resolutions be moved forward for a roll call vote I make a motion to move move forward education and curriculum resolutions 1 through 4 to be adopted second second mrat roll call Mr abat for Mr andrinopoulos for Mr guso
for Mr petronzio for Dr Scardino for Miss Stella for and Mr valano for motion carries thank you policy rules and regulations Miss Stella pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent schools the committee of policies and
rules and regulation recommends the following resolutions be moved forward for a roll call vote I make a motion move to forward policies and rules and regulations number one through two to be adopted second second Mr rate roll call Mr
rate Mr andrinopoulos Mr guso four Mr petronio four Dr Scardino four Miss Stella four and Mr valano motion carries personnel mrat the recommendation of the
superintendent Committee of personnel recommends the following resolution be moved forward for roll call vote I make a motion to move forward Personnel resolution a12 M8 to be adopted can I get a motion second Mr andrinopoulos roll call Mr
Abate for Mr andrinopoulos Mr gusa uh Mr petronia four Dr Scardino for Miss Stella for and Mr valano motion
carries uh new business okay just before we do new business I just wanted to uh since we got past Personnel I just wanted to uh thank Mr Nick Cardone for all he's been to this District uh if you didn't know he's moving on to a new
position and I always hear the word that some people are irreplaceable and I I put him in that particular area um we can't thank you enough uh from a personal perspective you inspired my daughter to love rock and roll which is quite remarkable these days and uh from on behalf of the board
and everyone up here we wish you nothing but the best and and God bless you thank you Nick uh business uh any new business no nobody for public On and nobody for all right motion to serious
that's it all right make a motion motion to adjourn second I was gonna say it motion to adjourn second all favor against abstentions motion carries meeting adjourned 714