under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all roll call mr abate here mr andronopoulos here mr geruso here miss Pasamano here mr pasamano here mr petronio here dr
scardino here miss Stella here and Mr valano is absent you have quum sir adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the following means annual notice was sent to the record newspaper township clerk and posted in the lobby
of town hall and the board office setting forthcoming schedule work meetings and public meetings of the board approval of the minutes thank you mr second roll call mr abate four mr andronopoulos four mr garuso four miss
Pasamano abstain mr pamo Mr petronzio four dr scardino four and Miss Stella four motion carries we don't have student representative so we don't
have uh state monitors report i have reviewed and discussed the preliminary 2025 2026 school year budget with Mr d Corso and support his recommendation to the board that they approve finance resolutions 1 through six and education and curriculum
resolution one all related to the preliminary budget approval and submission to the county office and adopt the preliminary 2526 budget as presented and that concludes my report thank you so much Mr demikov uh from a
from a board president uh perspective since we're here for the budget and uh I just wanted to share that last night we had a an incredible turnout to discuss some of the potential changes and things and I wanted to thank uh the community
for coming out i think one of the things uh that I hear all the time is transparency and access and uh we struggle with that uh not us because I think we try to be but I but I get the understanding that how hard it is to trust or believe in the way government
can be so I I really appreciate uh the people I know there's several of you that were here last night as well here tonight uh to open to have a discussion i thought Mr d Cororso did a great job uh framing everything out and I just wanted to thank the community at large i
we to the point of a couple of members it would we we love seeing people here we think it's important for high levels engagement so I wanted to thank the public for being here uh one of our goals as a board is to be transparent and to be um you know move in a in a
forwardminded perspective because too for too many for too long we've seen things just sort of go dayto-day and that's not how we're operating so uh we appreciate your trust in that and I want to say thank you to all of you for being here and thank you for Mr dorso for
making himself available last night in such a um um you know long way we had a little bit of a um drama at the end i hope in the end you you all see that in general the board is just trying to create an opportunity for us to to engage with you and and because of that
forum Mr dorso and I talked about it and we'd like to have more of those open forums maybe you know coffee with the board coffee with the superintendent things like that that we think uh are going to be invaluable long term so we thank you for being here and thank you for being here tonight superintendent
report thank you Dr scardino um I just want to reiterate what Dr scardino said um you know last night I thought was very successful um unfortunately um you know we do have to make some changes you know for next school year and I think um just
working together with the board and the community I think we've you know established a a solid plan moving forward um I'm going to briefly touch upon the budget a little bit and then I'll talk about uh last night as well and so um ultimately we're here today to pass the the budget which is uh due to
the county by tomorrow so we always um we don't always but typically we have two board meetings in March um and it's because the budget calendar always shifts around and it's it's really contingent upon uh when the governor gives his state of the state address and then our state aid numbers are released
so our budget is due to the county tomorrow for um initial approval and so tonight is really not an overview of the budget it's really the board coming together to just approve we have to formally approve that budget going to the county and so then um you know
hopefully the board approves that budget tonight and then um we come back at the April 29th meeting so if you want a full overview of the budget and a presentation um Mr heyman and I do a PowerPoint presentation um where we'll present to the board and the entire
community the entire budget um through multiple slides to just highlight some of the aspects [Music] to to highlight all the aspects of the budget for next school year so um so that obviously ties into to the next
item that Dr scardino referenced which is the reconfiguration of our schools which is also um on the budget on the agenda for tonight because it is really contingent and and and married to the budget in a way based on how we're going to reallocate um our school buildings
and so um you'll see the uh the Columbus Memorial uh reconfiguration is uh item number one on ed curriculum and so we have that uh on the agenda um again I want to just thank everyone for coming out last uh last night i thought um the
dialogue um went really well i really appreciated the questions that the community had and I think overall although some might not be entirely happy with the exact plan i think um hopefully we provided perspective and an understanding on you know why the district is doing what we're doing um
and like Dr scardino said the ultimate purpose of the board and myself um is to just ensure that you know we provide the very best education for our students um and at the same time we um are able to financially sustain um everything that
we need to do within the district and so um I think the 2526 budget um is solid um and we are ready for submission so that concludes my report thank you thank you Mr corso now we have uh public
to be heard on agenda items only there's nothing okay thank you so we're going to move to board discussion and formal business agenda so I'm going to try we're going to try to keep it as orderly as possible everybody have a chance to see i see Miss Stella
stella yeah i have some questions um exactly the debt service 971,289 what does that what's included in that total that is the board chair for the referendum bond
which bond was that the memorial campus correct and the pool no no no the bond the bond for the referendum for the for the uh expansions on the schools that happened from Columbus okay yeah we're going to be paying that over the next how many more years on the bond uh
roughly 20 and um that's the only thing that is yes okay the other question is um when you're combining the classes of the eight rooms down in Memorial we've
already were receiving how much for the four rooms so this is half more it's like 170 plus eight rooms yeah so you'll see uh it's it's on the it's on the finance agenda uh
number six yeah so there was four classrooms that were currently being rented and we're adding four more 44,000 a classroom for a total of 352,000 but we were getting 44,000 for the four that were already there and this is an additional we were getting so it's not
like we're getting you already had it that and 350 more no that's the total for all of them yes how many rooms are actually down there in memorial roughly 13 that's which including the
Knights of Columbus yes okay okay does just in case anybody else I'll come back to you anybody else have anything to add to this just want to make sure everyone's please one more okay explain um the 10,000 annual payable with with
this kitchen use so um the South Berg and Joiner has students um from preK all the way to through 12 and sometimes they even have some adult programs and so we have a beautiful state-of-the-art kitchen and so they asked if um at times if we could
work around the schedule here in the middle school could their students come and and use the kitchen and so we said yes and so so they're going to cook the kids are going to learn cook yes oh that's good um Estelle are you available for a lesson oh please i order out
um one other question uh it just slipped my mind um there was this here in 107 oh the um classes that you're going to get what age groups are they is it all K to two
is it K to 12 like what children okay so um this was part of the presentation last night and so for some this might be um repetitive but um currently there's going to be eight preschool classrooms there and so I'm sorry currently there's
four they're going to be adding four more preschools so there'll be eight preschool classrooms there however the district is looking um at our out of district students and we're going to be trying to develop programs to bring more of our students back to district through
the jointer and so although there will only be well we're going to start with eight preschool classrooms but there's the hope that we can expand upon the remaining classrooms and build programs that will benefit our students here in Lynhurst so you have five more use we have five more to use yes okay and so for the for the time being the district
is going to use some of the space in the lower levels for for professional development and and for some other activities and so um of course if we need the classroom we'll certainly take it in like I said um we're already starting to have planning meetings with the jointure to see how we can bring our
own students back to district and and go to the South Buran joint classroom and I'm glad you had a meeting and if they know that no more than four board members can go but I'm glad that you met with the community and got their input because everybody has to work together and we have to work on that too and
communication thank you Mr pamo uh just real quick so we're going to rent them to the campus for a year to year correct yes and if we ever need it back we would have to lay out the the year and then we
could take the school back meaning if our growing community grows okay but wait is there a problem with that so no great question so just so everyone can hear can hear the response because I didn't have the mic so yes the the lease for
the for the space is is yeartoyear so if we should ever need that space as we go through next year or there's things that happen within the community and we need that school building back we would just notify them like any lease you know tenant agreement and say that we're not renewing your lease for the following
year and then we can we can then occupy those classrooms one question though if you that to happen because Lynhurst does come first they're the kids 100% would we have to make up the 350,000 yeah i mean that's revenue so that's one of the reasons that we discussed last
night of of why we're we're moving in that direction is because um in our current state it benefits the district to receive revenue and so um that lease agreement is bringing $352,000 of revenue into our district and should that um should we decide that
we need to take that building back we would lose that $350,000 of revenue so we would have to make that up but yes great question anybody else mr bate yeah question i know something maybe we should have touched on on it last night which we
didn't uh I know a lot of the school district when they do get paid cuts first thing they do is slip uh send out pay slips for teachers by us doing this we're going to try to avoid uh laying off teachers too right absolutely yes so um I can't guarantee that there'll be zero layoffs but what I can say is that
we're going to limit that as much as possible and we've had some teachers already retire and so the idea is through attrition um we won't be replacing some of those teachers and so um but but yes we're we're not
drastically laying off teachers we're not sending out pink slips there's a lot of districts that send um all their non-tenure teachers every year non-renewal notices we're not doing that um I don't think that's beneficial it it creates panic and um there's already a teacher shortage in in a variety of
positions and the teaching profession in general if you do that you run the risk of then losing your teachers and so um we're not doing that you're welcome thank you so much we're going to move on to finance mr
petranzio 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 one through six to be adopted
second roll call mr abate four mr andronopoulos four mr mr garuso four miss Pasamano four mr pasamano four mr petronio four dr scardino four and Miss Stella four
motion carries uh Miss Pasimano Education and Curriculum please pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the committee on education and curriculum recommends the following resolution be moved forward for a roll call vote i make a motion to move
forward education and curriculum resolution one to be adopted second second roll call mr abate four mr andronopoulos four mr garuso four miss Pasamano four
mr pasamano four mr petranzio four dr scardino four and Miss Stella four motion carries miss stella policy rules and regulations pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent schools the committee of policies and rules of regulation recommends the
following resolutions be moved forward for a roll call vote i make a motion forward policies and rules of regulations one through two to be adopted mr roll call Mr abate four mr andronopoulos four mr garuso four miss
Pasamano four mr pamano four mr mr petronzio four Dr scardino four and Miss Stella four motion carries committee on personnel recommends the following move
second second second dr scardino second roll call mr mr abate four Mr andronopoulos four Mr garuso four Miss Pasamano four Mr pamano four Mr petranzio four Dr scardino four and Miss
Stella four motion carries opened up for any new business from the board and we'll try to recognize everyone if there is I know we have a full board meeting next week so but anything any business
great thank you uh Yeah so we're going to have a public for the public to be heard for non-aggenda items tracy Corwin tracy Corwin please april 29th april 29th okay thank you M corin thank you
motion motion to adjurnn second all in favor against abstensions motion carries meeting adjourned i just want to mention