into the first round of their state tournaments. Both teams are actually playing right now. The boys team is playing the first state game against McNair High School and the girls team is playing the first state game against Bernard's High School. The LHS boys and girls wrestling team,
the teams are heading to their district tournaments this weekend on February 28th and 29th. The LHS winter competition cheer team, the team is heading to their state cheer competition in early March at Monroe High School. and our hockey team. The
Paramis Mawa Lynhurst PML joint hockey team has its state game on February 26th today at the Ice Vault in Wayne. There's a lot of sports things going on today. The LHS marching band is performing at the New Jersey Devils hockey game on March 4th at the Credential Center. The
band will perform in the main lobby of the venue before watching the game. And I'm pretty sure it's going to be a packed game with Olympian Jack Hughes returning. The Lynhurst High School Try M Honor Society induction ceremony will be held on March 17th at 6:30 p.m.
followed by a recital. The Try M Honor Society is a mi music honor society at LHS, requiring students to be proficient in their music classes and to maintain high marks in regular classes to be accepted. The recital is mandatory for students in the Triumph Society, but any
LHS students can participate. The LHS spring concert is taking place on April 1st. The LHS Jazz Band will be opening for the New Jersey jazz band, One More Once in late March at a show at Crossroads, a venue in Garward, New
Jersey. And the Lynhurst High School production of Into the Woods was performed on February 12th through 14th here at the Lhurst Middle School. And of course, there are members of the Bergen County um choir and band here to get their awards tonight. And before I end,
I would just like to thank all the staff for clearing all the snow from this crazy blizzard that hit us. My brother was able to find parking. So, fortunately, I was able to get to school on time. And I wish everyone would just stay safe. It's pretty dangerous out there. Thank you.
January 26 and support 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 2526 school year.
The administration continues to work on the 2026 2027 school budget as we await state aid figures following the governor's budget address in March. 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 the resolutions on tonight's agenda. That concludes my report for this evening. Thank you, Mr. Demikov. >> Thank you again. Thanks, James. Thank you, Miss Demikov. all as well back home. Uh I don't really have much
report. I just want to jump on uh what Nick had said earlier. I want to thank the town. I'd like to thank our grounds. I'd like to thank um the young people in our community who stepped up, not just being entrepreneurial, may maybe making a few bucks, but the ones that stepped
up to help neighbors and show the true spirit of of building a community from within. I just want to recognize uh some of the people I see here tonight that were involved in the I have to tell you, never been a big fan of Into the Woods. I loved it. It turned
me around. It was amazing. All that we do in our arts, all that we do in our music, Miss White, all that everything you do is just absolutely amazing. And we couldn't be prouder. You know, everybody always likes to talk about the negative things. We see post, we see things. Not enough about all the
wonderful things that are happening in our community. And it's important to recognize you. So, I want to thank you all for making us proud and continue to do the amazing things that you do. Uh, I'm going to now turn the meeting over uh to the superintendent, Mrs. Dorsa.
>> Thank you, Dr. Scardino. Um, I have a few updates and then of course we'll get to the awards um for our our choir and band with um Miss Wise. But uh to start I I just wanted to mention that we are um having our budget meeting um at the
end of March. Um each year um Mr. Heyman and I the BA um do a budget presentation to the community. And so um as mentioned earlier that address has been delayed. Um so we are moving our March meeting
from the 18th to the 24th. So that's a Tuesday night. So, if you're interested in hearing um our full budget presentation on the 26 27 budget as long as um as well as the projects we have planned um for next year, please come
out on March 24th and you'll hear um our budget address. Um, aside from that, I wanted to mention uh at at the last meeting, we had some parents uh come and and ask about a soccer pitch, which is um a soccer structure um that's being
offered to communities uh throughout the country really. And so, um we listened to um you know, the woman that spoke. Um we took the matter seriously. Uh Mr. Pasan and I arranged a meeting um with the organization that's sponsoring that. We had a very productive meeting. um we
don't even know if we're eligible to receive um that soccer pitch. And so um we put our names on a list to have them come out and do a site visit. Now, of course, you know, the snow is going to impact that a little bit. And so we're on a list. They said that hopefully they
would be out um in April or May. And so they will come out April a in April or May to assess. Um really the only building based on the size requirements. Um there was um some conversation at the last meeting about whether the um the
the size of the structure could be scaled down. After meeting with the woman, Mr. Pasimano was with me um she indicated it cannot be sized down. So based on the size of the structure and some other requirements, the really the only building that would be eligible
would be Jefferson School. And so they're going to come out. We gave them Jefferson's address. We don't have to be there. they assess the you know the pro uh the property and then they get back to us. So we'll wait to hear back from then um and then and then report back
from there. Um I too attended Into the Woods. It was it was a great performance. So I just want to congratulate um our students for that. Um good luck to our sports teams that are competing. Um we are now entering the end of the season sectionals um
individual competition. So, good luck to our sports teams and I too want to just thank our our custodians, our our grounds crew and also the township. We have a great partnership with the town and they really help us. Um, and it's really about working together to just clear the roads and get the schools
open. Um, and like many other communities, it really took two days to do that due to the amount of snow that we received. We also contract with an outside company to move the snow and and bring it and and dump it in certain locations because um we need to clear
our playgrounds. We need to clear the front of the schools for bus drop offs. And a lot of times the roads may look clear and someone might say, "Well, why do we need that extra day?" The extra day is really just to make it as safe as possible and get that snow out of the areas so the buses can get in. And um
with that much snow, we really needed to do that. So, um, thank you for your patience. And at this time, I would like to call Miss Elena Wise up to give some awards. Check. Check. Oh, there we you're good.
>> Okay. It brings me great pleasure here to uh announce um our kids to recognize our students uh tonight for their uh successful auditions that they had. Similar to sports, there are different levels of achievement in music as well.
I think we know sports a little bit more in terms of JV, varsity, and then if you make states and things like that, but also in music, we have different levels. Um, in our school alone, we have a general band and choir. We have audition groups like the jazz band and our
corral. And then from there, we send our students out for other competitions and auditions um that are on the county level, on the region level, and also on the state level. So, I'm happy to recognize our students tonight. First,
for our county achievement, they went amongst hundreds of students within Bergen County. They have to stand in front of judges and sing scales and solos. They have to read different music um that they ask for something called
tonal memory. That's on the vocal side of it. And it's extremely nerve-wracking. I've been there on the judges side. And some people can't even get through the audition because of their nerves. These kids not only got through the audition, but they successfully made it into their um their specific group.
Bergen County Choir. I would like to recognize Mariah Allen. Some people aren't here, but I don't remember who stay. Next, we have Anthony Andrews.
And as far as voice parts are concerned, Mariah Allen is a soprano one the group. Anthony Andrews is a ba bass two. Did you audition or bass one? Base two. Bass two. Our next is Joseph Brennan.
Joseph Brennan qualified for tener two. Was it ten or two or 10? Yeah, tener two. We have Benjamin Dea Cruz. Ben qualified as a base one. Lucas Guerrero also qualifying as a base one. Alexa Longo,
she was an Alto 2 qualifier for counties. Serenity, who is not here right now, but she was an Alto one who qualified. Something about her birthday today. Is that where she is? Probably having some birthday cake, I think.
>> So, happy birthday to Serenity as well. Uh Selma OA tener one Joseph Romeo tener one and Leila is in another country right now and Allison I'm not sure exactly where
Allison is, but she's uh also congratulations to the two of them. So, um take a picture, please. Yeah. I just want to get a picture of these guys and then I just have two more. Um Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay. Thank you guys and congratulations. Um we also did you have Salma's other one. Did you have two Salma? Nope. Okay. So, I'm just going to announce we don't have um other certificates, but there was also some band achievements. Um and both of those
band achievements came from Salma OA. Raise your hand there, Salma. Oh, it's on there. It's all three on there. Oh, I I said to do that. Okay. I didn't remember. My brain's a little Okay. Yeah. All right. I just wanted to also announce that um Selma also auditioned on the instrumental side of things and
qualified for Bergen County Bergen County Band as well as North Jersey Region One Orchestra. So congratulations to Selma and thank you so much. >> Thank you.
Thank you, Miss Wise, and congratulations to all of our students. At this time, we're going to uh shift to the official board business and the approval of the agenda. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move to uh the public to be heard on agenda items. We
do have one person here. >> Uh Bill Bernard. >> Okay. Uh going to open up for board discussion. Anything on the agenda? Okay.
Okay. Um, finance to our still and continuing chairperson of finance, Mr. Pete Petranzio. >> Thank you. Pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee on finance recommends the following resolutions be
moved forward for a roll call. I make a motion to move forward finance resolutions 1 through 23 to be adopted. >> Second. Roll call. Mr. Bate, >> four. >> Mr. Pasamano, >> four. >> Mr. Petranzio, >> four.
>> Miss Russo, >> four. >> Dr. Scardino, >> four. >> Dr. Tuma, >> four. >> And Mr. Valvano, >> four. >> Motion carries. >> I'm not sure if Miss Pamano is watching from afar. Hope you're feeling better. We're going to have a fill in for you in
education and curriculum with Mr. Valvano, please. >> Thank you. Pursuant to the recommendations of the superintendent of schools, the committee on education and curriculum recommends the following resolutions be moved forward to a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward education and curriculum resolutions one through four to be
adopted. >> Second. >> Roll call. Mr. >> Four. >> Mr. Pamano. >> Mr. Petranzio. >> Four. >> Miss Russo. >> Four. >> Dr. Scardino. >> Four. >> Dr. Tuma.
>> Four. and Mr. Valvano >> four. >> Motion carries. >> We're going to move to policy and uh rules and regulations and Mr. Valvano again. >> Pursuant to the I'm sorry, pursuant to the recommendations of the superintendent of the schools, the committee on policies and rules
regulations recommends the following resolutions be moved forward to a roll call vote. I make a motion move forward policies and rules regulations resolutions one through four to be adopted. >> Second. Second. Dr. Tuma. Roll call. Mr. Abate >> four,
>> Mr. Pasamano >> four. >> Mr. Petrronio >> four, >> Miss Russo >> four, >> Dr. Scardino >> four, >> Dr. Tuma >> four >> and Mr. Valvano >> four. >> Motion carries >> personnel u uh Mr. Bate please. >> Sure. Uh pursuant to the recommendation
of the superintendent of school the committee of personnel recommends the following resolution be moved forward for roll call vote. Make a motion to move forward. Personnel resolution A1 to M1. >> Second. Dr.
>> Roll call. Mr. Bate. >> Four. >> Mr. Pacamano. >> Four. >> Mr. Petranzio. >> Four. >> Miss. Russo. >> Four. >> Dr. Scardino. >> Four. >> Dr. Tuma. >> Four. >> And Mr. Valvano. >> Four. >> Motion carries.
supposed to be public uh non-aggenda items. >> Okay. So, we're going to move to non-aggenda items. Mr. Please. Thank you. >> We know where you live. American special service assoc. Most of
those different schools. questions. Also, And I suggest One of the things that members. Fin will provide services.
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twice a year policies Association policies on a person and I'm very happy. Some may not. things also
travel any >> No, and I appreciate and some of the things you said today, some I knew, some I didn't. appreciate. I'm not asking to do this now, but maybe at some point uh one of the we're seeing across the state is is budgeting and the cost of
healthcare and other things that have uh so it' be nice to know does the county at that level talk about you know how we interact with the state and therefore you know start talking about well this isn't sustainable the model as it exists in the next five or 10 years we're going
to see significant shifts where it's going to be hard to do business. I agree with you. >> That's right. to bring you what were the increases that were taking place and the problem 18%
throughout the state found that about right. >> I started putting information together when I realized however to govern
that settled in place. Now, one of the things we start local, one of the things I do is set up meetings with legislators.
As we start working on the state working on that develop polic We're going to be looking for setting up a meeting with Senator. >> Excellent. It's good to know. It's good to know. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you so much for being here as always. Good to see you. >> Wow, that's great. balance. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> New any um sorry any new business? >> Can can I just make two quick comments?
Sure. >> I just wanted to thank everybody and especially Mr. Dorso for increasing the substitute uh pay rate because I think that's a very important thing and I'm glad that we're doing that. And I wanted to say too that the play was amazing. So I was very you know and you did a great job. Nice job. You and your brother
great job. So thank you. >> Anything else? I'm sorry >> everybody's good. >> So we have to make a motion. >> Motion to move to executive session. >> Make a motion. >> Yeah. Motion to move to executive session. A second. >> All in favor? >> I.
>> All right. We're going to move to executive session. Uh no further action will be taken. >> Thank you for being here though. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you.