Mr. Famiano is not present. Mr. Petronio, Dr. Scardino here, Miss Stella here, and Mr. Valana here. You have form, sir. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Thank you all for being here. Adequate notice of the meeting has been provided by the
following means. Annual notice was sent to the record newspaper, township clerk, and posted in the lobby of the town hall and board office. setting forth forthcoming schedule work meetings and public meeting of the board like to get a motion to approve
the minutes from our last meeting in April. Motion second call Mr. Andrew Mr. Andronopoulos four Mr. Geruso four Mr. Petranzio four Dr.
Scardino four, Miss Stella four and M four. Motion carries. Like to get approval of the minutes of of May 6 meeting. I make a motion. Second. Roll call. Mr. Andronopoulos for Mr.
Garuso. Four. Mr. Petronzio. Four. Dr. Scardino. Four. Miss Stella. Four. And Mr. Valo. Four. Motion carries. As always, we're always happy to have Drew Bang, our student representative, to give us a student
report. Thanks for uh good evening all and thank you for joining us here tonight. Noteworthy events that took place during the month of May include Junior Prom on May 1st, National Grand to New Jersey, Senior Decision Day on May 2nd, LHS Academic Awards Center on May 5th, the LHS Art
Show and National Arts Honor Society induction on May 15th, and the Wellness Fair, annual wellness fair on May 29th. Looking ahead, the senior banking banquet will take place on June 3rd and the John C. Mlan Awards will take place on June 5th, where select seniors will attend an award ceremony and receive
acknowledgement for their dedication and loyalty to the high school. As the year comes to a close, things are winding down as students prepare for their next chapter. Can they be in high school or beyond? This concludes our report. Thank [Applause] you. Thank you, Drew. Uh, now we have
our state report. I have reviewed the financial reports for the month ending April 2025 and support tonight's resolution that certifies that there are sufficient funds available based on the April financials to meet the district's financial obligations for the remainder
of the 2024 2025 school year. I've also reviewed and discussed the resolutions on tonight's agenda with Mr. Corso and support his recommendations to the board that they approve all of the resolutions on tonight's agenda. That concludes my report on
CG. Thank you, sir. Uh, as far as my report, I just wanted to uh, as I usually do when we're celebrating students, this is always a highlight for us to be able to uh, celebrate it. In particular, um, uh, the FBLA, as everyone knows, I I I teach uh, at the
university, and to see our uh, all of our aspects of our schools expand and grow. Uh, this one's close to my heart. As a matter of fact, I see some of the students out there who I see around Felician and our program that we have there. So, I'm really happy to be able to see all then the parents here. It's
wonderful. I'm going to now turn it over uh to the superintendent, Mr. Dorso. Thank you, Dr. Scardino. Before we get into the student um recognition portion, I just want to give um the public um a few updates um particularly on our tax
levy incentive program, which was a big part of our meeting um last month um where we approved um $6.2 million. And um we have some revisions to that application to the state, which you'll see on the agenda um tonight. It starts
on page nine. And so since since we had our our budget hearing at the last meeting um the state came back to us this week um and asked for some revisions to that application. And so um with those revisions um needed to come another board approval. And so since
they asked us to reallocate some of the money to different account lines since they changed the board needed to go back and reapprove that. And that's why you see it on the agenda tonight. So, um, again, on page nine, you'll see, um, where all of the money is being
allocated, um, for next school year, and the board wants to be very transparent in this process, as do I. And so, during the work session portion of our meeting tonight, um, we discussed having a parent forum. And so, on uh, June 24th, we just decided uh, tonight we're going
to have our first parent forum. And so, in that parent forum, we're going to detail the projects and the work that's being done throughout the district. and we're really excited about the improvements and the upgrades that we can make to our facilities and to our programs um not just next year but in
future years. And so, um, I'll be sending out a communication to the entire, um, school community about the meeting and detailing exactly, um, what we'll discuss in that meeting. And then I plan to then have another meeting, um, later in the summer in August. So that,
um, some of the work that we do over the summer, I will then showcase at the August meeting. Um, and I can do that as well um, in the regular August board meeting. But I want to have a special meeting to give parents a chance to really um look at the work we're doing and ask questions. And then uh the board and I plan to have meetings like that
throughout next school year so that we can update the public on the process where we are with spending the money and you we really can see um you know where the dollars um are being spent. So we're really excited about that. Um I could certainly answer any questions, but um that's why you see that approval on the
board agenda. again um it was approved um last month as well but again due to the state we have to come back and reapprove that um and so um we're going to move over now to the student recognition portion of the meeting like uh Dr. Gardino said, "It's always the
highlight um of this board and myself to, you know, recognize our students for all of their achievements. Um we really um have student athletes um and um academic awards that just span across so many different programs that we have here in the district and it's it's
really is the highlight of our night when we have our board meetings to recognize our students. So, thank you all for coming. Congratulations to our students ahead of our presentations. Um we're going to start with some of our uh smaller recognitions because then I know FBLA is here in force um and um we have
a large number of awards to give there. I just please ask that um we stay to the end of the student recognitions um out of respect to all the students and their families. Um they have worked hard to achieve um these accomplishments. We want to make sure that everyone's here to see them. Um, I do like to say after
the student recognition when we're done with everything, if you would like to leave, you certainly can, but please stay through all the student recognition. So, so thank you. So, uh, we're going to start with, um, our our choir and our choir director. So, I will meet you down at the front there and
then we'll move on to some of our other presentations. Thank you. Okay. Oh, there we go. Hi, everybody. Uh, so I'm here to recognize uh two of our choir students who have gone above and beyond in so many different ways.
I'm here to recognize them for one specific accomplishment, but I cannot um go without mentioning some of their other accomplishments as well. So uh they have accomplished one thing um in the very beginning of the year which was
qualifying for the all Bergen County Choir which is an audition process across Bergen County. In addition to that they went and uh auditioned for all state and qualified for the Bergen County Allstate choir which is amongst
the entire state of New Jersey. and two of the students um that are one is here tonight, one we're going to recognize that is not able to be here. Um can I have them come up right now or Ryan anyway? Uh Ryan Yimoot and Angelina Brennan. Um they qualified for All
Eastern which encompasses the states from Maryland all the way to Maine. Um qualifying vocally for that was based on their allstate audition. They ranked very high in the state of New Jersey and they got to perform in Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford,
Connecticut. Um, it was a fantastic experience for them. Um, I also just wanted to uh mention that they both also got nominations for the Metro Awards for their outstanding performances in our musical this year in lay miser rob. Um,
and they also uh will be attending Angelina Brennan will be attending Syracuse next year. And Ryan just found out this past uh week that he um auditioned for and qualified for Mason Gross School of the Arts at Ruckers University down in New Brunswick. So,
I'm very proud of both of [Applause] them. So, congratulations to them and congratulations to all of you here tonight. I'll take that for her. Yeah. Okay, thank you. I would next like to call up our Italian uh team competition
advisor, Mr. Ragao. Thank you, Miss Wise. Oh, beautiful. This is for you. Thank you. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Or as they say in Italian, boner. Thank you, Mr. Dorso, Dr. Moro, Mr. Heyman,
esteemed members of the board of education, and fellow residents. Um, we're here tonight to acknowledge a group of students today. I'm very proud of them. They finished second place at the annual Italian language and culture day competition held at Ruckers
University, New Brunswick on March 20th. This group of 24 students devised and performed a five-minute skit tutoto in Italiano uh that center around the theme of Italy's global impact on art, music, and science. These students not only
utilized their world language skills that they acquire at the high school, but they also demonstrated poise, teamwork, and camaraderie. as their teacher and resident of Lynhurst. I'm extremely proud of their achievement and I'm hopeful that in the near future this
group of very talented students will bring home top prize. Fingers crossed. Okay. Although our entire group of 24 students is not present tonight, I would like to acknowledge all the all the participant. So Mr. Corso, if you
could kindly pass out the certificates of the students presence and then afterwards I'll read the names of the students who are unfortunately not here. Okay, we're going to start off with Senior [Applause]
Karda Junior. Alexa [Applause] Gomez, junior Olivia [Applause] Inendola, freshman Emily Casala, [Applause]
Freshman Leila [Applause] Ludhome, freshman Juan Medina, [Applause] and finally Rosa, Gabby Moore, and
Laura. [Applause] We won this trophy as a team. So I think it's only important that we recognize the other members [Applause] not here this evening but still part of
the team. Zuri Allen, Lucas Angeli, Kiara Carlandini, Ariana Feliciano, Alexa Skula, Yana Hatan, Hatsaras, Shed, Hannah Bear, Valerie Hernandez, Abigail Mangelli, Emma
Robinson, Joseph Ro Romeo, excuse me, Emily Salazar, Amelia Sanchez, Leila Santos, and Yori Silva. Thank you. Congratulations again. Thank you. I would now like to call up Mrs.
Jenowsky and Mrs. Sevel to um recognize our students from FBLA. [Applause]
Hi. Can I take this off? We have a lot to say. I can't do that the whole time. Okay. Thank you for coming. Um, first and foremost, uh, I'd like to thank you guys for being such supportive uh, parents to our students. Our club is one
of the biggest clubs in the high school. We have 125 students. Of those 125 students, 100 kids took a regional test. That's they selected a topic that they liked. They p we picked a day. They all took it in the high school cafeteria.
And of those hundred kids, we had about seven who advanced in their test. And then they were allowed to pick did they want to continue in their test or did they want to do a roleplay event. So then that's the next step to that. So we our veterans they like to do the
roleplay event. So we took 67 kids to Atlantic City with us. Um imagine taking 67 kids with you to anywhere. But we took 67 kids to Atlantic City. And of those 67 kids, 43 did we say 43 uh were
selected to advance in their um in their genre, in their topic. Um some of them will get called here today and you'll hear their name twice. That is because our veterans know that they can do an open event and an event with a
group. So there are ways that you can get more than one chance to win. So thankfully we are very well verssed and we put our kids where we think they're going to shine and that they do. We wanted to show you their video today and I forgot to send it to them so it's my
fault. But we have two K we have two groups that did a video on the spot. It was beyond spectacular. Um I welcome you to ask them to see it. It is it is movie quality. It's so well done. Um and and we're very proud of them. Uh we're very
proud of every one of the kids that are sitting here. Um we have student athletes that just came from a baseball game and showed up to get their award and that is a true testament of who they are. They are athletes and they are scholars and we're so proud to have them
uh as part of our group. So we're going to announce we're going to start in no particular order. So we're going to call all these students. Obviously, there's a large number of them and I I know parents want to take pictures. I think the best place to take a picture is outside. Um we have
these learning common stairs and when the students line up there, it really makes for a great picture. So, um certainly I think the best thing to do is all the students down you can return to your seat, but then after I think it's it's would be a great idea to go um and and take a pick with your adviserss.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dorso. Um, before we call names, I just I just like to say and I know I give the same spiel every year, but I I just like to kind of give an overall we have sports kids and they know how it is to go
through the levels of they start at the, you know, they get to they get to the states, they have to do the districts or whatever sport you're in. With our with FBLA, we compete against the top schools from the very beginning. There is no small school, medium school, large
school. um category. We're all in the same category. So, a school with 800 kids, we compete against a school with 4,000 kids. It doesn't matter. We compete against schools that literally have FBLA classes. That that's what they
do. They practice every day. They have a class with FBLA and they hone their skills that way. our kids because with sports everything, we meet during lunch, during prep time, after school when we could get them, in the morning when we could get them. So, they really do give
a lot of time. I just like to tell that to the parents and the board. I know the board knows that as well. And I just want to thank the board because they've been very generous and helping us raise money and and keep this program going. It's it's as the parents that are going
to nationals will know, u we have 17 going to nationals. It's not a cheap venture, right? So, we have to fund raise quite a bit and I know everyone's sick of buying um crispy cream donuts, but it keeps us going. So, um we're
going to do this in three phases. I do want to thank also uh Miss Vuno, our um Miss Leon is here for with us today, right? Thank you very much. they give us a lot of support throughout the year and uh as well uh Miss Ringan. So that that helps us so much in doing what we have
to do. So we're going to do this in um actually uh three phases and uh we'll be on we'll be quick I promise. I know this is we just have a lot of kids but we're going to do this in a a fast manner. So, I'm going to hand the
Yeah, in Atlantic City when we go I know there are 3,000 kids of which we're competing against. That's a lot of kids. When we go to nationals this year in Anaheim, California, we're leaving the 28th. There will be about
15,000 kids that we're competing against. 17 of them will be our Lynhurst High School kids. That's pretty impressive. That's the entire country. Puerto Rico, China, they're from all over the place. We have like really deep
deep competition headed our way. But I know we're going to be Yeah. So, we're really proud of the time they put into all of this um this venture. So, Mr. Bellow, I'm going to hand this off to you. You're going to be Okay, guys. Will we call you up? You're
just going to start your line. Okay. Um, in the event of broadcast journalism, second place, by the way, they call the top 10. The top five get a spot to nationals. If uh number five can't go 4-3, they move up the line, but only the
top 10 are invited to go. So, we have um Joseph Brennan and Rebecca Ruez for broadcast journalism. Second place. Okay. I know. Also, just really quickly, we had two groups in broadcast journalism. One of which presented to
Mr. Dorso and I still we tell the kids I have to tell myself because then I I then Miss Jenowsky and I are like, we can't believe it. We see their growth from the beginning to the end. And I'm It's not because it's our kids. If any of the parents that are here can attest
to it, their kids do a great job from start to finish. So these guys memorized an entire newscast and presented it. We had another group that presented to Mr. Dorso as well that was spectacular but didn't make it. We don't know why. We don't know why. I don't know why you
they were I mean our groups were spectacular. So Joseph and Rebecca second place. Great job. Next we have Sophia Campos and Pamela Nakamura. Two freshmen. So that alone is a huge feat in intro to business
[Music] presentation. Next we have uh social media strategies second place Nicholas Rizzo Mgalli and Christina Mazeski. [Music]
I'm going to tell you a story about these guys because this is a true testament to resilience and the the power of our children. So they signed up for an event. Everybody signs up for an event. They send an email. Miss Shinowsky and I get the email. We get a
100 emails, right? We say, "If your first pick is taken, pick your second pick." So then they pick their second pick. Somehow in translation, their first pick went on the paper, but their second pick is what they were doing. So 2 days before Allaria goes, "Wait a minute. We're showing them the paper."
Allaria goes, "Um, that's not our event." We're like, "Oh my god. Oh my god. What do you mean it's not our event?" We email FBLA. They're like, "No, sorry. It is what it is. You're either out, you go last, and if we're on a delay, you don't get to go or you pick another event." So, we're like, "Guys,
you can do this with a lot of resistance from some people." But they did it and they won second place and they literally prepared it in 3 days. 4 days. 4 days. We did a lot of weekend work. Yeah. And a lot of weekend work. Uh,
okay. Next, we have um third place in digital video production, Anthony Amaro, Sean Bellinger, and Michael Longo. um their event. Double clap because student athletes just came off the field. Tough
loss, but winners in our winners in our book. So, these guys did a video production on um the importance of tourism in our state. They did they did it to the Sopranos theme. It was and they acted it all out. It was spectacular. It was so great. Uh
welldeserved second place. They did a great job. Next we have Ga Lambo, Nicolina Akono, and Kyla Marino in an open event. Uh, first place. So, I just really want to quickly talk about what this is as they come up. We get there and we're allowed, our school is allowed
to pick one kid in each of these open events. An open event is they don't know what they're going to do. They don't know what they're going to compete in. It's a surprise. They get a prompt and they have to create a video. Uh, only one group gets selected. There's no one through 10. It's one and done. and they were the first place winners. They did a
video about the importance of uh FBA education. It was great. Very well done. And on the spot as well. They had from 7:00 a.m. to I think 8:00 p.m. was it girls? And they had to create their video, a script, all of that. Great job. Uh next we
have Okay. So then our chapter is able to put in for specific awards. So like a scholarship, things like that. So, first we'd like to call Ava Merbbit for chapter scrapbook. So, we present a scrapbook of all the things we've done throughout the year. Ava worked very
hard on our scrapbook. We were recognized for that. Great job. Uh then we have uh Kyla Marino. Kyla, just come back real quick. Kyla Marino was awarded gold officer. So, we are able to um nominate our officers for their great work. Kyla has been instrumental to us.
She is quite the computer gal and we appreciate her for that. Uh Sean Bellinger, distinguished member of the month. Congratulations. So we nominate we're allowed to nominate one member every month and then they select the one that they deem the member of the month for
the for the school year. Um next we have Matthew Jarvis as our intern. So, we are allowed to uh submit five to seven kids to be an intern and they get intern credit and work for FBLA. Matthew and
another student were selected out of seven kids that applied. So, great job, Matt. Okay, next we have GA Lembo and Casiah Boyd for their work in public service announcement. Great job, girls. They had to create a public service
announcement of the importance of uh what is it? Health in the workplace. Mental health in the workplace. Um Isaac Oh, I was going to say wait a minute. Okay. Isaac Camilo, Anthony come back, Michael come back and Sean come back. They also participated
in an open event. They got their prompt. They created a video and they were also awarded first place. Good job, guys. [Music] Okay. All right. Next, we have Oh, this is a fun one. When we leave Glennhurst,
they have this app called Goose Chase and it is it is a goose chase. Last year, we had one of our students win fourth place and he was not not winning again. So, Nicholas Rizzo first place and Allaria McGalli, she was competing
with Nicholas won third place. Good job. Okay. Okay. All right. Next, we have Michael Longo for who's who uh senior award. We also were able to another officer nomination. Great job, Mike. Okay. And then this one I'm saving
second. Nope. I'm going to save this one. Okay. Uh Leah Marino for visual design and Emma uh for visual design. Second place. Great job. They uh created um their project was how they Lena
created and her team created a to scale I guess right um fruit stand that they had to promote. They were they were so dedicated. They did such a great job. Uh Lena thankfully is a freshman and we get to keep her for a lot. You're going to
see her up here a lot. Emma as well. They did a great job. Um and I really have a lot of confidence in them in nationals. Get ready, girls. Taylor Paglio, come on up. She is part of a team, but her team couldn't be here today. Intro to business presentation. They had to talk about the
importance of finance. Um, and they did a great job. Good job, Taylor. Okay. All right. Last, but certainly not least, Kyla Marino. Um, I just want to talk real quick about Kyla. She won a scholarship for from FBLA. Usually only
the officers like the state officers win the scholarship. So the fact that Kyla was in the top 10 is great, but that she was in the top three is outstanding. Again, like I said, I don't have I have amazing things to say about Kyla, but so deserving. Um we're so happy for her and
we can't wait to see what she does in the future. Congrats, Kyla. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Um thank you so much. This is our FBA nationals team. Um, well, a lot of our FBA step forward if you're going to
nationals. Take a step forward. Wish them luck. Um, they will be going to Anaheim, California. Thanks, [Music] guys. All right. Um, we're going to we're just going to also honor our academic competition crew. If we call
your name, come on this side. Uh, academic competition is another club that Mr. Ski and I run our Super Bowl is the Bergen County Consumer. And what happens is the kids come and they have to study a brief, right? Like a legal
brief about the importance of x amount of topics that they're given. So something anything in consumerism. So like how how what what weight does a turkey have to be to be sold on Thanksgiving, you know, in a frozen food section? I didn't even know there was a
law against that. uh they have to know about the lemon law. They have to know about um elderly law. So they compete with this year seven other Bergen County schools. Um some of which take this very very very seriously. Um so we were happy
to just have skin in the game. So we'd like to congratulate Christine Zeski. Come on this [Music] side. Stand on this side. Joseph [Applause]
Brennan, Nicolina Ayakono, [Music] Rebecca and Nicholas. Yeah. Wait. Yeah. Rebecca Ruez and Nicholas Rizzo. Yeah. So, we'd like to congratulate them
as well. Um, they took a they took their lunchtime to study for it. Like Miss Jowsky said, we don't have a class. Um, and they held their own. We're really proud of them. Um, and last but certainly not least, you guys can sit. We just have one last award. You can sit.
You can all sit and then we'll take the outside. So, with our um FBLA mission, I guess we are able to select a business person of the year. So, this business person of the year this year was is very near and dear to
our heart um because her son Nicholas and Paul were in our FBA executive board. Um and a local business owner. We always select a local business owner. Um Michelle was Yeah. And Michelle was nominated and Michelle won from the the
nominations. All the schools are allowed to to nominate someone, but Michelle was one of the winners. So, we would like to call up Michelle Simatada as our business person of the year. You want to say something? I will. Not really prepared to say
anything, but I just want to say what a phenomenal job these ladies and the effort and the time that they put into this club. It It's amazing. and to be there and to see these students all perform. Honestly, the you should be so
proud of what they've accomplished and how far these students go. And I'm just happy that I could also help them grow in their future. And a lot of them work for me. So, I'm blessed. But these two ladies, this a round of
applause. One last shameless, which is not shameless at all. We are having a uh dine out fundraiser for the Nixon Makata scholarship which goes back to our FBLA seniors. So please join us at Vinnie's Mutz this Saturday and buy a sandwich and all the proceeds will go to fund a
scholarship for one of our seniors. So please come out. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank you so much. Congratulations. Well, Mrs. to kind of kind of split my thunder a little, but I I was going to thank um our adviserss cuz they do put
so much time and effort um into everything um that they do and I think it really I think their passion and energy just really carries over to our program and our students. So, congratulations to our students, to our families. Thank you so much. Very welcome. So, at this time,
everyone is is more than welcome to stay um to hear the rest of our board business if you should so choose to do, but um if you if you want if FBLA wants to to exit to take their picture, um now would be the time uh to do that. And um
thank you again and congratulations. Okay. You know what I'll do? Just so you know, I'll need to do education. It's one thing and I'll just, you know, pass everybody else on. Okay. All right. Yeah, that's fine. You ready, John? We have We have two people. Yes, we have
two people. Ready? Are you ready? Yes. All right, let's do it. Okay, our next item is public to be heard on agenda items. First up is Daniel Prada. Just hold it on the side there and then
it'll come off. There you go. There you go. Okay. Um, Mr. the Corso. I'm asking you and the board to resend the budget that you're going to
be voting on tonight in the on the um in the agenda. I want a couple board members to resend that and think before what you're going to be doing to the taxpayers, the seniors and the nurse and the other even the hardworking people
that cannot afford what's going to be done to them. a $1,500 increases. And I don't want to hear it's not gonna be $1,500 because a minimum of $1,500. Okay? So before you all vote again tonight to confirm this budget,
I'm asking that you resend what you did last your sin for last meeting. Thank you for your comment, Mr. Prada. Right. Unfortunately, I can't read this. Last name is Chris. Chris Chris. Chris Ora. Oriela. Yeah, it was hard. It was
hard to read it. Yeah. Sorry, I just scratched it out. Can Can you spell your last name, please? A U R I E M M A. That's Mike. Mike Alpha. Oria. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Yeah. Um, you know, I just want to back up what what Danny just said. You know, obviously with
things going on, people can't afford this. I mean, we pay the highest property taxes. I don't know how this can get funded. You know, maybe appeal to the state to change the budget from Murphy. I mean, Murphy Murphy crushed us, right? And obviously,
nobody wants to say that for whatever reason, but Murphy crushed us. Gave another $102 million to Newark on top of the 1.1 billion. 12% of the state's budget goes to one city out of 500 towns. I mean, it's a shame. It's
disgusting. And hopefully the only thing we can thank God is January he won't be there. But so that I want to just say I I couldn't agree with him more that I think that um you know look these these
votes are pretty solid. I get it. But they're not tablets of stone. They can be changed. Things can be revisited and I think they should. So I I couldn't agree more with Danny. But the the two other things that I wanted to bring up that I haven't obviously the flag thing
that I've I've brought up. I've sent the emails to everybody. I still haven't gotten any resolution on that. Again, I'm not trying I'm sorry. Can you remind me again? I know there was the Easter flag, I believe, was one. It's not an agenda item. Yeah, it's not an agenda item. I don't know what that is. I was
just trying to get clarity. Yeah. Just work. I got you. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right then. So, I I I I'll just say that we are aware, we're working on a policy. This this program did take a tremendous amount of time and it kind of took the board away from some of the, you know, day-to-day business. So, um we are aware
and that is on our agenda with policy to address that. I mean, I would say with that, I mean, just if you're going to say no, you might as well say no or whatever you're going to do, send me an email, say no, and I can go what I the other route. And one last thing is you know East Rutherford it's been over it's been
months now 5756 has been repealed they haven't faced any economic blowback from it. I think you could you should revisit that too. I know what that was. Thank you. Thank you so much. Board discussion. Board discussion.
U could I just um put your mic on my please. Could could I just ask again to um make sure that we get the agenda ahead of time. I know that we got it last night. Um I did confirm with other board of eds they do get it 3 days ahead. I know we've talked about it before, but sometimes there situations I
understand, but it is very difficult. We do need to review this. So if we can get it a couple days ahead before the meetings, I'd really appreciate it. Sure. So to add on to that, um, one of the things I'm changing in my office is that the is that the moment the agenda is created, a Google link will be sent
to the board as well as, uh, um, to Mr. Demikov so that you can actually watch in real time as the agenda is developed. I'd really appreciate that. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Okay. Uh we're on to finance. Uh 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. Make a motion to move forward finance resolutions 1 through 32 to be adopted. Second.
Roll call. Mr. Andronopoulos. Four. Mr. Guso. Four. Mr. Petranzio four Dr. Scardina four. Miss Stella four. But I will be watching
the money being spent according to the line items, not over or under. And I will watch I'm sitting here or I'm sitting there. And I just want to re absolutely. I look forward to it. And I
will certainly um I didn't say this uh publicly. We we um I discussed this in work session, but I did mention publicly uh June 24th um meeting. Um in that meeting um Mr. Heyman and Mr. Demikoff and I have
created a um a Google um document that we're going to be tracking all of our spending and all of our purchases. And we're going to be presenting that um either monthly or every few months to the public so that we could showcase exactly where the money is being spent. um and we could showcase and highlight
the projects that we're doing so that they see where every dollar is being spent. So, thank you. And also say that you're going to have a meeting or you're going to do a spreadsheet because of the roofs that have to get done. Different things that have to get done will be done and that if when it goes on for
like two years, whatever, if any money is left over, there's a certain amount that has to be returned back to the taxpayers. which means at one point the taxes won't even get raised until it's
needed again. All right. Uh Mr. Valvano. Yes. Motion carries. Education and curriculum. I'll do that. Uh pursuant of the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee on education and curriculum recommends
the following resolutions to move forward for a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward education and curriculum resolution one to be adopted. Second. Second. Miss Stella. Roll call. Mr. Andronopoulos. Four. Mr. Garuso.
Four. Mr. Petranzio. Four. Dr. Scardino. Four. Miss Stella. Four. And Mr. Valvano. Four. Motion carries. Miss Stella. Policy and rules and regulations. Pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee
on policies and rules and regulations recommends the following resolutions be moved forward on a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward policies, rules, and regulations 1 through 4. Second.
Second. Dr. Scardino. Roll call. Mr. Andronopoulos. Four. Mr. Garuso. Four. Mr. Petronio. Four. Dr. Scardino. Four. Miss Stella four and Mr. Valano four. Motion carries. Personnel.
Anybody want to do personel? Chris, you want to do personal? Sure. Thank you. Pursu uh pursuant to the This is for personnel. Pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee on personnel recommends the following resolutions be
moved forward for a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward personnel resolutions A1 through M11 to be adopted. Second. Second. Dr. Scardino. Roll call. Mr. Andronopoulos. Four. Mr.
Garuso. Four. Mr. Petranzio. Four. Dr. Scardino. Four. Miss Stella. Four. And Mr. Valvano. Four. Motion carries. New business. New business. Uh yes, new business. So we're going to open it up
for new business. Yeah, there's some new business. Yeah, I've brought it up with in the past about the age uh the cut off when they could start school and extends for three years. Uh two things. if you could possibly just like you like you do well explain the reason of the change
and maybe just take a physical vote or physical vote where I should pursue it or not on going forward policy you want to do like a straw pull vote to see if the board wants the policy to go forward yeah okay so so what Mr. Russo was
referring to is we have a policy currently um that um has age restrictions for when students start school. And so um we have that age restriction for kindergarten, but a few years ago um we we moved that age restriction up to second grade. And
the reason being is um we had families that would send the um their child to kindergarten in a in a non-public and then come back to district for first and second grade and therefore they sort of like skirted the system. And so um we
felt that in order to just um stay consistent with the law and the age, we felt that if a student did do that, they should remain for K1 and two and then enter in third grade. And so that was the reason for that and the board at the
time voted and we approved that policy. Um so that's the policy. Um that's the reason that's the policy we currently have. So I guess Mr. Geruso is just asking the board if it's something that they would like him to pursue through policy. I I have no problem having a a
fuller discussion about it. I know personally being born in December at the time when there wasn't a measure I finished school I was my first finished my first year of college and I was still 17 I think that didn't benefit me I wasn't mature enough my daughter was born in November missed the cut off by
by two weeks but I see the bet so I'm sort of personally involved for myself and my family but I'd like to see an aunt that's a great question the question would be what's the benefit besides policy we we get the skirting of the issue But does it does it have a
positive or negative impact on the student? That would probably be the conversation I'd like to have. So I think it's worthy of a conversation. Okay. Um yeah, I mean certainly we could we could discuss it in policy and bring it up through policy and if if we want to make any revisions, it would it would
go before the full board and then um just kind of see where where we want to go. But um like I did say earlier um Chris um unfortunately policy sort of did get derailed a little bit with with the amount of work um and you see the state um wasn't the most efficient I
must say in terms of rolling out the tax levby program and we had to go back and make revisions again. I think um I commend the board again for for voting to approve this. It's going to it's going to really um benefit our district tremendously. So, now that we're through that, I think we could focus on getting
back to some of the the business that that that we need to. Okay. Okay. Anything else? I have something. Yeah, Chris, just a quick statement. Uh, I'm pleased to report that on May 7th, 2025, a tenative memorandum of agreement was
reached between the Liners Board of Education and the Liners Education Association. Following settlement, the board and the association will collaborate on the drafting of salary guides. Once the salary guides are reed
and approved by the negotiations committee, ratification of the memorandum of agreement and salary guides will be placed on the agenda for approval. Until the agreement is fully ratified, the specific terms shall remain
confidential. Thank you. I it's not necessarily new business, but something that I think should have been mentioned. I wanted to pass our condolences to the entire GA family. We lost uh an incredible public servant, Mayor James Gaida, this past week, and
on behalf of the board and the Winhur School District, I'd like to send our deepest condolences and uh we're praying for for them and their family. So, we have a motion to move to executive session. Oh, the public
statement on non agenda items. Yeah, public public can be heard on non non-aggenda items. I don't have anybody listed, but if you'd like to come up on ju just for clarification, the initial public session is only for agenda items.
So this is for Mr. Orymer or anyone else that has No, this is a non-aggenda item. Now is a time. This is non agenda items. Not agenda. Yes. Warren agenda. I just wanted to say um the meeting that you guys had earlier in May, we saw the
board of education go 90 uh in in uh support of the uh budget situation and change. I know that all nine members of the board of education, the superintendent, the um attorneys, you all own all your own own your own homes and owning your own homes means your
taxes are going to go up as well. Um, no one I've ever met in my life likes taxes. They are uh an unfortunate, somewhat disastrous aspect of our lives, but it's something that we as Americans unfortunately have to deal
with. Um, I wanted to thank the six of you who are up there and the three who aren't there tonight for having the courage in a political firestorm to vote the way you did. And um, that's really all I have to say. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much, sir.
Mr. President, could I interject? I want you to know that when this all came to pass, I I mean, nobody wants their taxes to go up. We made sure that the increase just on the school board size was only
going to be a $500 increase, which will benefit the kids and things that needed to be done. And even a boiler in a high school that can
pop is in this. And the money is there for this for the future. Nobody wants to see it. And on a town side is going to go up in taxes too. I feel bad for people who are struggling and I feel the
same way. But sometimes you got to bite the bullet. But I made sure and I am watching every penny. He knows, James knows, and the town knows. I checked everything out and they try to make sure
they're not going to kill us with the taxes. So, it is an increase, but if you looked at the regular budget was going to go up just not even whatever was
$152 with the 6.2 2 million. It was only an extra $300, a dollar a day for a year. So, it is an increase, but it's not that much of an increase considering for the
children of the future here. That's correct. I'm sorry, I had to get that out, Mr. Prada. Mr. Mr. Valvano, thank you for bringing up about the agenda. That was one of the reasons I wanted to wait for this to come up. The agenda comes up very late again and you made alterations
to it. It's unacceptable. Public needs to know ahead a little bit more. And most of all, you guys need to know ahead of time. So, this needs to be fixed. Mr. Demikov, get on that. Please make sure that everybody's moving and get these agendas out cuz other towns have them two, three, four weeks in advance even
when they're going when their next meeting ends. When that meeting ends, the next meeting they have the agenda already set for the following month. Let's get Linhurst on the ball with that, please. Also, Mr. Dorso, when you have your next meeting, I'd like for you to notify the township of Lynhurst so
they could put on their town website and also to the papers if it were on the school website also, so the residents know about that meeting that you're going to be having to discuss things because the taxpayers need to know also what goes on here. 100% we'll do and um
we've had a great partnership with the town. We will uh again moving forward and so um that email will go out to the school community but I'll also let the township know. Mr. residents also need to go know about that also. I agree. And also Miss Stella in your response with an extra 300 an extra dollar a day for a
year. There's some senior citizens that don't are living on a fixed income with social security and only make a certain amount of income. How dare you say it's only a dollar extra a day. That extra $300 could hurt them severely. I'm ashamed. I'm very embarrassing that you would even say something. Well, no.
Point avoid Dan. Dan, please. You sat up here. You don't You don't get to do that. Excuse me. You heard me. No. No. You don't understand. She has no right to saving an extra dollar a day. There's people who want
fixed income. Well, we're Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Thank you for your comment. We'll get back to you comment. Well, thank you. Your law office should even have been there. Yes, I voted against your law office. Okay. We're going to motion to adjourn
to executive session just for so public knows we're not coming back for an open session after this. So once we adjourn, we're adjourning. We'll adjourn formally in the executive session. Motion to adjurnn to executive session. All in favor?
against extensions. Motion carries. We're