To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Mr. Bate here. Mr.
Andronopoulos here. Guso Miss Pasamano here. Mr. Pamano. Mr. Pasano. Okay. Sorry. Mr. Petranzio is not here. Dr. Scardino here. Miss Stella here. And
Mr. Valvano here. You have quum, sir. Thank you. 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 the town hall and board office. Setting forthcoming schedule work meetings and public
meetings of the board. We get approval of the minutes from May 29th. Have a motion. Second. Motion. Mr. Vano. Second. Miss Stella. Second. All right. Roll call. Mr. Abate.
Mr. Andronopoulos. Mr. Geruso. Four. Miss. Pasamano. Abstain. If we don't get Mr. Pamo feedback, we can leave it. Mr. Petronio. Was that Dr. Mr. Scardino four Miss
Stella four and Mr. Valvano four motion carries state represent student okay we're going to uh ask our student representative Drew Braftoft to give us uh his uh unfortunately his final uh report. We're very proud to have had you this whole
year and we wish you well in your journey going forward. Thank you sir. Uh good evening to all and thank you for joining us here tonight. I would like to utilize my last report to thank the board of education for this esteemed opportunity. Reporting on the happenings at Ler's High School has been a pleasure and I'm thankful for this leadership
opportunity and the experience I've gained from it. In the same breath, however, I would like to congratulate Nicholas Brennan who will serve as the student representative for the 202526 school year. Um, despite his young age, freshman Nicholas Brennan has already made great
strides at LHS, being elected as class president for the class of 2028, being in the top 10% of his class, winning league champion in the freshman division of cross country, and being a member of the future business leaders of America. All of these accolades demonstrate the character, leadership, and maturity of this young man who I am positive will
have great success next year. Congratulations again to him. Congratulations. That's awful. So before before we uh move on, um Drew and Nicholas have um another engagement tonight because of course they are um involved in many extracurricular
activities. So um we're going to skip down um a few so that I can honor Drew uh tonight, Mr. Democ, if you don't mind. They have to go to a band uh award ceremony. So I'd like to just read something into the minutes for Drew when you're finished. Thank you. Um, finishing up, additionally, I would like
to recognize the class of 2025 who will soon be departing from Liners High School following this week. Once again, congratulations to all and I look forward to seeing what my hometown has in store these upcoming years. This concludes my final report. Thank you. Good job. Thank you.
Thank you, Drew. I'd like to read something um on behalf of the board into the minutes. Drew Bankraftoft has served as a student representative to the Lynhurst Board of Education during the 2425 school year. The following resolution will be incorporated into the meeting minutes to express the board's
appreciation of Drew. Whereas Drew Bankro has served as a student representative to the board of education during the 2425 school year and whereas it has been his responsibility to voice the student perspective to the board at public meetings. N whereas he has been
diligent and conscientious in attending the board of education meetings. N whereas he has conducted himself with poise while listening attentively to many lengthy discussions about the government of the school district. And whereas he has presented thoughtful and
informative reports to the board of education on issues and events at the high school. And now therefore, be it resolved that the members of the Lindhurst Board of Education express their gratitude and appreciation to Drew Bankfra for his service to the student
body and the board of education and send him their best wishes for future success in all his endeavors. Thank you so much, Drew. I have a motion. Motion, Dr. Scardino. Second. Second,
Mr. Pasamano. Roll call. Mr. Abate. Mr. Mr. Andronopoulos four, Mr. Garuso, four, Miss Pasamano, four, Mr. Pacimano, Dr. Scard, four, Miss Stella, four, and Mr. Valvano four. Motion carries. Great.
Congratulations. Thank you so much, Drew. And congratulations to Nicholas. We look forward to having you. Have fun tonight, boys. Okay. Uh, Mr. Demikov, in the state monitor report, please. I have reviewed the financial reports for the month ending May 2025 and
support tonight's resolution that certifies that there are sufficient funds based on the May financials to meet the district's financial obligations for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school year. The business office and the administrators are
currently working to close out the 2024 2025 school year financials and we expect to close the year in a positive financial position. 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 resol resolutions on tonight's agenda. That concludes my reports for this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Demikov, as far as my reporter or my uh I just want to just thank our um you know,
congratulate the graduates of course, but to single out our teachers, our administrators, our our principles, our support staff um for an incredible year. Obviously, you we have uh ups and downs, there's uh roadblocks, there's obstacles
that uh come along, and I think we handled this year really well. I think uh some of the strides that we made particularly monetarily are going to be uh incredibly strong as we move forward and continue to grow our school system and looking forward to um the upcoming
next few years as we continue to grow programs and such. And I want to wish everybody uh from the board uh particularly those that are here but all of the people in our our school system a wonderful summer and thank you for all you do. Uh superintendence report. Thank
you Dr. Scino. Um, so a few updates. Um, I just wanted to remind everyone that graduation for the high school is is Thursday the 19th at 6:30. Uh, the middle school promotion ceremony is then uh, Friday the 20th um, at 5:00 p.m. And
to echo what Dr. Cardino said, um, I I really hope everyone has a a smooth close to the year. We're we're winding down. I think the elementary schools had had had great Olympics and I know they've been going on trips and such and so um the end of the year I think has been rewarding for for everyone and I I I too wish um everyone a great summer.
Um and and with that um Dr. Scardino also mentioned you know the monetary improvements that we're going to be making in the district. I just want to remind everyone I'm going to be sending out an email communication this week and then again next week. Um I promise the board and I promise the public that we'll be we will be transparent
throughout that process. So, um, next Tuesday, the 24th, we're going to be having our first, uh, meeting, um, to just review the progress of the tax levy incentive program that we did pass. Um, it's going to be the 24th at 6:00 p.m. in the middle school media center where
I plan to just give an overview on the progress um, that that we're making and the projects that are going to be tackled this summer and projects then that will be tackled throughout the year and then into next summer. um along with some that we already made that coincide
um with the grant. So um we'll we'll have a meeting in June and then I plan to have another meeting at the end of August um so that we can show everyone the progress and I can take pictures and and show the strides um that we're making. So um uh I I thank the board again for their support in that program
and I really look forward to the upgrades that we're going to be making in the very near future. Um, aside from that, on page um, page 10 on education and curriculum, we're required um, twice per year to report our student and
safety data. So, if you turn to page 10, you will see a chart there um, which gives an overview um, of the dis of the um, let's see here. Yeah, I don't know why I wrote 10, but
it's actually page 17, number 10. Sorry. Page 17, number 10. Um, you'll see a chart there that represents the um the safety data from January to June. Again, we're required to report this twice um annually. And so, again, on page 17,
number 10, you will see the overview of each school building and the incidences that they had in each. And finally tonight, I would like to call up um Mr. Rizzo, our middle school principal, um to recognize um one of our
faculty members, Mr. Rizzo. The person I'm going to recognize tonight uh received a very prestigious award uh just a couple of weeks ago. On my way over here, I did a little bit of math and uh we have seven elementary counselors in our district, which is a pretty small district in Bergen County.
Uh there's about seven uh 60 or 70 districts in Bergen County, which means there are approximately 700 or 800 elementary school counselors uh in Bergen County. uh one of our middle school counselors uh was nominated by her peers uh and then selected by the Bergen County School Counselors
Association, which is a group of her peers, uh to be named the Bergen County Elementary Counselor of the Year. Uh she's been with our our district for five or six years now. I've had the absolute pleasure of working with her for the last two years. Uh and she couldn't be more deserving of this
award. Uh and I want to recognize her right now. Elementary School Counselor of the Year for Bergen County, Miss Tori Palanker. Congratulations, Miss Malonger. Thank you, Miss Planker. Congratulations to you. At this time, that concludes my report.
We can move on to uh formal business. Thank you. Any uh board discussion on formal business agenda items? Nope. Okay. Finance. Mr. Petronio are not here. Do you want
to do finance? Dr. Thomas can do it. Thanks. Yep. Pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of school, the committee of finance recommends of the following resolution to be moved forward to for a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward. Finance resolution 1 through 73
to be adopted. Can I get a motion? Second. Miss call. Mr. Abate. Four. Mr. Andronopoulos. Four. Mr. Garuso four. Miss Pasamano four. Mr. Pasamano four.
Dr. Scardino four. Miss Stella four. And Mr. Valvano four. Motion carries. Education curriculum. Yes. Education and curriculum is pass. Pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee on education and
curriculum recommends the following resolutions be moved forward to roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward education and curriculum resolutions 1 through 10 to be adopted. Second. Second. Mr. Pasamano. Roll call. Mr. Abate. Four. Mr.
Andronopoulos. Four. Mr. Guso. Four. Miss Pamano. Four. Mr. Pasamano Dr. Scardino four Miss Stella four and Mr. Valvano four. Motion carries. Thank you. Policy and rules and regulations.
Miss Stella. Pursuant to the recommendations of the superintendent schools, the committee of policies and rules and regulations recommends the following resolutions be moved forward for a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward policies and rules and
regulations resolutions one through six to be adopted. Second. Second was I'm sorry. comment. Thank you. Roll call. Mr. Abate, four. Mr. Andronopoulos, four. Mr. Garuso, four.
Miss Pasamano, four. Mr. Pamano. Dr. Scardino. Four. Miss Stella, four. And Mr. Valvano, four. Motion carries. Uh, safety, security, and health. Mr. Garuso. Pursuant to the recommendations of the superintendent of schools, the
committee on safety, security, and health recommends the following resolutions to be moved forward for a roll call vote. I make a motion move the forward safety, security, and health resolutions one through one to be adopted. Second, second, Mr. Roll call. Mr. Bate, four.
Mr. Andronopoulos four. Mr. Garuso, four. Miss Pasamano, four. Mr. Pasamano, four. Dr. Scardino, four. Miss Stella, four. and Mr. Valvano. Motion carries. Personnel.
Personnel. Mr. androp andopoulos. Pursuant to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the committee on personnel recommends the following resolutions, excuse me, be moved forward for a roll call vote. I make a motion to move forward personnel resolutions A1
through M16 be adopted. Second. Second. Dr. Scardino. Roll call. Mr. Abate four. Mr. Andronopoulos. I am in favor of everything and I against M10.
Against M10. Yes. Okay. Okay. Mr. Garuso. Four. Four. Miss Pasamano. Uh, yes. Abstain. K1. K1. Mr. Pasamano four
uh Dr. Scardino four Miss Stella four and Mr. Valvano. Uh, I abstain to uh K1, but yes for everything else. Okay, motion carries. New business.
I'm going to open it up to any new business. Public be heard on non-aggenda. Uh, public to be heard on non-aggenda items. Mr. Parada. Mr. D Corso. Um, personnel I understand is supposed to be coming after every executive
session. There's no personnel information out on this on here. This is the agenda from the last meeting. It was up to page 16. This is what was put on the internet on the school website the following day up
to page 26. There were 10 added pages to this agenda from last month for personnel. In the agenda from last month, I'm going let you know exactly what I'm talking about. under the personnel
section on page 21 K. Be it resolved upon the recommendation of Mr. D Corso, Superintendent of Schools. The board hereby approve the submission of employment contract for Bergen County Superintendent of Schools,
Alma Moral, Assistant Superintendent, effective July 1st, 2025 with a salary of $179,817 for the 202526 school year. Be it resolved upon recommendation of Mr. D Corso,
Superintendent of Schools. The board hereby approves the submission of the employment contract for Bergen County Superintendent of Schools for James Heman as school business administrator, board secretary effective July 1st, 2025
at the salary of $163,96 for the 2526 school year. This was not available for me to be seen or anyone of the public to be seen until the following day. Is there a reason why there's it's supposed to say uh in fact it says on this that it's supposed to be handed out
after executive session? Yeah, which which it is, sir. So, Mr. Prada, the agenda for personnel is right there. It's put out next to the next to the regular agenda. It's put out after executive session, which I understand what you're saying, but it wasn't there last month. Okay. I can I can't speak to
last month. I know that we consistently put it there, and we do. if you missed it maybe um I don't know what happened. All I can say I didn't miss it last month. Well, all I could say is we put it right there each month um after executive session and like you said the next day it's posted online. So you said
you said in the beginning every time you're on this me on this board and on the meetings that you want transparency. I believe you but that was not there last month. Okay, I'll take your that it see it seems that that was hidden from
the public. It seems like so the the and also here's the question, Miss Stella, this is addressed to you. You claim that you were going to be keeping an watch watchful eye on everything. Just make sure that those salaries do not come out of the $6.2 million. No, they're coming out of regular
budget. The other 5.9 million is what the taxes are going to be and that will be watched by the state and everything else. And there's a meeting on Tuesday that if you want to come, Joe's going to
be putting another presentation. And all that money that uh the board approved was state approved and it was being watched by the state and everything is on the up and up. And I will be watching and so will other people and this the
board has nothing to hide. Open communication. Thank you for your comment. Thank you. Motion to adjurnn. Motion.