[Music] this meeting of the MA Board of Education is open to members of the public to be physically present sorry members of the public that attend will be asked to follow the same procedures as all other visitors to our schools those procedures can be found on the
agenda page of our website additionally the board meeting will be livereamed for viewing purposes only anyone wishing to view the meeting may do so via Zoom webinar ID is 850-6298-5301 and the required password is
142296 i call this meeting to order uh roll call please mr lamb Mr cop here miniro Mr dilva here mr denise here mr gallow here mr uses here miss Jansen
here mr msari here dr report here adequate notice of agenda of this meeting has been provided to the Ridgewood News and the record specifying that the Mala Board of Education will meet on April 9th 2025 in the gym at Joyce Palmer School 80 Ridge Road Malawa
New Jersey a copy was filed with the township clerk to our salute to the flag which was honorable miss Jansen would you lead us please i pledge algiance 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 all right we do not require uh an executive session in the beginning this evening so we will move on to agenda questions agenda questions please limit
your questions at this time to resolutions under new business on this agenda as a matter of fairness you are asked to limit your questions to no more than one and your remarks to no longer than 3 minutes if you are here representing a group please identify yourself the group and your position in
the group if you're here as an individual please give us your name and address this section of public participation will be limited to 15 minutes please specify the resolution you are referring to in your question all right I need a motion to open the
meeting to the public mr kismarski second by Mr dilva right we are officially open to the public seeing no one coming forth at this time I need a motion to close the meeting to the public mr kismer and Mr
gallow all right thank you very much um thank you okay this evening we won't be having a MAWA student representative report so we will move on to Dr durro's superintendence report this evening uh
thank you so just for everyone on the board to know in previous retreats we've talked about getting board certification there have been a number of trainings that we've been able to take on uh through our retreats and through uh regular board meetings and uh Matt is
here to work with us um on the final component of board certification and it comes at the timely part of the year uh your chance to evaluate me so you'll be trained on evaluating it so enjoy the
training and be confident okay all right we're getting up to move so we can see the screen i think we might have to go this way yeah we'll set it under the table [Applause] i know right sit right in the middle
i said I I offered that I can stand I can sit right in the middle of the table we are still here last time I cleared out a table that fast it was Thanksgiving okay so um as Dr puro mentioned tonight we are
going to um work on the CSA evaluation process um and you know getting our time in here tonight is going to put us over the hump for board certification so I will yeah congratulations to you all so I will um
be in touch with Prima about further details on that but basically our NJSBA Bergen County May meeting will be where you folks will be honored so hopefully you can all make time in your calendars to attend and it'll be great
to see you there so uh walking through the CSA evaluation process i know many of you are experienced with this already so I'm going to um probably speed through a number of pieces that I think you've all pretty much got i'm open to questions anywhere along the way uh this
is a good refresher that we do to many boards at this time of year especially when um folks may not have been through the process before or are new to our tool um so the basis for the evaluation is really um in statute code you can see
on the left side of the slide that it talks about the fact that it has to happen at least once a year that the evaluation needs to be in writing and the board and the superintendent need to meet uh in some cases boards um infer that they only have to have board
leadership or the board personnel committee conduct this process but it's really done by the entire board um and there's a number of criteria around which the evaluation is based and we'll talk about that as we go forward the other really important part of this is that it needs to be done by July 1 and
that is critical not only to meet stashing code but also for QAC monitoring you can see on this chart one of the pieces of governance indicators which the board is responsible for is around the superintendent employment and evaluation and that is seven points
connected with having a policy and a contract to evaluate the superintendent and then six points around completing it by July 1 you certainly don't want to lose 13 points on QAC uh by missing the target line evaluation
um the the whole point here is that the evaluation is part of a process and the process is geared toward continuous improvement in your district the um board self-evaluation is really the last step and this all really started when
you created your goals last year and the goals are a full 50% of the evaluation that you're going to be conducting on your superintendent because of course you have charged the superintendent with fulfilling those goals um those goals led to the action plans that have been presented to you in the
past they also um have been uh part of your conversations all along as the superintendent gave you progress reports going through this process and the evaluation and board subaluation are really sort of the the uh culminating
pieces of the of the cycle um okay so our evaluation tool was developed in cooperation with ASA the Association of School Administrators and it is meant to address all of the things that are
important to professional growth for a superintendent and also those things that that a board of education is responsible for monitoring through its oversight responsibilities there's two components to the tool firstly there's a piece
about progress code district goals that's a full 50% of it the next piece is on leadership standards and that is designed to meet all of the things that are required in the statute on evaluation you can see that our tool has
um places for both the superintendent and the board of education to supply comments and ratings there's a self assessment by the superintendent uh he or she will uh support his or her
self assessment by documentation and comments um the board of education also supplies a grading there and they also have an area to make comments there's a place for superintendent to also include a link to uh a drive where
ex extensive evidence can be put for the board to review um the standards part of the evaluation is based upon the professional standards for educational leaders there's six of them included in our tool they look like
that right those all have their own rating scale and they all have a different set of standards and indicators that are part of the evaluation of that standard that looks like that if you
look at the very top I know you can't read this of course but each of those um parts of the rating scale have specific language related to that particular standard so board members should be careful to read those and to apply that
uh criteria to their evaluation of their superintendent um of course here there's also an area for a self rating by the superintendent and an area for him or her to apply comments and evidence uh same thing for the
board there is also an overall rating for performance on the standard so there'll be a bunch of indicators that you'll give a rating to then there'll be an overall rating on the standard and of course those should correlate you can't do excellent on everything and then give
an overall rating of poor right that doesn't make any sense so um that that is we'll rely on board members to uh to uh fill that out in a way um
okay really key thing we stress with all boards is to look ahead to the timeline that you have because these meetings come at a very tough time of the year there's a lot of activity at the end of the year and you don't want to miss the
deadline so backing up from July 1 there's at least two uh and a recommended third meeting that have to happen with the full board to complete this process as designed so we have a July 1 deadline backing up there's a
meeting just prior to that where uh the board and the superintendent meet with the final evaluation document uh prior to that there's a meeting of the board without the superintendent to arrive at consensus opinion and then prior to that we
recommend an evaluation pre-conference very similar to what a supervisor would do for a teacher so there's three meetings of the board rice notice is needed for the superintendent in those cases and those all need to happen um again uh leading
into that July 1 deadline so these are all the steps i kind of went over them in a backwards order just to stress that July one deadline but it starts in the upper left of the slide with the goals setting that
we mentioned earlier uh and progress updates that happen throughout the course of the year uh the evaluation super evaluation uh pre-conference is in green up there and again that is really about sort of
setting the expectations the common language the uh sort of current standing of each of the goals so that the board and superintendent are speaking the same language when they start to document this stuff in the tool the next piece is a superintendent goes in and completes
their board goals and their self assessment once that is done um board members will receive a system generated email that lets them know that it's their time to go ahead and do their part for the evaluation if you do not get the email don't panic you can just go
straight through our homepage website the superintendent evaluation uh area and you can go to the exact same place it's not a dedicated link in that email um board then individually
uh puts its own assessment in there and then if you look at the uh the left side at the middle of the slide you see the BOE needs to review the compiled superintendent evaluation results so that's a um a sort of aggregated
document of all of the input from each of the board members who are taking part in this and from that they develop the majority opinion so there's a conversation using those individual contributions as source material in order to create the final document
the next piece is the annual summary conference where you take that final document review with the superintendent board president signs off superintendent signs off process is complete talked about that
already yeah so you will need your username and password on njsba.org in order to complete this recommend you try it sooner rather than later just in case you run into a problem you can get it corrected and you
won't get um sort of into a time crunch around completing it um there is a password reset link right next to where you sign in so if you do forget you should be able to recover from that very quickly on your own but if something happens you email me spam whatever get
in touch with me and I'll help you out um that is where the CSA evaluation instrument sits on our website right on the homepage kind of middle of the way down uh without the email you can still access the
tool this is the board president's view of the compilation documents and the template for the annual performance report which is the final document you can see there's a report one and a report two that's the goals and it's also the standards put together that
that's the uh aggregated input from each of the board members the annual performance report template is a word template it does not live on our system it's a personnel document we don't want to keep it on our system so you can download the template and there's a very
nice onetoone correspondence with each of the sections of the um compilate compilation document so that you can quickly transfer the information from one area to the correct area on the final document uh those are what the
evaluations look or excuse me the uh compilations look like that's the goals piece that's the standards piece um couple quick notes to finish uh is responsibility of the entire board so
everybody should take part in this uh I can't tell when you guys are done so I rely on the board president to let me know that everybody who's going to take part in this is done and that way I can open up the gate and allow this board president to download the compilation documents so do keep an eye on that as
you go through [Music] um board president typically writes the evaluation final document if he or she is not comfortable with that they can designate something to do that as well this is what the annual performance
report template looks like this is the final document as you can see it's one to one correspondence with the items that are requested from the individual contributions from the board last piece that I think is important is that when you do meet with the
superintendent to have your final conference um evaluation meeting it is a majority opinion document which means that of course if six people feel one way about something
three people feel another way about something the six people's um opinion gets recorded in the document but at that conference meeting if there's minority opinion that wants to be discussed or aired that's the place to
do it it however does not get entered into the document it is an opportunity though for the superintendent to hear opposing views and that's a an an opportunity for professional growth for the superintendent
and then finally uh just a sort of obvious thing but it's something that we like to stress make sure that you have considered the uh 12 month performance of the superintendent when you do this as opposed to things that may just have
happened in the prior few months it should be a fair evaluation that really takes into account all of the superintendent's efforts throughout the year okay most of this stuff oh yeah that's a number of resources on our website that
if you get stuck on pieces of it you want to learn a little bit more about it there's a webinar there's a document there's templates examples etc you can go there and review anything you need to and certainly I'm always available for
questions i think we did it way to go thank you anyone have questions [Music] i'm gonna ask you one question um there has been feedback we've said this a couple of
times in a followup um and there has been some feedback that some of the questions are a bit static and that they don't allow for um our as board members sometimes to know um some of the intric
intricacies of what you know might may or may not do with staff or there just come up once or twice that some of the questions are don't seem relevant to our sort of um eval EV valuation right um and and and maybe I could talk to you
about it the superintendent evaluation or the board celebration no the superintendent evaluation they just come up a couple times so I don't know if NJ the question was has NJSBA looked at you know we've had this kind of similar one and so I don't if you know they've
looked at maybe looking at the questions a bit or changing because there's been the feedback from some board members that we kind of end up giving similar feedback because the the questions remain the same and then you kind of feel like you're just you it's
thoughtful we go through it Well but um sometimes there there's a question that we wouldn't know because it's maybe a dayto-day operational thing that's going on in the school but we're not there in the school to see if that's sometimes happen right those kind of things okay
so I guess to start um have we relooked at it yeah we have so it's it's about a six-y old tool and uh I think two years ago possibly three at this point uh we went back to ASA and said "Hey let's
look at this again and make sure this is serving both our memberships the way it should be." And the consensus was yes it was so that part yeah um when it comes to some of the things that you may not be able to see for instance you
mentioned things around staff um I think it's important first of all to make sure you're asking the right question right because some of the things around personnel for example um really aren't the board's role right so if you're asking those types of questions it's
kind of kind of follows that they really need to be part of the evaluation document i think that's pretty point there are questions on the document that ask us how you know our observation of things that we don't see things that are you know
dayto-day staff things that I'm on like I I've never seen it i don't have access that way because that's not our role and the fact that this evaluation is asking us for our opinion on things that aren't our role I think is an important point okay so I think there's a couple things
to think about there as well the first is um there's opportunity there to say not observe right on some of those questions okay um and then I maybe we've not felt that like we feel like we have to Yeah because you know it's so bad when you
when you check off not observe it's kind of like I've never seen them do that it's it's kind of like a ding and that's not really kind of where where we're trying to be as uh constructive or right
descriptive as possible right we're trying to like answer so but that's the point i guess we and and I think the comments sometimes have been we've not directly seen that but we can give like an overall score but perhaps that and what I'm what we're talking about Matt
is you know there's like six questions in sections right so it may not be so this sounds like the standards area right correct yeah it may not be Yeah not the goals it's the standards area yes so it might be like the one in the seven questions that we're like well we don't know for sure this might just be
feedback to take back to go back look at the questions and say why are you asking for this yes because it's not relevant to their role they shouldn't see this in some cases so I guess you feedback to So it would be helpful if you could show me exactly right offline and I'll get I'll
look at the last years and and bring it back to you okay yeah um and we understand we're looking at it in an overall perspective but I think sometimes it it that's just been the feedback in the past that we're not sure how do we go behind on something that we
may or may not have seen and it's really not an appropriate um role of board member okay okay all right yeah happy to take that back thanks sure so when do you uh suggest we begin this process because um
timeliness we have always not been so timely in the July so let's be timely this year when do you think we should start this semester so um I I get everything done i think the the first way to look at this is to look
at your own calendar and see how we fit this into the other things that we're working on at this point um backing off that July 1 is usually the best way to do that we can fit this in at our June meeting we can fit this in at our May workshop etc the thing you can do pretty
much right away is have that conversation whether it be in person or uh you know a series of of documents that come out from the superintendent to set that kind of stage for the evaluation through the
pre-evaluation conversation whatever that turns out to be um after that it's really up to the superintendent to get into the tool and start to populate it with the um goals and with the self assessment um and the board really can't
do anything until that happens so that's probably uh we'll talk Mike and I'll talk it'll be completed the the superintendent self evaluation will be done by the end of the week we get back which is April 25th that Friday which then you'll get
prompted to start your your process from that point there'll be I believe three meetings that we'll have an opportunity to go through that timeline that you had along the lines of your your opportunity to complete your assessment but my my
artifact self assessment upload be done by April 23rd great thank you okay we'll be this should be very timely this year which reminder do you want to change how about that we'll put that on there all right so
like I said if anybody gets stuck anywhere along the way just reach out to me um or the call center if you're familiar with them usually has login problems and they can figure it out uh nobody here's really new so usually the problem comes in with like a new person
who got in our system with a personal email and now is on a district email and those things collide so I don't think we'll have that problem here but just as a matter of for this year to be as effective as possible in the past I've put different artifacts in if you
guys feel like there's a question that you need more so when you go back to the evaluation if you have a question that you think um is something that you're not able to see as much and the artifacts will speak to it let me know and then I'll make sure that prior to
pressing submit for April 25th you'll have information i think that's an ideal topic for the pre-evaluation conference is hey we really like to see more robust stuff on X Y or Z thank you
[Music] we have a one more presentation all right let me just get a microphone [Music] all right looks like Bryce is right all
right here we go uh all right now we have report mr lamb do you have a report this evening yes I do there we go all right we're on to our business administrators report excellent thank you Dr morphy tonight's business
administrator's report will be a presentation on the preliminary budget for the 2526 school year this is the third of four presentations that we're giving on next year's budget uh so just showing
you clickers not working there we go i'm sorry thank you here we go so again the calendar we had uh two presentations already the final budget presentation will be April 30th uh the official public hearing and
when the board votes to approve the final budget for next year tonight's presentation will focus on enrollment personnel transportation capital outlay capital projects and some other summer projects uh our enrollment data as of October
2024 the reason we use October uh October 15th is the official uh record date where the state uses our enrollment numbers uh as a uh calculation of how much state aid we're going to get so that's a very important date that we
look at the enrollment uh and the enrollment for our preK through 12 is listed there uh and October 2024 enrollment had a decrease of about 80 students uh districtwide from the prior
year's cap so there was a has been a trend of enrollment decreases uh and the the uh top part of enrollment is on roll enrollment and then there's also out of district students uh we have 68 special education students for next year's
budget we are budgeting three contingencies uh because we there's always the unknown or uh uh future out of district placement uh that we expect although it's not final uh we also have a county vote one shared student they spend a
half day here a half day at the VOTE uh we're budgeting two for next year uh and then we have a number of students uh going to themies in Bergen County uh we're budgeting about the same for next year and then we have two charter school students uh that go out of district
charter schools are considered public schools we are required to provide tuition and transportation for those uh our staffing we have 454 full-time equivalents of staff uh because we are
having a reduction in the total number of staff although salary increases uh will be occurring next year as per contract uh because there's a lower headcount next year compared to this year the actual salary in the budget is lower for next year than this year so
that doesn't happen often uh even in spite of that the health benefits costs uh which we discussed last time are still going up significantly uh uh the decreases to staff is in line with
the enrollment changes and then uh we have independent contracts and other associated costs uh with our collective bargaining associations uh and of course our unaffiliated staff uh next slide on staffing uh each year we thoroughly
examine the uh our staffing needs uh to address the educational curricular and enrollment needs of the district as well as instructional and support areas uh and just want to uh say that our uh
administrative team Dr fair Dr dur Dr the Turo excuse me all of our supervisors and principles spent an enormous amount of time looking at the needs of the student to see where changes were needed uh in some case fewer staff needed in some case more
staff needed uh the most important point here is that the staff changes will not impact any student programs or class sizes all of the current programs are staying in place and the staff the class sizes are about the same uh for next
year's budget a net decrease of nine full-time equivalent positions is anticipated inclusive of uh additional school security officers for the K to5 buildings so really it's a a a decrease of 13 staff but then you add four
security officers that's how you get a net decrease of uh nine full-time equivalents and uh just want to say uh the township of Mawa has been very cooperative in helping us fund the uh school security offices in the building
so thank you to them uh transportation uh transportation uh we spend almost $7 million in transportation and uh it in a town ma being the largest uh land area in Burton
County uh our buses drive many many miles we're also required to transport out the district students it's about 8.4% 4% of our operating budget uh and uh the prior year we uh consolidated and
made our routes a lot more efficient uh for some savings this year uh the routes are being budgeted uh the same number of routes as for next year's uh budget the routes are being budgeted the same number of routes as the current years uh
even with that uh our bus contracts with the vendors are uh increasing by the CPI rate 3.57% that's a lot lower than it's been in the past four or five years so we're we're actually grateful that it's only
3.57% although our CVI rate is still going up by a higher rate than our tax increase uh again we we provide busing to uh a high majority of our students over 2,000 students of about 2700 students in our district are eligible
for busing uh again and then about 100 out of district students uh we have an ad hoc board committee that meets several times a year to review our policies and to make sure our busing program is working well and I just want
to say that that committee has actually provided a lot of good ideas and our uh transportation team led by Tracy Spender has really done a great job of being proactive with our routes the state gives a transportation efficiency rating uh to every district in the state one is
really the average or the status quo the higher the better malawis is 1.257 257 and so we're well above the county and the state averages in transportation efficiency uh capital projects greg
Romero uh does a great job in managing our capital projects uh we're planning this summer uh in the budget but paid for with from withdrawal from Capital Reserve $100,000 to replace a walk-in freezer in the Mawa High School
cafeteria kitchen and also to replace the roof over the cafeteria at the high school uh the total cost of the project is about $1.1 million the good news is the state of New Jersey through a Rod grant uh is paying for 40% of it if the
district cost is less than $700,000 and uh the state will be paying over $400,000 for that project there are other rod grants that the district has been approved for they are not included
in the budget yet and I say yet because at any board meeting during the uh during the year a board can vote to uh go forward with a Rod Grant project and uh but we do have on the table uh almost
$10 million of potential rod grant projects again the state would pay 40% of the costs and some of those projects include HVAC at Betsy Ross HBAC at George Washington HVAC at MA High School
and then roofing at George Washington again the state would pay uh if we were going to do all those projects the state would uh reimburse us an additional $5.7 million for those projects but we have to fund the money uh from our capital
reserve so we do expect to move forward with some or all of those projects in the next several years and then other proposed summer projects uh in addition to the ones we mentioned included in next year's budget is uh
paving of the various parking lots uh in the district uh we piggyback off a bid that the township of Mawa conducts uh annually and that saves us a lot of money by uh being included in their bid so some of the paving that will be done
is the uh loop at lenipe meadows uh and then Ramico Ridge uh the asphalt walkway area uh additionally not included in the actual financial part of next year's
budget but to be completed during the summer uh is a rooftop HVAC unit replacement at Joyce Kilmer School uh that money was already uh budgeted last year but the pro when in terms of
planning the project sometimes projects they're budgeted one year but then they get extended into another year so that project was planned last year uh board approved it this year and the work will take place in the summer the total cost of the project is 442,000 but again the state is
reimbursing us 40% of that cost so the cost of the district net is about 265,000 we will also be uh doing some upgrades to kitchen equipment at various schools uh buying uh miscellaneous items
like cafeteria tables the good news is uh anything related to the cafeteria or the kitchen we can charge to the food service account it does not get charged to the operating budget so it's it's really the sales and the uh surplus that
we have in our food service account uh pays for anything related to the food service program so it does not take away from our operating budget uh and then just a review of the calendar again this is the third presentation the final presentation on
April 30th will be an overview summary and the tax impact and then of course the board will be approving the final budget for next year so if there are any uh questions or comments be happy to take sure once they're approved what is the
time period that we have to how long is that money set aside for us to use uh I've never seen a specific deadline on it uh I' I've seen some districts where the money has sat
there not completely spent for even a decade i would not recommend that of course uh with deadline that we have to use there's no set deadline but I would not want to wait too long because given
uh a political environment changing uh office you never know how an administration would uh potentially take back money if it went unspent so I would I would recommend spending it in a relatively
uh timely manner and not waiting too long of course but there's no official deadline okay any other questions if not thank you all right and now Dr fair do you have report this evening
typically I do and he usually has audio visual so we'll remain here so typically I would have slides but we have we have the actual people here so we're going to have person yeah i'll stand beside uh
behind them as they introduce them so we'll start with Mr jim O'Hara if you just stand up and wave to our board since they're they're essentially voting on you so uh all right so let me introduce you to Mr o'hara and I'll explain why we selected him the many
candidates that we interviewed so our job posting yielded over 60 applications for our director of guidance vacancy in review of those applications we invited 18 candidates to meet with our team for an introductory Zoom screening session
from those 18 candidates we invited six candidates in for an in-person interview with a full committee including administrators and school counselors two candidates were asked to complete a finalist presentation that introduces and outlines the candidates's unique
vision for our program to our district mr o'hara has been selected by our committee his finalist presentation focused on actionable ways to move our existing programs forward with an understanding of our district mr o'hara
comes to us with experience as a high school counselor for Ry High School and a K12 director of guidance for Ry schools in New York he is presented with leadership and vision and was able to connect with all
members of our interview committee throughout our final interview process according to Mr references he quote is a special colleague who finds a nice balance of leading while also allowing his people to have the space to expand professionally additionally Mr o'hara
has a firm understanding of elementary and secondary school counseling programs and quote has a keen ability to see how things connect and come together across a district we look forward to having Mr o'hara join our leadership team
[Applause] um lastly for my report uh we recommend for our supervisor of English language arts grades 6 through 12 and our supervisor of performing arts grades 9 through 12 Miss Caroline Cougar will also have her stand up and
wave let's get started uh our team underwent a thoughtful interview process to find our next department supervisor where we reviewed 55 candidates application materials followed by the interviewing of 18 of those candidates via Zoom through introductory meetings
five candidates were invited for in-person interviews with our panel our two finalists were tasked with drafting a 20inut presentation that reviewed our department's data where our finalists were to create an action plan to address areas of need from this exercise Miss
Krueger served as the clear choice her thorough presentation was carefully crafted to think about teachers as individuals while also creating a roadmap that would be collective to the team all inclusive of resources to support the work and to provide clarity along the way for the department her
approach was balanced supportive and direct according to Miss Krueger's former supervisor uh she expressed quote "She will always show up for your people she does everything to the best of her ability and takes extra time with anybody explaining concepts and she
cares additionally she also shared that Caroline is a quick learner integrates contemporary ideas translating difficult concepts to students and colleagues and she emphatically closed with I know she is ready she's capable and authentic she thinks about every dimension of a
problem and works to find a solution so Miss Critter comes to us with 27 years of teaching experience most recently from Tennifly High School she has had several extracurricular and lead teacher positions through her tenure and she believe she believes all of those have prepared her for the role
supervisor and we certainly agree so we recommend both Mr o'hara and Miss Krueger without reservation [Applause] thank you very much Dr i could just stay in the audience
today uh residents report which I have I have no report this evening um all right uh board committee reports oh okay so Brett Brett oh Brett board committee reports uh transportation last seat
camera hear me the camera thanks look but I think we might have to return to our seats for voting and I think we'll do Okay at some point we're going back to our seats go ahead Mr goth uh transportation committee met last
week um want to thank Mr lamb and Miss Spiller again for taking the time to be with us uh just two highlights real quick uh we started a legal process for the 2425 school year we're going to be discontinuing it uh found that there was no efficiencies that were found um based
on the feedback we got and it added a great deal of work on Mr mill's desk so we're gonna uh discontin that for the 25 26 year um secondly a couple years ago we started sending out courtesy letters to current fifth graders and current eighth graders that'll be losing
transportation options for the next year sort of in ninth grade and in sixth grade when the uh mileage changes based on the schools that they're going to be in so those letters will be going out the end of April and they'll only be going out to those that'll be quote unquote losing the opportunity for
busing those are the two items thank you okay thank you Mr black anyone else mr d okay all right okay so um brief report from instruction and curriculum um from
our uh February meeting i just wanted to um provide some update on the reflective practice program uh Dr fair came and spoke to us about that um it's uh going well and teachers have liked it um they've particularly liked videoing
themselves it's been helpful to see themselves in practice that's something that Dr fair also mentioned that towards the end of the year uh there'll be uh they'll be showcasing it for the faculty and this is a pilot program hopefully uh more teachers will uh participate in the
future um there was also curriculum writing and that was on uh the previous um agenda uh the there's also been additions to um our BCCS program um and that was something we voted on uh at the
last agenda uh adding the K3 autistic program that's being added at Lenap Meadows um the extension of our prek program and um also the transfer of self-contained program back to GW so those are a few of the things there um
BCSS has been very supportive and collaborative and that was report from Miss Rizzo for us um from the March meeting um I just wanted to highlight that there will be a spring um uh roll out of an additional reading program uh
this is um a special education reading course um that is related to the Orton Gillingham program u Mr posine came and spoke to us about this um it's a focused uh intervention program uh helping uh students um who are having reading
challenges um and this will be something that will be implemented um in the spring um so and some of the benefits is is to help improve word coding enhancing spelling skills and increasing reading confidence for our students and this is
going to be um mostly a K through 12 program all right and that's all I have any board member remarks this evening all right let's go back to the table to conclude our voting i'll get it done [Music]
um all right let's take old business now 17 A and B uh I need a motion on the floor miss Ting Jansen second by Mr hughes thank you uh Mr lamb whenever you're ready for roll
call please roll call on the middle 17 AB mr coughlin abstain mr dilva yes mr denise yes mr gallow yes mr hughes yes m jansen yes mr kizarski abstain
dr yes uh now let's take new business we have uh this evening 18A through M um we do also have a donation that uh I would like to just recognize and that's
18 I from Orange and Rock so thank you very much for uh the donation to our schools um and uh we'll take that all together 18 A throughM i need a motion on the floor uh Mr gallow thank you and
Miss Ting Jansen again thank you roll call please mr lamb mr coughlin yes mr dilva yes mr denise yes mr gallow yes except on 18A I'm abstaining from check
119254 and 119 382 thank you Mr hughes yes miss Jansen yes mr marski yes dr yes all right now let's take 19 uh we have personnel this is A
through K this evening um A through K and we do have two appointments so we on behalf of the board welcome James O'Hare and Carolyn Krueger to the Mala family this evening thank you very much and uh I do need a motion on the floor mr tz
Marski second by Mr dilva thank you Mr lamb roll call please mr copa yes mr dilva yes mr denise yes mr mr gallow yes and welcome Miss Krueger and Mr o'hara mr use yes miss Jansen yes mr kizarski
yes dr yes all right public questions or comment public participation at board meetings is in accordance with bylaw 0167 at this time members of the public may ask questions or make a comment on educational issues or school matters of
community interest it's a matter of fairness you are asked to limit your questions to three minutes and um your remarks to three minutes and your questions to no more than one if you are here representing a group please identify yourself the group and your position in the group if you're here as
an individual please give us your name and address um I need a motion on the floor to open to the public mr gallow second by Mr hughes we are officially open to the public seeing no one coming forth at this time
uh I need a motion to close the meeting to the public Mr kesmari and second by uh Mr copelan thank you very much um we do have our strategic plan meeting this is number three work session uh that is
going to be starting at 6:00 p.m um so we look forward and thank everyone in advance for their participation for that uh and now I'll have a motion uh to uh close the meeting a motion to adjurnn we do not need a exact section at the end
we keep it open oh keep it open brief recess i apologize all right we do a brief recess so do I need to open again yes yeah might as well okay so motion to open the meeting to the public mr dilva second by Mr karsski we are open to the
public and we'll be beginning at 6 pm for our strategic plan work session all right thank you very much [Music] [Music]