[Music] [Music] [Music] good evening I'd like to resume tonight's Board of Education meeting can I get a roll call please M wiste here Mr P here Mr K here Mr ainson here Mr W
here here please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to United States of America the for it stands na indivisible and
[Music] justice thank you for coming out tonight January 25th along with some of my fellow Board of end members I got to attend the mtpa luncheon at the Clarion it was beautiful and it was to honor and recognize all our esps in the district
so thank you to the MTA for hosting that I got to also with some of my fellow board members attend the football banquet it was nice to be invited to the banquet and hear again about all the amazing records that are football team
rope um congratulations again Boys on an amazing season winter sports are doing well also it's nice to see so many posts um about all the kids breaking records and doing great things yesterday was the eighth grade orientation at the high
school it was nice to see our future class of 2029 getting ready I think the kids are more ready than the parents um it was very well run it was nice to see all the kids signing their names down for different Sports and clubs and
activities to get involved in um and upcoming many board members are looking to um be part of R Across America which Manchester is celebrating in their elementary schools this Friday and so we will be able to see all the little kitties in honor of Black History Month
I leave you with some words from Harriet Tubman every great dream begins with a dreamer always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world m p do you have I do good evening
everybody and welcome good evening nice that's our spirit as you all are aware it's been a very cold and very challenging I've lost a lot of Mone sleep so I'm very sorry um but I try to
make these decisions on what is best for our children and our staff fortunately we've had a nice change in the weather over the past few days with some warmer weather which hopefully will continue for some time the reason I'm bringing
this up is you will notice on the board agenda this evening there is a revised calendar um due to the snow day that was utilized on Wednesday February 12th we had to make some adjustments so as a result the revised calendar now reflects
that staff and students will attend school on Friday June 20th this Mee our graduation both at the 8th grade and the high school will be that Friday just want to make sure we're giving people advanced notice but I also want you to
understand we still have a lot of winter so there could be another revision hopefully not your kids like to wear your pajamas inside out but if you could do that on the weekends I certainly appreciate that I also want to um as
many of you know I've been in newchester for quite some time and so when I names on our board agenda regarding recognition and um resignations or retirement I would be remissed if I would not speak about the impact these
people have had on our students lives and with the staff in general so if you could please um help me in congratulating Mr portway's 35 years of [Applause] service you show me really retiring
because he loves this so tremendously and so um welld deserved but certainly a loss for our I see you shaking your head you're AB absolutely right right um and then also um I hired this wonderful
secretary in Chi 12 years ago um we wish her the best she will be a loss for our school um and for the district but we also you would please help me congratulate m as Mrs M said Across America will be
celebrated in our elementary schools this Friday and I believe we are celebrating on Wednesday a regional Bas School we're looking forward to that and then please mark your calendars and let your friends know anybody who has a kindergarten that is going to be coming
to one of our reary schools Kinder prep will be held um on Tuesday March the 4th at Ridge school at 6:00 so we're looking forward to that and seeing the class of what's the class of anybody know tell me this is more what's class of
[Music] what 40 I think so okay okay 38 you won the prize thank you okay anyways please make sure that your friends know anybody who has
kindergarten we should be coming to kinder prep they give important information about registration so we'd like to see there that evening pause um at this time we're going to invite our military representative to
give a spe before you talk I just want to thank you and Military I know they adopted MTS as their school but my son who now attends Whiting Elementary School came home excited that he had soldiers in this classroom helping them learn so tell your um your fellow troops
it's being well received and K are excited and happy to have that absolutely uh so uh thanks for having me tonight uh yes we NSA Lakers adopted they had the formal Proclamation uh this month for the adopting of uh Mt so that
was a huge win um they'll be at MTS this Friday for through cross America festivities and then uh myself and seven of my went to W uh yesterday and we read to I think four or five classes so it was a
great time and we're to do so we'll see um the month of military trial Proclamation will be in April April 4th uh we're hoping just like last year to get um the jzi folks out there hopefully I see uh Senor M over there nothing head
yes um so hopefully they'll be able to make it out uh any administrator board members won't come out um just I guess coordinate with them uh and then the power the H air show is in May so I gu mark your calendars Serv this time we'd like to
invite Luka and Emily to tell us what's going on in high school hi my name is Emily Johnson and I am the executive president we're here today you updates about what's been going on around our school first and foremost we started our
last half of the school year we're in second semester and going strong and recently for Valentine's Day we did a lot of festivities just to kind of spread some love throughout the Halls we had our chorus to our annual singing grams where they kind of give a little
donation they can s to their friends and also we had some students selling from cookie pre-orders outside of lunch so just our senior class has also been preparing for Senor par coming on May
29th uh we've been hosting a couple fundations recently um we just completed our chway fundraising that I'm pretty sure really well um we have an ongoing Beach Tow sale so and that um is finished this Friday so so please your
Beach CHS um and we also have 100 nights coming up on March 11 which is supposed to commemorate the last 100 days until graduation as seniors um and we have our Mr Manchester competition where we have
six contestants or against each other um should be fun and we our juniors are actively looking at fundraisers and other different fundraisers um to prepare for their Juni and for the coming
that's all thank you thank you great [Music] job we're going to start with nvs so I'd like to call up Joshua Mohamed Kaden and Julia and I believe Ricardo let's give him a nice round of applause and I believe the adviser Miss
Henry is here this evening as well and she works with these young men and women at mtds with the chess instruction at in the media center so chess instruction was added to the media center program in 2019 as a
way to strengthen students critical thinking and strategic planning skills as well as their social emotional learning each year since then fifth graders spend time mastering the game in January and then they compete in a tournament in early February this year
we're proud to recognize the Champions and they are the champions from that particular tournament so let's give him a nice round of applause we'll continue with Bridgeway Elementary School and I think I saw broen out there's [Music]
[Music] so broen is an outstanding student and individual whose achievements and contributions extended far beyond the classroom so I'm sorry this phone is up here as well and I'm sure she she's delated because she's so proud of her student R's involvement with collecting
serial for the serial drive with the help of local restaurant shut up and he and Paul Pendergrass karate school has been a testament to his selflessness and his desire to make a positive impact I believe also he was featured on Channel
12 News am I correct and as and I just want to say Miss sylvestri does such a great job of publicity but she gets so excited she find she's like this was on my bucket list and now we have how many you were featured three times on as I think you can with that and also
look how Charming he is that's part of it so congratulations and thank you and I just want to say that I'm being um a little biased perhaps but I think we have some of the smartest kids but some of the cutest kids and we're going to continue with Whiting elementary school
so I'm going to ask for Hannah to come up Joseph Y and Addie and Dean are they all here Mr Swift come on up guys you nice of so you're going to hear a lot about the serial Wars project and this was
part of the impact club and these students actually helped to organize this project for Whiting School the students helped to organize donated boxes of cereal that were distributed to a local food bank serving residents of Ocean County and that is just simply
outstanding so thank you we applaud you and we congratulate you for your selfness selfless we will continue with regional day school he's not here that's okay we're going to give you his certificate and then we're going to read about this
little come on right look at him right Bryce has made an amazing stri in the classroom since joining us at Regional Bas school he has been working very hard both academically and behaviorally Bryce has been using his manners and as a good friend he really Eno being around the
preschool students and helping them and look at that smile so let's give him a nice round thank you so much I appreciate we'll continue with the middle school he's not here okay he's sick today I'm sorry so near and dear to my
heart CU he started with me when I was a Ridgeway School principal and we are so proud of Owen he is working towards his Eagle Scout status and aiming to achieve 138 badges also he was featured as a weather person on news2 so
congratulations to Owen and we'll give you this so what I love is we feature also student athletes but these are student athletes so they are both both great students and also great athletes and so we're going to bring up at this time Brady and Riley and I think I
[Applause] saw so greedy and Riley represent the middle school student athletes they are both great representation of what it means to be a student athlete they are both eighth grade leaders of our
basketball baseball and soccer cheerleading teams they are respective work as hard on the fields as they do in the classroom so congratulations to both of [Applause] [Music]
you too young to know the Kodak moment ough I think it's coming back right so we're going to continue with the high school and recognize our Junior RC leader so I think have Cadette Martin
here and Cadette Caruso am I correct and Mr M I always promote them when I say they're rank so tell me again Mr holer you are Lieutenant Commander Senior Chief I got it now so we'd like to
congratulate Cadette Martin executive officer we attended that team assigned t overseas drill training for March her dedication and leadership are vital to the unit so congratulations to you Cadette Martin and Cadet Caruso command Senior
Chief manages uniforms and a nine Cadet staff as Color Guard Commander she scheduled and leads training and events her organization and vision are key to the unit's success so congratulations to Cadette kuso
and I would just like to commend both of you gentlemen would you do with these children is simply remarkable it really is we are so grateful to have you at high school and working with these young men and women so thank you very [Music]
much that you really need to read these I I mean I think we have a lot of coaches here because I have to read it several times and I'm like are you kidding me this is what these children are doing it's just fantastic so I'd like to ask for to come up and
Evan I I don't differ okay she can probably jump over all of us so Janice is a really class of 2027 first true season in the jumps with a historic winter in the high jump she
is the first first female Haw to clear 5T indoor over 20 years congratulations to you [Music] girl I'm gonna is Evan not here I'm G to read it all just stay there because I want them to see you and just know how
incredible you are it took her just two needs for her to set the school record in the long jump going over 17 piece she had a very impressive triple jump going over 34 and she led the team in times for the 55 meter and the 55 meter hurdle
so congratulations to you so impressive as impressive as she is as an athlete she is just as impressive as a student so congratulations Mom and Dad wonderful job wonderful job we also want to about Evan he's not
here but he's an impressive indoor track season Breaking the school record in the long jump about him is he broke his own record am I right is that right so congratulations clei and the high jump and really just congratulations to both of them amazing
students and amazing athletes and thank you to the coaches that are here this evening going a chance on Su really that's awesome so in case you didn't hear that Evan is going to the me of Champs on Sunday and we sent Evan Good Vibes so great great forever
[Music] so I'm going to ask for Miss ke and Mrs D Lorenzo to come up because I would like to make sure that we do justice to the heroic efforts of these two staff
members oh it works that's good okay so um I just want to take a moment to recogniz two outstanding individuals uh within our school Community who exemplify courage quick thinking and dedication to the safety of our students Mr STA
and here please uh recently during AAL Lunch Period a situation arose That Could Have Ended tragically student gets a choke on his lunch and in the midst of what could have been a lifethreatening emergency his test is into her immediate response
to assess the situation demonstrated her unw unwavering commitment to our students will be ask the situation escalated Mr staff quickly intervene utilizing his training to perform the high maneuver thanks to their Swift actions and teamwork the student was
successfully assisted and was safely able to walk back to the school MERS to be evaluated we are incredibly fortunate to have Mr staff and Miss Tesa as part of our team and their quick response was not only save the life but also ser a powerful reminder of the importance to
being prepared for NES so please join me in thanking Mr staff and Miss Tesla for their heroic action so I just want to say to you as school leader it is so incredible to me that we do this training people get
certified but very reassuring to know that this could have been a very tragic situation and they are both very humble people so I know that they didn't want to be up here um Alissa actually ironically was my one of my kindergarten students when I was the principal of
Ridgeway so it's so remarkable to see her come full circle and just do such great things and I Just Want to Thank You Mr St because quite honestly working as a team and communicating you really save that child's life so thank you to both of
you so I'm going to ask for the mcf to come up at this time so that we can I think I saw members of the [Music] mcf you hear me back there [Music] [Music]
can everybody hear me yes um my name is Rick campan I'm the president of the Manchester Educational Foundation we've been around for over 12 years now and um our goal was to
raise money for some of the things the students can't get out of the budget in the school district we've been doing that for over 12 years um this year we have over $12,000 worth of Min grants that the teachers applied for that we're awarding here
[Music] this can't hear now can you hear me can you hear now all right so uh I'd like to ask the principles of the schools if they could come up um when I call their name I'm going to award the
check to the school and then I have an envelope with the individual checks for the teachers that were awarded minig grants for this year so first up would be Mr Adams and I'd like to get a group shot when we're all done I'm hoping that the
principales are here um the middle school middle school the Elementary School Manchester Township Elementary School and next whing element [Music] [Applause] School uh the regional Day
School next is the Ridgeway Elementary School Middle School Regal [Music] school so um these are the grants we passed out for this year here and you
know the students um should get a lot of reward out of that from the teachers that applied so congratulations all of you thank you out because I just want to thank the MTF and I also want to thank the teachers that submitted so we have a little highlight um of who um
requested um grants and who was awarded so at all elementary schools we have Mrs Palmer ble of the books Mrs po castra we like to move it move it and Mrs cayola from sounds to stories so thank you for supporting them at Ridgeway we have missone de
Johnson Shannon adeta with Superstar second grade readers Jessica stab emotions feelings and self-control support Tara Shen who was in preschool with the alphabet sounds teaching Cubs and our school media specialist Mrs weny
put in for that and she's getting some equipment so thank you for supporting the school at MC we have Miss minich ask for playground for preschool and A-frame communication board Mrs jri was here this evening thank you for coming she
asked for a listening station for the multilingual Learners and we have Miss Tumi who has eyes of the wild show and this was for third grade students and kind of giving them an experience of animal rescue so thank you for supporting
um at Whiting Elementary School we had a request from Mrs Carr kindergarten technology and Mrs GS who is our um health and physical education teacher who asked for fontastic so thank you for it's called Nine Square in the air it's really very exciting it's going to be
anome opportunity for the kids to thank you for that at Regional Day School we have requests from Alison mccan for sensory integration and Leslie o and Megan Romanowski Alex ja and Ali scano with sensory room
equipment so thank you for supporting that at the middle school we had Mrs McDonald who had breakout breakout edu classroom tools and Nicole B Deli get bands in tune thank you for supporting them and then of course at the high
school we have Mrs mckernan and Erica Eno students today Good Samaritans tomorrow in the purchase of American Red Cross information um and I just want to thank you them as well I'm going to ask if there's teachers here if you'd like
to come up and be part of the photo so I know that there are some teachers who won the GRS so one you guys come up as well and thank you for putting in for those GRS and thank you for supporting their project appuse [Music] [Music]
[Music] ready [Music] [Music] and so thank you very much to the MC folks I just want to add that it's on behalf of the foundation it's our
pleasure to do this year over year for our teachers and students so thank you and so now I'm going to leave you with some folks from adeta class which is second grade at Ridgeway school they actually submit quotes in honor of black
history month so we have on the left those Cuties submitted a quote from Barack Obama change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time we are the ones we've been waiting for we are the change that we speak
beautiful quote and we thank them for submitting that and then the other class um that submitted was from PR Douglas their quote is if there is no struggle there is no so thank you to Mrs adeta class and
thank you to all of you for being here this evening it's a lot to be excited about a lot to recognize and great things happening in Manchester [Music]
Township I would like to thank the MTF for all they do to support our students and to all the teachers time out of their schedules to apply for these grants to also help our students um Mr Loren do you have a
report uh just two two quick items the first one there's a couple vehicles on the agenda that we're disposing we got three or four school buses that we can nowh use to transport students so we we will be exposing them and then putting them our do deals uh the G auction to
sell them we also have a maintenance truck that we could that's no longer that we will be uh disposing of as well my second item just a little just a little bit of a recap the governor gave his budget address yesterday and these were some of the takeaways related to
public education uh the budget will include an increase of $444 million into the school funding formula which is great uh this will actually be the first year the funding formula is fully funded uh did this will be the first time ever
so I'm not even sure what that means at this point um because the funding formula has never been fully funded so we're optimistic that means this could potentially be more you know more funding for the district uh one of the things they did do because if you've
kind of if you've been in the area in the last couple years and you've seen some of our surrounding districts losing millions and millions of dollars every year they've now put caps in place where total State a in increases and decreases are minimized uh they can only
go so low or so High um so that's actually a good thing for the districts that are losing money um they've allocated $7.5 million more into the high impact tutoring grant program uh our district was a beneficiary of some of those funds the last year and a half
uh so we're anticipating potentially getting more you more some more of that grant money and what that's used for is for students who need extra help and again this is still tied back to co and the learning the learning gaps and things like that so this is just to help
those students get caught up uh they're putting an additional $ 34.6 million into the budget for districts that are currently participating in preschool pea uh which is us so that that's positive and then the last thing which we're starting to kind of hear about some
districts have have started to do this they are going they're putting about $3 million into a pilot program uh for to support phone free schools um this is something kind of new um you know they're they're going to be looking for districts that maybe want to
Pilot this and this Oney will be used to purchase supplies and things where people you know the kids can put their phones and things like that so we don't have enough information on this yet to see what this is about but I know this is something now uh that that's become a
focus because the phones have become so distracted uh in school so there are School that have already started putting things like this in place uh so they will be setting some funding aside for that as well um we should have our state a numbers tomorrow so uh once we get
those numbers you know we'll begin to finalize our our budget at our next board meeting we'll have to move our March board meeting up a week so I think tly it's going to be March 18th uh I will be asking the board to approve the tenative budget to be
submitted to the county for review uh and then from there you know we we go through the review process and then we present the the budget publicly either end of April or early May uh for the upcoming school year so we're optimistic that the numbers will be look good
tomorrow but we won't know until you know until they come out so as soon as I get the information I'll email the board thank you at this time we'd like to invite any residents to come to the microphone if you have any questions on agenda items only
are there any board member reports um I just want to extend congratulations to Mr pway who is one of uh my coaches years ago um great guy great Family Guy and a great asset to this community and School District um
I'm excited to read at read Across America this week um I'm excited for the penguin plung that's coming up so any else wants to jump in the water with me feel Break um and job by Miss Tesa
and that's a situation it's you brick I just want to say last year was very warm right M it was very warm warm and I went in much farther
than I anticipated TR year but I believe Mr Staples is to be there too yes I just recruited D you don't have to jump in the Border either we need people to hold our towels and keys supp are there any other board member
reports is there any old business or correspondence there's no old business and no correspond okay we're going to move to the agenda section one a new business numbers 1 through four can I get a motion
second any discussion can I get a roll call please M wste yes Mr P yes m kellerer yes Miss ainson yes M wiber yes and Miss yes B through e can I get a motion
notion discussion can I get a roll call please uh mste yes Mr P uh no to the B and yes to the rest Mr K yes m z yes Mr
mkin Mrs wingler and M yes section two A administrative numbers 1 through eight can I get a motion Mo can I get any discussion I would just like to thank
the MTF again for all that you do for our students of the Manchester District for our teachers for applying for all those amazing can I get a call please mste yes Mr yes
Mr K yes Mr Z yes Mr M yes B Personnel numbers one through 46 can I get a motion please motion second discussion just like to say
congratulations to Mr cway um my children were blessed to have him as a teacher some hard shoes to F I re please yes Mr P all obain from
29 30 38 and yes Mr yes yes mler so in section c I have to read in a resolution uh so we have number one number two for section c student
Personnel the resolution will read resolution to aold District's residency decision on case number mtms Els a motion motion second discuss M Weinstein yes Mr P yes Mr
Keller yes Mr ainson yes Mr murkin Miss Winkler yes and this Athletics one and two can I get a motion discussion can't believe read our spring SP schedule I wish these teams the
middle M Weinstein yes Mr P yes Mr Kell yes M ainson yes Mrs wi yes section three finance a numbers one through five can I get a motion
discussion I get a roll call please M yes Mr yes Mr K yes Mrs Aon yes Mrs W M yes at this time we would like to invite anybody from the public for public comment is there anybody that would like
to speak a motion meeting in favor have a great night everybody thank you for coming [Music]