##VIDEO ID:VGPelqte7-k## good evening I'd like to tonight's Board of Education meeting can I get a roll call please Mr M W here Mrs Aon here Mr mkin here Mrs ring here M here please join me in the pledge aliance I pledge alance to of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all thank you for coming out we are going to change the order a little bit because there are so many people here we're actually going to do the student presentations first so thank you for your patience and waiting for us awesome e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e sorry for the delay like to resume tonight's meeting I got to attend the whaiting elementary school concert it was a very cute performance Christmas In the Pines was a community event there was lots of high school students and elementary students there I have to say kudos to the high school students for all of the work and energy they put into making the event a success Kevin's kids rapping bring so many people together thanks to all those especially Mr George and Miss broen for all the behind the scenes work that you do to make this event a success thanks to all the staff and their families for giving up your weekend time to make Kevin's kids such a success congratulations to the boys and girls bowling teams I just saw on social media that they had um really good bowling matches um yesterday I got to attend the Ridgeway Elementary School concert my son who got to see the performers at his wedding Elementary School actually asked if we could go back because it was so good it was nice to see how many kids are involved in the Band program congratulations to our own Fay Weinstein for becoming a certified board member and in the spirit of the holiday season I leave you with some words from WC Jones The Joy of brightening other lives bearing each other's burdens easing each other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and living with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays I wish you all the best have a happy healthy holiday season and a happy New Year thank you Miss Pedroza I actually did my report um I wanted to just make sure that we spoke about the RC um um December 7th the msrc program hosted its annual Pearl Harbor Memorial Day drill 12 schools from njrc areas 1 two and three with over 600 students were in attendance the schools came from New Jersey Pennsylvania New York and Delaware to compete what I thought was impressive is that our students actually organize and facilitate the entire day and I think that is just remarkable um overall it was seamless I congratulate them for their hard work they did a tremendous job and what I think is even more impressive is that the next day we actually had a craft fair there and our school looked beautiful so kudos to the custodial staff um Mr Brown really congratulations and thank you to your staff because you wouldn't have known that there was that many people and those many that many students in a building and it looked absolutely beautiful and it was ready to go so congratulations to those um students and also to our staff I do want to let everybody know that tomorrow we will have the Holiday Express December 19th at Regional day school if you haven't had an opportunity to go I strongly suggest it um even for our high school administration our um Administration in general and for our board it is just truly a remarkable day spending time with those students and the gift of music is just truly Priceless um the event starts at 11 4 but the show and that's the food so Mr George will probably be there at 11:45 am I right but the show starts at 12:30 he'll be first in line first in line not before you I think you'll be behind him but um reality is is that 12:30 starts the music the fun the dancing and if you can come just even for a half an hour a little bit of time it'll be so worth your while and it'll get you right into that holiday spirit I also just want to remind everybody to mark their calendars we have our 56th Annual Gospel chorus tribute which will be on Friday January 17th at our high school and that will start at 630 um as I said before I wish you all a very beautiful and blessed holiday um we will see you in the new year looking forward to great things coming in January and um thank you for all your support and all that you do for our students Mr Taylor do you have a report uh yes ma'am uh so I wanted to thank the uh the board and the district for all the military support uh this past month we had uh breathing buddies at both Manchester or Mt and at wedding uh some of the guys that went to wedding were my my Airman and they loved it they had a great time uh we're going to continue that in the future at both both schools uh maybe we get uh anyway um uh the May 17th and 18th is the power and the PS again you might have heard the radio I heard it on the radio uh this morning or yesterday morning um so just mark your calendars I'm sure that we'll probably end up doing something for the the students the day prior uh like we normally do and if we do then then we definitely want to get our our folks involved uh and last but not least um go Air Force I know he's gone but thank you think he heard you on his way to his Dan do you have a report for student government uh yes I do so good evening everyone my name is Daniel shy I I am the vice president for the student executive board at man Township High School I'm here today to provide you the board with important information regarding to cool important things that we that have SL things we have planned on happening at mths since the last meeting so here are some of the events that we've been working on so we collected about 50 boxes of stuffing for Helping Hands for Hunger throughout the month uh the academic pep rally already happened uh before Thanksgiving break so it was nice to recognize efforts in the classroom and race spear before that break uh Christmas In the Pines was December 7th there were a lot of SGA and NHS members there R vendor craft fair was December 8th uh there was also a bunch of NHS members helping out with all the vendors there there were was in the gym um Media Center the hallways as well and our spirit week is this week uh before winter break tomorrow is our pep rally to recognize winter athletes uh I just want to say thank you for allowing me to represent the mths student government at the board meeting this evening I'm truly honored to be here with all of you and to have the opportunity to fill all of you in on everything our SGA has been working on so hard thank you again and have a great holiday do you have a report want ask just one item um on the agenda tonight there is a resolution uh in September the state modified the form that is required to be submitted when someone is requesting open public records um so we are required to adopt the form the form has been up on our website since September but we just need the board to pass a resolution that we're using the new form so that is on the agenda uh and then the last thing is budgets or due today I'm not going to say who you know some of you guys didn't get them to me yet so I don't have need your budgets look I'm trying not to look at anybody uh there's there's one or two that are still out there but uh otherwise the rest of the bud has been turned in so I will start that review process you know over break and then you know into winter and then spring and I'll report as we go that's it thank you uh at this time we'd like to invite any residents to the microphone to comment or question any agenda items are there any board member reports a l I attended uh the craft fair which is amazing how many different vendors and uh the work that the students did uh it was really a fabulous fabulous uh opportunity to shop uh I also was invited and attended the Polish school's Christmas Pageant um I was told it was going to be a Christmas Caroline and I was all excited to sing with them um but it turns out that it was all in Polish and I was so impressed because these kids from Tiny you know preschool kids all the way up to high school and their command of the language in addition to their English was just incredible and the pear GRE probies were pretty good too and after that we flew over to the high school school and went to see the gospel choir because that's one of my favorite groups in the in the school and the energy and the talent that is shown at the from the gospel you have got to mark your calendars for that January date because they really are spectacular absolutely and I I just want to add to miss Weinstein I also went to the Polish pageant um and I brought my husband it was all in Polish um but yet we we really knew the sentiments and what they were talking about and it was just simply beautiful and I had already eaten but the food was absolutely fantastic um the parois were just if you've ever had a homemade perogi you know what I'm discussing and what I'm talking about they and they are the kids are just so proud I also um would be remiss and part of my report I was going very quickly was the stem program at the middle school um moris semister is a truly remarkable and dedicated teacher and we are very fortunate that our um our mtea does support through pep grants um these activities and these evening events um besides the fact that it was just such a wonderful Computer Science Focus and we had um preschool all the way up to 12th grade there working hand inand with our students um what what the union allowed us to do was to be able to feed everybody and and that is really the the way we encourage families to come out because you know how hectic it is especially these these nights and to be able to get food for your family and to be able to sit and eat and have conversations in addition to that Mrs mclin and Mrs driver also had the prosecutor's office there and they and they did a wonderful presentation on social media and and some of the things that you should be looking at for students um they will be providing that presentation again for us we will make sure that um families are aware and I know Mrs simister will be offering another um focus night for stem I believe it's in January what is the date Mrs Dr saraso I can't recall okay we'll make sure that a thrill share goes out but just to see the turnout and we are getting better turnout this these numbers are more like preo and it's nice to see that everybody is coming out and working in Partnership and also working with their children so thank you to the MTA thank you to the middle school for hosting that and thank you to Mrs semister I apologize I have yes yeah I just wanted to follow up on the Gospel Choir from Manchester Township um as a member of the retired Educators um Association here in oan County um we were able to have them perform um on December 5th at the claran hotel for our annual luncheon I can say that there are several Manchester Township uh staff members and teachers who are part of the retired Educators and they were there um to support them they did a phenomenal job I've been following the gospel chir for over 20 years they've been here a while and I can tell you that um their performance was superb they got a standing ovation and I want to thank um the principls from the Middle School um of course Nancy dri and Dennis Adams for allowing them to come uh Mrs rutz and Miss Taylor who brought them there and also uh a shout out Dan Staples the uh MTA EA president was there to support them it was phenomenal um each year we get a school from Ocean County to bring in a choir and this year we were able to get the Manchester Township Gospel Choir again they perform Standing Ovation and they' been invited back again thank any other board member reports old business or correspondence uh no old business no correspondence okay let's move to the agenda section one a new business numbers 1 through four can I get a motion Mo second discussion can I get a roll call please Mr Ser yes Miss Weinstein yes yes Mrs ainson yes Mr mkin yes Mrs wingland yes Mrs M yes letters b through D can I get a motion please we got to do a in section 2 a you have on yours no no all right sorry there is one uh there is one on in section 2A it's a donation uh we received a $1,200 donation from Betsy Gordon uh to be used to PID towards unpaid lunch balances of we can I get a motion motion second discussion thank you to Mrs Gordon for your generous donation to our students oh I oh sorry I jump the peach that's my fault I jump the okay we'll go back let's go back to B through D we have a motion we have a second second discussion okay can I get a roll call please M Ser yes M Weinstein yes Mrs ainson yes Mr Merin yes Mr wingler yes and Mr yes section two A administrative can I get a motion motion second discussion thank you again to Mrs warden for being so generous to our student was actually it's actually a cute little story so what she told us is was is every time she gets a $5 bill she just puts it aside and then at the end of every year she donates her donates the money to to somebody and we were somebody told her about us and she came and made a donation you M Ser yes M Weinstein yes Mrs ainson yes Mr mkin yes Mrs wingler yes and Mrs M yes B Personnel numbers 1 through 19 can I get a motion please motion second discussion uh can I get a roll call please M Ser yes Miss Weinstein yes M Mrs ainson yes Mr mkin yes Mrs wingler yes Mr M yes letter c number one can I get a motion please motion second discussion I get a roll call please Mrs Ser yes M Weinstein yes Mrs ainson yes Mr mury yes Mrs wiler yes m m yes section three Finance letter A numbers 1 through five can I get a motion motion second discussion can I get a roll call please Mr Ser yes Miss Weinstein yes Mrs ainson yes Mr mkin yes Mrs Wing yes Mr M yes at this time we would invite um anybody from the public to come up for comment now at this time we need to go back into executive session yeah we need to go back in executive session to finish discussion on a hi appeal so we may take action when we come back have a motion please motion second all in favor I oh