Dr MTZ here Mrs seart here and Mr Cohen I'm here good evening everyone and welcome um we have a pretty full agenda today it's great to see some of our students in the audience so welcome to them as well um I'm going to start our
meeting um just want to point everyone's attention to our agenda today's um for toight uh the Sunshine Law um is the first on the agenda that is basically our notice has been submitted to the Asbury Park into the Star Ledger uh pursuant to open public meetings act uh
statement of videotaping these meetings are videotaped so please uh be aware that um any portion of the meeting as well as public comments can be videotaped um public comments will be followed um on our agenda early little bit in a little bit um those public
comments will also be subject to a time and obviously if you're interested in speaking please sign up um there will be a first public comments and then a second public comments uh this is school ground so and our policy here in Marboro is no smoking or vaping on public school grounds would everyone please rise and I
understand we have one of our Marl students who's going to lead us tonight through our Pledge of Allegiance who's that all right let's get you a microphone and everyone please face the flag go right ahead I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God with liy and liberty and justice for all and what's your name Jonathan no into the microphone Jonathan welcome Jonathan
and thank you you did that great all right thank you to Jonathan and Tom Marell for doing that uh all right we are going to get started with our um agenda for the evening I'm going to turn to Mr balone to talk to us about staff
respect certificates thank you and good evening everyone as we do every month we recognize specific staff members uh in light of our year of respect and their actions that they have taken throughout this
year our first staff member is Mr Jim mccan vice principal at marbor middle school and supervisor of Music he has demonstrated respect and genuine kindness to those with the privilege of knowing him both inside and outside of mtps as a veteran of the US Army and
dedicated leader of his community Mr mccan is continuously dedicated himself to serving others at mtps Mr mccan is an empathetic leader a patient listener always checking in on others with a strong sense of responsibility for those he works with mtps and marbor Middle
School are fortunate to have Mr mccan as a leader mentor and supporter of the student staff and community and although he could not be be here tonight I know he's watching us from home so let's give him a big round of applause Mr
[Applause] McAn next up we have principal of Marboro Elementary School and vice principal of marbor Elementary School MIT chats and Kathy York Mr shatz you can stand up here while
while I read about you thank you you know how much I love that Mr the unwavering dedication of Mr shatz and Miss York has been instrumental in creating a school environment where every student feels truly valued and at home their
leadership in introducing the district's newest special education program has made an extraordinary impact transforming the school into a place where all students can thrive through their thoughtful and compassionate approach to this initiative Mr shatz and
Miss York have not not only provided crucial support for students with special needs but have also cultivated a schoolwide culture of acceptance empathy and understanding their commitment to this program ensures that every student regardless of their individual
challenges feels an undeniable sense of belonging making this school a place where they can grow learn and reach their full potential the positive influence of this initiative extends far beyond the classroom helping to shape a vibrant atmosphere where respect
kindness and inclusivity are celebrated I am deeply inspired by how the entire School Community has come together to support every student creating a space where differences are embraced and every individual is empowered to succeed congratulations Mr
sha and Miss York and it doesn't only just take the leaders in the building it takes our staff and students as well so um I'll be calling up our staff who are part of the uh the program that I just described as well and I'll read a a little blurb
about them as well students in Mrs gids and Mrs Pollock's class partic participated in the knocking down hunger cereal box Challenge and community service project um we're going to hear about that a little more um and Mr shatz will come up
and introduce that um but we also have um our staff members involved in the special needs program at maror marbor elementary school called the ER program and we'd like to recognize those staff members for their dedication and support
in um really creating this program program from the ground up and um not yet and um to the point where and I know you heard this in our budget presentation that um we'll be expanding that program as well so um if I'll call
each name um individually if you can come up here and then if you hold your applause because we do have a few staff members we're going to read and then when they all stand up here we can give them a nice big round of applause okay okay Nicole [Applause]
Pollock okay we can clap for them individually Nicole [Applause] gtz I know some aren't here right Mike kak not here but we can give him a round of
applause Barbara loronzo Heather [Applause] Ginsburg Moren Fano Beth sad
[Applause] and Diana aonso let's do a collective Round of Applause now thank you thank you so much congratulations everyone congratulations everyone that is awesome Mr bone I think
you're still up right got next round of student recognition and respect certificates and now our students student recognition and respect certificates are going to marbar elementary school this evening um as I mentioned before
students in Mrs gids and Mrs Pollock's class participate in the knocking down hunger Cal Box challenge and community service project I'd like to welcome Mr shatz to explain that project and introduce our students thank you very much
everybody so just a little background during the month of February our students helped to collect serial boxes through the entire maror Elementary School Community uh the students then organized a schoolwide event they pitched it to me thought it was a really good idea where the boxes were set up in a row like dominoes throughout our
school and then knocked down as students line the halls of our school chairing the on on February 21st the students then assisted dropping off the over 500 boxes of cereal which was equivalent to 527 pounds to the fulfill food bank in F2 New
Jersey so boys and girls well I know there some of them can't be with us tonight but those of you who are we're proud of you all and your teachers very much for what you did and that's why we asked you to be here tonight with our Board of Education all of your hard work
showed that you have earn the title of kind kids that's our school motto and you guys Prov that you are kind kids I would be remiss if I also didn't thank our staff for their hard work with their project because it takes a village to raise our kids and they really put in
that effort and uh the personal touch that makes it special and makes it really meaningful for me um and lastly special thank you because it takes a village to our transportation department and our Courier Mr Scully because without them we couldn't have gotten
this great work done it really does take a village so thank you everybody you want to present the certificates now okay okay so uh we have a little video to show you what this actually looked like and hope you enjoy it it was a lot of fun making it
[Music] he [Music] share than
the great serial box domino challenge to knock out hunger let a great of the Box CH our students created a flyer and cereal was collected from the greater School Community for about a month and a
half we need your help [Music] bring more cereal boxes so we can make it go around the [Music] school you just need to bring one
[Music] box our goal was to collect 00 boxes bring them in by February 11th we need
to help us make a difference the day of the challenge was finally here the Sero was sorted into bins and our class worked together to set up the [Music] dominoes Mr shatz did us the honor of
starting us off I'm coming through watch [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
wo hold on I'm coming [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] we're going to bring them to the food
pantry after we're done the day after the domino challenge the cereal box were packed up in bins and our students delivered them to the full fill food pantry while there our students were able to help the volunteers from the
food pantry to make boxes to put the food in our final cereal donation was weighed and amounted to 527 lb of cereal way to go room 22 and The Marble Elementary School
[Applause] [Music] Community just wanted to State for the record how nerve-wracking it was to set those boxes up they had a safety like every 10th box so we didn't didn't knock
him over prematurely y all right first how about Aiden is Aiden here no Aiden didn't make it Aiden safarian Andrew mlev
Chad Christensen could not make it Jonathan Zara could though and so did Amina Lombardo and we would also like to acknowledge Briana Brown and sincere Bass
[Applause] great job everybody [Applause] congratulations that was awesome uh I I I know those hallways my my kids ran around those hallways so just watch that continuously circle around that was
incredible congratulations and I'm so glad that you had the assist to sort of keep it going all right uh Mr balone we're still on with you and you're about to do student impact yes so now we can queue up the student impact um video from uh
Mrs seni and Mrs Herman's room at marbor Middle School let's watch a short video [Music] hey
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[Applause] here we'd like to thank Chartwells our food services provider for providing real world experiences for our students and they actually that what you saw there was not staged that was actually prepping and setting up for middle
school lunches so thank you once again okay congratulations on that and what a great program um and one more item for you Mr Bon um artwork on display yes artwork as Robertsville artists are spotlighted this month so is
their determination and hard work the included video goes so far as to Showcase each grade level's respective learning Journeys whether it be first grade's introduction to the elements of art or fifth grade's analysis of the principles of design our artists have devoted themselves to their artistic
achievements in fact our upcoming art show epitomizes what this truly means road runners turn artists is an tic exhibition held at Robertsville each year it's a special occasion aimed to celebrate the creative accomplishments of our students the art show showcases
every Robertsville artist throughout all grade levels while also hosting interactive art making activities for all ages too please join us in C celebrating the many successes of our students and I know Mr G Tano is here as well thank you for attending
[Music] a collage is um something that you can make out of um scraps and papers my ant will be in my collage and my donut
[Music] too we're making apples inspired by Romero burito he makes um he uses a lot of color and we're using pain sticks we made
self-portraits so we're making self-portraits inspired by T bton Tim Burton um in The Nightmare Before Christmas and it's really cool and this what mine looks like
[Music] [Music] tessellations are optical illusions I'm turning my tessellation into a witch [Music]
[Music] right now we're doing a heart bath and our heart bath is like what's in your heart like Memories or like something you really love I'm like drawing like Hoy stuff and like these goalie pads cuz
like my brother he really likes poy and he's like really important to me [Music] [Music] in addition to all this we've been inspired by the art shows taking place
in the art World recently Robertsville created its very own tiny art show I hope that our art makes people happy but also encourages them to take more time now and then to slow down and notice the little things sometimes we get so caught up in our routines and forget that there
are tiny surprises everywhere all around us m l ler [Music] [Applause] Bayer that that was amazing um I I don't know if you've noticed but when I was
watching it I you can't help whether it's kindergarten first grade or fifth grade the smiles on kids face that art brings regardless of the age it's just amazing and what creativity and what talent right um so congratulations and thank you for sharing that all right um I'm going toh
suggest we take a a quick recess sorry to interrupt can I just suggest sure for Mr balone is there any way that we can share these videos on social media so that the children that aren't able to attend can still feel honored in a way and their parents feel like they could view a little more better at home I know
the images via YouTube aren't great so maybe we could start sharing these on our social media sites just so that the kids maybe it could be shared by their families or you know they could see it on a a clearer these videos are always such great quality and I smile the entire time watching them it's the best
part of being a board member so just throwing it out there maybe we could yeah I'll I'll have um I'll get together with um with our communication easy content it's easy content thanks thank you I love that idea I was actually suggesting Mr dealone at some point some
of those the pictures that they were doing in the old in Old grades they were great t-shirts I mean they would just be fantastic fantastic to sort of you know to wear your art um so I love it um okay thank you for sharing that um
any other comments or discussion from the board uh motion to take a 10-minute recess Miss seart second Miss Gandhi all in favor let's take a briess thank [Applause]
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will you do a roll call please Mrs Carrero here Mrs bomo here Mrs Gandhi restroom okay Mr alansky
here Mrs Mendes here Dr MTZ here Mrs seart here and Mr Cohen here yeah thank you Mr caravell all right Mr balone we're going to pick it up where we left off we're up to announcements okay I do have two
announcements one is regarding the YMCA before and after care I know the board um tasked both uh Mr caravell and I to uh begin negotiations for next year uh
with the YMCA um I have reached out to several family members who who have expressed concerns with the program um I've reached out to every single family member and have either had phone conversations or um in-person
meetings that are continuing into the following week and I'll um compile that information and that will help us inform our negotiations for next year and moving forward um if there are any families out there who have not reached
out to me who would like to I welcome that and and um that will certainly help us as I mentioned help us um have a better program for next year so we're looking for that feedback uh the second announcement I
did mention this in our or Mr caravell and I mentioned it in the budget presentation last week right that was just last week wasn't it um regarding the our kindergarten plan this is certainly a preliminary plan for
kindergarten for next year um currently as you know we have kindergarten students in three of our five elementary schools um the other two Asher and Robertsville currently do not have any kindergarten students in those buildings
next year we plan to have some form of kindergarten in both Asher and Robertsville as well I can't say that we'll have the entire population of Asher and Robertsville because we just can't quite fit them in there um but we
we'll have some kindergarten students in all five of or all five of our elementary schools and there will be some who do remain at the Abbott Early Learning Center some preliminary questions that may come up how do you decide who goes where um we're still
formulating that plan um but I do I would like to make it public that we will be accommodating to the best of our ability families with siblings so if you have have for example a third grader at Asher and a rising kindergartner we're
going to do everything in our power to keep those children together we currently employ that practice with students who or we try to with students who attend uh other schools other than their home school
setting um so we're going to try to accommodate families in that way we also urge families if you have a rising kindergarten out there and you're listening please register early and early means now so we are taking registration that only helps us plan for
next year uh kindergarten is really the only unknown that we have when we're when we're trying to staff our buildings for next year and and formulate our classes so um we will also I if you register early
we can guarantee you or at least with with greater certainty guarantee your homeschool location if you're a last minute registrant we may not guarantee your home school location and we may have to place you wherever we have room so please
register early that's the information we have right at this moment as more information becomes available we'll be sharing that um I do have a write up that I've shared with both Transportation because they're a big part of this role as well uh with uh Mr
perno the kindergarten supervisor and some of our district administrators so we do have a write up that we'll be posting both on our website and also be sending out to our uh kindergarten registrants who are current and then any new registrants they will be given that
information as well so more to come on that but that's sort of a preliminary view on what kindergarten will look like for next year and that's all I have thank you Mr Malone any questions from the board for Mr bone uh just one comment Mr B oh I'm sorry M Dr Miss
quins why why yes that's a good question so we have an expanding need at the Abbott Early Learning Center uh both on the special ed side and also on the preschool side so we need more classrooms in that building to accommodate for that so um this just
seemed like a you know a good transition again can't do it with every student but we will make the room that we need thank you Dr quits uh my only request is because some people may hear this and some people may not um it would
be really I know you're planning on Communications I would just you know urge you to sort of have as much communication as possible continued communication just in case someone doesn't get the message the first time or the second time yes it's um we will have it on our
website that the I guess the the challenge is we don't know who our families are sometimes right for kindergarten so um we could even you know maybe even put it out to the district if if but it doesn't necessarily apply to everybody um but it
will be on our website as soon as uh transportation and Mr perno uh looks at it and and we have several set of eyes on it um but we can certainly um continue to communicate it and make sure everyone is in the know
thank you and would it be appropriate given the fact that kindergarten may be for kids or for families that are moving into maror to maybe also share that with the township so it goes into the township Communications I can do that um and as I
sit here and think I can also share with um some of our the private preschools that we have so we can yes we can certainly do that that'd be great thank you okay um moving along on our agenda um Mr caravello uh school bus driver and
uh Building Maintenance abstracts sure all abstracts are run and all have Privileges and good standing thank you okay moving on to our next uh item on the agenda that's public comments Mr caravell you have a list for us sure I have one one sign up Mrs Carolyn
BR good evening Hi how are you good evening thank you for this opportunity I'm Ken Miss Miss Brock I'm sorry can you pull the microphone a little closer you may have to tilt it down a little bit I'll hold it okay thank you good evening
thank you for this opportunity I'm Carolyn Brock and I'm the current kindergarten math coach I've been in this District since 2008 teaching kindergarten and then took on the position of the kindergarten math coach in the year of 2016 kindergarten is unique because it
is a time when the vast differences in children's abilities are most noticeable reflecting the wide range of De developmental stages and reflecting the different Paces at which each student develops kindergarten age students are
students that we literally have no accademic background information on unless they have intended our marber's preschool program in Marboro each kindergarten takes a screener to give us a knowledge about the student the screener has evolved over the years and
has been has become a strong indicator for students that may struggle from the information gathered from the screener the coaches are able to identify students that may struggle and or not have a solid foundation of pre kindergarten skills this year the
kindergarten instructional coaches implemented an early intervention model where we would push in and pull out students that were indicated at possibly needing extra support as soon as possible instead of waiting for an irns meeting and starting RTI paperwork
specifically speaking for math I was able to reach 20 students and avoid to have to start the RTI process for these students I met with these students three to four times a week in order to fill those gaps and build that solid foundation that was lacking for the rest of the kindergarten ma standards to be
taught it was a huge success so this is where the problem comes in yes the solution of absorbing the kindergarten students to the elementary coaches this may look great for the budget numbers and the money that needs to be accounted for but there is no possible way that
any of our students will receive the same level of support that is happening right now the instructional coaches that are absorbing this position do not have enough time in the day or their schedules to be effectively supporting students for the highest
achievement there is only a certain amount of minutes in a school day for students and work day for teachers and coaches to meet and provide support for our struggling Learners as a role in an instructional Coach position it's not just servicing
tier 3 students but as I quote from our manual we are classroom supporters instructional supporters curriculum and content facilitators data analysts facilitator for change learner professional learning facilitator
resource School learner leader and then tier three intervention if you would like a description of what those roles entail I can send to you or make you a copy I want to add that the instructional coaches are responsible for tier three meetings paperwork tier 2 meetings meetings paperwork I can meet
they can meet with teachers to assist planning monthly irns meetings monthly coaches meetings grade level meetings new student testing September to December placement season May and June and during marking period one for new
students to the district possible data meetings with administrators and data Specialists and the elementary coaches specifically maintain building level spreadsheets for tier three at risk students adding kindergarten to the Elementary
School coaches current schedules with which if any of you are curious to know how many each Coach Services at the building levels there are plenty of spreadsheets that are easy easily accessible with that information this will place an additional strain on and will affect our teachers who are already
managing large class sizes tier two and three students with a wide range of academic abilities and their struggling students will have less time with an instructional coach without the coach to support these struggling students in an appropriate Way teachers might find it increasingly
difficult to meet the diverse needs of our classrooms additionally eliminating my kindergart kindergarten role and expecting the existing instructional coaches to absorb these responsibilities will have a major repercussion and
negative consequences and most importantly it is Impractical I urge you to dink sorry I urge you to think about the difficult decision that needs to be made maybe there is a way to look at the numbers that are being calculated positions that might be overlooked that
would not have such an impact on our students especially in the struggling ones I've done my own research to know that board members mentioned their knowledge background and experience in budgeting in their campaigns I also know that another board member referred to the knowledge that school budgets are
publicly available and requestable to any parent or community member this member also referred to the fact that most people don't understand those numbers and what they ultimately mean nor should we expect that because most people do not have the time to analyze that information so this brings me to
the my questions of the night did any one of you as a board member play a part in The Proposal if so in what Manner did they ask for feedback did anyone get asked to sit down with Mr car caravello or any
other Marboro employee that determined that this was the best decision for the students of marbor I heard Mr Kev caravell say at last week's board meeting that after addressing the state aid and a call to the NJ SBO he said that there was a couple of
criterias that he's not really sure about and I quote I may not be understanding this 100% because it it's again still a little wonky and hard to navigate what if this is the opportunity that's being missed to SA those important roles Middle School coaches
were cut has anyone followed up to see how that has planned out how are the middle school students receiving needs through RTI what repercussions have occurred I have always been an open book and I'm willing to answer any questions
you have about the importance of my job I am also open to any single one of you to follow my day and day out schedule with me to see how I travel to four different schools and service every
kindergarten student of marrow in some manner finally I want it to be clear that I'm not here tonight to be fighting for my job or this particular position I was told that I would still have a job I am fighting for the future
students of Marboro especially the students that need the most support which are the struggling students and the negative effects that it will have on [Music] them and I thank you for letting me talk
for more than three minutes I appreciate it thank you Miss Brock I appreciate you bringing these to our attention and to the attention to the board Mr um balone um just a question for you on on this I guess Mr Caravella um you know I I understand that you know
we are facing budget reductions and challenges and everything uh and you know these decisions sometimes are not hard are not easy decisions to make um I guess the question I have is in in the context of if there were
opportunities to see restorations in our budget the out years where would um these types of rest Restorations for the coaches sort of fall in place yeah that that's a that's a big if right um and and we're not sure where where
our state budgets are going we know over the past several years school districts have lost money um but um and Miss Brock thank you for the time that you've taken this evening this morning and last week
in meeting with me um I do appreciate I can't see her there she is um I do appreciate the time and we did talk about those sorts of things right if things do change um would we explore bringing coaches back in some
way shape or form of course we would we always would do that but I you know I don't want to put out an empty promise to say um we would do that because I don't know what um School budgets are going to look like you know a year from now and I feel comfortable saying this a
year from now we will be in the same position right unless something drastic happens at the state level with school funding every school district in New Jersey 600 school districts in New Jersey are facing the same things we're facing Rising
costs that are outpacing are allowable increases and that's that's just simple math so unless something does change which we hope it does um even
though even before we lost our 3% of state aid this year we were still we still had a shortfall it just added to the shortfall so um I know that's a long-winded answer but um I can only be hopeful and if that
does turn around of course we can look to restore positions um and these um Miss Brock I know you I mentioned this to you as well today these two positions were the most difficult reductions that we had to make
we made five and these two were the most difficult um you know the other two were basically based on attrition retirement um and and class size these two we really had to look at creatively and
um it still adhered to our principles right we're not increasing class size we're not removing any programming and we're not telling people good people in our school district that they have to find a job somewhere else
so while I know it's difficult um to swallow personally when it it affects your job personally it's also difficult for us to make those decisions um but that was that's where that was really our our
only alternative in in facing the budget that we had this year can I can I ask a a question um I know and thank you for speaking I know the other day when we had um our advisory meeting I preface I had a couple of questions and you were able to
answer them and I appreciate them about this piece of what we're talking about right now but hearing um the SEF member speak and and hearing from her and and the person doing the job I I like to hear both perspectives that helps me and
I appreciate all the work that went into it I feel like I know the tentative budget vote is coming and this is there and I feel like now hearing that I have more questions and I don't know where to ask them because it affects my voting
that comes in later and I just I was taking notes and so I just want to ask them and I don't know like I hearing the impact it was going to have on some students hearing you know the information you all shared Vinnie's in-depth presentation I just feel like there's questions based on all of the
pieces so I don't know if that means I just put my vote out or I or we I don't know if anybody else has questions about it based on what she said if we take a 15minute break I just want to ask how you want to do that so I think we're in the middle of public comments right now
so we're not taking a vote no I'm not trying to V right now so when we do get to the part where the where it's in the agenda I think that's a good time for the questions to get asked we have a discussion component absolutely right and we can have that coners ation yeah and I think that would be you know allow all the other board members to sort of
also weigh in on that thank you okay does that work yeah thank you I have a question also I think just um trying to make sense of it you know it's much different to see the elimination of a coach on the screen and a and in a presentation and then to put a face to
the name and and you know be empathetic to the fact of how this would impact students and I agree with Val already in the preliminary vote for the budget but I'm just trying to make sense um was anything considered uh leading up to this
decision like maybe putting off the $36,000 in snow plowing at the middle school or $440,000 in storage shed at the buildings and grounds facility like can these things be pushed off one more year and and I don't know can we maybe
just move funds around in a different place in accordance to Priority I know we're a little late for this discussion but obviously with this kind of public comment it it makes us feel like isn't there anything else we can do
um Mr if you're okay St Sim s of um answer if you don't mind if we can have those questions as part of the budget discussion you okay with that okay anyone other any other board members want
to talk to MTZ I'd like to commend you for coming forward because it's not a job that she's looking for she's going to have a job but you're thinking about the kids and you know I I too feel the same way that I hate seeing the
position abolished at this point I understand you know well the budgetary cutbacks and so forth but um I'm looking forward to when we speak later on together because um it it and uh Mrs
seart said putting a face to the position I wasn't putting a face to the position I was picturing faces many little faces not a teacher's face that's that's a teacher for you you know I'm sorry that's the way I
think thank you Dr nitz anyone else thank you um Mr carel anyone else on the list no I have no one else on the list would anyone else like to speak Aldo petruno Morganville New Jersey um I just want to thank the uh
woman that was just up here speaking it it definitely resonates to hear it for coming from you know the people who are the boots on the ground um I really implore the board you know you guys are going to be the ones voting on this
um you gota really make sure that you know all avenues are being explored I mean I don't know what the feasibility is but maybe you know being that we're looking at these 3% cuts which relate to about
260,000 you know dollars of funding that we're not going to get um if it's possible perhaps put a freeze on Administration raises for you know for the year and and see how much the savings is from there and start from there you got to make sure the boots on
the ground the ones that are actually with the kids in the classroom have to be protected and fostered at all costs so I I really you know I implore the board to do everything you guys can because it's ultimately going to come down to your votes to pass this or
not thank you thank you anyone else M Bono well good evening Mr Cohen Mr balone Mr gross couple years younger members of the board my fellow community members and colleagues so nice to be
here this evening um I appreciate the discussion on the budget and Miss Brock coming out in addition to reminding us how we have lost literacy coaches in the past and historically when positions get
reassigned in this District they do not return just like the kindergarten AIDS from I mean we were still in the old Board office when when that presentation happened having said that many years ago o just over two decades I believe we
redistricted when we built I think in 2002 or 2003 when this building was built in addition to the Early Learning Center seeing all the building that is occurring around town the influx right here next to our building knowing the
number of families moving in I do remember in the past at board meetings somehow somebody was privy to information over the students coming in the population and the numbers of children that would be going kind of towards each building and bringing that
up my question is with the increase in preschool and special ed at the Early Learning Center returning kindergarten to both Robertsville and Asher has there been any discussion or consideration in the future about a possible
redistricting in order to accommodate the students in their home buildings thank you thank you Miss monono anyone else Mr Pollock Adam Pollock uh St Lawrence way
and Marboro I just wanted to thank the staff member also for um for coming out and speaking your mind like from from my perspective took quite a bit of Courage for you to get up here and say what you said and as a community member I I think that really embodies what like a good
teacher is and speaking truth to power um also commend the board Bo and Mr balone for having the conversation being receptive to feedback I'm not going to say that I know what the right decision is on the budget or what the Staffing
should be but I think having a dialogue for the community to understand what the impacts mean putting a face to it understanding uh from the boots on the ground what it means to the uh staff and to the student super important so I just wanted to say again thank you for coming
and and saying what you said um and as and um it definitely resonated with me and I encourage anybody especially the staff who has something to say about what's going on with the um with the the schools here to to be able to speak
their mind and I appreciate the board also being receptive to the feedback so thank you thank you Mr poock would anyone else like to speak who has already signed up as I see no one else um motion to
close public comments Miss Mendes second Mr Lansky all in favor anyone opposed okay we have closed public comments we're going to move on to our agenda we're up to the next item which is Communications Mr balone I don't have
any thank you uh moving on the next item we have superintendent report HIV this is the HIV report from March 7th 2025 through March 13 2025 there were two incidents reported thank
you um I'm going to recognize the meeting dates for our next board meetings um I want to draw everyone's attention to Tuesday April 8th which was supposed to be our next meeting for a workshop that meeting has been cancelled um we are then going to be meeting again as a board on Tuesday April 29th and
then again on Tuesday May 6th next item of is the approval of minutes um I'm going to so move on um item number one for approval of the minutes for our February 11th workshop and executive our February 18th special meeting and executive and our February
25th regular meeting and executive can I have a second Dr MTZ any discussions Mr uh caravell can you have a roll call please Mrs seart yes
Mrs bomo yes Mrs Carrero yes Mrs Gandhi yes Mr Lansky yes Mrs Mendes yes Dr misit yes and Mr Cohen
yes thank you Mr caravell uh moving on to our next item secretary and business administrators report Mr Carabella so this is just the submission for the board secretary's monthly certification and the payroll certification for the month ending uh February
2025 thank you we're moving on to committee reports um as we have done in the past um I'd like to combine your committee reports I'm sorry committee reports we're going to start with the committee reports Mr uh Chad Hyatt is not here today so um the communications
committee is there someone else who would like to give a report if not we will wait till the next meeting thank you curriculum Dr MTZ the curriculum committee meeting met on uh March 17th we focused on three topics
at our meeting updates on math and uh Lal were was the first thing we have been diligent about assuring that our curriculum is always up to date and it is we have also consistently learned through the through the tutelage of Mrs grow how well the students overall are
achieving with some of the new standards which have been written into the curriculum during the summer of 2024 for clarification curriculum is simply the framework that outlines the sequence of instruction it will include overarching goals and objectives and possible methods of
instruction the part that's really important is the instruction in Marboro the administrators directors principles and supervisors have continued to work with the teachers to assure that not only are the Le lessons aligned to the curriculum but to also assure that
assessments are also aligned as well as being rigorous you can have the best written curriculum on paper and if you don't have a way to assess it it's useless that work is ongoing we also discussed how the needs of the curriculum are pulled together in order
to prepare for the budget which was our second Topic in actuality all instructional members have a part in the development of the curriculum portion of the budget to be clear it's not just a central office administration putting this together the principals Vice principls supervisors directors have a
say and they get those needs from the people who heard the most important part of the instructional piece are teachers we all know of course that we can't have everything we want so the Administration has to look at the needs and the wants the bottom line is preparing the budget isn't easy and it isn't done in a couple
of months it's actually a year-long process actually sometimes multiple years that come together with the help of many heads trying to put a puzzle together we are looking for toward a possible future presentation to sh share how a single portion of the budget is
prepared and all the work that goes into that one particular section our third topic of the day was how to communicate the curriculum to you the public we are going to try to engage with uh Mr hayatt and his Communications Committee in this
discussion the end thank you Dr but I have other stuff you want me to do all of mine sure we'll jump over to special education Comm okay um okay I don't have a report for the special ed committee
but I do have for a um this scope and cpad uh joint committee on March 12th the special services committee convened with the leadership Dr Miss we're going to do that when we do the aison reports and PTO all right we could do that because
last time you had me read everything together uh we do committee reports first and then we do we skip on to the next one okay go on okay that's thank you do you want to do special education committee no I do not have the report for that you do not have no report thank
you uh policy committee Miss Gandhi um we met as a policy committee last week and we reviewed um the two policies that are up for first read um today and then um of course we completed the the review of the policy I mean Hib
policy 5512 which is up for second read so we meet on a monthly basis we're making sure that we're updating and pulling through information that's coming from St Esme and also looking at
policies that um haven't been touched for quite some time so we need to kind of start looking at that as well and continue down that path that um Val had started last year so thank thank you um Safety and Security committee Mr
Lansky sure Safety and Security committee received the progress report on continuing security updates to all of our buildings this was also shared with the full board and will be discussed later tonight in executive session we continued with discussion of student cell phone use and accessibility and looking at the policy we agreed we're in
good place from a Safety and Security standpoint and I wait to see if the policy committee feels there there are any needs or tweaks because I know they will be reviewing that as well uh we continue to review our security including at our board meetings and Report our recommendations to the full
board and exec later tonight thank you Mr Lansky next is the technology committee and I believe Mr Lansky you and Miss Carrero co-chair that so we had our first meeting um me and Mr carero uh agreed that we heard
our first meeting consists of Mr balone and Mr gross's Visions for technology so I asked Mr balone to prepare a short synopsis I think it would be the best for the full board to kind of get a short synopsis of what we heard that night to kind of get the ball rolling so Mr balong
sure so for starters we actually revamped the technology committee's Mission and uh the mission uh of the MTS uh technology committee is to support the district in adopting and enabling current and emerging technology and Innovation that advances the district's
mission to educate and prepare students well into their 22nd century future and that's something that is important for me we hear a lot about 21st Century Learning we are 25 years into the 21st century and students born or children
born today will live well into the 22nd century so we need to prepare our students for the future and in doing that that's the 22nd century um we also talked about um revisiting the
three-year technology plan that we had started last summer so um we will be engaging in multiple stakeholders in gaining feedback um and and kind of restarting that work that we did last summer um in formulating our three-year
technology plan that will carry us through uh the next three years so from basically 2025 through 28 and then um I know we also discussed revisiting that annually even though it's a three-year plan still revisiting that annually uh
in the event that things change right that plan is simply just a plan uh emerging Technologies come out things change we may have to Pivot in the moment and that's that's pretty much where we were in terms of in terms of
that work I have a question can I ask it now just in revising the mission which I completely understand it's written under the policy though which we added the addition we added descriptions from the mtps site to each of the Committees last
year so are you going to then I guess send that updated language over to update the policy yes I didn't mention we have it written here it's policy 0155 so yes okay thank you we have to revote do a first reading and second reading with the policy
moment yeah it'll go through the votes any other questions okay thank you Mr Malone anything else M Carrero Mr lonsky that's it thank you uh on the advisory committee um uh Miss
menz and I co-chair that as well so you know please share um feel free to jump in um we met as well as a committee um we incorporated some of the feedback that we received on the draft Charter that was shared with the board we're going to finalize that and share with the board again for the next meeting so
you have a full copy of it um and we talked a little bit about sort of next steps we know we need to get moving with sort of reach out to the community to find some advisers and we want to prioritize that based upon where we think the most um or the greatest need
could be um as well as sort of getting some input and some feedback from the board as well as to where you may think the priorities are and then we will begin sort of the Outreach process based upon the the approach we've laid out in the charter so the charter will sort of govern the way we sort of work as a
committee and it'll also sort of inform us as we move forward with the um with the Outreach efforts so let me just see if M Mendes wants to add anything to that no I think you cover it great thank you um Miss bomo I didn't see buildings of
grounds on my list but I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a report that's what I thought and I just I didn't want to overlook it okay so that was just for everyone's purposes it's a lot of the projects are being done over the break we meet again in April and that's when we'll be on the
agenda for the next meeting okay great thank you all right um moving along to our next item on the agenda which is financial and business operations matters Mr lonsky will you read this one financial and business operations
matters the superintendent of school submits the following resolutions for approval one adoption of tentative 2526 school year budget two adjustment for healthcare cost three use of Bank cap four maintenance Reserve withdrawal five travel and related expense reimbursement
six transfers seven list of bills eight secretary monthly reconciliation reports nine travel 10 harassment imitation harassment intimidation bullying hibit report 11 mckin vento tuition students
for the 2425 school year 12 application to participate in SE semi for the 252 6 school year 13 voluntary employee paid supplemental insurance plans 14 approval Professional Services agreement with to
to kakasi and Millan Architects LLC for HRA improvements at Asher homes and Robertsville elementary schools 15 Mara Elementary School donation cafeteria balances 16 Mar Elementary School donation 17 Frank J Dugan Elementary
School donation 18 State contract purchases ISO move thank thank you can I have a second uh I need a second he needs a second I'll second and then I have a question too thank you second for Miss Mendes now we are open for discussion can I just wanted to go back to my
initial thing now of for me to properly vote based on hearing that my questions so I just want to make sure so we just do it in in in a good order yeah so miss Mendes Miss Seward Dr Miss quitz okay and then we'll and then miss gandi all right and then if anyone else we'll just
we'll try to do it in sequence yeah thank you I think again I I just want to reiterate that I appreciate all of the information that was shared and then here hearing Mrs Brock it gives me another perspective that I appreciated and I didn't have before so I have a
variety of questions when it comes to the dollar amount the options and I don't I want to make sure I'm asking in the right place is that a thing here because in this meeting do we I'm just asking do we take a a go to executive
for 20 minutes I just want to know how that will work if we're talking about the budget the budget should remain in a public setting it's not subject to execu I know but there are some questions I'll have that may not it is about the budget but it may not be for the public piece
of the meeting so that's where I think I to do that I don't know so I can just ask my first questions I so let so so I would suggest if you have a question that you think and I and I appreciate this because you sat in my seat so you you know where the line gets crossed if you do believe that there's some
questions you need we do have um we have the ability to go into exec um sorry to cut you off Mr so we're going to if we're going to discuss the position it's the position not the employee because the employee has not been rised for this meeting so it would just be about the reduction of the
position I'm not discussing the any employees it but it's about positions and I can ask it in public I have no problem doing that I just want to do the right thing so and that's why you tell me if you want me to continue will if if you would like we can take a two-minute
recess and we will just confer a council and we'll make sure that your questions don't transcend into an executive conversation right so I'll pause let everybody else guess theirs and then motion for a five minute recess whatever you want to do Mr lonsky second Miss Carrero all in favor thank you we're
going to take a five minute recess just to confer with legal counsel e e e e e e e
e e e Mrs bomo here m Mrs Carrero here Mrs Gandhi here Mr lonsky here Mrs Mendes here Dr MTZ here Mrs seart here
and Mr Cohen here okay when we before recess we were discussing questions Miss Mendes you had some questions that you wanted to raise I think we've answered your question that required um the conversation regarding whether it's exec or not and I want to just go back to you and have you
yeah thank you for that so my question um just for everybody was that I wanted to verify the number of students that were going to be impacted um by this change and I appreciated the
information provided about the impact on the staff that this would have and so I would like just some I guess some color to that or Clarity on that piece um cuz that was was important to me I also just wanted to share just a note to confirm
for myself just so I know I'm not saying that's how I'm voting if I think Mr Cohen you said that there is no way to just vote no to one section of this right you said it's either a no or a yes you can't pull out a line item per se
you correct you can vote no to one three or two or any particular item but you cannot sort of car out a particular line item in the budget specifically and say no to this but yes to the rest of the budget correct okay thank you so my
questions I had s thank you for that so your question just for me to repeat it is the number of students you would like to know the number of students potentially impacted by the decision regarding the kindergarten coaches correct and then the impact the
potential impact to staff and um that are taking on these students and have they been conferred with to get their feedback to say yeah this feels manageable you know just like a change a
level of change management to say this is what's coming I feel okay with it I can take it on and the children will still get the quality that they need and deserve um was the other part of my question I guess for now okay so second
part of that question was impact to the staff but I mean and I think you mean by the staff the coaches who are going to be taking on the additional responsibility the one through five Elementary School coaches and have they been part of the conversation with Mr
balone in regard to the additional workload and and the last one I I think Mrs seart said it also is um I and thank you you did you had so much good information Vinnie I'm not discounting that by any means I'm just asking
are there what else cuz like where else could it be to be point I'm not saying I I know so much work was put into it I'm just genuinely asking what else could we do if if I'm concerned with this and I'm other board
memb will speak too that's and maybe you're like nowhere else Val this is the best we have this is the best I could do and I appreciate and respect that too I just want to know that so that's it thank you okay Mr balone do you want to
respond to some of the questions and then Mr caravell Sure might be a little bit out of order here but the um regarding the quality that the marbor students deserve that would not be compromised that would that's that's one of my core values that
we don't compromise that so um the quality that our students deserve that that will be upheld right and and our program programming will not change as a result of this um the number of students es and flows um more students are impacted later in the year as more
students are identified for intervention services um there you know the coach's role is not just intervention services so um you know without having the spreadsheet in front of me I I know what the spreadsheets are and and we know the
number of students impacted but I think it's important to note what while every student in kindergarten has the ability to have intervention or some kind of um instruction or support
including the teachers from our two kindergarten coaches currently that will not change for next year so and Mr Cohen mentioned it at each Elementary School we have instructional coaches as
well in ela and math and they currently service grades 1 through five they will service K through five next year um we have talked to administrative staff in terms of what this could look like
and we did mention this last week as well um that's actually one of the pros right that's a that's a a positive piece so you can have a little more continuity between K 1 2 3 4 5 all the way up not to say that continuity isn't there now
um not I'm not saying that the job that the way the job currently looks is ineffective it's it's quite effective um but one of the perceived benefits that and and this came from feedback from the buildings
themselves was um having the building level coach follow those students from the beginning all the way uh to the time they leave um will certainly be a benefit uh where else could we cut where else could we cut um Miss
Mendes I know um some someone else might have that question as well we did make Cuts right so we um I think uh miss seart you mentioned projects right could could we
look at the b& projects we did we you know there are certain things we have to fix where we can't let everything go but there are many things we did cut some equipment uh that we cut um what I think it's important to note
here um curriculum cut about 60,000 from last year special ed cut a little more than 100,000 I think it's very important to note when we're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars not even a hundred ,000 right when you're talking
about hundreds of thousands of dollars almost a million dollars it was about $ 800 I'll I'll discuss the cuts um because I just want I want to give everybody some just the background information I know we've been meeting um since December discussing the budget and
I I don't mean to cut you off Mr balone let me just finish my thought and then I can let you get um so when we're talking about call it I'm rounding $800,000 to cut you can make little here and there but that that doesn't even really cause
a dent um but we do we tried we tried to split It ultimately when you're when you're looking to close maybe3 $400,000 at that point it's it's benefits and salaries and while
that is not something we ever want to do if we hold steadfast to our principles I'll say my principles not affect programming not affect class size and not affect teachers lives or
livelihood then that that that's why that's why we are where we are so budget reductions they're they're never easy and thank you Mrs brck for coming up and speaking um I just want to go over just just the background
information when it comes to what it goes into making a budget what we have to look at and to Mr balone said it's we look at that we want to go through attrition we want to not affect people's lives um we've been looking at this since December unfortunately our state
aid numbers do not come in until February so we start meeting with every Department in December as you know through the budget calendar uh we've been meeting since December there's not many Revenue sources out there for our district unless it's the tax levy we go through Revenue sources we go through state aid
the tax levy if you remember from our our presentations it's about 94% of our total budget we always look for additional Revenue sources and where we can appropriate more money on the other other end to balance the budget without having to make such significant reductions unfortunately it's just it's
not plausible because you just can't inflate your revenues just to continue to to spend money you have to be fiscally responsible so we don't get into a position where you could be in a deficit or you could be you know short following this district and making drastic changes overnight which are not
not beneficial for everybody um um which is why we propose to you the the tax the the health waiver for the 1.8 million and the remaining Bank bank cap for $25,000 so that's $2 million right there
that we we're adding on to the 2% cap because we can't sustain the the rising cost based off of what we're actually bringing in because there's just not enough revenue streams to go about couple that with the cuts we had to make you're looking at a $2.7 million deficit that we faced when we were
building this budget um now you think on a $100 million budget that's okay that that's not much but in order to you know to reach a balanced figure you have to start looking at at certain things that you may not want to look at um we met
with every Department we we took as much money as we possibly could without affecting programs instruction Services um even had to reduce things um that normally would not be and it's never easy but sometimes it's
necessary because you never want to be at a deis where you're now making millions of dollars of cuts overnight um so we we we take all that into consideration and we look at that um we try to avoid this and that's why it's my
job as the the board the business administrator to come to you when there's always opportunities to take additional Revenue as you recall last summer we did have an opportunity to recoup some of the state aid back through the tax levy by increasing it but unfortunately came out in July which did
not really add up to to when we submitted we submitted and approved that budget so again should have would have could have but when I come to the board with proposals when it comes to increasing revenues that's a way to increase
Revenue that that I would stand behind even though it increases your your tax base it still avoids some of these conversations that we need to have um so just that's a food for thought for the future when I come with a recommendation we need to strongly
consider taking any Avenue of Revenue that we get so we don't have these conversations but nonetheless we are in this position um so without out that waiver those waivers we would have had to make $2.7 million in Cuts so we took whatever we were afforded we still had
to make reductions we went back to the Departments where we already cut and we cut them even further until we got to a number where okay there was not much more we can cut so which which is why we sit down with the superintendent um the assistant superintendent really a lot of
the administrators we we we pull together and no one's ever left in the dark and we we we talk about what we can reduce because unfortunately benefits and salaries is about I think 94 92% of this this entire budget I
maybe sorry 81% of this budget um and those are your biggest increases you had health benefits go up 15% you had salaries across the board go up 3 and a half% where we're at the mercy of our 2% main Revenue stream um so that's why we have to make
those difficult decisions in in in making those reductions um so for the onetime purchases Mrs seart and Mrs Mendes we did look at all areas to cut you know onetime expenditures and to cut you know things that we could put off for next year but unfortunately this
is the cliche of kicking the can down the road if our state aid numbers don't improve and when I I for quoting me saying saying it's a little wonky it I stand by that it is very wonky and until until the state or the Department of Education gives us more clarity or
more transparency on what goes into that funding formula we're going to continue to see inconsistencies because they think we're an affluent District that should rely on the local fair share rather than the state for additional funding and you know that's not just that's not sustainable because everybody's costs go up no matter what
kind of District you are some just get more State support than others um so we're hoping that changes and it did but it didn't change for the right reasons because they if you noticed the last uh presentation we had no Equalization Aid
and everything went to special ed Aid security Aid and and transportation Aid so we're hoping that improves and again we always try to look to the Future and if we do ever have a a surplus or a revenue stream where we can we can add things back we always we always discuss that and the
reason why I know one person made a comment about never adding them back unfortunately sometimes revolving cost cannot just be added back because you're always looking for two three years down the road if you have to reduce it again you would never want to take it in and then take it out I appreciate all the work that goes
into this I know it's many many months of preparation and I appreciate and trust your expertise in this field this is just a generic question I'm not asking this for any other reason other than fair share is there any chatter of a tax reassessment in the town is there
any discussion of property taxes going up to support these Cuts in the districts I don't know as far as the relationship with Township and the district is that something that's being discussed along with the population of the schools are we looking at a reassessment so I know the the equalized
value of the homes and the rateable tax the tax assess value and the ratables have been going up each year so that actually helps us offset our tax rate when you know when you see your increases um because without those rbl going up your your your taxes actually Skyrocket dep based off of how much
we're raising the the levy um so that kind of helps offset it as far as a reassessment that would really have no impact on our Revenue funding or our Revenue streaming it really would because we're only at Mercy of what we already took the previous year
add 2% onto that so if they were to reassess that would only help our tax rate be nominal when it comes to the impact on you I'll say something real quick you the SE were you are you good with your I know you I appreciate it I know uh my my
question was answered but I just uh as far as the timeline goes if the budget does not pass tonight what are we looking at are we rescheduling the April 8th appointment what is what is the I mean appointment sorry meeting what does it look like um as far as the timeline
goes cuz I know we we have a deadline well statutorily the the tentative budget not the final budget the tenative budget is due tomorrow to the county office okay um and if any changes were to be made we would have a public hearing on April 29th to discuss any changes to the budget from what we
originally approved I understand thank you Dr Miss quitz real quick you mentioned F share I just wanted to I it's a it's a tough decision I know that and I know it's the first year for first year I remember that um we're
going to the full 2% we're going to the full Bank cap and we're taking the full health benefits waiver and that's something I haven't voted yes on for a very long time we've always left something and this year we can't because even we're doing all that we're face of making these tough decisions is would
you say fair share make sure we understand that means taxes correct local fair share is your tax taxes you say I want to make sure everybody understands at home that fair share means taxes nothing else so and we we're taking the full ride there's no place else we can go we're taking every dollar
we can and from being on this board a very long time it's been a very long time before I said yes to that but you made Tiffany's presentation was clear his numbers month after month were very clear in the direction we were going and why we're here that's what
say thank you Dr Miss quitz Vinnie already answered one of my questions but my other question will be to Mr blone the children that are at Abbot the kindergarteners that will still be at Abbot how will they be
serviced so as I mentioned before there will be some remaining students at the Abbott Center despite moving some of them out to Asher and Robertsville those remaining classes were projecting at this point maybe about three classes worth um they will will be
serviced by our district data Specialists who are also coaches and they they they're experienced coaches yes you don't have any what how many children are you anticipating just for
Abbot total I not not how many children total yeah for the kind for kindergarten um so they have classes around 22 so 60 some odd students but that doesn't mean every student needs correct I I was just trying to get a
picture in my head what you know what was coming in there thank you Miss Gandhi um I wanted to first thank you for coming and speaking I we appreciate it because this did prompt a you know further discussion um so thank you for
that I think everybody mentioned this it is it is difficult um just a few questions so I Mr balone just to kind of repeat it again I know that we're eliminating the two positions for kindergarten coaches
but you mentioned that each building um coaches will absorb that correct so maybe not ideal but at least we have a backup plan so I'm grateful for that um just a thought I I don't know I don't
know how much we spend annually on board um PD development right like I don't know what that is is there is there is there a way we can cut that and I don't know again I don't know what that amount is I don't know if if
that's a possibility I mean we can give that up for a year see how things go again I I don't know yeah unfortunately this the cuts would need to be substantial and that's only about 5 to 10 grand when it comes to board
professional development so okay I didn't realize it was such a small number so thank you I mean there is you know there's nothing it doesn't we're going to have to make a cut somewhere and I think that
as much as I I would like to save those two positions I'm I'm content I guess with knowing that they will still get the help that they need from the coaches in the building
um but but until your to your point I can make small Cuts everywhere I can throw a thousand paper cuts uh the problem is that it's just a reoccurring issue so I can make onetime Cuts just to save something and then the
next year you're at the same thing again where you're trying to figure out where to reduce and sometimes the hole may be larger than not because this year we're getting a assistance through the health benefit waiver we're getting assistance through other areas those options will not always be afforded to you so
sometimes you have to plan ahead by doing what's hard now um so to your to your point we you could do that it's just that's not really fiscally responsible or feasible long term yeah no I mean also what Mr lonsky
said makes sense like we do need to to vote for the bank cap and and all of that so that I know we have to kind of be mindful of that too cuz then we from the community that taxes are going up but something's got to give and the the real the real killer is the health
benefits they've gone up now almost a compound like 27 28% over two years my office and I we consistent we can we always try to work with our health benefit broker to see what else is out there equivalent or better to go out there and try to shop our coverage
just try to just sustain those rates or going into a pool where it's more controlled so we're not taking those hits because if we didn't have those increases that would be something where you know you wouldn't maybe have to account for as as much in the expenditure side um the problem is our claims experience is
just never good enough to be approached by any other vendor or any other other Health Insurance Pool where where we're kind of like in limbo and stuck in the the state plan so that's one of the things we always try to be creative in looking at even if it's not a revenue Source a way to reduce expenditures
going forward so we can you know include more can can you just remind me guess can you just remind me of the dollar amount that we're saving here again or not saving but that you're avoiding putting avoiding that you're putting back in the
budget for what the two the two roles that you are eliminating the FTE in in our presentation last week it was if I'm reading this correctly $25,500 laa and math coaches is that what you're looking for yeah I just want to make sure I'm looking at the right
inform 20557 yeah Miss KY any other questions thank you any other questions from the board please sorry I'm I'm just still here sorry because I I mean I've been in this
position my professional life here I get it I'm just I think where I'm still wanting to understand is the number and I think you was I know you said there were about 60 but not all 60 are impacted of students the number of kids that would
be potentially impacted I know we're not looking at spreadsheet just whatever no that um Dr MTZ had asked me how many students would be remaining at the Abbott Center so estimating at this point with
approximately three classes of 20 two or 23 students per class it'll be somewhere around 66 67 students that that's where that number came from okay and that's the number of students and that would be impacted by this
change no so that's my question yeah that's a that's a different question so there will be students who are currently at the abot center call it four classes um who will move out
into um the both Robertsville and Asher respectively and the other remaining schools with current kindergarteners in it those students will be serviced by their act the building coaches located
at the building currently the kindergarten coaches travel to all of the buildings with kindergarten and they also service the students at Abbott so now we'll be having about three classes at the Abbott
Center service by our district data Specialists and then the other buildings the other five elementary schools those students will be serviced by their building level coaches so it's it's just a different structure um but there will
be no students I don't want to use a double negative all students will be serviced understood and then my other question is is Mrs Brock listed a variety of roles and responsibilities or or tasks within
what she does I'm sorry I shouldn't have said the staff member apologies on that mentioned that um is it going to be the same exact service that the data specialist sorry if I'm saying the wrong thing is going to
provide are they getting the same exact thing they had before or is the service going to look different than what they were used to I'm just curious when is it a lift and shift of the same not obviously of the people not minimizing their role just understanding are the services the same yeah the overall
services will be the same um so students will not be losing anything we're just going to be um spreading what that looks like um we're also when we do things like this
we also are mindful of offloading work on on the coaches let's say in the building offloading some of their work so they can accommodate the new grade level in this case kindergarten students in their
buildings so we're we're looking at at those pieces as well especially on the math side we have a um very easy shift right now the math coaches are teaching gifted and talented
math they will no longer be teaching that next year so they'll have they'll have some openings in their schedule to service the cas students that that was my um that was my concern too that if we're removing two coaches and they're going to be you know
basically absorbed by the building coaches how it's going to impact so your explanation helps that it's not going to be an overload of work but I did have a question for data specialists um what's their background if if are they actual did they were they at one
point coaches and then they became okay one uh well yeah I don't want to speak specifically about them but they they are subject matter experts in both math and Ela respectively and one last question sorry for the number of kindergarten classes
that we have just roughly estimating how many students are we thinking are going going to be and I know you don't have the numbers but are we looking at 10 students are we looking at 15 that are going to be absorbed by these individual buildings so total of 15 students broken down by all the schools so we're talking
about two or three per school being could be yeah around there right some schools have more than others but um you could probably figure three to five students per class so depending on you know each each um each elementary school has a different number of kindergarten
classes in there so that's that's about a good estimate that you can never you know could have more could have less and I think the other thing that's important also for me to understand when they're when they have coaches it's for a certain amount of time so it's not that
we're we're seeing these five kids have coaches for the full year it's right you get on there for a few weeks you get to where you need to be and then you're off that so that number can vary it could be five one month but the next month it could be just be one true right
okay and what will happen and these staff will go back will go into the classroom you said correct in our last meeting the current coaches the current kindergarten coaches yes we'll go back into a classroom okay thank
you any other questions from the board um I have a question um I'm curious and if I can't ask this I apologize um is would the would this be a demotion of any
sort no our coaches are our teachers so certainly not a demotion no any other questions from the board Mr caraval I just have a question for you um something just on process you mentioned before you said that the
by Statute our our budget to due to the county tomorrow all right um that's the preliminary budget correct then we have to as a board take another vote in April for the final budget right the public hearing has anything in the
past has the board or has the budget changed between preliminary that went to the county and final vote for the board do we have another chance to sort of to look at something or adjust it if we had to it has I know in two years ago we had
to have a public hearing with changes and you have to just announce those changes in public um and the county would need to know that you're changing the budget they're approving so I would have to check off of that um and if there are changes then you still have a
hole that you need to fill right you it's you still have you have a set number you have to get you have to eventually get to a balanced budget okay uh any other discussions again on this item or any of the items within this section of financial matters I want
to say one more thing sorry and if this is an overreach that's okay no this is this is very important let's have this conversation just a suggestion a recommendation I don't know if this is even possible and again if we're going over what administration does please tell me that's not my place would it be
helpful cuz I know we're implementing this would it be helpful to maybe 6 months down the road kind of have the coaches come and meet with us in executive and get their take on how the impact has been of taking on
kindergarteners or we can't do that okay I didn't think so that over okay thank you I just wanted to make sure so I apologize all right any other questions discussions okay we had a motion to move we had a second did we're ready for a
roll call Mr Caravella Dr MTZ yes Mrs seart yes Mrs bomo yes Mrs
Carrero it's difficult but yes Mrs Gandhi I have to say the same thing this is a very difficult decision um but I am at least I know that the kids are going to be um serviced by the um
coaches that are currently in the building so for that reason I know we need to be prudent on a lot of different things so with a heavy heart I guess I I I vote Yes Mrs Mendes
I think I think I'm if I just I'm going to ask this question sorry I understand it has to be submitted tomorrow and then and then you could potentially not saying we want to I'm
just asking you could potentially make a change to Mr Cohen's point if needed because I still don't have exact numbers and things like that in my head I appreciate what you all shared with me I'm just saying so I could vote Yes today and then we can get if we need to
change we could right just saying not saying we would I'm just asking yeah the the the tenative budget just the preliminary budget anything can be changed it just has to be noted and we would have to make those changes and offset them with different changes
I guess I'm gonna I'm going to say yes Mr lonsky yes Mr Cohen I I want to say that um Mr Brock thank you for being here tonight and for raising the attention and the awareness because
I think this was a a very healthy conversation in which a lot of board members had an opportunity to sort of really reflect on this um and you know have this chance to talk so thank you for that and it epitomizes exactly what public comments are supposed to be an
opportunity to raise awareness of issues to the board from a a a more personal perspective so thank you for that I appreciate that um and I appreciate the comments and the questions from the board members because I think it's also very healthy especially as a new board member to sort of hear your viewpoints
and and your experiences that was very very helpful with me too um given the fact that this has got to go to the county tomorrow um I vote Yes so that I can meet the statutory
requirements and I am going to Rack my brains as to whether or not you know what happens for April for the April vote um and I'm hoping that maybe you know we can had some healthy conversations going forward but
I vote Yes to the preliminary budget sorry can I change my vote I'm sorry can I change my vote before Ro call okay thank you for that conversation we
are going to move on to the next item in the agenda Brian can I just ask one question and I can bring it up in Old business it's about this now that we're done voting I could do it in Old business or now it's just a question it's about this item or any of the items here um it's this item we've we've done
with the vote so it's yeah just a question okay can I just ask though for me to be able to properly vote next time first of all I just want to say I understand all of the work that went into it I am not discounting it I know you do a million things to do this I
know you meet with staff I appreciate it so so much my question is is though for me I also like to hear from the boots on the ground the people that are actually in the field I love to hear all sides of it and I felt like that gave me New
Perspective and so I don't know how to get perspective because obviously I don't want to overstep but how do I know the impact from everybody I'm just asking you Vinnie like I don't know how to get more information than I have so you tell me how to get that I mean to
put it into perspective you received your binders all of you at the end of February and I didn't receive any emails about individual meetings that's not you're correct I've met many times the more intimate setting to discuss some of these changes but that's not what I meant cuz I appreciate that you give me
tons of information I met with you many times last year on the budget hours and hours that's not my question my question is is the people doing the job not the dollars because you give it's nothing against anybody you give great information I'm not discounting it the question is is the people that it
impacts I want to just hear how do I know more about the role is it what service is maybe it just comes from somebody in administration to just tell us here's the list of things that they receive and here's the number of children impacted the exact number in an
email only because I didn't have that perspective so I couldn't ask something I didn't know so that's my question not the numbers cuz I get it it's just that but as a board you know to flow through Mr balone as a superintendent he would get that information that's fine for you so I can just ask I'll send an email
I'll ask for all those things and then we'll go from there but thank you the numbers you provide are great it's not that what I'm looking for it's the impact to everybody else can we maybe shake up can I say one more thing sorry I think it's important I again I think all of us are facing the same challenges
but I I do want to recognize that even though we're making these cuts that it was well thought out of how these kidss are going to be serviced right it wasn't like okay we're making this cut and now we don't know what we're going to do with the kids so I appreciate Mr balone
and Vinnie for for looking into that I don't want that to be lost I don't think when you were making these decisions that you were happy with it either right so I think it's a board consensus that this is a very difficult decision it's not something that we any of us took
lightly um yeah it so I do appreciate what you guys did I don't I with the questions that we're coming you know we're bringing up we don't want you to feel as well that we know you looked at all of this and then you came to the decision and brought it to the board so smart to
mention that thank you can we maybe shake up the order of which the staff reductions are presented so it's not down to the wire like maybe it be part of discussion number four instead of discussion number
six like maybe that way giving St have a longer time frame of opportunity to come to public comments or voice their concerns instead of this like 11th Hour situation while I respect like again the the work is impeccable we really
appreciate you I don't want you to take this personal that's not what this is about I'm just trying to see how we could maybe just function differently moving forward so it doesn't feel so like not much we can do we we would actually love for that as well but the problem is our state aid numbers don't
come out until mid February Vinnie uh it a February 27 actually like late February that that really drives the the final push right so we don't know what we don't know until February 20 you know third week in February so I mean that's
the difficulty the way the calendar is presented is not really beneficial to local districts because they give you your numbers after the governor's address and then expect you to turn around a budget in less than weeks to them I know um and sometimes you have to make drastic changes
especially we kind of anticipated we were going to be reduced 3% which I if you go back to a presentation I noted that that's what we could lose and we did um so there is planning it's just un unfortunately sometimes you have to look at positions to get to the number that but that is our last resort always we
don't just start a budget and go let's let's get rid of a bunch of positions because it's nothing that's ever fun and anything we ever want to do all right thank you yeah you know to to your point Miss steart and and I think this is um it's the unfortunate truth to this whole thing
right they started in December with a zero fund budget you know and then in February we find out that we got hit with a 3% state ID cut while everything else is going up I mean that's just impossible we're they're they're in AOSS situation we're also in an impossible
situation you know I hate to say it state did not help us with a 3% cut with 250 $241,000 is that right correct additional yeah Dr to MTZ you know one of the hard things for
Mr balone and all the administrators especially with the kindergarten group you don't know how many are going to come in first of all and you don't know how many are going to need these additional Services it's really it's really really hard for them to you know
um plan this whole piece out I'm sure that it took many sleepless nights too and the you know the only thing is cutting staff and if you cut staff that's person you know that's a person
that's not going to you know so that you know but but if you cut staff then what are you going to do you need these for these little kids so it's you know it's the money and it's not it it just it's not fair to districts like
am marbor that really um is doing everything right and um then we get sure changed I think we you know we have to get down to Trenton and start samping our feets our
feets feet our feet but no but thank you for for Mary Elizabeth thank you for all you guys do for everything CU this is a hard this is hard and this I I know sitting here this was hard for all of us this
you know because like I said I'm seeing little faces and but you don't know how many of how many are we going to need how many children are going to have you know it could be a lot it could be you know we but what what would happen
if would you know say we needed um we had an overflux of children that need some type of service what is the alternative you would hope your your state aid numbers go up because your enrollment is going up but unfortunately our enrollment is kind of staying flat
because the outgoing classes are a lot higher than the incoming ones got it especially at the kindergarten level sometimes yeah I I just want to it's really important to know this I want to say it again the kids are still going to be cared for they're going to have help from the the coaches in the classroom
again not an ideal situation right but we were able to not cut jobs and we were able to make sure that they're going to be helped by the coaches that are in the respective buildings right and again like I said I know it's not ideal yeah
and again and again Mr balone and I always discuss things that we have to reduce in the hopes that we can get it back we never forget what we what we reduce because we know that something on our radar if it ever traversed back to us we would we would reinstate it but as long as there was security enough long
term to keep it you don't just don't want to add something and then just take it away and then add something and take it away that's not conducive or just for anybody especially children okay um thank you very much for all this thoughtful conversation it's it's extremely helpful and gives us some
more things to think about um as we move forward um next item up for the agenda is Gillum Dr MTZ would you please the superintendent of schools okay yes
continue the superintendent of schools submits the following resolution for approval inter Scholastic athletic competitions spring Sports 2024 2025 school year is so
move thank you can I have a second um miss seart any discussions all in favor no sorry roll call Mrs bomo yes Mrs
Carrero yes Mrs Gandhi yes Mr alansky yes Mrs Mendes yes Mrs seart yes Dr MTZ yes and miss Mr Cohen yes next item up is Personnel matters
Miss Seward would you mind sure the superintendent of school submits the following resolutions for approval one retirements two resignations three I'm sorry staff paid with funds four amended sipen Mentor teachers five
stiens Mentor teachers six curriculum station facilitators for power program Parent Academy seven sick leave Bank withdrawal eight substitute teachers nine paid medical disability leaves 10
unpaid leaves of absence 11 amended resolution leave dates is so move thank you have a second Miss Mendes any discussions Mr caravell roll call please
so I actually have um one change to make for number two resignations um Amy Cullum the effective date for 4125 should be changed to today 31825 thank you
welcome roll call please sure Mrs bomo yes Mrs Carrero yes Mrs Gandhi yes Mr alansky
yes Mrs Mendes yes Dr MTZ yes Mrs seart yes Mr Cohen yes before we go on to the next um item Mr balone you have some retirement comments for us I do uh the first one is retirement
comments for Bella Amin Bella Amin joined the staff of defino Elementary School in September of 2000 as a special education instructional assistant and moved to maror middle in 2002 over the years she's also served as a substitute teacher regardless of the position or
specific responsibilities related to the assignment Bella could be counted on to support the student staff and the entire School Community notably Bella loves math and relishes all opportunities to sport students in the math program and share her knowledge of of the content
her passion and skills have proven to benefit numerous students in the program annually Bella shared working with the students in the middle school has been a great time for me you see them in sixth grade as very young students when I see them graduating in eth grade I feel proud that they have achieved their
goals in middle school marbor middle school has been my second home for the last 23 years I loved working with many awesome teachers who had welcoming Smiles every day I have AAL special bond with students and teachers that I will always remember I will carry those
memories for the rest of my life Bella plans to pursue her passion for painting and working with arts and crafts and to spend many hours playing with her grandchildren mea neam vene and sha congratulations Bella on your [Applause]
retirement second one is retirement comments for Michelle Newman after 21 years of service to the marbor school district Michelle Newman has announced her retirement her journey began in November 2004 as a substitute instructional assistant and by January
2005 she was officially hired over the years she has contributed to multiple schools including the abbit Early Learning Center Asher Holmes and deino Central before settling into her current role as kindergarten instructional assistant in 2017 at
Dugan throughout her career Michelle has cherished the connections she has built with the students watching them grow and succeed working in kindergarten afforded Michelle one of the most rewarding aspects seeing her former students in the hallways exchanging hugs and hellos for several additional years a true
highlight has been when past students return to share how they still remember her helping them learn to write their letters and names for the past eight academic Years Michelle has valued her partnership with Mrs Cain from whom she has learned so much together they have worked closely
to support each child success in the classroom as she steps into this new chapter Michelle is most excited about moving into her new home with her husband David and their beloved dog biscuit their new house just 10 Doors Down from her daughter son-in-law and
newborn grandson Atlas will allow her to fulfill a lifelong dream of being an active part of her grandson's life she is also looking forward to spending more time with her other daughter and making wonderful family memories with Newfound free time she
plans to enjoy decorating sugar cookies kayaking and Hiking we wish her all the best in this well-deserved next [Applause] chapter and finally retirement comments for Christine
tresa it is with a mix of Celebration and gratitude that we recognize the retirement of Christine trza a dedicated educator who has left an indelible mark on the Marboro Community reflecting on a remarkable career Christine shared what she is most proud of developing strong
bonds with students and their families while fostering a structured yet nurturing learning environment this balance has allowed countless students to feel comfortable supported and empowered to do their best Christina has devoted 30 years to the
marbor school district with an additional six spent in private school settings serving children with multiple learning challenges within Marboro her journey has spanned Marboro Elementary Asher Holmes Dugan The Early Learning Center and defino Central Elementary over the
years she has taught general education kindergarten as well as kindergarten first grade and second grade in both lld and MD classrooms bringing expertise and compassion to diverse Learners looking ahead to retirement she
has exciting plans on the horizon this spring she will celebrate her son's college graduation followed by travels with her husband who is also retiring Beyond personal Milestones she intends to give back through volunteering and service with a particular passion for working with
adults with intellectual disabilities a cause close to her heart inspired by her brother's special needs and the ongoing needs of this population when asked what she will remember most Christine spoke warmly of her students getting to know each one as an individual cherishing the shared
learning experiences and carrying forward the lessons her students have taught her this sentiment reflects the depth connection and mutual growth that has defined her career on behalf of the marbor Board of Education we extend our heartfelt thanks to Christine tresa for
30 years of unwavering dedication to our students families and schools we wish her a retirement fill the joy adventure and meaningful impact in the next chapter of her journey thank you [Applause]
thank you um Mr rone I I was just asking about the number of years as I missed it for Miss Amin but when we think about this these three te these three Marboro District employees have a combined history of almost 80 years of teaching and
education and it's amazing just to have they've touched so many lives so thank you for all the things that you've done Miss Amin Miss Newman and Miss preza for all the years of service here and we wish I wish you and I know the board wishes you a lot of success in your next
journey and I'm sure biscuit will be very happy um moving on to our next item we have policy development Miss Gandhi will you do that please
policy development and community relations matters one buildings and grounds 2025 2026 school year holiday calendar two first readings three second reading ISO move thank you have a second
please Dr MTZ any discussions on the Miss seart yep I have a um I'm just asking for a little insight as to the changes is made in policy 5533 student smoking and vaping um what did it look like in the policy committee to change
all of the shs to may I know it's a a very small word but the implication of um the parents shall be notified into the parents may be notified is something that doesn't like sit well with me so I just wanted to know what that process
looks like yeah it's it's it's a great question um it's actually a Strauss Esme recommended change that we've been seeing consistently from their policies to sort of change the shs to the May or the the the the shs from from changing
to shells from will right um and you know I I will defer if I like I have no yeah well no it's it's it's the consistent change of Crossing off will and making it sh which has been a St Sesame which I'm sure you've been seeing
for but is it recommendations or is it mandates cuz I know we got into some murky wat these recommended changes they're not mandates as far as I know from you want to share I I can shed some light um see where so in the past we
have um had some pretty healthy discussions at the policy committee level with shall versus May or or now shall versus will well so those are two distinctions right so so shall is synonymous with Will
so that's that's the change you're seeing here so it's it's a synonym when you have shall versus May th those are not synonyms right May is you can and will or shall is you will right
so it's definitive so in this in this policy here you're looking at words that are synonymous in the past we've dealt with shall versus May which are different does that make sense yeah but then why
change it if it's not mandated and they're synonymous why not leave it will I so Strauss comes with changes a lot of times they'll change pupils to students and students to pupils so for for my understanding because I actually did a little deep diving into it because it stuck out to me as well um when we
received our notes it seems that the recommendation comes with the connotation that it's actually a stricter form of implementing the policy so shall means it will happen within a specific time frame where as will is it will happen at some point so is that the
intention of the policy committee um that that these that the parent shall be contacted it's it's actually a more serious um you know use of the word then then will because that's what the recommendation is annotated if you actually like research it is that it
should be more in a time frame and direct to the parent is that the atttention yeah it's just what as what Mr balone said it's it means the exact same thing so it's not that we will let the parents know when we want
to but that we will let the parents know versus we shall which is also the same thing you change it from will to shall not vice versa so it it was Will and it changed to shall because shall is has a more direct Association so the parent
will be notified basically immediately upon the incident that was the recommendation from straps so I was actually excited to hear that we were changing them so I just want to make sure that's what you guys I think intended and I appreciate that because I think in the context of
the way this is written it is definitive that we will notify parents we will take action and I appreciate that too um I I do believe that when we go through this we we look at each policy and we look at the recommendation languages and there was some recommendations that um Strauss
made that we did not accept and there were actually some things that we actually suggested that Strauss didn't make that were actually we had put in into our policies as well so I I think it's a it's it's a hybrid approach of where it seems to be appropriate and I'm glad that the board has looked at it and
you're reading it and you're asking the questions they're good questions thank you any other further discussions on this item Mr Caravella roll call vote Mrs seart
yes Mrs Palomo yes Mrs Carrero yes Mr lonsky yes Mrs Mendes yes Dr misit yes Mrs gandi yes and Mr Cohen
yes we are up to the next item on our our agenda which is liaison reports um as I've done in the past I'd like to do what where you you your liais on and if you have a school so we all do it together um up first seart free
Regional High School and Abbot yes thank you uh Mr Messinger for the update um uh they had their monthly board meeting last Thursday night and the meeting took place at malbro high school big news at malbo High School was that they started construction on the new football fields and the bleachers that
the township is paying for the kids are super excited about that um as far as we know the lights will be up so look forward to some Friday Night Lights at Maro High School uh we presented the facility improvements that were made with the proceeds from last year's tax increase at maror high school there was
a vestibule added at the front door for security reasons graduation proficiency exams were taken last week in English and math and this last piece uh it was reiterated that it was pretty Bittersweet but the math supervisor at maror high school Jennifer erson got
promoted to director of curriculum and instruction for the entire Freehold Regional District it's a loss for marel high school she really was one of the best Educators at the school up next um thank you Mr perno for the Abbott update students loved our
read Across America celebration students had the had a blast celebrating theme days the special performance of several staff and preschoolers was a huge hit of course reading was the star of the show throughout the week teachers emphasize the importance of reading and the difference it can make in your life next
up is The Walk For Change we are busy planning a series of activities that the students will participate in each activity will help students develop an appreciation for a wide variety of disabilities thank you Miss seart uh Friday Night Lights
are yeah we've uh marrow hit the new the uh the game circuit uh up next is Miss Gandhi with um marbor Education Foundation and Dugan uh just wanted to mention um so
for marbor Education Foundation they are having um a record year of um ticket sales which has been great and so they did um share their thanks to the administration and their support in making and also the schools and making sure that they had assemblies um and so
next week is the Wizards game and I'm going to remind everyone again you get to see Mr caravell and Mr B on the on the in the courts so if you haven't bought your tickets they're actually selling out they I think they're almost at capacity which is again a record-breaking year for them so
congratulations MEF and can't wait to see um what they use their funds and how they help our schools so thank you Miss G am I am I correct coach coach yes Mr Balon is coach player and Mr caraval is player what position wherever they need me
utility player I love it all right uh Dugan y oops so principal's report is Dugan had another busy month beginning march with read Across America week staff and students celebrate it with different themed days which aligned to our
favorite Dr Sue's books Joe Romano brought his magic of reading assembly to our school thanks to the Dugan PTO our fourth grade gifted and talented students attended the New Jersey state law house for a field trip where they learned about the process for how a bill
becomes a law students participated in the cafeteria advisory committee with miss Connie where they reviewed lunch choices and options and had the opportunity to provide feedback as we round out the month we are in the planning stages for many new and typical
annual school events including a living mum family literacy event for elll families and other great level field trips and the Duan PTO didn't provide a full report but they said that if you want an accurate and up to-date recap of the
amazing things that the Duke and PTO is doing is to go visit them on their website thank you Miss Gandhi uh next up is Maro Township liaison and Maro Middle School sure from ly Franco Township the
town launched a new Municipal website the format is cleaner and makes it easier to contact departments and services everybody should check that out breast collection continues and bag leaf collection will Begin by Zone the week of March 24th Le leaves must be placed in the buyer the greater paper bag that
is free to Residents using the online request form a free Leaf bag giveaway will be held on Saturday March 22nd please request Leaf Bags 24 hours in advance on the County Mobile connection March 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the recreation center services will
include passport applications renewals and photos veterans gold star ID cards will probate and guardianship register ready and youth ID cards count County ID cards and notary service no appointment is necessary emails are sent weekly
detailing Recreation programs important information reminders and updates in times of emergency please visit the township website to register from Principal Milwaukee and marbor middle school thank you everyone who attended and supported The Musical Shrek Jr it was a huge success and
everyone had a great time it really was a great show kids did great kids the the the teachers Backstage on front stage uh they really go up like I always said before to go way above and beyond their calling with these students they they really take this job seriously uh spring
Sports and full swing baseball tennis and track we continue to celebrate student birthdays each month with a special treat provided by the PTO students select a day during the month to have their free birthday snack at lunch March is the month to celebrate trustworthiness Dr Sab will present
programs to each grade level focusing on this character pillar the seventh grade class won the citizen can tab collection contest that was treated to ice cream at lunch last week and on April 7th our eighth grade students will have a special assembly entitled of marcket with a stone provided from a grant from
the MEF and from the Lauren and the PTO thanks to MMS families who dined out at Buffalo Wild Wings last week we had a great turnout and we're so thankful those who participated our St Patrick's Day raffle basket fundraiser just wrapped up and our winner was randomly selected this morning our eighth graders
are lucky to have had so many parents family and friends buy tickets and all proceeds will go towards the dance in June MMS Spring closing Drive will take place on March 29th Saturday clean out those closets to get ready for spring drop off your bags of clean and gently
used items such as clothes shoes handbags belts Linens stuffed animals and toys bags can be dropped off in front of the school anytime before 2 p.m. birthday grams are one of our most possible popular ongoing function fundraisers don't forget to order yours we will decorate the front of your students locker with a happy birthday
sign that includes their name and birthday as well as some 3D embellishments PTL membership and rout n discount cards are still for sale and can be purchased online the eighth grade Gans tickets will go on sale in a couple of weeks planning is well underway we can't wait to host this event as surely
be a night to remember class of 2025 lawn and to sign fundraisers are going on now show your pride for a 2025 MMS graduate by purchasing a sign for display on your lawn and or a swim day towel we're also offering a locker decoration fundraising we decorate your
students Locker for graduation all lockers will be decorated in June before graduation decorations will be MMS class of 2024 themed 100% of all the proceeds go directly back to eighth graders and please check the PT board for more details and weekly updates and real
quick U Mr con why I have the mic when you read executive session would you also read in Safety and Security as a topic because I have to give a report to the full board as well thank you also can I just add a little tiny tidbit to the Maro Middle School update um I was fortunate enough to donate blood on
March 1st and I just wanted to give a little feedback from a donor point of view the kids were adorable they were so excited to be there it was very very busy every cot was taken up by a donor and I just wanted to commend them for the work that they're doing um the kids
put put in a lot of work and effort for that and it was just really really magical to be a part of seeing these young leaders take charge and take the initiative and I just wanted to commend them for that that's it I I want to share your s but before before I do that
I first want to recognize Mr Lansky I I went to the show on Friday night and I know I was there with Dr MTZ Miss balma was there uh Miss carrer was there there were several of us there at the same time Mr ly congratulations for the work
that you do to support them um I watched you run that stage and from what I understand you had one week to prepare that's amazing because it was Flawless from what I saw and it was a great show and I'm looking forward to go to the other shows it was my first one
here as a board member so I'm really excited it's fun to see him Boogie across the stage like that he was I I love it he had his Peter Pan gloves on he was like moving those he was moving those props around he was he had it all cord and he was telling everyone else they had to go so thank you for the work that you
do and then I to your point about healthy Futures and that I I wanted to be there I couldn't I had a family event but I will tell you that um I was so touched by that group of students and what they do um they the nurses actually reached out to me at one point my
daughter's an EMT in this town and she went to the she actually attended the club and taught them CPR so yeah so it was exciting for her to be able to give back as an em so you know those are examples of where we can give back to them and she's encouraging them to become future Cadets in Marvel really it
was very impactful for me to see them be so mature and so responsible they had raffle baskets to win they were giving out snacks and stickers and cook they were just so sweet and um from an O Negative donor I just want to tell them like you I'll see I'm right there with you right there see in 56 days we can
compare Miss Gand you want to say something yeah I just wanted to say um I actually took my daughter to the show and I she loved it she actually was like oh maybe maybe I can try when I go to middle school for you know um for that class um but I loved all the Fiona and
um Shrek sidekick oh my God that that girl who I think I I don't know who was the donkey yes she was amazing like she was she just knew like her her you know she hit all the s like the funny things like she knew her timing was right on point basically that's what I'm saying
it was it was a really good show and I didn't realize until I saw you on stage that you had a hand in it so then I came backstage but you did an incredible job really thank you not me alone it's a team and I got to tell you the teachers they go I gu said before
they really go above and beyond they're there the whole time practicing I'm not there for a week but they're there from September October uh practicing with these kids and you know the when you see the kids in the wings getting ready to go on like you said donkey and whoever ever it is and you see them saying their
words over and over again and just counting the numbers getting ready to run out it's it's amazing thing so yeah yeah our middle school plays in this District are like high school plays it's it's things like this to remind us
why we're here and thank you for that work that you do and I just wanted to Dr to and I too I was sitting right near uh Mr Cohen and Mrs Carrero I didn't see I saw we uh Mrs blomo sat further up than we
were but the kids were absolutely outstanding every single child and the staff you know the coordinators for the production were outstanding and our buddy here was the tops thank
you okay um moving on along to our next um now it would be the um Mammoth County Schoolboard Association liaison and Asher Mr Hyatt's not here but miss Caro I understand you have the Asher report today yes um hold on
sorry so thank you to Asher principal for your update uh March has been a blast at Asher so far and we're only halfway through we started the month by celebrating School social workers week thank you to miss hendler for all she does for both our staff and students
that week coincided with read Across America week which featured a marchmadness book tournament and a schoolwide drop everything and read event followed by a spring book fair and the most amazing author's Day celebration with the one and only John Shu Mr Shu inspired students and staff
alike to feed their imaginations and hearts through Reading and creativity his presentation was all inspiring followed by hours of connecting with kids through book signing and chatting thank you to our PTA for bringing Mr shu to us once again a shout out to our
media specialist extraordinaire Mrs Allen for organizing all of these reading events and for working with the PTA to bring these wonderful authors and illustrators into our building upcoming events in March include spring pictures the PTA Bingo and baskets fundraiser and
the science fair in April we look forward to the grade five social an amazing art show the PTA school store Walk For Change take your child to workday Secretary's Day and of course Spring Break parents please keep your eyes on your emails for more information
as our spring calendar really starts to bloom thank you um why we're with you miss carero do you want to just do Robertsville yes um so thank you to Mr G for preparing this report Robertsville thanks the PTO for organizing the
lipsync performance on three on March 14th at uh marbor Middle School between the staff and students and it's clear how talented Robertsville is spring pictures took place on March 18th and the fifth grade panoramic picture will
take place on March 19th spring is in the air on March 19th Robertsville is holding an assembly that focuses on respect and anti-bullying we thank the PTO for sponsoring our fifth grade social is pajama party themed and will happen at Robertsville on Friday April
4th our students are really excited on April 11th robertville will celebrate the walk for change the week of April 7th students will experience stations that represent the message of accepting all abilities as always we we're proud of our students and staff and our
connection to our masan community thank you moving on to New Jersey Schoolboard Association and Memorial Miss Mendes yes thank you so a couple of things from njsba again just a
reminder for the community really is that board members receive sometimes daily Clips they call it from njsba then we get weekly updates and a variety of things so how I kind of pour through all of the information and I select things that I think would pertain to the
district or whatever it might be um trends that are happening right now and so forth so there's a few things that I pulled out one was related because we are in budget season right now and there was an article that was sent to us on March 17th about Murphy's budget relying
on uh nearly $2 billion in these kind of like oneshot Revenue sources so I'm not going to read the whole article I just outlined some key points since the community doesn't get get it it's just some level of in you know important information um just talking about how
they plan to spend more than state government will take in during the next fisc fiscal year meaning that revenue from short-term fiscal Maneuvers will cover nearly two billion dollar of budgeted annual expenditures um they also said that according to this new fiscal estimate NJ Spotlight news
obtained through a public records request roughly 3% of Murphy's overall 58 billion budget for the fiscal year begins July 1 would be backed by non-recurring Revenue sources commonly referred to as kind of like a One-Shot deal so what Mr caravello said before
about hey you're taking it once but next year you know it will look the same um that's kind of where I thought that this would fit here um this would also include taking nearly 1.5 billion from General budget reserves to cover annual spending in the next fiscal year
according to new estimates and another 250 million would also be transferred from the state dedicated debt relief Reserve to cover annual spending um and just a couple of other key points this year if lawmakers accept um Murphy's latest fiscal plan the
amount of state government spending backed by onot deals would actually decline on a year-over-year basis and that's because the current budget that Murphy and lawmakers enacted last year relied on non-recurring sources of revenue to back more than 7% of planned
annual spending and the last piece of that is spending on K through2 public school aid MH Transit and public worker pension obligations are among the many line items due to increase in the new fiscal year under this proposed budget uh under Murphy so I just wanted to
share it was sent to All board members and again we're in a budget talk so I thought that was important to share the other two things though that were important last meeting I brought up the 2025 Innovations in special education award program again I just want to say that that's part of special education
week in New Jersey and um it's again program started on on or after September 2024 will not be considered um and it began in 2002 and the Innovations program has drawn wide interest from the state special education community and in
2024 five entries received top honors and so entries must be received by 4:30 on March 21st so I just wanted to make sure that I pointed that out and the last piece is I know I sent this to Mr balone Mr Cohen and Mr hayatt um there's a showcase your talented students
Workshop 2025 so there's a annual Workshop that board members can attend in Atlantic City in October and they sent something out that you can showcase some of your top talented students and so we have a ton of talented students here and so Mr Blom was going to take it back and kind of have discussions with
um his team to see what can we Spotlight if if anything at all so I just want to share that um and I know you were looking into that so anyway th those are from njsba um from Marble Memorial thank you Mr Pacifico the drama club presents Mary
Poppins Jr another great show that's coming on March 27th at 600 March 28th at 7 and March 29th at 4:00 so the kids are super talented and we should all go out and see Mary Poppins Junior I will be there too um tickets are $10 at the
door the 8th grade music concert is on April 9th admission is free thank you to the PTA Ivonne and Fiona the PTA clothing Drive is April 26th from 8:30 to 12:00 we also take bikes just so you know um finished the Spring Book Fair
last week and have started to collect donations for teacher appreciation week as well just so you know the clothing drive also includes book drive so if you have any books you want to donate that's on April 26th as well here at Memorial thank you thank you Miss Mes uh it would
be great to showcase our our talented students here um Dr msco it's up to you now for scope and morl please thank you to Mr shatz for submitting this um the updates for
Morel on March 21st the PTO is sponsoring a dance for the girls it's called the butterfly dance they recently had a dance for the boys and that was called the heroes dance and they took their hero moms with
them on March 2 8 there's going to be an author day and author Elise broch will be presenting and visiting with our students the talent show event is currently being rescheduled and a new date and location will be uh determined and they'll send us the information
soon beginning April 1st we are bringing back our lunch with the loved one program in grade five our PTO is assisting in organizing lunch dates with approved family members to join their fifth grade graders during a a l School Lunch Period
via brick beginning April 1st we will bu begin our bua brick fundraiser to support the walk for Change and scope piglet visit that's Mr balone and I have that on our calendar to be held April 8th a deaf and blind puppy will be
visiting with our students it it will be tied to into disability awareness month we will work to use this visit to continue building empathy and acceptance of all differences within our Comm Community Walk For Change on April 11th
we will be holding our walk for change including stations where students will engage in empathy activities to build understanding and empathy for CH challenges some with special needs experience in their everyday lives and that leads me right
into special services and scope and um cpag on March 12th the special services committee convened with the leadership of scope and cpeg to discuss strategies for fostering unity and collaboration for the 2526 school year the meeting
focused on identifying key areas where the community seeks support including the development of additional parent academies and presentations that will be would be collectively supported and developed by all stakeholders involved thank you Mrs Tyrone for
organizing this it's really been helpful I think for both groups and for our committee as well thank you and then finally I have a uh report from scope April will will be filled with
engaging and educational activities leading up to our April 11th walk for change which is a celebration of inclusion kindness and diverse abilities within our schools students will have the opportunity to walk and donate change all funds go towards programs and
initiatives that support mtps special education teachers and service provider ERS as well as students and families to support inclusion initiatives across all schools each school also sets up activities to promote kindness and understanding of all abilities send
students in with cash or change on April 11th or visit our website to donate directly it's scop mar. PT board.com also we're excited to partner with special services to host the April 29th
circle of friends presentation featuring Ben hardcraft an aspiring inspiring autism Advocate Ben will share his journey and the profound impact of kindness and inclusion on his life this event will take place at marbor Memorial
Middle School before the board meeting and all families are encouraged to attend I would be remiss if I did not share how much fun the children and parents had it the bagel making fundraiser at Bagel Nook as the guests walk walked in they were given an apron
to design and and color the children of all ages rolled up their sleeves and began making their own Bagels from lumps of dough which were put into the oven and miraculously appeared moments later all ready to be smeared with the delicious cream cheese which the children had been whipping up together
complete with sprinkles and M&M's the children all left with bags of their own to share with family members ier one can attest to how absolutely yummy those delicious Bagels turned out thank you thank you Dr Miss whz can I add to
something to that really quickly because yes I was there at the scho as a board member and as a as a parent I wanted to support scope and I was there with both my kids and I literally I think there were like what 15 or 20 kids there and not one of them got up they all behaved they all stay but it was such a fun
event and you know as more things come out from scope I encourage board members as well as um Community to to um support that and you don't have to be a um you know in special you it's for it's open
to everybody so you know we had a great time we had a great great time thank you for sharing Miss bomo cpeg and defino please yeah so uh for cpeg thank you uh Andre and Robin for the report um cpeg had our most recent
parent meeting on Thursday February 27th thank you to all the parents who were able to attend and provide discussion points to bring to ceg's meeting with special services that will take place at the end of the month CPAC scope Board of educ Board of Education special education committee members and special
services met in a joint meeting on Wednesday March 12th the meeting was to discuss the roles of each organization and to work on ways to collaborate as needed it was a very productive meeting with many idea ideas shared by all the spring parenty have been scheduled by
special services March 21st will be about Ai and special education and May 28th will be the role Ro of the bcba and the FBA in school please see the March 11th email with additional information and all the virtual links for both cpeg
has some upcoming webinars posted on the Facebook page two of the webinars that parents and Guardians might be interested in are taking place on April 7th and April 9th a representative from the Ark of New Jersey will be hosting a webinar on April 7th regarding perform care and services through the state
multi cegs across the state including the marro cpeg are collaborating on a webinar are scheduled for April 9th at 6:30 p.m. about about self-care taking care of yourself as a caregiver the information related to the these webinars and events can be found on our Facebook page with information related
to them if you aren't a member of the cpag Facebook page this is where we provide additional resources for parents in between our regularly scheduled cpeg parent meetings um now for defino's report thank you to Nicole and Dr Stradic for
this report um for the month of March on March 12th we had author John Shu visit our school he talked to students about his love of different books and he really energized students and staff with his passion for reading the assemblies were interactive and engaging a big thank you to the
defino PTO for bringing Mr Shoe to our school read Across America week was the week of March 3rd through the 7th it was a great week filled with the with whole school and class read alouds reading buddies fun themed dress up days book swaps and even reading with a flashlight thank you to our librarian Mrs Atwood
for coordinating and planning a great week a cool project that took place in fifth grade involved writing letters to students favorite restaurants there are a number of restaurants who wrote back and some who Supply coupons or brought pizza for the class to enjoy As a treat what a great example of the impact you can make through writing our fifth
graders also had a night all about celebrating them at our fifth grade dance that took place on March 7th they love dancing the night away at their glow party thank you to our fifth grade committee for planning and organizing thank you to all those who supported the PTO gertude Hawk fundraiser we are so
excited to deliver the yummy chocolates to you all in the coming weeks for the month of April disability awareness month we will have different activities in a related arts program during the week of April 7th to 11th connected to disability awareness concluding with The
Walk For Change on April 11th science fair the PTO is excited to bring back the science fair this year we have over 45 students that will be creating their own projects and and presenting on their findings the evening of April 1st fundr run the PTO is most excited for our
largest fundraiser of the Year our third annual dolphin Dash we have a dream team of parent volunteers working with us to ensure that this event is the biggest most fun experience yet the goal for this year is to purchase and install a permanent coverage structure over the blacktop area where the tennis court was
to allow for shade during recess as well as outdoor outdoor classroom opportunities 2526 executive board we can't believe it but it's just about time for our nominating committee to convene and work on our Sate for the 25 26 school year details will be coming out early April but if you're interested
don't hesitate to email us now for more info thank you Miss Palomo um okay we are um up to Old business any old business seeing none any new business seeing none we are at the
second round of public comments Mr carabell yes I have no one signed up anybody like to speak please just come up to the mic and state your name and address please hi um Alo petruno Morgan Bill New Jersey so
I just wanted to um Circle back to the the budget um I understand that the budget was tentatively passed tonight like um you know like Vinnie said uh changes can
be made to it um I just want to make sure that the board because there's a lot of you that weren't here you know like some of you are just starting your terms and you know in the spring of 2023 when we had our tentative budget discussions there
there was coaching positions that were removed at that point with the same kind of scenario people weren't going to be let go they were going to be switched into different positions at that time we had seen a huge um spike in health and
uh benefit costs and it was explained you know that again these people were not going to be out of a job they're just going to be switching a position and um it was sounds very similar to what it sounds like you all heard leading up to tonight and it concerns me
a little bit because hearing the public comments from the first uh public comment like those are major changes and when it happened last time it was supposed to be a one-time thing but now we're doing it twice in two years and
that's a trend I you know at one point I appreciate many the the information that you give everyone I know it's spoton I'm concerned about the information that's coming to the board members about these positions and the impact they're going to have on the children let's not forget
that you know our schools are our schools being fantastic is one of the many reasons that people come to our town and want to live in our town and we got to keep them that way and taking care of the students in the classroom
with the proper support is Paramount that's number one right now the ad you know my opinion and I've stated it when I was on the board is that the admin Administration is topheavy if there's someplace that cuts need to be made I really think you guys need to take a
look at this and circle back you know we're talking about $25,000 in a$1 1035 million budget it's like 0.19% to keep these people in their positions so that we can get these kids
you know the level of education and assistance that they expect and deserve I really can't ask you guys you know I I I beg you guys to really think about this and rethink it because if I had heard what I heard tonight in 23 I
wouldn't have voted for that so that's it thank you thank you Mr patruno and um you know I I your sentiment about the the spring 2023 I know Miss Mendes is shared with us as well so I appreciate that it's something for me to and I know Miss
Carrero for us to learn about so I appreciate you you raising that anyone else want to come to the mic for a second round of public comments Mr poock I'm gonna s Adam Pollock St Lawrence way
um I'm going to send an email about this but there was you know those like special referendum elections that just happened in March in a for a bunch of townships and one Township that had a successful referendum was North Brunswick Township and their um
situation was almost exactly the same as ours where there was going to be no tax increase the problem was HVAC the problem was facilities they put a website up they put a whole like like social media campaign out there around what they were doing and um it passed 3
to one um I think like 1,800 people people voted for it only 500 people voted against it um and they the whole thing was we're not going to get you know like no taxes will not go up we'll be able to use the money from the state we'll save $1.5 million or whatever it
was like the exact same thing and they had a really good um communication plan about that so I'll send you guys the website and everything but it was uh seemed very well-run very successful exact same situation we should do something similar to what North pruns Township did thank you
thank you Mr mik um this is definitely on our mind and it's definitely important to us um for this referendum and the success of it and it's going to take a town to get this pass we're going to be looking for a lot of help to sort
of communicate this so that we can get this taken care of so thank you for sharing that anyone else for public comments how you doing Gary Brock uh the 205,000 that you're saving by eliminating the two math coach positions
is it safe to assume that's their salaries combined or is that what it would cost you to hire two new teachers to fill the spots that they're going to go into as far as the staff members that's first question um second thing is
we keep speaking about the children that are being affected um it's all the kids that are going to be affected first of all okay and there's no specific number but when you take two staff members out of a position that are treating certain
amount of kids and you dish them off to other staff members who already have a workload on them right they're not going to get the same service now I can't say that I want to be in your shoes I understand what cuts are all about all right um
but you cannot put the same service to a child when you're adding more and more child more and more children to staff members okay the time isn't there the time isn't there in a day the time isn't there in a school year all right so if you had one child who's getting specific
amount of time and you throw them to another staff member who's got x amount of kids those x amount of kids are now going to lose that amount of time because you're adding another child so to say that you know you've kind of made the move um you know that the kids are
going to get the same services I don't agree with that right and once again I wouldn't want to be sitting in your shoes and you know it's a difficult spot to be in so um that's what I'd like to add to it thank you thank you Mr Brock I appreciate your sharing those thoughts and sentiments
anyone else for public comment Miss far Miss Dono hi farab Bono NASA Drive Malboro I actually was here two years ago at the board meeting and spoke up and response to saving the positions of of the coaches and asked to try and get
flexible at that meeting considering what's going on in the culture of the world and the culture of the federal government cuts at all level we do know that this is going to be a continuous problem for our school district let alone all of our neighboring school
districts so I understand that that number doesn't get released to us until February 27th the at the very last moment but I do think that maybe moving forward we could be a little bit more creative with having alternative plans
and we could explore those plans before the last minute because this is not ideal as a parent of a child who did receive coaching Services when my students went through Dugan and maloro middle in addition to being a parent I
think well I've been at the Early Learning Center when they call buses and they ask the children to line up for the rabbit bus or the or the cow or the duck I don't even remember but they are all you go to Robertsville and they're all numbers and it's a complete and at the
Early Learning Center the children walk down I believe like the middle of the hall like at Robertsville you have to line up you have to have silent hallways there are we expect our older students to model that behavior for our younger students and therefore it's there's a
whole component that needs to be explored in a addition to the services we have to talk about the social emotional growth and the differences of what happens the peer Buddies the interactions the modeling of behavior
so understanding our financial troubles and hopefully getting a referendum passed but moving forward we like I said earlier and asked earlier to consider redistricting so that all students of a building could be in the same building
together and have the same opportunity that's that's equal and fair for everyone as far as academic growth and social growth and just be a little bit creative in the way we explore our options thank you thank you Miss
Bono Miss Brock thank [Music] you so this whole entire time I did weet with Mr balone Miss gross this morning he has used adjectives like wild
wild wildly effective so in my opinion I do feel like my value in this position is not being questioned but I'm not sure if there was
a different way to touch point with me or communicate ation but on last Tuesday I had a session at Dugan I run over to the ELC to get to an IRS meeting
I open up my computer and I'm informed be prepared to meet with Mr balone my principal and Mrs gross at 12:00 noon had no idea what it meant
shaking stomach dropping holding it together meeting with those parents virtually in person telling them I'm going to meet with your kid three four times a week I'm going to do everything I can to fill in those gaps
so that in first grade those coaches don't have these kids I had to sit there get it together and think to myself this is never going to be the same in my head I had no idea if my position
was being eliminated what their plan was and then to go on with the rest of my day so if I could be the professional how was that professional there there has to be a
different why like um sorry Mr Mr Patron comes up here and says we're topheavy I do not want to throw any other position under the bus but to
think of these little kids that we know nothing about you keep talking about numbers I can produce them I have them right there I travel with a cart school to school with all my materials I don't even ask for a
classroom I'm in the h always I'm in cafeterias every minute of my day some days I don't even get a prep I don't feel valued because it wasn't even a conversation on the table it was a blind
side and then to sit there with my colleagues I have a math coach the team that is amazing and know that what they do works too RTI is a
process that's supposed to be fluid kids are supposed to go to tier 2 into tier three we can't say that those numbers are going to stay the same they shouldn't be staying the same it's a system that's broken if they're not meeting their goals in a specific amount
of time they go to the next level we meet again at irns they go to trial study team sometimes trial study team says that it's not warranted so we continue to take those Kids the first thing they say is take these kids more
often they need more intensive interventions then when that happens and if no progress gets made child study team it's warranted now it takes 20 days to meet with parents and then 60 more
days to finish an evaluation and sometimes there's no discrepancy those kids will not have an but in that process guess who's doing the job again we don't get rid of those kids so there's so much more to
this I don't I can list all my responsibilities but the factor is I was up here when kindergarten assistants were being basically eliminated I fought for
them now they're only there half time look what's happening again it's just always going to be the students that are affected and there's got to be a different way please I'm begging you
to go back to the drawing board and I will go back to saying I'm not fighting for my position I don't even care if I'm not standing in here it's this needs to be here for the kids it's things are going to be
sacrificed student achievement is not going to be where it is I asked before Middle School coaches are not there how are they supporting RTI what's going on in our middle schools and there's only so many minutes
in a day for a schedule and everything else that it entails I can give you the numbers I've done the all I put this together in a week not even and I just don't think that this is
the solution I think this is going to be a really big [Music] [Applause] mistake thank you Miss Brock um I I know we we all have we we all
feel the emotion of your of your your feel of your sentiments and you know again as I said earlier um you bring an awareness to all of us that um I appreciate and I know the rest of the board members appreciate and getting that perspective
it's it's it's very helpful for us in our in the work that we do and why we're here so thank you for sharing that and um and for making it very clear to all of us that it's about the kids so thank
you anyone else for public comments motion to close public comments Miss gandia second Miss Carrero all in favor anyone
opposed comments or public comments is closed next item on our agenda is an executive session um I've been informed by our um board Council for the evening that there AR no matters of attorney client privilege um for us to go into executive
session um is there any member of the board that has other than Safety and Security Safety and Security um you're the chair of the committee um okay then we will go into executive
session so motion to go into executive session miss Gandhi second M Carrero all in favor I we will be going into executive session now and uh we will not be coming back out for any public action so thank you everyone for
being here this evening and for um sharing your your comments