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for you got give us some pointer ch El on long e good evening folks welcome to the March 25th Board of
Education meeting let's stand for the flag salute please plge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God
indivisible Li Justice for All M Taylor notice of the meeting please St to indate comp with the open meetings known as 231 of the public laws of New Jersey 1975 which became
effective 90 days after enactment January 19th 1976 notice of this meeting was given by providing the location date and time of this meeting and posting of the same on the front door of the Board of Education offices by delivering copies to the
bureau Hall and the matachin public library the home news and Tribune and by filing a copy with the burough clerk as prescribed by this law thank you roll call please Mr bot here miss cheum here Mr derflinger here
Mr glasberg here Dr Johnson Marcus here Miss Colleen here Mr lton here miss shra here Dr spner here Mr sus here thank you Dr Caputo we have some awesome Showcases of success today we do we have teachers
and then students and then Champions we'll start with our new teachers and we really want to thank those new teachers for making an effort to come out tonight recently we um we hired some teachers for next year uh we'll honor them in a second but first we have a teacher that started in January we want to welcome Gina Kish and we'll invite you to the
microphone Gina you can say two words or tell the board a little about yourself he Ina that's nice welcome well first of all thank you so much for having us here tonight um it's truly such an amazing experience to now give back to the community that I grew
up in and teach in the district that I went to um so thank you again for your continued support and I appreciate everything you do and you're off to a good start G so far so all right wonderful thank [Applause] you the next three teachers I'll
introduce Are all uh folks the board hired for our full day kindergarten program next year so we're very excited so first up is em Emily almea Emily has a cheering Squad good evening and thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to show my
appreciation to you Dr Caputo Dr Herzog and Mr harier and all the members of our Board of Ed my name is Emily Almeida and I'll be a special ed kindergarten teacher at Moss I'm over the Moon excited and extremely proud to start my career in the same building my family
and I attending kindergarten this is truly a full circle experience for me and as part of of our Special Education team I look forward to building lifelong relationships with fellow District colleagues Mrs bonaca Mrs Lewis and Mrs asperis but even more so our youngest
Learners as we embark on this journey in the most loving environment any child would be lucky to spend their full day wonderful thank you I love you did there at the end little reminder that was perfect next we have Ryan
[Applause] Crum hi everyone my name is Ryan Crum and I'll admit I like to have things planned out so much that I even wrote this introduction down because winging it is just not my style um becoming a teacher has always been my dream and I made it a goal to find a community where
I could truly Thrive from the moment I stepped into matachin I the kindness and positivity that makes this place so special it already feels like a home and I'm beyond excited to grow here and be a part of such an amazing atmosphere thank you so much thank you happy to have
you and lastly we have Jessica serenti thank you for being here Jessica hi so my name is Jessica serenti I am currently a kindergarten teacher down in Jackson um I've been a kindergarten teacher for 5 years years now I absolutely love it I feel like those little ones always will have a
special place in my heart um I'm very grateful to start my new journey in matachin in kindergarten where I feel so at home um I did not grow up in matachin however I have heard a lot of great things about not only the school
district but the town in general and the community so I am very grateful to become a part of it soon thank you wonderful welcome so uh Dr Johnson Marcus we'll continue to um fill out our staff for next year obviously with the the second question
from the the referendum a few years ago um enables us to staff our full day kindergarten program for next year and we're um Miss asperis and her team are are wrapping up that right now we'll have a few more recommendations um for the board and the next meeting probably
wonderful thank you so can move on to the student Advisory Board absolutely so everyone knows I have a student Advisory Board um for the last I guess eight or nine years now uh we meet monthly Mr Taylor thank you for your work um coordinating that
and meeting tomorrow we're excited we have the chief and the mayor coming to our uh student Advisory board but three times a year twice for updates like this and then once for a presentation that the students give we invite the um the student Advisory board members who span grades 3 to 12 to a board meeting um
sometimes these nights are difficult but we're really excited that we're expected to have I think five folks here here I'm looking I think we have so I'm going to invite you up um if I missed anybody just let me know Miss Taylor um so I'm going to invite all of you up to the microphone um we have uh Libby Kim
Steven Jacobson isan bateria Alex hermans and Danny gallagan so four looks like oh good we're all here I see Libby there a very nice so um Danny maybe you just want to like start us off today and then maybe the board or I can fun some
questions that maybe you guys can you know talk about hi I'm Danny gallagan I'm a senior here at uh matachin and the student Advisory Board is pretty much a team that meets once a month and we're able to give feedback to Dr Caputo he's able to ask us questions and he's able to give us
feedback ask us questions we're able to ask him questions it's it's just a great team to make sure that the school is overall a better functioning place and we also have the opportunity to have a variety of special guests that come to every meeting nice wonderful
isan Steve did someone want yeah or if you want to say something step up if not then I'll just ask you some questions maybe the board might have some as well okay Stephen yeah or you Sean so basically the student Advisory Board is a team that will work to make
the schools better even if it's a minor problem to a big problem in the school the student Advisory Board was made to kind of help all the schools through from Campbell through the high school
and make sure that our schools are safe and good places to learn thank you Stephen excellent awesome um I think they summarized it pretty well but I just wanted to like uh you guys all know me but I'm isan
badari thanks isan isan's been a longtime member I remember yeah as number of these folks have I was trying really hard to restrain myself from commenting on the fact that it's a delight to watch you all grow up in these roles but you know I couldn't help it sorry it is a delight to watch yall as you grow in these
roles Alex um hi my hi sorry hi my name is Alex hermans I'm in sixth grade I'm really proud I get to be in the student advisory one of my favorite things to
talk about is um the construction and I love going on those bus tours um and see seeing how it progresses yeah yeah it's fun we have another one coming up at the end of the uh may I think we have our another one and there'll be a lot of
progress for you guys to check out at our next tour cool wonderful thanks Alex Libby welcome you're good it's okay okay it's fine you want to say something Libby just give us a wave there you go thanks
for coming so um Dr Johnson Marcus maybe the board members might have questions for the student board members uh Mr glasberg hello everyone I just wanted to know what are some of the main topics that are of uh concern to you anything that that we should know because we we
don't get the opportunity to talk to you uh directly or to even you know walk through the schools unless we're escorted around so what what sorts of things are on your mind that that you do talk about I definitely think the main topic that we've covered over the last two years is the referendum and all the
construction that's been going around I mean constant updates and suggestions and if we're ahead behind on something including the bus tours where we're able to go see everything that's definitely the biggest one that we've covered and one that's really caught my attention was about AI that we just had a couple
months ago and I think we had a great discussion that covered the benefits but also the negatives of AI and like how teachers can use it to their benefits how student students can use it to their benefits but what the limit is on that awesome what do you most looking forward to from the uh
construction um I mean I'm not going to have the privilege of a lot of it but definitely coming back to some basketball games and seeing the new gym that'll definitely be my favorite part thank you ni can I just say something go ahead I just want to commend you because typically this room is empty and it's
already hard enough for you to come up and talk to us a bunch of strangers staring at you but you all feel like student leaders I just want to put that out there and and you are you come up to the mic with confidence with excitement and I think that's just a Telltale sign
of Future Leaders so well done and great bravery speaking to a bunch of strangers and keep up the great work anyone else has comments or questions for our student Advisory board so we always ask three questions uh Dr Johnson Marcus we ask what's
working well and the students tell us what's working well what's not working that we could fix and sometimes there are immediate fixes and we can report back next month hey based on your suggestion we change things and sometimes they're larger things it may require us to have more conversation and I always ask who's doing great and they
give shout outs to staff teachers coaches of that they think or their friends think because they speak for their friends as well their classmates who's just doing great in the district and it's great that I'm able to then share those shoutouts anonymously with those teachers and um you know I think that means a lot so we really appreciate
all your work tomorrow another big day again with the chief and with the mayor and U Miss Taylor I know you've collected a lot of good questions I shared those so that our guests are ready and and I'm I really looking forward tomorrow's meeting as well thank you and thank you all for your service in this role it's important for us to be
able to hear from students what is foremost in your mind so thank you all job you guys we'll see you tomorrow thanks guys thank you next up we have our Champions yes madame uh president winter sports champions tonight very excited we have a
huge crowd tonight we have four teams being honored and we have a number of individual champions in track and swim um to also honor so I'll invite Mr Cathcart up and it'll set the proceedings for us first as usual I'd like to thank you for having us here and for honoring our
athletes this is a a great privilege for them and I think they appreciate being here and uh standing in front of the board and accepting the accolades that we we uh provide for them one of the things I would like to talk about tonight before I actually get started is
the fact that you're going to see a great group of athletes come up on stage say we have great kids uh and I know you guys know that but one of the major things that you're going to see is probably just about everybody that will walk on stage tonight is on the honor rooll so not only do they do this on the
court in the pool on the track wherever they happen to have their their sport these kids do it in the classroom and they do it in their sport so it's a great honor for all of them and and it's easy and fun to work with them so what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask
coach hollerin okay to come up to the microphone we're going to have our girls track team first they're going to come up on stage as we cut through the the aisle there and Coach Hollin if you will come to the mic Miss kathar is m m Hollin coach Hollin comes to the uh
microphone we do have souvenir um agendas on the side so those you know parents or friends pick up souvenir agendas you can see your your athletes names listed on there always great to see you coach welcome back thank you thanks for having
us yeah okay all right uh thank you for having us tonight we're uh very honored to be here for you to recognize the tremendous season that our girls winter track team had uh we'll honor them as for the team titles that they won and
then some individual titles as well uh we had a tremendous group this year I'm extremely proud of them um a lot of them stepped into new roles and uh really filled some big shoes and did some great things I'm very proud of them and I'm
also very grateful for them to be here tonight yeah um when I say your name girls step forward so all of our girls up here tonight are our Varsity letter winners and I'll start with with uh Jordy Woods
step forward Jordie thank you Taylor [Applause] [Music] zeneto Caitlyn [Applause] shre Luc
youngo uh Carol Johnson fish is not here tonight tonight but she's a senior been a big part of our program and she's uh earning her varsity letter again this this year um I'll move on to now uh our all division athletes these girls were
named to our all division team uh we have girls that were on both all conference and all division but these are our all div all division winners um so step forward when I say your name please Liv Barry [Applause]
uh not here tonight is Sophia De La Cruz Lola Petro she had a great season in pval um Julia Kelly is not here tonight she had a great season in the hurdle specifically but she's been
[Applause] sick Sarah [Music] hman Sarah step forward again please Sarah is also our sectional champion in the 55 meter hurdles great job um the next athletes
will be our all conference and all division um athletes um along with some individual championships that I will tell you about um step forward when I say your name kadia ba Kad had a great season hurdling and
on our 4x4 um Sabrina pandel Sabrina played a big role in our 4 by8 this season uh stepped into 4x4s if we need it and did a great job individually in the 800 as
well okay McKenna Bruns McKenna is all division all conference and she's also on the GMC uh 4x4 Champion team good job [Applause]
McKenna okay moving on uh Rose [Applause] surgeon Rose had a tremendous season she's uh all conference all GMC uh all division she's also on our GMC Championship 4x4 she's also the
individual section sectional champion in the 400 tremendous [Applause] [Music] season Ella Anderson Ellis Ella is All Conference all division she's on our GMC Championship 4x4 she's also the GMC 800
meter champion [Applause] Sally [Applause] [Music] Kelton Sally just continued her breakout senior year so proud of her she's all conference all division she's the GMC
champion in the 3200 she's also the sectional champion in the 3200 Gian Hernandez [Applause] Gian had yet again a great season she's all conference all division she's on our GMC Championship 4x4 she's also the GMC
Champion individually in the 1600 and she's the sectional champion in the 1600 and the 800 um did I say Ella Ella Regan I'm sorry Ella step forward [Applause] Ella Ella Ella had a great season she's
all Division and she's also our sectional champion in the high jump yeah um as a team uh our team is the sectional Champions third year in a row they're the blue division relay Champions the blue division Champions uh
absolutely tremendous season I want to make sure I didn't leave anybody out I'm looking at you did I girls okay so thank you for honoring our girls I'm extremely proud like I said there is special group and we're looking forward to a great spring season thanks for having us coach
we're really excited also I don't want to take the Applause away but you said something earlier about you're proud that they're here tonight and that goes for everybody we know it's you know it's a busy school night but it never gets old uh and allowing the public and the board to honor the Champions means a lot so thank you ladies and all the Champions that are here tonight yeah
thank you thank [Applause] you the best part of this is most of these guys you've seen before you've seen them either in the fall you've seen them now and you'll probably see them again in the spring so uh it's a a very
successful uh winter season and just as successful as our fall season hopefully our spring season uh does the same just so you understand there are approximately 200 athletes to take place or uh take part in our winter sports uh not including the teams that are not
here but all those are the same of kids as these all involved in multiple Sports multiple activities and again most of them are on the honor rooll uh tonight I'm going to bring up coach demo and The Boys winner track team so
guys we go all right so this is the uh boys winter track team or indoor track team who was uh blue blue division relay Champions and Central Jersey group one champions for the third year in a
row and uh both coach holler and I were very pleased and this was kind of like a we didn't know if this one was going to happen we lost a lot of seniors last year so this this team right here really fought for that third in a
row um I'm going to start calling and uh as I call their name I'll say some of their accomplishments um Hunter alinger who was also um sectional champion in the 4x4
relay and also uh blue division all blue division tar Alison Brady Allen Brady Allen was all blue division miles
Bourne Savon kamano who is not here was all blue Division and part of the sectional Champion 4x4 team nir chaplain you can step forward to see her uh Nick
Davis Kai anger there we thank you for bringing this F Kai was all blue division in the 3200 Dylan fricking for the person Asher greenall Lucas [Applause]
konky art crin [Applause] art resolve blue division Jaden [Music] Medina Tyler Nicholson Tristan
[Applause] AOA leis Peron David rias C Casper rosala Casper was part sorry Casper was part of that 4x4 team and is also all
blue division all right this one's going to be a little bit Eric schli Eric schli was GMC champion in the 800 sectional champion in the 800 and 1600 Group One champion in the
1600 part of the 4x4 team that was sectional Champions and also broke two school records in the 8600 all right that Cheyenne [Applause]
tery isan Lucas Valera [Applause] Mark [Applause] vak James
velli and Alan [Applause] Zang that's that's the uh boys indoor track team nice all right I feel like we owe them a bigger round of applause some of them at the beginning didn't get their class
coach thanks for being here tonight congratulations to you guys thank you thank you as you're going to see in a moment uh when I bring coach gluts up uh when I talked earlier before about our athletes being involved in multiple Sports you're going to see that most of our team is
not here mainly because they're either playing basketball tonight playing soccer or involved in some other sport so I'll bring coach glutz up and I'm going to ask Julia to come up and stand next to her so she doesn't feel alone on stage thank you for inviting the girls
basketball team here tonight and recognizing uh our blue division championship and I would I would like to congratulate all of the other student athletes on their championships because it's a job well done to be able to balance academics Athletics and
co-curricular and it's a credit to all the kids that they're able to do that and do it well uh the girls basketball team had a a very successful year this year we finished 21 and five which is the fourth best record in the 52 years
of matachin high school girls basketball Wonder [Music] excited we were very excited so in addition to that blue Division champion co-champion ship with Carter red high school we were able to put together uh a
very successful season I had uh a group of 11 players Julia is our representative tonight she's representing the other 10 uh our team included four seniors Caitlyn Connor a two-time all blue division player who
was playing tonight in the GMC allstar game uh Josie gray who was all blue second team as a junior Ava barish also a senior and Leah honig they were our
four seniors we had uh three Juniors on our Squad Lucy Pila who was a second Team all blue division player uh Vicky zeni who was a first team uh all blue division player two years in a row uh
she was our leading scorer and is on track to become our next thousand Point scorer next season and Grace Van Luan who's also uh a junior uh on our Squad our Squad also consisted of four
sophomores sophomore Julia armor who's with us tonight Julia gave up her basketball practice to be here the others went to practice um we do encourage our kids to play multiple Sports uh our other
sophomores include Charlotte Murphy Sammy Powers who is a second Team all blue division player and uh CLA polakowski so we're losing some seniors we have a good Core Group back and we're hoping uh to make another run next year
so thank you very much for including us this evening congratulations coach thank you coach [Applause] okay next up will be our white Division champion girls swim team so if they'll
come to the front and Coach Thomas if you'll come to the microphone there was a time I didn't need these glasses but that was many years ago when I had Brian in class Mr doringer in class all these guys so Brian playing any tennis or pickle ball sir pickle
ball okay all right so I've been here a long time since 1979 I know Mr su's two daughters smart as anything and very well I probably some know everyone else here here okay appreci a lot of people so uh it's been a great career I'm still
going hopefully I'll keep going a little longer if you want me uh the best thing about our team this year is we had some individual winners in division and stuff but probably the bigger thing is we kind of came together with had a great freshman core come in and we able to win
the warlord relay okay we're able to win the white division undefeated but probably the most impre most impressive win or second place was the GMC uh Division and know Callie told me her dad
predicted we'd take second uh and we did but we're going against the Big Boys South bronze East bronz all the ones have like a thousand we have like 12 kids on our team and they have like 40 you know and two individual Champions uh Gina and her sister Janice are not here tonight because they're practicing for a
national meet uh down in Florida at their y teams in Scotch PLS so they're not here but they added a lot but it wasn't just them if the girls up did not do their job it wouldn't happen so it was a combination of every single person I'll go through each name real quick
maybe you can hold the Applause so we keep it rolling and then at the end we give one big loud of Applause I'll make a comment about each girl Ashley Chen just step forward just so you know who you are Ashley is a great person to have in the pool she's a good backstroker freestyler 50 free mostly will do
anything I ask even though sometimes she gives me the look so thank you asy like right now right Izzy Izzy where's Izzy step forward Izzy there she is butterflier I probably punish her and doing 100 butterfly that's four laps all the time 200 I that's eight laps two of
each stroke and that those are grueling events and she just did it I think the best thing we have is I always tell them what about the team it's not about you it's about the team and how can we win a meat with all you girls contributing without being greedy or selfish or
anything I'm going for the win every single time and I'm going to put you in the best position so we and try to win that's always the goal good job Izzy cie that's right you didn't clap it once cie step forward cie tremendous came in
freshman year now she's a junior 2500 should do anything the last meet in the state meet we won the first round we lost the second round but she was dead sick the second round if her mom didn't tell me I would have never known uh her performance was still very good not what she wanted but she hung in there and
helped us out and I appreciate that Kelly thanks a lot we get another year out of her okay Abby Hogan where's Abby there she is backstroker senior hate to lose Abby if anyone forgets how to do a set you have to go on a certain time interval I just turn to Abby because the
boys will lie and uh I say Abby what set are we on we're on number three Mr Thomas and we go on I cannot trust the boys okay okay but Abby's great okay uh her sister Emma where's Emma is stop forward Emma that's right okay Emma it's
okay uh good backstroke I forgot her sister's the best Strokers do and Abby would do anything Emma did the 500 which she probably didn't like me for but she did very well contributed in the the GMC meet which kind of got us over the edge we only won by a few points so em I thank you I tease you a lot you're a lot
of fun I don't know if you like it but you're fun to have around and uh you'll just slide into your sister swimming some of those positions Emma Hogan Marabella where's Marabella she improved as much as anyone or the most on the team in her breaststroke and 50 freestyle
this kid came in I'm being honest Marabella you were okay you finish it much much better and I expect even more and more all your friends up there are helping you become better and I love your attitude especially with the technique of throwing caps on someone's head that's a very interesting technique that's when you put water in the cap and
you drop it down it sticks on someone head inside out she's very good at that so Marabella thanks for a good year Emily where's my rock Emily senior definitely going to miss Emily a lot always there always helping I see her in class so she sees me too much but Emily
it's going to be weird without you next year okay she would do breaststroke back show anything I wanted to at I am I know she hated it but she got points for the team and she knows what it's about she knows the score and she knows what I'm trying to do and it's never to pick on anyone it's what we got uh miror where's
meor a butterflyer 100 butterfly 50 fly in the relay she can do freestyle I want to keep expanding You She's Got Talent and we just got to keep believing in yourself cuz you are a good athlete keep up the swimming mirror good job Eloise
Eloise are probably tortured in the 2500 so I promise her next year that I'll put over and backstroke a little bit see where that goes a little bit she kind maybe did one one more race too much with her and we kind of talked about that and sometimes as a coach sometime you extend yourself too far but she did
very very well overall and I'm very pleased with her nice Elizabeth where's Elizabeth step four Elizabeth great kid oh my goodness she's freshman terrific job in uh in the races all year long I can move her around with Gina and
her sister Janice and usually get a first almost all the time and I can move her interchangeably and there's eight individual events so I have to move like three or four studs and kind of move the other ones around to make it work right and uh Elizabeth could fill in in any spot so thank you Elizabeth great job in
this GMC's as well Chelsea where's Chelsea mostly 100 breast stroker 50 free 100 free always a smile sometime I have to yell her to get her cap on time but uh she's a pleasure to have I know her in tennis she's a very good tennis player and I'm so glad she took another
season with me so thanks Chelsea for tolerating me another season uh the next two aren't here John V and Reva beginners stayed with the program couldn't even swim now they can swim so that's a good thing okay uh Paxon a senior we're going to miss her
great contributor the last two Gina and her sister Janice were big scores in the pirate meet which I forgot to mention we took third place which is really unheard of when you're going against West wer South Westfield BigTime schools so we did excellent there that was the first
time we ever scored in the top three so the girls did great and I appreciate a fun year uh each year when I think it's going to get tough it just gets better so girls thanks for fun it is fun working with you and uh thanks for all the people up here and you guys out here
hanging with us and uh I hope to see you again soon great congratulations conratulations ladies thank you [Applause] congrats part of the best uh of this job is the fact that you're working with so many great kids that as
Mr Thomas said uh teamwork is the priority there are a lot of individual accolades that went out but it's all about the team and I think that's what makes these kids so successful not only in school but they will in life too so it's been great that the board of
education has supported us all along here with all the teams that we have and we appreciate that greatly and congratulations to all of our athletes thank [Music] you Madame President in addition to the thanks coach
in addition to the souvenir uh programs that we have in the front left each student athlete receives a sign certificate acknowledging their Championship tonight wonderful it is fantastic and delightful to be able to honor all of you student athletes and I always appreciate when Mr cgar points
out that you're also many of you on the honor R so it's quite the feat to be able to balance your activities across the board so we recognize that it is late and because you do have to balance all these activities we will not be super offended if you leave you take a
few minutes to gather your things if you want to stay that's perfectly fine as well uh because we will open to the public shortly but if you want to grab your souvenir uh agenda um and get on to your other homework and whatnot we will understand thank you so much for coming
out that's crazy if you count the 3.5 there's like 30 or something like that it's like over 110 over 3.5 I probably knew this but I didn't realize we can't do it
turkey I change it to 4.5 they were still g000 is this year I know I know I just I know $3,000 coach all
right okay all right um at this time the meeting is open to the public all just hang it out you good all right Dr kubu do we have any other presentations that's it for tonight all
right um and at this time we move to reports this president has no report tonight do you no additional report for me wonderful all right now we turn to our committee reports and we will start down on the left with no my left no the
left of the screen okay with Mr bot from equity excellent um I do want to say thanks to all the athletes as well uh I think evidence of my lack of exercise with the amount of clapping we did it activated
my the workout app on my watch so I got like eight minutes of credit for exercise today so thank you uh I appreciate that uh Equity committee met um on the 18th and a few things met with the district collaborative committee uh received an update and I think it was
great to see everything in such beautiful syn uh a lot of attention paid to thinking about how we acknowledge observances holiday celebrations and not only how do we support our students but there was a great discussion about how we support our our uh Administration and
staff supporting our students uh so that was uh excellent also focus on uh some Learning and Development opportunities synchronizing with the njaa uh on some training and and L&D which I thought was incredibly healthy and again uh just beautifully in sync uh some great work
on the comprehensive Equity plan uh updates in sync required by the state of New Jersey uh being happen uh being taken care of by our Administration uh and I want to uh shout out also for a great update uh provided by uh Dr Caputo
uh and Dr Herzog on our hiring process and we are lucky enough to have Miss Taylor here uh who has really elevated uh and established best practices with respect to uh how we uh make ourselves available how we extend ourselves how we
open our aperture of getting in more candidates all the way through how we serve candidates in the process honoring uh sort of state requirements around truly the true definition of equity and inclusion uh in all contexts so real shout out and congratulations and thank
you uh to Miss Taylor who we're lucky to have here uh today uh we will be meeting again on April 22nd and we want to as a Next Step an agenda item is also talking about how we engage with the community more broadly to see how we can invite
work being done by the burrow into our schools in a way that's mutually beneficial thank you Mr bot a question that's what I thought yeah okay just had a moment apologies all right next up Mr glassberg
Construction Construction met last night um we discussed uh F day kindergarten on track for Moss school um for the beginning part of the school year Campbell school cafeteria on track for substantial completion of the cafeteria
for the start of school uh Edgar um which at the last meeting we had talked about being a little bit off track is now back on track um we're just going to you know keep being as transparent as we can with the updates that we have but as of now that's back on track for
completion in the summer prior to the start of school and the high school the new classrooms and new gym Wing that's for December 15th uh cafeteria should be completed by May 1st the cafeteria Edition um the
HVAC is expected to be complet around the start of the school year um there's that's coming and going in different directions uh so we continue to monitor that uh there was a meeting with the bonding company our Administration construction company and our um our our
contractors and they re they walk the different sites and uh epic uh which is the contractor for moss and for Edgar uh they had a change in their project manager um and epic was able to confirm U some of the deadlines that that were
in the contract um in front of the bonding company which is a good sign uh the we discussed the planning for the opening of schools even when construction does end or when it's substantially completed there will still be some finishing touches that take
place during the course of the school year um so the district and the board will need some Grace as we transition uh into the finished buildings you know things um like if you've done construction at your house I remember when we were substantially completed we moved back in and you know there was a
light switch that didn't work um or a little bit of extra painting that needed to take place so there there will still be some things going on uh even after we start the school year in the places that are substantially completed we we discussed the uh MHS scoreboard for the
the new jym Fieldhouse and the different options there as well as um the different brands and types of of boards available to us we discussed where the school board uh offices will go until the new construction is completed so the
um School Board offices are going into the second floor of the high school edition when that part is completed until then it will go into the touch and high school cafeteria Edition um so the
we discussed the pros and cons of using different spaces in our district um we did talk about uh Campbell school um but based upon the fact that Campbell school has one gym cafeteria combination um they have just as many students as the
high school has uh we the board and the administration feel as though the high school uh cafeteria Edition is the better place uh for that to take place um you know we the board we do appreciate the administration's
willingness to be extremely flexible in terms of where they go it's not going to be the best environment for them but they're making that work so that we can uh focus on the overall project getting everything done um and we also didn't want to incur the additional expenses of
renting office space around town which would have cost uh tens of thousands or or more uh dollars so we're able to make use in our building although it's not super convenient it is better for the overall project uh we discussed the
furniture uh budget within the construction plans and all the initial quotes came in within the budget which is a good sign and we had some early stage planning for uh celebrations that will take place at each of the schools when construction is completed or
substantially completed at each building our next meeting is April 21th 1 that meeting is open to the public at 700 p.m. matachin High School library that's the next construction meeting thank you thank you Mr glassberg Mr derflinger
curriculum thank you curriculum met on Tuesday uh March 18th uh we started with Dr hazo providing an update on some recent supervisor change changes um Lindsay Omar is joining the administrative team um as a teacher from
Campbell so that transition is taking place as she takes over for Christina Borman so the transition's smooth um and thank you to um Dr Herzog and Dr Caputo for that smooth transition speaking of community collaboration the the burough of matachin has welcomed the
school district's involvement in the matachin is America celebration particularly in the areas of curriculum and instruction so the town is um kind of participating in some activities and featured projects which include a group of high school students visiting
Campbell Elementary to share their vision of the future um the high school students read allow to to our first grade classrooms and created projects showcasing their concept of future America very cool um video clips were also captured High highlighting these
projects and and the community's involvement we then heard from Dr Herzog Who provided a report on standardized assessments access testing which is the multilingual learner assessment has been completed and the NJ GPA assessment for
11th grade grade have also been completed the district is currently working on its comprehensive Equity plan um which by law we have to keep updated a committee led by um principal parasi at the high school has been assembled to accomplish this
task uh we then discussed um the New Jersey school climate Improvement survey that each School in the district will participate in um we also talked about the school transition programs over the summer for students that are moving from one
building to another for example from Campbell to Edgar um The District offers free school transition programs and they will be continued this summer and will be facilitated um in partnership with Rucker University uh next we are going to be
hosting some training by the Magnolia group Consultants um on Beyond academic strengthening Student Success Through New Jersey tiered systems of support so for designated staff members they're going to really be auditing the district's intervention and referral
services um and this is this is part of some extensive work that the district is doing actually coach Thomas from the swim team was on the committee that is recommending an adoption of a new textbook for AP Statistics at the high
school uh we discussed the cost of that and some of the specifics of that and finally last report I shared with you all that we've reached a state mandated threshold of 20 Spanish-speaking multilingual Learners um and the state
requires once you've reach that threshold of 20 to either incorporate and Implement a bilingual education program or apply for a waiver so our district applied for the waiver that waiver was submitted and was approved um
so the details of that approved uh waiver were reviewed in the committee and our next meeting is April 22nd thank you Dr Johnson Marcus need to correct really quickly um I said April 21st was our next meeting that's open to the
public it's April 28th at 7.m I was going to thank you for that clarification because you did say two different dates within it and I was like let me look that up when I have a second April 20th I'm glad you caught it thank you Mr glasberg thank you all right wonderful uh M Ken extracurricular yeah
extracurricular met last night um quick went through a bunch of things uh first we reviewed the winter sports champions that were recognized tonight and uh had a nice discussion there and then also previewed our spring Sports so we reviewed the numbers there the coaches the classifications that each uh team
will be grouping for each each team um and um went went into the details for each sport uh we discussed the three advisers that are on the volunteer advisers they on the agenda for tonight uh to help out with the Edgar robotics team um and then
we had a conversation about um outfitting the uh Fieldhouse with the score with a new scoreboard um talked about the one that was recommended by um Eminem we're getting feedback that it may not be the the best possible
solution for a scoreboard so we the committee was recommending pursuing um a scoreboard was a little bit more expensive but had a much better feedback and a better chance of being able to be serviced by companies uh if we do run into problems and so uh Dr kaputo also
looking into pursuing corporate sponsors um for even more extravagant um video scoreboards but but right now the the committee was looking at the mid-range board for purchase um also on the agenda
tonight something that was not part of our uh committee discussion for approval is a um lacrosse Co-op that just came across our email today so if anybody has any questions about that we we did not discuss that in committee though but uh
so it'll be fine to put on the agenda just given the timing of everything and our next meeting is the 28th thank you Miss Ken uh Dr spner policy did not meet correct uh we didn't meet real time but we had an electronic discussion on three items that was left
over from the last uh uh slew of policy changes so we sort of had shared that in the changes that the administration recommended and we sort of agreed and aligned on that thank you wonderful when is the next meeting oh sorry the next meeting is April 22nd and we have those items that
we had the discussion on of electronic communications on on the agenda tonight for for reading approval wonderful thank you Dr spner Mr us Finance yes Finance met last night uh we discussed um what the impact of Federal
Aid Cuts if all federal aid got cut to the school district for those of you keeping scor at home it's not a large part of our budget but it would have an impact uh we talked about um just you know some of the uh end of year uh budgetary items like if there's a little
extra money what would we spend it on you know Etc we talked Mr Harvey's favorite topic which is transportation um we talked about the cost of per par per student for busing next year and whether we would allow um
a partial payment plan as we did in previous years we've the district has struggled collecting all the money in some cases we talked about uh it's one of the policy like um Mr derin talked about uh one of one of one of the new policies um
which uh lays out what the tuition could be for non- Metuchen residents and uh what the role of the finance committee would be in that which would be to set those numbers once the policy committee um adopts it talked about a shared
Services agreement with the burrow um we talked about I guess Frank I guess okay to announce that Dr kuto about the uh next Thursday um I don't think you should say
that yet okay potentially a rental of the uh it wouldn't be a rental it would just be right potental use of the uh Auditorium um and we talked about just uh the food service contract for next year which we will be updating and the
YMCA uh and the uh wraparound programs for the schools thank you Mr sus and next meeting is on the 28th you you you got there all right so are there any questions or comments on any of the reports from the
board all right Miss sha um um good evening everyone I hope you are doing well I just wanted to say like congratulations to all of the extremely talented athletes like like I know I go to school with them but like they're unreal
so but yeah like they they deserve um everything they got and really proud to be part of this very academically End sports talented school so um we could start at the elementary school I I don't think there's anything different that's going on from what I said from the last
meeting except that on Thursday say the safety ambassadors from the high school will be going to Campbell and they always look forward to that so I'm excited to go see them at the middle school there's always um the Six Flags trip and the Dorney Park trips that are coming up and students are super excited
for that in May and in the high school I don't think there have been any major changes except for us seniors we just had these this like presentation on Monday um it was about the seat and Hall fires and like I would say for a lot of us was very emotional and like we grew
up being told like stop drop and roll and like fill in those coloring sheets but like this just like hit different and like we saw like the consequences are real and like I feel like it was just very enlightening and very interesting for a lot of us especially like cuz when we first watched the documentary we all thought oh okay and
then we were like oh so these are the people who were in the documentary and like that was that was really amazing but yeah that's pretty short report for today but impactful and thank you thank you Miss sha it's always nice to hear the student board member report and
your perspectives on what's going on within the school so thank you for that as always all right is there any old business from the board any new business all right so at this time I'd like to move to approve the minutes of
the Board of Education meeting uh March 11th 2025 special business meeting 1 March 11th special business meeting 2 and the March 11th board meeting Mr glassberg is seconding before
I could get second out um any questions or comments roll call please that's what I say Mr Mr bot yes Miss cheum yes Mr derflinger yes Mr glasberg yes joh Dr Johnson Marcus yes
Miss Colleen yes Mr lton yes Dr spner yes Mr sus yes motion car wonderful thank you uh this time we are open to the public on any topic all
right now we move to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools at this time the board will take formal action on the following items oftentimes it may appear to members of our audience that the Board of Education takes action with very little common and in many cases a unanonymous vote before a matter is
placed on the agenda at a public meeting the Administration has thoroughly reviewed the matter with the superintendent of schools if the superintendent is satisfied that the matter is ready to be presented to the Board of Education it is then referred to the appropriate board committee the members of the board committee work with Administration and the superintendent to
assure that the members fully understand the matter when the committee is satisfied with the matter it is presented to the board of education for discussion before any final action is taken only then is it P placed on the agenda for Action at a public meeting at this time I'd like to move items A1
through 11 is there a second Mr derflinger are there any questions or comments on the Personnel items seeing none roll call please Mr bot yes Miss chetam yes Mr derflinger
yes Mr glasberg yes Dr Johnson Marcus yes Miss Colleen yes Mr lton yes Dr smiger yes Mr sus yes motion carries wonderful thank you so much Mr sus Finance I'd like to move items B1
through B5 as this sit on the agenda all right is there a second Mr bot any questions or comments on the finance items seeing none roll call please Mr bot yes Miss chetam yes Mr derflinger
yes Mr glasberg yes Dr Johnson Marcus yes Miss Colleen yes Mr lton yes Dr spner yes Mr sus yes motion carries fantastic Dr their policy please I'd like to move items C1 through C6 is
there a second Mr sus any questions or comments on the policy items seeing none roll call please M Taylor Mr bot uh I'll say yes on all but
abstain on C1 see okay Miss cheum yes Mr derflinger yes Mr glasberg yes Dr Johnson Marcus yes Miss Colleen yes Mr lton yes Dr spikner yes Mr sus yes motion carries
thank you so much Mr derflinger curriculum thank you I'd like to make a motion to move items D1 through four is listed on the agenda please wonderful is there a second Mr bot any questions or comments on curriculum seeing none roll
call please Miss Taylor Mr bot yes Miss cheum yes Mr derflinger yes Mr Glasper Dr Johnson Marcus yes Miss Colleen yes Mr lton yes Dr spner yes Mr sus yes motion carries fantastic and we are open
for the third time to the public for a comment on any topic still nothing all right uh we turn at this time to miss tum for announcements I'm going keep it brief but uh at Campbell Elementary and malls
the book fair it's a long await is occurring at the end of the month um the matachin high school PTO fundraiser that's always really well received the Harlem Wizards um will be happening on April 23rd um highly encourage folks to check that one out the team will include
um District's favorite teachers and staff and then just another update while it's not a PTO um I do want to acknowledge that the bachan Education Foundation is hosting a fundraiser party at the parlor on April 4th and and our next meeting is April 8th
that's all thank you so much M I also want to point out just quickly the Harlem Wizards thing uh is also on the same day as the camp Mason trip for fifth graders so before you get tripped up make sure you take a look at your calendar all right um at this time I
move to adjourn the meeting is there oh my goodness is there a second possibly Mr derflinger all in favor all right good night everyone one