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some question but the second one does good evening last quarter so I'd like to call to order the April 8th meeting of the Matuchin Board of Ed let us all rise for the flag salute please
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and Mrs alavich notice of the meeting
please i hereby make this statement to indicate compliance with the open public meetings act known as chapter 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 location time and
date of this meeting and posting the same on the front door of the br of education offices by delivering copies to the burough hall and the Matuchin public library the home news and tribune and by filing a copy with the burough clerk as prescribed by this law thank you so much roll call please
mr bot here miss Cheetum here mr derlinger here mr glber mr glber has informed us he's unable to attend tonight okay thank you dr johnson Marcus I am here hi miss Colleen here mr lipton
here miss Russia is not here dr spner also informed me that she's unable to be here tonight thank you mr sus here all right thank you so much Dr caputo we
have a fantastic looking showcase of success big night big science night tonight um before we get started I just wanted to thank um Mrs susie Odo and Mrs lindseay Omar uh as well as Miss Kate Lmer for being here tonight to support the uh students and their their
endeavors in science uh I'll invite the three of you up uh to kind of kick off the proceedings we're going to honor the uh Edgar Science Fair winners tonight wonderful evening board of education members i'm delighted to share with you the success of our Edgar Middle School science fair
this year we have impressive projects created by a 100 bright minds i was simply amazed by the dedication and creativity of our students brought to the table i'd like to take a moment to thank the people that helped make this event happen my sincere gratitude goes to our students parents guardians our
teachers who helped our students explore their curiosities about the world the unwavering support of our education met touch and education foundation the 25 community judges Dr herszog Dr caputo and our 35 science national honor society students under the direction of
Mr clap who helped with so many aspects of our science fair this year special thanks to Miss Limrich Miss Kmer and Miss Borman for coordinating this great event and adding new ideas for incorporating science national honor society and even a bingo element to the
evening thank you to Miss Omar as well as our new elementary supervisor for joining us this evening to recognize our awardees at this time I'd like to hand over the floor to Miss Limmerch our supervisor of secondary STEM
thank you Miss Azabo on behalf of Miss Omar and I we'd like to reiterate the appreciation that Miss Ozo just shared for all those individuals who helped make the science fair another great success tonight we celebrate curiosity creativity problem solving and the
pursuit of knowledge qualities that define every great scientist we're privileged to witness the incredible ideas and experiments that our first place winners in each grade have worked so hard to bring to life on the stage you can see their amazing work from left
to right we have our fifth sixth seventh and eighth grade first place winners whether it's solving real world problems exploring new possibilities or simply asking what if each of them has demonstrated the power of scientific thinking to present our fifth grade
first place awardees with certificates I'm going to hand the floor over to Miss Omar our supervisor of elementary education thank you Miss Blimmer and everyone here tonight um I'm honored to be here this evening to presenting our first place winners for the fifth grade tonight we
recognize and congratulate Lincoln Homes and Sonom Vas for their project Fantastic Plastic please come on up and you can share a few words about your project a few words that
What did you learn go ahead what did you learn what were you investigating you got this uh we were investigating um different types of plastic and if we could like solve a problem of non-biodegradable plastic like polluting the earth so we tried finding a solution
by testing two other plastics casein plastic or milk plastic or PLA plastic we saw that um casein plastic was the best because it has the best water permeability out of all of them besides for the uh regular plastic and it had um
also very good durability nice thank you [Music] [Applause] so our project was we made homemade biodegradable plastics and we tested
their durability against normal everyday use plastic and so we did this by testing their water permeability how much weight they can hold and how brittle they get
when they freeze nice very nice very cool thank you certificate congratulations Lincoln and Sonam all right in first place for sixth grade we recognize and congratulate Charles
Weiss with Plant Growth Salt Sugar and Water all right [Music] would you like to share a little bit about your project Charles in my project I had chia seeds growing in water salt
water and sugar water mhm the water it grew normally well in the salt it crystallized over and it became hard in the sugar it molded and became weird and smelly bugs were on it
um we ended up doing the project twice because the first time it just none of it really grew it just became moist and wet and in the second time we used a different setup and it worked well all
right very good great job awesome thank you [Applause] very impressive that none of you have any notes just talking it's amazing i was going to say that I'm really so
articulate and it is very nerve-wracking we were talking to them about even as adults it's really hard to get up in front of a microphone so this is I'm really impressed with our students all right so in first place for seventh grade we recognize and congratulate Vushi Singh and Lillian Keith with Wear
Water and Y about other things if you just want to share a little bit about so our project was stemmed from the idea that a lot of different water fountains at school taste different so we went around collecting water from all the fountains and then we used a 16 element test strip
and test all of them we wrote a analysis on the last um last section of it and it turns out it all tastes different because of different um elements and add-ins and chemicals and none of it was really dangerous but some of it did
taste pretty disgusting um and so yeah yeah um in one of the tests we did get an unclusive amount of lead in the water and then we later found out that like there was one one of the things sorry honey just talk
a little closer to the mic so we can then we later found out in one of the bathrooms there was lead in the water so I feel like happy that we found like something wrong and we like made more safety in our school cool [Applause] thank
you great job all right okay all right while I won't be gracing you with a performance tonight I'm sure you'll all be singing along in your heads as we wrap up this awards recognition with a science fair project that could literally defy gravity we
have 8th grade students Emma Gillan Dwarte and Aushi Kamath with their project defying gravity congratulations [Applause] so our project we're both dancers and so our project focuses on keeping a
dancer's center of gravity where it should be so they can turn and balance effectively during their performances we did two tests one about the P and one about the bun with the P it has to be it is a position of the leg and it has to be in the right place not sickled or in
other words not turned out for the dancer to be perfectly on their center and not wobble or fall and our second part of the project was about the hair and how every dancer needs to have like a perfect slick back
bun to dance very good so we both have very annoying hair to deal with so we learned that a dancer's bun cannot be protruding otherwise it'll add extra weight to the back of their head which will make them tip back so we like found
the importance of having a clean bun to make sure the dancer's overall performance is not altered by anything wow thank you and I will note for the good of the order that you're both wearing green uh defying gravity wicked any any any
coincidence there perhaps or subliminal say there was a lot of singing along the way when they turned the project in got awarded they embraced us with a little song i love it thank you great job thank
you wonderful all right thank you again for having us this evening to celebrate our students and their great work students keep exploring keep questioning as I always tell my own children at home don't stop questioning don't keep keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible because who knows the next great scientific
breakthrough might just start with you that's awesome thank you thank you students thank you administrators this is wonderful thank you so good so excellent so that's the backdrop for the rest of our meeting and you can see the great work so thank you
thank you for keeping your projects and thank you for bringing them tonight we really appreciate that nice thank you and because indeed it is a Tuesday night and we know that while our meetings are very exciting we imagine that you may want to go home uh get your homework
done perhaps think of the next year's science fair project ideas um I believe if you want to grab a souvenir agenda and thank you the thing over there the souvenir agenda you can grab one as you make your way home to your amazing
project ideas have a great night y'all thanks for coming out thank you thank you but feel free to stay if you really are very excited yeah absolutely she also won the song [Music]
all right as our folks um file out I just also want to make sure that we note that this is time that we are open to the public for public comment but seeing that everyone is actually leaving I believe it is fair or
within reason to close that section of the meeting dr caputo do you have any other presentations no no presentations in addition tonight all right next week we'll have a bunch of them next time on the 29th but nothing else tonight wonderful thank you so much i do not have a report as we move to the report
section and I'm assuming you do not i don't just a reminder to the public that next week is spring break so we wish everyone a very safe and healthy and rejuvenating spring break wonderful thank you so much um and at this time we typically do committee reports but since
due to our calendar scheduling we don't have committee meetings to report on from this one I would ask if there are any updates from the committees or if anyone wants to share the update upcoming committee meeting dates um if folks are interested um I did have
one from Mr glber who's unable to be here today uh that the open public meeting for the construction committee will be on the 28th Monday the 28th at 7 p.m in the high school media room
library yes anything else from any of the committee chairs i'll just add that curriculum is meeting on the 22nd so we'll have a report for you for the 29th meeting so as it stands curriculum policy and equity are
scheduled for the 22nd finance extracurricular and construction on the 29th uh 28th just kidding 28th i I know I know things yes I got it i caught myself all right wonderful and we don't have our student board members so no
report from that end as well all right is there any old business from the board any new business miss yes I just wanted to share uh some feedback i was able to
attend um the labor management um workshop that is hosted at Ruckers University that Matuchen is um very famed in because we were one of the OGs of that work um and I I do want to say having spent the whole day with administrators
um Dr caputo um Dr hairsog staff members you hear about collaboration and you hear that we collaborate and that's been our thing for many many years but to actually marinate in it and and witness it and hear the conversations that are
had amongst staff members um really did solidify my pride in our school district it's you know and and and having the opportunity to talk to other school districts to hear how many of them are still in the infancy stage of developing
collaboration strategies and we're so deep it's so deeply embedded in everything that we do i mean you can't have a conversation without saying the word collaborate right um so I just wanted you know as as a representative of our board um to share with you guys
how proud I was to be there and how cool it was to to be an example to other board of education members that were there and um to just you know reiterate how important the work is and how much we should continue having that as our
main focus thank you well done everyone thank you so much Mr derflinger indeed it is a point of pride for us when we go out into the state of New Jersey and talk to folks and tell them that we're from Matuchin it is one thing to know this good work as we are steeped in it
as we do our uh district and board committee collab collaborations which is like unheard of exactly so it's really wonderful to see how we are regarded and hopefully to be able to expand this model across the state and and the world
because indeed there were delegates from South Africa the Ministry of Education in South Africa there as well i mean we had we had I don't even know what his title is but we were told he is in charge of education in the entire country um and he's there soliciting
feedback from our school district like that's pretty incredible that's pretty cool pretty cool i'll stop tooting our horn now yes no but sometimes it's important because we are in our bubble but it's important to recognize that we are doing what we say we're doing and being models for the rest of
the dare I say the world all right enough of that now all right so um at this time I'd like to move to approve the minutes of the board of education meeting special business meeting oh sorry march 25th
2025 special business meeting one special business meeting two as well as the board meeting is there a second Mr derling and do I do more things i forget always comments or
questions comments or questions on those minutes good people no fantastic and now we vote yes on these all right you know I have been doing this for a minute you would think I would remember that all right so
can we have a roll call please mr bot yes miss Cheetum yes mr derlinger yes dr johnson Marcus yes miss Colleen yes mr lifton yes mr sus yes motion carries thank you so much at this time we are
open to the public for our second public comment period seeing none I will close this section uh at this time pardon me we move to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools oftentimes it may appear to
members of our audience that the board of education takes action with very little comment and in many cases a unanimous vote before a matter is placed on an agenda at 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 asssure that the members fully understand the matter when the committee is satisfied with the
matter is presented to the board of education for discussion before any final action is taken only then is it placed on the agenda for action at a public meeting with that I'd like to move
personnel items A1 through 9 is there a second mr sus any questions or comments mr bot just uh one comment I think worthy of note uh if the public were to look at the breadth of
experience uh for the new hires and the appointments um and understand uh the approach the administration has taken to really represent and create an excellent candidate pool i think we should feel very proud not just from uh outside of the community but within the community
uh it is just it's great to see and excellent work thank you Mr bot office we remain a premier destination a favorite place to work indeed all right any other questions or comments on personnel
all right roll call please mr b yes miss Cheetum yes mr derlinger yes dr johnson Marcus yes miss Colleen yes mr lifton yes mr sus yes motion carries thank you now at this time Mr sus would you like
to move i'd like to move items B1 through B7 is listed on the agenda wonderful is there a second mr bot any questions or comments mr sus uh just one thing to point out item seven are change orders for construction from
Eminem and Epic thank you for highlighting that for the folks watching at home are there any other questions or comments on the finance items all right roll call please mrs aliamovich mr b yes miss Cheetum yes mr
mr derfinger yes dr johnson Marcus yes miss Clean yes mr lipton yes mr sus yes motion carries thank you so much at this time I'd like to move policy items C1 through three is there a second mr sus
any questions or comments on the policy items all right roll call please mr bach yes miss Cheetum yes mr derlinger yes dr mr johnson Marcus yes miss Colleen yes mr lifton yes mr sus yes motion carries
wonderful thank you Mr derlinger thank you i'd like to make a motion to move item D1 as listed on the agenda please wonderful is there a second Mr sus thank you are there any questions or comments on this curriculum
item seeing none roll call please mrs ellovich Mr yes miss Cheetum yes mr derlinger yes dr johnson Marcus yes miss Colleen yes mr lipton yes mr sus yes motion carries
thank you so much at this time the meet the I did I The meeting is open to the public for the third open public comment period of our meeting but seeing none I believe it is safe to close that section turning to
Mrs jetum for announcements thank you so at Campbell Elementary School we have staff appreciation and the much awaited Spring X that's happening on April 11th um it's going to be great day i know lots of volunteer
work goes into that event so the more community that can come out and support the better um sorry my phone down and then again um we talked about staff appreciation and then at Edgar Middle School there's also staff appreciation occurring so um I know there's lots of um emails going out and text messages
but there's still time to donate and then also um the parent teacher council just wanted to throw in another reminder for their parents night out fundraising at Rock and Raise um for Rock and Ra excuse me is on May 2nd at 7 p.m at Junior's and it will be featuring the
commuters and Sarah Teddy our local favorite um and then our next meeting board of ed meeting will be on April 29th wonderful thank you so much Mrs cheetum and I also want to shout out the Campbell Science Fair folks they was beautiful like I love science fair season it's always wonderful to see the
creativity of the youth in our community um and I believe the fourth grade folks are still to come with Campbell Science Fair so if you were planning to go check that out have fun uh I had a fun time today at the third grade one all right
so at this time I move to adjourn the meeting is there a second mr bot all in favor good night everyone