--------- United States of America stands with liberty and justice for all. And then can you please take the role? >> Mrs. Bari >> here. >> Mrs. Schuler >> here. >> Mrs. Bay >> here. >> Miss Jeffrey >> here. >> Mr. Nicolai
>> here. >> Mrs. Perry >> here. >> Mrs. Quinn >> here. Mrs. Reynolds >> here. >> Mr. Thornton >> here. >> Thank you. And I would like to um introduce our Spanish interpreter, Mrs. Susette Marie Carter. She's here.
>> She's right in front of me. >> The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of the public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed and acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of the act, the board secretary has caused
notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place thereof posted on the bulletin board located in the hallway outside of the administrative offices. A notice was provided to the Courier News, the Home News Tribune, and the Middle Sex Burl. Okay, we'll move on to our
presentations. We're going to start with our district student of the month. It is my absolute pleasure to introduce to you our November student of the month from Parker School, third grader Tyrie Astaly.
[applause] >> Now, when I sat down with Tyrie and asked him the classic question, what's your favorite favorite subject? He didn't even blink. He looked at me and said, "That's easy math." And before I could say another word, he challenged
me. He said, 'I can answer, "What's 9* 9?" So, of course, I had to ask. Tyrie fired back 81. No hesitation, no calculator, just pure third grade confidence. Tyrie [snorts] also loves basketball and
is a big fan of both LeBron James and Michael Jordan, which tells me this young man has excellent taste and respects greatness from every era. When it comes to food, he keeps it real. Pork roll and potatoes and McDonald's. [laughter]
And he follows that up by saying, "What kid doesn't like McDonald's?" And honestly, he's not wrong. His favorite pastime, visiting grandma's house. Oh, playing his Nintendo Switch and having Uno battles with his family. And spoiler
alert to the family, he may or may not have hinted that a Switch 2 could be on the horizon now that he's gotten us on. Tyresese teachers described him as hardworking, kind, and a positive role model for his classmates. After meeting
him, I completely agree. Please join me in celebrating our outstanding November student of the month, TY. [applause and cheering] [applause] >> Come on up. Congratulations. Great job. [applause]
Eight times eight. [laughter] [laughter] >> Sorry. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations again. [applause] proud of you. I'm so happy for you. You deserve >> it. I'm still here. I'm still here.
>> That's a great picture. >> All right, one more TIME FOR TYRIE. [applause] OKAY, NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO our district employee of the month. Bera, can you please come to the podium [applause] [applause] Gonzalez Aspina is the definition of
reliability, pride, and positivity. No matter the task, she steps in without hesitation and with a smile that instantly lifts the room. During the summer trans summer transition and staff moves, Bertha became everyone's go-to
person, organizing materials, offering help before it was even requested and keeping the process calm and smooth. Last summer's construction projects could have easily caused chaos, but Bertha helped the team manage it with professionalism and steady focus. She
painted, clean, problem solved, and kept the building moving forward, even when several projects are happening at the same time. Her work ethic is remarkable, but it's her attitude that truly stands out. No is simply not part of her vocabulary. She shows up every day with
warmth, pride in her work, and a genuine commitment to our school community. We are grateful to recognize Bertha as our district employee of the month. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] [applause] I just want to thank everybody for giving me the opportunity to work for
the district. I love my job and it's my pleasure to work with all of you. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] >> CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] We'll now move on to our announcements. Um so I will go first. I just wanted to share some exciting news about the
preschool program. Um the the operations report and the >> projections were due or are due >> last Friday. >> Last Friday. Um, and in speaking with the providers, uh, Dr. Freeman was made aware that we are now going to be
offering three more >> four more classrooms for the preschool program. So, we will have a total of nine classrooms next September for the preschool program. So, that's exciting. [applause] Okay, we'll move on to our superintendent of schools, Dr. Roberto Freeman.
>> Thank you. I just have two announcements. Quick announcements. First, not to steal your thunder, Kevin, but tomorrow night, the play at the high school, Peter and the Starcatcher. If you've seen any of our performances, I'm sure it's going to be outstanding. So,
if you're available, come on out and join us tomorrow night. And on December 23rd, we have our annual winter wonderland brunch for our senior citizens in the community. Last year, um, we had seating and we needed to
expand. We had so many people attend. So, we're looking forward to another great event for our senior citizens on December 23rd. It starts at 10:30 and we have cookie decorating, plenty of Wonderland cheer performances of course,
and a hit for everyone. Photo booths. Our senior citizens love to take photos in the photo booth and we look forward to entertaining them once again. Thank you. Thank you. >> [applause]
>> And now our business administrator board secretary, Miss Annette Gordan. Good evening. Welcome everyone. I just want to say congratulations to Bertha. It's a pleasure to work with you and we're happy to have you here. And things are pretty quiet in the business office. I have no announcements right now. Um
within the next few weeks, I'll be starting the budget process, so you'll be hearing more on that in the meetings to come. Thank you. And now we'll move on to our liaison reports. Our NJSBA county delegate and
NJSBA legislative officer, Mrs. Sharon Schuler. So the delegate assembly is finally um happening this weekend, the 22nd. Um I do sit on the resolution subcommittee and we did meet on October 29th via
Zoom. We had five um items to review that were submitted from different districts. Um, one of them was removed as being a duplicate of bylaws that are um already on this the books at New Jersey school boards and one was not
accepted for filing because of the um process. Um so there will be three resolutions that I'll be voting on um for Middle Sex. The first one is from Delran Board of Education and it basically is um an a update to the bylaw
regarding criminal history. They would like to um [clears throat] have uh school boards um advocate for having a um opportunity for um charter school trustees or board
members to have an opportunity to demonstrate affirmatively to the commissioner commissioner of education evidence of rehabilitation upon a finding of a criminal offense that would disqualify them for membership. considering. There is a list that would
not be considered, but um that's already in law. And um as I've said before, the resolutions are to update New Jersey school boards advocacy and their bylaws um policies and bylaws. It does not
change state law. It just gives a direction for our advocacy. Um the second one is for Clinton Clifton Board uh public schools. Um they have um
they have submitted a resolution to um advocate for um free school program um [clears throat] for um breakfast and lunch. Um school boards does believe that it would be something worthy of
advocating for. we don't anticipate that that would be an issue. Um and then Bridgewater Raritin um had a proposal about the STEM program um that boards of education should
dedicate an equitable amount of instructional time to science education in elementary and middle school relative to the amount of instructional time allocated to the other subjects. Again, this is just if these all pass at the delegate assembly, they go into the
advocacy platform um for New Jersey school boards. Um if anyone has a problem with voting yes for any of these, just let me know. Um the vote will be on Saturday and I don't anticipate that there'll be too much
changes day of, but there could always be um an amendment. Um, [clears throat] and then as far as the legislative committee, the um, next meeting is between the 22nd and our next meeting. So, I'll update you on that at
that time. >> Thank you. Now, our Middle Sex County SBA delegate and our burrow alliance leon, Mr. Thomas Jordan. >> Good evening, everyone. um went to the um
Middle Sex counties next week so or in two weeks so but um decided to stroll over to uh Somerset County ran into my [clears throat] colleague there um and there was also uh a speaker that we all
know um the other Dr. Freeman. And uh what was discussed was um this the county the interim county superintendent um talked about the budget review
[cough and clears throat] the matrix teach what they're supposed to teach you about. Um that was one of the things. Another thing that was interesting, Harrison Silver, he's a legislative advocate. Um, right now there's some bills that are
sitting in assembly. They were waiting until the election to vote on a lot of it. Some of the things that are interesting that are on it is pilot revenue sharing
as we know how pilot works. Um 95% of all the pilot money goes to the town. 5% goes to the county. There is no nothing in the law that states that the town has to give any of
the pilot money towards towns. That's one of the bills that's sitting waiting to go get voted on. It's very important. [clears throat] You know, you have the pilot program. Money goes to the town. and nothing goes
to the schools. We all know there's students in those apartment buildings and would be nice if they be able to uh put the bill a little bit for him through the pilot program.
Um they talked about the school funding program um that should be coming out with the new governor, a new setup. Um let's see. Manville won the NJSBA school leader award. Manville public school
with their cooperation with Duke Farms. um they in essence K through 12 they moved I guess you could say an outdoor
um classroom at Duke Farms throughout the year it wasn't just a class trip and one thing I noticed uh one thing they said which sounded kind of strange right next to Duke Farms they said um
somewhere between 85 and 90% of the students in Manville never went to Duke Park. [clears throat] Interesting stat. And they also are looking for more school districts to get involved. Uh Hillsboro uh they just
signed up to uh cooperation effort with Duke Farms. And one thing with our uh speaker with the uh superintendent Dr. Freeman talked about different things on
supporting new board members decision by the superintendent. Uh 95% of the problems are solved by teachers. That's why the chain of command is so important. Instead of just going to the
top of the chain of command, just follow the chain of command. [clears throat] Whenever there's any issues, if it can be solved through the chain of command, then it would in essence eventually go to the superintendent. Um,
that's about it on that alliance. Alliance had their meeting last Wednesday. Um they're now working on their needs assessment grant for 2027 to 2030.
Um different things they're planning on four events throughout the year. They put down, they said probably three, but they put in for the grant for four, two for community day, one for national night out and community outreach.
Um the meetings won't be here anymore next year. They're going to move to the community room in the library, which makes it easier. um they did the half needs assessment is done and
they're interested in adding the sixth grade to it. Um the next meeting for them is January 14th. That's about it. >> Thank you.
And now our student representative Kevin Rand. [clears throat] Awesome. Hey guys. Hello everyone. Great to be back. So this month as we lead into the holidays, we had a lot of stuff going on and we're going to have a lot of stuff coming up.
So I'm going to go a bit. So at the high school to start, we had a lot of activities in our clubs. So NHS they had their haunt annual haunted hallways which is where they the students basically they take the like
the classrooms and they decorate them for students with special needs and the students with special needs come around and they trickor treat in the hallways because it's much safer for them to do it in the school. They also had their induction ceremony for their new members and they had a
uh charity event at St. Nicholas Church down in Denellan where students volunteered in partnership with the Denellan NHS charter to help make perogis to feed people who need them. Um and then Key Club. Key Club had they
attended their annual Key Club rally with all the other Key Club I guess across the state and other schools at Six Flags. So there's a there's two pictures of them. They were they rode all the rides and met all the other
students from the other key clubs. So, they had a lot of fun. Um, and our FBI FBLA club, they're having they're doing something new this year. In the past, they focused on competitions with other FBA charters and uh more on the investment side of business, but what
we're doing now is we're essentially making our own companies. We told them uh because I'm the co-president of it, we told the members to come up with like a zero investment idea for like a company that would pertain to something they like. And throughout the year, the
goal is to actually start a company that that's going to help the community. Um and be honest, great. [clears throat] Next up, we had our fall sports came to an end this month. Um boys and girls
soccer, they both did very good. the boys. We got to the sectional finals and then lost unfortunately. Uh but our record was 106 and one. And the girls also did pretty good. They were 117 and four. >> I'd like to just mention congratulate Kevin. He was the goalie on the team. Um
you set a record for shutouts, I believe. >> Yeah. [applause] >> Um football had a rough season this year. They were 2 and eight. Unfortunately, they lost a lot of good players last year. And cross country had a a pretty good season this season as well. And next season they plan to have
a really good one because like I said last time that guy on the right Aiden Curtis, he's a fantastic runner. You'll see him running across town like all the time. Um so our theater scene is opening their play this week on Friday, Thursday and
Friday. It's Peter and the Star Catcher. It's basically how Peter Pan got his powers under uh so they're working with Mr. lunch and we they're selling tickets at the front door of the auditorium this week. So, if you guys want to attend,
they would much appreciate it. [music] >> Okay. Well, well, our for Halloween, our Blue Jay broadcast team, they made a short Halloween film with all the staff. Um, I'm going to try and click through it so I can show you some of the highlights. Uh, it's really good. They
used uh they said like they used AI as a tool to help them. That's what I heard. Oh, whoops. Back. >> Sorry about that. >> [laughter] >> It might be easier to do the board. So,
it was a short Halloween film that our students made with AI and we'll show like a minute of it. What? [music] >> [music] >> Hey guys, [music] we got
>> [laughter] [music] >> She Miss [music] a little boy. >> Here's Blue Jay. >> [music] >> Oh no. How? [music]
So, you get the idea. They were given a a little teaser for their theater uh production coming up this week. Uh I guess to encourage students to join. They did a great job. Um on the side, [clears throat] we also had our law law
and civics class with Miss Mace. She teamed up with a team of representatives from Chub about careers in law and their career journey journeys. And the students got valuable advice for success in any career path that they choose.
So this month's focus school for me was Woodland Elementary. I interviewed Miss Vasquez and she gave me a lot of detailed information about what they're doing down there. So to start, they had Project Woodland. That's like initiative that they do. Um it's for the students
where they collab and do team efforts in the school. Uh they did one on the second day of school um to especially to help new students become [clears throat] more collaborative with each other especially because we know they're coming from three different elementary schools. So the transition from third to
fourth grade is pretty hard for them. They have a service day for project woodland. They have that coming up before the winter break where they're going to team up at stations to help >> [clears throat] >> um with homelessness. And they're also
going to do CK CL CKLA workshops um at those stations as well. Um they've also been doing poetry cafe. They did poetry cafe which is an event for their parents to come in and read their poetry
and they also serve kids like coffee and stuff like that that you would find at a cafe. Um they've been reading aloud and they've had engineering and science labs as well for more collaboration. Uh and besides that they also did a lot
of hallway art is what Miss Vasquez told me. They had art projects for Dia de los Muertos. Um so there was posters that they hung up on the left. That's those ones. Okay. In the middle you have posters they made for their research on Native
American tribes. So they had the neck and the can't it is but they did a great job with those. And then on the right you have their examples of their poetry that they've been doing um that they used at the poetry cafe and they hung those up
in the hallway as well. Uh so finally what's to come? Obviously we have the winter season coming up. So uh winter sports we got basketball, bowling and there's one more. >> Which one? Yes. Um, so winter activities
as well. All of our clubs like student council and NHS are going to have winter pertained activities. So bake sales that are Christmas themed and stuff like that. Um, breaking down the walls is scheduled to happen in December. That is that's the most awesome thing our school's ever done. I've been in it for
two years and going to be a leader this year and it's so much fun. It's uh it's there's really nothing like it in school. It's the one opportunity you get to really connect with students on a basis that's other than school. Like you get to learn about people and their
struggles and all of a sudden you don't feel so alone after it. So it's a really great program that our school does. Um our music scene and art scene. We're having our listening room coming up in December as well. Um as well as the concert like with the modern band and whatnot and the chorus. Obviously the
theater uh production this Friday. Um, and we have Thanksgiving and winter break coming up as well. That's all. Thank you guys. Thank you very much. [applause] [clears throat] Pursuant to chapter 231 PL1975, also known as the open public meetings act
authorizing a public body to meet an executive private session under certain limited circumstances and the SE law requires the board adopt a resolution at a public meeting before it can meet in such an executive or private session. The Middle Sex Board of Education hereby determines that it may be necessary to meet in executive session on November
19th, 2025 to discuss matters involving attorney client privilege, confidential student matter, confidential personnel matter. So excited. Annette, can you please take the role? >> Mrs. Morendi? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schuler? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ve? >> Yes.
>> M. Jeffrey? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nol? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Perry? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Quinn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Reynold? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thornton? >> Yes. >> Okay. We are now in executive session. So, everyone in the public just needs to
wait in the hallway, please. Part: 2
[clears throat] The board has been in executive session for the past 58 minutes for the purpose of discussing confidential matters as outlined in 3.01. The matters that were discussed will be disclosed to the public as soon as possible once the reason for non-disclosure no longer exists. So moved. Second, can you please take the
role? >> Mrs. Feny, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schuler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ve, >> yes. >> Miss Jeffrey, >> yes. >> Mr. Nichol, >> yes. Mrs. Perry, >> yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Reynolds, >> yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes.
>> Thank you. So, we'll move on to our approval of our meeting minutes. Um, there for last month, committee of the whole, executive session, and regular meeting. Superintendent [clears throat] recommends approval of items 5.01 as
presented. So, moved. >> Second. >> Any questions or comments? and ask. Can you please take the role? >> Mrs. Bar, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schuler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Baker, >> yes. >> Miss Jeffrey, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikolai, >> yes. >> Mrs. Perry, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Quinn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Reynolds, >> yes. >> Mr. Thornton, >> yes. >> Thank you. We will now open open the public comment portion of the meeting. Comments at this time are limited to agenda items only. Please come to the podium and put your name, address, email address, and subject of your comment
into the record book. Before speaking, [clears throat] please give your name, address, and subject of your comment to Miss Anette Gordano, business administrator, board secretary. Direct your comments and questions to the board president. You may speak on two separate topics for up to three minutes each. Laura Thomas 109 Green Avenue.
Um let me see here. My first question um is about the approval of proposal for the architect in regards to the renovations at watch school. I thought a while ago that there was a plan to put a trailer there and
now I see that that's not happening. And my question is obviously you need room for space for something to take place. And so you're adding a trailer or now you're adding
you're making adjustments like renovating the inside of the building. Is that what I'm reading? >> Um what number are you looking at? >> Oh, I see. 14 million. >> It doesn't have a number. Um I don't know where to tell you because I
got it. I got it. I got it. Okay. Um Okay. So you can continue. I'm sorry. >> So my question is what is the purpose of doing that? [clears throat] >> The trailer when all the studies were done, the engineer came out, looked at
the soil and everything and the studies showed that it would be much more expensive to put the trailer in that back field. So the architect came back and looked at the floor plans and came up with a less expensive way to get
space within the building. >> So they need they need more rooms is what? >> Oh yeah. Okay. >> So um I know I go back a ways but when my kids went to school there was a study done and the kids were dividing kind of
evenly between all the schools. So I don't know are there like how many students if you could tell me how many students are at Parker how many are at Wang how many are at Hazwood we'll just use those three elementary schools
because at one point there was a a discrepancy that many more were at one school than the other. So they made a division and I'll give you an example. My street is Green Avenue and then there's Melrose and there's Fairview. And because of that problem, Green
Avenue up to the 300 block went to Hazlewood school. Melrose and Fair View went to Watch School. So I don't think that's the case now. I think all of that section goes to Watch School. So I'm just asking if maybe an evaluation can
be done to see instead of having to spend more money that maybe we could do grades a little differently. That's all I'm bringing up about that. Okay. My next one is about the very um the right below that the roof. So can you explain
to me exactly entire roof? It just says here for the roof H and entrance sopet replacements. So are you replacing the whole roof? >> It is not the whole roof. >> They're not it's a roof a section of a roof in the front of the building and we
had in this year's budget to replace the socket. So that's already that funding is set aside. Okay. >> But the architect came back and said, "You really need to replace that roof section there because it's leaking into the sopet and and you really have to do both together." >> Sure. I I didn't I couldn't understand
that. I just because I know the roof was just put on maybe about 5 years ago. I couldn't understand to put another roof on. >> Most of the roofs are in sections. We replace sections at a time. >> Okay. um
underneath the um report of the HIV incidents, [clears throat] how do they get recorded in the minutes that an incident took place? Is there a form? Is it an email? Is it a phone
call? Um how does it get charged as an HR? I'm not sure I understand the question in in how does it get put in the minutes? What? >> Well, because it's reported it's reported in the minutes how many incidents it says right here from
October 15th through November 19th. >> Yes. >> So, it's [clears throat] pretty much zero except one at the high school. >> Right. >> So, my question is how how did that one get there? Was it a phone call to the superintendent? Was it a email? Was it a
letter? Well, there's a process that has to take place. >> Yeah, we have a the pro the HIV process is posted on our website. So, there's a process that has to take place. There could be it could be an allegation from it could be an event, not an event.
That's >> the notification could come in the form of a phone call, a written email, a verbal conversation. There's no, you know, specific way to answer that question. So if that were to come to the superintendent that I'll just take an example that my child got bullied and I
spoke to the principal and she then reports it to the superintendent. >> No, there's a whole process. Again, I I think they just directed me to the website where the process is located, but there's an investigation done that would generally start at the building level and it would work its way all the
way up through the superintendent, then through the board. So then after that process, if they're found guilty, then it gets put on here as a report. >> Either way, if it's found, if it's founded or unfounded, [clears throat] it's on there. >> Okay. And >> anything that's investigated, please.
>> Okay. Um I was looking through the policy because I was trying to see if there was an answer to my question. And it is um 3281. it's uh inappropriate staff conduct. And
so I read through it and it's inappropriate staff conduct toward a student. Um I read the policy obviously for the HIV for student to student. Um are
administrators considered under this as staff conduct? They would be correct. Or do you have a policy for >> I'm not sure what you're asking, but are you talking about a policy that's under teaching staff members? >> I'm reading the staff in appropriate
staff. So staff to student or staff to student. Correct. >> Okay. So is there any policy for bullying for staff to staff, staff to a parent, staff where it's only?
>> There are. So, I I don't have the policies in front of me. Um, teachers or staff members in general are guided by whatever policies pertain to them in probably the 300 section or 3000 section and whatever other written expectations
that the administration puts out there for them. Um, I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at, but if a teacher does something inappropriate to another teacher, they can be disciplined if that's what you're asking. But that's on a case by case basis. written in any of your policies for inappropriate
behavior. It's only for regarding students. >> Okay. We we could we could talk about that and look at that. I I don't know. >> Okay. >> And my last question is um I asked this at um the June meeting I believe that
there were so many resignations. I wondered if you are going to have any exit interviews with these people that I see on the minutes for tonight. I think there are four. Um that is something that we have discussed.
>> Okay. So you don't do exit interviews with everyone. Is that what you're saying? >> Um we have you I think you got a response to that in an email. You should have gotten a response to that email. Um and right now like I said that is in discussion. So
sorry. Thank you. Okay, we will now close the public comment portion of the meeting. 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 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 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 the administration and the superintendent to asssure 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 placed on the agenda for action at a public meeting. Okay, we'll move on to our personnel
report by our committee chair, Mr. Cod. Thank you, Danielle. Superintendent recommends approval of personnel action items 9.01 through 9.13 as presented. So move. >> Second,
any questions or comments? >> Okay. Annette, can you please take the role? >> Mrs. U, I need to abstain on 9.12 number five. Yes to the rest. Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs.
I need to recuse from 9.03 number one. Yes. To the rest. >> M. Jeffrey. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nickel. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Perry. >> Abstain from 9.12 number five. Yes. To
the rest. >> Mrs. Quinn. Abstain from 9.12 number five. Yes to the rest. >> Mrs. Reynolds >> abain from 9.12 number five. Yes to the
rest. >> Mr. Gordon. >> Yes. >> Thank you. We'll move on to our education report by our committee chair, Mrs. Brenda Perry. Good evening. The superintendent recommends approval of the education action items 11:01 through
11:14 as presented. So moved. Second. >> Any questions or comments? >> Matt, can you please take the role? >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schuler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bay. >> Yes. >> M. Jeffrey. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Nichol. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Perry. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Quinn. Abstain 11.11 for Gary Brunner and yes the rest. >> Mrs. Reynolds.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Gordon. >> Yes. >> Thank you. And we'll move on to our policy action items. Superintendent recommends the approval of policy action items 12.01 and 12.03 as presented. So move. Second.
>> Any questions or comments? Annette, can you please take the role? >> Mrs. Frenzy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schuler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bay, >> yes. >> M. Jeffrey, >> yes. >> Mr. Nicollay, >> yes. >> Mrs. Perry, >> yes. >> Mrs. Quinn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Reynolds,
>> yes. >> Mr. Dorton, >> yes. >> Thank you. And we'll move on to our facilities and finance um items by our committee chair, Mr. Toddler. >> Thank you, Danielle. Our superintendent recommends approval of facilities and
finance action items 14.01 through 14.09. So move >> second. Any questions or comments? >> Annette, can you please take the rule? >> Mrs. Frenzy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Scheler? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bay? >> Yes.
>> Miss Jeffrey? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nicolai? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Perry? >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Mrs. Twin? >> 14.1. abstain. I'm on the bills list and yes
for the rest. Thank you, >> Mrs. Reynolds. >> Yes, >> Mr. Thornton. >> Yes. >> Do we have any ongoing business? >> Any new business from the board? Just a reminder, um I'll do Middle Sex
County School Board Association. Um monthly meeting is next Wednesday, December 3rd at Colonial High Colonia High School. Um in person starts at 6:00. Virtual starts at 6:45 or 7. And
um if anyone wanted to go to the um delegate assembly um in order to get credits for that the um it is also available virtually. Thank you.
Okay, we will now open our second public comment portion of the meeting. Comments at this time can be on any topic. Please come to the podium and put your name, address, email address, and subject of your comment into the record book. Before speaking, please give your name, address, and subject of your comment to Miss Annette Gordano,
business administrator, board secretary. Direct your comments and questions to the board president. You may speak on two separate topics for up to three minutes each. Mrs. Thomasy, did you accidentally take the pen? Did you take the >> I'm at five.
>> I have a couple questions. Uh my first question is um do you know how many openings there are in the Middle Sex public system right now? >> Not off the top of our heads, but we can get that information to you.
>> Okay. Well, I looked today and there's 27 job ads out there. Two months ago, we were told like 90% of the jobs are I know a lot of people have blessed
since then, but I don't know. I don't understand the discrepancies that are going on. I know there's a lot of vacancies. That's probably just more of a comment, but it's disturbing. The second thing is,
could you give the status on the class three officers again? Yeah, the agreement is very close to being done. That's the best status up there. >> Well, you know what? Honestly, as a taxpayer of this town and as the mother,
grandmother, everybody of this school and the children in our school district, that is embarrassing. This has been going on for three years. And I can't help but think that if we had an officer at Morg School, it wouldn't be such a
show. It is because it is a show. And if anybody doesn't understand that, they should probably sit around and listen to people talk. It's totally embarrassing what's going on in martyr school, not letting kids go to the
bathroom because kids can't operate in bathrooms. Like I just honestly believe if we have a class three officer there, a lot of this behavioral issues that they have and everything else would definitely put a little bit of influence
on them. We've had administrators go out, come back, leave, switch, change. You haven't had anybody in a role in an authority role in that position that's been able to do anything. And I honestly believe and I'm asking, forget I don't care about the
attorney and Mrs. Freeman, but I'm asking you guys as board members to please, please do all you can do to get these officers. We need somebody in mort school. We just really, really do. We need them there for the teachers. We need them there for the kids. We need
the kids to be able to go to somebody if they're being born. the way the administrative and the things have turned around in that school. I don't even think they know where to go to get help. Another thing that happened today, was there a counselor, a crisis counselor at
our school today? >> I know the kids were crying all over at high school today. Was there was there a brief counselor here today? I know the person hasn't deceased, but these kids are distraught. They have no place to go. Our counselors
were available today. >> They were. >> Absolutely. In all of our schools. Yes, they did. >> Okay. Okay. I'm just asking because I heard that the kids were crying all over the place today. And I just feel bad for the kids. I really do. I don't have anybody in high school. So, honestly, I
could say I really don't care. But I do care. >> And we care also. >> Well, you can say that. >> No, I'm not. >> My last thing [clears throat] is left. We all everybody cares. >> Well, if you cared, we'd have a class
three officer already. >> No, no, no. >> It's not being held up. >> All right. Listen, >> we're going to cut it here. And then my last my last time. Every day at 12:30, I pick up two
of my grandchildren. And on my way home, I ride my kids to school. Not because I do it on purpose, but because that's my route home. And one day I turned around the corner and guess what I saw? I saw a front end
loader and 20 men working 5t away from where the kids were having wrist. What would you think if you saw that? I just I so of course parents were up in
arms and yeah they didn't have recess for the next two weeks outside still I feel like at that moment again our children at Hazelwood school were put in harm
because I doubt all those men that were working on the playground that day were cleared and that's supposed to be a rule >> [clears throat] >> You don't tell. >> I don't know that, but I doubt it. >> Sharon, if you
guys do that, I'm not arguing with anybody, but it would be very interest. >> That's all I have to say. >> I just feel like my granddaughter is constantly life is at risk.
Absolutely. >> Just just to address your comment as I just confirmed it with the superintendent and as is required they all have to be background checked. >> That is a requirement for them to work to do work around kids. >> Well, I hope >> just to be clear.
>> Okay. I hope so. [clears throat] Martin Quinn, 154 Stat Avenue, Middle Sex. Just have a quick comment. Holding the uh executive session in the beginning of the meeting is totally disrespectful to the public. Yeah, half
the audiences get this home. That's it. Um, Linda Rochetti 316 Bound Brook Road, just a couple questions. Um, going back to I think this happened a couple months ago. I don't know if it was um, actually addressed. Do all the
PA systems now across the school district work within the schools? All the PA systems were replaced this summer. Yes, >> they were replaced this summer. >> Yes, they were. >> But do they all work? Are they all in working order now? >> Yes, they are in working order now.
>> Um, and usually so going back to with the horrific tragedy that has happened in our district and we all care. Um, so I don't want this to be like a sensitivity issue. Um, but is there a clear protocol
on how emails are sent across the district to inform parents that grief counselors are on staff? Just to have a little more transparency between the district and the parents
when something actually does. There's something that students that because not all the schools within the district communicate the same. Some >> some communicate more than others do [clears throat] and I can only speak
from my experience with my daughter being in fifth grade. Mrs. Vasquez was out of the building the other day. We knew about it. We had a cell phone contact on who to contact should we needed to contact the school. So that was amazing.
Just a little more clarity. That's important. It's all we want all as parents. So thank you. Thank you. >> Lord Thomasy, um can you please tell me what the final numbers are for re-registration?
Do we have that right here? >> Not with us right now. Okay. We will get get you that information. >> Okay. And also um what has been done to check the leases that possibly have
expired for students in school? >> Well, if they did the re-registration, their leases wouldn't be expired. I mean, we were only accepting current leases as part of the documentation. So, >> okay. So, there's no other checking
during the course of the year that this is might be up. Their lease was good until Well, there's going to be a process for re-registration that's going to go through um as they move through the schools. So, if something like that will were to come up, I mean, we're No, there's no process to check leases every
year. >> There is a process. There is a process though. the administration's alerted to the fact that somebody might have moved because something like that may have happened. >> So, in the past meetings, you were able to give us a number, but you can't give me a number tonight. How many have not reregistered yet?
>> We at the last meeting there were four students that were remaining and that's where we are right now. Four students. >> That was my question. Okay. >> But it's not for students. I I want to be clear. It's not for students that haven't submitted paper. Their paperwork
is it's partial paperwork. So, we continue to work with the families to get it finalized. So, they are not here because they're not supposed to be here. There has been difficulty. We did exactly what we said we were going to do. We went to the houses, spoke to the
families, and we are working with them. >> Waiting to get the paper. >> We are working with them. In some cases, it's language barriers. So, we are sending out our students, not students, excuse me, an interpreter to go with our attendance officer to ensure that they
understand and that they can complete the process. >> Okay. Um, I also have been asking about lunchers. Can you tell me where we're at at this time of the year? >> I can get back to you on that. >> Okay. And let's see,
which brings me up to you're going to get back with me and um you did send me an email in regards to the exit interviews, but my question was, are you going to be doing exit interviews for these people that are leaving? >> That's in discussion.
>> Okay. And the board corner, great idea. People here probably want to know the answers to my questions, but unless they're posted on the board corner, they won't be able to get them. So, the last I looked that I read any answers was the
May meeting, and it's now November. So, I would request that you possibly get that up to speed so that people get can get answers to their questions as well as other people's questions. And I'm gonna I want to read something
from a policy and then I would like an answer from you please. The board of education recognizes that the >> What policy is it? >> Uh 9180 school volunteers. >> Okay. The board of education recognizes that
the services of community volunteers can enrich the educational program and enhance the relationship between the school district and the community. So nowhere in this policy do I see a statement that says in order to
volunteer you need to have a child in the school. That statement to me means that anybody can volunteer. Um, I went through the proper procedure and clicked on the link to volunteer at picture retakes and
very strange but within 10 minutes the response came back and said no because you don't have a child in school. >> Who was asking for volunteers? >> Who was asking Hazelwood? >> Who did who? >> There was a link that I had to click on.
But was the school asking for volunteers or was it the PTO or >> It was the PTO >> and I mean did they send out the link to the community? >> No, I was able to get the link to volunteer. >> But did they send it to you? Like did they ask for your volunteerism?
>> They said to see if there were any hot spots available, which there were. So I applied. >> But you got the email from them with the link. >> They sent it to you. Mhm. >> PTO. >> The PTO sent it to you.
>> My question is there's no >> Yes. That that that was their that's their um the PTO is a separate entity and that was their volunteer request. So it really doesn't have anything to do with us. >> So they can have anybody go volunteer there according to what your policy
says? >> No. And that's probably why they said that they they told you no because you don't have a student in the school. >> Okay. So my question, how do they know I don't have a student in the school? Within 10 minutes they got back to me. Seems a little bit strange. >> Yeah. I I [clears throat] don't know. I
wouldn't know the answer to that. I don't know why how they would know that. I mean maybe whoever's in charge of it knows you and they know that. I This is a small town, but I couldn't tell you that. >> And I guess my last question is how are we doing with the class three officers?
We're close. >> It's still the problem of the $50,000. Is that what the problem is? >> Yes. Okay, we will now close the public com comment portion of the meeting. Um, and I think we are through with tonight. So,
I'd like to make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. All in favor?