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the July 21st Board of Education meeting. If I could get a roll call, please. >> Dr. Cordelino here. >> Mrs. Fano >> here. >> Dr. Modrack >> here. >> Mr. Palmer >> here. >> Mr. Petraino >> here. >> Mr. Rapaort

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>> here. >> Mrs. Smith. >> Mrs. Zuckerman >> here. Mr. Dore >> here. If we could stand for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it

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stands one nation under God indivisible and justice all >> the open public meeting notice. The New Jersey Open Public Meeting Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend meetings of public bodies at

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which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of the act, the Montville Township Board of Education provided a public notice of this meeting which included the time, date, and location that was posted at the Montville Township Municipal

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Building, all Montville public schools, the Montville public library, the Montville Township Board of Education administrative office building, the district website, and advertised in the daily record, and the tab into Montville, the board's official newspapers on March 26, 2026.

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>> Thank you. Um, let's go right into superintendence report. >> So, we're going to start off with Laura. Are you all set? So, uh, you know, throughout the year, we have so many great presentations. We have so many, uh, award-winning students, and we

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recognize them, and you saw that at the end of the year, we had so many things going on. We had an extremely long board meeting. Laura was, uh, gracious enough to allow us to, uh, move her forward to July. We don't have anything going on in July. So, uh, and we appreciate you

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coming in during the summer of your own time and doing this. Laura is coming back straight from the White House, uh, award-winning nationalist, uh, all about AI. And I don't know, I don't want to give you too much because I don't want to steal your thunder, but, uh, but it was just incredible for her to be

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recognized, for her to win this competition, and she's going to educate us tonight about AI, what she's doing in the classroom, and where we're going as a education and and teachers. >> Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Good evening.

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I'm here tonight to share a story that started here and ended here. It was on my birthday in September. I had just read a New York Times article about how high school seniors were having the worst reading score since 1992 attributed to screen time in the

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pandemic. Then I learned about the presidential AI challenge. I didn't know what it was. It was something new. When I saw there was an educator category, I decided to check it out. Track 3A, challenge educators to teach an AI concept to students in a new new and

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unique way. And that is one of my favorite things to do as a teacher to come up with creative ways to deliver instruction. So, Chat in the Box was born. It I created an unplugged game-based learning tool designed to deliver AI education for all. It can be

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played in elementary school, middle school, and high school. It's easy to use, engaging, empowering, and it incorporates literacy. When you open the box, it's somewhere

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going around. You will find three um three decks each targeting a specific AI competency. Uh chat box number one is reverse the prompt, which is for natural language processing. Chatbox number two is in plain sight for abstraction and chat box

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number three is triple word play for machine learning. The core of the task of reverse the prompt is to write the prompt that created the image. Students are shown the image and they have to write the prompt. For the younger grades they would identify words. We got some critical thinkers when this was brought

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to our students. Third graders question where' the park come from? It's not in the prompt. The high school students they gave me a hard time because they said that is not a waffle cone. Because the prompt said waffle coat the in plain sight desk students analyze

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these AI generated images that depict idioms that literal idioms. So they have to distinguish between a simple interface which is the phrase's figurative meaning and its hidden implementation the literal meaning behind the saying thereby modeling abstraction which is found in complex AI

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uh systems. This example is for green with envy. I particularly like this story because I had some students say never heard of it. So we decided to discuss William Shakespeare who was talked about the greeneyed monster that later turned into Mark Twain where he said green with envy in a Connecticut

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Yankee and King Arthur's court. The last box triple word play students were given three terms were to predict uh what the AI would come up with. This one was home, Pennsylvania, and oval. They were confused when the answer was

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the White House because they said to me, they said, "Ferman, the White House isn't in Pennsylvania. It's in Washington DC." >> Now I can actually tell them yes, but it's on Pennsylvania app. I was there. Um, I submitted this uh this learning

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tool in on January 16th. My submission included a 4-minute video, a website, and a 10-page research paper. On March 16th in the evening, I received an email letting me know I was a state winner. And I was continuing to the regional competition. I didn't know there was a

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regional competition. I just was very happy to get that far. But on April 16th, during a live stream, they announced that I was the Northeast regional winner and therefore a national finalist. The adventure started um oh yeah I left on June 7th uh for

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Washington DC for three days of AI focused events staying at the National Conference Center and then the adventure started at the National Air and Space Museum where I saw the space shuttle Discovery. We showcased our projects at the historic Andrew Melon Auditorium. I

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visited Microsoft and Amazon. But the highlight of our trip was our visit to the White House starting with a press conference in the East Room. followed by a reception for us in the Rose Garden. This experience

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has afforded me the opportunity to benefit our district with AI educational resources, real world connections. This is actual AI engineer from Microsoft um Excel that I out of Washington state that came into DC and I had been on my

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regional competition with the zoom with him. So, it was great to be with him in person and um a collaboration with professionals. We're in the Rose Garden doing the YMCA and a once-in-a-lifetime story where I like to tell everybody that I had four glasses of White House

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lemonade. Overall, it was quite a way to celebrate 250 years. I continue to promote Chat in the Box as a starting point uh for AI education, not just on the local level, but on the national level. And this summer I'm working to disseminate as an

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unplugged STEM initiative. So thank you for letting me share this incredible experience. [applause] Ju just incredible. I I taught history and I I love history. So to you're only the second person I known that actually has been invited to the White House. So you know this is incredible. And for you

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to see everything and just be part of the living history is incredible. and now be able to bring that experience back to to our high school and our students and be be able to actually tell them, you know, this, you know, personal, it's just incredible. So, I'm very impressed, very excited. Can't wait where you're going to take this because

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AI is changing all the time. So, two years from now, who knows, you know, so this is incredible. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Anybody? Uh, >> yeah. So, the box is really Yeah. Any questions or anything? >> Thank you so much, >> John. Turn it on, please. I I just want

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to say thank you for it. It sounds so cool. The the game itself seems cool and and your experience and that that you can bring this all back to our district. Bravo. It's it's amazing. >> As the winner, I mean, are they planning to take this and use this at other

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schools or is there anywhere this is going from here or? >> Um, that's what I'm I'm working on right now. I'm trying to continue to promote that out there and I'm working with the group that um actually did that. when I have more information, I'll be happy to share it with everyone again, too. >> Are you going to patent this and then

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get this out there? >> I developed it as an open collaboration project. So, on the website where teachers can add their own cards to it. And I actually when um Dr. Van Buzzkerk was here, she had brought this to the third grade with the media center and asked for specific science cards for

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that triple word play so they could incorporate it in their third grade science learning. >> Wonderful. >> Anybody else? Yeah, that's just an amazing game you have there. I mean, really very creative. Um, and now did

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you use AI to get some of the answers for things? And did you integrate that into how you developed it? >> I am not an artist. If it weren't for AI, I don't think any of those cards would have been done. And it was very difficult to get AI to

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um under with the idioms to not give me the figurative meaning. And I actually, believe it or not, got the idea for the idioms with a PD with Mr. Sanford about Notebook LM because he told I don't know if you recall it, but you were saying how you could shorten the output from

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it. You told it to cut to the chase and it understood you and a light bulb went off my head and that was early in the school year. >> Wonderful. Thank you. >> [cough and clears throat] >> Scissor cutting and people's chasing the

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other people. >> I want to play the game. [laughter] >> No, it's a hard board game. Oh, >> the instructions were on the devices. Okay. Um, Kine, moving on. So when we met last, we were discussing

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the possibility of projects for a referendum and we were going to open up a survey for the community members to join in in that decision-making process. We will be presenting the results of those surveys. However, we are going to

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first have a presentation by Mr. Will Ross who is from the architect firm that we use Pretten Architects to discuss what has been going on in the schools and what are some of the uh important elements of

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these projects that need to be addressed. So I'm going to pass it over to Mr. Ross. >> Microphone. >> No problem. It's fine. Uh good evening. Thank you all for having me. I am Will Ross from Paret Architects. Uh senior

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associate with PSA. I've been with them for over 14 years and been working with Montville for uh over 10 years. Um a brief agenda this evening. We'll go through this very quickly, but a little bit about our firm. Uh our history with Montville over the past 10 plus years,

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our facilities condition assessment that we completed um and is a living document. uh recommended high priority projects and then funding sources of how the district has been accomplishing projects and how they will continue to

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accomplish more projects. Uh so high overview of PSA by the numbers. Our firm's been in business for 38 years. We've been servicing K through2 clients for 32 um of those years. We have 115 diverse

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uh team members, 21 licensed architects, five MEP uh MEP engineering uh teams, three interior designers. Um we pride oursel on our relationships uh and our ongoing uh clientele. We've had uh 456 repeat clients um over the

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years. We represent represent 80 plus K through2 entities. We've completed over 10,000 projects in excess of three billion dollars. um 60 plus referenda with a pass rate of 80% in a value between anywhere between $2 million and

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$188 million. Um these are some stories that we've told over the past uh of our brand promise uh that uh help understand uh promote our project understanding our collaboration with our clients our

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success uh on our smoke jumping which is our responsiveness um which I may touch later on in the presentation focusing on Montville and our relationship over the last 10 years um the district has been tackling capital and maintenance projects through the

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reserves reserves uh ongoing uh every year. In addition to that uh we had a successful referendum in 2017. In 2019, we did the energy savings improvement plan, the EIP. Uh 2020, we had the ESSER

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funds um and projects through all three rounds of those grants. Uh we did the solar PPA in 2021 and in 2023 um successfully uh got some rod grants. In the last uh 10 plus years we've

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completed uh somewhere between 55 and 60 million worth of projects between referendums, capital projects and uh capital reserve and savings and grants. Um and those all those projects originated

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from a facilities condition assessment. This is a living document. Um we add to it and remove to it every year um with a range of projects and this goes back to the 2020 long range facilities plan initiative uh that was introduced in

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2000 by the DOE. Um, this was supposed to be a living document intended to detail the district's school facilities needs and the district's plan to address those needs. Uh, the state intended for it to be updated uh, every 5 years starting in

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2000 uh, and quickly realized in ' 05 when 600 plus districts submitted an update. It took them three years to issue uh, approval letters. So in 2010 and 11 they restructured the entire program. They realized that their

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software was already out of date and for the last 15 plus years have been planning to replace that software. Still no uh end in sight for that. So this uh brought us to our version of our

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strategic plan our tactical approach. So it starts with strategic uh sorry strategic planning, our needs assessment, our risk management, our prioritization and then execution of projects. So we develop a binder that will list all of our projects uh and

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needs and categorize them in a um high, medium, and low so we can actually tackle them yearbyear. Um, in reviewing that, we look at all of the building systems from structure to

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HVAC to roofing to plumbing. Everything has a useful life. And the average expected service life of any major system is on the 30-year average. So, that's how we kind of gauge when things need to be replaced and when there is a

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cut off between maintenance versus replacement and when that needs to get accomplished. Um, In the capital improvement plan there are categories. This is a snapshot of that at a very high level by category.

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So in the high priority category we have nine projects HAC boilers windows electrical switch gear replacements uh and so on. in medium priority, uh, interior renovations, uh, high school dust collector, some

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field upgrades and replacements, bathrooms, parking lots, and then low priority is interior renovations. So, like I said, this is a living document thing. Projects go from one category to the other and slide back and forth. None of these are in failure today and need

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to be replaced immediately. This is a planning tool. So, this is always changing and projects shift and slide. Um currently in that binder we have identified about $120 million worth of potential projects. Um and then in the

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high priority projects we've identified uh about nine categories. Some are existing conditions shown here. HVAC upgrades. So images here we have Cedar Hill um Woodmont

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Mason and that Hilldale. Um, all of these HBAC equipments are relatively original to the buildings. All constructed in the 60s, meaning that those systems are about 60 years old. If we go back a few

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slides, useful life is somewhere in the 30. So, these are 30 years past their useful life, which only promotes the district's uh approach to maintenance uh longevity. But at a point it's too much to maintain [clears throat] and uh it's

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time for replacement. Um we have generators at the high school, boilers, uh the high school um boilers are relatively newer, but parts are harder to source. You can see the boiler on the left is actually being decommissioned um and parts are being

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cannibalized to put into the other boilers to keep them running. windows. Uh again, original to these buildings. Um this is exterior. While they look in great shape, again, the district maintains everything, keeps

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them uh painted, repaired, but they could be more efficient. Um from the interior, they are single pane glass, so they are not energy efficient. when we go to replace the HVAC units, there'll be a significant um need to replace the

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windows as well for also the efficiency and how the HVAC and the windows [clears throat] are tied together. Uh electrical switch gears uh again original um in need for replacement just due to age. Um

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auditorium high school uh due to age and just high use could use a facelift and some interior renovations. Um and then funding sources. Like I said, the district has been very good at uh using all of these different

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options from ROD grants to EIPS to reserves. Um lease purchase agreements, not necessarily um appropriate for some capital projects. Those are three or fiveyear leases. Um you can't do those with with um large projects. And the

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county school construction financing program, uh your county does not offer that and you cannot go to any other counties uh because your county does not offer it. Um, and we're going to talk about referendums a little bit more. So, there are uh five

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potential referendum dates every year. November, December, January, March, and September. Um, and the timelines with that are based off of the DOE applications, review times, uh, deadlines, uh, agency approvals, and with referendums comes debt service aid

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eligibility. So, all the projects we've identified for this referendum have debt service aid available. uh up to 40%. Which is a big uh cost savings and big contribution from the state to help spread the district's dollars.

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Um this is the cost associated with the high priority projects. So in the elementary schools it is a subtotal of about 24 million. [clears throat] The middle school about 2.3 million the high school 9.2 million for a grand total of

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35.6 million. uh with that 35.6 the debt service aid is roughly 12 million. So it's um it's a big significant contribution from the state. Um our timeline to date and our timeline

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looking forward for a potential referendum. We started some initial due diligence with the district back in April. In June there was the um community feedback survey um we commenced starting the application process to the state. Today is July

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21st. Uh we're looking for approval to keep moving forward for the DOE submission uh for January uh July 31st, which is the deadline for a January referendum. With that submission, we anticipate um PEC letters, which are the eligible cost

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letters from the state, uh basically indicating the $12 million in debt service aid by October, approval and acceptance of them by November, again for that January referendum vote date.

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Any questions? >> Thank you so much for all your work and your loyalty to Montville. Um, my question is the auditorium is part of it looks like it's part of of the must-have. So, um, am I wrong?

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>> It was included in the high priority. It was it's not a mustave, but it's a it's a high priority recommended project based on um existing based on the conditions. It's one of the last large

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educational spaces to be um updated. In the past referendum, all of the media centers were done. All of the gyms were done. So, this is one of the last kind of um spaces like that to be updated or renovated. >> Can you tell me what that means?

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what will be done be done. [laughter] >> Um so it would be acoustical upgrades, lighting upgrades, finish upgrades, um seating, carpeting, um modernization uh of the what we call the back of house because all of the stage was previously

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done. >> Okay. >> I'm sorry. I didn't All the stage was what? I didn't hear that. Um the stage the theatrical portions was previously done. So there's new rigging um curtains and and theatrical lighting uh was

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previously completed uh five or six years ago I believe top of my head. Have you ever heard of or worked with uh any EIPS for windows? >> Energy savings improvement programs um

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are a funding mechanism where the energy savings from the projects pays for the the work completed. Um, windows while they do save energy, they [snorts] the buyback um, and the

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amount savings per year doesn't produce enough savings for the windows upgrades in the life of the bond. Um, so EIEPS are bonded for 15 or 20 years. So while um going from single pane windows that are almost zero efficiency to a double

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pane which is 50% to 90% more efficient um and has a energy efficiency improvement of 20 to 30%. That increase in efficiency and uh doesn't necessarily buy back the cost of the

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windows and the construction within the term of the bond. So, [snorts] um, windows typically are not included. Um, the previous EIP, uh, we did a significant amount, um, and the most savings came from lighting.

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>> So, going from the old T8, T12 bulbs to LEDs that paid for the roofs and the lighting and everything else in that EIP. Is there a way staying on that to [clears throat] kind of subsidize like self-s subsidize the what the difference

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between what the windows do save and and that savings versus what the total project costs? >> I would have to consult with the district's bonding attorney to see if we there's a substit on that. I don't know the top of my head. I'll look into that for the board.

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>> Okay. Thanks. Because if we could remove let's say an item and [clears throat] maybe pay 10 cents on the dollar for windows even though it doesn't cover the whole thing. >> So through a referendum you're going to get the 40 cents on the up up to 40%

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savings. So there is that windows are definitely eligible for that. I think part of what Will and I looked at when we were looking at how to we managed that high, medium, and low priority list every year. And part of us looking at

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putting the windows on the referendum is that with 40 cents on every dollar, we're getting more from the state than we could get from the EIP. >> Okay? So, we're trying to find the balance between the all the funding opportunities and where do we get the biggest bang for our buck?

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>> Would that be the same with HVAC upgrades that right? Because that would most of them do end up qualifying for EIP. >> Correct. That 40% from the state would be more than >> would be more. >> Correct. >> Correct. And because I remember last time you a lot

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of the real savings ended up being closer to 32 or something like that. So I'd love to see just what the comparison is or >> and where where we'll go next is the next place is to then take bond counsel

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and your financing team and begin to bring them into this process. And that's where the calculation of what's the actual percentage because it won't always be a full 40 um will come. Now that being said, if you think back to

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the 23 referendum, a lot of the work that was included in that was new build. New build gets refund re we do get money from the state for new build, but it's at a significantly lower percentage. All of the work that we're proposing as

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part of this referendum would be all renovation work and that's getting the most dollars. Whether it's 32, 38, something a little less than 40, it's the highest amount given. That's why you're our BA. [laughter]

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Joe, I have a question. Can you show us again the timeline? I just have a question regarding that. Okay. So the referendum vote is January 26 and the last our last referendum vote was December.

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>> Yes, >> it was December. I am just worried about how that could look to folks because it's in the end of January. There's senior citizens that are in Florida um for a month. This is when a lot of

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people travel. I just I don't know. I'm just a little concerned about that. People saying they picked a time when we're traveling or >> No, I mean I don't know. >> Right. I I I hear you on that, but you need as much lead time as you can so you

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can get work done during the summer. If you do a March or a later vote, you lose that whole summer and now you're you're losing almost a whole year of construction time. >> Can we do it in December or is that not possible? I think we've I mean then we'd

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be we're like we're razor thing close if we have to do December. I think we may have missed it already. >> I I believe we've missed the opportunity for a December referendum. Uh the December referendums are the

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second Tuesday. Um meaning we would need applications to the state minimally six months before that. >> Um so that would be beginning of >> this month. Yeah. >> June. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So that's why we're >> So that's it's impossible. Yeah. Okay. I understand.

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>> That's based on the the workload and the capacity of the state. [cough and clears throat] >> Don't referendum votes work the same in terms of mail in or absentee ballots? If people are away, they can >> correct. >> Right. So they have the opportunity to still vote even if they're not. >> Correct.

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>> Okay. >> Thank you very much, Will. Appreciate >> you all very much. Thank you. Mark will do the last presentation, please. Thank you. [snorts] So, that was the nuts and bolts of what

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literally is going on behind the scenes in our buildings. Uh right now, we're going to switch over to we did a survey of the community. We put the survey out uh last month. We ran it for I I guess about almost a month we ran it. Uh we had 343

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survey respondents and we'll get to some of the results in one second. I still think it's useless. >> They said they got some good data in the comments. >> Okay. So, we put this out on our

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website. We put it in social media. We put it on different uh parent social media uh sites as well. And we also had it on the town the township website as well. So, again, 343 survey respondents.

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If you look at the first pie chart on the left, you'll see uh 65% of the respondents were from the high school and the middle school. Uh overall, we had 86% of the people that responded had children in the district. Only 14% who

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responded had no children in the in the school system right now. In the middle column, you'll see uh 36% of the people who responded uh lived in this town for 16 plus years. And if you combine that with the other category of 19% we had

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about 55% of the people have lived in this town uh 11 plus years who responded to the survey. On the right you'll see the pie chart that we had uh the overall facilities rating 37%

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felt that the facilities were average above average or excellent and then if you include the yellow which is the 46% which they felt it was average you know we were at 83% of positive responses for the facilities. Getting more into the nitty-gritty with

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this is the heating the windows and the mechanical switches. when we ask people what do you think it's very difficult to replace the parts of many of these uh items that are 60 plus years old and as you heard from our architect talking

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about that uh we're we're cannibalizing some uh some of our own machines and having difficulty finding replacement parts. So if you look at the left hand side for heating units we had 51% say they were in favor uh they would definitely support or absolutely

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support. Add in the other 25% that's threequarters of the people were in favor of uh upgrading the heating systems with the windows uh rough roughly the same 44% were definitely or absolutely supporting it. Another 20% said they were supported for a total of

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64%. And mechanical switches which this is what helps bring the electricity into the different buildings. Again, a lot of these uh units and these uh items that we're talking about are 60 plus years old. So, we had 42%

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uh that would support it definitely or absolutely and another 21% in the yellow supporting it. That's bringing that total to 63%. On the next page, we had the fire systems. This is a very supportive

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category. 59% in the green and another 20% in the yellow bringing it to 79% overall. Technology enhancements 29% in the green supporting it and 27% in the yellow. So giving us a total of 56% supporting technology enhancements of

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wiring and different things to get us a little bit more up to speed in the different buildings. Installing generators when we have power outages, tornadoes, things like that, alerts, you know, anything that can knock things out. uh helping provide emergency lighting. We had 36% in the green, 21%

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in the yellow, giving us a total of 57% supporting that category. When we asked about class sizes, this is not involving the cafeterias for the elementary schools. But when we asked about, you know, adding different uh classrooms, we had 47% overall

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supporting it in the green, 19% in the yellow, giving us a total of 66%. And you can see the breakdown by the different schools in this. You have the five elementary schools, but you also have Lazar. And people were saying that the Lazar is overcrowded. We could use a

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little more space there. Uh again, the uh cafeterias that we were proposing at the elementary levels, uh that did not get as much support. Um so that's why we just stuck with those other things about classrooms. For Lazar, we asked about a new

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auditorium there because for curricular reasons and everything and the stress that it's putting on the high school. So, we did have a favorable outcome of 41% in the green, 17% in the yellow, giving a total of 58%. And the new outdoor space because there's not a lot of space because you can't use the back

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of the building for space behind Lazar. Again, 44% in the green, 14 in the yellow of a total of 58%. At the high school, we talked about the boilers, elevators, auditorium, and generators. Not to go

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into each one specifically, but uh the boilers we had 76%, the elevator 68%, auditorium renovation 64% and generator replacement 64% support. So all very positive.

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So if we go back to the list that Mr. Ross presented as our high priority items listed here broken down by the elementary lazar

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and the high school. That list comes to 35 million $600,000. In terms of support across all of those different areas, you're ranging anywhere from the high 50s in terms of support

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all the way up to almost 80% depending on the different area and the different item. So you definitely have support. This does not include the cafeterias or the renovation to the elementary

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buildings or Lazar for additional classroom space. nor does it include the outdoor space or the auditorium at Lazar. Going back to the timeline, this is the same timeline that Mr. Ross went through in terms of how we're proceeding

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through. So where we sort of are in the moment is that there is a resolution on the agenda for approval authorizing Pratt Samjen to go and do the schematics and the scope and other

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documents submittals that are required by the department of education in order for us to meet that July 31st deadline for the January 26 referendum. So what that resolution is doing is saying you

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can go ahead and do the submissions on behalf of the board of education. It is not necessarily putting together a question. It is not discussing what the tax impact is. It's just merely doing the submission to the department of ed

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of the projects. Now what is included in that project base is the projects listed in the 35 million. Meaning that unless you tell us otherwise, we are not including the classroom additions. We

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are not including the cafeteria additions. We are not including the additional auditorium at Lazar. And we are not including the additional outdoor space at Lazar. So, we're leaving it up for discussion right now if anybody wants to make any comments or anything. Dave.

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>> Sure. Um, I just I'm going to start off and just say uh Kine, thank you so much. You and administration and putting this together. You know, we do have a lot that has to be addressed. And I think we're uh eyeing up right now the real needs that this district needs,

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especially with, you know, the HVAC systems and all the projects that you have identified right here. So again, I I appreciate all the work you've done and um yeah, let's hear from some of our board members, Dave. Yeah. Okay. So I

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guess my question is um this list that uh prejam is going to work on is not final. We can add to it we can subtract it but promise if we want to add anything to it we would have to have them work on the

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schematics and send those off to Trenton. Would it make more sense to have more items uh that we might consider uh putting in here? for instance, the cafeterias or something else and have those schematics worked up. And that way

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later on we can uh if we decide we don't want them, we just delete them out before the referendum. But at least this way we have those schematics if we choose to move forward with them. >> Yes, that is an option that you have. Um, in terms of schematics, they already

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have schematics on classroom additions and cafeterias because that was part of the 23 referendum that was voted down. So, really all we're asking for is new drawings on Lazar's auditorium and the outdoor space. Those would not have been

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drawn yet. If that is a direction that you're interested in really pursuing, come a question, then we can make that adjustment. If you don't think you're going to do that, I would hate to have them do the work and then us not use it. >> So those schematics are still valid.

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>> Yes. From the original. >> How long? >> They're forever. Once you get your approval, you've got your approval. So we already have approval on the classroom additions and the cafeterias. >> The only ones we don't have aside from

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this 35 million is the additional outdoor space at Lazar and the auditorium. But again, I wouldn't want to have them do that work if you're not really going to seriously consider it as part of a question. >> Okay. Well, I I haven't seen the results. I haven't looked at those

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results yet uh as far as what the support was in the community, so I can't say. >> It was supportive. I I'll look it up right now. Yes, you had support for both the classroom additions which is page >> right but the the auditorium the Lazar

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auditorium >> and then page six is the auditorium and the outdoor space. >> Yeah, for the Lazar auditorium you had about 41% in the green and 58 overall. >> I I just want to remind everyone that we had how many people participate? 300

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>> 343. >> Yes. have we have 20ome thousand residents that will vote on what we decide to hone in on. So keep that in mind. >> Okay. So just so I'm clear then the projects that are eligible for the maximum or the 40% is what we see up

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there on the screen right now. >> Correct. >> Okay. So there's nothing on that screen that's not eligible for 40% and there's nothing that's eligible for 40% that's not on the screen. >> Correct. >> Okay. So the items that we do not have on the screen currently are all of the

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items in which they are considered new renovation, new construction. And they're percentage coverage is based on a number. It's I'm going to I'm pretty sure something in the range of about $120

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per square foot. In terms of how much does it cost to build that square foot in real life is probably close to 600. The number got locked in statute and it never moved. It's been the same number for decades now. So when you talk about how much you're going to cover, you're

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talking something in the range of maybe 15% of the total cost would come from state aid. So instead of us picking up 60% of those additions, we're really picking up 85.

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So, >> so um because when you look at the overall percentage of this sample population of the things like the Lazar, um you know, the Lazar renovations and the classrooms, those percentages are

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definitely the same as many of the items up here in terms of the approval, you know. So, I guess a couple things. one is your rationale for what you picked truly that the maximum getting the 40% and keeping this total referendum within

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a certain more reasonable number if you will I mean you know 35 million but still comparatively to what it would be if we added everything are there other reasons why you chose to not start with because you know one of the big concerns that we've been hearing at meetings and

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in the survey was class size none of this specifically addresses that, but that's kind of the less return in terms of what's covered and the more expensive pieces. So, I assume that's why I just kind of would like to understand more of the rationale behind how we got to this

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list. >> I mean, you summed it up perfectly, but Kine, maybe I >> I think a lot of this is driven not so much by the 40% but by the high priority items that Mr. Ross spoke about. When we go through this process,

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and this process is an annual process. We've done this every year for the past 10 years. We take the $120 million and we put a bunch of projects that are we really, really need to do this. For example, when we decided to do the

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sister schools gym enclosures, that made it onto the list, not because they look pretty, but because the outside skin of those gyms, the metal was beginning to deteriorate and we were getting water infiltration. So, that's something

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that's considered a priority. Now, could we have done it a hundred different ways? And did we opt for a way that it would allow us to put their mascots on each of the gyms? Yes, we did elect to do that, but that was no more expensive than if we had picked some other way. And the way that the reason we picked

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that project was because of the water infiltration. That's how it gets to be a red project versus a yellow project versus a green project. So that is the first thing that we look at. The fact that we can get the 40% is nice. And

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yes, I guess it probably weighs in, but not nearly as much as you think. We're really looking at this more from a how do we maintain the facilities safely and not as good stewards so that we keep the buildings in good shape and we protect

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our asset. >> Right. And just to go back to since the last referendum did not get passed, we've been trying to do a little bit of this with our own reserves and obviously $31 million will we will not be able to

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accomplish that in the near future at all. So the 40% back on top of trying to expedite this because you know 60 plus years these things are starting to fail. We're going to be in trouble pretty soon if we do not address these.

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>> Additionally, the biggest number on that list is $17 million in HVAC replacements and boilers added in. Those were part of the 23 referendum. So, it's not like these are new things to us. We've been trying to do them. And

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actually, that number was much larger in the 23 referendum, but we then went forward and we did work on Valley View. We've done work on Lazar and again hierarching who has the worst HVAC in the district. We're going to do those

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projects first and we paid for those 100% dollar for dollar out of the reserves over the past five years. >> My followup based on this is I know that we're concerned about potentially doing

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a multi-question referendum. You know, the one that passed in 2017 was successful in the multi-question referendum and so we did it last time and some feedback we got was that was an unsuccessful approach. People felt it was a little, you know, they didn't like

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that one depended on the other. My initial thought, and I'd like to throw it out there for my colleagues, is that I I'm still inclined to give the public the option on the classrooms and maybe some of the other

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renovations somehow. I I agree and understand this priority here. I don't know that we should shy away from the multiple question thing because what we're hearing about the concern about class size and how this, you know, the survey results, you know, I, like I

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said, I'd like to throw it out there for discussion, but I I think a good portion of the public from what we're hearing and what we're seeing would be interested in voting on that, too. And, you know, so I'm open to hear other thoughts and discussion on it. >> Justine

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>> Joe, thank you. I would only vote yes to the facilities repairs and program enhancements that you have the administration gave to us. Um many of you know when when I campaign I knock on a thousand to 2,000 doors and

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the referendum was brought up plenty of times and I speak to all different types of voters. Um and parents who have children in the school voted against it and it's because their children were in fourth or fifth grade. they knew they would not benefit. Um, and they did not

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want their taxes to go up $500 to $800 or whatever per year. Um, so I do not want a second question. I think that will drive people who are unhappy about taxes because residents know that most of the taxes they pay locally are going

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towards our schools. I don't want this to fail. Um, and uh, so I I you know, and I was I was I've been here for 30 years and I have a lot of friends whose kids were in trailers and that was a big

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oh no, my child. Well, one's a surgeon, the other one is a doctor and and they're all doctors actually. So, we have magnificent teachers. Um uh we we are helping to uh mentor children who

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will uh who will thrive no matter what. Um I went to school there was 28 kids in the class in the 70s. Uh we have a lot of you know it it it I think if we have good support for the teachers and the students uh it will get passed because

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we go up and we go down um as far as enrollment goes. But I will not support anything um besides this. I will not support a second question. Um uh this is not, you know, again, kids go across the street.

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Kids 30 years ago, 20 years ago went across the street. Um I I don't want to put the taxpayers in a a worse position. We have uh uh parents whose children have left the nest and they're staying in their homes

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and um every year their taxes go up and I just want those families to keep staying because if they sell uh families more families will move in and I don't want people to feel like they have to

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leave Montville. So that's how I feel. Um follow-up question. Um just out of curiosity, these things like the Lazar Auditorium, it's they're not going to get the full amount. Do we have any idea what kind of percentage they would get?

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>> Probably something around 15. >> Okay, that's And look, I think that's why the last referendum failed. We had a referendum back in 2017. Even the Tea Party supported it because everyone said, you know, you you're spending $10, you're getting 17. How can you go wrong?

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Um, I don't disagree with anything Michelle says. I think there is a lot of support out there for the other projects. Whether or not it's enough to pass a referendum, I don't know. And in the atmosphere that

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we are right now, let's let's face it, it's not a great economy right now. I think the best chance we have is to stick with the stuff we see on the board over here because if we start getting

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greedy instead of getting half a none >> um look and that's why I wanted to put it out for discussion. Look, I've lived here 25 years, too, and I've talked to a lot of voters and kept my, you know, pulse on on many people as you have. I have the same concerns about people and

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affordability. I'm not 100% convinced there's not enough support to have more people who want those things, but I have concern based on the last referendum, would it [clears throat] cause people not to vote for it? I don't I don't think I'm as absolute as that I think

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that it would cause it to fail. But if the board has enough part of me thinks if it's put out in the right way, let's let the public decide. Let's let them tell us why are you know, but if if if the board is wary of it and and we think we have a better chance, I could

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understand and respect that, too. I'm not 100% convinced that it's not the right thing to put it out to the public. And I don't think it's irresponsible to ask them because if a majority passed it clearly then they wanted it. But um I but I understand the hesitancy. I just

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want to put that thought out there. >> Yeah. I I'm [clears throat] I don't think we can go for the classrooms which is another super large spend uh in addition to this large spend. The only thing I would be open to

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considering is kind of what Dave suggested is if if we want to move forward with the schematics for either the new auditorium or the outdoor space. I personally like the outdoor space because the parking lot to me is a better uh solve. That would be an open second question

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because it's a far less of an ask and it's such a different issue that I don't think it would confuse anyone as to our primary objective. >> Yes. Guys, we're using the word second question kind of loosely. Do we mean

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second question as in a second question as part of the referendum or are we talking about second question as when you have a budget and then you have a second question for the budget? >> We are not change terms. >> Yeah. >> So, uh I need a we need a little

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direction from the board. So, am I hearing or do you want to do >> my my thought process too is that you know I think the last referendum in 23 the district itself you guys were promoting it you went to all the demic

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community groups the PTC's you were trying to sell them on this idea >> and you fantastically you guys did it you went and did everything you could but yet you still couldn't get the full support because of the large number that was tied to it you know this is what

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we're saying now is we have these high priority needs that need to be addressed. You know, you you've shown presentation, we've seen everything there. I think that this is better sell to the community saying, "Look, if you want to keep these schools running, then

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we need to get these issues fixed, you know, and that's just my thought." Go ahead, David. >> Yeah. Um then I'll go ahead and just say I'd like to make a motion that we get the extra uh schematics uh written up.

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So, is there a second? Does that cost? >> Excuse me. Does that cost money? >> Yes. >> How much? >> I don't know. I would like to know how much first I mean before we vote on it. I I don't

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like just voting on something. >> Unfortunately, I don't have that information. Um >> when would you need uh a vote or direction from us? You would need it tonight or you could you wait till next

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meeting to get that direction? >> No, because I missed the 31st deadline. >> So, you really do need that direction tonight. If we're going to give you any extra direction, you need that tonight. >> I can do the classrooms because we have them already. I don't know off the top

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of my head the cost to do the work needed to get the auditorium or the outdoor space. Can you give us an estimate and we can give you an upper limit as to what you can spend on it? >> Uh, may I interject?

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I'm not opposed to doing to getting the um the specs for the classrooms. And the reason is if our demographer is correct, and we're seeing it in real life that he is correct,

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>> there is going to be a growing roar of parents who want their children in classrooms that don't have 28 kids. Um, >> and so I think we should be prepared in

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in that way. And I'm not I'm not a fan of a second question, but >> but if it we'll have to see how it shakes out. I would like to know those numbers, >> but we have those schematics and those schematics are still valid and we can go

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back. >> But we don't have a price tag. >> So yes, we do. >> They're already approved. >> Okay, they're the classrooms are have been approved and we do have a price tag that's the same price tag as was proposed for the 23 referendum.

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We don't [clears throat] have the auditorium and the outdoor space because that's something that came up since the 23. And unfortunately, I wasn't sure if you were going to go in this direction. So, that's why I didn't price it out.

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>> I would be reluctant to price out the uh auditorium for Lazar and the new the new playground. Even though I think we need it, I think a greater priority is going to be the classrooms. And I'm not suggesting that that's going to be part of the referendum, but I don't see any

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harm in knowing what that number is. >> So, we did have >> I still have a motion. I need a second. >> I'll second Dave's motion. We'll vote on it. >> And what exactly is this for? for >> just getting the schematics for the

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Lazar auditorium and the outdoor spaces. That's all it is is just the schematics. >> But it's going to delay us, David. And >> no, it's going it's going out with all these other schematics. >> Yeah, but I'm against having the auditorium and the fields done. I mean,

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I I've talked to folks in the public. They did that. This is now getting really I think too big. >> Yeah, he's probably driving. >> Okay, we're trying to get you a price. [laughter]

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>> Can we delay Can we delay this motion until he comes back? Okay. >> Oh, there he is. >> Oh my goodness. He just arrives. [laughter] >> Man of the hour. >> Okay. Well, the question is,

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what would it cost PSA to put together schematics for submission by the 31st of July on the outdoor space at Lazar and the auditorium? >> Remembering what good clients we have. [laughter] Um so the typical

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um professional service fee for the DOE application for a pre-referendum schematic submission um is between four $4,7500 for the application. This would probably be in the middle of that

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because it is a fullblown middle school auditorium. Um the schematic submission for this is quite intense. Um we have to do a full schematic floor plan um site plan

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uh called educational specifications proving out seating capacity ADA all of the different ancillary spaces that go with it. Um are there dressing rooms? Are there restrooms? Are there stage

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shops? You know it's it's It's more of a design exercise meeting with the district administration um theatrical department to see what the actual needs are. Can't just show a square box of 12,000 square feet

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>> and say it's going to cost X dollars. Needs to be a little bit further than that. Um can it be done in 10 business days and sent to the state? right now. >> Yes, it'd be it'd be a lot and it' be many many hours with the district to to

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work through this quickly. Um, >> in that case, I think I might want to go ahead and withdraw my motion. >> I I just want to put out there as well, you know, in this in what we're proposing now, we're going to be doing renovations to the high school auditorium, which will make it 10 times

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better. So, Lazar, we'll have an opportunity to use that once it's done. Would would the cost of the schematic change if it was the other alternative, the the parking lot change and the outdoor space? >> Um it would be on the the lower side of

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that. Um I'd have to take a look and see exactly what we're doing. Um if it's just the parking lot um and redoing the existing parking lot turning into green space um it would be significantly less than the auditorium, >> you know. Um, I could I understand the

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costs and everything associated with it. I'm not saying we should do it. I think for the future and just tell me if this is right for for future thinking. It costs us money. I've heard this talked about in Lazar when they do their shows like we have to bust the kids over to the high school. An additional

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auditorium in the high in Lazar could be revenue for us because we could rent it out the way we do the other revenue. So, I'm not necessarily talking about as part of this referendum, but I think that the discussion shouldn't just be it's this frivolous thing. I know we spend money to bring the Lazar PE kids

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over to the high school. It limits how much we could rent out the high school auditorium because it's being used dual purpose and we would have a potential revenue generator in Lazar auditorium. I'm not necessarily talking about for now, but I think that's a bigger picture that people to remember just than it

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being this nice thing. I think that there's a much bigger components to thinking about the Lazar Auditorium. >> Maybe a a second question on a budget some years down the road maybe. >> One other question just while you're here kind of unrelated the if we do all

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the projects that are high priority, what do you expect if you know that would save us in maintenance dollars? Could you put a number on that a year that we could tell the public then, you know, look, we're going to not only get you this, but we're also going to save the X dollars a year. I don't have those

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figures with me tonight, but we can definitely work with facilities department um and the business office to come up with some figures. the there are constant in-house repairs and maintenance on HVAC equipment, boiler

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maintenance, um third party contractors or or vendors coming in to do things. So, I'm sure we could >> all right >> piece that together and and come up with an annual >> be helpful. Yeah. Thank you. So, what I'm hearing is we're moving

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forward with the $35,661,000 uh to move that forward. >> I'm hearing moving forward with the classrooms at least because it's all done. Just move that forward >> to the state or no, >> it's already done.

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>> Two nos, but three nos. >> I don't think we have to do anything on that right now. Right. >> No, >> correct. We don't have to do any We don't have to do anything because we already did it. >> Right. [clears throat] >> Don't leave. [laughter] >> I'm still here. Um correct. The

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approvals from the um [clears throat] past DOE application submission are still in effect. Those asis can be reused moving forward. >> Quick question on that. The costs we were talking about the cost of those.

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That was the 2023 costs. Inflation has been substantial since then. Would we be allow I mean how do they allow us to adjust the price or not? >> 3%. >> Okay. Submission to the DOE for that

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price only would apply to what they're currently covering in debt service. Meaning yes, you need to give us updated numbers. However, we're still only getting 121 or whatever the number is

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per square foot on those because of them being additions. So, that wouldn't change. >> The debt service aid would not change. Um, and I believe the number is 40% of $145 per square foot of eligible

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square footage. It's very complicated. So eligible square footage is determined by the number of what the uh state classifies as unhoused students >> based on your current curriculum, number of rooms and your district practices of

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students per room. That number is then um calculated per student per square foot and it gives you a calculation of a total square foot and then you get 143 times that and then 40% of that. So, it's a very insignificant number when

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you we're projecting $600 a square foot uh in new construction and the state is giving you $60 a square foot, so almost 10%. >> Something you just said made me think, do we have the ability to make the

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square footage more or less eligible based on our policy of students per classroom? And should we raise it or lower it? >> We already have done that exercise. We are very aggressive in the way we apply for this. [laughter] >> No, but don't leave.

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>> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you so much. Forward. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks for >> Might want to stay longer. [laughter] I can't believe he [clears throat] stayed. >> All right, just quickly, I just have two

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things. Uh, just update on Hilldale. It's still in litigation. Uh, our attorney just updated us. He's in back and forth with their attorneys and, uh, they're very close to some kind of finalized deal. So, we're expecting some kind of construction to begin in the

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very near future. Um, and I hope to have an update real soon for everybody. So, um, we're optimistic about that. And the last thing was just the uh district the quarter 4 district goals the results uh just in the efforts in the uh because of

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time interest of time. So I'm just I've shared that with everybody. If you have any questions just uh come back to me but uh we completed all our fourth quarter goals and we're just ending on a very solid year with all that. So thank you. >> Thank you Tom.

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Uh moving on. Uh we're going to go to committee reports. So Karen, why don't you start us off? >> Uh this is for this is for um oh fillers and finance. Uh at the committee, we

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just had our committee meeting tonight. Um we discussed the facility survey in great detail. We had preliminary discussions of a possible referendum which we have spoken about right now. Um and we also took a look at our use of

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facilities uh categories and fee schedule. >> Thank you. Uh curriculum Michael, >> we have a meeting scheduled for July 30th. >> Okay. Policy. >> Um thanks Joe. So we met with Mr.

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Sanford and Dr. Gorman. Thank you so much Mr. Sanford, you did an incredible job. You had a lot of policies to deal with. Um, in general, the committee reviewed updates required by changes in New Jersey state statutes, administrative codes, and audits. All

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policies and regulations reviewed were approved by the committee and appear on tonight's agenda for a first reading. Due to the new I'll tell you briefly what they were. Due to the new state policy prohibiting students from using personal internet enabled devices during

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the school day, policy 2363 was abolished. Therefore, students will no longer be allowed to bring your own device. All students must use district chrome um issued Chromebooks. Policy and regulations 5516 outlined the

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rules and disciplinary consequences to enforce the new state ban on personal cell phones and internet devices during the school day. Um the committee decided that devices must be stored in backpacks or lockers across all grade levels. These devices will be prohibited on

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school buses K through 8th A grade. There will be a progressive discipline structure in place for any student that violates the policy. And I believe this is the same policy anyway, so it won't be new for the kids. The notification of board meeting updates aligns now with a

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new state law allowing public entities to post legal notices on their official free websites rather than publishing them in legal newspapers. And uh we did um the last one was the family leave. It just was revised

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reflects significant expansions to the New Jersey Family Leave Act. Employees now have only to be employed for 3 months down from 12 months and work 250 hours down from 1,000 hours to qualify for leave. Thank you.

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>> Thanks. [cough and clears throat] Communications. Michael, >> no report. >> Safety and security. John, >> no report. >> Uh, delegate less on for New Jersey school boards. >> Uh, thank you. Um I'll give a brief report. Um I'll start with report of the

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resolution subcommittee. Uh the committee sent to the delegate assembly one, two, three, four, five, six resolutions. You can look these up online in the uh consideration of time. [clears throat]

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I was um so the delegate assembly is on May 16th. Uh we elected a new vice president of uh county activities, Charles Carabalo from P County. Um the

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Oh, that's that uh legislative committee uh met on May 30th. And that's all for school boards. >> Thank you. Um Morris County school boards. Michael,

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>> no report. >> Okay. Um, the Morris County Educational Service Commission, they didn't have a meeting. They're on a summer break. But I will add just to Morris County School Boards that Maf High School will be hosting the first meeting of the 26 27

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county um county meetings here at the high school. And that's again be on Wednesday, [clears throat] September 23rd. So you guys should attend. >> Not going to snow that day. >> That's what we asked for September. We didn't want to wait for the December one. So, um,

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Caitlyn is not here from the alliance. Um, John, athletic boosters, >> no report. >> Christine, special >> special education parents advisory group. Um, so it was uh a Zoom meeting

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during the daytime. Um, we uh the supervisor gave a presentation. Um she talked about action-based learning and um some people were interested in bringing it to general education. It's a

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big hit. Um uh they talked about extended school year at Valley View. Um and it will it started obviously and it will end um August 11th. They talked about transportation, staff professional development. Um, this school district

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has three behavioral um, uh, um, assets going throughout the entire district. Um, they talked about safety, care. Um, one parent was on the call and she brought up some great points. It was

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a great back and forth. Um, one thing I did want to bring to your attention, um, she mentioned at Valley View the play playground safety. Um the the gate is not the the the play area is not fenced

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in totally. So there is a concern of kids aloping um and during uh playground time. Um she didn't know if maybe uh the school was doing something or maybe the PTA because not only it helps special ed but also

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general ed students. Um and so I just wanted to bring that to your attention. uh the concern about safety. >> We we'll look into that or put that on the next referendum. So >> Oh gosh. Okay. Um also they talked they she uh the parent was really wonderful.

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She talked about different types of procedures if there's a substitute driver or a substitute one-on-one aid or a teacher. It was very nice back and forth. Um and she also talked about uh progress reports. They are data driven.

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um and um maybe implementing the district student information cards for if there is a substitute, they know all about the child. It was really a great one. And then there was a speaker um that spoke about creating a calm and

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connected home. Um which was wonderful. So that's my report. >> Thank you. Um since the schools are in summer break, unless anyone has anything they want to say from the PTA, you can speak now.

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Okay. Um this is the first public participation for items on the agenda. If you'd like to come up and speak, you're welcome to seeing none. >> And Mark, we could kill the presentation. We're done. >> Uh we'll move to consent resolutions if

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I can get a motion. >> Second. Thank you. Um section I are minutes, section J, section K. >> Okay. Uh all of you have an addendum

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connected with you. We are adding uh some more new contracts and revising some contracts. And then you also have one personnel for unused sick time that's for a payout that that's on K12. So K5 and K12 have

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addendums of of items being added. >> Section L >> L we have amended um two people for line 37 and 38 and that was just their termination dates are

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different. >> Section M and section N. >> Um yes. >> Okay. So on uh 5516 so the cell phone policy what is a non-inable device

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>> Mr. Sanford or >> it's like a flip phone or a beeper or something like that or >> it could be a camera you know being used somehow. >> Okay. Uh and why would those be prohibited?

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We we didn't want to open the door to any kind of device. If we're trying to keep kids off of any type of devices, we didn't want them all to start buying flip phones or something like that and then start using that as a way to text each other and getting around the uh the law. >> Okay. Um yeah, because I could see

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something like a camera, regular, you know, old oldtime 35 millimeter camera being useful. >> Correct. Correct. And if if it is useful, that's part of our curriculum. part of the things the board have, you know, approved, then then we have no problem with that. The whole thing is

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trying to stay within the spirit of the law of not trying to circumvent texting and communicating with people. >> And the other comment I had about that was um I really don't think that having this having them stow their devices in backpacks or or locker

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shoe caddies, whatever, is going to be effective. Um, kids are always going to be trying to sneak them out, you know, look at them. I know Lazar, they're very effective at keeping the kids away from their phones during the day. And so I would hope that the administration talks

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to the new administration over at the high school about enforcement. Um, but I would like to follow that up with a request that uh come next July that you provide us with a review of how the year went and see if we need to make any

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adjustments. >> Absolutely. So, we didn't want to uh invest too much money into different storage devices until we saw how effective this was and then we will update you accordingly. Absolutely. >> One year we'll get an update. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you, David. And I also want to

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mention Joe real quick that children who have IEPs or um are allowed permitted medical reason, special needs, they are continue they are allowed to use their phone phone as long as the administration knows and it's in their program. Um and and I will tell you that

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I was a little disappointed. We have to follow the law. But I know that uh many of us wanted the children to be the high school kids to have access at during lunchtime and during you know the hallways but we are not allowed to let

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them have that. So I just wanted everyone to realize we were disappointed but we know the kids will >> correct >> will be okay. And if there's ever an emergency we were assured by Mr. Samford and Dr. Gorman if a child needed to speak to their parents or vice versa.

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It's always been this way in policy. The children can go to the administration asked to speak to their parents. So we want the parents and the students to understand. We wished it was different but unfortunately we have to follow the law.

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>> Absolutely correct. The state just two weeks ago gave us an FAQ frequently asked questions. They clarified that schools are not allowed to have it wi in the hallways or at lunchtime. So, it's a complete ban uh from bell to bell. And then before and after school, you had

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some wiggle room to decide on policy, which we did. >> John and I are laughing because yeah, we were like, "No, we're okay with this." >> I know some members didn't want Exactly. >> wanted it differently, but we were okay. [laughter] >> I just have one more thing. L8, we also

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are removing from the agenda. L8 was the approval of a new job description. It just wasn't ready in time for this meeting. It will be on the agenda in August. >> Thank you. >> Um okay, let's vote on this >> vocal.

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>> Dr. Modrack. >> Yes. >> 100%. >> Mr. Petraino. >> Yes. >> Dr. Cordelino. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Palmer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Rapaort. >> Yes.

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>> Mrs. Zuckerman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dory. >> Yes. But abstain on K1. >> Um any old business that needs to be discussed? Um any general board comments or new

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business? Uh I will say uh NJSBA is offering webinars. I believe I sent you guys an email like two weeks ago. They're doing one tomorrow on summer policy updates just covering all the recent updates um coming from home instruction, student

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mental health, and then next week they're also doing a webinar on um [clears throat] goal setting and know we're going to be discussing it at August. So you might want to check that out and just you know get some ideas. So

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that's what all I have. Um, >> if you know if the board wants, we can also have one of the field service representatives come and help us with that. >> Yeah, Paul Paul would reach out. >> It's free. >> Yeah, >> free is good.

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Um, our last public participation on any items of interest if they want to come up and speak. Seeing none, uh, can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Second.

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Thank you very much.