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 which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of the act the monville Township Board of Education provided a public notice of this meeting which included the time date and location that was posted at the mville Township Municipal Building all Montville Public Schools the Montville Public Library the monville Township Board of Education administrative office building the district website and advertised in the Daily Record the board's official newspaper on January 7th 2024 thank you uh High School super high school student Representatives F Mr Sun you have a microphone gra stand okay come on up okay okay so starting off with some things that happened in the past so January 7th to January 22 F had a book drive as one of their Community Service events and a lot of books were donated by members under the F K Ina also from mths FBA on January 8th they hosted the 2024 Northern Region Summit AT mths and students and fbaa officers attended several workshops and they had the opportunity to network with their peers on topics such as creating business plans teamwork and technology in business in the beginning of January students in Visual Arts 3 and four created self-portraits and they used a style of painting that was popularized by artist chunk cloes when viewed up close the portraits have separate tiles of artwork that from a distance look like a cohesive image and the portraits are on display over there in the media center on January 9th students in Mrs Hines anatomy class prepared for their bone practice exam by having a friendly competition and students had to close their eyes and name the skeletal bone at various stations around the room and then recently hosta member my three a won first place in medical assisting at the Norther Regal Regional competition members Elvin Cunin and Sammy Hy took fourth place in emergency medical technician and all three students will be representing mville at the state tournament in March another student Sonia VI viia was one of the winners in the New York times 100w Memoir contest and Junior Alex pelov had a fourth place finish in the one mile run run at the milrose trials and he also set a new school record in the open one mile and then Senior basketball player Jackie sella represented mths at this year's National girls and women in sports day she was recognized last week at Ruckers then some things that happened in the present so midterms for the high school will be starting tomorrow January 24th and they will will run through next Monday January 29th these days will have two long periods each day followed by an early dismissal today during lunch in the auditorium F had a guest speaker event which featured Morris County Clerk and gry and she's going into her 10th year as Clerk of Morris County and she shared her interactions with f members uh with other government offices and her day-to-day life the interact Club is currently holding a winter items drive to collect new and use winter items to donate to individuals in need and then math club held its fourth Math League contest today after school the class of 2025 currently is also holding an apparel sale to raise money for their grade and this fundraiser will run until January 31st so the girls basketball approaches the middle of their season with a record of 4- 10 they start the first round of Morris County tournament as the 14th seed against parcion on Saturday Saturday boys basketball currently has a record of six and N sophomores Chris sophomore Chris Ferrari and Junior Anthony fer have been lighting up the boards averaging 13 Points each game bowling is currently holding strong with an undefeated record of 14-0 senior Eli Kaufman leads the SE team with a season high score of 299 they recently became the NJ bowling tournament champions over winter break ice hockey has a season record of 6 and8 their senior goalie and Captain Alexis Riley recently had her 1,000th save and Senior Captain Matt Jafari hit his 100 points last week as well the wrestling team currently has a record of nine and six they held their Bronco night last they hold held their Bronco night last week having the youth wrestling programs come to to support them at their match both boys and girls swim both hold a record of two and five their recent victory over Panic was the first time in over 10 years both teams won simultaneously both the girls and boys real teams took first place at this meet and then the winter track team in field has winter track and field team has been Progressive has been progressing well this season recently the girls freshman team won the moris county championships as well as many victories from other athletes so now to move on some to some things that are going to happen in the future the mths incoming student orientation will be on Wednesday February 7th at 7 p.m. incoming students and their parents will get a first glimpse into high school life and the rich and varied programs that mths has to offer the sa will attend a student Summit at Madison High School on February 1st to represent Montville spirit and pro fundraising ideas while collaborating with other schools in North Jersey January 31st marks the start of marking period 3 um f will be having their annual state leadership conference to Hara in Atlantic City from March 11th to March 13th and finally Key Club will be having their annual volleyball marathon on March 8th thank you thank you very much thank [Applause] you there are a lot of people here tonight okay is there anything that we're doing yes we're celebrating a wonderful evening of students and Educators so we're going to start with the students we're going to ask Mr Green to come up here and uh tell us a little bit about the uh chamber choir at Lazar good evening everybody um if you don't already know me my name is Jordan green I'm the coral director over at Lazar um this is my first ever board meeting um although I've been in Montville for four years um so maybe I should come to more um but I am so incredibly excited to present the chamber choir for you all tonight this uh group of students is kind of a branch of our seventh and eighth grade choir it's open by audition to seventh and eighth graders and in addition to learning extra more challenging pieces um in class they meet Thursday mornings and have donated a lot of extra time um even on Saturdays to come and rehearse and without further Ado I'm going to have them come up here and uh hopefully have room for him come on [Applause] guys we do have two selections for you [Music] tonight [Music] go [Music] [Music] mother Mary full of [Music] grace all homes are gone our L ones taken taken by the Sea mother Mary [Music] ours all tears have mer here our [Music] moreful our world has been Shen we wonder [Music] our the Dark of the Soul bring comfor to us oh mother Mary come and car us in your Embrace let your [Music] Sorrows the to overflow [Music] the where we are going have mercy on us all in burning each flame to your in the dark of the Soul [Music] shy find us where we fall out of Praise lead us to in the Dark Night of the Soul our broken hearts you can make mother Mary come and car in your embra let us see your gentle [Music] pry [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] noty I could I surely would stand on the rock where stood on me [Applause] God oh Mary Don't You [Music] ohy with [Music] [Applause] [Music] the brothers don't you cry will Be Good Times by and byrow [Music] [Laughter] [Music] are you we pharoh Army God oh Mary oh Mary oh [Music] [Applause] Mary PHS God [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ohy yeah she wasas all right good job [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that was a wonderful job we thank you very much for entertaining us tonight we we believe here at monville in the 4 a of Education we have the activities like clubs and activities we have the Arts which you just saw before you you heard about in our report about the Athletics and now we're going to uh direct our attention to all the academics and the Educators that are here so tonight we're going to recognize 15 people that are uh very deserved in their award and uh we're going to ask the principal to come on up with the two recipients he's going to say and she's going to say a few words about them and then we'll step over to the side to the uh step and repeat and take a little picture so we're going to start with the Elementary Schools starting with Cedar Hill good evening I'd like to uh call up two of our fabulous Educators first is Vicki Marquetta while relatively new Cedar Hill school she is not new to education nor new to the community she is a former home and schoolid president her children are here and they go to our school as well uh Vicki is our fourth grade teacher recipient of the teacher of the year [Applause] [Music] award our next recipient is the governor's educational specialist award again uh not a new to education or not new to Cedar Hill I borrowed her permanently from hildale school so thank you Jill for hiring this wonderful person so Tiffany s our instructional coach and makes my job so much easier and makes the building run so smooth with her interventions and things of that sort so thank [Applause] you thank you Dr Gorman um on behalf of our entire school thank you everyone for coming here tonight we're very pleased to announce that our Educational Services professional at William Mason school is Olivia majori [Music] promise I'll be brief I touch B with Olivia Olivia's colleagues the other day just to find out some of the um superlatives that they used to describe working with Olivia and she was described as the following Olivia was is hardworking she's loyal Dependable kind-hearted and sweet they also said that she has a unique ability to break down the most difficult task for students and make it simple and understandable congratulations Olivia and thank you for all [Applause] [Music] here our next recipient for the teacher of the year is Mr Don wheeler Mr Wheeler is a Montville Township High School graduate he is also a resident and a 27-year veteran teacher at William Mason School uh I did the same thing for Mr Wheeler I connected with some of his students and they described Mr Wheeler in the following ways Mr Wheeler is a great teacher and weatherman Mr Wheeler is fun Mr Wheeler is nice and amazing Mr Wheeler is fun he's loving he's helpful he's kind he's Fair he's the best teacher in the world I will say this um Mr Wheeler is a weather buff so Dr Gorman I know you've had a tough stretch over the past couple weeks if you need any help I think you guys should exchange numbers excellent congratulations to both of our [Applause] winners congratulations to all of our winners I'd like to introduce our Educational Service professional Miss Tammy McMahon uh Tammy has been has been with us for 17 years at Valley 35 years approximately in education certified teacher she's served in many different grade levels she builds trusting relationships greeting children every day at the door she knows their interests and their hobbies and then she sends them all fully packed and ready to do their homework um she's a certified teacher as I noted and she can step in whenever we don't have any subs which is common these days um she works with the small groups her positive energy encourages not only the students but also our staff um she co-chairs our Sunshine committee plans lots of fun activities for us and keeps our morale positively flowing throughout the year um Tammy is a solid teammate and a valued college and she has her entire Mish Booka not only her fan base in the back but raise your hands if you're related to [Music] Tammy congratulations [Applause] [Music] I think our Clans come from the same part of Ireland um Ain Sullivan uh is a 25y year veteran in education uh when I came to valy view Aon was in basic skills I saw her talent and I said eron please take over a classroom not to say that basics teachers don't do the most important job in the school but I can put Ain anywhere and I have um she has been so flexible sometimes we cut sections only when we have to and um I say Erin I need somebody to move to third grade and we need somebody to move to fourth grade Aaron always says yes and she does it with such a sense of positivity and and expertise and she always does a wonderful job the key thing about Aon is she builds trusting relationships not only with the kids but their parents it's not unordinary for a parent to cross their fingers not come to me cuz I don't take requests but if a child has erron frequently the parent will hope that they have eron for the younger child that's that's the way it should be um she also co- co- advises our student council we save manatees we um give to the angel fund and we just had an enormous toy drive for Senator panio uh we have our wax museum because of uh Aon she attends musical she's behind us in the science fair and plans with us for steam week some people don't know that she has a past not toy um she was a softball coach for mle Township and um had winning teams not too long ago Aaron has welcoming environment not only for the kids that come into her classroom for me as well and I can go in and talk to her kids and have a wonderful time in Aon Sullivan's wonderful classroom thank you hildale [Applause] good evening everyone I would like to call up our Educational Services professional [Applause] subio Su has been at hildale for only one year but she uh three of her students three of her children went through the hildale school so we feel like she's been there forever or she feels feels like only one year with me um Sue comes to school every day with a smile on her face she walks to school every day with weights in her backp um with a smile on her face she has only been there one year but it she is just welcomed by everyone when I was hiring Sue everybody I spoke to was like you have to have her she's the best and she really is so congratulations we are [Applause] love and our teacher of the year Stacy [Applause] [Music] Hogan Stacy has been with us uh for 14 years and 16 years in education for those of you that have been here around a bit you have probably worked on a committee with Stacy or done a Rewritten curriculum with Stacy she is involved in almost every aspect of hildale she's also involved involved in so many aspects of the district the district is lucky to have her we are lucky to have her and [Applause] congratulations good evening everyone like to invite our winners Mrs Lindsay dealo M Ros Isa Lindsay and Rose if you come up [Applause] please [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all the [Laughter] way coming Lindsay is currently one of our special ed teachers she's been with us for 14 years she works with our primary level students and I can regil you with Tales of her skills her academic prowess um but that all of our teachers of year ex those skills there it's the little things the extra things that our teachers do that get them recognized as a candidate for Teacher of the Year and for me one of the things that always always remember that Lindsay does for us is our footprint program now my first year as a principal 11 years ago we were having a lot of issues with our girls coming in back off of the recess off of playground a lot of girl drama as we used to call it and I would speak with my school counselor I said Doug there's got to be something we can do and we talked about it we had an idea about trying to get the girls together to talk about issues that are unique to that pre-adolescent experience so I had a meeting which I invited Lindsay to along with a couple of others presented the idea told him the problem presented the idea and of course I always say now Lindsay you can say no it's okay now as a non- 10e teacher what do you think she's going to say but she did accept the challenge of the footprints program and for the last 13 years she and two of her colleagues Danielle caban Lessa de meet with our students uh starting in third grade and for 6 weeks they just meet during their lunch periods and they discuss the the issues that are unique to for girls in their pre-adolescent years and now more than ever especially with the power of social media the the girls need to hear what they're going to experience and how to become stronger and how to ignore what they see on outside and social media and see that there's more strength and numbers strength being together together being part of a team as a result of that hard work we don't have the issues that we used to have when I first arrived and that's truthfully due to Lindsay's efforts so we cannot thank you enough for that and what everything you do with your work at Woodmont you're you're [Applause] welcome love here but Rose has with been with us for 10 years uh no 11 years excuse me four years as an AG uh 9 years is power um when you're around Rose it's like being an array of sunshine just bright warm gentle and for all these years I've worked with her she has yet to call me by my first name I told her repeat Rose we've been years it's okay you can call me do she can't it's Mr esposo it's Mr but I think that speaks to Who Rose is it's her sense of Integrity it's her sense of respect it's her sense of recognizing The Professional is M of the position so even though we have a lot of jokes over the years and a lot of stories to tell she can't let that sense of formality go but I think again that's a testament to who she is as an individual the respect she has for her colleagues for her professionals and for her students so Rose [Applause] congratulations [Applause] are good evening everyone for those who don't know me I'm I'm Mike mid the princial Lazar U thank everyone for coming and supporting our award winners first up for Lazar is our Educational Services professional that's Miss Katherine Al Eli K's been uh at Lazar for 12 years she's held multiple positions sometimes throughout a week uh depending on what the needs of the students are serving in both our icr sections our resource s life skills you name it um but what's uh extremely special about Catherine is how dedicated she she is to her students and the kindness and compassion she shows to everyone and on a daily basis and all of those things combined make her welld deserving on this award so you sele and our teacher of the year is Mrs Karen wordell also been at Lazar since 2012 she is one of our science teachers uh promly seventh grade for her career she also has certification in art which comes out in her lessons and and in her classroom Karen does a lot for our building she's one of the coordinators of steam day she's one of the leaders of the Science Olympiad she's um an adviser on the Ally group and currently she's working on the set design for our our Musical coming up um car recently won two uh major grants one with the New Jersey um Department of En protection in which we had students build a concrete Reef that we then went down the point she went down the Point Pleasant with the students they brought a charter boat out and dumped them off the coast by Boy Pleasant and also um with the Danforth plant Science Center in Missouri where she wanton a grand through them she was recognized by the smith Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a teacher innovator and accepted into that Institute and then recently very recently she was recommended for the Robert E jger Exemplar teaching award in science so this is Miss Karen [Applause] w [Applause] uh good evening everyone apologize for anyone I have my back to my name is Doug sfer I'm principal of Mel Township High School like to start off by thanking the Board of Education and the superintendent for hosting this recognition for the Montville educators of the year and especially congratulations to all the educators of the Year from the different buildings being recognized this evening uh mths here at the high school we recognize three educator of the Year Awards and by the way coincidentally all three of our recipients I believe it's the first time in my time here at the high school all of them began their teaching careers in education here at monville Township High School i' like to call up Miss Christy Choy who's the recipient of our Princeton University distinguished [Applause] secondary christe began at mths more than S years ago as a special education teacher she later became additionally certified as a high school math teacher she holds a Bachelor's of Science and applied math and a master's of Arts with a concentration of special education we learned that she was inspired to become a teacher because of her mother who was also a social studies teacher in South Korea please join me again I'm recognizing Miss Christy [Music] [Applause] TR our second award recipient is our education services professional of the year Miss Kathleen [Applause] [Music] szone Miss Kathleen sanzone began in Mel Township High School more than 11 years ago as a physical education Health a physical education and health teacher as well as an assistant athletic trainer she holds bachelor's degrees in both physical education and athletic training as well as a masters in technology integration she was aspired to become an athletic trainer by her High School athletic trainer please join me in congratulating Miss Kathleen's hands [Applause] up our third and final award recipient is our teacher of the year award recipient I'm calling up Miss jacqulyn [Applause] Hines Jackie began at Montville Township High School more than well 14 years ago and exactly 3 days ago um so her uh uh uh anniversary just passed as a science teacher she holds a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in teaching and learning with a specialization in technology in addition to her excellent classroom teaching she's been an integral part of our co-curricular program serving as a coach in multiple Sports and an advisor to various clubs and activities join me in congratulating Miss Jaclyn hins [Applause] yeah [Applause] yes so thank you uh very much uh you want to take we'll take a three minute break and uh those are finals you're allowed to leave and anybody else that uh you know it's a school night so we understand thank you always so out congratulations qu of my I just looking for house you got any them5 yeah help me out probably [Music] right butt player St you guys by is she there by herself okay what a wonderful [Music] evening so uh you know it's just great to celebrate all the wonderful things the students and the teachers are doing and the other educator and Professionals in the district so it's it's such a great way to sort off the school year of the new year um I just want to share uh we are also starting a new medick enrichment program um on the agenda is approving some of the teachers that may be offering this so with this approval then we're going to be putting out a flyer as well as asking people to register these will be different courses uh two Foods courses an Arts course and a steam course these will be run after school uh for 8 weeks and they vary from the grades two to the 11th grade so depending on the uh you know people that sign up that's how we'll run these classes it's the first of its kind and I think we have a lot of success we want to continue offering more of these enrichment programs throughout the year and into the summer and also over the uh in the board packet this weekend I shared with everybody the post analysis of the referendum so you all had that and hopefully had a chance to review that thank you no report no report okay we'll move on with the agenda I just want to point out a a couple quick things if you'll indulge me and that would be that Valley View participate in pajama day that raised $2,000 for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the our student council raised $1,000 for dcpp foster care system in our state so thank you all to those children those kids that's a wonderful thing to do to give back also I would be remiss in not mentioning that 11 members of our high school were selected for the NJ SMA Regional choir one for the Regional Orchestra and two for the njmea regional band so congratulations to them as well uh moving on to committee reports uh Finance facilities Karen uh thank you David uh the finance committee met right before tonight's meeting um first and foremost the Administration has begun to formulate and think about plans uh on accommodating our student enrollment going forward in the wake of the um held referendum um they're kind of charting out where students will will be placed in terms of smokers construction art and music this will uh the budget is being tailored to the needs of each building uh the Administration has met with the Architects uh to discuss our open projects uh as well as non referendum and referendum Pro projects and we'll begin to PRI prioritize those uh and uh the administration is very interested in receiving input from the Board of Education members as well as the community so look forward to more on that in in the near future great thank you uh curriculum no report uh policy Joe no report uh Communications Mike rport no report safety uh chistine no report hey I see a pattern uh delegate leaon New Jersey School Board Association Karen pattern broken you are the only one Speaking it's okay I don't mind okay uh so a couple things going on with New Jersey school boards uh the board of directors met January 5th uh we of course recognized Schoolboard recogn at January as a school board recognition month uh we had a financial update and finances at school boards is sound and strong uh there was also a Personnel update with some new hires senior policy manager legal counsel Etc new field service Representatives um also um at the January 17th meeting of the State Board of Education they passed a resolution recognizing January as school board recognition month and I had the uh pleasure privilege and honor to accept the resolution on behalf of the all 5000 school board members in the state of New Jersey um we'll be traveling to Washington DC this weekend Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday uh and we have lined up visits with a number of our local Congressional uh representative so I'm looking forward to that a lot good safe travels okay uh Morris County School Board Michelle um the next meeting is virtual on Thursday February 8th it's a roundtables with discussion topics of pilot programs new and effective programs how does your board do this and how can school boards impact legislation um so just be sure to register on the Mars County school board's website for Thursday February 8th and save the date Wednesday March 20th at County College moris um it's the unsung heroes award ceremony thank you uh Morris County Education Services Joe yes uh we had a meeting on January 10th uh two items that we did was we approved the rat for services for the year 2425 as well as uh approving the superintendent contract from January 24 to June 2028 okay good and uh da drug awareness uh yes there's actually the uh Community program going on right now in the uh Auditorium we have Homeland Security and drug drug enforcement agency as well as some speakers there discussing the recovery so good good uh M boosters Charlie yeah unfortunately the meeting was scheduled last last week but it was Clos cancelled due to the snow and the ice and uh it's going to be rescheduled okay uh scho aison Karen Cedar Hill uh so Cedar Hill met um on Tuesday January 9th also virtually due to the weather um they talked about their spring fundraiser it's a fund run uh being held on April 8th also Bingo night is Friday February 2nd um in a couple of days January well tomorrow actually uh January 24th is skyone planetarium March 8th is Mr socks world of rock and they have uh a dine and donate coming up February 14th at Anthony Franco uh pizza that's nice okay uh hildale Charlie no report valy view Joe they had a meeting on January 17th but I was unable to attend that prior meeting okay uh William Mason John I seem to only get updates on food I I know I commented last meeting that uh we're only going to use chart Wells three times a week instead of four I believe they're going to another vendor uh I'll let you know how it works out but that's where we're at okay uh would mik met virtually on January 16th actually we always me virtually it seems to work out better for people there um had a discussion with the uh guance Council really more of an educational thing with the parents where I discussed the concept of bullying versus conflict and how to recognize the difference between the two as you may have understood from just reading the good news it was no name calling last week at Woodmont so the two things kind of fell in line with each other um Talk the talked about parent volunteers thank them for events including holiday Boutique uh the pause after dark unfortunately was canceled because of the weather discuss other fundraisers including the pizza kits the gertude hawk fundraiser Michelle Sullivan game is going to be April 14th um the fact that we're trying to raise money for a new playground there and uh we don't have a new meeting date thank you um okay Lazar Christine noling um high school has not yet met right Mike actually had a meeting this evening while wee course's no report this okay uh negotiation committees uh mtea Karen uh we uh we uh had uh our we had a meeting last night um and uh it was very productive we um exchanged proposals um answered questions from you both sides uh had had questions and and uh needed some clarification so we did that and uh all in all it was it was a good meeting um and we have a date set I believe for February 6 6 okay and 27 and 27 MH okay uh mtaa Charlie yes I I'll be contacting Mr sford tomorrow and we'll schedule a meeting with him we're trying to one-onone see how it goes and as soon as I get information back I will make the committee aware of it and so you're the Mt Sia yes uh we have a date set for February 7th for our first meeting okay good okay this is uh time for public participation our first session in public participation if you have anything to or anything that you want to say to the board about items on the agenda I invite you to come up to the bo up to the microphone tell us your name and give us your comments ever seeing no one making a move only on agenda on agenda we will have a second session at the end where you can tell us anything you want to talk to us about but seeing that no one else has anything on the agenda I ask for a motion for items I through n second okay any questions on the minute section I section J gifts uh facilties section K any questions uh section L Personnel have retirement yes we have one retirement that I want to just make note of um after 34 years as an educator 22 of which were here in monville Deborah mean has decided to retire as a school counselor Lazar she started the random acts of kindness program was involved in the car education committee where Lazar received State and National recognition ran the peer-to-peer leadership program conducted the leadership advisory program and was nominated for counselor of America over the years Deb has gone above and beyond to support the students in their case load and their families de is a professional who is committed and passionate about education both with academic and mental health and wellness areas we wish her all the best in our next phase of our personal and professional career thank you any other questions no okay section M curriculum any questions none section n policy um and a roll call vote please Mr Grow Mr Grow yes or no vote moot motion I through n are you voting yes or no yes thank you trying to con Mr Palama yes Dr calino yes Mr dalry yes mrso yes Mr Petrino yes Mr Rapaport yes Miss Zuckerman yes Dr modra yes yes uh section P close session there is no further close session section q and R old business General board comments new business I just make a general comment couple things about tonight um first of all it's just so great to see the teachers I think what we do here is so important because I think teachers staff it's so important that they know that we appreciate what they do and that I think I think when you understand that your employer knows what you do is good work just gives you momentum and it you know keeps good feelings going and I'm just so glad we do that now about the um Bazar group I will say this that coming out of covid we've had a lot of schools are saying you are kind of getting back to where we were before Co and I'm telling you a lot of the schools are kidding themselves they're really not near where they were I can tell I just listening to like tapes and recordings of like Regional bands and things like that they're not where they were Lazar has ped that Trend tremendously um they're not only where they were I think they're past it I haven't gotten to hear most of the seventh and eighth grade concerts in person because that's Wednesdays when I have my own band rehearsal I've heard tapes they're great I was at the Lazar sixth grade rehearsal last week I just think to put things in perspective how many are in the sixth grade class are about 250 260 something like that and they had I believe it was 72 kids in band I believe 75 in course and something like 59 in Orchestra not to mention the quality and um they're just doing really great things at laar and that's such an important feeder program for the high school and I wish I had had a chance to say that when the kids were here but I know they they record the uh meetings and maybe somebody'll Direct um instructor's intention to uh to tape to hear the comments um just want to thank you know Mr G for all he's done to Len that chamber choir it was almost an embarrassment of riches to hear the kind of balance they have which most middle schools don't have and um it was done musically pitch the the soprano is actually saying on top of that the screeching voice is just blending it's just a phenomenal performance and uh Mr Green's also done things like bringing the choir to Relay for Life he's been a great Ambassador for the community so um just want to say hats off to the music program at Lazar you're just doing a fantastic job you're being a great feeder program of the High School Mr Green has done a fantastic job over at Lazar um he talked to all of his students former students and he's very well respected very well liked um and he has done a great job and of course our high school puts on wonderful wonderful performances if any of you get a chance to go see the performances you really should the tickets are cheap and the quality is outstanding so can I say something also Dave I just want to comment I agree with with Mike when the children were singing mother Mary now I want to find that that just I just got choked up um and when um musicians or singers can move the audience that's what it's all about and if there's a way to share with the kids that I got got tears in my eyes because it was just phenomenal I told Mike that immediately I was a little embarrassed but um really they did a fantastic job any other General board comments new business anything yeah something um there was a nice uh report given to the board on the the referendum and the status I was just wondering what what next steps are being taken I know you finance facility Comm you got did you listen to my report I did but but and I and I read that other report which was even more informative than than your not that your no no that's just more deta um and so so what what we're just going to take it by year what are we you I think K do you want to step in here and talk a little bit about what the or do you want to so uh so right now the referendum was defeated so we as administrators are trying to come up with a plan to move forward to still address a lot of the needs of the district as we move forward with the hbac systems the space issues that we still have to deal with uh enrollment and things like that so that's what we've been doing for the past six weeks and working on that um as I put in the uh packet for all of you it's up to the board to start discussing if they wanted to go off for another referendum as you talked about last time did you want to modify things how did you want to move that way we're also proceeding on the rod grants which we did receive from the state so we're moving forward with a lot of things like fixing the roofs and different things that we received state aid for but all these things now are trying we're trying to prioritize the list of what we have to do and a lot of the things that we talked about um it can't get done right away so we have to reprioritize you know like I said the uh HVAC systems so now the auditorium and maybe some the science rooms at Lazar get bumped down another year or two or even three years later as we take a look at all the things we have to do we have a finite amount of money in our Capital reserves just say it's about $8 million that we're able to tap into but I can't exhaust that all in one year I have to tap into it for like $2 million and then fix this and fix that and come up with a plan for the next three to five years so that's what we're working on right now uh barring any you know other ideas that the bo the board has with future referendums or something like that thank you know I I noticed um you know some the HVAC was going to be prioritized something like that you know where we are going to get money from the state uh if if we for refer for if we went out for a referendum on that you know that's something that you know I I saw there deadlines coming up for if we wanted to go out for a vote in September if there's free money available to do these projects let's go get the free money you know that's that's what let's you know real right so what I shared exactly we'd have to be moving pretty quickly if we're going to go out for a September uh referendum that money was about $5.8 million if you just looked at question two that we went out for before if you wanted to add or adjust that we'd still have to go through the state process which will most likely push it off to a December vote if you decided to do something like that um and then we also have to worry about lead times for just a lot of the internal things so if we wanted to order HB systems or other like products uh some of these lead times are about a year away so you know that's that's how we're always thinking so we're thinking a year when can I put it in over the summer or after you know they call a second shift put things into the schools uh after the students are done at 3:00 so these are the things that we're trying to contend with we're talking to the Architects to see how we can prioritize what we have to do and what we can do with you know our existing monies Charlie yeah there's a there's a lot lot of things happening or not happening in holding patterns and I I think that it's imperative that we get together as a board an open session to discuss all these things rather than meeting private groups like we did last time because I think it's important we all hear the same information I have confidence in the meeting we had a little while ago with the finance committee I think they're on the right track but again they're looking for some direction from us and I think it's important that we be unified in whatever we decide to go forward just to pick one project may or may not be feasible but I think uh from the committee meeting that we had prior I think you guys got another five six weeks and it might be worthwhile to have a meeting at that point of an open board just to discuss where the hell we're going because we we can't continue let's do this let let's get the whole picture because you got a threeyear year a three uh educational years we have to look at we just can't say John in my opinion hbac now Auditorium next year classrooms this year classro you got to look at the whole picture and I think it's worth it having a a work session that evening and getting it all out in the air so we know where the heck we're going because so many questions are being raised and so many questions are not being raised and maybe raised behind the scenes so let's get it all out in the open and see what have every stands because then the administration can get some guidelines of where to go because the majority of cour say no we don't want to do this why would let them waste their time on it should we then maybe add it as an agenda item going forward for the foreseeable future 10th item 10 I think we have to do something like that in my opinion what is um okay let me ask the the board what would you like to do I think we need a special meeting special meeting you want a special meeting yeah an additional meeting an additional meeting so a second meeting just for thatr for that yes just for that discussion can I ask how many people want a second meeting in the month it would be the uh that be the first Tuesday first Tuesday negotiations we have to find dat to get every Tuesday March's they're taken up by negotiations I think that we could maybe don't have to decide the meeting date today let's go back to the administration and look at the calendar would that be acceptable then we'll we'll find a date as soon as we can now but maybe before the next meeting or before the next meeting we'll have another date plan and we will plan to discuss going forward is that acceptable to everyone uh maybe the administration can send out some dates dates that we can find a consensus yeah because the sooner we can get that then the sooner we can start PL I agree the longer wait IAD water yeah different night to meet night we meet February 13ths open and I'm you're conflicted all right so that's what we'll send it out then we're out some dates and figure out special meeting to have a discussion about that and what kind of meeting is this is this that's a good question is this just us chatting and the administrator or is this like a agenda for a bunch of different things I'm just curious a little bit of here it sounds like it would just be a work session so it would just be more of just an open public discussion about all the options and whatever is on your mind on regarding the referendum if if the Administration has prioritize items that you want to put on agenda I think it would help the discussion I think that's sub on the administration right now I don't think they know what we're all thinking I mean I'm I'm really to tell you what I'm thinking but that's not fair to you you know we got to do something kids are coming so it's you know whatever you guys decide but we got to kick it around got to get everyone on the same wavelength voice it sort of sounds to me like maybe this is like take our facilities and finance discussion and broaden it out I mean I think that the administration is working hard uh prior TR trying to prioritize and trying to um you know figure out what we're going to do with the kids in September where are we going to put them so if if you could come up with continue to just come up with options for the board to consider um we can discuss each of those we use as a starting point have a discussion that night and kick around other ideas see there's other things to ref we have a lot of capital reserve problem budget but that could influence if we're going to do hbac work at school and we don't need as part of a referendum you know I thought the meeting before was pretty inquis whole grp yeah I think yeah certainly some of the items that were discussed in in the committee meeting has to be aware right can can I just get a little clarification because I we could come up with you know 10 pages of the capital Improvement things but that doesn't help us so like uh I at the meeting is a jumping off point and discussion can because you guys came up with that um sent out to us same no so like we as we move forward we're starting to slowly build the budget right now we're talking about what are our priorities and what we have to do so what was in the weekly report this past Friday that if it just we all just use that as a jumping off point right know something that's what I'm thinking right I mean that's that's fine if you want to use that also dur during the whole referendum process that the board spoke about the issues of why we need the referendum in the first place that's those are the questions I think that we should be talking about those are still open issues open problems that the district is going to face and so how are we going to address them through Reserve or second referendum or other types of so or not at all so in the facilities meeting they were laying out our Capital reserves and maintenance reserves and they were trying to prioritize the items that they thought needed to be fixed right away and things that could be pushed back a little bit I think combining that with the discussion about where to go what's left to be discussed what the existing problems we be facing in the future maybe we can put together an agenda whatever might have together so at the very least it just sounds like you want me to put like I'm just saying a b and c of different things just so you can get you oil the machine a little bit so you can start thinking a little bit where do you want to go what you want to and I think I think that some of the what was presented in your report to the whole board knows also in the finance committee is I think there's some thought and it kind of came out in the discussion last time about is it prudent to consider a lot of the smaller Capital items that and many of them which would potentially qualify for Aid that were in question too and maybe some others as is it something we should think of as its own referendum and then there's the discussion of course what do we do about question one which is still an issue and so I think there's two ways to kind of like um approach it and I think that the Board needs to kind of take in all of that information and see you know do we consider going out for a big one again a more small a smaller one or none I mean really that's where we are it's like are we going to stay at that same level and try to get what we really think is is needed are we going to kind of scale it back and maybe focus on different things or is it not prudent to go out for referendum right now and I think that decision needs to be made sooner than later yes I I agree with Michelle I don't want us to turn our wheels and the public is saying rejecting our referendum and then we're turning our wheels and then we go for out for referendum and it's rejected again that that be part of the meeting exactly exactly I think Michelle don't it's do or other people at least we Direction where the hell okay so you're going to work on a date for us and we're going to try to get together agenda I'll talk to you more about that see what we can pull together what would be prudent to put into that type of agenda um it sounds like it's a special meeting so there wouldn't be much other board business at the time no so would be it Wasing was pressing there would be there were no other board business no committee reports unless [Music] impressing supervis that's in the afternoon 4:00 shouldn't affect anything at night right okay okay we'll we'll talk about it uh we'll see what the schedule's like send out an a message to everyone make sure that uh the data is acceptable to everyone and then we'll have a special meeting on this okay okay anything else uh anything any other comments from the board seeing none public participation session number two if anybody has any other thing that they would like to say address the board board give us your comments your views Jour your book reviews good evening this got R Roxbury resident High School history teacher Association president I was inspired by your discussion of deadlines um if I may ask please what is the deadline for a September referendum and what is the deadline for December referend I believe believe it's 60 is it 60 days ahead right I mean that's when the state has to so we would have to start having things for September pretty much kind of wrapped up by March and then that gives me because the state needs about 6 months if we have to go for a full approval it could be you know FASTT tracked we'd have to look into that we'd be good for December one you know if we did it in March or something like that um we have to find out it's to be FasTrack if we don't change anything if we are changing the scope of that project most likely it'll have to go through the whole process again so um you you you're looking at the same timeline we just went through you'd have to be done probably in March and then you'd have that the approval the board would have to approve it then sometime in like beginning of August Late July and then everything out there ready to go and then December vote again than most likely yeah now um um as far as the items I know we broke them up into like what 40 little I'm sorry just clarifying this mid public comment okay I would like to close public comment if that's okay with everyone thank you but just clarification real quick um um those sections we had like 40 different projects right how did that work 18 we had 18 is that what you're talking about by changing we go with the 18 so we just repackage some or all of the 18 then those are FASTT tracked if we are going to add new projects that we did not consider in the 18 then that pushes the deadlines way back and puts you probably in March okay thank youif just so just be clear that so if we just took the old referendum and just said okay we're going to keep these and take these out and now we only say 40% of what we had before that could be fast TR correct right but we definitely have to still get we have to check that out I don't want to speak for the state they always find a curve when okay what kind of other additional projects might be even why we consider yeah for the discussion okay why we wrap this motion to adjourn motion to move second second thank you I'll see you all February 20th all in well uh it was on page three of that packet I gave you it was just actually