I'll call this meeting to order. Could we all rise for the flag salute? >> Yeah, we'll let the kids get organized for a sec. That's okay. >> We're going to rise for the flag salute, guys. Thank you. Okay. I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Please remain standing for a moment of uh reflection and silence for all those
in harm's way, home and abroad. Thank you. We you may be uh seated. Statement of advanced notice. The notice requirements of the open public meetings act of the state of New Jersey have been satisfied by the inclusion of the date, time, and place of this meeting in the
notice of regular meetings adopted by this board on January 6, 2025. Such schedule and notice of meetings is posted at the municipal building, the Mount Olive Library, the board of education offices in the six schools was submitted to the daily record for
publication on January 7th, 2025. It was filed with the clerk of Mount Olive Township on January 8th, 2025. I direct that this announcement be entered into the minutes of this meeting. And we'll take a roll call, please. >> Mrs. Aquino, >> here. >> Mrs. Fen here. >> Mrs. Faggera,
>> Mrs. Fitzgerald, >> here. Dr. Giardano >> here. >> Mrs. Melendez >> here. >> Mrs. Narcissis >> here. >> Mrs. O'Neal >> here. >> Mr. Orizillo >> here. >> And with that, we'll take a motion, Miss Benton, for the approval of the minutes 2.1 through 2.2.
>> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? Any questions or comments from the board? >> Nope. We'll take a roll call then. >> Mrs. Aquino, >> yes. >> Dr. Gordano, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fen, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fitzgerald, >> yes. Mrs. Melendez,
>> yes. >> Mrs. Narcissis, >> yes. >> Mrs. O'Neal, >> yes. >> Mr. Ozillo, >> yes. >> And any communications or petitions um from any members of the board or the superintendent? >> No. >> Anyone? No. Okay. Seeing none, we will
move on to superintendent report. >> I must say this is one of my favorite presentations of the year. At this time, I would love to invite the cadets from our ROC at the high school to do their annual report um of their team. [Music]
[Music] You guys, >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you again for having us tonight. I'm Cadet Colonel Ona and I'm this year's unit commander. I'm joined here tonight by this year's executive leadership team.
>> Good evening. I'm cadet deputy group commander Adam. >> Good evening. I'm first liend and I'm this year superintendent. >> Good evening. I'm cadet major de John and I'm this year's bra squad commander. >> Good evening. I'm captain and I have the privilege of being this year's bra squad director of operations.
>> Good evening major. I'm this year's office director of operations. Good evening. I'm Captain Josh. I'm this year's director of services. >> Good evening. Captain this year's logistics director. by having one vote on this year's repet
from our cadets. You might have heard some new positions this year. That's one of the many things we'll be going over tonight which are detailed here on this slide. I'll give you a moment here to look over it. Well, then to get started, I'll be passing the mic to cadet major Deon with
last year's cadet impact goals. Thank you, Cadet Colonel Ona. So, last year we had various goals that covered um the cadet's physical fitness, the cadet's morale, and just overall improve the wellness of the cadet core. So, with
a 3.375 cumulative GPA, that was the average across all the cadets in the unit, we were able to exceed our goal of 3.3. With 29 new members inducted into our Kittyhawk Honor Society, we were able to exceed greatly we were able to greatly
exceed our goal of 12 new Kittyhawk Honor Society members inducted. With 50 cadets, which was 40% of our cadet core, we were able to exceed our goal of 20% of our cadet core, achieving a 75% or greater on our physical fitness
test. And with 74% of our cadet corps participating in at least one LDR, we were able to exceed our goal of 70% of our cadet core participating in at least one LDR. With five morale events held, we were
able to meet our goal of five morale events held with our movie night, holiday party, bowling night, air airsoft night, and our military ball. And with a 94.55% average uniform score across the entire
unit, we were able to exceed our goal of 85% in the first semester and 87.5% in the second semester. Now handed it off to cadet Captain Kyle Enzinger. Thank you, Cadet Major Djan. As you just heard, our cadets do so much to help out
within our unit with our cadet uh impact goals, but they also do a ton to help out our school and community through our school impact goals. We were able to meet our first school impact goal last year, which was to plan and execute at least nine square community beautifification events, which are events that we go out into our community to help clean it up and make it a little
nicer. One example of this is our stadium cleanups, which we do after every home football game. And so we go and it's a ton of cadets come. We had almost half of our unit come to our first stadium cleanup was 63 cadetses. And so we were able to pick up a ton of trash off of our stadium um and the
surrounding areas around our stadium. Another example is our roadside cleanups which we do several times throughout the year. And so we're able to pick up a ton of trash off of the edge of Flanders Draketown Road. And we do this from um the high school out to Turkey Park. And you guys would not believe how much trash that we get off the side of the
road. It's really really amazing. We were able to exceed our next goal um which was to compete in at least two competitions held by other JROTS units. And the reason we were able to exceed this is due to the Northern Burlington U Raider competition which they held for the first time last year. Um we were
able to go and compete in that. We were extremely successful in that which was great. And we're also extremely successful in our drill competitions. You'll hear more about that from Cadat Captain Pantrol later. Um our next goal is super super important to our unit with our appreciation event goal. Um we
are able to exceed this with 10 um appreciation vets hold with a goal of eight. And the reason this is so important to us is because it's truly our chance to go out and appreciate all the faculty, all the staff, administration who have given so much to help out our time with high school as well as prepare us for life outside of
high school. Our next goal is our recruitment and retention rate goal. We able to meet our attention rate goal by having at least 85% of the cadet core come back for the next year, which is super amazing. And we were able to greatly exceed our recruitment goal by 11 cadets. We're able to recruit 61 cadets into our unit
with the goal of having 50 cadets recruited, which is super amazing. And the reason we're able to do this is through by exceeding our recruitment event goal by having six recruitment events with a goal of five. You guys can see the list up there. Um, and we were able also able to have our one showcase
event with the winter pep rally. Last year, we're able to show off our amazing arm team as well as our great exhibition skills. Up next is cadet major Rihanna Ferrer with the community impact goals for last year. Thank you, Cadet Enzinger. So, for our community impact goals last year, we
were able to accumulate 2,245 community service hours, which exceeds our initial goal of 1,650 community service hours. Our next goal that we've far exceeded was our 75% participation rate in two or more community service events throughout the entire year, which allows our cadets to get out there and
really give back to the community that's given so much to us. We exceeded this with a 85% participation rate throughout two or more community service events throughout the year. And then our third goal that we met was our three charitable events, which was our blood drive, our Operation Jersey carriage
drive, and our car wash, raising awareness and funding for Usher Syndrome. And our last goal that we far exceeded, almost tripling this number, was 50 community service events hours of outside of ROC. And we tripled this number with 121 hours and a half which
we're very very excited about because this is our first year that we instilled this goal and we were able to farly surpass it. Up next is cadet Captain Ponchaw with our cadet accomplishments. Okay, so by far our most important accomplishment last year was earning
distinguished unit with merit award. And of course, this was not possible without getting a a perfect score on our unit assessment and an exceeded standard overall rating. Um, this award is a really high level award. And I mean, it
has to be one of our most important accomplishment last year. Obviously, um, again, we exceeded a 100k at viability and we had our most successful drill season. You can see on the board that there's a list of awards that we won and this was only around oneif of the awards
that we won last year. So you can imagine how many we won. Um a new thing that we started last year was joint leadership academic bowl or JAB. This is the first year that we did our LDR and we competed with two teams and both teams got to level two testing. And a
really cool thing is that we were the only school in the tri-state area that got to level two with both of our teams. Um, team A was really close to getting selected for nationals with a high score of 84%. And I'm going to hand it off to Cadet
Lieutenant Colonel Evan Bowen. >> Thank you, Cadet Captain Pan Shaw. So, this year we once again held our yearly leadership workshop from the 18th to 20th of August. Uh so we developed during our uh leadership workshop went over our unit goals. So our cadet impact our school impact and community impact.
We gained access to wings went over our regulations and requirements because although we have our personal goals we want to achieve as a unit we also get stuff from headquarters. We also prepared for our first year cadet orientation. We had 23 cadets attend this. So in my personal opinion it went very well. Uh we learned about our cadet responsibilities. So what our jobs is,
how we do our jobs, what to do with it. Um I will now be passing on the cadet colonel. Thank you, Kad Bowen. I feel so tall moving that mic up. Usually, I'm the one that has to move it down. >> I feel you. >> But as Cadet Dean mentioned earlier, we
were able to greatly exceed a good number of our cadet impact goals last year. And because of that, we've decided to increase the numbers for some of our goals this year. If you see on the slide, you'll see that our Kittyhawk goal has been increased from 12 new members to 14 and our uniform score was increased for the second semester from
87.5% to 90%. We've also added a few new goals. If you look in generally the middle of the slide, you'll see our 95% PT uniform wear score for the year. And on this next slide here, you'll see two new goals regarding promotions. 50% of
our first year cadets will be promoted to at least airman first class by the end of the school year and 75% of our eligible returning cadets will be promoted at least one time by the end of the school year. And next I'll be passing it on to cadet first lieutenant Freda with this year's school impact
goals. >> Thank you on a bit short but okay we'll bring it up a bit. Okay, so for the school impact goals of this year, we wanted to keep a steady flow of 50 new cadetses, but we also wanted to bring down the retention rate just a little bit just because there's so so many of
us this year. And to do that, we plan to hold six recruitment events consisting of one schoolwide event and then also hold eight school appreciate appreciation events just to show our appreciation around the school. In the picture over there, you can see that we did our guidance department and they
really appreciated it, no pun intended. Thank you. Thank you for the chuckle. I really enjoyed that. Okay. And then we also plan to execute at least nine school or community beautifification events, which Kyle beautifully explains, so I don't have to go into that. And then we also want to compete in at least
three LDR competitions now that Raider is an option. So now we have Jill and Raider. Now passing it off to cadet Lieutenant Colonel Bowen. >> Thank you, Cadet First Lieutenant Ferrer. So this year for recruitment intention, our goal for recruitment is a at least 50 new cadets the 25 26 school
year. So how we do our recruitment events, we go out there. So in October we had a flag photo with the safety patrol at CMS. Uh actually next week in November we have an assembly where we're going to go to the middle school. We're going to show off our color guard, our raider team, show them how we operate. Uh later in January, we have a lunchtime
table and we have a shadow day. Shadow day is really interesting. Actually going to come visit us for the day and we're going to show them how we run things in house. So for retention, we currently have 61 first year cadetses. Uh we're losing 23 seniors. That leaves us with 125 total cadetses that are eligible to return for next year. With a
goal of 80% retention rate, we need to have at least 100 cadets stick around. Uh to have these cadets stick around, we have extracurricular activities such as LDRs. Um you know, color guard rocketry. They love that camaraderie camaraderie. God, we build there, you know, keep them coming. And we have a great leadership team that, you know, we support our
cadets and it makes them want to keep coming out there. I will now be passing on to Cadet Captain Yosh. >> Thank you, Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Bowen. So, with the success we had last year in exceeding all of our community service goals, uh we want to maintain those high standards for this year. Our
overall goal is 2,400 hours, which is 750 more than last year. And the reason we set this goal so high is once again we did outstanding with community service last year and also because we've had such successful recruitment this year. Um some events we've had so far um beautifification events which cadet
captain ninger beautifully explained. So that includes stadium cleanups, we've had a campus cleanup, we've had an AVM cleanup at Turkey Brook Park. Um also at Turkey Brook Park, we had our P MIA march. We help out at school events such as college fairs and also everything we
earn from our leadership development requirements. We have multiple events planned in the future for cadets to participate in. Which brings me to our next goal that 80% of the cadet corps will participate in at least two community service events. Compared to last year's 75% which we exceeded by
10%. Also last year we met our goal of three charitable events with our blood drive operation Jersey cares and car wash. And with the amount of cadets we inducted into Kittyhawk honor society last year we raised that to four and that will be something we continue to work on throughout the year. Also, we
encourage every cadet to stay involved outside of ROC, whether it be scouts or school clubs or just volunteering within the community. So, our goal was 150 hours, but just last week, we actually reached that and right now we are at 193
hours. So, that goal has been increased to 400 hours. So, with that, I'll hand it over to Cadet Captain Blafo. >> Thank you, Cadet Captain Yosh. And now on to what's new. Our unit has done an incredible job at recruiting new cadets. And as a result, we've been able to
increase the amount of flights that we have from five to six. And we want to split our flights into two squadrons, Alpha and Bravo. And each squadron will receive a squadron director of operations and a squadron commander as well. And additionally, we now have a
program to recognize the efforts of cadetses that aren't in higher leadership positions such as us. And these cadetses will receive outstanding cadet award and we will be nominating two cadetses each quarter. One returning cadet and one new cadet. Um and this is
just to recognize their efforts. Uh additionally we have been able to enjoy the company of Roxbury School amongst our ranks for the past 3 years. However uh due to a change in their schedule we will no longer be able to accommodate them and they will unfortunately be
leaving us. And finally, due to Air Force regulation, we will be rolling out AVUs. We're able Yes, we'll be taking back AVUs and we'll be phasing out OCPS to our second, third, and fourth years. And now on to First Lieutenant Sierra
for the relevance. >> Thank you, Bafo. Okay, so within RTC, we strive to make that sense of belonging, that sense of community. And in doing that, we do morale events. So, we do little fun activities that get the cadets all together, like get them to know each other. And this year we plan
to do six morale events. Uh we have movie night, strike force, airsoft night, holiday partying, ice skating, which is new, so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully never no one, you know, falls on their butt. Hopefully. Uh we have bowling and then military ball, which I know some of you were at. So, we
hope to see you again this year if you can't make it. But yeah, hope to see you guys back over there. Come on. It's a great party. Come on now. >> I'll be the dancing. >> But yeah, those are our six. And we already completed one, which was our movie night. They had a kind of list of
movies to pick from. Unfortunately, Hotel Transennsylvania was picked. I personally wanted Gremlins, but I digress. That's what we had. And so, our next uh morale event will be the Strike Force airsoft. That is going to be our next one. Now passing it on to Cadet
Captain Zalooki. >> Thank you, Cadet First Lieutenant Farah. Good evening, everyone. Now with this year's cadet enrichment, the cadet leadership team held its annual first year cadet orientation where 23 of 61 cadetses were led by the leadership team
through what it's like to be a junior RTC cadet. Cadets really got to experience what it's what a day in the life of what it's like to be a cadet. Additionally, uh 19 cadets attended cadet leadership course, better known as
CLC. CLC is a mock military boot camp where cadets what it's like to be in the military and bring back to the unit merry many qualities such as leadership. Unfortunately, this year CLC was cut short due to extreme heat. We look
forward to coming back next year. Up next is Cadet Captain Bro uh Mombram with leadership development requirements. Thank you. Next up we have LDRs which are our extracurriculars in ROC. We have three categories of LDRs. Steam,
activity based and unit based. I meant STEM. STEM based, activity based and unit based. STEM based are in classroom settings. They require more brains, more you know mathematical stuff. Activity based are more physical outside the classroom. It includes exhibition drill,
new cadet drill, kitty hawk and color guard. And then we have unit based which gives our committees. They're all held during lunch. For example, we have military ball arment committee armor team holiday party or holiday party committee. Um
and with this coming year we have 101 cadets that are building in LDRs which is a huge increase from last year. And another thing we exceed the standards of having seven seven LDRs with one cadet or with one uh yeah we see the standards
of having seven LDRs with one in each tier. There's the three tiers over there. And now I'm passing it off to cadet Colonel Ona. >> Thank you, Cadet Mom. Would you look at that? This is the same slide I briefed last year.
Well, as for our curriculum and action field trips last year, 43 of our first year cadets were able to visit Pikatini Arsenal where they experienced a historical tour and various technical labs, including a virtual reality flight simulator. And as for our returning
cadetses, last year 34 visited Philadelphia where you're able to visit the Valley Forge, uh, Museum of the American Revolution and Independence Hall. And as for this year, 97 of our cadetses will be marching through New York City tomorrow for our Veterans Day
parade. Can you believe that? I'm pretty sure just two years ago, if I remember correctly, that number is greater than the total number of cadets we had in the entire program. And now that's the number we're taking to New York City. That's kind of scary.
But as for other trips, once again, our first years will be visiting Pikatini Arsenal and our returners will have their trip to Joint Base Maguire Dicks Lakehurst. Both of those trips are in the planning phase currently. Thank you again for having us tonight and we'll be happy to answer any
questions you might have. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Thank you. And do we have any questions from the board or comments? >> Any comments? >> I just wanted to say that, you know, having listened to this presentation for
I think it's my fourth year. How impressed I am about the goals that you set. They're not lofty by any measure. That they are really ambitious goals. And not only are they ambitious goals, that you far exceed them every single year. and you're not satisfied with them
because looking at your numbers for this year, you guys put yourself on a pretty high measure there. 95% 90% on things. And certainly we just want to thank you for the how you are such great role models for our school community and beyond. You know, certainly when you
come down to the middle school and the elementary school, you know, kids aspire to be like you and certainly thank you for that leadership. Thank you for not only what you do for the school community, but what you do beyond Mount Olive as far as the community service that you employed for all your cadetses.
Thank you. Really truly, it's such a pleasure and such an honor to see you guys grow into the young women and men that you are. Thank you. >> Absolutely. Well done. >> Any other comments? >> Real quick, M. >> Um, Madam President, I apologize. I know
for the boards, you know, I remember Mr. Stanberry and I believe it was Dr. Reynolds first uh brought the idea of a of a Rozi team to to Mount Al to the board years ago. Um and and unfort not unfortunately but a lot of the board members aren't on that first, you know, voted that in and how to watch it grow
to where it started. Um with all the trials and tribulations we've had of funding it and how we were going to get recruits and and bringing chief in. Um and just to see it grow to where you guys have really brought it is just it's mindboggling and very impressive um the work that you guys do year in and year out. And congratulations to the board to
keep funding it and keep making it a priority for us because I do believe it's a very important part of our of what we offer our students. So congratulations everybody. I'd >> like to make a comment. I don't think you guys are staying for the whole meet. Are you can you hear me? A >> little closer. >> I don't think you guys are staying for
the whole meeting. Are you? >> So we'll comment. So we'll let them have a >> I am very super impressed. Like 100% impressed as we all are. I'm not going to ditto what these two said, but um I just want to thank you for your
leadership and your articulation is like amazing for young people and like you're really striving to be future leaders and we need that so much in this turbulent world now and I
really do appreciate it and I so look forward to seeing you far exceed your goals again which I know you can do if you want too. And I know you guys want it. And I I just thank you for being here. Thank you for being here tonight.
>> Anyone else? >> Yeah, I see you, Miss Melendas. >> I just want to uh thank you for your dedication and your enthusiasm. And also, I'm very um surprised and and proud that you decided
to improve and push on those volunteer hours. is very ambitious for 100 hours but I know that there is nothing that is going to stop you guys from that. Congratulations. Anyone else? The last thing I do want to share for
the people at home is to recognize how much growth this um program has had in the past five years. as you mentioned in your presentation that you know I want going back maybe three years ago that we needed to go outside the community to look for recruits and now how many numbers do you have right now the total
number [Music] >> about 143 >> 143 so and that's a thing that I people have to recognize that this program is by choice our students choose to be involved in this program and that's
because of how well you represent students they want to like you. So certainly not only do you have lofty goals, but you are contagious as far as people wanting to be joining the ranks of your program. So you pat on yourselves on the back because that's an
wonderful thing um for not only for our schools but across the whole community. >> One more thing and like I know you guys appreciate this, but I'm sure you super thank your leadership, your powerful leadership that you have over there. Um
because without without the leadership, none of this I think would happen. So, you know, thank you. >> Is that all we have? >> That's all. >> All right. With that, I'm going to dismiss you guys. You're welcome to stay for the remainder of the meeting or you
can run out those doors real quick. >> Stay warm tomorrow, guys. It's going to be cold. >> But thank you for everything. >> Thank you. Hey John, [Music] That will
>> all right with that I'm I'm happy to go right into our reports. All right, we will go straight to personnel committee report. Miss Fenton. So we met um 114. Um everyone was present except for Dr.
Vania. Um we had a transportation staffing request to get uh additional driver and two subs because of our ever growing uh student population. Um we are looking into substitute pay
rate comps. We are um reviewing and agreed to a job description for a co-eing coach. Uh we are implementing a new employee onboarding orientation that um they have
to complete before they can actually start working here. And we reviewed the district hiring and vacancy updates which we're doing pretty okay at that point. And that's about it. >> Do we have any questions or comments
from any other members? >> No. Okay, see you and now we'll move on to finance. Miss Fitzgerald. >> Yes, the finance committee also met on uh the 4th. Everybody was present uh except for Dr. Vania. And um what we
went over, we started obviously with our usual security report, transportation facilities report uh and reviewed those. But um one of the big exciting things that we get to share is that um we got the NJ cool grant approval. So, um, that
will support up to $1 million for our project at Tints. So, everybody, you know, million dollars is not small. So, very excited about that and kudos to the team who applied, found that, applied for that and made it happen. Um, it really does matter. Uh, we also reviewed
our uh, budget schedule for the 26 27 um, budget planning process. So, what's happening this month, budget training sessions are being uh, scheduled. Um and then if you guys are interested in how that whole process will go, the full schedule is there for you guys to see. It's I would go through it, but it's
literally like three pages. Um it is a very extensive schedule that we go through obviously to put together a budget for a district our size. Um we also discussed staffing needs for uh bus drivers. Um we to your point uh Miss Fenton are definitely um in
desperate need of drivers. Uh this is also getting the point where um everybody starts getting ill and cold and flu season. So um we are definitely um pursuing that as well. We discussed the demographic and uh capacity studies. We've talked about these a couple times
how important it is as we're uh moving forward in our district to understand um what we have in our school district and uh what we have to use. And so um we are looking at quotes right now and examples of capacity studies. were able to look at a couple um examples and so we'll be
reporting to you guys um in December likely with um what we've reviewed in terms of quotes and I think that's that's a good overview. Any questions? Um just the one item I wanted to kind of make the public
um aware of when we were discussing the additional um staffing needs with regards to our bus drivers with the opening of the Mount Olive Grove community. It's going to be require that we have an increase in bus staffing there. So instead of outsourcing that um
bus route as our community grows that's going to in not just increase our need or capacity within the buildings. It's also the transportation department that's going to have um you know major um growth that's needed. So we are
looking at taking on um additional drivers with additional hours to those communities. And do we have a we had a a number for that about? >> Um >> I don't know what the number is. >> I'm sorry I didn't hear you, Miss Narcissis. What did you say?
>> Uh was we had a number for what the total cost currently that we estimated for just those who are moving into Mount Olive right now? Was it around 85 to >> It was 85 to 100,000. Yeah. >> That's just for the transportation and driving cost
>> person. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And I think um again the personnel committee and our staff has done such a good job of looking at as a district in general things that we might contract out and find ways to bring them in house which greatly cuts costs. We've done
that in facilities and operations etc. Also obviously in transportation and staffing but looking at that really does help us to keep costs down by making sure that that's something that we have in our district versus having to contract out regularly. And it's also the location of that new community that's resulting in having
have separate runs. It's not like it's the community is next to an existing one that we can add some more kids to. So it's really creating whole different bus lines and that's added cost at this point. So we're trying to plan accordingly so that we don't run into a situation that we're not able to
accommodate that. But certainly as Miss Fitzgerald pointed out, you know, contracting out has gotten us through some in instances. But we just like everything else, we want our kids on buses with our our staff. You know that it's proven that it's kids enjoy having a bus driver the same one day in day
out. So that's our um our goal. >> Any any other questions or comments from the board? No. Okay. Seeing none, we'll move to curriculum and technology. And Miss Fitzgerald is not here. Do we have someone else from the committee?
>> No, that's not me. Um no, sorry. Miss Fingerro is not here. Um, >> Miss Benton or Miss Aquino, did you want to report? Sorry. >> I'll do it. >> Thank you. >> Uh, the committee met on Monday, November 3rd. We were all present,
including um Mrs. Zetski. Zoetski, I'm pronouncing that incorrectly, I'm sure, and Mrs. Wilkkey. Um, we started off with an update on Smartpass and the overview of the dashboard and how committee members could look to see
where students are in the building and when they need to use the bathroom. It was absolutely fascinating. Um, dual enrollment update. Dr. Rean reviewed the steps taken to enhance dual enrollment opportunities for our students. There
was a presentation. Um, we're in talks with CCM and expanding the number of dual enrollment opportunities that extend beyond our AP classes. Dr. Bania reviewed the high school program map that allows students to complete grade
no credit recovery among other provisions to ensure enrolled students are able to graduate. The committee also reviewed and agreed to a job description for a co-eing coach. This person will focus on student achievement within the
district's co-eing classrooms in grades 6 through 12. We had a technology report um and we also discussed the new name coach platform which tells people um or teaches people how to correctly
pronounce names that will be embedded into emails and will be launched later this month. >> Any comments or questions from the board? I just want to say thank you to the committee for continuing the efforts on the um evaluation and exploration on the
dual enrollment. I think it's a very important program for our students. All right. Seeing no no more um policy and governance. Miss Melendez, I know you just met. Yes, we just met
today um prior to this meeting. Um so I'm just going to do a little brief. Um so we discussed about the freedom to read act related changes and the policy that stress made uh the summary of the changes as uh this the freedom to read
act is effective on December 9. So therefore we discuss a little bit about the estrus made policy and regulation guides with which in the next meeting we are going to have more information about that. Um also uh we discuss um some of
the policy 2530 and regulations 9130 and 2535 which in the next meeting we will see some first readings including in the agenda. >> Thank you. Do we have any questions or comments from the board?
>> No. Okay. Seeing none we will move to subcommittee and parent teacher association liaison. Do we have any reports from the board? No. Do we have anyone from the public that is here for the subcommittee and
parent teacher association? >> Nope. Okay. Seeing none, what we will do is we will take a motion to go into confidential session. Anyone? >> So moved. >> Second. >> And all those in favor? >> I. >> All right. Be it reserved that the board
meet in confidential session for the purpose of discussing negotiations personnel matters of attorney client privilege pending or anticipated litigation confidential pupil matters real estate matters be it further resolved that the matters discussed in confidential session be disclosed to the
public when the reason for confidentiality no longer exists. We are in confidential session. Does she paper? [Music] >> Yes. Good.
[Music] >> I think she says she's all right. >> Okay. >> And I will bring us back to session. Can we take a roll call, please? Mrs. Aquino, >> here. >> Mrs. Fenton, >> here. >> Mrs. Fitzgerald, >> here. >> Dr. Gordano, >> here. >> Mrs. Melendez >> here.
>> Mrs. Narcissis >> here. >> Mrs. O'Neal >> here. >> Mr. Ozilla >> here. >> Okay. And board report. I have nothing. Before we go to public comment, I have one item to our agenda
and it's going under personnel action item 8.19. Amen. Personal action item 8.19 from the October 27th, 2025 board meeting amend
the re from 100 to $150 per day for Susan, acting principal at Mount Olive High School effective November 11th, 2025 through December 31st, 2025 as needed.
And with that We'll move to comments on action items. Members community may comment on any action item prior to board discussion. Please state your name and address for the record. All comments must be respectfully presented.
Or obscene comments tolerated is on action items only for the public. And please state your name and address. Hiro, I wanted to comment on the new position that you're adding. Um, so this is
another new position to deal with co-eing. So is this you're telling me we're going to budget for another $150,000 approximately between benefits salary
this person that's not have student contact and we need 35 hours of the week to deal with so that means that the people we have place right now aren't good enough they can't do that job so the supervisors
building the princip principles in the building directors that we have multiple directors having to do with specialation all the way up in my camp it's like eight people okay we need another
to deal with this okay we need nine I I have to question the effectiveness of this and the efficiency of this that this is an essential person that we need because the people we have again I'm
assuming can't do that job. So why is it that they can't effectively implement monitor and evaluate co-eing in our district and what are the metrics that you're going to use to determine the
effectiveness of this position. The next comment I have is you have your NJQs uh report that you're going to be approving, I guess. Um, so I've asked multiple times about whether or not the
board verifies the information that you're given or if you just accept it face value. Um, and I've raised this with Hibs and we've raised this with the referendum and so again, question for the board. Okay. Is
whether or not you have verified information, you're just assuming that it's true whatever it is that's been present to you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Anyone else from the public
auction items? >> Nope. Seeing none, we will out comment on action items and we will move to take a vote on item 7.1 all the way
through to 11.1. Do I have a motion? >> Take that motion. >> Second. >> And do we have any comments or uh questions from the >> I just follow up to Mr.'s questions. I
think it's appropriate if we want to address them after he asked those questions. I don't know if the board feels that. Correct me if I'm wrong, Dr. Bani and Miss Fen. That is a budget neutral. That is not a new addition that's being added to our budget. So, we don't have the budget for that. >> Correct. >> We're repurposing a position from that just and I think it's just in faith that
we do answer when we can. Um my my and I'm not going to speak for board. Um I don't accept anything I value far >> questions for them. Questions for the board? >> No. All right. Seeing none, we will take a roll call.
>> Mrs. Finn and >> I'm going to abstain anything that says Lisa and everything else. >> Mrs. Aquina, >> yes, but abstaining on 7.1 Aquino.
>> Mrs. Fitzgerain on point one. Anything that mentions programs overview as well. So, please come out if you have children between grades K five just to learn about what they're doing during a school day. >> Thank you. And with that, I will take a
motion to adjourn the meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. And we are close.