is Alyssa Han and I'm the student council treasurer. So, we have a lot on the agenda tonight, so we're going to try to make it quick. But starting with our old business, on February 25th, the Lenipe Valley student council visited our school as they heard many positive
things about our student council and they wanted to meet with us to see how to improve their own. On February 26th, we hosted our all district band concert. And on February 27th, we hosted our all district orchestra concert, both of which were huge successes. The weekend
of March 1st, the regional wrestling tournament took place, and we had 11 wrestlers qualify. On March 1st, the Special Olympics bowling regional tournament was held, which also had a great turnout. On March 6th, the first lift dub commercial was aired, and we
are so excited to be bringing it back this year. On March 6th, we had also a mini college fair. And on March 8th, we had an Air Force Junior ROC competition. They performed really impressively and they placed first in eight different
categories. From March 7th to the 9th, the Robotics Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition took place. Team 11 took home the t the title of the championship. Nice. And then that same weekend, Nico Gonzalez finished fourth and Molly Smith finished seventh at the
state championships. Congratulations to the both of them. From March 10th to the 12th, FBLA attended their state's leadership conference. Mount Olive had five students make it to nationals. Laura Thomas, Nor Risk, Kenav, Jaitle,
Sven Mores, and Nicole Rampers. Congratulations to them. From March 11th to the 14th, the NJGPA testing for juniors took place. On March 12th, we hosted the rising freshman curriculum fair. On the 14th, the DEI hosted a
faculty verse student basketball game. There was an incredible turnout and a huge success. Everyone had fun. The NHS Invitational was held on March 18th, which brought in art schools from all over the Northeast. On March 19th, there was an open house for the freshmen to
tour the high school. Over 150 eighth graders and their freshman and their families attended. So, on to our new business. On March 26, we're holding Clash of the Classes, which is a friendly competition of mental and physical challenges between the grades. From March 29th to 30th, MoHS HOSA,
which is our medical club, will be attending the state's leadership conference. From April 1st to the 4th, the class of 2025 will be selling their prom tickets. Prom will be held on May 22nd at the Meadowwood Manor. And then for the rest of our new business, from
April 3rd to April 5th, Mohs Drama will be putting on their spring play. They're going to be doing Greece, which I heard it's going to be amazing, so make sure to come out. And on April 8th, the seniors will be hosting their health advocacy night. On April 11th, the International Club will partner with the
Mohs Foods Club to host their annual international extravaganza. And then on April 14th, the Key Club will host their annual Easter egg hunt for the elementary schoolers. And then lastly, on April 17th, the Rock and Roll Academy will be doing an acoustic night in the
auditorium. And that's all. Any questions? Any questions or comments from the board? Thank you. I have a question. the Rock and Roll Academy. I'm sorry, what when was that? On April 17th. 17th. Thank you. Mr. Queen is gonna be
singing, I think. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And with that, we will move on to the superintendence report. At this time, I would like to invite Miss Colleen Sule, who's going to be presenting on our accolades for the winter sports teams.
want to face. She wants to face us and then turn for pictures. Face and then turn for pictures for the parents. Does that make sense? Have them come up and look at us and then turn. All righty.
Thank you. Good evening everybody. Uh welcome. Feels like this is going to be tomorrow's wrestling banquet. Um, we certainly are excited about celebrating our winter sports this year and we um have a
wonderful presentation for you. Uh, we've had some incredible individual accolades this this winter and we have a very eager coaches to talk about their individual athletes. So, we kicked off this winter with the National Girl and
Women in Sports Day which was a huge success. We had Maggie Tilvis, Tyler be a big part of that marketing and um representation to the student body. We also had Hall of Famer Amy Ateno, who actually comes from a family of Hall of
Famers. As a matter of fact, every single sibling in her family is a Mount Olive Hall of Fame athlete, which is pretty exciting and pretty awesome. And then also wanted to make mention that this month also is the National Athletic Trainer. So, I want to give a shout out
to Mr. Conroy and Mr. Corkran who are currently at the girls softball scrimmage right now. I have um it's a great honor each year, you know, in the in the in the fall season and in the spring season we do our State of the Union. We talk about all the exciting uh
things that we've accomplished throughout the year. We talk about all of our events and our activities. The winter's a little bit different as um we don't have a full cultive experience yet, but we will have that for you in the spring. I'd like to um first uh introduce Mr. Kevin Pson. He was a Mount
Olive track and field coach. He's going to be introducing his individual athlete as he comes on up. Jack, come on up. [Applause] All right. Uh good evening ladies and
gentlemen. Uh my name is Kevin Pson. I'm the boys head track and field coach for both indoor and outdoor. Uh so I'm here tonight to talk about one of my standout athletes. This would be our junior Jason Papio Kessie. Jason is Oh yes. Jason is a sprinter and jumper for
the track team. Uh he's one of our top runners in the 55 meter dash and the 200 meter dash. He helps us out with relays, but where he really stands out is in the high jump. Uh, so he was one of our top high jumpers last year, but he really took it up a notch this year, no pun
intended. U, jumping a mark of 6'2 in, which means if you asked him to right now, he can jump clear over my head with room to spare. Uh, we'll save that for another day. He was one of the top jumpers uh, in Morris County. He placed second place in a very competitive field
where it had to come to a jump off. And a few weeks after that, he outjumped all of his opponents at the sectional championship and became the North One Group Three sectional champion in the high jump. So, on top of Jason's success, I did want to point out a couple individual athletes who also qualified
for nationals. We were blessed enough to have seven athletes go to nationals in New York City and down in, I believe, in North Carolina. Uh that includes freshman Noah Pizaruso in the mile, uh freshman uh Jasmine Laroce in the 60 meter dash, uh senior Braden Shanga in
the 200, and then a 4x400 meter relay of Matt Evans, Bryce David, Anthony Murray, and Joseph Williams. So congratulations to all the Next, I'd like to bring up Miss Dawn Stone and Mr. Travis
[Applause] Hubert. There are new unified bowling and SGJ coaches. Thank you, Miss Sule. Good evening members of the board of education, Dr. Bangia, administrators, athletes,
families, and friends. I would like to thank you all for your support this season as without you, this evening would not have been possible. Unified Bowling joins athletes and partners of all skills and ability levels as one inclusive team. Throughout this season,
many of our athletes competed in the Special Olympics event with two of our athletes winning gold medals in the individual regional competition and advancing to the Special Olympics state championship that's being held on April 6th at the Bolero Lanes. These athletes,
Christian Pastuch and Nasia Ryan, embody the true spirit and determination of Special Olympics and of our Mount Olive Marauder community. At this time, would Christian and Nasia please come up to receive their certificates?
[Applause] Oh my gosh, those t-shirts are great. Aren't they great? Once again, I'd like to thank the board of the board and our administration for their support. I'd like to now introduce
I'm not sure because he went out of order. Uh, Coach [Applause] Genenstein. Hi everyone. I'm Melissa
Genenstein. and I'm the head girls coach of um the Mount Olive High School swim team and I'm here to honor tonight um an incredible amazing swimmer. Um I actually wrote a speech because I didn't want to leave anything out. I don't usually do this. I usually just talk,
but I I didn't want to leave leave out the most important pieces. Um so this swimmer is not just the fastest in the pool, but she is the soul of our team. Um, as MVP, she dominated races with effortless power, cutting through the water with precision and determination.
Her work ethic is unmatched. She pushes herself and her teammates to new heights. But beyond her athleticism, she is again the heart of the team. She leads cheers before races, offer words of encouragement for after tough losses,
and celebrates every victory big or small. Her presence lifts spirits. Her dedication inspires and her passion for the sport is contagious. Whether it's rallying the team before a crucial meet or staying behind to help a struggling uh teammate
um perfect their strokes, she embodies leadership, sportsmanship, and unwavering support. Danielle Kipsaba isn't just the top point scorer, she is the driving force that keep keeps our team's fire burning. Um she is a true
marauder. a huge congratulations on shattering your 100 backstroke record and also um setting her new record in the 2 IM. Um and again your your hard work and dedication are just truly
inspiring. Um I am just so proud of you. Um and again I just want to thank Miss Sule, Dr. Bangia, um board members, administrators, uh teachers, fellow coaches. Um you know your support is um priceless. So, thank you Danielle. Come
on up. [Applause] Next up is Dan Grizz, head bowling coach. [Applause] [Music] Uh good evening everybody. My name is uh Coach Griswis. I'm the head bowling
coach. Uh our program is probably the youngest of the varsity programs. We got introduced three years ago. Uh and every single year we try to make progress and this year is no exception. Uh this year led by our captains Amble Cassaba and Landon Taylor. We won our first state match which is pretty crazy in a
three-year program. Uh, so we're really proud of our accomplishments, but our most proudest accomplishment was the fact that this year we had a Morris County champion on our team who bowled under the Mount Olive team name. Uh, that is Tegan Mandal. Tegan did such a phenomenal job for us this year. Uh,
every year she was one of our highest scorers and every match she came to play. Uh during our bowling competitions, we have a little tradition that if you bowl a turkey, I take out a big novelty turkey hat and they have to wear it and they have to get a picture uh for our social media. And Tegan wore
it a lot. Uh sometimes she smiled, sometimes she did not. Um but just testament to what she did. Um she loved bowling and did a great job promoting bowling within our program. She loved it so much that one time for my actual class there was a school project uh that they dress up as 19th century guilded
age figures and she was Elizabeth Katie Stanton. Uh she came in school in her co costume and then she later bowled in her Elizabeth Katy costume same costume as well which is pretty impressive. Uh and she also not only is our premier bowler here at Mount Olive, she's also our
premier rugby player which explains why she has the glasses on uh as well. And I'd like to come up here and congratulate Degan Menal. It's now my great pleasure to introduce to you Matt Al's winningest coach, Sean Smith, in the Matt Alive wrestling team.
[Laughter] All right. So, uh I'm going to face you guys and say thank you Board of Education for all your support uh for supporting us and uh approving our overnight trips which are huge to our program. So, I want to thank you for the support behind that. And because of uh
those trips, we've gotten some of our wrestlers some national attention. And uh at currently at the moment, we have numerous wrestlers wrestling at the division one level. Uh we're represented at Kent State, Bucknell, Virginia Tech, and Princeton. Uh so all these overnight trips are definitely doing wonderful
things for our program. Uh and within our program, uh we've adopted a couple different philosophies over the years. One of them was surround ourselves with some good people and I've been able to very fortunate with the board support to uh surround myself with some incredible coaches. Okay. Uh they couldn't be here tonight, but I'd like get like to give a
shout out to coach Romano who's not here, coach Barquetto, Coach Ryerson, Coach Pinto, and Coach Altameira. So those are some guys missed out. Team recap this year. Uh we've had
uh a lot of success and with success, you know, we got to keep up in the Annie and finding better competition. But for this year, we were 15 and four. In the last four years, this group of seniors were 60 and 16. They have a state ranking of 13 this year. Uh a team record this year. They took 10 wrestlers
to the uh state tournament, which is a school record for us and for public schools this year. Uh we were district uh team champs and first ever time Morris County champions. With that being said, in a four-year stretch, this group seniors
coming through have won every single title that New Jersey has put out in front of them. Okay, I looked that up. Every single title. So, district title, Morris County title, state section title, group four title, it goes on and on and uh that comes with a lot of work, a lot of dedication and of course without the support of my administration
staff. Thank you guys very much for all your support and the board of education, it's not possible. So, uh we ask for a lot of things and the administration definitely supports us. So, thank you very much for all your support. Um so, right now, wrestlers, come on up here. Walk single file on up to the front. We're going to give you guys some
certificates. There you go, Nico. Getting ready. Okay, first award is like Lehi's. Nico Gonzalez, state qualifier, state fourth right here. Nicole Gonzalez, Steven Hayek, Stephen, I'll sh Drew Kopalov,
captain. Tanner Perez, state qualifier, Mikey Corski, senior. Brandon Barretts, senior Eaglesen, captain. Tyler Cummings, Jack, Anthony Pimate,
Muhammad, Perez, Raa, Jack, slow down right there. Join Hernandez, Mr. Bullock, Gacos, Colin Smith, Alex Hoy, Noah
Cantio, Thomas McDonald. and Alex, [Applause] we always believe in strength and numbers. That's why we brought everyone here tonight. We have a strong uh belief that strengthen numbers, okay, builds a good program. So again, thank you very
much. Thank you the board of education for having us and thank you for your continued support. And I would like to introduce Jeremy Mayor coming up next representing the girls wrestling program. Good evening. I'm Jeremy Mayer. I'm the head girls wrestling coach at the high
school. I'd like to start off on behalf of uh the entire girls wrestling team. I'd like to thank our board of education for all of your support and I would like to thank our administration as well for all of your support. uh as we're building this program, this was only our second year of having uh a
se well second year of having a separate uh varsity program and our numbers uh as a program we progressed significantly over the last two years. Uh as far as active participants go, we actually uh
increased by 50% this year. And our record at the end of the season, we had nine wins and three losses. And we had all three of our losses were actually to and three of our losses and two of our wins actually came from uh teams that were in the top 12 in the
state. We had many individual successes this year including tournament place winners and uh we had actually five wrestlers who had more than 20 wins this season. One of them is here today who I am going to talk about. Molly Smi entered the uh had a a great season this
year. She ended the season 24 wins and seven losses. Uh she entered the NJSIAA North one region tournament as the 11th seed and progressed all the way to the semi-final match. Uh along the way in the tournament, she ended up placing
third. She defeated the fifth seed, the first seed, the third seed, and the sixth seed on her way to place in third. her third place uh earned her her bid to the state tournament, becoming Mount Olive's second girl to ever wrestle in the state tournament. Uh at the state
tournament, she suffered a loss to a tough loss in her opening match before wrestling all the way back to a seventh place finish. So, that was a great job. Congratulations, Molly Smite. [Music] You finally made it up here. Yeah.
So, I just wanted to say thank you so much. We we do want to also bring up Nico Gonzalez for his state accomplishment on the podium. So, Nico, come on up. Congratulations. So, I just want to reiterate a uh a really important point.
One is that the girls wrestling program is only in its second year, right? So, we went from from being in a dance studio, right, with a couple of mats out to going into an entire space with multiple
girls getting over 20 matches and representing down in Atlantic City, the state tournament. I also want to make point that um really interesting which which which was not brought up but I I will bring it up is that another record
that was broken was that we had a sibling we had a sibling um what do you even call it just unbelievable I think that the parents are still recovering but there's the first time ever in the history of
wrestling did we have a brother sister duo compete at the state tournament and that is Colin Smi and Molly Smi. So, can you imagine being their parent? Oh, wait. And I'm sorry. And then Sean Smite had to wrestle to coach 10 kids down there.
So, what an incredible experience for Mount Olive Wrestling. And um just a wonderful, wonderful caveat for the enthusiasm, the effort, and the passion that the uh wrestling program brings to Mount Olive. certainly is a badge of
honor. You know, there are many teams, many teams in the state of New Jersey that do not bring a single wrestler down to Atlantic City. Now, we had 11 11 student athletes represented down at the boardwalk. So, that's a tribute. You
know, Coach Smite talks about his assistants. Half of them we don't even pay. They just want to be a part of it, right? They just want they know good, they know great and they want to be a part of it. So we certainly want to thank the board of education for supporting all of our athletics. We
certainly could not do the things that we need to do. We also understand as we evolve into 21st century learning that the most important life lessons will occur outside of the classroom in real life experiences. So without your support, we could never do that. So,
thank you very much and um thank you for all being here. I'll see 90% of you tomorrow night at the banquet and um appreciate your support. Thank you so much. And thank you to Dr. Bania and Mr. Stanbury. Miss Sule is going to stand to
the left over me. Now, stand up here. Now, I'm going to embarrass Miss Sule right now. Now, certainly we are so proud of all our athletic um endeavors this past winter. However, we also have a celebration for our own athletic director, Miss Sule. Miss Soule was
certified as the athletic administrator by the National Intercolastic Athletic Administrators Association. As part of this um certification, she had to go through a rigorous professional development um comprehensive evaluation of your background, her professional experience, and her contributions to
this field. Um her certification reflects not only her individual achievement but her commitment to excellence in supporting student athletes, educational institutions, and our broader athletic community. So to Colleen, thank you for your hard work, dedication, and passion you have brought
to our school district. It's a well recognized um endeavor, and we are so incredibly proud of you and the inspiration you serve for our athletes and our coaches and staff alike. Congratulations, [Applause]
Well, I just want to just obviously I don't need to have anything to say, but I just want to say something really quick. Um, and this is really important to me because, you know, 15 years ago when I was looking for a place to land
with my family, I chose Mount Olive, right? And I was fortunate enough years later to be employed by Mount Olive. So, when we talk about having a vision or having a passion, it is driven by the community, right? This is an incredible
place to be. I am filled with pride each day that I come to work and quite frankly I'm blessed to be a part of it. So thank you for being um the the path in which I am able to experience so many great things and of course thank you to
the community and the parents the board of ed and our student athletes. So thank you so very much. Have a good [Applause] night. Or they wish to depart. The fun
part. Oh, you know what? Oh, you're right. Before you guys run away, do the board members have any comments for the athletes and the staff? We'll start down. Anyone? Mr. Chair, we'll go around. No, I just want to say congratulations to you all. I'm I'm
doubtful you'll make it to the end of our um meeting when we all do the congratulations. So, I just want to let you know that you are very valued and we really appreciate coaches, staff, uh all all the athletes, um just so amazed, so
amazed by all your talent. So, thank you. Anyone else? Yes. Congratulations to everyone. Congratulations to all the athletes and the coaches and also administration that always uh help you
out to get to the places that you want but especially also to your parents uh to all the sacrifices that not only parents but siblings and the entire family uh do for you every day. Always
keep that in mind and go with your heart with that in your heart wherever you go. Congratulations. Thank you. Any other board members with comments for the No, you guys know how much I adore all of you. Thank you for everything you do,
the time, the effort, the way you carry yourselves representing Mount Olive, which is huge. I watched all of you down Atlantic City carry yourselves with such, you know, po pose and maturity. And again, thank you to your parents, um, being one. I know the hours spent on
the road, the time they spend in a gym, on a field, in a in a pool. Um, thank you all of you. And I know not only are you athletes, but you are multifaceted. You are amazing students in an, you know, in this classrooms as well, and you're great role models as well. I know
there's many young uh, you students coming up in this district watching you. So, always remember that, you know, reach down behind you. There's someone that's going to be following your footsteps and and really looking up to all of you. So, thank you. Um, if you wish to depart, you are welcome to. Now,
with that, I'll take a motion for a 15minute recess. Second favor. There we go. Bye, ladies. Thank you so much. I have to go there after I have to go there after donations for
our cheer fundraiser this weekend. Hi, I know. I know. You want me to run down there and take a picture of them? They didn't get the next day. Um, well, take a roll call, please. [Applause]
You want a roll a roll call when you have a chance? Mrs. Aquina here. Mrs. Fenton here. Mrs. Faggera here. Mrs. Fitzgerald here. Dr. Gardano here. Mrs. Melendez here. Mrs. Nuriss here. Mrs. O'Neal here. Mr.
Ozilla here. Okay, we are actually awaiting our attorney. So, but we will actually take a motion to go into close session. So moved. All those in favor? I Okay. [Music] All right. I call us back to session.
Um, a roll call, please. Mrs. Aquino, here. Mrs. Fenton, here. Mrs. Faggera, here. Mrs. Fitzgerald, here. Dr. Giardano here. Mrs. Melendez, here. Mrs. Narcissis here. Mrs. O'Neal here. Mr. Orzillo here.
Okay. And I'll move to board subcommittee and parent teacher association leaison reports. Do we have any um reports from the public? Anyone? No. I see one. Come on up. Hello. Uh Marlene Coracraft. I'm with uh
the high school parents club. We appreciated Miss Meendo's uh visiting us on our at our meeting last week. Uh for at our most recent meeting, we had a great presentation from uh Mr. Stansbury and we had a guest presentation from
CPEG. Uh updates are our applications have been sent out for eligible students for senior scholarships. Oh, thank you. I don't know how to do that. Uh and coming up the Mount the Mount
Olive Middle School uh PTO's tricky tray is this Friday. We are participating. We have 25 prizes I believe. Among them are several gift certificates, spirit wear, a parking permit, and a prom couple bid. Oh, so exciting things. Love that. Uh
for senior signs, we sold 155 in the first round of ordering. The second round has been announced. The link went out to parents of seniors. Uh people who have not already ordered a senior sign can do so until April
14th. And I think that is all I wanted to say. Um did I leave anything out? Anything left up? No, I think I think the signs is very important because we are going to have they are going to have uh a second a
second round for the signs. Uh so parents, when is going to be that? At the end of March or um uh April 14th when we April. Yeah. And then uh I think 2 weeks after we put the order in issue. Okay. So you those
that have not ordered yet, they have time and we already got the first round in. We were handing them out over the weekend and I can confirm because I have my sons. They look great. That's it for me. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else? Hi, Amy. Hello, everyone. Hello. I um my name's Amy Marini. I am the co-leader for CPAG. I appreciate you ladies reading my last two updates. I know they were lengthy, but I appreciate
it. Um I um so the CPAG is the special education parent advisory group in Mount Olive. Um, I like to kind of remind everybody each time we are New Jersey code-driven parentled organization or group uh that works collaboratively with the district on systemic concerns
regarding students with special educational needs. So we had a busy um couple weeks since you read my last update. Um so we did our last meeting for CPAG was on March 11th. We always meet via Zoom on the second Tuesday of the month. Um this was a parent only
meeting and we were honored to have uh Sue Mistrea uh present um something called breathe easy um in the- moment tools for parent uh parental resilience. Uh she really it was a wonderful experience. Um everybody it was wellreceived. Um they were teaching
about uh she was teaching us about heart math and the tools to help special needs parents um be in the moment and focus on how to um center and ground yourself no matter what you're experiencing. Um um we also always remind parents um
at our meetings about the different discussions and spotlights and fairs that are all happening within the district just to kind of remind parents of things that are happening. Um we um we also talk about different systemic concerns that we'll bring back to um
special services. on March 12th. The next day, I attended a SPAN uh SWAT meet um where Alexandra Pensierro uh the federal reporting and engagement specialist from New Jerseyy's Office of Special Education presented on the introduction to the environment data
dashboard, which is confusing, but I had to watch it pretty closely. um uh which really went over an overview of reframing inclusive education, reviewing New Jersey's least restrictive environment data compared to the federal data um as well as introducing the
educational environment dashboard and walk the CPAC leaders through how to find the data on the state website to open up that conversation within within the district um to really move the the steps forward. Um on March 18th, I attended the Mount Olive uh high school
parents club meeting. Um and shared the group um shared with the group about CPA, who we are, what we do, and all of the um the the work that we do within the district on systemic concerns. Um and if any other parent organizations
want to meet as you guys, you know, go to your different um liazison areas, um I'm happy to talk because we obviously cover the whole district. Um on March 20th I attended SEAK um so the New Jersey State Special Education Advisory
Council which is a virtual this particular meeting was um hybrid but I always attend virtual. Um I know I've mentioned this before. I think Lisa actually was very kind enough to read it that it's extremely informative. Um I like there's so many different um
districts and and state leaders that are there um that are just soaking up the information. Um and so um on how the the different um areas work together to change, make policies, all the
different things that are going on. Um the office of special ed education reviewed essentially the uh the roles and responsibilities of the special education um office. Um they shared their e-learning opportunities which are like multiple aspects um from special ed
as well as their summer learning institute that they think we'll believe will be in July. I don't think they share the date exactly yet. Um, they also shared the six-year plan to observe every district within New Jersey, which I thought was really interesting and how they don't obviously I have no idea what
cohort we're part of, but that they shared um um you know when they will how they work that all through. And so that was interesting. The main presentation was um on utilizing uh New Jersey Sky,
which sei my brain went to nurse mode on that one. I'm not going to lie. um to foster inclusion and belonging for all. Um there was presented by Kelly Allen. It was a really great um presentation and it reviewed and discussed positive
school climate indicators and data and like who they survey between the parents and the students at different grade levels um staff um and then how the data is a driving force for improvement in different districts across the state and how positive school climate is essential
for well-being and academic success. They also reviewed um the council reviewed indicators three and seven which still makes my brain kind of go um but achievement of students with disabilities um and then they had like
conversation about data that again it's confusing to watch but but it's really great information um and for those that are like in it working in it I'm sure it's easier to grasp and understand the knowledge of what's being shared. Um our next CPAG meeting is Tuesday, April 8th,
which is um going to be both a district and parents. Um the directors of special um services have coordinated to have Michelle Lockwood from um New Jersey Coalition for Inclusive Education come to speak and we're excited to talk with the district about how, you know, how we
can help move the district forward with all means all. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions from the board? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And do we have any reports? I see Dr. Gordana. I do. Um,
excuse me. San Shore School and Home Partnership met uh two weeks ago. I was unfortunate I couldn't make it. It was last minute thing. I emailed them, but um Miss uh Curry was was uh nice enough to send me their the notes. Um they had a Squish raffle raised $827. The
Readathon raffle was $6,386. They currently have 145 members in their organization. Um, Enzo giveback day was March 19th. It was a fifth grade fundraiser. They have upcoming dances April 5th and 12th. Expenses that they put out so far for the Gaga pit was
$3,64. Math science assembly was $1,235. Indoor recess bins was $1,39. Um, and then the for the fifth grade yearbooks, the fifth grade committee funds. Scholastic book fair will be April 1st through the 4th. Family night is April 1st from 6:00 p.
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. They need volunteers. Bus driver appreciation week will happen after spring break and teacher mini grants are are starting to uh be put out there now. The June delivery date sometime in June. Um everyone gets about
$200. And then the plant sale May May 6th and 9th. Um and staff appreciation week is the week leading up to Memorial Day and end of ice cream truck. They need to pick a date and that's what I have. Any questions from the board?
No. Yes. I'm sorry. Yeah. For the high school also uh it is important uh the parents are looking for volunteers because uh this year Manolife is going to host again a big uh dance competition and that's where they raise
uh the funds uh for a scholarship for the kids. Um also I had the uh the privilege to be at that meeting uh because before I was attending the academy the citizen academy uh they have also a grant programs for those teachers
that are members of the club and a school uh a grant was uh granted that day an Apple tablet uh to a teacher for a special program. Um so those teachers that are part of the club or think to join the club so you will have
opportunity also to apply for those grants. Thank you. Anyone else with the committee reports? No. Um I did I have two I did not attend but they did send me them. Um the let me just make sure
Tints Road celebrated a pie with pizza kits that were sold. They noted that April 30th is their trips and uh their art show district-wide. This is for all of the elementary schools. They will have their district-wide science fair.
April 5th. Tins road has their year yearbooks for sale until I believe it's April 3rd. They're looking for membership into a chess club. They also have a kids heart healthy challenge coming up. And the mission says you'll learn life uh saving skills and hands-on
only CPR to recognize stroke um signs. They also say that they have the next steps to take today. They said that there's kids heart challenge program. Students will be learning new ways to keep their hearts h happy and healthy, including steam activities. They will
learn how to save a life when completing Finn's mission. Families are encouraged to complete Finn's mission together where they will learn the warning signs of a stroke and how to perform CPR with handsonly CPR. Complete Finn's mission for a chance to win a hippo warmmy.
They're looking um to also hit a goal of $2,000 for Miss Msulo and Mr. Rad to get slimed. And they said thank you for their support of life-saving missions of the American Heart Association. And they also shared that this week is their
choose to include um week. Monday was MMO gears to wear. Tuesday bright colors, Wednesday sports gear. Thursday was tie-dye day and Friday will be comfy clothes. I think that's my goal for every single day. Um districtwide, they also shared that there's international
extravaganza occurring on April 11th. There was also a CMS um association meeting where they shared out uh an update on their yearbook. They also shared that fifth graders yearbooks will be purchased by this the uh parent
association. They gave an update and overview of their rock and rollathon. They had one. They have another one coming up April um 8th. The week of April 8th, they also have their BOGO family night. buy one get one free for their uh book fair. They're also
reminding all um all parents at CMS that they're looking for volunteers for the um upcoming board for next year because they do have members that will be moving on to the middle school and not part of the CSA. They did also want to remind um
some of the population or the students and the parents not not all school um run fundraisers are run through the SCA. such as uh coinb or the t-shirts are done through other programs. Their next meeting is in April and they didn't give
me the date for that one. So that was all I had for those. I do know that did anyone attend the town council meeting? Nope. Um I did have an update that the town council heard the second reading um and they approved their um it was the I
guess the height of the talk their um decision and resolution to limit the um short-term rentals. Um the other thing was did anyone attend planning board? I did not. Oh, I do have an update. The planning board uh conversation was
around putting a LED light additional um I'm trying to remember how to put it. Um board up coming up 46 from Nekron. There's one that's already high. There's another board that is a billboard but does not have lights on it. They heard
um a proposal to put another one with uh potential lights. There's much push back is my understanding with the concern that it's a lower viewpoint coming off of Route 80 may be a concern for safety issues simply was presented. No decisions have been made. I understand
they'll be presenting that again in May. And that is all I have. Anyone else questions, comments? None. Okay. So, before we go to public comments on um agenda action items, we two do have two I believe two items to be added. So
we wanted to make sure that you were informed. There will be one item for 10.12. It will read 101 resolution for the residency hearing for student number 21350 and
213 502 upon the recommendation of the superintendent. Whereas on March 19th, 2025, the Man Board of Education Residency Committee held a residency hearing for the above reference student. And whereas on that date, the parents of the above referenced student attended in
the hearing. And whereas the committee after having heard and considered all of the proofs and testimony presented recommend to the full board that it find based upon the residency of investigation performed by the board board's director of security and the
parents admission that the student has not the students have not been doiciled within Mount Olive School District during the 2425 school year. And now therefore be it resolved that the board finds that the above referenced students are not legally entitled to attend school in the district and further
hereby orders that the students be disenrolled to the district and be a further resolved that the parents be assessed tuition for the students and eligible attendance in the district schools in the amount of $3,466.97. Be it finally resolved that written notice of this decision and of the family's rights to contest same
before the commissioner of education shall be served upon the parents as required by law. And we have one additional from personnel. Um Mr. Queen, if you just wanted to share that one out. Yes, we'd like to amend action item
7.10, approvement of retirement. We're adding a third a third name to our longerving staff, faculty, and now administrators to the list. Um, letter C will be added David Fellini, our vice principal at the
high school for serving 25 years effective November 14th. And with that, we will open for public comment. Members of the 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. Abusive or obscene comments will not be tolerated. I also wanted to add that if there's any comments where you wish us to respond um with detailed information, we um either ask that you make sure that
we receive that in writing so that we can ensure that we respond correctly. The floor is open. Yep. Okay. Seeing none, we will move on to approval of monthly expenditures. Um the approval of monthly expenditures and reports uh 6.1 through 6.4. Dr.
Gardana, would you help us make a motion? Thank you, Madam President. The recommendation of the superintendent move action item 6.1 through 6.4. Second. Any questions or comments from the
board? Nope. Seeing um m Miss Shing, I just wanted to ask I know there was a de personal development for myself. Which item? So I can make sure that is that added on. Is that added on this this agenda? That's under that's um personnel. Okay. Just want to make sure
I abstain. Thank you. Can we have a second? Any questions or comments from the board? Nope. Okay. Seeing none, we'll take a a roll call. Dr. Geodeno. Um Abstan on 6.1 the PO74 35. Yes. To everything else.
Mrs. Aquino. Yes. Mrs. Fenton. Yes. Mrs. Faggera. Yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald. Yes. Mrs. Melendez. Yes. Mrs. Narcissis. Yes. Mrs. O'Neal. Yes. Mr. Orazillo. Yes. Okay. And we'll move to personnel action
items. Mr. Aquino. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to make a motion to approve personnel action items 7.1 through 7.19. Second. Any questions or comments from the board?
Nope. Okay. Seeing none, um, we'll take a roll call. Mrs. Aquino, yes. Dr. Gordano, yes. Mrs. Fenton, yes. Mrs. Faggera, yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald, yes. Mrs. Melendez, yes. Mrs. Narcissis, yes.
And abstain. Uh, where Northeast is listed for personal development? Item 7.1. 7.1. Thank you. Mrs. O'Neal, abstain from anything for Christian Humphrey as to everything else. Mr. Orzillo. Yes.
Okay. We will move to Sorry, my computer is frozen there. Curriculum and technology. Miss Vigera. Certainly. Upon recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to make a motion to approve items 8.1 through 8.7.
Second. Any questions or comments from the board? No. Okay. Seeing none, we'll take a roll call, please. Mrs. Faggera, yes. Mrs. Aquino, yes. Mrs. Fenton, yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald, yes. Dr. Gordano, yes. Mrs.
Melendez, yes. Mrs. Narcissis, yes. Mrs. O'Neal, yes. Mr. Orzillo, yes. And we will move to finance and operations. Miss Fitzgerald. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to make a motion to approve action items 9.1
through 9.3. Second. Any questions or comments from the board? I just have one on 9 um 9.2. Just a big thank you to the SHSP for the donation of the Gaga pit with the gate. That's pretty awesome. And we really appreciate you guys.
And any others? Nope. We'll take a roll call, please. Mrs. Fitzgerald, yes. Mrs. Aquino, yes. Mrs. Fenton, yes. Mrs. Faggera, yes. Dr. Gordano, yes. Mrs. Melendez, yes. Mrs. Narcissis. Yes. Mrs.
O'Neal. Yes. Mr. Orzilla. Yes. And we will move on. Sorry, I'm scrolling here to administrative action items. Miss Melendez. Yes. Uh, open recommendation of the superintendent. I would like to make a motion to approve items
10.1 through 101. Second. I got you. Got you. Any questions or comments from the board? Uh, I do, Madam President. Uh, 10.8 policy 9163. I was wondering if we
could rewrite that. I feel it's not strict enough. Any other thoughts? Is there um could we approve it now and we can go back to the policy? We could always revise it. I would be helpful to approve it too. Is there Yeah. Is there a mechanism maybe to review what the
regulations are under it? So we have the policy and maybe the regulations I don't know or implementation was saying as far as the consequences for on the different level sorry he's recognizing the different tiers of you know consequences. So if we could approve it
tonight we have a policy meeting in April we can certainly go back to it and just revise it. It would be helpful for spring sports to have something on on the books. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I I I do actually want to say that we just had a room full of,
you know, amazing student athletes and it is behooves the parents to understand the spectator code of conduct and a great deal of responsibility that they, you know, bring to those arenas as well. So, in that spirit, Mr. Risil, I
definitely agree with you. Seeing we'll move along. Any other comments or questions? Uh, President Narcissis, the um, we added item 10.12. Okay. So, a motion to add that one. Yes. Correcting. I would like to make a
motion open the recommendation of the superintendent to approve items 10.1 to 10.12. Second. Right. No more comments. All right. We'll take a roll call. Mrs. Melendez? Yes. Mrs.
Fitzgerald? Yes. Mrs. Aquino, yes. Mrs. Fen, yes. Mrs. Faggera, yes. Dr. Geodano, yes. Mrs. Nurse, yes. Mrs. O'Neal, yes. Mr. Orzillo, yes. And with that, we are at public comment.
Oh, no. Yes. Sorry, my screen just keeps jumping around. Public comments. Students, parents, and employees, and community members may comment on any item of interest pertaining to the Mount Olive School District. Please state your name and address for the record. All
comments must be respectfully presented. Abusive or obscene comments will not be tolerated and the mic is open. It's like the awkward silence. Mic is closed. Okay, we will move on then. Nobody. Old business. Members of the board may comment on any old business.
Anyone? Any new business? No. Okay. Moving along. We are on to board and administrative comments. Members of the board may comment on any item of interest pertaining to Mal School District. Uh we'll start at the end. Dr. Gardiano. No comment, Madam President. All right, Miss Fitzgerald.
Two very quick things, I promise. Um one, the faculty staff basketball game. Just a big thank you for everybody who put that on. That was so fun for the kids, for the students, and then also bringing up the fourth grade girls team and the sixth grade boys team. Those kids loved going to the high school, getting to see all the high schoolers. So, very cool. Thank you to all who put
that on. And then a big thanks to all of the PTO's and all of the different organizations in town who've been donating to the Mount Olive Middle School Tricky tray. Everybody who's come up has said something about that they've donated, etc. There are so many donations for that tricky tray and we just love seeing everybody support. We're going to win them all and Jen is
going to win them all. Um, but it's just we really appreciate everybody pitching in and making that such a successful event. Um, everybody's gotten up, even today said that they've, you know, talking about donations. So, a big thank you to, um, everybody who's been donating to them. And that's all, Miss Melinda's,
uh, just a reminder, uh, remember the drama club production, Greece, tickets are on sale. Please don't wait until the end because they're going to be out. And Mr. Quino, I just wanted to congratulate all of our athletes and our
retirees, especially our new addition, Mr. Fellini. and Miss Benton. Um, again, I congratulate all the um athletes that were here. uh want to congratulate the retirees and I also wanted to make a
comment um that was on our bill list and forgive me I don't know the number um that we're our grant is over so we're paying for our uh cameras on the bus and um I just want to say that we actually
probably with this bus safety program are are going to have a nice wash with that and I really appreciate that um because we you know this is one way the taxpayers could we could save some money for the taxpayers because that's a
critical safety important thing and it's it's not cheap to have those cameras on the bus. I was shocked. So, I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention that the bus safety program not only is it educating people, it's actually helping us pay for the safety
of the children. That's right. So, correct. That's it. We'll swing on over Mrs. O'Neal. Um, I just want to say congratulations to all the athletes and also congratulations to the retirees and
the grease play was already said and I'll see you at the my favorite uh tricky tray. Miss Vigora, in addition to all of the above, I will see you at the mom's tricky tray Friday night. And a quick um
announcement. This Wednesday we are having our first family book club at Mountain View School. Um although the books have been ordered and it's too late to register, you are welcome to join us if you are interested in coming. You would just need to come with your own copy of the book. We are reading the
novel The World According to Humphrey. Um which is easy on Amazon. I just ordered a copy today. It'll be here tomorrow. So there is still time to get it. We do have a um mystery reader and lots of fun in store planned for our family. So, please come out and join us Wednesday, 7 o'clock at the Mountain
View Library. Mr. Rosillo, no comment. No comment. Okay. Um I am sad to see Mr. Fellini retiring. I know that uh if we know him, he won't be staying far far
away because he will definitely be uh coming back often. He's not leaving right now, but he is listed. Um, so we will miss that. I also wanted to say thank you to Miss Melendez and Dr. Bania. We attended the women's leadership day with the New Jersey
school boards on Friday. It was actually a great day. A lot of education, a lot of um meeting of other folks across the state. Um, I thought it was a really good day spent. Um, congrats to the uh athletes FBLA. Uh, I would like to probably join
the book club and I will be at Greece probably singing every single line. Um, and I promise not to wear the the leather pants. And with that, do we have anyone else? No. I will take a motion. Do no need for close session. So, I'll take a motion to adjourn our meeting. So
moved. Second. And we are closed. Nice.