Get a cell phone. >> The showing you want to share. >> She's getting it. >> Settl down, gentlemen. Nice. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> [laughter] >> I have to make the phone a little bit
bigger. Okay. >> Oh, >> call this meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance. 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 silence for the men and women of our armed services. Thank you. Those requirements of the public public opens meeting act of the state of New Jersey
have been satisfied by the inclusion of the date, time and place of this meeting and the notice of regular meetings adopted by this board on August 5th, 2026. Such schedule and notice of means is posted in the municipal building, the Malav library, the board of education offices and the six schools was
submitted to the daily record for publication on January 6, 2026 and was filed with the clerk of Malov township on January 6, 2026. I direct that this announcement be entered to the minutes of this meeting. Roll call. Michino >> here. >> Mrs. Brett >> here.
>> Mrs. Fitzgerald >> here. >> Mrs. Melendez >> here. >> Mrs. O'Neal >> here. >> Mr. Ozilla >> here. Mr. Petri >> here, >> Mrs. Faggera >> here, >> Dr. Gordano >> here. Mr. Quino, can you have the approval of the monthly uh minutes?
>> Um, based on the superintendent, recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to approve um action items 2.1 and 2.2. >> Second. Question or comments from the board? Seeing none, roll call. >> Mrs. Aquino, >> yes.
>> Mr. Petri, >> yes. >> Mrs. Brett, >> here. Yes. >> Mrs. Fitzgerald, >> yes. >> Mrs. Melendez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. O'Neal. >> Yes. >> Mr. Orzillo. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Faggera. >> Yes. >> Dr. Gordeno. >> Yes. Uh, communication petitions. Superintendent.
>> None. >> From board members. >> Oh boy. Something's wrong here with my Chromebook. There we go. I'm sorry. >> Chromebook. >> No, I got it. I'm good. I'm good. Reports and discussion. Student liaison report. >> The floor is yours. >> In her fancy outfit. >> Thank you very much.
>> So, first of all, happy new year everyone. and I hope you had an amazing start to the new year. I know at the high school we've been very busy. And again, my name is Itela Moliner. I'm a junior for any of those who don't know me. So, for first um we had our winter orchestra concert on December 17th. It was really nice and both the parents and
the performers had a really great time. Our band and choir had a holiday tour a few days before winter break. They went to places including Paragon Village and another senior center and they performed there which was a really beautiful thing and they all enjoyed it a lot. Our winter pep rally was on December 19th.
There was a lot of student participation. They were all really excited and we can't wait for the spring pep rally. We're really looking forward to it. We had our alumni panel on January 6, one of the first events of the new year. And we had 13 alumni in attendance. They all answered some really great questions. I know they all loved coming back and we loved hearing
their responses. We had a robotics kickoff on January 10th and 11th. So, we know what the new game is. We had over 20 teams in attendance, so it was really great. We were all able to watch the video together. And the old season is well underway. We had the region band perform on January 10th at the school.
It was a beautiful performance and we had a few students from the high school in the band. So that was really nice. And senior Barbara Ashley got named for the All State band. So we're really excited for her. And Mach won their plaintiff case on January 20th. And I know they're working really hard to make sure next year goes as well as this year
did. So we're really excited for them as well. The CE by literacy testing is almost finished. that's still kind of ongoing, but they're almost finishing up the last couple tests. And teacher recommendations are also finished. So, I know scheduling is about to start, so Mr. Felman is going to be speaking with the different grades about that soon.
946 AP exams were registered for this year. And that was for a total of 469 students. That is an all-time high. We're very, really, really proud of our students and we're really excited for them this year. We hope that you all do well and we know that the teachers are working really hard to make sure they're
prepared. We have 19 international students from South Korea visiting us right now. That's from elementary, middle, and high school. And we're all working really hard to make sure that they enjoy Mount Olive as much as we do. We're showing them around, taking them to classes with us. They came on January 14th and they're leaving on February
4th. And nearly 70 students have been trained as teen mental health first aers. Last year we had 50. So we have 120 certified teen mental health first aers walking the halls. It's a really amazing thing. and we're really really happy that we started this new thing at our school.
And casting for the spring musical Frigy Friday was finished and rehearsals have started. So that's later in March. We're really excited for that as well. For athletics, boys basketball has had an amazing season and they won their Hopkakan holiday tournament a few weeks ago. So that's great for them and I know they've been winning all of their matches as well. So we're really excited
for them as well. And wrestling has had an incredible season so far. They just won the Morris County tournament this past weekend which we hosted. And Yoko Gonzalez, he's a senior. He won his 100th matched. I think uh as of right now he's at 114 or 115 wins. So we're really really happy for him as well. I
know it's a really really big achievement. It's insane. And um sectionals start next week followed by districts and regionals individuals which we will also be hosting. And competition cheer is going to UCA at um Disney Orlando. So we're really excited for them as well and maybe a little bit
jealous. I know coming up Dr. Fallen is going to be speaking to the freshman class about acceptance uh tomorrow. and we he has been speaking at our school for years, a lot of years now and we're very really excited that he's coming back. We have Lincoln testing
coming up. So, we have math tomorrow and we have ELA on February 4th. Fortunately, I still take it. Seniors don't lucky for them, but we have to take it tomorrow and in February. We have SAT and ACT registration ending this Friday. So, anyone who's going for
last minute registration, make sure to get that in before this Friday. And we have the Rock and Roll Academy concert on the 30th and a lot of new talent. So, we're really excited for that as well. We have our Triumph solo concert on February 4th where we have a lot of concerts coming up, a lot of musical talent. And Marauder Royale is also
coming up on February 6th. And I know that was started last year. It's a way to honor our seniors and have them show off their talents and that's at the pack at 7:00. So, preparations are well underway and tickets are being sold right now. And lastly, I feel testing for states is going to be on February
9th to February 11th. And that is all for me, but we're very busy as you can tell. And that's all. Thank you so much. And I hope this year goes as great as last year did. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Any question or comments uh for the student leazison from board members?
>> I hope you get a ton of extra credit. >> Super. Thank you. Uh superintendent report. >> Yes, we had our second long range planning committee yesterday. We had our meeting at Sanore and Miss Curry did a fantastic job presenting on on this on
her school all about the wonderful programming as well as the needs that moving forward for the school. Our next meeting is February 18th at the middle school which Miss um Agatha Wilkey will be overviewing the middle school. So we look forward to the committee members joining us once again for our third
meeting today. Really exciting day. We had accounting on site for our on third or for CQAC. happens every three years. QAC is when the state comes in and they monitor us in the areas of finance, um, instruction and programming, operations,
governance, and what did I miss? >> Operations. >> I did I say >> fiscal. Did I say fiscal? >> Fiscal. >> Finance. >> Fiscal. Sorry. >> So, we did um beautifully. The feedback um from the state has been that we are up to par. Not only up to par, exceeding
their expectations. Really great feedback. And I know Dr. Dr. Gordana was a part of the CUACT committee, so he can probably um provide a little more insight on his viewpoint of the day. >> Any questions or comments for the superintendent? Seeing none, we'll move to committee
reports. Uh we'll start with personnel. Uh personnel met tonight. Uh as per uh a new twist going back to the way the board years ago used to do things, personnel will meet uh 5:45 before each and every board meeting. So, we're going to meet twice a month. A lot of what we
talk about in there is close session. uh for personnel reasons we can't really get into it per in public. There are a few things we can discuss um and we will go to close session just to update the board on on on some on some personnel issues uh and happenings that are happening that we cannot by law state
and public. So right off the bat it was myself, Miss Aquino, um Mr. Petri, uh Miss Faggera showed up uh about 5 10 minutes after the meeting started and Mr. Moore and Dr. Bani were there. Um and at first we we went over and and
this is going to go I'm going to tie it into the QAC of what uh Dr. Banjo spoke about. Um you know the idea years ago when the board put in a director of human resources you know it was a tough cell for people in our community and even for some of the board members to
then add another uh admin that they felt we were too admin heavy. Um luckily we we saw through those growing changes growing pains. you know, the first person we had in there. Um, went to another position we had put in there and then we hired Mr. Moore and moved him into that position. Um, and what he's
done is is pretty impressive from the standpoint of processes and procedures that we as the third largest district student wise in Morris County. Never had a director. And we had a great Miss Miss Van Horn ran HR for us for for as long
as she's worked here, but but really, you know, needed a director of human resources to step in. She's a great manager. She's and she's helped this district together, but as we grew, it was something the board never really put its mind to to putting in place. Um, so with that being said, we reviewed
tonight and and and Mr. Moore was brought up in Cusack about this, his processes, procedures that he implemented. Uh, one thing we looked at was what building admins and directors um their wish list from a personnel standpoint of what they want in the next year budget cycle. uh what the budget
that's coming up now that that Miss showing had had um the admin team, you know, put in for what their wish list was. And again, that's all it is is a wish list. We don't know um what the state's going to do. Um you know, the the governor, it's the new governor has
to let us know within two days of their address how much money they're going to fund for education. But it's not until what would you say, Michelle? Uh two weeks, maybe three weeks before we're our budgets are finally >> It's the last in February, >> right? That they're due, you know, and it gives us a short amount of turnaround
time depending if we get cut, if we get more money. So, it's kind of a waiting game. That's why I say school district budgeting is really you're budgeting a year and a half in advance with numbers you really don't have. You're you're doing your best guesstimates. So, um that's a it's going to be a wait and see
and possibly this board a last minute changes. I'm sure uh Maj talk about a little bit too about you know some things may have to be taken out some things get changed up but we'll go from there. So he really has a process in place uh for admins uh to put in the request. The
reasons why um he shares that with the personnel committee that will be shared um that is confidential um as of right now because it does include personnel and that will be shared with with the board members um um as as those needs come to fruition and the budgets being
put together. Um uh we talked about uh a question came up from Miss Fgera. There was a great question about with our power professionals. Um, does the district require them to have teaching Certs? Um, you know, do we pay them extra for a subsert? The answer to both was we do
not require our power professional to have teaching. Uh, we do give them an extra dollar if they have a subsert. Uh, it really makes them more valuable to us as a district. We can you move them and have them sub or cover a class if we need to. Um, obviously the board has recognized in our last negotiations um that we want to uh do a better job of of
of raising salaries of power of our power professionals. I'm sure that will be a top priority this year. Um, so we discussed that a little bit. We will be in close session tonight to talk about uh a couple staff members on PIPS um and let update the board on those.
Last thing you're going to see on the agenda um is uh Leo Marggozak. um she had been doing both jobs. She had still she was still doing her supervisor of language arts um as well as doing her job as vice principal. Um and so
contractually we're obligated to pay her $100 a day for doing both jobs and it comes to $1400 and really if we could pay her more, we probably should. But um for someone to do both jobs and close out the budget and do the budget process for language arts so the new person starts um we're really in my opinion
getting that for uh for nothing, next to nothing. So, uh, that's on the agenda for board approval of the board, which I think everyone on the board will, um, absolutely do that. I would be remiss. Um, I just want to mention two things of two retirees, um, in our district, Mr.
Randy Espazito, um, great HVAC person, right, Mr. Aquino, who I thought he was electrician, Mr. Aquino had to correct me. Um, um, phenomenal. Worked in audition for 19 years. That's that's saying something. Uh, just a just a a great human being. um just a an honest
an honest laborer. Um doesn't really even when he works privately, he doesn't look to uh you know stick it to people. Um and he certainly didn't do that for us all these years in the district. And then I this person for 25 years um I've known her almost as long as that time.
Um working in the district with her um working when she was a PAR professional. when I was a teacher of the ESY program and I had her daughter um as one of my students when I first started teaching here in Mount Olive, Miss Laura Healing, her uh daughter-in-law now is a teacher for us at at Tint as well. Um
congratulations to her on 25 years of service and she's worked with every student, every student population in our special ed department um through the years. So hats off to her and I wish her all the best. Uh anyone from the committee? Did I miss anything? >> I think the rest is closed session.
>> Yep. That's all I have questions or comments from the board. >> Thank you. Moving right along to finance committee. Miss Fitzgerald. >> Yes. Okay. So, we met January 20th. Everybody was in attendance on the committee and uh Miss Faggera joined us
as well. Um thanks for the segue on the budget. It's a perfect segue into one of the things that we talked about in our session which is obviously the budget for the 2627 school year. As you mentioned, we are you kind of have to forecast a bazillion weeks in advance and you know try and get as close as you
can. So we understand the process and where we are a lovely little you are here map if you will. Um the it's a very long process as we know with the budget. So we are at here and we still have this to go. Um so there's u plenty to do. The finance
committee is going to be meeting um to review the budget and um discuss that at our next meeting, but I know Miss Shoning has been busy meeting with all of the um building representatives, etc. to understand what their wish lists are. To your point, Dr. Jordana, we are hoping to get as much of that on there as possible, but a lot will um depend on
state aid. Um, another item that we talked about in our meeting that, um, we're pretty excited about is, um, this energy efficiency, uh, program that we are going to be implementing. Um, that's by Mantis Innovation. Um, that is going to
be helping us track all of our HVAC systems, usable life, where they are, how close they are to, you know, needing replacement. So, there's really going to be no surprises. And it's going to be this living uh, system where we can see at any given time the status of those. So again, no, the goal is no surprises,
no finding out all of a sudden one year that we have to replace half of them. Um it's really going to help us uh be very proactive um as we uh move forward in the district. Um another item I wanted to talk about because a couple of you I know have um asked me about it and I
figured we could just talk about it here is the um the water pressure um that we had talked about at CMS. Um I know several of you had asked of what um that was about. So I can explain and then I'm sure um my wonderful friends down here can explain a little bit better. Um but
uh there is a uh Cintas told us that CMS has a the water pressure is not sufficient by code. So um for fire suppression fire suppression so that's going to have to be reported to the town. Um we did um Michael spoke uh Mr. Sumino spoke with uh the fire marshall.
He told him we're working on updating the system. Um the town did look at the system and you know by their standards it did meet the threshold. So we will be spending um about uh $52,000 to make sure that that water pressure is adequate um and is going to um meet the
needs of the fire suppression systems. Any questions on that? Because I know a few folks did. >> Real quick, is that budgeted or is that is that not budgeted? That 52 >> is not it's not budgeted but we have some breakage in other areas. >> Thank you. Yep.
Okay. Anything else that would be? Um, and then I keep talking about this, but it is coming and it is a thing now. Modular needs, which is a nice way of saying trailers, they're coming. We have to do that. Um, especially at the uh, middle school. So, we have been looking at the
locations for those and um, looking at quotes for the scope of services so we can get that done. Um, because then we are going to need to have the plans approved. Um, and so that is coming for the 2627 school year. There's a high points. Anything committee-wise that we wanted to
mention? Finance folks, any questions? >> Any questions from board members? I I have I have a couple real with the modulars. What location? I know there was a couple spots. One point there were think the front of the building, but we do have the bus. >> So, there's this great spot that they actually came up with. It's kind of
crazy. It's like literally a strip of grass that's perfect. Um it's kind of out back by the um the tennis courts. There's it's hard to unless you can see it. There's a a strip right there. And the beautiful thing about it is it's very close to the water line and the plumbing. So we will be able to tap right into that instead of have to spend
more money making that like retrofitted. >> It's right we're coming out of the c um the gym. You're making a right that outside back um exit. There's a parking lot right there. If you go to the left, there's like a strip of grass. That's where we're going to put it. Okay. It really is kind of perfect and it's going to be covered um so that we don't have to worry about the elements. And then
what we are planning to conduct out there are um health classes because that is something that everybody in the district has to take. So not there won't be any particular level or class that has to you know go to the trailers while other people don't have to. So everybody will be out there at some point.
>> So are we doing the covering in house or we is that all going to be part of the people who bring the modular in? >> It's going to be part of the process. >> Yeah. >> So though so when we bid it out they're that's be part of the bid that they have to put >> Oh yes. Absolutely. No question. >> All right. Um, and then just number two, I know you guys talked about the special
ed attorney and and I absolutely agree that I think it's, you know, Dr. Bar taking that to to Miss Mach to say, "Hey, this is what we're thinking, what's happening here." But but just as for the full board discussion on this, I really do think and I'd remand this back to the business committee, the finite business committee still, but I do think
and it reminded me of Miss Shing said like last month or the month before in December, >> just take this idea, there's nothing wrong of us doing an RFP just to get information of of of special editorians if that's what we want to do. Just we have them in our pocket and in case we don't something happens and we don't
wind up going with Mr. CH or it's not, you know, our expectations aren't met that we don't then have to wait a week or two to go RFP and vote it out and bring it back in there. So, it just might be something we just put out and get those RFPs in and maybe go forth that. So, I'd have you look at that your next for sure >> at your next committee meeting. >> Yep. And you just had
>> anyone else want to add to that? Anyone else's thoughts on that here? >> Yes. And Dr. Banji does have that meeting tomorrow. So, we'll know more information. Super. >> Uh, that's all I have. Anyone else have any questions for finance? Seeing none, we're moving along.
>> Curriculum instruction committee meeting. Miss Faggera. >> I have a lot, so get comfortable. >> Um, the curriculum and technology committee met on January 20th in Dr. Bangia's office. In attendance were Dr.
Bania, Mrs. McDermott, Mrs. O'Neal, and myself. Uh, Mr. Orzilla was a guest at our meeting. Uh, Dr. Bangia reviewed the New Jersey Department of Education definition of chronic absenteeism and examined the ESSA subgroup data for the
2024 2025 school year. While our district demonstrated overall improvement, our middle school and our high school continue to exceed the 10% threshold. So, as a result, corrective action plans are being developed with a focus on strengthening our attendance
practices, communication, and community education. We can't stress enough how important it is for our students to be present and in school. If they're not if they're not here, they're not learning. So, you know, we do want to stress the importance of them being with us.
We also um the district reported that we have been selected to participate in the NJ DOE special education monitoring process as part of cohort 3 along with 95 other districts through a six-year review
cycle. Um another topic of discussion was the NJ DOE cadre. The district shared an update on its participation in the partnership to effectively resolve disputes at the local level, noting that
it was accepted into the program along with two other districts. Designated staff will be trained to facilitate IEP meetings with the goal of strengthening partnerships with parents and resolving concerns collaboratively prior to due
process. In addition, the district was selected for indicator 8, which involves a state administered parent survey for families of students with disabilities. The district will support outreach and communication to encourage participation
once the survey release date is announced. So, that will be coming. Um, we also discussed the video wall at Tints. We discussed that the vendor can no longer support the existing video wall located in tins. So the district
will discontinue further investment into that system. We had a tech report um of updates which was also reviewed. Um we also discussed the manalo success academy. Uh Mrs. McDermott shared that
MOSA was originally funded through the local budget, ESSER funds, and the the high impact tutoring grant. It provided critical before and after school academic support. With the conclusion of these funding streams, the
MOSA program has also come to an end. So this shift has created an opportunity through the use of our I Ready assessments, benchmark resources, and the ongoing shifts in our mathematics instruction. We've strengthened our ability to
identify and respond to student needs during our school day. So these tools have allowed us to refine tier one instruction and more effectively deliver tier 2 and tier three supports, ensuring that each child is getting what they need to grow and thrive. So going
forward, our goal is to embed these interventions within the school day, supporting our students in real time while respecting their time and their lives outside of school. Um the Mount Olive Athletics Rise student leadership program was also
among our discussion. Our athletics will now offer three level leadership pathways for student athletes designed to build leadership skills, personal growth, and engagement. The program is open to current Mount Olive student athletes who aspire to leadership roles
within their teams, their school, and the community. Another topic was the grade five departmentalization. Mrs. McDermott shared that the district is moving toward a more consistent self-contained instructional model in grade 5 to strengthen coherence, equity,
and instructional effectiveness. The shift supports the intentional integration of ELA, social studies, science, and writing. An essential component of our newly adopted benchmark advanced ELA program, which emphasizes knowledge building and literacy across
content areas. Currently, not all of our grade five classrooms are depmentalized, resulting in inconsistent student experiences in our district. A unified model will ensure greater equity across schools and sections.
Additionally, the current structure of extended ELA and math blocks create scheduling and transition challenges when students switch classes. So, a self-contained model maximizes instruction time, allows for flexible pacing, and better aligns daily instruction to standards and learning
goals while maintaining the high expectations that we have for our students. Dr. Dr. Bania also talked about the Tri County High School Consortium uh and explained that the workforce development board of Northwest Northwest New Jersey
is exploring the creation of a tri county high school consortium to bring together educators and administrators from Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties. This consortium would convene quarterly to share best practices related to career and technical
education, career pathways, and program development. Our high school has expressed interest in not only participating but also hosting. Our school calendars were presented to the committee with draft calendar options for the 2026 2027 school year
and the 2027 2028 school year. Um Dr. Ban also provided an update on the exploration of expanding our preschool program. Space and funding continue to be identified as key challenges that require further consideration.
And finally, we discussed midyear progressing the midyear progressing monitoring update and Dr. Bania shared the status of the each district's strategic plan initiatives for um the committee to review. >> Does anybody have
>> Can I just add one thing? On tonight's agenda, we have the adjusting our current school year calendar. And that adjustment is resulting in the upcoming student day off on February 13th to be now a half day for students. That's going to allow us to pick up another
emergency um day or snow day people like to refer to as because as a result of this past Monday, we're down we use three and since we started the school off year off with four, we're down to one. This allows us to pick up another day just in case. And based upon the winter we've had so far, it's probably a
smart move for us to have another day in our bank. So, just to recap, February 13th, which is currently a student day off, is now going to turn into a half day for students with student um staff PD in the afternoon. >> Any questions or comments from the board members?
>> Yes, I have a question uh for the grade five uh departmentalization. Um so in simple language so the students are not changing from classroom but is the same teacher giving the all all the
subjects or teachers for math and science are coming into the classroom and then conducting those classes. >> They'll be self-contained. Correct. >> Yes. So the same teacher is going to be providing instruction in all content areas. >> So the teachers are going to the classroom. >> No. So we're gonna have the same. So for
example, if I was a fifth grade teacher, I would be having the same group of students all day and I would instruct them in ELA, math, social studies, science. >> Teacher is going to instruct all the for grade five. >> Yeah. >> Just like the other the grades that preced it.
>> Any other questions or comments? I'd like to thank you, Miss Faggera, and I just as as much for me as anyone else, I just want to make it aware to the board members. Um, you know, these committee meetings and these reports should be of length. It's it's really should be, you know, for the public to
know this as well. The bulk of our of our work is done in committee meetings. Um, you know, they should be an hour and a half to two hours, maybe longer. There's a lot of information to go through before it's going to be presented to the full board. Um, and for the public to see that. Um, and it's just a reminder that, you know, really
our meetings themselves here shouldn't be as long as committee meetings. So, you know, by the time, you know, we're coming to the full board, we're doing the business of the board in public. It's really not for the public. That's what the statute states. It's to be done in public. So, it's I want the people to understand that that these these reports
should be of length. Feel free as as board members to ask questions and we can debate them uh remand them back to committee or ask for them to be remanded back to committee. Um, and that's where we really get the uh um, yeah, try to uh try to get things going. Um, with that
being said, I also like to remind uh the public if you're out there, you know, when we talk about chronic absenteeism, we understand that our students and you as parents, and we all understand that there's times our students are going to be absent. Uh, they get pneumonia, they get sick, some of our students have mental health uh, things going on, uh,
other illnesses going on, chronic illnesses that we're aware of. We still have to report them as chronic. That still goes against us for chronic absenteeism. Um I've had a nice conversation with Dr. Banji. I know she's been talking through committees about this. Um we have to do a better job of I think of of being proactive
with our with our parents saying if they get that that letter that says your child has missed so many days. We're understanding that there's some things going on in your household or they went on a couple college visits that aware of. But we still have to put that letter out there. We just have to be a little bit more proactive on the students we
know that that are having difficulties in their lives that are affecting their their their absenteeism in schools. But by law, there's no more excused unexcused absences. The state doesn't care about that anymore. They want to know. >> Can I add also and I think a part the the outreach from the district really
comes from a place of care. If there is something going at home that is having the child demonstrate some challenges, whether it be a physical, mental health, or whatever the case, we we're a partnership and we want to make sure that we are affording that family the resources, the support that potentially
would allow that child to come to school more. And that's really where that comes the concern lies down at the end of the day is that we recognize things happen with life. But if there's certain circumstances that we can maybe implement a health plan, an individualized health plan based upon the health of that child, we can
certainly talk about that. But if we're not made aware and those lines of communications are not maintained that prevents us for able to even suggest such a um possibility. So that's really what it comes from. It's not only from a state compliance which you know which is I think is lowhanging fruit. It really
comes from a place of care that what's going on at home. What can we do to better support you so that they're in school more? Because every studies have shown the more a child is in school, the more successful will be, not only in the academic sense, but also from a holistic
sense of their attachment, the community, the friendships that they build, which we certainly want them to be a part of the reason they come to school. >> Right. And and I want to point out too um and I've heard from a couple people I know other board members about the the sun setting if you will of the MSA the
uh success academy you know knowing Dr. Ban and the board members you know that's something we're going to keep an eye on and if next year our data shows us that we need to do more interventions outside of the school day I'm sure the admin will will bring it to the board that we can budget appropriately. those funding streams unfortunately through
the federal government and and through the state through the high impact grant and everything else are coming to an end. That helped us greatly supplement our our our general fund to to implement those programs. So, um don't want anyone to think that we're just pulling the carpet out. We've have things in place to to hopefully, you know, move us, keep
moving in the right direction. But, however, that's the admin's job to come back to this board and through committees to say, "Here's the data. This is what we're seeing. We may have to do something like this for our fifth grade class or at San. we may have to do it for our sixth grade class at at at
mom. So, just keep everyone aware of that this is not an end all be all. It's it's a continuous school improvement is always flowing and always coming back around. >> And I think it's clear, you know, key as Miss Vaggera pointed out in our conversation from CNT. We've made um adjustments to ensure that support is
given during the school day. >> And that's really what I hope the public takes away from this conversation. It's not an absence of service or taking away, but rather that support is happening during the school day because one of the key feedback we got um from families is I can't get my kid picked up
from that um MOSA after school. It's not it's success academy. It's not happening. So, we had a very narrow group of students who were able to take advantage of it. And we believe that those services just like G&T is a great example. We used to do that after school. Now, we've pulled that back into
the school day because those things need to be taken part of the time that they're here with us. So, I hope the families at home who are watching are recognizing that those the day of their child in school is made up of that intervention support whether they're at one end of the pendulum or the other,
right? So if they need um supports to get them to grade level or if their child is far exceeding grade level that we brought in services and programs in order to support them and certainly our long range planning committee that was um at San Jur last night and both Miss um Miss Brett and Miss Vgera who were
present at the um meeting last night can speak to this as far as how you know our elementary schools are utilizing and very creative with their space right for small group instruction so that those opportunities can be done during the school day.
Thank you. Uh policy uh committee met uh Miss Melendez uh >> policy committee met on Thursday January 22nd and present were Dr. Benja uh Miss Fiser, Miss Aquino and myself and the
policy committee review recent legal changes including the manhood versus Taylor case and the freedom to read act. Dr. Ben shared that the district is already compliant with the new cell phone ban from kindergarten through 8th
grade. The district will have to adjust our current policy at the high school and require no access to cell phones throughout the school day and not only during instructional period which is our current practice. Uh policies and regulations updates were
discussed as well for the following specific areas. Neopotism, employment of chief school administrator, sexual harassment, resource materials, library resources, public complaints, inappropriate staff conduct, high school
graduation, and outside activities. >> Is that it? >> Over. >> Yes. >> Super. Question or comments from the board? >> Seeing none, thank you. Um, I'd also like to point out, Miss Lendz didn't say it, um, we've moved when we do, um,
residency hearings, they're going to go through the policy committee as opposed to having a separate committee. Um, just makes sense in my mind as a policy committee would be making the recommendation to the full board as to whether or not to suspend our residency policy or to enforce it for a family. So, based upon the information they get,
>> we are already working on that. >> Super. Thank you. Moving right along. Uh board subcommittees, parent teacher association reports. Anybody? >> I do have a report from the FPTA. Um so
on beha behalf of the Flanders PTA association, they wanted me to announce that the fifth grade pizza fundraiser kits is happening now. If you want to order your pizza kit from Brandas, um they are 11 or 12 each.
the after the bell winter session after school enrichment program with teachers. Uh registration is open and spots are filling up quickly. There's also a raffle calendar schoolwide fundraiser that's going to be launching soon. The
FPTA sponsored school assembly, a school sponsored assembly with Liberty Science Center is scheduled for February 10th. The uh yearly girls dance is scheduled for February 12th. Registration is open now and it is a glow theme. The yearly
boys dance is March 13th which is also a glow theme. And that's it. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Well, that tint page program is really impressive. It's the after school enrichment. I was reading up on it today. I've heard really positive things
about it from Tints. Um the one that you mentioned is the enrichment program. I mean the kind Yes. Yeah. They call it the page program. It stands for play and grow enrichment. Um, I would love to see it at the other elementary schools as well. They have been doing it for years. They seem to have a really great
process, but I know it's run by the the PTO's, but um, I've heard nothing but positive things about the different experiences that these kids get to have. >> Is the Is it happening anywhere else besides Tins in Mountain View? Just those two. >> I only knew of it at at Tint, but
>> Yeah, it's just tins. It's not the same as after the bell. It's the same after the belt as far as it's run through the PTO as far as the teachers um offer a topic that they're interested in providing some kind of after school program in >> calling different. So that's the same thing call them different things. So I
did have an opportunity to meet with all the parent organization leadership last week and that was actually a topic of conversation um as far as you know there's a great intention they would love to continue those programs and expand it but it's al based upon
parental need and outreach as far as if they're going to sign up for it. I know for Mountain View they struggled a little bit as far as getting the classes but also having parents and sign up for it. So there's a there's a demand to offer the classes. When the classes are offered, sometimes there it's not
working with their schedule. So there's a lot of nuances that turns into I need a Tuesday, Thursday versus a Wednesday, Monday. And so there's a lot of things behind the scenes that takes a lot of time. But I know Tins has been doing it for so many years and it's a very welloiled machine and their leadership
has shared that's their feedback that right you know sometimes there's a nuance right about first of all what the teacher is interested in offering to teach with topic-wise matches up with student interest of those who want to stay after school. So there's a lot and I know Mountain View was trying to match
it up but also the payment of the staff who are able to do it. Is it you know worth their while to stay after versus how much money does the PTO make? because sometimes at tins they just break even right um depending on so there's a lot of different things it so it just really depends on the school
community because there is no um um transportation provided so if they do stay after there are some of our elementary schools in which our families don't have the ability as much as others to say they can pick up their kid at 5:00 because they need you know they need the bus to be up picking them up so
there's a lot of layers there and I know every of the PTO's and across the district do um what's best for families in that building as much as they're able to do. >> Not all elementary schools are created equal, unfortunately. Mhm. >> Any other qu any other uh
>> are we looking into the other schools or No, >> I I would I can bring it up to them, but once I just want to be clear, I just wanted to be put it out there that every individual building has different needs and I think it'll be a little difficult at the end of the day to expect
something that there's not a want or a need or vice versa because it takes to organize it. Any other committee um subcommittee reports or teacher parent leaison? >> Yes. Go ahead.
>> Okay. Jinx owe you Coke. [laughter] >> Uh the Manolive High School uh parent club. I attended uh to their meeting and they um are inviting parents to join the organization because they need parental
participation uh to keep going. Um the leadership um has senior students so they will be leaving and they need other people to take the reigns for that. Uh they're also uh having the spirit wear
um so for marers and it's very easy they have a QR and it is also in the website and they are teaming also with the air force junior IOTC in their bingo which is going to be in February 21st. They are very active.
I'm working in the prom. >> Yes. >> Any questions or comments with the board? Miss Fischer? >> Uh on the 27th, that was yesterday. Yep. Yesterday, um we had the Mount Olive Middle School parent advisory committee meeting, the first one. Um the this is
where parents from the middle school, I think we have about 30 families who've signed up. They're going to meet monthly and, you know, talk about different um, you know, uh, different issues, different thoughts, different opportunities at the middle school. So, last night we met at the middle school. Um, really covered some of the things
that we talked about tonight, including absenteeism. [snorts] Um, you know, different ways to keep kids um, engaged and, uh, it was very, it was a great conversation. We had um, Miss Wilky and the three building uh, vice principles and it was excellent. So, the next one
will be um uh I believe next month and that one will be virtual for the um committee members who signed up. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Thank you, Miss Fchel. Any other reports? Seeing none, moving to president's report. I just want to
follow up briefly on what Dr. Banjo said about Cusack um and having the county in um I believe Morris County is very fortunate. There's not a lot of county superintendents in our state that are actually retired superintendents. Um, I think that says a lot when you have a
county leader who who worked their way up from teacher to to academic coach to middle school principal to vice principal at the high school or whoever that is and to central office and then ultimately superintendent. Um, they bring with them an experience but also
institutional knowledge of what Dr. Baner's job is, admin team's job is, how to deal with board members. um and the politics of it all. So, I think we were very fortunate. They were very impressed with our district. Um uh Dr. Genberg was just as impressed three years ago when it was her first year uh going through
Cusack with us when she had hired. Um she speaks very highly of our district including Dr. Bania. Um so it was I think it was just wonderful experience. I think knock on wood we should do pretty well on if you want to follow up with anything. >> And certainly I think CUAC is a team effort. We had a whole committee comprised of various stakeholders who we
met with throughout the process to ensure that the documents that we were looking at were accurate and as well as areas that we want to work have areas of improvement. So, thank you to those members who range from teachers to administrators. Um, so it was exciting to have them there this morning be able
to interact with both doc Dr. Gartenberg as well as a county BA and that was a great opportunity and certainly I would like to um give a little shout out to the administrative team who took such a lead in getting everything ready. So certainly Miss Mcderman in the areas of instruction and programming and also Dr.
Regan who was in her absence. So thank you to both of them. Thank you to Miss Shoning and her business team working on physical Mr. Kevin Moore and his the human resources um department and getting making sure their personnel documents are all in order as well as um
operations with Miss Bellow and governance um as far as the whole I want to say superintendent office was a great team to work for and I think the feedback we received from Dr. Gartenberg was reflective of that, of how impressed she was, was the processes and
procedures were not only on paper, but certainly when she interacted with her team, how passionate they were and how knowledgeable they were about what is what was right to do is how we followed it here in Mount Olive. So, she was it was actually a a a pleasant visit that we were looking forward to and that's
how I described it to some of the new administrators. We use this opportunity to put a spotlight on the great work that we do here. It it's not Miss Dr. Gartenberg does not look at it as a gotchu and that's how we look at it. We want to shine and showcase all the work
that happens and I think the I want to say the theme of our conversation was what's on paper is what you're you're going to see in these offices which you go into our classrooms our curriculum that's on our website is not just what's written on the website for compliance it takes place. So we welcomed her and her
team back for in in school visits just because it really is important. it's anyone can write it on paper. Um, but we do the hard work here. We put it um in to better the educational achievement for our students and I am um very proud to be the superintendent here. So, thank
you. >> Thank you, Dr. Benja. Um, we're going to move to public comments on action items. Um, in the next couple weeks to come, uh, I'm going to tweak the language of this a little bit on action items and I just want to put it out there for the board to start thinking about their head. Obviously, um, in years past, the
board did not have consensus to put a time limit on on public comments. Uh, not that we would do that to shut the public down from from being able to speak and make comments, but but at least in my mind, we need to be more cognizant of our time as being volunteers or not and getting
paid to do this. So, so I am going to ask public members who come up and make comments to try to be as concise as they can. Um, I I will keep track of time just for ourselves to say, "Hey, you've been talking for five minutes. Um, you made comments for five minutes. Now you're going on 10 minutes. At some point, we do have to move the meeting
along. Um, but um, with that being said, you know, I'm not looking to ask the board or go to policy to to put a time limit on public comments, but I want to make sure the public understands that's what they are. They're public comments. We're not going to go back and forth. I'm going to open up the public comments. Have the person come up, state
their name and address for the record, ask away, ask their questions, make their comments. Uh, I'm going to take some copious notes as best I can. At the end of public comments, we will try to answer as best we can. If we can't, someone from the admin team will get back to them uh the next day or the day after with the with the answers, but I
think we should be able to answer most of them up here. Um, maybe not in the length that the person would like, but we should be able to knock a lot of them off. So, with that being said, 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. So ask away from action item 6.1 all the way down to um 10.19. Um and just ask away and if we can expel any rumors you may have heard or anything you're reading online that it's
absolutely not true. Um we'd be happy to do that. >> Can I? >> Yes, sure. Come on. Absolutely. >> State your name and address. just say should say your name is student leaison. >> So my name is it Maliner and I'm student liazison and I would just like to say
thank you on behalf of the entire student body to you and all the people that are working behind the scenes to make sure our district runs as smoothly as it does. I know we don't always show our appreciation but we really do appreciate everything you do for us. We're really really fortunate to have a board that cares as much about us as you do. So thank you.
>> Oh, thank you very extra credit too. >> Sure. Um, any other public comments? Seeing none, close with the public comments. Uh, before I move, uh, to a consent agenda. Um, I'd be remiss if I didn't. I'm just trying to find it. Um,
it is board, That was a very good segue. It is board recognition month for all boards across New Jersey. I've said this before, so I've been on the board for 19 years. Um, and and I've got laughed at when I say this, but in my opinion, I believe the most important elected official in the state of New Jersey is a
school board member. Um, we are uh on boots on the ground in our own communities. Uh, we don't get paid. We don't get free benefits. Um, we really lack, believe it or not, any political muscle, if you will. Um, you know, we are we are tied down to a strict code of
ethics and strict ethics more so than any other elected official in the state of New Jersey from the governor to state legislators to to council people. Um, with that being said, like to thank all the past board members uh that I've been able to serve with and all of you as current board members. And I'd like to
read this um resolution. Whereas, New Jersey School Boards Association has declared January 2026 to be school board recognition month, a time when all residents can acknowledge the contributions made by our local schoolboard members. And whereas the Malive District Board of Education is
one of the 581 local school boards in New Jersey, which sets policies and overseas operations for public school districts. And whereas the Mount Olive Township Board of Education embraces the goal of highquality education for all New Jersey public school students. And whereas New Jersey's local school boards
help determine the educational goals for approximately 1.4 million children in pre kindergarten through 12th grade. And whereas New Jerseys 5,000 local schoolboard members who receive no renumeration for their services act as advocates for public school students as they work with administrators, teachers,
and parents for the betterment of public education. And whereas schoolboard members strive to provide the resources necessary to meet the needs of all students, including those with special needs. And whereas boards of education provide accountability to the public, they communicate the needs of the school
district to the public. They convey to the school administrators the public's expectation of the schools. And whereas New Jersey take pride in its schools, which rank among the nation's best in key achievement indicators such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress scores and the preparation for college thorough advanced placement
offerings and SAT assessments. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Malo Township Board of Education does hereby recognize the service of local school board members throughout the state of New Jersey as we join communities statewide in observing January 2026 as school board recognition month. And be
it further resolved that the Mal Township Board of Education urges all our all New Jersey citizens to work with their local boards of education and public school ta staff, excuse me, towards the advancement of children's education. On a private note as well, I'd like to remind our public, we are
your friends, your committee, your neighbors. Our children have grown up together. They still are best friends. And under no circumstances you can disagree with us and I always welcome a great disagreement and we're not perfect up here and you know you know we're making what we feel is the best decision. That's what the the public has
elected us. You know, we do deserve a little bit more respect sometimes than we get whether that's online or in public. So, I just like to remind our public that >> and with that being said, we have certificates for all of you. >> That was from Miss Fare. That wasn't for me. >> I was just going to say
>> there's no certificates. That's right. That was Miss Fer. You can thank her. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> How nice is that? >> Fancy. You want to frame that, Miss Queen? >> Yeah, because I have not received one before. >> All right.
>> Thank you. >> That was nice. appreciate you. >> Oh, thanks, Miss. >> Thank you, Lauren. >> Thank you. Thank you for all that you do. >> You guys are awesome. Thank you. >> Thanks, guys. >> Mr. Aquino, uh, would you move the
consent agenda for action items? >> Sure. Will. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to move action items 6.1 through 10.19. >> Second. >> Um, questions or comments from the board?
Seeing none, Mr. Gar, can you for some new board members and some that are just come back on even though it's, you know, the rest of a little bit if they're not sure about to abstain on something, what could you give some language that they could say? >> Yes, absolutely. If you have a conflict of one type
>> or a thought maybe you're not sure >> along those lines, it's best to air on the side of recusing or abstaining and you can just simply say that yes, you know, I agree to everything on the consent agenda except for item X. I recuse and abstain on any vote having to
do with whatever the subject matter might be. And that would protect you and everyone. That's fine. >> Now, anyone have questions? We're good. Thank you. Need to Who second that? >> I did. >> No. You want to second that? >> Roll call.
>> Mrs. Aquino? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. Mrs. Brett? >> Yes. Everything pertaining to the township, I must recuse myself. >> Mrs. Melendez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. O'Neal.
>> Uh, yes. Except anything pertaining to Christian Humphrey or special education. I abain. >> Mr. Orzillo, >> yes. >> Mr. Petri, >> I'm going to abstain from 6.3 and 6.4. Yes. To everything else.
>> Mrs. Vaggera, >> yes. >> Dr. Geodeno, >> yes. Public comments will be the same as I stated on comments for the um for the agenda items. Um student, parents, employees, and community members may comment of any item of interest pertaining to the Mal 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. Please stand up, say your name and address for the record, and ask any comments and hopefully we will have the answers for you after public comments
are over. Seeing none, closing the public comments. Uh, old business from board members. New business from board members. >> I have something. >> Sure, Mr. here. >> I would like to propose that through CNT
um we explore the possibility of having a community viewing and discussion group of the award-winning documentary series called Screenagers. Uh the original is called Growing Up in the Digital Age. They're on pertinent topics about uh
pertinent uh teenage topics such as vaping, social media. They're very eyeopening. Um I would like to possibly have a community viewing and discussion group. The videos are meant for parents to watch with their children and discuss
um the issues that are presented. >> I think that's a great idea and I Dr. if you want to say something I think aren't we working on with MMA so far already? One of the great things we have great relationships with um community based um groups and one of them is MOMAC and Miss Jackie Bellow who actually sits um and
meets with MoMAC on a regular basis actually was discussing the opportunity to partner with them in order to not only have those screenings in which we would have the parents view the documentary with their child which would be after school hours but also to have
inschool um presentations or assembly if you want to call it um going down to probably um grade four because as you as you know the impact of social media is farreaching the phones it's just you know as a parent myself of a middle
schooler you know it takes a lot of your time and certainly not only that we also have a series of parent workshops that are coming up um in the near future everyone at home should have received an email from the district today as far as some parent workshops one of them specifically addressing the impact of
social media so we do recognize as a school district the the importance of going back to that word partnership that it takes place between the home and school that we need to be on the same step because certainly at the end of the day we both want want what's best for our students >> but thank you for the suggestion and so
you know it probably wouldn't happen till about March just because of scheduling but you know um Miss Bellow um is already looking into um the costs and timing and all that good stuff so >> so and I think we should you know work with mom and and Beth what I would suggest to you is put that every every
meeting you have CT meeting as a as an ongoing just so you can get updates and update the full board that way and see where we're at. >> And not only do we um have a great relationship with MOBA, Miss Bellow also sits on our health um department committee in which um community building so she is ever present with that and certainly you know we have a great
relationship with our police department. I recently just had lunch with our new chief. It was a great opportunity for us to kind of talk some ideas out. So, it's just a really fortunate of our township counterparts and how willing and focused they are to, you know, I guess rowing in the same direction, >> right? And I and I always think a good
idea, too, is we could partner with with local um eeries and they could donate food. It's always good to get food out there. Parents seem to come out and kids come out more. We can do food and stuff like that. >> And I would be remiss um not to also recognize the town council. Um we had our long range planning committee that met for the second time yesterday and I
recognized it was a conflict with the date with the town council meeting but both u Mr. um Chuck Aaron as well as Jon Castro reached out about you know their conflict but certainly Mr. Dcastro attended our first meeting and we're going back and forth on email as well. So it's really just really fortunate to
be in a community that really we're always you know working what's best for our kids. So thank you. Anything else from board members? Another new thing for me uh for board comments. I asked you keep them again if we're asking the community to keep them
concise and and and very succinct. I ask board members for their comments to be the same. So, we're going to start down at the end there. Mr. Petri, any board comments? >> Uh I went to the alumni panel again. That's my favorite thing I think that we do. Uh just because I know the stress that juniors and seniors are going
through to have that [snorts] insight into what it's really like is really great. Um great hearing about the AP and how many they take. It would be good to see at least for my edification like percentage-wise how many students take AP classes, honors classes, CP
classes, just a general breakdown of like where are kids taking. >> So Mr. Stanbury um and his admin team do a great job every August and they present the class of the graduating class and they also go over all those statistics with respect to college board related um assessments in which they
identify you know the percentage of students who did what what their plans are and all that stuff. So we started to do that about three years ago. So it's a it's a great you know year in reflection. >> Okay. It's 20 years in the making. It started in 2004. Ask me how you know that Mr. Stanberry. >> It's my time Mr. Jardano.
>> [laughter] >> It's my turn. >> Um, indoor track had the Mars County Championships today. The boys came in third, girls came in 14th. >> Uh, and while I was in school when this happened, I just wanted to bring it up. Today is the 40th anniversary of the
Challenger explosion. >> Wow. >> I was in Mountain View, man. I remember watching. >> Nothing good, Miss Pre. You're good, Miss Mendes. >> Yes, you were. >> Yes. Uh I attended the wrestling tournament. Uh it was really great and
very um uh interesting. Our students are fantastic. Um but also as a board member uh every time that we are asked if we are if we have questions and if we have questions that we think that the parents
will have also um and we present the question we save dozens of calls to the schools and answering the question right here in this forum and it's good the interaction of board members >> uh to present their questions even when
we prepare and we read all the committees uh notes uh but there is some instances that we can recognize if that will uh flag a question to a parent or a community member and it's our
responsibility as has been elected to try to dissipate those doubts that they may have over >> yeah I think and that's very good and and what my philosophy has always been and and you I I got on the board when I was 34 years old. Um and and I learned
it from, you know, Mr. Schlache, Mr. Bot, Mr. uh Robinson, uh Mr. Mania, Mr. Warner. And this is my this is the way I handle parents when they come and I've done this for years. Like you've said, you we always want to listen to parents. Absolutely. You want to listen. You don't want to be dismissive of them or
anybody, whether it's a student, a parent, a staff member. Um and I always say to them ethically, you know what, you should reach out to Dr. Bani about it. Um, but I do also give them this caveat. But if but but but hear me out. If you contact Dr. Bania and you haven't followed the chain of command, she's
going to remind you back to follow that chain of command. So you might want to reach out to the level that you think is the best way. Um, and then we should just let Dr. Banjo know the parent who said something to us or staff member said something to us, not in a gotcha, just say this was brought to our attention. Just will make you aware of it. If someone should be reaching out to
you, this is the reason why. But I also said to that parent or whoever it is, they should really follow the chain of command or go to the building principal or go to the teacher, the supervisor before that because really, you know, if everyone just went to Dr. Bania and then to the board without going to the
chain of command, we're just going to go back and say, well, you should reach out to teacher first. That's not at our level yet. That's not really the way you want to want to handle it. But I agree with you, Miss Lendes. I think as board members, it's a very fine line. Um, and and maybe Mr. Gar can even agree with me, but you don't ever want to be dismissive and anyone say anything to I
think that's imperative that we're out there and you know because we're the ones that are going to dispel the rumors as well, right? Parents come up, oh my god, I heard this happen. That didn't happen that way. We're getting updates all the time the superintendent. I can't talk to you about it because a lot of it's confidential, but that's not true. Um, so I agree with you on that. So, so
that's just how I handle things if everyone wants to take that or not use it, but I think it's it's helpful to Paris to say, I hear you. Well, I'm going to let Dr. Ban know, but you really should follow the chain of command. >> Oh, no. I agree with you, but that's not the case here. I'm talking of us as of a board members. If we recognize something
that has been discussed and we know for sure that could be flag a question in the community and the parents, it is our responsibility also to help to dissipate any question because we'll save dozens of calls to the school at least 25
parents from elementary at least will call for example the great fifth grade uh self-contained uh classroom. So I'm saving time to those administration because as I have the question they will also have >> right good point absolutely >> agree point agrees great point
>> but the chain of command I always had respect that and I agree with that but us as a board member if we have that question that >> then we should ask it yes >> absolutely miss >> um first and foremost thank you very
much for the certificate because it's the first time since I've sat on you can thank her >> I know was thanking [laughter] that we received that we received them. So, thank you very much for that. Um, and then I just want to save a few minutes when we go down the line and just say on
behalf of the Mountain Park 2 board member residents, we just like to congratulate Randy Espazito on his retirement. >> Yeah. >> Yes. I was wondering what name you talking about. >> Congrats, Randy. Just knocked off three people. That was one of my things. That
wasn't one of my things. Thank you. Thank you for that, >> Miss O'Neal. I want to say congratulations to all our wrestlers. The girls wrestlers are doing fabulous. The all the wrestlers are and the basketball team. And um that was
really all I had. >> Great, >> Miss Fchelle. >> Uh yes. Uh about a week and a half ago, I got to chaperon the uh Air Force ROC field trip to Pikatini, which was awesome. It was for new cadets. The new cadets go every year. Um the first part of the day it was very cold and a lot of
it was outside. Um and so the first part of the day was all history of um you know Pikatini and all that went on there which was fascinating and then the rest of the day was spent in tech labs and robotics labs and drone and AI units and it was incredible the things that the
kids got to try and experience and um was truly phenomenal. And it uh wrapped up with um them having lunch with several um folks in the service. It was excellent. So the folks who are running that program and the opportunities they're bringing those kids are phenomenal.
>> That's it. >> Mr. Orzilla, no comment. >> Look, man. >> Yep. >> I wanted to thank Mrs. Curry for hosting last night. Um, it was a very enlightening and interesting presentation and I look forward to visiting the other buildings. I also
wanted to thank Mr. Stanberry for his dilig diligence in the homeay program. We are hosting a one of our exchange students from South Korea who sadly very sadly will be leaving us a week from tonight and my whole family thanks you for that program because I can't say
enough good things about it. It it is truly phenomenal. >> I forgot what I was going to say. So we're move on with that. No, I was going to say something but I totally forgot. I just had a brain freeze. Um confidential session motion to recess into confidential session whereas the New Jersey school board Oh, sorry that's the
wrong one. Click on that. >> Resolved that the board be in confidential session for the purpose of discussing negotiations, personnel, matters attorney, client privilege, pending or anticipated litigation be further resolved that matters discussed in confidential session be disclosed to the public when the reasons for
confidentiality no longer exist. Action will be taken. Do you have a motion? >> Motion. Second. >> All those in favor? I. >> We're in close session. Thank you for everyone who came out. We're back from
>> We're back from close session. >> Um, roll call. Miss showing. >> Mrs. Aquino here. >> Mrs. Brett >> here. >> Mrs. Fitzgerald here. >> Mrs. Melendez >> here. >> Mrs. O'Neal >> here. >> Mr. Orailo >> here. >> Mr. Petri >> here. >> Mrs. Faggera.
>> Dr. Gordano >> here. Miss Fger is here too. Did you say here? Sure. >> Um, this will be a motion for action item >> 10 >> 20 >> two. Thank you. Resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of
the superintendent hereby approves the settlement agreement and limited release in the matter of Tammy Fulmer versus the Mala Board of Education docket number MRSL1588-25 and authorizes the board president and board secretary to execute execute same on behalf of the board. The minister the
business administrator and the superintendent are authorized to take all further steps required by the terms of this settlement to implement the same. Can I have a motion? >> So moved. John second it. Roll call. Nicole. >> Mrs. Aquino. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Petri. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fitzgerald. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Melendez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. O'Neal. >> Abstain. >> Mr. Orizillo. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Faggera. >> Yes. >> Dr. Gorder. >> Yes. Motion to adjurnn. >> Second.
>> All in favor? >> I. >> Thanks, guys. Sparking.