Oh, all right. There's no [Music] just to start coming. Nicole's got in it. Oh, I was just gonna start banging. Oh, I was about to start. Yeah, of
course. I shake the hand. All right. Are the mics on? Okay. Uh, call this meeting to order. Will we all rise for the flag? Let's act two. I pledge algiance 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. And would we all remain standing for a moment of reflection for all those in harm's way and all of ours um members in the military. All right, we can all be
seated. Very loud. Statement of advanced notice. The notice requirements of the open public meetings act of the state of New Jersey have been satisfied by the inclusion of the date, time, and place of this meeting in the notice of regular
meetings adopted by this board on January 6th, 2025. Such schedule and notice of meetings is posted in the municipal building, the Mount Olive Library, the board of education offices, and the six schools, and was submitted to the daily record
for publication on January 7th, 2025, and was filed with the clerk of Mount Olive Township on January 8th, 2020, 2025. I direct that this announcement be entered into the minutes of this meeting. And we'll take a roll
call, please. Mrs. Aquino, Mrs. Fanton here. Mrs. Faggera, Mrs. Fitzgerald here, Dr. Gordano here, Mrs. Melendez, Mrs. Narcissis here, Mrs. O'Neal, Mr. Orzillo here. Okay. And with that, I'm
going to just make a few notes. Um, we have no 1.4. That is an error. Um, we're actually going to move around the order of our meeting. Um, we are going to move our superintendence report up right after our approval of minutes and move our confidential session right before
our agenda items. So, with that, I will take a motion for the um approval of our minutes 2.1 and 2.2. Mr. Rosilla, I'm going to put you on the spot. I'd like to make a motion to approval of minutes 2.1 2.2. Second.
And any questions from the board? Seeing none, we'll take a roll call. Mr. Dorzilla. Yes. Dr. Gordano, yes. Mrs. Fenton, yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald, yes. Mrs. Narcissis, yes. And with that, we'll move to any communications or petitions
for the board. No. Okay. And with that, we will move right on to the superintendence report. And at this time, I would love to invite the leadership of the performing arts department to come up to honor our phenomenal students who are here this evening.
[Applause] Good evening everyone. Thank you all for being here tonight. It's a true honor to stand before you as the K to2 supervisor of performing arts for the Manolof School District as we recognize a remarkable group of student musicians from grades 6 through 12 here this
evening. These students represent the very best of Man Olive, talent, dedication, discipline, and passion. Over the past year, they have gone above and beyond, earning their place in highly selective honor ensembles, not only here in Morris County and the top region of New Jersey, but across the
entire state, throughout the eastern region of the United States, and even on the national stage. Each of these students successfully prepared for and auditioned into these prestigious ensembles, an impressive achievement that requires countless hours of hard work and a deep commitment to their
craft. Whether they are performing here in New Jersey, in Connecticut or in Dallas, they have consistently represented our district with excellence and pride. While most of our honores are able to join us in person tonight, there are a few students who due to other commitments cannot be with us. I just
had a student actually email me that they were stuck at the airport in Miami. They will receive their certificates separately, but we absolutely celebrate and recognize their accomplishments just the same. Tonight we also have a special recognition for a senior student who contributed in an extraordinary way to
our performing arts program designing the lighting for both our fall and spring high school musicals as well as the Rock and Roll Academy concert. This job is usually done by an adult and Brendan Harvey stepped in and it was wonderful. This kind of behind-the-scenes leadership and creativity plays such an integral part
of the success of our productions and deserves to be celebrated alongside our performers. What makes all of this even more meaningful is how music and the performing arts more broadly brings us all together. Whether in a rehearsal room, on a stage, or gathered here in celebration, the arts connect us across
backgrounds, generations, and experiences. They create community. They build confidence, and they remind us of the extraordinary potential and sense and sense of belonging that happens within each of our schools. I am still friends with people I met and worked with while being in an honor ensemble in
middle school and in high school. And one of my favorite things is when I see our students interacting with students from all different schools and the relationships that they form. I'd also like to take a moment to thank our dedicated music educators, Mr. Hendris, Mr. Pasquali, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Vanzini,
Mr. Adessa, Miss Burket, Mrs. Scarangelo, Miss Hughes, and Miss Jimenez. all of whom have students represented here this evening and who pour their hearts into helping our students grow. Our building administrators, Mr. Stansbury and Mrs. Wilkkey, and our central office leaders,
including Dr. Banja and Mrs. McDerman, for their unwavering support of our departments, our board of education for continuing to champion the arts, and of course, the families and community members whose encouragement help these students soar. A special thank you as well to our business administrator, Mrs.
Nicole Shing and to Mrs. Hershey Ramshandani whose efforts ensure that our programs are well supported and that we can proudly host many of the outstanding events our participate our students participate in. Tonight is more about these accolades. It's about student passion and purpose and the
power of arts to shape lives. As we call each students name and share the ensembles they've participated in, let's take a moment to celebrate not just what they've done, but certainly who they are becoming as well. Congratulations to all of our honored students. You make Man Olive
proud so I can see them as I call their names. Yeah, I just want to turn it so I can call their names right. So, will we begin? In recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Junior Region Honors
Orchestra Festival, Ares Mujaba, Samir Shalwani, Shria Babe, Sage Eid, Thank you, Diana Anenova, Quabina Aia, Stella Martinez,
[Applause] Linda Rehova, in recognition of your exceptional performance as an outstanding string player of the Mayor Performing Arts Center and a member of the North Jersey Junior Region Honors Orchestra Festival, Lillian Vanhton
[Applause] in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance. Lillian, in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Junior
Region Orchestra, Sophie Felis [Applause] In recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Area Band high
school level, Riley [Applause] Cahili, Riley Freezewick, Tegan
[Applause] Mandel in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Junior High Area Band. Jacob Rummer, Max Udolf,
[Applause] who I heard it's his birthday today, too. Happy birthday, Erica Perez Rojas. Olaf Malooi, Amelia Seligman, Alen
[Applause] Kurt, Elyo Aorio, [Applause] Anastasia Demerzis and Harrison
[Applause] Young in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Junior High Area Band and North Jersey Junior Region Band. Jaden
[Applause] Samuel in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Area Band and North Jersey Region Band. Derek Magio In recognition of your successful
auditioning and exceptional performance in the outstanding jazz member, jazz band member of the Mayor Performing Arts Center, North Jersey Junior High Area Band, and North Jersey Junior Region Band, Sarah Hendris, and her dad is so nice as to
help us tonight. [Music] In recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Area Band and the 2025 NJ North Jersey Junior Region Jazz Band, Riley Cerulo
[Applause] In recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the 20125 New Jersey Allstate Modern Honors Band, Robert Chrysler [Music]
Jamal Mitchell. [Applause] in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the 2025 New Jersey All-State Modern
Honors Band and I believe the first ever inaugural 2025 All Eastern Modern Honors Band. Arabella Makula [Applause]
[Applause] She did. Yeah. Yeah. Many of these students are repeat members of these organizations for sure. In recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the Morris Area Junior High Honor
Choir, Sharon Nurmal Vema Varam Krishna [Applause] Desai, Amelia
[Applause] Shaaman, Aditi Balisami, [Applause] and Vihan
[Applause] Venode in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Junior Region High Choir. Tanvi Priya Chapulu In recognition of your successful
auditioning and exceptional performance in the Morris Area Junior High Honor Choir and North Jersey Region Junior High Choir, John [Applause]
Levery or Lavy, Sorry. in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the Morris Area Junior High Honor Choir and the New Jersey Junior High Allstate Honor Choir. Mela Gonzalez. Hello. In recognition of your successful
auditioning and exceptional performance in the North Jersey Region Junior High Choir and the New Jersey Junior High All State Honor Choir, Lydia Fitzgerald. In recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the Morris Area Junior High Honor
Choir, North Jersey Region Junior High Choir, and the New Jersey Junior High Allstate Honor Choir, Angel Anyway, [Applause] The following students were members of
the 2025 ACDA all national honor choir were chosen out of thousands of applicants of uh vocalists that applied and performed on the stages in Dallas which was quite amazing. So in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance
in the ACDA all national honor choir, Anv [Applause] Luthra Lette
[Applause] Wararez, Lynette Dardos Gloria [Applause] Bakanah, Atarv Sharma,
Ver Huda, [Applause] our high school students, Kaden [Applause]
Blakey and Sarah [Applause] Carney in recognition of your successful auditioning and exceptional performance in the Morris Area Junior High Honor
Choir, New Jersey Junior High Allstate Honor Choir, and the ACDA All National Honor Choir. Juliet [Applause] Ferno. And our last recognition here
this evening, it's in recognition of your creativity and technical excellence in designing and operating the lighting for the Manel of High School theater and musical productions. Brendan Harvey If anybody needs any lighting, you can certainly call
him. And I I want to say I want to thank all of you again because I know none of these names I could have called would be possible without you taking them to auditions, pl you know paying for a plane ride, a train ride, gas in your
car and and spending time supporting your children. It certainly you're you're providing them opportunities that I know that they will not forget and I can't thank you enough for that support. So thank you all so much for being here. Thank you so much to Dr. Banana, to our board of education, Mr. Hendricks for helping me, Mr. for Bazi for setting up so many chairs for all of us. Thank you
again. Okay. All right. Before we go into recess for everyone to leave, just one moment. Do we have any comments from the board? Anyone? I'd like to say thank you very much to all the students and the
parents for making um such I mean it's just a a proud moment and it's nice to see the fruits of our labors happening in such talented children and um equally important their parents. So thank you guys and congratulations.
Any other comments? Thank you Mrs. O'Neal. I wanted to say thank congratulations to all the kids and we appreciate all everything that the parents do to get the kids there, but also to all the staff. Many of them
I've known throughout the years and um they teach a lot more than just music. And they mean so much to the students they teach. They truly do. And um thank you for all that you do and all the relationships that you've made with my
own children and all the other students. Any other comments from the board? Just before you guys leave, I see you kids. You want to leave? Look to your left and look to your right. These are the folks that Oh, that's why they're going. That's why you're good.
They're practice. Oh, you have practice. Just before you leave, just realize that these are friendships that you've made and remember what it was like to be on those stages with other people from other districts, from other states. I will speak for experience. I have a child who's in college and still
pursuing a career in the music industry. And these will be relationships that you will take with you for the rest of your life. These are skills that will never leave you. And even those relationships with some of the instructors that you've met that are college instructors that
are professionals, they are people that will be there to support you and, you know, guide you. Some of you may, you know, go into music industry, may just do this as a hobby. It will never leave you. It's in your soul. So really, you're going to love it for the rest of
your life. Don't ever miss it. It will be with you every single day. So with that, we're going to take about a 5 10 minute recess. I know you guys have somewhere to go. Enjoy. Thank you and congratulations for everything, everyone. [Applause] [Music]
Do we need a motion to go into recess? So moved. So moved. Second. I think the kids spoke for us on that. That's why they were sprinting out. They were trying to be disrespectful. Mr. Bos was like, "Did you get my text?" No, I can't get
anything here. I have a picture of it. Thank you. If they don't come, I'll let you know. Thank you. Yeah. Just recess and then you want to go and then the presentation. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm sorry. Congratulations. I don't think we I don't think anything we're discussing that needs to I rather just keep the train moving. It's freezing in here. Yeah, it's good.
Let's get keep want. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Exactly. You know, I mean it. I know. I know. I had so much more to say, but I was going
to say Don't forget 2020. All right. If we could just call us back into session here, we'll take a roll call. We're good. Roll call. Um, Mrs. Fenton here, Mrs. Faggera here,
Mrs. Fitzgerald here, Dr. Gardano here, Mrs. Narcissis here, Mrs. O'Neal here, Mr. Ozillo here. Okay, now that we're back in the session, we're going to take a motion to go into confidential session
as do we have a so what under personnel for what? Yeah, we're going to go into confidential session for the purposes of let's put uh sorry Anthony Dr. J down. It's okay.
Why don't I have it listed here? Spotlight's on you. I know it's totally on me for my language here. No pressure. There we go. Be it resolved that the board meet in confidential session for the purpose of discussing um personnel
matters of attorney client privilege and I think that's all confidential pupil matters should it be required and real estate matters be it further resolved that the uh matters discussed in confidential session be disclosed to the public when the reason for
confidentiality no longer exist action may be taken. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I All right. We're now in confidential session. Sorry. All right, we are back and we'll call it
back into session. Can we take a roll call, please, please? Miss Shaang. Mrs. Fanton, here. Mrs. Faggera, here. Mrs. Fitzgerald, here. Dr. Gordano, here. Mrs. Narcissis, here. Mrs. O'Neal
here. Mr. Ozillo here. Okay, with that we're going to turn it back over to Superintendent's report part two. Yes, part two. So, this evening we're going to be going over our special ed audit that was completed early this school year. As you know, as a district for the past couple years,
we've been really auditing a lot of our programming across the district. One of the things our objectives across these audits is to ensure that we're aligning to best practice. Um I am very proud of the team that I work with in which they really want to ensure that how they are employing um um their departments, their
buildings are best practice and that's really what we focus upon as far as how we want to learn from these audits. So, in particular, when you're looking at the special ed audit, it was to evaluate our special ed um organization um programming, procedural resources, you name it, just to look at the department
across the whole. Um I also would like to mention when we talk about special ed, this audit also encompassed looking at our intervention services that extend beyond special ed as well as 504. So, it's really looking at all the intervention programming we have across the district and ensuring that whether it be our programs, how we organize
ourselves or procedures, we're up to snuff, so to speak, in order to meet the varied needs of our students across this district. Um, just to give you a little background, we um have a little over 4,800 students in the district. Um, 977
of them are eligible for um an IEP, which represents about 20% of our school district. With respect to 504, we have about 229 students who have a 504 plan, which represents um about a little over 4.7 um% of our total student
population. Now, as far as the um audit was concerned, we had a number of key um accommodations and certainly one of the things that they're really proud about is our above average inclusion programs. Hence, that's why so many people want to move to Mount Olive because our programs are very diverse. We also have a
substantial compliance with a array of legal requirements including but not limited to student and parent involvement or program modifications, accommodations and our progress monitoring. So you can see that we really have are starting from a really good place. Certainly there's always areas of growth. That's one of the things that we always want to full um
look at. So one of the things that the audit did look at is some professional development. We continue to be lifelong learners. We al we always instill that into our students and we certainly want to do that with our staff. So what are some develop PD that we wanted to work on with our staff? Looking at our present levels, which is really establishing what are the present needs
of our students to ensure that those building blocks are built upon their actual needs. Um looking at um developing more detailed statements of eligibilities. Um looking at the roles of aids in the classroom with our students, you know, looking at our ESY programming as well as looking at just
annually um um looking at legal code. As you know, um just like in most lives, you know, code changes and things are updated. So we just want to be on top of that and certainly as we talked about RTI response to intervention in five4 certainly we want to talk about eligibility evaluation and planning. Um
so as you know this audit was done earlier the school year. I'm really proud of the team because they really hit the ground running. You know certainly they have done so much work that expanded upon what the work they've always been doing. So they start to work on developing PD um working with both our directors as well as outside vendors
looking at our PLA statements, our aid fadeaway support plans um you know our intervention um programming as well as transition planning. We also look to enhance our IEPs with respect to documentation also once again um enhancing our eligibility statements
creating templates for our CST to ensure um aligned expectations across the board. um also the creation of resource um folders for students that are also employed not only at the secondary and at the elementary but also with respect to the areas of a 504 and IEPs we're
looking at to develop some manuals because as we get bigger I know if you've been here for a long time our community is growing which is a phenomenal problem to have I am not going to be arguing with that but as growth comes we really want to make sure regardless of what building you're in or what grade level you're working with
that we have the same um practices and um recommendations that's certain critical that we're going to be doing not only for our CST but also for our 504 but also for our intervention services. So as far as the conclusion is concerned we're really looked the audit provided some really great insight into
both our strengths and areas of growth and certainly as you can see from the previous slide that we were really already hitting the ground running and I really like to thank the team across the district. um whether it be our directors, whether it be our principles, whether it be the CST members, whether it be our teachers, they really looked
at this and really wanted to build upon the good practices we already have here to get better. So, I would like to thank everyone on the team for their openness to the report and how we're working together to make sure we meet the needs of our students here in Mount Olive. So, thank you. All right, great. Do you have any questions
or comments from board members? Madam President, I just like to thank you, Dr. Bania, and the special ed department, all the teachers, CST members, our directors. There's nothing wrong with having audits done like this. It's like you said, it's it's we've been doing the past couple years. It's great to have it. It also is beneficial for us as a
board when you are coming to committees saying we need more money for more CST members or whatever it is, more PD, money in PD for professional development for our team members or teachers. We now it aligns to the reasons why things are coming our way. So I appreciate it and I thank you and the special ed department.
Thank you. Any other comments from the board or questions? No. Okay. Seeing none, Dr. Bania, anything else to add? I think I got it covered. Thank you. All right. We will move then to committee reports and personnel
committee report. Miss Fenton, thank you. We met uh on the 8th of April. Everyone was present. Um we had our BA, Mrs. Joing, attend the meeting to review her plans for business office that included up updating a job
description title um to business office specialists. The bureau organization will help reallocate roles and responsibilities to ensure continued operational efficiency. Um Dr. Bangia shared facility department updates regarding
restructuring of supervisor positions that will save the district money as well as a title update for new custodial supervisor to avoid confusion in the command structure of the department. Uh we approved uh the job description for the confidential
security assistant. Uh Dr. Bandra also updated committee on the district's latest efforts to secure advertising sponsorships for the scoreboard at the high school. The discussion included strategy strategies that neighboring
districts have used and then we had that's about it. The whole report is on our website. Feel free to read it all. Thank you. Any questions or comments from board members?
None. Okay, we will move on to curriculum. Curriculum and instruction committee report. Miss Figuera, good evening. Curriculum and technology met a week ago tonight on April 7th uh
at the board office. Committee members in attendance were Dr. Bania, Mrs. McDermott, Mrs. Aquino, Mrs. O'Neal, Mrs. Fenton, and myself. We did have two guests join us. uh Mrs. Wilkkey and Mrs.
Bellow. Mrs. Wilkkey reviewed the proposed updates to the mom's academic model which include a shift from trimesters to quarters. Um it also included extended home room win periods. When is what I need now in addition to a fourth grade a
fourth sixth grade team and the math placement and algebra data review also took place. Mrs. Spello provided updates from the office of student support services regarding several new ongoing uh several
ongoing as well as new initiatives. Those included the 504 services, the nursing services, mental health initiatives, behavioral MTSS, No Place for Hate and climate
initiatives um along with HIB and Title 9 alignment. Mrs. Mrs. McDermott reviewed the key takeaways from a recently released report uh the
2023 2024 NJ school performance reports. Let me just scroll down here. Hold on. It's not working. Okay. Um, we also had reviewed the formal corrective action plan submitted to the New Jersey
Department of Education in response to areas of non-compliance identified in the 2024 to 2027 language arts uh, language instruction educational program. And the highlights of that include a parent advisory committee,
staff training and SEI certification, seal of biiteracy and curriculum enhancements, improving attendance and achievement, and the use of title three funds. And then we ended the meeting with Dr. Bania sharing a
presentation on the special ed audit. That's it. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board, Madam President? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you call me? I said Dr. F. I'm sorry. Again, I would just like to compliment the uh uh Miss Wilky, Dr. Bania, Miss McDermott, the curriculum committee.
This is all great stuff to review. And again, it aligns to when the committees come and we see agenda items saying we need this or you're putting a recommendation forward, it aligns with what we're going over in committee. So the public understands what's happening from the beginning step of of having committee discussions, putting on the
agendas a month later or if happens to be the next meeting and then moving forward to there is a process and a plan in place. We're just not flying by the seat of our pants and all this looks fantastic. Anyone else? I actually wanted to commend Miss Milky. That's a lot of work on the middle
school. a lot of moving parts and um you know her entire team I'm sure had input you know moving trimesters to quarters that's a lot and it's it's obviously that you know they are seeing a need for some change and making those initiatives
and I commend Dr. Pangia and her team as well for you know looking for solutions and this is phenomenal. Did you guys have a longer meeting than the finance meeting seems to have been for once? We did. And anyone else? Nope. Okay. With
that, we'll move on. Finance and operations. Miss Fitzgerald. Yes. The finance and operations committee met April 8th. Um, all committee members were present. Um, one of the things that we talked about was the midyear review of Mashios. Miss Shoning and Dr. Bangia um did you know a
midyear review of our if you don't know Mashios is our food service vendor for the cafeteria um some fun facts so um we track average daily participation in meals right so um at this point in the school year our lunches participation is
up 35% breakfasts are up 7% and we are not at the end of the year that is more or the same amount I think as the program last year the entire school year So that is really looking great. Um a fun other
stat um for alle cart sales. So you know when your kids are ordering ice cream and cookies and all of that. Apparently the cookies are something to you know everybody's buying the cookies. Um that is up um daily increase of $95. A daily increase on all cart items.
Wow. So um that is all good things. Um we have created the food service program so that it will be used. Um one thing to note that the committee did talk about that we would like to um keep track of 30% of students who are currently on free or reduced lunch are not using that
service and we need to understand better as to why. So um in May uh Machios in the district are going to be doing a survey to understand why that is to make sure that we can um we are communicating it properly and we can understand some of the barriers to that usage. So we'll
report back on that um after uh we complete it. Uh, one of the other things that we looked at were, um, you know, we reported out last month, I believe, that we were doing, uh, repairs to the dome turf. And so, we took this opportunity to, um, review all dome revenues and
expenditures. I think we get a lot of questions about is that is that profitable? It feels like we're spending money. Um, it is profitable. We looked at all of the revenue and expenses. um also with the idea of looking forward to what's going to be coming down the pike in terms of additional repairs and
replacements. So, always want to keep an eye on that so the committee could discuss that. And then, um finally, uh we just completed an energy audit. We're big in the audits and so we'll be able to understand better about um our energy usage as a district. That was turned in on the 10th. So, we'll be looking at
that um next month. Last item that I just want to point out, don't forget um next meeting on the 28th is our preliminary budget hearing that Miss Shaing will be um running for us. Any questions? Public. Yes, public. That's Yes. Any
questions from the board? No. Okay. Seeing none, we will move to policy and governance committee. Dr. Gardano. Thank you, Madam President. Uh the committee met on Thursday, April 7th. It was Dr. Bania, Miss Fitzgerald,
and myself. Uh we reviewed policy and regulation 6740 regarding reserved accounts. You will see that on the next agenda for first reading. Um so we went ahead to put that on the agenda for board approval. Uh we also reviewed finalizing our AI plan for the district.
We created that AI plan based upon policy 2365. So you'll see that on the next agenda. Uh we also discussed uh as you can tell tonight there's a lot of volunteers coming to our schools. We discussed policy 9180 and 9181 regarding
volunteers to make sure we have there's a difference between someone coming into the building a parent for read across America day and someone who's going to be around our students for x amount of period of time x amount hours a day or in the night evenings volunteering. Um and we're going to have some you know Dr. Banger is going to look at some sub,
talk to our board attorney, uh, and get some things down that we can, you know, have it set in stone or how we're going to follow it for every single person so we have everything's more aligned. Um, also, uh, we went over, uh, what Mr. Orzilla asked last board meeting, 9163. Um, what we came up with, we felt we
didn't have enough information at the time considering we just put in place. So, we thought the best thing, Mr. Ozilla, was to go our first seasons, see where we're at, uh, talk to Mr. Stanbury and Miss Sule and then if we have to, you know, make it make it a little bit more stringent, we at least we'd have the data and see and and we thought about it too. We had to find the balance
that if we do have to make tweaks to it and changes to it, we don't want to overburden our staff at those at those events because then we have to hire more staff. So, so we saw first and foremost get more data and then we'll revisit it probably December, probably like as soon as the fall football season because of two full seasons. So, we have an eye on
that. So, we'll be coming back around to that in the fall. And uh we talked about our ongoing governance work. Uh we're developing a new board member packet. And on the next agenda, you will also see a resolution to allow a student at Sanhore to complete their uh schooling uh for
another two months that they will be paying the $10 a month. So that's all I have. Anyone else? Did I did I get everything? Yeah, that was good. Any questions from the board? No. All right. Seeing none, we will move on.
Do we have any board subcommittee or parent teacher association leison on reports? No. Okay. I don't think I have any. Nope. And anyone from the audience? Nope. All right. Seeing none, we'll move
on to board president's report. I do I do have some um Okay, cool. uh announcements to share on behalf of the Flanders PTA. April showers bring FPTA sponsored wacky science. Uh an Earth Day at home
project, family book club, uh I'm not sure. The family book club went really well. Um both sessions concluded and it was a huge success. Um there's a design project to follow. The fourth grade drum workshop is sponsored
by the FPTA and the election process started. The slate of positions will be announced tomorrow and that's all that they sent me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Nope. Seeing none, we'll move on to president's report. Um the only thing I have to
report was I was a um I was able to attend a New Jersey School Board Association ex uh equity expo. It was very informative. Once I get all the presentations, I'll send it out to the board. It was a lot of information, a lot of speakers with regards to um
seeing the whole student, seeing students where they all are at. Um equity in terms of, you know, providing each student what they need to be successful. Um you know, a lot of talk around special ed. um a lot of talk
about where everyone is coming from and how to um really meet each kid for what their their needs may be. All right, with that we move on to public comment. Members of the community may comment on any action
item prior to the 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. And this is with regards to action agenda items. The mic is open. Good evening. Tony Strilace
Flanders Dwood Road. I wasn't going to come tonight, but I was reading the agenda Sunday online and there were two action items on there that caught my attention that I wanted to give you my thoughts about. First one was 8.6 on your agenda. The
hiring of a high-tech vac tech. Uh truly it is needed. That position is needed as evidence of the fact that we already had one maintenance worker I believe was very
very terribly injured uh because he didn't have that kind of knowledge. That's needed. The other one is 810, the supervisor of custodial services, which I think is a joke. I really do.
We go back many many years and I can tell you over the years by using a director of buildings and grounds and by for the lack of a better word a foreman of maintenance a foreman of each school for
custodial. We are where we are today because of the job that they did and it was enough of those people. I mean, we built a school and after the school was built, we had to refurbish a school to make it a an elementary school. We did a lot of work
in this district. Most schools struggle all year just to get their the summer to get their schools ready and they make it about the last day of school so that people can move in. We did that and moved a board office, refurbished it and
everything. And as a matter of fact was so good our our director of building grounds got an outstanding award that year for the best in the state. The point I'm trying to bring up is I believe you you hired a new director of buildings and grounds. Since
that point you're making all kinds of supervisors there and watering down that position. You don't need a director or a supervisor of custodial services. That's the job of the building and ground director. Several of the jobs that are
being done are the job of the buildings and grounds director. You have to exercise your fiduciary responsibility and and watch out for that money that you're paying out for all these taxpayers. It's getting to be very very expensive. You just don't need that
amount of supervisors in maintenance and in and the director of buildings and grounds. Let him do his job, which he's supposed to do. Now, we we had a failed referendum because we had so much other than classrooms in there that and people
told me the reason why they voted it down is they thought that a lot of that what was in there should have been put in our budgets year after year after year to accommodate all of that. Well, it didn't happen. So, what happened now? We had to make a 10-year plan to cover
that 20 million or so dollars for roofs and for uh uh ventilators and whatever else we have to do. Uh and where you going to get that money from? That's about $2 million a year if you're going to find that money to do that kind of
work. And you can't keep spending money out for all kinds of I mean, we're very generous. We probably give out $200 or $300,000 worth of stipens a year. So I I urge you do do not put that position of director of custodians or supervisor of
custodians. It's not needed. You can ask Mark right back there. Our foremans at each uh school, they take care of the schools. We're not having any problems. I don't care what anybody's going to be telling you. Yes, we have a big district and things have to be done. But take a
better look at it. You just don't need that amount of supervisors. We're spending a lot of money out of there. and you paid a new buildings and grounds director a very substantial salary. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else?
Going once, going twice. Any public comment? Nope. Okay. Seeing none, we will move to approval of the monthly expenditures and the reports. And I'm going to swing around to Miss Fitzgerald if you could assist us on the approval
of the expenditures. Sure. I'd like to make a motion to approve uh the monthly expenditures and reports 7.1 through 7.8. Second. Any questions or comments from the board? Nope. Okay. Seeing none, Miss Shening will take a roll call. Mrs.
Fitzgerald? Yes. Dr. Gardano? Yes. Mrs. Fenton? Yes. Mrs. Faggera? Yes. Mrs. Narcissis? Um, yes. Abstain on 7.3 and 7.4. Mrs. O'Neal. Yes. Mr. Ozilla. Yes. Okay. With that, we will move to personnel
action items. Miss uh Fenton. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to move personal action items 8.1 to 8.23. Second. Can Can we table that and talk about it first? Table which? 810. 8:10.
Well, uh, you can make a motion to table. Change the name. Okay. It's a title change. Yeah. I It was just a title change. Okay. Do you want to explain that? Um, some Do you want Dr.
Banch? Do you want to explain that or do you want a motion to table it? Which would we like? You can do the motion to table if you want to. I don't want to interrupt that if that's a request for the board member, but it's already passed. It's just the the title change. Title change. Do you want to move forward with your motion?
You sure? Okay. With that, we'll continue on then with our roll call. So, we need a second. I second. Okay. Okay. M will take a roll call again. Mrs. Fton? Yes. Dr. Gordano? Yes. Mrs.
Faggera? Yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald? Yes. Mrs. Noris, yes. Mrs. O'Neal, yes. Mr. Ozilla, yes. And with that, we'll move on to curriculum and technology action items. Miss Vigor,
[Applause] upon recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to make a motion to approve items 9.1 through 9.7. Second. Any questions or comments from the board? Nope. Seeing none, we'll take a roll
call. Mrs. Faggera, yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald, yes. Mrs. Fenton, yes. Dr. Jodano, yes. Mrs. Narcissis, yes. Mrs. O'Neal, yes. Mr. Orzillo, yes. All right. With that, we'll move to finance and operations. Miss Fitzgerald. Upon
the recommendation of the superintendent, I'd like to make a motion to approve action items 10.1 through 10.10. Second. Okay. Do we have any comments or questions from the board? Seeing none, we'll take a roll call. Mrs. Fitzgerald, yes. Mrs. Fenton, yes.
Mrs. Faggera, yes. Dr. Gordano, yes. Mrs. Narcissis, yes. Mrs. O'Neal, yes. Mr. Ozilla, yes. And with that, we'll move on to administrative action items. Dr. Gordano. Thank you, Madam President. Um, on the recommendation of the superintendent like to re recommend
action items 11.1 through 11.6 Six with notice to everyone in the community. 11.1 if passed is the revised 2024 2025 school calendar with our give back snow days. And do we have a second? Second. Do we have any questions or comments from the board?
And thank you for that clarification. And we'll take a roll call. Dr. Gordano. Yes. Mrs. Fitzgerald. Yes. Mrs. Fenton? Yes. Mrs. Faggera? Yes. Mrs. Narcissis? Yes. Mrs. O'Neal? Yes. Mr. Orazilla? Yes. And with that, we will move to
public comments. Uh, students, parents, 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
[Applause] open. Going once, going twice. All right, we're closing out public comment with that. Do we have any old business board members? Yeah. Yeah. I I'd just like to reread my
um uh personnel report um for the facilities department. I'm just going to read it a little more clearly so everybody understands. Um Dr. Bando shared the facilities department update regarding a restructuring of the
supervisors or positions that will save the district money as well as a title update for new custodial supervisor to avoid confusion in these titles um and and to avoid the confusion in the command structure. So right here we're
actually saving money making these um title upgrades um this is Fier. So that's I think that maybe I didn't explain it properly. So it it to me is a good plan. Thank you.
Good. Thank you. You're welcome. Anyone else with old business? No. We'll move on to new business. No. Okay. Okay, with that we will move on to board um and administrative comments. Members of the board may comment of any item of
interest pertaining to Mount Olive School District and Dr. Peter Dan will start down at your end. No comment, Madam President and it's Mr. Gerald. Um just again how proud I am of the fine arts in this district. It was amazing to see obviously everybody here today and how talented everyone is and the staff,
but also Greece if you went was awesome. Really, really, really awesome. Um and again just a great example of how talented our staff and um students are and we will greatly miss all of those seniors who are graduating and leaving us because they are awesome. That's all
I'm just going to say ditto. Okay. And we'll move over to Mr. Ozilla. Oh yeah. Congratulations everyone. And also once again blown away by grace. It's just unbelievable.
and Miss Figerrera. Greece is the word. [Music] And then Miss O'Neal also saw Greece. It was great. And congratulations to all the kids, music students and
teachers. And thank you Dr. Bania for doing this audit and the presentation. Miss uh Dr. Bania echo the sentiments everyone. We are certainly proud of our students and that's one of the wonderful things about this time of the school year. Um we're excited to welcome all
our students in the upcoming meetings just because this is a time of celebration and also recognize all the hard work both the um students, the staff and families have put in to make this school district a wonderful place to not only learn but also to work. So thank you. And with that I will say again
Greece was amazing students performing arts amazing. Um thank you for that clarification. Uh, also wanted to point out to everyone the new uh, school app is available on your iPhone or your
Android. Um, and with that I will take a motion to go adjourn. So moved. Anyone? Second. Any comments, questions from board? No. With that I will say