over. I know it was a very good Oh, you're so sweet. And I'm not Oh my god. Here. Here. You can sit up front. Here you can sit up front.
>> Your family here. You guys have the whole sit there by myself. >> Your whole family. It's your family is your work. >> Don't sit. She's a kindergarten teacher.
>> We just figured >> I was looking Good evening everyone At this time, I'd like to call the meeting to order. The requirements of the open public lead meeting law have been met stating the date, time, place, and agenda and filed with the township clerk, town hall bulletin board, news
media, and the Atlantic County Superintendent of Schools. Can I get a roll call? >> Mrs. Brown Hill >> here. >> Mrs. Curts >> here. >> Mrs. Lynch here. >> Mrs. Mr.
Mr. here. >> Mrs. Warmer >> here. >> Mr. Winter, >> Mrs. W. >> Dr. Paul >> here. Can we please rise for the flag salute to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh at this time we're going to have a presentation from Dr. calls for one of our retirees.
So, tonight is a night of retirements, new beginnings, celebrations. Um, and what better way to start it off by acknowledging uh one of our teachers who has been a teacher here for 31 years um between Greenbank and Mullica. uh
serving 21 years in Greenbank and the last 10 years here in Mullica. So I want to bring up Chris speak about her. Come on up. >> We are very happy um and excited for Chrissy as she goes on to do what she
wants to do the most right now, which is hold that grandbaby of hers. Um, but Chrissy, we thank you so much for your dedication and commitment to the children here, for your commitment to science and creating such an exploratory
opportunity for our students. We couldn't be more proud of the work that you've done. We wish you all the health and happiness and good fortune that retirement has to bring. Um, you know, they're really making the plaque well for you at the at the place. It's taking
extra time. So, um, we want to make sure it's like, you know, shape. So, what the plaque will say, I'm going to read two things. Um, uh, so we have a celebratory lunchon on the last day with our staff on the 19th. So, Chrissy with the full
staff will be recognized there with her full plaque and it will say, uh, presented to Chrissy Leonetti in grateful appreciation for 31 years of service as a teacher. You've made a difference in the lives of the students you taught and the privilege to work
with you. Malikica Township School District September 1995 through June 2026. Um that's part one for tonight. We're also going to provide her a certificate of grateful appreciation for
31 years um as a teacher. You made a difference in the lives of students that you taught in Mullica Township and Washington Township and the educators that were privileged to work with you. Congratulations, CHRISSY. >> OKAY. So the next um celebration that I would
like to do is Ella Hanselman. Can you come on up? Perfect model for what's going to come up. So, um, as you may know, uh, recently we celebrated, uh, our centennial celebration, and we put out to the
students to, um, do a t-shirt design. Uh, Ellis was selected. Um, and you can see she's model, she's a she's an artist and a model. Um, so you'll see her modeling it. And what a great representation that was of our school district um, for your efforts. um we
recognized her at the um centennial celebration, but we certainly wanted to in front of the full board recognize her. So, I have a certificate for you. And then I also have four water park passes um to the Atlantic City Water Park that I thought maybe you could
enjoy this summer. Okay. So, THAT'S >> uh the next I'm going to bring up the volleyball team and Mr. Curl, do you want to take the lead on this one? >> As I knew he would. >> It's very against your character. >> Really? Give me a microphone again. Come
on up, guys. Come on up here. >> So, we have some of the members of our volleyball team here tonight. >> I'll give it up. >> So, I'll announce them first. We give them their awards. Uh, Jonathan Bowman,
Alexis Buddy, John Garrick, Lee Hartwell, Macy Hansaw, Logan Hutton, Roman Hutton, Caroline Keber, Brenn Matush,
>> Clara Pagan, Olivia Pollock, Jace Ransom, Riley Tyler Stuio, Satie Shab, Mickey Singleary,
Dempsey Watson, Taylor Spedora was our manager along with Sophia Vargas. And that guy's awesome. Todd Curl. I like >> tell us what they did. I will. I wrote this down because usually I just fly, you know, the seat of my pants, but
I it's a little emotional for me, so I wrote it down. The 2026 volleyball team ended our season 6 and two, co- champions of our division, the Atlantic CLE. >> The bad part about the co- championship was a three-way tie with Hamilton
Falsam. Strange situation. We lost to Folsam twice. Folsam lost to Hamilton twice. Hamilton lost to us twice. So kind of a weird, very weird situation. I am very proud of this team and what they accomplished. Even though it did end my three-year undefeated streak, but that's
okay. It's all it's not your fault. It's not your fault. All know that sports is about winning and wanting to be the best. But as I've always told my athletes, whether they're my college track athletes at Stockton or my middle school athletes, the most important thing you can learn in sports
is how to lose. When you can learn how to lose, you learn to make yourself better. Knowing how to lose with grace and dignity, not screaming or blaming is very important. Sports are a very important part of life, not because you
bounce a ball, run around a track, or throw a touchdown. It's because you learn how to function as part of a team. Learn to cooperate, empathy, how to handle yourself in the face of adversity. That is what sports is all about. I tried to instill that in all of
my athletes. This team did that. Not at first, but throughout the season, many of them learned how to pick each other up, how to be there for one another. When they made mistakes or errors, they supported each other. That's what makes competing in sports important and will
hopefully make them amazing members of our society later in their lives. I am proud to have had the opportunity to coach them all. Sadly, this will be my last season as a volleyball coach. I've only had a chance to do it for four years. For those of you that don't know me, I've been in
Mullik for 29 years, but I've coached at Stockton and I've been blessed. This crew right here is really hard to leave. This is This right here is miss. Besides these two right here, everyone here is returning next year. And it makes me sad. Oh, you're returning. That's right. You're not an eighth. Oh my god, I had
you from the beginning. This guy's the only one going. Get out of here, John. But it's it's been my pleasure to coach you all and to be a part of this Mullica program that I know you're going to continue to make great. So, thank you. I really appreciate you all.
Congratulations to our students. Thank you to their parents for supporting um them throughout. And uh you've got them sweatshirts. >> Turn around. >> So congratulations. Welld deserved.
Thank you for making Mullica proud. Okay. Okay, go ahead. >> Good. Congratulations to everyone and thank you for um we know board meetings are super exciting and you would all love to stay but if you
have other things to do we understand. So, we're going to take a few minutes pause and if you would like to leave now, that's fine. Um, if you'd like to stay, you're welcome to stay as well. >> Thank you for coming. They're available. Nobody knew
just makes it more difficult. >> All right, we're going to get started again. So at this time uh the the meeting will now be open to the public for comments. If your comments pertain to students, personnel, litigation, or negotiations, we would
ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since the board does not generally discuss such items in public. Uh does anyone have a public comment? Okay. Uh any old business?
Okay. New business. Um, I just want to remind all the board members that we need to complete the superintendent evaluation. Um, I really need you guys to do that like this week because the school boards has to compile that for us
before our next board meeting. So, we need to get that done and that's a CQAC requirement. Um, also I finally got access to add the board goals so we can also do the board evaluation. So, but priority is the superintendent one because that's due by the end of next
month. We can take more time on the board goals if we need to. >> Oh, sorry. >> Thank you. >> Uh correspondence. We got a letter from the Washington Township Board of Education. This was to officially let us know that they do not want to continue
with the shared service agreement for the business office and treasurer services. Just the business office and treasurer services. Their kids will still come here. Um committee reports, curriculum policy. Um we talked about cell phone policy.
Just looking over that again with the changes in the law. um HIP screening policy um which was attached uh programming. We talked about a little bit about handwriting um which will need to be implemented in grades three to five. They're looking at a couple
different programs. Um we looked about talked a little bit about curriculum writing. Um, we talked about student benchmarks and moving more toward maps testing, which to my very big excitement has a 40-minute limit for
each one, which has been something I've been asking about for probably eight years, so I'm very excited. Uh, professional development, we talked a little bit about for May, June, and July. Um, and I think a little bit about for the curriculums in the summer, STEM,
handwriting, um, enrichment, and we're going to talk about that all more going forward. >> Thank you. uh finance operations. >> Um let's see. We discussed the lunch balances um that we currently have and
the amounts they're at. School funding. Um and a plan for the courtyard. uh a potential upgrade to the security uh cameras because the current infrastructure for them is uh outdated
and needs to be updated. Um and then we also discussed a update on the federal grant audit. >> Thank you. Uh personnel negotiations. >> We discussed personnel shared services and relative to Greenbank and our
negotiations team is currently preparing for upcoming negotiations. Thank you. Uh at this time, can I get a motion and a second to approve the April 29th, 2026 regular and executive session minutes?
>> Second. >> Uh all in favor? >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion carries. >> Uh the next item is monthly reports.
And then can I get a motion and a second for the Mullica Township Board of Education upon recommendation of the superintendent approve items 9B through 9 says Q. Is that correct? R >> motion. >> Second.
>> Uh any discussion? I do just want to take a moment to acknowledge the retirement of Mr. Curl and all his years of service. You have been a pillar at this school and you will be missed. And I have to say I did I did notice that when the doorbell was going off, you handled it. So, thank
you. >> Any other discussion? >> I don't know if the public realizes how much it costs. package cost. >> Yeah. So, we had like you mentioned, we discussed at our previous meeting, the percentage increases are huge in the
what was it 18% for us this year, I think was the number. >> What does a benefits package cost healthare benefits package cost? Roughly, >> I looked recently. It's around $38,000 >> substantial. >> Yes. So, just so everyone knows what
we're talking about, um item E has a uh healthc care cost relief uh referendum >> resolution. Thank you. Um that the board is voting on. So, this is basically a letter that's going to be sent to a
bunch of and the list is there like the governor and our assembly people, our representatives to encourage them to come to some sort of solution so that schools can afford to provide healthcare and continue with all the other functions that we have to do because it's just not sustainable the
healthcare increases that we've been facing. And um lots of school districts are approving similar resolutions. So we're hoping if they hear from enough of us that they'll take some action. Any other discussion? Can I get a roll call then?
>> Mrs. Curts? >> Yes. Miss Lynch? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roner? >> Yes. >> Mr. Scholom? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Warner? >> Yes. >> Mr. Winterbottom? >> Yes. >> Mrs. While? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brownill? >> Yes. >> Motion carries.
>> Thank you. >> Uh, yeah. Once we have >> Um, at this time, can I get a motion and a second for items? Oh, 9B. >> Oh, mine. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Go ahead.
>> I'm not used to having paper. I'm very confused. >> We're going to pause um from the agenda and just welcome and introduce uh the new staff that are on the agenda tonight. And um I'm going to uh ask them when I say their name uh to stand and
I'm going to give a little bit of information about them. Um and in general I just want to welcome you to our school community. Uh we're very excited about uh the staff that will be joining us. So um here with us tonight
I'm going to start with Gabby Bogs. So Gabby is coming right off court tonight. um uh having coached at um Mainland tonight. And um so her background, she is graduating coming to us from Albreight College in Pennsylvania with a
bachelor's of arts in elementary education and family studies. Uh we're excited to have her join our staff. She's also was a former collegiate basketball player, team captain, and senior scholar athlete. and we are um thrilled that she'll be joining uh not
only our preschool department but also supporting our students in their athletic endeavors here in the district. So, welcome to Gabby. Our next um new staff member is Molly Armando. Is that
>> someone like making the right? Um, so Molly is coming to us with a bachelor's of arts and early education from the College of New Jersey and also pursuing her mers at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
Uh, Molly um had a GPA of a 3.9 through all of that. um and uh is coming to us also as a women's basketball uh player out of uh both uh the College of New Jersey and the Catholic University of
America. And uh we believe that she's going to bring a host of skills to our preschool. Um I've joked with our preschool staff earlier today. The department just got really tall if you noticed um between the two of them. Um and but again, we are very excited to
have you both. welcome um welcome you both and have you also support our students um both athletically and academically. So welcome. >> Moving up from preschool to kindergarten. Um I am uh thrilled to
welcome Ava Hammonds. Ava is a former graduate of Mullica schools. um having gone through uh she recently just what two weeks ago graduated from Stockton University also with a 3.91 GPA deans listed honor
society um and also did her student teaching right here with her co-teer Kelly Kelly uh right here at Mullica. And so we are very excited to have you join us in our kindergarten class.
Our next staff member we're welcoming is Lindsay Clark. Please stand. Lindsay is going to be teaching middle school English language arts. Um she is coming to us from Stockton University with a bachelor of arts and literature
with a concentration in secondary education. Um and a GPA of 3.95. Congratulations to her. We have some smarties. um coming up. Um so her big area that I'm excited about is her interest in the equestrian world, what
she'll do for student council and also um the stage crew piece of it um and our productions. So we are um excited to have you Lindsay. Welcome aboard. >> Thank you so much. >> Uh also with us tonight if we would like to welcome Isabella Derio.
Isabella um is coming to us um uh from the Northfield School District um and graduated from William Patterson University and Westchester University of Pennsylvania uh with a degree in um the uh college of education and social work
um and also certification uh in the teacher of students with disabilities. Um she graduated Suma Kumladi in May of 2023 and we are thrilled of what she's going to do in both our preschool and kindergarten special education world and
that co-eing um capacity. So welcome to Isabella. I didn't see Kim, right? Oh, you're here. Oh, you snuck in. Great. I'm glad you're here. Look at that. Everybody's here. Kim, please stand up. So, Kimber, um, we're thrilled to have her join us
in the middle school English language arts department as well, eighth grade. Um, very fortunate Kim's also coming from Northfield, but also coming to us with 20 years of teaching experience at the middle school level. Um, I will say the best reference that came uh with Kim
was when the students told us that we needed to hire her. So um our students actually participate in their demonstration les lessons for each of uh the staff that you see here and the students uh as you know this the admin were walking out said you need to hire
her. Um another student who was uh Kimberly's former student in Northfield said she was my favorite teacher in Northfield. So, um, in addition to, um, her her experience and all of that, um, she also has that experience in student
council and things like that. And we're just excited to have you join our district and our staff and, um, certainly appreciate the experience you bring. So, welcome to EVERYBODY and as you can see, it's a great place to be based on all of the celebration
that's happening here tonight. So, thank you Welcome to the district everyone. We're excited to have you. Uh at this time, can I get a motion and a second from the Mullica Township Board of Education upon recommendation of the
superintendent approve items 9B? >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? Can I get a roll call? >> Mrs. Curts? Yes. Miss Lynch? Yes. Mr. Roner, >> yes.
>> Mr. Stalenor, >> yes. >> Mrs. Werner, >> yes. >> Mr. Winterbottom, >> yes. >> Mrs. Wild, >> yes. >> Mrs. Brown Hill, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Uh, at this time, can we get a motion and a second for the Malikica
Township Board of Education upon recommendation of the superintendent improve approve items 10B and C? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Can I get a roll call? >> Mrs. Curts?
>> Yes. >> Miss Lynch? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roner? >> Yes. >> Mr. Stalmore? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Werner? >> Yes. >> Mr. Winterbottom? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wild? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brownill? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you.
At this time, can I get a motion and a second for the Mullica Township Board of Education upon recommendation of the business administrator, approve items 11B through 11F motion? >> Second.
>> Any discussion? >> Just a quick question. A couple quick ones on the system 3000. Any cheaper alternatives out there or we're pretty well locked in. Um, >> can you use the >> Okay, >> I can look into it. There are new
programs out there, so I can definitely, you know, put dealers out and see what's available. >> I knew we've used this for many years. I don't know if we're still getting good value out of it or it's expensive obviously, but they're all expensive. So, >> yes, I can definitely take a look at it. Bob, >> appreciate that. Thank you.
>> And also for the corrective actions for the weed service, it's just pretty much paperwork. Corrective actions. >> Thank you. Any other discussion? >> Can I get a roll call? >> Mrs. Curts? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynch? >> Yes.
>> Mr. Roner? >> Yes. >> Mr. Stalen? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Winterbottom? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wild? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brownill? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Uh, at this time, the
meeting will now be open to the public for comments. If your comments pertain to students, personnel, litigation, or negotiations, we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since the board does not generally discuss such items in public. Would anyone like to make a comment?
Go ahead. >> Use your microphone. I will. I always use my microphone. Um, I'd like to specially shout out the group of teachers who went last week in 95 degree weather to a baseball game with a group of our
students for their service project. Um, I do I'm a big fan of field trips and I always talk about it, but I just wanted to give a special shout out to them because it was literally 95 degrees and they were at a baseball game all day long. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everyone for supporting the kids
always, no matter what the weather is. So, special shout out to you guys. >> That's a great >> Thank you. Thank you. >> And and you reminded me I wanted to give a shout out to everyone who helped with the centennial. Uh it was a great celebration. We had a lot of our community there. I think it created some
really positive vibes. So, thank you to all the teachers and staff and volunteers and everybody who came out and helped with that. >> Uh just a few uh comments, just a reminder to the board members, you have an envelope in front of you that is about graduation. if you could fill that
out before you leave here tonight and drop it back off with me. Um, I think our eighth grade planning committee would be grateful for that. Um, speaking of that, a reminder to the community that our graduation is occurring on June 17th at 6 PM. Uh, that will take place
at the Cedar Creek School High School. Um, and this year will be livereamed. Um, so if there's an issue with uh the numbers or someone can't quite get there, uh, we will be live streaming so that um, as many of our community members who want to see our eighth
graders graduate and the awards, they can they can see that. Um, this year on June 5th, we will be having moving up ceremonies for both our kindergarten students and our fourth grade students. Um reminder to those parents to sign up
for that and RSVP. And then um also I just wanted to thank everyone for the centennial celebration and all the hard work that went into it. And really a special thank you um to our historical society who was able to
uncover truly the history of our district and make it available and present for everyone. And just a reminder uh that they do exist at the Hildra School. um and you can, you know, schedule to go see a lot more about the community there and they put a lot of
their time and effort into it and um not every community has people that are that passionate about the history of the community. So, I just want to app um you know u say my appreciation and grateful um heart that I have for the work that
they did. So, thank you to everybody for pulling off that event. Really great event. I also want to thank the grandparents. We had over 400 and some grandparents show up for grandparents day and again um just having their
energy in the building that day and everyone was thrilled to be here. It was a reunion of sorts for many of them um because their children all kind of came to school here at the same like there's a lot of crossover and um just a really a lot of positive feedback of them being
able to be in the building and um you know see what we're doing and we certainly want to continue to build on that connection with our community. So, I I truly appreciate everybody taking the time out that day to come and sincere appreciation to our staff who
all of the sudden their rooms became um you know doubled in size. I think they handled it really well. So, congratulations on on a great event. >> Can I ask a quick question about the live stream? Is it going to be just like the board um meeting where it just pops
up for graduation? >> Excuse me. I feel like I should have a lapel mic. I'm teasing. Um, it will actually be a link on our website. Um, so the banner that goes across um a couple days before uh Cedar Creek will provide us with that
link and then it will be there. Um and uh their media department handles all of that and we're grateful that they're handling it for us. >> Oh, that's amazing. >> Thank you. Um, I do also want to just add I heard positive comments about uh grandparents day as well. So, thank you
to all the staff and administration for everything you did to pull that off. Um, then our next board meeting is scheduled for June 24th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. for executive and 7 p.m. for public session.
I do have a PTA update. Uh, the PTA is wrapping up the year with a number of events. They are providing ice pops for all grades. Tomorrow for I day. We are joining forces with aces on Friday night for family bingo and game night from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. 3rd through 8th grade
students, their siblings and parents are welcome to join us. Dinner and games prizes will be provided. Carnival Day planning on June 11th is underway. We are grateful for any and all donations from families to help provide snacks to the entire student body. Parents are
invited to help out and should sign up using the signup genius. We have a few playground meetups scheduled before the end of the school year. One is tomorrow after school and again on Sunday afternoon and the last one will be on June 17th. PTA will bring snacks and
waters for the kids and as they get their energy out. PTA will be providing food, ice cream, and drinks for lake day to celebrate our eighth graders and cookies for the fourth graders following the fourth day fourth grade clapout. We also are supplying rocks and paints for
fourth and eighth grade students to paint and add to our rock garden. Our next meeting is on Monday, June 8th at 7 p.m. Have elections for new officers. President and secretary roles will be open. Please reach out if anyone is interested in stepping up to help our
awesome community. Uh is there any update from MTEF? >> Um we are um still in the process of accepting applications from Cedar Creek. That's um we provide a scholarship. It's a 4year $1,000 per year scholarship. And
we're also getting ready each year we um award teachers uh grants um for basically anything under the sun. Um uh so that paperwork will be going out shortly where um the staff here can apply for our grant process.
>> Thank you. >> All right. Well, then we are done today. So, can I have a resolution to adjourn the meeting? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed?
>> Any abstain? >> All right. Well, thank you everyone for coming out. I have to tell you my daughter's graduating and I was thinking No worries. >> She's going to be on top of it. sort of
a lighting to the