meeting to order [Music] mr al Mr minger here Mr lombardi here mr luna yes miss Ryan Vice President here President Gomez here please stand for the pledge of allegiance
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whole oh I Okay fine i'll do that okay now we're going to have a special presentation from the REACH program good evening thank you so much um for having us uh we are here today we're very lucky to have um some students from
first grade through fifth grade from Berkeley Street School and BF Kids and we have uh the REACH teachers who have led this work all year here tonight to um showcase the work that we've done so Mrs alvario and Mrs anton will be talking about kindergarten and first
grade um Mrs gentino and Mrs major will be talking about two three second and third grade modules and Miss Riss and Sanders will be talking about the fourth and fifth grade modules so we thought it would be you know great to have the students themselves talk about their experience and what they've been
learning so at this time I'm just going to turn hi good evening i'm Mrs olivier i'm the library media specialist at Berkeley and Giz and I've been teaching reach I believe for six years now kaden one reach for about six years um so what
reach stands for is uh reaching excellence through academic challenge and we're going to discuss the projects that pay and one worked on so far so we always start out with the growth mindset so we read them a story about uh
perseverance because it kind of sets a tone for the rest of the projects that we do because we try to teach them that we're not giving up we're going to keep trying even though it doesn't come out right so we keep trying and we perfect it as much as we can and we improve it then we went to the paper chain and
that's engineering design where the students all created their own paper chains we gave them one sheet of construction paper and they had to decide which way to cut the strips and which one got the longest chain so then
we measured we did measurements uh the spinning top which um Jonathan's going to demonstrate in a minute um and that's physics we did airplanes where we tested a few different types of paper airplanes and we worked on a forces of flight and
you're done with paper chair i'm almost done i I'll be done on Tuesday so we're going to be demoing that today and that's also engineering design um and our last well close to our last project we're doing the bird these are the bird
feeder yep mhm and these are just some photos that um with the paper chain the spinning tops where we tested on all different surfaces we did the measuring and paper chain paper chain perfect all right so I have
Jonathan here jonathan stand up so what grade are you in first first grade whose class in what school berkeley berkeley okay so Jonathan created his own spinning top we use recycled uh construction paper he designed his
little spinner and we put a penny in it and now you're going to test it on the table and then Okay go ahead so now when we spin the top it spins fast
but then it starts to get wobbly because of the friction rubbing it slows down and eventually stops due to gravity closing it down okay so let's try on the rug so which one spun longer on the table on the table you want to try it on that
surface on the floor let's see so that's one pretty long as well right so flat surfaces work better right because it's uneven and it's causing that friction so it's slowing down faster right all right good job
hi I'm Miss Anton i'm a kindergarten teacher at Gibbs School and we have my friend David for this is his second year in Gree this is actually my first year uh teaching reach so it's been great so David is going to show two paper chairs
that he put together and the goal was to see if the stuffed animals can fold on a taller chair and a smaller shorter chair here we go so David do you want to share with them what you did to make the
chairs and the stuffed animals stand up hi my name is David this is my second year of age this is my favorite challenge i made um the paper chair steady because I put lots of tape around it and staples because that would fall
off the um paper so it would stick more easily and stay there great thank you [Applause] second and third grade
hi I'm Mrs major i'm a teacher at BS school i am current teaching first grade and the reach program i think I've done reach for probably upwards of 10 years i don't know i've lost track um and I teach fifth second and third grade at
GIS i'm Mrs jennino i teach second and third grade at Berkeley um this is a really exciting year i just wanted to first thank Mr glasso and Miss Odasa for the program and special thanks to Mrs chris Dr chrisalis she um leads us with
excitement all the time and lets us put our projects all over the building and gets excited over everything we do and Miss Tori thank you for supporting Gibbs and behind the scenes Miss Policcastra has really been instrumental in Reach she helps us get all of our projects and our material so a big thank you to her
also for keeping our program going it's uh really special to have the children in the morning and a thank you to the parents for getting them there every morning i know mornings are crazy so it's really important that they're there and they're part of this it's a lot of fun and they really get to challenge
themselves and build together and work together so we did our first module was um diving into the past uh we went to ancient Egypt and I brought Adam with me and it was pretty cool because his dad also went to Egypt and brought us back um bookmarks so it worked out perfectly
with his trip so it was even more interesting and fun for us to get that piece that school and home protection there so we transformed Barbies we brought Barbies and we mummified them and that was lots of fun very messy for Miss Andrew and I at 8:00 in the morning
but it was a lot of fun we made um some reliefs some ancient Egyptian reliefs and um over at Gibbs we did we transformed ourselves into pharaohs so we took some black and white photos and head shots we learned a little bit about
the patterns and colors that were used in Egyptian art and we tried to replicate that in our own patterns using pastels and uh pencils and you can see the kids uh with their own pictures and they really loved them and they were like larger than life and really cool
and actually brought my student here is actually on my phone so and she'll be talking in just a minute we have a second slide too um module two we went into present day and we talked about machines um we made um environments like
big huge huge not like diuramas that we remember with shoe boxes we made like full communities and they took solar energy and they researched it and they used different materials to create solar panels and show how energy can help you
know uh run a community so we did urban suburban and rural communities that was another really cool thing they brought in a lot of recyclable materials and work together in small groups and then we moved to Botley and Botley was a new um program we were learning this year
it's actually a coding robot um really cool by the way if any of you have kids at home that love coding um and the kids learned to do coding via um like push button on like a keypad so you can see in the one picture here so they had to
program their code and there are tiles that they would lay on the floor and they could make Botley go through an obstacle course so there's flags there were like things achieved they had to do certain challenges teaching Botley to move forwards backwards make a spin 380
90° um and then at the end they kind of created their own paths for Botley oops we lost our connection you guys are still up right oh did you maybe it touched your shirt is there a button over there it's okay we're back thank you um and the
students really enjoy learning how to code um which is really neat and they can kind of explore that and as they get older there are a lot of coding programs that they can get into if they tend to love code um which is a great thing to know i think we have
too at the end of verse okay we want to have them yeah hi my name is Adam and I am in second grade at Berkeley my favorite part of Reach was doing was coding with Bot Robot it was fun to see a move and how
and how cool it was able to move objects thank you for buying us the robots thank you so this is Olivia Blaze olivia is in third grade and she is one of the students that went on a field trip with us this year it was the first time that
New Milford's reach program went to what's called the Amazing Race and the Amazing Race is a convocation held in Pamis at their middle school i think Middle Elementary Parkway School parkway School um and they transform their cafeterium into this incredible
international amazing race and basically every district comes and brings a country and they have to have academic or STEM challenges for students to do at their table and was it every like 8 minutes we moved or something like that
yeah so they ring a bell and you were put into groups and I was from other schools all around Bergen County other G&T programs and they traveled to each different country every 12 minutes we had lunch there uh did some more and then we came back in the end of the day so we represented India so we
highlighted the KA and we highlighted um Rangoli yeah which is decorating the ground with kettles and seeds we had a really cool station i think we decided one ours was one of the best right yeah um and thanks to a family in New Milford
we actually had some real things that they brought back from India which was really cool um but Olivia wanted to share some of her favorite um countries she visited and maybe some of the activities that we did that day one of my favorite activities was in
Japan where where you learned how to make origami like flowers and after you're done making like origami flowers you're able to make the different shapes out of it awesome if you look at that board was there another country you remember we were talking about this before ireland you want to tell them
what we did ireland because we got clay and we colored it it was darker and then we were able to make it like like a flag um clover and coins yeah so the schools really did like come out with some
amazing activities it was everything from STEM to art to hieroglyphics to everything in the Egyptian table we were pretty expert right we had done that whole module so we felt pretty confident there but it was a great trip and we really hope we can go again um
definitely positive definitely a lot of fun and we were glad to be part of it so thank you good job [Applause] all right i'm Miss Andrews i teach fourth grade at Berkeley Street School this is my first year teaching reach for
both fourth and fifth grade teachers um Mrs gentino and I work pretty closely with both the second and third and the fourth grade groups at Berkeley so I can kind of speak to some of the slides and pictures that they just said but the field trip was so much fun i believe we had over 11 school districts in Bergen
County there and what was really great is we were assigned the students were assigned a specific group to join so it wasn't all of Milford in one group so we had Harvard Norwood Northell so it was so good to see the students collaborate with new students and new schools and
share our ideas and learn from one another um go ahead sorry this is Russ i'm from uh BFK school uh I've been teaching Reach for 10 plus years or more right same as Lee i say this is major um
I I love teaching uh reach in the mornings even though it's early in the morning I the kids get really creative i love to kind of just let them kind of guide the learning and and let them go and they really get uh creative and into it and we did some really nice modules
this year um we kind of planned and matched up third and fourth um together with uh Berkeley and we did um ancient Egypt and then we did his solar project and um quoting and now we're working on
Shark Tank with the kids where they had to create a product and present it can you actually go back a few slides i'm sorry for the pictures a couple more this one oh that was it so this is when the students worked on their ancient release and they used model magic clay
um and then when was the last cloud sorry I'm jumping you what did we do after you made your own patterns and designs we we like painted them with different colors but since the Egyptians had only like two colors and we made these silver
and gold we kind of just did those colors so yeah yes going to make them hot pink or yellow all right you can go back sorry thank you go and then one more so this is some of the This is the uh ancient Egyptian beliefs that we created
um and these are cortions that you see up in the background where they wrote their leaves and hieroglyphics we also mummified some apples um yep to kick off our unit each of the reach students created um they turned into their own pharaoh and got to decorate that and
then the next project was they researched hieroglyphics and they created their own sentence or question and we posted these on a bulletin board in the hallway with the hieroglyphic decoder so all the students in Berkeley Street School could try and decode those
phrases that their friends created together that's it all right so this is Miss What's your name clara and you were in what grade i'm in fifth grade at at birth and how many years have you been in Reach i've been in Reach 14 years
because I started since third grade and now I'm Very nice she's been in Reach longer than I have and what has been your favorite part of Reach this year my favorite part of Reach was the solar energy the solar energy communities because we got to be
very creative and we had boxes and uh egg cartons and we made them into different buildings and then we used foil to represent the solar pillars mhm what was the other part of the unit you said your other favorite part my other favorite part was the Bali 2.0 Oh because when we did that we had to code
it and um it was very hard at first but it was super fun at the end because we got to code it and um like we had like those like different modes like the line mode so if we flipped the boards then there would be like a line and then you would follow them so persevere very good
okay want to stand up i have Blake and Rebecca blake you want to go first and kind of introduce yourself and then share um I'm Blake um I've been in reach for three years and I started in first grade and in which I learned about
ancient Egypt which I thought was cool because I wouldn't have learned about that in my regular fourth grade i also learned how to code robots which I thought was exciting because I don't usually get to use robots and last we got to do Shark Tank which is cool
because it lets us create our own create our own products hi I was like it's my second year at Reach this year uh my favorite project was Botley 2.0 because we got to code him and he had a lot of special like
commands and he had different modes and could also light up with his eyes it was very And we even created relay racers right at the end of race each other to see who could get through the relay the fastest well thank you so much
[Applause] So that's it Miss Per that's it yes uh so thank you first and Mr abasa the principles all in attendance here tonight thank you for coming out and supporting everything um I appreciate seeing you here miss Paul Castro thank you for bringing this to my attention saying "Listen we'd really like to
present this and I'm learning about New Milford and so this is great for me to see and there's so many little nuances to the academic program that to be honest the board isn't privy to um the parents aren't privy to but it doesn't mean they're not happening every single
day or every single week." So I think these presentations are really really important so the teachers thank you for being passionate um you're here tonight on your own accord and you know it's clear you have a passion for it and all I'd ask is that you continue to just be passionate about it and think outside
the box and take risks and have fun because if you're having fun the kids are going to have fun to the parents I know it's early our reach program our gift and talented program is in the morning um listen as you get older we have to wake up early and at some point
I'm going through this now like I want to sleep late and I can't cuz I've woken up early too many times times so that goes into what I want to tell the students you're clearly all smart right you're intelligent if you don't have what the teachers talked about that
perseverance or I like to call grit which is like a chip on your shoulder perseverance um you're not going to reach the potential that you want to so waking up early when you're tired and going to the reach program that's part of perseverance and grit too right i
learned about the coding from you right and you said it was hard at first right but at the end it was really really fun that's perseverance and grit so if you take that and and just continue with that your life there's no doubt you will be successful but if you take away one of those
elements you'll be all right but if you have all those elements you're going to be great so continue to like echo that teachers parents echo that please the perseverance and the grit life is not meant to be easy it's going to get harder um so please just echo that and I
thank you all for coming students you're so knowledgeable and intelligent way beyond where we were uh when when they were kids and I'm so excited to see how your generation uses this okay so just keep up the great work so thank you thank you
[Applause] we're going to take a short break so you guys can [Music] Okay uh recommended action committee of the whole secret next no that's Oh okay superintendent of
schools sorry good evening everyone thank you for coming tonight um a couple of things I'd like to discuss uh right off the bat we have the approval of the March 2025 HIV report so in New Milo
High School there were zero HIV 338 forms submitted that is wonderful um at DEO there were three HIV 338 forms submitted um three HIVs were investigated by the ABS all allegations of HIV were unfounded as they did not
meet the criteria for HIV in one or more areas at Berkeley there were also three HIV 338 forms submitted uh all three HIVs were investigated by the ABS and all allegations were unfounded and Gibbs there was one HIV 338 form submitted um and due to principal determination this
allegation was handled as a code of conduct um as far as the suspension report um I'll be honest a lot of suspension in March um we needed the April vacation kind of cool down a little bit and that's a real thing so
I'd like to approve the March suspension report new Milford High School had six students who were suspended for a total of 17.5 days one student served one day of in school suspension three students each served three days of out of school suspension one student served 1.5 days of out of school suspension and one
student served two days of inschool suspension and four days of out of school suspension at DEO there were 19 students suspended for a total of 20 days 15 students each served one day of inschool suspension three students each served
one day of out of school suspension and one student served one day of inschool suspension and one day of out of school suspension in Berkeley one student served one day of in school suspension so the suspensions we never like to do it um but it's part of the growing process as
well i don't like to see these numbers this high um and I think the principles don't i know the principles don't either um but when students do something wrong it's imperative to not only remediate them with like counseling and other services but there has to be a
consequence um and there has to be a consequence in some sense so they get used to it's not just going to be I'm getting talked to and then repeat behavior so hopefully the goal is that this repeat uh behavior does not repeat if it is repeat behavior the suspensions
go up with that student um until it's a deterrent okay uh a couple other things I'd like to talk about uh academic and athletic scholarships the athletic scholarships are a total
$1,000 being awarded uh to students so we thank all the donors for that um the academic scholarships we are still finalizing and we'll get you that report um you know during this week i would like to you know congratulate Miss Shaina Ginley um she's
currently our math supervisor she's going to fill a maternity leave position at the middle school for an assistant principal um so we congratulate her she got that based on merit uh she's been loyal to the district a bright young lady and uh the principles love her
she's already worked in that school as a math supervisor so it's going to be a great seamless fit very difficult to find middle school assistant principles so we thank her for wanting to take on that challenge i'd like to get the approval for the following
coaches for the fall season um all the positions have been filled thankfully so we're ready to go by approving them now it lets them you know do things during the summer as well and start reaching out to to to student athletes which is very
important i'd like to talk about the approval for Arbiter Sports uh as an LLC contract so Arbor Sports is basically like a scheduling platform that we use for athletics right now so our NJIC dues pay for it for sports and what it does
is we put all our sports games in there and parents can go on and see where the game is being played and home team and and all that uh we would like to pay a little extra for the district to combine that with our facilities so that way we
are not double booking things it can get very hard there's a these schools are used all the time so we think by just a little bit of extra money it will make it way more efficient for us it'll be easier for parents to see and look on it's like okay I can't reserve the gym
this day because it's already booked for sports whatever it makes everything more transparent it should make everything easier and more streamlined um and it's a a nominal cost um I'd also like to seek the approval of frontline education with a Mccrell international license so
we use Mccrell that's our observation instrument to evaluate teachers um that was adopted I think 12 13 years ago it's an approved instrument um from the state that will not change uh what will change is we use Mccrell P school right
now and it costs about $10,000 just for Mccrell P school mccl power school what we use now only allows for observations and PDPs the issue with that is we also have MSGPS and SGOs that we have to plug into that and calculate a whole
summitative off of that the poor principles and uh supervisors right now they manually take all the scores the PDP the um evaluate the observation scores the SGO scores the MSGP and they hand calculate it to come up with a
summitative average and they put it in an Excel spreadsheet email it to uh my administrative assistant dr and she handp puts it into the state framework way too inefficient so what this will allow when we go to front mind
everything will be under one database the observations the SGOS's the PDPs the MSGPS and it will all calculate the summit of average so when it gets time to like upload to the state it's a button and it just uploads to the state
it's way more efficient after the initial cost of setting it all up and getting the rubrics and everything it's the same annual cost as what we are paying now the other benefit is right now we just have principles and teachers on it we can develop our own rubrics for
um guidance counselors nurses so it's all nice under one platform like right now we have some people getting narratives um we just want everything consistent across the board so I think it's a a worthy endeavor to streamline things and make things more efficient so
we can spend their time you know doing other things that are more proactive instead of just inputting numbers which technology allows us you know more efficient ways to do so so that's what I'm moving approval for uh upcoming Oh I'll talk about some
upcoming events we do have the black poster project so I know Mr ludum you can speak to that better than I can which is tomorrow correct it is so um thank you M so the um the black poster project will be at the YMCA in Milford
tomorrow uh which is the former Ascension School gym black Poster Project was started by a woman named D gillan who two years ago I believe was named the Pascat Valley Person of the Year um it is a traveling display of
posters with pictures of those who have been lost to overdose um it's something that's near and dear to my heart um uh my son is on a black poster my son overdosed in 2017 it is an incredibly
powerful and impactful display it is poignant um and I like to tell people all the time that if you're having trouble talking to your kids about substance misuse and drugs it's a great conversation starter when when you're there with a kid and you're walking
around and your kid sees these posters it opens up a natural way to explain seeing the faces of all these different people from all sorts of walks of life um and how you know making poor decisions can end your child's life so
thank you Mrs boss yeah I'd like to reiterate too I've said this before New Milford the community in general does a tremendous amount for the well-being of its people black poster project and talking about addiction right the the alliance uh we have the uh domestic
violence symposium we have a suicide symposium coming up and this is like county endeavors that anybody can come to so I'm proud that New Guard like leads those efforts um to end on a high note um Mr andelino this is a sad but
high note mr andolino um who has been teaching the district for like 20 years is also retired so I want to point that out under personnel um he's taught I think at all three buildings throughout his career he used to you know be director of marching band um currently
he is at Gibbs and he has one of the hardest schedules which might be contributing to his retirement but he has one of the hardest schedule he teaches general music and then he also teaches band on top of that with multiple types of instruments and then he does chorus as
well so you know I I started here with him actually you know two decades ago so I'm proud of him he made it out and uh you know we are going to miss him so thank you Mr and that's it any questions for Mr
okay assistant superintendent report Lauren Daxton hi good evening everyone um just a reminder that now um that we return from spring break and we enter the final stretch testing season is upon us um access testing is now complete
that is the uh English proficiency assessment for our multilingual learners and starting next week we will begin NJSLA the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment and AP testing will follow up
so um a busy few weeks as we start the kind of like start the close to the school year so um good breakfast and good night's sleep and um yeah it'll be a busy few weeks coming
so and that concludes my report you anyone any other questions okay business administrator report Stephanie Fer um so I recently submitted I know when Bruce was here he was speaking at
length about the broad grants um unfortunately that's still not wrapped up i submitted a um substantial completion and a final completion to the state for the Rod grant for the high school i was supposed to have someone
come out for a field inspection last week they never showed up um I reached out to the state again today asking the status of that for our final payment because we're still waiting um for over $500,000
um to come back for a high school roof project so they have everything they have all the documents um they so they say every time they've said that they come back and ask for more it's a really difficult process to go through um but I think as soon as we get the field
inspector out we should be receiving that money um the preliminary budget was sent to the county office after the board approved that that was approved on April 15th um by the executive executive county superintendent however we had a
special meeting um because we were a district who was entitled to the tax levy incentive aid so what that means is we're in a bit of a unique situation because typically um or historically in the Milford after
the preliminary budget is submitted and approved by the executive county superintendent the board has adopted that budget this year the board will be making changes to the preliminary budget if the state approved our application
for the tax levy incentive aid so we were originally planning to have our state of the district on April 30th however the timeline um for the state was we had to submit something by April 28th
and the way the state typically operates is if that's the deadline and even though we've already submitted what we need to submit they wait for every single district in the state to do it before they act on it um April 30th is a very early date for a budget hearing and
so it's likely that our state of the district won't happen until May 7th um so once we get more information we will let the board know um but based on the timeline it's looking like it will probably be May
7th and then in the board office right now we're currently working on all of the renewals for the district for 2526 and securing the pricing for that um a big change that we're doing in an effort to save money is our building and ground
supplies specifically custodial supplies we've used various different vendors off the state contract and this year we're going to use ED data um which we've never used because we've always had
lower pricing with state contractors however once you get everything the prices are really not and so we're looking to use ED data and so everything was submitted today and so we're hoping that we're going to save money by
getting the same products um so a lot of things that we're looking to do spending we're trying to find efficient ways to save money and we're wrapping up the 2425 budget and that concludes my report any questions for Stephanie
okay um so in the past there was there's a deadline to do the budget like to get the presentation of the budget we've never done it in May so is the state I understand why is the state going to hold that against us or will that be something that will be an exception um
so this we've always done it very early the earliest date I believe on the state election calendar is April 24 and the latest day is May 7th okay so that's why and we happen to have a board
meeting on May 7th okay perfect if we didn't have that board meeting I don't really know probably the county superintendent actually emailed us and said "Hey it looks good but we need approval from the state." And he was like "Push it as close to May 7th as you can." So
Stephanie Smart and emailed the county superintendent explain like "Hey we are supposed to be going April 30th can we push it to the seventh and use that yeah because when you actually submit just so you guys know in the state software you have to say when your public hearing is
and so the county approved our budget with the hearing on April 30th and so we do have it in writing from them that we can push it we don't have that approval because part of the tax levy incentive aid requirement was that you have to
have all documentation on hand before you know hold the public hearing got it kind of ties in our hands yes does anyone else have any questions okay you guys received correspondence for the senior night awards is there any other
correspondence for this evening oh it passed over any liaison board committee reports no um okay so agenda items for discussion any questions review of board action any questions regarding review of
educational programs and curriculum personnel recommendations finance oh in personal recommendations in looking at a preview of the attachments um P 2425 1110 is approval of part-time
building grounds and then 2425119 is approval of custodial maintenance they appear to be the same attachment is that that's I noticed that's it am I not seeing a different a discerning point there or can you open this it could be a similar
Yep okay um any questions regarding finance and facilities any questions regarding athletics and co-curricular any old business any new business okay open to the public as
outlined in New Milford Board of Education bylaw 0167 each statement made by participants shall be within a few minutes let's seek a motion stephanie seconded by Joe all in favor i oppose anyone have a anything anyone
from the public please state your name and town please baby my name is Bruce Rosenberg i'm an attorney with the firm of when he banned Israeli in comp i'm sorry I'm violating your chain of command u I would have spoken at the beginning but
you have your breach presentation so this has to do with personnel i represent a custodian here in the district her name is Alice and she's been with the district for 7 years um she was riceed she received her rice notice for the
meeting this evening she waved her uh her rights to have it in private and she wanted it to be in public now I am her attorney all I would say in her behalf is that uh one of the proposals we understand it is that she's being
proposed to be demoted from full-time to part-time custodian she's a custodian in middle school uh she has received exemplary reviews as recently as March um I understand that you are looking for
ways to save money i applaud you on going out for new custodial supplies um I read your uh mission statement and I find it fascinating the district embraces family faculty community as active partners in a unified effort to
develop students as a self-directed self-confident adults on their journeys to become the next generation of entrepreneurs builders artists designers inventors scientists educators caregivers prosecutors workers and leaders i would just note that Miss
Alvarez my client is the only female custodian here in the district of New Milford the only one and I would raise profit to all of you that before you demote her and demote her position from
full-time custodian position to part-time custodian position you embrace those words that are at your mission statement and think very carefully about them and the message it sends that her position is going to be demoted when she
is the only female custodian in the district your district is almost 50% girls and I would basically submit to all of you that by basically demoting my client from full-time custodial position
to part-time custodial position you were sending the wrong message and I would ask in Crawford that you reconsider her demotion from full-time to part-time status thank you very much thank you anyone else from the public please state
your name and tag i'm Kilford i've been working with the business on E6 application concerning for Aiden the application was denied on the ground that I live
miles from the park to um I would just like uh your citizens and clarifying that um there's some nuance to the measurement threshold so just arriving at this building tonight I parked on Madison Avenue there was an entrance
there i couldn't use it go ahead and walk around and come to the main public entrance similar to my children's school um the entrance that was used for measurement uh is not the main public entrance that's required according to the law it's an entrance for authorized
vehicles and personnel only if my children were not to receive this aid and they would be required to uh either walk or bike to the school they would have to use the school's main public entrance consistent with the law which at that point I would be in excess of the 2 miles uh minimum threshold
required to be approved for this date uh I think the measurement to the entrance that was used puts me at 1.89 89 miles from the school from my house to the school but I brought with me today
uh a little measurement showing a little line from the entrance where I was measured to the entrance width that they would have to use which is another 11 miles putting me pretty much at 2 miles i don't know if it's two miles and a foot or 1.99 miles just you know under
the the minimum threshold but you know I think it's a fairly close enough in this case the pie goes to the runner um and uh here's an FAQ from the state department of education's website that says uh the measurement is made by the shortest distance of all public roadways
or walkways sidewalks uh between the entrance to the student's home closest to the roadway or walkway to the nearest public entrance of the school building so just request that uh the business administrator utilizes the the actual public entrance and not an
entrance that's authorized to teachers or authorized i'm here to answer any questions anyone may have about the application i appreciate your time very much thank you anyone else from the public
you want to submit I'm sorry do you want to submit that for for them to review those papers i'd love to okay I'll take Councilman do you want to say anything sure okay yeah thank you thank you
thank you it's great to see everyone uh as always tonight um an update on an important important event that we recently had that didn't get a lot of uh publicity around town we recently as recently as last week in fact uh welcomed Assemblyman Chris Pel
Assemblywoman Lisa Swain Congressman Godheimer's office and other officials from around Bergen County and the state to our monthly uh flood mitigation advisory committee meeting of rural hall uh and the purpose of that meeting was to ask questions and seek reassurance
with respect to a concern that many residents have who live on our flood zone that concern is that with threatened cuts to FEMA they may lose important federal grants that they rely upon whether to raise their homes or to
take other mitigation steps to help mitigate the effects of flight i'm happy to report that despite the extremely negative reason and bad reason that we had to have this meeting that we did get reassurance that all of our
representatives from the county all the way up to the state are on our side and have our backs into Milford to do what they can to the extent possible to preserve and protect those those grants and that funding and try to make sure that those who live in our flood zones continue to have access to the resources
that they've grown to rely upon if anyone after the meeting or at any other time has any question or any concern in particular about what was discussed at that meeting or this particular issue I encourage anyone who'd like to please reach out to me and I'd be happy to provide more information and answer any
questions looking ahead to more positive uh things we have you heard about obviously this this great event we're having tomorrow the Black Coaster Project and I want to it's personal to me and I I know that you're very humble but Mr lun thank you for your leadership
and your passion and your heart you're really an inspiration because you not only work as hard as you do to put together the Black Poster project and help bring it here to New Milford but you dedicate yourself all year with community outreach initiatives to try to help those who are both
battling addiction and to help us remember those we've lost so on a personal note Mr lunam thank you you're an inspiration thank you for your leadership this Saturday is going to be a very busy day here in New Milford at 8:00 in the morning is Arbor Day at our
DPW which of course is located behind Kennedy Fields that again is at 8:00 a.m at DPW later at 10:30 there'll be an antique show antique appraisal show at the New Milford Public Fiber that starts
at 10:30 and then later at 11 at the Mc Milford YMCA we'll begin Healthy Kids Day which will run from 11:00 in the morning until 1:00 in the afternoon and then on Sunday morning at 8 for those who are early risers the
elves will be having their pancake breakfast so I encourage as many of you as possible to come attend and help spread awareness that we have all these events it's a good time to be a resident and uh Mr last I want to just echo your sentiment earlier tonight which I
couldn't agree with you more that it feels special to be part of a community and in the Milford family that comes together to not only help residents and families in our own communities and in our town but at least I speak for myself when I
say I'm humbled that our community has become a model for other communities not only around Burbank County but around the state i'm happy that we're all part of setting the bar as high as we as we set it so thank you so much thank you thank you
anyone else from the public okay i see a motion to close to the public nicole second by Tony all in favor opposed okay um any board member requests for additional information i I wanted to
just ask um how you know I mean like I know I touched on this like a few meetings ago but um you know just staying up to date on committee reports i don't know if anybody's had any meetings i just feel like um you know the last one was the athletics and it was shared out but there hasn't really
been any and I just think it's important that whether you're a chair or on it that we're making time to schedule those committee meetings because I have I know there's certain ones that can't share i understand that but we haven't really heard or from any other
okay thank you okay close session it is hereby moved that the board of education adjourn into executive session in accordance with the provisions of section 8 of the open public's meeting act chapter 231PL for the purpose of discussion and consideration of matters pertaining to
the following subject personnel matter the minutes of the executive session will be made available to the public when the need for confidentiality no longer exists i seek a motion to go into close joe seconded by Tony all in favor opposed and we will not be taking action
when we come back so thank you for attending today