Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Mr. Ali here, Mr. Carter here, Miss James here, Miss Keith here, Mr. Lori here, Dr. Patel here, Mr. Singh here, Miss Toe here, and Mr. Wen here. We have a quorum. Thank you. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to
ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the open public meetings law, the public notice of this meeting, which included the time, date, and location,
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Tribune, Starledger, NJ.com, and the clerk of the township of North Brunswick and delivered to the nine duly elected board members. Well, good evening everyone. It's great to see a full house for our rainy June meeting. Um, hope
everyone is doing well and it's always a great evening. we always have a handful of presentations for our June meeting to wrap up um another wonderful school year. So, at this time, I'll turn it over to Superintendent Churroa uh for
one last time to open up our meeting. Thank you and welcome everybody. It's great to see you all here. Uh we will start off with our student recognitions. Um we'd like to invite Mr. Shamarell, our athletic director, uh to come up and start our athletic honors.
[Music] Okay, welcome everybody. Thank you very much. I like to thank the athletes, the families, and also the coaches for tremendous winter, I'm sorry, spring season. All right. Um, this year we have 21 student athletes who are signing to
college. Uh, just to let everybody know. that is the highest number of student athletes. So, we've had great successes every season and spring certainly uh was not short of individual and team success. So, what I'd like to do is start by uh calling up some of the coaches and then they'll present their
athletes. Uh first, I will start off uh coach Biosce for boys volleyball was not uh present tonight, but uh we would like to recognize uh an all-white division honore and Aiden Lucos. I don't know if Aiden is here. Um, Aiden is the all-time kills leader at North Brunswick High
School with over 500. He's the first student athlete to ever accomplish that goal. So, um, congratulations to Aiden. Next up, I would like to recognize a couple of our softball players. Um, Coach Tamana was not able to be with us today, but um, I would like to call up
uh, all white division nominee Gabriella Melendez. She's here. Gabriella, she batted 388 this season is on the way to 100 hits. She's only a sophomore. Jordan Terabokia. Uh Jordan is the school's alltime strikeout leader with
707 strikeouts. That's an incredible number. Congratulations. like to turn it over to our tennis coach, Coach Mark Fitzpatrick. [Music]
We're here to recognize uh one of our players this year who was all new division. Uh he had a 9-2 record in uh for us and had a 10 and2 10-4 record, excuse me, overall. So, we're going to call it Pavon Patel.
Uh, picture on the stage. coach. Coach, evening everybody. Um, yes, uh, white division for golf, highly competitive this year. We either won or lost by a stroke or two. Uh, but guys who made that closer were the two that I'm
mentioning tonight. Out of the 42 players in the white division from Middle Sex County, uh, Kevin Fiz and Rohan Shaw made the top 10. Uh, you never like me to share over over too much information about stats, so I won't, but like I'll say, uh, they came
in top 10. I couldn't be any prouder, and I'm going to miss these guys next year and wish them nothing but the best. All right. Thank you. Next up, Coach Rosenberg for our baseball team. Uh yeah, we had a very nice season this year with the boys. Um with the white
division this year, um we had an honore in the first team all white division. Uh that was Willie Pñena, uh sophomore for us. Uh had a very impressive season. Um was one of the best third baseman in the
county. Um batted 424 and was up there in the lead in home runs, which hit four. uh which was right up there for the most in the county and uh was was excellent for us on defense and offense.
Um he's here tonight um just after playing and representing us in the Garden State All-Star game which is um for some of the best underassman in the entire state. Um Willy's been a great player for us and uh has been very busy
in the summer already uh representing and you know looking to uh add on to his impressive resume. Uh Willie Pñena boys lacrosse coach Jason Andis. All right, so for boys lacrosse, we had three all um first division, white
division uh selections. First was a freshman, Justin Biss. Second was a senior Ryan Martin. Third was a senior Justin Frier Francis. Thank you. I'd like to introduce our girls lacrosse coach Danielle Porzio. And as she's coming up, Dan, uh, this is
coach Porzio's final season. She's been with uh, North Brunswick for how long, coach? 10 years or so? 12. 12 years. Uh listen, I don't know the stats off the top of my head, but I know she has over a hundred plus wins in her career and uh she's going to be sorely missed. Our
program turned around when she came on board 12 years ago. Just go to nj.com, look at our record, and you'll you'll see that every season she's had a winning season, multiple uh semi-finals and GMC's and finals. So, congratulations, coach, and thank you. Thank you. So, I want to turn the
congratulations back to Sean cuz he was actually the GMC athletic director of the year. Um, so if we could just give him a round. Uh, we are lucky enough to have four uh student athletes being recognized tonight. One is Naomi Scipot, our goalie
coming up. She was named to the first team all red division. She has over 500 saves and she is going to be continuing her career at Georgian Court next year. Our next um athlete is Sammy Guadanino.
She is named to the first team all red division and first team all GMC. Um even though she loves lacrosse, she is going to be swimming next year at Marramac. Um, our next senior is Megan Keefe, who
is up here. Uh, she is a two-year captain for us. She's in our midfield and she was the first team all red division and first team all GMC. And um, our last senior is Melanie Contrarus.
Um Melanie um this was her first year uh playing on varsity and she was actually took home a huge award. She was named the GMC um uh defender of the year. So it was a huge honor for her first year. She's going to be wrestling here. You're
not going to She's going to be wrestling um next year at Oklahoma State. So thank you all. Congratulations to all the other athletes tonight. And uh last uh finally we have our track team. I'm going to introduce our head coach. And just to let everybody know,
um, this is the greatest, uh, North Brunswick track team in the history of our school district by far. Uh, coach will tell you the say that their season was the greatest sports season in the history of of our
school district. So, uh, Coach Grimes himself was a two-time division coach of the year this year. He was a two-time county coach of the year and he was also named New Jersey.com state coach of the year. So
track athletes headed to college next year alone for um to continue their education. So coach is going to call up the entire team and then he'll tell you what their accolades are. Yeah. Move quickly, guys. I promise I'll be brief. Um,
Mr. Morel said this was truly the greatest season in track history. Um, I'm going to start with the girls real quick. Um, this year we got back our numbers back up to precoid numbers and it showed last year we only had one girl that was on at all conference. Tonight we have four of them up here. There's a
couple miss. Wait, five. You're all mixed up. Can the girls get together? They're smarter than this. I promise you. So, for the girls, this one here is a freshman. Um, like I said, we came back with our stronger numbers. Our freshman girls won the county title this year on
the strength of this young lady who took three gold medals and uh uh was silver. A silver there. This is Kyra Bashette. Remember her face. She's going to be dominant. This is Aisha. We haven't met her before, but she had her breakthrough this year, so we're going to see her a whole lot more. She's the anchor of our
our school record 4x4 in the lead leg of the 4x1. You're going to see her a lot more. This is Ka. Last weekend, she tied the uh now 10-year-old uh high jump school record, and she's widely considered one of the best returning uh combo uh jumpers. We're looking for her to triple
crown next year. though big things right. So this this is Yachty and the Mirror. It's hard to talk about them separately. They came in together as freshman. They're heading out as seniors together. They have been the backbone of this girls program for four years. When the times relieve, these were the two I
counted on most and this year they both broke through in major ways. Uh Yachti won the uh sectional hurdle title this year. Amir is the strong leg of the 4x1 and the 4x4. and they're both taking their talents to the NCAA. Mayor is going to Ryder and he's going to Felicia.
So, Mr. Morel was talking about the greatest season. Actually, the boys that got a lot of the headlines this year, they won everything except for group four. They won division title, the county title, the state sectional title, and only what's considered the best public school team of all time was the only ones able to beat us at group four
this year, not next year. On the end there, we have Blake. He's a senior. He's uh something special to watch. And you watch him run the 400. It's it's something special to watch. Um very special to watch. He's a school record holder in the 400, heading down
to uh North Carolina to run for Belmont Abbey next year in the NCAA's. [Music] Sorry, quick sidebar. The fastest girl on the team is Lee. So, but you know, Kelly is a transfer here from the other Brunswick. We're not going to mention which one. It's just another Brunswick.
She came to the right Brunswick and her talents were immense. She's phen phenomenal. Still figuring out where she's going to be next year cuz she came to us late, but trust me, we're going to see her on on the big stage in the NCAA next year. Next, we have a nine. He's probably the
the littlest high jumper you'll ever see, but believe it or not, with that stature, he goes 6'8. Um, he being heavily recruited throughout the nation. He's coming back tied for number two in the state. So, big things for him next year. Next, we have Quincy Pearson. He's widely considered one of the two best
triple jumpers in the entire state. Um, he won, Wait, let me make sure I get it right because he'll tell me about it later. He's a GMC champion long jump and triple jump. He's also the sectional champion triple jump and he'll be coming back ranked number two in the entire state. Next is Jaier, another senior. He's a
football guy going to UPEN, but he was the second leg on our 4x1 and valuable. He's battled many, many injuries, but he's been the lynch pin. He's the captain. We call him the captain, and he's performed like such. This fine sophomore right here is Michael Perry. He's one of the best
hurdles in the state. Literally, as a sophomore, he was ranked number three in the state throughout the state out the year, excuse me. And his points are valuable. So, he probably will be the number one hurler all year next year. Is one of the few combo hurdles in the state. Very few people can run all three
hurdle distances. He's one of the guys that does. He's also our bridge leg on our 4x4. So, he's very invaluable and we got him next year. We're looking for big things out of him. Well, I am back as a senior. He was uh he was one of the top triple jumpers, but a back injury sidelined him and really held him
back most of the year. However, he fought like a dog to get back and gave us invaluable points in the championships like a real veteran did. So, we're going to miss him. He's heading off to Ryder for division one success. Tyler's been known for basketball his entire life, but he figured let's let's give track and field a try. And he won
the group four state title in high jump for the first time in school history, also a 68. So, we're looking for amazing things out of him cuz he's only a sophomore. Then there's Kyle. Kyle, we have three pole voters on any given day can win the state title. Kyle's one of them. He won GMC's uh just short of the school record
vote, but we have him for another year. So looking for big things out of him as well. There's a whole bunch others I I won't talk about right now cuz they're not here. But we have one in particular, Jamal. He's actually the school if in school history. He's number two in county history. He's coming back. Who
else? I can't remember. Everybody's coming back, but 85% of this team is coming back. So like I said, this year Towns River North beat us this year won't happen again. You just slide in. Get a picture here. We have to up there down the step.
[Music] Thank you. We like to thank everyone support board of education. Um we thank you. It was only a handful of years ago where our track program did not have a pole vaultting um team. We didn't have pole vault at all. All right. with the
support of the board of education, they said, "Let's go and invest the the time and the money in getting a pole vault." And we've come from never being competitive to winning county championships, sectional championships and a group championship, having three boys who are now a meet of champions for
the uh for pault alone. All right. And also winning the GMC pole vault two years in a row. Boys and girls um have won that. So, thank you again for all the support and we hope to see good things from our Thank you, Coach Mor, athletic director
Morurell. And uh we really appreciate everyone coming out tonight, supporting our sports teams and our our um our athletes. Looking forward to continued great things from them and for those who are moving along. Great things for them when they go pursue their college careers. Uh we will continue our student
recognition tonight with our buddy Ball senior volunteers. Madam President, sure. I'll uh head down with Mr. Wen. Thank you. [Music] Okay. Is this thing on the floor? I don't know if Coach Grimes is still in
the room, but um I'm a little offended because I decided to run track when I was in high school here. And obviously I know now why we were not the best track team at the time. It was definitely because I was on the team. I was known for dance. I said, "Let me give it a
shot." But I'm so glad to hear the team is doing well. Uh so now we'll take a moment and uh recognize our buddy Ball program. Um, always a special night for the board, but also for me to recognize uh, Mr. Wen. Mr. Wen is one of the most
selfless people I know that I've come to know over the last um, you know, 5 years that I've been on the board working with him. Um, he dedicates so much time to this program, so much um, dedication to not only our volunteers, but our
children within the program. So, it's always great to have him here to recognize our volunteers. Um, but especially tonight being a special night with our senior volunteers who are moving on to, you know, college,
different programs, the workforce, and um, you know, we look forward to seeing what they will do in the future. So, I will turn it over to Mr. W to talk a little bit about the program. Thank you. Um it's very strange to talk from here. I'm not used to that dur doing this meeting. Um but yeah, our
buddy program has grown uh tremendously over the past three years. Um we currently we do three seasons a year. Um and we have about you know 100 people or so on the field at any any given week. Um we have about you know 30 or 40
players who have special needs and then we have another you know 40 to volunteers that it's really just amazing exciting time watching all these people are back on the field on the courts having a great time and our program really could not be
successful without the hard work and dedication of our volunteers our student volunteers we have volunteers starting from middle school all the way through high school and for our seniors uh we have 11 that we're honoring tonight um
they have really given you so much. They have dedicated so much time in week out. Um, you know, some some may volunteer for one season, some volunteer. Um, and so this is just a chance for us to thank them. We really appreciate them
for what they have done for our campus. So, I'll call you guys up. Um, or you can if you guys want to just come up and then I'll recognize. All right. So, first I have Hannah El Say come on up. Bag Buddy Ballag.
Yes. All right. Next one is Ara Moanti [Music] Philly. Orange Patel. [Music] Joshua Win.
hopefully not to embarrass him, but Joshua because, you know, obviously he's my son, he uh was forced to to go with me early every every week to set up uh you know, so he really just every Saturday morning, "Hey, Josh, come on. We got to go." And he's like, "Oh, please, Dad.
Let me I really do appreciate um you know, his willingness to to get up and and go with me carrying stuff to the field and and setting up." So, thank you, John. This one is Kan Patel. I love these. My three.
Oh my goodness. I'm terrible. My three bell puddy [Music] go pendia three on rings. [Music] Thank you guys so much for picture. At this time, I'll uh read the proclamation
while we're getting set up here on the stage for you all. This will be in our official board minutes. So, be it resolved by the board of education that the following resolution be approved. Whereas the board of education recognizes the efforts of our
student volunteers in building a better community and a better sense of one's own well-being. And whereas the board of education recognizes that our student volunteers have shown they truly care and share generosity of themselves. And whereas Buddyball is a soccer and
basketball sports program which pairs up players with special needs with volunteers. The volunteers provide the players with the opportunity to learn and play soccer and basketball in a positive and meaningful meaningfully way. And now therefore, be it resolved
by this public acclaim be given to these student volunteers for volunteering in the North Brunswick Township Buddy Ball Program. Be it further resolved that this group of students shall be recognized appropriately that a copy of this resolution be spread in the permanent minutes of this board.
Congratulations. Madam, do you want to stay there and do that next one? Absolutely. Being that this is uh Superintendent Shuroka's last meeting with us, um we just wanted to thank you from from Buddy Ball just for your hard work um in
supporting our program, allowing us to to grow. You're welcome. Thank you so much. And our next honoring will be for our student representatives, Mia Montero and come up Megan Keefe.
[Music] So years ago actually the um when Dr. was was here. We actually added student representatives to our board way before the state required that boards of education have student reps. And we have
this long history of student reps and have had many years of of wonderful student representatives um from our high school. They're members of our student government who come and and they're regularly here for each meeting. um and we get to know them over the year and it's just been a delight to have the two
of you here as our representatives uh for the 24-25 school year and we're excited that um um I say Colleen Megan is moving on to college next year but we'll miss her and Mia I believe you're going to be joining us again next year.
So yes, so um I just wrote something up really quickly. I wanted to we uh we as a board wanted to take a moment to recognize and thank the two of you um Megan and Mia. It's truly been a pleasure to have you both up there um
with us over the past year. So Megan, your thoughtful insights and calm confident voice also adding fun twists as well uh have added so much to our meetings and I mentioned this at senior awards night but it was wonderful to see you and mom
on the deis together uh this year. This is a memory that you both will look back on and share many years to come. So, Kyle, thank you for sharing us with her this year. Um, and we wish you all the best as you head off to Ohio this fall. And Mia, we're thrilled to have you back
next year. As Mrs. Shroa said, um, as SGO president, let's give her a round of applause. Very exciting. Mia, you're also able to share this experience with a family member of yours as her brother was our student rep two years ago, Gerard. Um, so your
leadership and commitment um are already shining through for your volunteerism, your leadership, and we really look forward to continuing working with you on the Deis. So, thank you both so much. Megan receives her plaque at uh senior awards night. So, Mia, this is for you
and we'll see you next year. Thank you girls very much. Yeah, that's good. Thank you. Thank you. Bless you. Mhm. And I believe next on our dance card for this evening um are the retirees of
North Brunswick Township Schools for the 2425 school year. And I am excited to introduce our assistant superintendent, Mrs. Amy Kea, who will walk us through our retirees. It's a great class of retirees.
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here to honor our retirees uh this year. Um one of the first slides that I I like to share just I it really again and it's really just such um a testament to the
service to our community to our school district. even though they can't all be here tonight, the total years of district service from this year's retirees is 460 years and three months. I did calculate um and really just a round of applause for all of our
retirees this year. This is astounding service um to to our district. So, at this time, I would like to call up the administrative staff who are here this evening to help me uh present to
each retiree um their award, their plaque, although they could not be here tonight. Um we would like to recognize um several of our district uh retirees. Our nursing supervisor Marie Ellen Angel, uh one of
our uh longtime maintenance uh people, Dean Perdun, bus aid, Laura Sanders, and Craig Scalar is one of our computer technicians. Of course, we're sorry they couldn't join us tonight. Um but we really are just very happy for them in their retirement and proud of all their
service to our district. We do have two central office uh secretaries who will who are retiring as of August 1st. Um although unfortunately Sandy uh Patterson our secretary for our director of curriculum instruction could not be here this evening and we wish her
well with almost 25 years of service. Also with almost 25 years of service to this district here tonight with us is Deborah Hall best. Deborah has most recently served in our registration office and is uh so helpful with all of our families who come to
register to the district. You will be greatly missed, Deborah. Congratulations and much uh success and luck in your retirement. Enjoy every bit of it. And we're going to have retirees at the end line up here. So, um
and we will segue to the high school. We have both of our high school retirees here tonight. uh Barbara Shine, one of our teachers of students with disabilities, retiring after almost 27 years of service, as well as our longtime school nurse, Anna Tupe, uh
with almost 20 years of service. Sorry. [Music] from our middle school. We do have several uh retirees I do know with us tonight is uh Linda Noff, longtime House Center secretary with almost 36 years of
service to this district. Um also Nancy Yao, a social studies teacher uh with almost 28 years of service. uh if they could come up here. And we would like to recognize Ed Fernandez, a social worker that was with us for 20 years, and Hinda Weinberger, a longtime math teacher with
us. [Music] Yeah. From Lynwood. We have four retirees this evening. three of which are here with us tonight. But we would like to recognize Miss Lauren Shepard who's a longtime teacher at JUD and more recently when we did the conversion, the split into the
Lynwood 56 school uh was a social studies teacher with us uh for 21 years. Uh we have Kathy Daly here tonight. She's here. Come on up Kathy. Uh teacher student with disabilities for almost 26 years.
Is Don Donna Martin. I know she's here. longtime instructional aid with the district for over 25 years. And also Ramona Talbert who started at Parson's um and became a came over in the split as a social studies teacher
for us at Lynwood with over 26 years of service. This I would like to just give a little special shout out to Ramona Talbert. She was the first teacher here that I substituted for um
way way long ago. Um and honestly like I I kept subbing for her and I really was just impressed with her classroom and inspired be teacher and I stayed. But I just thought that was so nice to see you here. I'm so glad you came back for this tonight. Thank you from Parsons. We have three retirees
this evening. I believe Marilyn is here. There she is. Come on up, Marilyn. School teachers, but we also would like to recognize um Ann Quinn, elementary teacher at Parsons for 26 years and Anna Paring for almost 19 years.
from Livingston Park. We have Dorene Campbell. Uh, one from Livingston Park. Dorina has been an as an academic support teacher for us and has been with us for over 24 years. Uh, congrat Good.
[Music] Although he could not be here this evening, we do have a retiree from Jud, a long-standing custodian for over 12 years, uh, Richard Sataro. So, we congratulate him as well. At this time, I would like to call up
our lone principal retiring this year, Mrs. Anne Kingsley from John Adams. I'd like to invite Superintendent Sheroka up here to say a few words for our principal retiring this year. Mrs. Kings late.
I will keep it very simple, but it's going to be hard to see you go. I know your staff will be truly heartbroken that you were leaving, but you have left a legacy at John Adams. You were also here at Lynwood for several years during co and um your
quiet strength and love of children just really shines in everything that you do and you really truly left a great legacy at John Adams. Of [Music] course a little bit
here being We do have one last retiree. At this time, I would like to call up our Madame President, Miss Toth. Uh our superintendent, uh Janet Churoko will be retiring uh this month after uh
over 11 years of service, over 30 years in education. Um, and I know that President Toth would like to say a few words. Victoria here. Okay. So, on behalf of the entire board, I wanted to uh acknowledge Mrs. Chroa.
So, tonight we recognize and extend our heartfelt gratitude to Janet, who is retiring after nearly 12 years of dedicated service to the North Brunswick Township School community. the last four of which she served as our superintendent of schools. Janet has led
with determination, compassion, and an unwavering commitment to students, staff, and the broader school community. Her leadership has guided us through both triumphs and challenges. Triumphs, might I add, getting us the referendum passed before
of many um needed projects um and challenges. always a clear focus on academic an excellence and the well-being of every child. For those of you who don't know, Janet served as Livingston Park Elementary School's principal for four years and the
district's director of curriculum instruction and technology also for four years. She has dedicated her professional and her personal life to public education for over 30 years, and we're lucky to have had her for the last 12 of them. as she embarks on this well-deserved next chapter, we thank
Janet for her extraordinary contributions and lasting impact. So, on behalf of the entire board um of of the and the district, uh Janet, we wish you nothing but happiness, health, great memories to be made with her husband Mark, her son Robbie, and new
daughter-in-law Colby, Jack, her younger son, and her fur babies Biscuit and Leah. relaxing yet challenging yoga sessions and sunny summers and many uh continued successes in her retirement. So, congratulations. Can we have the entire board come down
for a picture with Janet, please? And too, please. We have the girls here. the rest of us. Good. Come on, please. Now, our retirees, come on over.
retirees. And for our retirees who are here this evening, it seriously has been such a pleasure. We know some of you um retired midyear. So, thank you so much for coming back and those of you retiring in a few days. Uh congratulations. I wish
you all the best of luck. It's been such a pleasure uh working with you and having you serve here in our district. We'll have the administrator. Everybody show your awards to us. There we go. Everybody up here on three. One, two,
three. There you go. We need a copy of that. Everybody for these guys now on three. one. Thank you again everyone. Congratulations I don't know. I think I'm most excited about this doll swag.
my neighbor. Thank you so much and my former student. Congratulations. I don't want to stop the party. You want to go out home? Yeah. I was saying
like All right. Um, we're going to continue our meeting in just a moment. We have a couple of business matters to get to before we wrap up for the evening. Okay.
So, at this at this time, we will jump um to item number six on our agenda. It's a public I'm just going to give everyone another minute. I don't want to do all that.
All right. So, at this time, we will jump to item six. We will have a public hearing on policy and regulation 2361, acceptable use of computer network/computer and resources. Um, at this time, if
anyone from the general public would like to speak on that specifically, uh, we ask at this time that you, uh, come up to the podium, just state your name, and you'll be given 3 minutes. All right, seeing none, can I have a
motion to close this public hearing? Second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? This session is closed. Thank you. Uh, Miss Keef, would you please take item eight, our meeting minutes? Yes, Madam President. I would like to make a
motion to approve the following board minutes. Conference meeting public conference public meeting May 7th, 2025. Regular public meeting May 28th, 2025. And executive meeting May 28th, 2025. Second. All in favor? Is anyone opposed? And all
the meetings are uh accepted. Thank you. Do we have any communications? We do not. All right, we will jump over to your administrative reporting menu. Well, good evening again to all of our families, guests, and viewers here tonight. As we wrap up the 2425 school
year, I would like to thank the North Brunswick students, staff, parents, and community for all of their support of our schools. The support of our boards of education, administration, and staff for improving student achievement has been clear since I began here in North
Brunswick School years ago. I am very pleased to now to announce that we are truly starting to see the fruits of our concerted systematically planned efforts come to fruition. This includes a multi-year roll out of the MTSS or multi-tiered systems of support program
throughout the district. A strong focus on school culture and social emotional learning. A focus on building walkthroughs to support instruction. A focus on improving attendance. and a focus on planning a roll out of new reading and math programs in next year's
budget. This past Monday, Dr. Johnson, our director of curriculum and instruction, and I met with staff from our county superintendent's office to review our district improvement plan in the area of instruction and program that came out of our CUAC review. And I have
very positive news. This is truly breaking news. Uh to share that preliminary indicators show that we should be assigned a score of 80% or greater in the area of instruction and program in CUSAC making us 100 a fully highly qualified district in all four
areas following the review of our data. A former formal letter should soon follow from the NJDOE. So, I wanted to share that news with all of you here as I begin to retire and just really proud um of all the work that we've done.
So, tomorrow and Friday are both early closing days for our students and Friday is the last day of the 2425 school year. Graduation is at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 23rd at the Jersey Mike's Arena. And I would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire
community. sorry for allowing me the honor to serve as a superintendent these past four years. We have worked collaboratively to move the district forward and I look forward to watching the continued progress over the
next few years. That is all for my administrative report. I held it together till the very end. Thank you, Superintendent Shuroka. We'll move to our student reports. Oh, now it's time.
I just want to say thank you to Mrs. Shuroka for this year. We truly had a great time and it was just great to be on the board with you and I'm sure me is pretty sad not to be here with you next year. Um, and then to start off our report, at the last SGO meeting of the year, SGO
presented Raiders home plate with a check for a whopping $5,000 from our fundraising efforts this year. So, this is going straight to students in our school, which made it a lot easier to fund raise for. And also, thank you, Miss Tro. As Megan said, I fully grate. Um, then I will be talking
about the senior events. So on May 30th, we held our senior prom at the Hilton in East Brunswick. It was a great time and over 400 kids attended the event. There was really good food, good DJ and it was just a lot of fun. And then on June 11th, we had our last senior event of the year before graduation and it was a
barbecue or cookout with over 200 kids. There was um Chartwell's food. There was a bunch of chips and there was ice cream truck that you actually got to walk into and like there was um like it was like a whole Sunday bar. Like it wasn't like a Mr. Softy type of ice cream. Like it was a whole Sunday bar. you got to pick your top and never seen before, but I loved
it. I'm not going to lie. Um, and it was just a lot of fun to see everybody come together at the very end of the year. That's all. Excellent. We'll have to tap on Miss Wright and Miss Panera. Where was our invite to the
uh the ice cream truck? Very good, girls. Thank you so much. Thanks for everything this year. We'll move to our committee reports. We'll start with business operations. How about Mr. Carter? Thank you, Madam President. Uh the business operations committee met on
Wednesday, June 11th. On the agenda this evening, you will find the following items. Uh related to 2024 25 finance items 3H related to the purchase of yonder pouches. Roof repairs at MBTMS in finance section 3K. Work on the walk-in
freezer at MBTHs in finance section 3J. Uh replacement of a sewer line at Parsons in finance section 3L. Um related to 202526. Uh, an item to authorize the interim superintendent and our business administrator to make necessary
transfers to pay outstanding bills in finance section 3A. Appointment of professional services vendors in finance section 4V. Year-end motions to transfer reserves in finance sections 3B, C, and D, and painting of the ceiling in the
gym at MBTHs in finance sections 40. Uh, we also received status updates on projects ending at the end of June, which were previously approved, including renovations to the bathrooms in the commons at MBTHs, MRC cubicle installations, and main and auxiliary
gym floor repairs. Uh, additionally, paving projects at Livingston Park, Parson's courtyard and concrete repairs, and districtwide HVAC control upgrades are also ongoing. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. Human resources, Dr. Patel.
Uh, thank you, Madame President. The Human Resources Committee Relations Committee met on Wednesday, June 11th to discuss various personnel topics. For those on tonight's agenda who are either retiring or resigning, the board thanks them for their service and wishes them well. We also are excited to have been
able to recognize our retirees at tonight's meeting. There are several new staff hires for the 2025 2026 school year on tonight's agenda. We welcome all those new members to our district and we look forward to having you work with us here in North Brunswick. We also discussed several reassignments which are also on tonight's agenda and we are
looking forward to our staff taking on these new roles. We're especially looking forward to having Livingston Parks director of elementary instruction, Miss Lauren Finnegan take on the role of acting principal of John Adams. As our as of our committee meeting, any remaining vacancies for the
2025 2026 school year continue to be in the interview stages and will be posted until they're filled. All of our current openings will can be found on our district website, social media pages, and posted in each of our buildings. For any teaching positions, alternate route, and traditional route candidates are
both encouraged to apply. The committee reviewed annual motions such as the 2025 2026 school year, coaches for the high school and middle school, annual appointments of district and school staff specialists and liaison, as well as updated annual district rates for substitute staff for the new school
year. Lastly, we discuss an updated description for the district's employee support services coordinator position. And that concludes our report. Thank you. Congratulations and thanks for being here. Would you like to come up to the podium?
Just want to take a moment to thank the board and uh Mrs. Ter, Mrs. Dr. back there for this opportunity. Um, it's an honor to become the acting principal of John Adams Elementary
School. Um, as many of you know, I was uh a teacher uh to begin with at Parson's Elementary School. Um, I began my administrative career uh as an instructional dean at Jud and for the last seven years I've been working as a
director um at Livingston Park. I worked really hard to build relationships there with my students and the staff um and families. It's been an amazing experience uh for which I'm truly grateful. Um in fact, it's been really
hard to um I'm sure Miss Teroka is feeling very similar and um Cample back there as well. Um to say goodbye in such a way. In fact, um, in speaking with the staff there, a staff person just said,
um, a really nice quote from Winnie the Pooh. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. I think that might sum up a lot of feelings, uh, that we're having here, but it is a great honor to be moving over to John Adams. Um, as you know, I
am a graduate of North Brunswick, as many of us are here. Um, but I'm not sure that you know I'm also a graduate of uh of Northwick and John Adams Elementary. So, it is amazing to be going back into
that school. I have a class of 87. Um, it was amazing to uh meet with Ann who is an amazing and a lovely and gracious person to be turning over the key to me and um walking through those hallways. It's amazing to find my
kindergarten classroom and classroom. So, I'm just really looking forward to again building new relationships and getting to know the staff and the students and the families um and working there as well. So, just thank you all. Thank you.
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] Great. Well, we're very lucky to have you there. Thank you. At this time, we will finish up with our last committee report, Mr. Ali, for education. Thank you, Madam President. So, the education
committee met on Wednesday, June 11th at 6 PM. So in areas of assessments and grants, we are hiring a new individual to fill the title 4 fitness and wellness coordinator position. And through our focus grant, we will be implementing the science of reading and jersey tier
system of support uh within our K to3 students. And we'll also be providing some professional development to use some of these funds for that and to help offset some of our cost for universal screener. We'll be modifying a few grants to help offset the cost of some
of our software license and professional develop membership fees. We are bringing in a program um a social motive learning program called empower you to our middle school students and that's provided through free of charge from Rucker UBHC which is university behavior healthcare.
It's a program to provide personal growth and so social development to the middle school students. And some good news, we have a total of 86 students whose portfolio appeals um which is alternate graduation route were approved and we're in the process of you know
getting one more. So in total we should have 87 fingers crossed. In the area curriculum and technology we have finished our New Jersey um QAC review as M Miss uh Sarroa talked about earlier. So that's that's good. It um we're out
of that. And for our geometry and construction, which is our program in the high school, you know, you think about like a little bit of mix of wood shop and and math and science or STEM. And you know, they have been able to build three different sheds, which we're going to be using to help store some of
our lettering equipment. So, that's really great. One playhouse or a doorhouse, which was sold to a lucky staff member. And one of our larger sheds will remain in the work area for storage of the equipment, so it's not, you know, doesn't look funky out there. Um, district staff have also been
meeting to plan um to address various academic challenges in ELA and math for students. So, we hope that this helps the transition through at the grade level and students are ready with to get met where they're at and vice versa. Um, parents of K to4 students should have
received their student summer reading list and activities. If you haven't checked your email, it's also on the website, but you should be in your parents square. Additionally, we will be transitioning to bilingual instruction for our fourth graders at Parsons for this upcoming 2526 school year. Alerted
the parents has also been out. And lastly, uh our district hosted a week full of June TV events to educate students and staff about the holiday and to commemorate American Second Independence Day. Just a little tidbit, um Junth or Freedom Day is the oldest
commemoration of the ending of Chhatel slavery in the United States. So on June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Grander arrived in Galveston, Texas with news that the war has ended and all the slaves were free. And our we have a club, the Black Culture Alliance. They're having a a
block party at Babature Park um Friday, June 20th between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. And in the area of pupil and personnel services, we have roughly 400 students for extended school year services, which are special education and related
services for students with a disability in grades preK up to 21 year old. Um we passed our New Jersey Department of Health annual immization review, which is amazing. and we have completed our comprehensive nur nurses service plan for the 2425 school year detailing great
work that our nurses have done over the past year. You know, that's just talking about how many students they've seen, how many cases, etc. Additionally, we we know that there's been, you know, some talks about music teacher changes at Lynwood and Jud. However, there has no
been no final decision. So, nothing's happening with that. So, just stay on the outlook. Stay on the look. And there's coming up, you know, August 7th, um, that's a Thursday. That's going to be our summer academy and summer institute showcase. So check that out to
see what's going on. And lastly, we will be moving forward with yonder pouches as Mr. Shoker mentioned earlier. You know, we've been investing in saving. So that's going to be a full roll out at the high school for 25 26 school year. So that's going to be great. We hope to see a lot of improvements within
academics. And um that's all for the education committee report. Thank you. At this time, uh Mr. Lori is our liaison for the township council as well as New Jersey School Boards and Middle Sex County School Boards. So I'll turn to him for an update. Thank you, Madam President. Just one quick update in both
areas. For New Jersey School Boards Association, their annual workshop is being held uh in October, October 20th to 23rd. Uh we've booked rooms and thank goodness we have because they're selling out at a rapid rate for this early in the season. And just from the mayor and council, uh I just wanted to give a
shout out to North Brunswick's newest councilman, Al Rich. Al is a member of our staff at the high school. Uh he was appointed to a uh a term and he won his primary and now he will be running in the general election to fill the rest of the term from his predecessor. So
congrats to Al. Thank you, Mr. Lori. Uh, Miss Keef, do we have any updates on negotiations for the summer? None at this time, Madam President. Thank you. All right. Uh, Mr. Carter, would you please take item 11 on our agenda? Uh, yes, Madam President. Uh, I'd like to make a motion to approve
the administrative, student, and committee reports. Second. Second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? All the reports are accepted. Thank you. At this time, we will review our lengthy agenda. Uh luckily the board has like I have
mentioned at the beginning of the meeting received the agenda prior to this evening's meeting. Any changes um are listed in bold as we have have the chance to review the agenda um a couple of days in advance. So we'll start with
page five and six. Pages seven and eight. Page nine. Page 10 and 11. 12 and 13. Pages 14 and 15. 16 and 17.
18 and 19. Pages 20 and 21, 22 and 23, 24 and 25, 26, 27. pages 28 and 29, 30 and 31. Pages 32 and 33,
34 and 35, 36 and 37. pages 38 and 39, 41, 42 and 43 and pages 44, 45
and wrapping up on page 46. six. So, at this time, we will have a public session on agenda items only. If anyone from the public would like to address the board and speak to any of the agenda items, this is now the time. We ask that you just state your name and you'll be
given three minutes. Seeing none, can I please have a motion to close the public portion of the meeting? So moved. Second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? This session is closed. Thank you. Mr. Wen, would you please take item 15?
I'm trying to find Sorry. Like to make a motion to approve the following consent agenda items. Personnel one and two, curriculum one and two, miscellaneous, finance items 1 through 4, and transportation.
Second. I'm sorry. Second, Miss James. Thank you. I didn't even hear you. All right, roll call here. Mr. Ali, yes. Mr. Carter, yes. Miss James, yes. Miss Keith, yes. Mr. Lori, yes. Dr. Patel, yes. Mr. Singh, yes.
Miss To, yes. And Mr. Wen, yes. All the resolutions and motions are approved and accepted. Thank you. All right. At this time, we will flip to the last page of our agenda, page 46, item 16. At this time, we'll have a
public session on any matter. If anyone from the public would like to address the board on any matter, we ask that you come up to the podium. Just state your name and you'll be given three minutes. Hi, good evening everybody. Um, my name is Beth Pasner. I'm the president of the North Brunswick Township Education
Association. Um, I'm happy to say that we have reached um, another June meeting and the end of our school year. Um, and what a school year it has been. Um it really is hard to believe that we started August um at at Impass and were able to successfully settle our contract
uh just before the year um started um and we were able to you know avoid disruption to to the district and so I commend us all for that. Um together we also were able to pass a muchneeded referendum and we look forward to the upcoming repairs and the improvements to
our buildings. Um, as always, we also had just a great school year educating our students, helping them learn, helping them grow. I do want to congratulate all of our retirees tonight. Uh, they've had a long and successful career, touching the lives of countless North Brunswick students. Retirement is a huge milestone. I hope
it brings them all the peace, adventure, and rest that they deserve. Of course, I would be remiss if I did not speak um about one retiree in particular, Mrs. Janet Shuroka, superintendent of schools. I've had the pleasure of working closely with Janet for the past four years and you know while the
relationship between the superintendent and the union president can be adversarable at times um our relationship has always contained a mutual respect for each other and the roles that we hold. Uh we maintained open communication and dialogue throughout your entire four years as
superintendent and I thank you for that. Um, it is also, you know, no secret that the majority of our staff are are women. And I think it's very important for our staff to see a strong and confident woman at the at the helm of leading our district. And uh, being in a a woman in leadership position myself, I understand
the higher level of scrutiny that's held over us. And I I do commend you for the hard work, dedication to the district, and I truly wish you the best in your retirement. Um, for everyone else, um, I I wish our 12-month staff a peaceful work environment. Um, I uh wish our ESY
and summer institute staff a rewarding summer classes. To everybody, I wish a wonderful summer and uh take care. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? All right, seeing none, can I please have a motion to close the public
portion of the meeting? Second. All in favor? I is anyone opposed? This session is closed. Thank you. And at this time we will uh adjourn our meeting. So could we please have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second.
All in favor? I. Is anyone opposed? We are ajourned. Thank you. Of course. Thank you.