hereby call to order. This meeting is called in conformance with the open public meetings act with adequate notice provided as follows. Notice sent to the Burlington County Times and the Times of Trenton on February 19th, 2026. Notice filed with
the township clerk clerks of Chesterfield, Mansfield, North Hover, and Springfield townships on February 19th, 2026. Notice of annual meetings advertised in the Burlington County Times and Times of Trenton on January 9th, 2026. Notice published on Northern
Burlington County Regional School District website legal notices page on February 19th, 2026. We complete a roll call. Mr. Figs, >> present. >> Mr. Armente, >> present. >> Mr. Mrs. Apple. Mrs. Bond >> present.
>> Mr. Bucks, >> present. >> Mr. Narwood, >> here. Mrs. Janice >> present. >> Mr. Zimmer >> here. >> Mr. Zuzio >> present. >> Master S sergeant Marches. >> We'll now stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of
silence. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationisible with liberty and all. should have done that.
>> Has any board of education member received schoolboard related emails and/or correspondences that have not yet been shared with the superintendent? All right. Uh Dr. Zuckermanman, if you'd like to give your superintendent report, please. >> Absolutely. Thank you so much. Um great
to see everybody. I first wanted to start off on February 24th. Uh we received a broadcast from New Jersey Department of Education um that included an updated uh an updated budget timeline from the state. The governor's budget address has been
changed from February 24th to March 10th. That is when the governor provides us with the uh anticipated state aid and obviously the additional information that regarding the state budget. Northern Burlington budget due is due to
the county office has been changed from March 19th to March 27th. I suggest that we hold a special board meeting on Monday, March 23rd to hold a p the public budget hearing instead of what was previously suggested to the board of
March 18th. This will allow us to meet with the building's grounds and finance committee on March 17th, which will be a virtual meeting, and then share the budget information with a full board on either that Thursday or the Friday, March 19th or 20th. Um, prior to March 20 prior to the March 23rd special
meeting because we'll be holding the regular meeting this evening, it is expected that the only thing on that agenda will be the preliminary preliminary budget. The school closure of on February 24th was our third closure for inclement
weather. This would cause us to reopen school on April 10th, which is the last Friday of spring break. This has been advertised as the makeup day for the third closure due to inclement weather. For approximately 8 to 10 years, we have not needed to make up this many days.
When I was thinking about the logistics of opening school for one day after being off for a week, it is expected I expect that we will have a a low attendance from our from our students. When we return from from that inclement weather from the school closure on
February 24th, 23rd and 24th, a number of staff members asked if we can open school on Good Friday, which is the April 3rd, instead of April 10th. When reflecting on this request, I felt that we would have a much greater attendance for one additional day that week instead
of having the students and the staff come back for an isolated Friday at the end of the break. I conducted a survey of the staff and asked if they would prefer to make up the the school closure day on April 3rd or April 10th. This was done to make sure that we would have
enough school to open should we should the decision be to change from what was previously advertised. 8 over 85% of the staff suggested that we that we open school on April 3rd instead of the 10th. The staff has expressed that they would prefer to work
on the 3rd because it is one more day to finish the week instead of having off on April 3rd and then having to return for one day on April 10th for that one Friday. I believe the students and the families would have similar feelings about making up the day. It is my recommendation that the February 24th
school closure be made up on April 3rd instead of what was previously advertised April 10th. The April 3rd would be an early dismissal day. The calendar attached to the agenda reflects this recommendation. Should the board support the recommendation, we would work to communicate the changes to the
students, the staff, and the families following this evening's board meeting. Following my report, I anticipate obviously a conversation or or questions about that. I just have a few more things that I just wanted to share. On this evening's agenda, you will also
see an updated attendance regulation for the students. The proposed changes to the attendance pol regulations were discussed during the February 9th curriculum committee meeting and the February 23rd policy committee meeting. During these meetings, we shared the data that indicates the challenges that
have that arise when allowing doctor's notes to count as excused absences. It is my recommendation that starting in September of 2026, we move to align our approved absences with what is listed in the state statute. Students would be
given up to 18 absences before they they would potentially lose credit for the year. If there are if there are extenduating circumstances, the attendance review committee in the appropriate building would meet to review and discuss the circumstances for each situation. They would review the
documentation and determine if additional accommodations should be made due to the individual circumstances. Students who exceed the number of absences and do not receive approval from the attendance review committee could be allowed to attend a credit recovery session which would be held on
a Saturday. The attendance review committee would determine who is and who is not eligible to attend the credit recovery classes. This information will be conveyed to families after following the second reading of the proposed policy that is on this evening's agenda.
Just a few more promise. Several weeks ago, I put Northern Burlington on the list of districts who would be interested in hosting the commissioner of education. Last week, I was informed that on Friday, March 13th, this Friday, that the new New Jersey Commissioner of Education, Dr. Lily Lax,
will be coming to our district. Although the purpose of of her visit will be to to view the gifted and talented program because it is gifted and talented month, we will also be showing her around the school so she can get an understanding of what makes this a such a great district. If any board members are
interested in attending, please let me know. Her visit is currently scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. this Friday. On February 25th, we held our first meeting of the Northern Burlington 2030 committee. 16 people participated in this committee and was comprised of
students, teachers, administrators, parents, and community members. During the meeting, we reviewed the information that was gathered through the thought exchange in developing our strategic plan and the committee began discussing the areas of focus that would be addressed in the instructional and in
the softskills goal. In the future meetings, the committee will continue to finalize these recommendations of the areas of focus and begin working on the proposed language for the goals. Once they are finished, the administration will develop the plan of action on how we're going to achieve those goals and we will obviously share it with the with
the board. Our next meeting is scheduled on March 18th. Lastly, um last month the board recognized the governor educator governor's educators of the year for the middle school and high school. The middle school honores uh Mr. Robert Goldstein and Mrs. Megan Brennan could
not attend last month and were scheduled to be here this evening, but unfortunately they both had extenduating circumstances that prevented them from being here. We're certainly very thankful for everything they do for for the middle school and for our students and also for the district. Now that concludes my reports. Are there
any questions? >> I have question on two two pieces. So the first is the attendance policy aligning it to the state standards. That means >> sick days with notes would no longer be excused. >> That is correct. We have, as we shared
with the committee, we shared the the the data of the number of excused absences and unexcused absences. If if a student misses 18 days, they're missing approximately 100 days of uh I'm sorry, 100 hours of instruction. And our goal is to obviously have the students here.
If there are ex when I say extenduating circumstances, if there is a um and god forbid that this happens to anybody like hospitalization or something that's obviously prevents them from physically being here, then that's where the attendance review committee can can stand can step in.
>> But if I but so so if my kid is sick, you would want them we would like we're saying it's not going to be excused. Yeah, correct. Stay home, but your your absence won't beused. And that's where we're >> I know and that's the state statute, but we've differed. >> We we have differed from the state
statute. So, we're looking to align to that. So, a student could be deemed chronically absent from the state even though they they have if they they have 18 absences that are excused from Northern with doctor's notes, they could still be deemed
chronically absent by the state. And that's where the the inconsistencies arise. >> Okay. I I just for me I I I wouldn't want to penalize kids. I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want kids to come in sick because of the fear of unexcused
absences or that they may lose credit or something. That's where >> for me I think it's okay that we differ from the state because I can't imagine >> me I I just I can't imagine after everything we've been through the last five years ago that now we're telling kids
>> so we currently have parents we I'm making a general statement. I'm I'm going to make a hypothetical statement um that we may have some families that decide to send their children to school. They go right to the nurs's office. They get picked up and then those students
are are deemed as an excused absence even though they're not here. And that currently happens today. >> So, >> and and that is not the right thing to do. If somebody is sick, they should stay home. But if we have we have students have have 18 days over the course of the year. We have some
students that have over 30 days with excused absences. We have some students that have many more than that. We have some students that have 15 days unexcused, 15 days excused. >> Um, I'd like to clarify because I know one of my main concerns was if my child
gets an unexcused absence, will they get a zero that day for their work? But Dr. Zuckerman did explain to me in the the committee where we were discussing this that that's not the case. that even though it's unexcused that the student would be able to make up all their work
without penalty. >> Absolutely. And any student who is out they have the number of days that they that they are absent to be able to make up that work and that's deemed uh excused or unexcused. >> So then what's the repercussion
ultimately of exceeding 18 days? Does that put the student at risk of being held back? >> Right now, if they're out greater than 18 days, they could lose credit. And then it's listed in in our policy now that they that they would lose credit
after 18 absences. It is the amount of time that they're that they're out. It is the confusion of we have inconsistencies from some families that may have healthcare, some families that may not. So we have some students that may be able to get doctor's notes, some some families that may not, some
families that may be able to get their children to doctors, so then they would be excused and some some that are not. So we also are providing some inconsistencies within our within within our own community, which which is is concerning as well. It it's also worth noting that there are
some students that get 50, 60, 70 excused absences, right? Just getting doctor's notes. They have friends, families, they have dentists an hour and a half away and they go once a week to get, you know, to be absent for the whole day. So, it's not it's it's
abused. Like I said, you know, 18 days, yes, that's 100 hours. Well, you people will miss 17 days unexcused and then miss 60 excused. They're missing, you know, 500 hours of school by by abusing the excused system. >> Understood. Understood. I'm just trying
to understand what's the what's the risk to the student once they exceed 18 days. What what then happens, right? Is it they're referred to this committee and the committee makes an assessment and maybe they have to come in on the weekend to make up work like what what
happens here? What's the risk? >> So, could happen a couple different ways. One, let's say that that if the it goes to the attendance review committee and they deem that the child really did have a medical emergency and and so on. So then maybe those maybe there there's
could be grace that is provided to that to that that student for obviously not just being having the flu but I mean like a a more severe obviously situation. Um there if there was other students that maybe did not get granted that that exemption from the attendance
review committee then they may have to go to credit recovery to be able to make up make up that work make up that that time and so on and then to hopefully be a deterrent because as Mr. Fig said some things that we shared with the committee is that there are and and I don't want
to get into it here just obviously but we know that there are fabrications to to the to the notes that are that are provided um and it it's not the intent of the reason. So it's people getting around that and so by aligning with the state that our our goal is and our our
emphasis is to get students to attend school and to to be here. We have some students, many students who may go to a a doctor's appointment in the morning and just stay out for the whole day and then if they're here for the four hours, then their day counts. So again, our goal is to be able to have the students
attend school. >> And we ultimately have I'm assuming there's a a QAC impact as well if our average daily drops below a particular level. For the past two years, we have had action plans for chronic absenteeism and this is obviously another strategy
to to work towards that and obviously improving that. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I I have a couple questions. So, um I was curious about the review committee. Who do you envision will um comprise that committee?
>> Subject to change. Okay. I mean from from what I'm saying right now obviously one of the the the principal or or an administrator from the building um I would say the guidance counselor probably child study team may maybe the nurse I mean like kind of like and obviously some teachers it it's going to
be a committee that has a a wide variety of backgrounds that obviously can can work with the the situ various situations. >> Okay. And then uh shifting gears back to the the calendar change. >> Yeah. I'm just I have some um reservations um you know coming from
Chesterfield where this past fall we heard residents uh inquire about school closure day for Dewali and I just want to be mindful of how we go about this process as a full board. Um I think it's great that you pulled the teachers. Um I
really would like to see you know some feedback from the community. Um and I I want to know how April 3rd is going to be handled if students and families have religious obligations those days. And then also um you know if they have any
travel plans that they've already made because of that or will those be excused? >> So the religious absolutely because it is deemed a religious holiday and that is even in accordance not only with our current policy but also the state that is deemed in an excused absence. Um, as
far as travel plans, unfortunately, that is not excused. But if a student is out, they would absolutely be able to make up that work. >> Okay. Yeah, that was my second question. So, and for me, I think if I I don't know how we can penalize people that that did
the right thing. So, if I'm going on vacation and I plan to go back on Thursday because I knew that could be an option, like I might have to come, we might have a snow day and I planned around that. I don't know why we would now change the calendar and penalize it.
I don't know. I don't know. For me, I I I'm not sure that I'm lying to to changing the calendar at this point because we're now penalizing people that even and even teachers and and students that may have done the right thing and plan their days accordingly. And now we're saying no, let's open the third
and not the 10th. So like unless you're unless you're giving them all the excuse on that Friday, then for me it's it doesn't make sense to to change the calendar at this point. >> So I just wanted to jump back to the uh
excused absence uh committee whatever would meet and make the determination. I would imagine it would change based on whatever the student is right because of the guidance counselors and different teachers and whatnot. So the composition of that, whoever makes that decision might change.
>> Yes, we would obviously want some consistency there just because it's obviously important for for consistency in making decisions such as that. But we could certainly pull in in in quote unquote experts or or specialists depending on the situation as well.
And I think just as um one last input there to the committee, I'd like to see whatever that committee however gets formed and whatever the the guidance is for it that and I've said this before that there's a performance consideration in that committee. You know, if you have
a student that is gone or is out um for whatever reason, but their student's performance is excellent like I I think that should factor in as well. So, thank you. All right. Are there any other uh questions or comments on the
superintendent report? All right. Uh Mrs. Williams, at this time, if you could give your BA's report. >> Sure. Good evening, everyone. Just a brief summary of um some of the activity on the agenda today. Um there is a um
requesting approval for wireless access point upgrades. Um item 707 um this project, excuse me, sorry, is eligible for 50% e- rate funding. Um there is an item for school bus lease. As you know, um the district finances
new buses through leases. Um US Bank Corp won that lease at 4.33% which is a little less than we anticipated. Um, we have been talking about the fuel storage tank replacement and so um, we have an approval request on the board agenda to
replace the fuel storage tank. Um, Mansville Township in partnership with Mansville Township. They're going to pay um, 30% of the remaining costs um, after we apply the SDA grant that we received. Um, there are a shared service agreement
for Springfield Township. They've asked to be have access to our fuel depot on an emergency basis. Um lastly, there um is also a memo um in my board report about board docs, which is the software we use to manage the
agenda for the board meetings. Um we are going to start a migration to a new system. Um we'll start in April and have training in May and June and we should be on the new system for our first board meeting in August. Additionally, in my board report, I
shared that um there has been changes to the way uh public entities are required to advertise um legal notices. So, you'll see on our website now there is a um link to legal notices. Um we are advertising twice a month to inform the
public that legal notices will be found on our website and there there will be a link to the state's website where all legal notices will be maintained. Um there's an agenda item on this meeting to approve the change in that process.
Um winter storm Hernando is what the storm that we've just had is called. Um it was historic storm and so this um emergency management services collecting data where we can possibly recoup some of the costs that we had um related to clean up for the snow. um our staff, the
facilities manager and payroll and facilities um director's assistant um put together that application to submit those costs. And just a reminder, financial disclosure forms are out and if you have already submitted, thank you. Um those
are due soon. And lastly, New Jersey School Boards Association is hosting its virtual conference on May 8th and if anyone has interested in interest in attending, let me know and I can register for that. Thank you. All right. Does anyone have any comments
or questions regarding the business administrator's report? >> Just a quick question on that um on the notice the notice update. Are we still sending notices to the local municipalities, local clerks? >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Um item 2.03 is consent
agenda item for the approval of the HIP reports. Item 2.04 4 is consent agenda item for the approval of the superintendence reports. Um at this time we will do uh some committee reports. Um Mrs. Janice, if you'd like to give the curriculum
committee report. >> Absolutely. Thank you. And I want to apologize in advance because this is a lengthy one and I know we're our audience here wants to get to honoring the students and we would like that too. So I'm going to try to do it as fast as
I can. So the curriculum committee met February 9th at 6:15. In attendance was myself, Mr. Zuzio, Mr. Figs, and Mr. Armente. Um administrators Dr. Zuckerman, Dr. Stella, Miss Williams,
Dr. McCain, and uh Dr. uh Karns. Uh the middle school program of studies for the 26 27 school year, there were no proposed changes. the English language arts program. Though we discussed the
book selection process, uh there were some concerns expressed this year from both staff and parents regarding new texts and um how the review process went. Uh so we went over those concerns and we discussed and proposed um the
process which is going to include content team proposes the book by the end of March. We're then going to have an internal committee review. Um the there is going then going to be the BOE curriculum committee review in by May
and then content team develops and revises the curriculum with the no new book which will happen over the summer and then the BOE resolution for curriculum revisions happens in August September. We also discussed the strategic plan
update uh northern Burlington 2030. The interest form was disseminated to assemble a committee of parents, students, teachers, and community members. There is going to be five meetings from February to April. Uh the committee will assist in goal
development and administration will generate action plans with activities and timeline. We talked about the NJ DOE update on the stu uh student cell phone use. Uh we're waiting still on some guidance about bus and school sponsored
events. Uh let's see. We discussed various mechanisms to store phones during the day being reviewed. Recommendations will be shared with the policy and curriculum committees when the proposal is ready. and we discussed that communication certainly with the parents is going to be key. Uh in
attendance we we talked about the attendance policy at length. We talked about the current procedures and we reviewed the data from previous years versus the state data. Um we yes so proposed alignment with uh NJ
DOE absent codes and implement credit recovery process. Uh the academic honesty AI use policy was also discussed. Uh parents, students and teachers have come forward with challenges and issues. Uh we have
academic discipline but we are exploring the possibility of implementing other discipline measures and we're going to refer that to the policy committee. Um the orientation program for new students has slightly changed. The opening week schedule for the last few years has
included new students which causes discrepancies in the amount of preparation time for teachers based on their grade level instructed. The proposed program in August for both buildings are going to be the high school. Uh any new students, the orientation is going to be August 19th. And for the middle school, it's going to
be a parent and student event and that's going to be for August 27th. Uh the international trip um is going to be to Canada in February 2027 to Quebec. Uh we talked about the outlining the time frames and the costs during Carnival.
The trip is an agenda item for this evening. Um the school calendar, we talked about professional development uh from February 13th because that was cancelled due to snow and it was changed to a regular school day. We're going to add a half day for students to
facilitate two hours of PD on March 6th. March 16th to the 20th uh NJ P GPA received unit lengths uh recently and are still developing a schedule. As far as the high school programs of study,
there's discussion about the child development program um to clearly identify the appropriate population of students. A questionnaire will be used to gather more information for the high school students who work with our Greyhound puppies in the child development class. We talked about
technology uh and ordering Chromebooks for next year due to the shortage and price increases that are coming. Our next meeting date is May 11th. Thank you. >> All right. Does anyone have any questions or comments regarding the
curriculum committee meeting? All right. Um m at this time, Mr. Zimmer, if you could please give us uh the minutes from the buildings grounds, finance, transportation meeting uh from February. >> Yeah, thank you, Mr. Figs. Uh the committee met on February 18th and
discussed several operational and budget related items. Uh thanks to Dr. Stella and Dr. Zuckerman, they created comprehensive minutes, which you will be able to find in the superintendent's report once we um approve them tonight. So, I'm just going to give you a brief
summary. Um, the superintendent shared new handover township has expressed interest in exploring a tuitionbased send receive relationship with our district potent potentially beginning in the 2027 school year. This would be explored further to understand tuition
rates, transport transportation implications, and overall feasibility. Um there is a potential of a board seat if it grows to over 10% of the enrollment, but that's doubtful at least for several years. Uh the committee also discussed exploring corporate
sponsorship opportunities within athletics such as advertising connected to live streaming events or other athletic partnerships. This topic will be reviewed further with the policy committee as a sponsorship policy currently exists. On the facility side,
we discuss facility usage by outside organizations, including potential updates to usage fees and possible limitations on when community groups may access certain spaces like the auditorium or turf field. The committee also reviewed capital project priorities
and discussed the replacement of a fuel storage tank. Uh the quotes were reviewed totaling 217,000 and change. The tanks will be funded by utilizing a grant. Uh the balance will be split between the district of Mansfield
Township. Mansfield will be assuming 30% of the cost. Uh the enterprise fund is able to support the district 70%. Next steps include updating the contract with Mansfield, the board approval of this and the scheduling of the work not to avoid any conflicts.
Um, in transportation, the district is bringing some routes currently run by GST back inhouse due to newly hired drivers. Administration also reviewed usage of the 530 late activity runs, which currently costs about $80,000
annually. Finally, regarding the 2026 27 budget, the district is currently projecting a budget gap of approxim approximately 2.5 million. Um administration is reviewing available resources and potential reductions while
awaiting final health care cost information. Budget timelines were reviewed with upcoming with upcoming finance and special board meetings scheduled prior to submission to the county office. The next meeting was scheduled to be March 2nd, but we moved
it to the 17th due to the budget timeline. >> I have a I have a quick question. the budget gap that you mentioned the 2.5 million that assumes like the 25% health >> yeah it's primarily health care salaries you
know those soft costs well soft costs but >> not direct well >> right not capital expenditures >> yeah I didn't know if we had the higher percentage for healthcare and stuff that we were budgeting or if something new came in >> and go ahead just say and as we also talked it's also predicated on what
comes out with the state aid too Kevin, I think the only um Did you say we were sharing the fuel depot cost with Mansfield District or Mansfield Township? >> It is Mansfield Township. >> It's Tats. Yeah, I wanted to make sure we were clarifying that. Okay. Thank
you. >> One more question. Did you say New Handover Township in the with >> I said New Handover as far as potentially sending students to school here. Can do we have any issues with that with the choice program or
>> uh I don't think with the choice program >> so this is it it is right now extremely preliminary um I don't even know if new handover has has um spoken about it but it was more just to kind of get the board the the committee's feeling if it
was something that we wanted to to explore and obviously then we'd bring the final proposal to the to the full board to review and and so on and so forth but no it does not there's actually um stipulations in statute that it does not impact our choice program
because it would be a send and receive relationship. >> Okay. >> About how many students would that bring in? Um and I because I I asked that question largely because we've we've had conversations about sections and >> you know how tight it is. Uh so well my
yeah my notes say that they currently send 32 students to board and town high school and 32 students to BCIT which is approximately 6065 students >> in total sorry in total.
>> All right thank you Mr. Zimmer. Um at this time we'll I will give a a brief minutes for the policy committee. Um, as many as you've seen on the agenda tonight, we have the first reading on uh several policies from the most recent most recent uh policy alert 236 from
Shesme. Um, going through we we reviewed some of the options that were included, some of the the details that applied to our school. Um, made some some minor changes as um a committee. Um, we additionally revisited a few of the policies that were discussed during our
previous meeting in December, I believe it was. Um, or September, I guess, was original carryover. Um, moved forward with a few additional ones. Um, we have a couple that are still being discussed and on hold to see how they impact Northern Burlington. Um, there are
several additional policies and regulations that weren't in the alert, but were updated to make sure they were all uh had continuity between each other. um in terms of timelines um as well as what was in our uh student handbook and our staff handbook uh to make sure everything kind of meshed up
properly. Um we made some adjustments regarding the uh athletic competitions and co-curriculars for the homeschooled students. They were uh they didn't quite line up. So those were discussed and just made to make sure those policies um agreed with each other. Um the
discussion of the attendance policy um as per Dr. superintendent report regarding the state excused absences uh was discussed um and making sure that the policy uh reflects our choice for the review
committee um and how students would get back be able to gain back uh credit. Um we reviewed the corporate sponsorship policy. Um there were no changes needed to it but it was just taking a look at it making sure it applied where we wanted it to uh for these new potential
sponsorship opportunities. Um, we looked at the academic dishonesty policy um due to uh some of the observed AI issues we've seen um and how it's been used um looking to determine that
it uh applies properly and that it covers uh what it needs to so that proper uh enforcement and discipline can be um carried out by the staff and administration. Um, we reviewed the, uh, moment of silence portion of the agenda.
Um, as far as we know at this point, it's been on the agenda since the oldest board ducks in 2006 meeting. Um, best I can find in terms of state information is that there was a case in 1982 where the moment of silence was created uh for school districts, but we're still
looking into uh what it stems from or what its purpose is so we can at least have more information on why it exists on the agenda and we're not just status quo keeping it in there just because. So, um it is being looked at. Kevin, I know you've uh mentioned it. So, um, we had a discussion on it and are trying to
get a little bit more, um, information on that >> and I have more information I'll bring back to the committee when we meet in April. >> Okay. Um, we had a discussion about the NJSBA policy service um, and potentially switching to them. Um, at this time the
uh, Dr. Zuckerman is just talking with some other districts that use NJSBA um, to get an actual feel for its its applications. Um, you know, things may look great and shiny and the grass always is green on the other side, right? But it's great to get some feedback from people who actually have
experience. Um, so we are investigating it thoroughly. Like I said, we like the idea of it, but just making sure it's going to be a good hit for us and not cause more work or more confusion than necessary. Um, again, that's going to be, you know, discussed further in April
once we have some of that feedback. Um and then uh lastly we had a discussion about the use of facilities um and our policy 7510 on that with making sure that uh when the turf field could be used um what some of our fees were and how uh the different whether it be some
of the sending districts or third party uh persons attempting to use any of our facilities um and making sure that the policy and regulation uh matched up with what we were trying to do around around the campus. So, I tried to keep that short and sweet, but if there was any
questions for for the policy committee, no. All right. With that, um, Mr. Box, do you have any update on NJ SBA? No, not NJA. I'm sorry.
>> Not NJ Schoolboard Association. Um, not as a delegate. Um, but as a member of the school association finance committee, we're going to have a meeting on the 18th. Um, I don't have an agenda for it yet, but my suspicion is that it
will be about whatever the budget update is going to be. So, I don't know if we want to maybe consider moving our meeting on the 17th to maybe the 19th in the event that there might be something that I get out of that that meeting on the 18th.
And I'll leave that. We can have that discussion later. But um that'd be the only thing I would have from the schoolboard association. >> Thursday. >> It is. >> It's a Thursday. Yes. >> Um >> yeah, we can we can discuss it amongst the the buildings grounds finance
transportation committee. Um Mr. Arminente, do you have any updates from BCSBA? >> No, we didn't have a meeting. >> Okay. Um, as far as legislative updates, uh, the assembly and the senate recently met, and there's an absolute mess load of bills out there. Um, you know, the
only bill that's happened, uh, under the new governor is the extension of the budget at this point. So, as opposed to listing what are 20 30 different things that have been moved from one to the other, I will hold off until the April meeting. Hopefully, there will be some narrowing down or something moving
forward. I think right now, uh, on the governor's side, the focus is obviously the budget. So, um, she's not worried about all these policies. But since the the Sen and Assembly just started meeting this past, they have had two two meetings last couple weeks and a lot of the committees have met. They're just pushing a bunch of a bunch of stuff
forward. So, um, I won't go into all of those details. And with that, we can now happily move on to the students of the month. Uh, Dr. Karns, Dr. can if you'd like to come around. >> Thank you very much. All right, Mr.
figs. Members of the board, it's our our our pleasure to uh introduce the students of the month for the middle school and high school. Uh these are students um our our faculty have an opportunity to nominate students of of the month and then we have committees that meet and then review the the different nominees and these are the
different students that we we selected. We recognize in the middle school we recognize a seventh grade student of the month and eighth grade student of the month. And then in partnership with the Elks Club over in Bordontown, we will have uh Elks students of the month as well. So roughly three students for each of the months that we're going to talk about here tonight. And the first
student that I'd like to recognize is our December Elks student of the month. And that's Ariel Fore. You join me up here, please. Congratulations. You're the guinea pig. You're the first one that comes up. So this is for you. And then we turn around. We have any pictures we get taken. And I'd like you to introduce who
you're with here tonight. Oh, I'm with my mom, my dad, my sister, and my brother. >> Congratulations. Thank you very much for coming. All right, so for the rest of you, just like Ariel did, that's what we're going to ask you to do as well. All right, for our December 7th grade student of the
month, we have Henry Bonic. Henry, you can join me up here, please. Congratulations. You saw Ariel do that so well. So, who are you with here tonight? >> I'm here with my mom. >> All right. Congratulations. Thank you for coming out. Our next student of the month for December. This is our eighth grader and
this is Raphael Nanoa. Raphael. Congratulations to you. This is for you. Turn around. Make pictures and everything. Who are you with here tonight? >> I'm with my dad. >> All right. Congratulations. Thank you for coming. >> All right. Moving to the month of January. We have our January Elk Student
of the Month, and that's Paul Nasa Najuki. Paul. Congratulations to you. Well done. >> All right, Tan, who you with tonight? >> I'm with my dad and my brother. All right, >> congratulations. Thank you for coming. >> Continuing with January, we have our
seventh grade student of the month, and that's Miss Leah McGurgle. Leah, could you join me up here, please? Congratulations for you. This is for you. All right, turn around. Face the camera. And who you with here tonight? >> My mom and my dad. >> All right, congratulations. Thank you.
>> And to wrap up the month of January, we have our eighth grader, Miss Juliana Kesler. Congratulations. Happy for you here. All right. You saw the drill. Who you with here tonight? >> My mom, my dad. >> All right. Congratulations. Thank you for coming. On to February. We have our Elk student
of the month for February and that's Miss Satie Albaneseis. Very well done. This is for you. Who are you with here tonight? >> I'm with my mom, my brother, and his girlfriend. >> Good. Thank you all for coming. We have our seventh grade student of the
month. That's Mr. Robert Piane, congratulations to you. Turn around. Who you with tonight? >> I'm with my mom, sister, and dad. >> All right. Thank you all for coming. Congratulations. And finally, our eighth grade student of the month for February. We have Mr.
Bennett Pap. Bennett, looking sharp, my man. Well, no. This is for you. Turn around. Who you with here tonight? >> My mom, my sister, my dad. >> All right. Congratulations. Thank you for coming. >> And uh Northern TV produces a video for us and we'll end up on Northern TV, the
YouTube channel eventually, but we have it for you tonight with our our students of the month, Mr. Lee. I'm Henry Balantic and I was nominated for December student of the month. Here at Northern, I'm involved in smat sports like basketball. I want to try out for
the baseball team. In the future, I would like to do a professional sport like professional football or baseball. >> My name is Raphael Nola and I was nominated for December student of the month here at Northern. I play for the uh
middle school soccer team. In my future, I want to become a professional soccer player. >> I'm Aubria Fluer and I was nominated for December student of the month. >> At Northern, I do cheerleading and chorus club.
In my future, I want to buy a gym and be a professional cheerleading coach for competition cheer. My name is Liam McGaragle and I was nominated for January student of the month here at Northern. I play lacrosse and field hockey.
In my future, I want to be a professional lacrosse player. I'm Juliana Kesler and I was nominated for student of the month. Here at Northern, I'm involved at middle school soccer and lacrosse. In my future, I'd like to be a physical
therapist because I want to help people with injuries and stuff. My name is Paul and I was nominated for January student of the month here at Northern. I'm involved in track and I'm thinking of trying out again this year. In the future, I'd like to be something
in the medical field like being a doctor uh or maybe even a neurosurgeon, something in the generally in the medical field. >> I'm Robert Pontect and I was nominated for February student of the month. Here at Northern, I'm really just
involved in some after school clubs like comic book club. In the future, I mainly want to be like a paleontologist that since I've always liked dinosaurs when I was a kid. >> I'm Bennett Pap and I was nominated for February student of the month
in Northern. I'm involved in lacrosse. Uh I would like to work for the military by Air Force. Hi, my name is Satie Albanius and I was nominated for February student of the month. I'm involved in the spring musical. I
play as a feature dancer. In the future, I would like to be a pediatric doctor or a nurse. All right. I have the privilege of announcing the high school students of the month. You saw what the middle schoolers did, right? Come up, announce your family. They've showed us the way.
Um, so we'll start with December 12th grade Elk Student of the Month, Skyler Censey here with you tonight. >> I'm with my mom. >> Nice. And our ninth grade December student of the month, Trisha Arts
here with you tonight. >> Uh my sister's parents and grandparents. >> And December 10th grade student of the month, Dallas Williams. Dallas, who did you bring with you tonight? >> Um, tonight I brought my mom. >> And 11th grade December student of the
month, Haley Tammano. >> Who'd you bring with you tonight? >> Oh, my mom, my dad, my sister, and my grandma. >> Awesome. Thanks for coming. >> December 12th grade student of the month, Mara Venanu. Okay, moving on to January. Our January
Elk Student of the Month, Heren Cower. And our January 9th grade student of the month, Casey Vibon. What did >> you bring here with you? >> My mom and my dad. >> Thanks for coming. January 10th grade student of the month, Olivia Alrech.
And 11th grade January student of the month, Janiah Friend. And 12th grade January student of the month, Isabella O'Haya. All right. I promise it gets better in February. There's more. Okay, 12th grade February Elk Student of the Month, Paige
Zuzio. >> Congratulations. >> All right, who did you bring with you tonight? >> I brought my parents, my siblings, and my grandparents. >> Awesome. Thanks for coming. >> February 9th grade student of the month, Tanish Bali. >> Congratulations.
Who'd you bring tonight? >> My mom and my dad. >> Awesome. Thanks for coming. >> 10th grade February student of the month, Nathan Pullin. >> Who' you bring with you tonight? >> I brought my mom and dad. >> Thanks for coming.
February 11th grade student of the month, Damen Grazer. Who' you bring with you, Damian? >> My dad and my pops. >> Awesome. Thanks for coming. And last but not least, our 12th grade February student of the month, Ariana L prestie.
>> Congratulations. >> Who'd you bring with you? >> My mom, my dad, and my brother. Awesome. Thank you guys for coming. And now if you draw your attention to the video, we'll watch the high school video. >> Hi, I'm Trisha Arts and I was nominated for 9th grade student of the month for the month of December.
I'm involved with winter and fall cheer and I'm a member of the FFA. In the future, I would like to pursue veterinary science. >> I'm Dallas Williams and I was nominated for December student of the month. Here at Northern, I'm involved with basketball, volleyball, and FFA. In my future, I would like to be a nurse
anesthesiologist. Hi, my name is Haley Tammano and I'm the 11th grade student of the month for the month of December. I do wrestling. I also do volleyball and I'm in the choir. Uh when I get older, I want to go to college to become an exotic veterinarian.
>> I'm Mara Venanu and I was nominated for uh 12th grade student of the month for the month of December. I'm mainly involved with the musical. This year it's Mary Poppins and I'm very excited for it and yeah, that's mainly what I focus my time on. Uh, in the future I want to pursue forensic psychology.
>> I'm Skyler Sensei and I was nominated for 12th grade student of the month. At Northern I'm involved in the newspaper club and the health science club heavily, but outside I do competitive gymnastics and I've been doing that for 10 plus years now. In the future, I
would like to be involved in the neuroscience research field. >> My name is Casey Vibon and I was nominated for 9th grade student of the month for the month of January. Here at Northern, I'm involved in the spring musical and I play Jane in Mary Poppins. I don't really know what I want to do in my future, but I know I still want to go
to college. Hi, I'm Olivia Alrech and I was nominated for January sophomore student of the month. I'm in swim team, drill team, and anger for life. I would like to pursue something in the medical field. Hi, my name is Janiah Friend and I'm a junior and I was nominated for a January student of the month. Outside of
school, I typically like to hang with my friends. In the future, I like to become a social worker. >> Hi, my name is Isabella Hedock. I was nominated for the 12th grade student of the month. Here at Northern, I am vice president for the FFA. I am president for No Place for Hate and I also manage
the girls basketball team. In the future, I hope to pursue um veterinary medicine, specifically large animals. Hi, my name is Hen Core and I was nominated for Elks student of the month for January. Here at Northern, I'm involved with the girls tennis team and
I do JRTC and FBA. In the future, I want to go into business and become an entrepreneur. >> My name is Tanish Bully and I was nominated for ninth grade student of the month for February. I'm involved in JRTC NDFL thespian society and debate.
I would like to pursue a career in law in the future. My name is Nathan Poland and I was nominated for 10th grade February student of the month here at Northern. I'm involved in FFA. I'm the secretary of our and Northern
Burlington FFA chapter. I've done fall sports soccer and I've done winter track and I'm looking forward to spring track this season. I also like to participate in the class of 2028 council. In the future, I would like to go somewhere in the medical field,
especially in surgery. >> Hi, I'm Damon Growser and I was nominated for the 11th grade student of the month here at Northern Burlington. My free time, I like to like work on engines, build things, make jumps, and quad. I like to go like to like plumbing or like welding.
>> I'm Ariana L prey and I was nominated for February student of the month. Here at Northern, I'm involved in soccer, softball, NHS, and National Art Honor Society. In the future, I would like to do forensic science because I like crime
scenes and I like science, so it goes together well. I'm Paige Zuzio and I was nominated for the February Elk Student of the Month. Here at Northern, I'm involved with the cheer team. I've been cheering all four years of high school. I host the Northern News. I'm a part of
the life program here and I'm also the president of FCA here at Northern as well as the musicals and choir program here. In the future, I want to go to college to study elementary education so I could be a teacher.
Thank you all for coming out tonight. Congratulations to you all. Um the board uh truly enjoys the students of the month. It's one of the highlights of being on the board. So we appreciate um you taking the time to come down tonight and all you do to enjoy our school. Um at this time we will adjourn for a short
recess. Um so you guys are welcome to leave during the recess. Um do you want a photo Dr. Zuckermanman? Yes. >> So some photos in the back. do a middle school uh photo first and we'll grab the the high school students just for a photograph that we can obviously just kind of celebrate all of all of what you
do and what you mean for our district. >> All right. Can I get >> a motion for a 10-minute recess? >> All those in favor? I. All opposed abstensions. All right. We'll return in about 10 minutes. Sounds like you're good to go. Got you.
Oh, well, I did. It was >> night. >> It was in the night. And you and and I never told I never You're right. I never told anybody. No, you're good. >> So, no, you didn't do anything wrong. >> Everybody'll be viral now. And then it's like, yeah,
you're good. Yeah. >> All right. If I can get a motion to return from recess. >> Motion to return from recess. and a second. >> All those in favor? I. >> All opposed extensions.
All right. U Mr. Lee, is there anyone signed up for consent agenda items? I mean, there's nobody left. Maybe they're in the bathroom. Never know. Um. All right. Thank you, Mr. Lee. Um, notes about the consent agenda. Items on the
consent agenda are believed to be items of routine nature requiring no discussion and which are to be voted upon a single roll call vote to the board. Any single member of the board may have any of these items on the consent agenda removed and placed on the other part of the agenda for discussion
merely by so indicating prior to the vote to be taken on the consent agenda. Items removed from the consent agenda are identified by an asterisk and will be subject to discussion by the full board. 5.02 02 is approval of the regular meeting minutes of February 9th. 5.03 is
approval of the financial report of the board secretary for January 2026. 5.04 is approval of the treasures report for the month of January 2026. 5.05 is approval of the budget transfers for the month of January 2026. 5.06 is approval
of the cafeteria report for January 2026. And 5.07 07 is the resolution of the B board regarding the budgetary major account fund status. Are there any questions or comments on section 5?
>> I've got um two on one on 505 one on 506 um 506 the easy one just um I guess if we on the back side of the meeting kind of rescan that document. It was um a bit faded. Uh that was the cafeteria report
and then uh on 505 and I think um Miss Janice may have covered it in her update. It looked like we moved some money around um a pretty substantial amount and looks like it got moved for Chromebooks. Is that what we're doing? We're moving Chromebooks ahead. >> So last last meeting we had a discussion
on it when uh at textbook there was this heavy discussion on the shortage of Chromebooks that's going on. Um Intel's already said they will not be able to provide the processors necessary. Right. the alternate company AMD something like that. >> AMD AMD. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. Said they will not be able
to to make up where Intel will fall short. >> Um in the first uh month of the year, Chromebooks were averaging $10 a week increase in price. uh knowing it's typically part of our March uh board vote anyway. Okay. Part of the budget,
we uh I had to move it up a month to get get what we knew was in stock, available, and at the best price we were going to get. Don't try to buy forward. So, >> don't try to buy RAM right now. >> Yeah. So, we uh literally just we moved it basically forward the month to try to assure a better price and and also the
lead time they were saying 18 to 22 weeks. So, that's putting us at the next school year with how bad it is. So that was all done. It was discussed a bit in Feb February meeting but that was the purpose. >> Yeah. Then a follow-up question to that. This shortage is due to the enrollment or is that due to damages or
>> the shortage of Chromebooks in the industry due to the AI industry buying up a lot of the parts that the Chromebooks use and just a shortage out there of processors. So >> thank you. >> Our ours is the normal but it's our big year of ordering the way the years fall.
So with that in mind as well, I had discussion with Mr. Lee and asked his opinion and yeah, he agreed that getting it in a month earlier was only going to be beneficial for us. >> Yeah, Laura, manufacturers are shifting their focus to um data center type
operations. So all supply is going that direction. Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy. And then um kind of related to that, it might be helpful. I know um there's some commentary in in there um the transfers and and comment as to
where it's going, but maybe a little bit more management type comment around why the transfers are occurring because it just it looks today kind of like it's you know it says Chromebooks and it's not a great example. There was another one in there. I guess it was
like um supply matter prints P R I N C which I know probably makes sense to you and the business office but for the board it so if you guys can kind of just keep that in mind that would be helpful. >> Yep. It's a limited space. >> So we're trying to squeeze it in but I
understand what you're saying. >> Thanks. >> All right. Any other questions or comments in section five? >> All right. Section six uh 6.01 1 is approval of the bill list for March 9th, 2026. Any questions or comments for
section 6. All right. Section 7 uh 7.02 is approval of board and staff travel. 7.03 is approval of designation of locations for public notice. 7.04 is approval of interlocal services agreement with
Springfield Township for the fuel depot. 7.05 05 is approval of a amendment number one to the shared services agreement for fuel services with the townships of Mansfield. 7.06 is approval of the new new fuel tank. 7.07 is
approval of the wireless access point. 7.08 is approval of professional services. 7.09 is approval of the IDEA carryover. And 7.10 is award of lease purchase financing for certain equipment. Um, are there any questions
or comments for section 7? >> Yeah, I have a qu I have a question on um the Wi-Fi purchase. So, Mr. Lee, is as as I read through the document, it looks like the first two were not including Wi-Fi 7. Is
that why their bids were so much lower? >> One of the bids was um discarded um because they were not bidding on the right product. So, Y57 and the second bidder um the next lowest bidder um included a lot of um exceptions to the
bid that they basically wasn't going to honor the bid. There were a whole bunch of exceptions. So, it was two separate reasons why they were disqualified. >> Okay. Yeah. The one the one was clear the sec that one I was like what I I'm trying to understand the technological. >> Okay. Thank you. Yep.
>> And I had a really quick question on the um on 705 the fuel tank the >> 706 or the agreement for with Mansfield for 70 >> the agreement with Mansfield for 705. Um just how did we arrive at the um I guess
the distribution of the cost? Uh historically, um when we did the fuel monitoring and a lot of other replacements, um Mansfield has agreed to pick up 30% of the the cost. Um so we've just gone off of historically what's been done in the past.
>> All right. And do they use generally about 30% or like if we compared them? >> Uh I'm just curious. >> Yeah, we could run some reports. I I honestly couldn't say why historically um that number was used in the past, but I could definitely run reports to see what the usage looks like. >> Okay, that's that's fine. I just was
curious. Thank you. >> I guess uh I will follow that up with uh curiosity for 7.04. I guess if um as Springfield Township uses it. I know it's an emergency thing. I guess um if we can monitor to make sure it doesn't become a regular thing and then maybe a
different form of agreement similar to Mansfield's is worthwhile. Um and whether they're just using it on us. >> I was going to ask that. Well, a stop or if it becomes a regular thing, maybe it should be revi or revised or amended in some way. Um, if we find that necessary. >> Sure.
>> Absolutely. >> I say my understanding from the looking at the agreement was it's emergency only. >> Yeah, they just ask for emergency only if they have some issue with they're currently getting their fuel if they can stop in. Um, but you know, we would bill them. So, we do track them. They everyone who uses it um has a code that
they put in and then um we're able to produce reports and then bill out the township that uses them. >> Yeah. I'd reached out to one of the councilmen and and he had said that I guess it was a recommendation from their office of emergency management to do this. So I'm assuming you guys talked about that already. >> Yes. >> Okay.
>> This came about at when um when earlier in the year we reached out to the township managers. We met with township managers. So, it was a uh something that came out of that meeting when we met with Springfield. >> All right. If there's no more questions for section 7, uh section 8, 8.02, and
8.03 are approval of out of district placements. 8.04 is approval of the AFJOTC overnight student trip to Pittsburgh. 8.05 is approval of independent student learning opportunities for 2526 school year. And
8.06 6 is approval of home instruction services. Are there any questions or comments for section 8? >> Yes. On um 8.03, is that an approval or is it a redaction? >> It's a placement for a student at that
school. Thank you. All right. Um, SE 9 uh 9.02 is approval of high school extracurricular adviserss. 9.03 is approval of coaches. 9.04 is approval of
additional work assignments. And 9.05 is the rescended approval of substitutes. Are there any questions or comments for section 9? All right, we have no items in section 10 this evening. Section 11, 11.02 is approval of leaves of absence. Any
questions or comments for section 11? All right, section 12, 12.02 is approval of termination. Any questions or comments for section 12? All right, section 13. Uh 13.02 is approval of cellular cellular telephone
stipens for 2526. Any questions or comments for section 13? Section 14 14.02 is approval of the college accelerated program agreement with Rowan College at Burlington County and 14.03 is approval of the revised
school calendar. Any questions or comments on section 14? >> Yeah, I wanted to follow up on my earlier comment. I was just curious I I know I I I'm hesitant about this change um for a variety of reasons, but I was
just curious, Dr. Zuckerman, do you um have any intention of polling the public and reaching out to the public to get their input on this? >> If we were if the board would approve the calendar today, then it would be in place and it would be more communication. If that is the request of
the board, then then that is something that we can do. It would what it would do is it would delay the time in making the decision. Mhm. >> Um so again, if the if the board should approve this um uh or or refute it tonight, either way, then we would make
the the if they would um make the motion to or make the recommendation to keep it on the 10th. Either way, we would communicate that out. If the request of the board is to pull the the community, then then we can certainly do that. But it would just again,
>> right, I I don't know how the rest of the board feels about that, but I'm just reluctant to make this change based upon one set of data so late in the game when families have planned their trips. Um, and made plans around the calendar. Um,
so I'm I'm a little bit hesitant. And then we've also had opportunities to respond to community members and and we did outreach before when it came to other opportunities to change the calendar. So I have some reservations about this.
>> This was what weeks ago >> that we had without changing the calendar. It's not like we could have went out six weeks ago and asked >> it had snowstorm was two weeks ago. >> Yeah. >> And if you don't feel comfortable and you want to be on record, pull it off the consent agenda. Yeah.
>> And then just you could be on record that you oppose it. >> Yeah. So, we'll um we'll pull 4.03 to a non-consent agenda item and have a full discussion at the board after Well, we can do it now, I guess. So, um >> which number was that? >> 14.03.
>> Okay. I thought you said 403. That's why I asked. >> Um >> no, it's talking about the 13th or the 10th and the third. the difference between the 10th and the third >> um >> being the day that they're make up the makeup day. >> All right. So, we will uh change 14.03
to a non-consent agenda item for the approval of the revised school calendar. Um I will uh ask for a motion on the item >> make a motion >> off separate. >> So, yes. No, no, it doesn't have to be a
motion to be pulled off, but we open discussion after a motion and a second to call Robert's rules. So, uh, we have Paul with the motion, Christa with a second, and we'll now open for full discussion before we take the roll call vote. >> And that motion is to separate
this from the consent agenda. >> No, the So, we don't need a motion to separate from agenda. A board member can just request it. That's what our policy actually says. So by it being requested, it's on non-consent. So we're now voting on 4.03 non-consent agenda item as a
board to yay or nay or revise it. That would be the amendment put after the motion's made to discuss it. >> Well, we're first open to discussion. >> Correct. Yeah. So you do a motion to second. Now open to full discussion. Then we can do submotion to amend or vote against or for so at this time. So
my I'll start with my only concern with polling is the timeline. So we don't have a regular board meeting until after the dates take place. We have the budgetary meeting but then we would have to revise that it's not just a budgetary vote. We would be adding the vote to
that. It's still providing I guess it's two two weeks of information. So that is the only option. We couldn't wait till April obviously because it's past that date. Um my opinion on the matter is that I to me five days of continuous instruction are always going to provide
more valuable instruction than one isolated day. If you ask me to go to work for four days, take six days off, come back to work every day and take two more days off, I promise you're not getting my best output on that one individual day amongst, you know, nine. Um so in terms of benefit instruction,
that's the reason I late April 3rd is a better date. I do understand that the dilemma of people who may have off um I do not believe that there should be any consideration into religious holidays. That's not our purview. Um people have their own religious beliefs and beings
and that's not what we're discussing. We're discussing to me the academic nature of it. Um and I find that the continuity of instruction for 5 days is why I like the idea of using that April 3rd as a as a school day instead of the April 10th individual day. That's my
opinion on that switch. >> I I have two comments. I think by the nature of good the day that we're talking about being Good Friday, it opens it up to like even though that's not our intention. Agree. I think it opens up to like, you know, we're switching because
it's a potentially a religious holiday, right? And we've had other other people ask for religious holidays to be added and we said no, you can take that off. So, like from a from a visual perspective, it looks like we're making a change for for Good Friday.
>> Well, actually, >> we're sending them to school on Good Friday, not giving them off. >> They're currently off on Good Friday. And now we're saying >> it doesn't matter that it's Good Friday, you're coming to school. >> Yep. So my other my other piece to to
your point, Mike, is it it I I agree with you that that the curriculum continuity is important, but we had this calendar and we knew this day since whenever we voted on it that could have been changed earlier to do it now when teachers and parents and the community
has plans. It doesn't make sense to me like to me opening this discussion up now. It it's it's too late. It's for me it's just people have plans, you know, not me. So, it's not a a personal thing, but people live by the calendar and if if they did the right
thing and and took the right days off knowing that, I think it's really unfair um to change it now because the teachers want want to. I mean, there's not there's not for me there's not a real reason to to do this now. We voted on we
had a calendar vote earlier in the year. We said, "Yeah, okay, these are the days that will be snow makeups." Now we're changing it for what doesn't seem to be a good >> Well, we make a lot of changes. We had testing. We make changes to half days. We move stuff around. It happens three or four times a year where we do change
the schedule. Is this a good day to do it? No. But it's it's logical. I mean, um, Bordon Town's doing it. A couple other places are doing it that I've seen. The other question I
have is during the break, do they turn down the heat? Do they turn down stuff with in the building or is it kept constant? Because to sit there and turn it off for six days, crank it up for one, turn it down for a weekend, and crank it back up might be just too much.
Might be a little bit more money than >> I think it depends on the temperature. It obviously I mean if it's nice, if it's cool weather outside, we probably may turn everything off. If it's cold weather outside, then it would be lower because there's still people working
here. Um, however, the and if I can just go back to something that the reason we're doing this is not because of the the teachers. I did poll the teachers to make sure that we would have enough staff in in place to be able to facilitate oper our our instruction and
our operations. So, if I can give my two cents, um, I know that you only surveyed the staff and of the 262, 85% of them selected to do it Good Friday and only 15%
wanted it to be the Friday that we had scheduled. And I believe in I'm not a statistician, but I believe in the law of large numbers that that would probably translate out to the general population as a whole. Just a guess. I don't know. But 85 to 15, you know,
that's a significant to me. It's not like it was a 5149 >> is certainly north of the 8020 rule, >> right? >> Yeah. So that's why I would be inclined to go along with that or would go along with that. Not
inclined. I would vote that way. I'm in favor of the third. Um, I just look at it from a practicality standpoint and I think about what I would do if it were work and I would want the continuity of being
in work rather than being off for four days and then coming into work on a Friday. Um, again, I'm just looking at it from a logical standpoint. I I do appreciate where you're coming from is like what we said was this is the way it was going to be and why did we think of it then?
>> We didn't. We probably didn't. Yeah. So, I still got I mean standpoint >> the only other feedback to this would be to to Christa's point that maybe we consider where we place makeup days next year. >> Yeah. I mean, and I think if you're not penalizing the students or the teachers,
it's it's fine. But if I'm going to now get penalized because I planned ahead, that's not fair, right? Whether it be an unexcused or like or if a teacher has to get um I don't know if there's unpaid or whatever. I don't know how it works with the teachers, but if they're if they're
going to get penalized for for essentially planning ahead, then to me that's not fair. I I don't know. >> So So what really is the penalty that you missed the day of school that was un that was unexcused, >> right? And my guess is the people that were diligent and planned ahead, their
their children are coming to school anyway. >> Yeah. But they're also missing it. Like if I plan ahead, I'm missing that lesson potentially. >> And why are you missing? probably because you're away with your family doing something that educational >> planned ahead in >> like I'm away with my family and and now
you're saying school's in session and and as a parent I'm saying no sorry we already have these plans you're you're not going to school like some kids get really upset like if they miss I mean I know it's not the majority but now you're putting them in a position that they're going to have to make up work whereas again they did the right thing
and you're penalizing them so >> is there a possibility to get some sort of waiver as the floating any discussions about a waiver about the number of days or you know >> no way >> unfortunately not um I mean we did
contemplate something and I did I think I did I contact you about the the remote day I may have um is that something that I did contemplate on that I had a conversation with certainly with our administrative team is to hold a remote day on that and then ask for forgiveness. Unfortunately, I I did not
from the feedback I got from the county office that we were not going to get that forgiveness. So, we would have had to not only have a remote day but also be in session. Again, those are things that that we talked about, but again, that that's not for for this discussion calendar.
>> I mean, there's also the possibility that kids take off both days, too. Like, you could be making the situation. >> I mean, anyone come on the third says it's a holiday. It's Good Friday. Anyone who doesn't come on the third, all they have to say is that's my religious holiday. like and it's a that is state excused. So I mean there's not it's not
even a a rhyme or reason there. We there's no proof required if they're not here on the third. I understand it from like yes, you want your student to be there for the lesson day, but it's not even a oh we're going to run out we're going to run into truency issues because that's even less on that day by by
coincidentive of the date it is and the way the state excuses absence. Sorry I bought in cut. >> Okay. I I think either way you're going to have a lot of students missing because again the people going on Friday that have made their plans for the day off. They're going to miss that day of school. Whether they come back Thursday
or they come back next weekend, they would miss the Friday if we put it Friday. So either way, you're going to miss either you're going to miss it on this the the 3 or you're going to have people missing it on the 10th. Either way, it's an attendance thing. >> So So then why change it at this point
when you have the calendar set? Like I don't know. I mean, it's just my opinion. Like, you know, >> I think that the likelihood of students coming in for five days because you're adding that Friday on is pretty high unless you observe that day as a
religious holiday, in which case you're taking it off no matter what, right? The likelihood of children coming in on the Friday after being off for four days is pretty high. And I'm again, I don't have any facts. I'm just making an educated guess. And I think that
it from a practicality standpoint makes >> I knew when my children were in school, they wouldn't be coming in during spring break. If I had made plans to go away, we were going away and they weren't coming in. >> In my situation, I would have planned
around that. I would have I hear you. So like that's there's difference in opinion. So I don't I think we can vote on it and >> but we have had the policy that you know the makeup days would be made during spring break. you know, for years. But, you know, the Friday is spring break, too, right? The e both Fridays are
spring break days, >> but the Friday was on the district approved calendar. That's that's my that's my issue is that we're changing it late in the game, which is good. >> Yeah. >> And that's why I come back to my point of we should reconsider next year how we we plan these days.
>> I think it falls with this. It's the same way we made the graduation adjustment when we had the rain issue. We realized, okay, we need to sneak the graduation back a day to give us it's tough when you don't see it. You know, Dr. Zuckermanman's never had more than what one one snow day in your years prior and even as many of us as board
members have never come across it. So, it is in theory a learning experience. I mean, Dr. McCann as well, you know, I'm not sure if Dr. Karns has any history of it, but but um it's one of those things where you don't always see the impact until it actually occurs. So, it can be
tough, but 100% with the looking forward and making those steps to improve, you know, even for the Friday that we just made up in February, I think that's a great day to be able to put in as a makeup. Um, I wish North Hannover did it, you know, as opposed to they now
we're now to Wednesday the 24th or 5th in June at North Hannover. So, um, there are yeah, definitely ways to look forward and try to improve it going forward. Um, does anyone uh anyone else have anything else they'd like to add to the discussion?
>> No. All right. Um, so with that, I will ask for Mrs. Williams to do a roll call vote to approve non-conent the non-consent agenda item that we have. >> You just refresh me. This is to approve the calendar change to April 3rd being
the day. >> Correct. Yes. And not Yes. >> Thank you. Uh the calendar change also has the half day for NJS uh SPG >> NJ GPA the graduation proficiency assessment. There's there's a unit of
assessment of 150 minutes which we just cannot do within our our regular schedule. >> So >> it's for for the high school only. >> Both of those changes are on the calendar as an FYI. >> What's the second change? I'm sorry. the what's the testing team
>> for the high school um graduation the requirement graduation proficiency assessment the the NJGPA um one of the units of assessment is 150 minutes which we cannot do within our regular day because it's only the 11th grade students so we're doing an early
dismissal day so we can meet the contractual obligations for the staff um after the the students are out for that one day the other the other four days of of of assessment are. We've modified the schedule to be able to do a regular day, >> but not related to spring break, right?
>> Not related. No, this is on uh next uh next Friday, the 20th. >> I just wanted to clarify that that wasn't just the only change to the calendar for everyone's aware. >> All right, Mrs. Williams, if you're ready, >> Mr. Figs. >> Yay. >> Mr. Armente,
>> yes. >> Mrs. Applegate, >> no. >> Uh Mrs. Bond, >> no. >> Mr. Bucks. >> Yes. >> Uh, Mrs. Janice. >> Yes. >> Mr. Narit. >> Yes. >> Mr. Zimmer. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Zuzio. >> Yes. >> Thank you. The motion passes. >> Thank you. Um, are there any questions for consent agenda item 14.02? Just make sure none.
Okay. Uh, section 15. 15.02 02 is the first reading of policies. 15.03 is the first reading of regulations and 15.04 is the second reading of the revised regulations for adoption. Uh any
questions or comments on section 15, right? Uh we have no items for sections. >> Can we go back briefly to the um to 1402? >> Yes, >> that is correct. It's for this year. Do we always approve it this time of year?
>> We approve it when we just received it from uh and so we approve we had not received it as of yet. So we we wanted the board to to approve the um the agreement as soon as it was received. >> Is this an abnormal time for us to receive this? >> Yes, normally we do receive it much earlier.
>> Okay. >> But this is unfortunately we're beholden on the um Of course. Yes. No, >> I just it it kind of struck me odd that Okay. Thank you. All right. Um, just as a followup, no any questions or comments for section
15. All right. We have no items in section 16 this evening. >> One one question though. I'm just curious with transportation. Are we concerned with uh anything about fuel costs given the cost of gasoline
skyrocketing in the last week? >> Uh, yeah. I mean, we are subject to every the fuel cost just like everyone else. So, fuel, electric, uh, gas, all of those things will affect the district just like it would affect you at home. So, >> Yep. >> Okay.
>> All right. Section 17. 17.02 is approval of use of facilities for the Northern Burlington County Regional Teachers Association. 17.03 is approval of use of facilities for the Junior Greyhounds. And 17.04 is approval of use of
facilities for the PTSC. Any questions or comments for section 17? >> What are the junior greyhounds for? Do we because I know like to use the turf field. We haven't gone over that. So I don't want to make sure that they're not putting at requesting the turf field
yet. >> We did have a conversation in uh buildings and grounds about the turf field. >> So I didn't hear your question. I'm sorry. No, my question is have have they in this application asked for the turf field? I I don't understand. >> I think it's a classroom that they're
meeting. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> And on that form it says no insurance coverage. Does that mean that they don't need it or they don't have it? >> No, they absolutely have to have it. So, when we're approving these, um, Jill
always, excuse me, Jill, Miss Markley, always makes sure that we have, um, updated COIs before anyone uses the building. >> All right. So, that that mark indicates that we're going to be getting that insurance. >> I think that's a legend at the bottom where it says indicates no insurance
coverage cuz next to it, C indicates, cancel, declined, or unavailable, and star in in alternative. So the star >> up there is Yeah, cuz up at the top coverage says general liability equipment and accident. I think that's the legend on that bottom line. >> Yeah. So it says insurance company
Houston casualty company. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Are we still in section 15? >> We're in 17. >> What you got in 15? >> Sorry, I'm really slow tonight. Um sorry. Back to 1504. Um the second read
policies 7300.3 I had noticed in there was mention of advertising in our newspaper. Given the other changes we're making, do we need to come back and re kind of review this policy to make sure it's in alignment with what we're doing now for how we advertise?
>> I'm sorry, which policy was it? >> Uh or I guess it's actually probably a regulation 73 7300.3. And maybe I just refer this back into policy committee to review. >> Okay. >> Regarding the advertisement of bids.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Just to get it in alignment with what we're doing now. >> Um, are you okay with the approval? >> I'm Yeah, I'm okay now. prove it to come back in. >> All right. Just want to make sure you weren't correct.
>> I just I had noticed that that kind of since we were just talking about, you know, Miss Williams is talking about the changes we're making now to to advertising that this should probably align. >> Yep. We can put it on the next agenda. >> It says here uh it go here.
>> Sales shall be seven more than 14, but shall be published once in the official newspaper. >> New newspaper. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, I agree. Yeah, >> maybe since GR says an update to their update. >> I mean,
>> yeah, maybe >> check schoolboard association's policy. >> Anything else for 15, Joe? Mr. Bucks or >> No, sorry. >> All right. Any questions or comments for section 17 or further questions and comments
>> as general as I do want to go back to 1402 one more time. I'm sorry. Okay, >> so that's the cap agreement, right? And again, this is late and I guess since it's so late and we've had so many students that were required to sign up so early in the year. Is there any change in this any material change that
our students have to be concerned about? >> No. >> Okay. So, it's a standard sort of agreement. Nothing. Okay. I just want to make sure there >> if there were any financial changes like then we would honor what they already agreed to in earlier in the year. >> I I just I recall speaking to certain
staff about this that they have been um what's the word I'm looking for? um a bit stringent on how they approved classes and I didn't know if maybe that creeped its way into this or if there's any other sort of change that maybe
potentially someone signed up to cap a course and because this is so late that maybe it's no longer a capable course. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> All right. Um with that, can I get a motion for the consent agenda? Make a motion to accept the consent agenda. I
will second. Right. Mrs. Williams, if you could please do a roll call vote. >> Mr. Figs. >> Yay. >> Mr. Armente, >> yay. >> Mrs. Applicate? >> Yay. >> Mrs. Bond, >> yay. Except for abstension on 5.02.
>> Thank you. Uh, Mr. Bucks. Yes, >> Mrs. Janice. >> Yes, >> Mr. Norwood. >> Yes, >> Mr. Zimmer. >> Yes, >> Mr. Zuzia. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, Mr. Lee, I believe there are no comments for this second time.
Um, future dates. Uh, as has been discussed a few times, we're tenative on the 17th for buildings grounds finance. Discussion will be had amongst the committee just to confirm. Um the 23rd, the community relations committee meeting will be in person prior to the
uh special meeting for the uh budget. Um and then moving there from there, we have policy and personnel meetings in April before the uh regular meeting on April 20th. Um is there any uh old business that anyone would like to refer back to a committee other than the
previously discussed regulation or to Dr. Zuckerman or Mrs. Williams for future report updates or any new business? All right. >> New b new business if that opportunity is open. >> Yep. >> So, I know tonight we uh we approved a
few items for out of district placements. And I know we've talked about there's been some discussion about um how we do regional funding formula and and who had who shares what from a um from a tax perspective. I'm curious if there's an opportunity since I think
you know we we all can probably agree that out of district placements become very expensive right and they they certainly um put have large impact to our budget is there an opportunity here in the way that the formula is done to accommodate or to somehow account for
maybe is a better word to account for the districts that may send us a higher number or somehow have out of district placements reflected in that formula since they are such a significant financial impact.
I don't know where that would go. I don't know what committee that would go into, but I I don't even know if that's even an opportunity or if it's state statute that drives that. >> Yeah. You mean like um somehow have that impact the tax levy? >> How would would it be possible to have
that account? So, today we do that based on ratables. We do it based on number of students that are here versus students in the elementary. Like I didn't know if there's a way to get this reflected somewhere in that formula. >> No, I mean the tax levy is purely um valuations and student counts and it
doesn't matter um if they're general ed or special ed. It is just a proration between our students and the elementary students. Um we do work with the elementary districts. We meaning Mrs. Peters, the child study team director, works with the elementary districts to
try and anticipate who is coming up and if they are in an out of district placement so that we're sure that we're budgeting for them and it's not a surprise. Um, but there's no other way to account for it at this point. >> That formula is driven by statute. We don't have the option to to account for that.
>> I can look at it further, but I believe it's purely driven by appropriations. I mean, not appropriations, valuations of property. And um >> so just so I understand we have four districts A, B, C, and D. >> Correct. >> And district A sends a lot of students
here that need special education, >> right? That out of district. >> Out of district >> and you're suggesting is there a way that we can >> tax account for that pay more because of that >> or just fairly account for it, right? So that you know each one of each one of
the sending districts today right pay based on their ratable base >> and the number of students they send here as a proportion of the number of students that are total in their districts. So we know there's a significant cost associated with out of district placements. Is there a way for
us to represent that in the allocations go back to the towns? So the rest of the towns are taxed fair. Everyone's taxed fairly. I think another thing we could think about is I mean really long term um is how do we grow programs within the school to meet the needs of those students. >> Yes.
>> Keeping like um in Westminster Plainsboro they have a larks program. They have an academy for emotionally challenged students so they don't have to send them out. So I mean it's a space issue though. So it's like you know how do you Jenga all those classrooms and you're pulling those offline for a
special program now. So >> that's the challenge, >> right? Yeah, because how would you predict to do what you're doing? I think I think you nailed it or like build the facilities and or build the capabilities
to offset that cost long term as opposed to try to predict and then >> try I'm not necessarily trying to predict. I know Miss Williams does that. She predicts for budget, right? She works with the local elementaryaries to understand who's currently out of district placements in each one of the
sending districts. Yes. so that we can forecast and we can budget accordingly. I'm not saying that we should do that that way. What I'm suggesting is that do we have a way to account for that when we allocate the levy back to the towns,
right? If one particular district sends a larger number or larger proportion of students that require out of district placements that that's somehow reflected back versus being shared >> meaning how much they would contribute. >> Yes. how that much they would contribute
the individual district versus it being spread across all of the seming districts. >> So if I were on town council, I would say that's your responsibility as the school to figure out how to accommodate students. If you don't if you don't have the capabilities to handle those
students within the district, then you should build those capabilities. But why would you charge me more money because you don't have the capabilities? >> Well, you talk about depending upon a placement, right? It could be a 80 90 $100,000 out of district placement, >> right? And if there's a
prepoundonderance of them that come from any particular district, >> why shouldn't that district, right, the the that particular township >> at least contribute a bit more to those costs versus the other townships? >> I think that's really beyond the scope
of our like purview. I think another, you know, issue to look at too is like interventions. like can we is there opport is this an opportunity to strengthen like our interventions programs um you know and expand perhaps um within the building uh within
existing programs. So I I think there's a lot of opportunity to kind of have those conversations and maybe bring them into the um strategic plan. So, I think it's a slippery slope kind of in in this discussion because right now we're talking about or it's being
discussed about uh special needs, >> right? Then we may have another district that has more students living um not living in the district and then maybe we may have a so then they're so then we're were gaining costs when they were were came from that district and
maybe the sending district didn't >> homeless >> homeless or or maybe even a student living who was in district A um when they when they entered northern but then they moved out of district. So now does that district now or maybe they were
never living in district A and then they're coming to district then Northern and then Northern finds out that they're not residents and then so does that district picked up that cost. I mean so there there's I think there are so many extenduating um circumstances and I think also one thing is that once they
come here they are northern students. They they arise from one of the sending districts. And I asked this because I know at one point in time there was a discussion not on this board, right, but but more broadly about does that become the responsibility of the county to fund
that those costs, right, versus the individual districts. Does this become a particular state funding, right? The state takes on those costs for those out of district placements versus the burden being left on the the local district. I so >> and I also think one of the challenges that maybe it's something that the board
wants to to entertain to to um petition the the legislators the the added district placements do are not beholden to the same 2% cost >> which is why they go up at exponentially right >> um to us and sometimes in the middle of the year.
>> So then it it so then those challenges also arise. If they had a 2% cost, it would allow us to budget much more um much more productively than because they sometimes their costs may we may be presented with a 20% increase to some of
those out of district placements. We do have an opportunity um around the May time frame to complete the extraordinary aid application and that's an opportunity where we can um report to the state um students who cost uh I want
to say in district it may be over 55,000 and out of district it may be over um maybe 60,000 and so we report to the state those costs and we usually have the opportunity to get some money back um there but other than that that is the
only um reimbursement. >> Okay. So, I don't know what committee even it would go to, but is it worth looking at what type of special needs we have and if you can like isolate them and say okay
70% of them are in this category and then strategically try to create the programs for that and then we become maybe that I know this is futuristic thinking but being a profit center for other people to send them here. It is absolutely conversation that that um
that Williams and I have had with with the with um Miss Peters about looking at that about how we can work to bring students back to district even if that's um even if that's growing a program as we also said what I what I also
requested though is that we do that in a start having a conversation now about what we're going to look to to build for the 2027 728 school year. So then we can begin to build those costs in and have the conversations with parents during
IEP meetings. I mean there's so many other so many things that have to happen in order to make that a reality. But yes, that is absolutely something that that we have talked about and that we will continue to talk about >> and and those are great ideas because the um costs are not just related to the
out of district placement. There are also transportation costs, right? um you know, taking one student out to Cherry Hill, you know, that um those costs add up pretty quickly. And we have had the opportunity to have, I want to say maybe two stu students come in as tuition
based and um and have programs here at Northern that fit from, I believe, Florence. >> And don't let Dr. sell himself short. I know he's been working on this for the last few years. I know we've brought people in. He's evaluated the program. He's had third parties come in to
evaluate the special education program. We have brought some out of district back in. I know there was a point in time where um the special ed team was meeting with the sun districts to see what the IEPs entailed and to make sure that it wasn't just saying your school
can't do what our AP says and being like well we do we just do it slightly differently and comparing. They've been doing those things the last couple years. I know when Dr. Zuckermanman first started, that was one of the early discussions he was having is how to improve the special education program to get more students to stay here and not
not be sent to other schools and not just placements. So, it is a it's not a new I mean, yes, he's still working on it and the feedback is great, but it's not a new thing. I know his team has been working on it and it has been a discussion that's been had over the last since he started here. So it is an ever
challenging problem, but I know it's a problem they are looking at and have been looking at and trying to improve. So >> and and do we apply for that extraordinary aid every year? Have we been consistent with with that? >> Yeah, absolutely. It's a report that we complete every year. >> Right. Is there any other new business
or old business? Anyone? >> Yeah, I have two questions. Um, so with the uh news of the 2.5 the potential 2.5 million budget gap, I'm sure we have contingency plans in place
or there's been some discussions in the finance committee about that. I I know you know you probably can't elaborate on that but >> yes we we've been talking about this for I don't know like eight months 10 month
I mean when um at least and we have um talked about the with the finance committee about things that we're planning on on reducing um the obviously our full goal is to not impact um students and and the instruction that that they receive and and I think that
we have a really solid plan to be able to do that Everything right now is predicated on the state aid we receive and what the the factual um numbers are for our healthcare increases >> and those numbers are going to be released tomorrow. Correct.
>> The state aid um numbers are going to be released tomorrow and >> I so she's definitely giving her address tomorrow. She does have two days to give us those numbers. So in a wonderful world we'll have them tomorrow but the latest we should have them by Thursday. >> All right. And you'll you'll let us know at the board.
>> Absolutely. Yep. immediately. That would be when the like >> it'll be in the news. >> Yes. But but by district like >> someone will report it usually. >> Yes. >> Yeah. And then uh the Hall of Fame award dinner. When is that? I'm sorry. And I'd like to go. >> That is a and April 24th is the Hall of
Fame um uh inductions. It is a Friday. It is going to be at the Bordontown Elks. Thank you for >> like >> confirmation of that. Um it is it's a larger space. Yes, it Um, and we're actually it's uh allowing it to be at a slightly reduction in cost as well.
>> That's right. >> Yep. And so any board member who is uh who is would like to go is certainly welcome to go at at no cost for for that. >> There may be. Yes. So >> please let uh Dr. Sh know if you do plan to go just so if there is any kind of
quorum thing we discuss it with the attorney to make sure. I know if there's no business being discussed, it's supposed to be permissible, but I just just so we are >> uh yeah, everyone's well aware of the uh situation. >> I said a different we can't attend.
>> No, I mean we can't we should be aware by letting me know ahead of time. We can make proper um arrangements. >> The only good budgetary news is that NEPA uh money did get approved with a tiny tiny increment. It's like the only program that actually got a little bit
more money this year. So the NAS fighting continues to work. NASA. >> Oh yes, >> they're f it's only $5 million increase across the whole program, but it's an increase which is rare >> in the grand. No, not for us for the entirety of all the NATO schools, >> but there is a small increase. So some
small good news and all that fighting on the hill does prove worthwhile. So um with that, there's nothing else. We do have an executive session. I I promise you it was just added today just and I will I will let you know. Sorry.
It will hopefully be very very brief. At least my portion will be brief pending discussions and so on. >> Motion to go to exec then. >> Yes. >> Go ahead. >> Motion to go to exec. Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed abstensions.
set up. You did a Macyver, huh? >> There's no way I would ever school. >> Brilliant. Oh, you have to prepare it now. >> I'm so done. I'm also waiting for this in a motion to return from executive session. >> Motion to come out of executive session.
>> Second. >> All right. All those in favor. >> All opposed. Abstensions. >> All right. A motion. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I abstensions. Nays. All right. Have a great night, everyone.
>> Thank you.