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 June 26, 2025. Notice filed with the Township Clerks of Chesterfield, Mansfield, North Handover, and Springfield Townships on June 26,
2025. Notice of the annual meetings advertised in the Bronson County Times and Times of Trenton on January 7th, 2025. Complete a roll call. Mr. Figs present. Mrs. Bond present. Miss Applegat present.
Mr. Armamente. Mr. Bucks. Mr. Narwood here. Miss Janice present. Mr. Spence. Mr. Zimmer here. Dr. Zuckerman and myself.
Um we will now um 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 which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. 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.
Absolutely. I hope everybody is having a a fantastic summer. August 1st means the start of the school year is right around the corner. As I travel across the district, I see all of the hard work that's being done to get ready for the students and our staff. And I'm so thankful for anybody, everybody who's
working behind the scenes. On tonight's agenda, you will see the appointment of Mr. Danielto fill the high school pal assistant principal opening. Mr. Dotto is coming with a very strong knowledge in the area of special education, behavior management, general
teaching, and learning. He is here this evening and will be a great addition to the high school administrative team. So we certainly welcome him to to the family. On this evening's agenda, you will also see the recommendation from Mr. Frank Corigliano. Just looking for confirmation on on that
I said that correctly. Uh to become the next athletic director for Northern Burlington County Regional School Districts. Mr. C Corigliano is coming to Northern Burlington with experience in the position of athletic director, experiencing working within the military with the military community and coming
with a number of innovative ideas to further develop the connection between our district and the community. I excited I'm excited for both of these candidates to join our administrative team and we certainly welcome both of them. So, thank you. Between the time of Dr. Yuzaki's last
day and Mr. Curliano's start date. We have a fiveweek gap in time without an athletic director. It is my recommendation that we hire an interim athletic director to fill the gap in time. The start of the school year is a very busy time in the athletic department, including the start of fall
sports at the high school and the middle school, middle school tryyous, anticipated opening of our turf field. The interim interim would help us manage the interim would help us manage these events without any hiccups. We would use the budgeted salary for the
athletic director to fund the interim position. It is my goal to have a recommendation for this position to you as a non-consent item on the August 11th agenda. On this evening's agenda, you will also see an update to policy 2110, the philosophy of education and the district
mission statement. This policy has been updated to include the new mission statement that was shared with the board during the June meeting and the mission statement was also recently reviewed by the community relations committee during our July meeting. The committee supported moving forward with the proposed mission statement with a
suggestion of prioritizing the main skills that are highlighted in the document. The mission statement is updated in the mission statement updated in this policy reflects these changes in the changes shared expressed by the community this past school year.
Prior to the end of the school year, the students, staff, and community members completed a culture and climate survey. This survey as asked the participants to provide feedback on a variety of aspects in our district. I reviewed these results with the community relations committee during our July meeting and I
will share the results with the full board at our September meeting. A summary of these a summary of these results are located in my August report if anybody wants to review ahead of time. And lastly, I've recently been named to the as the New Jersey chair for the National
Association of Federally Impacted Schools for Napus. And I've also been named to the board for the Military Impacted School Association, Misa. Both roles will allow me to to continue to advocate for our military families and allow Northern Burlington to have a voice in future plans. That completes my
report for this evening. Are there any questions? All right. Thank you, Dr. Zuckermanman. Uh Mrs. Williams, if you'd like to give us your very first BA report. Um, short and sweet. My um report
included that there are two board of education seats um terms expiring for North Handover. Um there have been two petitions filed for those um seats by Michael Figs and Kevin Zimmer. I did admit admit from my report that there is also a Chesterfield seat expiring and
Laura Bond has filed a petition for that seat. Um, my report included a report from Mr. McKe about the buildings and grounds and all the activity that is happening this summer. Um, some of the highlights include LED lighting projects that will be completed this week at the
high school and the middle school. Um, the new gymnasium bleachers are expected to be installed by August 8th. Um, this week we expect the footings and inspections to happen and footings and inspections to happen for the auditorium. Um that is a little bit of a
delay, but I've been told that we are still on progress with um our expected completion date. And after that is completed, we should really start seeing some stuff moving on that site, some activity happening. Um the turf project is moving along very nicely. We have a
targeted completion date um and opening expected midepptember. And lastly, um New Jersey school board conference is scheduled for October 22nd to October 24th. The theme this year is your ticket to your tickets to big ideas and bright futures. And if you guys
could discuss with me tonight your plans on attending. That's it. Thank you. So the report from buildings and grounds, Bill McKay's report, is that is that going to be attached next week or because of we it should be embedded now?
We don't have Thank you. Uh, any other questions? Thank you, Mrs. Williams. Um, items 2.03 and 2.04 are consent agenda items. Any questions or comments on these items?
All right. Um, committee reports. Uh, Mrs. Bond, do you want to give a report this week or next week on the community relations from July? Oh, Tina. Oh, my apologies. Do you want to do it this week or next week? Do you have a next week? Okay.
Yeah. Um and we will uh I will wait for delegate reports next week when Mr. Bucks and Mr. Aminante are here as well. Um at this time, uh Dr. Stella, if you're ready for the NJ GPA presentation. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Figs.
Welcome everyone and the presentation that we're giving this evening on the class of 2025 as well as the cohort data for uh the class of 2026 in terms of NJPA our components of our uh CUSAC review. So we go through these at
specific times of the year and then telling you now that in October that's when we'll also have the other data report on the students the NJSLA. So two times a year we look at some assessment scores. uh you should be able to uh view this presentation a little closer uh as
it is linked in the U administrative section of the agenda item. Okay. So this year we graduated 328 students and our students have a New Jersey assessment graduation requirement and most of our students graduate uh via
the NJGPA, the New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment. But those that have some challenges on meeting the um cut scores of those two assessments access their graduation or complete their graduation assessment requirement
via a o other pathways that the state provides. Uh so we had 54 of our students use one of the substitute competency tests something like the SAT, the PSAT or a score on the ACUPPLACER. And some of our students, 65 for this
year, graduated via an appeal, a portfolio appeal process where they work internally with a math and or an English teacher. They complete a variety of performance assessment tasks that are locally scored and then their score submitted to the state. So, it's this
time of year when our uh rising seniors receive their score and their status at this time of the year. And that sometimes causes concerns that they're unaware of what they'll need to be able to be graduation ready. And we assure all of our families that we uh there are
variety of pathways and we will assure them that they will meet the um benchmarks when it is time. Mr. Lee, if you could advance for me. I don't think the clicker is working. Okay. So this evening we have the NJGPA
score report to share from 2025. Next, Mr. Lee's advancing for me since the clicker doesn't seem to be working. So a brief overview is this assessment's administered to all students in grade 11. that's given in March and it measures their readiness for graduation
relative to two content areas. They receive a score report for each and the score uh the English portion is relative to grade 10 standards and the math is assessed on algebra 1 and geometry. Okay, thank you. While the Department of
Education has not yet communicated the alternate pathways for the class of 2026, the information on the website still goes through the class of 2025. We're anticipating that we will receive communication by the end of this month that will reiterate that uh the students
are eligible to retake this assessment in both October and in March and then again have access to an alternate pathway. Again, this has not yet been communicated, but we anticipate they'll be able to use the PSAT, the SAT, or some other compet competency tests. And
then finally, they will have access to a a portfolio appeal process. Our preliminary data relative to the state performance indicates and we'll use blue as the color that we're following through for the English language arts portion in the remaining
slides and a gray one a tone of gray for the math. So relative to the state our students did outperform in u terms of both content areas English language arts and math. we move on to a multi-year comparison of
how our students have done. Now, these this is not cohort data. These are different uh graduating classes of students over the last four years who have taken this assessment. Uh and so we know that while this was field tested as
we were just coming out of COVID, we also see that as the students have performed relatively similarly, their experiences were widely different. Um so the the um the test has been um you know again around for a few years at this
point and our students continue to you know perform at about an approximately similar level. We drill down and we show you the data by subgroup. And so what you're looking at here is the data in the first two columns again English language arts in
blue and mathematics in gray to show how all of our students performed. uh knowing that the student population also includes any of our outofdist placements. So those would particularly be students represented in the uh third subgroup there of the students with
disabilities. But again showing how they're performing in both content areas by a few of our subgroups. Now we're looking at for English language art language arts only how the same three subgroups have performed over
the last three administrations. But again these are not the same groups of students. These are uh graduating classes of 2023 no 204 25 and 26 because the assessment
is administered in grade 11. So it's one grade prior to the grade that you're seeing on the bottom. And so relatively performing relatively similarly with some growth shown in the students with disabilities category. In mathematics, you see a marked
difference improvement in students with disabilities in the mathematics portion between last year and this year. Again, we're not uh saying for certain that that's attributed to our schedule implementation since the skills assessed were algebra 1 and geometry and these
students would be beyond that when they're taking this assessment. So, we'll continue to monitor uh to see if we can isolate u you know what are is causing some improvements. But again, it's not cohort data. These are different groups of students. We're not comparing apples to apples. We look at
our um ethnic subgroups as well and we see how our students are performing in general in relationship again English language arts in blue and mathematics in gray. And the next two slides show you again a comparison of these populations over the
last three years trending around the same performance levels. In math we do see some increases with few of our subgroups. So that is showing some growth and overall as we shared we have outperformed the state in terms of the
number of students who are graduation ready. We did see a significant improvement uh for um students with disabilities in some areas and we do anticipate continued growth as uh the schedule change is um providing students with a greater opportunity to go a
little deeper in content as they prepare for the assessment. So again focusing on our class of 2026, the uh population in green have met their graduation assessment requirement at this point and we will focus our efforts on the students in yellow who uh
were scored not graduation ready. We do some intervention with them in uh the first several weeks of school leading up to the October administration and then they can also participate in the portfolio if needed. And we do have as students uh come in from other states or
um didn't assess for whatever reason, we have a few students that we will still need to obtain an preliminary score for in October. I've been talking about the interventions as we've been working through these slides and so we have them listed there just again for review.
And the last component of our presentation this evening is a brief focus on how our English learners are doing. they take uh an access for L's assessment in the spring and that is to determine if they're going to continue receiving English language services or
if they're going to be exited from the program to no longer need that remediation or that support. And so on for that assessment, an exit score of 4.5 qualifies the students uh to no longer receive services. And you can see here our population in the high school
uh slightly larger than the the population in the middle school. A number of our students were the members of the class of 2025 who just graduated. But we did have some students perform at the level to exit. And so you see at the the last row there, our population for
this year that was as of June, knowing that we still have to review the assessment scores of the students when they took it in grade six and any new students that we have to assess as they enter. And so you see the languages there represented by our population. And
we continue to provide those supports. We are making a slight change to uh personnel delivering these services. We're going to have an in a different individual in each building this year. Um so that the particularly the teacher in the high school will be in the
building during the lunch and opportunity period. So to provide again some more continuity to the support that those students are getting and uh the middle school doesn't have the same structure in terms of a schedule where they need that sort of home base. So we're anticipating that that will
support our high schoolers even better in the coming year. And if the board has any questions now, we're happy to discuss them. I have one. So, this is uh really going to show my ignorance. Um, from what I got out of there, over 200 students in
both the ELA and the math are qualified to graduate now and we're focusing on the other ones to get them there. So, the basic question is why haven't they graduated? Why do we make them sit for a senior year when they've already accomplished everything they
so the assessment requirement is one piece of of the graduation readiness. They also have all of the other components of four years of English um number of years of you know different requirements as well as the experience of having 130 credits in our district
120 credits in New Jersey. So, we do have uh some requirements that they haven't met. If students are obtaining about 40 credits a year, uh they would, you know, be on track to graduate potentially early. And we do have students who uh each year will apply. Our policy is by the end of the freshman
year they need to indicate if they wish to grad be a three-year grad. Right. All right. So basically for the for the English classes or whatever classes that I have to do, they just basically have to show up and pass the course,
right? I mean, they have to get a passing grade. And as long as they have a passing grade to obtain the credits in order to get to the 130 and to also have robust experiences in all of the other elective courses and career preparation and college preparation that they get.
I think it's a great question. I mean it fundamentally I get it but part of what I love about our district is a variety of activities that the students can participate in from whether from the the shop classes to the AP to the the aggra science and it really gives those students an opportunity to explore those
areas too. Yeah. I'm not saying that you know having the high school experience isn't important. I think it's very important. I mean I think it's great but I'm just looking and trying to figure out you know. Sure. Okay. Any other questions? Mrs. I just wanted to say thank you for putting together those three-year comparisons on
the fly. Absolutely. My pleasure. All right. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you, Dr. Stella. Uh Mr. Lee, if you have any comment. All right. Um since tonight is the work
session, we will not be uh voting on the consent agenda. I will go through um each section uh wrap the section. If any has any specific consent agenda items they'd like to discuss or question uh feel free to bring them up. Uh section five is uh routine matters reports to
the boards. Any question on section five section six is approval of bills. Any questions or comments for section six? All right. Section seven is business and financial. Any comments or questions for section 7?
I have a question. 708 um change order number four for the windows. Um was that in the original um alternate bids or was this something that's been added since we did the alternate bids?
Yeah. So, no, it was not in the original bid for the auditorium. It is related to the cafet um courtyard project. So, the courtyard project now, but it's still listed as the 189. Was this something that was missed by the architect or was this
something that's just new? Because I'm just wondering why we're just ratcheting up the cost. So, we knew what the cost was. Now, we have a change order for another $39,000 for windows. Why weren't these windows included in the original plans?
I cannot speak to why they weren't included in the original plan. And so my understanding was that the courtyard um was budgeted separately and then added to the auditorium as an addendum um to continue the work that's doing that's
happening here with Ogrren. The windows and the courtyard were budgeted in the 2526 budget outside separate of the cost of the auditorium. Um I believe that was the plan. The cost is in the 2526 budget. Does that answer your question?
Well, I was just wondering if this is something that wasn't in the budget. That's something new. That's all I'm asking. Windows are new. It was something that was missed by the architect. Something that was missed originally in the whole thing. No, the windows were in the 2526 budget with the cost of the courtyard.
Okay. Thank you. Right. Um, any other questions or comments for section 7? All right. Uh section 8 students. Any questions or comments for section 8? All right. Uh section 9 is personnel
appointments. Um any questions or comments for the consent agenda items in section 9. All right. Um with that, uh 9.19 is non-consent agenda item for the approval of the certificated appointment. Um can
I get a motion for 9.19? And then a second. Second. Right. Laura Chesterfield. Does anyone have any uh comments, questions, or discussion for 9.19? All right. Miss Williams, if you could do a roll call vote, please.
Mr. Figs, yay. Mrs. Bond, yes. Mrs. Applegate, yay. Uh, Mr. Norwood, yes. Miss Janice, yes. And Mr. Zimmer, yes. Motion passes. All right. Uh 9.20 is the
non-contention agenda item for the approval of the certificated appointment. Uh can I get a motion for 9.20? Make a motion for 9.20. And a second. All right. Um any comments, questions,
or discussion on 9.20? All right. Uh Mrs. Williams, if you could please do roll call vote. Sure. Mr. Figs. Yay. Mrs. Bond. Yes, Miss Applegate. Yay. Mr. Narowid. Yes, Miss Janice. Yes, Mr. Zimmer. Yes.
Motion passes. Uh, we have no consent items in section 10. Uh, section 11 is leaves of absence. Any questions or comments for section 11? All right. Uh, section 12 is separation of employment. Any questions or comments
for section 12? All right. Uh, section 13 is personnel miscellaneous. Any questions or comments on section 13? All right. Section 14's programs. Any comments or questions for section 14? All right. Section 15 is policy. Any
comments or questions on section 15? Section 16, transportation. Uh any comments or questions on section 16? All right. Uh section 17 is use of facilities. Any comments or questions on
section 17? Yeah, I just was curious about the turf field when the changes with use and and you know how that's going to fold into um the new I think we talked a little bit about the athletic programming and
the the director the positions and whatnot. If you could speak to that that would be great. if I can possibly speak to that in September. There's a proposal I just want to share with the building new grounds committee. Um just and I just don't want to get in front of that to kind of speak about it without kind of
having a discussion and seeing if if they suggest any potential modifications and and so on. Okay. So, but I that that is forthcoming. We're just going to be talking about at our next meeting and I'll also share that with the personnel committee as well. Fair enough.
Yeah. Yeah, I know we talked about the the fields going through most of the committees because policy will have an effect on it and finance and each of them. So, I think as we have open up these committee report meetings, I think each each committee will end up talking about it in some way, shape or form as as the year starts.
Yeah, Mr. Figs, I apologize. I had a question on 718. It had to do with the donation for the baseball team. I guess it was rings. Yes. Um, all in favor of that. I think it's great. Is there going to be like some ceremony where you call all the students back or something like that? Right.
Because I got to imagine a lot of them were seniors. Yeah. So, if I if I may. Um, so with that each it's actually in the athletic um handbook as far as like a tier like if they win um the conference they we x amount of money. If they win uh the the
section it's x amount of money and if obviously for state. So the district um provided that amount of money that we said that we would um put towards each students towards the rings. The families then picked up the the other cost and I think they actually decided to get like
a some sort of a jacket or some sort of like like um clothing and also the the rings within that. Um we have I have already talked with the coaches and actually I actually talked with the graduating seniors at graduation about having them come back in September. I think there's only one student that may
be a couple hours away at school and he even said that he would come back. Um so we're going to plan on that um doing that I believe at um the September or one of the October board meetings. We're going to see what fits best with the kids schedules. Yep.
All right. Um Mr. Lee, do we have any public comment on non-aggenda items? No. All right. uh future dates. Um next week there is a personnel committee meeting before before the regular board meeting. Um and
then September um I know there's a regular board meeting. I think we're moving the buildings grounds finance transportation committee meeting to be able to have facilities tour prior to that meeting. So, um I know that wasn't in any of the reports at this point, but board just be aware that there will be the facilities tour um of the school
prior to the board meeting uh before the September 8th regular board meeting. Um does anyone have any um old business they'd like to request an update from from Dr. Zuckermanman or Mrs. Williams or any new business they'd like to refer
to a committee? All right. And with that, we we have no executive session tonight. We do not. We will have an executive s it's anticipated we'll have an executive session after Monday's meeting. Okay. Uh then can I get a motion for adjournment?
All right. All in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Have a great night, everyone.