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. Zuckerman, if you'd like to give your superintendent report, please. >> Absolutely. I will uh begin by uh
deferring to Mr. Dagley for the student representative report. >> Uh yep. I'm just going to give you guys some updates uh from the last month and ever since the last meeting. So uh the National Honor Society's inducted over 120 members on Thursday, December 4th.
Uh congrats to all those uh who were inducted. Uh the Relay for Life is off to a a strong start with fundraising as later uh last week they made it to the final two teams and giving a campaign against all the other teams in the country. Uh a lot of money was raised and many teams uh teams and team members
were recruited. Uh the final showdown was on the on this uh last Tuesday where they raised $5,000 in the Northern Burlington Relay for Life came in first place um becoming like the champions of the fall fumble challenge as well. Uh for the band, four talented members of the Northern Burlington band program
were selected to perform the Rowan University Winfest Honor Band on December 2nd uh in the Rowan University in Glasbor. Uh the Windfest Honor Band is a prestigious event that brings together 146 of the top high school musicians from 26 schools across New Jersey uh Pennsylvania, Delaware, and
New York as well. Uh for FFA, they held their annual plant sale over the weekend. Uh they still have many beautiful plans for sale uh for the holidays, and you can order them additional centerpieces as well uh from Mrs. uh Zavoski's floral design class. And some upcoming events is the choir
concert is uh Tuesday, December 11th at 7 p.m. The band concert is next Thursday uh December 18th at 7 p.m. Uh the Health Science Club is holding a holiday toy drive for kids and teens from Sea Hop from now until December uh 11th as well.
There's a box at the main for any gifts uh students, staff, or families wish to donate. as well. Uh, student council uses snowman to allow staff uh to sponsor families in the community for the holidays. Uh, each snowball has a gift purchase. Also, uh, offices, the main office or the board of education as
well. Uh, lastly, our sports team have either already begun the competition or have scrimmages this week and begin this week as well. And we are excited to see where our winter athletes uh, celebrate success success their season as well. Uh, that's it. Yeah.
>> Thank you so much. Um on Friday, December 5th, we announced the 2026 Northern Burlington Educators of the Year. Uh we followed the the guidelines as identified by the New Jersey Department of Education where we recognize a teacher from each building along with an educator support
professional which includes uh the categories of nurse, guidance counselor, child study team, athletic trainer, etc. As we started to last year, the district also recognized one support staff member for the entire district. I'm thrilled to share with you that the
middle school representatives uh this year are m for the teacher of the year is Mr. Rob Goldstein. And for the ESP of the year is Mrs. Megan Brennan, one of our child study team members. For the high school, uh the teacher of the year is Miss Mrs. Katherine Farley. And the
ESP of the year is one of our guidance counselors, Mrs. Casey Fouts. And the New Jersey support professional of the year is Miss Deb McMullen. uh Miss McMullen oversees all of our our she's our data specialist for the district. All are extremely um worthy of this
recognition and we're certainly very very proud of of of all of them. The in my recent report to the board uh you will see the committee interest form which we send out every year since we have the same board returning um after January. We just wanted to get a jump
start on that. We'll share the the results with the uh after the reorganization meeting with the with the president. So then we can hopefully look to get those committees set up prior or on or prior to the um the board retreat which will happen on the 27th of
January. As suggested at our last meeting, I've organized a uh folder system where we'll include the committee information uh not only for the the current for the agendas and the minutes. Um, as you'll see if you open that up, I began with a 2025
folder. Also have already started a 2026 folder where we'll continue to populate uh for for that for next year. And the the recent agendas are also included in 2025 folder. Um, lastly, I just wanted to share with the with the board that on
this evening's agenda, you will see an action plan for chronic absenteeism. Chronic absenteeism when any student has 18 or more un um unexcused absences in accordance with the state approved absences for the 2425 school year. The
high school had 17% of the the student body had 18 or more absences and the middle school had 12% of the student body that had 18 or more absences. If you recall, we had a similar uh similar numbers for the action plan that was developed last year.
this. And however, last year in the action plan, we had the we began having the the counselors have conversations individually with the students, have the counselors uh in call home. The the high the high school and middle school administration also got involved with making personal phone calls and even
having in-person meetings if needed to be able to um correct some of the the concerns. According to the New Jersey Department of Education, the following are seen as reasons for for approved absences. Religious holidays, college visits for 11th and 12th graders, take
your child to work day, and participation in the civic event, civic events, and I believe you're up to up to, I think, two or three days for that. At Northern Burlington, we do allow doctor's notes to count as excused absences, but they count as unexcused
absence absences for the state because they are not under the the New Jersey Department of Education approved absences. Over the next few months, I'll be working with my administrative team to look into this and investigate it and also propose a plan to the board which we'll review by obviously the various
committees. Um the and just so you're aware, our plan may be to uh limit or to eliminate the doctor's notes count as the counting as excused absences. This does not mean that parents can't take their children. This would not mean that parents can't take their children to a
doctor, but it would be following the New Jersey Department of Education guidance that that would still count as an unexcused absence. Our full goal is to have the students in school because while when the students are in school then we can obviously educate them the best that we can. But again this is just
projecting the we will I will be providing a recommendation to the board uh prior to taking any action. Any questions? I figured that was going to come up with some questions. >> There we go. Oh wow. That was really loud. Um I want to make sure I heard you
right. You said that the New Jersey State Department of Education does not consider a doctor's note an excused absence. >> That is correct. >> Have we considered communicating the Department of Education to make sure that's actually their intent?
>> Oh, I know it's factual. It's it's in statute. >> Do they give a reason? they they only list those certified um those reasons that I mentioned as as approved absences. Northern and some other
districts do allow that, but I think that provides some of the confusion that we have. I think some parents see, oh, it's an excuse absence. I'm good. >> So, I guess is there something I'm missing? I guess, right? Why is why is
there this discrepancy? Why would that not be considered by the DOE? uh an excused absence. That just doesn't make any sense to me. >> It never has been. Uh there's number of districts who who do not who only allow the New Jersey Department of Education approved absences. Oh, wow.
>> And other and so there's even BCIT recently made the change a couple years ago. Uh where I worked previously, we did that probably about 10 years ago, we made the change. Um, again, I think it gives a a false the concern I have is that if a if a parent thinks that it's
excused by Northern they don't see our state reporting and now all of a sudden now it completely changes the narrative when we have 17% high school students as with with um excess with chronic absenteeism. It just it blows my mind in a state where, you know, we had such a
an overreaction to a pandemic several years ago that we're now in the situation where a a sick visit to your doctor is not considered an excuse absent. That just that seems ridiculous to me. So, I'll jump off my soap box. But >> I have a question. Do you have the data
with like isolating the doctor's notes percentage versus like do we know what the percentage absences without like >> I don't know that off the top of my head. I it is something that we can get. I can get the the number of district approved absences versus the the pardon
me I can get the district approved absences versus state approved absences. >> Well, I'm trying to get to what what is like non doctor's notes and non-state approved. So like if you were to isolate to see if this would help like you're absolutely like I'm looking to see like what the real percentage of people that
are just missing school with no excuse. >> We certainly have that. >> I I don't know >> because I don't know if that's I don't I don't know if taking the the sick note is going to help your percentage without seeing that metric. You know what I mean? >> So and and I I hear we and and I am I'm
going to look at my principles to see if I'm accurate on this information. I'd probably say 80 to 83% of our students do not have a problem and and they're under the the the chronic absenteeism then percentage. Obviously with a high school having 17% it would be 83% and
and so on. So the majority of our students this is not the issue. I think sometimes we need leverage when we're talking to those parents about the the urgency to get their students here and I think that that this we need to set up a plan so then we they do have the priority of attending of attending
school. >> Yeah. Because I mean admittedly as a parent when I I assume that if my kids sick I'm not sending them to school and it's excuse. So I'm I do I do agree with you like from a parent perspective that is like I'm kind of like I'm good
because they were excused, right? Right. >> But I'm also not sending my kids in if they're >> Agreed. And and that's So now I'm going to speak on the other side of my out of the other side of my mouth that we don't let students to attend when when they're sick. >> But again, so I mean I I I'm I recognize
that I'm speaking out of both sides of my mouth on that. But again, this is why we want to why I'm just trying to forecast and let you know that we are going to be working on a plan and I will certainly bring it to the various committees and also to the full board. But I I do think that metric would be good to see like what because if it's
not going to help your students then be a lot of work for >> understood. >> So so can I ask clarity on that? So we allow a student to be excused if they bring a doctor's note but when we report
that doesn't count. So do we just can't we just show bolt statistics? Right? Cuz it seems silly to me that we would care about the state mandate when they excuse a kid for take your kid to work day as a
legitimate excuse, but they won't if a child comes down with I don't know like SARS, right? You don't get an excuse note. So, can we maybe when we share it, share what our rule is and what that percentage is versus the state mandate
because that'll help it put it in perspective as to what we really care about because we should care about our policy, not what the state does in the situation because the state is silly. >> I I don't disagree with anything you said there. However, the board also has
to um recognize that if we make that decision, then we're our scores on CUSAC could be impacted or some of the the other reporting for the state that that's on our school performance reports would be impacted based on the the the NJ DOE data, not the school data. I
>> I'm not intimating we shouldn't do that. I'm just saying if we could know what it is with with doctor's notes included, that percentage, it'll help us measure like what's real. Absolutely not like what we report we have to report. But if we could know that well absences when you take into consideration doctor's
notes is really 3%. Well then we don't really have a real issue here or problem. But if it's 17% and we're worried about that because the state doesn't recognize illnesses at least the urgency could be done. >> Understood. >> Does that make sense? >> I when we when I provide the recommendation I will share that
information but I'll probably share that information with the board prior to that. >> That's fine. Cool. Thank you. and and ultimately the CQAC impact right impacts us as a board and and a district as a whole, >> right? So I think Frank the the point I guess in all this is that
it feels like it's a tool to bend the will of the board to the Department of Education's perspective on how school should operate. At least that's my perspective, right? Individually, right, for something that doesn't seem to make any sort of logical sense at all.
Maybe you could bring something up at the state meeting and share with them that their policy is >> I certainly could. >> Dubious at best. >> Yeah, I mean we had an audience with the DOE. Absolutely. But >> yeah. >> All right. Are there any other questions for Dr. Zuckermanman superintendent report?
>> All right. Uh Mrs. Williams, if you'd like to give your business administrator's report, please. >> Sure. >> Um I'll be quick and to the point. So, um just an update on impact aid. We have received our first payment for impact aid. So, the staff is in place and have
been able to get payments out um really quickly. Impact aid surveys, we continue to um collect try to collect the um forms from students who haven't turned it in. We have about 65 outstanding from students who we know live on base. Um and we'll work with the school leaison
on base to get those um remaining forms. Um the auditor um from Holt McN uh reported today to the buildings grounds transportation and finance committee on the audit for 2425. Um I'm happy to report that there were
no audit audit findings for the 25 um 2425 school year. Um the auditorium continues to progress well. Um they are delivering additional steel here to um this week. Um the cold weather has held off but has slowed down the masons a
little bit but there's a lots of steel going up so we're still progressing well. And lastly um I'm pleased to um recommend Mr. Jason Bickers for the position of um director of facilities at tonight's meeting. Um Jason brings over
15 years of experience in school facilities management. He's here at the meeting tonight. I believe you all had an opportunity to meet him. So, um I think he'll be a welcome I know he'll be a welcome addition to Northern. And that's it. >> I have a quick question. Um back in
November, we had said that the impact aid and the junior ROC reimbursement was at risk. Yeah. >> Uh you obviously just explained about the impact aid, but what about the junior ROC? You might have had it in your report and I missed it. >> No, no, I didn't. We have not I have not received a statement yet. So I'm not
sure when those state um payments are going to start back up. Um so usually we get a statement and we know um from them documenting what we're going to get. So I have not received any information on that yet. >> Any other questions on the business business administrator's report?
All right. Um item 2.03 is consent agenda item for the approval of the HIV reports. Item 2.04 4 is consent agenda for approval of the superintendent reports. Um this time I believe we have
um a couple committee reports. Um Dr. Sman, do you want to start with curriculum or Mr. Narwood if you're ready for personnel? >> I'm ready. >> All right. Uh Mr. Norwood, if you would. >> Okay. The personnel committee met back on November 10th. Um we discussed and reviewed uh several staffing updates.
Some of the updates included the applicants and interview process for the facilities director, explanations about the internal transfers and other positions and backfilling for new openings, information about the community scheduler position, and an update on a new high school assistant
principal and athletic director. Um, we also discussed upcoming initiatives where we are looking at purchasing onboarding software that will allow us to have more efficient onboarding process that would allow the future uh allow future employees to have instant updates to their documents that are and
are not acceptable. Updating our onboarding process will also allow the HR department to run reports of outstanding items uh instead of looking through each individual file. Uh, it'll definitely be a timesaver. Um, also we discussed some of the uh items that
could have an impact on our fiscal year 27 budget. Uh, dealing with six period teachers uh increase uh contractual increases within um some of the uh units um with anticipated increases in health
care. Um we could have teachers change the benefit plans during open enrollment which could result in additional costs for the district. um and some other um general uh personnel information was relayed to us. Other than that, that's
the report. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Arwood. Does anyone have any questions regarding the personnel committee minutes? All right. Uh Dr. Zuckermanman, if you'd like to give the curriculum committee minutes, please. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Um the committee spent the majority of the time talking
about the high school program of studies for the 202627 school year. Dr. Stella began by providing an overview of the scheduling process um as well as identified how and why programs have changes to them over the um from one
year to the next. Miss Fitzgerald discussed about um the inclusion of the the course sele or discussed the the core selection process um as well as how the charts help really identify the sequence. Each of the directors then explained the proposed changes for their
respective departments uh which were outlined on the on the chart in the in the document that the committee was provided. Um several months ago we discussed about the state assessment data and obviously our our with the intent and the need to
improve our our language arts um uh data from for the future. Um so Dr. Quente Irvin uh discussed not only about the program the plans that are in place now but also projecting ahead to the impact that's that's going to be received from
our district strategic plan. And finally the the committee also discussed in uh in pretty good detail about the chronic absenteeism as well as about the the potential uh remedies that we have for the future similar to the conversation that that the board discussed this
evening after my report. Um that concludes the minutes. Are there any questions for the curriculum committee? Right. Uh Mr. Bucks, do you have any updates from NJSBA? >> I do. I don't have a a written report. I'll try to uh put this together for
you. There were um there were ultimately uh three resolutions that ended up before the delegate assembly. Um after some interesting discussion and procedural wrangling at the delegate assembly, um two of those resolutions were actually rescended
um at the request of the boards that originally put them forward and one was uh approved. So if anybody wants details, I can those get to those details. Um and then the other item on the agenda was the installation of two new officers and that was done by a vote
of acclamation based on the uh report of the nominee committee that was for president and one of the vice president positions. Um so in a nutshell that is what had happened there. But the um it was quite uncommon to see two um
resolutions that were put forward. the the resolution subcommittees uh did all the work and made recommendations and then the um the local sponsoring boards then pulled them back. It's kind of an unusual sort of circumstance. So, >> thank you.
>> Thank you, Mr. Bucks. Anyone have any questions? Right. Uh Mr. Arminente, any updates for BCSBA? >> We did have our um monthly meeting. Um we it was not super eventful from main the
main events, but um we did have an update that talked about um any needs um for next year going into our um uh school board association like if we need them to come to any of our events and if
they need any training. He reiterated his um willingness to come in for anything that we need. Um and then uh Chesterfield gave a uh really good presentation on how they're doing their education and how they're walking through the curriculum with the
students. Um there was so much like that took up 90% of the meeting. There was so much packed into what uh Chesterfield's doing. I highly recommend that if you're interested in seeing the notes and what their process is um to go on their website and take a look at what at what
they've put in place uh throughout their school. Um the biggest highlights there were I think there's some things that they're doing there on how they do curriculum and how they work through the different needs of the kids that would be very interesting to perhaps have them
even come in here and present to us uh a short presentation or even a medium presentation. um they're very, how would I put it? Um future thinking of the way that we educate children. Um I don't want to do
it any injustice by trying to explain it because there's so much to it, but um it might be something if you're interested in talking about that we could get them. They would love to come and talk to us about what they're doing. If anything, it could be beneficial for our other member schools like Mansfield. Um I know
their members of their board attended and they were just blown away by by what they're doing and thinking about how it could maybe reshape the way they do curriculum. Uh it's definitely different uh in their approach but been very successful and I I have a feeling there's going to be some awards coming their way as as they start to get the
results. That was the one key takeaway at the end was that they're in the second year of three years and it won't be until next year where they can see what they implemented. Are they actually seeing test scores go up? are they seeing engagement with uh kids going up? Uh they take a very different approach
to it. So I encourage people to go that's about 90% of the meeting talked about ELF and participating and and other things but nothing else that was really of note except for that presentation. >> Miss I have a meeting a regional meeting uh next week and then I'm I'm happy to
bring it up even I mean it intrigues me. I I'm I'm going to look to see if I can go visit it just to kind of see it in action. >> Yeah. and and I spoke briefly with their superintendent who was part of the presentation and he said he would be thrilled to share with you and as I said even come and talk to us if we wanted to
hear about it >> that's it thank you >> we can take a step back there was one other one other uh bit of information I also um had the opportunity to meet our field service rep u Mr. Right. And he uh
we had we struck up a conversation and there was u it kind of focused on you know New Jersey schoolboard Association has been pushing their new policy service. Um and I think I forwarded out to some of you uh today because there was just a notice today around it. They're really kind of pushing this. Uh
Mr. Wright said that he would come out and meet with us and present to us or do whatever we want to do. We are potentially interested in that. And it wasn't um until uh Mr. Mr. Armanante had made a made a comment there made me remember that. So if that's something the policy committee is interested or
the board as a whole is interested in um it sounds like we could get our field service rep out here to um to give us a presentation on some of the benefits. >> Yeah, great. I know we have a policy meeting planned to be scheduled in the new year to make up for the December
one. So yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, I know that's one of the topics of discussion for that agenda is is weighing the the advantages of the new NJSBA policy manual and it's fact that it's free. I saw the their one email with the signup list just to get their alerts and get their updates. Um, like
you said, with it being free, I know that's definitely on our agenda for our next meeting to discuss. >> And he seemed he seemed to communicate that he was um he was pretty well verssed in what they were doing with it. So, it might be useful for us as a committee maybe to have him out. >> Yeah. Great. Thanks.
Um on the uh legislative side, um as I kind of mentioned last meeting, it's a little bit of a a lame dunk right now. Um with the governor change over, you know, a lot of committees are still making uh moves. Um I won't go into too much detail, but I will actually point out two. Um the Senate Military and
Veterans Affairs Committee actually put forth two. Um one is actually based on enrollment flexibility for military connected students. So, it's one we definitely want to pay attention to as our board. Um, it does deal with topics that we've had to come across um with
military students moving their continuity um for 11th and 12th grades actually is part of it. So, obviously it may be a while before it gets anywhere, but it's definitely um one that I have kind of flagged to try to pay attention to. Um, and in addition, they had
another one they put forth for uh remote participation for members of the armed service. So, in the instance that the Northern Burlington board ever did have someone from North Ann be elected who is an active military uh member, they would be able to remotely vote and take part
in the meeting even if not present. Um, obviously neither of those are official legislations, but they've been put forward by that committee. So, um, those two were a little more close to our school and so I kind of took note of them to kind of pay attention and see if they make it and where they get from
there. So, um, like I said, otherwise there's a lot of committees throwing throwing forth ones with the anticipation of the new governor. So, those two just kind of stood out to me when I was reviewing the different bills. And with that, I think at this time we are ready to proceed to the students of
the month. So, Dr. Kern, Dr. again. >> All right. Good evening, Mr. Figus. Members of the board. It's our our pleasure to uh recognize our students of the month. And this is our first time coming this this school year. Um so we are recognizing our students of the month for the months of September, October and November. And these students
were nominated um by by faculty members. Then we have a committee that meets and selects the uh the individual winners. We also work with the Elks Club over in Bordtown. And so we have an Elk student of the month for one in September and then one one for each of the um the months subsequent to that or after that.
So, we're going to call those students up and at the end we are going to play a video that our our Northern TV program put together and for parents that will eventually end up on our Northern TV YouTube channel. So, you can obviously watch it here tonight, but it'll be on our our YouTube channel shortly and you'll be able to share with anybody
that you want to want to share with and you could even pull it up on the holidays when everyone's over your house on uh for Christmas. So, that that's good stuff. All right, here we go. For September, we have one uh student of the month just because the the way it works that the Elks Club asked us to nominate someone very early in September. So, we
um were able to to accommodate them. And our um middle school Elk student of the month for September is Aiden Puer. Aiden, if you could join me up here, please. Congratulations. This is your guinea pig. You're the first person to have to do this. you going to stand next to me here cuz they're going to pick our picture. And then the next part is if
you have us who are you here with tonight? >> Um my mom, my dad, and my sister. >> Congratulations. Thank you for coming out. >> All right. Now we are beginning the month of October. Our seventh grade student of the month for October is Miss
Great Arts. Congratulations for you. All right, this is for you. All right, you saw Aiden did it did so well. All right, so who you with here tonight? >> I'm with my family and my grandparents. >> Thank you for coming out. Congratulations. Our eighth grade student of the month
for the middle school or for October is Miss Cecilia Luchans. You can join us up here. Congratulations for you. This is for you. Who are you here with tonight? >> My mom and my sister. >> Congratulations. Thank you for coming
out. Hi. Hello. Myself. I think I gave one of you two certificates by accident. So, I'm going to have to collect that from you here in a second. Um, our um I guess seventh grade student of the
month for um November is Miss Bryley Garcia. Come on up here, Bryley. >> Congratulations to you. And who are you with here tonight? my mom. My Wait, no. Mom, my dad was this place. >> There you go. Congratulations. Thank you for coming out. Thanks for retrieving
that for me. That would be bad. >> All right. Dr. Stella rescued me there and got back the extra certificate that I gave out inadvertently. Our October Elk student of the month is Miss Piper Cox. Piper, could you join me up here, please? All right. She's not here. We will get
to see her on the video nonetheless. All right, moving right along here. Our November student of the month for eighth grade is Mr. Sheamus Rambo. Sheamus. My fingers are looking the best. This is for you. Congratulations.
>> All right, Sheamus, who you with tonight? >> My mom, my dad, and my sister. >> Very good. Congratulations. Thank you for coming out tonight. And finally, our November Elk student of the month is Miss Michaela Osborne. Michaela, congratulations, K. This is for you.
Turn around the camera. Who you with tonight? >> My mom, my dad, and my two brothers. >> Congratulations. Thank you for coming out. All right, those are our Elks or excuse me, all of our middle school students of the month. Now, turn over to Mr. Lee for the videos. I'm Aiden Keeler and I was nominated for
the Elk Student of the Month for September. In my spare time, I do stage crew for the plays and the musicals. And in the future, I want to be a real estate agent because I've always found like selling houses to people like
interesting. >> My name is Grace Arts and I was nominated for the October Student of the Month. I do cheer, I do soccer, and I do FFA. In the future, I want to be a teacher for elementary school. I'm Cecilia Wachensky, and I was nominated
for the student of the month in October. I do FFA at Northern and I'm trying out for cheer and in my spare time, I do dance outside of school. In the future, I want to be a computer scientist. I'm really good with computers and I find them interesting. My name is Piper and I
was nominated for the October Junior of the Month. I do cheer out of school. In the future, I want to be a cosmetologist. A lot of my family has grown up around cosmetology and has done a lot of hair, so I kind of want to do
that. And I love doing hair and makeup. My name is Riley Garcia. I was nominated for student of the month for November. In my spare time, I do combat club and art club. In the future, I want to be a CEO.
>> My name is Sheamus Rainbow and I've been nominated for student student of the month for November. In my spare time, I played middle school soccer for the middle school and outside of school. I want to do something involved in sports cuz uh cuz I love
watching them. I am Michaela Osborne and I'm nominated for the student month award and the Elks Lodge award for the month of November. Here at Northern, I do football and winter basketball cheer. In the future, I would either like to be a nurse or a
doctor for little kids at a hospital and, you know, try and make them feel better. All right. All right. Um, so I am excited to uh present you all of our high school students that were chosen for student of the month. Uh, students same gig, right?
Come on up, take a picture, let us know who you're here with. Um, so we'll start off September Elk Student of the Month, Dylan Tavanigum. >> All right. Who you here with? I'm here with my mom and dad. >> Yeah. >> For comment. Very nice. >> All right. Our October Elk student of
the month, Megan Peron. >> Megan could not join us this evening. Our October 9th grade student of the month, Alexander Bombley. >> Look there. Who are you here with? Um, I'm with my grandparents, my mom, my dad, and my siblings. >> Thanks for coming.
>> Okay, next, our October 10th grade student of the month, Katherine Applegat. >> Tell us who you're here with tonight. >> I'm here with my mom, my dad, and my brother. All right. And our October 11th grade student of the month, Somia Sing.
>> Tell us who you're here with. >> I'm here with my mom, my dad, and my little brother. >> Thanks for coming. and our 12th grade October student of the month, Christian Manzy. >> And tell us who you're here with, Christian. >> I'm here with my dad.
>> Thanks for coming. >> All right. Next, our November students. First, the November Elk Student of the Month, Magna Nion. And who are you here with tonight? >> I'm here with my mom. >> Awesome. Thanks for coming. >> And our November 9th grade student of
the month, Thanaket Wema. All right. I might have done a Dr. Karns and we might have the wrong certificate. Let's see. Nope. Magna, can you check your certificate and see if you have not your certificate?
>> All right. Yes. I only screwed it up by one. Very good. Here we are. >> Congratulations. >> Welcome. Who are you here with tonight? >> I'm here with my mom and my dad. >> Son, thank you for coming. Okay, in the meantime, I lost the
script. Very good. Uh, November 10th grade student of the month, Isabella Katagelo. She is sick and unable to be with us tonight, but you'll see her in the video. Um, next we have the 11th grade student of the month, Thomas McAden.
Right. And who are you here with tonight? >> Uh my mom and my dad. >> Awesome. Thanks for coming. >> And finally, our November 12th grade student of the month, Christopher Ratigan. Who you here with? >> My mom and dad. >> Awesome. Thank you so much for coming.
>> All right. Those are all our high school students. If you can uh draw your attention to the video, we'll hear a little bit about them. Hi, I'm Dylan Taboy Young and I was nominated for uh September's uh Elk Student of the Month here at Northern. I'm involved in numerous things. I'm the
president of DECA. I'm in TSA. I am a secretary here in student council of Northern Burlington. I also was a team captain for the Relay for Life team. What I like to do in my future is pursue
business like in DECA and kind of mix in my my passion for like fashion design into business where I could help out like in America strengthen our industry and textile manufacturing. I'm Alexander Balley and I was nominated for 9th grade
October student of the month. I'm involved with the coral program, the theater program, DECA and I play baseball at school. I would like to pursue a career in making a lot of money. >> Hi, my name is Katherine Appleet and I was nominated for 10th grade student of the month for October here at Northern.
I'm involved in fall cheer and I'm involved in the club FCA. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do in my future, but I would like to go to a college and pursue a career helping others. Hi, my name is Somia Singh and I was nominated for 11th grade student of
the month for October. Here at Northern, I've been involved in many ways. Some ways include being part of the math team, FTC, as well as FBA club. I've also been part of the Northern Burlington track and field team since seventh grade. In the future, I like to pursue a career in artificial intelligence. And in general, I just
want to continue making my parents proud. >> Hi, I'm Christian Manzy. I was nominated for 12th grade student of the month for October. Throughout high school, I've involved with debate, mock trial, math team, chess club. All these clubs have really impacted me. I'm the debate captain. I'm a lawyer for mock trial.
These experience have really impacted me a lot. I've really enjoyed them. I've been able to meet new people, discuss new topics. It's really made my experience throughout high school very full and very fulfilling. In my future, I would like to go to undergrad and then law school. I want to eventually become
a lawyer, obviously. Then I eventually want to get into politics at sub level. >> Hi, my name is Megan Prone. I was nominated for 12th grade Elk Student of the Month at Northern. I'm part of the literary magazine, newspaper club, and math team. I'm also part of NHS. Outside
of school, I volunteer at a cat sanctuary. My future, I want to pursue veterinary medicine. I want to go into the research aspect of it. >> I'm Vanet Wiseima. I was nominated for 9th grade student of the month. I'm involved with Jerotc. And during
opportunity period, I go to like wait room sometime, uh, chess club. I really would like to join the uh Air Force or maybe Marine Corp. This thing just build up in my past memory. I always wanted to be like a military save people.
>> Hi, I'm Isabella Cocatyo and I was nominated for 10th grade student of the month. I am involved with NB's Corral Spring Musical Fall Play and I used to be involved with the soccer team. In my future, I want to pursue a musical
theater career. um at NYU. >> I am Thomas McAden and I was nominated for November 11th grade student of the month. I'm involved with the robotics team as well as the cross country team, winter track team, and spring track team. I would like to pursue a career in
engineering in my future. >> My name is Chris Ratigan and I was nominated for 12th grade student of the month for November. I'm the president of BBSA, the president of Sphere, the vice president of class council, and the vice president of anchored for life. In my future, I would like to go to college
and study anthropology and economics. >> Hi, my name is Magna Ninan. I'm nominated for Elk Student of the Month for 12th grade. At Northern, I'm involved in DECA where I'm vice president of leadership, student council, and also I'm on the girls varsity tennis team. In the future, I
plan to attend college where I'm going to study business administration. Congratulations to all the students of the month. Thank you for coming out tonight. Um the board of education appreciates uh these parts of the meetings more than any other. It's great to see all the young faces um
to hear from all of you and we're so appreciative that you guys come out. Um at this time we'll take a brief 5m minute recess. Uh be able to Dr. Get some pictures in the back. Please help yourself to some pizza. There's pizza over there. Um, can I get a motion for a short adjournment?
>> Make a motion for a short term. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> All oppose. Abstensions. All right. We'll take a short fiveminute recess. Thank you. >> We'll start with the middle school in the back. High school students, you can go back there, too, because then you're going to be shortly after them. We like to just get a picture of everybody
together. Yeah. Well, uh, Mr. Armanente, if you would please return to the DAS so we can resume the meeting. Thank you. All right. Uh, if I can get a motion to return from the short recess. >> I will move to return from our recess.
I'll second that. >> All those in favor? >> I >> I. >> All opposed. Abstensions. All right. Uh, Mr. Lee, if you could please check the visitor signin sheet. Anyone? All right. I no one's sitting in the audience. So, I
assume no one would like to sign up. If anyone would like to sign up on the signing sheet at this time, you're welcome to for consent agenda items. Right. 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 the 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. Item five or section five is routine matters. 5.02 is approval of the regular meeting minutes from November 17th, 2025. 5.03 03 is approval of the executive session minutes for November
17th, 2025. 5.04 is the fin approval of the financial report of the board secretary for September 2025. 5.05 is approval of the financial report of the board secretary for October 2025. 5.06 is approval of the treasur's report for
September 2025. 5.07 is approval of the treasures report for October 2025. 5.08 08 is approval of the budget transfers for September 2025. 5.09 is approval of the budget transfers for October 2025.
5.10 is approval of the cafeteria report for October 2025. And 5.11 is resolution of the board regarding the budgetary major account fund status. Are there any questions or comments on section 5? Right. Section six is approval of bills.
6.01 101 is approval of the bill list for December 8th, 2025. Any questions or comments on section 6. Section 7, business and financial. 7.02 is approval of board and staff travel. 7.03 is approval of professional
services. Any questions or comments on section 7? Section 8 is students. Uh 8.02 is approval of out of district placement. 8.03 03 is approval of option 2 for the 2526 school year. 8.04 is approval of
home instruction services. 8.05 is approval of additional field trip destination. Any questions or comments on section 8. Section 9 is personnel appointments. Uh 9.02, 9.03, and 9.04 are approval of
non-certificated appointments. 9.05 05 is approval of the high school extracurricular adviserss for 2526. 9.06 is approval of coaches for 2526. 9.07 is approval of additional work assignments. 9.08 is approval of change in degree
status. Are there any questions or comments for section 9? >> I have a question on 9.06. So, um I guess it's for additional soccer coach, but why are we approving it after the fact? Is that just normal
protocol or because it looks like it was for from September through November? >> I believe it's an adjustment. The staff member went on a leave of absence, so it's prorating her stipen. >> Got it. >> Thanks. >> Uh, any other comments or questions on
section 9? All right. We have no items in section 10 this evening. Section 11 is leave of absence. 11.02 2 is approval of leaves of absence. Any comments or questions on section 11? Section 12, separation of employment.
12.02 is approval of recision of employment. Any comments or questions on section 12. Section 13 is miscellaneous personnel. 13.02 is approval of school safety specialist stipen. And 13.03 is approval
of classroom observation. Any questions or comments for section 13? Section 14 is programs. 14.02 is approval of affiliation agreement with Rowan University. 14.03 is approval of a
2627 high school program of studies. 14.04 is approval of the substance abuse prevention program for 2526. 14.05 is approval of the supplement to the uniform memorandum of agreement. And 14.06 is approval of the annual review
of the uniform memorandum of agreement. Any questions or comments for section 14? All right. Section 15, policy 15.02 is the first reading of revised policies. 15.03 is approval of policies for
adoption on the second reading. Are there any questions or comments for section 15? All right. We have no items in section 16 this evening. Section 17 is use of facilities. 17.02 02 is approval of the
use of facilities for NBIA basketball and 17.03 is approval of use of facilities for the Northern Burlington County Regional Teachers Association. Are there any questions or comments on section 17? All right, with that, can I get a motion
for the consent agenda? >> Make a motion for the consent agenda be accepted. >> Second. >> All right. Um, M. Williams, you could please do. >> Yes. >> Yep. Can I ask a question on 703? >> Sure. >> Sorry. Um or stolen.
>> I just was curious. I think we had originally had discussion about at 7 I'm sorry. So 703 was for the rest of the board's purposes was uh around the the work for the fuel storage tank. I guess the um the contract for the um
engineering services or architectural services. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> Okay. Um, I know we had had discussions about potentially sharing some costs around this with Mansfield Township. Do we ever make any progress on that? >> We have not had the conversation
specifically about this. So, this is just to engage so that we can start getting a scope of what work needs to be done and what our prices are going to be and then we can present. Um, we're going to have that conversation. We had a meeting scheduled with Mansfield Township Manager that we're going to
reschedule and discuss it then. Okay. So, we'll be initially on the hook and then we'll try to negotiate on the back side of this. Get the work moving and then we'll see if we can what cost we can share. >> This is to get the work moving to um permitting with the township and things like that. But no, we're definitely
going to have the conversation up front. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. >> It also is in alignment with some previous conversations we've had about other items in previous years. So, it it's nothing new. It's just for the the next thing.
>> Right. Are there any other um questions on the consent agenda items before we do a roll call vote? All right. Mrs. Williams, if you could please. Mr. Figs. Um yay to all except for an abstension on 7.03, please.
Uh, Mrs. Applegate, >> yes. >> Mr. Armamente, >> yes. >> Mr. Books, >> yes. >> Mr. Narwit, >> yes. >> Mr. Zimmer, >> yes. >> And Mr. Zuzio, >> yes. >> Thank you.
>> Consent agenda passes. Um, uh, Mr. Lee, I I had a feeling there were no no one signed up. It'd be a little odd if there was. Oh. at this time. Um, January 5th will be the board reorganization meeting is what
followed by the regular meeting. Um, I don't there are no committee meetings scheduled between now and then. Um, I know the January the ethics training board retreat is January 27th just for people to kind of put it on their calendars. Um,
and with that, is there any uh old business or new business anyone would like referred to a committee or for followup from Dr. Suckerman or Mrs. Williams? >> No, just a question on reord. >> Yep. >> Is that regular time? I know we usually have one meeting that's in January
that's off the normal time. >> That's the retreat. The retreat usually we start a little earlier. I believe the reorga is okay. First meeting is usually just the process of swearing in it of the re-elected and then the approvals. >> Okay. All right. Just want to make sure. Thank you. >> No, no problem.
>> At the gen at the um January 5th meeting, we will also be recognizing the baseball team which was postponed because the student will be home from the break. So, we may do I may ask the board to do something after the swearing in just to recognize the students. So then they're not you're obviously
waiting for the entire rule before they're recognized. >> All right. Uh we have no executive session tonight. So with that, if I can get a motion for adjournment. >> So moved. Second. >> All those in favor? I. All opposed? Abstensions. Have a happy holidays
everyone.