##VIDEO ID:3l-Pt-015Rs## [Music] okay we're going to call the meeting to order in compliance with chapter 231 Public Law 1975 5 entitled open public meetings act adequate notice of this meeting has been provided as specified in the ACT proper notice of this open public meeting was provided in a notice of January 4th 2024 said notice was posted at the entrance of the Board of Education offices mailed to the Nutley Township Clerk sent to tap into Nutley sent to the nut the Nutley sun on January 4th 2024 and posted on the district website would everybody please stand for the flag salute unit States americe for all roll call Mr balamo here Mr vaglia here Mrs danek Martin here Dr deia here Mr fragels Mr kazinski here Mrs Quirk here Mr Scotty here Mr pero here can I get a motion for approval of the minutes make the motion approve minutes all in favor I anyone opposed okay any correspondence none okay tonight we have our presentation um Mr B do you want to present um our guest here tonight uh yes I'd invite the board uh to go sit in the uh in the auditorium for a PowerPoint presentation [Music] okay uh while we're getting set up tech-wise um I would like to welcome Peter and Nicole from smarter cell 360 uh to the district uh last year the district received a three-year Grant uh to Pilot an app based positive mental health support platform uh this year the district will introduce a pilot program to secondary students and staff members mental health and and student staff Wellness is a priority to nle Public Schools this optin support will be available this fall of course with parent permission for students and can provide another layer of support for students and staff uh that choose to enroll so Nicole I'd like to welcome you up Peter I'd like to welcome you up uh we'll have your presentation up thank you for coming to nutly tonight awesome all right good evening everyone it's nice to all see you all here and nice to see a lot of friendly faces I'm Nicole forner I'm the chief strategist at 360 I'm Pete Pasa and I am the founder and chairman awesome so we're gonna I'm going to talk a little bit about what why why we are here today um and we are happy to partner with the nutly school district to offer a few things so this PowerPoint is called empowering student development with AI a couple of the talking points that I'm going to discuss of course is um the problems that a lot of the students are facing the features of this per personal development coach our curriculum that's offered the benefits next steps and conclusions as you know there's a shortage of Behavioral Health clinicians can somebody Advance the slides first please Awesome's jump down page [Music] three that work awesome all right thank you so as you know there's been a shortage of Behavioral Health clinicians um actually a 4.5 million shortage as far as to treat a lot of the ongoing mental health issues that's occurring so at 360 we're offering a alternative Solution that's preventative to teach students about themselves um and we want to bridge the gap to eliminate stigma and also have the capacity to treat and prevent and give opportunities to the kids if you want to go to the next slide please we offer personalized support so every time a student enroll their everyone experience is completely unique and different based on the curriculum that that they choose also how this works is it's a two-way communication um mechanism so how we typically do we'll do a live enrollment with the students um once we get parents permission they'll receive a notification and at that point once they enroll in the program they'll receive daily text messages that's two to three per week when they first start that text message can start off by saying how are you feeling today once the student click on how they're feeling today it can be something like happy stress finals coming up um and typically that prompts the AI That's the AI system that we use to send them either a curriculum or a breathing exercise or a video to deal with one of those things that they're recognizing that's an issue for them even if they click something like I'm feeling happy or they type I'm happy my day is great they'll give something to support and sustain that feeling also when I mentioned and anxiety reducing practices um as Peter often say that breathing exercises especially box breathing has been around since the birth of Christ and that's one of the things that we introduce in this curriculum as far as like breathing exercises if you can go to the next slide should be on number six please thank you thank you awesome so we have a door Focus right we want our students to be better athletes better kids better siblings to their other siblings we want them to be better students to Excel for themselves personally and also academically so that's our Focus so our curriculum includes a few things this is just a few and of course they can adapt based on what the students are clicking on or some of the feedback that we're getting from the district the curriculum includes things such as bullying emotional intelligence grief management social relationships Stress and Anxiety testing anxiety and understanding oneself the so move to seven please or eight there we go don't work there we go awesome thank you so again this is a scalable to be able to address the needs at a preventative measure first that you can literally enroll the entire student body as well as the parents the administration faculty staff guidance counselors whoever so this is already built in and also is a specific so depending on if this is a feature you want to enact um the parents have the ability to mirror and see what their children and students are clicking on as well so that's another benefit um and also all of this is data driven so again if we notice a spike and uptick in a lot of the students clicking on bullying or test anxiety we'll beef up and add more things to kind of deal with that as well all right we we're also able to notify the principles of the school that there's something going on we don't retain any individual information but every time a student clicks on say The Bullying module we expect the the modules to be relatively level but let's say that bullying module is spiking up that would be an indication that there's something going on in the school that the administration and teachers need to be aware of it's a way of taking the temperature of the student body without retaining any information on any individual student awesome and what do that look like for your for your kids and your students so when they again enroll they'll get a dashboard with a a bunch of emojis where they're showcasing how they're feeling for that day right they also will have access to this curriculum that involves a lot of modules such as videos um articles and breathing exercises as well um how do this apply to the parents again you have the capability of seeing what they're using and accessing we also have it built in a es escalation process if something should happen that deserves the school attention or parent attention as well um and again this is all to um make the students better Nicole if I may of course there are Reams and Reams and reams of data to support what we're doing with the students but just anecdotally a business associate of mine told me that his son who's enrolled in a very fancy private school is struggling to get his SAT score up to the level that his son wants it to be because he intends to apply to Cambridge University and he's had tutors he's had this he's had that and the young man's stuck in the the low 1200s they don't have smarter S I suggested that he use one of our breathing exercises not the whole test module to reduce testing anxiety just a simple box breathing exercise so I sent him a link to one of the videos that we use in our anx manager testing anxiety module he got it on an evening let's see that would been last Tuesday uh he took his next practice practice exam Wednesday evening so less than 24 hours of time his score went up to a 1360 about eight and a half perc if my math is right just by getting him to calm down and in this young man's case I know how badly he wants to do well he was putting so much pressure on himself he couldn't perform well these things work and they will help your student be better at whatever they choose to be better at it's why we're here uh we have deployed this before it it's why we were able to get a a grant to to come here to this District we had great success with it we have revised our program dramatically since that initial beta test it has a much more friendly user interface there's much richer and deeper content but where we are today is not where we'll finish with program at the end of the school year uh we will continue based on the clicking activity and what we see and the feedback we get from teachers and administrators to update the program and revise it it's a very difficult time to raise your children we all know it and we're trying to do something positive with it and we are thrilled that Nutley is participating with this we are open to any questions that that you may have but before we take questions just real quick do we have any parent how many pars do we have in the room a handful any questions that you have please um you mentioned that the data is know the data not Also menir let's just say students talk something serious not serious that that is great question uh if a student were to text that to us what they would get back is that there isn't a live person to answer your question however these are the resources that are available here in this district and I believe the resources that we've listed for this District are the New Jersey hope line and the 988 suicide line but when something like that comes up we do notify a principal we have a notification process uh it's a very delicate balance for us to walk the the users the kids will tell us things because there's nobody on the other end and that that truth serum factor is really important for them to get things off their chest however if we breach that trust and say Johnny over here said something and then he had to go to the school psychiatrist Johnny will tell everybody and the program will go down the drain it is a really really difficult balance to walk and I'll be honest with you that we lose sleep over it all the time it's as though there is no good right answer only students mod there are some teacher specific and students uh teacher and uh parent modals but for the most part when you look at the content you're going to see that while the reading levels are geared to the right ages and things like that the modalities but the tools that we use are applicable to any age uh I love the Box breathing example because the Navy Seals have been training with box breathing now for three decades a Navy SEAL that is well practiced in in that particular modality is able under the worst possible conditions a human can imagine in a period of 90 seconds to lower their respiration rate lower their blood pressure clear their mind and make a cogent decision under the highest levels of duress so while we Advocate actually that that parents start teaching box breathing to their children when they're four years old instead of doing a a timeout do do 90 seconds to two minutes of box breathing with your top and start instilling a skill in them that they could use when they're 40 years old and not just four their their skill level continues to advance it's like reading a great novel when you read a great novel you see what was there in your mind when you were 20 you go back and you read it again when you're 50 it's an entirely different book because of what you brought brought to it so the skills are life skills they should stay with an adult or a child for life it's just the level at which it's introduced awesome and to go back to your question too we do have stakeholders built in so do student have the capacity again to pick a guidance counselor or that cool aunt that's only like 10 years younger than their parents that they can once they're clicking on these emojis if they indicate stress it will alert those stakeholders which the kids usually use a term like my rider dies and it can pick four people that's involved in them going through this program is this specifically smartphone related for children that don't have that or related like how does everyone in the district get access because it seems at least that like are not going to get this so if I'm correct it's supposed to BEP and it's not cell phone based only they have the capacity use it on their school issue devices um and if they don't have internet when they get home they can download um a module and review it when they do get home any other questions I have a question so [Music] my my programmers my programmers don't like when I say this there there is no such thing as artificial intelligence because computers have yet to become sentient and they've yet to have an original thought what we have are really really really complicated and cool algorithms that help Drive the responses that we provide and that's the fancy answer the the base answer is if we broke this down and got out a giant sheet of paper there' be a decision tree and it would all break up start that had question thanks any other questions awesome thank you guys for your [Applause] time thank you all very just like thank Peter Nicole this is again 712 optin you're rolling out this fall um paid for through a grant we received from new New Jersey Department of Education so thank you so much for coming Peter Nicole uh thank you we can return back to the stage for [Music] [Music] there we go okay um our superintendent report Mr B uh thank you Mr President I'd like to welcome everyone tonight as we get ready for the opening of the school year I would like to draw your attention to a couple resolutions on our agenda tonight academic resolution number five I'd like to thank Mrs Len Sola the district supervisors the district curriculum writers uh for the summer curriculum revisions that are translating into a draft curricular for the 24 25 school year uh you also see an approval of the schedule a regular curriculum um we hope to offer it in its entirety this school year we will offer uh we would also like to thank Mrs Len solo for organizing and sorting our science supplies uh inhouse this year which save the district valuable resources thank you Janine I would like to thank Mr Joe graph and the St Paul's congregation for addressing the remaining water drainage concerns at our preschool Center uh Annex we look forward to welcoming 65 preschool students there this fall I'd like to draw your attention to finance resolution number 12 to the award of our food service contract to pomptonian as you might be aware the district re uh rebid the food service contract over the summer the district had one bid uh through the most Rec RFP process for food service pomptonian has been strategizing with our business office on ways to improve uh We've made a very clear that our expectations for this year include a highquality breakfast and lunch program for our students we will also ask them to come and listen to parents the Board of Education other key stakeholders uh as we go throughout the year for feedback and changes I would like to draw your attention at uh Finance resolution number 14 a a series of donations to our district uh the class of 2024 donated uh a little under $3,000 for new outdoor signed for nutly high school the Lincoln PTO donated paint and Labor uh for some black top paintings and games the board is approving tonight Cheryl and Jerry Holly Cheryl a former teacher donated a piano that's worth $4,000 the Little Falls Board of Education has donated uh countless uh instructional uh supplies for classrooms tables chairs desks uh we thank you and our buildings and grounds department for transporting them to Nutley Spring Garden PTO is planning a memorial tree thank you for your donation and Dean stansky another former teacher is donating um a piano worth $1,800 thank you for all those donations um would also like to highlight the recommendation of Mrs Jackie D'Or to the board as Lincoln School principal congratulations [Applause] I'm glad to see her here with much of her family um District had 44 applicants for this position after screening a panel composed of diverse stakeholders and interviewed candidates with all central office staff participating in the second round Mrs D'Or has been in District for over eight years and her experience in proven leadership give me confidence that she is a great fit for the student staff and families of Lincoln School congratulations last week our administrative team met uh in our annual summer Retreat uh to discuss District priorities and processes we had a good several days and we're looking forward to getting started next week uh this week our new teachers will be in District for an orientation to Nutley and we look forward to welcoming them uh final preparations underway of all of our buildings and grounds we look forward to welcoming staff back on Tuesday 9:3 and students for a half day on Wednesday 9:4 we're looking forward to a great year thank you Mr President thank you Mr B uh up next is our board secretary report uh also our our new business administrator I'd like to welcome him on board he started Monday and um he's he's uh was here previously but Mike welcome aboard thank you um I I've only been in the district for a week now um so I don't have a a big report um uh but I would like to uh thank everyone for the warm welcome that I've received received um by uh uh rejoining this team um it's an honor to join the dedicated staff of hard workers and I look forward to getting to know everybody better and working alongside them uh to support the success of all of our students um I would just like to update um some the Billings and ground staff um led by Mike piji and Timmy CER have been um very hard at work this summer making sure the schools are clean and ready for uh the start of school next week um just a couple couple um things that we bigger issues that we had this summer um the fire that was caused by the um in the Lincoln School auditorium that has been repaired and looks great um and we are working on replacing the chairs also um to complete the project um and the Middle School um had some water damage to uh four classrooms um and and repairs are ongoing now and everything should be um completed for the start of the new school year uh thank you thank you Mr D we're going to move on to our committee reports Miss danek Martin academic yes Mr President the academic committee met on August 15 uh Mr Williams and Miss girkin joined the committee to discuss how Nutley High School weighs courses and calculates class rank the committee discussed the history and benefits as well as areas to look at moving forward the committee also discussed requirements and Trends with the National Honor Society as well as policies and procedures regarding cell phone use in the district Miss Martin updated the academic committee to the progress and professional development implementing the math curriculum and math and focus program Miss loans solo shared with the committee the progress in updating World Language Ela and math curriculum Mr B Miss loc cons solo shared the draft mentoring plan District professional development plan and schedule a Miss Lo cons solo discussed field trips and professional develop requests with the committee Mr B discussed updates relating to the request for proposals in the areas of Health Care food service and Sports Doctor Mr Bena shared Personnel uh related matters with the committee our next meeting of the academic committee is scheduled for Wednesday September 25th at 6m thank you thank you Miss danek Martin Mr kazinski Administration Sir Mr President thank you um the academic I'm sorry the administration committee met um on August 19th we discussed the uh the update on the substitute rates Mr B shared with the committee uh the request by Lincoln School to paint activity games on the blacktop which I think you'll see on tonight's agenda Mr beny discussed the approval of the academic courses of study um discuss goals for the upcoming school year Mr bed provided the committee with with an update of the bid process for Food Service healthc care broker and athletic physician Mr PR Mr B provided updates of personal related matters um our next meeting is scheduled for September 19th thank you thank you Mr kazinski Mr bagia Finance uh thank you Mr President the finance committee met on August 23rd uh attendance were uh myself Mr fraginals Mr farrar's trustees along with Mr B and Mike Dita um the committee reviewed the uh agenda ahead of this meeting U several of the projects on the facility front which have already been mentioned in the report including the need to get the buildings ready for opening day next week uh Mr B provided the committee on an update to Personnel uh and we also spent quite a bit of time talking with Mr Dita uh on what we should expect to cover in our ongoing Finance meetings in the upcoming months uh we have not scheduled a finance committee yet for September 20 uh excuse me for September but we expect to meet again thank you Mr baglia we now come to the portion of our meeting where we allow members of the public to address the board in this section we allow comments on reports resolutions and all School related matters our board regulations number 0167 allow 20 minutes for these communications each person shall be limited to three minutes and we ask that you try to stay within this requirement speakers may speak more than once only after all others wishing to speak on a topic have been heard all statements will be directed to me as a chairperson and no one May address board members individually please be reminded that if your statement is too lengthy abusive obscene irrelevant or redundant your participation may be terminated comments concerning District employees and or students will not be responded to please remember to state your name and address each and every time you address the board for questions where the board may not have immediate answers the board will take information and respond to you at an appropriate time does anyone have any comments no we reviewing that list I did see some of the staff members that were received reduction Force notifications were ahead for this current year would you be able to share the exact number of tenure staff who were able to go ahead and return I I don't have that number with me but we were able to return staff as positions became available as we discussed okay great thank you an additional just follow-up question to that is um the presentation tonight was great from and I see how it's gonna be applicable to students and hopefully it to staff as well would availed himself to that but obviously this past year has been a difficult difficult for parents teachers staff students in the district is there anything special planned for staff as far as professional development or additional resources they might need as there's been a lot of movement throughout this District that they might as we've seen a lot of resignations of key staff members that uh anything we do to try to prevent this moving forward sure we're always conscious of our uh mental health and wellness of our staff for this year uh we're looking to uh continue on with some of the goals we set last year uh introduce um similar uh type strategy IES as well as when we plan PD be mindful of how many people have moved back and forth so I think to answer your question directly um we will try to meet staff where they're at with their anxiety about too many things and try to scale that down to what we can accomplish with the resources we have this year great thank you and then um additional question at a previous meeting I asked you about the gifted and talented program and I know it was was going to be reworked um school starting next week do we have an update on that current currently our gift and talented program will look different than did last last year with our staff member returning to the classroom based on our available resources we are hopeful to give gift and talented a two to threee look uh to rebuild it into something much more sustainable and much will much more have an impact I believe the gift and talented program comes with a restructuring um of several areas of our district uh to make it a worthwhile Adventure but I do think gift and town will be present this year but it will look different um based on um some classroom things when do we expect to know what it's going to look like for this year uh we hope to roll this out with the beginning of the school year in our curriculum sessions okay great and then uh just an additional question and the business administrator's report I'm sorry I may talked about the review of the RFP for the Healthcare broker I know that the contract for iMac was renewed through September 30th what is our current status of that RFP process if you're able to share that Mike's transitioning and I've been kind of going through that RFB process so if you don't mind I can answer that question yeah we're we're still in discussions with the board regarding all of our rfps at at this time but it's gone out for bid do we have anything else besides iMac that we're aware of or that you can share I I am just not I don't have an attorney here I'm not sure what I can share publicly what I can't so I'm going to defer on that question right now all right and then just lastly I know my time is up I just want to say thank you to the board for um as a Lincoln School parent to see those pictures of the auditorium that work I was definitely had my doubts I was going to be done this summer so I know we're getting the chair so it's going to look different for a while to the chairs are in but as I thank you for the board for their hard work and the District of hard work to go ahead and get that started because that was a big loss for the school this past year and as well as a thank you to the board as well for swiftly hiring uh Mrs D'Or as the principal of Lincoln School we look forward to welcome her to Lincoln School and working with her as it's a be ensuring a smooth transition to start of the year so I appreciate that thank you thank you anyone else have any comments uh hi Kim van W 34 IV pleas um just have a couple questions um things that unfortunately you know parents here through the grap Vine of different things um and unfortunately uh being our my son was part of the even though there's many grades that were affected by covid we were like the kindergarten class that started it all with computers um so just a couple different areas one being that have heard that fourth grade is no longer getting one one toone computers Chromebooks are not being given to them they're going to have what they've kind of done in the other grades which is when the computers are available not one to one um and that curriculum for fourth grade has been Chromebook necessity for so many years how and what are they going to be ready for since they're not getting that in fourth grade when it seems like every year they've lost something of not being in school to half being in school too I know at Radcliffe we lost out on many things due to some Personnel things that happened um activities that they didn't get projects that weren't done due staff not being there and now fourth grade we're not going to have computers so how is that going to be addressed and how are they going to keep not falling behind which every year they've done socially academically and emotionally yeah I I can comment on the first part I know that when we entered um you know talking about a lot of the resources we have to keeping things in place um Chromebooks will not be one to one for fourth grade you're you're correct that will be communicated by the district um although we have thought to keep that in place as we went to the summer we realized that was not a realistic opportunity based on the resources we have um I will say that uh our principles are strategizing um to have technology in school uh for those students and how that will affect the curriculum we're still working through as to what we can do on schoy what we can't do right now so I think um while we are um faced with the reality that you know we will not have one1 Chromebooks in fourth grade we are strategizing ways to keep very similar processes going and if need be um have classroom sets of Chromebooks and different things especially for testing okay and that so along with that going into like obviously the budget for the prev like for oning ongoing years are they going to be the guinea pigs like in fifth grade they might not get Chromebooks either no there's a way to know that but that's a possibility it's it's very difficult I think you know um with a new business administrator State monitor coming in we're looking at everything a little closer now we will continue to for the next two to three months um while we do not anticipate certain things certain things will become a reality as we look at the resources we have so I cannot answer that question What will what will the future hold our goal is to um provide every opportunity we have for our students that includes Chromebooks but uh we must look at what's sustainable in our district right now one other big area that affects um there's I believe our guidance counselors being um doing two different schools at this point along with uh not having a behaviorist anymore along with not having a director special services uh how for for a parent who has a child with an IEP along with those type of Social emotionals and had Chromebook worked into his IEP for him and others what what like we were told it wasn't I knew there was going to be Cuts things of that nature but it does seem like a lot of heavy-hitting processes with these children who need these resources how a principal can't do it all one person at least in the elementary schools so what is being yeah how is it going to be help for these children to have those opportunities that are being taken away from them yeah I would say um just answer them in the sequence you talked about the counselor first you know at one point prior probably did two to three years ago we did share counselors through Elementary I don't think it rless school what school yeah um so it was more between Lincoln and Spring Garden school and when we assessed where the sharing should take place it it looked more reasonable between springarden and rackliff school for this Cy so one counselor for about 700 children seems reasonable it doesn't seem reasonable the resource we had we had to unfortunately look at the Staffing we we brought on over the past couple years and see that it was unsustainable at that point so we had to kind of go in in Reverse to be honest and and go through that um your second question I think was about Chromebooks for an IP student all IEPs will be followed through with through all this process and if there's something on an IEP the district will follow through I think you went next into the structure of special services special services will have leadership uh we are reorganizing some things in central office um that will go on for the next uh month or so with the board we'll talk through with them um but students will have support through special services everything um will be arranged so leadership is present in that department okay and if I may ask one more question in regards to the uh um Food Services uh with it being the same company understandable we can't control who puts bids in and of those nature did they provide any guarantee that with how hard the lunches were especially at the elementary school level being cold and a lot of the time so have they given you any sort of assurances of what they're changing on their end to make sure that our children are getting hot lunches versus many times which I know was has been talked about with this specific company since we've had them sure I can tell you that uh they've been in District three or four times meeting with myself Miss MERS Mr Dita uh we have talked about um some equipment that may help our our situation maybe some operational shifts in um we also talked about the expectation to improve the food services and here's what we're hearing we also invited them to come speak at board meetings and with our parent groups so they could hear firsthand and and we reminded them that this is a one-year contract and uh the board will go out for RFP if needed next year wonderful thank you very much thank you anyone else wishing to come up for a [Music] comment Mark Jacobson 115 Margaret Avenue um just that was my first time hearing about the Chromebook um so I have a stu I have a daughter who's going to fourth grade at Lincoln School was looking forward to the gifted talented program kept on talking about all summer about getting her a Chromebook so obviously I'm going to have to break some difficult news to my daughter as well I mean I'm a parent that's part of a job of being a parent um you mentioned not going to be one to one do we have any idea right now we talking about one to two we're talking about five Chromebooks for a classroom do we have any ideas of what we're looking for yeah I I think um we're looking at a classroom of Chromebooks for fourth grade we're looking at the possibility to share them between classes and certain times we're looking at additional resources in school base to support students while they're in school and then just one additional question you probably don't know the answer to this but at any given time how many extra Chromebooks does the district have because like I know for example last year when Lincoln School had a go remote for a few days due to the fire Chromebooks were made available to any any student who needed within district and I think 181 or something like that was given out so surely there seems to be Chromebooks within the district that could go ahead and be used for fourth grade students already yeah I I can't speak to exactly where those Chromebooks came for or how many extra we have in District but uh in my understanding uh we have devices in our district that are building based and if needed those those building based devices can be loaned out in an emergency such as Lincoln School fire okay thank you thank you anyone else wishing to come up make a comment okay seeing none can I get a motion to close the public comment p motion uh Miss Stan Martin would you take academic resolutions yes Mr President I'd like to move academic resolutions one through five is written second discussion roll call Mr Balo yes Mr baglia yes Mrs Dan Martin yes Dr deia yes Mr franel yes Mr kazinski yes Mr Quirk yes Mr Scotty yes Mr fro yes Mr kazinski Administration resolutions yes Mr President I move resolutions one through four in administration discussion roll call Mr balamo yes Mr baglia yes Mr Dan Martin yes Dr deia yes Mr fraginals yes m Mr kazinski yes Mrs Quirk yes Mr Scotty yes Mr fro yes Mr vag of Finance Mr President I'd like to move Finance resolutions 1 through 22 as written second discussion Mr President i' just like to piggyback on uh what Mr B had said about the donations we received I just want to thank the various individuals and organizations that are willing to donate to our school district and I just want to put that on record thank you Mr deia any further discussion excuse me Mr President along with that I think following on Dr Delia's words I I know being active at many of the PTO that might be an Avenue the PTO wants to look at um discussion over with regard to donations making donations yes yes with something we could definitely uh speak directly with the individual PTO thank you any further discussion roll call Mr basamo yes Mr raglia yes Mrs danek Martin yes Dr deia yes Mr fragels Mr gazinski yes Mrs Quirk yes Mr Scotty yes Mr Faro yes Mr Scotty you take Personnel second discussion not much of a discussion but more of a comment um obviously I have a uh a personal conflict I'm going to have to abstain on Personnel but um Mr VOR welcome AB board and congratulations on your your new appointment any other comments yes Mr President um I too have to abstain U but I would like to welcome you as the new principal in L School uh and Mr President I'd also like to make one last comment um there is item J on the agenda which is the approval of unused vacation days um I strongly do not support that item on the agenda yes thank you Mr baglia um I am also strongly against um U Personnel item J but I have to abstain Mr President along with the discussion about our our new principle I I certainly want to congrat rulate you um when when Mr de mentioned that you've been here for eight years I said in all due respect I said she's been here forever I it seems like you've been here forever I saw you everywhere and I see your name on every agenda so uh I'm so happy that you're going up there it be good for the district good for you congratulations thank you Mr kazinski um with that I'm open it up to anybody else who wants to congratulate mror and also the family so congratulations to the family as [Applause] well we'll just go around we'll go around the room anybody that wants to say a few words go ahead Now's the Time Mr Scotty congratulations I'm very excited to be working with you as the PTO rep I was very happy to have you as my vice principal when I was in the high school and I'm excited to be working with you again um I always knew some great things about you and I was very excited to hear that you were coming for this position and that you got it so I'm very very happy congratulations yeah just to Echo those sentiments I'm just so happy for you uh M D'Or I you are great I know I dealt with you with my daughter as the vice principal of the high school and I think you're just going to be an asset to Lincoln school and all the parents and all the children there so congratulations I said what I have you said okay Charlie Mr fraginal I unfortunately don't have much experience with you um and so I feel kind of left out in that regard but like I said when you lined us up um at graduation I knew right away that she lined us up and she put us in check and I was like this when I heard I was like that's a principal so congratulations like I'm a Lincoln parent so can't wait to say it thank you Mr Delia just want to say jump on what everyone else is saying congratulations it's nice to see uh we're Rising through the ranks of the district and earning those stripes to actually uh land in a well-deserved position uh it's a testament to your your worth and value uh in this district and I'm very happy to U well soon to vote on this uh it's a very proud moment for this board and I'm sure for you and the well represented family that have come out and Mr uh thank you Mr President I I just want to say uh congratulations and good luck um to Dan's Point most of us have seen your work before in the different roles you've held uh I'm very happy to be voting yes uh on this congratulations again okay um I think that ends the uh discussion part of it so let's do roll call Mr balamo yes Time Out Mr President is is Jay part of this we got to be careful yes yes um Personnel resolution one includes J as well a through J okay A through J so can you say he said yes yes Mr raglia abstain Mrs danek Martin yes to all and no to item J Dr Delia yes to all no item J Mr franel yes to all no to J M kazinski yes to all no to J Mrs Quirk yes to all and no to Jay M Mr Scotty yes to all no on Jay and Mr Faro [Music] obstain okay oh yes I'm sorry smus on item J um I have reviewed the contract of this individual uh looked at the statutes spoke with the attorney and very simply the individual is entitled to payment for the unused sick days I'm sorry unus vacation days and uh the amount it would cost us to go to say no uh and go to court and lose uh I feel those monies could be better spent uh on our students so therefore uh I will be overriding the board on this particular matter and the vacation days will be paid uh just for the public as the state monitor uh I have the ability to override when when it comes to financial matters and um I have chosen to do so because I think it's in the long-term best interest of the district okay thank you m makus um is there any old business to come before the board yes Mr President if you could indulge me um obviously you can tell I'm feeling a little bit better I had a busy day today I visited Washington school and um I saw the the shared services in place with Washington school with the uh Municipal people putting on new ashal obviously um Dr scar Pell's department and I wanted to thank them and thank the district for the work that they're doing um then I was fortunate enough to have lunch with um two of our excellent past teachers from Nutley one of our bowling coaches who won I don't know how many trophies but the both in the audience now I don't want to embarrass them but Sally Ryder and George Akerman I want to thank you for your dedication to nut thank you Mr President that's it Mr kazinski you had a busy day today all right tell feel better you're feeling better that's good that's a good thing um okay any other old business okay any new business oh I'm sorry Miss B Jim is here and the railing has been installed I just wanted to acknowledge that the railing has been put in place and I am very happy it's easier to go up the stairs thank you and thank and thank the guys who did it thank you Tim okay any new business to come before the board okay whereas the Board of Education will be discussing matters exempt from public discussion pursuant to njsa 10 Colum 4-12 now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education recess to close executive session at this time to discuss service contract personnel and legal matters be further resolved that the results of the discussion will be made public by inclusion on the agenda of a subsequent meeting of the Board of Education or when the reasons for discussing such matters in closed sessions no longer ex uh exist um can I get a motion to adjourn into executive session okay an action will be taken thank you everyone e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e Mr bagle here Mrs Dan Martin here Dr deia Mr fragels here Mr kazinski Mrs Quirk here Mr Scotty here Mr fararo here um Mr President I'd like to uh make a motion appointment of athletic physician be it resolved at the Board of Education appoints North Jersey Orthopedic Sports Medicine Institute as the athletic physician team doctor for the 2024 2025 school year in the amount of $11,100 so is there [Music] second any discussion roll call Mr balamo yes Mr vaglia yes Mr danek Martin yes Dr deia yes Mr franel Mrs Quirk yes Mr Scotty yes Mr Faro yes can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting I make a motion all all in favor I okay thank you