e e e so this is an update of uh the budget presentation I did last month because tonight we are voting on our preliminary budget to go to the County Office of Education I stress this is preliminary although I suspect with Oakland not too
much is going to change um but the state is required to review and approve your budget before I can advertise it and before we can have our public Hearing in ail um our vision and mission statement I'm not going to go through all through all these and this is basically what we've been doing basically all year um with
our staff leading up to budget um and how we review our budget and we always review our budget in line with putting kids first and keeping as much um much of our money in the classroom as possible um and every time we do our goals we go back to obviously your
school your board goals and how do our decisions with regards to curriculum instruction everything impact student achievement and every budget decision has to be based on how is it going to impact student achievement um and like I've said previously I we we literally
have left no stone in turned especially um in Oakland we literally have reviewed every single item in this budget um budget calendar that I presented previously and again this is my 1 plus 1 plus 2 1 plus 1 equal 2 um obviously our revenues have to equal our expenses and
as I've said previously um in the last few years our expenses have been growing and since every school district around us the expenses are growing as astronomically um so what do we know I want to update you um obviously by law um you're allowed a
2% tax increase we did generate a healthcare adjustment so now um Oakland's tax increase will be 3.4% that's what I use to balance the budget this year um overall there's a reduction in revenues in this budget of [Music]
$159,500 for tortion so our loss of revenues with $162,000 um from Collingswood actually could have been closer to 300,000 that we wind up reducing the budget um overall Oakland lost $41,000 in state aid although net it doesn't
look that bad but we are one of the districts that they're going to start taking state aid away from um because we are below our local fair share so if anybody who's been following the news with Collingswood everybody's abundantly aware of what that means what local fair share is and how it impacts um I'm sorry
um our state aid formula this is just um a revision of our revenues I've shown you previously um and this is our tax impact um with a 3.4% um tax increase it's about $106 on
the average assessment so the tax calculation is attached here and is attached on your agenda and we can make this presentation um available to the public but I do want to talk about the last couple slides because things might I'm going to do what might change so
what don't we know um any additional aist placements um any additional homeless placements and there is pening legislation which I've heard whisper down the lane but the mayor of Collingswood has heard the same thing through his group um there's pening
legislation that came out of all of the hearings that the department of that had remember they came down and everybody was able to speak so they're looking for a way to address those districts that are below their local fair share and below adequacy
because when Trenton does the funding formula they when they look at our local fair share they make the Assumption in the formula we have the ability to get the local fair share but as you know I've always said well that's not very smart because then they cap our ability
to access the local fair share they cap it at 2% so we can never access it so they're looking to revise that law a little bit to give those districts that are upside down um access to that local fair share amount or to give you some Grace to move the 2% by some marker we
don't know what that is um if that happens in the next week or two we could opt to revise Oakland's budget and restore the 100,000 plus uh supply line items that I took out of Miss balin's budget which I would probably recommend
because you want to increase your base as much as possible um because we don't know how long this grace period will be so I'm hoping this legislation passes um but again just if it does that's going to be my recommendation is that we open the budget Pi up and we try to take advantage of that so that we can recoup
some of what we've lost over the last couple years um Oakland is below your local fair share by $625,500 more to the operation of the school districts and the rest taking State eight away as a result but again when you cap it at 2% I can never get
there mathematically it's not possible so that that's why there's that there is that push now to allow us to grow that a little bit because what happens is our expenses are going up astronomically and if I can't access that we're going to be in a constant cut pattern and you can
only cut so much um without affecting children which we don't ever want to do um any questions on that before I yeah yeah so it says here that Oakland is below adequacy by the same amount yes so
we add those we double that number no it's just like in Collingswood and it's a confusing formul but the first low local fair share is what Tron calculates when they determine uh your state aid the second adequacy is
what's determined in your budget software so we're TR and again they use the state aid formula to an extent but they look at your your tax of these in the past and they determine what your adequacy budget should be okay and then
they look at your ad what they think it should be versus what you have budgeted and the difference is you're either over adequate meaning you're spending above what the state thinks you should be spending or you're spending below you guys are so you're tiny and
we've always spent like like I know where every dollar is and because we've always been right there I mean there have been years where you've been over adequate but and I think that has a lot to do with why we got the 600,000 and then they took it away because we you know I think we're right where I think you guys
a perfect example you're right where you should be like they're saying you're $625,000 below local fair share and you're under adequate I think it's like your guys are the perfect example to show that Tron say you're fully funded but they also agree that the town should be
paying more colins would they're under ad quit by about 62 million and then the local fair share is um they're below by about 82 million so about a $2 million swing in collinswood which I haven't
figured out where that came from yet but you guys are right on the money um but yeah so basically Trenton is saying that they think you should be spending that more in our budget which I would agree with but they think it should come
from local which is why they're starting to take it away from State a the nutshell can you explain that the um that 1.4% difference for the healthcare adjustment going from 2 to 3.4% like how how do that work um so
Healthcare adjustment is one of the few exceptions in the software where I can increase a tax levy above 2% for certain costs that are outrageous or if you have a spike in enrollment which we haven't had a spike in enrollment so right now was seeing
prescription renewals coming in at 20% and higher so when I budgeted your obviously your health benefits um for your staff it generated an automatic Healthcare adjustment so they automatically tack it on to your tax levy to pay for the increased cost I
wish they did that with special ed and special ed busing um but they didn't hear that comment I mean I made that comment all over the state but the only one they give us is is Healthcare um so once we once I entered everything into the state state budget software it automatically kicked out
like 88,000 for Oakland for healthcare and automatic okay okay uh P the if I if I can you may not notice off the top of your head that's right but the the health care one went up the cost run up oh yeah so we can
increase our budget to cover that increase yeah you you can increase your tax levy Revenue to pay for the increase cost in healthcare okay and the 1.4% additional over to 2% % equals what the healthcare went up it's
well to the whole it's the adjustment they give you so what they do is I enter everything I enter what your Dent is I enter what your prescription is I enter what your health care is they do the same they already have pre-loaded into the software what the state health benefit plan is running at and then the
software the software automatically calculates an adjustment for US based on the number of employees I've put in the budget and the actual costs I've been put I wouldn't say it's dollar for dollar it's definitely not dollar for dollar but that's no yeah I was thinking 1.4% of
the total tax levy is going to be more than the increase oh yeah I was and I again I was I was glad we got that because that really helped us this year I mean we're paying more obviously in RX but we really needed the Boost this year um any other questions I will say like
I've said before the budget is balanced it is lean we haven't added it anything the only thing we've added we're adding a preschool class so we will be expanding our preschool program in Oakland yay we're getting um 15 more babies um so we will be adding a teacher but that is the
only thing that is new everything else is status quo and should they pass that legislation they were we were supposed to find out last week and we didn't so I don't know maybe this week um I will say we're going to approve the budget to go to the county office for review and approval that's just me and Fred and you
as the Board of Education doing your statutory Authority by law we have to do it by March 19th you can change the budget up to the public hearing which is I'm saying if they the lawmakers do make that available to us um I will email everybody maybe we'll have a special
meeting and you guys can make the decision what you want to do and if we want to change it we do it before the U the April 29th meeting I believe that's today any other questions for be on your budget
a no all right that's it for me just all right moving on to uh committee the whole do we have a motion so move second moved and seconded uh couple couple quick items
for committee of the whole uh just some general updates from our committee meetings uh this this past month um as I mentioned last month we have a committee of uh staff administrators um working on the
calendar for 2025 26 um one change of note uh on the calendar proposal is that uh we're looking to uh have 180 days as opposed to 181 which we uh typically have um
what that means is uh any snow days that we would have during the school year will just be added on to the end of the year um which is a deviation from the past um rationale being that uh uh the 181 days would have everybody coming back to school on a Monday and so I I
think everybody who's on the team is looking to avoid that if possible um as Mrs Coleman mentioned uh we were approved for a fifth uh prek general education classroom for the school year uh for the upcoming school year um that is part of the Early Childhood grant
that we participated in so not uh an impact to our tax levy or our budget um and that's exciting so congratulations on that um I think at this point will be at 100% of our universe yeah um right so just some general updates
there uh first thing we have on our agenda for committee the whole is uh this policy 5111 uh that we've been going round and round with around and around and around uh Aiden I'll just call you out because
you're you're like a Top Dog on that one yeah so lay lay it on us yeah there was an issue with um the the non- teing staff but I think Beth you clarified just said non certificated yeah I think I think that
works because yeah that was an issue I do not have it up I think it was page seven because there was only an A and B when there should have been a c cuz maybe on the original page seven option
it is a confusing policy it's page four on the attach to Jen said it's one five of five which one what we children of non-resident teaching step or non-resident noning non-resident non-resident non- teing is
this should say non-certificated okay okay all right this one would be up for vote next month is that yes can I can I ask a question on this the the teaching staff
uh can can bring our kidss in and well educate them as long as we have room which we always do but when they go to sixth grade do we pay tuition for them they're on their own at that point unless they want to try to choice
in a choice application good question is that addressed in that 600 pages of the policy we just know like we look for like the when I look at like how many people are moving over I look at eighth grade
but like residents but and I don't think it should be because we're looking at pre- to 5 our policies are I don't think it should be part of this policy because this policy covers the students in this building what happens it covers the students in this
building it covers the Oakland students in the building in the building in the prek to 5 building well just like the rest of our policies I I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure all the policies I've been looking at address that because a lot of them talk about a lot of things that
don't apply to Oakland well um I'm going to challenge that because we've that's come up in a couple of conversations like oh you know I think in committee we were looking at one for plagiarism and that was a question among our committee and Miss Bolton agreed oh yeah three to
fifth grade yes that has to be something we need to address so I you know I I I think we we typically ask that in committee is this some is some are like for kids like obviously here but some are resident like cuz again you have Oakland residents attending Collingswood
Middle School and Collingswood High School or maybe they're choicing to another District so like some of your policies have to do with resident children and the tuition like all those policies have to do with resident so I guess it's policy dependent I think yeah I'm just thinking if if there's a teaching staff
member someday that comes back and says well you've said that you'll provide the education for my kids under policy number 5111 uh my kid now's going to collinswood so I expect you'll pay the tuition pre five
school yeah no I I understand that but the policies don't address that and those kids in Collingswood are our students your resident students so like the the yes teaching staff members
they're not residents so cuz I think your tuition policy talks I think the term resident is in there might have to pull that up but I'm pretty sure it says resident pup you pay for Resident pupils it distinguishes between resident now I I hear what you're saying
and I don't disagree with you but I don't think you have anything to hang your hat on if you get a a teacher or a smart lawyer somewhere that says no no no College or Oakland's going to pay for that tuition which I agree I don't think we should I no problem that so here's
Here's the the the provision is tradition isn't going to is going toly I said the provision in the board policy in Collingswood is for Collingswood staff members and so the Collingswood board would need to approve any child
that is a non-resident student um that is not a child of a staff member and and they don't approve non-resident students by their policy and so um the agreement that they have with Oakland would be for Oakland
resident students and so I I understand what you're what you're saying and so Oakland is making a carveout exception only for staff members in this building um but those same staff members aren't in the Collingswood buildings which means that that that provision would
sever once they leave the this particular building but that car route doesn't say in this building that's that's my point that it's it's I think a gray area suppose this student lives in Haden Township and there goes through Oakland up to grade five now they're going to go to grade
six and they decide they're going to go to Haden Township High School and they the smart lawyer comes back and says you know geez you know you guys have this policy 5111 it says you'll pay for the uh uh or you'll provide a free education for those TR those uh kids of the
teaching staff member what what do we have that we can hang our hat on and says no no no just what you're saying I'm I agree with what you're saying it's concerned that it's not clear as long as it says staff member that's the key right I mean that staff member is not a staff member at Collingswood had in countship so right as long as that
language is in there I would assume right of a teaching member staff member that that designates it to this building and this building only no no it I mean that's how I or maybe how you interpret it that's not not going to be the B I can read it do you want me to read it if
I can put my back gun okay if what it says on the bottom of page four is a teaching staff member who does not reside in this school district will be permitted to enroll their children in the educational program of the school district without payment of tuition if
the child's educational program can be provide if the child's yeah can be provided in a school in The District in the in the district and we only one District this there's only that's only this District yeah so that's the end of
page four beginning in page five so I think that covers up and that's what I was going to say like Oakland Public School District we're our school district is a pre25 district and stop we're not a 6 to8 9 to 12 we I counted at least five times throughout the body of the document that stresses in this
District in the dis like it's pretty it it says it throughout and it's is the district in this case um I'm just coming up to speak cuz I was absent last uh last month missing
oh I heard about that yeah I was I was um my my only question on this um is the first paragraph when it says under the under 20 years of age but we're okay through five district like what is that
because njsa that policy covers oh so it's just like basically quoting that right I think what it's saying is because njsa 18a 38 through one covers those ages then it would cover those ages pursuant to that
policy pursuant that that's fair the those are the ages we have to educate unless they're special L then it goes to 21 that's the statute we can do kindergarten call if the ages are over five under 20 in that law so that's for first read tonight is that
on the AG that's what we'll move forward that yeah it is yeah5 yeah it is um perfect only other item we had on the agenda for committee of the whole um was just to revisit our board goals uh for this year um is attached and board
knocks and we shared via email um during our Retreat uh we had talked about kind of splitting it up amongst the various areas so Community or or amongst the various committees so Community relationships and engagement goal curriculum instruction goal and the
finance goal um so any thoughts on that I like it um I think it would be helpful for under the Community relationships and engagement goals to appoint people so we talked about board representation at
Burrow meetings or if it makes sense I'm I'm not necessarily volunt telling myself but I am the chair of that committee so but if anybody would like to have that role do their meetings conflict with us was there discussion uh no they don't timing wise they don't
yeah the burrow meeting conflicts with our committee meetings I thought it was Mondays I thought it conflicted with one it's it doesn't start at 7 yeah the board or the BS uh committee meetings are Monday but
their board meeting is Tuesday oh oh the caucus is Monday right okay yeah yeah yeah sorry we tell them to change it the council one which one are we talking about under Community relationship Town
Hall the reason being we yeah we talked about because um Chuck Layman rest in peace was fantastic as a liaison from the bur from Town Council and came to all of our meetings and it was a helpful relationship that we thought could be
good to forge ahead and with the things that are going on in Colin it would be good to have you know hands at those meetings as well yeah exactly right abely that meeting is happening right
now o' it's at 7 we hurry up kind of suggestions how about if I reach out to Town Council with this as a proposal and see I don't think they can change their meetings for this year but maybe there can be some kind of more
formalized communication between our two groups now one of the things meet separately one of the things that's kind of come up here and there as we've kind of discussed our committee structure and different things uh is the possibility
of having uh you know Community member sit on or attend a committee so you know that might be a way to go to see if we can get somebody from the council to attend the uh you know Community uh policy committee changed it he I just I
just looked and I don't think I think this is the only one that falls in our meeting I think the future meetings don't don't fall so I think it's just for this so maybe they're doing their budget too so I'd encourage anyone who would
like to volunteer for that role would anyone like to be volunte yeah yeah give it give it some thought we don't need to decide tonight and I I think uh you know when Jimmy does his report on on Collingswood and the latest and greatest from there might
help inform uh our our decision well like you said all right any other thoughts on uh board goals I have a question about the town the town hall meetings are we going to do that quarterly I know we talked about I know Collings would said they were
doing it monthly end up being like 10 eight or 10 meetings yeah so how did we want to split that up what is the structure of the town I know what a town hall is but like what is the what are we encouraging those in the town to do in
this town hall I can talk to Collingswood a little bit it's not all board members go because then I would have to advertise so they take turns and like maybe two two board members sometimes maybe three um and there's a topic um so they put the topic out to
the community I think they do like a Google sign up because space is limited in calling so so I think they try to keep it to a certain number of people so they put the top topic out and then it's more a bunch of people in town getting together to discuss a certain topic sometimes they get information from members of the community about things
that they didn't know about or like ideas for things but you would throw like a topic out there so like I don't want to say budget that's just how to be I have budget brain right now but you can go ah the state cut our budget again like let's talk about it and then you advertise it everybody comes in we do our best to explain what's going on that
kind of thing and it gives you like an open and you know without without it being a formal board meeting it's more of like a back and forth which is sometimes that's what the community wants they want the back and forth but they don't realize this is a business meeting where they can come and they can make a comment but we're really not
doing the back and forth it gives you opportunity to do the back and forth no that's I that's exactly where I was getting at I just didn't I wanted to understand how it was different than encouraging them to come tonight okay that's yeah we heard a little bit more about it at the board retreat when we
had our joint session with um Collingswood that was one of their information topic based where they you know it started with the referendum and it just kind of morphed into everything is it a reasonable goal to say we we would try to get one in
between now and the end of the year right and and just see you a I know we talked about perhaps doing it based on committee topic so if we did four I mean or three in the first
year and then if the Topic's relevant to that committee those committee members would be the ones to represent the makes sense precis so can we put it on the agenda for April um School community relations and policy
committee but you want me to set a date or what do you want me to put on yeah it's set a date set a date yeah and topic but maybe we can ask board members to submit ideas for topics between now and the next committee meetings i' submit one now for the just to talk about the
funding formula and everything that's going on with that you know might be a good opportunity coming right out of budget season um to do that which leads to our our finance goal right which is the sfra piece so you know we could kind of kill two birds with one stone there but did everybody sign up I know Aiden
did I'm going to give you all the stinky eye good job good job Aiden all right uh anything else for committee as the whole I I have something yeah um and this is I'm you guys might throw things at me
I I don't know how this is going to come out uh it might be a big bomb um but I would like to open up a discussion not right now but for all committees and Us in general to see what maybe regionalization would look like with
collinswood uh which is I mean again big word um uh can you elaborate on it what so basically like us being absorbed into their District so we wouldn't be a separate District again I know it's a very big conversation um but I think you know we we we struggle with shared
services um money back and forth it would it would make things a lot easier and make things a lot uh I mean it would just make things flow a little bit better um I know this is a thing uh that has not been this never happened right like
that's that's something and I think that's also what the state's really pushing for on on these funding um and they I mean they've literally said it and and that's what they want uh not that we should bend over and and allow the state to tell us what you know
everything we have to do but uh just to see what that conversation would look like um I've just thought I I thought of it organically over the last couple weeks um so there's a lot of things that would be involved like the voting process right like like we would still
have to have a member on the board I would like to see Oakland have a member or two members on the board um if uh if Woodland did the same thing they would have to have a member on the board how would we be voted in right because now it's a collinswood voting situation how would we be able to get voted into that
um that process so it's just something you know it's a big it's a big conversation that you know we don't have to have right now by no means but and if you really want to like there's a lot to unpack yeah a lot um that's that's the understand because I'm
just thinking all kinds of laws and and um but they if you want to in the future um I can see if school boards has a presentation on on it so they can answer like a lot of the questions I
don't know if this is like a a what do they call it like a canned presentation but it's like this is a there's a lot of laws in in place with this but I want to feel like somebody should be able to answer the questions so if you wanted to like
invite them in at a later time to have a presentation to discuss it that might be an option because like I'm right now I'm thinking of like six different laws that are applying in my brain there there is a formal Playbook there there there's a formal Playbook with the state because
what we we we don't want the the boards and and and by the way the Collingswood board um is in line with asking the same question you're asking um but we need we need to know what what's the structure and all the variables that need to be
considered to even complete the question because I know there's a vote that has to be a vote um and I think it's I don't know if it's a simple majority vote or like a a majority majority you know sometimes you can pass by one vote and it P
like yeah there's all kinds of questions with that I one question too would be are the kids better off being in collinswood well they would still be here yeah they still be here but they we'd have no control over anything that went on we would we well that's what I'm saying we we would still have a member
or two on the board current currently right we we we have a member on their board now right and one vote you're one of 11 but we're getting most of our services from collinswood I mean so I feel like it's
already but so I I mean I don't want to I I want to encourage Jimmy that I think that took a lot of guts guts to to bring this and um and it's I don't think it these are conversations that have not been thought about or spoken about Out Loud by probably everyone around this
table and in this room there's I'm just going to point to a resource that I read in the njsba magazine and it's online lessons from regionalization from the Henry Hudson District District as if I I can't read and talk at the same time but
there are funds available for feasibility studies I believe we passed a la for that I'm I'm I'll send it to you know every I'll send it to the board to read the article because I read it in print um and it was a few months ago but it was from an October issue uh so I
just I think that's some I'm just sharing a resource not an opinion Jimmy I know it's in out of the box suggestion and then you're like you get all these weird looks from all of us so again I guess I Echo the commending
you on on bringing it up a knee-jerk reaction without even discussing the everybody saying a bot of things are running through my mind my kneejerk reaction is like no like you know um and and I think for for me it rides on yes
we we'd have a member or two and I'm sure Collingswood would the good people of their board always want to do what's best for children but right now I like that we have nine people who can represent what's best for Oakland in this setup as opposed to having one or two or however many that setup would
look like really just focused on the best interest of Oakland I don't think anybody on the col School Board is going like how can we stick it to Oakland I'm not saying the contrary it would happen I just think that we have the most vested passionate interest in our
children yeah I honestly don't know how this works but my thought is you'd be electing members to the Collingswood Oakland Regional School District which means that the voters in Collingswood and Oakland will vote on those members my impression from that is Oakland ain't
never going to have anybody elected because collingwood's got four or five times the the number of votes that we have so we we might be eliminating our representation entirely if we do that but I again I don't know that these are all great like I would like to know the answer to that like you know it might be
in this article yeah and the other thought so Teresa's read the article and again I've got lots of questions because like both of you have debt so how does that work right you know so I've got so so yeah read the read the resource and I can always reach out to school boards if you guys want me to do that on your
behalf to Beth 's Point that's the first thing I thought of was the debt and the money and the second thing is the Staffing and how that would impact the teachers in this school district because they would no longer be in Oakland Public School they would rise to the callings would died but and all that
that that that is the first thing that popped in my brain is how is that going to work for the teachers and is it going to hurt them I think it benefits because um the guides are very similar but usually when you have a high school the guides tend to be a little richer at the
end and they as but um we've been working to kind of get the guides not simp they're similar they're not the same but they're similar um but usually what they would roll to the colon they would go to the Collingswood guide probably like that's when the
middle school went to Collingswood that's the Middle School teachers from Oakland went to the Collingwood and that's what it is they became Collingswood employees on the Collingswood guide but yeah there's a lot of good questions so let me know if you want me to reach out to anybody and I I just want to also say this was completely
organic I was not I was not discussed with this by anyone u i just it was just still my head and I'm not pro nor con of it I just think it's the conversation when I when I read the article about you know uh New Jersey funding warning us to Regional Law's
eyes I see I can't even say the word right I wanted to look it up and and you know understand a little bit more about it and just open the conversation so most of us in this vicinity area you know we we are struggling with the same things if you poke around or come to a
meeting of the New Jersey fair funding Collective we all have the same issu so I don't think it's a farone conclusion to say let's not look at other options I think that's doing your due diligence as a board member um I'll just say that Dr mcdal put a link in the administrative
content to the on Committee of the whole whole to that and also take note um these are districts I think in if it exists Central Jersey um the size and scale are significantly different even though you know we say Collingswood B is
big but we're talking like thousand kids in high school so just just make this a little more partisan if we're going to consider regionalization maybe we consider someone other than Collingswood to
regionalize with so that'll throw another Monkey Wrench in your the guts on this side of the table I just can't all right anything else for commit theole meeting Jour uh all right let's have a motion to uh close committee the whole
so move second move then second moving on to uh section five there future dates and misell miscellaneous information um you can take a look at your board agendas for
all the upcoming dates and on to uh routine board business yeah uh so do we have a motion to uh approve minutes from the previous meeting February 18th so moved and a
second all in favor I all opposed motion passes up next we have our first uh public comment uh section uh everyone's reminded to please stand state your name and address
and keep your comments to five minutes or less uh the purpose for this public comments section is to discuss items listed on the agenda um additional more General comments may be made uh at the second Public public comment section later on in the meeting uh Public's
reminded that all attempts to resolve concerns and complaints should go through the appropriate staff members and administrators first any uh public comment may have to turn thingy on I may turn it off or you can just yell it's supposed to help
bu no it is number 13 under Finance I just she said it don't pay any I just want Brett love 20 Harding Avenue uh I'm here as a representative of the Oakland La League I'm the president and
know on the agenda you'll be considering our proposal and I just wanted to say um thank you for your consideration we really appreciate and if you have any questions I can answer them to the best of my ability thank you thank you and Brett don't forget
next fall I want to say start looking out for the DCA grants the Department of Community Affairs I who was here last time I gave her the information but every fall they open up some grants for this specific purpose so just be on the lookout for it
okay has good but you can apply for one you need just need a letter from the mayor and a letter from the board and we will support you in your Endeavor but yeah usually you need a letter from the mayor we we just put in F and collinswood we yeah we need a letter
from both so yeah to be a to look out for it because there my understanding someone did look into it and they found out that because we need the approval but if we get it they can't so got it they already got it but they got
it for but I'm saying put it in for next year for the you know what I mean beat them um they're using like every year every year U that's my that's my understanding well I would call the DCA
and see if they use all the money every year and see if it going get too because I'm just that kind of person I do have one quick question regarding the field how is it currently being utilized or is it not being utilized the field that you're looking
to make the improvements to um well that field is a uh it's 90ft base pants so it's basically for older um kids which Little League we can play up to 16 years old so Juniors and Senior leagues could use that field um right now though we
don't have any teams at age we haven't for a little bit um and when we have you know they play maybe eight times a year they practice someplace else like really has not been utilized um and as far as you know of course this school they don't have no one of that age to play
right and I could not speak to when the last time a kwood team of that age uh middle school or High School came over and played um so right now uh like our league we've been using it kind of as just a place to go to practice um but
it's not good for us and it's not maintained um like we we maintain uh the fields out there so the second when we begin March 1st uh we we go out there we have machines um and we care for it we
when we uh every year we get them dressed so Magnolia uh I shouldn't say the company I don't remember exactly who but they come out and they do it and we treat it with special things that help absorption and help the dirt um if you notice you look at the softball field right now we've been really
concentrating on that a lot and if you notice that's not overgrown or the other ones are um so if you look at the Junior's field it's yeah it's I to save it's it's almost like if you look at it it's almost abandoned yeah yeah that's that's what I was asking yeah so right
now I think with our proposal I think I mention in there uh it could be used by either baseball or softball and any age y yeah sounds good thank you thanks all right any other public
comments All right we will uh close public comment section onto the superintendent report um Section 8 uh 8.01 is the enrollment report uh February 2024
266 February 2025 to 70 uh 8.02 03 04 and 05 are the school safety uh suspension um anti-bullying uh and child study team quarterly report and uh each
of those are also attached with there being no uh bullying reports uh for the uh month of March and moving on to the uh business administrator board secretary report um 9.01 is uh listing of your um
February 20125 budget transfers um 9.02 is your board secretary and treasurer's reports your financial reports 9.03 is the purchase orders um issued thus far for the month of March I
know it's early this year because of budget um 9.04 is a listing of the warrants to be paid uh tomorrow morning and that's it all right uh moving on to uh Finance buildings and grounds
committee um I will kick that off uh Finance facilities and uh shared services committee is looking for uh approval of the following items uh 10.01 uh is approval for Budget transfers 10.02 10.03 approval of
certifications of no overe expenditures 10.04 is approval of secretary treasur reports and 10.05 and 10.06 our approval of the purchase orders and warrants uh new business um 10.07 and 10 08 we have our budget
submissions uh first one being for our uh Elementary budget second one being for our prek budget um which would be submitted to the office of Early Childhood um 10.09 is a motion to approve the transportation addendum for
a tuition contract with M Stepford 10.1 is's a motion to approve uh the 2526 preschool secretarial Support Services agreement between Collingswood and Oakland 10.1 is the motion to approve uh the continuation of services uh to be
provided by Camy County ed services commission for the 2526 school year 10.12 is a motion to approve the request for on uh proposals for outside Services which includes the board solicitor auditor architect um and also uh OT PT
and Behavioral Services uh 10 10.13 is a motion to approve the uh proposal from Oakland Little League to refurbish a large baseball field into a multi-use space uh um and 10.14 uh as a motion to approve use facilities request uh from
the Oakland soccer club uh need a motion to approve those items so moved second any comments or questions yeah two things uh number one the the rfbs uh we had talked about this in in committee uh
specifically sending rather than just waiting for somebody to respond for the solicitor where we've had a little discussion lately on them uh to specifically send that to other uh qualified uh solicitors in addition to
uh our current one and on the baseball field just one question question on the the the storage facility you want to put behind a Dugout is that going to be the same size as the Dugout yeah um
there people at home can hear you your audio so for that um what we plan to do is along the third base Dugout we basically would like to just basically extend it so chain the fence so to keep the same aesthetic that's going on we
will probably have to raise the fence up higher for SEC security purposes and then we'll just need a gate big enough uh because part of this plan would we we would have to acquire a fiberglass Mound that we need to safely store um so it wouldn't be quite behind
it so if you just picture the dug out just being a little bit longer how exactly longer truthfully it depends on the size of the mound we need to get ballpark uh 20 ft 300 feet yeah yeah yeah I going to go all the way out to the river up to the lake fine um so that
so it would still be chain link fence so it kind of like keeps the same aesthetic and as far as any our storage in there we would just need right now in The Dugout there is a uh there's a box yeah and we would need something like that just enough to put in like the liner and
stuff we use for the field so we can keep it nice and dry um and eventually we would like to put um covers over the dugouts to help Shield the children from the Sun and that cover too we would put over that extension to keep everything
nice and dry in the as dry as possible secure yes so no one can yeah you that's why want the fence higher so it gets right up to that roof so cuz one problem we do have in many parts is they climb the fence anyway with what we lock so that it would be there's not enough
space to squeeze through okay so it would be chain link fence locked up secured like okay yeah just just one thing too I'm going to vote for this so don't get excited what I say but uh the when that field was first installed yes
that was a skin INF field okay and there were Myriad complaints from The Neighbors on uh the next street over land yeah Landis thank you uh so just be prepared that if that
happens um you're going to have to somehow plate them yeah I I um give them free tickets to the L Le games right now well that's not a problem problem um right now we have a skin field on the other side of field and
that Field's even closer and I mean I can't speak to any complaints you might get because it's your Fields uh but I've been a member of the board for uh the Little League since 2017 and I've personally heard nothing
about that field so I'm hoping the cas is that maybe like cuz we do maintain those fields when we there quite a bit Stern the dirt up and that helps that top layer not just be like dust so a lot of wind blowing and a lot of stuff we Trea
I think helps a lot so I'm hoping that will um quell a lot of the old problems used to have part of the problem is the wind blows this way so the the softball field you're not going to have any problem with down there because that dust didn't going to blow over the worst cases so just aware of that just be
prepared well one day we can do something four is for armed right all right thank you okay thanks thank you all right on call Mr DeMarco yes Mrs L yes Mrs marmian yes Mr McMillan yes
Mrs Rando yes Mr schaer yes Mr STS yes Mr tab yes motion passes moving on to IM 11 curriculum and Personnel committee Mr schaer all right good evening everyone just a few items for approval tonight
item 11.01 we're looking to approve a field trip uh end of May to the Please Touch Museum item 11.02 looking to approve the 2025 2026 uh calendar that rich had alluded to earlier tonight in discussion and item
11.03 uh looking for approval for the hiring uh of Hillary reof as a nurse so we are seeking approval on items 11.01 through 11.03 do we have a motion so moved any comments or
questions yes I'm sorry I get paid by the comment try to make as many as I can uh I'm I'm very unhappy with the school calendar uh it's it's I guess it's the way of life anymore but the minimum becomes the
maximum state of New Jersey says that we have to go to school 180 days a year so we're saying right away oh okay we're going to go 180 days why why do we have why can't we put something in there what what is the Magic in not having more days I'm also unhappy with the
professional development days we few years ago that was out of control we made a concerted effort to bring that down uh now it's going the other way there were six in the current year they're six and a half next year so it's not a big change but it's going the wrong way uh and i' I'd like to see fewer
professional development days I'd like to see um maybe another week at the end of the year I can't interfere with anybody's vacation at this point in time because nobody has made vacation plans I'm sure for 2026 uh so I'd like the the minimum to
not be the maximum I think we can go to 186 days with the calendar uh with the I'm sorry contct I'm sorry said that again she's talking about the teacher
contract there's a certain number of days you can't go above it in the teacher contract Prof we can't go above what for professional development What's the total number of days you have 180 181 and
hello Mr statson everyone I figure I'll just come up I was the head of the um calendar committee and um I'll be happy to answer any questions that anyone has but to those points is it okay that I just came up and started talking okay great here I
am um yes there are uh aund and I will happily go back and have this yeah uh there so uh we're kind of bookended pretty tightly by September 1st uh being the first day that staff can report um and there's 187 day maximum um
contractual stipulation for staff and so when you really start to map it out um and account for the uh holidays that we traditionally have taken over the past we went back a couple of years and looked at the last few calendars uh when
you plug those dates in um and account for a couple other things along the way like njaa convention Etc um we are really kind of tightly constricted about how we can be any more creative than what we see here of course open to ideas
if there's something that we have yet to consider um the way that um there's really as we see it on the on the proposal that you see for approval and vote tonight the only day that is sort of in play would be um Friday January
2nd um is currently listed as a day off for students and staff um the committee uh the calendar committee felt strongly that it uh that we would like to keep that as a closed day um to have one continuous Holiday from the 24th of
December through to the 4th of January um but just just to speak on that is the really the only day that's in play right now um that we would be able to swap out uh for an additional day other than that
we are pretty locked like pretty like um handcuffed to uh the constraints with that September 1st date unless like someone mentioned earlier we wanted to continue into the week of June 22nd 2026 and so we were attempting to avoid going
that late into the end of June and so that's how we arrived at this draft sir okay and looking at the last two years I think you're right Jewish holidays are one that come to mind uh we take uh uh both Jewish holidays now both jam papor and rash Shana yes uh
prior to maybe two years ago or three years ago that was not the case yes I believe right it was one or the other that yes they could do one so we've now expanded that right and we we just seem to be finding ways that we don't have to educate the kids and I I'm concerned
about that I'm I'm I'm not following it I'm sorry I'm I'm probably a little bit dense not probably I am but this calendar says total student days 180 total staff days 184 yes now you said we could go to 187 staff FS yes now that
would take us into the week of or we could add yes that would take us I'm think you could eliminate one of the one of the uh uh Jewish holidays you could reduce the number of professional development days to maybe four uh
instead of 6 and a half and if if that didn't do it yes you could actually go into that uh that last week in June Mr Stars let me let me let me I think that it's really important like um separate and apart from that uh Meredith could
you talk through the individuals on the committee sure uh that helped actually be able to draft it and so um the feedback I think is important but in terms of our ethical responsibility from a Governor's
perspective um we want to be very mindful that we're not circumventing or discounting the work of the actual committee which was combined with Collingswood and Oakland staff and administration to to co-develop this calendar based on the needs of Staff the needs of students the contractual
constraints and then the limitations of the actual days within the month for the upcoming school year yeah Christmas so yeah Christmas is funky this next uh this next calendar yeah so uh thank you Dr McDow uh yes we had a uh
I think a really productive process this year um back at the fall um Oakland board retreat you requested that we had a unified Cs and Oakland uh school calendar for 25 and 26 and so hearing that from you all we we set out to form
a un a collective committee across both districts with uh kind of a diverse array of representation from different stakeholder groups across um both C and Oakland um teacher oea leadership buildings and grounds Elementary
secondary Middle School um and so from col from Oakland excuse me we had Jim Balden and Todd weisenstein um we had Robin Hogan Mike sessie Meredith Wells sidel Kim halenbeck Jim Floyd Dave Oliver and myself um uh formed the
committee we met on a couple of different occasions to to draft the um proposal uh we then uh presented to both uh Oakland and collingwood's February uh curriculum instruction committees heard some feedback took it back and met again
made some final tweaks and then presenting this version at committees again last weekend and then for uh for vote tonight um and I'd say the committee we debriefed a little bit after at the end of our last meeting and the committee felt like it was an effective and efficient process and um
uh we uh we hope to do something similar going forward next year um the only other thing I'll I'll add uh while I have the mic as they say um yes there are six and a half St staff professional development days um on the calendar here and just on that note uh
we tried to be very strategic about when those days occurred um as you've heard me and principal Balden share previously um we have uh now in place um some very consistent testing windows that occur throughout the course of the Year
strategically fall winter spring um that's for our Dibbles and map testing along with other interim things that happen at the building and classroom level um and so you'll see staff professional development days strategically um allocated or aligned right after the end of those testing
windows so for example in September we'll test the weeks of the 15th through the 30th to get a baseline set set of data on student performance after summer and all the shake the cobwebs off from summer vacation and come back to school and so then you'll see on that Friday
the 3 is a staff professional development day um it's really important that we do that because um I've worked in districts where you take all the time to do the testing and to um assess the kids and collect the data if you don't
strategically if you don't strategically um align a pause day there for teachers to analyze plan and respond you just end up being on this hamster wheel of like you roll into the next week and to the week after that um and so it was very
important to us to strategically place those um staff PD days aligned to um key testing windows that occur throughout the course of the year um and then the other thing I will add that I think has been pretty warmly received from from everyone who uh has seen a draft of this
um uh the first week of May is pretty traditionally teacher appreciation week uh across the country and it was our hope to um to give teachers a thank you on the Friday of that teacher appreciation week by um scheduling a half day um not a professional
development day or anything just a half day to say thank you and you may head out early um that first week of May is often traditionally the start of Spring State Testing and jsla college board at the high school level and so we realized we wouldn't be able to effectively do
that on Friday May 8th and so instead uh we uh slid that Friday down to the 22nd which is the Friday before Memorial Day so it's just a delayed thank you for a teacher appreciation week and we didn't think anyone would mind getting out a little bit early on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend so we think it's a
win-win and hopefully something we can carry forward into future into future calendars um again intended as a thank you to teachers that is all from me but I'll take any further questions or feedback you you know what I'm going to ask yes I
do I think so we're about the IAL or yes so so are we going to have a digital copy that can go out yes I already talked to our Tech Team because you said word you said you said things to me that I didn't understand but I wrote down the words you said and then asked people who
could translate form translate it for us so ultimately um once this is approved and it goes to final um Meredith or somebody else will be able to submit this out to uh to all the all students all the all the the uh
the parents anybody that wants it as a file and then you just click on it if you're using Google Calendar Apple calendar whatever it'll you can automatically add it and it'll populate all the days yeah and it'll already it'll be set and ready to go so you don't have to set there and make your own calendar thank
you you subcribe to it edits come through also CH yeah or you could take this one and take your bulletin board and put a pen in the top of it both options are equally useful yes
thank you okay I'm I'm going to argue then about the I I still don't like the 180 days thank youan I I think that's a problem I think we're doing disservice to the kids uh we we're so concerned about how we can do all this for him
there's the way we can do more for him not have the minimum as the maximum so if you had to go into that last that next week in June so be it um I I personally I see no problem with that and I will vote against this uh for
for that reason I don't think it's enough time okay thank you so much y all right thank you kindly all right uh on a vote Mr DeMarco yes Mrs love yes Mrs
marmian yes Mr McMillan yes Mrs rotando yes Mr Schaefer yes Mr STS no on oh I'm sorry no on item uh 10.02 11 11.0 11.02 I'm sorry I got you
Mr tab yes all right motion passes moving on to item 12 school community relations and policy committee Mrs marmian item 12.01 is the collinswood Board of Education report from Mr
McMullan all right buckle up uh all right so uh I will say um it's a whole another world over there um in comparison after uh 5 years of being on the board over here and then uh going over there um but the I think everyone's
kind of uh knows what the situation is with the fair funding uh so I kind of wrote up a little bit um there are uh websites um if you go to calls k12.org their website right on the front page there's a lot of information uh including the bridge the gap uh mailer
that was created by a couple in collinswood with uh a lot of pictures and graphs and data and uh and things that you can do to help you know um so ultimately uh $28 million is what
Trenton and the local fair share says that uh Collins would is required to have um and they are short by tax levy by 8.7 million um which is a very large number
um and to be able to hit the same level that they're at right now um which means uh pretty much status quo same Services same everything um uh and a little raise a little bump in and pay for the for the uh the teachers
contracts they have to raise $3.6 million um but that just doesn't come out of nowhere so uh it was going to go down to Major Cuts uh major Services cuts um all kinds of things uh that I'm allude to but I don't think I I can
speak uh directly about um so they decided maybe to go to the burrow and ask the burrow and that was on February 10th uh we all voted uh to uh that the uh the school board could go to the the burough of collinswood and
ask for some type of uh you know assistance um so that bounced around back and forth uh for a month until yesterday afternoon at like what 5:30 um and they finally agreed it seemed like
they agreed on Friday and then something happened and like the the mayor said from what I from my understanding there was there was there was the statement he agreed upon it and then it changed he changed his
mind uh but either way um bethanne Dr McDow Roger Chu the mayor everyone worked uh all over the weekend uh cuz I kept getting all the text messages and seeing everything happening um but they have uh they've up with a plan also on
the uh collinswood website um so there are Six Bullets on here uh I encourage all of you to go and read over it uh because it does directly impact our kids as they leave fifth grade and go over to Collinwood if that's what they're doing
um but there's about $750,000 in Pilot programs which uh I I don't if you want to know more about that maybe bethanne or or Dr McDow can talk about it but um that's 7 $50,000 in Pilot programs that they can take and
then ultimately the buau said anything else uh will make up uh by means of taking a loan or a bond um with that comes the caveat of the board uh or the
buau wants to look at all the books for the school board um which is uh you know they they hired Consultants I'm sure you've heard about this uh so they they they basically just want their fingers in the books to be able to
to do whatever they do as a municipality um but with that they will provide us the uh the funding um on top of that uh looking in September uh they're looking for another referendum to be able to raise taxes so
this is I don't like the word bail out but it was it was mentioned yesterday but this is this is we were in big trouble and they came in and fixed the problem right now it's not fixed for the future so the referendum has to come through which is
going to be raising taxes it's going to be looking at increasing the 2% cap um and uh and a number of other things so uh someone also said last night which you know I one of the comments uh from the public uh struck me was the plan B
in case the referendum doesn't pass uh what's the backup of uh what's what's the backup plan so um currently like I said it's going to be status quo for the school district uh there is going to be uh the same
contracts that were were pushed out uh last year is going to go through the ca is not happy about it but um that's that's where it stands right now um and then one thing on this that I don't I you know I spoke with Roger Chu
about it I don't really completely understand but there's a $15 million uh recreational facility for kns Park so this the the buau is borrowing $15 million to better kns Park I don't know what the middle school yeah and the
fields yeah okay okay that's what I wasn't clear on but ultimately what what the mayor's going to do is he's going to get a uh he's going to get the loan um for the schools and then he's going to get that on a interest only payment until some of the other loans that the B
has retires and then he's going to basically slot those that loan into those um uh I think I think that's almost about it I don't know if uh I'm sure I missed a lot of details but um so I can I I just want
to make sure I'm just providing filling in some of the gaps that Jimmy um articulated and so um in terms of the I I we reject the phrase bailout and so when we look at the state funding formula what we've talked about is what's gotten lost Beth an's word lost
in the sauce is the state of New Jersey um has an expectation through local fair share that the burrow of the town buau of Collingswood provides uh roughly $28 million in local fair share the buau
doesn't have $28 million in local fair share what the buau will be um legally obligated uh to pay is is1 million which uh generates a structural gap of about $8.69
million and so over the last several years in Collingswood we have um had to make reductions because the state expects them to pay a we receive B and so we have already reduced between four and5 million over the last several years
based on this structural Gap and what we were facing this year was a 3.6 million additional reduction which would have directly translated into um the closure of uh schools uh significant reductions
in uh Staffing uh much higher number of layoffs than what we currently experience this past year in addition to the reduction of extracurricular activities uh and so on and so on and so on and so the appeal uh
for partnership with the bur is that the state expects a we know that you don't have it um we we would appreciate coming together and collaboratively thinking through this math problem and so it did take some time because the buau saw uh
an opportunity for us to be able to partner we saw an opportunity for us to partner and so using their Municipal flexibility and Authority there were a few things that they were able to agree to in the beginning which was looking at
Surplus looking at pilots and so those were some known quantities what took some time was to identify um how we actually closed the full hole and so the only way that they were actually able to close the full hole is to a developmental shared service agreement
and so coincidentally they have a recreation plan that was introduced in the burrow several years ago they didn't have the mechanism and that Recreation plan is dependent on using School District property and so this uh uh
development um re a Redevelopment shared service agreement then allows them to transfer the remaining funds to the school district in uh in exchange for the shared service agreement and the construction of the uh property and so
they're looking at District property as the mechanism needed for them to be able to bond out the funds and then make the direct payment to The District in order to be able to close the gap um in the short term and so the the also the
long-term commitment keeping that the current local fair share is roughly 28 million it will continue to go up and the burrow will continue not to have the 28 30 31 million and so we know that
moving forward we need to continue thinking creatively about how do we close the gap using whatever flexibility that we have at the least disruptive and burdensome option to taxpayers and that requires us being in in Tandem and in
active partnership along the way or the Gap will continue to grow and so the commitment um from both entities is to collectively tackle this structural problem together um for for for all students and so um the partnership
definitely we appreciative of the partnership um but it's it's it's we're really tied together and so it creates a new level of uh symbiosis that has not existed in about 20 years um and so right now we're just working through the
details I have a couple of questions um the referendum is a school district referendum right that's happening in September do you know details of it because it seems that some things so the one that failed in [Music] 2018 19 whatever that was that was
athletic fields right Focus the last one would the would the next one involve closing any schools this would just be you've heard me talk about the Robinsville thing yeah it we would be um doing the Robinsville
so um because we found out after this budget cycle that Robinsville wasn't affected or penalized by the state and those of you who don't remember the conversation we had um Robinsville last year because they were in the same situation um went off for referendum in
March but not for Capital before an Inc a a permanent increase in their tax levy to close their Gap and there was some controver she traten because the law that they used is what we use when we go for Capital referendums but the law doesn't actually say the word capital in it so they attorney kind of pressed it
um and it passed so they were able to close their structural Gap in Robinsville that's what we're looking to do in September so this what the mayor and the buau councils what they agreed to last night was like a one time right we're going to help you in 25 26 um
we're going to go to referendum in September to close that Gap permanently going into 20 26 27 that's that's the plan in answer to your question theres there's another stage that has to happen before then and so a joint advisory committee of us
looking at U there's new legislation that came out last year that allows a degree of um flexibility on behalf of schools through uh Municipal Credit guarantee and so using the credit standing of the municipal Authority um
they can there's a abilities for more creative ways to secure additional funding and so the joint committee is going to look at the goals and the objectives from the original uh uh referendum from in sep from back in September with one very big difference
Athletics won't be connected to to that and so we'll be looking specifically at academics um and also Public public good through the lens of what are all of the options that we can explore to lower
that collect ask in September um using the flexibility of the new legislation um using the the bureau's um uh Authority and so that joint committee will be burrow folks um School District folks community members all looking at
how do we Leverage The CommunityWide resources in order to reduce the overall ask that will become forthcoming in September okay last question uh is anyone looking at let learned from the last referendum when it comes to
communication and community relations that was brought up last night for sure talent show it it it is but I think it's also important to to understand that um
school districts are uh restricted due to campaign Finance laws within the the the referendum phase the actual campaign will only be 60 days it won't be 6 months like it was last time um and uh we'll be working in Partnership uh to
communicate with the burrow and so um we are hopeful that uh the collaboration will continue uh to bear fruit um another uh another thing I was just so this isn't just collinswood
right so don't I mean I want to make sure everybody understands that it's there's many other t townships around us that are in the same Pro problem um and uh last night it was kind of mentioned that uh I mean you brought up Robinsville I was going to give you guys all the credit for coming up with this
but uh but yeah I mean we're it it's kind of a groundbreaking uh solution that you guys came up with um and I think you know someone mentioned that we should kind of pave the way for some of the other townships around us uh to be able to do the same so okay the qu the a
referendum in September is not for the 2526 school year is for 2627 yes okay and the bar is committed to the 25 26 school year great oh has nothing to do with this but
this is just an example you're talking about the smart lawyer at Robinsville goes back to my question about the non-resident student for teachers that a smart lawyer will find a way around it maybe um the I mean I guess the only
other thing that I've I've witnessed over the you know two months that I've been there uh is uh you know the teacher contracts with the ca um they they keep coming out and uh from from what I can tell at the low level of my understanding of the budget
is you can't get blood from a own and we're trying and there's it's not a it's not a uh the administration doesn't want to pay the teachers like we we all agree that the teachers uh deserve well more than they already have uh and that we're you know we're doing our best to come up
with that money um I was speaking with Roger earlier asking uh what the difference was between the 8.7 and the 3.6 and it was that 3 million for fair funding right so if we had that extra 5 million then the teachers would all have raises everyone would have you know the
services would be much better but the money's not there so that's that's really all so it was a matter of us trying I did have a question about that if that's appropriate here for number six it says the goal is to ensure that the agreed upon costs to settle these
contracts are included in the operating referendum is that the what the um the teachers are asking for no it's the current if I'm if I'm right it's the current it's it's it's what's in my budget okay and that's why we're not
settled so it includes a raise but it doesn't include the full ask my understanding I like to say this but just out of curiosity the amount that you have anticipated for the raise that you've put into this budget if that doesn't
work out how do you cover any Gap in that cuts okay I mean that's the easiest to answer but that's what it comes down to I mean like there's there's can't get blood from a stone you know and you know we put a a good faith effort into our
proposal I budgeted what I was instructed to budget by the board um and broke crossing our fingers but what this can this funds what we felt was reasonable okay Ju Just One Note too uh
a pat on the back for Roger uh yesterday I made I was late obviously going into the meeting but at the part I heard Roger actually answered questions that were asked to which makes him go away at that point that's a tremendous improvement over his predecessor who
just gave a Blank Stare this he's actually trying to uh to humiliate some of the problems all right thank you um item 12.02 is the PTA leaz on report M Rondo yeah yes thanks team so on um
March 4th the PTA met most recently at which time they reflected on past events um which included the family fun night which was uh a Lego theme the pretzel sale and the PTA family reading
experience they were all very big success in terms of current state I think the biggest PTA thing going on right now is the talent show our talent show committee I think lives here uh they're here like
theres um kind now they're they're camped out in our cafeteria just watching our our children rehearse and get prepared for the show they're doing a ton of other
work in the background trying to get music together um it looks it really is like a village effort they speaking of which Library helpers are needed I think thank you that was as of then and I don't think that there's been a Title
Wave of volunteers uh since then so so any of you out there uh please volunteer to be a library helper we're nearing the end of the reading readathon I think that ends on 3:14 um where there's a log of all the
minutes the children are reading later in the month there is a family fund night planned I think it's in partnership with OMC and then there's a bunch of stuff that would be redundant for me to read now because I'm just going to read it in April but those include things like the Teacher Appreciation Week plans Spring Fling uh
Muffins with Mom Philly stuff uh and things of that nature so more to come tune in the May and April and you'll hear about those then thanks when's then the next meeting is April is it April
1st I don't know I do I actually yes it is I I texted president thank you confirm the date thank you thank you lla thank you lla um item 12.03 is Zac report Mr T uh yeah just uh
the upcoming family night collaboration with PTA other than that no updates this month yeah item 12.04 is the Oakland Education Foundation Mr Schaefer uh no new update since last time I had been in touch with the O president we're just
trying to line up our schedules it's a softball season for Coach D this a little tough right now but we have been in contact and we're going to hope to meet soon and uh go from there cuz you know we have a great resource there with o f um and uh you know looking to utilize uh it as much as we can so no
new news but we are in the works of trying to align our schedules and get together so yes cuz Mrs Balton has a list of things that I removed from her budget so that maybe you guys can help with a couple of those things yep I and I going to bring that up uh when we can meet and talk so
absolutely um item 12.05 uh the first St for approval are policies for our first reading 5111 is the one that we discuss in Committee of the whole eligibility of Resident non-resident students um 5710 is students student grievance 8500 is
Food Services how uh item 12.06 are poies up for a second reading uh that's 5516 the use of electronic communication devices and 571 the academic Integrity policy and 12.07 are regulations up for
a onetime rating they're 5533 student smoking 7441 electronic surveillance in school buildings and on school grounds and 9320 cooperation with law enforcement agencies item 12.08 of the Hib report
from February so we are seeking approval for items 12.05 through [Music] 12.08 all right do we have motion so moved and the second
second any comment or comments or questions all right on a roll call Mr DeMarco yes Mrs love yes Mrs Maran yes what you giggling about over there
Mrs McMillan Mrs McMillan Mr McMillan he's missing Mrs Rando yes Mr schaer yes Mr stots yes Mr tapy yes uh motion passes moving on to uh item 13
miscellaneous uh we are looking for approval of the uh uniform State memorandum of agreement between uh our school and law enforcement officials uh do we have we have a motion somebody
second motion and second and any comments or questions on the vote Mr DeMarco yes Mrs love yes assist Maran yes Mr McMillan
yes Mrs Rando yes Mr schaer yes Mr stots yes Mr T yes item passes uh moving on to our second in public comment section for the night um all participants are reminded
to please stand state your name and address keep your comments to five minutes or less um this public comment section is for any comments uh Public's reminded that attempts to resolve all concerns and complaints you go through the appropriate staff members and administrators first uh any public
comment no all right no public comments uh moving on to item 15 uh adjournment do we have a motion so moved second moveed then second it all in favor I hi good night