I can do that. But now further down. around. That's how it was. One other What? Standard check. Good evening everyone. Let's call this meeting to order. Uh this is a regular
uh meeting of the board of education. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided. Schedule of regular meetings of the board of education was adopted at the reorganization meeting on January 7th, 2025. Schedule and notice of said meetings have been
posted. All regarding has been done within the time required by law in accordance with the open open public meetings act. And uh roll call for attendance. Mr. Demarco's on a crew still. Lucky boy. Um Mrs. Fulpel here. Mrs. Love
here. Mrs. Marian here. Mr. McMillan here. Mrs. Ratando here. Mr. Schaefer here. Mr. Stoutz here. Mr. Tabby here. I'll stand for the pledge of allegiance. Got it.
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Uh, no executive session at
this time and no presentations this evening. So, we'll go into committee of the whole. Um, do we have a motion? Motion. Second. Motion and second. Uh any topics for committee the whole? I have a little thing that I was just
reminded by our PTA president and um secretary of our school that next year is the centennial of the school. So just wanted on the record that we should start working with Miss Balden and maybe reaching out to other community groups.
Um so we're a little probably behind already. Cool. All right. So, maybe we can add that as you know for committee for next month or something. Any anything else? I had a couple quick updates. Uh I just wanted to share with
everyone I shared in our notes. Um one of the things that uh has come up over the last month um is that the OEA has asked for clarity on uh the district's position regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Um uh we do
have our core value statement as part of our bylaws. Um, you know, despite any changes that are currently happening at the federal government, um, you know, we're still, uh, held accountable by the New Jersey Department of Education. All the statutes and standards that the
curriculum is based on, um, are currently still in effect. So, until, uh, something official comes down from the federal government and then comes down from the New Jersey Department of Education to us, uh, it's status quo. Uh, there. Um, another thing, uh, just
wanted to point out how nice the front of the building looks. Uh, we had a group of parents, uh, volunteer to, uh, plant some native flowers and, uh, spruce up the new sidewalk, um, out front. Um, so it looks great. Um, so thankful thankful for them for doing
that. Anything else for committee the whole? All right. Uh, we get a motion to close. So, second, moved and seconded. Um, future dates and miscellaneous information is in everyone's agenda. Uh, I just wanted to
point out uh our public hearing on our budget um since there'll be some changes to that uh in terms of time and location. So, that will be May 6th, which is next week, right? Already next next Tuesday. Um the public hearing will be held in the
cafeteria. Um since it's a different uh date than we usually use and that'll start a little bit earlier than normal as well. That'll start at 5:30 p.m. as opposed to the usual 6:30. So again, May 6th board of ed public hearing on the
budget in the cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. Uh why why are we having that at 5:30 next week? We added this meeting after we've approved a bunch of other things. I think there's something in this. I think there's somebody
somebody's in the library. Scheduling conflicts. Uh this was a late add-on. Yeah. A conflict with Collinsford. No, somebody's in the Oakland library. It was advertised for the cafeteria. So at 5:30 there's nothing in the cafeteria
at 6:30. Why don't we have it at six then? I think a lot of us I think I think there was also schedule with it being not part of a regular round of meetings. I think there might have been scheduling conflicts with board members as well. Yeah. My concern is our meetings were always at 6:30. Now
all of a sudden we're going to go with a budget that's going to have a significant tax increase and we're going to have it at 5:30. It was the only time that the board as a quorum could meet, but it was advertised for 5:30 and it is on the website time, right? I just
that's the what we have to do. So, Bill, do you have a suggest Sorry, I can't put my mic on. Sorry. Bill, do you have a suggestion of a better way that we could communicate it? We do have a week. No, people won't watch it. They'll show up automatically at 6:30.
I'm happy to entertain as chair of the school and community relations and policy committee a different way that we can communicate to make sure that everyone knows about the hour change. Any any ideas? Open up to the floor. Yeah, we have social media which we
usually put it out. We could do uh a phone blast to to to the community as well. We'll we'll also talk uh we'll also talk with the bureau see if the bureau can use their u messaging uh mechanism as well. Yeah, that's probably
the best idea. I personally like a robo call to every resident. No, no, family news. The PTA will post on our behalf a lot, too. So, there's the Oakland PTA page, the Oakland family news page. I know we like to keep it sunny and light on the classroom pages, but maybe the room ambassadors can do it
too. That I mean would reach parents, but the family news would reach for those who have social media, the community. And I like the call. We could I I I didn't think you were joking about the call. I think that's a good joking about the robo. Oh, no. I mean, that's typically the way that the mayor will
let us know when dates of recycling are changing or anything else. I don't Yeah, but you have to sign up for it. Well, whoever calls me every morning, I don't could use them. Yeah, right. I know. No, I I mean I'm I'm I'm trying to work with
I think it's a a valid concern. Um I think this was difficult to schedule as we know we had what was the date that the state gave us the first April 11th. I think today done by the 7th and we're doing it
on the 6th. So, I think we're doing a great job trying, but again, I don't I don't think the I think the robocall is a very good idea. Maybe we can I know that's the burrow though does that, not the board. So, I think we'd have to look
into how. Okay. Why Why are we not changing it to 6:30? We We don't have a quorum. It has been advertised. We had members who had conflicts at that time. Okay. All right. Moving on to item six,
routine board business. Uh, need to get approval of the minutes. Have a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion
passes. Uh on to item seven. Excuse me. I think we missed the important dates. Five. That's what we were just talking about. They had the board meeting change on it. The bolded item. That's what that's what
drew the comment. Yeah, we can do the full rundown. Want to do the full rundown? I know. meeting. All right. Uh, item seven, annual appointments. Me, that's you. Yeah.
All right, Jimmy, you got to hear this again. And you heard it last night. Yeah. So, those of you who have been with me, and I do this every year, I will speak as quickly as possible. It's a very large section, but um with being a pseudo state agency, there's a lot of mandatory appointments that we have to do on an annual basis.
So, I'm going to run down them as quickly as possible. Um 7.01 annual appointments. Um secretary, auditor, um the physician, the attorney. 7.02 is
your broker of record for health insurance. Um 7.03 03 is your broker of record for u non-health insurance lines of coverage so like your workers comp and liability 7.04 is architect of record I do note that for the professional services like architect um
auditor lawyer doctor we did get RFPs okay um and the eval evaluations are attached just FYI um 7.05 um is uh your official bank first colonial community bank 7.06 06 is uh your official newspapers um retrospect
in the Courier Post. 7.07 is a listing of the um who gets to sign what checks into what bank accounts. 7.08 is approving me annually as your uh qualified purchasing
agent and setting the bid limit for $44,000. 7.09 um authorizes me when funds permit um to purchase CDs and banknotes for investment purposes. for the school district. 7.10 um authorizes me to uh wire funds
by telephone or internet as needed. And that's basically to fund a payroll. That's how I fund it. Um 7.11 um authorizes me basically to pay bills um when they are due like if if they're they're in between board meetings and then I add them to the bills list for ratification prior. This is mostly for
the month of July because we don't meet in July and then in August um it's ratified. 7.12 is appointing me as the district's custodian of records. Um, and it's um approving Steve Burns as the assistant. This way if we get an open request and I'm out of town and we have seven days to comply, Steve can jump in
and complete that for me. 7.13 um is approving John Longo um our supervisor of buildings and grounds as a school district's asbestous management officer, safety and health designate, integrated pest management coordinator, chemical hygiene officer, asbestous
hazardous emergency response act coordinator. Um John, I don't know if your name tag is big enough for all those things. Um 7.14 is appro is approving myself, John Longo and Steve Burns as the right to know coordinators for PIOSHA. 7.15 is
appointing me as the public agency compliance officer. 7.16 is appointing Windsor Yamamoto as the compliance action officer for affirmative action. 7.17 is approving Elizabeth White House as the compliance action officer for uh
504s. 7.18 is approving the Omni Group as your third party administrator for your 403b investment plan tax shelter. 7.19 is approving Mary Hopkins as the homeless liaison. 7.20
uh is approving Jen Balden as the issuer of working papers. Uh 7.21 is approving Windsor Yamamoto as a title N coordinator. 7.22 22 um is approving the school safety and security plan and that includes the emergency operations plan, crisis
prevention and response procedures and the emergency management plan. 7.23 is approving Jen Balden as the school district safety specialist. 7.24 is um approving Elizabeth White House as the Americans with Disability Act officer. 7.25 25 is
just um approving the collection and maintenance of student records in accordance with a New Jersey administrative code. 7.26 is the annual approval of the special ed programs for Oakland. 7.27 is approving the educator practice rubrics
um the Charlotte Danielson framework. 7.28 is the annual adoption of the board policies and bylaws. That can all be found on our website. 7.29 29 is a listing of the substitute rates um for next school year. And with that um item
7.01 through 7.29 for annual appointments. All right, that's on the vote, right? Yes, it's roll. Uh roll call. Oh, you got to do a motion. Motion. Motion to accept the items 7.01 to 7.29. So move.
Second. Any question on the solicitor? Who other than the two people that two firms that responded here uh did we send this to? Um I have to check. Parker McKay.
Um I have to check my emails. Those are the ones that replied. Oh, sorry. Those are the ones that sent our piece and we did send it to law firms and ask them to respond. Yes. And we placed it on our website and we email everybody when it's on the website and
we we advertised it and then the my county association also advertised that they were available. So I did it three different ways this year. Okay. I was offense but we we advertised
it on our website. Right. So, it's a professional services, so it doesn't have to be bid. So, I email it to the current providers and people who have called and expressed interest in the past. So, other law firms, um, it's on our website. So, most of most professional services have like a list
served where like when something gets posted, they automatically see it and then they send RFPs. Um, again, I advertised it in the paper and then the Camden County Association of School Business Officials advertised all the professional services. I had asked that it specifically be sent to law firms,
not that we post it somewhere and have them look at it. And I said I did. I went I went to see who approved and I'm from memory though. I wasn't at the finance committee. I know Parker McCay was one. Kart was another. Um I'd have to go back and check. I mean, off the top of my head, I I can't I don't know.
Okay. I I think it's uh not prudent to employ the same solicitor that Collins would uses. uh you know there's too much potential I think for a conflict of interest on the the part of uh the various attorneys. I understand that we have a separate attorney in the firm but the firm is the
same and I don't think it's appropriate that we uh we employ that same firm just a question followup question have we had the same firm since we started sharing services or Yes. And I when I took over I believe
the the reason we switched to Kart I think the firm I forget the name of the firm that had the business before I think it was like some bad blood with the highella thing. So we advertised and we interviewed and the Oakland board at that time decided to go with Kart and since then we've just stayed with Kart.
So since I want to say 2011 2012 in that time frame and we originally had the same attorney, right? And that was something we we voted on. Well, only for like the last this last school year for about maybe
six to eight months. Rob Musili retired in last summer. Um and then so for about I don't know six to seven months we had Joe Bley while they were um uh filling for Rob Spot. So they've hired more attorneys.
Now we have Stacy Gorin. And if we run into a situation where an attorney or or where our firm has to or one of the uh attorneys has to recuse themselves, there's not much chance that uh they're going to walk away or walk away from Collinswood. uh we're going to
be left to appoint a new attorney uh for whatever that might be and at that point we have a brand new attorney doesn't know anything about us that's going to represent us uh at that point it's for that specific reason I would say you stay with KATR because bringing in a new attorney after you have almost 20 years
with one firm it's hard to break one in um I just want I'm having a hard time with my memory but Bill whenever they have that level of conflict they would They would contract with another law firm for that. Did that with the send to receive. Remember we had to bring in a
different firm to do the send to receive because Kart represented both Collings in Oakland. So I forget what year it was 201 171 18 when we expanded the send to receive to include middle school. I think it was Porzio. Uh we brought in a
a second law firm to work on the send to receive the expansion of the send receive relationship because Kart was conflicted. So, we had to bring in a separate law firm to handle that negotiation. It's it's case specific. And and I I I think that the challenge, and I can't stress enough,
um Oakland is a small district, a really small district. And so, you're not going to get a a large number of law firms saying, "Yeah, we want like it's it's it financially it's not worth it to them." And so we go through when we talk about
our list serves, our list serves have a dozen or more law firms that specialize in public school work in South Jersey. And so a lot of the folks, they're also not willing to drive very far either. And so when you look at who's in the market, you're looking at 15 to 20
actual firms that do this work in South Jersey that are willing to support districts that are small like Collingswood and Oakland. So, since we're small, we settle for whatever we can get. No, we take a we take a 20-year
relationship with a professional firm that has provided us service. And when there has has been a conflict, they have actively made sure that they removed themselves from it and brought in outside counsel in order to make sure that Oakland was well represented. Now,
I'm not here to carry water for law firms. I'm just sharing with you trying to break in a new law firm given everything else that we're really trying to accomplish. It's a it's a a challenge. Um and the number one question that the firm uh a new firm is
going to ask us, why are you seeking to change after 20 years? And if we can't answer that question, Well, I can answer that question. Yeah, but you're you're leaving, Bill. I mean, you're one of nine and you're you're leaving. And so, okay. I'm sorry. I'm not voting on this.
No, what I'm saying is is that when when the time comes, you wouldn't be the person actually answering the question. It would be the board president or the board vice president. You wouldn't be the person answering the question. That's that's that's the challenge. That's just my extra my two cents. Okay. But the board president and vice
president will be answering it according to the board's wishes. Yep. Okay. I still don't think it's prudent to use the same firm regardless of how long we've had them. There's there's no sense sending anything out. and and firms when and I've been
involved in bid situations repeatedly and where you have one firm that's had a a an account for a period of time, you have a reluctance on the part of other firms to bid against them. You know, it's the old boys
network that uh that you have working with you. So, they you know, they're saying the same thing you're saying. We've been with them for 20 years. uh you know what's the chances that they're actually going to move it to us no matter what happens. So they don't bother bidding and that's a problem we
run into. So the fact that it's been 20 years is uh I think rather immaterial but that's that's me I'm one opinion I think it's important to have the same firm the board will decide
to move on to a roll call. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Um Mrs. Fal Mrs. Love. Yes, Mrs. Marian. Yes. When everybody's done talking, turn off your mics. We can only have like two on at a time. Thank you. This way,
everybody can be heard. Mr. McMillan, yes. Mrs. Ratando, yes. Mr. Schaefer. Yes. Mr. Sts. Yes. Except the solicitor where I vote no. Mr. Taby,
yes. Mr. Motion passes. Moving on to our first public comment section of the evening. Um all uh committee members are reminded to stand, state your name and address and keep your comment to five minutes or less. Uh the purpose for this public
comment section is to discuss items listed on the agenda only. Um additional more general comments may be made later on in the meeting during the second public comment section. Uh public's reminded that attempts to resolve all concerns and complaints should first go through the appropriate staff members
and administrators. Any public comment? All right. No public comment. We'll close that out and move on to the superintendent report. So, good evening everyone uh joining us
at home and the large crowd in the audience. Section 9.01 is our enrollment report. March of 2024 enrollment was 267. Uh March of 2025 is 269. That is attached. Uh 9.02 and 9.04 04 are the
school safety drill and anti-bullying reports. Those are also attached. Um just wanted to uh just bring just some positive attention uh currently this time of year and so we are at a season
where uh teachers are receiving their uh midyear reports looking at the growth that our students have shown um in both literacy and mathematics. teachers are adjusting um their practices and targeting their instruction in
preparation for NJSLA coming up very very soon. Uh and just wanted to give a a shout out and an acknowledgement to how incredibly uh hard our teachers uh are working um to make sure that our students are able to successfully show
what they know. Uh and so uh this is my appeal to families. uh please uh uh follow up uh with your child's uh teachers. Um there are very simple complimentary things that can be done at
home in order to make sure that our kids are not going into this testing season with a degree of anxiety. Uh but more just a sense of pride and a sense of confidence to be able to show what they know. Uh and so please uh stay in close contact with your child's teachers. Thank you.
Moving on to the business administrator board secretary report. All right. Item 10.01 this evening is um listing of your monthly your March 2025 monthly transfers. Um 10.02 is your board secretary treasurer's reports.
10.03 is a listing of the purchase orders um issued during the month of April. And a 10.04 04 is a listing of the warrants uh to be paid tomorrow morning pending approval this evening. And that's it. All right, moving on to item 11 uh
finance uh buildings grounds committee report. So for our regular business for approval tonight, we have uh 11.01 approval of budget transfers 11.02 2 and 0003 approval of certifications and uh no over expenditures. 11.04 is approval
of the secretary treasurer reports and 11.05 and 006 approval of the uh orders and warrants. Uh new business 11.07 uh is a motion to authorize uh the assistant superintendent of business and
operations to seek proposals for food management company uh for Oakland. Uh 11.08 08 is a motion to approve Hardenburg Insurance Group as our riskmanagement consultant. 11.09 is a motion to approve the 2526 public employer trust agreement for the
provision of medical prescription and dental coverage. Uh 10 or 11.10 is a motion to approve participation in the semi program for the upcoming school year. 10.11 is a motion to approve the sale of our piano. Uh 11.12 is uh to
officially approve the beautiful garden that uh our community has installed in the front of the building. And 11.13 uh is a motion to approve use facilities request for the OC Panthers basketball. So we're seeking approval of
items 11.01 to 11.03. Do we have a motion? So move second. Any comments or questions? All right, having none, uh, let's move to a roll. Roll call. Mrs.
Fel, Mrs. Love, now it's on. Mrs. Marian, yes. Mr. McMillan, yes. Mrs. Ratando, yes. Mr. Schaefer,
yes. Mr. Stoz, yes. Mr. Tabby. Yes. Motion passes. Moving on to our curriculum and personnel committee. Uh Mr. Schaefer, our chairman. All right. Good evening everyone. Um item 12.01. There are no current field trips uh for approval. We've approved, I believe, all
the field trips in prior meetings. Item 12.02, O2. Uh we're looking to approve uh Bing uh Burlington County Special Services to provide one-on-one staffing for a student. Uh that began on April 7th through June 16th. At the right
there, you see uh the attachment to uh explaining the necessity for the uh for the aid there. Uh item 12.03, we're looking to approve a paid medical leave uh effective from May 20th uh through June 20th. Item 12.04 04 kind of
coincides with that. Uh we're looking to uh approve uh the replacement uh teacher contract to Christina Roser uh effective May 20th through June 20th. Item 12.05, we're seeking to approve the following student teacher
observation uh of Kenneth Carson there with Anna Polo. Um item 12.06, we're looking to uh issue contracts to the follow following administrative staff. Uh this is effective from July 1st through June
30th. Item 12.07, we're looking to issue contracts to the following tenur faculty uh from September 1st through June 30th. They're all listed there. Item 12.08, uh looking to issue contracts to the following non-tenured faculty from September 1st
through June 30th. Item 12.09, uh issuing a contract for tenure office personnel. um just the one individual listed there from July 1st through June 30th. Item 12.10 looking to issue um contract to non-tenured office uh
service personnel July 1st to June 30th again for the one individual listed there. Um we do not have any current substitutes and tutors item 12.11 and we're looking uh to approve a travel expense report uh which was attached um
few different events there. were all for the purpose of improving instruction. So, we are looking for approval of items 12.01 through 12.12. Do I have a motion? Second and seconded. Any uh comments or
questions? Yeah, believe it or not, I have a question very generally uh on 12.02 know too the Burlington County Special Services where we're changing the uh uh aid I guess uh can very
generally can you somebody tell us why that's necessary um if the child's IEP calls for an aid um we are required um so the districts have two choices we can
send them one of our own or the the school that we're sending them to. Sometimes they just charge you for the aid. So, in this particular instance, um the child will just being charged for the aid for the rest of the school year. So, it's probably in the child's IP. It's mandated. Yeah. No, I understand
that. I read it as Burlington County was providing uh that service to us and charging us and now we're changing to uh whoever the uh the contractor is that we use the child's at Burlington County Special
Services. So Burlington County Special Services is providing an aid. We're not providing the aid through our company ESS. The child doesn't attend in Oakland. No, honestly, I understand that. this as as I read it, we're going to
start providing the aid through ESS. No, ESS is not mentioned in this at all. Previously, but not currently. Previously by ESS, but not currently. Say that again. Previously built by ESS,
but not anymore. Who is going to do it now? Burlington County Special Services School District at $259.30 a day. Never mind. Just a quick comment on item 1212. Uh I'm excited about this so I wanted to
share with the community. Uh we have a group of teachers who are participating in uh a series of professional development uh webinars on uh Google classrooms. um which is pretty exciting because it'll allow them to kind of coach their colleagues in the
application of the technology tools that we have. So, you know, one of the things that we've talked about a lot over the years as a board is uh the efficacy of our technology department and how quickly are uh device repairs being done or or or needs being met. And a lot of
what the tech department has previously in addition to having to deal with the hardware is to assist teachers in you know how do I do this or how do I do that you know where do I click kind of thing. Um and so you know having a group of teachers who are the experts in the
classrooms now having this uh training um will help the tech department in terms of what they need to do with the hardware um and really allow us to uh be be more efficient and effective with what we're doing with the technology because it's going from teacher to teacher. So just thought that was a really cool thing on there. So just
wanted to share. Um any other comments? All right. On a roll call Mrs. Mrs. Felpel, yes. Mrs. Love, yes. Mrs. Marmian, yes. Mr. McMillan, yes. Mrs. Rotando, yes.
Mr. Schaefer, yes. Mr. Staltz, yes. Mr. Ty, yes. And motion passes. Moving on to item 13, school community relations and policy committee. Miss Mormian.
Hi. Uh item 13.01 is the report from the Collinswood board. Mr. McMillan. Good evening. All right. Uh last night we attended uh or attended the Collinswood Board of Education. There was 119 items on the agenda. So uh I'm
going to cover a couple of them. Um thank you. Uh there was a presentation for the counseling department by uh Principal Newman and Kim Henback, the one of the lead counselors. Uh there uh the high school has four counselors and one secretary. Um they've already raised
over $3 million in scholarships um for the students. Uh and looking to get double that at least if not more uh by the end of the year. Um they've added new courses for the 2526 including aerospace engineering, um music and
film, music as a mirror of history which I think is pretty cool and a few others that you know sound great. But um they're also uh doing dual credits with partnering colleges. So um that's great. I can't remember the actual colleges that they were but you know they get a
partial credit for the college uh as a senior in high school. Um they announced May 5th uh is going to be the official budget meeting which is the day before hours. Um, and then Thursday, May 8th, is the round table that's going to be at the Collinswood Library community room
for anyone to ask questions about, you know, how the budget's going to affect them and and, you know, the details. Uh, we were joined by Dne Coder as a student representative. Um, he was there in attendance that night. Um, Dr. McDow went over the, uh,
$ 8.7 million gap, explained, he explained it one more time for for the community. Um, uh, I believe we got three teams that, uh, are going for the Odyssey of the Mind World Competition. Um, which is pretty interesting. That's, uh, that's been going on since the 70s. So,
there's, uh, the team Space Rats, uh, Larry Con, and Team Hamster, if I heard that right. So, um, and they have a GoFundMe page, uh, that's going to be going live. So, uh, for travel, uh, expenses and stuff. Um, what? Oh, grade
level. Yeah. I don't know. They're like middle, right? So, the state champions were uh all high school uh and then the uh one team was a uh also a high school team and then the third team was a middle
school and high school team. Um we had uh we had a number of public comments um and most of them were all uh you know pushing the contracts for the teachers. Um, uh, there were a few complaining about the taxes, but, uh, more of the same, uh, that Collinswood
goes through. Um, uh, uh, President Chu agreed that, you know, the teachers and the students are in hardship right now while we're making this decision. Um, uh, Beth Anne went through her 32 bullets, uh, that she she did tonight. She did, uh, even better tonight.
Practice makes perfect. Um uh they approved a number of field trips including the Museum of American Revolution, the Morris Arboritum, Frank Franklin Institute and more for this year. Um that's uh that was high school and elementaryaries. Um project
graduation by the high school. Uh PTA is going to be at uh the Bolar Road, the big event on June 20th in Cherry Hill. Um, also bringing on four new social workers or no, three new social workers, one of them being the volunteer. Um,
they're also bringing on a German student who's going to volunteer to help and shadow uh the German teacher. That's interesting. That's great. Um, and then ultimately we went into uh more public comment and and that was uh that was pretty much it for the evening. Thank
you. Thank you. Um, item 13.02 2 is a PTA leazison report. Are you gonna hunt it to me? Yeah. Okay. Um, so unfortunately I was unable to attend the PTA meeting, but I love to catch up with
them on Facebook and they post diligently. So the last meeting was on April 1st. Um, some of the things that have been going on that they've been advertising, there was an awesome Domino challenge with cereal boxes. Um that was a fundra I mean it was raising um food
for the food pantry right but it was a it was a really great check out the video on their Facebook page. Um they have a few things going on a few fundraisers and exciting things. So, uh, the Hershey Park, uh, fundraiser, which is always pretty successful, just ended.
This Friday, May 2nd, at 7:30 on the front lawn, is Muffins with mom. And then on June, Friday, June 8th, will be donuts with dad. There's a Phillies night, um, Oakland PTA Phillies night coming up on June 9th. Uh, there's also
going to be another blood drive on June 14th. Um, teacher appreciation week is coming up. So, do check out the Facebook page um to there are opportunities to sign up and help and I think their next I I don't know when their next meeting
is so I apologize PTA but I'm sure they will post about it. So, join the Facebook group. May 7th, sorry. Uh, that would be Wednesday. Wednesday, May 7th. Got it. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Balden. Um, I think I got everything. It's
Monday. Do we know if teacher appreciation week comes with a different theme every day? I don't know. I know that there's a call for people who want to help out and add their ideas. So, I think there's a it's
kind of open for for things. Yeah. Okay. You volunteer yourself. Laya, are you hearing this? It drives me crazy at 8 p.m. Well, I think we'll do whatever we think will make the teachers and staff super
happy and the PTA does an incredible job with it every year. Um, item 13.03 is the OMEAC report from Mr. TV and I I don't have any updates this month. I'll circle back to Mr. here and get us next month.
Item 1304 is the Oakland Education Foundation report from Mr. Schaefer. Uh, no significant update, but I did reach out. I did speak with a member of OEF. Um, I they don't have a next meeting planned at the moment. I know their last kind of meeting was the meet and greet that they had back in January.
Uh, but in the course of the conversation, we do believe there are possibly some, you know, some funds that, uh, we could look into. Um, so I want to verify the amount that perhaps is there and uh and then see if maybe we could use that to uh the benefit of some of the needs we have here. So um so
contact has been made. Don't know when the next meeting is but um we'll go from there. Great. Thank you. Um item 13.05 are policies up for the second read. There are three 511 is eligibility
of resident and non-resident students. 5710 is student grievances and 8500 is food services. So we are seeking approval for one item item 13.05. Do we have a motion? So moved.
Second. Second. Any comments or questions? Just on my end, I wanted to thank Mrs. Marian and Mr. Mr. DeMarco, who's not here tonight for all the work they did with uh the one policy 511. That was It was all Aiden. All Aiden.
Thank you, Aiden. It was a bit of a doozy. So, thank you. Thank you both for for tackling that. Um All right. On a roll call. Mrs. Fal, Mrs. Love,
yes. Mrs. Marian, yes. Mr. McMillan, yes. Mrs. Ratando, yes. Mr. Schaefer, yes. Mr. Stz, yes. Mr. Tabby, yes. Motion approves. Moving on to item 14,
miscellaneous. We have our uh HIV reports. 14.01 and 14.02 is our uh bus evacuation drill. We have a motion to approve those items.
So move. Second. And on a roll call. Mrs. Fel, yes. Mrs. Love, yes. Mrs. Marian, yes. Mr. McMillan, yes. Mrs. Ratando, yes. Mr. Schaefer, yes. Mr. Staltz, yes. Mr. Ty, yes.
Motion approved. Um, moving on to item 15. Uh, this is our second public participation section for the meeting. Um, committee members can uh discuss any topics during this section. Please remember to stand, state your name and address, and keep comments to five minutes or less. Uh, the public is
reminded that attempts to resolve all concerns and complaints should first go through the appropriate staff members and or administrators. Any public comments? Hello, my name is Kyle Jacobowski. I live over at 401 Oklahoma. I don't feel like we the taxpayers are
getting the full details in your budget presentation or in general. Option C on your budget presentation indicated that the district could bring back previously cut staff. Who? How many? Why are they
needed? Who will they help? You have six learning acceleration teachers per your website. The budget presentation had a slide about positive behavior trends and then a chart about chronic absenteeism, but nothing about
discipline referrals which could have shown an actual positive behavior trend. Further, there was no data for this year. Even though we're more than twothirds of the way through the year, you couldn't have shown us any positive behavior trends for this current school
year. Or maybe there aren't any. We're just left to guess. Option A indicated that the steam program can be brought back. But you haven't told us what the steam program is. And when I searched steam on the district website, there were no results. So what is the steam
program? How will this program help students grow? Have you told us anything about the science program? How are the students doing? The budget presentation started with ELA program highlights, which equal no real change the past three years.
45% of the students are not proficient basically, but the taxpayers should just give the district more money. As for the meeting this past Saturday, it was posted, but it wasn't on your website on the latest news
section. It was posted on a door at a school where there was no school that week. I guess you didn't want people to attend the meeting. Now, going through the website, I did find one positive, the kindergarten supply list. It said one
pack of Ticeroga pencils. And why do we want those? Because Teroga pencils, the points don't break easily. The pencil sharpen easily. A single sentence detail with two reasons would do wonders for each
point of need for the budget presentation. But we didn't get that. Thanks, Thank you. Any other public comments? Matt Hamilton on Eden. I think one of the the three what if scenarios based on
the previous meeting. Um one financial metric that I'd be very curious about because would be the what is the who's going to retire within the next year to five years. Uh I think the three main points that were presented to us was
teacher staff. Um just overall just trying to think this through of how to measure that amount because if you're if we're replacing teachers when they retire at the top tier then you're going to go higher entry level or you know possibility of of
uh you know bringing somebody in you know at that entry level salary. So I guess how is that funding going to be allocated? That's pretty much it. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment? All
right. Hearing none, we will close our public comment section. Moving on to item 16. Motion to adjurnn. Do we have a motion? So move. Second. Second.
Moved and seconded. We are now adjourned. Thank you everybody.