Mr RAC would you please uh come to order Mrs Dan here here M here Schneider here
yes M Stevens present uh M talo here car here thank president's report uh first of all I'd like to thank everybody for being here this evening um I'm I'm very proud of the fact that this board has unanimously selected Scott Brady to
be to be sworn in today and before we do I would like to take this opportunity to tell the town a little bit about Mr Brady Mr Brady is a teacher in the Marboro District uh he graduated from St John's University with a master's of Education he has a bachelor of Arts in
political science and Spanish from Marist College in pipy New York he also has his supervisory certificate from NJ XL uh he taught in in the city of New York at at the Manhattan Charter school but most importantly he is a resident of
Wanamassa and he is a father uh to a student of ours in the district at uh at the Wanamassa Elementary School and funny enough his son is the same age as mine and they share the same name which is a wild fact that we figured out this weekend and a unique thing because they
have a very unique name but so with that very excited about what we're about to do tonight as a board Mr Brady I would like to ask you to come up to the podium please so that we can swear you inbody see great thank you in case you want to read okay thank
you um so this is going to be a repeat after me I state your name I Scott Brady you Solly swear affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and
the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same to the governments established and to the governments established the United states in the United States in this state and this state under the authority
of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I state your name I Scott Brady do you solemnly swear or affirm do you solemnly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law prescribed by law for the office for the
office of member of member of a board of education of a board of education and that I am not disqualified and that I am not disqualified as a voter as a voter pursuant to pursuant two RS RS 19 colon 4-1 19 colon
4-1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due to a conviction of a crime due to a conviction of a crime or offense or offense listed in listed in njs njs 18a 18a colon 12-1 colon 12-1 and that I
will faithfully and that I will Faithfully partially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties that office of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations now miss Ray I do
believe that we got some photos ahead of time uh but if you would like if if you would like to say any more you're welcome if not uh please join us up here as a a member with full rights okay thank you very much absolutely thank you congratulations
Scott thank you everybody congratulations all right well that concludes my president's report Mrs Welden please good evening everyone it's great to see you I have uh just a few things this evening before I turn over my time to our presenter this evening
Mrs Michelle Shapiro but I would like to just update the board that uh I did mention at the last meeting that our our preschool Lottery outcome was that everyone was going to have a seat but some parents were going to um be offered seats at other schools at otes we had to
have a lottery at otes only everyone who applied at wanasa and Wayside were're accepted into one wanasa and Wayside respectively OT we had a short weit list we offered each of those extra families that you know did not get into OTS seats
at the other schools they have all accepted and so every single person who applied for the wait list and was and wants a seat has been accepted and we have already begun because of some people not um interest you know maybe who showed interest but
now do not some of those families from OT tees are already being asked been offering we being offered their seat back at OES so we've already started the process it is my hope that by the time we roll around to September that we may have the majority of our students in
their home school but every student is in who wants to be in and if someone did not apply yet we do start now a secondary wait list and we highly encourage families and tell your friends in case they missed the preschool Lottery and the application process to
please still apply and we are also accepting kindergarten registrations as well right now so I encourage all families and tell your friends uh you know we're looking for all our Future Spartans out there so please have them register uh with us and we also just
wanted to let families and the board know that we Mr Hastings has said this in the past we we do have some summer construction projects and we did meet as a group the administrative group meant to discuss the impact those will have on some of our summers programs so you will
see some changes to our summer programs not not major changes but some locations some programs will run in different schools and some programs will run slightly different days or hours just to accommodate the construction projects that we have going on this summer um so
not drastic changes but just slight changes I did want to make the board aware and then we have some great events coming up we have the districtwide art show this Thursday night at the Township Library it is the gallery opening although it is open all through March so if you cannot make it Thursday night um
you can go at any time this month and see our students wonderful artwork and the hard work of all of our art Educators um but the the reception is this Thursday night from 6:30 to 8:00 pm Ocean Township Elementary School has their fol event later this week wanasa
school has their PTA girls dance OTS is having a schoolwide dance and next week NE I'm sorry both of those things are next week and the week after Tois is having their student vers staff basketball game on March 24th so all of these events are on the district
calendar on the school website and I encourage fam students uh board members to come out and see the act the uh the activities of our students in action okay um that does conclude my report thank you Mr thank you appreciate
you I'd like to there you go let's invite Miss Michelle Shapiro up this evening to provide us a a presentation on our early literacy program evening feel free make yourself at home okay anybody with a red
blazer thank you thank you for inviting me to present tonight I consider myself extremely fortunate to supervise early literacy in the township of ocean school district and I recognize the immense responsibility that I have as a leader when it comes to ensuring our Spartans
gain the foundational skills necessary to equip them to be lifelong readers and writers Partnerships are key to transformation and I believe that the information that I share with you tonight is the result of the hard work and commitment of all of our elementary
teachers and highlights our shared vision for literacy instruction one that is student centered data driven and focuses on student growth achievement and success next slide please Mrs Conway tonight I will provide you with
an overview of our approach to literacy instruction an update on our core program and the continuous professional development we provide we will also take a detailed look at the various assessments that we administer and the protocols that we follow to ensure systems and supports are in place for
all Spartans next slide please let's first take a look at our instructional approach to literacy next slide please in recent years the media has put a lot of attention on the phrase the science of reading it is important to
note that the scientific evidence behind effective reading instruction has existed for decades and that the science of reading is not new the traction that it has gained lately has sometimes led to misunder understandings the science of reading is not a philosophy or a
trend it is does not it is not a specific program and it does not exclusively pertain to phonics what the science of reading does provide us with is the research behind the essential components of teaching students how to read and the instructional strategies
that lead to student proficiency here in Ocean our daily instruction includes direct explicit instruction in phine M awareness phonics word recognition and fluency as well as vocabulary and
comprehension we also put a high priority on all of the factors that contribute to becoming proficient in literacy including knowledge building and writing we recognize that our students ability to comprehend text increases as they are giving given
opportunities to discuss write and respond we also understand that knowledge building increases our students ability to not only comprehend what they are reading but connect to it so that they are better equipped to analyze and synthesize information from a variety of complex texts as a result
we approach our instruction from more of a science of literacy lens than just the science of reading next slide please our teachers have been referencing and utilizing Scarborough's reading rope a diagram that illustrates
the complexities of learning how to read the diagram shows that a student needs to become increasingly automatic in word recognition the bottom strands of the rope and increasingly Str iic and language comprehension the top strands of the rope in order to become skilled
readers this requires direct instruction practice and time to ensure our students receive the instruction required to become skilled readers our teachers plan and Implement full group and small group differentiated instruction that follow a
structured gradual release of responsibility I do we do you do next slide please Mrs Conway our core program and the professional development we've been provided has led to us led to a deeper understanding of
best practices in literacy instruction next slide please in 2016 2017 our district adopted the comprehensive literacy program McGraw Hill wonders around the same time we began to recognize the profound
impact of multi-sensory reading instruction and its role in student achievement and initially most of the teachers trained in multi-sensory Reading instruction were our interventionists we began to think about how this approach could be beneficial for all Spartans and considered how we
could incorporate multi-sensory reading instruction into our core program we began to prioritize funding for imse Orton Gillingham training for our K to3 teachers as of 2004 2025 2024 2025 most of our K3 teachers
have now participated in this in-depth comprehensive training of phonological awareness and phonics we have been able to easily incorporate and apply this methodology into our Daily's wonders instruction today if you step into a kindergarten classroom you will see our
most likely see our students writing letters in sandre on bumpy screens using gestures to manipulate sounds and building words with magnets and cards all of this happens using a combination of Wonders and imse materials and resources while following
the Wonder scope and sequence in addition we are now beginning to train our third through fifth grade teachers in imse morphology plus an intermediate course focused on language comprehension which provides in-depth training on morphology fluency and
vocabulary next slide please in addition to imse training our most important professional development occurs in each of our elementary schools with job embedded instructional coaching our literacy our literacy instruction would not be where it is today without
the tremendous dedication work ethic and professionalism of these three talented Educators Brienne branagan at Ocean Township Elementary School Janice McDow at Wayside Elementary School and Megan Haynes at wanasa elementary school have
partner partnered with me to ensure student achievement is our highest priority as student- centered instructional coaches they meet with teachers daily to think about and plan for instruction gather resources and respond to assessment data they co- plan
and they co- te and they work to ensure that every decision is made with each student's best interest in mind they collaborate as a team across schools and they push my thinking as a literacy leader we are extremely fortunate to have this instructional coaching team
and I am profoundly grateful for all they do for the township of ocean schools thank you for next slide please we are also extremely fortunate to be early recipients of two
transformational grant opportunities in 2019 2020 we partnered with NJ dooe and Ruckers as we began the process of participating in the New Jersey tiered systems of supports early reading Grant the first step in this grant process was
to use the njss early reading po instruction analysis tool to analyze our wonders program and determine if it contained all the essential components of a highquality research-based literacy program as we had anticipated it checked
the boxes for all that we needed to provide our students with the essential components of literacy instruction our next step was to choose and establish a universal screener we immediately adopted Dibbles Dynamic indicators of basic early
literacy skills and trained our teachers and administering these assessments What followed was three phenomenal years of data analysis coaching support and professional development for all principles supervisors coaches and teachers we began to make tremendous
shifts in our instruction in response to student data and make critical instructional decisions based on clear evidence when we found it hard to say goodbye to our NJ dooe Ruckers partnership we were presented with the opportunity to apply for another
four-year Grant with Ruckers called the data-driven instructional coaching model ddcm a grant that has provided our coaches an intervention team with the protocols to diagnose gaps in student learning develop and Implement targeted interventions progress monitor student
performance and make instructional decisions based on the individual needs of students we are currently in our last year of DD of the dbcm Grant and I feel confident that the past seven years of Grant work were well worth our time and commitment our students have benefited
tremendously from the support these Partnerships have provided us slide please now let's take a deeper look into our Universal screener and benchmark assessments Dibbles are measures that help teachers and schools determine how
students are performing on important reading skills Dibbles consist of a variety of subtests that measure the critical skills necessary for beginning reading when awareness phonics fluency and comprehension Dibbles tests are indicators of a student's overall
reading proficiency and provide teachers with an efficient way to gain insight into how well a student is progressing on specific reading skills the results of these assessments provide us with information to determine whether or not a student is on track for reading success you can see that as a student
advances from kindergarten through fifth grade the number of measures decreases as students become more proficient and fluent in foundational reading skills for example students in fourth and fifth grades are only assessed in oral reading fluency and Maze a standardized
comprehension assessment next slide please once a teacher administers the Dibbles assessments they enter the raw data into the linkit platform that serves as our data warehouse and testing
platform once the data is entered the results are then categorized according to risk or like hood that students will meet endof year goals in Reading each category is represented by a color and helps teachers easily determine which students are on track for reading
success and which students may be in need of strategic or intensive support in one or more components of reading in addition students take three New Jersey student learning standard align benchmarks on the linkit platform these ass assessments are given in the fall
winter and spring and provide us with detailed information information on how students are progressing with grade level standards the snapshot on the right side of the screen illustrates how teachers are able to view their classroom performance by reading skill as align to the New Jersey student
learning standards next slide please once student data has been gathered we Implement our data analysis protocol for both dibles and Link it benchmarks starting at the district level we analyze the data to determine
how our readers are performing across the district at each grade level we then break it down by school to determine how our students are performing across buildings from there our teachers evaluate their class performance before diving deeper into their analysis of individual student
needs at the classroom level this information is then used to inform daily classroom instruction providing teachers with clear information on which skills and standards need reinforcement and or extension next slide please the next four slides illustrate
just one way we analyze our district data please note that these data sets reflect different cohorts of students so I just want to pause and tell you that there are four different colors up there it's kind of hard to see so it's blue green yellow
red um it's hard to see the yellow and the green kind of mixed together there we are very proud of the progress we have made in delivery of instruction and response to assessment since our adoption of dble in 2019
2020 the 2019 2020 data in each of these slides was collected before the pandemic the data on the left shows that in the winter of 20192020 only 41.1% of our kindergarten students were scoring at or above Benchmark in phic Awareness which is
represented by adding the green and blue percentages the average score at that time was 24 correct letter sounds as a result of this data we began to make huge shifts in our femic awareness instruction coaches modeled wonders femic awareness lessons and we realized
the importance of teaching these lessons with Fidelity our most recent winter data from this school year shows that this work has made a difference our average score is now 32 and about 60% of our kindergarten students are currently scoring at or above Benchmark in MC
awareness a skill that is constantly developing in kindergarten we anticipate that with further small group differentiated instruction the number of kindergarten students at or above Benchmark in this skill will continue to grow next slide please we applied the same instructional
shifts to first grade in Winter of 20192020 45.8% of our first grade students scored at or above Benchmark infinim MTH awareness with an average score of 39 currently 74.3% of our first grade students scored
at or above benchmark with an average score of 48 next slide please using our Dibbles data to drive instructional decision-making we began to make shifts in our phonics instruction right away in the winter of
20192020 78.5% of our students scored at or above Benchmark in second grade the average score was at Benchmark at 99 sound correct letter sounds currently 76.7% % of our second grade students are at at are at or above Benchmark with the
average score at 105 correct letter sounds which is considered above Benchmark next slide please in Winter of 2019 2020 61.4% of our third graders were at or above Benchmark in phonic with an
average score of 110 correct letter sounds which is at Benchmark today 78 .1% of our third graders are scoring at or above Benchmark in phonics with an average score of 130 correct letter sounds next slide
please as a result of this work we have developed systems of support for all Spartans next slide please throughout each school year principles supervisors instructional coaches interventionists and teachers
meet at and between each Benchmark period for grade level data analysis meetings these meetings occur at each school at these meetings we review all data and teachers first determine if their class is in need of a classwide intervention a classwide intervention
would be necessary if more than half the class is below Benchmark in an area if a classwide intervention is not necessary we determine which Stu which students data shows that they would benefit from Intervention from there those students are given a diagnostic assessment to
determine the target skill for the intervention that intervention is put in place for six to eight weeks with an interventionist progress monitoring the student in the targeted area after reviewing the progress monitoring And discussing classroom performance we
determine if any adjustments need to be made to the intervention we also determine if the student has met their goals and is ready to exit the intervention this process then continues next slide please
our Intervention Program is fluid with students entering and exiting as needed the decision-making is data driven and collaborative with principles supervisors instructional coaches teachers and interventionists all working together to review student
performance slide please our literacy work is not finished now that we have made significant shifts in our instructional practices to ensure students foundational skills are strengthened our Focus is now on refining our direct and explicit writing
instruction and ensuring that we are providing practice in writing with targeted feedback using our njsla evidence statements we have provide we have prior prioritized literary analysis and narrative writing tasks while also providing opportunities for our students
to discuss their reading by establishing environments conducive to collaborative conversations next slide please in August of 2024 Governor Murphy signed two bills into law with the intent to strengthen foundational
Literacy for in the state of New Jersey beginning in the 2025 2026 school year the Bills require school districts to establish a universal screener conduct literacy screenings at least twice a year and inform parents of their student scores
within 30 days I am proud to say that we have been meeting these requirements for many years now and that is due to our commitment to ensure all of our students begin their Spartan Legacy with the foundational skills they need to be lifelong readers and leaders again it is
an honor to present our literacy Journey with you this evening I'm truly grateful for your time thank you thank you very wonderful yeah please come on awesome at this time I would like to
first open up the opportunity for the board to ask questions so please go ahead Mrs McGovern um I don't really have a question as much as a comment I just want to say that I remember when you moved from the classroom to this role and um I now after having that presentation understand why so many
people were devastated you left the classroom I think it was very informative um it was it was the data there but not only that not just reading the data but speaking to it in a way that that made it more um go home to us um was very well done um and I love that
you you know gave props as you always do to your team that you um that is behind you in this it's been a long time with the interventionist I think when the board first started putting interventionists in and kind of putting some of these job coaching things in and you know Miss Welden at the time in her position explaining to us what that was
going to be um you know we could see it we we we supported it I should say I don't know that we necessarily could have seen exactly um the data that actually would have came out of it so um kudos to you and you know the staff for doing that kudos to you Miss waldom for putting this in in your pre role in for
Miss Morgan for Dr Morgan actually for um you know doing that as well so I just wanted to give M Gilman please congratulations that was an incredible presentation of
not only the data but how our students start to read the most important skill that they will take with them into life and congratulations to the instructional staff as well uh for all of their work the whole team it does take an entire
team and thank you for explaining you know uh Miss welen has thrown out Dibbles and Link it and I was clueless as to okay we use Dibbles we use linkit but now it it's gelled and okay this is what we use this for and this is how we
evaluate with that so it was very informative uh especially for people who might not be in education and understand how the data is called and how it is used so congratulations and keep up the good work thank
you I just want to say thank you for your leadership and theal coaches as well as the principles and it seems like all of the buildings are on the same page and the data speaks for itself so it's really really cool to see such growth within those couple of years thank you you're
welcome Mr schne I know that you have your hand up my virtual hand yeah Mr Shapiro and the team thank you uh very uh very good to see the the results and I'm very excited to see how this program continues on uh with with the numbers that that that you were shown my
question is and I don't know if uh you know the answer but are we are we one of the leading districts in the state based on your last comment that uh Governor Murphy had put into law um you know some of the things you guys already have in place or we have in place I mean I can't say for sure that
we are um I am just proud of where we are at this Point um when I did hear that the the legislation was passed I did wonder what we weren't doing yet and it was it was great to hear that we were doing it all right so I was very pleased
with that and I hope that you know we are ahead and I I will just add to that Mrs Shapiro is being modest but throughout the Ruckers uh Grant time we H we worked collaboratively with The Graduate School
of Education at Ruckers and the NJ doe and we were constantly complimented for Mrs Shapiro's work with her instructional coaches her interventionists and our classroom teachers for their tremendous commitment to changing the way we instruct our
students in Reading um and that did not come just once I will tell you that it came many many many times and Mrs Shapiro has been asked over and over again by Ruckers to speak with other districts to be a model to give testimony to to the work she has done so
um I I cannot say either if we are ahead of other districts but I am so proud of the work that she has done thank you m Gilman no I was just congrats M Shir thank you so much uh very wonderful I sat in financial
forecasts all day yesterday and some of the charts actually looked exactly the same as what you presented here today and I find that to be fascinating because not being educator that is uh that that's unique to see that we're utilizing data to drive decisionmaking even in the way that we teach our
students how to read so absolutely wonderful I I am seeing firsthand with my kindergartener what is happening in our schools and I'm very proud of it and I think what this shows us along with many of the other presentations that our Administration has provided US is an answer to a question that many parents
ask themselves on a daily basis here in this town which is is Ocean Township Schools providing the best possible opportunities for my student and I think if you look at the fact that we are increasing uh the we're reducing the need for intensive support in our kindergarteners by 20% and we're
increasing uh the the need for negligible support and minimal support needed for our first graders by 15% respectively and you look at what we had earlier this year with our math and the fact that our eighth graders have an opportunity to be pushed in to learn algebra 2 and trigonometry should they
be at that area uh the answer is overwhelmingly yes that Ocean Township is providing these things for you in our schools and you are a testament to that and I appreciate it greatly thank you so much thank you yes thank you for catching it so we would like to offer opportunities at
this time for any questions for the public we will start with in person I would just like to say uh if Miss Shapiro does not have an answer here she will get that answer and she will get it back to you um and and please you know give her the opportunity to do that I
doubt many of us could have someone come to our jobs and ask us every question on the spot that we would be immediately prepared for um any questions from the people present here today none okay um thank you uh anyone Mrs Conway virtually that would like to
ask a question regarding this specific presentation yes Mr President Alex Hayes please hold on I'm sorry for the delay please go ahead you can hear me now you can hear you yes Mrs a thank you um thank you to miss
Shapero I think that was one of the better if not greatest um presentations I've seen since attending Schoolboard meetings for like the last seven years the stats were great it's amazing to hear you know the data is driving things um in literacy here in this District um
I have some teacher friends some reading coaches and they don't love wonders and it seems like everything that you have been pointing to or it was kind of like hinting at is that we're doing better as a district since introducing like Orton
G Gillingham the Rucker collaborations which seem amazing you know the instructional coaches um all the things besides Wonders that we do um I'm wondering when the contract for wonders runs out and do
we even need wonders because it sounds like you're doing amazing things um in spite of wonders if if I can uh say because it would be nice you know to have more above benchmarks than at benchmarks um I I just curious why we're
still with wonders thank you Mrs Hayes for your question uh we do need wonders we follow wonders as a scope and sequence uh Orton Gillingham is a methodology it's a multi-sensory reading approach that we apply to wonders uh the Wonders license
does expire in the summer of this school year um and there's no perfect program out there I will tell you that but it's what you do with that program and it's our Dibbles assessments that really showed us or highlighted for us what we
needed to prioritize in wonders and how we needed to shift our instruction uh the Orton Gillingham training does not provide a scope and sequence uh it is more a methodology that we apply to the core
program thank you perhaps we lost her Mrs haes any other questions no I'm sorry I said I appreciate it thank you I'm done you appreciate that wonderful Mrs Conway do we have any other people with questions in the queue no president McCarthy there are no further questions
thank you thank you thank you very much appreciate that that concludes my full report now Mr McCarthy thank you Mr won uh School business administrators report Mr Hastings thank you Mr President I will
defer until the financial section wonderful public comment the following are series of motions to be read by committee chair chairpersons all motions have been discussed at a recent public work session some motions have been approved at a public work session and the minutes for the approved items are posted on the district website at this
point in the meeting we will now conduct the first of two public comment sessions the first session will be open for public comments on agenda items only the second session will be at the end of the meeting and can be on any topic Board of Education recognizes the value of public comment on educational
issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest public comment is not a question and answer session specific questions can be directed to the administration the superintendent's contact information is on the podium and we encourage you to contact her with any
questions public participation shall be governed by the following rules each statement made by a participant shall be limited to five minutes in duration no participant may speak on more than once on the same topic until all others who wish to speak on that topic have been
heard the presiding officer May request that any person leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum would anyone from the public like to comment on any agenda item at this time do we have anyone here in
the room no thank you Mrs Conway in the in the queue do we have anyone who would like to comment on any agenda items yes Mr President Alex Hayes pleas please go ahead hi Alex Hayes from Oaker again I wanted to say thank you and congrat
congratulations to Mr Brady um welcome to the board I hope you do wonderful things and I hope you have a voice that is heard by all in that room um I wanted to address the item on the agenda I believe it's under policies about
getting rid of the second public comment just to reiterate I think this is a crazy move by this board to stifle public comment um you could very easily ask the first public comment to be anything and
agenda items but I think mixing the one at the end after you all are making tough decisions after presentations after you know hires firings uh you know uh Personnel things that that people
aren't allowed into um it it sets a bad taste in people's mouth um that you are restricting um the opinions and getting to know the constituents and getting the constituents abilities to talk to you
all so I'm saddened that you're probably going to pass this I think it's ridiculous and it only has to do with the fact in my opinion that many of the school board members are facing School ethics complaints um I think that's all I
wanted to add um and I'll have more at the second one although I would ask are we even even having a second one if it the vote goes through it doesn't happen till the next meeting I would correct thanks thank you Mrs Hayes Mrs C
do we have any other uh commenters on agenda items in the que no Mr President there are no further commenters you so much Mr Dolan would you please take the the approval yes Mr McCarthy motion to approve the uh 7.1 7.2 minutes from the
uh February fth work meeting and regular session thank you this for approval of 71 and 72 Mr Brady having not being a previous member I feel like I should abstain from this vote very good thank you
yes yes yes M yes Mr yes Miss Stevens yeso yes yes motions carry wonderful thank you Mrs McGovern Personnel please I to approve items 8.1
through 8.9 may I have a second second thank you Mr hings all items 8.1 through 89 rating like so as a point as a point of procedure you can just answer abstain and and you're good you you are allowed
as a member to vote as point of procedure you can just answer it abstain I'll abstain for yes Mrs D yes yes yes I can be I barely hear you sorry Mr
Hastings uh Miss Stevens yes M Alo yes and Mr MC yes ad Carri we're over hand it over to J to for yes so I'll move to Mr Dalton to introduce uh financial management and Resource
Services yes items 91 to 9 start 919 approval of 91 through 98 second second I would like to pause here Mr Hastings
are you going to be discussing before we yes so before we vote on 912 98 I just wanted to update the board on our continuing progress on the tenative budget as the tenative budget and some Associated resolutions are on the agenda this evening for approval um the
deadline for us to adopt the tenative budget is uh the 18th I believe so um tenative budget uh time window is closing uh so uh Miss Conway if you could bring up uh the slides for 9.2 I believe it
is thank you uh the next slide thank you so when we last discussed the tenative budget for 2026 at our last meeting uh the district was looking at a $1.7 million deficit so uh
based on the revenues that we were anticipating um and including a a tax increase that included the 2% uh cap on our tax levy plus the uh applicable waivers which was the uh
banked cap and the healthc care waiver uh those numbers went into our revenues and we wound up after reviewing all budget items for next year at a $1.7 million deficit uh the governor gave us address
uh a week ago uh and 48 hours after that they released the state aid numbers and based on the numbers that were released uh the district did net an additional $213,600 Million number uh the district and
administration went back to our principes and our supervisors and asked them to reexamine the supply line accounts that they were forecasting for next year and we were able to realize another $131,000 basically in adjustments to that line uh
the district continues to get uh notifications on retirements Andor resignations uh the administration looks at those positions and tries to make a determination if they're uh those positions need to be filled or if we can
uh continue without uh placing someone in those positions so in looking at the recent retirements and resignations the district again was able to claw back 38 5,651 uh if we look at those three savings categories uh and then look at the
difference between the 1.7 and that total uh the district is continuing to look at another million dollars in savings that we need to realize uh before our April 29th meeting um where we will have the public hearing and
adopt the final budget for 20126 we can go to the next slide again we wanted to talk about our Capital our technology and our Personnel needs and what cuts we were looking at in terms of the requests that came forward uh in capital uh one of the
things we are moving forward with is the replacement of some outer doors that lead from classrooms into the playground area however things that were denied or postponed uh included a heat curtain at the high school a request for new windows Stadium turf and some additional
items you can see there on the technology front uh we will be adding some security cameras but not all cameras that were requested uh we are denying or postponing large room projector editions additional radios and a request for some large screen TV
monitors to be placed uh in the main office in some of our buildings and then finally on the Personnel side again uh we are looking at resignations and retirements uh and and considering those positions in terms of the need to replace them uh and we'll look at
additional uh cut potentially from all other job categories uh you know from from U support staff uh Administration from various categories uh uh where those may fall uh but we continue to look at those
areas to to realize any savings that we can next slide please so again the revenues uh that we utilized uh that I referenced early earlier that um that put us at $ 1.7
million deficit included the 2% tax increase it included a healthcare waiver it included some uh cap banking money that will expire in the next year so if we don't utilize that we would you
lose it um uh creating a tax increase of 2.69 uh% for 2026 in terms of the impact on the average assessed home uh the average assessment currently is is $931,000
uh that's an annual increase for the School portion of the tax of $173 or a monthly increase of $14.43 so we will be asking through those um resolutions in 9.1 through 9.6 uh for approval to move forward with
the tenative budget tenative budget is a draft budget that will be submitted to the county for review and for input from them uh and then we will move after we get that input to our April 29th meeting where the board will be asked to adopt the final
budget thank you Mr hings I appreciate that detailed description that you gave us about what we're looking at for this year for our budget uh I would like to ask at this point does the board specifically have any questions pertaining to the presentation that Mr ha's just made Mrs McGovern you had your
hand up first I just wanted to say my that's crazy was not about I mean yes that is crazy but the 931 th000 average assessment is what for so many years I feel like it's been 475 or you know that number Just J jar me even more than a lot of
the else but thank you for all your work and for really trying to make it um the impact be um as small as possible to the taxpayers while still keeping our um even though that's not small but you know trying to get everything where we
can still cover the the needed programs in District um that our students need Mrs Gilman just a comment about the uh technology asks so projectors radios monitors cameras microphones I was in a
forum for New Jersey school boards recently and they were discussing how some districts are being challenged by continuing to video stream their meetings because of budgetary concerns and in one ska School their Schoolboard
attorney advis them not to do it for safety reasons and when I look around at all the equipment that over the years we've provided in order to give this service to the community our microphones the overhead projectors the Personnel that we keep on board and thank you Mrs
Conway and thank you Mike who helped set me up and helped support us I think that uh we should be very grateful since many districts after the pandemic and with budgetary concerns are now facing the challenge of how do we continue to live
stream and uh keep in touch with our community so I hope that some of these technology uh asks can possibly be given back to our staff and our classroom teachers and our office staff maybe in the form of Grants or maybe it'll drop
out of the sky or maybe we can ask our legislators when we you know go to these meetings you know how can we keep our technology up to date thank you thank you thank you very much uh Mr Schneider I believe you have your hand up raised I thought my virtual
hand uh beat everybody else but apparently not thank you Mr Mr Hastings thank you for the presentation uh I had a question though and this is my ignorance but last presentation in February I thought there was a $1.9 million deficit with a
category called potential loss so I didn't know how that extra 200,000 right reconciles to the the 1.7 that we have uh presented today yes so um we start this process very early in the school year uh the numbers are a bit fluid in
terms of how we're moving forward with um estimates of of What expenses will be uh in forecasting those in terms of um the state aid uh in terms of Charter School enrollment and how much we need to allocate for Charter Schools um other
categories uh that we get later um guidance so uh yes the number may have been slightly different uh but the numbers that we talked about tonight reflect the current situation okay thank
you any other questions from the board Mr T Rico I have one question because I noticed that the percentage of the tax Lobby is the same from last meeting to this meeting yet we were given extra money right for our district from the
state so how is that considered and why didn't the percentage decrease for the tax payers so the tax levy is based only on the tax levy portion so a 2% increase on the tax levy is fixed if you will so
it's based on last year's Levy and the 2% on top of that um the waiver is based on our health care estimates um in in terms of we're allowed a 2% increase anything up a 2% increase we're allowed to put into that
healthc care waiver so that's how we wound up with the additional uh 0 42% and then again the 2,208 which is .27 that as well is fixed uh based on uh taxes that we could have
raised in previous years that we're not taking advantage of at that time so did it actually go up the tax Lim because we had 1.9 and now it's over two million um no I I believe this has been
the number we may have looked at this number maybe without some of those waivers or caps um as I said the healthc care waiver it was a bit fluid in terms of what we were told to budget for for that um increase
versus what the actual numbers are now uh so that could have changed a little but I'd have to look closer at the 1.9 uh to the two million just comparing from last meeting that's all um it said current deficit 1.7 I believe if I may
just to add some clarification if I understand your question the the 2.69 hasn't changed from last meeting to this meeting what has changed is the amount that we of all all of the requests that we gathered from the schools we've been
able to cut those requests down and that $200,000 from the state aid helped us cut that amount of money down even more so we're working to meet that 2.69 tax levy increase so you're saying
that it was going to be more but now we're trying to adjust that by cutting the opportunity for the tax levy doesn't change that will be 269 it was 269 the last meeting it's 269 now what is changing Is We I believe when Mr
Hastings first presented this we we showed that the requests were so far above that 2.69 and that we as an Administration have to get it down to the 269 and that state aid helped us by $200,000 to get it the what we were over
to get that number lower and we still on one of the slides Mr hasing showed this evening we still have about a million dollars to cut in order to be at a 2.69 million dollar uh 2.69% tax levy increased so the revenues are not
increasing in so with the 2.69 our revenues are now fixed we now have to adjust our expenditures to get within that um that Revenue number and I would I would just like to say uh for the public for the board here right we have
a legal limit from the state uh or or the Department of Education whoever the governing board is that says what we're allowed to raise that says that that based on everything that we can this board is not legally allowed to raise our taxes above a 2.69% increase based
on everything that we have here and this District probably could fund a lot more things were we given the opportunity to approve a budget with a even larger increase than 2.69 but we are not at that point right now and there are
things that are going to be cut no matter what so 2.69 is the most that we can approve in a time where we're seeing inflation and Consumer Price indexes that are far exceeding 2.69% cost of living so this is a far
different situation than the amount of money increasing it is a it is a standard flat percentage that we are legally allowed to approve Mrs McGovern I think can I just clarify because I think the the number we're not
getting that we've had before that we don't that you're probably thinking we don't have is that the 2.69 plus the 1 million that they still have to cut is probably 2.74 or I'm making number up it's over the 2.69 before they had the 200,000 and whatever other Cuts they've
made in District in the last two weeks that they've talked there that Mr Hasting was talking about we may have been at 2.85 so they may have been at 2.85 we might be at 2.74 but 2.69 is we're not going to go any further than that you know so that's what the number
I think that you're thinking should be back like that the 269 should should have moved but we never had the number before that that it's moved down too right I I I hear what you saying I guess if that was given last meeting then I would see that decrease but because it's
the same that was why my question yeah the 269 Will Never Move it's just that whatever percentage we are above with that 1 million is what the actual two point whatever is right now so even with the extra money from the state we're not going to see a decrease in that 2.69 is
what you're saying correct well that's correct and if we if we just as a point of information just as a point of information too initially when we were first presented I believe don't quote me on it but the the district was trying to find a way to figure out how to zero the budget with a
$3.5 million deficit roughly okay so don't quote me on that number but I believe it was a ballpark around 3.5 they cut it to 1.7 right they still have to recognize that that is with that $3.5 million deficit was including an estimated $
2.69% increase in our budget right so if the state gave us another million dollars likely that the the district would be able to find a way to appropriately allocate that money out of the 3.5 million that they had to zero in order for us to meet the
2.69% tax levy does that make sense yeah go thank you any other comments or questions regarding Mr Hastings presentation Mr Brady I had one question and please excuse me my ignorance or give me some Grace to wrap
my head around all of this but the one question I had for you is just the part where you said um the unfilled resignations and retirement money would be used to you know defay the cost of the deficit how does how do we know how that's going to affect the day-to-day Runnings of the schools or is that going
to affect class size or things like that that was the one part that just stuck out to me because it did seem like a I mean it's a good amount of savings don't get me wrong but I feel like I don't that seems like it could have some type of effect and I'm sure you looked at it and analyzed it and tried to figure it
out I was just curious yes it it definitely will have an impact dayto day uh operationally these are uh coming from all job categories so you can have custodial positions instructional assistant positions um teaching positions so from all
categories in some cases the class sizes will go up um as we have worked in years past to petition our cause up the chain going all the way to you know the commissioner
of Education we have been told that we are uh our our staff has not declined at the same rate as our enrollment so um it is somewhat of our we've been given some direction that we do need to decrease in
that area so yes it will have an impact um certainly and we don't have the funds to to sustain what we have now but we do just so you know in this District for many many many years we have always tried to do that first with positions
where a person does not currently exist so that's through resignations and retirements and we always try to prioritize those so that we may maintain the very skilled without very excellent staff that we have here in in
our district um and we do our absolute best because sometimes you'll have a position where someone retires and you have to replace it and maybe you can move someone into that position and then dissolve the position where they came from so we look at all of those opportunities to maintain our staff to
the best of our ability but as you can see the highest we are allowed to go up is a 2.69 increase and Mr McCarthy is correct that when Mr Hastings began presenting the budget to board we are we were at $4.3 million over
2.69% then we were 3.6 million over 2.69% down to 1.7 last meeting there may have been a number in between there I I apologize if I forget and this meeting we're approximately a million dollars over the one point uh the 2.69%
increase that we are allowed to go to so we know we still need to between now and the final budget at the end of April we still need to look over all of the opportunities all of the spending and see where we can cut in order to balance this budget at 2.69% which is why we're coming to the
board this evening and ask asking recommending that you approve all of the tools we have at our disposal which are the 2% increase the banked cap and the healthcare waiver thank you you're welcome I would just like to point out
in response to one thing that Mrs Wen said that even though the Department of Education pointed out the fact that we have not reduced our staff in correlation with the reduction in enrollment that comment does not consider the fact that our population in our district has had increases in our
special education population and more importantly that our multilingual Learners are doubling almost doubling annually right and so these are populations that require additional support and this district has done everything that they can to continue to support those individuals to the best of their ability and so now we are trying
to figure this out and do more with less as a district and I'm just sharing that because I I have a fear that somebody hears that snippet for the first time because they're paying attention to this meeting and I want them to be aware that we have repeatedly been reaching out for support in trying to deal with what I
would argue is a broken funding formula that we have had to pay the price for as a district and I am aware that there are other districts who have paid a far higher bill but it doesn't make it any easier for us and that is why we continue to come back to this conversation as a district about what we need to cut and how we're going to
balance a budget in a time when we need more support for some of our students Mrs Gilman please I appreciate you clarifying that because that was very important and I appre appreciate your question Mr Brady as well and what
concerns me is uh the line in the Personnel additional cuts are being considered from all job categories I know you don't have a number in your head or maybe you do and I know that you do everything within your power to shuffle staff around to make this impact
minimal and I know that you will do that again it just is a concerning phrase additional cuts are being considered from all job categories and we want our staff to know that uh that everything that they do from this reading
presentation all the way to the custodian and everybody is appreciated and valued and that you and Mr Hastings will do everything possible to maintain the quality any other comments or questions
on the board regarding this presentation wonderful any comments or questions regarding any items 9.1 one through 9 9.8 thank you Mr hings would you please take the role it's 9.1 through 9.8 Mr Brady
abstain Mr Dalton yes Mrs Dam yes Mrs Gilman yes Mrs mcover yes M Stevens yes T Rico yes yes motion is Carri okay for discussions 9 9.9 through
9.11 any further comment Mr Hastings on 9 99 through 911 um I would just point to 99 um annually the board receives a grant from New Jersey schools Insurance Group
um uh those funds are allocated for safety uh concerns and safety needs uh so we're asking for permission to uh apply for that Grant and then utilize those funds uh for safety uh issues uh over the summer and putting those into
place over the next several months Mrs Dan uh could that grant money be used for more cameras for the school that we were cutting yes there's a there's several items that that we talk about in terms of safety that I probably won't get into
the detail of here but there are different security uh concerns and areas that that we look at and some some of it is based on the cost and you know could we knock one of those items off with $10,000 or would we take another item that's maybe $20,000 and you know do 10
of the Grant and 10 of our own so you know we'll look at those things and see where we wind up any other questions on 99 through 9911 instruction education and thank you Mr hings very much instruction education
and Student Activities Mrs Gilman yes move to approve by items 10.1 and 10.2 are School field and second y Mr Schneider get in virtually Mr says items 101 and 102 Mr
Brady abstain Mr Dalton yes Mrs Dan yes hman yes mover yes Mr Schneider yes M Stevens yes M Tarico yes Mr McCarthy yes caring
negotiations Mrs McGovern yes um I'd like to move items um 11.1 it's the memorandum of agreement with our um bus driver Association do I have a second second thank you Mr
Hastings this is for 11.1 Mr Brady obain Mr doton yes Mrs Dam yes Mrs Gilman yes Mrs McGovern yes Mr Schneider yes Stevens yes M Taro yes Mr
McCarthy no that's okay just want to make sure no is all yes keep going I would obain all right then I will change my vote on U item 11.1 to um abstain thank
you may I just make a comment please um I just wanted to once again thank the negotiations committee I know I did this before but this is our final piece um all negotiations are completed for the year or for the next three years um with all of our groups um it it and I want to
thank all of our work groups and everybody um that's been helpful through this Mr Hastings Miss Welden and just um thank the board for entrusting the group to get it done that's it thank you m MCG uh Mrs
Gilman yes our policies uh 12.1 to approve the second reading of our revised bylaw and 12.2 uh the first reading of several new policies most of which have to do with student rights and we're quite
interesting to read um and if I may just add 12.2 is uh the continuation of us reviewing old policies at the request of the board to update uh policies that were not previously looked at so so although some some of them say new next
to them they are new for us but not a new alert from our policy vender do we have a uh just for point of procedure move to approved 12o move to approved yes I we have a second approval
12.1 second for M Stevens thank you any comments or questions regarding 12.1 Mr Aces would you please call the role 12.1 Mr Brady Mr Dalton yes Mrs Dam yes Mrs Gilman yes
M McGovern yes Mr Schneider yes Stevens yes Mrs Tarico no uh Mr McCarthy yes motion carries do I have any comments or questions regarding 12.2 the first reading of
these policies Mr T go a few um so one is under the student fundraising I would like to just suggest that uh why wouldn't we put a specific reason for what the funds are being raised for like in any nonprofit or for-profit if
we're doing fundraising we would want to know what the funds are being raised for that's one question I have um so so I'd like to pause there to make sure that we address this so in 5830 student
fundraising you're asking for us to rewrite the policy so that it states what I apologize I'd like to clarify for the board just what the student is raising the funds for because I think it gets a little bit confusing sometimes
especially um in my experience I'll just say that that there's fundraising going on but you don't know exactly what the funds are being raised for I guess my question would be how do how do we clarify that via policy students raise funds for all different
types of activi I all types of reasons I don't and and if I I can clarify the director of student services you have to fill out a form before any fundraising takes place
and specify what the funds are for so for each club or for each team or each organization they have to go through the director of student services fill out the form so I don't see we can specify
in our policy a specific form or a specific item that's being fundraised Mr do would that be in the regulation that the administration oversees this is the overarching policy would that be in the
regulation that is determined by the administration so we may not have a regulation for this one because it is different from P great to you know program to program PTA versus Club but Mrs telerico just as a point of clarification a are you are you saying
that as a as a parent they should a parent should know and a student should know more about what they are raising funds for we can make that more clear perhaps through our we have a fundraising uh handbook got for for our
Student Activities um we not in here I mean what Miss Gman said is basically what my same thing that I'm saying like why wouldn't we put it somewhere that the student fundraising would have an explanation in the form of what the
funds are being raised for so parents or anybody that you know gives or donates would know what they're donating for so we do have the form and that is in the form but I'm hearing you saying that even though we have a form the other parents not the parents submitting the
cause but the parents participating may not know what they're fundraising for and I think that might be a Comm unication uh breakdown between the advisor or the coach and the parents and I can certainly encourage so our athletic director and activities
director that we improve that communication if that is what what your comment is about I mean you don't need to put it in the policy but it would just be nice to know if you're raising $5,000 where that money's going that's all okay so the board will not take action but you will U Mrs walon is going
to note this wonderful unless I hear differently from no okay misso please just one question second question I have is about the right to privacy for students um and I don't know if you can even answer this question but it does say that when students are searched
there's a report um and I was just wondering how many students in the high school are searched annually I do not have that information tonight and has it increase decrease where the report goes is it go to the Safety Committee of the school for
trends I mean I think that would be helpful um and do the parents get notified and if they don't do they ever get notified especially if their searches for substance use um and their substance is
found and then a police report is filed so those are my questions well to that last part if if it comes to all of that the parent is absolutely informed but if they're searched may or may not I mean I would
again I don't have the answer completely this evening but absolutely when we are investigating something The Next Step afterwards is to inform the parents of what is going on so that they can partner with us in finding out what we need to know to keep
everyone safe just to clarify is that something the board would like to direct the administration to utilize their resources to pull up for us and present at another meeting anyone else in favor okay hearing none thank you wonderful
any other questions Mr talo no thank you any other comments or questions regarding any of the policy items that are up for first reading this evening wonderful could I just to clarify um for Mrs talo funds are raised
and funds do get deposited into the activity accounts for the various teams and clubs uh and then in order to withdraw that money from the accounts the adviser will fill out a request in terms of the drama the play is coming up
so they may want to withdraw money for stage equipment or set pieces or you know those sorts of things so that does get written down on a form and it's approved at the administrative level and then that check is issued uh to that person to then go and and purchase those materials so there is a tracking of of
where the funds go thank you Mr ASX appreciate that moving on Old business any old business room aboard I just have one question do we have a date set ret talked in goal I
know that got canell I had asked J that legislatively as on committee we so we go over that in Old business great question wonderful perfect timing m d the uh uh the event uh the meeting with assembly woman Peter
Paul assembly woman donlin and Senator goal that was scheduled for this Friday had to be rescheduled uh we are tentatively talking about the 29th difficult uh difficult to coordinate with multiple parties but we're doing our best to to make it work I don't believe that that date will work for us
but we will get something on the calendar and update this group going into the same topic the um commissioner Arnon our County Commissioner is going to be coming to visit us this Friday uh to meet with that same committee I would ask that if any members of the board uh
have any topics that they would like to be brought up uh regarding that that not that are not executive privilege that they bring that up here uh tonight or they can send an email up to 24 hours before the meeting for um discussion
wonderful any other comments or questions for old business any comments or questions for new business okay the Board of Education recognizes the value public comment on educational
issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest public comment is not a question and answer session specific questions can be directed to the administration the superintendent's contact information is on the podium and we encourage you to contact her with any questions that you may have public
participation shall be governed by the following rules each statement shall be made by a participant and will be limited to five minutes in duration no participant may speak more than once on the same topic until all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard the presiding officer May request any
person to leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum would anyone from the public like to comment on any item at this time Mr Chapman please even Keith Chapman oakst um just real
quick regarding the fundraising thing I think that's important about making sure that everyone knows not just the people at school the teachers or whatever administrators but for the people that are actually buying from the fundraiser if someone comes to me saying hey I'm
I'm selling you know the car washes they do well what is that going to specifically I'd like to know maybe it would help me encourage me go to that fundraiser more or one of the PTO if you just tell me it's going to a Elementary
class or whatever well what are you going to buy with it are you buying snacks for a party or are you buying uh chips or are you buying like um maybe it's a a new item for the classroom a technology or something what
are you raising for as a trip so I I think that's important and I think that just goes to you know what goes on those flyers from from teachers Andor students that are preparing them and you know I don't know really requires a another
requirement in the in your uh what do you call those things uh policy but more or less you know hey in that form make sure that your flyer states that when it goes out to the public
it's okay so second um I I know I raised this last time about the building I know we don't want to get rid of anything U and uh you want to hold on to it and it is an an anque of itself and uh it's been around here a long time and you
know a lot of people over the years keep on when you drive by it but the question does come up then what are we going to do with it still because this has been going on for a couple years what do we do with it how are we maintaining it and where are we going to
um you know where we getting that funds from you know is is our use right now beneficial maintaining this this building and the property and I think last time I asked where are we are is the uh I know a study was done or
supposedly maybe a year ago or so on building use and land use and how you can make money off of it so I think that's important to find out you know we are talking tax time right now thank you thank you Mr
chman Mrs cway having no one else here uh present in the room do you have anyone in the queue yes president McCarthy Alex Hayes please go ahead thank you thanks again I'm sure this will make many people happy that
this might be my last second comment of the meetings I wonder why this suddenly has come up to nck the second public comments um interesting um I would really like to thank Miss wden for responding to my questions about the last meeting thank you I appreciate your
time um it's always great when you call me back with some of the questions that I've had so I do appreciate that um moving on Beyond disappointing and undem atic for you board members voting to Nick the second public comment except of
course for Miss Tarico who voted no seems to be the only one who voted no without a doubt you don't want to hear from the public you don't want to get positive negative roundabout any kind of public opinion and you want to silence
residents and taxpayers and it's it's sad um but I guess you all are doing what the rest of our country those in charge are doing and I'm disappointed um as I stated at the meeting when there was um bad weather and like that reading presentation by
the way a couple meetings ago when it was nixed um you know nobody knows that you could have asked questions during um a presentation you don't put it out there you don't say hey parents we're doing a big literacy um presentation
today if you want to know more about it tune into the Schoolboard meeting maybe you can ask questions who knows maybe if you advertise it it wouldn't be just me and maybe one or two others who show up to these meetings um along the literacy lines um
and once again I reiterate Miss Shapiro's um presentation was excellent um while no literacy program is perfect of course the reading league if you haven't read up upon it the reading league is an organization and they evaluate a bunch of curriculum and in
2023 they evaluated wonders and they found a lot of inadequacies and I will be sending board members the article they literally did like over 40 pages of analysis some good some bad mostly meh for wonders and I really think again we
should mix it moving on to budget um the budget slides had kind of almost a funny blanket statement additional Cuts necessary at $1 million so you've already Whitted it down knocking it down like two and a half million already from like Miss Welden said three and a half million then to like 1.9 now you're down
to one where are you going to find $1 million before the April 29th meeting and what happens if you don't isn't this the worst position we have been in recent years it seems like you're at an impass about what to cut you have the
max increase of 2.69 and yet this budget is not even balanced you're off by $1 million you're going to have to cut staff and programs which was a real fear that Miss Welden seemed to say one or two meetings ago it seems more more
tangible that that's happening for once and to the president uh blaming so much staff on increased special ed needs and increase in Ells you know I think that's click baiting and that's gaslighting the public you're trying to shoulder what many would say oh we have too many staff
members here in Ocean there's too many uh employees you're trying to solely blame it on sped and Ells and I don't think that's fair or true to be honest so besides the dollar amount that the average family is going to see in the tax increases I hope on the April
meeting you really tell parents like what is explicitly going to happen in their kids' schools their class sizes as you have demonstrated no doubt are going to rise dare I say probably significant for some classes you know summer school is being shrunk you already said what
specific teacher cuts are coming is you know a French uh no a Italian teacher a Spanish teacher suddenly going to teach math like I want to know that as a parent I'd also like to know where the 230,000 average house came from um you
know there's quite a few of you board members who live in million dooll homes but that is not 100% of this town rocket mortgages say the average home is 565 realtor.com and niche.com says 630
Zillow says 681 so I'm curious how we got to 931000 because that's a high number so maybe 200 bucks a year is not that much for a $931 high house $30,000 house but
it is to others who are barely scraping by um and finally I leave um again this is probably like trial by fire for the new um board member welcome aboard um godspeed and all you're trying to do and if you have any ideas good luck in
having them listen to you um there are no o cursed parents on the school board now and I hope that is not an issue when you're going to be considering Cuts I hope you are equally cutting programs uh and staff at every school and that the Oakhurst schools and the Oakhurst
parents aren't forgotten cuz that concerns me thanks so much for your time thank you Mrs ha Mrs Conway do we have any other comments in the queue yes Mr President we have Linda mcken please go ahead hello can you hear me yes okay um
I just wanted to comment about the public comment the second part I do sit here every meeting and watch it silently and I do like to hear the two sessions of public comment especially everything happens during the second comment so I
would just like you to reconsider having that open to the public and keeping the communication you know transparent that's all I really have to say thank you Mrs mcken Mrs Conway do we have any other comments in the
que no president McCarthy there are no further comments thank you very much may I have a motion to adjourn motion second this meeting is adjourned