##VIDEO ID:LUl7XTY5UjQ## statement of adequate notice adequate notice of the meeting to be held by the town devocean Board of Education Tuesday January 28 2005 at 6:30 p.m has been provided accordance to the requirements chapter 231 public laws 1975 notice of the meeting was posted on the bulletin board in the lobby of the administration building 163 mom Road oakers New Jersey all Ocean Township District Schools and transportation and the school district website on January 8th 2025 notice of the meeting was transmitted to the Asbury Park Press in the coaster newspapers on January 8th 202 notice of meeting was filed with the municipal clerk Town motion January 8 2025 meting will come to order sir would you please call the role Mr Bon here Mrs Dam here Mrs Gilman here M mcover here Mr Schneider here M Stevens here m t Rico Mr Weinstein here M mcy here okay I have no report this evening one thing I do just want to bring to everybody's attention uh this was included in last week's meeting but we are uh putting it back on the agenda for this week's meeting just to make sure that everybody can see it we have the Committees posted uh as 4.3 so uh I I have pretty much spoken with all of you or received your requests and and I believe granted all of them uh as long as it were submitted within the a timely manner um do I have any questions or comments on board committees um about the uh legislative committee and I know that you spoke to that last week that it has become a new Committee of sorts do you anticipate us meeting more than a couple times a year it would be good for that committee to get on a Cadence where there is a twice annual meeting with Assembly women our assembly representatives and our Senator as well as a uh twice annual meeting with County representation and potentially a twice an annual meeting with um with the town um just to sort of Le between all those parties and discuss our our goings on and things like that andure that they're aware of it but um I don't know that we have to codify that and and restrict ourselves to anything and I think that it's going to fall on the chair to add more or pull back on meetings as needed with whatever the normal board activities are Kelly do you have any I would just say as we are a board of the whole we would we would hold committee meetings when they are necessary but not necessarily on any schedule but if legislative connections to our representatives in those eight areas is necessary twice a year then that that that works fine I appreciate that clarification and um we can further discuss I didn't realize that it included uh meetings with the town yes and that's I think an important thing as well and if a congressman at the federal level would like to meet the C devotion Board of Education the legisla leaz on committee will take care of that as well woman I'll reach out to him uh wonderful two signs down there you go okay so this is official we we'll treat this document now as official committees yes okay absolutely hearing no objections thank you okay good evening everyone I'll have a large report today downstair tonight downstairs we have a number of uh recognition and honores here with us so I'm excited for that just a couple announcements out to the community and also to the board of upcoming events we have our Wayside glow dance coming up on the 29th I believe that is tomorrow night right today the 28th tomorrow night on Thursday night we have the one ofasa PTA trivia night next week from February 4th through the 7th we have fifth grade conferences and early dismissal for fifth grade February 5th at OTS we have our share of the keys presentation for our upcoming drivers and those hoping to park their car on our campus on the 7th of February which is next Friday night we have the otes special someone dance and the OTS sophomore locking so just a few great events happening this winter in all of our schools and I just want to make sure the community is aware those and that concludes my report for this work session thank you Mrs W Mr hings this thank you Mr President um just two quick updates uh the board approved the installation of new boilers at the Intermediate School uh that's phase two we did a room last year and we're doing the other Boiler Room this year uh phase two is underway about halfway through uh it's going smoothly and we expect completion of that project by the end of next week um additionally uh the district has had an audit their annual audit uh conducted by the order from will cotson company um he will be attending our meeting uh uh in the beginning of February uh the board is required to accept the audit and any findings uh that he may have for us uh for the fiscal year ending June 30th 2024 uh there are no findings in that report uh so he'll present to the board and that'll be on the agenda for uh for you to accept no findings is good to hear wonderful presentation of minutes um Mr President presentation of minutes from our left executive session the only noted change I see in the presentation of minutes which we would vote on downstairs is in the second paragraph it still says Mrs Paramus so we love Mrs Paramus but she wasn't there wonderful thank you for that we'll vote on that as amended meeting and then those will become public tomorrow so the minutes are presented as a draft right the board votes on it and it become public and official wonderful thank you Personnel you did we'll do it down completed correct an executive session thank you financial management and resource Services thank you Mr Weinstein thank you Mr President um I guess after discussion is .1 8.4 anything you want to bring out je um no we uh are annually we use educational data services which is item 8.4 they're Statewide and provide bidding services for us we've used them in the years past and they do a terrific job as you can see create savings for the district in the purchase of materials so that's on for an annual renewal other than that I'd be happy to answer any questions how's the savings uh calculated is it based off averages it's based off catalog pricing versus what their bid prices are when they put it out yes they do wide varieties they have significant dealings with our athletic department uniforms those sorts of things also school supplies uh items thank you any other questions for financial management and Resource Services all right instruct education Student Activities Mrs Gilman thank you Mr President uh for discussion 9.1 through 9.3 our out of school suspension RPD and school trips any questions from the board regarding any [Music] wonderful showing on my agenda do we have anything for negotiations this evening okay thank you uh policy this is Gilman Gilman thank you thanks Mr McCarthy uh resolved that the board approved the second reading of the revised policy uh 4420 so any discussion on this this is our second reading we'll vote on this in public in public session of regular just as a reminder this is one of those ones that we were doing as a policy committee reviewing outdated policies to see if we need to update those I would also note we looked at more than one policy however uh we found that there were no needed changes to the other policies so that's why they're not on the agenda so we're I believe this would take us through the 4,000 corre section of policy there were a few other but so for so just for historical information for board members who may not be aware we identified discrepancies and in policies and so we've asked the administration to just conduct a total review of all policies against what Strauss has recommended as updated changes and because that's an exhaustive process instead of them doing it all at once or ask them to get it in a single meeting which would also be tremendous ask of the board they've just done it little by little and they're chipping away at it which is awesome it is all right any other questions discussion or comment on policy um I'm sorry if we could just go back to field trips for a moment um I just wanted to commend our Holocaust studies their uh discussion with an awit Survivor down in I believe it was South South Jersey uh in remembrance of holocost Remembrance Day I think that's a wonderful thing absolutely right back to policy no questions on that old business do I have any old business from the board I just wanted to see I think you guys had your legislative meting no so maybe we can give an update old business on what happened with the legislative on they uh had to cancel the senator had to cancel his uh young daughter had the flu that's going around with everything and it looks like Mr McCarthy uh is going to try to reschedule with our assembly people okay so your letter is wonderful by the way and I had no idea that Senator Booker had put forth that legislation so hopefully we can reschedule that excellent this D and um finally make our our more research there you go there you go wonderful Dam the can do have we heard anything from sedexo at all yes so so we had additional conversations they've um looked at uh the RFP that they put in and the promises that they made and made changes at the high school and the other schools the menus have been upgraded um as we discussed I think um one of our prior meetings there is nutritional information available for a large number of items we did talk to them about particular items either being added or removed uh based on other factors that uh such as sales volume and how that would impact our contract with them and the guarantee they've made to us for the year um and they've uh upgraded the deli offerings at the high school um and opened a new station there that the kids seem to be responding well to uh and was over there last week and have found out that uh kids today seem to like to put tuna fish Andor egg salad on on top of their delic sandwiches so that was something new to me that I wasn't aware of that's fascinating Flawless in that school a vision on top of Co Cuts that's where get crazy that is thank you so much great news and great progress thank you Mr Thank you new business does anyone have any new business for the board that they like bring Mrs Gilman Mrs Gilman does yes uh on Saturday the Friends of the library of Ocean Township had a dedication ceremony for Mrs Phyllis B who was our longtime librarian at the intermediate school and Mrs F's Cozy Corner was dedicated it is just a wonderful place for our whole Community to enjoy and we should be just so proud that Mrs F was part of our ocean family and I hope that the community will take uh advantage of this adorable little Cozy Corner it was it was very wonderful wonderful any other new business from the board all right public comment the 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 answer session specific questions can be directed to the administration and the superintendent's contact information is on the podium downstairs and available on our district website 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 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 do we have anyone downstairs no we do not okay wonderful thank you Mrs Conway do we have anyone in the queue online no Mr President there are no commenters online thank you I have a motion to adjourn our work meeting motion second second --------- ##VIDEO ID:7lRwFCPHHOA## I 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 thank you thank you thank you everyone for joining us this evening a lot of wonderful people to recognize Mr hting would you please call the role dton here Mrs Dam here here Mrs McGovern here Mr Schneider here Mrs Stevens here m t Rico Mr Weinstein here Mr McCarthy here president's report have nothing student Representatives report hi so right now the class officers are currently working on setting up a schoolwide dance is scheduled for March 21st Deca recently had their District competition at the beginning of the month and 12 individual ual and three Partnerships qualified for the state competition Atlantic City in March and we also have a bunch of Britain competitions people signing up and entering that way the Key Club just closed their ASPCA Supply drive and will be having a volunteer event at lunch break in Red Bank the drama club had their first movie night fundraiser last night for the spring musical Little Shop of Horrors the student council started to plan the spring blood drive which is the second one of the year and also is beginning to brainstorm ideas for the Spartan Olympics in the spring pep rally the yearbook Club recently finished all fall Sports and activities and is starting their work on the work with winter events so in sports the girls basketball team has had a lot of tough games so far this season but they are working very hard and a lot of underclassman leaders the boys basketball team has had close games recently and a huge win against undefeated Shore Regional at the beginning of the month where they also played again today at 4- one the hockey team has had a great season they are currently fifth in the shore conference and are 11 and two and one they have a big rivalry game tomorrow versus Bridgewater Baran the boys bowling team is currently 11-4 with a lot of big wins and they are second in their division the girls bowling team is 3-1 and first in their division and the swimming team has had their senior night tonight at The JCC and have has had a fantastic season and they are looking to beat the division champs the wrestling team is having a great season and are 13- two and second in their division and has had a huge match against barnegate today or yesterday thank you ladies appreciate that now we'll move on to our superintendence report Mrs Wen thank you Mr McCarthy good evening everyone it's so wonderful to see such a full audience this evening we're very excited to recognize the great achievements of our staff and students over the last few months I would like at this time to invite our principales and administrators that are here to recognize our teachers of the year and educator uh spe Services Professionals of the year to join me up front before we begin and president McCarthy is also going to join us and although she couldn't be here this evening the leadership of the township of ocean Educators Association also shares in expressing well wishes to these fine professionals who we are about to honor so I'm going when I call your name staff I would just ask you to come up you can come this way through here so you can uh shake your hand Right Down the Line uh your principal has a certificate for you and then I would ask you to stay up here because I would like to get a group shot and I want to make any time for families who may want to take some photos so again we're going to start by recognizing both our teachers of the year and our educator Services Professionals of the year when you hear your name please come forward Mr Carl Lawson from Ocean Township Elementary School this is Michelle Conlin Teacher of the Year from Mrs Jessica Kerber Teacher of the Year from Ocean Township Intermediate School Mrs Mary Ellen Phillips Teacher of the Year from one amasa Elementary School and Mrs Kristen McKenna Teacher of the Year from weide elementary school okay now for Educational Services Professionals of the Year Mrs Samantha whan from Ocean Township Elementary School Mrs Caitlyn Zimmerman from Ocean Township High School Mrs Lori Delgado mcnali from W mastera Elementary School I do not think she's here this evening but we like to also Mrs Amanda K could not be here this evening from Wayside Elementary School thank you and Mrs is Jenna Daario from Township of ocean Intermediate School congratulations to all if you would get together for a group shop please and then if any families would like to to come up and take this picture or any others we'll give you a few minutes to do that so come on up go ahead if someone wants the grou shot the alone shot yeah wonderful to honor them everybody here okay I know I speak for the Board of Education as well when I thank all of you for your committed service to our district and to our students we are incredibly grateful to have you as part of our Spartan family thank you so much and congratulations okay principles you can stay up we have a few more recognitions this evening got one more picture oh one more picture go ahead no go apologize pictures is your time got to take your pictures okay our next Honore I would like to congratulate our head wrestling coach coach SI appicelli for his 200th coaching win in wrestling this pass December 18th against hillsbor that is an incredible accomplishment congratulations Co all right let's get a picture over here if you want to have your family in there Mrs Hagerman if you'd like to join whatever whatever we want to do here in the way very nice yeah okay next in our Performing Arts World I'd like to recognize two students I'm going to ask you to come up and then I'm going to talk about your accomplishments David fura and some antha pagnon if you're here please come forward to receive and Mrs Hagerman has a certificate for you don't think David might not be here so if you come over here and Mrs Hagerman if you would join her as well for a photo Samantha has been selected by the Central Jersey music educators Association as second chair trumpet in syonic band and fifth chair trumpet in the OR orra and the allshore jazz band has selected her as trumpet five in the a band these are incredible accomplishments she applied with students from multiple counties and was accepted to perform in these bands we are so impressed by her achievement and David Berto who was not here this evening had similar accomplishments he's been accepted as well um by both associations to uh their their ensembles and their teacher Mr Kyle titmas who I do not believe is here was named as an allshore band conductor so we congrat congratulate him as well okay now we would like to recognize our Paul mcgree geography B winners at the township of ocean Intermediate School first I'd like to introduce our second place winner Andrew Hera eighth grader is Andrew here I wasn't sure congratulations and our first place winner a fifth grader vital berdoff come on mom come on up for a photo come on up oh look how cute okay our now we're going to recognize our spelling beat Champions we're starting with our fourth grade winners I'd like to recognize from wanasa elementary school Hayden Hinman and I believe his teacher Jen riser and are here to support him as well congratulations aen go head over I'm gonna keep calling names but then we'll take pictures as well from Ocean Township Elementary School Nico pizani this teacher Mr is here as well to support Nico and from Wayside Elementary School toari oan who's here this evening I Believe come on up T and his teacher Mrs Megan Joy is here to support if you want to come up and take some pictures boys you can come back up I don't want you to miss this chance sorry I'm so sorry Tori to sorry we have we have those already okay and our final recognition of the evening is our Tois eighth grade spelling be winners we're going to start with third place Ethan zoo I think is Ethan here our second place winner Landon Clark and our first place winner Jake vial let's take some pictures yeah any come on up come on congratulations Jake I'd also just like to recognize our supervisors Mr Schwarz and Mrs Shapiro who helped put on the spelling be in all of our schools it's a lot of work but we love to see the recognition here and we thank you very much for your hard work hey if anyone would like to get it a last photo or two in otherwise you're welcome to stay with us for the remainder of the evening but if you have a lot of homework or you need to get home this would be a a good time in the meeting to make your exit congratulations again everyone good to see you as well absolutely thanks for coming appreciate abely absolutely I don't know congratulations thank you should be very proud congratulations so great to see you again many that was fifth grade that concludes my report thank SW Mr Acy School business administrator's report please thank you Mr President I have nothing to add to uh the report we made at the workshop thank you thank you very much I appreciate that uh we will now move on to public comments oh I'm getting locked out there we go paper copy gotta love it we're going analog following are a series of motions to be read by uh nope that's not it sorry public participation in board meetings 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 5 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 agenda item at this time Mrs Conway do we have anyone the que yes Mr President we have Alex Hayes please go ahead Hayes thank you hi good evening um this is in regards to agenda items only so I know there were uh I think two contracts for senior administrators um up for discussion today that's wonderful I'm just wondering where do we stand on the assistant superintendent for um special services wondering if that has been moved to a directorship position which if I could opine I think it should be um I think it's an active director now or an active assistant super for special services still since about June or July of last year um I don't think I've missed a meeting and I don't think I've seen this person ever come before the board so I mean I'm wondering are we looking for a replacement for um the previous person who was the assistant super for special ed are we keeping this temp person that's kind of my generic questions um secondly um Miss Taro and Mr Schneider I don't see as chair of any committees on the committee list today um which of course is interesting when some school board members have two or three committees that they're on um or rather chairing actually um in New Jersey school ethics commission um AO that's advisory opinion number0 523 which was specifically written about our district may I remind you that this District you have conflicted members who are again serving on committees once again where there may be a direct familiar conflict and this flagrantly disregards the rules of that AO 0523 may I also remind you that the head of the school ethics commission said last year in regards to a topic about this District that I quote school districts that don't abide by advisory opinions do so at their own Peril so with not one but two lengthy ethics complaints facing members of the school board one would think that the rules would kind of be important but I guess not always with this board as has been demonstrated a few times before thank you thank you Mrs Hayes Mrs C do we have anyone else que no there are no further commenters thank you Mrs Conway we'll move on to Mr doton for the approval of minutes thank you Mr President I move to approve the minutes from our uh executive session last week January 21st item 5.1 do I have a second second thank you this is item 5.1 Mr Dalton yes Mrs Dam yes Mrs Gilman yes Mrs McGovern yes Mr Schneider I abstain Miss Stevens yes Mr Weinstein yes and Mr McCarthy yes motion carries Personnel I moot to approve items 6.1 through 6.8 may I have a second second all items 6.1 through 6.8 Mr Dalton yes Mrs Dam yes Mrs kilman yes to all recuse from 6.5 thank you Mr mcgan yes Mr Schneider yes M Stevens yes Mr Weinstein yes Mr McCarthy yes motions carry financial management Resource Services Mr wein um thank you Mr President I'd like to move to approval 7.1 to 7.12 you have a second second thank you all items 71 to 712 Mr Dalton yes M Dam yes Mr skilman yes to all recuse from 7.10 Mr mcgan I'm yes to all recuse from 7.10 Mr Schneider yes Miss Stevens yes Mr Weinstein I'm yes to all except I'll recuse myself I'm 7.10 and M McCarthy yes so all except I will also recuse myself from 7.7 motions carry thank you instruction education Student Activities M Gilman thank you president McCarthy move to approve items 8.1 through 8.5 I hear a second second thank you all items 8.1 to 8.5 Mr Dalton yes Mrs Dam yes Mrs Gilman yes Mrs mcover yes yes Mr Schneider yes M Stevens yes Mr Weinstein um Yes except do I have to recuse myself from 8.3 is uh and should as well we've never done that before no Mr Hastings I don't don't think so I don't believe so no all right in favor them all Mr McCarthy yes items Carri um moving on to policy Mrs Gilman yes president McCarthy resolve that you can come in and sit down if you guys like please feel free to join us thank you resolved that the board approved the third reading and final revision to policy 4420 do I hear second second thank you Mr Stevens for policy 10.1 Mr tolton yes Mrs Dan yes M Gilman yes m m mcgoverin yes Mr Snider yes Miss Stevens yes Weinstein yes Mr McCarthy yes motion carries thank you uh at this point I would like to ask if I have any oh yes may I interrupt I'm so sorry um but I would like to just recognize a student who justed if I do that just for a moment so i' like to ask Mr Amato to come back up and we are going to recognize one more spelling be champion from the township of ocean Intermediate School Ethan zoo please come on up Ethan and family come on up as well if you'd like to take some photos we'd like to congratulate you that's Intermediate School very nice congratulations ni okay thank you very much and thank you all for joining us you don't have to stay for the remainder of the meeting but you you are more than welcome if you would like to all right thank you thank you wonderful appreciate that I would like now like to open up the opportunity for any member of the board to discuss any old business business okay wonderful I would now like to open up the opportunity for any member of the board to discuss any new business do I have any new business for members of the board all right final public comment the 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 this is not a question and answer session specific questions can be directed to the administration and the superintendent's contact information is on the podium and available on our district website we encourage you to contact her with any questions that you may have participation shall be governed by the same rules as mentioned at the beginning of this meeting limited to 5 minutes and dur ation no participant may speak more than once on the same topic until all others have had the opportunity to speak and the presiding officer May request that any person in the meeting who does not observe reasonable decorum dep part said meeting would anyone from the public who is present here like to P make a comment on any item at this time wonderful Mrs Conway do we have anyone in the queue yes president McCarthy Alex Hayes thank you Mrs Hayes please go ahead please go ahead hi thank you again um Alex Hayes from Oakhurst um Mr Hastings last week um I asked the question about the roof contractor upping the price just wondering if excuse me if you could get back to me via email that works that's fine about you know how that price adjustment affected their winning bid um if that's a possibility for I hadn't seen anything in my email so if I have missed it please let me know um that was the first comment uh second comment and our question is um Town Hall officials have verified with me that um Mr Weinstein Schoolboard member submitted his application for the open Town council meeting that was Town Council seat rather that was vacated by Miss Kelly Terry so I was just wondering um a couple questions if anyone else put in their name for Council um on this school board um also asking you know partially because this is the second second time if not the third time Mr Weinstein has thrown in his hat for Town Council while he's been a sitting Schoolboard member so you know if successful that would leave his seat on the school board open um and could kind of throw you know the balance of majority minority or or you know a new um putting in a new person if he does get successful in the council so um wondering if Mr Weinstein received um interviews I think the public has a right to know um and also it brings up some concerns I might have as do others about board member political aspirations and what their priorities are thank you so much thank you Mrs S Mrs go do we have any other commenters in the queue no Mr President there are no further commenters very well can I have a motion to adjourn can I have a second second thank you