--------- We will call the role. Mr. Please. Mr. Brady, here. Mr. Dton here. Mrs. Dam. Mrs. Gilman here. Mr. McGovern here. Mr. Schneider. Uh, Miss Stevens present.
Mrs. Telerico. Uh, Mr. McCarthy here. All right. I'd like to welcome everybody to our work session for May 20th, 2025. Thank you for joining us. if you're online and thank you for joining us here in the room, Dr. Morgan. Um, and
uh, I have nothing for my president's report. We will go to Mrs. Welden superintendent report if she has one. I do. Thank you, Mr. President. Okay. So, we have we are well underway with NJSLA testing in all of our
schools. So, I want to congratulate the students who have already been testing for coming to school ready to do their absolute best. Um, and we like to say don't stress, but do your best. And I am very pleased to see how hard our students are working. I also want to
wish all the students who have not tested yet good luck on their assessments. And again, don't stress, but please do your best. We have a number of upcoming events. again uh seems to be a re uh
recurring statement these last few meetings, but we do have a number of great events coming up. We have our Leona Burke Worth Math Awards tomorrow night at in the TIS cafeteria. Um that's at 6:30. We
have our seventh and eighth grade choir concert next Wednesday, May 28th at TOIS. That's at 700 p.m. One of Massa's PTA boys dance is on Thursday, May 29th at 6:00 p.m. And the TOIS uh TOIS
volleyball game, students verse staff, is Thursday, May 29th at 7 p.m. at TOIS. And then just as a reminder, all district schools are closed this coming Monday, May 26 in recognition of Memorial Day. Okay? and we will have a
large report at 8 pm where we get to honor a number of students and staff for great achievements in our district. But that concludes my report for the work meeting. Thank you, Mrs. Waldman. Mr. Reese, anything for school business administrator report? Yes. Thank you,
Mr. President. Um I'd like to again thank the maintenance grounds and custodial staff uh for the work they're doing on keeping the fields in shape. We've had lots of rain and it seems to rain every other day, but they've been at it keeping the uh fields playable for
our teams and we certainly appreciate their efforts. Um, also just wanted to touch base. We continue to meet uh with administration and our uh facilities folks in planning for summer projects and some exciting upgrades that we have planned for the summer, including new
bleachers at uh Ocean Elementary, new gym floor at the intermediate school. We have some security grades upgrades going in, new equipment at the high school cafeteria, and of course our auditorium lights to be installed on the sound system over the summer. So, we're looking forward to some exciting things
getting done. Thank you, Mr. Appreciate that. Just that rain makes the lawns look good, just not the fields playable, you know, to see an unfortunate situation. If I may just interrupt, Mrs. Terico is online. I'm not sure if we've heard her
say present, but she is there online. Wonderful. Thank you. You're welcome. And I just heard her. Okay, great. Um, all right. Public comment on any item. 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 and the superintendent's contact information is on our district website. We encourage you to contact her with any questions
you may have. 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. Presiding officer may request any person
to leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decor. Do we have anyone from the public who would like to comment on anything at this time? We have anyone downstairs? There are no colleagues downstairs.
Thank you. Dr. Morgan, do you have anything you wanted to say to us? No. Didn't think so, but I figured I'd give you an opportunity. All right, great. Um, and Mrs. Conway, do we have any commenters in the queue? Yes, we do. Alex Hayes, thank you. Go ahead.
Hi, Alex Hayes from Oakhurst. Um it seems all my messages or not messages um public comments and um questions fall on deaf ears anyway. I know you're not going to respond um or maybe do any action but it's nice to have these
things on the public record. Um from what I understand from the use of the facilities forums from this evening which has been happening for several years now. For example, the Ocean United Soccer Association has basically put in a blanket Saturday and Sunday 9:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m. for literally every single weekend between September and I think it was the end of March for use of the turf field. There also was a blanket um use of facilities for the fields at the high school. I forget the dates on those, but
there are two separate applications for like September through end of December and then like January 1 till the end of March. So, it's ludicrous to me that one
organization can X out for other organizations onto our scheduling calendar when there is no way ever they use those fields between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays every
single weekend for what they have signed up for. Um, so I wish this district um committees maybe or other folks actually cared to look into this. If you want to start renting out the turf field, maybe you don't give it away for pennies
um for nine hours a day every weekend for what eight months? I don't even I can't even do the math. Um anyway, I'm sure nothing will be done, but there's my comments. Thanks. Thank you, Mrs. Hates. Mrs. Conway. Any other commenters in the queue? No, Mr.
President, there are no further commenters. Wonderful. Mr. Dolan, presentation of minutes, please. Yes, Mr. McCarthy. Presentation of minutes, item 7.1 from uh May 13th meeting, both the work meeting and the executive session minutes. Any questions, comments,
concerns? Wonderful. Personnel, we will do downstairs. Thank you. Thank you. Financial Management and Resource Services. Uh, I do not have Mrs. Dan with us this evening. Mrs. Lever, would you please take control? Sure. Um, we have nine items
for um, discussion this evening. I don't know if Mr. Hastings wants to give us a rundown. Yes. Thank you, Mrs. McGovern. Um, I would just point to uh, two items. One is
a donation from the W Mass PTA of some basketball hoops. So, we appreciate their efforts in getting those out for the kids. Uh, and second, uh, we have our budget resolution on. We submitted last month's budget resolution to the county office. Uh, the county office in
that first table that's presented in the resolution asked us to break out uh, a cost. So if you look at last month's resolution, uh line number 86,000 was a combined line. They asked us to break that out between 86,000 and
862. And that was an adjustment on some salaries uh that needed to go back into the regular budget. So they asked us just to expand that to be clear and more transparent in the resolution. Other than that, the uh remaining items I think are self-explanatory. Be happy to answer any
questions. Brown and Metro and and Buckloo are uh both for insurance purposes. I believe they're insurance brokers. Is that correct? Yes. So Brown and Brown Metro is our healthcare insurance broker. Um, so this is a renewal for one year and then uh Connor Strong handles our
liability insurance and again that's a one-year renewal for them and we'll probably look to go out to a bid in the fall for brokers as is good practice. Uh, and I'll just mention the last item
since they were we're on them. 9.7 again is a sort of an annual renewal. So the board has different individuals that are assigned um different titles. Uh so each year we acknowledge those people uh
for to follow the regulations and to show that we have folks appointed to these things. So again, we're approving a list of folks as you can see there. Do I have any questions from the board on any of those items for finance? I just have a general question on um bidding. I
know that we in years past we've kind of been on a schedule of what things were going out to bid and what wasn't you know what we were going to like you just said um for the brown and brown and you know for those two things is there any way we can well I don't know what the board wants to just know at some point
you know like um what you think is upcoming of what we might want to be looking for bidding wise I know like in years past when we were going out for food services only comes to mind because RF RFP I'm sorry RF I mean RFPs. So just like some of the things that are coming up for RFP
because I know when things were coming up. So like when food service was coming up and I was on finance like I would just kind of try and do a little bit of my own research on you know some of you know just food service companies around here or in the world. um you know and I don't know that other people want to know that or maybe it's just a finance
committee thing just to kind of know what's on the horizon or you know we kind of had a every three years we would do this because it's doing it every year doesn't make sense for anybody you know unless you have an issue with somebody there's no need to go to RFP every year but if there's certain things or or just certain things that you think are going
to come up that you think need to go to RFP you know right so the controllers's office state controllers's office puts out guidance okay on bidding for for schools for public entities. Their guidance says typically good practice is
every five years to go back out to refresh those bids and get new pricing and get fresh eyes in for some of the different professional services. Um I've been with the district for now two years coming up on two years. So wanted to get a feel for who we have and not just change them immediately because I was
new. Uh so we will start to look at those. We talked about the auditor at some point uh last December. Uh so we'll look at next year to perhaps roll out some of those and we do have a schedule of contracts that will be on the agenda
next month that shows all the contracts that we have and when those were entered into. So So I don't know that I need a report but similar to what report is required from us anyway but it does provide the board right with the information. So like yeah like similar to what you just said but we're going to probably do this you know next month. So
when the RFPs next month come maybe you say like this one we're good for five more years this one's two years or whatever as you reported out if and there's slightly different processes for different so the broker is not an RFP it's a different process right that's required to be followed and professional
services through RFP and then just general bids so okay thank you I appreciate the answer so to clarify your request is that we just announce the schedule of when we're going to how long these things are I think just when he's when Mr. Mr. Hastings is reporting out similar to how he did today. He just
said next month he's going to be some things are going to be coming up. So maybe as he's saying similar to what he just said, Brown and Brown, we're going to look to go not not get not out of Brown and Brown, but say that's something we're going to look at next year. Just as he's doing that, if he just adds that sentence, then I'm
satisfied with that. If you guys are okay with just knowing kind of just know what's coming. All right. So we just take a straw poll for that as the majority of the board. Yes. Yes. Yes. M. Mrs. Uh, Tar Rico, I I do have a question about that because I'm glad
that Miss McGovern brought up about the finance committee. Can you hear me? Go to that. No, I can't hear you. She didn't hear your question. Can you Can you answer yes or no to that straw poll vote?
Well, that was my question about that. Okay. What What What is the question? My question is can we h when was the last finance committee meeting and can we have a committee meeting to discuss some of what we're talking about and
also about the um the facilities. We could take that we could take that take that question in a moment. The question on the floor right now is whether or not yes or no would you like to see uh this kind of report from Mr. Hastings regularly? Yes. Okay. Thank you. All
right. Now, um, finance committee meeting. I I that's your question is when is the next time that we can have a meeting? Well, when was the last one because I'm kind of new on this committee me uh committee. So, I'd like
to know when the last one was and if we can also have one, you know, in the near future to discuss the facilities usage. Okay. So, Mrs. Dam is is not currently present for the meeting and she's the sitting
committee chair. Um so think we can pause that until she returns. I am not aware of a previous committee meeting to answer your question uh for this calendar year as we were board of the whole. It is not necessarily a requirement unless
business requires it. So if you're requesting that uh we can we can bring that to the attention of Mrs. Dan when she returns. May I just add and we can go from there. Okay, I can definitely reach out to her as well. Thank you.
I just wanted to add that while I've been superintendent, we have not had a finance committee meeting. The board has always requested that the full board get to hear all of the financial information that we're sharing. So, we have never met while I have been superintendent as a subcommittee to discuss anything
without the full board. Just to add to that, Okay. Thank you. Um, instruction, education, and student activities. Mr. Dalton. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Uh, 101 was discussed in executive session as that's privilege information. 10 two we
have school field trips. Um, and 103 new textbooks for 2526 school year. Any topics of discussion comments or questions on 103 only is the other two are right?
Okay. Um just just one question that the AP lang book that's being ordered is going to replace the one that's that they are using now. Yes, Dr. Morgan. Yes, it will
replace the one that they use because that one. So, this is an updated Yes. Thank you. Good. Any other questions or comments from members of the board? Okay. Do I have any old business from
any members of the board? Mr. Gilman. Yes. I just wanted to make note of the passing of one of the members of our Spartan family and that is uh Tony Mr. Tony Gardella who was really a pillar of
the English department at the high school and Mr. Gardella was uh an outstanding English teacher, class advisor. He was a colleague, friend to many and I know there are many people in town that are going to remember Mr.
Cardo. Thank you, Miss Gilman. Appreciate that. Any other old business from any members of the board? Just a comment. I know that I think it was yesterday we had a survivor from the Holocaust. How was that? Yes, it was excellent. So, we had
um Maami who has visited our district many times and we're very very lucky to have to have her do so. I also would like to give credit to Allison Connelly who organizes that every year. Um, and this year she visited O uh, sorry, TOIS
to speak to our fifth graders who have studied the Holocaust and read Jacob's Rescue, a novel about a child who was hidden during the Holocaust. Um, and she tells her story of being a hidden child in the Holocaust. And it's very moving.
And our fifth graders were outstanding. They were a captive audience for a solid hour. Um I think some of the adults were antsier than the students um for sitting for that long, but she just grabs your attention and and she tells such a
wonderful story and we're so lucky that she visits us and and this year to also come see her were the commissioner of education, the assistant commissioner of education and the county executive superintendent. So it was it was really nice to have these guests and to uh be
able to hear her story again. It was wonderful. Thank you for asking. Great. Of course. It sounds great. Any other old business, new members of the board? Wonderful. Any new business from any members of the board? Nothing. All right. We have a motion to
adjurnn. Motion. Second. Wonderful. Reconvene in uh 40 Part: 2
meeting will come to order. Good evening everyone. Thank you and welcome to the uh township provotion board of education meeting for May 20th, 2025. I ask you all stand and join us in the flag salute. Remove any hats if you have them on your head, please. Thank you. Uh 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 so much. I appreciate that.
Wonderful. So, it's great to have so many people here and to have such a wonderful opportunity for recognition this evening. I don't want to delay that with any uh unnecessary banter. So, we'll get right into it. No president's report for me. Uh we will do a roll call, please. Mr. Hastings,
Mr. Brady, here. Mr. Dalton, here. Mrs. Dam, Mrs. Gilman here, Mrs. McGovern here, Mr. Schneider, Miss Stevens here, Mrs. Terico here, Mr. McCarthy here. Thank you very much. Uh, student
representatives report. Ladies, so this month in sports, the lacrosse season is coming to an end for both the boys and the girls. Yesterday, the girls lost in a well-played game against Marorrow that went into overtime. And their first state game is next week. The boys play Lacy Township tomorrow and they head to
Hopewell Valley next week for their first state game. Softball senior night was tonight at the Walnamasa Fireman's Field and the team celebrated their five seniors against Henry Hudson. The boys baseball team also celebrated senior day today and they played Lacy. The team won
14 to four. On May 6th and 8th, the track team competed at the Mammoth County Championships. The team had over five runners place again and broke four school records. And finally, the golf team finished their season nine and four. So, in clubs and activities, last month, the Hispanic Culture Club,
Italian club, and deeply rooted club hosted international night at the high school, and it was a great success. DECA has their end of year celebration coming up on June 3rd. The NHS induction ceremony is coming up on June 11th where the new inductees will be honored and the officers will be announced. The
junior prom was this past weekend at the high school and was a great success for the 2026 class officer team. The Spartan dance team is holding triyouts next Tuesday and Wednesday for next year's team. And the OTS concert and jazz bands performed their annual spring concert last Thursday with amazing performances
from all involved. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. All right, then we will move on to our superintendence report. Okay. Thank you very much. Good evening everyone and welcome. I'm very excited to recognize so many of our Spartans today who have
just outdone themselves and and uh earned these wonderful achievements. We're going to start with an achievement out of the intermediate school. If Mr. Amato is here, if he could come forward and if Mr. Schwarz is here as well, I think he's going to help with some of
our certificates for this one. I'd also like to recognize our teacher, Miss Durand, if you're here, and Miss Kelly. you can also please come on up. None of this is possible without your hard work in your classroom. Wonderful. Thank you. Okay,
we are going to recognize our students who have won the New Jersey Water Environment Association's essay contest. Students from both Miss Kelly and Mr. Anne's class submitted for this contest. And we are pleased this evening to honor
two of our students who have who were finalists in this contest. First, I'd like to bring up Alisandre PNO, who won third place in New Jersey and second place in the Central Jersey, New Jersey region. Come on up, Alexandra. Also, Ava Tui, if you just stay up here
for a moment, please. Ava Tui, if you're here, please come on up. Runner up. Great job. Runner up in the central New Jersey region. These students wrote about wastewater treatment and its role in our society. Congratulations, ladies.
Take a photo over here if you'd like. And parents, you're welcome to come on up and take another photo if you need to. You didn't get one yet? Happy to have you come on up. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Great job.
Next, I'd like to invite up Mrs. Kazuba and Miss Cissa and Miss Johnson. If you're here, these are our DECA advisors. Please come on up. This evening, we'd like to recognize our startup business plan state
finalists. These students placed fifth overall in the startup business plan written event at the DECA New Jersey state career development conference. Competing over competing against over 90 teams, they developed a detailed
business proposal. Their outstanding performance earned them a spot at the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida, where they went and represented our school proudly. I'd like to introduce our finalists, Aaron Gravox, Isabella Olive,
and Ian Smite. And if you'd like to come over here, we'll take a photo in front of the backdrop. And parents, you're welcome to come on up. Congratulations. Okay. Next, I think Miss Kazub is going to stay up here with us. I'd like to
also introduce Mr. Quesan Jackson, supervisor of our world language department at the high school and assistant principal. And I'd like to credit Miss Cecilia Via, who I do not believe is here this evening because she is running a state conference right now for NJ Tissel. Um, and she's doing us
proud there at that conference, but she also participated in this. A lot of work goes into making this possible. Did Did you want to say something? Come on up. We have M. Thank you so much for being here. And
again, a number of our teachers. Perfect. And Miss Reedi, please come on up. None of this is possible without the hard work of these staff members and a number of others who make this possible. This evening we are going to introduce
37 graduating seniors that passed the New Jersey state seal of biiteracy and met the New Jersey state ELA graduation pathway requirements. Tonight we recognize them for this great accomplishment and they
will also u be recognized with this distinction at graduation. It is a a long list of names. As you hear your name, please come on up and then we will take photos after. Okay. First uh first student, we ready,
Miss Kazuba? We're ready. Okay, good. David Michelle Abbott Pula, Brenda Alves, Vanessa Baka Carvajal, Jessica Beleras Garcia, Juliana Kohl's, Wen Costa,
Pacheco, Michael Cream, Natalie Cream, Esmeralda Cruz, Vasquez, Gabriella Dilva, Camilo Diaz, Kilsaurus Diaz, B Daison,
Anna Victoria Dwarta, Anna Guera, Anthony Guera, Iniano, Daniel Insignares, Porto, Sarah, Joan Bove, Een Gimenez,
Monttero, Zoi Gimenez, Gonzalez, Jes Flores, Janita Khan, Deainy Lopez, Hernandez, Maria Martinez, Aoya, Gloria Martinez,
Martinez, Nada Metalli, Anna Al Aea Martins, Johanna Pacheco, Vasquez, Sarah Patina
Ggo, Nell Paina Lopez, Andy Peralta, Selenus, Venus Perea Perea Pelleigrine Alexander Rosa Rosa Joe
Gutierrez Omar Cyam Jake Stewart Matthew Stewart and Michelle Teraba Salazar I know there's a lot of not everyone could join us this evening. So, please
give us a minute while we go through the certificates. We weren't sure. Fantastic. And yes, students, you can you can once you have your certificate, you can stand right there. That That's great. Wait a minute. They're all seniors. All seniors. So this is again a
seal of biiteracy meaning the students have met the requirements of two languages signifying they are are biiterate and we also have juniors who've made this some of our students here tonight earned this recognition when they were juniors. We recognize
them in their senior year because they will be graduating with this distinction. This might be a better spot for the photo with such a large group. Everybody just sort of and if the teachers and Miss Kazuba and Mr. Jackson could join
in with the photo. Everybody probably has to move in a little closer. Yep. There you go. And parents, you're welcome to to take a photo as well. It's fantastic. Okay, you ready?
Okay, Miss Tavar, don't go far. Don't go far. And is Miss Aarino here? And Mr. Jackson, please. Mr. Reti is here. Wonderful. Okay. Next up, we would like to recognize our two 2025 National Italian
Exam finalists. Students, the 2025 National Italian Exam Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Merit Certifi Certificate winners will be honored this evening. Congratulations to all of the students who have worked hard and earned this exceptional
achievement. Thank you to the teachers who helped our students achieve this honor. Again, students, when you hear your name, please come on up and afterwards, we'll take a group photo. Mason Anel, Nicholas
Cretelli, Chloe [Applause] Farrell, Cecilia, Sophia Higgins, Benjamin Jacobson, Sophia Johannesson, Michaela
Murphy, Bren Park, Joelle Renone Perez and Carly Sundac, please come on up. Outstanding students. I think we could probably take this photo in front of the
backdrop here. Struggling trying to please join in on the photos. Administrators, teachers, come on up. paper everywhere. Outstanding. Congratulations students.
You should be very proud. And Miss Kazub, are you staying up? forgiving. Okay. All right. At this time, I'd like to ask Miss Kazuba to stay up. And I'd like to ask coaches Apacelli and Sisiano if they could also join us up front. And
coach Mr. Todd, if you're here as well, for our final recognition for this evening, we would like to honor Benjamin Robin Robinson for his 100 career hits in baseball. An incredible achievement that I am told has only been done seven
times in school history. That is outstanding. Please come on up and congratulations. We could take a group photo over here. Parents, come on up. Congratulations. You make us very proud
of Mr. President. That completes my report this evening. That's it. That's wonderful. What a great thing for us to have as a district to recognize so many awesome achievements from our students and uh I for one am extremely appreciative of all this and
and congratulations to you all. As Mrs. Welen said to you all and I speak on behalf of the board when I say this, you do us all very proud as a district with this and we appreciate it. Way to go. Congratulations. With that, this is a open public meeting. You are more than
welcome to remain here for the agenda that we are about to carry on for the rest of the evening. However, if you have anything that requires you to leave, now may be the time should you decide to do so. Absolutely. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you all.
Congratulations. Thanks, ladies. Absolutely. Have a good one. Thank you. Yeah. I think we went Two nights a wedding. And we went to the
And then we went to just the two of us. It was really nice. everything. I was so impressed. They were from That's so nice. Three other people from Indianapolis
area, husband, wife, and their friend. And this woman, the other friend, she was anticipating. I mean, if you're there, that's your thing, then you're in the right place for it. Yeah. I I was so impressed with that. She said, "Yeah, I might regretted it if if I didn't buy it." I said,
"You're probably right." She bought a watercolor in an antique market in Rome. I mean, she really She knew what she was doing. Yeah. It was. It was very cool to meet people.
Hey, were you So, you're on like a tour group. It's called EF tours. That's the group that I go ahead tours when I have the students. always, but this is the adult portion, so the hotels are a little nicer and food is
better. Oh, that's nice. It was, you know, they have breakfast every morning. It's delicious. Well, they want to know about Italy. Beautiful. Jeez. Very nice. Wonderful.
Awesome. Good. Okay. Wonderful. Good. Good. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hastings, if you would, sir. Please. You're a school business administrator's reporter. Thank you, Mr. President. I have nothing to add to the workshop report. Wonderful.
Thank you so much. Public comment on any item. 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 session.
Specific questions can be directed to the administration and the superintendent's contact information is on the podium. We encourage you to contact her and the district website. We encourage you to contact her with any questions that you may have. 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. and the presiding officer may 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? Oh, wonderful. Uh, Mrs. Conway, do we have anyone in the queue? Yes, Mr. President, we have Alex Hayes. Please go ahead. Go ahead, Mrs. Hayes.
Hi, I'm just trying to find my notes here. Um, so Alex Hayes Oakhurst. Um, well, that was really wonderful waiting for 10 minutes for the room to clear and I heard all about everybody's tour groups and everything. Um, get getting down to comments and
questions now. Um, Mr. Hastings said, I think it was at um, one meeting ago or maybe it was two when for like the third time in the last couple of months um, facilities usage fees was brought up. He mentioned that he was going to do some research and get back to the school board and you guys were going to talk
about it. So, I'm just wondering when that's going to be um that's a question like when that's going to be on an agenda. I thought that was going to be tonight's. Um, and now that you guys have successfully succeeded in silencing public comment, public opinion, any
public access um to public questioning and answering of elected public schoolboard members and and your meetings now are so short. It's like you guys are trying to race to get the fastest meeting on record. You know, I I'd just like to posit maybe you have
your meetings at 7:30 and 8 instead of seven and eight because there's just such a lull. Um, I had that complaint amongst council as well. It's almost like it's making it even more con inconvenient for the public to attend two meetings if there's such a gap in
between them. Um, and then my third comment was really about committees. I think um Amy and Grace Anne were talking about um finance committee in the earlier meeting and I'm not sure if Miss Weldon misspoke but um at the 7 p.m. meeting she said there's been no
committee meetings since she was superintendent. So, I'm not sure if she really meant no finance committee meetings. Um, but it did sound like she meant all. So, so that's where I'm going at because I can't really ask questions and get an answer right now. But, um, but of course that's not true because
you guys have legislative committees that meets and we all know how important that is for you all to have facetime with your lawmakers. You also have the negotiation committee. Um, so I'm just wondering if only select committees meet, like if it's only the important ones that meet, the only important ones
that you all think is important because just because you guys are a committee of the whole, I don't understand why all of your committees are not meeting. You can meet and you can chat about things. Um, clearly you do because you do that for the legislative committee. Um, you you still have a committee of the whole.
Yes. Uh, even Amy said the finance committee used to meet to talk about RFPs. So, I just don't know why all the committees aren't meeting, aren't providing input. Um, because if you're truly not meeting, what is this lunacy of having committees in the first place?
Why do you have chairs? You're basically just needing people who are going to read sentences on an agenda on a piece of paper. I don't know why you don't just call it what it is. It's your turn to read Mrs. So and So, your turn to read Mr. So and So, it's almost like a middle school class. if you're not going to actually have committees to report on
committee meetings. I don't know why you guys have committee structured like you have it as it is. Um it just seems like it's a resume builder. I think you're deceiving the public, but with a schoolboard member school board rather with several members facing close to 20
ethics violations, it really does not surprise me. That's all I have. Thanks. Thank you, Mrs. Hayes. Uh moving on, Mr. Oh, sorry, Mrs. Clay. Do we have any other uh members of the in the queue? No, there are no more virtual
commenters. Thank you so much. Um Mr. Dalton. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Um motion to approve item 5.1, approval of minutes from the May 13th meeting. Second. Thank you. Sher says,
would you call the role? This is 5.1. Mr. Brady, yes. Mr. Dalton, yes. Mrs. Gilman. Yes. Mrs. McGovern, yes. Mrs. Miss Stevens, yes. Uh, Mrs. Terico, abstain.
And Mr. McCarthy, yes. Motion carries. Mrs. McGovern, personnel. Move to approve items 6.1 through 6.13. May I have a second? Second. Items 61 through 613. Mr. Brady. Yes.
Mr. Dton. Yes. Mrs. Gilman. Yes. To all recuse from 6.5. Thank you. Uh, Mrs. McGovern, yes. Miss Stevens, yes. Mrs. Telerico, abstain.
And Mr. McCarthy, yes. Motion to carry. Instruction, education, and student activities. Mr. Dolan. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Motion. We skipped seven. Ah, back to Mrs. McGovern. Thank you so much. Financial Management and Resource
Services, Mrs. McGovern. Um, yes. I move to approve items 7.1 to 7.11. Thanks for letting me. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Hastings. Items 71 through 711. Miss uh Mr. Brady. Yes. Mr. Dalton.
Yes. Miss Skilman. Yes. M. McGovern. Yes. Miss Stevens? Yes. Mrs. Terrico. Uh, yes to all but 7.5 no. And M. McCarthy. Yes. All items carry. Thank you, Mr. Acings. Instruction,
education, student activities, Mr. Dolan. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Uh, motion to approve items 81 through 83. Second. This is 81 through Yes, sir. This is 81 through 83. Mr. Brady, yes. Mr. Dalton, yes.
Uh, Miss Gilman, yes. Miss McGovern, yes. Miss Stevens, yes. Mr. Terrico, yes. And Miss McCarthy, yes. Carrie, old business. Do I have any old business from any members of the board? Mrs.
Gilman. Yes, President McCarthy. Last week, Miss Weldon, as she did this week, highlighted some events in our schools. And last Thursday, as our student representative said, there was a band concert at the high school. It was it was incredible to hear um our students
do a Chicago medley and uh John Williams, who has probably written every score from ET to Jaws. And when you hear Jaws up on the stage and the music, they they did a fantastic job. I was also able to stop into the junior prom theme
la dolce vita and the room in the back our mini gym the new one it was decorated so beautifully the students looked gorgeous the food looked gorgeous and I know how hard the adviserss worked to make that happen and it was a great
success so just wonderful things happening at our schools thank you so much Miss Gilman I appreciate that any other old business from any members of the board. Make sure um I do have one thing. Uh Mr. Hastings, when will you be discussing facility
fees uh for the public to be aware of that? I believe it's on the it's on the agenda calendar. Yes, I believe we discussed June as the meetings where we would uh bring back some information for the board to discuss. We're tenatively scheduled for the second meeting of June if I believe that's correct, the 17th. Thank you. I
appreciate that. Wonderful. Uh, any new business from any members of the board? Nothing. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Second. This meeting is adjourned.