Do we have power? Yes, we do. We're ready. >> Yeah. Good evening. Thank you all for coming. >> All right. Pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act, NJSA 104-10,
adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by advertising such notice in the Home News Tribune, the Asbury Park Press, the board office, the schools, and on cable vision channel 118 and Verizon Fios channel 24, and by filing such notice with the township clerk. The meeting was scheduled for Tuesday,
November 18th. the 2025. The board will take formal action on payment of bills and other agenda items. Mr. Widow, >> the Old Bridge Township Board of Education acknowledges that the law of the state establishes that members of the public, including members of the board, have the right to record public board meetings using audio or video
recording devices, provided the actor recording does not interfere with the business of this public board meeting. Therefore, the board makes it known that any such recording is to be considered the private recording of the individual and in no manner represents the official record of this board. The board therefore takes no responsibility for such private recording and completely
disavows any future use. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Dunn. >> Miss Francisco >> here. >> Mr. Gerardano >> here. >> Miss Joy >> here. >> Miss Mone >> here. >> Mr. Slade >> here. >> Mr. Solicowski
>> here. >> Mr. Vanitason >> here. >> And Miss Dantino >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. Can we all please stand for the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag. >> Thank you. >> Uh code of ethics, please.
>> Oh, sorry. The board member will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and seek to develop and maintain public schools that meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability, race, creed, sex, or social standing.
>> Thank you. Can I have a motion to add the addendum, please? Miss motion. >> Francisco will second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Dunn is absent, so we'll start with Miss Francisco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Girardano. Yes,
>> Miss Jori. >> Yes, >> Miss Mazzone. >> Yes, >> Mr. Slade. >> Yes, >> Mr. Solicowski. >> Yes, >> Mr. Venitason. >> Yes. >> And Miss Dantino? >> Yes. >> Okay. The addendum has been added to certificated personnel um
um number 21 as well as an addition of long-term substitute line item B to resolution number five. >> Thank you. Uh approval of minutes. Can I have a motion, please? Miss on motion.
>> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Francisco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gerardano? >> Yes. >> Miss Joy? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazzon? >> Yes. >> Mr. Slade? >> Yes. >> Mr. Solicowski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Venitas? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss. Stantino.
>> Yes. >> Resolution one for approval of minutes passes. I'd like to invite our student wrap up. Hello everyone. It's great to be here again. To start off, our fall sports teams concluded with many teams making deep runs in their state tournaments.
And of course, for the first time in school history, our girls volleyball team became state champs. [applause and cheering] Our [applause] marching nights brought home a national title, completing an outstanding
competition season. Coming up this Thursday and Friday is our fall comedy. I already bought my tickets and rumor is you should too. I hope to see everyone there. For our seniors, it's almost December and college is coming upon us. Guidance hosts the instant decision day
on December 10th and 17th. Schools like Montlair, NJIT, Stockton, and many more will be there. The energy within our student body is like no other. With Dumpling Day by Chinese Honor Society being a great success, the Oldbridge High School community once again stepped
up and created baskets for over 50 families in need for Thanksgiving. Coming up this week, tomorrow we have the harvest of care by Community Care. Santaacon this Friday kicking off our peer programs toys for tots campaign and student senate is hosting a gingerbread
building contest in the near future. We will find out even more tomorrow with our first night's round table meeting. Thanksgiving is next week and winter break not far behind. It is wild to realize how fast this year has gone and we still have so much more in store. Thank you.
[applause] >> Thank you very much. Can I have a motion for recognition? >> Slade to move. Girardano second. >> We have Slade and Girardano. >> Uh, Christina
move the board to approve the retirement of the following staff member with deep appreciation for their years of dedicated service to the district. Robin Gomezi, right? Goleski, uh, Old Bridge High School Cosmetology, 25 years of service. Uh, congratulations, Robin, and
good luck on your retirement. [applause] >> I remember her when she was a student of ours, which was many, many years ago, and then she became a school teacher. We're very proud of her. Thank you. >> Can we invite Mr. Deino up to do the sports recognition?
>> Mr. Deian, you have the plaques? >> Yep. >> Okay. Yeah. Perfect. >> All right. Good evening. I'd like to start out by congratulating all sports teams, athletes, families on an incredible season. Being able to successfully balance athletics, and academics takes hard work, organization,
and dedication. All of these attributes will assist our student athletes in their future endeavors, and I am incredibly proud to watch our athletes grow and develop while being part of our teams. Tonight, I'd like to introduce and celebrate three athletic programs for winning their division, conference,
sectional championship, andor state championship. First up, we have our girls varsity soccer team. Here to accept the award is Coach Hopping and the girls soccer team. [applause] Congratulations on winning the red division championship and the first time
uh for the first time in school history, winning the GMC Conference Championship. Congratulations to Coach Hopping as well for being named coach of the year in the GMC Conference. [applause] >> [applause] >> Next, we have our varsity field hockey team. Here to accept the award is Coach
Fuentes and the varsity team. [applause] Congratulations on winning the red division championship for the first time in school history and coach Fuentes coach of the year for the GMC conference. [applause] [applause]
>> Just on the end somewhere on the end. Come on. You're tall. [applause] And finally, we have our girls varsity volleyball team. Here to accept the award is Coach H. Hotman and the varsity volleyball team. [applause] Congratulations on winning the red
division championship, conference championship, group four state sectional championship, and for the first time in school history, overall group four state championship. [cheering] >> [applause] >> Why didn't I
think it's really an idea we can do? [applause] >> [applause] >> Thank you very much. Congratulations to all of our high school sports teams. Um, any other discussion? Roll call, please.
>> Mr. Jeredano. >> Yes. Miss Jodri, >> yes. >> Miss Mone, >> yes. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas, >> yes. >> Mr. Dunn is absent. Miss Francisco,
>> yes. >> Miss Dantino, >> yes. >> Resolutions one and two for recognition passes. Congratulations to all our athletic teams. [applause] So, I'm going to give the students a chance to clear out and those that are standing in the back,
you know, there's a bunch more seats opened up. Now, >> at this point, I'd like to uh invite Dr. Reagan to do his last superintendent report as part of the Oldbridge team. >> Thank you, Mr. Antuno. Um, not a lot to report, but I I think what you saw
tonight just kind of exemplifies what you'll find in the Old Bridge Township public schools that not only do we focus on the academics, but we focus on all the other things that go along with, you know, educating our students and our community and the the sports teams. I was fortunate to see almost all of those
teams play at one point during the season. And the thing that is excites someone in the leadership position is not necessarily the wins or losses, although we all love that, right? Is uh the way those young ladies played together and the sportsmanship that they demonstrated throughout the season.
That's something as a former coach and a player that you're always proud of and our kids have always made us proud of that. So, kind of leads me into this is as Miss Stanuno said my last meeting, although I've only been here a short period of time, I'm extremely grateful for all the opportunities I had. I'm
grateful for this board of education for trust me with this position as the interim superintendent to kind of keep the ship moving forward without sinking while they were finding their permanent solution. It's been a great experience for me working with all of you. I say that with someone that has some experience working with schoolboard
members. I uh applaud your commitment to doing what you believe is best for our kids. It's evident and even though sometimes the board thinks you all don't always agree on different things, I found you to disagree in a very effective manner. So, you should be proud of that. And I mean that sincerely, having some experience with
other boards that I didn't always see that in. Um, as far as our staff and our community, too. Uh, our schools are second to none. This is something that all of you should be very proud of. Even though I was a leader of this district only for a short period of time, we have great administrators. You have great
staff members. You have great teachers. And it's not just the ones that you see represented or the people that we highlight. when you visit the classrooms, when you go down to the bus stops and you see all the the work that goes behind the scenes to maintain the buildings, the coaching and all the
other stuff that it takes to run a district. This is something that all of you should be very proud of and we you have a great system here. So, I will do all I can in my remaining days to help transition Dr. Sasso, who uh I know will do a fine job as u all the time that he
spent in this community and he's already hit the ground running and I look forward to transitioning and uh I've been approved to be his mentor in an official capacity. So I look forward to that as well. Um I've rambled long enough but just wanted to make sure I said those words and thank you and um
best best of luck. [applause] Thank you very much. Any correspondence? >> No correspondence. >> Okay. >> Special committee reports. >> Oh, yes. Okay. So, on November 11th, we had our finance long range strategic
planning meeting. We identified possible solutions to the district's financial challenges. uh considering the PTSA genen presentation outlining over $300 million in future required capital expenditures. The board and community also expressed their priorities and
non-negotiables. We all went around we had a few minutes to basically discuss and have our opinions heard and gathering this information was a necessary step before being able to develop and present present potential solutions to our financial situation. And our next meeting in executive
session as a board is on November 24th. We're going to go over the results and discuss other matters that will not be brought publicly yet, but that is our next meeting and we're right on top of handling the budget and the financial challenges we're in. Thank you.
>> We had um a special services meeting um on October 30th. We discussed so many things. Um I'm going to read you a little bit from the agenda um that we had. We had um Dr. Dy um M Adenfi and Dr. Tui presented on a lot of different
topics. We talked about um we had um an ESY overview. We talked about unified clubs and intramurals. We discussed um staffing an additional BCBA to our program. Uh Wilson reading update. We had an acadian overview. We talked about
new facilities and classrooms. And um Dr. Dr. Tubi discussed the 2026 2027 school year planning is already underway. We talked about professional development and the first family academy night that's going to be um on communication
beyond the classroom. Oh, communication beyond the classroom. Um and then we've talked about some highlighted um upcoming dates and important events. Inclusive school week December 5th to 9th. The SEPTA meetings for this school
year are going to be November 20th, January 15th, March 19th, and May 14th. The CPAG meetings will be December 10th, February 11th, and April 15th. Special services meetings will be December 2nd, January 22nd, March 3rd, April 23rd, and
June 9th. and strategic planning meetings will be November 11th, December 11th, January 8th, February 5th, March 5th, April 9th, May 7th, and June 11th. The student life committee meeting met
um last Tuesday and we discussed uh with the athletics uh what the long range goal and plans for the athletics fields and things are. um what upcoming maintenance is going to be needed and some of the title nine issues that going
on with the softball field. Um with the other parts of the committee, we discussed trying to get more involved with the town for things like their cultural um fair that they had this past week. We'd like to see kind of more partnership with our student clubs and things like that. So that was at the
student life committee. Any other committee meeting? All right, we'll open the mic up for the hearing of the residents on any agenda item only. Seeing none, we'll close the mic. Thank you,
we have nothing on policy tonight. So for curriculum, can I have a motion for item one through three? >> Joe, do you move it? >> M will second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. Miss Mazzon,
>> yes. >> Mr. Slate, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas, >> yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Gerardano, >> yes. >> Miss Joel, >> yes. >> Miss Dantino, >> yes. >> Resolutions one through three for
curriculum professional DOA and passes. >> Thank you. Finance. Can I have a motion for 1 through 13, please? >> Francisco will move. >> Jo, you'll second. Any discussion?
>> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Slate, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venetason, >> yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Gerardano, >> yes. >> Miss Joy, >> yes. >> Miss Mazone, >> yes. >> And Miss Dantino,
>> yes. >> Resolutions 1 through 13 passes. >> Can I have a motion for athletics item one and two, please? >> Motion. >> J down. Second. >> Okay. >> I got Venitas and then Girardano.
>> Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas, >> yes. >> Mr. Dunn is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Gerardell, >> yes. >> Miss Joy, >> yes. >> Miss Mazone, >> yes.
>> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> And Miss Dantuno, >> yes. >> Resolutions one and two for athletics passes. >> Thank you. Can I have non-certificated personnel office? Can I have a motion for one and two, please? >> Jano motion.
>> Yep. Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. Venetasen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn is absent. Miss Francisco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gerardano? >> Yes. >> Miss Jori? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazone?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Slade? >> Yes. >> Mr. Solowski? >> Yes. >> And Miss Dantino? Yes. >> Resolutions one and two for non-certificated personnel office passes. >> Uh can I have a motion for item one under non-certificated personnel? >> Francisco will move.
>> Jan a second. >> Any discussion? >> I've had the privilege of working with Jaden a little bit at Memorial. Uh he's a great kid and is definitely on top of things. So wish him the best of luck in his next branch of his career.
Uh, roll call, please. >> Mr. Dunn is absent, so Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Gordano, >> yes. >> Miss Joy, >> yes. >> Miss Mazone, >> yes. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas, >> yes. >> And Miss Dantuno,
>> yes. >> Resolution one for non-certificate personnel. Operational passes. >> Thank you. Can I have a motion for non-certificated personnel other items 1 through seven, please? Miss >> motion. J second.
Thank you. Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Francisco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Giardo? >> Yes. >> Miss Jodri? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazone? >> Yes. >> Mr. Slade? >> Yes. >> Mr. Solowski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Venitas?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Fran uh Miss Stantino, excuse me. >> Yes. >> Resolutions 1 through seven for non-certificate personnel. Other passes. >> Okay. Can I have a motion for items 1 through 21 with adding the part B of
five for certificated personnel >> as well as number 21 via the addendum? >> Yeah. 1 through 21. >> Mone motion. >> Gota motion. >> Gano second. >> Geodo second. >> Any discussion?
>> Yes. Uh congratulations to Dr. Sasso and Dr. Reagan once again for their service to the town and continued service to Old Bridge and beyond. Thank you. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Gerardano, >> yes.
>> Miss Jori, >> yes. >> Miss Mone, >> yes. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas, >> yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> And Miss Dantino, >> yes. Resolutions 1 through 21 as added
via the addendum or is passed. [applause] I would like to congratulate Miss Spazio and Mr. Alive. Thank you for uh taking over as we steal Mr. Dr. Sasso from you. Um we know the high school's in great hands, so thank you again.
[applause] Can we bother you for a picture? We got to make it official. If it, you know, come on up for a picture, it's not official until it's in a picture. >> Does a board member want to join? Just want to mention something. Um, thanks Dr. Sasso. Um, I know this was
not so easy for us, right? Because as uh board members, we've been always having this question, how are we going to transition and how are we going to do better and better every other day, right? So, thanks to Dr. S. So he came up with a proposal that he shared very descriptively elaborately of how he
thinks this should operate and how we picked and chose you know as an interim principles of existing vice principles etc and a road map and a plan to get there. So really appreciated you know the descriptive way of approaching it with a little bit more datadriven way and some savings out of it and etc. So
want to thank Dr. Sasso it was not just picked up out of air but there is a plan behind. Thank you. All right. Non-certificated personnel transportation item one through three. Can I have a motion, please? >> Francisco will move. Miss will second.
>> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Joy, >> yes. >> Miss Mone, >> yes. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Vanitason, >> yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Giri,
>> yes. >> And Miss Dantino, >> yes. Resolutions one, two, and three for non-certificated personnel. Transportation passes. >> Thank you. Transportation. Can I have a motion for items one through four, please? >> Motion.
>> Francisco will second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Miss Mone, >> yes. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas, >> yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Giri, >> yes.
>> Miss Joel, >> yes. >> Miss Dantuno, >> yes. >> Resolutions one through four for transportation passes. >> Thank you. Supplies, equipment, and services. Can I have a motion through items one through six, please? >> J second.
>> Any discussion? >> I have a >> Okay. [laughter] >> Go ahead, Craig. Um, number one, uh, Dr. Tui, can you just, uh, clarify what exactly we use this high focus center
for? >> Psychiatric clearances if a student's a danger themselves or others. >> Got it. Thank you. >> I didn't hear that. >> Oh. Uh, we sometimes we have to send students out if they're identified as a danger to themselves or others. Uh, there's a process to that and part of
that process is an outside clearance. Uh, we use Dr. Mutwami as one of our options. This would just be a second option as opposed to having to send a student to a hospital setting. >> Are you done? >> Um, yes, I did. Is that a fee for per
child? I would imagine, right? Is that >> per evaluation? >> Yeah, exactly. Okay. Um, and then my other question was for um number four when it, you know, in regards to the pedestrian bridge repairs. So I know you know it says here that we have um denied
the bids. So I was curious um because it says that it is that they substantially exceed the cost estimates of the work. So I was just curious what the cost estimate is. What are we looking for? >> Sure. So the original cost estimate provided by Takarski and Milman
all-incclusive of the project was um somewhere in the range of just over $200,000. We don't want to I don't want to necessarily give the specific number because sometimes uh that's against the given the vendor. They they asked for that and and we um but when it did come
in um the bid provided by Capella Construction was reviewed by legal council um to make sure it was responsive and responsible. They did not have a uh DPMC qualification to do the steel work and they did not submit a um
subcontractor to do the steel work either. As a result, their bid was um rejected and then the industrial services enterprises that bid was way over the um proposal or at least the estimate that we had from our our architect. So, we did reject all bids.
Um once we have this rejection now, we work with Tarski and Milman to put it out essentially exactly how it was. Um when you go through a a bid process like that and if there's no bids that come in um the second time around or there can't be an award can't be made, you can then
negotiate with a potential contractor, but you have to have without changing any specifications to unsuccessful bid attempts. So this uh rejection does allow us to put it back out on the street for bid. Um and that's what we'll be doing, you know, tomorrow.
>> What does that timeline look like for a second bid process? It has it's required to be out at least for 10 days. So, typically, you know, being that we're not going to necessarily change anything. Um, it should probably we're going to try and keep it as uh minimal as possible, but there's some potential dates. You can't do you can't open bids
on Mondays. You can't do it after a holiday. So, we just have to kind of check the calendar um and then line it up as best as possible with our next potential uh board meeting. So, >> thank you. >> You're welcome. Any other discussion?
Okay. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Vanitason, >> yes. >> Mr. Dunn is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Giri, >> yes. >> Miss Jori, >> yes. >> Miss Mizone,
>> yes. >> And Miss Dantino, >> yes. >> Resolutions 1 through six for supplies, equipment, and services carries. Miscellaneous items one through four. Can I have a motion, please? >> Jody, do you move? >> Francisco will second.
>> Thank you. Any discussion? >> We are going to make an administrative correction on this in regards to the attendance at the committee meetings. Um on 101625 for food and operations, we did miss uh Sal Girano being in attendance. So, we'll add S to the 1016
uh food and operations meeting >> so maybe someone can remember my life better than myself. Um, so I was there for one of the 10 nines, but I'm not listed for the second one, but I don't remember because there were so many meetings, but it's the same day. Anybody
remember? I can't remember. >> 10 9 >> We can definitely look into this later, but just wanted I noticed that I wasn't there, so Let's see. >> Oh, then I was there. >> Yeah, you were there. >> All right. All right. Well,
administratively correct and add >> Elena Francisco for 109 because that was the evening meeting six o'clock. >> Yeah. >> To 9. One, two, three, four.
Rich done was conflicted. Five, six, seven. Okay. Any other discussion? All right. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Solicowski. >> Yes. >> Mr. Venitas?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Dun is absent. Miss Francisco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Gerardo? >> Yes. >> Miss Joel? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazone? >> Yes. >> Mr. Slade? >> Yes. >> Miss Stantuno? >> Yes. Resolutions one through four for miscellaneous as administratively corrected passes.
>> Thank you board secretary and board business. Um motion for item one will move. >> Miss will second. >> Any discussion? >> Um I would I would like to congratulate Jenna Margie on your reelection and
congratulate Brooke on your what would it be called? Not re-election your winning. Well, whatever. Congratulations. Um, and we look forward to working with you. >> Just an election >> on your election that we we'll congratulate. Awesome.
>> Thank you very much. >> Any other discuss >> did they officially business >> today? Right. >> No, we have we have to vote on >> is it Monday? All right. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. All right. So, it's official as of tomorrow. Awesome. Um, any other
discussion? >> Yes, I do. >> Go ahead. Yes. So, I'd like to congratulate uh Miss Antono, Miss Richards Paris, Miss Jori for winning these elections, these three seats. Uh congratulations to the OPA for getting rid of me this time. I enjoyed my two terms on the board and um as was brought
on before, the boards have gone better. I' I've enjoyed my time and I feel like I've offered myself to help as many people as I can. And I was very disappointed on the results of how it happened. But then looking back on it, I kind of went my own way on a lot of
things. I stood independent as long as I could and unfortunately a lot of people are going to vote for whoever a group or people tell them to vote for. So I kind of realized that going in and now I'm more content and accepting of what happened and we'll see what goes on going forward. I didn't spend too much
on my first two uh campaigns. The third one I spent a lot more. I was in a newspaper twice in a row, two months in a row full page and I got zero new emails. So that kind of told me that, you know, people gonna people going to vote the way people endorse them, which
I didn't get any major endorsements, but that's just how the system works. And um going forward, the money is not a problem. I have money to spend on these campaigns, but I don't know if I want to compete with, you know, some of those groups. I'd rather use that money towards building a new classroom like
SEPTA's been doing. So we'll see what happens. My retirement odds have gone way up if anyone's betting on that. And oh, back to advertising. Um, yeah, like I said, I don't I don't know if it's going to be worth it to do it again, but we'll see. I did enjoy it and I'd like
to thank the board members, everyone that I've been able to work with. I'll give a list of everyone I've been with at the December meeting, but that's it. Thank you and congratulations. Good luck. >> Thank you, sir. [snorts] Any other discussion? >> Yeah, just want to congratulate uh you
know, Jen, Brook, and Bajger. Looking forward to working with all of you at least for my next two-year term. Thank you. >> Any other discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Vanitason, >> yes.
>> Mr. Don is absent. Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Mr. Gerardano, >> yes. >> Miss Joel, >> yes. >> Miss Mazone, >> yes. >> Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> And Miss Dantuno, >> yes. >> Resolution one for board secretary and board business passes. Thank you. At
this point, I'll open up the mic for the hearing of the residents on any school district item. >> See, you going >> Oh, I have Okay. Hi, [clears throat] my name is Brooke Richards Patterson. Um, thank you for the congratulations, especially
Christina. whatever back. Thank you. Um I'm looking forward to all those for the next couple years. [laughter] Um I just wanted to mention um I don't the meeting the last time was like such a flash. I don't know if anybody acknowledged the marching band that they
are national champions. Did we get to say that? Okay. It was a flash. So I just while we're celebrating today, I thought I just wanted to give them a shout out too because they're at 93.8 um on their score and I thought that was pretty awesome and worth the mention. Um,
I want to also congratulate Marge and Jen. Um, I look forward to working together. Uh, I do want to touch on Sal's um, comments because I did what I was going to bring them up anyway. Um, and thank you for your your time here.
Um, I can say I appreciate that you always answered every single email. Even if I said I disagree with your budgeting decisions, you still answered and you were always polite. Um, so I appreciate that. I admire that you're so young and that you went for it. Um, and I personally disagree that people went by
endorsements. I think people went by values. And I think that it speaks a lot that there's three very different people coming into it. And I look forward to that. I think it's going to all come together nicely so that we can kind of see where different people stand in our
community. So, I look forward to that. And um, I want to also uh tell Dr. Brian, we're going to miss you and I'm so glad that you're going to mentor Dr. Sasso. Um I don't and I not that I think that Dr. Sasso isn't fully capable. It's
just, you know, this is new. It's new. So um so it's great to have um a nice team like that. I made you some brownies as a thank you. I think that you are so attentive. I enjoyed meeting with you. Um, I know what I noticed was, um, the
couple times we did speak was, um, if I say something, you repeat it back to me to make sure you understand it correctly. Um, then you put it in your notes and you take care of it. That went from uh, family academy nights that went to
that funding email went out in a day. And um, and the newsletter, I hope Dr. Sasso keeps that newsletter because that's went out twice. And I just mentioned it because I want board of ed things to be put out there to the whole community. So I just wanted to say thanks. I want to thank Dr. Sasso for calling me the day after elections too.
That was really personal and really cool. So that was it. Best wishes to everybody. [snorts] Thank you. Anyone else? >> We're going to close the mic. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Thank you. Um, I guess I have to fill this out. I'm new here. Um, I'm not a resident, but I am um, and if I'm out of order, let me know. My name is Reverend Donna Stewart. I am the president of the Perthboy area branch of the NAACP which
covers Perthboy, Woodbridge, Sarville, South Amboy, Oldbridge and Carter. And um one of the reasons I'm here is first of all to introduce myself to the board of ed. One of the things that we do is we go to board of education meetings and council meetings to introduce ourselves
to build a relationship and we're poor to make sure that all people are treated equally and fairly. So I'm here I've this is my second meeting and again I don't know your protocols. I'm from Perth Anneway. We have a different system. So, I'm here to learn, get to know you all, to build relationship and
rapport, but also to let people know that that's what we're here for, to make sure that all people are treated equally, students, staff, you know, what have you. So, um, I'm here and available and I hope to see you each and every month for your meetings and to learn more about you individually and what
you're, you know, you're doing and how you're doing things so that we can hopefully work together and build community because it's very important in these days and times to do that. So again, thank you for this opportunity to speak. I am not a resident. Like I said, our town is different. You don't have to be a resident to speak, but I wanted to let you know that I do represent this
area and you'll be seeing more of me in the very in the future. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Yeah, just sign your name out. Thank you. And welcome to anyone else would like to speak. >> Okay, then we're going to close the
hearing of the residents. >> Does any of the board members have any old business? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Who wants to go first? >> Yeah. Old business. I'm just curious to see how far we got with the installation of the video camera in the conference
room so we can actually videotape all the committee meetings and the public could view it. This where we can be a little more transparent. >> So, we do have we do have two proposals with a a full setup. Um I actually called Dr. Sassa today about them. We just want to review, you know, some of
the makeup in that room. We're trying to clean that room up a little bit. So, I want to just, you know, as the new sheriff t in town in a couple bit, uh, I want to make sure that the application we put in meets his vision as well for that. So, we have two proposals. I'll be going over them with Dr. Sasso. Um, and once, you know, we we choose the option,
we'll move forward with the the installation. So, it's really on the cusp, but I just want to run it by the new boss. >> Thank you, [laughter] Elena. Can we get new chairs that aren't fabric? Just saying. I like those chairs.
>> Just saying. They're very comfy, but okay. Um Okay. So, yeah, I just have a few things. Kind of a mix of old and new business. So, I just wanted to say uh what an honor it was to go to the Sulk Veterans Day assembly uh last week. So, I wanted to thank Mrs. Lavod and all of the other staff members who had a part
in that event. Um you can tell just how much she loves it, how passionate she is about it. And um she even cooked for everybody. So, I was eating pulled pork at 10:00 a.m., which I don't normally do, but it was delicious. Um, I'm just really glad that our students at SulkQ really um get a chance to take a moment
to truly reflect and think about um you know, all that our veterans have given for us and our freedoms. So, I just wanted to say thank you for for that invitation and being able to be there. Um I would like to say that SEPTA is having their next meeting this Thursday,
so in the next two days on November 20th. It's going to be at 6:30 in the high school learning lab and they call it their thankful meeting. It's um I went last year. It was a really nice uh gathering of people. So, we really hope that you can make it. If you are going
to go, please RSVP um because the OBA is going to be providing food and it'll be helpful if they have a headcount. Um Dr. Sasso is going to discuss ways to strengthen relationships among our students, staff, families, community. So, it's going to be really great to
hear from him. And we are also going to have the opportunity to tour the new life skills classrooms at the high school. So, I really hope you can make it. I know they've got quite a few people coming out, so the more the marrier. They are also um selling ornaments. Um not really meant
to be a fundraiser per se, but more of just kind of bringing people together. They are calling it their team together initiative. So, um, if you have questions about it or you want to see what they are, go on their website or on their Facebook page. And it's this really, um, nice ornament that they're hoping that we can all, you know, take
part in, send to others in the district. Uh, they're even willing to deliver them for you if it's within the district. And if you want to purchase some, they're only $2 each, um, to give to other community members in towns. It's it's just meant to, you know, unify all of us um, at the, you know, kind of a fresh start with Dr. Sasso and also through
the holiday season. So, if you can do that in support, that would be great. Um, I would also like to congratulate Jen and Margie on their re-election and Brooke on your election. I look forward to the next year and working with with all the board members. Okay, let's see, where am I? I would
like to uh say good luck to uh Mrs. Fazio and Mr. Olive on your new endeavor. Very exciting and congratulations. I would like to thank Dr. Bragan for all that he has done in the short time that he has been here. um he entered a really
difficult situation being an interim. It's not an easy spot and he did it with grace and with class and with passion um with all of his knowledge and expertise and experiences. So I really genuinely just want to say thank you for everything that you've done in the short time you've been here. And lastly, I
would like to welcome Dr. Sasso. I can't believe that we're uh turning a page here and and next meeting you will be up here. And I am really excited. I'm really excited for all of your visions and your passion to serve this great community and school district. So, okay, I'm done. Thanks.
>> I have a few things. >> Um, one, I would like to congratulate the Old Bridge High School varsity football team. Um, they had such an amazing season this year. They really they played their hearts out. Uh, the last game they didn't end the way they wanted to, but they really did. They did
an they had an amazing season. So, I want to congratulate the football team. The marching band had a phenomenal season. Um, so congratulations to the marching band. Also, um, I want to say thank you to the OBA for sponsoring farm day at the preschool. Um, it was
actually a really, really cute day for the kids. There was, um, some chickens that I've actually never seen before. Um, and they had pigs and goats and it was really, really cute. Um, so thank you to the OBA for that. Uh, Dr. Bragan,
thank you for your service. Um, even though it was short, um, I thought I think you brought a lot to this district, a lot of knowledge, a lot of, um, just bringing togetherness to this to this district. So, thank you. Um, Dr.
Sasso, welcome as always. My mom said congratulations. Um, but I know you're going to do great, so congratulations. Congratulations to Mr. Alviver, Miss Sasso, Mrs. Sass, I mean Mrs. Fazio. Sorry, did not mean to mix that up. Um,
Mrs. uh, Mrs. Faz, I actually told Dr. Sasso that you literally scare the heck out of me, so I will probably try to stay away from the high school as much as I can, but I think you're going to do a fantastic job. And congratulations.
Um, wait, what else did I have to say? God, I can keep going. Um, >> stop. [laughter] >> There was something else. Um, oh, can we really quick? I'm sorry. I overlooked this while we were voting. If we can go back really quick to
hold on. Uh, okay. Under curriculum and professional development. Uh, number two, move the board to approve the revised secondary field trip destination. Um, I would like to change my vote to a no on that if we could.
>> Is it too late? Okay. >> Yes, you can do it. Okay, let me just curriculum professional >> profession number two. >> It was like in the beginning >> move. Okay, the revised field trip. Okay, so we will change on curriculum
professional development resolution number two to a no for mizone. Yes. On all others, >> yes. >> Okay. Motion uh resolution two still does pass um but will be noted for the record to change your vote to no. Uh, S, I do want to say thank you for your
service on the board. Um, I do think you have a mind of your own and in in the best way possible. You have a mind of your own and I I think you did great things on the board. So, thank you for your years of service here. Um, and Mrs. Faz, I mean that in a in a bad way. You just remind
me of my mom and [laughter] just it's just like Mrs. Fiori. Mrs. Fiory used to scare me too, but she's like she's the she was great. I actually wanted her to say so. But congratulations. All right, I'm done now. >> Anyone else have any? >> Yes, I would. >> Go ahead. Please rescue Christina.
>> Yeah, I would just like to reiterate um our congratulations to the girls soccer team. Um the field hockey team and the girls volleyball team. We're really proud of you. Um congratulations to Mrs.
Fazio and Mr. Eli. Um congratulations Dr. Sasso. Thank you so much, Dr. Bragan. You've really made a difference in the time that you've in the short time that you've been here. Um, let's see. National Dumpling Day, the Chinese Honor Society was absolutely delicious. So, I'm glad that I got to go to that.
Uh, of course, the Veterans Day um event at Sulk was just absolutely beautiful. Miss Leavote did a great job on that. And um I'm not sure if I congratulated Lily on her NJPTA student champion award, but congratulations Lily Dansuno.
And I think that's it. >> All right, I'll add a few things here. Um again, thanks to all the students who took part in all the various sports uh teams and um importantly I think uh to the parents who supported them. I'm sure
how painful it could be to pick them up and drop and travel. It's not so easy. So thanks and congratulations to the parents and of course our staff you know the coaches and the supporting staff. I think there's a lot going in right to enable these students uh both academically and you know in the field
of sports. So congratulations to everyone and you know thanks for all the supporting folks. Um and again congratulations to um Mr. Sally and James you know looking forward to see you know you grow and grow the kids in
this district as well. Um and there was one more thing I want to mention. Uh a few parents had reached out to me in the last you know few weeks uh with that some of their concerns and um I I told them follow the chain of command and of course you know they reached out to
follow the chain of command and you know Dr. Sazo thanks early on I know you're not still on the table yet but uh thanks for your support and you know the parents uh came back to me saying you know we had a very good fruitful resolution and uh the students are happy as well. So again, you know, uh it's
good that, you know, we're getting into a rhythm and a flow. Thank you very much. Um I think that's all I got. Thank you. >> Um as was mentioned earlier, make sure you see Rumors. It's Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. These kids are like Broadway, so be sure to support them. Uh thank
you, Miss Mazone, for your kind words. And um I like you, you get to change your vote, and nothing happens. when I try to vote and change it. Substitutes get threatened to get pulled. So, just I'm just >> so but thank you very much for the kind
words you uh Miss Richard Patterson. So, thank you for your kind words. Thank you. >> Have a nice day. We'll we'll talk more in December. >> Sorry, one last thing I forgot. Um I want to thank uh you know Jay because I saw the news on you helped
from the OBBEF perspective to support clean some of the areas. >> I think you were part of it. So >> yeah, exactly. So thanks for that service and next time you know please let us know you know who is available. We're happy to uh you know give more
hands. Thank you. Y >> All right. I'll come up with an original thought of the thank yous and the congratulations. Not going to follow that act. Um, thanks Dr. Bragan. I know I tried to congratulate you I think last month and they cut me short, but it was great
working with you. I feel like I gained a new friend as well as um, you know, gaining some good insight from your experience. So, thanks again. Congratulations to the dream team, the corner, Dr. Sasso and Mrs. Sasso. She called it Miss Fazio, Mr. Alive. I know.
No, I know. Uh, and congratulations to all the winning teams. Uh it's nice, again, I've mentioned this in the past, the podium is a great place to bring good thoughts and when we see congratulations and highlights and all the good stuff. You know, I'm I'm a big advocate for that podium to just promote
that. So, tonight was a great meeting. I look forward to uh a lot more meetings like that. And congratulations to the boards, S. I don't know what you said before, but good job for the last six years, but thanks for your insight, man. Thank you.
Yeah, I would like to congratulate everybody on their appointments this year. The candidates that ran for board of education on their appointments and S, thank you for your service for the last six years on the board. You did a good job. He educated me a little bit.
Thank you. Um, S, I'm going to wait to thank you till next meeting because you still have one more month of hanging out with us. You're stuck. Um, >> I would like to thank the Chinese Honor Society for their dumplings. They did a great job. Uh, the kids had it all set
up uh and and did a fantastic job. And they were also at the U Township Cultural Arts Fair. Um, they had a table and they were teaching the kids the I'm going to get it wrong and I'm going to get in trouble when I get home. Um, I was gonna say the fan twirling, but it's not all I'm I'm not gonna try. I'm not
gonna go there. Um, Saul, you know, thank you for inviting us to the the Veterans Day thing. I I got a half hour in before I had to go to work, but it was great to see, you know, the band and the choir work together. It was great to see the veterans there. Thank you guys for showing up and thank
you for your service. Uh, Dr. Ban, thank you for everything. Um, you came in knowing you had, you know, a short time, at least a short time with us and wanted to make a difference in that time period. and you know you were the right fit to keep the ball not only the ball
going but you know increase momentum and may change. So thank you for that. Um Miss Fazio, Mr. Oliver, congratulations. Um Miss Fazio, you're not allowed to go far because Lily says you have to hand her her diploma next year. So um
they're not scary, they're awesome people, I promise. Um so um but I also want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Um, you know, I'm thankful for this town and the community and yes, we are thankful for you, Christina. Thank you very much. Um, but
you know, listen, no matter what part of town you're in, you know, we're big, but we've got that small town feel. And you know, that is heard and seen from our sports to our arts, things like that. Um, so thank you. I'm thankful for
Albridge. The one thing I meant to say before Thanksgiving and didn't um I did say something to Dr. Reagan when we were doing the sports about our marching night. So, I don't know if their season's over, like if they're not, but we definitely want to get them up here and congratulate them because they've done December. So, like their season has
been phenomenal. You know, definitely our athlet excuse me, our athletics have won, but you know, our marching knights and and color guard and all that have had, you know, first place after first place, you know, win after win. So they're another one that definitely need
to be congratulated. So on that note, I think we can just say happy Thanksgiving to everyone and a motion to adjourn without executive session. >> Motion Dan second. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> All right. Go have a good Thanksgiving.
>> Happy Thanksgiving everyone. >> Thank you all. So just to update you on that one.