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Good evening everyone. Like to call our meeting to order. Thank you for coming out tonight. Pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act, NJSA104-10. Adequate notice of this meeting has been posted to the district website under legal notices in the board office, the

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schools, and on cable vision channel 118 and on Verizon Bios channel 24. And by filing such notice with the township clerk. Notice has also been provided that as of March 1st, 2026, future meeting notices will only be published on the district website. This meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, June 9th,

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2026. The board will take formal action on payment of bills and other agenda items. Mr. The Old Bridgetown 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

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board meetings using audio or video recording devices, provide that 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

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board therefore takes no responsibility for such private recording and completely disavows any future use. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Dantuno >> here. >> Mr. Dunn >> here. >> Miss Joy >> here. >> Miss Mone >> here.

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>> Mr. Patterson >> here. >> Mr. Slade >> here. >> Mr. Solowski >> here. >> Mr. Venitas >> here. >> And Miss Francisco >> here. >> We have quorum present. >> Can we please rise for the pledge? Okay. Um, we will have our moment of

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silence next week. Who would like to read the code of ethics? >> I'll do it. >> Thank you. Okay. Moving on to the approval of minutes. Is there any discussion? >> Minutes are forthcoming. We do have to fix they will be uh not

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the February but the March. So >> yeah, there's only March on there. March 10th, 17th. That's all >> right. But at the top has February. >> I see. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, um we do not have a

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report of our student representative. I think her duties are officially finished as of uh last week. Uh we will go over our recognition next week as well. Any discussion on that? Okay. On items one or two.

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>> Dr. Sasso, do you have a superintendent report for us? >> I will next week. Uh two weeks. >> Okay. Any correspondence? None to report tonight. >> Okay. Does anybody want to give a special committee report uh this evening or we can just do them next weekend?

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Next week. >> Two weeks. Yes. Sorry, I keep saying next week. It's two weeks. Okay. Okay. Do we have any hearing of the residents on agenda items only?

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Okay, moving on to curriculum and professional development. Can I have a motion for item number one? >> Is there a motion? >> Dant will second. >> Any discussion? >> I want to thank all the staff that worked on uh all of the curriculum

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guides, you know, and for your dedication to this project. Thank you. And I believe this is over the period of the summer, right? If I remember, >> they did it. >> Oh, okay. This is in the school year.

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>> Okay. Okay. >> So, yes, this has already been completed um because we actually had requested, I think it was a couple years ago, to push back the writing of the curriculum. um not push it back, I guess do it sooner so that the board had ample time to review before we had to vote on approving it. >> Okay.

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>> So, I thank administration for making that happen. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Roll call. >> Mr. Richard Patterson >> here. Yes. >> Mr. Slade. >> Yes. >> Mr. Solicowski? >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Vanitason? >> Yes. >> Miss Santuno? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn? Yes, >> Miss Shri. >> Yes, >> Miss Mazone. >> Yes, >> Miss Francisco. >> Yes. >> Resolution one for curriculum professional development passes. >> Any discussion for items 2 through

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eight? Okay, moving on to policy. Those want It was a very thorough dialogue. sure that it's known that you know there are some guidelines. So I I understand

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uh Mr. Thank you. through their their Whoa, that's really loud. Okay. No one's telling the teachers that they have to, you know, get okays to bring a book in. We do trust our teachers. It has nothing to do with trusting our teachers. I just think that the policy is a good idea to have

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in place beforehand rather than it being too late. >> Well, Christina, on one hand, you're saying we don't have school libraries, so this doesn't have any effect, right? And on the other hand, you're saying, but we want to be preemptive. So, you can't >> because like she said, if the state comes in and says that we need to now have them, at least that policy is

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already there. I'm not against having do the work later on >> because we don't have them. Hold on, guys. One person at a time, it doesn't matter. So let's just leave it the way that it is now and then if something changes in the future, if we have a reason to put this

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policy into place, then we'll go ahead and do it. Alina said I think is Chris real quick before you you add in the difference between some of the policies that summer mandatory >> yet may be coming soon.

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>> Right. My point is we could leave it the way that it is because it protects everybody right now. It has safeguards already included in it. There's all New Jersey state laws and if any if anything changes then we can address it. >> All right. I think we should vote on it in August and see where everyone stands.

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>> Mr. Martin, can we can can can we just read to the public the change or the added language to the policy so that at least everyone understands what we're discussing because right now no one really knows what we're talking about. So I think it'll be prudent and

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appropriate to let everyone know what we're talking about. >> Yeah, Mr. you're done. That that language is going to be available to the public before June 23rd uh to all members of the public, not just those listening or attempting to listen to this meeting now. And um it will also be

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published before the August 11th and 18th meetings. >> So just for clarity, so today's the first reading. >> No, the 23rd is the first reading. This is the this is the discussion. >> This is pregame to the first meeting >> pregame >> and it's mandatory. little M there. So

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when you said it's coming, it's coming. So this is not a policy. >> And just just to just to clarify because there's there's still some aftershocks from earlier discussions. It is actually mandatory. >> Mandatory. No, no. Cuz I think I don't want the perception of the public that we derive this policy. That's why I

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think there's a little confusion that it's if we came up with a policy to address the library. >> I think it's important to clarify >> the policy is mandatory, but we're looking to add verbiage to it. That's what we're objecting to. >> Right. Right. >> So, so just

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>> and that verbage will be available. >> It's it's on the website right now. It it's been on the website. So that that is on the website with the draft agenda under uh current agenda schedules and attachments. So it is on the schedule. It's named uh or it's on the website. It's named policies for first reading

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alert 237 2535 and 7510. That is the name of the document and it is under our documents. uh tab on the website >> 7510 >> 7510 which is a uh facilities but the

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name of the PDF is and I just lost it now >> right 2535 is but I'm talking about the actual name of the PDF if you go on the website it is called policies for first reading alert 237 2535 and 7510 so it is

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on the website for anyone attending ing to listen to this meeting right now can go on the website and and look at it. >> But to Rich but to Rich's point, if we're going to have this as a discussion, don't we need some meat >> to discuss or no? >> So, yeah, we we can we can absolutely do

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that. Um, but if you if you think about the the procedures of of this board, everything goes to committee if it comes up or comes out of committee. So, it is right now currently as we stand as a recommendation from the committee. Of course, the board is able to discuss whatever they whatever they choose to

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and whatever um however anybody wants to vote when we come to our first read and come to our second read. But the majority of this discussion and work has been done at committee >> and >> but that doesn't mean it can't happen again. >> And and also just so everyone knows when you do look at the attachment or the PDF

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online uh I believe it's the bolded language that is what is going to be added or um or looking to be added by the board. So again, that PDF is online and the bolded language. Um, so it's on pages 3, 4. So it's right in the front

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of the PDF about 328. Um, and it's got the bolded language and there's a regulation that goes along with it. >> And if anybody can't find it, you're welcome to contact any one of us. Okay, moving on to finance. Can I have a motion for item number one?

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>> Miss motion. >> Jody second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Slade. >> Yes. >> Mr. Solicowski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Vanitason? >> Yes. >> Miss Danuno? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn? >> Yes. >> Miss Joel?

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>> Yes. >> Miss Mone? >> Yes. >> Miss Richards Patterson? >> Yes. >> And Miss Francisco? >> Yes. >> Resolution one for finance, which is the bills list, approves. Any discussion for items 2 through 24 under finance? >> Okay, moving on to Oh, go ahead. I'm

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sorry. >> One one item on uh resolution number 17. Um we do have to add just uh prescription is going to be on there. So, this is in regards to the renewal rates for um health insurance from Brown and Brown. Um, it's going to have

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dental, vision, and prescription. So, as we have announced before in the past, we are making uh a transition to self-insured for the RX um uh prescription benefits, but we will have the insurance renewal rates on that document as well um for the for the 17th

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or the 23rd rather. >> Uh Mr. Widell, can you just for number 16, can you just explain to the public how I know this is something that we vote on every year. Can you just explain what this gives you authorization to do? >> Sure. So, like every uh May when I do

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the public hearing on the budget, uh we talk about how the budget is essentially a blueprint. It can be flexible. There has to be contingencies involved. So, when we get towards the end of a school year, uh, such as May and June, um, there would have been maybe some

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projects or expenses that came out of specific accounts where, um, we had more that was more expended than originally budgeted. There might be some other accounts that we had that were not appropriated as much. So, what this resolution essentially allows us to do

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is make the necessary transfers as we start closing out the year to say, "Hey, we need this money from this fund or this account and we're going to transfer it over to there." Um, there is certain rules and regulations that we have to abide by by the county department of education. Um, so those are done, but

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essentially this will allow us as we get closer to the end of the year, a June 30th uh closure and we don't have any July meetings. This resolution will allow us to make the necessary transfers um so we can start closing out our books and roll into July 1 and prepare for our audit process.

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>> I have one more. Sorry. >> Oh, sorry. >> Moving on to athletics. >> I have one more >> on item number three. Uh where it says uh the attachment is in B1. I don't know if it is attached in this one or maybe in the digital copy that is in this one.

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I didn't see it. The B1 >> B1 the attachment B1. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh that'll be on if it's not in the attachments. >> Unless I'm missing it. >> It's not in the folder, right? Okay. >> Sometimes they're not filled in, right?

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Until the um till the regular meeting before when we get the informationational packet. >> Yeah. We're not we're still probably finalizing the transfers because as we go through uh until the 23rd, we still have that that time to make those transfers to get it finalized. Uh so it probably I don't see it actually in the schedules and attachments. So it's

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probably in >> No, that's okay. I just want to you'll get it. >> We can work on it offline. >> I I also have one more um item again in on resolution 21. Um so we're very close. So typically around June we need

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to um this is for property commercial insurance rates now. Um so we will we are waiting on one more rate to lock in. Uh it'll be our cyber liability. We were waiting for quotes but we do have um some pretty good uh I would actually say

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pretty positive in the sense of um you know a cost increase for the 2627 school year. We worked hard with Arthur J. Gallagher. I appreciate then taking the time to sit down with Dr. Sasso and I um and we did get some pretty favorable rates for us as far as our increase for property insurance. So, those rates,

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we're trying to lock one more in, but we do have um almost all them finalized and we'll have that on the agenda for the 23rd as well. I'm so sorry. What is with me? All right. Non-certificated personnel. Can I have a motion for items one to two?

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>> Miss motion. >> Dantino second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mr. Venitas. >> Yes. >> Miss Danuno. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn. Yes, >> Miss Joy. >> Yes,

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>> Miss Mazone. >> Yes, >> Miss Richards Patterson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Slade. >> Yes, >> Mr. Solowski. >> Yes, >> Miss Francisco. >> Yes. >> Resolutions one to two for non-certificated personnel office carries.

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>> Any discussion for items 3 through six? >> Okay, moving on to non-certificated personnel operational. Can I please have a motion for items 1 through six? There's >> all a motion. Jody, do you second? >> Any discussion?

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>> Roll call. >> Miss Dantino? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn? >> Yes. >> Miss Joy? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazone? >> Yes. >> Miss Richard Patterson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Slade? >> Yes. >> Mr. Solowski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Vanitason?

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>> Yes. and Miss Francisco. >> Yes. >> Resolutions 1 through six for non-certificate personnel operational is approved. >> Okay. Any discussion for item number seven. >> Okay. Moving on to non-certificated

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personnel other. Any discussion for items 1 through 11? Okay, moving on to certificated personnel. Can I have a motion for items 1 through 7? >> Dant will move. >> Miss will second.

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>> Any discussion? >> Okay, roll call. >> Miss Joy? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazone? >> Yes. >> Miss Richards Patterson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Slade, >> yes. >> Mr. Solicowski, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitas,

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>> yes. >> Miss Dantuno, >> yes. >> Mr. Dunn, >> yes. >> And Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Congratulations to all employees. Certificate of personnel resolutions 1 through 7 does carry. >> I believe we do have some of our new

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hires here this evening. So, if you would like to come up to the stage, we'd love to welcome you and take a picture and congratulate you. Yes, Alexa, that's you as well. >> Got a couple graduates in the house as well.

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Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Okay. Any discussion for items 8 through 23 under certificated personnel? Okay, moving on to non-certificated personnel transportation. Can I have an a motion for items one through three?

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>> Dant will move. >> Jill second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Miss Mazone. >> Yes. >> Miss Richard Patterson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Slade? >> Yes. >> Mr. Solicowski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Vanitason?

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>> Yes. >> Miss Dantino? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn? >> Yes. >> Miss Jodri? >> Yes. >> Miss Francisco? >> Yes. Resolutions one through three for non-certificate personnel. Transportation does carry. >> Any discussion for item number four?

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>> Okay. Transportation. Any discussion for items 1 through three? Okay. Moving to supplies, equipment, and services. Can I have a motion for items 1 through 7? Dan Tun will move.

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>> Richard's Patterson. A will second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Slade. >> Yes. >> Mr. Salowski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Vanitason? >> Yes. >> Miss Dantuno? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dunn? >> Yes.

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>> Miss Jori? >> Yes. >> Miss Mazone? >> Yes. Miss Richard Patterson, >> yes. >> And Miss Francisco, >> yes. >> Resolutions 1 through 7 for supplies, equipment, and services passes. >> Any discussion for items 8 through 12.

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>> Number eight should say the 2627 school year at the top of number eight. Okay, moving on to miscellaneous. Any discussion for items 1 through 12? We good? Okay. All right. Do we have any board secretary or board business for this

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section? No board secretary and board business. >> Okay. All right. So now I'm going to open the microphone for hearing of the residents on any school district topic. >> Can you hear me now? >> There you go. >> Okay. Let's go next. Uh and good evening

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board members. Uh, as another incredible school year comes to a close, I want to take a moment and look back and highlight some of the wonderful programs the OBA has sponsored this year through our partners in education grant program. I'm incredibly proud to share that in total, the OBA has invested over $60,000

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directly back to our schools, our students, and our community through these initiatives this year. I've had the pleasure of seeing many of you in attendance at those events, but I wanted to briefly summarize what has been truly a phenomenal school year. Most recently at Madison Park, they celebrated a beautiful multicultural day and evening

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where students literally took a tour around the globe. They spent the day learning about each other's cultures, traditions, and customs and enjoyed incredible cultural performances. And the food was really good. I tried it. Uh, our grants also hosted a highly successful STEM night at McDivet and a fantastic family pizza making night at

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Vorhees. We were thrilled to fund the annual Civil War Day where students take a true trip back in time for an immersive day that is so much more than a standard history lesson. We also celebrated and supported our middle schools in their sports awards nights.

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Uh this year we also extended our impact beyond our schools by partnering with the Oldbridge Public Library to offer free programming for our students. Over spring break, we hosted a popular Minecraft coding program and Jeninson's Aquarium brought the ocean to us with a live demonstration called Aquarium

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Rainforest Revelations. Furthermore, looking beyond the classroom to address the border needs of our town, the OBA was proud to make a $500 donation to the Oldbridge Food Bank to support our local families in need. Looking ahead to the summer on July 29th, we are thrilled to be sponsoring the Whale Mobile at the library. I'm

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sure you're wondering, what is a whale mobile? It is not a Herman Melville novel. I promise you it's a massive life-size inflatable whale that schools and libraries use to spark curiosity. The whalemobile.com you can see a video. Looks pretty cool. Uh students actually get to step inside the whale to explore

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anatomy, uncover conservation challenges, and discover how the ocean connects to our daily lives. Uh if you're a staff member interested in applying for a grant or a PTA member interested in applying for a grant, please email me at obbezgmail.com. We typically work closely with PTAs over

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the summer to coordinate these grants, brainstorm ideas, and establish budgets. Thank you to Nancy Coglin and Karen Solano. Those two ladies uh help organize the events, buy materials, and deliver checks to the schools. So, um other than that, have a great summer.

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Thank you very much. >> Anyone else? Okay, I will close the hearing of the residents. >> Okay, so we are at old business and new business. Kind of a couple of things. >> Lump those together. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Um, so first off, I want to congratulate

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the new hires. Um, good luck on your new roles. Uh, we look forward to working with you and best of luck. Um, second, we got to some of us got to attend the senior prom and we had so much fun. I think I had more fun than the seniors did. Um it was who whoever was in charge

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of putting that together, they did such a phenomenal job. So, thank you to all the staff um for just from decorations to just organ uh the organization of it, just keeping all the kids in check. It was it was a phenomenal event. So, thank you for everyone for all your hard work.

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Um lastly, we got to a couple of us got to attend the Gryoms Wax Museum. Um and it was so much fun. I mean, these kids put so much work into it and not just because my daughter was in it. I just saw that the amount of work that was put into it. Um,

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the the good thing about some of our small schools is that you get to walk around and you get to when when you go to these events, you get to actually interact with every single student. Um, so like when something when you know they put such such hard work into these projects, it it's nice to be able to go

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up to every student and actually see all the information that they learned about the people that they choose to be the wax museum of. Um, so I was really, you know, I get really excited to be able to attend a lot of those. Um, I was able to attend the preschool graduation at Glenn

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and again that's just those are like my little babies. I love them. Um, they were so cute. Um, Alexis, thank you for putting that together because you did a great job for that. Um, I think that's it. Um, yeah, that's it for now. So,

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thank you. Um, before I start with the old business, I'd like to give credit and thanks to our TV uh, student staff. Uh, we have Neo, Faith, Kayn, Reagan, Ava,

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Rya, Jacob, and Michael. Um, some of them are here, so if we can invite them up to the front, some are down at the uh auditorium doing the TADA event and some are not working today. Um, but we would like to thank you. You guys are always behind the camera so we want to put you

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in front of the camera and the board did uh come together and we got you little gifts to say thank you. Thank you guys. Um, I'd also like to thank the OBA for the investment back into our students and our community. Um, I got to go to

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the junior prom and they had to take it from outside to inside. Uh, the theme was Rapunzel and they did a fantastic job. Uh, I know I had a car full of kids coming out of here and their ears were ringing and they were screaming in the back of my car because they couldn't hear each other, but they had a blast.

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So, kudos and thank you to the staff for that. Um, Madison Park multicultural event. Um, thank you for not only welcoming me, but my family came as well. Um, I also want to touch upon and let everyone know uh, Miss Jori, Dr.

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Sasso, Miss Hans, and Miss O'Neal and I, and Mr. So got together and we've been working for the past year or so on a labor management collaborative and we had over 20 almost 30 um staff members,

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community members, board members um from every aspect of this team that we call a district from the maintenance and transportation to building administrators and every level in between the OBA really made sure that every group was had a

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representative we talked about five or six key topics um and and what's going on in the district, what are we doing right, what can we improve upon, and uh that's a project that has now officially taken off and we're going to make that an

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ongoing project. So, uh thank you to all that came and looking forward to working together with everyone on the labor management collaborative. >> Uh Jen, really quick, can you actually explain what that is because I actually never heard of the labor management. I don't think I was invited to that event. So can you just explain? >> Well,

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it started with Andrew Lewis two years ago. He invited um the some board members to go down to Atlantic City. So the labor management is really a partnership between administration and the staff and the community and the

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board uh working together on how to improve. And one of the more interesting things that came up in the first workshop we went to is a decision in the district like a snow day in a lot of school districts that's an admin only conversation not in our district like

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you know the the school calendar you know what day is off we have a calendar committee you know that takes people into account from different aspects of our community and working collaboratively to make the decisions for the district. So there are some decisions that are admin only and you

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know that's respected and but there's other ones where we can all kind of work together. Um yes you're right the entire board wasn't um invited to the initial meeting a representative so Elena was chosen as board president. Um but I believe the invitations were open um

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earlier when we went to the convention last November. It fell like right after teachers convention or right after what was it day after election day. So it um yeah so and that's where it stemmed out of. So that was the second workshop.

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Madam President, I got a few things. First, I just want to recognize uh Ernie Draone and his staff. As we know, summer is a big time uh of the year for uh the maintenance team, and they're the ones that are going to be going into the buildings and making sure everything is

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done and ready for September. And a lot of times they get overlooked and uh I can tell you unequivocally that we have a great maintenance facilities teams here and I can uh tell you that they're going to do a remarkable job in getting these buildings ready. Uh a lot of times we we take it for granted that that team

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is in place. you know, with with Tim Craft now taking care of the custodial aspect, you know, we have a great team in place and um I want to just say thank you to them in advance that I recognize their value and their worth because they're going to have to get these buildings turned over in less than 60

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days to uh to start a new school year. So Ernie and and Tim, I want to thank you sincerely and your your team for for preparing yourselves to move forward uh this summer with a lot of work. Secondly, I wanted to sincerely thank uh

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Dr. uh Hoker and and Dr. Sasso and and and and uh the entire administrative team. I know that uh you know we repurposed Cooper School um this coming year and I have to say that um I saw

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some videos of uh the students who were going to the new buildings and how well they were received by their peers and by the principles and other other students. And it was a remarkable joyful event for a lot of these children knowing that they were going to a new school and they

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were accepted with open arms. They were given the love and the compassion and everything that could be given to them uh for their new endeavor. You know, it is hard for children to, you know, change gears and start at a new school, but I got to tell you that what I saw

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made my heart melt and I wanted to just sincerely thank everyone involved. um who made that happen because that definitely made the transition uh for September so much easier for these students. And uh I I I want to commend

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the administration for doing something that was very difficult, but it made it uh very um palatable and it made it very worthwhile uh because it did make a difference. So, I wanted to make sure I said this publicly that I know it was a hard thing for this board to uh to to

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support uh but our administrators did a remarkable job in in doing what was right for the students. So, with that said, thank you and uh I'm done. >> Literally, >> he's done. Yes. Get it? >> Yes. >> That's right.

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>> Um I just wanted to quickly reiterate what everybody else has said. U Madison Park multicultural um event was really great. Um we walked up and down the halls and there was just so much work from the students and there was there was family crafts and things like that. There was so much food. Um we went to

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prom. It prom was great. Christine did have the best time. Um the prek graduation. Alexis was awesome. And thank you to the TV stu this TV studio students uh and Mr. Gajooki and Miss Walsh um for all that you do for us. And

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I hope that everybody the students have a great summer >> here for the next meeting. >> Okay. >> There'll be a couple of them here. >> Okay. All right. Well, gosh, I'm glad that came up.

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Um, I just wanted to really piggyback, I guess, what everybody else has been saying. I do appreciate that Rich Dunn is done. Um, that he mentioned, uh, just how wonderful everybody and and welcoming everybody is to the new home schools, um, that are, you know,

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overflowed from from Cooper. I I just hear so much positivity. Everybody's so hands-on and just loving to these families. And so, you know, I'm I feel very confident that it's going to be a smooth transition. Um, and so I want to

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thank everybody that's, you know, been so thoughtful uh making sure of that throughout the the rest of the school year and then, you know, moving into the new school year. Um, happy belated eid. I just wanted to mention I went to the

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Sulkq uh world language induction. Uh, that was wonderful. Thank you for having us. That was a really busy day. We went from there to the Miller Challenge Showcase. That was uh three nights in a row, but it was the only one I could uh make. It was phenomenal. I can't believe

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how much uh thought and art and uh craft gets put into these projects that the challenge kids um do. They do a phenomenal job. It was absolutely beautiful. I could see why it's three days long because they want to make sure everybody really gets to uh show their

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work. Um the Memorial Day service was uh terrific with the high school students and best wishes to the new recruits, our seniors that are heading off um to their bases. Uh we did go to the junior and the senior prom. They were absolutely

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gorgeous and it was it was a treat to It sounds funny to be able to say in my 40s that I'm going to prom. Like I I'll be back later. I'm going to prom. It just sounds wild. Um the Chiron Gryom Wax Museums were absolutely wonderful. the

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uh the Glen School moving up ceremony, but every school has been having moving up ceremonies. A lot of them are the same days and same times because our days are, you know, shrinking left of school. And so I try to make each school definitely can't make every one, but

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they've been from the from the preschool to the kindergarten to the fifth grade moving up. They've been phenomenal. I'm excited to see the middle school. I'm excited to see the high school graduates. And um I hope everybody has a wonderful last day of school. Um I did

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actually I saw Mr. Soin at the um Madison Park multicultural thing and it was nice to see I guess on the other side everybody screaming his name. The the kids were just so happy to see him. There were high school kids there too helping and they were ex oh my god it's Mr.

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So, um, I don't know if he's going to have any second thoughts, but I I enjoyed seeing you at the podium today with just so much positivity and, uh, kudos to the OBA for all you do. I will probably talk to you soon about our resource fair. Have a nice summer, everybody.

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Don't forget about the about the lip dub that's going to be available. Yeah. >> The lip dub. Can't wait to see it. Super excited. The high school they do a lip dub. You have You'll get to see it. Anyone else?

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>> Yeah, I want to add a couple of things. Um, first of all, I was so busy in travel last month, the whole of May. Uh, but, uh, at least I am grateful that I could visit Madison Park and firsthand because my kids go to Madison Park, but also I would, uh, I could, you know,

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literally see the way the, uh, Madison Park PTA as well as the principal, Mr. Delhi and the staff, the way they organize the event and they have been doing this repeatedly every year. So that's the consistency which they're trying to bring into the you know students and the kids are also excited

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right it's about food of course because they like to try different varieties of food and also the programs that they can participate and uh showcase their talent right so it was a you know very good event uh and I got a lot of good feedback from the community members as

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well and um you know I hope we can keep doing it year after year um uh secondly I think Mr. So that's nothing new and including my kids and every other kids probably you know likes you and they miss you actually honestly speaking you know that you are in the other side of the fence now and but still you know

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you're so close to the community thanks know good to have you um another is the new business I just want to highlight that uh June 11 6 p.m. we have the finance uh planning meeting uh a lot of you on finance planning meeting um and thanks um Mr. Vital I looked at the uh

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agenda I think that's uh you know perfect for the close of the year. So we're going to recap uh what we did this year and uh what we are working on continuously to reduce the expenditures. So that'll be a good close for the year and take any inputs and this is a public meeting so please you know everybody

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who's uh uh listening in or uh watching this please you know come and participate uh we need lot of inputs and feedback as well which uh we struggle always so it'll be nice to have you all during the close of the year that could help us uh start planning for the next

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year thank you >> anyone else Okay. So, I will have you all know that I canceled plans with my college friends to go to the senior prom and they were all about it and so happy and wanted to come. So, yes, I don't know. I might

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take you up on that like who had the most fun because it was a good time. So, I just want to say um in all of the events that everybody has mentioned here tonight, I just want to thank um the staff, the administration at the schools, our central administration team

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for just creating this welcoming and positive atmosphere where all the board members are invited to so many different things which is so refreshing and so exciting and really helps us to get a picture of what's going on in our schools, all the beautiful things that we talk about up here. Um, and I will

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always say that the one thing we have in common is that we are a super involved board and truly truly do care. Um, so keep inviting us. I joke around I say it's exhausting in the best way. Um, we are going to as many different events and activities as we can just to really see the hard work that our staff and our

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students put into, you know, their education in all aspects of their education. Um, and it even extend extends to some township events that we've been invited to as well. the one that I went to last night um focusing on mental health and drug and alcohol prevention. So, when we come together,

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we can do great things for our students. So, thank you for always inviting us and please continue to and we will come. >> Um and I think that's it. So, can I have a motion to go into close executive session? Motion

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>> on a second. >> All in favor? >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. We'll go to executive session. Thank you all for being here. Have a great night. Enjoy the weather. See you in two weeks.