sunshine Law statement all requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act have been met for this meeting of the board of education of the Bureau of Oridel notice of this meeting was filed with the record and town news and all persons requesting such notice mrs norian would you read the mission statement certainly the Oridel Public School District is
dedicated to the ongoing pursuit of educational excellence through comprehensive innovative curriculum and instruction the district is committed to providing opportunities for social emotional and academic discovery to foster curiosity courage and character
our goal is to prepare our students to become lifelong learners who are self-directed and resilient productive responsible citizens thank you roll call on the roll mr delgreco here
mr dariion here mrs downey here mrs moran here mr nutland here mrs walter here mr walsh here mrs norian here mrs nichols here at
this time we will open to the public for agenda items only mr darren is the green oh sorry this is this always happens excuse me for that uh 150 Oxford Circle Ordell my name is Katarina Saviano um I just want to talk
about policy 1120 so Board of Education recently released an updated version of its board of education meetings policy file code 1120 and the document continues to use language of transparency community
involvement and parent input the policy describes board meetings as a primary means of sharing information with community members and inviting their comments and suggestions however the new version removes a clause the amount of time for public discussion may be adjusted at the
meeting at the discretion of the board on its face this clause may appear neutral perhaps even flexible but in practice it grants the board unilateral authority to restrict or extend public comment based solely on its discretion
without any stated criteria or accountability the inclusion of this language creates ambigu ambiguity is the intent to foster more conversation or too limited without open dialogue the public is left to guess that ambiguity
is dangerous it can open the door to misinterpretation some may believe the board is looking to limit public discourse while others may see it as a mechanism to allow more time but without explanation or conversations with the community the real intent will remain
unclear and when clarity is missing mistrust fills the void just weeks ago parents asked for more transparency more meaningful dialogue during a public meeting instead of receiving clarity or collaboration they're met with responses from board members suggesting that these
meetings are largely ceremonial that decisions are already made behind closed doors and public input is not meant to influence the outcomes that admission alone undermines the credibility of the policy and the purpose of public meetings here's the core issue the board
asks for parental engagement but does not want it we attend meetings write emails advocate for our children what's missing is engagement a format that allows for two-way conversation responsiveness and shared decision-making you cannot ask for engagement and then build systems that
prevent it the current meeting format is fundamentally not designed for open dialogue until that changes engagement will remain out of reach misinterpretation of board's actions which we want to prevent will continue to grow if the board truly wants to
serve the community which I know many of you do and honor its roles in public education it must go beyond service level policy it must build a structure that invites collaboration not just attendance a system that values voices not just manages them because trust is
not built through silence or ceremony it's built through conversation transparency and action until then parents are simply asked to be invited to this room and will continue to be asked out of the conversation thank you thank you not seeing anyone else we will move
forward i just have two remarks one is uh your financial disclosures are due so if you haven't completed them please speak with Mr ayapelli and the other thing is I don't know if everyone got the email from Burn County School Boards the meeting in May is to recognize uh school board members
significant um years and our own Mrs walker is going to be recognized for 15 years at the May Bergen County dinner so if anyone can attend I will not be able to unfortunately that um if you want to attend please let please have Mr aell
sign you up good um and now we'll move to the superintendent's report good evening i always find the school performance report to be a little irksome because
we're talking about last year and I feel like we've talked about last year a lot however it takes the state this much time to get all the data from the previous year from course roster reports that get sent in to test scores to attendance
data and the performance report is actually federally mandated because it is part of funding and we have to show that we are monitoring ourselves so a lot of this data is new however the reason I thought it was very important to share it with you today is
when NJ.com or the patch put those scores up and rank all the districts this is actually where it comes from so as I said the NJ DOE is mandated to have some form of assessment for all schools to make sure that all schools and all students are having their needs
met and are moving forward the school performance report is done both at a district level and a school level however I'm going to keep our presentation today to the school level because that's where all the real data is and for us the district report
mirrors a lot of the school report those categories on the right are the major car categories you're going to find in the school performance report i'm not going to speak about all of them thoroughly today because we would be here for a really long time so for
example I'm not going to expand on per pupil expenditures you will see that we spend over $16,000 per student however there are things that aren't included in that so that's teacher salaries so if you have school A and school B and they
both have 10 teachers but school A's teachers are farther on the guide that's going to skew that data if you were a school that put a lot of money into a large equipment purchase the previous year smartboards that's actually not going to be in there so there's so many
different variables i don't think it's the best um way to look at expenditures there are many other reports on the NJDOE website that I do believe gets that done better i'm not going to go into the narrative which is kind of our summary what are we proud of however I
really want to talk about accountability and I'm going to overview some of the other areas i'm going to start just by looking at our student demographics um Ordell public school we we keep hearing is is growing and growing but the truth is we
eb and flow because while we are a large school we are a small district so as a result one cohort that's large or one cohort that's small will significantly impact our overall data number so we
know that we will lose 135 sixth graders in June however at the current time we only have 90 kindergarteners coming in so we're going to see a net change next year downward i did also include some of
the enrollment trends by student group um you will notice that we are increasing for example students in foster care one of the numbers that I'm specifically always looking at is multilingual learners because an increase in multilingual learners will
because of state mandates require an increase in ESL teachers however you'll see that that number is really staying pretty much the same and I also always look at student with disabilities we know that the state wants to see us between that 12 and 14%
um number and next year actually is our special education kind of QAC so they will come in next year just to look at our special education data we also then look at um our staff numbers i always say that when this when
the papers do that report about the median salary well what's going to play into that median salary so you'll notice that 70% of our staff have been here for four or more years this table went a little bit longer you
will see that 11 I think we had 10 staff members who are within year one or year two in the building and then you'll see the same for our admin data this is one of the areas that I am incredibly proud of our administrators
for because 8.2 this is our chronic absenteeism so chronic absenteeism is defined as a student who is absent 18 or more days during a school year that does not matter if you are sick it's not saying that it's 18 vacation days it's
18 days out the only thing that doesn't count in that is like take your child to work day and I think some religious exemptions so what you'll notice is that is the area we made really impressive
growth in an 8.2% chronic absenteeism in 2223 was something that we were not happy with if you're not in school you can't learn and we really last year increased our structures for sending letters home when students met
um certain levels of absenteeism following up and we actually started doing um attendance plans with parents for any students who we were concerned about their absenteeism rate and that's something that we really do need to continue doing because if any one
specific subgroup of our school meets 10% we have to document a corrective action plan for that group and the good news is we do not have any groups our student disabilities is getting high but we have no groups over 10% currently
showing a chronic absenteeism rate of 18 or more absences and this is just one more way to look at that data you know absenteeism is considered part of also like college and career readiness like we don't have as many factors to evaluate students for
future success as middle schools and high schools do so absenteeism is really important for here what are the routines that you are putting in place now that are going to continue in middle school and high school although I know the middle schools and high schools are also
really looking at absenteeism because if you read in the paper right after COVID absenteeism um increased so you can see some of those trends you know we're always going to see um our prek actually doesn't count in our overall number because it
is only um a preschool program with disabilities so it doesn't count in our overall number that is where we are the highest in absenteeism kindergarten and we did so show some numbers in sixth grade last year that I'm not seeing in sixth grade this year
um again you're also looking at what are the overall trends so overall we're seeing students who are absent seven um percent or less and again it's always really important to remember that when we talk about absenteeism we're not just talking
about unexcused absences we are talking about all absences um that can be bereavement that can be sick days that can be vacation yes if a student goes on vacation that counts as a as a day i'm
going to move now from absenteeism to academic achievement and this is going to be three years of the data that we've talked a lot about this is the NJSLA data in language arts and in mathematics for 2021-223 and
2324 and when I look at this data I see yeah we're a little peak a little valley but it's really stable data when you see on the bottom here I lost my cursor met goal the state's goal for all districts is
80% met target means how are you moving towards that goal of 80% proficiency um the state sets yearly targets for you to move towards it so we're meeting our goal in language arts
we're meeting our targets in mathematics to look at that data in additional way these are the three years of data for each of the individual grades in language arts on top and in math on
bottom and again I don't want to spend a ton of time on academic achievement because I've done two other presentations on NJSLA data however what I don't get to do when I do the NJSLA performance report is student
growth so we know that every student in grades four five and six gets a student growth percentile and I spoke about this during QAC but I'm going to go over it again we're going to pretend right now
that Mrs moran Mrs walker Mr delgreco Mrs downey and Mr ayapelli are all in fourth grade this year last year when they were in third grade they all scored a 275 on the
NJSLA language arts when they went to fourth grade the next year and they got their score it's going to compare them maybe Mrs moran scored higher than all of them so her student growth percentile
is going to be 100% maybe Mr ayapelli scored the lowest out of all of them so now his comparison student growth percentile score is not going to be
100% so every student in grades four five and six has one of those scores in language arts and it has one of those scores in math everyone's score for all the students in grades four five and six at Ordell public school are lined up whoever's in
the middle whoever's our median that becomes our school so our 70 in language arts is quite high because that's saying that our middle student scored higher than
70% of other middle students around and you'll see a growth this year in our score in mathematics i actually believe that student growth percentiles are one of the better things the state has come up
with because it doesn't just focus on who passes a test who doesn't pass a test it has us look at who's growing more and why are they growing more the this performance report also lets us
look at growth based on how did you score and your grade level the grade level is pretty self-explanatory so in fourth grade our median student growth percentile is a 73 in language arts we go down a little bit
in fifth grade and we go back up in sixth grade now when we look to the left at the performance levels again I'm always looking for the the things that we not only need to grow but
what else can we say look at how well we're doing and this along with that absenteeism is something that we should be incredibly proud of we are showing the most growth with students who were
scoring the weakest the year before which means we're filling holes they're growing so to say that our students that scored a level two in third fourth or fifth grade even
third fourth or fifth grade they have a student growth percentile of 83 that means they are showing more growth than anyone else and they're the ones that need to grow the most we can look at that for mathematics
as well and again you're going to see that our growth just like our achievement is not as high in mathematics as it is in language arts the world may be talking about reading or at a public school
needs to talk about math so this is the big page this is our accountability so this is the sum the summation of the entire school performance report in many ways this is the number the paper uses this is where that
96.9 which makes us the 67th highest scoring school of over 2,000 schools in the state of New Jersey um comes from and again when you look at it it shows exactly what we've been saying in the data shows we are
scoring more points in language arts whether it's language arts proficiency or language arts growth than we are in math although because the whole state's not scoring incredibly well in
math our indicator score we're still scoring higher than a lot of places our absenteeism score going down significantly helped our overall score as well and I will say when you look at
those those things on the patch or on nj.com the indicators the factors are a little different when you're a middle school or a high school so you actually have to go into the school performance report which you can see everyone's to actually look at their
accountability what in their accountability mattered so for some places growth doesn't come in I feel like it might be high school but there might be another metric instead it could be um algebra
testing and I know graduation rates with high school factor in a lot so the final thoughts when I look at this and again this is data I've had in different forms for a while this is just the state has now officially put them up
and we do not just have an obligation of sharing that data with you but I also have an obligation of emailing it to parents which I will do um before the break and when I look at it here's what I see we need to continue to really monitor attendance because we're doing a
really good job making sure kids are in school and helping their parents understand how important it is that they are in school you can't learn if you're not in school we're showing some really nice growth in with our multilingual learners so
um these three numbers this should be a decimal point here are three years of proficiency so this year 62.1% of our students that are multilingual learners scored as the
anticipated the expected growth that the state would like to see them make that's a really significant growth from two years ago i mean it's about 18 percentage points our ELA performance continues to show high levels of proficiency and
growth and our most struggling students are showing really positive levels of growth and that was in language arts and in mathematics and again what we have been saying why we are rewriting our curriculum why we are spending the money on bringing in an outside math consultant when we hired our
administrators we this summer we specifically hired two administrators whose strength is mathematics because we knew this is the area we need to grow in September as we've been using the new math program in grades four and five this year um in September um we will
continue that in kindergarten through third grade we will follow the same protocol of having parent nights so they can get used to the new materials and our staff so our kindergarten first second and third grade teachers will begin having some professional
development on that in May one of the pieces I will share with families is all these other places that they can go to learn more about the school performance report before I give the rest of my report are there any questions specifically about the school
performance report mrs walker uh thank you Miss Bosio very informative and I like the way you've increased that absenteeism that I remember you talking about that a couple of years ago and how
important it was so um I appreciate it and see the significance in the numbers um my question is the um multilingual learners um what do you attribute the growth there too had it why
you know sometimes it's really being able to consistently implement instruction and we are making more deliberate decisions about when to push in that instruction into the classroom and when to pull that um instruction out of the classroom we've also increased
opportunities to meet with parents and the other piece that I like to say I mean again it's cause it's causal i can't prove it but we used our ESSER funding the past two summers to bring our multilingual
learners to explorations um we scholarshiped them to come because we felt that just speaking English over the summer whether it be in an academic course or whether it be in model magic would help keep their English skills up so that was something we definitely
targeted um with the ESRE funding great thank you mr walsh talking about Jamie and and Peter and how they did in third fourth grade do you ever trace the
teachers that taught them in third grade taught them in fourth grade uh actually every teacher also gets a student growth percentile okay so we can
see um which teachers are consistently making strong growth uh the state again this is where I think the state was really thoughtful they do it in two different ways so you get a student growth percentile for your class that year but let's be honest some kids are
going to be more struggling learners so they also give you a student growth percentile over three years and your evaluation score if you are teaching fourth fifth or sixth language arts and mathematics what gets reported to the state includes your student growth
percentile score so suppose the teachers that you're talking about uh wind up with Peter's score what's done with that do they get back for red remediation
it really would depend on whether it's a trend because Peter might have had a lot going on that year and Peter might not have grown tremendously that year so we're going to look at the trend of the data which isn't just what we do with um school with student growth percentiles
but it's also what we do with our link data our reports from Linkit don't just tell us about students they tell us about overall class growth as well and not just for that one year but um longitudinally as well well all five of them
tried peter didn't do as well as Jamie but what about the other three well when you go into the teachers that had those students they could they could have been in the same class some of them we absolutely know that again because if
they were all in the same class their teachers growth score is going to be low because their scores are going to be lined up the teacher score is the middle for that class so the other piece that I mentioned you know Peter's not coming to
school over there um we have added attendance to link it so we can see if there's low academic growth we can compare it and see if attendance is also an issue and we can see um when we pull
up a student's link profile we can also see over time is this a constant trend for Peter or is this something specific for this year and that is really the biggest benefit of Lincoln as a platform
when we first bought Linkit as a platform it was just to give a test to predict how students would do on another test now it's a data locker it scores it keeps track of all of our data so we can look at students over time and see their growth and also look at their teachers
to see their growth as well good question what systems do you feel that are put in place to show the performance the increase I guess the growth is it the win periods is it just extra attention in a classroom homework um I think it's the win period because
tier those students that are at level two are probably definitely in tier three interventions and we also again when we talk about ESSER funding those are students who did get whether before school or after school i think you just approved before school
programming those are often some of those students um where we need to grow as a district is students in that are scoring at level three who one day are having a good day and one day aren't having a great day and what are we doing
to identify them and um remediate for them okay okay so I'm going to move on past that and just comment that last week was an exceptionally busy week at OPS we did have the Wizards game um I scored two points i want to cl I told Peter I scor
Peter clone claps um I scored my two points i texted Peter and he said that's one basket it's a way to be supportive um but it was a really great um event many of you were there uh we had I think the Wizards found it entertaining about 18 staff members playing in the game
which is a huge number from the first year when we couldn't find enough staff members who were willing to play and we had to bring in the Ordinal Police Department to play with us instead we also had the sixth grade spring fling um on Friday which we saw come back to the
MPR for a probably the first time in maybe six seven years i think the kids had a great time i really commend the parents for remembering that this is a sixth grade dance and doesn't need to look like a wedding um it was age
appropriate kids had fun and it went off um without a hitch and that was Friday night saturday the administrative team split up some of us went to the Bergen County job fair to represent the district we do have some job openings next year going to the job
fair is a little bit like an Oriel homecoming uh we have a lot of staff members former staff members and a lot of parents that are hiring across Bergen County i think I walk around the room and go "Hi how are you?" We could have an Oral meeting but we met a lot of great teachers who there was one in
particular he was waiting for us because you get your table gets a number like this guy was like "I wanted to meet you because you're Oidel." And I was like "Well that's really nice." So um our next step will be posting for our exact positions that are open next year the other half of the administrative team
went to state finals for Odyssey of the Mind where as I shared on social media we are incredibly excited to be able to say that we are once again state champions in uh our specific problem and again if you haven't been around Odyssey for a really long time you don't
understand what an accomplishment that is we sent four fifth graders and one sixth grader i don't think there are any fourth no sorry four fifth graders and one sixth grader to compete in the middle school division because we had a
sixth grader so they were competing against sixth seventh and eighth graders and they did a great job um we are incredibly proud of them and they will be I'm sure there will be lollipops in our future and they will be off to Michigan in May next week while the
build while we'll have no students in the building there will be a lot going on we will be transitioning to our new website we will be releasing our Schaefer summer explorations brochure and registration information and we will begin some needed work on the basketball court and that concludes my report thank
you Mr aelli yes i just wanted to let you know that the budget as presented uh was approved by the county on Friday and the next time we'll be doing a budget hearing the public hearing will
be May 7th that concludes my report thank you we'll move to minutes we have review of March 26th any questions or comments please email Mr aelli we have approval of February 12th do I have a motion i move that
the meeting of February 12th we didn't do February 12th already we're in April we'll leave it i'm just wondering if that's okay any
questions call the question on the role mr del Greco yes Mr dariion yes Mrs downey yes Mrs moran yes Mr nutland yes
Mrs walker yes Mr walsh yes Mrs norian yes mrs nichols yes i think um this was actually March so can you put them both on for the next meeting um administrative items mrs norian would
you take that uh yes i'd like to uh make a motion um to approve A1 A2 there should be a line down there right yes there should be a line
second by Mr walsh any questions call a question on the roll mr delg Greco yes mr dariion yes mrs downey yes Mrs moran yes Mr
nutland yes Mrs walker yes Mr walsh yes Mrs norian yes Mrs nichols yes uh buildings and grounds mr darian no it's Mr delco oh Mr delg Greco sorry no worries um I meant to say that it's
all good uh we have not had a buildings and grounds meeting i think our focus has been on finance but in the um agenda here I'd like to bring up B1 which is the use of school facilities do I have a second second by Mr walsh any
questions i have a quick question i just don't remember um custodial overtime fee do we normally charge that to the Boy Scouts since we have custodians here from 6:00 till 10 on Friday nights is that a Friday night we're doing that it says April
25th blue and gold dinner 425 which is a Friday night if it's a Friday night now that we'll take that off so we'll approve it just someone can check that's correct or not any other questions
call the question on the roll mr delg Greco yes Mr dariion uh yes Mrs downey yes Mrs moran yes Mr nutland yes Mrs walker yes Mr walsh yes
Mrs norian yes Mrs nichols yes curriculum Mrs norian uh I have nothing further to report um at this point uh finance Mr varian uh yes we um the subcommittee has not met since our last board meeting so I have
nothing to report from that perspective uh our public meeting Mr mr pell you said was May 7th may 7th okay one two about a month from now right okay and uh so for the agenda I
have uh items D1 through D6 to introduce i'll second by Mr walsh any questions this is our final payment for the fans we're done this is just proving the final contract sum so we haven't
made the final payment yet they have a couple of outstanding documents on the closeout this is just to show that we have what the original contract was we had that small change order and the 20,000 allowance wasn't used so that goes back into capital reserve okay perfect any other
questions call the question [Applause] mr delgrea yes mr darien yes mrs downey yes mrs moran yes mr nutan yes mrs walker yes mr walsh yes mrs norian yes
mrs nichols yes delegate report mr walsh i have nothing to report there's not a meeting scheduled okay personnel mrs walker um yes thank you um we had we haven't had a meeting but
we have discussed prior to with the last meeting we had and it continues with our negotiations with staff so that's an ongoing process and with that I'd like to present F1
i'll second it any questions call the question on the roll mr delg Greco yes mr dariion yes mrs downey yes mrs moran yes mr
nutland yes mrs walker yes mr walsh yes mrs norian yes mrs nichols yes policy mr nutland yes hi um we met on March 26th uh and we discussed uh some policies we discussed
uh 1120 uh and making sure that um we are in compliance with uh with the policy with um board meetings we discussed uh 3280 which is um um gifts and grants coming into the school and
how um how we should look into possibly having like a form or uh having things filled out prior to having anything placed on the agenda uh and we discussed 4138 which was um talking about tutoring
and the role the teachers have in tutoring and having students um or potential students of students that you currently have um we also talked about visitor policy um chaperoning um
um and usage of school that concludes that report um I will uh pull up uh G1 so if you have any question on the policies are on for first reading just email uh Mr nutland and the policy committee and the
superintendent they'll be on for final vote next meeting uh public relations Mrs downey I have nothing to report at this time we'll open to the public is the green light on okay just push the
button hi Casey Zimber from uh Beachwood Road um I know this has been discussed before but it would be really really helpful if we could potentially get some kind of Zoom meeting for parents who are finding it really difficult to make it
at this 7:30 time um I had to rally pretty hard uh today to get here and I just think it would be um an even playing field for all of the um families and uh town members who are interested in in coming but can't necessarily get
here um so by providing a zoom uh private zoom um meet link for the particular the meetings um with a live comment reel so being able to make live comments so having parents be able to speak before and after the meetings
public commenting um via the internet um or Zoom Google Meet whatever it is that you want to use um right now there is a bill that's going to be um hopefully passed soon that um will require
districts to do this and towns like um T-C um Fairfield and Monontlair are already doing this so if we could just kind of look into this again and um maybe see where we lay and ask our
lawyers it would just be very very helpful for extremely working hard parents like myself thanks thank you moving to old or new business anybody have any old or new business old
business or new i have an old business i'd like to apologize to uh the members of the Odyssey to mind and to Oriel public school for not being
able to make the regional and the state finals i'm glad they did well uh hopefully I get better and I will not
make this statement next year we're happy to have you back thank you and you can do Odyssey next year any other older new business mrs walker um and and to agree with Dorothy
and the whole board welcome back John we missed you um I just wanted to say um and piggyback on what Miss Bosio said about the um Wizards game last Thursday night it was a wonderful event everybody
was smiling uh the PTA is just a treasure to work with they really helped the Rotary to sell the tickets and it was a great team effort so and having all of those team members from the staff and in fact I even said that to Miss
Bosio that night i said "It's so nice to have all of the staff there not all but what did you say 18 of them there and participating laughing and having a good time so it was uh worth every penny and
those that um came I'm sure agreed so hopefully in two years it can be done again any other older new business Mr nutland just very quickly um you know congratulations to the Odyssey of Mind
working in a school that there's a vast difference between a fourth grader and a sixth grader and to think that our fourth graders with a sixth grader are competing so well um against their you know middle school counterparts is uh pretty remarkable so kudos to them and and go get them
mr darren do you have any Okay any other older new business mr del the website you gonna go live I guess during the spring break is a lot of the content because I've noticed on the version that we have now I guess some of
the content is like old or static are you going to be reviewing all the content one more time just to make sure everything's kind of current that's exactly what we're doing right now we've been in this really horrible limbo spot because when they archived everything over that was all the way back in
January so for example say policies like policies for first reading i had to put them on the old website and the new website and right now we're making sure that that's happened and checking every link and truthfully it's that and and that trial and error thing so there was something on the on the front page that
then turned out they couldn't put a folder there so then taking all of that down and putting it in another spot so we will go live next week and I also have a marketing call with them next week to talk about how to um help parents know about the app portion of it
and the benefits of the app the app is great there's one thing I'm not sure I I went through the website real quick and everything what I find really valuable on the current website is the ability to take the Google Google calendar and export it so we'll still be able to do that as well right perfect that's like a
lifesaver thank you Mr darion uh yeah so um you know tonight there was a comment about um you know virtual participation through Zoom
or other means to board meetings i'm just curious how many other districts uh are are doing that currently i I know that we've looked at this many times in the past we've had you know numbers uh
you know in the past but um yeah I'd be curious to see what they are currently um just as a comment you know we were one of the first districts to use Zoom um you know we had the audience
participation up on the screen uh brought their audio broadcasted over the loudspeakers um you know I used to run the the laptop here on the desk you know it's kind of you know it's distracting it takes
away some of your participation throughout the agenda when you're worried about you know making sure the participants are muted or showing and displaying correctly um but you know it was nice to have you know additional
visibility um but I think you know as far as I know like mayor and council meetings and and our meeting is is broadcasted live and and uh you can also you know watch it whenever you want on YouTube and um so there is visibility
it's just you know to participate is um is not so easy when you can't make the meeting um so if we can find out just how many I would just be curious to see kind of in the ballpark you know how many other schools are doing it um and then the other aspect is you know the
sunshine law right so you know the sunshine law basically is the the sun you know disinfects right through transparency um and and one of the issues you have when people are participating behind a laptop screen is you know they there's a
lot of things that could be going on behind them that you don't see um and there's a lot of things also that you can't control and that gets brought into the meeting and we have no authority over it whereas if someone was here you know it's very easy to control the the
what's going on in the public setting so you know there's those complications and if and if Trenton decides to pass this law you know to mandate that we all must do this then um I would you know getting back to the number you know what would
be the impact of that i'd like to know bergen County presidents um have a email um group and it was one of the questions that was just asked probably a few weeks ago we don't have the results yet we're waiting for them hopefully they're going to give them to us the majority I will
tell you do not allow any public comment very few it I was surprised to find out how many districts actually do not um You mean Zoom record or um stream Thank you stream their meetings live so if I
get those results I will review them but I was surprised to see that any other older new business miss Miss Maran Miss Bosios you said you were going to follow up with an email to parents on the report because I I saw one that River Edge did and I think it's really great
to share our wins and also talk about places where we could grow um there's a state template but I will reach out to Dr bernice and see what he sent out to Riveridge any other old or new business we do need to go into a close
session for student and personnel issues so someone would like to make a motion i'll make a motion that we go into close session second by Mr dariion roll call on the roll mr delg Greco yes mr darian
yes mrs downey yes mrs moran yes mr nutler yes Mrs walker yes Mr walsh yes Mrs norian yes Mrs nichols yes we will not be taking any action coming out to take any action thank you for coming to
our meeting