call this meeting to order. Mr. Delg Greco, would you lead us in a flag salute? 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 Ordinal. Notice of this meeting was filed with the record and all persons requesting such notice. Mr. Darian, would you read
the mission statement? >> The Ordale Public School District is dedicated to the ongoing pursuit of educational excellence through comprehensive innovative curriculum and design. 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, resilient, productive, responsible citizens. >> Thank you. Roll call. >> On the role, Mr. Delg Grea, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Downey, >> here. >> Mrs. Gi, >> here. >> Mrs. Moran, >> here. >> Mrs. Norian, >> here. >> Mr. Nutell and Mrs. Walker will not be joining us. Mr. Dariion here. >> Mrs. Nichols >> here. Open to the public for agenda
items only. >> We'll move to the superintendent's report. On one hand, it feels like the school year just ended. However, we're days away from being at the halfway point of the summer. I hope our teaching staff isn't watching today because that's always when you realize that summer is
almost over. Our summer explorations and ESY programs have con concluded this week. The summer wreck program and all the worlds the stage will conclude their programs in the building and then we have five weeks to get ready for the start of the 26 27 school year. By the end of the week, we will have finished
cleaning the second floor and be ready to move downstairs to tackle the first floor. In addition to cleaning, Miss Cummings has been meeting with staff regarding curricular revisions and staff been on site to conduct kindergarten screenings. This year, we are also assessing all new students to the
districts who are entering grades four through six and may also include grade two and three in that as we are getting great data on some students moving in. So, we know that we can ensure that we have a grasp on their academic strengths and areas to grow as they begin their
time at OPS. The administrative team has been working on writing and submitting ESSA grants, which you will see the financial amounts on tonight's agenda. Much of that money will continue to fund before and after school academic boost programs, family child parent nights, which we will be changing up this year,
and professional development, especially in the area of science. As you know, we will have new science standards to implement this fall. The administrative team is also working on planning professional days and activities throughout the year that will help the school and district meet the goals the board set earlier this month.
We recently received our final link report for the 2526 school year and that data in conjunction with other benchmark data will inform faculty meetings and professional development day topics. One piece of information that we do not yet have is the initial NJSLA adaptive
reports. Typically we receive the school receives a report in June of student data which is very raw data and then families receive that report in September. While we have received no communication about an expected arrival of scores from the state, numerous news
articles are recently saying that we can expect NJSLA reports in December. So we won't be using them a lot to inform instruction in the fall. Um that's incredibly late. The state is saying that because this is an adaptive test,
they need more time to do the first round of evaluation and then they're promising that moving forward we will get them in June, but December's a little bit late. This summer is an also an important time for the submission of state reports. One of
those reports is on today's agenda that is the school safety data submission report which is submitted twice a year. It identifies how many HIV investigations, suspensions, restraints, HIV trainings, and culture and climate programs the school has completed during a school year.
Finally, if you follow us on social media or walk through the main entrance, you will see that we have also launched summer learning activities which include highly recommended reading and math activities to complete this summer. The next five weeks, you will continue to see our social media and through parent communication at the school level, a reminder about how important summer
reading and reading in general is to a student's academic success. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you, Mr. Pelli. >> Yes, thank you. I've been working on, as Miss Bosie said, the ESA
and the IDA grants, doing the budget components, um, and making sure that all of our purchase orders or open purchase orders are identified as an a payable or an or incumbrance. uh because auditors look to see if we're
encumbering uh items that are not going to be used in the one school year and they look to see well maybe that shouldn't be in that year. So just identifying and encumbering the money that's
appropriate. Um, and that's just going through all the purchase orders that are open and closing out anything that's left from 2526. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you. Move to minutes.
Review June 24th and July 8th. Any questions or comments, please email Mr. Ielli. We have approval of June 10th. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Mrs. Norian. >> Second. Second by Mr. Dariion. Any questions?
>> Call the question. >> On the role. Mr. Delg Greco. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Downey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Geni? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Moran? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Norian? >> Yes. >> Mr. Darian? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nichols? >> Yes. Committee reports. Administrative.
Mr. Dariion. >> Yes. We have four items uh for approval tonight. I'd like to introduce A1 through A4. Um A3, we have revised uh wording for A3. So I'd like to substitute that. Should I refer to as A3
or A3 like one or A3? >> A3. We're replacing A3. >> Just A3 with the new A3 which was walked on tonight. Um so that's all I have to say.
>> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mrs. Genshi. Any questions? >> I have a question >> for A1. If I wanted to break out separately, >> you can break it out.
>> I can. So I can say yes and then no, too. Okay. Thank you. >> I have a comment, >> Mr. Darien. >> Yeah, for A3, this is the the November ballot. Uh, you know, we spent quite a bit of time going over the uh the verbiage on this just to make sure that
we were transparent in our intentions and that it was clear and um easy to understand without getting too wordy because some of those ballot questions you can read two or three times and still not know which way to vote. [laughter]
So, uh I think we did a pretty decent job. Um I just want to, you know, make a comment about why we're doing this. Um you know from the finance perspective um you know this amount is equivalent to an extra teacher
um which would have a big impact on any grade level you know by reducing completely reducing class sizes because I think our largest uh grade level we have five sections. So if you went from five to four that would have a significant impact on classroom size. If you had four you went to three etc. Um,
and also to put things in perspective, uh, I was, uh, just looking through our bill list. These are, uh, things that we pay annually, our subscription costs, and we were reviewing the changes year-over-year. And, you know, I just wanted to put this 73K into perspective.
So, you know, as a school, you know, we we we have to spend money in order to properly operate, you know, and we spend close to 9,000 for hosting our website. We spent 25,000 for linkit to see how our students are doing and give us
direction to our instruction. Uh our real time system is 18K. Our onseen shared 911 emergency response is 9K. Our CSI which is our HR payroll and accounting system is another 10K. If you
add all that up, it doesn't even equal um this uh salary for the uh special officer. So, you know, it's something that we take seriously. You know, we don't have a huge budget. You know, we don't have a big district with uh 10
schools and we are an elementary school. So, um I'm just uh speaking for myself here. Uh so, um making this decision is difficult. So, we decided that we were going to to share it with the community and and that's where we are tonight.
>> Any other questions or comments? Call a question. >> On the role, Mr. Delg Greco, >> I'm going to affirm for A1, one, and three and say no to two.
>> Mrs. Downey, >> wait. >> Everything else? Yes. >> And then A2 >> A2 A3. Yes. >> A3 A4. >> And A4. Thank you, >> Mrs. Downey. >> Mike,
>> I'm going to abstain from two under A1 and then everything else is a yes, >> Mrs. Geni. >> Um, yes, >> Mrs. Moran. Um, I'm also abstaining from
two under A1 and everything else is a yes. >> Mrs. Norian, >> yes. >> Mr. Darian, >> yes. >> Mrs. Nichols, >> yes. >> Billings and Grounds, Mr. Delg Greco.
>> Thank you. First and foremost, just want to make a comment. Um, thank you to our custodians and to the DPW for storm cleanup. Um, quite the storm um that we had. Glad to see that the building is okay. Um, other than that, I'm like to
present B1 uh school use uh use of school facilities. >> I'll second by Mrs. Genshi. Any questions? Call a question >> on the roll. Mr. Delg Greco. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Downey. >> Yes.
>> Mrs. Genie? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Moran? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Norian? >> Yes. >> Mr. Darian? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nichols? >> Yes. Curriculum? Mrs. Norian. Uh, we have not had a meeting, but I was
wondering if we needed to have that meeting because we had said we would have things ready to approve for September meeting and wondering if you wanted to set that up. >> Okay. [snorts] >> What do we need to approve before
September? >> Can do it at the first September meeting. We do need to approve um the revised science curriculum. Um, and we do typically, even though by law we don't have to reapprove curriculum that has less than like 10% of change, we do usually reapprove all our curriculum. So
since we are making some tweaks to math and language arts after using the curriculum this year, we'll put them on for reapproval as well. >> So when do you want to meet? >> So So should we should meet then prior to that first meeting >> like in August? >> Yeah, >> correct.
>> Okay. finance. Mr. Mr. Dariion. >> Uh, yes. Uh, tonight I'd like to introduce D1 through D10. >> I'll second. >> Second by Miss Moran. We have any questions? >> I have a question.
>> Mr. Darian. >> Yes. Mr. Iell on D2. Can you This was um a recent edition. I didn't have a chance to review what is um I don't recall the summer savings dispersement. >> Yes. In the last contract that was negotiated, there was opportunity for
teachers to set aside a portion of their paycheck >> to go into a summer savings. So that money's >> they were dispersed. So we just wanted to >> Oh yeah. Yeah. That's good. So that we could uh pay them throughout the summer, >> right? So it's a one time. They get paid
once. This was it. And this uh zeros out the account. >> Yeah. >> I have a question that on an email that went to finance the changes in the contracts. Um link it went up 12%. Um
what modules are we using on kindergarten and first grade since it's supposed I thought it was mainly to predict um state testing scores. >> It is still being used as a data locker for those grades. So all the assessments like dibbles still goes into linkit and when we progress monitor because we have
a student that we may be wanting to really track the progress where they're making we use the intervention manager in link it and that is what they kind of caught on. We were using more than just grades three through six. >> What's the K3 literacy extract which seems to be new this year.
>> Okay. So, the state of New Jersey has mandated that twice a year all districts that have um K3 students um provide exports of an approved literacy screener. So, for us that's Dibbles and it needs to be uploaded to the New
Jersey home room. So, we're going to try linkits platform. If it doesn't significantly make it easier, we will resort to manually doing that upload instead. And then the other ones went up minor amounts, but the one went up 25%.
It's it's a minor amount, but like data processing support went from 2,002500 >> because we increased those numbers in the intervention. So, they're going to increase their processing fee because now we're dealing with more students. >> And you said you saw in the bills list. I don't know if I signed a check
tonight. Was it different bills? That's why I'm bringing it up. Like, did I sign a check that I just didn't see for all these? If they were on the original builds list that was sent and you signed a check for >> I signed it tonight. Who would this check go to? Link it. >> If it's we're talking about link it.
That's for link it then. >> That's link check. >> Okay. I don't remember signing it. That's why. Okay. I just want to make sure it was in there. Okay. Any other questions? >> I have a question. >> Yes. >> Link and all those are those annual contracts. >> Yeah. So that means linkit knowing the financial constraints of schools chose
to bang everybody over the head 12% across the board or is that because of the modules that we use? >> Linkit by nature has continued to grow and grow the different modules. We actually will be also using two other modules. However, we will be using title one funds for it. Um we're really at the
point where we have to decide this module is worth the cost, this module is not because they just launched like six more modules. But yes, um and just to be clear, while they are all annual aptagy, um we are in a three-year contract so
that we could freeze the >> Okay, >> each >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Call a question >> on the role. Mr. Delgrea, >> yes. >> Mrs. Downey, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Gi, >> yes. >> Mrs. Moran, >> yes. Mrs. Norian. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dariion. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nichols. >> Yes. Uh, delegate report. Mrs. Norian,
>> there's no report. Uh, the the next delegate assembly is not until November. >> Uh, Mrs. Noran, you want to take personnel? >> Sure. Um, under personnel, I'd like to present item F1.
I'll second. >> Second by Mrs. Gi. Any questions? >> Call a question >> on the role. Mr. Del Greco. >> Yes. Mrs. Downey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Genchi, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Moran, >> yes. >> Mrs. Norian, >> yes. >> Mr. Dariion, >> yes. >> Mrs. Nichols, >> yes. Policy, Mr. Nutland is not here. Um, we need a meeting because we have
the cell phone policy. We have to get in before the start of the school year, right? I mean, if we don't have the policy, it's still the law, right? >> Correct. And it's still going to go into the student handbook as because the policy is the overall gist, but it talks about administration setting up
protocols. >> When are we going to start sending things out to the parents about this? When the administrative team, numerous members are on vacation this week, our meeting next week, we are going to work on that because one of the pieces that at the school level or the district
level, you can make decisions about is something like um it's bell-to-bell, right? What about outside on the basketball court before school? What about if we are taking a field trip to the Museum of Natural History? So, there are some leeway that you are given
>> before school is before the bill. Correct. You as a district can actually. So, for example, if you were a high school, you can make decisions about if you came back for an extracurricular basketball game. I'm not saying that we necessarily would say, you know, but you could there are
some ways that you can add your own decision-making power on it. >> So, to that point, Sharp, they're overnight. So, okay. We don't take phones to sharp, so that's not um one that I'm concerned about. Um I
personally feel that if a field trip is x amount away, like the Museum of Natural History, I did say last year that students could take their phones. They needed to be in their pockets. If an administrator or a teacher saw them, they were confiscated. But you're far
away and it is a little bit more of a freer field trip in terms of how students navigate through And we got um I know some other ones from school boards and I saw another one. Peter, do you know anything about this um how you can advertise? I saw some one district was taking out like if
you wanted to have a last minute meeting, you can just advertise on your website, not go through the paper. I didn't see that come through the school. I didn't see that come through school boards though, but there are some districts that are updating that. So, we should probably look into that too and make it easier. >> Yes, we should look into that. Makes it easier.
>> Okay. We definitely need a policy meeting though in August. Anything else from policy before? Yeah, that's not till the end on the 19th, I think. >> Yeah. Um, public relations.
We should definitely meet with this too. >> No update. Yeah, we need to get a meeting. >> We should meet in August. >> Special education. you want to meet before school starts or >> Yeah, if you like all the chairs just um
email uh superintendent, put me on it if you decide you want one so we can just start the um at this time. We're open to the public. Come on, there's something you could tell us. Any old or new business?
We had a good parade for those of us who are there. We had a good time. >> Good job driving the truck. You didn't run any of us over. >> No, I almost did though. >> And um I did get great >> made us a little deaf. >> I I just I just one shout out to Costco.
Costco uh had candy, you know, in bulk. I don't know why I didn't notice this earlier in previous years. I always went to Walmart, but the Costco candy is fabulous. I had a bunch left over and I've been eating it like crazy and it's, you know, really good. Twizzlers and uh
um Starburst and Skittles and I mean it was really good. Anyway, I know this is irrelevant, but it's old business. >> The truck looked good though. >> Yes, they uh looked good. The school did a good job of uh cleaning it and uh I took the liberty to spray paint some
rusted areas and uh it did look very good. Not not the body, just I'm talking about the the hitch, you know, undercarriage. >> Any other old or new business? >> Any need for a close session?
>> All right, I move to adjourn. Second. >> Second by Mr. Darian. All in favor? >> I