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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: KkipelMMpaA):
- 00:00:08: Meeting Call to Order and Procedural Announcements
- 00:01:35: Attendance Roll Call and Student Committee Reports
- 00:03:47: Board and Superintendent Evaluation Process Presentation
- 00:19:25: Questions and Clarifications on Evaluation Documentation
- 00:23:32: Board Self-Evaluation Process Presentation: Goals and Standards
- 00:37:26: Further Questions on Goals, Evaluation, and Resources
- 00:41:26: Correspondence, Unfinished Business and Personnel Committee Report
- 00:42:19: Delegate Assembly Summary Discussion: Rank Choice Voting
- 00:54:05: Delegate Assembly Continued: NJSBA Support Discussion
- 01:00:34: Leadership Meeting Summary: Policies, Training, and Concerns
- 01:05:46: County Meeting Discussion: Unsung Heroes and Certifications
- 01:11:16: Transportation Committee Report and Other Liaisons
- 01:14:59: Superintendent's Bulletin, Secretarial Report, and New Business
- 01:17:45: Hearing of the Public: Jack Rya - Taxes and Budgets
- 01:22:34: Hearing of the Public: Richard Suarez - Town Finances
- 01:24:35: Approval of Superintendent's Bulletin and Meeting Adjournment


Part: 1

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May I call the meeting of the Pipony Troy Hills Board of Education to order on May 7th, 2026 in compliance with chapter 231 public law 1975 entitled Open Public Meetings Act, adequate notice of this meeting has been provided as specified in the act in

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the following manner. The meeting notice was published in the newspaper and on the district website on January 7th, 2026. In addition, the notice of the meeting was posted at the municipal building in the schools and a copy of the notice filed with the township clerk

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and transmitted to other newspapers on May 1st, 2026. The daily record, the star ledger precipany focus tapony patch and the district website. This regular public board meeting is

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being video recorded as per FAW 168. The recordings of these meetings will be available on our district website and our video on the go YouTube channel. We ask that you please refrain from using student or staff names in your statement. Professionalism is expected at all times. Please stand for the

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pledge to the flag. I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> May we have the attendance roll call,

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please? >> Mrs. Abraham, >> here. >> Mr. Barios, >> here. >> Mrs. Delave >> here. >> Mr. Dvito, >> here. >> Mrs. Mayor, >> here. >> Mr. Shaw here, Dr. Wright >> here, >> Mrs. Chappelle >> here, >> and Mrs. Kogan

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>> here. Student committee reports. Mr. Pal, would you like to go? >> This past week, we have been concluding this school year with elections and we have been coordinating our end of the year six flags trip. We also posted our

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teacher appreciation video on the school Instagram where teachers each where students each got to say something they were great appreciate about their teachers. The cards we made were also handed out to the staff. As for athletics, the girls lacrosse game to

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had a sorry, the lacrosse team had a game against Clifton High School at 400 p.m. and the bo boys baseball team had a win against Butler High School on May 5th. >> Here are the latest happenings at PHS. April 30th was Red Hawk way. Um, art

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murals were held for driver's ed. There were club art murals and uh we had the pep rally. The pep rally had a blood cancer penny war and we had our rock paper scissors tournament final. Uh, we

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also had SOA senior. The Spanish team, sorry, the Spanish club is hosting a movie night on May 13th. And the, uh, girls varsity golf team is having a game today against Park Regional. And

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the softball uh, girls vars uh, varsity team is having a match against Hacketttown High School. Uh the girls lacrosse team is having a game against Morris Hills High School. >> Thank you. Do we have any questions for

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our students? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. We have a presentation tonight. Mr. Paul Paniro will talk to us about the um evaluation process for the board and the superintendent.

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Thank you, Jonah. Good evening, everybody. Nice to see you again. So, yeah, we're going to talk for uh a little bit about evaluation. So, it's the board self-evaluation and the superintendent evaluation. Uh school boards has tools, online platforms for

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both of these. So, some of you have, if not uh the majority of you done either one or both of these in the past, but it's always good to get a refresh. It's also like a little pep rally before you get into it. So, we'll go through that and uh I'll do it efficiently and uh shouldn't take us too long. I know you

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have other things on your agenda. Um and so, let's get right into it. So, we'll start with the uh superintendent evaluation. So, that's the CSA um chief school administrator, superintendent. I might use them interchangeably. Um, so just as a reminder, I mentioned this

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when I was in last time about boards members who might be uh in uh considered conflicted and that just means they're if uh family that works in the district, you've probably already understand all of that and if somebody, you know, you check with your board attorney if you have any questions about that, but just

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for the record, they wouldn't participate in this process. Okay. Uh it's called um it's based on laws that use language like accountability um and and certainly by you know definition it is but I also like to look at it it's a great

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opportunity for collaboration. So the superintendent uh puts in her goals and then talks and reflects about how they went. So we'll talk more about that in just a few minutes. Uh and then the board has a chance to sit talk with the superintendent about it talk about goals going forward. Um so I I see it as a

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very great opportunity for um not just oversight but collaboration. Uh so yeah that's the legal guidelines I mentioned. So there's a law established that requires that uh super that boards evaluate the performance of the superintendent once a year. Has to be

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done by July 1. Uh evaluation has to be in writing. There's a meeting to discuss the findings and based on it's based on two things. District goals and then the standards for leadership for superintendent. Okay. Another aspect of that, so another piece of law there factors into the uh

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QAC quality single accountability continuum. That's the New Jersey monitoring system. So there's a piece of that that relates to uh the legal guidelines. And within that, it calls for the evaluation to include areas of strength, areas that might need improvement, um recommendations for

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professional growth, indicators of student progress and growth. uh and then that all culminates in a summary conference between all the board members and who are not conflicted of course and the superintendent. Okay. So in our tool um is the process

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required? So our tool is not required but the evaluation is so uh it's an optional service offered to the board um to boards by the New Jersey school boards association as part of dues. So there's no associated fee with it. uh provides a standardized methodology to meet the requirements uh the statute

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statutory requirements allows full participation by all conflicted board members non-conlicted board members and it's developed in collaboration with NJASA uh the association for school administrators and what that means is just that so it's not school boards determining uh you know what what

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superintendent should be evaluated on and what's important it's in collaboration with superintendent association itself okay so to make the process seamless. You're already set up with this, so I don't have to spend too much time. Your BA already has your board president designated for the parts that um the

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roles that she plays in all this. All the board members are in there. I checked today. You all have the proper emails for that. Um so you'll just inform me as your field service rep. Um if there are conflicted, we have to keep saying that. Sorry about that. So you would inform me if there were conflicted folks. Uh and uh then of course the

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board develops the evaluation calendar. uh all when we go through this the calendar is implied within this if you haven't put it in writing it just means that now is a good time to start and keep moving forward in both of these processes actually uh okay so yeah there's there's help there if needed on

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our website for how to update the census but as I said that's not an issue for you all um because it's already done um so that's sort of a staircase showing uh the evaluation process in a sense it's like a calendar as well Um, I think I

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have it memorized enough to just say that you're right around the point where, uh, if there were pre-conference to be had, uh, sometimes it's very informal. It's just the board president and the superintendent say, "Hey, let's get the process started." It can be more formal than that than that. Um, and then

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so it starts with the superintendent in uh, putting the goals in, so finishing her part first. uh and then that triggers a notice to the board members that it's time for them to be able to go in and uh do their part of the evaluation and it goes up the chain. There's an executive uh session where

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the board gets together uh without the superintendent to discuss what was compiled in doing that part of the process. So of course you write the uh you provide a rice letter for the superintendent for that and then you come back around eventually to where the final uh conference takes place. It's

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the summative evaluation. Uh and of course superintendent is in attendance for that and that closes out the cycle until we start up again with goals and heading forward into the following year. Um so we're going to talk about the goals first. The goals part of this. Um

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so like I said it's in two pieces. So uh according to the law the valuation shall be based on the goals and objectives. Usually there's three to five goals uh that a district might have. And then uh yeah, it's an annual collaborative process. So that goes on throughout the

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year. It might be reflective now. There might be evaluation going on now, but it's really an ongoing process as far as the board interacting with the superintendent on how the district is doing with its goals. Um yeah. Okay. And it looks like this. So if you have the

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um document in front of you, you know, the slides, that's fine. Um so what happens is the the the superintendent populates a screen like this. So it says goal one, the goal is listed in there and then um comments from the superintendent along with evidence and

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then uh after that the board once they're inside uh the platform they get to then uh comment on that and also provide a rating for it. Uh so this is like a sample of a compilation for a goal. So let's say a superintendent's goal or district goal

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was improve safety and security of students and staff. So there's a a sample up on uh on the screen about what a superintendent's comment might look like. Uh something like the CSA reports out monthly etc on safety improvements

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uh you know meeting whatever safety goals there might be and then below that you'll see uh there's some comments that's actually maybe we should bullet point them but there there's multiple board member comments there. So what would happen in that document that you saw is you would see the multiple comments from board members compiled

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into it after seeing the superintendent's initial comment uh on that particular goal and then there's an opportunity for rating. The rating is either achieved satisfactory progress made or little or no progress. Okay. And then there's the standards. So that's it. So if you had like three goals the

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goal one same process two three and then there's the standards. So these standards were developed by uh the inter uh interstate school leaders lenture consortium uh looks like about 11 years 10 years ago or so. Um and it reflects the qualities and values of leadership

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uh that moved that are integral for student success and boards uh identifying areas of strength and where focus is needed. So that plays into the next portion of this that's the standards. So there are these standards. There are one, two, three, four, five, six. I won't read them because I can't

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see them and I no actually I I kind of have them memorized but so you have mission vision governance operations uh curriculum uh community of care professional capacity. So those are the standards and you would that looks really scary but it's not. Okay. So just

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take a breath. So that's what the screen looks like when you come up for standard one. And uh the top portion again is superintendent fills it out. Um there's uh an opportunity for the superintendent to provide evidence. Oftentimes that's a link to a larger document or even a

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folder. Uh and there also there's also some uh reflection on the standard itself. Uh below that is where the board members have an opportunity to do the rating and then at the very bottom uh add a comment. And again that's for the say standard one. So there's six

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standards that would be standard one. Uh and then that process happens guess how many times? Six. Okay. And um so there's a sample of a compilation for a standard. So again, this is like one standard. So this one happens to have seven indicators. So each board member, there's seven board

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members on this hypothetical board. And each board member uh will then do a rating uh from exemplary, you know, to not achieved or or not, you know, doesn't count. So those scores go in there. You divide seven by well there's

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seven board members too but there's seven indicators. So you do the math and you come up with you know a rating of one for exemplary on that particular standard and then the next number for proficient I think it's five and so on. So that's how that part works the compilation and again that's that you'll

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see that six times. Uh and then so that all has to come together in an annual performance report. So the compilation of non-conlicted board members um determining the majority rating. So we'll talk a little bit about what that means in a second. Uh the annual performance report uh includes the

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majority ratings and comments. And then the summary conference is where if there were uh so let's say the majority of the board after it meets in its first executive session um has come to some consensus on h what the compilation suggests about the performance of the

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superintendent. there might be uh a board member or two that feels strongly in a different direction than the rest of the board did in a certain area. So, while it would get complicated to put that into the majority report, there's an opportunity um for that board member

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or whomever to uh speak to that, you know, in the in the meeting with the superintendent. So, it wouldn't be included in the report because it's not reflecting the majority of the board. Um but it is an opportunity for someone to then have that conversation in that meeting if if that were necessary. Um so

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here's that wrapping up, you know, the annual performance report process. This is how that wraps up. So in the first executive session, um the this is actually kind of redundant. So there's the conversation without the superintendent. Then there's the conversation with the superintendent. In each of those executive sessions, you'd

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want to make sure the superintendent received their right letter. and the rest I think I already covered there. Um so we have a template and I encourage you to use it. It makes life a little simpler. In fact um to put this whole thing together. It's also a good tool to

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use during uh that first session without the superintendent when you're trying to come up with uh you know majority. You would use the template to discuss each standard and each goal and it can walk you through it. It's a very straightforward basic template. Um but it helps to keep it basic and

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straightforward as far as your process is concerned and that's an example one you know you would check the rating so that's standard one the first one the last one was goals so this is the standards so um big check there for proficient and uh

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there'd be an opportunity for comments there as well yeah that's just part of that same report. So the the box just reminds us that there is opportunities for um for supporting remarks. I should note that Joanie was kind enough to put this right in front of me.

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So if I can't see, I should just the best. Um right. Okay. So um this is sort of a summary of of that annual summary conference. The rice notice share evaluation prior to the conference. So yeah, the superintendent gets to see it,

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right? It would be nice before they come into that second executive session to discuss it. Um, and we've talked about all that. Then the minutes of the executive session reflect the annual summary summary conference was h held. And of course, of course, it has to happen before July 1.

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It says by July one, but uh I figured I'd just be literal on that one because it's important. Uh so the next steps um we compile the individual responses meaning I do. So what'll happen is uh I'll be alerted to the fact that um the

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board has finished. So board members receive an automated automatic notice that says that the superintendent has finished and that usually comes about 48 hours after the superintendent has finished to give them a chance to maybe go back in before you start. So then um the

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board members can go in, you do your your your you do your thing and then when that's done uh so Allison you can contact me and then I put the compilation report to you. Now you have access to that same information I do so we can both access it. I can do it on your behalf. It's something I do a lot.

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So I'm more more than happy to do it for you. Uh I just compile it and get it to you. Uh it's password protected since yeah it's about staff. Um, yep. The rice notice, the meeting up. All right. So, those, so those are

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the next steps for us here. Uh, I took a look. It looks like you the process is underway. So, I would say and I'm about to talk about the BSE, that's the board self-evaluation. I would say because you need to um you know get to because this is required

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by law and it has to be done by July one. There should be a little bit more uh focus on say the CSA evaluation at the moment uh and then maybe the BSSE just so you can keep on your timeline so that you can get it to the superintendent in time for her to review it before you get to um that final

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conference. So yeah, if you're going to put a little bit of priority on anything, I would put it on on the CSA for now. Um, and then once that's all done, who keeps a copy? School boards has a copy, but we purge them all, uh, December 31st each year. And that's just

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because it's not really for us to keep confidential records of superintendents throughout New Jersey. Um, but we do keep them because sometimes, I don't know, you reach out and say, you know, we need it for some reason. Uh, but we do purge them. We don't hold on to them for too long. And then, uh, it's

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recommended that the superintendent, of course, keeps a signed copy. uh the two board president signs it, the superintendent signs it. Uh and then the board attorney is the one who should keep the copy for the board. Okay, just some considerations. This is just a reminder. It's it's an it's not

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just an annual thing. It's an ongoing process to be discussing goals and um collaborating on on how that work is moving forward successfully. Um review performance over a full year, progress updates along the way. It's

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two-way communication, responsibility of all eligible members to fully participate. The more the marrier, of course, and the fuller the better. Um, and then there's again developing a system to retain the evidence. So, I don't know if So, that's the CSA. Did you want to wait till the end? If there

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are any questions and don't forget you can always call me. I just I'm happy to walk anyone through it. If you're new, you call me and we get on the phone and and we can walk through it that way. >> I don't necessarily have comments. I I mean questions. I just wanted to make a few comments. There was a few

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indications that it said where the board president would you know come up with the documentation and we use the critical issues committee for that. So the critical issues committee is the one um who kind of summarizes everything and comes up with the report and because we

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do have a conflicted member in the critical issues committee um you know I will be going and the vice president will be filling in to make sure that we have enough people on that committee and I know Mrs. Mayor always likes to remind us that when you're

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writing the when you're doing the evaluation, please put comments that are relevant to how you scored them. Because if you give a four, but you don't put a comment in to say what was good or, you know, what you didn't like, then it's

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very hard to come up with a majority opinion when there's no comments. So, um, do you want to expound on that? >> Yeah. Um because when um we go ahead the committee I I did a few of these with Mr. Barios at the very beginning when we

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look at to make the end of the is the end of the evaluation. We look at all the comments and then we kind of look at them all and try to blend them all to give a good um picture of what everybody was thinking. um even

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if there's something that is not favorable, we try to work we work that in. It's a very it's a very transparent document. We use everybody's thoughts. So, but if you don't have any thoughts, you know, and you write nothing, it's hard to really document what you thought

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when you put that number in. You have a question. Uh yeah, I just wanted to what is like the useful um what is the useful um kind of not necessarily word count but how substantive comments are you know like

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are we are people generally talking like one sentence three sentences a paragraph like what's the >> it's what you need to express your feeling what you think I mean if if it's about um governance or whatever you know

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superintendent demonstrated x y and at meetings. I felt very comfort. Whatever. I'm just making something up. It's not the length. It's it's attacking your thought. If you're giving them a a two or a three or two, say, well, that's

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kind of a low grade. Well, then you have to say why, you know, what was the reason for that? What can we do to help improve? Because at the end when we have to say they need to make improvements in maybe governance or that whole list you

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know we can say okay enough members said governance needed a little work and so that we can circle that one and then there's another one that says these things pick which ones the that the superintendent did the best. So then we look through the comments and say okay

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they all agreed that community relations was like very strong. We would circle that. >> Does that kind of >> Yeah. >> Usually people put one or two sentences. There's usually not books written. But >> yes, if you can't get it across in one or two sentences, put some more in

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>> because it's not the committee's decisions how it's done. It's the board's decision. We just put it all together and use your voices. So that's really it. >> Yeah. Great conversation. I I if I can steal uh when I go elsewhere, I like the

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idea of you know if if you are going to go on one end of the spectrum of the you know ratings that you know if you're on a lower end or a higher end it probably needs a little more justification. I like that. So I'll steal that. Okay. Forward. All right. So we're on to

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the board self-ealuation. So this is very similar uh with a couple of major differences. Um so uh but it is based on standards as well as goals. So we'll jump right in on this one as well. So it provides self board self-evaluation provides

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self-reflection of the board as a whole and individual board members. So there's an opportunity to talk about your board and opportunity to talk about your own participation on the board. Uh can be completed by all board members. Um there's no caveat there um as far as non-conlicted.

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So that's good. And um there's no statutory deadline. And I mentioned that before it's not even required, but it is a best practice. I don't know that I've come across board a board who doesn't do some form of self-evaluation as part of their goal setting. So even if they don't do it super formal, um when

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they're setting their goals, they typically will reflect on the goals from the prior year at least. So uh uh so it improves governance and management. It results uh the results can be used to develop future board goals. Um like I as I said most

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districts will do this and then build the goals from this. Sometimes they do it in one shot when they review the compilation and sometimes they break it into two different sessions. Uh brings individuals together as a team and set standards for board conduct and operations.

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Uh board completes it annually. So how does it get completed? It can include this um superintendent too. So um that's something some do, some don't. But um that's up to you all. but it can include the superintendent two components board goals and standards I mentioned determines priorities in six areas of

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board governance. So that's like standards uh FSR that's me compiles the results delivers the summary and reviews the findings with the board. So that one I don't participate of course in the superintendent evaluation discussion or the compilation of it. In fact I avoid

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really looking at it. It's not a role for me. But when it comes to the board self-evaluation, I do look at it and then I read through it and look if there's So you want to avoid um staff evaluation within it. You're evaluating yourselves. So when there are comments about staff, I will then catch them and

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recommend you redact them. So our typical practice is that I will go through and do that and then we recommend that uh board attorney might review what I've redacted and maybe look for more. Uh I always heer on the side of over redacting. Uh there was one

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comment that was positive and I indicated that it might need to be redacted and the board attorney was like, "No, we can do that." And there's nothing wrong with that or I should say it differently. I think the board attorney is the one who has the uh is most qualified to determine what is should be redacted and what shouldn't be. So anyway, that's just a piece of it

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that's different from the superintendent's one. So we look to to keep it about the the board as much as we can and then catch that because it to an extent there's there's a public nature to this document uh as opposed to the um the superintendent's evaluation.

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Uh so yeah, I compile it and then you can invite me to come in and then I go over with you. We walk through it all. Um and I'll show you a little bit more about what that looks like as far as the review of it is concerned. Um yeah,

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timelines reorganization. Okay. Whoa. That one fast. Okay. So, what happens is um it really gets triggered by the uh the board president starting by including goals. So, I'm assuming that you have goals already prepared from prior year and those can be inserted

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pretty easily. Um and there'll be a slide showing you how that works. So that that one there is just talking about you identify the district once you've logged in and you're the board president and then this next uh screen would pop up. So and access to this

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it comes later but it should be up front. Um you would just go to the schoolboards association uh website. So njsba.org you log in as a member and that's how you access it. And then you go to just uh CSA evaluation. That's how you access that. or you go to board evaluation.

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That's how you access that. I think there's a slide for that, but just remember that. Um, and I feel like I I should put it on the front end of this. Um, so anyway, the board superintendent and this this slide uh pops up for everybody. So, it's just a a big

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overview of um everything that I'm sharing with you tonight probably is here just for the record. And then you would click on on it to go move forward. Um it gives you another reminder of what the ratings are. These are new ratings. It used to be called it used to be

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commendable, good, adequate. Uh and now we have exemplary proficient area of growth. Uh so as board members, you'll see at the bottom of that screen, proceed to the evaluation. So there's a little bit of reminders of what goes into it. Um this is where we say the board president is the one who triggers

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it, but we know that and you've already taken care of that. So your BA has the board president listed. the board president can go in and enter the goals and that will trigger everybody else. So once the board president enters the goals, anybody can get in and do the work. So the board president doesn't

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have to feel that uh she has to like get through the whole thing before the rest of the board can start accessing it. But the goals because why the rest of the board is commenting on the goals and if the goals aren't in there, someone has to populate it. So uh it can be a designate too but I don't want to start any trouble. Doesn't have to be the

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board president. Um, okay. Uh, we mentioned a new feature there where if there are no goals on occasion, maybe for whatever reason there's no goal, there's a box that can be checked for that. Um, and you can enter up to five goals. If you ever run into any trouble with this, just call

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me. That's the quickest, easiest way. Sometimes it's just quirky and it, you know, it's not a big deal, but you you'd spend too much time guessing. So, just call me. But, um, yeah. So, there's now a button there. Some people have run into trouble with that in the past. Um,

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members view. So, this is what you see and it's like I like the superintendent evaluation. Board members will see the goals and you can click on evidence. So, if the goals that are input into this platform uh for the board goals include evidence, they would be here. And then

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your self-reflection, your reflection and self evaluation could take into account what would be considered as evidence for you know achieving or progress made etc. And yeah and if there happens to be no board goals you wouldn't see that. All right. So that's just the goals and then just like the

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superintendent evaluation there are the standards. So that's the second piece of this. So now the board me now board members you all are going to be looking at each of those standards vision mission goals capacity etc. and um you're going to evaluate yourselves on

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that. Okay, here's example. Standard one, vision, mission, goals. So, let's say the um standard, yeah, is our board is committed to a shared vision of our district's future, its mission, and goals to move our

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district forward. Uh that are focused on student achievement, guide district strategies, and reflect community values. So then there are indicators there for that standard that can be uh checked off. So ratings, exemplary, proficient, etc. Um and then there's

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room for comments and uh the comments are important as Judy had highlighted as well. But uh the team's greatest strength in that standard can be shared in that first box. And then if it says our team's greatest challenge uh area, that something can be shared there. And

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that's really where some of the good stuff takes place when you have the review of all of this. Okay. Um, and then there's the individual. So each individual board member will reflect as well. So you're reflecting as a group and you look at that and then you reflect as an individual. There are 11 indicators for

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that. There's no comment section. I got to comment to yourself and it's not uh intended to be broken down and included into the other compilation of the whole board. Um so and uh that part I believe uh yeah so like that

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then this one's important too it's the uh ending the overall reflective questions so um what do you consider to be the board's greatest strengths that's not under a standard or a goal it's just in general so I've seen a lot of boards dig into that in particular and then what areas do we need to focus on going

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forward um and just like you know I was a teacher Um you know each year you set goals for yourselves, professional development goals for yourselves and boards are always developing themselves from a professional learning standpoint. Um but you know you could focus on

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something uh one year and you know you can achieve at the level you want to let's say master it. That doesn't mean you then turn your attention to the the other thing that you want to develop and forget that. you keep that up but at the same time you can look to the next thing that you want to grow in uh as as a

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group or even as an individual. Okay. So um the individual board member evaluation report only board members can uh see their own report. That was the part I bit my tongue on before. I wanted to make sure I was right about that. So yeah only you can see your own report.

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Uh all board members can see who started and completed the evaluation. So when you go to the platform you could just see progress. I think that's meant so that you know you can shame each other into getting the job done. Um and then the compilation report so all board members results are compiled together and I can provide that to you. Yeah. And

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then we go through the process I talked about before. Um then there's a sample table in there of what the report looks like. Um and yeah, so I I actually like this table as much as I like the graphic ones with the with you know with the bar graphs, but there's there's some numbers

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over there. And uh typically we say if it's three or over, great. Uh if it's under three, you want to take a close look. So in this hypothetical, um we have an example of some of a board at 2.75 and that's under standard one for using

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relevant data to engage in continuous district improvement. Um that's actually a real challenge for any board. So that's very realistic for it to be under three there uh using data. So um that's how this works. We take a look, we see what we, you know, we congratulate you

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on things that you're you're coming up very strong with. Um, and then we can look at some areas that might develop a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then that can also be reflected in a chart. So I can include these I will include these as well in

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your report. Um, and I I guess this is relatively new. Uh so it breaks down uh this the ratings that you all gave to each of those uh standards in that case. So um here we see that the hypothetical

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district is doing pretty well at getting exemplary and proficient ratings for uh each of those standards and then there's this smattering of areas. Now, of course, it looks like the one that has 17% area for growth, that was probably the data one.

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And so, that just reinforces it with a visual. Um, we also have Oops. So, there's also um a year-toear that can be compared in my hypothetical that there's only two 2025. Um, but if if you

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have this from last year, I'll take a look. Maybe it's still sitting in there. um you would see the two two bars here and it would give you a sense of and I kind of alluded to that before. You know, if you're going up and down a little bit in an area that that's fine. It just means that you know your focus your emphasis may have shifted a little

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bit and you went point one down. That doesn't mean it's a problem. It just means that yeah extra focus in another area maybe. So you would just see those two those additional bars in this particular graph. And then uh this was the one I kept saying the screen that should have been on the front end

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because this is what people get um a little bit um forgetful about or hung up on. And that's there it makes sense. This it's it's counterintuitive because most of what you get in this in the um process is an automatic like uh email

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and then you look for a link or something. But when it comes time to do it, like when it says okay, you can access it, you look for a link, it's not there. So, what I just will say each time we review this uh is you go to the the original just New Jersey school

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boards uh so NJBSA.org and you log in and you go to to the evaluation resources and it just begin now. So, you go under BSE for that and if you're doing the CSA you go begin now for that. So, um, that's the one. Even

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some seasoned folks, they send me the email that says, "How do I get the link for that again?" And then before I even answer, they go, "Oh, forget it. I already remember." So, it's just one of those things. And it's so easy, but it's counterintuitive to think that it works that way. Okay. Uh, wrapping it up. So,

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um, yeah, I I mentioned this earlier. You're evaluating only the board, your team's performance, and efficacy, not the district, and not the staff. Um, yeah, I mean, that that goes without saying. here. That's there's good reasons for that in a couple different ways. Um,

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yeah. All right. So, it's a great both of these tools are great to uh, you know, get conversation started to, well, it all starts with the reflection. Then it gets to the conversation and then it gets to well, what do we do about it? So, it's a great process and and I like

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that this standardizes it. Um, I hope you do, too. And so, uh, again, if you have questions anywhere along the way, we're all, this is, it's the season for this. So, all the FSRs are, you know, at at our computers. We're out on the road. We're doing our jobs. We're getting our emails. We're like, "Yes, just this,

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just that." No, this is the time for that. So, don't hesitate to reach out if you need some help. Uh, but in the meantime, are there any questions tonight before I say thank you? Yes, Judy. >> Yeah, I don't have a question, but I want to call attention to page 16, the superintendence evaluation. I just

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wanted to share how um we get the numbers at the bottom. So we look at the um like exemplary we look at how many people marked exemplary we add it all up and then we divide it by seven. So you see in on the bottom it shows one

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exemplary for proficient again we add it all up we divide it by seven and it you kind of have to see where you're going to put it if it's between or whatever. And then when we go back and we look, we say, "Okay, in this one, you know, one person with five were proficient." So

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that was the majority. It's just another way to show you how if you're not there doing it to show you how the committee does it. >> Yeah. Can you just confirm like the process from here

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because we don't usually have we never had you know your position come back in and discuss any of this with us and I think you're going to be with us for the goal session two right so can you just walk us through how that

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>> is theoretically going to work this year >> right right so um what'll happen is the compilation will go to you uh we'll talk about the redactions and it'll be fine. Then we set the time I we think we've already have it in the book. I'm pretty sure we do. So in my book, I mean the

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calendar and your meetings. So yeah, we have a few things set up. So the the information this can be leveraged really well to have a broader conversation about goal setting. So it it's not as you know, in some cases if you were doing it um as a quick review, I'd go

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through those ta tables with you and we would say okay those are areas to work on. think about it and we'll, you know, you will schedule me to come in and do a couple of those things. Uh, but if you're setting your goals, I think that's a larger endeavor and we would talk about that a little further. You might bring more data into it than just this report. Uh, it would be more like a

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retreat. Uh, I don't know if that >> So, are we doing two? Are you coming to review this with us and then coming back to do the goals or is this >> that was up to you? >> Okay. >> Never did that. >> No, that's what I'm saying to have done. we have scheduled for the summer for

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this work work. >> So I I think I'm I'm reading what you're saying, Allison. So um the timesensitive piece would be for everybody. The school superintendent evaluation. We I would think if we get together um and and talk

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about goals before September, you're all set for the school year. So there's not as much pressure on that. And uh you know, it's been great working with Joanie. So Joany's working closely with you both. So, um, we can just talk through just what your expectation is for that retreat to do the goal setting.

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>> Okay. >> Um, so I don't have to do it twice. >> Okay. >> If we're going to do goal setting together, we shouldn't do the other one. >> We shouldn't do the quick review if we're going to do the goal setting. >> Understood. Thank you. >> Anybody else have any questions?

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>> Thank you very much. All right. >> I think feel a little obtuse, but so the in the goal setting that would count as a retreat under like our progress towards being a certified board. >> Yeah. So if it's a two-hour retreat, you

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get two credit hours. Yeah. Or an hour and a half, whatever. >> I don't want to frighten you off. >> Okay. >> We're going on a cruise. Okay, thank you so much. Great seeing you again. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> All right, we're up to correspondence. Is there any correspondence that come before the board? >> No correspondence. >> Uh unfinish unfinished business. Is there any unfinished business? All right. So, now we're up to committee reports. Mrs. Mayor, personnel.

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>> Okay. Human resources met on May 4th. Presum Human Resources met on May 4th. Present were myself, Mrs. Chappelle, Dr. Wright, Mrs. Kogan, Mr. Ricker, Dr. Chase, and Mrs. Benos comment at the committee reviewed and discussed confidential and

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personnel items. And that's the reports for that. >> Any questions? Do you want to give your leazison? >> I do. I have a couple of other things. Um, I'll first start with the uh New Jersey uh delegates assembly summary. You all

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receive that uh via email and time to review before this meeting. Um, and Mrs. Kogan and I will be going on the 16th down to the meeting and we're supposed to have vote on these things and our

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we're charged with voting how our board wants us to vote. So it like number one you all said no vote no we all we would vote no I mean you have to have a reason but you know so if anybody would like to

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email us or I don't know if we want to go through the whole thing I think that would just take a long time does anybody feel like they can vote on these things all of >> Nobody else votes on just you >> you're the only one who votes but if anybody feels

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>> so if if everybody said Yes, I would vote yes for number one. If everybody said no, then I would vote no. So, I really need feedback to how to vote because it's not my vote, it's our vote. So, that's pretty important. So, I don't

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know if we want to do a straw vote, how many say yes to each, how many say no. What would you suggest? >> Well, these are these are to make changes to the school board, >> right? um advocacy agenda basically, right?

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>> And their bylaws. Um so unless you feel strongly that something in here would hinder our board in some way, um that I think you should bring, you know, we should bring up to Mrs. Mayor. So if there's anything on here that somebody

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feels strongly would hinder our board, I think we should bring it up now and see if the rest of the board agrees. If you feel strongly that it should be a no, right? >> Okay. So that's that is a bit vague. So

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it feel I mean I understand the qu the the statement you you kind of vague on what you were saying. >> Clarify. >> Well, you got the six resolutions, right? So if you think that I'll just take one. Um, number six is about county

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vote school districts and sharing financial responsibility. So, if you think the school boards advocating for that would harm us, then that's what you want to say, Mrs. You know, I think we should vote no on that one because we

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don't want votech to share cost with us. I think that is not true. So, I think we're going to we would like to say yes on that one, but that's what I'm saying. So you would go through and say does any would any of these proposed resolutions be a detriment to our board

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and if you think that then you say okay I think as mayor you should vote no because I think that would be a detriment to our board. So is that better? Does that clarify our role here >> somewhat? Thank you. >> Okay. >> Yeah. We don't have to when we vote we

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just punch in yes or no. We don't have to give a reason unless we feel very strongly. It's just automatic. Everybody votes. Okay. Sorry. >> Question. >> Thanks. Um, I just wanted to know, are

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we discussing it now or do we send her an email or >> I would think if you think she should vote no, you should bring it up now because the only way to get a consensus that the rest of the board feels the same way is that we talked about >> has everybody had a chance to read all 62 pages of the link. That's right.

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>> No, no. I'm saying that the >> I know, >> but the full document is 64 pages much more detail, >> which is why we have a representative who goes down. Yeah. >> So, since we have about 9 days or so before the assembly, my question is,

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have we had enough time to go through all of the detail of the resolutions and come up with questions, comments, whatever it is, should we be following up? >> Well, you got them as soon as we got them, so there's really nothing.

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>> You can always follow up with her. The vote is next Saturday, right? That's what I'm saying. >> Yeah. I mean, we didn't have them sooner or we would have sent them sooner. So, >> okay, Mr. Bears. >> So, let me just clarify it for for now.

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If we have concerns in any of these, we should speak now. I also have an email I can send, but I just want to make sure I understood what you guys were looking for. >> I think that makes the most sense. The only way we're going to get a general consensus is if we talk about it one because you might say no but everybody

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else no I hear what you're saying but if we don't say if you say well I'm going to vote no we need to consensus so that we all speak about voting no or voting yes. So you can send me an email I vote no to number whatever five

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>> or whatever. I'm just throwing a number out. >> Well I do have that. I just didn't send it because I wasn't sure the proper >> Yeah. you can just send it to me. >> So if if this makes sense, if you want to do this even to talk about it now, I'd be more than happy to cuz I I did

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read it and I did my homework on it. So I can bring up my issues, but if you don't want to, we can wait. That's up to you guys. >> Well, we don't have another meeting before. >> Right. >> Okay. >> So we really need to talk about it now. >> Okay. May I? >> Absolutely.

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>> Please do. Uh, number one, rank choice voting. Um, I'm not a supporter. I am not in support of rank choice voting. Um, I have a series of concerns about it, but one of the main concerns is I

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believe because it would change the structure of how you know it's not rank rank choice voting is different than the current way we do voting today. So instead of the top three are in these are done in rounds. And you technically

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could be someone who got either second or third depending on how this is all calculated could be in or even someone who's on the fourth position could be in. So basically it's a different way of

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doing the work on on voting. Number two is based on what they do in New York City. Um, it's an administrative nightmare to do rank choice voting. Um, I know there are issues with the way we

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normally do voting, but I'm just saying is a rank choice to me. It's just adding a level of complexity that I don't really feel needs to be there for the way we do our voting uh in Paripany. Want me to keep going?

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>> Well, let's talk about number one. If anybody agrees, let's just go that way. Otherwise, we're going to just go keep going down the list. So, um, Miss Barios votes no for number one. Um, how many people would agree that we should vote

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no for number one? Raise your hand. >> If anybody else has no >> I would agree we should vote no on that. >> So, >> this is can if I didn't just clarify >> this is just to allow school boards to

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put it in their thing that districts should be permitted. This is not forcing anything on anyone >> and the law that's that is in discussion now at the state >> is optional. So it even if the law that

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this was that is going for discussion down in New Jersey, the law says it is optional for towns and school boards. So my understanding of this is this would just give towns and school boards if the law

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passes this would allow school if the law gets discussed this would allow school boards to say we have members who would like the option of doing rank choice voting. So we would like to have the the law passed so that school boards

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have the option of choosing rank choice voting. Right? So we are not debating the merits of rank choice voting. We are saying do we want school boards to advocate to give us the option of rank choice voting. >> Isn't this also not the similar to the

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case of if we wanted to move our elections from November to April. I mean that's still an option for us. We went through that debate to know when this when this law comes up should they be allowed to say >> we would like the option for our school

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boards. So that's all that's basically what this is doing is saying is school boards going to speak before the committees and say some of our members would like the option of using rank choice voting. So to me

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I am a believer in rank choice voting but I would also not like to limit our choices or anybody else's choices. I am not a fan of limiting anybody else's choices. So I think we should vote yes just to keep the options on the table.

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>> So, should we do abody does anybody else have any other >> is there any any other discussion any other points that somebody would like to bring up on this? >> Mrs. Dr. Uh I had the opportunity uh actually to attend a workshop or it

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wasn't a workshop it was like a a s like a presentation a like a meeting the guy came we talked about it students talked about it um with voter choice New Jersey which is a nonpartisan um organization in New Jersey which advocates for rank choice

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voting um and um and I thought that the particularly the administrative um challenge was interestingly presented ed by them. As you know, there is a learning curve. There's a learning curve for the um uh folks who are say setting

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out ballots. There's a learning curve for um the best practices in terms of processing these votes. But that the learning where there has been a commitment to implementing rank choice voting, it has been um successful. And I actually think

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the New York City example is is actually a good example of its success. Um, uh, it worked well in New York. Um, I don't feel super strongly either way actually on this because I think that in very low information elections as school boards

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often are, it's less pressing as of that's my position as a political scientist, even though I kind of generally am pro rank choice voting. So, wherever the wind takes us on this one. >> Anybody else? So should we do a roll call vote or just raise our hand?

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>> No resolution. >> What the consensus? >> It's just a general consensus. Is anyone >> Sorry, >> Mr. Barios has indicated um that he would not be in favor of that. Is there anyone else who would not be in favor of

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a yes vote on uh Miss Mayor voting yes? >> Thank you, >> Mr. In. >> Okay. Yes. >> So your consensus is a yes and one. >> Okay. Thank you. There you go. >> Okay. So is there any other one that you

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would like to discuss unless you want to go discuss them all or is there any that you feel strongly about that we need to look at? >> Hi Mr. Mario. Uh I am I do not support number two. Um

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because as relates to what is being asked here, we currently have a New Jersey statute um that dictates uh how this is done for immigration enforcement. I believe the

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current schools uh follow this today. Um so other than in my humble opinion um trying to cause a controversy where one shouldn't

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exist at the state level it's already been decided. So I'm not sure what school boards is or what the point of this at the school board's level is for it. >> Okay. Anybody else have anybody else have anything they want to say about that?

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Um I actually feel very strongly we should uh support this motion even though as Mr. Veros is right this uh reinforces uh current state um law and practice. Uh and I think the virtue here is a reaffirmation to students that

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schools are safe places for them. Um and I think that needs to be said loudly and proudly um as often um as it can be said. >> Okay. So, is there anybody that

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does not support voting? No. How's that? >> Is there anyone else who votes? No. >> Do we all vote? No. >> How many people >> How many people vote no? >> Your question. The

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the question is should Miss Mayor vote yes or >> uh yes on number two. >> Two three four motion fails. It's a no. >> Thank you. >> Wait. No. No. No.

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>> One. Two. >> You said she vote yes. >> Oh, >> yeah. That's what she said. >> You said yes. >> Yes. >> I did say yes. I apologize. So one, two, three. >> Wait, are you ask >> so it's the belief that NJS

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>> should not be used? Yes, we believe that school should not be used. >> That's not >> No, that's not what the question is. No, >> this is the the delegates are the this is for NJSBA

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in order to speak to your representatives about the positions that it wants um to advocate for on behalf of the boards. So the board is being asked, do you support NJSBA's support of this position to the

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delegates? So yes, >> two three four five six yes. Okay. >> There any other

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>> I have a question. >> Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> I was just going to suggest we should just go down in order just to make sure we're okay. >> Get through them all. >> Okay. Number three. Sean, did you have a general question? >> Uh, just a question about number six and uh number five. >> So, when we get down for number three,

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the NGS people, I'm not going to read it. You can read it. >> The pilot revenues >> in short, yes, but there's going to be nothing illegally binding. So, it's just telling us like we can negotiate, right?

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>> That's a bill. >> Okay. >> How many people vote? Yes. Okay. Number four, equal equitable distribution of education aid.

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>> Question again, you can read that. >> I have a question on that. What does it mean? Does it change the funding formula or what does it really mean from a >> it's just asking that

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the school boards can can lobby for um changes to the school formula that would make it more equitable. >> Okay. >> I believe that currently in committee in Trenton, it's not even on the table yet. So,

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>> okay. Yes. Okay. >> Number five, purchasers of textbooks. >> Yes. That's interesting. >> Did you have a question? >> No, it's here. >> Oh, is that the one you had a question? >> No, it was actually good.

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>> Anybody have anything they want to talk about with number five? Okay, for number five, how many if you believe I should vote yes, please raise your hand. I got the question right that time.

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efficient use of taxpayer resources. >> Exactly. I'll get to the end. Number six, governance. >> Asking that it's asking that voteex be subjected to the same rules that the rest of us are subjected to. >> Yes. >> Mr. was did that answer your general

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question? Okay, >> that's it. >> Okay, >> thank you all for your help. >> Okay, unfortunately, I do have one more thing that I didn't get to last time and I will promise to be brief, but I really mean need to get this information out to

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you. on um April 25th, I attend I had the leadership meeting, the virtual county leadership meeting, and there were some things that were discussed that I think are worthy of note. Um first of all, the policy manual that they offer it offset costs language and

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style of of the language. Some of the um people on the call said it made it easier to interpret the different policies. I'm just throwing that out there. um special education training. Um they want to make it part of governance one

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because more people are requesting education. These are all topics that they talked doesn't mean they're going to happen. They're on the table. Um so that was something that a lot of people spoke a lot about. Um there's the

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because of the fiscal crunch that we all know about, some districts are not sending their members to October workshop. Um and they and they were asked if it can be done virtually and they were told no because it would be

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too costly or something with the place. Um they were strongly urged to attend. Um the virtual spring conference is a review of last year's conference and I believe that's the conference that some of us are doing tomorrow. It has a lot

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of what we had at last year at the conference virtually like you know the one about the screening board members you know Robert's rules all of those that's going to be one of them. Okay. Um there's going to be a labor

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relations summit where they're going to do hypothetical situations and kind of act out different things that can occur during labor relations. I'm just bearing the news. Um okay after certified or

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master boards people were asking you know what happens next what what training are you done you know is that the end of your your education so that was a topic um there also was told that new board

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members do not always know what training is available so um there was a comment that there should be targeted emails for new board members because I'm I'm sure new board members get tons and tons of emails and you're not sure what really

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to do with all of them, but they're going to try to target some of them that let you know that these are good training opportunities. And then they were saying that having it during the day is not always convenient because people work. So they wanted to have make

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sure that maybe the sessions could be PM or Saturdays. Bless you. >> And um many emails daily clip. Okay. Um then there were oh they wanted to have four presidential meetings sharing

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best practices. So quarterly they're going to have presidents um it could be county could be you know they're going to they haven't figured out how they want to do it. Um weekly notes to presidents. They're going to start that to report out to the board. President's

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Corner. It filters information to the president's um connections platform for presidents. It could be for president and vice president and it can be done by county. Um this was fairly upsetting. Edison

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um their BOE I don't know if you've heard um the mayor is asking for the board members to be elected by the council. So that's a big deal down in Edison and they were asking for support for that.

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Yeah. Uh attacked by the mayor BOE not checked, no oversight. That was his claim and they want he wants to elect board members by the council and run by the mayor. >> This way the mayor will be responsible.

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>> We do catch. >> Okay. This was >> they just want to swap the the type from two to >> the BA is the conduit. >> Oh, I'm sorry. For the BOA to New Jersey school boards, there's training for the

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BA and their role. >> Like we were told, they have to put in the census. Um they have to make sure everybody's where they are and what they're, you know, where we are here. Um it's member driven. Oh, they were saying should it be member driven and update

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the profile. You know, you have to make sure your profile is accurate. And last one, um, county meetings, dinner dinners were funded and now they will have to move to schools because restaurants are very expensive. Um, the

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association cannot pay for. So, you know, maybe they could have one restaurant, but they're trying to do most of them in schools and that's it. >> Thank you. >> Any questions?

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>> No. But did you want to go through the county meeting that was last night? Last night? >> Um, it seems like so long ago, but I think it was last night. >> Kind of did. Go ahead. >> Um we did have our county meeting and we

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did our unsung heroes. There were students who were given um money from different sponsors and then there were some students who were given scholarships by different companies and again that's that's a very rewarding program that we all feel very strongly

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about. And then we had our board members who were you know for 10 years 11 years and then there are new um I guess uh certification. So you were certified as >> certified >> certif certified certified board member.

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You were a certified certified board. >> I'm swified >> certified >> and you were certified >> board leader. >> Okay. Um so that was done and there were quite a few other people and people got their pins for 30 years, you know, God

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mighty 30 years on a board. >> Yeah. >> But anyhow, yeah, there were people who had 30 years It was crazy. >> Don't think you I remember from the agenda the the oldest on was being recognized for 20

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years, not 30. >> Well, maybe >> there might have been more than that. There could have been more than that. >> And then the teacher although Irene Lefay had two winners because they felt that both um people were very welld deserving. You know, I really think that

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this board should reconsider their thoughts about doing that. I think it's it's not singling anybody out. It's saying our board appreciates everybody's effort and this person helps us along

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and it could be one person one year, one person another year. I think it it shows that we're proud of our board. That's just my personal thoughts. Um and then I think the other FA did two teachers and I believe that was it. Okay. I am so

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done. >> If I could just tack on to that. Yes, it was very very well attended. Um I believe our our we had one unsung hero young lady from Precipany High and got to we got to meet her at dinner beforehand and she's a very lovely girl and she brought her mom and her sister.

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Um and then I was also happy that Dr. Chase was able to attend and also um Miss Kruchi was able to stay and she stayed to the very end. I give her props to that. So thank you Miss Kruchi for for staying to the very end. Thank you. I I just wanted to tack on to the end of

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that and just congratulate everyone um our our board members as well that achieved their certifications and uh you're very we are very proud to go to the um event. We look forward to it every single year. Um the unsung heroes we can never talk enough about it. um

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the stories and uh the prizes and the scholarships are always very welld deserved and so we just really really enjoy it and uh you could have knocked me over with a feather with uh everything that went on yesterday. So I'll just add one more thing. So I echo everything that you all said but I would

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also like to thank Mrs. Mayor who is critical to the event because she's been part of the committee for a few years now. Um so thank you very much for all your efforts. It was really um a wonderful event and I know a lot of time and effort goes into planning and executing them. >> Well, guess what? Next year I chair the

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committee so I'm going to try to get our board to make a donation like we did. We did was it last year I think we donated >> even if we just all put in 20 or whatever it can go like one of our you know there were a group of people I'm not going to say who put money in and it

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went to our student for parting. So any money that we contribute and they pile in it, it goes to a student. So next year maybe we can make a donation. Just a thought. >> All right, we're still officially on committee reports.

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>> Mr. President, may I just add to that while we're still on this committee, I just wanted to state for the public um you know what these uh certifications mean. Um so the certified board member um uh can only be achieved after completion of three years of service on

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a board and it also requires um attending multiple um uh trainings over those three years um attending county level meetings, attending workshops, attending the delegate assembly. Um and

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so this is you know reflects an ongoing commitment to self-improvement and the board leader requirement is you know uh the next level of that requires you know twice as many um uh board member credits as is it reflects a significant

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commitment not only to the kind of um general time that one commits on a board but an individual commitment beyond even the general processes. So, I really want to recognize our colleagues and make it clear to any of the public that this is um really reflects a the commitment of

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our members to doing our best for the work and I really admire what you've done here. Thank you. >> Here just just to tack on that Dr. Wright, there's one certification in between there. There board member right before certified board leaders. So, actually there's the four all together.

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>> Okay. So, now we're up to transportation. >> Sure. Um, sorry I didn't have this last week, but um, transportation met on April 14th. Present were myself, uh, Miss Delave, Miss Mayor, uh, Miss Chappelle,

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uh, Dr. McHugh, Miss Pisa, and, uh, Dr. Chase. Uh, we discussed the extended school year and how we'll be doing all of our in district routes, including ESL and ESY, and we're trying to take in as many out of district roots as possible.

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And uh the route picking will be on 6:15 or June 15th for our drivers. In addition to that, we discussed the wild wide world of summer. We'll be doing all of our field trips for that. Uh they do pay us for these trips based on the hourly rate. The township of Paripony

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Recreation Camps. We're also doing all township camp trips again and we're working on finalizing our contract with them. Last year we made $16,197.50 50 cents during these doing these trips plus another $2,325 for doing all the fall festival for them

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through that contract. Uh Morris County Votech uh no longer have their own bus drivers. We're doing all their sports trips and almost all of their field trips. So through January, we have build them $72,930. We're also doing their bus evacuations

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for them uh on it was on April 20th and April 21st for $1,000. And last but not least, the 26 27 roots. We are going to start working on those roots as soon as Genesis roll call roll over happens and um we will continue to pull in as many

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roots as possible to save money. And that was my report. Thank you. >> Any questions? >> One question you first um for the votech routes that we have taken over is there any profitability with the overhead or

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is just pass through costs? We make a good >> just clarify the attendance of that of that meeting again. Mrs. Abraham >> um myself, Miss Delave, Miss Mayor, Miss

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Chappelle, Dr. McHugh, uh Tiffany Pisa, and Dr. Chase. Are there any other liazison? Sorry. Um, as many of you know, the Tom Latus golf outing is happening next week on May 12th. And, uh, so I know quite a

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few of us might be attending the golf outing and or dinner. So, I just wanted to make note of that. Um, and I think that's it as well. What else? Is there anything else?

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Um, I know we don't have policy, but can I make a comment about anything on that or no? >> Let's see if we can keep this. >> Okay. But there uh the super it's coming up on the superintendent.

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>> Oh. Um, uh, the only thing I know Mr. Bur and I attended the unified flag football. um earlier this week and it was really it was really nice. They were having fun and you know it was really good to watch

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and there was quite a few spectators which is also nice to see. Um all right so now we are up to the approval of regular and executive minutes of April 28th 2026. >> Can I have a motion? Mr. Shaw and a second Dr. Wright. Uh,

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roll call. >> Mrs. Abraham, >> yes. >> Mr. Barios, >> yes. >> Mrs. Delave, >> yes. >> Mr. Devidito, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mayor, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Dr. Wright, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chappelle, >> yes. >> Mrs. Kogan,

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>> yes. >> Okay, now we're up to the superintendent's bulletin. Number 16, Dr. Chase. >> Okay. Um, it's been a lot of talk about the events. I too have been fortunate to attend many of the events that were mentioned and I just want to thank everybody who is putting on those events

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and part of them for their attendance. It's been some late nights for the district staff. I also want to recognize teacher appreciation week um and also nurses week. So thank you to everybody who serves our children. I appreciate

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everything they do. And then tonight for your approval, I have superintendent bulletin items 1 through 18, addendum items 1 through 23, and readin. Thank you. >> All right. Do we have any questions on the superintendent's bulletin?

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>> All right. Secretar's report. Dr. McHugh. >> There is one lowly motion number 18 and it's our bill run. >> All right. Any questions on the secretar's report? All right. Um new business. We already did the

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delegate assembly one. The only other one I wanted to bring up was school boards had sent out a resolution regarding healthc care costs. And I know we don't usually do blanket resolutions, but I would like to see if the board

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wants to consider doing this one. Um maybe changing some of the wording to be more about private insurance versus state health insurance. Um, but I just wanted to get a sense of if the committee I mean if the board wanted um

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to think about doing a resolution I would ask the um communications committee to look at it and see if we can get it for the next board meeting. So there's I'm not expecting anybody to think about it or speak on it tonight.

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and just wanted to get a sense of whether we might want to consider doing a resolution in this theme. >> Nobody opposed to sending it to communications and seeing what they come up with. >> All right. So, if anybody has specific

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suggestions on what they would like to see or not see in this sample resolution, please forward them to Miss Delaves so that she can incorporate them when communications committee meets. All right, and that was all for the new business. So now we're on to the hearing of the

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public. At this time, if there is anyone who would like to address the board, please come up, sign your name and address in the book at the lectern. State your name for the record, and please address the chair. Each person will have three minutes to speak to the board. It would be helpful if you would

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like to address the board to please come up now and sign in so that you are ready when the first speaker is finished. As a reminder, we are video recording this meeting. If you are a student who wishes to speak, we ask that you not provide your home address, but rather give only the name of the town in which you live.

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If you are a parent wishing to discuss a specific matter pertaining to your child during this portion of the meeting, you may request that the board temporarily suspend the video recording. Alternatively, please consider speaking privately about the matter to the superintendent after the meeting. Speakers should refrain from using

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specific student or staff names in their comments and are referred to bylaw 168 for further information regarding the videotaping of our meetings. >> Hi, Jack Rya. Um, I didn't know it was going to become a comedy uh club with

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the uh talk about having the town council elect school board members. that kind of that was a good entertaining little bit that uh I hope never sees the light of day. Um anyway, uh two things. Congratulations on on the budget. I know

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this year was especially difficult, you know, for a lot of reasons that had nothing to do with uh you know, the board of education or the administration. It's obviously the health care costs, but also um the town budget. Um, and I put a letter out a

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couple weeks, I guess. I guess it was a week ago, and um, comparing the growth over the last five years in the town budget versus the school budget. The school budget in the last five years, including this year's increase, has only

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grown by 16%. Whereas the town budget has grown by 28%. So somewhere we've got our values mixed up that we are prioritized. Obviously the school budget is mandated but the fact that there is a mandate on the school on the school

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districts all over the town versus the the I'm sorry the school districts all over the state versus the town not having any limit on their budget increases I think is is is

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absurd and that's putting it mildly. So I think that's something that in future negotiations with the town regarding pilots that needs to be something that there needs to be a more of an equalization so that some of the

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increase in the in the uh town budgets gets allocated to the to the school districts. Now, a legal question. I don't know if the town can legally do that. Allocate additional funds above the 2% increase. Uh that they can do

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that when they're if they're passing a 6% increase similar to or an 8% increase. Can an or an ordinance be passed by the town or can is there some mechanism in place that the town would

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be required to allocate some portion of that increase to the school district. Okay. Anyway, but that's about it. it just uh it was a difficult I think the town everyone's going to see a big property tax increase uh in the next couple of

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months and and uh frankly you know there was a lot of uh discussion a lot of spirited debate and uh um still not really sure what we're getting for the town's tax increase that they're going to levy on us and by the way the numbers

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that I that I cited were just the property tax revenues for both the school district for the five years and for the town. So when they they might look a little different like the last number for the school district was 170 million. So it ignores things like fund

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balance, special revenues, all that nonsense. It has nothing to do with property tax. It's basically the burden on the taxpayer and I that should be kept in in mind. So it's a 28% burden on the taxpayer from for the town over the

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last 5 years whereas it's only a 16% increase. I I hit the limit. Okay. Thank you. >> Richard Suarez Parcipony. Yes, there is a significant increase in

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our taxes that will be coming up. I just want everybody to realize that the current administration is just pretty much cleaning up the dumpster fire that the previous administration had left them with. Um it is not

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the doing of the current administration. Money was stolen from, pardon me, uh, borrowed from the waterworks and other sources to

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give the impression that we had a balanced budget when we didn't. And now it's coming home to roost. So, I just wanted to clarify that the people who are in power now, who've only

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been in power for four months, are not the bad guys here. They're trying to think long term and they're trying to get Paripony back on track. As far as the pilots go, they were handed out like

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they were cotton candy. And we all know that favored developers uh received the lion share of them which was unfortunate. Um in many instances

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public time to address those issues was cut down to 90 seconds or in sometimes 60 seconds. I mean, you can't do a a commercial on

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TV in 60 seconds, let alone address a complex issue like pilot programs. I thank you for your time. Have a good night. >> See no one else. I don't believe there's anything that we

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necessarily have to respond to at this time. Um, okay. So, now we are up to the roll call vote on superintendent bulletin number 16, items number 1 through 18 with

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addendum items 19 to 23 and read. I have a motion for the superintendent's bulletin. Uh, Mr. Devito and a second, Mrs. Mayor. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Abraham. >> Um, abstain on number five ABC and yes

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to everything else. >> Mr. Barios, >> yes. >> Mrs. Delave, >> yes. >> Mr. Devida, >> abstain number five. Yes to everything else. >> Mrs. Mayor, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Dr. Wright,

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>> yes. Mrs. Chappelle, >> yes. >> Mrs. Kogan, >> yes. >> All right. There being no further business, I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Mr. and Dr. Wright. All in favor? Hi.