##VIDEO ID:Ry0glOqJfGQ## using samples from several different districts um and additional refinements are encouraged which is why we're sending it out way ahead of when we actually wanted to vote on it and Mr Chao is the new head of critical issues can I ask that anybody who has suggestions or comments forward them to you sure are there any other questions on that board goal making sure we say what we do what we say we were going to do BAS basically and that was my only unfinished business so we're up to committee reports and I believe we have Mr Rea you had an update I have two things um I think I'll start with the plal since it's um a little shorter um it went to the pal board meeting last week it was on the 16th and uh uh one of the the big parts of the meeting was Nick bronzino who was the interim uh executive director was voted on by the board and made executive director he's done a great job he's been very aggressive and pursuing New Opportunities including uh meeting with um maybe one of the Committees on the school board perhaps the Sports Committee and uh but he's been looking you know all for all sorts of different opportunities with all a lot of um other uh entities some of the events that are coming up there is a business speed networking and lunch event on uh February 13th there is a blood drive on February 4th which I think I've been away from that for a while I'm going to get back into the blood donations um there is a fundraiser uh for the palal wrestling group which is going to be also on February 4th there there is a number of programs that are going to be announced in the in the near term so um we haven't gotten them yet but I'll be able to talk about that at the next at the next board meeting that is uh on the p and then in addition to that I attended on January 8th the school funding Reform Act hearing which was down in Somerville it was the second of four hearings that were occurring all throughout the state so that people didn't have to drive 150 miles to attend one of the hearings um so I attended there were about 60 people in attendance and there were uh administrator superintendent um Board of Education members there were some concerned citizens of the public and uh that all spoke up some towns had multiple representatives and once everyone from a town was able to speak once then uh other towns were able to repeat but it was interesting to hear some of the thoughts um I am I am eternally grateful for the way our our Administration manages um its uh finances and uh that's a hat tip to Robin and uh so um that is uh you know one of the things because many districts have a lot of problems and there was one school district that mentioned uh laying off 27 teachers in the middle of the year that's uh like whoa and many pay to play uh in order pay to play uh in order to raise funds for various sports events and activities um so this was the second of four meetings so the the last two have occurred since the 8th so now I think the Department of Education is going to gather all of this information basically the comments the hearing of the public from four different locations and then the Department of Education will probably then Lia with the legislature I don't know how all the sausage is going to be made as far as this goes but it's probably not going to be pretty to watch but uh we'll see it there is the last major legislation was a state funding Reform Act of 2008 so it's been a while it's it's time we we know that there's problems with it and uh a lot of the a lot of the other towns had the same issues that we had so it was uh your recommendations were were excellent we seem to be the only School District at least nobody else mentioned it as far as like a pilot having a pilot problem we were we seem to be pretty special as far as that goes nobody else had that so anyway but uh that's about it on that is there any questions for Mr Aya um Mrs mayor you had yeah sure thank you on January 22nd the ad hoc committee the superintendent search met um present were Mrs kogan Mr Chao myself Mr rehea Mrs benos and Mrs Tedesco um let's see you have a copy at your seat of the rubric that was sent that we used to to kind of rate the different firms when they sent their um proposals uh there were 10 um rfps sent out and three search firms um responded that they had an interest in working with us um the committee reviewed the information from each firm using the rubric and um that was designed at our first meeting and um all the information that was sent to us from each firm uh the committee discussed each firm's material as well as assigning the scores um one one firm Rose to the top both in scoring an overall impression and it was interesting because when we did our rubrics we each did them independently you know I don't know how Allison scored or Andy so it was interesting that this one firm kind of rose to the top um the plan now is to invite the representative of that firm in for an interview with the committee it's my report thank you any questions does anybody else have another leaone report Mrs Dr Wright uh yes I attended the uh one of the two uh initial January meetings of the diversity Equity inclusion and belonging um committees uh I attended the one at uh the high I wasn't able to attend the one at the hills um this is a really uh interesting uh set of work uh led by uh staff but with a great deal of student involvement and student leadership uh the at the meeting uh work that was done last year kind of emphasizing some professional development that was uh undertaken as well as uh student work uh in particularly there was a great deal of discussion around last year's uh kind of belonging emphasis where high school students uh went to elementary schools and read to the students about um picture books about themes of bong in and inclusion and previewed plans for the upcoming year to both do the same and also the students expressed a great deal of uh excitement and looking forward to the Joint High School Retreat that will be happening in May thank you any questions for Dr Wright all right um I know I don't chair any committees but I just wanted to give an update on additional activities I've attended or events happening in our schools on January 7th I attended a workshop titled building a a culturally responsive Arts education program there wasn't a PowerPoint or anything that I can share but I did send Mrs benos the link to the next steps within that program which were really geared toward more administrators and not geared toward board members on January 9th I attended a kaanas club the kaanas club of pones meeting as their guest speaker and provided them with information about the board and the district they asked lots of questions um that were very good and I appreciated being able to explain what the board actually does during the meeting they also gave an update on what the k Kids Club in the district were working on so it was really nice to hear how the community is connected with our schools last week inkflow magazine club from phhs presented a storywriting workshop to the sorry to the third graders at inil elementary school inkflow club members created characters setting and plot twist cards for the workshop to teach kids about the fundamentals of writing a creative story with was interactive where the third graders received these cards that the club members made created their own stories based on the prompts and then even switch stories with you know other students and added on to each other's stories then the students had time to illustrate their stories as well and it's you know great to see the older students working with the younger as Dr Reich just said there's several programs in our district that are doing that and it's really nice and that was it unless somebody else has any other Lia on the next is is approval of minutes for the regular and executive minutes of January 7th 2025 can I have a motion for that Mrs mayor second Mr DeVito roll call Mrs Abraham yes Mr baros yes Mr DeVito yes Mrs mayor yes Mr Rea yes Mrs Chappelle yes for regular abstain from executive Dr Wright yes Mr chappa yes Mrs kogan yes now we're up to the superintendent's bulletin Dr Sutter thank you Miss googan good evening everyone I've been continuing my administrative observations with principles by visiting schools and speaking to staff and viewing lessons and programs and things have seem to be going very well uh January is Muslim history month as such we start we stated our last board meeting January um is Muslim history month and as such the district has taken time to honor and celebrate Muslim Heritage History and contributions with our students uh parip Women's Club Spelling be on behalf of the parsipany Women's Club I'm excited to share the results of their annual fifth their fifth annual gr spelling B which occurred on Friday January 10th 2025 first place went to Rishi arvinda from Northvale school second place went to Connor Zang from the Intervale school and third place went to Margot Tobias from the nolwood school congratulations to the first place finishers and the second place finishers and third place finishers and all that who participated and a special thanks to the parcion Women's Club for supporting this wonderful tradition tonight for your approval we have superintendent Bolton items 1 through 39 with addendum and rent items 40 to 52 are there any questions or comments on the superintendent bulletin see done we'll move to the secretary's report Mrs dades go hi everyone on tonight's secretary's report we have our regular business motions including the approval of the pony High School MD classroom renovation application submitted to the state and well the NJ DOA does anybody have any questions all right thank you I don't think there was any new business for tonight so we will go to the hearing of the public at this time if there is anyone who would like to address address the board please come up sign your name and address in the book at the lecturn and state your name for the record please address the chair each person will have 3 minutes to speak to the board it would be helpful if you would like to address the board to please come up now and sign the book so that you're ready when the first speaker is finished as a reminder we are video recording this meeting if you're 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 if you're a parent wishing to discuss a specific matter 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 specific student or staff names in their comments and are referred to bylaw 168 for further information regarding the videotaping of our meetings is there anybody from the public who would like to speak oh okay so we're up to the roll call vote for superintendent bulletin number 11 items number 1 through 39 with addendum items 40 to 52 and readings may I have a motion Dr Wright second by Mrs shetel Mrs Abraham trying really okay roll call please Mrs Abraham yes Mr baros I'm going to be no on appendex a abstain on number 22 yes to everything else Mr DeVito yes Mrs mayor yes Mr Rea yes Mrs Chappelle yes Dr Wright yes Mr chaa yes Mrs kogan yes and now I don't think we have anything else I would like a motion to go into executive session for student matters an action will be taken at the conclusion of the executive session so can I have a motion Mr Chappelle and a second Mrs mayor all in favor [Music] yes keep reading uh there will I said that don't scare me no they'll take like three days be back on Sund not used to no I did not [Music] motion to Recon yes can I have a motion to reconvene Mrs Chappelle in a second Mr Doro ladies and gentlemen I have the two resolutions with respect to the HIV hearings that were held tonight items number 53 and item number 54 with respect to the superintendent bulletin number 11 number 53 is the hip hearing on d8 ph8 pH hs8 be it resolved that in accordance with 18a 37-15 and following a hearing on the merits the Board of Education hereby affirms the administration's Hib determination for case d18 PHH S8 on January 23rd 2025 as it pertains to student number 40531 pursuing to board of policy and applicable law and be it further resolved that the board secretary is hereby directed to provide written notification to the parent of the board's decision a motion in a second for separately call a motion in a second may I have a motion for number 53 Dr Wright in a second Mrs mayor and we roll call on that or we do the other one roll call okay roll call on number 53 Mrs Abraham yes Mr baros yes Mr DeVito yes Mrs mayor yes Mr Rea yes Mrs Chapelle yes Dr Wright yes Mr Choppa yes Mrs kogan yes resolution number 54 be it resolved that in accordance with njsa sa 18a 37-15 following a hearing on the merits the Board of Education hereby affirms the administration's HIV determination for case d18 phs8 on January 23rd 2025 as it pertains to student number 40520 pursuing to board policy and applicable law and be it further resolve that the board secretary is hereby directed to provide written notification to the parent of the board's decision so can I have a motion on number 54 Mrs is Abraham and second by Mr Rea and and then roll call please Mrs Abraham yes Mr baros yes Mr DeVito yes Mrs mayor yes Mr Rea yes Mrs Chappelle yes Dr Wright yes Mr Chapo yes Mrs kogan yes and there being no further business I need a motion to adjourn the meeting Mrs mayor and the second Mr Rea all in favor I this meeting is adjourned pleas