may call the meeting of the Parcipony Troy Hills Board of Education to order on October 9th, 2025 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 the following manner. A meeting notice was published in the newspaper and on the district website on January 8th, 2025. 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 and transmitted
to other newspapers on September 16th, 2025. The daily record, the star ledger, parcipony focus, tap into parcipony patch in the district website. This regular public board meeting is being video recorded as per bylaw 168. The recordings of these meetings will be
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America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Yes. May we have the roll the attendance roll call, please?
[Music] Mrs. Abraham here. Mr. Barios here. Mrs. Delip here. Mr. Dvito here. Mrs. Mayor here. Mr. Rehea here. Dr. Wright here.
Mrs. Chappelle here. Mrs. Kogan here. All right, we have our student committee reports. Nashita, would you like to go first? So on October 3rd, we represented student council for the club fair after
freshman funday and we had many freshmen sign up. Um um upcoming event we have next week on October 18th is our homecoming and we're just planning with our decor and flyers. And this week, next week, and the following week, we're planning out spirit week. And this week
specifically, it's week of respect. Um, and another way teachers want students more included in school life is by spirit points. And then the winning grade with the most spirit points gets a patio party. And a way students can get points is by wearing their ID, having the least amount of tardies, and
dressing up for spirit weeks. And um, some another event we are trying to plan out is the pep rally, the fall pep rally. And as for athletics, we have the girls last tennis match at Morristown High School on October 10th. And lastly, we have our homecoming football game on
October 18th against Morris Hill Morris Hills High School. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Hopefully we're all having a terrific evening. I would like to apologize for not making it to the previous meeting as I had a dentist appointment.
Excuse me. Can you talk up to the mic? Uh today I will be informing you all about the latest happenings in PHS. I will be focusing on our school's pep rally homecoming and the setup for it spirit week and the TCJ fall conference. The pep rally is an event hosted at our
school every year that brings the entire school together and shows performances done by marching band choir and the cheerleaders to bring students together in school spirit. This year's pep rally went incredibly well and was very well received by all the students. It also served its purpose of bringing the
school together in school spirit. The next event I would like to talk about is the homecoming dance. This year's homecoming dance had a theme of under the city lights. We also had a lot of people show up to help decorating, making the process go relatively quickly. The homecoming dance also had
about 400 students and was enjoyed by many students. This week, our spirit our spirit week uh was themed around respect. Every day for the week of October, students dress up according to the theme for each day. For example, Mondays was to uh wear blue
to represent World Day of Bullying Prevention. So far, the spirit week has been a success as many students are following the deem and are quite enthusiastic about it. Finally, on Tuesday, student council members went to the TCJ
for the annual NJASC conference. At the conference, the state team was revealed to be NJ's united and speaker Evan Wesley presented about leadership. The state charity crisis response can kines also presented about how they operate.
It was a wonderful experience for for all student council members and we had a great time. This is all I have for today. Thank you for letting me speak about happenings at PHS. Thank you. Do we have any questions for our students? Thank you very much.
All right. At this point, we are going to do our finance committee meeting of committee of the whole meeting for the finance. Mrs. Chappelle, thank you very much. Uh so in front of you, you have the a very full agenda of that we're going to talk about for the
finance agenda. um going through budget uh some information around the fans in our gym uh reviewing policy changes uh the audit update rod grant project update and food services funds. I'm going to turn it over to Dr. McHugh. All righty. So for our budget, our
favorite topic, we have a budget calendar attached behind your agenda. Um, I do want to note that some of the later dates in February and April are estimates um based on when the uh state New Jersey determines when they're going to do the state of state address or
release our state aid numbers, but it has all the same steps. And I used the template that Robin used last year. Um, the most concerning item on this list is uh an insurance program that we're not a member of, but will it's kind of a leading indicator on something. The New
Jersey school employees healthc care benefit program just announced that their health care rate increase for next year is 32.5%. That's a an alarming rate. If we were in the state health benefit plan, that would be over an $8 million increase in
in benefits. We are in a private plan. Um but it's kind of like the federal funds rate. It kind of is the leading indicator and people follow. So we should know by December uh what our number is. I'm hoping it's going it's not going to be 32.5, but it's also not
going to be 10%. So, we'll we'll see. So, what's driving these increases? Well, inflation um increased claim rates and the big one is the GLP1 medications that are I think the pharmaceutical part of the plan increased by over 60%. So,
again, we are not in that plan, but we do expect to have a substantial health benefit increase when it when we find out our rates. Um, building walkthroughs. We started our building walkthroughs. Um, Colleen, myself, Nick, our accountant in our office, as well as
Bill, our facilities manager, um, the head custodian and the principal for each building. We walk through, we make sure that the, um, certifications are posted correctly. We update what we have to update, and then we walk room by room just checking to make sure things are
are in good shape. I also ask the principal for their wish list items on budgets and I and we do I like to get my eyes on it before we meet later and specifically talk about the budgets. Um so far everybody's been pretty reasonable with what they're asking for.
So the fans in the the high school gym this uh the gym in this building. So we did I I have met with um facility our facilities manager on it and the company that installed them. The fans are installed in the gym and they do meet uh gymnasium safety standards. They have an
automatic shut off. If for any reason those fans are hit, the fan shuts off. Um they they will not fall, they will not throw a ball at a certain speed that's going to hurt somebody. So that's the good news. And with the fans operating, the room is cool. Um we did look in our our access management system
and that room has not gotten above 82° in in the last 6 months, even during the summer. But I do understand that when you're exercising that you can get warm in those rooms. So I've asked um our facilities manager to make sure that the uh vents on the ceiling are operating
correctly. He's having them service changing the filters so we can exchange as much air as possible. But I just want to say those fans are designed to operate during any type of physical activity that's happening in them. Um it does create an air flow. So maybe that would be a reason why you want to shut them off. But they're they're okay to be
turned on and off quickly. and um they do meet every safety standard. So um the policy changes that uh we're looking for uh 7510, we were one heck of a bargain when it came to using our facilities,
particularly our our turf fields. Uh I do want to note that to replace a turf field, you're looking at $750 to a million dollars. Um so having the more use that's on those fields, the sooner we're going to have to uh turn them over. And unfortunately, unlike a grass
field, when that field fails an inspection, it is offline until you have it replaced. Unlike a a grass field where you can maybe do something to it. So, um we your proposal that the policy in front of you shows some increased costs and that still doesn't make us the
highest cost school district in the area. It makes us reasonable. Audit update. They started our auditors started the audit over the summer. Um, they are going to be coming back on October 27th. They're going to spend about three more weeks here, which just
seemed alarming to me, but I'm used to being in a small district, and if my auditors around for 3 weeks, it would say that something is not right. But we're we're much larger district, so they're coming back. So far, they haven't indicated that there's been any problems whatsoever. And your audits have always been so so clean um and
highly rated. So there we don't anticipate any issues there. So number five is probably the best news of the whole thing. So, we we uh applied for and received a ROD grant last year to have the Hills High School HVAC system
replaced in where the uh computer area used to be, which is now I guess it's now the computer area. What was it before? TSS. TSS. So, yeah. So, um unfortunately, it was finished in April and it didn't operate. Uh number
of times it was turned on and it failed. Turned on and it failed and we lost confidence in the system. We had a meeting a couple weeks ago that was on September 24th. It happened to be the same day that the distributor of the of the HVAC system had a repairman um come
one more time and they identified a plug that was apparently defective. The unit has operated correctly every day since. Although we did have some concerns and the district did ask if we could uh get an extended warranty and I'm happy to say our board attorney um was able to
negotiate an extended warranty uh to add an additional year for that unit. So that was very good news. So we feel a little bit more comfortable that if in fact something stops operating again, we have a little bit more time to have it completed under warranty. And then our last item number six, uh
food service funds. If you haven't had an opportunity to be in the Hills High School, um the cafeteria serving lines look beautiful. They decorate it very nice, but also the the the equipment's very nice. We still we are still working on some punch list items to make sure
that they're completely done. Um but they're the very nice. The plan is, as per Robin when I started, is to do a very similar um upgrade to this school's serving line. So, we're in the process of determining our our cafeteria surplus
and our funds available with and we anticipate renovating uh the serving lines here, which seems like a much smaller space. They have three larger serving lines over there where they have one big serving line here in a snack room it was called someplace else. So, we hope to be moving forward with that
sometime very soon, but we want to verify our our fund amount before we invest money in the engineering drawings. So, that's it. Thank you, Dr. McHugh. So, I have a quick question. So, um I know that we do a very thorough job of identifying different projects um and needs across
our buildings, but during your building walkthrough, was there anything new or unexpected that was found? No. Uh unexpected? No. Um disappointing? Yes. Apparently, we have a school that um has a very low roof and unfortunately
it helps um individuals we don't want to go on the roof go on the roof. So we that we may have a little bit of work we have to do there but there was nothing really surprising. Thank you. Yes. Um can we just go back to the uh healthc
care number that you mentioned? Uh potential increase. You mentioned if I got this right an $8 million increase potentially. No the state health benefit plan is increasing by 32.5%. If we were in the state health budget,
what is the current what is the current or at least last year's amount that we spent last year uh on healthcare costs? We had a 15% increase last year, right? So we would have at that point we had somewhere in the neighborhood of uh just over just under $4 million increase last
year and we would expect to have the same thing but it it's based on claims. It's based on what they're projecting forward. Um, I guess it was explained to us at a our county meeting. Colleen and I were at a county meeting yesterday and with these pharmaceuticals, the GLP1s, the
presenter suggested it was like a bridge. We're building this bridge. We're paying for building the bridge now. In 15 years, health care costs should decrease because with the weight loss medications, there'll be less diabetes, less heart disease, other problems like that will decline and we
will grow slower. Unfortunately, we have to pay for the bridge. And that's what we're doing now. The GLP1s are all on formulary. They're there there's no generics. They're very expensive and they're being written at a high rate. So, but we I'm in I'm hoping and it's
only a hope that we'll be in the 16% range, which is an incredibly large increase, but when you see 32.5% 16 sounds like a bargain. So, yeah, because 16% as a percentage of our entire budget, it just blows through the 2% cap and then
some. We're going to have next year's pro or I'm sorry, we're going to have last year's problem times three or four. You you are correct. Yes. Uh I just wanted to sorry
um just ask a question on the rental charges. So, I know um there's a you know that one soccer team that was, you know, using the the the fields like every weekend for months and months and months at $200. Do we know what this like this would cost like them now under
the new mechanism? Um you know, is it going to price out an important community thing? Give me 10 seconds and I will calculate that for you. So, yes, we had a team that was an adult team. Not all not all
precipany residents, but there were some Piponyany residents. And the way our policy was written, for $200 a season, they will they were able to use our field for an entire day up to 56 times a year, which is which is a a lot on on a
field. Um, based on if they happen to be at the high end, that would cost them $16,000, which is still a bargain for for fields. And that's exactly what I was going to add. I know for a fact in other towns and other school districts are charging
significantly more than we are per game. Okay. I think it's important to note that that schools are quasi public entities. It's we're not like a town park or a facility by a by uh you know town council. Our
budget, our maintenance, every asset we have is intended to help the students. And if we also can help other people, that's great. It's not like coming into an auditorium like this and sitting down and you don't see wear and tear on a seat. There is a a certain number of
hours you can play in a turf field until it's done. And soccer is is much more abusive to a field than something like football. So, it's the it's adults, it's a lot of time, and it's the worst activity all put together for a $200 charge. That was uh that was pretty
good. So, they will not be surprised. And this doesn't go into effect until next year, right? Correct. That's right. Yeah. So, anything that's been booked already is already booked. Um this these new rates would be applied to only new bookings.
Are there any other questions? All right. Thank you very much, everyone. Okay. Next on our agenda is correspondence. Is there any correspondence that come before the board? Yes. Did you receive the the one item I placed on your
Yes. Is that for me to read? It is. All right. Can I just read this? You can just summarize. It's just a Okay, we got a legal legal notice that somebody wants to expand their driveway. I'm assuming somewhere close to our buildings.
I was going to say I am assuming that it's close to our buildings. Mr. uh Dr. McHugh, do you know which building that uh that variance would be close to? Brooklyn. So, is a response expected from us? No,
no. The uh this will go at the next planning board which the district will be at anyway uh with respect to some of our our building plans. So I know uh Dr. McHugh will be there. Um and I think it's just a matter of figuring out exactly where that variance is and whether or not that's going to impede
any of the traffic flow, which I don't expect it will. Question this uh because this is a lot in block number. Do we have a understanding of where exactly this is as it relates to
Brookon? Because I know that across the street from Brooklyn, maybe just up a little bit there got a whole build being done. So is that that we're talking about or is it were the residentials going next door to the
Brook? It says three Graham Court. So I think okay we can look up where three okay I don't think that corner you're talking can we just get three more copies of
that down here because I don't have we don't have it over thank you sorry so I have a question on that so u is I am naive to this so Please bear with me. But um is there is that something where
we can ask for them to do the construction on a weekend so it may not impede any kind of traffic flow for the schools? Um it can be it can be asked um but it's not going to be on your property. But I understand what you're so that it
doesn't happen during school hours. Exactly. Right. Yeah. Um I think certainly Dr. Mcu can make a note of that. Um and if you feel necessary, I can go certainly go to the planning board meeting, but um that would be a reasonable request. Okay. Thank you.
Just as a followup to that. So it would be you're saying school hours, but she she I'm suspecting she's saying it was more like the weekend because this is near Brooklyn. There's after school hours there's many events that things are happening after the school before
before six o'clock, let's say. You mean? So yeah, I think it's pick this is Chappelle. You were talking about pickup and drop off times. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Take a ride. So Mrs. Bis has noted that it's actually
two streets over from the school. So it really shouldn't cause much of an issue. It's on the corner. It's not even touching and it's not on the street that that Brooklyn's traffic usually goes either. Thank you to Mr. Barios for bringing it up, but it Yeah, it's not even close to your Awesome. Thank you very much and thank
for the team effort and looking that up because this is something we received right before this meeting. More questions on that? Okay, so we are up to unfinished business. Is there any unfinished business to come before the board? The only thing I Go ahead, Mr. Bios.
No, I was just going to say the only thing I know is we asked our Mr. Simon, the lawyer, if there had been any update on the ordinance sent to the town and as of this afternoon, there still has not been any update. Yeah. Okay. So, my question was in and
along along the same lines. Um, so a few weeks ago I took a little drive around Lake Par and our schools, especially on the west side of town. And then after coming back from my vacation because I
was bored and had nothing to do, I drove around again and uh things are moving very quickly. I mean, there are now there's now siding where there was brick. Um,
and I know there's probably very little chance that we're going to hear anything prior to the election, which at that point in time, I don't know what that does one way or the other. But my question is, and it may not be something
that could be answered right now, but we probably need I don't want to be I don't want to be negative here, but we're not going to hear from the town probably till sometime next year, if if at all. Um,
so I think that we need as a board to talk about what the next the next move is, if there's a next move. I would be glad to ask the uh ad hoc committee to actually have a meeting and and ask for you know board members
suggestions on what next steps are and then the ad hoc committee can you know cuz I mean I believe and and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong I don't have the exact numbers but you know although it's not in in um dros we are beginning
to see the impact of students into the district. Um, and you know, transportation cost. I went by 1515 because someone had told me this and I didn't believe them. And shame on me for not believing them. I don't know how you
get in a school bus in that 1515. There's just no way. So, I'm thinking a, you know, being a driver of a 54 passenger, 29,000lb school bus, I cannot see myself getting in there and turning a bus around to come out. Um, to me
that's it's a hazard. Um, I also um, Sentry Way, I'm I walked it and I'm C not Sentry Way, Centry Drive. I walked it to think about if I'm a school bus, how am I getting in and out? And unless they turn something up that just totally
surprises me, I'm just kind of like, whoa, come on. You know, so there are mitigating factors that are going to come in here that and we just had this conversation about health care costs. Those are costs that are are they're not
under our control. And here we're looking at costs associated with the expansion of this. And you know, from my end, it just seems like um you know, we're we're really we're really up against it, especially going into the
end uh second half of uh the school year. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Um so ad hoc committee will take on that charge. All right. So we are up to committee reports.
Um, Dr. Wright, do you want to start down there? Sure. Uh, the teaching and learning committee met on September 29th. Uh, present were myself, uh, Mr. Dvito, Mrs. Mayor, Mrs. uh, Defe and Dr. Molrron. Um, it was a fairly short agenda. Uh,
continuing on some work we previously done. Uh, we discussed and recommended in particular a book for the new author of New Jerseys, New Authors of New Jersey class, uh, which is an English for honors course. Uh we specifically went through and discussed a novel
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips uh who is a New Jersey native from Montlair. Uh and this novel takes place on a particular peninsula in um northeastern Russia. Uh and it's powerful, you know, really kind of grounds things in space, identifies
themes of grief, loss, and isolation. Really excited to have that author represented in our uh curriculum. We also reviewed the follow the physical education for K to2 and physical education for 3 to 5 curricula. Um these uh uh Dr. Mourin explained when these
were you know how these were split. We went through them discussed them and they are on the agenda for tonight separately. That's all any questions for doc any questions for Dr. Wright? All right Mr. Devito buildings and grounds.
Okay. So, buildings and ground met on September 25th at our regular board meeting as a committee of the whole um in attendance was the full board and the uh the discussion points were expanded in in the minutes here and I'm not going to go through everything here
again but we did talk about some of in the finance committee raised tonight. So, thank you. Anyone have questions? Any questions for Mr. Vto? Okay. I don't believe there's any other committee minutes. Does anybody have any liaison or anything else they'd like to bring up?
Mr. Bell, the education services commission of Morris County met yesterday. Um and uh so it's my pleasure to attend on behalf of our district. Um at the meeting we discussed um the change in services uh
specifically the bus routes has had an 8% decrease in time um as they have um as routes have been taken back into district. Um they have however added back some routes for new athletic needs. Um as we're finding ourselves it is difficult to uh facilitate all of the
requirements that are needed across our busing uh routes. Uh and so many school districts are starting to tap into them for athletics. Um they are also in the process of phasing out the Central Park school. Uh they're down to 12 students and they are looking to place them
elsewhere. All conversations are active. Um and that is it for now. Thank you. I don't suppose that Central Park school is anywhere near Paripony, is it? No, unfortunately. All right. Um, I attended the
school board's legislative committee last Saturday and all of the presentations and notes were put in your board packets. There really wasn't, you know, anything major discussed. I did bring up the pilot um
law hoping to get passed at the state level that said they would have to share with the board of educations and there are other towns that are interested in that as well. But so far there's been no
sponsoring um legislator and they pretty much said that and unless unless we found a sponsoring legislator um to try to get it passed during the lame duck session that you know it would
be non-existent for quite a while. So that is my update for that. Um Mr. Dvito were you at the Morris County? Yes. So, Miss uh Miss Abraham and myself were at the Morris County School Boards Association meeting in person. I think
you were there virtually, Dr. Wright and Mrs. Mayor. Uh it was a very good meeting. They had long discussion about um uh school finance and they had at least three BAS from other districts in Morris County along with this state no sorry the the yeah the state the school
from school boards uh things. So, it's very well attended and it was very informative as far as you know understanding we're talking about now about budgeting. So it's a very good uh very good meeting. Yes, that was the first one of the year. Unfortunately, we are not alone in our
budgeting woes, but I mean it is it is what it is. Um does anybody else have any leism reports they want? Okay, seeing none, we will move on to the approval of minutes for the regular
and executive minutes of September 25th, 2025. Can I have a motion, please? Dr. Right. And a second. Mr. Devito. Roll call. Mrs. Abraham. Yes.
Mr. Barios. Yes. Mrs. Defe. Yes. Mr. Devito. Yes. Mrs. Mayor. Yes. Mr. Rehea. Yes. Dr. Wright. Yes. Mrs. Chappelle. Yes. And Mrs. Kogan. Yes. Okay. Now we're up to superintendent
bulletin number five with Dr. Chase. Welcome. This is your first meeting and your first report. Welcome to the district. Thank you, Mrs. Cohen, very much for that. Um, yes, today marks my sixth day in the district here. Um, so
over the p so over the past uh week, I have gotten a to see a lot of Parcipony. I've visited all 14 of the schools and uh met with the building principles, had conversations with each of them, and was able to tour our school buildings uh
which I've been incredibly impressed by the cleanliness and made sure to let our custodians know. Um happy to report that they take immense pride in keeping the schools clean, which was nice to see. I had an opportunity to meet a lot of staff members um which has been a great
opportunity for me to learn that Paripony is a special place because uh one of the things that's surfacing is that we have an influx of teachers who have grown up here who have taught here who lead here who and some of whom are
even raising their families. And for this part being such a large community, uh it really has a small uh community type feel which was really nice. Um there's been a lot of great teaching and learning that I have seen taking place throughout our classrooms. Our teachers
are busy. Uh students seemed happy. So it's been a pleasure to uh take a look around and a peek inside of Paripany. Um so I'm going to continue to be visible, listen and learn. We just had our meet and greet, so I got to hear from a few
more families and parents about some of the concerns and also some of the highlights of the school. Um, so things will be moving forward. Uh, before I end my report, I just have to give a shout out to Dr. Mol Rooney who um led the district prior to my coming here and and
got us launched in a smooth start and also Mrs. Benos who has been uh instrumental in helping me. You know, even though I've been in five school districts and I have knowledge of how school districts work, uh there are, you know, little nuances here such as how do
I um microwave something or uh where is the bathroom or where is the fork? And um Mrs. Benos has been keeping me alive, which is great. And the team has been very accommodating and welcoming and I'm just really happy to be here. So, uh
more to come. Look forward to listening and learning more. And without further ado, tonight for your approval, we have superintendent, my first superintendent bulletin, items number one through number 33 and addendum items number 34
through number 53 and readins. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions or comments on the superintendent's bulletin? Okay, seeing none, we'll go to the secretar's report. Dr. McHugh. Okay. So, we will have the secretary's report at
our next meeting. I just wanted to point out on item 33 that there are two bill lists there. Both the student activities for $2,626 and then our primary accounts for 10,788 26344.
Thank you. Any questions on the secretar's report? Seeing none, we are up to new business. Mr. Mr. Devito, I believe you wanted to say something. Thank you, Miss Kogan. Yeah, one one little thing here. So, uh it is October and in October is known as uh
Italian-American Heritage Month. And so, I just wanted to acknowledge that we have a lot of Italian-Americans in uh in Paripany that have served this community like Dr. Dr. Frank Calabria who served on this board many many years. Um, and so I just want to also point out there's
a uh uh at the PLA Center on October 15th, there's a uh Italian Heritage Night. It's free for all. There's no no fee to enter and uh it's hopefully going to be a well attended event. I'm going to go myself and uh that's about it. Thank you. You're welcome.
Okay, we are now up to the hearing of the public. At this time, if there's anyone who would like to address the board, please come up, sign your name and address in the book at the lectern and 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 like to address the board to please come up now and sign in so 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 do not provide your home address, but rather only give the name of the town in which you live.
If you're 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 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 who would like to speak? Hi, my name is Davos Sha. Um, out of
curiosity, uh, from the pilot program, how many new students have we had from those buildings come in so far? And what's the projection to come in this upcoming year, like January to June? Do we have those projections? Uh, and how
many students came in so far? Sorry, I'll sign in. Yep. Yes. Great. Is there anyone else who would like to speak? Okay, Mrs. Benos, I know we had those numbers last week. Right now, we have 50
54 students have have come from the new developments. Um, the projections, we have a demographers report. Oh, sorry. I didn't realize we weren't done. Go ahead. Oh, sorry. Um, we usually answer at the end. It's okay. I'll finish this answer and then you could go. Sorry.
Um, the projections would be in our demograph demographers report which is on the website. Hi. Um, I'm Himal Boroa. Um I'm actually sorry I wasn't prepared to uh present or talk about more and I know I spoke with few of you from the board. So I do appreciate the opportunity. Sorry do I
have to bend the whole time? Is there any way to I can just take it out of stand. Okay. So the uh I do appreciate the opportunity. I know it's a few minutes. I was actually hoping for my business partner um Sophia who is a native of Paripony. She, you know, born and
brought up here, grew up here, went to school here, graduated from Parfin High School, and I know she was offering a uh Sorry, I keep looking at the door, but I reside in Randolph. Um, but I'm here today to talk about our program, um, SIP Access Brain Gym. And I do apologize. I
don't have enough flyers. I know Jon, we talked about it and you'll, you know, I sent you emailed you u a flyer which you'll pass on to the members of the board. Uh, but just a little bit about the program. We've been in we started the program in 2020 20 April 2024 in Randolph, New Jersey, next town and um
we've seen you know great progress. The program started in April sorry 2024 and it's about um so math is our core foundation and we have the cognitive development something very different you know I mean I have three kids that were born and brought up here went through
school system but my youngest has graduated high school um so unfortunately for them you know this program was not around uh they've gone through very similar if you have to you know ask comparing with what program I would say very similar to like magnesium kuman level up XGen it's one of those
programs but we like to pride oursel as this is a 360 program so it's not just about math right it's about your overall academic performance math is our core foundation uh but just more than more than math we also have the brain gym component of our program which is um
focusing on you know all the areas and again no offense you know school does a teachers our teachers do a great job in our public schools but when you have a ratio of 25 to1's studenttoteer ratio it's almost impossible ble to give that one-on-one attention. So, with our program, you know, we come in with a
cognitive development, um, you know, critical thinking, all the areas that it's very very, you know, uh, it's not just possible for a teacher in in a classroom to to teach, right? When we talk about concentration, focus, listening skills, memory, retention, recall, all the areas of cognitive
development. Um, so we're hoping for because we are partnered with Randolph School right now. We just recently partnered with St. Elizabeth in Paripony. Um we are talking to Roxbury School. So now that we have started our center in Paripony as of last week um we
are you know very excited to be able to partner with Paripony school districts. I know you know it's a very large district with 10 elementary schools, two middle schools. Um and we cater to children age group 5 to 12. So it's
elementary, you know, to middle school. Um so I'm I'm hoping you know another opportunity uh you know Dr. Carol if we can present I do have matrix and data that I'd like to present of how we are doing well with the school systems that we have partnered with how the results
we're seeing. All right. Um thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much. And you left information with Miss Benos. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Maroonian. Okay. Are there any other members of the public?
Okay. So, I will close the hearing of the public and we will be up to the roll call vote for superintendent bulletin number five, items 1 through 33 with addendum items 34 to 53 and readins. May
I have a motion, please, Mr. Devito? And a second, Mrs. Abraham. Roll call, please. Mrs. Abraham, yes. Mr. Barios, I need to recuse number two and number
21. Yes to everything else. Mrs. Delave, yes. Mr. Devito, yes. Mrs. Mayor, yes. Mr. Rehea, yes. Dr. Wright, yes. Mrs. Chappelle, yes. And Mrs. Goan, yes.
Okay, there being no further business, I need a motion to adjourn the meeting with Dr. Wright and a second. Mrs. Delave, all in favor? I Meeting adjourned.