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Part 1 (Video ID: _nYsZvxwhPw):
- 00:00:46: Meeting Call to Order, Flag Salute, and Staff Recognition
- 00:10:48: School Culture and Climate Survey Presentation Begins
- 00:17:45: Student Perspectives and Strengths Highlighted in Survey
- 00:19:37: Areas of Relative Weakness in Student Interpersonal Behaviors
- 00:22:01: Shrinking Differences Among Groups, Room For Growth
- 00:23:48: Climate Team Recommendations for Improvement Discussed
- 00:28:43: Q&A on Climate Survey and Student Participation
- 00:29:18: Comment by Board Member: Student Presentation Appreciation
- 00:29:22: Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights and HIV Self-Assessment Results
- 00:35:19: Move to Executive Session and Return to Routine Matters
- 01:24:23: Board President's Report: Healthcare Costs and Elections
- 01:25:31: Superintendent's Report: Cyber Attacks and Celebrations
- 01:28:18: Committee Reports: Superintendent Search, Governance, Finance
- 01:31:33: Student Reports: Exchange Program and Student Achievements
- 01:39:22: Awards and Co-Curricular Achievements of Students
- 01:42:31: Approval of Minutes and Open for Public Comment
- 01:43:58: Public Comment - None
- 01:44:15: Policy, Education, Human Resources, Finance Agenda Items
- 01:47:56: New Business: Recognition and Awards, Next Meeting
- 01:48:33: New Business - Stars Award Ceremony and Delegate Assembly
- 01:52:37: Public Comment - None


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All right. Good evening everyone. Um, this is the Pasc Valley Regional High School District Board of Education meeting on May 18th, 2026. It is now 7:31 p.m. All regular meetings will be livereamed

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for viewing purposes only on the YouTube channel. And can I have a call to order, please? Mrs. Kirk, >> Miss Stephins, >> present, >> Miss Calderon, Mrs. Wong,

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>> Miss Guzman, >> here. Miss Keller, >> here. >> Mrs. Martin, >> present. >> Mr. Stenis >> here. >> Mrs. Varis >> here. >> Mr. Weaver. Okay. Um, would you please rise for the

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flag salute and pledge of 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. Adequate notice of this meeting has been

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provided by mailing copies of said notice to the record, filing copies of said notice with the municipal clerks of Hillsdale, Montail, Rivervale, and Woodcliffe Lake, and publishing said notice in the record on July 2nd, 2025.

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This is our fun part of the evening, staff recognition. So, I'm going to have um Miss Fergies um announce. Uh I would request that when your name is called, please come down to the front

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for a gift and for a picture with the superintendent and the board president. Whereas the Pasc Valley Regional High School District has commissioned a committee within the district to establish a selection process to choose a support staff member of the year to be

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recognized for the district offices and each high school. And whereas the nominating committee has selected Joseph Bellior for distinguishing himself through exceptional contributions in his work efforts to the district. And now

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therefore, be it resolved that the Pasc Valley Regional High School District Board of Education recognize the nomination of the 2025 2026 outstanding support staff member of the year for the district offices, Joseph Bellafior,

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electrician. Congratulations. Whereas the Pasc Valley Regional High School District has commissioned a committee within the district to establish a selection process to choose a support staff member of the year to be recognized for the district offices and

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each high school. And whereas the nominating committee has selected Courtney Hastings for distinguishing himself through exceptional contributions in his work efforts to the district. And now therefore be it resolved that the Pasak Valley Regional

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High School District Board of Education recognizes the nomination of the 2025 2026 outstanding support staff member of the year for Pasc Hills High School Courtney Hastings custodian.

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Congratulations. Whereas the nominating committee has selected Javier Diaz for distinguishing himself through exceptional contributions in his work efforts to the district. And now therefore be it resolved that the Pasc Valley Regional

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High School District Board of Education recognizes the nomination of the 2025 2026 outstanding support staff member of the year for Pasak Valley High School Javier Diaz custodian. Congratulations.

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Whereas the Bergen County Teacher Educational Services Professionals Recognition Program, jointly sponsored by the Bergen County Association of School Administrators and the Bergen County Education Association, has established a selection process for the

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Bergen County Teacher Recognition Program in our district. And whereas the nominating committee has selected Jane Yeim for distinguishing him herself through exceptional contributions to her students. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Pasak Valley Regional

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High School District Board of Education recognizes the nomination of the 2025 2026 teacher of the year at Pasak Hills High School, Jane Yeim, Social Studies Teacher. Thank you.

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>> Congratulations. Whereas the nominating committee has selected Craig Yur Yurco for distinguishing himself through exceptional contributions to his students. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Pasak Valley Regional High School District Board of Education

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recognizes the nomination of the 2025 2026 teacher of the year at Pasak Valley High School, Craig Yarmco, Director of Bands. Whereas the Bergen County Teacher Educational Services Professionals

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Recognition Program, jointly sponsored by the Bergen County Association of School Administrators and the Bergen County Education Association, has established a selection process for the Bergen County Teacher Recognition Program in our district. And whereas the

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nominating committee has selected Jenna Howard for distinguishing herself through exceptional contributions to her students. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Pasc Valley Regional High School District Board of Education recognizes the nomination of the 2025

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2026 Educational Services Professional of the Year at Pasc Hills High School, Jenna Howard, Guidance Counselor. Congratulations. Whereas the nominating committee has selected Natalie Bird for distinguishing

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herself through exceptional contributions to her students. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Pasc Valley Regional High School District Board of Education recognizes the nomination of the 2025 2026 Educational

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Services Professional of the Year at Pasak Valley High School, Natalie Bird, Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant. Congratulations. We always love and appreciate our staff and congratulate each and one of each one of

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you. Okay, moving on to uh agenda item number five, our presentations. Uh school culture and climate survey by Dr. Mark Russo. Are we

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coming up? I might have to if you'll give me just one moment to get the uh slideshow set Thank you to the board of education and Mr. Phillips for having us. Uh I'm very grateful uh and honored to be here with

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Miss Sarin Narens and Miss Izzy Mednard from Pasak Hills and Mr. Mr. Nicholas Hernandez from Pasak Valley as representatives of the school climate teams from Pasak Hills and Pasak Valley to discuss some of the key findings of the school climate survey as well as

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some recommendations students have made to school administration. We're now in the eighth year of a schoolwide school climate survey and the fifth year of the New Jersey school climate improvement survey developed through a collaboration between Rutgers

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University and the New Jersey Department of Education. The New Jersey SEI survey was designed to help schools obtain multiple perspectives on aspects of school climate with a goal of helping us better understand strengths and needs in

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our schools. The survey was administered to staff the week of March 2nd, students on Monday, March 2nd during ELA class, and parents and caregivers the weeks of March 2nd and March 9th.

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Parents and caregivers had the opportunity to opt their students out, and all surveys were completely anonymous and completely voluntary. 1,315 students, 130 staff, and 196 parents or caregivers

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participated in the survey this year. Please note that for students, we had 79% participation as compared to 70% last year and 69% the year before. Please note that we administered the survey this year in ELA class, whereas

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the last two years it was PE class. The NJSCI contains 13 total domains, eight for all stakeholders, which you will see on the right. One for staff,

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um, and parents, caregivers, you'll see that at the bottom on the left, one for just students, you'll see that on the top left, and then three for just staff. The survey enabled us to determine stakeholders perceptions of each of

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these domains as well as individual questions that contribute to each domain both in the aggregate by school and by subgroup. Just to provide you an example of what uh we're able to observe with this

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survey. This is an example of how domain data can be disagregated by one of our subgroups. In this case, we're looking at grade. Additionally, the survey platform enabled us to compare stakeholder group perceptions across domains and questions.

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This is an example of that how the domains can be compared across students, staff, and parents, caregivers. Uh before sharing our findings, which I will get to momentarily, I would just like to answer a question that has been asked in the past.

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uh we are able to compare performance between Hills and Valley yearover-year and among subgroups. In addition, Ruters University publishes a very general overview of statewide

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results from previous years. So in a very broad sense, we can compare our strengths and areas for growth with state averages. In order to better understand the survey results, we formed two school climate teams, one at Hills and one at Valley,

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made up of students, faculty, and administrators. A total of 30 students and staff participated in at least one of 14 meetings, seven in each building, where we reviewed student, staff, and parent caregiver data for relative

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strengths and areas for growth. After these meetings, the climate teams presented to building and district administration. Our intention for this evening is to share some of the major takeaways from the survey data and for students to share some proposed recommendations.

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Now to the findings. In aggregate, students, staff, and parents caregivers registered more favorable designations in all domains in all buildings.

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The three strongest domains across all three stakeholder groups were sense of physical safety, supportive staff student relationships, and student voice and involvement which registered as the top three domains for

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both staff and parents and caregivers and along with student sense of belonging made up the top four for students. Additionally, when looking year-over-year, there was modest improvement across the board and a tightening of differences among

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subgroups. Just want to highlight those strengths one more time. Sense of physical safety, supportive staff student relationships, student voice and involvement, and student sense of belonging.

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For the sake of comparison, sense of physical safety, supportive staff student relationships, and student sense of belonging were the three highest rated domains statewide. Student voice and involvement, which was our third highest rated domain, was

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closer to the middle of the pack, six out of nine statewide. While I am sharing these results, I'd like to note that for these statewide comparisons, uh I would advise that we take these with a grain of salt as comparisons that we make here include not just students

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in high school, but students in grades 6 through 12. At this point, I'd like to turn it over to Sar and Izzy. Good evening. So, positively we these were the findings of three examples of individual questions that were strong at

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both schools. So, 97% of students indicated that they have chances to participate in clubs, groups or other activities at school and the same percentage of parents also agreed. This indicates that for students who completed the survey, majority of the

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people participate in extracurriculars or acknowledge that there are opportunities to do so. This is seen at hills as we have many cultural clubs for all different groups of people which heavily contributes to this. And the second one indicates that 91% of students and 95% of parents agree that

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most or all teachers expect students to work hard. This indicates that the survey participants mostly agree that their high expectations for hard work at Hills in Valley. And 94% of parents respect the child's and the staff at their child's school. 87% say that their

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child's school shares updates and information in effective ways. And 85% agree that the schools provide mental health resources to students and their families. This indicates that most parents or caregivers who completed the survey respect faculty and staff and feel that information and resources are

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being shared effectively. These questions have been strengths historically and continue to register as such in this year's survey. In addition to these areas of strengths, there are relatives there are areas of relative weakness that require further attention. So the area of weaknesses are our

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negatives. The survey results indicate three areas of focus. For the sake of comparison, the student interpersonal behaviors, the question was worded in a negative way. Um, but the pro-social student interpersonal behaviors and the supports for student social emotional

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learning were the two lowest rated domains statewide, followed by the academic culture and classroom practices. support for student social emotional learning registers a bit higher statewide. But I'd also like to reiterate that as Dr. Russo said, the middle school students are included in

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these averages and therefore they impact statewide results. >> Okay, to start with pro-social student interpersonal behaviors. So pro-social student interpersonal behaviors was the second or third lowest rated domain for

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students and the bottom third or fourth for staff and parents/caregivers. One item of particular concern was this question. Students at the school discussed different points of view in a respectful way. Roughly 30% of students and staff in both schools disagreed or

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strongly disagreed with this statement. And to note, parents/giver caregivers didn't have this question. For the supports for student social and emotional learning, it was the second or third lowest rated domain for students in both schools and second lowest for parents/caregivers.

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Staff had this domain more in the middle. One item of particular concern, an example of the question is students learn to resolve problems. Roughly 30% of students, staff, and parents/caregivers in both schools disagreed or strongly disagreed with this statement.

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and for academic culture and classroom practices was the highest was the lowest rated domain for students and staff but the fourth highest rated domain for parents and caregivers. This type of split is typical across the state and three questions of particular concern are teachers teach about topics that I

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like. Teachers explain how schoolwork will help me in the future. Teachers give me chances to pick from different types of assignments. And for all three of these questions, 65% of students or more stated some or none. And now I'll turn it over to Nicholas.

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Finally, the climate teams look each year at how different groups experience Pasak Valley and Pasc Hills. Differences have been a stubborn reality in the eight years we have been doing the climate survey, but this year those differences appear to shrink, at least modestly. We didn't have enough students

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who identify as non-binary, transgender, or I use a different word. But the gap between fe male and male and different racial groups have shrunk, which is a positive change. One exception to this positive development is in the negative student interpersonal behaviors domain, which

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still shows differences among different groups of students for gender and race. These differences showed themselves across both racial and gender lines. On this slide, you will see some examples of items from this domain, including students leave other students out of

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groups or activities on purpose. Students are mean to each other online or through text. Students pick on each other because of their race, ethnicity, or nationality. And students pick on each other because of their academic or learning ability.

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Additionally, the climate team has noticed that even in our strongest domains, we have room to grow. In the domains on this slide, which are two of our strongest, we talked a great deal about the following. Despite the fact that a strong majority of students agree or with these statements, it isn't 100%.

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To that end, we have room to grow in these important areas. We want 100% of students to feel like they belong at the school and that teachers care about them. We still want to make recommendations that would reach those students. Now I turn it back to Dr. Russo.

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A lot of mid-presentation clapping. Thank you so much. Uh at this point we'd like to transition from findings to recommendations. Uh in the past seven years the climate teams have made multiple recommendations some of which are listed above. Some of these

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recommendations like qualitative data gathering and curricular attention to multiple perspectives have become part of our practice. Others like extracurricular communication and faculty and student training are an ongoing conversation topic with

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different ideas being attempted at different times. Still others like an advisory program have been researched over many years but due to logistical and financial challenges have been slower to reach fruition. For this year's recommendation, I'd like to turn it back over to our students. We're

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going to start with Sar and Izzy for Hills. >> To start, we would like to start building a culture where student feedback is part of decision-m process such as the new state cell phone laws and AI policies.

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Second, we would like to request qualitative feedback. So this means um we talked we sent out qualitative feedback in the past and it worked well. So we'd like to do this in future. We would ask a question like do you feel comfortable and welcome at Pascak Hills

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or Valley and then why or why not? Personally, when I was filling out the survey, I was either doing it like based on like my strong or strongly agree because of like for instance, if there was a teacher that I was like I didn't

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have it for all teachers and just like one teacher, if that makes sense, I would press agree because it wasn't for every single teacher I've ever had. And so, I would like to be able to explain like my reasoning for just clicking agree instead of strongly agree.

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Additionally, ongoing training on upstanding cultural responsiveness. This includes inviting guest speakers and having formal um assemblies about cultural and different groups that represent Hills to make all students feel included and foster that 100% of

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student belonging. And then our last one is advisory. It's almost like a home room. So, as we just talked about, for students who filled it out as they don't feel like they have an adult that they could talk to and they trust, we would have a home room and

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students would get assigned a teacher and hopefully build a relationship with this teacher and be able to feel like they're able to go to them and trust them. So, now back to Nick. Okay, so for Valley, our first recommendation is to encourage

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mentorship across clubs and sports. We've already seen um success with this in softball and theater, which give freshmen the chance to build relationships and become friends with upperassmen early on. Our second recommendation is to improve access to club activities throughout the year. uh

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if students don't attend initial interest meetings, there aren't many opportunities for students to get involved in club activities. So for that, we would like to have a schedule for student activities to improve student involvement and organization. Third, for student teacher

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relationships, um we think an advisory period would be of great benefit. The informal setting gives students an adult in the building they can rely on and it circumvents the barrier posed by the grading power dynamic or classroom experiences. And lastly,

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uh classroom reminders and highlights. Uh we think highlights from the handbook for each classroom would help keep consistency with regards to chronic absenteeism and tardiness and help remind students of expectations. And we would also like a makeup room for all exams to enhance student faculty

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coordination. I turn it back to Dr. Rouso. >> Uh just before uh closing our presentation, I just want to give a huge thank you to these three individuals and to all the students and faculty who participated. Um it really is remarkable

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to spend this time with students who care so deeply, who who give up their lunch over and over again um whatever year they are in the process and then to come out on a Monday evening. Uh thank you guys so much. really phenomenal job. Um so I'd like to close um by sharing

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the Pasag Valley regional equity vision statement which focus which provides a focus for our ongoing culture and climate work. Hilton Valley are both incredible places with amazing, unique and talented students and staff. Uh and my hope is that some of these

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recommendations will help all of our students and groups of students flourish and thrive. They are already amazing places. uh and we can do some work to continue to to grow these places to make them even more amazing. Um thank you all so much for your time and if anyone has

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any uh questions uh for the students or for me it'd be happy to answer them now. >> Dr. is this the first year you've had students like do part of the presentation because I don't remember students doing it. >> We have had students participate in the presentation at least one other time. We

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always have students participate in the pres in the conversations with the principles and the superintendent. >> I love that they presented. I I thought it was just so awesome to hear this information from students and you you guys you did a great job. So I I

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appreciate that. >> Believe I'm turning it over to Dr. Strus. Okay. Good evening everyone. There we go. Okay, that certainly is a tough act to follow,

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but I'll give it my best. Mariana Rivera, that's for the Yankees fans. It was tough weekend for all of us. Good evening everyone and thank you for having me. So I'm here this evening to share with you the results we received from the department of education pertaining

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to our school and district scores from the anti-bullying bill of rights and HIV self assessment for the 24 and 25 school year last school year. The names of the individuals that appear on this screen are very much at the forefront of our efforts to rid acts of

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HIV from our schools and I would just like to acknowledge them and thank them for their ongoing efforts. Since 2011, our district has conscientiously implemented the requirements found in the anti-bullying bill of rights. During these years of implementation,

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our schools continue to make progress in addressing harassment, intimidation, and bullying. We continue to work to improve the school climate and culture by creating and implementing programs for students and staff and celebrating the week of respect.

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The data on creating and implementing these programs, okay, are here in front of you this evening. This slide suggests our ongoing efforts and the key here is ongoing in the implementation of the HIV laws.

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The data from this slide is from the New Jersey Department of Education and was released last month on April 15th. To place these scores into perspective, it is helpful to know that there are eight core elements in the assessment

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with a total of 26 indicators, excuse me, 26 elements with a range of scores from 0 to three. Hence the maximum score a school can receive is a score of 78.

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Equally important are the programs and activities for both students and staff which have led to our district earning these scores are highlighted here. For our students,

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we have conducted freshman class meetings and orientation activities, including the signs of suicide program. Our wellness counselors brought in healing space for our grades nine and 10 during their PE classes, which focused on forming healthy relationships,

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setting boundaries, and discussing digital safety. We implemented the week of respect and expanded activities throughout the year to include World Cultures Day and a wellness week. We partnered with local law enforcement

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to provide extortion programs to students in grades 11 and 12. Our school safety teams meet multiple times during the year which comprise of students, staff, parents, and community

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members. And just a few weeks ago, the Hills Valley Coalition in conjunction with our wellness counselors and wellness center provided their annual program. This year's theme being protecting our kids the many dangers of social media.

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But in addition to our students, school safety teams under the guise of the wellness and anti-bullying specialists, wellness counselors, and anti-bullying specialists, okay, implement it and assist it with annual training via school safe schools

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on harassment, intimidation, bullying, and bias. The district provided training for our anti-bullying specialists and administrators. This was provided by our board of ed attorney As noted moments ago, the signs of suicide curriculum. There is training

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for our wellness counselors to deliver and implement that program. There's professional development training for our district anti-bullying coordinator and the anti-bullying specialists. We continue to use Hipster, our anti-bullying software, which allows us

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to track and monitor all cases of HIV. We continuously increase staff awareness of at risk and marginalized students and make a concerted effort to connect students, their interests, activities, opportunities, and provide community-

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based supports. While we continue to make strides in effort to rid HIV from our schools, there is much work to be done. We recognize this and we know it's an

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ongoing effort. Thank you. And this concludes the 2024 2025 annual report on the anti-bullying bill of rights in HIV report. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Have questions? Okay. >> Questions? Thank you. Okay. Um, I would like to request a motion to enter into executive session. >> So move. >> Second.

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>> Can I have a roll call, please? >> Oh, okay. We're in executive session. Yes. Okay, we're back on. We're back from our executive session and we're moving on to routine matters which include the

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monthly reports. Um, first up is my report, the board president. I just wanted to draw attention to uh policy con consent agenda number one

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which is the resolution urging relief from rising public school healthcare costs. As uh everybody knows, we have been dealing with a major crisis have um throughout the state of

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New Jersey uh with the overwhelming uh health premium costs um which have been impacting our budgets throughout our New Jersey state board

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um has encouraged us to pass this resolution um which will go to governor uh Charles's office and you know move on from there. Um so that is part of our

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policy tonight and I also wanted to mention that our New Jersey school board elective uh candidate kits are now available on our website and NJSBA

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website as well. And moving on to our superintendence report. Folks, thank you. I first want to congratulate all the staff members who were recognized tonight. Uh your contributions to the school and the positive impact you had on our students

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is greatly appreciated. I want to thank Dr. Russo and Dr. Shrunkas for their presentations. May is what I consider our test month. We started off the month with having SATs on the Saturday and then we went into two week AP exam period and this

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week we start up the MJSLA exams. I want to thank all the staff who assist in coordinating and administrating the test and I want to thank the students for their hard work and patience as we deal with um modified schedules um during those weeks. And then when we go from

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May to June, June is our celebration month. We have our end of the year dinners, senior awards night, field trips, prom and to top it all off, graduation. So, a lot going on in the next month. Um, so enjoy um all the celebrations that happened. Uh I want to

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inform the public that we did have two cyber attacks that happened in the district. Um two of the programs the district utilizes uh were attacked. Unfortunately, our district does not store any critical student information on um either of those sites. So, our

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tech department did a tremendous job of just monitoring what was occurring with the situation and keeping everyone informed. On tonight's uh agenda, there is a resolution to uh purchase a school bus. The bus will be used to reduce transportation uh district

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transportation expenses by reducing our outsourced routes. This is an action that is one of the many things we're trying to do as a cost-saving strategies as we're uh getting ready for next school year.

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Happy to announce that the district's robot robotics team, the past pioneers, qualified and attended the first world championships in Houston. Uh the competition followed their amazing performance in the Mid-Atlantic District Championships in Lehi, Pennsylvania. Uh the pioneers return at home with uh from

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the world championships with the judges award which recognizes their unique efforts, performance, and dynamic merits. I want to remind the school community that we will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday the 25th. So enjoy the long holiday. The 2026 summer

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reading list is published on our website, a sign that the end of the school year is right around the corner. And our next board meeting will be on June. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh next is the steering committee which I will provide that report. Uh we met on

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um May 7th and we discussed uh the superintendent search that we will be conducting. Um we are still discussing uh whether to uh utilize the services at a search committee firm. Um and so

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that'll be kind of getting going in September. We're looking the timeline for that. Um, and the new start date would be uh May 1st, 2027. And um, next up is the Governance and

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Personnel Committee report by Miss Thank you. Uh, we met on May 11th at 6 o' in a virtual meeting. Uh, members that were present, myself, Mr. Weaver, Miss Stephvens, and Mr.

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Uh we talked briefly about personnel, talked about the non gardening group as well as the summer siphon siphoned um for the ESY transportation. Uh then we went into governance. Um you stole my show here, Miss Evans already talked

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about this and it's also in our policy vote this evening. Um but the NJSBA resolution um support was in support um by the committee. So that will go ahead. The superintendent search also discussed

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um we're talking about looking potentially at some firms and exploring the costs associated with that. Um we also talked about moving forward executive sessions um potentially starting in July occurring prior to these meetings so

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that we don't have to um kind of be during the middle of the session. So we probably will have those starting around 6:30 6:45 moving forward starting in July. That's my report uh negotiations committee for piece.

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So, we had a negotiations committee meeting on May 12th, and it was just uh us without the PBRSSA there, but we reviewed the proposals from the PBRSSA with our attorney and we went over

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everything in detail and um just the finance and facilities committee meeting. Uh so we had our finance and facilities committee meeting prior to the board meeting today and we reviewed the tours

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that we had of the facilities um in April. April. April, right? April um in April. And so we went through the requests from the building administrators for local schools um for

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the facilities for renovations and such and we discuss the bond referendum. Um moving on to our student reports. Um Stephanie Young from Pastor from March 27th to April 5th during

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spring break a group of students registered with the shopping from teachers and Mrs. took part in international exchange experiences of students from this opportunity outside school with

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both students and teachers participating on their own time. This will be the third visit of France as part of their ongoing student had the pleasure of hosting four class since 2014. Our students attend

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classes in science, math, art, history, literature and philosophy at the French high school and they were also treated by students and teachers. American students also met the mayor of the town hall. They also visited

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where they can district supporting cultural and experience for our students. friends. The Jewish students shared her story about the perspective

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of child survivors on April 18, 2006 powerful message of resilience. Following the event, the JSU shared a young where they enjoy pizza and celebrities

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and workers on April 21st from education student learn about ongoing issues. session. He also visited the international peace

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where he spoke with Dr. relations on April 24th cancer attacked for Catholic schools to honor cancer and support fundraising efforts

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and college students and raising $50,000 this year cancer. themes of survival out of walking and people of this eventually

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became cancer free after particip ceremonies of hope. also featured food trucks and travelers and survivors of strength and resilience.

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Cancer awareness of progress. He competed in the American record of the engine and showed the start and people both against successfully as champions. I like them.

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The team led by coach included a short season. recording success has gone almost undefeated this entire season 13 of the 14 Alex

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record and both broke the school record for launching two at the Burton County Championship and as in addition the boys 4x200 by 100 years also season following this

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hickey and the boys against Kira James 400 and 400 years against awards the girls debate team was successful 2025 2026

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North Jersey the team includes both injury division Students participated in multiple tournaments for preparation. For that season, students several teams competitions for

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debate performance. The seasoned with the annual award and along school recognized their accomplishments. Freshman University

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fourth place overall speaker award the third place award senior Justin forth overall speaker award senior Adams who's the varsity award and also um both Justin and Adams

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receive coaches award and then lastly the debate team and So my joke of the day flowers next up is now reporting classroom items number one

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high school video production awards presented by the national television academy sciences. Mr. Sherman's video program was nominated for five crystal awards and two of them. Last year's high school attended film challenge national

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champion. The scholarship scored by now senior tyrina won the category for best short in addition video production submitted on documenting what award to promote

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won the best. Both projects will now move on to also getting nominated at the national level in the fall. We wish them both luck. The video production program will hold as a film festival on May 28 at 7 p.m. in the Paso Valley to showcase all the amazing

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work students have produced this year. The mission is free and we invite the community to come out and watch the amazing work. Class number two is 28 students participated in the national exam in April of the 20 participated

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bronze status stat. 80% gold status percentile. Um two gold of our gold two experience starting monitoring award because it's for the 99 percentile

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moving on to co-curricular items item number one the valley spring world celebrating America's 250th birthday and songs took place on May 14th the program featured all the TV's coral

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coral performing a wide range of American tradition, spiritual, jazz, pop and more. The evening also highlight and celebrate the outstanding leadership and music relationship of the class of 206.

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Congratulations to all our incredible students and concerts title on May 19th at 7 p.m. This is a one hour free event and will showcase incredible musicianship and hard work of our honor students as a part of a pilot

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honors music program. The will feature a wide variety of solo, duet, and song performances with music ranging from classical works such as zombie Maria and sections from opera to contemporary songs. The title will also

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include performance conducted by Dr. St. May 22nd at the events include band tournament dance competitions and a

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happy contest. We look forward to the entire school and February, March, no April, May. >> Okay. Moving on to agenda item eight minutes. Resolve that the Pasc Valley Regional High School District Board of Education at the recommendation of the

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interim superintendent approve um the Pascal High School District Board of Education minutes. May I have a motion please? Second discussion roll please. Miss Gman, >> yes.

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>> Miss Keller, >> yes. >> Mrs. Martin, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stank, >> Mrs. Hines, >> yes. >> Miss, >> yes. Moving on to item number nine on the

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agenda. Comments from the public. Citizens are invited to make comments regarding agenda items and are limited to three minutes according to the Pasc Valley Regional High School District Board of Education policy number 0167. Person's wish to speak must upon being

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recognized wise sign in and state their name, town of residents and which agenda item they are referring to. Any comments from the public? Moving on to agenda item 10 which is

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policy. There are three consent agenda items. May I have a motion please? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Can we have a roll call, please? >> Miss Gman, >> yes. >> Miss Keller,

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>> yes. >> Mrs. Martin, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. Mrs. Sparks. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. On to agenda item 11. Under education.

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There are five consent agenda items. I have a motion, please. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Miss Gman. >> Yes. >> Miss Keller. >> Yes. Mrs. Martin, >> yes.

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>> Mr. Sus, >> yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Miss Steph, >> yes. >> Moving on to agenda item uh 12, human resources.

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There are 18 agenda items. A motion, please. Second. Any discussion? Miss Gman. >> Yes. >> Miss Keller. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Martin. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. S. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Sparks. >> Yes. >> Miss Stephen. >> Yes. Okay. Moving on to agenda item 13. Finance. There are 22

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consent agenda items. Any discussion? I just want to quickly say uh thank you to all the scholarship awards that are listing on here. Um motion please. >> So second

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roll. >> Yes. Mr. Keller, >> yes. >> Mrs. Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Senis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bartis, >> yes. >> Miss, yes.

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Moving on to old business. On to new business. Um, I just would like to say, um, congratulations again to Dr. Ry Malia,

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who is the Cal the teacher of the year. Um she will be speaking at the next um we have a school boards association meeting. Um unfortunately we also had a negotiations meeting um that same

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evening but I would encourage anybody um who is able to attend who's not um on the negotiations um committee to to the meeting because she was speaking

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and I think I'm really grateful for us to be able to support her. I really really wanted to be there to hear her speak but um it was so if anybody can uh please go attend and congratulations

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and congratulations to Dr. May 28th in Elwood Park. >> Um, thank you, Miss Sparks. Um, is there any other new business? >> Oops, sorry. business. >> Okay, we're going to go on to new business.

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>> Sure. Um, thanks. So, uh, myself and another person at the table was able to attend the stars, you're a star award. Um, I just wanted to say this is the first time being a parent of of a child

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um or or attending that award ceremony at all. And I had to tell you that um I just wanted to share like it's such an important award and I want to thank um the schools for doing that. It was it was a it was in the hills. I assume hills has the same thing. Um but it was

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just such a great ceremony. The fact that there's these kids that don't really speak up much necessarily or don't or don't like they're not the number one in every sport event or you know but they they're the quiet heroes.

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Um and um congratulations to Miss Kirk whose son received the award um my um congratulations. It was just such a nice thing. And and and I'll tell you, my son said, "I don't understand why I'm getting this."

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>> And and that's the point. >> That's the whole point. And he doesn't know who nodded him. And that and that is also part of it because I never know who it was. Um and I just think it's so sweet and some of the nice things that um us as parents got a piece of paper

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that quoted whoever nominated our son. And it it's it was it meant a lot to us. I brought my eight three-year-old mother-in-law and they even said at the presentation, we thank the parents and the grandparents for all their influence

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on these children as they grow into wonderful people. So, I just wanted to say thank you to the schools for doing that because honestly like I got I got goosebumps and uh it's really special. Thank you for sharing that.

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>> Uh this weekend last Saturday I attended the delegate assembly and they had five actually six resolutions. They all passed and if you want to check out what they are thinkates

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Um, anyone else? >> I just wanted to elaborate on the candidacy information that's available now for our next election. The Pasc

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Valley Regional High School District Board of Education will have four vacancies. one from Woodlook Lake, one from Lockdale, and two from Hillsdale. In the November 3rd, 2026 election, a full term on the school board runs for

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three years. The candidate must file a nominating petition with the county clerk for the name to appear on the ballot during the November annual school election. The deadline to submit the nominating petition is 400 p.m. on July 27th, 2026.

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And again, the election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026. Prospective school board candidates can download candidate information from the New Jersey School Board Association's website. And the school board candidate

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kit includes information about nominating petitions, legal qualifications for schoolboard candidacy, and the role of the school board member. Information about the New Jersey School Ethics Act and important dates in the school election process are

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also included. More information and a link to the NJ School Boards Association can be found on our district website. Um, all right. Any other business? Um, moving on to comments from the public. Citizens are invited to make

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comments are limited to three minutes for Pasc Valley Regional Music School District Board of Education policy number 0167. Persons wishing to speak must be recognized. Rise, sign in, state their name, time, and res. Are there any

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comments from the public? Um, we have a motion for seven.