I'm going to call this meeting to order. Mr. Gibbs, will you please read the statement of compliance? >> In compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act, public law 1975, chapter 231. Notice of this meeting has been properly advertised in the daily record and suburban trends. Its agenda has been
posted at the appropriate locations and a copy has been filed with the Bquanic Township Clerk. >> Thank you. Please call the role. >> Mr. Bloomer here. >> Mr. Sesi is absent. Mrs. Espazito >> here. >> Mr. Giten >> here. >> Miss Ikeo >> here. >> Mr. Mcweeny >> here. Mahalik
>> here. >> Mr. Sen >> here. >> And Mrs. Sh >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. Everyone please stand for the flag salute. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our February 17th regular business meeting. We recently passed the 100th day of
school and hopefully that means we're approaching warmer weather and by the looks of things today it seems that way. Tonight we have a great meeting planned that includes honoring students for athletic achievement and an NJ GPA data data presentation from Miss Ben Sickle. First, we will honor the PV girls
basketball team for winning the Morris County Championship for the second straight year. The domination of this team has been very impressive and the board wants to congratulate you all on a job well done. Again, we are excited to have you at the meeting and receive the certificate. And we also want to give a shout out to the
boys team that made the county final and also had a great season. So, congratulations to you all. Next, the board will honor Rocco the Bull Buffon for capturing the 100 pound Morris County Wrestling Championship. The PV wrestling team also had a great showing at the tournament with Mike
Fusco finishing second at 95 lbs. Jake Tangora finishing third at 90 lbs. Brian Growner finishing fourth at 80 lbs. Tonight, we will honor Roco. Unfortunately, he's not be able to make it, but we will still honor him for capturing that title, but I wanted to mention the other wrestlers as well. So,
congratulations to all of them. Uh, on February 6th, myself and a few of the other board members attended the 63rd Army Band concert here at the high school. It was a great event, and I was very impressed with the performance of our eighth grade and high school band students that joined the Army Band for the last three songs. The combination of
the Army Band with our students sounded outstanding. It was a great community event, and I hope that we can arrange it again in the future. And I want to thank the administration at Pave and the high school for making it happen. And last, I'm pleased to report that on February 10th, 2026, during the initial
negotiation session, a tentative memorandum of agreement was reached between the board and Bquanic Township Principles and Supervisors Association. The memorandum of agreement was reached in good faith and could not have been achieved without the hard work and dedication of both negotiation teams.
The parties are in the process of mutually discussing and developing salary guides. Once the salary guards are agreed upon, the committees will present the terms of this memorandum of agreement to their respective groups for ratification. Terms of the memorandum of agreement will remain confidential until
fully ratified. That's it for me. I'll pass the mic now to Dr. Poris. >> And thank you, Mr. Senk. And I'm actually going to send it right over to our student representatives for their report. >> Good evening, everyone. So glad to see you all again. The Army band performed a
wonderful concert on Feb um Friday, February 6th, and the eighth graders in high school band performed three songs with them as well. Adam, G, and Josie was asked by the Army band conductor to play with them as they were down a percussionist. Adam learned all the
songs and did a great job. Students had mastered classes with the band members throughout the day in preparation for the concert. Congratulations to the girls basketball team for winning their conference. Congratulations to Sophia Kletcha who represented PTHs at the Ruckers University National Women and
Girls in Sports Day. Sophia has been a leader for the wrestling team and in the classroom unified held the home basketball game last week against Jefferson. Both teams worked hard and thank you to those who participated and to those who came out to support our players. Congratulations to Chase Alfino
who qualified for the state group track meet in three events breaking the 800 meter record and the 1600 meter uh meter school record. The cast has been selected for the spring musical the Adams family. The cast has done their first read through
and are excited about the show. The student council executive board met with Mr. Hazer to debrief the first half of the school year and plan for at least some upcoming events. There was also an initial discussion about next year's cell phone policy. Mr. Hazer asked the board to generate some thoughts and
ideas about how to prepare for the new statewide policy and bring them to the next meeting. Mr. Hazer also met with the AP government class to discuss last week some of the policies that were presented in the presidential debate and determine which one or two ideas the
parties would like to move forward with. Some of the platforms are already being implemented. AI literacy class and a reading writing strategies class that will work on some SAT skills. And two weeks ago, it was National Counselors Week. We'd like to thank our guidance counselors for all they do. Emily will
finish the rest. World apologize. Worldrenowned data scientist Dr. Anthony Scregnado visited the high school last week. He has four master's degrees and can speak seven languages. He talked to the students about how to take risks in life, even in
the workforce, because it can open new windows of opportunities. He also has been an EMT with Mr. Nazco, our aviation teacher, for over 25 years. The Noctives performed at the CSA
Mid-Atlantic quarterfinals at Bayan High School last week. Bquuanic Safe Driving Club did a candygram last week where the students and staff were able to buy Valentine's Day candygrams for someone special and it would be delivered to them on Friday.
On Friday during lunch, PTHs held their talent show. Thank you to all those who showcased their talents and to Mr. Boli who organized the show. Last week, computer science held their honor society induction. Congrats to all the new inductees.
Congrats to the winter cheer on their season and a huge congrats to the our wrestling coach coach La Pia on his 100th career co win as coaching. FBA hosted a big sale to fund raise for
Alzheimer's Association. Thank you and have a great night. >> All right. Thank you both and congratulations on the conference championship. Um hopefully we'll see that success get further built upon when you go into the
states and I as you told me four seed. Do we know who you're playing first? Sounds like they're in trouble. All right. And uh before we we we celebrate another group of uh champions uh who are with us tonight, I just have a really brief report to give. I'm sure
that's why most you came here anyway was to hear me speak. So, I don't want to leave you waiting. We will do the um the data presentation after do the student recognitions though. Just figure that might work out better. Anyway, a few quick updates. This week is random acts
of kindness week. So, hopefully uh everyone has an opportunity to commit the occasional random act of kindness. Whether it's holding a door, telling somebody something nice, whatever it might be, uh we we can all play a part in kindness. Um, as has already been discussed, the Army band uh played a
concert here on Friday the 6th. It was phenomenal. They sounded great. And then they brought our students in. Uh, it was really nice, too. Mr. Curtis shared a photo album of the uh, members of the Army band collaborating with our students in their classes. Just really a wonderful opportunity for our students
as well as for the audience. Uh, I attended on Monday the 9th the zoning board meeting regarding uh, 494 Newton Turnpike. This is a courtesy review for the uh new board office that we're hoping to move into. Um they had a few suggestions which of course we took under consideration. We're also joined
by our architect um as well as a civil engineer was civil. Um as Mr. Senic already alluded to, we had negotiations with the principles and supervisors association which went very very well. Uh I was really impressed just as someone a little bit on the outside but
also who works closely with both groups and how efficiently and effectively and really respectfully everything went. Um real testament to the mutual respect um among all parties. Um Caitlyn and Emily already made reference to to the cy cyber security session we had here. I
can't pronounce the presenter's last name, but he was really good, really interesting, very, very funny and had a great just message to our students of um if there's something you really want to do, be the one who worked the hardest to achieve it, and chances are you're going to get there. Um that Wednesday, we also
had our unified basketball program event. Uh it was great. Um our kids showed up, played really hard, and uh I understand the officiating was was pretty good as well. I don't I don't know any complaints with that or
All right. I I'll follow up with I'll let Mr. Zuma know. Um and then I was fortunate late last week to be able to attend the AASA, which is a national group conference. Uh it was down in Nashville and was great too. It was funded with IDA money that was earmarked for addressing our significant
disproportionality work. So nice things cost the district nothing. Um, but I focused on sessions that addressed meeting the needs of all students, the INRS process, positive behavior interventions and other programs that emphasized the importance of creating a sense of belonging in our schools. That was a really a huge theme that was that
was prevalent throughout um, all the sessions. Um, but I was really impressed with it and I appreciate the opportunity to be able to to go to these things um, and meet colleagues from across the nation. I had conversation at one point with a guy who has a 12,000 student district in California and there's
another guy in the conversation who had 200 students in a rural district in Kansas. So, it's pretty different opportunities or sorry, different experiences. A few other things, our prek and sensory playground project is moving along. We submitted an application to pursue a $75,000 local
recreation improvement grant um which sounds like it would cover the cost of the playground, but unfortunately it does not. It's actually 255,000 to install this type of playground, but we really appreciate the support from the township manager as well as our town council um and a very very dedicated
committee team. Um I also had a a meeting uh two weeks ago with a representative from the Jets. I made sure I did not mention anything about the Patriots. Um held held it together, but um we're talking to them about possibly being their 2027 playground
project, which means that they would get involved and actually build the playground for us. So, under no circumstances will I be a Jet fan ever, but if this were to happen, I might soften my position at least enough to be a gentleman about it. Um, and then
quick snow day update. We still have three in the bank. Um, which I was really excited about. I'm looking really the middle of March is when you start to say we might have givebacks. Um, and since the time I typed this this morning till I looked at the most recent weather
forecast, I've seen um, projections for Sunday ranging from.9 in to weather underground had 7.1 and the weather channel at 6 to 10 in. So, don't get your hopes up. I know no one here likes snow days either. Um, hopefully it just ends up blowing out to
sea, but be prepared Sunday. Anyway, if we do have give backs, um the order in which we vote on the give back days, our seniors get the first vote, our staff members get the second vote. Um and then if there's a third one,
that's up to my discretion. And I that is legitimate. There was one year that I hated what the seniors voted for, but I stuck with it because you have to respect the process. Um and then finally, uh tomorrow night, I'm going to be going to the Chamber of Commerce, uh meeting. They're recognizing two of our
students. um also had a really nice conversation with Mr. Peter Schmidt from the chamber um who was looking uh for possible collaboration with the school district on some beautifification projects for the community. And then um looking ahead to next week, we have the retreat on February 26 with the board of
education and administration collaborating on future goals as well as reviewing progress towards this year's goals. Um, and then one thing that um, I just made a note to about it as well is uh, I was glad to have an opportunity. I popped into the student council meeting.
I'm sure Mr. Hazel was thrilled about that, but to get a little input from the kids about what what's their impression of how we're going to manage the new cell phone legislation. Um, and I really do want to get their input. Um, obviously we're going to follow the bell-to-bell ban, but how we execute it.
um I'm interested in their input and uh hopefully we come up something that that works really well and uh that we can articulate out to the community before we come back in September. So that wraps up my report. Um I'm going to turn the floor over to Mr. Silpina. Um and one thing I'll just say too when when we
call the team up since you might be the largest basketball team I've ever seen. Um well after you shake hands, we'll have you start filling along this way and we'll do our best to get a nice uh nice picture of the whole group together. Thank you. Good evening and thank you Dr. Portoris
and the board of education for allowing me to take part in tonight's meeting. Tonight we're here to celebrate the outstanding athletic achievements that took place this past winter at Pquanic Valley Middle School. In back-to-back years, our girls middle school basketball team captured the county
championship. Tonight, Coach Hollsley will recognize their outstanding season. Also, we have another county champion wrestler that I will speak about on Coach Seika's behalf. And following the speeches, the coaches
will call up each individual athlete to receive a certificate of recognition. Congratulations on your accomplishments, and we can't wait to see you represent PTHs with pride in the future. Tonight, I would like to start with our county
champion wrestler, Rocco Buffon. Through the words of Mr. SEA, congratulations to Roco on his accomplishment for being crowned county champ at 100 pounds this season. Roco was a seventh grader, finishing his second season wrestling for the PV team.
He had a remarkable regular season, going undefeated with a record of 8-0 and being scored upon very few times. His dominant performance at the county tournament allowed him to finish with a record of 11-0 and momentum going into next year's season. We wish him the best
of luck in New Jersey Scholastic State Wrestling Championship coming in March. And that's why Rocco can't be here tonight because he's currently practicing for the state championship tournament. Congratulations to Rocco. At this time, Coach Hosley, can you please come up to recognize the girls
basketball team? >> Hi, kids. Um, so I I usually wing it, but I actually was looking over a lot of stats and I decided why not write something this year. Although I wrote it in orange and the lighting in here isn't great on
my 40 plus eyes. Um, good evening. I want to start by saying thank you to the board, Dr. Portoris, Mr. Silapina, and all the administrators for having us tonight to recognize the amazing season these student athletes had. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Tammy Hosley, formerly TRS. I've been a
Panther since I was born and I've been proud to coach many, many amazing kids over the past 25 years. This group is special. Just to give some numbers, they finished 14-0 back-to-back county champions. We outscored our opponents
46.5 to 25.7. We scored these points with 19 different players. Our leading scoreer averaging 17.8 points per game. Um, we had, um, this is one I really like, 131 assists with three players having more than 25
and our leader having 39 assists. And I just want to thank our sixth grade statisticians for all these stats. Um, I have to be honest, they're I think they're pretty accurate. I think they did a really good job. Of course, you know, I'm not going back on huddle and checking to make sure they did it right, but they were they were on top of it the
whole season. Um, when teams played us in zone, we shot the ball. We had 39 three-pointers this year. When they played us in man, we got to the basket going to the line 170 times, making 81, which I know we talked about percentages a little bit. So, that percentage we can
up a little bit in the future. Um, we pulled down 463 rebounds, which is 33 a game with our center having 150 of them and a game high of 28 one game. Um, how did we hold them to such low scores?
Really aggressive defense. Um, I will say yes, we do have a very large team and I think what was an advantage to us this year was other teams had five kids, three kids maybe. I could have honestly put any of them in at any point of the game and we would have been competitive
in all our games. And that's just a, you know, we can thank all of their wreck coaches, which a lot of them are in the building right now, their travel coaches over the years to get them that I always say, we might not have the best record every year, but we're always going to have basketball players in Puquanic.
These kids always know how to play this game. Um, let's see. We had 328 steals, which is, if you can believe, is 23 steals a game. Um, our leader having 75 of those. We blocked 210 shots with our
leader having 55 blocked shots this year. Um, so these are all great stats and I'm definitely thankful to have kids that can do that, but I'm more proud of them for other things. It's not the stats. I'm proud of how they treated each
other, how they challenged each other to get better at practice while still knowing how to have fun. How they rooted for each other's successes and raised each other up through struggles. how excited they were to run over and watch the cheerleaders do their routine and support them. And some of them knew the
routine, too. Um, I'm proud of the kids who came late to practice because they were doing community service for making smart choices in the classroom and keeping up good grades. For the girls who thanked me after every game in practice, and that's a testament to the parents for raising kids with manners
who come and say, "Thank you, coach, leaving. Have a good weekend." I mean, all of them. It's like I would hear thank you, thank you, or you know, or coming right up to me, which is great. The other thing that I think is kind of lost these days is these are all multisport athletes. Every single one of
them. Um, they all play two, if not three, couple of them right now, four sports. So, keep that up, ladies. You can have a favorite, but keep playing. Um, lastly, I want to thank Coach Rogers for being the best assistant assistant and
having the best colorcoordinated scorebooks of anyone around and for all the lifesavers that the girls certainly enjoyed this year. um to my team managers for all your hard work and for coming to every th those
four girls came to every practice. Every practice, showed up, got better, and um that's a testament to them about how they want to improve in the future. Um let's see. To our parents, the best fans
around, thank you so much for everything you've done for your kids. And I have to say like I never had a ref say your fans anything negative about our fans this year. If not, it was the opposite. So that's amazing to hear. Lastly, to the eighth graders, thank you. Thank you for the
hard work, the laughs, and for being great role models to our younger players. You showing up to their travel games, and picking them to be on your threeon-ree teams made their year. And this mom of the sixth grader, thank you.
Um, I've known some of you since you were literally 2 years old, and it's been a pleasure watching you grow up and become the ladies that you are today. I know you're going to be successful in all you do, and I can't wait to follow your path, and I'm thankful to have been
a part of your journey so far. So, I'd like to thank everyone and your 2026 Group Three County Champions. All right. I know all your names, but I don't love saying names in public. So, all right.
When you come up, just Am I? Okay. All right. Emma Bloomer, Harley Borman, that Anna Bonafante Isabella Bonafonte Elena Bannitz
Gwen Cannon Valentina Crui, >> Emma House, Samantha Healey, >> one of my two favorite daughters. You asked me to say that. Caitlyn Holes. Sorry, folks. Daffhany Kernan,
Sophie Kernan, Zoe Lizenbold, >> Remy Miller, who's not here tonight, Annie Annabelle Pacio, Daniela Parker, Allison Pomroy, Skyla Rosa, Alexander Trip couldn't make it tonight
either. Sarah Zgler, Sarah, next year when we go three in a row, we'll go backwards and alphabetically. Okay. Um, and our staticians, Ella Gondor, Charlotte Hefner, who couldn't make it tonight,
Leilani Hicks, and Juliana Tangora. Thank Th those are some really impressive numbers that Colt Trollsu was sharing. Now, Mrs. Vans, you have to follow up. >> I know >> that really impressive data.
>> I I know. I I did speech. >> I pointed out to the girls, too, that the soccer team clapped for everything that we said. I didn't really get any applause this time. So >> that's true. >> We'll look to do better next time. But I'm going to turn the floor over uh to Mrs. Vans who's going to talk about the
fall NJ GPA presentation. So uh back in July, we did the um the spring administration. This is the fall administration. Um I think I might be listed. I am. That's adorable. I'm listed on the presentation as a co-presenter. Um I am more of a silent
partner. So Sanskull, the floor is yours. >> Okay. So, um, we did a fall state assessment for the NJGPA, which is the New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment that it's administered to our
grade 11 students. All grade 11 students take it in March of each school year. Students who did not meet proficiency had the opportunity to take it again in October of 2025. If they don't pass that one, they have an opportunity to do a portfolio um of
performance tests in order to meet the state requirements. So, the NJGPA is designed to measure the extent to which students are graduation ready in English language arts and mathematics. It's reported separately for each
content. ELA is aligned to grade 10 standards and the math is aligned to algebra 1 and geometry. And again, these students take it as juniors in grade 11. So, we had four students take it in the fall, but because there are less than 10
students, I can't tell you anything about it. I can't tell you if they passed. I can't tell you if they did not. But all I can report is we had four. Any question? Thank you. Um, so since we didn't have much to share there, we thought let's
just share a little bit about the new test that's coming up this uh March. So, beginning in spring 2026, the NJGPA will now be on a new platform. Goodbye Pearson. Hello, Cambium Assessments. The test will now be adaptive as opposed to
fixed, which means as the students take their test, questions will increase or decrease in difficulty level based on the student answers in real time. So, every student has a different assessment. The unit times have adjusted. So, I gave
you a little chart there. In 2024, um we had 180 minutes for ELA. Now, they will have um more than that, 240 minutes, which is an additional 60 minutes. For math, we went from 180
minutes down to 150 minutes. So, they have 30 minutes less of math uh testing time. Students who do not take this can again take it in the fall of grade 12 um just as they could last year. Any questions
on the new assessment? It will be done during the week of March 16 to 20 >> prep for this. >> So, this year's unique. Yeah, this year is a little unique because of the fact that it's now a new platform and a new assessment. So, in the fall we had the
um field test. So, everybody got the chance actually to take the field test. All the students took field tests um and the teachers had the platform. It wasn't No, we did NGPA also. Yes. So now um because they were ga the state was
gathering data on how kids did and we actually yeah so um so that was one thing um Mr. Shay just did a training today for the teachers because our training as district testing coordinator district technology coordinator ended on Friday we finished that up we have like
200 slides to go through of things that have been adjusted. He met with the high school faculty today, went over uh the platform, the practice test, and gave out that information to the teachers to get the students onto the platform ahead of the testing.
Okay. Yes, I think they'll be okay. Um because again, they did the field test. It's not that complicated. The platform is actually pretty easy to use. Um the biggest hiccup I think we had was learning that um students could actually access more than one test at a time if
we open more than one test at a time. So the state should fix that. But other than that I think we and that was good to learn that in the field test and not doing regular testing. Any other questions?
Um so our next steps as we just with the new testing platform moving to an adaptive test we'll analyze and align our instructions to standards and best practices. Um we're working on with different teachers that take curriculum in several courses. We just met with our algebra 2 teachers for half a day um two
weeks ago in learning to and working on aligning their um their course thinking about what it means when you have students in algebra 2 who are going to take um the NGPA based on algebra 1 and geometry. How can we work with that? How
can we support and review as we're doing that? Um view reviewing and analyzing data from the assessments. I do not know what data we will get this year. So, I'm anxious to find out exactly what we will learn. Um, but basically focusing on a culture of growth for all students.
That's it. Thank you. >> And I can't believe you already took it down. That was like the inaugural use of the intercardinal and cardinal symbol. It's all right. Too late now.
Were you saying something? um soft launch of >> Yes, this is the soft launch >> of the picture. >> Yes. For the data list data presentation. >> I just can't believe how little information they give you about things that you're supposed to be doing to the
point where you have to like be a a mind readader. >> Yep. >> Like that's about something serious as well. Crazy. Thank you. Do you have a report, Mr. Gibbs? >> Yes. Good evening. Uh, tonight's board
agenda, there is a motion for the approval of the purchase of 476 Chromebook computers for students in the amount of 238,997 for the 2026 2027 school year. The purchase will be on a 4-year lease with
a $1 buyout. It is anticipated that the Chromebook computers will have a useful life of six years. The purchase is for the replacement of Chromebooks that have exceeded their useful life. Also on tonight's agenda is the approval of purchase of 260 laptop devices for teachers as well as advanced student use
in the amount of $31,459 for the 2026 2027 school year. The lease purchase is for four years with a $1 buyout. It's anticipated that the computers will have a useful life of six years and the purchase is for the
replacement of existing computers that have exceeded their useful life. The 2026 2027 budget is moving forward in accordance with the budget calendar as we are waiting news uh from the state as to the figures the school district will
receive. It was mentioned at the last county business administrators meeting that there may be a two-week delay in releasing the state aid numbers as a new governor can be granted that request. The third appraisal for the sale of the board office property where the post
post office resides still has not been completed. I was in contact with Mr. Mcernney who is the appraiser to do the appraiser who stated that the post office finally sent over the paperwork to get started. As Dr. Poris mentioned the hearing for
the approval of the application for the reszoning of the new board office located at 494 Newark Pton Turbike was held on February 9th. We are now working on getting the state's approval for the purchase. And finally, if you haven't already done so, please complete your
financial disclosure statement and submit it to the state for review. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Gibbs. Uh Mr. Git, would you please move the minutes? Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes for the January 22nd meeting and the February 2nd meeting.
>> Second. >> Espo second. Any question or discussion? >> Mr. Gibbs, please call the role. >> Mr. Bloomer, >> yes. >> Mr. Sesi is absent. Mr. Gon, >> yes. >> Miss Ikeo, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcweeny, >> yes. >> Mr. Mhall, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Shenton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Espazito, >> yes. >> And Mr. Senic, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Okay, that brings us to our first opportunity for public comment. and there is no public so there is going to be no comment. So we're going to move on to approval of our action items. First up is PMC and I'm going to ask uh Miss
Shettton to please move the items under PMC. >> Sure. I'd like to move PMC 137-26 through PMC 155-26. >> Second. >> Any question or discussion? Mr. Gibbs, please call the role. >> Mr. Bloomer
stepped out. Mr. Sesi is absent. Mr. Gon, >> yes. Mrs. Ao, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcweeny, >> yes. >> Mr. Mahalik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shenton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Espazito, >> yes. >> And Mr. Senic, >> yes. >> The motion carries. >> Okay. Up next is CIS. And I'm going to
ask Miss Espazito to move the items under CIS. >> Sure. I'd like to move CIS67-26 through CIS-73-26. >> Second. >> Any question of discussion? >> Uh, that's just something real quick. Probably should ask this last week, but
with the elimination of part-time preschool, do we anticipate to see any major decline in enrollment? >> No. No. We're we're anticipating a increase in enrollment because um we're going to
be uh reducing the PSD classrooms which are just special education students and creating four integrated which gives us more room for general ed students. Only anticipated financial burden or or issue could be the following year
requiring a kindergarten um ICR teacher or special ed teacher increase. That would be it. That was the only correct me if I'm wrong, but that was So, it's actually this is actually going to be increasing our population of general ed um preschool students. >> That's good to hear.
Anything else? Mr. Gibbs, please hold the role. >> Mr. Bloomer stepped out. Mr. Sercei is absent. Mr. Gon, >> yes. >> Miss Ao, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcweeny, >> yes. >> Mr. Mahalik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shanton, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Mr. Espazito, >> yes. >> And Mr. Sen, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Okay. Up next is FFA. And we have one discussion item. We move the items. Uh, tuition rates for the 2627 school year. Okay. The tuition rates for 2026 2027 uh
school year have not been completed. uh in your board packet there is a a spreadsheet with some uh different ideas which it's my understanding that there will be an FFA committee meeting to discuss it further. Is there any questions on that at all? No.
>> Okay. >> Mr. I have a question. Mr. Senk, I'm assuming you'll be at that meeting. I don't know exactly who else is in FFA. Will we hear back from you guys with your recommendation in writing prior to our next meeting if we have any? Okay. >> Yes.
>> Thank you. And and I will say too that uh as we've discussed previously, the uh the preschool program currently loses money, a substantial amount of money. Um so that's something that we have to take into consideration.
>> Thank you. So when I'm looking at the spreadsheet, I just want to confirm the um proposed price is in yellow, correct? for full and we no longer have part-time programs. So we only have full day program >> correct just full day programs and you
know as I mentioned it's going to be further discussed in FFA so that column may not be the column. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Great. >> Yes. Thank you. >> All right. Miss A, would you please move
the items under FFA? >> Yeah. Hang on one second. I'm sorry. Just so um you're going to have FFA prior to the March 2nd meeting and then send us an email with what the proposed tuition rate would be. Correct. Okay. I'm just confirming. Thank you.
>> Yeah. There'll be committee meeting minutes and then the rates would be on the agenda for the next vote. >> Thank you. >> Okay. I would like to move FFA24-26 through FFA 140-26.
>> Second. Any question or discussion? >> I just want to say thank you for uh from Kimwigley, the Ruthie Spellelman scholarship fund for valued at $1,000 and the Grand Slam Club for their donation of baseball batting cage, cables, and hardware repair.
>> Mr. Gibbs, please call the role. >> Mr. Bloomer stepped out. Mr. Sesi is absent. Mr. Gon, >> yes. >> Miss Ao, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcweeny, >> yes. >> Mr. Mahalik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shenton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mr. Espazito, >> yes. >> And Mr. Sen, >> yes.
>> Motion carries. >> All right. Last up is policy. Mr. Maxweeni, would you please move the item under policy? >> Yes. I'd like to move P13-26. >> Second. >> Any question of discussion? Mr. Gibbs, please call the role.
>> Mr. Bloomer stepped out. Mr. Sesi is absent. Mr. Gibbon, >> yes. >> Miss Ikeo, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcweeny, >> yes. >> Mr. Mahalik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shenton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Espazito. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Senic. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Okay. That brings us to our second
opportunity for public comment. And as there is no public uh there will be no comment. So we'll close that. Move on to unfinished business. Does any board member have any unfinished business? Does any board member have any new business they'd like to bring up? >> Would anyone like to make any
announcements? Yeah, I just wanted to comment on the uh the army band concert performance that was here. It was absolutely fantastic. Uh the performance that our middle school students and high school students uh did with the the professional, you
know, army band was was outstanding. I left here kind of with chills. It was the music was that good. It's good. It was a free concert for an hour. It was fantastic. Great job by everybody. Anybody else? Okay. Uh we do not have a reason to go
into executive session tonight. So we will adjourn. Our next meeting will be uh the board retreat on February 26th and then following that we will have the March 2nd workshop meeting here at the high school. Is there a motion to adjourn? >> Motion second. In
>> favor I. Any opposed? Good night everyone.