e e e time is now 7 o'clock I'll call the 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 banic Township Clerk thank you please call the rooll Mr Bloomer here Mr cesi here miss Dempsey here Mrs Esposito here Mr G here Mr M's absent Mr Pompeo here Mr senic here and Miss Shen here we have a quarum thank youone please stand for the flag seat all right good evening Welcome to our April 29th budget hearing and regular business meeting uh first you'll notice the board is wearing blue um in honor of autism awareness and then next month you're going to notice that we're going be wearing green for uh mental health um tonight the board will receive a presentation detailing the budget for the 2425 school year and vote on its adoption Dr poris did a recent podcast with Mr Gibbs where they discussed and walked through the budget creation process they reviewed some of the major Concepts and discussed their importance I thought the podcast was very informative um you guys did a great job the budget process is very involved and I want to thank Dr poris Mr Gibbs and the administration and staff for working together to create a budget that we are all voting on tonight next the board will receive training from Miss Charlene Peterson on the board self-evaluation process this training is part of our effort to attain Carol e Larsson Master board certification by this fall I want to congratulate also the cast and the crew of Beauty and the Beast on an outstanding show I attended the show on opening night on Thursday and I was blown away from the acting the singing uh the set design just the overall production everything was professional and everything was topnotch and it was just amazing so I want to congratulate and commend everyone involved from the teachers to the students on a job very much well done uh and just for the sake of clarity I want to lay out the beginning of the meeting tonight it's going to be a little bit different so first we're going to have the budget presentation next we will receive public comment related to the budget only and last we will vote on the approval of the budget and close the public hearing portion of the meeting next we will receive our njsba training and resum our resume our regular format with public comment on agenda items only uh then the last thing I just want to announce is we had previously discussed establishing an ad hoc committee to assist with the future plans for the board office and I had asked for volunteers from the board I got responses and I just want to announce that that committee will be comprised of Mrs bazito Mr Bloomer and myself and now I'll kick it over to Dr pors thank you Mr Sanic and with that I'm actually going to send it right over to the zler girls where the student repres presentative report thank you good evening everyone so glad to see you all again it's been an exciting month since we had an opportunity to be here with you first and foremost congratulations to the cast and crew of Beauty and the Beast who put on an amazing show this past weekend the audiences were fantastic and it was great to Showcase their talents of our students over 12200 Stu people attended between all three shows congratulations to Nano celd Derek lonberger Luke mcgregory Henry Rubble Ryan trar and Andrew zala who participated in the prestigious pen relays Friday and Saturday there were teams from all across the world at this event the boys 4x400 relay team won their heat which was a highlight of the event spring sports are well underway with several Sports hosting their senior nights already County tournaments are beginning with games and matches congratulations to Max B who tied for first place in the kindon Golf Classic with a score of 68 last week congratulations also to coach SLA who had his first hole in one in a practice around this week on the third hole at Sunset Valley congratulations to Ryan teresi and Tyler Den Naples who reached a milestone of 100 career points in Lacrosse and McKenzie minervini who recorded her 500th career strikeout on Sunday the girls soccer team was recognized at the nyj Gotham game at the Red Bulls arena for their state sectional Championship the PT marching band is hosting an open house on May 2nd from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for any students interested in joining the marching band in the fall students in the seventh and eighth grade are invited to attend as well Emily will finish the rest thank you Operation Smile held its annual prom fashion show that raised money for the organization seniors got to Showcase prom tuxes and gowns everyone had an amazing time the prom this year will be held on May 16th pths held a spring pep rally right before spring break where students in the winter and spring Sports were recognized there were some intense games of Hungry Hungry Hippos with performances from the jazz band and the nocubes too it was a really nice way to head into our week break good luck to all grade n students who are having the NJ SLA and language art testing this Tuesday and Wednesday and to all of the students who are going to be taking their AP exams starting next week it is a busy month full of testing at the high school and throughout the district congratulations to those who were inducted into the computer science Honor Society on April 9th this was the second induction class for the chapter that started last year this past Wednesday the Administrative Professionals Day we would like to thank all the Administrative Professionals throughout the district for all that they do for the students and the staff a special shout out to Mrs Milner Mrs M Laughlin Mrs tachman and Mrs hmel at pths seniors are choosing their colleges as they prepare for National College decision day which is usually held on May 1st it is an exciting yet nerve-wracking time and we wish all our seniors the best of luck in their decisions check out the Instagram page pths class of 2024 for the commitments thank you for your time and have a great night thank you both and I just had a moment of realization that may 1 is Wednesday so that that kind of blew my mind for a moment and I just want to give you credit as well this is the first time um as a matter of public record that hungry hungry hippos has been recorded as part of one of our board meetings and it's not standing again I also need them to find out if anybody actually witnessed Mr slap's in one or if this is just by telling people that it actually happened I I I I think you got to take him at as word but yeah we we'll we'll see if we can get any kind of footage I'm sure they have some type of camera there all right thank you both that was outstanding so in light of the two presentations we have tonight to respect the time of our viewing public as well as the board members who will soon be completing my evaluation for the year I will be unusually brief couple quick notes the 60th birthday celebration at Hillview was a wonderful event I thank Mrs Monroe and Mrs stagger for their hard work in organizing it uh the spring musical was a rousing success and played packed houses for all three performances outstanding work by our talented students and the staff members who led them thank you for the incredible support to the families and community members who demonstrated how much we truly value the Arts here in P Township thank you to the track team members and families for the work at the car wash yesterday rare is the fundraiser car wash at which your car actually exits cleaner than how it entered but both my wife and I were quite impressed with how our cars looked so thank you for that and then finally State Testing begins tomorrow at pths over the next few weeks we have the SAT AP act for those interested and njsla testing taking place I pushed out a very brief test prep pep talk on our YouTube channel earlier today and I thank you very much to Mr Shay for his help with that and encourage all students to do their best try the hardest and have fun that wraps it up for my report I'm going to send it over to Mr Gibbs with whom I will help to do the budget presentation well good evening thank you very much everybody who's here um for joining us for this year's budget presentation realize it's not exactly the most exciting of presentations but it's one that's incredibly important something I'll put out there as well I already spoke with one member of the audience who um Works in school administration as a business administrator um I see we have somebody else joining us too if anybody ever wants any um swap notes or to get any of our resources please just reach out to Mr Gibbs or me we are more than happy to share uh with members of our creat I don't have the clicker I don't know where it went um very cleverly hidden he got he's got a very aggressive phone so uh welcome to the budget presentation uh this is for the 2024 2025 school year budget uh the presenters are going to be me uh as well as Mr Gibbs who is our school of business administrator he will manage most of the presentation we'll try to keep it as efficient as possible and of course we are open to any questions as we move along down the right you'll see the basic overview of what we're going to be presenting and we're ready to talk about what we were able to do this year with the uh budget that we have in place for 2320 bug starts with budg budet Basics budget revenues funds plus drivers 2425 budget overview uh tax impact Reserve accounts and anticipated future Revenue yes so for the next two slides we're gonna talk about some of our our Panther points of pride um this was compiled by our administrative team and I already was teased by Mr Shay for how text Heavy this slide is I believe you called it the Mike Port assist slide on the whole presentation but um we do we do provide this because we're really proud of what we're accomplishing and it's made possible by the resources are in the budget so we've continue our ongoing investment in staff and resources for school security this something we believe in very seriously um our solar panel installation is complete and fully operational which makes it selling the Death Star um we've made upgrades to the HVAC system in all of our schools U we've added the Huddle television or TV platform to help live stream athletic events um this is something we're able to provide free to our community we have staff members participating in the conquer math professional development series that's right in town it's a phenomenal resource we're going to expand on that uh for next year and continue for at least one more year thereafter we've expanded Edge Planet so that our staff is able to have easy access to our curriculum we also have a public facing version of that um something Mr Shay is very proud of is we've purchased new line displays at North Boulevard to replace the outdated projectors in the classrooms we've discovered the smart boards becoming very expensive to maintain and not quite nearly as effective and efficient as the new line boards that's definitely a gold star for Mr shed we've implemented sound amplification systems in our prek classrooms uh We've also Consolidated our sip of compliant tools um such as securely filtering securely plas Chromebook management and awareness self Farm alerts um this is a great way to make sure that we are not only meeting the compliance needs but also meeting the needs of our students and their families we have a new speaker system in the high school gymnasium we're also trialing a new instructional assessment tool at the middle school this is called nearpod we've expanded individual Choice reading Selections in English language arts that means adding more text to the in-class libraries we've also added four AP courses AP economics art history pre-cal and AP seminar um we've we''ve pushed Out full implementation of the ready math program for K to 5 updated scoreboards at PV in the middle school we now have two scoreboards at PV which really adds to the experience in gym and there's a new playground at Hillview which is really nice and I believe it's paid for largely with Grant M uh treps program is now thriving in all three elementary schools for anybody who went to the um the marketplace at Hillview it was phenomenal and it packed very exciting we had our opening faculty pep rally here our guest speaker was ha Giuliani who was very well received despite being an Eagles fan um our girl soccer team was sectional Champions they were recognized this past weekend by the Red Bulls which is great noctes qualified for National semi-finals and they sang the national anthem at Yankee Stadium again which is really nice to be able to say for those of you scoring at home our band will be playing the national anthem at Yankee Stadium on June 4th our spring musical was incredibly successful that was Beauty and the Beast our boys basketball team was the holiday tournament champions We had a 1600 Point score in girls basketball that's kloe Vasquez and then we had a 1700 Point score which breaks the boy scoring record and that's Carson Kuka Ryan trar was state champion indoor track 400 meters we had our first ever female champion in wrestling in school history that's sopia clutcher our peer leaders at PB and student council provided lunch to the fic First Responders which is a wonderful event we Al They also hosted the second annual Cedar senior citizen holiday breakfast we had over a 100 guests which does not include me I was there and it was tremendous a lot of fun uh PV did a spring Musical music man Jr and at the high school we have two National Merit commended Scholars which is very very difficult to achieve now I'm gonna seed the floor to Mr Gibbs and let him talk to you about really the meat potatoes of what he does okay first we're gonna go over the budget Basics or funds the budget is comprised of two sides revenue and appropriation some people say well why isn't it expenses well in fund terminology Appropriations is your budget the expenditures is the ending process so you have Appropriations and you have incumbrances which actually hold the funds for your expenses once you cut the check then it becomes an expenditure so for this terminology we'll use revenue and Appropriations at the end of the day these two sides must equal each other earn expenses or Capital outlay this budget component support the day-to-day operations of the district the capital outlay category funds current year purchases of items in excess of $2,000 this area is a focal point as it provides the foundation upon which the budget is built federal state and local grants these are grants provided to the district for specific purposes the money is in these accounts zero out at the end of the year we what we receive varies annually and is spent according to the grant Debt Service these are monies previously approved by the community examples of this category are bonds and um building construction and Renovations building the budget for 24-25 what principles guide us first we have to be considerate of the taxpayer dollars we have to maintain acceptable class size maintain classes and programs from previous year when feasible obviously investigate opportunities to enhance educational programs and opportunities a few points to consider the board of education's Revenue is limited by Statute anticipated annual labor cost increases exceed anticipated revenues in the foreseeable future and these labor costs increase include salaries health benefits and pension costs what's new in the budget for 2425 we invested in special education and intervention services at all levels including a new emotional regulation impairment program for the elementary school stud students replacement of the high school parking lot replace windows with energy efficient windows and improvements to the ball fields so now we're going to go over the revenues and this is in quite a bit of detail but I'll go through it in detail reading from left to right we have the local tax levy so the proposed for next year is $39 m782 65 the current year as of right now is 38,6 74,8 57 which represents a change of 1,154 at a 2.86% change tuition revenue and the amount to 1 th excuse me 1,265 n66 the current this year is 1,241 144 the change is an increase of $24,885 or a 2% increase miscellaneous and Rental revenues uh actually I left this flat it's at a 19771 for both next year and for this year reason being that we have an RFP for before and after care programs which we are working on currently and that may change this number depending on the outcome of that that RFP state aid which is the number that is given to us by the state for next year it's $3,154 639 for the current year right this year it's 2, 94821 and the change is 26518 or a 7.01% increase fund balance for next year is proposed at $ 4,330 476 the current year is $4 4,111 146 for a dollar change of an increase of $229,300 or a 5.59% increase capital reserve will be using $1,674 333 for this current year we used $1,252 th000 which a change of $422 333 at a 33.7 3% increase Medicaid which is the number that is given to us by the state is $ 28,42 for next year and $4,825 something $70 excuse me at a 14.37% increase maintenance reserve for next year we're actually tapping into it we're going to be looking at $949,000 $511 versus this year we did not need to tap into it so it's at zero so obviously the increase is the $949,000 which is 100% increase it's an adjustment for prior year incumbrances prior year incumbrances mean that at the end of last year June 30th there were things that were purchased which were not completed not completed meaning that we didn't receive the products or the services were not completed so it carries over to the next school year and what you have to do is you have to to pick up the prior year incumbrances not only as a revenue which we're showing here but also as an appropriation which will zeroed out at the end of the school year so obviously there's nothing for this for next year 2425 because we have not completed the June 30th 2024 school year once that's completed there will be a number in there for next year but for the um this current year it's 48285 thou $815 and obviously the change is the same which is 100% increase so the overall budget is at 51,3 181,182 versus currently it's 48,900 which is a change of 2.4 million at a 5.03% increase where new money comes from there's a there are limited ways for a board of education to obtain new monies for the upcoming budget year to the right our general pockets available and applicable to banic first we look at the local uh tax levy at 2.86% which includes a banked cap typically a board of education is allowed to increase on the tax levy by 2% unless you have something called a bank cap the bank cap actually is uh a number that is given to you by the state based on the increase in health insurance so the the state is trying to help accommodate the increase in health insurance which doesn't cover 100% obviously and there's also state aid that's determined by the state uh exclusive of extraordinary Aid and securing child our child's future our district received an increase of $ 20658 for special education general education was flat funding meaning there was no increase tuition some out of District families pay tuition to send their children to our schools miscellaneous revenues are interest income rental income refunds fees Etc the contracts that we have we have with Bloomingdale which will be expiring Lincoln Park uh Morris County bch Unity Charter School Wayne Riverdale and the Holy Spirit school this just goes over the revenue increases which we saw in a prior slide for 24-25 Budget the tax increase is going to be $1,548 tuition $4,825 as we saw miscellanous and Rental income is zero state aid 206,000 fund balance is going up by 253,000 capital reserve 422,000 Medicaid reimbursement 3570 maintenance Reserve we're actually tapping into the maintenance reserve for next year of $949,500 anticipated future tuition revenues bud you combined there are shared time and full-time AC academis in preschool for the 2022 2023 school year uh the actual amount was 1,174 433 for this school year we budgeted 1,241 14544 for next year we've budgeted 1, 12659 66 $6 anticipated future revenants revenue from the share time Academy will not fluctuate much growing forward the tuition rate is basically set by the Morris County VCH for the 2022 2023 there are 81 students at $3,867 which totaled $313,200 or a total of2 7680 for next year it's anticipated there will be 70 students at a tuition rate of $4,513 191,192 I keep in mind that enrollment numbers will not go up over5 because we are capped at 60 per grade for the share time program this includes Juniors and seniors only only and assume some attrition full-time partnership that's with stem Allied Health and Aviation currently we have Bloomingdale which is not going to renew in a future Lincoln Park and also including Wayne Riverdale Holy Spirit and unity Charter students for the 20232 2004 there are 69 students at a total of $796,000 it's anticipated for the 20242 school year there'll be 58 students at $798,000 a quick Point too about the full-time Partnerships uh Bloomingdale elected not to renew um that was a decision made by their Board of Education um they ever want to renew it they reached out I would be open to it and then as far as our partnership with Lincoln Park uh they can send students here uh full-time allet Health Academy and that would allow them to attend grades 9ine through 12 uh for this upcoming school year they're still eligible for the Aviation Academy their board still needs to determine if our Aviation Academy differ significantly enough from the one that butin is proposing um and if they determine that then students would be able to continue to attend here um as freshman forward obviously in the Aviation Academy l park students are not eligible for STEM Academy because botin offers a similar program therefore they are not eligible to attend unless they want to pay their own tuition as individual students um but it's important to note too it's Bloomingdale nonrenewal students who already here from Bloomingdale our grandfather in so they'll be able to graduate and if anything changes with the Aviation Academy for future years students are already here similarly grandfather did so now we're going to go over the uh 2425 budget certified tax levy form now this form breaks down the tax levy from a fiscal year to a calendar year for the total budget and taxes if we're looking at the far left corner we see that the general fund is at 39 million The Debt Service is $982,000 for a total of 4,763 220 now we're going to break this down into the actual calendar year you have to pick up the prior balance year of January to June which is 19 m337 374 for the general fund 481611 for The Debt Service and 9,818 n85 then you have to pick up the second half of the year which is July to the December which is raised in 24 which is the first half of our school year which refs the general fund of $1,892 828 dead service of 51344 for a total of 20, 394 172 so when you combine those two columns now you come up with a total 2024 calendar year tax levy so obviously the two added together is $39 m2302 $982,500 for a total of 4,231 157 the far right column shows the January to June to be raised in 25 second half 2425 taxes which is 9,887 437 for the general fund and $481,500 okay now we need to take a look at the estimated impact on home homeowners uh some of this information actually came from the town tax assessor like the town total valuation it's at 2 Bill 597 mil 31,200 the 2024 tax levy of 4,213 157 if you divide the 40 million into the 2.5 billion you come up with a tax rate of 01548 now the average home assessed value not market value but the cess value at $549 346 times the rate of 01548 equals an estimated School tax on the average assessed home of $854 which is a $28 increase from the current year so this increase is the average home assessed value now we break down even further to do a comparison okay so we take a look at uh the second half of the 2324 tax levy obviously there was1 19 million the first half of the 2425 tax levy it's 20 million for a total of 4,213 157 the uh valuation as of the current year is 2.5 billion the tax rate we just saw is at 01548 and the average home assessed value of 549 346 gives you the home average value of of 88,000 5 for the calendar year 2023 once again we're converting to calendar year second half of the 2223 is 9,439 180 for the first half of the 2324 tax levy is 9,889 185 for a total of$ 39,2 158,159 billion at a tax rate of 01565 for 500 on an assessed average home value of $53,900 change change or was it a$ 209 $29 change or excuse me increase so now we take a look at the tax levy as it increased in decreased so obviously we're looking at the um the uh the increase over all so for 2023 24 it was at 38,6 74857 for 2024-25 it was 39 m726 for an increase of $1,154 Deb Service uh for the current year is $963,000 the total general fund and Debt Service for this current year is $39 9, 63874 for next year it's anticipated to be 4,763 220 $220 for 1,1 125,1 142 increase which is a 2.86% tax levy increase and now we've taken a look at the revenues now we have to go to the other side so we take a look at special programs special programs the proposed for next year is6 million 46,4 the current year is$ 5,971 1173 for a change of $175,200 which represents a 1.26% increase regular education is proposed at $1,135 493 the current year is $4,899 for a change of $46,490 which is a 1.66% increase tuition tuition this is for expenditure not Revenue $2,421 44 is proposed the 2, 32589 is the current and the change is $95,500 for a 4.11% increase then we take a look at speech OT PT and other outside services so for the proposed it's 96126 for the current year it's $97,900 the dollar change is $ 44,7 which is representing 4.81% increase child study teams $958,000 proposed 9355 current 54867 uh is the change which represents a 6.07% increase General Administration the proposed for next year is $790,000 43 the current is 93,00 5454 $54 which is excuse me excuse me BR back up a second General administrations is 790,000 the current is $988,000 uh which represent a decrease of 198,000 which is a decrease of 20.11% and the school administration it's proposed at 1.8 mil8 44,0 the current is 1,88 92 which represents a $ 35,320 increase or 1.95% Central Services it's a $579,950 16,29 with a decrease of $ 43,7 44 which represents a decrease of 5.99% operations and maintenance 4,651 excuse me 4, 65121 proposed 4,896 4040 current with an increase of $561,500 which represents a 13.73% increase student transportation is 1.6 million uh proposed 1.4 million which is the current year and the change is 132,000 887 which represents a 9.05% increase employee benefits we're looking at an $8.1 million proposed $7.8 million current and the increase is $84,700 increase other expenditures there's a $5.2 million proposed uh the current is at 4.8 million with the change of $348,000 342 which represents a 7.15% increase and for facility it's 1.3 million for next year proposed the current is 776 323 which leaves an increase of 5238 128 which represents a 67.4% increase so looking at the overall total operating budget we're looking at 40 49 m719 186 for proposed taking the 47,5 3,244 uh current less the uh incumbrances for the prior year brings it down to an actual of $47 m204 29 and obviously that makes the adjustment of 1,759 127 increase which shows the actual increase in the budget of 3.71% I just want to back up for a second and explain why the decreas is for General Administration which is the board office and the Central Services uh which is the business office there are decreases that because in that current column you're looking at for 2023 2024 that actually reflect reflects excuse me from the midyear budget the mid-year budget um is required to increase the administrative costs in order for us to qualify for What's called the regional limit in the regional limit if you do not qualify in your Administration you will have to make serious Cuts so that's why we do some shifts at the midyear budget in order to accommodate for that but obviously for this purpose it shows that it's a DE but now we're going to break down what are other expenditures the $5.2 million well we're looking at basic skills of 225,000 co-curricular is $282,450 Staff training 97,2 120 a a letics $962,500 curriculum and instruction $1,474 N1 the gifted and talented talented $25,800 attendance $ 36,9 73 and health services at 550 555 214 EXC and now we're going to look at the appropriates what appropriates the capital reserve monies for projects provides for budget requests from the principles as well as the needs from curriculum technology and buildings and grounds it also maintains current class sizes oh well there's no real mandate about what class size is supposed to be we just go based on what uh we believe works best for our community and then um Staffing is is something that's fluid we always have to notify people by May 15th about whether uh they're being red or not um there will be a board meeting on May 13th that will present the um approval of of the renewals and that includes Administration it also includes teachers as well as uh non-certificated staff members now we'll take a look at the reserve accounts we start with the capital reserve as of July 1st of last year the beginning balance was $4,795 47 we increased it in anti anticipation of interest income of $2,210 we took a budgeted withdrawal for this year of 1,252 th000 the budget withdrawal was to cover uh univent it was to cover spus uh and also other uh smaller items so the ending balance that's anticipated by the end of 63024 that's this school year is 3,545 61177 now the maintenance Reserve as of July 1st 2 23 that's the the uh beginning of this school year is was at 1,366 667 anticipated interest of $500 there were no budgeted withdrawals for this school year so it's anticipated that the ending balance will be 1,366 567 capital reserve accounts the state provides boards with the ability to set aside monies for capital projects for the 2425 budget 1,674 $333 has been reserved for the following Paving the high school's parking lot at a cost of $527,000 installation of new windows at the high school at a cost of 1,774 743 and improvements to the ball fields at $75,900 Mia's Reserve account district will be using $949,500 in accordance with the board approved M1 schedule for the following for the banic Township High School 36451 for banic Valley Middle School $223,400 the Hillview School 9,354 North Boulevard School $124,400 inspections repairs and maintenance for the boiler the electrical systems for the plumbing for the roofing and HVAC system there's also general maintenance on Windows the alarm system also requires the inspections appearance and maintenance as well as clocks the intercom system and the fire suppression system us on roll and enrollment history for 2526 obviously you can see that we're relatively flat enrollment from 2007 excuse me from 2022 to 2025 this will impact our state aid in the future so these something these are numbers we actually have to keep an eye on for the projected 2025 enrollment categories we have regular education full-time with $1,685 Excuse me students regular education share time 14 students special education full-time 363 students special education share time 12 students for a total pupils on Roll 274 students there are additional pupil placements we have special education with private placements that are 22 students pupils uh sent regular to regular schools 17 placements a special education other districts two placements and pupils received for academ's 58 students Budget Building for 2425 there are several items that helped our 2425 budget one is the employee health benefits contributions in accordance with the chapter 78 which have been fully phased out at tier four for the past 7even years and chapter 44 has introduced the states educator State Educators health plan as an option tuition from the moris county bch Academy programs and special education shared services with the Morris County Educational Services with panic Township Northern Regional Educational Services and fooled Insurance Fund or also known as pip for the 2024 tax impact this is on a calendar year basis on the average home assessed at $549 346 the total 2024 calendar year general fund School tax levy increase is 2.86% which when coupled with a net valuation taxable and required Debt Service equates to $17.34 per month or $28 annually thatb service we have a serious 2013 ISS issue payments of $344,450 we have series Bond 2016 issue payments of $122,600 with a total 2024 2024 Debt Service of 1,327 76 less Debt Service uh aid from the state of $344,000 now the 2013 Debt Service uh will will be done in 20 28 and the 2016 series payment Bond payments will be completed in 2029 state grants for grants for the state and federal government you do it through a conservative measure of percentages of the prior year so for state grants you actually budget 90% of the prior year so the state Grant we're anticipating $490,000 36 for title fund grants these are federal $185,900 for idea which is special education that's $56,700 total grants on fund 20 of $1,260 542 and that completes the budget presentation are there any questions should probably head back up there for for questions y e all right so I have uh one question and uh one comment I think next year we should get like a color commentator like uh like to have from a then Night Football that can like isn't that what my's doing yeah right um so uh M Mr Gibbs thank you for the presentation extremely detailed uh right down to the uh the penny which is very important people in the town want to know where their money goes and they want to know that the person that's uh putting together their budget leading the charge certainly knows where it goes so thank you for that the question I have is can you talk a little bit about fund balance you spoke about it in your podcast with Dr Boris just talk about the importance of it and um what portion or percentage of the budget it should be and where's our where ours is currently okay to me fund balance is one of the most important aspects of a budget because that's your base that's where you're starting from if you have a very low fund balance I can almost guarantee you you're going to have a very rough budget for us right now we're between five and six% which is where I like to see it it's enough where there's a cushion where if something happens uh we're prepared if you have a low fund balance you have nowhere to go other than to tap into your reserves if you have those reserves or you have to go to the state and ask for help or you have to go out for a referendum to the town to get in more money so to me fund balance is extremely important and what fund balance is it's the accumulation of funds over the years now it can go up and can go down it depends on how you spend your money and how you watch your money I know for me I watch our money very carefully um I always do start the budget a year and a half in advance I'm actually working on the 25 26 budget right now and some Ba say well that's awfully early well no because I'm coming into the end of this school year which means that fund balance ending balance is the beginning base of my 25 26 school year so if I don't have a solid BAS which we will then we could have a rough school year so I I try to plan as far in advance as possible so we have a very good smooth school year thank you anybody else any questions uh you were pointing out the population of the student population over the last couple years when you said we have to watch out for there keep an eye on that what exactly do you mean by that what's the impact for the future what I mean by that is if our student uh enrollment drops too far that affects our state aid so obviously there's nothing we really can do about it other than to try to bring in students from other districts into our district but otherwise there's not much we can do about it but when it does drop and we keep an eye on that we can prepare MoneyWise as to how it's going to affect us so we have to keep an eye on it it's very important yeah and what's the timeline we're looking at next year next three years next decade timeline for the having worrying about the drop like it's uh accounted for every October 15th through the Assa and through that Assa that's where the state determines as to how much state aid we're going to receive yeah I want to add to that too we did the demographic study and it showed in the future years our enrollments should be should be studed so Ben you can have one more child Vinny one or two more um this is also related to uh enroll so it looks like our numbers um in the share time Academy from from Mars County are decreasing do we have any insight into why that is yeah I can address that one we saw a little bit of an uptick coming into next year but one of the outcomes that we didn't anticipate from pandemic we actually saw fewer kids interested in leaving their home districts for Academy placements and this is something that um our partners at votch have said that they've seen it in their programs as well as in satellite programs as well we're hoping to see it rebound but I think that um I call it an unanticipated outcome because because it's really what it is from the experience 201920 as well as 2020 21 where kids just they want they wanted to be back in something normal we saw a little bit a little bit less interest in pursuing these types of opportunities but we are starting to see that increase again um share times should remain pretty pretty static moving forward and then we will see um slight decrease in the fulltime we weren't getting many kids from Bloomingdale so obviously hurts losing that partnership um but wasn't like we were raking in huge numbers there and then U we're waiting to hear back from Lincoln Park about the Aviation Academy uh we've given them quite a bit of information Mr cop has been a tremendous resource and he and I even did app parent University assorts for their board and anybody from their public back in October which is quite well received I had another question um in the a general or other expenses I forget it was kind of like a catchall category and then you showed things that come out of it the staff training amount has jumped significantly compared to last year what what can we attribute that to anything in particular yeah I mean we we have increased our budget overall for staff trainings we feel like um there are errors we've assessed says need High need areas such as with math we want to implement more there another area we got hit is uh we didn't receive any notification until after it had already happened but our online training portal which was gcn which is global compliance Network um had been funded with a grant for years and then they somehow that ended without them notifying us until they sent us a bill so we ended up having to switch over we went over to say schools which charged a fee for that as well it wasn't as much as GCM was going to charge but couple of uh couple of expenditures that we hadn't anticipated we were going to say anybody else all right this time I'll open up to the public uh members of the public may speak for a maximum period of 5 minutes by the clock during this portion of the meeting if you come up to the mic and speak at this portion you're asking a question about the budget only if you do want to come up and speak uh direct your your questions to the board president and state your name and sign in before you begin good evening everyone and Murray finnen um president of the ponic township Education Association um just one question um and you don't need to respond now but and thank you um good evening president senic um thank you for the presentation Mr Gibbs um I I don't have any idea of how much work it is but I can only imagine I on the expenditure Slide the employee benefits line as you can imagine is something I'm particularly interested in and I I if you could just look at that when you have a moment because I I saw a 10. 8.7% increase and I I don't I didn't understand how you got to that number the numbers seemed different to me so if you could look at it when you get a chance I I looked at the proposed and the current and I didn't get the same numbers as you thank you sand Sandy Lort um I have some questions about the budget with relation to um pass through funding and like other schools that are like holy spirit or and um Chancellor Academy or any of the other schools or for instance the new school that might be coming in how do they fit into this budget and what kind of work is involved with you managing is there extra money coming in um Mr sen I mean I don't understand I really don't know how it works I'm trying to understand the burden on Services sure I'm going to let uh Mr Gibbs Dr Porter answer but what I believe happens is that the state passes money to US okay give to them if they're entitled to get it and we act as a conduit I believe yeah I'll take some of it not all of it um yeah in in many instance and this is actually a matter of policy that's based on statute and code um we are supposed to receive reimbursement for any money that's outlaid for student services um for nursing Services um and for textbook expenditures uh that's not always the case we don't always always received that money back um we've been very fortunate in our relationship with the Netherlands reform school and holy spirit school that um our partnership with them has been very efficient and very effective and I can't anticipate any other new schools what the impact would be I can only speak to what what we currently have um and then there is some funding uh in the form of grant money that to Mr Sen's point we do function as a condent for that so um there have been times that we've approved grant funding and not seen a penny of it so we help do the work for it and then we um we don't realize any any tangible benefits so um as far as the the services to other schools we we might see a reimbursement to a percentage of the financial outlay and then as far as the the the amount of hours used by our people that we just absorb unfortunately okay so it's it's human hours it's work hours that is the cost that doesn't really get reimbursed and the money comes from the state and you you get it and then you have to you have to manage it and pass it out to them is that how it goes so you're doing accounting a lot of accounting and okay I'm just trying to understand the impact of adding another school um in our district and I know I know you all will do what you have to do and I don't begrudge anybody any other school they're entitled to what they're entitled to I'm just trying to understand how that affects you our volunteers and our staff and our community and understand that whole thing um that whole dynamic will anyone be coming to um address this issue the we have a May 8th uh hearing for the 6D Sunset and I was um wondering if someone would be um mentioning that because we're at the point where we'll be making public comments speaking to detriment um and how it affects our community are you allowed to I'm not I don't want anybody to do anything they're not allowed to do um sorry if it's a tough one yeah that and um I'm actually gonna be at a dinner that night for a middle school leadership event but um if anybody from the board is able to attend um I will help make sure that they are amply provided with with any information that they might need to speak to any like a sailing of points okay so I've been to every meeting I intend to hearing we call hearing the next one right I've been to every hear I intend to go to the next one as well I don't know if I'll be allowed to speak um could we get that checked out ahead of time because if you're not well I mean I think that legally I'm allowed to speak I just don't know if I'll be allowed to speak but um that being said I also don't know if uh me speaking wouldn't be speculative because there's no way to determine I mean correct me if I'm wrong there's no way to determine how much money would be outlaid how much we'd be responsible for I it would be basically speculative for me to speak and as one board member right um that's not really my place I'm not asking I will attend the meeting definitely okay I'm not asking for a budget number but you could explain the process and the the type of work that's involved without putting a numerical number on it we're going to have to write checks we're going to accept the money we're going to be budgeting it out we have to do this kind of report or calculation like how does it affect you what is the work I'm not asking for a dollar amount because you don't know that but I'm asking like how you know really what are you gonna have to do and H and how much extra work would that be and again I know you're all going to do it because you're supposed to do it and I have no beef with that I just want to understand the impact um on everyone that's okay oky do thanks thank you okay anybody else okay uh at this point I will close the public comment on the budget and move to approve the uh the action items Mr Bloomer we please move the items under FFA the page all right a motion I'd like to make a motion to move FFA 133-20 through FFA 140-2 24 second any question or discussion just to thank Mr Gibbs uh and Dr ptis for all of the work that went into this and as you were speaking I was comparing last year's presentation to this year's presentation and it I mean just fluctuations and what we have to spend for special services and all kinds of costs that often are unanticipated in the way way that you managed to balance that out and be really thoughtful about it it's very much appreciated all right Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes Miss Dempsey yes Mr gon yes Mr mwe is absent Mr Pompeo yes M chenton yes Mrs esito yes and Mr senic yes motion carries okay that closes the budget hearing and at this time I would invite Miss Charlene Peterson up to the uh Podium to give us our training we appreciate you getting an education in our budget process and uh we look forward to uh receiving your training thank you it's my pleasure and I'll add in there too if you'd like to relive the experience this is recorded so you can you can check out the much presentation long right yeah so we're here to talk about the board's Health evaluation so it was mentioned that the board is continuing its journey toward um earning the next level of certification that the board is already a certified board which means that it spent 16 hours of time together training and is now embarking on the next journey of earning 10 more credits over a two-year period so um just going to help so I I check today and you have four out of the 10 so today we'll make five so we'll be halfway there after today and kind of have a you know a series of trainings mapped out uh to help us get there um so we're going to start um out tonight talking about the board self evaluation recognizing that it um is a task that used to be required of boards by the state it used to be part of qack you know there were points associated with the board completing it and then about four or five years ago when it changed some of the requirements it relaxed the requirement for boards to complete a board self-evaluation so we say that boards that continue to do this work do it because it's effective governance practice so kind of essentially saying that if we hold the rest of the district accountable we should hold ourselves account we should look at how are we doing how effective is our work especially because there's more and more evidence that high performing boards that work together with their superintendent can make a positive impact on student achievement L you so we want to make sure then that we are doing everything we can to be effective in that work and you know kind of essentially saying that it's one of those things you when they looked at the um eight characteristics of high performing boards and a study said that one of those characteristics was boards that did this um reflective work and took the time to look and see how they were doing so recognizing that you know we we need to kind of measure and need to look at our work to see where we um you know where there's areas that we can grow so as part of kind of looking at the board self- evaluation the last slide I showed a quote from the book The governance core so this is kind of some more um advice from the governance Corp as to why board self- evaluation should be an important tool and that's really what they look at it it's kind of a tool in your governance toolbx of saying you know that this is one Avenue as a board that you can use this to help further um Advance your work so saying since it is a tool that we should look at it and say you know making sure that looking at the board as a whole and looking at the work of the board and saying how are we doing recognizing that our role as individual board members is to help make the board itself be a strong body so how are we contributing toward the work of that body again making sure you know that we're acknowledging the the accountability to our work as well um saying that it shouldn't be punitive that sometimes I will see boards um in the board self- evaluation you know make comments about things other than the board instead of saying how can we get better at what we are doing um and making sure that we always are looking for improvement and then saying that it needs to become part of the culture of essentially saying this is the way the Panic Township Board does things this is part of our work so that even as say all of you as even as the board continues to to grow and to change that this is there this is part of the work so that when you bring new board members into the fold recognize that that this is how we do our work this is important to us as a board to reflect on um how we do so also looked at your bylaw so your bylaw in in a board self evaluation it says that it's important that you have individual members be able to record their assessments um to look at the board in fulfilling its responsibilities and then saying importantly you know what do we do with this information how do we um have this use this information to help us in our work so essentially saying as we look at board goals as we look at ways that we can further improve the way we do things the board self- evaluation is an important guide to help us do that and you know I think last year where we had a really good discussion right on the board South evaluation we talked about kind of remember we talked about glows things we did well we talked about grows but we really like had a really good conversation about it and so a lot of times the board self-evaluation kind of allows us to have that conversation right and just kind of sets the stage for it because you know we always say that we don't always take as much time perhaps as we should um on the work of the board because so much of our work involves around the work of the district so the board self-evaluation helps us kind of take that step back and look and have conversations on um our work so you said the what New Jersey school boards offers to you is a tool to help you although I have to say as I'm looking and talking about the tool now we're actually in the midst of changing it um so I'll show you the way it is right now but actually have a meeting tomorrow to talk about what the the next iteration is going to be um and some of it is just because it has been a while since we changed the tool I mean I was in a board that was last year and upward members said you know I feel like I'm in brown Hog Day every year it's the board's Sou valuation filling out the same thing and said okay you know it's time to to kind of refresh and relook at it and one of the things that we'd also like to do you know part of the the superintendent evaluation tool looks at the district goals and looks at progress toward the district goals so we thought the board self- evaluation should should mirror that and look at board goals and what kind of progress are we making toward board goals and have the board be evaluating itself on that so we're hoping to add that as part of the next iteration of the tool to be available for next year but so but through through this whole um board year you know this is the tool that we'll be using so it looks at nine different leadership um standards and then has some open-ended questions so these are the different areas that are the the leadership standards so again and you'll see it's kind of based around functional lines of looking at all of the the different work that we do as a board looking at our relation relationships and allowing us then to assess our performance in each one of those nine areas um so and then the open-ended questions again are just kind of food for thought as as we're setting these goals as we're looking at things that we you know might want to um put some more focus on this is helping us to do that so um from the the perspective of the board self- evaluation since it's not required you know it's completely up to the board to decide when you want to do it so the board would put a timetable together and so usually then the board president would reach out and say okay you know our board's decided we'd like to you know work on the board self- evaluation we C we hope to have it done by you know this is kind of the the timetable that we provided for ourselves and then usually I would come back and have a discussion with the board then about the outcome once the board has done so it you know is alignment with your um bylaw of saying that you know provide for individual responses so each individual board member logs in fills it out and then New Jersey school boards compiles it into one Anonymous document so you know separate from the superintendent evaluation where you have to wait to get a link um the board self evaluation is always open on our website so whenever the board is ready you can just go to the evaluation page on our website and you know click on that begin the board self- evaluation process now um so again like I said the timing is completely up to the board um it really is just kind of as as you look at your kind of your timetable for your work you know some boards do it at the end of the board year like in December before you reorganize and say okay let's reflect on how we did last year some boards do it when you're setting your goals again because the outcome of the board self- evaluation um you know helps in that process some boards do it the same time they're doing their superintendent evaluation kind of saying when when you're in that mindset kind of get both of them done at one time some boards if they have a particular Retreat set up and they want to have the board self evaluation done for that so it really is kind of dependent on you know your schedule the information that you're hoping to you know to glean from it and when it makes sense for you to have a conversation about that information so it's set up for all of the board members to be able to participate and then also optionally if you wanted your superintendent or board secretary to be part of it um they are welcome to be part of it as well I say more often than not that's usually not the case but it's you know they're we consider them they're part of your board team right um the only thing is there's two parts to the board self- evaluation about the board and about you as the board member so they would only complete the top part about the board um so this then is one of those compiled stat standard so here's the you know one of the nine standards was planning um the board self- evaluation is based on a 4.0 scale with you know commendable being the the the Four Points um so it again allows the board to evaluate about the board and then how you as a member how did you help contribute to the work of the board um and then you are able to provide comments under each one of the standards with the asterisk kind of identifying a different member speaking um so again the board can use this then to have conversations to help identify areas of strength and help identify areas where more growth is needed um we you know focus on the overall board score for a particular standard so in this example the overall board score was a 2.6 for that standard so we always say anything under a 3.0 if I were talking to that board I would tell them okay you've identified this as an area then that your board needs to give some more attention to it sure yeah that is perfect point and that was one of the things that when we redid superintendent's evaluation tool that we talked about the importance of that and said that that same thing needs to happen from this tool for exactly the reason that you stated is that sometimes two board members can have the same impression of the work that the board was doing but then the term you use to evaluate that could be different so it helps make the tool more meaningful when everyone is looking through that same l in terms of what the evaluation means so yes so so thank you for bringing that up and that is um definitely part of the process um so you know one of the things too that's also important is to be able to look at um year over-year how are we doing so like this was one of years from a couple years ago that I just had had saved on my laptop so I'm just kind of wanted to show you so again the board can look at its performance in each one of these states standards so again continuing to use this as a tool to help us evaluate our work um so then again as we look at the board self- evaluation making sure that we're evaluating the work of the board as a team not talking about the district the staff other board members and it should be helping us inform the work that we're doing so that we can continue you know continuously um improve in our governance work and then really it's a much more meaningful tool if we can get all of the the board members to participate and hear everyone's voices um so again as as we look at this process and say okay you know what what really helps make this be effective is making sure everyone's voices are heard the focus is on the work of the board is part of the board's team it's part becomes part of the board's culture that this is how our board holds itself accountable and then it provides a framework for future board success so again as we look at this we you know should consider the value of it being a tool um for that very reason so I also wanted to acknowledge you know as much as we've been talking about the the training of the board as a whole that um this Thursday that Morris County Schoolboard Association is going to be recognizing board members who were earned individual certifications um throughout the year um and so just wanted to you know commend the quic township board for the work that individual board members have been doing to earn certification um and so they'll they'll be acknowledged this this Thursday at the Morris County meeting but one of the things that I really wanted to emphasize was like as we look at like the certified board member so you see that there's four board members from Panic Township that are being recognized at this there are only nine board members in the entire County and you guys are four out of the nine um the same thing with the master board member there's only nine board members you guys are three out of the nine and certified board leader there's only five and you are two out of the five in the entire to acknowledge the work of the board and the commitment that the board has made toward training both together as a team and as individuals again just wanted to say thank you and it clearly shows in the work that you're doing here so um that was all that I had unless any of the board members had any questions for me okay well thank you everyone yeah just want to say thank you Miss Peterson um for coming to always give us s such great training um any of us that are on that slide or the board as a whole with our certification definitely would not have gotten without your help and your guidance so we appreciate it and thank you very much okay Believe It or Not we've gotten through the first page of the agenda and now we will move on to the approval of the minutes from 3:14 and 4:15 so I will ask Mr gon to move those minutes for approval yeah sure um I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes for the March 14th meeting and the April 15th meeting second any question or discussion Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr bloomer yes Mr cesi yes M Dempsey yes Mr K yes to 314 up staining at April 15th Mr mwe is absent Mr Bono yes this shenton yes Mrs es cazito yes and Mr Shen yes motion carries okay that brings us to the approval of our action items Mr cesi will you please move PMC that's me um I would like to move PMC yeah I think we missed the public comment on the agenda item a budget right agenda items correct yes you can do that yes uh m m Mr nasion sorry I uh apparently was drowned to sleep by the the presentation tonight so yes before we move uh PMC I'd like to open up the floor for uh agenda item public comment members of the public may speak for a maximum period of 5 minutes by the clock during that portion of the meeting and the public may speak on any agenda item only if a public raise if a member of the public raises a question please direct a question to the board president state your name before you begin thank you go ahead sign it sheet but uh John AC and Pompton Plains uh right everyone does and um I'm here representing high school music parents um CIS uh 8924 uh still list the cost of band camp for students at $500 we had a meeting with the staff laid out the budget for band camp this year and had requested either a new application or an amendment to the out of state field trip that did not happen so I request that you vote no on that one because that will not cover our expenses for band camp summer unless you can change the number yourself it has to be done through the staff then vote no on that and make the staff resubmit the paperwork so which first off uh Mr Ness which item are you speaking about again CIS 8924 okay and you're saying that that cost is incorrect as it stands on the agenda that's correct it's okay going to be $530 per student cost to the family and again $30 tax out of state 30 so it's increasing $30 so I don't can't increase it right if mean I don't want to go to families later and be asking for another $30 then I'd rather take the lumps now and let them redo it and then uh I have I'd like to second two sentiments one from Charlene that the work shows that all of you guys do and one made by Brian a few months a few meetings ago that you should get your master board certification with these people I agree 100% so do the work thank you yeah I'm just gonna speak to the CIS item and I'm gonna temp for my comments but I know we had a discussion about concerns about that cost and when we set an agenda we don't chase people down they have to get us the information it's not my job to chase people down and get me accurate information um so this is at this point this is the information that we have um if this is something that we need to amend obviously we can we have a whole process for amending um resolutions if it means bumping up from 500 to 530 we just need that coming from our staff members notifying Us in the appropriate time frame this is the this is the cost right I was going to recommend the same thing that we would vote for it it can be amended it's not that it's set in stone but um yeah that would be my recommendation to the board as you vote for it and then on the next agenda if it's updated with the different cost that could be amended just like any other action our next Workshop meeting is the 18 the 13th however we would vote that for approval on the 28th if if it was to go correct yeah if something's considered um urgent time sensitive we could put it on as an action item it's not unprecedented and there will be action items on the May 13th agenda because that's when we're doing the Staffing approvals yeah I mean we we could we could table it also tabling it means it'll come up with the next meeting so yeah that's a it's a good idea too I do respect the um process though that staff should be getting things to us accurately and in a timely manner and I'm a little disinclined to get in the habit of tbling things because they have be you know we us making the decision to table it because they haven't done what they needed to do okay well close public comment and move on to approval of the action items PMC I'd like to move PMC 22724 through PMC 239 d24 second any question or discussion Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes M Dempsey yes Mr gon yes Mr kween absent Mr mpeo yes Miss chanton yes Mrs espito yes and Mr sen yes motion carries okay thank you uh I would now ask Mrs espo to move the items under CIS I'd like to move CIS 8 7-24 through CIS 9424 second question discussion Mr Gibbs please call the roll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes M Dempsey yes Mr gon yes Mr mwe abson Mr Pompeo yes Mrs chanton yes Mrs Esposito yes and Mr senic yes motion carries thank you Mr Bloomer would you please move FFA yes I'd like to move FFA 14124 through FFA 15224 second question discussion Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes M Dempsey yes Mr G yes Mr Mi is absent Mr Pompeo yes Mrs chanton yes Mrs Esposito yes and Mr sen yes motion carries I'd like to take a moment to thank Exon Mobile Educational Alliance program the Grand Slam club ptea and Britney Franks for their generous donations thank you Mr Bloomer uh Miss Dempsey would you please move FY you have motion to approve P1 16-24 second question or discussion Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes Miss Dempsey yes Mr gon yes Mr maxini is absent Mr Mr Pompeo yes Mr M shanton yes Mrs Esposito yes and Mr sen yes motion carries thank you Mr Pompeo would you please move the item under other yes it be my pleasure I'd like to move o-12 d24 second any question or discussion Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes M Dempsey yes Mr gon abstain Mr mweene is absent Mr Pompeo yes Mrs shanton yes Mrs espito yes and Mr senic yes motion carries okay that brings us to our next opportunity for public comment this time member of the public may speak on any agenda item or any item that they wish for a maximum period of five minutes by the clock uh if you raise a question please direct it to the board president and state your name and sign in before we begin uh John Asen pton Plains High School music parents just a couple uh more things from the music department the Winter Guard finished up their championships uh placing seventh out of 17 schools in their division uh down in Trenton the High School Musical uh my records don't go back as far as Sam's do but this is apparently in anyone's memory the the greatest attendance that it's definitely on records but we don't know about before records but there were over 1,200 people in attendance um this past weekend um marching band auditions and interview process is complete so this uh this Thursday at the open house they'll introduce the new student leadership for marching band next season um they'll be here to speak with anyone interested in joining the marching B and then the staff who reveal the new music show design and things for next season uh to the band at that time on Friday the nocs have been invited to uh Northern Highlands Regional High School they have a a two-day Acappella Festival there and the NOC Dives are the headliners for Friday night so they do the opening the national anthem they're doing their competition set and then they've also asked them to do three to four other numbers that they've worked on through the past se you know this past season um seasonal stuff that they've done and and things like that so they'll be performing probably close to an hour uh this Friday which you know in the grand scheme of things they usually get about 10 minutes but they're sort of half of the show on Friday so if anybody wants to drive up there you're going to you hear um everything from their year not not just their competition set and then on May 10th the Friday after the friends of panic Library are holding um a jazz concert here they're bringing in uh Bloomingdale cornette band and then we're gonna have they best hour jazz band to perform they're working on a new number um with a soloist uh from our school meline Henry is going to sing a solo with one of the Jazz Band songs and I believe the natives are performing as well so that kind of kicks off their they do like a whole summer series of concerts but they want to do the jazz concert here with uh with our groups uh May 10th thank you so thank you and and I just want to thank you for coming to our meetings and keeping us a breast of all this stuff so you probably are good for you man actually one thing I'll point out too um if you've ever been Northern Highlands I actually taught there for six years that Auditorium is a spectacular place for any performance it's actually somewhat in the round so you get some really good Acoustics there so hopefully people get a chance to make the track up there yep yep okay any board member with unfinished business how many how about new business board member announcements I'll go I uh was able to attend H's 60th uh birthday party which was really amazing um and the I have to say the student speakers were phenomenal in my personal opinion but they were all great yeah especially the second grader but they were um they were all great it was a really great celebration um and you could just you know the energy is just palpable and the uh in that school in the district as a whole so that was really fun and then I also had the pleasure of seeing the musical over the weekend amazing time such great talent on the stage you could tell how much hard work they really put into it um and and packed room and people singing along so it was a lot of fun I also attended the Hillview 60th which made me feel really old older uh it was it was a great celebration that was a lot of fun uh um it even started to drizzle a little bit in the middle of it which was interesting um there were some really interesting parts of it so but it was fun it was a good time I didn't know we had uh had the panther down there until came running out kind of freaked me out a little bit okay I'm good I just want to thank uh Mr Gibbs and the entire Administration for putting together the budget for us thank you I got a couple uh 4:17 I attended the morning County council of education associations friends of Education celebration that's a lot of words uh this year was very special for quic as our very own Dave Cole was honored so that was really cool and also anarie finnon again was the MC and you did an outstanding job running the ceremony so great job uh on 428 I attended the eagle scout ceremony for Dominic giosi that was yesterday uh and we had previously honored Dominic but I again expressed to him how proud we all are of him and told him to continue to be an example for his great work into uh the community the last thing I want to say is on 52 as uh Charlene Peterson said there's going to be the Morris County School Board Association meeting and they will honor some of the Board of Ed members in Morris County that have achieved individual certifications this year and as Charlene Peterson said I'm proud to say that the Quantic is making a very strong showing with six of our members being honored and additionally Miss Dempsey has been nominated for the Irene lefave excellence and so I want to congratulate her on being honored I hope she wins and uh I want to just encourage everyone push everyone to keep going for that next level if you're certified get master if you're Master get you know certified board leader whatever just keep going it keeps us all getting better uh and last thing on 59 there's going to be a veterans wall committee meeting um and we'll report more after after that meeting I just Chim in one thing too I just want to point out from the mccea event which was lovely um I was very proud to see Miss finnen as our MC for the event and when the microphone chose an inopportune time at which to cease working um she didn't skip a beat as an educator she she kept it going um and and didn't even Flinch and it it it did a great job cutting out on you several more times with with no notification but it really speaks to what we do as Educators like whatever the conditions are whether it's some very ominous looking clouds at the Hillview 60th um event whatever be show must go on and go on do 1,200 kids was pretty or 1,200 people for three nights it's pretty impressive um last meeting I was uh I forgot to share that I had attended the traps Marketplace um at Hillview uh it was outstanding as it always is every year um their ideas are just um out of control they're just so amazing um I spent so much money I had to stop making eye contact because I just couldn't go past without buying something so suggestion for next year would be venmo um as well as possibly if we could get maybe the high school so it's a little bit bigger but those kids are just amazing and they're salesmen I mean I bought so much I bought a back rest pillow a wine bottle with lights and flowers um an original story with a signature um baseball um like sports they took a baseball and like repurposed it into a bracelet I mean just like out of control just amazing and they're such good salesman they're so proud of themselves um it's just one of my favorite nights so uh again I will have to start saving money for next year because I came home with way too much stuff maybe maybe you should stop watching QVC too Danielle no I got to agree with mrso I tend the trps as well and I think I spent like $45 and 15 minutes yeah and um even from mugs to Mrs Pito said pillows and then you're buying a pillow and you're like well if I get home and I have a pillow and my wife doesn't have a pillow I'm G to be in the dog house so I get my wife a pillow and then my other kid wants a pillow looks like Iron Man now I got an Iron Man pillow and the kids are just impressive phenomenal but I mean there's no there's no ending that you go to Beauty and the Beast and it's the kids impress you when they're in fifth grade and they get to high school and and I feel like I'm watching a professional uh performance on like Broadway so it just doesn't end it's an attention to Quality and I was going to joke that one of the students had approached me about setting up his own business of making small cash advances for a nominal fee to people attending the trips um I don't know if it's legal but it's a really good idea so we'll be looking into that for next year all right anybody else yeah I I have something and it's probably not a board member announcement but I know we spoke a little bit early about wearing green for next month for mental health awareness so I just wanted to I know our next meeting is a workshop meeting I was just hoping we could put it on the agenda again to talk about weekend free homework free weekends you know funny you should mention that so I did notify the staff about three hours ago but um we're for Memorial Day weekend which is a little bit longer uh because the Tuesday after is now a snow day will be a homework free weekend for our students as well as for our staff and bye for the staff I mean if you send a staff member an email after three o'clock on Friday please don't expect a response until some point Wednesday because we want our students to enjoy a nice mental health respit we want our staff to enjoy a nice mental health respit so yeah so that I can I can confirm I provided appropriate notification it's out there perfect thank you um that's wonderful and I'm so excited about that um I would still like us to discuss it as more of a going forward program to implement um into 20145 school year sorry oh 2424 I need the homework free weekend to rest my so there you go and um I I can just add on to that too because I think this initially came up um under a policy discussion item and the homework policy was going to be looked at because it hadn't been re reviewed or whatever reopt it in a while um so we could also revisit it at maybe at that policy meeting that we're probably the committee meeting that we're probably going to have before the end of the school year we bring that up thank you all right so we do not have reason to to go into executive session tonight um our next meeting will be May 13th here at the high school that'll be a workshop meeting and I appreciate all that came and attended the budget hearing um is there a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn is there a second second all in favor I any opposed good night everyone