15 seconds 15 seconds on oops welcome to this public meeting of the Princeton Board of Education the board is an elected unpaid group of 10 citizens who set policy and make decisions on educational financial and Personnel matters for the Princeton
public schools on behalf of all residents we are always pleased when members of the public attend our meetings the board and the school district operate under applicable New Jersey laws and under ulations of the New Jersey State Board of Education each meeting includes opportunities for those
attending to comment on items on the published agenda or other matters of interest to them the board reserves the right to limit the time allotted to public participation law limits discussion of individual personnel and confidential matters we hope that our meetings provide useful opportunities for communication between the board and
the community thank you for attending as required under the open public meeting act njsa 1046 at sequentia adequate notice was given for calling this meeting it was authorized by the Board of Education afforded to the municipal clerk Princeton packet and the Trenton Times on January 9th 2025 it was also
distributed to the schools and others on the standard distribution list the board reserves the right to enter into executive session during all meetings of the Board of Education board policy 168 recording devices requires that we inform those attending this meeting that the proceedings are being recorded this
meeting is being live streamed the representative of the Senate District has authorized vote on such matters that affects sending District students or affect the governance of the prince Public Schools as more specifically designated in njsa 1883 8.1 sending District votes pertaining to Personnel actions refer to high school Central
administrative and districtwide staff only votes otherwise are considered abstentions in the event that the statute has amended the law stake presidents over this bylaw thank you Mr Balden would you please call the RO yes sta Kendall here Beth Baron here Adam Beerman here Debbie bronfeld here Martin
franceski here Susan caner here AR Mel here Chris Saria here we have a quorum thank you Mr Balden can I get an uh can I get a motion for um the adoption of the minutes for January 21st 2025 Ari second
[Music] Chris D Kendall yes Beth Baron Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Martin franceski yes Susan caner yes Ari miselle yes Chris santarpio yes yes motion no no it's Del can I get a motion for the adoption of the minutes for
February 4th 2025 uh first Mara second [Music] Ari davan Kendall yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Mara franceski yes Susan caner yes AR
maelle yes Chris santarpia yes motion passes okay thank you everyone welcome to this meeting uh we're going to try to do a very streamline meeting tonight because of the weather outside and we want our staff to get home safely um so we had um a social emotional learning
presentation by John McMichael who's our supervisor of counseling and that will be in March as well as um hearing from some students who won uh some big science Awards so we'll hear from that both both of them in March um so moving on now um can I get a motion for the
ratification of op eiu 32 uh contract first Mara second Debbie um and so before we vote on this I just want to say um that um the opeiu 32 PP uh sta is a new Union and it comprise is consists
of 11 members of our um staff that are part of the tech Union and so we're very pleased to have had collaborative uh negotiation and um have this contract on um the agenda for approval tonight daon Kendall yes Susan
caner yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Martin franceski yes Ari misel yes Chris antario yes it's a motion passes thank you Mr Balden CL first and then because we would also
like you to get home um I know you have a few words to say yes very quickly good evening we are very grateful we wish to express our appreciation for your support and collaboration in completing our Union contract our shared goal of enhancing our community's education made
this Milestone possible we are thankful for your openness to hear us out and address our needs this contract marks a promis beginning and we look forward to working closely to ensure that students staff and community members have what they need to be successful and thank you again for your support and dedication
the members of the ppsa opu 32 thank you thanks very much Gabe Jack for joining us Danny Matt you're here anyway but it's nice to see you all um and I guess everyone but Matt can leave um but uh get home safely and um you know we
really do appreciate uh what you do um because technology is very important and uh you're at the front lines with the kids and the staff we appreciate it all right moving on on now to the superintendent report so I will be brief as well first uh congratulations and
welcome we're we're really happy uh to work with our uh Union um and for those of you that did not get the robo call text or email just a reminder uh that there is a delayed opening 90 minutes uh tomorrow morning um and we look forward
to seeing everyone 90 minutes later thank you thank you Dr Foster um so moving on now to our public forum if there's any member of the public who would like uh to comment now is the time not seeing anyone uh we'll move on
now to our um board committee reports so committee highlights and we're going to start with operations with Susan um again we're also going to do abbreviated reports sent to um Matt sent out to the fellow board members our report so um just for
the public um we met on February 5th at 8800 a uh we covered topics around updates around the referendum uh continuing our sustainability initiatives we had a report on uh several different um projects that are going to be underway and we are
excitingly um interviewing um Consultants on our solar for solar and we're excited to um get that project started uh for the future so our next meeting which is March 5th at 8: a.m. it is open to the public and we invite everyone to join uh for my fellow board
members please see our notes they're very dense and we did a lot of work during that meeting thank you very much um Mara with Personnel for pres uh the Personnel committee met uh 8:30 A.M on Thursday February 6 there's discussion surrounding the district's annual performance review process and the
upcoming assistant superintendent of student services position search our next meeting will be closed on Thursday March 6th at 8:30 a.m. thank you um next up is policy with Beth Baron um policy met on February 5th and we discuss the ma the U policies that are on the agenda
this evening and we meet again on U March 5th thanks Ben uh next upie Right microphone sorry sack met on February 7th we had a presentation on
the bridge program at the middle school we had a presentation on the 90minut Block schedule at the high school and we also had a discussion on integrity at the high school our next meeting will be March 14th and is also open to the public I also want to put a plugin our
first Equity meeting will be Monday March 10th at 6: pm at Valley Road hope you can join us all right thank you I was G to answer that so thank you for that all right um and just because our uh committee reports were abbreviated doesn't mean the Committees are doing abbreviated work in fact it's the
opposite so just again we just want to get every R out um tonight before the roads get too bad um moving on now L1 policies for first reading L2 policies for second reading um M1 uh retirement um M2 resignation M3
Personnel item M4 leave of absence M5 substitute student placements M6 curriculum instruction M7 student services M8 six period compensation M9 job descriptions 10 abolishment of job descriptions 11 athletic appointments 12
transfer re assignments 13 appointments uh and then um we have the ppsta appointment reappointment for 2425 moving on now to uh curriculum instruction and one Grant application uh
Esa for fiscal year 25 N2 student overnight trip and N3 student day field trip moving on to Student Services o 01 educational placement placement of pupils 2425 02 educational replacement of people's 2425 merer County Technical
Schools then we move on to the P1 business uh Financial reports P2 uh determining the form and other details of 89 thou 89 million School bonds of the Board of Education um Mr Balden really quick can you just tell us what that
is uh so that is uh the the form um the legal form which our bond Council provides to us uh we have to do that ahead of time um it was going to be a little tight um we certainly on the time frame if we waited five more weeks so um
which was no problem to do it now okay um but we have to do that up front ahead of the bond sale um on a timely basis okay which is a competitive Bond sale which we're targeting for March 25th um okay so all right thank you Mr Balden
good luck with that you're welcome um I'm sure you'll update us on all the particulars you'll have documents to sign remember yes and one L one L exactly yeah P P3 uh fire and evacuation drills P4 F uh F vhd
Architectural Group contracts for the referendum projects um and no P5 is sale of excess equipment purchase with federal funds P6 settlement Mutual release agreement and p7 is settlement agreement p8 is registration travel
agenda before we move on to our next public comment um we wanted to can I get a motion for a resolution to send the tuition um rates for Pressa and the ppsta to the executive County
Superintendent for permission first Beth second Ari any discussion so why we're doing this is because um there was a recent change in New Jersey law that said that um uh because of some Shenanigans by some
other districts that um only certificated that the can only negotiate a tuition reduction with certificated staff which is our school teachers um but there has been a change and so now um the law requires that we be
consistent with the amount we charge for uh the tuition of non-resident students of non-certificated Staff which includes our um Tech Union and includes our um administrative staff Union so the these
rates are taken from um both both contracts the Pressa contract and the ppsta contract that we just approved tonight um once we authorize this resolution Dr froster and Matt will send it on to the executive County Superintendent for permission uh for his
permission and approval am I missing anything no okay Mr Balin can this be part of the consent agenda or should we do a separate resolution no if it's walked on would take an action vote and it's the um I think you and I'm not I just wanted to clarify the
administrative like un Affiliated staff and then the service Union was that what you or um so I meant our administrative staff so not administrator un Affiliated ad and unaffiliated as well okay thank you non-certificated oh I meant the non-certificated right I just wanted
confusion with like paa our Pressa Pressa our Pressa Union okay great so the uh hold on just so does anyone have any questions want to discuss it y well maybe in the future though I don't know we have more contracts coming up maybe
not have the exemption I mean it's a lot of money we pay for um student we subsidize in my opinion students who come out of District but I understand it's in the contract and that's just how it's going to be but maybe in the future something to phase out thank you uh dff Kendall yes Susan
caner yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman um I said I was gonna go forth yes Debbie bronfeld yes Martin franches yes I um AR maelle yes Chris santarpia yes motion passes thank you Mr Balden
all right now moving on to our second public comment ah we have a taker it's our first one like three meetings so thank you for coming just state your name please and just the street you live on in the town and um please try to keep your comments to three minutes but it'll
be quick um Abby kach Orchard Circle um I want to thank you guys for um for reestablishing agre committing to um protecting our kids and continuing to uphold um the values that we've had and
you guys were all um elected here to to um to represent thank you Dr Foster for serving as an interim superintendent I'm really excited for the new superintendent who has so much background in um dual language and so
I'm really excited at to have the community park school where people come to commun to this area for the Dual language and to actually have that be a dual language um program that is effective for all of our students um there's a lot to be um improved there
and it's great to have an expert in languages um leading the way but it was great to have your um interum here so that we could get to that point Y thank you um and also thank you for your quick action on um some of the issues that
were happening with the um after school program at Community Park um I hope that that continues to be um good I have not had any incident reports yet this week had four last week so you know we're things are going better um so thank you all for your work and I'll let
you guys get home to thank you um thanks Abie for coming and uh we appreciate your comments All Right Moving on now is there anyone else for public comment no no one else all right um holy smokers all right can I get can I get so I know
uh but they don't have that in Vegas on the sports books you know but R R1 uh can I get a motion for the approval of the consent agenda items uh Chris second Ari D Kendall yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Mara
franceski yes Susan caner yes Ari mael yes Chris santarpia yes Susan caner consent agenda passes did you say Susan caner yeah did I okay I didn't hear it I went a little faster right but thank you for yes appreciate it um our next
meeting is going to be um March 18th right here um in the meantime a lot of work will be going on expect that to be a very long meeting but for tonight I hope everyone gets home safe and with that can I get a motion to adjourn Mara second Debbie all in favor all right
good night oh you have a record