e e and welcome to the readingon Township Board of Education meeting uh this meeting is being held in compliance with the open public meetings act and is open to the media and Public Notices were duly posted and the meeting was advertised in the hund county Democrat
and Courier News formal action may be taken may we get a roll call M depto here M fiori here our votes this mener here Mr Beach here m borski is
Ryan here Here We Stand from the flag please plge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation andice okay all right um whereas the Readington
Township School District Board of Education wishes to amend the contract of the superintendent for the effective period of July 1st 20124 through June 30th 2029 and pursuant to njsa 18 A- 111.111 the board is required to provide
public notice 30 days and 10 days prior of its intent to hold a public hearing and to take action to amend extend renegotiate and or alter the contract terms and conditions of the superintendent notice was provided to the public via publication in the district's official newspaper on June
20th 2024 and on June 21st 2024 and publication on The District's Public website every day for the period beginning June 20th 2024 through July 23rd 2024 the subject contract was reviewed
and subsequently approved on June 27th 2024 by the interim executive County Superintendent of the New Jersey Department of Education hunon county office now therefore be it resolved the board is providing opportunity for public comment on the amended contract
of the superintendent the board pursuant to njsa 104 12b the open public meetings act shall not publicly discuss personel matters and shall not respond to comments made by members of the public Please be aware that the subjects of
this hearing retain the right of privacy and shall retain All rights regarding defamation and slander according to the laws of New Jersey the board shall not be held liable for comments made by members of the public we are open to public comment on the superintendent's
contract only good [Music] evening h Carol hle from Readington I wrote this down by way of speaking in favor of the contract I want to congratulate Dr Hart on his tremendous achievement of superintendent
of the year for Hunter County I really want to acknowledge the fact that he may be the longest standing superintendent that Readington has ever had we were always known as a steppingstone district with superintendant moving up to bigger districts he kept his word during his
interview assuring the board that he wanted to find a home in Readington K oh on my glasses uh Dr Hart has gone above and beyond for Ron Cas in point is free preschool for all which was a tremendous effort that he did not
have to take on he has had his focus on our students and not on making a name for himself I feel very fortunate that he has been the superintendent of our schools and he was also great to work with I am grateful that he has been recognized for all his hard work it is
more than welld deserved I congratulate you Dr Hart for this welld deserved recognition and thank you for everything you've done for us thank you Mrs hle anyone else uh my name is Merl bands I am a fifth grade teacher at hro and I am also
the RTA president um I want to Echo everything that Carol said um and just relay that it has been a pleasure work working with Dr Hart over the last few years getting to know him um and while we don't always agree on everything the
level of respect that we have developed for one another um it's definitely palpable and the fact that I can go in and talk to him and feel listened to and heard and seen and respected says a lot
about his vision for this District so I also want to congratulate you and thank you for all the work that you've done and I look forward to more years [Applause] working thank you Mrs V
ala I just want to say that Dr Hart has known how to feel the joy within Readington that we have had and he gives us the tools that we need to be the best that we can be and I think each of you for doing your job and for renewing this contract it means a lot to all of us and the work that we do every day because he
is so great it helps us be [Music] great thank you Mr anyone else anyone from the board okay all
right okay um yes we get a motion to adopt 5.01 so move second Jennifer any questions or comments before we vote can we get a roll call please M
defto yes M FY yes M menah yes Mr Peach yes m w yes Dr yes thank you all thank you very much I look forward to our work to come congratulations thank you all very much
well deserved very much appreciated absolutely all right I know on the agenda it says the board retreat with Judith Wilson but um what we're going to do is just switch it in the interest of if anyone wants from from the public would like to make some comments on so we're going to jump to that part next so
we are now open to the public limited to action items on the agenda anyone would like to back up okay I um you we know who you are so I just wanted to take a minute
and speak to the proposed agreement that is on the agenda with r tea regarding um I guess the issue brought up regarding tuition reimbursement and really I just want to say to the board um thank you for your consideration Dr Hart thank you
for your consideration um of the issue brought forth to you um on behalf of the association um again I just want to thank you our positive relationship is very important to us our positive working relationship
with Dr Hart and with the board is very important to us and again just your consideration being heard and listened to on this issue um says a lot um to us so thank you very much
money I am a teacher at all school um and I want to Echo Mrs Vance's comments um as someone who is pursuing her master's degree finally after 19 years of teaching here um this consideration is an
enormous uh validation of uh your your trust in your staff um and and the efforts that you are making to uh to recognize the efforts that we put in for our students and especially those of us pursuing continuing education so that we
can bring new and current and upto-date um techniques and modalities into the classroom um so thank you for your consideration of this it's going to go um a very long way towards those of us who were a little bit more surprised than we um thought we were going to be
with this but um the fact that you're even considering it is is enormous and very very much appreciate it so thank you okay well thank you Mrs Vance and Mr Mahoney we appreciate your comments honestly and on our job as a board and we've talked about it is to support uh
the great staff in the in the district and the great work that all of you guys are doing so thank you for that and and we're happy that we've come to a you know a reasonable agreement thank you very much okay anyone else all right now we go to
the all right at this time uh we will have the board retreat with uh Judy Wilson that to this way if that's what you'd like us to do sure go over there okay good everyone thank you for coming
thank you very much do we need do we bring a notebook or any paper with us or is this is this just the is this the folder is this from you'll bring that okay got it
okay folder folder Manilla folder Le [Music] [Music] jonason [Music]
so so thank you and um before we really dive into the work and the learning ref I to that I have sister for many years know you your predecessors the association folks I got to see tonight
well the years work I just would never want you to think e e