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Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming out tonight. So, we're get the meeting started. >> All right, we're gonna get the meeting started. Thank you all for coming out tonight. All right. So, this meeting is being held in

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compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act and is open to the media and public. Effective March 1st, 2026. All legal notices and board meeting dates shall only be posted on the district website in conformity with state code. Formal

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action may be taken. We are all public. >> Mrs. Cassidy >> here. Ms. Fury >> here. >> Mr. Loses M. Mener >> here. >> Mr. Pieros >> here. M Rad >> here. >> Mr. Ryan >> here. >> Mr. Vinto >> here. M

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>> here. Please stand for the pledgece to the flag of the stands nationy for all. Good evening everyone. Uh thank you for joining us tonight at our board of

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education meeting. We have uh several recognitions uh for some amazing students in the room tonight. I'll begin tonight's recognition with the Hunter County Librarians Association Enthusiastic Reader Award. The Enthusiastic Reader Awards are designed

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to honor young readers and County who show an enthusiasm for reading and sharing books. Read independently on a voluntary basis. Voluntary basis. Key key phrase there. Use public school and public libraries and choose books

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appropriate for their interest level. We recognize these students today as it closes out school library month. The following three students have exemplified all of the qualities of an enthusiastic reader. These students have been invited to a special reception at

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the Hunter County Library on May 20th. Our librarians, Mrs. Singer, Mrs. Romano, and Mrs. White are here to help recognize these three students. Could you come up, please, to help recognize our students? Okay. Um wanted to just sort of share some background on the award itself.

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Hunter County Libraries Association has given this award since before I even joined them. Um one is selected from each grade to uh be recognized for their grade level within the county. Um however um a lot of our enthusiastic readers um we don't want to vow

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unrecognized just one per grade that's okay. Um so we ask that between ourselves and our language arts teachers to give us some nominations for other students all the you know the readers who they're like yes they are enthusiastic readers. Um, so I had 20

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this year nominated across the three grades and we just had a little reception today in school with cookies um to just you know say good job you for reading. Um in the past 15 years at RMS we nominate over 150 enthusiastic readers sixth, seventh and eighth grade

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and we've had a winner pretty much every year starting with Manny Zuk in 2012. So Manny I hope you're doing great. Um the uh our county uh honore for 8th grade this year is Rory Simpson. Zoe Zimmerman, his language arts teacher,

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nominated him and she could not be here. So sharing her comments, Rory has thrived this year in honors LA. Not only does he read attentively, but he also devours his class novels quickly and is able to read beyond the requirements of the class. His written responses reflect deep thinking about characters and the

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conflicts that shape them. And he makes great connections with the world. Rory reads both fiction and non-fiction with ease and is a great reading role model for his peers. He is quick to raise his hand in class and actively enthusiastically participates in class discussions. We're so proud of Rory and all that he has accomplished as a reader

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this year. Way to go. Come on up. for your students. >> Yeah, hang out right there. We'll take a picture. So, um I'm fortunate enough to be at Three Bridges School and not only do I get to see alumni getting this award, I

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also get to see my friend Grayson who was nominated by his teacher Andrea Perez who is also here tonight. Grayson is not only an enthusiastic reader, he's also an enthusiastic student. So, come on up, Grayson.

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All right. So, I don't think our student from White House School is here this evening, but I do have a few words about him. Calvin is an amazing reader who truly has a love for books. Anytime he has a free moment, he chooses to pick up a book and read, which is so wonderful to see. He is always eager to share the

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connections he's making, whether it's to other books, topics we've learned about in class, or his own personal experiences. These conversations show just how deeply he is thinking about what he reads and how engaged he is with the text. Calvin also does a great job

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expressing his ideas clearly and enthusiastically, and he takes pride in sharing his thinking. His strong comprehension skills and natural curiosity really stand out. Overall, his excitement for reading is contagious and he sets such a positive example for his

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classmates every day. So, even though he's not here, One, two, three. Good job. So, I have to admit, Mrs. Freeman and I snuck something on the agenda tonight,

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maybe as a surprise. I'm not really sure. >> You linked it surprise. We have a special guest here tonight with us. The New Jersey Association of Gifted Children has named our own seventh grader, Jaden Chen, as the 2026

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recipient of the Distinguished Middle School Student of the Year for Leadership, and he's here with us tonight. Congratulations, So Jane, this is what I this is what I researched about this prestigious award. We are so proud of you for receiving

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this highly competitive statewide honor. Jaden was recognized for sustained academic excellence and exemplary leadership across multiple school initiatives from leading our tiny forest living lab which we'll hear about in just a moment pitching an esports

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program for middle schoolers being a kindness ambassador plus more among his earnest students many talents. He is a multi-instrumental musician, right? Jaden, a pianist who has performed at Carnegie Hall and he's a hip-hop dancer,

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too. Jaden was also a member of one of our students who was also on the AI committee who joined us uh for a couple meetings over the course of the year contributing with teachers and administrators to a handbook that's now been created for AI in schools. Mrs. Freeman, would you like to say a few

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words as well? What else is there to say like who has that kind of like CD at how old are you Jamie? Like 13 maybe. Yeah. So I just want to impress that it's one student across the whole state of New Jersey and

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um Jaden has earned that award. I would also like to sneak in here that we are five for five in Readington. That the um five times that we have put up a student in the 10 years that I've been here, each time they have achieved that award.

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And um I like to think it's because of every single educator in the district, the wonderful board of education that we have, the visionary superintendent, and this year, of course, the incredible principal that we have. Um, as we segue

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into the next award, which is all these fabulous, awesome students who could equally be in line for that sort of recognition. Um, I just want to point out that I brought I brought the victims with me, some of the high school kids, because I know we were going to be

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wrangling a bunch of kids. So, um, Pierce Logan, if you would come up. He is sophomore. >> Yes. Yes. Go ahead. Okay, we'll do a picture and then we'll move up. Last week was Earth week, so I'm going to introduce Freeman and students to

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talk about our tiny forest and living as well. >> Yeah, as I had just mentioned, I brought some of the um Lily, if you will go over here. Veronica, if you grab that um photo from Sydney right over there and um hold that up because I think the

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visual will um help um everybody understand is happening. Veronica just over there. So, I um I'll just be a few minutes because I'm really all about if anybody knows me, I'm all about like putting students out front and first and getting giving them the opportunity to

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flex their public speaking skills. But I had to bring the high school kids because what happens at this time of year is that all of our accomplishments that we've been like working hard all year start to pop up. And at the end of

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last year, I think it was May, uh we had a team called um Maven, of which I brought some of the superlative storytellers and inventors here, was named the um Thomas and excuse me, Thomas Edison innovation

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um first prize number one winner for their um their air quality sensor called Maven, making air visible environmentally. And so we also got um Panasonic ecos ecoitizens best of the

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best for the eco ambassadors and the five kids that I brought here. Um Billy Rivers, Veronica, the most awesome like fabulous storytellers, the Reyes, Randa and Sophia. And then of course um Pierce

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Loen who is uh the uh OG or one of the goats of all time for uh founding the uh eco ambassadors and much of what we do today. And so the um work that all the kids who are here tonight are going to be recognized builds on the work year

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after year that these incredible students um bring to the table and the massive amount of time that they put into it. And so, first I would like to say thank you to every single parent in this room because I know you know what

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it's like when you get that call. Can I stay at your school today? We're going to stay after. Can I come in over the weekend? Can I stop in during the break? And I know that you are also managing sports. You're managing music lessons. You're managing dance. You are man,

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excuse me, managing scouts. for match managing all the wonderful things that um that these kids do because they do a lot. Oh, should I say band, orchestra, reading, like all effective stuff. So, um thank you for all of that, right? And

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then also just say a thanks to all the community volunteers who have supported that. And I put that over to the board because you are also community volunteers and I thank you for your time and effort in uh making our district the

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best um that it can be. So let me see without further ado. Oh, I do have to give a shout out. I'm sorry. Uh Jason Bow, I'm gonna have to uh embarrass you here. There is no way we could have pulled off this initiative that is the

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tiny forest living lab without the structure that you bring to everything that we do and that everything we do this year for this studentdriven project. We started out the year with a $40,000 grant from the New Jersey

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Department of Environmental Protection that these kids right here were instrumental in planting the initial seeds and these kids took and just grew and let it blossom. That $40,000 New

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Jersey, excuse me, NJ um grant was followed up by trying to think what came next. It may have been a $10,000 grant from the New Jersey, no, from the Sustainable Jersey for schools

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organization. And that was an NJBA grant. And I just have to throw out um thanks to my colleagues who are um let me see Ryan Ukant, Dana Pier, Ellen Goodfellow, Rob Pacior,

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um let me see, Preston Clawson, the uh oh, if I forget anybody, Kevin Sanders, um all the teachers who also collaborated in um helping recognize what the tiny forest could be and how we could integrate it into the curriculum

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and education. That um sustainable Jersey grant, which the student board that I'm going to recognize first, helped write that grant, will fund um new wood shop equipment for Ryan Newamp's Innovation and Design class. It

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will fund a pottery studio for Dana Pierro's um uh art studio. And then it will also bring um technology equipment in to um build out the living lab portion of um of our

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living lab tin force that the kids will explain explain briefly. And that was followed up by a $3500 first place award for the board who are largely our pitch team. And that was

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from the STEM Next Foundation for um the career readiness that this kind of initiative uh provides for the student innovation and vision in developing this kind of space. And finally, we just came back from Columbia University on Friday

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where the kids presented and that was in recognition of Project Green Schools the $10,000 award for uh winning the um Project Green Schools outdoor classroom challenge. So, all in all, and Jason, I

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know you know what it's like. I know Matilda Caniano back at RMS knows this because they're processing all the paperwork and administrative um load that comes along with the

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amazing work that these uh that these kids do. So without further ado, I think I'd like to um first turn it over like to recognize that the group that I consider the board because that's really

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kind of how they operate and from there have them explain quickly what the Tangors Living Lab is exactly and then we'll um bring up the um students to recognize all of them. And I can tell you that every single kid that will be

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every single student that will be recognized has a significant piece of this project because of course when you're handling that degree of you know that amount of money that amount of work we take our fiduciary responsibility

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very seriously Jason and then um also all of the construction and production. So, of course, I have to say thank you to Dres, Pat um Leo Caesar and um a number of others and

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facilities that made it all possible. So, if I can have um Fedora Ranges up first, who is our uh head of strategy for uh Eco ambassadors and of course I'm bringing seventh and eighth grade GT here and the um the Eco ambassadors also

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they work hand in hand to um drive this kind of initiative. um Jaden Chen who's our um head of operations, Henry Walter who is uh head of uh research and impact, Jenna Kywala who is head of communications and engagement. Um Henry

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Schwarz who can be here tonight because he's now in a lacrosse team. I think as you'll see many of the kids who are out tonight have a kind of competing activities. Angel Casiano, our education lead. Um, and then our amazing communication um, leads, Remy Null,

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Thomas Ambio, Emily Cammer, and um, the amazing Jimmy Dudley who manages all our media boards. If you guys can stand just right along here so you're not walking with you up here. Uh, parents, I think I will turn it over to

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um, Penny to get us started. Right. Hello everyone. The Tiny Forest Living Lab started as a simple question and an opportunity. The question, how can we make learning more regenerative here at RMS? The opportunity, a trees for

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schools ground. While many other schools may have opted to plant trees along the side of the road, we proposed a student designed outdoor learning space that restores ecology and engages um

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oh and um engages students uh through uh uh through um hands-on learning, citizen science, and community connection. Taken together, our project, the Tiny Forest Living Lab, is an ecology of trees,

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people, and ideas and makes learning regenerative for all. >> All right. So, a year ago, we had a rusty playground as so that was unused and it was just a waste of space because it had gotten

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rusty. But so we decided to tear that off and replace it with a threezone tiny forest. So our tiny forest will aim to do three things. So first we have the Miwoki zone which you is an experimental zone that uses a cure methods to plant

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trees effectively. The next zone will be the climate and phology research zone where we will track change over time and share our findings with the community around us. And finally, we have the sensory growth zone, which will act as a

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calming environment for students to de-stress and use horicultural therapy from native trees and plants to calm down and stabilize from the busy and busy modern world. In front, we have uh camp common as well, which is like an

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outdoor classroom where students can learn in nature. Thank you, Ken. So, I just want to talk about the goals we have for our tiny forest. The first goal we had was to increase biodiversity by reutilizing underutilized spaces with native tree

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plantings. And we did this by planting 212 native trees from New Jersey. Um, our second goal was to create a fully designed living lab. And we're doing this with our project VA which stands for visual interactive trend analysis

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and it's a project fully led by students where we plan to track data for our future. Our third goal is to enhance community wellness and we do this through our sensory growth which can provide horicultural therapy and can be a common place where students get

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distressed. Our fourth goal was to promote future careers and provide stewardship. And we do this by providing jobs for students during the summer and by providing new experiences like a wood workshop and a ceramics workshop. And our last goal is to provide a scalable

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model for climate resilience so other schools can do what we did. I'm now going to pass it on to Henry. In order to make this project possible, we needed to partner with experts that could help us accomplish our plan more effectively. Some of those are Dr. Neil Hendendrickson who is the president of

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the Shade Tree Commission, Dr. Roberto Robera Hunter of MJ Ottabon. Um Josh Coover of Ruckers University and such organizations as Columbia University which we just went to the conference last Friday. Monmouth University which has graciously invited us time and time

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again to their um Monmouth University climate change learning collaborative conference and the NASA Globe and the National Phenology Network which has um citizen science to engage young learners about climate action sustainability

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and Cameron McKenzie who is our natural climate researcher solution at Yale. He has helped us along this whole journey and he along with everyone else is an integral part of our tiny boys living. >> So I'm just going to talk about one of our main funers. One of our main funers

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is principles. We recently just won an award for $10,000 for the outdoor classroom challenge. Um, this funding will allow us to make county inclusive to everyone using um uh learning using all five senses. Um, we're going to have

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a canopy pavilion and where students can learn with tables and benches. It'll include with pathways so everyone can access and come into a 24. It'll include with um height raised beds so everyone can sit and look at plants. We will also

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have flexible seating so everyone can come into our forest and enjoy NGO. Um so just to tie it off, we also have one last program called the Viking broadcast, which is where we use camera equipment and different um video and camera equipment to document anything

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that's happening in the tiny forest and stuff around the school. and we hope to be able to share all of our work that happens with that later in the spring or in the fall when we really are able to have a really scalable um show of what we've been doing at the Tiny Forest. So,

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finally we want to thank everyone who's worked on on the project, our experts, our students, our teachers, our staff. Um we really appreciate it and we could not be possible without everyone here. Um, so we just without further ado, what we want to invite everyone at the time

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for us. Do >> you I think I just want to say right. Okay. So that way you can like connect me with a updates. Right. I'm gonna um go ahead and uh ask my preschoolers to um take

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over at this point. So, Fernanda, Sophia, Pierce, if you would do the audience. >> Yeah, I have certificates. I have lists. And do you want to read names and I can hand out? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. We're starting in sixth grade, so

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I'll just wait. >> Yeah. Okay. So, the first sixth grader that we have is Isabella Bular. Also, apologies if I mispronounce any of your names or not in attendance. Again, Isabella Bolivar. No. OKAY.

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NEXT, we have Reel Dasia. SUMMER, >> Sydney Greenwald, Allison Gutieros, Vivian Michaels, LAUREN MONGA RAMSEY, Kenzie Richardson, and lastly, Angelica Squirts.

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All right. Now, starting with seventh grade. Apologies beforehand if I mispronounce any of your names. First, we have Thomas Ambio. >> That's yours. That's for you. Next we have Matthew Esenazi. Next we have Michael Alar. Then we have Kelvin Bageno.

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We have Emily Cameraer. We have Jaden Chan. We have Suki Zuhara. We have Nina Hardison. We have Jonah Cariwala. We have Sawyer Leinsky. We have Kayla Paul. We have Michaela Ramos.

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We have Bedura Brangan. Thank you. >> We have Ethan Sak. We have Henry Schwarz. We have Lani Sickle. And lastly, we have Henry Walters. I have the pleasure of introducing the eighth graders

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>> here. I I just want to say the um the mighty eighth graders in addition to um being on the 10 course team are also responsible for building a model of our MS in 3D and also indicating on there

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all of the systems that we have in place that um that fuel our sustainable Jersey application, our EOS schools and then opportunities that we have to uh to I think work towards So that's for the goals on that. And then I just want to

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add something like breaking seventh grade news. Michael author who be here tonight was named one of the national finalists for his games aims for change game that's called trees for change. That is a way for um kids and adults to

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learn all about the ecosystem services of all the trees specific to the 18 species that are in our uh tiny forest. So we're like super proud of of that too. Starting with Katherine Alrech Smith,

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Max Baker, Embry Campy, ANGEL CASIA JOHN CLARK, Emma Dilder, Jimmy Dudley, Sarah Erd, MATTHEW GARCIA, AUDREY FLINKA, Eva Mocker,

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Alexa Mueller, Ean Dondu. MICHAEL PINEDAT, Autumn Rivers, Liam Turvy, and last but not least, Drew Wells. I think that's it. I'll turn back to you want to get a picture.

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Let's make a nice big line, I guess, right here. This will be good for smash. Okay. Yeah, you guys behind

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you guys. Smells like >> you remember me as the person who's always >> Thank you guys. If I could have all of you guys >> before you understand one second before you go, this concludes our uh student

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recognitions. Mr. Rizza, I I just wanted to turn it over to you if there was anything wanted to say to the students before they go. >> Congratulations is really impressive. The posters, the um the uh 94 living

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impressive work and thank you for coming. The people who spoke did an excellent job speaking as well. So, congratulations. I don't know if anyone else wants to say anything. >> Can Can we check it out? >> Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Where is it? >> Yeah, you really you really should. So,

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I went over LA last week, right, guys? It was What day was it? Monday. >> Monday, you guys. Um, >> they were great at taking you >> Yeah. >> taking you through a tour. >> Yeah, Monday was an important It was an important day because that was actually the day that we were planting. the day

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that we actually start the planting trees and there's 98 trees in there. We're getting 114 more later from the meal donation. But that was a big day and that's and um that's why um Monday was a very big day for us and it's like

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a huge step in what our vision for the time. >> That planning was about 40 students and then we had 20 um Americanore watershed ambassadors came from all over the state to plant with us. New Jersey monthly came out. Our funders came out. We had

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nonprofits come out to help us. We had staff members. So alto together in that space that's the size of what three to four tennis courts. We had 80 people out there building for phase one. So let me just throw it out there. Phase two

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all of our like community people. We love love love. >> Um I'll work with Miss Freeman if we can arrange a visit. I do want to recognize these students. I know that um Betsy talked about Jason's contributions, but

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really you you have all written over $60,000 worth worth of grants this year to fund these projects, which is extraordinarily impressive. So, you should be very very proud of your work. not only not only the boots on the ground work that you did on Monday when

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I visited you with planting all the trees in the forest and creating the living lab, but also for the behind thes scenes work with getting the funding to make sure that this happens. Um, very very impressive. >> I'll throw in our 10K Vikings broadcast grant that we got last year and

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altogether we're probably somewhere around 100k total for uh GP and eco years. >> Thank you for that question. Yeah, thank you. >> I just wanted to say thank because none of this would have been possible without

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her and we couldn't have gone for anything. >> Anything else from the board? >> Uh yeah, Mr. Just I just want to comment how how very well spoken each of your children were and that's a gateway success in your lives and your passion

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with infection. So keep up the good work. Very impressive. THANK YOU EVERYWHERE. >> If if there's nothing else, the next part of our board meeting is for me to talk about the budget. So, you're all welcome to stay uh and hear all about

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the budget. But Mr. Grizz, is it okay if we let everybody take off and hold our meeting? I'll hold back. That's pretty good. and goals. Goals, too. >> We'll do goals first. Yeah.

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Um, the Next portion of the superintendent's report uh is a district goals presentation. Uh it's this time during the year, right? April is really exciting time. Uh we're looking toward we're reviewing this year, we're looking toward next year. Uh the weather's getting nice and

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warm and it's staying lighter later. Um but one of my favorite things to do around this time of year is to not only look forward when we talk about the budget tonight and next school year, but also to look back and look at some of our goals. Um, as some of you know, I

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started this year with a beginning of the year address to staff, a letter to parents and to students encouraging them to do something unique or novel or different this year which was in using the baseball analogy to

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take a swing to try something new to step out of their comfort zone. So in true I guess Dr. hard format. Sticking with my theme of the year of baseball, I found this quote that talks about what we do and it's develop a routine, love

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what you do, and do it with purpose. And when I think about goals and looking retrospectively at the past school year, I think about how goals are our routine, they're our passion, and they're our genuine guide and our purpose for our shared work. And

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as we look back at the goals that we've accomplished over the course of the school year, I think about how we did it with purpose, how we did it with passion. Um, and this this quote really resonated with me. And I I bring to you tonight with excitement um what we've

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accomplished over the course of the year this year. So just a couple of brief things. Um, our academic data, uh, we have plenty of points of pride and some great areas where we've seen improvement in our academics. Um, and our data has also

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shown us areas in which we want to focus on and grow. Um, our referendum has passed. Uh, it seems like ages ago, but back in November, let's not forget that that was this school year as well. Our referendum passed, uh, which is a huge

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victory for the students here at Readington. Preschool is growing. We are We added two classes this year. We're adding an extra 17th class next year. Strategic planning is underway and we're looking forward to some visionary goals

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over the course of this week and into the next couple of months. Uh so this is just some of the reflections in brief, but when we talked back in September at Three Bridges School, uh we outlined together three district goals. Uh these

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goals included an academic goal focusing on data to review curricula, our referendum, communications and successful execution uh which is to launch a communications plan that would inform voters on the referendum and then of course our strategic planning which

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is to identify our goal is to identify a vendor, convene a planning committee and set new strategic goals to set the district up for the future. But we did not forget our three strategic goals for the past several years. Inquisitive learning, partnerships, and social

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awareness. We couldn't forget these because we did such a great job with these three strategic goals that they are still alive and well and they become part of the fabric of who we are in Readington Township. So, we use these as a baseline to create our current goals for this year and we did not forget about them.

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Uh to summarize, goal one, academic achievement. Um first this is connected with our board goal. The board goal to ensure that the board uh looked at academic achievement with a central focus on decision-making and implementing systems along with the administration to prioritize academic

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success in our students. Um some of the actions that were completed was we convened a a working group um that identified and tackled AI protocols for ensuring that our students and our staff were safe and ethical in

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their use of AI. Uh that committee met over the course of four or five meetings over the school year. We had students, administrators, a parent, and teachers all on the committee. And that committee has developed a handbook that we'll be using in the future and we'll be moving

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toward professional development with AI next year. We trained our next cohort of teachers in the sheltered English instruction model which is our which are enhanced instructional strategies for our multilingual learners, a growing population here in Readington. We

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augmented our MTSS protocols which is our multi-tered system of support for academic andor behavioral and social needs of our students. uh and we were selected to receive a a state grant for the implementation of universal design for learning for next year.

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Uh we implemented uh some newer programs in terms of uh math and and science. Uh so we have edge gems over at the middle school in grades six through eight math and amplify science in grades four five. Um and they've been uh implemented with success this year and we'll continue to

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revisit and refine them next year. and we set a target um I ready growth rate of 60% by mid year and I'll share those results in just a minute. So our diagnostic assessments are telling us that we're performing pretty well. Um so just a couple of uh these are just kind

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of a visual of everything that we've done. Uh Edge Gems Math SEI there was an online training for our cohort. Uh you'll see little screenshots of our MTSS handbook that was developed uh by a committee and Dr. burns over the course of the year this year. And then a draft

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of our artificial our AI artificial intelligence handbook, a guidance document for using AI successfully in schools. Um here's our academic achievement numbers. So this is math academic achievement. Remember when we're looking at I Ready, this is just midyear. We don't have end

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of the year data yet. That's why we use midyear data. Uh because at this time of the year when we talk about goals uh and whether or not we've reached our goals, we're not quite into June just yet. So this is the most updated uh academic data. Um in terms of math growth is at

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65%. Recall when we talk about I ready data 50% is what's expected by mid year. Anything over 50% says we're closing achievement gaps. So 65% is good. Um in addition, if you see where um those

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green bars, the farthest left green bar is currently was currently at midyear 37% and that's up from 17% at the beginning of the year showing growth. You know those green bars. Here's reading growth on I Ready, which

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is 84% progress toward typical growth. Remember, anything above 50% means we're closing achievement gaps. Uh so our academic achievement results uh show steady progress toward achieving our goals toward our students achieving well

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academically. Um we await the administration of the new NJSLA assessment which is coming in a couple weeks and then we'll be reporting out in fall the results of that assessment as well in terms of academics. Our second goal was the referendum. Um,

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our goal was to create a communications plan that allowed for a successful vote. Um, we used various methods to communicate our referendum. We created a robust social media presence. We used the newspaper, print materials,

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in-person meetings, building tours, household mailings, letters. We we really were out in the community informing voters about the referendum. We developed talking points for all the administrators and board of education members. Um, I don't know if anybody remembers, but we had that rolling cart

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that had a kit that had our all of our swag and all of our information, all of our flyers that we could take from from location to location. Um, and we executed a successful vote. Uh, our flyers, our in-person events, our key

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communicators meeting, all of these led to a very successful vote uh with the referendum. and we have begun um planning for those projects that are happening this summer many of which are on the agenda tonight.

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And then finally our third goal was uh connected to the board goal to collaborate with administration and launch uh enhanced communications but also for the board to facilitate the implementation of a strategic planning process in collaboration with the administration. We created an action

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step and timeline that was shared with the board. We identified Judy Wilson as our facilitator. We communicated the process to all stakeholders. We received a ton of feedback through surveys, focus groups, individual meetings, and we're looking at adopting new strategic goals

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in the near future, knowing that tomorrow we're going to kick off strategic planning for team meetings uh tomorrow morning. Other projects and other accomplishments I do want to mention. So as much as we set goals, uh there is always continued

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work. Um retention and recruitment has continued to be a paramount effort ensuring that we retain and maintain the highest quality staff, certainly the highest quality teachers as well. These come in the forms of celebrations for

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our staff, recognitions of staff. Um, but also we talked uh over the course of the year even the sidebar agreement that was collaboratively agreed to by the board, the administration as well as the association to ensure that we were able to strike a budget that was reasonable

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and responsible. We offered individuals the opportunity to give us early notice which helped us retain all employees that wanted to stay in the district. So, we were able to keep everyone who wanted to remain employed here in the district here in the district with employment without having to do something called a

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reduction in force. Um, which was a tremendous accomplishment given the budget constraints. This year, we've completed several capital projects um last summer, some over the course of the year, thanks to Jason and Don and their leadership. We've managed a very

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challenging budget season. We talked about salary increases as well as healthcare increases in the double digits and we were able to strike a very reasonable budget that we'll talk about in just a couple of minutes. We developed surveys for school climate and culture. Uh this was a year-long

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venture. Uh we collected data. We reviewed that data in leadership team meetings. I went around the district and had individual one-on-one or group meetings with teachers. We collected even more information from them and we created some action steps that we can tackle this year and into future years

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to ensure that we keep the climate and culture of our staff as high quality as possible. And we enhanced our communications with social media reported out to the communications committee a couple of months ago. Our launching of some of the great uh postings on social media, the awards for

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teachers, the recognitions of students got a lot of traffic on our Facebook page. Uh so here are some photos. Uh you'll see uh one of our maintenance guys um working on one of our rooftop units, a setup of a new preschool classroom, the welcome back and

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recognitions for staff. There are some staff members uh who received um giveaways at one of our professional development days back in March. Uh even the replacement of some of our uh water fountains with water bottle fillers.

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Solar is going to be moving forward. Um, and then there's a photo of a key communicators media um, key communicators meeting um, that we had back in October when we talked about the referendum. And then it's hard to tell, but that's some of our Facebook traffic you see um, in the bottom right hand

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corner there and where you see some of those spikes. That's those are times where we posted information about students and staff and recognitions and got that traffic going. And then we were able to flood Facebook with referendum information as well. Uh which really helped to get word out about the

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referendum. So the big picture um our preliminary I Ready data um is really showing great progress when we await NJSLA uh which is new administration this year. The referendum yielded a yes vote by approximately twothirds majority of

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voters here in Grington Township, which is a monumental accomplishment uh for referendum voters, especially during a November election cycle. Strategic planning is underway. It's setting a vision for the future. Our preschool continues to be successful and we have

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plans to continue expanding by adding one classroom next year. And this is in addition to the two we added this year. So when I think about what the work we did this year, when I really sat in my office to think about how do I capture everything that we did over the course

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of this year, I think our work says to me and hopefully says to you, I hope that we are looking toward the future. That this year laid a foundation for future, for expansion, for the next generation of what's to come in the Readington schools. And I think about

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our academic achievement gains. I think about passing a referendum that's going to set us up for the next 20 years. I think about setting the stage for a strategic plan that should bring us through the next five years. And I think this year what we did is we really set a foundation. We have invested this year

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in what's to come next for our district. And I'm incredibly proud to say that I think we accomplished quite a bit when it comes to setting our students up for success in the future. And I really do appreciate all the collaboration. This is not just Dr.

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Hart's goals. These aren't just the board goals. The only way we accomplish everything that we accomplish every year is with all the collaboration between the board, the administration, the staff, the students. Uh, everyone has a hand in owning our goals. Uh, and

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everybody does their part to make sure we achieve them. So, I will turn it over to the board for any questions you have about about the districts. I don't have a question. I just want to comment that this was a a huge hu

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I just wanted to comment that it was a huge lofty year of goals and I think I remember saying that at the beginning like can we do this the strategic planning and the referendum and it's a lot and I just wanted to commend you and the staff for for putting in the work

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and and succeeding in this and and just just wanted to note that this was heavier than usual. this really were huge accomplishments and I just wanted to thank you for your leadership in that. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> I do remember you saying that too. >> Are we sure we can do this all in one

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year? >> More to come on this. So you these are this is my public report out of the bowls. Know that there's more information for you later later tonight. We talk in executive session. the superintendent every year is evaluated on achievement toward goals. So all that information we'll talk about later on

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tonight. So more to come. Anything else? Now let's move over to the budget. Let's go to the district website. So this is our district website. Uh so we decided to present the budget in a little bit of a

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different way. Final budget in a little bit of a different way tonight. Um, so last month, uh, Jason and I did our budget presentation, uh, which includes all of the information, uh, that you and the public need in order to, uh, know,

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uh, what's included in our budget for next academic year. Uh, but in an effort to certainly one, be transparent, but two, also be efficient and make sure that the public gets as much information as quickly as possible. Um,

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I want to say I got an idea from another district and saw that they did something very similar and thought that this was a great snapshot that encompassed our entire budget in quick and efficient way to give the highlights of the information. And thanks to Jason and his quick work, we were able to collaborate

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and put something together for you. So, Matt, if you scroll down to the spotlight tile, so budget right there, 2627 budget. Um, and if you were to click on that, Matt, it open up a new window. It brings you to this page and it's just understanding the

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Readington budget and this is very user friendly. So the the state makes us put our quote put our quotes userfriendly budget on the website and it is the least userfriendly version of the budget that's required but we put it on our website. This I think is much more user

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friendly. It tells you totals of enrollment. It talks about what our total is on our budget 38.8 8 million. It talks about some of the pressures like our um health benefit increases, our liability insurance increases, and then transportation. So, it gives you

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kind of a bunch of numbers in brief, and Matt, if you scroll down, we've talked a lot about over the past couple months rising costs, but the district has been as proactive as possible to respond to rising costs. So, we want to tell the public that we've renegotiated healthcare with our broker.

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We've created utility savings through solar. We've reduced, to Dr. Burns's credit, out of district placements, and we're maintaining students in their home schools. We've received donations. Um Betsy Freeman and her students were just here mentioning over the past two years, we're talking about $100,000 worth of

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grants as well. We've made staffing adjustments to reflect enrollment. And I I want to impress on the board that we did our staffing adjustments without having to put anybody out of a job. We did it in a way that ensure that anybody with who wish to remain employed here is

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still employed here in the district which I think is a huge feat. Um and then we passed a referendum. So when it comes to thinking about capital projects, we have a pot of money over the next several years to make improvements to our our facilities. If you keep moving that um here are some of

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the financial pressures that um uh the district are feeling. things like state funding that doesn't cover all of our costs, mandates that we must must meet, including contracts. Um, capital and m maintenance reserves have limits and we want folks to understand that. We

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know that pilot programs, including other housing developments, have been developed in our district. Um, and we want to make sure that we know that folks know that these are some of the challenges that we've had. Matt, you keep going. U more challenges. Um, from

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the years 2009 to about 2018, these were multiple years of 0% tax levy increases. If not, they were negative. Taxes were cut, which is great um for the taxpayer, but it's really difficult to operate a school district when you can't when you're not

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increasing your revenue and it but but it's a little bit behind the eightball. Um, and now we're making up for some of that. There's been some uh changes when it comes to uh gradables and then out of district tuition and transportation has continued to increase. And then Matt, if

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you keep going, um our our funding comes from tax levy, state aid, and preschool education aid. Matt, if you keep going, there's some slides of stuff right there. Looking ahead. Yeah, there's some of our increases uh for the 26 27th

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school year. Um, it's, think about it this way. Every number up there, right? 3.4%, 15.6%, 9.2%. These are our costs increasing at these rates, yet our taxes are increasing at a rate of 3.6%.

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The board and the administration has been very fiscally prudent in order to manage how these costs are increasing, some of them in the double digits, but taxes are only increasing 3.6%. And Matt, if you keep going. Um, we have

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a 3.6% overall tax levy increase. And then the next couple of slides are just screenshots from our budget presentation. Um, here's our total state aid in preschool. Um, Jason, we talked about this in the finance committee uh, meeting. Districtwide K through8, we get

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$3.1 million of state aid. For 200 preschoolers, we get $4.6 $6 million in state aid, which is incredible amount of revenue that we get to run an upper preschool program. Um, and you can see the preschool uh total tax levy has

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decreased over time. So, the taxpayer because of the state aid, the local taxpayer in Readington is paying less because of the preschool funding that we've been able to receive through the state u program. And Matt, if you keep going, there's just a couple of snapshots from

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our budget presentation that show how our general fund is developed. Uh some of the accumulated historical costs and then the budget and tax impact to the taxpayer of approximately $161 on the average assessed tax.

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Jason, I'll turn it over to you if there's anything you'd like to add in terms of the budget and anything that's occurred uh since we did our tenative budget approval and then tonight's final budget approval. >> No, I'll just say I think the board and the finance committee in particular does

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a fantastic job managing um keeping programming well and staffing, but also recognizing um the local taxpayers. I mean we have been below 4% on

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increases for 20 years and a lot of those years have been zero or close to 0%. So it's a testament to you know we are doing more with less and you can see

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the state really is barely contributes anything compared to our overall budget. So, it's really some great hard work by board members over the past two decades. >> I I hope the the board and the public find this a really useful page. I mean, really, I I would like to think that,

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you know, when you're clicking through things, right, or when you're scrolling on your phone, a couple of quick snapshots might really put our budget in perspective for everybody. So, I'll open up for any questions from the board. Tonight is final budget approval on the board agenda. Uh so once uh the budget

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is passed tonight, we'll have an operating budget for next school year. >> I just want to say thank you because I have in the last year had to go back to past meetings and attachments and presentations and try to remember what month and what meeting they were at. So this is really handy and I wanted to

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thank whoever took the time to put it together. >> Credit to Jason. >> Thank you Jason. I like to think I have the vision and Jason really helps it like pare it down to >> use the execution. >> The execution, right?

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Any other questions about the budget? One more appreciation. One one more thing I left here at my um my chair. Um staff appreciation starts next week. Staff appreciation week. Uh

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staff appreciation week in Readington Township begins next week, May 4th, with National Teacher Appreciation Day celebrated on Tuesday, May 5th. As we recognize teacher appreciation week, I want to pause to honor the remarkable professionals who make our schools vibrant places of learning, growth, and

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belonging for every student. Our teachers, we know, are the cornerstone of education. They're talented, passionate, and unwavering in their commitment to helping each child reach their highest potential. They ignite curiosity, build resilience, and guide students with patience and purpose every

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day. Yet, our schools flourish not only because of our outstanding teachers, but because of an entire community of dedicated professionals working behind the scenes. Our school counselors and child study team provide essential support for the emotional and social well-being of our students, often step

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often stepping in as a steady, caring presence during life's most challenging moments. Our school nurses safeguard the health and safety of every child as they tend to injuries, manage health needs, and offer calm reassurance whenever it's needed most. Our paraprofessionals give

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generously of their time and energy to assure students with specialized needs receive the individualized support they deserve. We also have to extend our deepest appreciation to all of our administrators, the school secretaries, custodians, and maintenance personnel.

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those who are often among the first to arrive and the last to leave for the day. Their dedication ensures our schools run smoothly, remain clean and safe and welcoming for all. Our technology team works diligently to keep our network secure, reliable, empowering

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students with access to enriched digital learning experience. As Maya Angelou once said, nothing will work unless you do. So to every member of our staff, thank you for showing up. Thank you for working hard. Thanking giving thank you for giving so much of

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yourselves to our students and to our community. Your work is our collective work. This recognition and resolution will appear on the agenda as item number 5.20 and then a formal recognition of

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our stu our teachers and their extraordinary efforts. And I will share this little write up with the staff next week during teacher appreciation as well. So, thank you to everybody. Thank you to all OF OUR STAFF. PLEASE MAKE sure you >> you're the liazison.

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>> I feel it. >> Thank you. >> That finally at 8:07 includes my superintendent report. >> Thank you. >> The next item on our agenda is our first public forum for

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any items that are on the agenda. So, if anyone wants to come up and speak, it be for any item that's on the agenda, please come up, state your name, and town you're from online. Okay, next item is correspondence. We had

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looks like about 10 items that we received over the last month or so. And so that's board meeting. All those items are on record with our board secretary. Thank you for sending in your correspondences. Our next item is going to be board action. We're going to start with the

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approval administrative reports. We have three items 101 through 103. Can I have a motion followed by a second? >> I'll move second. Second. Okay. Any

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discussion? Miss Cassidy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fiori, >> yes. >> Mrs. Menser, >> yes. >> Mr. Pieros, >> yes. Mrs. Rad, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Pinto, >> yes. >> Mr. Rosley, >> yes. >> Our next item is approval of minutes. We

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have one item 2011 and have make a motion and follow by second. >> I'll move al second. >> Okay. Any comments? >> M. Cassidy. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ter. >> Yes. >> M. Mener? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pieros?

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>> Yes. >> Mrs. Rad? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ryan? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pinto? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> All right. Next item is our facilities. We will have a committee readout. Prior to that, we have 16 items 301 through

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316. Can I have a motion? I'll second. >> Motion. Second. >> Okay. The finance committee met on Friday, April 24th. First topic was the 26 27 budget. The county approved the March 23rd preliminary budget with no

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significant modifications. To increase transparency with the budget process, the web page was added to the district website. The page will provide details to the community in regard to aspects of the budget. The userfriendly budget and the advertised revenues, appropriations, fund balances are available on the

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district website. Upon approval of the final budget on April 28th, the tax information will be sent to Readington Township. The newspaper article will also be submitted for publication. Next topic is the referendum. An update on the referendum projects was presented to the committee and the projects are

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continuing on schedule with no identified issues. The referendum page on the district website has a listing of all ongoing and planned projects, including expected timelines. The sheets consistently updated as new information is received. The list can be found by clicking on the live project tracking

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link. Next topic was the final rates for health and dental insurance. The district utilizes the shift plan for health insurance and the rate increase was 15.6% which is the lowest of any available plan in the state. Dental insurance rate increase is 1%. There are

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a few t topics tabled because of time constraints. Future agenda items are listed. Standard billless and next need will be set shortly. >> Thank you. >> Any comments or discussion on any items? >> I have a

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finance facility question as we're um implementing some of our referendum items. I noticed there was an aington township ordinance on tree removal and about like the laws around removing trees. I just want to make sure we were complying with it since I know a number

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of our projects were removing trees. >> Okay, we actually uh we had a meeting on track today and that was one of the discussion items. Um so there there is going to be tree removal and they're going to have to submit for permits and

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um the authority to do that. Um so when we are looking at areas where trees have to be either trimmed or removed, we're looking at um replanting areas or reforestation areas. So for example, the track, the back end of the track

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actually loops through a very small uh wood area. Um right now we are looking at um having that reforested next to the naturalized habitat that we planted when we reforested for the soil. So the each

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project is going to have to account for what we are removing and replanting. But all this has to be approved by the township before we can even break ground. >> Pretty stringent too. >> Yes. and the creek ordinances in this

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county where creek and the track has to also go through uh two other approvals that include um soil conservation as well as um water. Um, so as well, so

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there's there's multiple things that Jason, we can talk offline, but does the new tiny forest can that be an offset for any tree removal that we planted more? Say there's several hundred trees that maybe 200 trees we

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just planted. It could be considered. I mean, at the end of the day, we want to make sure that the uh green committee and the board also feels comfortable with what >> Okay. And we also want to avoid missteps where we've replanted in the past and deer and other creatures destroyed

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reforestation. >> Thanks. >> Any other comments or discussion? >> Miss Cass, >> yes. >> Miss Fury, >> yes. >> Miss, >> yes. >> Mr. Fur. >> Yes. >> M. Rat. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pinto. >> Yes.

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>> Yes. >> All right. Our next item is the education technology. We do have a committee report, but before we get to that, we have nine items 401 through 409. Can I have a motion and then a

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second? >> I'll move second. Justine, I believe you're >> Yeah, I'll read you. So, the committee met on April 20th. Um, Dr. Dr. Moss provided a Dr. Moss provided a summer

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enrichment update. The program has enrollment that allows it to be self- sustaining, generating revenue. Classes have been developed for both junior and senior level, young and older students, as well as an early drop off option. Um the committee then discussed the MTSS

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mental health framework three- tier approach for academics and mental health support. Tier one universal curriculum positive school climate anti-bullying lessons. Tier two is small group counseling skill building which involves

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5 to 10% of student population 70 to 140 students districtwide. Tier three is individual clinical counseling intensive support. Current staff to provide tier 2 support at grades K through five. NJ4S partnership

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for grades 6 to 8 by funded by state grant which is tier 2. Hazel health teleaalth services for clinical counseling tier 3 ages 4 to 18. This is a free service. It includes virtual sessions at school. Family counseling is

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available. 40% bilingual clinicians, multilingual support available. All all of these mental health services require parent consent with six to eight week cycles for short-term interventions. The committee then discussed UDL implementation update.

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Leadership leadership team attended a two-day overview overview for March 10th to 11th. Implementation timeline. Spring, choose four to six staff members per building as early adopters. Summer, two full day workshops for

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implementation teams. And fall 26 to 27 would be a full roll out with cast and department of ed guidance focus on reducing barriers for multilingual learners, special education students, not a curriculum replacement, but enhancement of existing programs.

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Committee then discussed the ELA curriculum consultant proposal for grades six to 8. The issue is that the NJSLA scores drop in sixth grade climb in 7th to 8th but not at expected trajectory. Research Clinton Township

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model which 80 to 90% of NJSLA proficiency versus districts low mid60s7s and possible curricular programs. Recommendation was to hire Dr. Marian Riley, a former Newark assistant superintendent. $12,000 cost using title

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2 funds. Services include curriculum review, sample unit creation, teacher training, July start with September, October, March inservice sessions alternative to a 50 to 100,000 box curriculum purchase. We then discussed

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the AI guidelines and framework. Committee developed comprehensive handbook with protocols. Traffic light system for classroom use. Red light no AI use. Default for most assignments. Yellow light limited AI use with specific guidelines. Green light AI

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encouraged for select assignments. Professional development plan. Baseline training for all teachers on AI fundamentals. Tiered approach. Beginner intermediate advanced levels. teacher academics ac academics and differentiated PD sessions. Student

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protocols emphasize citation, critical thinking, factchecking, policy updates needed for academic integrity and acceptable use policies. The committee then discussed technology infrastructure updates, interactive whiteboard deployment, 30 Epson boards

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for Holland Brook, 30 were installed over spring break and there were 17 remaining to be installed. 100 total boards districtwide through referendum funding. Summer installment for White House and three bridges. The referendum website will be updated on the progress

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projects. Wireless connectivity working well. Teachers are adopting very quickly. We discussed a network infrastructure upgrade scheduled for the summer which addresses intermittent re reliability issues. Software platform update for new

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switches. Chromebook prep for sixth grade. Staff lap type deployment ongoing. New cyber security membership with MSISAC for incident monitoring. Next steps and action items are May 18th we have our next curriculum committee

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meeting. Board board agenda items for main meeting is the ELA consent consultant approval which is $12,000 title 2 funding sustainable Jersey grant for 10,000 MJ farm to school grant 200 summer curriculum writing projects

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social studies Hispanic Latino history ESL school counseling updates preschool parent orientation scheduled for May at all locations and Gardi Edakari is working on an AI research project for IST conference which is student data

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collection approved. >> Thank you. >> Any comments, questions on any action items. >> Miss Cassie, >> yes. >> Miss, >> yes. >> Miss me? >> Yes. >> Yes.

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>> M. >> Yes. >> Miss Ryan, >> yes. >> Mind, >> yes. Ma, >> yes. Our next item is on personnel. We have a committee report on that as well. We also have 20 items to move 501

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through 520. And I have a motion and a second. >> Second. >> Yes. So the committee met on April 27. Um we first discussed staffing updates for the 2627 school year which included

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um discussing filled and unfilled roles, open positions and internal transfers. We then discussed the DAT committee with an update. Um the committee met in March. This district level committee provides guidance on the implementation of educator evaluations and a handbook

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has been created for teachers teachers. We discussed um enrollment with current and projected class sizes. First and second grades have the largest class sizes and the district will continue to monitor them closely. The district currently has 244 students enrolled in

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preschool. We also discussed the personnel matter and agenda items are renewals, retirements, resignations, staff appreciation, and other typical agenda items. And our next meeting is set for May 22nd at 8:30 a.m.

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>> Thank you. Any comments or discussion? >> M. >> Yes. >> M. Bury. >> Yes. >> Miss. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> M. Rad. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Minto. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Our next item is communication and

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policy. No committee report. no action items. So before we move on, I'll just open up any comments or discussion in governance communication policy. Okay, I move on to unfinished business.

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And this is something I had added to the agenda. The NJSBL delegate assembly is on May 16th. Um I'm the delegate for our school. So I'll be going to the meeting. Um there are I think six or seven

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resolutions that will be up for vote. So we put them in the bud so you guys can see them. Um so as we go there as a member of the voting delegate I get to vote on the seven items. Last year I think there was three or four and all

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all of them got pulled before they actually got voted. They all got rescended. The only votes on whether or not we should resend them or not. So it's kind of interesting. So this year it's kind of hard to get feedback. I mean it's a long document. You can read

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it but you also when you go there a lot of comments right you go there people speak for at least half an hour on for it or against it or so on. So I don't know if anyone has any comments any directions they would like to give

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me on how I vote any thoughts. So if not it's kind of a lot now send me an email what you guys think afterwards. So, it's through May 16th and we could discuss it on May 12th if you want to as well. >> Okay. >> I just I have a comment on this because

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I have been the delegate in the past. Just my personal the way that I approached it was I did not vote on behalf of the board unless I knew that the board felt strongly in one direction or another. So, I think it's fine to go

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as a voting member and do that. I I feel like there should be some way to get a straw poll or some some way to know what the board how the board would like you to vote. So, you know, if this is something that you're going to do just I

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would like to have more planning or more time or we could maybe discuss this during this meeting. I'm not sure how to do that, but um I just I'm not I'm not sure. you know, this seems to be like a new thing and it it's

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there's a there were a lot of proposals on there to go through and like you said, a lot of them do get pulled last minute. So, um I could recommend I mean NJSBA usually they put in there whether they're for that resolution or against

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and so you know I guess we could look at those that the ones that they're against. You know, I feel like generally don't move forward. It's the ones that they support that do kind of get majority of the support from the

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delegate assembly. Um so I not an answer just my my my comment on how I would approach that. >> That's exactly why I actually had it added to the meeting. So I had some guidance on it last year. It wasn't on the meeting agenda and I think it was in

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October or November it actually was. So that's why I added on there's a large document. We are meeting on May 12th. So we can maybe add this finish business again on the May 12th meeting. So take your time. Yeah. Three weeks, two weeks, whatever it is to actually read that. We

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can just go through the seven items and just give me a direction of how we want to go. Okay. Any new business from the board? >> Uh yeah, I attended the Garden State Coalition Schools meeting on April 15th.

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Um it was talking about consolidation and regionalization of districts because there's a bill that's being proposed right now. Um Garden State Coalition of Schools is not in favor of it. They said it's uh deeply unpopular to merge school

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districts. Um and even uh municipalities have dissolved and become burrows and villages to avoid having to consolidate. Uh so what they said was some of the things to be wary of when consolidating districts is that when you merge personnel um the contracts mandate that

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we need to elevate everyone's salary and benefits to the best contract so that it ends up costing you actually more because all of the district like all of the personnel within the district are are paid at better salaries. Um however

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uh they said that what really works well in a regionalization is program sharing like special education. Um they asked like can we look at healthcare and insurance um and standardizing that across the state rather than just

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looking at can we merge together districts. So there were lots of different proposals but um it definitely was a hot topic. So, I wanted to share that with you that there's there's a lot of opinions on it right now. >> Thank you. >> Not a sure thing.

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>> Okay. Any other comments anyone wants to make? >> All right. Our next item is our second public session. It could be for any item on or off the agenda. So, if you'd like to speak, please come up, state your name

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and town you're from, make your comments. Hi, Jason Doo from Re Township. It's just mostly a question for the correspondence. You mentioned that it's on file. Is that something the public can either get copies of or come and view? >> You would have to be open so you can

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open it if you want to. >> All right. So, it is it does require request not just thank you. >> Anyone else online? Okay, we're now going to move to executive

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session. So, I'm going to make a motion to adopt the following resolution. Resolve to adjourn to executive session in accordance with the Sunshine Law to discuss the superintendent's evaluation and training for approximately 30 minutes at which time the board expects

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to return to public session where action shall not be taken. Matters discussed will be made public if and when the circumstances requiring confidentiality no longer exists. However, it is not presently known when such circumstances

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will exist. Let me get a second. >> M Cassidy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fer, >> yes. >> Mener, >> yes. >> Mr. Pier, >> yes. >> Mrs. Brad, Mrs. Ryan, >> yes. Mr. Pito, >> yes. >> Yes. Thank you for coming this evening.