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All right, it is uh 7:01. Hereby call this meeting to order. Can we all rise for pledge of allegiance? >> Allegiance to the flag of United States of America and the standard

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indiv. Pursuant to the requirements of the open public meetings act, advanced notice has been given to the star ledger, the record and the clerk of the village of Rididgewood. In addition, notices were posted in the office of the board secretary and in all school buildings.

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Uh before we start, I would like to recognize uh someone very uh special and dear that is uh leaving us. And uh this is orchestrated by Sheila could not be here, but this is from all of the board. Just a small gesture of appreciation,

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Jamie, for everything you've done. So, and if it's okay, I'm just going to say a couple words. >> So, I unceremoniously uh drew attention to uh to Mrs. Murphy's uh departure from the district in the budget process, but I just want to take a few words and just

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uh and just recognize her here real quick if that's okay. So, uh, when I first came to Ridgewood in, uh, 20, uh, the board the board, uh, interviewed and, uh, and hired me in 2023 and, uh, I was, I believe I was appointed in March, uh, and then there was a period of

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several months where I was waiting to finish my contract, uh, in contractual terms in my prior district. And, um, and we were in a state of transition with an interim superintendent gear and I spoke with many people from the administrative team at the time. Um, and Jamie was

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someone who I spoke to on a real regular basis. I was really impressed with someone who had been in the district for such a short amount of time had such a really strong handle on on on where everything was and and what the board needed and uh and really helped me tremendously to understand kind of what I you know what was going on and how we

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could get things ready for a transition here in district. Um, and I've said this before when we when I when I work with administrators uh and I lead a leadership team. One of the characteristics that I look for in someone who is has the potential to be a really highly capable leader within the

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team is a very simple test and that is that if there is ever a problem anywhere meaning there's a conflict or a misunderstanding or a dispute can I take that leader and send them into whatever that conflict is no matter how messy or

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sticky or latigious or or uh emotionally charged it is and will that leader make it better and right way. Even from a distance, it was very clear that Mrs. Murphy was somebody who would immediately improve what was going on in

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any situation. And that's been true throughout. And there are very there aren't there aren't very many school leaders who I've worked with who I have that level of confidence in. And uh and I just uh and it's going to make you a really strong superintendent. And I'm not surprised to hear that you're having this opportunity and that you're taking

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it. I think you should and I think you're going to do great. Um, but uh, but I really I really appreciate all that you've done for the district and all you've done for our team and on behalf of the administrative team. Um, and I'm not going to speak for all the board members because I'm sure they're going to have their own nice things to say, too. But on behalf of the administrative team, uh, you know,

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you're going to be really missed. You're leaving big shoes to fill, but um, Lakeland Regional is uh, is is going to be much better off. >> Yeah. I I just want to add um so I'll start when Ojetta was leaving us when

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she said that she wanted to retire um a lot of board members were concerned at that time and she said don't worry when I leave I'll make sure that I leave you in somebody in someone's hands that that I think is better than me like that

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was her promise and and she took her time interviewing and she said I've met with this person at a few conferences I'm it's not just I'm noticing from this one interview I'm gathering information from all of my colleagues and people in the industry and she did her due

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diligence and I think she was right. So she she did leave us in a good hand and in good hands and then as uh we were searching for superintendent at that time and there were there were some times when like there were a couple of

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times when emergencies came uh Dr. Fenwick stood up and like she was fabulous at those times and when suddenly like there was emergency in the district and she just uh ran with it. Overall, when we were running trying to find the superintendent and when we were

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trying to navigate how to navigate all of that, we were just going to Jamie and Jamie was guiding us and helping us like she she was handholding the board members that how do you select the superintendent and how things should be done and and over the years I think

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there was only one agenda item where I voted no from HR perspective but other than that I never had to look at the HR agenda items. So uh it was really good experience. So we are really going to miss you. So, um we are really really going to

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miss you and um uh I I agree with everything that's been said and um you know I met you just as a parent and you brought an such a reasonable and compassionate perspective

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um to whatever nonsense of the day you were faced with and I was faced with that day. And then as I've gotten to know you as a board member, um you have been um such a pleasure to work with because you always um you have always

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provided a vision of what we where we need to go and you're very clear on what needs to happen. um you're very clear on what has happened and you create a I've said this before you also create a sense of calm

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uh when it gets a little hectic and not calm and um you've brought very good ideas you're innovative and um you've really been someone who has taught me as a new board member but the

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other thing that I want to say today is that um when I had the opportunity to work with you on the uh vision 2030 campaign. to see your uh true affection and appreciation for our students and to see the difference in your face when you

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talk about the kids as they walk in uh you know as they walk in and they talk to you and they exchange ideas with you and you I could see you light up in a different way and I could see that what brought you to education and changing

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kids lives was a true appreciation and care for the kids and that comes through in your policies. It comes through in the way that you deal with all of us in different ways. Someone uh described you to me as saying, "Jamie and I can go

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back and forth, but at the end of the day, no matter how much I disagree with her, I know she still loves me." And I thought that was such a great line because to know that someone who is working with you and might, you know, as your administrator um still comes to you

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from a place of love and compassion and humanity while getting the job done. That is a um that is a characteristic of you as a person that has made this district a better place and will make

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Lakeland a better place. And uh I am so proud to have known you. Although I I have a loud voice anyway. I probably don't even need that. They could hear me out in the street. But I too being a newest member and learning

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so much and seeing you interact with us in executive session and explaining things. You have a teacher's way of explaining things for those of us who are not as experienced. But I also know you wearing the hat as an HR person for

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a teacher and a retired person. you were very patient with me learning about all the different things that I needed to know upon my retirement. And so I also look at the quality of people and the numbers of people that we have to hire

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and being around a long time and looking at the number and how much work that entails and the colleagues that I had while teaching that you had a part in presenting to the to the board. um you have a very good sense and I think that

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the district will be well served by you in an educational role in the classroom for your impact. So I thank you wearing my hat as a former teacher and um having children in the district of the people that you have hired to do different

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things. So I wish you the very very best of luck and I think being involved in a high school will make you feel happy you know seeing the kids around doing the principal role hopefully more happy than not but thank you very much for your

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service here to the children in the community. >> Um all my interactions with you have been everything always positive. Um every way we've interacted I've been always impressed. um you really approach everything with

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genuiness and compassion and understanding and you've earned the trust of the entire board um without a doubt and I think you've done that because you know whatever matter you're engaged in you really it's clear that you've invested the time to really

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understand it thoroughly you know all aspects of a matter very rarely do we ask you a question you don't know the answer to which shows that you really have been spend your time understanding a matter from A to No one's perfect. No one knows everything. But it shows that you spend

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your time, you treat your your role with excellence. Uh and then the other piece I would say is, you know, a good leader uh needs the knowledge, but also the wisdom and the understanding of how to approach and what to do with that knowledge, right? And a lot of times in

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our roles, we're dealing with dueling interests, right? We want to make sure that we're doing right by the teachers, but we also have to represent the district and the taxpayers and the students. So they are slightly dueling and you always have the right perspective. Um and that's hard to to

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come naturally. So that's something I've always appreciated about working with you. Uh but more importantly very excited for your next step and uh may that be a prosperous one and one that brings you a lot of uh happiness and uh and satisfaction.

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Would you like to say anything, Mrs. Murphy? >> Oh, there we go. >> The button wouldn't even press down. Um, I I really just want to say thank you to all of you. It really has been, as I've

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said before, um, really such a pleasure to be here in Rididgewood, to get to know all of you, to work so closely. I have learned so much here in the last four years, um, from each of you as board members, from you, Mark, you know, especially from Michelle and Brian and

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Rich and everyone else I've worked with. Um, you know, really at the Ed Center, I it really has been, as I've stated, an honor and privilege to be here in Ridgewood. Um, I am very excited about my next chapter. Um, but that's made possible by all everything that I gained

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by being here. Um, and I just I want to I'm going to cry. Um, it's hard to sit and and take everything in, but really really thank you. Um, I hope that you all stay in touch and I'll be keeping eyes on Ridgewood. I have a lot of kids that I'm watching come up still and um

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you know I wish all the best to our graduates you know that they have a week to go um and uh that's it but uh really it's it's been four years that feels like 10 some days

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but really such an incredible experience and it's made incredible by the people that are here. um you know, districts, we all have the same issues. They come from different lenses. We're all dealing with the same problems, but it's really about the people that are in the district and the community um and the

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administrative team themselves and the teachers and how things get handled and dealt with and done and move forward. And I have to say, I'm able to have vision here because there is so much vision in Ridgewood. there is a want to move forward and growth and to have been

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a part of that and and been able to just contribute a small amount these past few years really um is phenomenal. So Ridgewood is a really special unique place. So it's been great to be a part of it. Thank you and thank you for all the flowers. >> All right. Uh we will move on to our

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presentations. Uh Rididgewood High School memory projects. It's my honor to introduce uh to introduce the to introduce uh Mr. Chris McCulla who is our supervisor of arts in the district and he is going to introduce the team that's here to give the memory project

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presentation. >> Good evening everybody. Uh thank you. Uh I'm here tonight uh with Joanna Sitkco and some of her students from uh National Art Honor Society who uh were involved in this memory project. Uh it's really been really interesting and fun to learn about it. Uh and I just want to

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say thank you to these guys for coming tonight to share with you what they've been working on. >> Hi, good evening everybody. Um I would like to introduce two members of National Arts Honor Society uh Irene Lee and Shaina Ramos who uh worked very hard

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on this great opportunity. They will talk about it. >> Hi, good evening. My name is Shaya Ramos. Um here we worked on the memory project which is meant to devote a bunch of portraits to many of the elementary students in Cambodia. uh they grew up in

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an area around financial poverty and around an area that was around a former dumpster and you know sometimes they pick and sort through certain items to make an income and kind of live in this area. But they are rich in their community and you can see that through this video they've definitely create a strong a strong community within their

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group not only with each other but with you know the teachers and just having that sense of life and joy in them. And and I think that you can see that throughout the throughout the video, you can see when they receive these portraits how grateful they are. And I'm

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very I'm very glad I participated in this. Uh in the next slide over, you'll be able to see the students that participated in the project. Um we were initially given the photos of the children and materials in the late mid

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midfall to mid- winter and over the course of a month and a half we were able to amass these artworks to send them to the children. Uh kind of talking about the origin of the memory products name itself. It came from its purpose um sending these

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handmade artworks to kids and orphanages. Um at this point uh we have expanded that to children in other countries who are facing a variety of obstacles. Um and we send these pieces to show our support. We hope to continue

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working with them in the future. Also, there's one more slide here at the end. Uh if you would like to see a couple more of the portraits, I don't know if we can skip over to the next one. There. Here we go. Here are the close-ups of some of the portraits. Um,

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some of the people were given interest in certain colors that we incorporated into the the designs. Some of them were made from graphite to more focus on the facial structure and kind of like their expression, but each one is very unique. Each one is very individual. And it may be a little bit hard to see, but on the

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top right, each student placed an outline of their own hand with their name and age on it and a a little note on the side that when the students flip it over, they can put their hand and almost connect with them even if it's not face to face or in person. But it was a very personal touch that we added

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to each student. And I think it was beautiful. On two slides before, there's the link to the video if you'd like to see a couple, but it will also be posted on the district site. So, thank you. I have a question. I have a question. Are you juniors or

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seniors? >> We're both juniors. >> Oh, you know, I've been involved. I know you from GW. You know that I've been involved in the Cambodia project and I know we're going to Cambodia in February. So maybe we want to talk

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because I know many children older who are now in their 20s. I've sponsored several of them through the years who are from the dump. I uh Stu I I'm not pronouncing it correctly, but I'd love to maybe talk to

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you about coming with me in February to go and see some of the students that perhaps that you have connected with and things like that. Just think about it. we have some time and um I would be thrilled to introduce you and meet

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people over there and see for yourself. That's one of the reasons why the Cambodia project is so near and dear to my heart. What you saw people being so appreciative, you see that in person and you never ever forget it. So, thank you for your work I know is so meaningful to

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those children there and the other places that you expanded it to. Thank you so much. you all. Appreciate it. >> All right. Uh, next we'd like to uh read a resolution honoring Grace and Arav,

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our outgoing student representatives. Uh, are you guys excited? Yes. Uh, would you like to share anything about your next steps and what you're doing? >> Uh, yeah, I can start. So, um, in two weeks, literally two weeks, I'm leaving

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for basic training for the United States Military Academy. So, two weeks from today, I'll be probably doing push-ups in the mud. Um, but I'm incredibly excited. I'll be studying economics and mathematics. And hopefully, um, in the future, I'll either become a diplomat or

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the first female Asian-American chair of the Federal Reserve. I'll take either. Um, but those are my plans. >> Exciting. Um, I don't have specific plans, but uh, I'm going to Berkeley and I'm studying

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business and I'm going to throw in a double major. So, I might do neuroscience, I might do molecular biology. I'm still unsure, but that's the plan for now. >> Very nice. Not not to put you more on the spot, if you could each leave us with one piece of advice for the board

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here, what would that be? Okay. Um, piece of advice for the board. I think a lot of the time, this this is not meant to be a jab to anybody in particular, but I think a lot of the time when we have big discussions of of

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this size, right? um we tend to focus on waiting for our turn to speak instead of listening to everybody. And and that sounds like a general piece of advice. Um but from being the student role, the person who who kind of just sits and and

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listens and observes, um what I've seen is that sometimes when we have these long conversations, um they become redundant towards the end and we're disagreeing. But when you simplify it, we're saying the same thing. Um, so I

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think yeah, like basically the advice I'm giving is be more attentive as listeners. >> Yes. For my advice, you know, my 18 years wealth of experience, um, I would say definitely work on um, something to

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an area to improve upon is more outreach to the students. I mean, the four of us, I mean, the six of us, we are certainly active members of our community, and we make an effort to be here, but there's only so much that we can do to let our f fellow classmates know what's going on in these three, four hour board meetings

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twice a month. Um, and so perhaps making the summaries of the board of ed meetings more available, more accessible, um, through emails, just letting students know, uh, firsthand what's going on because these are decisions that directly affect them. Thank you. I uh appreciate that. Great

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great words from both of you. Thank you for the honesty. Uh thank you for that. All right. Uh let's read this into the record. Resolution of appreciation for outgoing Rididgewood High School student representatives. It is recommended that the board approve the following resolution of appreciation in honor of

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Grace Kim and Arav Motivivala. Whereas Grace and Arav have served as the student representatives to the board of education during the 2526 school year. And whereas it has been their responsibility to voice the student perspective to the board at their public

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meetings. And whereas they have conducted themselves with poise and courtesy while listening attentive attentively to discussions pertaining to the governance of the school district. And whereas Grace and Arav have presented thoughtful and informative reports to the board of education on

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issues and events at the high school as well as recognizing the importance of students as stakeholders in the district. Therefore, be it resolved that the members of the Rididgewood Board of Education express their gratitude and appreciation for their service to the student body and the board of education

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and extend their best wishes for success in all future endeavors. And be it further resolved that this resolution be entered into the official minutes of the Rididgewood Board of Education meeting held on the 15th day of June 2026.

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Can I have a motion to pass this resolution? And I have a second. >> So I'm a big yes on that and I want to add my comments in the record for the minutes of the meeting. I just wanted to make a comment and I want the board and

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everybody to recognize the the two students that we have privileged like we were privileged to have these two who are on the representative of our board. One is going to West Pointmies and the other one AR is this year's

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validictorian. So this was already out in the Bergen County breakfast and all over the social media. So I can I can talk about that. So it's not that these students are just um like involved in representing the students which is uh

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kind of being politics for representing the students or bringing their issues. They're also academically high achievers and picking careers that are going to serve the country. and we are very privileged to have these two on

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u representing the student body on this board. So thank you for your service and uh stay in touch whenever you visit Ridgewood feel free to drop by and make your comment. So good luck >> this handy.

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>> Yes. >> Thank you again. Appreciate it. >> And and to honor our students, we'll we'll pull we'll create an extract of minutes that we'll give you in a nice format so that you guys can have that with you as part of your professional portfolio moving forward. Um and do you

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want to take a second for some photos? I know Miss Corass will be very upset with us if we don't uh stop for some photos and she's not here with us tonight. But uh Arvin and Grace Thank you again. Thank you. >> All right, now to the uh student

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representative report. Take it away. >> Congrats, Arf and Grace. It's been an honor serving with you guys this year. It's been a lot of fun. Um, backing up to Memorial Day weekend, the RHS wind and vocal ensembles performed at Veness

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Square and Grace was asked to speak by the American Legion after she was selected for an essay she wrote. She spoke on Americanism and political polarization. On May 28th, the RHS Academy for Health Professionals, RAP, visited the New Valley Hospital in Pramis where juniors

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and seniors presented their AP seminar and AP research projects to other students and to people at the hospital. Also on the 28th, the RHS Latin program celebrated the incredible achievements of its students with an awards ceremony.

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Violet, Anukica, and I had a chance of uh had the honor of receiving awards and celebrating their graduating seniors. That night, choir also had its awards ceremony in the campus center. Again, celebrating their achievements and the graduating seniors. On the 3rd, choir

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had its spring concert followed the next fa next day by band's tunes and Junes concert at the band shell in town. On the uh June 5th was the celebration of the arts. There were performances throughout the school from jazz band to

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color guard and RHS dance classes as well as artwork throughout the building and even face painting stations. It is an incredible opportunity to recognize the distinguished talent of our artists and one of my favorite days. Following that, the school assembled on the front

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lawn with students, faculty, alums, board members, village council members, and even some Saddle River firefighters to co-ename Herman's Place Pazuda Way. Uh the mural uh painted by Kok Kyle McCullik was uh revealed. He was a

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former student of Mr. Pazudo and the mural is placed on the graduation route so that every graduating Rididgewood senior from now on will see that mural as they're walking down those steps or down the ramp and we'll remember his

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legacy and impact at our school. Uh RHS band, orchestra, and vocal groups all performed at his at the ceremony as well. And it was followed by Artbeat where student bands were able to perform on the front lawn. Uh the weekend of

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June 6, the band went down to Gettysburg along with Mr. Unown to perform in honor of the 250th anniversary. They also visited Hershey's Park and had a great trip. On the 11th, RHS seniors enrolled in dance performed the dances they had

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been working on for the last semester in the little theater, showing off their hard work. Also on the 11th, eighth grade Latin students from both middle schools gathered in the Latin rooms to get to know each other and what high and learn what high school Latin would be

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like. The night of the 16th was the teacher awards ceremony. One teacher from each school or sorry, tomorrow will be one teacher from each school will be selected and honored at that great event. Finally, finals begin this Wednesday on the 17th and go through the

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23rd with the district being off for Junth on the 19th. To support students at the end of the year in this final push, the library is offering pizza and snacks on the 17th along with reserved and special spaces for students throughout the whole finals week so that

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they have a place in the library that they can work. Turn it over to Grace. >> Yes. So, for my final report, I'm starting off with clubs. The RHS applied engineering club. Um, three teams placed at the NJ Steam Tank Challenge and all

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received cash prizes. Additionally, the RHS Unified Club hosted two events including unified track on May 19th and Field Day at Somerville on June 2nd where members of the club both volunteered and participated in the events. Moving on to athletics, we had a

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lot of great highlights in the last couple of weeks. So, starting off with softball, they ended their regular season with a record of 17 and 11 and were also named Bergen Invitational Champions. Their final game was on Thursday, May 28th in the second round of states against Mount Olive. And then

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for the next three sports, baseball, girls lacrosse, and boys lacrosse. I would like to highlight that we did win three state titles within the span of two days, which is really exciting. Yes, round of applause. So, baseball won their game against

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Kingsway um yesterday at Ruckers um and they have a season record of 25 and seven. Additionally, during their game on the 22nd last month against Indian Hills, senior Alex Dangelo hit a walk-off home run, making him Rididgewood's career hits leader. Um as

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for girls lacrosse, they also won their game against Cherokee on Saturday the 13th, um with a record of 21 and4. On the 28th, sophomore Delaney Mcronone reached a career 100 points and 200 draw controls while playing against Pose

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Tech. And also during their game against Wong Hills on the first goalie Nora Okconor reached 100 career saves. So a lot of records being broken. Um as for boys lacrosse, they had a current record of 16 and five. They also won against Southern Regional High School on the

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13th, making them the group four state champions. Um, as for flag football, their record was undefeated, 17-0 until unfortunately they lost the state championship against Bayon on Wednesday, June 10th. However, they had an amazing

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season prior to that. Um, on June 2nd, additionally after defeating Paic Tech, the team was named the 2026 North Jersey Super Football Conference Champions. Bit of a tongue twister. Um, as for boys tennis, they had a season record of 17 and two. Their last match was on June

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2nd against Livingston in the sectional finals, ending a very successful season for them. And then finishing off our last sport is crew. Um May 22nd to 23rd was the Scholastic Rowing Association of America National Championship riotta in Tennessee where Rididgewood won its

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fifth national rowing title in five years and took home five medals overall. And then just this weekend in Florida, they had their final riata of the season, the US rowing youth national championship where they received a bronze medal for the women's inclusive double and every boat except two made

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the top 20. So um a very good performance overall from the team. Additionally, on May 17th, senior Juliet Edoyu was honored as the RHS 2026 NJSIAA scholar athlete. And then finishing off my final report with some senior end of

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the year updates which Arvin and I will share. Starting off with prom on the 29th. We all gathered um at the at the Grove in Cedar Grove. Um it was a wonderful night. Definitely. I loved a lot of photos were taken amongst my friend group. But it was so much fun and

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a bunch of us went down to the shore or traveled elsewhere and we had senior skip day the next Monday. Next up is Aura. >> Yeah. And then a couple days after prom weekend, uh we had t-shirt day, which was on June 4th. Um we all just wore the

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shirts of our upcoming next year plans. Um got together on the front lawn, took pictures. It was a really fun kind of bonding, moving on type of event. >> The next senior event was just last Tuesday. It was the senior awards and

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scholarships on the 9th and over $500,000 was given out in total award money. Um, which is extremely impressive. Um, and then on the 12th we had graduation games or or field day. Um, all the seniors just skipped the entire

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day and played cup flip and capture the flag. Um, and we just bonded together as a grade and and I guess like one last harrah. and ending it off with graduation and project graduation. It is unfortunately

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fortunately uh next Wednesday. I'd like to note that Eli both Eli and Mr. Nyas have said I have the worst case of senioritis that they've ever seen. So I'm definitely ready for graduation following our graduation ceremony. Um we will all be heading to BF and our dinner

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celebrating. I just learned that it goes until 3:00 a.m. So I definitely need to take a nap. But it's just a wonderful way for all of us to get together one last time um and celebrate an amazing four years that we've had. And this is finishing off my last report. So, thank you so much.

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>> Questions from anybody on the board? All right. We will now move to uh public comments. Anyone in the uh crowd here would like to say anything? I don't see anybody. So online, anyone like to speak up.

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All right, we will move to the uh superintendent report. >> Thanks everyone. And yeah, I just want to comment on just what a wonderful uh June this has been particularly uh just seeing our students have so many successes and just celebrating the end of the year so much. Um our congratulations on being valid

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Victorian. We had a county valadictorian breakfast and and I know we've got a lot of really talented students but but uh but you you you you did end up at the top and it was really nice to have some time and to chat with you. Fun fact, I learned that Arv uh won the spelling bee in elementary school in his first year

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coming to Ridgewood schools. Is that right? Yeah. So, I said from, you know, from from spelling be champion to validictorian, he's got a storied career in Ridgewood. So, so congratulations. Uh, and Grace, I just want to say thank you for your service. I mean, it's really an awesome thing uh to to to to

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serve. I mean, it's it's we we have an incredible country here. It is, you know, it's not perfect, of course, but it is a really incredible place, and it's uh and it's free because of the sacrifices that people make, and I really appreciate you being willing to to give that degree of service. So, thank you so much and um and it's just

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been wonderful to get to know you guys. So, I really appreciate appreciate you very much and I wish you the best and please stay in touch with us as to how things are going for you. Um we had a superintendent coffee last week. It was a lighter coffee. Uh I think we've been getting some resolution to some of the open issues that some folks had been concerned about. Not necessarily that

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that everybody's happy, but but at least we're getting some closure. And we're moving towards the end of the year, so people are are quite busy. We will have superintendent coffees over the summer as well, and they're on the district website. I do want to just keep encouraging people to come on out to those coffees as well. Um, we are wrapping up the school year, graduation,

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concerts, uh, field days, all kinds of things going on. So, keep your eye on the calendar. There's just nothing but fun stuff. Well, there's I'm sure there's other things other than fun stuff, but there are many fun things going on over the next week. Uh, graduation is next week. We have a final day for teachers where we wrap up the schools. And then, uh, we have we're

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actually going to end this year with an administrative retreat. So, I know Mr. Ross, Dr. Fenwick and I are going to sit down and try to figure out how to consolidate the gigantic list of things that we're trying to accomplish with the administrative team over the course of this year. Um but uh but we're really

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looking forward to all of that. Um I wish I want to wish everybody I want to thank everybody for a great 2526 school year. I want to wish everyone a very sa safe and healthy summer. We have many projects underway. Uh Mr. Matthews and Mr. Smith and the facilities team are

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planning uh quite a bit of projects. Uh everything from the normal routine maintenance, but we have uh we're finishing up construction projects. We have kids moving. Uh we have summer programs moving all around. We have many summer program offerings. Many people think that summers are quiet. Uh they're not particularly quiet around here. Um

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in fact, it's sometimes a little trickier in the summer because we need to get so much done and people are also trying to travel. So it's summer is an extremely busy time for us. But uh but we but we hope that all the teachers and all the students uh and the parents that can all and even including our administrators that they get some time.

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Hope you spend some time with some love with your loved ones. Hope you get some time to relax and we're really looking forward to have everybody back uh for the 2627 school year. Uh and we hope that uh that our our seniors have a fantastic start to their uh their first adult year outside of Ridgewood Public

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Schools. All right, we will uh proceed to our board committee reports. Um, Miss McCalli, would you like to cover finance? >> So, um,

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see a few minutes. So, we have a a pretty full agenda tonight with a lot of, uh, what we did on finance. Um mostly uh we reviewed um we reviewed a lot of bids that came in and uh uh

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there's a new New Jersey law that says that uh HVAC elevator maintenance um I'm looking at my notes which are honestly not that great. um food service, uh those things can no longer or or fire safety and security. Um those services

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uh cannot be done through co-op, they have to be done through bids. So, we went ahead and got bids for all those contracts. They're on the agenda to approve tonight so that we can have all the inspections and things that need to happen to make sure that we have safe uh facilities moving forward. Um and um you

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know we are renewing uh a lot of our vendors, our architects, our insurance brokers. Uh so a lot of it is uh the stuff that we need to do to make sure that the district can keep running, right? Um and I think that's that pretty much covers the finance report. >> Everything is pretty represented in the

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agenda here. >> Yeah. >> Uh facilities >> two. Okay. Um so with facilities, we also had an a long uh meeting and we went through a lot of the same things that we did um in finance. In addition,

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we talked about a couple of purchases that need to be done. Uh we talked about um there is a need. We uh have had some vehicles that our employees are driving around in that are way past their useful life. Uh so uh there's four vehicles uh

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three vans and one Ford F350 with the liftgate that are going to be purchased after uh those prices were shopped around. Uh so that's something that's on the uh agenda tonight for approval. Uh in addition to that, um you'll see on

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the on the agenda tonight, we have um awarding of the contract for the window replacements at Glenn School and Ridge Elementary School, which is something that we've already started to do. It was something that was discussed uh several times in both finance and facilities, but uh through an oversight did not make

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it onto the agenda. So, we just wanted to clean that up, make sure that that was done. We do have some change orders with regard to that with some unforeseen circumstances. And we also have um a change order with regard to the construction of the furnace rooms at

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Glenn and um Ridge School. Uh if you'll recall, uh we took away the the teachers conference rooms and the the teach the faculty rooms at both Glenn and Ridge in order to uh put in the new uh rooms for

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the new HVAC. And so, uh we are going to give those back, but we're using the old furnace rooms, which is uh a little bit more complicated than we had initially thought. But um after the bid was awarded to the contractor

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um he we had to go out for bid for asbestous abatement. Um and after doing that we actually went also through the co-op. Right Rich? And that was actually much more expensive. So they're awarding a bid for that. Um but they're doing it as a change order to the contract. So

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that's why you're going to see a change order to a contract that we awarded last month. And that's to make sure that the asbesus is abated and those furnace rooms are renovated so that our faculty in each of those schools will have a faculty room. Um that's generally I I

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think I covered most of it. I don't know sir Rob I even brought the minutes in case you had questions or anyone >> yeah I may have questions but at the time of the agenda items uh curriculum

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>> so we met um last week and uh the curriculum agenda tonight is small we basically talked about this mentoring plan and um then um we had a discussion about how uh we are um picking the

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students for enrichment program and how to make that more equitable and just like uh Brian explained to us Mr. Ros explained that how what's the process of doing that and then there was a question that I raised that is regarding

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international students transferring to RHS and how today we report their international transcripts on RHS transcript and the grades and uh we had a discussion and um the administration

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will go back and uh try to work a policy or a runbook or a process manual that it's consistent for all students that how those students are their grades are reflected in the transcripts. So it's um fair and equitable to all students. Uh

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each guidance counselor knows how to handle that because that can impact their college admissions policy. As you can see on today's agenda, there are several items up for first reading.

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Many of them are just minimal but necessary updates required by policy by changes in the legislature and as well as cleaning up some of the the verbiage. and they're links so that the public you

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can review those um before we have a final reading um and I think that's and then that will necessitate revising and abolishing some other now redundant policies. So for the most part

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that's what we've been working on. We do have some final reading items a little bit later in the um agenda today, but really everything is there with links for people to review. >> Yeah. And I just wanted to add there is a policy for uh adopt second reading an

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adoption for subscription busing. Um an email went out a couple of days ago that the district is postponing the subscription busing program for a year. But this policy does not establish any specific routes right. So there was some

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confusion about which routes and which students will get that and parents had expressed some concern and um the administration wants to do more due diligence that exactly identifying the routes. So it's taking time. So that's delayed but this policy just establishes

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that the district can offer subscription busing. So this is not establishing the routes. So this is just establishing a fact that the district the board is in agreement that district can uh offer subscription pricing. So that's the scope of this policy. This this policy

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is very limited in scope. It just says that yes we have an option we are allowed to do that. >> Thank you Mr. Danny for the clarification. Appreciate that. Okay let's go to uh our consent items regular and routine. Uh first we have attendance at conferences.

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Would anyone like to move this? I'll move attendance and conferences at conferences. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. >> Yes. >> Miss Sandy.

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>> Yes. >> Makmoo. >> Yes. >> 4. Next we have administration. Any questions or comments here? Can we >> Yes. So I have one question. Usually we do we ask questions after moving or before? >> No, >> you can ask before.

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>> Okay. So do we have a position called coordinator of facilities? >> That's title. Okay. Sounds good. I thought it was special projects. >> Okay. Anyone like to move administration? >> I'll move administration.

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>> I'll second. May I make a comment? >> Yes. >> I just want to uh just point out that if anyone on the public had looked at the the agenda and looked at the district calendar, the attachment that was released on Friday is different than the than the calendar that the board is looking at right now. Mrs. Corass isn't

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here with us right right now. She's attending some personal matters. So, we might have to update this tomorrow. I'm not sure if she has this updated as of right now, but it is live on the agenda. Um I just want to apologize to anybody uh who noticed that we were missing in all the shuffling of the calendar. We ended up dropping off Diwali off the

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calendar on accident. So my apologies to anyone who celebrates Diwali. Um that did come to our attention late. Um we have we have updated that uh and because that the way the calendar works one day can make a significant shift. So we actually reconfigured the calendar. It is a little bit different than what it

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was last time. It's not the the the start day is a little sooner. Um we're gonna the last day is going to come a little sooner as well. Uh Dvali is now on there. Um, but everything outside of the be start of the school calendar and the end of the school calendar is largely is basically the same. So,

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anyone has any questions, feel free to let us know. I will say this calendar particularly has been it's been a particularly tricky one. We didn't get a lot of consensus from our calendaring committee. Uh, so we so I I worked with um worked with the team here and had to

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take a little bit of latitude to find something that seemed like it was representing everyone's interest as good as possible. Uh, so happy to hear people's thoughts. We're going to continue with the calendar committee, but we knew we needed to get a calendar out for everybody because people need to plan for next year. So again, my

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apologies for the for the change there, but it is uh but it is available now for everyone to see. And I I do think this is the right calendar for the time being. >> Wanted to >> Yeah, it's up. >> Oh, okay. Miss Corless did confirm that

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it is up there. Thank you, Miss Corass. I just wanted to I actually I noted that um and I think this is a change that um in the past you've had a professional development day on what's known as uh usually Columbus Day October 11th and this year the district is closes in its

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entirety but you you've kind of added a professional development day in February which has the effect for the parents not the teachers the administrators but for the parents and the students of extending that February break to a third day. So, I think that I'm going to guess

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that that was in part kind of an attempt to >> bridge the gap between some of the concerns about having too short of a February break. >> So, um I just thought it should be noted that that was people were heard and that there's been an effort to um address that.

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>> Yeah, there was and there was even been a recess day added so that the families families that do want to spend some time together or possibly travel. We've heard a lot of requests from folks about the desire to travel. Some people have have to travel to see family and so if we don't provide like any windows of time

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it can be very challenging. So we wanted to honor that. Taking a whole week isn't necessarily feasible but we hope that that provides some uh some some opportunity for families to uh spend some time together. >> So I think we had a it was moved by Mr.

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Danny and I seconded administration. >> Hey Mr. Donnie. >> Yes. >> Miss Sandy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Callie. >> Yes. >> Move. Yes, >> M. Any questions on curriculum and instruction?

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Anyone like to move? I move curriculum and instruction. >> Okay. Mr. Donnie, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> For a permanent

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human resources comments, questions. >> Yes, I have a couple of questions. Um, so from the new job descriptions, um, the lead teacher, gifted and talented,

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testing coordinator, administrative assistant, athletic and facility scheduling. are these three new positions. >> Oh, you want me to >> please? >> So, the administrative assistant

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athletics and facility scheduling is to to was a job description clarifier for the person that was currently doing that work and we are moving the position um to the athletic office because there just needs to be more interaction there.

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So, there's been a change, but it's not a new position. >> Okay. >> All right. >> May I also just add that's a part it also moved from a full-time position to a part-time position. >> Correct. >> From a one. Right. Okay. So, >> as um US testing coordinator

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>> can I just just provide a clarification that it it just want to be clear on the record. It's not a new full-time equivalency. So, it's not a new person. I mean, it's not a new like salary and headcount. >> It's a disc. It's a Yeah, but it is a new it is a revised job description. So

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in some ways it is kind of like a new role but we are not backfilling the old role. >> Yeah. So in those cases when if we are saying that there's a new job description or new position that should probably accompany with the one that we are removing. >> Well, we're not I'm not removing that

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job description. We're just not filling that position. So the position currently is a is a is a joint receptionist position with also responsibilities for scheduling. I don't remember the title with me, but I'm not removing the position right now. I'm not removing the job description right now.

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This could not work out. We might want to go back to that. So I don't have a problem with the job description being on the record. But what we're working on to answer to satisfy your concern with this is a system of position control roster counting. So that way we can register you an updated position control

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roster and you can see how it's going to net out the same or actually in this case be reduced. But that's that's a that's one of our missions for this year is to be able to have that >> because if we don't remove that at the same time then it will stay an open position which six months down the road we may say oh that was a position we are

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just filling that position. >> Yeah and and that's where that's where it's a headcount issue which is what why we're we're working on on getting you that what we've had some meetings already. Mr. Murphy you want to talk about that? Yeah. And and I think there's I think there's been a a misnomer like we approve job descriptions, but that's not approving

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positions. That's approving job descriptions because we can reallocate positions as needed regarding where the the need is in the district at any given time. So a job description is not an approval of a new position. There would actually be a separate resolution

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approving a position. And I think uh what Dr. Schwarz is speaking about, there is a position control roster. Many districts actually include position control numbers on appointments and I think we're all moved in moving in that direction. Um I think we've had some obstacles because of the systems that we

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use but I believe we have gotten to a point where we have something that's working right now. Um and then we'll be I think the goal is to move next year with more clarity. >> 27. Yes. >> Correct. >> Okay. And the other two testing coordinator and lead teacher

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>> test coordinator and lead teacher are not new positions. Those are stipens. So they will be additional responsibilities given to existing staff members. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> I'll move human resources.

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I second. >> Seconded. Hey Mr. Donnie. >> Yes. >> Miss Sandy. >> Miss. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Affirmative. >> All right. Finance comments or

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questions? >> Give me one second to just make sure. >> May I just need to make a quick revision under finance. Uh Mr. Matthews, I'm not sure. This is something that came to me a little bit later. I wasn't sure if you uh if you wanted to read this in, but it was a it was I approval award of

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contracts for custodial supplies. They got I received the revised number which is lower. It's page 43 >> on in finance. >> Yeah. Yes, sir. I

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>> So that's I is u not included in the uh consent agenda. >> Oh, my apologies. I went too far. I apologize. I went too far. That's not included in the consent agenda. Thank you for cing >> for the consent agenda. So I have a question on finance where we are listing

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the contracted vendors to provide special education service. Um and my question is so what is the rationale to not list

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special education vendors as part of the agenda like we list every other vendor and move that in an attachment where somebody has to go and click to find that. So for all other vendors like when we are talking about an HVAC vendor when

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we are talking about uh even um approving agreement with Westburger health mental health care all of these are spelled out the contract the vendor name and the contract amount the duration the account number all of that

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right so but when it comes to special ed vendors we say approve contracted vendors to provide special ed service for 2627 and that goes as an attachment and somebody has to click on that attachment to find um those details. Why

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is that a practice? Like what's the rational for that? They're they're also vendors like any other vendor. I think it's just a legacy practice. So, am I taking this to mean you're you're making the point that we would just list if we're listing out the other vendors, why would we not just

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list those out? >> Yeah, that's a fair point. So there the answer is there's no good reason. Okay. So we'll we'll we'll talk about that and make sure I'm not missing something, but we can make that adjustment if that's what the board wants.

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>> Any other comments or questions? Yeah. Um, I would like to read into the record just our donations. Um, Mary McCalli, thank you for $300 to be used for professional development. From the Korean parent association, $2,000 to be used for RHS guidance counselors to

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attend National Association for College Admissions Counseling. Our Somerville Home and School Association, $1,680 gift in kind for the for books to the library. The Ridgewood Education Foundation, $1,29011

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to be used for the Willard Panther Pulse Podcast. BFM, Home and School Association, $80 to be used for Kind Minds presentation. GWMS HSA, $80 for Kind Minds presentation. Rich HSA, $83.33

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for Kind Minds Association presentation. Apologies. Somerville HSA $80 to be used for the Kind Minds presentation. Orchard, HSA, $80 to be used for the kind Minds presentation. Traval, HSA, $80 to be used for the kind minds

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presentation. Willard, HSA, $83.33 to be used for the kind minds presentation. The Ridge HSA, $1,100 to be used for additional books for this Ridge Library. Pause HSA, $80 to be used for the Kind

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Minds presentation. the Rididgewood Ice Hockey Foundation $63,5442 to be used for the 2526 ice hockey expenses that were over $45,000 and the Travel HSA for $4,000

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gifting kind to be used for the mural for the Tiger's Den wall at Tral Elementary School. Thank you all for your generous donations. Would anyone like to move finance? >> Um, I have more questions. Sorry about that. So um I already talked about the

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vendors. Then my next one is what is the um establishment of verification of claims threshold. This is I think something new right the claim threshold for 17 7950.

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That's the uh 15% of the of the uh the budget uh threshold $3,000. So 15% of that number 7,950 is still required to get two quotes. So you can go below that number threshold is $44,000 last year. Now it's

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3,000 that page 28. >> Yeah. So threshold. So for 53,000 we don't need bids, right? >> No, you go up the bit over,000. >> Yes. But what is the $7950? >> That's for folks that you don't have to get at a price. Go away contact local

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company to do a small job. >> Okay. Which used to be 6,000. >> Yes. Now it's out there. >> Why is it called verification of claims? It's not

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page 32. Page 32. Page 32, item number 14. >> It says claims that equal or exceed 15% of the bid threshold amount must be verified

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>> by effit or sign declaration in writing. Okay, this is maybe language because we I have not seen this language before the >> Rich Rich. >> Yes. >> Was there was was there not a discussion regarding vendors claims for unpaid?

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Wasn't that what this referred to? So was it it the claim refer referring to a a vendor claiming that we owe them money or something like that? I thought that's what this was not right. didn't because we had a discussion about that.

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>> Okay. And my next one is um appropriated in year end surplus. So I think we used all of our emergency funds towards um health insurance. We are probably sitting at zero on emergency. But do we

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not want to put money back in emergency? You know, I noticed the same thing that that that this resolution doesn't call for for replenishing emergency at all. >> If we don't put any money in emergency, then >> it seems to be I thought we left. >> We wait now we have we have an issue

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with this one. This actually is not I missed this. This is actually not what my recommendation was for this particularly. >> Also, usually we put 20 2.7 million for um budgeted fund balance. This is 2.5.

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Yeah, my recommendation is that we slowly start bringing that down. Okay, I want to move that number down. I also >> How about the emergency? >> So, emergency reserve is a more restrictive account. I I don't recommend that we continue to fund emergency reserve. I recommend right now we're currently drawing on our maintenance

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reserve, okay, significantly. We're out of maintenance reserve. So, to the extent that we do not deposit into maintenance reserve, we're going to create a hole in the budget next year. So, my recommendation is that we put my recommendation had been that we put up to a million dollars. I don't think we're going to have a million dollars uh

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to put in, but I recommend that we put in up to a million dollars into maintenance. That still would leave us with about a $400,000 hole because we pulled 1,400 this year, but that's better than a it's better than a much larger hole than that. So, uh so my recommendation actually had been for

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this one to be um not to exceed $1 million to be transferred to the maintenance reserve account. The rest would then go to capital if there is anything left. That's my recommendation. >> So, Mr. Matthew, is that is that consistent with what you recall from our conversation? >> Yeah. Spoke on last week. You said 2% unassigned fund balance 2.5 from the

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$2.7 million. >> Yeah. >> And we didn't think we'd have money for emergency reserve and u I thought that two we can go up to one point $1 million for for the maintenance. Not a guarantee that we'll get to that number. >> Yeah. And I don't want to split hairs. I mean because the because the emer one of

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the uses for emergency reserves are health benefits that are increased dramatically in a in a in a small but possible scenario where we don't have a huge increase next year. >> We won't hopefully >> we budgeted for we budgeted

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>> the the truth. Let's just say budget. >> My goodness, I hope you're right. But but let's just say let's just say that we don't um then uh then then we can't pull on that emergency reserve whereas we know that we have a hole with maintenance reserve. >> Okay. So, do you want me to move a

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motion to amend the agenda to reflect 1 million instead of $250,000? >> Sure. Sure. I can. Yeah. >> Is finance committee okay with that? >> Yeah. Well, and I can Yeah. Go up to be less. If you don't get the million dollars remains reserved. >> Yeah. Not to exceed.

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>> I can I I I can just verbally amend my recommendation. Okay. Okay. So, Mr. Matthews, if you can just if we can please um um correct put this into the record. Uh please, I'd like to amend my recommendation under finance

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15. Item 15. >> Yeah. the where it says uh a transfer to the maintenance reserve account. Please amend that to read plus not to exceed $1 million to be transferred to the maintenance

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reserve account. No other changes. Okay. Then my next one is the um the tuition rates for um out of district students of staff members children. What is the difference from last year on this? because there was it wasn't in the

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FI that for all of the other items it was listed what was last year and what is this year what's the data for this for 941 9484 109 what's the data from last year >> same or there was a change

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>> I think it was same >> because everything else we are adjusting for inflation do you not want to change that 2% 5% whatever we were doing every year >> remember this one the same. Hang on for there's a lot on this agenda. Hold on. >> I don't remember discussing an increase.

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I thought I I thought it was the same >> in the past even. >> I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying finance was discussed. >> Keep in mind this did get a big jump >> last year. Oh, no. We >> No, we we moved it back.

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>> But it was it's higher. It became higher than it was. >> Uh no, it did. It did. It's a because because it's a percentage of the outofd district calculated tuition. So it's tied to the out of district tuition. So the out of district tuition gets uh gets

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gets adjusted every year as part of the budget process. >> So Matthew, am I am I mean I don't have the I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'm assuming that these out of district numbers my understanding I should say I'm assuming my understanding is that these out of district numbers are have been updated fresh from the budget software. Is that correct?

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>> Yes. Correct. >> Yeah. So that goes so that goes up. But the percentage is a fixed percentage, right? >> So all we did was just apply the fixed percentage to the updated out of district tuition. >> Okay. Yeah, I remember that discussion because we wanted to make sure that it's not every year discretion. >> It's a percentage, right?

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>> It's a percentage. >> So we'll just have to make sure that it's there. Um then there is um there's an agenda item that I'm not going to talk about but I'm very happy uh it it didn't change in the previous

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years when I requested this year it is changing then the parking so the parking um Mr. Matthews so this year I'm going to vote this 2.4% 4%. But just FYI, >> sorry.

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>> So this is 35, page 35, the last item for the church parking lot. Um, we will have another contract coming up for West uh Westside. During my time here, they come with 3% 4% 5%. If we go back

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to them that, hey, our standard for taxpayer increase is 2%. Can you consider 2%? and they always accommodate that to 2% because they are a nonprofit village is not charging any tax to them. They want we they should be in same line that other taxpayers tax is increasing.

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So this year we are doing 2.4% but for both churches if their increase is more than 2% and if you go back to them and request that hey let's stay what for 2% they usually honor that. So we should try to most of these increases we should

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because our tax revenue we can increase by 2%. So these expenses we should try to be at 2%. >> Mr. Matthews don't the students pay for this? This is not the students pay a fee and this is covering that fee. The district does not end up paying this.

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>> I I get it but still if it's every year it's an increase for students, right? So if they stay under 2% that's a reasonable ask and in the past we have went gone back to them and they agreed to that. That's what I'm saying.

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>> So yes you are correct. It is paid for by the students >> for one school not for the other school. >> This for the for the high >> the high school. The other one at Westside is for teachers. >> No but we pay for that. This >> we pay for that. Yes. Yes. Yes. But the

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one this first press is the students pay and usually I think they're just usually seniors that have that >> right >> but if you're a group of people every year >> but if we go back and push back on uh to west side for a 2% increase we should do

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that same for the other one one we are paying taxpayers are paying one students are paying it's right so it should we should try to keep that under 2%. And then the I was just calculating all the percentages. So this one for the bond

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bond council um is about 15%. Uh it's a small amount. So it doesn't uh come out much but from percent perspective everything else is within 3 4 5 3 4 5%. And this bond council is about 15%.

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And uh >> which which page or which one is the bottom council? >> Um 36. It's only 1,300 to,600. So it it looks small percent number like $300, but it's from percent perspective, it's

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big. And then in the in the FYI for Mark are we talking on the liberty we're talking about anything for uh beforeare afterare today or no is insurance for beforeare afterare

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included in this or not yet? >> Are you asking you're asking are we speaking about the topic tonight? >> No thesur. Yeah. suggest the insurance part in one of the FA FIS it was mentioned that our insurance cost might be increasing this year by 100,000 for

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that program right there's an insurance cost >> so this 80,000 is just for broker that's that's the that's the price for B per that's the that's the broker that's

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that's per bird agency >> they handle my understanding is they they handle all our insurance except for health >> they handle >> and dental >> they handle property and casualty risk management of >> right everything except for health

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>> health benefits right >> right so there is so then there is this Bob McCloski insurance >> uh that is student insurance right >> yes >> so does this cover precare afterare or

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because this amount 100,236 is same as last year but in this year's precare afterare presentation it was mentioned that our cost will increase by 100,000 so what is that 100,000 insurance cost >> I I have to guess I don't think we know that yet I think that'll come through at

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the right time >> okay so this today they are not insured under our our insurance >> that program hasn't been established yet so I think we need to get an update that okay yeah I can tell you the point the point you made in our conversation was a great point, right? We'll make sure that

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insurance is covered in it, but I it's not it's not doesn't exist yet. It's not quoted that yet. >> Yeah. In the in the in the FYI in the quotes in the cost revenue versus expense analysis, >> it is mentioned $100,000 for insurance >> in the FYI >> in the

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>> Maybe that was just an estimate or >> in the presentation. >> Yeah, maybe that was just an estimate, right? >> Yeah. You're saying you're saying in the before and after care presentation? >> Yes. >> Yes. Yeah. No, that was that's part of the business model that they calculated. >> Right. But here 100,000 covers K to 12 for all day.

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>> Gotcha. So you're so you're seeing a connection between the presentation of 100,000 and that being increasing by just wondering have we got >> that's a small >> hours, right? 38. >> Mr. Matthews, am I speaking correctly? Is is that is the uh

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>> we need to just get an update for insurance if >> So you're so you're you're pointing to what this one does. >> Yeah. So this covers all K12 all students today. >> Yes. >> Right. And then so just adding our preare and afterare would add 100,000

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that I we would we would go through a process of trueing up that number. That was not a firm like a firm quote in the projection. >> Okay. I think that's all I have for um is the um

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purchase of a vehicle part of this or it's a separate one cuz I had a question on that. The vehicle purchase >> the vehicle purchase >> that's a capital outlay that was in um that's part that's part of this.

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>> Okay. So yeah, that's all I have for a consent. Yeah, it's it's that's not in that's in in items not for consent. Okay. >> So, I will remove finance with the amendment made to section 15 by Dr. Schwarz.

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One second, please. Hold on. Section. >> That was the uh the maintenance. >> What page is that? >> It's item 15. >> Item 15. >> It was already read into the record by Schwarz. up to a >> million reserve. It's on page 33.

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>> Yes. >> Yep. >> Page 33. >> So I move with that amendment. >> Anyone like to second? >> I second. >> Seconded. All right. Mr. Donnie. >> Yes. >> Miss Sandy. >> Yes. >> M.

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>> Yes. And I I just want to call out um with gratitude Julie Johanna who's done a lot of the work that went into all the uh all of these approvals that we did including transportation and some of the job descriptions for before and afterare. Um Julie has been working

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really really hard um and doing a great job and uh she's also tendered her resignation to go on to something else that's in this agenda. You scared me forked up, but I I just and and we'll have time, I guess, to say, but I I just want to call out and say that she's been

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doing a very very good job at what she does >> and uh whoever where she's going is lucky to get her. So, >> yeah, I did not realize that when we reported on u human resources that uh Julie is going to be missed.

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>> Yeah, she's going to be missed anyway. >> Definitely. True. >> All right. So, resolutions and motions not including consent agenda. We have about 15 of them. It looks like uh would anyone like to pull out certain ones for individual discussion and votes?

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>> Did Did you vote on that last? >> No, we voted apologies. I thought we were done with that. >> We're done. Did Muhammad need vote? >> No, no, no. I'm sorry. >> On the consent agenda for five. >> No, we have Mary. Yes. I'm sorry, Mr. Muhammad. I'm sorry. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Uh,

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Miss Broen or affirmative. >> Thanks, Mary. >> Give me one second to review the >> So maybe we can ask questions like we are asking for the consent one individually and then vote on all of them together. >> Dr. Shore is telling me they all need

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their individual votes anyway. So I'll just go through and if we want to have discussion, we'll Okay. So uh so first one a approval for the agreement with Ramcompo College New Jersey elementary education teacher assistant to teacher program. Any comments, questions,

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concerns on this one. >> All right. Who would like to move? >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Mr. Donnie, >> yes. >> Miss Handy, >> yes. >> Miss Malli, >> yes. >> Miss McMouth, >> yes.

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>> Or affirmative. >> All right. B. Approval for agreement with William Patterson University teacher assistant toteer program. Any >> I move >> I move to approve the agreement with William Patterson teacher assistant to

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teacher program. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Second it. Okay. Mr. Donnie. >> Yes. >> Miss Andy? >> Yes. >> Miss Malli? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mcmood? >> Yes. >> Or affirmative. We have C approval for submission of the

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request to establish two additional classrooms for special education programs. Any comments, questions, concerns on this one? >> Pensy. I'll second. >> All right. Mr. Donnie, >> yes. >> Miss Handy,

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>> yes. >> Miss Malli, >> yes. >> Mr. McMove, >> yes. >> Or affirmative. >> 10D. approval for settlement of agreement between Richard Board of Education and former employees uh listed here by docket number edu

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18299-2025N. Any comments, questions, concerns? >> Just um I just wanted to comment uh uh that I just wanted to make sure that we double check with the um administrator of the claims. I had I'm trying not to

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say anything that's confidential, which is why I'm being intentionally vague, but um I had asked a question that um uh we just follow up with the carrier who handled some of the subject of the lawsuit to make sure that um what was

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done was done properly and to the extent that we've incurred any fees for something that we did not do improperly that we are reimbured by the carrier for that. Anyone like to move? >> I'll move it.

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>> Second. >> Okay. Mr. Donnie, >> yes. >> Miss Sandy, >> yes. >> Miss Malli, >> yes. >> Smuck Moot. >> Yes. >> Or affirmative. >> So 10E, opening of bids and award of contract for window replacements at the

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Glenn School and Ridge Elementary School for bid number 05-26. Comments, questions, concerns? Anyone like to move? >> I'll move it. >> I'll second it. >> Abstain.

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>> Miss Handy. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCalli. >> Yes. >> Mcmood. >> Yes. >> Reaffirmative one abstension. >> 10F. Approval for the increase in vendor contract for DNE window and door LLC for

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bid number 05-26 for windows at Glenn and Ridge to be revised from 2,37,400 to 2,324,083. Any comments, questions, concerns?

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Anyone like to move? >> I'll move that. >> I'll second. >> Yes. Sandy, >> yes. >> Miss Malli, >> yes. >> Mr. McMoo, >> yes. >> Or affirmative. >> 10G, approval for the authorization to

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join the co-op pricing system agreement, New Jersey Co-op Purchasing Alliance and in County of Bergen. >> I'll move it. I'll move G for the Alliance. >> I'll second that. >> Hey, Mr. Donnie. >> Yes.

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>> Miss Handy. >> Yes. >> Miss McCalli? >> Yes. >> Mm. Yes. >> Or affirmative >> 10H for the approval and award of contract for the replacement of district vehicles. >> I have a question on that. Um

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so we are listing that all four vehicles are replacing existing ones. So what shouldn't we have a corresponding disposal uh of assets for those those four vehicles or identify which four are

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being replaced? There's they're in repair and eventually, yes, we'll dispose of those vehicles. Um, right now we're just kind of like just getting them through, get to jobs. Um, they haven't totally just fall apart totally, but the we still

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kind of use up just for still using them right now. >> The new vehicles haven't arrived yet. >> We haven't even ordered them yet. >> Yeah. Right. We need to if we don't identify them now then and if we don't

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dispose them off now then next year one of them will break and we will we might say that hey we we just we had a vehicle broken just now and we need to replace that right >> we can't we need them right now we're limping along with them if we dispose of them now then we can't use them anymore >> yeah but so then it should not be saying

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that we are buying in it identifies that right It says that there are existing replacement vehicles. It says replacement vehicles. It's not saying additional vehicles, >> but they are going to be replacement vehicles. You you'll get you'll get a

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disposal from us just in a future meeting. We got to get these trucks first before we can dispose of the existing trucks. >> So, I would have felt more comfortable if we at least identified which four will be which are for our candidate that will be coming up later on. So that way

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>> it's the same thing with the job description part that how do we make sure that the same thing doesn't come back again? How do we track that? Right. >> Uh my question on this one, Mr. Matthews, are we I mean can we not buy slightly used vehicles?

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That an option for us as a district or do we have to buy new? >> No, we I mean we don't know. The answer is no. We don't have to buy brand new. >> We don't we do we get a significant discount with the state contract though, don't do we not? Yeah, we're we're getting we're getting a pretty good deal for these four vehicles right here, but

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there are other bids out there for vehicles that have been used and you have to go out there and do an inspection and stuff like that. We just honestly we didn't consider slightly used or used vehicles this this time around, but out of the eight vehicles that we have right now, we probably got to replace two or three more next year.

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We can definitely consider that for next year. Getting something that's slightly used for, you know, used vehicle. Let's consider that. So, can I can I request that which four are being replaced because the agenda says that

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there's a replacement? >> Yeah, sure. I mean, we can definitely identify the four vehicles that we're going to get rid of once we get these four. Sure. Like we have >> identify them. >> You you can like provide that in an email or something that which four are

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you planning to replace? >> Definitely. >> Thank you. Would anyone like to move H? I'll move 10 H. Okay. >> Okay. Mr. Donnie, >> yes. >> Miss Andy, >> yes. >> Mr. McCalli,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Mcmood, no. I prefer we we look at used vehicles in the future. >> Okay. You have three affirmative, one no. 10 I approval for the award of contract for custodial supplies.

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>> Sir, I have a question on that. Um I think Miss Broen had a question on number of students used for this calculation. Did we have a any followup on that? >> Yeah, we have an updated number that came to us on Friday. We're going to put if we could either scrap this right now,

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give you the new numbers at the next meeting. This came to us on Friday. We didn't want to give it to you, you know, so late, but we did get numbers on Friday that would change these numbers. I mean, do you want to we that's what I >> cost not to exceed. So, maybe we can approve it. >> It's what I was calling out before. It's

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just a slightly lower number. It's the 251 number, but in fairness, Mr. I've asked Mr. Matthews about it and this did just I wasn't aware this just came in on Friday. Yeah. >> So, it's not something that's been fully vetted yet. It's a lower number and it is a cost not to exceed. So, there's no reason we can't approve it now. We'll just bring you a revised resolution at the next meeting. Right.

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>> Yeah. you can approve because it's not to exceed and uh you are on top of that. So that >> and we have a lower number. >> Okay, it's fine. So we'll leave it as is. >> So 10 I All right. Oh, that's where you were mentioning

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that we don't >> Yeah, it was it was written in my agenda, but I checked it with Mr. Matthews and he hasn't had a chance to vet it yet. >> Mr. Donnie, >> yes. >> Miss Sandy, >> yes. >> Mi. >> Yeah. Yes. Yes. >> Not moved. >> Yes.

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>> Or affirmative. >> 10J. Opening of bids and award of contract for elevator chairlift maintenance and repair. Bid number 04-27. Comments, questions, concerns. Anyone like to move?

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>> I'll second it. >> Sure. I'll I'll move. >> Oh, yeah. >> Second by Mr. Andy. >> Okay. Uh, Mr. Donnie. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andy, >> yes. >> Mr. McCalli, >> yes. >> Mr. McMood, >> yes. >> Or affirmative.

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>> 10K, opening of bids and award of contract for kitchen hood and fire suppression and districtwide fire alarm system maintenance bid number 05-27. Comments, questions, concerns? Anyone like to move it?

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I'll second it. Mr. Donnie, >> abstain. >> Miss Handy, >> yes. >> Mr. McCalli, >> yes. >> McMove, >> yes. >> Actually, after the fact, I do have a quick question on this one, though. The

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uh contract a about the kitchen hood and fire suppression system, uh the $2,400 annually, is that something that then gets uh charged back to the enterprise fund >> to food service? Yes. >> To food service. Okay. I just want So, that's not part of the general budget. I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you.

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Okay. >> All right. 10 L. >> I'll move 10 pen L. >> And for the record, that's just the opening of bids and the word of contract for furnace boiler heating systems as needed. Bid number 06-27. >> Okay. Mr. Donnie. Yes, Miss Handy.

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>> Yes, >> Miss McCalli. >> Yes, >> moved. >> Yes. >> Affirmative. >> 10m approval uh increase in vendor contracts contract for Manila Landscaping Industries for Grounds Management Services bid number 01-26

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to not exceed 1,31,000 from 860,000. >> I have a quick question. Is this in reference to the shifting of the snow removal from the custodial services to Manello?

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>> Yes. >> And actually Yes. I'm sorry. Yes. >> Right. And that's because they work on weekends and it's not going to be a better deal because it'll be coming out of instead of being overtime for custodians, it's going to be handled by

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them, >> right? And and you know what? I neglected to mention this in my facilities and finance report, so I apologize for that, but yes. So, so a lot of it is they're going to be responsible for 100% of the snow removal in the district. So, our custodians no

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longer need to do that not only for overtime, but during the school day. And uh part of the rationale was that it would save on well, obviously allowing our custodians during a snow event to continue to do the work inside of the schools that they still need to do. It

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saves on salt and other equipment. Um there's also as part of this contract um Rich and his team renegotiated the snow removal in the event that we have another astronomical amount of snow so that um we're playing paying flat rates

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as opposed to uh if you recall we paid over $200,000 last We had a huge huge expense >> partly because over 40 ines of snow we were charged I think it was like $13,000 an inch going forward because no one thought we were going to get there. We

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got there. So now um they've renegotiated the contract to give us something that's more favorable. Um, in addition, it should just be noted that there's a Manel has specified services that they are providing that they are not charging

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us extra for, including lining the fields, cleaning up after um that's right. after weekend activities, which was something actually we just discussed um at Somerville, something that they've been making an effort to do. Um and uh other other maintenance,

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>> think garbage removal and right and removal, by the way, of any assets that we're disposing of, they're going to haul that away for us. So there's a a lot of additional things, some of which we're paying for, some of which they're giving us gratus. Um but uh that's part

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of the reason why the contract has been um increased and it's not to exceed so that because I was very clear on this. If we don't get that amount, we're not going to be paying for that either, which is >> No, we're paying 61,000 minimum even if we don't get it. >> No, >> we have 61,000 flat fees.

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>> Wait a minute. Wait a minute. >> Well, no, we we don't pay for snow removal if we don't get snow. the contract. >> The only the only guarantee amount that we're going to pay for the contract, the guarantee there's no snow is $672,500.

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The snow portion u that's the snow the snow portion is a $358,500 if we get snow. So the maximum amount that we could pay for the year will be the 1,198 um is the max. Right. So from

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>> guarantee is $600,000 for all the regular maintenance and grounds. But if it doesn't snow, we don't pay. >> No, the the minimum we are paying flat is 61,000 something. >> No, that's not included in the $600,000. >> $672,500.

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>> The incre from the increase 61,000 is a flat increase regardless of >> now that's not understanding is if it doesn't snow, you don't pay for snow. >> So, you're thinking if it doesn't snow at all, >> doesn't snow at all, you don't you don't pay for snow.

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>> But even if it snows one inch, then the increase minimum guaranteed increase is 61,000. And I'm assuming we'll have at least one inch of snow, >> right? >> Understanding. But >> 61,000 is the minimum increase.

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>> I thought we had that discussion, Rich. I'm sorry. I I I >> That's I >> don't I don't see that. I don't see that. I don't I don't I don't I don't see that. Um snow cap

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rate. >> Yes. >> So 65. So total additional cost for up to first 40 in will not exceed 65,000. 65,000 m. Right. Right. >> That's how

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I would argue >> the maximum charge for snow is 55,000. >> Yeah. Max it is >> right >> for for the first 65. So up to 40. So it's 1 to 40. >> Yeah. The max >> that's if you go to 60. I think if you

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go to 60, right? 40 to 60 you will not exceed the 65. >> Yeah. Then it change. No. 40 to 40 to 50 is additional 35,000. 50 to 60 is the additional 30,000. So no fall under 40 is included in the original contract amount that is six and

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it's the new one is 65,000. So I have a couple of questions on this. Um so the sidewalk and sidewalk snow removal which Manila will be taking on now

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and garbage from fields that Manila will be taking on now. Those are probably custodial work today. Are we going to reduce that from custodial contract? >> It's it's not it's not custodial. It's grounds. It's um it's grounds. It's it's really one person that has you want to

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speak to it. It's really one person that has the responsibility for the for the for the garbage pickup. It's not um you're paying you're paying labor cost for the custodial contracting cleaning. Um having a guy not take out the

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garbage. He's still in the building working the same same number of hours because workers be reassigned reallocated. So for instance, when the snow comes and it's during regular working hours, instead of our guys doing the snow, they will be doing additional cleaning now as opposed to doing snow.

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So they're still going to get paid for the same number of hours. So because the guy does not uh remove the garbage, his work will now be reassigned to something else in the >> but the scope is changing, right? So they would be they would need less number of people. We we're not changing

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we're not changing the scope enough to take people out of the building. The building is a set number of people based on the square footage of the building. You need a custodian for every 17,400 square ft. The contracts based on the size of the building and that's how you

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uh allocate your custodians. It's not based on it's also scope of work as well, but because you remove a task or two, it's not enough to I don't believe it's enough to change the number of people in the building. So then why would we change it to

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Manila? If custodials were able to do that, why would we add new costs to that? >> Sorry. >> If our existing custodial staff was able to do that, why would we change it to Manilo and add $130,000 towards that?

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But but one second, you're talking about cleaning and removing the garbage from the sports fields >> and and sidewalk removal. But keep in mind this is I mean this is just getting included in the revised in the new amendment anyway. But the main purpose of the amendment is to just um lock in

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the lock in the unanticipated >> potential additional overages. Right. That's the main purpose. But they're including all of this for free anyway. >> No, but there are there's an additional 122,000 also. Right. So there is an up it's not just the the complete delta is

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not just snow we are also moving some work from custodial staff to Manel and giving them more money. Yeah, but what what is it? It's just the garbage from the sports fields, right? So I guess >> in sidewalk snow from the sidewalk. So So we are So from 800,000 to 1.1

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million. It's not not all of that is snow removal. 860 to 1 1 million 31,000. >> No, but I I don't my understanding, Mr. Matthews, we're not increasing the the contract price that we are definitely

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paying. We're just negotiating what the overages would look like. So what we're saying a cost not to exceed increase that doesn't mean we are definitely paying more is >> no we are saying that the staff cost for ACB custodial for um sidewalk removal

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was $106,000 >> so last year okay I want to get back to your point though so last year the projection for 2526 is $1.2 $2 million. The projection for 2627 um is a million to savings of $170,000.

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So we shifted some work that was by by the grounds guy, the lining of the fields, the dragging of the fields. Uh that was grounds work. That was trades guys. That was um Ryan Ryan's work. So that now will free Ryan up to do some

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more general maintenance work. So now by taking it by taking on this additional work by Melo to give us a cost savings also material cost that we save as well we now can spend more time doing general maintenance and also do more work with Keith because Ryan was kind of spread

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too thin overall. So now he's spending he's already spending more time with Keith as far as doing stuff for athletics and you know also the contract is adding like less and >> tennis courts and

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>> but so then we are indirectly adding a position in the custodial staff right we are because we are saying the current custodial staff is not able to do their work so we're outsourcing more work there because it's not all snow if you just add up the snow additions So snow

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is 65,000 for up to 40 in additional then we are committing up so 65 is confirmed then we have 35 and 30 that all just adds up to 990,000 and we are going up to 1 million 31,000

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so that's 41,000 extra right that 41,000 >> it's it's included so the the the not to exceed amount we if you take a look see it says from not to exceed go to the top where it says 860,00 000. That was our original not to exceed this year. But if you slide down to the bottom, by the

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time we did all the snow removal and we had all the costs related to the snow, not just Manila, but just total costs in general, we we hit almost $1.2 million. >> You know, our total costs related to this Manila services plus the snow removal that they provided and the costs

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related to paying overtime for our team to do the work. So >> that was that was this year. >> That was this year, right? 1.2, >> right? But in the new contract that we are giving to Manilo, >> yeah, >> we are giving them 65,000 for up to 40,000 >> on page 18.

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>> Then we are giving them 35,000 for 40 to 50 in 50 to 60 we are giving them 30,000 and then uh nothing over 60,000. So total additional we are giving them in the name of snow is 65 35 and 30. >> Yes.

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>> And we are saying everything else is for free. But if everything else is all for free, there's still a delta of 41,000. So they are charging 41,000 for >> No, there's also the 106,000 that they're taking from sidewalk snow removal also. So that's added on there too. The point is that >> that's what I'm asking that

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>> Yeah. When you but when you add all of those things together, what number are you getting? >> No, but so that was that's why I'm asking that are we removing that 106,000 from ACB? And the answer is no. >> So that 106 was just our expense. >> No, but that manifests as overtime

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primarily. That's a lot of overtime, right? Which is offsetting our overtime. >> Yeah. It's not actual work that's being taken for so all these analyses here are here because we I specifically asked uh our uh our our fiscal specialists for

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facilities to do a full analysis of what these total actual costs were. So yes, some some of the custodial time is contractual, but a lot of that time is overtime. So the total cost for us to remove that snow she estimated and these are analyses she she estimated was for

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us was about $122,000. They're going to pick this up for $106,000. That that's good for us I believe because when we have snowfall the the the the landscapers are very familiar with

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dealing with snow. Our custodians were not hiring them as snow specialists. So, their transportation to get here is tricky. Figuring out sleeping accommodations for them if they're going to be here in a big storm is tricky. Um there's in there's there's a lot of breakage. There's there's injury.

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There's all kinds of things that make it very complicated. But we also pay a lot of additional overtime. So, effectively what we're saying is that we're we're basically not going to be leaning on them for for all this for the sidewalk removal component of this. There's there's still they're still doing snow removal work. Am I understanding that

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correctly? Right. It's just it's there's a sign the sidewalks and steps themselves. They're not doing >> Yeah, they're doing the steps and stuff like that, but they're not actually doing the sidewalks like they've been doing in the past. That is now Manel doing all that work doing that work. They have better equipment, uh, better

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machinery, and they're already here. So, the work that snow removal work is being taken from our guys or ACB, but now ACB instead of being outside doing snow can be doing more cleaning in the buildings. >> Okay. One more question on that. Is is

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the does the new contract specify the location for dumping the snow and would be they be charging like last year that move dumping at one place and then moving again or are they clear that they in the first time they need to move it away from the school? So hallway is not

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hallway is not included in this this new contract because uh it's just hard to predict hallway but some of this cost last year was hollowway cost right a big chunk was

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that so if it's still not included then we will still get that surprise we can still get that surprise >> Mr. Matthews, do you have a response to that? >> Can we at least specify how far they should be putting that snow or where should they be putting that snow?

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>> I don't have an answer for that right now. I I >> Mr. Matthews, can we tell because I think this is not super critical. There's no winter around the corner right now. So maybe we tell them we'd like to see a provision for the hallway as well. >> Yeah. >> Um I I have a suggestion here. I'm I'm

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as I indicated in one of my prior messages to y'all, I'm going to be requesting a meeting very shortly. uh just for a single appointment so that we can move forward with our uh our our transition with before and after care. >> Okay. >> Um so Mr. Matthews, do we have will we

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have an issue if we uh if we uh table this resolution for for uh for next week for for two weeks from now >> should be all right. >> I have one more question. So if that way I'm not putting you on spot. So anyway,

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Mary, you or Sheila from facilities committee, the question would be, are you happy with Benjamin Franklin's grass fields conditions? That that will dictate my vote on yes or no on this contract >> mean? >> Yes.

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>> Okay. So, I would I would want to go and take a look at it and see. I mean, we're still, >> you know, I'm not going to speak to it right now. I want to go back and look at it. >> Based on what I've seen just with my eyes, I feel like definitely It's improved. Yeah. There's just I mean we're still I think they've just gotten

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the sprinklers in and >> right I do see it in a lot of the fields not just BF lots. >> Yeah. But BF was one of the uh like when just like how we are negotiating this 100,000. So like for each project we increase the the money right so BF was a

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big chunk that why we increased their original contract >> from what we were paying to the previous custodial company. I mean, based on what I've seen, I've been happy with what I saw, but not >> Yeah. So, I'm just saying somebody from facilities team, if they can confirm that yes, it's good, then I'll vote yes on that. >> That's a good question. I I appreciate

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that. I just want to We're tableabling it, but I want to clarify because I walked out of the meetings, facility meetings, thinking that if it didn't snow, we are not paying for snow removal. >> That is that is true. >> And and all right. See, so Rob, I I

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>> would just >> maybe you can provide us a Usually we used to have the copy of the contract in the background information. So if you can just provide us a copy of the >> As I read this, right, we're talking about all snow removal up to what is it

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60 in, right? Is going to charge us no more than $106,000. But my understanding is that they're charging us by the hour, right? It's it to what they're doing. And then we have that flat rate of 40 to 60 of another $65,000

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if it snows. But I just remember very clearly asking the question because I have no interest in paying $100,000 for no snow. So, um I would just like to make sure that's clarified. And I I think that you included I think what

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would also be helpful just as a request is before we approve this is the new contract. >> New and old. old and new book. >> Yeah, I we have part of the old uh but because I was just looking at it now, but the new contract with all the language that ex

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that expresses exactly how we're charged for what services. >> Yeah, because this email is confusing. The email is >> correct >> tracking what Mary is saying. The email says that snow removal above the 40 inch gap doesn't include what the new

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>> sounds like will table M I think three big items I heard is let's get clarification on hollowway let's confirm if there is no snow are we not paying anything >> that was my understanding >> and then the third question is uh someone from our team should walk the fields as well with BF just visually u

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just to see if they're happy with the progress there >> right and if if hollowway is expensive to commit. Now maybe we should specify in the contract the locations where they are supposed to be dumping the snow in each school. So we dedicate a a location

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now that for each school when you're removing the snow, put it there. So that way we don't have to haul away. >> Right. So we we identify a dedicated location at each school. That's where they'll be putting it. >> All right. Yeah. >> Let's move to uh item N. Approval of an

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increase in vendor contract for K&D contractors for bid number 0526 0227 furnace room renovations for Ridge and Glenn schools. Comments, questions, or concerns?

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Anyone like to move? >> I will move that. >> And I'm sorry. I just for the sake of the record, we just need to make sure the minutes are clear. So what we'll do for M is uh rather than having a resolution of table, what I'll do is I'm going to withdraw the recommendation

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seeking clarification on what the status of is with respect to the cost of the contract because I I believe that will change the calculations the figures in the calculations. I took it says snow removal. I took that to mean snow removal like actual all removal. But

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that's not I that needs to be clear that's significant. I think if we can just specify a dedicated position place where we think it's safe that that we will save money >> and and we we will we will follow up with that and I have a place in mind but but uh but I want to be clear that I

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that for the sake of the record I'm withdrawing it seeking clarification from Manila regarding what the status of where needed uh how that how that's covered in the contract. There is no snow. What do we pay? Is there like a minimum we're paying or is it zero? Because it's not

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super clear there. And I think just to let's just data status. Are we happy with that? >> All right. Uh anyone would like to move N. >> I will second.

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>> No. Miss Handy, >> yes. >> Calli, >> yes. >> Move. >> Yes. >> Reaffirmative. >> Item O, rejection of RFP number 01-27

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for before and after care school services. Any comments, questions, or concerns? >> I will move O. Second >> Donnie >> abstain.

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Miss Andy. >> Yes. >> Mi. >> Yes. And I want to shout out again to Julie Johanna because she did the analysis work that led to >> Mr. Yes. Reaffirm.

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>> We have approval of bills. >> Um I I will move the bills. I reviewed them for Miss Broen. Um, so I'm I'm moving them for approval. >> I'll second. >> Yes.

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>> M. >> Handy. >> Yes. >> Mall. >> Yes. >> McMove. >> Yes. >> Board. >> Board member announcements. Uh, Miss Handy. Anything from your side? >> Come back. >> I had something. Come back to

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>> Mr. Kelly. >> Mr. Donnie. >> No. >> All right, you're back up, Miss Handy. >> That went very quickly. >> I don't have an announcement, but I have a question for Ara. Ara, did we listen today or we did?

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>> Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for the open and honest advice, Arab. >> I'll hold any announcements to the next one. >> All right. Sounds good. So on discussion items, we do have uh one item listed here. Um this is a uh suggested

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resolution concerning the rising costs of health care in the state that many other districts are passing. I don't want to read it all. I assume it's pretty long, but I assume folks have read it. Uh anyone have concerns about

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us passing this questions? comments. If people have not read it, I'm happy to read it. >> No, I've read it. I just wanted uh Dr. Schwarz, do you recommend that the board votes on it? Is that coming from your recommendation or is that coming from a board member? >> I think this is introduced by Mrs.

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Broen. Um I see no I have no objection to it. >> Okay. >> Any concern other concerns or comments on this? All right. I will move this resolution urging relief from rising public school

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employee health care costs. >> I'll second it. >> Roll call. Mr. Matthews. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. Acceptance of minutes.

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>> Yeah, I I should we move them all together, right? >> Unless someone has to There's no one who needs to. Okay, I I will move uh the acceptance of minutes all of them. April 20th, executive and regular. May 4th, special public meeting and executive

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session on May 18th. I'll second. >> Yes. >> Mandy. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> More affirmative. >> Other business. Other comments, questions.

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We'll move to comments from the public. Seeing nobody in the room here for comments, I will go to the uh online room, virtual room. Any comments? Public comments from anyone attending. All right, I will close public comment.

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We are not going into executive session. Any other last comments or questions before we adjourn? I hereby move that this meeting of the rigid board of education be adjourned. Can I have a second? All in favor? I

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>> I thank you everybody.