okay good afternoon everybody notice is hereby given that in accordance with the open open public meetings act chapter 231 the laws of 1975 notice of this meeting has been sent to all school offices officially designated newspapers filed with the township clerk and posted
in the board of education office 48 hours in advance of this meeting roll call please certainly mrs mr sor here mrs austin here mrs penterelli here mrs sande here mr white here mr rosini I'm here uh flag
salute pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay um with regard to my report tonight
I have nothing more to add um I know at this point I feel like I have to always talk about the weather but I I think we made it that's all I'm going to say and um I have nothing else to [Laughter] add um although it was 30 something
degrees today so I'm not confident um then we'll move on to committee reports buildings and grounds mr white nothing to report this evening okay communication and pol no I'll say something on my report okay
communications and policies mrs burkwoods she's not here mrs burkowitz no um I will I will just add that there are a um bunch of policies and regs up for their second reading tonight on the
agenda all right curriculum and technology mrs um yes we actually had a meeting tonight um pre prior to this meeting um where we discussed progress um on curriculum topics and technology topics from this current school year and looked forward
to the plans for next school year um so very in-depth um information we got which was terrific um and then we also got a preview of board goals which will be discussed at a later board meeting terrific thank you Mrs pinterelli finance nothing for tonight i have
nothing to add about negotiations and with regard to uh personnel Mrs essor um nothing besides our next meeting is May 6th okay moving on um I'm going to move on to
public comments on agenda items only i'm going to remind everyone that the Riverdale Board of Education is committed to encouraging the citizens of Rivervale and employees of the Riverdale School District to speak directly to board trustees in order to facilitate this communication residents and
employees are required one to sign in before speaking two to maintain an appropriate sensitive decorum and three to limit the remarks to no more than 5 minutes the board will also take under adisement the written comments and opinions of non-residents that are submitted to the board secretary being mindful of its responsibility to
maintain the orderly conduct of meetings the board retains the right to rule on such matters as the speaker's right to address the board as well as the appropriateness of the subject being presented the board's decision in such matters is final the voter also reminds all members of the public that while it
subscribes without reservation to the principle of keeping the community informed by policy and law it cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees comment on any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the Riverville public schools is of interest or concern to a resident the matter
should be referred to the responsible building principal or the superintendent of the schools by telephone letter or email um and I'm going to remind everyone that later on we're going to be uh doing public comments on non-aggenda items but this is for agenda items only but these same rules will apply later on
too um meeting is open to the public um to comments at approximately 7:06 p.m is there anyone who'd like to make a comment on an agenda item okay seeing nobody who wants to make a comment it's closed at 7:06 p.m
and we're going to move to Mrs senor's report superintendent's report all right thank you good evening everyone first just a couple of housekeeping stuff um I do just want to let the board and the public know that the school performance reports were released last month and
they are available on our district website the information in these reports have been shared out during the October uh district assessment report of this school year so I want to encourage anyone that if you do want to know more about how we are performing to please go
back and review the district assessment report which is also on our website and that will provide a much better uh in-depth picture of our performance i also want to let the board know that in your packets tonight you have a
self-paced ethics presentation um please take some time to review the material um and also sign off on acknowledgement if you can do that prior to our next board meeting that would be great that is your annual ethics
training and then uh last but definitely not least I do want to welcome Julianne Mccuri who is here tonight sitting next to Mr cody at the end of tonight's meeting um there is an addendum with a resolution for the board to approve Miss Mccuri as Huljam's middle school's next
vice principal um she will start July 1st miss Mccuri went through a very long and rigorous interview process that was built by Mr cody um I will tell you I am taking his entire process and when if I have to hire any more admins it
consisted also of committee interviews and um she really really did wow us with um her her expertise and we really do feel that the qualities she possesses are going to be great for this district she was up against a lot of tough
candidates uh with great experience and she just kept rising to the top at every single round so I definitely want to welcome her to our district um and hopefully you guys at the board will get a chance to meet her tonight and I do also want to thank Miss Ali Puzzo who's
also here tonight uh for her dedication to our district we wish her the best of luck as she becomes the new principal in Mont Vil her last day with us is this Friday she will be missed but we know that she is more than ready for her new
role and I am just so happy and proud to see how much she's grown and ready to take this on um so best of luck to you Ally and and a nice warm welcome please to Julianne McCiri we are happy she is filling
in so thank you and that is all I have for right now okay all right thank you um I couldn't have said it better but uh thank you for coming and thank you for all you've done Ally um moving on
um to uh board secretary report Mrs lots of exciting things to talk about asbestous abatement let's start with that we're going to start with that so Friday as everyone knows that we're going to be renovating this building one component
of that project is that there is a asbestous above my ceiling in my office and there's some dollops that are in the hallway on the other side of that wall so they are the more concerning kind
where the abatement requires that nobody be in the building so this building will be on lockdown for the week of break which is good timing and then on the agenda we have a approval for the board
to approve the asbestous bid for the rest of the building that we we will be doing over the summer also on the agenda very exciting news is we are awarding the bid to do the renovation work to the same
contractor that we have had for both Halddram and Woodside it will be GPC so we're thrilled we know the contractor qualified reputable very responsive and responsible so we're thrilled with the outcome we had three
biders and that bid opening was on April 2nd thank you thank you thank you we are all done with our financial disclosures i will not bother you anymore until next year in terms of the budget just to let you know that budget the tenative budget
was submitted we have heard back from the ED specialists at the county we had one or two minor tweaks we're expecting in the next couple of weeks to hear from the uh business side of the county office and that it will be approved and then as a reminder we have our public
hearing at uh the board meeting on May 6th one last uh actually two items start thinking the New Jersey school board's workshop is in October it's the 20th through the 23rd and I
will send out reminders but again um put that on your calendar save the date and then you've heard me talk about our shared services this is one shared service which is a consortium for our
insurance group and it's Rivervale was one of the founding members of this insurance group this is their 40th anniversary so they did a little booklet so that you can read about them and see get a little more information if you
would like and otherwise that's all I have have a nice holiday and a nice break get some rest and spend some time with your family and thank you okay thank you um now moving on to general
resolutions G1 through G9 uh will somebody move it please i'll move it thanks second i'll second discussion questions do you mind um talking about
the calendar i saw that G8 was on there the revised calendar sure any area in specific that what the revision is okay so the revision really just affects our
staff the students last day of school is Friday i don't have it in front June 20th that is remaining the same the students have 181 days built into the calendar they need to go to school 180 days so their calendar is not changing
which is good won't affect parents and families um the teachers do need to make up two days uh contractually so they will come back on Monday which will be a PD day that's the PD day that we had to cancel due to snow and then the day
after that will be a one session day for them they typically the staff typically has a one session day so we wanted to continue with that all right perfect yeah because a lot of parents were asking me if we were going and I'm like I think we're okay yes it does not affect Yes the parents yes you're
welcome okay great anything else no okay um roll call vote please certainly mrs assur yes mrs austin yes mrs pinterelli yes mrs sande yes mr
white yes mr rosini yes um and moving on to business resolutions B1 through B13 will somebody move it please i'll move B1 through B13
i'll second second thank you anything anything anybody any questions no no okay roll call vote please certainly mrs assur um yes but I'll abstain from B3
certainly mrs austin yes but I'll abstain from B13B okay mrs pinterelli yes and I'll abstain from B13D mrs sande yes but I'll abstain from B13F mr white
yes and I'll abstain B13G mr osini yes but I'm going to hesitantly abstain from 13E nonetheless abstain um and personal resolutions P1
through P15 will somebody move it please i'll move it second please i'll second okay i just I I'm going to point out that P3 that we've um obtained an interim uh assistant principal at
Halddram Don Bergamini um who's known to the Pasc Valley district so I think it'll be a good fit to to try and bridge that gap anything else no okay roll call vote please certainly mrs
austin yes mrs sande yes mrs pinterelli yes mrs assur yes mr white yes mr rossini yes um can I do the addendum now
okay um I have comments you want me to do the comments first okay and then the addendum all right um I will now talk about public comments for general items i'm going to open with regard to the rules they're the same
rules as I mentioned earlier for um the items that were already in the agenda but this is for general items if anybody wants to make a comment on general items now's the time okay um I opened it at let's say
717 and I'm going to close it at 7:17 old business okay and now I have new business the addendum um we have an addendum here and it's the addendum uh welcome Miss McCiri to our district as
the assistant principal of Holddra Middle School NB1 uh may I have a motion please so moved second second okay um any comments questions you've all had a chance to say hello
um roll call vote please certainly mr white yes mrs sanande yes mrs pinterelli yes mrs austin yes mrs assur yes mr rosini
yes welcome [Applause] um are we going into closed yes okay motion to enter into close session
i'll make a motion a second i'll second okay anybody opposed okay we're going to go into close session thank Thank you um everybody for coming and um thank you everybody for being here it was a special night i love seeing everybody
here i said we should have had a party um in any event um thanks for coming and we'll see you around you want to take a break yeah okay um Peter