Okay. Um, good evening everybody. Um, notice is hereby given that in accordance with the 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 at the
township clerk, and posted in the board of education office 48 hours in advance of this meeting. Roll call, please. Certainly. Mrs. Assur here. Mrs. Austin here. Mrs. Burkowitz here. Mrs. Sande here. Mr. White here. Mr. Rossini. I'm here.
Flag salute. Do we have a flag? I 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. So, um, with regard to my report, one thing happened today. It was the, uh, new member orientation, and I'm sorry that I missed it, but I want to at least give my warm welcome to everybody who was there and who's new. And I intend to
be at the first day opening. So, if anybody wants to say hello to me, please do. Um, and I'll say hello to everybody back. Apart from that, I hope everybody's had a good summer. And, um, I'm going to move on to committee reports. buildings and grounds. Mr.
White. Yes, we had a a meeting tonight. We did a walk through of the progressing well construction on the annex. The um I'm sure Mrs. Alito will correct me if I
make any errors, but uh the we have a temporary uh certificate of occupancy for um certain offices, which is great. And the second phase is ongoing. Unfortunately, uh, Mr. Tracy isn't here
to to elaborate for us. Um, but he that was a joke. I'm sorry. Um, not a very good one. But, um, I miss him. You got me excited. The second floor is is ongoing and, uh, progress is is going well. Uh, and
frankly, the construction and all the work done thus far is is fabulous. Um, and I'd like to thank Kelly and Tom and, uh, her staff and team for, uh, doing a really, really good job and staying on top of it this summer. So, thank you.
Yeah. So, um, I want to, uh, echo that. And I had a look today, too. Um, and it really looked looked great. Um, you know, there was obviously a lot of things that needed to be done. I missed out on the copper phase, which I like seeing the brand new copper. I had to
comment on that. But it um you know it's again a work environment makes for you know better suited happier better collaborative people. So again thanks thanks everybody. Um communication policies Mrs. Burkowitz.
I don't have anything for tonight but just note that our next meeting is October 14th. Curriculum and technology. Mrs. Sande. Um we haven't met. Our next meeting is September 16th. Um, but we will be looking at updated curriculum on the
agenda tonight. Um, Mrs. Pinterelli is not here. Is there anything that we need to go over with finance? Not at this time. Um, I have nothing to say about negotiations. Mrs. Assur, personnel, nothing to say tonight.
Okay. Um, again, please take note of the committee meeting schedule. And with regard to moving on to public comments, the rules I'm going to talk about now apply to agenda items and later on non-aggenda items. Um, but this portion of the meeting is for agenda items only.
Anyway, with regard to the rules, the Riverdale Board of Education is committed to encouraging the citizens of Riverdale and employees of the Riverale School District to speak directly to board trustees. In order to facilitate this communication, residents and employees are requested one to sign in before speaking, two to maintain an
appropriate sense of decorum and three to limit their remarks to no more than five minutes. The board will also take under advisement 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 board 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 schools by telephone letter or email. I am going to open the uh meeting to public comments on agenda items only at 7:05 and I'm going to close it at 7:05 seeing nobody who wants to make comments and move on to uh Mrs. Senor's the
superintendent's report. All right. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Hope you all had a great summer, found some time to relax and recharge. Uh during the July board meeting, I gave an update about the many educational initiatives that we were working on throughout the summer and I also provided a preview of the
educational initiatives that are coming up for this school year. I do encourage everybody that if you um did not attend our board meeting or have a chance to to definitely view uh my report which is on our YouTube channel from from last month. But as summer comes to a quick
end, we are certainly putting the final touches on class schedules, student placements. The parent portal opened yesterday morning uh for all three schools. Parents are reminded to fill out any mandated forms and view their child's placement. Principles also sent out their summer communication to our
families last week. Um and my district level communication for September will go up September 2nd, the day after Labor Day. We've continued with some construction projects as you have heard including three canopies at Holm Middle School. Um if you've been to Holdim at
all and and driven by, you've seen the structure of these canopies are up, but the final touches uh will occur throughout the school year and we certainly look forward to seeing these uh be completed as well as we continue to really enhance our facilities throughout the district. Also, in the
Rivervale magazine, in a fall issue, most likely the October one, there's going to be an article that highlights and culminates all of the projects we've been doing throughout the year. So, definitely check out that issue. Um, and we're just really thanking the community for their support and highlighting some
of the the photos of of construction and all the work that we've done. And believe it or not, we only have about five week days left before we get to welcome the students back in. So, I look forward to another fabulous year. Enjoy the remaining days of summer. And then
tonight, we do have a very brief presentation, if we can call it that. It's a mandated presentation that our supervisor of curriculum, Kim Dalling, will do. So, I'm going to turn it over to her. Thank you. Okay. Can you hear me? Thank you, Mrs.
Signore. As she said, this is going to be a very very quick presentation, probably under a minute, but every August, uh, we do this and we say this is the quickest one and then the one in October is the longest. So, I guess they balance each other out. Uh, but this report is for the WEDA access 2.0
assessment that some of our students took in the spring. And just so you are aware, that really monitors the language proficiency for all of our multilingual learners in the district. And we had students in kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade, and eighth grade uh take
this assessment. But because we do not have um more than 10 students that take the assessment, we cannot report out on scores uh due to furpa violations and uh furer fura protections. The scores do run from a one to a six. One being
emerging, six being an advanced learner. And we consider students for exit of the program who score a 4.5 or above. Uh we did have some students exit the program this year. So we are really proud of them and excited about that. Um but again I can't tell you any more about
it. Um but you'll hear a lot more about the other assessments and scores in October. So make sure you turn tune in for that. Okay. Any questions? Okay. Why do you make us wait till October for such exciting news?
Um, okay. Thank you. That's great. Anything else? No, I was just going to dismiss Kim if she'd like to get back home. Yep, sure. All right. Thank you. Anything else? That's all. Okay. And now we'll move on to Mrs. Ipalito's report. Board Secretary.
Okay. Thank you. And I hope everyone's enjoyed their summer as well. I as uh you heard would like to just we had a lot of construction going on this year. It's been the fourth summer. I would
like to thank Mr. Tracy and his staff, Mr. Oggera and his staff and everybody who was involved in this construction. It really does take on another whole level of um work and distraction. And I
know Mrs. Signori and I probably have never encountered this um level of distraction, especially this summer. We thought it was going to be the easiest one, but it it has not been. And I do also want to sincerely thank
the township and all their inspectors because they've really been cooperative with us and that's important to have a good working relationship with the township. Also to point out if you have not been to Woodside, the township had secured a grant to renovate the
sidewalks which is extremely impressive and from a safety standpoint and a maintenance standpoint. So, I want to thank them publicly for that. I think that is just excellent. And then, just as a reminder, the New Jersey School
Board's workshop is in October. At the next board meeting in September, I am going to absolutely have to have a hard answer from everybody as to if you're planning to go and what days. So, put that on your calendar, please. It's
October 20th to 23rd. And other than that, enjoy the rest of the summer. That's all that I have to report. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Um, now we're going to move on to general resolutions G1 through G7. May I have a motion, please?
No motion. Second. Anybody? Second. Thank you. Um and discussion questions um questions? No comments? Okay. Um roll call vote, please. Certainly. Mrs. Assur, yes.
Mrs. Austin, yes. Mrs. Burkowitz, yes. Mrs. Sande, yes. Mr. White. Yes. Mr. Rosini. Yes. And now moving on to uh business resolutions B1 through B11. Would somebody please move B1 through B11?
I'll move B1 through 11. I'll second. Second. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Anything? No. Okay. Roll call vote, please. Certainly. Mr. White? Yes.
Mrs. Sande? Yes. I'll just abstain from B1G. Certainly. Mrs. Burkowitz? Yes. And I'll abstain from B1C. Mrs. Austin? Yes. I'll abstain from B1B. Mrs. Assur.
Yes. and I'll abstain from B1A, Mr. Rossini. Uh, yes. And I guess I'll abstain from B1F. Um, okay. Anything else? Um, okay. We'll move on to personnel resolutions.
Resolution P1 through P14. Will somebody please move that? I'll move it. Second. A second. And discussion. I just want to make a comment. I'm always so excited to see um all of these
programs listed here. So important for the kids. I think a lot of them have a lot of fun here. It's a great intro to stuff that they'll love in high school. So, thank you to all these people for putting in the effort for the kids. Yeah, that's great. You know, it's funny. I was looking at that and I didn't have exactly the same thought,
but I'm like, "Yeah, school's starting. Look at all this stuff that's happening." Yeah. Well said. Um, anything else? Okay. Roll co, please. Certainly. Mrs. Austin, yes.
Mrs. Sande, yes. Mrs. Assur, yes. Mr. White, yes. Mrs. Burkowitz. Yes. Mr. Rossini. Yes. Um, shall we do this addendum in new business? Okay. So, uh, with regard to we're
moving on to public comments on general items. As I noted before, the same rules apply for general items as agenda only items. Um, and I'm going to open it to uh, comment at 7:14. Seeing nobody wants to make a comment,
I'm closing it at 7:14. Um, old business, anyone? New business, we have uh an addendum. Has everybody had a chance to take a look at the addendum? Can somebody move it, please?
I'll move it. Second, please. Second. Okay. And a roll call vote. Certainly, Mrs. Assur. I just just I'm sure due diligence and I know it's a personnel issue but but I'm just for due
diligence at at the meeting this was absolutely necessary correct to for this okay just just a question. Okay. Thanks Art. Um anything else because I think I kind of fluffed over
it too quickly. Anything else? All right. Uh roll call vote please. Mrs. Assur. Yes, Mrs. Austin. Yes, Mrs. Burkowitz. Yes, Mrs. Sande. Yes, Mr. White. Yes, Mr. Rosini. Yes. Okay. Um,
we're not going into close session. Is there anybody against adjourning? Nobody's against. Okay. Thank you everybody. Have a good summer. Thank you. Thank you.