Okay. All right. Uh good afternoon everybody. Uh notice is hereby uh given that in accordance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 the laws of 1975 notice of 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 vote please. >> Certainly. Mrs. Assor here. Mrs. Austin >> here. >> Mrs. Burkowitz >> here. Mrs. Leler >> here. >> Mr. White >> here. >> Mr. Rosini here.
>> Flag salute, please. >> 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. With regard to my report, I really don't have much. Um, hard to believe only that six weeks ago about it was like 0 degrees it feels like and that today it's 80s. But apart from that, um that's good because we don't have to worry about snowstorms or anything else like
that. Um but apart from that, um just hope everybody had a good break and um I'm going to move on to committee reports. Uh Mr. White, buildings and grounds. >> Nothing to report this evening. >> Okay. Um Mrs. Burkowitz, communications and um policies.
>> Nothing for tonight. >> Okay. Mrs. Austin, curriculum and technology. Um, yes, we actually did have a meeting tonight. Everything went well. Always look forward to um Miss Dalling and Miss Signori, Miss Epilo, and everybody's
input. Um, there are a lot of exciting things coming this uh next year. Um, and I think everybody should be looking forward to the district assessment report always. Um, but yeah, all good things and um, that's it.
>> All right. Terrific. Um, Mrs. Pinterelli is not here. Do we have anything to report with finance? Nope. I have nothing to report tonight on negotiations and Mrs. Asor personnel. >> Uh, just that our meeting next meeting is May 5th at 6 o'clock.
>> All right. Terrific. Thank you. Okay. With regard to public comments on agenda items only, um I'm going to read a certain admonition and that would also be true later on when we do non-aggenda
items public comments. So with regard to this, the Riverdale Board of Education is committed to encouraging the citizens of Rivervale 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 the remarks to no more than 5 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. Um, now open up the meeting to public comments at approximately 7:05 p.m. Anybody wants to make a comment on
an agenda item? No. Okay, then I'll close it at 7:05 p.m. and I will move on to Mrs. Senur's report, the superintendent's report. >> Okay, thank you very much. Good evening, everyone. I just want to um kind of
remind everybody that our spring event season is is upon us now. So, we're going to start seeing a lot of school events happening. Our third grade students will kick things off for us with their spring concerts starting next week with Roersge. And then as we move through the season, please make sure
you're keeping an eye out with our um all of our important dates that are coming up. I did send the board in my last Friday email a bunch of haul dates. So mark your calendars accordingly if you are coming to graduation or awards nights, things like that, the spring
concerts, that's all in there. And then for our community, just make sure you're reading those newsletters from your principles. Um for all of the dates, we've got things like, like I said, the musical coming up. We've got moving up ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, award nights coming, so it gets really busy,
the calendar, so just keep an eye on that. It's a great time of year. Um, it really gives us the opportunity to showcase our students talents and our and their creativity and all the hard work that they've been doing with their teachers all year and we just hope to see a lot of our families there. It's really great when we get any opportunity
to have our families come in and be part of that experience with our students and celebrate our students. So that's it. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Terrific. That sounds like a lot of fun. Spring is always fun, isn't it? Um, and I will move on to Mrs.
Zippalo, board secretar's report. >> Okay, I hope everybody had a nice break. And to echo Mr. Rosini's comments, it's nice to have nice weather. So just for the board's edification in
the last board meeting we had indicated that we were going to be going out for RFPs for the special ed related services and we did receive a number of responses. I will be going over those
responses. It was for occupational therapy, physical therapy, ABA um therapy and speech and language therapy. So, we we had a nice response from a number of different agencies and vendors. I'll be going over those with Mrs. Datano on Friday. And I hope to get
before the board some recommendations for us to award services con and contracts. And I also want to bring to the board's attention that while we have the annual conference down at NJ school uh it's NJ
school board's association and it's down in Atlantic City and that's in October. The hotels have become quite a challenge to get. So what I will tell you all is
before anybody speaks, hear me out. We were because there's so many of us that usually go, we were able to secure resorts. However, I understand that that's not a popular choice for all. So, what I am going to say to you is that
you have an option. If you would like to book your own hotel room, please speak to me. I'll have you book your hotel rooms. You will be reimbursed at the same rate that you would be reimbursed for resorts, but you can
select your your hotel of choice. I just need to make sure that you follow up with getting me your receipts because otherwise I can't reimburse you. So, I would highly recommend that you book your rooms now
because they have very limited capacity. So, worst case scenario, if you want to stay at resorts, you have a room. If you'd like to go to Hard Rock or Borgata or wherever else you'd like to go, please just let me know. Okay? And
that's all I have to report. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, so we'll move on to general resolutions G1 through G4. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll motion. >> Second, please.
>> Second. >> Any questions, discussion? Thank you. >> Okay. Roll call vote, please. >> Certainly. Mr. White. >> Yes. Mrs. Leler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Burowitz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Austin, >> yes. >> Mrs. Assur,
>> yes. >> Mr. Rosini, >> uh, yes. And now moving on to business resolutions B1 through B13. Uh, will somebody please move it? >> I'll move it. >> Second, please. >> A second.
>> And discussion or questions? I just noticed in B9 and B10 that we got uh two uh grants or or people who've or organizations who've uh made a contribution um which I think is good um in terms of
focus can you just explain what that is a little bit more >> certainly that is for the the um the district's assessments literacy assessment. Sorry, >> we had received the same grant a little
bit more last year and this is the second year that they're offering this this grant and it's based on a per student basis. So all we have to do is accept. >> All right. So that's good. And the Ottabbon Society, does that come with
any catches? What do we what do we do with that? >> That is for it. It's for the purchase of binoculars to be used at Roberge. Yeah. There there's no catches. >> Yeah. >> No, I mean in other words, sometimes people give a grant and they say, you
know what, you have to use these binoculars and for certain times, certain places. >> We did the last time that we received money from this organization. It was to build owl houses. >> Houses. It's usually our um it's it's a lot of times it's our gifted and talented programs that go out for them.
Um, I know Eric Mitchell, one of our teachers, has typically gone out for grants from this uh, organization, >> right? >> But yeah, they're pretty good. No strings attached. >> Right. Either way, I think it's terrific to get money. Um, so it's it's always good. Um, all right. Any other questions?
>> No. All right. Roll call vote, please. >> Certainly. Mrs. Austin? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Leler? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Assur? >> Yes. >> Mr. White? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burkowitz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rosini. >> Yes. Um, now moving on to personnel
resolutions P1 through P11. Um, we have a motion, please. >> I'll move it. >> Second. >> Okay. And discussion. >> I just want to say I noticed Mrs. Arbaji is retiring. I want to wish her well.
And she was amazing teacher. I'm kind of wishing she could last one more year for my youngest, but it's okay. Well, >> well, she'll be missed. Wish her luck. >> Yeah, I was looking at all the retirements, the three of them here, Mrs. Calibra and Miss Batinelli and Mrs.
Arbaji. Um, with regard to Mrs. Arbaji, I think my son had her maybe when she's one of her first or second year teaching here and um and and so my experience with her throughout is It's been a long period um and again another terrific
teacher. So I echo your settlements but uh sentiments but um in addition I think these other two teachers will also be missed. So uh Cal Miss Calibra and Bettonelli. So um that's it. Anything else?
>> Okay. Roll vote please. >> Certainly. Mrs. Asur. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Austin, >> yes. >> Mrs. Burkowitz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Leler, >> yes. >> Mr. White, >> yes. >> Mr. Rosini, >> yes. >> Okay, moving on to public comments on
general items. I've already read the rules with regard to making comments. So, I'm going to open it. And the same rules apply for general items. So, I'm going to open it at approximately 7:13. Uh, does anybody want to make a public
comment on a general item? Nope. Okay. So, I'll close it at 7:13. Um, old business, new business, and I know we're going into closed. Uh, motion to go into
closed. Anybody? >> Motion. >> All right. Thank you. Second. >> All right. >> Great. Anybody against going into closed? Okay. So, thank you every very much everybody. Thanks for coming. Appreciate your uh coming to see what we
do here. And um we're done and we're not coming out again. Okay. >> Thank you.