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e e e e e e favorites like Battleship twister tic tac toe and rock paper scissors laughter and excitement filled the air as students worked together challenged
themselves and most importantly had fun we closed out and announced our first annual I ready Bowl winners in total the students of Sharon Elementary School completed almost 16,000 lessons on the I ready my paath platform so for kindergarten it was Mrs sack for first
grade it was Miss Minch for second grade it was Miss Tracy Mrs pus and Mrs pyac for third grade it was Mrs binsky and Miss Newman and for fourth grade it was Mrs clogger during the week of February
10th the students and staff celebrated a kindness week with our theme be kind in addition to a variety of learning experiences the students and staff also participated in dress up themed days throughout the week for example be comfortable with kindness wear
comfortable clothes additionally our fourth grade students AKA our kindness readers had the opportunity to volunteer to read a story for another grade classroom on February 12th the students and staff of sces celebrated the 100th
day of school in addition to our tradition traditional third grade parade where our third grade students dress up at a 100 years old students across all grade levels participated in activities that highlighted the 100th day of the school mark thank you so much for
allowing us to sit on the board and speak at this meeting today we are looking forward to next month's meeting as well thank [Applause] you okay NE next up we're going to go forward with the steam activities uh with uh so if we could uh Miss D and
Miss Clawson I've been looking forward to this I know we all had we have two great presentations today so thank you I turn it over to you good evening my name is Janet Dad this is Jen Clawson um want to thank the
board and Mr piso for inviting us here um a little nervous if you think I wouldn't be but um we appreciate the opportunity to come here and show you guys what we do in the classroom and to show off all the kids' talents and
experiences and we have some great things to show in our classroom and all over the District I'm going to turn it over to Jen hello everybody hi students it's nice to see you in the audience because I can just talk to you and not all the
adults uh so what we'll be seeing tonight is a couple things that we have done in the classroom um I did CO2 race cars last year so students actually design models using Tinker cat our 3D printing software um and we print them out it could be a five hour print it
could be a 10hour print so we're going to launch a couple of those here in a second and uh also we're going to hear a little bit about drones um we're going to talk about the drones that we actually got this year and we have our students here to launch
and land some of them and fingers crossed they go where they're supposed to all right so I'm gonna turn it over to two of our students over here we have Lucas Amato and Evan jurich I think I said that right come on all right
so out of the blue I asked Evan to just design a car because we were going to do this cool project and he's very good at tinkercad and he's going to tell you a little bit about that process as Lucas and I are going to go to the other side and we're going to set up the launch here you go dud hi I'm Evan and I had to
design one of these cars so all these design all these cars are designed using a online software called Tinker cat which is a 3D modeling software in this online software you take a bunch of blocks and you can modify them change them to whatever you want and build your
own cars then these cars are 3D printed and put on the track to Launch SC to need [Music] walk over
here I don't know hello I'm orian mum and I'm an eighth grader at Pawn Road Middle School we used crazy fly drones in our classroom we coded them on our Chromebooks and then flew them in our classroom the the drones demonstrate the acronym STEM
Science cuz we have to learn how the drones actually fly technology because we have to code them engineering because we have to problem solve and troubleshoot and math because we have to measure the measurement to measure the measure and put them in our code now I'm going to be passing it on to ronith
who's going to be talking about coding so the type of code that we use to program these drones is called block coding and block coding is more about logic and structure rather than um actual language and this is easy to learn because it's built made of
pre-built commands that dictate height length and rotation so since this is so easy to learn we started this in elementary school which made it easy to tackle these projects that we do in stem and this being said even though it's easy we can still do different projects that
make it challenging for ourselves hi I'm Ana and I'm going to talk about what we did after the basics so after we learned about the basic coding blocks we progressed to trying harder missions like fing in a circle or a square using different
blocks we learned on the crazy fly app we also F flew through towels that towers that mclaw and built inside the stem room and these challenges actually cause a lot more problems with our drones for example one thing that would happen is they'd run out of battery a lot quicker so we'd have to make sure to
change the battery after runs or refresh the program if the Drone wasn't working another thing we'd have to do is make sure the batteries are centered since these drones are really light and this could cause the Drone to tip over super easily or the wire could get caught in the propeller since all of these things can go wrong we make sure to keep our
number one priority safety safety is one of the most important things while working on these drones in class we have two simple rules the first rule is to make sure that no one is in the drone zone when we launch these drones the second rule is to make
sure that we always have protective eyewear in case these drones go Haywire we do not want them hitting our eyes now we would like four very brave volunteers to come over here here and help us launch these drones come on come on over come on here
you want to you right there oh it's okay oh I hear what we're going off up so I put it over fa
not la that's mine that's mine that's mine it's mine connect it won't come up it won't come up if it's already connected green button I want the board members to sit down in their chair and then we can have them launch
okay seconds now we're going to launch the drones and I'm going to give a count so yellow [Music] seconds seconds still not connecting
we have to try one thing but we have to [Music] yellow seconds fly up again oh my go you're not [Music] [Applause]
in than you so you look very thank you thank you great job great job thank you e e e okay we have our next presentation we're
really excited to uh to celebrate the great achievement of our girls team uh so I ask uh our athletic director Mr delesio please uh please come up and we'll turn it over to you at
this point so congratulations to our Champions yes congratulations uh I will not be up here very long because I'm not the person you want to hear from uh I'll have Coach Romano up in just a second uh I just want to say last year was a magical year in itself and you girls
came up just short and it takes a special type of athlete and human to turn around come right back to next year fight even harder put together 161 season and then go and win your first championship so congratulations but without further Ado coach romano and
Coach [Applause] Phillips okay so got to put together a short speech everybody's laughing because they know me so all right so good evening uh
first I'd like to thank Dr pizo uh the Board of Education the administration the community my assistant coach Jake Phillips the parents and of course the players for those who do not know me uh my name is Tom Rano I'm a sixth and seventh grade social studies here
teacher here at Pond um I teach by day I coach basketball and baseball by evening and I'm a husband and father to one boy and one girl on the way in the evening at night um it's with immense pride and gratitude that I stand before you to celebrate an
incredible achievement by our pwn Road girls basketball team this year after years of hard work and dedication they achieved something truly special their first mcmt championship since the tournament's Inception in 2015 for the past three years have had
the incredible privilege of watching this uh group of young athletes strive towards Excellence we Face challenges overcome setbacks and grown together as a team in the Years prior to this Victory as Mr delesio had uh mentioned we've come close in 20122 We Lost in the
semi-finals to fiser Middle School the next season again we lost to fiser Middle School in the finals by five but not this year um this year the pawn Road ladies took that final step Next Step beating fiser Middle School in the semi-finals and then going on to secure
the MCA Champion mcmt Championship defeating Princeton Day School 39 to 37 with determination and grit as a team the numbers speak for themselves uh our lady Knights defense was extraordinary this season holding opponents to an
average of just 25 points a game we won by an average margin of 13 points showcasing our ability to dominate both offensively and defensively our shooting was equally impressive shooting almost 50% inside the ark 45% from the field
and overall of the 659 shots taken this season yes 659 I counted of the 659 shots taken this season 87% of them were assisted uh demonstrating our team's
unselfishness and cohesiveness on the court this program and Championship win would not be possible without the parents and families who have shown unwavering dedication and support the energy and enthusiasm that you bring to every game and event is invaluable your support
goes beyond the basketball court and your encouragement and belief in us and the athletes is what's help what helps us Thrive and finally I want to take this moment to inspire the next generation of basketball players here in Robinsville in the community and we hope
that this Victory inspires more kids in the community to pick up a basketball and get in the game thank you uh so at this time I'm going to call up each of the girls and if you could um come get a certificate and stand behind
us all right so perfect hold it for me all right no specific order TI Alexa boss the boss anaga
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row Maddie Rohan sorry Megan Cil Myra [Applause] shandin MAA badani oi agrawal PR [Applause]
Sony Priyanka Anam Mula Rashi AAR wall Sabrina [Applause] vlon sucres Jun car we also had uh an extraordinary amount of managers uh seven to be exact
but I never turn down managers love anybody to be a part of it if they want so the first manager is ariani [Music] Diaz Maddie Moran Mahari ad savan
Potter shagun rashio tanvi catam and Tony nag nagra nagra sorry sorry it's all right you're not the only one Coach
Phillips and then of course me so uh again I just want to uh Express how proud I am of each and every one of you and you should truly be um you know proud of yourselves for accomplishing something that hasn't been done at the school since the tournament started in 2015 so kudos to all of you and we're
looking for a repeat now next year [Music] [Applause] all if um if if our board can also join for the photo Lexi go the back
with e e e e e yeah that's it okay Mr President that's the end of my report thank you Dr
um board secretary report Mr McCree all right good evening everyone uh thank you for coming uh I'd like to point out that we have a grant um uh Deca grant for approval tonight uh the parents have made contributions to fund uh the
adviser um so we're making a special Grant Line for that so the money is protected and for those students and those students only I was in high school in Deca and I'm glad to see that it's coming here uh robertville High School auditorium Wi-Fi was an issue I got a text from a former board member I'm
sitting in this seat the Wi-Fi is not working it's maxing out you have a packed audience uh first we ever heard of it we took a look uh our Wi-Fi was maxing out at 151 uh guests we had two two wireless access points so we put a third one that
hopefully will fix it uh if not we'll have to upgrade the Wi-Fi there to more robust systems um so we are work we have worked on that should be operational uh budget update uh we spent the last week doing about 17 meetings with our budget managers our principes directors who run
their own budgets uh with myself Dr piso uh and Dr wisuki um they made reports for us what items to look at cutting what what the risks are what is if if it's something uh and what are the options for all of you I'll be giving
those documents to you uh next week and sharing them all so you can see how well thought out uh everyone did um and we've made most of the budget right now so uh today the governor gave his budget address uh on Thursday around noon hopefully we'll have our budget figures
for state aid and we'll go forward with that we were supposed to have a meeting on Tuesday March 4th but due to the crematorium on the importance of that we've pushed it to Wednesday March 5th so 6 PM Wednesday March 5th in this room
no action will be taken we'll be talking about budgets um and it'll be for the board discuss disc um on that so thank you very much that's all I have thank you Mr McCree um board committee
reports um Ed policy Dr goul thank you uh board education policy met on February 18th at 6 PM in attendance were myself Miss uh Hill D'Angelo Mr Howard Dr piso Dr uh wisnoski Miss defasio and
Miss Johnson for our discussion this that evening Dr wusi provided the committee with updated second readings of policies in preparation for board appr approval this evening in addition uh Dr wusi also provided the committee with updated
second readings of regulations that are also up for approval uh this evening Dr wisuki also provided the committee with updates to the district's progress towards the development of an AI policy the committee uh the Committees at all
three schools have been meeting to discuss the AI policy and are on Pace for a spring completion date Mrs defasio provided an overview of the Gradebook development process at prms and uh Robinsville High School this
included a Gallup which provided opportunities for cross-curricular review and feedback from staff in addition Dr winki provided an update to the development of the AVID program at Robinsville High School this
included a review of the meeting with the district's Avid implementation specialist and potential professional development and site team uh development for the staff Dr piso reviewed his conversation
with a family and his visit to prms to research potential issues regarding the lunch schedule concerns that have been brought up Mrs defasio also Pro provided the committee with initial discussion of potential expansion offerings for World
Language at both Sharon Elementary School and prms in addition Mrs defasio discussed the purchase of books for staff and our other and our Uh current state of cataloging books throughout the district
in um in both Sharon Elementary and Pono middle school and rhs Mrs defasio reviewed the successful eighth grade planning night and thanked uh Mrs rundo for her efforts to develop the program and the class of 2029 8th
grade academic planning night um information is provided up on the website for review for parents Dr piso reviewed the district's involvement and Dei policies as well with the committee tonight we will be voting on
different policies and regulations as discussed as part of the second readings finished thank you Dr gold uh Personnel Mrs Banda oh you have a question I'm sorry I'm sorry question or comments one time I didn't do it sorry um I think we
discussed about the lunch timing I know there were a lot of concerns about that was there any update uh did we did we take an action to do something about the lunch timing or you know what we have the lunch timing for the kids is just fine yes we did um we did respond to the um
to the inquiry that we had uh Mr M myself we had uh we we came out to the school with Mr gizo we did view what was going on and uh we did see that
that obviously it's a uh it's a shorter period of time but uh when we have students who come in later we do allow them to finish we wouldn't we wouldn't interrupt someone if they weren't done with lunch yet and there is the advantage of the instructional time so
we do believe that it is functioning effectively we respect uh the the opinions that were provided and like I said we did have the people closest to the issue both Mr gizo and Mr MRE uh did contact back the parent in regarding uh
their concerns thank you okay for personnel it was uh in attendance were myself Tanya uh Layman Dr Barbara gold Anthony Ray Dr Patrick piso Dr uh Steven wisneski and Lisa
Tremor um and as far as the agenda we had discussion on current Personnel issues for the month sidebars were also discussed for the lead CST and Lead counselor positions um and they were already in place we were just looking at an annual renewal of signature uh the
transportation assistant um job description was also discussed and alternative evaluations update um Dr wisuki shared the progress on updating our evaluation process for the two-way uh feedback process that will be implemented okay oh I'm sorry it took place February
18th 5m uh Miss Leman was absent thank you thank you Miss mut any questions for personnel okay business Dr Pi thank you Mr President uh business committee met on February 20th at 5:00 pm um in the
superintendent's office president were myself Mr olberg Mr Nandan Dr piso Dr wusi Mr mccre just one one thing to note before I get into the minutes what I'm going to do is we talked last month that there's
a lot of different topics inside a business so for people in the audience and for people listening online I'm going to kind of break and segregate everything down into a category to try to make it clearer um also if there's anything any questions we could also go
back and look at um this all be posted to the board docs as well so we will have a copy of the minutes as well so for facilities and maintenance uh Pon road is conducting an energy audit uh they're meeting uh last week that actually this week I'm sorry
they were meeting with uh psng for that Sharon uh Elementary School completed their IDF door installation the high school had IND interior door replacement by a maintenance shop shipping receiving set
designs and the PO has been issued and they're estimating a um a spring installation for that for the rod Grant at uh elementary school and middle school for HVAC construction meeting was scheduled for the 20th preliminary work on
electrical starting in a week the target is for summer of 25 completion again for Pawn Road Middle School and Elementary School the building management system is being updated the current system is from 2012 there's been a PO issued for the amount of
$36,000 uh waiting on scheduling from the vendor for that issue in all schools we're looking at replacing exterior lights and and adding additional lights all LEDs looking at cost of $53,000 and also looking for potential grants to
offset that cost at the elementary school for a cost of 21,800 hours we're looking to replace uh three water fountains uh with and B fillers for facilities rentals these items are not taxpayer funded at the
middle school the cafetorium AV upgrade we're awaiting quotes from the new vendor who visited two weeks ago so we should be getting that soon future projects at the high school and Auditorium new carpeting for a cost of 7856 66 hours has been delayed till
after we complete the lighting and lighting an AV upgrade awaiting a quote from a new vendor again who visit it two weeks ago facilities for summer projects at the elementary school waiting for the weather to improve to install a cricket
pitch from the Robinsville Premier League a wandor replacement at the high school uh Mr Murphy met with Architects on Monday waiting on price estimates from from companies targeting summer and sto using
reserves next category is finance and miscellaneous and ba miscellaneous so Bill list review um we do review all the bill lists every month uh for February it was Ryu March it's Peter April is myself and may is
Art got an update on the crematorium um NJ DP meeting on March 4th Mr mccre gave us a budget update awaiting State figures hopefully by February 27th with a 2% local tax levy increase would be short $2.4
million budget committee meetings for Budget discussion we have budget committee March 3rd March 14th April 25th and we're working on the time for those meetings for the bond referendum 2028 Mr mccre began
discussions on data and future creation of ad hoc Bond committee require feasibility study and demographic studies so we're looking to create a timeline for that Health next topic was health and Healthcare Alliance visit at Hamilton Township healthc Care Alliance very promising shared service
need to make an appointment with new Brokers to conduct analysis and for future visits with all stakeholders tuition non-resident uh Mr Dr piso had a discussion a non-resident tuition policy for red summer for school year
2526 for there's pros rates for red is a 3% increase and then for school year 25 26 A 6% increase there were no items for food service next topic was Transportation so
Transportation study uh we met with two cons uh consultants for free uh pedestrian safety study grants and donations as Mr mccre mentioned before we have a Deca parents fund they're looking to donate $1,450 to fund one adviser for
Club next topic was security upon the phone system integration with the PA system has been completed we're a waiting quotes for the elementary school installation the goal is to make one unified system across all the districts for pwn Pawn Road Middle
School physical security system um looking for a demonstr they're going to be doing a demonstration uh to the board members to kind of propose different ideas um to improve our uh physical security a panic button we're waiting close for two vendors for the phone
based on adding a pic button option and the idea is that we'll pilot 21 phones across the entire district for technology for a parent Square website should be starting shortly for a website redesign and Connections in with social
media at the high school IDF rep um working on IDF um by the gymnasium okay we need to add cameras for that because there's a lack of coverage and for our Wi-Fi looking at our splash splash page for the launch to get for guest Network
in March W Wi-Fi segregated to three ssids the High School auditorium uh WPS adding two of them that way as Mr mccre mentioned before it could take a greater capacity so right now we have two looking to add a third one to increase uh more people for capacity to get people
online our action items are accept a Deca Grant from the parent fund and also the increase in red summer 2526 pricing our next meeting is March 13th at 5: PM any questions comments for business I
I do yes I have one question um you mentioned lights for the outside of the I think two schools Pond and the high school um I was just curious to know if you guys looked at solar powered opportunity there rather than LED and whether it was a cost thing or
environmental I could take that real quick now we're looking at changing the exterior lights at all three there are some programs from psng and New Jersey clean New Jersey clean energy programs as well New Jersey direct install uh depends on which building and what their
load capacity is because there's different program requirements but for solar you're talking about Jaren all I guess exter if you're thinking about any of the external lighting could solar is can it be solar
powered you you could try but I these are so powerful they wouldn't um have that um we do have solar systems that's why I'm a little bit confused but if we put solar power out there solar solar powered lighting uh panels like are is that I don't know how much power you
would need outside so perhaps I'm I'm just wondering if it was looked at we we'll take a look at it but yeah yeah I think so LED lightings are the lighting themselves are for Energy Efficiency but they're powered through our current power system which has the solar offset
to it that you mean okay okay so it's okay yeah so the LEDs so my understanding if correct me if I'm wrong on anything is the LEDs are going to kind of handle that power more efficiency by consuming less so it actually works in conjunction with how we're being powered with the solar so the LEDs aren't a power source
themselves they take the power more efficiently um where our solar panel is what's actually deriving the power yeah we have lights they're going to be about a third to a quarter of the energy and they'll do a whole analysis for us and depending on the energy analysis you know they'll if it's a
replacement you know you only pay like 20 25% or something like that depending on the program other programs you would pay more um and you try to do as much as you can so we've already done uh a lot of LED lights at Sharon uh we're looking at doing the high in the middle school and the high school as well depending on the programs and I'll talk about that
during budgets because it affects how much money we put into the electricity utility and you're going to see because the rates went up 20 are going up 20% next year but we're keeping it flat because we're doing all these energy saving programs so but we'll talk we have the solar arrays here and we
have the two solar arrays here that are covering about 80 to 90% of your power okay yeah Sharon doesn't have we can talk about that as budget Sharon has one solar system on the new edition that the district actually owns it's tiny we tried putting a large system in the parking lot like we have over here at
the middle school High School um and we were blocked by jcpnl they basically said you would have to run new power stations and 3 or 4 million dollar to get it and we chose it obviously we didn't do that uh but the Grid in jcpnl
side is saturated hence what we have power issues out there uh much more than we do on the PS and side which is very Pro solar okay yeah and you answered my other question which was you know what what are things we're holding back on until we know about about the the budget so it sounds like you know this could be
something to hold on so we could prioritize it List It Out correct yeah correct and we'll talk more about that a little bit so next next week we'll we'll go through it and that'll be a great time to talk about it um because that for every dollar we free up in the operating budget on on maintenance is one more for the students and one less
for the taxpayer and so um it's something I've done for the last decade and it's it's a very wise thing to do and we're just slowly getting there um and I'll just say the last thing is that you know we're limited to the size of our meters and how much load and it used
to be 250 KW but they're changing it to 300 this school is 291 and solar like before solar I think we were around 4450 solar dropped that demand load and
now that they're changing the program to 300 we can sneak it in and so we're doing all the analysis right now the vendors are ready to go when they launch that program and do the calculator we're going to be one of the first in there and go for it um so I'm waiting to see that and that'll be a huge thing it'll
change all our old lights here to LEDs um for a fraction of the cost of what it would be for us to do it ourselves yeah Mr mccre just to just to add to that and just for the public to know as well um you know was mentioned that the SE as Energy prices keep going up the SE
actually becomes in that investment we made in so becomes more and more profitable for um or should be I should say savings for for the district um as that happens um right now there's a projection for energy to go up 20% um so these IDE the idea with these L LEDs and
the energy audit in general is actually a cost-saving move for the district and for the taxpayers um to try to offset some of that you know increase that we see coming down the pike so the solar system is probably $10 million for the middle school and the high school we paid Zer doar for it we just pay a lower
electric cost and it's so low we're currently saving around 300,000 per year with the increase I I foresee saving 400,000 in the next year or two um with that also being said is our escalator they only raise us like 1% a
year right and we've got another 13 more years to go on it or 12 more years to go on the solar system at that point you can choose to buy it renew the contract or just tell them to take it down and and leave um but that's a discussion for the future but thank you for the time on that
quick question Dr Pier you mentioned a bond referendum can you clarify that you want to take it real quick so um the bond comes off we have about $6 million in bond every year um five of that six is coming
off in one shot in three years from now five million coming off um at that point the high school is going to be 25 years old we have roofs going bad and so forth so um to actually go do a public Bond where they vote um it takes you around two years so we're three years out this
is the time you do a feasibility study with the Architects to figure out what's what really needs to be repaired what the cost estimate's going to be you have to prioritize what what that's going to be what can you afford and what can you fit in the bond and do it that way um
this is the time where we would go schedule that out because it takes months to do a feasibility study you also have to do a Dem graphic study so for the next year we're proposing that you start making uh an ad hoc Bond committee to have these discussions uh this would be a long because this is the
next you know you don't do bonds very often right you do this every 20 25 years unless you have massive growth in your town um and this is the process we're going to have to go through so um and I think the time we set for that to answer um was April May to start that um
a hoc Committee just just look at the feasibility on that so um Mr mccre can you just U describe the difference between the when it when the bond falls off for the township versus when it falls off for the school district because there is a difference
there so the U when so when when a bond ends for the for the town yeah so we we don't have bonding Authority like a town does we can't go rebond all the time you have to do a public question right let the voters decide and you have to list what you're going to do with that Bond
um and it's almost always you know Construction roof repairs and so forth because we don't have it in our budget to save up for that some school districts do it is best practice but I would say a vast majority of schools in the state of New Jersey do not have that kind of money so
they wait for the bond to quote unquote fall off and then you replace it with equal money so if you have five million fallen off you would put five million on now granted five million is a massive amount because think about doing a 20 30 year loan on it you're talking about
raising A1 $150 million I don't believe we need that much but we'll know for a fact when The Architects give us their numbers um because with the town when when their bond falls off it goes to their operating budget correct versus US it falls off so it saves the taxpayer money
so it completely falls off and then uh it does not go to your operating budget so there are ways to adjust certain things but that's how it operates and just to just to clarify for the public this is in 2028 that the bond falls off this is not something that's happening
you know I just so's no confusion on a public question coming up this is all preliminary talks in the future and plan for future boards to act on and uh for the community to act on in 2028 the feasibility study is going to be massive you're talking hundreds of P 100 200
Pages we will post it publicly so everyone can see it they take pictures they do analysis they tell you okay if you repair it this year it's going to cost this much we expect it to be this much the year after that and the year after that and you can see the the higher cost depending on when you phase
it out in the project um but it's we've done this almost four or five years ago about five years ago um I have an old one um and you use that to do your long range facilities plan so you knock off a few things you know you do the the high school you know boilers and the chillers
we've done that we've done certain things so now it's what what else is going to be out there um and and you kind of manage it that way so um a lot more to discuss but not at this moment we can talk more at the budget meetings but the reality is this is going to take
a whole entire year to plan and then put it and send it to the uh put the package together and send it to the to the state to review and analyze and then they give you approval and that takes like six months to a year and then you have your question for the public okay so you have
to be very cognizant of what you plan out and be very thoughtful and and look ahead because if you forget something the OD of you sneaking something on is not going to happen right you can so you have to do it right and it has to be done we're talking a lot of money here
so you're welcome any other questions for Dr Pio all right conratulations Mr Nandan thank you Mr President the community relations met on February 20th 6 p.m at's office all the members were
in all the members presented um we discussed the Boe meeting highlight newsletter which we are shifting from SM to parents Square just to be on the same uh technology not have too many Technologies uh we're trying to kind of avoid some of the technical depth there
uh Miss botier presented the Sharon Elementary School International night uh event which is really good and we we asked her to proceed uh with the plan um the PTA involvement at monthly meetings were also discussed uh we are discussing
to see how we can actually engage PTA more um in our not only in the community relations but also have them come here and present some of those particular uh stuff that they want to do um and we're also exploring an Avenue to see if PTA
can have a seat in the community relations because they have lot more um I would say a lot more relationship with the community uh we also discussed monthly stories and press releases and current
events pre after which uh Dr pis will be doing which is really good um so more Communications there we discussed the expanded use of parent Square again um which which will help the central office and the building level leaders and
training will be provided to them uh we also discussed the Board of Education meeting specifically uh the schedule of student centered presentation plan with the principles and all that particular stuff so thank you again Dr piso for kind of making the not only this Board
of meeting a little bit engaging uh with with all those particular presentation but it's really helpful to see the students coming here and you know present what they do so thank you the next meeting is on March
13th thank you Mr any questions for communications all right any liaz on reports um um so there really wasn't any uh meetings something that they do and jsba is they have a running list of videos
and webinars but I've I've done them all um so I signed up for a new one on March 6 and it's the school district emotional regulation um webinar it's a new one they haven't had it
before um this is for everybody on the board you your governance three they are offering it virtually online from 7 to 99 on April 1 and then if you want to be
extra awesome you can do governance for on uh April 3 you just have to shoot Nick an email because he has to open it up because you can't go on njsba and sign up by yourself it has to be done
through Nick and he said go for it um in our final meeting we haven't had too many of them but Mercer County has a meeting on May 12th and that's really the last meeting of the actual school
year and I'll be there virtually Mr mccre are you gonna give us that update of which governance training we we need to complete I'll take care of that yes I'll send it to everybody so uh governance one the first year two the second 3 the third and then every time
you get reelected governance four um I always recommend if you can do them all do them all they kind for some reason that they don't want you to but I don't care do them all right if I used to be a board member I did them all and it's great information for you uh there are self-paced programs you just go on your
own time or you can do in person at school at the convention or you can do the live online with somebody present so just shoot me an email the one you want and then I'll sign you up for it uh it's very quickly for me to do that and I'll send an email to everybody tomorrow with all who's done it or not and then Peter
you have to make sure everyone does it by the end of the year and it is a qack item by the way so make sure get done thank you and Nick and Dr pis I think we talked about doing some board trainings publicly with the njsba so we're looking into doing that as well here having the
njsba come in and do some some different training so we'll be seeing that throughout the year as well much like what we did with uh um I believe at the end of last year yeah day the DAT Nash yeah yeah we were looking for uh June June
perfect okay anything else all right public comment time will be allocated for public comment at this meeting me uh members of the public wishing to address the board of education on agenda items must State their name municipality and the group if
they if any they represent a member of the public shall not be permitted to speak on until he or she is recognized by the presiding officer in accordance with District policy 0167 each comment shall be limited to 3 minutes no participant may speak more than once no dialogue between a speaker and the board and or superintendent
shall extend the three minute time limit um provided here in live streaming of the meeting shall be for viewing only the public will not have the ability to participate in public session comments unless they are physically present at the meeting although the board encourages public comment the presiding officer can interrupt warant and or
terminate a part statement question or inquiry when is too lengthy and may also interrupt and warn a participant when the statement question or inquiry is abusive obscene or excuse me may be defamatory moreover the presiding officer can request any person to leave
the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum in in adherence to protocol established by the New Jersey Board of uh school boards Association the board will use this public comment period as an opportunity to listen to resident concerns but not to debate issues or to enter into
question and answer session issues raised by members of the public may require review and investigation and may or may not be responded to by board or superintendent during the meeting all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when
appropriate can I have a motion to open public comment for agenda items only Moote second all in favor I any n or extensions okay Nick can we please open public comment for 30 minutes Jeffrey yep Robinsville resident
thanks for having me um first of all thank you Dr PTO and Dr ghoul for showing up for the senate committee um hearing it was really awesome to see board members present for that event also for uh supporting the effort to disseminate the inform around the NDP
meeting on March 4th thank you for that as well and uh rescheduling the special budget meeting as well so thank you in advance um based on just general conversations that are occurring there is discussion about the NJ assembly Bill uh meeting some roadblocks because of
prolonged discussions so what I'm basically trying to ask the board of the Boe is to figure out if they're taking proactive excuse me sir is this for an agenda item something we're about to approve or it's for the crematorium so not that's not on the agenda can you
please wait your second public comment it'll be in about 10 minutes oh okay I wasn't sure it was old business or new it's okay it's fine um this is uh public comments for agenda items and agenda items only so if you see it listed in the next pages that
we're voting on please come up if not hold your comments till we open up the second public comment for any and all items you wish to discuss okay seeing none hearing none Mr President motion to close public comment
on agend items Mo all in favor I any needs or extensions all right approval of the monthly minutes or I'm sorry the monthly resolution um can I have a motion so moved any discussion
comments questions not seeing any Mr MC Miss panduka yes Dr gold yes Miss Hill D'Angelo yes Mr Howard yes M Leman yes Mr n yes Mr Ray yes Dr Pierro yes Mr
olberg yes sir everything passes unanimously thank you Mr any old business any new business hi um I was contemplating on this particular topic around um how we can better serve the students specifically and students are
our are our biggest stakeholders and I was wondering if Administration has any Avenue of collecting student feedback on not only school but also staff teachers and curriculum to understand what students
actually have to say which can certainly help improve lot more of what we doing um I think we're doing a great job overall across the boat but I just wanted to see if there is any way to hear student feedback on all of this and consider for
any improvements um yes that's a that's a great idea it is something that we're considering I don't have that uh set up yet but the the team will work on on various inter you uh Avenues to be able to open that up but absolutely that's
part of the plan thank you Ju Just to add uh to that I know uh I think traditionally we've used Google forms here for collecting data or some other type of uh there is like the New Jersey Sky um which is a school
climate Improvement initiative that's put out by Ruckers and that's I think a great resource so that could be something uh maybe to look into and that is uh they do like a tailored survey surveys for students um staff members and community members as well so that
could be you know an Avenue to pursue that's kind of done for you and they give you the software and and the data analysis with that as well it sounds like an excellent idea we'll definitely make that part of our evaluation Dr Pier the um when you brought it up last year we are already
um either it's already done or it's in the works at the high school to be done when you brought it to our attention last time and and Ed committee we thought it was that I did okay that's good I'm just not sure if it it was I think it might have already been completed um but we'll bring it to Ed
committee and and give that to you all right great thank you just to to Echo this or take it a little bit further it's I think it's an also very timely in that we are going to start looking at budget evaluations and so if we were to deprioritize it would be really important to collect that student feedback as to there were certain
courses that we had to cut based on like attendance and interest but I wonder what that ongoing interest might be with a threee Lookout or two-year Lookout or even next year so I think if we were to think about this community survey which I completely Echo the importance of if we could pair it with you know some sort
of prioritization and the list that might come out of that business review that we'll talk about next week yes thank you thank you definitely to that end um last year we did a we started a um High School exit survey we got a lot
of good information from that I mean that may be something we want to try to look at too I mean like we got a lot of real good information from the seniors that were going out so that may be something that we want to try to you know create here as well uh Lori rundo is giving me the high
five we do that look she's shaking her head yes and so she's in agreement that we get wonderful information from that as well am I reading your body language correctly Lori yes good all right thank everyone any any other com any other um new
business all right not seeing any um public comment on school matters can I have a motion to open a public comment on school matters for 30 minutes Mo all in favor any n or
extensions all right Mr Gap just for my edification if the creamatorium was raised in the prior session because it was mentioned the committee reports I think even president olberg mentioned it so is it not part of the agenda and I know you can't go to Q&A but I'm just trying to clarify we
can answer that real quick it's if you see it on the agenda for approval an action item on the on the agenda that we're voting on so even if it's raised as a topic by someone that doesn't make it on it doesn't make it we could be talking about it we did this or a motion it's only when it's for
approval and we've done this in a way technically you only need one public comment yeah but we've done it in a way historically here before I even got here five years ago so we can have a comment before we approve something because you may know something or you may hear
something or voice an opinion so that's like the The Last Chance the public has to voice something about an agenda item we posted our agendas beforehand so the public sees it as well um once again you don't have to but we do that here uh be open and transparent so that's your
chance so we try to limit that's why we have two versions so one before is an agenda and if not just just wait the 10 minutes and we'll talk about it yeah so that's it thank you sir my fourth meeting so a lot and and I'm glad you're asking the question because we it
happens every six months it gets raised up again and again so uh we appreciate your understanding thank you sir yeah so I won't repeat thank yous but thank you again um I think there is conversation about the New Jersey assembly Bill hitting some roadblocks because of
prolonged discussions and push back for a variety of different reasons um I guess what I wanted to ask the Boe was you know are we uh proactively taking steps and strategizing ways to show to slow the crator building approval
process right and provide the bill ample time to work its way through the Senate and assembly and get passed because the legislative bills don't pass overnight we know that um and and in the event that the ngdp does approve the air
quality permit right post the March 4th meeting is the Boe prepared to take action at that point because understanding the NJ Cemetery board which is where this eventually lands is meeting on uh April 10th so that's
literally almost less than 30 days from the D meeting to the NJ Cemetery board where then the crematorium could be up on the agenda for approval at that point and that's the last pit stop from our understanding in terms of approvals needed so if it's not clear what I'm
basically trying to indicate is time is of essence right I'm requesting that the Boe discuss and hopefully proactively approve uh legal action in advance so that you can act swiftly you don't have to have another round of committee meetings and Boe meetings that's just my
request I know you may have your own procedures to follow and uh you know obviously the residents have elected the Boe members here to represent the best interest of their children students right uh and the school district so I think it includes using all available
resources and I hate to bring it up that's that includes our property taxes as well right so please utilize that for uh towards the prevention of this construction of the crematorium because it impacts not only the health of my child and a thousand other kids every
year uh but also the future attractiv of the school district so I just urge you to please proactively take some action and be prepared thank you Amanda grber Robinsville resident um I like Jeff um went to the
Senate hearing um and a a large portion of uh supporters were there but there were also people that didn't support it um this is a tough time
because we are starting to run out of time and energy and I need this board to do more um it is stuck in the assembly right now uh as of right now we it's not being
heard on this March 6th and it might not be heard until April I'm talking daily calls from you guys calling them and I don't know if you need to stay for an extra 20 minutes to decide the script there's a script online I can give you
that you can review with your lawyer and you can call every day and ask when is it getting done um You can call the mayor and see if he'll do something you can call you know assemblyman D'Angelo you can there's
now seven people seven assembly people sponsoring that bill just keep calling we're calling we're emailing we need more from you we need you to be ready to do things
legally um we just need you to fight loudly thank you nin Canon Robinsville I wanted to ask you guys that um do you
understand how the residents really feel about this crematorium and the situation that we are in we need as they said we need your help you were elected by the resident to represent us in all the
situation all the children all the teachers and the whole school I ask this before and I'm asking this again if this passes njd and if this goes into the other meeting what are you going to
do it is going to be very very difficult to sit in front of us and explain that we did all we could do I am really sorry thank you very very much for the letter that you wrote and thank you very much for planning to come and reading what you need to do but there has to be more
that you can do I am telling you I'm asking you as nicely as I can that to do something plan something now because if March 4th comes and something happens
people like me and more like me will be standing here demanding answers so as nicely as I can I'm asking you when you are going to your meetings that you are with your loyer and you're sitting and talking think about all of
these some of you have children in Sharon School some of you are going to feel this firsthand so please become a resident and feel that and then do something with it we are getting tired the residents should not be running like
this the way we are running around to make sure that this goes there and this goes there we have elected officials that they are supposed to do their work aren we in a new wave of um governmental and everything not right now I mean like
what's happening I'm asking you and as a resident of 22 years here I am telling you my investment in my house is not going to go down because we are just going to be sitting silently and seeing what's going to happen and who's going
to do next please thank you hi Gunda masasa Robinsville resident so I don't think any of you are a part of the WhatsApp group that is a way for us as families and and parents to mobilize our efforts but just to give
you a sense of what we are doing we have worked to create a canvasing effort so on our weekends we're going door to door knocking on um our neighbors doors to let them know about this propil cream terum there's some folks in town who
aren't aware there are others who are not going to be able to show up for different reasons um we're working to create lawn signs that we've paid for through our own fundraising efforts we're doing a lot we've been working since December and I know Dr piso is new
to the organization however we all have known since last fall that we were heading towards an njd meeting and that there was likely going to be a vote to move ahead to the cemetery board so this isn't surprising for anyone who's here
and anyone who's in the room behind me so from my perspective I would have expected that there was some plan some sort of action to think about what are we going to do as a board to address this the
letters is great I'm glad it's on record that the board is in opposition to this but we need more action we can't do this by ourselves it's not possible we can't fund raise any more dollars we were only able to raise about $3,000 and I don't think that was from very many people to
begin with so we're tapped out and we really need you to step up it is quite frightening to think about our crematorium being in the backyard of Sharon when we were having these conversations around budget challenges and trying to get the refer
passed at that point I was like well if it doesn't pass and things go south I'll stay in Robinsville because I like it and we'll probably send our kids a private school in this scenario where we're talking about an incinerator in the backyard of the school I can't even
imagine what I'm going to do like I there's no staying here like I just fundamentally I'm having a lot of trouble processing what we can do as a family so please many of you have children in the school district whether they're a Sharon or Pond or at the high
school I know you care deeply I believe you do but there needs to be some actual action and some steps put in place because when we go and you know go to the senate committee hearing I'm sure it sounds like there's some assembly individuals who believe in this no one
fundamentally would agree with having an incinerator in the backyard of a school so what can we do to give our lawmakers the time they need to pass a bill that actually makes sense thank you hi good that's loud good evening Anthony
and Vero uh Saran Woods neighborhood Robinsville uh I emailed the uh superintendent thank you Dr piso for your wonderful response I really appreciate it I'm G to pick this up um
one I I have three issues um one is um primary issue is um busing we live in Saran Woods neighborhood as I mentioned and when we bought our house back in 2017 always had a bus bus historically
had you know we had busing to pwn Road Middle School um and then that busing was cut with the budget struggles that we had a few years ago as many of you probably remember um and part of that referendum we are under under the impression that busing would be returned
you know we we all did our part and voted for that referendum and guess what bus busing has not been returned um so my wife has been before the board on several occasions over the last couple of years pleading for busing and a
solution um we have a daughter in middle school and we can't fathom the idea of her walking to school or biking to school every day Crossing that ter terribly dangerous ril Edinburg Road and then also going down the access road
which only has a sidewalk for part of it um the prior superintendent you know we my wife talked to him on a number of occasions and he he looked at that and and agreed that it's dangerous so that's why there's those uh wonderful barriers out there now um but still every day I
pickup which at pwn road if you haven't been there it begins by about 2:20 in the afternoon um more than 30 minutes before students are allowed to exit the building cars are sitting there idling because they know that if they don't get
there that early it's going to take them 40 minutes to get through that pickup line environmentally that's terrible none of us want to have cars idling all that time there's a line of cars you'll you'll see it um cars going the wrong way cars coming in the wrong entrance
making illegal K turns in the middle Road um no crossing guard at the end of the access road kids biking through the cars it's chaotic it's dangerous so I'm pleading with you to as you prepare the
budget for next year consider bringing back some busing for the neighborhoods that used to have it or if we can't get dedicated busing there has to be space on some of the existing buses that travel past our neighborhood and other neighborhoods that used to have bus
buting um you know at the end of the day we're paying more in taxes we agreed to pay more in taxes but we're getting less service so it doesn't quite equate with us um so that was that was one issue the second I'm sorry I'll be really quick no librarian in the Middle School which is
very odd to us as well we should be encouraging kids to read but we don't have that opportunity now and last but not least the potential Bond referendum was mentioned um I hope with that that you're going to um request proposals from professionals to help guide the
process thank you very much and thank you for all you do thank everyone is there any other public comment on school matters not seeing any can I have a motion to close public comment and during the meeting any discussion on the
crematorium what's that any discussion that we need to have on a crematorium we having a discussion on the crematorium yeah guess okay the question you know comes to mind is I know what we've talked about legally we filed our motion and was rejected yes
um you know I I know the Public's looking for us and you know I could only speak for myself I can't speak for the entire board that I agree with the sentiment but there is limits to what we can do as a Boe and I think that you
know we have pursued legal Avenues and have been denied you know um to my understanding you know so what would be next steps if you know with that so to me it is contacting the local
lawmakers and and going forward to say that where where is the bill right I know they changed and they um updated the bill to be retroactively um um approved you know for January 1st does
so in my opinion if if a uh just just you know conceptually if if they decide if let's say hypothetically they approve it and it goes through all the way and then this bill passes then they have to demolish a crematorium because it was
January 1st so I'm just saying it's because it's illegal right in in Ence so we we don't want it to get to that point of course so we wanted so we did we did um as Mr nandon and and Dr Pio described
we wrote to the DP to ask for it to be postponed because of pending legislation and they rejected that so now it's to continue putting pressure on the state senate and assembly members to say something to you know the DP to
in in on behalf of us because of the pending legislation so I'll continue to do my best to call legislators and legislative branch and see what they can do for us but that's all that's all we can do at this point I will be there in
person myself to read into the record the board's position right I I'll stay for the whole meeting and I'll I'll do I'll do my part I know other board members will be there so we'll show our support that way um but we have pursued the
legal Avenue and there's not much we can do there um I think the one sorry um the one question that I had is you know as you said we have pursued all types of legal Avenues and we're not finding any kind of what you call Avenue which we can
actually progress on but I would certainly um you know ask the community leaders if they know any legal representation you know who thinks that there is a legal Avenue which we are missing I think we welcome that because I think I'm very sure our lawyer here
can actually kind of you know help us if there is any type of legal avenues that we find at this point in time as you're saying you know I'm not seeing any legal Avenues but I agree with the sentiments it's not good we all hate it but you know there is anything at all that we
can do we will keep doing oh sorry um so I was hearing from you all uh the same sentiment what I was curious about is I know that the time timeline is under pressure specifically
because we also have that board approval by the I'm going to get it wrong but it's like State crematorium people since we have already asked for the D to push back their meeting to wait as well could we ask to
push that meeting too like the cemetery board yeah could we ask to push that Cemetery because I feel like that's your final like timeline is it possible to ask to push that one back
just to give more time in the legislator to kind of work through things I mean I mean just in curiosity I I think that's that's an option Amanda I think we need to get through the D meeting first because it has to get through the D meeting first and be
approved by the D we don't know what the D is going to do the D has blocked other crematoriums in the state when the public has gone out to be highly critical of it right and state their case but um I think I think right now that's what we need to focus on and then
go to the next step so I'm not I'm not opposed to I don't know if other board members are opposed to it but I think I think I just I'm sorry to follow up so my phone phone calls it's not just to legislator if if I was to make additional phone calls would it be to the I'm going to get so I think I think
at this point we've missed the new and old business piece I think we should probably take this to the Committees and continue discussion there sure all right so can we have a motion to close uh public commentary during the meeting V second all in favor I these
are extensions