You are live on YouTube now. >> Great. This meeting is an open session of the Rosal Park Board of Education being held in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act of the State of New Jersey. Notice of this meeting was sent to the Star Ledger, local source, the Home News Tribune, the Burough Clerk,
school offices, and the district website. Roll call, please. >> Mark Fernandez, >> here. >> Lucy Figerito Zamp Fonte. >> President Dr. Brittany Kirkland >> here. >> Cindy Mega >> here.
>> Jen McCar. >> Chris Monroe >> here. >> Constance Quintella >> here. >> Vice President Michael Anne Regan >> here. Please stand for the flag. flag is over there
of the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Resolve that the Rosal Park Board of Education meeting hereby convenes the executive session for discussion of the following topics. Student matters,
personnel matters, and attorney client privilege. It is anticipated that the executive session will take approximately 90 minutes. The board may take action during public session. The board shall return to the public session following executive session at approximately 7 p.m. The minutes of the
executive session shall be released to the public when the reason for the executive session no longer exists. Can I have a motion to go into executive? >> Motion. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Great. All in favor? I we are now an executive.
>> I'm just admitting Lucy. Uh actually um let me admit Lucy and then tell her to hop off to the executive session link. Uh >> okay. Should we head to that uh link as well? >> Uh let me start it. I'm going to switch
you guys to the other laptop so you could go in the executive session and I'm going to mute and pause this. Uh so let me start it over on the other laptop because I didn't have a chance to start it yet. >> Okay. So you guys can all hop off and u after
executive session you can hop back on that uh regular link. Okay. Hi all, just so you know, we are live. Uh we're just a quick bathroom break and so forth here. Just so anybody who uh joins, please uh know you are being
streamed. and then we can >> I just up for all the people popped on. We are live. >> We are live. So don't say anything. You are unmuted. >> Okay. Can I have a motion to return to public session?
>> Motion. >> Great. Is there a second? Okay. All in favor? >> I >> officially in public session. Public participation agenda items only. Each member of the public may speak a maximum of three minutes. Please state your name
for the record. >> Huh? >> I'm gonna mute this. >> Okay, good. All right. at Rosel Park. Agenda items 10 A and C. I wanted to thank Mrs. Arini for her years of service to the students of
Rosel Park. She was in my son's classroom and acted as his parah for a bit. She was a v vital part of his support system. So much so that after she came back from covering in a different classroom like my son actually happily said to Mrs. Stevens, Mrs.
Kesler and Mrs. Garberini that the team was back together. So um it's a loss to Rosal Park and I wish her all the best. she will be missed. Um, Mr. Robert Robert is another big loss to the district. As news of his departure spread among the parents of children
with disabilities, um, many people expressed how sad they were that he was leaving because he had made such a huge impact on their kids. Um, I also saw firsthand how much he cared. He brought new ideas to the table. We tried all kinds of different things with my son
and he was um, fantastic. So, super sad that he's going to be gone. Um, Mrs. Gilgalan has been really great about bringing in amazing staff and related service personnel and we seem to keep losing them. So, I really hope that we
can find a way to keep those people here the next time she brings somebody in like that. That's it. Thanks. >> Okay. Uh uh seeing no other members of the public, I'm going to close the public participation on agenda
items only. Uh next, I'll move to committee reports. First, I'll start with my right to left and then those that are virtual. >> Does anybody down there have one? No, I don't think so. >> No. Okay. >> Thank you.
>> I wanted to present for the technology committee. Um about a month or two ago, I sent out a new website feedback request and kind of posted it everywhere I could. I shared the results with our director of technology. Um just kind of
an overall of what the community had to say about our current website and what they'd like to see. The majority of people do utilize our website. mostly for the calendar for Genesis access or to find phone numbers etc. Um, I asked,
see, what's something you would like to see on a new Rosal Park School District website? All activities and opportunities for the children posted. Overall, most people said they would just like to see it up todate. A comprehensive calendar, correct contact
information, up to date, up to date. A lot of people wanted up to date, which the new um website will be up to date. uh a staff directory, direct way to view updates, um an easy to easier to use search
options. Uh also asked if the community would find staff directory useful. The majority, 85% said yes, which is something we've been discussing for a few years, a staff directory. People did say that they'd like to see a staff
directory that wasn't just searchable by name, but maybe by school clubs. This way, you know, you might not necessarily know the teacher that is in charge of a club, but if you had the director, you could find it easier. Um, see,
one of the questions was, "How well does a school district inform parents in the community of school events and activities?" Overall, the answer was well to very well. Um, do you feel that the current school
district website is user friendly? majority said it's user friendly but it's not updated which I think we all know. Um since Tom is here is there any way you could answer two questions that people have been asking or can we do should we do that later?
>> Uh I can answer them depending what they are. >> Okay. It was just when what do you know what the ETA is for the new website like within the next month? >> I would like to do it I would like to do it before school set. I know we had some clerical things that were going back and
forth like the cal the default calendar layout which I was going to ask you about after this meeting >> and um the logo um other than that pretty much the bones are built. I might need some followup clerical information from some of the principles in terms of
clubs and so forth. Uh and I believe uh also that uh with our transition away from Blooms to the new communication platform which will provide more up-to-date feedback because when the principal or building level admin or
equivalent post, they can now post that on the website. So those notifications for events that happen during the day um will now get posted to the website as well. uh depending what they are and if the principal uh so choose that or the
equivalent admin or department head and so forth. So that was one of the other nice features that will give you more up-to-date things so you're not looking into places that all the information will gravitate to all of them when you make that announcement of sending things
out and the new mass notification system is much more user friendly for the principal or equivalent department head and so forth. Then that was the other question. Um, so you had sent out a few emails that said parent square across the bottom. People were very confused. I
was letting them know, you know, we're moving away from Blooms. Do we have an end date for Blooms? >> And are we going to send something out to parents? >> I was going to send something out. That first one that went out, which was the Genesis parent portal, was my test run uh that I wanted to make sure of and
that um the all the principles will be back >> 25th. >> Yeah. Yeah. I was getting my week. They know if it was next week or the week after. I want to make sure and I'm going over that. And I have a drawn up of which type of posting to go over and use
that with them to go over with that and some notes and so forth if they have any questions like the difference between a digest email and a lovely security alert that we have to fill out whenever we have a fire drill or a lockdown per
the state code. And the difference between you don't use that in a digest because that should not be waiting until six o'clock. You don't want to concern the parents. That's what I was going to go over with them. But those flyers of pie sales and equivalent should go in the digest email. So you get all your
pie sale info at once and you could pick how many sweets you want to buy and so forth. >> Perfect. That was it. Those are >> Thank you. So I will talk to you after this. >> Okay. Um so the curriculum committee met on August 13th and we talked about
elementary schedules, teacher mentoring and the general education um the general curriculum for the 2526 school year. The special education committee met on August 14th and discussed staffing uh program locations, sensory groups and all in program activities for the 2526
school year. Okay. Uh any committee reports from those that are virtual? Okay. Uh now we will move on to our superintendent report. My superintendence report tonight will
be presented by Miss Gamus and it is a requirement by state that we report all of our access scores. So Miss Gamus um please go ahead and present our results. Second.
You could use that forward and back. >> All right. So, um as Miss said, we get to present our access scores. So, this was for last year's administration. There is a large window. Um and we do administer the access. We attest to all
students um that are in our multilingual program throughout the entire district. So access testing it goes through listening, speaking, reading and writing. Um throughout the district we have 227 students that were that was tested and there are proficiency levels
um ranging from entering, emerging, developing, expanding, bridging and reaching. they re they get these scores in every different tested area and then an overall score. So it's the overall score that we look at to see whether students can exit the program. We're
ultimately looking for a student to receive a 4.5 or higher. So reaching that midexpanding level, the ones that kind of start in the asterisk um and moving on from there to be able to exit from the ML program.
So, and that's what that just says, that students with a overall score of 4.5 are eligible to exit. This year, we had 26 students that are eligible to exit. We do have a significant number of students that reached over four% or four um a
4.0. So, they're right on that c that cusp as well. This table shows um the the number of students in the program. So you can see the how many students this is across the district um in the program for one year,
two years or more, three years or more um and the number of students exiting. Anytime the state um these are pulled from the state and so if there's a subgroup less than 10, the student the state will put an asterisk. So it's either zero or less than 10.
This table I did adapt a little bit because I wanted you to see exactly the number of students that are exiting at each um within each building. So it is the same same um chart as before where it talks about how many students are in the program for one year, two years and
three years and then within each building the number of students that are exiting. So you can see we had the most number of students exiting from Sherman Elementary this year. So, this is a breakdown. Um, there are three slides that are very similar to this. That's going to go through the
three elementary schools. This is where we have the bulk of our students that are in the ML program. And this goes through a progression of the last three years. And what I really like about this is it gives you the breakdown of students where they each proficiency level. And remember, we're looking for
that expanding and up. Um, that's where we look to exit students. And you can see across the three years we're really trending in that right direction from looking at for example 2023 27 students scored in that entering uh level based
on last year we only had eight. So what we're doing within our program the instructional strategies the routines everything that we're doing we're trending in the right direction to be able to move forward and exit students. So this is Aldine's analysis.
Same idea for Robert Gordon. Again, everything is shifting and trending in the right direction up until last year's overall access scores into Sherman where again we had the most number of students that were exiting.
So the next three charts look like this. These are a little hard to read. And the piece that is not on here is the number of students that represent the percentages. All right. But what we're looking at here, um, this represents the
grade bands. Um, and so what we're looking is that kind of that lime green into the green. Um, that gives you that that developing, expanding, bridging, and up. So the first three, I know how to make this work. I really don't know how to use the pointer. It it doesn't
the TV reflects it too much. >> Okay. Like it was working a second ago, but so the first three columns to the left are grades kindergarten through fifth grade. The middle section is our middle school. And then to the right you see the high school. And it's the percentage of students at each
proficiency level. So again, we're kind of looking at that lime green and up is where we want to see the bulk of our students. We want to see that red start to decrease, that orange and that redish color start to decrease and we want to see the percentages grow higher as you
know that proficiency band goes higher. So this is based on grade bands. Same idea comparison on race. U the first three columns are Asian students, the middle is Hispanic and the the columns to the right are the students who
identified as white students. And again, you can see where those um they kind of the the bands kind of shift. Again, what's missing here is the number of students that represent those percentages. And the last subgroup that we have here
is students that are on free and reduced lunch over to the left and students that are um multilingual learners and identified in special education. So again, all of our trends are trending in the right direction. And that's based on the intervention
strategies that have been put in place. Um the parent engagement programs when I started here in June, one of the first things I got to go to was a a multilingual night. Um which was really well attended. Um Miss Rian, you were there with me. It was pretty amazing.
The kids, the the families, it was it was really a happening place to be. So, it's it's cultural events and in nights like that that really bring this program to life. Um, bringing in the focus on academic language and conversational skill infused into the classrooms. Um,
what we'll do with these access scores is they go into the hands of the teachers, the ML teachers, the home room teachers, special ed teachers, everybody to make sense of what this looks like, what we can do next, and what the next steps will be. um and PD opportunities not only for our
um ML teachers but for all of our staff. One of the main professional development pushes that we are doing this year, I know the high school was trained few years ago in sheltered instruction, but now we're pushing that down for the middle school and all of the elementary.
Um sheltered instruction is really um basic best practices and where multilingual learners can learn alongside English proficient learners in the general ed uh classroom rather than being pulled out in isolation all the time. So they'll have content driven in
the classroom, but then they'll also have their ML classrooms um and they'll and their their their pull out classes as well. So that's a push this year for uh PD in our elementary classrooms. So, some notable achievements, 17% of
the students in Sherman met the minimum score and will be exiting. And like I said, the evidence tables show throughout everybody, every um school that we're shifting our trends in the right direction in um increasing our
achievement scores for our ML students. And if you have any questions, um, there's your contact information and we're always happy to to answer questions and chat more. Great. Thank you for that presentation.
Uh and now we are going to move into our agenda items. So one staff appointments, two staff appointments rate change. Three, rescend appointment. Four paraprofessional bus aids. Five
paraprofessional bus aids ESY only. Six, ch change of assignments transfers. Seven, paraprofessionals ESY toileting. Eight, degree changes. Nine, district substitutes. 10, resignation. 11,
employment contract. 12, paraprofessional hiring. 13, middle school extracurricular advisors, 2025 to 2026. 14 middle school additional classes for teachers for 2025 to 2026.
15 high school and middle school athletic proctors site managers for 2025 to 2026. 16 middle school activity choppers. 17 middle school after school detention
proctors. 18 2025 to 2026 proctors. 19. Home instructions. 20. High school and middle school coaches 2025 to 2026. 21. High school additional classes for 2025 to 2026
20 I'm sorry 22 high school extracurricular activities quite a few 23 sports physical personnel 24 curriculum writing 25 instructional support statements 26 summer
instructional work Sorry, 26 is on here twice. >> Um, another 26, anti-bullying specialist, 27, 10-month secretaries, 28, summer camp staff. 29, mentoring
program 2025 to 2026. 30, job description. 31, Maternity leave revision. 32, Maternity leave. Agenda item one, additional staff appointments.
Two, high school athletic coach. Uh, addendum items. One, change of assignment and transfers. Okay. And can I get a motion to approve the personnel section? >> Motion.
>> Is there a second? Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? Two item questions. Number 11, the employment contract calling coordinator. Aren't we fully on front line now for
substitute positions? >> I can answer that. >> Yeah, I can. So uh for frontline normally when you pair front line it you are pairing it with a subservice like an ESS or equivalent of that and they
handle that calling portion as part of the contract but as when the district runs it you still need somebody to do some of the monitoring for assigning of those subs and so forth because you do not have that third party ESS booking
and managing the daily operations of making sure subs are placed and so forth and getting some of those similar reports that and adding the new substitutes to the system. So that is why she is still on it. All right. And then the other question is
please here it is. Uh number 29 the mentor. They're not numbered. Just say the name. The mentor at the discovery location. Why are we providing a mentor for the discovery location? I thought they were their teachers.
Um they are because they're paid under the preschool grant and we have to make sure they have their proper certifications. >> So we're paying the salary discovery. >> No, Discovery actually is paying for it. >> And why are we paying for the mentor? >> We're not paying for the mentor. It >> it's on here.
>> Um if they're going to they reimburse us for it like logistically it comes they pay us, we pay the mentor. It just saves them the problem of going through that like W9 that we have to issue for someone that's not being paid on a tax
basis. So, >> they pay us, we pay them. >> Okay. >> Somewhere that they reimburse for that. >> They did it last year. I can get that in writing if that makes
you feel bad. I mean, he he'll put that in writing for Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, they they agreed to it. They did it last year for two teachers. I made sure the money was received before it was paid out. Yeah. >> All right. I'm gonna trust you. >> Yeah. >> It's on recording. >> Okay. If there are no if there's no
other discussion Oh, first of all, I'm sorry I didn't ask our virtual folks. Any discussion on virtual? Okay. Uh if there's nothing else, can we have roll call, please? Mark Fernandez, >> yes.
>> Deian Fonte, >> yes. >> Cindy Mega, >> yes. >> Jennifer McCor, >> yes. >> Chris Monroe, >> yes. >> Constantella, >> yes. Um, except I recuse myself from
addendum personnel one change of assignment transfers D >> 1D, I'm sorry. >> Yes, 1D on change. >> Okay, good. Vice President Rean. >> Yes. >> President Dr. Kirkland. >> Yes. >> Motion passed.
>> Great. Okay. Education. Number 33. 2025 2026 school year tuition and transportation. 34 field trip approval. 35, Conference Attendance Request Professional Growth.
36 NJCAAP Bullying Prevention Program Application Grant. 37 NCAA Workshops. 38 Payne University Intern Agreement. 39, Roso Park Athletics Coaches
Handbook. 40, Change in Location. 41, Focus Grant Application. Can I have a motion to approve education section? >> Motion. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Great. Any discussion?
>> Okay, seeing none. Roll call, please. >> Mark Fernandez, >> yes. >> Zamp Fonte, >> yes. >> Cindy Mega, >> yes. >> Jennifer McCarth >> Chris Monroe, >> yes. >> Constants Quintella, >> yes.
>> Vice President Rean, >> yes. >> President Dr. Perkins. >> Yes. >> Motion. >> Okay. Moving to our business section. Uh agenda item 42, monthly certification. Okay. Sorry, this backwards. So 41,
approval of bills. 42, monthly certification. Number 42, use of buildings and grounds. Okay. >> 2025 2026 school lunch prices. High school and middle school athletic schedule.
Professional services contract for 2025 and 2026. Embrace psychiatric wellness center. School administrator residency program. Service agreement with Discovery Child Care Center.
Work family connection. Disposal of property. Removal of solar panels and agenda items. Uh number three, additional approval of bills. Four,
professional services contract. Five, resolution approving settlement of litigation. Can I please have a motion to approve the business section? >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion?
>> Okay. Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Mark Hernandez. >> Yes. >> Deian Fonte. >> Yes. >> Cindy Mega. >> Okay. Gonna keep your pen ready because I have to recuse myself from a bunch. >> Okay. >> Um, yes to everything except agenda
five. No to that for number 42. A C D E F G Hold on.
Make sure I didn't miss anything. G I said G. Q. I think that's it. I have to recuse myself. >> Jennifer. Oh, you done. Jennifer >> McCarthy. >> Yes.
>> Constance Quintella. >> Um, no to addendum five. I going to recuse myself from 42 BC D and yes to the rest. >> B C D. She said >> yes. Thank you.
>> Cheek. >> Sorry. Everything hiberus myself. She needs to recuse herself. >> It's It's the exact thing that you did, Miss Mega. >> Yes. Okay. >> Uh, Vice President Rean. >> Yes. >> President Dr. Kirkland.
>> Yes. >> Motion. >> Okay. Um, next section, harassment, intimidation, and bullying incidences. Agenda item number 55, harassment, intimidation, and bullying instances. Uh, can I get a motion to approve this section?
>> Motion. >> Great. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. >> Second. I'm sorry. >> Uh, Z and this way. Um, any discussion?
>> Okay, seeing none. Roll call, please. >> Vice President Reagan. Yes, but I would like to recuse myself from number 47. Oh, 047 and 049, please. >> Mark Hernandez, >> yes to all.
>> Deian Fonte, >> yes to all. >> Cindy Mega, >> yes to all. >> Jennifer McCar, >> yes to all. Chris Gondro. >> Yes to all.
>> Constantella. >> Yes to all. >> President Dr. Kirkland. >> Yes to all. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. Is there any continuing business? Okay. Any new business?
Okay, seeing none, we are now going to move into our public participation portion. Each member of the public may speak for a maximum of three minutes. Please state your name for the record. Also, I would like to say thank you for our public participants who are here in
person. I know that this is a hybrid meeting of sorts um because we are currently working out processes to make sure that we don't have any Zoom bombing or anything like that. That's happened in previous districts. So, we had to leave this portion in person. Uh but we
are working through other methods and strategies to make sure that next time we can have a fully virtual meeting if the need arises. So, thank you for our trial run. Am I good? >> You're good.
>> Okay. Katie McDerm at Rosal Park. So, I'm having to change what I had planned to say because of what you just shared. Um, but I did want to say when we learned a lot of lessons from the pandemic and when it was time to start coming back in person, I advocated for
the continued use of Zoom because it meant that I'm actually going to read some of this. It actually meant that it enabled single parent single parent households, working parents, parents of children with disabilities, parents and citizens with disabilities, non-native
English speakers the ability to meaning participate. So, I was super excited when I first heard that this was a hybrid, that this was going to be virtual. And then I was super disappointed when I found out we couldn't give comments via Zoom. So, I like went down this whole rabbit hole of reading through the Open Public Meetings
Act, the rules and regulations around public meetings. It was a little vague to me, but like other school districts do do it. Madison's got a meeting this week. They do comments via Zoom. I understand the concern about Zoom bombing. um you know if it was done via
a web a web webinar via zoom instead of a actual meeting that enables you to let people become panelists and then they can unmute and use their micro and use their cameras. So that is a solution uh
happened to me on a webinar today. So I don't begrudge anybody from having a life and needing to zoom in. I don't even know what time it is in Portugal but like it's really late. Um, but I think just moving forward like also thinking about this being a tool for
accessibility. Like I think a Zoom option should be for every meeting because that way you're allowing everybody the chance to participate and for non-native for non-English speakers, they can turn on the translated captions
on YouTube. So anyways, but thank you. >> We appreciate that. That's that's what I'm aiming for. Try and figure out the best solution to be able to do that. So, thanks. >> Frank Gagiardo. Uh, I just wanted to say, uh, school year is coming close,
guys. Uh, and I wanted to just reach out to all the PTAs and the PTO's and to the parents. Make sure, please, this is crucial in the beginning of the year. Join uh, and support all your schools if you can. Um, and to the representatives,
please get in touch with the presidents and the vice presidents and just get to know them. I know there's an election year this year and some of you might be leaving, some of you might be staying, but you're still involved up until November. So, please get in touch with them. Uh, I know a lot of these uh
programs have stuff going on right in the beginning of the year. And our first meeting for every PTO is back to school night, which is really not really a meeting. So, uh, we're trying to get ahead of the game and start off strong in this high school. So, just reach out
to, uh, us, follow the Facebook page, and it's pretty much it. Thanks, guys. >> Um, to that point, do we have the dates already for back to school nights? Right. >> Yeah, the calendar. Um, I don't have it with me, but yes, I think it's already on the
>> Yes, it's on the calendar. They will be getting called that the first day of school. >> Oh, >> I I apologize. I was just saying that it is on the pink district calendar. We did receive it today. So, all the schools will be getting these and they will be
distributed the first day of school to all the students. And I will also be sending the QR code to the community and my next newsletter um so that everyone is aware and we'll also post it on our website as well.
>> Great. Thank you. >> We have one more puzzle coming back. Good evening everyone. Um Edward Gate Rosel Park. I saw in the agenda the education section start from 33 to 41.
Then the I think the business section start from 42 to 54. I see 42 monthly certificate 41 appro Z 41 approval. Is this the right
consequence? The sequence is right or >> if I could interject I I a lot of changes. >> It did look like the numbering was off. >> It wasn't an oversight. I apologize. It was, you know, last minute changes that really make a lot on a very small.
>> We will make those changes. >> Missing something because full up. >> Yeah. No, no, no. It was just just, you know, last minute ad things that got shifted around. So, I'll make changes and we'll post the appropriate numbering. >> Very good. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Good luck.
>> It was just misnumbered the first one. >> Okay. Yeah. 4241 back. >> Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. There aren't any items missing. It's just the off. >> Yeah, it was. >> Okay. Uh, seeing no one else, I will close the public participation portion
of the evening. Um, and so can I have >> uh Thank you everyone for attending. Can I have a motion for adjournment? >> Great. Is there a second? >> All in favor? >> I >> Great. The next board meeting will be
held will be an open session held on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 at 7 pm. The board meeting will be held at the Roso Park High School auditorium.