All right. At 7 PM, as the president of the board of education, uh we're going to begin this regular meeting of the board of education October 20th, 2025. We're going to ask everyone who can to please stand, face the flag for the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty andice for all >> I'm going to ask Mr. Witford to please
take role >> Dr. Alah >> here >> Mr. Mone >> here >> Mr. Begoian >> here >> Mr. Healey >> here >> Mrs. Jones >> Dr. Rene >> here >> Mr. Payberry >> present.
>> Mr. Ki >> present. >> Mrs. Cole >> you have a quorum. >> The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their
interests is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of this act, the Rutherford Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place posted on the bulletin board outside the burough clerk's office, mailed to the Herald, South Bergenite in the record newspapers, and filed with
the burough clerk. Hard copies of the agenda are available in the meeting room, and the agenda is posted electronically on Friday before the meeting date on the district's website at www.rotherfordschools.org. Subsequent to the meeting, a video of the meeting will be uploaded to the district's website,
www.rotherfordschools.org. The video link can be found by opening the board of education link and clicking on public meetings and then videos. Uh so board members, in your packets this evening, there were two sets of minutes to approve the regular meeting and executive session of September 29th,
2025. Any questions or comments on those? No. All right, then I'll ask Mr. Whitford to please enter those. Uh and congratulations to all the parents here. You see now how we run a board of education meeting in the beginning. Uh
so this special presentation is actually part of our regular board of education meeting. It's probably one of the most exciting and proud uh moments for all of us as board of education members as we have the annual board of education awards held this evening. And to kick us
off, I am going to turn it over to our high school principal, Mr. Morano. Thank you. Good evening. It is a true privilege to stand before you as we celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our students.
Tonight, we honor those who have earned the Board of Education Award, a recognition reserved for students who have achieved a GPA of 3.7 or higher and maintain no grade lower than a B minus. This distinction is more than a measure of academic success. It reflects
perseverance, curiosity, and a deep commitment to excellence. Each of our recipients have shown that achievement is not defined by a single moment, but by consistent effort and unwavering desire to learn and grow. We also recognize the vital support system that
makes this success possible. Our teachers, families, and the entire Rutherford school community. Your guidance, encouragement, and belief in our students have been instrumental in helping them reach these milestones. I would also like to express my appreciation to Mr. Hurley, our
superintendent of schools, Miss Gagliardo, our director of guidance, and Mr. Witford, our business administrator, for their continued leadership and support. Congratulations once again to our exceptional students and thank you to the board of education for recognizing and celebrating their
achievements as well as your commitment to the success of all the Rutherford students. And at this time, I'd like to introduce a director of guidance, Miss Jackie Gaggliardo. [Applause]
Thank you. See if I can secure this here. There we go. Okay, that >> I'm good. Okay, there's my phone. Hi, welcome everyone.
All right, we are going to get started with recognizing our very deserving students. We're going to start the night with the bronze award. The bronze award is presented to students who achieve a 3.7 or higher grade point average for
one academic year. This award will be presented by our principal, Mr. Frank Morano. We ask that you kindly hold your applause till all of the names have been called. At this time, I'll ask that the students walk up the stage and just wait for your
name to be called. Aiden Abdila, Elena Abdullah, Giovana Aludo, Thomas Barnes, Avery Benamy,
Isabella Biano, Alli Bordulli, Mave Brennan, Samantha Bush, Okay. Brody Cardinelli,
Evelyn Chen, Madison Daly, Allison Diaz, Brooke Demiola, Erin Doyle, Kelly Dudonis, Antanella Felix, Dylan Gagliardo, Leah Gambali,
Maximus Gasteloo, Mia George Fatty Goddess Salvatore Guardon Jackson Harris Charlotte Henderson Gil Kakadia Arnav Cesservani
Zohabe Khan, Giwan Kim, John Cosck, Angelina Liller, Mark Lopes, Brooke MacArthur, Samuel Mariscow, Adriana Marx, John Marx,
Braden McUade, Carlson Mezer, Sarah Narves, Mahen Navaria, McKenzie NMO, Fiona Parkinson, San Kulp Padalia, James Puso,
Daniela Rodriguez, Nicholas Rodriguez, Tavani Rockam, Vara Salian, Daniel Sack, Philip Cell, Drew Shetta, Rita Shyu,
Raphael Satars, Madison Smith, Mattaline Sullivan, Livia Tarantino McCarthy, Lucas Teta, Madison Triana, Emma Tuccino, Kai Tong,
Victoria Twist, Schllo, Vagia, Bailey Vega, Brandon Vega, Valerie Weiss, Brandon Wong, Homa Zerza,
and Arjav Zelavadia. Okay. All right. We're moving on. Congratulations. Thank you. [Music] Okay, the next award is going to be the silver award. The silver award is presented to students who achieve 3.7 or
higher grade point average for two academic years. This award will be presented by our board of ed president, Dr. Sergio Alotti. We again ask that you hold your applause until all names have been read. Benjamin Alingor,
Ryan Bake, Elizabeth Bardzo, Mariah Beto, Mark Bashadski, Charles Bohan, Jamie Ballader, Jaden Cabrera, Andrew Calvo, Tyler Carroll,
Zoe Cassal, Brian Casease, Donovan Charles, Sophia Clausy, Leo Conn, Alexandra Corwin, Michaela Cassenzo, Panav Desai, Deborah Dobraoda,
Andrew Ericson, Bailey Federick, Llaya Grryer, Emily Griffin, Leah Griffin, Eva Herworth, Majad Atani, Malik, Atani, Graham Jordan,
Landon Kemple, Sophia Laughafler, Payton Lewis, Howland Lee, Sebastian Lorza, Luchia Marchesani, Grace Meth, Ariana Nelson,
Anthony Nuniato, Andrew Ahoyski, Alif Orhan. >> I know. I'm sorry. Nina Pazazzi Kaido Papido
fast Jason I'm sorry Joseph Phelp Adriana Pizza Vivian Scurbo Samantha Serrano Mahi Sha, Leah Shin, Juliet Singh, Alexander Satars,
Russell Snider, Molly Sullivan, Tess Sullivan, Chloe Tarifi, Alex Tatarov, Karen Tortora, Cammy Esan, Ava Valz,
Franklin Weiss, Lauraai White and Ryan Witz does not look like he's here. Okay, we are moving along. Thank you. We are now moving on to the gold award. The Gold Award is presented to students
who achieve a 3.7 or higher grade point average for three academic years. This award will be presented by our superintendent, Mr. Jack Hurley. We ask that you hold your applause until all names have been read. Serena Alves,
Ariana Amante, Janina Bara, Hannah Bobitz, Christopher Burns, Andrew Choy, Matthew Chu, David Korea, Tessa Davidson,
Danielle Delator, Vincent Denunzio, Kate Fein, Raina Forte, Jasmine Gia, Ava Hernandez, Sarah Iorio, Samuel Kerna, Ben Lou,
Chase Maloney, Serene Millian, Kate Mezer, Hannah Nisha Kawara, Nina Olivo, GT Pakovix, Lena Pal, Umber Patel, Leonardo Saraseni,
Natalie Turner, Katherine Valencia, McKenzie Velis. Thank you. And last but not least, Mr. Morano will be awarding our certificate awardees. I'll kindly ask that those students seated in the front walk over to the
stairs to receive those certificates. VIP seating for them. All right, I'm going to start with the National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Students. This is in recognition of outstanding ability and potential for academic success in college. Our first awardee is
Christopher Burns. [Applause] Next is Samuel Huderna, [Applause]
Benlu [Applause] and Umber Patel. [Applause] The next set of awards is from the
University of Rochester. We'll start with our Bows and Lom Honorary Science Award in recognition of outstanding achievement and superior intellectual promise in the field of science. Our awardee is Danielle Delator.
Our next award is the Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony Award from University of Rochester in recognition of outstanding commitment to social justice and dedication to continuing their unfinished life life's work. Christopher Burns.
Oh, he ran away. Come on down. Price is right. Our next award is the Xerox Award from the University of Rochester. This is for innovation and information technology in recognition of outstanding achievement
in the pursuit of innovative approaches and an appreciation for the possibilities of technology. This award goes to Kate Mezer. [Applause]
And our last award from the University of Rochester is the George Eastman Young Leaders Award. This is in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and leadership. This award goes to Ava Hernandez. Our
next award is the Renolier Polytenic Institute Renelier Award in recognition of superlative academic achievement of young men and women and to motivate students toward careers in science, engineering, and technology. This award
goes to Brian Casease. And our last certificate awards are from the Rochester Institute of Technology in recognition of leadership, service, and achievement. Our first awardee is for computing and
it goes to Samuel Kur Cerna. Sorry, I got you. You back. The next award from RIT is business and leadership. And this award goes to Hannah Nisha Kawara.
[Applause] Our next award from RIT is the science and math award and this goes to Matthew Chu. Our next award is for art and design and
this goes to Serene Million. Our next award is for humanities and social sciences and this goes to Natalie Turner. I want to congratulate all of our awardees for all of their amazing work. I also want to thank our guidance
department for being here tonight to support our students and help organize this event. And I think I will turn it over to Yeah, you're closing. All right. All right. Close. >> Yes. Let's have uh one more round of applause for our students.
Uh, congratulations to all the parents. I know everyone's going to be in a rush to get down to the board meeting. So, I will turn it over to Dr. Alotti uh to close us out. >> All right. So, all of your children practice for graduation by doing right handshake, left-hand take. They just
didn't know it. Um, no, listen. Uh, parents, uh, my kids graduated in 2024. James, my uh daughter Jules graduated in 2021. We spend a lot of our time being problem solvers and caretakers and
worried about our kids, but moments like this are also really important where we get to celebrate all the wonderful accomplishments um of your children because they didn't just get these awards for no reason. They worked hard um and they deserve to be recognized. So on behalf of the Rutherford Board of
Education, we congratulate you. Congratulate your children. Keep them on the path. uh just as the schools are, you have a role uh in partnership. And like Mr. Morano said, if you'd like to join us in the cafeteria for the rest of the board of education meeting, it'll be
great. We'll take a photo if we have people in the audience. But anyway, thank you for coming this evening. We're going to take a five-minute break, reconvene. Have a good evening. All right, break's over. Snap your fingers and we're here in the cafeteria. Uh so we're going to move on now to the
report of the superintendent. Uh over to you, Miss Early. >> Hey, thank you. The uh student rep tonight is uh she received an award, so she's not here to uh present, but uh she gets a night off. It's part of getting her award. I have a a short report, just
a couple of things to go over with you. Um we are in the process of going through the results of the survey that we went out went out. Uh just give you a kind of a snapshot. Uh we had 524 respondents which you know when you hear 524 it
doesn't sound like a lot. That was about 20%. And the um company that we're working with uh said that if you get between 12 and 15% you're doing really well. So 20% is a very healthy uh turnout. Um the
most of the comments and and most of the uh categories uh scored very high. Uh there were some areas where um you know that we would expect to hear some suggestions for uh communication always something that ranks big. Um some uh
different academic supports which again always is something that's on somebody's mind. So where they may have ranked highly there were also comments that you know indicated some concerns or some questions. Um also some consistencies across platforms uh that we use to
communicate that we used to engage uh with parents across the schools and across the district. Uh there was strong uh support for parent academy. Uh there was strong support for um profile of the graduate. Uh there was
also some concerns raised on the elementary level primarily with um maybe the overuse of technology. you know the pendulum goes one way and then it starts coming back uh the other way right so you know so what we're doing now is we're kind of diving into the detail the
the uh the detailed analysis that we got from the company uh I will be sending to you all uh sometime in the next week or so a summary with a little more detail uh and also some of the um things that we are currently doing even prior to the
survey and that we're going to do because of the survey to dig a little deeper into some of these areas and uh come up with a response. So, um maybe by the end of the week or early next week, I'll send you a two or three page summary and then uh at our next meeting
uh talk about it a little more thoroughly based on the report you get. Uh the same report that I will be sharing with you, I will share with the community, the school community. Um whether that be through a connect five message or whether it be on the website
or both. So, um, everything that you'll get, they'll get as well. Okay. So, um, looking forward to talking a little bit more, uh, about that, okay, as we go down the road. Okay. And we're also in the process now of putting together, um,
a survey for faculty and we're also going to be working on a survey with staff. Um, and that would focus on climate, but really more on curriculum initiatives and and things that we're doing to get some feedback. Okay,
another uh topic I want to mention is that Miss Yoda, who is our uh supervisor of of of social studies and also world language, has um joined the uh New Jersey uh 250 revolution, which is a
statewide initiative to celebrate the uh 250th anniversary of uh you know, the Constitution in the United States. Uh and it's going to go on for a three-year period. And we have um Mr. Vanderhof who's a teacher at the high school uh Mr. Bhini who's a teacher at Union Middle School and Mr. Bach who's a
teacher at Pure Pond School are all uh taking part in the initiative. And what that really means is that over the course of the next three years, but primarily focused on the next year, they'll be sharing um activities they're
doing with their students. They'll be in a consortium with schools from across the state to see some of the activities they're doing. And the activities really focusing more on local um and state history, local and state government, uh civic engagement, things like that. So,
um I'm pleased that you know I shared this with Miss Yoda and uh said I think it might be a great thing. You know, it's a voluntary thing but a great thing to get involved in. So, we have some of our teachers and students uh getting involved in. Okay. And um obviously some of the things that these three teachers
will be highlighting uh and up and uploading to this statewide um shared document uh are things that our other classes are doing as well. You know, it's not just a isolated incident. Okay. Um
a reminder that schools will be closed for students on the election day, November 4th, and then on teachers convention November 6th and 7th. Uh we will be looking at a committee
meeting at least for personnel on the night of the 27th I believe it is of November. Uh double is that Monday? I think it is the 27th. Uh and maybe we might also we'll see where things are at with building a grounds and other things whether we need a meeting. But the
personnel committee will be looking at I'm going to be sending you a voluminous uh attachment of job descriptions. Okay. And um you know we'll go through them. I mean it won't be lots and lots of details we have to dig into but we've we've basically updated all of them and
we're going to get a mass improv approval at a future board meeting because some just haven't been touched for a while and and um you know some subtle changes and also some not so subtle changes that be made. So that's primarily why personnel will be meeting um the end of the month. I uh also you
know as I said in my in my message and that went out in the packet this is the time of year where we start with plays the the in November we'll actually have a meeting before the play but uh the the um the importance of being earnest I'm glad to see Oscar Wild making a comeback
uh also uh the state tournaments for various sports you know will be ongoing for the teams that have qualified so that is an ongoing process if you want to check uh the calendar the calendar for that um And I I am um honored I get a chance to go to um at least I think so
I'm honored I get a chance to go to Washington DC uh over the uh the weekend of teachers convention. It's just coincidental as one of the 50 state winners from last year. Uh there's a forum. I did I haven't gotten the um agenda yet, so I don't know exactly what
the topics will be, but it's basically a uh a think tank, I guess, of sharing discussion with the other superintendent from around the country. So, I'm looking forward to that. That I think is my last uh official act before I have to hand over the uh baton to whoever the new one
is. Okay. And he'll be calling me about what's like in Washington and what do you have to do with the national and all that kind of stuff. Um, but yeah, I'm looking I'm looking forward to that. And again, I'm always very proud that I could, you know, be somewhere where I'm introduced as Rutherford, you know, so that that gets out there. So, so that's
it for my report. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, questions from board members. Mr. Jones, >> I just want to congratulate Jack for a wonderful year and how proud we are of you of being our superintendent of the year. It was a great honor and I'm so
glad last year that we got to hear you speak. You did such a beautiful job. Are they doing it this year, too? >> Yes, tomorrow they'll be announcing the regional winners. Yeah. >> You know, uh, yes. >> Northern region. >> Uh, Northern region is Ray Gonzalez, I believe, who used to be at Westwood, now
he's at Westfield. >> Well, congratulations again. >> Yeah, good guy, Ray. Awesome. Other questions or comments from board members? All right, hearing none, we're going to move on to the report of the president. Uh, just a couple of quick things. Thank
you to those who could come to the homecoming parade to march. I think it was great. Uh beautiful day. There was some graduating classes there as well. So, uh just a nice day to be together and to be out there in the community. Uh reminder that the Rutherford Education
Foundation that does a lot to support uh teacher grants and school grants is having their signature event, Casino Night, at the West Mount Country Club on November 21st. So, if you're interested in tickets, um, feel free to reach out to me, Christina. We're RAF, uh,
members, um, and, uh, you know, we want the chair of the, uh, casino night to be happy. So, uh, hopefully you'll be able to come to that. And, uh, otherwise, there were a couple of things in Mr. Hurley's memo uh, to note. Personnel
committee meeting uh, looks like will be Monday, November 24th. Uh, >> I was I was wrong on the date. Yes, I said the 28th. Thank >> I had the wrong date. So, this is the 24th. >> This is the right date. >> That's the right date. >> Okay, got it. >> Um,
and uh I think that's about it. Any questions or comments for me? All right, hearing none, then at 7:39 p.m. we are going to open up the meeting to the public for anything related to
the agenda this evening. All right. Uh, hearing no comments, we're going to close the meeting at 7:40 p.m. And we are going to turn now to new business where there is action to be taken. And we will start with personnel. Mrs. Cole. >> Good evening. Personnel did not meet
this meet this month. Um, we're still doing consent agendas. So, >> I would like to move the following motions number one through 13 at the recommendation of the superintendent under personnel. >> All right. Thank you. Do we have a second on that? All right. Uh, Mr. Ki,
any questions or comments on any of the personnel items? No. Seeing none. All right. Then I'll ask Mr. Whitford to please take role. Mr. McGoan, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes. >> Mr. Ky, >> yes. >> Mr. Healey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Jones, >> yes.
>> Mr. Mone, >> yes. >> Dr. Rsine, >> yes. >> Mr. Spayberry, >> yes. >> Dr. Lahi, >> yes. >> Motion carries. All right, we'll move on now to curriculum and instruction. Miss Jones, >> thank you. The curriculum instruction did not have a meeting since our last
board meeting and tonight there are nine motions put forth by upon the recommendation of our superintendent. >> All right. Thank you. Uh we have a second putting those forward. Mr. Spayberry, any questions or comments
about curriculum and instruction? All right. Uh hearing none, Mr. Mr. Witford, please take role. >> Mr. Begoian, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes. >> Mr. Ki, >> yes. >> Mr. Healey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mone, >> yes. >> Dr. Rine, >> yes. >> Mr. Spayberry,
>> yes. >> Dr. Lahi, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> All right, we'll move on now to finance. Mr. Beigosian, >> we have not had a finance committee meeting since our last full board meeting. Tonight on the agenda, we have three motions to consider. I'd like to move motions one through three under finance.
>> All right. Thank you. Do we have a second for that? Miss Skull, questions or comments about anything related to finance? All right. Uh, hearing no comments, Mr. Witford, please take role. >> Mr. Beosian, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes.
>> Mr. Ky, >> yes. >> Mr. Healey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mone, >> yes. >> Dr. Rine, >> yes. >> Mr. Spayberry, >> yes. >> Dr. >> Yes. >> Motions carry. >> All right. Thank you. We'll move on now to policy. Mr. Healey, anything for us? We did not have a uh committee meeting
since our last board meeting and uh there are no resolutions for this evening. >> Okay. Thank you. Then we'll move on now to buildings and grounds. Mr. Sprayberry. >> Yes. We have one motion put forth by the superintendent >> like to recommend for approval.
>> All right. Uh do we have a second on that one? Mr. Mone. Questions or comments? Mr. Spayberry. >> I'd just like to thank Mr. Woodford and Mr. Early for putting together a very comprehensive maintenance plan. It takes a lot of effort and energy to keep our buildings up and running with the budgets that we have. So, phenomenal
job. Uh, looks absolutely great. Great job. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions or comments hearing? None. Mr. Whitford, please take role. >> Mr. Begoian, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes. >> Mr. Ki, >> yes.
>> Mr. Healey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mone, >> yes. >> Dr. Rine, >> yes. >> Mr. Spayberry, >> yes. >> Dr. Li. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> All right. Thank you. We're going to move on now to old business. Any old business? Uh we'll start with Mr. Healey
and then Mr. Jones. Uh yes. Uh I did attend the peer pant uh PTA meeting on October 15th and uh the PTA uh council and parents passed the budget for this uh school year and uh they just reviewed
an amazing amount of activities planned for the fall and uh holiday season. So yeah, it was a very good meeting. >> Thanks. >> Good. Uh, Miss Jones. >> Um, I was thrilled to go see the
football games on Friday night. Uh, we played Woodridge, an undefeated team, and that was a real tight game. It was wonderful. >> Uh, Graham Jordan, Sally Jordan's uh, son was the hero again,
>> kicking uh, the point after the touchdown. The Giants should have had him. Yeah, I was gonna say did you have to bring that up right now? >> Um, the other thing that happened this weekend was a tribute to Sally Labber's
dad at Felician College. Uh, Christina and her husband and her son were there and Chris and his Kim and his two boys, Charlie and Cooper, were there. I attended. It was lovely. They told some
warm and delightful stories. I think the one that I really thought was funny, his oldest daughter or their oldest daughter is an attorney and when she was a teenager, she had a big heartbreak and was really not doing well handling it.
So she went to her father for advice and he said mow the lawn. So she said that's it. He's a big fan of Ruts Hut. But they put they did a lovely job with it. It was very nice. >> Nice. Thank you, Mr. Spayberry. I'd like
to take this moment to embarrass my son who's here for his Eagles project tonight. So, congratulations on that. Also, we attended Ed Charles, the biggest reg. >> Oh, wow. >> So, we had three out of five finish in the top four and then all finished in
the top. >> That's awesome. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Any other old business? >> Me, >> Miss Cole. >> Um, I had the honor of attending the high school PTA last week and I was just
wondering, Mr. Healey, how many parents were at the Lincoln school PTA meeting? >> Uh, Pupant. >> Oh, Perant. I'd say about 15 >> 15 >> to 16. You know, that range. >> See, what happens is that during PTAs in the high school level, it starts to
fizzle out a lot. And I think it was myself and three other parents. So I would just like to say, you know, have the public come out and support the high school PTA, our high school PTA volunteers. They do an incredible job, you know, welcoming teachers and supporting the the students. And I know
they work really hard throughout the school year. It's a very big role to have in the high school to be the PTA president and board. So just come out and support it because I know when they your kids get to high school, you've had so many years of PTA meetings, you kind of fizzle out, but they do need your
support. So I just want to, you know, put that out there and have parents, you know, please support your PTA. Mr. Morano gave out really great information for us, but there was only three of us to receive it. Um, but I think that if you come to the PTA meetings in the high school, you will see what the high
school is about. you had the opportunity to talk to administrators where you might not have it at something like you were attending today. So he does give you a lot of time to talk to him. Mr. Morano and Mr. Dvary um the student representative is there as well. Um faculty >> and a faculty rep
>> and the faculty representative. So if you're looking for information, high school PTA um meetings is the way to go. >> Yeah, if I can piggy back. I had a conversation with Mr. Morano after the meeting because he was a little you know usually the first one too you get >> Yeah. more people and um you know I
think over the years you know being high school principal uh yeah the numbers do decline from what you get in elementary and middle school but they were always healthier than they've been I know people are very busy I think the misconception uh and I used to have this conversation when I was principal is that you know the PTA is not maybe as
involved in you know being the classroom parent anymore or you know the going on the field trips or the things like that but the involvement you know in terms of supporting teachers supporting kids the big thing of the scholarships that come out uh for kids and and you know in
today's economy every little bit helps when kids go forward. So yeah, I mean anything that we could do and I said to uh Mr. Morano, you know, anything he could think of to try to encourage, you know, more folks to be involved. And um, you know, it may be something um that
I'll bring up in the next administrators meeting with the middle school and uh and probably peer pont because the younger ones, you know, there there's too many years in between, but maybe talk to those PTAs about um, you know, staying involved. You know, if you show,
you know, if you've been active at Union, stay active at the high school. you know that that kind of thing. Um but yeah, I do think it's something we should address because it's a very important part of our our school. >> Very important part. >> Agreed. >> And thanks for bringing that up because great point.
>> Other old business. >> All right. So, >> can I mention one thing? Uh you mentioned doc Dr. Labbera. I believe today uh Elm Street over by Wood and Elm uh in that area they named a part of that street after Reverend Frasier today. there was a dedication to that
and um you know we spoke about his passing uh in the summer I think when he passed. So that's a nice honor for uh for uh Reverend Frasier was a like I said former council person and a a key figure in Rutherford for many many many years. So
>> thank you. >> All right we are going to move on to legislative update. Mr. Jones. >> Um, one bill, Senate Bill 4589, introduced June 5th, 2025, sponsored by John J. Boretti, District 3
and Cumberland, and Paul D. Marotti, District 4, Atlantic and Canada. Requires child in home education program and parents to meet annually with representative of the resident school district who is designated by the
superintendent of schools. The person designated shall be a school counselor, school nurse, or school social worker. The purpose of the meeting is for the parent or guardian to have the opportunity to require support from the
school district for the home education program and for the person designated by the superintendent to conduct a general health and wellness check of the students. >> Had they not any checkups? >> Is this homeschooled children? No. Um,
and that's been introduced, right, that hasn't moved. So, we'll see what happens with that. But in theory, under law, and we had this discussion over some other topics that came up, uh, if you um, homeschool your child, you are essentially withdrawing them from the
school district, and the transfer card doesn't say a private school, it says homeschool. So, uh, technically, it's it's not the, uh, district's responsibility. Now there's a philosophical discussion about whether it should be or not. Um but in terms of
>> why not taking >> Yeah. But a lot of these a lot of these bills that get you know introduced they get introduced and then was we have to track where they go. >> All right. Thank you. >> And I will be um I guess I'm doing the the tours of capitals. I'll be in
Trenton on November 12th. I feel like I'm doing a Vegas act or something. I mean, uh, about that 18 to 21 program I filled you in about. So, I'll keep you posted on how that goes. >> All right. At, uh, 7:51 p.m., we're going to open the meeting up to the
public again. This time for comments related to or not related to the agenda this evening. All right, seeing no comments, we're going to close the meeting at 7:51 p.m. Uh, we do have a need for an executive session to discuss one student matter
and no action to be taken. We should be out, you know, 5 minutes. Uh, so we need a motion to go into executive session. Mr. Beiggoian, seconded by Mr. Ki. All in favor. >> All right. Thank you. We're going into executive session.