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Good evening. Like to call this meeting to order. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Rakcomando, >> present. >> Miss Bali. >> Mr. Deello, >> present. >> Mr. Archello, >> here. >> Misseloo,

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>> present. >> Miss Roloff, >> here. >> Miss Torbick, >> present. >> Miss Traverso >> here. >> Miss Zarelli, >> here. >> Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Where's the >> Okay. >> Adequate notice of this meeting has been sent to all members of the board of education and to the Bergen record in

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accordance with the provisions of open public meeting act chapter 231 1975. At this time, please be advised all cell phones and electronic devices are to be turned off. Superintendent report, Miss Vietti. >> Oh, until one second. >> Perfect business.

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>> Mr. Karate, you want to talk? All right. >> Going to give an update. So, I just have um as we wind down this school year, we're getting everything ready for uh work to

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to be done over the summer and all the projects. So, just to highlight a few, we definitely have the uh elementary school playground renovations will happen over the summer. Renovations to Franklin Media Center to create three rooms on the one side of the media

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center. And we're renovating several storage office rooms here at the high school. We have upgrades to our fieldhouse bathrooms. We have talibate projects in pretty much all the buildings. And when we tow the bait them, remove the tile as best as flooring, put new flooring down. We also

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paint the rooms. We're adding more exterior lights to uh around several of the buildings, replacing concrete section here at the high school section walkway. The fire panel to high school is also getting replaced. Our Franklin School, there's one section of the

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parking lot where the retaining wall is by the playground that's getting renovated. Long school, we got kindergarten bathroom upgrades. Washington School. Uh, one classroom there has, um, is going to get bathroom upgrades as well. Smith, we're replacing a section of fencing near the

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playground. And also at Smith, we're renovating um, the downstairs lower level. There's a room and also the hallway by the elevator down there is getting all new tile and getting that renovated. Washington School room 111 is

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having the blackboards and the old chalk shelf removed and then the room painted. And we're going to be finish up on the referendum. Uh finally paving because all the work is pretty much done the back athletic field paving the entrance way so it doesn't so it's all you know

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nice and uniform. And that's a lot but uh I think that concludes it. I'll update the board as we progress through the summer. That concludes my report. >> Perfect. That's a lot going on. Okay. Um, agenda items. Board action items

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B2526.43 through B2526.49. Okay. We have the minutes. We have a H to vote on for Wednesday. The lead testing program statement of insurance that's mandated. The HIP grade self assessment

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that is also mandated. That's when our ABS anti-bullying specialists in each building um collaborates with the building administration and they score themselves and there's a rubric that they go through to make sure that we're in compliance or that we become that we continuously improve with our HIP

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reporting. Then we also have a the school security drill statement of insurance. That is a statement of assurance that each school building has had a minimum of two drills per month. One fire drill and one other drill. Then we have the district wellness report. Our district wellness coordinator is

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Mrs. Wonder and she prepared a report. She talks about nutrition and physical education and activity, the 150 minutes that's mandated per week. School-based wellness activities that we're really excelling in. And then she has some recommendations to continue to expand

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student voice in menu selection and healthy food promotion to review the needs of our food service provider, highlight healthier foods, educate families by sharing and enforcing the nutritional guidelines, incorporate family engagement through wellness newslet newsletters and additional resources, and to explore partnerships

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with local wellness organizations to enhance programming. So, thank you to our district wellness coordinator. And then 049 is a mandate. Um, our district has a five-year comprehensive equity plans. And this is a statement of insurance that we're in year two.

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Any questions? Okay. Education and curriculum at the recommendation of the super. >> What? Oh, that's right. Um, E2526.68 through E2526.72. Okay, our field trips that are listed

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are for our ESY program, our extended school year program in the summer. Then we have home instruction, um some counseling services. We have our out of district placements for next school year as listed. And then the service providers,

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the evaluations andor related services, that's the Google sheets. So we're approving all of these as they're needed over the course of the school year. were able to activate them. >> Thank you. Any questions, discussions? >> Budget and finance, Mr. Okamando.

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>> Sure. Uh BF2526.123 to BF2526.144. Oh, while you're looking at them, I'll I'll go down them and review each one. So uh 123 24 and 25 are standard uh you know

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our bill lists and financial reports for the actually there's two months there April and May 126 uh any workshops >> yes one workshop is um backdated because I thought that I'd put it in and I did not so I apologize from the NJSA spring

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conference and then one is a summer conference. Okay. 127 is a requirement to state how much we project to be spending uh during the school year on these professionals listed.

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128 is u we have to apply to the county office for any space any like classrooms or instructional space that's being um you know divided by a movable divider um when you have two you know like that two spaces going on simultaneously. So,

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these are rooms we've been using for the last several years. So, we're going to file those applications again. 129's a tax payment schedule that the town uh you know remits the uh tax levy collections to the district. 130 because we don't mean till the end

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of August. This gives me authority to pay uh bills as they're coming due during the end of June and July. 131's a contract with a parent. 32 is any referendum fund which are which are winding down. If there's any interest

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earned, they can't stay in that fund. So, we transfer them over to general fund. 133 is a continuation of the enrollment of school health benefit plan. 34 is uh purchasing supplies through educational data on the co-ops. That's listed on

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135. These are all co-ops that we can uh use the district. 136 is as we're closing out the year and and going through the audit, if there's adjustments or whatever and we're over the 2% undesated surplus, we could transfer those funds to the capital

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reserve uh andor maintenance reserve accounts for future projects. 137 is in next year's budget to purchase uh Chromebooks for the fifth and fifth uh grades five and nine and also to start changing over the staff

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Chromebooks um over several years. We're going to be doing that. 138's Alpha Bests uh contract for next year. Everything remains the same. 139 is to use up the remaining funds in our was the FY2024 COP school violence

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prevention program. We're going to be buying some more uh new line boards and and monitors and create a communication system throughout the district. 140 is to accept a refrigerator from um the long PTO.

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140 is theou with the with um Thrive. on 42 is a bid. So now back a couple actions before that, we use co-ops, cooperatives. So they go out to bid um for supplies and and time and material

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jobs where we do all our stuff. So it helps us in not having to um go out to bid ourselves. We, you know, they did it for us. They give you the vendor's name, we could use them. while the state uh signed into law the end of December and changed that that

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effective uh April 1st, we can no longer use those for any prevailing wage jobs. So now that put the burden back on the district. So one of them that we do spend over our bid threshold was plumbing services. So I had to go out prepare bid document and go out to bid and try to get other vendors to uh

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submit a proposal. And we did do that and we have our new vendor for next school year. So, we'll see how that goes. Uh, 143 is to do the lease financing documentation since we're not meeting

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the summer for those were items on 13 seven. And the last one's a resolution, I don't know, the state came up with this several years ago, to list all contracts that have been awarded the past year and whether we plan to renew, award, or permit them. It's just a list.

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There's nothing really to do with it. I don't know what they're looking at it for, but they'd make us do it. >> Any questions on any of those items? >> Yes. Through the chair on 2526.127, the legal and the auditing figures. I

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pray to God we don't go over them, but if we did, would we have to revote on the new figure or whatever the additional figure would be? >> Yes, you have to bring it back and do a revised action. So I usually put it on for either the budget amounts or or a

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little bit over like the um architect if we do other projects like that could fluctuate as well. So uh you'll see in previous years we did have to come back and if there were more projects like revise the architect's threshold again it's a requirement I guess they

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just want us to state it there in the action. I have no idea what else it's used for. Okay, >> there was another one but I can't find it. >> Through the chair, I have a question too for um 1.39

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the interactive display. What is can you give me a little bit more detail like what would that look like? >> Yes, >> I do have one in my room but I'm going to defer that to Miss Vlet. >> Okay, so with one of our grants as Mr. Kate shared, we were able to do this. It's a communication system. So right

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now each of our buildings have new line interactive boards in every classroom or almost every classroom. Some of our classrooms have perian boards from title funding years ago. So this is to purchase interactive new line boards for every single classroom. So that way every single classroom in the district

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will have the same interactive new line board or very similar and also monitors. So the each building is getting monitors, but say at the middle school high school, the principal's office, the vice principal's office, um replacing the large monitor here with a new line monitor. Cafeterias will each have two

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monitors and it's a communication system, so you could display messages, the same message across every single New Line board. Um you can also display different messages or you could do the same. So you have your choice. Um our athletic hall of fame will have a monitor. Um the each elementary school in Washington building, they'll each

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have monitors as well. And again, it's just to display announcements, um, district updates, a very, it should be a very, um, what's the word I'm looking for? Like concise communication system. >> And where will they be located in the schools? Were Do you have an idea where they >> Yes, we met with administration. So,

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here at the middle school, high school, there's two in each cafeteria. So, that's the four principal's office, vice principal's office, I think, two in the hallways. Um, at like the elementary schools, it's usually the principal's office, the main hallway if they have another hallway that has frequent traffic.

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>> So, so they can hear. So, did you you said the cafeterias now? Yes. >> So, now if there is an announcement, will it appear on the announcements in the cafeteria? Because sometimes you can't hear. >> I don't know exactly how the system works, but you can display messages

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through each. Audio-wise, no. But you would be able to see. >> But I don't know if it has to be manually typed in. It might have to be manually typed in in order to do that. >> Yes. >> That because I think that would be a great idea just knowing from being in lunch duty when you can't hear the

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announcement and you're like saying what what are they saying because it could be a lockdown and you have really no idea until somebody comes running in because you can't hear anything. >> No. All the emergency notifications will be set like you can preset that you know you can have set messages that you just have to click it and it goes out to

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every single device. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Anybody else questions? >> I have a question. >> It's like closed caption. They'll have it like um facilities and operations. Miss Darby

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F2526.14 through F2526.17. Any questions? Anybody want to share anything? Anyone? >> We allow um the summer arts program, the Alphabest program, and the Saddlebrook

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Police Junior Police Academy program to use our buses over the summer. That's what 15, 16, and 17 is. Where are they transported from? >> From from and to >> We don't have all the locations yet. So, the Junior Police Academy, I know last

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year they did Ellis Island that they did the Statue of Liberty. Um they they have their schedule that they create. Alphabus has their own field trips that they create and the summer arts program. I believe they go to a Broadway show. Anybody else?

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policy. That's how you know. >> Okay. Um P.2526.7. It's the first reading of the following policies and and regulations. So we have P1230 through

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P 8561. These are all a stress man um stress estimate update. You'll see the M means that they're mandated. Many of them were revised just to be um updated to current code. The bottom ones, the finance ones,

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those were due to district districts being audited and they revised these policies because to make so that way each district would be successful. There wasn't too many major changes. Anybody

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else have any questions for the PS? Misselli, negotiations and 2526.2. >> Any discussion? >> Any questions? >> Okay. Personnel

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Lawrence. 082 are our resignations. We have a high school math teacher, a BCBA, middle school science, special education, and then a middle school, high school special education teacher. Then we have our leaves. 084 are our

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appointments for the first one is occupational therapist um replacing another one. Let me see. Okay, I need glasses. Number two is a power professional. He's our current boys basketball coach. Number three is a high

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school math teacher. She actually just finished her clinical internship with Mr. Rosselli here at the high school. Number four is a fullyear leave replacement for Smith's school counselor. that um counselor is on maternity leave for the year. Number five is a preschool teacher. She has

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taken over she did she did a a long-term leave at the preschool building and has also been subbing across the district. Number six is a middle school high school high school special education social studies teacher um from another district. Number seven is a special

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education teacher um at the middle school high school I believe is where she's going to be located. Number eight is a leave of absence. Number eight did a full leave a full year maternity leave of absence this current year and she's going to continue next school year. Number nine is high school vice

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principal. Number 10 is a lunch aid. Number 11 is special education. She's going to be at Franklin Elementary School. She also just completed her clinical internship with us from Maryland College. And then 12 and 13 are summer custodial help. 14 is a BCBA. She

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has she did a fullear leave for us this current school year and she is going to now continue on a tenure track position. Number 15 is an HVAC technician specialist. It is TBD because we started interviews but we're not positive that we will have someone for Wednesday. We

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will do our best. And number 16 is a middle school high school special education science teacher. The um interviews were completed and they did send someone my way. So we are reaching out to him to schedule an interview. 085

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questions on that. There's a lot 085 are all the stipens. Um it's rescending number one because she went on maternity leave and then giving it to the new counselor that's going to take over for her. Those are the summer hours. Number three is the extended school year staff. Number four, the

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district head nurse for next school year, district transportation coordinator next school year. rescending the summer program co-administrator and it's going to be um Mr. Mish is going to take over that half. So the two summer school administrators are going to be

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Mrs. Coffee and Mr. Mish. Then you'll see our head football coach and the assistant football coaches, the volunteer football coaches, the girls soccer, girls tennis, boys soccer, cheerleading, football cheerleading, cross country. Okay, so all the coaches

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volleyball and then revising clubs from this current school year when teachers left midyear. So that's revising the amounts that they receive. 086 are salary revisions um due to um additional college credits. 087 is the non-tenure

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teaching staff. Then you have the non-tenure custodial. So in May we had these are revised revised um non-tenure teaching revised custodial and then you have the paras then you have our tenure staff as well summer curricular writing staff and then you have all the tenure

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staff the admin teaching custodial non-bargaining unit administrative assistant summer school staff you have Mr. Karate's contract. That's 0.97. NEe is approving authorizing me as

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superintendent to appoint vacancies over the summer. 0.99 is the revised holiday schedule for the office staff. 100 is transfers. So, anytime we transfer or a staff member transfers, we need to have it board approved. So,

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those are listed on here. And that's it. Quite a mouthful. Anybody else have any questions? >> I do. I do. I do. I just got to find them. Give me a minute. >> All right. Well, first we'll start with

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the stipen positions. Why? I thought we set a standard stipen for assistant coaches and head coaches. And there's all different rates. >> Those are all per the SBA contract.

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They're listed in the contract. >> Yeah, but I thought we put like all the assistant coaches, let's just say was like at 4500. Now there's some that are at four, some are at 46. >> I'll look into that. I'll check the contract, but it should the number

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should have been directly taken from the contract. >> I thought that's what we did. I could be wrong, but I thought we >> put a increase each year? No, >> you don't increase your >> not in this contract or not. >> So, the assistant football coach are

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6,000 and co-assistant football coaches 4,000. So, that's probably how it's listed in the contract if I have to but I have to confirm. >> That was the first one. There's another >> and on the custodians, I know it's only 50 cents the summer help. Why is the

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difference >> the difference in rates? >> Yeah. Let me go >> the time they've been here. Some yes, some have previously worked with us. >> Okay. >> And the uh the contract, the co-assistance, and the the coaching, the co-assists are all 4,000. The head

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coaches and the assistant coaches all have different rates for a different sport. >> Thank you for checking. >> Any other questions, comments, committee reports? We're going to do them on

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>> Wednesday. Wednesday. >> Okay. and liaison reports. We'll do correspondence. Old business, new business. I'd like to open the meeting for public comment. >> Motion. >> Anybody?

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Okay. Oh, thank you. Um, I'd like to close the meeting for public. >> Motion second. >> Second. >> Um, we're going to be going into close session. So, let me just read this. >> Okay. Whereas the board of education

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must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussion in public meetings. Oops, sorry. Whereas these subjects are within the expect exceptions to the open public's meeting act and are permitted to be discussed in close session pursuant to NJSA 104-12BN.

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Whereas the board of education intends to discuss matters as follows. Whereas the length of the closed session is estimated to be we don't know minutes after which the public meeting of the board shall not reconvene convene

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not >> be taken and action will not be taken now. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of education will recess into close session for only the afor subjects. And it further resolved that the board of education hereby declares

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that its discussion of the afor said subject will be made public at the time when the public's interest in disclosure is greater than any privacy or governmental interest being protected from disclosure in accordance with the open public's meeting act.

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>> Okay. Second. I think you have a different >> black >> is this one. Just so the public knows on the on the caucus uh >> oops >> agenda we're going in for personnel items. Discussion of the superintendent's evaluation and another item under attorney client privilege.

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>> Okay. >> Y motion. >> Motion second. Okay. We're going into Thank you. All in favor? Hi. >> Hi.