oh was he oh is that what they were waiting for we didn't have a quorum call the meeting to order roll call please mr akamando present miss Bali present mr oello miss present these are none mr
laurentino present miss Roloff here miss Torbick mr mr traverso here moreelli here please rise for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all amen please be seated except this one right here adequate notice of this meeting has been sent out to all members of the board of education and to the Bergen record in
accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act chapter 231 1975 at this time please be advised that all cell phones and electronic devices are to be turned off student report please okay yeah i don't I don't think these
are on i don't think they're on says it's on testing testing no he had them he had them before they were working i was good okay good i think we're better now yep they're working
nice to show you weren't waiting for me were you no perfect timing nice of you to show up i just got your mic so I'm busting we just started go ahead good okay good evening everyone starting off with Washington School this
month they had a visit from the National Honor Society at the high school to celebrate Neurodiversity Month the high school students joined classes to build a friendship chain and then go outside and blow bubbles the long chain is now proudly displayed in the main hallway at Washington preschool classes also took a
field trip to the town's public library the teachers constantly stressed the importance of reading to preschoolers and it is so much fun to be surrounded by so many new books their ABA class also took a special trip to we rock the spectrum and pramis there students got to play in a sensory gym where they had
so much fun using all their gross motor skills and this week they had their annual spring egg hunt and a visit from a giant bunny for Franklin School students have been enthusiastically participating in several different reading events the first was the read around the bases challenge designed to
encourage students to read each night they've also been hosting the first ever month-long bookworm brawl where classes are competing against one another to see how much they can read and how many books they check out from the media center the school's third grade students recently showcased their musical talents
at the recorder concert which was a great success the sixth grade students had the opportunity to extend attend the middle school experience trip to familiarize themselves with the middle school and finally the students in the gifted and talented program at Frank at Franklin organized and hosted their
cardboard carnival for all students now for Smith School the fifth graders recently brought history to life with their wax museum the addition of digital presentations truly enhanced the experience and it was a huge success showcasing their hard work and creativity a couple nights ago the third
graders joined students from Franklin and Long School for the annual district-wide recorder concert it was a truly memorable evening the excitement continues today as the fourth graders will be hosting their annual Boston Tea Party they've been working hard and everyone looks forward
to seeing history unfold with in their own unique way and finally Smith would also like to take the time to acknowledge the and thank the incredible PAR professionals and their dedicated media specialists at the beginning of the month they thank them for their tireless efforts unwavering support and
exceptional teamwork now for long school they had a long month of sharing and discovering for their K through three students they enthusiastically presented their learning from their Amplify units to their other grade levels the kindergarteners shared their knowledge of ocean animals first graders are
exploring the American Revolution and the nation's history second graders researched the Civil War and the fascinating world of insects and third graders brought the Vikings to life the students were so proud to host classroom museums offering a glimpse into their wonderful daily learning for staff and
peers they also want to thank Miss Lauder for her valuable lessons on autism and neurodeiversity awareness in a beautiful display of unity the ABA class coordinated a schoolwide mural that celebrates the unique ways we all think blending together into one amazing piece of art for the middle school on
April 24th faculty and staff had power professional development day excuse me the PTO was kind enough to donate coffee and treats for everyone and the staff would like to say thank you so much for the kindness and generosity of the PTO march 31st was the sixth grade experience all three sixth grade
elementary schools visited the middle school for the morning the sixth graders were able to meet with the middle school staff learn about different classes and curriculum and take a brief tour of the middle school everyone was very excited to welcome the middle school next year april 2nd was PAR professional appreciation day the middle school wants
to thank all the paras for everything they do for the students in the middle school as always district music day was a big hit it was exciting having the students showcased their talents and a special thank you to Mr ortega and Mr cuden and on Wednesday April 9th the middle school had their battle of the
books congratulations to the plot twisters Charles Mcool Damen Aldocowski and Andreas Bernovich for winning the competition and congratulations to the Saddlebook Bookers Emma Milik Amelia Madinski Alysia Rakenna Mel Melanie
Rivera and Maha Zakalowski the runner-ups i unfortunately don't have anything for high school at the moment but it will be in Miss Violletti's district update and lastly for information regarding sports the Saddbrook High School athletic department would like to recognize Nina Barali on being selected as a 2025 Unico
Brian Piccolo Award winner nina was honored at a dinner at Great Cliff Manor congratulations Thank you good job thank you superintendent report please thank you Savannah all right a reminder to everybody that tomorrow is our last day of school before our spring
recess so we are closed Friday and all of next week i think they needed a reminder some very excited attendees here this evening and when we return we do start our state testing oh they're in second grade
um we do have our state testing and a reminder to our families that for the first time our K to6 buildings will be on a delayed opening schedule operating on delayed opening schedule during their week of testing and our middle school high school will also be a delayed opening schedule on their week of testing so please be on the lookout for
emails from your child's building principal so that way you know the schedule last night here was our grade three recorder concert it's one of the best nights of the school year it's the first time our elementary students get dressed up they come here and they perform in the auditorium up on stage
they are super excited the energy is beyond up there um and it's one of our events where it's like standing room only parents come grandparents aunts uncles and it's a show for sure so congratulations to our third graders they had a great night last night and I was actually just at the fifth grade wax
museum over at Long School they did a fabulous job it was 5:30 to 6:30 tonight franklin School already had theirs and a reminder to our board that May um for Smith School had theirs may meeting is coming up quickly it's May 7th and 9th so it's it's a couple weeks after we
return from spring recess and in June at our June board of ed meeting we'll be honoring our teacher of the years fifth sorry 5th and 7th of May is our board meetings um and in June at our June board meeting I will not say the date our teacher of
the year and retirees are going to be honored so it'll be a special evening for everybody i wanted to also provide an update on our field our turf field at the middle school high school Mr karate myself Mr o'donnell Mr ionel and the architects we walked the field today it
is on the final stages so we're really excited about that that being said we also have the visitor bleachers that are now being installed so they're currently all the pieces are out there out back and we also have a company cleaning out the back part of the field by Popular Street um all the brush that all the
brush that was there they're cleaning it all up and flattening it out and they're moving the shop hood area back there as well so there's still work going on so that being said we are not using having our students use the field yet the goal is for the first week of May to begin
using our field have our teams get on that field and enjoy it first and then we will have our graduation out on that field as well i also just wanted to take a moment to thank our teachers who have agreed to host a student teacher this past year our student teachers they've been with us all year and I'm starting
to get emails and phone calls from superintendents across the county that are thanking us for doing such a fab fabulous job with our student teachers and really building such talent such great talent here in Saddlebrook so I really want to extend a gra my gratitude to our cooperating teachers here who
have offered to host a student teacher it's really appreciated at this point we have two exemplary falcons that we are going to honor and then we have two presentations intro to neurodiversity is a new course that we started this year so we do have um one of our teachers of that course
and some of her students here to share information about it to kind of recap what the year has taught them and then we have it in a presentation on our workbased learning that we also started this year for some of our special education students at the high school all right I'm going to
move you notice a pendulum on that clock i just sore you okay so what we've done is this school year is honoring our students here at the high school in a little bit of a different way than we've done in the past so we have our teachers across the district nominate a high school
student that shows um the qualities of a falcon and this month we have two students we have Anthony Weey and Kelly Gleason so I'm going to start sharing what staff has have shared regarding Anthony and I'm just going to start by saying that Anthony has always been
extremely respectful to me he says good morning to me which not many students at the high school say good morning and he um he definitely has always been very kind and respectful so I appreciate that what we do is we share it out to the entire district and everyone has an
opportunity to share words about the student so here's what staff across the district have shared about Anthony anthony is very polite and a true exemplary falcon wait I thought it was me but it's not me it's another one anthony is very plate and says good morning to me every day
i was like I didn't write that he assists his fellow students during class and always turns in his work on time he is hardly ever absent and comes to class on time and with a great attitude every day he has a positive attitude and works very hard to achieve the best grades in my class another staff member wrote
"Anthony is the true exemplary falcon he is the complete package he is polite courteous and always quick with a smile and a good morning he represents Saddlebrook as an athlete during all three seasons he is also a great student doing what is needed to help himself and
others a true role model for all of our students i had the pleasure of being Anony's teacher in elementary school during the COVID time period where we had blue and gold days anthony was always prepared and ready to learn he made the best of being virtual on some days and in person on other days anthony
always had a smile on his face and was was respectful at all times he was a team player and willing to help his classmates in whatever way he could he knew exactly when to be silly and when he needed to settle down he is someone who could be counted on to do the right thing he is most deserving of this rec
recognition another staff member wrote "Anthony was an outstanding student and a true role model in my fourth grade class he excelled in every aspect of his academics always putting forth his best effort and striving for excellence beyond the classroom Anthony was a very talented athlete who demonstrated
exceptional sportsmanship both in competition and in everyday interactions his kindness reliability and sense of humor made him a joy to have in class i could always count on him to lend a helping hand or bring a smile to those around him anony's dedication character
and hard work make him more more than deserving of the exemplary Falcon title it was truly a privilege to teach him and I couldn't be prouder of all that he has accomplished anthony is respected by his teachers anthony is respected by his teammates anthony is respected by his
peers we all recognize his exceptionally sincere nature his kind disposition and his determined attitude he is a role model for younger students a dedicated group member in every classroom activity and a bright presence in all of his classes i have noticed that Anthony
always tries to bring out the best in other students he encourages them supports them and always has something kind to say he is kind to his teachers as well thank you Anthony and is always prepared and ready to work in class so Anthony congratulations come on down for
your exemplary falcon t-shirt anthony way anthony you made me smile good job Aunt [Applause] and now we have Kelly Gleason i have had
the honor of knowing Kelly since she was quite young at Franklin Elementary School and I am extremely proud of the young adult she is today all right so Kelly here's what other staff members had to say about you kelly Gleason is the kind of person who brightens any room she walks into cheerful polite and
endlessly creative she brings a positive energy that lifts up those around her a true friend to all Kelly's kindness and work ethic set her apart as both a leader and a role model she approaches every challenge with determination and an open mind always ready to lend a helping hand or spark a new idea her
intelligence and creativity shine in everything she does making her a standout example of an exemplary falcon kelly is one of the most talented and humble students I've ever taught i am thankful to have worked with her for so many years she is a kind disarming and curious young woman who always gives her
best attention to every assignment she works well with others on challenging group assignments and always puts in a great deal of effort she is among the finest students who are graduating this year i can't believe you're graduating a well-deserved award indeed kelly is incredibly kind empathetic and an
excellent participant in class she goes out of her way to learn about others and has taken time to understand people of varying abilities i loved being her third grade teacher she was compassionate positive and was always motivated to learn she was always driven helpful to her classmates and kind to
her teachers she's bound to succeed in anything she puts her mind into life to in life kelly walked into her fifth grade classroom every day with a smile and a helping hand not only could I always count on her positive attitude but she was extremely hardworking and
determined even at such a young age congratulations Kelly saddlebrook is so very proud of you kelly is one of the sweetest students I have ever had the pleasure of teaching she is quick to offer a hand or a kind word to anyone who needs it she always has a positive attitude even when the work is challenging whenever Kelly has had
difficulty with the material being taught she asks questions in class comes for extra help or emails me for assistance she can be counted on to be prepared and actively participating in math class daily every interaction with Kelly ends with her wishing me a great day afternoon or evening she is an
absolute doll and would be be greatly missed when she graduates this June i wish you all the best you deserve it kelly Gleason has been a pleasure to work with for the last three and a half years she has maintained excellent grades and has applied to several colleges with hopes of becoming a vet tech we are waiting her decision or
where she will be attending school in the fall all the way through the younger grades Kelly was a pleasure to work with she approached every one of her math classes with dedication and enthusiasm her serious approach to learning was accompanied by a great sense of humor and appreciation for all the help you
gave her kelly always showed perseverance when doing her work and always did it with a smile i am so glad to hear that she was chosen as an exemplary Falcon recipient kelly is a very hard worker and a genuinely strong student i have witnessed significant growth in her academic abilities but
also in how she is there for her friends and her peers kelly is genuinely curious and inquisitive and always puts her best effort into her class assignments she demonstrates consistently good character sound judgment and genuine kindness i am thankful for the opportunity to have
taught her so Kelly come on down congratulations good job okay at this time I'm going to ask our board members to transition to one of the chairs and I'm going to introduce our next presenter cheers
[Music] okay thank you well let me change hold on okay all right so we started there um a new elective here at the high school called Intro to Neurode Diversity and what we have today is one of the teachers is going to share with you sort
of a recap of the class how it ran this school year with some of her students who are also going to share so I now welcome Miss Laura Ironman one of our speech pathologists here in the district she is one of the leader of this course and she's going to share a little bit about it thank you okay perfect thank you good
evening um I'll go ahead and ask my students to also come up so I have some student represent representatives from the class this year that are I don't want to call them our guinea pigs but they were brave enough to be the first to sign up for this course so I do
appreciate them a lot all right so as we said about a year ago I came and presented the idea of this course to the board of education and it kind of developed through um when creating the curriculum of this
wonderful program that allows um a lot of our people that are in the Tomorrow's Teachers program to learn about varying abilities within schools but the other things that I've noticed is that we have people who are looking into going into law and other courses as well to find
that everyone's minds work differently and all brains are great brains and that's essentially what they've been learning this year so some of the highlights that we've had is we do have guest speakers something that I advertised this class for last year for our students is when you just want to
help someone and you don't really know what to do with that you know there's teaching out there and of course we need teachers but there are under other wonderful helping careers out there and we've had some wonderful guest speakers we've had a child life specialist who specializes in hospitals helping with
traumatic events for children medical procedures with children we've had our entire child study team have a panel with the students to say their varying degrees we've had both um Brooke Hannenburgg and Jillian Collie also come
in to be uh presentate presenters I should say um and we have some more coming up as well an occupational therapist or a um helping careers as well to help discuss with our students what is out there and how they can help people who
are neurodeiverse um increasing awareness of varying ways people think not just necessarily the stereotypes that we see in day-to-day life this is really important in neurodeiverse awareness month and acceptance month as
more falls under that neurodeiverse umbrella than what we initially thought and so that's something that they've been learning as well and just empathy within our schools so we're always open to new questions i always say no questions or stupid questions in this class because we're all learning together
so some things they have been learning are the diagnosis uh criteria for varying neurotypes so autism ADHD dyslexia disgraphia discalculia stuttering Tourette's syndrome OCD bipolar disorder schizophrenia and more so we've been covering a lot in this
class and I have a wonderful class that is willing to learn all of this stuff and come with the hard questions hard-hitting questions and they've been absolutely outstanding with um working on just understanding more they always want to understand the why the how they want to get to know why people are a
certain way or how they think a certain way some other things like I said we have the helper jobs communication variations so obviously that is my specialty is as a speech pathologist I have that bias of I can go in and kind of talk about communication types with them so that's been wonderful and most
recently we've been doing sensory variations so I think I it's safe to say our sensory is the most fun and I have some pictures of some recent events that we have done to learn about sensations and not just necessarily our five sensations that you learn in science
class but more of that internal feeling as well um and then in quarter four we're getting into after the break executive functioning we're going to finish up sensory processing a little bit and then also the legality and advocacy for neurodeiverse populations so this is great for people who are
looking into law and other things to understand the legality behind why we do what we do what an IEP even is and all of those fun things so here are some pictures from our recent sensory station i think the best way of learning is by doing so some
of our students had to create their own sensory profiles by identifying what they find um pleasing what they find displeasing things that bother them things that give them the ick things like that so we did a tactile station where they had to put their hand in and
feel around and see what's inside some of it was shaving cream some of it was smooth rocks but they had to identify and understand the difference between diff uh differential tactile sensations uh same thing with identifying smells that one was always fun because half of
them wrote soap and it's not always soap but they they had fun doing it so here's some of our other ones we had a visual table where they had to do search and finds some of our brave souls getting into this uh shaving cream bin we did
proprioception which is one we know less about how we get our muscles moving and how certain people have sensory sensations such as seeking for proprioception um vestibular is another one so balancing with their eyes closed that's Miss Helina there with her
blindfold on and then we always have fun too so we have some taste sensation going on here they're all eating a lemon so identifying how some people may be hypo sensitive to a lemon these three are not they are very hyper sensitive and you
can see it on their faces and then the last one is again proprioception so putting our muscles to use again I like teaching through doing so I think they had a really fun time with our sensation walk that we did and here are some little blurbs from
our students miss Leie could not be here tonight so I do have um permission to read it but this class has educated me with a lot on the differences of each brain with Mrs with Ironman's passionate teaching and interactive lessons it makes understanding the material easy
every day we are leaving with more knowledge about things we may have never heard of a takeaway from this class is that each individual is different no matter if you are under the neurodeivergent umbrella or not kelly you can go ahead and say yours
ma'am this this class has taught me and will continue to teach me so much about how uniquely every brain functions throughout the course we cover we covered a variety of different topics in such an efficient way that I'm able to obtain all the information i especially like how every week we have a different
guest speaker that provides us with their firsthand experiences with kids and adults while they're in their different careers that they have as a senior I feel like this class is especially valuable because after I graduate I will be going into the real world obviously and there's a bunch of different people out there with
different experiences and different perspectives miss Stella is also not here tonight but she participates in tomorrow's teachers and she helps out the gym teacher which exposes her to all different ages and types of children this class has helped me be better to understand and
communicate with all kids especially those who are neurodeiverse i really love how in this class what I am learning is constantly being translated to my day-to-day life it is really cool being able to take what I am learning in the class and actually use it to form stronger connections with children and
be able to help the them learn in a way that works for them i really do love taking this class and I've been able to take away a lot from it so originally I became interested in this class because of my brother Hudson who some of you may know um he has an
IEP and he talks to a child neurologist about his OCD symptoms which I learned a lot about during this class i am also going to minor in sociology and this class has 100% taught me so much more about kids and adults that I never knew before i now know more about what a neur
a child neurologist is and the different symptoms between OCD as well as autism ADHD schizophrenia bipolar disorder and more of the things that Miss Ironman had stated before all of this makes me eager to learn more in this class every single day which is why I'm glad to have this
as an elective and I can't wait to know even more as I'm getting to the end of my senior year as my aunt will be talking on Zoom about being a COA on May 2nd I'm very excited and glad that I'm able to take this class and I will continue to use what I learned here in this class moving forward into my job
and in the Tomorrow's Teachers program that I am currently in and this is Deep Miss Deanna also not here sorry Erica you're best for last right i chose to take Intro to Neurodiversity because I plan to study psychology in college and hope to work
with children possibly in the criminal justice field where understanding different neurotypes can really uh can make a real impact taking this course has given me a deeper understanding of how the diverse brain functions uh shape the way people experience the world so
far we've explored autism OCD ADHD sensory processing differences and more this class has opened my eyes to the importance of empathy inclusion and recognizing the strengths that come with neurode divergence this would be a great fullear course oo for people interested
in studying psychology didn't tell her to write that have to go so in in this class we've done different activities and my favorite activity was by far spoon theory and if you're not sure or you need a refresher you have three
different energies emotional which is like friend drama or like just like anything me more mentally draining mental drama which can be like a very hard class or like testing and then physical physical like energy is gym class or a sport and with spoon theory
you each have a certain amount of spoons every day and that represents the energy you have and we were all given spoons like physical spoons and if you're neurodeiverse or neurode divergent you have less spoons and whenever we would
do a task we would take away a spoon or gain a spoon depending on what it was and it basically showed me that no matter how like it basically showed me how to empathize with people who have more energy or have less energy and it showed me how to deal with that
and like if I have less energy one day it showed me not to be hard on myself or if I have more energy it also showed me not to be hard on myself because everyone is like different and it's back to what Miss I said about all brains are good brains because we all experience things differently and it made me more
aware of like the world and again I did not pay them to say any of these wonderful things about the class but yeah that is how our class has been going and who it could be a full year class i may have to do some more curriculum building thank you Miss Iron
Man thank you girls can we have another round of applause for them they did 50 stub they did a fabulous job and I had nothing to do with the creation of this course but I do appreciate it many of you know I do have an autistic daughter she's now 18 and I
have a neurotypical son who is 21 so I really do appreciate the course and I thank our students for participating in it all right at this point I'm going to invite our director of special services and our supervisor of early childhood and special services up to the podium they're going to share a new program
that we started this year called workbased learning so Mrs hannenburgg and Mrs collie please come [Applause] up good evening can you hear me is it working it's like all right you can hear me
though okay okay so in keeping with um the theme of neurodeiversity month um we've been doing a lot of activities around the district but with our growing population and special programs we thought it would really be a nice opportunity to kind of
give you a little glimpse into what's actually happening in some of our programs so our sale program at the middle school high school building is rapidly expanding um and for 11th graders who are getting ready to be prepared
for life beyond school uh we have a focus on community- based instruction so under that umbrella of community- based instruction we have started uh we've been partnering with Ruckers the Bog Center at Ruckers which um Jillian will speak about in detail a little bit later
um to really get different job sites up and running for our students to prepare them for meaningful meaningful work experiences so aside from just the community- based instruction that happens in the classroom and the specially designed
curriculum that they use on a regular basis for academics maybe adaptive skills life skills um they're constantly cooking something in uh Mrs mccarthy's classroom um so that they are meaningful
members of our community and they can live independently or as independently as possible we do take that very seriously so to take it one step further and age appropriately prepare them for um for jobs so Jill you want to talk
about Ruckers all right so one of the um exciting things that happened this school year is we are now part of um a CBI cohort through Ruckers University and the BOG Center um and it's a partnership between the Bog Center at Ruckers and the Department of uh education and basically
it's provides um strategies and supports to us here in school about how we can better our programming and really support our students more um so what that comes with so we have members it's kind of an interdisciplinary team we have our teachers from our sale program
we have um uh an occupational therapist physical therapists speech therapists behaviorist um as well as um Miss Hannenburg and I are both sit in on that group as well and we have met with them four time five
times already um they have provided a four-hour um foundations of community based instruction training program for us um they have also done um one technical assistance day already and we have another one scheduled in two weeks um where they are coming and providing
with like hands-on feedback and instruction to help us better again support our students um we are the team is creating a CBI action plan that will kind of guide us um as the years go on i believe it's a 2year program that we're doing with them
um so they will continue to follow us for at least another year to assist us with that um and then they have also provided uh job coach training to three of our par professionals who now go out onto job sites with our students so I will let I'm going to turn it over to
Mrs mccarthy who has kind of spearheaded a lot setting up all of these job sites for our students and has really been the workbased learning um go-to this this school year so I will let her share a little bit about the program as well sure
sure hi everybody all right like she said I'm Miss McCarthy um I am the workbased learning coordinator so this is a rundown of steps I took to get the
program running so I had to um find some businesses we partnered with Walgreens and so for the Washington school to have our students go there to work a couple days a week uh we are in the uh planning stages with some other businesses as
well there is a contract that's signed by the students the parents the business and uh myself to um give guidelines for what everybody's roles are there's also the student training
plan they and they are directly correlated with each student's IEP goals and um so these students are on unpaid excuse me unpaid internships and it gives them the real real world real
life experiences and actually the in Walgreens the manager Mr frank he says that he really uh excuse me um what's the word per he really wants the students after they graduate he would
love if they uh interviewed for there to get a paid job there so so it's really a good um a good way to get a job after graduation and then also with those goals uh of course we assess them
throughout the year i'll go and visit them and watch how their students are doing at their different jobs some various tasks that they've done we also have jobs that we just do in the district so clerical office tasks
like shredding and uh laminating things like that i actually really love those jobs uh custodial tasks cleaning around the building vacuuming cleaning windows um all sorts of things that um need need
to be done in the school sorting mail in the main office putting them in all the staff mailboxes it's a really good way to to learn people in the building as well and then assisting staff with various project we've been a part of
lots of different projects just um today and last week we were helping with making the packets for the state testing putting them all together counting the the amount of materials and items needed putting them in the envelopes uh we decorated the staff room for Valentine's
Day which was fun promoting joy um we also had some class fundra fundraisers that they helped to promote and different creating different uh CBI materials we went to Franklin school so they helped to make the materials for that activity and we went to Washington
school twice uh for a uh Cat in the Hat activity um some upcoming um excuse me events we're having a Mother's Day tea party for the mothers in the district so they're going to be helping with that we're going to
be organizing the office storage closet and labeling uh this diecut machine at the Washington School so some big projects coming away and also deliveries and like I said materials for those events
this is our wonderful team here myself Miss Lauder and our three job coaches on the bottom there Miss Ashley Miss Ivy and Miss Dara so we speak often and we uh help each other figure out um how the
students are doing and then make decisions on how to help them and there's some fun pictures of our students while they're working at Walgreens looking so our students find the outdates at Walgreens they look for
the expiration dates and the we have to determine whether if it's an out date or not if it's within the 30 days or 90 days of of the date and they will put that if it's an out date they'll put it in the cart and then at the end of the shift bring it to the back room um
they're very they're very good on checking out dates and expiration dates even stuff that we have in the classroom they start looking at the dates for everything so it's really it's really uh following through on their daily lives just some more the great great work that they're doing
really focused just having fun after our shift and those are some cart full carts full of items that we they found so and after every shift a lot of our students they like to buy um something at the end
so they like that as well so we had to work in the freezer section one day in the refrigerator so Oh yeah just our guys and Yeah yeah they were they were about they were about to expire or expired yeah
they were within 30 days of expiring so we had to pull them off the shelves so and these are some pictures of us cleaning cleaning around the building doing different tasks this was making the packets for the state testing stuff in the classroom uh
Kendrick was helping me make uh the Mother's Day flyer so and none of the students was were able to be here tonight so I have just um some their phrases of what they like and what they've learned kendrick
he said "I like to find expiration dates on the containers of milk i am proud to have a job." up he always wants to go to the milk section and he said "I I learned how to check expiration dates on items to see if they are if they are
outdates." Andy my favorite part about work is saying hi to everyone and buying stuff after work he loves he loves to talk to everybody especially the manager he's like "Can I can I say hi to Mr frank?" So I learned how to read and check for expiration dates ysef I enjoy
speaking to my boss i enjoy working with my friends i feel so excited to go to work on Tuesdays and Thursdays i feel proud that I have been doing great at Walgreens i hope to keep working there he said "I learned that I have to use my
arms a lot to reach the items and it is a tiring job but nice." And last but not least Yostina my favorite part about work is playing and interacting with the kids she works u primarily at Washington school now and
she learned how to care for the kids and to help them so thank you for listening have a great night i just wanted just shameful plug here also if there is anybody listening or anybody in the audience who has a
business and they would like some help and would be willing to um have some of our kids come work there we're always looking for new locations and places and opportunities for our students so please don't hesitate to reach out and we will absolutely uh see if we can work with you
thank you very much i thank Mrs collie Mrs hannenburgg and Mrs mccarthy for bringing work-based learning to our school district and to our students the vocational training is needed for these students and they really took it on and the collaboration
that they have with Ruckers but then the collaboration across the district is pretty amazing so thank you um at this time a motion to take a five minute break before we go through the agenda okay so what we are going to do is we're going to take a five minute break and then we're going to proceed going
through the agenda during caucus at Monday's meeting we do go through every line item and it's discussed so it should be relatively um quick and smooth process going through the agenda this evening so thank you very much we'll take a quick fivem minute break
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two minutes older than my brother on my other computer your other one i have one that's not a Chromebook we have a Chromebook right yes so you can't save something right but they're saved in my forms or
wherever they're saved oh they're saved in your documents but the thing that's not Go ahead you'll see what we're talking about i know where they're saved okay motion to reopen the meeting motion second
we're going to you oh yeah uh excuse me business administrator's report please second maybe one of the kids i was ready for it
excuse me this time I didn't do Sorry as Mrs uh Violet was explaining before the field's u coming along uh the field work is almost done other site and work the fencing has begun visitor bleachers uh all started
this past uh Monday so things are progressing well with the field um some other referendum projects a bid was sent out um last week end of last week for the front entrance improvements and also we're working on trying to do an alternate for the entrance to the field
as well so bids are due the end of the month and we hope to make an award on May 7th meeting at Coolage School which will be the board offices we hit a little stall with the electrical uh hookup from PSCG so the vendor had to you know halt work and um we saw the
PSCG truck there on Monday doing some hookups so we hope that's uh going to take place soon and then the contractor can get back to finishing the elevator flooring and bathrooms uh that work should be completed by the um end of May we expect to move in late June early
July we are also working on quotes for the replacement of some older doors around all the school buildings and replacing some floor tiles in Franklin and other areas the window replacement project at Washington School and other roofing replacements will be done over the
summer and other than facility projects we have currently have a proposal out for uh food service operations which is a mandatory rebid every five years that's due the end of the month and we have a solid waste removal um bid out that's due again the end of the month
because of the the cost we're increasing which goes over our our threshold to force us to go out to bid that's the end of this month as well and we're looking to approve those both on May 7th and that concludes my report thank you before I open the meeting to the
public anybody from the board need have any questions for Miss Vetti or Mr karate no all good okay let me hold on okay can I have a motion please to open the meeting to the public for items
on agenda only motion second so moved anybody in the audience want to speak no okay motion to close to the public motion
second all in favor all in favor i Okay so now we go on to just our action right action items good all right i will read Miss uh
Torbick's information as to the board action items b2425.34 let me change that sorry Mike okay 40 sorry just missing a sentence or two in
here at the recommendation of the superintendent I make a motion to approve the following minutes b excuse me the following board action items b2425.34 through B2425.40 motion second all those in favor we don't have to do that
okay any discussion any questions i'll share 3.37 is a donation of an alto matophone to the Smith school music program from donor's choose so Miss Kowalsski the music teacher at Smith School she filled out an application
within donor's choose where people um from anywhere can contribute to the donation so she raised enough money to purchase one of the xylophones for the ORF program there so I thank her for doing that i also want to extend um our gratitude to Saddleberg VFW Post 3484
they donated once again $1,000 towards the cost of the sixth grade trip to Fairview Lake Environmental Center so thank you to them thank you education and curriculum Miss Ayanella oh forgot sorry
hold on i also would like to thank Mrs traverso it's our first time leading our board meeting mrs torbick our board president had a family emergency she was unable to make it so you're doing a great job thank you she is due back on Friday so okay so
Oh roll call please mr lorentino yes miss Roloff yes miss Otterelli yes mr akamando yes miss Bali yes mr oello yes missyello
yes to all but I'm going to abstain from NB2425.34 numbers two and three yes to everything else okay and Mr traverso yes education and curriculum miss I know okay at the recommendation of the
superintendent I make a motion to approve the following items e2425.46 through E24251 motion second all those in favor oh any discussion please i would like to highlight some of their field trips so this year our senior
class they opted to take a trip to Six Flags Great Adventure instead of their annual senior day here at the high school so that's on this agenda as well as our service learning club here at the middle school high school to go to Washington School they complete activities with our preschoolers and they're also going to our sixth grade
classes to answer any questions they may have about the transition to the middle school here I would also like to highlight 0.51 there's two giveback days because we did not use two out of our three snow days so the school will be closed for the Friday before Memorial
Day weekend we're closed Memorial Day which is Monday and we will be closed the Tuesday so those are the two giveback days the Friday and the Tuesday thank you roll call please mr laurentino
yes miss Roloff yes miss Adarelli yes mr akamando yes miss Bali yes mr archello yes misseloo yes miss Traverso yes at the recommendation of the
superintendent I make a motion to approve the following items bf2425.92 through BF2425.103 103 i have a second please second any discussion or questions
i'll highlight the workshops we have some secretaries here in the across the district that have opted to participate in Google workshop for secretaries and admin assistants so I thank them for taking that on 0.95 is a contract with um NRESC that's to host a summer school
program here at the middle school high school so we're excited to start that for our students any of our students that may need to um earn back additional credit and then we also have one of my favorites here 101 is the purchase of cafeteria furniture that's
for this school building cafeteria A and cafeteria B um we are going to purchase new tables some of them may have the falcon on them some soft seating areas some high tops and sort of uh uh brighten up our cafeterias here at the
middle school high school nice roll call mr lorentino I'm going to vote yes to all but under BF2425.92 I'll abstain from checks 1754 and 21107 and then under
BF2425.93 I'll abstain from number 142 miss Roloff yes miss Otterelli yes mr akcomando uh yes to all except for BF2425.92 i will abstain from checks number 66790
miss Brelli yes mr oello yes missyello yes to all but I'm going to abstain from in BF2425.92 check number 1677 2035 66913 and in
BF2425.93 item number 142 and yes to everything House okay 142 14 item 142 item 14 and M traverso yes facilities and operations mr roto at the
recommendation of the superintendent I make a motion to approve the following items f2425.8 oh that was a big one second any questions any discussion anything from you for that no okay
second anything from you okay a roll call um roll call please mr laurentino yes miss Roloff yes miss Aarelli yes mr aamando yes miss Barelli
yes mr archello yes misseloo yes m traverso yes policy misselli we didn't have the meeting there's nothing to report thank you negotiations Mr akamando um unfortunately I don't see any numbers
under here so we don't have anything personnel Mr lorentino at the recommendation of superintendent I make a motion to approve the following items p2425.67 through P2325.74 second any discussion any
questions comments we have um resignation of an ABA Parrot Washington School resignation of a teacher here at the middle school high school 68 or leaves 69 are appointments um number two is bringing Mrs terry who retired from
here um at the middle school high school as bringing her on as a home instructor for the district number three is our ESY staff that's extended school year our special education program number four and five are teachers to start next school year for September four is for a preschool classroom at
Washington School five is for the Franklin school music teacher he's in that position currently as a as a long-term substitute and he's in the position for two weeks and last night performed or co-led the third grade recorder concert and did an amazing job
so thank you to Mr harter for that number six is a part-time evening custodian and I you should have number seven i interviewed her today so you may not have a number you have number seven um it's a power professional that I interviewed today 70 or stipen so we
have a revision because one uh staff member went on maternity leave so that's allocating that stipen appropriately number three and four is head football coach and spring uh weight room coordinator Joseph Katrona and number five is the stipen that the part-time
custodian gets for working evening shift we have a salary re revision 71 mr will William Osborne the vice principal here at the high school he earned his doctorate so congratulations to Mr osborne and then we have a speech pathologist college student who's needs
to complete her observations and other mandated items thank you roll call please mr laurentino I'm going to vote yes to all but I'm going to abstain
uh P2425.73 number 15 and 22 15 and 22 yes miss Roloff yes misselli yes but before I vote I just because we didn't get a chance for
comments I just want to say congratulations to Mr osborne and yes to everything mr okcomando yes miss Bali yes mr archello yes misseloo
yes to all but I'm going to abstain from P2425.70 items number three and 4 and then in P2425.73 I'm going to abstain from items
number two 5 10 and 22 yes to everything else okay Mr traverso yes committee reports don't think we have much uh Mr archello anything i have a couple Washington
you could yeah go ahead you can jump down to that oh committee i have nothing on committee sorry okay then we'll come back to you all right thank you um Mr zarelli Mr akamando I don't believe you have anything for committee okay and all I'll indicate on budget is that we have
a public hearing on May 5th to address the public uh the budget sorry budget and finance liaison reports missyella do you have nothing okay vicki is not here and I was not given anything on the educational foundation you
haven't heard anything right if I would okay uh the CPAG I have not been given anything new on that township leaison who's going to address that we haven't had Oh you had another meeting okay nothing on that pto leaison
miss Sarelli for Franklin school yes I do have one for Franklin school okay over the last couple of weeks Franklin PTO has hosted a Falcon Fun Day at Humdingers and delivered their
Gertude Hawk orders they have a pretzel sale to kick off spring break starting April 17th in addition to the sixth grade committee selling spring break kits and an egg myard fundraiser after break the PTO will
focus on teacher appreciation week activities field and field day they will tape Mr rogers to the wall oh I shouldn't have said that but um fundraiser for the sixth grade class second Scholastic book fair and the possibility of an end of the school year
dance they've also began planning uh a tricky tray for November 15th at 2025 at Elon in Loi so make sure you mark your calendars and all donations are welcomed that's it thank you Misselli uh Mr
akamando do you have anything uh no unfortunately not okay let me sorry go back to that page a minute there's Mr archello anything for Washington school washington yes just quickly uh for current students
for current students if you've not done so please respond to Miss Hannenburgg indicating whether or not your child will be returning in September and whether they will be half day or full day uh please note if your child is turning five before October 1st 2025
they will be uh going to kindergarten and no longer welcome at Washington School so get them out and go to your school you need to uh the PTO sip and night uh was held at the spotted canvas and was a great success thanks to all the hard work put on our
by our PTO members and for the many donations sent in from parents for our class baskets a total of 41 baskets were raffled off and a profit of uh $1,778 was made the next PTO meeting will be held virtually on April 8th and
links for the meeting will be sent out soon um and then some dates we have here did I Where did I say april next year oh we missed it 2026 no just kidding um I'm sure the May one will be fantastic when that one rolls around but we missed the
April one apologies um key dates coming up we're on break from the 18th through the 25th please don't come to school um on May 19th coming up um the upstairs classes will be going to Vance on May 21st the downstairs classrooms and then May 30th will be the Washington School
family movie night thank you is that really did I get middle school uh high school has not met since last but they will be meeting April 29th excellent thank you and as for Long School
um they have some upcoming events of course teacher and staff appreciation week will be celebrated the week of May 5th look out for some good uh surprises there the spring book fair will take place on May 6th 7th and I believe the 8th although it's not on here but I believe
it's three days the LMS color run will be held on Saturday May 17th pto will be providing t-shirts to all LMS students and staff for field day which will be held on May 29th for K through 3 and May 30th for grades 4
through 6th end of year class parties can't believe I'm saying that already will be held on June 23rd their spirit sale will continue please check their website and as their friendly reminder please join their Facebook page all information can be found there regarding updated events and fundraisers and I
just want to add I know that Miss Vleti spoke about their um wax museum today i was also there and I have to say I met Oprah Winfrey a lot of famous and she definitely did a very good research because she gave everybody a car not that you could see it nicely but she
gave everybody a car it was very cute they did a wonderful job i forgot I have a sticker oh there you go i can't remember who gave me the sticker somebody had that on their thing i saw that betsy no no Betsy Ross but it was it was very good it was very amazing and um Franklin Schools I believe is May 1st
it's coming up franklin Schools is coming up shortly so I hope to be attending that one as well okay um All right any correspondence Mr karate yes we do so uh Bergen County School Board Association gave me a memo that at their
meeting in May May 29th they will be honoring two of our board members Miss Traverso for new board member boardmanship certification she earned in uh this past December and Miss Zarelli for her 10-year milestone
[Applause] any old business i'm sorry old business any new business i would like to acknowledge we have in our audience Mr katrona he came this
evening he's um approved tonight thank you to our board of education for the head football coach position and weight room coordinator there was several applicants for the position and there was a whole entire interview process and Mr katrona stood out his skill set his enthusiasm um he exudes the Falcon
spirit down to the golden blue tie which I really appreciate and we are excited to have you on board so welcome to our team and just to add to that your boys came in earlier when they were waiting for it to start and I said you know hi who are you
my dad's the new football coach i said Mr katrona they are very cute and very polite thank you congratulations okay um new business new business go ahead i'd like to welcome Mr katrona aboard uh but while we're doing
that I'd like to my condolences uh to the family of Gerald Gundry uh Mr gundry was a longtime history teacher here at Saddle Park High School retiring in the early 80s but he was also the head football coach uh for many years here leading some great teams through the 70s
and uh he had some great athletes unfortunately with his passing uh we lost a tremendous source of information for our high school Hall of Fame which is something I'm focused on so condolences to Mr gundry's family also I found out that uh Joanne Russell who was
my music teacher back in the 70s another longtime employee here at Saddlebrook uh she also passed away so condolences to her family thank you thank you Mr lentino you reminded me that we do have a Hall of Fame athletic hall of fame meeting our
second meeting is Tuesday May 6th at 7 o'clock we had a large showing last time we met so we are looking forward to continuing this and starting to build an athletic hall of fame for Saddle Brook High School anyone else just want to wish everyone a happy
holiday and congratulations Mr thank you go also congratulations to Mr anthony Weey and Miss Gleason mr patronona um like you said condolences with the two
who passed and happy Easter and Passover and happy Passover and Passover sorry thank you happy yes absolutely can I have a motion to open the meeting to public for the public i'm sorry i just want to say uh Tuesday night before
our Monday night before our work session we as a board went through another training which we're going back to becoming certified so we have two more trainings and we'll be a certified board again y thank you anybody else no can I have a
motion to open the meeting to the public for comments second so moved all in favor i no one opposed so moved you gotta wait go ahead read it okay just got to wait
you may stand there give me one moment please i'm reading this one okay all right residents are requested to state their names addresses and subject matter in the event it appears the public comment portion of the meeting may exceed 45 minutes the presiding officer may limit each statement made by
a participant to 5 minutes duration issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate the board asks that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other
individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of New Jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will it be liable for any comments made by members of the
public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments joe Katrona 254 South Lancer Court Saddlebrook um just want to take this
opportunity to thank Miss Violleti Mr ianelo um the board of education here uh for entrusting me with this uh this great honor of representing my hometown um family my retirement lasted three months so I'm back i'm back back on the
sidelines um we have our recck commissioner here um I vowed to work hand in hand uh with our wreck program and making sure that our student athletes stay here in Saddlebrook uh I know the importance especially at a small group one school of keeping all our athletes here and uh I vow to work
hand in hand with you guys and I'd like to commend Miss Violleti and uh Mr iel and the board uh for making the upgrades to our schools athletic facilities uh that goes a long way into keeping these kids here so I commend you for that and um you know you're going to get somebody that's passionate i'm passionate about
coaching passionate about um after football you know making these kids you know high character kids and going out into the real world and uh becoming a better person you know football is football on the field but in the end it's about uh you know making sure that these kids go out there in the real world and uh become a better citizen and
uh you know better people so I thank you um let's go Falcons oh another thing is I'm a sheriff's officer so uh that's my real job I guess and um I guess I'm going to have to make a call to Mayor White to hire more Saddle Brook cops because Friday nights are going to be
really packed here um and uh if a smart burglar is out there they're going to know there's going to be nobody home in Saddlebrook and uh they'll be knocking on uh you know going into people's houses so I'm going to make sure that our our alumni are here um that we're engaged with the community and that the uh Friday night games are packed and uh you know a winning product will go on
the field and off the field so I appreciate it guys thank you and I'll make you guys proud congratulations thank you and congratulations what time you showing up tomorrow does anybody else need to speak or want to speak can I have a motion to close the meeting to the public motion second all those in
favor i so moved meeting adjourned no motion to close the meeting oh no she just did that we got to close the meeting oh did Oh close the public sorry motion to close the meeting motion second all those in favor so move motion
meeting closed come over we'll get it what