[Applause] 7:00 is right right here same thing okay same okay adequate notice of this meeting has been sent 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 miss Vietti anything that you want to start with i'm going to wait until Wednesday however I will share just because it's happening tomorrow night our third grade annual recorder concert
is happening here at the middle school high school auditorium tomorrow evening that's right okay this one sorry this one so this one so not you then we're going to go straight to
Please turn so so we're going to go here now usually it's you though isn't it yeah that's what I'm saying your name's on the list so we're going to go through this mr karate would you like to add anything moment yes just quick on the referendum there was a lot of action today on the field um we actually had three different companies out there
today doing some Sorry for the mic um doing some work around the field then the actual field is the the turf is actually getting uh completed now maybe in the next couple of days and the company came to install the visitor's side bleachers
nice it'll take several weeks several weeks okay that's it that's it okay let me take a peek here agenda items okay all right we're going to go over our agenda items for for
discussion give me a moment please to glance okay I will cover uh Miss Torbick's items board action items B2425.34 through B2425.40 is there any
discussion or questions i'll share so we have our Okay we have the minutes from last month then we have um we had six Hibs in close session last month so those are listed here 36 is continuation of the long-term
suspension um for a high school student 37 that's a donation from donor's choose which is an organization that teachers can go on and they put in an item at the hole or a program that they're really interested in having and then anyone could go online and donate um however
many amount of money they wish and then when you get to the amount that it costs you receive that donation and you send some photos and a thank you so that is for the middle that that's for Helen I Smith School's music program and it's one of those large xylophones that goes
with our ORF program then 38 we're mandated to inform our high school students that are approaching 18 years of age um giving them providing them with all information on voting 39 those are the corrective action plans for chronic absenteeism we
approved the district improvement plan this was part of it and I was informed that we needed to have a separate motion um agenda item to approve those as well so that's on there and then 0.40 is um the VFW post 3484 here in town they
donated once again um $1,000 to go towards our annual sixth grade trip thank you any questions education and curriculum missyella okay um we have
E2425.46 through E2425 um 51 any questions and there's a list of field trips so for the field trips we do have the senior class this school year they are requesting to go to Six Flags
Great Adventure for their annual senior day instead of having their senior day here at the high school so they had um raised enough funds in order to do so we have a grade two class visiting Tennifly Nature Center grade one visiting Health Barn a couple special education student trips um we have another service
learning club from the middle school high school visiting Washington School so we've been doing a lot of that this school year and also they're visiting our sixth graders at each of our K to6 buildings to answer any questions that they may have about the transition to the middle school here and
then hold on I lost it we have let's see 050 is um our BCBA one of our behaviorists is out on maternity leave so this is the leave replacement for that individual and 0.51 is we had two snow days that we did not
use this year so we had two days to give back so that's to have the Friday before Memorial Day weekend off and be closed the Tuesday following Memorial Day as well can you say that again we have two snow days to give back that
we did not use so 0.51 is the Friday before Memorial Day and the Tuesday after Memorial Day to have an extended weekend thank you budget and finance
BF2425.92 through BF2425.103 any conversation comments or questions on that i'll just share we have several secretaries in our district that were attending a um a Google for school secretaries and administrative
assistance workshops so I thought it was so great of them to um volunteer to attend this workshop you'll also see my spring NJSA conference is in the professional development workshops um as well as a couple other workshops
the chair i'm sorry i I if we can we backtrack for a second sure um the corrective action plan I apologize I wasn't focused at that moment in this corrective action plan you have through INS those what is INS going to do like
what is the planning we create an INRS intervention and referral services we create an INRS action plan for our students that have a certain number of absences in each building intervention they I don't have one in front of me right now so I don't want to speak to it but there there are attendance contracts
that the parents do come in and they sign at one of those action meetings and they have several interventions in place okay um and then there was something else uh that's actually also mandated by the county
that they expect an IRS action plan for attendance um there was I have to I had one another question but right now has come back i'm not going anywhere if I could just elaborate on some of the
items here um yeah a lot of good things happening with the projects and a lot of um you know besides the referendum funding funding we also you know rewarded that cops grant which is on number 98 which is uh an addition to um
cameras I mean a door access that we approved last month this is additional work and you're going to see more stuff uh coming up where we do additional cameras and door access controls too uh 99 is the change order and work I spoke about um at the in the back of the turf
field and 101 is new furniture for both cafeterias here which we're very excited uh to change that into our blue and gold themes it'll look really good and another change order with the window project that's um on its punch
list now but that was a referendum project we changed the windows here that are easier to open for the staff and also have the blinds inside the windows so a lot of good things happening um I said we got the referendum funds the cops grant we had -ate funding which
is a federal communication um grant that'll be in next year's budget and also we just found out we just awarded a um the playground grant we had applied for we're going to get $81,000 towards our upgrading our playground so a lot of good things
happening and uh you'll you'll seeing a lot of work done around the district so very excited well we have money budgeted in our in our budget which were approved in next um meeting on May 5th well 5th and 7th and uh we had money budgeted there for the playground and this will
help us do more amazing good so yeah we're hoping to do sorry all three elementary schools and also then we're hoping we could finish Washington school too through the chair yes on
BF2425.95 is this the first year we're doing this oh yes so this is through NRESC Northern Regional Educational Service Commission service Commission thank you um and they will actually they run the summer program in our building
so our teachers can apply to teach the summer program they're paid they're paid through NRESC um the students pay to complete the summer school program and then any additional funds like any extra funds that are left over at the end is split
50/50 between us and NRESA and is it just for our students or are we opening it up to other towns at this point because it's our initial year we're talking about just our students right now thank you
thank you do the chair If I could piggy back off that what grades we're still talking about it as a leadership team we're thinking grades students entering grades 7 through 12 okay we're thinking
anyone else just remember your question well good facilities and operations mr archello facilities and operations uh F2425.8 approve school facility use for May 2025 any
questions no one sana question no no one okay thank you policy mr serelli anything no negotiations mr akamando anything no been very quiet sounds good moving right
along personnel mr lorentina we got some P2425.67 through P2325.74 questions comments 67 are two resignations one's an ABA power one's a teacher here at the middle school high school then that's
then you see the leaves of absences then you see the appointments number one is a resend he never started with us but he was appointed but never actually got to the point of starting so he's rescended number two is home instruction it's of um one of our previous staff members that has since retired and she is
looking to work with us as a home instructor number three is the list of an of staff to work our extended school year program number four is a preschool teacher for for next school year but we have that one preschool classroom upstairs at
Washington School that we have not um utilized yet so we're we're looking that's going to be that location number five is a music teacher at Franklin School number five has started in the capacity he's working through ESS
um and completing his student teaching and is scheduled to get his c his official certificate in June so this is for next school year and number six is a part-time evening custodian if you don't have it on your agenda I'm not positive he we interviewed him today um and it's
a part-time evening position then 70 you'll see the stipens number one and two is because one of them's on maternity leave so the remainder of her stipen went to the other individual number three is a head football coach and four that head football coach is
also going to be the weight room coordinator and then number five is the stipen that the part-time evening custodian receives for the evening shift 71 Mr osborne here a vice principal here at the high school he earned his doctorate so he receives a stipen moving forward for that
congratulations to Mr osborne 72 is a college student to complete speech pathologist observations at Franklin and Smith School 73 is one of our mandates it's all the administrative appointments such as who's responsible for 504
um chemical and other items and then 74 is to approve those two give back days for all 12-month staff including members of the administrative staff and central office personnel through the chair I have a question or
two okay um preschool teacher pretty high up on the uh she is currently in another district she's been working there for it it matches the number of years of experience that she has now remember our steps are not matched to the number of
years of experience she better be good you could have filled the position this year yeah but this is for next year so you haven't really been through the all the candidates just yet there are still more out there that you could interview so this is nice that we caught her early
but I don't know if that's something that we could afford or others may look at as "Oh she's just starting and this is what she gets," though that's the usual and also this music
teacher is that an additional music teacher or are they or is it replacing someone replacing which is that was she resigned a couple maybe a month or two agendas ago
okay that's all anybody else yes um for the coach my mic for the coach um for the wait room coordinator is there a certain amount of hours that he has to be there is there
designated hours that he has to be there like from this time to this time or is it just like whenever i'll have to check okay um I can tell you that they they talk about doing the mornings and then also the afternoon when we met with this coach for the interview he spoke about
doing both the offering some mornings and then offering some afternoons as well and does that go for like practices is I mean I mean know you're a football coach but that also like for practices is it like certain days and is it in the contract where they have to be there
like in the morning for practice in the like practice for weight no well for football itself I know besides the weight room activities in the afternoon but in school because I know that in the past
that they've had like um their practices at like 6:00 in the morning sometimes 6:30 in the morning i didn't know what I don't know what the schedule is going to be yet for practice is there a certain amount of hours is what I'm saying as a coach as all as well you know not that I
know of but I can check for you okay um through the chair also for that particular position is there a limit for just football or all sports can go in the wait room on that
particular time that they are present there i believe it's all sports they're able to they're just the person that's responsible for being there okay through the chair on
2325.74 does that also include maintenance that's one of the items for us to discuss in close session oh okay 23257 anybody else the custodian or Thank you custodians um reports they get off are
there any other committee reports that anyone wants to discuss tonight or we can move them on to Wednesday wednesday i'll wait for Wednesday wednesday this side too wednesday i myself have to wait till Wednesday i don't have information yet on long um any correspondence Miss
Wlety nope no correspondence old business no old business any new business anybody in the audience want to speak no we're good great makes my night
very easy for my first time doing this yeah okay let me see okay then we need a motion to close the meeting to the public second all those in favor i need a motion we have a motion to
close don't close oh you did that no I didn't do that oh I got to do this first i'm sorry i apologize i have to read this why do you have to read it nobody wants to talk right motion to close oh I do we just did that session we need to say that you need to move to go into
exec and then say we're not going to do any business after I didn't read this okay so you need a motion to go into closed you got to read those right i did the motion to move closed so now I just got to do this gotcha i apologize so we had a motion to go into closed and we had a second and now I'm going to
read whereas the board of education must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussion in a public meeting and whereas the subjects are within the exceptions of the open public meetings act and are permitted to be discussed in close session pursuant to NJSA 104-12B and whereas the board of
education intends to discuss matters as follows NJSA 104-12B1 HIV case FE23172025 and number two NJSA 10 col 412B 8 personnel whereas the length of close session is estimated to be approximately
45 minutes after which the public meeting of the board shall reconvene and actions will not will not be taken now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will recess into close session for only the offoraid subjects and be it further resolved that
the board of education hereby declares that its discussion of the offer of fores said subjects will be made public at a 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 meetings act
closed what all in favor all in favor okay it's closed