Mr aando present M barali pres Mr orello present Mello present Mr Latino pres M rolloff Miss toric present M Traverso
present Miss zelli please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Alle 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 okay it's not this one it's this one okay no no [Applause] sorry guys sorry okay adquate 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 okay want to start with a student representative
report please does she have mic uh yep good there you go good evening everyone I'm going to start off with Washington School last month some of the sales students here at the high school started their work-based learning in one of the classrooms at Washington this is in addition to the two students
from the tomorrow's teachers program that are already there at the Washington School the kids are happy to learn a lot through working with these students and they're happy to be with them as well this month the National Honor Society at the high school will be visiting Washington to work with the students on a winter activity students are having
some winter fun expressing their creativity through painting snowy scenes with paint and crafting penguins and igloos these skills are helping with their fine motor skills and lastly Washington will have their fifth annual fashion show on February 3rd and it was a success now moving on to Long School
the Winter concert this year went well showcasing the talents of the fourth fifth and sixth grade choir band and O rff students performing in the high School auditorium always makes these extra special events for the students February has been a busy month filled
with schoolwide activities this week Mr Luca the long school counselor organized random acts of kindness week with activities for all grade levels designed to spread kindness through LMS long celebrated crossing guard appreciation day with students expressing their
gratitude for the safety of the the crossing guards provide students decorate stop signs as a special thank you this week long also thank officer Joe their sleo on school resource officer appreciation day long school
will join the district and wearing purple for PS I Love You day a day dedicated to mental health awareness and fostering a supportive Community where everyone feels welcome love and supported in collaboration with the other schools the sixth graders decorated Starbucks Coffee sleeves that Starbucks will give out in celebration
of this day Smith School recently held its most successful duct tape to teacher fundraiser event at the end of this January the entire School participated and Miss Murphy and Mrs laurentino were successfully stuck to a wall the
students annual Winter concert showcased the musical talents of the upper grade students the program highlighted the Journey of the school's beginning band members as they embark on their instrumental musical education while also celebrating the pro the progress and scale of the advanced band the
concert also featured the high school choir and a special performance by the select saber tone group demonstrating the diverse range of musical Talent at Smith school last week Smith proudly celebrated National counseling week recognizing the invaluable contributions
of the school counselor Miss cavello they are incredibly grateful for Miss cavell's dedication and support in helping students Thrive academically socially and emotionally today Smith marked its 100th day of school and they want to expend a special thank you to sator crossing guards for their
unwavering commitment to student safety these dedicated community members Brave all types of weather to ensure the safe passage of students to and from school every day their dedication is deeply appreciated by the entire Smith School Community now for Franklin School who
held their Super Bowl food drive sponsored by the student council The Collection was a success and surpassed last year's total the Winter concert at Franklin School was a wonderful event and they thank everyone who attended and supported the music program this month Franklin celebrates and wants to
acknowledge Miss A and all she does for the students staff and families during the National School counseling week they also held a reading buddies event inviting students from upper grades to read along with the younger peers during school hours the students greatly enjoyed having an opportunity to come
together to read this month the middle school started their cycle 3 classes on January 27th they are halfway through the school year the week of February 3rd was National School counselor's week the Middle School wants to say a big thank you to Mr B for all of his hard work
work compassion and commitment that he puts into his job each and every day to help the students on February 4th they inducted the newest members into the National Junior Honor Society these students work extremely hard throughout the year their dedication commitment and hard work really shines through everyone
is so proud of each and every one of them and a special thank you to miss Josephson and Miss sharp for putting this ceremony together and working with the students the Middle School watched the Harlem magic Masters engaged in an assembly about respect the students really enjoyed themselves some of the
students and staff got to participate on stage with the basketballers it was a great way to start off today Middle School celebrated National crossing guard appreciation day they made cards to say thank you to the crossing guards for keeping everyone safe now for the high school the
counselors have begun their one-on-one conferences with the high school students to create their schedules for the upcoming school year all while doing this the high school commended the whole counseling department for their hard work and Devotion to their students for National School counseling week students participated in the seala by literary
exam on February 3rd there was a great turnout with many students confident in their abilities in other languages the media center was full of dedicated and hardworking students that took the exam if you haven't already look students who took the exam year results are in your emails this past week the high school
clubs took their yearbook photos a big thank you to Mr Klein and the photographer this Thursday is PSI love you day throughout the district and students are encouraged to participate by wearing the color purple to school the high school also commends all crossing guards for National crossing guard appreciation day and lastly
information regarding the sports congratulations to the competition cheer team on winning this second consecutive year the njic comp cheer Championship next up for the girls is the state tournament good luck and thank you thank
you um superintendent report Viet thank you Savannah okay I'm going to go through some quick updates and then we are going to do the exemplary Falcons we are going to have the VFW is present to give away some awards and then we have a presentation
on midyear District um and board goal updates strategic planning updates and referendum updates so just so that everyone's aware of of the flow um I just want to comment um Savannah mentioned Washington schools fashion show I forget how many years they've
been doing it it's only been a handful but to say it was a success is an understatement these kids shredded down the red carpet um it's the culmination of their clothing unit so they're learning about different patterns of clothing different styles of clothing and they dress up for this fashion show
and they walk down the red carpet to music they pose in front of the stage um they blow out kisses and then they come back so it really was a fun event to go to and if you didn't catch from Savannah's updates PS I Love You day is tomorrow everyone's encouraged to wear
purple it was started by a sbook family for mental health awareness and suicide awareness and Starbucks was very kind in giving our students those cup holders to decorate um so if you go to Starbucks tomorrow chances are in Saddlebrook chances are you will get one of those cup holders with your coffees I want to
thank the Women's Club in town they did donate $15 $20 gift cards for families in need I want to thank Acme as well they once again donated gift cards I believe something to the effect of maybe $3,000 worth of gift cards extremely generous we be using them at our parent
partnership night um which is going to be Tuesday March 18th we're going to host a college fair that night so our high school students are invited to attend with their parents one gym will the plan is for one gym to be the college fair and the other gym to be a career night so I did send out a Google
form for community members to sign up to have a table in the other gym and share their career path with our students um so that way our students can see some different options out there for our younger families we are going to do a kindergarten Readiness session we are n4s which I will talk about later
but they are also going to do a s a session for our families on handling stress Community Partnership in town they're going to participate as well our service learning Club will be having pizza pomoni we have Refreshments alphab best will be supplying Child Care cpeg will have a table for special education
parents and Spencer bank is going to host a session on financial planning for After High School because it is never too early to start planning ahead so all of that's going to be on parent partnership night um I also want to share that we had 11 Middle School singers that successfully auditioned for
the 2025 all North Jersey intermediate Junior region one course almost 400 Middle School sing singers from the Seven Counties of Northern New Jersey auditioned at Wayne Hills High School um this past Saturday and we had 11 of our Middle School singers that were chosen
so congratulations to them I want to um remind everybody that February 24th is the deadline for the healthy school lunch challenge um I will share out the details tomorrow with my District update or Friday um but there are some great prizes there I believe for the high school there's some cash prizes as well
so you may want to look into that the communication survey that was shared out by the district I'm very happy to say that we had 95 respondents we had a good number and some really great feedback so me and my team we're going through that feedback we're kind of discussing ways that we can improve as a district but I
want to take a moment to thank everybody um for the board generally speaking it was extremely positive um and just some you know some little things that we can improve Pro on so we were really excited for that okay at this time I'm going to move transition to honoring our
exemplary Falcons that are here this evening so hold [Music] on I borrow that microphone give it a second okay thank you um our first exemplary Falcon what I'm going to do is I will share who I'm going to be speaking about and then I'm going to
share what staff members across the district have written about our Falcon so our first one I'm going to talk about tonight is Michael Marin Michael is one of the most thoughtful and sweetest students I have ever taught he is polite to teachers and classmates alike and genuinely cares about what they are
saying when he's having a conversation he works hard in class he asks questions to improve himself when he makes an error or doesn't understand something and he's a great person overall Michael is very respectful while participating in culinary Club activities he's enthusiastic about the various recipes
we have during the club meetings he's hand he hands out the ingredients to the other groups is is extremely helpful and when he needs something he advocates for himself I have the pleasure of teaching Michael in grammar school he was the kindest young man who would work so hard to find success we would have working
walking challenges during recess to pass the time and we would always find ourselves laughing every time Michael was also the first student every day to ask how my day was going and with a smile Michael was always interested in our class discussions and insightful and responding to open-ended questions his
kindness was seen daily in all interactions with both teachers and peers so Michael congratulations on being exemplary Falcon and come on down to get your special shirt [Applause]
[Music] [Music] thanks all right next is Natalia DKI Natalia is such a kind and hardworking student she generally cares about other people and is extremely selfless in her
interactions with classmates not a day goes by that Natalia does not give her best effort she has a positive influence on every class that she is in through her Insight work ethic and positive energy Natalia is a founder and vice president of the Polish Club at the high school as such she is very involved in
club activities and administration of the memberships she's a delightful person and always a great friend to all Natalia is a standout student that's also a writer for the high school newspaper she brings insight and eloquence to every piece she crafts Beyond journalism she excels across a
wide range of subjects demonstrating a rare rare combination of intellect adaptability and perseverance she Embraces challenges with confidence balancing rigorous coursework with creativity all while carrying herself with Grace she approaches each opportunity
with curiosity and Poise making her a true scholar and an inspiration to those around her now Natalia is incredibly industrious and always committed to her work congratulations Natalia [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] all right next is
Erica Erica came to sbook High School freshman year from the day she started she became involved with the school Community Erica works hard and always seeks out a challenge her kind and caring spirit is infectious and she Embraces everything a Sal Brook falcon
can be Erica is very independent and took the college process on applying to many schools and receiving many offers ER has challenged herself in high school each year taking honors level courses she perseveres and always gives it her all Erica Caris has a kind heart and has
grown into a mature young adult we are excited to hear about all the good she will accomplish after graduation congratulations Erica [Music] [Applause]
our last exemplary Falcon of the evening is yolani yolani is an extremely valuable member of our Band program at stle Brook High School she is a oh hold hold sorry I'm going to start over and not
touch anything yolani is an extremely valuable member of our Band program program at stbr high school she is a talented and dedicated musician who has on top of already playing the flute in the concert band and bass drum in the marching band recently take on the task of learning a new instrument the
OBO OBO is an especially difficult instrument to learn because of the coordination required to produce a good sound on the double read through her persistent and thoughtful approach to the instrument she is navig navigating it with Grace she's even currently preparing an audition on the instrument
to win a scholarship for private OBO lessons she has been consistently carrying out her responsibilities as one of the band's Librarians as librarian she distributes music out to students in rehearsal collects music after concerts and then sorts all the parts into score
order before filing them away in the correct spot in the band Library I'm pretty sure I can't do that this requires skilled communication with the members of the band to ensure all parts are returned in a timely manner and attention to details to ensure everything is properly filed
this is the first year I've worked with yolani but she has already established herself as a hard worker and an insightful student she has a friendly disposition an excellent sense of humor and always comes to class prepared to work and do her best yolani was always wise above her
years she came to class prepared every day and took her academics seriously she never shied away from a challenge and would work with her peers in a respectful manner I remember clearly that yulani spoke about becoming an astronaut someday and and if anyone has the drive and determination it is yolani
yolani has a bright future in front of her congratulations [Applause] yolani only think I know
[Music] [Applause] okay at this time I'm going to invite
the members of our VFW I will let you introduce yourselves and that way you can present your Awards There You Go sir thank you don't be nervous good evening everybody we're very honored to be here tonight uh from
BFW post 3484 here in Saddlebrook to present the awards for the uh voice of democracy um it's an amazing program I'm very fortunate to be the chairman of that committee um we have uh we had nine
entries for voice of democracy none for Patriots pen unfortunately nobody can hear me sorry voice okay here we go so um we have uh a second place winner
here which is um Eduardo Tavo Tav Tovar and we want to present him with that uh award so if he would come up please ah eduard though thank you so much we
really appreciate your entry and it was an amazing essay that you wrote so thank we thank you so much very patriotic and Jay wayer will give the uh award for the third place hi everyone I'm Jay weuller I'm the senior Vice over at the
VFW Post 3484 and third place we have Mr Shawn [Applause] mccaulay what a great essay thank you thank you sir you got it these are amazing young men we're really proud of
them stay for a picture absolutely oh yeah [Applause] [Music] [Music] perfect thank you thank you so
much okay I this time I'm going to transition to our midyear update I'm going to invite the board members to transition to the chairs if you sneak out I will not be insulted if you want to stay and be honored over here guess [Music]
and thank you to our VFW members for their service and for presenting the awards all right so I'm here to present the district and board goals in midy year update and we adopted our motto this school year un storing together united we learn so you'll see it on a
lot of our forms that we're sharing out starting with the district goals District goal number one was boosting attendance I'm sure everyone in the district knows I've been sending out plenty of emails about attendance um I've been tracking it th this is what
we're doing as a district to combat our chronic to improve our chronic absenteeism rate so we began the school year with reviewing all the absences from last year anyone that had excessive absences last school year received an email from me our each building has a
school attendance team they monitor the attendance they meet with the parents um in elementary anyone that's tardy needs to go into the school building and sign their child in late um after five tardies it does turn into an absence per our board policy and our principles are
meeting with families so after a certain number of absences they invite the families in it's mandatory they sign an attendance contract and they work together with the family and we've actually have seen lots of improvement already we're also focusing on fostering
relationships communicating um verifying that our students reside in the town of Saddlebrook I'm sure everybody knows that we are emailing families to request the four mandated proofs of residency we are also working with NJ 4S NJ 4S is a nonprofit organization they
actually they started at our high school they come twice a week I believe for maybe six weeks don't quote me on that um but during lunch period and we identified high school students we started with the high school that have a high number of lenses and they go through this program NJ fors runs it
they get them pizza lunch and they talk to the students about the importance of attendance at school and they work with them and their families to develop ways to improve their attendance it's been a success we're on our second round of it um and I'm happy to say that those students are definitely coming to school
now so it's been a great thing and we also work with Department of treny so we've been in touch with them after 10 absences we do call the Department of treny we let them know and then we follow up with them so really working hard because you have to be in school in order to learn if we're going to improve
our test scores we need our students to be here our goal number two is elevating our academic achievement so what have we done for here well each school does have a school data team now this is um on top of well
there's there's oh gosh there's so many different committees in our schools right now because of the teacher climate and culture grant that we were that we um received but each School data team they meet regularly they actually look at the data they look at student scores they look at in kindergarten they have
the Dibbles assessment they have the amplify assessments they have the math assessments they have link it they look at all that information to identify students that are in need they take that information they develop a plan they communicate it with The Home Room teacher with the classroom teacher um
there is followup I actually I see Mrs nasto's here she's part of the district data team um at Smith school and I'm so sure she can even speak better to this than I may um there are every the ml students are multilingual Learners that's the state changed it from English language Learners to multilingual every
single one of our multilingual students has an individual student learning profile that has been shared with their teachers that way their teachers are aware of where where they tested what they're able to do and can give them the right level of challenge those data teams are Moder in
data throughout the school year as I said they're meeting at a minimal monthly and they are working together so ntss New Jersey tiered system of supports that's what we're working with as a district so every student starts at the bottom level every not the bottom level bottom it's like a pyramid so
every student starts at the bottom where that's the instruction that every single student receives if they need more support they go in the middle of the triangle and the ones that need the most intensive support on the top of the triangle and that's how we determine who gets basic skills who gets extra reading instruction and things like
that there'll be more on that as I go through the strategic planning and District goal number three with Safety and Security all buildings now have a vest thanks to our referendum every single building has a vestibule area um we are currently updating our security
cameras Oh no we we did already update our security cameras with AI utilization and now we're adding to that with our cops Grant so we did receive the cops Grant where we're adding door access controls inter systems and guest Management Systems the guest management system will be when every single guest
needs to sign in on the iPad they do a quick background check um you have to show your ID and then you're able to enter the building we do have a new threat assessment screening tool that we use in the district and I'll be sharing the referendum
updates um in a little bit I'm a threat assessment team I need schedule a meeting with them but we have a grou a good group of um staff members on that team and we talk about the risk across the district all right these are the Board of Education goals we have our Board of
AD president Vicky toric nope we have our Board of ADV viice president hel Traverso who's going to share a little bit about these we could do it together if you want to come up here so board goal number one is engaging in these njsba workshops so
I'll let you two speak a little bit about that we F okay so we are in the process of um putting on our calendar as a board um some workshops for us to learn more
about being aboard and what it is um that we need to do for you so we're in the process of putting those on our calendar now and these are some of the topics that we are looking at um for those um workshops oh
yeah um we actually have um the highest number of board members attend the school board um conference this year in Atlantic City also so hopefully we can keep that up and that's for many of these yeah a lot of these will happen there too so which one's this one oh okay so
this one we finished uh our goal too was to um come to a agreement with our custodial maintenance um staff so that has been done and signed did you [Music]
you want me to do it I'm just making sure she didn't want to talk um okay so Community updates okay uh so we have been uh continuing to do this at each board meeting um talking about uh different Community updates really U Mrs violetti kind of keeps you guys informed
on all of this for us um and and Ry yes I'm sorry Mr Karate um so this is part of um what we do each board meeting so we'll continue to do that and keep try to keep you guys as informed as we can as to what's going on thank you sure you didn't want talk
appreciate it great job and I'll be sharing more about the referendum and the Strategic plan okay strategic plan goal number one was Community involvement and communication so since the start of the Strategic plan we have implemented the district app updated our
website we're actually updating it again because final site was purchased um but without a steady Tech person at the moment we decided to Halt it until that person starts but the website will be updated um social media we have more of a social media presence parent groups
are very active um we have ESL family events English as a second language for students for our multilingual Learners um Mrs dbonis has been spearheading that and hosting these family events throughout the school year many um each of our principles has weekly
communication with parents um it was one of the reasons why we sent out that communication survey Middle School and High School counseling started doing a monthly newsletter that's been a big Improvement to that to um to our middle school high school and our parent partnership nights that we've
been hosting three times a school year our second goal is facilities next up is the referendum update so I will we will be talking about that but we've been working on plenty of other projects across the district integrating technology updating our Safety and
Security plans um we did the bathroom on the second floor that was part of the referendum actually air conditioning every single main gym in every single School building does now have air air conditioning in it and we've been updating Windows along the way as well and I feel like there's so many more
things but we'll go to goal number three culture and climate social emotional learning seal is social emotional learning we've been very strong in this area over the years um we have at our K pre-6 buildings we have bright celebrations they integrate children's literature with seal comp comp
competencies um and each month a grade level will will host and they will share what they learn from reading that that literature and they do a presentation to students in the building um we also have each we're fortunate we've and since I've been in sbook we've had a full-time
counselor in each building and they do a lot of of groups with our students we have districtwide sld days we have mental health um we have a tier 2 counselor and we work closely with n4s that's that organization that's coming on parent partnership night to discuss
do a workshop on stress um students in grade 10 we've been training every single year our grade 10 students in mental health Teen Mental Health First Aid training and it's for our students to understand what to do shall appear Express to them that they're having
these feelings um so we have maybe four or five of our own staff members that are trained to teach this course and we thank them because it's such an important program that we have our district and then we always do staff and climate surveys at our high
school enhancing student achievement so curriculum of Visions I will say we had QC last year and the one um one thing that was said over and over again was that our district curriculum is a model for other districts so they actually will call up Mrs deonis and they will
ask if other districts can look at our curriculum documents um so that's kudos to Mrs deonis for doing a fabulous job with that our professional development that we've had conquer math we continue with that every year we receive positive feedback from our teachers on this um it's a lot
of Hands-On learning and relating math instruction to the New Jersey student learning standards um we've had reading League that's our science of reading so um science of reading goes hand inand with amplify right now we started out
with K to2 this year we have amplify K to3 and it integrates a lot of social studies and science with literature as well we've had Kyer learning they do Tech PD so that our teachers meet with them to um learn how to integrate Tech
best into their curriculum and this year they're actually our teachers are getting to choose if they want to learn more about artificial intelligence and um the latest technology updates or tools that are out there data analysis is a big one um we've looked at the evidence statements
from the state test last year our teachers are analyzing them see where our students performed well last year see where they need to improve and they're learning what content area to focus on this school year we're really focusing on improving our student achievements so you know everyone always says about you know you
don't want to teach to the test our test right now the state the state assessment New Jersey student learning assessment is based on the New Jersey student learning standards our curriculum is based on the New Jersey student learning standards so if we are teaching our curriculum we are teaching to the test
the test has changed it's evolved over the years so it really is a true assessment as to what we're teaching in our classrooms so we've been really focusing our teachers have been really focusing on ways to incorporate test preparation into their
lessons so we're really pra not completing practice test all the time but we're really focusing on those skills that are on the assessment and making sure our students are familiar with them we do have them practice taking the test as well so that that way they are familiar with the tools that
are on the assessment um Let's see we purchased some teaching materials that are alignment with the assessment as well and our media Specialists are working with our students on typing programs because the test is an online test so our younger
students are working on typing skills with our media Specialists we also have basic skills across the district in reading and Ela and again it's a lot of data collection a lot of really analyzing the student performance and determining what they need and how best
to Target the instruction Sea by literacy that was mentioned actually that we just completed it um I just wanted to put up the facts that we have so when Mrs dbonis first started because she brought this to our district we had 13 students
that had their seal of by literacy seal on their diploma um the following year we had 14 this year we had 26 students that participated in the seala by literacy assessment we're waiting on Five results so we had so we had 31 students participate 26 have already
passed those are the languages Spanish polish and Arabic are the most um popular here but we have those other Punjabi Russian Hebrew Latin and French as well and what it is if if you're proficient in another language other than English you take the assessment and on your high school dis diploma you have
a seal of biliteracy we also have worked or I I say we and I mean our teachers um have worked in their teams to create common assessments um they're making sure that they're working together so even today Mrs dbonis hosted Elementary team
meetings throughout the day-to-day for about an hour each and they just shared ideas here's what working in my classroom here's I find you know I find great success with this and they're also look they look at the student data and then they share ideas as to what the what's working in their classroom so that's been an ongoing thing throughout
the school year test prep is built into the schedule or teachers are actually planning when to complete test prep activities with their class so that way they marking into down and we know that our students are having that practice throughout the school year our option 2
program has grown tremendously over the last couple of years um Mrs deonis has really worked hard to establish Partnerships with local businesses to provide opportunities for our students we also added career focused courses online courses as an option for our
students um for anyone interested in trade programs and then we have alternative physical education if you participate in a Varsity Sport you may opt out of PE for that semester if you're in good standing college experience is going um taking a college
course most of the time it's at Bergen Community College and work-based learning is you earn five credits um to go off campus and you get to work you have to complete assessments for Mrs dbonis it is a program you do have to complete tasks but it is um an option
it's it's an option too our next goal is personalized learning I mentioned mentioned earlier that we've this past year we sent many of our teachers our primary level teachers to morphology training um with the Institute of multisensory education
and we really want to equip our youngest teachers our teachers of the youngest grades with those multi sensory instructional tools so that way they can really have a give our our students a firm a really strong foundation in phonics we have an addition of elective
courses at the high school level each year and this year we're having our teachers are going to be creating short videos to highlight each course um so that way students understand more about what the elective is so in years past we've had them all in in the auditorium
and the teachers will go through the course that they're teaching the elective that they're teaching but it takes hours and eventually lose the interest of the high school students so this year we're trying something new where the vi the teachers are going to create a short video about their elective so the students can watch it
and really understand what class they signing up for and then we have oh those are the data points that our team that our data teams look at Dibbles linkit the njsla NJ GPA and they really you asked if they looked at data that's really what they do if you go into their
data rooms there are charts all around and they're tracking data from year to year we continue a personal liance learning we started a grade seven seminar for our uh seventh grade students that are starting Middle School it's to help them with the transition to
Middle School those executive functioning skills um technology integration social emotional things that are specific to seventh graders needs as they start in a new school building and then our option two program that I spoke about earlier okay last one is the referendum
update there's pictures on this one so it's a little bit more thrilling all right this is a list of all the projects starting at the middle school high school our bathrooms have been completed ceiling and lighting completing the roof is happening now and over the summer we started phase one of
the middle school high school we created the crosswalk in the middle of the street um we have the path we and not all of this is part of the referendum I'm not sure but we have the path going up the sidewalk and then going cross over to this the front doors of the middle school high school then we have a middle school path going from the front
doors to the middle school door we updated the Middle School um right in front the path right in front of the door our security Vesti here is completed windows are going on right now they're actually really neat um they're beautiful and they're blue on the outside which is wonderful and our turf
field and lights is in progress you'll see the lights are up the field is ready and the turf field is due to be delivered in probably about a week um and then it will take several weeks to install so these are some pictures you'll see the first two on the left are
this the bathrooms um student bathrooms upstairs here in this building and then to the right is what the Finish product looked like to the left remember our middle school high school used to have four doors and then to the right you'll see it now has three and there's a security
office at our middle school high school um that um monitors the door and the security cameras and then you'll also if you haven't noticed when you come in there's the S and the B on the floors we did that um and really trying to make it
bright and cheery and full of Falcon Spirit there's the picture of the tree and then without the tree beautiful oh and we are going to continue working on the front of the middle school high school so we are going to be meeting with the architect shortly to talk about design and Awning
extra flowers or Shrubbery something to kind of make it a little bit um prettier on the eyes that's our Middle School path to the middle school door so the left is the path and the right is right in front of the middle school door there was some raised concrete there some broken up
concrete so while we had the concrete person here we had him fix it up as well to the left were the ceiling and lights before and to the right are the ceiling and lights after here at the middle school high school and even just the design it gives
it more of like an elongated look having the lights face that way Washington school you know we renovated the whole second floor put in an elevator so I will show you so this is what the second floor looked like before we renovated it um it was we had some child steady team members up there
in storage and this is what it looks like now um it's preschool classrooms and each classroom does have a bathroom inside of it um you'll see there's a new child study team office and then that's the waiting area for the
child study team that door leads to the elevator and that's the new vestibule area at Washington school so that way they also have a secured vestibule area to the left is their creating the Elevator Shaft to the right is the elevator and then they also updated the
electricity because of all the new items in the building and we are going to continue working at Washington School updating the concrete in front of the building and a couple other little projects as well at Smith School we had the ceiling and lights completed those are the
pictures the two on the left are before pictures and the one on the right is an after picture and the roof is in progress at Franklin School the same thing ceiling and lights were completed you'll see the two on the left and then on the right it's completed and the roof and
the floors are going to happen most likely in the summer of 2025 law Memorial School that's the vestibule area before they closed up the door to the nurse's office and they um created a window and a box so to the right are the completed pictures and to
the left is what it looked like as they sealed up the door but now long school has a secure vestibule area as well coolage school it's in progress It's not completed yet this is what it looked like before and all the way to the right I know it's dark but the lights weren't on but those are the
pictur that's what it looks like um pretty much right now uh it's painted and it's going to be the Board of Ed offices and then downstairs is going to be a conference room that is all you have for me all right so we are going to transition back over does anyone have
any questions yes yes yep you're welcome yes no um Washington inside I believe Mr K the inside of it is
done we are yes we're replacing windows and we're going to do the ceiling and Lighting on both floors because it is a little dark in the hallways any other questions Mr C did I miss anything okay all right thank you
[Music] [Music] can we all back is that a long update thank you Mrs Vietti for all that information um Mr Karate business administrator
report so miss violet covered a lot of the um projects and referendum updates so at the 6:00 meeting we had our auditor here give us presentation on the um order report I'm lucky to report that
I had no order comments or the district had no order comments but I just want to tell you that there's a lot that goes into this it is a financial report on all Financial transactions of the district it's not do a curriculum like Mrs Vietti spoke with the county coming in and doing our qac review this is all
funny ccial um and it covers a lot of uh areas in the district um obviously payroll benefits is a big number of our $45 million budget so we have Miss perkovic in payroll does a great job there Miss Trisha Cal donon uh
paying all our bills uh that the board members see and sign the vouchers and my assistant noomi Fano handles all contracts the application for state school aid and many other things that that the Auditors review the minutes and keeps everything up to date uh the rest
of the central office um you know does Personnel contracts things that they look at um the schools the assist the uh principal's assistance andle sorry my mic um handles the Student Activity accounts
again there's Financial transactions so they get reviewed there's a lot uh Food Service all the transactions there with pomptonian um so everybody does a great job um student account students we have to submit um an application for state
school aid that gets reviewed because tied to that is about $3 million and they reviewed that students are enrolled in our district on a certain date and that's State Statewide Transportation same thing the students were busing meet state requirements and again enrolled in
the district on a certain uh date Statewide um staff travel that's on like the agenda tonight they review staff travel and the work shops attending make sure we're conforming to all the uh regulations and the order report and the
audit auditor management report which a a smaller report that kind of goes through the different areas a little bit better than the the the large report is the balance sheet and revenues and notes to financial statements and if you have any trouble sleeping at night it is on the website just read theer couple pages
and I think I'm sure it'll put you to sleep um unless you're really interested in financial transactions so it will be on the website uh the board members have electronically again I have a couple copies uh in my office and behind me if you want to take it home and and read it
but uh if there's no questions on that again I thank everybody and we had a great audit and we're um looking for hopefully another great year thank you Mr Cate and your staff for all the work they put into
that okay does anyone wish to speak on agenda items and policies only only anyone okay yay I don't have to read that okay so for board action items we have B2 42527 through B24
25.30 second I I shared during the caucus part but I will um I don't believe we were on camera so30 is a revised calendar for this school year because the state changed primary day so primary day was June 3rd and we had off that day because
there's voting in our schools but the state changed it to June 10th so the propose is to now close June 10th and be open on June 3rd okay and Michael second did it did you hear that okay thank you anybody have any
questions okay roll call please take your time Mella yes Mr laurentino I'm going to vote yes to all but in b2425 27 I'll abstain from number three M Traverso yes Mr aando yes M
barali yes Mr rello yes Miss torvic yes okay education and curriculum okay at the recommendation of the superintendent I make a motion to approve the following item e 24254 field trip request second Michael
second any questions I'll highlight some of the field trips we are interested 11th graders will be able to take a trip to Universal Technical Institute UTI for those interested in the trade school um our grade 12 senior banquet will be is
at The Brownstone Service Learning Club here at the middle school high school they've been doing a lot um they are visiting our elementary schools to do kindness lessons our grade 12 students our senior students that apply to Bergen Community College they will be going to Bergen
Bergen Community College with our counselors they receive a tour of the campus they meet their adviser and they actually create their schedule for the fall and there's um some trips on here for our middle school high school clubs I will say that our construction our students in our construction class are
joining our Outdoors club for one of their trips to Jersey City Trail where they will be looking at the architecture and um our polish Club here is going to the Polish Heritage night um at the credential Center I believe that's the Devils Mr Karate credential
yes yes um and our High School Musical will go to our elementary buildings to preview our musical which is Once Upon A match and those tickets will be going on sale in probably about a week I believe and that's
it any other questions oh and this year our uh preschool four-year-old students will be going to Franklin School to participate in in the um spring musical not participate in the spring musical in the um they'll be in the audience I'm missing the word it's
getting late they'll be attending the preview yes yes we our preschool students okay does anybody else have any questions no roll call please miss inello yes M laurentino yes
M Traverso yes Mr Rando yes Miss barali yes Mr orello yes Miss toric yes budget and finance Mr Vero at the recommendation of the superintendent I make a motion to approve the following
items bf2 42562 through bf2 425733391 is have um that rubber matting floor on the on the floor of the playgrounds and new apparatus at each of our K to six buildings so when we look at our playgrounds they are aging um when I
looked at the year I believe Franklin School is 1999 and even though that doesn't feel like that long ago it really is that long ago um so we are hoping that we'd be able to receive some funds through this grant in order to start remodeling those playgrounds very
cool yeah and the estimate is is double that you know we're got a local funds in the budget that we'll have to U raise in the 2526 budget and this is you know we're trying to get the grant monies for you know the half of half of it the application had uh a dollar amount in
there about 100,000 we decided to add a little more to it maybe we'll get lucky dream dream big yeah do the chair I have a question on that sure so now you applied for this grant can you apply for this GL Grant next year as well
can you do this every year I'm not sure okay we don't know if it's a Avail every year okay we don't know I know that they may not Grant it to you either but I just wondered if you could do that okay thank you any other questions roll call please M
iello yes to all but in b2425 62 I'm going to abstain from check numbers 227 and um 583 yeah to everything else Mr laurentino I to vote yes to all
but under bf42 5.62 I'll abstain from check 312 and 658 Mr RSO yes Mr Rando uh yes to all except for b2425 62 I'm going to abstain from check
number 66503 m barali yes Mr rello yes M toric yes to all but in BF 2425 62 I'm going to abstain from check number
66509 okay facilities and operations at the recommendation of the superintendent I make the motion to approve the following item f242 5.7 approval of school facility use second [Music]
got that any questions seeing none roll call please miss Zello yes Mr laurentino yes Mr Traverso yes Mr Romando yes Miss barali yes Mr orello yes Miss toric
yes okay I guess I'll do policy at the recommendation of the superintendent I make a motion to approve the following items um p2425 6 through p91 63 second Michael
second these are all second readings that we reviewed last month okay any questions roll call please Mell yes Miss lorentino yes Miss Traverso yes m roam
yes Miss barali yes Mr orello yes M toric yes okay there's no negotiations so Personnel before you make the recommendation just have in
24255 the number three the the we're going to go with ID number 5768 actions termination and effective dat is 3625 okay uh I the reom recomendation superintendent I make a motion to approve the following items
p2425 do5 through p2425 55 can I have a second second second oh thank you okay 050 um we have a music teacher
at Franklin Elementary School that has resigned and one of our district computer technicians um has also resigned and then number three is what Mr Cate just added okay point0 51 are leaves of absences we have three that are being
revised due to either corrected paperwork or date changes and then we have four new ones three maternity leaves and one medical leave 0 52 are our appointments so number one we have a power professional who never started for us so we're
resending that higher number number two um we're resending her as a part-time bus driver custodian and in number three you'll see we're hiring her as a as a bus driver for the district so she's just changing a little bit number four we hired him in the past as part-time evening custodian we're resending that
and number five he's now going to be a full-time evening custodian number six is another evening custodian number seven we're revising he was an evening custodian and number eight he's now going to be a bus driver SL custodian point five 53 we have our
stiens we have our head nurse um it's a re revision for number one because she is out on maternity leave so number two we'll get the s in for the remainder of the school year then we have our lacrosse coaches for both boys and girls
um we have our softball coaches we have our baseball coaches we have our track and field coaches our weight room coordinator our head football coach our esy coordinator that's our summer program extended school year and then you'll see we have all data teams all of
that every single data team one is through our teacher climate and culture grant that the district received um and then 42 43 and 44 are the statements that go along with those positions 0 54 is longevity 0.55 are pck
pit Orchestra musicians for our spring musical thank you any questions roll call please Mell yes to all but in p2425 53 I'm going to abstain from
numbers 3 through 16 yes everything else okay Mr lorentino yes to all M Traverso yes to all but I will abstain from 24255 three number
16 interesting Mr comeand though uh yes to all except for 2 42553 number 16 is that a no huh are you obain no it's a no yeah that's right okay M barelli
yes Mr arello yes M toric yes so I do not have enough votes for do 53 number 16 so it does not pass we need five
votes that's I'm sorry you repeat that number uh 2425 53 number 16 does not pass because it didn't get five votes okay I didn't know that everything else I didn't know
that oh yes yes I didn't know that I didn't know that oh because we have two people left okay uh committee reports anyone is that because
[Music] Sy you want to do budget since we just had a meeting or she did it before she did it before before right yeah Hy you already did budget right sry I can repeat it you you can repeat it just in case somebody's
here and wasn't there as far as uh the budget committee goes we did start meeting actually this evening and um are looking ahead towards next year's budget we will be meeting again on the 20th I believe February 20th yes very simple okay any liaison
reports um um I don't have one here I have Washington School okay I'm going to go go right ahead all right cool cool all right again the fashion show very popular uh on February 5th uh Washington school held their annual fashion show wonderful way to for students to wrap up their clothing unit
using the creative curriculum it was a success and I encourage you to check out their Instagram for probably the most adorable photos you've ever seen um February uh tomorrow February 13th is pay a dollar to wear your pajamas so uh get your singles out for that uh
February 25th uh the first four classrooms will be going on a field trip to imagine that and then the next day on the 26th the second grade classrooms will be going to imagine that also uh movie night is happening again um they're still working to solidify
details um and then they want to highlight their Tricky Tray as it will be the school's biggest fundraiser it's on March 12th which is also my birthday um at 6:30 at the spot canvas and it's open to the public um they already have some great donations and there will be a
50/50 raffle and that's all I have from Washington anyone else I have I have two I have uh Middle School High School in Franklin for Miss Elli uh it says the PTO celebrated the uh crossing guards today and thank them
for all their amazing hard work Mr Gary Mr Nick Mr Lou are in uh they are vital and amazing parts of the middle school and high school community and as far as Franklin last night uh the Franklin PTO had their monthly
meeting they are working on fundraisers including candy Gams and heart-shaped Pizza kits for Valentine's Day they're also conducting their annual Gertrude Hawk chocolate as six grade fundraiser and future events discussed
included uh family fun night at humdingers in paramis on March 24th they also discussed the possibility of a family dance for May and a Tricky Tray for November uh I think that's
it and then uh I have mine for um Smith I'm sorry I got to grab it out of [Music] here okay Smith School um students received a popcorn party to
celebrate the 100th day of school today the sixth grade class will distribute Valentine lollipop GMS to each student for Valentine's Day donations collected will support sixth grade end of the year activities the sixth grade class also hosted their annual duct tape the
teacher event and would like to thank miss miss laurentino and Miss Murphy for being such good sports and getting taped the wall uh Smith students will be selling chocolate from gertude Hawke booklets will home um stoon and they are hosting
it our their annual VP dance on Wednesday March 26th at the fiesta tickets are on sale now and their next PTO meeting is February 18th at 700 p.m. on Zoom thank you okay long school tomorrow night
let's pray that the weather holds out for them is there annual special guy special person little lady dance at the pios um there's a big save the date for May 17th of 2025 our Color Run is coming back it's been many years they are seeking sponsors for that so if anybody
is interested in sponsoring please go to the PTO long school PTO website and hit the Color Run section and while you're doing that slide on over to the spirit sale Tab and look at their newest items for this year as a friendly reminder LMS PTO members can join their Facebook page
all LMS families and staff are encouraged to visit their website which is kept up to date with all the upcoming events fundraisers and meeting meetings their next meeting will be March 11th at the long school cafeteria thank you I'll do Township liazon I believe Mrs zali was going to
do that one um we met with the township liaison committee with the mayor and Town Council and um Mr Leo and we just spoke about different projects um that involve the school and the town together I want to thank them for their support and their cooperation with us they're
always extremely willing to work with us one of the things I did forget to mention was that um you may have seen in front of the high school they were digging hole they were drilling holes in the street we our um pedestrian crossing signs that we ordered did come and they will be being installed um hopefully
within a couple days um they're the solar power powered ones with the flashing lights so we'll have two of them installed in front of the of the high school at that main crosswalk thank you okay that's all our reports
correspondence none old business old business Mr Latino just put another plug out there that on March 4th we're having the meeting here at the media center to discuss if we should have a SB High School athletic call of Fame and just to
emphasize the meeting is to determine whether we have the support needed to move forward I did have a great meeting this week with the superintendent and the athletic director we're doing a phenomenal job with this but again if you're interested please come out and give us some support because without the
support this project cannot move forward thank you continue okay um any new business through the chair sure I just wanted to let the board know um so kind of like old and new business I had mentioned at our last board meeting that
I had come in with my colleagues to visit our school district and to see how amplify is being used and how they had devised a plan to improve and work with the students with the literacy so it's been an ongoing challenge in our school
but I've been working with Mrs deonis and she has answered all of my questions she has helped me out tremendously so I just wanted to let the board know what a great job she's doing and thank you to Mrs Vietti for all the help and Mrs bonus that she is providing our the
guidance for our District that's amazing thank you thank you I'll also share that we we continue to have districts coming to our schools to observe and speak with our teachers and administration about the Amplified program because it's been such a success
so far this school year through the chair just real quick I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the morning crew over there at long school um Miss Fontana Mrs Manfield officer Joe uh usually M Duca and some staff are always out there in the front to welcome students and to make sure
everyone's getting in safely rain sleep snow shine 10° 90° doesn't really matter um they're always out there with a smile welcoming the students and it's just really nice to see uh sort of you know every morning uh them seeing the students seeing a familiar face even
though it's February some still look a little apprehensive going in especially some of the younger students so I think it's just really great um I'm lucky enough to drop my daughter off every morning and next year my son when he goes to kindergarten and it's just a really warm and welcoming environment to to bring them to so just a shout out to everyone over there at long school
they're doing a great job very nice anybody else through the chair sure um last Last Friday we were able to um Grant um I hate to put it someone's Last Wish to see their child
graduate um so thank I want to thank Miss Vietti uh Miss Sone um Mr ianello Mr Mish uh Mr arello um the Saddlebrook Police Department the Saddlebrook fire department the Bergen County Sheriff's Department the prosecutor's office the
teachers who showed up uh the teachers who involved the students um to see her son Spencer be able to graduate um so thank you to all you guys for making that happen and uh God bless the sloma family and hope everything
works in their favor thank you okay now I have to close all right Sor to bring it down yes okay uh is there anyone that would wanted to speak tonight before I
read my paragraph no one yes I don't have to read the big paragraph okay uh that being said then I guess we will close the meeting um so can I have a motion to close the thank
you can I have a second second second all in favor I any opposed okay meeting adjourned thank you everyone we