Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> Did you still live where you now? >> Oh, okay. That's the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for
all. >> Mr. Here, Mr. Mr. Miller >> here. >> Mr. Pender >> present. >> Mr. Peny >> here. >> Mr. Zelenberg >> here. >> Mr. Williams >> pres here. >> Mr. Casio >> here.
>> In accordance with terms of the sunshine law act of this meeting was open school building the administration building clerk's office public library three newspapers on January 826 and tap on February 8th6. Please be advised there is no smoking on school ground inside or outside at any time. Please silence all
electronic devices. District policy number 0167. Each statement made by participants shall be limited to 10 minutes duration and no participant may speak more than once on the same topic. >> Thank you, Mr. Super.
>> Thank you, Mr. Casio. We have packed house this evening. We have packed house this evening because we have a number of amazing um presentations and um awards for some of our students amazing achievements. I'm going to ask Mrs. Murray, principal of South Plankton Middle School. Go along with Mr. Casio,
vice principal of South Plank Middle School to go on up to the podium. The middle school will be presenting on all of the wonderful things that are happening and we'd like to step back up and introduce your students. >> Hi. Hello everyone. Can you hear me?
>> Can you hear me now? >> Okay. Hi, I'm Shanti Murray. I'm the principal of South Planefield Middle School and Mr. Casio is back there hiding. He's my assistant principal and the man behind our video today. Um, two years ago I had the privilege of
stepping into the role as the middle school principal and I knew it was going to be a very important role because middle school is a really important time for our kids. They come in as children in seventh grade and they leave looking like adults and hopefully acting a
little bit more like adults. Um, but it can be very stressful and it can be very confusing. So, we really wanted to create an environment for our students um that they felt heard, they felt safe, and they felt like part of the
community. So, we brought in a lot of exciting new things to the middle school, which our video will show you. Um, and we're still working uh really hard on creating more and more positive experiences for our students. So, I have two of the most important people in this room are going to come and introduce
themselves. >> Hi, I'm Ella Kimble. I'm the secretary of the South Haven Middle School. >> And I'm Mia Panita, the vice president of Southampton Middle School. >> Together with the help of Mr. Cassia, we created a short video highlighting some of our newest additions to our school.
>> These additions impacted school culture in a positive way and got students more involved. We organized events, supported school initiatives, and made sure students voices were heard. >> We hope you enjoy. >> Southview Middle School is buzzing with
excitement thanks to a wide range of new clubs, activities, and schoolwide initiatives designed to bring students together and celebrate success. One of the standout additions this year is the homework club. New to the middle school, the homework club is available twice a week for students looking for a little
extra academic support or just a positive and collaborative space to complete their assignments. Students can meet in the school library on Tuesdays and Thursdays with members of the National Junior Honor Society who volunteer their time. One of the perks of middle school is its beautiful card.
The courtyard is no longer just for navigating between classes. When the weather is nice, it transforms into an outdoor space for classes or somewhere to unwind and eat lunch while playing games like cornhole, volleyball, or a spirited game of gaga. It has become the favorite spot to go to during lunch and
take a break from their studies. What's your favorite thing about this wonderful courtyard here? >> I like the dog outside. It's fun. Everybody plays it a lot at recess. Students in the STEM club are thriving as they create engaging and interactive projects that help them prepare for
careers of tomorrow. Today we're building um a um hydraulic bridge [music] where we used a syringe and like platform to make the bridge go up. >> So this is a hydraulically powered bridge. It is powered by liquid which cannot be compressed like gas or air.
>> It's it's fun. I get to do with my friends and if we want to like progress ask us question how we can make it better. >> School spirit is also on full display during our exciting schoolwide event and assembly. Students this year competed in a clash between classes and teachers in a spirited game of are you smarter than
a seventh grader. Before extended breaks, there were exciting events like the egg Olympics in the spring and the reindeer games in the winter which feature fun holiday themed activities like egg races and musical chairs. Last but certainly not least is the art club. The club, which is also new this year, grew overnight and became one of the
most popular activities in the school. With overwhelming interest, the club, which meets twice a week, had to implement a rostered schedule to meet the need. >> Right now, me and my friends are working on a tiger made out of paper, cardboard,
tape, and a little bit of glue. Everyone's just so creative, especially with the rainbow and the I love that. And the tiger the thing the best thing I like about our club is that um Mr. Tenno lets us just be creative >> in whatever way.
>> With so many opportunities to get involved, South Indian middle school is a fun and vibrant environment where every student can find >> [applause] >> Did you guys have any questions for me or for our lovely students? >> Good job. That's great. Thank you.
[applause] Murray, >> Mr. Cassie, are you are you standing outside? Congratulations. >> Yeah, I'm sorry. >> Okay, perfect. Victoria is going to take your picture to make sure you get to tackle. I'm going to ask uh Mr. Proscolo to come
on up to the podium. Our second presentation is uh we're all just so very proud of our students. We are so fortunate to have amazing students. So, we are going to acknowledge the hard work of our students, their accomplishments in the clubs, and we're
also going to be acknowledging a number of our students who have earned the seal of literacy. Mr. Rico, are you doing the seal first? Okay. for the seal of literacy first. >> Thank you, Dr. Tanzy. Uh thank you, Dr. Melissa and members of the board of education. Uh again, I'm Mr. Skull. I'm
the school principal. Uh this is one of the more fun parts of my job where I get to recognize our students for their many accomplishments. Uh the first thing I'll be recognizing is our students who have achieved the seal of biiteracy. The New Jersey State seal of literacy is an award that recognized students who are proficient in at least one language in
addition to English. Not only will the Department of Education recognize this accomplishment with a certificate, uh, but also a seal that gets embossed on the students transcripts. The state will release these certificates in June, but we know who our students who are to receive them. So, we'll be recognizing
them here tonight. Uh, before we do, I just want to extend my gratitude to our world language teachers, our uh, ESL teachers um, throughout throughout the school district and the high school. I don't believe any of them earn attendance this evening, but thank you for all their hard work in getting the students to where they are now. Uh we
have 18 students who have earned this in Spanish and two students who have earned this in Mandarin Chinese. So uh as I call your name, if you're here, please come forward and be recognized and then make your way down for a photo opportunity. Our two students earning their seal of literacy in Mandarin
Chinese are uh Yuzen Hugh and Mindy L. [applause] students earning their seal of bacy in Spanish. Andrea Corno Ria Priz Ashley Hernandez
[applause] Natalia Lotto Sisella [applause] Carzi [applause] Mendes Rosales >> [applause] >> Ashley Morales, Nicholas Moran, [applause] Amy Sullivan, Victoria,
[applause] Daniel Paneda, Camila Papovich, [applause] Carlos Rosario, Ventura, [applause] Takiana Rollins, [applause] Sheree Sha, Kenneth Young, [applause]
and Juliana Zaz. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations >> everyone at the conclusion. Just make
your way down to where this evening is. I didn't know if told she wasn't my but um in addition to uh our seal by literacy we'll be also recognizing a number of different clubs and activities for
accomplishments that they've uh hued throughout the course of the year. Uh our first is actually our gaming club. Um esports is continuing to grow nationwide. We're excited to see our team at South Planefield do the same this year. Our gaming club in addition
to holding a schoolwide mar tournament was pretty awesome. those in the auditorium on that on that big screen. Also earned third place in the Garden State Esports Winter State Championship specializing in a game called Overwatch, which I have not played, but it's really complicated. Um, our third place team
consists of uh five members. If they are in attendance, please come forward. They have your certificates for you. Uh, Herman Porter, David Herman, [applause] Scarlett Ramirez, [applause]
Brook Ramirez, Nicholas Rebellia, [applause] and Russell. Congratulations to our gaming club. Uh the next group of uh students I'd like to recognize is our debate team. Our debate team uh annual competes in a
number of competitions this year at the Miscataway magnet debate competition. Uh our members in addition to winning best team overall at a number of the individual accolades. So I'm going to call up and recognize them as well as if they received any specific accolades. Um, Malik Abdulanti,
[applause] uh, Savannah Anes [applause] Arouchia Maxi, [applause] >> Zoe Carrera, [applause] Jaylen Coffee, [applause] Christopher Zuma, Valentina Diaz, [applause]
Jasine Dixon, [applause] Aaron Everett, [applause] uh, Rand Kisher, [applause] Taran Lana, [applause] uh Leonardo Martinez, [applause] Jason Miller, [applause] uh Abdullah Muziel, [applause] Julian Ronan [applause]
and Leah Shak. [applause] Congratulations. [applause] Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job.
My job I absolutely for decor so I apologize for that. Uh our DECA club run by Miss Bryant was actually able to uh expand their competition actually compete for the first time in a number of years. It was actually really exciting sending and qualifying a number of kids down to Atlantic City for their
uh regional conference. Uh we were uh able to have uh five different students earn different types of accommodations which you can see within a minute. I'd like to recognize them at this time. Uh Chris Suma is actually getting another word over there. [applause] Shane Magalop,
[applause] Carly Russo, [applause] Tyler Spinner, who's [applause] >> congratulations. >> Congratulations. Oh, here they are. >> Congratulations.
>> I'm not graduating. Yep. >> Okay. The next organization I'd like to recognize is our modeling United Nations. Uh again run by Mr. Shaw was able to continue the tradition of success and excellence in their conferences for the 2526 school year. They've traveled all over. This year
they went to Ruckers and Boston University. They've gone into Canada. They've gone all over the place. One time he tried to take them into Europe. Uh Mr. Shaw does an incredible job and they are an outstanding group of uh students who excel at this level. Uh between the Ruckers model UN conference
and the Boston Boston model UN conference, we did a number of different accommodations. So the following students are ones that have earned accommodations at those. Uh first Leila Abdomali >> [applause] >> Andy Lou, [applause]
Sabrina Lewis, [applause] Ashley Morales, [applause] Alvin Nun, Lyanna O'Neal, [applause] Bren Rasimus, Lindsdale Center, [applause] Alexander Wordell, [applause] and Ben Wellations.
[applause] The next group of students I'd like to honor are through our chamber choir program. The following students, there are four of them, earned the distinction of being part of the TCJ honors choir. This required a lengthy audition and uh performance. Very proud of everything they've accomplished.
uh as part of our TCJ honors choir, uh Dylan Nichol, [applause] Elenia Compatella, [applause] Liliana Davis, [applause] Jason Bell, [applause] and Sophia. Congratulations. Congratulations. Okay, our next group of students would
like to recognize is our winter guard. Our winter guard continue their hard work and long practice hours throughout the season as they uh recently placed first in their regional championship just just uh last week and two weekends ago. Uh throughout the season they gained over 25 points from their first competition. That's a massive growth
throughout the year. So a lot to be proud of. Um and they finished their season with a score of a 86 which marked them as are their regional champions. Our winter guard members are [applause] Kelly Alice, [applause] Ashley Alvarado, [applause]
Elon Enough, [applause] Sydney Becker, Skyler Boo, [applause] Liliani Galas, Siana Lachan, [applause] Audo, Anakuga, [applause] Olivia Pagan, Dominique Roco, [applause]
Audrey Vloesca, Jayen Villa Lobos, [applause] Zakira Balin, [applause] Evelyn Rollins, and Tiana Williams. [applause] Okay. And last and certainly not least, our band, our marching Tigers at that. Um, our marching Tigers continued their
winning ways throughout the course of their season this year. Uh, this year they moved up into an open class, which is a a big step up in competition, but they're they're more than ready and they met the task. Uh, for their first time in the open class, uh, through hard work, long hours, they are here just
non-stop. Um, they won special awards including best guard, music, visuals. They made it all the way to the Atlantic Coast Championships again and placed third out of 10 teams with a score of 91 as well as what's called the high auxiliary award. Uh very proud of all of our students, uh coaches, uh parent
volunteers, uh and all they accomplished. Uh so I will now be recognizing all the members of our marching band and we have a big band. [laughter] Uh Gazi Abdul >> [applause] >> Nata Ardash, [applause]
Julia Abuya, [applause] Kylie Alice, [applause] Ashley Alvarado, Arushia Boxy, [applause] Sydney Becker, >> [applause] >> Skyler Boots, Anthony Patrico, [applause] Jason Diaz, [applause]
Brady Dylan, [applause] Envy Double, [applause] TABITHA EVERETT, >> [applause] >> LILIANA GALAS, [applause] Dean Hassan, [applause] Nelly Hatton, [applause] Jalia James, [applause]
Siana Lana, Kenneth Lee, [applause] Jason Miller, Auda, [applause] Kyle Pagan, [applause] Olivia Pagan, Carter Patterson, [applause] Andrew Potswa,
Leila Pedrosa, [applause] John Pignitara, [applause] Nathaniel Rali, [applause] >> Ren Rasam, Musa [applause] Taylor Reed, [applause] >> Nicholas, Rebellia, [applause] Abdel Roman, [applause]
Sage Salazar, Lindsay [applause] Daniel Schwarz, [applause] London Thomas, [applause] Molly Van White, [applause] Jurelius Ventura [applause] like seniors, >> Audrey Vanesco
>> [applause] >> Jayen Valobos, [applause] Elena Wilson, [applause] Andre Winston, [applause] Dylan Nichol, [applause] Sophia Miller, [applause] Lyanna O'Neal, [applause] Zakyra Ballroom, [applause] Evelyn Rollins,
Tiana Williams, [applause] Isabella Bacho, >> [applause] >> Blake Greco, Sabrina Lewis, [applause] Zachary Orillian, [applause] CAMERON VAN WHITE, >> [applause] >> AND NEIL WATTS. [applause]
All right. Uh that is our marching tigers. Just really quick because we also recognize the um region and all state band. We did have three members of our marching band and concert band that also did all state band. Um and they are Cameron Van Dwight, [applause] Molly Vaning
[applause] Tigers. Thank you. [applause] [applause] >> I know, right? Congratulations again. Congratulations. >> Thank you, Mr. Priscolo, and all of our amazing students. Um, we also have
another presentation this evening. Our student representative is Tyler Spina. Tyler is currently serving as the vice president of uh the career management for decad. He's a member of the spring track team, president of the phs young Republican club and a member of uh
Congressman Frank Palone's youth advisory council. Tyler, we're excited to have you here with us. And if I'm not mistaken, you are an officer in the sophomore class, correct? Thank you for having me here tonight. Um, >> thank you for having me here tonight.
Um, >> I'd like to address Dr. Tany, Dr. President Casio, Vice President, and Board of Education all gathered here today. Um, I said previously, my name is Tyler Spina, and I'm the sophomore class
treasurer. Sadly, our president did not make us to this uh board of education meeting. So, I'll be here. >> Um, as a sitting student in South High School, I'm speaking here today to update the board of education on all listings on what's going on in and around our high school from the students
perspective. So, I'll begin with our athletics department. Um, so far our strengths are accepting absolutely terrific. We have girls across one of the best teams they've had in years. Um we're currently very first seat. So that's incredible.
Um Sam girls for our track team, both our boys and girls teams are doing absolutely great great. They're crushing seats and they're actually here running because today now they're on track. So we wish them luck. Um both our softball and baseball teams are doing great as well. They're having great seasons and
our spring golf team is doing incredible as well. They're currently at a score of 105 right now and yeah, they're just doing excellent out there. Um, I'd like to issue congratulations to all athletes that participate in um, spring sports.
They're doing excellent. >> Um, I'll transition to our school events. >> So, for starters, our seniors are nearing graduation. Congratulations to all of them. Um, their prom will be taking place June 4th. And um outside of school, what seniors are up to pretty
much they're uh currently participating or most of them in senior assassin, which is like a game held by the whole school. So that's great for them as well. Hope they're having fun. Um next upcoming events, we have the day [clears throat] of service. Uh me and the student council, we've been meeting
regularly and planning for this event. So it's well underway. Um I have all the um events that will take place in the day of service right here. So for the class of 2026, We have Indian rocking and basketball that proceeds from that will be donated
to the Society. Um, class of 2027, we have indoor games and obstacles of course and from [cough] that will be donated to the Pink Socks Foundation. For the class of 2028, we have um color and flag football and those proceeds
will be going to the Children's Hospital. [clears throat] For class of 2029, we have spikeball and pickle ball and those proceeds will be going to the boys and girls club. >> Additionally, we have the student council executive board and they're
going to be hosting volleyball. Their proceeds will go to hope for children foundation and the lacrosse team is raising for the Southfield Food Pantry. Miss Green is um hosting outdoor garden planting and
the Asian Cultural Society is hosting um Gur uh for Southampton High School staff members uh Guru Van Dana. Uh Miss Benton, she's leading cleanup at Highwoods. So these are some terrific events that we'll have in the day of
service. Um I'm very glad that they'll all be taking place. They're all excellent and they're going to great causes. >> [clears throat] >> Additionally, we had college and career day where the upper classmen essentially got a taste of what their future education could await them. They got to
um experience potential colleges and potential careers. So, that was great. That was uh 22nd. [cough] We also had our spring spring concert which I'm sure um multiple people just received uh awards for and that was absolutely excellent. That's a place
April 30th and congrats to everyone who performed there. Obviously, as of now, this week, AP exams started. So, best of luck to everybody who has AP exams. I know I took my AP exam Tuesday, so yeah, not the most fun thing to be doing this week, obviously, but uh we got to get
them over with. So, that's excellent. >> Hope they all school well. >> For NJSLA testing, we will have that taking place May 19th through the 21st. We will have a 2-hour delayed opening for non-esting students on the 19th and 20th. >> Juniors will be taking the NJSLA science
exam on the 19th and 20th. 9th graders will be taking the NJSLA math, reading, and writing exams on the 19th, 20th, and 21st. I'd like to issue another congratulations to all DECA members who qualified for the annual state career
development conference in Atlantic City. I know I was there and it was an absolute blast. it was did terrific and it's very impressive for our first year back with the chapter. So, a special um congratulations to them. This week is teacher appreciation week. Thank you to
all the South Planefield High School teachers and staff who make this possible. They do wonderful and they teach every student here and prepare them for the real world. So, I highly encourage any student here listening today to thank teacher staff when you have the chance.
[clears throat] debate team has had an overall great year with multiple victories. The marching band likewise has had a great year taking third in competition. Absolutely excellent. Uh Model UN recently traveled to Boston. Eight out
of the 12 members in the Model UN won awards. They did great job. Very proud of them. Take your child to work day also took place recently where students got to meet staff and teachers, children. That was absolutely great. A lot of fun. I know there was a Tiger TV segment on it. So students love that.
[clears throat] Um lastly, school is closed June 2nd for professional day and primary elections. So putting that out there. Um and Tiger Farms is doing excellent. They can be found every Wednesday on parking lot side outside and they're doing great.
Lastly, I'm going to recognize the uh Rotary students of the month to finish off the year and their breakfast will be on May 19th. More details will be provided soon on that event. So for March we have Kenneth Young and Vanessa Hyen. [clears throat] April we have Sydney Isabelle Villain Villa and Sarah
Westgate. May we have Angel Sullivan and Tatiana Roland. In June we have Camila Chavez and Ashley Morales. So a special thank you to all of them. They did absolutely great. and a special thank you to you for um all this time and allowing me to
attend this meeting and speak on behalf of the South Planfield sophomore class as a treasurer. And I hope I've informed you all well on current events and what's taking place inside and outside the school. And I hope to see you all again. Have a great rest of your night. Thank you.
[applause] Great job. >> Um I just have a couple other things. Just a couple of things real quick to remind the public. Our preschool lottery, sorry. Our preschool lottery um is scheduled for May 18th. The numbers
will be drawn at 9:00 a.m. Um they'll be drawn. We will have our attorneys there watching to make sure that everything is on the up and up. Uh so they will be that'll be 9:00 in the morning and by the end of the day the numbers will be posted on the website. So please uh check the website. And I don't know how I can follow up what Tyler had to say
about the day of service other than we're very excited um to continue our wonderful day of service. And if you have any interest in um going on to our website and just looking at all the different activities that are happening not only in the high school but throughout the district, that would be great. And if you see any of the charities that you'd like to contribute
to, we would love to have you um you know contribute to those as well because the kids have chosen ones that are near and dear to their heart and that will help the community. So if you have any um an opportunity to do that, please check uh the website. Mr. Casio,
>> this time we have board member comments on presentations. Miss Miller, >> I just want to congratulate all our students who received the seal of biteracy and those who accomplished special recognition of their book clubs and activities.
>> These are impressive achievements and we're proud of all of you. Tyler, thank you for providing us with a high school update. It was very informative. We really appreciate you letting us know and keeping us informed and everything going around our high school. You did an excellent job. >> Thank you so much.
>> And to the uh middle school students, I want to thank them for sharing all the new clubs and activities at the middle school. It seems like a great place to learn and enjoy all that the middle school has to offer. Seems like they've added a lot of new activities and clubs in there. So, we're really happy to see that. And just a shout out to all of our
teachers for all they do for our students every single day. We have the best teachers anywhere. Thank you. >> Successful. >> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Tyler, for a great presentation. I know it's tough to sit up here and then when you're like thrown into it to replace
someone, it's even a little more scary. You did a great job. >> Thank you so much. >> Uh great job uh at the middle school with that video and it's nice to see all the activities inside and outside the school. that the um students are having the opportunity to participate in. And congratulations to the students
recognized tonight for the high school extracurricular activities. Required learning takes place in the classroom, but the additional knowledge obtained through their own initiative is an opportunity available to all students. So I I commend these achievers for their accomplishments and efforts and I hope
uh more students get involved and keep up the participation. Thank you, Mr. Sus. Anybody else? Mr. Streets. Yeah, pretty much just want to echo what everybody said. Mr. Spe, that was a great job. Thank you so much. Very poised. You didn't lose track. You did. You were great. Very spot on. And thank
you. A lot of good information in there. I also want to recognize everybody with everybody that was recognized tonight. I mean, there's obviously so many accomplishments. That was a whole lot of recognition there. Um, the middle school, that was a fantastic video. It really was. There's a lot of stuff that
we're doing there that, you know, I don't think anybody even really thought about renew. So, I thought it was really a great video and I don't think there are any filters. I think that courtyard really is that beautiful. Those trees back there, Mr. Wigs, thank you for all that hard work and teacher appreciation week. You really can't say enough. And I
always say when I started many years ago, what really pushed me to want to be on the board is I saw a bumper sticker that said, if you can read this, thank teacher. And I thought to myself, you know, that's not true. It really is and our teachers do a fantastic phenomenal
job with our students and everyone and I just want to say thank you. They don't get affected enough for all the hard work that they do to all the stu to all the teachers and the faculty do. Thank you. >> Anybody else? Mr. Per.
Congratulations to our seal of bi literacy recipients and then everyone else um who was honored for their involvement in our high school clubs and activities. I think it's super important to understand that our school south link
high school is a hub for personal development, right? If you're involved in DECA or the marching band or the gaming club, you are building on who you want to become. Um, and it's so important. So, thank you to all of our students and all of our staff that help
shape our students into the individuals that they want to be. So, incredible job and kudos to them. Um, similarly to what Mr. Ganakus said, Southfield Middle School, that courtyard looked incredible. Um, as somebody that that
went to the middle school and fully knows what it looked like, it it definitely came a long way. So that was a a beautiful presentation. Um so kudos to to our staff and our administrators at the middle school and our students.
Tyler, I was just saying that you did a phenomenal job. >> Um you kept us well informed, but the eloquence in your presentation, the way that you spoke to us, like >> the sky's is the limit for you. You're
going to go far. So, keep it up. Keep honing your skills and keep taking on every opportunity that comes your way because you are going places. >> Thank you so much. >> You got it. >> Anybody else?
>> I'll just end it with congratulations to everyone who received awards this evening. Mr. Moscola, excellent job uh with these students. I mean, to get all these kids to be involved in all these activities, kudos to everything that's going on in the high school. Um Mr.
Great job. >> You were clear, concise, informative. All right. And you look like you've done this before. Obviously, you're on the DECA. You also on the debate team, too. >> No, >> just DECA. >> Young Republicans. >> Young Republicans. All right. I I can tell by the way you you portrayed
yourself that you feel comfortable doing it. Just keep doing what you're doing. All right. >> Thank you so much. >> You got it. >> All right. At this time, I'm going to take a fivem minute break. Mr. >> Pitch and wedge 42 cuz we played it for the
>> three. Tuesday night league doesn't have a pool once Monday night does I'm leaks Monday night leak I sold Tuesday night with no I would $8,000 right Monday night is $8,000 box.
I pay for my grease. Part of my grease. >> Not very often. Last the last kid that hit one over. >> He's going to hit home. Well, he better catch up cuz now I have two. >> Good job. Good job.
>> Got that last night shoot that video by himself. The wonder [laughter] Why don't you like that?
Yeah. You need anything else? as a reference whenever you apply for anything you >> know everybody >> [clears throat] >> Keep it up. >> Go this way or that way.
Right. >> Why didn't you let someone else go to someone else? 15 years ago. [laughter] >> See you soon. Take care, guys. each other. That's what Tyler said.
Nowhere near freak out. Take a seat. >> All right. Where we at here? Let's see. Public budget hearing. Motion to open. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please.
>> Mr. B >> here. >> Mr. Raspberry >> here. >> Mr. Miller >> here. >> Mr. Pender >> here. >> Mr. Peni >> Yes. >> Mr. Cesleberg here. >> Miss Williams >> present. >> Mr. Janakis >> here. >> Mr. Casio >> here.
>> At this time, >> closer presentation. >> All right. Ready to go. [clears throat] >> This evening, we will present the South Planefield School District proposed 2627 school year budget. This budget has been thoughtfully developed to preserve our existing programs while also enhancing
key areas including special services, curriculum, and technology. The board of education and administration have worked collaboratively to allocate resources in a manner that best supports our students with the majority of funding allocated to our faculty and staff who remain the foundation of our educational system. In
addition, the budget reflects our continued commitment to supporting the whole child. This includes not only academic achievements but also the social and emotional well-being of our students. We have maintained strong support for athletics and extracurricular activities, recognizing the vital role these programs play in
student growth and engagement. At this time, it is important to acknowledge the financial challenges we face. Rising costs particularly in health insurance, energy, transportation, and facility maintenance continue to increase at rates that exceed the state imposed budget cap. Despite these pressures, the
board has remained focused on developing a budget that sustains the highquality educational services our community expects. This includes maintaining elementary class sizes and expanding services in critical areas such as nursing and student support. Our district continues to experience
enrollment growth across all student populations, including general education, special education, and multilingual learners. We are committed to ensuring that every student has access to the instruction and support necessary for success. As you will see from tonight's presentation, we have
developed a budget that meets our current needs with uh implementing without implementing the reductions that are being reported in many surrounding districts. However, this remains a very tight budget. We have also included projections that reflect current trends,
providing insight into the challenges we will no doubt face as we begin to plan for the 2728 school year. It is essential for our community to understand the long-term impact of the state funding formula. Without changes at the state level, these financial pressures will continue to significantly
affect our district in the years ahead. We will now present our budget. Mr. Clerk, are you good? >> All right. Although you do see three names on the cover sheet of this, this uh budget was put together by all of our administration as well as um cooperation
through our board, our board of education members, and then our mission statement as it stands on our website for all to see. We will be presenting for this budget our enrollment and staffing, our budget increases, our expenditure trends, our tax impact, and
our budget highlights. First to start with our enrollment and staffing. As you can see, over the past number of years, our enrollment has continued to grow in all areas. As I mentioned, it's grown in a to our total enrollment, our
gened population, our specialed population, and all others have all continued to grow. Our district employees are currently uh consist of full-time certificated personnel and non-certificated personnel, which includes full-time and part-time PAR professionals, administrative, secretarial, maintenance, and
transportation. Our current school year, we had full-time employment at 641. Our proposal for next year is uh 652. That number reflects a number of contractual services that we are bringing back into the district because it's more fiscally
responsible to bring them back back in based on the uh raises that our contractors are proposing for us. Our new staff for the 26 27th school year consists of um one additional teacher that we need at Franklin School uh for our increased population. We're adding
one nurse to our district will be house at the middle school for increased uh medical support. Our preschool expansion we have uh added for the uh requirements of the grant a preschool instructional coach. Special services will be adding one additional teacher in Franklin School for the expansion of the district
autism program as well as um one special services um district child study team member. We will also be as I mentioned before five returning members, two special services in a uh support role. We'll be bringing in three speech and
two OT therapists. um they are people that are currently paid from um from the district in contract roles, but they'll returning back to district as well as one level one tech for the district. Our budget increase and this a little bit hard to to see um as we look across each
of these lines. Our salaries and benefits have increased 2,167,598. Our transportation costs have gone down by 88,000. Our special services have gone down um by 276 uh $276,829.
However, our special services out of district placements have increased another $552,551. Our maintenance has gone down by 29,000. Our energy costs, just like in your home, have gone up. Ours have gone up by $150,000. Um our capital security and tech
projects have increased 54,000. Our technology overall budget has gone down $16,421 and our curriculum has increased an additional $39,636. Our charter schools uh numbers have increased. We're paying an additional
amount of tuition in the amount of 167,928. Um and our other services have our our security supplies, things like that have gone down uh 256,561. Overall, the increase to our budget is
2,364,295. I just want to go back to that charter school so that you have a full understanding of what that means. Charter school um are for students who have chosen to attend a school outside of the district. The public school system is required to pay for that. At the moment, this is the number that we
have entered into our budget based on the number of students we have enrolled from our district that we know live in South Planefield and are attending charter schools. That however could change. We have no control over if five students more decide to leave, 10 students more decide to leave, that number is then impacting our budget and
we have to reallocate funds within our our budget line. Um just so you have an idea of what the um impact of the increase in our health line looks uh looks like for the 2526 school year, the year we're currently in, our increase in our health budget, our numbers were um
$14,190,000 90,900. This year our projected number is 15,795,895. That's an additional increase of 1,64,95. That is a huge increase. Our um energy and utilities, as I mentioned, we were
at 1,350. Next year, we're projected at 1,500,000. That's an additional um $150,000 entered into our district. um our increase to our faculty due to the increased student population as well as other services. Again, I mentioned we
are going from 641 to 652 with five of those positions coming back from contracted services and our charter schools went up as I mentioned at this point 167,928. Um we have an increase to our special services department. This is based on um
the number of students that are being classified and their needs and the and the programs that we need in our district to support these students. As I mentioned, we're increasing by six. Five of those are um returning back to district and our special services out of district placement. Uh our current year
we are paying $3,498,51 for our out of uh out of district tuitions. next year based on the current population. Again, students can move in at any time and if their needs are um are better suited out of the district, then that number will increase. But
we're projecting that number at $4,50,62, which means our projected increase at the moment is $552,551. I think it's important that our uh that our our community understand what what it looks like as we're moving forward.
We were able to balance our budget um based on our our current uh faculty uh support and what we were able to um reallocate from one area to another. We delayed projects um that will eventually need to be uh addressed here in our
district in order for us to uh make sure that that money was was allocated to best serve our students in the instructional or or um the whole child social emotional realm. Making sure that we had curriculum that was in alignment with our with our um requirements for the state. But what I'd like you to take
a look at and I won't go through all of this information, but I just want to take a look at the at the bottom that's in red up there small. So I'll read it to you. based on the 2% cap that is now in place for the state of uh of New Jersey. If all things remain the same and our we
increase our budget by 2%. And we do and nothing else raises in our district more than 2%. We'll find ourselves in a deficit next year at 354,46 354,4610. However, um that's not the amount that
we normally increase. nothing is going up 2%. If you uh move on to the following year, we move out of 2728 and move to to 28.29 using that same formula, we'll be over $700,000 in the whole. That's if we were at 2%. In
reality, based on our numbers, we increase, depending on which line you're looking at, somewhere between 6 and 10%. Realistically, if the funding formula does not change and that uh there is not some sort of a change that comes out of
Trenton just based on our trends alone raising our taxes 2% um we will be in the in the uh deficit next year of $2,110,000 and uh the following year $4,428,000.
I am telling you this so that you understand the importance of your role as a community and making sure that Trenton hears that we have to change the school funding formula. It can be [clears throat] changed and we have to take that take a role in that all of us. I'm going to um talk about the impact to
uh your taxes. The tax levy increase for 20 uh school year 27 includes a 2% increase and the waiver. So taxes will be raised $1,934,887. What the impact looks uh like for the average taxpayer, the average South
painful home is assessed at $125,483. They would see an approximate increase of $159 over the next 12 months or $13.25 per month. So that is what the average house would uh would be seeing in their increase. Approximately 60% of the homes
in South Planefield are assessed at or below that $125,483 uh number proposed under this budget. We're going to go over this again, is an increase to our faculty and staff, a general education teacher of one, preschool instructional coach of one, special
education teacher of one, special services and child child set team member of one, special services educational support, that's five returned back to the district. um one additional nurse and one additional um level one tech in our instructional uh programs for um
and uh we were able to maintain our student programming in response to academic and social and emotional needs. All academic programming, our credit recovery 9 through 12, our elective and special area classes, our advanced level and support classes K through 12. Um we'll be updating and writing curriculum
in K through 12 where necessary. We'll be purchasing software licenses and making sure that they're renewed and we will have professional development intact for next year. Our curric curriculum programs, we will be writing curriculum in a number of areas. Our district writing cycle for um our CUSAC
uh our QAC alignment and requirements by the state. will be rewrite. We will be writing science K through 12, STEM K 8 through 8, ELA K4 in alignment with our reading program, visual and performing arts K through 12, world language K through 12, social studies 58, enhancing
reading and writing. The New Jersey Department of Ed new requirements and standard alignment for K12 is career awareness, life literacy and uh key skills, computer science and design thinking and visual and performing arts. They will all be addressed in this budget.
our instructional programs. There's new courses, programs and resources. Our programs and assemblies are anti-bullying, drug prevention awareness, uh character education workshops. Our course is AP, our courses are AP business and environmental and sustainability. Our new course uh
resources are waivers quaver music lessons AI music creations K6 our AI software and platform uh purchases supporting the use of AI in the classroom responsibly and our uh math grades seven and eight.
We also have our instructional programs for professional development. Funds are allocated in this year's budget to provide training based upon the district's professional development needs assessments based on the survey and district goals, including the nurture park approach, which is what we use in our special education programs.
our PD Academy, a program designed to support our non-tenure teachers to master instructional teaching methods, the continued um the continuation of district initiatives for our elementary reading program, our context, our content specific professional development, methods to address diverse
learning styles in the classroom, understanding district multi-tered system of support and instructional technology, the responsible use of AI. uh maintain and additions to the special education programs include a step program and additional step classroom is
at the elementary level. that is the teacher that we're putting in our um No, we're actually transferring somebody into our Franklin School special education programs. There's in in-class resource, pull out resource, preschool disabilities, we have three. Our language learning disabilities, we have nine. Our autism class, we have classes,
we have eight. And our ERRI um class, we have one. Our special services, we have anticipated similar funding. Uh we do get additional funding for our special services department, but we're anticipating similar funding for the coming school year, which is just a shy
of a million dollars. Um we are maintaining all programs and multiensory reading support in grades K through 12. The continued expansion of the person- centered approach to student transitioning and our professional development is self-contained instructional practices and self-contained practices um as well
throughout the classrooms. in our athletics and our clubs. We have maintained all of our clubs for the 27 school year. The only change that will be made in our clubs in our middle school freshman um for freshman JB or varsity or any clubs and sports that are
coming up are any clubs and sports that no longer have been able to um attract enough participants. So if there is a club that is going to sunset, it'll be replaced by another club. So we'll maintain those same numbers. Our extracurricular clubs have been maintained, including elementary through
high school, with a total of 79 contracted stipen positions. It should be noted that we have many district teachers who also volunteer their time to serve as advisers on a number of non-stipended clubs. Our technology technology we have to
support our 5-year lease um for our staff laptops. We're initiating migration to our new wireless uh display system. We're beginning migration to a full Google district. We're unified um automated uh patching systems. We're uh our initial migration to a zero trust network where the replacement of
existing Chromebooks, our branch school, we have general maintenance that has to happen and we'll be renewing our existing software and licenses. Funds have also been allocated. Uh we will maintain our school resource officers which we have three in the district. We have our district sleos
which in uh includes the CLO that we have in our buildings. Uh in addition to the SRO that um travel through the district, we're also adding our summer security program for any of our title one programs or any additional programs that we have for enrichment and we have increased the number of um security
personnel that we have at our uh athletic events. our security maintenance, our South Plainville High School, we are upgrading our weapons detective detection system and bag screening system that is required and necessary. We are um security coverage for uh personnel. There's a cost to
that. Our AI camera upgrades, that's districtwide. And we'll be including automated security signage in many of our districts. Our f our facilities, we will be adding um additional small instructional spaces within Riley and Kennedy's main office. That space is going to be utilized for speech services
and/or guidance. We're going to renovate the grand school kitchen, upgrade the facilities and equipment there. Um, what is necessary are middle school bathrooms, the ones that are located near the gym. We'll be replacing the middle school interior doors for security purposes. That is an ongoing project. There are many, many doors and
it's very expensive. And then we have general maintenance throughout the district in our uh buildings and our grounds. Our budget highlights. I'm going to hand that over to Mr. Vani. Thank you, Dr. Tany. Um, the total operating budget uh for the school year
27 will be 90,594,521. The largest increases that make that up are our salary which will have a projected super employees. Our health benefit costs which have been projected by our broker at 14%. And our special services costs which include out of
district tuitions projected to rise 5.8%. Our total sto student enrollment currently we have 3,830 students, 699 special education students, 217 multilingual learners. Our average
daily enrollment is 3,784 and our estimated cost per pupil as provided by the NJOE is 19,516. Well, just like to highlight on this chart, uh, the total operating budget, this is the revenue side of it, is
broken out by the tax levy, state aid, grants, miscellaneous revenue, and fund balance. Our tax levy makes up 72% of our total revenue budget. The next slide is our appropriations or our expenditures. As you can see, there
are quite a few categories. I would just like to point out that our salaries and benefits combined make up 67% of our total budget. And as Dr. Kanzy mentioned earlier, the average South Pill home is set at
$125,483 and they would see an approximate increase of $159 over the next 12 months or $13.25 per month. And approximately 60% of the homes in South Plainfield are assessed at oral above the average
assessment. I turn it back over to you and say thank you. >> That is our presentation of the budget. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. >> Thank you, Dr. Do we have any public comments on the budget?
This time, do we have any board member comments on the budget yet? Mr. Sleber. >> Yes, thank you. I just wanted to thank Dr. Tanzy, Alexi, Jack Rosa, and all their staff for all the uh efforts they did to put this budget together. Uh we
diligently worked to put this budget together looking at all the projects and the expenditures and things like that. and we uh got to this budget that we did feel service the town uh with a minimum
impact on our schools and our staff and with the uh school funding formula uh which should be looked at as Dr. Janzi said, "Please, the the general public, talk to your representatives.
You know, we are we are having a hard time here with our district." But then you see what some of the other districts are doing, laying off teachers, selling schools. Um, and we we're not near that yet, but it it's a statewide problem
that has to be addressed, and it has to be addressed soon. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Javis. >> Yeah, I agree. I want I want to thank you guys and that's a great job putting this budget together. But more importantly than that, I think it needs
to be said how fiscally responsible you guys have been to keep us in this position and not have to sell off schools or cut programs or anything of that nature. But that is coming and probably sooner than later, Bill, if this funding doesn't stop, you know, and
and and while we appreciate this, we're going backwards. We're we're actually, if you look at the numbers, we're we're losing a lot of money here. And and that is a problem. So, we do have to reach out and we have to speak to our state representatives because if they don't fix the funding, everything's going to
be broken. not just the funding, but we're going to be looking at selling a building or or cutting programs or doing things that we don't want to do. And again, phenomenal job of keeping us whole, and that's 100% just true fiscal responsibility, and you guys have done
that very, very well to keep us in the position we're in. So, thank you for that. Thank you. I want to touch on something, too. We failed the measure. We've I know the administration has done a fabulous job trying to keep classroom sizes down. And we we did not cut staff, did not cut
sports, we did not cut clubs. They worked hard to balance this budget. And it keeps getting thrown on to the local taxpayer to help fund this district. And the the state aid is inadequate, obviously. And other surrounding districts around us, like they
mentioned, are cutting things. They're cutting sports. They're pay to play for sports. They're cutting staff. Their classroom sizes are increasing. We've done everything they've done, everything they can with our support to maintain low classroom sizes. We don't know how much longer we can do that. I know that
we cut projects that we wanted to put in to this year's budget, but we we kept the taxpayer in mind as best as we could. Um, but something's got to be done. They've said it [clears throat] and I hate to be, you know, repetitive, but something's got to be done in Trenton. They got to wake up and fix the
funding formula because it's broken. It's broken on many facets. It's broken with the special education uh uh uh comp uh complexities. Okay. It's broken with our the they're not even following the if I'm wrong, correct me. The the state
aid funding formula is not even being followed. Am I right? >> It's not being fully funded. So, >> right. >> So, you know, the money's got to come from somewhere, but it's not fair to keep putting it on the taxpayer. And we're all taxpayers. Okay. So, they got to wake up. We got to wake up. The
public's got to wake up and speak up because there are elected officials. They've got to figure this out. Okay. We can only do so much on this end. It's their responsibility to figure that out, too. That's what else I have to say. Anybody else? Yeah. You know, I just want to touch on that.
>> Okay. You're 100% right. We don't want to put it all on our local taxpayers, but at the end of the day, everything is up the taxpayers. It's just that they're not fiscally responsible in the way that their formula is working. It's still our money. That's where that money comes
from. It's our taxes. They just have to to figure out a better way to fund us and to fund all the schools because you're not getting How much have we been cut in the last three years? >> We would have gotten about $5 million this year if it was fully funded.
>> So, we were cut $5 million. Well, think about that. $5 million. >> We weren't cut. We were never given. >> Good point. All right. Sorry. If it was funded fairly, we'd have had an extra five million and we wouldn't be having any of this discussion. So that money is
taxpayers money that they're just not delving out properly. That's all that is. >> Thank you. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to close the public hearing. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion?
>> Roll call, please. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rood. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. Yes, >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes, >> Mr. Peny. >> Yes, >> Mr. Custleberg. >> Yes, >> Miss Williams. >> Yes, >> Mr. Ginois. >> Yes, >> Mr. Cassio. >> Yes. Public comments on agenda items.
>> Seeing none. Resolution to approve prior minutes. >> So move. Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Essen, >> yes. >> Mrs. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Per, >> abstain. >> Mr. Peny, >> yes. >> Mr. Senberg,
>> yes. Miss Williams. >> Yes. >> Mr. Giannakis. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cassio. >> Yes. At this time, I'd like to um mention we're going to make an addition to the agenda. Uh Miss M. Miller would like to uh now read a statement.
>> Okay. Um I am proposing that this board pass a resolution urging relief from rising public school employee health care costs. Whereas at a time of continued fiscal uncertainty and mountain challenges, local boards of education from across the state of New
Jersey continue to suffer under the growing crisis posed by the rising cost of healthcare benefits and are desperate for relief. And whereas despite record levels of state investments in public education, these school districts are facing fiscal pressures similar to those
confronting the state budget, including the unsustainable growth in healthcare premiums and the mountain in sovereignty of the state's public employees health benefits program. And whereas both within the school employees health benefits program and the private market, year-over-year, doubledigit increases
are placing tremendous strain on district budgets and local taxpayers alike. And whereas Governor Cheryl and legislative leadership have publicly acknowledged the urgent need to address rising healthcare costs and the challenges facing the state's health benefits plan, including both the state
and local portions of the state health benefits program and the SEBP. And whereas the seriousness of this issue was underscored by the midyear SEBB analysis released by the Treasury Department in March of 2026 which concluded that I quote based on these
projected losses and building and future trends active premium rates increases for 2027 are likely to be in the double digits unquote and whereas these projected increases will follow the 31.9% premium increase that took effect in January 2026 further exacerbate
exacerbating an overall premium increase of nearly 74% in the preceding 5 years. And whereas his growth in healthcare costs far exceeds inflation, state aid increases, and the fiscal capability of local communities. And whereas rising healthcare premiums are consuming an
ever larger portion of already constrained school district budgets, forcing difficult decisions that directly affect students, staff, and educational quality. And whereas these cost pressures also have significant consequences for taxpayers as districts are often compelled to utilize the full
extent of their available tax levy even after which many districts remain unable to fully offset these increases due to the constraints of the property tax levy cap despite the limited healthcare exception. And whereas for the families and students these districts serve, the
downstream consequences, including district deficits, program cuts, school closures mean the loss of community stability, continuity of services, and in many cases, access to the specialized supports that our most vulnerable students depend on. And whereas there
are also precisely the conditions that these are also precisely the conditions that erode student achievement and weaken the family engagement that is central to strengthening New Jerseys public schools. And whereas implementing real sustainable solutions to the rising cost of health benefits and reforming
how benefits are delivered through the SEPB would demonstrate the governor's and legislaturator's leadership and continued commitment to New Jersey students, educators, and families, which directly advances our shared goal of affordability and effective, efficient government for all New Jerseyians. Now
therefore, be it resolved that the South Planful Board of Ed and the County of Middle Sex calls upon the governor and state legislature to provide immediate short-term relief from the unsustainable increased healthc care costs experienced by the districts in recent years. And be it further resolved that the South
Planful Board of Ed and the County of Middle Sex urges the governor to engage in meaningful engagement with all affected stakeholders to develop and implement practical long-term reforms to the state system of delivering healthcare to its public employees in order to generate meaningful long-term
sa savings and be further resolved. A copy of this resolution be forwarded to um our governor, state treasurer Aaron uh Binder, state president Nicholas Gator, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, uh let's see, Senator Patrick Dyman,
Assemblyman um Robert Carbine, Assemblyman Sterley uh Stanley, Seth Michael Mayor Matt Anes, and the New Jersey School Boards Association uh Tim Pernell, executive director and CEO, and Jonathan Pushman, senior director uh of
AB advocacy. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do we need to add it? >> I'm sorry. Apologize. >> Discussion. >> You want discussion on it? >> Go ahead. First motion. >> We got a motion to add.
>> Second discussion. >> Discussion. >> Yes. >> I I I don't want to sound ignorant. There are a lot of whereasses in there. I heard that, but I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. Are you asking the governor to to and you clearly said
she understands that this is an issue. So then why are we asking her and what exactly are we asking her for relief in in money to to offset the costs of of this >> because there's strength in numbers, Jenny. And if anything's going to be done, Nory talked about the funding formula, insurance rates are out of
control. We can't afford as a district to continue paying these kind of healthare costs. So, we have to get our legislators involved in doing something about this. Um, we ourselves can't do anything. All we can do is band together as school districts in our county and
throughout the other counties in New Jersey to bring this to their attention and let them realize that we're all concerned about this and they need to do something now about it. What they're going to do, I'm not sure, but they need to do something. If we don't say anything and we just sit here and talk
to our community about it, we don't do anything else, nothing will ever get done. >> I get I get that. But wouldn't it be even more beneficial if a group like you with yourself and a couple of the other leaders actually went to the Senate or went somewhere to the state legislature
and talked to them in person representing 200 of our school districts or whatever. I mean, this is all well and good and I'm 100% behind sending it to them and telling them what they can do with it. But at the end of the day, I think it's a piece of paper and they're going to read it and go, "Yeah, but if you
physically go there, that's a big difference." And I think I always think that there should be a group that just goes there and says, "Hey, what are you guys doing until we get some answers here?" Right. Right. >> No, I I I get it, Betty. >> Okay. We're going to have a very special guest at our next main meeting.
>> Okay. >> For the county. Um, can I >> Yes, brother. >> Okay. Um, I just wanted to add in that many districts across the state of New Jersey are in a dire situation due to in part to the exorbitant increases in healthcare costs. We all need to stress to the governor and our legislators just
how serious the situation is. I, as county president, will be contacting all of Munich County's local board presidents requesting they also add this resolution to the agenda for their next board of ed meetings as well. Um, I hope to be proud to say that Planefield is the first to approve this resolution in
Middle Sense County and I will thank all of my fellow board members for their support of this important initiative. And I will say that our May meeting, we are pleased to say that um I've invited the lieutenant governor and he's has accepted. So, he will be at our main
meeting. >> Can we beat him up? >> No. No. He He's a very nice man. We're not beating him up. We want him to help us. Mr. Cesler. >> Yeah. I think I think one thing that has to be um looked at is we're kind of
trapped. On one on one side, the state says you're limited as to how much you can increase your budget. On the other hand, all the things that go into our budget are going up higher than that cap can handle. Healthcare happens to be the
biggest one and it's the first one that's trying to it it's breaking the ceiling and the the the budgets of every district in the state and it's not just we have our own insurance there's also the state health insurance program which
is municipal employees and things like that. So the state on one hand is saying no you you're you're trapped at this level and on the other hand everybody wants more money. So that's where the state has to look at balancing those uh those two issues.
Mr. >> Real quickly, I just want to say advocacy comes in several forms. I'm all for this resolution. I'm all for going to China and lobbying for this as well. Sh, I I appreciate you reading that. Um,
I get to start, right? And I know we have more work to do at the county level. So, we appreciate that. Uh, you know, well done. Uh, I just want to let uh let everyone know we're going to add that under finance uh as PEP. So, I
guess take a long enough to add that. >> Yes. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Esp. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Peny. >> Yes. >> Mr. Custleberg. >> Yes. >> Miss Williams. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gino. Yes. >> Mr. Cassio.
>> Yes. >> Good. >> Curriculum 8 through E. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Esma. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Peny.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Susleberg. >> Yes. >> M. Williams. Yes, >> Mr. Gino. Yes, >> Mr. Cassia. >> Yes. >> Policy A. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Please. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Espen. >> Yes.
>> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pedler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Peny. >> Yes. >> Mr. Custleberg. >> Yes. >> M. Williams. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gakus. >> Yes. >> Mr. Casio. >> Yes. >> Personnel A through D. So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion?
Roll, please. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. Abstaining on 12 C429. That is my spouse. >> Mr. Esman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ny. >> Yes. >> Mr. Celberg. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Williams. >> Yes. >> Mr. Galus. >> Yes. I'm standing on my family. >> Mr. Casio. >> Yes. I'm standing on my family member. >> Long here. We are now on finance and that would be
A through PP. >> So move >> second. Any discussion roll please? >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Esma. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Py. >> Yes. >> Mr. Susselberg. >> Yes. >> M. Williams. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Ganakus. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cassio. >> Yes. >> Throw it up here. All right. Any public comments in any matter? Any items? Mr. Miller. Hello. Scott Miller. Um, I I got just
one or two things I want to talk about. One, we did have a very successful drama production here at high school. um from Miss Oce, from Miss Gazda, for myself. Um the kids did a phenomenal job, put on a great show. Um you know, was just
another one of those uh great performances by such a talented bunch of kids. Um I did want to take a minute to thank Mr. Wiggins and his building the grounds crew. Um we cleaned up a lot. We started the show cleaning up some stuff.
They took away a pile of stuff and then when we were breaking down the set, which broke my heart cuz some of that paint was still wet. Um, we found a lot of stuff that dated back to about 2009, some of which was falling apart as we moved it. And
believe it or not, I had about a dozen kids come back to this school on the first two days of spring break to help me break down the staff, get things cleaned up cuz we were just too tired to do it the day the show when it ended. And we created a pile of garbage about a year high give or take. I think it took
the guys about 2 days to get rid of it all for us, but they got rid of every piece and we are now stage well um pun intended. Um for next year um for doing things again on that stage and we got rid of a lot of stuff that we no longer need, had no useful life to it. Um and
we built some new things this year that going to replace the things that we got rid of. Um so I want to thank again Mr. Wiggens and his crew for helping us get to that point. Um the next thing I want to thank um the district for the staff here at the high school. Um we had been
asked as a parent group, the music boosters once again um to host the championship winter guard show for this region. Um wasn't something we looked for. It wasn't something we asked for. We were approached by the organizers of the Tournament of Bands Indoor
Association to host this for them based on things we've done in the fall show. Quite an honor to do so. And we took over half this building from this room all the way down to the gym. Um 19 units from 14 high schools visited this school
last Sunday. And our group once again, of course, you know, they did they did their thing. They won their division as our uh color guard tends to do. Um, but we got to host a lot of people and we got a lot of good feedback from it. We're hoping to do that again. So, I want to, you know, publicly thank the
district and the staff here for their help in making that happen with us. Um, and the last thing I have is just more fun. Next week, um, we're starting summer drama and once again, the school district is, um,
allowing us to operate in the building to do the task that we do to bring arts to the town. We're starting in the middle school with our uh, auditions and then once again, we'll be here in the summer taking over the stage in the auditorium with the production of Anything Goes. Um, so as the treasure of
that organization, I want to thank you for your help and assistance with that. And you know, when the time comes, we'll get you guys information for the show. Hopefully some of you all come out and see what the kids are doing. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anybody else? >> See, board member comments,
>> Mr. I don't speak, but uh I was asked to speak about an event a couple weeks ago uh about as eloquent as Mr. school than it is with names. So, please bear with me. Sunday, April 26th, South Lakefield Special Athletes track and field team
competed in the Oldbridge New Jersey Special Special Olympics regional competition. Our South Lakefield Tigers competed in many events including 50 meter, 100 meter, 400 meter dashes, standing long jump, tennis ball, softball, shot put throws, javelin, and
a 4x100 relay races. All athletes display great athleticism, teamwork, and especially sportsmanship both on and off the field. Our team earned 16 gold medals, 12 silver medals, and three bronze medals. The following current in
district athletes and school alumni competed that that weekend and should be acknowledged for their great accomplishments. Zachary Giodano, Kennedy, Zarah Buchet Morris Grant, Alania Pinho at Grant, Andrew Low Grant, Addison Knight Grant, Blake Brent, uh
Benton Middle School, Logan Stalton High School. Uh Joseph Mesa High School or Joshua Mesa High School. Zion Burchett Morris, he's one of our alumni. Mikey Heim an alumni. Kyle Bow an alumni.
David Agno alumni, Quan Coleman alumni, and Ryan Olsen alumni all competed. Al also, although not competing this season, alumni Lion Andrew volunteered for the Special Olympics organization did a fantastic job at announcing at
regionals. Based on these results, even though the rule this year was only gold place winners, our entire team will be advancing to the state competition June 6th and 7th annually at the College of New Jersey. Um, and just you know just they left uh the Talby family. I think I
butchered their name probably right close enough to uh that's another family that does a lot. We don't you don't realize it but they volunteer down here at Special Olympics and their dad are all weekend cooking. All three of them mom or all four of them mom, dad, Sophia and
Joseph. So on behalf of Coach Rick and Coach uh Heather, thank you so much to the board for supporting the South Leaf Tiger team. >> Thank you. Mr. Sber. >> Yeah. I just want to make a short um commendation to the grand school uh
students that did uh Disney Desire. They did a musical last month. They did a wonderful job and I think at least half of the school was on stage. Uh and it it was a packed audience. They did a very good job. Um and they're the kids that
are starting into summer drama. So, we'll see a lot of them through the years. And uh this being teacher appreciation week, I wanted to thank the teachers along with all the support staff, everybody we uh uh approved tonight and anybody that uh works with these students. They're a wonderful
bunch of kids and we appreciate all the help that everybody gives to them. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Echoing Mr. Susleberg's last note. Uh happy teacher appreciation week. Happy
National Nurses Week and happy uh public service recognition week. I think it's important to take the time to recognize those that show up every single day who put in the work who support this school district and allow
it to function to serve our students each and every single day. So, thank you all for the work that you do. >> Anybody else? >> Okay, just make a quick comment. Um, I want to thank Dr. Tany and her
administration, Mr. Wiggins, Dr. Mleski, Mr. I know, uh, all your hard work to get into this budget. It wasn't easy. I know you took it personally as you always do. Um, and well done. Job well done. All right. At this time, we will be going to executive session. Uh, we'll
be discussing student related matters and legal update. Action will be taken. All in favor? We open the meeting, please. >> Mr. B here. >> Mr. Esper >> here. >> Mrs. Miller >> here. >> Mr. Peer >> here. >> Mr. Peny >> here. >> Mr. Cesleberg
>> here. >> M Williams. >> Mr. Giannakis. Mr. Cassia >> here. >> All right. Uh attorney like to make uh motion on uh two items. >> We have two um resolutions that come out of close session. The first is involving
a residency matter. So here's the resolution. whereas a residency hearing was held this evening in executive session for student ID numbers 2011 90363 22616 20252783 20252782
and 20252781 which the parents guardian did not attend despite being apprised of the right to do so and whereas based on the results of the hearing the board finds that the students are not doiciled in South Planefield and are not entitled to attend school in the district because proof of residency in the district has
not been been provided Now therefore, be it resolved that the board hereby disenrolls the above referenced students and assesses tuition for the period of the students ineligible attendance during the 2526 school year and directs the superintendent to notify the family of the decision and their right of appeal.
>> That's the first resolution. You want to read the second or second resolution is resolved that the board affirms the finding of HIV in case number 304198 fees 021. Let me try that again. 0212 20226 and we
infer the resolve that the parent shall be provided with a written decision along with information on their right of appeal to the commissioner of education. >> Thank you. At this time we'll take a vote. >> No, no, no. Somebody has to move it. >> So move. >> Second discussion.
>> Any discussion? >> No. >> Okay. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Espen. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Peny. Yes. Mr. Ceelber, >> yes. >> Miss Williams, >> yes. >> Mr. Ganakus, Mr. Cassio,
>> yes. >> Good. >> Very good. Motion to jury meeting. All in favor? I I >> Good night.