hello everyone can you hear me i can hear you you can hear me i can hear you okay then I'm good i'm going to mute myself okay good um okay i just got off the phone with Cindy she called me to make sure I got
through the parkway we have a major wildfire here oh oh it's the whole sky is filled with smoke there were tons of emergency vehicles it took me over an hour and a half to get
home and um there's ash all over my uh my back deck and Mhm yeah scary i remember 1990 1990
down in that area there was that massive fire both sides i think 1991 we were heading down to the shore and I remember every year after that looking at the little trees and they were getting a little bigger and a little bigger but it
was like that the pie barons along the parkway like even past you yeah yeah that's it's crazy that's what this is this is like the northern most part of those pine barons
um crazy i was getting messages from my neighbors i was like "Oh what's what's going on?" And and then um I looked at good old
Facebook and I saw and I saw pictures I just made it in um did you yeah when are you on You were on break last week like we were yeah and today's at five right
a lot of people were on break last um this week i have a teacher who had to do it i don't know if I think he said South Brunswick i don't know if South Brunswick is out this week or not it's a
mix jennifer Renee is that a filter or you really in a hotel i'm really in a hotel i'm like here's all there's all my board stuff that I printed for the next however many meetings so I have it all organized oh my gosh that's funny so
yeah i'm visiting Morgan at school so hi Jen is your sound okay yes fine perfect we can hear you well good i think I'm going to go grab a water real quick just because I know allergies
are killing me they're bad right it's starting okay I'll be right back hi Cindy how's your sound my sound is good i hear you can you hear me we can hear you perfect mine's perfect too okay great
good evening John just checking on your sound can you hear us unmute yourself John hi John can you hear us okay yes wonderful thank you hello everybody
hello Johnny hi Johnny good evening Chris how are you can you hear us okay yes I can wonderful thank you we can hear you as well good donnie Nicole is not able to attend so I
believe we are all here uh no we're missing Ray okay there's somebody in the waiting room it says Allison just find out if this is Ray
that's Ray's daughter's name right liz Allison it's Amanda amanda this might not be Ray we gave Ray his laptop today so it should be his
Johnny it's 4:59 so I'm going to let this individual in i'm not sure if it's Ray or not it's No not Ry it's someone else so I'm going to let Rey in okay and then I'm going to let this one
member of the public in okay can I go now are you about to call it to start one more minute okay you tell me when
okay it's 5:00 okay I'll let this individual in is everyone in Sylvia everyone is in okay thank you um would everyone please rise for the pledge
very good Tanya i pledge allegiance to the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty justice for all
okay thank you very much good afternoon and welcome to the South River Board of Education special meeting on Tuesday April 22nd 2025 on compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act chapter 231 Laws of
1975 of the state of New Jersey adequate notice of this meeting of the South River Board of Education was provided in the following manner on April 10th 2025 the notice was delivered to the office of the South River Federal Clerk and
posted at the Board of Education Administration building on April 10th 2025 the notice was faxed mailed to the following newspapers: Home News Tribune The Star Ledger on April 10th
2025 the notice was posted at the South Liberal Clerk's office mr rosen would you please call the role mr bzac here mr budson here mrs bush here mrs lao
here mr nielsen here mrs saddowski mrs saddowski has been excused mrs yung Yao here mrs orbanic here we have a quorum okay thank you so this meeting is a
special meeting being held for procedural items uh the first order of business is we are going to have Dr zer present some district data uh a report
from the instruction committee safety and risk management and then we will go back to the consent resolution and vote on those items so at this time Dr zer please yes thank you Mrs urbanic um what we have today for the board to consider
and approve is really an addendum to our district data report that was presented by Dr travisano back in September we have been asked to add to the to this report uh graduation cohort information
that comes from our NJ smart um state system so we really took the addendum is on the last slide of the presentation that is included in the board agenda and then it will also be added to the presentation that's been posted um as
well for the public but basically what this does is really show the percentage of students that have graduated through alternate measures other than um the first pathway for graduation the first
test you will see our percentages are extremely high um really over 94% of our students are graduating with that um first pathway which is the preferred method but in case some of our students
don't pass the required assessments there is a second pathway an alternate assessment that can be uh provided as well as a portfolio assessment so that that basically is what this data is it just adds to the existing data document
that was already board approved this is just the addendum for you to um have at your disposal and approve tonight okay on the instruction agenda once we move to that um we've added our
nursing plan this is a common plan um that gets board approved annually um our grade reconfiguration for the um primary school and elementary school in a formalized fashion we've been already reconfigured for the school year and
will continue as such into the coming school year and then also uh chronic absenteeism corrective action plans these are required and this um this template this plan that is here on the
board agenda for each of our schools and also will be posted for the public on our website is really just reflective of the strategies uh and activities that the climate and culture team has been presenting in my superintendence report
all year we basically consolidated all of our attendance data and all of those strategies and approaches to reducing chronic absenteeism and put them in a very specific report for each of our buildings in safety and risk we have one
more bus drill um this is our final one of the year you have been approving bus drills for each of our schools throughout the year and those are the items being presented tonight thank you Dr zer um to our instruction
committee well first let me ask were there any questions on any of the items that Dr zer just spoke about from our board members okay seeing none um Mrs bush would you like to comment on anything under the
instruction item on the agenda um I looked everything over my committee didn't say anything of any choice um and we do actually have a follow-up meeting about other issues later this week next week i'm confused there's so many
meetings coming up but we have one coming up in the next week or so at one of them so we are okay i know Nicole's not here liz has been in communication so we're good so without further ado I'm just going to read our statement the instruction committee after review of all the items on this month's agenda and
upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends the approval of items 4.1 through 4.3 on the agenda as listed including routine items and that is all I have for this evening okay thank you on to safety and risk
management this is Yang Yao miss Yang Yao hi uh there's only one item i don't have the whole spiel but it's 5.1 approve accept 2024 2025 bus drills that's all we have okay thank you very much uh at this time
I'm going to go back to our business administrator Mr rosa and ask if you would please do the consent resolution for these items okay the South River Board of Education by means of a consent resolution adopt various
resolutions of a routine and non-controversial nature at one time and whereas the below listed resolutions are hereby adopted by the said board of education and whole as if the same were individually acted upon and those are under superintendent of schools 3.1
under instruction 4.1 through 4.3 and under safety and risk 5.1 thank you is there a motion for the consent resolution neielson motion by Vice President Nielsen do we have a second basic
second by Mr bzac are there any additional questions or comments all in favor i thank you the consent resolution passes um at this time we are going to open up the meeting for the reception of
visitors the public may address any concern or comment they have for the board at this time uh when you do please state your name and address and please keep your comments to a 10-minute time limit is there anyone from the public
wishing to address the board at this time on first call we're on second call and on third call is there anything in the chat box
i do not see anything in the chat box at this time and if any member of the public does wish to speak simply unmute yourself and and please announce such not hearing anyone we're going to
close this public session and the next item of business under number seven is adjournment neielson motion by vice president Nielsen to adjourn is there a second
bzac second by Mr bezac all in favor i i okay thank you this meeting is adjourned see you Thursday thank you everyone see you Thursday