e e [Music] ni ready [Music] [Music] okay all right I'd like to bring this
meeting to order please stand for the pledge of allegiance plge aliance 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 for all
Mrs B here Mr ifar Mr Pico here Mr vardo here Mr yagam here Mrs Harold here Mrs sharpstein we have a quorum Sunshine Law statement this is to
advise the general public and to instruct that it be recorded in the minutes that in compliance with chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 entitled The Open meeting the open public meetings act Stan hope Board of Education located at 24 Valley Road Stan
Hope New Jersey has caused this notice to be posted at the office of the Stan hope burrow of Education mailed to the New Jersey Herald and the B and the municipal clerk of the burrow of Stan hope the Stan hope post office and posted at the Valley Road school and on the Stan hope Public Schools website set
forth the time date and location of the meeting mission statement the Stan Hope School District in partnership with the community commits to provide a qual quality comprehensive education for all Learners with equal emphasis on academic excellence and citizenship through
values respect and service vision statement our vision is to inspire and cultivate a community of innovative curious compassionate and globally-minded Learners equipped with knowledge problem solving skills and the ability to persevere to make a positive
impact on society and shape a better future an executive session will be held for the purpose of student confidence cality formal action may be taken we have one presentation this evening all right so as most of you already know uh we have which has
started several years ago uh our we vrs initiative uh which uh was a board La initiative I want to say eight nine years ago uh and it provides opportunities for our students for our community for our staff to recognize
other dedicated staff uh go above and beyond to support our students and to support our school um this month uh we had one of our students uh nominate and recognize uh Mr Jack Varan who's with us in the audience today um Mr Varan is uh
an extremely supportive classroom paraprofessional uh he's been with us now for several years uh and he's been working in our ER program uh and and most notably with students who have some um emotional and behavioral needs uh there's some of our more challenging
students um he's developed a wonderful Rapport uh with all of the students that he's worked with uh he's earned the respect of his colleagues um and he goes above and beyond to support his kids uh Mr V often volunteers at our after
school activities um I'd say that his favorite are uh the the sporting activities where he gets to dominate the kids especially volleyball um something special when he spikes the ball into a field of students um but uh you know
most importantly you know he's being recognized for you know the little things that he does to make kids feel valued in school um so thank you Mr V uh we have a small token of our appreciation for you just hope you keep up the good work
[Applause] [Music] thanks thank you have a good night thank you congratulations right all right still you superintendent's report please all right so uh we have for since our last meeting
uh zero suspensions and one HIV investigation uh which I am recommending uh is founded um uh number two we had parent teacher conferences during the week of March 3rd um well attended both
in person and virtually uh one thing that you will see on the agenda for today is a a recommendation to revise calendars for the 25 26 and 2627 school year um both which were approved last month the the revision which is being
recommended is to Simply move parent teacher conferences one week earlier than what we've traditionally done over the last few years um reason for that is um we've recognized a conflict uh two conflicts one read Across America week
which is an extremely busy uh week it often we often ask teachers sometimes to dress Goofy and uh and wear hats and pajamas and it's not always easy for them to make a a change of of uh of clothing to then look professional for
when the parents come in uh and it also conflicts with uh Ash Wednesday and a lot of our parents and staff are trying to to church and then back to the school uh so by making it one week prior we don't think that it's really going to have too much of an impact it still gives the
teachers the opportunity to meet with parents prior to report cards going out um which we feel as though is important and unless anybody excuse me has any objections uh that's my recommendation for the calendars that we've already approved um kindergart and registration
officially took place during our parent teacher conferences a couple weeks ago um that said parents can still register their children for kindergarten at any time uh they can do that online but we do recommend that they do that as soon as as they can uh it allows us to create
a more balanced um a more balanced uh classroom between the two classes uh and it gives them opportunity to have information for orientation and kindergarten screening uh far in advance um our it's not on the uh uh report but
our preschool registration is is very strong right now um we currently have 42 students registered for our preschool program for next year um 50 spots correct we have 50 spots for general education students of the 42 currently
36 of them are general education students so we still technically have room for 14 more kids um as reminder this is a completely free to the to the parents of student of students in Stan hope um it's for three and four year
olds uh who are not quite eligible for kindergarten just yet um and uh it's it's uh we're able to run this program because of the state aid that that we've been provided and that's something I'll get into a little bit when we talk more
about budget um so we sent our blast out um we got email information out uh we have it on the Marquee out front Mr L has a QR code so parents can easily just jump right to the registration uh but what has not happened yet is the town hasn't put out their nixel which they're
planning on doing in the next day or two so there's a very good chance that we'll get additional students um not all of these students will be educated here in Valley Road we're partnering with the First Impressions preschool on Lynden Avenue uh so they can house up to 30
students we can keep up to 30 students where we're leaving room uh for 20 in the general education because we are required and obligated to to educate students uh who are identified as having special needs or preschool disabled okay
um so that's really exciting uh we we shot for the moon when I requested 50 spaces not knowing whether or not we'd get anywhere close to that so I I feel pretty good that we're we're in the ballpark right now um a career day was last Friday thanks
you thank you to everybody who presented it was again very well attended we had a lot of um very uh dyn Dynamic and a variety of careers and professions that students got to engage with uh I want to also send a very special thanks out to Kathy yonai who coordinated and
facilitated the program yet again um mentioned read Across America week that took place uh the week of March 3rd um as you can see it was a very busy week uh the events that took place included mystery readers uh readers theater we had a reading train D
decorating contest uh we actually had a special visit by Willie Wonka himself uh which the little guy guys were very excited about um wanted to thank principal dealo and and her Committee of teachers uh who helped put that together uh it really was a fun week um you know
if you have the opportunity and you're interested and you want to walk the Halls after the meeting today the doors are very beautifully decorated uh and miss dialo and miss kapo did a nice job decorating the uh the the front entrance uh which I'm sure you saw as you came through um we did a 100th day challenge
uh we're for the 100th day to recognize it we challenge students and the community to donate food items and household uh items that can be donated to the waterl food pantry uh we are at over 400 total items that we've donated
uh they were very appreciative um uh Miss Miss Leon uh who's a parent of a former student here uh does a lot of charitable work through the waterl food pantry um you know extended her deepest gratitude to our school and to our community uh it was a lot of a lot of the items
that were donated are items that they don't normally get a lot of uh so I think they were pretty excited about that um and then the last item that I have is just a reminder if you haven't done so yet to please complete your financial disclosure statement forms uh not due until April 30th but it's always
best to get them done as early as we can that way the business office can process everything they need to and we can stop nagging you at all of our meetings uh our next meeting our next public meeting isn't until April 3rd 30th so this is the last time we'll be able to remind you guys at a public meeting okay any
questions all right then that takes us to Mr Mr vardo for personnel curriculum School climate and culture committing meeting update yeah we discussed uh what Steve had just mentioned um regarding changing the um parent teacher conferences um so we touch based on that
we have a list of some esy programs for over the summer months that we went through uh a list of some of some of the uh summer enrichment programs that uh the teachers will be putting on over the the course of the summer that kids can register for there a long list of Art
and sports and all sorts of stuff and we'll kind of see how uh registration goes for those what will stay what will go um uh adjusting this 2425 school year calendar uh given that we didn't we only Ed one snow day I believe we have the
opportunity to end the year on a Friday June 13th rather than what I think was going to be the Monday um which you know we all feel is beneficial for for everybody that would require um the board giving back one day uh one fewer Stu one less student day uh and one less
day for staff coming in which is not unprecedented we've done it before right and we met our requirements for the uh the days in school and service so um is that that's on the agenda this evening okay and and uh I guess we're still
moving forward with Ruckers and working on the school climate Improvement uh we didn't really Touch Too Much based on that but I hope to be further along with that the the goal was to get um this out late March um to be quite honest with you with budget season and everything
else uh we're a little bit behind schedule uh the hope is still to get it out in the spring so that we can really analyze the data uh into late spring in the summertime to make um changes if if deemed necessary um for the next schol year great and yeah touch Bas on the
read Across America career day and uh I think that's really all to report unless uh I'm missing something out of the box here thank you anybody have any questions for mat all right hearing no questions that
takes us to Mr ynam for business services facilities and Technology committee update please um just to some of the things we heard just to mirr some of the things we heard in the superintendent report uh State a state aid aid numbers are not as high as
expected they're still pretty decent so we're looking forward to move forward forward with proceeding with future plans such as um having the two classrooms here the two classrooms off site for preschool uh which is fantastic uh with facilities that they
had a final walk through with our vendors for the door project which I I assume went well it went well we it went well in that we've really fine-tuned the quotes uh and have a really good grasp on on the scope of work it was three
different companies who we walked through individually prior that we that all came together and we walked it together okay um still proceeding which is great uh we have Renovations they decided we're going to do during spring break for the music room which includes
flooring and sounding dampings so the other classrooms are not impacted and uh that's basically it for business services anybody have any questions all right hearing no questions it stays with you for the budget
committee report uh next month we're going to be getting a formal presentation uh what it's coming down to is we're still going to proceed with hopefully adding one full-time math teacher transition art uh till full-time
and adding uh one full-time special ed for next year I believe this is going to be a great benefit to the school and just adding in core positions such as math so um I believe today we're going to also hear from Steve about that and next month we're going to get more of a
formal pres uh presentation from Dan anybody with questions comments all right that takes us to the Sussex County Education Services Commission update I provide an update there yes please so um so I think it's
it's obvious that we do not have yet a representative to regularly attend these meetings which is understandable it is a time commitment um I do want to put out there though that they are requesting that mandating I use that term loosely
uh that somebody from our district attend their April 7th meeting which I believe is a real organization they had follow a different schedule than us um it wouldn't commit anybody to re uh attending these meetings regularly or monthly um but if there is anybody
that's available so I'm going to I'm going to attend I just need to know where and what time I will get you that information actually the the their superintendent reached out to me today um and asked if we had somebody that would be able to I'll get her I believe
uh Mrs sharf SE and Mrs Harold and I are going to round robin correct to attend to represent that would be great that'd be great thank you I'll let her know uh and I'll actually what I'll do is um I'll respond to her via email and copy all three of you so that she can send uh
details directly okay perfect thank you all right that takes us to the board president's report in light of Matia not being here she did send an email so I'm going to go ahead and read
this and she says although I'm unable able to attend this evening's meeting I want to express my full support for the budget recommendations prepared by our business administrator and presented by superintendent Hegman in a little bit we'll have that this budget reflects a responsible and Strategic investment in
our district including increases to staff that will directly benefit our students especially within our Middle School Community these additions will strengthen our ability to support Student Success while maintaining Financial stability I also strongly support the proposed Safety and Security
upgrades including replacing all doors and installing card swipe lock mechanisms the safety of our students and staff is the top priority and these improvements will significantly enhance building security and emergency preparedness I appreciate the hard work of our Administration and all
stakeholders in shaping these plans and I thank the board and Community for the continued support of these essential initiatives outlined in our strategic plan thank you for your dedication to our District's success sincerely Matia sharpstein and other than me possibly holding up a
sign of Tia face that I did not prepare that is the end of the president's report takes us to public session number one for agenda items seeing no public we can't hear any
public that takes us to Executive session can I get a motion please motion second second this the one I I have to read right all right be it resolved that the stanh Hope Board of Education adopts the following resolution whereas the open
public meeting act chapter 231 PL 1975 permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting in certain circumstances and whereas the Stan hope board of education is of the opinion that such circumstances presently exist now therefore be it resolved by The stanh
Hope Board of Education County of Sussex and state of New Jersey that a closed session of this board of Education where the public shall be excluded will be held at this time for the purpose of student confidentiality be it further resolved that the action of the board with regard to the above entitled matter
shall be disclosed to the public at a later date and to the extent that the same is not prejudicial to the interest of the parties involved and would not result in a possible invasion of their right to privacy The Voice vote all in favor say I I anybody
no anybody abstain all right that takes us into public session then I mean executive session e e e e e
e e e e e can I get a motion to reenter public session second second the time is 7:26 thank you all
right all in favor of re-entering public session say I I I any knows any [Applause] abstains all right that takes us to travel and workshop
reports give you a minute to look that over anyone with any questions all right minutes for approval on agenda items one to three can I get a motion please no moved second
second right and a Voice vote all in favor I I um I have to abstain from number one okay the yes to two and three any nose times charm on that
executive there we go all right that takes us to the 2025 2026 budget adoption agenda items one through eight I'll go through a brief description once we get motions okay can I get a motion please [Music]
motion um so as Mr yagna mentioned uh on the business I'm sorry the budget committee report uh I'm going to give a brief overview of our budget um as we will be submitting to the county office uh and uh Mr Borgo our business
administrator will be here at our April 30th meeting to give a more comprehensive uh presentation you may or may it's up to you if you want to turn around I'm going to speak to all of the points I'm very sorry um so some of the the key highlights of our
upcoming budget um is that we're going to be able to continue the shared Service uh contracts that we currently have shared services is a way for us to keep our costs down so that we don't have to use private um contracted providers uh who charge an exorbitant
amount of of money um it also allows us to hire quality staff for full-time positions when we don't necessarily have a full-time need uh on the agenda actually today you'll see the shared service agreement for our physical therapist we really need a physical
therapist six to eight hours per week um which you're either going to have a lot of difficulty hiring your person or you're going to spend a lot of money on a contracted professional uh because we've successfully partnered uh previously with neong lenp Val in Mount
Olive for next year replacing Mount Olive with Byam we've been able to bring in a wonderful full-time physical therapist that we share between all of the districts and it's been working out great and helps us keep our costs down uh we share our building and ground supervisor with bym and a speech
pathologist uh with um with uh lenpy Valley we also currently have a shared service um for an ldtc which a child study team is a child study team position um we're honestly unsure we don't currently have uh it budgeted to
continue that shared Service uh because of some some concerns that we have regarding proper and adequate payment of these Services uh we are not 100% fully caught up where uh the other district has has ultimately paid the salary and
benefits uh for the employee um so we're anticipating severing that uh shared service but that could possibly change as we go down the road uh we did have a state aid increase this year of uh 86,5 it's a 6% on the dot increase from
our state aid from the previous year um last year we received a 30% increase in amount of about 330,000 so this is an okay number for us uh except if you factor in that all districts uh that
received additional state aid this year in New Jersey were actually capped at 6% increase um the frustrating part of this is you know for the five years that we were losing state aid we weren't capped we were losing over $100,000 for a few
of those years um and now that we're gaining state aid because we are at about a 15% increase in student population we capped uh and our growth was restricted if we were not capped we would have received about 550,000
additional dollars in state aid uh so I was going to say I know that we have the student numbers are increasing um I was at a a local get together and they were talking about how the fifth grade has had quite a few students in
come in recently so like what does this mean in terms of like the number of students increasing versus so students for from a budgetary and state aid perspective more students is a good thing um because we receive funding for
these students but you just said we were capped at 6% we we and every other school district in the state were capped at 6% that said there's still school districts that are losing money um what this what the state put out to us was in a memo that no District would lose more
than 3% they didn't say anything about the increase uh the cap for the increase um my assumption is that the cap on increases is what they're doing to pay for the cap on the decreases um the end
of the day we're still in very good shape what those dollars would have been it would have been a a tax levy savings right we we could have potentially um decreased the amount of money that we are taking from the taxpayer um so I
don't I don't want to cry about this because we're still able to do all of the things that we proposed doing when we initially met for our budget okay but when you consider how much money could have could have been coming into the district it's a little frustrating when when you do have that many more students
than what you had two years ago I was going to say I just know that our numbers are up a pretty significant amount y so especially with the preschool now that's another so another reason why you won't hear us cry poverty is because we were fully funded for our preschool program
uh in the amount of just over $831,000 now uh you'll see last year's amount at just uh under1 54,000 the reason that is so significantly higher is because we're adding two classrooms and third 30
students that money does not directly come to our district in that we're ultimately paying the tuition for up to 30 students to attend the First Impressions preschool at lynen Avenue um we will receive some Financial benefit
from that in the amount of about $2,000 per student right but also remember we're funding three classrooms that budget didn't include correct so that3 was only for one classroom of 10 students um so you know although we are sending First Impressions that tuition
we do receive uh or or hold on to some of that money um to help offset our expenses a lot of which are preschool related um but the added benefit there is we have this 30 students who will be getting a free public education from certified School teachers that would not
have otherwise right so it's offsetting the financial burden to the parents and it's providing a service that you know a lot of a lot of preschools or daycares don't have certificated teachers they're not able to pay those teachers what a certificated teacher you know should be
making um so it's really a win for our district it it also allows us to offset a lot of our general expenses uh administrator salaries are are partially being paid through that secretarial salaries custodians uh utilities um so
it allows us to pull money from our general fund um or at least put money back into our general fund so that we can support a lot of the other initiatives that we want to support um so if you look at the fourth bullet uh the increase in staff and I think this
is particularly important to consider um I'm going to skip that for just a minute and I'm going to go down to the the next bullet where we have a total tax increase of about 4.12% um this includes our debt service so this includes the the referendum
monies that the town approved for us to upgrade our facilities um last year uh for Debt Service and the tax levy increase we were at 3.42% um this is very comparable to a lot of the schools in the area uh and
it's significantly less than than some you know of of the schools in our general region um but the reason I wanted to jump to that bullet before the previous one is most of the schools who are at a four to 6% increase are doing that while maintaining programming
they're maintaining staff there's really no added uh benefit we're looking to add 2.6 staff members to uh support programming that we don't currently have uh one of which would be an additional full-time middle school math teacher so
that we could support a double math period in in grade 6th seventh and eth grade um this is something that a lot of districts I shouldn't like that some districts have had for a period of time and it's been considered a luxury um as a former middle school math teacher I I
wouldn't go as far as saying it's a luxury because I know how much more we'll be able to accomplish by doubling the amount of time that our students are are spending in a math class um so that's uh why we we'll be looking to add one full-time math teacher um the
increase of a full-time special education teacher is twofold um one I would say half of that position is to support the increase in uh specials teachers our stem teacher is currently teaching stem and special education we
want to take the special education responsibilities off of her so that we can increase the amount of time that our middle school students spend in stem um and the other half of that would be by doubling math in middle school we also have to double the pullout resource math classes that are also being offered in
middle school so that teacher uh is to compensate for those two things um and then you know I mentioned an increase in stem who's currently a full-time position but increasing our art and music positions from 70% to full-time so that's a 30% increase in salary for both
Plus benefits um this is going to allow all of this for a more comprehensive uh Middle School experience for our students which to be honest with you has been an initiative of the board for 11 years since I you know was hired here as
building principal 11 years ago you know that's this is to me this is the last real piece of it right we've added lockers we've treated them more like middle school kids we' we've done a lot of the middle school things this is that last piece that's really going to boost us academically I'm I'm very excited
about it um the other nice thing about that you know for those of you who were here and participated in our strategic planning process a couple years ago these are all direct reflections of what the community told us they wanted they wanted increased uh amount of of uh art
music stem they wanted student Choice which we'll be able to incorporate with these new positions uh and they wanted our middle school students to feel like middle school students rather than it being an extension of an of an elementary school uh so very excited about that um so yes go does that mean
since you're talking about double math does that mean you're going to eliminate the eha period that the kids currently have we are not going to eliminate it okay it will be shortened okay um from again so this is a proposed schedule
based on the uh approval and acceptance of the budget that we're moving forward so I anticipate that going from a 40 minute period to a 25 minute period still allowing the kids the opportunity the the main purpose of the EA I know kids think it's to do homework it's not
it's to have it's to have access to their teachers right so during that eha time a middle school teacher has access to their math teacher their language arts teacher their science teacher their social studies teacher in case they need additional help some students take
advantage of this I'd say the majority probably do not a lot of students are able to complete their homework during that that time but that's not what it's for uh we use that time for pullups as well we pull out for ban for speech for OT for PT for RTI so that the kids
aren't as negatively impacted by missing other classes um so we will we do plan to keep um an eha period uh one thing that I think many students will be happy about and some will not be is um the
removal of recess uh for middle school students um to be quite honest with you it's something that we've done we've done it successfully some kids didn't like it some kids loved it because it creates a longer lunch for them uh so that they don't have to rush and eat they have more time to socialize in the
cafeteria but it also falls in line with a more traditional comprehensive Middle School um middle schools who who are not k8s Standalone middle schools don't have recess um I understand the importance of activity uh you know in kids moving but
we also offer um more minutes in physical education than are required as well uh so they are getting more of them um and then other other than those changes uh it'll be a decrease in two minutes per period which is not a
significant decrease so our periods right now are 41 minutes long the Peri periods will be 39 minutes long but again you now have the double math with the double language arts so fabulous a lot of increased collaboration time for
our teachers um we are going to be able to create more of a department feel um special education teachers which they haven't in the past will have opportunities to collaborate with the general education teachers um to to you know just more effectively modify work
for students with needs um and uh I I I really see it as as a really um significant improvement over the current schedule that we have so um the the tax levy increase on a home assessed at just under $200,000 would be a yearly impact of
$134 43 important to note that the tax assessment is not a home's value right the way that homes are selling in this town they're they're selling way over the tax assess value it's on that little card that you get that tells you you
know what your taxes are that's the value that we're talking about here anybody have questions before I go to the next slide if I can just make a comment on your last um if you look at year-over-year what we're currently paying it's a minimal increase and we're getting two and a half extra teachers full-time
music an extra math teacher we we get continue to move forward with our door project they're using the money smartly in capital reserves that we have to spend anyway towards debt Services everything is really healthy and it's trending so while the other schools are just trying to maintain even in some
situations at a higher Levy we the taxpayers shouldn't feel it that much on an annual basis I know the percentage is what stands out right away but a year-over-year it's it's minimal and it in my opinion um to each their own though and remember that that increase
the $134 increase that's inclusive of The Debt Service right that was passed through the referendum um we did not so when we passed that referendum there was still no more than a 2% that year
increase in the tax levy because we we planned that and scheduled that immediately after the previous Debt Service fell off right so 20 years ago we completed the addition uh of of the gym and the front of the building um that was paid off in 20 years and we
just kind of rolled on top of that I have a question on the on the preschool you said are we going to send 30 more students to the preschool so we the way that we have it structured next year we're going to have two classes here and
two classes at First Impressions which is on Lynden Avenue which will consist of 30 kids at the same time so in two different classes I mean they going to the school at the same time correct the reason why I I question that is because right now when they're going coming in
the morning and going in the afternoon they Park on both sides of the street and the one side it says no parking and you can't get a car the I'm more concerned about the increased traffic because they they don't have any parking so what I'll tell you is a good number
of the kids who are already in that school are stanh hope residents who are their parents are paying for them to go there they'll stay there and the parents just won't have to pay anymore I'm talking about the additional kids so I'm saying though that although there will be additional kids it won't necessarily
be 30 additional because a lot of them are already in school there that's what I wanted to get clear in my mind because I was getting nervous because I go down that road every morning and every afternoon I'm not saying that there won't be an increase in traffic yeah but it may not be as significant as as
you're concerned about okay on the last thing on the uh the assessment I understand that I think uh sometime this year or early next year the town's going to do reassessment so that might everything might change on on that on that it could yeah they are scheduled to
do re assessments this they are scheduled to do reassessments yeah that's that was my understanding MH okay thanks um so how we're going to be uh paying for all the things that we're looking to to fit into our budget so as
we've discussed several times here at our board meetings we are eligible for adjustments uh which is an allowance for us to go over that 2% tax levy cap uh our enrollment adjust adjustment we're eligible for about
$360,000 but we're only looking to use about 300,000 of it our state aid incre was increased just over 86,000 um and as I stated that the budget reflects our expenditures and our revenues so remember in addition to the tax levy we have a pretty healthy and
comprehensive um tuition program where we have special needs programs where several districts from the area send kids here and they pay us to educate their children we're able to do that at minimal cost increase uh to our budget because these programs are existing we
already have the teachers in some cases we already have the AIDS we have the furniture we have the curricular resources so it's students coming here and we're we're being compensated for them uh we talked about the increase and teachers um banked cap for the following year is at
471000 uh and even after we use capital reserve funds to pay down some of uh The Debt Service to minimize the increase to the tax levy and complete our door project we still expect to have about a million dollars left in capital reserve
which is a very healthy number and still uh about $260,000 left in our maintenance Reserve so maintenance re Reserve can be used in case of an emergency the nice thing about our current situation is our building's practically brand new right
so the chances of of of needing an emergency boiler repair or you know HVAC repair or a roof repair is very slim but if we need it we have plenty of money available for us to do questions before I move on to the last
slide um so again just to reiterate and restate increases for the year on a tax assessed House of just under2 200,000 is $134 if you broke that out to monthly it's about $11 per month uh increase and again you're looking at an increase
regardless right you know whether it's 2% or 4% um so that's that's what we're looking at and that's just for Stan Hope School District which is separate from the lenpy Valley School District questions like I said a more more
comprehensive presentation will be held at our April meeting at which point the board uh will be required to vote on um not just the acceptance of the budget but um approving the adjustments that we're looking to to take to support the
budget just want to say thank you to everybody for your hard work I think it's fabulous all the things we're going to be able to do and as somebody who was here when they had to take the full-time art and music and cut it to 50% it's been a long time coming slowly but surely to be able
to get it back to full-time with Benefits is fantastic so thanks thank you everybody you [Music] okay sorry we had Place good I like it with our
[Music] better all right so with that presentation if there are no more questions on that we need a motion to adopt the budget adoption for 2526 agenda items 1 to eight motion second
thank you other we're good anybody have questions before we do a roll call vote okay Mrs balado yes Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yam yes Mrs Harold yes motion
carries that takes us to administrative action item agenda item number one can I get a motion on that please motion second yes Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yagam yes Mrs Harold yes motion is
carry okay that takes us to policy action items agenda items 1 to four and they are all second readings on the policies can we have a motion please no move
second second any questions not hearing any questions that takes us to a roll call boo Mrs balato yes Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yagam yes Mrs Harold yes motion's
carried okay moving right along to education action items agenda items 1 to six this is school trips the revised calendar date changes for parent teacher conferences extended school year program
and the summer enrichment program can I have a motion please motion any questions Mrs balado yes Mr eicar I'm sorry Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yagman
yes Mrs Harold yes thank you takes us to personal action items agenda items one and two may I have a motion please motion [Music]
second and this shows substitute nurse and then also the programs that are proposed for the summer enrichment program anybody have any question questions just a comment these are exciting programs and I'd like to thank the staff that has volunteered time throughout
their summer to also do this I want to call it volunte I wouldn't say volunteer it is they are paid programs um the first year we did it this way last year uh we were we were initially given Federal funding through covid to run these programs for free they were very
successful um and this this is an opportunity for teachers to run things that they're passionate about uh and they excel in um at what I think is a is a minimal cost uh to the parents the district is not charging for facilities
the district is not charging extra to utilize Insurance um it's strictly the cost to compensate the teachers and to pay for materials and resources that they may need for the program they were excellent last year so I was super excited to see an even more built out
program for this year Y and and you know whether or not all these move forward will depend on whether or not they get enough people registered um my hope is to get registration links out by the end of this week I was hoping to be ready to send it out first thing tomorrow it's been a busy week it's just a matter of
of building those links and getting everything um done um maybe with a late night tonight I can I can get it done but hopefully by the end of the week excellent thank you any other questions or comments not hearing any can we have a
roll call vote please sure Mrs yes Mr Pico yes Mr vardo Mr yagam yes Mrs Harold motion's carried that takes us to Business Services action items agenda items 1 to13 with an addendum for items 14 to
17 I give you a minute to look that over can we get a motion motion second anyone with questions comments concerns just want to point out that we have uh number seven a new student who
started with us in our ER program uh transition has been quite successful over the first week or so um and it is expected that the student will remain with us through next year excellent and then on number 15 you'll note that the company that's chosen for
the door project 15 and 16 sorry yes okay 15 is the actual doors in the hardware and 16 is the installation of the um the electronic swipes and the uh the network services that go
along with that and remember too I I just want to note that um for that that's not only the interior doors we're also having all of the exterior card readers uh replaced and updated uh with improved and
increased security features is front line going to be the I'm assuming that's initial startup costs and then there will be an annual about half of it is the initial startup costs um it's uh about 10 thou 10 to
11,000 annually it's to replace real time which is our our current IEP Management program um the yearly expense is about double it does offer a lot more for our team uh it it has a component a platform for 504 plans which is not
something that we currently have um but the the main reason we wanted to explore this platform aside from it being easier to use uh from a user perspective um lenpy bym and neong all use this platform uh and it just makes it a lot
easier to have greater consistency as kids move from our district into lenpy neong and bym students who have IEPs they're able to very easily transfer through the platform um into Len's platform whereas when lenpy accepts our
kids it's a whole process of manually entering all of the data from those IEPs which in some cases are you know 11 years worth of data um so it's it was time um I honestly don't know exactly why we haven't made this transition
sooner I think it probably had more to do with the fact that we had very tight budgets at that time uh and we're just very fortunate right now that we're we're in a very good position to make this change and the first year is included in that the yes the so the the
21898 is start costs uh pro-rated costs for uh April May and June of this year oh it be because we're going to have an overlap because it's going to be a two two or three month process of of transferring data uh and then all of next year and also don't forget our
tuition in students that we're getting from Mostly the regional districts will be able to transfer those things back and forth also it's a more widely used program mostly because it's just more user friendly anybody with any other questions
comments not hearing any can we have a roll call vote please sure Mrs balad yes Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yagam yes Mrs Mrs Harold yes well M's Carri that takes us to new business
anybody with new business not hearing any new business anybody with old business I just wanted to thank Matt I was really excited my daughter came home with a flyer I see that the first annual uh Chargers challenge great flyer uh I like
the image who did that for you the HSA took control of that you guys looks awesome that's going to be on Saturday May 31st I uh thank you Matt this is gonna be great it's exciting the HSA they've been uh doing their part wonderfully I'm
excited to have it thanks to Steve as well for help and you guys so look forward to it exciting anybody else on Old business not hearing any that takes us
to public session number two non-ag agenda items having no public that takes us to adjournment can I have a motion please motion check it 759 okay and voice okay Voice vote all in
favor of adjournment I any knows any extensions all right we are adjourned e