Okay. >> All right, everyone. We're going to get started. Can everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Okay, roll call, please. >> Dr. Monaco, >> here. >> Mr. Balado, >> here. >> Mrs. Donahghue, >> here. >> Mrs. Balado, >> here. >> Mr. Pico. >> Mrs. Herald, >> here. >> Mrs. Shariffstein, >> here. We have a quir.
>> Thank you. 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 public meetings act Stanh Hope board of education located at 24 Valley Road Stanh Hope New Jersey has caused this
notice to be posted at the office of the Stanh Hope board of education mailed to the New Jersey Herald the municipal clerk of the bureau of Stanh Hope the Stanh Hope Post Office and posted at the Valley Road School and on the Stanh Hope public schools website setting forth the time date and location of the eating.
The Stan Hope School District in partnership with community commits to provide equality comprehensive education for all learners with equal emphasis on academic excellence and citizenship through values, respect, and service. 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. Okay.
Uh there an executive session will be held for the purpose of student confidentiality. Informal action may be taken. Uh and with that we'll go right to our presentations. Marking period to honorable. Okay. Good evening everyone. Thanks so much
for coming out tonight. I know the weather isn't really cooperating. It's quite gross. Uh but we appreciate um the fact that you show up. Uh and that's that's an important theme, right? Because the students that we're recognizing for this quarter um not only showed up, but they showed up regularly.
They put their their top effort in. Uh and we're recognizing them because they achieved honoral status for the second marking period. Um a lot of that can't be accomplished though without the support that they receive at home. Uh so it speaks uh volumes uh about you and the support that you provide for them
and the fact that you're here to support them that uh that means even more. Um so for those of you who are new to this uh we honor our students who achieve A's and B's throughout a marking period um by allowing them to to achieve honoral status. Students who uh receive straight
A's all A's for the marking period will earn high honoral status. And this is in our sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, our middle school. So, I'm going to start by reading the names of our students uh on honor roll uh beginning with sixth grade. Uh when you hear your name, please stand, come forward. Uh
Mrs. Shariffstein will hand you your certificate, pause, and smile so your parents can take a picture. Uh and then I'll call the next name. So, I'd like to first start uh by calling up Rose Bolanini. When you come up, feel free to stay a
while. You don't have to run away. Kaylee Campbell, Steven Frank, Emma Fuhols, Alexa Cardishova, Olivia Louise, Jackson Light, Ree Miley, Martinez Lopez,
Brandon Medina, Annayiah Morales, Gunnar Porter Evelyn Rose Carla Val Valdez Vuete Okay, Mariana Zuniga, Dana Jose, Dana Bonitez,
Brooke Bove, Nathan Sia. Malia Fernandez, Violet Kern, Rosalie Lama, Nico March, Madison Shavo, Jack Stansfield, Julia Volani,
Faith Anderson, Jack Bolanini, Alacia Green, Violet Hanusk. Juliet Hines, Kylie Hoffman, Marily Martinez Lopez, Sadie Morales, Adrina Nikotuck,
Colin Polarmo, Hannah Shariffstein, Maxwell Slater, Scarlett Stanfield, Jasine Venegas, Olivia Yo, All right. Next up are our high uh honoral students achieve straight A's
for the marking period. Christopher Cologne, Caroline Elely, >> Gueneve, Gorgeous, >> Benjamin Galato, Camila Morales, Gavin Walkerhouser, Amaya Abrau Cruz,
Leah Buck, Sophie Deselenez, Ava Dominguez, and Jacob Campbell. All right, thank you everybody. Congratulations students. Um, in just a second, the board is going to
uh move into executive session where we'll go into a different classroom. Uh, feel free to stay a little while. Cookies and, uh, waters are out in the hallway. Um, please take all of them. Have a great night, everyone. And there's not one kid at least first
time ever. I thought about that when I heard yep because down good. >> Okay. Uh let's see. Where are we here? Uh executive session. Can I have a motion, please?
>> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Uh be be it resolved that the Stanho Board of Education adopts the following resolution. Whereas the Open Public Meeting Act chapter 231 of 1975 permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting in certain circumstances. And
whereas the Stanh 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 the 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 prejuditial to the interest of the parties involved and would not result in a possible invasion of their right to privacy. Uh,
voice vote all in. Say yes. >> Yes. >> Any nos? Abstensions >> and recusals. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. Can I have a motion to reenter public session, please? >> Motion. >> Second, please. >> Second. All in favor say yes.
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Any nos? Okay. Abstensions or recusals? Re-entry. Okay. >> All right. That brings us to correspondence. uh notice of public hearing on the
resoning of block 11802 lot 1 amending chapter 100. Any questions on that? So >> just point of clarification which we actually need to look into it. This has nothing to do with the proposed parking lot. It has everything to do with the 40 acres of land that they're looking to
reszone next to Levy. >> Oh. Okay to move on. Other questions? >> Okay. Oh, that's you. Superintendent's report. >> All right. So, we had two investigations since the last meeting. Um, neither of which were founded for HIV. Uh, zero
suspension, zero inschool suspensions. Um, I wanted to recognize two students. um both of which um incredible eighth grade students who have done so much in this school and in this community. Um first is Alacia Green who's uh the
student uh superintendent roundt award winner. Uh she was one of I believe seven students from the eighth grade class who were nominated. Students drafted essays, submitted them and uh all teachers of eighth grade students reviewed the essays and they ultimately
voted and it was a very close vote. Most of the students receive votes. Um but Alacia came out victorious. Um her journey at VRS uh reflects remarkable determination and personal growth. She's made a conscious effort to become a more focused and kind to become more focused
and kind. Uh and she's developed into a mature leader. Her impact on our school community has been significant. She serves as vice president of the student council, band manager, and student conductor. excels as a track athlete, an honor role student, and actively advocates against bullying, even
co-creating a podcast to promote kindness and inclusion. We're proud to recognize Alacia Alacia as this year's Superintendence Roundt Award recipient and a role model for our younger students. Uh so, Alacia and I will have the opportunity with her family uh to
attend a banquet in May at Prona Farms. Um although most counties do an award uh have an award similar to this, I believe we're the only county in the state that has a holds a banquet um for the students and their families. And that's for uh every district in the county,
whether it's a sixth grader, an eighth grader, or a 12th grader, that recognizes one student. Um the next student uh is our unsung hero award winner, uh Hannah Shariffstein, also in eighth grade. Um Hannah has faced challenges with quiet determination,
meaning each obstacle with persistence and a commitment to improving herself. Her success reflects hard work, resilience, and the belief that setbacks are simply steps towards growth. Beyond the classroom, Hannah has made a meaningful impact in our community through her business, Hannah's hand
knits, raising over $2,000 for a local dog park. Um this one was a little bit more unanimous. Uh several several teachers voted for Hannah. Uh, and the award couldn't be more deserving. Um, so congratulations to both Alacia and Hannah. Um, next item I have here is
that we are holding our annual career day on March 6th, uh, from about 11:30 to 2:30. For those of you who are unfamiliar, uh we solicit um parents, community members, local organizations, and businesses to come out and set up a
table um so that our students can uh walk through our our gym uh learn a little bit more about the different careers that are available to them um within and outside their community. It's always a really fun event. The vendors seem to have a lot of fun with it. Um
and we're really excited to provide the opportunity again for the students kindergarten through eighth grade um all attend. Um next is just a reminder for our financial disclosure forms uh to please submit them as soon as possible. I believe our newer board members are good. >> They're all finished.
>> We're good. So we have a little bit more time for the rest of us uh end of April. >> Yes, >> end of April. So by end of April um we might as well just get them done though. um want to make sure that those are done because we are being QSAC next year and this is a QAC item. So we would hate to
lose points on something silly like this. Um also uh a reminder that next month's meeting March 18th although remaining on a Wednesday we're looking to change the time to 5:30 so that some of our new board members can attend the gov 1
training which is taking place virtually at 7 o'clock. I think I told you it was February at first. So, I'm sorry, but that's okay. >> Okay. >> Um, so that's an important one to make sure that everybody um uh is able to to participate in. And it's also an important meeting because we're going to
have our proposed budget um for everybody to review and and discuss. We don't want anybody to miss out on that opportunity. Um I have one other item and and I only added it late because it's it's really really new and fresh. Um Carissa um Mr. Borgo and I met with
um a broker and our union leadership today about the potential for changing our healthc care uh benefits plan. Um not only us but all districts who are involved in the state health benefits
plan um are are facing significant financial stress right now because of the 30% increase that we were were that was forced upon us in January. Um, it was a mid-year change. Uh, it was
although because of savvy budgeting from our business office, we we feel confident that we're we're going to be able to overcome, but we were looking at over $12,000 per month increase just on health insurance premiums. Um, you know, for a school district that's that's a
lot of money and if it's not budgeted, it puts you in a really difficult spot. Fortunately, Carissa and Dan anticipated it. um and they put some things in place to make sure that we'd be okay. Uh but it would be negligent of us to just accept it and move on as it is. Uh so we
were presented with a plan um moving out of the state health benefits plan to a private plan where we would um have our our own coverage. Uh and we're forecasting a short-term savings of almost $150,000 over the course of 14
months. Um and and long term we're we feel really confident that uh >> it'll um it'll be a a a better situation for us. Um a lot of districts are getting out of state healthcare plan. Um the ones who can like us that have good
exposure are able to. All that's going to be left are are the ones who really can't get out of it. And that to me doesn't it doesn't really leave us with uh great possibilities moving forward. So, the other nice thing about this this switch is that it then changes our um
our yearlies instead of um January as the renewal. We're going to be going from July to June, which is be a better fit for us for budgeting purposes because eventually when we do are faced with potential increases, we'll know those increases in time for us to place
it in the following year's budget. We're not hit being hit January 1 with an unknown amount of money for a budget that was struck back in March. >> Yes. >> Right. Um so we have a a meeting scheduled with the broker to come in on Monday and and we've invited all covered
staff uh to attend. Um the only real concern that that I think we have is is this the small chance that some providers may not be in the network. Um, but we're we're being told that confidently more than 90% of the the
provider coverage should be the same. >> All right. Did I miss anything? >> No, that's it for the most part. >> Okay. >> For the providers not in network, is there an out of network option if people were to choose it? There are out of network options and my understanding is
for the short term um there will be funds available to support coverages that are maybe lost um you know over the course of this of this agreement. Um obviously long-term we can't sustain that. >> Um but my understanding is that there'll
be some funds aside to support people. Uh the legally we have to to provide a plan that's either equal or better to the current plan that we have. Um, and we we believe that that this is the case. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Two quick things I'll just add on that
and you touched on this, right? The state health benefits plan is is what they call a market of last resort in the insurance world, right? It's always where the people who can't get insurance on the open market have to go and that happens a lot with any government entity. Um, but like Steve said, you know, because it's never the best risks,
the price is always the most in those particular arrangements. So, we've been wanting to move benefits for a long time. Um, you know, and the increases that everybody is facing um are very significant. So, when he talks about the
savings to us, that's not necessarily money that that's not that's coming back. It's just money we won't have to put out >> going forward. So, it's it's not like necessarily a big ad to our budget, but >> we didn't find anything, >> right? We didn't find anything. So, I just want to clarify that. It's not like we have extra money now, but it's money
we won't need to pay at least over the first 18 months until we get the whatever the increases will be from this, but we'll be moved up into kind of a better tier of risk, if you will, with a private provider. >> And Carissa shared earlier this morning um before any of us other than her were
involved in the school district. Uh that's the reason we ended up in the state health benefits plan. We we didn't have a choice 15 years ago. It was it was move into there because our exposure was really poor >> and nobody else wanted us. So >> our working population was a little bit
different. We've shifted and now we have a better experience rating. Yes. >> If you know anything about experience rating, it's essentially the amount of money you've paid in claims or losses uh divided by your amount of premium that you pay. So anything under one is good that they've made money and anything
over one is bad. And as a general risk, office workers like people who are sedentary are not great risks. Um, so that's why, you know, again, as a as a classification of risk, schools in particular are not great risks. Um, even though I'm not, you know, teachers
aren't sedentary, but it's still not a, you know, a type of job where people um have great experience over time, if you will. Um, the other good thing about moving to to a private uh entity is there's more opportunity for wellness plans, which I
know both Sigma and offer widely in Sigma and Etna both offer widely in the state of New Jersey. So, they're much more about preventative care and wellness than a state health benefits plan who can offer those types of benefits. So, I'm hopeful to see some of that available for our teachers.
>> That's all for me. If you couldn't guess, I work in insurance. All right, that brings us to uh Jen Personnel Curriculum School Climate and Culture. >> It's a big name, but it was a short meeting. Um you'll see on the agenda that there's
two names up for approval for appointments. One for a paraprofessional, the other a stipen position for assistant track coach. So hopefully the kids will all want to come out and do track. That would be great. from a curriculum update. There's going
to be I don't know if you have did you get a determine on your AI? >> Yeah. So, we are going to move forward with the company I think is AI for all. I could be wrong, but ultimately the speaker that I was looking to bring in
is Amanda Bickerstaff, who's pretty reputable throughout the state. Um, and we're we're excited to bring her in. So, that'll be for uh a a three-hour opening keynote and training for staff the first day of school, August 31st. Um and we're also going to be looking to schedule an
hour parent presentation um here at Valley Road. Uh with with the hope of also inviting, you know, um parents from outside of the community, uh Nekong, Byum, Apacong, uh it's not cheap. I'd like to get our money's worth. So, the
more parents and and communities that we can educate, uh, I think the better off we all are. >> I think that'll be exciting because AI is the future. Whether people agree with it, don't agree with it, it's here. It's not going away. So, we might as well all learn all the things that we can to help
ourselves and our students. And the other thing, and I am super excited about this because it's been a long time coming, is the special class choice for marking period 4 for the middle schoolers. Um, I don't know who's probably more excited, the kids or me. Really, I'm really excited about this. I
think it's going to be great regardless of what choices they pick. It I think just having choice. We went so long from having not the ability to offer choice to being able to roll out choice is huge. It kind of puts us a little closer
to larger districts where they have opportunity for choice. And then assuming this all goes well, and I think it will, then we can hopefully offer more choices for the following year as far as more marking periods. So, super excited about that. And that was pretty
much it. Like I said, big committee name, small meeting. >> Thank you. Any questions for Jed? >> All right, moving on. Business services, facilities, and technology. >> Um, so we spoke about the healthcare,
which Mr. Hagman covered already. Um we um we spoke about the special education medical initiative semi I believe you called it >> um which is any district with 40 or more students is required to apply. we have
been approved to wave that application. Um, and simply because um, and if I get this wrong, please correct me, but the benefit that we would get is far outweighed by the resources and the time and effort it would take to receive
those benefits. >> Um, I know Mr. Hayden mentioned that he's that we're they're presenting the budget next month. Um but he did let us know that we are actually in pretty good shape with the budget. Um if the the tax
increase that we're going to see is very he's anticipating a minor tax increase as long as there are no issues with state aid. Correct. >> Yeah. So we're we're hopeful to keep it as low as possible. Uh the the least it
would be is 2% at the most if we don't get state aid numbers that we like which I wouldn't anticipate two and a half maybe. Um but you'll see across the state districts in the double digits because everybody's getting hit so hard with the medical uh benefit increases.
>> All right. We entered into we signed the yearly agreement with the Cess County Educa Education Cooperative. um the parking lot. Uh at that point, the they were almost finished with the drawings. The plan is to try and get us
onto the town's March planning board agenda. >> An update on that tonight. >> Okay. >> And it looks like we are on track for that. Um the drawings are ready to go. Drainage study is done. doesn't have uh
soil logs quite yet um because the weather wouldn't permit but but ultimately we're on track to get on their March uh agenda for the zoning. >> Excellent. Um Mr. as Mr. Hickman mentioned the March 18th meeting will be
moved to starting at 5:30 to accommodate the new board members taking the gov one training. And then the last piece was that we are no longer required to post meeting notices in the newspapers. Um but we must archive notices for one year
and Mr. Lama is working on um setting this up. Any questions? >> Nope. Okay. Hearing none. Uh this would be Carmen uh policy and communications. He is not here. Um you want to go over them? they're reflected on the agenda,
but we can talk briefly about them just in case there's questions. >> Yeah. So, the first readings of these policies uh and the one regulation are it's it's some minor language changes just because uh of some laws changes that went into place. Uh the reason that we're abolishing uh policy and
regulation 3362 and 4352 is because um all the pertinent information from those policies and regulation is going to be included in policy and regulation 1552. Um, so really no major changes. Uh, mostly just language. Um, and they're
all things that we are already currently um, doing. So we are in compliance. >> A quick question on the uh, nepotism one. >> At the end it's there's like it says optional language. Is that like do we decide if we want to include that or not?
>> Optional. We we discussed that as part of the committee meeting. Okay. >> Um we landed on the language that we wanted to move forward with. If you go into your >> so your board of ed um agenda folder in in the drive. >> Okay. >> I place policy and regulation. So the so
for the first committee I make sure that the policy and regulation I upload has the strikethroughs, the bolds, the options so that everybody who's reviewing it can see what the proposed changes are. After that first committee review, I clean that up. I remove the strikethroughs, the bolds. We choose the
options that the committee is recommending, and then you'll see a nice uh a nice clean version in there. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. And just by way of background, right, those options are things that our vendor puts in there for us that are standard options. It's nothing that that we're creating. All the policy and
regulation that comes out of Strauss Estate, which is our vendor, um is all, you know, a funnel through compliance with the law. And there's very little option in most of these, but every now and then there's a little >> Was that my board training on Saturday? >> Yes. So there you go. >> So there you go. So the New Jersey school boards has a policy arm and
there's Strauss sme and school districts in the state are kind of split on which ones they use, but we've been on Strauss SME forever. >> Yeah, we we five or six years ago, I want to say maybe a little bit more, we transitioned >> from their like PDF version to the
online version. That in itself was an extensive amount of work. >> Yes. >> Um >> I know school boards offers the service for free right now, >> but the again the amount of the amount of labor that would go into making that change, especially after we just did a a policy audit a couple years ago, I think
that was part one of our district goals um >> in about 2011 2012 because I'm trying to remember which administrator is here. We moved from school boards to Strauss. Yeah. So, I feel like it's a >> it is
>> who which board feels like. Well, yes. >> They're all the same laws. >> I'm very happy with Strauss, not just because of the platform that they provide. They also provide a love no different than what school boards would provide, but the level of service that they provide, if we have questions, if we need an expert, somebody's always
there to to help us through these questions. Um, >> very very happy. They provide free trainings, you know, related to policy and HIV. Um, I don't see any reason to change, especially considering, you know, how how the good shape we're in fiscally right now.
>> Yes. >> And also that online platform that we're able to utilize, which I'm sure schoolboards has, but it's lovely. >> Yeah. It's very nice. You can go right to our website, you can view any of our policies, and they're up to date as soon as you guys are. That was the goal years
ago was was that level of transparency so that people didn't have to look for policy about the school. It's all out there and anybody can read it. >> It's easy to search >> which we didn't have that ability for quite some time. >> You scroll through a 900page >> and poor Carissa was responsible for
updating that document every single time that we >> celebrating. >> Yes. So the search engine alone is a benefit for all of us. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Moving on. Let's see. That brings us to ED services.
>> Um there was no meeting this month. >> Excellent. It's a good update. And then so that would be then my board's president's report. Um really everything that I have been involved in, we've talked about a couple of phone calls on health benefits and on budget. Um so there's nothing new to report there. There's nothing new with
regionalization. We're just still in a sit and wait on the studies. Um the one meeting that I did have outside of all this was a legislative committee meeting at the county level. Um there is a subgroup of of folks who are uh what they call the second VP of legislation
for the county involved in talking to other counties and figuring out kind of what are the things that are meaningful across counties that we can go and talk to the legislature about. Uh top of that list is updates to the HIV law for clarity and for an understanding of it,
you know, should it it currently does apply equally across all grade levels in the state and there's very different implications depending on the students grade and their knowledge of what's happening. Um so there's a big push for a change in the way that law is written. This group is drafting a change to it to
present to legislators. Um there's a lot of discussion again around regionalization in that particular group. And then there is significant discussion around health benefits and prescription cost and you know the kind of the top three things we keep talking about is the top things that group is
talking about and looking to narrow their focus into where they can make some meaningful change. So any thoughts or comments on other things you'd like that group to take up let me know and we will take them up. So but that's the other thing that I was involved in since our last meeting
questions. Okay. Uh, moving on. That would bring us to public session number one. We have one member of the public know that you would like to speak. So then we will move on. Travel and workshop reports. There were two in the folder. Questions or comments? All right, we'll move forward. That
brings us to minutes for approval. Agenda item one. Can I have a motion, please? >> Motion. >> Second, please. >> Second. >> Thank you. This is a voice vote. This is last month's regular meeting minutes. Attachment two. All in favor say yes. >> Yes. >> Any nos? abstensions or recusals. Okay,
moving to the next administrative action items. Uh, can I have a motion, please? >> All over. >> Second, please. >> Second. >> Thank you. Give everybody a minute to read that one item. >> Good. Can I have a roll call vote, please?
>> Dr. Monaco, >> yes. >> Mr. Batalado, >> yes. >> Mrs. Donahghue. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Balado. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Herald? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Shariffstein? >> Yes. >> Motions carry. >> Uh policy action items. Uh agenda items
one through four. Uh can I have a motion, please? >> Thank you. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you. These are the four we just spoke about. >> Any further questions on these? Okay. Hearing none. Okay. quick again
because we have some new people. Uh first readings for these uh policies and and regulation. Um we'll present them as a second reading at our our next meeting so that you have another opportunity to review them if you do have any additional questions. >> Sorry.
>> That's okay. >> Roll call. >> Dr. Monaco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bonalado. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Donahue? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Balado? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Herald? Yes. >> Mrs. Shariffstein? Yes. We have a qu. >> Yes. Education action items uh one through three. Can I have a motion,
please? >> Motion. >> Second, please. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> We got trips. We got a school calendar >> for two years. >> Thank you. >> Aaron, you participated on that, right? Thank you. I appreciate it.
>> Very exciting. >> I'm hopeful in March to have a finalized current school year calendar. >> March is tricky because you still have a couple weeks of potential weather. Um, but I'll I'll provide an update of committees. >> Winter's too long. It's going to be all spring and March. >> Hope not.
>> All spring all the time. >> Any questions, trips or calendars? Okay. Can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Dr. Monaco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Balado? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Donahghue? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Balado? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Herald? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Sharpstein? >> Yes. >> Motion's car.
>> Thank you. Uh, personnel action items one through four. Motion, please. >> Motion. >> Second, please. >> Second. Thank you. Give everyone a minute. >> Questions, comments? >> It's the comment that I feel old. I know
that Christa is able to >> to do her shadowing. Like >> very excited to bring her back. >> Agreed. I'm just I saw that and felt really old. >> Yep. No, it's exciting >> for us. >> Our kids are in the same class. My son
is in Kristen's class. >> The substitute par professional candidate that we're hiring was also a student when I started here. >> They Yeah. >> You felt old then, too. >> I' I've already hired former students. So, yes. >> All right. Hearing no further
discussion. Roll call vote, please. >> Monaco? Yes. >> Mr. Balato? Yes. >> Mrs. Donahghue? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Balado? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Herald? Yes. Mrs. Sharpstein. Motion's carried. >> All right. Business services. Can I have a motion, please? >> I'll offer. >> Second, please.
>> Second. >> Thank you. >> Uh, see, give everyone a minute. These always look meteor than they are. We've talked about everything on here, though. There's the semi-waver bills. Just to point out for your understanding
with regards to our transportation contract, the only increase is on the field trips from prior years and we really don't use them for field trips. We'll quote out to the smaller companies and our local companies. We really like to use Lenipe if we have that opportunity.
>> Any questions, comments, or discussion? No. >> Okay. Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. >> Dr. Monaco, >> yes. >> Mr. Balado, >> yes. >> Mrs. Donahghue, >> yes. >> Mrs. Balado, >> yes. >> Mrs. Herald, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shariffstein, >> yes. >> Motions carried. >> Thank you. Anybody like to bring new
business before the board? >> Would we miss Mr. Pico? >> He usually feels the new business. >> How about old business? >> I do have old business. I have a question. I know we talked a while ago as far as the algebra curriculum, the
program itself, and some of the functionalities that it potentially could or couldn't do or if it could do, we didn't necessarily know how to access that. >> Did we get any answers back from >> in terms of the text series you're saying?
>> Well, in in in no in terms of like so, how do I best explain this? because everything automatically goes from the program directly into Genesis. It doesn't give away or my understanding was before for anything to be able to go
back and adjust. So is was we were going to look into was there a way to shut that feature off or learn how to adjust? No, I'm sure as you can tell through my state of confusion, I don't have an answer for you. Um, but
I will I will work on that before the next meeting. Have an update. >> Appreciate it. >> Any other old business? That would bring us to our second public session. Hearing nothing from the public, can I have a motion for adjournment, please? >> I'll offer. >> Second, please.
>> Second. >> Voice vote. All in favor? I >> no abstain. Recusals. All right, that brings us to a close. Thank you everyone.