turn on myself. Good. Good. Everybody on. One more to go. There we go. All right. Uh start with 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. >> All right. Roll call. >> Dr. Monaco >> here. >> Mr. Balado. >> Mrs. Donahghue >> here. >> Mrs. Balado >> here. >> Mr. Pico here. >> Mrs. Herald >> here.
>> Mrs. Sharpstein. We have a quorum. >> 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 and 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 meeting.
The Stanh Hope School District in partnership with the community commits to provide a quality 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. Uh we might have we'll have an executive session this evening. An executive session will be held for the purpose of personnel. Formal action may be taken.
Moving right along, that would bring us to correspondence. The state of New Jersey Department of Education attachment one. Glenn, you wanted to talk about that a little bit. >> Yeah. Uh, briefly. So, um, >> it it could be difficult to kind of decode what they tried sharing in this
letter if you're not a you know, not just even an educator, but involved in special education. Uh this letter is outstanding news for us because they're not coming back to actually audit everything in the school. Um our our
child study team and I we spent a lot of time um putting together the documents that they were requesting going through the IEPs of the students um that they they quote unquote randomly sampled. Um and uh we have a binder about this thick
um that we had to scan and send to the Department of Ed, state of New Jersey. Um long story short, we did find a couple areas of non-compliance, which I got to be honest with you, I expected when you deal with this many IEPs and this many cases, you're going going to
find something. Um the two areas that we identified as non-compliance um are more than anything else, it's it's more administrative paperwork, right? Um the first one is is simply uh when we um included that specific
supplementary aids uh and services were not appropriate, we have to give a more detailed explanation as as to why. Um and then the other one is uh for for some of our initial evaluations uh we didn't have a formal teacher interview
on file. Uh our people spoke to the teachers to get their input. In most cases, those are the ones who referred the children for for um to the child study team. We didn't have formal um interviews in place. So, these are two very easy items for us to fix. Um
Jennifer Spear from the Department of Ed was wonderful to work with and she offered to come out herself to put it to run some training for us. I'm hoping to do it at the beginning of the year in service uh for next year. And I expect that within the the necessary time frame, we'll be able to get these fixed
in student IEPs and uh we'll be in good shape for a few more years before they ask us to go through all of this again. It was a heavy lift. It was a lot of work and I really applaud our child study team for not complaining once. Um you know, and and just powering through and getting the documentation that we
needed. So uh again, a lot of uh a lot of as you speak, but it it was it's good stuff for us. >> I just had two quick questions on that. one is the sample that they do. Is it a a relative sample to the number of classified students? >> It's not. Okay. Every district has to
provide the same number of students whether you're a small K like us or if you're a Newark. >> Okay. >> Um >> Got it. And for non-compliance, is there a threshold or is it any one occurrence? >> It can be any one occurrence in any of the the the random IEPs that we had to
go through. I would say in in the two areas of non-compliance, um it was fairly consistent that those were pieces that we were missing. It wasn't just one student, you know, that that they caught. Um so again, we'll get it fixed. Um it I always feel comfortable as long
as our non-compliance isn't preventing students from getting the supports that they need, I feel comfortable about it because I know that we can address it. >> Great. Uh any other questions or comments on that? All right, that would actually
bring us to our quick exe. Well, I don't know if it'll be quick, but to our executive session. Uh can I have a motion, please? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Uh be it resolved that the Stanh Hope Board of Education adopts the following resolution. Whereas the open public meetings 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 there 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 the Board of Education where the public shall be excluded will be held at this time for
the purpose of personnel. 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 interests of the parties involved and would not result in a possible invasion of their right to privacy. This is a voice vote. All in favor say I.
>> I. Any nos? Abstensions or recusals? Okay, that would bring us to our executive. down two microphones. More Carissa. >> Thank you. Okay. Can I have a motion to reenter public session, please? >> Motion. >> Second.
>> Second. >> Uh voice vote. All in favor say I. I >> nos abstensions recusals. Good. All right, that would bring us moving forward. Superintendent's report. >> Uh yes, thank you. Uh no HIV
investigations or suspension since we last met two weeks ago. Uh so short turnaround time. Um just a reminder that election packets for the November election are now available on the county clerk's website. Uh if you have electronic, you all have electronic
access to the uh the agenda. Um so you can just click the link, it'll bring you directly there. Uh if I'm not mistaken, I believe it's Mr. Pico, Mrs. Shariffstein, uh and Miss Mon Dr. Monaco for a one-year extension for your current term. Right. So um next, NJSLA
testing is underway. Uh we finished our third through fifth grades today. Uh great success. Um, thanks to the teachers and the kids. Everybody's been wonderful, flexible, um, with with everything that we've asked of them. Um, special thanks to Mr. Lama who's always
been involved with with testing, but in an even greater capacity this year since we don't really have a testing coordinator. It's that's u an undertaking for our guidance department and we don't have a guidance counselor for another couple weeks. Uh so uh Miss Principal Datalo and I are trying to
help out as as best as we can without all of the other things going on in the school. Um but Mr. Lama has really stepped up uh and and helped out with that. We started 6th through 8th grade today with the writing section. Um we'll test the next two days 6th through 8th only and then next week we'll knock out
um science for grades five and eight. Um and then makeups and then and then we're good for another year. Um last week was uh teachers appreciation week, nurses appreciation day, principal appreciation day. Um lots of appreciating was h was
going on. Um, you know, one of the main reasons I wanted to bring it up in my report, not not just to to thank all of our our staff who's constantly here supporting our kids and and everybody. Uh, but I wanted to really thank the HSA for all the efforts that they put
forward to to make sure that our staff felt appreciated. You know, from the lunches and the raffles and all of the, you know, the wonderful things that they did. Uh, greatly appreciated. Um, you know, we for all of the great things that we have in this district, HSA is definitely near near the top of them.
Um, we all know how hard it is for them to get volunteers. Uh, so I think a lot a few people are taking on the lion share. Um, but so many are are willing to give. Uh, so I just wanted to thank them for for all their efforts. Uh, a couple weeks ago we had our sixth grade camping trip. Um, again, I will
continually say I believe it's the best trip that we do here in this school. Uh weather was okay. A little chilly, a little drizzle the first day, sun came out the next day. Allergies weren't as bad. Um I think the kids had a blast. Um
you know, uh the counselors there are amazing. I want to thank um Mrs. Milan and uh Mrs. Frank for everything that they they put into getting the trip planned. All of our chaperones were outstanding. Parent chaperon, staff chaperones. Um, I also wanted to thank
thank all of them and and you know, even the board here. Um, I have three kids. My youngest is in sixth grade and this is the first of my kids that I actually um took on this trip. He was uh two months old when I started working here and he's practically kind of lived here.
He's visits all the time. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not so much because he can't go to school. Uh, you know, but he's made some f friendships with some of these kids and they welcomed him um like he's one of their own. Uh, and it was such a a rewarding experience for my son to be able to
experience, you know, the trip that I love so much here. His bigger district, they don't they don't really do stuff like that. Um, and it was uh it was really nice. So, thanks everybody for allowing me to make that happen. Um, last Friday at Prona Farms, we had our our educator of the year and ed
specialist of the year lunchon at uh with uh Mr. Duda, who was our teacher of the year, and Miss Schmehauser, who was our ed specialist of the year. Um, really nice event. Um, Sparta had uh their string quartet uh perform for us at the beginning. Um, Dr. Carrick spoke
and last year's county teacher of the year from Byum, her name is Escaping Me, uh, also did a nice uh, address as well. Um, our spring concert and art show is coming up quickly on May 21st. I encourage anybody who's interested for coming out to hear some wonderful music
and and check out some of the great um, art that our students are are putting out. Um, I'm sorry I wasn't able to make it last Thursday, but uh um there was a dinner held at the county um board meeting for uh not just for Mrs. Harold. I'd like to thank just for her.
>> Um but she uh has earned master board member certification. Um and you know that's uh that's not an easy feat. you know, it's not, you know, we've been very lucky here with the consistency that we had on our board, but, you know, most boards you don't get people um serving multiple terms back to back to
back and um we really appreciate it. Um and then lastly, our um June 2026 meeting, yes, which is currently scheduled for June 17th. I did put an email out to start thinking about dates. Um we talked about it a few months ago.
Um my my eighth grade daughter is actually uh scheduled to have her graduation that night. It's clearly something that I need to attend. Uh so knowing that I won't I won't be at this meeting if we keep it on that day. Uh the two dates that I proposed are
Tuesday the 16th or the following Wednesday which is >> the 24th. Um, so if at any point during the meeting today, you know, maybe new business, old business, if you guys can let us know if you have a conflict so that we can decide which day would work
best. Um, we want to get that advertised and uh and changed as soon as possible. Um, full disclosure, my uh daughter's school does an outside ceremony. um their rain date happens to fall on our
graduation date. So fingers and toes are crossed for good weather because I especially with this class, I've been with these some of these kids for 11 years. Um I don't want to miss it. My wife or daughter wouldn't forgive me if I miss theirs. Uh so sunshine on the
17th is is what I hope we're all we're all hoping for. Um but other than that, that's uh that's everything that I got. Questions? >> Okay, thank you. Moving on. Uh, personnel, curriculum, school, climate, and culture. >> We definitely need a shorter name.
>> We lengthened it on purpose, though. >> I know, but it's really long. >> So, we discussed in our committee meeting um, the renewals that you'll see on the agenda this evening. Um, I highly recommend that we support them.
We have two staff members who are going out on FMLA leave and hopefully we'll be back sooner than not. As always, we have shortages of paraprofessionals. They seem to come and go
and you do a great job getting others to come in, but >> I it is a struggle. I had an interview on the addendum, another one who's interested in next year, and another one tomorrow >> that I have high hopes for. So hopefully
we're moving in the right direction. >> Fabulous. And we talked a little bit about the specials program for the upcoming school year. So there will be more information put out on that. Um, so far the changes that were made
seem to be go going over well. The kids seem to be liking having choice, which is fabulous. And then the last thing that we talked about is so awkward for me. Um, my daughter would like, if the board approves, to come and shadow Mrs. Frank.
She's going to college for nursing. Um, so she wanted to come and get perspective of a school nurse so she can explore different avenues in nursing. So I will be abstaining my opinion on that just because that's really awkward. But I certainly hope you know that you all
will consider that and that's all I have. >> Thank you. Questions for Jen. All right, moving on. Business services, facilities, and technology. >> You were not there, right? I was not there. >> I think Stacy has this one. >> Somebody was there. >> I'm going to take this one on.
>> Um, so in our committee meeting, we reviewed the medical benefits. Uh, it's been the talk lately. Um, as you all know, but just to reiterate, it went live on May 1st. Um, emails for digital cards were sent out to the staff on um, April 29th, but everything is live and
went live on the first, so they should have the cards and if not, they can access the digital ones. Um, the J&B contract, we were interested in um, posting for the OT position. We did have some concerns about costs um, and wanting to see if we can bring in our
own person, but JMBB gave us a good price for the services we're getting. So, we're going to be sticking with them because they're limiting the increase to about 3%. Uh, so currently we have a full-time employee. We're not responsible for paying any of their
benefits. Um, we did lose our PT with J&B services and we still owe kids the need for uh the needs for March and April. Roughly about seven kids are currently impacted and about eight total hours per week of service time. >> Can I provide an update on that? Um, so
on um the agenda on the addendum actually uh is a motion to approve uh Michelle Anderson uh who is uh a PT works through early intervention. I don't remember the other organization. Um, but she uh she and I met and
although she can't support any of our students during school hours because of her full-time job, uh, she was happy and willing to potentially push into their homes to provide um, PT support. Um, because the longer we wait without somebody, the more time we're going to
owe, the the more difficult it's going to be to make that time up. So, I recently put an email out to any parent whose child is impacted and ask for them to respond to me to say whether or not they they'd be willing and interested. We've already had a few that that are,
so hopefully we can start knocking off some of that compensatory services. Um, you know, I really appreciate her willingness to do it and uh yeah, I think I think it'll be a good thing. >> Sorry to jump in. >> No, that's fine. Perfectly fine. Um,
we are there's going to be a reduction there's probably going to be a reduction in the business office. Um, and as far as the contract approvals, Mr. Hegman, if you would like to jump in on those. >> Yeah, most most if not all are reflected in the uh in the agenda. These are all
yearly approvals that that are customary in our our May or June. Uh, one is ED services uh commission. um you know should we have a need throughout the course of the year it allows us to reach out to them um you know for them to
support us if they have the personnel um shared service contracts you'll see LDTC with uh Washington Township speech with Lenipe Valley supervisor buildings and grounds with Byum um out of district contracts uh for students who are coming
into our school um ESY tuition contracts for the same and our annual food service contract renewal which for a period of one year. I >> think some of these will be on the June meeting. Yes. Because we don't have all the details yet, >> but we know they're coming.
>> Thank you. And then on the facility side, the parking lot project that is still in the works, but we are going to hope to get that started as soon as possible. >> You had asked actually uh for the the name of the company. Um it's Crossroads
Paving. Um, we just today got uh the soil erosion um approval. Uh, so that'll allow us to then move forward with the next step. We're still hopeful for a May start date. >> Um, as well as we're looking at some
floor projects. There's two classrooms that we would like to get um, asbestous removed. Um, and right now the best time to do it is just check off some of these small projects uh while we have the money and the time. Um, and scoreboard
it's scoreboard from what I was told has reached the end of its life and um, we did receive a reasonable quote and we also again small little things that we can work on um, getting replaced. And I believe one more was the fuzzy feet.
>> Don't know the real term. >> That's cor that's a That's the official website. >> Um fuzzy feet for the chairs since we are putting so much time, money, and effort into these small projects when we can. We are trying to preserve um the floors especially as much as possible.
So hopefully we can um get that purchased and it'll be a small cost up front and along you know save us in the long run. That's all I have. All right. Thank you. Any questions? All right. Moving on. Ed services. Um,
okay. So, uh, like us here, they went through a whole bunch of renewals at the most recent meeting. Um, contract renewals. Um, project search graduation is set for June 12th. And the other big
thing is they are still in talks with the building owners for the school building next door, but the building owner is working with the current tenants to negotiate a buyout of the their lease before educational the educational commission services
commission can negotiate the building purchase. Those are the big things. Thank you. Questions? All right. Uh that would bring it to a board pad president's report. not much in the last week since we last talked. The only thing I like to keep fresh on the conversation is the regionalization. We
are expecting uh our data back uh the beginning of June. So once we have that back, the committees will meet between all four schools and go through it and then schedule some public dates to present all of that information. Uh but right now that's all we know. Uh so hopefully the beginning of June, we'll
start to see some of the information flow back from the study that's being done that we'll be able to share. questions on that? No. Okay. That would bring us to public session number one. Any public would like to be recognized
or speak? No. Okay. Hearing none, that would move us to travel and workshop reports. Any questions? There were three in there. Okay. Uh minutes for approval, agenda items one and two. Can I have a motion, please?
>> Move. Second. >> Thank you. This is a voice vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any nos, abstensions, or recusals? Okay, that would bring us to administrative action items, one agenda item. Can I have a motion, please?
>> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Uh, can I have roll call vote on that one, please? >> Dr. Monaco? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Donahghue? Yes. >> Mrs. Balato? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pico? Yes. >> Mrs. Herald? Yes. >> Mrs. Sharpstein? >> Yes. Motion carries.
>> All right. Personnel action items. This is one of the larger ones. 1 through 13. Agenda items 14 and 15. A motion, please. Motion. Second. Thank you. Give everybody a minute on this one. Any discussion, questions, comments? All
right. Roll call vote, please. >> Dr. Monaco, >> yes. >> Mrs. Donahghue, >> yes. >> Mrs. Balado, >> yes. >> Mr. Pico, >> yes. >> Mrs. Herald, >> yes. But recuse on 11. >> And Mrs. Shariffstein, >> yes.
Bring us to business services 1 through 14, addendum item 15. Can I have a motion, please? Motion. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you. My only question is Mashio's only always a single year contract. >> I feel like it's not renewals.
>> Okay, we can renew up to five years. >> Okay. I mean, I know they're really the only one out here, so that's fine. They've been good. >> Any other questions or comments? >> All right. Hearing none, can I have a
roll call vote, please? Dr. Monaco. >> Mrs. Donahghue. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bottalo? Yes. >> Mr. Pico? Yes. >> Mrs. Herald? Yes. >> Mrs. Sharpstein? Yes. Motions carry. >> Anybody have any new business they'd like to bring up the board? >> I almost had one.
>> Almost. was about the fuzzy feet for the chairs >> cuz I noticed when we went to the room that the tile is already being all scratched up. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. That's that's from the course of the whole year. >> Um now once we get into the summer, those floors will be stripped down.
>> Yeah. >> It'll be taken care of. You won't see it, but unless we we get these fuzzy feet, >> it'll look like that again within two weeks of the start of the year. So, we want to keep it looking as crisp and clean as possible. My only hope is the fuzzy feet aren't so slippery that the kids just start
sliding all over. >> That'd be a good thing. >> They're going to be having races down the hall. >> We have one being tested in third grade right now. Not the whole room, just one student. >> Very good. >> They know. >> I know. That's why I don't know if they told him or not. So,
>> um I know about the uh the date changes. You said to maybe bring it up during >> I I don't have a problem with either date. Okay. >> So, I'm around So, anybody else have a conflict? >> Same for Dave and I. We are both fine. >> I'm good. Either one. >> All right. So, I'll touch base with you.
We'll figure out which one you you feel as though would be best and we'll get it advertised and I'll make sure everybody knows. >> You got it. And then under old business quickly, I just want to bring up the evaluation again. Um Steve will be submitting his part probably this evening or in the next day or two. Once he does that, then we can go in and be
and review his eval and his evidence and fill out the forms. Again, the goal here is this all needs to be done and wrapped up by the June board meeting so that we get our points for QAC. So, we'll have an executive session at that meeting to go through everything. Um, again, I expect that four of us will definitely
participate. As for the three new people, you are more than welcome, but if you don't feel you've been on long enough to fairly evaluate performance, you are not required to do it this year. Uh, we will have a quorum without you, so we'll be okay. It will be close, but we'll be fine. Um, so just let me know via email once you see everything and
can make a, you know, an educated decision about how you feel about participating. >> What date are you targeting for us to have our >> Well, so in theory, um, the way we handled it last year, instead of doing it over the course of two or three meetings, right, is uh, once everybody
does their part, then I request a consolidated report. Then I'll go through the consolidated report and I'll write everything out and then we can go through it. uh I'll send it out via email and then we can go through it in the executive session to make sure we're all on the same page. So again, because
we're in the main meeting now, we'll only have committee and then the June meeting. So >> no, I'm saying for like so like the >> for you to have your part done, right? Usually we look for within two weeks of when he's done. >> So I would say um you should have everyone should have access by Monday.
I'm gonna submit tonight. Um >> once I submit it holds it back for two days. the way that I submit. Um, I then have to to put um evidence and artifacts in folders. Full transparency, I'm going to need the weekend to do that. Um, but
by clicking submit, it speeds up the process of you having access. So, by the end of the day, Sunday, I plan on having that done. So, if you then want to get information out on Monday. >> Yep. So, just a heads up um because we've run into problems for Andrea for
Sussex's County Ed Commission um and some of the other board members that are members elsewhere said the same thing. There has been some problems with the program itself this year where um the the board members haven't been able to
see evidence or artifacts um or >> goes in our drives, not in the county. It doesn't have anything to do with the Um, so I do it differently because I don't trust any other platform >> and it works for us. >> So I need to put a link. So for domains
one through six, >> I just wanted to give you a heads up like they are experiencing there is some issue with the platform >> going to be looking for the first time, right? So for each of the the leadership standards that I get evaluated on, there's a way to upload artifacts and
you can do several of them. I put in one link that'll bring you to a Google Drive folder where I dump everything. So, it's just going to direct you to something that's internal to our district. If for whatever reason you can't access it, make sure that you let me and or Matia
know. Um it's sometimes it's just a sharing thing that I have to, you know, open up to. >> Okay. >> So, that takes care of >> but also understand you're only going to be able to access it through your Stanh Hope Schools account. Uh sometimes you go on not realizing you're in a personal account. you think you're in the other.
Um, so if you go in and you don't have access, that's most likely the reason why. >> Yeah. So, there's a separate site on New Jersey school boards you log into with your New Jersey school board's information and then like he said, that information will print will populate and then when you click through the link,
you're logged into Google with your Stanh Hope information versus your New Jersey school board's information, which are likely similarish. Maybe same email address. Still don't know about transport, but um that's how it works. So, I'll send the link to that separate site for some of you who may not have been there. I haven't been there in a
while. I was on it today, so I was able to validate that I could see everything and it was working and everything was up and running. I just don't have anything I can click on yet. >> And remember, it's NJsba.org, not NJSBA.com, >> just the New Jersey State Bar
Association that I've had conversations with in the past as to why I can't log in, >> right? or can't find our information or our curriculum or our transcripts. We've all >> because their homepages look almost the same >> identical because they're both governmental a entities and it's crazy.
All right, so that would be it on old business on my side. Anybody else? Is it good of the order? Nothing. Public session number two. Anybody? Nothing. All right. Thank you. That would bring us to adjournment. Can I have a motion, please? >> Motion. Second. >> Thank you so much. Voice vote. All in favor? I.
>> Extensions. knows recusals. All right, we are