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phone in the car so that's Avery microphone thank you all right good evening thank you everyone for being here please write for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge algian of the United States of America and to the for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right roll call please Mrs Bal here mrar yes Mr Pico here Mr vardo here Mr yagnam here Mrs Harold and Mrs sharp
we have a quum thank you uh 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 public meetings act the 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 Board of Education mailed to the New Jersey Herald the municipal clerk of the burough of Stan hope the Stan hope post office and posted at the Valley Road school and on the Stan hope Public Schools website setting forth the time
date and location of the meeting the Stan 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 um announcement for an executive session there's an executive session for
the purpose of student confidentiality formal action may be taken and with that we will move right into our marking period to honorable presentation all right good evening everyone thank you for coming out on this bitterly cold evening in February
hopefully warmer weather to come um I I'm looking out I do see a few students specifically eighth graders who can probably recite the next uh few sentences that I'm going to say BR you want to come up and speak for me I'm kidding I'm kidding maybe next markting
period um so students achieve honor rooll status in sixth seventh and eighth grade uh when they achieve all A's and B's for the marking period uh students can reach high honor rooll status if they have straight A's for the entire marking period um in our Middle School
especially this is not an easy feat uh we pride ourselves on having a a rigorous and challenging curriculum uh and coursework um all the way up through 8th grade I'm sure most of these students will will attest to that um so I couldn't be more proud to be calling
these names uh at our board meeting tonight I also need to as I always do um thank you as the parents and the family members who support these kids who get them to school um who get them to their activities uh who who nurture their curiosity they wouldn't be here if it
wasn't for you so uh students let's give your parents and families a round of applause before we get [Applause] started okay um when I call your name uh please come on up Mrs sharpstein will give you your certificate pause so you
can smile get a nice picture for your family um and then uh when we're all done please come on up if you haven't already and help yourself to some light Refreshments um so first up I have Amaya Abu Cruz Coraline
[Applause] botado Dana Benitez Leah buck [Applause] Nathan
[Applause] sampa Sophie deselen alesandro De Martino Ismael [Applause]
Garcia Jason hardle [Applause] Levi hattenbach Violet [Applause]
Kar Rosalie Lama Kamal Nelson [Applause] [Music] Madison shavo Julia volani John
banini always running [Music] Alysia green Violet [Applause] hanusek Juliet hin Kylie Hoffman
Sadie [Applause] Morales wish Olivia yo [Applause]
Abigail Andrews Aiden Bruner Amy deselen Claire Frank Logan Foles John Gada [Applause] Morgan Copic Cena
OSB Emily Perry Joshua Perry Kathleen [Applause] prano my neighbor Tess Roth Isaiah
Sanchez Alina twam okay so those are our honor roll recipients the next few names that I'm going to read are the students who earned high honor rooll for marking Period 2 Donna oose
[Applause] alas Faith [Applause] Anderson Jacob Campbell Hannah Sharin Scarlet
[Applause] Stansfield Braden light [Applause] Tabitha Mueller Angelina robbles Sienna
Zapata okay once again thank you and congratulations uh we're going to take about a minute or two uh break before we continue our meeting uh so I ask if you are going to grab Refreshments if you do plan to hang out for a minute or two if you can make your way out into the uh the hallway vestibule area that would be
great thank you so much have a good night um that's the fil that they want to provide the high school that that's not going to interfere with what you want to do right with the walk trail no correct not right now anyway I was wondering about that
give it to thank you [Music] live did there about the train station got hit a truck I heard how was it going e second
please second thank you okay be resolved that the Stan hope Board of Education adopts the following resolution whereas the open public meetings act chapter 231 of 1975 permits the exclusion of the public in from a 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 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 prejudicial to the interests of the parties involved and would not result in a possible Invasion their right to privacy uh Voice
vote please all in favor say I any nose extensions okay e e e e e e
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it back on well all right microphone's on thank you thank you all right can I have a motion to reenter public session motion second thank you voice vote all in favor I any nose extensions brings this to you
superintendent report take your time okay uh for my report um for the this month since our last meeting I have zero suspensions uh to report and one Hib investigation which was unfounded uh I want to um say a a huge
congratulations to our eighth grade superintendent Roundtable Award winner for this year uh Aiden Bruner uh we had I believe six students who were nominated um and for I got to say probably the first time in a long time
every one of the students uh received a vote for the award after being nominated uh it's a a wonderful group of kids I couldn't be more proud of them um Aiden squeaked through as as our winner um and he couldn't be more deserving um I will
often say to anybody that would listen um Aiden's superpower is his kindness uh and his compassion for for others uh especially those who you know have some needs and some challenges going on in their lives uh he's an outstanding student he's an outstanding person and I couldn't be um happier with uh the
selection um I uh put out about a week or so ago that we are doing a collection uh in recognition of the 100th day of school which was last Monday uh we're going to be looking to collect um donations uh in the amount of 100 for
several uh food and household items uh that will then turn around and um donate to the waterl food pantry uh to support their initiative uh this is going to be going on through uh March 14th uh so anybody who's uh listening if you have anything either that you're looking to
get out of the house and and bring to a good cause or if you see a great sale at shopright um and you'd like to contribute uh we'll be taking donations for the next four weeks um on that same date on March 14th uh that will be our annual career day uh it's one of our
finer events uh we have several um community members and parents volunteer to come in uh it's it's uh they'll they'll bring equipment they'll bring resources from whatever their careers are they'll do demonstrations they'll give handouts uh and our students kind
of walk through and um just learn about the different professions not just that that they can participate in if they choose down the road but they get a nice sneak peek of of all the wonderful things that people within our community do and contribute to uh to our society
and to community um so if anybody on the board is either interested in in presenting or even just coming by to check it out please let me know we'd be happy to host you um that's on March 14th and it's I think we started around 10:00 we go through I want to say 1:32
o'clock Excuse me yes um what do you mean by helping out so if you would uh want to come in and represent a career or a job you can come in and set up a booth um if you wanted to come in and just kind of check it out yourselves uh
you can come in and just kind of walk interact with the different um volunteers interact with the kids as a board member I'm inviting you to come in if you'd like uh it's a it's a pretty nice activity um Kathy yonai as she does most of these events has facilitates and
um puts these together we couldn't be more appreciative and for each of these it's it's her last one which makes me a little sad but that's the 14th right March 14th yep thank you all right and then the last item I have is just a reminder for the board to complete their financial uh disclosure statements as
soon as as possible uh that deadline creeps up on us um and we definitely want to be in compliance with that okay unless anybody has any questions that concludes my report thank you all right Personnel curriculum School climate and culture Matt yeah on the Personnel front
um you know as a board we continue to give Steve the um approval to hire prior to board approval so tonight we're going to ask that we retroactively approve Miss Janette Nolan at a step one um she's added to the preschool program
on a par professional level is that correct Steve yes okay um and then we also have an additional three individuals that were looking for approval for substitute positions um pending their criminal background and in issuance of their substitute certificate
I can read their names if that's necessary uh oh they're on the agenda so I think we're okay all right perfect uh so that really takes care of personnel nothing on the curriculum front moving forward to the school climate um the survey or the school climate Improvement
study as they're now calling it uh that's done through Ruckers and uh we have uh submitted and are part of their portal which contains all of the um materials and surveys that we are going to begin to hand out to the respected uh
parties uh beginning mid to late March um this will include students staff and um parents in the community um so it should take about one to two weeks to collect all the data uh we're going to assemble a committee to review the data
and hopefully identify the goals and add and address any possible deficiencies and then also highlight areas of strengths um I think one of the hardest parts that we discussed is going to be engagement within the parents in the community so we're hoping to utilize
social media emails and um what's that the school Messenger to try to get garnish as much participation as possible uh so that we can take this data and and and use it so I think that's all I have for that any questions for
Matt okay hearing done Yu Business Services yeah we have some exciting stuff in the works right now um there's a possible contract for the door project that uh we've been talking about for a couple months now um I want to thank
both uh Steve and Mr Lama for doing their due diligence they actually visited a facility just to see how it would work see how it' be implemented here and also have the ability to ask questions which is always great so thank you to both of them um science lab is
approved uh also the removal of the underground tank is approved uh and great news Music Room uh preparation for uh more students longer time they're R invading the room
that's been approved uh that's on tonight's agenda to be approved yeah sorry yep good uh the gas company we need to fix the pavement that they damaged and also while we're there we're going to fix a little sinkhole that's becoming a little ice skating rank uh we
were approved for some more Chromebooks and then uh yeah everything is in line with the Strategic plan with theel music and art program which we'll be discussing later this evening and that's about it any
questions okay um a quick question um upon your review of the the school that had the doors in them um it sounds like there's all positives to this system was there any potential drawbacks to the system the only real negative honestly is is the expense I mean it's it's
costly but um it improves the safety and the security of the building exponentially in my opinion uh especially after seeing um a school who's already implementing these procedures right um you know to without getting into very specific details it
gives us the opportunity the ability if we need to go into lockdown to have every door in the building locked with a push of a button um it gives us the ability to track who's going in which classrooms who's coming who's going um you know if somebody right now we're
using physical brass keys somebody loses that key we don't know who has it we don't know where it is um this system would allow us to eliminate Keys altoe you can open any door in the building with your swipe card whereas if you lose that we can very easily deactivate it
and then it just becomes a piece of plastic right so um you know overall I feel as though that it's a wonderful investment for the district because of the Safety and Security that it brings um I think it also will will uh really
assist in just our regular efficienc throughout the day um you know I had an example the other day where we went into a shelter in place and you know we're during shelter in place our people are trained to not open doors for anybody even for me even for principal de catalo
so right now I have to unlock a door with a key well I had to go into one classroom three times to talk to a teacher and and different students and you know to take the key out to Fumble with it it's it's precious seconds when you're in the middle of a potential crisis situation so this will help
alleviate a lot of that um it's also Cutting Edge I mean honestly I don't think that there's any District in Sussex County who who has this uh um you know and to be honest with you we we do a door project throughout the whole building if this is current technology
in 5 to 10 years well we're now going to be behind the curve because we're not going to redo all the doors that we just did right um so it gives us an opportunity to not be kind of worrying about it down the road right cool so this is just a mechanism or an entire doors will be changed so the the project
started started with the replacement of the entire door our doors are very old uh issues opening and closing latching um the handles are are to the point where they're starting to fail and to replace them is extremely expensive to
do that one at a time um so the door project in itself was always a project that we wanted to move forward with I got to give credit to Mr Lama who brought up the idea of the the the swipe system uh admittedly I laughed at him first cuz I didn't think it would be a
financial be a a project that we can financially um move forward with but after we did some you know investigating and some research uh although it's not cheap um it's not as much as I was expecting it to be uh and it's very
doable because of the the frugalness um that we've that we've displayed in our our budgeting and our finances over the last the entire do I'm sorry the entire door yeah the the frames itself for the most part will remain uh and the doors will be retrofitted into those frames
there are a couple that are going to be taken out and redone the nurse's office door is going to be widened uh for um greater access you know Wheelchairs and such and there's a couple other doors that are are odd shapes that we're going to uh you know fix and and get them to
be similar to everywhere schools are using I'm sorry any of the schools that using that specific you said nothing I visited I visited Cedar Grove uh which is uh just outside of Monclair okay they were very very nice to allow us to come in um they've had these types of uh
swipe system um door handles for over 10 years now um when we started sharing the plan which doors we were doing which ones we were thinking about not doing you know they openly said do every door just do every door because for them it's just been night and day it's it's a game
Cher um what they're able to control and what they're able to Monitor and you know we feel really good the Reps have come in and have have done several presentations with us now uh I had questions of durability and longevity um and in talking to Cedar Grove who's been more than 10 years now um most of those
questions and concerns that I have have been answered and alleviated so I feel very comfortable moving forward with this and again it's a one-time expense you know so it's not like we're going to make this purchase and then have a huge recurring expense year after year after year that can potentially impact
programming and Staffing um once this is paid for with the exception of replacing batteries every a couple years um and a very small subscription because it's a cloud-based system um that's pretty much it thank
you any other questions okay so up next would be policy and Communications Jen is not here do you have the details on some of these policy changes for you um yeah I can go through um for so for the most part uh the policies that we're reviewing and and ultimately looking to
approve for the the first reading it's mostly just language changes um changes to law which which uh added some definitions um the first cluster uh the changes are necessary because there was an updated memorandum of agreement
between education and law enforcement you know so for example the harassment intimidation and and bullying policy uh really didn't change anything substantial in that policy just some language uh and some wording that changed um same thing student smoking um
because of the legalization of marijuana there was some coding that needed to change um you know where it's uh reidentified different dangerous Controlled Substances um electronic surveillance in school buildings and on school grounds that's a requirement that
we um have it documented that the local law enforcement can access our camera system should a district have a camera system which we do um we've are long ahead of the curve for years our Police Department has been able to easily access our camera systems uh from their
their squad cars um and again same thing with C cooperation with law enforcement agencies just making sure that um the policy matches what was changed in the memorandum of agreement um so the next uh group are General policy and
regulations um the one that honestly we had our most discussion about and we've been discussing now for several months is 5111 is eligibility of Resident and non-res resident students um a law recently changed uh which has kind of
caused a lot of concern in public school districts throughout the state um so the the easiest example that I can I can give really is the the law has changed to not allow non-resident students regardless of the situation to attend
school without the payment of tuition so for example um you're a resident you have a child you are uh selling your house you're moving and you're moving in May and you would like your child to remain in the district for the rest of the school year in the past up until
last year uh that's a situation I would bring to the board based on the request of the parent the board has always approved the child in their best interest to remain in the district for the rest of the year without charging tuition um but now that that law has changed the district is no longer
allowed to do that um if if the child moves regardless of the circumstance they wish to stay tuition has to be charged assessed and charged um so that causes issues as you can imagine um but in our situation the the issues that we
have um during covid uh the board passed the policy which I think was done appropriately and has um uh really um been a positive in my opinion since then to allow uh the children of Staff members who don't live
in town to attend uh school here um tuition free uh since we've had teachers and we've had par professionals who have registered their children and they've become a wonderful part of the school Community um as that law came out uh there was very specific language that
said the children of teaching staff members could allow their children to enroll for free for no tuition um the question was there was no real definition of teaching staff members right because there's a lot of employees in our district that aren't teachers um
so we got U advice from the board's attorney um told us that they felt as though with because of a lack of clarity and the definition for teaching staff members what we were doing was okay uh and we can continue to allow par
professionals custodial staff office staff to bring their their students here even if they don't live in town um just a couple months ago because of all the questions that districts had uh they provided Clarity and a definition for teaching staff members and they defined
that as any staff member who is certificated so examples of certificated staff are teachers administrators um guidance counselors child study team people uh but it does not include office staff it doesn't
include par professionals doesn't include custodians so it was very clearly laid out that those individuals can have their children attend here in school but they would have to be assessed tuition um so my recommendation
is to change that policy so that uh I feel as though it's unfortunate but we have to follow the law non-certificated staff members who wish to bring their children here will have to be charged tuition however it's my recommendation and I have it in this policy to allow
the children of non-certificated Staff members who already have their children enrolled here to allow them to stay um without the payment of tuition as long as they remain in the district consecutively right if they're if they're withdrawn we can't have them
come back but as long as they're here in my opinion it is not in their best interest to to tell them that they have to go to a different school is it clearly Define how much the tuition should be uh the definition the defined tuition is an amount approved by the
Sussex County Department of Education um so I'm not sure if that is going to be the pupil amount I'm not sure if that's an amount that we can propose and they can approve right maybe it's a nominal value maybe it's $50 I'm not sure that's
something that we'll have to determine when we have somebody who's looking to enroll um but for right now my my primary concern are the kids who are already enrolled in the district okay when was this law changed when uh it was beginning of last year last year so it's been effective for some but the
clarification was just offered in the last two months that's an interesting change yes um yeah it's um some believe that the law changed because of High School athletics um a
lot of schools are were were manipulating the rules right so that you can hire the parent of a scholar athlete to a you know one day a week job one hour a week job and that child is now allowed to enroll in this school and
they just happen to be an All-Star quarterback right um so once you leave the the community how long do you have for the child to vacate the school is it immedately supposed to be immediately W and that is a law to so now the parents I got to consider hey do I stay till May or end of June
school year sometimes people don't have a choice which is what makes it challenging so yeah wow tough um interesting policy 5516 and regulation 5516 um updates uh some language to the
21st century they take out specifically um pagers as an electronic device that's not allowed in the school um but they also address the use of SmartWatches and they Define electronic devices as any device capable of uh recording audio or
video um phones SmartWatches Etc uh it outlines um consequences for first second third fourth offenses um which as we roll into next next year and we do a a critical review of our code of conduct our student handbook we'll just have to
make sure that this is outlined in the handbook and everything is in line um as we move forward and I already have my eyes on that um academic Integrity uh you know just changes it from uh plagiarism policy to academic Integrity
uh just kind of speaks to what's allowed and what's not allowed and and procedures for teachers um and administrators to follow do they if they suspect um that there is a lack of academic Integrity there's a small piece uh that that we added in the policy about art the use of artificial
intelligence and the need for students who use it to cite it in their work um the um if you look down at the discussion items from the agenda uh we did ex uh discuss uh briefly the acceptable use of generative AI policy
which at this time I'm not recommending that we move forward and and adopt because there's also a template that has to uh go along with it I think it's going to be a lot more work than just our policy committee sitting and discussing um my recommendation would be that it's an extensive summer uh project
or we consider looking at it as a district goal for next year and we spend the time throughout the year really working on it um in my opinion a lot of the local high schools aren't quite um ahead of the curve and have a a real great policy in place uh because we're
in elementary school I I kind of want to see them put it together and you know develop something that mirrors what our local high schools are doing excuse me um other than that mostly uh some language changes um there's a spectator code of conduct for
inter Scholastic events policy that to be quite honest with you I don't think is necessary in our Elementary School uh it's we we don't have a tremendous amount of sporting events uh we don't draw huge crowds we're not playing for state championships uh it really seems
like to me it's a that's driven for high schools so I don't think it's necessary at this time for us to adopt um and we also talked about the njsi survey that uh Mr vardo spoke about a little earlier sorry it was a lot of policy it a lot of policy and keep in mind this is all first reading and all this policy
information is out on the drive so if you want to go and read it in any more detail we have time next month for more questions or at committee okay are there any questions now none okay and we will
move [Music] on okay budget back to you yeah uh kind of flowing into what I was previously talking about um both Dan and Steve have put some good time into figure out to what to do with some
of our good problems which is uh we have a health healthy forecast over the next several years and we have capital reserve funds that need to be utilized um as we can't hold on to it forever so some of the plans would include include possible full-time music
and art programs um and right now they're just looking at what that would look like in terms of scheduling and uh how that would play out day by day um in saying that we'll be V we will be voting later on on renovating the music classrooms and also adding some uh sound panels to the stem
room so I feel like we're taking the necessary steps to update the facilities there are some other things that were discussed like up updating the furniture from desks to uh what the teachers are using so all exciting things uh we feel
like Dan and Steve are really thinking outside the box on this and it's going to work out great for the kids long term yeah if you mind me interjecting I we we should have soon we'll have another excuse me another meeting after our state aid numbers come out at the end of
this month um the way schools unfortunately have to budget it's almost like a guessing game because we we don't find out um what the state and the federal government is providing for the following year until the end of February and our budgets are due after the first week of March um so right now we're
operating with two or three different possible budgets uh and we'll have to do a quick pivot you know once we get those state aid numbers but we're we're prepared and ready to go yes right a lot a lot of work goes into this process honestly from end of November all the
way through March uh and it's heavily on our business office so thanks to thanks to Dan for all the work that they put into making this happen I knew we were in good hands cuz when I asked the question it was like oh yeah we have a whole option b c d down the road just in case so they're really prepared for
anything that really comes at the end of February so yeah other questions on budget no okay that brings us to my board president's report um which is brief just a couple of items so the application for the regionalization
grant is finally due to be submitted by the end of this week um we thought it would go in Tuesday or Wednesday There's a couple tweaks are still making but all four Boards of Education uh finally signed off on the application and the way that it's going to be submitted through the new um online program with
the New Jersey Department of Education and partnering with the Rowan Institute for policy um so that Grant application will go in and then we have to wait to hear back whether or not we've been awarded the Grant and then the feasibility study will will commence after that we'll talk about uh what the formation of committee will look like
for being involved and engaged on that study itself versus the committee we had now which was just to get the Grant application completed so two different parts of that um but it should be in by Friday finally it's a long time coming on that um the only other thing that I
have is in terms of the county county leadership Association um there is a call out if anybody would like to run for a county leadership position with the New Jersey school boards Association applications are due in March um you should see that in your emails and um there were a couple of County
Association leadership meetings the Department of Education was on one of them talking about how schools should handle the new uh ice and immigration issues there was also a newsletter came out from our Law Firm I think everybody may have seen that but I'm not sure I know Harman you got it saw um so it just
talks about what we should be doing from a school's perspective our policy aligns with that so we think we're in we're in an okay space right now in terms of dealing with that and then um the other I'm so sorry to CAU you um can you elaborate what is our policy
I don't have it in front of me I'm curious if like ice comes knocking on the door well they need to have a warrant right that's that's part one of the policy and if there is no warrant that's signed by a judge they don't kind of get past the door um and then I can actually pull up the uh letter from the
law firm here which will say it much better than I can put you on the spot I can very briefly tell you what procedures we have in place should it happen number one is um main office secretary immediately contacts Administration whether that be me or
Alicia um we identify the purpose of their visit if they after showing identification after showing any kind of documentation that they have we'll determine you know whether or not it warrants a uh immediate call to the family of of any potential students that
they're looking to either speak with or meet with um and if they do have a warrant that's signed by a judge getting that immediately to the board's attorney to review and honestly he or they will will provide us with the next steps of guidance um um but what I can you know
assure all of the families you know regardless of of who you are um we while your kids are in here we act as the parents legally we we are um have legal custody of these kids while they are in school until we can contact the parent
and have them here and our number one job is to protect these students you know again regardless of of what agency is is coming in to speak with them um ice is a federal agency right and and they have to be treated similarly to you know dcpm your your local law
enforcement you know we will treat whoever comes if they ever come with respect but at the end of the day we operate this district and this building in the best interest of children um and we will make sure that all of that all of these processes that we put in place
are in place before they even gain access to the building great thank you sure so like I said I would encourage all of you to read that communication from the bush Law Group um NJ neighbor if you don't have it I will forward it to you I'm not sure if you're on their mail list yet
but it talks about that and essentially what he said step one is you know they'll Buzz check for a warrant contact your lawyer so the whole letter was pretty long I surprised well there was a couple more policies that they disclosed in that um as well one on Hib one on transgender and something else else but
there's a whole lengthy newsletter because these are all Hot Topics due to recent legislation that has passed can you forward it to me please thank you I can do that uh so that is all I have for now we uh that brings us to public session number one if there's any public
who would like to come up and speak please come up to the podium no okay hearing no public we will move on uh travel and workshop report seven any questions or comments okay hearing none minutes for approval
now we have last we have December's minutes on here as well because we didn't have a quorum for December's minutes and we have January's regular meeting minutes um so who do you need for December's meeting need I need four people to approve okay um do you want to do these
separately or together then because uh two people December right all right so we'd have to abstain from December and you abstain also because of the topics so we'll table it until next meeting okay but can I have a Voice vote for the January meeting minutes and all in
favor any knows extenstions okay January passes okay administrative action items can I have a motion please motion second please thank you any discussion hearing none can I have a roll call vote please sure Mrs B yes Mr
after car Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yagam yes Mrs shark yes motion policy action items one through four these are what we just talked at length about can I have a motion please to moveed second second thank you questions or further discussion on all
the policy and regulation hearing none roll call vote please Mrs Bal yes Mr epar Mr Pico Mr vardo yes Mr yam yes Mr sharpstein yes motion education item action items 1 through three can I have a motion please
make a motion second please second thank you any discussion we have uh school trip school calendars okay roll call vote please Mrs B yes Mr art Mr Pico Mr vardo Mr yagnam Mrs sharpstein yes motions Carri
Personnel action items a motion please move second please second thank you take a quick review of these if we need any discussion just three any discussion no all right roll
call vote please Mrs B yes Mr art Mr Pico Mr valard Mr Yak Mrs sharp motions carried thank you business services motion please make a motion second please second thank you items 1 through 14 I just speak to seven real quicke uh
so semi is um stands for special education Medicaid initiative um it's a program that we have traditionally waved every year that I've been here uh if you have fewer than 40 students you're able to wave the reason we wave although it
could bring a few dollars here to the district it's almost a full-time job to track the data and submit the application um it quite honestly has not been worth the money for us um there's a lot of talk in education about semi
right now because semi funding has been cut at about 90% so there are districts who who didn't wave semi who had Stu uh more than 40 students who were eligible who didn't have the op to wave semi for example there's one sucus County
District who previously was receiving $116,000 for semi and they're now receiving $14,000 um and they're in order for them to do it they're almost employing a full-time secretary to collect the data submit all the information um so you can
see how how upset a lot of those districts are I bring that up only because if you do hear this in the world of Education I want to to make sure you all understood why we wave and and why we're able to
[Music] wave any other questions or discussion okay hearing n Roll Call vote please Mrs Bal yes Mr F dear uh yes I think I have to abstain for 1 two3 has
related to December so abstain 1 two three [Music] Mr Pico yes Mr vardo yes Mr yagam yes Mrs Shar motions carried thank you that brings us to new business anybody want to bring up new business before the
board go ahead G well everybody complains about we don't have enough parking because there's so many uh employees had taken up all the parking I have a suggestion that there's a a bfield that we don't use area if we can
consider making that into a parking area for the employees it'll free up some uh parking spaces for the parents or whoever visits the school so they're not out on the road it's just a suggestion no I appreciate it it's it's
been something that we've tossed around a little bit um you know especially now that we're seeing our enrollment pretty consistently increase uh you know we were at I think I think 310 315 last year and we're up over 350 this year um
so it's definitely something that we have to consider as an option I reason why it came to my mind is with this uh contractor that wants to put those condos over by the high school we're not sure how many additional students we're going to have so that would be that
would be more cars that the parents are bringing create more of a problem that we already have y okay good thank you any other new business old business okay hearing n public session
number two non- agenda items no okay sure that would bring us to adjournment can I have a motion please motion second second all in favor say I I any nose extensions all right we're clear e e