like to call this meeting to order. Thank you for coming. Can I get a roll call, please? >> Mini is not here. >> Mrs. Mr. Gasher >> here. >> Mr. Little, >> yes. >> Mrs. Morocco, >> yes. >> Mrs. Simmons here, Mrs. Balone
>> here, Mrs. Alvar here, Mrs. >> here. We have a quum. >> Thank you. Please join me in the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under
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Thank you. We move on to the report of the superintendent of schools. >> Thank you. I'd like to invite Mr. Schwarz up to present the students of the marking period. Good evening, Mr. Ball, Mrs. Space, members of the board, and members of our audience. Tonight, I have the honor of
presenting the students of the marking period from each grade level this evening. Throughout the first marking period, these students have demonstrated academic excellence along with many other core values that we hold in high regard within our school community. These values include respect,
responsibility, effort, and empathy. As we present each student with their certificate this evening, you will clearly see how they embody these values and the many ways they contribute positively to our school community. In sixth grade, the student of the marking period is Logan. Logan is a well-rounded
and enthusiastic learner who truly embodies what it means to be a standout student at SMS. While Logan enjoys all of his classes, he has a special passion for mathematics. He appreciates the structure of the class and is always eager to learn more. His strong interest
in math supports his long-term goal of becoming an architectural engineer, a challenge that he is excited to pursue. At SMS, Logan is an active member of our student council. Outside of school, he keeps himself busy with wrestling practice, mastering car tricks, and
solving Rubik's cubes in his free time. Logan's teacher stated uh shared the glowing remarks when recommending for the student of Mark. Logan is an exceptional young man who consistently goes above and beyond to excel in school. He is a he is great at helping
others when needed, volunteers to assist new students as they acclimate to the building, and is responsible and driven. It is with great pride that we recognize Logan as the sixth grade student of seventh grade. The student of the marking period is Destiny Tweed at SMS.
Destiny enjoys science, math, and music classes where she continues exploring organisms, learning to read music, and playing different instruments. Outside of school, she has many interests, but her favorite activity is soccer because of the confidence and joy it brings her.
Destiny's teachers describe her as hardworking, creative, and a student who gets along with everyone. She gives every assignment 100% effort, staying focused and dedicated until her work is complete. Her strong commitment to excellence is evident as she earned
perfect scores in multiple classes during the first market period. Destiny also represented SMS in the spelling spree where she did a fantastic job. Even though she felt nervous about performing on stage, her determination and courage shown through an accomplishment her teacher truly
admired. Destiny is an overall star student who sets a positive example for her peers. She's an outstanding student, leader, and role model. And it is with great pride that I introduced Destiny as the student for seventh grade. In eighth grade, our recipient is Thomas
Biter. Thomas is an exceptional student who consistently demonstrates dedication, enthusiasm, and a genuine love of learning. He has shared that his favorite class is mathematics where he is always eager to take on a new challenge. He is already exploring
future career interests in engineering, analytics, and coding, fields that perfectly align with his curiosity and problem solving skills. Outside of school, Thomas is a committed member of the YMCA Swordfish swim team, where he continues to achieve success and looks
forward to growing in the sport. When he is not in the pool, Thomas enjoys a variety of hobbies, including wood carving and reading. His teacher stated the following. Thomas deserves this for consistently demonstrating trustworthiness, respect, and dedication
in everything that he does. He approaches each challenge with a positive attitude and a strong work ethic, always striving to be the best version of himself. His kindness towards others and commitment to excellence make him a true role model for his peers. We
are all excited to see where Thomas's hard work, character, and ambition will take him in the future. It is with great pride that I achieve Thomas. Thank you, Mr. Schwarz. And congratulations again to all of our recipients. If I would love to have you stay for the duration of the board
meeting. If you didn't want to stay, now would be an opportune time to take a little intermission. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Congratulations. And just to highlight some uh district happenings and events and things that we've been working on in between the
last board meeting and now I had the opportunity to attend the Sussex County Honors Choir and Chorus. Uh it was a great event last week. one of our own students. Um, Grace Green was also the recipient of prestigious Felson award for band. One one award is given out
throughout the entire county for band. Uh, so it's a significant accomplishment. Congratulations to all the students who participated. Special thanks to Mr. Kubric and Miss Wesling for their leadership and guidance and support that initiative. Uh, in facilities, Mr. Schwarz, Mr. Petroski,
Mrs. space. Malone and I had the opportunity to kind of go out front, meet with a rep of Versa Court installer, which is a basketball court um installer. So, he put together a design for us. Came back a little bit higher than we like in price. So, we're looking at some other options um along
with the installation of new backboards and basketball hoops. Window project at SMS. The front of the building's moving along um positively. had a little bit of a delay just because we had student activity night last Friday. So, we pushed them back a little bit so they didn't coincide. Uh, thank you to Mr.
Schwarz and Mr. Petroski for making that happen. So, we're thinking next week they'll probably be wrapping up. Talked about brainstorming in our facility meeting. Uh, removing some trees at west two when you're facing the building, the original part of the building over to the left, not the two front trees, but
two on the side. If you look there, the concrete's all uh cracked. and then one in front of the fourth grade wing potentially. Uh thank you to Mrs. Riker who met with the regional manager and corporate executive chef from Machios last week to discuss the program that we had. You may recall um a discussion with
that. So they indicated that they can customize the program and have some different offerings uh that will come with an increased cost. Um, as we're in the school year and our program's already been approved by the Department of Agriculture, we cannot
change breakfast or lunch prices. So, we asked them to come up with some solutions and some options and come up with some estimated costs for the board to consider as we move forward. Um, special thanks to Mr. Krosky and his team, Dr. Hutchinson, Miss Armstrong, counselors at each school, and the
principles for coordinating the NJSLA pilot testing. Uh that was a challenging endeavor but they got through it very well. Congratulations to Mrs. Kersner. Uh Mrs. Kersner is one of our um educational service professionals and last week she
was honored by the Sussex County Education Association um as their SB of the year at Corona Farms uh for Suya. It's a great honor and very welld deserved. Congratulations to all the girls on the girls on the run participants who had
their big 5K race or with the fair crowns last weekend. Uh some of our girls I saw today remarked that it was amazing but they were very tired and wouldn't necessarily do it again. Uh Thanksgiving parades CEO had a multitude of Thanksgiving parades today which were
all very nice. Uh and then next Wednesday kindergarten's hosting the turkey fashion show. I don't know exactly what that is but I'm eager to find out and check it out. um SMS activity night as I mentioned that was a great success um hosted by
Miss Whites Connors the student council up here last Friday and our Veterans Day breakfast and assemblies at our schools. Thank you to the faculty staff and administration for those functions as well as the special guests who joined us. Their attendance was greatly appreciated. Special thanks
to Mrs. Wagner, Miss Henson, and Mrs. Steel for spearheading those programs. We also had a bunch of family math and reading nights at both schools which were very well attended. Um, in our last board meeting, we talked about uh some student attendance information that the board was looking into and that'll be in
the rundown tomorrow. And uh in our curriculum special services meeting uh we talked about some TA data and information that the board wanted to talk take a look at. I would anticipate that being in the next rundown next Friday. And that's all I have for this evening. Do we want to segue back to
>> Yeah. Just take another quick intermission. We're going to go back up for a second >> and recognize one more student of the Martin. >> Thank you. >> All right. All right. In seventh grade, the student of the marking period is Destiny Tweed.
At SMS, Destiny enjoys science, band, and music classes where she continues exploring organisms, learning to read music, and playing different instruments. Outside of school, she has many interests, but her favorite activity is soccer because of the confidence and joy it brings her.
Destiny's teachers describe her as hardworking, creative, and a student who gets along well with everyone. She gives every assignment 100% effort, staying focused and dedicated until her work is complete. Her strong commitment to excellence is evident as she earned
perfect scores in multiple classes during the first morning period. Destiny also represented the SMS in the spelling spree where she did a fantastic job. Even though she felt nervous about performing on stage, her determination, courage shown through, an accomplishment
her teachers truly admire. Destiny is an overall star student who sets a positive example for her peers. She is an outstanding student, leader, and role model. It's with great pride that I treat Destiny Treaty as Sussex Middle School 7th grade student.
RIGHT. AT this time, I move on to audience remarks. Members of the audience are invited to make brief comments about items on this agenda and matters of interest to the district. >> Comments. >> I don't know what's on the agenda, but I did I I wanted to talk about some stuff.
>> Okay. Here, >> Mrs. Thank you. I wanted to touch on field trips. Is that okay if I Yeah. >> Yeah. I was just asked you to identify formally identify yourself here. Address. >> Sure. I'm Melissa Swinar. Um, I have two kids in the district and I recently
started like three weeks ago as a teacher as well, but predominantly I'm here um as a parent and I just wanted to open up a conversation or continue a conversation on um how to um create experiences perhaps in lie of
field trips if we can't make those happen this year. So I understand that the that the main issue is is busing. Is that true? So um I've I've just been brainstorming and trying, you know, I can speak for myself and many others. I
think that growing up um one of the most memorable times in school, one of the my favorite parts of education was was the field trips and field studies and being able to take it on the road. So, I just want to see if maybe um by talking if we
can kind of uh supplement or you know make the the deficit lesser for the year for for my own children. So, um, some things that I have thought was maybe like, um, a school carnival, maybe like run by teachers or more like in-house
opportunities. I know that they have the reptile guy come come sometimes and things like that, but I was just wondering if there were any conversations like that already happening that I could piggy back off of. >> So, one of the things that I would love to get going again, I kind of had preliminary brainstorming with that if
somebody was interested in spearheading it, it's kind of a joint operation between um all facets of the school, teachers, parents, community. It's called our school used to host something called the learning circus. Okay.
Um and yeah and um it was a Saturday event uh totally volunteerism where you had people who had I'm going to say an expertise in a various areas of of life and work and hobbies and um for example
one teacher stands out as a she would um like with with a flame like blow glass jewelry like beads and things like that. Very cool. >> Right. So so Pam had this that jewelry class, right? and she'd design it and have the materials and she'd set a
number. Maybe 10 kids can sign up for one or two sessions. There'd be two sessions and it would be a Saturday once a year. Um, and then there'd be another 20 people doing that kind of thing and kids would s sign up and it would be uh it would be I mean it was amazing. And
then we we expanded on a little bit. We did something called Maker Madness later in the school year. So, I'd love to get events like that going. Even if you could do one at 1 in, one at um Lawrence School, that kind of thing. >> Um so, that I mean, it was huge. >> Okay. >> Yeah.
>> I'm I'm encouraged to hear that. I I want to volunteer myself to help. >> Spearhead. Spearhead is a nice word. >> Spearhead is a nice word. I This is all tense, but this is all very new to me, but as long as you're open, >> I will sit and be with you about some of
those things. Absolutely. >> Okay. Awesome. Some other thoughts that I had was I used to work for the YMCA and I know that that sometimes and they also interact with other nonprofits in the area. So sometimes they have >> ideas or maybe they bring trainers over and collaborate. just sky's the limit as
far as >> so I can't remember if it was the YMCA or um >> private I I feel like it was a YMCA one of those courses which you could do an assembly periodically but part of those courses was so learning circus was in the spring and they did a swim safety
program. Yeah. Um another one the sheriff's office um or or state police would come out even would come out do like bicycle safety courses wear a helmet courses um so you know you have the opportunity to kind of and it doesn't have to be an immediate thing take several months to you know it's
really getting those volunteerism >> things on a sat it was in particular on a Saturday >> okay is there any type of budget to um because I know that the main issue was travel so is there is there a remaining budget for field trips
that that is it just sitting there is or is there any type of funds that that can be >> Yeah. So there every student in the district's allocated $20 per year per field trip. >> Okay. >> Uh so it's kind of worked out with the teacher how they use that money and
allocate that money depending upon the venue. What's happened is over the course of time transportation's become very significant. Our own internal buses and drivers have gone down in number. So now we're having to contract those services out more and more and that's where the cost is becoming
>> more and more significant. >> Okay. But we're we're open to to weekend or off hour type just events that that people can >> Yeah. A lot like that the the event I described was volunteerism. Okay. >> So that's a big I put you in touch with some people who give you some even more
insight into the workings of it. >> Cool. >> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can can I add something? >> Yeah. >> Um >> you want to teach something at the learning circuit? I mean, I'm not I'm not that exciting, but I'd be willing to um if if there's the potential for doing like offsite self-t travel things, is
the possibility of self travel for field trips open? Like what do we would that be um >> Yeah. Like would that be well I don't know what >> Yeah. I mean kind of brainstorm the legalities of that kind of thing. insurance. If if
you're doing more and more of that, like I can think of another school district that kind of does something like that they were talking about before, it becomes less of a school sponsored activity rather than just a community getting together for something, right? >> Yeah. I mean, it's like during the school day for class and it's just your
parent drives you there. We don't stuff that, you know, there's parents that are working and some kids can't go and then there's the issue of, okay, well, this one's going to take five kids and then, god forbid, >> district either. >> Yeah. I was just interested in getting a
percent. You know, we could speculate on, but I mean, is it that 25% will only be able to go or is it we're surprised that 90% are to go? I mean people can do off after hours and I don't know maybe it's a possibility instead of just assume it's not
>> and how if perhaps if if some families and again I'm just I'm just adding but if some families were able to get themselves to some place then maybe it's one or two buses versus buses for everybody and it's more feasible but if
you need a spearhead I can try >> I have a question related to Um, my name's Jan Sylvester. >> Yeah. I'm just going to ask you to wait until she's >> completed. >> Yeah. It's not really an open conversation. We love that. We love that. But yeah, I'm gonna ask you to piggy back when she's kind of completed.
>> Okay. I think I think I'm >> Thank you very much. >> Absolutely. >> Do you want the paper? >> I don't need the paper. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is daughter. She's in third grade. Um, so my question related to
hers is, is it possible to do like fundraising to raise the money to do buses to field trips? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> You would kind of you would probably attend a PTO meeting and they're kind of a um
one of the stronger agents of fundraising historically in the district. But so if we were to, you know, pigeon hole one fundraising event specifically for busing for field trips, that's something that would be allowed because as far as I understand what PTO
is saying is that the board of education is what manages the fundraising funds that they receive. >> Yeah. I mean, if Mr. Wagner is still the president, I would have to talk to them about it just because they have um but we've done fundraising in the past. Like for example, um eighth grade trip had
always done fundraising that you know it often didn't like fully fund a class trip but it would offset an individual students you know those I think were some of those were like individual based like a student sells I feel like it was like ticket books or something like that like a discount book and then however
many you sold you that came off of your price over a trip. Um and you can do collective fundraising where hey we're going to try to set a goal to raise I don't know, thousand dollars to this particular trip to get a commercial bus. Absolutely. We would work with you.
>> Okay. Awesome. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Do you have any other public comments? Seeing none, we will move on to the board secretary certification. Pursuant to NJAC6A23A-16.10C3, I certify that as of October 31st, 2025,
no line item account has incumbrances and expenditures which in total exceed the line item appropriation in violation of NJAC 6A 23A. >> Thank you. We will move on to the approval of board minutes for October 30th, 2025, regular and executive
session. Can I get a motion? >> Motion. >> Thank you. A second. >> Second. >> Mr. Little. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dash. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Malone.
>> Yes. >> Mrs. Space. Yes. It is. >> Thank you. We do not need to go into executive session to move on to the presentation of agenda items. Thank you. Under personnel, I'd like to move it by 14.
Thank you. A second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> Mrs. Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Little. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Morocco. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Halone. Outstanding for number seven, Miranda.
Yes. This is >> yes carries >> under policy. I like to move on motion. >> Thank you. A second. >> Thank you. Any discussion?
Roll call, please. Mr. Bush. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Morocco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Little. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bone. Yes, Mrs. Yes. >> Finance 1 to 11.
>> Can I get a motion? >> Motion. Thank you. Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes. Mr. Little. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gasher. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morocco. I'm going to abain from
number two specifically check number 4042. Yes. from number 11. >> Yeah. >> Special services. I'd like to >> Can I get a motion? >> Thank you. A second.
>> Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Little. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morocco. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Malone. >> Yes. Mrs. Space. >> Yes. Motion carries.
>> Under curriculum. I'd like to write a number one. >> I have a motion. >> A motion. >> Thank you. A second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Mr. G. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morocco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Little. >> Yes.
>> Mrs. Simmons. Yes, >> Mrs. Balloon. >> Yes, Mrs. Space. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Referring to the agenda under personnel, I'd like to move items to four. >> Motion. >> Thank you. A second.
>> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. Morocco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Little. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dashroom. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Malone. Yes, Mrs. Yes. Motion carries
>> under finance. I like >> I get a motion. >> Thank you. A second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Little, >> yes. >> Mr. Dasher,
>> yes. >> Mr. Morocco, >> yes. Mrs. Simmons, >> yes. >> Mrs. Alone, >> yes. Mrs. >> Yes. Motion carries. under special services. I open items one through three. >> Can I get a motion? >> I'll motion.
>> Thank you. Can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Simmons, >> yes. >> Mr. Dash, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morocco. >> Yes. Mrs. Malone.
>> Yes. Mrs. this time we'll move on to unfinished business. Does anyone have any unfinished business they'd like to discuss? I have two um but first not to be a dead voice but about the field trips. Is there anything you could do like to get a list of action items or
something or anything like we could do individually just to kind of get it moving? I agree that field trips are incredibly important and it seems like a crime that they're not movable. every grade level is going >> yeah I haven't rejected any we haven't
rejected any field trips to my knowledge I so long as you I I had talked about with staff like the parameters that you could operate under especially for like some of those more like local type trips that that aren't necessarily co cost costing um money if you could operate
within that framework then it's not not really an issue and it was a time frame of when you could go to have the buses back for that kind of thing. >> Um and and then really it's to expand that it's allocating more money in some way, shape or form whether it's
fundraising or you know through the budget process. >> Yeah. Like are there field trips that want to take place but can't or have there not been ideas generated? >> I haven't had any come my way. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So I was going to say I was going
to ask is it more teachers that are not saying okay let's do this based on the curriculum >> or is it more because I know there is a bus shortage however >> if there's no move behind for the is is
that what I'm teachers aren't like >> I would have to pull the principles to to ascertain like what they may be experiencing on that level that's challenging is like on when it comes to me, it's a matter of fact. You approve the trip, >> right? >> It's approved. I'm not seeing anything
that's radically different. You know, you just approve medieval times. >> Yeah. >> Um, so I'd have to see like something that they wanted that was outside the parameters that they couldn't, you know, I had, for example, a teacher came. I was I was operating out of West today and teacher came and said, you know, I'd
like to go to this thing in in Newton, but I don't think I can because it's, you know, I was like, no, I don't. so long as you can operate within that window of time. Like I think that's within the boundary of where we can get you. It's you know it's the time it's not the location so much. Um and so she
checked it out and like we were able to go there. Um that was kind of like a different thing that we hadn't done relatively recently. So I'd have to touch the principles to ask like if there's something specific somebody's talking about they want to do that there they feel like they can't. You know,
we've been in space farms a bunch of times which is a normal routine trip for us. I think up here too it's hard because we're far away from a lot of things like I grew up in Bergen County. We could go to the city. We could go to >> science center. Yeah. >> So, and like you said, working in the
perimeter of time, >> you know, you're allocating an hour to two hours one way. So, I get it. Yeah. But also if it's not if the teachers aren't coming together like oh we should do this based on what we're learning in science class or history class then it's
not really >> we're saying no you can't go on field trips it's they're not there's not coming together >> and I think just the the dialogue we've been having creates a sense for people of like oh gee yeah uh and Mrs. space reminded me we've tried different
creative strategies. So like where we might have sent the entire fifth grade in one shot go to a venue but now we've broken it up over maybe two trips. >> So I you know probably not this rundown the next rundown I'll get you some information
>> assuming like the reptile guide that cross the district. >> So those are uh usually sponsored by the PTO. >> Okay, >> those kinds of things. So, what if we had and I know kids I remember getting on a bus and going somewhere on a trip. I thought that was the greatest thing
like like she said, but like what if we had parents volunteer that had like an LLC? Like I know there's a parent that I talked to. She's up and coming beekeeper. What if she was to say, "Hey, I want to donate my time and come in and do a presentation." Like I know the fire
department comes, the police come. like we've had. >> Yeah, we have. >> Are you sure? >> Yeah. I mean, we take we willing to take advantage of those opportunities. >> One that's local. >> That's one of our field trips in the
program. I think that they still do something. >> I really like the idea what she said in house. more cost effective in the long run. Um, we can still do it towards learning what they're doing in each age group. Um, I'm willing if we're going to
put something together like a committee or something, I'm willing to sit on that and help um spearhead co-sp. >> I appreciate that. I know. I know quite a few people that would probably donate their time.
>> Mr. Little Spirit, >> am I allowed to chime in again or do I have to >> Well, during the public comment session, >> there'll be another um the vers, >> right? Is there one company that does it and that's it?
that product is one company like that's a trademark but then there are other providers that we're looking into to see if there's a more >> cause maybe >> Yeah. Yep. Yep. And there and there's the um like the coding they put on tennis courts. That's something where
Frank is Mr. Petrosky tried to get one gentleman was you know he said like this area was too far for him to service. So and then then potentially just repainting lines. >> Yeah. Aren't we getting towards like that being like out of season for them to do that? >> Yeah, we would it would be
>> spring summer. >> I know there's somebody on school which >> like >> Yeah, we'll check. It's >> okay.
Um, the nature trail at CEO. >> I'm waiting. She's getting me a brush hog. She said she's getting me a brush. And you're going to go do it. >> I think in the spring. Yeah, in the spring we have I mean I think Mr. Petra
right before right Mr. Petraki was going to have call today. It was our landscape. >> Okay. >> We went back there as well. Yeah, we we trust through Frank called my daughter for >> I brought water. >> All right. Any other unfinished
business? >> New business. Anyone have any new business? >> No. >> All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to audience remarks. Members of the audience are invited to make brief comments about items on this agenda and matters of interest to the district.
>> Should I say anything? >> Yeah. Put the camera on. Sorry, it felt more natural in the conversation, but I'll just piggy back. Um I I had I had worked for a different district a long time ago before um
becoming a parent and the conversation around field trips at at that school and it was a high achieving school. worth mentioning, but um they and I think this might have been excessive, but we had a field study once a month and that was a lot and it was in the city and we hopped
on a subway with the with my little kindergarteners. It was that that's the other extreme, but the conversation was opposite. It was the kids need X, Y, and Z. It has to happen this frequently. How do we make it happen versus waiting for the ideas to trickle in? So, um yeah,
I'm happy to spearhead some of the other things if um some of the other things if if if we have to completely remove transportation out of it was um seeing if if like local farms or what like to see what sort of um animals we could
bring like in the in the spring. I don't know like we'll we'll be in contact but I'm thinking of just real memorable learning experience days that are wildly outside of the ordinary. Maybe get teachers like wigs and a gavl and have like a mock courtroom in the theater and
so you know things like that that they that they will remember is kind of what I was sorry it felt more natural >> children versus the board basketball. So yeah, things that they'll that 10 years from now.
>> There's the farm at Glend right in Vernon that I'm sure >> you have the cow sanctuary. >> I don't know how really wants to bring some snakes into school. >> Oh my gosh. >> Really wants.
I don't think anybody here in the district actually but I'll never forget being in kindergarten and a tiger got loose and there was a guy trying to chase it around property >> I had the lion cubs
>> that's why we certificate if anyone brings anything our insurance no longer let us right where all the playground is right now. >> Was it like in a tent like a circus? >> Big circus tent. >> The kids they went out during school and
got to like see it. But like if you want to see like a full show like parents had to come and like buy a ticket, >> right? Circus. I mean this was back in 956. But >> those are good times. >> There you go. Okay. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Are there any >> um so Andrea Sparta 898 road competition Jersey. Um I think going places is great. I think that's having in-house stuff is good too, but I think actually
physically going places is good for the kids. Um I had thought of maybe like Liberty Science Center. someone said maybe West Point um because that's not too you know far away but that's my whole thing with the tail traps um I
will help limited I will not spearhead anyways um so on on a different note um on the agenda number seven so all of the TAs here how does that how does that work for them getting paid because I see like some of them are dated back to
October 16th does that mean that they're like do they are they already paid and you guys are approving this or does this have to get approved and then they get paid because number I only ask because number 11 under finances the bus drill
evacuation was already done. So I was just wondering are these TAs already paid or are they like waiting some of these some of these employees are waiting almost a month to get paid for their hours. I was just wondering how that works. So some things like the bus
drills and things, they're approved retroactively because you schedule them in advance. But >> well, and it's required by the state that we approve them on an agenda. So when we have it, the next agenda, it was on November 4th. This is the first board meeting after November 4th and that's why we're approving it. And so sometimes
what happens is vouchers, it is not an exact science with how these get approved. And so we may receive a voucher and it was never board approved. And so it has to go on. And so if NY's proing payroll and sees that this is
going to be on, she may process it. But the majority of these wouldn't happen until >> afters. Are there any public comments? >> None. We do not need to go to executive session. Move on to adjournment. Can I
get a motion? >> Thank you. A second. I'll second. >> Thank you. All in favor say I. >> I. Any thank you.