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she's at school where Thank you G call the Tinton board education meeting to order april 14th 2025 pledge of Allegiance 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 roll call please gerald Truhart present denise Johnson present jean Buoie present addie Daniels Lane
present austin Edwards present yolanda Lopez present larry Trailer present jeannie Weekland present sania Jones present we have a quorum new Jersey Sunshine Law new Jersey public meetings law was enacted to
ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted on on the rules of this act the Triton Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting by publicizing the date time and place
therefore posted on the website the times and the star ledger formal action will take place at this meeting a mission statement all students who graduate with the vision for their future motivates learn continually prepared to succeed in their choice of
college or career adoption of the agenda motion to adopt the agenda do have one change i'm moving up present remarks at right after the superintendent's remarks it's lower in the agenda but I'm moving it up to right after the superintendent's remarks can I have a motion to accept the agenda as amended
so move second first and second at roll call gerald Truhart yes denise Johnson yes jean Buoie yes addie Daniels Lane yes austin Edwards yes yolanda Lopez yes
larry Trailer yes jeannie Week yes motion passed have our superintendent remarks good evening and welcome uh on this mild spring day uh today unfortunately we begin our meeting with heavy hearts uh
due to the loss of two students in our district and a parent in our school community um it's always difficult to find the right words when speaking about loss under any circumstances so I just wanted to take this opportunity with the
community our parents our students to uh let our families and students and staff know that we're hurting with you uh all of us it was a very difficult day in our schools and I want to commend our uh crisis teams for assembling early
yesterday and Saturday principles putting together plans to get their students through the day and we will uh be with them all week long so uh we also want our families to know for those of uh those family members students and or
staff who uh are affected by this and returning to uh Trenton Public Schools uh we will be here to support you um so I just and and I'd like at this time to ask that you please join me in a moment
of silence thank you at this time I would like to recognize our newest member to the board our student board member um [Applause]
uh Miss Zaniah Jones is a Sunnia Jones is is a student at uh Capitol City High School her principal proud principal is in uh the house and we welcome her to do this very important work um we as we
move forward with our work and young people in Trenton you never know if they're back to be board members so it gives a lot of training and she can offer perspective and hopefully what's happening at the ground level in her school uh to board members so we want to welcome you and congratulate you for
being selected to serve on the school board all right we are also excited to have our friends from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated it was founded on the campus of Howard University all right
he he he always does that and I've learned and I've learned as a nonHard grad that you pause after you say that so because I've been interrupted before so so I paused to allow him to do his
part and for any other Howard grads here um Howard University in Washington DC in 1908 it was founded it's the oldest Greek letter organization established by African-American college educated women who we have here with us today uh this
evening i've brought my friends with me uh members of the distinguished Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated the epsilon oopsilon Omega chapter here to present their donation to the board of education president of the chapter Miss
Tanya Stewart will present and at least introduce your colleagues so I'll give you an opportunity under my comments to just present your awards i have a big mouth i don't think I'm Tanya Stewart who is under the weather
today so on behalf of our president and as members of epsilon Omega chapter we thank you for allowing for us to partake in the schoolboard meeting on today before we get started I want to say on behalf of our sorority we are so proud
of you Sia Jones on representing a as an African-American woman uh to show that you're doing great things at a young age to be a representative for your peers as well as for us to see here in the city
of Trenton the great work that still goes on and on behalf of our chapter uh this year I know that Miss Stewart did send a letter so I will not belabor the time to tell you all that goes into that
but uh we had our our chapter hosted our annual cluster for conference meeting here in New Jersey and under our regional director we decided that we wanted to be able to give back to our
community and also be able to um make sure that we did part on our supreme CEO uh Danette Anthony Reed's level of the initiatives that she has entrusted us to do and two of them are
empowering our families and also uh increasing black dollars in the community so under her leadership and under our regional director leadership Alise Alicia Pagis Spearman excuse me we decided to do a book drive and that book
drive consisted of our members in the cluster 4 New Jersey region to be able to raise well not raise money but I guess collect books at all African-American bookstores and so with the collective efforts of all of our
chapters and epsilon oopsilon omega chapter as the host chapter we were able to collect over 18,000 1800 1,800 I'm sorry 1,800 I'm speaking into existence 1,800 uh gift cards and those gift cards
we are donating to Trenton Central High School to be utilized in whatever capacity they will be utilized in to enlighten as well as educate the students in addition we have uh one book
that was donated as well and on behalf of our chapter we donate and entrust these gift cards as well as the book into the hands of our assistant superintendent who is our chapter member
and to the board thank you thank you i I excuse me i'm sorry i just I would like Miss I would like Miss King to introduce yourself you are a force of nature in our community introduce
yourself and your sorrows absolutely so I stand before you as the past president of the chapter here i now serve in the capacity as the North Atlantic cluster 4 coordinator for New Jersey and a proud
Trentonian and uh although I do not reside in the city of Trenton city will always be my home and my first heart i'm Sher Yuri Washington i'm also a past president i'm also past cluster coordinator and it's a pleasure to be
here thank you good evening i'm Geraldine Yuri of Trenton High School class of 19 former school board member for 10 years currently serving as municipal court judge for the city of Trenton
i was on the school board for more than 10 years and also a past president of the chapter and a cluster co-coordinate as well thank thank Thank you all thank you all and we appreciate you
sharing and the gifts you've provided uh for students uh and then just to add thank you for sharing under my remarks i appreciate you getting me through um and uh just to add I want to wish everyone a safe uh we go on spring recess next week
and uh in difficult times when people are alone to remember those individuals who have had struggle uh so I wish everyone a safe and peaceful spring recess and time away but please check on each other during these difficult times
so that closes my remarks thank you and yes thank you ladies alpha Capa Apparati Incorporated thank you so much uh for present remarks superintendent I had a moment of silence that I thought was important for the student our students first grade student seventh
grade student that tragically passed away um it happened to be on my street in West State Street and uh many of the chaplain I'm a part of the Trenton chaplain many of the chaplain from Trenton went down to support uh the family on West State Street and so we
want to just send our condolences to continue send our condolences and continue to pray for the families of the tragedies of those two losses of our students in our district here in the capital city of Trenton New Jersey uh the other thing I want to do is say
Jones congratulations to you uh thank you so much this is a long time coming for us as a board we really look forward to working with you um again your your student insight and your student focus on challenges and also opportunities for students at Capitol City High School as
well as across our district so welcome to Trenton Board of Education and I'm sure shared a sentiment with all the board members that we welcome you with open arms and look forward to your dialogue and your contribution to the board so thank you so much
the other thing we uh had a a brief conversation with many of the board members i had a brief conversation many of the board members about uh our May 12th board meeting and this is something that we should have to do in public um changing that board meeting to 8 a.m board meeting because of the Mercer
County board meeting at 6:00 pm and the reason why uh we are looking to change the time of our May 12th board meetings because we have several of our not only members of our board mostly members of our board uh who will be voted in as at the county level as officers as well as
receiving board level certifications um Denise Johnson will receive a certified board member uh Larry Taylor new board member certification master board member certification addie Daniels Lane as well as Yolanda Merto Lopez and a certified
board leader Yolanda Moto Lopez all of Trenton um and also more just about as importantly is we have a teacher of the year who will be awarded teach Mercer County teacher of the year uh Nicole Hamlet at Trenton Central High School and of course introduced by our
principal Courtney and superintendent Mr earl uh Mr earl from our Trenton school district so we felt that it was important uh for us to be there and it did conflict with our May 12th board meeting and I think many of the board members who I had a conversation with agreed to change our board meeting on
May 12th to 8:00 a.m it will have to be advertised of course in the newspaper uh but just want wanted to get the sim of the board that we can make that change to 8 8 a.m everybody's in any any I know one I know Denise you had a conflict on that
particular day um but I think m majority of the board was able to uh to to be there um at 6 pm on the 12th and have our meeting at 8:00 a.m on May 12th any dissensions under there's one that
conflict okay all right thank you uh James so we can we can advertise advertise the May 12th for 8 a.m to change that time that's all I have for President comments just want to get that out the way i'll move now to uh to old business response to public
participation from our March 24th 2025 board meeting paul Bethea uh was our first speaker he wanted to commend uh our district for efforts in our school system uh he brought the he brought some
concerns about student fighting uh with parents and teachers and their children about fighting in vulgar language but he shared that um we were doing a great job in our district and making sure that we address those concerns and issues of our students and our families uh Junior
Martinez Tessa President she expressed this discontent between Tessa and the human resources department mayor Salterada Tessa vice president shared our concerns with the HR department as well and we will continue to meet with
uh Tesla leadership to discuss rel resolutions to the particular issues uh and annunciated in our March board meeting any other concerns that the Tesla organization uh president and vice president may have we also had Darren
Freeden Green who expressed some concerns about presentations prior to public comment he also shared about a 8week inter entrepreneurship uh program at um at uh Mcnite School and so there's no response to that particular public
comment that concluded our public comment and concerns for our March 24th uh board meeting we'll now start with comments by board committee chairs uh I just have one as as governance there's an order we have an order on our agenda
uh but in terms of governance very quickly we did discuss the superintendent evaluation uh we also discussed new board member selection process citizens academy as well as a new student board member coming on board so we thank God that we have our new student board member
um one of the things that we do need to decide on we have about we have 65 days I believe according to the bylaw to to appoint a as I read appoint a school board member from in our vacancy um and
so Jane Howard sent out an email to an email to us and to confirm that has been advertised about two weeks ago um and it the resumeumés were due and applications were due in the form of a resume to the board secretary on today i'm not sure we
how many we actually received we haven't received any uh resumes or applications for a new board membership effective as of today uh so we need to get the word out to our community to submit resumes i did get a couple phone calls and I did give the information about submitting
those to Jane Howard's office and to her email address um so hopefully we can continue as board members to reach out to our community and reach out to members who may be interested in becoming board members to submit uh their resume to Jane Howard we may have to of course now extend that extend that
period the second part of this is we wanted to get questions from board members questions that we would ask our candidate in our interviews in executive session uh the new board member candidates in executive session so if you could please uh submit your
questions one or two questions to Jane Howard and that way we can compile those questions and come up with maybe four or five or less depending on how many we decide to ask the new board members in the interviews in executive session so
we'll have u ask all the same the same questions and so it's important that we if we can get that done by um by Friday is that appropriate if everybody can just read please come up with questions for the new board members and for the interview session then we'll narrow that
down to maybe three or four questions to ask each candidate as we get um resumes coming in prayerfully um and then we should be able to move forward with selecting a new board member to take this seat of Sasa who vacated that seat
some time ago about a month ago um it's important if we can get that done get this done by our uh now is April love to have it done by our our May meeting um I know it's a tight timeline if not definitely by our June
meeting because we running up against a timeline there so we could work on that as as well so that's all I really have for all I have for board member board member comments report on the board committees for the for the governance committee
thank you Addie you're up [Music] next thank you okay excuse me okay all right so the um teaching and uh learning committee did in fact meet
on um Tuesday April the 8th um and at that time we reviewed the um board agenda items and also received a uh update from the um special education department uh some of the um highlights from that particular meeting um we discussed additional funding for um
screeners to assist in assessing uh language needs for entering students uh we also reviewed a number of uh summer program activities uh including u activities like sports camp band c camp
um esy summer school uh let's see uh enrichment activities and we also noted that there are a number of programs listed to um actually open up the uh next school year 25 26 those items are listed um we also noted that a
curriculum revision update is going to take place and that there is a new um platform well new to me anyway uh a new platform edup planet that is being used as a curriculum planning um platform for um support in curriculum revision we
also noted that there is um support for the arts through the um young audiences program they're active at a number of schools um districtwide um we also noted that there is um a historical marker to be placed at Grant School recognizing
and acknowledging um and I believe it's Inazaki Shang who was a playwright and a Trenton resident who actually authored a play that ran on Broadway a few times and again a historical marker is being placed at Grant School um in her in her
honor we also took a look at a variety of student trips um that are being offered um and noted the importance of extending learning beyond the classroom um some of the questions we talked about transition planning for students moving um between schools after um completing a
specific grade configuration um we also talked about um uh we also talked about the um the fact that the special education department is um reviewing and setting up the parameters for the extended um year programming and that also looking at
support for the child study teams in order to um evaluate students as needed over the summer uh with referrals that have come in we also talked about um autism awareness month which is April and a lot of the um students districtwide are have been invited to
participate and celebrate um this particular awareness month and we also talked about uh some upcoming things like on the May agenda we're going to talk about uh disproportionality and what that means for the district and how that impacts the district um there will
also be an upcoming AVID uh presentation for us to get a better understanding of that particular uh activity as well so that uh those are the contents from our teaching and learning committee thank you so I go next i like being last better
but I'm just saying no so um the operation and finance committee uh met last Tuesday um we uh discussed transfers the secretaries report treasures report um long list of
uh staff travel and the list of the bills that we play and that number for March 31st 2025 was 16,56,720 which is a um a lot of money um we also talked about um uh the
project to do some interior renovations at the ninth grade academy which I think is a really big deal um for those who who weren't around at the time we were able to purchase the ninth grade academy for $20 million cash um not carrying any
debt and not asking the taxpayers for a dime and there was a bunch of uh a large area of the building that had to be renovated so that we could use for other classrooms and and um communal space and so it's really good to see that coming
to fruition so good job business department um and then uh I guess um oh yeah one one other thing before we get to the donations um it's good to see on this agenda the continued use of the security agency that has been
securing our buses for those who don't know um we were being vandalized on the regular they were taking catalytic converters from our buses and that's a very expensive proposition and since we um started using them we haven't lost
one catalytic converter so so kudos on that and then uh the last and and and this is very important like we talk about all of the money but but really um it shows the compassion of our community
when folks donate to our children and so I just would like to go down the list um and call out some of those donations uh Empower Somerset donation $3,000 to the 9th grade academy um for
student activities developed in the school of health improvement plan ruckers University $25,000 for family and community engagement child win socks valued at
$175 for family and community engagement also Bank America 50 bikes and 50 helmets valued at $7,500 for family and community engagement shine and Inspire Shine and Inspire toiletries and miscellaneous out
uh items valued at $300 for family and community engagement and Book Smiles 1100 books valued at $8,800 for visual and performing arts theater at Trenton Central High School so we do thank um those folks for their
generosity that's it okay the facilities meeting did not meet this month um because we had nothing new but I do have um an update on current
projects i'm happy to report that the uh demolition and cleanup at uh Junior 1 the old MLK school is complete the contractor is done um the property has been seated and fenced in and turned
back over to the district um capital maintenance projects the Ziggler warehouse building uh the Asbestous Abatement Company is 100% complete and we're waiting for PSENG and Trenton Waterworks to shut off and disconnect
all lines and utilities uh capital reserve projects the ninth grade academy as Jean stated the uh indoor renovations and alterations uh bid opening will be on May 1st and
then Holland Middle School uh the corridor acoustic soundproofing installation the bid opening will be May 12th and that's all we have this month all right all right for the HR committee uh nothing far too new or exciting in
this one i just uh want to take a moment to keep reiterating how um uh working for the district is a great opportunity uh for yourself and for your family uh every time I look at uh these these salaries for a lot of these positions I
continually wonder why law school was what I wanted to do with my life but you know oh man and then on top of that um do want to highlight again uh the the many um uh people that are retiring this year uh I think one of the highest uh on
this list uh is 40 years with the district rivaled by uh 35 years right and then it goes from there so uh not only is it a great place to come in uh make a great salary for yourself but it's also a place where a lot of people want to stay after all these many years
decades giving back to the district so uh really happy to see this uh HR report and uh that's all I have for now okay so the um policy committee met on April 3rd and uh we reviewed the last of the
policies that needed revision um you will see that we do have a select number of policies that are up for uh second reading uh and for first reading as well um after a review of the district
policies we recognize that there are a number of policies that are um that should be abolished um these policies are um out ofd and no longer relevant uh so that list of policies is also um included in our packet
um I would like to thank Mr ro who has been so instrumental in getting these policies we we are up to date because of him and because of the committee but James is
doing all of the heavy lifting he is really he's got us on task he's telling us what we need to review what to consider and when we review policies and we have questions like he knows the answers to like he for him to know all
the policies in the district is amazing so I just wanted to give him a shout out um yes we are all up to date uh we're all up to date and now we just need to do some cleaning up but for the most part our policy manual is up to date um and I
want to thank the committee for um taking time to you know spend the time to read all these pages and to thank the board for putting in your time as well um we know the importance of having relevant and updated policies it
it's we clearly communicate what is expected in the district so uh I just wanted to thank everyone for all of the hard work that they're doing thanks again hello everyone i'm here to report on the face committee the face committee met on
March 26 we discussed uh continue outreach with our parent connect series as well as our empowerment workshops we have a couple coming up tomorrow we're going to have one um on age appropriate expectations at MLK school from 5 to 6:30 um another one May 20th calming and
distressing techniques and June 17th on building helpful routines the committee also talked about our healing heart series as well as the New Jersey school climate survey that got released um to the district as well as a kindergarten registration efforts to make sure that
we reach out um um proactively to make sure that we're recruiting students into the district um that was our meeting notes from the 26 thank you now moving to our public participation area of our meeting i read
an advisory the Triton Public School District welcomes the attendance and comments from all members of the public at this at his meetings this public comment period is your time to be heard on any school or the school district issue that a member of the public may feel is a concern to the residents of
the school district each person who signed up to comment will have five minutes you'll be notified when your five minutes are up you cannot y time to anyone else when it's your time to speak please address all your comments to the board president please conduct yourself in a respectful and courteous manner for
anyone whose comments or actions either harass intimidate or threaten the safety of any person we'll pro we will provide you with a warning or immediately end your comment time also if you curse use vulgar language or make personal attacks we will provide you with a warning or
end your comment time comments that adhere to these guidelines will not be interrupted if you have any questions please ask your questions during your fivem minute comment period after the public comment period is closed the board superintendent or designate will address your questions to the extent provided by the law we also ask that
members of the public do not interrupt the speaker during their public comment time our first um speaker is uh Miss Garcia Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund hello good evening thank you all so much
for the work that you do on the side of the desk um I am here presenting Latin American Legal Defense Education Fund a nonprofit here in New Jersey and I am the Futura program coordinator and here to promote the Futura program which is a
college prep program for first second gen immigrant students um Miss Jones um I'm having you here it's truly an amazing experience all about it this week and upcoming weeks for the amazing work that you all do um so the purpose of the
program is just like our our district mission is mainly for your college and career preparedness um it's a two-year program it's completely free and we are nonprofit so we are here to support the community you guys do the best you can and we also take on the charge as well
so just mainly for that thank you our next speaker is Miss Garona bilingual teacher in bilingual studies not present okay our next speaker sir is Laura
Mora community member on child safety oops um good evening members of the board education and superintendent James um you know I always worry about
education and that's why I'm here that's my priority and as a community organizer and community um um climb
up for many years in this city the safety outside inside the students and the schools of Trenton has been a challenges to authorities parents the community and the board education challenges due to failure to address
crime as a priority destroy confidence in the safety of our children's inton in recent weeks there have been many incidents involving the students of front on the h and on one of the hands
there is the drug plague surrounding schools and the lack of the authority in the state approved easy selling young people are easy pray for consumption and sell especially if there is no education
or adequate supervision this is partly the education they receive at home but in some parents use drugs there are no values much less responsibility for a child's safety
environment there are many challenges for our children's reading the strategic plan 2122 through 2526 children's comfort lun
pimero I do not d in the strategic plan must implement practices for child safe environment establish policies and procedures that meet all the child safe standards in the goals areas I don't
find anything that guides parents regarding domestic violence and safe streets where those who suffer most is our children's I respectfully suggested to the board education create a partnership
a partnership with unity unity was previously woman space to work with the parents regarding domestic violence and its consequences and the trauma that they as adults are
creating to the childrens for experience personal experience I suffer domestic domestic violence and never pay attention the damage my children's having and now I stop the and now me
childrens are happy that's why I'm telling you we need to work with organizations like unity to talk more about the consequences with our childrens not the problems they have as adults with the
children's exactly Create a confidential hotline where students report any abuse harassment bullying i suggest this before a hotline in the school and the school and the schools and the high
schools where the childrens can have a confidence because they do not have a confidence to talk with that teacher but they can talk by the phone with someone that maybe attend the harassment they're suffering or the
bullying and the last one not the last one contact the Jubilee Justice Commission to talk to do conference you have one minute okay okay to do conference with children's with our students to see the
consequences about be bullying to do bullying to others the consequences justice even jail if they commit a crime uh kill a person we need to talk about it and we
need a a partnership with justice and the last one that just came to my mind is more support from the schools to students that are in sport teams
i I went to the all the basketball games of Trenton High and we don't have support from the students only parents all people that love basketball we need more support thank you so much appreciate it thank you
pardon me board discussion and action on consent agenda need a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second probably moved and second at roll call gerald Truhart yes
denise Johnson yes jean Buouie yes addie Daniels Lane yes austin Edwards yes yolanda Lopez yes larry Trailer yes jeannie Week yes motion passed all right thank you so much we have our
board me time for board member comments uh is there any NJSBA delegate updates or legislative updates at this time or 4C's updates uh I do we'll start with Abby okay and then we'll go to Yolanda okay so um just
a couple things from the um board of um directors um from the New Jersey school boards so first of all uh workshop 2025 uh registration is now uh open for um the district uh members that are intended on uh going the theme for this
year is your ticket to big ideas and bright futures there was a call for proposals however that call for proposals ended on uh April the 11th uh so that we'll have to maybe do something for next year in terms of proposal um there was also um a call for um student
performance proposals so that might be something that we consider for the future also for um the following year because that closed on uh April the 14th um also just to note a new feature for this year will there will be a um dedicated
exhibit floor um time and food trucks so there'll be a specific time set aside for that where nothing else will be scheduled that's different from the past you had to cut out some time from a workshop to to do those things and so now there's a scheduled time for that there's also a call for um volunteers to
serve on different committees from New Jersey school boards um you do have to complete an application to um serve on the committee and uh we know that we have at least one member on the legislative committee so we want to thank uh brother Larry Taylor for serving on the legislative committee and again looking for additional volunteers
to serve on the various committees from the New Jersey school boards association um I think we noted last time that the membership for the um New Jersey school boards is increasing for this year the membership dues and u hopefully our BA has taken note of that particular piece
so again those are just highlights from the last board of directors meeting thank you so um our president Truhart asked me to serve as liaison for the four C's from the board uh superintendent had to leave
a little early so he recommended that I give the following um announcements to the members there first of all we highlighted our alumni spotlight something that makes me really happy because we had someone come here at one
point and ask "What did a Trenton High School diploma get you?" So we're letting people know what a Trenton High School diploma can get you um I refer them to our website so they can check it
out we also spoke briefly on the rolling out of the citizens academy to be announced uh or to be determined the date um we asked that if anyone had any suggestions to send in their recommendations for the naming of the
new school we also u mentioned the survey and asked them to go to the website and fill out that survey we talked about the logo rebranding and we asked for résumés to be submitted with a letter of interest for anyone who would
like to be appointed to serve the remaining term of Sasa Montano's um appointment here or appointment yes here on the board also um of interest to us the workforce development committee
that they have spoke on the collaboration with Capitol City High School and how it is that they did have a an outing to Capitol Health and so that was already done and it worked out
well um and there were two other people that I met um one was Pedro Medina from Mothers Against Drunk Driving they came and presented under the opice of the New Jersey Highway and Traffic Division and although he said that they are full for
presentations that they would make a date for us create an opening so if we're interested to have them present they'll come also for our face um committee I met with I met Leticia
Seedo she is working with Mission Rescue and they just opened up a wellness center and so they want to be able to partner with us at any point in time to work with our students and especially our parents also to be noted that they
are bilingual and they will be able to service the light bilingual um community and that is it great report oh yes Denise sorry thought you I actually I didn't but I I do want
to um just state that um I recently attended the ex equity expo training that NJSBA um offered and um it was an eye openener to uh listen
to a lot of the um research and ideas that talk about how to be inclusive uh for students who uh learn differently um so I I definitely appreciated that and I just wanted to share with the board that we have delegate assembly
coming up May 10th and then NJSBA has a uh spring conference on May 30th um and that theme is fulfilling the promise of public education in New Jersey which I think is timely since we you know there are changes happening at
the federal level um which may impact the states so I just wanted to share that information and I'm trying to be on point with the trainings um and uh so I just wanted to share my experience because I'm I'm trying to do more of these to to get a
really good handle on on what it means to serve children and families and districts i'm sorry by the way I did tell I'm sorry i did tell the um the 4C they had until midnight tonight to send in that resume and
letter of interest amen brother yeah um so I just I'm thrilled to have a new member of the school board Saya i said it right right yeah and what I found um
thrilling is that um I was informed is she's a junior who's graduating right that's outstanding and that young lady deserves a round of applause does that work Amy yeah so so I was I was really really
thrilled considering a guy that's got 17 grandchildren and 16 great grands you keep doing that thing god bless you any other board comments i want to really thank uh Dana
Williamson and Dr johnson of Cap City High School and they're here as well and recognize you guys and you have one of your students one of your allstar students here with us and we're looking so forward to uh having her give her
input and all that you have trained and all that you have taught this young lady will come through I'm sure um on this board and her graduating as a junior man I was talking to superintendent I wish graduated as a junior
But that's outstanding that's out that means you really put time in and got all your credits and you're prepared now to either take a year off or go right on to college so you have an opport you have options that's great you have some options there for you
um one other thing I wanted wanted to share in the superintendent's most recent update uh the superintendent has given the board an option and opportunity and the protocol to ask uh formally for any information we've established a protocol for board member
requests for information as well as for any recommendations uh to the district just so we can codify and kind of gather that information and begin to quantify it and prioritize it uh so that we can address any of the
concerns questions protocols information requests that you might have as a board member so we wanted to formalize that process and the superintendent has done so through uh use of Google Docs and he's explained that in in his um superintendent update that came out today so please take a look at that
update the explanations are there the directions are there as well and again that's for any uh information requests or recommendations for district initiatives or information uh that the superintendent may need to address here's the here's the backdrop on that
is that of course superintendent is extremely busy with the goals that we've already established for him and to get so many requests uh from board members and from others um he needs to quantify and codify that and then prioritize it and along with all of his other
responsibilities and goals that we have already set in our five-year strategic plan so that's the backdrop as to why we wanted to establish um the protocol and superintendent has established that protocol i think is in good order as well so that's those are my comments for
tonight i did want to ask the our student rep um if she had any comments for tonight uh please uh please share anything that you want to share with us tonight i'm sorry well good evening everybody um
as they have said many times my name is Sia Jones um I'm a student attending Capitol City High School um I don't really have much to say today but I do want to say thank you for the great opportunity that you guys have provided me to be up here and um not just to represent my school but to represent
this whole student body to come to you guys with any concerns or problems that we have um I want to say thank you to my principal for giving me this opportunity and um yeah that's it and thank you
[Applause] guys i don't think we have any new business if we do we have any new business board members um we'll move into executive excuse me Jane we'll move into executive
session i'll read the executive session resolution for Monday April 14th 2025 whereas open public's meeting act codified by NJSA 10 col4-6 permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting under certain circumstances and whereas the board of
education is of the opinion that such circumstances presently exist indicate as follows any material considered confidential by federal law state statute or court rule any pending or anticipated litigation or contract negotiation to which the board is or may
become a party to any ma matter falling within the attorney client privilege to the extent that confidentiality is required to preserve the attorney client relationship and allow the attorney to exercise his or her ethical duties as a lawyer matters caption negotiation
update memorandum of agreement between TBOE and mechanic and laborers memorandum of agreement between TBOE and Trenton Education Secretaries Association superintendent evaluation down there report be resolved by the Trenton Board of Education County of Mer
State New Jersey that an executive session will be held on April 14th 2025 for the statutory permissible purposes indicated in this resolution be it further resolved that action may be taken by the board when it reconvenes in open session be it finally resolved that
the minutes of the executive session with regards to any above subject matter shall be disclosed to the public at a later date and to the extent that the same is not prejuditial to the interest of the parties involved no longer adverse to the public interest or does not endanger any individual rights or
privacy can I have a motion to enter to executive session so moved second properly moved and seconded roll call gerald Truhart yes denise Johnson yes jean Buouie yes addie Daniels Lane yes austin Edwards yes
yolanda Lopez yes larry Trailer yes jeannie Week yes motion passed adjourn to exact session wait for this waiting for Wait for the superintendent here he comes all right so we're now back we're now
back in open session i'd like to have a motion to approve the memorandum agreement with mechanical laborers uh at this time I in fact uh move that we approve the labor agreement with the mechanics and laborers
i second motion to approve um I'm sorry guys yes denise Johnson yes jean Buoie yes and Daniels Lane yes austin Edwards yes
yolanda Lopez yes larry Trailer yes jeannie Week absent motion passed we need a motion to approve the memorandum agreement with TBOE and Tessa so moved second joel Truhart yes denise Johnson yes yes
jean Buoie yes addie Daniels Lane yes austin Edwards yes yolanda Lopez yes larry Trailer yes genie week absent that pass motion pass motion to adjurnn so move second all in favor i meeting is
off meeting is closed thank you