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like to call to order the February 13th public meeting of the Vernon Township Board of Ed um we get a roll call Miss Brock here Mr smaga here Mr cantino Mr Fischer here Mr
Krauss miss pet here Mr Sweeney here M Vell here Mr Zimmerman we have a quarum um it is recommended that the board enter close session for the purposes of discussing Student Legal and Personnel
matters can I get a motion to Move Motion second thank you uh do we want to roll roll call the right uh we can do it on we can do it I okay all in favor I I I we're in
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board return to open session can I get a motion motion thank you thank you roll call Mr Slim Mr smaga yes oh uh sorry uh Mr ktina Mr fiser
yes Mr Krauss Miss bellet yes Mr Sweeney here miss peell present Mr zimman here miss Brock here motion carries thank you um please
rise and join me in the plge of the United States of America and to the rep stand Nation God indivisible with liy and justice for Sam you're up for the reading of the
meeting notice we got a roll call let me do the roll call real quick let's see uh Miss Brock oh here Mr smaga here Mr cantino Mr fiser here Mr
Krauss Miss pellet here Mr Sweeney Mr Carell here Mr zeran here okay now now I get to go uh the New Jersey open excuse me the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have
advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest to discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of the ACT bur in Township Board of Education has caused notice this meeting to be published in adequate notice has been provided a notice meeting has been properly posted in accordance to the New Jersey open
public meeting law just a quick note uh the next public board meeting uh will be on Thursday uh February 20th 2025 that's next Thurday next Thursday thank you item D public comment um I hate to do this to you again but I
do think it's important to read the public comment Y no problem uh and then uh this is agendum items only or uh students during the course of the public meeting of the Vernon Board of Education the public is offered the opportunity to address the board on agenda items and any issues regarding the school district
the board reminds us individuals who take this opportunity that they must identify themselves by name and section of town and limit their comments to agenda items and issues that directly relate to the operations of the school district issues that are raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board of of or administration at the time of the
meeting or at any time all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate the board requests that members of the public keep their comments to a limit of five minutes be courteous respectful and mindful of the rights of others others individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and
employees of the Board of Education should be thoroughly considered by the speaker and may or may not be responded to by the board or Administration be advised that students and employees have rights of confidentiality and other protections under the law students name should never be used unless it is your own child the board Bears no
responsibility nor will be liable for any comments made by the public during the public portion board meeting members of the public should consider their comments in light of legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are personally legally responsible with potential liability for the comments
that they make to the board thank you so much Mr slam um we have any members of the public that would like to present who would like to make a comment no uh anybody online we have
Martin great okay you can hear me yes I can good I just want to make a comment on the budget and on the enrollment the enrollment seems to be up by about 100 compared to last year and
the beginning of the year and on the budget I would like to suggest that we make a plan B because it appears to me that we might might lose a portion or
all of the federal funds if the plans that are been talked about comes through the close down the Department of Education which gives us our three and a half to4 million so I would like it if we at
least be ready for that eventuality and plan ahead for something like this to happen in our budget so we could have a budget a and a budget b and keep that in mind for when
we set the tax level it's always easier to fix something in the future than to not be able to have the funds available for when the cuts come in place thank you thank you Mr
peringer um anyone else that was all we had okay great so item e review of public meeting agenda um has everyone had a chance to look at the public meeting
agenda anyone have any concerns or comments Russ what is a Aba ABA e ex s this part of a s ABA do you know where that is uh the first first one looks
like this is what we voted on last board meeting Oh I thought this was a review oh I'm sorry I'm sorry a review of next week's okay okay so moving on to our exciting board ethics training Mrs Kelly Mitchell
is joining us to help us all learn to be better board members thank you Kelly we're excited I'm gonna have to be very excited good um I guess we'll it's gonna come on this one too no
just just that one okay oh so should we yeah we have to see able to see to learn this should work oh sorry oh thank you sorry I didn't press that so hi everybody I put a packet
together for you on the one side it has the actual code of ethics it has the acknowledgement of receipt so if you can sign that and and give that to Ray slam that would be great um and then it also has a chart that we're going to talk about in a little bit and after that it
has a calendar of uh the 12 months and and what your responsibilities as a board member is during those um those months and then on the other side it has a copy of the presentation that I'm going to do now so just as a disclaimer uh this
presentation is for informational purposes only it's not meant to give you any legal advice if you uh need legal advice in any way on on the uh ethics uh act you would then go ahead and uh talk to your board attorney according to your
policy so tonight we're going to talk a lot about uh the ethics Act and the code of ethics and and that really talks a lot about the respect and confidence of the people it's um talking about us as board members and our conduct and making sure that we avoid any conduct that
would violate that public trust or give any type of uh justifiable impression among the public that that trust is being B violated so when um the legislature got together and and decided to uh have this
act uh the intent was to ensure and preserve the public confidence and um have very high integrity for all school officials so you'll see a set of Standards um when we go around and talk about the actual code and uh those are
considered minimal standards um that all school officials should abide by so these are the uh provisions of the Act and the accountability piece so board members are um under that umbrella
of having to abide by the code of ethics and also have the mandatory training and then all school officials have to abide by the umbrella of the prohibited acts and those fund disclosure forms that we're going to talk about in a couple
minutes so this is a snapshot of what the commission looks like so there's nine members they're all appointed by the governor there's five non-school officials two school board members and then two uh School administrators if you
see there um both seats for the school board members is open so if you uh wanted to write to the governor and sign up for another job like that would be something that you're interested in have at it because I would think it's a lot of fun so let's talk about those
disclosures you should have received a link uh I'm sure Mr slam has sent that to you to fill out those disclosures uh if you're a new board member you have to have that done within 30 days of the time that you were sworn in so new board members should have done that by now um
and then returning uh school officials that has to be done by April 30th just as a little tip when you do fill all that out if you once you're all done with it save it as a PDF before you try to email it out it'll save all your information when you put it all in if
you don't save it it'll once you you go to email it it'll wipe it out so take it from me I've done that numerous times so just save it as a PDF and then send it out and then the mandatory training uh the mandatory training it's newer that
governance one needs to be done within 90 days so if you're a new board member you have to have that done in 90 days uh I know that our uh newer board members went ahead and did the weekend so that's you know I just want the public to know that you did that because I mean that
took a lot of time and effort and I appreciate you spending the time I think you get much more out of it when you attend it um in person like that yeah we learned a lot yeah so thank you for um taking time away from your families for that whole weekend to do that um it really shows how much you're taking your
your service seriously and we really appreciate that so I'm hoping it was a great experience uh and then if you're in your second year governance 2 that's a finance policy piece um and uh then governance three that's
revamped and very new so that's a student achievement piece you might want to even if you're not in that third year just take it online um Mr slam can sign you up for it it's free of charge it talks about um the lighthouse project
and the lighthouse project is all about how boards can really affect student achievement and they found they found that boards that have that laser focus on student achievement really move the needle for the students in the district so um it's super interesting so I would
say that if you uh if you do have a little extra time to go ahead and and take that uh it's it's really super helpful and it helps our students uh and then if you were reappointed uh you do have to take that governance four and um
that's legal updates for governance 2 three and four those years you have until December 31st to uh complete those I'm going to talk about some of the functions of the commission itself so one of them is to give advisory opinions
so any school official can fill out a form and ask for advisory opinion and that would be that you were thinking about some future conduct that you wanted to do and you wanted to see if it would be any type of violation of the act itself so you would send that in and
then the commission would sit down and uh render an opinion on that and you get those in your Schoolboard notes which is sent out to you via email it's important that you pay attention to that because sometimes it gives you like a heads up on hey if you do this type of uh conduct
you might be in violation of the act so it's important to read through there's not a whole heck of a lot of them there's usually an average of about 35 per year so um there's not a lot to read through we have this cute little uh
policeman up there because we get a lot of of um comments from board members saying that you know it's just an opinion advisory opinion like so um it's not really like a law and where that is true it is an advisory opinion we kind
of give the correlation that if you were you know if you were talking to a policeman and a policeman said to you well if you take certain action and that's going to result in your arrest you wouldn't test that type of guidance so we're asking that as board members we take those advisories seriously and we
say you know what we don't want to put ourselves In Harm's Way so these are some of the new advisory opinions released in 2024 we don't have to read through them all but I just want to point one out um the
second one it says uh can a board member participate in negotiations if they have an aunt employed in the district who is not a member of a local union and before the thought process was yes because you're not a a union member but however
they're saying saying now that they feel that the union contracts are actually like a foundation for the non-union contracts because of that linkage they're saying that no you shouldn't be on negotiations whether they're in um you know under that local union or not
so uh that's just a new advisory that just came out in 24 here's a couple more and I just put them in your packet so you could be mindful of them they're very recent and then the other component is um ethics complaints and any person can
file a complaint alleging a violation of the school ethics act any Community member board member anybody can put in for that you'd have an 180 day window you have to say what section of the act the violation is and you have to give
factual evidence and when we go through the code you're going to see those standards and it spells out what that factual evidence would look like um so a lot of times complaints are are thrown out because that factual evidence piece is not
there and these are the penalties if you are in violation of the act itself so a reprimand is simply a letter saying that you were found to be in violation and it's pretty much a slap on the wrist and says you know don't do that again then we go to a little bit um higher of a
level a censor so that's read at a public meeting and that stays up on the website uh for 30 days and it is adopted as a formal resolution and then a suspension uh you know example of a suspension would be
like a 30 60 6mon uh period of time an example of that was uh there was a board member that thought it was a good idea to write a blog and he put all the proper disclaimers and everything on that but then spoke very poorly about a faculty member that caused a violation
and then it was a um six-month uh suspension so we have to be mindful that we don't do things like that and then a removal is something the very very high level we haven't seen that for a while but um you know that's something that is quite high
level so now what we're going to do because we're required to talk and have a discussion about the code of ethics we're going to go around the room and uh read out the attendants which is the letter uh shaded area and we're going to just talk about what a possible
violation of that um letter would look like um Ray you want to start us off with letter A that's what happens when you sit in that seat Zimmer I will uphold and enforce all laws rules regulations of the State
Board of Education and court orders pertaining to desire changes shall be brought about only through legal and ethical procedures right so letter A speaks very specifically to when we got sworn in that's what we talked about we were going to uphold and enforce all the laws
rules and and regulations of the state so a possible violation of that we saw when um boards decided to go against some mandated policies things like that that the state put out so that's something that we have to be mindful of when we're making decisions that if it's
a state mandate we have to uphold those rules and regulations of the state B yes Melissa thank you uh I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and will seek to
develop and maintain public schools that meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability race Creed sex or social standing so letter B speaks very specifically that when we're sitting down and we're making decisions we're thinking about all
students in our district not just special interest um to a board member that we sit as a team and we talk about all the students as a whole see Jo I will confine my board action to
policymaking planning and Appraisal I will help to frame policies and plans only after the board has consulted those who will be affected by them so letter C is great because it really spells out exactly what our role as a board member
is it's really only confined to the action of making policy planning and appraisal appraisal meaning uh the superintendent evaluation something like that so it really tells us where that guidelin is for our role and it um gives
us that road map so deviating from that and getting involved in the daytoday would be a violation of letter C Jen skipping to me right yes please I will carry out my responsibility not to administer the schools but together with my fellow board members to see that they
are well-run right so D speaks to like we're not getting in there as board members rolling up our sleeves and getting involved in the daytoday we just have that role of oversight that blimp view so we're looking down from the balcony down on the dance floor but we're not
down there with the dancers telling them where to go so um we have to be very mindful that we keep that role of oversight CH I will recognize the authority rest with the Board of Education and will make no personal
promises nor take any private action that may compromise the board right so this speaks very specifically to we have no individual Authority that we our Authority rest only as a full team and at a public meeting so uh when we see a lot of
violations with letter e we find that some board members especially when they're new have a hard time going from campaign mode when we're making all those personal promises and it's okay to do that but then when you come into board service now you have to work as a team so we see a lot of times a
violation of that letter e is that not being able to get out of that campaign mode um so just be mindful of that as we go in our journey F I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest
or partisan political groups or to use the school for professional gain or for the gain of friends so letter F again speaks a lot of times to that campaign mode where sometimes political parties do uh you know hold you up when you're when you're
campaigning and they support you but then once you sit on the board we know that it's nonpartisan and that we have to not um you know have anything but independent judgment we have to make sure that we keep that
G I will hold confidential matters pertaining to the schools which if disclosed would needlessly injure individuals or the schools in all other matters I will provide accurate information and in concert with my fellow board members interpret to the
staff the aspirations of the community for its schools so G speaks very specifically to um executive session right so when we're in executive session we have to make sure that whatever is said there stays there that even though we have a trusted
friend friend or spouse that we can't share that information with them only within those walls is that information um that should stay so that's we have to be very mindful of that R you get to go
again I vote to appoint the best qualified Personnel available after consideration of the recommendation of the chief administrative officer right so letter H speaks to the superintendent is the only one that can
make the recommendation that we can't say oh well we think Sally Sue would be great for XYZ job we have to make sure that we understand that the superintendent that's their role to uh make sure the recommendation comes from
there I I will support and protect School Personnel in proper performance of their duties so letter I was that that gentleman with the blog that was his violation that he didn't support the staff he he spoke poorly of them in that blog so that was clearly a violation of
letter I Jay I will refer all complaints to the chief administrative officer and will act on the complaints at public meetings only after failure of an administrative solution right so this speaks to uh you know when you're in that grocery store
and it always happens in the grocery store that a member of the public comes up to you and says you know I'm really upset about X Y and Z my teacher this or that right um that we have to be mindful that that's not for us to fix that we
hand that over to the superintendent and we make sure that we let the public know what the lowest level of the chain of command is so if uh you know they're having an issue with their teacher you ask if they spoke to that teacher did they speak to the building principal and
then point them to that uh chain of command but not to fix the problem and then if you do um get any type of complaint make sure that you let your superintendent know as well so um he can take care of that so that was great thank you for
that discussion I appreciate it so now we're going to go on to um some of the cases that came about with a code of ethics we don't have to read through them all but I do want to point out one in particular so this one had a 60-day suspension and the reason I'm speaking
on this one is because sometimes when we do these ethics presentations board members that have are longstanding are like you know what I know all this I've been through this I don't need to keep on hearing this why are we doing it well this was a 15-year uh Plus board member
and she went completely off the rails she went to a uh employees house she picked up a letter she went back to the ba and said to the ba here's the letter but don't share it with the superintendent and then when it was brought to the board level she didn't
recuse herself from uh the situation so even even like board members that have been on for quite some time sometimes go off the rail so uh I just wanted to point that out that um you know we have to be just mindful of exactly the the code of
ethics and what those tenants mean so this is a newer type of guidance and I just want to go through this with you so back in the day it used to be if you had a legal conflict you just abstained from the vote but then now they're saying that the guidance is that
you recuse yourself from the vote and also from the discussion so if you have a conflict meaning that you have somebody that you're related to in the district um you would then recuse yourself from any discussion that had to do with anything to do with the
superintendent or the employment you would recuse yourself from the discussion and the vote um and then exstension would only be if you didn't have enough data to make an educated decision so um there's a very big
difference there and that's the newer guidance is if you have that legal conflict you recuse yourself from discussion and the vote if you don't have enough data to make an educated decision on the vote you would abstain so um a lot of questions we get on this
slide is well when I recuse myself do I have to go sit in the audience and the answer is no you would just you would just state that you recuse yourself if you're voting in um like a grouping of votes you would just ask for that one to be pulled out and say that you're going
to recuse yourself from that one any questions on this slide these are some of the prohibited acts so just be mindful that if you have any business interest in a vote any type of financial gain any gain that you would receive more so than the person
that's sitting next to you at the board table then you would accuse yourself from that vote and then this is just a a definition of benefit because some board members were confused on what what is considered a benefit but just be mindful
that um they are sometimes direct or indirect advantages uh you know profit things like that whether you own a business that maybe um the vote would help your business things like that so we just put that in there so that you have that definition and then these are some of the cases of
uh conflict of interest just to give you a feel of of you know what has happened prior in 2024 on some of those um the one speaks to owning a business a shirt business where uh they were doing a
fundraiser and that's great but the the board member did benefit from that because there was some financial gain there so that's why it was a reprimand was um put forth with that one and then this is uh definitions of
uh relationships because a lot of times we say um you know board members will say well is it a conflict this is the relationship I have in your packet is a very large chart spelling out every single Nuance of a relationship and
whether you would be considered conflicted or not so I have that in there for your reference if you ever had that type of question and of course we know that we can't hire a relative um as a board member we have to make sure we know that and also as
superintendent there are some caveats there if they already worked in the district um so we put that in your packet and then the reason why I read to you that about the ant with the non-union is as you can see on the collective bargaining um graph we have
here it says yes or no with um a relative whether you they are in the union or not you before it was just whether they were a member of the union now it's even non-members you would not be able to participate in negotiations or ratify
the contract and then this is a little bit newer of uh guidance saying that if a board member received uh Union endorsements which we don't see quite often but if they did they may be considered conflicted so they would not be able to be um part of negotiations
for a full year after um the election and then um this was newer two years ago and this was why the change when um Mr Sweeney was President this this became new um guidance saying that as a board president if you were
conflicted you would um then not choose the committee uh chairs um or the members on the committee and then you would not be on on Personnel negotiations instructional or any type of Finance committees but now there's newer guidance even further to that
saying that um if you are conflicted you can't be on anything that remotely touches anything to do with let's say your spouse's employment or your relatives employment including and no limitations on Personnel negotiations Finance any of those committees and
there was um guidance asked for if a board member had a domc partner that was a transportation specialist it was deemed that it would be prudent not to serve on the transportation committee so um if any of you have a legal conflict
they're saying that you can't have anything to do with any subject matter that would remotely affect um the uh employment of your of your relative so uh they're really you know um specifying
that much more so now and then advice of counsel um this is a defense that a lot of board members are using when they are found to have a violation and um that's all well and good but they just are saying that you would not be able to use it unless it
has these four factors and meaning that you would have to give full disclosure to your attorney before um doing any of the conduct that you uh that you're planning to do if it's afterwards then you wouldn't be able to use advice of
counsel as a defense so just be mindful of that that um you know just because you know you might have spoken to the attorney if it was after the fact that wouldn't um help you at all because you wouldn't be able to use that advice of counsel and then we get a lot of
questions on volunteering in schools and as a board member you could still volunteer in school you could read to the classroom or what have you it's just the amount of involvement that you have and then what type of authority you're going to have when you're doing that
type of volunteerism so if you're going to have any type of um giving a directive to a staff member when you're volunteering then you wouldn't be able to do that volunteerism as a board member so you can't give any type of directive you can't be a staple in the
school meaning like you're there every Tuesday at a certain time it would just have to be something that's very hit or miss something that you just come in once in a while uh maybe a field trip things like that but you wouldn't be able to do any kind of activity that
you'd give directive to any of the faculty so just be mindful of that and if you are going to volunteer in the schools make sure the superintendent knows when and where and what type of volunteerism you're doing so I put examples in here of
advisory opinions on um some of those uh volunteerism um and like you can see uh there wouldn't be a violation if it was like a one-time you know intermittent type of thing chaperoning field trip is exactly what I said before but if you
are going to be like a coach that's going to be involved uh at a higher level um with staff and students you would not be able to do that as a board member now just um also know that if it's like a palal thing that has nothing
to do with the district so that you would be perfectly fine doing that so now we're going to talk about social media because social media takes up an enormous amount of time of um the commission uh and certainly you have your first amendment rights but
it's about the content that you put and the substance of your posting so you have to be really super mindful of that and they commission has said that if you are going to post on social media that you put this disclaimer exactly the way
it's uh written on somewhere on your page so that the public like when remember when we talked about a justifiable opinion about um The public's trust th this way the public knows that you're speaking as a private citizen that you're not speaking in the
capacity of a board member it's really important that you uh look at your postings and say would just the average Community member feel that I'm posting as me as a private citizen or do they feel that I'm speaking in my official capacity as a board member and if the
answer is that they would feel that way you should really shy away from that type of posting so anything to do with um the disclaimer like sometimes people think that they can go ahead and put that disclaimer and a get at a jail free card it's not they really judge you on the
content that you post as well if there's um a complaint against you so just be mindful of that and then um if any account that you have and sometimes happens when you're running for the board you have an account that says vote for me for XYZ um you should really shut
that down and put that um you know kind of like to the side because if you do post from that that could be a possible violation because if you think about it the Public's thinking that you're speaking as a board member and that could cause some harm to you um we get a
lot of questions on whether you could like or share a post from your personal page certainly you can do that something maybe overly political that the board's talking about you might want to shy away from liking that post um and then administering a post they're saying this
is new guidance that's saying that you really shouldn't be an administer of a page because you can shut down comments as an administer of a page so um they they say that as a board member they think that you should probably shy away from that type of
activity and that's it I hope that was exciting [Laughter] thank you so much guys rers I think yesterday students in Cedar Mountain ring Hills lsbury Hollow and Glen Meadow were in a shelter in place
for approximately 11:00 to 11:30 there was police activity as residents in the area unrelated to the schools and the police requested a shelter in place out of an abundance of caution Cedar Mountain and Rolling Hills were initially told to go into a lockdown and soon after told to go into a shelter in
place just wanted to clarify that thank you um it is G1 it is recommended that the board approve the harassment intim and bullying reports reviewed at the January 16 2025 meeting
G2 harassment intimidation and bullying bullying I'm so sorry I I was looking at an old copy of the agenda and we skipped the board report summary but can we move H it's h yeah okay we can move can we uh do you want to finish and then do board
yeah can we do that right do we need to have a motion or anything to change the numbers around sorry I'm on my old C no it's yeah I was on my old took my notes on my old me too okay thank you for pointing that sorry uh superintendent uh two harassment intimidation and bullying
random drug testing and school safety reports for January 2025 is an attachment ws1 item three the enrollment report is an attachment WS2 and that is it for that so now we will
go to the board report summary now I have to find My Notes online okay number one yeah is that one recommendation for voting tonight Rec the board approve the
harassment indication bulling reports okay so we don't have a voting rubric on there but we okay so we need a motion to uh approve the enrollment report or the harassment ination
buing reports from the January 16th 2025 meeting thank can I get a motion to move thank you right and Melissa let we got a roll
call Mr fiser yes Miss Pet yes Mr Sweeney yes Miss vello yes Mr Zimmerman yes Miss Brock yes Mr smaggle yes motion
carries thank you okay so now we are moving to back item H yes H for report summary I think I'm first up with The Chronic absenteeism ad hoc committee meeting uh we held our
meeting on February 4th in attendance were myself um Russ Rogers Nicholas stac Mark citro Jackie van Ordon Christ gof Suzanne McDougall and Pauline Anderson um we got a data report on absenteeism by school overall our principles are
reporting incremental Improvement in attendance as well as greater awareness of the importance of attendance among families so that's good news uh we were hit with some absences across the schools that kind of lowered our improvements um because there were so many kids sick there's a lot of flu
going around a lot of various uh viruses and whatnot so that was unfortunate but overall we're seeing some some progress with the absenteeism um some of the things that were reported as successful were engaging parents by phone having students meet with counselors about the
importance of regular attendance and some parents apparently were unaware that picking up a student a little bit too early can result in them being marked absent for the whole day so it was helpful to tell people the time of day that they needed to make those you know doctor appointments after um there
were certificates given for exceptional attendance and improved attendance which seem to be helping in the earlier grades and at the middle school students with excessive absences are participating in group meetings with counselors and teachers have started taking attendance for every period um and setting
attendance goals has also been helpful uh the committee agreed that we will hold one more uh sort of end of the year assessment meeting in June probably during the week of half days with the date to be determined depending on our snow days uh schedule
that is that one um is the uh attendance report in the share Drive um no but I think I can gather it uh from everybody I had I had had scribbled down all the attendances and I just wanted to confirm with the
principls that I got them right because they were they were giving them um like for each grade and I wanted to kind of consolidate them and get them accurately so I will put that in the drivein and alert you when it's there um anybody else have any questions about
monic absenteeism okay uh community relations I don't think that meeting was held yet it was yesterday okay and Mr cantino is not here tonight if anyone else wants to
comment at all but um we can hold off I think the uh the majority of the meeting was in discussion over whether or not we would uh try and uh promote I guess is the right word
a state of the district uh I think the general consensus is uh we want to promote the good things that our district is doing we want to promote uh the the students and what we do for our students uh we were trying to settle on
a date uh I think we're looking at end May early June it's just a busy period tentatively June 6 we're looking at and we're having conversations with building principles right um and forat but it was also agreed that this is something that
um the building principles I think are going to take the lead on right I'll take the lead on the overall and probably uh have the student involvement a little bit more for them to celebrate their own success and say it's to show what they've accomplished it was really a very I don't know I was excited about it because it we talked really about
celebrating the kids and what they've done yeah all year and show off yeah student achievement right it's a good thing to talk about and celebrate great um well that's exciting um ccum that's me
um so we held our meeting February 11th um in attendance for myself Russ Rogers John Krauss Charles Charlie saglia Vinnie Gastro and Carl cantino um we discussed old business including the New Jersey cusac progress
um district is working toward passing that um the recent appeal to use a new has improved our our potential for that um so fingers crossed uh we talked about the high school course scheduling um student course requests are currently being collected and guidance counselors are meeting with students to finalize
those selections um Rising ninth graders are also being introduced to the high school course options by guidance counselors that's coming up I think right around now um and the administration is working to forecast how many sections of each course will be needed um we talked to about the high
school daily schedule the committee's been or the staff committee not the board committee um has been uh reviewing the potential changes to the high school schedule and right now the current discussions are leaning toward keeping a similar schedule to in the fall to what
we have now um then for new business we talked about addressing learning gaps um intervention programs for grades k through eight providing students with targeted interventions based on grade level uh kindergarten and first grade students are pulled out for small group instruction with reading and math
Specialists older students are participating in structured intervention periods um we talked about measuring Effectiveness and the tools that are used to track student progress and that uh I ready in Amira and uh I think I dis
select uh literacy skills um screener um data from all those assessments um inform instruction and help identify students who need additional support um then we talked about tracking intervention data the District uses I ready uh to assess students and that
data is stored in a LinkedIn profile platform that serves as a centralized data warehouse and that enables uh teachers and administrators to track student progress and make data driven decisions um then we talked about the ELA and math curriculum the district is evaluating new a new phonics program for
K through3 to replace into reading and evaluating a replacement for Math and focus for grade 6 to 8 uh plans to extend a Nova mat to the fifth grader on fold due to the curriculum not being ready um and then we discussed areas to explore this year and talked about um
goals uh to look at College and Career Readiness um financial and media literacy uh addressing learning gaps and improving tests anybody have any questions or comments good is up uh Finance oh Mr kuss he is
um unfortunately was unable to join us because he has sick uh so miss Mr Sweeny partnership partnership I wrote a report it's in the Shar Drive partnership committee was originally formed in the mid90s so I'll do it after okay we're
gonna do Finance after partnership because I guess um John put put their report up yeah I could stop no you're started one of the former board members was a teacher in another school district and that had a similar committee that would which fored communication and a
positive work environment this approach was started ver then and has apparently been successful to this day the partnership committee is defined in the vtea contract and it's it's in the language is in the contract and I I wrote it down it's in the share drive
you don't want me to read it right now but it's basically it Fosters open communication and it's a venue for the teachers to you know talk about things without fear of rep you know repercussions and to get you know their
environment into a better mode and the agenda which was printed I attached to the report it had mostly had seed amount physical issues the heat ceiling tiles clocks things like that
and uh the maintenance people joean Kirk and and Ray addressed all of those issues or will be addressing another item that was uh discussed was a survey that the teachers uh took or or uh the survey results that
the teachers uh filled out about uh remote and in-person uh parent teers and I I read the results said I think think there's much
difference in what we are already doing but the day following day following that meeting I reached out to uh building principles to talk with their skip to discuss um how they would like to uh run their parent teacher conferences so and it may it may differ from building to
building as a result of the of the meeting and the multiple Cedar Mountain issues Mr Rogers and Mrs goodoff were are reviewing the processes and procedures in place regarding initiating maintenance repairs and Reporting custodial issues as well as informing the people who initiate the ticket the
progress of those tickets or the results of the maintenance that that was important that they put in these you know requests and they never found out what happened so a good meeting I think a lot was very uh yes so I'm having I sent something out immediately after that meeting as well uh everyone's going to
go to the building principal the billing principal will talk to the head custodian they'll put in a work order when it's closed the email will get S get sent to the head custodian who'll share it with the principal that way everyone is in the know and on top of what's going on in their buildings and they said it's been it's been an issue
for several years so there's also a food service issue that oh the poor kids not allow to get preser or if they get their milk they have to go they can't go in line again once they've gone through but you guys were taking care of that
right and I didn't put the attendees because there's a building at least two building reps from each building you have a lot of attendees M Vell myself was unable to make she try next
meeting is May um so I have a question the survey for the parent teacher conferences was there a a conclusion like how did the really wasn't no it's very mixed it was very mixed about virtual and um in person okay and it
depends you know you're people work for away they they can't make it there is availability for virtual meetings and and it seemed like a lot on the teachers I didn't realize how it is it's oh I live with a teacher it's very it seemed I was getting stressed just listening to
them and especially at at the middle school right where they have like 150 kids you know because they have so many different classes yeah that's a lot of that's a lot of conferences yeah do most no every building had different challenges is why I began like I got one
report back from one of the buildings I'm really interested in what their skip committees have to say about about the parent teacher conferences and they even talked about having a different time so that parents who have kids in different buildings so that that may happen based on what in the past there were five or
six days for these and it took away from the instructional periods the kids were missing out a lot of instruction and we had to consolidate so we could you know yeah yeah well John are you saying that um since they did the ver started the
virtual that the the it increased the amount of conference from the survey and not from you but is that what the survey was saying people are doing both okay some teachers it all depend on their own circumstances some of them had to have conferences
conference time so that they could do their own conferences okay and time was blocked out I don't think there was any issue with that but there's only so much time yeah and some people were saying it was great every 15
minutes and boom and in the old days when you was just in person you sat online forever oh yeah yeah and that was and you f you listen to everybody so it's been bad yeah yeah yeah I think the main thing was that
they would like to to know what ahead of time what their options are we're hoping by the end of the year after with the skips and meeting with them in that meeting that to set what we're doing for that for those it's a nice meeting yeah there were about 20 people
in attendance that's the end of my report okay so we have the finance minutes um I don't know do you you're not on do you want to go through right the minutes or no the condensed version
please right yeah I know it's a lot it's a lot and I've heard it three times now so it's in the drive do you do you want us to do policy while you look for it
or anybody yeah all right okay so uh we had our policy committee meeting um on February 6 um from 5:30 to 7 o'clock with myself uh Russ Melissa Brian and uh Vincent uh
gri Vincent G and and uh do it we we we we conduct our meetings um uh virtually so in Google uh meets um this meeting was actually pretty full we had a review of alert 234
so for those who don't know Strauss SM sends out alert every so often and they just throw a bunch of stuff on there and say Le check update this policy and usually has to do with laws changing or they revisit some of their old policies and change uh some wording and and stuff
like that but um so this one had 17 policies on there that needed to be changed we got through 14 so I I say that was a win and um um they'll all be on for first reading next week the 14 I have them all listed below um Vinnie
helped us out with a lot of the stuff that had to do with the administration and um actually the biggest one he I think he took part in was the there's a policy not for AI but AI is involved in it had to do with the plagiarism and I'll tell you a little B more down down
the line about that one and um so it was a good meeting I have to say and there's a recommendations most of it is just a little bit of wording wording change changing in the in the policies um I did mention which ones you should uh take a
look up uh take a look at and uh particularly F 5701 that is the one that changed a lot um so is that the one with the plagiarism or a different one yeah so uh most of them I'm just going to skip
through the ones that are pretty simple the we have a 5512 harassment uh 5516 um these were um minor changes in wording and just up updating uh a few things uh like one was a title had it
missing an M on it so m means mandatory anybody know if uh 5516 same thing was a change in wording actually that's the regulation that I was just talking about uh 5533 there's two policy and regulation how to do with also wording
is for uh smoking uh I just want to point out this one was a little bit because it's not so much it was the way it was worded and they changed it to electronic smoking devices which encompasses anything now right it's not just we're saying it's a cigarette it's
an actual any device that will somebody can smoke I guess and uh so not much wording it was just wording on that but the the big one 5701 was the plagiarism one and now it's a new name
it's called academic Integrity um we the administration did a I think a well job at defining there's a three TI system they put in place um so it's not necessarily you take a paper and you say this is it this kid is done for he you
know K him out of school it's we let's look at it and let's see where he fell into the tears um I don't know maybe Russ maybe Vinnie will want to talk a bit a little bit about it today or another time but um he's he's directly he looks like he
wants to talk he's he's been a part of this for many years I'm really curious you know so we we really adjusted it we we've been using a three- tier system at the high school uh several of the teachers came together and and you know the whole department work together to
get a three- tiered system for plagiarism in place for years uh but with the introduction of AI and everything that comes with it we needed to make some adjustments so that pretty much came forth and we we adjusted our procedure in the district but our policy
was not reflecting any of that so that's where we went through and we kind of mirrored it to the policy the policy was still one of the older policies and it kind of just anytime a student would do anything that may be interpreted as plagiarism that was it they got the book
thrown at them and uh you know didn't really have a chance to learn from anything so uh this system that you know again the teachers came forward with we we work together to figure out uh I pretty much went through an incorporated AI where I thought it would be pertinent
and uh you know when we reviewed it as a committee we felt it it hit you know all the levels that it needed to hit uh but I think it's a good place to start to when we're starting to look at Ai and its implications in our district moving forward thank you thanks that's great
and then um there's a couple more on there that I just want to point out there is a new a new one that uh has to do with spectator code of conduct um this is required by the njsi AA um so we need we they're requiring it
for and me to be part of the membership we need to have this policy and it's going across the board um and I believe all from what was told what the the um what is it called the athletic directors got together and they across the distri
uh across the county and they kind of worked on it together they were in a lot of conferences together where this is a topic of of discussion you'll see as you enter the gymnasium if there's any event being held where list of Sportsman at code of conduct and they all agreed upon
uh they looked at the stra Esme policy and made uh common decisions so that across the across the schools there's there's similar type of um infractions involved so that it's consistent across
the district in the area the big you say refug blind anymore you can't say that uh yeah what are the big no and and actually it's it's an
immediate ection um no but joking aside there they the requirement now they do want you to remove The Spectator immediately and and I guess in different districts did different things and now everyone is supposed to remove them if they break the code of conduct um I've been at some games in
the past hockey games we have had the Good Fortune of having some under not undercover but plain clothes law enforcement officials there whenever somebody acted out they deescalate it like that and it was really never an
issue but they're not always there you know but we've been fortunate yeah when they're there it's great you know well now the board has a policy yep we do now board members can act that oh yeah um the other thing I just want to bring up stra hasme did do
a review for us um we've talked about this a couple meetings ago um our score was actually excellent um they are they did give us some recommendations and we're going to go through them at the next uh next policy meeting but overall we did a the last year the policies were
kept up very well so we did did a good job and I want to thank uh you know who I want to thank I'm probably get mention my name but she's she's also did this process last year as well so following this upon your you know we started doing it last year but doing it every year
we'll be able to keep up on policies and we have most of the policies we're looking at now are over 10 10 15 years old in the last three years it's been a tremendous amount of work you've done as a board to update policies I appreciate it and yeah I remember the beginning of the year the leadership took their
responsibility and they took last January I think we had quite a number 20 20 policy that we did in the first couple weeks so it was pretty uh pretty amazing but um I also put the Cod col color coding we use a the the administration office uses the color
coding red removal orange is this is something put in there by the administrators and anything in yellow was recommended by Strauss and uh hope I said that right I said it wrong like three times and went back and forth but I think got and she'll correct you tomorrow and then we have some policies
that we are looking up um they're in the report you can see what we're gonna they're on the agenda for next next time so great thank you okay so Finance Reef re I don't have another two
hours uh so I I'll keep it brief uh so uh at the last meeting a finance bu grounds meeting uh we had a budget update uh specifically we talked about the governor's speech uh and that we will be receiving information on state
aid about 48 hours after that speech as required by law um right now uh the hope is that it remains flat uh we did discuss that there's possibility that uh federal aid may be cut um including at our County meetings uh we were uh
informed basically that the practice would be to budget about 75 uh% of uh title one specifically uh additionally with budget uh we're finalizing the position position control roster uh essentially
that's a list of all um positions in the district salary benefits expense account that should be charge to building location Etc um that's important because that's a majority uh of any school district's budget uh salaries and benefits the majority of any school district's budget it's a very big portion of the pie
um uh we also discussed how uh in the previous year uh there's a lot time spent correcting expense accounts to active reflect District expenses um the effect on this can be seen through changes to the District certified tuition rates uh which essentially show uh how much the district can charge uh
for any uh special education students that we may receive from other districts uh in the past some of those numbers were low uh we went through and uh corrected to accurately show uh where those uh expense accounts should be charged and that is reflected uh in this last audit uh and also in this new
letter because those letters are always about a year behind so for example the letter we just received was for the 23 24 year we'll use that for the next year and then so forth um we discussed uh a letter of Engagement from the auditor and how we want to uh move forward
uh uh with that uh uh letter of Engagement uh we also discussed uh Food Service RFP proposal um for uh some cons uh consultative Services go out for that RFP um and the reasoning behind that RFP
which essentially comes down to right now it's a fixed price contract uh it's difficult to uh for Food Service management companies to operate in that in those conditions because essentially they end up losing money which puts us at risk of losing the food T risk management company if they're unable to
continue with those losses um and then we kind of discuss the positives uh of a cost reimbursement uh based contract um and uh the decision to go out in the spring uh which should bring additional competition not saying that there's any issues necessarily with our with our
current Food Service manag Company but more competition is generally always good uh we discussed an additional meeting uh which will be uh which is now SCH for March 3D uh just because we'll have our C numbers at that point uh and then rather than going through this very
very large list of repairs and projects which uh are broken out between new uh repairs that have come up because you know new things with older buildings uh new things come up out of nowhere right uh but also uh projects that are in progress projects that have been
completed uh throughout the school year we discussed those went through updates um and that's pretty much uh the report great thank you thank you U Mr fiser we have technology yep so we had our very
first technology committee meeting yesterday uh meeting was at Walnut Ridge we started at 406 uh intendance Nick lasso Jennifer pellet myself Charlie saglia car cantino
finny gagliostro and Russ Rogers and uh some people were there physically some people were there virtually uh so I started the meeting by uh making an opening statement that uh I
wanted to set a goal of having an AI policy in place by the start of school in September and I think um my feeling on this is that we we need a policy in place uh for the protection
of everybody uh the district the students teachers everybody um I believe that we first need to Define what AI is and how it's being used so I suggested um creating a survey that
would go out to all the stakeholders so a survey would go out to teachers parents administrators and students uh asking basic questions about what they see AI as being how they see it being used in the
classroom um because everybody is looking at it from a different point of view and that came out uh in the meeting so um Mr Sagle was quick to point out though that if the tech committee
concentrated solely on AI or or put an emphasis too much on AI then we'd have no time to do anything else uh so uh the suggestion came up to create an ad hot committee and we sort of deferred that a
little bit most of the meeting was a discussion about AI uh and uh again what it is and how it's being used and where we go um you know as Vinny pointed out already we do actually
have some AI policies in place with regards to plagiarism uh but we we also found that we don't have any sort of definition as to what instruments are AI what specific
ific programs are being defined as AI um so I think overall the the decision or the the feeling was that we do need a policy but we need a policy that's going to have a lot of elasticity because AI isn't something
that that you can sit it just just by the fact that we need to Define it shows that you need that elasticity uh so in the end what we decided on on AI we want to get this survey out uh everyone in attendance at
the meeting is going to make contributions that uh I'll put together uh so that by our next meeting we can agree on what the survey is going to say what questions are going to be asked and we'll get the survey out once we have
the results of the survey we'll come back to the board and talk about whether or not we want to form that ad hoc committee uh one of the challenges or the one of the bigger challenges for this committee is the fact that if we're setting a policy we're going to have to
be working with virtually every other Committee in existed you know we we'd have to work certainly with policy uh with curriculum with Finance you know possibly contracts uh so it it all came
down to um let's try and get the definition first and then we'll move on but we also uh sort of discussed the fact that if we do form this adop committee the the membership would would have to Encompass crossovers to the
other key committees uh so that was it on AI uh we talked about the family Tech night at Lansbury and uh Nick said he's checking on a date he's also trying to secure funds for a speaker
fee and he's hoping to have a date solidified by this week and um Charlie had also asked about uh business continuity and disaster recovery and Nick had said that he's
been looking into that but I think the contractor he was talking to had a very steep price and he was trying to find something better yeah some of some of the suggestions they gave them on the the audit um more pretty
pricey and that was it the meeting adjourned to 501 excellent less than an hour less than an hour yeah 48 minutes on AI though was there yeah
that's he tried we l to speaking of Ray letter I right Ron you're watch up kind of stole a little bit of my own Thunder with my I know I was thinking a little overlap there um see if there's anything else I
can I can add a little bit uh I'll keep it brief though uh so in addition to what was discussed earlier in the report uh in terms of budget uh all principles uh have been met with for their budget request in addition to uh meetings on
facilities uh meetings on Transportation uh taking the work with special education uh checked out uh tuition um needs for the next year uh needs related to AIDS and any extraordinary services for next year uh for students uh so
that's ongoing and we're continuing to work on that uh as we wait for the kind of the final pieces of the posit to start coming in which would be state aid um working with our Brokers to try to determine what we think a projected increase or Heth benefits might be uh
for next year uh because as we all know unfortunately health benefits are one of the things that's constant continues to go up um in addition to our liability insurance uh lines as well because it's another area where I anticipate increase but just want to work with our Brokers
to try to budget as appropriately as possible um then just another side note uh and we talked about this actually a little bit at um committee uh we're anticipating you know continual increases uh in energy energy prices have gone up a lot already uh
anticipating June May what we're hearing is maybe another 20% increase in June uh for Energy prices um unfortunately it's probably for everybody right not just the schools um so you know we're trying to get ahead of that we work on the esep so somewhere down the line that should
help us with that uh but that's something I'll have to consider when um making as I'm making next year's budget you want to talk about the solar at off yeah little about um so uh
budget update right because it's Rel to energy uh and energy costs uh so last Thursday we released an RFP for a solar PPA um so this uh RP is specifically focused on the high school uh because
the high school is a fully electric building uh very expensive um to fund uh the electricity that's required to run that building uh I think you know these numbers are probably a little rusty cuz probably about three weeks ago I think I I uh got them
together but uh we're basically six months through this year already at what it cost to uh fund the electricity building for the whole year last year right because a pretty significant increases um added to the fact that we're going to see some more increases
uh so you know totally went to a PD on this because uh I'm not an energy consultant by by any means uh but one of the things that was discussed was that each year there's a an auction on energy Supply uh and that the energy Supply this year the prices at that auction
were about 800% higher than the year before uh so that's where that 20% increase uh they're talking about is coming from um we are usually under Asus which is a giant Cooperative uh of schools that go out to bid for energy together to try get more beneficial
prices uh so we just dropped off of that contract because the contract ended uh and they're waiting um I think they're going to be putting out in March the the new bid which will help us because right now we're on the utility rate Which is higher so so the bill for next month will be higher um but they were waiting
to see how the utility board was going to handle the flow through of that large increase in the supply cost um so that that's why they had that that contract expired anyway back to the solar it went on the way out so that's why we're
worried about solar um so the idea would be hopefully to get 100% uh up at the high school uh one of the things things uh we were looking at initially um was we had sent a letter to the town just because for that process because of um the setus on of roofs which more
information will be coming out on that as our facility wide assessment is finalized uh they're not really in a place where we can put solar on roofs which is the most economical place to put solar uh so we are then kind of forced to ground mounts uh and looking at things like ground mounts and um
canopies uh which there is a ordinance in town where you cannot have ground mounts so we would require a variance uh so I had uh sent a letter just asking if there's any way to wave some fees uh or maybe kind of not go through the variance process see if there's any way
to change the ordinance uh just really an attempt to try to save money because the point of the P of projects is to save taxpayer money uh so my thought process was let's try to not spend taxpayer money to save taxpayer money uh so it didn't seem like it was um
possible you know uh couple people from the town reached out we talked they had some good suggestions on on other things that we could look into uh which I definitely appreciate um but essentially right now we're going to try to roll that into the PPA so whoever whatever vendor wins uh that RFP would just have
that cost Incorporated and they'd have to go for the variants what's PPA uh purchase power agreement okay so essentially what it means is that instead of us buying the system ourselves maintain the system ourselves uh we are basically saying to a Solar
Company hey build this system for us and for x amount of years we'll pay x amount of cents per Kil lot guaranteed every year right and the idea behind that is we're going to be paying a consistent
price uh on electricity we'll know what that price will be we'll provide more stability in our budget and that price will be lower than what we're paying to in this case jcpnl because that's who Services high school so a lot lot of benefits to it um
mainly reduce cost of energy but also that budget consistency is important too uh so for example I'm saying hey 20% increase but if we have a PPA there's a schedule of what the energy cost per kilow will be what the escalator would be I don't have that information yet because it depends on what the companies
will propose and obviously whatever will be most um advantageous to us is is who would win that RF so if anyone's listening lower price perk a lot they would maintain it then as well oh
yeah so the other benefit of PPA is that that they maintain the soore they maintain around the soore uh which you know less weed whacking for us so oh so so if we have U over the over the parking lot let's say I don't know where we're going put but if we did them over
to parking lot they would plow under there because they wouldn't plow that would be exciting but it be more like uh if you have the ground mounts on the field right you know we wouldn't have to cut and maintain and
weed whack around the ground mounts like we have out backer right is there anything about the uh gas I was trying to look for the any any update uh we've been working with elizab
we've been bothering Elizabeth to natural gas for about the last year um and uh so I reached out the other day said hey I gave him a call said hey we're getting ready to you know hit the gas pedal on these projects we really
need to know hey is this GNA happen if it is gonna happen how many years am I gonna have to wait for this to happen right um so I did get a call back uh basically saying that that's kind of the speed at which they move uh yes very slow uh and uh one of
the issues I guess was because of the I guess the diameter of one of the closer gas lines would be enough for the supply that would be needed here so they had to move back where they would run the line from and they'd have to run a you know a bigger diam pipeline for the for the
demand of of because you're talking five schools right so it's pretty good demand which I'm like hey five schools come on you know uh so um that increased their costs uh which means that they're looking into uh I think residential to see how many people along the way may be
interested on also getting natural gas um they've been tell they've been looking at that for probably the last six months so they did say that they would talk to the supervisor and say hey we really need an answer so we'll see if that um speeds things up the other thing we're kind of looking at is maybe who
else can we contact that might be able to also help us bother them so that's that's something we're looking at to so they're not cooking with gas not yet not yet not yet I mean it it's started out a lot of good news right it seemed like it
was going well and then I think when pipe got moved back that's probably why it's taking so long um but it would be you know be a big savings natural gas versus oil so and can I ask one more question um Title One Title One funding
you said was gonna be you mentioned in the buildings and grounds about 25% how real do you think that how real do you think we're going to get take a loss on tile one funding and what what does that impact um so the county seems to think 75% is
the way to go normally uh when I budget title I'm pretty conservative just because it's again uh unfortunately as a school district there's a lot there's not a lot of Revenue sources we have and the revenue sources we have even fewer than we have any control over right so
for example state aid federal aid we don't really know what's going to happen till they tell us what's going to happen um so usually I budget 85% so it's you know about 10% less than what I would normally budget um I can't think of the number off the top of my head but I know
Mr gag austro is in the crowd so he may be able to shout it out um yeah we about yeah three about $300,000 in title one so 10 if you know 10% cut so I have a question too um you mentioned the
principles are turning in their requ is is that right the requests or yeah so uh when I do a a budget process uh think of me it's kind of like the an agregator of data right so um I'm
reaching out to administrators uh you know principles you know uh buildings and grounds director right getting information on what they think they need right we're having meetings to go over what that is that's building not staff right or building yeah so building would be so the way it would work would be
building level right would work would talk to staff level in their building okay and then it would go from building level principal to us okay and then once we have everything uh we see what can and cannot work we look to see if you know sometimes there's an easy
fix maybe someone budgeted the same thing twice right those are the easy fixes um I think we talked about pretty extensively last year uh we definitely got through all the easy fixes last year uh and then we were uh got through the medium difficulty fixes and we were at
the real hard fixes uh and that when I always say real hard fixes before that state a number came out we felt we were going to have to cut staff so um and just a refresher when the state aid number last year went up because even though it was the last year of the S2 funding formula it was also the first
year that the state um fully funded state aid so we the offset of that was we got about a million dollar increase and I think it was mainly um special education Aid um and and maybe maybe some Equalization have to go back and
check thank you all righty uh item J public comment we have anybody left oh we do do you want to comment no okay uh
online we do not have any hand look at that okay item K open board member Forum does anyone have anything you'd like to to oh ra zman you got um well one thing is I don't see special services I list
that's because somebody dropped the ball oh I'm not sure who what her name is but okay no did we have a meeting we didn't have a meeting we have not have we only yeah we only listed if there was a meeting to report on that's mine okay so
and um this is building and grounds right that elevator in the high school when you first build it did have significant Ming problems on the bottom so they try to fix it a few times maybe they were successful yeah I um I started following
back up on that and asked um basically director bu grounds to take a look to see where that is he said he wasn't aware of any issues which hopefully means it was fixed right but I asked him to take a look at it just to make sure because um just all background for everybody so part of what we discussed
uh was an it's on the the list of minutes if every wants to go through it uh but essentially uh there's a couple elevators in District that are going to need to be replaced and that's one of them High School yeah and right that's my thought about special services next
week I'll have that date oh good away yeah just curious there there were a lot of committee there so many meetings yeah a lot of committee meetings and in a very compress period of time and and we didn't have enough nights and well the other thing is I noticed
meetings but within some Tuesday to today I think it was Technology Building and grounds and some culum and uh absenteeism so far back up onto the regular yeah yes I had five five committee meetings in the last two days and that's what I I wanted
to thank people for your time commitment in in the first round of committee meetings to get a lot done and I I feel like were able to tell in a short amount of time today what you accomplished and and it was it was a great amount that you accomplished in your in your first round of committee meetings and I just
want to thank everyone for their time yeah good point everybody really pull it off and and I appreciate the keeping of the meetings you know very concise because we did throw a lot of meetings on the calendar um hopefully next time we can spread them out a little bit more
so that we have a little more breathing space and can have more robust conversations right we have a month from today right one month so let's keep the pace going I already they have two meetings scheduled I'll schedule a third you you don't have you don't have
enough battery power for three meetings yeah I have something I attended the uh cpeg meeting the endary cpeg is special education parent advisory group and it was the first time that we've had in I
don't know two years maybe more two but but it was a wonderful meeting it was a wonderful meeting and I don't know when the next one is but it is scheduled in Fe maybe next week in February that's great maybe when we find out I'll let you know it's very
informative it's a just a parent advisor group parents get together and they usually have a speaker in the first half second half is just talking about some of their special area needs it's a great resource for parents so it's really great that we're doing that
again all righty uh is that everything great um so can I get a motion to adjourn motion second all right Brian and Stephanie uh want to can we just say I yeah okay all in favor say
I I we are adjourned