like to call to order the uh August 21st meeting of the Vernon Township Board of Education. Can we get a roll call? Mr. Smagalia, Mr. Canino here, Mr. Fischer.
Mr. Krauss here, Miss Pellet here, Dr. Ross here, Mr. Sweeney, Miss Fakarella, Mr. Zimmerman here. We have a quorum. Awesome. MC, it is recommended that the board enter close session for the purposes of
discussing legal personnel and student matters. Can I get a motion? So moved. Second. Thank you. I. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. I told you the first time. Yes, that's fine.
Okay, we're all caught up now. is recommended that the board return to open session. Um going to get a motion move. Second. All in favor? I
session Mr. Slam. Roll call. Mr. Smagalia here. Mr. Cantino here. Mr. Fischer, Mr. Krauss here. Miss Pellet here. Dr. Ross here. Mr. Sweeney, Miss Aarella,
Mr. Zimmerman here. We have a quorum. Thank you. And item F, the reading of the meeting notice. The New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted. I'm sorry, I skipped the pledge. How did
I do that? Oh, put in the same item to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nationy and justice for all. I need it in a separate line or I skip
it. Okay, now the reading need notice. [Applause] 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 is discussed or acted upon in
accordance with provisions of the act. Ren Township Board of Education has caused notice this meeting be published and adequate notice has been provided and notice this meeting has been properly posted in accordance with the New Jersey open public meeting law. And just a quick note that the next meeting will be Thursday, September 18th.
Thank you. Item G, approval of the minutes. Um, these are the minutes of the closed public session meeting from July 24 and the minutes of the public session meeting from July 24. Um, can I get a motion? Some move. Second, John. Thank you.
I got a roll. Any questions or comments about the minutes? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Krauss, yes. Miss Pallet, yes. Dr. Ross, yes.
Mr. Zimmerman, yes. Mr. Smackley, yes. Mr. Cino, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Item H, president's report. Um, good evening everyone. Tonight marks our
new superintendent's first public board meeting and on behalf of the board, I'd like to officially welcome Ebony De Mendes to the table. We're excited to begin this new chapter together. I also want to recognize the efforts of our staff who have been working tirelessly over the summer to ensure our buildings
and classrooms are ready to welcome students back. Their efforts set the stage for a successful year, and we're looking forward to what lies ahead. We are also excited and pleased to report that we got some great news earlier this week. the funding for the 21st century CCLC after school program has come
through and we will be able to offer that program to our Glen Meadow students again this year. So that's a good start to our bless you to our 2025 2026 school year. Um on that note, I will move straight to item I
which is our uh board goals discussion. Um we're going to be kind tonight a public discussion of board goals for the 2025 2026 school year. To support that conversation, a sample set of goals was included in um the board members agenda materials. These goals are based on
common governance focus areas and reflect possible alignment with district priorities. They're offered as a starting point to help us with our discussion tonight. Um so the purpose of the uh of the evening is to talk about whether the goal categories in this
document which I'll read um reflect our priorities for the year whether the language within each of the goals uh reflect the board's intent and any adjustments that we may want to make to strengthen the clarity or direction and then whether our current board committee structure supports those goals or
whether there is a way to strengthen that. Um so to start with to talk about the board categories um I'm going to read those now. Uh those are board governance and leadership development um board goal two uh strategic plan
three communication four finance and facilities and five student success health and well-being. Um, do we want to start with the first and or does anyone have do these sound
right? Does anyone want to talk about any of the specific uh buckets that we have here? Actually, I I do just uh we can probably talk about more as we go through it. Not so much against the buckets, but um the
only thing I see here is tech kind of fits in two categories. So I I just don't want to make sure we don't miss that portion because we do have a committee right now and we are you know it's we're talking about AI a lot lately right so whether we put it into student
success or we put in facilities but I think spreading it out um may not be the best for it so okay you you think you might want to stick with the specific committee for technology yeah I I think it would be better just maybe maybe that's what we do when we go
through this just pick could put it in. Um I think the thinking was that tech is is in so many different things, right? because it this when you did the when when the tech the technology committee worked on the AI policy it became part
of policy and then also it's part of curriculum because we were talking about how students use it and then there's always the tools that are you know the the facilities uh like the you know the hardware and security features and so it just seemed that we
should be talking about because because of the overlap but but um you know yeah I guess I guess what my my focus would be more student oriented tech. So, not not so much security and you like you're saying, there's a bunch of things that we don't necessarily need to be in the
curriculum, but um technology that is going to be one-on-one with the student, whether it's for the student themselves or for the teacher to give it uh to use to help in a classroom, I think should only be in one one category. But anything else, I guess it would be
better f you know, like um security cameras go should be under security, right? So security would be build as the grounds. That makes sense to me. But but if we're we're saying put up a a smartboard, I know we don't have smartboards, but I don't know what they're called anymore. So we put up a
smartboard here, then it's going to go to bill in the grounds, but the the the committee going on student success should be saying, well, we need or curriculum says we need smartboards because it does this. So I know there's going to have to be a fine line because
everything has to get paid for, but we don't do that with textbooks, right? We don't we we we you discuss the textbook in the in curriculum and then or changes to textbook or and then it goes you know here's here right here's the bill and then you know he makes it makes it work.
So if we do this, I would just think the same respect should go with the technology component too. You know, we have Chromebooks, we have whatever the smartboards are called, and we have everything everything else that really is more focused on curriculum, I think, than it is building the grounds.
Jen, can we with technology because I think it applies along lines what Charles said kind of split it you know because the hardware is the hardware security
cameras all that but curriculum is the AI policy you know smartboards which I apparently we don't use the whole time we did use them but yeah okay so them but to me it can easily be identified but I mean Mr. sufficient not here you
but maybe split it put some into curriculum the other part into building grounds and there might be some crossover but I think that's what we we're envisioning but um a Brian is not here and we really should be
maybe tableabling that part of that discussion until he's here but but Chris Carl what would you Charlie I'm a little confused are you suggesting that we make a technology bucket no I don't know. I'm saying I just want it to be part of one bucket.
So, so I I I think the the the student portion of it or the the the portion that would interface with a student whether it's the teachers teaching or and stuff like that. There's hardware, right? Cameras, that's totally separate. I don't think it it has to
really do that's security, right? So anything else, but if it's just like a smartboard or Chromebooks and all that, that really should be on the curriculum. I just my view of technology is that it's extremely intersectional. It's not something that you could really just
contain into one bucket. I mean, you can go through every single one of these goals except maybe strategic plan, but you can incorporate an online portion of that. I guess there's technology and communication with how we could stream our board meetings, finance and facilities like you said, thank you
boards, things like that. I think incorporating we could make it the goal today to incorporate an aspect of technology into each of these buckets. But I think to say we want it in one I but I'm sorry just a little confused by well think about it if you want to
finance finance is part of every single thing. strategic planning it's that's part but we keep that separate right because those are and we also have you have I mean curric policy covers every bucket too I mean everything that happens here isn't going
to be in so even technology will go across the spec all the spectrums but when it's specific to to curriculum I I don't think it should be it should be it should be broken out and said this is staying with curriculum I believe
Could we say that software components are curriculum committee and hardware components are finance and facilities? What else is there besides those two? I don't understand. Can I ask? We're looking at the potential committee alignment section of the one pager. We're talking about this.
Is that I guess we have kind of jumped. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying make a note in the bottom because we're Yeah, we're not. But so then I am reading that at like curriculum and instruction slashtechnology integration like its home is curriculum and instruction but
then there's a note at the bottom at the bottom that technology will be a part of every committee when necessary. How do we feel about that? I think I think you're bringing up a good point that I and I I I believe what I'm hearing from you is that you feel like if we do this it's going to get
like lost and subsumed and you're afraid of that. But that is uh for the third part of this discussion because we're supposed you know I'd like to try to follow the So can we just go back to the goal categories and the uh buckets and just are we okay
I just wanted to say that I I really like the way we've got the I remember we did this last year. We went back and forth a lot about board goals and district goals which were which and what belonged where. So reading how we have the board goal buckets aligned to a
possible district goal at the beginning makes a lot of sense to me organizationally. Great. Um anybody have any um any questions about the buckets or any concerns about the buckets and then we can move on to
reading through each of the for the goal language. Okay. All right. So for board goal one um by June 2026 the board will strengthen its governance capacity by participating in ongoing professional development onboarding new members
following the November 2025 election and engaging in joint training with the superintendent to support effective communication shared leadership practices and a strong governance administration partnership. Um anyway,
so are we just talking about what we described here? How we get there? Is that part of this conversation or um we're talking about the the goal, right? So that's the goal and then we we will achieve figure out how to
achieve it as it ongoing. highlights the goal the way it's kind of written but I would say instead of by June 2026 the board will strengthen but make it a little more commitment wise by June 2026 if possible because I don't know if it
is but that we'd be a certified board believe we're pretty close to it I haven't investigated but from what I understand we're pretty close to it so if it's physically possible because that would sort of help us achieve a lot of this I
Yeah, like from what we're describing. Okay. Um, we I will look into that to see what we have left to do and make sure it's feasible, but I like that idea. Anybody have any objections to that? Okay, great. That's a good idea.
Okay, so again, we're we're looking for any um high level adjustments. That definitely clarif Oh um John, please. Yeah, you talk about onboarding new members in this bucket. Is there a way we're going to do that? Are we going to have mentors like we discussed last time
or you know a workshop day for them? This is what you can do, this is what you can't do kind of a thing. So this is you know the goal that we're going to do that and then um we do have to you know dig into our goals and figure out how we will accomplish that right. So um I think in this case uh the
governance and policy committee which we've now expanded the scope a little bit if we do that um but we can figure that's a that's when we get to our committee part but it will fall to a committee to figure out the how right to do that. So um so but yeah that the
overarching goal is to onboard new members more effectively than we have been in the past. Um, I know we had also discussed, I believe at the last meeting, I might be wrong, what where does a board retreat fall into this because I know a lot of other districts do board retreats, especially with new
members and I don't know exactly what those are used for or how we go about doing one or if it's worth looking into, but that kind of falls under this goal. Yeah. So, again, like that's the ongoing professional development. That's part of what the board retreat is. Um although
we were talking about having one to do our goals, we are doing them now. So that's good. Um so I I think that's a specific under this but definitely something to write down as something to do because I do think that they're very
effective. So um so it will fall to whichever group is charged to figure out how you know when to do that and to bring it up as and schedule it and so forth, right? Um Charlie
yeah the onboarding new again I guess a couple people talk about this already onboarding new members following the November ele 25 election right I think we should I think it should be for me when I hear that it just seems like the goal is new members we know on this
board we will have probably three more spots throughout the next year that we'll have to fill up right it happens constantly um unfortunately Um I I just thought maybe we could just reword that. I don't really like it. I don't want to be specific to November,
you know. Oh, you know, just make it develop a plan. Okay. Develop an onboarding program for new members maybe. Yeah. For all members. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. For all new members by June 2026, I think is a good idea. Okay.
All right. Nice. Okay. Anything else for one? Jen, I'm wondering too if we could include anything about like um ongoing like assessment of new practices. Like one of the things we're talking about is moving
to committees and one meeting a month. So would this be a bucket where we would also include some sort of plan for evaluating any changes that we make as we go? Yeah. Um I don't know where that if that
would fall in I guess it's a natural place to put it, right? But I I would want that to be a full board as as opposed to something surfaced by a committee. I think that's more of a fullboard discussion. I guess I'm wondering if we don't like
make some committee responsible for like could it get lost if we you could be right and I don't know but I don't know if we want to like make sure it's part of our goals that we are like we have some sort of assessment.
Would that be governance though? Yeah. because that's that's a new well I know we're not up there but that's a new committee is policy and governance. Yeah, it would be some kind of like we would want some sort of structure or practice for like semi-regularly
checking back in if we if the if our goals have driven us to try something new to also like um evaluate it a little bit. I mean that could I guess fall to the committee and then be part of the report
and discussed when the report is given. Does that make sense? Still vote on it, right? Like um part of the goal development is an action plan. So if you'd like to broaden the goal to include um ongoing assessment of board practices and then
whatever uh committee is in place would develop an action plan. I think a lot of the things that were mentioned today so far were action plan items and then it would come to the full board for continued discussion or vote or moving forward.
Yeah. Yeah. So you the point of the committee system is to really allow the board through its committees to really focus very intently on certain things and do a lot of that that footwork and research and then bring that information back to the full board for discussion.
So the whole board is then informed and then can vote. As opposed to the full board trying to focus intently on everything at the same time in which case then that's when things get lost. Yeah, that makes sense. Um John, is that a hand? Oh no.
No, no, just flipping my paper. Yeah. Okay. Um Okay. So, are we comfortable with that adding the ongoing assessment component to this? Sure. And then maybe we'll tie we'll going
forward at some future point, we'll develop action plans to go along with each of our board goals. All right, great. So, board goal two, strategic plan. Um, following the adoption of board and district goals in October 2025, the board will lead a launch of a collaborative strategic
planning process by authorizing a timeline, ensuring opportunities for community input, and adopting a final strategic plan by June 2026 that reflects the shared district and board priorities. This is wonderful. I'm so glad we're doing this. Oh, good.
Um, I have nothing to add other than that. Are we a strict timeline for adopting it by October? So I didn't touch on that when I looked into last time. We should be well planned to somewhat start it towards the
end of January and be done somewhere towards the end of March. We would clearly get the June timeline that we have there. But I understand they have it clearly done. But we we're going to adopt these things according to the first line October.
Just the goals. Just the goals, right? Yeah, that's is that a firm? Well, that's our that's our that's our goal for that's our goal for the goal. I was just trying to say we could make June, but we'd have to somewhat moving forward about it.
Is that like an average timeline about three months normal? So, when I talk to school boards, that's sort of the timeline that like I do it takes about three months to do it. So, okay. from start to finish everything
unless somebody knows something different but that's what she told me take about three months to start to finish but there is work involved realize it more work for them almost than us but you know
yeah and this one we had uh proposed a strategic planning ad hoc committee um rather than have it fall to one of the standing board committees so we would forming that and those people would work exclusively on this.
Um, okay. So, we'll move to board three, communication. By June 2026, the board will strengthen communication with the public by ensuring consistent community updates and improve social media presence in coordination with the district. The communication committee
will set communication goals, monitor progress, and provide regular updates at board meetings to ensure that parents and community members are well informed about district programs, offerings, and priorities, questions, comments, any any changes necessary that would
strengthen. I think this is a really good goal to adopt because it's something we've kind of already been working on with community relations. It's one of those things that's kind of been a goal, but it's never been documented as a goal. So, I think this is a really good
bucket. Great. Okay. Very streamlined here. Okay. For goal four, finance and facilities. By the conclusion of the 2025 2026 budget development cycle, the board will engage in proactive fiscal and facilities
planning by working through the finance and buildings and grounds committee to assess long-term capital needs, ensure alignment with educational priorities, and explore options including the potential need for a future referendum to address major facilities improvements.
Okay. Does that cover our financial goals? I like the fact that you put the referendum in there. That's kind of important because we word something we're going to have to have going forward. Yeah, it'll be a project for sure, but it does need to happen.
Um, okay. Any other? So, board goal five, student success, health, and well-being. By June 2026, the board will advance its commitment to student achievement and well-being by prioritizing oversight of efforts that promote academic growth, inclusive learning environments, and student
health. Through its committee structures, the board will regularly review progress in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and student support systems and will collaborate with the superintendent to ensure district priorities reflect a whole child approach. questions, concerns,
any strengthening necessary. Wow, everybody's loving these goals. All right, I like it. The only thing that pops up in my head with this is how do we are we going to be measuring say the board will regularly review progress in curriculum instruction assessment and student
support systems? that progress is that documented through test scores or through um student GPA? What are we using as the metric to document that? Yeah, we ran into this last year, right, with wanting metrics. Um I think
if we align the district goal um then uh together we could determine for example if we're reporting out November, January, May, we can decide what are the days by which we would uh report out as
the board knows the district goals are my evaluation right the evaluation of the superintendent. So whatever that progress monitoring would be would also fall in line with that process. So we would monitor with state assessments, we would monitor with benchmark
assessments, we would monitor with our timelines for evaluations. And so then we would uh as a district administration team develop an action plan that would um demonstrate the commitment to reporting out regularly.
We could do that via committee and board presentations. Okay. Okay. Um So then the potential committee alignment. I know we started having this conversation already. Um I think that um should we jump to the
technology committee question or do we want to talk through the So we have finance and facilities which obviously ties very well to the um word goal for finance and facilities bucket. um finance, we call it finance and
buildings and grounds, but I guess it's the same committee. Uh curriculum instruction, we proposed integrating technology in there. I do think that that is a conversation we should have um probably when Brian is back since he's the chair of technology. It did seem as
if that committee previously was spending a lot of time on the AI um policy and now that that is done um you know felt like maybe we could bring it back under curriculum and then you know as we discussed that as John was saying
maybe divide it up between hardware and the finance but I'm open to keeping it a separate committee too if that's seems like the best way to handle that. We're trying to streamline. No, I I think Oh, go ahead. Oh, had a question. Sorry.
You know, I was just say to me with Bryant not here, we're either gonna pull it into one of the existing ones. It might change that a little bit or keep it separate, you know. So, if we like the idea of the streamlining with the six or seven committees,
we could talk about keeping that and just fit curriculum as we determine when Brian comes back where it goes because yeah, he was in charge. I know AI has done but but I just feel it could be in curriculum when you think about the
smart books. I know a little different what I said before but so you have the smart books that's curriculum for students but at some point you got to go buy the right computer which you then maybe flip over to finance to buy them but almost every
committee we have crossovers. Yeah. somewhere like you said with policy a lot of stuff building ground they all kind of cross as it is I don't know the technology would be any different crossing over than any of the other ones you know it's just
certainly for me I'm not as familiar with technology I believe I made up smart computer right I see you two smirking you think you'd shut me up when you go but uh yep so but but we should really. I mean, I
like all the other committees. I think it's good, but let Brian weigh in next week or next month when he gets back. He has been running that. Yeah, it's it's hard, you know, because everything feels like it could be its own thing. It's, you know, they're big
things and we could have, you know, 15 committees if we really tried to break everything out, but we're trying to streamline and so when you try to streamline, you look for adjacencies that could maybe work. Yes. But if that can't be done, then we just have another we keep, you know, we keep another standing committee. But
but I I think it can be done and probably should be done, but I just Yeah, since the guy who ran No, I agree. I agree. We shouldn't we should do it without make a decision without Brian's input for sure. So I do think one of the things that sets technology apart from the other
committees is that technology is a tool. It's not a method. It's not um a pillar of governance. It's it's something that is inherently intersectional. So to make it its own committee, any issue you take up is going to immediately collide with
another committee and you're going to need to collaborate. Where something like policy, it's not the same thing. It's more its own lane. And I feel like as a member of the technology committee, and I've discussed this with Brian, and obviously we shouldn't make any decision without
him here, but I do feel it it's a little bit too intersectional to be its own thing. Um, and I also like the idea of us having four committees and then a strategic plan because if I had become chair of a committee when I was a brand new board member, I would find it very
overwhelming. And with our current structure, it's almost guaranteed everybody everybody immediately comes in and chairs. And I don't know if that's a good thing because when you first get on the board, there's so much of a learning curve and to be put in charge of the committee, it can be really overwhelming.
Yeah, that's my thought. Yeah. We have five committees, nine members, switching three. So, uh well, we have special ser the two that are kind of on the uh changing block, I guess you could call it, are
special services and technology, right? because we had in partnership but every in partnership which will still exist though every committee here has somebody that'll be back in November so no new person would have to be a chair right because we've stream that's because we've streamlined those if we if
we had if we kept two more committees oh I misunderstood okay yeah right now we'd be okay but that's why we're trying to I just want to say I just want to clarify like I meant the technology I think is great does belong in
curriculum. I don't no I'm not saying they take it away. I just don't say I don't think it's statement on the bottom where it's going across other things. It's it shouldn't it should be with the focus of the the technology is for the students and for the teachers right to
teach the students. So that's where it really belongs. It's like anything else that we would do for the students it should be there. Obviously it's got to be paid for just like everything else right so does curriculum. So does Yeah. But I think because you're you're not buying a computer for no reason. You're going to buy a computer because
we have a new spelling program or we have a new this and that's where it's got to go. And you can't really separate hardware and software because the office needs hardware, right? They need copying machines and all this stuff, but the kids students need star need Chromebooks, right? Yeah.
So, and software, right? And he uses software every day for his finances, right? Yeah. And then software for the students, right? So it's but I think when we're talking about technology it's that's what I mean when it's focused on the students and not for a facility or something else it's definitely it
belongs there with the curriculum. Yeah. Okay. I didn't I misunderstood you earlier then. Sure. Um okay. So did uh has everyone had a chance to look through the potential committee alignment? Um I know Ray commented. Does anyone else
have any concerns with that? Does it look good? Um, okay. And, uh, Charlie, you'd need to be comfortable taking governance under your umbrella. And Carl, your scope is widening a little bit too with the partnership. Mhm.
Okay. Okay. So, that was uh very productive. Thank you. Can I just a question? So, like if next year Yeah. I mean, obviously we're not going to have strategic planning anymore, right? looking towards to keeping the four
committees or like is there always going to be a fifth goal that that will be an ad hoc? Is that something we're looking at or I mean I think next year we'll be doing this again and we'll be looking for committee alignment again with our goals again. So at that point we'll we'll
figure out what we want to do. But I think it's premature to worry about you know that now. Yeah. I guess I guess I'm thinking the other go other committee the other goals will always be there but I guess they could as well. Yeah they could. It's You're right though. That's the one that's chang
We had a Mhm. We almost always have something, right? We had a food one, right? Wasn't at one point. Oh, yeah. We did. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, we have strategic planning. So, we tend to always absent. We had absenteeism. Chronic absenteeism.
A rising subject that we feel Yeah. I'm sure we'll find needs to be dealt with. I mean to me not that it's my strong point but AI is always changing so that committee may come and go in time as things change that's yeah it's true um I'm sure we'll
figure out a committee I think we'll probably have the opposite problem for everybody we'll have we'll have committee creep again soon well what's nice about it now is that the goals are driving the committees yeah that's that's the idea and that way each committee can make sure we actually
try to achieve our goals because they get kind of lost, right? We come we come here and we end up talking about whatever the problem of the day is. Yeah. So this way each committee maybe could review the goal before the meeting to kind of just keep us all moving forward, right? Um so thank you
everybody. Um based on all this input, we will revise accordingly and bring them to the next board meeting. And I think at that point hopefully we can review and adopt. Um, we do have some missing members. So, I'll try to get with them and just kind of brief them on this so that we can get that done at our
next meeting. J, can I have one more question? Oh, yeah. If the goals, so when we do the district goals that we're going to get from the from the Well, we're going to list um when we get when we get them from So,
those are going to are when you come up with those goals, we're going to have action items. Is that something that's going to be discussed as a board or are we doing these in the the groups the the committee groups that are there first and then present it to the board? Um the administration would develop
district um goals. What we would do is uh I would continue the listening and learning conversations. We would look at our data especially for alignment to the student achievement goal. I think it's or goal five. We would develop a district goal now that would say this is
how we planned. Right? So the board is saying what you would like to see. Now the administration would take the board goals and say this is how we could get that done. So we would develop our overarching goals. Uh we would hope to do that by uh the next month. So that way we could start to work out
an action plan and then our action plans would be the ones that we could um certainly present. We would say these are the district goals and these are our action plans and we would present those to the board. We could bring each of those to the individual committees to get feedback from the board on what the
district goal looks like and if that's what um if it satisfies the alignment between the board and the district goal and move forward from there. Yeah. Okay. Great. So, thank you again everybody. Um so item J, board report
summary. Um Carl, you're up first. Um, so on the 13th we held our community relations meeting. In attendance were our new superintendent, Miss De Mendes, along with myself, Brian Fiser, and member of the community, Martin Pinger.
Uh, we discussed the state of the district address that's coming up. Um, days that we could do it. It's still very much in flux depending on how things develop. Um, and then we talked about the 50th anniversary of Vernon Township High School, which is so
exciting. Um, so we have a few updates coming from administration. The opening ceremony will be Wednesday, September 3rd at Vernon High School from 5:00 to 7:00. There's going to be speeches, a ribbon cutting, and a tour of the school. Um,
there's going to be celebrations all year long. So, there's going to be a ball drop at the football game on September 26th honoring alumni. There's going to be a mural designed by students 50 years of Viking Pride um unveiling in the spring. They're going to be doing a time capsule in the spring led by the
freshman academy. Um and there's going to be banners and other events planned throughout the whole year. Um the committee is going to be helping by spreading the word, attending events, encouraging partnerships, and doing everything we can to bring in community engagement.
Um, and we're going to continue talking about it at our next meeting as well, ways that we can contribute. But, um, another big thing that we talked about was making our board meetings, the video that we post a little bit more
accessible and better um, have a better flow so that there isn't like a long gap when we're in executive session. The camera points and focuses on everybody. Um, so I'm asking for input from our
board on um adding timestamps linked to agenda headings, organizing the YouTube channel for easier navigation, replacing the static logo during close session with something a little bit more engaging, maybe having up and cominging community events or even like if there
are students who are doing something throughout the campus, showing them. Um, and also just like I said, improving camera positioning so that you can see everybody. Uh, and I do have administrative response. I'm going through just everything that's um,
beginning tonight. Time stamps will align with the agenda. Uh, camera positioning will improve. You can see everybody. Look at all. Uh, and suggestions for board input. Use a rotating Google slide deck and organize YouTube videos and folders. I'm
kind of reading. It's a little I always read. So, but what does everyone think? What's the input we can get from the rest of the board? I'm really excited about every single thing you said. Really excited. That sounds great. Love all the activities. Um, and I I have
been frustrated navigating the YouTube thing. So, I'm glad you're suggesting that as well. Uh, but Charlie has more to say. Yeah. I mean, you done? I'm done. Okay. Yeah. Um, great. Um the the one thing the first thing I do they have to sign
up to come to the event that's the first day of school the the day before the first day of school right the so the because I think I got an email I just want to make sure the public knows that they have to sign up I know they did send out and I know they called a lot of members who are alumni
okay and uh former administrators former superintendents board presidents I don't know about public engagement um I don't know who else is allowed to come Can you speak to that, Mr. Vendz? Sure. The entire administration and the community received um uh invites. The
RSVP is just so that we can get an idea. There will be building um tours going on. We do have um students who will be walking the uh former uh superintendent. We have the first super the superintendent when the building first
opened who will be in attendance. He's advanced in age. He's coming down from his uh children are bringing him. Uh so then it's going to be the theme Mr. Demsac kind of thought of it of the past, present and the promise of the future. So having um the different
superintendents there. So it's just an idea. The sign up is to get an idea of how many people will be present because of the student volunteers, but anybody is welcome to come. You don't have to sign up to attend. Okay. And you're um why can't we just eliminate the whole course? I know when
it's live streaming, but get I mean we want to just cut that whole segment. They were speaking more to when it's live streaming putting that up in place. I imagine that once it's uploaded later, it would be removed, right? I believe that's what we not
what we've changed to align to our communication goal. It might be just a really good opportunity to have, you know, slides going to share all of the upcoming events. We have the 50th anniversary. We have freshman this. We have uh you know the the
I don't know what is it called art art expanding right and all of the events the football game is coming or you know these things are due. So it could be a part of our communication goal from the board level that was something that was shared at the last board meeting. How
could the board communicate as part of its goal? So that might be or sell advertising space. Oh. Well, now we do that. Uh, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if we can do that. I have to look into it.
Um, our VA has to look into that. But I think what he's speaking to more is like during the live stream, we would showcase um things going on throughout the district. But then once it's uploaded to YouTube, we would cut it out
or would we just leave it? It could be slides that are announcing like a a rotating Google slides for example, right? That are announcing. That's a possibility if that's what we want, right? If it was short enough, you can maybe just leave let it go through once
when we upload it. It's not continu because right now it's just a logo, right? Just and it's an opportunity. There could also be maybe ways we can showcase student work there, too. These are all things we can discuss in the community. That's everything I have to record.
Thanks. I love it. So that's so fun and exciting. Now I have to get a curriculum. Fun and exciting. I think so. Yeah, me too. Um, so we held a curriculum committee meeting on August 18th in attendance were Davidz, Ben
Gagstro, Dr. Hy Shep, John Krauss, whose name I misspelled. Oops. um Carl Plentino, Charlie Smagna, and myself. Um the committee followed up on old business, including the possibility of reintroducing wellness weekends, but most importantly, the 21st century CCLC
program. I already talked about that at the beginning um of my in my presence report because that changed so I can skip that one. Um the committee discussed the AI policy and potentially integrating technology um and curriculum
committees given the overlap there which we also already discussed. The committee discussed efforts to improve on academic program offerings including the introduction of AP physics and plans for AP capstone and AP research and the electrical program and how best to
bolster enrollment in the current computer science courses which are the only career and technical education courses where we have under enrollment. everything else is pretty popular. Um, and so we have an action item there to evaluate the concai curriculum to ensure
relevance. Um, we also discussed the need for early engagement and career planning for students possibly through surveys starting in 8th grade to better understand student interests and guide future course offerings. The discussion highlighted the importance of proactive planning and data collection to enhance
students educational paths and career preparedness. Um, so the action item there was to conduct annual student surveys, look into military supported academic program partnerships, explore offering AVID college prep program, and
um, that was pretty much everything, right? Thought I had a second page, but I don't. So finance, uh, that would be Mr. Press, you're up. Okay. On Octo August 11th, we had the finance
and building and grounds committee meeting. It was online through Google meet. In attendance were Ray Slam, Joe Van Kirk, Tiffany De Mendes, myself, and Brian Fiser. So, not too many things, but there's a few. So, number one, we're
we're exploring the lease purchase for vehicle replacement. It was discussed that our vehicle fleets getting kind of old and are breaking down, so we need to replace them. We're going to use a lease purchase agreement through the state co-op to acquire five vehicles that
include two Ford F-250 um trucks, one Ford F-150, and they include the plows and two cargo vans. We can equip them as we want and at the end of the lease, we'll own them. The cost is 60,000 a year for 5 years for all five vehicles and we will sell the current vehicles as
is on government government deals. Is that deals? Yeah, fair deals. Okay. Um, number two, application for additional expenditures and the tax levy incentive aid has been approved and we can move forward with the projects. The problem is that because they took so
long approving all this and getting us the money, we lost the summer to get the project started. So, some of them will need to wait till next summer to get started. Certain things like the PA systems and possibly the science lab may be able to be implemented second shift and on breaks.
Uh number three, federal funds have been released for ESA the titles 1, two, and four. We received 334,186 for title one, 62,962 for title 2, and 23,109 for title 4. As of the meeting, we hadn't heard about
the 21st century CCLC money, but as everyone now knows, we got it and we can continue on the program. That's it for finance. Now, buildings and grounds are a few things came up. Um the high school silver plant, the sludge arm broke. Okay. So there was a PO issued. We're
waiting scheduling for November. It's costing us $21,000. Uh the Lounsbury boiler, five sections of the boiler required replacement at $40,000 and we've completed the repairs. The Vernon High School auditorium lighting, they're obtaining quotes to
replace and upgrade discontinued light bulbs. Um the high school faculty lounge floor has been replaced, uh replacing worn out carpet and tiling. the new Walnut Ridge preschool classrooms to expand PEA program.
Uh we replace flooring, painting and reconfiguring new classrooms and installing the new ven keyboards. Um the Glen Meadow PA system equipment's been delivered, scheduling a vendor for installation. And uh BTHS and Lansbury PA systems are
working with the vendors to obtain quotes. Um everything else is a bunch of in progresses. You can select in the folder and red John. Yes. Do you um for PTA, are we paying for that for the expansion of the classrooms
or is that paid out of the uh that comes out of PTA? Right. Yeah. Yeah. So this year we're adding five additional classrooms. Three being within Walnut Ridge and two being at partner sites and we received funding through the PA which is state aid. Are
we are we responsible for maintaining the the partner sites too? Do we the um there's a budget process for the provider sites too? Um we're responsible for ensuring that they're basically meeting requirements, right? Um and then
also ensuring that when they create their budget, which I help them create um to different levels depending on how familiar they are with the with the program, the state program, it's very specific they want it done. Um, then we're also kind of responsible for following up and making sure that
they're saying that they budgeted for that. That's actually what they used it for, right? So, it's a lot of communication and uh, you know, it's a good partnership. That's all in those um, applications and those at the end of our stuff here today, right? There's like 30 page
applications for them, right? or what is all that paperwork at the end of our uh agenda for both of those schools, Discovery and whatever the other one is like oh they're like 30 pages each something like that. Yeah. Two two contracts. So it's the Yeah.
Yeah. So those are the uh state contracts um between us and the provider site and that language all comes from the state. So basically just I just want to know if that would if that answers this question. Is that all spelled out in Yeah. Yeah. So, the responsibilities of each party is in the contracts. Yep.
Um, I was wondering about the vehicles. How old are the ones being replaced? How old are they? I I can't tell you exactly how old, but they're getting to a point where they need maintenance all the time and they're starting to break down. Joe could Joe Vancard could speak to
that more. Or maybe Ray and maybe Ray can. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have all the dates off the top of my head, but they were um I think they're like 2008, 2009, 2010 time period. Um and uh the issue especially with the
trucks that are being used for plowing cuz we got plowing services, but they don't plow everything. We take care of like a lot of the side areas and things like that. Um so they're experiencing a lot of body rust, right? So like oh, you know, from the salt over the years. Um and then um there's issues. I think
believe one of them is two of them are out of commission right now. They're not being used. Um which is problematic, right? So, uh so um and one of them I believe has a had a manifold repair that we when we looked at it and got it quartered out versus the value of the
truck. It just doesn't make sense to sink that money into that vehicle at that point cuz you're going to have to fix something else later and it's you're not going to get that much more use out of it. Okay. Um, so we did do a review and I do have a chart, but I don't have the chart with me of all the years. Okay. No, that's that's fine. That
explanation is You said we're buying them at the end of the lease or Yeah, we own them. We own them. Yeah. So, it's a lease purchase. So, basically the way it works, uh, you'll see it on the addendum is that, um, we basically went through the, um, 100 ed
services commission, and they provide a service where they'll put out a quote for you to get essentially financing, right, over a 5-year term. So, they call it a lease, but you're really financing over five years the purchase of something, right? We're doing we're doing vehicles. A lot of districts that have like their own transportation,
that's how they purchase buses, right? uh just could really be any very large purchase that you can't budget in one year. You split it out over five years. Okay. Um so it's called a lease, but it's not really a lease. It's really just a way for you to purchase it without hitting everything all in one budget. Uh because
it's not really sustainable. Just going forward, there are other vehicles going to be going on in the next couple years that we're going to be doing the same thing with, right? We have like four or five other vehicles. Yeah. So I think you know kind of similar story to you know a lot of things you know facility related in
other areas as the state money went down things you know you keep pushing them out pushing them out eventually you need to address it so these are the worst ones so we're hoping we can get some more time out out of the others right they're not obviously as bad condition um because I'd like to spread it spread
out a little bit more so again we're not having maybe two lease purchases at the same time I'm not sure if it'll make it there but that would be the goal Okay. All right. Great. Um, so you're on track.
Okay. So, uh, policy committee met on August 14th, 5:30 to about 6:30. I'm sorry. I wrote the I wrote the times wrong. I wrote it backwards. 5:30 to uh to Yeah, 6:30 we finished. And um, it
was myself, Ebony, and Brian. Brian um was on there. We we met uh with via Google Meets. During the meeting, we finalized the AI policy. Um we reviewed alert 235. Um two alert 235 consists of 18
policies. This is what uh Strauss sends out every so often. Um they bulk up a bunch of policies together that need to be changed and they send us an alert and then uh we look through them. um not just the committee actually the administration does a lot of the uh
heavy lifting first and then we look at it as a policy group. Um we were able to eliminate a few policies that do not apply and then we decided what we're going to review uh for next time. Um on on the agenda, there's no uh second readings tonight, but on the agenda, we
have a first reading uh for two uh policy 2 365 acceptable use of artificial intelligence. Um so this is not mandatory. This is a U. We
used a template coming from Strauss and uh we went through it uh once went around to a couple committees and then we went back and we went through it again um last week and um couple things that are on there. I just want to point out the the policy is geared towards the
students, but there are uh two items 11 and 12 that are more towards the staff. Uh in the future we're looking to create two separate policies, one for staff and one for students. Um and basically just
for split it up. This time we put it kind of put the a little bit together so we had something to start the school with year with and we had some direction to give to both the students and to the staff. The policy is not intended to to um limit the ability of administration to
adjust AI rules as they see needed. So, we're not calling out that you can only use this program or that program. It's more um general so that uh the administration can make those decisions when they need to um as things change, especially with AI, it's changing
constantly. Um and then there's a lot of references to different policies in there. So, if you look at the notes that are in the drive, um they have I have a link to all the different policies that it references to. Um and you can see the policies on there. Um, so I'm not going
to read them out to everyone. Um, the other three policies we went through is um, a policy 0143 board of member elections and appointments. Um, policy 0141.3 for member board member number and terms
for regional school districts and policy 0141.4 four uh board member number in terms for county vocational school districts. All three of those were as a as a uh committee we're not recommending um
putting um pushing forward. They are actually they don't really apply to us if district district two district type two district school uh school districts uh regional school districts and uh vocational. So none of them have applied. We do have policy I put them in
the notes too. So, if you do want to look at them, you can take a look. Um, we do have policy 0143, which we do have in our in ours, but the section that they're adding, we're not we don't need. So, and that's that's all I have for the policy. Oh, um,
and you're doing technology because Mr. Fischer passed his notes over. Yep, I got them. So, and then on the bottom, we have a couple, uh, policies that we're going to go over next time. If anybody has any more that you would like to see, just let us know. And Any questions or anything?
Okay. So, the technology committee was on August 5th at 4 o'clock at Rolling Hills and virtual. Um, uh, Brian, Jennifer, Ebony, uh, myself, Nick, and Vinnie, uh, all were in attendance. Um,
last minute uh, meeting follow-ups. The new AI policy has progressed to final stages. The policy will be reviewed by the superintendent and the policy and curriculum committees before reading uh before reading for the first uh reading
in at October at August 21st uh BOE meeting un and unforeseen issues. We should have a second reading in September and the policy is placed for October. having
stated uh a goal just eight months ago of having this policy in place for the beginning of the new school year. This is a near miss, but tremendous progress and great steps ahead. One thing I just want to add this that's Brian's notes, but I just want forgot to mention on the
AI uh policy, we are also and I think what Brian was saying, we're going to continue to look at this. It's not just uh static. Yeah, it's probably one we're going to update quite often, at least for the near future. Uh, new business Nick Glasso reported that the door
access project is finished. The completion of this project means that the entrances are integrated with our camera system throughout through genitech. This also will mean for for safer schools for lockdowns, etc. We ha also
have increased tracking ability for when people come and go for monitoring if people are in the building at at the times they are authorized to be there. They will be there will of course be some growing pains but overall we'll
have uh much better access control. We are still in the process of trans uh trans sure trans uh trans transitioning to pay school. This means we'll be able to take online payments not just for meals but also for field trips etc.
Parents have uh a month to trans transition and create new accounts. The new system has the ability to accept digital payments. Parents should not uh you should not be getting any more mailtime notifications.
The system allows parents to transfer money between their own children's accounts. Um all sixth and ninth graders will receive new Chromebooks. Uh ASUS um is the new
the manufacturer of the Chromebooks. They will they should provide more durability than in the past. 85% of all the 12th grade students return their old Chromebooks. And then uh varsity uh notes is varsity
tutoring is free until 2030 and a supplement to home homebound tutoring. This was discuss a discussion on how to make parents more aware of this resource. I'm sorry there was a discussion to make more parents more aware of it. And
action item is we discussed the possibility of technology training for board members and when that might happen. We need adjourned at 4:53 p.m. Any questions?
I don't have any answers. No. I have one quick thing. The my meal time. I thought that in addition to being able to transfer money between accounts, isn't there no longer a minimum that you have to put $25? Because I just have to say I think that would be exciting for parents. But I thought that's what he said. I
I I tried that myself. I I went online because actually that was one of my problems. And uh it to me, unless someone else can tell me I'm wrong, it seems like you can only move the whole balance. It was just move from one child to the other. I think it's more of the case if your kid graduates. Well, that's
still nice. But I I thought also it said that you used to have to put if you needed to add money, you had to put at least 25. Is it still And it seemed like no minimum. I I didn't put my credit card in, but I went all the way through the process and it didn't play. Yes, I think that's a win for parents. So,
and I don't think there was a fee either or or is it um is there a fee at the end? There's a Yeah, there's a credit card fee. All the There was with meal time, too. All the providers charge a credit card fee. Yeah. But if anyone wants they can they can bring cash in the school and obviously you know there's no fee
there. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay, so uh that Oh, does anyone else have any questions about the technology report? Okay. Um so that brings us to item K, public comment. This is for agenda items only
or student matters. During 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 his individuals to take this opportunity that they must identify themselves by name and section of town and limit their comments to agenda items and are 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 or administration at the time of the meeting or at any time. All comments will be considered and respons forthcoming if and when appropriate. The board requests that members of the public keep their comments to a limit of
5 minutes, be courteous, respectful, and mindful of the rights of other 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 parents and
that parents, sorry, excuse me, be advised that students and employees have rights of confidentiality and other productions protections in the law. Student name should never be used. The board bears no responsibility nor will be liable for any comments made by the public during the public portion of the board meeting. Members of the public should consider their comments and later
the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are personally legally responsible or potential liability for the comments that they make to the board. Thank you, Mr. Slam. Do we have any members of the public who wish to comment? Present. We'll start with the
present. No. Okay. Online. I see we have Morton. Yes. Uh, can you hear me? Yes. Martin Puring, Highland Lakes. Uh, I would like to comment on the students
student success board course section. In my opinion, uh, student success is going to be defined how well they do later on in life. I think we should be getting data for that. We might have to use some
math to predict certain things statistically because I understand it might be difficult to get the data. But I feel at least anecdotally that we like most of this country do not do very well
in preparing our students. And what I mean is if I use two cases of people that I know, one my daughter who made it through college quite well except the first semester. So she was not that well
uh prepared and then graduated got a six-f figureure job and had a good career. So that's a good student outcome. Another student uh didn't do well on the SATs etc.
uh went to a college because he figured it out with guidance that didn't require necessity, was there for two years, didn't make it through predictable, didn't make it through pre-calc or calcul or any of the math classes, had
$45,000 in student loan, quit college after the two years because he was told by guidance there's no way he's going to make it. And it was predictable. took a two-year school with one of the uh manufacturers of um construction
equipments and after that two year of mechanics training he was a great mechanics I had him in robotics yeah he started to make $96,000 too but he lost two years and $45,000 we should avoid this and we should track
this there are multiple studies that a good predictor on students success in college are IQ type tests which SAT and ACTs are IQ type tests and for example
if you go on the IQ if you run the bell curve and statistically speaking if your IQ is below 110 you have a 1% chance of making it through a four-year college so it would pay especially as this country
is very short on people with no college education try to find a plumber etc to properly uh advise people early enough and make other career choices open for
them. So that's number one. Number two is in technology. I'm again suggesting we should provide something hands-on for the kids starting grade three and four with robotics and robotics has been a reason why I
have been introducing myself to people as Stone Martin the man of Vernon dreaming the impossible dream fighting the unbeatable four four and if you want me to I can sing it to you uh it's we
need to curtail our programs. We need to adjust our programs more to what is needed in real life out there more hands-on and the hands-on stuff especially when it
comes to math is some stuff that hurt me called the lack of it that's what it is in her first semester at Cornell. So that's what I wanted to put forth. I'm going to talk about more stuff in the second section because I don't want to
go over my five minutes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pinger. Do we have anyone else? No other hands raised. No other hands raised. Okay, great. Item L, superintendent report
this. Well, good evening. Uh, as this is my first official meeting as your superintendent, I first wanted to just thank the board uh for the warm welcome and the Vernon community, the administration, the staff. It's just been delightful. Uh, what a pleasurable
experience entering a district really. Uh, not only do I feel the tightness, but I feel embraced in in in just the warmness of this community. So, um, I'm excited. I'm excited that we're about to start the new school year. Woohoo. And we only
have a few weeks left. Uh our facilities and safety uh our schools are good to go. We've been walking through the buildings. I got to tour each one of them uh to see what our status was for day one. Uh they are clean. They are beautiful. They are decorated. They are
inviting and engaging. Today um Mr. Gaglaststro and I visited the um orientations that were being held at Cedar Mountain, at Glen Meadow, at Rolling Hills. uh lines of parents waiting to get in. Visiting classrooms,
students opening their lockers. Uh a little fret. Oh my gosh, how am I going to manage the new schedule? I've never been in a school with uh so many classes. It was exciting. Our sea was up front and center selling our gear. I have my Viking bracelet and my new
sweatshirt. Can't wait to rock my Viking gear. Um but our parents were also participants uh to that. So, we just felt supported at the Glen Meadow. There were um also mental health um services available for parents, our utilities
relief. It was just really nice to see that it was with the whole family and whole child in mind. So, thank you to our summer staff and everybody who's doing an outstanding job to prepare our schools for day one, our principles, our admin assistants, everybody. Um I've
been conducting listening and learning conversations as part of my 90-day entry plan. So, I've met at this point with almost all of the administration, with our department leads, uh with our board, uh just to listen and learn, find out what are your priorities, what's the vision for the district, and how are we
going to just uh capture all of the opportunities that we have to continue to grow. So, I will continue to understand the roles and the responsibilities of our team. Um and then I'll report out what my findings were at the end of those 90 days. Um,
this week we concluded our Is that Siri talking? This week we concluded our leadership summit with all of our administrators. Uh, we had two full days that were focused on readiness um, alignment. What does that look like across our entire
system um, and shared leadership? It was a powerful opportunity to really strengthen coherence across the district uh to begin shared planning and uh to collectively prepare to welcome our staff and our students. Uh welcome back letters are heading out this week. Uh
and I think the new school year excitement is definitely in the air. We're feeling it. Everybody's hustling and bustling to get ready. The student portal opened on Tuesday. Our families have immediate access to their class schedules, their assignments. they're filling out the forms and the required
paperwork um that we need to um just help that partnership and to be efficient with each other. We are ready to welcome our students and families back um and have a strong start. On September 2nd, we have our opening day convocation. We are excited. We're going
to kick off the school year uh with a celebratory um opening day for our staff. We're hoping to have a little cheer and a little pep in our welcome back and motivate them uh reignite our passion for our work. Um and really just celebrate a purpose and a reminder that
we are stronger when we stand together. So better together is our theme and we're excited about that. uh we've heard about our 21st century community uh learning center and that we've been um we've received our funding and so then that is for this school year and it will
continue into next summer at Glen Meadow. Uh we've already notified the community uh so they are aware um and we know that they are excited as well. We've talked about our title funding being released. We're excited to provide uh those opportunities to our students.
that does include our professional development for our staff and title two. So, we're excited about that. Um staff retirements on tonight's agenda. We are going to um accept that Kimberly
Smarther from Lounsbury Hollow, a fourth grade teacher, she's retiring this December after 31 years. So, congratulations to Miss uh Smarther. Um and we are just grateful for her service. 31 years is certainly a lot of
commitment um and time. Uh also we're celebrating the retirement of Bernie Casemiro. Uh he is our custodian at the high school. He's retiring after 25 years. So we thank them both again for their incredible service and dedication. Uh we've heard about our 50th
anniversary on September 3rd at 5:00. So we just are grateful to the community relations uh committee for championing that milestone. uh and to Nick Demsac and the high school team for turning that vision into action. Uh our freshman orientation is on August 25th. It's from
9 to 2. Uh our incoming students will be welcomed with tours and activities, raffles, and a keynote from a New York Times bestseller and author of the book Wander, Ryan Benz. And after uh the high
school reached out to him, guess what? He is a Vernon alumni. So he went to our schools and he graduated from here. So I think that's just a great opportunity for the students to learn about journey and how to find your place in life. Uh so thank you to Steve D and the high
school team for organizing this high energy studentled event. We have over 70 student volunteers who will be participating. Um on our agenda for tonight, we also are pleased to announce uh the district's artist of the month for August. the VTH students artwork is
being displayed at the board office uh and the municipal building. And then lastly, we have our HIB report for July 2025 in attachment A. And that concludes my superintendence report. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. Uh number two, board policies. It's recommended that the board approve the following policy for a first reading P2365 which is acceptable use of artificial intelligence. Uh we have recommendations in the area
of personnel. It is recommended that the board approve the following faculty staff appointments, assignment changes, leaves, mentoring resignations, retirements, salary adjustments, stipens, student teaching terminations, and transfers as listed um below. Um and
note that this chart continues onto the addendum through line number 83. Um, I'm starting now on page 10. It is recommended that the board approve the following six period appointments and
that uh those are listed on pages 10 and 11. For letters C and D, it is recommended that the board approve the following positions for the 202526 CCLC program. These will all be paid with 21st century community learning
center grant funds. Uh under the section of curriculum and instruction on pages 12 and 13, it is recommended that the board approve professional development in letter A, the strong evaluation model in letter B,
and um the updated district curricula and textbooks for the 2025 and 26 school year in letter C. And lastly for reports, it's recommended that the board approve the random drug testing and school safety reports for July 2025 and
attachment B and the harassment, intimidation, and bullying reports that were reviewed at the July 24th meeting, which is attachment C. And that concludes the superintendent section.
Okay. Can I get a motion for um So, we had a Okay. Motion for superintendent report items P one through I'm sorry um because we had a a motion thing here down by um
board policies as a separate vote. My apologies. No, that's okay. I'm just trying to remember how to word it. So, can I get a motion for items 2 A through uh C? Right. So, no through Sorry. Wait, wait. I'm sorry. I got that wrong. 2 A through
I can update the I can update the resolution. You can have it say motion 2 C. Sorry. 2 A to 3C. Right. Yep. That's okay. Thank you. I get a motion. John. Thank you, John.
Awesome. Um, any questions or comments? John, I just want to throw a number out there to everybody. $242,412.95. I want to say it one more time. $242,412.95. That's how much money that we have to
put out for sixth period assignments. There are 27 teachers here. That's a quarter of a million dollars more to our our our salary budget. I I don't see why we have to do this all the time. We've discussed this previous years and it's always been like a h 100
thousand. It's just been going up and up and up. This is crazy. We I don't think we should be doing this. We don't have teachers to cover some of these periods or put the kids into other classes to cover it. Do we have a quarter of a million dollars more to pay them? I mean, most of these are going all the way into the
next year for the whole year. I'm sorry, man. They're just driving me crazy with these six period assignments and the amount of money that we have to put out for them. Do you want to address that? I can just a quick note. So through C,
but then also um there's for the resolution there's uh D um so it's there's letter D, there's um then there's B A,
BB, BC, and then CA and CB. So I think we're trying to group things. So I'm thinking we need to maybe rework how we're grouping them a little bit. Yeah, maybe we can move it all at once. I got confused because there were and then CD and then Yeah. And then also we
lumped in the uh two. So yeah, sorry. No, no, it's okay. I just wanted to make sure that in the resolution we have everything so we don't miss something and then go back later and right realize, hey, technically we're going to vote on it. So we want to make sure that Yeah. that everyone understands what they're voting on.
So we should probably amend the motion on the floor. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um, so then back to John's question. I don't know how to answer that, John. I mean, it is frustrating. Extremely frustrating. It's a quarter of a million dollars. What could we do with
a quarter of a million dollars? And and it's for one teacher. Each teacher is teaching one period extra a day out of the five periods that they normally teach. So, I I just I don't get it. I don't like it. And I've never liked it. And I think that we I don't
know. I I don't think we should be use spending that kind of money for that. We there's got to be a better way of positioning the students from those periods into other classes somehow to cover that. Yeah, I can't talk to the scheduling portion. Uh but I can say that um you
staff members are budgeted. So it's budget either through six periods in the budget or through staff members. And if we can't get the staff member, then we get a sixth period to cover it. How it works, Ray. But I mean 80% of our budget is salaries and benefits. I mean that's another quarter of a million
dollars. I know it's budgeted in but we could do a lot more things with a quarter of a million dollars. I mean it's crazy. I'm sorry. So I will not sorry. I'll assess the six periods. Um there are certain instances where we have um a
position that couldn't be filled such as a world language position. And so then instead of paying that salary because we can't fill the position, we couldn't find someone who was certified or who would get through then we're using those six. Um
so in that situation the sixth period is actually cheaper than the health benefits and this hour. Yeah, I get that. But I mean I look through here we have English three physic health lunch period that doesn't account for all of them. I understand not having a world language teacher. I mean last year we did it
through online presence. I mean was it sure software but I mean I don't see any of that here. Yeah. All right. So um I will assess it uh just to speak to these a little bit understanding that they need to be assessed and I understand that we need to reduce there's no reflection on you. You're new
here. So this has been going on for several years here and we we've always discussed this but the number has gotten really out of control. Sorry. Okay. So some of them are due to um not being able to find a teacher. Some of them are due to exceeding special education caps.
Some of them are due to resignations um and then having to fill those positions. Uh some of them are due to maybe the popularity of a class and having to add a section for uh completing a CTE track. Uh we will u examine these and then I'll
come back to the board with um a clearer understanding of our experience. Thank you. Just before we forget, um, we would need to have a motion and a second to amend the Oh, uh, resolution. Can I get a motion to amend the resolution? Second,
um, Carl, thank you. And then we need to vote again. Yes, you have to accept it, right? Yep. And basically, the amendment is to include the rest of the uh, superintendent's recommendation section. and I'll clean the wording up in in the
minutes. Okay. Yeah. And then we just needed I once I get down there, I'll do a roll call on the amendment and then we can go back to discussion or the for the new um resolution on the floor and then you could do the roll call on the amended.
Do we have to pull the old one or we can just amend it? Oh, since it's on the floor, we can just amend it and it's L2 2 A instead of L3 C. Let's [Applause] scroll back up to the top. I thought that was what I ended up
saying. I thought it was two and it looks correct to me still. So L2, if I'm wrong though, L2 A through L. Well, let's be safe and amend it. But I do think that after much flurrying around, that was what I landed on. But oh, maybe I misheard then and then which case I just made up.
This is safer. Let's do it right. That gets us to the last section. So, um, to I would say C.B. just to be safe, just so we're down to the following one. But I I think that's okay. Okay. So, now do we need to do the roll call
vote? Cuz now amendment, right? Yeah, because now that we amended it, we need to do we got the motion and the second we need to do the vote, right? Yeah, I would say we should do the roll call through um C.B. So that follows the
last resolution in section C reports. Okay. Wait, you just said L2A to No, he's still saying L. He's just adding on another B essentially. Yes. Right. Yeah, it's like L3CB.
L3C.B. Yeah, that's the only thing I'm adding. Yes. Cuz I just want to make sure that it's clear that those last two. Okay. Well, that's what you said and that's what you motioned in second. So, now we're just doing the roll call vote. And we're voting on amending it, not voting on it. Amending. Voting on amendment.
Yep. Yep. Um, Miss Plet, yes. Dr. Ross, no. Yes. Uh, Mr. Mr. Zimmerman. Yes. Mr. Smaglia. Yes. Yes.
Uh, Mr. Canino. Yes. Mr. Krauss. Yes. I thought someone was going to mess with me and say no. I thought about it. I know. Can you tell from the pauses? Dude, that's And we're back to discussion.
Okay. So, now we're back to discussion. Who else? Uh, Charlie. on on those item on those agenda items. Yeah, I just had a what was the on looking at the the chart for the sixth period. Um, so I I there's a couple
initials here all over the place and uh I'm just picking random class and it says uh CP which I understand what that is. ICR that's an in-class resource, right? What would SE mean?
That's special education. Oh, special education. So is that is that different than an aid would be or I don't know. I'm going to have to defer to Mr. Gadly Astra for that to tell me.
So for the SE delineating that it's the special education teacher that's getting six years because there's two teachers in those classes. So we had a gened teacher we needed an additional special teacher to cover that class. That's when you see the SE that's that's
okay. I have one question. Um so I see for one HS6 period unit lunch work study and then it's 7633 a period. Um the only thing I'm confused about is are they
they're not doing they're not being a lunch monitor then. Are they holding um like a study hall during lunch or and if that is the case, it's just it's interesting to me that they get paid the same as if they're like teaching a class.
What line are you on again? I'm sorry. Um I'm on number line number eight. Page on page 10. Thank you. Unit lunch work study 13,000 paid throughout September to June 7633
period. But it's unit lunch work study. So are is it class? It's occurring during unit lunch. But he's teaching class that period. So those kids are having a course during the unit lunch time because they're
going to work study. So they they're the students who are leaving work study to go work. Oh, that makes sense. So there's certain requirements when we have work study that need to be fulfilled with the state. So this teacher is making sure all the paperwork's in place and working with the students to either get to their
jobs and fill out the paperwork or if they're looking for jobs how to build a resume and get a position. Okay, that makes sense. Now that I hear work study, I realize it's a work study. Yeah, it's a work study program like a study hall. Thank you.
Right. No, no, absolutely. Any other questions or comments? Okay, we want to move to a roll call. I made a vote. [Applause] Dr. Ross, yes. Mr. Zimmerman, yes.
Mr. Mr. Mangalia. Yes. Mr. Cino. Yes. Mr. Krauss. Yes. On everything but no on 3B. [Applause] Uh, Miss Pallet. Yes.
Motion carries. Okay. Item M. Mr. Slam, when you're ready. uh start with discussion information items. We have use of buildings and grounds. Uh letter A as noted below. Letter B field trips as noted below. And
then letter C. I just wanted to provide a reminder uh to everyone that free reduced lunch applications for the 2526 school year are now available. Um so there's a lot of benefits to filling that out. Um one thing I'll mention is
that uh this prior year the um at least in New Jersey the uh income requirements surrounding that changed. Uh so if in years before that you weren't eligible, you may be eligible now. So it's always good to fill it out just in case. Um and
that helps not only to provide uh free meals for your student uh but also helps for funding for the district from the state. A good example of that is uh we have something called e- rate where we get reimbursement um for you know it
related items. Uh and that percentage we get back actually went up uh because we had more people that had filled out that application qualified. So it's kind of basically benefits all around. Uh and it also um could assist with some uh community outreach that we do through
the school uh as well for other services that could uh provide assistance to families. Uh so item two is uh recommendations. [Music] Sorry, I feel like you can hear me like breathing and they're really loud. Feel like I'm very loud tonight. Um so we
have item A and B which are financial reports uh for July. Uh item C uh is recommended that the board approve transportation as listed below. We have quite a bit of it. Letter D is recommended the board
approve a service agreement with performance pediatrics for 256 school year. That's attachment F7. Uh it's also recommended the board for letter E approve the square footage waiver for the full day preschool program on attachment FE. As letter F is recommended the board
approve the tuition contract room for 2526 school year between the Vernon Township Board of Ed and Assess County Technical School Board of Ed at the estimate cost $3,000 per pupil. Letter G is recommended the board approve submission of the application and acceptance of funds for 2526 ESA grants
and the amounts listed below. Letter H is recommended the board approve the agreement between Project Adventure Inc. and the Verenta School District for the challenge course inspections amount of $3,410. Course is located at Lounsbury Hollow uh Glenn Meadow and the high school.
Letter I is recommended the board approve the following parent volunteers transport run Township High School band equipment uh trailer and box truck for the 2526 school year pending receive required documentation. Uh no students will be transported by these volunteers. Uh so we have a few donations. So it's
recommended that the board approve donations from the SCA uh and uh t-shirts amount of $1312.50. um the uh RainPop subscription an amount of $2,184 for students and then the teacher
enrichment funds amount of $5,850. And then the communication board at the um Cedar um mountain uh front playground amount of $3,410. Uh those are letters J, K, L, and M. And
then letter N is recommended that the board accept the donation to the Vernon Township School District from the Vern Township High School track and field for the weight room upgrade amount of $1,287.60. Letter O is recommended the board accept the donation to the Vern Township School District from Vern Township High School
class 2024 for the weight room upgrading amount of $1,000. Letter P is recommended the board accept a donation to the Vern Township School District from the Vernon Township High School Boys lacrosse for the weight room amount of $1,287.60. 60 cents. Letter Q is recommended that the board
approve the accepted donation of the Verenture School District from the Verens Athletic Hall of Fame for the weight room and $1,27. And I'm going to shorten it a little bit so I can condense it for everybody. Uh
the following it's recommended the following donations be accepted uh for the upgrade of the weight room uh from the Viking Club and $1,260 $87.60 60s uh from the high school SCA for $1,200 and for the Vern Township Executive SCA for
$1,000 all for the weight room upgrade. Uh just want to take a quick pause and uh thank everyone uh for the donations. Um got a lot of different groups there. A lot of the SCA has a lot of donations there, a lot of other groups as well. So we just appreciate your support of the district and the students.
Yeah, absolutely. Uh, letter U is going to the board approve the lease purchase advisory service agreement between Hunton County Ed Services Commission and the Burnt 10 School District in the amount of $1356.3 cents attachment F9. Letter V is recommended the board approve the submission and application acceptance of
funds for 2526 Perkins grant and amounts noted below. Uh, letter W is recommended the board approve change order A03 from WCO Group in amount of $26,169.90. That's test 10. Uh letter X is recommended that the board approve the
uh preschool education program contract with growing knowing and discovery years for the 2526 school year. That's F11. Letter Y. recommended the board approve the following resolution. Be it resolved the board firm submission of the securing our children's future bond act
water infrastructure grant application for reimbursement for the walnut ridge water filtration project and addition of district bottle flooding stations be farther resolved that local fun available project costs exceed the grant allowance and the border firms assist sustainability plan for filtration.
We're down the special services now that's letter Z. Uh this is sent for 2526 whereas special services department has determined that individual students require special education placement based on their individual needs. Whereas the special services department has determined that services are needed and will continue until June 30th 26 whereas
special service department has determined that the school/service listed below is the most appropriate placement. Therefore be resolved that the township board of education approves the contracts as listed below. Uh we have letter A is going to the board approve the agreement between
Patricia E. teacher of the deaf and ver school district for 2526 school of $8 per hour. And then we're switching over to the addendum. It's letter BB. It's recommended that the board approved the acceptance of funds for the Nita Maui 21st century uh
CC 21st CCLC continuation grant year five in the amount of $400,000. Uh we then have letter CC or the board approved the following resolution. Whereas a request for quotations was solicited through the Hunter County Ed Services Commission to provide lease purchase financing for the purchase of
three new pickup trucks and two vans for the district's maintenance department. Whereas the following quotations are received. Whereas First American Commercial Bank Corp doing business as First American Equipment Finance, New York submit the lowest quotation at a rate of 4.277%. Now therefore be resolved. The board
approves the award to the First American commercial bank or included doing business as First American Equipment Finance to provide lease purchase financing at a rate of 4.2. 277%. Then letter DD is special services. Again, uh this where specialist
department has determined that placement within Vernon Township School District special education program is appropriate based on students of visual needs and where special services department has determined that services are needed and will continue until June 30 to 26 and therefore we resolve the Vernon Township Board of Education approves the contracts as listed below. Uh and these
are receiving students. Thank you. Can I get a motion for the business administrators resolutions M2A through M2D? So moved. Second. Have a second. Thank you.
Okay, questions or comments. Um I want to say that's amazing about the wait room upgrade because I know a lot of students love using that. Um how did all that come about? Does anybody know? I mean I believe that Mr. Foley had been um
looking for support to get that done. He did a lot of hard work on that and um they're working on equipment portion right now. There could be potential future changes moving forward, but it all comes down to u funding essentially, but this is kind of the first phase uh
which is equipment focused and replacing some of the older equipment. Thank all of these um organizations for helping out and Mr. to Mr. Foley for for making that happen. That's great. Um, how do you know how the uh Perkins I I should have asked this before, but the
Perkins grant um money compares to previous years? Is that still going down every year? Is it stable now? So, this amount slip. So, this is you'll probably the second time you've seen this one. Um, it actually went down from
the first application to the second application because they I believe they identified additional rural schools. So, they spread it out farther which reduced our allocation. Okay. Um I don't have that amount off the top of my head. I don't know if Mr. Gosher would
how much it went down the world. Yeah, it was not a lot. Not a lot. Okay. But from last year, I was just wondering last year it's significantly lower. We're at seven programs instead of eight due to manufacturing tech
not being there. But with the addition, we'll bring it back. Next year hopefully we'll be back at 8 and then back where we should be. Okay, great. Okay, thank you. Uh any Charlie? Uh so on page 20 it says approval for
West Milford and Warwick students to be transported on the following Vernon routes um at the parents expense. Can you just elaborate on what's going on there? I just want to know West Milford and Warwick students
Is it are they are they is there a relation to an employee or I want it's on a different page for me because I was taking minutes so I'm trying to find what page it's on. Page 20. Well, if that helps. I hope that helps you. Yeah, it ended up going down. Um let's see.
It's right beneath all the parental cont. There we go. Yep. So for me it's page like 22. Um let's see. So I believe they're um choice students who the parents are paying for the uh
transportation. Uh because as choice students you don't have to provide um the actual transportation. So it's optional I believe. So wait there because it says oh I'm looking at the wrong one. Sorry. Yeah. Tech Sussex charter and then Pope
John through SCRC. But what I just Yeah. So they're joining routes that we already have and they're paying us to in order to use our routes instead of dropping their own kids off. Oh, okay. Yeah. So they're there are people who live in
those towns and they're choosing to go to those schools and they're using a Vernon route to get to that school to save. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. So anytime you see a jointure that means that either we're joining with someone to split the cost in something or someone's joining with us and either
the district's paying and splitting the cost with us or a parent may be paying and a parent's paying here. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Um so for the item Z and it's also I think on the addendum too. Um you have I
think I'm pretty sure I have access before but I just want to make clarify. So, it says uh we have the total tuition, right, for the schools. These are for the schools that we're sending students out to. There's the 10-month tuition and then there's 10-month extraordinary uh services.
Is is that the 10-month extra extraordinary services is what we can get reimbursed for or are we going to reimburse for? You have to apply for it, right? And there's no guarantee. You would apply for um like shuring aid,
right? And that would include a portion of the tuition and the extraordinary services. Right? So there's a threshold. I can't remember the threshold off the top of my head right now. Um but anything over that threshold of cost you can apply for. Um the important thing to note and this comes up kind of every so
often is that when you look at the extraordinary aid um award, right, like after you after you apply, you'll see the full amount that you would be due, but then you see the prated amount which is what you actually get, right? So we no district gets the full amount and it's because extraordinary aid is not
fully funded. So it gets prated down to whoever is funded in the budget that year. What is extraordinary services? Would that be like a like a nurse has to go on the bus with them or it could be like u you know OT, it could be PT, it could be um a onetoone aation
kind of services. Yep. Yeah. So like one ainary uh it's based so Then I had a question about uh buildings and grounds use number 29. So on this sheet is what fees
we're collecting, but then we have a $300 uh scholarship donation. Wouldn't that be accepted later on with the scholar with the other donations or because it's not really a fee. We're
collecting it. It's going to go toward the scholarship M1A. It's 14 on our Yeah, I got it. Uh technically that should have a separate resolution. So I'll make sure that's on the next meeting. I don't know
if it's been collected yet though. So uh but that that gets collect um go through it. So we're not charging them a fee. They're just giving up a donation. Yeah. So um the way that um building use has occurred uh has been there are
certain like certain groups that um are part of like people from town, right? Uh that instead of getting charged the fee, they essentially donate to the scholarship. We ask for a donation, they donate. So
that's something that predated me but has continued. Okay. So, but I mean don't I mean because the fees are to pay for staff that we might have there. Isn't that what the fees usually cover?
So, there's custodial overtime fees. So, we would only charge an overtime fee if there's not already a staff member there. If there's already a staff member there, then we don't charge a fee for custodial. Oh, okay. Because it's a nighttime, so there could already be someone scheduled there. Okay. Yeah.
Sure. Yeah. I'm just looking at um page 21 letter E, the uh square footage waiver. You have a question about it. I mean, we approve it, but that's approved to put the application in for it. That's correct.
Okay. And and and and I looked at that and I just wondered what if they deny has that ever has ever been denied? I mean, we'll be up the creek without if we get denied that, right? So before we ex So we write our budget for this year
back in last spring, right? And when we're talking about expansion of the program uh into new rooms, we work with the county BA uh and also the state representative um not political representative but the
state representative from PEA uh to review the rooms before we move forward. So we make sure they have eyes on the rooms and say they're okay. Okay. Before we move forward. Yeah. I just wondered because I know to two new schools that be risky to put it forward without having they're okay already. Right. Right. Yeah.
We don't I am risk adverse. So Right. So my list on page um 17 bus to the Highlander Academy on the list.
And then on page 24, woods services for significant amount of money. I also don't see that on the list. Which which list? We get a list of approved approved schools.
Yeah, we're we're being good board members and shift cross referencing one of us. It's in our binder. And what was the second one? Highlander Academy and then Highlander Academy on page 17 that's a bus route
and then on page 24 special services people we sent to Woods Services 153,000 but I don't see them on I know the other public schools don't have to
be with services yeah So, for wood services, I believe that has to do with a I think it's a placement from maybe the
state. Um, and that's I believe in Pennsylvania. So, yeah. So, it's not it's not it's not on the list, but it it's I I believe it's related to a court order, but I'd have to look into it. Yep. Yeah. I'll make a note.
the Highlander Academy that's not a significant just my make let's make a quick note Um, so Highlander Academy is uh West
Milford uh Township Public Schools. Yep. So I got the one answer for you. Um, yeah, I'll double check on the wood services. Um, because the last time I think I discussed that was a little a little bit ago, but I I'll double check and get back to you. Lost my space.
Okay. Anybody else questions? We want to move to roll call vote. Dr. Ross, yes. Mr. Zimmerman, yes. Mr. Smeaggle, yes. Mr. Cantino,
yes. Mr. Krauss, yes. Miss Pallet, yes. Motion carries. Okay, great. Item N, public comment. I don't see anyone in in person. So,
we'll go to Martin Pinger. Yes. Uh, hi. This is part two. Um, in July the EP results were released and I hope that you guys are going to publicize them and I would like to put a
wish list into it that I put in every year so far with varying and low success. I have been watching the first of all AP classes are extremely useful in getting
kids uh college credits. My daughter started off Cornell with 28 credits because of AP classes. Um they are universally accepted. You usually have time one year EP classes are taught in
one year which cover one semester's worth in most cases of of college. So let's say English one would be one semester in college and we have one year here in the junior year then
they take the AP test get the score and if the score is good enough get credit in college. Now in my assessment, our scores, AP scores and AP test participation went down when we started to
uh get into dual enrollment classes where we changed from clean AP classes to dual enrollment classes where we uh then told the kids, yes, so here you take the class, you either pay or don't
pay for the uh Syracuse or whatever. fee and at the end if you want to you can take the AP test and you can pay for the AP test extra. Now um Syracuse for
example on the website and the other colleges too advertise something that their uh concurrent classes are accepted in up to 200 colleges. check with your guidance because not every class is accepted everywhere and not every class
even at zero cruise is not accepted for every major from the concurrent classes. Now that might sound great un until you compared that there are in the United States as of September 1st 2024
uh there were 3,998 uh 4year colleges and university. So that means your concurrent class is good in at best 5% of those schools out there. A selling point for the
concurrent classes is and I quote from the website that concurrent classes are taught at a much ri less rigorous standard than AP classes and it's therefore easier for students to achieve
college credit compared with AP classes. So in my assessment, teaching at a less rigorous standard based on the concurrent classes and then sending kids through the AP test might
be a cause for having less success in the AP test category. And it also will uh harm kids on the especially kids at the top end who go to to the top universities
because they like a Syracuse concurrent class doesn't count at all and I can rattle off quite a few schools which I'm not going to do in my 5 minutes time here. So I would like this year to get the answer. I hope that our AP tests are
bigger and I hope we are focusing more on the AP test because I AP um classes also can give be a excellent indicator and can be sold as an excellent indicator to a student as I know it's
almost over. it's to a student if he he or she can hack a college class like from my first part uh example of the guy who couldn't pass math. If you can pass an AP mass class, you can pass the
college math class if you put the effort in. So, thank you for listening to me and I'm looking forward to see the results. Thank you, Mr. Peringer. Um, do we have anyone else? No.
Okay. Um, so item O, open board member forum. Anyone? And I did find an answer to Mr. Zimmerman's question. Um, so I was close but not quite right. It wasn't the court. U, it was the New Jersey Children's System of Care approved the
um the placement. Okay. Um, I did want to say just for Mr. Paringer's benefit that we had 276 students take the test uh AP test last year and um we are working on increasing
uh participation in those courses and 84% of those students received a passing score. Um, so getting getting there. Um, anybody have anything else they want to cover? And Carl, I just want to pull up that effort to
get donations to redo the um the weight room. Oh, yeah. That's incredible. I I know you you shouted out already, but I just that's I love seeing the community come together like that. Um, it's such a well it's a really used um facility, too. the kids for the all the
sports teams, but also a lot of kids just use it as sort of a gym and you know it's a really it's a great space. So I'm excited about it. Okay. Uh so that's everything. So item P adjournment. Can I get a motion to
adjourn? Second. Joan all shout at once. Ray Carl. Um all in favor I thank you. We are adjourned. 825.