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Good evening everyone. I would like to welcome you to the June 9th, 2026 board of education meeting. We are calling the meeting to order. It is 7:06 p.m. And if everyone could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Meeting of meeting notice. The New Jersey open public meetings law was

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enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies by which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of the act, the Verona Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be

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published in the Star Ledger online and can also be viewed by the public on the board of board's official website. Legal notices for New Jerseys public entities will also be accessible at the New Jerseys Department of State Legals

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notice website. Copies of tonight's agenda and resolutions have been made available to the public via the board of education website. Dr. Mr. Riley, if you could please call attendance. >> Mr. Waka, >> Mr. Pera >> here, >> Mr. Kenotic. Mrs. Frisco

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>> here. >> Mr. Boon >> here. >> We have a corner. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to our routine matters. I need a motion, please, to approve our minutes from the meeting of May 28th, 2026. So

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move. >> Motion by Mr. Pera, seconded by I'll >> second. >> Mr. Boon. Are there any discussions? Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll. >> Mr. Pera, >> yes. >> Mrs. Frisco, >> yes. >> Mr. B, >> yes. Motion. >> Thank you. Moving on to our

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superintendence report by Miss Diane Duzi. >> Good evening. Um, my report uh is going to be a presentation tonight because we um recently received our school performance reports and they were embargoed up until um about a week ago

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and uh the requirement of our new um commissioner is that I report out not just post them to our website which they are posted to our website but at least report out on the accountability uh the accountability section. So, let me share my screen. And I also want to point out where they can be found on our website

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for anyone interested in looking at the full report. So if you uh go to our website under our district going to click on our district and down here is at the bottom of this scroll down bottom of this page is school performance reports for the

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district the high all the all of the schools and then this PowerPoint or this uh slide deck is uh the last bullet. um just to open up one of them to show the categories that are included. This is a new format this year. Um it's an overall

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summary enrollment and demographics and we just it's uh just stepped through it uh academic achievement. So this is all of um the NJSLA um uh BLM access for uh English language

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learners and uh for the high school NJ GPA under college and career readiness at the high school. These categories are slightly different at the elementary and middle schools than they are at the high schools. Um but we have PSAT, SAT, ACT, advanced course work such as uh an AP um

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seal of bi literacy uh CTE or career and technical education. Um course participation in various courses um visual and performing arts is one of those and if we have any structured learning experiences uh for the high school only it will have

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graduation and post-secary. So, uh, looking at the, uh, four and fiveyear graduation rate, um, and, um, any apprenticeships, that's a new category this year. Post-secondary enrollment is not a new category. Climate environment,

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um, looks at chronic absenteeism, uh, discipline records, uh, the length of the school day and ratios of students to devices. Um, then we have perupial expenditures and accountability. Accountability is what we're focused on um in the slide deck because that kind

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of encompasses all of those pieces that um show uh our our community how we're doing at each school. It looks at chronic absenteeism. It looks at uh growth and uh both performance and growth um as well as um some other

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depending on whether it's a high school, elementary or middle some other categories. So that's where they can be found. And uh this is 35 slides. I'm not going over all 35 slides. I promise it's posted to the website. I'll go over some highlights because this is old data. They're a year back. So this is looking

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at 23 24 and 20 to 2425. Um we are in 2526. So that will those performance reports will come out next year. Um so you can't really go back and unring a bell. So it's just reallyformational.

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So again, we're comparing 23 24 and 2425. So for the high school, let's get rid of my little um so not in status means what some this is

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every student succeeds acts um language. Not in status means we are we are performing well which means we have no ratings that are putting us into a remediation group. Um so at the high school level we are not in status for

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both years. Our score and our ratings improved and our ELA uh and subgroup monitoring are needed. Uh and I can explain why that is. So our summitive score was 62.43 at the high school.

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So um they refer to not in status as CSI, ATSI and TSI. So comprehensive support and improvement, additional targeted support and improvement and targeted support and improvement is not identified at in any year for um the majority of our schools. Uh and actually

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for general education all of our schools. Um so what changed in reporting from 23 to 24 23 24 to 24 25 is um uh the different calculations which is why some of the data I I put into the slide

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cannot be um measured or cannot be compared. So the high school gets a summitive score and a summitive rating and this is based on a calculation that they never share with us. uh it is based on a a combination of

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growth and well at the high school not growth because they don't do a growth score at the high school. At the elementaryaries it's a calculation of growth and a performance and growth at the high school it's just performance chronic absenteeism and they're all those categories are all weighted and they come up with a summitive score. So

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our summitive rating is 66.85 for this year for um and that's up by 3.45 But because the reporting format changed, I'm going to compare this with caution. Our proficiency uh also uh for math at

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the high school went up in um and also our graduation rates both four and fiveyear. Um when we when we talk about graduation rate in the state of New Jersey um the state of New Jersey about five years ago maybe six years ago went to the

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federal definition of graduation rate. So when you have students that are um uh have individualized education uh programs that are classified under special education um if they we are very

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often required to educate them through 21 years old if under the federal definition of graduation rate students that don't graduate by 18 are counted in as not having graduated. So, a student

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that's counted as in as 18 in uh four-year graduation and then five-year graduation, they're counted twice and we are penalized for that. But that's true of every school in New Jersey and most schools in both states. Um it's interesting how it's a requirement to

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educate students till 21, but it's also a requirement to graduate them by 18 department head. So the message here is not a single up or down um uh math and graduation strengthened. Uh we had some changes in

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uh in our ELA proficiency. Uh but we um Mrs. Peter and teachers here at the high school are working work have worked on that since. So um again HB not in status uh for any of those indicators.

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Uh and their score improved and the rating improved. So they they jumped the most. Uh and that was also true of their NJSLA scores. If you recall from our assessment uh last year, they went uh to an 80 78 to 86 and the rating improved

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from 88 to 94. So I'm going to just click through that because we saw that Brookdale. Um Brookdale is an interesting because Brookdale is so small. Last year it did not get some of these ratings because they're too small to count. Um so they

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are not status. Uh they are a 94.21 rating uh or percentile rating uh in 2425 and their summitive score in 2425 was 85. They did not have a summitive score or summitive rating in 232 and this is just how that was

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calculated. So we know there this is the same that same information you saw last year in the Usla report. So across the board, this last slide for each school is uh our students with disabilities. They have a special um uh

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u look at how they're doing. We need to look at special education at every school without a doubt. So there's a summary page at the end of each school as well. uh Forest Avenue um there are their

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summitive score is 62. Their summitive rating is 67. Uh they they dropped a little bit. I need to dig into uh why that is. I believe it was potentially their math um their math or their ELA this is growth. Their ELA growth went down. U math

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growth also went down. growth is an interesting thing because they compare students how they did on NJSLA from year to year. Um, and the NJSLA doesn't always test the same standards year to year. So, it's it's a

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moving target. Not that we're making excuses for it. I I am always looking to improve our student outcomes. FM Brown. Um, uh, this this yes in the middle is just indicating that FM Brown is classified as having title one. So,

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so is landing. Title one just means that that's um has a um a number of students that are receiving free and reduced lunch. So, they qualify for title one. Not that we qualify for title one anymore at all, but so they are also not in status. Uh we

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did see a a drop in both summitive score and summitive rating. you can uh kind of see why we we saw some changes in efficiency. Again, I'm going through this quickly because I'm going to put it on the on the website and it's old data.

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And finally, Lanning also not in status. Uh Lanning um uh went up in their summitive score. I want to point out that Lanning when I started here in 22. So the 2122

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uh school performance report landing uh summitive score would be 22. So they have more than doubled their score. Good for them. And HBW has gone from in the mid50s to 90s.

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And this is this is an interesting indicator because when we talk about how we measure schools, we look at US News and World Report. We look at um we used to look at um New Jersey Monthly. Um this is the state department of education. So it's evaluating every

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school district the same way every year. So again that's students with disabilities um area that we are we need to really do some progress monitoring on next year and our summary takeaways for landing.

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Next um next meeting I will have um the information that we need to present to the board on literacy. Uh the the law changed uh last year and we are required to monitor um uh for literacy

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improvement three times a year. If you recall, we approved the focus grant on the last meeting. That is to um that's the state's second year providing grant monies for districts to pay for that monitoring platform. Doesn't pay for all of it, but it pays for a good

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portion of it. And so I'll be reporting on that the next. And that's my report. Again, you can find this hot on our website for those of you that want to dig deep into that data.

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So, if if I may, um really appreciate you bringing this to the front. Um couple couple thoughts and bear with me as I'm trying struggling to articulate everything that's swimming around here. Um I think all data is good data uh as

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long as it um has meaning, right? And uh and I'm just kind of wondering out loud here as you know as succinct as your presentation was and it helped me understand you know what the heck I'm looking at. I worry though um that you

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in despite our efforts here or the state's efforts uh to increase transparency that to those who are less initiated into this meeting are going to look at this and either draw incorrect conclusions or just simply not understand and get

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frustrated and not take advantage of that transparency. So, kind of again, work with me as I'm thinking out loud here. >> Um, that lovely presentation you just gave, would there be a way to put >> maybe with our tech team?

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>> Yeah. U record that or save that part of the video and put it on the website or do another video. Um, not that you have more to do. um put that video on there so that people can see it and digest what it means in kind of a way saying,

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"Hey, these are the slides you guys want to look at. This is what it means to you at home." And that way people only have to spend, I don't know, 45 seconds and maybe this is something in the future that we can have our student representative, sorry Ryan, uh a student

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representative uh take on as a task. you know, maybe your team develops a script and then uh ha have a student uh read that in in terms of a context of saying to parents, hey, this is what it means to you. >> I can do that. That wouldn't take me long. >> Okay.

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>> Audio to that. I have a a nice little snack program that allows me to do that. So, um I you're right. Data is always there always good data. This data is not actionable because it's in the past, >> right? So we are already a year past that going

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into two years past that. But the good news is uh for anyone that is listening or will watch this in in uh recording is that we have been increasing our our student outcomes um the past three years. So um they we had a little excuse

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me a little bit of a snag um in uh English at the high school. we dropped a a sk a scotch. >> Um and then uh first year we only really improved our scores in ELA. >> Last year we focused really heavily on

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math and we improved in math and ELA. And this year's uh we this year's we have no idea. >> We have no idea because it's new test by a new provider with a new format. >> Yeah. and and >> all

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>> so and and again where where this data even if it's historical data has meaning is if we can put a narrative to that and and by having that on the website it's just a companion piece and it and it gives our audience uh our parents our families an opportunity to understand

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what's going on um and then that that helps I think uh create a level of alignment that otherwise we might not have >> sure >> is there ever reason this is so delayed >> always been that way and I hate that answer but that's the answer school it used to be called school

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>> school school report cards and um when they were really put together very peace meal and I think by hand before you have large scale tools that can do that for you now um they just came out a year ahead and they continue to do that it's

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not helpful I mean we have most of this data in from other ways that we so we know It's just that it comes out for the community well after we've already known this. We've already acted on it. We've already made changes to curriculum or

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instruction. But it is, as Mike said, it is according to the form letters that come out that you can send to the community. It is about transparency and letting you know how your school district is doing two years ago. And is this the last piece of data for

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that school year that we can expect or is there something else that we This is the final. >> Yeah, this is it. And like I said, we have most of it. We know all of our SAT, ACT, graduation rates, all of that, all of our NJSLA. Um I think the the one piece that comes

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out in this report that's in retrospect is the state's calculation of chronic absence which is sometimes different from ours. Not quite sure why that is. They're kind of they hold tight to their calculation

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methodology. >> Well, it's kind of a moving target as well because every district, you know, what's chronic to one district is not a problem to another. Speaking of chronic absenteeism, you're going to see on our next agenda there will be a revi a re revision again to our our abs our

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student absentee policy. We have seen a huge spike in um excuse me in uh absenteeism specifically at the high school student absent huge. Do >> we have a sense of the cause? Is it

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>> well Mr. Chicago thinks it's because when we um really publicized the um the absentee policy two years ago to reduce chronic absenteeism in the elementary schools, which it did. We had

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a weird policy in our in our student attendance policy at the elementary that you could have excused absences. There's no such thing in the state. There's no such thing as excused absence with the exception of like seven days that the state says are excused. Bring a child to

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work day jury. Um uh if you if a student works of a a voting day, um volunteers to work a voting uh if they are required to go to court, anything like that, that's excused. But if you are absent because you're sick, that's not excused.

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If you bring a doctor's note, the attendance review committee can absolve you of losing credit for that. Um but there really is no such thing. So we revised our attendance policy and it brought attention to the fact that if parent calls in a student that they can excuse it and so parents think they're

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excused now and we have kids that have like 30 and 40 absences talk about chronic absence for a bit like I think it is definitely like an it's kind of funny if you walk into like a class right there's a test or quiz there's a what Dr. Septemberally refers

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to it as a testitis where uh kids are quote unquote magically sick during tests and that's like when you see a lot of these absences when people try to avoid like taking assessments and even on standardized testing they show up but like math testing and JPA like they're

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not even there. So that's kind of about it. And at the high school, it's it's uh it's it's risky because if you miss a certain number of days and they are not excused, you run the risk of losing credit. We actually have a student this year that is not graduating because of

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attendance because they lost credit in too many classes. So um we do need to address it. uh we spoke about it last year at this time and we were not going to make a change because it was helping the chronic chronic absenteeism at the elementary but we've seen a two-year decline in the number of absent chronic

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absenteeism at the high school so we are going to make that change >> moving on to our business administrator report Mr. uh Dr. James Rally. Sorry. >> So, I don't have um a formal report per se, but I just wanted to share uh a few updates with the board to keep you all

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apprised. Um first and foremost, I wanted to say thanks to Tim from our maintenance department. Um for his work on the reappoint of the concrete curving around VHS, you know, our brutal winter and use of a lot of salt and and um

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plowing resulted in a lot of damage around the curving especially. So, Tim took the time to really get out there and um by doing that it saves us a lot of money down the road um you know a little a little preventative maintenance up front. So he did a great job and it

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looks wonderful. Um I just want to apprise that we are moving forward with the order for arbitration which was filed for the elementary playgrounds. So even though it doesn't look like there's much happening on the background um in the

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courtroom there is uh I hope to have a swift resolution once an arbiter is selected. I hope I I hope to have some swift resolution to that. Um and then just an update in the facilities. We're um deep into planning and scheduling for

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our summer maintenance projects coming into the busy season for the facilities and buildings and grounds department as well as the business office. We are uh not only preparing for the year-end close but then also making our preparations already for the annual audit um because the state will hold

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fast for that to be submitted uh by by the annual statuto deadline of December 5th. So we're already moving forward with the audit. Thank you, Dr. Marley. I have a quick question. Is there a um delivery date yet for the new scoreboard?

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>> There is none. >> Okay. >> Uh it is still it was it was a it was a um six to eight week lead time for construction. Um so I've not heard back from the vendor, but I will reach out to

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make sure we're moving along. >> Yeah. >> Uh we do have. Oh, moving on to our student report. I Ryan, this is your last student report. Ryan is graduating. Um,

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>> but Ryan, we really appreciate your service to our board. You're certainly going to be missed. Um, we thank you for being so professional every meeting and just bringing so much um, enthusiasm and information to us. So, you are certainly

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going to be missed, but thank you for your last report. >> Good evening. So, um we're going to be starting off with our spring athletics and our boys tennis team uh had completed uh slashing feet which is um capturing the uh North Jersey SE

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sectionals title after defeating Glen Ridge 3 to2 and the team um was had to look forward to competing in the uh group one state championship at Mercer County Park and track. Gwen Neil took home her third consecutive sectional

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title in the group 200 meters championship at Franklin High School. Other competitors such as Natoya placed in Javelin with Griffin Theobald Maguay Fior and Rossi showing strong performances in their respective events as well. And the state meetup champions

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will be held on the 3rd of June at Penn High School. And furthermore, the girls lacrosse team had advanced all the way to group sectional quarterfinals this year. And the uh senior boot sports boosters night will be held this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. where our senior

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athletes from the fall, winter, and spring will be honored with awards, packs, cords, and whatnot. So, um, last week was our annual scholarship night where seniors received tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships towards their pursuits of higher education. And last Wednesday was

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the annual VHS prom hosted at the Valley Regency in Clifton. And uh sophomore Wuk Watson is running a Verona's sixth annual poetry drive which will be taking place from June 1st to June 10th. Uh tomorrow is the last day.

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So, donations of sunscreen, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, and toothpaste will be collected until tomorrow in support of the food pantry at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, Tony's Kitchen, and the Human Needs food pantry. And then, of course,

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um this was the senior's capstone has been um in full swing for the last four weeks. And I'm just going to take the time to give you all a sense of what some of us are up to, I guess. So, um, Andrew Acman and I have been working as judicial interns in the Essex County

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Superior Court criminal under the honorable judges Mark Ali and Christopher Romanian. And together we have both witnessed hearings, convictions, trials in addition to completing things like legal research and reading up on cases among among much

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more. And both of us will be pursuing um political science with the possibility of pre-wall track at Basser College and George Washington University respectively. and a group comprising of Jada Kouro, Grace Patatis, Payton Ker and Papacia, Lily Petrusi, Abby Romanian, and Sinclair Zambborski along

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chaperone, Sienna Core and British Chakano um was actually went down to Florida for capstone this year and 2026 is this um the first year that we're doing an alternative for capstone which uh from the 17th to the 21st of May uh

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seven senior girls have taken a trip to the uh give kids to World Village in Florida and volunteered each day. And just to give a little context about what it is, it's kind of like a Makea-Wish kind of like Disney like fusion kind of thing, but but they volunteered each day with various activities around the

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village to give those families uh with that have terminally ill children the magic that they deserve. And at the Verona Town Hall, Ivy Wild has been designing posters for municipalities, communications, outreach, and social media. Most of these serve to promote town events and

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present important information and this will definitely help her pursue her future dreams of um graphic design at Ruckers New Brunswick. There's a couple more and uh Francesca Gashin was um capstoneing at the Clara Moss Medical Center and attending meetings with senior medical leaders, hearing updates

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on safety individual departments and even like observing operating rooms, shadowing, occasionally helping with patient surveys and whatnot. and three seniors Michelle Moonai, Titus and Nick Veranda who are all pursuing engineering are at the Wang engineering form firm in

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the city and they've been working with professionals across every field of engineering environmental civil geotechnical etc etc and they've been basically um just witnessing what experience they need for each what each field they're

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interested in like presentations whatnot hands-on research and just getting to know some of the professionals. This is a really nice experience for them. And then Julia Zisk has the pleasure of working at MSU's speech department in their speech and aiology clinic and

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under the direction of supervisors, researchers, professors. She's had the opportunity to work on hand with speech sessions, group therapy, seminars, had conversations with people like stroke victims and whatnot. and to quote herself, quote, "Over the last past

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three weeks, I've understood how capstone may have been the most important experience of my senior year." End quote. And these are just a couple of the handful of things our seniors have accomplished at their capstone leaderships. And you can kind of tell like it's kind of like a multifaceted uh

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interdisciplinary thing. It's kind of very beneficial to us as graduating seniors. And definitely a shout out to Mr. Hershman and Mr. or for running such a beneficial and successful program and I guess to speak off the cuff I guess I

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mean this is my u last meeting so uh this has overall been a very great experience I've really enjoyed working in this space and having the opportunity to to basically like intake information give information learn do a bunch of stuff right like I think service is one

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of my biggest things and like obviously looking back because like I always wish I could have done more because I'm an overconer But it's fine. It's on It's kind of in the path now. Graduation's in 10 days. So, >> not that you're counting. >> I am counting, but it's fine.

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But yeah, so I I really thank everyone here. And like even I it means a lot that I get to be up here because the experience I've had and the impact even like uh I don't even that's one of the social studies teachers at the middle school, Mr. Haynes. Like that's one lesson where

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my friend was talking about because she has a brother in the middle school. It's like they put on these videos in the in the classroom. I was like, "Wow, that's that's that's where they're getting those five views on YouTube from." So, no, but no, seriously, this is really great. And I think we can

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>> Yeah, this is I I mean, this is a really good way to promote civic engagement with kids. And I have fantastic people that are really interested in doing this. I have lined up juniors, even sophomores, right? And they're really interested in doing this. and like I have parents that talk to me about this. It's really just phenomenal. So, I really thank you all and that's that's

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all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you, Ryan. I Yeah, Ryan. And just uh to um echo U Mrs. Prrisco as well, um you're you're I'm confident that you are going to do Verona very proud. So, thank

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you for your enthusiasm and your efforts here. >> I appreciate it. >> And I I I also wanted to comment on uh your discussion about Capstone. Um it is a wonderful program. Um I know uh my youngest has extremely benefited from it and it has opened up several doors. In

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fact um his capstone experience was the reason he got a particular internship this year because of the work he did at that. So it does have real world impact. And and also I wanted to shout out you mentioned judges Ali and Judge Roman

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Roman as well. Um both these gentlemen are uh deeply involved in Verona. They've had children as your report also indicated that went through here in Verona. And uh the fact that they are opening doors in uh the Newark courts uh

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for students such as yourself um is just really a big thanks to them for holding that door for our students and we can't thank them enough as well for that. That's great. I would also like to talk about the

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capstone. I have this year first time I've had three students from the high school working with me in um the recreation pool department and I have Lauren Foley, Sophia Graziano, and Caitlyn Scalfo. So, they got to see a

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lot of the behind the scenes, the working of what it takes to open up the community pool. Um which was my first year as well. So they got to see the behind the scenes of what gets done and it's a lot. So I'm thankful that I have

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them because they've been helping me a lot. So kudos to them. I don't know if they'll go into the field of opening up pools but >> they're learning all the back end. So yeah, thank you Ryan. Again,

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moving on to any committee reports. No. Uh public comments on any agenda action items. Anyone from the public, please state your name. You have three minutes on anything we're voting on.

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Seeing none, moving on to discussion or new items, new business or old business. I >> I I just have one thing. Uh Mrs. Prisco, uh over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending the um pride flag raising. Um

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we had um council member or excuse me, congress member um uh L Monica Macgyver uh attended um which uh just shows uh the impact that this has um to our uh broader community in NJ10, but also uh

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council member uh Cynthia Holland uh presented as well as representatives of the Church of the Holy Spirit helped uh raise the flag. And I was particularly happy to see um members of the Verona school community uh notably the HBW Safe Club was in. Um I think this is an

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important event that we do every year. Um this is if please don't hold me to this, but I believe this is the third um third annual event. Uh and it's something very important and I'm I'm just very proud of our community. I'm also proud that Verona Schools is giving

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a platform for people to feel safe to uh be a part of this um this celebration. So, thank you. >> I have something for old business as well. Um we are in the process of trying to update the uh trees for schools

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grant. Um it is I was on the phone uh this morning back and forth with the grant administrator who is in Greece right now. So, it's hard such a big time difference. It's hard to know. But I do have a scheduled call with her tomorrow. Um there's a pretty significant

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difference between the trees that we had in our original plan and those trees that we were able to obtain through the vendor. I don't know if they're going to approve the grant at the amendment to the grant. So I'm I just wanted to alert the board that this is um we may be

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asked to abandon it at this point. We always have the option to go back to it another year. Um, but the the um the trees are still not in the ground and uh >> I thought I I thought um you we

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addressed this as a problem several several months ago. So I'm not and it it was my impression then that this was not going to go forward. I'm I'm I guess I might have lost the plot a little bit that that we had a channel of hope.

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>> We did. We had we had a hope because um our the issue was the grant changed from last year to this year on how it's funded. So we would have had to come up with um 80% of the somewhere around $55,000 to do the grant ahead of time and only

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get the money back a year down the road and only if the trees are still alive. So So um we were going to pull out of it. Um uh and Mr. Sullivan, the township manager, offered to front us the money

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from the shade shade tree commission commission's budget. And um it's been difficult. Uh the vendor that we were using, Dr. Raleigh and I have been literally asking for the updated plant list since April 1st. Um we got it June

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5th and so the plant should the tree should have been in the ground well well before >> late in the year now. It's late in the year and uh so she may um uh she may tell us it's too late. Um you're going to they're not going to survive at this

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point. I don't know. >> We'll see. I have meeting with her tomorrow. >> Do we have any correspondence? >> Moving on to our agenda items, our resolutions. I will start off with personel. I need a

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motion to approve uh resolutions A1 all the way through A10. >> Um one oh sorry um >> yes so move >> motion by Mr. Boon seconded by >> second

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>> Mr. Are there any discussion? >> Yeah, just um on A10 uh do we want to separate that and read that out? >> Okay. >> Okay. >> You could.

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>> So A10 is resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent. The board of education hereby reads into the record the following. Honoring student representative Ryan. Um, uh, Ryan, pronounce your last name for me again because I'm terrible at Guo. It is Guo. Okay.

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>> I always think I'm mispronouncing. >> Um, for service on the Verona Board of Education. Whereas Ryan Guo has served with distinction on the Verona Board of Education. And whereas through his leadership, the Verona Board of Education has gained fresh insights into student concerns, student priorities, and what's on the mind of young people

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in the community. And whereas he has further contributed to the community by serving as a valuable spokesperson, sharing the student perspective at board meetings. And whereas Ryan Guo ex exemplary commitment to fellow students, the school district has promoted clear communication between the board district

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administration and the student body. And whereas Ryan has maintained a professional decor at board meetings, shown respect to board members, and strive to learn the proper etiquette of serving on a school board. and where whereas he has demonstrated a commitment to advancing the education of all students without neglecting their own

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responsibility his own responsibility to strive for success in the classroom. Now therefore be it resolved that the Verona Board of Education recognizes Ryan Bose's dedication to the commitment of advancing educational opportunity and open communication between the board district administrators and the student

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body. And be it further resolved that the members of the Verona Board of Education extend their sincere appreciation to Ryan for his dedicated service to the Verona Board of Education. And be it further resolved that the members of the Board of Education extend their best wishes to Ryan in all of his future endeavors. And

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most uh closely your next endeavor is uh George Washington, right? >> Congratulations on that as well. >> Congratulations. >> So are they going to show this video clip uh Brian in the We can do a roll call.

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>> Mr. Per. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Frisco. >> Yes. >> And Mr. >> Yes. The motion pass. >> Thank you. Moving on to our education. I need a motion to approve B1 through B 7. >> So move.

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>> Motion by Mr. Boon, seconded by I mean motioned by Mr. Peris, seconded by Mr. Boon. Are there any discussions? Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll. >> Mr. Fera? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Frisco? >> Yes. >> And Mr. >> Yes.

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>> Thank you. Moving on to athletics and co-curricular. I need a motion to approve C1 through C2. >> So move. >> Motion by Mr. Boon, seconded by Mr. Pera. Are there any discussions? >> Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll. >> Mr. Pera? >> Yes.

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>> Mrs. Brisk? >> Yes. >> Mr. B? Yes. >> Thank you. There's nothing on for facilities. I need a motion to approve our finance resolutions E1 through E 9.

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>> So move >> motion by Mr. Boone, seconded by I mean motion by Mr. Pera, seconded by Mr. Boon. >> Yes. >> Are there any discussions? >> Uh Mr. uh Dr. rally on E3 where we're we're finally putting the rest the uh 2008 Ford.

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>> We are at long last. Um it it it fetched quite a nice price on GV deals. Um probably secretly uh more than it is frankly worth. Are >> you sure you want to admit >> it is finally um I'm sure it's it's

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going to a loving home. We're happy to see it out of the shed. Dr. Riley, if you could please call. >> Mr. Turner, >> yes. >> Mrs. Frisco, >> yes. >> And Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. On to governance and policy.

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I need a motion to approve uh motions F1 through F2. >> So move. >> Motion by Mr. Boon, seconded by Mr. Pera. Are there any discussion? >> Dr. Riley, if you could please call RO. >> Mr. Per. >> Yes. Mrs. Frisco. >> Yes.

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>> And Mr. Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to public comments. If anyone from the public would like to speak, you have three minutes. Please state your name. >> Mrs. Yeah, then the public can hear you. Thank you.

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>> Good. >> Thanks, Danielle. >> Um, just wanted to introduce myself. Um, Danielle Caner will be working on the myonj.com site. and trying to attend meetings as much as I can and as my children's

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schedules allow. Um, and you know, looking forward to kind of working with the board of ed and, uh, the superintendent in helping to get some of the kind of key information about what's happening with the schools out to the public um, in a way that, you know,

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eliminates sort of surprise when issues arise. Um, so when we talk about things like school report cards coming up and people look at them without context, um, there's an area where, not that you shouldn't do your own thing for the school, but where I would hope that, you

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know, in reporting on things like that that um, we have kind of an open dialogue that I can help to provide context on these kind of matters as well. Um, one question I just have and I don't know if this is the time questions and I

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can follow after the meeting is you know how things are looking on trimester schedule I know you're can't really make them until they have the final student count but has you know is it looking like this is possible

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>> oh yes it's absolutely possible so um Mrs. uh Arian and the four elementary principles have u set meetings uh for the last week in the the the third week in June and the last week in June to sit down and and knock

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those out. Um it's doable. We did proof of concept. It's just a matter of now um making it so that our teachers have to move the least amount of u times in a week in terms of where like we don't really want someone to have to move more than one building day.

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>> You know, I know that's like a huge and oh sorry um one other is a new block schedule format at the middle school discussion or will it look the same next year?

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>> This is a new schedule uh that we implemented this year. So this is the end of the first year of a new uh rotating rotating block schedule. Not a drop block. It rotates through the whole day. >> Right. My son's there. Okay. So So it'll be the same for next year. Okay. Right.

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That's what I thought. >> Hear a lot. >> Yeah. I hear a lot of things, too. I I I heard I had a house in Florida and that I work there Fridays and Mondays. >> Yeah, it's not true. >> I wish it were true, but it's not true.

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>> You got some mild on that. >> Thank you. >> Have a private. >> Thank you, Daniel. >> Um, seeing no other public comments, we are going to I need a motion, please, to adjourn our meeting.

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>> So, move. Motion by Mr. Pera, seconded by Mr. Bern Boon. All in favor? >> I I >> Thank you. Um, our next scheduled meeting. Okay. Will be held on Oh, it's Monday, June 22nd. Our next

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meeting. Correct. >> After graduation. >> Yes. >> Yes. After graduation. >> Yeah. >> Monday. >> That's because of my conference. I have to I have to leave Tuesday morning. >> Okay, that's fine. I just just putting Monday the 22nd beginning confidential

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at 6 p.m. and public section at public session at 7 p.m. in the Verona High School Learning Commons. It is 7:53 and the meeting is adjourned. Have a great evening. Happy graduation.