I'd like to make a motion to take Pat to leave the meeting. >> I'll second that. >> I didn't know if we had to wait for Connie to call in. >> I think we have to wait for her to call in before we do it.
>> Unless She give us a number. >> I mean, as long as you have enough. >> Yeah, but this is not based on executive session. >> It's not necessarily, but it's fine there. We have enough votes to move forward anyway.
>> So, we We're calling Mrs. Baker. That's what the hold up is. >> You there, Connie? >> Yes, I am. >> Okay. Thank you. Go ahead. I guess >> did you can make the motion?
>> So I'd like to make a motion for Pat to run the meeting since the president and vice president are not here. >> I'll second that. >> Is that one at a time or roll call? >> We can roll call it. >> Okay, roll call.
>> Mrs. Baker, >> here. >> Mrs. Clancy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chilla. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hartong. >> Yes. >> Mr. Le Liberty. >> Yes. >> Mr. Serrano. Absent.
>> Mr. Ross. >> Yes. >> Miss Kazmple absent. >> Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes. >> Okay. The motion to close executive. We did that. >> Okay. So, we're going to go over now.
This meeting is being videotaped. Anyone not wishing to be seen on television may be excused. Can we all stand, please, for the pledge of allegiance? >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, this evening we have two presentations to make. The first one is to go over testing and Mrs. Gerber will
do that for us. >> Good evening everyone. Uh I have the pleasure and responsibility of sharing with you the results of last year's state testing. So we have the NJSLA which is um the New Jersey student learning assessment which is given in
the spring which will be different this year so it's going to be tough to compare from year to year again. Uh the NJGPA results which is our um graduation proficiency assessment and the access tests which is for our ELLL learners. So, I want to go through the testing
report for all three of those groups and I'm going to hopefully give you a comparison of how we are with the state. Uh, break it down by subgroups as well and for each of these categories. So, thank you for bearing with me.
So, the NJSLA is administered um in ELA grades 3 through nine, math grades three through eight, and also students enrolled in algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, science grades 5, 8, and 11. And it does provide state comparative data.
A passing or a proficient score is considered a level four or a level five. There are five levels within this assessment and uh you need to make a level four or level five to be considered meeting expectations. So the first slide shows each grade
level. It's very hard to see because it's small starting with grade three to the far left of the screen to uh grade nine and then the final column of colors is all grades. But you'll notice that whenever you're green, like a light green or a dark green, that is your
meeting or exceeding. I'll show you slides that bring that number up a little bit closer. So, what we're looking for really when you're looking at your ELA results, you're looking at those that are meeting and exceeding and those proficiency levels and us versus the state. So, I
did a very clear sideby-side comparison, which is a little bit better to see. So if you look at our grades three through nine is on the left all students is at the bottom. You can see the district and the state and I highlighted where we
were higher than the state average and where and the difference is the final column by how much. So, I'm happy to report that in ELA, we are higher than the state in all um in all grade levels, which is a nice change for us and really
good and a lot of work's been commended to that. So, thank you. Um I do want to point out, look at our fifth grade, like 19% almost 20% better than the state average. Um we put a lot of work and effort in our ELA uh
programming and our ELA supports and working towards that. So, uh, that definitely showed off with the efforts that we made last year. Math is still work in progress, but I'm going to walk you through says because I still think it's getting there. So, uh, again, this is the same report with
grade three to the far left. Uh, moving all the way to the different subject areas where it does get confusing, and I'll try my best to explain it to you to all grades. So, again, we're looking at Oops, sorry, I went too fast. uh we're looking at the last two columns in terms
of meeting and exceeding and where we are in terms of the district and where we are in the state and uh board members you'll have a closer version of this so you can see like in some areas you'll see where we may have gone up to meeting and we dipped in exceeding but total we
did better. So that's where this document comes in hand. So in grades three, four and five, we did do better than the state um in our math proficiency in terms of the dis the state average. So uh it ranges from you know 2% to 10% difference in grades six,
seven and eight though we just were right there to a point 2 uh you know 2.8 3.7 which in some cases and in some years we've seen a wider gap. So we're seeing that gap lessen which is is good
news. The other the other subject areas gets complicated because not every you have to remember in eighth grade not all of our students take the grade eight assessment. Some of them take the algebra uh assessment. Some of them take uh we have a student who take who we
have students who take the algebra 2 assessment depending on where they are in their levels. So it becomes a little bit skewed. We also don't have every every uh ninth grader taking geometry. About 60some students take the geometry assessment. So when you're looking where
you go above in high school, you're looking algebra, middle school, and high school. The state just averages them together. Um but we have to break them out. So you'll see where in algebra 1 and middle school, which is where most of our kids, our higher kids are taking algebra 1 in middle school. Um
definitely we did better than the state. uh we don't have as many students taking it in the high school. Um but again then we are unfortunately less than the state geometry um is about 60 of our students that are taking that assessment in high
school because everybody has a different path. Um so again that's a little bit that's definitely lower than the state but again it's representative about 60 students. Most of our students are taking um in high school algebra 2. So, um, if you look at the algebra 2, we
have middle school versus high school. And in that comparison, you'll see that, um, we're do we we we're we're growing in that area. So overall, our math has had a very large gap over the past several years, and we're seeing that gap
lessen. And I think that's because we're putting a lot more time and effort and energy into uh working with staff, working with um a new supervisor, working with new curriculum, and supporting our staff with uh digital tools and resources um and really working with kids to make those real
world connections in math. This brings me to science. So science is tr problematic throughout the state. So in order for science for you to be proficient, you have to score a level three or a level four. Um you can see the green in this area is
much lower. Uh then the those meeting profic proficiency or below proficiency. So again, we're looking at who scored a three and a four because that's considered passing. So when we when we highlight that, this is where in fifth
grade, we um we're about 7% above the state average. In eighth grade, we're right there. Um you know, just a slight percentage point away. Uh and in grade 11, it looks like a very big dip with 15%, but when you think about grade 11,
they are tested on all the sciences. So they're going to be tested on things that they learned in ninth grade and 11th grade. Uh so when you're thinking about how that cycle doesn't really occur and that revisit doesn't happen as frequently uh we definitely see that but as you can see overall with the state
averages being 19% 30% it is a test that throughout the state districts are struggling with. So science is notoriously uh a very challenging assessment uh and it's challenging particularly if it because it is cyclical in nature. So it's revisiting
concepts that you would have learned in you know different science courses and particularly when you get into high school and you get very specific courses in your plan uh that becomes difficult to go back and remember what you learned in nth grade. So taking a look at subgroups we're
required to show subgroups and in some of the subgroup data I think you'll be able to see how we've been improving over time uh particularly when we look at those uh students in by race. So the first slide does show race. So it's uh starting with Asian, next column
black, next Hispanic, multiple races, and white. So when you look at the green, the light green lime, and the dark green, that is meeting and exceeding, bringing that up closer to look at it over time. If each category, this is the
one place where students aren't duplicated because they're either written as Asian, multiple, white, so they fall within that category. If you look at the light blue or purple, excuse me. Uh if you look at that color, that's 2023.
If you look at the purple, that's 2024. And then if you look at the dark purple, that is 2025. So you can see how in ELA, language arts, we're incrementally increasing each year by each of those subgroups. It's a trajectory really
going up. Obviously in the multiple we had a dip last year, but we regained that and surpassed this year. Then we move into this is subgroups based off of um ELLL's free and reduced lunch 504
special education and general education. So some students may live in multiple groups. So in other words, you could have a special ed student who's also in free and reduced lunch. So they're going to count in both places. But you can see our general ed population uh is, you
know, with the light green and the dark green doing very well. And we saw that in the language arts scores where we surpassed the state in all grade levels. Looking at male and female, we used to have a big disparity between our our
males and our females, particularly in ELA and math. It's really closen. So, it's showing right now that we're, you know, actually providing education for and inspiring uh males to be literate as well as females. And you'll see the same conversely in math when we get to that
slide. Uh now moving on to math, we're looking back again at uh subgroups distributed by race with Asian, then black cluster, Hispanic, multiple, and white. again with the light green and green being
meeting or exceeding. And this again shows incrementally how we're tweaking up a little bit each year. Uh again, you can see that through Asian, you can see that through those uh black, Hispanic. Again, we had a dip
with multiple, but we didn't quite do as well as we did in 2023, but we did uh we did with our with our white population. Again, this is by our English language learners, free and reduced lunch, section 504,
special education, and our gened population. Taking a look at the green and the um both light and dark being meeting and exceeding. Here we go again with females and males in math.
Very similar scores in terms of passing, in terms of our light green and green. I remember doing these presentations for several years and we had a big disparity. It kind of followed unfortunately um the trend that people would say you know males will do better
in math and females will do better in in language arts. We're seeing that that close so that males and females seem to be scoring um very similarly in both subject areas. science. Again, this is obviously indicative of how we struggle because of
the cyclical nature of the assessment. Um, so if we go back to far left being Asian, black, middle category, Hispanic, multiple, and white and then moving on how we've progressed over the years. So, uh, based off of
these categories, it does show that we are struggling to maintain and and improve in our science areas and we'll continue to work in that area. Particularly now that we have a new assessment and new directives, we'll be taking a closer look in terms of how our science assessments and our science
curricula can maybe revisit some topics that have been previously taught. breaking down by ELLL, free and reduced lunch, section 504, special ed and general education. And our last slide with males and females in science.
This is just those those unfortunately in red and yellow are below or near proficiency and the green is meeting. So we have some work to do but so does the state. The assessment is definitely difficult and challenging.
So, moving on to the GPA. So, the GPA was first administered in spring of 2022. Um, it was administered to grade 11 students in math and ELA only. And in the 23 24 school year, the GPA scores counted towards graduation and that
began in the class of 2024. proficiency levels um not yet graduation ready scores a range of 650 to 749 whereas a 750 to 850 is graduation ready. So again we're looking at Washington
Township public schools ver you know with the state in that red outlined box. But I want to bring that up a little bit closer for you. I think I do on the next slide. No I don't. So I'll walk you through it. So in uh Washington Township and ELA we're graduation ready 86.4%
where the state is 80. Uh we're above in math we're 60.2% where graduation ready for the state is 58.0. That's an improvement for us because in the past we've been below particularly in math. So we are making gains in the math area. all results uh
if you combine those 73.3 where the state is 69.3. Um if you look at grade 11 ELA to the left and grade 11 math to the right, that's another way to visualize um those
passing and not passing in ELA and math. And here's a way to compare it. This is going to I'm going to walk you through this. Uh this is comparing 2425 um in ELA and math. So the light blue if you compare both light blues uh in 2024
is the light blue where the dark blue is ELA in 2025. So we're right we're right about there in terms of ELA. So we dipped a little bit in graduation ready but the math improvement is showing. So this is where we're seeing definitely for the GPA uh an improvement in math
2024 to 2025 where we went from 49.8% to 60.3% um you know passing from 20 you know 2024 to 2025 in in the in the district whereas the gain wasn't as great in the
state it was 56.6 and 58.8 8 and we then surpassed the state. So subgroups for graduation ready going from Asian, black, Hispanic, multiple, and white. And then this is broken down by our ELLL
population. Uh clearly um when you're looking at you know our ELLL population, you're considering obviously learning English as a first language. So that's can be often times challenging when passing those assessments. Uh free and reduced lunch 504 special ed and general
education. Moving on to the access test. So this is the assessment that we give to our English language learners. um they have a sixpoint rubric um where really you're looking at uh levels five and six but really about midway between you know
four and five is considered enough to exit you from the program and basically we have this broken down by grade cluster. So to the far left is kindergarten through fifth grade with developing being um the mustard color.
Uh we have a lot of English language learners at the elementary level. We have about 50 of the 78 so students um at the elementary level. Uh we have a handful again at you know grades 6 through 8 and 9 through 12 last year. I'm going off those numbers based
on this assessment. So overall uh we have a lot of students who do exit because they are within that developing but we want to really see them in that expanding bridging and reaching but depending on their year of entry and how long they've been here um the results
vary uh but we do see growth we have uh three elelll teachers that work with this population and uh like I said most of them are at the elementary level in that K to5 bracket but we do have students at the high school and at the middle school and students that we do
service through a consultative model at the preschool level. So, three goals for us for this year. Um, we really want to continue to moving towards mastery with the change in the assessment coming up. um that will be challenging, but because the test will look different and acclimating to that,
uh is really a trial practice this fall, which is what we've been going through in the um recent weeks where we've had our our testing practice administration and then actually the the test that's occurring throughout the district as a trial. So, it's not counting this time.
and we'll find out for the spring, but it's something that we're going to be working through as we learn more about the assessment and um comparing how we can hopefully they'll come up with some type of a comparison for us, but really starting off of a new slate. But our goals are really focusing on digital
tools and maximizing those tools to our benefit so that we can use um diagnostic prescriptive instruction. So if the computer adaptive assessment tells us this is the standards that the student needs, the platform will address those
standards uh right where that child is at and the teacher also has the autonomy to move that to where they believe the child may need support. Uh we're focusing on small moves, big impact. Um which is just really good teaching strategies, asking good questions,
circulating the room, um collecting data, conferring with students, uh obtaining feedback, giving students timely feedback, and then always anchoring back onto the Danielson model, which is uh definitely our teacher evaluation model, but more importantly
our teaching and learning model. So intervention strategies, we definitely have structured interventions and additional time programs. So we have those in ELA and mathematics. Uh we do have some STEM programs that we're running through grants as well. So if you're concerned about those science
scores, we do have that running uh through title 4. Um supplemental programs are happening in our title one schools. Um, so there's structural changes. We do have some revised intervention protocols because we did reduce some of our intervention staff.
However, we're trying to maximize some of those protocols for digital resources. Uh, professional development. We will be learning more about the new NJSLA assessment, the adaptive assessment. Um, throughout the year, we'll have professional development on
interventions and continual look at data analysis. Uh and we do that at the district level, school level and either grade level or um content area depending on you know what level um what whether it's elementary, middle or high school
and then the uh shelter anger English um so sorry sheltered instruction and observation protocol uh the SCOP model for our ELLL learners. So and training our staff on that model for when they have ELLL students in their classroom but they're not a certified ELLL
teacher. And then again like I said integrating some of the digital content we use utilize I Ready with the personalized my path uh beable. We saw great results in that in grades three through five uh in our ELA results as you could see and that's um a really
wonderful program. We also have it for intervention this year in grades six through eight. Alex is a math program we use in our middle level and we'll continue to bolster our student support with excel at the high school because I does not go to that level. So, I want to thank you for your time.
Uh, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. But I do want to give a big round of applause to all the staff that work so hard to get the results uh particularly in math and ELA where we're seeing great growth. So, thank you, [Applause]
>> Gretchen. Thank you so much. That's a great presentation. Great growth. Uh, special thank you to all of our staff who made that possible. Uh, and the board doesn't know this piece yet. I had a a very awesome meeting yesterday with the chief executive officer from Beable, which is a very massive literary
solution. Uh and uh they are going to donate their services for free for the entire district, which for an online program could save us not even tens of thousands, it's it's way more. So stay tuned for that. Uh which I thought was
an amazing offer. And uh and we're going to get it all for free. Yep. Great job, Gretch. >> Okay, >> so sorry. >> Okay, go ahead. >> Thought it'd be good just maybe discuss the presentation. I also thought it was
a great presentation. Um, you know, it's good to see thought it was very logically broken down and, you know, while it's disappointing to see in some areas where we're below state average, it's good to see the positive progress. you. I think the only way you improve is
by seeing and acknowledging where you are and then setting goals and that incremental progress. I mean, I don't think we're ever going to see big jumps because it takes time to to make change and we're seeing change over the years and hopefully we'll cons continue to see that change. Um, that's why I think it
was important that we had a district goal around academic achievement and for me as long as we're seeing incremental improvement, I think that's should be the goal. Um hopefully with the expansion of prek2, we'll start to see that having an effect on the lower
grades. Maybe that's something why the lower grades are doing so well. But um you know, great to see the areas we're progressing and the areas that were not. I mean, I think I like that you had action steps up there about how we're going to address it. So, great job. Thanks. >> Yes. Thank you from all the board, too,
for all your hard work and our staff. Okay. Right now, we're going to go into another presentation. A few months ago, Mrs. Lenudi got up to the microphone and it was a night when we had a lot of students come to our meeting upset about their clubs and
their clubs no longer being in the district and she had a great idea to try to get community members involved in sponsoring clubs and between that idea Mr. Anderson took off on it and we had a lot of um community involvement that
allowed us to return a lot of the clubs to our children and that's what we're here for as a children and to me this is one of the best things that I've seen happen in the last few months. So thank you very much Mrs. Lenudi and Mr. Anderson as well as all the community me
members. Good evening everyone, board of education, administration, everyone here in the audience and of course our beloved viewers at home. Principal Anderson Washington Township High School. I am joined by my assistant principal Angela Costello and we are here to share some uplifting news. As
you may have seen at a summer board meeting, as we just talked about a little bit, we were not in a financial position to be able to run all the clubs and activities that we had always run previously. Budget constraints were there and tough decisions had to be made. We couldn't let that happen as students continued to be actively
involved as they build their college applications and above all pursue interests that they love. It was on that evening we began our crusade to seek donations to make sure that our clubs and activities kept running as they have in the past. I didn't know how we were going to pull it off, but we were very
determined. In this very room, before we even finished speaking, two people came up and we had $2,400 within 2 minutes of this initial conversation. It became our mission to do a campaign to seek more support from our community, which is
always supportive of WTHs, and we appreciate that. Let me tell you, did we ever get support? Everyone from local businesses, not so local businesses, family members, friends, even a church
swooped in with financial donations to make sure that our students had continuous access to the clubs and the activities that they love. These companies and individuals truly embraced our high school challenge to students and staff alike. We like to call it M3,
MCubed. Making memorable moments in the classroom, around our school, and on the in the community, and on the field. With the help of Mrs. Costello, we were able to raise, are you ready for this? $31,000
in just over two weeks. Because of the love of country and community that we have built at WTHs, together with the generosity of those around us, many of whom are here tonight, we are back at full capacity and running our clubs and activities that were slated to run. Please join me in a round
of applause to these amazing individuals and companies that reached out and took care of us. So, we are here tonight because we're actually going to recogn recognize those individuals who found it in their hearts to help the students at WTS. Not everyone could make the meeting. Tuesday
nights at 7:30 could be a little rough. Um, but those who are here, we have a presentation. I think we're going to do some certificates. I don't know who's Okay, Angela's got Mrs. Costell, you prepared. Mrs. Costello has them. So, what we'll do is as we call your name, we're going to read all of the names of
the donors who were a part of this. And again, these people and companies donated to the clubs that, you know, were not going to were not slated to run because of the tough decisions that we had to make. So, they really really helped us a great deal and we're very very thankful. And after we do so, we're just going to head out and we'll take a
group photo um to thank some of our donors that were able to be here tonight. So, Dr. Hibs, are you going to join us for giving these out? >> All right. So, we're going to read them all. Okay. And if you are here, we're going to have you come up and join us if you if you would.
>> Are you going to show me the certificate? >> Yeah, I'm taking out the ones that wanted to be anonymous. I'm sorry. There was All right. First, we have music at Bunker Hill. [Applause]
>> And this is actually one of our retired music teachers, Dr. Mary Buchong who was with the district for a very long time and the wife of former visual performing arts supervisor Mr. Bob Frampton. This is Martha Frampton. So we appreciate having you just join. >> Fabulous.
>> And again we're not sure if we have representatives but we're going to read them all. We have Flynn and Associates, Dioria and Sun mechanical Contractors. Main Street Music, Stanches Property Services, Christopher McKenzie, Teresa Sapinara.
[Applause] Teresa is a longtime secretary. She was actually my secretary at WTHS. Absolutely amazing. Smith Funeral Home. Fetch Family Pet Resort,
Cadillac of Turnerville, Kids Choice, Heather Graasso, [Applause] Sprains, Strains, and Fractures, The Fowler Company,
Anthony Panto, the Washington Township Chamber of Commerce. >> Thank you. >> Rowan Boulevard Associates. If you like Lascalis Fire, that's who that is, right?
KC Holdings Group. Peter Miller from Binsmeire. [Applause] my parents, Raymond and Linda Anderson. Uh, graduates of WTHs, Andrew and Kyle Bunting,
>> Joseph and Terry Shear, Mr. Charlie Bloom. [Applause] >> Thank you all so much. We appreciate it again. Thank you. Do we all She's going to speak after Mike.
>> It's She said to do it um after Mike after go over her report. when you're reading. >> Okay. >> There's just nothing. So you'll be after him. >> I don't think
>> that would be more information. >> Yeah. >> But like nobody sees this. [Music] I know. >> All right, we're going to go on from there. We're going to listen to Mr.
Cilio go over some of his information from the school and community relations. >> Thank you, Miss Blum. I I'm very excited to talk about several things tonight. First and foremost, I would like to make a um formal thank you to um all of our
interventionists, administrators, STC's, STO uh school test coordinators, and counselors. um what we had to endure to get ready for the state test was um very hard. Um we found out on August 22nd that we had a test to do in the
fall and today the middle school did their first round of test. Middle school's going to test again tomorrow and then next week we're going to have the elementary schools and then uh when we get back from Veterans Day we're going to have the high school. And I I have to say that everybody has been
absolutely wonderful. It's been very hard. We've been um having incredible meetings, trainings, lots of emails. I think I sent at least 10 with various color-coded emails. Um I just want to say thank you because we couldn't have done that without them. So, I'd like to give them a round of applause. All the
people I mentioned, thank you. It's very important. Um so, last last week, Mr. Lindstead and I began filming season two of the We Are Township Leadership Podcast. The first episode of the second season will drop just after Veterans Day and it'll be on
YouTube and Spotify. Um, and there'll be different teasers and links on Instagram as well. Mr. Lindstead and I had the opportunity to meet and learn about the leadership capabilities of the Interact Club um with Miss Yan uh leaders in
theater productions with Mr. Stefen and our junior air force ROC leaders with Lieutenant Colonel Lumpin. So, today uh the Washington Township officially inaugurated the annual superintendent student cabinet today and it's a
beginning of a year-long leadership development uh program focused on cultivating our next generation of community-minded leaders. This first session of of the year was led by Dr. Hibbs, Mr. Anderson, and myself. We welcome back about 20 to 25 students
from grades 9 through 12. All of whom participated in the leadership podcast last year with the exception of a few individuals. So these students uh dedicated we reconvene to launch deeper exploration into leadership. We talked about the journey of a leader embracing
fear, dreaming big, taking charge, bouncing back and then leaving a legacy. And hopefully by the end of the year, we'll get the students to engage in a capstone project that not only benefits uh solidarity within the school, but in the town and the community in general
while serving others. Um so this is more than just the superintendent's cabinet. I'm proud to say with Dr. Hibs' support, Mr. Anderson's support, and um Mr. Spencer's idea that he gave to this, it it's a it's more of a leadership clinic. So, we're excited to have this go on and
and I thank all the students for participating. Um, I want to say congratulations. I think today is the day to Mr. Murphy. He is being honored tonight as one of the inductees of the class of 2025 Gloucester County Hall of Fame. Um, we weren't able to be there
because we're here today, but he deserves a massive shout out for all he's done. And then later this year, Coach Tracy Birkhart will be enshrined in the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Hall of Fame around January. Um, and then, um, wanted to give a shout out for
the fifth, right, Mr. Anderson? The fifth week Friday in a row, we are hosting a football game and we are playing, um, Howell um, in the Central Jersey Group Five Championship this Friday and, um, at Tom Brown Field. Um, so there's no ability to purchase
tickets at the gate. So please go to um GoFan app if you have it and purchase your tickets there if you would like to come. I know it's Halloween, but I guess when you win there's really nothing you can do about that. So um, congratulations to the football team.
Much deserved. Um, the Filimmonic of Filimmonic of South Jersey Holiday Pops concert is coming to the Republic Bank Performing Arts Center on December 6 at 3 p.m. Adults are $35 and students are $20. Tickets are available at the box
office um Sunday 10:00 a.m. noon. Tickets will also be available uh at Ticketmaster. Also very interesting that I learned today on December 13th, the Grand Kiev Ballet is going to present The Nutcracker at 7 PM. Also at the
Republic uh Bank Performing Arts Center, tickets are available at the box office and then Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to noon at Ticket Master. So if you would like more information, um we can give that to you as well. Um, want to give a shout
out to uh um, Miss Henry, uh, Miss Connor, and all the schools for engaging in the Red Ribbon Week campaign. It's very hard to hard to say Red Ribbon Week. Um, but it was it's in it's in honor of Enriquei Camarina who was a US
drug enforcement DEA agent um, who lost his life while defending the honor to pro to protect our uh, young people from engaging in in drug use. in his honor, friends in the community members began wearing red ribbons. So that's where the the day the week comes from and all the
schools engaged in various theme days and um also organizational things to um celebrate that as well. So u Miss Blum that is my presentation. I'd like like to pass it over to uh board member um Giana and she will give her presentation
which for the school. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good evening, Superintendent Dr. Hibbs, board president Miss Kazmple, Vice President Mr. Serrano, members of the board, and residents of Washington Township. My name is Giana Caving, and
I'm the student liaison to the board of education for the 2025 2026 school year. I am honored to hold this position to have the opportunity to bring forth the accomplishments and concerns of the student body. The month of October has been full of exciting events at Washington Township
High School. The annual spirit parade was held on Friday, October 17th. Different clubs and activities walked in the spirit in the spirit parade the night of the homecoming football game such as Interact, Spanish club, ROTC, FBLA, student council, gymnastics, DECA,
dance, and theater along with many other programs. The junior and senior class council were the first place winners for the 2025 2026 spirit parade. The Minutemen won the game against Kingsway with a final score of 3936.
Congratulations to Ally Ka for being crowned homecoming queen. On October 26th, the band teacher, Mr. Calvin Spencer, hosted an event to honor veterans that took place Sunday evening at Washington Township High School. This event provided 41 veterans with a meal
thanks to Mission Barbecue and a concert to follow at the Tom Brown Football Stadium. The concert involved performances by members of the high school choir, color guard, and band, as well as the fifth grade chorus from Whitman Elementary School. I was honored to have been a part of this event
representing students in action and the board of education. Mr. Spencer did a wonderful job putting together such a heartfelt tribute to our veterans. I was able to receive feedback from the students at the high school to hear some of their thoughts and opinions on what they feel most proud of our school for
accomplishing as well as what they feel needs to be changed. Students have a rising concern that this new grading system puts them at a disadvantage, especially those who are typically not good test takers. Although most students understand the need to eliminate the option to retake a test, a
smoother transition into these new adjustments might have worked in favor of the students better. The weighted category of having a test worth 60% of our average grade as well as quizzes and homework worth 40% of our average grade. The students believe this was a difficult adjustment. We could use grace
and understanding as we continue to navigate this new system. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Okay. [Applause] >> Let's give John a big hand. That was awesome. >> Good job. Kid it speaking is hard. That
was wonderful. You killed it. Um, so I I want to thank Mike for his leadership. I thank Gretchen before. Um, and you know, Mike, you uh you have taken on testing with a vigor and thank you. It's it's an enormous beast that you're tackling right now. So, thank you so much for
your leadership. You know, Coach Serriani says you can't be great without the greatness of others and you you lead by that example all the time. So, thank you. Um, I want to also give a shout out to to Mr. Murphy. We wish we could have been there. It is amazing. Um, and also
Mr. Spencer. Um, I GA did that. I don't think I could do it any better, so I'm not going to even try to touch it, but Mr. Spencer was amazing. But I I do want to recognize um I want to recognize Scott, who's one of our veterans, um, who came and and always supports Quietly. He wouldn't have told you he
was, but let's give him a big round of applause and thank him for his service. Is there anybody else that's a veteran that I that I I don't want to leave out? Thank you for your service. M. Yes, Mr. TR is not here, but thank him. He is a Marine. thank him for his service as well. So, it was an amazing night. Um, so just
want to make sure we pointed that out. >> Yeah. Um, did a great job and um, I had the pleasure and honor of attending that event and I was just blown away by it. Mr. Spencer and everyone there did a a great job. I mean, there had to be
over 60 veterans, maybe more. 102-year-old survivor of the Battle of the Bulge, which just kind of takes your breath away when you talk to somebody like that. But um you know, it was great to see the students being involved with the veterans and I think it's great for
them to have an appreciation for them, but also for the veterans. Um it's think about the number 17.6. That's how many veterans take their life by suicide every day. Every day. Every day. So often it's not just the wounds
that you can see, it's the wounds that you can't see. And you know, the fact that we honored those veterans and taught the kids to appreciate them, it's really proud. And Mr. Spencer is a veteran as well, Marine. Um, he did a wonderful job. What a great tribute.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Under correspondence, we do not have any correspondence, but we need to make a motion to approve the letters of discipline. So, can I have a motion to do that? >> So, moved. >> Second.
>> All in favor? >> I >> I >> Okay, we're moving on to the approval of the minutes. Now, I'm the taking over here, but I had a question about the minutes, but we didn't have time, Dr. Hibs during executive and it's something I probably should have sent to you ahead
of time. So with the board's permission, could we just take off number the the general um minutes for 923? I have a legal question I want to ask before we vote on that table. >> Can I motion to table that? Is that okay
for everybody else? It's just a question I want you to help me answer. Which one? >> Just for the No, just for the not the executive for the open session. >> Just for that. >> Do we have to make a motion for that?
>> It's just it's passed. So, it's just the 9:16 work session minutes. >> No, 9:23 >> 923 regular session minutes. >> Yes. >> So, the other screen question. Perfect. Y >> So the motion is to table just the 923 regular session minutes and leave the rest >> and we can talk about I'll send you the
note for the next meeting. >> I'll second it so we can get to discussion. >> Okay. >> Discussion. >> Yes. Discussion. >> So if we table it, could we just go into executive at the end >> and then we can discuss, you know, your
change and then we could say we'll take action or not. We may take action and we >> a quick second. >> Okay. We'll do that. That's fine. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> So, we have to vote on it, right? >> All right. So,
>> motion to approve the minutes for >> approve the table. >> Oh, okay. Motion to approve tableabling of the regular session minutes from 9:23. So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Second.
>> Okay, let's have all in favor. Oh, no. That's the roll. Let's have a roll call. >> Mrs. Clancy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chilla, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hartong, >> yes.
>> Mr. Liberty, >> yes. >> Mr. Ross, >> Mrs. Baker, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bloom, >> yes. Okay, we'll go on. I may we have a
motion for approval of the minutes for September 16th? >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Okay. >> Uh may I make a motion to approve the minutes for the month of September specifically for September 16th?
>> Is there a motion to do that? >> Oh, so >> it's it's the 16th executive. the 16th and the 23rd executive >> and the 23rd executive. Yes. Thank you. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I >> I
>> Okay. In the next section under old business that was G. We don't have old business because what we had was a board goals update and Mrs. Kazmple should have been doing that. So we won't be able to update.
>> Do you want to have a discussion? No, I just have something to add. Old business. >> Okay. >> Okay. Um, I just wanted to shout out to junior Jacob Shakar congratulating on his partition in the summer biomed research program through the Ilio Academy of Biomedical Research Science
in San Francisco. And also the congratulations to Tracy Burkhart and Kevin Murphy. The other thing, congratulations to all the Washington Township High School students of the month. Thank you.
>> I mean, the only thing I have for old business is just um the policy committee. If we can get those members up on the website of who's on the committee and then hopefully they can meet before the next meeting, November 18th.
>> The policy committee, it was me, it was Ralph, and it was Elaine. >> Thank you. Okay. Right now, we're going to make a motion to open to the public.
>> So, move >> second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> All right. Do we have any cards tonight? >> Yep. Right here. >> I think we just have one. >> All right. We're going to call up
Chrissy Kosar first. Chrissy Kosar. Good evening everyone. I'm Christy Kosar and I'm the president of the Washington Township Schools Support Services Personnel Association. I felt it was appropriate to speak at the podium this evening because a friend sent me a social media post which was concerning
to them and felt that I should be made aware of. I viewed this post along with its pictures and was puzzled about the actual goal. We seem to be in a time of posting things on social media with a calculated divisiveness to smear or cause our community to question our motives. My motives are clear. I support
our students and I'm driven to help our district provide the best education possible. My members should be uh compensated appropriately with benefits and a pension retirement. And do I support candidates who have proven track record in that? You bet your bottom dollar I do. Will I support a candidate
who does not support DEI? Absolutely not. Will I support a candidate who has no understanding of how our district works but was encouraged by colleagues from a law firm to run for this position? No. Nor will I support a candidate who wants everyone to be happy and have fun, but who doesn't seem to be
able to want to work with our current board members. Another candidate was data driven. Sorry, but our students aren't data. So, I will be supporting NJA colleagues who understand the importance of continuing to support our children the best way we can and I shall be encouraging as many members of the
community as possible to do the same. As the president of our support staff union, I have no problem with interacting with board members or members of the community. This post showed me hugging Mr. Sereno. This I do as part of my thanks to him for serving his country and affording me the freedoms of my chosen country of
residence. I look for the pictures of Dr. Hibbs. I I look for the pictures of Dr. Hibbs and I shaking hands when he congratulated me on becoming the new president. Shame that was missing. Nor did I see my friendly interaction with Mrs. chiller as we discussed our recent stuff the bus
event and how we can garner gift cards to supply our nurs's offices with muchneeded clothing. So I would love for the person who oper to let me know how they got that and who gave it to them so quickly as I know there are outstanding requests from many months ago. Apparently it was deemed
urgent to share security footage and I'll say that again. security footage. As a district, just what limitations do we have on sharing security info? Whose hands are the lives of our students and staff in when sharing security camera information? Can we
Oprah anything that's on cameras? This should be a red flag for anyone who is a child or a family member in the district. It's unbelievable that an Oprah request could endanger the lives of our most precious community members. You should be insensed as I am that this was allowed to happen. Who does that?
And who condones that kind of behavior. I was sickened when I saw that and I I I actually realized that security footage can be opened. Can it be opened from a hallway in a in a school? Can it be opened to see if our doors are unlocked and and not uh and our students unsafe?
So, I don't know what our parameters are with opering security footage, but I'm I'm seriously concerned about this and I think it needs addressing. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Kos or Mrs. Wctor, did you want did you want to talk?
>> Um, so I'm not sure which video you you were speaking about, Chrissy, because I I haven't seen any of the pictures, but when an Oprah request comes in for security video, there's a lot of um a lot that goes into the process. So, you
have to consider what the request is being made for and the privacy of anyone that's in the video. And then you also have to consider if there's any security protocols um you know that would cause security
issues if someone had the video. So, I want to let everyone know when security video is requested, we do get legal advice and we do consider any security risks. Um, I'm not going to go into every single detail. There have been
some from this building. And one of the major things that you take into consideration is some of the video that was requested was during a public meeting in a central administration building that was just livereamed on
YouTube. Um, you also want to consider, um, just as an example, if somebody requested, and I I understand you're concerned about students and buildings, people shouldn't be concerned about that. For an example, if someone were to request, or even from this video and
there was um, people being screened at the door or certain number of people in certain areas, anything like that would not be released. If there's video footage from schools where there's students present, it wouldn't be released. Um, if there's some kind of an
incident involving a parent and and a student, we have allowed them to come in and watch the video with administrators, but anything like that wouldn't be re wouldn't be released. So, anytime security footage is requested, like I
said, we get legal advice and we um, you know, weigh all the parameters that I just mentioned prior to releasing it. >> Can you jump in a couple more more things I I think we need to clarify. Um, you mentioned there was a rush. There
actually wasn't a rush and I actually was not involved in this process. Um, we were actually I think it took a good while to fulfill this OPER request. Yeah, it was over a month. >> No rush. But one of the things that we have to always be mindful is is our
words, right? So what was spoken made it seem like, you know, and I think you said that we endangered the lives of children. I I I I can't believe that you would actually stand up and say that because any video that's in here would not endanger the
lives of children. Everybody knows when they come into the the the room because it's clear on the agenda that everything is videoed. So there definitely was no child endangered by that. Um
>> we can't we can't can't we can't do that. >> We're not >> there's there's no there's no back and forth. >> There's no back and forth. You have to sit down. You You had your time to talk and now it was my time to respond.
>> You can you can ask to come back up. >> She should come back up at the next session. >> You know, just and listen, I'm not telling you how to feel. You can feel how you'd like. However, that was not the release of of of wrong security footage. It just was not. And then
secondly, we definitely did not endanger the lives of anybody. And everybody that comes in here knows and what I was trying to say was on the agenda we actually say that there is video and you have the opportunity to leave. I'm not going to go into the merits of the video
because that video speaks for itself. But I I want to make sure that we made that very clear that in everything that we do, we take the security We take I got it. Thanks. Um we take the security of our children and our staff
as the highest priority at all times. >> Okay. Um Mrs. Sucralis. >> Good evening, members of the board, administration, and community. I've been up to this podium many times, and I've kept my composure. I am livid tonight.
My name is Patty Sukalis, and I've lived in this district longer than most of the people in this room. I have seen this community through its ups, its downs, its struggles, and its successes. But tonight, I stand before you not with pride, but with deep embarrassment and disappointment.
I am beyond embarrassed by the recent behaviors of the adults who are supposed to be helping educate and raise our children. The conduct of some of our community has become mean-spirited, petty, and downright cruel. This morning, I woke up to text messages
and screenshots. photos of me taken after after the meeting concluded. While I understand that during a public meeting I may appear on video and I have multiple times, it never occurred to me
that I would be plastered all over social media afterwards after the meeting concluded, targeted and mocked like a spectacle. And while I know that anyone can take a photo of me in public with a camera or a
phone, I never imagined that a security camera inside a school district building. Technology that is meant to keep people safe would be used as a weapon for someone's personal vendetta. And I know it came from a security
camera in this room because I sat in a seat over there and it came from that angle. To my knowledge, the only people that have access to security footage are administration and security. I also believe that administration only has access to their own buildings. So, who
has access to this at Central? People in this community love to talk about wasted sp wasted money being spent and pointing fingers. So, I'm going to ask you, who is so childish, so spiteful that they would waste time and taxpayer money in a
financially struggling district to file an Oprah request for security photos of a board president just because they don't like her. And I know the picture of me came from the security. I said that if you don't
like her, vote her out next week. But wait, the person that opened or at least published the photos can't because they don't live in district. Stop wasting the district's time and resources just because you don't like her.
If you are truly that concerned about her behavior, download the recorded meetings or hire your own photographer. We had to hire an assistant business administrator because our own BA that sits up here is overwhelmed.
Maybe, just maybe, if adults would stop sending endless OPER requests designed to cause drama and embarrassment, RBA could actually spend time planning for the next school year so we're not in such a financial crisis instead of
chasing down nonsense. And that's exactly what this is. If this behavior were happening among students, a HIB would be filed. Yet here we are watching adults engage in the exact kind of toxic behavior we teach our kids to avoid. These actions
are immature, unprofessional, and deeply damaging. They are overshadowing the real issues issues in our district. The education, the safety, and the success of our children. This is what truly matters. We owe it to
our students, to our staff and our community to rise above this ugliness. I am tired of it. Let's start acting like the role models we claim to be. Let's stop the personal attacks and start
focusing on what we are all here to do, and that is serve the children of this district. >> Thank you, Mrs. Sutal. [Applause] If Mrs. Williams, just real quick, if I
could. So, Patty, I couldn't agree with you more actually what you said at the podium. It's completely unprofessional. If you don't like someone, then don't vote for them. If you don't like someone, don't renew their contract, right? Just don't do it. But let's move
on. Because a lot of the unprofessionalism that we've all experienced has had a deep impact on kids. So, I I'm telling you, I agreed with so much of what you said. I can look at it and say, "What are we doing? We're attacking
kids at the podium. If you don't like me, you don't have to like me. I have three meetings left. You won't see me." Right? But to waste all of this time doing all of the things that we've done over the past two years has been incredibly detrimental. I wish that we would have spent a lot of that time
planning for budgets, not asking the community to have to donate, right? All the other senseless things that we've done. So, I agree with you. A lot of the things you said are absolutely true. If we don't like people, don't vote for them. If we don't like the
superintendent, don't renew them. But when we start all of the havoc, I see a lot of things on social media as well. It's ridiculous. I've stopped looking because half the things that I see I'm like, "Oh, I didn't know I did that. I had no idea. I had so many enemies.
Absolutely no idea. I've stopped looking on social media. I don't comment on anything at all." Because it's getting to a point of exactly what you said. It's unprofessional. And I think the words you said were beyond embarrassed. I'm beyond embarrassed. I have three
meetings left and I couldn't tell you the embarrassment that I've had over the past few years of what has been said at that podium about kids, about professionals, about staff members. It's outrageous. So, thank you for coming up and saying that. I agree with you.
>> Thank you, Mrs. Chill. Anybody else? I I don't know if we can even look at it within a policy committee about security footage data cuz my understanding is with that open request we're bound by legally what we have to provide. Right. I mean that's not up for us to decide.
That's based on a legal review. Correct. >> Okay. >> Anybody else? Okay. Mrs. Williams. >> Good evening. I just have something simple. Um, I wanted to get more
information regarding the email I sent to you, Dr. Hibs, regarding the um, yes, the AFC urgent care donation. I don't I know I copied you and Elaine, so I don't know if you guys had a chance to talk to the other board, but the urgent care has
offered to give all the students um little care packages and also the entire staff gift bags, not just the nurses or teachers, everybody. And we need uh the board's approval. So, if I could just get an answer on that soon, that would
be great. >> That's all. Thank you. >> That one. Uh so it has to run back through committee because there's uh a couple policy implications including the advertising that we have to just make sure we navigate the correct way. So it'll run through the next committee and then we'll be able to give you an answer.
>> You got it. Of course. >> Okay. >> Mr. Bisero just uh one more acknowledgement. And I I I believe the uh I saw it was for the first time ever, and I have a hard time believing that, but the the girls tennis team won their conference. Um
f first time ever is a long time in this district. So if that's true, I don't know if you know, Gian, if that's if it's true, really the first time ever, that that's pretty impressive. So, uh good for them. Congratulations. Uh led by the number one tennis player, Scott's daughter, so I know he wouldn't say it,
so I had to come up here and and say it. Um, I I want to talk about the testing presentation. I've I've watched probably the last 12 years worth of testing presentations. I think I've commented most years on them, never really being
happy either with kind of the results or even the presentation. I thought this presentation was outstanding. Um, it it was I'm I'm I'm glad Scott said what he said because he actually said some of the stuff I was going to say and I'm going to reiterate it. um when you put
your year-over-year trending stuff, and that's what I've been asking for like the last eight years, that really, you know, you accept where you're at. You're not going to jump to meeting standards, but if you get better, that's something to celebrate. So, you know, setting realistic goals is important. And so,
you know, it wouldn't be me if I just dig a little bit further. And you know, I'm sure you look at data a little bit beyond what you showed, but I hope you look by by school at the elementary level and by school so that you can compare and learn best practices. And I see Mrs. Gerber, people at home can't see her shaking her head. Yes. And
that's great because I never got that acknowledgement before. And um the the results were great this year to they're the best results I've seen in a really long time. So, you know, from just doing, you know, what what I do and
and to try and make change, it takes top to bottom, everybody working together to do it. It's not one person. It's not, you know, it's everybody. And those results really speak volumes for, you know, the focus that we had this year. Even though the one area where we dropped last year, but then not only did
we go back up, we went back up up enough that it's a two-year increase. It really was. It wasn't just one. So, I I just couldn't be more impressed by it and happy to see how you presented the data. It was very transparent and very useful,
too. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Bolasero. I agree. It was wonderful. Thank you, Mrs. Gorber. We need positive things, and that was a very positive thing. So, thank you. All right, Mrs. Morz.
Hi, I want to apologize for my attire. I had field hockey tonight with my daughter. It was children versus parents. It was a little rough. Um um my name is Candace Morz. I'm a longtime resident here. Um good evening members of the board, superintendent, Dr. Hibs, administration, teachers, and
community members. I stand before you not to point fingers but to hold up a mirror because right now what I receive reflected in our schools and in this community is not what our students deserve. Over the past few years, we've seen resources cut, class sizes grow, and dedicated teachers stretch beyond their limits. Interventionists, the very
people who help our most vulnerable students catch up, have been eliminated, only to have the burden now patched over with Title One funds. That's not a solution. That's a temporary fix to a long-term problem. Our teachers have had technology thrown at them without proper training or support. They're expected to adapt overnight, to do more with less,
and to perform miracles in classrooms that are overcrowded and underresourced. And while they do this, while they give up their hearts, their evenings, and their weekends, what do they see around them? They see board members, administrators, and community members arguing, posturing, and protecting egos instead of protecting children. Dr. Rick
Riggsby once said, "Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity." It's harsh, but it's true. Ego blinds us. It makes us forget why we are here. Pride is the burden of a foolish person. You'll never be a great co-orker, friend, district leader, supervisor, or even a person if it's all
about you. As Riggsby said, make sure that your servants towel is bigger than your ego. Unfortunately, our students, the children of this district, are seeing this negative behavior. It is our responsibility to model behavior to teach them to be better citizens because leadership, real leadership, isn't about
who's right. It's about doing right. It's not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in charge. And to our community, to those who often criticize teachers or the union that protects them, I'd like to ask you a question. What are you doing at 11:30 at
night, midnight, on a Tuesday night, or any other night of the week for that matter? Because I know what many of us, and even myself, are doing. We're lesson planning. We're grading papers. We're learning at another new technology tool we were given without training. We're worrying about the student who's falling behind or the one who cried at their
desk today. We're trying to figure out how to reach every child all while balancing our own families, our own children, and our own exhaustion. Yes, we chose this profession, but right now, many of our teachers are barely surviving in it. They love their students, but love alone can't fill the
gaps that constant cuts, oversized classes, and endless demands create. We can't keep asking teachers to give more when they already give everything. We need leadership that values service over ego. We need a board and administration that lifts teachers up instead of wearing them down. And we need a
community that sees educators as partners, not punching bags. We are here because of the kids, the students who trust us to build them a future. They don't need adults who win arguments. They need adults who win opportunities for them. So tonight, I'm asking this board, this administration, and this
community to put aside pride in politics, to pick up your servants towel, to start listening, really listening to the teachers on the front lines, the parents trying to hold it together, and the students who are watching us and learning what leadership looks like. Let's stop managing our
schools through fear, frustration, and ego. Let's stop pointing fingers and pushing blame on others. Instead, let's start leading with compassion, collaboration, and humility. As I close, I ask each one of you to ask yourselves tonight and every night, how am I
living? Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Mrs. Morrage, and for all that you've done for our children. Um, Mr. Lucarini. Um, not what I was going to speak to, but
uh, I was wondering where this feigned outrage about spending all our time on drama and not on education, where it was the last three years. You know, I I saw people coming up to this microphone and that
was the last thing they were talking about. I didn't see one person from the Washington Township Education Association or one person from the support staff come to the defense of Angelina Chilla when this community was
identifying her people in the community coming up to this microphone in conjunction with uh Mrs. uh whatever her name is Kazmple and the nonsense that was going on. Where was the feigned outrage then?
All right. Anyway, here's my outrage. My outrage is the level of thinking and reasoning that goes on in this district. I think it has an effect on exactly what we were seeing up there tonight. Now, we
did see improvement, right? But uh the last meeting or the meeting before the president of the Washington Township Education Association came up here. He didn't talk about all these things that so you know bothering this lady that just came up to the
microphone. No, he came up and he said, "Mrs. Comple, I believe now that a lawsuit has been filed against Dr. Hibs, myself, whatever. That means you're exonerated.
Exonerated from what more and more people are telling me is uh at least suspicion of bid rigging. All right? Which is a criminal act. All right? and he's exonerating her because the guy who
got the insurance contract under that suspicious situation was filing a lawsuit against me for talking about it in public like he was going to intimidate me. That's not going to happen. All right.
He dropped the lawsuit and uh I'm not at liberty to say why he dropped the lawsuit, but just figure it out for yourself. He wasn't going to win it. That's for sure. All right. But now that he's dropped the lawsuit, Mrs. Blom, should we say that
Mrs. Comple now is guilty of whatever it was that he was saying she was exonerated from like which to me would be biding, but you know, whatever. Is that that what we should say? Is that the really the reasoning goes here in
Washington Township? The fact is that the Washington Township Education Association through their leadership and a number of people that have been coming up to this microphone have been offering really weak lame excuses for what has
taken place in uh this district. All right? And you especially stood by it. All right? the there is no explanation for what has gone on here with a student with the
attacks on Dr. Hibbs. Uh how many times did they have to get caught in a lie or does someone like a conflict council have to come in and say it's all nonsense? Okay. including the
uh attempted lawsuit against me and Mr. Baldesar and a few others. You know, it was labeled frivolous by our lawyers. All right? And that's where it was thrown in trash where it belonged. All
right? But, you know, I'm more upset about what I saw here for the last two years. you know, just excuses putting in uh how do you explain putting in a in a in a complaint, an ethics complaint? You're doing the ethics complaint, so
you better have some ethics. So, you put in a complaint that this kid, uh, Angelina Chilla and Dr. Hibbs are conf, you know, conflicted or whatever with Mrs. Chilla because he attended a dance recital and the girl was never in dance.
All right. How do you explain that? Maybe these teachers come up a second time and explain it to us. All right. Never in dance you had a vice president who resigned because of the nonsense that was going on. All right. Uh, you know, before you start screaming about
everybody playing dirty by taking your picture and you're threatened. Before you do that, you better straighten up your own people. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lucarini. >> Okay. Can I have a motion?
I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. >> Okay, Mrs. Lenudi. >> Um, before I ask my question, um, I did just want to say really great job to, uh, Mr. Anderson and Miss Costello for pulling that off. I I appreciate taking
some feedback and running with it and they did more than that. I also want to say as president of the chamber, um there was a lot of our small businesses and chamber members that contributed to that and I'm really proud of them. Um so I wanted to publicly thank them. Um especially those that couldn't be here.
Um that's the kind of thing that that I see a lot of that a lot of people don't see is how our community comes together. So, I've seen that um type of thing in sick kids, house fires, tragedies. This is a what's happening in our school
district right up there with some kind of tragedy. if we lose more staff and programming. Um, so it's always really nice to see how our community comes together and there's a lot of negativ negativity that's always put out there
about different parts of township and different organizations and people and um so what happened with this um it was really I I'm lucky that I get to see this a lot and the good times that
people do come together. So, um I think it was it was great to be to acknowledge that something in that positive light, um people can really come together and accomplish something when when it's it's necessary. So, congratulations to everybody that pulled this off,
especially you guys. Um quick question about um and this is something I've mentioned a couple times about looking into on staff BCBAS and RBTs. I noticed on our bill list to Denovi was almost 140,000 for the month of October. Um,
which is a lot and I know it's been continuous that we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it. Is it something that has been talked about and how we can go about getting someone on staff BCBAS that are more handson with our children? Um, I know
that Denovi and it was said to me in a meeting multiple times, we do not provide services. is we only pres pro provide consult. Um so 140,000 for another month of consult when we can have on staff people actually working hands-on with our kids um is something
that I keep hearing it's going to be talked about. So I just want to know where we are in the process with discussing that and if it's even been discussed. Um damn I had something else I can't remember. Thanks. >> Thank you Mrs. Lenudi and thank you for
that other idea for the clubs. Um, we did discuss that, Dr. Hibbs, in IIA a few months ago. Um, yes. I don't know if Mrs. Miller wants to address that at all. >> Um, the bill list represents
monies or expenditures not just within one month. So, you know, I I can't speak directly about that particular bill, but I can tell you overall what you see could and Janine, I'm looking at you, correct? So sometimes I can be able to tell but I can >> right it comes through. So so um
>> all multiple months. >> Sorry. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Um what I'd like to say about behavior services is BCBA RBT services behavior consult. We do have direct
services that um our behavior uh consultants do. It's not just consultant. They also provide hands-on services. In my professional opinion, we don't need less, we need more. Um, we have we have a lot of students with a
lot of needs in this district. We've expanded our special education programming in this district tremendously, especially over the 11 years that I've been in this position. Um I did a comparison several years um for the board showing them the growth of
these programs and um everything that we do in terms of behavioral interventions. We need experts to help us with that. So um that's all I can really say about the agency itself. Um we're always looking for ways obviously to reduce costs, but
as far as services, behavioral services, I I I stand by that statement. We really need as much as we can to to really support our kids in our classrooms. >> Thank you. >> Do you have anything to add, Dr. H? >> Okay. Um,
Miss Witcraft. >> Hi, Heather Whitcraft. Um, I was wondering how does one legally obtain or over request based on in vendetta vendetta and revenge access to security footage of a district building after the conclusion of a board meeting that not
only contains images of my child, but also shows the exits, camera angles, and view range of said cameras. I'd really like to know why this was allowed considering the OPER form says it's not allowed. We took down maps of our buildings due to security risks and some people are still waiting on request
still sorry some people are still waiting on requests to be fulfilled from July. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you Mrs. Miss Woodcraft. Um, Hannah Morazz. >> Hello. I don't want to make a long speech, but I want to make a statement.
The podium is to speak to the board of education about issues going on in the school district. It is not a place to speak about issues in your personal life that have hurt your ego. When you are turning to the audience in referral to yourself, that's when you know there's an issue. And board members, this position isn't a place to defend
yourself or your actions. Be confident in your decisions. You cannot please everyone, but if you please the students, then you should know you're doing your job. This is not a back and forth. This is a meeting to discuss school issues. Try to remember that. Stop using I. Start using them. Refer to the kids.
>> Thank you, Miss Morz. Okay, I think that's all the ones that we have. Can I have a motion to close to the public? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> Okay, we're going to go on to the report
of the superintendent. Um motion and second to approve items one through four under the report of the super superintendent. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. discussion or you'll make your report and then we
>> if there's no discussion. >> There's no discussion. >> Okay. Roll call. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Clancy. >> Yes. >> Miss Chilla. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hartung. >> Yes. >> Mr. Liberty.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Baker. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes. Okay. We're going to move on to Jay, instructional affairs. Um, can I have a
motion to accept the instructional affairs? There's one item. >> So moved. >> Discussion. >> All revised. >> Okay. >> I was just going to say thank you for taking care of that field.
>> Thank you, Mrs. Gerber. >> List. I know you would get right on it, >> Mrs. Mr. Chilla, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hartung, >> yes. >> Mr. Liberty, >> yes. >> Mr. Ross, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Baker, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes. >> Okay, we're moving on to K. >> Oh, Mrs. Clancy. Sorry. >> Yes. >> He's throwing me off that you're here. That's fine. That's okay. >> Okay, we're going to move on to K.
That's policy. We need a motion and a second to approve items one and two under poly policy. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> Okay. Roll call. >> Mrs. Hartong. >> Yes. >> Mr. Le Liberty.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Baker. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Clancy. Yes, >> Miss Chilla. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Bloom.
>> Yes. Okay. Under student affairs and communications, that's number L. Motion and seconds to approve items one under student activities and communications. >> So moved. >> Second. >> A discussion. We're a quiet quiet group tonight.
>> Mr. Liberty. >> Yes. Mr. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Baker, >> yes. >> Mrs. Clancy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chilla, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hartong, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Bloom, >> yes. >> Okay, we're moving on to M. That's human resources. Motion and second to approve items 1 through 43 under human resources. But before we go to that, we would like to honor William Fa. Am I
saying that right? Faust or false? FA. Okay. He has taught math in the district for 30 years at Washington Township High School. I believe I might have taught one of his children along the way many years ago, but we want to wish him the best and thank him for his years of
service. Thank you. Okay. Is there any discussion? Oh, >> we have to have motion second. >> Okay. Is there any discussion of numbers 1 through 43? Yeah, I just got one.
>> So, you know, 39 through 42, it's to me it's a contractual obligation, so I'll be voting yes on them as I have in the past. Um 43, I thought those goals put forth are good. Um I like that there
were criteria put forth so we can measure them on the quantitative ones and on the qualitative one. I thought it was was well put together. So be voting yes on that as well. >> Okay. I'm going to add to that I will be voting yes on the numbers 39 to 42
because they are contractual and um there could be recources if it's not taken care of. >> Okay. Any other discussion? >> Okay. Roll call. >> Mr. Ross. >> Not
40 39 to 43. Yes to the rest. >> Mrs. Baker abstain on 39 to 43. Yes to the rest. >> Mrs. Clancy, >> yes to all of them.
>> Mrs. Chilla, >> I'm abstaining from number eight. I'm conflicted. Yes to the rest. Mrs. Harong, >> I'm going to abstain from M4. One of my personal friends is included on the list. And um I'm going to abstain from
M39 to M43 because I'm conflicted. >> Oh, yes. Yes. To the rest though, >> Mr. Li Liberty. >> Yes. Mrs. Bloom. >> Um, I abstain from numbers 39 through 43 because I too am conflicted. Yes to the
rest. Okay. Moving on, um we'll go on to >> Yeah. Finance and facilities motion and second to approve items 1 through 22 under finance facilities. Is there a
discussion of any of this? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Okay. Now discussion. >> I have a question. >> Sure. >> Question. >> Sure. um included in the bill list. Are we
paying the um the attorney that did the investigation, Sesby? >> Just a second. >> Yes. Um, I was uh I was I was I tried to communicate this. I don't know if it got
through that during the investigation there were tapes of of of all of the interviews. Uh, as a board member since we're paying for this, are we entitled to get that information?
>> What insurance? Can Can you repeat that, Connie? I'm sorry. >> She wants to know, can she have the interviews of the staff members? >> Um, I would have to find out whether or not you can get the tapes of the interviews. I'll let you know. Okay.
>> Now, um, what if if we vote to pay him, does that close it or should we hold him so we can find out if we can get that information or would we be able to get that information even if we voted yes to the payment? You can get that information even if you vote yes.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Any other questions? >> No, just discussion on that. I mean, I think I'll wait for the legal analysis on that, but I also think those interviews were done and people were told that they were being taken
confidentially. So, my concern with them being those interviews being given to the board members is they're supposed to be confidential with the uh attorney that we hired to do the investigation, but I'll wait to hear what the legal view is on that. Anybody else?
Okay, we're okay then for so for finances and facilities n motion and second to approve items 1 through 22 under finance and facilities. So moved. >> Okay. Vote the vote. The roll call.
>> Mrs. Baker, >> abstain on number 22. Yes. To the rest. >> Mrs. Clancy. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chillow. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hartung.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Liberty. >> Yes. Mr. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bloom, >> yes. Okay, we're moving on to O, special education motion and a second to approve
items 1 through six under special education. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> Okay. Roll call. >> Mrs. Clansancy. Yes, >> Mrs. Chilla.
>> Yes, >> Mrs. Hartong. >> Yes, >> Mr. Liberty. >> Yes, >> Mr. Ross. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Baker. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes.
>> Okay. P. Under negotiations, I don't think we have anything. >> Okay. Q under new business. Um, under that, is there any new business from anybody on the board? >> Yep, I have one. >> Go ahead. >> Um,
I'd like to make a motion that we as a board schedule a special meeting uh to discuss budget implications prior to the November 18th meeting. >> Second.
We got a second. >> Okay. We got the second. Okay. Was it discussion of that? >> Yeah. >> Just roll. Just make sure we have it right. >> Okay. That that was something we did in executive. So, can Mrs. Baker go?
>> Yeah. Because it's the content. >> Okay. Okay. All right. >> I'm sorry. What did you say? >> Okay. Yeah, that's fine. >> Okay. Roll call.
>> Mrs. Chella? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hartong? >> Yes. >> Mr. Liberty? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ross? >> No. >> Mrs. Baker?
Yes, >> Mrs. Clancy. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes, >> okay. Any other new business? >> If I could just have a minute, Pat, I just wanted to um take a second to thank
my fellow board members and administrators. I've not been present for the last few meetings. >> Yes. because of personal health matters. Their support has truly meant the world to me and I'm very thankful for the nine
people or multiple people that I have up here that I know have my back and support me when I'm not here. Also, please be sure to get your tickets for the Washington Township High School fall play of Peter Pan and Wendy November 20th to the 22nd.
It's going to be a good one. >> That's it. So, thank you guys. You're very welcome. >> Um Pat, I just want to thank you for stepping up to take the role of president for this meeting. I know it's you didn't have any advanced warning and
you jumped right in there. You did a great job. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I do have a question. We have to go back into exec to discuss the minutes and I had another matter for legal advice. So, do we do that now or do after public?
>> It depends on you. You want to Now we can do it now. >> Can Can we Can we finish the meeting and then go into executive at the end? >> We can do that. Okay. >> So that way >> we'll finish the meeting then. Okay. We're going to open to the public. May I have a motion to open to the public? >> So moved.
>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. I have two cards here. Is there anybody else for cards? The first first card would be Mr. Lucarini.
Yes, I'm undeterred by these comments about don't talk about yourself. That was relevant because Mr. Tarashi opened the door. Mr. Karashi came before the board of education and said that Mrs. Kazmpa was
exonerated because some guy who's already indicted in relation to something else filed a lawsuit against me, Mr. Baldazar, members of the public. He also filed against Dr. Hibbs and Mrs. Wctor. Uh but it was definitely uh an
attempt to prevent public participation and that rationale is a disgrace from a professional educator. All right. A sixth grader in a in a class well an
eighth grader in a civics class wouldn't offer that argument. All right. Would just would not. while he wouldn't get a an A for it. I can tell you that. So, it is relevant because what I was up here talking about was the lack of reasoning
that goes into things. And also, uh, you know, before I came to the meeting, I was talking to someone. I said, "What's going to be their angle tonight?" Right? you you basically the the five people who have made and politicized this board of education
openly politicized it now it's open right all right those five people now and their supporters what are they going to talk about now that they've been uh shot down everywhere they look and what
do they come up with this uh video which by the way was sent to me I I I don't know what it was supposed to be. It didn't look like anything damaging to any of the people on the outside. It looked like just the board president, Mrs. Gomple, was either
scratching her chin or something. I don't know what she was doing, but uh maybe it was a vulgar uh you know, hand gesture. Maybe that's why. And they don't want it out there because that's who she is. Okay, that's
who she is, right? We saw her. She walked out of the board meeting which she didn't get her way on a vote created a seed. All right. And they just want to get her elected because they have openly said Mr. Tarashi when he said let's
endorse these people he made no comments about education. Absolutely no comments about education. He's on tape and he's talking about what we can get for a contract. You don't have to like these people. All right. So I think there's uh
you know the the the emperor has no clothes and the emperor is not just Mr. Tarashi. It's the five people who have been up here and you know uh there's a case for
you know collusion almost right I mean it certainly looks that way based on the way you voted ba tonight we see a contractual thing with Dr. for hibs. I don't agree with giving people money for this those kinds of things, but it's part of the contract. You people
approved it. I would have thrown it in the trash, said, "Come on, you got to come back with something better than that." Maybe something related to the test scores or whatever the do, you know, uh, Mrs. Gerber was presenting. All right. So,
um, it just looked vindictive and it's been vict been vindictive and it's been meanspirited and it's been hostile towards him, Mrs. Chiller and you you dragged a kid into it. You dragged a
student into it. That's a that's a no no on all levels. I look back at the teachers I've had in the past, that would never have gone on in Washington Township. Somebody would have spoke up and said, "That's where we draw the line." All right? Especially since it
was all false. You have a teacher who gave a kid a grade uh zeros when the kid was produced doctor's notes and was under uh concussion protocol. I'm surprised that teacher has the audacity. two years later to bring it up
as a complaint. All right. That's how bad it is here that you could say just about anything. Right? Where do you get off not following protocol for a concussion? Nobody else is allowed to do it. I sat at a meeting where Mr. Whan, a
supervisor, told a woman that because she gave a kid made a kid wait 30 cent 30 seconds to go to the bathroom that he could lose his pension and everything else over that. So, if it's that important, I would think a concussion's even worse, right? And yet, she ignored
it and we're supporting it. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lucarini. Um, Sean Lindsay. Uh, good evening everybody. Sean Lindsay, Washington Township. Um, again, um, look, you can say whatever you want.
Um, how did you how do people still vote no on the miracles? I understand everybody's upset that they were even in the contract, but Mr. Larine took my thunder, but it's okay. I'll reiterate it. It's contractually obligated. If any teacher had merit pay and they didn't get paid, what would happen? Again, I'm
saying if Thank you. Please don't interrupt me. If you had merit pay in your contract and you didn't get it paid, guess who's going to be up here? You're going to have Mr. Terrashi up here. You're going to have Mr. Teruso, um, Christy, I'm sorry, I forget your last name. I'm sorry, but you're going to have them up here fighting to get it
back or get that Maripe. So, why is the board continuing to vote no on a contractually obligated item? It doesn't make sense how the how the three of you can sit up here and still vote no on a contract
item. He satisfied the goal. Again, I keep reiterating, he satisfied the goal. The evidence proved that he did it. Why are we still playing games? Like, I'm sorry there there. I'm gonna say it. There was a student that came up here. She made more sense than the three of
you did. Stop playing games. We're supposed to be acting like professional adults up here. And the three of you clearly can't do that. I don't know what else to say. Any anybody else that was in here that had a contract problem, you going to vote no
on them? Probably not. It's embarrassing. That student had it right. We were supposed to present problems up here, not create them. And certain board members are creating the problem. Grow up.
Stop the childish crap. I've said it before. Stop it. I feel like I'm I feel like I'm an adult yelling at a puppy for, you know, defecating on the floor. I've said it for the past few months. Stop this childish back and forth tip for tat. We
have problems up here. We have a problem with a superintendent not getting his merrap pay. Can we go Can we find more stuff to dig up on him or or or can we can we officially be done with all this now? It's pathetic
to sit up here every meeting and I've watched a few. have been here to watch the game that have been played from board members from attacks on that man, on children, on other board members, from other adults. Really? I thought we
when you reach a certain age, you're supposed to mature and grow up, not act more childish and more vindictive and more, hey, let's get him with this, let's get him with that. Well, guess what? The ammunition's gone. You fired everything you could at the man and everything that you've tried. It's been
false. It's not accurate. Let it go. The man came back to do his job. He hasn't been able to. Why? Because he's been fighting other board members. We're supposed to be supporting our staff, supporting our administration.
Half of you aren't. Every time there's a a vote just now, again, I keep going back to it. The meray, it's always a 4 to three or a five to four over a contractual obligation. If it was if he can have his parking spot. Oh, they vote five to four. No, we
can't have his parking spot anymore. Why? Oh, we Because we can vote no. We're going to do it that way because we have the power now. Just look, I can't curse. I'm not going to I'm going to not curse. But stop this
childish stuff. Let it go. Just Can we just admit Admit that you lost? You don't want to admit you failed. Okay. But the evidence proves that you did. So, let it go. Let's start. Let's go back to doing what we were supposed to be doing, which is supposed to be
supporting our staff, watching interactions between administration and staff. That was great. That meeting two meetings ago where I heard you, excuse me, Mrs. Gerber had a great conversation with with staff about improvements. I don't hear that anymore. And it's sad.
I'd love to be able to hear, hey, we had a great conversation with administration about uh, you know, math scores improving because of a new program that Dr. Hibbs, you know, got through with the board and hey, we're seeing test scores rise 20%. It's all thanks to the, you know, the camaraderie between staff and administration
all now, I'm hearing this, how are we going to get them this time? What can we get them on? Is there a way that we can do this? Let's figure it out because obviously we don't like the man, so we're just going to keep throwing sha stuff at him until it until it sticks. Got news for you folks.
The man's here. The man's going to do his job and I'm shocked that he's willing to still do it after all the crap that he's been through. So again, in the words I've always said, Dr. Hibbs, I'm sorry. I I there's nothing more I can say. I
just I wish you the best, man. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Lindsay. I'd like to clarify one thing. When I don't vote on these um merit goals, I very much would like to, but I'm conflicted as is Mrs. Harong. It's not a choice. We can't
vote on them. Okay, we'll go on to Mrs. Lenudi. I did remember what I was going to say the first time. um when do you think the um investigation report would be available? How long does that take? And
once it is available, how does the public know that it's available and how do we get a copy of it? Um there is a lot of opinions and we talked about this at the last meeting, hearsay, one side, the
other side. black and white will kind of settle all of that. Hopefully, it's able to be um understood correctly with all the redactions. I understand why that has to be it's
fair to one side, not not the other, I guess. Um but hopefully we can understand better exactly what happened because it is weighing pretty heavy on our community and everything that's trickled down from it. Um, another thing is, um, every time you
guys vote no, it costs all of us money. Um, unfortunately, he's getting the merit pay one way or another. It's going to happen legally or it's going to happen because you just vote yes to uphold a
contract. um if you keep voting no that 27,000 whatever it is is going to turn into a hundred and or whatever it is um and we don't have that. So he I don't even know who said it but it
whoever said it was correct in saying that if something happened with a teacher contract or an admin contract or support staff you guys would make sure they were upheld. And it's not fair to not uphold a contract based on spite or whatever
the reason is, but it's it's costing all of us a lot of money the more you do that. Um, we already had to pay $16,000 to a resident's attorney. That's only one that was settled. If we double that for how much it costs for our own attorneys, that's $32,000. Ironically,
that is the same price tag that Mr. Anderson stood up here and said that was raised for clubs. It's the same amount of money that we paid in legal fees that saved 27 clubs and that's just on one thing. Um, so this is going to keep
adding up to more money. And I don't know if that many people are going to step in next year if it happens twice to save more things. They did it this year before that report came out. And I have to say that there was a couple people that really weren't happy about it that
donated. So, I don't know if you're going to get that same reaction next year if it keeps happening multiple times. Um, and it's really unfortunate for our kids because they're the ones that are going to suffer. Um, I just want to go back to the Denovi thing. Um, it was absolutely said that they only
provide consult, not services. Um, and as I sat down, I received multiple messages from staff members, um, saying, and I quote, and these are people that are in the classrooms with the kids,
that's a croc. Who polices them? They don't work for us. Nobody can nobody can police them. They play on their phones in the corners. Sometimes they blatantly don't care about behaviors. Staff is the one that is hands-on.
Our support staff is so great hands-on with our kids. And yes, they do need more behavior services 100%. They need they need hands-on services. I guess that will actually help some of our
staff. And I'm not saying it's all of them. I'm not saying all the staff members are bad, but things that I've heard from our actual staff that are in the classrooms with kids are saying that they are not actually hands-on with our kids when they need them to be. I've also talked about before um that they
are a company that is pretty known for financial fraudulent issues and actually one just happened very very recently. who looks over our billing list for the hours that they turn in to make sure that that's accurate. Um, somebody has to be
responsible for that. And I know that 140 whatever it was you said was for multiple months, but they're on the bill list every month for tens of thousands, hundred thousand. I mean, it's every month they're it's a lot. Um, so who is going through their billing list to make
sure it's accurate? The owner of the company actually just came out himself not too long ago saying that they were over billing for hours that were never even used. So paying them that much money, how do we know that that's not happening here?
>> Thank you, Mrs. Lenudi. >> You want you want to talk about just in gerally the process >> for the for the investig? Well, I mean, I >> I was just gonna I know the first question was about the investigation report. So, I'm still waiting on legal guidance on that. If you do want a copy,
I I got a couple oper requests for it. If you do want a copy, um, file an oper request. As soon as I get some kind of an update, I'll share it with whoever put in a request. And I guess we could at at a meeting if if we're allowed. as
far as the question was you know when how do we go about getting the report and when will it be available? >> Yeah. Yeah. And you know just again for the community the short form is exactly the the short form of the long form and
there was no evidence of misconduct. So I don't know what's being discussed in the community but if it's being discussed in the community the long form is going to be different you're sadly mistaken because that's just not how it works. um just not how it works. It's just reputational damage. People need to
just be mindful that people's reputations are important. Um and we definitely have processes to to double check vendors and and all of their invoices. >> Okay. Are we finished with anything else as far as Mrs. Lidi goes? We're okay.
Okay. Um Mrs. callous. Okay, so I'm back up. Um, I actually don't have anything prepared tonight. This is more of a reaction of the presentations from tonight. Um, so again, Patty Sukalis, I'm the WTA co-curricular chair um for the teachers
union. So, I also want to publicly thank all of the businesses and the people that came out and donated for these clubs. It was such a huge impact on our students and how much they were able to get involved. I have a child at the high school who's a senior. You know, the clubs that they were able to do um and
the, you know, the uh relationships they build with the teachers and doing the projects they do is just unbelievable. And so I also from the union, from the WTA want to thank all of those businesses, all of those private donors because it really does mean a lot um to
our to our staff, to our students, and you know, the success of our building and what makes our building so great. Um the second thing I wanted to speak about is the uh test results. So as the former inter math interventionist at the high school, I am proud. I spoke about these
numbers in the spring because I knew the preliminary numbers, but now you can see for official record that our mass scores went up over 10% from the previous year. And I'm not going to take all the credit for myself, but I do want to say that the program that we ran was phenomenal. We had
tiered support where we had two math teachers in a classroom. We had two English teachers in a classroom. So those teachers could kind of con uh divide and conquer. We could provide the support that these kids needed. In addition to that, um, Miss Morz, who actually happens to be there, she was the ELA interventionist, I was a math
interventionist. We were actually able to pull small groupoup instruction for additional support for these kids. It was amazing the relationships we built with these kids. These are kids that typically do not like math, do not like English, sometimes do not like coming to school. We forged such great
relationship with kids. In fact, one that left our district because she moved still reaches out to me this day and didn't think she was going to be able to graduate. And she's I always tell her, she's my uh my intervention poster child because she went from having a very very low test grade the first test to getting
a C on her own with very minimal support. And that just shows you the how we can have such an impact in the classroom. Unfortunately, through budget um cuts, we had to cut the tiered support program and we had to cut the intervention program. So, looking at
these numbers, because you know, I'm your numbers girl. Numbers don't lie. this support has such a huge impact on these kids in this classroom because if I can focus on the students that are struggling then the teachers can focus
and give bigger um advances to the students that are in the classroom instead of letting them sit and not grow. So you can see it from the proof of the numbers and the growth over the years comes from when her and I were involved in the program. We had another couple of teachers uh Mr. Gverson was a
part of it. Mrs. Rearigan who was a retired teacher came back and did it. Miss Gova who um left our district to go to another district when the positions were being cut. But I mean it was such a phenomenal program and I really really hope that you look at this information
put the priority back into the classrooms and where we need it. So when you're going through these budgets and when you're looking at what we have a lotment for is look at the impact on what we had and it's a group the math department the English department what we were able to do over the past couple
of years is phenomenal but we're not going to be able to achieve those kind of numbers without the support now that we're looking at 28 29 30 some of these English classrooms are up to 32 kids in a class we're not going to be able to give the individual supports we're
trying it through this small movements, big impacts, but it's very difficult. I will tell you, I'm teaching right now in one classroom 28 students to try to get them to pass a test of record. It is very difficult to work with those students to try to meet their individual needs, which is what they need from us
right now. So, as you're looking at this budget, I just implore you to look at what has happened over the past couple years. Please put priority on what we need, which is support for these kids. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Sakawas, Mrs. Williams. Hi again. Um, I forgot to mention
earlier and I just wanted to give a shout out to her field because I absolutely love her field so much. We have the best staff and teachers. Um, I know I'm not sure what her name is, but the lady that got up and talked about what are you're doing at 11:30 at night is I just wanted to say thank you to
Mrs. Codigan and Babino. I'm sorry if I mispronounced it wrong. Is they've taken out of their time to come to our kids sporting events and I just think that's amazing. We have great teachers and support staff and I just want to give a shout out to Hurfield because I just
thought it was amazing. You don't know how happy it made our kids. They're so excited to see their teachers out. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Williams. >> Before you move on, I just wanted to give a shout out because Mrs. Tiger Williams is here from Hurfville. My daughter
loved you. She did. And she only she only had her for half a year because of of COVID. But our our teachers are so important and they deserve the world and I wish we could give it to them. I
really do because there are so many teachers between my son's 12 years here and now my daughter's 10 years here, which I'm very sorry to mention out loud because that just shows how long you've been here. Um, they've had the most amazing teachers,
the most amazing support, and I couldn't be more thankful and more proud of our district. No matter what we're going through right now, it's a rough patch. I get it. We're It's like arguing kindergarteners right now, but our
district is amazing and I need everyone to remember that. Our support staff is amazing. Our teachers are amazing. Our custodians are amazing. Our admin are amazing. So, I know things look rough right now, but just try and remember how
great our school is. our schools are, how great our teachers are, how great our admins are. There there will be a calm to the end eventually. We just have to get there. And if we continue to work together and support one another, I have
faith that we will get there. Just everyone needs to be a little patient. And remember, at the end of the day, everything you do, anything you claim automatically will hurt our students if it's a negative thing. And no one wants
their kids to be hurt. And I certainly don't. And I still have two years here. And I, I said, I couldn't be more proud. I couldn't be more proud. >> Thank you.
Oh, Miss Witcraft. >> Hi, Heather Wickcraft again. Um, I just wanted to be clear. I am extremely disappointed administration did not think to consider protecting my son. I want an answer for how I go about filing the same request myself and the
turnaround time. Considering the files already exist, I can wait here so I can take notes for your response since everybody else got a response. But I'd like the directions what I need to fill out, how I need to word it. I just want to get it done.
>> Um, it's it's not I'm not being difficult. It's not my job to help you fill out an open request. So, if if an about open request, you can you can find the form online. Um, and if you're asking for for this room on a meeting like this, you'll
you'll get it. But it everyone seems to think that this was like a rush job. This this this OPER request came in a long time ago and you know and and then we fulfill all OPA requests
within the letter of the law and we followed the advice of our attorney and that was readvised today that we did the correct process. So I mean just go online look at the OPA request and and fill out exactly what you're looking for
and then you can submit it to Janine. If it's if it's the same video, obviously it's not going to take as long because I already have it pulled and already got the legal advice. Also, if you want to just send an email, you can send an email, but you might want to look at the form because there are
certain questions that have to be answered. So, if they're not in the email, if someone submits a request without the form and doesn't answer the questions, I typically just respond back and say, "Could you answer these questions?" and then it becomes a valid
open request. >> Thanks. >> It's the same video. It won't take long at all. It's already fulfilled. >> Thank you, Miss Witchcraft. Chris Lawrence. >> Good evening. Um, I wasn't sure if I was going to speak tonight, but I felt
compelled to. Um, so my name's Chris Lawrence. I'm in township 40 years. Moved over here from Delaware County, um, Pennsylvania. Raised three boys in this town. All went through Washington Township High School.
They did tremendous. I've always been very proud of our town, the school, the administration, the teachers. I've never been more disappointed than I am right now, though. Um,
and and I'm a little confused because I do support the teachers and the teachers union 100%. My kids are what they are today in large part because they're a product of this school system. I could say I was a great parent, but I know
that my kids spent more time with them than they did with me, probably. But I don't understand um why it isn't clear to the teachers and the teachers union that the board of education is not there specifically for
all of your best interest. That they're there to manage the school system as efficiently as they can to give you all the tools you that they can give you to do the job as good as you can do.
um and to do it efficiently, fiscally responsibly, and ethically. And I don't understand why the teachers and the teachers union isn't just as outraged as the people on the other side of this these discussions
that have been going on because of the conduct, the way this board has been handling its business. Now, maybe I'm being very simplistic about it. Um, you know, there isn't
enough money to do everything to satisfy everybody's needs, to give everybody what they want. Hard choices have to be made. That's what this board is for. And you're not going to like some things. You may like other things. And there's always going to be a healthy debate
about how to get what needs to be done done. But to support a board that has acted as unethically as it has acted in the last 6 to 12 months and the amount of time,
money, and energy that has been spent with both sides defending themselves is outrageous to me. And I'm glad there's an election coming up. It's always darkest before dawn. So, we have a chance to start changing
things on Tuesday and we may or may not. Unfortunately, the union has thrown a lot of money at one side because they feel their best interest are best aligned with one side. That's not very healthy though.
So, my only point is I I think there should be outrage from both sides at this board. I think everyone on the board should consider resigning honestly and I'm not picking sides here. I just think
it's a mess and you have not done your job ethically or fiscally responsibly. That's all I have to say. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lawrence. Mr. Baldo, >> just real quick, I want to jump on what
Mr. Lindseay and and Miss Lenudi talked about in relation to goals. You know, you have an opportunity here, and I'm going to talk about next year, okay? Um, I don't understand why why you won't vote for goals. It's in the contract, guys. It It's an
opportunity, okay? We all know this board is being sued and I hope you all understand you're going to lose. So here's your chance right now related to that. Set goals that will help move this district forward. I heard Mr. Li Liberty
say that the goals out there have metrics to it and improvement because I'll tell you what's going to happen. You don't give him goals, he's going to get paid above 100%. Because you guys are sticking it to them. That's what you're doing. Your stubbornness and
arrogance related to not setting goals that will help move this district forward is going to cost us taxpayers more money. Please speak as to why you justify not approving goals. Why are you not doing it? Those of you
voting no, those of you ignoring the people talking, why are you doing it? Because again, you're playing with our money. Okay? It's our money. And so if he was has the ability to earn 40,000 in goals, I don't know what it is, and you don't give him a goal, he's going to earn that
plus whatever the legal fees on top of it. So let's set goals. Let's take an opportunity to figure out. We we saw test scores going up. You just heard a great speaking about the challenges we're going to face with, you know, where we are fiscally.
Males talked about the concern of, you know, what we're going to what we might lose. We're going to have to cut more next year. We already know that we may have to cut more this year. We know that. Set goals to help our district move
forward. What? Why are you against that? Can anybody rationally state why you are against setting a goal that will help move this district forward? You're penalizing the district when you do that in money and in potential improvements
because again, we're just going to give the guy money if we don't set a goal. That's stupid. Thank you, Mr. Baldero. Uh Becky Bates. Becky Bates. Hello, Becky Bates, Washington Township
resident alumni. Um, I first I wanted to say uh thank you to Mr. Spencer for putting on the veterans performance this weekend. It was a beautiful thing to recognize them. Mr. Anderson uh MCed for us. The little kids that sang from Whitman were amazing. Uh they had a lot
of fun out there. Um, and the veterans that we celebrated uh felt really appreciated and had a great time there. Um, the students from the high school volunteered. They were great. They helped feed them. They helped escort them out to the field. They had conversations with them and learned a
little bit about their lives. Um, it was really great to see. Um, okay. Uh the next thing is that the band, the marching band is having a fundraiser tomorrow night at Blended Joe's by PJs, uh from 4 to 8. If you mention Township
Band for them, they're also going to their championships this weekend at Hershey and I'm hoping they do really good. They have had great performances all season and have worked extremely hard. Okay, so that's for band. Um, the
next thing is before our next band meeting or the next board meeting, uh, wrestling season starts, we still do not have middle school programs as far as I know. Um, and I'm wondering if there's any other options for the children, whether it be if they're in eighth grade, if they can wrestle with the high
school, or are there any districts that are willing to accept our children into their program since ours are not running? Um, that's all I have. Can you tell uh repeat where the fundraiser is? >> Oh, uh Blended Joe's. It's uh by PJ's.
Um >> yeah, I can give you the address because I have it right here. >> So, real quick, >> 421 Herville Cross Keys Road. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Dustillio, I'm going to put you on the spot real quick. Do you mind if I address Mr. Will you put out a parent square tomorrow to everyone? You've been
like on fire with all the fundraising. It has just like that day like do you need to pick me up after work? >> Um, sure. >> I was just going to put it right on this. >> I will, Miss Chilla. I will put out a parent square after this meeting. Okay.
I will take the one that's on just for the high school and I'll blast it to everybody and then I'll wait for the emails to tell me how annoyed parent square is for people. >> So, thank you. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, so Mike got to say something
nice. I have to say something sad. There's just no way we can bring back any middle school sport this year. Uh I'm very sad to report that. I I'm saddened immensely uh that we lost middle school sports. We will do everything in our power to have discussions for next year, but there's
really nothing we can do this year. I don't know of any other school that will allow them to come. Um, >> yeah, I mean they definitely you definitely can still wrestle in township. I mean, we have a ton. >> Yeah, we have a ton. What was that? >> Oh, got it. Um, and and no, as an eighth
grader, you you can't wrestle with the high school. So, I'm I'm so sorry to have to say that. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Kosar. Hello, I'm back again. Okay. Um, just one thing I'd like to address or ask a question about. Somebody just mentioned
the unions giving somebody money. Can I ask who that was? Or the unions give a lot of money to, I don't know, candidates or something. We don't have any money to give anybody. I don't know where some people get their
ideas from. It's really not something that should be perceived that you know unions give money to it's just not doesn't happen. So you know much as many people would like to believe that we're rich and famous and love to give people money we don't have
any to give. All we give is our support and our time. So just wanted to put that right for the record. Thank you. >> Thank you Mrs. Kosar. Okay. >> I had a a thought um about the middle school sports based on the comment of
aging out. I wonder if we could discuss with parks and wreck increasing the age range, you know, like they they have flexibility potentially on what ages they have, whether they're going to form a 14U or 16U. You know, given that the kids got displaced from
middle school, it might make sense for them to create a new league. >> Can we can we make the the uh liaison to council? Maybe bring that forward in a meeting because right because that's right in the park and rack. I forget who's council liaison, but that might not be a bad topic to bring
forward. I don't know if you guys have met. Scott, are you on that? I'm not sure if you are. >> We haven't met. >> Yeah. I mean that might not be a bad idea just to if we have leaison the council and we can grab more ages given we don't have middle school sports. I
don't know. >> Yeah. I just think we should do it sooner rather than later before the >> they start rolling. >> Okay. Let's let's connect so I have I have your info >> before you leave. >> Perfect. >> Okay. I think it's time to make a motion
to go back into executive >> motion. to close this meeting. >> Have to close this meeting. >> All right. >> May I have a motion to close the meeting to the public? >> So moved. >> Second.
>> Second. >> Okay. All in favor. >> So now when you read that, you're going to go into second executive. So you have to >> what you'll do is you'll read this >> and then legal matters
>> and then read that don't motion to close but say how many minutes you're going to be. >> Okay. >> Okay. Resolve that pursuant to section 8 of the open public meetings act the public shall be excluded from that portion of the meeting involving the
discussion of legal matters. Further resolved that discussion of such subject matter in executive session can be disclosed to the public if any action is taken by the board either at the resumption of the public session at the
conclusion of the executive session or at a public session at some later date. We'll probably be in executive for about 20 minutes. >> 20 minutes. >> Yeah. >> So am I. Oh, thank you. >> So, but we need we need that motion like
I need >> motion to close. >> No motion to >> motion to open an executive. >> Motion to open. So move.