[Music] hello good evening everybody and welcome to tonight's public Board of Education meeting uh we called our meeting to order in our closed executive session earlier and uh we hope you're enjoying
the last few days of summer break as we count down to the first day of school uh I'll turn and ask uh Dr aderhold if you have any comments to share before we move on to the report good evening everyone uh just a
couple back to school reminders um as we are um just over a week from the opening with students reporting uh week from this Thursday uh tomorrow back to school newsletter will go out to all family members um there's a tremendous amount
of information in that newsletter lots of hyperlinks lots of uh information to uh get sense of back to school nights and other um fall events so please make sure you're taking a look as it pertains to your particular children uh also wanted to just mention that we had a
wonderful um opening with our new teachers through our professional development series want to say thank you to Dr gold uh Mark Wise one of our supervisor uh Mr Taro and Mr Cooper as well as our other administrators for the support of this program of course our HR
department for all the work they do with all the hiring and onboarding uh programs uh we also have our Sports programs very active ly underway um and so we're excited for the seasons to kick off and uh with that I hope everyone has a wonderful opening and uh New Year and we look forward to welcoming all our new
families and our students back for 2425 so thank you all right thank you Dr ader hold uh next I'd like to invite Dr Barbara Gould to come up and provide our 2024 to 2025 curriculum review thank you thank you um good evening uh
board and community members I'm Dr Barbara gold uh Chief academic officer and I'd like to share with you the curriculum and instruction annual report for today this is an opportunity to share with you the wonderful and exceptional opportunities that our await
our students for this year oh one second all of our work here in wwp um is centered around our district mission statement we really um are thoughtfully thinking about how to empower all Learners to contribute to a
diverse and changing worlds with confidence strength of character and a love of learning and that includes our leaders our administrative team as well as our Educators and our teachers and um you would think that in the summertime um all of our leaders and our teachers
are taking a break but we are participating in lots of professional development and I will share a little bit of that learning experience and that happens during the summer with you now so here are some of the opportunities that take place during the
summer and these are just some of our offerings that we have available to our teachers um these sessions are geared towards and designed to be engaging and interactive and are direct ly uh related to our curricular initiatives that are
prioritized um by the district one uh Dr aderhold mentioned um our administrative Retreat this is one of the highlights of our summer um our administrative Retreat is an opportunity for our administrators to come together
um unlike the name it is not exactly a retreat but instead an opportunity for professional learning uh where we come alongside of one another and participate in different um sessions in which we are
that are centered around a theme this year's theme from belonging to connection to mattering demonstrates the district's commitment to ensuring that all Educators here feel a sense that they matter and that their work has a
greater purpose and um that they really can contri contribute to that greater purpose throughout the week sessions varied from topics such as multi-tiered systems of support um Human Resources we had the opportunity to participate in
Rucker disproportionality work uh crisis protocols uh dual immersion programming multilingual learner best practices and we even had um guest speakers an Holmes and rajn Gomer um com talk to us about
partnering with Southeast Asian families specifically around the topic of special education and these are just a few of the sessions that were offered throughout the week another huge part of our week is the opportunity to be able to build connections with one another as
pictured here in some of the activities that took place probably one of the highlights and um opportunities to build connections because we do recognize that in order to feel that sense of belonging mattering we need to connect with one another um
and we had the chance this year to attend the Trenton Thunder game with along with our families and thank you to uh Miss camela for taking all of these beautiful pictures there's actually a really great video and slideshow of all
of our families in one place and here are just a few of those snapshots it was a really beautiful evening and a chance to just get to know one another and our our kids and you know this this um sense of belonging really comes together when
we can meet each other's you know families and really feel that connection another extraordinary professional learning experience that happens in our district is the 4day induction process or new teacher
orientation uh yesterday we welcome welcomed um 72 new Educators to wwp and this is always an a new and exciting opportunity for us as a district um thank you to our chief Equity officer Sue too and our
supervisors of curriculum and instruction Mark Wise and Carl Cooper for putting together this really engaging and inspirational interactive experience and it's really focused on our district vision for student learning um sessions there are so many different
amazing sessions but the sessions are geared towards our strategic goals the evaluation process building a strong Community um and classroom culture you know um relationships with students technology integration you name it and
you can think think of it lesson planning um and really differentiated to meet the needs of all the different Educators throughout the um our district that we are welcoming our supervisor team is also really busy during the summer providing professional
development for our staff um he pictured here you can see our DLI professional development this year we will have 630 multilingual Learners in our DLI program spanning across five different schools
we will have students at Maurice Hawk Dutch neck woff Village and um our first cohort entering Middle School at Community Middle School school and um in this picture you can see 49 staff members participating in professional
development and this was a 4-day experience in which um staff members had the opportunity to come together to learn best practices around um the teaching of multilingual Learners and now for our curricular
projects here are a list of some of our new curricular projects that we had um happy to highlight just a few of them um our AP africanamerican studies uh curricula that was written over the summer um as
you know we were awarded as a district the AP African-American studies Grant um last year and we will um be offering two sections one at each High School uh this upcoming year of AP africanamerican stud study so we're really excited to be able
to add this as an addition to our program of studies as well as Dance 3 which is a continuation course um following dance one and dance two this is a really exciting and different type of a course and it integrates um dancing
and also technology so students in this course will be able to um show core Elements of Dance also using video editing um tools and combining those two features together so it's combining dance with also technology so it's
really um cool and different course for our students to be able to take and then our multi- lingual learner science and social studies uh both the the K2 and the 35 um those are to support um some
changes in our K5 um EL support program and um we're really excited about that as well as our program programming is Shifting slightly um to reflect a more best practice approach where our multilingual Learners are our El
students will be um provided with push and support um students that are proficient in the language for levels three and four and pull out support for students who are proficient um at levels one and two so the multilingual learner
science and social studies are aligned to our standards and will support students stud that are in the pull out setting so this is another really great opportunity for our students um to receive a different level and different type of support pictured here you can see all of
the different consistent parts of each of our curricular documents um on the right hand side um when teams of teachers are coming together a couple of things happen in or in order for teachers to be selected did and
participate in the curricular writing um process one of those things is that every teacher who participated this year uh receive training in understanding by Design and also using Equity um Equity
as a lens in order to write curricula as well as um we use a consistent template and we use the checklists just to make sure that all of the components are included in all of our curricular documents an additional component that all revised
and new curricular documents have started to include our Equity statements and we're really proud of this work because including an equity statement in our curricular documents signals a commitment to foster a more
inclusive and culturally responsive curriculum that that encourage student engagement and also um diverse perspectives in our curricula and as you can see here are just two examples um of
different Equity statements created by teams of teachers that participated in the writing of this these particular curricula so English language arts uh K5 and then emerging financial markets um
and so moving forward all new and revised curricula will include an equity statement as well and this is something that we decided as a curriculum team was really important to us to include and it also shows our commitment
to our Equity uh strategic goal the other component that we have agreed is a as a curriculum team to include our curricular story boards and this is a visual presentation um in order to make our
curricula more accessible to both students and to families it's a communication tool it's a way to represent the curricula in a different way and tell the story of what will be taught um and these are ways to
communicate to families and also to our students you know here is here are the learning goals and here's kind of the story of how the curric ccul will go and as we move forward um with writing any new or revised curricula we will also be
including storyboards and um sending those to parents and they're also available as part of any approved new and revised curriculum moving forward as well as a helpful tool as you will see in the next couple of slides we have been really busy
updating and revising uh with a ton of Revis curricular projects um in total we have um revised 143 documents um we had new
English language arts standards that are expected to be implemented September of 2024 and therefore a large Focus this summer was around the new um English language arts standards so all of our English language arts K through 12 has
been updated and revised to reflect that in addition we also revised and updated our mathematics courses to reflect the new standards although recently the state has uh granted us another year before implementation we have already
revised our St our documents to reflect the new standards um so we spent a lot of time revising and making sure that our our curricular documents were in compliance with the new standards so here you can see all the different
curricular projects that have been done and now Begins the work of the supervisors to prepare and to think about you know how will teachers have access to all of these new documents um how will they know you know um where all
the resources are and so um teachers have access to new documents they're sent out by the supervisor team we also have lots of professional development dat coming up both of our inservice days um in September are focused around
departments and have opportunities for teachers to meet with uh supervisor teams as well as their uh teacher coaches to have access to all of the changes um we also have professional learning communities at the elementary
level we have grade level meetings we have faculty meetings devoted to this so there's plenty of time to talk about implementation of the new curricular um projects that have come into place um and we have lots of conversations during
our curriculum and instruction team meetings together as a supervisor team around implementation and what that looks like and how we can ensure that teachers have access to all of the new documents and to the resources that accompany those and here's more of
them so I just wanted to say thank you you um to the board for supporting all of these changes and all of the hours that it takes and the commitment but really to our supervisor administrative teams for leading the way um our teacher
leaders uh we have so many teachers involved in curriculum writing over the summer they're here they devote hours and hours and hours to this work um even hours above the hours that they're paid to do the work they devote in order to make sure that everything is ready to go
for our students um and all and you know I just we appreciate their hard work and want them to know that it's seen and that it's valued so thank you thank you Dr Gould um do we have any questions for Dr Gould from the board go
ahead Dana didn't press the green button thank you for um this presentation um appreciate all the work that everyone does and um proud to be part of this uh District all the things that we do um I just want had a question on the
professional development page um or slide there are some things that um I don't know equity and what are the can you define what that ubd PPD sure is and
then what the next one is and um I think that's it I think everything else I I know I don't know if my my colleagues know but if you could just tell what those things are sure so the first one that you asked about the equity and ubd so those were the two
training sessions that teachers who are writing curricula had to go through so the first one was um rating curricula through an equity lens so it took a look at assessment practices um how do we ensure that our
resources are inclusive how do we ensure that there's representation um when we're thinking about um you know the text or the material that we're using when we're writing curricula so every teacher who participated in writing curricula this
year was trained in one session related to equity and then another SE session which was understanding by Design and that's a process um that talks about looking at um the big picture so you
know what are our essential questions when we're developing a unit of study what are our objectives um what are the assessments so it takes them through all of the different essential components of curriculum
writing um so what's the fnpa I think a do Sue do you oh finding Performing Arts yeah so that specific group did their own session yeah do you want to expand on anything
the the supervisors had the opportunity to be trained with Mark Wise around the understanding and by Design or by myself around the equity work they came and participated in that professional development and then turned K it to the
members of their team that would be doing the writing because as Dr gold said the the best way to do this work is through the lens of the content so those content area supervisors really to take their teams through it so um Mr Santoro
did his own session with fine and Performing Arts for Equity yeah sure all right great question Dana and thanks for the clarification and Louisa hi yes thank you for all the work um for those of us who are not on the
curriculum committee um when you talked about the modifications to meet the new El standards would you could you characterize those are those mostly changes in form or are there some significant conceptual changes in what we're teaching in the for English language arts yes sure um I would say
that for 612 the changes are primarily in form for K5 there are more significant changes specifically at the K3 level um a lot of the K3 changes are around
foundational literacy skills um so looking at incorporating more around phonics pheic awareness vocabulary uh build building background knowledge um and so if you notice um our shift
recently as a district towards um training our teachers in Orton Gillingham specifically we've started with kindergarten and we're moving towards first grade second grade it's to meet that need because U that instructional methodology very much
closely aligns with the standards and so the standards are are looking at um how do we build students Foundation literacy skills in Reading specifically a lot about reading thank for the board members of
the public that when when we're talking about the standards we're talking about standards that are adopted by the State Board of Education as recommended by the Department of Education that then informs curriculum writing across the entire state of New Jersey right so when
we're writing curriculum aligned standards these are Statewide learning standards um and all of K K12 language arts literacy was due this year and up until middle August all of K12 mathematics was required as well in the
state board meeting in a August a change was made to postpone mathematics until all the way at the end of next year uh next summer however the work the work was already underway budgeted worked the
staff had done the work so we're adopting and implementing the also there are several new um bills that have recently been adopted related to um literacy specifically which require us as a district to assess our students in
Reading um K through three to ensure that we don't have any students um that have any challenges in reading that we are identifying and screening our students and then we have a plan for intervention and support um so that we
don't miss any students and we do we have a really strong uh plan and Universal screeners already in place prior to the bill even being adopted but we are probably going to expand on what we were already doing and add in a
secondary screener just to make sure because we you know research has shown that the earlier you're able to intervene when students have any needs in reading the better the outcome for students and so we already have a universal screening process for k
through eight actually in Reading um but we will provide a secondary screener K through three for any of our students just to ensure that we don't miss any students and that we identify anyone that has um need and we intervene as quickly as
possible right thank you Liz thank you for this uh presentation and you've definitely had a very busy summer yes um I you had mentioned that a speaker had talked about connections with like the South Asian Community families with special needs can you
expand upon that and if efforts are going to be taken with other groups as well sure that was actually a really positive um I think and very enlightening experience for us as a group um we had the opportunity just to
hear you know some perspective uh from two different speakers who have had lots of experiences working with families specifically around special education and um just giving us
strategies as a district for you know um some of the maybe some of the ways in which to approach communication with families um especially when and to consider where some perspectives might
be coming from um in that you know how to adjust our thinking as a school district when we're having those conversations around special education early identification um and we were able to
ask some very open questions so that was really helpful um you know and I think as a district the more we learn the better we can serve our students and you know both of the different Educators have been in practice for a very long
time and have had a varied experiences and so they shared some of those experiences with us what H have been positive or successful strategies which strategies don't work so well um where some mindsets you know
might be um you know where um parents really it boils down to parents have their child's best interest at heart and if you can com from a place of you know we're in this together and how can we uh
move forward together it's it's a better position to be in and so you know how can we do that and communicate that message so that was where that was sort of what the me the overall message
was sure thank you uh sha um some of the training is in Orton Gillingham do all teachers get that training is it K through three and which students receive those that support is it through a screener or is it infused
in so our goal will be that all teachers K through five will be trained um currently all of our kindergarten teachers are trained there are a few that will train in the fall but we have a plan for any classroom rooms whose
teachers have yet to be trained um so all kindergarten students will receive it okay currently all of our special education students or special educators are trained as well um but our goal is for all K5 teachers to
be trained so we are working towards that we also have a cohort of first grade teachers who are pilot teachers who agreed to be trained and we have another cohort on the four fourth and fifth grade side who also are pilot
teachers so we're kind of working at both ends and then trying to meet in the middle and then that's available to any student that to all students we want K through five every general education student and then special ed does there's a little bit differently um if students are receiving
intervention then they and they that's a need for them then they are receiving Orton Gillingham because all of our interventionists are trained thank you sure go ahead L thank you Dr gold I just had a question um for I understand they you
know we're building up so more teachers get trained in um or in Gillingham um I was thinking just specifically because of the fourth and fifth graders currently because those are sort of like the covid kid from I have one of them so um from kindergarten to um so Min was as a rising fifth but he was a
kindergartner when Co hit um I guess I'm thinking like you know you're building up to fourth and fifth but like right now say a stent student who you know may be struggling or may need services or I guess what opportunities are there for that specific specific excuse me cohort
because they were kind of hit hard with the you know like early intervention with the with when it comes to reading great question so um we we have our Universal screeners in place so let's say a student gets identified based on one of those Universal screeners that um
intervention is necessary then they would have the opportunity to work with one of our interventionists at that level um and all of our interventionists are trained with Orton and they have access to all the resources and they would be in a small group likely in a
pullout setting multiple times a week receiving that intervention as long as needed to make progress so we utilize map as our as our Universal screener and then we use a secondary
screener um and um we have a different secondary screeners depending on the grade level and it depending on what gets flagged right so if something related to phonic gets flagged we might use one screener if something related to
comprehension gets flagged we might use a different secondary screener because that'll tell us what type of intervention the student needs but if they need intervention we we have a way to determine it and then they will get whatever intervention is
necessary with um one of our interventionists in a small group thank you great questions any other questions all right uh Dr ad hold I just want to follow the board's questions with just a thank you to Dr G for the incredible work that she and her team
have done um 143 curriculums and uh a tremendous number of professional developments throughout summer is no easy feat um so there's just you know normally we don't acknowledge individual administrators in this time but I do think that um circumstances presented
themselves this Summer that it's worth mentioning um two really three in particular that went above and beyond um with the transition of Lindsay jablonsky who was our K5 language arts supervisor um went off to become a principal um we
were without a supervisor for k5la during the summer and if you start thinking about looking at the curriculum documents impacted in that area you're talking about your writing curriculums you're talking about your reading curriculums you're talking about your pheic awareness um phonics and handwriting you're talking about um your
word study um in particular our math supervisor K5 Melissa Pearson as well as our principal over at morrice Hawk Sarah brigh um and our new supervisor that didn't start at that time Kim Haynes jumping in virtually um on while she was
working over the summer uh previously you know um previously arranged before she started with us um really Melissa and Sarah in particular just did Yan's work um carrying that work forward and I think we just should recognize them publicly because in addition of that
Melissa also carried the math K5 um rewrites as well so just a real credit to her and um getting the work done this summer so thank you to Melissa and to Sarah and of course to Barbara and all the work that the curriculum team did so thank you amazing thank you um that takes us to
our first opportunity for public comments the board invites thoughts and reactions on agenda items and items of concern from members of our community who are present each participant is asked to give his or her name and address prior to making a statement which will be limited to 3 minutes in accordance with board policy
0167 all statements shall be directed to the presiding officer this public comment period shall be limited to 60 Minutes um any public comment seeing none um I will close this uh public comment period and uh move on to
the committee report so I'd like to ask Dana uh as chair of the administration facilities committee to provide a report okay thank you um the administration and Facilities committee met on August 13th we reviewed two policies for a first reading that's
policy 1127 benefits covering non-affiliated administrative employees category G and policy 1124 benefits covering non-affiliated part-time category D school security Monitor and pool operator um and then we reviewed the
following policies and regulations which are recommended for a second reading and approval at tonight's meeting that is um regulation 52000 with attendance it's called attendance um policy 5350 student
suicide prevention policy 8420 emergency and crisis situations and the policy and regulation 8467 which is firearms and weapons the committee reviewed the district nursing Services plan for the 2425 school year
which supports student health services and Emergency Management the referendum projects are nearing completion with finishing touches continuing for the media centers at Mory Hawk and Village Elementary schools with Elite summer occupancy expected the committee will
next meet on September 10th all right thanks Dana um does anyone have any questions for the ANF committee okay so ly I'd like to ask for the curriculum committee report thank you grayan um the
curriculum committee met on August 14th uh we began with Dr G uh who reviewed the district's annual scores report for Access which means uh language profic proficiency for multilingual Learners and uh the NJ GPA which is a graduation requirement and measures mathematical
and um Ela skills for the 2023 24 school year a more comprehensive and public report will be shared in the fall um by Dr gold uh next Dr gold shared with the committee details about the curriculum writing process which we uh heard tonight um and goals set forth by the
supervisor team to begin including Equity uh statements and story boards as part of um new and revised curricular projects these goals are in line with the district strategic goals and Equity as she mentioned earlier um on the agenda for voting tonight first we have
um the program of studies Amendment the curriculum committee recommends approval um of the following Amendment to the program of studies for the 20242 which is um Plainsboro residents are also eligible to attend the middle sex County magnet schools this is a 4-year full day vocational program
hosted at four different location uh locations throughout middle sex County students interested in attending one of these programs should apply at the end of grade 8 for entrance in uh grade n since admitt admittance is uh for upper grade students is based on availability
interested students and their parents should contact their school counselor um additional information as well as programs offered can be found on the website uh www. mcms nj.net on page 71
um next the curriculum committee uh uh reviewed oh curriculum uh the committee recommends approval of um all new and or revised curriculum uh next with regard to professional development the curriculum committee recommends approval of um first entering into a contract
with the Flemington riton Regional School District to provide the 2024 2025 reading recovery professional development and technical support for eight uh reading recovery teachers at a cost of $7,600 plus mileage and then second um
for three teachers and one administrator per session to participate in the Ryder University um Science Education and liter literacy centers um ngss assessment professional learning Workshop series at Ryder University um
during the 2024 2025 school year um at a total group cost of $300 plus mileage next uh we for a professional development consultant we recommend um approval of reading and writing project Network LLC to provide 10 days onsite
reading and writing professional development to first and second grade teachers at a cost of $26,000 uh including travel uh next regarding disposal of instructional materials the committee recommends approval of uh disposal of
the following obsolete items in accordance with r 73001 uh first 459 books at High School South uh Media Center 208 books at North media center Center 2 277 books at CMS medium Media Center uh 1,143 books at uh
Maurice Hawk media center and 1,914 books at Town Center uh Media Center all these items all items meet one or more of the following which is one they are so outdated as to no longer serve as worthy instructional tools or um they
are so worn and damage as to prude effective use and economical repair or restoration and then last asked uh for voting field trips uh the committee recommends approval for uh overnight field trip for Grover Middle School choir students to music in the Showcase
festival at the University of Delaware and in um Williamsburg Virginia from May 2nd to May 4th of 20125 the cost of the trip is approximately uh $550 per student the committee will next meet on September 10th thanks L um does anyone
have any questions or comments about curriculum okay okay so next I will turn over to Louisa for a finance committee report great uh the finance committee met on August 13th uh first the committee reviewed the monthly Financial
reports the administration certified that no line item is overe exended and that there are sufficient funds to complete the year there are motions on tonight's agenda to approve the following to approve a primary vendor for repairs and service for the district's musical instruments to amend
the escnj current bid award dated 73024 that was originally approved on May 28th to approve the continuation of esip 2 based on the investment grade audit that was approved previously to approve green Sky clean energy as the power purchase
agreement provider following the July 16th RFP to approve an agreement with Mercer County Community College for printing services to approve a change order for the construction in in morce Hawk Media Center to approve Cooperative purchases over the bid limit to approve
the disposal of obsolete equipment to approve an adjustment to a joint Transportation agreement and various School related um activity trips to approve the board's attendance at the annual New Jersey school boards Association fall Workshop next the committee talked about the 20232 24
Financial year end the Auditors are in the district and have started the audit the finance department rolled the budget into the 2425 fiscal year two weeks ago with the help of L brotman staff then updated the committee on construction projects the wuff water remediation
project is nearing completion there will be a change order for additional Paving work on the driveway as it was previously damaged by bus use the Community Middle School radio enhancement work is completed the next step is for various First Responders to test the system The Village walk-in
refrigerator has been removed new electrical circuits and fire suppression lines have been installed the new walk-in box was delivered on Monday and is expected to be installed in operational by the end of the week the concrete sidewalk replacement work throughout the district has been completed the Town Center playground
surface replacement project funded by the NJ local Recreation Grant has been completed the work involved replacing the damaged rubber section of the playground that had deteriorated over the years due to use the new town center sidewalk extending from the main entrance driveway to the road has been
completed the work at the village and Hawk media centers are nearing completion at Hawk the railing for the stairs leading down to the library floor is being modified to enhance safety from the students next Dan rigle of Snyder Electric presented the plan for the Energy savings Improvement program two
this project has reached a no turning back point if the board board authorizes work to proceed from this point and then cancels the project the district will be responsible for engineering fees however if the project proceeds to completion these fees will be included in the long-term financing with the payments
covered by savings and utility costs green Sky submitted the RFP for a power purchase agreement that offers the greatest savings to the district The Proposal locks the rate at 5.95 cents per kilowatt with no inflator for 15 years the two utility providers to the
district allowed consideration of several larger solar arrays however jcpnl will not permit new arrays to be constructed at Village and Grover and psng will not allow a new system to be installed on the roof of town center this is disappointing as it limits the size of the solar
project um next staff brief the committee on food service the district has a new food service provider Southwest food Excellence is preparing for the new school year we are staff is working on the final closeout figures for sedexo our old contractor with the
final closeout expected to occur in September the walk-in box at Village has been constructed and is awaiting the electrician who is scheduled to return to the job tomorrow to connect the electricity inspections have been scheduled for next week the walk-in box is in town center and Millstone will be
installed next summer or during a long enough school break High School South freezer has been installed and is now operational Additionally the three new comi combination ovens purchased with grant money have been installed and are ready to use for the start of the school year the committee will next meet on
Tuesday September 10th thanks Louisa um any questions or comments regarding Finance okay so that means we can move on to the voting portion of our meeting um can I get a motion for administration
items number numbers one through 15 uh Dana and Robin um any questions or comments okay okay we'll start with Miss Krug yes Miss chenera yes Miss zich yes
Miss ho yes Miss malga yes Miss Shetty yes Miss Juliana yes misson yes now can I get a motion for curriculum and instruction items numbers one through five uh ly and Rachel questions or
comments okay we'll start with Miss malga yes Miss chenera yes Miss ho yes Miss Krug yes Miss Shetty yes Miss zich yes Miss Juliana yes Miss mccuan yes uh now can I get a motion for finance items
numbers 1 through 26 uh plus I do have a verbal correction on number two uh the adjustment numbers uh should be 001 through 0077 um um and we also have a blue
addendum um Louisa and Cha any questions or comments okay we'll start with Miss hoe um yes and on item 26 I abstain for myself okay Miss Shetty uh yes but for
item 27 I abstain for myself okay Miss jenier yes but I do abstain for myself on okay Miss Krug oh uh 26 26 26 26 thank you 26 well I'm going to do the same so yes
um and except for 26 I um vote Yes for all but abstain for myself yes Miss migga Miss MGA yes on item 26 I vote Yes for all and abstain for myself
okay next we have movich yes but on item 26 I abstain for myself okay Miss Juliana yes to all and obstain to myself as to item 26 and Miss McKuen yes to all but for item number 26
I abstained for myself okay all right thank you and next can I get a motion for personnel items numbers one through three plus the green addendum uh Liz and scha any questions or
comments oh um Dr aderhold I just want to uh mention to the public and uh for the audience um that this evening we have a candidate for uh High School North assistant principal on the agenda I'm pleased to recommend the appointment of Vincent Del
prior as assistant principal at High School North Vinnie was most recently an assistant principal of Bridgewater ran Regional High School and prior to serving that um he was a social science teacher in north planfield in addition to his K12 education experiences he comes to us having served in the United
States Air Force where Rose to the rank of Captain as a flight Commander he's currently pursuing a doctoral uh doctorate at the at Ruckers University and a doctorate of Education U we're thrilled that you're in the audience we're thrilled that you're joining the team and we look forward to working with Vinnie to our leadership
team okay we'll we'll start with Miss chenera yes Miss hoe yes Miss Krug yes Miss maliga yes Miss Shetty yes Miss zovich yes Miss Juliana yes M McAn yes and uh and actually before we move on I would like to acknowledge uh one
retirement that we voted on today uh noren West uh teacher resource specialist for instruction and intervention at Millstone river is retiring after 30 and a half years of service in wwp so um Norine we thank you for your service and we hope you enjoy
your retirement and this next chapter and uh once again just to Echo Dr ater hold congratulations to Vinnie [Applause] okay now um can I get a motion to approve uh the Board of Education
minutes from July 30th um Robin and Dana um any questions or no uh any questions or comments okay um all those in favor say I I I uh any abstentions Iain Iain
and I have stain as well okay do we have any board aison reports no any new business oh god well I just wanted to make a comment it was I don't know if it's like new business but just want to
take a moment to um Express appreciation to Dr STC and Miss Andrea Bean for all their work in the summer courses that they that were offered for Marine Science and the different math programs um it was tremendous to see the number of kids who participated my own my twins
had participated as well and they really enjoyed it it did not feel like a the typical academic U structure they had field trips and it was really well thought out and I know a lot of parents really appreciated this opportunity and it also helped for kids who are entering High School to see what the high school
environment would be like so just you know really appreciate their efforts thanks L that's great firsthand feedback um well that takes us to uh our second opportunity for public comments um the board invites comments from members of our community who are present
each participant is asked to give his or her name and address prior to making a statement which will be limited to three minutes in accordance with board policy 0167 all statements shall be directed to the presiding officer this public comment period shall be limited to 15
minutes um do we have any public comments seeing none uh I will close this second opportunity for public comments and um could we get a motion to adjourn the meeting Robin and Louisa uh all those in
favor say I I I right thank you and good night