How are you? So, March 25th. Welcome one and all to our Winslow Township Board of Education meeting being held here at the Winslow Township Middle School, Wednesday, March
25th, 2026, 700 p.m. Public notice of this meeting was given to all board members and associates in a notice dated January 8th, 2026.
Adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided specifying the time, place, and manner in which this meeting is being conducted. It was advertised in the career posted on all schools and the
administration office, the municipal building, the library, the Bub Dooall center, Edwood Acres, Mtown, and the Winsow Township Post Office. Mission statement, Miss Pitts.
The mission of the Winsel Township School District, large, diverse, and growing community is to educate all students to become independent, lifelong learners, critical thinkers, caring, and confident members of their community.
district in partnership with the community and in a climate of cooperation and mutual respect will provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity encourages students to strive for
personal excellence and assist them in acquiring the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to contribute positively to a rapidly changing world. >> Thank you, Miss B. Roll call. >> Mr. Clark >> here.
>> Miss Dreaden. Miss Glaude >> present. >> Miss Martin >> present. >> Mr. Matthews >> present. >> Miss Neves >> present. >> Mr. Shaw >> present. >> Miss Pittz >> present. >> And Mr. Thomas
>> present. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. Pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag >> United States of America. to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and
justice for all. >> Mr. Clark, District goals, 2025 2026 district goals. Number one, student achievement. continue to implement research-based best practices for delivering instruction and
accelerating learning for all students, including all subgroups. This shall include conduct weekly administrative walkthroughs to monitor teaching and learning, utilize the district diagnostic assessment platform to analyze student data to inform and guide
instruction, to monitor and track measurable growth in ELA and mathematics in grades 1 through nine, and to implement creative ways to accelerate student learning by providing additional supports throughout and beyond the school day. Number two, promote a
positive environment for students and staff. Enforce the code of conduct to ensure safety for students and staff in compliance with district policies. Incorporate social emotional learning opportunities for students to celebrate positive behaviors. Develop strategies
for students with significant behaviors to reduce the interruption of instructional time, decrease negative actions, and improve school attendance. Number three, increase stakeholder engagement. Explore and expand
innovative opportunities to increase parent communication. Create parent learning opportunities with a focus on how to support their child's learning and continue to share the accomplishments of Winslow students in all student activities. >> Thank you, Mr. Clark. Would there be any
awards and presentations tonight? >> Yes. So, we have a food challenge tonight. So, we'd like to thank everyone for coming out tonight and we would like to thank our partner Sedexo for hosting the future chefs challenge. So, tonight you
are sampling food made by our wonderful students, our student chefs and we have some judges and our host for this evening will be Dr. Carter. Dr. Carter, the mic is yours. Let's give Dr. Carter a round of applause. All
right. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. Good evening. >> All right. So, welcome everyone to this year's future chefs event. Uh I am Dr. Carter. I'm the principal of school number five. I also will be presenting uh for this event this evening. The
whole concept of this competition is to help educate the students in healthy eating habits. Too often we hear about obesity in kids and kids not making the right choices in terms of their eating habits. This year the students submitted
their favorite home or family recipe. This year's theme is passport to flavor. Final judging was based on taste, originality, ease of preparation, healthy attributes,
and plate presentation. And just a bit about the timeline. In preparation for this event, students from schools five and six filled out recipe cards. The food service office narrowed down the recipes to two
students per school. The four finalists were formally invited to a culinary competition cookoff today, March 25th, which started at 5:00 p.m. And just to note, all finalists will receive a prize
package with the champion also receiving the grand prize. So now, let me introduce the judges for today's event. Winslow Township Police Chief Don Lemons. Winslow Township Fire Chief Mark
Rigberg, EMS Chief Joyce Madori, Winslow Township Deputy Mayor Darius Peoples, representing the village of Camden County Incorporated, a nonprofit profit organization here in Winslow Township.
Abena McClendon, the Winslow Township School District's 2025 teacher of the year, Norman Ingram. And we also have a special guest or special judge from Sedexo, Senior
District Manager Joel Hernandez. So, the finalists had the competition earlier this evening and we are here to announce the winner. But before doing so, I would like to introduce the finalists
from school. Number six, Abdul Bell. Abdul prepared stir fried fetuccini. All right, one more round of applause for Abdul from school number six. There we go. All right. Also from school number six,
we have Gotham Armstrong who prepared chicken tortilla soup. There you go. >> There he is. All right. Great job, Gotham. All right. So, let we'll move on. Having
some uh technology difficulties here. Oh, there we are. All right. Thank you, Gotham. So, now from school number five, we have Kira Rose. Now
you all of my love you. All right, as you can see, Cara presents for cooked spicy creamy Cajun chicken pasta. And our last finalist is from
school number five. We have Reagan Rothenber. >> Uh, which one? >> Uh, which one? >> No. All right. >> All right. So, Reagan prepared a lemon.
What do you have? All right, great job, Reagan, who prepared lemon chicken with asparagus and potatoes. So, great job and congratulations to all of our students. Let me just say thank you to the Winslow Township School District for hosting
tonight's event. Thank you to all judges and students for your participation. And a special thank you to Sedexo's Colleen Lil, Ray Watkins, Peggy Clark, and staff for having this competition. And now I will announce the winners.
Our two runners up are Abdul Bell and Kira Rose. Let's give them a round of applause. All right. And now I will announce our second place winner. Our second place
winner is Reagan Rothenber. And ladies and gentlemen, our 2026 Future Chefs Challenge winner is Gotham Armstrong. >> Once again, congratulations to all of
our finalists and winners. You guys all did a wonderful job. Thank you again to our judges. And that concludes our program this evening. Thank you. Congratulations to all of our chefs. Thank you to our guest judges. Thank you
to our partner again, Sedexo, for hosting this event. And thank you, Mr. Dr. Carter, for hosting our event and MCing. So now we're going to have Miss McBride from school two introduce her students who are presenting tonight. So
board members, if you would like, you all can move out there to the crowd so you can get a better view of the presentation. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening everyone. Again, I'm Christa McBride. I am the principal of Winslow School number two and I'm honored to be here tonight to introduce to you my students
who will give you a snapshot of a full performance that we're actually going to have on April 20th at Winslow School number two. So, we were fortunate enough to continue our perfecting chords program this school year. Perfecting Chords is brought to us by love in Our
Cities, which is the community engagement arm of the perfecting church under the ministry of Pastor Kevin Brown and Minister Angela Brown. The perfecting chords program is a free afterchool music program. It's offered weekly from September to April and um
it's it is just designed to develop a love of music and a greater sense of connectedness among the students and our volunteers. I'd like to absolutely acknowledge the seven perfecting cords volunteers who joined us every single Thursday from 3:30 to 5:00. I'd like to
thank the parents for picking up every every week at 5:00. Rain or shine, you all were there and I appreciate you letting um my babies do that. I really do appreciate it and you are in for a treat. So again, they're going to give a snapshot of what the program will be on April 20th. I do invite all of you to
come and without further ado, I will hand it over to the perfecting chords program. >> Yes. >> Hello everybody. Just saying hello to everybody. I would just ask that we just lower a little bit so we can make sure we can hear our talented kids speak and
do their speech. Thank you. Glad to be glad to be me. I'm glad to be one else. I look in the mirror.
What do I see? I see the me. No one else can be. I am precious. So glad to be me. My hair and my face, my personality,
my size and my shape, the color of my skin. All make of me outside and in. I'm glad to be me. I'm glad to be me. I'm glad to be me.
No one else can be. I'm glad to be glad to be me. I'm glad to be me. No one else can be. at the very beginning. When you read, you begin with ABC. When
you sing, you begin with me. Do me. The first three notes just happened to be >> a dear a female dear golden sun
I call myself a long way to run so a needle pulling thread A nose to follow a drink with jam and bread
will bring us back to a dear a female dear son I call myself a long way to run
so a needle pulling A drink with that will bring us back to Booking.com. Climb every mountain.
Search high and low. Follow every by way, every path, you know. I'm
mountain or stream every rainbow until you find your dream. A dream that will need
all the love you can give every day of your life. for as long as you live. I'm stream
every Dream that will need all the love. You can give every day of your life for as long
Thank you so very much. That again was just a snippet of our whole program. April 20th. I think that they did a fabulous job with patience and flexibility. Something we character traits, we teach. So, they did a wonderful job. Another round of applause, please.
Thank you so very much. As the board comes up, I'd like to thank Miss McBride and her team for that wonderful performance. Uh, thank you to all your all the parents that came out to support their children tonight. And
without you, none of this is possible. So, thank you for all that you do. And I want to thank the uh choir director and our teachers for all their hard work making sure that our young people are prepared for moments like this. So, thank you and have a great night.
And I would like to take this moment to thank TPC for coming and sharing and collaborating with the Winsow School District with such a phenomenal program. Okay, we'll let him clear out a little bit. I know >> that.
>> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Spicy pasta was good. >> Was it? Oh, I I ate half the same and all. They just should package us up and send us some back there to We have an executive session today. >> You What' you say?
>> Do we have executive session today? >> Oh yeah. >> What's back there to eat today? >> Uh the hot roast beef. >> Oh man, they should be had us fix up some food to go back. >> That was tasty,
>> wasn't it? But the um and the new >> they're they're like when you >> they have no right. >> So at this time we would like to have our business administrator Miss Bole present the tenative budget.
>> Okay. So anybody in the audience I'm going to apologize because you do not have numbers in front of you. U Miss Chico and I love our numbers. So, um I'm going to share them with my uh passion and love.
Um the Can you hear me? Okay. Uh the purpose of this presentation is to present the budget to the board members and uh we're seeking approval to send it up to the to the DOE u who will then look at it and uh report back to us,
tell us if there's any changes or anything that need to be made. Um, so I'm going to go over some of the information that's in the budget with you tonight. It is very cursory. Uh, we're not allowed to release the um advertised budget until after it has
been approved by the county. So, you know, I'm trying to give you enough so that you you have something to base your decision on. So for state aid and uh what I always do is I like to compare prior year to
current year. So in our operating budget we had 56.7 million in support um in 2526. In 2627 uh it went up to 600 million2206
uh 693. That was an increase of $3.4 million in state aid to support this year's budget. the preschool >> say 600 say >> pardon me >> said 600 million 6 >> 60 60 million206693
thank you Miss Floyd um but that is an increase of 3.4 million over the prior year preschool aid also received an increase of $675,933 um over the prior year. However, that is
in a separate fund. We're just that's in fund 20. I'm um bringing it up because it is part of our state aid package. So, the overall increase in support of the district's budget is 4 million 83,859.
If we flip over to the next page in 2526, this is um federal funding. Federal aid is the semi program. We actually had a decrease of 26,677.
So instead of getting 46,000, we're getting 19. All right. So the next thing I wanted to share is our um our local contribution. In the prior year, uh our tax levy was uh 55.8
million. We utilized fund balances 6.7 million. We made a withdrawal from capital reserve of 15.2 and uh a portion of that was to be used for the HVA system at the middle school and we also
made a withdrawal during the course of the year from maintenance reserve for 1.1 million. In 2627 we are anticipating support of 62.2 2 million um in the tax levy fund balance
5.5 million no withdrawal from capital reserves and for maintenance reserve $817,000. So overall if you look at the uh support it's gone down by $10.4 million.
Okay. Now, I also wanted to address the tax levy. You'll notice that between the 55.8 and the 62.2, that is an increase of $6.4 million.
So, if we flip over, I wanted to give you an an analysis of what that's comprised of. Um, it's the 2% tax levy increase, which we always or historically we have raised. However, we
are also um having to use the healthc care adjustment which is 4.2 million. We also have to use uh cap bank of 1.1 million and those numbers added together are adjusting the tax levy by 6.4
million. The next um page shows revenues from the general fund. So the overall if we see uh the local tax levby is 6 point uh 62.2 million state aid 60.2 to
extraordinary aid 1,500,000 fund balance 5.5 million tuition 4.1 million miscellaneous uh receipts and interest 980,000
the semi at 19963 and our withdrawal from maintenance reserves of 817,000 so our overall budget will be 135,520 229. So that's the um those are the revenues.
Now we're going to look at how we're going to spend them. And so then next we're going to talk about our budgeted appropriations. Um some of our lines are collapsed because the document is teeny tiny print and very very long. So they
collapse it into categories for instruction of we're going to allocate 44.5 million tuition 17.2 million student support services 14.6 million
administration and info techchnology 8.4 4 million operations and maintenance 11.3 million student transportation 12.9 million benefits 23.9 million interest
earned 500 capital outlay 1 million8 um and transfer to charter schools 638 uh,921 for an overall operating budget again
135 5,5229. So what we bring in we spend. So it's a balanced budget. The next slide gives us a a uh comparison of what we actually spent in 2425
in this year 2526 where we were in this year's budget as of February 1 and then what we're proposing for 2627. I want you to note in 2526 uh in in the top part of the column like
the split of the page you'll see a 2.7 million 2.7 uh 58059 those are prior year incumbrances. So those were purchase orders that we had issued in uh 2425
and they hadn't been completed yet so we hadn't dispersed it. Just like when you're reconciling your checkbook, you have to make sure if you have outstanding checks, you just don't drop them. Uh because if you do, you will be in the deficit real soon. So that money
carries over. So the numbers that we see here in 2526, when you look at the expenditure, the bottom part, that uh $2.7 million is included in those numbers. So, it's a little artificially inflated, but we're going to take a
comparison. If you take a look at um instruction, for instance, in uh 2526, we were uh 59.4 million. Next year, we're going up to 61.7 million, which is
an increase of $2.2 million. For student support, we went from 12.6, 6. We're going to go 14.6 uh increase of 1.9 million. Um administrative info technology, we're going from 8.9 million
down to 8.4. So we're reducing some of our administrative cost. Um operation and maintenance, uh 12 million and we're coming down to 11.3. Um now under that's 633,000
reduction but um more than likely some of those incumbrances are have inflated this number. Uh transportation we are going from 11.5 to 12.9 that is an increase of $1.3 million.
Um benefits we're going from 19.4 4 to 23.9. That is a $4.4 million increase over the prior year. So, our health benefit costs have uh
really skyrocketed. Our transfer to charter schools were going to uh 593 thou uh,000 to 638. That's only a I don't know why I said only, but it's 45,295.
Now, if you offered me a check for 45,295, I wouldn't say only 42. So, that's why I I changed that. Uh capital and maintenance, those are funds that we withdraw to have to complete projects.
We were uh had projects and equipment of 18.8 million in this year's budget. Um, next year we're only going to 1 million uh 1 million8. So, we're doing a it's a
decrease, but in this year's budget, we have an HVAC um project that we're going to um for the middle school so we can get the HVAC upgraded. Uh we have district vehicles and I also believe that the prior year
vehicles we had ordered rolled into this year and both were you know both of those um uh purchases were paid out in the current year. So it's a little inflated. So historically we try to get um budget $700,000 to buy buses. At one
point that would buy us seven buses. At this point it's four. So, um, we must have gotten eight in during the course or they're coming in. So, it's it's budgeted. Um, next year again, 700,000
and we're going to uh try to keep up with the vehicle rotation schedule and uh satisfy the needs in the transportation department. Now, what I want you also to do is again take a look. going through some of these variances, but you don't see any wild
swings with the exception of some of these key increases. All right. So, for the proposed 2026-2027 budget for the general fund, um we're
going to have uh $135.5 million special revenue 11.4 4 million um for a total budget of 146 million.9. We take out 98034
because we are paying the special revenue fund for certain kids that are in um uh in preschool and there they're a district children that we have to place in the preschool program. So we pay for those students through the
preschool grant. So, we're taking it out of our pocket and then while it's shown in their budget as well, we're taking it out of theirs. So, it's adjusted. Um, so if we go back to the general fund 135.5
million where our anticipated revenues are 73.2 million and our tax levy will be uh 62.2 million to support it. Um if we come down for the special revenue fund um
everything that's there is supported from grants and awards from the state federal government or local donations. So um so that's there and I'll say that about 7 million of that 11 million is the
preschool aid grant for this year and there's no support from the from the uh tax levy. So the overall again is going to be 146,9186 dollars for the uh operating budget.
We're going to have 84,601974 and anticipated revenues. And that leaves the tax levy at 62,299832. And I'm going to flip to the next slide that says, "Do you have any questions if you're still awake?"
>> I have a question. I I I I don't see a category that says actual salaries. Where would that fall in line with with the budget? >> So, they are um aligned with the function that they're serving. So,
you'll see some in instruction. You'll see some will be allocated to transportation. So if I'm a bus driver, if I'm the director of transportation, my salary will be in transportation. Um our technology will be in information
technology and administration. Uh those of us Mr. Peas, myself, Sheresa, we would be categorized in uh administration as well. uh teachers are in instruction and there's also support function.
>> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Anyone any anyone else any questions? >> I had one question, Miss Bole. So, with the decrease in the capital reserve, I assume the high school project was in last year's budget and not this year's budget. Actually the high school um HBAC
project has been here almost as long as I have. It was precoid and we have been supporting it. So no we did not we had withdrawn money from it initially. We added more to it because it started out
at 3.3. It's now at 17.45. Uh we had to add more to it. Um, and so it's sitting there and we are trying to get that horse out the gate. Um, so no, we didn't withdraw uh last year for it.
Our withdrawal uh last year, when you say last year, I'm in a time warp. I'm talking about this year we did um the project for the middle school. And in the prior year, I think we did a the prior year we did five or did we do
five? And the year before that we did six and they are just they just went out to bid and were awarded hopefully will start and be completed. Five and six will be completed this summer. Um and then we're still trying to get that $17
million project out the gate. So, so and not only because of the funding we don't and the con the funding constraint, we also have approved projects that we just need to get them done. So, we weren't
including anything major. The only thing that we are um including in this year's budget is to repave a couple of the parking lots um at some of the schools and then we'll we'll try to make other
repairs because the the money is uh tight. Money is >> also um could you just explain what the process going forward from this point on? I know there was a 4-day win window to get this uh I believe tenative budget
over to the county, but but there's still time for questions or if someone wants to come in and get a better explanation oneonone with you. Is that possible? And is that possible? >> Um, of of course, Mr. Thomas, especially
a board member. um to the public. Again, I'm kind of limited in terms of what I can share until they approve the um um the advertised budget. At that point, once that's approved, you know, it's no
holes bar, everybody can see. But of course, we were absolutely share with the board members if anybody has questions. And I do encourage you to ask. I don't want you to vote on something you're not >> sure of. So my other thing that I wanted
to make clear is when we withdraw from capital reserve or maintenance reserve we are taking our money out of the bank and putting it to use. These other cap banks
that's not that's not something we've set aside that will impact the tax levy. Okay. So, I just wanted to make that clear and that's why uh I presented those numbers to you. So, we're not going off. I included the normal 2% tax
levy increase, but these are additional costs that will um that are not like a reserve, a reserve. We set the money aside um at the end of the year. Historically, we ask the board to approve to put some money in capital
reserve or put some money in maintenance reserve. Good thing we have done that. Um because with that middle school when we had the the the break in the water man, not all costs were covered by the insurance carrier. So any floors that
had popped up that had asbestous in it, our coverage is 25,000. Anything above that, we had to go into a maintenance reserve in order to get those funds to um make those repairs.
>> Okay. I just have I just have a simple question. So the vote tonight that we're voting on is just the tenative vote for this to go to the um county superintendent. >> Absolutely. >> And then when that gets once that goes to the county superintendent is going to come back again to us as the board to look at the more detailed report and
then at that point we can ask for different we can have ask questions in regards to how everything is being allocated. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> That's an observation. couple weeks ago when I did
>> I'm sorry. Can you hear me now? >> Yeah, just move up to the mic. >> I'm sorry. Um when I did go over to the uh early childhood educational center um I did notice that their um parking lot very very muddy. And I spoke to the principal and she had said that they had
put I believe she said they had put it out to bid uh in order to get that um parking lot paid. Is is that are we going to be in any way financially obligated to contribute anything towards
the paving of that um parking lot at the early childhood center? >> Um no, Madame Vice President, since we do not own that building, the only thing that can be um support that is the
preschool education grant. However, since we don't own the building, it's up to the landlord, I'll say, to make any uh needed repairs. So, Chiselhurst would have to budget those repairs. And I
think that um Miss Clement and uh Miss Ortez and Miss Coleman meet to make sure that her I'll say Miss uh their priorities are in line. So there's several things
I'm sure that they they want to have accomplished at that building. So we can't do it. They have to do it. They don't have, you know, the funds aren't always there. So they have, you know, they can't do large um large fixes, I'll
say. Um but they prioritize the needs. So if um >> Thank you, Miss Bole. >> Is there any other question for Miss Bole? in the presentation hearing. None. We'll move on to correspondence.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. Um I'm sorry, Mr. President. >> Go ahead, M. >> Um I am going to ask um that we table section C of my section when we get to it and place it we place the new section
C on the addendum. Pink sheet. >> The pink sheet. >> Oh, the pink sheet. >> So when when you go over my section, we can table section C. >> Okay. >> Is there a page number that >> any addendum? >> Can you remind us when when we get there?
>> Absolutely. >> Before we make the motion, just remind us and then we'll we'll make it then. It's >> on page 14. >> Thank you. Got it. >> Is that all, Miss Bo?
>> Yes, Mr. President. >> Moving on to correspondence. Will there be anything under correspondence? >> We have nothing this evening, sir. >> Move along to our regular board meeting minutes. I'm looking for a motion to approve our regular board meeting minutes. Wednesday, March 11, 2026, open
session and Wednesday, March 11, 2026, closed session. Can I get a motion? Make a motion that we approve uh our Mar regular meeting from Wednesday, March 11th, 2026, uh open and close session.
>> You have a second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Miss Dreen. Miss Glaude, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews.
Miss Neves, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pitts, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> The motion has carried. >> Moving right along to our board committee reports. Uh, will we have any board committee report out of athletics and arts committee,
>> Miss Claude? >> No, not at this not at this time. I just got one report I want to do out of that if I can. Our flags and uh drum major line, they was in cinemson and they came in first place this last past week in the tournament that they had this last
past week. Moving along to citizens advisory committee. Will there be anything out out of our citizens advisory committee? Miss Martin? >> No, not at this time. We have a meeting scheduled I believe for April 9th. >> Thank you so much. How about our education committee? Miss New? Anything
coming out of our education committee? >> Uh, yes. >> Mr. P, should I not steal your thunder for that then or? >> No, you could talk about the review. No, it's fine. No, you could talk about it. >> No, I I'll let you do the review. I'll just I'll I'll talk about the leading up
to because that was very very tense. So, in lie of the education committee meeting, uh myself, Miss Martin, uh Mr. Matthews and a couple other board members as well, Mr. Thomas, Miss Pittz, uh, attended the grand ELA pilot program
reveal. Uh, we had 88 teachers from our elementary schools and middle schools attending. Uh, it was tense. I will say I, uh, I commend Mrs. Clement and her staff for putting on a very exciting reveal. There was balloons. They made us
board members open the balloons. Thankfully, you put the fruit and the cupcake somewhere else so it didn't get thrown at us because teachers were very very uh very excited about which program was going to be revealed. I did not realize that the teachers had been piloting this since September of 2024.
This was a very very long endeavor and I just want to say kudos to the staff that did this. I mean that was that was really and we were piloting five programs so that's a lot. Um they met monthly to champion their programs and discuss how the implementation went.
visiting other schools, uh, participating in coaching, virtual training. Um, we selected the program based on a rubric of 46 questions, which was the short survey that Mrs. Clemens referenced. Um, so it's voted on by
staff, data analysis on student scores, and the teachers voted. I um will not say what the winners are because I'll let Mr. Peas do that. And I think that was everything. Also, Mrs. Clemens board members, I passed this out to you prior
to the meeting. Uh this is a breakdown on the uh tutoring numbers um from the 24 25 26 school years broken down by school um and tutoring program as well. Um there is a decrease in numbers of
those participating this year as opposed to last year, but that is broken down there. And that concludes my report for now. Thank you so much. Great reporting. Going now to our marketing committee.
>> President, yeah, the marketing committee that was scheduled to meet tomorrow will not meet um because um we are waiting for the uh the paint in the park fence schedule township so that we canert that
schedule. the schedule that we know we have for this which includes Junth will take place on Saturday June 13. Um just just aside we have a little uh competition that day because Chiselhurst
having their family day that day. Um and we know that we are going to prepare and participate in the July 4th celebration and the um family day celebration August 22nd. So, I need to be able to assert
dates for paint park because as I reported out last that the mayor indicated that when um 2025 when did have the paint in the park event that there were several questions had to that actually
been directed to. So, we're going to make sure I assured her that this year that at the paint in the park that the school board would have a have a present. >> Thanks you so much. Will there be any questions for the marketing committee?
If hearing none, we're moving on to the negotiation committee. How we're doing that? All still, we still all even good stuff. Thank you. Now, we're going on to the operations committee. Anything out of coming out of the operation? Thank you. How about the policy committee? anything coming out the policy committee?
>> Um right now we're still waiting for um Strauss SMA to bring bring back all the um updates on the policies that needed to be updated from the audit. Once they get back then I'll schedule I do have a meeting scheduled for 4826 and I'll send that email out to all of the committee
members. >> All right. Thank you so much. Technology committee. Anything coming out of technology? >> Not right now. >> No, sir. >> Thank you so much. Going down to the township economic development council. There has not been a meeting as of yet, not the second meeting. How about the Township Municipal Drug Alliance?
>> Uh, we did not have a quorum at our recent meeting, so nothing to report at this time. Our next meeting will be on June 22nd. >> Thank you so much. Township Planning Board meeting. Anything, Mr. Shaw? Um there was nothing that took place um
other than a couple people came out to preemptively ask about the 108 unit uh apartment complex that was that's being talked about um across from Drexel Gate, but that's too early for the planning board. So we we answered some questions
and referred them back to the government. >> Excellent. Thanks. Thanks a lot for the report there, Mr. Shaw. How about adopt the school member representative reports? Anybody got anything they want to say about their school, >> Mr. President? I do. >> And what school is that? >> Uh, school number six. I had the
opportunity to um visit their math night where they had about 14 different activities for the students to participate in. It was interesting to see them involved in the activities, very engaged. Um, and they had a sheet
where they had to check things off so that they could get prizes. So, it was a great night. Um, Miss Dr. Brown and her vice principal did an awesome job. >> Great reporting. Love to hear it. Any questions for Miss Martin in her report. Is there anyone else?
>> Yes. >> Go ahead, Mr. >> School two. >> Yep. School two. I received actually a pretty comprehensive report, Miss McBride. So, appreciate for doing so. Uh, I'm going to focus in on their recent spirit week, but that's
>> too uh they've also received a $2,000 sustainable uh New Jersey grant, which is awesome news. >> Uh, from March 2nd to March 6, school 2 transformed into a vibrant celebration of reading filled with fun and creativity. Uh they had their spirit
week where each day students embraced a new theme showcasing their creativity and love for reading. Uh they their from the youth reading and engaging uh with the younger students on the Monday of that spirit
week. Uh the school five student council members brought their enthusiasm to their school Hale staff were dressed as various animal characters read portions of the book the magical
after joined their classes had which staff member on that Friday. So again thank you for this wonderful report and for everything you're doing. >> Excellent report Mr. Matthew, thank you
very much. That's the stuff we like to hear. Anyone else about their school? >> Uh, I have a report for school five. >> Let's go. School five. >> All right. So, school five. Um, I was excited to be invited to be a guest reader on March 20th as part of their
month-long uh readathon celebration along with other Winslow dignitaries. I had the honor of reading to Mrs. Taylor's fourth grade class and Mrs. Yel's fifth grade class. Um, it was a little bit different than previous years because I I read the story and once they
figured out that I was a board member, those children grilled me on policy. It It was >> They had the right one though. >> They did. They did. And um I mean it was great. I mean for fourth and fifth graders um they had a lot of questions obviously about cell phone policy, why
they can't wear hoods over their heads, safety drills. It was it was a really good conversation. I was very surprised that they had that and they they kept me there the whole half hour I was allotted to their classes. Um and school five staff as always they they treat us great when they're there. They had refreshments and everything. So it was
really cool. Uh they also had their sixth grade dance that evening as well. Uh school 5 has a readathon all month long. So their students can compete fund raise for minutes raised. Um and it's a thing. There's prizes up for grabs. There's a game truck involved. if they
raise a certain amount of money, pizza party, I mean, it's it's a big deal. It's a big thing at school five and they they generally do raise a lot of money and that goes back into books for for school five. >> Um, on March 31st, they are having a art and talent show. They're having their
color run on April 17th as well, and I think that's a first for school five. Uh, they also held a book drive where they were asking students to bring in books, and that got competitive as well. Our teachers are very competitive. I will say that. Um, so I know the teachers were kind of asking bring in
the books. They had their own tally of how many teachers had so many books in. Um, so that was really fun to see too. So, school five always doing amazing things. Um, and Mr. Peas, I didn't want to steal your thunder also, but I do
have a report on the high school, the the Rowan virtual visit. If you're not going to mention it, I can talk about it. >> Sure. Okay, I'm sorry. Hold on. Let me pull that one up. >> Take your time. We'd love to hear this. >> I was gonna print it out, but
>> So, I did attend as a uh a parent. Um so, Rowan did a virtual presentation, you know, for all high school parents. I believe we just approved it on the agenda for them to come out to the middle school and do the same presentation. So now our students have
the opportunity to take Rowan, you know, college classes at a significant discount. It's $80 a credit. >> Um, I mean, you can graduate with an associates degree or more or just take college courses, see what interests you.
So, it was, you know, a true dual enrollment. You are a college student if you take those credits starting as a freshman. So you have the opportunity to continue to build credits all the way through your uh your high school career. Um or you could just take, you know,
here or there dabble and see what you want to do. So they have gened, they have major specific courses, uh the foundational courses as well. Maybe they want to get something out of the way so they don't have to take it when they transition. Um and it's a cost save. We
know how um expensive college is. So actually it was $85 a credit. um most of their courses are three credit courses. Um so if you look at it this way, a uh a fully metriculated Rowan University
student would be paying $2,000 for a course as opposed to that $85 credit that is being offered to our high school students as well. Um and they're also eligible, oh no, they are not eligible for standard student aid because of the discounted thing. Um they would also
have access to student life and support services just as a regular rowan student would as well. Uh you can apply on their website, submit test scores and you even have access to advisors and all of those things. So it was very comprehensive um
presentation and before you know dual credit for our high school students was mainly through our AP courses. Now everybody has an opportunity to gain these courses without being an AP student. So I was very excited about that and it's a huge opportunity. >> Outstanding. Outstanding. Any questions?
>> Just to add to that, you know, I'd like to thank Miss Clement and the curriculum team for programs like this that we're introducing to the uh district just to fortify some of the great things that we're doing adding different uh pathways for our students to be successful. So,
it's a great program and uh Miss Clement and her team did a great job making sure that it was a program that was a good fit for our Winsow Township students. Sounds like an excellent excellent program. Any questions for anyone on the program? >> Great job there. Anyone else want to
talk about their school? I have something coming out of school for um Miss Molina Buouie and her first grade students celebrate achieving 100% on 10,000 I ready lessons. I'm going to
ask Mr. P to give a quick description on what that means. >> This is a test for the super superintendent to know uh what's going on in our curriculum department. So, I'll do my best. Got the curriculum team over there looking at me. You better get it right.
So our students uh have I Ready uh I Ready program that they use to supplement the curriculum that we are using currently in math and ELA and it's a way for our students to and our teachers to kind of see where our
students are in regard to state testing. So, we look at uh the students performance with I Ready and their effort and their commitment to it to help gauge some of our instruction to help them uh be successful in our state
assessments. State assessment is the test that, you know, we're measured by, but we use these other diagnostics to help kind of guide our instruction and to really support students where they are, you know, they need the most help. So some of the students really get into
it and you know the students you just mentioned had some success and you tell that they are excited about I ready and then some need a little bit more encourage encouragement so we have to make sure that we monitor how they use the program but it's a great program to help give us that data that we need to
help make informed decisions for our students how I do curriculum team pretty good >> thank you so much really appreciate Good to me, Mr. Peas. Great job. All right, we're moving on to page number three, the superintendent report. We're
looking for a motion to approve the superintendent report that begins on the page top of page three and go all the way to the 34th of page six. Can I get a motion >> to >> um
super >> from the top of page three to the bottom of page six as is recommended for approval by the superintendent. >> You have a second. >> Any questions? We have a quick clarification for that. Mr. Well, just
like to add that the conversation earlier from Miss Neves in regard to the pilot and the work behind that, you are approving the official uh pilot that was selected by our teachers and we'll get
into it. The curriculum team is here to really doing my report or my update to provide you some some of the background behind it. But you are approving benchmark advance for our K to6 students and you will be approving SEAS for our
middle school students, seventh and eighth grade. So we're excited about this. We're looking for a dramatic dramatic change in the direction of how we uh handle ELA in our district and our teachers are excited about it. So we're
going to ride this momentum uh on your approval to uh get started right away. Thank you so much. Any other questions on that topic? >> Roll call. Miss Bole. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes.
>> Miss Drean. >> Miss Glaude. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews. >> Miss Neandez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Miss Pitts. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> The motion has carried. >> All right. We're going on to page seven.
Miss Boy, is this where you have your insertion at? >> Uh, yes. It's at the bottom of page I think it's it's at the end and it's on page um >> 14. >> Yes, that's section C. I'd like to we
can go through A and B. I'd like to table um section C and we'll bring it back up on the addendum. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. I'm looking for a motion to approve the business administration board secretary report starts at page seven. We're going to go
all the way through A and B until we get to page 14 which page 13 which we'll table. Can I get a motion? >> Make a motion to business administrator board secretaries report as it's
recommended for approval from the top of page seven to the bottom of to to the >> 13 the bottom of page 13 and then we t and table section C. >> We will do that separately, Mr. Shaw.
>> Okay. Okay. Want to make sure >> we got a motion. Can I get a second? >> Give it a second. >> Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Miss Drean. >> Miss Gloyd. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews. Miss Neves. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. But I'm going to abstain from number six, letter A, item 6380, PO number 64419, and item number M730, PO number 603992.
I already sent it to her, so she knows. You don't have to write it down. >> Thank you. >> All right, M. Pitts. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Motion has carried. >> All right. Now, we're going to skip all the way to page 17. President, if we may, could we table
item C from page 14 up as it runs through twothirds of the way down on page eight? >> Okay. >> Yes. >> And then all in favor? >> Yes. We're looking at table uh at the top of page 14, letter C, all the way
over to page 17. Can I get a motion? Uh, can I uh make a motion to page item number C on the business administrator board secretaries report um from page 14 to 16?
>> You have a second. >> Any questions? Can I get a voice vote? All in favor? >> I >> I All right. Moving now to page 17, the personnel report. We're looking for a motion to approve the personnel report
that begins at the top of page 17 and goes over to the top of page 19. Can I get a motion? >> A motion to approve the personnel report as it's recommended for approval from the top of page 17 to the top of page 19.
>> You have a second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Drean. Miss Glaude. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? Yes, Mr. Matthews. >> Miss Neves. >> Yes, >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes,
>> Miss Pittz. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> The motion has carried. >> All right, folks. Guess what? We have an addendum. Had haven't had one of them in a while. We're looking for a motion to approve the addendum. That's addendum C that will be inserted in what we just
alleviated. And that'll be on that pink page at the top from C all the way going to letter. Are we including a personnel report with that? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. So, we're going to the bottom of
of the back page number two. Looking for a nomination a motion to approve that report. >> Question, Mr. Long. >> Since we tabled this to move it to the addendum, do we have to untab this first? >> No. cuz I think this is an
>> well >> um yeah there are the chart has has changed >> so essentially that will remain on table this is this is in lie of that um it's not the same matter >> yes it is
>> so there's no need to move to to unt because what was tabled is staying there and this is replacing >> so we can vote directly on this item on page one and two of the agenda. >> All right. I make a motion to approve
the board secretaries report item number C as it's recommended for approval from on pages one and two. >> Yeah, there's a second. >> Any questions? >> I do. I did I think >> Oh, could you talk to the mic, Miss B? I'm sorry. I thought my mouth was loud
enough. So because we tabled what was on the original agenda the meeting addendum there is number changes. Um can you just explain those two number changes please? >> Yeah the number changes were the the budget amount. So, if you look at um and and we were changing it up till today
because we were on the phone with the county executive executive business administrator who had given us instructions as to how I'm sorry as how to handle a certain matter and then we we followed up today said I'll have to
get right back to you got back to us and changed. So, we had to um readjust. So, if you look on um page 14 and you look at the numbers in that chart, you'll see that the the general fund budget was 136
million, now it's 135. Uh the um anticipated or less anticipated revenues where it was uh 74 million.1, it's now 73.222.
Okay. and the tax levy amount remains the same. So it was more of a um and if you look down tax levy still remains the same. >> Um it was what do you include in this? This is how you handle this. No, don't handle it that way. Handle it this way.
So um we're going to get it to him tomorrow or at the the deadline. It's Friday and we'll let him decide. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Any more questions? Roll call. Oh, I'm sorry.
Mr. Clark, >> Miss Dreaden. >> Miss Gloyd, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews. >> Miss Navis, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas,
>> yes. >> The motion has carried. >> Thank you. Are there any open public records act requests? Miss Bole, >> Mr. Thomas, there is a personnel report on the addendum as well. >> I missed it. My fault. Okay, we're back
to the pink agenda. I'm looking for a nomination on I believe it's page three of the personnel reports. >> I make a motion to approve uh uh to approve the personnel report as is recommended. >> You have a second.
>> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Dreaden. Miss Glaude. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews. >> Miss Neves. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes.
>> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> The motion has carried. >> I will abstain. You're welcome. Moving now back to our regular uh open public records act. Are there anything
for that today, Miss Bole? >> I'm I'm I'm flipping over to it. >> So I I don't see anything. So I'm going to say uh no, Mr. Mr. Thomas. >> All right. Thank you so much. Informational item. Mr. Peas, we have anyformational items today? I do. >> Thank you. >> So March is a great month is the start
of spring, a time of the year that reminds us of growth and rebirth. Couple that with the recognition of Women's History Month, and we are reminded and thankful for all the great women, past and present. Thank you.
Preschool and kindergarten registration. Want to make sure our families understand that this is in process now. From March 23rd to March 27th, you have an opportunity to go to your home school's website, click the parent tab,
select student registration, complete the 26 27 online pre-registration, call your home school to schedule an appointment for the week of March 23rd to March 27th between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 2:45 to complete the registration process.
The process is not complete unless you have all of your documents. And that is for preK3, preK4, and kindergarten. I had an opportunity to attend the Winslow Community Partners breakfast this past Saturday. It was an awesome
event. Had an opportunity to meet some of the community leaders and organizations that support Winslow Township. I look forward to partnering with some of the organizations that were present. Thank you for the invite, Miss Glaude. I also
like to uh inform you of my attendance at a career day uh with Mr. Davis. Uh Mr. Davis and myself attended the uh Mammoth University career day and this was the career day for educators and we
were pleasantly surprised with some of the candidates and we look forward to bringing those individuals down for interviews to fill our vacancies. So, Mr. Davis and Miss Clement will be attending Rowan's career day coming up.
So, we're looking forward to bringing new talent to Winslow Township School District. Did you know, Mr. Thomas? >> No, I didn't. >> That we have a merit scholarship winner. >> Did not know. >> Oh, >> we have a merit scholarship finalist.
Senior Crystal Anu Boule. Phenomenal student. She is a finalist. The National Merit Merit Scholarship Program is a prestigious, highly competitive academic competition for US
high school students running since 1955 >> that recognizes top performers on the PSAT. Around 1.5 million students enter annually with roughly 7,500 winners receiving
scholarships totaling over 30 million $30 million. Winners are chosen based on academic skills, extracurricular achievements, and potential for success in college. So, congratulations to
Winslow's own Crystal Unable. >> So, I also uh have the curriculum team here to uh do a quick presentation on the process of choosing our ELA program that we're so excited about. So, if I can have Miss Clement
come up with her team or Miss Clement rolling solo today >> behind you presentation. >> It's behind you. You don't have to move. If you'd like to, you can. So, good evening board members, Mr. Peas, Miss Bole, Mr. Long,
Mr. Davis colleagues and community members. So, as Miss Neves alluded to yesterday, we celebrated our ELA HQIM selection. So, our English language arts
highly high quality instructional material selection and we had a reveal. Uh so, because our work has been so laborious, we thought it was appropriate to have uh a celebration in that manner. So the curriculum office and I we would
just like to thank the board members who came out uh to join us yesterday for this momentous occasion as well as the great 88. So here is a quick recap. Touch button Mike you get it for me.
So this is the color code for the whole project of the reveal. Each of our programs, Miss Schwarz assigned a color, amplify was green, benchmark advance was purple, curriculum associates was blue,
u HMH was yellow, and SAS my perspectives was pink. And this is how the curriculum office referred to all five of the programs that we piloted. So when we celebrated yesterday, we just reminded the teachers or we told them that they may not have known, but they
were always a color. So these are the corresponding colors. Mike, you can go ahead. So we also went over the key points of of the pilot. Um, as Miss Neves said, the journey began in September of 2024.
We researched various programs. Um, you see the programs up there. Uh, we lovingly refer to our teachers as the grade 88. There were 88 teachers who piloted these five programs from kindergarten through uh, 8th grade. We
had general education teachers, special education teachers, ESL. So, a a culmination of all of the points of instruction across our district. We talked about our trainings that have gone on and our implementation
trainings. We talked about our monthly meetings where, as Miss Neves said, uh the teachers got to talk about their programs. They got to try to convince one another which program was better than another to collaborate to discuss to articulate.
Throughout the time that we've done this we've also had embedded professional development from the company. So we told our teachers that they are the customer. It is up to the company to make you happy with the projects that we are looking at. So we had training sessions, we had coaching sessions, we had on-site
visits, virtual meetings. We also went to other districts who piloted some of the programs that we were doing. Impact grant is there because um trying to be a good steward of our district's funds um and stay on Miss Bole's good side. We
apply for and we're awarded $200,000 um for from the impact grant and um that will help us when we turn around and say we've got a program is spoil can we can we have some money please? So these are just some pictures of the
teachers in action um over the meetings that we had and then we talked about our next steps. So our teachers who were piloting the programs will continue with the programs that they have for the rest of the year. You all approved our selections tonight.
uh we will then order materials and then we'll talk about the nitty-gritty. So we will do a schedule adjustments um to just to make sure that we have enough time in the day to deliver the instruction the way that it needs to be done. We will establish teacher
ambassadors uh as as Miss Neves alluded to, everyone was really entrenched in their own program. And so once we made the selections, we knew that we would have some jeers and some cheers and we would have folks that needed to just come around and we want the teachers who have
been a part of this journey to be ambassadors for the folks that they have to bring along on this journey with them and and they're ready to do that. So then we'll begin implementation training and training and coaching starting the process all over again.
So this trust the pro process sign is actually a replica of uh uh what Dr. Ferguson gave to my office and what we said to the teachers all along this time. Um folks started loving programs, they started hating programs and then one vice versa. Every time we had a
meeting, we didn't know how it was going to go. Um, as Miss Neves said also, uh, we had a a short rubric of 46 questions for our teachers to go over and these questions were endorsed and supported by the New Jersey
Department of Education and the Reading League's curriculum evaluation guidelines. So, they spanned five categories: program philosophy, materials, assessment, foundational skills, and writing. So the teachers really worked hard and
then really had also some some soularching and digging to do to really evaluate their programs. It wasn't based on feel it was based on criteria. So the big reveal and with the help of our board members who attended they came over as Miss Neves said they opened the
box two balloons came out the colors were if you remember from the beginning benchmark was purple and SAS was pink so we had the two colors of the balloons come out some teachers yayed and some groaned. Um but but we got there. Miss
Cheryl Schwarz made cupcakes and the cupcakes were colorcoordinated. So, um, we got to, um, have those to partake in as well. We did record this event, so um, hopefully we'll get it together and we'll post it on the website so that you
can see. Um, I want to just reiterate that we knew that this was going to be a difficult decision because of all of the time and energy that the teachers put into this. um they were dedicated and and I am I am extremely proud of them um
and and their effort. So I just want to read an email that I shared with uh Mr. Peas that came in from one of our teachers who was on the on the successful winning pilot team and this came from Miss Matino. So she says, "I hope this email finds you well. I just
wanted to send out a little message to convey how absolutely elated I am that we're proceeding with Benchmark Advance as a district. I've been here since 2007 and this hands down is the best program I've worked with so far. I apologize for not being able to attend the reveal. I'm
an afterchool tutor, but my colleague kept me updated. I would like to thank you for organizing creating a well-rounded process for authenticity and due diligence. It's been a really enjoyable experience. Naturally, I'm all in for any roll out in any way that you
need to be. She says, "Thank you and I truly feel that the best program was chosen for the growth and development of our students." So, that was from the winner. But what I also want to say is even more impressing and heartwarming than this email was the response of
those who piloted and were the runner up. So, Miss Neves was consoling some um Dr. Ferguson, Miss Schwarz, we were as well. Um but again after some cheers and tears they put up their chins and their hands and they said Clement we're here
for whatever you need. We'll be there this summer for teacher academy training and we're ready to be ambassadors. And again I am so proud of and thankful for the great 88 and all of the hard work and coordination done by the curriculum office Cheryl Schwarz Mr. Adair and Dr.
Ferguson who stepped in and has been in lock step with our goals to take our district into the future. >> And I want to make it very clear that this was these votes came from the teachers. No administrative votes at all. So teachers who are the boots on the ground in these classrooms chose the
program that they want to use and we're going to support that and make sure that they have everything that they need to be successful. >> We told them just like George Stephanopoulos, your voice, your vote. So it was up to them. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> All right, we gonna move right along. We have anotherformational item. Our past president had the opportunity to to have a meeting with the the legislators and dignitaries and he has some information that he wanted to share with us all. >> On March 14th, uh the NJSBA legislative
committee uh met virtually. Um, if anybody doesn't know, I'm the legislative Ford uh district NJSBA uh representative. Um, during that meeting, um, we met with, uh, Chris Williams, who's the new chief
of staff for the New Jersey Department of Education. During that meeting, he engaged in a very robust conversation for nearly an hour with us um discussing the modernization of school the school funding formula which will expand early
learning programs addressing the state's teacher shortages. He also discussed literacy in um initiatives, high impact tutoring programs, mental health services in schools. Um he also acknowledged its challenges and
said that the that they will consider the committee's input as the uh NJ DOE develops its policies alongside the new department of education committee commissioner Lily Low. Um then we moved on to the um updates with
government government relations. I'm going to you're gonna have to give me a a second because I'm going to flip through this because it discusses a lot about the governor's uh budget and the money she put towards um education this
year for her FY27 budget which saw a significant increase in the amount of money that she's putting forward in the state budget. This uh her proposed budget puts together $60.7 billion which is a 1.6 six increase uh percent
increase in the fiscal budget. Um the proposed aid for schools is 22.5 billion which is a 37 and uh% total budget uh of the total budget sorry 12.4 4 billion is to direct formula aid
from K for K to 12 which is an increase of 3.1% um which is total $372 million of uh over FY26 they uh they put a or they they put a 6% cap on the total aid year-over-year
increases um which use a 3% average for income and property values of the local fair share. They also um on the special education based it on special education enrollment instead of the census method
for the preschool education aid for her uh FY27 state budget. $1.38 billion um is in that which is $118.1 million, a 9.3% increase over FY26.
So, that's a massive increase for preschool education aid. Um, for facilities funding, there's uh the S SDA construction projects. Um, it follows the FY23 schedule, which
is 350 million. Um, the C uh extraordinary special education aid, I'm skipped over that, sorry. Um, there's $420 million, which is flat for the fifth straight year. Uh so um
the there's the one thing I really really wanted to hit on was there's a a new program which has taken over for the NJ4S for mental health. It's called the um spark program which is the school-based partnerships for access and resilience
for kids. They budgeted $33 million for this program for K through 12 uh youth mental health uh statewide initiative. It's a statewide initiative. Um it's for to help students with complex high acuity needs. It will shift services that
currently provide that are provided through that old program and it will reinvest those funds into high acuity services through the DOE. They also create created a new youth online mental health safety awareness um office and
they als they which they dedicated $125,000 for and they also um have a social media research center which they dedicated $500,000 for. Another uh thing they did they allocated another $7.5 million inc which increases
the budget for high impact tutoring to $15 million. Um, the literacy, as I spoke before about the literacy, they're going to continue to advance other evidence-based programs to the Department of Education to improve third grade literacy and bring back kids bring
the kids back up to speed. So, they're trying to put more money into the educ educational system. Um, there's going to be some public hearings that are going on. One was today. So, I'm sorry I'm a little late
with this to everybody, but there's also going to be one uh where my where's my public hearings at? Okay. on tomorrow night online um for the Senate uh budget and appropriations committee for the for the state budget where you'll be able to
um listen in if um hear what's going on if you have any questions for your assembly uh men or women and your state senators um and even the department of education about what's going on and also Monday March 30th at Metife Stadium if you really want to travel up there and
ask any questions in person. Um so that's uh you know those are uh some of the things that are going on and board members I don't want to keep us too long but there's some governmental updates with things that are really uh happening uh in the state house um with some of
the things that educational laws that are uh popping up uh at the state house. And Mr. President, that going to conclude my report because like I said, I don't want to keep everybody here all night long because I could go on on and on. Thank you so much, Mr. Shaw. We really appreciate your report. Any
questions for Mr. Shaw in his report? Okay. Just have Go ahead. M madam madam DP, you have some question. >> All right. Thank you. Just anyone else? >> Go ahead. Go forward. and I was
>> Lord, could you speak in hers doesn't working. >> They're working. >> That was an event. That was an event that I wish um more people would have shown up what our girls in our community are doing. Um Rubies and Pearls is also going to be having like a little spring
fling for the youth in our community. Um it's going to be in April on the next meeting on April 8th. I'll give an update for when that is. But all kids are welcome. It's a $5 admission, but they're going to be having all kinds of great funds and activities for the youth. Um, the village of Camden County
is going to be having a young entrepreneur expo coming up this summer. Um, I'll give more details on that, but I'm just giving people updates on what's going to be happening with our youth in the community. And we did have a um a meeting. Go family circle in the village
of Camden County did have a meet your business owners in the community meeting on um last Saturday. And it was just to introduce um different nonprofits and different businesses in our local community um so that we can start
building together to collaborate a little bit more on how we can be better neighbors to each other, how we can build businesses in the community. And that actually turned out really well. Um, and we're going to continue to have more. We're getting ready to have a real estate workshop for f firsttime owners.
So, when we get that information on a date is I believe it's going to be on April the 25th that we're going to have the um real estate workshop and we're going to collaborate with the business owners that actually came out and start promoting their businesses and um promoting the nonprofits that are for
our youth and our community. And as we continue to pass this on, we will give a a register to um Mr. piece to put on a digital um backpack um to inform the parents of our community of all the things that are um available for their
kids outside of school to kind of help, you know, push the forward of the great curriculum team that we have um to make sure that throughout the summer we keep our kids engaged and involved in making sure academically they continue to be successful. And that's it. Thank you. Thank >> any questions for Miss Craw. I
>> I would just say that great things they're offering uh to the um to the community. So, uh it's likely that we will be able to merit scholars. >> Great, great comment. Anyone else
information items or questions for anyone that anyone had to say? >> I have one moreformational item. I'll try to keep it brief. Um so, the academic and arts hall of fame committee finally met uh this past Monday. Uh some key takeaways from this, we are going to
combine the scope of our committee. So it will be a combined academic and arts hall of fame uh acronym and name TBD. Um we are talking about moving forward in a phase launch kind of starting small and then gaining momentum uh just so we
don't burden the the members of the community that did show up. Obviously there'll be an immediate funding need. We are looking at partnering with We Are Winslow to be our nonprofit to be able to fund raise and get sponsorships in that regard. Uh waiting on approval from that committee as well. Uh we're looking
at an inaugural event uh sometime around November given that people will be traveling home, more likely to be home to be able to attend. Um we talked about the the scope and the criteria to be admitted to the Hall of Fame. Um, we didn't just want to honor the
saludiatorans and validictorians. We wanted to really look at people who went out and did amazing things. We've got doctors, lawyers, people that have been on Broadway, uh, worked in TV production and all these things. There's a lot of really
great alumni who've done some amazing things. Um, so we're going to tighten the focus on that, put an application out where people can nominate and and staff can nominate former students as well. Um, let's see. So, that was fundraising and
logistics. Uh we've got our next steps going and then we'll be meeting in two weeks again to continue to work on this project hopefully partner with we are Winslow and then there'll be a call out again for sponsorships and donations so that
we can get this started and we will always welcome more volunteers to come and help us out because we do not want this initiative to die with this committee. We want it to keep going and and continue to be a permanent uh place in our district. That's all.
>> Any questions for Mr. Nueves? I I'd like to add something to it. Um I'm asking that would there be any objections for the academic and arts hall of fame to uh commemorate all our past validictorians
from Edgewood and Winslow on a ceremonial plaque and have it placed up in one of our corridors at the choosing of our administrators of where and how it should be placed. Do I have any objections or questions or about that
process? >> Um, President, >> yes. >> What frame I mean what span of time are we talking about? >> As as far as back as we can go. We're we're going to employ if someone from the academic and arts hall of fame maybe
could with the permission of our superintendent to meet with Mr. Mela to check the yearbook to see what's in there. And once we can get a list, we'll have bring the list in front of the board and this will be a list that goes on a plaque that will go somewhere in our Hall of Fame section or our Hall of
Fame corridor to show how our uh academics was throughout the year and our class and our valictorians. All right. Thank you so much. Just other few more items I just like to share. As you all know, we did plan our uh Winslow
board meeting with the township that's coming up in April. I believe the committee has been established for that. Also, next month, we will be making that high school move where this meeting here will uh continue to be over that high school until further notice, >> and that will be on April 15th and April
29th. >> All right. And also, don't forget we have Chicago coming up this weekend. So, if you haven't got a ticket, if you got time, I wouldn't want to miss that play. All right, going on to old business. Will there be anything in old business?
>> Nothing. New business. Anything in new business? >> New business. Mr. Just wanted to kind of pick up on statement that um that Mr. made with regards to this being Women's Month. um three uh board members Lord
Martin and myself traveled up to you uh on um Friday u March 20th to attend the women's conference was attended by 150 um primarily uh women board members and um it was a um I felt that it was very
informative and it was u it was a great gathering as it relates to women stepping up stepping out taking leadership roles the um person who opened it was a a Dr. uh Kimberly Marcus and it broke into
several sessions. One session in particular uh had to do with uh the board being reminded the members who were there being reminded that as a board that we are a governing body versus an operating
body because they re her name was Dr. Nelson. He reminded us that as we are a governing body that uh our focus is on the what and the why that is the strategies oversight and as an operational body from um the operational
body focuses on the how which would Dr. um Mr. administration and um so it was great information and it was very well attended and it was worth the money I think that we had to pay for that right >> well it was worth it
>> did y'all ride >> okay all right any three of us were there just >> okay any questions for uh Miss Pitz and the outing that the ladies enjoyed all right move
Thank you. All right, we going now to public comments. Uh, Mr. Long, could you help us out? >> Yes, sir. The Winslow Township Board of Education highly values the input of citizens in making the important decisions that affect the children of our community. We also believe in the
rights of citizens to observe board meetings. To ensure that all of our citizens have the opportunity to attend schoolboard meetings and offer comment and to ensure that the board can conduct the important business of the district, we ask that speakers follow the guidelines for making public comment.
The board secretary will recognize those individuals in the audience who wish to make comment. Please respect the following procedures. All members of the public attending schoolboard meetings must treat each other and the board with respect. Please state your full name and
town of residence, please limit your comments to four minutes. If you have any uh questions which we can't answer, please feel free to submit them in writing with your name, address, email address, telephone number where you can be contacted and your questions will be
answered within a reasonable time period. Lastly, individuals offering citizen comment are not permitted to make personal attacks on any district employee, board member, other testifier, or member of the public. Thank you. >> With that being said, can I get a motion
to open up public comments? >> Motion to open public comments. >> Yeah, there's a second. >> Any questions? Voice vote. All in favor? >> I I miss Bole. Um, madam, I'm sorry, Mr. President,
nobody has signed up this evening to speak um for public comments. Do we have anybody? >> No. >> Okay. >> With that being said, can I get a motion to close public public comments? >> Motion to close public comments.
>> You have a second. >> Voice vote. All in favor? I I >> Anything for executive session? >> Yes. Yes, we do have a a matter um advised by our interim superintendent. So, in
accordance with the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, we enter into an executive session uh March 25th, 2026 at 8:50 p.m. of the nine exceptions that we have uh that we can go into executive
session. This uh one will have to do with number eight. Yes. Uh matters affecting employment with regard to uh an employee in the transportation department. I would anticipate
>> approximately 25 minutes. A motion and a second and a roll. >> You got it. With that being said, I'd like to make a motion that we move into executive session. >> Yeah. A second. >> Did we get a motion? >> Did you make the motion? >> You You already made it.
>> I did. >> Yeah. >> Oh, I'm calling for a motion for I made the motion. You second. >> The way he framed it was a motion motion. >> Roll call. Miss Boil. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Miss Dreaden. Miss Claude. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews. >> Miss Neves. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Miss Pittz and Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> The motion has carried. >> All right. Thank you.