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No. Welcome to the Winslow Township Board of Education Board meeting held at Winslow Township Administration building conference room. Today is Wednesday, July the 15, 2026 at 7 PM. Public notice of this meeting was

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given to all board members and associates and a notice dated June the 25th, 2026. Adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided specifying the time, place, and manner in which this meeting is being

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conducted. It was posted in all schools, the administration office, the municipal building, the library, the Bub Dubal Center, Edgewood Acres, Amtown, and the Winsow Township Post Office. Mission statement. The mission of the Winsow Township School District, a large,

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diverse, and growing community, is to educate all students to become independent, lifelong learners, critical thinkers, and caring and confident members of their community. The district in partnership with the community and in a climate of cooperation and mutual

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respect. will provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity, encourages our students to strive for personal excellence, and assist them in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to

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contribute positively to a rapidly changing world. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Clark, >> he'll be absent. >> Thank you. Miss Dreton, >> she'll be absent. >> Thanks Miss Glo. >> Present. Miss Martin,

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>> she'll be absent. [laughter] >> Mr. Benjamin, >> present. >> Thank you. Miss Neves, >> she'll be absent. >> Mr. Shaw, >> present. >> Miss Pitts, >> present. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> here.

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>> We have a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to [clears throat] the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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>> District goals 2025 to 2026 district goals. Uh student achievement continue to implement researchbased best practices for delivering instruction and accelerating learning for all students including all subgroups. This shall include conduct weekly administrative

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walkthroughs to monitor teaching and learning, utilize a 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

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nine, to implement creative ways to accelerate student learning by providing additional supports throughout and beyond the school day. Two, to promote a positive environment for all for students and staff. Enforce the code of conduct to ensure safety for students

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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

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actions and improve school attendance. And three, increase stakeholder engagement, explore and explan 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

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accomplishments of Windows students in all STEM activities. Thank you so much. At this time, I'm asking for deviation from the agenda in order to discuss some matters that have to do with staffing. I'm asking uh for a motion to go into executive session

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>> and that would be on July 15th at 7:05 for about 10 minutes 10 to 15 minutes uh in accordance with the uh open public meetings act and it would be item number eight matters involving employment terms

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and conditions of employment and as I said it'll be about 15 minutes need a motion and a second and a roll call >> make a motion to go into executive session Second >> roll call. Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Yes, sir. Hold on. I got to check and

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see who's here. >> Miss. >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pit? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Motion has carried.

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Folks, executive session. We'll be right back. Be quick. come out of executive session. Motion to come out of executive session. >> Second. >> Oops. >> All in favor? [clears throat] >> Right now, folks, we're at the top of

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page two. Are there any words and presentations? >> None. >> Okay, thank you. How about correspondence? >> None this evening. >> Okay, great. We are at the minutes. I'm looking for a motion to approve the following minutes of the board of education. The special meeting minutes

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Wednesday, June 17, 2026, open and close session. >> Make a motion to approve the special meeting minutes from open and close session from Wednesday, June 17, 2026. >> Second. >> Any questions? Roll call.

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>> Miss, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews, >> abstain. >> Mrs. Yes, >> you're going to dislike me immensely. >> Need five affirmative votes for the minutes to pass. You can do them at the

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next meeting. >> Okay. >> But you you need you if if if there was a no vote or five if there were five votes made, it's fine. But once you abstain and you got to abstain if you're not here, we lose the quarum on that

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issue and it can't pass. So at this point perhaps we can relist that for our first August meeting. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Moving right along to the top of page C. Board and committee reports. Athletics and art committee. Do I have anything?

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>> No. >> Not at this time. >> Citizens advisory committee. Do we have anything coming out of there? >> Min for the 24th. >> Yeah. What? >> I don't know. Do we have five? >> We do. We have five. All right. So, let's go back down to number two on page number two. Okay.

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>> I'm looking for a motion to approve the following meeting minutes of the board of education regular meeting minutes. Wednesday, June 24th, 2026, open and close session. >> Make a motion that we approve the following meeting minutes from the regular meeting open and close session

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on Wednesday, June 24th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any questions? [clears throat] >> Roll call. >> Miss Lloyd. >> Yes. Mr. Matthews, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pit, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes.

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>> All right. Back at the top of page three. Is there anything on the citizens advisory committee? >> They're not here. >> Okay. How about the education committee? >> Not here. >> Not here. >> Who's here? >> No. >> Anything on the marketing committee?

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>> Not at this time. >> Negotiations committee. You can skip Mr. Strong. All right. Operations Committee. [clears throat] >> None. None this evening. >> How about the policy committee? >> We will be having a meeting on July 22nd at 5:00 pm to go over um

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10 policies um for first um for us for our review. >> Thank you so much. Anything coming out of technology? >> Yes. >> Go ahead. >> So we had the a meeting on July 6, 2026 at 5:30 over Google Meet. The members present were Mr. Clark, Mr. Peas, and

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myself. Uh we had an IT department update where Mr. Peas shared an update from Mr. Aante on summer technology projects throughout the district. [cough] IT support is being provided to school number three during its summer program. The IT department is completing summer maintenance projects including

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server maintenance, cyber security enhancements, and other technology improvements. Uh, two-factor authentication is being added to staff email accounts to improve security. The district's audit vendor is completing the IT governance review and server

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reports. Mr. PS will provide the committee with an estimated completion timeline. Purchase orders for network improvements were submitted on July 1st and technology installations and upgrades are continuing throughout the district. As relates to the student cell phone policy, we discussed preparations

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for implementing the new student cell phone policy where with the administrative [clears throat] team finalizing procedures for middle and high school students, including the use of phone storage pouches throughout the school day. The estimated cost of the pouches is approximately $50,000 and the district is exploring

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ways to reduce that cost. The committee discussed the importance of creating student buyin while also establishing clear consequences for repeated non-compliance and elementary administrators are working together to create a consistent district-wide approach so that all elementary schools follow the same

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expectations. And that concludes my report. Any questions for Mr. Matthew? Excellent report. Excellent. Now going down to the economic development council. Mr. Dre is not present. Anything from the drug alliance? Uh, not at this time. I did want to mention as

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well there are meeting minutes from the five-year strategic planning committee and there I do have a few recommendations, but I'd like [clears throat] to mention those at our next meeting where more members will be present. >> Perfect. Perfect. Thanks for keeping up on that. Anything from the planning board? >> Nothing at this time.

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>> Anything [clears throat] from adopt the school member representative reports? >> No. >> Okay. Okay. Now, we looking for a motion to approve the superintendent's recommended approval for these action items. It starts on page three at the

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bottom and goes over to page six. Can I get a motion? I make a motion to approve the superintendence [clears throat] report as it's recommended for approval from the middle of page three to the

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bottom of page six. I need a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Miss Glo? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw?

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>> Yes. But I have to abstain from number on letter A, page five, number 17. Everything else? Yes. Miss Pittz. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Tom. >> Yes. We're at the top of page number

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seven. Venice administrators board secretary report. Looking for a motion to approve this report that starts at the top of page seven. Goes all the way to the top of page 17 or the bottom of page 16. Second motion. Make a motion to

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approve the business administrator board secretaries report as it's recommended for approval from the top of page seven to the bottom of page 16. >> Second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Miss. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Matthews. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. But I need to abstain from Miss Bo. I sent this to you already in a text message. Um, on letter B, page seven on the vendors list for 6A, PO's number

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606114, PO number 606115, PO number M730 on page 13, number 23 for the high school cafeteria serving line upgrade change order. [clears throat] Everything else is a

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yes. >> Okay. Uh, Miss Pitts. Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Carrie. >> We're at the top of page 17, the personnel report. For a motion to approve the superintendent recommended

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for approval for the personnel that starts at the top of page 17 and goes to the bottom of page 18. Make a motion to approve the super the personnel report that starts on the top of page 17 and goes to the

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bottom page 18. Second. Any questions? Roll call. >> Miss Gallardo? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pitts? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Thomas, if I may interject for a second, Mrs. Bo, I I hate to have to do this to you, but I do not want to see you get a um audit finding or a QAC finding. any votes that we had that were 401,

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>> we lose our quorum and they cannot pass tonight. I know Mr. Shaw has abstained, which is he's obligated to do. Um, but unless there's some compelling need for me to invoke the doctorate of necessity, which would wave Mr. Shaw's contract,

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would those items be okay for next month? So he I'll have to take a look at what he's done. >> 401 it doesn't cut it. >> So well here's here's another issue, Mr.

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Shaw. On the addendum, there's those um large items [clears throat] >> on the take a look at the bill list. >> There's nothing on the bill list. There's nothing objectionable on the bill list for you, Mr. Schaw. Is that

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what you're saying? >> Right. >> Alaska. >> I don't work with them. >> Okay. So, Mr. Shaw, I'll take a look at the items that you um abstained or recused himself from. And I

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guess >> they may need to be re repeated. >> So, we'll have to take those items. But I can the rest of them. >> The rest all go. Yeah. >> So what would stop us from um pulling on the doctrine of necessity tonight? >> Um well, you really need a reason. So

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putting it off one, let's say we had someone who was needed to know an answer by tomorrow or they weren't coming here, they were going to hire them. I would say then they happen to know Mr. Shaw or even didn't feel comfortable abstaining. In that case, I would disclose the uh

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conflict, have the board vote to invoke the doctrine of necessity and pass it. But I'm not hearing that from Mrs. Bole that they're urgent items that must be passed. For example, your budget has to pass. The teachers contract has to pass. A lot of times you have folks that have

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relatives in the union can't vote on the teachers contract. So if there's only four of those people that can vote, we then in that situation would invoke the doctrine of necessity. So everyone can vote because they're entitled to work under a contract. >> So but it's got to be significant and

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it's got to be an emergency. >> So Mr. Long um I believe um Mr. Shaw is saying that he is he has to recuse himself of that change order for Peretta. >> Yep.

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work has stopped. That's the cafeteria um upgrade. And so in order for the contract to continue and then >> or else we could go into the school year, >> we could go into the school year. >> Mr. Shaw, you have a conflict with Para.

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>> Yeah, I send their manpower out to them and I deal with them on a on a couple of projects uh in the area I cover. >> Mr. Shaw, I acknowledge your conflict. Um, I need a motion in a second because of the urgency of getting this job

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completed before school starts. And believe me, that qualifies because I know we need to get those jobs done while the the children are home. Um, so in order to invoke the doctrine of necessity, we need to pass a resolution doing that. So, and please don't make

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the motion. I need a motion and a second to invoke the doctrine of necessity on Mr. Shaw's disclosed conflict uh with regard to a change order that has stopped work completely uh on one of our major projects that needs to be

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completed. So would someone make that motion to invoke the doctrine of necessity? >> Mr. I move that we invoke the doctrine of necessity. >> Yep. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? >> I do. We have a roll. >> Do we need a roll call?

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>> Do we should do a roll call, Mr. Roll calls? >> All right. question before we do the roll call. Am I allowed to vote on >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Miss Glo? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pitts? >> Yes.

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>> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, that motion. >> And now we go back to the item for >> for the change order. >> The change order for the Who's the vendor? Uh, Mrs. >> Joseph Peretta. Mhm.

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>> So is there a motion on the change order for Petta allowing Mr. Shaw to vote on that matter now that we've invoked doctrine of necessity >> motion? Did you motion? >> Go ahead.

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Motion and I great. >> Any questions? Roll call. So you and then Miss Pit. Okay. Great. >> Miss Blood. >> Yes. >> Okay. Mr. Matthews. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Miss Pitz. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw. I appreciate your transparency and working with us to get that through. Appreciate it. >> No problem. >> All right, folks. We're going on top of page 18. Top of page 19, number eight,

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the pink addendum. We have addendum. We're on page the payment split. Page number one, look for the to motion to approve the board secretary report that begins on page one and goes to the bottom of page four.

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I make a motion to approve the business administrator for secretaries report as it starts on page one and moves on page four. Second. >> Any questions? Roll call.

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>> Well, hold on. I have one question. Are we going to have to do this all over again being I have the one issue with uh um was it number six? Uh page two, number six for the uh CM

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services. [clears throat] >> Mrs. Po, would you mind putting on the record the need for that and the urgency of it? Yes, I'd like we need to get that awarded because um five and six should be closing out if

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by the time if we were to push it into August, the job will be done. So, I'm trying to get the CM in [clears throat] effective tomorrow. And I did have a conversation uh with

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Miss Bole on these construction management services. I believe yesterday we had a fairly lengthy discussion and um I I know of the need that this project particularly with regard to the air conditioning um we get we get moving

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um as quickly as possible. So I would need again before we move on this addendum um a motion to invoke the doctrine of necessity with respect to the RFP award for construction management services that appear as it

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appears on page two of the addendum. I need a motion to invoke the doctrine of necessity on that item only. >> Mr. Long, I move that we invoke the uh doctrine of necessity. Um, as it relates to the addendum number

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six, page two. >> Second. [snorts] >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Miss. >> Yes. >> M. [laughter] Mr. Shaw. Mr.

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>> Again, you can vote. Mr. Mr. Matthews. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw. [cough and laughter] Mr. He can vote on this. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pitts, >> yes. >> And Mr. Tommen, >> yes. >> Yes. Okay.

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>> Now, we are moving that full um business administrator board secretaries report on the addendum that goes through page >> four. >> Four. >> We all clear. >> Yeah, we are. Now, moving right along.

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>> Mr. Shaw can vote on that those first four pages now. >> Okay. So, do we need to revote it? >> Yes. >> All right. He has not voted yet. >> We haven't voted. >> Haven't voted on. >> Okay. >> All right. So, shall I roll call? Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. Please. >> Miss Glo.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pitts? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Motion is carried. >> And thank you for your disclosures. top of page five, personnel report that begins on the top of page five and goes

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to the bottom of page five. Can I get a motion? >> Make a motion to approve the personnel report um as it appears for approval by the superintendent on page five on the agenda.

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>> Yeah. Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> It's roll. >> Roll call. Roll call. >> Yeah. >> All right. Mr. Lloyd, >> I have to abstain from page five, item three, A and B.

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So, will that stop? >> Okay. So, this one [clears throat] will wait. >> What items? Um, >> number three. >> On page five. >> On page five, it's the volunteers. >> Number three,

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>> let's do with volunteers. Can we just move that? since these are volunteer non-paid positions and um are the are A and B relatives? >> They're brothers. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And I would ask that um we

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acknowledge that it's a non-paying position. I think it's urgent that they get passed tonight. So I would need a motion to invoke the doctrine of necessity on your identified conflicts. Miss Squad, I appreciate you doing that. >> Okay. So, if we get a motion in a second

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and we invoke it, um because those hires are are contingent upon that football those football activities start, which I believe are shortly, we certainly want to get that done in July rather than August. Is that correct, Mr. Peace? >> Correct. Thank you.

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>> Therefore, I move that we invoke the doctrine of necessity as it relates to our addendum page five, item number three, volunteers. >> Second. Any questions? Roll call. >> Who? >> I'm sorry, Mr. Who made the second.

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>> Mr. Matthews. >> Matthews. Thank you. >> Okay, Miss Glaude. >> And you're permitted to vote yes on both. Miss Glo. >> Yes. >> All right. Mr. Matthews, >> yes.

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>> Miss Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Okay. And now shall we continue with the >> We haven't approved the personnel report because once I heard Miss Glaude start to abstain that's when I interjected. So

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we would need again a motion to approve the personnel report on page five. >> Looking for a motion to approve the personnel report on the addendum of page five that begins at the top and goes to the bottom. Let's get a motion. >> Motion to approve the personnel report

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as it appears on page five. Second. >> Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Miss Gordo? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pitts? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes.

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>> I appreciate everyone everyone's patience and it's important that you do [laughter] that correctly. >> We're back on page 19, Open Public Records Act. Is there any? >> None. >> Going to number 15. anyformational items

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there, Mr. P? [clears throat] >> Yes. Uh, first of all, I'd like to thank the board for their work tonight and their approvals. Uh, we also like to thank the board for their approval of our administrators that we that we will be adding to the team. Dr. Cibil Gerard,

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uh, with Winsow Township High School principal, Mr. Joel Howard, Winsow Township High School vice principal. Uh there will be a vacant uh Winsow Township High School vice principal position that we will continue to interview for. We'd also like to uh

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thank you for your approval for uh the transfer of Mr. Dawing Dawkins who will now be a supervisor in the special ed department. So thank you for your work tonight. Also, I'd just like to uh inform the board that I participated in

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the 2026 Superintendent Summer Convening uh at Rowan University. Was a great opportunity for me to work with other superintendents and representatives of Rowan to dialogue about some of the most pressing issues facing public education.

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And some of those uh issues that were talked about was teacher recruitment, creating teacher pipelines, and teacher retention. Also on July 14th, Miss Pman and I met with staff, met with the staff, members

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of Kuman, Mr. uh Thomas, I don't know if you remember, we met these individuals at the Junth uh festivities. >> Okay. >> Uh husband and wife. Uh it is a tutoring program, a high power tutoring program that we're interested in seeing how we

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can possibly form a partnership with them uh for the next school year. Work at school five and school six on the HVAC upgrades are underway and on schedule. Upgrades in the cafeteria with your approval tonight uh will continue

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to stay on schedule. Uh replacement of cafeteria tables at school 4 is complete. The bid temporary repairs to the parking lots will have to be resubmitted. The language changed as bids came in too high. It included we

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keep saying >> I don't know [laughter] >> township high school and middle school but we only want uh pop repairs at those schools at this time. I had a meeting

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with Mr. Shaw and Ruckers University's uh storm water runoff projects. This is a program that we will focus on school three at the time and possibly move on to other schools to deal with that storm

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water issue at school three. So, uh, now that we have an engineer on board, thanks to your approval, we will use our engineer along with Ruckers University to come up with a, uh, safe environmental solution to our issue at

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school 3. Also had a meeting with the National Fitness Campaign and this is a program that provides grants to do outdoor fitness classrooms. So, I I spoke to the middle school and high school principal and the athletic

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director about the possibility of uh having this type of facility on our ground to see if they are they were interested in something like that. They all are interested. As we get closer, I will bring that back to the board for your approval to actually put something

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like that on our ground. So now I can start the meetings and uh having those conversations with this organization and start designing something and once we have it designed we can bring it back to the board and uh get your approval on putting that on our

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campus. We had our first strategic planning meeting uh with the strategic planning uh I guess you call it ad hoc committee. Uh, one of the tasks that I had for that from that meeting was coming up with

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dates for our first for our meetings for the strategic plan and the dates are as follows. October 7th, November November 4th, and December 2nd. Uh, and I think there's some a little flexibility in

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that December 2nd meeting if we need to because I know Miss Neves may have a conflict. So we want to make sure that all of our board members are part of the strategic plan. So these will be regular board meetings and advertised as board meetings open to the public and all of

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our stakeholders to be uh active participants in our strategic plan. Uh all of our summer enrichment programs have begun and are going very well. ESY summer camp and summer band lessons. We have met with building principles

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regarding the implementation of the new cell phone uh internet enabled devices policy. We will have that uh ready to go uh when the doors open up in September. There's some more work that we need to do, but we are moving uh forward with

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that. I was I received a request from New Jersey Transit about using school three to make a Uturn in our parking lot because of the construction on is that Cichville Road? >> Yes, Cichville Road.

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I I devised a plan with the help of Miss Pennock to present to New Jersey Transit and because of the activity of our summer programs at school 3 and the tightness of our parking lot, the uh New

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Jersey Transit has decided not to use school 3 as an area to make that U-turn. But we offer to assist New Jersey Transit uh and we wanted to be a good partner with them. So, uh, hopefully they they see it that way. Uh,

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again, I had the opportunity to participate in the township's Junth celebration and our Fourth of July fireworks here on our high school campus. Uh, both activities were outstanding. Uh, the firework event event was amazing here. Uh, definitely

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uh worthwhile coming to in the future. So, uh, look forward to uh doing that event. I look forward to also participating in Winsow Township's family day event which is scheduled for August 22nd. Uh I've been finalizing our district goals in preparation for our retreat. I

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will have that ready to go when we are meeting at our retreat and we can discuss our district goals along with board goals to uh get our buildings ready for our our movement and direction for this coming school year. Just want to go over a couple other administrative

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changes. Just so that the community news uh Mr. Mela will no longer be the high school principal. He is now the building principal of school six. Dr. Brown at school six will now be the building

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principal at school one. Uh Mr. Nathan Davis at school one will serve as assistant principal at the middle school. As you already are aware, Miss Lord Kelly will serve as our director of uh special ed and we are currently looking for that replacement. and we have someone in mind with that position

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through our interviews. Uh Cynthia Stewart Dixon, assistant principal, will be assistant principal now at school 6. And Mr. McGinness, who was assistant principal at school six, will now be the assistant principal at the at the high school. I will be working with Miss

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Glatz over the summer to come up with some of our slogans and some graphics for our slogans and uh a redesign of our podcast. uh uh image graphics. Um one of the things I want to share with you all

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we're pushing for with one of our our district district initiatives for 2627 and that's coherency and our slogan will be educating with coherency. So, uh, that's going to be our slogan moving forward as a district. And we are

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excited about really moving forward with bringing all of our schools, all of our buildings, all of our our departments uh, under the umbrella of coherency and making sure that we are speaking all the same language and moving our districts forward.

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And finally, two more things. Uh, for future board meetings, uh, Mr. President, I request to present this report in the reports section of the agenda if that's okay with you. >> Sure. >> All right. >> Thank you. And uh finally, I'd like to

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uh recognize board member Wanda Glaude for completing her level one board member academy and now is certified as a new board member with a certificate. So, congratulations. >> Congratulations.

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>> About time. That concludes my uh report. Thank you. >> Should probably be much more quiet now. >> I just have one question on is it possible for uh the marketing team and you guys to get together to form some type of marketing strategy for to get people involved into the fiveear

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strategic plan so they can know so when you have the go to the uh wins day everybody knows the dates and they can actually uh gravitate to being uh attracted to come to the meeting. I can uh have Miss Glattz create some type of

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graphic to advertise that for those activities. Once the square opens up and studio 106 opens up, I can start adding that to our podcast and get that information out. We can also include that in our social media platforms so that it's advertised. So, we'll have it on our our websites and we'll also put

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in our social media and you know before those meetings, we also can send a blast out to our parents. We probably absolutely >> maybe we can ask the mayor to send it out on their nickel to get it out as well. So we'll make sure that it's advertised and that we are encouraging our state quarters to be a part of the

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process. >> All right, moving right along to old business. Will there be any old business? Any questions? I had one from M. How are we making with the pole barn?

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>> The pole barn has not moved. We're waiting for the new um engineer to get appointed, which we just did this evening. >> So, I'll be bringing his line. >> Okay, good stuff. Anyone else? Moving on to new business. Will there be

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any new business? None. Seeing none. Public comment. Counselor. >> Mrs. W. Anyone sign up for public comment? >> I don't know. >> No, no one signed up. >> Is there anybody that wants to make

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public comment? Could [laughter] you open it and then close it without me reading? >> Sure. Since we don't have anybody that I don't need to give the admonitions, but we do need to open it. >> I'm looking for a motion to open up public comments. >> Make a motion to open public comments.

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>> Second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? >> Anything online? >> Anybody online waiting? >> No. >> Submitted an email. I'm looking for a motion to close public comments. >> Motion to close public comments.

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>> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> I close. >> Now I'm looking for a motion. Will there be executive session now? >> I don't believe there's any more, right? I think we did our did our thing early. We did it quickly. >> And we're done.

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>> Great. No, no need, >> folks. I'm looking for a motion to adjourn this meeting. Make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> like to thank everybody for coming out today. Appreciate it.