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How you doing, John? It's the cutest thing. How you doing? Welcome everyone to the Winso Township Board of Board of Education regular board meeting Wednesday, June 24th, 2026 7 p.m. Public notice of this meeting was

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given to all board members and associates in a notice dated January 8th, 2026 and June 12th, 2026. Adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided

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specifying the time, place, and manner in which this meeting is being conducted. It was advertised in the courier post posted on all schools, the administration office, the municipal building, the library, the bub duh

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center, Edgewood Acres Elmtown, and the Winsow Township post office. Mission statement. The mission of the Winssel Township School District, a large, diverse, and growing community, is to educate all students to become independent, lifelong learners, critical

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thinkers, and caring and confident members of their community. The district in partnership with the community in an alignment of cooperation and mutual respect will provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity encourages students to strive

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for personal excellence and assist them in acquiring the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to contribute positively for rapidly change. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Clark, >> you'll be absent that. >> Thank you. Miss Dreaden here. Miss

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Gloyd, >> present. >> Miss Martin, >> present. >> Mr. Matthews, >> present. >> Miss Gandas, >> present. >> Mr. Shaw, >> present. >> Miss Pitts, >> present. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> present. >> We have a quorum.

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>> I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. District goals

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>> student achievement continue to implement researchbased 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

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district diagnostics assessment platform to analyze student data to inform and guide instruction to monitor and track measurable growth in ELA ELELA and mathematics and grades one through nine to implement creative ways to accilerate

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student learning by providing additional support throughout and beyond the school day. Number two, promote a positive environ environment for students and staff. Enforce the code of conduct to ensure safety for students and staff and compliance with district policies.

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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.

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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. Continue

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to share the accomplishments of Winsow Township students in all activities. >> Thank you so very much. Will there be any awards and presentations? >> No, sir. >> Any correspondence? >> None this evening. >> Heading off to minutes.

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Can I get a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes for Wednesday June 10th 2026 open session and the regular meeting Wednesday June 10th 2026 close session. >> Make a motion to approve the Winslow

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Township Board of Education meeting minutes regular or regular meeting minutes open and close session for Wednesday, June 10th. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Dre. Yes, >> Miss Glo. >> Yes,

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>> Miss Martins. >> Yes, >> Mr. Matthews. >> Yes, >> Miss Neves. >> Uh, yes to open session. Abstain to close session. >> Thank you, Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Motion is carried.

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>> Moving down to board committee reports. Would there be anything out of the athletic and arts committee? >> Um, yes. I would like to Mr. pleased to share um our we our um wins this uh week for athletic community. >> So, as I mentioned last night at the

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township meeting, we are going to celebrate a generational talent here in Winslow. a talent that comes uh once maybe every 10 years. You know, I I think correct me if I'm wrong, you know,

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the last uh generational talent that came from Winslow would have been uh Burrows, >> Jordan Burrows, >> Jordan Burrows. Um before that, maybe Mitchell, >> Dennis Mitchell. >> So, this young lady is a sophomore.

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uh a a generational talent in the sense of she is number one in the nation as the 100 meter meter hurler for females. She has won the sectionals championship

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for uh in New Jersey, the New Jersey state championship, the New Jersey meet of champions, the the special invitation Brooks Invitational National Champion, and she is the New Balance National Champion.

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Her time at New Balance put her as the eighth fastest 100 meter female hurler in the history of that event in the United States. She is now currently the

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number one hurler in the United States. She is tied for eighth all time in the United States and she is currently the number one all-time record holder in the state of New Jersey and she owns the the

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New Balance Meat Record. So this young lady, Jasmine Jackson, who I had the uh honor of coaching her father in high school, uh is a tr tremendous student athlete.

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On top of all those academic uh athletic accomplishments, she is a outstanding student in the classroom with a 4 plus GPA. Uh soon to be a national honor

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society candidate, a phenomenal student. Coach Brown along with Jasmine and a couple of her uh teammates will be honored by taking a ride through town on one of our fire trucks. Uh spoke with

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the mayor and deputy chief oor and Chief Ryberg from the fire department to arrange for this to take place on Friday 3:00. Uh, I'm sure they'll ride through a few neighborhoods, but just something special for our high school and for our

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school district and for this community. You know, the work that this young lady has accomplished. And not just her, the the female or the girls track team has done a phenomenal job over the years. They are a perennial champion.

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And Coach Brown uh is I think she's already uh in the Hall of Fame. I don't know if she is or not, but uh she's definitely uh one of those individuals that will be recognized for her accomplishments uh putting together these phenomenal teams over the years.

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But this young lady uh has done some special things for Winslow Township and Wential High School and we want to make sure that we recognize her. >> Well said. Well said. the piece >> going on the citiz committee. Will there be a report coming out of that?

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>> Yes, Mr. President. Um I provided all of the board members with a copy of the minutes. Um the meetings came to order at 6:30. Um members present were Gregory Wait, Rose Rosie Hoffman, Rachel Patch,

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Gerald Lamoda, List Vega, Capri Bailey, Deborah McKim, Jennifer Moss, and Marcy Thomas, and myself. All business town halls. Suggestions to have each school have a design designated board member

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meet with parents at each school. Student orientations if students move from lower to upper elementary and middle school and high school. Work on a way to build relationships between students from other schools and make the transition smoother. At the township

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committee meeting, bus situation was not brought up. However, a parent spoke about their concerns. There was a wasn't a response from the township committee mobile app that supports the digital backpack was tabled until next meeting

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and Becky could give us an update. Student handbooks talked about not coming up with two different handbooks but two separate discip discipline sections suggested that rules be posted in the handbook. We'll formulate a

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recommendation at next meeting. Climate survey holding off until the topic next meeting. Marching band image tabled from last meeting was discussed that a booster club be assembled to raise funds. Example private donation fund may

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be blend together with sports. Example football to raise funds and collaborate student groups for special needs students tabled. Um teacher appreciation week suggestion not having it during the testing week week. We wanted to look at testing dates as to

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not clash with with appreciation week for the teachers. Um, and the letter from the the letter that the CAC received from a resident that was for forwarded to Mr. P's concerns were

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disciplinary policy safety for teachers, disruptive behavior among students affecting students and student staff during learning. He responded immediately to our email and stated that he would be willing to meet with the resident and the steps that the resident

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should take to make an appointment. We relayed this message to the resident. New business status on having air conditioning installation at all schools completed. More at the next meeting. Social media suggestion for district web

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page. promote PTA/Hsa organizations for the many special events they've organized for the students in each school throughout the school year. Our next meeting is scheduled for July 23rd via Zoom August

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meeting to be determined. Meaning adjourned at 8:00 p.m. >> Did you say July 23rd or It looks like it's July 9th. >> Um it was changed from July 9th to July. Any questions for the CAC? Any recommendations for the CAC?

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All right, moving along to the education committee. Is there anything coming out of the education committee? >> Yeah, we just met prior to our meeting tonight here. >> Uh, so it was myself, Mr. P, Miss Clement, Miss Martin, and Mr. Matthews. We met at 6 PM in the administration

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building. Um, Miss Clement gave us an update on the uh, summer programs we have going on. For our extended school year program, we have 117 students enrolled in that remote learning. Uh, we also have our summer learning academy

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um, which is taking place at school for as well. That's a three-day, threeh hour for month of July. Um, we invited 539 students total. Uh the number of students who have accepted uh is 177 and

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that's grades 1 through six. Um we also have the super summer camp enrollment uh that's happening at school too. It's an all day program that's paid by parents. Uh we have a total of 63 campers in that program. Our summer teacher academy

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enrollment, we are offering 22 courses with a total of 314 teachers enrolled as of June 23rd. Uh total vacancies for staff in the district right now stand at 30. Um some other things discussed, we talked about a book swap uh

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district-wide book swap. Uh we also talked about the return of our college campus trips for our lower elementary students that school 4 used to do. Uh we talked about the uh special education update as far as positions go and all the administration moves. Um parent

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engagement was on our list as well. uh chronic absenteeism and some of the things that we'll be putting in place uh to be approved by the board uh shortly about that. Um there's also going to be administratormies, secretarymies as well to kind of get that uniformity

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throughout all of our schools and how staff and the culture is supposed to be uh presented in district. Um, as well as, oh, I know the education committee was trying to meet with the township education, our counterparts at the

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township level. I had a conversation on Tuesday with Deputy Mayor Peoples. He's the chair of the education committee for the township. Um, we are going to stay in contact with that, bring in the township as needed. Uh, particularly with our fiveyear strategic planning

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that's coming up. So, we now have that open line of communication and if there is a need for all of us to meet in person, he and I will get together to make that happen. Um, and that concludes my education report for tonight. >> Outstanding. Outstanding. If I may get a

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one pager of all the different uh events we have over the summer that you reported on, is that possible >> for the summer programs? >> Yeah, I think I have a copy of Well, I can give you the copy that Miss Thomas gave me for the summer programs.

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and then I'll have everything else come out as well for the uh >> Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Thank you. That that's that's a good tool to have. Thank you so much. Moving around to the marketing committee. Is there anything coming out of the marketing committee? >> Just to say that um the coming up July

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3rd, the township of fourth will be celebrating uh the 4th of July and then we'll be using certainly our campus and we will have a table just actually to go along with the celebration. um we will have some giveaways and we will also uh

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bring um items from Junth because uh because of relationship both days are celebrating freedom and so that event begins of course at 6:30 and board members not well you're not mandated if you would want to come again and meet

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and greet the public uh we will have a table and uh we will be there at 6:30 >> this is the fourth July >> yes we come along with the in the park. I know they had a little event today. What? So any >> Well, here's the thing. It it as it appears their first two um dates were

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dates that we had board meetings >> was on June 17th. We had a special meeting and then they have one tonight. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, >> more important things that we had to do. >> Yeah. >> All right. Going to the negotiation committee. Mr. Shaw, >> everything is still fine on the

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negotiation. >> I got to ask Mr. Shaw. I got to follow protocol here. Got it. >> Operations committee. Anything coming out of operations committee? >> Yes, Mr. President. Miss Glor will read the next. >> The operation committee met last night

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at 5:30 p.m. via teams meeting. Uh in attendance were Miss Dreaden, the committee chair, Mr. Shaw, and also in attendance was Miss Coyle. Uh we discussed the following items. uh the budgeted and other capital projects

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under EI associates who were our uh formal former architect. Uh the HBA upgrades to schools five and six which were awarded to Palaska. Both projects are progressing on time. The substantial completion dates for both those projects

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are August 14th, 2026. So it's closed. Uh updates to the serving line at the high school cafeteria. Work on this project has ramped up since school has been dismissed. The vendor is preparing the area for the installation of the new

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equipment which should be delivered by Monday, June 26th, uh excuse me, June 29th, 2026. The construction of the pole barn on the high school campus. Uh that project is currently on hold. We're attempting to more clearly define the

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scope of that project. And the fifth one is the HVAC middle school main office. That project has been completed. The architect has signed off on the F uh final pay application. However, we did not receive copies of the closeout

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documents. I followed up with EI who followed up with the vendor and uh we will process that payment after we receive those closeout documents. uh Lan, who is our current architect,

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has submitted the bid for the HBAC uh project at the high school uh to the office of the state controller for review land and the representative Chris Long from Wong Wooden Long have worked on the

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revisions and have turned it back over to the OC who is now requesting that the district prepare a resolution permitting a proprietary bid for the controls and I said if that was required there would be

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a something on our agenda. So we do have something brief on the agenda but we may have to elaborate uh further. The upgrades of the middle school HBAC system land's proposal to move this project forward is on

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tonight's agenda. Um once it's approved, they're going to get the project submitted to the Department of Education and then um move that project along so that we can get it bid. And that project also start the summer 27th. Uh the 2627

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budget, it's now live. It's live. So district staff are enter are able to enter their orders for materials needed in the 2627 school year. uh uh the summer electronic benefit transfer or

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SEBT. We were made aware that some families were issued a card in error. The Department of Agriculture has requested that we contact these families to request that they don't use the cards. So, we're currently working on something we can mail out to to the

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parents. uh others may not have received the cards or only received a portion of the benefit that they're entitled to. So, we're working to get those cards issued in doing the the second upload to the state. If anybody has been

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experiencing a problem or an issue, you can contact the business office, uh contact Dan Moano at extension 7507. He's working closely with Mr. Scott so that the next upload is goes smoothly.

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Uh the meeting adjourned at 6:06 p.m. and the next meeting is to be scheduled. It's to be determined. >> Any questions for our operations committee? >> Yes, I do. I have a few questions. >> Um the first one is on the construction of the pole barn.

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>> I know that you did state that it's on hold. Um do you have a a ETA of how long and if that will possibly be get done this year? We the funding is set aside. It's a matter of designing the project uh to a degree that we can afford

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because again we we put it out to bid. It came in well over bid. Um and so the scope of it, it's either we're going to make it smaller or take some pieces out. We may even switch locations because one superintendent may want it here and it

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might be better suited there. So, we're just waiting to get it designed right and then we can move further, move along with it. >> And just to piggy back on that, one of the uh professionals that we're waiting to add to our

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record is the engineer record. And once we have that engineer in place, they will play a a part in helping us uh design the pole barn and the location and also possibly uh find some reduced cost to get this structure on our

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campus. >> Right. The next question I have is this is not on your minutes, but it's just observations that I have. Um do we have something in place to get these potholes um fixed in our parking lots in the high school and the in between the middle school over the summer? the height. It's

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not going to happen this summer. >> No. >> Right. So, it was in the budget for this year, but now you have to go get it out awarded. We only uh put in repaving of the high school parking lot, especially

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that the teacher side because it's horrific. And then over in the middle school, it's up by the the parking where the buses are. >> Yes. >> Horrible potholes. Uh when I spoke to the engineer we currently have on staff, um I told I asked him about the

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timeline. If we move it fast enough, can we get it done in the summer? And he said no. So I'm at I'm at his mercy. Um but I may not be at his mercy for long. So, >> so we might need to put eventually

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>> do something um to >> temporary to fix it to, you know, just hold us for a year >> uh until now. I don't want to dump a whole bunch of money, >> right? >> But we have to do something because it's to me it's just a little too >> too much. >> Yeah. A little too bumpy. Yes.

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>> Uh there's also potholes in some of the other parking lots and we wanted to do more of a fill. >> Okay. you know, so we may have to uh scope that out for not only fill that but come take a look at what we can get done to in these other areas which we

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know next summer we're going to break it out because they're going to pull everything out and then reinstall or repave. >> Okay. Um, and the I just don't want any liabilities on our district, right, for those flesh. Um, um, and the next

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question I have is school three. Um, I know that we've been talking about this for a while, but >> we just had that real bad raintorm last week or a few days ago, and it's like a lake over there now. Um, and >> I know that the county came out and redid the roads. I don't know if they

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talked with the school district before they did the road to see if we can fix the problem before they put new pavement on there, but half of the parking lot or 75% of the front parking lot is taken from water. Um, and when you have the

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summertime, you got issues with rodents and all the other kind of stuff that capacity come up. What are we doing to get this fixed? me. >> So, uh part of the uh process has to do with uh engineering

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>> and having a new engineer of record which we should be having soon um will help us in that process. I'm also working with Mr. Shaw with the greater egg harbor watershed and there's a grant out there and they want to come

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in and help us with this problem as well to divert some of the water that's landing in that that area as well. So it's uh something that we uh had have had as a priority. Um I wasn't really happy with our engineering engineers uh

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response to the problem uh when we first started to address it. It's one of the reasons why we're looking for a new engineer to come give us a solution to resolve this matter before school starts next year and we hit that snow season and we get rain and it turns to ice.

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>> So that's one of the things that we're planning to do to try to resolve uh school three link school three. >> Okay. >> And I had one more question. >> The playgrounds for preschool at the schools have I know you have a >> I think I skipped it. >> Yeah, you did.

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>> Yes. So CME AR engineers um and they're they got merged with and they're a new company Arion. So they were they provided a a design but they used the design from a co-op vendor.

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>> Okay. >> Um co-op vendors are great. However, the state has stopped them from using time and material bids. So, he did provide and our our request was we want to go out to bid that way if we do it then we know we're paying correct wages and

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whatnot. Um, did not get a response. I had a conversation. I marked it on my calendar. I said the last day this bid can come in is June 11th. That's the last day. >> Okay. >> Never got anything. So then he sent me a

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co-op vendor. it. The designs looked nice, >> but they were right at the top. So, you know, I have to chew on it. So, on my way home, I'm thinking, hm, that, you know, that sounds good. What about the

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demo? Because I thought back on the preschool, >> right, >> when we had the demo, I think you recently demoed and redid portions of your the preschool. >> Yes. >> The demo can be almost as much as the playground equipment. So I I sent him

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back an email. I said, "Uh, what about the demo cost?" So that got into a discussion. It took a while for him to come back. Way over budget, >> right? >> So um I'm trying to find a way to like we can we can capture that money. The

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problem is we can't get to it. Like next year I can't go in. I I need a place where I can next year grab it. uh and it doesn't exist to my my knowledge at this point. So, I did reach out to my county BA

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um who proposed something. I'm going to underhandedly reach out to my old county BA. >> Well, we've been communicating with all our professionals, our architects, our engineers, and we uh we are setting uh some expectations and standards on the timeliness on them completing these

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projects. uh you know the architect land is going to be our architect of record moving forward and so the expectation is for him to get these jobs uh started and uh completed. Uh same thing with the engineer. The engineer plays a vital

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part in designing a lot of our things on the outside of our buildings. So it's important that uh uh that engineer is actively engaged in solving our problems. >> Right? So that is why we're moving in a different direction with uh last board meeting or two that we uh basically

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rejected all those uh RFPs from the engineers because I didn't want the same engineers coming in giving us the same lines about getting these projects done. I wanted some a fresh face to come in and give us some ideas on how we can resolve some of these problems that we're facing.

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>> Okay. And the very last question. So, in regards to you probably can help me out too, Miss Clinton, but the the preschool um playgrounds that we already did, right? They're completed. >> Yes. >> So, right now, currently in all of our schools, the playgrounds, there's no safety issues with our our playgrounds

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that you note of, right? >> I would say no preschool playground, >> but the the other other playgrounds there possibly be some safety problems with those playgrounds. I believe the anything that was uh dangerous or was either roped off or taken down. Taken

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down. >> Okay. So that's I just want to make sure that before September comes back in or throughout the year that we don't have any rope off. We have them removed. Right. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> And then uh at school one we dealt with a situation where the playground is

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really close to the tree line. So, we're looking at adding a fence just to create a barrier between the playground and the tree line so kids don't have the be enticed to go into the woods in that uh area like school one. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> And I had, excuse me, one question with

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the upgrade to the middle school HVAC. Is that what we're doing in the the main office or is that a project that's going to air condition the entire school? >> That's going to air condition the balance of the school. Some of the rooms do have AC >> and some do not. So, uh, that's to take

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care of of the rest of the building. That's the $14.5 million project. The HV HBAC in the main office, I think one summer we found out they had no AC and it was a nasty summer. So, we had a

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vendor come in and get that work done. So, now when they're there over the summer, they shouldn't be um uncomfortable. Thank you, Miss B. >> Miss B. And I have one question, too. >> Absolutely. >> Upgrades to the service line in the high

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school cafeteria. >> Yes. >> Will that help us with our line item that we've been, >> Mr. Thomas? We've had that finding for so long, we had to report whether or not we are having that finding again. Um, we did a

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a calc and we believe we will not have that finding, but out of caution, we're saying, you know, being concerned. >> We're working on it. We're working on it. Working on it. >> That's all I asked that. We're working on it. That's good stuff. That's how it work. Good stuff. >> All right, we move on to the policy committee. Anything coming out of the policy committee?

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>> Yes, Mr. Thomas. Um, policy committee meeting. Um, we met tonight um at 5:00 pm. Attendants were Mr. Peace, Miss Clement, Mrs. Nves, Mr. Davis and Miss Claude. Um, we reviewed policies. The following following policies were

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discussed and approved for to be forward to first reading on July 8th, 2026 at the next board of education meeting on the agenda. Policy 13:30, which is the evaluation of the school board administrator. Um, policy 1331,

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evaluation of the board secretary. Policy 2 2411 is career education and academic counseling. Policy 5460, high school graduation. Policy 5461, high school diploma.

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>> Policy 1643, family leave. Policy 5561, use of physical restraint and seclusion techniques for students with disabilities. All the policies um were reviewed by the policy committee along with the superintendent and assistant superintendent um and Mr. Davis and

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we're moving forward to put them on the first reading for next week. I mean next board meeting. Our meeting was adjourned at 5:30 p.m. And that concludes um the policy meeting. >> Any questions for the policy committee? Thank you, Miss B. I see y'all working down there getting them policies

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together. We really appreciate it. Go to the technology committee. Anything coming out of the technology committee? >> Yes, I do have the notes for our last meeting. Uh that occurred uh June 1st. Uh we met from 5:30 to 6 p.m. via teams. Present were myself, Mr. Peace, Miss

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Clement, and Mr. Matthews. Um items discussed then, uh state testing was completed with no reported issues. Uh the IT audit continues. They're currently working on the governance portion of their audit. Uh no end date, I believe, in presentation to the board

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has been set up to this point. We discussed the uh high school graduation being live streamed and the the usage of a QR code on the flyer. so that people would be able to do so. Uh we talked about Chromebooks again, the uh damages of possibly utilizing more of a lending

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library going forward and insurance requirements. So that'll be kicked back to the policy and education committee. Uh summer projects that are currently happening with technology. Um installing 100 new access points for Wi-Fi, remounting battery backups or replacing

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them. uh the installation of a fiber optic line from the middle school to the board office, operating system updates and inventory, camera repair replacements. Um we also discussed kind of the usage for Chromebooks of what we're seeing from our students. Uh most

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students are using their Chromebooks from 3:00 p.m. to midnight. That's only at the high school level what we had available at that time. Uh meeting adjourned and I believe our next meeting is scheduled for July 5th at 5:30. Any questions for the IT committee?

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>> Yes, I have a question. Um, in regards to um the Chromebooks, we've been Mr. P, you might be able to answer this and Mr. We at the same time. Um, are we working on our new policy to try to um alleviate some of the issues that we had um with

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the Chromebooks this year? I know that the Chromebooks were issued on an emergency situation. Um we didn't get to fully put out um a complete detailed policy regarding the usage and the damages, but are we working on something to make sure that we can alleviate these

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issues for later on in the future? >> Well, I don't think there's a need to change the policy. The policy that we have is good enough to deal with the uh the concerns of damages. It's just a matter of how we're going to handle

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those damages and obligations that will come in and are we going to hold our parents accountable for those damages. You know, if the policy has the teeth, we just need to make sure that we're using it to uh make sure that parents are paying for those things. And that

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means if a there is an obligation or a fee that uh that is owed to the school for damages for a Chromebook, students are not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities. And that is the only way that we're going to hold have that policy, you know, hold some

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weight when it comes to those devices. I don't think there's anything else we can do to the policy to get parents to be accountable for it. It's just a matter of us making sure that if a child broke the device and they've gone through a couple uh devices already that they're obligated to pay for it. And if they

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don't, they don't participate in promotional ceremonies, trips, extracurricular sporting events, anything of that nature that will basically uh encourage parents to pay those fees if they want their child to participate.

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>> Perfect. Thank you. Was there I thought there was some type of insurance that was taken out of >> there is insurance and that's something that we're looking at for next year that uh we get these devices if they want the devices they must purchase the insurance so the device is broken the insurance covers it otherwise if they don't have

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the insurance they can't have the device and they'll have a device you know all of our classrooms will be equipped with devices and there's some parents that don't that don't want the devices so we're okay with that but you know those devices will be in the classrooms and they don't have to take home. And what

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what we're finding is >> the children and the parents that that don't want the devices that have them are more careless with the devices because they don't really need them because they have their own at home. So, we don't want them to have a device that they're not using and it's just in their book bags getting slung around and

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>> taking on damage uh unnecessarily. >> Okay. And then one last question. Um the audit um it says audit IT audit continues. They're working on the governance portion. Can someone explain that to me? >> They're looking at all of our policies

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and how, you know, I'm not have I don't have all the IT language and I don't have I don't know if Lel's equipped to uh deal with that question. Mike is probably uh the one to probably answer that question, but I do know this once that audit is completed, that company

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will be here to report on all their findings and all the things that they've done to uh complete that audit. Uh I don't want to talk uh and say something that's incorrect in in the IT world, but we definitely want to make sure that uh

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uh they get in here and explain what they found the all the measures or things that need to be uh corrected so that we can uh have another successful IT season. Uh we went through the

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testing season without any major glitches with uh testing. So, uh, very happy with the IT department and the work that they're doing to keep us online. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Another question. >> Um,

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>> no, I I >> also on your uh on the devices, we will update our handbooks, our student parent handbooks, so that the parents have a clear understanding of what the obligations are and uh how we're going to move forward with our uh devices next year. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> And I'd just like to give kudos to our

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our new uh technology committee. They really are adding a well-rounded uh report and itemized uh feedback on what's going on with the technology there. So, kudos to them. Going now, we down to the uh township economic development council. Mr. Anything coming out of there?

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>> Nothing at this moment. >> Municipal Drug Alliance. Mr. Matthews, anything coming out of there? >> We did have a meeting scheduled for this Monday. Unfortunately, we did not have a quorum and so we did not have the meeting. Our next meeting is on September 28th. >> Thank you so much, sir. Anything come

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out of the planning board? >> I was not able to go to the planning board meeting because it was the same night as graduation. >> Okay. Excuse me. >> Anything? Anyone from adopter school board member representative reports? >> I have the end of the year for school

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five. Um, school five had their sixth grade promotion ceremony on June 16th. Um, Dr. Carter also noted the uh the students who completed and participated in the battle of the books. Our fourth and

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fifth graders go they read books and they literally have a battle the books and and compete with other school districts as well. Um so we do fourth and fifth and then sixth grade has their own battle of books. Um again kudos to the HSA for for everything they did for

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this year as well. Um and I will say Dr. Carter put out an absolutely epic end of the year video that got emailed to parents. I did not see it on the school five web page, but Mr. Peas, he would give you a run for your money. It was it was it was phenomenal. Um made us laugh.

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It was it was really good. Um so if you have an opportunity to see that, I definitely would. Um just want to shout out also the Early Childhood Education Center. They put out the school year video as well that will make you cry. Thank you, Mrs. are for that. I

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appreciate it that that was on uh that's on their website as well. Um also shouting out the uh the high school HSA. I know a lot of times we question and parents will question why we have an HSA. Um project graduation at the high

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school is is one of the big ones. I had the opportunity to chaperone the project graduation trip this year. So we went to David Busters. We were there from 11:00 a.m. to 2 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Uh, long night, but I will say, you know,

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keeping our graduate graduating seniors safe. We had three bus loads of students who went. Um, Officer Gunson was there. Kudos to him, too. We stayed awake by just walking around David Busters for a few hours, but they were they were so well behaved. And the class of 2026, I

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mean, kudos. It was it was a nice experience. So definitely something important that I know our high school HSA helps make sure our seniors have a really good year when they graduate as well. Um and that concludes my uh my school reports. >> Outstanding. Anyone else?

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>> Desan, you got something for me? >> Yeah, please. >> I just want to say congratulations to our middle school, you know, our middle school graduation or moving up ceremony, whatever you want to call it. You know, all of our eighth graders that went on the wall of fame

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for the middle school. Congratulations to all of them. Everybody that's coming into the high school, I know that they're excited to be going to go into that high school and start the next chapter of their educational career. Um, Mr. Sharpshshire was extremely proud of

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each and every one of them that he got to promote up into the high school. Um, so, you know, congratulations to each and every one of them. And as far as the high school graduation, it may have been windy, but each and

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every student that was there, they did an amazing job. It there's been a lot of high school graduations that were complete shambles. And our high school graduation, our parents were amazing, our students were amazing. I was really,

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really happy with the way that our graduation was. the weather held off and it was just another amazing event for our seniors. So, I was really really excited and congratulations to our validictorian and our saludiatoran and

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everybody else in our our graduating class. I can't wait to see what class of 2026 does because in 2030 years when they come back I hope I'm around to see what they're what they've done. >> Thank you for them kind words Mr. Shaw my sentiment as well. And I would I

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would like to ask all >> I would like to ask all our representatives that during the summertime take some time and visit the school and talk with the principal while it's down so they can show you the building in its entirety and report back to us if you can just encourage >> I like to say go ahead.

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>> I like I don't know if Mr. Shaw said it might not slick through my ears but um Mr. Shire um did a extraordinary job as well at the middle school graduation. Um being though it was inside it was a little warm but he made sure that he covered the whole menu on the the

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agenda. Um got the speakers up there and the phenomenal singers um that that sung the national anthem. Um boy we have some serious talent in our school. Not just athletically and the department but we have some um vocalists that are out of this world. Um but Mr. Shopire did an

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amazing job setting up the middle school's graduation and seeing the next class coming into the high school. Woohoo. That's it. >> Good stuff. Anyone else for the good of the order? All right, we're gonna go to the superintendent's report on page number three. I'm looking for a motion

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to approve the superintendent report. It begins at the top of page three and goes to the middle or 34 down page five. Can I get a motion? Make a motion to approve the superintendence report as is recommended by the superintendent from

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the top page three to the 3/4 of the way down on page five. >> Second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Miss, >> yes. >> Miss Glor, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews, >> yes.

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>> Miss Neanders, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pits, >> yes. >> And Mr. Tommy, >> yes. Motion has carried. >> Going now to the top of page six, the business administrator board secretary report. Looking for a motion to approve

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that report that starts at the top of page six and go all the way over to 12, the bottom of page 12. Make a motion to approve the business administrator board secretaries report as is recommended by the business

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administrator board secretary from the top of page six to the bottom page 12. >> Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Miss Dre. >> Yes. >> Miss. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes.

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>> Miss Neves? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. So I got to abstain from letter B number 6A. Ready, Mr. Coil? >> Yes. on the uh item number M730, PO number

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603993, uh number D457, PO number 605715, PO number 605716, and item number 34, >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. The first PO M7

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>> M730 PO number 603993 63993 >> Thank you. >> Miss Pig, I'm sorry. >> Yes. And Mr. Thomas. >> Yeah. I have a Can I Can I ask a

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question now? Question. Just on page nine, number 20. What parking lots are that for the parking lot le >> number page nine? >> Number 20. >> Number 20. Oh, those should be uh the LED fixture. All of the parking

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lot. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> All of them. Okay. All right. So, we don't have to break all of them. More capital improvement. >> Mhm. >> Good. >> Because they're flickering. >> All right. We don't want flickering lights. >> All right. I approve. >> Motion is carried.

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>> Thank you. Now we at page 13. We're looking to approve the superintendent's recommendation approval for the following actions. We would like to strike. >> Number two. >> Number one. >> Number one. So we're going to start at

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number two and go all the way over to the bottom of page 16. Starting at number two, A make a motion to approve the personnel report as the superintendent recommends it. Striking number one.

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>> Correct. >> Second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Miss Dre? >> Yes. >> Miss Glo? >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Nand? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Miss Pitts.

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>> Yes. >> And Mr. Tommy. >> Yes. >> Motion has carried. >> All right, folks. We got some agendas here. >> Oh, I ain't seen these in a while. >> They growing. >> I'm looking for a motion to approve the

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superintendent's report uh on the pink addendum that starts at the top of the first page and go to the middle of of the first page. Make a motion to approve the superintendent report from the top to the middle of page one as it's

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recommended by the superintendent for approval. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Questions, Mr. President? >> Go forth. >> Number two, board meeting change date. Do we know why? Because uh we usually meet the second and fourth Wednesdays,

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but if we're going to meet on July 15th, so the third Wednesday, do we know why we're changing that? Um, Miss Pittz, I believe it's just timing because we will get out of here and I think because of

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the holiday, we have to turn around and get we have to get your agenda down. >> So, it's just it's just jammed up and it's really just timing. >> It's timing. That's all. Okay. And >> thank you. >> Roll call. >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. Miss Dre did second. Okay. >> Miss Dreaden, >> yes. >> Miss Galoy, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews, >> yes. >> Miss Neandez, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pit, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes.

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>> The motion has carried. >> Now we go on to the middle of that first page. The board secretary's report number four. Motion to approve that report. It goes all the way >> to pay the quarter way down. Can I get a motion?

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Make a motion to approve the board secretaries report as is recommended for approval by the board secretary from the top middle page one to the top pages. >> Second. >> Any questions?

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Roll call. >> Men. Yes, >> Miss Glaude. >> Yes, >> Miss Martin. >> Yes, >> Mr. Matthews. >> Yes, >> Miss Neves. >> Yes, >> Mr. Shaw. >> Yes, >> Miss Pitts. >> Yes, >> and Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> The motion has carried.

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>> Okay, we're on the same page, the personnel report. We're looking for a motion to approve that personnel report that starts at the middle of that page and goes to the bottom of page nine. Make a motion to approve the s the personnel report as recommended for approval by the superintendent from the

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middle of page eight to the bottom of page nine. >> Okay. Second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Miss Dre. >> Yes. >> Miss Floyd. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Neves?

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pit? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> The motion has carried. Thank you. Anything coming out of the open public records act request? >> Uh yes, Mr. President. We received a uh

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request from CT Mills. Uh they wanted copies of any existing records showing district issued direct work telephone numbers, direct dial lines or work extensions for employees serving in the district central office um and district

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administration office. So we got that list together and that was uh provided. Uh the second one came in from DelTech. They wanted an electronic copy of the specifications and any other documents associated with the project title

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engineer bid number 202621. Uh and the posting date was 2026-611. Uh and that was also sent. >> Great stuff. question, Mr. President. Sure. Miss Bo, with regards to the uh the request, do we know? Well, number

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one, do we know why they're requesting that information? >> Um, no, we don't know why, but um they might be trying to uh >> negotiate or or hire. I don't know. I have But we don't get to ask We don't

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get to ask why do you want this? Mhm. And and did they put a uh from a beginning to an end date or would just they just they just want want um everything >> they just want >> everything currently in effect >> right currently in effect.

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>> I haven't heard anything. So >> thank you. >> Any other questions? >> All right. Moving on withformational items. Do we have any? >> Yes. So I would like to report that we received additional correspondence to

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me from the American Heart Association is thanking us for their participation in partnership with our schools. We had 134 students and families registered which provided them with online resources focusing building a heart-healthy home. 65 students receive

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online donations to support the mission of the American Heart Association. and 21 students completed Finn's mission, the learning module where students and families learned about warning signs of a stroke and the life-saving skills of handson CPR. So, another partnership

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that we like to uh recognize. Also, the Grace Temple CDC has a phenomenal scholarship available to Camden County students. All the board members received a copy of the STEM scholarship. There'll

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be two scholarships, one in the amount of 10,000, the other in the amount of 25,000. Again, awarded to Camden County students. So, we want to share this with our high school students and get the word out to make sure that everyone applies for this uh scholarship. So, it

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sounds like a definitely a worthy scholarship to participate in. Also want to remind everyone that we are kicking off our five-year strategic plan with a meeting tomorrow virtually at six o'clock. So that will be a planning session to go

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over dates and strategy on how we are going to go about this five-year strategic plan. Like I mentioned earlier, I am working with Mr. Shaw on two items. The first item was dealing with the watershed. The second item uh I will include the

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curriculum department. We will uh work with Thomas Edison State University professional learning review to create a college level apprentice training program for our high school students. Those students who are going into uh skilled labor positions. So we are

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excited to get this process started for our high school students who are interested in choosing another route to prepare for a career after high school. Uh, also just want to piggyback on everyone who mentioned the graduations

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and moving up ceremonies. This is my first time participating in these events and I was blown away by the uh the traditions and the organization of these events and how spectacular uh the ending

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uh event which was the high school graduation uh was. It was a phenomenal event and a great event for not just our school district but for our entire community. Also like to uh thank uh Miss

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Clement and uh Mr. Ingram and the IT department and Mr. Daryl Scott for our our new program for the graduation which included a a live QR code that allowed our audience to view the graduation on a

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live stream and also have a electronic copy of the graduation program with a list of graduates. Also, I just want to inform the board I shared this with the educational committee. Uh, one of the things I instituted this year, well, the last two

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months was a district-wide department heads meeting. When I first got here, we kind of met individually. I only met with the uh the central m central administration uh department heads, but I I wanted to really get my uh uh self

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involved with all the departments. And so each month moving forward in September, I will be meeting with every department head in the district as we come together to uh resolve any issues uh do planning and continue to meet our goals throughout the the coming school

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year. Again, I want to thank the IT department for their work. When I first got here, uh it was a priority. there was a concern about the uh connectivity uh during the testing season and you know that was one of the reasons why you know

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this audit came about but I'm happy to say that the IT department has been doing a phenomenal job and continues to make sure that uh our students have the uh latest in technology to be successful and to move towards academic

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achievement. Also the Cville son reached out to me a Mon'nique Howard and that is a publication that comes out to Cickleville residents and they uh asked for articles. So, in your package, board

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members, is the first article that I uh participated with Mr. Circleville's son, and it was an article about our uh senior breakfast that uh Miss Glad was a part of, and it was just a a great way to connect with the uh local media to

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showcase some of the positive things that are taking place in the school district. So, I look forward to working with uh Miss Monique How Coward on future articles and events taking place in the school district. And finally, I just want to recognize our board. This

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has been a action-packed school year and there's been a tremendous amount amount of work. Uh the work is always difficult work, but there's some times where we can uh you know, smile and enjoy the the fruit of uh our work. and I I'm happy to

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be a part of this school district and I thank you for the opportunity and I just want to thank you for the work that you do and how you do your work. It is classy, it's professional and it's organized and as we continue to move forward and servicing this community and

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this school district. I look forward to uh being alongside of you as we do this good work. So, thank you and have a great summer. >> Thank you. >> Okay, question just go ahead Mr. Mr. Keith just to follow up. we talked about the um article um with the son and um

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now I'm referencing the um information that I think Miss Neves copied me in with regards to whether or not we're going to do any kind of an article within the township. Um so I just got that information and I'll look at

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putting some type of uh information or article in their uh newsletter as well. Uh hopefully it's timely so that it's uh information that parents can use. If not, it'll be a positive article about the school district leading into uh the next school year. >> And we were okay with the cost.

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>> Uh when the email that I received, they said there wasn't going to be a cost, but if there is a cost, we will not be participating. >> Okay. >> I have informationational item. >> Go ahead. >> All right. So, um, Rubies and Pearls,

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um, is a nonprofit organization here in Winsow Township. They are accepting applications for their second annual Catilian. Um, they'll be meeting at the Star Center on Saturday the 27th at between 10:00 and 12 for any interested um, candidates. It's from uh, first

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grade all the way up to 12th grade. Um, we had one last year and it was phenomenal to see the young boys and girls go out and be dressed up and watch their eticy. So, if your child is interested, please come out to the Star Center on Saturday and see Mrs.

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McKenzie. Um, the VFW Post 303 is having a parking lot fundraiser. Um, they're trying to build a bigger parking lot, but in and what they want to give back to the community for showing up is that they're having federal, state, and commercial agencies on site free information to anyone who's interested

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in anything from as far as social security benefits to health benefits to veterans benefits. So, if you have any of those categories, please come out to it's on um 30 306 Sichlerville Sickler Avenue right there before you get to school six. Um

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also on August 8th um between 1 and 4 to Winsow Baptist Church will be having a back to school bash. All youth in Winsow Township are invited. They're going to be giving away book bags and school supplies. Um and they're going to have fun activities for the youth and little hot dogs and hamburgers, snacks and

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stuff. But please come out. All are welcome to start collecting your book bag stuff on August the 8th at the Winsville Baptist Church. And that concludes myformational items for the community. >> Anyone else? >> All right, moving along to old business. Will there be any old business?

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>> I have one item. >> Go for it. >> I know at the last meeting we had scheduled our board retreat for September 5th. >> Um, and we have now noted that that is Labor Day weekend. >> Um, I don't know about anybody else. I don't think we want to come out on Labor Day weekend to do that. So we are back

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to I think looking at August 1st or August 15th. I understand some board members can't make either or but I think as long as we have our quorum you know we should consider one of those dates and set that now. >> Now we also have two I talked to uh Miss Blanow and we have two other dates. We

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have October 3rd or September 26th. >> Take them one at a time. >> Sure. So, you want to propose uh one of your dates there, Mr. Weather, and then >> I would say still consider August 1st or 15th. I don't want to start the school

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year with this >> outdated district goals. So, I really think we should get it done in August. >> So, can we take a roll call on August 1st? >> I'll do a roll call. >> Yeah. >> I cannot. >> Yeah, just taking a stroll poll. Who's

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available on that date? straw pole. Who's available for all this? >> Okay, Mr. Clark's not here. Miss Dre. >> No. >> Miss Gloyd? >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Nandez? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pix? >> Yes. and Mr. Thomas.

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>> Yes, >> that was August 1st. We had um >> yeah, seven >> 71 >> 71. >> So, let me just say this though. I am available because when when um she gave me the new dates that them dates may not be now

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available. She gave when she gave me when she gave me the dates that were available and she gave this to me a couple days ago, it was now October the 3 and September the 26. So I'm not so sure that August 1st

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and I mean or August 5th is available. >> So Mr. President, so I'm sorry. Can you take a vote on the second dates? >> Yes. So is it possible to take a vote on the September 6th and October 3rd dates as well just in case that October first date is

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not available. >> Yeah, I think that's a good thing. >> Okay. So >> either answer by saying September or October, right? >> You need a date when in September? >> September 26. >> September 26.

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>> So far >> or October >> 3rd. October. >> See, my only concern about that is um I'm going to piggyback on what Miss Ne says that we're into the school year then

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>> and usually one of the things that we do at our retreat is to schedule all of our meetings and you would those uh who have been here in the past with the retreat, you will remember that. Um but um if we have it this late,

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>> well I mean we had dates before that but you know they wouldn't you know nobody was going to do it on a board meeting that night. >> Then people said they wanted to have it on a Saturday. So we got a Saturday. So now they saying it's Labor Day. >> So now here's what all we have left is

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basically September 26 and and October the 3. >> Okay. >> So I mean I'm available for any day every day. I mean, priority is is getting it done and I'm available for any one of them meet days. So, I just want to see what we can be all agree on on what date that people are available.

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So, I'd like to take a we got August 1st is our first choice, but I'd like to take a poll vote on September 26 as our second choice. Can I get a roll call vote? Mr. >> Can we vote on August 15th also as well then? Because I think that should be our

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second choice if that's available. Okay. >> Absolutely have to. >> I think se we can't do October. It would have to be September if neither. >> Okay. Well, let's let's take a vote on August 15th. >> August what? >> 15th. >> 15. >> Yep. >> Wow.

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>> All right. Miss Dragon. >> Yes. >> Miss Gloyd. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Miss Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Nandas? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pittz? Yes.

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>> And Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Peas. >> No. Uh >> oh. Now goes >> if you have me if you need me here. Uh I can't be here. >> Okay. No. >> But if this clinic can serve in that,

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>> I'm okay with all that. >> All right. Let's move on to September 26. >> What's that? You guys can do it virtually. You want to do this your right can't make it on the 26th. >> We did that the right way the last two

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times and then that we got it. It was big. You understand? So I want to be on record that we gave every day a chance. No part. I wanted everybody to see that I'm available for every day. >> So can we do a roll call on September 26, Miss Bo?

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>> Okay. Um, so we're doing September 26th, >> correct? >> Okay. Uh, Miss Dreaden, >> yes. >> Miss Gloyd, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews, >> yes. >> Miss Neves, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw,

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>> no. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mr. Peas, >> yes. >> Okay. >> So, as it stands, it look like August 1st will be the first choice. Mhm. >> August 15th will be the second choice

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and September 26 will be the third >> and um August 15th you will not have Mr. Pete >> correct >> which is your second >> we discussed that and and the assistant superintendent is filling in. That's what my understanding was and you can

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see how overjoyed she is to be participating in that. >> Happy to serve. All right. So, any other questions? >> All right. We're moving on to new business. Will there be any new business? >> No new business. All right. We're going

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on to public comment. >> Thank you, sir. The Winslow Challenger Board of Education highly values the input of citizens and making important decisions that affect the children of our community. We believe in the rights of citizens to observe board meetings to ensure that all of our citizens have the opportunity to attend school board

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meetings and offer comment and to ensure that the board can conduct the important business of the district. We ask the speakers follow the guidelines for making public comment. The board secretary will recognize those individuals in the audience who wish to make comment. We ask you please respect

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the following procedures. One, all members of the public attending schoolboard meetings must treat each other and the board with respect. Two, please state your name and town of residence. Three, please limit your comments to four minutes. I'll be keeping track. Four, in the event we

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can't answer your question, please leave us with your name, address, email address, and telephone number where you can be contacted, and your questions will be answered within a reasonable period of time. At last, the individuals offering citizen comment are not permitted to make personal attacks on

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any district employee, board member, other testifier, or member of the public. Thank you, sir. >> Looking for a motion to open up public comments. >> Motion to open public comments. >> Dread second.

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>> All in favor? >> Oil. >> Uh, Mr. President, we had nobody sign up to participate this evening. Anybody in the waiting room or >> No. And so we have nobody to

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participate. >> Nobody. I don't see anybody that wants to participate. >> That's right. Nobody. >> Can I have a motion to close public? >> Miss McClendon wants to speak. >> Good evening everyone. Mlendon Winsow Township. So, when y'all talked about

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the Chromebooks, my spirit woke up for a second. Um, I've always been a stickler of, you know, um, the kids not being responsible for parents responsibility. U, but I understand the Chromebooks have always

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been an issue with damages. Um, and this is not to criticize, but to give a recommendation. Uh, I live in the IT world. Uh, and been there for over 30 years. Just wanted to recommend if we haven't looked at I'm not sure as far as how far Mr. Scott or Mr. Ponte have

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looked as far as insurance but I would like to recommend a company called Service Net which is a third party uh warranty support for machines especially if you're going outside of the manufacturer uh is a little bit more cost effective. So, if that is something

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that you want to have the parents um be responsible for insurance on the machines, I personally would like the district to put insurance on the m on those machines if it is feasible and affordable um within the budget. Uh, but

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I just wanted to recommend that as an option um to be able to cover because even though those those machines break, how many how often are they repaired? Like you know the parents don't pay for it, the district still is at a loss. So just trying to find a re um a solution

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to the problem dealing with the Chromebook. So I wanted to recommend that. Second thing is I wanted to uh invite everyone to the uh grand opening of the American Revolutionary Museum of

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Southern New Jersey. Um as one of the board members of the Camden County Historic Society, we have our grand opening on the 27th, which is this Saturday. Uh we have our ribbon cutting at 10:00 a.m. in the morning, but the

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museum will be open for open house um until 300 p.m. that day. So we welcome everyone to come. This is in celebration of the 250th anniversary. Um and so this is a great opportunity um to kind of

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learn about the history of South Jersey when the Revolutionary War took place in certain areas of South Jersey. Um, so I invite you all to come. Again, the ribbon ceremony is at 10 o'clock. The address is 75 Street, Camden, New

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Jersey. So if you are available, come out and have a good time with us. We have our grand opening and you can take a tour of the American Revolutionary Museum. That's it. Thank you. >> Mr. Mccenn, you said what was the name of that street? 75

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>> 75. E R I E. Okay. >> And that's in Canton, New Jersey. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Was I four minutes, Mr. >> It? Well, you went over by 15 seconds,

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but I let it go because it was you. >> Anyone else? All right. I'm looking for a motion to close public comments. Motion to close public comments. Is there a >> second? Roll call. I mean, all in favor? I

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>> anything in there? Yeah, we do uh have two items for executive session. Um we'll be adjouring into executive session on June 24th, 2026 at approximately 8:15 p.m. of the nine items under the open public meetings act from which we can enter into executive

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session. I understand we have a pending uh HIPP appeal and that's item number one, matters which are by state and federal law considered confidential, which that certainly is. And then we also have item eight um which uh Mr. uh

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president you would have to excuse yourself for the second one um which because it deals with the superintendent evaluations you too Mr. Benjamin >> Mr. Matthews I'm sorry to the club >> Yep. >> I'm looking for a motion to go into the

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executive session. Motion to go into executive session. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> it'll be about 30 minutes. >> Mr. P is just