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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: 6gUOeVkvGkg):
- 00:00:01: Meeting Called to Order, Roll Call, Sunshine Law
- 00:01:16: Introduction of Student Representative, Kashia Bhagat
- 00:02:54: Student Representative's Report on District Activities
- 00:06:54: Board Appreciation, Closed Session Statement and Vote
- 00:08:14: Closed Session Adjournment and Meeting Reconvening
- 00:09:16: Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes, Bid Notices, and Reports
- 00:10:38: Superintendent's Report and Public Comment Guidelines
- 00:11:26: Approval of Superintendent's and Committee Agendas
- 00:16:30: Affirmation of Gibb Investigation and Public Comment
- 00:18:19: Public Comment: JFK Students Advocate for FCCLA
- 00:22:17: Public Comment: Paul Lawn, District Budget Questions
- 00:26:23: Public Comment: John Vitale, Educational Concerns
- 00:32:39: Meeting Adjournment


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[music] [music] >> The May 14th, 2026 meeting of the Woodbridge Township Board of Education will please come to order. Roll call, Mr. Secretary. Ms. Anderson. >> Here. Mr. Coughlin. Here. Mr. Della Pietro. >> Here. Mr. Mohammed. >> Here. Mr. Sedana. Here. Mr. Treebowski.

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Here. Mr. Secretary, as required by the Sunshine Law, please read the notice of meetings. Thank you. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is

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discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of this act, the Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place thereof posted as follows: On January 15th, 2026, emailed to the Home News Tribune, the Municipal Clerk's

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Office, posted in our street school number 11, and the Board of Education Administration Building, also published on the school district website. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Dr. Massimino, please introduce our student representative, Kashia Bhagat, from JFK Memorial High School.

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Thank you, Mr. President. Kashia is currently ranked eighth in her graduating class with an impressive 4.042 GPA. She has consistently challenged herself each year with a rigorous curriculum, including 15 AP or college level classes, along with many honors and accelerated classes over the

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course of her high school career. It is no surprise that she has been accepted to Yale University, where she will begin this fall. Kashia is just as successful outside of the classroom with an extensive list of school activities. She is a member of the National Honor Society, the English National Honor

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Society, and serves as the secretary of the French National Honor Society. She is also a member of the Student Council, Heroes and Cool Kids, the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide, Dance Exchange Vice President of Membership for FBLA, and the Social Media Manager for the Debate Club. Her

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participation in the Kennedy Cancer Society is particularly close to her heart and has led to her work with the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life on both the event leadership and social media teams, where her efforts directly contributed to raising over $1,000 for cancer research.

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Kesha is also passionate about dance. At the Indianica >> [clears throat] >> Dance Academy, she has grown from assistant teacher to choreographer to finally leading her own Bollywood dance class. Kesha is truly exceptional with a bright future ahead. We wish her the best of luck as she navigates what what's next.

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Kesha, thank you for being here with us this evening. I would like to thank Dr. Massimino and all members of the board for having me here tonight. Across the Woodbridge Township School District, the Ernest Dubay Track Meet took place on May 2nd at Colonia High School this year. Students from fourth

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and fifth grade at each elementary school participated in the 50-m dash, the 100-m dash, the standing long jump, the softball throw, and the 4 by 100-m relay. Students from each middle school participated in an evening with young writers, a celebration of the written

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word where students were able to share their original poetry with an engaged audience on April 28th. Many of our fifth grade students celebrated their completion of the Woodbridge Police Department DARE, or Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, with a graduation celebration. Spring

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chorus and band concerts were heard in the auditoriums of many elementary schools. On May 21st, students at schools 1, 18, and 26 will be participating in the GI Go Red, White, and Blue event, where students will wear red, white, and blue to support military

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veterans. At Mawbey Street School number 1, the grade 3 Environmental Club began to create bird houses by repurposing materials. Grades 4 and 5 students participated in the Great American 250th birthday celebration cleanup. Students

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walked around the neighborhood, collected trash, and beautified the neighborhood. On Tuesday, May 12th, 34 students will be inducted into the National Elementary Honor Society. At Indiana Avenue School number 18, first grade students participated in their

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annual reading celebration. The school welcomed newly inducted NEHS members on May 13th. Students will be participating in a walk for mental health awareness on May 21st. At Menlo Park Terrace School number 19, our MPT students have been working on

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building the Caring Closet this month. It's a school-wide project that helps our MPT community families who may need essential items. On May 21st May 29th, Miss Trupa, our principal, will get silly strong by her students who read 13

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books in slightly more than a month. The Husky Heroes will be inducting new members into their National Elementary Honor Society later this month. At Robert Mascenik School number 26, students participated in our Township's annual Earth Day celebration at the

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Acacia Center, and their school green team participated in the Sustainable Earth Day cleanup around our school grounds. Students and families raised $1,070 for Blood Cancer United. On April 29th and 30th, we held our annual drama production of Shrek Kids the Musical.

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At Oak Tree Road School number 29, NEHS members and the Kindness Crew participated in the Sustainable Earth Clean Up Day on May 7th. Current NEHS members will induct new members on May 27th. Students and their families raised $366 for Autism Speaks during our Bubbles for

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Autism fundraiser in March. At Ford's Middle School, FMS held an autism awareness walk which raised over $300. FMS had a multicultural event on Thursday, April 30th highlighting the beauty of different cultures woven together through dance and food commonly

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culminating with a presentation from the Multicultural Education team providing families with the details of the impact of our collective action to build a connected community. At John F. Kennedy Memorial High School, we held the day of restorative action where students from secondary schools

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across the district came to JFK for a day of community, inclusivity, and discussion. We held our annual All Star Track Festival where students with disabilities from all of our secondary schools came to JFK for a day filled with fun activities. We inducted 35 new members into the

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National Honor Society. We inducted over 30 new members into the National English Honor Society. We acknowledged over 170 students for achieving AP Scholar status for their performance on AP exams in the spring of 2025. We celebrated our school being awarded

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AP Honor Silver status as one of only 47 schools in New Jersey to achieve this prestigious honor. And we were also one of only 20 schools in New Jersey to move up a rank. Go Mustangs. >> [applause]

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>> Thank you, Keisha, for your detailed report. And Dr. Perry, thank you so much for coming and supporting your student. You're both welcome to stay. However, we certainly understand that you have busy schedules and if you're not able to, I'm sure no one will be offended. Unfortunately, I have to attend a dance practice after this.

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And I'm sure you'll do an outstanding job. Thank you. Mr. Sedana, please read the closed session statement. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I just want to say putting this out in the universe, Keisha for president at some point. >> [laughter]

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>> She also failed to mention one thing. She was responsible for connecting um We Live for Life with the Township last year for Diwali Fest 2025 at the Akisha Youth Center. So, good job. Thank you, awesome. Yes, statement for closed session. In compliance with the Sunshine Law, the

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board must go into closed session in order to discuss subjects exempt from the public portion of our meeting. The discussions to be held in closed session will be regarding personnel matters and privacy interests. In addition, there will be a discussion regarding a student matter. Any information regarding the

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closed session discussion will be released to the public when the reasons for discussing these matters is in closed session no longer exists. Thank you. I have a motion by Mr. Sedana. Do I have a second? >> Second. Second by Ms. Anderson. Uh I have a motion by Mr. Sedana, second

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by Ms. Anderson. All in favor? Any Any opposed? Carried. Board will retire to closed session. We'll return as soon as we're able to finish. Please rise for a salute to the flag and a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do I have a motion to reconvene? So motion. Second. I have a motion by Frank.

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Second. By uh Mr. Sedana, I think it was. No, it was uh Benson. Me. Benson. I wanted to say Craig, sorry. It's all right. You guys want to move your name tag? It happened, yeah.

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All in favor? I. Any opposed? Carried. Roll call, Mr. Secretary. Ms. Anderson. >> Here. Mr. Coughlin. Here. Mr. Del Pietro. Here. Mr. Lally. Here. Here. Sorry. Mr. Mohamed. >> Here. Uh Mr. Sedana. Here. And Mr. Tree

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Wasser. Here. Will someone make a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting? So motion. Motion by Frank Della Pietro. Second. Second by Mr. Sedano. Are there any additions or corrections? All in favor? Aye.

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Any opposed? Carried. Mr. Secretary, please state for the record the notice of bids received by the board. Thank you, Mr. Treublas. Here we received IFB 27-01 for athletic supplies for fall sports, 33126.

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IFB 2703 electrical supplies 5126. Plumbing supplies IFB 2704, also on 5126. IFB 2705 for carpentry supplies 5126 and IFB 2706 physical education supplies

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also 5126. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Dr. Massimino, please state for the record the superintendent's report for the month of April 2026. >> Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I present to the board the following reports for the month of April 2026. Student registers and files and reports, suspension reports for elementary and secondary schools, bomb threat reports

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and reports of the attendance officers. Thank you, Dr. Massimino. The Woodbridge Township Board of Education welcomes and encourages active, productive, and respectful participation by members of the public and seeks to protect the First Amendment rights of those engaged in the exercise of free speech and the

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Board of Education meet at the Board of Education meeting. The members of the public are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of those whose legal rights may be impacted. The public is now invited to speak regarding the agendas being presented this evening. When you come to

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the microphone, please state your name and the section of the township in which you reside [music] along with the specific agenda item number you wish to discuss. As per regulation 1100D, comments must be limited to no more than 5 minutes. No verbal responses will be given until you have completed your

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opportunity to speak. Seeing none, Dr. Massimino, do you have any recommendations this evening? Yes, I do. I have 13 items to present to the board this evening. Do I have a motion for the superintendent's agenda? So motion. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Sodano, second by

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Mr. Della Pietra. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Secretary. Ms. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietra. Yes. Mr. Lally. Yes. Mr. Muhammad. Yes. Mr. Sodano. Yes.

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Mr. Treet Wasser. Communication, policy and planning, Mr. Coughlin. Uh the communication policy and planning committee, on recommendation of the superintendent of schools, presents the following four uh recommendations. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. I have a recommendation a motion by Mr.

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Coughlin. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Della Pietra. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. Ms. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietra. Yes. Mr. Lally. Yes. Mr. Muhammad. Yes. Mr. Sodano. Yes. Mr.

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Treet Wasser. Yes. Curriculum, extracurricular activities and technology agenda, Mr. Sodano. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. The curriculum, extracurricular activities and technology committee, on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools and assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, presents the following two items. I move for the

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adoption of the foregoing. I have a motion by Mr. Sodano. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Ms. Anderson. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. Ms. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietra. Yes. Mr. Lally. Yes. Mr.

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Muhammad. Yes. Mr. Sodano. Yes. Mr. Treet Wasser. Yes. Finance and insurance agenda, Ms. Anderson. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. The finance and insurance committee, on recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the business administrative board secretary, presents the following

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76 items. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. I have a motion by Ms. Anderson. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. uh Muhammad. Muhammad. I was to say Mr. Zal, sorry. Comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. Mrs. Anderson.

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Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietro. Yes. Mr. Lalley. Yes. Mr. Mohammed. >> Yes. Mr. Sedana. Yes. Mr. Treece-Blasser. >> Yes. Safety and security, Mr. Della Pietro. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. The safety and security committee, on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, presents the following

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one rec- one item. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. Motion by Mr. Della Pietro, second. Second. Second by Mrs. Anderson. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Mr. Wolferman, roll call. Mrs. Anderson. Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietro.

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Yes. Mr. Lalley. Yes. Mr. Mohammed. >> Yes. Mr. Sedana. Yes. Mr. Treece-Blasser. Yes. Dining and transportation agenda, Mr. Mohammed. Uh Mr. Vice President, the dining and transportation committee, on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Business Administrator, Board Secretary,

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presents the following six items. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. I have a motion by Mr. Mohammed. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Sedana. Any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. Mrs. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietro. Yes. Mr. Lalley. Yes. Mr.

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Mohammed. Yes. Mr. Sedana. Yes. Mr. Treece-Blasser. Yes. Negotiations agenda, Mr. Lalley. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Before I move the recommendation, I just wanted to thank um the the membership of the Administrators Association, Mr. Osborne and Mr.

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Weisenstein. They were gentlemen uh throughout the process. I'm fairly new board member, chair of negotiations, my first negotiation, so it was um I loved the camaraderie and what we were able to accomplish together. Want to thank the members of my committee for their time cuz we uh met quite frequently to get

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the right deal, uh President Boardin, uh Member Mohammed and Member Sedana, and I couldn't have done it, uh Mr. Wolferman, without uh the numerous questions I had, uh the data sets you provided, and always your willingness to pick up the phone or send an email throughout the process. Um couldn't have gotten it done

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without you. Fair deal for the administrators, a fair deal for the taxpayer, and it's good for our school district. So, thank you to all. And uh for the board, I move the following single recommendation. I have a motion by Mr. Lally. Do I have a second? Second.

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Second by Mr. Sudano. Uh any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. Ms. Anderson. Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietro. Yes. Mr. Lally. Happily, yes. Mr. Muhammad. Yes. Mr. Sudano. Yes. Mr. Treebasser.

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Yes. Personnel agenda, Mr. Della Pietro. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. The Personnel Committee, on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, presents the following 31 items. Move for the adoption of the foregoing. I have a motion by Mr. Della

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Pietro. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded by Mr. Coughlin. Any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. Ms. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietro. Yes. Mr. Lally. Yes. Mr. Muhammad. Yes. Mr. Sudano. Yes. Mr.

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Treebasser. Yes. Mr. Mandel, do you have any recommendations this evening? Yes, there's Is there a board member who would like to move to affirm the outcome of Gibb investigation FMS

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2526-9? I'll move it. So motion. I'll second. Seconded by Seconded by Mr. Della Pietro. Roll call, Mr. Secretary. Ms. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Della Pietro. Yes. Mr. Lally. Yes.

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Mr. Muhammad. Yes. Mr. Sudano. Yes. Mr. Treebasser. Yes. Is there any new business that the board should should be brought to the attention of the board? We'll now open the meeting up for public comment. If you wish to say something, please come to the microphone, provide your name and the section of township in

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which you reside for the record. Again, members of the public are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity dignity and privacy of those whose legal rights may be impacted. Please limit your comments to no more than 5 minutes in accordance with

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regulation 1100D. No response will be given until you have fully completed your comments so that we do not interrupt your 5-minutes opportunity. Are there any students that wish to speak tonight? Please come to the microphone first. Thank you.

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Good evening, board members. My name is Liam Chang. Hello, my name is Shivani Nandan Bhakta. My name is Kainat Latif. My name is Prachi Patel. And I'm Mishu Patzal. We're all from John F. Kennedy Memorial High School in

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the Iselin sector. We're here today to advocate for FCCLA. This week at our school, we've been doing a double good popcorn fundraiser in order to fundraise for our national leadership conference in July in Washington, D.C. We talked about this at our last one as well. This

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fundraiser ends tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. If any of you are interested in helping us, please email Ms. Santana. Additionally, throughout the month, we've been selling snacks and drinks at our home volleyball games and flag football games to fundraise. [music] Lastly, we've been working on improving

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our projects to compete at the national level as well as working hard to fundraise for this trip as it is a struggle for some of us. We have also been preparing for our annual fashion show which will be held on June 3rd at 6:30 in the auditorium of JFK.

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This event showcases all the hard work and dedication of fashion students throughout the school year. This is also another fundraiser for National Leadership Conference for FCCLA. We would love to invite all of you board members to attend our fashion show on June 3rd to support our fashion and

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FCCLA students put to put on an amazing last show of the year. Another project that we did this month was the Dude Be Nice project centered around the celebration of a student who had shown outstanding dedication to their community. This year JFK FCCLA and National Honor Society did a Dude Be

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Nice project for one of our very own student, Zahara Awais. A student who not only showed remarkable leadership and community service skills, but dedication to her family. Zahara had taken the responsibility of helping care for her sister who has autism. When we learned how much Zahara had

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given up to care for one she loved, we knew we had to do something. We reached out to National Honor Society and were able to gather a massive group of students to create posters and videos for her. The event was amazing and we're all so happy to recognize one of our officers for their hard work.

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With our chanting and gifts we had given to her, Zahara was beyond joyful to see her peers stand with her and celebrate her. Lastly, congratulations to our JFK students who were recognized at the Arts High Student Festival yesterday at Middlesex County College. These following students participated

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and were chosen to present their creative writing portfolios and did an amazing job presenting their dynamic stories. Congratulations to Prachi Patel, Zahara Khan. We are all so proud of you. We have Prachi Patel here to talk about her creative fashion experience.

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Thank you. I had a truly wonderful experience in the Arts High Creative Writing program. It truly helped me branch out and improve my skills as a creative writer. FCCLA played a critical part for um me not only gain the confidence in order to try out audition for the program to begin with, but also as a key source of inspiration for

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several of my pieces. Lastly, I mainly I'm just wanted to say that we're graduating this year and it has been such an honor to be in this organization like FCCLA. It's like our second family and there's so many people in this organization from different

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backgrounds and just the diversity of it helps us make feel belonged in our school cuz obviously there's like people who do sports and people who aren't as athletic and they're all coming together to do community service events. They're going to conferences together, staying there overnight and it's just kind of a

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family and I'm really grateful for that. Yeah, like Mr. Said, you know, we are graduating. This has been really great opportunity for all of us getting to know all of our peers from different backgrounds. Uh just the diversity of it, you know, we've been able to meet new people that we never thought we would have and just we all became really

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close as family and you see the work that we get done. So, I mean, thank you guys so much for everything uh and thank you for your support as well. >> [applause] >> I just wanted to say we truly appreciate you all being here and updating us. You

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have no idea most of the time this job is very thankless and when you all come, it brings us much happiness and joy to know that you are representing our district. Thank you so much. Thank you. Best of luck on your finals. Trust me, they don't need luck. They've got it.

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>> [laughter] >> Plus we don't need to take the finals. We're all like We've already qualified after that. That's true. Good evening. Paul Lawn, Hopewell Lawn. I want to thank you again, Mr. Wilferman, for quick response to the two questions I put out via email on the

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budget. I have a few more questions, which we can either continue our email chat, or if they can be answered tonight, it'd be greatly appreciated. I just want to know how many administrators did the district employ 10 years ago

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versus today? I want to see what kind of trends we have in that respect. How many classroom teachers over the same period of time? So, percent increase in administrators, increase in teachers, and increase in student enrollment over that time.

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I did a little prior research. I found that between 2000 and 2019, generally in our country, student enrollment went up about 7.6%. While district administrators went up 87.6%,

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tenfold plus. And I just want to make sure that the money that's being invested is not just creating a lot of bureaucracy and top-heaviness, and the money's not seeing its way to the classroom. I'd like to know if the growth in

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administrator positions outpaced the growth in teachers and students, which apparently as a general rule it has. I'd like to know how many district employees now earn over 150,000 and over 200,000 per year. And very importantly, what measurable

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improvements over that this period of time can taxpayers point to in exchange for the growing overhead? So, for example, I know I can do my research, but you might have at your fingertips more accurate information on literacy rates, let's say over

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10-year, 5-year period. Math proficiency, attendance, student discipline, Um, college readiness. If there's a way we can can uh have statistics regarding that in Woodbridge Township, that would be

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appreciated. I do want to point out I am a little concerned and I'm a little skeptical about how money is spent. Again, when you have such a rapid increase in administrative costs uh versus an enrollment, particularly

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locally, that's been relatively flat year-over-year. Um And I'd also like to know if if there's anything that I asked for that I might need by way of an open request. Last thing, I'll just put it on the radar that the NJEA is now under a

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lawsuit by some teachers for spending 40 to 45 million dollars of affiliate dues money on a Democrat gubernatorial campaign. And I'm wondering if that kind of waste or that kind of money would have been

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better spent and gone back into the classroom. And I'll end it on that for now. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lund. Most of the information that you're asking for, yes, you'll need to do an open request for, but I I do know that your uh administrator question from 10 years ago, we're we're at the same level that

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we were. I believe it's 34 administrators. Okay. Just being being around for a long time. Okay. >> As far as the NJEA, I mean, that's a separate organization. They choose to spend their money any way they see fit. Whether I disagree or not has no bearing on that. >> Okay. Okay? Thank you very much.

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>> Thank you. Pardon? If you like, please be my guest. Uh good evening, everybody. >> Hold on a second, Mr. Vitale. John Vitale, Woodbridge. One one minute, Mr. Vitale. Hang on one second, please. The attorney wanted to

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>> I I just wanted to for the previous gentleman, the on the DOE website, I know you were asking what they have available, but there's documents uh called performance reports that go back a number of years and in those they have information on a lot of the areas you were talking about. Thank you.

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Appreciate that. Sorry, Mr. Pataki. Go right ahead. That's all right. Thank you. John Pataki. Well, to tell the truth, I don't know where to start. Uh we all know you try to do the best. We all try to do the best. We all know whatever it takes to support

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the kids, we have to do it. We all know as a parent, it takes time, it takes money, it takes a lot of that. But we don't know the obstacle they're going to face us in the future. We don't know what happened yesterday. What's going to happen We didn't know yesterday what's going to happen today.

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But again, with the education whatever you do is it just a Woodbridge is the one that is problem or increasing which probably not. But what I would like to know, do we have to teach our kids

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because everybody over here it's not the same way it happened 10 years ago. There was the same people, different times. Do we have to teach what the state tells us or federal government tells us or what the constituents we have in this town? We all know we got different problems in Woodbridge that probably

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people got in Metuchen or probably people that are putting different counties. I know you try to do the best and it takes money. Now, all these increases we got who's the burden of the expenses going to fall on? Our taxpayers of Woodbridge?

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Are we expecting any kind of a coming from state or federal government to make the differences because we do have a maybe different problems with the other towns who have it. They probably do. So, my question would be to increase of the budget, uh do we have

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to get it from the taxpayers to vote for it or does it go automatically put into our tax tax in next next next tax year? But again it's said that what we see certain things that we pay more attention to you go to

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concentrating and Edison or concentrating large. This is all it is all about sports. How good we do in sports? We never take how good we do in math or any other subject. Now, so sports important, but again

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sports are for people there for sports. What about people they need a other math, psychology, science, things like that. Are those people do we pay attention to more to them? So, please make sure that we don't You want to hear

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it. What you say over here is one thing, but we go to concentrating other people watching it. They don't want to Some people don't want to just hear the sports. They want to hear about how good we doing in the other subjects. Education is the answer to our people. If you do nothing else to do it, but

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make sure you get them educated and don't force them to be somebody they don't want to be or they cannot be. I came from a communist country. That was no good. That's why I came here. And they would tell us direct us you got to be this, you're going to be this,

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you're going to be that. The other day I just asked the very influential person Do you know who was our President Tito? Oh, yeah, it was President of Yugoslavia. I said, "No, his name was Josip Broz."

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What do you mean Josip Broz? That was his name, Josip Broz. He got named Tito because in the communist army they said, "You do this if you Tito, Tito, Tito, Tito. We pay for it, otherwise they will not pay you for the schools.

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They don't tell you what you're going to be. And how they do it? They would do by qualifying like you know the kids and teachers know who's good for what. So, we all got our dreams. But maybe we're not good for those dreams. So, we should not be spending our money

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on somebody that want to be a astronaut or you want to be a doctor and this and that that we know what he cannot be because he's not the kind of what you call um mentally or whatever or any disability to be this. But please spend more money on the somebody that you see people

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that are qualified to be you don't see the students in school. Help them out. Not just because you play football you going to go to get PhD or whatever you want to call it. Be somebody that's qualified. Let them know what their good points are not what their bad points are.

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You people can do this. And you just can't wait what these people tell you how whether on the Trenton or how they're on the Newark City. I'm in Newark. We know what we need in Woodbridge. You can do this. So, choose the people that we can help and you can help, but you

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are qualified to do it because all most of us are who are parents and grandparents. But please, we know it has to be done. I would not say anything. Do not spend any money on children. That would be sin in my language. So, please do a good job and

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I'm proud of you. And again, but see if you get some help from the state or federal government or somebody else because just uh look what we got to deal with now. You got different from last year to this year. Next year probably different again. Thank you, Mr. Attorney. You can't go by the book

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whatever. Thank you for your time and I'm proud of you. One one response only. And we make sure that every child gets the best education they can. Whether they have the ability to be an astronaut or they do not. And these children right over here, they just

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explained to you and everybody else who's listening that we do not just focus on athletics. We give a broad perspective for everybody and give opportunity for everyone to be successful and these students here represent the truest meaning of success. Thank you. Thank you. I'll entertain a

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motion to adjourn. Motion. For motion. Motion by Mr. Coughlin, second by Mr. Sedana. Meeting adjourned. >> [music]