the Bridgeton Lions Club established in 1987 created a 500 scholarship to memorialize his community-minded spirit and to recognize outstanding students from the Bridgeton area who display academic ability leadership qualities and an attitude of caring for others this year's recipient is Colin Titus [Applause] we got another Osprey Colin will be attending Stockton University next year he will be studying environmental chemistry and wishes to pursue research he would like to thank Miss lavari for creating a healthy environment to learn as it has helped him achieve his goals [Applause] [Music] the 500 Cumberland County council of education associations Frank Marcy Memorial Scholarship Award winner is a child or family member of someone who is an NJEA member the student must demonstrate the following characteristics humanitarianism leadership sportsmanship citizenship Integrity desire and determination this year's recipient is Sean McCarthy [Applause] Sean will be attending Virginia Tech next year he will be studying General engineering and wishes to pursue the field as a career [Applause] at this time I would like to call Miss Leanne fanucci from the PTO to the stage to present the PTO scholarship [Applause] the Scarpa Tech parent-teacher organization scholarship is awarded to individuals who have shown active pursuit in the educational experience at Scarpa Tech and have formed bonds and connections with the school these Pursuits and connections are reflected in the PTO mission statement each scholarship is in the amount of five hundred dollars this year's recipients are Alexis Hyder and Carolina Sharp [Applause] Carolina would like to thank Miss Birdsall for influencing her to enter the medical field and for constantly inspiring her to be a better person saying quote your constant support will never go unnoticed Alexis will be attending Rowan University next year studying civil engineering [Applause] at this time I would like to call Mr Matt McDonald from the Cumberland Mutual Insurance to the stage to present the Cumberland Mutual Insurance scholarship [Applause] one 500 scholarship is generously awarded by the oldest insurance company in the state of New Jersey Cumberland Mutual Insurance this student possesses a minimum 3.5 GPA and intends to pursue a career in the field of Information Technology or business recipient is Diana Edith Perez [Applause] Diana will be attending Montclair State University next year she will be studying I.T and wishes to pursue the field of I.T and business she would like to thank Miss Daigle for helping her step out of her comfort zone and nourishing her heart and mind with strength [Applause] I would now like to introduce Mr Robert odorizzi chairman and president of the Board of Trustees of the Italian cultural Foundation of South Jersey to speak on behalf of the Italian cultural Foundation [Applause] good evening everyone congratulations class of 2023 it is my privilege to be here this evening and play a vital role at the John F Scarpa technical education center and for our foundation to present sixteen thousand dollars in scholarships to students this year I would like everyone to please hold your applause the list is long Sarah bagnati Emily Moreno Castro Ava Felice Ava lavari Anika maladi Sebastian Mercado Madeline Missouri nanny Joseph nanamaker Antonio Garcia Ramirez Jake ragakis Natalie rep Carolina Sharp Jessica Simpkins and Julia Thompson [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] the Italian cultural Foundation is truly honored to be able to continue to Foster assistance in providing tuition assistance to our local students starting in 2018 our cumulative giving from our endowment is now 140 thousand dollars each each of you tonight have shown great resilience and commitment to your studies and truly will become the creative minds of our future [Applause] in addition to all that the Italian cultural Foundation has already accomplished I am thrilled to be able to announce the beginning of our South Jersey merit scholarship this year the scholarship will be for twenty five hundred dollars and the amount will increase each year by two thousand five hundred dollars for the next three years culminating as a ten thousand dollar scholarship in 2026.
it is my pleasure to join you this evening to present scholarships on behalf of our lodge to do graduating seniors we as elves pride ourselves for the continued support of Youth education I am pleased to recognize Hazel Penner and Amorous Armstrong who have both been awarded who have both been awarded a 500 scholarship toward their future education in addition Jacob deludas is still in the running for the New Jersey state Elks vocational scholarship this one will be announced at a later date congratulations to the graduating class of 2023 you have made your families teachers and Community proud of your accomplishments continue to do great things in all of your future endeavors best of luck to each and every one of you with whatever path you have chosen to pursue and thank you so much for allowing me to be part of this special meeting [Applause] good evening if you're out there wow my name is Ken Harvey I representing the Yoon Covenant Presbyterian Church if you don't know it's the big church on the shark band on Scotch Road that everybody has an ordered to when they go around the bed tonight UA Covenant Presbyterian Church is recognizing the efforts of two students to plan for student education obviously in their chosen Fields these two young men have been highly recommended for this award by their High School teachers and counselors at this time I'd like to award Jacob De Lucas and Juan Vasquez Jacob's around his time at Ewing high school has been highly involved in various athletic programs as a member of the wrestling baseball and bowling teams he served as captain of the bowling team during his senior year and also earned student of the month in the fall Jake will be attending Mercer County Technical School Adult School to study electrical and one will attend the universal Technical institutes complete the automotive technician program he excelled in the senior experience program this year and outside of school of Juan is highly involved with his church gentlemen on behalf of our congregation I'd like to present each of you put a scholarship in the amount of two thousand dollars each [Applause] we have a scholarship will enable you to continue your education and meet your future goals and congratulations to all of you thank you Ewing High School Iowa again Ewing High School faculty fund Foundation scholarship is awarded to graduating members of the senior class who have shown Improvement in the areas of academics and citizenship funds for the scholarship were raised bi-weekly through genes they staff and other faculty fund lenses Jasmine Reed he is one of the two recipients against the war this year this fall she's attending Mercer County Community College where she plans to study nursing while at EHS Jasmine is on the Freshman Basketball team and a member of The Culinary Club outside the school she is a very valued employee of the Pretzel Factory in the United States Makai Stafford board attention from college labor major in finance but is currently undecided while at DHS he was a valued member of The Varsity track team for the past four years is Jayden Sinclair this is this all genuine is attended Montclair State University where he plans to study sports management and while at EHS Jalen has been a member of the varsity football and basketball teams congratulations Jasmine Montage Andrew thank you good evening ladies and gentlemen practice graduates my name is Lynn Lowe and I am the vice president for the UA public education foundation and the scholarship chair standing next to me is our wonderful president let me tell you a little something about apath y public Education Foundation was established in 1995.
no harm but there was a foul in the game Hannah Taft down there on the on the right hand side morno riding number 17. she's still going and another very nice player Thompson here we go player there the more knows got it she's running down the left-hand side it's gonna be tough to fly yeah yeah and probably not over a long distance maybe a shorter one you're going to but not when you get into the into the 40 40 meter range great pass great look you know they're being really creative Around the Net and how they're getting these shots off I think it was Calabrese yes it was very nice yeah really nice Eastlawn metal getting a lot of people on the scoring board here tonight too I know they're up 9-1 with 10 minutes remaining but a lot of people getting on the scoreboard to see you know and again look how quickly that transpired right it once they got the ball Meghan Morneau was gone there was nothing they could do about it and they're back on their heels and and you know they're they're definitely playing better they're you know getting the ball and and using some time and getting some shots but but um they're gonna have to do that and just again another great light by Kenna Marina to get possession and tap it to Eddie Jordan and again you're back to the defense already looking very much yeah and shooting file there so yeah that was you know that's what Megan Morrow didn't do before was put the stick up like you're gonna shoot when there would have been a shooting space violation looks to me here like actually she might pass this to Mourinho yeah she's wide open that's for sure now maybe change your mind now that she's covered we'll see I'd like to see her wind up and let this one fly uh she's gonna either run it in or pass it for sure yeah okay good save can't go in the can't go can't go in that area so once it's in that once it's around the goalies crease for those of you listening at home you might be wondering why you know why that happened once the ball is on the ground or in that goalies crease that is the goalies protected space and that protected space is like a cylinder actually it goes actually goes all the way up as well so if a player reaches their stick in or puts their foot in there it's going to be called and um you know you're gonna have to move on from here here we go again there's a really nice intercept by Bridget dodging here dodging here dodging there another shooting space I heard you know the Jukes and the ins and outs are really you know they're really tough and then and just creates a lot of those shooting space vowels yeah it looks like this one I'm not sure what she's gonna do she doesn't look like a wind-up she's gonna run it in again and I think maybe she's practicing our run-ins we'll see nope [Applause] no put on put on the Gap put on the gaslighter went off stick side and fired it into the hole so goal Megan Morneau 10-1 8 minutes and nine seconds remaining [Applause] that's just you know uh obviously when you've got players in front of you that makes it more challenging but but her shot is just so so strong that um you know goalies perhaps need to be forgiven for not being able to catch up to that yeah the goalie to her credit you know she saved the last one on The Bouncer and then you know that's a bit they've basically how eight meters work they look easy on TV yeah when you're all watching you you think they're free throws but even the best yep the best colleges the best players in college only score on that eight meter about 50 percent of the time yeah it's surprising because you think it's it's basically an automatic but it's not that was just absolutely beautiful how she drew the defense there and then Calabrese just stayed and everybody came to her and dropped it off for an easy goal yeah and you know what I I I don't think you can put many of these on the goalie you know the defense is just not there now these are one on these are one-on-one opportunities Addie Jordan to meanna Calabrese they're a really like you said a great play Addie Jordan drew the attention of at least two Defenders but in particular the one that was supposed to be covering Calabrese to try to double team Jordan she did the right thing she hit the open player and the open player put it in the back of the net so good job and again interesting patients from Calabrese you know that she made a fake and the goalie reacted and then she knew she sort of had her with it with another just drop it in kind of shot so I think the smart the Spartans are playing very smart tonight um you know they're not just playing but they're also there's a real sort of thinking that's going on here with them good defense by Holliston there yeah they're pressured Ball but look I mean look at this ball movement oh and Jordan had her sister her sister's gonna be mad at her there sister was wide open down there but uh just missed her but she's gonna get back to the 12 she's going to pass this one out passes it over to morno morno moving dodging coming middle coming middle looking for an open player comes back left hand and gonna get a shooting space on number one there not sure what she's gonna do whether she's gonna try to fire another one or whether she's going to run it in but we'll see I'm gonna go with fire another one and I was wrong but okay you saw but again you know I don't you know when you see these eight meters you usually see a collapsing down and I'm just not seeing it the way that you know some other opponents have done that with them yeah it looks to me like you know Holliston you know one thing that I noticed and I talked to you a little bit about before tonight's competition and I'm taking a look for the first time at the Holliston roster is their young team yeah they really are a young team they don't have a lot they don't have a lot of seniors and so you know I mean looking at looking at the defense they've got you know they have three three seniors yeah they have three seniors on their whole roster I mean Eastlawn Meadow only has one so you know they're in that terms are evenly matched but how since a young team and so you know they've got some time to develop this is the next year I'm sure they're going to be you know even better than they are that even better than they are this year and um you know their defense is just gonna have to come along but it's little things like that you know the running it in on the a meter um that can make can make all the difference you know you can stop a goal you can stop you know something from happening right and we've got a running clock now with the score 12-1 um So that obviously again works against Holliston but they are getting some good cuts um and they're just gonna have to convert some of that to stay and stay in this yeah I mean they got a pretty good they got a good motion motion offense here you know they're they're moving the ball around they're you know making um yeah kind of bad play it's gonna put I think it's gonna be a put somebody on the 12 so they're not going to have a you know an opportunity to score they're gonna have to pass out of it yeah Caitlin queeley with the 12 meter here and passes out of it and a Taft chasing it down one of our top Defenders Hannah Taft very aggressive Defender very technically technically proficient Defender here comes a ground ball you got Weiss chasing it down keeps it in flips it up nice oh oh good idea there she's getting her bodied kind of out of out of bounds we'll see what happens there I guess maybe you should save it over yeah maybe just a little stepped out looked like she might have been pushed out but given the score you can understand in a 50 50 it's going to go to the to the opposing team had some nice breakups in the back there where they're trying to you know trying to work it around and she's intercepted a couple of them yeah look at that intense defense by Taft when she's in there yeah testing all challenging behind the goal Hannah Taft back there again Megan Morneau right right on the ball number three see number 24 kind of open there's kind of lingering over there in the background oh wow right there great playback Grace Howard great play by Grace Howard she gets it up it's all oh a little bit of a drop pass good play by Howard dropped there by by Addie Jordan she just was probably you know so excited wide open was going to take a rundown and just didn't look it into the stick but that's fine yeah no worries there hack gets it in the offensive zone gonna wait here number 40 has it get her Sarah Queenie calling red Here Comes number three is open oh that was so close there by Grace Howard she was about a millisecond from not being called for a shooting space violation she's got her eight meter here yes if they can convert yeah that's a really good shot right there really good shot at the goalie's feet snuck it in good eight meter they get on the board Islam Meadow still still up 10.
it's my honor to be here today and primarily I'm here representing the chapter and on behalf of chapter President Sharon Fontaine she is not able to make it today but she sends her best regards and of course our sincere congratulations to all those classified employees that uh are uh retiring and we wish them a wonderful fantastic retirement we also want to extend our congratulations to all the certificated uh bargaining unit members that are retiring congratulations President uh of the bargain area bargaining unit and to all those uh in your unit that are that are being honored today and we just can't say enough to to you know say how much we appreciate all of our classified Heroes and certificate Heroes for all their years of service and dedication and you'll never be forgotten for everything you've done by your you know bargaining unit brothers and sisters and by the the board and the superintendent and certainly most importantly you'll never be forgotten by the the students whose lives you've impact didn't change forever so thank you all thank you thank you Robin thank you okay I have 4.03 Alum Rock Educators Association honestly I just want to thank you all for this evening for this day for this last 33 plus two more years I actually started as a as a substitute and then attempt and it was when I got like my temporary contract ended and I didn't know I was on a temporary contract that I got involved in the union that was 33 years ago anyway um you know it's with a lot of mixed feelings that I'm decided this was time but I have to say today I was over in Sanders classroom for a little bit and um Mr Pedro the custodian over at Chavez who I dearly love said you know you're you're just walking off the field and it's like I thought wow that is a great way to look at it especially for those of you that know how much I love baseball it's like I can I can smile at that I mean especially considering what the alternative could be I'd rather be walking off the field I'd rather be walking off the field with a contract settled but rather obviously that didn't happen yesterday we tried with mediation I would rather have it settled for the best on behalf of our our teachers um to the best that it could be rather than just tied up for me to say goodbye to that makes any sense um I I have concerns moving forward and I I mean you know how I feel about Alum Rock um I truly hope that some of those concerns that I've expressed are taken to heart and that you realize what hard-working dedicated passionate teachers are in this district and the students that we serve how they deserve the very best and to get the very best we need to offer the very best teachers a good contract so moving forward I I as you know I will be stepping aside and I'm probably off the clock in my email accounts probably already been deactivated but um it's it's hard to let go and I will be staying totally involved and connected with um hopefully many of you and of course with Sandra um so while I made these slowly walking off the field I do have total confidence and Trust in who is who will be taking over so for those of you that may not know Sandra Rivera and I have worked together as President and Vice President we've been a team for the last 13 years and honestly it's like I couldn't have done it without Sandra and I hope that Sandra finds a Sandra to take her place so with that good luck and thank you everybody so with that we I like to give you a warm welcome Sandra to your first at-bat and there's no pitch clock that's read this with tears in my eyes Okay Dr Bauer born esteemed colleagues Alum Rock families and friends I stand before you tonight following in the footsteps of my mentor colleague friend and pseudo mom it is with great pride and tremendous honor that I get to represent the educators of Alum Rock as the new president over the last 13 years my partner and leader has shown me what it looks like to lead with Grace confidence and style Although our roads between the district and area have not always been straight we've had detours and had to work together to fill in many potholes but our goals have always aligned in the end arusd families and friend of students is where the heart of both sides lie as I embark on this new journey I am hopeful for the future of our district our goal is to have everyone succeed District staff Educators classified teamsters and Families I hope we can come together to work on issues that arise I am hopeful that creative and innovative ideas and the ways of thinking outside the box come from both sides we need solution-based ideas we need teamwork we need flexibility and creativity on all levels not just on the Educators in our Educators classrooms as my colleagues and I end our 22-23 school year it is very disheartening that we are not able to celebrate a settled contract with only three articles being discussed it is frustrating that we've had to play a cat and mouse game to get to where we are now we are seeing more and more Administration jobs being created and filled while our classrooms are still without teachers we have seen many colleagues in both area and CSEA leave this year due to the lack of professionalism that is being set forth because we're unable to reach a fair and just contract as summer has come and school is out my colleagues and I have wrapped up another year in the books and while some may say I know many will leave because they are being offered different compensation in neighboring districts please help stop this endless cycle please help break the this is the way things are done in Alum Rock mentality I'll be out of town for a few weeks celebrating my youngest son's graduation from high school and turning 18.
I'm looking right here he's 23. right there a3d completion rate measuring and Reporting results so what I what I believe in Dr Hernandez correct me wrong either Mr kimono this the lcap is a three-year process and when goals when we began in year one we're in year two right now when we get in year one we set a goal and it appears right we've accomplished our goal in year two but we still have your three so the goal in year three is for us to actually do better than now we did in year two but when we set the goal in 2020 it was with the goal of going to 55 when we were 52.8 we've surpassed so we have already surpassed our desired outcome and so next year our goal would be to surpass what we did this year and then and then the following year we begin a new three-year cycle with our lcap okay so it's not it's not a rolling cycle every year we're adding a area when you get through the three then you start another three you start another three cycle yes okay so in other words right okay so these goals in other words the desired outcome it was established three years ago yeah uh this is year two so last year we created the goals for the three the end of the third year so now we're in year two of our three year cycle next year will be in the third year of our cycle okay and then the following year we start the process all over again it's it's done in your it's done in three years every three years well that's what I mean yeah the 21 was established for now that was the year you established the goals right and then so okay yes it's been a couple of years ago that that was yes right okay so we did a good job we actually exceeded what we're feeding our estimate okay thank you um sorry thank you thank you thank you for this Paulina um I'm just looking at the um on page 27 which is uh student completing dual enrollment courses um obviously because of covid we drop substantially I'm looking at the um specifically the Fullerton College went from 888 550 down to 411 have a goal of a thousand how are we going to make that jump and try to achieve or get to our goal of a thousand that's a heck of a jump from 4 11 up to a thousand so what's the plan to be able to in both not just Fullerton but Cyprus also yeah so so I'm gonna bring it miss being because she works closely with our collaborative Partners especially at Fullerton College and Cypress College but the pandemic absolutely had an impact and the board may recall um we had way more success I think with Cypress College because there was a different mindset with a lot of the staff and the colleagues that we worked with at Cypress College where there was a way more flexible mindset in working with high school students through a college course whereas Fullerton College was there was a little bit more resistance that students aren't ready so that impacted the number of opportunities that our students have fluid in college got you may recall I think prior to the pandemic we had students come during public comments to say I have siblings on the West Side who are working with Cyprus can we work with Cyprus because they were being boxed out at some of our East Side schools so we've been putting a lot of tension on Fullerton and they do have a new president who seems to be really aligned and in support Dr levo of making this shift so that was part of the challenge with Fullerton College but I'm gonna have this being talked a little bit more about the Dual women in our plans so we've just we've been really focusing on our embeditor during the school day dual enrollment and so over the last couple of years we've been adding coursework at each grade level so each high school has gotten to choose we have a couple of different models that we that we utilize and each high school has gotten to choose the model that they feel is best for their campus and I'm proud to say that we are now every single one of our high schools has embedded dual enrollment whereas the data from the data that you're looking at we didn't have it in every high school with Fullerton College and so um so that's one piece and so we're continuing to grow that and then we're continuing to grow our after school opportunities specifically around the CT Pathways and the extension of our own Pathways so we've added courses in drone piloting we've added real estate course at Anaheim high school and so on and so on and then like Dr Fried mentioned with the change in leadership at Fullerton College a more significant investment is being made into dual enrollment whereas Cypress colleges had their own dual enrollment team Fullerton didn't have that that and now they're making that investment to have a team to support our students in enrollment and matriculation and and staying in the courses and having success and so we would expect that over the next couple of years we'll really see those numbers grow and the success rate to be much higher so for a dual enrollment course what whatever that course is uh are they both at both call it will they be at both colleges so could and I'm high be taking dual enrollment either at Fullerton or Cyprus and it's their choice or so the way that it works with the colleges is that they have areas that they service and So within their rules we have to service particular high schools with a particular College okay um but to expand on that where they so like for example Magnolia High School is a Fullerton I'm sorry a Cypress College school but because of the Mac we have Horticulture that we're offering through Fullerton College because Cyprus doesn't have it so when one of the colleges doesn't have what we need then they give permission for the other campus to service that specific class glad to hear thank you for presidential if I may um that I think is an important point to make and I know I talked to trustee Guerrero about this I want to emphasize the importance of the integrator embedded dual enrollment when we talk about the local indicators in Access if you're an athlete or if you are part of a family where you have to go home after school and help support your younger siblings or maybe you have to go get a job to support bringing food to the table at home you can't access dual enrollment if it's only after school I'm sad to say where my son goes to school in his district he's an athlete and he has not been able to access dual enrollment so I have to have him take dual enrollment opportunities in the summer when he should be off but he doesn't get that opportunity because they don't serve their athletes or their students who have those other situations so I'm really proud that we do it during the school day and yes sometimes we receive pushback from colleagues or teachers because they feel like well now they're not taking my AP course but the reality is there's significant research when students take dual enrollment courses and the impact on them pursuing higher education because they're taught by a university level Professor not that our AP teachers they're amazing but the students still sometimes see them as a high school teacher they're taught by University or college level professors and that is a significant impact to our students so that access I want to stress how important that is that we have students who can do their sports or help their families and still have access to a dual element of course where other districts you don't see that it's an after-school program that's good I'm glad kudos to our district for that a question I'm back on the El Capa education partner engage engagement piece the students parents staff community members the numbers that we have is 553 how does that compare to pre last year so overall I think we were high I think it was well there are differences in groups I think but I think over students the student numbers are up the parent numbers are a little different the pair numbers were down a little yeah do we know why the parent staff was way up do we know why the parent that's it got me that it was kind of low yeah it could be various reasons I know um coming back from a pandemic many of our parents are re-entering the workforce but also we have done a good job at live streaming our lcap process our ambassadors once again did an amazing job with the Highlight so we're offering this process where they can participate or engage and and see and keep informed virtually but there could be many factors but we do hope to continue to increase our parent engagement in person okay thank own reflection as an ed staff that was one of the areas that we talked about is we needed to we don't necessarily know all the reasons as to why it went down but we know we need to do a better job of that Outreach and making sure that we have more parents uh participate in our process because their voice matters and that's Central to our community school approach that they we want to be part of our decision making body okay I just have to make a comment I know our numbers are significantly higher than other districts right overall right but still our standards right yes and I do have a question here but I and um I wanted to wait until the others were but when we okay when Roxanna talked about the focus groups and the priorities one of my questions was Priority One the big you know it wants lower class sizes now this is a this is problematic okay but this is the priority are we doing this in the special ed classes are we you know because um this is something that was a contractual thing we had but then we you know that ended so when they're wanting this I thought are we doing it in special ed special needs classes or you know if that's one area we can do it in at least so I I know Amy Maya here is here but one of the things we've been moving towards the is the special academic instruction or Sai model and as a result our district has actually hired more special teachers to help reduce the class size so when our students with disabilities are being mainstreamed and generate classes the numbers are lower they are lower that's of course the Target and the goal um and that and that's what we've added I think it was 10 to 15 teachers myself I know we have increased a large number of special ed and that's why I'm asking because overall we didn't lower it again this year but we have hired a lot more teachers and and you know and retained a lot of our teachers and remember too there is a correlation between embedded dual enrollment courses and you know in affecting class size right because if you bring those College professors in then that's going to lower class like ROP right yeah right oh um and then of course the counselors and such and and I know we've increased those so that's all good um I had one other question about um the full-time Mathematics Curriculum uh specialist in other words when did we hire that full-time so math that that's we had Julie speicherman so I don't I don't know when she begins before I was in the division when we hired the full it says we you know one of the in okay I don't know what page now it's Katie Childers but it's Katie Childers now but previously was Julie speicherman okay but we had a curriculum math specialist but it said we were going to hire a full-time massive curriculum specialist this new one this year Katie's new but but the position's not new no the position's not new but it was it was from within yeah but it was yes it was always full time so this said we're hiring huh we've had a math specialist for probably two decades oh I know but what I'm saying is that it mentioned a new full-time math specialist oh you know you know thank you thank you so think that that's right thinking so Jamaica when Julie first retired we didn't have someone who was interested in the position so you may recall when Amy was overseeing the math as a director I was at that time she was a coordinator we didn't have the curriculum sessions Amy did that as a coordinator slash curriculum specialist to support our math folks and then the following year we were able to build capacity and get a math teacher to be interested and that was Katie so so that year of of that lap year or Gap year was when Amy served it up okay okay because here it is it says a full-time Mathematics Curriculum specialist was hired at the start of 22-23 year to focus solely on improving mathematics instruction that's Katie this year okay that's Katie Katie Childers she's a math teacher at Louisa High School okay math teacher yep okay and okay we have all these different um Pathways now we ever does every one of our high schools have a pathway now yes they all have an exclusive pathway and they have additional Pathways as well okay exclusive is the one that's most complete in terms of the course sequence it may be exclusive because it's the only one in our district like there's only one artificial intelligence pathway so that's exclusive and it's also the most comprehensive in terms of the dual enrollment offerings and other things to really build it out so it's a really comprehensive pathway uh looking at all different aspects of of educating our child or children because right now I mean I'm I don't know which one is the Visual and Performing Arts who has that as their major pathway so all of our schools have visual Improvement art Pathways right so as you may recall lewer high school and ball initially began their pathway program as a Visual and Performing Arts pathway okay the hard part especially in lieu of the declining enrollment area that we're in every school has band and choir and drama programs so they weren't like if I wanted to be an artificial intelligence pathway I know I'm going to put in to go to Kennedy but I'm not going to put in to go to the where if they have a band program because I can go to Savannah or okay this was what I was yeah but you may recall we there was a charter school that was trying to approach on the ball lower era that was focused on Visual and Performing Arts so strategically we had that pathway there so kids knew that they could stay there for that pathway because their vaffa programs at those schools are very strong but they have now shifted where the exclusive pathway at luera is now the droning pathway the drones so all of our schools have Visual and programs okay well that's what I thought I said I didn't think there was any one just one okay so this is just some of our areas it's not just one at each high school so correct and like Law And Justice that you know that's at a couple different schools correct okay all right that was that was one of my questions and then um okay the other ones I answered okay okay any more questions thank you so much for your presentation so much for your time this is a lot of work and I want to say thank you to those who worked on it [Applause] so moving on uh 6.2 we open a public hearing local control and accountability plan and annual update anybody wishing to speak on this subject nope saying that we we close the public hearing 6.3 public hearing 20 23-24 proposed budget we we open a public hearing anybody wishing to speak we closed public hearing yeah she has the president 6.2 is a presentation here so yeah okay I'm par sorry wait a minute so back on 6.2 now 6.3 6.3 sorry sorry okay thank you it's okay it's kind of like all right public hearing we can reopen the public hearing thank you thank you okay they didn't put it under presentations yeah perfect thank you so much Paulina I appreciate it well good evening poor president um O'Neill members of the board superintendent Masuda cabinet members of the public and those um joining us online to now be presenting on the proposed adopted budget for 23.24.
[Applause] the Italian cultural Foundation takes great pride in being able to do this in honor of the commitment that John F Scarpa has made to this school and its students this year's recipient has achieved a GPA of 4.56 is a member of the National Honor Society National Technical Honor Society NJ Stars Tech ambassadors program HOSA futural health professionals and participated in track and field as well our recipient is planning to attend Rowan University with a focus on International Studies in the College of humanities and social sciences with Siana sorrera please come forward to receive your merit scholarship and my apologies [Music] [Applause] the Cumberland County black Hall of Fame is awarding 500 to an African-American graduating senior the individual must be high academic achieving they must exhibit determination leadership have overcome odds leading to success be a good role model and they must demonstrate empathy and respect for others this year's recipient is Zariah Holmes [Applause] Zariah has a couple teachers to thank she would like to thank Miss Bennett who has made her want to be a better student and has always been like a big sister and also Mr Campbell who has made her want to be excellent and helped her realize she she is capable of anything [Applause] the following scholarships are on behalf of the Vineland Rotary Club the first of these scholarships is entitled tribute to deceased rotarians in the amount of one thousand dollars this year's recipient is Julia Thompson [Applause] Julia will be attending Clemson University she will be studying computer science and wishes to pursue a career in cyber security she would also like to thank Dr Lachlan for guiding her through the last two years and assisting with the college application process [Applause] the second Vineland rotary Memorial Scholarship is the spirit of rotary scholarship of one thousand dollars intended for a student who is enrolled in the nursing program at Rowan College of South Jersey rotary's motto is service above self the spirit of rotary scholarship recognizes a student who has achieved academic success while also enthusiastically leads a life of service to others this year's recipient is Shreya ratish [Applause] Shreya will be attending Rutgers University as a part of the Honors College next year she'll be studying biochemistry and wishes to pursue a career as a neurologist [Applause] the John small tour Matt Blatt most inspirational scholarship of twenty five hundred dollars is for college balance students majoring in any subject students that have overcome adversity in life should apply this scholarship is open to students that are Vineland residents and or students graduating from any high school public or private in the Vineland area this year's recipient is Milani Rodriguez [Applause] Milani will be attending Rowan University in the fall to study psychology and to pursue a career in the field of forensic psychology Milani would like to thank her health science and medicine instructor saying quote Mr vicary has not only made my life at CC Tech fun but also made me feel like there was a teacher I could always talk to and relate to on a more personal level feels good to say that I had one teacher that made me feel really important [Applause] [Music] this one thousand dollar rcsj University Center scholarship is for a Rowan College of South Jersey graduate who is proceeding on to the University Center this year's recipient is Jessica Simpkins [Applause] Jessica would like to thank Mr Ziller for being a great teacher and influence his classes told her a lot over the past few years and inspired her to go into civil engineering the GE mechanical Workforce advancement scholarship for a thousand dollars is awarded to any high school graduate of the Vineland Area Schools public or private seeking higher education either at a two or four year college majoring in mechanical engineering or attending a technical education school or two-year college for training either Plumbing or hvacr this year's recipient is Sebastian Mercado [Applause] Sebastian will be a member of the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT where he will study mechanical engineering [Applause] the Leslie n kotok Memorial Scholarship of fifteen hundred dollars is for college-bound students majoring in any subject this scholarship is open to students that are Vineland residents and where students graduating from any school public or private in the Vineland area this year's recipient is debriana Russell [Applause] debriano would like to thank Miss Halpin and Miss Birdsall for always giving her a positive outlook on things and being some of her biggest supporters throughout High School both of these teachers have helped her build not only skills she will need in her future career but in everyday life and she will always be thankful for them [Applause] the Edward L Bernhardt Memorial Scholarship of one thousand dollars is for a graduating Scarpa Tech interact member this student demonstrates positive character and Scholastic ability this scholarship is not restricted to college or university training but shall also include training or schooling in non-academic fields or endeavors this year's recipient is Annika maladi [Applause] Annika would like to thank Mrs Birdsall who has always been there for her to talk to foreign [Applause] at this time I would like to introduce Mrs Marie franceschini and Mr Ronald franceskini Jr to award the Ronald J Francis skinny senior Memorial Scholarship [Applause] in memory of Ronald J Francis keaney senior this one thousand dollar scholarship is for a student choosing to pursue a career in the automotive welding or construction trades this year's recipient is Lucas Garden [Applause] Lucas would like to thank his welding instructor Mr Bonner for his Support over the last four years foreign this year the Elks Lodge of Millville awarded two 1500 scholarships and two 750 scholarships to students who demonstrated Mastery in their program of study we have four recipients Isabella Cruz Sean McCarthy Natalie rep and Natalie Parkhill [Applause] Isabella would like to thank Mr Bonner saying quote for teaching everything I know about welding Sean would like to thank Mr Ziller for impacting his education and for developing his knowledge towards the field of engineering Natalie will be attending Stockton University to do graphic design and Natalie parkill will be attending Drew University in the fall to study environmental science [Applause] I would now like to call Chloe Swift Tabitha gentiletti Briana vannaman and Michael Dean Jr to the stage to present the alumni scholarships [Applause] foreign good evening everyone firstly the Alumni Association congratulates all of the class of 2023 on their graduation we cannot wait to welcome you to our CC Tech alumni family we are thrilled to be here tonight awarding our third annual alumni scholarships to three students these students have demonstrated the core values of CZ Tech through the projects and essays that they have submitted and the winners are Joseph nanamaker Sebastian Mercado and Adriana Russell [Applause] foreign [Applause] Joey will be attending Rowan University as a member of the Honors College next year to study biomedical engineering Sebastian would like to thank Miss hickey for helping him apply to college and debriana was Captain of both Varsity fall cheerleading and varsity Spring Track and Field her Junior and senior years she participate in HOSA interact ignite youth to youth NHS nths and was the tech ambassador [Applause] the investors bank scholarships of 500 are for students who are pursuing college and have achieved exceptional grades the academic transcript plays heavily in the decision to award this scholarship this year's recipients are Eddie Hernandez and Marissa mannell [Applause] Marissa would like to say thank you to Mrs Birdsall for always pushing her to do her best and supporting her throughout High School saying quote you have been such an inspiration to me and have ultimately influenced my decision on a career in nursing Eddie will be attending Rowan University he'll be studying civil and environmental engineering [Applause] [Music] the Shi International Scholarship of 500 is for a student who plans to continue their education at a New Jersey State University College or Community College this student must be pursuing cyber security or information technology this year's recipient is Antonio Garcia Ramirez [Applause] Antonio will be attending Rowan University next year he will be studying commuters computer science and wishes to pursue the I.T field as a career he would like to thank Mr Campbell for making learning fun and his passion for teaching is what makes students feel a drive to put forward their best effort [Applause] GSA is awarding one 500 scholarship to an active member an active member is someone who shows dedication and commitment to building relationships between the lgbtqia plus community and its allies before announcing our recipient I would like to recognize Mr Anthony d'antonio GSA advisor and English teacher at Scarpa Tech please stand to be recognized [Applause] this year's recipient is Cypress druding following Mr d'antonio's footsteps Cyprus will be attending Rowan College of South Jersey for literature to become an English teacher [Applause] at this time I'd like to call Mr Kyle Serena Miss Jennifer Plummer and Mr Terry Love from the Scarpa Tech PE Department to the stage to present the physical education scholarship [Applause] the physical education department is awarding two 500 scholarships for our graduating seniors who showed a commitment to lifelong Health and Wellness this year's recipients are Sarah banyani and Ryan Quinn [Applause] Sarah will be attending Southwestern College next year where she will be studying biology to pursue a career in the veterinary Veterinary field Ryan wanted to thank Sergeant caragnato his law enforcement instructor saying quote he has always been there to support me in my desired career path has been a major help in my academic career at Tech he's given me many opportunities through the program to further myself from My Chosen path of life and has even introduced me to law enforcement officers that I can talk to and learn from he says he feels lucky to have had him in his life [Applause] the mission of the coal the deaf dog and Friends Foundation is to support special needs inclusion acceptance and advocacy through Community programs colon friends are proud to give their second annual scholarship to a graduating strive student towards their educational enrichment this year's recipient is Christian Sanchez [Applause] one of Christian's teachers Miss Bowser says he's a hard-working student who always puts on a smile and puts on a smile on people's people's faces his positive outlook on life is something many people could benefit from being around he is a model student for the stride program and always builds positive relationships [Applause] Amazon has awarded the njac foundation a grant and in turn the njac foundation awarded one one thousand dollar scholarship Per County Vocational Technical School District to graduates who plan on continuing their education in New Jersey at a County College State College or State University this year's recipient is Shreya ratish [Applause] Shreya would like to thank Mrs Birdsall saying quote she inspires me every day to work to my fullest potential and she is always there for me [Applause] thank you I would like to call Chef Olson from the culinary arts program to this stage to present the next scholarship the 250 culinary arts scholarship is for graduating seniors in the culinary arts program this year's recipients are jadelyn Francisco and Alondra cordozar Sanchez [Applause] Alondra would like to thank Chef Olson and Chef Alberti for making an impact on her high school education Jalen is enrolling in the Air Force as a line cook and plans to further her career in the tourism and Hospitality field Jalen would also like to thank Chef Olson and Chef Alberti as well as Miss Gates Emma Sherman they've been an amazing role model and our people I could come to for anything also a special thank you to Mrs Lopez Mrs Denny and Senor Howard who have impacted my life in many ways [Applause] I would like to call Mr Sean McDonald construction trades teacher and Ryan soupy counselor to the stage to present the next scholarship the 250 dollar construction trade scholarship is for a graduating senior in the construction trades program this year's recipients are Danny Perez Dennis Demery William Rodriguez and Anthony Espana [Applause] Danny will be attending rcsj and will pursue a career in finance he would like to thank Miss Halpin for making an impact on his education Dennis would like to thank Mr Behrens and Mr McDonald for all the skills they have taught him over the years William plans on using the scholarship to assist in his future goals in the electrical field while Anthony will be attending The Apprentice School in Newport News Virginia where he will be enrolled in the electrical Apprentice program and working at Newport News Shipbuilding [Applause] I would like to call Miss Daigle studio production counselor and Mr Matt neder from the studio production program to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] these 250 dollar scholarships are for a graduating senior in the studio production and broadcasting program this year's recipients are Christian staniak and Jackson Millard [Applause] Christian will be attending Montclair State University in the fall where he will major in sports communication to hopefully become a sports broadcaster Jackson will be attending the conservatory of recording Arts and Sciences to pursue a career in audio engineering [Applause] the Riddle Memorial Scholarship was created to honor the memory of Brian riddle Brian attended a technical high school program in Oklahoma and was a welder this year the riddle family will be awarding one 500 and 1 300 scholarship to a graduating senior who plans to further their career in the welding trade this year's recipients are Kimberly Harvey and Lucas Garden [Applause] Kimberly plans to pursue a career in welding upon graduation the scholarship will help provide necessary supplies for the workforce Lucas will be attending Cabrini Universal for business management where he will play baseball plans to come back to his family's company with a degree and work in the family business with the skills that he learned [Applause] before announcing our next scholarship I would like to recognize Mrs Margaret bauerbach and Son Mr fauerbach please stand to be recognized and Mr fowlerback please come to the stage to present the next award [Applause] hello sir hello there everyone the green flag committee is the non-profit charity arm of New Jersey Motorsports Park in this year's scholarship is being presented to Angel Rivera come on up angel thank you scholarship is the name of my mother and father Rudolph the Michael powerbach my mom's sitting down there my dad passed away just a few years ago while Angel's making his way up here my mom's birthday is next week I'm not going to tell you how old she is but I'll tell you that we celebrated her 100th two years ago so good morning so what we would like you to do when I say one two three just say happy birthday Mrs fauerback are you ready one two three [Applause] to announce our next scholarship I would like to call Leanne fanucci to the stage [Applause] this next scholarship was created in memory of Tina Oliveri Tina taught middle school health and physical education in Vineland for over 25 years she loved teaching and her greatest joy was having several of her students following her footsteps and become health and phys Ed teachers themselves because of her this scholarship in the amount of 250 dollars will be presented to a student who will pursue a career in education this year's recipient is Francesca Knight [Applause] [Music] Francesco will be attending Rowan College of South Jersey next year she will be studying education and wishes to pursue a career as an elementary teacher [Applause] a t has awarded a grant of ten thousand five hundred dollars to then Jack Foundation the foundation will award one 500 scholarship to each County Vocational Technical High School to a graduate who plans on continuing their education in New Jersey at a public county college or state college or university this year's recipient is Luciano Sanchez [Applause] Luciano would like to thank Mrs Daigle saying quote she made an impact on me as she never gave up on me she was always there for me and always helped me when I needed it thank you South Jersey Industries has awarded a grant of ten thousand five hundred dollars to then Jack Foundation foundation will award one one thousand dollar scholarship to each County vocational technical school to a graduate who plans on continuing their education in New Jersey at a public county college or state college or university this year's recipient is David Oquendo [Applause] David will be attending Rhone University for construction management this fall [Applause] at this time I would like to call Mrs Sandy Garden to the stage to present the garden's rigging scholarship [Applause] this 500 scholarship was created by Gardens rigging a local crane and rigging company to give back to the community's youth it is designated for a student in the trades path who will be pursuing a career in the workforce or will be attending college this year's recipients are Jaden Wilford Dominic sporanza Virginia Perez Santiago and Diego Garcia [Applause] Jaden would like to thank Mr Bonner and messini he credits both of them for having a huge impact on his education Dominic will be continuing his career in the trade of welding Virginia would like to thank Mr Voss and Mr salido and her parents who have always encouraged her to give her best at school and for supporting her in every step she has made towards her future and upon graduation Diego will be working at Russell Automotive as a diesel mechanic [Applause] at this time I would like to call Mr Kyle Platt and Mr Bill Jenkins from the automotive program to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] foreign the automotive department scholarships of 500 are being awarded to four students in the automotive program this year's recipients are jazlyn Carmona Diego Garcia Eric Gonzalez and Angel Rivera [Applause] all of these students in one way or another wrote a nice note about Mr Platt Mr Jenkins saying they improved their skills a great deal this year it was a great year they learned a lot from them um so the best instructors they ever had and the car show was their favorite memory of the year [Applause] Luigi Lou tramantana senior was born in Brooklyn New York his family moved to Vineland when he was a child where he resided until his passing Lou graduated from Vineland high school and entered the workforce as a laborer over the years through hard work and dedication he learned a skilled trade and later moved on to be a manager broadening his Horizons Lou landed a job as a manager with a large firm in the moving industry working his way through the ranks to president CEO a civic-minded person he was involved Through The Years with many organizations and served as a board member and president of the Rotary Club the YMCA the NJ movers warehouseman Association and the Vineland Chamber of Commerce Lou was co-chair of the violent Challenger League and was proud to be instrumental with overseeing the construction of the rotary center in 2004 a handicap accessible facility upon retirement Lou returned to the trades working for torkio brothers Inc to keep busy Lou was always there to mentor and is only appropriate to present this award to someone who will be seeking employment as a skilled Tradesman the traumatana family would like to congratulate the student receiving the luigia traumatana senior Memorial Scholarship before announcing our recipient I would like to recognize Chief tramantana in the audience tonight please stand to be recognized foreign this year's recipient is Connor costanzo [Applause] Connor is currently working for RK Chevrolet as a mechanic and plans on using these scholarship funds to help pay for tools and training to improve both his skill and knowledge of the industry [Applause] the Thomas Wallace IV scholarship was established by the north Italy beneficial association to offer a two thousand dollar scholarship to a student planning to attend a four-year accredited undergraduate college program or an accredited trade school program up to four students whose fathers are members of the north Italy beneficial association may be awarded this one-time scholarship these students must show excellence in academics as well as involvement in their school's extracurricular activities this year's recipient is Anthony rackets [Applause] Anthony would like to thank his guidance counselor Mr soupy saying quote he has always supported me and helped me he kept me organized and I could count on him when I had questions he loves the game of baseball and I felt like he truly cared cared about me my education and my dream of playing college baseball [Applause] at this time I would like to call Mr Pat Findlay from the Vineland fire department to the stage to present the Lloyd ronketti scholarship [Applause] good evening everyone it's an honor to be here and congratulations to all the graduates and all the award recipients for Lloyd C ronketti senior scholarship is named after Lloyd C Ron Cutty senior the boss as he was affectionately known by violent firefighters and is the namesake and inspiration of this scholarship which is offered by the Vineland fire department to Vineland fire department members and their families lawyer and Katie had many leadership roles in his 52-year career with the Vineland fire department he served as the chief of Main Avenue Fire Company 4 for over 10 years before he was appointed director of the Vineland Fire Department in 1960.
we are independent not-for-profit citizen organization whose mission is to mobilize Community Support concerns commitment and resources to help improve the quality of Education in urine Township this is our 11th year participating in the Ewing High Awards night tonight we are handing out live scholarships our first scholarship authorities Maureen Elizabeth Leopold academic Excellence scholarships [Applause] congratulations foreign Williams [Music] one thousand dollars I've done an excellent scholarship [Applause] next scholarship goes to Carly Mae Logan the foundation leadership [Applause] the next scholarship goes to thyself Faith Harvey [Applause] our next recipient and there is Caleb Armstrong scholarship one thousand dollars Jacob Thomas deludas [Applause] thanks for all the right leadership a scholarship one thousand dollars [Applause] the next scholarship for this Romani constant academic scholarship it's in memory of my father um it was a civil engineer by Queen he believed that education was the greatest gift he could give his generosity and his respect was unparalleled and I hope to continue this tradition today thank you love it the Emmanuel developed [Applause] [Music] the next one goes to Samuel Aaron Schwartz [Applause] and our Wayne stop presidential scholarship goes to Lena obtuse [Applause] the Ewing Township administrators Association scholarship is a 500 scholarship to be awarded to a student who attended the Ewing public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade who intends to pursue a major and career in education this year's recipient is tomorrow morning has been very active during her time at um high school she has been a member of the basketball team as well as captain of the JV basketball team and has served in the youth choir at the St John's Baptist Church Kimura is proudly attending Keene University Kane University in the fall where she plans to major in psychology congratulations more [Applause] those lights are bright good evening my name is Kathleen Waller I'm the president of Ewing Township Council and nursing a member at the Ewing Township Democratic Club I'm here to uh present a scholarship award to one of the outstanding group of students here and that are graduating this year and the award is in memory of Angela toleros Angela was a very special person she was a dynamic believer in democratic values and she was a believer in the abilities of women in particular and this award I hope will go to someone who will ultimately embody those values um so I would like to call up Miss congratulations uh the set is an outstanding example of what a good representative of Ewing High School might be she is planning to attend TCNJ with liberal arts nature and while at Ewing Kai she has been a member of the student council she participated in Lacrosse for three years she was a participant in the environmental Club the Key Club and played field hockey for four years she's also been a part of the peer leadership underscores and the unified physical education class for two years with all of that I'm sure she can look forward to an outstanding college career and Beyond and it gives me great pleasure to present the 500 Ewing Township Democratic award to listen back thank you [Applause] hi I'm Trisha Christina someone of the school counselors here I'll be presenting um on behalf of the video and Township Education Association um the etea takes pride in working simultaneously with parents Board of Education and Community this 500 award is presented to a student who transitions flawlessly between academic communal activities and career building clubs this year's recipients are Amelia at Navy Washington during the time here Amelia played tennis and was also a captain of the swim team she was incredibly involved in the larger EHS Community as a member of the environmental Club Key Club National Honor Society and the unified program she served as peer leader and manager for the boys tennis team next fall Amelia is looking forward to attending the University of Delaware where she will major in human services and throughout her four years at EHS uh Eva Washington was a member of the tennis and lacrosse teams as well as the manager of the swim team the Autumn Sports Eva was an invested member of Key Club environmental Club National Honor Society and our care leadership program next year's Eva will be attending temporary University in Japan where she will major in international business congratulations to both Amelia and Eva we wish you all the classifications [Applause] um next is the Gilmore J Fisher Memorial Scholarship Gilmore J Fisher was a Pioneer for education in New York Township responsible for the expansion of the Union Public Schools the awardees recognized the dedication to continued studies in the field of Education with a 500 award this year's recipient is Diana smart [Applause] Deanna will be attending Mercer County Community College to study Early Elementary education Deanna was on the UA High swim team and currently holds a job at Walgreens and lastly on the William Martina Memorial Scholarship uh William Mercado was a mathematics teacher and defensive backfield coach at Ewing High School the awardee is recognized for trustworthiness honesty and dedication as a student athlete with a 500 award Nevin Davila is this year's recipient [Applause] during his time at DHS Nevin was a member of both the lacrosse and football teams he served as team captain for the UN High football team for two years and earned a variety of accolades at the local and County levels he is also a member of the National Honor Society this fall never will be attending Gammon University in Pennsylvania where he will be studying mechanical engineering and playing on the School's football team [Applause] thank you good evening my name is Laura I'm the president of the human Girls Softball Association the human Girls Softball Association awards a one thousand dollar scholarship to a player who has maintained a GPA of 2.5 or higher has played or been involved with our league for at least five years and will be attending a post-secondary educational vocational or technical school in the fall of 2023.
as a result the clock continues to run in High School lacrosse for those listening as we know Josh different than College actually not different than college lacrosse even in college lacrosse if you one team gets ahead by 10 goals no matter what happens as long as you remain 10 goals ahead the clock continues to run throughout the game so it's like a double disadvantage for any team that's down makes it a challenge to come back right I think I'll ever Institute a shot clock in high school like they do in college or well you know I thought I actually thought about this on the way over to this particular game I hadn't given that a thought in a long time but I one thing that occurred to me thinking about holliston's win last game I was wondering how they won by one goal and I was under maybe the missing misimpression just because I got was completely guessing that they were up by one goal and then you know if a team if there's five minutes left on the clock you can literally hold the ball and the other team has to get it from you so they're just gonna get completely exhausted trying to get the ball from you and it's easy at the high school easier at the high school level I think to just keep the possession so one thing that I thought that should be implemented is a shot clock only in the last five minutes of the game so that no team can do that you have a shot clock like a 90-second shot clock where if you don't shoot it just like college if you don't take a shot on goal within nine we had a little stick check there that was going on with number three uh within with within 90 within 90 seconds uh possession turns over so that no team can do that I think that would I certainly think that would make it you know more interesting and if you're down a goal in that stage you know that that seems pretty reasonable there was a stick Tech Challenge yeah um that happens every once in a while you'll see that stick check challenge it did happen and it was determined to be legit legal yep so it rarely happens but it did happen here with a game up 12 to 2.
but when I get back I would love to sit down and meet and talk about how we can help move Alum Rock to our brighter and better future where everyone is made to feel respected well taken care of and treated like the families we serve every day I hope I can do area proud and lead them half as well as Josh Linden she has set the bar high and left some pretty big shoes to fill but it is my hope that I will make her proud thank you for your time tonight okay with that Alum Rock Educators Association yeah administrative association yes all right good evening Dr Byer but just the Salem Rock staff and community members I also want to just extend the congrats again to president MERS and congratulations Sandra Rivera and all the retirees tonight for being honored thank you for your service I recognize just just how important the efforts you all have contributed to our district I'm currently leading the second finishing the second year of our administrators Association Treasurer and I'm happy to share just some highlights of all the great things that our schools have closed with this uh last day of school I recognize the giggles here so all right foreign and we celebrated several promotions celebrations a felony science Museum and the PTO sponsor the breakfast and barbecue at Poland uh we were able to recognize 85 students uh for participating on the pathways to buy literacy under CBE thank you Maria Martinez for helping us get that established and recognized we distribute a thousand copies of some newly acquired texts and our fourth and fifth graders uh closed out with a steam arcade Fair where they designed our commits for our lower graders we had four promotions recognizing um over 100 students in Pay TK uh preschool and fifth grade at San Antonio they have closed with a field day kickball game they did a Tech Museum visit and an awards assembly Shepard reclassified 20 students this year a proud achievement and they thank board president Pham and trustee Shelton for supporting their ceremony 22 students earned the pathway to the Seal of biliteracy it's a record number congratulations and assistant principal Sophia Sorensen joined the staff for the final three weeks and last but not least here we have independent studies reporting that five is eighth grade students are slated to attend their promotions at their respective schools they had an open house a June pride in their classrooms uh celebration and they published a yearbook entitled we can do virtually anything I hope that sums it up thank you it's been an honor to share on the final day of the school year many celebrations across the district and uh we thank you all for all you've done thank you foreign day has been memorable to say the least um there has been last night we had a historical moment in Adelante too graduating the first class um in history of the school and so it's the it's the the new Alum Rock in its fullest right moving forward multiculturalism multilingualism I'm looking forward when the first graduating class of the dual immersion Vietnamese English students do that and and they probably Jocelyn I'm gonna be joining you somewhere in Tahoe I believe you we're gonna uh but I'll come back by the time that happens uh and the other thing that I wanted to share with you board is that next week we're going to be having a management retreat at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and that's just so that we reset ourselves uh trusty Flores Shelton you mentioned about being very deliberate you know with the with our values and how we um address systemic racism of which all of us in some way shape or form have been part of that or recipients of that right um speaking as an English learner low socioeconomic Latina um when I got to this country I totally understand that um and I'm looking forward to um very very very different 23 24 school year however um despite all the twists in this year's Road I want to thank each and every one of you and trustee Chavez I'll let her know as well for the amazing support you have given me as a superintendent because this was quite a challenging year I also want to thank all the staff all the parents all the kids Loretta Tanner for every single moment that when when things got really rough really difficult uh I got a little text saying we're praying for you I got a little email saying a little joke and that is just a gift from Heaven to me so I want to thank everybody Alum Rock my seven thousand 385 students a thousand and two hundred staff members countless parents and stakeholders that I hold dear to my heart and my fabulous board thank you so much for this year thank you uh Communications and comments by members of the born so uh anyone would like to start first I'll go okay vice president Herrera loera so what a an amazing year what a challenging year what um just uh color for your um and I appreciate it all you know I appreciate it all because um it's those things that we're here for um to ensure that we are at the front lines um ensuring that our children our staff our families have the best um and so you know I just think of the highlights um both the good and not so good um and again you know I think it was important for it to come up to come up to ensure that they don't continue the not so good ones and that all the amazing things just flourish and grow um and that we can do what we can as Leaders to support our staff our teachers um so we can continue to be their best um in the best way that we can and so um thank you Dr Bauer for being the head the superintendent of our district um thank you to my peers on the board I'm doing our best and I just want to thank each and every one not just of the retirees but also the staff that got to or get to close their door soon um and hopefully enjoy a good summer break with their families with their children with their Community to do what they want what they love to be able to come back in the next school year to again do um what they are best at um being with their families our children in classrooms and in our schools and with that I also want to acknowledge all of our eighth graders who got to promote who are going on to High School uh going to be a part of a new Familia a new District wherever that is that they may go uh may they never forget that they have a part of Alum Rock that we will continue to root for them um that we want to hear about all the accomplishments and everything that they're uh doing um and that you know they always have a place to come back and give back to them I want to be teachers in the future they might want to be superintendents they might want to be school board members that we always have an open door for them and also actually the limiting classes from kinder uh tkins to Kimberly fifth grade to middle school so the babies um it is exciting it is exciting um you know I just it's just dream come true advocating for uh here and so I'm honored uh to be a part of this movement of this new Isle of Mock and I look forward to the many more accomplishments that we will be here celebrating together thank you okay thank you vice president Herrera loera but Quintero um have the opportunity to join uh at the couple of promotion ceremonies and I always really exciting um the energy is just infectious and um it you know it never gets old um it's I I consider it a real perk to be able to be a school board member that goes out there and see the faces of all these kids uh and it's not just some person from the community you know it's so we were there for a reason um and so it's really really exciting to to to see the energy that's there by the kids the family um hey everybody and you know shout out to the folks at Madison that just really went over the top today and you could just feel the energy like over the top and so it was great it was amazing um and so it leads it leads me to conclude that that doesn't happen by itself it's uh because of the work of our teachers um our staff everybody who's putting in the work you know as the kids are you know they were holding their ceremony inside campus and so other kids are running the class because they're still having to and so it was cool to see the live campus and all while the celebrations are taking place um while kids are moving around with their equipment they're their instruments you know it's really amazing to see that happen live right there um and so with that being said I I want to thank you Jocelyn for the work that you've done I came onto this board I think a couple years after a few years after you had taken over as president and so I lucked out and being able to be on on a board that had a um a the leader of the largest bargaining unit um that you know knew what they were doing that uh was uh was was in it for the right reasons to move our district forward um I I want to underscore and reiterate that we are lucky to have had you because they're you know there's board members talk and you compare what's going on in the places there are folks who are just in it for themselves for their particular unit and while you zealously advocate for your members like you should you still look at the bigger picture and it's always been the case I know that um we've we went to some really tough times and you could have just said figure it out on your own um I gotta focus on my on my people here and that's it um but no you didn't you stepped up and made sure that the community as a whole was left in a better place than you found it um and so thank you for that I really appreciate your um your diligence your your commitment to the district um um thank you for being there gracias acrostic Flora Shelton thank you president fam um yesterday I did attend uh two promotional ceremonies I was a little late to avalante one so I was just kind of in in the back watching all the action and yes the Infectious the band that we heard this this afternoon they were on fire yesterday and just um you could feel the joy right you could feel the joy and um um Miss Martinez it was it was a great event um and I I could sense to I haven't had the time you know so thank you to my colleagues you know for having me join you uh this this last year and I hope to really have a more Presence at the schools and get to know the administrators so much has changed in 10 years for good in many ways um and so anyways I I just really got a sense of I haven't been on the other lengthy campus in in quite a long time so I I do have a commitment to you to to get out there and to to the community to get out there the other infectious event um was a the Shepherd Middle School uh promotional ceremony Independence High School um that President uh fam and I got to attend and again just the the music and the families and the joy and the diversity it was just um it again it was infectious and just wonderful to be a part of the community seeing um again sort of that there's so little still in eighth grade and some right and they're just kind of seeing them ready to Embark um on their next Journey um I saw superintendent Glenn vanderzee today and I thanked Tim for you know hosting us at these um for these promotional ceremonies um but again a Shepherd Community and other communities I I do look forward to having that presence next year um I will say to just kind of looking at enrollment as we're wrapping up the year about 7 800 students so when we have this conversation next you know June you know all of this investment all of this work you know I know uh we want to up our numbers but maintaining those numbers and making sure that we're um changing the lives of those um 7 800 young people in our community I think is is job number one for us so I just thank you for being a part of this um looking forward to lots more Partnerships and I do want to wish all the retirees um rest and and gratitude but all of our teachers and all of our staff kind of take a take a breath take a pause and then we're back at it right so um again just thank you um you guys you guys are smiling right now it's not back at it um but it is a team effort and Dr Bauer thank you for your leadership um uh in times of joy and in times of um constraints and challenges and take that breath and then be back at it with your team so thank you all righty I will wrap up since I've got quite quite an update but first jealous I'm going to I'm going to miss you and I know that Sandra may have left the room but I want to congratulate Sandra Rivera on uh on her succession to the presidency of the Alum Rock Educators Association I look forward and I think I can say for my colleagues we we look forward to uh a long and productive relationship and dialogue and you know and to validate uh Sandra's uh considerable tenure with this District as well uh boy it uh You Know It uh and a Twist of uh personal history you know 25 years ago I want the aisle at uh the power Middle School eighth grade graduation uh at James lick high school so uh 25 years later I'm in the position to close out this District's 93rd year the see our eighth graders go off into the world and have my signature on their diplomas but uh nurse things first so uh last couple weeks of the school year I visited paint term that column and Shepherd uh I had the opportunity to read to the Vietnamese dual language classes uh the kindergarten class was uh very very interesting and I I had the uh you got a Kinder yes the the famous you know uh after I read they all being stuck in the Chuck E cheese balls you know but uh uh you know but I just received a thank you card from their class and I'm very uh you know gratified to see the programs growing to third grade where you know painters in a great place uh McCallum uh Miss blank had the best uh silkworms in the Cocoon so uh uh first graders uh first graders raising you know uh raising silkworms to study the life cycle of an insect I mean uh you know great things happening and uh I thank superintendent Bauer for joining me in Kitty meet the class that Miss lipinski's third grade uh where the the topic of the McCollum playground was the hottest topic they couldn't stop asking about that but uh but uh you know uh great you know great to see our kids learn uh the elements of democracy also the elements of you know freedom of the press and journalism and to ask important questions of their public officials uh at Shepherd I saw off the eighth graders I visited Mr Pickles the clap the the the the the eighth grade science patent yes I went to to their graduation and Independence High School where I told uh trust before Shelton yes I I have home field advantage because that's the high school I went to but uh but uh you know I want to congratulate all our eighth graders not just but also uh Renaissance at Fisher Renaissance at Matson Joseph George Okala um you know uh what is it the aptitude Academy of Goss Hubbard media arts academy Adelante one and I don't want it too which is uh which graduated their first class of eighth graders today so uh we are all we are all proud of you and I I wish you all you know all the best in all your future endeavors uh and I hope that your their time your time in the Alum Rock School District has given you a great start to your education uh uh let's see here a parent University at the Rancho Del Pueblo Golf Course uh record setting turnout over seven 700 parents came out uh you know we're you know uh great collaboration between our district and thirsty to give our community uh opportunities at other districts and Charter Schools don't offer uh but uh you know it's always important to be able to connect with our parents and to let them know what their District can do for them uh I attended the Alum Rock jazz band fundraiser last night I mean last Saturday at uh Mount Pleasant High School that I mean one of uh always great to support uh I would say one of the two crown jewels of the Island Rock Visual and Performing Arts program uh you know he uh he isn't here uh you know I I think he wasn't able to make it but uh Randy Barber is the retiring music teacher that was his final concert uh as a as a active Alum Rock music teachers I you know two would like to wish him all the best in his retirement and I I'll always uh you know uh Randy Barber and I have a very nice in the sense very nice relationship he he speaks his mind and I I appreciate it and he's a fine musician and I also uh appreciate that greatly so I mean uh thank you for all his years in in service to Alan walks his Performing Arts programs uh vice president Herrera and Laura and I attended the mayor's budget Town Hall at the Mayfair Community Center uh uh on the 31st of May uh we you know I spoke with councilman Ortiz and you know we've making progress about the issue of uh uh homeless encampments but also and gratify to learn that for the time being uh you know my efforts and as well as a superintendent's efforts of worn fruit and uh having San Jose learns uh funded in the upcoming City budget so we're able to provide ownership State protect that that funding for our uh for our students so you know with that note this you know this has been a uh interesting interesting school year to say nonetheless uh also and so like I'm halfway through my board presidency so I thank my colleagues for bearing with with me this is my first this is my first rodeo with The Gap up here and also superintendent Bauer and her cabinet for uh you know uh uh bearing with you know we're bearing with my presidential style as well I mean you know I hope I I haven't been too onerous but uh uh you know this has been a very very active presidency and you know a good chunk of that and you know uh could not you know uh would not have been possible about the administrative support to kind of have you know have this uh you know uh vigorous vigorous School Board presidency so uh with that I'll close that out and we'll move on to item 5.01.
I would first like to thank um Karen Orrick Joe kimona as well as Dr Roxanna Hernandez for your hard work on supporting to put this budget together is a lot of late nights and weekends and so thank you so much for our hard work really appreciate that I want to give an overview on okay there you go when I give you an overview on what's happening with the overall economy so as we all kind of know there's continued to be a Slowdown and there are a lot of uncertainties at this point right in the overall economy um the latest number for the inflation uh as of April 2023 was at 4.9 so this is actually good from the height of um 9.1 percent back in June of 2022 which was the highest um in the last 40 years at um last June and so [Applause] um and our governor has really tried to um to balance the existing Investments which is our base funding of the lcff um while the continue at the revenue has really have a significant debt deficit um projected deficit of 31.5 billion dollars shortfall that's being projected at this point um however protecting the lcf funding does come at an expense of currently at um one-time funds reduction being proposed at the main buy so this is something very concerning for us at this point and the governor didn't warn as well in May that should there be additional economic risk to the budget that deeper reductions could be necessary so do you want to make sure that we know those and in this presentation I'm going to be highlighting three um themes the first it's going to be reduction to one-time funds and second will be declining a woman which we've been talking about that that's across the state and then finally the declining in attendance rate which is now the new star of the um budget at this point for many of the school districts the first area I want to talk about is the reduction to one-time dollars and this is the Arts and Music and instructional material discretionary block grant when the budget was passed back into early in 2223 our initial allocation was 17 million dollars for our district and and then by January this reduction was proposed to 11 million dollars and then the latest May revise um it's being proposed to further reduction to 8.7 million dollars and so the issue is this we have already this money was supposed to be nerated we received about um we received 50 of it already at this point so this would mean that if this do get this funding does get reduced then we will only be keeping the 50 and then knock um receiving the other 50 so this is extremely concerning as obviously we have lost about 8.7 million dollars through this process the next um proposed reduction is the reduction to learning recovery emergency block grant and so um as of this our initial allocation was at 47.7 million dollars at this point we have received the entirety of this dollar amount already is already in our account at the county so the money is already here and so um the proposal to reduce um this is to reduce at about 32 percent to 32 million dollars for our district so this is an extremely significant loss to our district and unfortunately we already have this received this money so if there is a reduction what the state could do is to count it towards our principal abortionment from the lcf based funding so if that were to happen then we will then do some accounting to make sure that this happens but it is extremely unfortunate that money has been received and um now is the um reduction coming through and I've been in this industry for about 20 plus years at this point I'm not really seeing something like this it's like you get some you know Cuts but this is the money already in the bank and so that is very concerning um for for us at this point I do want to talk about um prop 28 so um just this is something that the voter passed back in November or 22 and the money is supposed uh will be starting in 2023 our estimate currently um is about 4.7 million dollars and expenditure plan is actually required for each School site um we did not budget this amount currently for our 2324 budget because there is no accounting code relating to this that we are not able to budget in our system currently and so when so something to yeah so we we check with the county and um and and uh the people we know and so they said currently there is a there is a budget a projected amount unfortunately there's no accounting code that we could put into our system at this point so just want to make sure that um we are aware of that and when we when they release the accounting code then we will be bringing that um Revenue into our budget when do you anticipate that we have been waiting we have not heard um we thought by now we would have already had it but it's not nowhere in the um the code structure that we have seen so we could not budget this amount at this point so there's they have they have already loaded the on the website about what you can ask and we've been you know checking on it and the county has been checking on it and so that's what they said just just I mean it's it's you but there's no accounting code we can't really budget that amount it's not just we we finally the state whatever is Which accounting number you have to put in so we have to follow the state guidelines so um I do want to um now the so that that the um so the second theme is the declining woman and this chart here shows us the uh top 10 projected decline by county in um California and so as you can see Statewide averaging uh trending is uh between 2020 to 23 to 2031 to 32 and then about uh a 10-year span or so um it's about eight point two seven percent Statewide but you can see some of the counties are projecting uh for example Ventura County 17 drop right that was a long time but still that's a significant drop um Orange County did not make it to top ten but Orange County uh drop is still at uh 9.55 projection and so obviously that's something that we continue to track um you can see here um overall 12 counties um across the um the state are projected to lose more than 10 000 students between 22 to 23 including our County um and 18 counties will lose um more students faster rate than the averaging of 8.27 and Orange County is one of them so we do want to make sure that um something that we continually to track our enrollment is a Statewide phenomena on this point I think this will show you that this is a phenomenon across the state and certain counties obviously is a lot worse um so but we are like within the top 12 or something but it's still very very specific and then we continue to attract this enrollment now we've been talking about decline enrollment for a long time now it's like more than 10 years we've been declining right so this is the number that um that we um have been I'm targeting but now the new star of the show is actually attendance rate and so this will show you what the state averaging has been and so if you look at prior to the pandemic right per um districts were about 96 or so right um and 95 to 96 and our data has been between 95 to 96 as well so and then we get funded on the P2 which is the the last two column there but I just wanted to actually um let the board know that our district considered we're a secondary school district for us to have such high numbers is very impressive because most of these data also include the elementary school district and the Unified School District and the attendance rates tend to be higher for the younger group of children and if you look at the data 2122 data at um P1 across the state level was 91 our district we were much higher 93 by P2 how we were funded uh state level was 90.49 our district we were at 95.16 that is almost a four it's a 4.66 percent higher than Statewide so we really applaud for our staff for working really hard with numbers of first year coming back from the pandemic our kids came to school despite everything else that was happening and our number really really showed that so at the state level they have been dropping since 2122 it didn't hit us until this fiscal year in 22-23 um remember I shared that information um since um since um January we saw those numbers we were tracking them we were basically declining about a percent a month and uh thank you Dr German free for leading that task force to address the chronic opposition that we have and we have now stabilized at this point but the point the key point is this at the state level there has been a four to five percent drop across school districts and so we have been working on that now I know we continue to work on that there's committees at school side level to really address this but this problem thing hit us until uh this year compared to all the um other school districts and for us to continue to have um the rate that is a little bit above this state average I think that is amazing consider that we are a secondary school district at this point and so I think this is something that we continue to track and working with outside to make sure that we need to be bringing those numbers up and this is a something that now has becoming uh something that across the state people are working on this and figuring out what is what can we do to improve this attendance rate at this point foreign so I want to show you like the effect of what um the difference between enrollment versus Ada because we get paid based on the average daily attendance when they show up so when our race drop from 95 to 91 that's a huge difference and so on this um chart here you will see um how we get funded so in 2223 we also um look at how much the face funding and then what our our current ad the Ada number is what their current Ada and then versus the funded Ada so in 20 to 23 our base funding is about 300 almost 301 million dollars in 2324 you can see our numbers um drop as well at this point but our increase is about 314 um million dollars so a net of increase of about 13 million dollars or actually 4.36 and as I watch I'll show you on our multi-year projection the cola at the state level the cost of living increase is actually 8.22 so when we tell people oh we're getting the we are getting the 8.2 to increase however without declining enrollment and are declining Ada because of the attendance rate the increase is actually only 4.36 percent so I want to make sure that we know that and there are other things for example that we do pay for the stuff and call it increase right people if they get more education then they get a little bit more money and each year when people are here um especially on the teacher's side you do get the increase in your step increase there's also the health and health benefits increase as well that we have seen and um but you know our increases are much better than some of the other surrounding districts we have amazing health benefits committee which our two board members do serve on that committee really working hard to make sure that we get the best plans for our employees as well and so really do think that committee to working hard on that but unfortunately with everything going up there's also the cost of going up with the health benefits as well Nancy can you give us the percent approximately of um the servicing existing salary schedules yes absolutely so for example for stepping column does we um budget about 1.5 to to that so if you think about that um of our total salary schedule that's about a four million dollar increase you know each year that would go on just for the stepping column um the health benefits um increase we've been budging about 10 and does the industry standard the budget between at least 10 percent and maybe up to 12 depending on what's happening in that year and the health benefits increase would be about six million dollars a year um and then recently uh we have also increased the um property and liability insurance as well as a workman's comp insurance as well and those are going up about one million each uh each year at this point so with an increase of 2 million so there are already a lot of increases that we already have to absorb as part of our budget and so I just want to make sure that to show this to see what what we're actually getting in terms of dollar amounts so those percentages actually come off and lower the 4.36 definitely by maybe another one and a half to two percent oh for sure so total for total for example for each year is about a I'm currently between 10 to 12 million dollar increase so pretty much if you look at how much being absorbed bulk of it is already being half we have to use that money to feed the um these increases already at this point right okay and so this is a Anitra I wanted to uh present um is the um of the enrollment projection with our actual Ada this is the Ada we're funded not um so so this is that sorry this is the actual Ada that we are actually generating not the funded Ada because we are protected for about three years based on the new current model um and as well as the unduplicated people account which includes our students who qualify for free and reduced lunch English language learner as well as Foster youth as you will see here um we are projecting to continue to decline and um currently our next year the number is going down to about 27 000 students and we are projecting to decline to about a little bit under 24 000 in 26 um 27 at that point and um as you can see the actual projected Ada currently is at the 91 attendance rate obviously we're hopefully hopeful that we can increase that rate uh as we go through and making since now we we do know the problem we had a delay effect from compared to compared to other school districts but that even one year as of not falling um to the 91 percent is helping us with our overall budget at this point so we are very hopeful um that we can continue to work on that this is the financial um projection dart board that we are the assumptions we are using as you can see um the cola for next year the cost of living adjustment is a 8.22 so this is a increase from the initial um projection that we receive of 8.13 so then we are putting the 8.22 into our budget at this point um so you can see the kelpsters employer rate is now at 19.1 percent so that means for every dollar that um that we pay employees the district has to pay 19.2 cents so just think about that so that's something and the employees also have to pay their employee contributions as well um so that we have that um the um on unemployment insurance that that's um that's it's good it's actually going from 0.5 to 0.05 but just remember not that long ago it was only 0.05 so we did have an increased quite a bit and then it's not coming down so for the uh proposed adopt the budget for general fund and 23.24 our total revenue is I'm showing here 566 million dollars and you can see the bulk of our money now is um and has been is from the uh local control funding formula lcf and funding they're at about 74 percent for the total expenditures we are projected to be about 566 um million dollars um for this um Coming um fiscal year at this point and you can see here this is the multi-year projection um that you see here so for the proposed about the budget we are taking in 566.8 million and then total expenditures about 566 million so net Odd as well we do have a positive uh balance in that year of 431 thousand dollars but if you're looking at at the out years we are now projected to deficit spend starting next year on 9.8 million dollars 13.7 million and 28.5 million dollars we do have um the um that with the new um Reserve level the current year Reserve level will be at 9.78 uh drop um and then us staying about 9.86 the following year and then going down to seven percent and then in the um fourth year out at 5.11 close so what are some of the final thoughts so as you all know the Texas the tax extensions for the disaster disaster areas in California which are going to be both of the counties across the state with the tax extension until October 16th there is really tough to actually get the budget to see what the true numbers will be and we're looking at possibly November that that's what they're telling us that that the state would have better number at that point so we I'm sure that the state level was on budget on prior to their timeline um but we must be um looking at what happens when the tax revenue dupe you'll come back around October and then with the information for November that time and so we'll be uh really watching for that I think around Thanksgiving that's the time we think that they'll be releasing all those numbers so we will be cautious waiting to see what those numbers look like at that level um and so the governor um have the um will be adopting the state budget spending plan by June 15 and so that's we'll be going to the board um at the same same net as well so hopefully so you've been hearing some of the things that will be coming out with between this week and next week to see what are some of the one-time things that that the cuts hopefully they do not come there are other things that the governor can do which we do welcome but not not that will be better than having the one-time reduction for example some years ago you guys remember we had a lot of deferrals but deferrals is better than right getting those reductions that we are seeing those at this point so there's different things we can do with deferrals um and maybe that they can dip into the winning day fund if they do need there is a raining day fund at that point that they can possibly start doing that but by but but what they're doing right now is cutting the money they already have given to us when the and a lot of the money is already in the bank that is really tough for to operate uh the way we're doing and obviously we want to continue to monitor what's going on but we are um hope for we are hopeful and and really try to make sure that um that one-time Cuts do not continue to come because the possibility is if there is continue decline in the overall economy they could possibly take in even more and so that's something that we are extremely concerned um at this point and um so once we do get um this the state adoption of the budget and we'll be bringing to the board a 45-day update I do want to cautious that at that point I don't think the revenue picture is very clear and so really waiting until probably November will give us the um the best numbers at that point and then this concludes my presentation I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have anybody have any questions I just had one clarifying question on the learning recovery emergency block grant um since the money's been already allocated you said um since we already have the money it will come out of which funds so what they would do is instead of giving us the lcf of Base funding so you saw that the base funding there right so what they can do is let's say um if they cut that they can say take your money and um basically count towards your base so we may have to move the money into a different path so accounting will be interesting but well I'm sure we'll figure out how to do that when that happens okay thank you for clarifying no worries anybody else yes so with counselors there is um they are um there are boards that they said these are rates and so um so far there is a statute that our calstrs they cannot um change that but Calpers is a little different Calpers can that board can set those rates but not a calstr so it would take quite a bit to to make that change and so do you remember Calpers and even calstrs Ray it was a 8.25 with calstrs it wasn't even that long ago and with Calpers it was at 13.02 percent and seeing that literally double at this point it was very quick um increase and so that's something that all employers are looking at to see what we can compensate because with those increases that is a very big factor as well but at this point the numbers are stabilizing but it's still we look at back not even that many years ago that number were much lower I mean was basically less than half thank you for the question any other questions thank you for your very concise explanation it's very graphic unfortunately thank you thank you so much thank you okay moving on to uh consent calendar do we have a motion so I moved second motion a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed by zero Advanced planning we see the our next board meeting is going to be on June 15th seems kind of maybe next week huh next week we'll be back again today all right so any suggested agenda items hearing none do I have a motion for number eight or nine excuse me adjournment so moved second motion a second any discussion [Music] thank you thank you one and all good night thank you
he served as violence fire director for 25 years until his retirement in 1985. director ronketti also held many other leadership roles in fire service and Community organizations in Vineland and across the state of New Jersey he was a decorated combat veteran who served in the Pacific Theater in Japan during World War II and the peacekeeping operation which followed the war Lloyd accomplished these achievements in addition to being a successful self-employed businessman what is most extraordinary about his life is that he accomplished all of this despite the fact that he had only been given the opportunity of a formal education until the sixth grade he had left school to work on his family's form because of this and because he was an intensely curious lifelong learner Lloyd championed the importance of training and education throughout his fire department career he established the first formal training requirements for violent firefighters and was later the driving force behind the creation of the violent firefighter training program which eventually led to the establishment of the current Cumberland County Fire and EMS Training Center Lloyd remained an active supporter of the Vineland fire department and was an inspiration to generations of firefighters for over 80 years he answered his final call in April 2019 at only 100 years and four months Young thanks and rest in peace boss the Lloyd ronketti scholarship was established in 1998 as a director to director as a tribute excuse me tribute to a director around Caddy's outstanding commitment to Education and Training and his tireless work ethic and dedication to the Vineland fire department and Community the scholarships were awarded annually to individuals who wish to further educate themselves but may be in need of some extra financial assistance to achieve their goals and dreams and if you would indulge me with a moment of personal note um I have been blessed to know this evening's recipient for literally his entire life I watched him grow up to be the extraordinary young man he is so I'm very happy and proud tonight to award the Ron cutting scholarship to Sebastian Mercado [Applause] at this time I would like to call Mrs Sharon kremets program manager of the Big Brothers Big Sisters to the stage to present the next scholarship Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland and Salem counties are awarding scholarships to graduating seniors each in the amount of one thousand dollars recipients are currently a trained or matched individual High School big brother or big sister this year's recipients are Brianna Crooks Madison christovich lizeth moyao Jimenez Talia Stewart Addison bergenov and Kenneth wettstein [Applause] Big Brothers Big Sisters has established a positive working relationship with CC Tech over the past few years through the mentor 2.0 program so we want to also give a special thanks to past and current program managers Miss Leah Sadler and Mrs Sharon kremets with us tonight [Applause] at this time I would like to call Tammy Wetzel board member for the Victoria Sierra Foundation to the stage to present the next scholarship [Applause] the Dr Thomas L spray scholarship is presented by the Victoria Sierra Foundation a local non-profit that exists to enhance the lives of those impacted by congenital heart disease the scholarship is available to high school students who have a congenital heart disease diagnosis yet continue to work hard to achieve their goals congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect in America it is a lifelong medical condition that consists of cardiac birth defects that are present at birth there is no cure only symptom monitoring management surgeries and other procedures the Victoria Sierra Foundation was founded by the hedgement family and Victoria Sierra hedgeman who was born with congenital heart disease and has under undergone four open heart surgeries in her 26 years of life the organization started the scholarship to support other young adults with congenital heart disease as they work to make their dreams become a reality in college a trade school or another post-high school training program Dr Thomas L spray is a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon who recently retired from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia he successfully operated on Victoria's heart three times and is a world-renowned surgeon and educator the recipient was chosen for a commitment to her future and the condition of her community she uses her talents and skills to make the world a better place for others and we couldn't be more proud and honored to present this prestigious scholarship to Lauren Thompson [Applause] thank you I would also like to recognize Steve hedgeman Victoria hedgeman and Jen Parisi board members of the Victoria Sierra Foundation Lauren will be going to rcsj for her Associates and then Rowan for Bachelor's in physical education [Applause] at this time I would like to call Mr and Mrs Carlos Mercado to the stage to present a Mercado family strive scholarship foreign [Applause] family is offering two 250 scholarships to students in the strive program this year's recipients are William artists and Christian Sanchez [Applause] Willie said his favorite memory of tech is learning new tasks and meeting all his friends after he graduates he would like to start working and use all the skills he learned while at Tech Christian said quote my favorite memory of CC Tech is spending time with my favorite teachers because they showed me my full potential [Applause] at this time I would like to recognize Mrs whitcraft on behalf of the William J whitcraft trade scholarship please stand to be recognized [Applause] the William J whitcraft trade scholarship in the amount of 500 is in memory of William Bill whitcraft Phil served as a paratrooper in the Vietnam War a motorcycle Enthusiast and spent most of his career in the construction industry as a foreman on heavy equipment or as a heavy equipment operator he finished his career with the Westchester Area School District facilities Department bill was known for his work ethic love for family and passion for motorcycles this scholarship is to be awarded to a student who has excelled in the trades this year's recipient is Yale Suarez [Applause] Yale will be attending rcsj next year and will continue working at Diamond materials he would like to thank Mr Mack his construction trades teacher for quote teaching me and guiding me through the years I have learned so much from him [Applause] I would now like to introduce to introduce Mr Michael feaster njfmba southern district vice president to present the lieutenant Ernest alsley scholarship thank you [Applause] good evening everybody my name is battalion chief Michael feaster I'm a from the city of Vineland fire department I'm also the southern district vice president of the New Jersey State firefighters Mutual benevolent Association I'm here tonight representing over 5 000 career firefighters EMTs and dispatchers from across the state for over 120 years our Union has advocated for our members and all First Responders every year our foundation holds and administers a scholarship program excuse me that provides scholarship Awards to individual high school students who will be attending an accredited school of higher education of his or her his or her choice upon graduation excuse me every year we receive hundreds of applications this year we are awarding four six thousand dollar scholarships our prestigious and competitive scholarship program is named after Lieutenant Ernest owsley who died at 49 years old on September 4th 2000 while on duty at the Roselle Fire Department I'm honored to tell you that this evening our award recipient is one of our very own from violence he will be attending the New Jersey Institute of Technology and we couldn't be more proud of him on behalf of our president Eddie Donnelly and more than 5 000 members of our Union I would like to congratulate Sebastian Mercado as our reception [Applause] before I announce our next scholarship recipient I would like to invite miss Patricia Robbins come join me on stage to present the next scholarship the robins Spirit scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars is to be awarded to a student who was involved with tech clubs activities and organizations this award will be given at the discretion of the student services team this award is being given by miss Patricia Robbins retired assistant principal from Scarpa Tech Miss Robin's oversaw the student services team clubs and organizations and school activities during her tenure Mrs Robbins fostered the development of student interests and promoted student involvement Club development and pride in Career and Technical education Mrs Robin's witnessed many students flourish as a result of their engagement in extracurricular activities these students have left their Mark at Tech and their school spirit will be long-standing their example will allow others to follow in their path of belonging acceptance and fulfillment as said by Tony Robbins success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure this year's recipient is Louis Rivera [Applause] Louis will be attending West Virginia Wesleyan where he will look to earn his law degree while playing baseball and Rocket League he was on a rocket League team that qualified for the national championship he wants to thank Miss Daigle saying quote any time I needed help you were there even when I didn't think I needed help you were there you always bring a smile to my face and that made me want to continue to do well in school I know that if I ever need anything you'll always be there thank you for everything foreign [Applause] I would like to welcome Dr Rossi president of the ccasa to the podium to present the ccasa Allen Associates Insurance scholarship in memory of Stanley Allen [Applause] good evening everyone the Cumberland County Association of Supervisors and administrators along with Allen Associates Insurance Group present two Scholarships in memory of Stanley H Allen these two 250 dollar scholarships are presented to students whose outstanding performance in their program has set them apart and they're continuing to pursue their hot trade or higher education or employment this year's recipients are Shira ratesh and Sean Henry [Applause] while at Tech Shira was an active member of HOSA skillsusa interact and Science Club she is also the class of 2023 Treasurer and Sean will be attending Lehigh University next year congratulations to both [Applause] unfortunately Mrs Barber was not able to join us and this is her favorite time of year so I send her congratulations to all the recipients today but I have the privilege of awarding her two scholarships the first one is the Darlene Barber scholarship award this 250 award is presented to a student of the shrive program who shows dedication to both athletic and Scholastic achievements this student selected has shown leadership and a desire to continue their education this year's strive scholarship recipient is Christian Sanchez [Applause] [Music] the next scholarship is the strive outstanding scholar award this 250 career in technical outstanding scholar award is presented to a student graduate of strive who has shown dedication and determination by maintaining the highest academic average in his or her class this year's strive scholarship recipient is William Arden [Applause] [Music] foreign I would now like to invite Mr Ronald franceschini president of the CC Tech Foundation board to the stage to assist me in presenting the CC Tech Foundation scholarships [Applause] these scholarships are supported by a foundation board that consistently and continually supports each of you here today and your peers in the other classes at this time I would like all the foundation board members to please stand and they are spread out and some of them are parents please stand and be recognized for your efforts [Applause] thank you [Applause] the CC Tech Foundation board was founded in 1999 through a donation from the estate of Mr Mel Camp the Cumberland County Technical Education Center Foundation was created as an independent non-profit community-based Corporation forms for the purpose of providing increased community support for cc Tech by directing available resources towards areas of identified need the Cumberland County Technical education center board provides an effective mechanism through which Community Resources can be allocated for worthwhile programs and scholarships for graduating students the foundation is a vehicle for informing the public channeling support for the students of tech enhancing Community participation and furthering the quality of Education provided by our Board of vocational education the mission was expanded in 2017 with the generous donation of one million dollars from Mr and Mrs John F Scarpa and their Foundation [Applause] since 1999 the CC Tech Foundation board has awarded scholarships and grants to graduating seniors totaling after this evening close to six hundred thousand dollars foreign [Applause] as recipients of these scholarships 24 of them to be exact so I think we need to hold our Applause till the end beginning with our automotive technology program to recipients Cassandra Luna Castillo and jazlyn Carmona [Applause] Cassandra will be attending Lehigh University next year and she will be studying mechanical engineering and Jazz Lynn was part of the National Technical Honor Society and represented our school as a tech Ambassador during her Junior and Senior year congratulations [Applause] from our construction trades program our two recipients Cody Smith and David Oquendo [Applause] Cody plans to continue his academic career at rcsj to study business administration while also working with the local 255 Carpenters Association David would like to thank Mr Sean McDonald for always knowing what he is capable of and knowing who he is congratulations [Applause] from our cosmetology program I'd like to recognize Evelina batteda and Emily Marino Castro [Applause] Evelina will be attending Thomas Jefferson University and studying pre-med she wishes to pursue a career in the medical field and after four years of undergrad she will be attending Medical School Emily will be attending Stockton University to obtain a BS in Psychology where she hopes to pursue to become a licensed therapist congratulations thank you and now from our culinary arts program I'd like to recognize our award recipients Lauren Thompson and Giovanni veliz [Applause] Lauren would like to thank Mrs Evans for being such an incredible math teacher through three years in Algebra 2 pre-calculus and calculus saying quote she has helped me become a better student and person Giovanni would like to thank Mr Reuben salido for his dedication and effort towards his education Mr salido and I have worked closely the last four years within his Spanish Heritage class but also while coordinating the lawsuit Club in that time he feels he has grown more than he ever would have imagined all because of his teachings thank you Mr salido [Applause] now for our next program engineering because of the large size of the engineering class we as a foundation board award four scholarships to our engineers so I'd like to congratulate this year's recipients Sebastian Mercado Natalie Parkhill Jessica Simpkins and Natalie rep [Applause] Sebastian would like to thank his engineering teachers Mrs Shaw and Mr Ziller Natalie would like to thank Mrs April Peng for helping her break out of her shell and become who she is today saying quote you made me more confident in my choices and ideas and you were a great person to have meaningful connections with Jessica will be attending Rowan University in the fall where she will be majoring in civil and environmental engineering and Natalie would like to thank Mrs Ian Freeney for standing by her throughout her entire high school and Early College High School career [Applause] award recipients are coming from our health science and medicine program tonight we'd like to congratulate Anika milotti Marissa mannell Ava lavari and debriana Russell [Applause] Anika was involved with interact HOSA National Honor Society Asian cultural club and was a student council officer during her time at Tech Marissa competed in HOSA all four years having taken third place in the Regional Conference this year Ava would like to thank Mrs Birdsall for always being so engaging comforting and supportive of her students and for motivating her to enter the health care field and debriana has been dancing for 15 years at various levels and academies she now teaches dance congratulations tonight we would like to recognize from our information technology program Saleem Aiden and Kaylee Barragan [Applause] Celine will be attending Penn State University next year and he will be studying Information Technology systems hoping to pursue a career in the I.T field Kaylee will be studying real estate to become a real estate agent and future entrepreneur congratulations [Applause] and from our law enforcement program please join me in congratulating Samuel Albrecht and Samantha Smith thank you [Applause] Samuel will be attending the University of New Haven next year where he will be studying Homeland Security and Emergency Management and plans to study abroad in Italy he would like to thank Sergeant paragnato for inspiring him to be the best person he could be Samantha will be attending Gettysburg College in the fall she will be majoring in Psychology and while she was here at Tech Samantha was a part of the National Honor Society National Technical Honor Society president of interact and varsity captain of the Vineland high school girls cross country team congratulations [Applause] and next I would ask Miss Chloe Swift to join Mr franciscaney to award the next program from our TV studio production and broadcasting program please join me in congratulating Parker Swift and Rebecca panchy franchisee [Applause] Parker will be attending Montclair State University where he will be dual majoring in film and television and information technology Rebecca will be attending the University of Valley Forge this fall and she will be studying digital media video production congratulations [Applause] from our welding technology program please join me in congratulating Elric Figueroa Montero and Kimberly Harvey Elric will be attending Rowan College of South Jersey pursuing an associate's degree in computer graphic art he then plans on continuing his education in Seattle for a certification to fulfill his dream of becoming a Marine welder Kimberly would like to thank messini for assistance in skillsusa and Mr Bonner her welding instructor congratulations [Applause] at this time I would like to invite Foundation board member Mr James varuccio Jr CFO of the burns Cole Automotive Group to the stage to recognize the recipients of the next two scholarships good evening everyone I'm about to get in trouble so I asked Dr Rossi if I could speak to the graduates and she's Hampden Hall gave me that look and I still fear my principal from high school and more than that if you're a superintendent so notice she's still standing I know I know where securities uh I just want to share an experience that I had this week and it's all about you I was here at the school to take two potential donors a potential uh local construction owners to share the story of tech and it speaks for itself as you well know when they walk through that Halls they were in all of you but the experience I had is when I arrived early for my 11 o'clock I was in the that cage you know you can't get in and can't get out and I was waiting for Dr Rossi and I heard and I saw something that was a real experience so Mr McGraw will go through and we'll figure out whether or not you have enough credits to graduate but I'm going to certify this class as ready to graduate after that experience you showed creativity you showed fun you're laughing you showed Ingenuity Innovation teamwork but most of all resilience and respect for those of you in the audience that don't know what I'm talking about the seniors did what we'll call a pop-up event otherwise known as a class prank and they exhibited each and every one of those attributes in doing so and filling up one of the rooms I believe with over a thousand balloons and a moon bounce but the best part of that is that they did it in the right fashion they asked for some a little bit of permission and a lot of forgiveness and it turned out to be an awesome event so I just have to applaud you and I'm going to certify to Mr McGraw that you're all ready to graduate and take those skills with you so thank you very much [Applause] I'm also up here to give out two scholarships this evening and it's truly an honor on behalf of the parents call a motive group we give out a five thousand dollar scholarship every year to there's so many great applicants when we go through the rubrics to score them but this year's award goes to a gentleman who has done an awesome job both in his field of study but also I mean their accolades here referral uh praise referrals and student of the month and varsity letters and it's it's just great to see a well-rounded individual such as he he is going to pursue uh his and further his education on a motive and this is another key tenant for those in the audience Automotive wasn't his first choice but here in Cumberland County we want to obviously get people into the skills and it became his favorite choice and he's graduating and moving on and pursuing a degree I'm sorry a career in that Mr Edward Sykes please join me on the stage foreign [Applause] I also have the honor of giving out the a new scholarship award this year and it's the from the bull family scholarship so you know here we always talk about returning to the community of what that taught you so well so Renee on a Coursey bowl and Ken bull starter Foundation uh Renee was from the area they live outside of the air but they heard about the tech school and they wanted to be a major part of it because they believe in what happens here and they wanted to develop a CTE scholarship and they've done so and generously put forth a scholarship of five thousand dollars so this year's recipient I'm pleased to announce this giovano Giovanna Amado Ivana foreign [Applause] Giovanna again has done so many astounding things too many to list to announce but the most important of which she's going to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design and major in film and television thank you [Applause] well I guess I'll let you slide now since Mr gruccio is certified the class so that's usually my job but I'll take it the next Foundation scholarship in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars is the Mel Camp Memorial Scholarship this is awarded in memory of Mr melkamp a retired tech school to work coordinator when Mr Camp passed he donated his entire estate to the tech Foundation it is through this generous donation that the tech Foundation was formed this award is for a graduating senior who is continuing their practice in one of the following areas Automotive construction trades cosmetology culinary arts or welding this year's recipient is Elena Spencer graduate of Cosmetology [Applause] Elena will be attending Temple University this year oh look at that Mr franciscaney she will be majoring in musical theater for a BFA and wishes to pursue a career in the entertainment field she plans on continuing to work on the side as a licensed cosmetologist As She Goes to School congratulations [Applause] tonight we've talked a lot about community and making sure that you give back to your community and all of the sponsors of these scholarships do just that but there is a special person here today that is homegrown and when I say homegrown right here from Vineland and the senator I had the privilege of kind of growing up next to and one of his favorite teachers is here I think Mrs Robbins Senator test is a 1994 graduate of Vineland high school and he went away to college at Villanova University returning back to his community and making us proud as the senator from our state of New Jersey of the first legislative district so it is my honor and privilege Senator Testa to introduce you to our graduates to say a few words Senator Tessa [Applause] good evening and she's absolutely right Miss Corson as she was known then was certainly one of my favorite teachers and great teachers are important and I know from what I've already heard how many of the Great teachers that teach at this awesome Institution have affected your lives and you'll carry that with you for the rest of your life believe me all I can say is wow what an amazing and extraordinary group of gifted students assembled here this evening 96 students are being recognized 176 scholarships have been awarded 66 of those scholarships are awarded by the CC Tech Foundation totaling 79 800 dollars in total there is 183 and 125 dollars in scholarships 13 Automotive 12 construction 12 cosmetology seven culinary arts 34 engineering 44 health science and medicine 12 information technology 15 law enforcement five for strive 13 studio production nine in welding congratulations to each and every one of the recipients in your parents grandparents and Guardians that are in attendance this evening ladies and gentlemen I know I'm getting a little bit older because I'm seeing some of my friends children who are recipients this evening and individuals that I went to school with my classmates children who are receiving some of these amazing scholarships it is my privilege to be at this distinguished ceremony to celebrate and recognize the outstanding accomplishments and talents of these students I would like to take this time to congratulate each and every one of you for being honored here today for your achievements in academics leadership community service scholarship character and your enthusiasm which were shown through the hard work and dedication that each of you have shown through your time and attendance at CC Tech one thing I'd like to encourage each and every one of you is to try and come back bring your talents back here wherever you go and I know many of you who are graduating are saying I'm never coming back that's what we all said trust me hopefully you'll at least consider coming back here to Cumberland County to make Cumberland County a bit a better place and give back to the community that has made you thus far there are several things that are necessary for most merit-based scholarships selections can be based on community service good grades athletic Talent High standardized test scores extracurricular interests and activities and passion for a certain industry or career field each recipient tonight deserves our admiration because I know how tough the scholarship selection process is take time to congratulate yourselves and each other for the reward of all those late or sleepless nights when you had to balance overlapping commitments and when you had to miss having fun with your friends I would also like to congratulate the parents families friends and Educators for showing unconditional support motivation encouragement and love to these remarkable young people who we recognize today I would be remiss if I didn't say congratulations for surviving the pandemic and having to learn remotely for quite some period of time I know firsthand how that affected children and you're here today with a crowning achievement to our students you have the traits that will help you navigate through life with a purpose a code and compass that will build the foundation for success and most importantly it will make your life fulfilling when your dreams and goals are achieved I would like to congratulate all of the recipients tonight for your exceptional achievements and talents and we look forward to witnessing all of the successes you have yet to realize that will come in your future so without further Ado it is my distinct pleasure to introduce to you a friend and a mentor of my own Mr John Scarpa [Applause] Mr Scarpa will be awarding the John F Scarpa Legacy award the John F Scarpa Legacy award is in the amount of ten thousand dollars and is being awarded to a graduating senior who plans to pursue a degree and a career in one of the following areas information technology engineering technology health science and medicine law enforcement or or TV studio and broadcasting this graduate has earned a 3.7 GPA or higher I'm going to allow the namesake of this Legacy award to award that scholarship Mr John Scarpa if you could come up my dear friend thank you [Applause] foreign the good news [Music] the good news [Music] the good news is I'm the last person you have to sit and listen to tonight [Applause] the rest of the good news is that I do want to congratulate each and every one of you and I will and your families I really want you to know this that as an old guy with gray hair when I was sitting in those chairs in my high school graduation I had to listen to some old guy with gray hair tell me everything that I needed to do let me tell you right now I hate when people tell you you need to do something it's just my personal pet what uh I do want to tell you you're going to do and talk to you about it for just a few minutes and I promise you is uh very simply to say as everyone has said to you tonight including Senator Testa uh is congratulations on your achievement it is truly an incredible I was thrilled to get out of high school because I was not a good student I am a graduate of a technical institute and I'm very proud of it and each of you should be as well the also want to thank the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners for establishing this incredible building and this school along with the Board of Education your superintendent Dr Dina Rossi and her administrative staff and teachers as well for the wonderful job that they do and have done for each of you over the last four years the employees of every Department that has made this place possible to function including safety is just a remarkable remarkable thing for all of you here it was all of these teachers and the teachers who have taught you throughout your height throughout your education I think you should be most grateful for today most of all it's your parents and family Senator Tessa comment on another kid as well but that's true and I also want to thank today I want to talk to you about something simple very simple technology is breaking down all kinds of barriers in our lives in your lives and I began a future career by reminding you first learn how to code computer code is something for everybody else that doesn't understand that including me as an analog guy now in a digital world coding is a very important thing that it's a language that you need to become familiar with and I mean that sincerely it's it's programming with a set of instructions that's going to allow each of you in your lives to go forward in your careers and yes A1 the AI Revolution is here today we've already using it most of us don't even understand that we're using it at this moment but we are an artificial intelligence is exploding everywhere truly is and what I think it's most important for all of you is the unbelievable opportunities and challenge that's going to afford each of you uh chat GPT a conversational system that allows you to talk to each other create what you want to say when you want to say it and it has not only that but your own independent thoughts and beliefs blockchain technology with digital way of tracking all transactions whether they're tangible or intangible then of course a digital currency called crypto much more is coming at you fast and furious so how do you navigate your future so you can realize your dreams how do you face the challenges and the fears that each of you have because I know what I had in high school maybe still have some uh to get beyond that and to move forward just sit back and take a moment and let me talk to you about what I call connecting the dots the thoughts in your life as a youngster a week perhaps all of us learn how to connect the dots on paper then in order to discover the picture designer Vision that we had in our mind but learning to connect the thoughts in our lives is the real challenge it is one that is not easily visualized going forward but comes together as we look back Upon A chosen pathway I was born to a hard-working family in violent Jersey and that ran several different Divas we ran several different businesses in our family my dad died when I was five years old so my mother had to take over family raised five siblings and my [Music] I understood at that point that life just was not just was not there it wasn't fair you don't lose your debt it just go on with your life at that age so that one on the paper [Music] now had to find DOT number two go forward as a family then the family unit looking to our mom to carry the load of to each of us found thought number two and three I need to con learn to contribute to share getting the job done and the same for all families many families go through this the following dots four five and six were connected as I applied myself in school it looked really very hard for DOT number seven something that made me excited something that I was passionate about that I look forward to each and every day creating my future and my pathway you will too about seven materialize when I became curious about science and specifically things that help me to communicate that Curiosity and thirst for learning how to improve our lives through communication brought me to dots 8 9 and 10.
this year's recipient is Julius Smith [Applause] Julia has been involved in the Varsity Softball program Varsity tennis Rotary Club unified Club Special Olympics Varsity wrestling manager and Key Club and environmental Club she's planning to attend George Mason University while she wrote major in forensic science science and minor in criminal justice congratulations [Applause] Carol Lombardo hello my name is Rebecca Urban I'm the president of the Union Township historic preservation society and this is Donald Cox who is the widower of vicox the scholarship that will be presented both of us want to wish all of you well The Violet Cox Memorial Scholarship was set up from donations made by friends and relatives upon her death the money collected was sufficient to provide a Perpetual scholarship in her name when she passed away in January of 2000 she'd been a teacher throughout her life at Fisk landing and Fisher schools in Ewing as a sixth grade teacher at Incarnation School and as an eighth grade math teacher at Dunn Middle School during her life she belonged to many historical organizations throughout New Jersey she helped establish the Victorian museum at the Contemporary Club in Trenton she worked tirelessly to establish the State House historic district in Trenton and the Delaware Valley chapter of the Victorian society of America she served as an elected member of the young Township governing body and for many years was the president of the New England Township historic preservation Society Violet established the young historical commission and worked to establish many historic sites in Ewing she helped create the Mercer County Recycling system that we currently have having served in charge of the health and sanitation department in Ewing she started the Ewing drug abuse Council that used to meet in her home in 1999 the state of New Jersey had ceremonies at the State House along with U.S senator laurenburg awarded her the annual award for historical preservation in honor of violent Cox we are presenting one 500 scholarship to a student who has indicated strong interest in further study of history we are very pleased to present this award to praise the Lord [Applause] Ray lamardo is a well-rounded student and by a very strong academic record we're very proud of your accomplishments and machine well in your college career congratulations [Applause] I actually stood on the stage years ago graduated from you and I and my father this scholarship is in memory we have two of them to give out memory and my dad started here as a math teacher and retired as assistant superintendent he was known Mr Cox woman who just presented he was known to us as Mr Kiwanis very very involved in the community the Kiwanis Club community service and also in education so these two scholarships both in the amount of five hundred dollars are to two students who have exemplified those qualities so the first one I think you've heard this name before but I'll read a little of the biography involved in the Key Club member of the National Honor Society Rotary Club section leader of the marching band cheerleading Captain MVP can you guess who it is could it be Ameristar [Applause] the second excuse me the second is um a student who's also highly involved in the Ewing Key Club she's been involved in the School Musical for the past four years as well as yarn Works outside of school she participates in Girl Scouts and plays the piano and in the fall she will be attending TCNJ majoring in electrical engineering told wanimi akanosa [Applause] thank you so congratulate all of you and just wonderful paths ahead and thank you for allowing me to spend some time [Applause] hello everyone uh congratulations graduates um myself I'm Cindy Hutchinson I'm co-advisor with Dennis in Dallas and we're here to present the rich Prosperity scholarship the rich presbytera scholarship is sponsored by Johnson Johnson it is a thousand dollar scholarship for a senior on the EHS robotics team the scholarship was started to honor founding jmj mentor of the robotics team who passed away for pancreatic cancer shift goes to Christian Alvarado during this time on the team Christian worked on the mechanical side of the team working on fabrication and assembly he worked his way up in his senior year as he rose to the to the captain of the team and also on the drive team um not only has Christian mastered the demands of the robotics team but he also participated on the tennis team and in the Princeton University Preparatory program this fall he will be attending Stevens Institute of Technology in a major of physics [Applause] hi I'm Carl Reasoner and this is Don Cox we're both from the cool arts Club of human on behalf of the U.N Kiwanis I'd like to congratulate all the Award winners tonight as well as all the other Ewing high school graduates on their upcoming graduation I know it's a exciting time moving into a new phase of your life I'd like to also congratulate all the teachers School staff parents Guardians for their hard work to help the senior seniors get to this point in their life uh just a little bit about the Kiwanis Club Kiwanis is global a community of clubs members and partners dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time today we stand with more than 550 000 members globally and that includes the key clubs such as the one here at Ewing uh uh high school and uh other Kiwanis family organizations in English students each Community has different needs and the Kiwanis empowers members to pursue creative ways to serve the needs of children such as fighting hunger improving literacy and offering guidance the children that now are graduating young adults of Ewing are the hope for the future and although we are recognizing only seven young adults tonight we believe they each graduating senior has the potential to contribute to the uh the Ewing uh Kiwanis awards are in the area of leadership scholar Scholastic Improvement scholarship and volunteerism we're going to start with the ones ordered on of that are presented by our foundation but okay so we're going to start with the George Burrell Memorial Scholarship which is awarded the first scholarship and service to a member of the Ewing High you might notice that we're very interested in the Key Club so our uh recipient of a thousand dollar award for the George a or Burrell Memorial Scholarship is Hazel Penner I know she comes down I read uh Nathan Kenner will it be attending Rutgers University it's a Psychology major her activities included Master singers musical tech crew International that's in society National Honor Society Key Club student council varsity lacrosse growths of varsity basketball manager he's with volunteer service included volunteer at mco's children's summer reading program the Ewing High School Recreation soccer she was a recreation soccer coach a peer tutor student council service and Hazel was also a member of the student council thank you we have a 500 Ewing Kiwanis Foundation scholarship for Jacob De Lucas and also uh one thousand dollar scholarship for Lizette back [Applause] again is pretty much the same chicken so highly involved in athletic programs she's a member of the wrestling the wrestling baseball and a bowling team she served as captain of the bowling team s and earned the award of student athlete of the month Jacob will in the fall Jacob will be attending Mercer County Technical School Adult School to study electrical will be attending tcmu studying liberal arts the council member who said played lacrosse for three years and field hockey for four years she's a member of the environmental club and the Key Club yay she attended the peer leadership honors course and the unified physical education class for two years oh okay there we go sorry our next awards are the Bruce White Memorial Scholarship it's for students who've shown most Improvement during their time at Ewing High School this scholarship is named after Bruce White who for many years was an educator he served many years as a member of the board of education for um and has been the driving force behind the projects that you and Kiwanis do in the Ewing schools including our first recipient of a 500 award is Michaela Williams field [Music] s she will major in kinesiology Michaela was a cheerleader [Music] he also served as a peer leader and a student athletic trainer she's president of the sports management club and volunteered at Fisher Middle School in Parkway Elementary throughout his four years at EHS Nevin was an act member of the football team serving his captain for two years entering a variety of accolades at the local and county level so so a member of the National Honor Society across team and spent time volunteering with Unified this floor he'll be attending University in Pennsylvania where you'll be studying mechanical engineering and playing on the football team thank you okay so each year hearing Kiwanis gives two outstanding leadership awards the first will be to um Nyla Robinson and this record will be to Jacob Schwartz majority during her activities include cheerleading serving as full Captain for winter Key Club yay and culinary Club Nevin throughout his four years of doing High School uh was an active member of the football team serving as Captain the doctor yes I did well sorry about that I changed uh very simple thank you very much the gore Elementary School parent Association alumni scholarship is awarded annually to a lower school graduate who continues to walk the walk of lore's unity program living our Unity words of respect ownership achievement and responsibility when the student attended law school he earned his link by living our Unity works traits including ownership and perseverance were celebrated on Unity days he showed appreciation cooperation and consideration by engaging in community service activities and when asked about his time as a student at North school he said Lord will always be a reminder that good character isn't an act and I will carry that in my journey as as a corner this year's recipient live recipient is a student leader in the drama club student council Orchestra and the international thespian Society they're all Whispering this is hysterical he participated as a member of the Rowan University Youth Orchestra from 2019 through 2023 and he's a member of the Ewing High School National Honor Society he earned the Rising Star Award for his work at the paper mill Playhouse in 2022 and earned honorable mention again this year when asked about this student his teachers called him hard-working and dependable someone who leads by example he's been called a leader ensuring that everyone around him performs at their highest level in the fall the student plans to study musical theater at the University of Michigan this year's North School LPA scholarship is awarded to Jaden White [Applause] good evening my name is Lenny personno and I am Debbie marks like it's so grateful to be here tonight it is with my great pride and admiration now we are here tonight to present Debbie marks Lake's Foundation scholarship also known as Debbie's Debbie was one of the finest student athletes At Mercer County who has ever produced she was a three Sports student athlete for Ewing High School excelling in soccer basketball and softball she was a member of the Ewing High School National Honor Society and attended to LaSalle University on a soccer scholarship where she graduated top of her class Debbie sadly passed away in 2015 after a very hard fought battle with cancer but along the way and still to this day she reminds us all to love life and always tell the truth be thankful this two thousand dollar scholarship is presented to a Ewing High School female student athlete who demonstrates the same qualities as Demi with regard to academic leadership and athletic achievements the recipient selected for the Debbie marsley scholarship in an outstanding UA high school student athlete she is hard-working and dedicated both in and outside of school with a 4.66 GPA my sister and I both had the honor of playing with this leading goal scorer for the last four years of the varsity girls soccer team who also earned the Mercer 33 award she is big on leadership in putting herself in the best position to be of value for herself and others she's a published writer and varsity athlete a captain for both girls soccer and track she took part in many clubs such as Sports Medicine jazz band marching band honor Symphony hit Orchestra manager to the girls varsity basketball team a peer leader and a member of the National Honor Society she is looking forward to exploring her her career fields in the publicity memorandum she plans to attend Loyola Marymont University in the fall my aunt would have been so proud of the accomplishments of this very special young lady the 2023 recipient of the Debbie Marsh scholarship is Sydney Smith thank you now I'm going to present the Mercer County Board of Commissioners Commissioners Mercer County Community College scholarship and of the Mercer County Board of commissioner scholarship is Mr Joseph de Leon de Paz coming up here [Applause] the hardest times here at EHS Joseph was a dedicated member of a wrestling team and needed volunteer to coach locally he was selected to be part of futuro which is a program here within the community towards uplifting folks affected by immigrant marginalization Joseph exited this program with greater exposure and understanding of financial literacy career fields and professional skills this whole Joseph will be taking all of these new skills to Mercer County College to study engineering science and during uh I said that but we wish Joseph both the best and this scholarship is for thirty two hundred dollars [Applause] to Mercer County Police and Firemen's foundation for families is honored to present our annual 1500 scholarship Awards to two very deserving candidates Kenneth Romero who will be attending Rutgers University to study criminal justice [Applause] the members of the Mercer County Police and Firemen's foundation for families would like to congratulate Kenneth and his family and wish all the seniors the best of luck in their future endeavors congratulations Ken [Applause] and after the presentation of the Parkway Elementary School parent teacher Association scholarship [Applause] good evening thank you for having us tonight my name is Amanda Howell and I am the PTA president at Parkway Elementary School today we're here to award the Catherine T Redding Memorial Scholarship to a student that demonstrates what Parkway stands for the parkway PTA has offered the scholarship since 1988 the scholarship came about mainly through the efforts of past PTA president Kathy Redding who passed away in 1994.
coach Moses and Mazza decided to take a chance on a stick Challenge and you know there's no harm in doing it so I mean it's a it's a good coaching move some some coaches and some players may not like that they might think something of it but there's nothing wrong with a stick challenge every now and then keep things legal for everybody well especially if there's something a little fishy you might as well check it right so they're definitely pressuring the ball but that's leaving gaps right yeah what a delicious pass that wasn't a good save good dish there from morno to lucasic who was making a great cut and tried to sneak that left-handed shot through what they call the five hole between the goalies right between the goalies legs and goalie just got the stick down there at the last possible second right potential slash number 17 here gonna go to the left keep going left going to continue to use her left hand and Hannah Taft just challenging her all the way out very nice run by Molly McLeod there for Holliston got it right out and looks like tally Weiss is right up on walker uh trying to keep her at Bay and putting pressure on here and oh and that's nicely done from behind the net yeah number 19 for Holliston Anderson Hastings tell you what a little short angle shot right there I mean they they were yelling 19 seconds over here 20 seconds to let her know to shoot you know you only had a little bit of time but she didn't waste any time in putting that one in the back of that low angle I don't think Holly was expecting to see the shot come in from that angle and just snuck it in a very accurate pinpoint shot by uh number 19.
I just want to make a brief remarkable industry yes as uh was mentioned um had its first graduation and I'd be remiss if we did not recognize the leadership book then superintendent Fists who stepped up and uh you know took some Extraordinary Measures to move I uh I remember I very approached him and said what are we doing with so many people on a waiting list being let go when we have declining rooms what do you want me to do about it figure out how to keep them we don't have space to create another school and um to his credit he went ahead and jumped on it and figured out how to make it happen um and moved forward and so I want to I want to recognize his uh his leadership in that as we acknowledge the fact that we have this growth as a result of the of the work that was done that uh back then and so appreciate um that those actions took place that has allowed us to keep some of those parents in that otherwise more more than likely would have moved on somewhere else so though we need more of those ideas um I in addition to that I would you know not be able to sleep tonight if I didn't mention the parents the founding parents especially that were the glue uh superintendent left you know and went on to do other amazing work somewhere else I'm sure um you know but the the parents that were there ensuring that we brought our kids to the school that we stayed through um and up to the 11 students that graduated was it promoted yesterday 11 students and their parents that ensured that they you know brought them and um stick stuck through the process I just want to highlight you know the PTA especially Myra and Ray Pineda um yes just want to highlight their work of endless hours day in day out um up until last night ensuring that our children there had an amazing graduation um and they you know they've gone through a lot so I also wanted to mention them thank you uh [Music] reminding me of that so with that I will thank you a little bit a fun farewell to our retirees our graduates uh you know uh have a to do to our families and our kids who are continuing with us or about to join us uh have a great summer we will see you in we look forward to seeing you in the fall and uh thank you for keeping us still east side San Jose's largest provider of uh zero to eight public education so with that uh we moved to item 5.01 public hearing local control and accountability plan would you please open this okay so I declare the hearing open at 809 pm um uh just let let us the public if there's any public comments okay okay so I will open I 5.01 to uh a public comment is there okay seeing no public comment I will close the hearing at 8 11 and with that we move to item 5.02 staff presentation I'm gonna turn it over to miss Garcia thank you Miss Garcia good evening board President Van Dr superintendent Dr Bauer um Board of trustee Community um Sandra Garcia uh director of state federal programs and it is my pleasure this evening to um share with you uh draft of the 9th of 19 I mean 1900.
and so I entered the fast growing world of cable television cellular telephone creating an internet company creating broadcasting radio and television stations and allow my passion to burn brighter than any of my peers I kept connecting the dots and I encouraged each of you to do the same in your own life suddenly I realized there was a picture on the paper that I was looking at forming right before my eyes as I pursued my dreams began to realize my success and you also will do the same about 11 came in the form of honoring lessons learned from my mother always remember your roots and you will also create a bucket of experience by doing so to guide you forward embrace your passion see the opportunities in front of you because they're there each of you are your own algorithm if you set the parameters you build the map and developed a process that will connect with dots for each of you I'm really proud to tell you that because I know looking at this class watching all these Awards tonight that you guys had that you know so the John S corporate technical education center of Cumberland County has given you the need to find those dots bet on yourself bet on yourself each of you and you will accomplish goals you did not even know would be possible in your lives Christopher Robin once said promise me you will always remember you are braver than you believe stronger than you seem and smarter than you think [Music] let's take a look at the world today quickly the opportunities and challenges you each of you have it's complicated from politics and National and Global fronts experience the pandemic as you have and we all have and suffering through it witnessing the violence in our society Ukraine where war and War who are we as a nation what are our intrinsic values how do we come together to build a better tomorrow you will be the leaders of that tomorrow now it gives me great pleasure to announce the reason we have all waited this evening let's announce the winner of the ten thousand dollar John F Sparkle scholarship the student has and I don't not sure I can get through all of it before you understand who it may be this student has it has achieved outstanding academic success the National Honor Society the National Technical Honor Society earn an associate's degree at Rowan College South Jersey in Liberal Arts made the superintendents list had perfect attendance the Dean's List early college high school programs 2019-23 State Regional NASDAQ gold medalist in the USA igc gymnastic competitions [Music] anybody figure that out yet um a tech ambassador participated in community organizations the world health education of the World Health Institute tb12 Foundation the Earth's Family Foundation led a group of initiatives for annual lunch distribution for the homeless population in Philadelphia I've got tears landed a publication for a political journalism USA Today and in her own words don't us don't underestimate Our Generation because we are smarter than you think that's a great statement that's a hell of a statement yes Miss Ava police [Applause] and uh going over oh sorry sorry [Applause] by attending Villanova University [Applause] I I don't even have words right now like you know academics and you know working the community and I put all my effort into it my entire life um pretty much everything I've done is to get to this point and you know we didn't really know how we were going to pay for full tuition for governor but this is gonna make a sadness [Music] for every board member and every professor and teacher and staff member I've had here for my last four years um the experience has been absolutely Dynamic and life-changing and I could not have asked for better and more fortified Foundation to build my future off of and I'm so excited to you know have the support and taking these next steps and you know I don't know what the future might bring but I with all your support and everybody around me I know it's gonna be great [Applause] thank you [Applause] you're superintendent Dr Dina Rossi will actually close in the comments with thank you all tonight thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] education and we had two very importantly [Music] vice president yes [Applause] develop Dr Nolan um [Applause] thank you [Applause] we've got a bunch of teachers individuals 2023 Educational Services professionals who organized Business Services [Applause] thank you [Applause] here [Music] young lady who is the energy [Applause] Tech Teacher [Applause] this evening congratulations
at the time of her passing the PTA voted to rename the scholarship as a tribute to her commitment to education the student that will be receiving this award tonight has not only showed pride and determination in their schoolwork but also in their Community we are pleased to present this scholarship in the amount of 750 to Sanaya Wesley thank you good evening and congratulations to all of the students my name is Mark pettiford I am the scholarship committee chair for the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated our great fraternity founded in 1911 was founded based on manhood scholarship perseverance and uplift we are proud to have participated with Ewing high school over the last few decades and this scholarship awards ceremony and joining me on stage to present our recipient is a graduate of Ewing High School brother Jeff Summers good evening thank you Mark it's always an honor and a pleasure to come back to doing High School and present these Awards but most importantly I just want to make sure I acknowledge everyone that should be recognized starting from the administration the Board of Education the faculty and Lasting most importantly the parents all right the sacrifices that they have made through the years can put you in position for success and to move on in life um also want to acknowledge the senior class as well as the award recipients here this evening all right tonight uh we do have a recipient and clearly um I've been doing this for a little over the 25 years or so and the Merit of these young people is just increasing me and uh exponentially Rising every year and I'm so proud to say that I am a graduate 1976 graduate you know in high school we were called bicentennials due to the bicentennial year and 76ers all right yes got to remind folks about that all right let's get to the water Pacific at this time we would like to have Mr Isaiah Harrison [Applause] just want to acknowledge a few things that were referenced by the administration the guys Department as well as the coaches um that he has uh put himself in a position for success by making sacrifices um to perform on the football field um his academic achievement his commitment to the Parkway School reading for America and his character are all major attributes and some of the things that we consider through our fraternity and he's a selfless individual we want to wish you and your four-year Journey at the College of New Jersey correct okay and as an engineering major most importantly as well so um so Isaiah again congratulations and congratulations to all the board recipients and the senior class as they move forward in their life all right thank you [Applause] amazing good evening everyone uh my name is Mike van Wagner I'm another member of the 70s from Ewing High Jeff is a good friend as is Pat artpants class of uh 78 so it's wonderful to be back here on the stage it's also wonderful to be back in this beautifully renovated Auditorium I have to tell you so I've been here a lot my girls were in the shows and it was always a Sunday matinee so all the things about this renovation you're going to laugh at the one that I'm most excited about there were curtains along there and in matter at night during performances but when you came to the Saturday matinee there was always one curtain that was open a little bit and it was well beyond anyone's reach so for every year that I came to that Saturday performance appointment that light is shining in so there's no curtains anymore so anyway thanks to the architect it was a fellow EHS 78 classmate of Mine by the way I'm delighted to be here to present the Lloyd Schneider award tonight on behalf of my brothers Matt and Tom who were music folks here and they started a foundation uh in honor of the Boyd Snyder this award honors a student who exemplifies both outstanding musicianship and Civic leadership your word has two parts the first part is this public recognition of their leadership the second part is the donation of a new instrument named in their honor and endowed instrument so the music department Mr Schneider is Ewing's director of instrumental music for 26 years from 1957 to 1983.
Henderson Hastings a sophomore midfielder so 18.6 left enough time to get down for one side or the other oh absolutely I mean one draw control and it's you know foreign about 10 seconds left and intercepted by Morneau very nicely let's see if East longmeadows got enough time to get it off she might is and uh good defense there at the end yeah you slow metal gave it one last hurray one last chance they were close to getting a shot off it was actually if the end there there was a penalty on Holliston but it was just a millisecond too late okay and so we're gonna go into halftime we're gonna take a little break here in East Longmeadow the music's gonna be blaring we got a little 10 minute break the fans are all leaving their seats to go down to the Snack Shack to support the East Longmeadow booster club we can buy some food and I think I'm gonna go down there myself Josh and maybe get myself a little something to eat here tonight okay it looks like we've got a five minute half time apparently well then I better get that food back go get it we'll be back thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you all right we are coming out of the half it was a short and a half time because we got started a little bit late uh and obviously the sides are going to change ends and we'll see um if that last goal from Holliston before the half will give them a little momentum here he's long that I was still in control but um you know again it's a whole half and uh you got to keep playing playing hard so the last whistle yeah I mean that was it really actually a really important goal I think Josh for uh Holliston not that it you know gets him back in the game but what it does importantly is it stops the running clock yeah so now they're only down by now they're only down by nine goals so you know eight meters penalties things of that you know after goals right the clock we'll stop so I I actually think it's equally as important for um this next goal is also important because if East Longmeadow gets it the clock will continue to run right and if Holliston gets it it actually gives them a little bit of a buffer right right that's very true good point um I enjoyed my very quick pizza snack down there it was a little bit of a line at The Snack Shack it was really packing them in tonight huh yeah they're packing them in making some money for the booster club which is great I got Allie Thompson of the draw here who is very successful in the first half let's see if she can keep it going and she does gets it back to over to Mourinho Mourinho taking oh all right good idea let's see if Megan Morneau can track that down she does and now East Longmeadow looks like they're getting themselves set up again they're interest good run by Megan and you know I'm curious why they were coming out so far on her there I mean you you know she gets by you and now we're you know they're out of position oh we're gonna get a little celebration here of some sort with morno and Mourinho they've got something going which is great always good to see the girls and ladies and student athletes out there having fun as well as competing right which is nice warno's got some just terrific moves you know she really knows her you know how to get in and around those nooks and crannies on offense it's really impressive to see how she weaves her way in and out of there some good offensive moves on that one Thompson on the draw we're gonna have a Chase and it looks like it's picked up by 17.
local accountability plan um so let us begin so it's always um not sure there it goes so this time of year is um always a good time to reflect on last year's um work uh in terms of the lcap actions and services and look forward to next year and see what we can improve on and continue to provide to our families and students so that they are the students are successful in our schools as part of the adoption requirements we're required to hold at least one public hearing which we're doing this evening at the same time we are going we're required to um uh also [Music] um share the budget for the school year and the budget will be for parents and then we in a couple of weeks we will have another meeting so that we can bring the plan for board approval which is on June 22nd this is just a reminder of what the process has been this year we are now at the public hearing stage and stakeholder feedback and then we will go for approval on June 22nd before we submit the plan to the county office event by July 1st I shared this last month so I will not share it again this month but just a reminder of the overall considerations um after we did all of the reflection on surveys data and forums the data from the forums and feedback from the forums so what I'm going to share now is um just uh some slides on the lcap draft and it includes the budget overview for parents there are three slides that were required to include in our lcap plan annually I'll be sharing a little bit of that with you um so some results in the annual measurable outcomes the four l cap goals for the 2023-24 school year and the actions and services under those four goals it's a little bit on the budget overview for parents so this chart here um shares with um families um a big picture of what the budget will look like and then the pieces that are in the lcat so uh the alamac school district for next school year um is projected to spend um the 156 million 274 232 dollars um in the whole budget of that total amount 117 million 649 000 is for it's from lcff and this is kind of small to see but it you have copies of it um so 25 million of that is for State funds um that we also um use in the total budget and then uh five million of those are federal funds like Title One title two title three title four all of the title funds that we also um include actions and services in the lcat but they come from federal funds um so 28 million of that lcff dollars is what has to be written into the lcat and that's what I will be reporting on this evening is um that that portion of the outcome and that is um based on the enrollment of our high needs students this chart shows the budget expenditures in the lcap so the total budgeted general fund expenditures are 163 million a 534 980 and the total budget expenditures in the lcap are 133 million 476 033 and um those are um uh the actions and services that are required to be written into the lcap the remaining um dollars are used for operating costs for retirement um uh system and for the federal and state and local um other grants that we receive that are not lcfs this last slide that is for the budget overview for parents um goes over what the total budgeted expenditures were for last for this current school year um in terms of high needs students so we projected that we were going to spend 26 million 695 554 and we spent uh 26 million 991 389 000.
a Cornerstone of his leadership was to make sure students from the fourth grade on up have free access to instruments to practice and play in 2007 the Royce Snyder fund was created to continue that Vision by providing new instruments to the program each year Ewing is known for a lot of things but we're also known for having an exceptionally good music program uh the Legacy a lot of that Legacy is Lloyd Snyder's the 2023 recipient of the Lloyd Snyder student leadership award is Sydney Smith [Applause] receiving this award for her exemplary leadership she has shown both musically and otherwise within the music program you have all heard about her athletic Festival it's just a few moments ago as part she's been part of this program since fourth grade and has never looked back pure alone Sydney led the marching band as senior drum major a role in which she not only conducted the band but also had to guide and Mentor her underclass peers she was also a performing member of Every Instrumental Ensemble offered at Ewing High School including the pit Orchestra for the spring Musical Sydney is a talented confident and passionate musician who led by example throughout her time as a member of our program here thank you for your hard work passion and dedication to our program this evening honoring City's leadership the music education fund is donating a new euphonium and for those of you who don't know your volumes you got to look it up tonight and that will be designated as the Sydney Smith congratulations [Applause] congratulations to the past 2023.
they're in the offensive zone over here to number 10. Izzy brosnick [Music] looks like everyone's gonna get it they're going to get everybody to touch here number three Caitlin has it working around taking their time it's a good cut by number 40 that yeah they're just kind of we'll say Islam Meadows zone defense has gotten progressed it had it kind of had its up and downs all year but it's gotten progressively a little better I think I've seen them their last couple games it's been a little bit it's been a little bit better here we gotta I'm not sure what that call was three second call I believe so we're gonna you know it's just a restart kind of from behind yeah a three-second call for those of you at home in that eight meter Circle a defensive player if you're inside that Circle you have to be within a stick's length great steal there by Ali Thompson she was just given the award by the East Longmeadow coach as the defender of the year for exactly that yeah this is going to be just a either oh she got us jammed up from behind oh trulio on a stick check from behind and now Eastland metal is going to get in its ride you don't see that happen too often no I think she just kind of like took her eye off it wasn't sure whether to pass it or whether to go and then when she went oh that one oh good pick up there by number 40.