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until we build those at a different location [Music] do you mean what the addition looks like what part of the building they want us to match I'd like to give you more masonry unless uh eat this on the building yeah keep it masonry but yeah I think it could look who's Rick would ever match so um I mean the brick that you have on on the building isn't uh being separated and having a lot of these physical in the high school to kind of active brake line yeah I I I think we could make something attractive there I think you definitely would want it to look like two front doors you know here's the high school entry here's a three to five entry and you're gonna have two distinct Car Alarm you know it's gonna be good I think in a lot of ways to have them look well I definitely like to know the answer about the square footage on the fields that's twice the size June on that hotel yeah yeah I'll confirm that right away I think I potential what might have happened was I used the existing building to create a scale and assumed that the new construction was drawn in at that same scale that could be wrong and that's what we need to verify I'm glad you you pointed that out because I so as an assumption made there and we'll just need to double check that and make sure that's the new part is drawn in to the same scale as the pieces have any idea or Steve how big like the if we call the river how big is that even having a square foot I'm just trying to get an idea of roughly a hundred by a hundred uh for you know the heart of Floyd Bowers uh 25.
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00 that's a little bit here it's just I'll get you one as soon as I can um I mean it's obvious that part of our credential discussion on the where is the best mindset long term is it to put those dollars at the North Hills side or put those dollars and build up veteran North or give me about the three choices only I forget the line item there it's 1.6 million or whatever and it's not a question of Integrity or anything but I just from my own information how do you assess Your Design fees and Engineering fees you track hours or I don't even know I don't think we gave Dave a fee so he might have plugged in a generic placeholder honestly and I just pointed in a Range that we've seen in the past and I just put because there is an exact number or we've put an exact number to it yeah we won't know the number until we know the project it's a percent of the hard construction cost is what it is it's not and it's not hourly and it depends on the type of work you know a roofing job is less expensive than a you know high-tech mechanical renovation job which is more expensive than new construction so anywhere you know on the low end work job it might be four percent on a mechanical job or something it's intense engineer it could be six and a half seven percent so it's it's going to be in that in there I mean somewhere around six percent five and a half percent but until we know the project and what we're getting into we can't really get the fee you know the project is it which one of these three yeah yeah so for me just to learn about how you do that okay yeah Dave has six percent I guess first time I think I yeah I think confirm to that but yeah which is a save for any of this it's a very safe fee yeah it's not going to go but they're like so like at least three projects there's one up would one of them be lesser one of the more but just for me to learn ah now no control now and some of the minor options we talked about about what if tennis goes there playground goes here or directly none of that would affect our feet in a name like option three what's the box that's in front it's to the West what is it uh yeah it's like that becomes the new playground oh on the site yeah yeah that's where I mentioned you know when you tear down the building you have a lot of land over there you can pay plenty of it for parking but you could also you know replace your plate around there and then we got into the discussion of is that not safe would it be better to go across the street to the north and if that's the case do you move the tennis courts to keep it close to the building you know or does the snowball stop kind of thing you know foreign scales and make sure the quantities of square footage here in the next couple of days and get back to you Mike and say a little promotion because that is one advantage the Metro North concept has going for it is the cost so yeah if it was two and a half shy you'd be at 12 29.
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if that assumption's correct about 29. you mean for the north level if you go with the 70s I think I think we've set room enough times as we know I don't want to under build absolutely so it's not a small gym and and if you think there's a possibility those two classrooms could be used to the somewhat near future is it 500 somebody to sign up is that that's a question for us 500 seats enough so what's the square footage on that bilater you're saying the score values be the same it's this year but then by the RC budget well that's just to give you a frame of reference to have 500 seats in bleachers off the floor so you can still have teams and timing tables and everything and be able to play a game well like the 17 000 square foot gym butter and I do the eight thousands yeah because you know I mean I don't I mean 17 000 if he's telling us the right square footage that's bigger than our big gyms because we're a 12 000 it's bigger than our big deal yeah yeah that might be obviously that's too much right I don't want that Metro Dave I want that Metro North Kim to be able to facilitate the Junior High game just for scheduling purposes how many visitors how many people do you want the seats for a Junior High game that's really what I would need to know to size the gym it's kind of like the church you don't all sit down yeah all I know is our little the rubber gyms are not big enough too small for junior high yeah very close to a couple hundred and those don't work yeah so whatever that's why I was trying to get that idea is how big those were because there's no sense of building anything that's false because that those where to know those don't work [Music] I mean it's just fine that's the way it works but you got that before when they play volleyball Crossways with two quarters now that's worth pointing towards yeah they're they're laid out to have two cross courts with the bleachers pulled back of court but I can I can verify the size and I can send some examples of Junior High gyms and you know see what feels right for for for this stage of the game and where we are and then you know that's it if the seeds from go from five to six hundred later you know that's just part of working through design so like the uh the the egg and Tech or the uh I guess like yeah like if we did the Northfield renovation we got those two rooms yeah do we have any costs at all figured into those two rooms of making them or they're just a classroom no no I'm just saying to make the monograph or you know like welding or you know woodworker you know obviously we got other stuff out there in the other building yeah we were we were told that they were basically the generic classrooms now with the the soft costs and Equipment costs and the things that are in the budget I would say most of that's probably in the budget unless something is very extensive or very intense they might not I mean correct me from wrong day but you know most of the general equipment in the classroom would be covered within this budget yeah um yes those need to be a welding lab is different than you know a wide open classroom that you might have a couple saws set up on one side you know it kind of depends on what it is but you know are you sure about these two rooms here yep is there a reason that they could not be pushed together or make one bigger room and have a hallway come in between that and where you have the sixth grade and so if you needed a shop class or something you could have instead of having too small yeah it could be one large room it could be one larger room and a smaller room we still have to have an egress quarter like instead of two kids out of the building have an exit so I'm saying put the exit in there so yeah we've connected people through there's a restroom right there that's maybe harder to go through but yeah you can always find a solution to a problem the biggest thing with those faces is knowing what you might want to use them for up front because that definitely will change the design and ceiling audience and all kinds of things depending on if it's a true dedicated chat space or if it's just a flexible classroom you know that's a different power requirements dust collection there's all sorts of things that go into the shop and lamp spaces that wouldn't be in normal classroom so can we ask you this question last time perhaps Adam that when you were putting this together you Dana did one seem to flow better fit better the Metro North Concepts just seemed to lend itself to those additional units being placed out on where the pods originated Easter hurricane that asset time is here with you okay we've been asked outside of these meetings but since we asked to the meeting there's pros and cons I think to Metro option and the Northfield option I think long term getting rid of Shark Creek is good for you it's an expensive building to try to fix up it's got plenty of issues if you take one building offline you're going to save money long term by having one last building now having it at Northfield if you do this option it's on the screen have some pros and cons we talked about connecting into the building other athletic events you're now on one well much more on one campus it also has grades three and five at a high school there's things there to think about having it at metro metro is a great building good building to keep willing to work on it's definitely you know a solid building from from our standpoint doing projects with you over the years there so I added three through five there um you know has it has its pros as well younger students all kind of on one campus adding the pods idea and adding on each Wing might be nice to help keep grade levels kind of separate I mean I think there's there's a lot of ways to slice it from a from a true building a construction standpoint though it's a good building for sure and I think uh yeah Shark Creek long term my opinion is better to to not be there I'll take it back up a little bit obviously both options like you said Hazard pros and cons the Northfield option does not fix our Metropark issues yeah that's good but my question if we do that much of the Northfield Outlet sir we're going to throw out much up but you look 20 years 30 years down the road do we want to be thrown I mean we're still going to throw it both but say we do lose kids and you want to go to two big schools you go to North Philadelphia foreign preschool three and four will that ever change even more so some people might say right away no that won't happen but um how much how much space is left on the land to expand the question North I appreciate the pictures of the ground plots that how much do we own and how much space at Metro yeah I know that you have more land to the east or there we go all right up to the field there to the east correct yes past that Lane right there past the lane past the Rope I introduced to the Lane and then to the north I mentioned on that new Pre-K Wing you could keep going to the north you know the Loop Road you go to the tree line further north yes okay so that Loop Road was you know even taken for the north on day one or if you had to spend money in the future to move it you could go north pretty far um so yeah you're not landlocked in any way I think it'd just be a matter of Designing the classroom editions and four hours to where you could easily keep going and in a logical way and not tell us Northfield is a little a little more tight now sharp Creek's gone you have a little more room there to the West field Tree Line there is a tree line yeah we're just north of the tennis courts I believe right there's a there just to the north that's pretty cool okay extension would be doable there that's one thing that's intriguing about the Waterfield dollars in my opinion is uh there is room for expansion if you wanted to make a want to get this just sheer Acres I have it on Beacon the North Pole areas shows 33.64 and then where Shark Week is is 1.67 and then there's four of the west of Shark Creek trouble okay so Metro North shows 24.1 Central North Shields 24.11 yeah and the difference in Northfield obviously instead of all the traffic I mean all the athletic facilities yeah it takes up a lot more than what is that what you want there's a lot of mulling going on at Metro North District well we're getting close to where we want to wrap up because we'll get ready for the next meeting but uh questions comments this time all right Dave appreciate you coming in again thank you thank you anxiously wait for some of those yeah we'll confirmations and we'll talk yeah first thing in the morning and make sure our numbers are right yeah we can get those the same and then in the meantime I can send multiple examples of Junior High gyms you know give you something that that one feels right or you know that's just at this level at least I think you want to be equal North Miami Elementary but there's a little bit different because they're the same parking lot as high school so that someone think of those things back and forth right you know about five miles away that's fine great okay adjourned all right
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all right so come on you want to do that sure come on okay if you can just repeat after me okay um I Stacy Juliana do you solemnly swear or affirm do some of the swear or a firm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of New Jersey and I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same [Music] and to the governments established in the United State into the government established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me hands hi Stacy Giuliano do you solemnly swear or affirm do you tell them where we're from did I possess the qualifications prescribed by law I accept the qualifications to prescribed by law for the office of mem a member of a board of education for the office of member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter I am not disqualified as a voter by law I will nor just qualified due to conviction of a crime or offense and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all duties but I will faithfully and partially and definitely perform all duties of that office according to the best of my ability so helping us thank you okay thank you congratulations thank you okay [Music] one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr Golden here Mr Jones second all those in favor all right opposed or City where you would have seen okay thank you all right we don't have any presentations um I'm sure we're gonna have public comment but we will follow the agenda and open a meeting to the public for agenda items only motion and a second mission second thank you to close me to the public second all right you're up good morning too I do want to uh to say it's nice to meet everyone in person the opportunity to students I'm very much looking forward to it it's been a good first month so far ship is sailing very smoothly you know a lot of good things in place negative has been taken care of everything to make sure I know where I'm going and not walking into too many closets I've met all the administrators everybody is where to dance updates on where we are the staff at this point in the year Staffing is always the number one concern particularly when there are some tough positions to fill very excitedly we have both an ESL teacher and the preschool teacher on the agent right because that was that was that that's nice against someone that summer gets later and later if they're harder and harder to find so it's it's been a good it's been a good start so uh I everybody knows how to reach me um and uh so if there's ever anything on your mind please do not hesitate thank you have you on my safety girls for Kennedy we didn't have time for eyes now it didn't happen in Canada okay um and then the eyes and marijuana listen I'm sure everybody's got a chance to take a peek at the um monthly reports so f is just to approve on Recreation to recognize the emergency virtual remote learning plan for 23 24.
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good evening everyone I'd like to open the our Board of Education meeting of July 27 2023 if you'd all please rise to a salute to our flag followed by a brief moment of silence the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all thank you roll call please Mr abadrabo your wad is absent Miss basford here Mr Brunswick here Mr Mejia here Mr Paris here Mr Santiago he is here virtually yes vice president Danny here president Smith here we have a quorum uh vice president Danny would you read the mission statement please the mission of the Clifton School District in an open and reciprocal Community Partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong Learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a Democratic Society in an ever-changing world the uh open public meeting statement the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the Clifton Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office Clifton Public Library administration building senior citizen Nutrition Center on cable TV in the local press on the district's website and mail to presidents of parent-teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one six eight okay um of this time the board will be uh meeting an executive session for uh contract matters um if I have a motion please to go to executive Mr um Mejia second by Mr Paris roll call Mr abajabo Miss basford yes Mr Brunswick yes Mr Mejia yes Mr Paris yes Mr Santiago vice president Danny yes president Smith yes okay there's no one in there are we going to shut those doors or yes uh the board met in executive session for contract matters roll call please Mr abadravo here miss basford here Mr Brunswick here Mr Mejia here Mr Paris here Mr Santiago here vice president Danny here president Smith here we have a quorum I apologize to the public if you were inconvenience for a little while um while the board was conducting their business we uh we appreciate your patience okay um bear with me one second [Music] okay so we have a public hearing on the amended contract of our superintendent the public is um able to come up and speak at the podium I'll just read a statement first this portion of the meeting is open to Residence non-residents of Clifton for the purpose of addressing the superintendent's contract only um residence on residents are requested if they're in person here to sign the register provider for this purpose all speakers to ask to State their name municipality in which they live before speaking comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by member of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and responsible beforethcoming if and when appropriate your questions may or may not be answered by board members the board asset members of the public be courteous and mindful to the rights of any individuals including the superintendent specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of New Jersey the board Bears no responsibility will it be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they're legally responsible and liable for their comments okay so public session is open if anyone wishes to address the award concerning the superintendent's contract would you check if there's anyone on Colin knowing their motion to close virtual please by Mr abajava second by Mr Mejia okay when I have public sessions or anyone excuse me and in person is there anyone here that wishes to address the board concerning the superintendent's contract by the time Keith gets going we'll be here I don't think this might sign it hello thank you thank you um as I was saying I probably wanted the longest persons here in in this audience right now coming to these meetings they say about 20 years so you got to realize in 20 years I went through one two three I think four certain tenants on Ben and you know I think Mr robotazi brought us to the next Cent where we should be and I'm not just saying it because you know you know how I am a straight shooter I tell you the way it is and I you know I have to go back some years here about Colvin and everything and I don't think if we had a different superintendent here they would have brought us to where we had to be with this covet and that stuff he he had a game plan not only him but the rest of his administration and the board here followed his lead and he did a terrific job look at our schools now our schools are being in our fields and everything they're being brought up where they should be and that you know people come to Clifton what we always say they don't just come here because of taxes or you know housing and all that stuff they come here too because of the school system not that they have kids right away but later on down the road where they have kids and they look at this this is very important to the parents the schools and that and again Mr robotazi works very hard on our schools and that there's no question about nobody in this District could say he don't he has brought us up to the next level I hear you know when you're out there in the public here teaches you hear other administrators you hear that and I never hear anybody say you know what I don't like our superintendent they may not always agree with him that's fine but you agree to disagree too as they say and I have no problem with this man whatever he should earn or get you got to realize and which I know you all you do we're not a small school system no way no how but listening and finding out what happens to other districts and what's going on we have one of the best superintendents in the state and I mean that truly we have one of the best superintendents in the state I'm any problem we have I know he's going to lead us forward he will think it out he will work with the board here and we will move ahead which is a great thing you P you pay people for what they're worth and this man is worth in my eyes a lot of money whatever he should get he should get and everything I don't want to hear about taxes this and that of course you know what if you had the wrong suit and tenant you're not moving ahead we're going to stay still here there will be no money that we're able to move ahead without the superintendent and act so to me it's a no-brainer in that I think that's about it thank you very much and Mr robitussi you deserve every dime you get thank you [Applause] that's okay well good evening to all my name is Lori lalam and I'm the president of the Clifton Education Association I am here as the president as a representative for this the teachers and the Paris and we are so happy to know that Dr Robert tozzi will be staying he has done such a fantastic job he has brought our district forward he has done collaboration he has settled a referendum to make our buildings look beautiful I am so proud that he's going to continue and I thank each and every one of you for voting for that so we have another few years to go and you'll be amazed on what's going to happen thank you and continued success [Applause] um Alliance Ragsdale you heard from the taxpayer you heard from the teachers in Paris and now you hear from the students if I had the opportunities to appreciation for Dr toazi then I absolutely will um he's gone above and beyond to ensure that students are part of you know large decisions and a part of things going on um here with the you know in the board building that we don't see often um whether it be with the superintendent ambassadors or the liaison committee he's made himself available to students I thank Dr vitosi and I'm very glad that he'll be staying here um and that's the student perspective you heard a taxpayer you heard teachers in the teachers in the Paras you know take us I appreciate you all for starting with him as well and I just show appreciation to Dr robertoza thank you so much [Applause] and his um his comments have nothing to do with his shirt wearing that he's part of the superintendent's committee has nothing to do with that people please do not do not hold all right is there anyone else that wishes to address the board on the superintendence contract motion close say motion to close by Mr abadrabo second by um Dr Danny um we'll now have a motion please on uh motion to move six number six by this password second bite uh vice president Danny any discussion um I'd like to say are we allowed to have comment now or do you want us to do it after we vote yeah we're going to do it we're doing it oh yeah okay in your comments can we take a five minute break yeah I think I said we would do it later okay roll call please Mr rabidrabo absolutely yes Miss basford absolutely yes yes Mr Mejia yes Mr Paris I have to abstain due to conflict Mr Santiago I have to abstain vice president Danny's we think about there's no discussion during the vote I wasn't going to discuss I'm just like letting him wait a second no eye rolling Mr Smith yes absolutely yes president Smith jeez follow that yes motion curse um congratulations [Applause] for the record Mr uh Awad um wanted to call in and cast his vote our attorney shot it down so I just want to put on the record that he wanted to do it but it was shot down um so everybody knows this contract will secure Dr robitosi in the Clifton school district for the next five years and I know we're going to have our comments later on but I just wanted to on behalf of the entire board so much thank you for all that you've done look forward to all that you will do and we're so glad that you are our superintendent so thank you doc best of luck and thank you to everyone who spoke okay now we're going to have public recognition for anything else other than the superintendents that's done oh I didn't think there was one hmm yeah yeah okay uh no maybe not Sam hold on one second no maybe not okay it's up to you we think that many will be all right so okay so let homework did she say more all right uh we're gonna just uh alter this a little bit because we have some students here and uh we don't want the students to be out on an on school night really late all right so we're going to have our student union representative come up first and then um Miss ragosa I'll put you uh next okay thank you is our student representative here I didn't think so either but they could they're more than welcome okay so we'll go we'll go to the next to our pbsis coordinator Miss Paul De bragosa who doesn't take the summer off and has her presentation to do thank you thank you um give me just one second to sign in we were having trying to be like Dr robotozy hard working that's why Clifton schools foreign hi good evening thank you um president Smith Dr robertosi congratulations fearless leader congratulations thank you all so much for the opportunity to bring pbsis to the Forefront on a wonderful summer evening tonight's event we're going to Showcase two amazing students in our summer programs Mr Jameson Salazar and Mr Renzo amadi so a little bit about what's going on during the summer with in the pbsis world and um and our summer programs I now have to use glasses so bear with me um so here we go with active involvement from both our dedicated staff and enthusiastic students the adoption of pbsis in our summer programs has been a natural and seamless process the programs have been thoughtfully designed to impact Behavior positive routines Behavior expectations to the students continuing the positive routines established during the regular school year so as a result it is evident that our one Clifton Learning Community has ingrained a culture of respect responsibility and kindness at its core today we pray we proudly highlight two exceptional students from our renowned summer programs whose unwavering commitment to pro-social behaviors have truly set them apart Prepare To Be Inspired as we shine a spotlight on these outstanding students their exemplary actions have not only positively impacted their peers but have also contributed significantly to the overall success and spirit of our summer program let their stories ignite a spark within us as we recognize the power of kindness and camaraderie so what we're going to do first is we're going to do we're going to honor our first student we'll present a certificate take a picture with their family and then call up the next student if that's okay thank you um so meet Jameson a shining example of the values we instill in our students at Clifton schools having honed his skills at Woodrow Wilson Middle School Jamison summer program experience exemplifies empathy and kindness so we see a theme Here folks we see our students working effortlessly all year long along with staff and it's now happening naturally and organically in our summer programs a heartwarming incident that truly showcases Jameson's compassion occurred during a school bus ride observing a younger student struggling with the transition back home after the summer program Jameson stepped forward without hesitation taking the initiative he approached the administrator on the bus and offered assistance to support the younger student throughout the bus ride Jameson extended his gentle guidance and companionship helping the student feel at ease helping him put on his seat belt and engaging him throughout the bus ride with a thoughtful conversation acts of kindness like these have become second nature to Jameson a testament to his genuine care and concern for others Jameson's Journey inspires inspires us to Foster empathy and kindness creating a positive impact on others so let's celebrate his remarkable character and the difference he makes in our Clifton Community congratulations Jameson foreign [Applause] yes please so Jameson if you would kindly come up [Applause] this weekend thank you beautiful thank you so much [Music] [Applause] all right that was lovely thank you so much um all right we are delighted to announce Renzo Amanti as our next pbss showcase student of the month throughout this summer Renzo has consistently proven to be an invaluable asset to the rollout of the pbsis program his dedication enthusiasm and positive attitude have made a significant impact on both inside and outside the classroom Renzo's commitment to modeling the program's expectations on a daily basis sets an inspiring example for his peers and younger students attending the program his strong work ethic and a wavering motivation have motivated others to strive for excellence and embrace the program's values additionally Renzo's involvement in the ticket collection process for the Raffles has been key in preparing for the program's events his active participation and dedication to making these events successful have truly been commendable with this Con with Renzo's contagious joy and determination the hallways are filled with an uplifting and energizing atmosphere creating a conductive environment for Learning and personal growth we are proud to have Renzo as part of our school community and look forward to witnessing his continued growth and achievements in the future congratulate congratulations Renzo thank you so much Renzo Would You Do List the honor of coming up [Applause] if you want to leave that I'll take a picture of all of you okay um that's wonderful three two one okay here we go three two one beautiful [Applause] you know so I would I would probably recommend that some people stand here thank you we're a little well we're a little lopsided but you know so yeah um so yeah you go over there there are a couple of people in the back there that we can't let's see there you go Mr Smith it's hard to see you Bob three two one some hidden faces in the back but not much we can do about that there we go three two one nice thank you congratulations everyone tomorrow thank you congrats everybody [Music] thank you to all the staff members who came out this evening we appreciate that very much including the fly ers should be an award whoever can catch that fly okay let's move on all right so now we'll go to public recognition I don't have to read that statement all over again though all right same statement I read before applies here if that's a good one anyone so anyone on the virtual motion to close please motion Mr Robert second by Mr Santiago public session please uh if anyone wishes to address the board please come up to the microphone state your name municipality and sign the register provided part two all right I don't have to repeat my name again everybody knows me all right this is the beginning of the new school year the Clifton Education Association is looking forward to working together with the for the betterment of our students their families and our community what are some of the opportunities where we can work together parent-teacher collaboration encourage regular parent-teacher meetings to discuss students progress and challenges collaborate on strategies to support outside the classroom both I'm sorry both inside and outside of the classroom community outreach look at programs that are here in Clifton involve students teachers and parents in community service such as cleaning up local parks volunteering at shelters or assisting the elderly a few more years I'll be there um workshops and seminars host workshops and seminars for parents and teachers on topics like effective communication student motivation handling stress or promoting a positive learning environment family events and there's one that I'll talk to you later Dr robitosi organized family oriented events like picnics fairs cultural celebrations where everyone can come together in a relaxed setting educational workshops for parents offer workshops for them understanding new curriculum guidelines homework help study techniques the new AI so we can keep abreast of that collaborative projects create projects that involve both students and teamwork and shared goals Community forums A Range Community where Educators parents and local residents can discuss education related issues and share ideas for improvement remember collaboration is key to creating a supportive and thriving educational Community by working together with the Clifton Education Association we can make a positive impact on the lives of students and their families and I would like to say on any of your committees if you would like any one of us to show up and to be a part of it or to give an idea please reach out we'd be more than happy to and I just want to let the board know that during February a group of us took part out in LA with the Nea to discuss practice and education accelerate student learning post covet so Clifton was very lucky the cea received ten thousand dollars from the Nea for this project so we're going to be reaching out for ideas for this project over the next three years so anything to get the community involved with our district any ideas are welcomed so thank you again and have a great evening thank you anyone else wish to address the board seeing someone coming up I don't count I guess I gotta Keith Bassett click to New Jersey I bet you nobody knows what Monday is going to be July 31st at four o'clock does anybody know what that's going to be Monday I call it silly season it's going to start Monday Silly Season you know what Silly Season means the people on the board here something's going to be running people on the outside is going to be running we're going to have who can make a deal and who's going to be president who's going to be vice president it's going to be a good season you know it took me nine months I'm back it's great it's like Facebook showing you down I was shut down for nine months but I'm back again and I'm glad because I made it my goal to make sure I'm going to be around for this election in November last year I was literally capacitated you know but you know it happens but one thing I'm gonna make sure and it's it's a promise I'm going to make sure the right people get on this board you know we gave Dr robatazzi him five years more and for him to succeeded five years he needs a proper board to behind him I don't need people up here that get up here just to have a title and everything I need people up here that's going to help him and help yourselves here move ahead with the school system there and like I said before it's very important you know I always I always say I'm going to bring up my speeches and that but it's not my style so I didn't bring my speech anything it's always off the cuff and that stuff a few things and I guess I'll be coming up here more as a silly season goes on in that but I am not going to hold back what I hear and I know for a fact if it's true I'm getting up here to say what's going on in that we already have some people out there and some people in here they want to make this a partisan election this is never been really a part of it's supposed to be non-partisan when you have that already you know what that means to me we have people that are trying to take over this board not on my watch it's not a threat it's just hey I'm a taxpayer I'm a citizen in Clifton and I have a right to be up here are you already spoke to my attorney about me speaking and he said to me Keith once you're up there telling the truth it's all that matters if anybody wants to come after you no problem I'll handle it for you and that and that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna come up here and make sure it's the truth and that and if somebody tells me he is saying something they say oh you know Keith Keith don't go by that key checks the sources and make sure it's the truth and I will make sure it's the truth in the sources people the other day on Facebook they're asking who's running you know at this point I wouldn't say anything because unless it's signed on a dotted line and it's down the county and everything I'm not going to say because then becomes hearsay and I but we'll see Monday by four o'clock who's running and hopefully we have some good candidates running and everything too it's very important I take this the school system excuse me the school system seriously what goes on my kids had a great education and I want to make sure the kids now have a great education which they are I want to move ahead I want you know they vote they voted the they voted you know Clifton as the 15th best city in New Jersey and everything which I don't believe it I think you know we still could do better in that but I want this school system to shine I want us to be up here with the state and the county I want people to say oh Clifton has this going on people has Clifton has that going on and B that's it and he went anyone else wish to address the board emotional close second none motion to close by Mr Robert second by Miss basford um all right uh we're just gonna skip a little bit here again yes um we have a presentation from our sister and superintendent if I can find you okay we have a special presentation tonight from our assistant superintendent of curriculum uh Miss Gina kusilevich Janina I said what'd I say Gina Janina kusilevich it's okay I answered anything so when I was in the classroom I was just Ms K that's as far as anybody got was just Ms k okay let me just here is the little presentation one oh why can't I see it have I gone blind oh I've gone blind good evening Commissioners ladies and gentlemen normally I would give you a printout but we have been having some network problems so there was no way for me to print but I will share a printout by the next meeting so that you have it for your files so tonight is a pro forma mandatory presentation of State assessment scores every time a different state assessment score is released to us we have 60 days to present them to the board and to the public so you've seen me present on njsla and start strong this year on dlm now I'm presenting on the NJ GPA and access scores from the spring Administration in the fall we're going to do a fall Administration so you'll see me you know at a certain point after that every again every time there's a mandatory Statewide assessment we present within 60 days the njpsa is a new statutory graduation assessment for administer to all students in grade 11.
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foreign at this time I'd like to call the meeting of the Dysart governing board to order and we'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all next we have audience with individuals I don't believe we have any thank you okay next moving to item C1 Dr cardo thank you madam president good evening governing board and guests just a few quick updates uh this past Tuesday we welcomed our new educator we had a new educator orientation in the Vista and welcomed a ton of smiling faces to our district the event went really well they continued the week in preparation for the school year coming up doing things at their local campuses and all that so it was great to see them back and and Welcome to our district so all teachers report back on Monday the 31st so that's coming up quick in just a few days our staff will be back on their campuses getting ready for that first day of school which believe it or not is a week from today on August 3rd we are one week away from starting the school year it's going to be a great year we can feel it just some other pieces to mark down our open houses for our elementary and middle schools happened and meet the teacher night happened on Tuesday August 1st coming up so just a few days for that and then our freshman orientation for all those brand new freshmen going into our high schools that will be on Wednesday August 2nd so we have a lot of cool events coming up starting the year off and we are looking forward to it and that concludes my update next we have governing board update well I did I I only attended the new Educators orientation and just want to say welcome to the 152 new Educators to the Dysart district and uh good luck with this upcoming school year we're excited to have them all I also attended the new educator orientation at the vista welcoming a lot of new faces to our district and it was really refreshing to see that so many of the new Educators were actually new to the profession so welcoming a fresh batch of new teachers is really exciting that's it I just wanted to take a moment and share some an exciting accomplishment of one of our our staff and teachers and coaches here in our district as we've shared before April 23 2022 coach Rachel matakis was inducted into the Arizona coaches association Hall of Fame which is an amazing accomplishment not many coaches in Arizona have been able to attain and this month Rachel montakis was inducted into the National High School coaches association Hall of Fame held in Nebraska and I just wanted to extend a heartfelt congratulations to coach matakis she's an amazing teacher an exceptional coach and just an all-around great human who I feel very blessed to have in our district she definitely impacts students lives for the better both on and off the court and I hope you will join me in congratulating her if you see her around campus so again congratulations to coach matakis that's all I have thank you moving to item D1 consent agenda I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda second motion carries moving to action discussion F1 Dr crota thank you madam president members of the board cabinet and guests we are proud to present to your recommendation tonight for our position of assistant superintendent for business services so we're bringing to you tonight miss Mary Dell Speidel is being recommended for the position a little bit you know her well but a little bit about marydale she has a Bachelor's of Science in accounting from Northern Arizona University and she's also a certified public accountant so I know we know that but she does a great job at it thought we'd mention that she also has some extensive educational experience this I learned that she spent nine years in audit management with heinfeld and meech so she brings that to the table and as of 2014 she was also the Director of Finance for Dysart Unified School District so in a position she hopefully holds for another about a minute and a half so we are very happy to to offer this recommendation Mary Dale has done a wonderful job and she will continue to do that she's joined by her husband and her daughter and a bunch of her fans from Business Services it looks like so I turn this over to you for a recommendation to approve Mary Dallas by Dallas the new assistant superintendent for business services foreign just how much I appreciate the opportunity to work with you I know in many many years past the previous assistant superintendent would always give you all the accolades for basically being the the backbone of a lot of what was brought together and presented to the board you did a lot of that work and we just really want to tell you how much we've appreciate I've appreciated just all that you've done for us and I'm excited to have you in this new role so congratulations thank you I would like to happily motion to approve the appointment of Mary Dale spidel as assistant superintendent of Business Services second motion carries congratulations congratulations congratulations next we have item F2 Dr kroto thank you madam president members of the board tonight Dr polling will present this recommendation good evening Madam president members of the board cabinet and audience Administration is recommending the addition of an interim High School principal position and recommending the appointment of Tom ludeman to fill the interim position at Willow Canyon High School for the 23-24 school year currently Mr ludman is the assistant principal athletic director at Willow Canyon High School he's probably a familiar face there in the front row and again that would be finishing out this year and serving as an interim High School principal position and that's our recommendation this evening I'll stand for any questions and he is joined here with his family as well I would like to motion to approve the addition of an interim High School principal position an appointment of Tom ludeman as interim High School principal for the remainder of the 2023-2024 school year seconded by Joe Grant motion carries congratulations [Applause] it's nice that you have your family here with you I'm sure you're very proud of your dad he does a very good job works very hard next we have action discussion F3 Dr Chrono thank you madam president uh tonight uh we come before you with the superintendent goals so by policy the governing board needs to talk about and approve goals for the superintendent so we have some presentations and then some discussions on the goal pieces so with that I will start in they're broken down I broke this presentation down with your goals on top so every goal we're going to go through the top one is the governing board's goals that are adapted and they are on the posted on the website the highlighted piece will be my goal along with the indicators and and the measures of how we're going to do that so starting with Goal a every student in all schools will be prepared with the Knowledge and Skills to achieve College and Career Success the goal that we are proposing raise academic achievement across the district through the implementation of professional learning communities and increased accountability of student learning so some of the indicators we're going to grow by three percent average on our K uh khc testing and a quarter point done act composite which is um pretty significant on the ACT test so the other indicator 100 percent of principles or participate in a series of four data chats with cabinet which are ongoing one the first one of those four is ongoing now before school starts but they're designed to make adjustment in their instructional practices and intervention to increase academic achievement these data chats are about all their data across the board what's required of them any patterns we see their plans to make changes in the conversations they're going to have at the beginning year with teachers the other indicator the third indicator you see a hundred percent of focus schools these Focus schools were identified by having less than 40 percent Proficiency in reading and less than 30 percent of students proficient in math or being an administrative team with a with a higher turnover and I'll explain that in a minute they'll partner with our Educational Service department for intense monitoring that will include visits by both assistant superintendents monthly and by education services staff monthly the schools are Ashton dicer Middle School Riverview Thompson West Point and then the administrative team since there was some turnover at Valley Vista so we have targeted Valley Vista to make sure that with all the new members in their administrative team that they're functioning properly and get the support they receive the last indicator in goal a is 100 the schools will implement the professional learning process with Fidelity as you know when we took them to the workshop this summer they had to come up with a rollout plan every school has an extensive rollout plan for their PLC process is done by quarters we will monitor that we will have meetings based on what they are doing and how they're rolling that out and make sure that 100 percent of schools are following the plan that they have proposed and that is currently ongoing also Colby excuse me Dysart Unified School District will recruit train and retain a high quality qualified staff to cultivate a culture of Student Success we're proposing that we enhance systems and procedures related to recruiting hiring and retaining a high highly qualified staff so our indicators in that by the end of 23-24 school year there will be an increase in the communication average use consistencies and community-wide Outreach for employment opportunities and benefits within the district what is that saying we're going to increase our footprint on our recruiting fairs on our social media and everything we need to do in order to make an effort to recruit and get people into our district so we have a serious focus on that we know there's a big need and that is a huge piece the other indicator in this goal is by the end of the school year we're going to develop a comprehensive customer service plan we're going to develop that and Implement that across all of our facilities not just our schools all of our facilities and that's hopefully going to increase satisfaction of all our stakeholders we are going to do some satisfaction surveys and and base that and customer service is a key part of all that and how we interact with our community on a daily basis how we answer the phone all those pieces how they are greeted when they come to our sporting events or after school events those are positive pieces that we need to portray as a district uh goal C uh the dicer Unified School District culture will consistently be reflective of safe and secure environment for all stakeholders the goal we are proposing continue to provide an increased focus on Safety and Security of each Dysart facility through enhanced safety protocols as we know safety is the top concern without safety and without safe schools we know our kids are not going to learn so that is the first and foremost thing we look at that our schools need to be safe and people need to feel comfortable going to our schools the indicators by the end of the 23-24 school year all campuses will have conducted regular safety checks and inspections in addition eight campuses will have conducted a full safety audit which you've seen part of and we'll see more tonight as part of the three-year implementation cycle for all campus and Facilities those are very very as you will see a little bit later this evening very very comprehensive audits they take a long time to complete but do go through every aspect of our campus so that one kind of has both goals that we do all our safety checks our lockdowns our drills our fire drills we're checking that doors are locked those are all the safety checks and inspections that happen at the school and then our second indicator is by the end of the school year training of safety operations and practices related to each position will have to be completed with all 13 sros all security guards for high school campuses administrators throughout the district this is becoming more important as you see the number 13 sros we almost have our own police force in Dysart so we need to get together as you know some sit and surprise some sit in El Mirage it's important that we are coordinating with each other and and have a training program or talk about things that need to be fixed on our campuses most of their training comes from the police department because they are still employed by the police department but there are things in schools that we need to talk about and all that too new to this is a security guard piece right currently the security guards are trained on their local campuses we are moving that to a district model where security guards will have a security card program that's being developed they'll be trained under that and they can be used at different sites should different situations arise but they will have that basic training across the board and we're looking forward to that in in helping out with those pieces administrators throughout the district obviously that's an important piece with training our administrators they need to know the safety protocols what's expected we we are doing some drug intervention training so recognition and things like that with our administrators so that can help them with things that are happening throughout our campus so that is goal C and the last goal the Dysart Unified School District will identify and maximize available resources to support Student Success we are proposing to continue to identify and maximize available resources both internally and externally to support Student Success um again this is our fiscal responsibility we our goal is to increase our Capital reserves and maintain or increase the applications to the school's facilities division for building funding we continue to do a magnificent job of getting projects funded by the school field facilities division we need to continue to do so as you've been around the district and you see next door even a valley we have a lot of roof projects going on and all that and those are funded by this school facilities division so the goal is to increase that and then the last indicator there is to reduce our number of late arriving buses by 25 percent so this puts a strain on our educational system it puts a strain on our our busing system there's strains all around and so we have a commitment to reduce those number of late arriving buses we have the data to track that and transportation is committed to making that happen so with that I will stand for any questions or discussion Maybe okay that's the end of it so there is no other slide so that is the presentation and I'll stand for any questions or discussion with any of the goals or comments a question um first this is amazing thank you for this it's nice to see quantifiable goals I guess my only question concern you know is around goal a where we talk about you know growth in the K-8 testing and or ACT Testing how would we how would you um want that goal to be monitored if for some reason one of those reports doesn't come out if it if the report was maybe suspended for some reason whether it was another pandemic hopefully not but something along those lines how how would you want your this metric to be reviewed or expect it to be reviewed I believe it's a great question Madam president I believe you know with the metrics available now with our state testing should they continue we also do growth within our Benchmark testing so we do have backups internally uh we do Dibbles testing so we have multiple areas to show that we have student growth and that students can grow so so something happened that we and I think this is your question that those measures can't happen what would we fall back on and I think we have things internally covered that we could come and talk about and substitute in those places perfect great report thank you so much I love the details the only question I have and maybe it doesn't I don't know if it fits into a goal or not but I've brought this up before but how are you and the principals Etc going to attack the absenteeism is there a plan in place for that because Student Success is great but they're not going to succeed if they're not in the classroom Madam president member Grant thank you for that question attendance is a huge Focus so if you notice under the four data chats in that second bullet attendance data is shared in that um thing and and we do require a plan we spent all day we did six six uh data chats today um we did a whole bunch the day before and last week that is a major portion of that data chat we what are we going to do about it we track the number of absences we track chronic absences so anybody over 18 absences all the way down our principals are able to run reports of what kid belongs in what category they're going to start communicating with parents we are doing a district awareness you're going to see that in the next few days Renee and her Department are going to be putting out a lot of notices in our social media about the importance of attendance and being at school and we've urged parents to even look at the correlation of of how successful students are in school and their absences if they have high absences and having those conversations with parents that our students need to be here it's important that they're here and that um you know in order to learn and grow that they need to be present so it is definitely a focus for us and we discuss that with every single principal great thank you so much for doing that thank you thank you for putting the time into the goals I have always my primary focus is always the academic piece so I appreciate you putting in some very specific measures in there where we can I definitely get our kids where they need to be academically safety is probably my second uh highest concern so I appreciate you including those in your goals but I'm wondering if there's a way that we can add a measurable goal or a some way to measure um safety in regards safety in general but in one area that I'm thinking about is like with our lockdown drills our our individual like um campus walkthroughs and things I know one time when I was with Mr Yeager and Mr musiana campus there was a checklist of things that they went through during lockdowns and it's my understanding that they then the principles are to go back with their teams and review and then make those modifications and changes so I'm wondering if there's a way that we can come up with some sort of a goal that would measure like including Fidelity checks to where if something was noted on a campus during a lockdown drill that isn't being done then when Mr Yeager and his team go back and do like a Fidelity check and make sure okay what what percentage where we at as far as these schools addressing these problems to make sure our kids are safe because those safety checks don't mean anything if we don't do anything to resolve whatever issues are discovered so is there a way we can add some sort of a goal in there that would measure that um absolutely we can add a third bullet to that we may add it in the first bullet just thinking off the top of my head and we have to come up with wording but something along the lines of if a regular safety check has outstanding items or is less than 90 satisfactory that a follow-up will be conducted and those items will be corrected um we just have to quickly think of the wording something like that so that sounds exciting exactly what I was what I was thinking and then maybe too just to make sure that there's I know for me I'm very much a data person so I would want to have some sort of document that is used to where if we're like okay I want to see like I know we've had some concerns with this school or that school or they'll and I want to see like are they making some improvements on their safety checks and because again I want to make sure these kids are safe so creating a document not just yeah the school is getting better but actually having a document that would illustrate yes our Fidelity checks are you know effective and they are making the necessary changes that's very we can do that we can add a third bullet to that I think an emotion we just tell them our state in the motion that with the added piece on the safety goal and we'll come up with instead of coming up the language right now but we can definitely add something along the lines of adding follow-ups will be conducted for safety checks that are less than 90 percent effective on a campus or anything outstanding items on a campus and will be corrected okay that would we can definitely do that I just want to clarify so if we did like a 90 effectiveness I'm not sure what the Forum is called when you do the walkthroughs is it like an audit checklist or yes okay so on the audit checklist are different things weighted differently or is everything worth the same point value um as you'll you'll see later on this evening that uh there's immediate thing that immediate needs that need to be checked if we're talking about the safety audits so on the safety audit portion and I I remember preacher I think you were talking more of the safety of checks along with the drills and not the audits I guess we could do both that's the way I was taking it so that's a great clarification along and when we're checking doors or we're checking this or we're checking a lockdown drill that there's deficiencies during those times and not the safety audit well I was that's what I'm talking about okay the drill type things but I also think if we're gonna be taking the time to do these extensive audits like we did at Freedom I just don't want it to be a document on a shelf so for sure oh sorry so for sure um whatever Ms Densmore is recommending or anything the district can do to yeah both just to make sure that again where we go through those audits we get good information I want to know that we're implementing them but I was specifically talking about just kind of those lockdown because I that's I know that's something we can for sure measure I just want to make sure we have measurable goals of keeping our kids safe our staff and campuses you know secure I agree and that's most important and um we do have so on the member Dinsmore to add to answer it on the audits there are lists that's created immediate needs needs within the next 30 days you'll get to see that future needs that may be bigger items that we'll have to talk about funding sources or things like that so those lists are created for things that need to be done immediately likewise as we do our safety checks on our lockdowns or on doors locked that's immediate feedback I know that Mr gager and Mr musee last year sent out food direct feedback to those schools after that was done about um you know what they found and what went well and what needs to be corrected immediately so we do have documentation and all that and can be easily followed up with okay I I just I struggle with the 90 when it comes to student safety I mean I I understand the intent I I would say not 90 I struggle with saying 90 because it's the 10 that you have air on that can cost you so I think we have a hundred percent follow-up and taken care of um and and at least addressed I I do not disagree with that I mean they need to be addressed to the fullest extent if there's a problem okay and now we show that I agree I mean I especially when it comes to the walkthroughs that Mr Jaeger was doing I agree I wish it were 100 um because I think then you're looking at a little bit of Errors okay and I don't want to say that that's okay my only reason for maybe thinking you know 95 to 100 is just to give a little Grace if it's a matter of hey we went through during the lockdown and there was you know uh well I don't even want to say it because you can't leave a door unlocked I mean you have to have it so you know I'm just thinking of any little thing that might have not been necessarily A life-threatening or a life endangering thing but it's something on the list that's a concern like maybe uh you know all the lights were supposed let's say a light was supposed to be off even in an empty classroom and I don't even think that's a thing but if it was and the light was on you know that's not 100 then so I'm those are the things that I was thinking but I would assume that all the things on that list would probably be something that would have a direct impact on a child or a staff member so I'm comfortable with 100 but I was just I'm comfortable with 100 okay thank you I know we need to follow up on the items we need to get them addressed so I am comfortable with them thank you okay I have a question for goal a um the five schools that are less proficient 40 and 30 percent what goal do you want them to get to by the end of the school year how much of a percentage are you looking to increase because that's very concerning to me we have five schools that are that low of a proficiency what are we doing to increase that they are getting those visits additionally those are built into their goals when we have the data discussions and their their continuous Improvement plans so each score is obviously different and then and they're at a different place not all of them had percentages so those percentages vary by the different schools and their goals um our real goal is to get above that 40 and 30 in proficiency but sometimes that's not realistic for that much of a gain so you know realistically our I guess not realistically I would tell you we want them over the 40 and 30 and now the focus schools but little gains are sometimes better it might be only a 10 gain and we don't get there but 10 is pretty huge so each of those schools have some significant goals that they need to reach um and all their pieces and that kind of varies on the schools but it is very prescribed each of those they have discussions uh Dr assai and and Mr musee have had some serious discussions on their continuous Improvement plans as well as in those data chats of where they need to be and the discussions they need to have with their staff okay thank you so do you have a suggestion on the motion then or can you repeat what you said earlier I have a suggestion okay if you if you want me to no go ahead okay I moved to approve the superintendent's 2023 2024 goals and objectives and to include the um the measures pertaining to safety as discussed because then you can just reference the audio and get it from there second motion carries next we have item G1 do we have any requests for future agenda items not hearing any we'll move to H1 all right I will motion to convene to an executive session second thank you motion carries
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foreign nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I want to thank everyone for joining us this evening remind everyone that we are live streaming tonight's board meeting so also like to thank those who are joining joining us via the West so moving down the agenda we'll start with consent agenda items do I have an emotion to accept those consent agenda items I have a motion from Earl do I have a second from Pat any discussion all those in favor seven of next we'll go down to community non-agenda items we'll ask if anyone is present who would like to speak with any item that is on the agenda or any other topic hearing nug we'll move down to Old business under relations the Jennings County Sheriff SRO agreement Vicki asking for approval for the sheriff's department SRO agreement so I'll entertain a motion to accept that SRO agreement motion by Maryland do I have a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor next under new business under programs we have an inform I carry I actually have a quick presentation on our day assessment data for this year it will be pretty high overview because not all the detail data is out but it was released I think July 12th by estate so I wanted to share and then I'll come back with more detailed data as we receive it so so we're going to start with an overview of State data and just the trends that you see at the day across the state I'm sorry okay first thing is across the state of proficiency levels for English Language Art they we saw about a 40.7 tenths percent proficiency rate and then um math was about the same at 40.9 when we looked at there we go thank you so that's that you go to the next slide so as you look at this you can see this is for social economic status the yellow represents Ela for the last three years and the blue represents the math for the last three years when they separated the paid meals free and reduced meals you can see to the left that um Ela for paid mail stayed within a percentage for the last three years and you see the same Trend with free to reduce Mill for ELA except you can also see the Gap from 54 down to the math was a little bit different we saw more of an increase in math across the state over the last three years three percent increase in paid Mills and a five percent increase in free increase in free and reduced lunches um but you also once again see the gap between the pay in comparison of special ed gen Ed same thing in English you see one percent difference um it was uh we dropped from one percent but we went back to what we were two years ago across the state and then specialized State stagnant the whole three years um in English language arts once again we saw an increase in math um five percent for genered and then a three percent increase in special education so just a summary of all that the highest increases were in grades four 1.3 percent increase for Math and grade six um for ELA you could see that there are increases were in grade six and seven um we look at this and we're going to see this with us there's still lots of support needed for ELA in middle school as well as our our data this graph represents the last two years for us the grade was last year and then the blues this year for each grade level you can see that we've dropped in a few but and we've we've increased in fourth grade in fifth grade in the states consistent across sixth grade and this was in the LA you're you're okay um this just represents where we are in comparison to the state or to the left and then the same data you're going to see in math gray is 28 last year and then the blue is this and then this will compare our district to State average where we stayed the same with fourth grade we're at State average in fourth grade um not far from sixth grade but we do still have pretty decent gaps in third seventh and eighth this just rep just uh general of all of our schools you can see we have bright spots in some these are um points that we did as we meet together with our school Improvement teams and as our principals we are working together to see what's working at the different schools in the different subject areas I read we won't have um this won't be released until August um so I'll bring this information back to you um when we have more detailed information I learned biology State percent proficient was at 29 and we were at 14 last year was 30 and 17.
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right beautiful name um [Music] best thing can you hear me uh yeah we can hear you thank you we're gonna start here [Music] thank you that's in the car I'll ask if you love you but Vera just all the staff changes can we get like an updated list um the roster or something just imagine hold on um I mean because it's like you know the name of the of the um receptionist like I'd like to you know if I go to school I'd like to be able to go oh yeah okay yeah we know that yeah it's coming out soon yeah yeah a little bit we have like a little excels or something does it have a lot of words anyway but yeah yeah I'll give you a smaller breath yeah thank you our love is uh starting to believe it yes um with respect to foreign on the agenda in closed session after a motion by member Chavez second by member the board unanimously approved the hearing officer's decision after hearing and all findings they're in and the Personnel action therein approved in the matter Vasquez versus Alan Rock Union Elementary School District case number adrs number 23-3479-k J M there are no further closed session uh actions to report we have proceeded to 4.01 on the agenda yeah so we'll move the section for governance around 4.01 Brown hat clean so good evening board um uh the board president the superintendent asked me to prepare a somewhat of a brown act refresher course for the board this evening as part of a study session and I think I have provided this training to all five of you at one point or another at some time in the past um so what I thought I would do is run quickly through some of the basic principles of the brown act since you all work with it and through it uh in your board member lives and then I thought I would try to put some focus on some recent developments in the law in this area and new requirements or enhanced or better clarified requirements uh and and try to do all of that I'm going to be very ambitious try to do all that in about 30 minutes or so maybe 40.
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this is an annual February increase we've had to update them every six months at the height of the pandemic and started to be once a year you had to update and honestly the last two years it has been pretty much a copy over change the dates because it has it essentially is now our pandemic plan uh so it's not really a covet client anymore race in the event that there is for schools down there was in place governing when you can go remote virtual so I so we have a plan in place in the event that we need to take those steps so we have to we have to submit to the end to approve whatever yeah okay sounds good any questions yes yes perfect do you want to do your part you want me to do it I'm taking notes I don't mind I said my name is just to approve the hiring of Staff in accordance pending uh receiversary background requirements as Dr memphiselly said there are several new hires here um so can I have a motion in a second question second any questions on these all right Mr Jones Mrs Selma yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hannah yes Mrs oriente yes this is Juliana yes Mrs Reed yes and Mr Golden yes perfect so the next one is just to accept um the resignations for two staff members Jared sobelowski he was an instructional assistant and Christopher Yoder was a science teacher at the middle school can I have a motion in a second Marsha second any questions mean um it's 60 days per contract but in the event that we're able to hire someone before then we can release that staff member any other questions Mrs summer yes Mrs Hannah yes Mrs oriente yes Mr Jones Mrs Juliana yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right here we go um 11a through D is our financial report for the month of June um no line has been overextended there are sufficient funds available to meet the remaining obligations for the year the treasurer report and the secretary agreement there are no changes in anticipated by the new romance or sources can I have a motion in a second motion second any questions Mrs Juliana oh yes Mr Jones Mr Selma yes Mrs oriente yes Mrs Hannah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right he is just to approve um the payment of the bills everybody reviewed them tonight we did have a revision from June and I think that was just um one of the tuition amounts didn't get pulled in and we needed to get that paid out of last year's fund with the post to that she responds um so that's the only change there and then the batch number 50 is for July can I have a motion in a second okay any questions um any questions Mr Jim Mrs helmack yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Simon yes Miss Juliana yes Mrs oriente yes Mrs Reed yes Mr yes all right 13.
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it measures student performance in language arts and Mathematics and it gives you a rating of whether that student is graduation ready the es the ELA component aligns to grade 10 and it looks like this assessment will be replacing the njsla 10. the math component represents Algebra 1 and geometry cut scores were finally developed this year when I presented on NJ GPA last year that was a baseline assessment with this new one they've set cut scores as well as created a menu of alternative assessments so students who don't meet the cut score can then retake components of the NJ GPA they can participate in basic skills classes they could meet a cut score on another assessment and they could also complete a portfolio appeal at this time eighty percent 80 I'm sorry 72.2 percent of our students are graduation ready in language arts 38.7 in math uh 20 I'm sorry 27.8 are developing their graduation ready skills in language arts and 61.3 percent of our students are developing their graduation ready skills in math what we see here is a demographic breakdown of how our English language Learners economically disadvantaged and students with disabilities did in comparison to our general education students and here's the same subgroup setup but for language arts the access for L's assessment is an assessment that's given to all English language Learners K through 12.
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so sat um English and reading we met our Benchmark at 42 percent for math it was at 14 for this year um the idea contract contract with the national Center for assessment to conduct analysis over the last three years after covid so this is just a reminder what of two years ago when they first looked at it that first year after Kovac covet they looked at the impact of covid so back then they saw that math was a greater um it was consistently more significant than across all grade levels like a 10 drop after that Ela was moderate and significant across grade levels and at that time they said it was take a year to get back to normal rates if you look at the bottom it this is what comes up it'll likely take three to five years for us to recover and that was information given in 2021 .
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uh and then answer any questions that you might have so I have handed out some uh some materials a PowerPoint presentation because well that's how lawyers do things we like PowerPoints um I just want to just remind you that uh this discussion here today in the materials because the brown act can be a very it can apply very specifically to individual board members or poses challenges and questions for individual board members so I'm this is really it you know in the in the nature of uh of a not a forty forty thousand foot overview more like a a low plot a low flying uh one a single engine Cessna maybe at 300 feet yeah there we go and so um but it's not it's not legal advice and so I would just also respectfully ask that not to not ask me for a legal opinion on an issue because we are an open session and so lawyers are low to give legal opinions an open session because uh my favorite phrase is you know the answer always depends right on the facts so um again the objectives for today are to review sort of the basic underlying principles of the brown act consider some of the recent developments in the law and to increase and ensure transparency and legal legal compliance by the district I'm on slide number three by the way okay so what is the brown act moving to slide number four uh it was a law that was passed in 1953 that guarantees and protects the public Public's right to attend and participate in meetings and decisions of local legislative bodies um some people call it sunshine laws but again the the over you know the overarching goal is transparency to ensure the Public's right to information to access into participation in the public process that's one side of the coin the other side of the coin is of course how to use the board and the district um what do you have to do to ensure the Public's right of access so that's what we're going to talk to what we're going to try to walk through today is you know what are your responsibilities in terms of access moving to slide number six um it is the intent I'm just reading from the law because these are really broad General statements of policy that are in the law that are very important but one of them is is that it is the intent of the law that uh the actions of a legislative body be taken openly and that deliberations be conducted openly okay those are big words uh actions between being taken openly and deliberations being conducted openly so the big operative words there are actions and deliberations uh and we're going to talk about that a little in a minute or so um but really I think you know the touchstones as you you know as you go through these uh meetings as you prepare for meetings as you communicate with board members and with members of the public I think you know the the basic questions that you should just be asking yourself is you know is are our deliberations as a board as five members are they being done openly are we taking our actions openly and in the Public's eye um you know are we in as a body are we ensuring meaningful public access to our board in our board committees and what does that mean how do we ensure meaningful public access to what it is that we do are our meetings open and transparent are we operating on a noticed schedule and are we following our noticed um and posted agenda um and I can tell you that having observed this board for a number of years now the answer to that is yes you all are doing all of that in your in your meetings and you're doing a great job about it and then the you know the other Touchstone is and you know are there secret votes or deliberations taking place outside of a noticed meeting so secret sound so Sinister um but uh you know I think really there the idea is is that are are there votes uh being taken and is there a majority that's being developed outside of a board meeting and outside of the purview of the public okay slide eight um and this is where I get into the you'll see I start to highlight things because I like highlighters um all meetings of the legislative body of a local agency shall be open and public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of the local of the legislative body of a local agency except as otherwise provided in this chapter so the the big exception there of course is a closed session and closed session is restricted to the board and only staff who are essential to the issue being discussed by the board and legal counsel but the three big words in this section are meetings legislative body and local agency we know that the brown act applies to this District because local agency is defined in the law to include a school district so one down what is a legislative body mean then a legislative body is defined in the brown act as the governing body of the local agency this board uh and a commission committee board or other body of the local agency that's created by board by formal board action so now we know the board uh the brown act applies to this body the governing board we know it applies to certain of your committees and then of course by law it applies to other Committees of this District the primary one being of course the citizens Bond oversight committee because prop 39 says that committee has to be run in accordance with the brown Act okay slide nine um so what are the rules or how does the brown act apply to uh board committees and so um the brown act um well board advisory committees that are composed solely of members of the board that are less than a quorum of the board are not subject to the requirements of the brown Act unless it's a board standing committee that has continuing Juris subject matter jurisdiction or it's an advisory committee with a meeting schedule that's been fixed by formal action of the board um so of course a quorum for you is three so if you create a committee that's two members uh the brown act doesn't apply to that commit board committee unless it's a standing committee that has continuing subject matter jurisdiction and I think this sport has commit has created some of those uh standing committees uh or it's uh an advisory committee that's with a meeting schedule that's been fixed by formal action of the board and I believe that you had a 7-Eleven committee relating to facilities a couple of years ago that was that was a committee that was deemed by this board to be a brown act committee as well okay uh page 10 slide 10.
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for the June 2023 listing for source for teachers the rates are listed below can I have a question in a second thank you all those in favor aye opposed of State just to approve the 22-23 academy series for the month of June thank you all those in paper statement all right 11 H is to approve the care dispersions for the month of June any amount of eleven thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and five cents this is payroll reimbursement snacks thanks can I have a motion a second Mr Kevin yes Mr Davis yes Mr Thomas yes Mrs oriente yes this is Juliana yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Copeland yes 13 high is to approve um the following Services contract for the commission for the blind individually impaired positions [Music] yes Mrs orientation yes Mr Jones Mrs Juliana yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Greene yes Mr Holden yes all right 13j is to improve the following out of District tuition contracts for the 23-24 school year for Archbishop family energy School 59 459.40 this is all set in the budget can I have a motion in a second any questions Mrs Juliana yes Mr Jones Mrs Houma yes oriente yes Mrs Hannah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Reed yes because I did have a question yes he would have really quit um I'm confused is this a Catholic School we're sending them to her school is around the district private special education and she has nobody else can provide those correct okay yeah yeah and the students oh no this is a Pre-K well we've been students before this okay I didn't recognize money yeah yeah perfect all right I don't think we have any old business there was one thing please keep in mind next month Megan and I had talked about adding someone to a finance committee so if anybody's interested like absolutely have to fill in yeah [Music] perfect thank you for that reminder okay um new business negotiations um the negotiations to many signs the memorandum of agreement tonight for the btea that next step is to get their salary guides reviewed apparently BGA does just about have them complete from nja so once they're reviewed on those ends then they would go to the membership for that all um a purple and then at which time it would come to but nothing will be disclosed at this time it's just a memory and I'm agreeing to keep it going so that is yeah this is the first time in a long time everyone will have a contract before the start of school yeah there's a labor of love fpsa I'm not going to tell February we'll start that up in February financially we didn't have one because Kim was the only person available tonight so I'll just give you a quick update just about done I'm on vacation next week so my hope is to get them to the bus to better do everything make any changes make any adjustments that they need um and then get them back to me so I can finalize that I am you'll see that I hired a bus driver and that is so we are definitely bringing back our cccs students for next year um so we'll be transporting them to improv school every day um systems our budgeting software has been rolled over so we are good to go there I did the great submissions for esea and I think idea will be done probably this coming week I have a couple of things before I go away for Kristen to finalize um I think that's it it's busy it's a busy time here so any questions on finance or anything school boards pregnancy symptoms um as Services I think they don't have meaning in July they'll have one next week okay I know I built it now a meeting in July and I will not be at their meeting in August so I won't have an update in August either um orientation is August 29th yeah and I think they're transporting our kids from here they've just asked my house to kind of give them actual bus stops kind of the stops that the kids will have that are going to send there and you're not in a note coordinate um for transportation to get kids over there oh okay and parents can't attend part of the day according to the letter again but if anyone calls I don't think they'll call you the partial there but in case they call um you have to register yes online yeah yeah so that's good um I don't think there's anything for not much has been circulating for school boards that I saw being a nurse now does anybody else have anything else for new business my emotions moving into the public for the discussion of any subjects second okay all right so we're going to executive and we'll do that and then we'll be quiet so I can tell Tom that we're going into executive Motion in a second motion second okay coming around 8 15.
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it's given annually to level those students and show their growth in learning the English language this is a federally required assessment whereas NJ GPA was a state assessment this follows what are called the Wida English language development standards those are standards that help us level and identify what a newcomer or a child who's been here for one two three or four years can do and the test addresses listening speaking reading and writing so 1099 students took the access for L's this spring this is a very intensive test the listening and speaking portion has to be done one-on-one so our teachers had to do one-to-one testing for 1990 1099 English language learners reading and writing is done in small groups we can see that 247 of our students are in level one they're newcomers new arrivals and you saw that with the increasing numbers in English language Learners this year 246 are level two 371 level 3 193 and level four 38 and level five and four in level six once you get to level four we can start exiting some of these students based on multiple measures but the typical requirement is they must exceed level four so what is the district doing in response to these scores some of which may seem um low some of which may seem very like very large numbers of students at low levels of English language proficiency we're utilizing these NJ GPA and access scores together with all of our local data so that we can change and adjust what we do in the classrooms four hours NJ GPA students we're going to be providing support as we have always done for the multiple graduation pathways that includes basic skills classes for some of our students and additional test taking session on NJ GPA this fall taking other approved assessments that count for graduation like the SAT and the PSAT and finally the portfolio process for graduation we continually reflect on this data and we make adjustments to pacing and programs as a result our pacing charts get adjusted in order to make sure that we're targeting those areas where we might have to focus based on the state the assessments that we see for our English language Learners we make sure that the Wida standards and the Wida can do descriptors are used in instruction because ell students are not always with an ESL teacher they also spend part of their day with a general education teacher who needs support in knowing how they can be assessed and those standards and can-do descriptors help them do that we're providing online support and reading interventions for our level one through level 3 English language Learners as well as those English language Learners who have interrupted formal education the term for that type of student is safe or slife those are the new students who arrive here with limited education from their native country but they do represent a very small portion of our population we are expanding our before at and after school summer programs through 2024 with a focus on our English language learners for all of our high school students as well as Middle School come in this coming year we're providing 24 hour a day seven day a week access to an online tutoring program called tutor.com we're prioritizing small group instruction using our adaptive online programs and we're using the Esser funds for this last year to provide content area support at the high school as well as the different counseling social workers and intervention teachers that we've been using the Esser funds for to date Commissioners do you have any questions and once again I apologize due to the network disruption I was unable to print it's okay is there any Commissioners have any questions Mr Santiago first um thank you Miss kusilevic for that uh and that last slide uh there was a bullet point that mentioned um math activities specifically small groups um I forgot what else can you elaborate a little bit on that sure um in our math program we do a lot of station-based learning it's in our pacing from kindergarten through High School so we do a combination whole class teacher instruction the teacher then breaks the class up into groups and students work in different stations depending on the needs and level of that class a basic skills teacher might come in or a inclusion teacher may work with one of those small groups while the classroom teacher works with another and other students are either working on Independent stations or using some of our online programs we do also in some cases have small pull out groups and then when you're in ESL and special ed we do have smaller groups that are mandated with with class size numbers that are smaller so that we can do more targeted instruction to support those students the smaller groups for math are across all grade levels but we also have small group instruction like that with our reading specialists at the Elementary grades with our reading recovery teachers at certain Title 1 schools and with our BSI reading interventionists in Middle School so I just want to make sure I understand on the first slide was it that 38 of our 11th graders are ready for graduation when it comes to math it was at 38 of all 11th graders I know that's 38 of our 11th graders already in math math has historically on these standardized tests been low on our NJ sl8 as well algebra is a major challenging sticking point and um I know it looks very low but it hasn't gone lower than pre-pandemic um so I know that doesn't sound very encouraging but from another perspective it is it means we have been able to at least retain where we were and can build on that this also does not mean that this these students are at a standstill because they now have they have all of the rest of their senior year to make those to make the gains necessary to be able to graduate because our graduation rate is well over 84 percent right great and the last one is um when we do get the presentation kitten or if or if this is already somewhere I can share it I can actually as soon as I sit down I just realized I could have shared this with you it's a Google doc right because we couldn't use that slides can we get like a trend can we get a comparison or an average over say like well NG GPA there is no Trend because NJ GPA is a new test last year was a baseline this year is our first year that we actually have some kind of a cut score that we're looking at okay thank you um but you do get Trends from me um for those assessments that are multi-year and you do get trends for our local assessment data and our local assessment data measures what our students are doing in their classroom on a daily basis from that first marking period to the fourth usually in the fall you'll see the um the growth from the previous school year you'll see that growth from from September to the end of the year and the other piece is that when you when you lay these scores over our SAT performance it's vastly different and our students are doing far better on PSAT and sat these tests are always very skewed and they're only one single data point that we look at Mr Paris thank you Mr Smith um the ell students these are all different grade levels yes they're English language Learners from K through 12.
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in 2022 they start a recovery study we started stabilizing Indiana and we were generally returning to normal Rigs of learning that we had before but we weren't recovering or accelerating necessarily so normal rates is is the rate that they were learning each year pre-pandemic the higher rights of Rick you're okay a recovery or seen a math more than language arts and we saw that in all the group subgroups I just said the normal rate there it I students are continuing to stabilize or accelerate and recover a mouthful in the pandemic the rate at which students are stabilizing or accelerating and recovering Ela varies by population and we are definitely seeing this the big thing is students who are not proficient in ela math prior to pandemic are not recovering at the same rate as though as their peers students who are proficient in ela and math prior to the pandemic are Contin continuing to stabilize and accelerating their learning um are still so next steps um we've talked about we've shared some strategic plan data with you we worked extremely hard this year pre any testing to collect data not just iLearn data not just testing data to set our strategic plans um and we've reviewed that data and need identification School Improvement teams have worked all throughout the summer from each individual schools and they put action steps in and on their strategic plan data as well as individual needs data we are continuing to develop and mentoring new staff we have a program we meet with them monthly um Sand Creek we're really excited about this Sand Creek is part of a literacy Cadre where they are going through um they have a new literacy coach who's going through special training and she's actually we're collaborating together with all the schools we are working on professional development and science of reading instruction primary focus increased and focused support on student subgroups we've we've noticed plan data that we needed and also through the iLearn data continuing with our udl and PBIS implementation we are also stem programming and certification process throughout the district we have one school system Grand Prix was stem certified last year we expect at least Hayden to apply for it this year and everyone's working towards that progress and then additional goals are going to be identified in the Strategic plan and school Improvement goals that each and so I will come back with more specific data once it is released that's why there wasn't informed does anybody have any questions for care ful good time to say thank you to our our team members from it I know that that doesn't always worked the way we wanted to but let me tell you we always appreciate you all being here so thank you for that very much um so we'll go on uh down the agenda and we have under professional staff we have some recommendations you asking for approval for Dylan Boswell to be hired as a Jennings County High School assistant football coach he would be receiving three-fourths of a stipend Jennifer Lee we're asking she'd be hired at Grand Brook Elementary as a teacher and Elena Newby will be moving from Norfolk and parapro to North Vernon Elementary teachers so those are the recommendations please okay do I have a motion to accept those recommendations as Ren I have a motion by Travis do I have a second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor 7-0 next we have one additional recommendation Nikki yes recommending for approval Josh Land assistant principal at the middle school three unpaid suspension days okay do I have a motion to accept that recommendation I have a motion by Mary Lynn do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor six in favor all those opposed I have one one a post next permission to fill positions it's that time of year getting started for school we still have a couple open positions school starts before the next school board meeting so asking for permission to fill positions before school starts if that happens so do I have a thumb motion to give permission to fill open positions before the start of school have a motion by Pat do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven oh next we'll move down under support staff recommendations asking for the following recommendations to be approved please for Matt Cates to be hired as a Jennings County High School assistant football coach with a with three-fourths of a stipend Zach day also to be hired as an assistant football coach with one half stipend Cole Elmore also to be hired as assistant football coach with one half stipend Chelsea fills to be hired as the Middle School assistant volleyball coach Destiny Brooke garringer to be hired as the grand Creek Elementary parapro Faye Rau to be hired as the Jennings County High School girls assistant soccer coach Alexis Thorpe to be hired as the Jennings County High School Pace parapro and lastly Everett Wilshire Jr to be hired as the Jennings County Middle School girls assistant basketball coach thank you for have a motion to accept those recommendations as rev motion by a girl do I have a second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor of next we're done under finances we have some donations Philip two donations nice and approval to accept uh Layman humble Insurance Bailey Sanders 300 to The Culinary class at the high school in tri-capa of North Vernon 225 dollars to the Middle School nutrition Club I have a motion to accept those donations I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor seven oh next we'll talk about the budget timeline yeah this is just an inform I mean I'm not going to worry about reading through the dates the key to this is pretty much every meeting between September 21st the hearing and October 5th the adoption okay that item isn't informed does anyone have questions for Philip I'm hearing none we'll go down under operations Transportation update so Tim poor is here to talk with us about construction and what that means for us for starting school we've worked with mvpd and Tim has a plan to share we've worked with a variety of stakeholders to make sure that we've tried to think through all the possibilities and prepare a plan so that school can start safely and successfully so uh starting at the high school middle school and North Berman Elementary campuses we have buses rolling in starting at 7 30.
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what is a meeting uh for purposes of the brown act it means it's a Congregation of a majority of the members of the legislative body at the same time and location including teleconference locations um to hear discuss deliberate or take action on any item that's within the subject matter jurisdiction of a legislative body so there's a lot of big words in there that have a lot of different or that are defined in different places or or um explained in different parts of the brown act so the first thing to keep in mind is that the meeting has to be made up of a majority of the board meaning three or more members of this board it says at the same time and location including teleconference location so one thing to keep in mind is that the brown act defines teleconference to be very broad um it doesn't uh you know it's not the I think the traditional definition of teleconference which is you pick up a phone and you get into a teleconference situation it could be FaceTime it could be chatting it could be text messaging basically think about it as being electronic communications so a meeting can happen when you hear discuss deliberate or take action on any item relating to the district using either face-to-face meetings or electronic communications okay um let's skip to uh slide number 13 please are there any questions so far yes um also this relates to all at the same time but also because it relates to like serial yeah so uh so and the the even as to the teleconference portion of the of the part of the statute that I just read There are some recent amendments to the brown act that creates exceptions that we'll talk about as well um towards it I think it's one of the bigger issues uh that'll be part of this discussion Okay so we know the definition of a meeting because I just read it to you but when is a meeting not um or when is a meeting really a meeting for purposes of the brown act and when is it not a meeting okay Communications outside of a noticed meeting that are not authorized by the brown Act May constitute a meeting and violate the brown act and there are really three major categories of of these types of communications that may be a brown act violation one is called a Serial meeting another one is called a hub and spoke meeting and then the other one is uh you know the more recent phenomenon of uh social media uh and by social media I include all kinds of electronic communications uh through different types of portals and the challenges that poses are those pose for uh Brown act compliance so on slide 14 it's a quick description of a serial meeting a Serial meeting is if one board member a contacts another board member B about an item of District business and B contacts member C at that point a majority has been involved and this is a Serial meeting that depending on the facts and circumstances may be a violation of the brown Act so you want to avoid conversations like that outside of an open and noticed uh meeting the next type would be a hub and spoke and think of a bicycle wheel with spokes and the Hub an intermediary contacts or communicates with at least a majority of the board members to develop a collective concurrence on an issue to be considered or action to be taken by the board this could also be a brown act violation now what's different here one of the one of the ways that a hub and spoke is different than a Serial meeting is that you'll notice that hubbin spoke it involves potentially an intermediary it doesn't have to be a board member who is the Hub reaching out to others it could be it could be anybody it could be a member of the public um who who is reaching out to individual board members to assess or to get commitments um about how a person is going to vote on something and then reaching out to another board member sharing that information and then a third board member saying here are the votes you know here's what what's going to happen that's a hub and spoke that's also depending on the circumstances it could be a brown act violation the Third Kind would be social media Communications and uh this you know social media and I'm on slide 16 now um social media uh you know it's really um it's really been now I'm feeling old it's been around for what about 15 years or so right uh Facebook has been around for 15 years or so um and lawyers really uh wrestled with how to deal with social media Communications for a long time until 2020 in the legislature got around to addressing it with some amendments to the brown act and a b assembly bill 992.
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right now we have as of the time of access testing there were 1099 um we're somewhere in that 1100 student range right now but they are from K through 12 that the assessment slots them into language proficiency levels um and each year we're measured on how what percentage of those students move from one level to the next increasing each year and we do make those targets every year um what that what the the results showed us was just where our students fall this year so so are they tracked individually their own individual progress yes um I thought I had another question uh oh compared to uh prior year the number of students has changed to what degree yes and um last October I'm sorry the previous October of October of 2022 we had 651 English language Learners in I'm sorry October 2021 October of 2022 we head over at that we had over a thousand thank you it's a lot of growth we have but by I I suspect that when we hit our number this October 15th we will have more than doubled from two years ago anyone else okay thank you so much Miss kosalevich we appreciate your presentation thank you and I'll share the doc with you now all right next we're gonna have our superintendent's report Judea thank you so much for that uh presentation for being our lead on all instructional matters uh good evening Commissioners members of the public uh first let me just give the most heartfelt thank you that I I possibly um could give for proving a new employment agreement for me tonight to be with you for the next five years it looks like you're stuck with me for another five years um and who knows maybe more but as a superintendent job security is not something that um superintendents are known to have but having a contract gives gives a superintendent uh some some security that that they have a job and allows uh the stability in the district allows a district to grow with stability at the top and allows initiatives that start um to finish as opposed to constant transition so for my family for my life personally thank you so much um for approving this contract thank you for the trust that you have in me what I promise you is that I will do my best every day and do whatever it takes to not let you down your belief in me is obvious by your vote tonight even though my uh my children texted me and wanted to know why Mr Paris and Mr Santiago voted no and I said no well they said they don't like you Dad and I said no no that's not it I had to explain to them and they uh they understood so the Robert toesie kids did not cut you off completely you're good um my children were actually watching the board meeting to see this tonight which is very interesting it must be a real boring night in the robertosie household um but things like that change people's change people's lives but uh listen we don't want our board we don't want our board meetings that we must watch TV but thank you um we have when I look back at the last four years beginning in my fifth year we have accomplished a lot of really great things but there is so much more to do and I believe that together working with one shared goal multiple shared goals we will achieve a really really bright future for this District so thank you thank you thank you Mr basford thank you for your uh comments that really meant a lot for me because like you said you you're a straight shooter you're going to come up and you're going to tell everybody exactly what you think so so thank you Mr llama or our collaboration over the last several years has been fantastic and I I truly believe and and you and I both know there's research that indicates when labor and management collaborate academic achievement increases so I look forward to more collaboration with you in the future and doing great things for our staff and our children and to have a student come up and say a few words about me really got you got me there a little alive so my heart is full because at the end of the day none of us exist none of this exists if not for you and for students so to hear you say those kind words um really means a lot to me thank you and I'm looking forward to one more year together with you so now um it's time to take the attention off me and put it where it really belongs it will it is my distinct pleasure to introduce to the public our newest employee in the Clifton Public Schools Chewie our district therapy dog Chewie short for Chewbacca is wearing a tie he knew that um this was a formal event where he was being introduced um [Laughter] for those who may not be aware therapy dogs are known to help children learn empathy learn interpersonal skills they help individuals students develop social skills they help reduce anxiety to help children learn to read they help reluctant readers instead of reading to a classmate can read to a therapy dog because they know that Chewie's not going to judge you Chewie is not going to be Julie's just happy to hear you reading he's not going to be checking your consonant skills so um thanks to this board of education that um for several months the policy committee did a lot of research a lot of discussions about bringing a therapy dog crafting a policy to do this and with the board support we now have Chewie who will be spending a lot of time with our kids in schools and I cannot tell you how much we all love him already should we come say hello to the Board of Education members with me he looks like Mark Judy said he looks like you mark that's a cute dog chewy chewy chewy Chewbacca noises that's reserved for me oh my God you're still working on the regulations so Mr gengaro thank you for bringing Chewie uh stop by is he going to be staying for the meeting or is he uh yes he wants to go to Executive session later okay good good we might we very well might need him um thank you Mr gengaro so uh commissioner just a real brief um update if you drive around Clifton and see any of our schools you can see there's a lot of construction projects going on doesn't look pretty but progress doesn't look pretty sometimes we are making tremendous progress with our referendum projects new bathroom facilities in all of our buildings new HVAC units in all of our buildings one problem we are having and I don't think this is a surprise to anyone anymore it's kind of beyond our control is uh when you install new HVAC systems and schools you sometimes need to upgrade the electricity and unfortunately a lot of people are doing this at the same time and there is still a problem with the supply chain with psang trying to get now the difficulties trying to get Transformers for the polls so unfortunately despite some of our best efforts PSEG is is still waiting on them to install a few Transformers so while we may have new HVAC installed we may have beautiful new Fields ready to go but we're waiting on electricity so we're working on that we're doing everything in our power to to um to rush that but it's just something that it's affecting this the entire state so that's my report for tonight uh Mr Smith I don't want to take any any more time thank you again Commissioners um I appreciate each and every one of you very very much thank you Mr Smith yeah so under my announcements just uh if there's anybody in Clifton or in our watching area that has any influence or any connection at PSENG so we could get these projects up and completed for our students we have a beautiful field over at Woodrow Wilson but their Clubhouse is inoperable because we don't have electricity the scoreboards are inoperable because we don't have electricity our weight room is going to be done beautiful new weight room and they won't be able to use it because there's no electricity I I I'm I'm I'm baffled why an entity of this size is stifling our projects and that's what they're doing if you remember it was back in May that we had our groundbreaking at the new field and PSEG at that time said we were going to have electricity within days they didn't say it was going to be 90 days 120 days and counting so I just hope the public understands that while you see a lot going on I know there's been a lot written about the Woodrow field and how the board didn't get it completed and that's totally untrue it lies in the hands of PSEG so hopefully somebody out there hears this knows of somebody knows a connection lives next door to the president of pcng whatever however we can get a connection in there to get these projects completed for our schools and for our kids we greatly appreciate it on that note we will move to board committee reports oh I'm sorry we have first reading and policy um 2419 school threat assessment teams um next we have committee report board committee reports we'll start with um Mr Paris would you mind doing facility facilities your own facilities right yes thank you Mr Smith uh the facilities committee met on July 12th uh in attendance was myself Mr Santiago president Smith uh meeting time was 3 30 to 5 PM we have for items of discussion we had a ref the referendum update Bill Castillo from epic management and Rodney Watkins are decaro uh Rubino architect gave an update on the referendum projects going on throughout the district vestibules bathrooms HVAC and abatements are happening in almost every building we then had a energy consultant update any presentation from transparent energy Steve DeStefano our energy consultant recommended the district utilize transparent energy to Aid in bidding Gas and Electric utilities also he will work closely with the referendum work to give proposals regarding the possible use of solar panels uh the committee concurred to put a resolution forward um item three one Clifton faculty and staff Recreational Sports League was discussed uh Dr robertosie presented an idea of having a Recreational Sports league for staff it was further discussed and I believe it is on this evening's agenda uh we concluded at 5 30 and those are the minutes from the meeting any questions on facilities okay seeing none will move on to finance Mr Brunswick thank you president Smith we had a finance committee meeting July 12 2023 from 5 PM until 6 15 pm myself Alan Paris president Smith were in attendance items of discussion were the bond Council update NJ arm asset and rebate management the district's Bond Council Andrea Khan attended the meeting to explain her recommendation to utilize the New Jersey asset and rebate management otherwise known as New NJ armed to meet rebate compliance standards as well as maximize the interest savings there is no cost to the district they will submit a proposal for consideration number two which was discussed was the AV stipend Administration recommended increasing the AV stipend which has not been increased in years a fair price will be negotiated and proposed in an upcoming agenda and finally we discussed Aid in lieu of Transportation rate for the 23-24 school year Administration stated that a Aid in lieu of non-public Transportation numbers have been released from the doe it is increasing from one thousand twenty two dollars per student to 1165 per student does anyone have any questions okay thank you CNN move on to uh policy Miss password yes thank you president Smith uh the policy committee met on July 10th uh we started at 506 in present president at the meeting was commissioner fahima abedrabo commissioner Mejia Lou Ross was President for a mission Administration also president was the board attorney to Lee Gutierrez and myself the committee reviewed and advises the adoption of a new mandated policy 2419 School threat assessment team as recommended by Strauss Esme and required under the state law the committee discussed the possibility of creating a policy regarding School graduation and commencement activities to address procedures and requests that may arise around the graduation commencement ceremonies the administration will provide proposals to the committee at the next upcoming meeting in continuing its review of existing policies the committee reviewed the following policies all adopted prior to 2015 and recommends that the policies remain as they are with no changes the policies will be marked as reviewed with today's board meeting date in our policy book and on the district's website where policies are kept 4-1-1 creating positions 4112 abolishing positions 4124 Employment contract 4130 assignment of transfers 4140 terminations 4145 layoffs 4150 discipline 4151 assessment of pay 4211.3 Consulting outside the district 4214 conflicts of interest 4215 code of ethics the meeting adjourned at 5 30 pm and Mr Ross submitted the minutes any questions thank you okay uh thank you we'll move on to uh the unfinished business all right we'll move on to um 16.
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those are typically our special needs buses um we have contacted North Vernon Police Department and they're going to have an officer staged at the end of Hayden Pike in North Ferman Elementary every morning that's going to direct traffic the reason for that we feel like with everybody using Hayden Pike from the south of town coming in that Hayden bike is going to back up so the Norfolk Police Department is going to be there to kind of keep traffic moving they'll be there from 7 40 in the morning till 8 when typically all of our shuttle buses have come in and are on their way out in the afternoon we have a our custodians from the high school and uh North Ferman Elementary going to demand that same intersection so if you would show the map sorry that's the reason we're having this discussion so as you can see there we've got the thank you we got the high school parking lot there with the there's going to be two custodians there at the end of the high school campus and the reason for that high school students after the bus they're going to be some that want to go right instead of turn left and going to Hayden Pike so we're gonna have two custodians there X there trents we're gonna have three custodians one for eastbound traffic one for westbound traffic one there policing car riders coming down to North Ferman Elementary you go back to the schedule you don't have to have to um most of our car riders from North Vernon Elementary is going to be out of the way for our buses leave the high school camp but just in case there's some stragglers we're going to have somebody there for that the X there at the corner of Brownstown Road and Hayden Pike we've got two Middle School sorry one middle school custodian coming up there and we're going to talk with first Christian or sorry Columbus Christian schools and see if they can man their driveway there a little further north on Brownstown Road just and I've talked with Columbus Christian school today and they're going to have all of their car riders when they're dismissing they come in that Gravel Drive they're going to loop around and exit exit just to kind of limit construction or more traffic there in the construction zone so it's really all I have so Chef curly did all this by himself it takes five now to replace it yeah yeah and you have a lot more respect hey Tim so yeah will they um basically prevent people from coming out of the high school from turning right they are not going to not in the afternoon so principals all met today also went through the plan and they'll be communicating with their staff bus drivers already have their annual meeting communicated that there so after tonight we're going to start sharing with parents throughout the next to make sure people we do anticipate the heaviest traffic will be on Hayden Pike so that's why we have some of our buses going on that bypass around there's a little bit of adjustment in time for some bus riders at the school that that won't impact the families who are car riders at all thank you Tim for detailing all that so this item wasn't informed and so thank you for being present to present that to us just would remind anybody who might be listening or watching or if you share something on social media once the supposed to just encourage individuals who don't need to pick anyone up at the high school the elementary school the middle school just a to stay away from that area for different routes to Alvin Pike anything you can do to help mitigate this while the construction is going on of course we want to be good partners to indot and all of the work that they're doing on Walnut Street to make sure that the drainage is appropriate and the resurfacing everything that has to happen but again I know that this is going to be a little bit congested during that time so appreciate any help we can get um so next we'll talk about a transfer route yeah we want we would like to get approval to transfer Larry Kirby's contract route 809 to Melissa Bailey okay do I have a motion to motion by Chelsea do I have a second by Travis any discussion all those in favor and the second one is approval to continue the additional sped route for the 22 or 23 24 school year and this is the one we brought up last year as a address the incorrection it's actually so do I have an approval to continue this sped route for 23 promotion by pad do I have a second second by Mary Lynn any discussion all those in favor seven oh next under relations we have a couple of items we do we have two annual mousse the first is for the Vincennes Project Excel this is our dual credit program so asking for approval for that do I have a motion to accept that mou with Vincennes University motion by Chelsea do I have a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and the second one is we have an annual agreement with Southeastern Career Center each year that if they had an emergency need to use our buses that are parked there for transportation that they could so thank you I have a motion to accept the second mou for Southeastern Career Center I have a motion by Travis do I have a second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor 7-0 which brings us down to other and I do believe we have something underneath you we have an other and I'll let Todd share permission to post asking for permission to uh post an additional teacher position at Sand Creek Elementary for students with intellectual disabilities and I will mention this is a position we've had posted and we're unable to fill and we would just like to put that posting back up okay do I have a motion to accept or provide permission to post I have a motion by Earl around a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor which brings us to the end of the board meeting it doesn't if you don't have any others great do I have a motion to adjourn I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second by Travis all those in favor foreign
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and so the lawyers were left to deal with sort of applying the general principles of openness and transparency in the brown act into social media Communications um okay so ab992 which is now codified in the government code at 54952.2 what that says is that a member of the board May communicate on inter internet-based social media platforms to answer questions provide information to the public or to solicit information from the public regarding a matter within the district subject matter jurisdiction provided that a majority of the members of the board don't use that social media platform to discuss among themselves business of a specific nature that's within the legislative body's jurisdiction okay so what I would suggest here is uh interpret the word discuss among themselves as broadly as possible and also of a specific nature because we all know how social media can work and when you have comments and threads um sometimes uh you know comments you any particular post may have multiple comments to it maybe even hundreds but if there are two particular or three particular people you're looking at in there and you're communicating positions within that thread that raises problems because now that thread can be used as a means to create a collective concurrence on a particular issue that's coming before the board um and and ab992 also takes a hard line stand and says that a board member shall not respond to directly to any communication on an internet-based social media platform regarding a matter that's within the subject matter of the district that is made posted or shared by any other member of the legislative body so I'm not a social media user but to the extent any or All of You Are if one of your board colleagues posts something on a social media platform relating to District business you cannot comment directly upon it and um comment is um because you should you should interpret comment very broadly as well meaning no Emojis no reactions thumbs up thumbs down sad care with hugs and hearts coming out any of that stuff um you should just avoid it all together okay um any questions on social media this used to be a Hot Topic like two years ago but I think the statute was resolved a lot of the issues okay so let's just go to doing do's and don'ts on social media um that's slide number 18.
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