thank you all right so um next announcements um our next exec session and board meeting is October 26 2023 does anybody have anything that they'd like to say just just note it starts at two o'clock it does start at two yeah I have nothing tonight okay so some of you may have seen alumni for instance starting a project where we're going to be digitizing all the yearbooks that we have um Mrs Rico and I went through we have duplicates of just about any of them all of them so we're comfortable in sending off these yearbooks it's 50 per yearbook that covers mailing digitizing and mailing them back and the purpose of this correct me if I'm wrong is to get it on the uh Corp site and then also under the alumni friends and where people can go in hit the link and find their yearbook and so forth but we'll still keep we have a set here and we have a set over in the library on that one so pretty excited about it I think it'll be a cool project we are getting a lot more questions of how to go about doing class reunions and so forth and so forth and yearbook is always one of the things they want to want to see so good thanks Amy I just want to take a minute and thank Dr Nelson Dr Hoover Dr Taylor and Dr long for uh all the extra work they did Jason your presentation that was outstanding it really was a complicated subject that you did a very good job Dr Long thank you for moving forward on the hitting facility in Dr Hoover thank you for uh being very specific for our goals and our benchmarks and everything and I appreciate it I'm looking forward to that and then the last thing if it ever was all right no if there ever was a night I was at the football game Friday night and uh first of all the best student sex in fact seen ever and the second thing I didn't have a place to sit in the second half and if there's ever an example that Center Grove is not a town but is based around the school corporation was Friday night I've never seen crowds like that before and everything and it's the only place that the whole you know we there's no Town Center growth so everything we do here is important I appreciate what you guys do because it's uh it's not easy it was especially with a couple of changes have been made in Indianapolis [Laughter] I agree and this uh softball mama's heart is really excited for that hitting facility there you go so anyway I did forget one announcement at the fall break no school October 9th through the 13th I did see that right here so if we have no other comments um we are the meeting is adjourned and we will start the good for the group here sure
that meeting will focus a lot on the Mechanicals um you know I know Tim had inquired about uh you know what can we do in terms of reducing the carbon footprint and the costs of energy and whatnot and so our mechanical specialist will be there next Thursday to talk about that Tim and Adam thanks Tony yeah so with regards to the thank you for the addition to the modernization report with regard to the meeting next Thursday I look forward to it I hope other people will attend people um whatever their concerns are one of my main concerns is sustainable construction but it really comes at it from a perspective of life cycle costs I really feel that it's critical that not just here in Cheshire but the schools the town government the federal government households when possible when you're making when when energy decisions are made it is really valuable to look at life cycle costs and and I mean it seriously when I feel like it needs to be a serious conversation whatever the decision is that's one thing but I think there has to be a serious conversation about life cycle costs because we part of the argument in favor of new construction rather than a renovation was 50 years rather than 20 years of use so we really I firmly believe that we need to be looking at the life cycle costs and if we're spending Less on the initial cost right now oftentimes that means you pay more on the back end so we're paying more for the next 50 years at least in that sort of simple scenario I don't know if that's the case but that is what I look forward to getting a better understanding of the life cycle costs associated with the different options for our basically our Energy Systems at the two schools that's certainly smart to evaluate you know what is the immediate versus long-term costs in these things and that was communicated to techton and their team and so I look forward to hearing more about that next week thank you Yeah Tim thanks for that and thanks for keeping us on task conservation part of these really big projects that we can do a lot with if we're in on the ground floor with it and you've been really good about keeping us there I just wanted to uh publicly thank the bill committee um for their great work and I think those flyers that were mailed out to all residents were and the presentation at the Fall Festival was laid out really nice lots of visuals pictures people seemed really interested in getting that information I feel like that committee has done a great job whether it's the committee the committee working with um the professionals that we have working with us um to me it seems like the community is very very well informed and involved so I I want to thank everybody who's been involved with all of that Adam [Music] I was trying to get the uh meeting dates here so I'll get them into my calendar just wanted to make sure I wanted and I also want to seek so my questions are um about the images we received updated images on the North End I wasn't sure if those were public or not or if those are going to be unveiled next week and then my other question is I don't think we received updated images of the Norton project but it looks like there's something up on the on their uh the Next Generation Facebook page and so I just wanted to make sure that the images that are on that Facebook page are updated and then find out if the ones that we have for the North End are public I'm following you I'm with you so the North End images that were just released uh Tuesday have not been updated on our website yet um soon but just not yet the updates to the Norton facade have been updated and those are on our website so when you click on School modernization you scroll down a little bit on the left hand side they should be within that PowerPoint that's from the last meeting that uh the tecton facilitated that presentation I think that's it thanks that's it doctors I think that's it Dr stolen thank you for the update uh old business we don't have uh old business new business on chairpersons update just a couple items uh Cave had a director's meeting last week and we actually uh were graced by having Dr Russell tarker and attendance by herself with the keyboard directors in the room which everybody knows how busy she is it's almost impossible to do so I just want to thank her for her hour and a half of answering every question we post to it which ran the gamut in the cave should be sending out some meaning minutes which are four some very good content there but one thing I want to highlight that she spoke uh quite a bit of was uh trying to help with the teacher shortage issue in Connecticut she had mentioned that now there's I believe six to eight states with reciprocity uh I think Rhode Island is the latest one where it's teachers certify there 'll be able to teach in Connecticut using that certification and short summary I don't remember all the states are but she ran them off pretty quickly but uh she seems making progress there and I believe there's already two teachers from Rhode Island I'm teaching in Connecticut this school year it took um took his advantage of that she also mentioned that I don't know if it's in this legislature or it's coming but she mentioned about the possibility adjunct faculty be able to teach uh in public schools as another Pathway to help with a shortage of a Summits in progress so uh again I'll get the medium minutes out and again but it seems a lot of work is happening between her department and um and Harford to help with that shortage um that's really it uh as far as upcoming board meetings our next board meeting is October 5th uh it's an open it's an open Forum meeting here in town council chambers and the open Forum setting such that we break out into our respective committee groups and we invite members of the public to sit down with us and address topics what is finance planning curriculum Etc it's always well attended so we're looking forward to this one policy committee is October 10th at 6 30.
I promise we're almost done but everyone is so excited we did have a conversation before the meeting that you have to keep your presentations down no more than two minutes per program but those are kind of Janina two minutes they're they're going like five six and seven but they have so many good things to say so I hope you you can just take another minute or two um for the rest of our program so Mr sarsano rest okay I better keep this under two minutes my name is Steven sarcino I'm a teacher at Clifton High School and I was lucky enough to be the coordinator one of the coordinators of the ESL summer enrichment program for age six to twelve along with Eva rogozinski as it says here our program is both virtual and at school 17. every day students logged in virtually and they've received virtual instruction additionally we were able to swing it so they could meet in person two afternoons each week which really meant a lot to them so our program was a tuition-free program we drew students from both Christopher Columbus Middle School at Clifton High School uh we broke excuse me we primarily focused on the domains of psyop and ESL Reading Writing speaking and listening students work both independently and in groups especially when they were in person each day they receive bless you each day they received instruction and social studies math and language arts and then each day they either receive technology or science so students recruit by their English language proficiency level also they were grouped into six sections and overall we had about 100 students in the program and it was very flexible so that meant that a lot of students who were just virtually only they were able to log in from other countries which really show their dedication uh also we had about 70 who attended the in-person sessions at school 17 and you see the different languages we had students who spoke Spanish Arabic Russian Turkish Ukrainian and Bengali another good stuff the pictures so you see here we were able to get some donations for some student incentives they received these incentives for a perfect attendance and for going above and beyond in their academics over this summer science class was a lot of fun they were doing a lot of Hands-On experiments when they were in person on Virtual days they took Virtual Field Trips including my personal favorite to the San Diego Zoo one of the in-person sessions they built roller coasters they had a lot of fun doing that more things on the online days the instructors did a great job of making it as engaging as possible for the students they did a lot of projects and social studies about their native countries and their cultures of the Native countries they also did a lot of interactive games this board game was really really popular don't quiz me because I don't remember what the top right one is uh we also on the in-person data were able to offer a portion where they got to have like a physical education type class where they got to run around the gym play soccer play basketball so they're able to stay active on those two in-person days which is awesome and then we just have some more experiments here they did an experiment electricity it was really really cool paper plate airplane lab one day they love that and uh the technology class they built a lot of cool things so some of the models they were making simple machines my favorite was this app they used online a lot of Architects use it it's like a sketch type app and they were able to sketch out their own emojis cars homes uh some of the Emojis came out really really good as you can see and they also created a lot of stuff we used a lot of Hands-On things a lot of kinesthetic learning during the in-person days so I'd just like to thank you for your time and your support and we had a great program we can't wait for next year thank you Mr sarasano and finally um we had our camp right along and um our language arts supervisor and our language arts coaches ran this for Middle School this was for students rising from fifth grade into sixth in order to prepare them for our honors classes we don't just support students with special needs or students who need to reinforce skills we also do programs for acceleration and this was a program specific to our students who were Rising into the accelerated classes at the middle school they really also very Hands-On interactive writing fostering their literacy skills and they kind of set up a camp-like atmosphere for our children the children who participated in this week-long Camp there was perfect attendance and that's really really rare and that is all for um our summer programs these summer programs would not have been possible without the support of our board and with these amazing and clearly enthusiastic aspiring administrators who have a such a bright future so were it not for our the support of our board members our Administration and maintenance we're going to shout out Mr shahada again um Transportation food service we really provided an all-round program for so many children so thank you um and now I promise I will be seriously one minute last at our last board meeting uh Dr Robert cozy shared with you the wonderful news that we received our cusac placement letter unfortunately we are required by Statute to present that officially so this is our official presentation of our Cusack placement Cusack is the every three-year cohort the Q the New Jersey single accountability quality single accountability Continuum measuring all aspects of our district fiscal Personnel instruction operations and governance um we were very lucky that we um through our hard work every single one of those areas attained over 80 percent 80 percent is passing and we were at a hundred percent in most areas and on the final uh sheet you see some comparisons over the years from different cusac evaluations and I promise that that would be short um so once again thank you so very much for your attention and I look forward to speaking to you in the future and great job to our aspiring administrators you know what your enthusiasm was amazing [Applause] we always say that our Clifton staff teachers administrators bus drivers Food Service they don't rest summer is no is a perfect example where Clifton educating kids doesn't take a break and all of you need to be commended for the fantastic job that you did it's because of you people that that Cusack report is what it is and it's because of you people that made Clifton a great town to educate your kids in so thank you all very much and I know you want to get out of here so thank you and uh please take the opportunity to leave if you want to stay please stay I'm sorry yeah the students are obviously of course you guys can go at your leisure um thank you again thanks everybody thank you uh Miss kuslovich thank you for all that you do for these programs as well and um I just want the public to to know and I I presume that report's going to be up on our website the Cusack report yes sir um that is the report card of how the district is doing and as you will see we scored 100 percent in every category so that's a tremendous tremendous thank you to our Administration and staff that is not easy to come by and we're very proud of that and if you have an opportunity take a look at that report on our website and that's what makes Clifton the special town that it is so again thank you Miss fragoza and and Miss kusilevich for your presentations tonight your continued efforts in your programs thank you okay we'll move on with our agenda okay we'll start with number nine adoption of our minutes of August 24th 2023 so moved by Mr abadrabo second by Mr Paris discussion I think yes um I'm going to be changing my vote before the uh the minutes go into record I want to change my vote on facility usage form 4962 so that my colleagues know why outboard policy 7510 is clear for the non-use of political groups allowing these groups any uh use of facility for the Clifton Board of Education is a violation about board policy also um I've learned that the group that took out this usage form was uh con formed in April 2023 as a 501c4 for nobody that knows what a 501c4 is it's different it's it's an organization that is allowed to take donations but your donations are not tax-exempt what happens is if we just bring that on a new business this is just the minutes but I'm giving the reason why I'm voting no I know but we're going into more prolonged uh I have a reason no no I I want you to say it no but I want to I want maybe other members may change their mind when they find out why I'm doing this it's really important that this come on record I need it on record I need on record it has nothing to do with anything other because I'm going to be accused of being a racist because I'm going against this so I want the community to know the reason absolutely I agree I just okay so I want to finish okay I sent the uh a three-page email to the superintendent I can read it to you all later I'll do it under my preview of my my minutes but the the organization is not a non-profit a 501c a 501c4 is a political organization they can endorse candidates they endorse candidates last year without being formed and they've also um interviewed an endorsed candidates this year okay we we have kept the Clifton public schools and the usage of Clifton Public Schools very pristine with non-political usage if we allow this usage from our last minutes from 4962 we are violating policy number 7510 so I want my vote to be changed to know thank you all right just make those notations in the minutes so we're voting on the minutes of the meeting any other discussion roll call please yes with the exception to my no on that one thank you Mr Brunswick yes Mr Mejia yes Mr Paris yes Mr Santiago yes vice president Danny yeah president Smith yes motion carries you ready doc yes sir okay superintendent's report Dr robitosi thank you Mr President good evening once again Commissioners um I want to thank all of our presenters that uh spoke tonight about all of our summer programs it looked like our kids had a lot of fun while they were learning this summer and that's that's really what it's all about so thank you for all your hard work I just want to start off with a I got a short two minute video I want to give a shout out to principal Lynette park at school three who um made this video and posted it on social media from our new teacher orientation back on August 30th um short two minute video just to show how we welcomed our new staff to the district this year [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] so much [Music] thank you [Music] baby [Music] [Applause] thank you very much [Music] so it really wasn't a two-hour Rock concert there really was a reason for uh for all of that and that that messaging and um I don't know where Mark got that hat from I don't know where that hat came from but that's how we welcomed our new employees to the to the district and I would probably venture to say that might be the most unique new teacher orientation um in the state of New Jersey maybe the East Coast greater northeast area um I have some other good news to share with the board and the community um yesterday I received a letter from New Jersey school boards Association that one of our districts program that we call the IMPACT program was uh selected to be a recipient of the New Jersey school boards association annual School leader award for a recognized program um the IMPACT program is a program at Clifton High School for it's designed to assist students with disabilities from age 18 through 21.
curriculum next curriculum committee meeting will be October 16th at 7 pm in the Houston boardroom and October 19th is our next Board of Ed business meeting we'll be here in town council chambers at 7 30.
these are students who are developing the necessary Independent Living skills and employment skills that they need to prepare for a transition into adulthood and our program at Clifton High School simulates a home away from home environment it's located on the first floor of the South Wing at Clifton High School there's various stations within the setting that Target the development of specific vocational needs of students and independent living skills including but not limited to personal hygiene and self-care daily maintenance tasks like laundry and cleaning clerical work meal prep daily use of Technology how to apply for a job ordering food they work on social skills workplace safety and the student students really learned to become a self-determined member of our community so it was really nice to hear yesterday that our IMPACT program will be recognized by New Jersey school boards Association we'll be receiving an invitation to be recognized during a county school boards Association event which as board members you are all invited to and and permitted to go each month will also receive a plaque to recognize our achievement and we also received a digital badge to put on our website to show that we were recognized for this regard so congratulations to our Administration staff who came up with the idea for this program who developed it and who who organized it and run it every single day really is a fantastic program I also want to take a minute to update the entire one Clifton community on our favorite furry friend our favorite four-legged friend Chewie where is he is he sleeping he's back there should we want to come out and say hello uh Chewie is our District's therapy dog and Chewie has been making his rounds visiting our students and staff during arrival dismissal in the classroom he's been to student assemblies and even at athletic events um so far this therapy dog initiative in Clifton has been um to say it's been a success is an understatement and I'm pleased to announce tonight that Chewie now has his own dedicated Facebook page called The Adventures of Chewie and you'll be able to find a link to the webpage Chewie's bio and a link to post Chewie's pictures on our District web page it'll be up and running by next uh by next Friday you'll be able to follow the adventures of Chewie I think he's done for the day he's just tired he's like he said he wants to hear another presentation Chewie we look forward to following Chewie's adventures and like I said that will be up and running by next the end of next week on our from our district website thanks Mark he does just bring a calmness doesn't he we're working on it yeah we got it he's still a puppy ladies and gentlemen he's only eight months he's actually eight months old today still a puppy and he's still growing yeah happy birthday happy eight months I mean look at the size of those Paws he's gonna be a beast um I'd also like to um tell the board in the community that school 13 will be celebrating its centennial celebration this upcoming Sunday they will have historical artifacts shared by alumni as well as vendors it's probably going to be the rain date because oh is there do you know Mr Brunswick do you know what the rain date is off the top of your head well so if it rains uh we'll I'll get the rain date and I'll announce it out before the end of the night but as of now the um date is October 1st October 1st thank you Mr Brunswick the plan is that vendors crafts activities food bouncy houses and more at school 13 from 10 to 2 on Sunday if it rains and it's certainly looking that way um the rain date is October 1st so please all are welcome to come out and celebrate School 13 as they turn 100 years old [Laughter] I'd also like to um give a public service announcement on behalf of the Clifton Education Foundation who have supported our schools going on 25 years now and the Clifton Education Foundation will be having its 25th anniversary dinner on October 11th from 5 to 9 pm at Uno's Pizzeria and Grill on Route 3.
yes uh just to add the open Forum meeting is off mic so usually people feel more comfortable really being open with us when we discuss yeah and we had a really well attended one last year at that and a lot of great things came out of that so we're looking forward to this thing so that's it we will not be during the executive session so we've already cover that topic so that being said I'm asked for a motion to adjourn Andrew Faith seconds all those in favor adjourn the meeting raise your hands it is unanimous thank you everyone this meeting is adjourned
you don't need a ticket if you go there on October 11th between 5 and 9 25 of your bill will go to the Clifton Education Foundation and so please if you get a chance go out and support the foundation they do so much to support our teachers and students uh oh and there's a talent show that night at the um at the foundation dinner they've asked me to play guitar but I said if you want people to come you don't want me playing guitar so please if you get a chance to go out I'm definitely going to be there that night and I like pizza a quick update on referendum projects as of today we have 60 of all the gang bathrooms in the district have been completed uh and 70 of the single bathrooms have been completely renovated when we said we were going to renovate every bathroom in the district we weren't kidding it and it's been a lot of work but it's made a tremendous difference uh School three's Auditorium is complete and it is absolutely beautiful uh sometime in the next few weeks I'll organize a date with Mr Smith so we can have a ribbon cutting ceremony at school three see their Auditorium it's it's really it's it's so beautiful um next up on the auditorium phase will be both of our middle schools will be getting completely updated renovated auditoriums be fantastic and of course um ongoing work in all of our schools and excuse me not in most of our schools with our new uh HVAC systems um that there's a lot of a lot of work going on in all of our schools too to update those so that's my report for tonight Mr President thank you very very much thank you any questions for the superintendent all right seeing none uh we'll move on to 12 which is uh first reading of policy Miss password you want to read those um no just read the we have zero one four five board member resignation and removal zero one five five point one board member participation at media public board meetings public and executive sessions using electronic devices of 7510 use of school facilities okay thank you uh if we move on to board committee reports um we'll start uh with Finance Mr Brunswick thank you Mr President those in attendance were myself commissioner Paris president Smith Dr Robert Posey Mr jingaro Mr shahada Mr doctor Miss bakalos meeting started at five p.m meeting ended at 5 32 PM items of discussion were the band trip proposal Mr gengaro went over a proposal forwarded from the CHS band for a trip number two we discussed the rod Grant update all Rod grants were approved by the state number three was the Sylvan Ave property letter of intent was reviewed with the committee the letter will be sent to the attorney today at that time and sent over to the buyer's attorney to continue the sales process number four was the Brighton Asylum update Brighton asylum haunted house explained the process in which parking would be structured at CHS if the board allows the use of the parking lot Mr gengaro and shahada met with Richard associated with the brightness home and discussed the proposal proposal was in the hands of the committee members and we ended up uh just sending it to legal to make sure everything looked clean with that does anybody have any questions president Smith I do yes uh just in terms of the rod Grant Mr Brunswick how much did we receive and can you usually look no what we're using that pretty big number a little over 15 mil and what are we using that for in the district the roofs okay thank you yes um I'm going to become the facility usage uh Czar of Clifton is for the uh Asylum is everything in order c-o-a-c-o-i the everything everything in order everything is in order I believe you thank you thank you okay anyone else questions all right we'll move on um Mr Paris would you mind doing the facilities for me please sure thank you president Smith uh the facilities committee met on September 11th uh president or commissioner Awad myself uh and president Smith also in attendance for Dr robertozzi Mr gengaro Mr shahada Mr Maldonado Mr doctor Mr marcione guests that were also in attendance were Mr Costello Mr Watkins Mr Vito Ms bakalos and Ms Rotolo we started our meeting at 3 30 we ended at 4 33.
the items of discussions were a referendum update the Epic rep gave us an overview of what has taken place so far in the referendum and plans for the next few months we're also waiting on PSEG for final steps for the Woodrow Wilson Field the stadium weight room units are to be delivered by the end of October we're waiting on ventilation for the flooring company to come in and install the floor they can't install the floor until ventilations in place uh school one bathroom are on schedule and school 3 Auditorium was completed the building and grounds update Administration gave an update of projects taking place throughout the district cooking kitchens at Woodrow and Columbus are completed many repairs were completed and building prep for the first day of school was the main priority the bright we had a Brighton Asylum update we explained the process was explained in which parking would be structured at CHS if the board allowed it Mr gingero Mr shahada met with Richard from the Asylum that doesn't sound right but and discuss the proposal uh and the proposals in the hands of the committee members we also had a rod Grant update that all our Rod grants were approved by New Jersey um School 14 parking lot was completed it was 65 000 returned due to being under budget so the parking lot was 65k under budget we discussed the band room renderings of the band rooms were explained to the committee a discussion is sued about modifications the discussion on property on Route 3 took place which is potential property for Transportation Administration will look into it try to make contact with the owner School 14 trailer treatment was discussed their these trailers are being treated in compliance with IPM and New Jersey dep standards we discussed the impact kitchen at CHS a donor graciously donated up-to-date kitchen equipment to help students with life skills After High School and we just heard about that program and its recognition by the New Jersey school boards Association meeting ended at 4 33.
any questions thank you uh next we'll do uh policy Miss bassford thank you um policy committee meet met on September 18th the policy committee began at 505 pm and attendance for commissioner abedrabo commissioner Richie Mejia president from Administration was Danny robitussi Mark gingero Ahmed shahida Michael Byrne Luis Ross and president from our board attorney was Margaret Miller and myself the committee reviewed the use of school facility policy 7510 clarification was provided regarding the application process fees charged and regulations the committee asked the administration and the board to review the policy and make recommendations at the committee's next meeting for board consideration in the interim the committee recommends that the policy be amended tonight to amend the following sentence after number eight to read the use of school facilities will not be granted for the advantage of any partisan political activities or any private social function regarding this change the committee unanimously recommends that the board moved to suspend by law zero one three one and adopt the revised policy 7510 with one reading the committee then discussed bylaw015 well excuse me zero one four five board member recognition and removal which went through the first reading at the last meeting the committee has placed this bylaw again for first reading tonight with additional amendments as proposed by the board attorney to provide a due process provision and Define meeting in the policy as so as to be better aligned with statute and case law as required as requested at the last meeting the board attorney reviewed by law zero one five five point one board member participate participation at board meetings public and executive session using electronic device regarding Commissioners attending board meetings virtually the committee recommends adoption of the policy with the revised punctuation on page four and the addition of the following sentence on page three no more than two board members shall be permitted to participate in a meeting via electronic device the possibility of adopting a light duty assignment policy was also discussed the committee requested that Administration and board attorney provide recommendations to the committee at the next meeting the meeting adjourned at 5 55 pm and Luis Ross submitted the minutes do I have any questions uh I do actually good um Mr President um through you to the attorney so I sit on the policy committee but I was kind of thinking about this when I was reviewing everything again last night um and there's something I caught in the in the one of the one of the I'll say 7510 can you tell me the difference between a political organization um upon sorry a partisan political political activity organization and a community political organization and the reason I ask is because and if I may just read the two lines so the use of physical facilities will not be granted for the advantage of any partisan political activity or any private social function but then um it's a little contradicting that number seven or number six I'm sorry where it says the paragraph that we will prioritize people who actually we give um use of facilities form to number six is listed as a community political organization right foreign we will look at that and take that out I would think that is contradictory I didn't notice that either I don't think any of us did when we were discussing the policy the other night yeah so we certainly that should come out to be aligned um with the policy my understanding without having the benefit of of actually researching and and and seeing if political um or partisan organization is defined anywhere um I always would interpret that to mean you know political organizations that we we don't hold political debates with you know Republican Democratic parties of that nature that's always been my understanding of what is referred to a partisan political organization and I know we generally try to keep those out of the schools no that's fair and the reason I'm bringing this up as well I was going to bring it up anyway exactly I was talking to shahad and then I thought um when I asked him earlier you know can I bring this up under first reading and I'm like I know I can't I don't know why I'm asking and then I remember that this was being read is that the conversation of the I'll take an example was the Latino leadership event that's not Republican or Democratic or green party or whatever but yet it is still a community political organization so that's why I kind of wanted to you know and that's actually a perfect organ perfect example um and that's why I wanted to bring that up because it's a little contradictory where you have your your D's your r's your greens or whatever you want to be and then you have your community political organization so which one is it you know is it it's like you're telling no but you guys can't and that's a little discriminatory but you're allowing other political organizations to do so I can certainly look and see if I can find any better definition in case law as to what is you know a partisan versus a community political organization and then it's up to you as a board to decide where you want to draw that line I have a I have a comment on that I would like to take partisan out and leave the word political so no political functions are going on on our properties we've never had this issue it's only recently surfaced I would like to take the word partisan out and just leave political so it covers every basis that's what I'm concerned about School uh Clifton schools have been pristine about not having anything political on campus this was discussed many years at our policy meeting myself and um commissioner Dan uh vice president Danny um sat on it because a Community member wanted to hand stuff out during a Tricky Tray or I don't know what was going on in the school it came to the board through the superintendent and we didn't we he didn't allow it so I recommend that we take partisan out and just leave it political and this way we cover ourselves on every basis and it's clean and again if I may I'm not disagreeing with you um I it's just when you read it you're like all right so what are you doing here you know it's are you allowing it you're not allowing it are you being discriminatory against certain people or parties or political activities or what whatever nature it may be it's just more to cover us just and I agree with you in terms of taking out partisan you sleep at political activity period because then we just cover ourselves and it's one word thank you number 75-10 number six was that did that policy always exist or no thank you okay Mr Mejia so I did want to mention what we talked about briefly in the policy committee is if and when we actually do get a board member who is 18 19 in college that we can revisit this you know obviously I would like to give them the opportunity if they go to you know a prestigious School of Harvard it's actually attend a meeting whether it's in their dorm or in their apartment or in a closed room because personally I feel like we would just leave them out if they're voted by the people I believe we should really have them on this board Miss Mejia I actually did research on that I sent it to the superintendent um I Dr robitussi you were going to share that information that I had got ta write the whole board and it does speak to that I I didn't I did get it for you though the only reason I bring it up because I personally know a few members at my University they're on the board back in their Hometown Staten Island so if they're able to you know be on it I know it's different rules like we were talking about before but I think it would be a great opportunity especially for some of our high schoolers who want to get involved who have been involved to actually be at the table making decisions you know since they already know students in there they already know what happened they already know what needs to change so like I said before I hope we can revisit it in the future I I did share that information with the superintendent he's going I I don't send it out to the board I asked him to disseminate it to the board but it was from New Jersey school boards with all and he was going to share with you to weigh in and then we were going to present it to the committee at our next policy meeting so we could actually write a policy to cover it okay any other discussion yeah may I ask one more question are we pulling 7510 temporarily or no we're keeping that on there what's your pleasure I mean I don't know if does research still need to occur 7510 was going to there was verbiage going to be pulled so it would regulate for a usage form that's on the agenda tonight that we're we actually have an agreement in well I'm sorry but we can't do that because because that organization can come back and say okay you as a board yes we're not a A drg or whatever you know political party but yet your policy strictly states that that it's a community or Community political organization that's what I'm afraid of and honestly I thought about it last night I was swamped at work today I didn't get a chance to call the superintendent about this today and I figured we just discuss it here openly um to be transferred for the public and it's I I don't feel comfortable to be honest because I don't need somebody knocking on our door and saying hey I represent so and so and you're discriminating against us so Mr Badr will make the record make a motion and I was going to do that actually you can do it so we're suspending the bylaw for this other application that we're doing so why can't we add the verbage into it now yeah Miss Miller uh that's what I was just gonna say just just to be aware that's what the the amendment that we made to the policy was to remove the prohibition against non-profits that was in there which we think based on practice in the district was left in an error um so that's what the revision was for you can certainly pass it for now and and revisit the issue I mean just because you amend the policy today doesn't stop you from amending it again tomorrow so that if you want to deal with getting it passed tonight so you can have the Assad I found sound funny saying it too the Asylum go forward um I would recommend you do I think that one is probably time time is of the essence and then give me a little time to look in to further the issue between if I can find a new class vacation on what's the difference between a political and partisan political if there is really any difference by law at least or case law on the definition and then you can make the determination as the board as to how you want to amend it so it's certainly up to you guys as to how you want to proceed I'm not comfortable leaving it in I'm and I'm not comfortable leaving partisan and either I'd like to strike both of them from the record tonight okay anyone else uh you wish to strike those words now or would you like uh the attorney the opportunity to look into it and get back to us and revisit it yeah yeah any everyone we just got to cover ourselves for tonight I mean and moving forward particularly when comments have been made and and this is going to be passed I mean that that example that was used by Quincy bassford was already passed anyway um but terms the Asylum and while we're here and looking at it I think we should pool number six strike number six for a minute and and I'll make that motion I'll second it and also remove the word partisan and keep political activity in all right is your emotion to pull let's give your motion again please so I'd like to I would like to make a motion in 75 10 policy 7510 to remove number six Community political organizations and strike the word out of the freeze partisan political activity and strike the word partisan I second that motion okay motion on the floor seconded by Miss bassford discussion seeing none roll call please Mr Robert yes Ms basford yes Mr Brunswick yes over here Mr Paris yes Santiago yes vice president Danny yes president Smith yes motion carried right motion carries here thank you all right um I believe education is next um Mr Paris thank you Mr Smith um the education is special education committee meeting met on September 14th uh starting at 5 30 p.m president where myself uh vice president Danny uh Dr robertosie Mr gigaro Ms gusilevic and uh Ms Hempel Mr kusilevich gave us a an update and provided an overview of enrollment programs in class sizes across the district many special education sections are reaching capacity in 2021 we started the year with 694 multilingual learners by June of 23 we had increased to 1172.
as of today we have 1172 multilingual students in ESL classes K-12 with 230 more receiving follow-up support our preschool P3 and P4 are close to capacity with one additional class about to open at Sela s hiring continues to fill new positions as student numbers in ESL and special education continue to increase action there was informational second item concerning Staffing and virtual learning opportunities Ms kusilevich explained the district continues to innovate to provide highly qualified teachers at a tight job market we are piloting temporary virtual and online options to fill emergent needs with certified staff instead of per diem substitute action was informational special education update was provided by Ms Hemphill Miss Hemphill shared the following updates she discussed the large increases in numbers of referrals to special education as well as classroom sizes and enrollment at this time many of the special education sections are almost full additional sections will be needed and space to hold these new classes is difficult to find some repurposing of classrooms and movement of other programs will need to take place the department looks forward to hiring more full-time paraprofessionals as the budget permits the bounce out the stigma basketball summer camp was held in July at Sila B we had supervisors teachers CST and other staff volunteers to assist along with about 10 Key Club volunteers it was a huge success and the company has received positive feedback esy and CLS programs ran with almost 400 students attending both locations Sila B and Sela a there will be a presentation about this program at the next Boe meeting which we just experienced special education Medicaid initiative end-of-year status we received four hundred and twenty thousand dollars in comparison to last year's 356 thousand due to logging and services increasing we are working on planning our cpag meetings for the year looking for parent involvement and input please reach out to special education at cliftonschools.net for more information we're still looking for staff teachers ldtc psychologist bcba Paris and please apply online via appletrack nurtured heart approach training will be offered again this year as well as parent training for students in the autism program please be on the lookout for upcoming events current special education totals preschool 250.
school age K-12 speech only 188. from July 1st 23 through September 15th we have had 26 referrals K-12 which is up 14 from the same time last year and 34 preschool referrals which is down from 63 this time last year all the above is informational concerning action next time was exploration of summer graduation for summer graduates by Mr gingaro and Miss Coos levich a small number of seniors approximately 15 to 20 each year need to complete a summer course to graduate in August making them ineligible to walk at the June graduation ceremony in order to acknowledge their efforts the district is exploring the feasibility of a small graduation ceremony for these August graduates highlight Clifton Arts at Board of Ed meetings Ms cluster levich discussed a recommendation that had been made to feature Clifton Arts at board meetings Student Art is visible in the hallways of the administration building the committee recommends that there be board discussion about returning rotating art displays inside the boardroom however in November the district will begin to stream Student Art and performances on screen during the executive session portion of the meeting our meeting was adjourned at 6 30 minutes were respectfully submitted by Ms kusilevic any questions Mr commissioner uh I don't know where to start because I have a lot of questions actually um first of all what's our pre p3p4 uh capacity right now Ms Gusto levitch can you help that yeah right now we're getting close to about 1300 students in preschool and how much are we on a waiting list uh the way there I do not know the answer to that but I think we are servicing everybody who um had registered up until we closed registration okay um in terms of special education I'm I'm not a fan of privatizing anything so that's not where I'm going with this but if I'm looking at the numbers correctly where school age K to 12 is 2253.
and we're sure ldtcas uh BCAAs and these other specialty areas are we able to give these 2 253 K to 12 special education students the prior are the special attention that they need have we and where I'm going with this is you know I'm just putting my my work hat on you know have we looked at going to an RFP for outside BCAAs and ldtc we're already implementing those we have we have agencies we have multiple agencies we are reaching out this is this is a this is a nationwide correct Staffing shortage so we are doing multiple um things to try to stay ahead of it uh wherever possible we are you if we don't have enough local staff we have been using agency the agencies themselves don't always have Staffing to provide for us we've been reaching out to the colleges just yesterday I was at Montclair we are working to turn our current student teachers we put them on as substitutes to try to hire them immediately at graduation we have a segment of um December grads that we're looking at right now to put into these positions uh starting in uh at that time at the moment every single classroom has a person in it the vast and we are very and we our goal is to have a highly qualified staff member in every role um but we do and have been reaching out to every possible agency University increased advertising increased job fairs we've done our own job fairs we're attending every job fair that there is and um as other districts are doing um we are also trying to entice staff members from other districts to come to Clifton thank you and then my last question is and maybe I don't know I just feel like maybe Richie may have some ideas on this um sorry commissioner Mejia um you know many of us either have or did or you know in some capacity taking winter courses when we're in college right between the fall and the spring to get these students these 15 20 small number of seniors to graduate and walk with their classmates can we structure or do something you know that they graduate on time with their call with their cohort of students in June that we do some sort of winter classes this way we can you know three-week crash course or with along with the weekend we actually do something like that but they're not it's not a winter crash course we do a number of different cohorts of credit recovery uh either after school online using previously using educer now we've added something called Edgenuity we all we have also added a end of year during the last few weeks of school last ditch final opportunity for students to be able to reclaim those credits so of our nearly 800 graduates each year frequently it's even less than 15 but there's always a handful that despite all of the different um options throughout the school year that we give them for credit recovery you know inevitably there's a small handful that just can't can't finish that one last class or something we we our high school works very hard to get our kids to be able to make it through and walk with their cohort yeah the truth is 98 of students who make it to senior year will graduate then I'll graduate on time and I'll work with their class where we lose kids is earlier on particularly freshman year going into sophomore year when a student repeats freshman year um it gives them a much less chance of graduating high school and so that's why we're doing things like creating after-school alternative type programs for those kids and offering this summer we paid for freshman students who failed regiment two classes or one class correct for all freshmen who failed how many freshmen who fail four classes and the core class we paid for them to get to do a summer school that's not something we've done before but we know that that's the critical year because if we lose them freshman year there's a good chance we they don't ever graduate so that's where our Focus has been if you think about if we're talking about 20 students who actually don't walk with their class we're talking about two percent of our seniors and those are kids who the administration I will tell you and the teachers have bent over backwards and have done everything that they could to try to get these students to to graduate and for some reason or another they just just don't do it thank you you're welcome president Smith yes Mr rahiff and then Mr Cynthia good right so thank you so um I actually made this recommendation this suggestion I believe and um whether they uh have taken advantage of and really worked hard uh and utilized all those courses and those Avenues um or didn't this was uh you have a small group of students who are you know one class away from graduating um and they can't right and that makes sense but uh they take that one class and a month to six weeks later do graduate in August I mean you know no ceremony though right so they get their diploma but um they didn't walk and there's no kind of ceremony unless you're doing it uh privately so I just made this suggestion look into how many students that is how feasible it is and let's see if we can do something for them even if it's a celebration in our gym or wherever it is because um they should be recognized and I know they'll be happy and I know as a parent um maybe even if your kid it's not that big of a deal to them you're immensely proud and you want to celebrate that moment with your student with your child so that's the reason why I made this night and this recommendation I hope that we can work it out thank you commission me so the students at home know you know for knowledge purposes what's the minimum criteria needed in order to pass these classes in the summer there's not much yeah that way they know you know if they're coming they're doing work they have a strong chance of passing those classes I would say I did it I honestly I'm gonna be completely transparent to you I didn't I wasn't the best at college algebra college algebra two I was the worst I went to summer school had to repeat the class did the work showed up and I got credit for that so for the students at home who aren't aware of it you know show up do your work and get to grinding all right thank you Mr Smith yes um I have thank you Tony that was a great idea and I would like to see the board really get involved with this moving up a graduation ceremony and make it a smaller of what we do in June if you know weather permitting but you know the high even the auditorium would be nice they could walk across the stage their parents could be in the in the audience they get they get the jacket they get the diploma um I'd like to see maybe a presentation we do pbsis every month maybe something highlighting I don't know if there's a lot of pictures of that program or a video of that program but showing the actual student growth and showing the graduation because maybe that will inspire the ones that are going through the crack and we can get them in more motivated you know it's visual Learners we like to see things so I would like to see maybe a presentation one month for something like that and I would I would love to come hopefully we make it where it's you know convenient for all of us to get there they do they get caps and gowns like you know are we going to do this we're going to do it right you know no no shoddy work like let's give them what they deserve it just took them a little longer to get there some of us take longer to get to a certain destination but they did it and they should be given the same opportunity as the ones in June that did it as well thank you yeah so um when Mr Elise was superintendent uh we did have a summer school graduation program uh it was a wonderful uh ceremony it was held outdoors in the in the atrium um and it it let these students know that yeah just because they weren't able to walk on the field they had the ceremony there and um um I attended I think uh I think we had it for about seven years so it is something that we can definitely look into in doing uh it had been done here before I don't know where it stopped but um I think we're all in favor of of having something um yeah I don't I don't know the exact answer to your question but I remember um I I was so shocked to hear of how many kids uh students fail uh have to go to summer school because they didn't dress for phys ed class and you used to see the kids at summer school walking around the city hall complex around the corner back to the high school um so they had to fulfill their obligation to phys Ed because they didn't dress for phys Ed and failed phys Ed so um it's it's it's something that I I think should be brought back um it was real nice out in the atrium unless you get a real hot uh evening but it was always held in the evening time this way the parents could be there board members could be there and um Administration hopefully can look into that and yeah when I um mentioned it to Mr Honda he was fully on board and it's absolutely something we can do but I just you had mentioned something that triggered my memory from earlier we had a parent um who called in virtually Mr Kiefer and he asked about specifically Woodrow Wilson Middle School why the students don't change for Jim anymore it's precisely the reason that you just said um so many students is particularly at the middle school level and then later on in high school would fail phys Ed for not changing and so I'm not sure how many years ago Janina would know better the administrator got together and says well we don't have kids don't have to change why why do we make them go into a locker room especially at that age and and change when they're not comfortable doing it anyway um they could just do phys Ed if they're wearing sneakers and so it really reduced the number of students who failed phys ed class right correct we started at the high school pre-pandemic because that was an impediment to graduation and um you know most of the clothing that they wear is perfectly acceptable for Jim they just have to have sneakers on during the pandemic we um stopped changing in middle school and that has continued since then because of the same reasons it did take a little longer for the middle schools because there you know there were multiple reasons and rationale for still encouraging kids to change at that time but the benefits have outweighed any drawbacks I can tell you that it was a big traumatic event in my house with a young female getting yeah absolutely it was but there was also another issue my my children used to come home and say that some students in their classrooms didn't have enough clothing to change into so that was I think that was another issue that we were looking at a financial issue and an impact to the families I remember talking about that and I I assume everybody's more comfortable now because they don't have to I know my house would have been happy but yeah it was it was it was rough because there was a lot of changes to a Young Person's Anatomy during that time and it was really quite unbearable the stress that it brought home to the house thank you okay anyone else all right we'll move on um unfinished business anyone have any unfinished business all right um number six uh number 16 is a uh expression of condolence um whereas on August 29 2023 the community noted with sorrow the passing of Miss Constance pompocelli and she had served in the district and educated our children of Clifton faithfully and conscientiously as a highly respected educator Miss pompocelli began her career in 1969 as a high school mathematics teacher and then became the supervisor of mathematics and education for students in grades 6 through 12.
she served as CHS vice principal from 80 to 85 then moved to the elementary schools becoming principal of school 9 and school five she also served the District of Clifton as committee chair of the mathematics education for grades K-12 Miss pompocelli started a program called family math which was run in the evening and allowed parents and their children to work together to do math activities she also in initiated the program of inviting grandparents to school for a day called special persons day after retirement pompocelli worked for Montclair State University mentoring practice teachers for 15 years her greatest joy was her family now therefore be resolved this resolution is forward to a bereaved family to serve as an expression of the great Regard in which Miss pompocelli was held to by the Board of Education Administration Employees and pupils of the Clinton Public Schools and we're further be resolved that the contents of this resolution be noted in their entirety to the official minutes of the Clinton board of education for future generations to pursue um I happen to know Miss pompocelli she was a great asset to uh Clifton and um our condolences to their family on her law on their laws um number 17 is Hispanic Heritage Month recognition um Mr Santiago thank you president Smith Proclamation Hispanic Heritage Month recognition whereas Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually from September 15 to October 15th to recognize and honor the rich cultural contributions history and accomplishments of Hispanic and not next Americans who have played a vital role in shaping the diverse tapestry of our nation and whereas the Clifton Board of Education is committed to promoting diversity inclusion inclusivity and cultural awareness within our school district and acknowledges that our Hispanic and latinx students families and staff members contribute significantly to the educational and social fabric of our community and whereas Hispanic and latinx Americans have made enduring contributions in fields such as education science art politics business Sport and entertainment enriching our society and inspiring future generations to reach their fullest fullest potential and whereas through the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month we have the opportunity to educate our students and Community about the cultural heritage traditions and achievements of Hispanic and latinx Americans fostering mutual respect understanding and unity and whereas this observance provides an occasion for all of us to come together as a community appreciate the vibrancy of Hispanic and latinx cultures and reaffirm our commitment to ensuring an inclusive and Equitable educational environment for all our students now therefore be it resolved that the Clifton Board of Education proclaimed September 15 to October 15th as its Hispanic Heritage Month within our district and encourages all students teachers staff and community members to participate in events activities and educational programs that honor the Heritage and contributions of Hispanic and latinx Americans and be it further resolved that we urge our Educators to incorporate Hispanic and latinx history culture and achievements into the curriculum promoting a deeper understanding of the contributions made by Hispanic and latinx Americans to our society and be it further resolved that we call upon all residents of Clifton to join us in celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by participating in cultural events engaging in discussions and fostering an environment of respect and appreciation for the Hispanic and latinx members of our community and witness whereof we the Clifton Board of Education do hereby said our hands and cause this proclamation to be affixed on this 21st day of September in the year 2023.
thank you thank you okay we'll do the um education Administration uh we'll have ea2 through eh12 motion motion by Ms basford second by Mr abadrabo discussion seeing none oh yeah yes right we already moved that yep okay roll call please Mr abujabo Ms basford yes Mr Brunswick yes Mr Mejia yes Mr Paris yes Miss Santiago yes vice president Danny yes president Smith yes motion carries all right next we have um Personnel we have P1 through p 40 motion by Mr abedravo seconded by Mr Paris discussion a question on number 11 is there anything we need to discuss in executive session administrator believe yes Dr Roberto yes thank you so I um okay so exclude number 11. right rest of the group roll call please Mr Robert yes Miss masford yes Mr Brunswick yes Mr Mejia yes Mr Paris yes abstain on I am 20 please I'm sorry uh 20 20.
Mr Santiago yes vice president Danny yes an abstain on p-34 president Smith yes motion carries hey next we have uh finance and Facilities we have um F1 through f19 motion motion by Mr abadravo second by Mr Paris discussion I have some discussion on 17 okay and 18. um how does can you explain to the uh some somebody from Administration explain to the board and also the community how we actually take a usage facility form and and what's the process of doing that so just in In fairness to Mr shahada we are revising the process but if you could explain how it's been done and we're revising the policy actually he buys the whole thing but explain how it's been people in the community have been asking so I just would like to get it out there so people understand that the processes we have in place and and these these things do not get rubber stamped yeah so um the organization whatever it may be PTO HSA whatever we got going on they reach out to Mr Burns in our office who handles the facilities requests they fill out our form they get all the the permits needed if something is requiring fire they reach out to the fire department receive a permit for that um it is then placed on the board agenda and then after it is approved we receive prior to that I'm sorry we receive all the documents besides the Certificate of Insurance that is received after the fact after the board has approved it they reach out to their company and add us as a writer on their policy however just for for the boards um knowledge on the use of facilities moving forward we're going to put conditionally uh in in the language pending all certifications and documentations needed so nothing is official even after the board passes it until I get the documents personally and I sign off on it also um on the usage form itself we've always we board members know that when there is no dollar amount on that one column on the end that the the board the recommendation is coming from the superintendent to waive it because you have you have looked in and researched what it is and it falls in the criteria I would like to see it you say conditional in there or where you're going to put it but I like to see the word waived I'd actually like to see the word put there so we all can glance down when we're perusing the document and see quickly that it's it's waived because you know three weeks of research on this thing and you know when I asked for a certificate of insurance and I noticed that the Certificate of Insurance only covered the ride vendor and not the actual facility itself like you know I I yeah a lot of time went into that and like it was driving me crazy because we nine of us have a fiduciary obligation to the taxpayers to make sure that the money that we're spending or the or anything that comes here for a usage form for a usage form that they're vetted and everything I I really do believe that we need to put some language in that that policy as well about how we honor out hsas and give them we don't charge them for any kind of facilities because they're they're actually enhancing the education about students in that particular school and it's always been an honor System that they do that however recently some hsas are taking advantage of that and doing other things while they take the usage form out and I'm not going to go into any further we discussed this in executive session and that's where I'm ending the conversation with that but I want to get the language stronger as a board as we grow when you see a problem you say something like you see something you say something and this is an opportunity to make it is it going to be 100 iron Clan no if the ants want to get into your house they're going to get into your house and they're going to find the crack to get in we every time there's an issue we change and then we we vote on it and we grow from there so I would like to see waved in there so coming when I can move down then if something catches my eye you know and I send the email to Dr and he sends it to you because there are there are two usage forms from prior back that I am really looking at and I would like to discuss it with facilities so if I could be uh or I guess Finance maybe or facilities maybe finance and um it's those two vendors that I have questioned on and I've talked to you about it Dr robitussi I want to bring it to them and I want to be a guest at their meeting so I could bring it up to them because I'll explain to the board in the back because it's confidential but I want to bring this to your attention because it's bothering me this happened a long time ago with with the vendor and a big mistake was found so I don't want to give anything off the off the cuff with that but when one of your colleagues say there's something wrong with something your curiosity as new board members should peek and say what is she talking about so that's what I'm I'm just that's a little lesson but I would like to see we really got to get back to this because there were so many fumbles I mean we almost didn't get to the touchdown on this one because there was too many fumbles and it shouldn't take a board member to do this it should be this should be set in place and I did take a lot of my family time away from my house because I was getting calls from people it's nothing to do with you it was the applicant wasn't giving you what you needed and it was just not coming through so thank you I also I just reached out to Mike burn and sent him an email as you were speaking I told him we are going to add the wave and everything and that that apartment falls on my shoulder so I apologize for that I'll make sure that it's uh it's squared away moving forward and anything that is being waived that is at a grand scale what we typically do is we bring it to the facilities committee but anything that's a quick judgment call just based on time it's gonna have it's going to go through Dr robitosi moving forward so he has current information to share with the board I just I'm sorry Mr abajal I just want to get my point so I don't forget um I really like to see a different procedure with the 501c3s or C4s more in place because I was told that and we were all told as a collective group that there was this document and in fact that there was not the document I had to procure it myself I spent hours researching it and I finally found it last night at what time Dr robitussi did I send it to you about 10 30 at night last night but you know it just because it was getting to me that I couldn't find this thing and people were asking me is that all the documentation we have to speak to people in the community and I could say unequivocally we do not request the status of any company non-profit for-profit whatever they willingly hand over that information in hopes of receiving some sort of discount the rates or the rates that are set by the board it's in black and white for us and and we do not um move from there so you guys set the policy you guys tell us exactly what you wanted to do and we will carry it out to the fullest extent I'd like to bring that back and it is uh as we mentioned in policy um regarding 7510 we talked about the expansive uh they are expanding I'm sorry the facilities the use facilities form I think that whether it's a non-profit for-profit status should be a checklist on there um I do like the idea of seeing waved on there AEF if you share responsibility but yet also for the Clifton rack for the hsas the ptos it also shows that they are not just an organization but they are a family organization of one Clifton um for them to see wave down there for the public sea waves it's more transparent for them and so you know what Clifton Board of actually cares about the PTA pto's hsas Etc um and particular Iraq so I think that's a good thing to do but Mike one question we actually had um which I'm not sure uh for 18 what is the amendment for the use facilities Amendment so I'll take that one so 18 it was an amendment on um because we did not receive the proper insurance information the insurer wasn't the one on the policy they were ensuring us through a third party so we approved it at the August 24th meeting and miss basford uh pointed it out to Dr robitosian and we looked into it with our Council so we are conditionally amending the the policy or the use of facilities until we receive that update insurance information so they are not allowed to park on premises until we receive that um any day now so the public understands because I just went through this like I said at work but um how much of a rider or coverage should an organization have in order to receive permission from the utilities Forum from the Clifton Board of Education uh one million individual 2 million aggregate and by aggregate you talk about by overall Europe I know what the answer is because the public understands overall occurrences or is it a million per occurrence a million power currents okay thank you let me discuss that last time all right I have a question so as of as of what time is it now uh 10 15 on September 21st does number 18 have the proper Insurance in place uh last I checked at seven o'clock when I left my office I did not receive it I checked right now and Mike Byrne has yet to receive it he was going to forward it to me as soon as he got it so this policy or this resolution is staying on and it's in effect uh once you guys pass it yes Mr Cynthia um that was communicated to the party yes uh by myself and Mike Byrne and and we had her speak to our Council as well okay and then the other thing just a general comment is 75-10 overall needs work I the policy just needs work overall there are other things I don't even want to question now for the sake of time there are other things it just needs work overall if you pursue you to Mr Santiago if you have suggestions on 7510 please send them to the whole policy committee and we will bring them to the table the policy committee is very intense they all we all work together we do disagree at times but we come to an agreement at the end of the meeting it's a very fluid and if anybody would like to guest be a guest speaker or guest you know person go through Mr Smith and we'd be happy to have you to chime in just getting back to Mr abajavo's Question so this event started tonight yes and she was told uh the party was told that the group was told that they are not allowed to park until we receive that information and it was communicated by Council as well but how did we prevent that there are no no measures to prevent that honestly well I mean the board would have the board should consider if they don't have it to protect correct well we can always do the we we serve at the pleasure of the board we can have Mr jangaro check the security cameras tomorrow and we can report it to Dr robitosi and then let the board know what took place or what didn't take place and whatever you guys decide to do after that is you know totally within your purview Mr Smith yes to to that end really that goes regardless right absolutely with or without this event this event tomorrow night next week three weeks from now in the middle of the night I don't know who's sitting there and what do we do in that instance we don't monitor the parking lot around the clock so I mean I don't know why we should do anything different now my question is the problem is or we should monitor it around the clock right right to be consistent if you're understanding my point but the problem is that there's an event going on there was a usage form submitted the proper paperwork wasn't submitted if something happens on that we are held liable every one of us we could be held personally liable as well if we don't do our due diligence and make the right decision yeah so that's the only that's exactly the only reason I was questioning that is because we issued permission and now we're waiting for something to come so it's not as if somebody just is arbitrarily using our parking lot it's we issued something right which is why I asked if it was communicated that they cannot use this yes and so to me you were told please don't be there correct we we can that becomes controllers exactly I agree with you but are we are we covered if well okay I'm I'm sorry I'm just looking for more can I can I just step in really quick because I think it's getting a little out of hand I understand both sides listen school one you can lock the gates right they can't come in all right if I wanted tomorrow to go if my wife decides like you know what you know and I decided to park in CCMS parking lot and sit there all night am I trespassing am I do I need to use the do you know do I need to use Phillies form for that anybody can go what I'm trying to say so if if a parent let's take a real serious if a parent wanted to take cones and teach your kids parking parallel parking in CC mess parking lot do they need to use Phillys form let's be honest ly yeah so then what do we do as to what Ms Santiago is saying so that's what I'm trying to go what do you remember what do we do okay so so what do we do to prohibit that and second of all we want to go there I see people parallel parking every single time practice parking at school 16 parking lot not to beat a dead horse there are there are organizations who come and request and we deny them is that true yes yeah we do deny them right and then we say we hope they don't show up but we don't police to see if they come and we probably deny plenty of people I'm just saying there's liability in many different ways correct Mr Meehan I just want to bring it up that every day people park there you know to go to the park to just walk around to stroll it's an everyday thing so if we're gonna police it we have to police it for everybody the problem is there's going to be a an exorbitant amount of people parking there and when you have more people come you're going to have more instances of people banging each cars whenever you get sued they sued everybody from if it's a snowstorm it's from the salt manufacturer to the plow on the front of the truck right it goes from A to Z goes to the manufacturer on the truck goes to the person driving it goes to the owner of the company abz it's just I guess if we could lock the gate it's not a problem right yeah but that's at one but not at CCMS you could put a chain up you know right I don't know what you want to do with that but then you're locking out people that want to go walk around that the park they park there to go to the to the thing people are missing the point why certain people are not happy about it there was an application that was submitted on the application it's very thorough about what you have to do okay for anyone that doesn't know this I was on the HSA wwms when we had a carnival Karen Perkins drove me almost to the point of pulling my hair out I mean I was down here every day I felt like lived here at one point back and forth back and forth to get everything required she would not sign off on that usage form until every dot was dotted and every T was crossed that didn't happen with this application it needed and my oh my other question I'm glad you brought that I just come this is what happens when you have covid and you get the brain you get the Kobe brain okay um with the with the organization people on the organization list is that can anybody else that's not on the organization lift list for the 501c3 or four can they suck can they fill out the application or does it have to be a member on their organization on that 501c three or four I think sorry not having the form in front of me I think it asks for an actual representative or agent of the okay so here's my question we need to work on 7510 the applicant is not on the C4 I sent all the documentation to the superintendent last night I think that's what kind of spurred this up there is a different person that's and filled out the whole Timeless so basically if the 501c4 is written out with all these people listed on it and there is an incident those people are held to task the person actually signed the application is not on their agenda or on their list of officers so that's a bigger issue so that's where I was going with my when I wanted to read this before because there were certain things that the paperwork was not in order I caught it because I actually had the 5013c a four and that's why I was asking you if you guys actually look at that because you take Miss Smith no no pun intended Mr Smith Mr Smith Mr Jones Mr Apple Mrs orange Mrs banana all are on this list and you have Miss zebra that comes in and writes puts out the application if there's a if there's a liability to this board that person is held homeless they're not even on it but they help but they sign the hold harmless clause and and the application so is that is that on the level is that legal so that's why I wanted to bring this in the back because I wanted to discuss it because I had a bunch of questions but being that we're doing it transparently in public that was my question the thing was the insurance the insurance certificate that I asked everything went through the superintendent when I got something I sent it to Dr robitussi because I wanted him to be aware of what I was Finding you know like the the internet's a great thing you can find some I couldn't find the 501c4 I finally found a website and I found it and I printed out the long form I have the incorporation form and I have the 501c4 form and I sent it all to Dr robitussi and there is nowhere on those three forms this person that actually filled out the application and signed the hold harmless document and to me that was a big red flag so that's why I pushed the issue and that's why I changed my vote thank you all right anything else on there [Music] all right we're going to um yeah did we do we do a roll call no we we yeah okay roll call please hold on I make a motion to pull 18 uh F18 off because of non-insurance okay there's a motion to um amend the uh original motion to pull 18 out of that group Miss bessford I don't think that works because if you take that off that means the but we originally approved it in the last minutes I'm the only one that changed my vote so what happens the amendment is that it's changed to conditional correct so the amendment cleans up the 824 resolution stating if they do not have the if they do not give me the form of Certificate of Insurance they can't have it they cannot use the facility okay so removing it would keep intact what we did on a25 I'm fine but then I then I rescind my motion has anything been communicated to this organization in writing or it was just a phone call two phone calls I I'm gonna make a suggestion and I hope that everybody understands I think you should said something in writing so we see cover our okay backsides also I would like to send a communication over to the city manager because that is city property that's being used that we did do what we did because we were not rece in receipt of the proper documentation that we needed and the form is really easy it's old it needs to be updated and that was part of the committee discussion I mean it's Antiquated so we're going to read They're revising it so once you get everything in set can you please send that to the whole board so everybody can peruse this if anybody has an input then they can bring it back to policy and we can really Hammer this thing to where it's closed shut and it's the form itself everything everything on this discussion because I am I think people have concerns on this my colleagues have concerns on this and I really want to make sure that we're all on the same page because I don't want to tell anybody they think any any pot shots on this but it was about an insurance policy God forbid somebody fell God forbid somebody got hurt got hit by a car in our parking lot we would be viable all of us thank you actually a better idea instead of sending to the whole board can we get that on the website is this way the public can see it as well uh Mr jangaro Council and myself we are actually revamping that thing adding custodial and security so we will get it to you guys first you guys rubber stamp it and then whatever you guys want us to do we'll do so okay so okay so the question is going to be that I have right now is what's your timeline of of revamping this if somebody wants to take a facilities form tomorrow but you're going to finish it next week they can't take facilities for him out why don't we just put it out online and then this way we can just take it down and put up the new one when it comes up it's the same thing yeah there is an existing form it's just where our show okay I don't know if it was on the website yeah also Mr driver you brought this up there's a 35 application fee that we haven't been collecting when did I bring that up you brought it up in policy no that was before I came along you guys are talking about it but but you said that you wanted to keep the 35 application fee no that's not what I said actually what I said is to waive it for non-profits hsas ptos that's what I said I didn't say to keep it so but I I what I says for hsas ptos ptas non-profits ones who we know aren't making money or are part of the one Clifton should not be paying the 35 that's their conversation that's going to go when they ever have though they have never but can you put that verbage into that form as well because that was a that was a request of the policy committee to put that certain enlist the organizations that are waived in there oh no or listen to form itself on when we put on the agenda right correct I I think Mike burn is aware of that or he will be at 6am when he sees his email um Mr Mejia I was gonna say Judy it was me who said it um that yeah that we should try to keep it that way we have some sort of Revenue in case we deny them either way you know we get to keep the application fee kind of how we do it for colleges we got to keep the application fee but even if you if you get accepted into our prestigious School District yeah discussion go to finance so that has to go to the finance committee that you're recommending that we keep the fee then we're on that can we also send it to facilities to say hey by the way do we want to put something up to block the the roadway you should see it too okay because right now we brought up a lot of some people are some valid concerns right well I don't disagree with all of them um but the Public's probably gonna want some answers on that and rightfully so we should give them the answers so so he's coming back and says you know what no there's a walk through to the park we're not doing it I'm okay with that I'm not saying we should because sometimes people drive through to get to Park Slope or to to get through the park or to drop their kids off at Little League Recreation or the softball or whatever it may be right but we owe the public something also I just thought of something is there a time frame for when an applicant puts an application into when they can get it approved because a lot of times we do things post on here for facilities we do it after the fact so shouldn't we put when an applicant comes because when I enroll somebody in the program that I work I have uh eight to ten weeks to get an employee up and running good to go so they can get employed for the for their um their provider um maybe you at the business office you guys should give them a time frame it should not be any post uh we've had them Danny but there should not be Danny no no I'm not saying didn't happen I'm saying there should not be because the insurance is not going to cover it correct if I could just say the only things that we do do on um on a retroactive basis are just our our in-district hsas everything else we get away from thank you Mr Paris thank you Mr Smith I believe in the policy already it says 45 days you're supposed to submit those forms at least 45 days in advance of your need yeah but that's written in policy right so just as the you know we know that these things have to be tightened up so Administration has their you know they know what they have to do and we'll tighten it up all right any other all right let's go to uh board member Commons we didn't vote on that yet roll call please Mr abadrabo uh yes with abstaining on f-17 Miss basford yes Mr Brunswick yes Mr Media yes Mr Paris yes Miss Santiago yes vice president Danny yes president Smith yes motion carries all right we'll start with board member comments tonight Mark we start with you Mr yeah Brunswick thank you Mr President just want to give a big shout out to my brothers and sisters in the Jewish Community who celebrate Yom Kippur this coming Monday it is the holiest day of of the uh year for for them so um happy happy Yom Kippur day of atonement for them I want to give a shout out to everybody who was at the Van Houten Street Fair on on Sunday absolutely wonderful to see many members of the community um the way my wife described it was um political Insanity because there were so many politicians there so um but it was wonderful wonderful to see regular members of the community as well lots of non-profits there as well from the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts to the Mustang band booster club Avenue of flags lots of great organizations within this city that make a difference and also uh thank you to Mr Rose who who recommended our kids stopped by The Cece cea tent over there because they had some books to give away and my children were each able to find a book for themselves so shout out to them as well and everybody else whoever helps make this city a better place thank you very much everybody enjoy your evening and God bless America thank you everybody have a good night thank you um Mr Mejia um thank you to Lauren you know for emphasizing the skills and qualities that our staff brings to our school district you know that's very important to know sometimes you know when you're in the public you think we could just hire anybody you know we don't just hire anybody honestly they're skilled and you know they have all their certifications in order to teach in our district um I know before many of you were thinking you know covered this cover that we're still behind honestly covet has put us all behind especially our students and it's a reality we have to accept I've seen transcripts and I've seen curriculum from all over the country and I know for a fact that New Jersey especially us we're ahead of the game uh compared to you know States like New York California Florida who are failing tremendously we are ahead of the game that way you know all the parents at home actually know um to all the summer programs that happen you know great job to you guys I like to give a round of applause because managing programs like this are not easy yet at all and I know this from experience um not just pushing our students forward but pushing you know fellow districts like Wayne East Orange Iverton I saw there as well pushing them forward actually gives us a step ahead and it shows that us Clifton we're not just secluding just for us but we're actually pushing other districts forward as well um On Assignment I like to give you know a quick shout out for all the people who came out on Sunday for the Mexican national Independence state flag raising that we held at City Hall I had two great student alumni one he was from the band last year John Rivas he did a great job playing the national anthem on his trumpet and the other one Denise Rodriguez thank you so much for coming out and doing this on behalf of your cells and actually putting yourselves in a step that was out of your comfort zone and I hope to see you all tomorrow for the big game we have against the barn I know the past it's been huge and you know I don't like to pick size but I think we're gonna you know put them in the ground so I hope to see you all there tomorrow and have a great night Mr Paris thank you president Smith uh thank you to all the public that came out and spoke this evening uh welcome to uh Jada our new student rep here um I think it's amazing when you start I mean we had a very long presentation on summer programs um but it's amazing to see what our school system does All Summer Long uh the number of programs that we have whether they're the title one three programs jumpstart programs summer acceleration covid learning extended school year programs Middle School summer academies project Adelante uh isee program the our ESL programs Camp right along it's just amazing it's hundreds and hundreds of students that we're serving uh in a time that a lot of us think nothing's happening in the school system so congratulations to and thank you to everyone who uh participates in supporting and managing those programs uh congratulations to the district on the New Jersey School Board Association award for the IMPACT Program School 13 Centennial just wanted to bring that up again I am School 13 alumni so I'm planning to be there I'm looking forward to maybe seeing some other alumni's uh from from the my school 13 days and condolences to uh uh the pompocelli family she has a great name in Clifton I know for for many many years and uh that's all I have for now thank you thank you Mr Santiago thank you president Smith uh I want to First say thank you to all of my colleagues um uh my my brother passed away as everybody knows and uh your words um any thoughts and reaching out to me and my family was very much appreciated and and made a difference thank you very much and everybody else who reached out um I wanted to say congratulations to Mrs Rhodes for Teacher of the Year shout out to school 11.
a couple of us went to the moving up ceremony Miss Rhodes was was awesome principal shalaby the ceremony was great so congrats to her um yeah to Echo I mean our district is so awesome Miss kusilevich joked about the length of that presentation but it was all of the work and all of the programs and the resources and the and the programs I mean everybody I mean such great great resources we support our students so much I mean that's the summer right that's just the summer and just thank you to all the staff uh the teachers everybody related to that the food service the trans the security Specialists everybody involved just amazing thank you so much happy uh Rosh Hashanah to all my Jewish friends celebrating I wish you a peaceful uh year and the rest of the coming High holy days um happy Hispanic Heritage Month um my parents are both from Puerto Rico um and I'm so grateful that they immigrated here a long long time ago even though you know Puerto Ricans are Americans the Commonwealth of the U.S but they made the choice to come here and it was gutsy to to do that and it took vision and I'm just so happy that that they did that and I'm so proud of them my father was uh not only a vet but a Korean War of Venezuela he formed the Korean War for our country and my mom was amazing and so just really proud to celebrate that personally and just encourage everybody to try to go out and learn as much meet your friends read a book listen to a podcast eat some Latin food go dancing whatever um and just celebrate um the yes the football game tomorrow please come out and celebrate um support our team and when you're there give a shout out to our security Specialists who are also always at those games I like seeing them and they're always here supporting thank you guys um and um I think that's it for now thank you have a great night thank you Mr abedravo thank you president Smith um to the candidates who came up to this evening and made introductions good luck to you all uh during this election um Jada welcome and good luck it's great to see the voter registration still going on every year uh to introduce you know what the power of voting is to our Young Generation Um just don't lose that that want of what democracy is in this country so hopefully you know uh sticks with you uh Amanda Rhodes uh Miss Rose should I say congratulations we are proud of you um you have a great principal great leader over there at school 11.
um there are a bunch of great staff over there we have a bunch of good stuff across the district no doubt about it but it's great that uh Miss Rhodes is able to represent Passaic County uh and hopefully even further beyond that school 15 again another great leader Dr baton Walker um and the pb PBS is Squad I love those shirts um uh under the leadership of Miss ragoza awesome job you know every meeting day in day out every time you show what this district is really all about what we're doing to make sure these students are great Civic engagement and great future human beings they can be and what that's great through incentivizing rewarding and great role models in our in our towns in our schools I'm sorry um Yom Kippur for our community who is celebrating I hope you have an easy fast and day of atonement and my condolences to pompously family so thank you Miss bessford thank you good evening um thank you um to all the speakers that came out Miss lilama always inspiring congratulations to Miss Amanda Rhodes uh for the Passaic County's um School Board teacher of the year the Passaic County School boards Association will be honoring you at a upcoming meeting in the spring look out for that invitation to my fellow board members who we should be there in full force to honor Amanda Rhodes at that dinner thank you to school 11 and congratulations thank you to the Sea um the Clifton Public School summer program condolences to the pompocelli family um I will not be at the football game tomorrow because condolences to the deal Alberto family for the for the death of Dorothy Dorothy was very um near and dear to myself and my family especially my children she was like our honorary grandmother and uh we our deepest condolences to Allison Bob I'm very sorry for the loss of your mom so I will not be at the football game tomorrow night I have to attend the Wake um congratulations to the IMPACT program for receiving the njsba there's so many districts in the state of New Jersey that is a big honor for us this is huge so kudos to them and forgetting the digital um the digital award happy Yom Kippur to my Jewish friends happy Hispanic Heritage Month um I just wanted to speak to you that um the the hope one van rolled into the botany satellite office yesterday uh Casas did sponsor lunch for the actual workers of the one hope the state county one hope is a mobile recovery unit intended to reduce substance abuse a substance use disorder and to help individuals with mental illness access appropriate treatment and resources they have a website if anybody needs it I tell you just go in and look at they have a whole bunch of resources and different things they have training they have different things about getting involved it's a great thing so we sponsored our lunch yesterday were very proud of the fact is that we were able to treat those individuals that work really hard with some nourishing food and a nice day um that's about it oh uh and and I have hold on I have 40 million 875 seconds and then I'm going to be looking for a coach to teach me how to do the drums that is my date for freedom from concern and getting my life back thank you Danny knows exactly what I'm talking about vice president Danny um good evening so I'd like to say condolences to the pompocelli family I'd like to say congratulations to Jada for being the board member representative um I did push for that initiative it's actually nice to see that New Jersey school boards now requires that every board have a board member representative it's always nice to see students coming up and each year the students that come up they just add so much more to that position and just take it and run with it and make it something even greater so it's really exciting for me to see that um congratulations to the Passaic County Teacher of the Year Amanda Rhodes as an educator really congratulations it's just such an honor and you know to hear you say that the Clifton School District helps to grow the Clifton School District help to grow your skills it seems to be a theme that I I hear a lot um from the Clifton's like anybody that talks about the Clifton School District any of the staff any administrators so it's nice to see that the district supports this growth mindset and you can even see that with the presenters that um that part of the administrative Academy and trying to grow their skills and so thank you to all those presenters really great wonderful job that you're doing congratulations to the IMPACT program and to all my Jewish friends happy Yom Kippur that's it thank you so first Mr shahada I just like to um say thank you um for the um hard work you've been doing and filling in for Mr UC on his absence you uh you have hit everything right on the money you put your heart and soul into it and we're very fortunate to have you uh part of the Clifton District so thank you for uh for doing that um so so many of our staff I mean it just was so enlightening tonight to see what goes on in our district um and to see what went on during the summer um I know there's many school districts that don't offer any programs during the summer time um but not just a summer school program just to bring kids into a room or into a setting um you saw from these presentations it was so much more and our our staff and our Administration has to be complemented on that um that's what makes Clifton great um people like to put down and you know come up with negative things about our district but I think we see that there are so much there are so many more positive things to this District um and it's because of the people in the district and I always say it that you know some people just consider it as a job and I I truly believe that our staff um doesn't have that mentality they truly are dedicated to the district um just Administration alone I know the long hours and long nights and um you know Miss vergosa and Mr Rose they're here at uh 10 to 11.
um you know that's dedication and um I will continue to always complement our staff for the great job that they're doing and it shows in our test scores it shows in our graduation rates um and it shows in our Cusack report and in so many areas that Clifton is excelling um as uh Mr gengaro talked about last meeting um miss gusilevic and miss ragosa were on a Statewide recognition for our programs that people are inviting us to be part of uh discussions and and um podcasts and and webinars and they want to feed off of Clifton and uh that's that's phenomenal um that doesn't happen everywhere else and I and I just you know board members we know this but I just hope the public understands it and knows it um we're always trying to improve and we will always continue to improve but to have negative statements about the educational system in Clifton to me is um is totally hazardous and I will continue to fight for our kids I will continue to fight for our staff and give them the resources that they need to continue to make us the great District that we are and um I'm I'm proud of my fellow Commissioners on the work that they do in their committees um they just don't go through the motions um they're very dedicated at uh at their position and I thank you all for the work that you do on your committees um and it shows it shows because um you know we we dug through um procedures and policies that maybe in the past or maybe other districts just keep them there and they rubber stamp them and but this District wants to make sure that we do it right and that we correct the things and we correct them in policy and the policy committee is always one of the busiest committees and that's because our role as board members is to create and make policy and so I just want to thank my fellow Commissioners for the for the hard work and dedication that you continue to do in your committees um the awards recipients tonight you know when we when the board had decided to make this boardroom uh bigger um one of the reasons was that we wanted to be able to have the the capacity to be able to recognize students and staff our previous boardroom they'd be out in the hallway um people wouldn't be able to hear um so that was the per one of the purposes for upgrading this room was that we can do this and we should do this we should continue to recognize excellence in education um so I I as a board member will continue um to fight for that and to fight for our programs and to fight for our staff so I just wanted to say thank you to all them um while I don't normally um reply to um um innuendos and um um hearsay and uh um I I just will I I was I was just and I know some people talk about you know phones Amadeus and such um my phone blew up tonight I I could not I could not be more um pleased um of the amount of text that I received um of support and uh you know this will be um at the end of this year will be the end of uh my 17th year as a board member and hopefully starting my 18th year and um people had reminded me that you know what people are going to be haters people are going to make up garbage people are gonna do what they have to do um my record speaks for itself and if you think you wanna you wanna do something or whatever go for it more power to you okay but I'm so happy and um instead of me addressing it next meeting you'll see people address that uh that trash um doesn't belong in a district doesn't belong here this is for Education um and especially at election time um so I was reminded uh you know some people like to uh to shoot off and they have four people that listen to them so everyone has that right to do that and uh continue to to do that but Bring it on Bring it on Bring what you want um I got nothing to hide I am um my record speaks for itself and um you can make up and dig all you want but the facts are the facts and uh I'll leave it at that for now and I'll uh I'll allow these um numerous people that just commented tonight um they'll do a lot of answering I won't have to even do it but Bring It On um we have um we have a new business anyone for new business no okay we have one item for um executive session uh Personnel Manor Dr Robert told you did you wanna yes thank you Mr Smith uh Commissioners I know we we pulled P11 an employee I put on administrative leave and we're going to discuss it in executive session in an effort to not make you have to come out here and vote on it um I am very confident that this person is going to remain on administrative leave if you're comfortable in voting on that now you won't have to come out but that's completely at the board's uh discretion if you want to go back and then come out it's up to you does anyone wish we could just do it now anyone objection okay anyone else anyone else have objection to that okay yeah yeah president Smith I'd rather I'd rather I'd rather wait until I meet you thank you okay anyone else objection okay so we'll meet in uh executive session for this uh Personnel matter P11 uh the board will come back from executive session to vote on this um we're gonna say probably uh half an hour yeah okay about a half an hour if it's any longer we'll uh we'll update you on that okay motion to go to Executive session I'm Mr Mejia second by Mr abadrabo um no objection okay we'll take a quick five minutes board and let's uh get to Executive session thank you you have to wait for him okay the Boardman executive session uh to discuss a P11 um do I have a motion on P11 second by Mr Mejia uh roll call please yes Mr Roberto yes Miss masford yes Mr Brunswick yes Mr Mejia yes Mr Paris yes Miss Santiago yes vice president Danny she had to leave president Smith yes motion sorry I didn't take um attendance when we came back so just Mark that uh yes absolutely okay motion to adjourn any objection adjourned
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I Miss Rodriguez and Mr Hopkins uh approved for zero if you could please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] I pledge allegiance to the Republicans [Music] thank you everybody shall continue on okay um right now we're gonna do public comments are there any public comments this evening we have no public comments moving on to Personnel items I'll go ahead and turn this over to Dr soltero Mr Gardner it's members of the board um local education agencies May utilize Title II funds who offer stipends for the purpose of retaining effective teachers teacher assignments should be completed in such a way as to improve Equitable access retention recipients must be full-time appropriately certified teachers a list of 21 returning teachers have been abroaded this 837.50 187.50 I recommend the approval of a title of two retention stipend with the attached 21 certified teachers told him 17 587.50 we do have um our grants team here Mr Casey and Miss Aragon to offer any additional Insight I will turn it over uh Dr sabose's outstanding uh if you don't that's fine uh Rodney do you have any questions for I do not no no [Music] body has any questions um I'll go to make the most for approval Mr Hopkins aye aye Mr Rodriguez is approved four to zero okay moving on uh do we have any other future Generations any board members like to add Rodney okay um at this time if I get a motion to adjourn the meeting I'll make the motion um Miss Olson aye Mr Hopkins aye Mr rigas Mr Curtis does I we are adjourned 4-0 foreign