We need to start focusing on the other things that matter. We've been so hyperfocused on budget issues and the trauma of that that we're not doing things like really focusing on, you know, test scores and the reading program and things like that and really supporting, you know, the teachers with, you know, what they need to get that stuff done. That is what I want to see happen next year. And you know, while I'm not going to be in this seat because my wife will divorce me if I run again, I will be on the other side supporting the board and supporting the teachers for that. Especially learning what I've learned in three years of doing this. There's a lot there's a lot that, you know, um the public isn't privy to. There's a lot that, you know, people don't understand about what we, you know, do up here and what we talk about up here.
Um, but please don't think for a second that anybody up here doesn't care about kids or that, you know, doesn't want to be here for, you know, the right reasons. Every one of us, even though we have differing opinions, we're a board of nine. We have different opinions. We have different ways of going about things. We have different ways of, you know, just performing, you know, for people. Please don't think that anybody up here hates your kids or anything like that. I have a kid in the district. We love all the kids and that's why we're here and that's why we're making these choices to try and do what's best for everything in town. So, but please do not just be satisfied with, you know, the win of we're restoring a bunch of stuff and ignore advocating for the state. That needs to continue because there's going to be changes.
We don't know what's coming down the line. Don't stop it. I will be with you next year with that. Don't worry. Can I can I add something? I want to say that um the board voted to increase to the $18 million the full amount. 18 million is there not enough to keep transportation in house? [Applause] Uh we we we talked about, you know, we talked about the increased um absences. Well, when you go to a department in January and you tell them they're going to be outsourced and they're only going to get $15 per day, if that's the right value, um for all the sick days they've acred, what do you think they're going to do? Anyway, um enough that you'll fire them. Okay. So, anyway, I'm just saying that uh I I lost my train of thought, but my my point is for $18 million, you know, you could keep this inhouse.
You don't just outsource something, you know, because there are challenges. It's challenging to run a school district. And I'll leave it at that. [Applause] Any other questions or comments from the board? I will leave it with I would like to applaud um the Senate of New Jersey for Senate Bill number two. They were clearly right in S2 in the sense that they told us that our taxpayers could afford more. They told us that the state was giving us too much money and today we proved them right by taking an additional $18 million and I did as well by voting for the same. Four years in a row when we were complaining that S2 was decimating our school district. Four years in a row the only two people who showed up in Trenton were myself and Dr. Smith for four years. This year I think how many people do we have this year?
Four. Uh combination of five. Five. Almost more than doubled our turnout. Fantastic. I hope for the next crisis that it takes more than four years to get more than two people to show up to advocate in Trenton. Motion to adjurnn. Motion by Mr. Dearcy. Seconded by Mr. Thompson. All in favor? [Music]
here. Mr. Mrs. Olsson here this is here. Mrs. Venezuela here. Can I have a motion to adopt? I'll make the motion. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Um motion carries 4 to zero. Please stand for the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation indivisible and all [Music] First, I will say visitors are welcome to speak on agenda and non-aggenda items.
Uh, I need a motion to adopt the agenda. I move to adopt the agenda. I second. Okay, we have Stephen with the first and with the second. All in favor? I I motion carries. Five to zero. Um, join. Please join me for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Um 4.1, approval of the meetings uh meeting minutes from the regular board meeting on March 5th, 2025.
ation of success. Tonight, we're celebrating two schools whose extra efforts have paid off. Each school will receive a certificate and $250 that we hope will support the strategies that work best to promote good attendance. Principles, when I call your name, when I call your school name, please come to the DIS and receive your certificate from President Downey. Congratulation goes to best third quarter attendance, Pimabute Elementary School. Come on [Music] [Applause] down. Nice job. Runner up for best third quarter attendance, Santa Rosa Elementary School. Come on down. Most improved third quarter attendance, Saddleback Elementary [Applause] School. Hello. Congratulations. And then runner up for most improved third quarter attendance, Maricopa Wells Middle School. Right on. Nice job. And that's my report. President Downey. Thank you, Dr. Lutman. We now move on to item three, governing board members report. Member Rothschild. Good evening, everyone. Um just wanted to take an opportunity um to once again thank everyone who was responsible for uh scheduling the uh day at the cap.
Hello there. our teachers to our family members. So without further ado, I will thank you very much for coming tonight. This is something that a lot of our teachers put together and they've put a lot of work into it. I appreciate the support of the students that have joined in and I hope this is something that you guys truly enjoy tonight. It is something special where we get to share our cultures and how that impacts our community. So without further ado, Mr. Maz, if you can come on up and we'll get it started.
I call this regular board of education meeting to order on Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6 PM. If we could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Excellent. Thank you for leading that. If we could please take a roll call. Ann Sanuchi. Stacy Salt here. Julie Jetty here. Katherine Potter here. Mindy Hartman here. Jason Jansik here. Darling here. Next up we have the community input portion. First up we have a school highlight. This month we have the Oaknull Early Childhood Center. Mrs. Baker. Can you hear me now? Oh, now I can hear myself. Good evening, everybody. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Um, we have some kindergarten friends here tonight from Mrs. Rinto and Miss D.
I call this committee of the whole meeting to order on Mon Oop. Sorry, I forgot to take the gavl. I call this committee of the meeting of the whole meeting to order on Monday, March 10th, 2025 at 6 PM. If we could take a roll call, please. Sure. Antucci here. Mindy Hartman here. Stacy Saul is absent for the record. Darling here. Jason Janzik is also absent for the record. Katherine Potter here. Julie Jenny here. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have the acceptance of the agenda. Items for discussion may be added to the agenda at the start of the meeting at the request of the superintendent or any board member upon majority approval of those members present. Does any board member have an item to add tonight? I have a qu I have a question though. It's I is a question an item? Sure.
I call this regular board of education meeting to order on Monday, February 24th, 2025 at 6 PM. If we could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. If we could do a roll call, please. Darling, here. Mindy Hartman here. Ann Sanucci here. Stacy Salt here. Katherine Potter is absent. Jason Jans here. Julie Jetty here. Thank you. Next up, uh, we have the community input portion. First up, we have a school highlight this week, which is Kerry Junior High. Mrs. for actually and Dr. Clauss. They have the wrong name on here. I didn't I recognized you. Dr. Paul's Dr. Claus was originally not to um was not going to be able to be here this evening, but her schedule changed and so we're happy to have her.
like your buttons and things like that. Something looks unfamiliar. But I'm just go back. So how is we get there? It's not easy, but if you are more than one explain it all and there's a lot of community very short on time. Yeah. So all the sign with the exception of you would have gotten all of your other classes as far as doing your test, waiting for approval checking your audio, all that stuff. That is all the same. So this is what you'll see when there's a new meeting. The only difference between that are the buttons is the agenda which Yeah. So, all you should have to do on the day of when you show up to the meeting, presumably you've already gone in, created the meeting before, right? You've edited and made sure that the agenda is correct. All you have to do when you're ready is you hit this publish button on there.
No, sure. 30 seconds. Mine says six. I don't think anybody until anyway except you. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the board of school trustees uh preliminary determination hearing and our regular board meeting for Wednesday, April 9th, 2025.
before April break and um VHS or like virtual high school applications are open and more people seem to be applying than available spots are open. Um some people are applying for like AP classes that aren't offered at our school while others are just applying for like fun electives. Um, also the juniors had an assembly with Stefan Hill, a national speaker on mental health and substance use pre prevention where he shared his inspiring comeback story. Um, and finally, exchange students from Japan visited um, and they got to shadow their pen pals from the pen pal program for a day, providing an educational experience for everybody. Um, that's all. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Heat. Heat. Good evening and welcome to the Greenfield Public Schools School Committee meeting for Wednesday, April 9th, 2025. This meeting is being recorded by Greenfield Community Television. If any other persons are doing the same, you must notify the chairperson at this time. Okay. Um, Secretary Den, will you call the role? Yes. Chair Johnson Mad here. Vice Chair Ston here. Secretary Deniva, I'm here. Member Goodwin here. Member Childs here. Mayor Disorger, I see you. You're mut. Do you want to say hear? Mayor, can you hear us? Seems like the mayor can't hear us, but other people in the chat report they can hear us. So, mayor. Oh, okay. I've heard from the mayor and member Martini. Okay. All present. and accounted for except for member Martini and we have a quorum. Thank you. We'll move on to um public comment and uh the secretary has the list.
Um, we'll start with the PTO report. You're on. Hello everyone. My name is Melissa. I'm president. First, I want to apologize for my accident last month. I had surgery on the day of media and I was home recovering. So I apologize for that. Um so we have a lot of updates, a lot of things going on for PTO. Um starting tomorrow, uh tomorrow is our annual fund run. Um students have been raising money um to concepts and last I checked as of this morning, we raised over $12,000. Um the fun run is going to be held outside on the track. Um which I think um and that means that the parents will come and watch their students participate in run with them a schedule for all the grades to parents so that they know that child is running and I also in my weekly email I reminded them to follow the school rules about checking in with the office and sign up for student office as well.
All right, 6:30. Call this meeting to order. Start with the pledge. Pledge algiance to the flag of America and to the standy. Welcome everyone. Um, and now turn things over to acting superintendent Golden for the celebration of excellence tonight. Hi, good evening. Thank you for coming. I'm going to start with the uh CABE student leadership awards program. One male and one female student from each school in a CAB member district are eligible to receive the Cape Student Leadership Award. These students exhibit leadership skills based on the criteria below. Willingness to take on challenges. Capability to make difficult decisions. Concern for others. Ability to work with others. Willingness to commit to a project. Diplomacy. Ability to understand issues clearly. And ability to honor a commitment. So, our first award goes to Cararissa Cran. Is she here? Do you want to just stand up? Thanks. Aside from consistently working hard and applying herself academically, Cararissa can always be counted on to work well with her peers.
All right. Detail all post. post reset arms. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Order arms host Right face forward. March. You may be see Roll call. Al present. Teresa present. Michelle here. Kate here. Glattis here. Dr. Cronin here. Lauren here. Juanita here. Richard here. Julie here. Thank you. Public participation. None.
pass it over to you. Good evening everyone. I I just wanted to let everyone know that Cara Casemiro is not here this evening because she is at a bar grant uh conference in Washington DC. Um so I will be seated in her place this evening. Um I'm excited to bring to you uh the curriculum meeting tonight uh within our core update which will talk about all the amazing progress that the district uh has made. And so I'm going to turn it over to Chris Roach. Before I do that, I would like to just thank uh the leadership teams, the teachers, and the students and parents for their support. Uh the growth that we've seen with kids under this new reading initiative has been amazing, and I'm so proud uh to turn it over to them and see all the wonderful work that they're doing. Thank you, Chris.