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Um we have in our budget right now uh between our fund 90 that was remember our leftover life safety funds. Uh previous board members will remember that uh some commed rebates for the solar improvements and lighting improvements. And then we had budgeted $60,000 for some new driver's ed vehicles. That's, you know, 742,000 that we already had set aside or that we have coming through other locations. And then Travis worked really hard with some of our state uh legislators and state representative and stava Murray has secured half a million dollars for the solar projects and Senator Rachel Ventura has submitted for an additional $300,000 for the LED stadium lighting and electric vehicle charger installation. Uh both of these are part of the state budget or expected to be allocated, but you know, you have to work through Springfield, right? But uh so when you take in those additional fundings that Travis has secured by writing these grants and proposals, you're zeroed out in the cost of this for next year.
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So incredible, excellent work from Travis to get uh these projects secured and funded. So, putting it all together, this is all that you're getting. And then these projects also secure additional uh incentives and rebates both at the state and from the the power company. Uh those add up to at least the our lowest conservative number over that next five years, a total of about a little over $600,000. Dur also says that there is potential for depending on what happens with the federal government, additional federal incentives and rebates that could go along with that that could be substantial. So, uh, Travis not only is paying for these projects, but has created projects that also pay us back. Um, that doesn't even include savings in just electrical costs. So, uh, this is the first presentation tonight. This also comes back, uh, in a couple of weeks for approval, uh, from the board.
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Uh, any questions? Is that one charging station per campus? Uh, that'll be Is that what it is? Yeah. and primarily to be used by the instructional vehicles by the instructional vehicles only to go with what we're looking that we're looking at those chargers can only limited restricted to only that vehicle no other all right teachers can't no community or anybody else yeah or board members who come to nope off the list. Okay. All right. Uh at this point, I'm going to invite our students. Uh the next part is just for the board because it's the introduction into the board software. There's no reason for you guys to continue sticking around. Thanks for hanging in for a long evening, but I'm sure uh you guys have some work to do probably still tonight. So, uh thank you Jason Raha for your time this evening. Thanks, guys.
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Thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. You too. You too. All right. Uh the last item is the new board uh packet software. We're moving from board docs to diligent. Julie has put in a ton of work on this uh in the past year sitting through many webinars and getting caught up to speed. Actually tonight's board meetings too that as you've seen are not actually short. She built in both products uh over the last week. So, she pretty much prepared for four board meetings uh this week. Uh so, she's been very busy. Um but she wanted to show you some of the features. Then we'll go into closed, but we'll come out, adjourn, and then uh we'll stick around just to make sure you can all get logged in. Okay. So, uh J. Okay. Um this is what the landing page is going to look like um for the public.
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So when you click on the link that is in the district website, there's a link in the district website on one of the board meet the board meeting page for board meeting agendas. Hit the wrong button. That's what you that's what you'll see. And then the top right corner, it's very tiny, but you can see the word sign in. So, if you go in directly from the district website, you can sign in with your ID, which you're going to set up tonight and get into the board docs for or excuse me, I keep saying board docs, diligent community for the board members. And on your Chromebook when you open it up, there's going to be actually uh in the bookmarks, there'll be a bookmark for diligence. So, when you go come to board meetings, you can get into it very quickly. Okay. Next. Okay. When you first open the new software, it's going to look like this.
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You're going to click on where it says boards and government governance, excuse me. And then it says community, that's where you're going to click. When you click there, this is what you're going to see. All the meetings that are upcoming. There's also a previous meetings tab. So, you can also look at previous meetings. If you look on there, the May 19th meeting shows up. that is not accessible to the public yet, but at some point I make them access to accessible to the members of the group and so you can see the May 19th board meeting kind of being built and see what things are in it or not. You don't have to but just if you open it up and go what is this? It's not out there in the public's eye but you can kind of see it coming up and being built.
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Um that's next one please. Okay. So when you open when you clicked on a meeting. So this is if we clicked on tonight's meeting um where you see on the right hand side where it says briefing notes. Those are all notes that only board members can see. And you notice there's a little tiny padlock. I don't know it's kind of hard to see but there's a little tiny padlock. Anything that has a little tiny padlock that means that only Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Get the point. That only board members can see it. If there's a padlock on it, only board members can see it. So, if you look at the agenda outline on the left, that's pretty much what the public is seeing. But on the right, you can see where there's different notes that we may have shared, Dr. Cely may have shared regarding the different agenda items on the meeting.
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Um, any of the blue where it means there's a link, you can click on either link. So, if you would go to like the um we'll do that one second. Dr. Dr. and I are the only people in addition to the board that can actually see those notes FYI because we put them in there. Just um and then for like next month or excuse me for the May 19th meeting you'll have to approve the minutes from the two meetings this evening. So the minutes the draft minutes will be in that little box with the links. You can look at those minutes and review them prior to voting on approval of them. But if you click on um next slide, I'm sorry, go to the next slide, please. If you like there's your oath of office. If you had clicked on oath of office, it would open up right there, but you'd still be able to see the flow of the agenda.
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So, you wouldn't it wouldn't take over the whole screen. You'd still be able to see what's going on. Okay. If you go to the next one, please. Okay. Um up in the upper right, Jeff, if you want to point up in the upper right, those A's. See those A's? Thank you. The A with the white background is highlighting.
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So I kind of highlighted pledge of allegiance just for fun. So you personally can kind of personalize your agenda copy. Um there has the A with the underline is you can underline. It shows oath of office is underlined and then you can freehand. As you can tell I do really really bad freehand. I drew a circle around election of officers. Um, but you can kind of make your own notes if there's something you want to ask a question about or whatever. Gives you the ability to do that. Now, if you take a look and we're go next, but on the left hand side of the screen, Scott, point to those right next to those those icons. Now, we're going to go talk about what those are. Um, if you see the house, it takes you back to that very first screen, the list of board meetings.
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So, if you get lost or whatever, the next one is goals. District 99 is not using that icon because information on district strategic plan and goals can be found on the district's website. That cute little one that looks like a picture, that takes you to the district's landing page, the one we saw with the pictures and the kids and all that happy stuff. Um, the library, the district 99 is not using this feature because we put all our documents right into the agendas to make it easier to find. And then the scales, this icon takes you to board policies. Um, this we're adding soon. Um, and policies will be keyword searchable, which is pretty darn nifty because right now you just kind of have to read every single policy to find what you wanted. So, that's the quick down and dirty. Welcome to Diligent Community.
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All right. So, we'll get you signed in tonight. If you have questions, you could reach out to Julie or me directly. Reach out to Julie. But yeah, but because I'll just have to ask her if you ask me. She's the expert. And uh I think you're going to like some of those tools and the formatting that's in there, especially returning board members. It it's much easier to use. It's very crisp and clean. And on the landing page, some of the things like if you notice in like the current agenda where we have that information at the top, like the board protocols can be found here if you want to access this live via YouTube and all those things. All those things are just on the front public facing page. So it's not appearing on the top of every single agenda and has all that I don't want to say clutter but now we can just have that universally stated on the landing page for the software about board meetings.
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All right. Are we moving to this like effective immediately? Yes. Yes. May 19th we will be on this um it is brought to you by the people who brought you board docs and we're basically kind of required to transition. They're phasing out board docs. So it seemed like when the new board was being seated, it seemed like a good time to just move everyone in that direction at the same time. So you're getting your own copy to make notes on and to document, but is it alive? So as edits might be made those you're not editing not actual agenda but at your scribbles but if you're if if there were edits to be made on your end we in a sense we can't edit it because the board agenda has to go public within a certain number of hours stay as it is. So, anything the board is taking action on, we cannot edit once it's officially published because the community or constituents need to know what we're going to be taking action on, what the board's going to be discussing.
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Another discussion item could be brought up that we're going to take no action on something if it wasn't published in advance. Okay? So, no surprises. And I'll message you and tell you when the document has been finalized. So, you can Yeah. After that point, you can do whatever you want to. All right. Thank you, Julie, for all your work on this. and uh look forward to using it here. All right. Item nine. Um Julie, do we have any uh visitors? No, sir. We do not have any reception visitors. And item number 10, uh, can I get a motion from the board of education to go into close session for a, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or specific volunteers of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific individual who serves as as an independent contractor in a park, recreational, or educational setting or a volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity.
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However, a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee of a public body that is subject to the local government wage increase transparency act may not be closed and shall be open to the public and posted and held in accordance with this act. and B, collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. So moved. So good. Chris moves 10 seconds. Chris Espinosa. I end. Don Rener. Hi. Mike Risky. I casten I Courtney I. All right. Um motion uh passes. We are in close session just for the members of the public. The only action the board will be taking when it comes out of close session is to adjourn. Let's uh let's break for just a brief moment and we'll be back in close session. Finish up.
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If you stand for the pledge, I 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. I just need to read a quick statement. The New Jersey Public Law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public who have advanced notice coming to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest was discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of this act, the first house board of Vice Course notice of this meeting to be published by having a date time in place posted in the office of the board of education offices of the school numbers 3 4 5 and 6 and high school on May 1st 2025. Notice were forwarded to the reporters of the record May 1st 2025.
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I'd like to call this meeting to order and we'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. And uh Mr. Webb, would you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Use your teacher voice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisibley and justice for all. And this is some kind of a record. I don't believe we've ever had this many people come to a board meeting unless they were mad at the whole board and the school and the world and then they came to complain about everything. So, I think this is going to be a great night. I appreciate you all being here. I hope you stay till the very end. We'll start. Um, Dr. Wright, I'm going to turn the these recognition awards over to you and let you go through those and take care of that part of the agenda.
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a bunch. I love it. Hello. Hello. Okay, good evening to everybody. We're going to go ahead and get started. It is 5:30 p.m. All right. We want to thank you everybody to your guys's house. I see a lot of families and student faces here. So, thank you so much for taking the time to be basically in the boardroom of your wheelhouse. We are all here elected members and everything that we do is in student priority and obviously for the families as well. So, I appreciate you guys being here. We're going to go ahead and get started with roll call. We have Miss Ays, myself, Mr. Jones, and Miss Marquez. Tonight we're going to go ahead and get started with the recognition of our Crane kids. And I am so proud and honored to have the crane kids. Um like I said, all the work that we do is st student focus.
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All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. like to welcome everybody. I uh just want to make a comment on my casual appearance tonight. I just came straight from my daughter's uh track meet. She runs track for South Valley and she prred in the 1600. She started out her first race of the season was well over 8 minutes and this time she got 728. So she's improved tremendously. So I'm very proud of her. Um but I'm kind of liking the casualness. So I was going to say in honor of your daughter we should all dress casual. Feel free. next the next work study. Go ahead. Go nuts. Not too nuts, though. Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. Uh I would like to thank everybody that's here in attendance and anybody that's watching online. Uh we're going to start with a presentation of the fiscal year 2025 budget revision number three.
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Testing one, two. Testing one, two. Okay, I would like to call this meeting to order for Cremon School Board 2011. Special meeting today is Tuesday, May the 6, 2025, 18:30 is the time or 6:30 p.m. Mr. Secretary, can I have roll call, please? All right. Well, Mr. Albert here. Mr. Gos is here. Mr. Swallish here. Miss Zumbers here. Miss Wolffoke here. Dr. Hall here. President Brown here.
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