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Khan so we're I guess transpose numbers and we look at it's like the two or three - OH - oh yeah I did look at that five times oh thank you what what that's made a pass at you man yeah it just came out - looks a little creative tool - three guys but the other thing on the board of that budget just so we are clear and I'm not saying anything bad about it I actually think it was pretty good once we give it to them it can't be clawed back out so even though it's a bubble year if we appropriate 44 million or 43 million and the special ed costs shrink down a million dollars that money we can't get back out through the minimum state budget requirement for education you take back thirteen thousand per student decline in enrollment I'm next year to take it out so that budgets there to stay at that's the whole budget or the amount budget especially that you can only claw back on an education budget the reduction of cost per student I believe that could be corrected I think special that it's carved out from that you know I'm not talking about the three point five percent increase all right you give them a ten percent increase an eight percent ahead and you check I'm pretty sure no Colette you think plan is right would you like to join us real quick no I think we're talking about this thing no no we're talking about the minimal algebra crime can you if you're yeah come so Abel please try to join any Lisa yeah Colette's term everybody chairperson of the Board of Education here for a specific purpose at the table yes yes the only way it can be reduced to like half sari the only way it can be reduced as if you have a decrease since its population and it's a formula based on what you pay per student its and I think Brookfield is a $13,000 formula so this and I'm not saying we're cutting it so don't look at me like we're doing that I'm not just something to be aware of but if we grant all of this money the next few years we have to be cognizant of that money is there to stay it's like now becomes a new baseline going forward yes unless she has when I'm saying the Board of Ed well as a decrease in amount of students and then it like I say well you can take back as $13,000 per student so there's 20 less students you can only take back with that amount but the Board of Ed has the right and authority do not spend their entire budget right let's say their special ed costs went down by half absolutely they then could not spend that at the end of the year return it then adapt but we do understand this is a rhetorical question the chances you're right it's private Oracle thank you for clarifying that negative makes no sense to me anything else at all from anyone today once twice three times okay we officially cancelled or if Town Hall is closed and we have so tomorrow night's that's one so if Town Hall is open tomorrow's meeting is scheduled to be at Town Hall if Town Hall is open then we do have a meeting tomorrow we have library tomorrow we would have IT the schools are already closed for tomorrow and the school administration is already closed tomorrow we're gonna try to open because it doesn't look like it's gonna be real bad in the morning but my guess is we're gonna have to close early you would post that though yes absolutely the announcement we posted an agenda just in case the weather people happen to be wrong this 50% and if they are then we have a meeting if not then we do not have a meeting and as much as we can do the schedules will be pushed to Thursday as it's noted at the bottom of the agenda and what we can't push the Thursday will reschedule okay all right I do we have a little bit of discussion before him I don't know if anyone listening could see that Ricky was taking notes on the file with them we were all going through what we are going to try and do this year is improve on the budget that is posted after all is said and done via deliberations and the Board of Finance actually has the budget that we've approved as a board so we are going to and hopefully this sticks going forward we will have a budget that is presented in a format where any changes are big ticket items it will speak for themselves as noted and decided on by the majority of the Board of Finance we haven't done that in the past we're gonna go ahead and do that this year and any any policies that we have in place any agreements that we've made we will be attaching to here for example one hundred fifty thousand remainder in the police outside services fund that's been a handshake agreement something like that we will do our best to put in writing and attach it to this because that is a way of working for us just like this budget is a way of working for us as a town so that is something that will be will be doing so it should be a more robust more than four pages in a file for the town to look at and for us to look at let me look back any questions or comments or concerns any of that all right business do I have public comment to invite to the podium okay there is a timer which I will time frame that says okay your name and address name is Carmine raza channel six big buckling I have a few questions concerning what was presented here tonight first thing is that I noticed the total budget increase was over four percent I thought the state limited the increase to 2.5 percent so I'm wondering why we're looking at a budget at a four point one percent increase if in fact the state limits it to 2.5 percent second is that I keep reading news articles about the state budget deficit for the next budget cycle it's now estimated to be over a billion dollars again I would concur with using what the what the governor posted is revenue sharing rather than the number that Steve had in I think it's a more realistic number and provides us with the more realistic budget assessment going forward third is I would really be interested in how much new tax revenue is coming from new development especially in the Four Corners district that I keep hearing it's a large amount but I haven't seen any any evidence of it and what was presented just as a matter of curiosity I've heard around town that the courage years road paving budget was actually cut by five hundred thousand dollars and those funds reallocated somewhere I liked confirmation with denial of it okay it's good but I'd like to know that then that money on paving is actually being spent this year while all we can do nothing but Saturday okay six just a matter of format 2005 and 2016 still has budgeted numbers on it in 2016 and 2017 still has the budget numbers on it I've heard we spent a lot of money upgrading our accounting systems I'd like to know why there are not actuals in there so that we could more understand what the budget flow is on an ongoing basis we especially 2015 and 16 you know it's two years from now the seventh I'd like to put my comment on the contingency I I've never liked contingencies I've been involved in budgeting most of my life I think eliminating the contingency of putting the expenses where it belongs enhance and it really truly enhances the transparency in town financial matters and let us know exactly where it's going especially after hearing tonight that what we what the contingency was budgeted for in the last budget cycle it's not really spent on on what it was meant for that's uh that's that's time sir three minutes yes sir so I think between the folks here at the table we can address your questions Steve I know you've talked before about the 2.5 cap versus the increases that you've proposed that the potentially the Board of Finance will propose the tone for this fiscal year coming up there is a 2.5 percent cap but there is no penalty from the state if you exceed it there will be a penalty starting next year 50 cents for every dollar you go over that carved out from that is any arbitrated settlements any long-term borrowing and a couple other small things like not smaller like special idea is carved out too so the fact that they allow you to borrow and not be penalized is gonna push a lot of towns in to borrow so they don't lose their grants it makes no sense to me whatsoever but there is no penalty this year this is a very unusual year I don't think I never imagined when I first took office that we'd be looking at a budget increase like this but given the perfect storm of things that have happened between special ed state cuts insurance going up which you can usually expect that but we're really hitting a perfect storm here so I think we need to position ourselves to be able to weather that storm yeah yeah if you take the specialization [Music] especially on the school side because that's most of their salary yes yeah I have to send a report up to the seat and we are yeah right now it's not and we do have actual versus budget the board got it tonight what else yeah there was um there was we changed our chart of accounts so there was a bit of a delay and more work that had to go into getting actual numbers moved into the budget report so the budget that was given and presented up here had only the budgets in there but we do have one with actuals and what those get posted for the town to review with the comments will have actuals next to the budget for each of those years when we're done with our deliberations the Board of Selectmen budget should be up what we submitted we'll make sure that that gets told me today they didn't see it but are you gonna include the actual is up there or not well no we'll just do it the way because we've already submitted we'll send it the way right okay Steve you have one more but I'll just wrap up your comments on the contingency that's something that obviously we will be discussing and we take very seriously that topic so we'll take notes on items that departments may bring up you know and we'll also during our deliberations discuss what is has been proposed and we will as a board vote on what actually makes it in there so there's we hear you and it is something that we will be discussing and deliberate I think the last one that I think we can comment on tax revenue from four corners developers you yeah the biggest about we've had so far smoke-filled village the agreement that we put in place of them four years ago or so really gives him you can like this or not like it but there is literally no increase in their taxes for right now the first three years and then it will slowly ramp up we're giving them 1.3 million dollar abatement we're hoping very much that they achieve a 70 percent occupancy on their commercial space because then they're required within one year to build the next two building to start that and that will help with offsetting that 1.3 million Tony Lou Sarah is building the Enclave he's now negotiating with his bankers he hopes to start that soon we don't have any other huge projects that are really throwing off any revenue right now we do have the supermarket it looks like that it's going to move forward we're negotiating with them right now and that will generate probably two hundred thousand two hundred and thirty thousand dollars in new taxes the tax abatement we're working with them will give us some immediate increase in taxes we do not give them a hundred percent pretty right we have to get some revenue from these projects in my opinion and so with some of the other projects I think it's the next two three four years where we'll really see some of these bumps coming in but right now we're not we're not seeing it okay thank you does anyone have any objections to answering questions that are raised by the public if we have the information on the spot I don't as long as we have the time you know sometimes you get just getting pretty long if as many questions as they can ask at the end of the meeting and at the end of the conversation that interaction let's address it as they come oh yeah again right hey that's her in that being kind just address Carmen your first comment you asked about the information being up the agenda did go up today we had to correct the toys are called we get it up as soon as possible so people can see it this was being worked out up until 6 p.m.
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Tager for leaving the adoption process because it was very thorough and I think what happened was it ended up there was a lot of input from teachers for the selection of the textbook which meant that they really knew what they were getting and had a chance to look at many different approaches and relieve determine what was best for students so thank you it's actually much more advanced than what I talked when I was in first grade what I taught is now taught kindergarten standards have been raised so much higher that things that I didn't think my six-year-olds could learn or now paint mastered my five year olds and what the five year olds used to learn a long time ago is now being mastered by the four year olds we didn't I think one of the players came up and talked about her her son raining already at level six right in kindergarten somebody mentioned that yes yeah that used to be a golden first grade [Music] that's the joy actually being a teacher those upgrades because you see so much progress in the kids so thanks for sharing the story now the other thing I wanted to talk to you about just briefly is how how is it that the board is finding themselves at the situation where we have had to talk about reducing staff and the possibility of proposing a school the state our state maybe has made a decision over many many years about how much money to give schools and a long time ago in the 1970s our state used to fund schools we were in the top ten of the nation now we're number 46 out of all 50 states so we have dropped from being really well funded to being at the bottom here again of course we as parents and as administrators and teachers we still want that same quality of education but the state has made the decision not to give us the money to implement that it's been very difficult nevertheless people have worked really hard to sustain things work work as well as they can but for example we have the largest class sizes probably in the nation we have the fewest counselors you have fewest librarians we have the fewest nurses compared to other states the fewest instructional aides in a whole bunch of indicators that as a state we haven't been allowed to continue to progress and that's been very hard in the recent years kick back to what we started in that Great Recession and that was about 2008 the state cut school systems 25% of the budget born in any other sector of the state's more than health care more than persons more than anything else in the state for the state they cut the schools the worst and eventually they realize that as we were all struggling and they made a promise to raise our funding and the promise was to raise the funding not to wear me were in the 1970s in the top 10 but to get us back to where we were in 2007 and 2008 now which one of us would like to have the same salary that we have 2007 right now you know medical costs have gone up we know insurance has gone up we know Carcosa product where treat those have gone up everything has risen and what we each got in 2007-8 you wouldn't buy us as much as what the costs are now but that was the plan of our state to get us back to where we were in 2007 8 and on top of that they gave us extra meals to paint that we don't have to pay before so we're not really that I said earlier sometimes before they that's why we're in this situation it's because we're funded by the state and the state has made decisions not to fund schools the way they used to so the workman asked that we put together a committee of people of budget committee and we have had over the last couple of years we've had a parent advisory group to help guide the expenditure of some of the funds of the district gets and the board said you know we want you to expand that and have it look at all the funds that are used for the basics the lights the textbooks them you know the repairs that we need and so mr.
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I don't know if you could tell yeah it's this timestamp this was just completely at 6 p.m. so it was just so weird we put up the Board of Selectmen proposal to the Board of Finance and it will let the Board of Finance to decide with what you want to put up as an interim basis I don't know if you do or you don't want to put anything up that's partial so we'll get that up we'll make sure that tomorrow any further any further discussion ok I'd like to make a motion that we adjourn okay oh favorite give us a high carries okay thank you everyone have a great night [Music]
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right they got him in working with parents and we expanded that group to focus on all the budgets and mr. Barbarita was involved with that too and parents from every single school and administrators and teachers and classified everybody was part of I'd say 40 45 people on that committee more or less 18 schools that's 36 right off the bat who came together for a series of day-long rumors to understand the budget look at it in detail ask whatever question they wanted about what exactly are you spending this $77,000 on what is it doing present news isn't a salary is it a a textbook that you want what music and in front them they make recommendations of how we can cut the budget so that we do not basically in in education they say so we can be solvent three years out we have to prove to the county and the state that we compare our bills this year next year in the year after always for three years it's it's like saying that it was ourselves but you have to prove that men will not be bankrupt in three years and what we have to prove especially is that by the end of three years we have enough money saved up for what's called a three percent Reserve we have some money in a bank account 3% okay that might sound like a lot to you however 3% pays for about eight weeks of salary and you all you all have probably heard that most financial experts will say and you as you me all of us as individuals we should have three to six months worth of savings because we never know what's going to happen might you know the car might go out or there we might collapse or something could happen school systems are being asked to have it three weeks of savings at a minimum and that's what we're trying to get you but to get to that we realize that we have to tighten our belt and our schools have this year we've asked people try not to spend money can you wait a little bit if you need something if it's essential go ahead and get it but if you could wait please do in our schools say two and a half a million so that we would have some more money to afford here but this committee recommended not only that we make these savings but that they realized we're probably going to have to lay off teachers and it was this committee that recommended parents teachers administrators classified everybody on that committee said you're going to have to make some reductions in staffing because of the finances and because fewer students are here you have to adjust for number of students that you have the same group said you need to like at closing schools that was not something that the board said it came from it came from the community the parents the staff saying we can't if we don't close a school then we're not going to be able to provide the supplies that our students need don't be able to provide but the textbooks that they mean we won't be able to give them what they need to to have the regular strong education that we want them to have welcomes no programs are being cut so for example people have said well gee this is a beautiful school here now here was a wonderful day immersion program nobody has decided that Mountain View will be the school to be closed but if it was people said well does that mean the end of door ownership answer's no if we have to close the school to kids the teachers and the programs just go to another mushroom with the kids and the teachers and the parents stain that was one of the problems we have to deal with him ceiling tiles from time to time if you're sitting by their please move off to the side the obits is for safety thank you so this gentleman has a question then you know that's a real I agree that's an important question and what it gets down to is the state has about five food sectors that they fund it may for schools they pay for social services for the people they need for medical for number of people they pay for prisons and they pay for you know bones and things like that the legislators make the decision each year and how much money goes to education and many years ago there was a a bill was passed that said that education should add some minimum before the least amount of money that it takes a state to learn our educational system here is 40 percent of the budget of the state that is supposed to be the memo however you know what that's been the maximum that we've ever bought ever and then on top of it that an extra cost [Music] you know I hear that's a fair question those are good questions question so many times is loud to your legislators because they're the ones that make the decisions so I really love you asked that question because I just want to taste everything right I think I wanna put this in context California when you look at the California economy by itself it is big it is the fifth largest economy in the world right it's bigger than other changes so when you see this fool are not budgets that is a political decision by our state not to fund schools and so I would say there's a couple of things that you can do right now there is a group that is circulating a petition to have an initiative in the apt up and in November 2018 ballot to do what's called a split role so what it would do is it would start tax it would right now property taxes with prop 13 the pass which limits the property taxes that you can't as a homeowner or a property owner it limits how much you pay right when it when it first went to effect a corporate properties made a lot more than residential properties because corporate properties don't be change hand over the years houses now carrying the bulk of that responsibility and corporations are not so there's an initiative and people can sign the paperwork or help get signatures to put them put something on the ballot called the split roll where it would have corporate property to be taxed at today's rates and so it wouldn't affect any homeowner it wouldn't affect any residential piece but that is a start because that money would go directly to our schools so that's a start that's not enough money but it isn't something where people can start and so I encourage you if you're interested to find out more about it I'm happy to share how to get involved but that is one step but the answer is if our legislature and our political people at the state level do not hear from us then they're not going to change right they need to know from us that it's not acceptable what they're doing you talked about the federal government we get about 10 percent of our budget from the federal government mostly it's given to us for students that are low-income or special ed or English learners right with special ed the federal government has put requirements on us to make sure that we provide an education for all students there that that needs assistance which is right we should be doing that they've never given us the money to do it so every time we have a student that needs to have issue that has has on your hands an IEP or needs that cost more than we get for them that comes out of our general function that means money from other students that we can be spending on them you spend on that because the federal government is not paying for that amount that we are Congress needs to hear that that is not acceptable our president needs to hear that that I encourage all of you to doing engagement I'm happy to work with you and we are happy to work with you but it's about politics the conversation so so there's and I'm happy to share a ministry there's a professor this of a demographic study for Ally counties and what his study shows is that until at least the mid-2020s the birth rate and the number of children from 0 to 18 is declining in our in our in our Hall County so it's the impact is uneven so that means that some districts to lose more students and others some Sun and some districts that are staying like at level it's most likely because they're there recruiting some students from neighboring school districts but even for example in Dora who we think of is I was growing last year they were flat and even lost a couple students even with eating students coming from outside of their school district so this is their so this is an issue who he Nevada last year had the closer school to schools you may have seen in the newspaper so this is something that's affecting countywide Pasadena right now looking at closing five schools in this year so this is something that not only affecting our districts doesn't does it take away from the fact that in affecting our students in our classroom no it does not but I but I think we've been getting back to the point earlier we need to do a better job communicating with you the bigger picture and connecting it to so to the specter she pretend I didn't make a tickle thank you very much you know maybe one of the ways since people do have questions one of the nice things we have to do is maybe think about it Gen Y Z so we can really talk some more about it in depth and what I would suggest is if you have questions write the Alvis email them to me or send it to my secretary and what we'll do is we'll attend dynamo when we can talk about this little more trying to answer some more of the questions that you might have [Music] sure thank you thank you actually one of the one of the challenges it's actually been finding dates when all the members of the committee can meet at the same time so at the last meeting they decided where the next meeting world will go and so we were just at gendai so you know we should probably as soon as we know that they you know send out a flyer or most at some place for it won't get better than that [Music] it's [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I just encourage that because I will say what can we do right what can we do at the local level there's clearly plenty of it a couple years ago voters came out and they approved ninety two million dollars in a bond for our schools part for our facilities if we continue if we continue to us how can they do about the school district when it comes time to go vote to go to go vote for another bond because we do the money for our schools we see it I mean we can just have a title all right now we do need that we do need the money the state's not going to give it to us but if our community has seen all this negative misinformation and not the positive we're not we're not going to we're not going to be able to deter our community that we need things so there's something the temperament okay [Music] well okay so I'll end here just because move on but I hear you okay I completely understand and again like I said earlier we need to do a better job of messaging we need to do a better job getting that information out there so we know that okay and Tim you're here and I hope that you're listening to some of the concerns this is our public informations officer right here so this is a person right here that is going to listen to what we've heard today and hopefully give that information thank you thank you very much okay so now we're moving on to report 9.0 report action the closed session matters weren't like that one said it better student number 17-18 [Music] soon as they could [Music] if you can yeah if you can maybe have a sidebar with these parents motion pacified Sarah tonight one around ten point one this is first reading a minute for dialogue nine nine zero one two board member they try to communications to be having a discussion changes be reading that day okay seeing none we'll move on to ten point two this is a first reading amended board by a long nine one to one this is the board president do we have any changes discussion suggestions okay now moving on to ten point three this is a first reading committed work by a loss ninety one two three moving on to ten point four this is a first reading of Benin court by law 19150 student board members do we have any change in recommendations suggestions [Music] July the way it's worded is permissive so that a term of student or member shellby up to one calendar year so it could be a maximum of one year or it could be something separate than if you you know the board would like to specify that our practices can have three board members would like it turn into three parts we can do that we're having it be what we actually do 10.6 for treating limited or Pylos night to to zero governing board collection do we have the change of questions moving up to ten point seven the first reading elimination of board bylaw like two to one recruiting new board members we have any questions okay we'll be down to ten point eight for eating the vented work by along nine two two two resignation do we have any special changes done 10.9 first reading amended or by law by two two three [Music] mr.
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depression there is a research work there is another board policy that does specify for example depending on wake somebody when there wouldn't be makin see to me how close it is to the selection whether or not there's an election for them fulfilling that orphan its appointee so let me research that for you so then let me clarify them what is your question so do you mean for example are you thinking process of is somebody were to resign and there needs to be an election what would happen versus somebody resigned and there would be an appointment so I mean have you seen it happen in other districts in recent years the decision at the board [Music] and then typically what I've seen happen if the board decides it has the option to appoint somebody they'll advertise so let's say people ready just and in the interview 10.10 pertree committed work by a law 92 regional orientation to 10.11 red fighting for number three can you help me understand what the information you would like please this is part of the center middle school underground utilities project and the HVAC budget replacement and according to the law there were five situations that were encountered during that process one was some soil it had to be loaded all the weight more than was expected one was reconnecting a storm drain to the Edison bulbs one was a new breaker that was required and running some tears through some electricals like to the computer lab that was one expected and the new confidence in a wire that was more than expected and some irrigation of the house that we really needed to maybe based these were all discovered during the drama during the process the construction yes that ship has described zero moving on to them in plain sight calendar you level point one Oh matters this [Music] it's a calendar passes by zero the 11:23 now becomes it is for these schools we're actually increasing the number of hours they're each receiving an equal amount of hours how they're distributing those among their staff vary by school in other words one school may have four employees and say I am interested in working additional hours while another school may say I only have three employees that are interested in working addition two hours based on other commitments such as other employment so it's been receiving an equal number of hours how they distribute them as so those are the employees that are been working extra hours and that's what my explanation about it's not that they have four feet or two is that four three and two are interested in working additional hours so they have they each have more units than that number per se and its team if you're hearing maturity good for you to chime in if there's anything else that you'd like to add to that no I think your explanation is death so that's not the number of ADEs they have as the number of interested in working additional hours we have a first name of a second motion passes five-0 the waveform is down south to wait a second these photos open for discussion okay [Music] but I just lottery pieces that reporters recommending that we include every time we improve consultants one of the specific objectives become both accomplished by the team : - this is Pacific tasks performed three the procedures to be used in carrying out the tasks for the target so my question is are in this detail [Music] demonstrates that and transparency that we are so we're shifting immediately we're working on it now new forms the FPPC provides in addition to the form 805 that we're asked to fill out we're going to now require that our consultants that most consultants fill out a form 700 as well so we are going to shift to answer those questions I'll make a note of that and in our practices shifting now so we are going to revisit with which are the information to request it so that our practice reflected I'll check that we're making every effort to immediately comply with the auditors and first I'm second you get to vote you did so you have your students inside as is phi0 I yes okay maybe not to fire is now [Music] it's on page I don't have a lot of details I suspect it's the Pearson model for assistant high school master schedule yeah I believe that's correct the and what this is for is even recover for meetings or a while ago we had an agenda fight of super high school one have some training on developing master schedules and this is going to do [Music] was a fence that was added [Music] we have any other first we have a student these patients agent SS poser because [Music] so we function we auction off the vehicles [Music] they've started offering well but it's yes we do Oh [Music] please yes [Music] the option you said option but school district on the outside [Music] sir-sir we know what we can do is you can get your information and we will follow up with you unfortunately we can't respond to public comment outside of an agenda item so but if you can take Darren's information you can give them a call and you'll be more than happy to speak with 13.1 first reading the vetted board policy I went for one click for child abuse prevention every portion we have any questions changes suggestions a student would come in with a medical plan doctor's orders it depends on the medication if the doctor says we have many students for example who are diabetic we were able to monitor their own insulin they could do it by themselves just under the eye or someone else it all depends on what the doctors ordered that healthy that's a job that they hired depends on there are some things that they help they camped medication that oh that I hope they can give to the student there are others that they can so it just depends on the medication it's like the nurses who trained all of the health aides are trained by the nurses we have other staff members that are trying to like EpiPens that would not be allowed on a cowboy for medication that's fine but a cowboy can't be used it's still illegal federally even though states approve it it's against federal law to address that exact issue and their dinner bar only I can't Colorado's already adopted at the state level procedure and policy so I know that three frustrating bended board policy and administrative regulation [Music] - appreciated for policy and administrative regulation 8r6 one back out there to play fortress reanimated where policy administrative regulation 501 44.1 suspension and expulsion due process the changes we're creating a bit more policy and eliminating administrative regulation the our six one five one process 13.6 Migrant Education California Science Center field trip resolution 17-18 wishes essence phaser okay moving on to 14.0 Human Resources 14.1 approve the tentative agreement between Azusa you know makes for this dream and the California School Employees Association my friend yes mr.
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passes 5-0 Thank You 14.2% of agreement between as you see Unified School District in California School Employees Association Azusa chapter 299 we advise a pacified personnel performance reports second play when she passes 5-0 thank you very much 14.3 public disclosure of proposed competition increased for management supervisory and confidential employees what are the wishes of the first place opinion any questions so previously with the teachers association with AEA we approved the settlement agreement for the 1617 school year the management confidential employees have a meet to clause so anything that's that getting teachers get so does management and confidential so this is related to health and welfare benefits the 1617 school year when it was a Jenna proved by the county under a be 1200 it was included but it wasn't agendized appropriately so what we're doing is making sure that is explicitly agendized in order to satisfy the with that requirement we shared this with a bargaining table with AEK the community understood and helped spread the word to make sure everybody understood it's nothing new it's just what was approved previously with begging for the 1617 school year so it was a gem guys when we approved it 488 was a DA and the documents did include management confidential but the agenda item did not explicitly mention management and confidence we wanted to make sure that that was explicitly clear and that's what we're doing today I didn't notice him in the letter from the lake oh they're pointing out that they remind the district that increases future years are uncertain the Board of Education regulations require specific views so they're just saying basically make sure that we keep an eye on things and watch our spending even though they are going to approve what we've already done just remind us you [Music] we should pass this 5-0 we are now on 14 platform with this now opens the public hearing with of proposed compensation increase for management supervisory and confidential employees do we have anyone here with we should pass is phi0 moving out to 14.5 approve the post competition increase for management's confidential employees 14 6 first reading submitted administrative regulation they are unfortunate agree to reasonable accommodation how many changes discussion see them moving on to 14.7 this is another first readings of a minute board policy for zero for zero an employee use of technology we have any questions discussion so you know movie knots at fourteen point eight this is consider approval of consultant defensive projects theater group resolution 17 that's 18 the wishes of the question [Music] where can I find that this information flow so actually it's on our website if you go to the website there is a drop down website there's a drop down menus you'll be able to patiently waiting and waiting but I really like to ask about this is it was like all there I'm a little bit I just wanted to know the people I know you're not in charge of what school different clothes but said we need getting hired to do it are they going to also be at that other meeting Lusine school district after PDC are they given either the people that are actually in charge yes we're doing it again just because yeah we'll make sure we get your information right now we will follow up with you too even tonight if somebody wants to maybe put her side tighter that would be that would be great but we're more than happy to give you them to give you that information thank you you're welcome motion passes 5:01 14.8 okay and we're on Business and Finance 15.1 approve resolution 17-18 enacting and formal bidding procedures of under the California uniform public construction cost accounting Act discussion [Music] sure in part of the reform that we're trying to update our policies that way we can have an additional flexibility and being able to address issues that our schools quickly but also at the same time make sure that we're free from any I guess single source leaders or emergency items that come up where we're kind of locked in with a single option so this process allows us to or actually demand that we set forth a list screen in all the categories of Public Works and every year we would establish that list would be approved and those would be the folks that we can go to for items that are less thousand dollars for projects and all those vendors we can choose to do informal practice of bidding so we can go to have one two or three of them vetted and a bit it's over that amount there's full bidding process we should be posting it in the newspaper in the journals - those lines [Music] yeah [Music] what is their current level so our current threshold is $5,000 so anything over 5000 we go to a degree bidding process and then anything that's that's over $18,000 we go to but the difference with this we're adding to prefilter list and then we would have an established list of vendors that we vet no interest their license so so - my question is so so this is this little is that we would they managed so I would say [Music] I appreciate that especially right now maybe the audio issues conservative potentially people have been funding the process [Music] Oh [Music] so this resolution the and if I if I could share a little bit of the purpose of it really is to avoid the conflict of interest if something was time sensitive to avoid somebody going saying you know I know this company does this I work with her before but they are maybe not a company that the district has pre-vetted this ensures that we don't we don't go to those personal kinds of relationships but rather going through some process that that has screamed people independent emergency items that are Center those items these would be four items that make this [Music] but I usually - [Music] they're right it makes it a lot smoother when you're you're not having to any emergency bingo but I yeah this process I start date next Oh [Music] today I will be presenting our second interim report director and again just like you Joe if there's questions or this is something that we do every year we have two interim reports and it's a chance for us to provide detailed updates to do the community and the board and we then we also reflect this over to the label so they can see exactly where the district is at each of the reports so as far as the time I have several reports that we go over here to make sure that the community has in Fidesz to where we are with our fiscal situation June 20th and we had our first which is kind of giving everybody an idea what our budget is their plans I announced an organization and then in December we give a first interval importance which is an update as to how we're doing with our budget target / trends and again this meeting is an update to see exactly where we are with spending our dollars to let you know about how enrollment has affected or our protections and minsky mentioned how we're doing and meeting that 3% minimum that we need to do to declare ourselves positive certifications at the very end of the year June 30th we have our final and presentation and that's where we present the budget components so as was mentioned earlier one of the large issues that we have in this district is our declining and declining enrollment is the reason why our dollars are one of the reasons why our dollars are decreasing here per year the other one is that a state as a flat funding and after 1894 1819 were receiving literally the same dollars with the small Cola which is a cost of living [Music] but if you look at our enrollment where we have this decline it's increasing or accelerating over the last couple of years and using that data to kind of project forward you can see that my 1920 [Music] over 77 so that the more we work we have the same number of schools that we had that obviously the enrollment is half as it was before 2002 so why do we have this decline in the moment there's not as many people being born in our zip code is one of the primary reasons our community for a positive is is stable it just not as transient as it once was people are staying because this is a great place to live and they're not leaving and they're retiring they're staying in their homes which means they're not having young children and over time we will see an eventual increase in enrollment when those when those homes turn to younger families but right now our community is aging and they don't have young children in those homicide so if you look at the trend here in 1999 we had 1188 births in Amar's of growth in 2012 it dropped to 856 so huge decline in the number of kids in schools so looking at our actual numbers you can see that this year we did have a large decline in comparison to previous years which weighs heavily on our future projections of course so in 1617 or only lost 184 which is slightly better than we projected 1718 last four seventy-four kids miss again so that is a was a large number it was larger and we had projected of course rounding in the low number from sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen we're projecting not quite as large of a loss at three hundred and twenty four kids and we're hoping for a decline so I believe our president I lost five cases of beginning teachers pay and that's really what this chart is showing them which is as we lose our kids our parent I'm sorry our dollars are increasing so if you look at where we're at right now 1718 our funded amount we're getting $10,000 per kid so if you talk about losing five kids that's you know fifteen fifty almost $55,000 so that's money and using our projections which we have the kids that we have have great attendance this year at 97 percent or attendance we calculate that out and we get the dollar amount how much money in the district is getting and it's based another see about the mouth so we're projecting as we get it eighty six and point seven million dollars this with our increase in enrollment as a moment increase in attendance that number is going to jump from our original budget to three hundred and eighty nine thousand dollars more than what we had rejected earlier in the year before we had didn't you attend sorry enrollment attendance up to ninety seven percent in 1819 were again looking to increase our funding by another eight hundred and sixty two thousand dollars so overall we're we're doing better because we have increased our attendance unduplicated student count has increased and then a little bit I'll get into what the governor has given us so our unduplicated student count is the number of students and then we get to count for our additional lcff dollars which are in three categories which is our yell kids our foster kids and our low-income students this year our numbers went up because of the hard work of our teachers our principals and our nutrition service workers making sure that we get all the applications or the meals in we can get those dollars for those students and I'll show you those details in a little bit and so we are getting additional dollars because of that effort but we also have additional cost due to the pension that keeps rising and so I've showed you this before and these numbers are actually a little bit lower than they were in the past and because we've calculated in the reduction in staff that was was owed to for a teammate and so we're we're looking at only five point four million dollars there was almost six point five million dollars in the previous estimate so we've reduced our future liabilities for pension with those reductions but overall we have in by 2021 we'll be paying thirteen million dollars still with pension cost per stirs and pers which is which is an amazing dr.
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Kaminsky alluded to that earlier which is the state is claiming that they're giving us a hundred percent of our lcff dollars the reality is to keep adding on bills like this which is stirs and purrs by increasing the rate that the district has to pay so prior to this we were lower than than 11% by 2021 we're going to be almost 20 percent so that that shift is eating up all those additional dollars that the state is game against plus so this chart is probably one of the most important ones that I'm going to present tonight because it it points to the work that we've done this year the dollars that the governor is giving us an addition for next year but the cautionary tale that we need to look out for in 1920 and so this yellow line that dips down was where we thought we were at at first in room and that's before the governor gave us additional dollars before our unduplicated count we know it's before attendance rate was realized right now in certain 96 or a 97 percent and it's before all the mid-year cuts that our schools and district office did this scary and so with those additional cuts and with the governor's new dollars they took it into a little bit we've changed that trajectory to this red line which looks really great for 1819 instead of a decline in overall revenue we're actually gonna see a good increase of just over a million - so that is that is great news for us for a tenant and as I mentioned to you the cautionary tale is in 19 20 and 20 21 the governor has front-loaded s the dollars for the lcff in 1819 and is in his budget right now we are flat funded from no additional dollars except for a small Cola which is a cost of living increase for 1920 and 2021 which means and all the dollars that we're going to receive will be in 18 so I'll get into the breakdown in the next slide but guess what they're coming in to pieces in his January proposal which is one-time funds and and the fully funded to post got that dollars which is ongoing so that's what this looks like so the one-time funds is going to be two point two seven million dollars now it's important to point out that there was one time dollars in the January budget could be realized completely different in his main update so he could say and I'm hoping you know somebody asked what we can do he could say these are ongoing and that they found the money to make them on both they're not one time and that would be great it would it be one time but right now there's two point two seven million dollars is only one time 489 the additional revenue that we're receiving or or fully funded lcff and I think I showed this at the last meeting is one is is an additional six hundred and forty two thousand dollars or this year and that's because of our duplicated count rising and an additional 2.8 million dollars from what we thought we were see that first dinner so that's definitely a step in the right direction with all of our positive figures the mid-year cuts and then and then recommendations that you guys have approved with our staffing levels the supplemental concentration dollars just to be clear are going from nineteen twenty five million dollars to twenty twenty six and just over a million more dollars will be in that supplemental concentration which is the the programs that are targeted for those unduplicated students you guys can see this so [Music] this chart here shows the other so this shows the other end which is how do we meet our three percent reserve the other chart that I showed let me back up as you can see is our revenue so how we're increasing or decreasing in revenue so we're increasing for 1819 oh we're decreasing 1920 this is the requirement that our superintendent dr.
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Kaminsky was talking about a meeting that minimum 3 percent reserve and right now that is our been our goal so that way we can remain A+ certification with with the state and when to come so if we start back in 1516 we had a 16 million dollar reserve which was about 15% in 1617 we were deficit spending which means that we were spending the money that we received plus dollars from this reserve in 1718 word again deficit spending and we're spending all of our money plus money from the reserve in 1819 will be the first year that we're projecting that we won't be deficit spending and that with those one-time funds that we'll be able to brace for the flat funding in 1920 and 2021 and in 1920 we would use our reserve to soften the blow of that flat funding and again hopefully by then our governor will and our legislative will funded education at a higher level if not we'd have to continue to make some more drastic reductions but it definitely gives us a way of softening so what does that look like as far as dollars so this year in 1718 we reduced our budget in here which is a challenge by 2.5 million dollars and this year are we and we're still attempting to do rejections to stop and then next year we need an additional 2.5 million in cuts that number and my last all right I understand two sessions ago that number was seven point nine million dollars so we've come a long way and with the governor's new dollars and with our increase duplicated students and our increase of in attendance i'm 7.1 million dollars next year and that's because of decisions that the board is made and it put us in a better situation the following year we five million dollars to reduce and in 2021 will have an additional 2.6 million dollars to reduce in spending but we've done amazing work this year in doing everything we can to tighten our belts so that way we can cut as far away from classrooms as possible so over the next four years a lot of CEOs in a complaint but they keep changing their numbers and I have I have been changing my numbers and that's because the numbers but my numbers are being sung keep changing so I wanted to provide an update as to kind of the timeline as to where we were where we were and why and why my numbers have changed so at the unaudited and first interim I was worried and concerned and I came to the board we need to work hard to make reductions this year and we had five point eight million dollars to kind of the beginning of the year or 1819 we negotiated with our teachers union and provided them with a much-needed increase in benefits which we opted to do but it did increase that expense to seven point five million dollars the governor provided us with his updated budget which gave us those one-time funds fully funded I was to get back and that drop test from seven point one two five one million dollars and index in a credit to the governor giving us more money but it's also of course our unduplicated count went up the hard work of Nutrition Services and our teachers and kids want to go to school they want to be here they want to have a hundred percent attendance and that that exceeds the district dollars and then here we are today so how did we get from four point one to two point five million dollars in cuts needed for 1819 is the staffing reductions that you elected to do and the mid-year cuts that schools and the district office have this correct that is that is our projection right and now we are working to make that even lower Arturo and I go back and forth regular to doing everything we can to make sure that were being as efficient as possible and spending our dollars and I hope after the may revise and with the governor's budget [Music] so there's also other considerations back at work that we need to think about that are not included in this budget because they're too fuzzy of a number for us to calculate at this point we know that our special transportation costs are going to jump and we know that it's likely at least two times I can give you a detailed report but it is a lot small items underneath the base so there there are all these items it's it's reductions in overtime those reductions in materials and supplies and from all of our departments it's it's us meeting with our school sites to see what they could do and to reduce their expenditures it's none of it is on staffing [Music] okay so next is that we're still in negotiations for 1718 with both a EA and CSC a and those those items have not been settled and there potentially will be additional cost there the next additional cost item that's on there is the JPA s for both workman's comp and our liability insurance are both closing this school year so next year we will be on our own to either join another GPA or enjoying a provider or go self-insured by ourselves and so we're working to make that decision quickly but I know for a fact we will be paying additional dollars and there's there's no anesthetic all through those options are more expensive so I'm still waiting for some placing on the JPA replacements and so at the next port I mean yes I'm just waiting for one more vendor so we had we flew an RFP for work come and it is closed we have reviewed those proposals we have looked at which one is in the lead we're in the questioning phase with the vendor that is in the lead to determine exactly what their proposal is providing the district and comparison to what we're receiving now and and then we're going to be looking as to whether we reject all those meds or we would select that no actually so the way that it was written was that it was the and it's because work comp is very complicated as far as pricing so there is a cost that is associated as a set up annual fee but that is maybe a tenth of the real cost as to what we would end up paying the organization because they make a lot of their money from smaller fees that they charge on the individual basis as as claims get submitted and so that's where it becomes very complicated just to do it lowest so we do a reward and we grade each one of the vendors on that rubric and one of those of course is price okay so yes then that will be coming to very soon for the recommendation next is a positive dollars but the district could see so if my school was to be closed then that would be additional revenue that we estimate right now to be $500,000 per school that would be and then lastly as I mentioned before I'm hopeful and regardless of even how the state budget comes in unless we dip drastically that governor's may revise will be positive for as you say even if it's not for other districts and that's because of just rumors that come out of the governor's office that additional dollars hopefully will be thrown towards lcff and being that we're at 85% that is positive for us so we would receive additional dollars potentially and let me go back one spine fair ball [Music] unfortunately the numbers are not on there the chart that they are if you're looking below the table so what this chart is showing is just like what I showed at first interim how we're doing and a percent of spending on our budget so for our general fund or at 43% our total expenditures planned for the year and or over the 50 percent mark and so that is a good place to be and if we look at our next one which is our restricted or at 39 percent adult education is only at 28% our child development fund is at 38 cafeterias at 46 deferred maintenance is at 55 and self insurance is at 67% the next year what happens with that so yes most of those dollars will roll over when I say Brunson and Hyde thank you present we do have one grant that is ending but Danny's doing a good job making sure that those dollars can expedite oh yeah there's only a percent of the fund that we can roll over but we make sure that we're spending up to that threshold so we do not lose money so next is kind of our timeline of things left for this school year as far as budget updates or major budget updates as you guys know I come to you almost every other session and update top of the required ones in May we're gonna have the update that I'm looking forward to presenting to you guys which would be the governor's workshop positive for the district and in June we'll be we'll be going and looking at what we're gonna budget or 1819 and so that's what we look at what's left as far as remaining cuts that have to happen or 1819 school year and making sure that we mean our projection that minimum three percent in 2020 so just a recap and this year we are deficit spending one of the largest reasons is our declining enrollment numbers that are large larger than normal this year as the board has done and has been committed to making sure that were fiscally solvent we we're gonna work hard to make sure that every dollar is expended in the most expedient way that that we can without touching the classrooms if there was any questions on any and the funds as the party's definitions I think we 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Chris talk about a regular turn and our regular flow is still intact and that'll all go through that process we have it all mapped out I rotate up to top of my head but we have it all mapped out a blank we would bring you that spreadsheet when we would bring the first round that way unlike previous years we're not we're not in an adoption anymore right so this is the first time at the outcome when we approved Alaska we approved it for three years so this is more of a update of what's happening you know we didn't yell cap but there's not the same process that little pieces gone with the whole approving in the county and all that but we will still be bringing that to you so were there any changes the dashboard in terms of no we haven't we haven't got to that point looking forward so just to be clear that it the packed bus meetings we had in the beginning of the year we're kind of an expansion of what the district usually does in that first section I led and we had them look at the base and plus so we could address the 18 18 so they they focus primarily on recommendations for lease and then for 18 19 those considerations recommendations so far looking forward to kind of Arturo's account and looking at planning that 1819 recommendation for changes in the crack good information and [Music] and basically all of our constituents and residents in Azusa and we've been talking about this for long we need to empower our administrators are our leaders out there our parents with with the information but is it being done we know that it's being done we know that the pack of clothes exists we know that we have PT and we have PT O's but how is it that we're reaching out even further than that and giving them that giving them these tools in order for them to go out there and share this information but I think it really comes down to us how are we doing it I just went on to our website right now - so what is it what is something that we could do and those are things that we need to stop and ask because after tonight what's going to happen with this information and that's we constantly now from this point on that's what we have to be thinking about how we're going to get that information out there so so this we've been on that piece I mean do you want to set like let's say for meeting we expect that we want to plan for how we're planning on one of the group's we want to want to have a clear message and a clear delivery systems for how we can determine information through our Disney communities we need our staff meaning our parents are especially our engage parents who already parent leaders we're engaging on other issues we heard about reading roses today the expendables work how are we getting how are we going to communicate this with them and educate them so that we can so I would what I would prefer to see is that our community is not only the third message is already out there but that the board there's something that weren't telling us what is the plan and how are we going to make sure that this is happening [Music] about having our meetings air stream city there were a lot of good ideas that came out of that and I feel like now that we're there and we are holding some means there what are we doing aside from that what are we going to say so that that video that went that went live worth that video go how is it that we're sharing that why aren't we doing Facebook live why so these are things that we need to make sure that we we need to tidy all this up again and and make sure that we have something solid for us and by the next morning I want to so we're being reactionary but you heard there should be put on our website and on our locations are but the time dog with the name of the median the others the other [Music] so a positive certification is what we cement reflecting that we have the funds needed to meet that minimum three percent reserve in three years as the presentation that I just showed you with the SEC reductions that we have scheduled we will meet that fairly the board has done their piece this year [Music] so zero [Laughter] [Music]
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[Music] welcome to meet the court I'm your host Joe Johnson meet the court is brought to you as a public service by the Superior Court of New Jersey in Atlantic and Kate Mae counties as well as the Cape May Institute of Technology to infer to better inform you the public of the workings of a court and the role of the judiciary today's topic community outreach programs what are they who do they service and how do they affect members of the community our guest today the Honorable mark Sansa presiding judge of the drug court and Atlantic and Cape May counties and Jill Hulk Criminal Division manager in Atlantic and Kate Mae counties welcome to our program thank you before we begin can we can you tell us a little bit about yourselves judge we'll start with you sorry with me I'm a native of Lanting City New Jersey I practiced law for many years in Atlantic City and became a judge in 2007 been a bad judge for approximately 11 years now I've served in the Family Division I served in the Criminal Division I was the general equity judge for a couple of years and now for about the last two years I've been sitting as the drug court judge in Cape May and Atlantic counties thank you judge Jill tell us about your background I've been with the judiciary of almost 15 years the majority that time with the Criminal Division I've been the criminal division manager about 2 years now and I have my degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice thank you ok now that we know a little bit about you let's turn to our topic judge you have been the point person on the outreach program one judge one school which I understand is in its fifth year can you tell us a little bit about that program actually sixth year oh but that's good yeah approximately five or six years ago judge Mendez and I were having a conversation about what ways could we at the courthouse in the judiciary you take more of an outreach role we're very become very insular sitting every day in our courtrooms dealing with a lot of people often very sad stories people whose lives before us are coming apart and sometimes hopefully being put back together but and I think also the perception of the judiciary may not be the highest in the minds of the public because they associate the courtroom with a lot of very negative experiences either from family matters or criminal matters even a litigation is not something that most people think is particularly beneficial experience but looking at it from the inside as judge mondays and I both do we saw that you know there are a lot of really incredible things that are happening in the courthouse on a day to day basis we are providing justice for the people of this these counties in this state on a essentially seven day a week 24 hour a day basis there's someone always on duty there we have no vested interest in one person or another we're trying to do justice it's very difficult it is impactful in the lives of people so the theory was how do we get the message out it's very difficult to find venues where adults are going to congregate to hear a story like that because people are too busy working day to day however when you have a school-age population and particularly we target the high school-age population the 14 to 18 year olds approximately their their their kids are in school often studying criminal justice constitutional law social studies a lot of things we do are directly relevant to that population but there had been little or no outreach whatever outreach there was to the schools was on a extremely haphazard basis so what we decided to do there approximately 25 high schools in the Atlantic and Cape May County vicinage that's our judicial organization it's called a vicinage it's two counties and we decided we have approximately that amount of judges why don't we go and assign one judge to each high school and try to arrange two visits at each high school and at least one court have visits where these young people can come to our courthouses and see the day to day dramas that are going on in the Family Division the Criminal Division the Civil Division and certainly in drug court we've been doing that for five years this is our sixth year we have had tremendous amounts of success we have had approximately four to five thousand interactions with students in Atlantic in Cape May County per year for those for those five or six years it has been agreed the kids are extremely excited about it and we're frankly the judges are excited about it as well the most amazing thing gelada is I have never asked the judge to take responsibility be a liaison with any particular school and have had that judge saying no to me so it's great program we're all in in it and it's been extraordinarily successful no that sounds like a great undertaking so how do you keep something like that totally organized well that's a very good question and very difficult we have somebody right here with us today Kathleen o bringer who is the Ombudsman for the Superior Court she has done a lot of it I have been very active in it and Judge Mendes and Howard Burke told a Bowers our trial court administrator they have been very invested in it so when we need to be other places than in the courtroom we have had no problem getting coverage when we go to schools it is a communal investment by the judiciary by the judges and by the staff people frankly Jawad I know you're involved Joe is involved and most of the staff people work for the judiciary are involved the traditional way our organizational chart works is we have a school let's let's take Atlantic City High School for example I am in charge I'm at liaison with Lennox City High School which is my alma mater and very frankly many of the judges go to the high schools that they graduated from and I have a face team member which is a judiciary employee who is a non judge do dictionary employee who often is an Atlantic City Atlantic City High School Atlantic City person who has a contacts there we set up a speaking engagement I usually take a prosecutor I take a public defender I take another civil lawyer family lawyer we have a team of four or five people that I will take to Atlantic City High School I'm doing it later this month and so we keep that an organizational basis and we do in our program which I was really insistent about and for change I was right we keep statistics we know where we've been how many people event we've interacted with one of the most amazing things is we had a and and you know it's just you know you get a payback and in all sorts of ways and most of the payback is really being able to meet kids on a one-to-one basis and tell them what you do and perhaps provide career advice to them but we were at the judicial college this year and Jill you were at a another judicial college where the Chief Justice all of a sudden out of the blue started to take note of the Atlantic City one judge one school program incidentally one judge one school Oh Jo s ojos is our kind of our symbol and a host in Spanish means I so it is kind of the eyes of the judiciary which are focused on the community and we're really trying to help people and inform them and to discuss various issues that may come up so it's just briefly can you tell us what topics you cover well we're supposedly going to cover the American Bar Association has a long day topic every year it is usually extremely uninteresting no offense the American Bar Association there are much bunch of really great people but this year it's separation of powers which is somewhat interesting but if I were to tell you that I stuck on the script of the separation of powers you know issues we try to discuss that but really when I go to schools what do we discuss we discuss it because of my drug court orientation we discuss drugs we discuss drugs recovery the dangers the drugs / drugs present to young people I see it every day in drug court and the kids that we talked to are extremely interested and it's an extremely important time of their lives to really get keyed in on what's happening and the dangers and exposures that exist in our community we talked about gun cases in New Jersey we talked about things that are generally of interest to them and we can be easily swayed by a question or two into any of the various topics covering any of the matters that we really address as judges on a daily basis I just want to say also when we have our courthouses I have a popular destination how cuz drug court is popular for high school social studies teachers they come in they see what we're doing we have 800 people in drug court and Lanigan Cape May counties it's the biggest program in the state and they see lives that are being put back together firsthand it's tremendously important for these kids and they respond well to it this is meet the court I'm your host Joe Johnson will be back with judge Sanson and Joe Houck after this message hello my name is Tom Hegarty I'm a sergeant Decatur County Sheriff's Office some of the things you should know when you enter any of our courthouses is once you come in they're going to be screened by an officer at the front desk so what you should not have on you is any weapons tools anything that want to slow down that process you're going to come in put all your metal objects up on the counter step through the metal detector listening to the officers direction once you step through go let you know whether you can continue on or whether you should stop if he stops you you may have to be wounded with it on detect anything else you may have on you that that's not picking on sir so the speed your your trip along with it I'll come in because there may be lines when you come in and there may be delays so you want to get here early and you also less objects on you that will impede your progress of the code welcome back to meet the court I'm your host Joe Johnson today we're discussing community outreach programs with my guests judge marks Anson and Joe Hoke so judge Sanson we were talking about the one judge one school program and you seem to be very passionate about this subject is there anything else you'd like to let our viewers know about the program the only thing I can say Giada is that what is happening in the courthouses we have three in this edition is we have Atlantic City the civil courthouse family court house and in Mays Landing the Criminal courthouse and chemi courthouses both combined is our real-life dramas taking place 24 hours a day 7 days a week they're open to the public there's very few proceedings which are closed it's my belief that the more people get involved and understand what the workings of our judicial system the more they will learn to respect it and to honor it particularly with children children watch all this fantasy on TV 20 of the the courtroom shows what's the what's the big one about the district attorneys I don't even know I say on to like I don't watch a lot of TV which I don't but all these programs portray an unreal world the real world is that judges are honest decent people we're all kind of normal we try to do the best we can we try to be fair and impartial where women and men who have all practiced law for at least 10 years and we are interested in helping our community and to the extent we can we do we are fully invested in the one judge one school or ojos program and it's going to continue we're going to be visiting schools in your community and hopefully this program will last for a long time to come thank you judge thank you so Joe this brings us to you I understand as criminal division manager you are directing several impactful community programs one in commonly referred to as the bus station outreach could you describe that program tell us a little bit more once a month on the Tuesday of every month the judiciary along with several other social service agencies such as Jewish Family Services Volunteers of America South Jersey legal services the the county welfare board that helps people find housing and provides general assistance we all meet at the bus station in Atlantic City we're there from 8:00 to 11:00 in the morning and weird we just do outreach and we talk to everybody that is in the bus station it is a place in Atlantic City where sometimes the homeless do congregate as well as some other at-risk people but we've been doing this since 2015 so pretty much the community is aware that we are always there the last Tuesday of every month and what the judiciary does is we have our computers we you know we set them up and we look up people's cases we see if they're eligible for an expungement we see if they have any bench warrants we try to get them recalled if possible and get them a new court dates that they don't risk being arrested and being put in jail we help people get their drivers licenses back if their driver's license has been suspended by the court and we also answer any other general court questions you know we have information on landlord tenant child support family court matters and other things like that so Joe I'm sure our viewers want to know why a bus station well I'm on a local committee called the face team and you know the goal of that committee is to do community outreach and we were discussing a couple years ago how our outreach efforts were not very successful we didn't receive a lot of attendance and at places like the library in the courthouse so I said well we have to go somewhere where there already are people and there's a lot of natural traffic especially at-risk people that do need our services like the bus station and it just happened that a friend of mine or a you know a colleague that worked with Jim Family Services was just starting a relationship with the New Jersey Transit Police at the bus station you know to help the some of the homeless people that were congregating there and we just went to him and we asked him if we could set up a table once a month and what we plan on doing and it has just grown tremendously in May 2015 was our first event and in 2015 we served 125 people in 2016 we serve 293 people so almost a double and in 2017 we saw 511 people and we're consistently seen between 40 and 60 people every month at the bus station Wow so that's a lot of people that you're servicing so what types of questions or issues do most of those people have most people want to know if they have any bench warrants and if we can have them recalled and get them a court date you know some people have children they don't want to you know be arrested in front of their children they want to be able to go to work without you know being in fear of being arrested and most of these bench warrants are for mine or matters that you know the court is happy to vacate because we really do not want to see anyone go to jail people ask if they're eligible for an expungement an expungement is a you know an order that a judge signs basically retracting someone's record from public view so we can screen people to see if they're eligible for that people also have just basic court questions you know about how do they file for a divorce you know landlord tenant issues but mostly we have people that ask about bench warrants and expungements okay judge Sanson just going back to you are there any other counties in the state of New Jersey that are doing a one judge one school type program not currently one of the things that when we were at judicial college just Chief Justice Radner indicated that he would like to see more activity I'm certainly available to to assist but to mine now is we're the only program like it in in this country it's been enormous Lisa cessful we've won various regional awards for it and and you know I don't really care about the awards it doesn't make a difference what makes the difference is that we're really really helping kids understand the importance of being a law abiding citizen that's what high school is really all about I mean you learn a lot of other stuff but if you can't learn how to fit in in with society not do drugs stay work and do as much education as will help you make a living and ultimately have a family and stay with that family and support that family then we're really not accomplishing anything in our high schools so I feel our program is something that is going to help young people go along those lines to be the future citizens of tomorrow this is meet the court I'm your host Joe Johnson we'll be back with our guests judge Sansa and Jill Huck after this message hello again some of the things that you should know when you're entering a court room is there's a certain courtroom etiquette is expected of you you should come in quietly take a seat remain quiet at all times you should remove any coverings on your head hats hoodies sit down take any cell phones turn them completely off and have them away if they're a scene out they can be confiscated there's an officer that usually sits in the front of the room he is there for the judges safety as well as the public safety so if you're it going to ask him a question stead of just blurting it out or getting up and approaching him get his attention attention discreetly raise your hand and he will approach you and ask the question at a quiet level welcome back to meet the court I'm your host Joe Johnson we are continuing our conversation about community outreach programs with our guests Judge Mark Sampson and Joe Hal Joe we were talking about the bus station outreach program but I'd like to turn to something that our viewers may have heard of many fugitives safe surrenders could you could describe that program to us the past year we've had to larger scale events one in Atlantic City and one in Pleasantville where it was along the lines of that the large scale fugitives safe surrender that was in Atlanta County in 2012 are thousands and thousands of people came to get their bench warrants recalled it's obviously smaller than that but bigger than the bus station so we have it on a Saturday instead of during the weekday and what we do is people come they get screened to see if they have bench warrant and then their bench warrants most bench warrants you know are recalled no questions asked and then they get a new court date so this year alone 476 people attended those two events and we were able to recall 407 bench warrants there is another middy fugitive safe surrender event that is occurring in Atlantic City on May 12th and it is called put your life back on track so you talked about expungements and you gave us a definition of what an expungement is but I understand that the Criminal Division does an expungement seminar can you explain what that process is like yes I go into the community I actually did one yesterday usually a job placement program sometimes at churches and I just explain what the eligibility guidelines are for an expungement what an expungement is what the benefits are and the process someone has to take in order to get an expungement granted so what are the eligibility requirements for an expungement that is sort of a tricky question because a new law was just signed right before January that does go into effect in October but currently the guidelines are someone cannot have more than one indictable or felony conviction or more than two if they have an indictable conviction more than two disorderly persons convictions if they don't have an indictable convictions they can have up to three disorderly person convictions expunged unless they have graduated from drug court and then they can have their entire record expunged regardless of how many convictions they have that is changing in October though October 1st more people will be eligible for an expungement the guidelines loosened a little bit sounds like a step in the right direction so you talked about new legislation one of the biggest sweeping reform changes in the state of New Jersey through new legislation was criminal justice reform what type of outreach efforts have taken place to introduce the public to this new legislation we provide handouts and information at the bus station every month on criminal justice reform people do always have questions that we answer them but we also went into the community and did some criminal justice reform specific events we did several in Atlantic City some in Pleasantville we did several in Cape May and we basically just explained what the new law is to the public and and you know tell them that it is to their benefit to support this new program and we answer any questions that anybody has so it's really is a constant outreach effort when it comes to criminal justice reform to just inform the public and make sure that they're aware of the change in the law so we talked about a lot of outreach programs that are currently taking place and yourself you've been a part of those outreach programs who other what other staff members are involved and do you involve the judges as well the municipal judges are involved at the fugitive safe surrender events other than that we really don't have judges involved in the fugitive surrender or the bus station events are municipal presiding judge Luis Velasco he was very involved in the criminal justice reform out outreach efforts and our assignment judge Julio Mendez and the our trial court administrator Howard birch told are very supportive of all of our outreach efforts and it definitely is a focus for our vicinage to do as many outreach events as possible to reach as many people are there any other agencies that partner with the judiciary to conduct these outreach events most of the social service agencies in Atlantic and Cape May County do partner with us Jewish Family Services Volunteers of America Cape counseling you know both of the county you know welfare boards do so we add legal services South Jersey legal services so we do have you know a wraparound approach when we do outreach and make sure that other people are there to fulfill other needs other than court matters so judge you spoke with such passion about the one judge one school program I wonder if there's any other personal rewards for yourself or the other judges that participate in the program yeah here's the key as I said before there's twenty five high schools there's coincidentally approximately 25 judges in the two counties never as anybody as I said ever denied an opportunity to speak at a school we're all local residents we all go to the same wawas we all go to the same shop rights we all go to the same to the same schools in the end to the football game to the basketball games it's great when we see people there who said my son or daughter saw you at X High School and they said you were great they really now want to go to law school I've had various people tell me that their children want to go to law school want to become judges want to become this want to become that probation officers people working for the judiciary we also stress career opportunities in the judiciary not just being a lawyer there's a million other things where people can really make a great livelihood and make a contribution to the community we all try to do that and spreading the word is part of our function and we have a very supportive judiciary in that regard and we're extremely proud of this one-of-a-kind program our outreach programs seem like they're doing a lot for the community we are just about out of time I'd like to thank our guests for joining us today on this episode of meet the court and I'd like to thank you our viewing audience for tuning in I'm Joey Johnson goodbye for now [Music] you [Music]
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[Music] good evening today is Monday March 12 2018 and I'd like to call this special meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education to order if we could all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance okay we have four five members of our board here tonight jen is unable to be here tonight she is working and Eve will be here shortly so first on our list is public comment do we have anyone here to speak no okay we'll go to written correspondence please Laura Orban regarding the walkout Ken Merce Merce Muricy regarding the walkout Georgia stabile regarding the walkout and Ron Jaffe three articles he shared Victor Buchi regarding the budget thank you now we have approval of Board minutes yeah recommend motion that the board approve the minutes listed below is recommended regular meeting up to 21 and special meeting on three any discussion on the minutes okay all in favor aye opposed okay and superintendents update thanks mister so a few things just to discuss and thanks to the board members for convenience special meaning because we missed because of weather last week weather-related cancellation of the regular meeting and I did want to bring up the snow day situations so everybody's aware we've had seven snow days thus far and for delayed openings thus far with a school year and more impending weather another nor'easter coming for tonight into tomorrow having said that I just wanted to remind the board and the folks viewing that there there's a there's a lot that goes in the process to make a snow or emergency day decision whether it's an early dismissal delay or actual school closing the first order of business is student safety and you know bus thinking of kids who are at bus stops kids who walk to school and of course can't our buses actually travel and then we think of staff in the distance they travel and timing and so forth having said that just to remind the folks at home we actually have a consulting meteorologists and so not only do I talk to the consulting meteorologists either the night before or the morning of a decision we also do a conference call with all the neighboring superintendents there's about 15 of us on the phone at the same time so we're all talking to each other about their conditions for the most part prior to that conversation each superintendent I will speak specifically for myself are on the phone with the Brookfield Police Department I'm actually on the phone with James dr.
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who's one of our lead plow drivers he's right out there giving me the skinny on exactly what's going on and we're also in touch ken is in touch with Dan Caldwell a facilities director didn't touch with not only our custodial team or me seen but the Parks and Rec director as to what's going on this a lot of people don't know our Parks and Rec Department actually clears our parking lots so there's a lot of people involved and we have a lot of information before we make any decision and it's so it's a very thoughtful process and I just wanna make sure people understand that is and certainly we also talked with bus company as well all star transportation on in terms of communication number one in October I sent out every October I send out a letter reminding families to get their emergency plans together alternative plans together for those inclement weather days and talk to them about not only the process I just outlined verbally but also give them the different media and how we communicate these kind of decisions whether it's the website or television and radio Twitter Facebook I don't know how you couldn't get the information the way we do it nowadays so anyway I want to make sure everybody knows that and we're on record again as to how we go about our snow day or emergency day process the other piece I wanted to talk about briefly is follow up on our brief discussion we had at the last meeting regarding school security I think as I shared I think we've reached a tipping point since the Parkland school shooting where we really not that we don't assess our security needs all the time not only monthly but annually we have these conversations with the police department with administrators and so forth but really take a deeper look at what we're doing I'd like to share with the board that I think something I want to begin pursuing and I hope the board would back me is putting together a security task force so not only the usual folks like our school administrators and so forth but maybe getting more involvement directly from chief police chief Purcell be he's very enthusiastic about putting something like this together as well as other first responder types but also some of our parents we have a lot of parents who are retired law enforcement or active law enforcement or just have lots of other experiences that they could bring to the table so I'd like to begin pursuing that kind of set a goal for myself to really dig in deep and really assess where we're at and what are other things we can do to ensure our students stay safe so that's something I want to pursue and then the last thing I did want to share with you is the eighth-grade Washington DC trip I know I'm sure joy will be talking about that but that takes off at 6:00 a.m.
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on Wednesday morning weather should be clear by then and I get to serve as a chaperone which is bringing back my teaching roots of teaching eighth grade and getting back to the Washington DC trip with a students so mr.
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