What changed was we heard that the Thai airline was flying to Sam Reef every day and the Cambodian airline was flying to Bangkok every day. We figured if they got the word that it's safe, it's probably safe for us, too. So, Stan is the second largest city in Cambodia and most people um go here to to visit the Ankorwatt temple um complex. Um but there are lots of other Yeah, there are lots of other things to see. Um there's a huge lake there. The largest lake in um Southeast Asia, it's called Lake Tonop. And there's very many things to visit there. You can visit floating villages. We'll show some pictures of that later. Crocodile farms and there's bird watching, amazing bird watching in the Pretoal um bird sanctuary. And um on a previous visit, we went to uh Jackson and I went to Botmong which is used to be a French it still has a lot of French influence.
Our second place team was our girls bowling team WITH A AND OUR WINTER TEAM GPA WINNERS ARE girls track team with GPA averages of 93. So, to all of our students being honored here tonight by the Board of Education, it's not just recognition of your talent, but a celebration of your commitment and effort. Take a moment to soak in your accomplishment because it because it is well deserved. As you move forward, may this recognition tonight remind you that your excellence comes not just from your talent, but your dedication and heart. Congratulations once again to both our performing arts students and are also our athletes. We are all so proud of you and can't wait to see what you achieve next. Thank you for what you bring to the Boarding Town School District and the community. AND NEXT STUDENTS AND FAMILIES, IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN DOWN in the foyer for individual team photos, you're welcome to.
So there's there's French architecture and it has a also has a kind of a new artistic community which is growing there and u it's a very interesting town and we also went down to the to the uh coast to Ke and Campot where where the pepper is from the best pepper you can taste it in there. Um, okay. So, we can So, near CM Reap is the Anchor Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was home to the Chimera Empire, which was the dominant power in Southeast Asia for centuries. Anchor Watt. Okay, Rob, could you do the the there? Okay. This was taken at the equinox just a couple weeks ago. >> Oh, wow. And so probably it maybe you know this is probably why it was in this particular in this particular orientation. >> Um >> there were about 30,000 people. >> Yeah.
But, thank you all for coming. All right, pics guys downstairs. We different, right? Congratulations. >> Good job, Mason. Yuan We just need to recognize that Yuan Lulu because he was also a member of the 2026 All Burlington County Middle School Honors Band. I apologize. Take a nice photo. Great job, Mrs. Panetta. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Send everybody back in. Nice job, everybody. Nice job. Thank you very much. Uh thank you, everyone on the board. And thank you to the audience members who just stick around with us. It's nice to have you here for the full meeting. Um we still do have one more presentation um in agenda item G. It is the presentation of the energy savings and improvement plan. Um which will be presented by um Mr. Brian Magaro from SC Energy Services. Okay. Thank you, everybody out there in the room.
I don't know people. >> It's like it's Stonehenge. It goes >> it's the kind of the iconic symbol of Cambodia. As you can see it's on the flag. It's in the middle of the flag and it's anchor watt. This particular temple complex is the most famous and best preserved of the over nearly 1,000 temples surrounding Camre and actually going up into Thailand a little bit too in a 150 square mile area and they've discovered more and more about it by using um the special kinds of cameras that they can see what's going on. I can't remember the name. It starts with an L. Lidar. Yes, thank you. Um, Ankerwat temple itself was built in the mid 1100s by Surya Varmman II and it's dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu. This all started this particular um empire in the year 802. Java Yarmman II proclaimed independence from Java and declared himself a god king ushering in the Camir Empire which lasted until the 14th century.
So, I'll let him in the floor as soon as he's ready. Okay. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. And ladies and Dr. Bella. And Mr. Peck. Good to see you. Um it's nice to be here this evening with you. My name is Brian Magaro. Uh I am with Schneider Electric and I have been in a first career, which is very similar to what you're doing tonight. I have I was a business administrator for 26 years and a teacher for 6 years in New Jersey public schools. So, very familiar with some of the things that you're going through. I retired from that and entered into a career with Schneider Electric in the energy saver business. Great career. Great second career, I should say. Before I continue with that, I do want to introduce my partner this evening, Mr. Joe Billick, and he can tell you a little bit about himself.
At its peak, it was possibly the largest city in the world with a population of between 700,000 and 900,000 people. And yet by the mid400s it was largely empty and for the next 400 years was repeatedly sacked or swallowed up by the jungle. Wooden structures where most of the people lived have rotted away. So why did the empire fall? It's not entirely clear, but it probably was a a lot of different reasons. One could have been the years of drought. So in effect, climate change had a lot to do with it. there were maybe decades of drought and this is a completely water dependent country. Uh and also Terravada Buddh Buddhism is a different focus of Buddhism. It replaced the Mahayana Buddhism which was maybe a little more progressive um and more inclusive. Whereas the you know the terravada Buddhism focuses on individual enlightenment a lot more and there was less appetite for building these big temples also um and also the rise of the surrounding um kingdoms in now Thailand and Vietnam which forced a move to the more defensible area around Penampen.
Good evening. First of all, thank you for allowing us to present this evening. Before I go on, though, being married to a secretary for 42 years, I recognize that this is Administrative Day, correct? So, we'd like to recognize all the efforts for the assistants and the secretaries over the years. They keep the engine going. So, if I didn't make that statement and I went home, my wife asked, "Did you recognize the secretaries?" Yes, I did. So, my name's Joe Billick. I am the president of Brandywine Consulting Services. Brian and I have worked together for many, many years in the same district in Medford. The BA, I was the director of operations and technology. I was a board member in my town for 8 years, 9 years. Served as vice president for 7 of those years. And I've been involved in ESIPs, a number of ESIPs from the operation side, the administrative side.
I >> I just re realized that while Brett was talking there was a slide missing. I don't know what happened to it. This is what happens when you try to do last minute changes, right? So anyway, there was a slide missing that showed the population of Punan Pen and how it literally crashed as Brett said um that you know down to just like tens of thousands of people instead of millions. >> Well, that's later. That's later. >> Yeah, you think so, huh? >> It's not there. >> Okay. Um Anchor Watt is an engineering marvel. It's hard to believe that people could build this back in the ninth, 10th centuries. So, um, every single one of these stones is handcarved. They they carve these stones uh the base stones are are three to six tons in size. Big blocks uh between elephants and barges on canals that were built specifically to channel the blocks to this site.
I do project management for and consulting services for Schneider Electric. I'm also a consultant for the Joint Insurance Fund, which Voorhees Township is a member. So, I provide a wide range of services for a number of different clients and clients. And I was fortunate enough to be involved in E-Save from both the board member side, and again the administrator side, and from the traffic management side. So, I'm here to provide assistance services for Schneider Electric. Thanks, Joe. I appreciate it. Um brief 20-30 second commercial, who is Schneider Electric? We are not the electric people who come out and service your home or anything like that. Our name is a little bit misleading. We are a global and We are located in over 125 countries throughout the world. Our business is energy, period. We're all energy. Uh we service our particular part of the business, my particular part of the business, again, is energy and sustainability.
They truck 15 million stones. It's estimated to form this site. Okay. It's the largest u u religious site in the world. Uh uh it's h it's um bigger than the pyramid but not quite as high as the main py pyramid at Gaza. Um let's see if there anything I'm forgetting right here. Um it was dedicated to the uh the Hindu god Vishnu. And as you saw in that u previous slide, it faces west. And I I when I looked at this slide, I said, "But the sun is not perfectly in back of it." And I was saying, "Well, that's a few hundred years ago. Continental drift is happening." So, chances are at one point in time, the sun was absolutely directly over the top of that. I would not doubt that in the least. >> During the course of the day though, doesn't the sun move?
Specifically, servicing public entities, school districts, municipalities, water and waste, all those types of And we look to save you money on your utility expenses, like electric, gas, water, so forth. And everywhere where we can save you the E-Save program Energy Savings Improvement Program. Um you're going to hear various acronyms, hence the side sheet I gave you. Glossary of Acronyms. Just like in education, okay? You have a series of acronyms. We do in our industry. By no means is that all the acronyms, but as I say them, I may highlight what it means, okay? So that you know what I'm talking about. So, we we appreciate that. Uh I'd like to get started with you on Oh, thank you, Dr. Eppolito. I appreciate it. I'd like to get started with you real quick. Every Board of Education has a mission. It has goals. You had visions.
>> I'm sorry. >> During the course of the day, doesn't the sun move in relation to the tower? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. But this is this is on that one day of two days of the year, the two equinoxes, it's right in that position. >> So anyway, um when you go inside, it's even more spectacular than outside because the walls are lined with these bar relief um type stories. They have epic stories uh uh stories of the underworld, stories of battles, uh stories of peacemaking. And this whole card, which is like a quarter of a mile or longer, uh is is just all by relief. And I have a background in project management, consulting. And so I looked at this and I started to calculate how much labor went into not only constructing it but just the carving alone of all this stone. It's it's it's unimaginable.
Um meeting with uh Ms. Henry uh about a month or so ago and um Lisa, uh the facilities director. They share okay, your missions uh your mission, uh some of your visions, your goals that I know you you take very seriously and how to implement them. I'm going to pause there for a second and maybe ask anyone or if you'd like to elaborate on um your mission, your vision, your goals as a board. Just take a few minutes to do so. If not, that's not a problem. That's fine. Appreciate it. Uh we Shavonda gave gave us a good overview of that. So, uh we're well aware of that. That's one of the things we try to do with this school. Try to address and help you achieve those missions, the vision, goals of your district uh because listen, it involves dollars and cents and savings.
It's it's pretty uh dramatic. Um so notice the um how they put things together in the artistic sense of architecture and and art. you know, the the some of it, you know, this this is was perhaps about a 4 foot by 4 foot. Um, but some of these other very fine carvings I frankly, even if today with my little Dremel tool, I don't think I could do that well. I It's just just amazing. Um, it's not not shown in this picture, and I wish I had put that slide in there, but just inside this is a large swimming pool made of stone. So there it is. Um let's see a couple things here. Um a big Sanskrit stellar. Um their their script the Cambodian script was influenced uh from the Indian Sanskrit. Um and is very common in in that area. Uh this is the one of the outside walls of Anchor Watt.
If we can help you reallocate some of those expenses into other parts of your budget, that's what we're looking to do. As well as building up and enhancing your facilities infrastructure in terms of energy efficiency. Okay? That's our goal in trying to help you help yourselves. Um we're going to talk a little bit about what ESCO can do. Why you know, why are you exploring it? And then thinking ahead, you know, what maybe would be some possible solutions. What is By the way, I'm not going to read these slides to you. I won't insult your insult your intelligence. I'm going to give an overview of the slide. You certainly uh at your leisure uh impact areas of ESCO. Infrastructure capital improvements. It addresses that. Okay? ESIP can address that from an energy perspective, energy efficiency perspective. Efficiency in operations. I think Mr. Billick can talk momentarily on how ESIP can help address that.
And one of the things that I was amazed at were these windows. um these what they're called mullions, these separators, you know, were installed to keep out critters, two-legged and four-legged. Okay? Um they're all made of stone. So, here we are in the 9th century. Somebody must have invented a way like a lathe to turn stone. And they're pretty darn close in terms of their design. And there are hundreds of them, maybe even thousands. uh within this structure. Uh it's it's pretty pretty amazing. Ready? >> Okay. We visited two other temples this year when we were there and you can see how this is this is my favorite. This is Tap Romero and it was built in um the 12th to 13th century. It's a Mahayana Buddhist temple and university. It was built by Ji Java II for his mom. >> And there was actually a bar relief of the bomb.
Well, the concept of ESIP, the the primary structure of ESIP is not a concept that is new. It's been around for a number of decades. And it's a structure and strategy called release and reallocate. And essentially, for budgetary purposes, it's identifying, mining, and releasing funds that already exist in fund the letter of operation. And then taking those efficiencies and funds associated with those efficiencies and applying them to capital improvement projects for 12, right? So, we're not talking about new money. As an example, years ago, I conducted an audit of all the telephone lines with Metropolitan Nashville. And I discovered that they had 501 telephone They were only using 26. So, of all those lines that they were paying monthly service fees on, when you close all those lines, terminate all those lines, the $50,000 that you release helped fund a equipment lease program to put security cameras in all of our schools at no additional cost to the taxpayer.
>> Yes. >> No pressure on your son. >> Right. Exactly. No pressure. Um it is currently being restored, but you can see how the jungle trees have completely taken over much of it. This is the site where the movie Tomb Raider was filmed. I don't know. I never saw that but um it was quite a it's quite a beautiful thing. And then this is um this is anchor Tom which means great city. Um this was also built by Java II and this was probably at the height of the empire the Camar Empire. Um this is a fortress um complex with biion temple at the middle with immense multiple faces and we're not sure whether they're Buddhist face or Java the seventh face. Apparently some of the some of the um sculptures of him that you see in the museum look very similar to these. So it could very well have been of himself.
So, what we're talking about is identifying existing budgetary expenses that you're applying to technically utility, electric, natural gas, water, telecom. Identifying those efficiencies, improving those efficiencies, and then taking those available funds to support goals and projects that the district may identify. HVAC projects, lighting projects, window projects, anything that has to do with energy efficiency. We've already talked about talked about that. So, we're looking at a program and a strategy that releases existing money to improve infrastructure without burdening the taxpayer. When I was a board member, my personal approach was as a board member, we're responsible for two primary uh possessions of your community. And those primary possessions are the children and the money. Right? So, we're here to protect those two precious commodities, and this program helps enhance or support those types of projects. Thank you, gentlemen. To sum up the financial part of it, reallocation of resources, right?