How do we keep good teachers that want to do opera and change something different without getting the pay that they need. We pay garbage here. And like the community said no, we're not going to pay our teachers. And that's frustrating. Now we might have to shut down a school one way or the other because the healing process needs to start. We need a reset of some kind and I don't know that it's one or the other or it's and both. Like we need to reset. We need probably have to consolidate. We need a referendum to bring the education to a whole point where the people that we can get here and stay here, right? Or we can attract talent from other places and they look at our school and they don't The first thing they do they go to Google and see what we pay and they're like I'm not even applying there because I can go anywhere else because I don't know if you know this, but there's a teacher shortage because everybody pays garbage, right?
And tonight we have these policies for you for a second reading and adoption. Crown Point Community School continues to convert our policy language from NEOLA to ISBA. Today we are sharing policies for approval that will be converted to ISBA language. Approve ISBA 6250 and retire NEOLA PO 6470, prepayment for invoice claims. Approve ISBA 3340, retire NEOLA PO 8462, reporting child abuse. Approve ISBA 7030, retire NEOLA PO 7455, fixed assets. Approve ISBA 6120 retire Neola PO 6900 material loss and theft. Approve ISBA 6130 retire Neola PO 6151 collection and forgiveness of debt. Approve ISBA 1103 and retire Neola PO 0144.1 board member compensation. Tonight our my recommendation is that you approve the second reading and approve the new ISBA policies along with the retirement of the corresponding Neola policies as listed. >> Thank you, Dr. Terrell. Board members, you heard the recommendation of the administration uh for the approval of the ISBA numbers that were cited by Dr.
Any discussion on the matter? Hearing none, all in favor? I. I. Any opposed? That motion will carry. Mr. Giveny, could you please summarize the resolution authorizing the third supplement to master continuing disclosure undertaking and issuance of said bonds? Yeah, this resolution satisfi- satisfies the Securities and State Exchange Commission requirement that a school corporation enter into a continuing disclosure undertaking agreement if it issues bonds to public investors. The agreement requires that the school corporation agree to timely uh provide certain financial information and provide notice of certain material events if and when they occur. Okay. Can I have a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the third supplement to master continuing disclosure undertaking and issuance of bonds? Motion. Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion and second.
And so I would tell you tonight I'm honored after the vote goes tonight, I will have them come up to the mic as we traditionally do in Huntington. Say a few words. I know some are looking forward to that. And I say that because I'm going to start with the Deputy Superintendent position. We were [snorts] blessed to have some top end candidates for this position. I am thrilled, honored, and excited for Huntington County Community Schools. As you'll be voting on adding Kenny Hanson who is the past eight years has been Superintendent at North Miami Schools. And when I say Superintendent, he is a highly successful Superintendent at North Miami Schools. He is the epitome of a professional. He is a humble servant of children. He is a I guess I'm going to say this, an outstanding family man, father. I've seen him in a lot of capacities as a community leader.
It'll take us a year to work with the government to get the program here, but we have a lot of students that would benefit from this program. It's also a pathway, guys. So it gives us another option for our high school kids. Yes. Okay. I just have a quick question. First of all, thank you to all of those individuals who have spent countless hours on ensuring that our students have such robust opportunities. I do know some of the pathways given our students and the demographics of the students that we serve, sometimes when we think about things like the military, um they may not be eligible. So just curious as to how we support students in understanding their eligibility um long-term for something of this nature. Yeah, our counselors would work with our students to make sure they understand the long-term decisions they're making and oftentimes they can get the diploma and in this case it'd be an honors seal on an enlistment honors seal that they can get with us even if they're not able to move on any further after that.
That is freshman um Caroline Brennan Campamp >> picking the ball up. Got the call over to Payton Trip. 114 game going over here. But you know pretty highly competitive games. I think Ashlin or Westwood I should say has won a lot of the faceoffs. Goalie has made a couple of saves. We just haven't had enough shots on goal. Lana Duffy's doing her best against this pretty top powered offense in the TVL large. So say Alana's doing her thing. At least seven saves. There might be more in the first half. So that is Ashley Forester getting the call. Ashley's going for a potential third goal. They defend it, but she'll get the ball again, I think. Yep. She get one more shot over there. >> Nice job. So, actually that was Ashley Forester. So, that was my bad. I think that was number two. Silia Callahan with the assist if I got the numbers right.
You're right. We're going to say these boys started early in the game and started in the second half, but >> Why did I just say Wyatt? I don't know. Thinking past or years back. >> Yeah, you know what? I I I that is what it was. Yeah. >> That is literally wow, Mr. Phillips Esposito. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> Hey, you're the Esposito. >> Why Wyatt Pastore was number 11 for the Raiders. >> That's crazy. And Pastore was really good, too. >> Yeah. >> So, here we go. Oh, Sen shot hits the shin of Landrigan. Look at this. Oh my goodness. How does he still have it? Kylie just Oh, and stolen by Tyler Saverese. Saverese lays a nice pass up to Sen. Sen coming down. Sen shot. Oh, blocked. Tyler Saverese oh, couldn't get the shot. >> Not the one he wanted. >> Yeah.
Loose ball. >> Don't know what that was, but Green will end up getting herself an eight meter attempt. >> Green runs it in. Looks like Kylie Marino got a stick on that as threw the ball off the post. >> Green with the ball once again. Same old familiar spot. >> Bringing the ball all the way up to the top. >> Still with the ball looking to find somebody and that's going to be 3 second. >> I go with 3 second. I don't know half the rules. So that's not Nobody else knows what they're talking about either except for the coaches watching at home games right now. Nothing there. Kicks the ball out to Little finds wide open finds wide open. [cheering] Julia Gray once again comes up huge for the Spartans with shot gets the ball over to Mary Devoy. Mary Devoy making headway. She goes through one, two.
Uh I think our students that have invisible disabilities sometime sometimes people don't recognize that and it's a lot harder I think to get a job and keep a job. So they might initially get one, but they're not able to stay employed. So that's where Massability and the other services come in to support that when they leave us. Um, well, my last question, how many special education teachers are I'm not sure how they're assigned, but I know other districts have like zones per se, but for because we're a smaller school, how is the layout in terms of by grade? Is it by population or, you know, how is the division with the teachers? >> That's a good question. We're doing um we're partnering with Blue Engine which is a co-eing um consultant firm this year and they work intensely with three pairs of teachers. So our 9th and 10th grade teachers teach both 9th and 10th English and math.
So I I would say I don't think that was the one thing that we would all you know be begrudging that we weren't listening to. I think you know so if that were a shift that we have to make to move the calendar forward I think that's amenable but if everyone's fine with it on Friday too or however that goes I just want to put it out there. >> I think this can also be an ongoing discussion like just because we do it this way next year till like we can we can tell you know we can vote or have discussions for the following year that like we want to move it back to Monday Tuesday or whatever. >> That's true. Nothing's really written in stone that's right. So I'm sorry we do we do we vote for Wendy's motion? I apologize. >> But it hasn't been seconded.
She has an incredible ability to connect curriculum with real-world applications. She frequently invites professional guest speakers to share their expertise, providing students with authentic insights into scientific careers. This includes everything from veterinary sciences to physicians to chiropractors, and yes, even mortuary sciences. Her work with Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine provides our students with first-hand invaluable exposure to the health care field. This initiative requires extensive planning, basically meetings twice a month, bringing first-year medical students directly into our school to work alongside our students on diverse community-related health topics, as well as give them the opportunity to go to the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine for experiences there. Mr. Dervianic influences are just as profound outside of the classroom. As the co-founder and advisor of the Friends of the Animal Club, she inspires students to develop compassion and responsibility through local fundraisers and animal welfare advocacy. Her commitment to the environment is seen in her leadership during our twice annual, if not more frequent, Passaic River cleanup events.
Thank you all so much for all of your time, all of your effort. Um we know it's we know it's not easy. We know it's not always fun, but you definitely contributed uh probably more than you even realize. So again, thank you and uh and good luck. And we'll see you we'll see you. Yeah, yeah, [laughter] exactly. Um the other thing I just wanted to bring up real quick, I wanted to give props to the people that put together the college and career fair couple weeks ago. >> Um I I stopped by. It was here at here at East and it was huge. Um you know, the gyms had were both filled with colleges and in the community room downstairs had careers. I I thought it was very well attended. I thought it was very informative. There were there were lines in front of certain colleges.
We know that our kids are doing really good work relative to the state, but we also believe we can push that even higher. And that comes through hard work in the classroom and that intervention time every day with our kids is really important in that work. One of the things that we spent quite a bit of time this year trying to figure out is how can we change that one and structure, that 35-minute intervention time, to get more kids with our expert teachers. So, right now in the setting that we have, kids are are going to their math teacher or their language arts teacher to get additional help during that time. All of the other students are using IXL as a way to improve. What we're trying to do is get more students with more adults and spend a little bit less time on IXL and more direct instruction and more reteaching with our staff.
So, it was super fun. One of my students uh, came up and and I was told he needed help with uh, with his math on his on his Chromebook. So, I took his Chromebook and I opened it and there was a a picture of the certificate that I got that said uh support staff employee of the year and I was shocked. Yeah. So, one of my students came up and shared that with me and that was just uh priceless. Really, I'm a give back type person. I like being involved in the community. I like helping where I can, um, being active. And so this sort of, you know, kind of rang a little bell for me that this was interesting and I wanted to do it. I work with the best people and I have I feel like I have the best job in the whole world.
So, they come here and they look here and they The applicant pool is like we're hiring people in August with one person apply, we hire that person. We don't know if they're good or not. I don't discount that they're good humans. We've got a lot of good humans, but not everybody here is excellent educator. Like they need some work. They need to learn how to do things. You have to have funding and PD and resources to train up those people. You need to have administrators that can stay in a spot for a long time to grow the system, right? Like it's it's completely broken. The whole thing needs a reset here. Like it's just I don't lose a whole lot of sleep. I sleep pretty good. My wife will tell you I fall asleep in like 30 seconds or so. Way too fast, but like these things keep me up.
Terrell along with the corresponding Neola uh to retire those Neola policies. May we have a motion to waive the second reading and approve the new ISBA policies along with the retirement of the corresponding Neola policies? >> So moved by Mr. Angel, second by Ms. Basin.
Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion will carry as well. That is the end of our bond-related resolutions. Mouthful. >> [cough and clears throat] >> Okay. We have an approval request for uh to adopt a resolution. That's We already did all that, right? Yeah. That's that one. >> B, C, and D. B, C, and D. That's a lot to read. There we go. Approval request for Deer Meadow Primary roof bid. Yep. So, uh it's we uh sought out bids for the Deer Meadow roof uh replacement project. And we had received uh one bid um from BNL uh sheet metal and roofing for a total cost of $864,000. Uh we met with them for a pre-pre award uh meeting. Um if given a notice uh to proceed if the board approves uh this proposal, they plan to mobilize on or around uh mid-July.
He is the whole package and Huntington is just so fortunate to have adding him to our team and Rebecca. As I she wouldn't ask me to say that, but I promise you it's it's wonderful to see Kenny and his family joining our team here in a little bit. We'll give him an opportunity to to speak after the vote. Secondly, our Director of Teaching and Learning. Boy, was that applicant pool heavy with talent. It was a very difficult decision, but I can tell you bar none one of the most highly respected people in this district, but also in my career is joining our team in a different position. She's been a part of our leadership team, but Lynn Brown will be the recommendation tonight for Director of Teaching and Learning. I personally have not been around a person that cares as deeply about Huntington, is a professional through and through, but also has an intense passion for the academic achievement of all children.
And I want to make sure that I am very clear that this is not a Lawrence Township issue. This is an issue that is pervasive across the state as well as the country. And so I just appreciate Lawrence Township allowing our students to participate regardless if they aren't able to fulfill um a duty in the military. So thank you. Yes. Thank you, Board. Any other questions or comments? All right, can Okay, continuing with Mr. Kuznic, 3.5 curriculum update, K through 12 English language arts recommendations. Good evening again, Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board. After a year-long robust K-12 ELA process, we are here this evening to present you with information and a recommendation on our K-12 English language arts recommendation. Up first, our director of elementary, Ms. Natalie Schneider. Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board, I bring to you the K-5 ELA recommendations.
But that's Ashley Forester. Her third goal of the year. Let me go Ashley. One of our again senior captains. Two seniors. Ashley one of them, Lily the other. Three goals by Ashley. So Ashley just scored more goals today than she has her entire freshman year. That's the science stat of the day. There we go. 115. So we I know we scored the first goal in the second quarter. We scored the first goal in the third quarter. Just got to keep this momentum up. Faceoff one by Westwood. That is number I think that's 13 or 19. Number two, Bridget Hughes. A name I've said a lot. Good cut, good defense. Ashley Forester defending well over there. Westwood uh Wolverines keeping it. That's number two. Bridget Hughes over to number 13, Miller Manville. Swinging it back to number 11, Cassidy McMillan. Back over to number 19, Ellie Harrington, one of the sophomores on the Wolverines.