Let's go ahead and go on to 3.1 salute led by Derek To the flag of the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, moving on to 3.2. Do we have a motion to approve the agenda for the regular meeting? All >> in favor report action taken in close session. Uh just to note 2.1 the superintendent Brian Parker received a positive evaluation for 2.2 regarding the complaint. The matter is currently under investigation following board policy 1312.1 and no action was taken at this time. Uh regarding 2.3 the board voted unanimously to approve the recommendation for expulsion for two students. Okay. So moving on to 3.4 for we'll have recognition of the student board member and student representatives for 2025 to 2026 school year. >> Okay. Uh first we have Derek Rul. Um Derek has presumed himself as an exceptional leader and dedicated to productive high school career.
Jay was nominated by Nathan Hudson who said Jay is amazing. He does anything that anybody could ever ask for and does it with a smile. He is generous, helpful, easy to talk to, and also very fun. He does this all well working two full-time jobs and coaches football. I'm not sure if he sleeps, but his energy is unmatched. He is the epitome of what a good employee is. Chico High admin said that they are happy to celebrate a pillar of the Chico High community. For the past two decades, Jay has shaped the lives of countless students through his role as a campus supervisor and a coach at Chico High. To say he's going to be missed is an understatement. Many know Jay through his role on the football field. Coach Jay has been a fixture of Chico High football, who served as a long-time assistant coach and more recently as the team's head coach.
>> I oppose or abstain. >> Okay. Um at this point we will um motion a second to close the public portion. Motion keep it delay. All those in favor? >> I I see. >> Mr. Lee, you're up again. >> I'm up. Okay. Um, on my beginning of my report here, like normal is our safety and security drills for both JFK and DDE. Item C is our bus evacuation drills that were performed in the month of April. Uh, item D is monthly reports uploaded to the portal by our administrators. Item E is two HIV incidents that happened. both were unfounded. Uh F1 is to approve the two HIBs that the board already voted on uh at last month's meeting. Item G is a lengthy list of new policies. These these are the policies that I sent you in my newsletter to the board. Um nothing groundbreaking.
Um he challenges the students um but he also supports them through these challenges and helps them and helps them to understand the value of hard work. It's one of the biggest takeaways I I've seen Tom's work is that the students really learn what it means to to push yourself and try and put forth effort. Um a student said this about Mr. Rolf. I think it's pretty important to to take into consideration what our kids say about our staff. And the student said this about Mr. Golfie. This nominee inspires students to push them, push themselves to be their best, whether it's on the field or in the classroom. He never fails to encourage students to perform to the best of their abilities. And we're just thankful to have Tom be a huge part of our middle school team. And congratulations to be our best teacher here, Mr.
Ross who will announce the Lamont School Teacher of the Year. Teachers of the Year. >> Teachers of the Year. >> Yes, hello everybody. So, we're going to talk to about our educational service professional as well as our teacher of the year. I'll start off with the educational service professional of the year for Lamont School. It's Claudia um Gurriel. >> [applause and cheering] >> Thank you. Let's Let's raise the roof for Claudia. >> [applause and cheering] >> Let it be known in this little piece that doesn't mention that you do have youngsters in our district. Three youngsters in our district, so we needed to make sure that that was added to our bit. So, this is somebody who's truly has her heart here. Tonight, we're going to proudly recognize Claudia as the educational service professional of the year for Lamont Annex. Uh she's a valued preschool teacher assistant whose dedication and care positively impacts students, families, and staff every day.
Uh there were a couple of policies in this alert that only applied to districts that have high schools which we do not have to put forward. Um, and a lot of them had to do with u reimbursements when we're dealing with OFAC, dealing with OFAC and uh federal statutory compliance. Um, which again, we don't leverage a ton of those services and so we will have them in place uh because they're mandated, but probably not much of an impact on on our our day-to-day operations. Um, the other policy that uh is fairly substantial uh from this alert is policy 1643, which is family leave. There have been some large changes to the NJFlA NJFLA um and we need to seek some guidance um from our council in terms of uh some of the options that are available to us in terms of uh which 24-month uh period uh is is the most appropriate for us to choose.
These projected increases would follow the 31.9% premium increase that took effect in January of 2026, further exacerbating an overall premium increase of nearly 74% in the preceding 5 years. So we are at the point where we again are doing the best that we can with every dollar that we have and we are trying to stretch it as far as we can but we are urging our government to help us out and uh hold up their end of the bargain. And one last paragraph that I wanted to highlight on page 27 says, "Now therefore, be it resolved that the Cliffside Park Board of Education in the county of Bergen calls upon the governor and state legislature to provide immediate short-term relief uh from the unsustainable increased health care cost experienced by school districts in recent years. So all districts across New Jersey were asked to have this as an official resolution to again keep the conversation going and make people hopefully have a better understanding of the crisis that we are currently in and approaching as time goes on.
You guys can bother your families about that when we're done. Um, we're going to do a quick transition and get our chorus students up here. Thank you. >> [applause] [crying] >> Let's go, Warriors! >> Good evening, and welcome to the core section of our spring concert. Besides the instruments and singing, we hope that you take the time to enjoy our artwork that is displayed in the lobby. Thank you to our art teachers, Ms. Brendel and Ms. Vento. >> [applause] >> Our chorus selections tonight are very different from each other. We worked on the different moods that music itself has and how to perform them. Each song will we will be singing will have a different feel to it and some of our songs we chose ourselves to sing. >> [cheering] [applause] >> Our first song is a traditional one and it's very patriotic. Would you please stand and join us in our national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key.
There's value in trying and no success in failing. So, do not be afraid to put yourself out there, ask for help when you need it, and speak up for what you believe is right. Dare to grow into greater versions of yourself. And if you stumble along the way, get back up and keep growing. I know with courage and commitment, as long as you put in the hard work, whatever that may be, as Dave Grohl once said, "I don't know what tomorrow brings, but I promise you it will be more." Thank you to everyone who became a part of your journey. To my fellow graduates, congratulations on today. >> [applause] >> At this time, it is my distinct honor to formally present the class of 2023. These students have met the academic and character expectations of our school and are ready to transition into the next chapter of their education.
I am pleased to present the three students who hold the highest academic ranking in this class of 295 members. These students will graduate tonight with the highest distinction wearing a gold medallion. I ask them to please stand as I call their names. Sophia Gomez A Albadri and Lena Win. These students have a combined weighted GPA of 4.99 and are in the top 1% of our senior class. Please join me in congratulating them on their hard work and academic achievements. We're also joined by Moon Valley High School student body president Dylan Ramirez and again Ya Albadri the 2026 senior class president. Both of these young adults should be commended on their leadership and passion for Moon Valley. Their commitment to Moon Valley is a true reflection of the many great things we have seen from the class of 2026. I would also like to acknowledge those students who are ranked academically in the top 10% of their class.
Sometimes I'd put my head down for five minutes and then look up and only three minutes pass. Other times, I've experienced the opposite. A couple of weeks ago, I attended senior sunset, but it was bittersweet knowing that it was the last event before graduation. In a couple of weeks, seeing each other every day would just be a memory. I wanted the moment to last forever, but clearly it didn't. One thing both these scenarios have in common is that you're not fully in the present. Both of them are stuck in the future. In the first scenario, you can't wait for the future where you're out of class. Or in the second, you don't want to leave the moment because you realize it will only be a memory. When I stopped to actually think about the lyrics instead of mindlessly skipping through, it made me think about my attitude towards time.
Say you know I've been waiting so patiently. This is my legacy. Y'all don't believe me. It waits. Basically I have been running things. You can just go on and take us a year. Love when they hating me. Put that on everything. Not at my level. You can't be the enemy. This is the planet. We showing them anyway. Hit up the lawyers and give them the NBA. This is the brand new. This is the brand new. Nothing you can't do. Nothing you can't do. When there ain't no thing that you'll be taking from me, man. I came from nothing made something name is buzzing. Call me Ryan Gosling. Hey know that they going to love me more when I'm going to retire to throw the kind of things that I'm going to be feeling like a god because this is forever. Uh-huh. >> And there will be no surrender.
And uh it it you managed very well. Um my question is this. In November 2025, roughly 6 months ago, questions were submitted to the Ashland town attorneys regarding the validity of the 1060 Main Street developers application. My question is, have the town attorneys responded? What I can say is that um I know that Mr. Herbert has been in discus- has had discussions with the respect to that specific uh matter. Um Michael is not here at this time to is is uh we Oh, there he is. He's So, Michael, I don't know if you heard the question or not, but have our attorneys responded to uh the validity of the uh application? I'm sorry, Joe. Could you uh repeat that? And I ate the Yeah. >> I'm I just jumped right in here and didn't >> Oh, that's okay. I'm I'm sorry. I just saw your face, so I figured you had heard uh Ms.
and she did pitch against Ashland and did get the loss. She went all seven, gave up 14 runs, 13 of them earned and uh 16 hits in those seven innings. So, the Clockers had her number the first time and we'll see what they can do against her today. She did pitch uh on Monday against Hollist. Got the win, did give up eight runs in three innings and is pitching to an erra above eight. So, we'll see if the clockers can keep the bats hot. Interestingly though, interestingly though, that first game, Jacob, the Clockers took a while to get rolling. Uh, that game was a 6-6 game going into the seventh and the Clockers exploded for eight runs in the top of the seventh inning. So hopefully they can get rolling a little faster this time uh and and see if we can put a crooked number up in the first one here instead of putting that up in the last one uh as they look to get win number 14 on the season.
Really help them to leave being portraits of the learner that we said we need here in Brookfield. So, you start to look at what are those measures, right? And then examine what things we have in place that are helping us with that and maybe where there might be some gaps. And so, now when we identify that, we'll start to fill in those gaps so that way we don't have those. That's critical. And then the next layer will be how do we use all that information to help be informed decision makers because with that information, we need to make really informed decisions daily, weekly, monthly, annually that are going to help our students learn and grow. So, uh we're on that quest. It is um it is nuanced, it is wonderful, it is exciting, uh but it is a quest and that's the work we're doing.
>> Anybody else have any questions so far? No, I don't see any hands. Okay, we can move on. I think it's page um the last page was the grants. So, I didn't know if anyone had questions on that. >> Angela, I I just wanted to add while we're talking about the grants, I know you were giving an update on um on ARPA spending and you had mentioned SAM.gov And I'm not sure that everyone um is aware what SAM.gov is, but um just for clarification um our anytime we spend funds uh particularly federal funds, we're required to go on SAM.gov uh and run the vendor through um it's sort of a background check just to make sure that they're um are not debarred. So it's the term they use during the audit is a debarment. So, we're in the process of as now we starting to pay the vendors to check them through SAM.gov, but that was a very strict requirement for ARPA, which is um why Angela brought that up.
>> [applause] >> Thank you. Please be seated. I would like to begin this ceremony by introducing our dignified guests. From the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, Jessica Guerrero, president. Anne Marie Randall Trejo, clerk. Ron Hoshizaki, assistant clerk. Dr. Jose Paula Macalalas, member. Brian O'Neal, member. And from our Anaheim Union High School District Cabinet, Dr. Jaron Fried, superintendent. Amy Quan, assistant superintendent of educational services. Now, please welcome our first senior class speaker, Jean Ashley Recinto. >> [cheering] >> Good afternoon, guests, parents, friends, staff, and of course, my fellow graduates of the class of 2026. My name is Jean Ashley Recinto, and I'm truly honored to stand here today and represent this incredible class of 2026. It has been 4 years since we started high school. And when you really think about it, it wasn't just the big milestones that brought us here. It was the little things, the everyday moments, the ones that didn't seem important at the time, but somehow meant everything.
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I first met Derek and spoke to me last year excellent job speaking diseases. This year he served as FFA regional president and was slated for FFA state office leadership commitment and impact within the organization. Beyond campus gives back to the community through his volunteer work with CH wildlife rescue and both passion service. A driven athlete competed in both cross country and track balancing academics athletics and leadership with remarkable determination. He also serves as a senior ASB treasurer where he has played important role in supporting student activities for this year. This fall Texas University Thank you. Okay. So every meeting representing Anderson High School, we have Lily Jean O'Reilly. Lily Jean, come on up. Lily Jean is ASB president. Um, she has to put up with some interesting students in her class. One of them being my son who uh we were just talking about him today and so sometimes she picks up slack from other people, you know, and uh and but she's always she's always positive.
Jay's mission was never just about the scoreboard. His true talent lies in building the foundation. He took young freshman and sophomores and built them up so they could have success at the next level. Jay is a master relation- relationship builder, not just with the athletes, but with their parents, too. He is as reliable and accountable as a coach can possibly be. He's been the steady, positive role model our young men needed, teach- teaching them character, discipline, and respect by simply practicing what he preached. But Jay's impact didn't stop when the practice whistle blew. For much of the last decade, he brought that same exact relationship-first spirit to his role as campus supervisor. Whether he's cruising around on the golf cart running you over or holding down the fort in the cafeteria, Jay regularly has a crowd of kids just hanging out around him. Students gravitated towards him because he creates an environment that is welcoming, safe, and positive.