So, I was happy to see us using Branching Minds as some of the background of what I had learned through this this study. Finally, recommendations. Obviously, strengthening alignment between MTSS and special education. Establishing clear district-wide expectations. Uh, ensuring inclusion of special education in MTSS processes. Having that person between the tier three and the referral, a special education presence in the intervention systems. Prioritizing, again, time, communication, and collaboration. Having a system that goes across schools so that you can really examine the data across the district. Data-driven decision-making. We say that all the time in a lot of areas including this and structured time and improving intervention planning and progress monitoring. And I could go on for another hour and 15 minutes like I did in my defense, but I won't. So, I thank you for the time this evening. I just wanted to share that with you and just and say that the work that I did with this really aligns with what Branching Minds is going to do for us in terms of addressing some of these issues that I learned from other districts and help us strengthen what we have here in Brookfield.
For Jackie who's not here, um I want to thank her for the service as being on a board is not easy and thank you for the time that she's put in over the last several years. Last meeting and closing statement, she said that she was so proud of the people showing up. That was always the goal. She met that goal. Even if people are showing up because of the lack of confidence from this board, everybody is now watching your every move. So, she met her goal. There's an online article about her husband residing in Oakrun with her and her children. So, I think it's abundantly clear that she no longer lives within the district that she is blatantly disregarding the bylaws set by this board that you guys took the oath to uphold. It doesn't come down to where she lays her head at night.
In the fall of this school year on our first district-wide day, the very first day we came back, we as courses decided which standards we wanted to focus on while using and piloting these new curriculums that we had narrowed down. So each course, math A, picked two standards that they wanted to focus on, math C, math B. And then in the spring we had another curriculum come out and present to us because we weren't quite certain on the two that we had piloted and three teachers modeled lessons from that curriculum. The curriculums that we looked at and had presentations from were Amplify, Desmos, Illustrative Math, Carnegie, CPM, Imagine Learning McGraw Hill and Savvas. Um oops, sorry. Um so, after uh we were presented um not this school year, last year, after we were had all of our presentations from the different curriculums, uh I sent out a survey to the junior high teachers to narrow it down to see which curriculums were they most interested in looking at and which ones did we think that we would be willing to pilot.
I can talk about any questions from the board. Okay, we'll move on to agenda item L, curriculum with 14 items. >> Thank you, Miss Man. And thank you for the second.
Here are the questions. Number one, does the district require an OPRA request each time a parent has the need to obtain student records? Is this method consistent with the district's policies in New Jersey law? Is this policy document? Step nine, Christine Lee responds today, not answering my question, but reverses herself saying an OPRA request is not required. So, it's just a ploy. That's all it was. And but she includes that the video that I'm asking for does not exist. This is something that I watched with my own eyes. Mhm. So, this lengthy, complicated, multi-step process was so complex that the district's highly paid business administrator, Christine Lee, that handles the district's business and financial affairs, was confused. She couldn't even handle it. So, how would you expect your average parent to handle it? Does anybody think that's an acceptable process to go after a student record?
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I you know, and I I look at the schools and uh they have a facilities director, their own facilities director, and it's worked out very, very well. Um and and and whose salary I think is is in the 120s. Um and who doesn't have grounds. That's uh necessary >> about to, right? >> that. No, well, my understanding is that that's going to fall under the athletic director and potentially hiring a new assistant athletic director to help maintain that. Oh. Okay. Um I I I'm not sure we can wait. The administrative piece was is extremely important. Uh You can have people that climb on the ladders and do some of that hard work working on the HVAC systems. The only problem is you want to make sure that they put the ladder on the right building. Now that is you know hyper hyperbole to a certain extent, but I think that helps illustrate the picture.
>> She's behind in the count to Clinton. Two balls and one strike. >> The catcher Granada waiting on deck. First and second here. 2-1 is a line drive into left. Creman started in. She goes back and it is a drop. The runners will only move up one base. It looked like it looked like she had it for like a split second there and it almost on the transfer looked like it popped out. >> Yeah, unfortunately. Uh that's one that you need especially when you got a pitcher who's struggling a little bit and and and they do induce a long fly. Rebecca may have lost it for a moment there in the sun. It's a it's a bright day. Or as you're correct, it maybe she was thinking about transferring it to to get it quick to uh try to keep the runner on second base.
Excellent. Thank you, brother. >> Thanks, folks. Thank you, doctor. >> [laughter] >> Thank you, everybody. Right on. Thank you, sir. All right. >> All right. Any questions, comments, or concerns for Stephen in the superintendent's update? All right. Uh move on to subcommittee reports. We'll start with finance. Caroline. >> All right. Thank you, Rob. Yes, ma'am. All right. The finance committee last met on May 12th. Um the over uh overall budget is coming in approximately $545,000 favorable, the majority of which again is our known savings from the uh special education out of district transportation. That has not changed since last summer. Um we have a few areas of overages, which is uh one is under professional services, which is uh directly related to special education professional services, uh a slight overage in legal fees, although last month looked uh pretty favorable uh from the invoicing. And then other small areas uh of overages.
I could care less about that. It comes down to doing what's right, following the rules. You guys enforce rules within this meeting itself. You give everybody three minutes to speak and be orderly during their time speaking and you cut them off at the three-minute point. That's the rule. You guys should be also held accountable to follow the rules that your board has set. This comes down to character and transparency, showing our future generations how to run business and make changes when you need to, even if it's not what you want to do. I would like the rest of the board to do your job now and follow those rules. You need to uphold the policies that you all agreed to follow when you took this position. The community is watching and now is the time to do the right thing. Do your job and do it the right way.
That's the other thing, piloting takes a lot of time. So, which ones did we feel like we could see in our classrooms? Um the two that we narrowed it down to were Carnegie Learning and Middle School Math. Oops, sorry. Um so, our first our second district-wide day, um this uh fall, we talked got together and some of us had already piloted um a couple of the curriculums. So, the two that we had looked at were Middle School Math and Carnegie. Um in October, uh as a secondary group, just the junior highs actually, we decided to create things that we noticed and wondered about the curriculums. And so, with Carnegie, some of the things that we noticed was that uh their textbooks didn't necessarily match up to the online curriculum that they had posted. Also, as a teacher, it was really tricky to navigate their online platform.
Any questions or discussion curriculum L1 through 14? >> Um, I just want to say that I am really excited that the marching band's going to get to perform in another outing um in their parade. And it's really nice to also see that um the high school students will be able to attend a teen mental health summit as well. It's always nice to see new things added that just bring more an experience to our seeing no further questions or discussion. Miss Henry, please. >> Mr. Jens, >> yes. >> Miss Ben, >> yes. >> Mardy, >> yes. Yes. >> Miss Pat, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Uh takes us to agenda item M personnel with eight items. I would ask for a motion. >> Thank you. management from this point.
>> Yeah, I don't believe that we're going to be responding, but you're welcome to continue. >> Okay, consider it reported. >> Yeah. >> That's it. That's all. So, at this point, it's not just about the video, but it's about this abnormal process. And who orchestrated it? Now, who's the epicenter of the problem? You can start with Christine Lee. All right? The ploy about submitting the OPRA request was silly. It's just another way to drag it out. You know, whatever the OPRA request timeline is, 7 days, 10 days, whatever it is. But it's ridiculous. And her being the custodian, the OPRA custodian, should know better. And that's it. >> Thank you very much for your feedback. It doesn't sound like a great situation. We will follow up with Dr. Freeman following the meeting to make sure that there is resolution and that everything is closed to the extent that it can be.
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But I'm letting you know right now that what we need to have done to maintain our facilities and grounds. We don't have the current structure that can do it. I've given you a proposal that I do do hope to implement sooner rather than later to help address some of that. Um But I think one thing Michael is that we are you know we are um giving up some area of need in terms of all the athletic fields and school building areas. So and and yet we're keeping we're adding more staff on on that side which may be it seems to me like well if they're going to have less to do would would it now be enough? I'm telling you that what we have right now is not enough. Even when we had the fields it was not enough. >> Right, but we currently still have the fields, right Michael?
But regardless, that's going to go down as an error on Rebecca Cricggsman. An unfortunate one because now there's one out with the bases loaded. Um >> I want to give you credit for that call. This is mom visit. >> Yeah. Yeah. What do you think he's saying to her out there? Well, >> to me, it's it's trying to get that that lynch point up a little bit so you can be throwing strikes. Of course, with this early part of the Westwood lineup, they hit the ball pretty well. So, if you do groove it, you know, they're going to hit these line drives or home run center field. >> Katherine Granada will bat with bases loaded and one out. She's 0 for one. Looks like the infield is in looking to get the play at the plate if at all possible. >> That's a good stop behind the plate.
Again, uh we are trending to a surplus of $545,000 right now for the district uh for uh this year's budget. Um I'd actually like to make a motion if I could um around um uh taking a board vote on the budget transfers that was proposed in the finance committee. I think we need to add that we need that add that motion to the consent agenda. Thank you. Uh if we could uh Absolutely. Chairman? Absolutely. So Well I move so. I move I move to add uh a motion on uh approving the budget trans the May budget transfers uh in the consent agenda. All right. All those in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any nays? All right. And you'll you'll see those detailed in the handout this evening. Thank you. I'll review. Excellent. Um I think that's about it. Um we have another major update around the boilers which we talked a lot about in the finance committee meeting.
Vote to remove Jackie from this board and prove to the community that you are willing to do the right thing even if it's not really what you want to do. Uh, regarding agenda 6.4, four governing board self-evaluations. Three of the five trustees responded. I'm also concerned that two of the of the trustees didn't feel that they needed to respond to a self-evaluation. That's pretty concerning. Um I would assume that you were given ample time to take your self-evaluation and the fact that you didn't, whoever those two people are, it it's very concerning to the public. Um area nine states values, ethics, and responsibility. One of the indicators is the board polices its own members when they step outside of the board policy and agreements. Uh the composite rating on that was a 3.3 out of five, I would say. >> But we follow rules, right?
We had to open multiple windows and have multiple tabs going. And as you can imagine, we were starting to lose it a little bit with that. And then, uh so, we also just wondered like, if we gave them another year, is this going to be fixed or is this something that they're going to stick with? Um for Middle School Math, we noticed that they gave them real-world problems. They um asked the students to watch a video and didn't give them a ton of information and then asked them to solve a problem using what they knew how to do. We thought that it was really engaging, but we were um nervous that the use of videos with every single lesson would get um tedious after having that for 3 years because you'd have math A, math B, and math C. And so, those are the reasons that led us to be at this point in October and November thinking like what are we going to do now?
Uh any discussion on personnel 11. >> See no discussion. Miss Henry, please hold the order. >> Mr. Jens, >> yes. >> Miss man, >> yes. >> Mccardi, >> yes. >> Miss Dawson, >> yes. Miss, >> I am a no on number two and yes to the remaining. Mr. River, >> yes. >> Miss, >> yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Uh, we're now moving on to agenda item N, which has 22 items on it. There is going to be an addition. I believe we open first and then Okay. So, I ask for a motion to open. >> So, Thank you, Miss. >> No, that was her. >> Oh, that was Miss >> Okay. And I need a second to open. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Miss Solar. Okay. And then there is a motion to add an additional item to and it would be item number 23.